(312,0,'It’s getting easier and easier to be treated like a terrorist these days…','its-getting-easier-and-easier-to-be-treated-like-a-terrorist-these-days','<p><span style=\"color: #888888; font-family: \'Helvetica Neue\', Arial, Helvetica, \'Nimbus Sans L\', sans-serif; line-height: 24px;\"><span class=\"meta-prep meta-prep-author\" style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: middle; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">Posted on</span> <a href=\"http://www.nationalgunrights.org/its-getting-easier-and-easier-to-be-treated-like-a-terrorist-these-days/\" title=\"10:08 pm\" rel=\"bookmark\" style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: middle; color: #888888; text-decoration: underline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\"><span class=\"entry-date\" style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: middle; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">June 14, 2011</span></a> <span class=\"meta-sep\" style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: middle; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">by</span> <span class=\"author vcard\" style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: middle; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\"><a class=\"url fn n\" href=\"http://www.nationalgunrights.org/author/nagr-staff/\" title=\"View all posts by NAGR Staff\" style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: middle; color: #888888; text-decoration: underline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">NAGR Staff</a></span></span><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, \'Bitstream Charter\', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;\"> </span></p>\r\n<div class=\"entry-content\" style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; padding-top: 12px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: middle; clear: both; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">\r\n<p style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; vertical-align: middle; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">Have you ever had student loans?</p>\r\n<p style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; vertical-align: middle; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">Did you ever think that <strong style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: middle; font-weight: bold; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">the Department of Education would send their SWAT teams in to collect on them, if you did?</strong></p>\r\n<p style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; vertical-align: middle; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">If you’re anything like me, you were probably surprised to find out that the Department of Education even has a SWAT team.</p>\r\n<p style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; vertical-align: middle; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">What on earth for?</p>\r\n<p style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; vertical-align: middle; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">In this day and age of ever-increasing government intervention and militarization, even<strong style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: middle; font-weight: bold; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">seemingly-benign agencies are training and using heavily armed agents against citizens.</strong><strong style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: middle; font-weight: bold; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\"><br /></strong><br />In Stockton, California this week, one such unit of “operators” — a term almost exclusively used to refer to military special operations personnel like Navy SEALs and Delta Force — was used to assault the home of a person who owed money on their student loans.</p>\r\n<p style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; vertical-align: middle; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">The man of the house and his children were drug out into the street in their underwear by ski-masked thugs working for the federal government.</p>\r\n<p style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; vertical-align: middle; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">“They put me in handcuffs in that hot patrol car for six hours, traumatizing my kids,” the man said.</p>\r\n<p style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; vertical-align: middle; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\"><strong style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: middle; font-weight: bold; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">And it wasn’t even him that the police were after.</strong><strong style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: middle; font-weight: bold; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\"><br /></strong><br />A lot of people mocked some of the statements about the so-called Patriot Act, but this story is a perfect example of how police state action can get wildly out of hand quicker than most realize.</p>\r\n<p style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; vertical-align: middle; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\"><strong style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: middle; font-weight: bold; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">I mean, really, why does the Department of Education have a SWAT Team at all???</strong></p>\r\n<p style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; vertical-align: middle; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">Combine this with the story of a raid on a former Marine and Iraqi combat veteran by the Pima County Sheriff’s department and we see what happens when we militarize our law enforcement agencies.</p>\r\n<p style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; vertical-align: middle; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">The incident in Pima County, Arizona resulted in over 70 shots fired.</p>\r\n<p style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; vertical-align: middle; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">Not one of them by the man killed.</p>\r\n<p style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; vertical-align: middle; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\"><strong style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: middle; font-weight: bold; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">And according to the official report, “nothing illegal” was found in his home.</strong></p>\r\n<p style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; vertical-align: middle; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">They are gaining more and more control…</p>\r\n<p style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; vertical-align: middle; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">…and they are using it.</p>\r\n<p style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; vertical-align: middle; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">I need you to remember these stories when it comes time to vote.</p>\r\n<p style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; vertical-align: middle; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">Remember who voted for legislation like the Patriot Act.</p>\r\n<p style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; vertical-align: middle; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\"><strong style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: middle; font-weight: bold; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">Remember who chose to stand against things like the UN Small Arms Treaty.</strong><strong style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: middle; font-weight: bold; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\"><br /></strong><br />Remember who wanted to restrict the size and scope of federal government.</p>\r\n<p style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; vertical-align: middle; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">And who wanted to increase it.</p>\r\n<p style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; vertical-align: middle; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\"><strong style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: middle; font-weight: bold; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">Do you want every agency funded by taxpayer dollars — your money — to have a SWAT Team and the authority to use it for whatever they choose?</strong></p>\r\n<p style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; vertical-align: middle; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">I know I don’t.</p>\r\n<p style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; vertical-align: middle; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">For Liberty,</p>\r\n<p style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; vertical-align: middle; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">Dudley Brown<br />Executive Director</p>\r\n<p style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; vertical-align: middle; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\"><strong style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: middle; font-weight: bold; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">P.S. Like me, you’re probably sick of the over-militarization of our police forces and their ever-increasing use against law-abiding citizens.</strong></p>\r\n</div>\r\n<p> </p>','',1,70,'2011-06-14 00:00:00',62,'NAGR','2011-06-25 20:17:47',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-06-14 00:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',2,65,'','',1,39,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(313,0,'Agency Gone Wild','agency-gone-wild','<p><span style=\"color: #888888; font-family: \'Helvetica Neue\', Arial, Helvetica, \'Nimbus Sans L\', sans-serif; line-height: 24px;\"><span class=\"meta-prep meta-prep-author\" style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: middle; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">Posted on</span> <a href=\"http://www.nationalgunrights.org/agency-gone-wild/\" title=\"6:26 pm\" rel=\"bookmark\" style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: middle; color: #888888; text-decoration: underline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\"><span class=\"entry-date\" style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: middle; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">June 23, 2011</span></a> <span class=\"meta-sep\" style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: middle; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">by</span> <span class=\"author vcard\" style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: middle; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\"><a class=\"url fn n\" href=\"http://www.nationalgunrights.org/author/nagr-staff/\" title=\"View all posts by NAGR Staff\" style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: middle; color: #888888; text-decoration: underline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">NAGR Staff</a></span></span><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, \'Bitstream Charter\', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;\">\r\n<div class=\"entry-content\" style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; padding-top: 12px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: middle; clear: both; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">\r\n<p style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; vertical-align: middle; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">Attorney General Eric Holder and his anti-gun cronies at the Justice Department are starting to realize they may be in some hot water.</p>\r\n<p style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; vertical-align: middle; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">But, as was to be expected, they are going to throw someone else under the bus and hope it all goes away…</p>\r\n<p style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; vertical-align: middle; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">After a revealing week of hearings on the horribly corrupt “Project Fast &amp; Furious” – the BATFE’s attempt to create crime in order to make themselves relevant – <strong style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: middle; font-weight: bold; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">the head of the ATF, Kenneth Melson, is getting ready to take the fall by resigning.</strong></p>\r\n<p style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; vertical-align: middle; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">I guess Eric Holder still refuses to take any responsibility and is placing all the blame on his subordinates.</p>\r\n<p style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; vertical-align: middle; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">As you now well know, courageous agents within the ATF have been testifying before Congress that <strong style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: middle; font-weight: bold; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">senior leadership at both the ATF and the Justice Department forced gun shops to sell firearms to known smugglers who sold the guns to drug cartels in Mexico.</strong><strong style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: middle; font-weight: bold; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\"><br /></strong><br />This disastrous plan resulted in multiple federal agents being shot and killed with weapons that were allowed to “walk” into Mexico.</p>\r\n<p style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; vertical-align: middle; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">And this happened even after agents working on the case warned their superiors that it would happen.</p>\r\n<p style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; vertical-align: middle; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">The response from ATF/Justice Department leadership?</p>\r\n<p style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; vertical-align: middle; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\"><strong style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: middle; font-weight: bold; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">That a few “eggs” have to be scrambled to make an omelette.</strong></p>\r\n<p style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; vertical-align: middle; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">Now, in light of all this controversy, the acting director of the ATF is trying to take the fall by resigning.</p>\r\n<p style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; vertical-align: middle; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\"><strong style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: middle; font-weight: bold; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">But this is where it gets really shady.</strong></p>\r\n<p style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; vertical-align: middle; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">Guess who his replacement is supposed to be?</p>\r\n<p style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; vertical-align: middle; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">A man I’ve been keeping my eye on for a while – Andrew Traver.</p>\r\n<p style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; vertical-align: middle; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">You see, Andrew Traver has been an enemy of gun owners for quite some time.</p>\r\n<p style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; vertical-align: middle; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\"><strong style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: middle; font-weight: bold; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">As head of the Chicago division of the ATF he has advocated nearly every gun ban you can think of.</strong></p>\r\n<p style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; vertical-align: middle; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">And even some you haven’t.</p>\r\n<p style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; vertical-align: middle; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\"><strong style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: middle; font-weight: bold; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">To give you an idea, he’s been Obama’s number one choice to head the agency since last year.</strong><strong style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: middle; font-weight: bold; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\"><br /></strong><br />The simple fact is…</p>\r\n<p style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; vertical-align: middle; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">…he’s worse than the guy he’s replacing.</p>\r\n<p style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; vertical-align: middle; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">And what’s more is that, because he’s been the one Eric Holder wanted for quite some time to step in as the director, <strong style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: middle; font-weight: bold; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">it is inconceivable that he was not briefed at some point on Project Fast &amp; Furious.</strong></p>\r\n<p style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; vertical-align: middle; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">They’ve been talking about Traver taking the helm of the BATFE for at least 6 months (that I know of).</p>\r\n<p style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; vertical-align: middle; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\"><strong style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: middle; font-weight: bold; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">Do you think that a guy being groomed for that position wouldn’t be briefed on the agency’s biggest operation?</strong></p>\r\n<p style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; vertical-align: middle; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">I think you know where this is going…</p>\r\n<p style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; vertical-align: middle; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">While it is certainly clear that ATF leadership needs cleaning out, to replace the current director with one who is admittedly anti-gun and clearly involved in what his boss is already in trouble over…</p>\r\n<p style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; vertical-align: middle; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">Well, that’s unacceptable in my book.</p>\r\n<p style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; vertical-align: middle; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">I called my Congressman and told him that <strong style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: middle; font-weight: bold; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">replacing one leader who has no respect for my rights with another one doesn’t “fix” the problem.</strong></p>\r\n<p style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; vertical-align: middle; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\"><strong style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: middle; font-weight: bold; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">It’s an attempt to pacify the public.</strong></p>\r\n<p style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; vertical-align: middle; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">They know it, but they’re hoping you don’t.</p>\r\n<p style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; vertical-align: middle; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">Give them a call and tell them you know what the Justice Department is trying to do and you’re not falling for it.</p>\r\n<p style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; vertical-align: middle; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\"><strong style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: middle; font-weight: bold; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">Call your Congressman at (202) 224- 3121 and tell them that the ATF needs a serious overhauling and that the Attorney General needs to be held responsible for this flagrant abuse of the law.</strong></p>\r\n<p style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; vertical-align: middle; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">Make sure they know that your Second Amendment rights are more important than funding some rogue Agency Gone Wild.</p>\r\n<p style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; vertical-align: middle; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">I know I’m going to call everyone I know in politics and make sure this doesn’t go unnoticed.</p>\r\n<p style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; vertical-align: middle; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">Do the same for me.</p>\r\n<p style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; vertical-align: middle; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">For Freedom,</p>\r\n<p style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; vertical-align: middle; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">Dudley Brown<br />Executive Director</p>\r\n<p style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; vertical-align: middle; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\"><strong style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: middle; font-weight: bold; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">P.S. After you’ve called your Congressman and told them to hold Eric Holder’s anti-gun Justice Department accountable, <a href=\"http://paracom.paramountcommunication.com/ct/6194306:9118138221:m:1:237075427:959FD43E2BB02268F153EBA2135DF711\" style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: middle; color: #003399; text-decoration: underline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">click on this link to send a few bucks to the National Association for Gun Rights.</a></strong><strong style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: middle; font-weight: bold; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\"></strong></p>\r\n<strong style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: middle; font-weight: bold; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\"></strong>\r\n<p style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; vertical-align: middle; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\"><strong style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: middle; font-weight: bold; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\"><strong style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: middle; font-weight: bold; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">I have to keep this place growing to fight these gun-grabbers who think we aren’t looking. I have to let them know that yes, we are. And we won’t stand for this kind of behavior.</strong></strong></p>\r\n</div>\r\n</span></p>','',1,72,'2011-06-23 00:00:00',62,'NAGR','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-06-23 00:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',1,23,'','',1,367,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(314,0,'Russia and China’s New World Order: Chinese President Calls for Global Governance with Increasing Power for China and Russia Over Global Economic System','russia-and-chinas-new-world-order-chinese-president-calls-for-global-governance-with-increasing-power-for-china-and-russia-over-global-economic-system','<p>{source}<span style=\"font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;\"><br /><span>&lt;</span>iframe width=\"425\" height=\"349\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/embed/A5pxz2MSsWs\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen<span>&gt;</span><span>&lt;</span>/iframe<span>&gt;</span><br /></span>{/source}</p>','',1,60,'2011-06-26 14:15:10',62,'Submitted by Jim Smither','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-06-26 14:15:10','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',1,217,'','',1,157,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(315,0,'Flood Berm Collapses At Nebraska Nuclear Plant','flood-berm-collapses-at-nebraska-nuclear-plant','<p>+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />|  Flood Berm Collapses At Nebraska Nuclear Plant<br />|   from the  sky-falling-river-rising dept.<br />|   posted by timothy on Sunday June 26,  @17:01 (Power)<br />|   <a href=\"https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/06/26/2032225/Flood-Berm-Collapses-At-Nebraska-Nuclear-Plant?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email\">https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/06/26/2032225/Flood-Berm-Collapses-At-Nebraska-Nuclear-Plant?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email</a><br />+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><br />[0]mdsolar  writes \"A berm holding the flooded Missouri River back from a<br />Nebraska  nuclear power station [1]collapsed early Sunday, but federal<br />regulators said  they were monitoring the situation and there was no<br />danger. The Fort Calhoun  Nuclear Station shut down in early April for<br />refueling, and there is no water  inside the plant, the U.S. Nuclear<br />Regulatory Commission said. Also, the  river is not expected to rise<br />higher than the level the plant was designed to  handle. NRC spokesman<br />Victor Dricks said the plant remains  safe.\"<br /><br />Discuss this story at:<br /> <a href=\"https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/06/26/2032225/Flood-Berm-Collapses-At-Nebraska-Nuclear-Plant?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email#commentlisting\">https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/06/26/2032225/Flood-Berm-Collapses-At-Nebraska-Nuclear-Plant?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email#commentlisting</a><br /><br />Links:<br /> 0. <a href=\"http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/\">http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/</a><br /> 1.  <a href=\"http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/06/26/national/main20074500.shtml\">http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/06/26/national/main20074500.shtml</a></p>','',1,60,'2011-06-27 12:08:14',62,'slashdot','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-06-27 12:08:14','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',1,216,'','',1,112,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(316,0,'The Intentional Flooding of America\'s Heartland','the-intentional-flooding-of-americas-heartland','<p>+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />|  The Intentional Flooding of America\'s Heartland<br />|   from the best-laid-dams  dept.<br />|   posted by timothy on Sunday June 26, @08:24 (Earth)<br />|   <a href=\"https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/06/26/0539215/The-Intentional-Flooding-of-Americas-Heartland?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email\">https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/06/26/0539215/The-Intentional-Flooding-of-Americas-Heartland?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email</a><br />+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><br />[0]Hugh  Pickens writes \"Joe Herring writes that sixty years ago, the U.S.<br />Army Corps  of Engineers began the process of taming the Missouri by<br />constructing massive  dams at the top to moderate flow to the smaller dams<br />below, generating  electricity while providing desperately needed control<br />of the river\'s  devastating floods. But after about thirty years of<br />operation, as the  environmentalist movement gained strength throughout<br />the seventies and  eighties, the Corps received a great deal of pressure<br />to include specific  environmental concerns into their Master Water<br />Control Manual, the \'bible\'  for the operation of the dam system, as<br />preservation of habitat for at-risk  bird and fish populations soon became<br />a hot issue among the burgeoning  environmental lobby. The Corps began to<br />utilize the dam system to mimic the  previous flow cycles of the original<br />river, [1]holding back large amounts of  water upstream during the winter<br />and early spring in order to release them  rapidly as a spring pulse.<br />\'Whether warned or not, the fact remains that had  the Corps been true to<br />its original mission of flood control, the dams would  not have been full<br />in preparation for a spring pulse,\' writes Herring. \'The  dams could<br />further have easily handled the additional runoff without the need  to<br />[2]inundate a sizable chunk of nine states.\' The horrifying  consequence<br />is water rushing from the dams on the Missouri twice as fast as  the<br />highest previous releases on record while the levees that protect  the<br />cities and towns downstream were [3]constructed to handle the flow  rates<br />promised at the time of the dam\'s construction.\"<br /><br />Discuss this  story at:<br /> <a href=\"https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/06/26/0539215/The-Intentional-Flooding-of-Americas-Heartland?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email#commentlisting\">https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/06/26/0539215/The-Intentional-Flooding-of-Americas-Heartland?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email#commentlisting</a><br /><br />Links:<br /> 0. <a href=\"http://poncacityweloveyou.com/\">http://poncacityweloveyou.com/</a><br /> 1. <a href=\"http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/06/the_purposeful_flooding_of_americas_heartland.html\">http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/06/the_purposeful_flooding_of_americas_heartland.html</a><br /> 2. <a href=\"http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=64396\">http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=64396</a><br /> 3. <a href=\"http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/06/25/us-flooding-iowa-idUSTRE75O1WB20110625\">http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/06/25/us-flooding-iowa-idUSTRE75O1WB20110625</a></p>','',0,60,'2011-06-27 12:09:32',62,'slashdot','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-06-27 12:09:32','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',1,215,'','',1,0,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(317,0,'The Intentional Flooding of America\'s Heartland','the-intentional-flooding-of-americas-heartland-1','<p>+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />|  The Intentional Flooding of America\'s Heartland<br />|   from the best-laid-dams  dept.<br />|   posted by timothy on Sunday June 26, @08:24 (Earth)<br />|   <a href=\"https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/06/26/0539215/The-Intentional-Flooding-of-Americas-Heartland?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email\">https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/06/26/0539215/The-Intentional-Flooding-of-Americas-Heartland?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email</a><br />+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><br />[0]Hugh  Pickens writes \"Joe Herring writes that sixty years ago, the U.S.<br />Army Corps  of Engineers began the process of taming the Missouri by<br />constructing massive  dams at the top to moderate flow to the smaller dams<br />below, generating  electricity while providing desperately needed control<br />of the river\'s  devastating floods. But after about thirty years of<br />operation, as the  environmentalist movement gained strength throughout<br />the seventies and  eighties, the Corps received a great deal of pressure<br />to include specific  environmental concerns into their Master Water<br />Control Manual, the \'bible\'  for the operation of the dam system, as<br />preservation of habitat for at-risk  bird and fish populations soon became<br />a hot issue among the burgeoning  environmental lobby. The Corps began to<br />utilize the dam system to mimic the  previous flow cycles of the original<br />river, [1]holding back large amounts of  water upstream during the winter<br />and early spring in order to release them  rapidly as a spring pulse.<br />\'Whether warned or not, the fact remains that had  the Corps been true to<br />its original mission of flood control, the dams would  not have been full<br />in preparation for a spring pulse,\' writes Herring. \'The  dams could<br />further have easily handled the additional runoff without the need  to<br />[2]inundate a sizable chunk of nine states.\' The horrifying  consequence<br />is water rushing from the dams on the Missouri twice as fast as  the<br />highest previous releases on record while the levees that protect  the<br />cities and towns downstream were [3]constructed to handle the flow  rates<br />promised at the time of the dam\'s construction.\"<br /><br />Discuss this  story at:<br /> <a href=\"https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/06/26/0539215/The-Intentional-Flooding-of-Americas-Heartland?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email#commentlisting\">https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/06/26/0539215/The-Intentional-Flooding-of-Americas-Heartland?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email#commentlisting</a><br /><br />Links:<br /> 0. <a href=\"http://poncacityweloveyou.com/\">http://poncacityweloveyou.com/</a><br /> 1. <a href=\"http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/06/the_purposeful_flooding_of_americas_heartland.html\">http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/06/the_purposeful_flooding_of_americas_heartland.html</a><br /> 2. <a href=\"http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=64396\">http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=64396</a><br /> 3. <a href=\"http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/06/25/us-flooding-iowa-idUSTRE75O1WB20110625\">http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/06/25/us-flooding-iowa-idUSTRE75O1WB20110625</a></p>','',1,60,'2011-06-27 12:09:32',62,'slashdot','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-06-27 12:09:32','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',1,214,'','',1,139,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(318,0,'The Purposeful Flooding of America\'s Heartland','the-purposeful-flooding-of-americas-heartland','<p><span style=\"font-family: \'Trebuchet MS\', trebuchet, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color: #000000; line-height: normal;\"><strong>By</strong> <a href=\"http://www.americanthinker.com/joe_herring/\" style=\"text-decoration: none; color: #0033cc;\"><strong>Joe Herring</strong></a></span><span style=\"font-family: \'Trebuchet MS\', trebuchet, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color: #000000; line-height: normal;\"> </span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">The Missouri River basin encompasses a vast region in the central and west-central portion of our country.  This river, our nation\'s longest, collects the melt from Rocky <span style=\"border-bottom-width: 1px !important; border-bottom-style: solid !important; border-bottom-color: #009900 !important; color: #009900 !important; background-image: none !important; background-attachment: scroll !important; background-origin: initial !important; background-clip: initial !important; background-color: transparent !important; cursor: pointer !important; position: static; display: inline !important; padding-top: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; float: none !important; font-family: \'times new roman\', times !important; font-weight: normal !important; font-style: normal !important; font-size: 16px !important; text-decoration: underline; background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: repeat repeat !important;\">Mountain</span>snowpack and the runoff from our continents\' upper plains before joining the Mississippi river above St. Louis some 2,300 miles later.  It is a mighty river, and dangerous.</span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Some sixty years ago, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) began the process of taming the Missouri by constructing a series of six dams.  The idea was simple: massive dams at the top moderating flow to the smaller dams below, generating electricity while providing desperately needed control of the river\'s devastating floods.</span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">The stable flow of water allowed for the construction of the concrete and earthen levees that protect more than 10 million people who reside and work within the river\'s reach.  It allowed millions of acres of floodplain to become useful for farming and <span style=\"border-bottom-width: 1px !important; border-bottom-style: solid !important; border-bottom-color: #009900 !important; color: #009900 !important; background-image: none !important; background-attachment: scroll !important; background-origin: initial !important; background-clip: initial !important; background-color: transparent !important; cursor: pointer !important; position: static; display: inline !important; padding-top: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; float: none !important; font-family: \'times new roman\', times !important; font-weight: normal !important; font-style: normal !important; font-size: 16px !important; text-decoration: underline; background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: repeat repeat !important;\">development</span>.  In fact, these uses were encouraged by our government, which took credit for the resulting economic boom.  By nearly all measures, the project was a great success.</span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">But after about thirty years of operation, as the environmentalist movement gained strength throughout the seventies and eighties, the Corps received a great deal of pressure to include some specific environmental concerns into their MWCM (Master Water Control <span style=\"border-bottom-width: 1px !important; border-bottom-style: solid !important; border-bottom-color: #009900 !important; color: #009900 !important; background-image: none !important; background-attachment: scroll !important; background-origin: initial !important; background-clip: initial !important; background-color: transparent !important; cursor: pointer !important; position: static; display: inline !important; padding-top: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; float: none !important; font-family: \'times new roman\', times !important; font-weight: normal !important; font-style: normal !important; font-size: 16px !important; text-decoration: underline; background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: repeat repeat !important;\">Manual</span>, the \"bible\" for the operation of the dam system).  Preservation of habitat for at-risk bird and fish populations soon became a </span></span><a href=\"http://www.time.com/time/2002/lewis_clark/lmissouri.html\" style=\"text-decoration: none; color: #0033cc;\"><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">hot issue</span></span></a><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> among the burgeoning environmental lobby.  The pressure to satisfy the demands of these groups grew exponentially as politicians eagerly traded their common sense for \"green\" political support.</span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Things turned absurd from there.  An </span></span><a href=\"http://www.americanrivers.org/\" style=\"text-decoration: none; color: #0033cc;\"><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">idea</span></span></a><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> to restore the nation\'s rivers to a natural (pre-dam) state swept through the environmental movement and their allies.  <a href=\"http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/06/the_purposeful_flooding_of_americas_heartland.html\">READ MORE &gt;&gt;&gt;</a></span></span></p>\r\n<p> </p>','',1,60,'2011-06-27 12:24:40',62,'American Thinker','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-06-27 12:24:40','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',1,213,'','',1,121,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(319,0,'\'Project Gunrunner\' Whistleblower Says ATF Sent Him Termination Notice','project-gunrunner-whistleblower-says-atf-sent-him-termination-notice','<p><img src=\"http://a57.foxnews.com/static/managed/img/U.S./396/223/ATF-vince-cefalu-2.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"ATF vince cefalu 2\" hspace=\"7\" align=\"left\" style=\"border: 0px none initial;\" /></p>\r\n<p>Published June 27, 2011<br />FoxNews.com<br />Vince Cefalu<br /> Vince Cefalu in 2010<br /> The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms is being accused of retaliating against an agent who helped publicize the agency’s role in allowing thousands of guns to cross the U.S. border and fall into the hands of Mexican drug gangs. The agent, Vince Cefalu, who has spoken out about the ATF\'s so-called \"Project Gunrunner\" scandal, says he was served with termination papers just last week, and he calls the move politically motivated. “Aside from Jay Dobyns, I don\'t know of anyone that\'s been more vocal about ATF mismanagement than me,” said Cefalu, a senior special agent based in Dublin, Calif. “That\'s why this is happening.” Dobyns, an ATF special agent based in Tucson, has appeared several times on Fox News to discuss the scandal.</p>\r\n<p>Read more: <a href=\"http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/06/27/atf-to-fire-gunrunner-whistleblower/#ixzz1QXDGDvG6\">http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/06/27/atf-to-fire-gunrunner-whistleblower/#ixzz1QXDGDvG6</a></p>','',1,72,'2011-06-28 02:41:49',62,'Maxim Lott Fox News','2011-07-05 14:30:05',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-06-28 02:41:49','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',8,22,'','',1,324,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(320,0,'The Glory Will Return','the-glory-will-return','<p> </p>\r\n<div style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: left\"><img class=\"caption\" src=\"images/stories/r_joyner_85px.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Rick Joyner Morningstar Ministries\" title=\"Rick Joyner\" align=\"left\" />I have been a devoted student of history for  more than forty years, but it has been only over the last several years that I  have felt compelled to understand our foundations as a nation. I was surprised  to see that we truly were a nation built on sound biblical principles. The  Scriptures give a lot of instruction about righteous governments, and The Great  Commission was to make disciples of all nations, not just individuals. I have  concluded that America was certainly one of the great nation disciples of the  Lord. Our government was founded mostly by those with a great resolve to adhere  to biblical principles of righteousness and justice. The prosperity we have  enjoyed as a nation was the favor of God promised to the nations that did this  as we see in places like Proverbs 14:34.<br /><br />If we had continued to adhere to  these basic biblical principles that the nation was founded on, we would not  likely have any of the troubles we’re now in. The answer to getting out of the  crises we’re in is to return to those solid foundations. However, we must  understand them to return to them.<br /><br /><strong>The Scheme of the  Devil</strong><br /><br />The quickest way to kill a plant is to cut it off from its  roots; the quickest way to kill a nation or culture is to cut it off from its  history, which are its roots. This is why one of the first things totalitarian  governments do when they gain power over a nation is to start changing its  history. There has been a systematic attempt to destroy America by doing just  that—gradually revising our history and then changing it altogether. What is now  taught in virtually all of our schools as American history is not the truth  about our history.<br /><br />History textbooks now used in our public schools make  almost no mention of our Judeo/Christian foundations unless they are derogatory.  The emphasis of these textbooks is so focused on the mistakes and negatives in  our history that they leave students ashamed to be Americans. This could be a  greater threat to our future than all of the other crises we’re now facing. We  have been systematically cut off from our roots. If we do not reattach to them  soon, we will perish as a nation. If we do recover our roots, revival will  quickly follow.</div>\r\n<div style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: right\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 14px\"><span style=\"COLOR: #000000\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: georgia,serif\"><a href=\"http://morningstarministries.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fe4c6a59812c4942b275f2b5a&amp;id=5e425cb63f&amp;e=a9d97f1df9\" style=\"COLOR: #336699; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; TEXT-DECORATION: underline\"><strong>Click  Here to Read More </strong></a></span></span></span></div>\r\n<p> </p>','',1,35,'2011-06-28 12:36:49',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-06-28 12:36:49','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',1,4,'','',1,462,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(321,0,'The Patriot Act and the EU Cloud','the-patriot-act-and-the-eu-cloud','<p>+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />|  The Patriot Act and the EU Cloud<br />|   from the lets-see-what-you-got-there  dept.<br />|   posted by samzenpus on Wednesday June 29, @22:14 (Privacy)<br />|    <a href=\"https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/06/30/0050236/The-Patriot-Act-and-the-EU-Cloud?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email\">https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/06/30/0050236/The-Patriot-Act-and-the-EU-Cloud?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email</a><br />+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><br />ISoldat53  writes \"Gordon Frazer, managing director of Microsoft UK said<br />that the  Patriot Act allows government access to data in its cloud<br />services even in  Europe. Though he said that \'customers would be informed<br />wherever possible,\'  he could not provide a guarantee that they would be<br />informed if a gagging  order, injunction or U.S. National Security Letter<br />permits  it.\"<br /><br />Discuss this story at:<br /> <a href=\"https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/06/30/0050236/The-Patriot-Act-and-the-EU-Cloud?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email#commentlisting\">https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/06/30/0050236/The-Patriot-Act-and-the-EU-Cloud?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email#commentlisting</a><br /><br />Links:<br /> 0. <a href=\"http://www.zdnet.com/blog/igeneration/microsoft-admits-patriot-act-can-access-eu-based-cloud-data/11225\">http://www.zdnet.com/blog/igeneration/microsoft-admits-patriot-act-can-access-eu-based-cloud-data/11225</a></p>','',1,70,'2011-07-02 04:45:36',62,'slashdot','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-07-02 04:45:36','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',1,63,'','',1,79,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(322,0,'California\'s New Internet Tax: The Sequel','californias-new-internet-tax-the-sequel','<p>+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />|  Amazon Drops California Associates to Avoid Sales Tax<br />|   from the  tax-the-tubes dept.<br />|   posted by samzenpus on Thursday June 30, @08:11  (Businesses)<br />|   <a href=\"https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/06/30/0323220/Amazon-Drops-California-Associates-to-Avoid-Sales-Tax?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email\">https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/06/30/0323220/Amazon-Drops-California-Associates-to-Avoid-Sales-Tax?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email</a><br />+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><br />PCM2  writes \"Residents of California who participate in the Amazon<br />Associates  Program received an email warning them that [0]the program<br />will be terminated  as soon as a new California law goes into effect. The<br />law, which CA governor  Jerry Brown signed, would require online retailers<br />to collect sales tax on  purchases. According to Amazon\'s statement, \'We<br />oppose this bill because it  is unconstitutional and counterproductive. It<br />is supported by big-box  retailers, most of which are based outside<br />California, that seek to harm the  affiliate advertising programs of their<br />competitors.\'\"<br /><br />Discuss this  story at:<br /> <a href=\"https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/06/30/0323220/Amazon-Drops-California-Associates-to-Avoid-Sales-Tax?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email#commentlisting\">https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/06/30/0323220/Amazon-Drops-California-Associates-to-Avoid-Sales-Tax?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email#commentlisting</a><br /><br />Links:<br /> 0. <a href=\"http://www.boingboing.net/2011/06/29/amazon-kills-associa.html\">http://www.boingboing.net/2011/06/29/amazon-kills-associa.html</a><br /><br /></p>','',1,60,'2011-07-02 04:49:04',62,'slashdot','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-07-02 04:49:04','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',1,212,'','',1,181,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(323,0,'FBI Wiretapped Hemingway','fbi-wiretapped-hemingway','<p>| FBI Wiretapped Hemingway<br />|   from the rights-and-writers dept.<br />|    posted by Soulskill on Saturday July 02, @16:55 (Books)<br />|   <a href=\"https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/02/2049206/FBI-Wiretapped-Hemingway?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email\">https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/02/2049206/FBI-Wiretapped-Hemingway?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email</a><br />+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><br />[0]Hugh  Pickens writes \"On the fiftieth anniversary of the death by<br />suicide of author  Ernest Hemingway, his friend and biographer A. E.<br />Hotchner writes in the NY  Times that the man who \'had stood his ground<br />against charging water  buffaloes, who had flown missions over Germany,<br />who had refused to accept the  prevailing style of writing but, enduring<br />rejection and poverty, had insisted  on writing in his own unique way,<br />this man, my deepest friend, was afraid â€”  [1]afraid that the FBI was<br />after him, that his body was disintegrating, that  his friends had turned<br />on him, that living was no longer an option.\' In the  midst of depression<br />and under treatment at St. Mary\'s Hospital in Rochester,  Minnesota,<br />Hemingway was convinced that his room was bugged, his phone was  tapped,<br />and suspected that one of the interns was a fed. Decades later,  in<br />response to a Freedom of Information petition, [2]the FBI released  its<br />Hemingway file. It revealed that beginning in the 1940s J. Edgar  Hoover<br />had placed Hemingway under surveillance because he was suspicious  of<br />Ernest\'s activities in Cuba. The surveillance continued all through  his<br />confinement at St. Mary\'s Hospital, making it likely that the  phone<br />outside his room was tapped after all. \'In the years since, I have  tried<br />to reconcile Ernest\'s fear of the FBI, which I regretfully  misjudged,<br />with the reality of the FBI file,\' writes [3]Hotchner, author of  Papa<br />Hemingway and Hemingway and His World. \'I now believe he truly sensed  the<br />surveillance, and that it substantially contributed to his anguish  and<br />his suicide.\'\"<br /><br />Discuss this story at:<br /> <a href=\"https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/02/2049206/FBI-Wiretapped-Hemingway?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email#commentlisting\">https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/02/2049206/FBI-Wiretapped-Hemingway?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email#commentlisting</a><br /><br />Links:<br /> 0. <a href=\"http://hughpickens.com/\">http://hughpickens.com/</a><br /> 1. <a href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/02/opinion/02hotchner.html?_r=4&amp;pagewanted=all\">http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/02/opinion/02hotchner.html?_r=4&amp;pagewanted=all</a><br /> 2. <a href=\"http://vault.fbi.gov/Ernest%20Hemingway%20/Ernest%20Hemingway%20Part%201%20of%203/view\">http://vault.fbi.gov/Ernest%20Hemingway%20/Ernest%20Hemingway%20Part%201%20of%203/view</a><br /> 3. <a href=\"http://simplycharly.com/hemingway/ae_hotchner_papa_hemingway_reviews.htm\">http://simplycharly.com/hemingway/ae_hotchner_papa_hemingway_reviews.htm</a></p>','',1,70,'2011-07-03 15:26:19',62,'slashdot','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-07-03 15:26:19','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',1,62,'','',1,72,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(324,0,'Sex at Work?','sex-at-work','<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color: #000000; line-height: normal;\">\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.3em; font-size: 14px; padding: 0px;\"><img src=\"images/stories/columnistturek.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Turek\" align=\"left\" />Are you supposed to have sex at work? I guess it depends on your profession, but for most of us the answer is “no.” Why then is corporate America obsessed with training about sex?</p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.3em; font-size: 14px; padding: 0px;\">As described in <a href=\"http://townhall.com/columnists/mikeadams/\" style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\">several recent columns by Mike Adams</a>, I was fired as a vendor by Cisco for my conservative beliefs about sex and marriage even though my beliefs were never expressed on the job. When a homosexual manager found out on the Internet that I had authored a <a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Correct-Politically-Same-Sex-Marriage-Everyone/dp/1607081628/ref=pd_sim_b_41\" style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\">book</a> giving evidence that maintaining our current marriage laws would be best for society, he couldn’t tolerate me and requested I be fired. An HR executive canned me within hours without ever speaking to me. This happened despite the fact that the leadership and teambuilding programs I led always received high marks (even from the homosexual manager!)...<em><a href=\"http://townhall.com/columnists/frankturek/2011/06/28/sex_at_work/page/full/\">read more</a></em></p>\r\n</span></p>','',1,20,'2011-07-04 13:29:57',62,'Frank Turek in Townhall','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-07-04 13:29:57','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',1,11,'','',1,474,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(325,0,'New Trillion Dollar Bill','new-trillion-dollar-bill','<p><strong>This Power Point presentation does not work in the IE (Internet Explorer) browser. May be viewed in other browsers including Opera, Safari, Firefox or Chrome.</strong> </p>\r\n<p> </p>\r\n<p>{source}<span style=\"font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;\"><br /><span>&lt;</span>iframe<br />src=\"http://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://letsrebuildit.com/images/stories/Trillion.pps&amp;embedded=true\" <br />width=\"428\" <br />height=\"330\" <br />style=\"border: none;\"<span>&gt;</span><br /><span>&lt;</span>/iframe<span>&gt;</span><br /></span>{/source}</p>','',1,20,'2011-07-04 17:30:50',62,'Submitted by CB','2011-07-09 22:23:10',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-07-04 17:30:50','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',13,10,'','',1,507,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(326,0,'Obama Care EMS Unit','obama-care-ems-unit','<p><img src=\"images/stories/humor/obamacare_ems_640.jpg\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\" /></p>','',1,73,'2011-07-04 17:55:42',62,'Submitted by BB','2011-07-04 18:16:10',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-07-04 17:55:42','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',2,18,'','',1,102,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(327,0,'WSBTV Atlanta Knows Why Arizona is Protecting Our Borders','wsbtv-atlanta-knows-why-arizona-is-protecting-our-borders-1','\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\"><b><font face=\"Arial\" color=\"#000000\" size=\"3\"><span style=\"font-weight:bold;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;font-family:Arial;\">According \nto the Border Patrol the public is being mislead as to WHO is coming into the US \nfrom Mexico. This IS THE TRUTH. as reported by WSBTV \nin Atlanta.</span></font></b></div></div></div></div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt;\"></span></font> </div></div></div></div></div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\"><b><font face=\"Arial\" color=\"#000000\" size=\"3\"><span style=\"font-weight:bold;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;font-family:Arial;\">Video \n1 <a title=\"http://www.wsbtv.com/video/23438021/index.html\" href=\"http://www.wsbtv.com/video/23438021/index.html\" target=\"_blank\"><u><font color=\"#810081\"><span style=\"color:#810081;\"><span title=\"http://www.wsbtv.com/video/23438021/index.html CTRL + Click to follow link\">http://www.wsbtv.com/video/23438021/index.html</span></span></font></u></a></span></font></b></div></div></div></div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt;\"></span></font> </div></div></div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\"><b><font face=\"Arial\" color=\"#000000\" size=\"3\"><span style=\"font-weight:bold;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;font-family:Arial;\">Video \n2 <a title=\"http://www.wsbtv.com/video/23438712/index.html\" href=\"http://www.wsbtv.com/video/23438712/index.html\" target=\"_blank\"><u><font color=\"#810081\"><span title=\"http://www.wsbtv.com/video/23438712/index.html CTRL + Click to follow link\" style=\"color:#810081;\">http://www.wsbtv.com/video/23438712/index.html</span></font></u></a></span></font></b></div></div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt;\"></span></font> </div></div></div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\"><b><font face=\"Arial\" color=\"#000000\" size=\"3\"><span style=\"font-weight:bold;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;font-family:Arial;\">If \nwe don\'t get this message out to the people, we are dead ducks...and \nsoon!</span></font></b></div></div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\"><b><font face=\"Arial\" color=\"#FF0000\" size=\"3\"><span style=\"font-weight:bold;font-size:12pt;color:#FF0000;font-family:Arial;\"></span></font></b> </div></div></div>','',1,20,'2011-07-04 18:42:52',0,'Information','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-07-04 00:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','[]',1,9,'','',1,386,'[]',0,'*','',''),(328,0,'Iran Ridicules July 4th: America is Not Independent','iran-ridicules-july-4th-america-is-not-independent','<p><span style=\"border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #000000; line-height: normal;\">\r\n<div class=\"ArticalAuthor\">by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu</div>\r\n<div class=\"FollowUs\" style=\"margin-top: 15px; color: #366c92; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;\">Follow Israel news on <a href=\"http://twitter.com/IsraelNewsStory\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\"><img src=\"http://www.israelnationalnews.com/images/logo-twitter.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Twitter\" style=\"vertical-align: top; border: 0px initial initial;\" /></a> and <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/pages/IsraelNationalNews/102510354100\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\"><img src=\"http://www.israelnationalnews.com/images/logo-facebook.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Facebook\" style=\"vertical-align: top; border: 0px initial initial;\" /></a>.</div>\r\n<br />\r\n<div class=\"articaltext\" style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; color: #000000; padding-top: 5px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-right: 10px;\">\r\n<p>Iran ”celebrates” <a href=\"http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/10376\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"text-decoration: underline !important; font-weight: bold; color: #143c59; overflow-y: scroll; overflow-x: hidden;\">Independence Day </a>in the United States by saying the US has lost independence to foreign <span style=\"background-image: none; border-bottom: #0000cc 1px solid; position: static; padding-bottom: 1px !important; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal !important; padding-left: 0px !important; background-attachment: scroll; padding-right: 0px !important; display: inline !important; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif !important; background-position: 0% 50%; float: none !important; color: #0000cc !important; font-size: 13px !important; cursor: pointer !important; font-weight: normal !important; text-decoration: underline; padding-top: 0px !important; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;\">creditors</span> and, of course, Israel.</p>\r\n<p><em><a href=\"http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/145407\">read more...</a></em></p>\r\n</div>\r\n</span></p>','',1,30,'2011-07-05 11:41:44',62,'Article from Arutz Sheva','2012-02-27 03:07:54',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-07-05 11:41:44','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',2,21,'','',1,424,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(329,0,'US Wiretap Report Released','us-wiretap-report-released','<p>US Wiretap Report Released<br />|   from the needs-improvement dept.<br />|    posted by samzenpus on Sunday July 03, @21:30 (Privacy)<br />|   <a href=\"https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/03/2315222/US-Wiretap-Report-Released?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email\">https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/03/2315222/US-Wiretap-Report-Released?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email</a><br />+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><br />sTeF  writes \"According to the [0]2010 Wiretap Report (Pdf), released<br />today by the  Administrative Office of the United States Courts (AOUSC)<br />federal and state  requests for [1]court permission to intercept or<br />wiretap electronic  communications increased 34% in 2010 over 2009.<br />California, New York, and New  Jersey accounted for 68% of all wire taps<br />approved by state  judges.\"<br />\r\n','\r\n<br />Discuss this story at:<br /> <a href=\"https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/03/2315222/US-Wiretap-Report-Released?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email#commentlisting\">https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/03/2315222/US-Wiretap-Report-Released?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email#commentlisting</a><br /><br />Links:<br /> 0. <a href=\"http://www.uscourts.gov/uscourts/Statistics/WiretapReports/2010/2010WireTapReport.pdf\">http://www.uscourts.gov/uscourts/Statistics/WiretapReports/2010/2010WireTapReport.pdf</a><br /> 1. <a href=\"http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/063011-wiretaps.html?hpg1=bn\">http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/063011-wiretaps.html?hpg1=bn</a></p>',1,70,'2011-07-05 13:36:40',62,'slashdot','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-07-05 13:36:40','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',1,61,'','',1,269,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(330,0,'Kinect-Based AI System Watches What You\'re Up To','kinect-based-ai-system-watches-what-youre-up-to','<p>+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />|  Kinect-Based AI System Watches What You\'re Up To<br />|   from the  8-bit-necktie-on-the-door dept.<br />|   posted by timothy on Monday July 04,  @12:09 (AI)<br />|   <a href=\"https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/07/04/1426252/Kinect-Based-AI-System-Watches-What-Youre-Up-To?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email\">https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/07/04/1426252/Kinect-Based-AI-System-Watches-What-Youre-Up-To?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email</a><br />+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><br />mikejuk  writes \"Researchers from Cornell have used AI to create a system<br />based on the  Kinect that [0]can recognize what you are doing â€” cleaning<br />your teeth,  cooking, writing on a whiteboard etc. In a smart home it<br />could be used to  offer help: \'Would you like some help with that recipe,<br />Dave?\' Or it could  monitor patients or workers to make sure they are<br />doing what they are told.  The study also reveals that there is probably<br />enough information in how  activities are performed to recognize an<br />individual â€” so providing yet more  biometrics. There are clearly a lot<br />more things that we can teach the Kinect  to do with machine learning than<br />just gesture recognition.\"<br /><br />Discuss  this story at:<br /> <a href=\"https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/07/04/1426252/Kinect-Based-AI-System-Watches-What-Youre-Up-To?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email#commentlisting\">https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/07/04/1426252/Kinect-Based-AI-System-Watches-What-Youre-Up-To?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email#commentlisting</a><br /><br />Links:<br /> 0. <a href=\"http://www.i-programmer.info/news/105-artificial-intelligence/2695-kinect-knows-what-you-are-doing.html\">http://www.i-programmer.info/news/105-artificial-intelligence/2695-kinect-knows-what-you-are-doing.html</a></p>','',1,70,'2011-07-05 13:41:20',62,'slashdot','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-07-05 13:41:20','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',1,60,'','',1,32,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(331,0,'Flash Mob - \"proud to be an american\"','flash-mob-qproud-to-be-an-americanq','<p>{source}<span style=\"font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;\"><br /><span>&lt;</span>iframe width=\"420\" height=\"262\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/embed/FATQ0ayQXsA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen<span>&gt;</span><span>&lt;</span>/iframe<span>&gt;</span><br /></span>{/source}</p>','',1,20,'2011-07-05 14:43:39',62,'submitted by Bob Storey','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-07-05 14:43:39','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',1,8,'','',1,375,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(332,0,'Sad day for skier Linsey Vonn','sad-day-for-skier-linsey-vonn','<h2><strong><em>A sad day for skier Lindsey Vonn......</em></strong></h2>\r\n<h3>I find this so sad. She truly earned this medal...<br />American Lindsey Vonn has had to forfeit her Gold Medal on Friday, April 1, 2011.</h3>\r\n<p> </p>\r\n<p align=\"center\"><br /> <img src=\"images/stories/humor/lvonn.jpg\" border=\"0\" /></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\"> </p>\r\n<h3><br /> The International Olympic Committee announced today that it has taken back the gold medal previously awarded to American skier Lindsey Vonn and given it to U.S. President Barack Obama.</h3>\r\n<p> </p>\r\n<p align=\"center\"> </p>\r\n<p align=\"center\"><img src=\"images/stories/humor/bo.jpg\" border=\"0\" /></p>\r\n<h3>Olympic officials said President Obama deserved the medal more than Ms. Vonn because no one has ever gone downhill faster than Mr. Obama has.</h3>','',1,73,'2011-07-05 17:18:59',62,'submitted by RS','2011-07-05 17:35:56',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-07-05 17:18:59','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',3,17,'','',1,83,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(333,0,'Lt Col West Answers Marine\'s Question about Islam','lt-col-west-answers-marines-question-about-islam','<h3><a href=\"http://articles.cnn.com/2003-12-12/us/sprj.nirq.west.ruling_1_allen-west-iraqi-detainee-military-justice?_s=PM:US\">Introduction: CNN U.S. December 13, 2003, excerpted</a></h3>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-left: 0in;\">The commanding general of the 4th Infantry Division on Friday accepted a U.S. military investigator\'s recommendation and ordered administrative action against Lt. Col. Allen West, who was accused of using improper methods to force information out of an Iraqi detainee.</p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-left: 0in;\">The case stems from an incident August 20 at a military base in Taji, just north of Baghdad, when West was interrogating an Iraqi policeman, who was believed to have information about a plot to assassinate West with an ambush on a U.S. convoy.</p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-left: 0in;\">In testimony at an Article 32 hearing -- the military\'s version of a grand jury or preliminary hearing -- West said the policeman, Yahya Jhrodi Hamoody, was not cooperating with interrogators, so he watched four of his soldiers from the 220th Field Artillery Battalion beat the detainee on the head and body.</p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-left: 0in;\">West said he also threatened to kill Hamoody. Military prosecutors say West followed up on that threat by taking the suspect outside, put him on the ground near a weapons clearing barrel and fired his 9 mm pistol into the barrel.</p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-left: 0in;\">Apparently not knowing where West\'s gun was aimed, Hamoody cracked and gave information about the planned ambush on West\'s convoy, thwarting the attack.</p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-left: 0in;\">West said there were no further ambushes on U.S. forces in Taji until he was relieved of his leadership post on October 4.</p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-left: 0in;\">\"I know the method I used was not right, but I wanted to take care of my soldiers,\" West testified to a military courtroom of observers and some teary-eyed troops formerly under his command.</p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-left: 0in;\">Asked if he would have act differently if under similar circumstances again, West testified, \"If it\'s about the lives of my soldiers at stake, I\'d go through hell with a gasoline can.\"</p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-left: 0in;\"><em><strong>Qur\'an Surah 9.5</strong></em></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-left: 0in;\"><span style=\"color: #13273c; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: normal;\"><em><strong>YUSUFALI: \"</strong> But when the forbidden months are past, then fight and slay the Pagans wherever ye find them, and seize them, beleaguer them, and lie in wait for them in every stratagem (of war); but if they repent, and establish regular prayers and practise regular charity, then open the way for them: for Allah is Oft-forgiving, Most Merciful.\"</em></span></p>\r\n<p><span style=\"-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 3px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 3px; color: #000000; font-family: \'Times New Roman\'; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; \"> </span></p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: xx-small;\"><strong> </strong></span></p>\r\n<hr />\r\n<p><strong> AFA Action Alert-For Veteran\'s Day: A vet who understands the enemy we face</strong></p>\r\n<p> </p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica;\">President Obama this week once again called Islam \"a great religion\" which has been \"distorted\" by a small number of \"extremists\" to justify committing acts of violence against the West.<br /><br />But the Qur\'an (or Koran) itself, the holy book of Islam, contains over 100 verses calling for violence against Christians and Jews. To give just one example, Sura 9:5 says, \"Slay the idolaters wherever you find them.\"<br /><br />During a panel discussion sponsored by the Hudson Institute last January, retired Army Lt. Colonel Allen West, who did combat duty in Iraq, responded to a Marine who asked the question, how do you answer people who say that terrorists are following a \"warped\" version of Islam?<br /><br />The panel consisted of a number of former military personnel, who fumbled around trying to answer the question. Col. West finally stepped forward answered the question directly and truthfully. Listen to the words of a former military man who understands the nature of the enemy we face:<br /></span></p>\r\n<p> </p>\r\n<p>{source}<span style=\"font-family: \'courier new\', courier, monospace;\"><span>&lt;</span>iframe width=\"425\" height=\"349\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/embed/qYbaln3Uqfc\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen<span>&gt;</span><span>&lt;</span>/iframe<span>&gt;</span></span></p>\r\n<p>{/source}</p>\r\n<p><strong><em><a href=\"http://secure.afa.net/afa/activism/takeaction.asp?id=384\">READ MORE FROM AFA&gt;&gt;&gt;</a></em></strong></p>','',1,71,'2011-07-06 04:28:34',62,'Lt. Col. Allen West','2011-07-06 06:56:53',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-07-06 04:28:34','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',6,9,'','',1,565,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(334,0,'Illegal Obama “Propped Up” By Congress!','illegal-obama-propped-up-by-congress','<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, \'Bitstream Charter\', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;\"> </span></p>\r\n<div class=\"entry-meta\" style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: \'Helvetica Neue\', Arial, Helvetica, \'Nimbus Sans L\', sans-serif; color: #888888; font-size: 12px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\"><span class=\"meta-prep meta-prep-author\" style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">Posted on</span> <a href=\"http://conservativebyte.com/2011/07/illegal-obama-propped-up-by-congress/\" title=\"10:53 am\" rel=\"bookmark\" style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; color: #888888; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\"><span class=\"entry-date\" style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">July 2, 2011</span></a> <span class=\"meta-sep\" style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">by</span> <span class=\"author vcard\" style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\"><a class=\"url fn n\" href=\"http://conservativebyte.com/author/jaytaylor/\" title=\"View all posts by Conservative Byte\" style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; color: #888888; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\"><strong>Conservative Byte</strong></a></span></div>\r\n<div class=\"entry-content\" style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; padding-top: 12px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; clear: both; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">\r\n<p style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">There were eight attempts by members of Congress during the years Barack Obama was developing a power base and running for president to remove the Constitution’s requirement that a president be a “natural-born citizen,” suggesting an organized strategy, according to a new video.</p>\r\n<p style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">The video documentary was produced by Carl Gallups, the senior pastor at Hickory Hammock Baptist Church for more than 24 years with a long history of community and law enforcement involvement.</p>\r\n<p style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">Gallups was a Florida law enforcement officer for 10 years, a youth minister before that and is a national and international youth evangelist with outreaches across the United States and in Canada since 1989. He’s also on the board of regents at the University of Mobile and hosts several weekly radio programs in the northwest Florida region.</p>\r\n<p style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">Documentation for his video comes from a variety of congressional records showing that beginning June 11, 2003, and continuing through the most recent effort, Feb. 28, 2008, there were eight proposals targeting that constitutional requirement.</p>\r\n<p style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">The video:</p>\r\n</div>\r\n<p>{source}<span style=\"font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;\"><br /><span>&lt;</span>iframe width=\"425\" height=\"349\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/embed/H3aCfR8rmrw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen<span>&gt;</span><span>&lt;</span>/iframe<span>&gt;</span><br /></span>{/source}</p>','',1,70,'2011-07-06 15:16:30',62,'submitted by EG','2011-07-06 15:22:53',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-07-06 15:16:30','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',2,59,'','',1,44,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(335,0,'A Diplomatic Defeat for President Obama and America','a-diplomatic-defeat-for-president-obama-and-america','<p><img class=\"caption\" src=\"images/stories/newt.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Newt Gingrich\" title=\"Newt Gingrich\" align=\"left\" />The elite media largely ignored an astounding defeat recently for the United States and for the cause of freedom.<br /><br />The Iranian dictatorship hosted an anti-terrorism conference in Tehran.<br /><br />That\'s right. The world\'s leading state sponsor of terrorism--the country that funds and trains Hamas and Hezbollah and sends arms to the Taliban--simply stole our language and held a conference that professed to oppose terrorism.<br /><br />Under the Iranian definition of that term, the United States and Israel are the primary supporters of terrorism in the world.<br /><br />Amazingly, sixty countries--yes, sixty--participated in the Iranian conference.<br /><br />In a scene worthy of Kurt Vonnegut satire, the North Koreans, Cubans, Venezuelans, Palestinians and other enthusiastic supporters of anti-American activities all showed up. <br /><br />Even more alarmingly, our so-called allies Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan were also in attendance. After billions of dollars spent and thousands of Americans lost, these \"allies\" ignored our requests and dignified the dishonest event and a country that is funding terrorism worldwide.<br /><a href=\"http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=44647\">READ MORE &gt;&gt;&gt;</a></p>','',1,60,'2011-07-06 15:39:31',62,'by  Newt Gingrich ','2011-07-06 15:54:31',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-07-06 15:39:31','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',2,211,'','',1,226,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(336,0,'Law Professors vs the PROTECT IP Act','law-professors-vs-the-protect-ip-act','<p>+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />|  Law Professors vs the PROTECT IP Act<br />|   from the clean-up-your-act  dept.<br />|   posted by Soulskill on Monday July 04, @20:36 (Government)<br />|    <a href=\"https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/05/0023216/Law-Professors-vs-the-PROTECT-IP-Act?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email\">https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/05/0023216/Law-Professors-vs-the-PROTECT-IP-Act?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email</a><br />+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><br />Freddybear  writes \"Along with 90 (and still counting) other Internet law<br />and IP law  professors, David Post of the Volokh Conspiracy law blog has<br />[0]drafted and  signed a letter in opposition to Senator Leahy\'s \'PROTECT<br />IP Act.\' Quoting:  \'The Act would allow the government to break the<br />Internet addressing system.  It requires Internet service providers, and<br />operators of Internet name  servers, to refuse to recognize Internet<br />domains that a court considers  \"dedicated to infringing activities.\" But<br />rather than wait until a Web site  is actually judged infringing before<br />imposing the equivalent of an Internet  death penalty, the Act would allow<br />courts to order any Internet service  provider to stop recognizing the<br />site even on a temporary restraining order  or preliminary injunction<br />issued the same day the complaint is filed. Courts  could issue such an<br />order even if the owner of that domain name was never  given notice that a<br />case against it had been filed at all.\'\"<br /><br />Discuss  this story at:<br /> <a href=\"https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/05/0023216/Law-Professors-vs-the-PROTECT-IP-Act?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email#commentlisting\">https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/05/0023216/Law-Professors-vs-the-PROTECT-IP-Act?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email#commentlisting</a><br /><br />Links:<br /> 0. <a href=\"http://volokh.com/2011/07/04/and-speaking-of-the-inalienable-right-to-the-pursuit-of-happiness/\">http://volokh.com/2011/07/04/and-speaking-of-the-inalienable-right-to-the-pursuit-of-happiness/</a></p>','',1,70,'2011-07-06 16:10:09',62,'slashdot','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-07-06 16:10:09','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',1,58,'','',1,42,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(337,0,'Cisco Helps China Keep an Eye On Its Citizens','cisco-helps-china-keep-an-eye-on-its-citizens','<p>+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />|  Cisco Helps China Keep an Eye On Its Citizens<br />|   from the  every-step-you-take dept.<br />|   posted by Soulskill on Tuesday July 05, @13:25  (China)<br />|   <a href=\"https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/05/171256/Cisco-Helps-China-Keep-an-Eye-On-Its-Citizens?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email\">https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/05/171256/Cisco-Helps-China-Keep-an-Eye-On-Its-Citizens?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email</a><br />+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><br />doperative  writes \"Western companies including Cisco Systems Inc. are<br />[0]poised to help  build an ambitious new surveillance project in China â€”<br />a citywide network  of as many as 500,000 cameras that officials say will<br />prevent crime but that  human-rights advocates warn could target political<br />dissent. An examination of  the Peaceful Chongqing project by The Wall<br />Street Journal shows Cisco is  expected to supply networking equipment<br />that is essential to operating large  and complicated surveillance<br />systems, according to people familiar with the  deal.\"<br /><br />Discuss this story at:<br /> <a href=\"https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/05/171256/Cisco-Helps-China-Keep-an-Eye-On-Its-Citizens?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email#commentlisting\">https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/05/171256/Cisco-Helps-China-Keep-an-Eye-On-Its-Citizens?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email#commentlisting</a><br /><br />Links:<br /> 0. <a href=\"http://www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/markets/newsfeeditem.aspx?id=148573656314500\">http://www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/markets/newsfeeditem.aspx?id=148573656314500</a></p>\r\n<p><a href=\"http://townhall.com/columnists/frankturek/2011/06/28/sex_at_work/page/full/\">MORE CISCO NEW WORLD ORDER BENT &gt;&gt;&gt;</a></p>','',1,70,'2011-07-06 16:12:56',62,'slashdot','2011-07-06 16:16:04',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-07-06 16:12:56','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',2,57,'','',1,28,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(338,0,' Patriot Act vs. the EU\'s Data Protection Directive','patriot-act-vs-the-eus-data-protection-directive','<p>+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />|  Patriot Act vs. the EU\'s Data Protection Directive<br />|   from the  otherwise-the-terrists-win dept.<br />|   posted by Soulskill on Tuesday July 05,  @14:55 (Cloud)<br />|   <a href=\"https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/05/1840243/Patriot-Act-vs-the-EUs-Data-Protection-Directive?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email\">https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/05/1840243/Patriot-Act-vs-the-EUs-Data-Protection-Directive?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email</a><br />+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><br />[0]itwbennett  writes \"Last week, Microsoft warned that under the Patriot<br />Act the company  [1]may be compelled to hand over European customers\' data<br />on its new cloud  service to U.S. authorities â€” and [2]also to keep the<br />data transfer secret.  This, of course, runs counter to the European Data<br />Protection Directive,  which states that organizations must inform users<br />when they disclose personal  information. \'Microsoft can already transfer<br />E.U. data to the U.S. under the  Safe Harbor agreement. But legal experts<br />have warned that this agreement is  hardly worth the paper it\'s written<br />on,\' writes IDG News Service\'s Jennifer  Baker. \'There are seven<br />principles of Safe Harbor, including reasonable data  security, and<br />clearly defined and effective enforcement. However all this is  nullified<br />if the Patriot Act is invoked.\'\"<br /><br />Discuss this story  at:<br /> <a href=\"https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/05/1840243/Patriot-Act-vs-the-EUs-Data-Protection-Directive?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email#commentlisting\">https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/05/1840243/Patriot-Act-vs-the-EUs-Data-Protection-Directive?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email#commentlisting</a><br /><br />Links:<br /> 0. <a href=\"http://www.itworld.com/\">http://www.itworld.com/</a><br /> 1. <a href=\"http://www.itworld.com/government/179977/eu-upset-microsoft-warning-about-us-access-eu-cloud\">http://www.itworld.com/government/179977/eu-upset-microsoft-warning-about-us-access-eu-cloud</a><br /> 2. <a href=\"http://www.zdnet.com/blog/igeneration/microsoft-admits-patriot-act-can-access-eu-based-cloud-data/11225\">http://www.zdnet.com/blog/igeneration/microsoft-admits-patriot-act-can-access-eu-based-cloud-data/11225</a></p>','',1,70,'2011-07-06 16:17:33',62,'slashdot','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-07-06 16:17:33','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',1,56,'','',1,48,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(339,0,'Obamacare Explained','obamacare-explained','<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\"><strong>Let\'s get this straight...</strong></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #135cae; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold;\"><img class=\"caption\" src=\"images/stories/president_obama_smoking_cigarettes.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"President Barack Hussein Obama\" title=\"President Barack Hussein Obama\" align=\"left\" style=\"float: left; border: 0;\" />We\'re going to be <em><span style=\"color: red;\">\"gifted\"</span></em> with a health care plan we are <em><span style=\"color: red;\">forced to purchase and fined</span></em> if we don\'t, which purportedly covers at least <em><span style=\"color: red;\">ten million more people</span></em>, without adding a <em><span style=\"color: red;\">single new doctor</span></em>, but provides for <em><span style=\"color: red;\">16,000 new IRS agents</span></em>, written by a committee whose chairman says he <em><span style=\"color: red;\">doesn\'t understand it</span></em>, passed by a Congress <em><span style=\"color: red;\">that didn\'t read</span></em> it but <em><span style=\"color: red;\">exempted</span></em> themselves from it, and signed by a President who<em><span style=\"color: red;\"> smokes</span></em>, with <em><span style=\"color: red;\">funding</span></em> administered by a treasury chief who <em><span style=\"color: red;\">didn\'t pay his taxes</span></em>, for which we\'ll be <em><span style=\"color: red;\">taxed</span></em> for four years before any benefits take effect, by a government which has already <em><span style=\"color: red;\">bankrupted Social Security and Medicare</span></em>, all to be overseen by a surgeon general who is <em><span style=\"color: red;\">obese</span></em>, and<em><span style=\"color: red;\"> </span></em><em><span style=\"color: red;\">financed</span></em> by a country that\'s <em><span style=\"color: red;\">broke!!!!!</span></em></span></p>\r\n<h1 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><span style=\"color: black;\">How\'s \"Change You Can Believe In\" Working For you Now???</span></em></h1>','',1,26,'2011-07-07 01:33:18',62,'submitted by EG','2011-07-10 15:43:12',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-07-07 01:33:18','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',15,2,'','',1,488,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(340,0,'OAK: Thank You American Taxpayers','oak-thank-you-american-taxpayers','<p style=\"text-align: center; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; font-family: Trebuchet MS,Geneva;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: black; font-size: 10pt;\"><img src=\"http://www.theoakinitiative.org/images/news/michelle-obama.jpg\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" width=\"306\" height=\"409\" align=\"left\" /> </span></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0in; font-family: Trebuchet MS,Geneva; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in;\" align=\"justify\">Dear <strong>Jack</strong>, American Taxpayer:</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0in; font-family: Trebuchet MS,Geneva; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in;\" align=\"justify\"> </p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0in; font-family: Trebuchet MS,Geneva; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in;\" align=\"justify\">I want to thank the hard working American people for paying  $242 thousand dollars for my vacation in Spain.<br /><br /> My daughter Sasha,  several long-time family friends, my personal staff and various guests had a  wonderful time. Honestly, you just haven\'t lived until you have stayed in a  $2,500.00 per night private 3-story villa at a 5-Star luxury hotel.<br /><br /> Thank you also for the use of Air Force Two and the 70 Secret Service personnel  who tagged along to be sure we were safe and cared for at all times. By the way,  if you happen to be visiting the Costa del Sol, I highly recommend the  Buenaventura Plaza restaurant in Marbella; great lobster with rice and oysters!  <br /><br /> Air Force Two (which costs $11,351 per hour to operate according to  Government Accounting Office reports) only used 47,500 gallons of jet fuel for  this trip and carbon emissions were a mere 1,031 tons of CO2. These are only  rough estimates, but they are close. That\'s quite a carbon footprint as my good  friend Al Gore would say, so we must ask the American citizens to drive smaller,  more fuel efficient cars and drive less too, so we can lessen our combined  carbon footprint.<br /><br /> I know times are hard and millions of you are  struggling to put food on the table and trying to make ends meet. So I do  appreciate your sacrifices and do hope you find work soon.<br /><br /> I was really  exhausted after Barack took our family on a luxury vacation in Maine a few weeks  ago. I just had to get away for a few days.<br /><br />Cordially,<br /><br />Michelle  Obama</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0in; font-family: Trebuchet MS,Geneva; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in;\" align=\"justify\"> </p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0in; font-family: Trebuchet MS,Geneva; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in;\" align=\"justify\"> </p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0in; font-family: Trebuchet MS,Geneva; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in;\" align=\"justify\"> </p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" align=\"justify\"><strong>PS.</strong> Thank you as well for the $2 BILLION dollar  trip to India !</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" align=\"justify\"> </p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" align=\"justify\"><strong>PPS.</strong> Thank you, too, for that vacation trip to  Martha\'s Vineyard; it was fabulous. And thanks for that second smaller jet that  took our dog Bo to Martha\'s Vineyard so we and the children could have him with  us while we were away from the White House for eleven days.</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" align=\"justify\"> </p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" align=\"justify\"><strong>PPPS.</strong> Oh, I almost forgot to thank you all for  our \"date weekend\" in New York and to say thanks also for our two-week trip to  Hawaii at Christmas. That 7,000 square foot house was great!</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" align=\"justify\"> </p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" align=\"justify\">And finally, thanks for asking, we had a great time taking Air  Force One to Chicago to tape our segment with Oprah a couple weeks ago, replete  with full security, a separate plane for armored limosines and a full contingent  of assistants.</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" align=\"justify\"> </p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" align=\"justify\">Remember we all have to share the pain of these economic times  equally! Love to -redistribute- share- the wealth.</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" align=\"justify\"> </p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" align=\"center\">_________________________________________</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" align=\"justify\"> </p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: #ff0000; font-size: 12pt;\" align=\"center\">It Really Is Just About the Money</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: #ff0000; font-size: 12pt;\" align=\"center\">Take A Stand!!</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" align=\"justify\"> </p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" align=\"center\">_________________________________________</p>\r\n<p> </p>','',1,20,'2011-07-07 02:01:09',62,'The Oak Initiative','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-07-07 02:01:09','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',1,7,'','',1,525,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(341,0,'Michigan Resident Faces 93 Days in Jail For Vegetable Garden','michigan-resident-faces-93-days-in-jail-for-vegetable-garden','<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: normal;\">\r\n<h2 id=\"article-title\" class=\"entry-title\" style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\"></h2>\r\n<p class=\"author vcard\" style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; font-size: 12px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\"><span class=\"fn\"> </span></p>\r\n<p class=\"published updated dtstamp\" style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; font-size: 12px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\">Published July 08, 2011<span class=\"value-title\" title=\"2010-05-1T11:02Z\"> </span></p>\r\n<p class=\"source-org vcard\" style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; font-size: 12px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\"><span class=\"org fn\">FoxNews.com</span></p>\r\n<p class=\"source-org vcard\" style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; font-size: 12px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\"><span class=\"org fn\"><br /></span></p>\r\n<div id=\"introduction\" style=\"padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 0px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; font-size: 12px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; margin: 0px;\">\r\n<div class=\"entry-content  KonaBody\" style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; font-size: 12px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\">\r\n<div class=\"hmedia related-media m-17\" style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; font-size: 12px; width: 396px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\">\r\n<p class=\"photo\" style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; font-size: 12px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\"><img src=\"http://a57.foxnews.com/static/managed/img/U.S./396/223/veggardenbass.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"veggardenbass\" style=\"border: 0px none initial;\" /></p>\r\n<p class=\"fn\" style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; font-size: 12px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\">Julie Bass\' <a id=\"KonaLink0\" class=\"kLink\" href=\"http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/07/08/michigan-resident-faces-3-days-in-jail-for-vegetable-garden/?test=latestnews#\" style=\"outline-width: initial; outline-style: none; outline-color: initial; color: blue !important; text-decoration: underline !important; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit !important; background-image: none !important; background-attachment: initial !important; background-origin: initial !important; background-clip: initial !important; background-color: transparent !important; text-transform: none !important; display: inline !important; font-variant: normal; top: 0px; right: 0px; bottom: 0px; left: 0px; position: static; font-weight: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; background-position: initial initial !important; background-repeat: initial initial !important; padding: 0px !important; margin: 0px; border: 0px !important none !important transparent !important;\"><span style=\"color: blue !important; font-weight: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; position: static;\"><span class=\"kLink\" style=\"border-top-width: 0px !important; border-top-style: none !important; border-top-color: initial !important; border-left-width: 0px !important; border-left-style: none !important; border-left-color: initial !important; border-right-width: 0px !important; border-right-style: none !important; border-right-color: initial !important; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: initial; padding-top: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; color: blue !important; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; width: auto !important; float: none !important; display: inline !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-weight: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; position: static; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;\">vegetable </span><span class=\"kLink\" style=\"border-top-width: 0px !important; border-top-style: none !important; border-top-color: initial !important; border-left-width: 0px !important; border-left-style: none !important; border-left-color: initial !important; border-right-width: 0px !important; border-right-style: none !important; border-right-color: initial !important; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: initial; padding-top: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; color: blue !important; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; width: auto !important; float: none !important; display: inline !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-weight: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; position: static; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;\">garden</span></span></a> in her front yard. (WJBK/myFOXDetroit.com)</p>\r\n</div>\r\n<p style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; font-size: 14px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\">A Michigan resident is facing up to 93 days in jail for planting a vegetable garden in her front yard, MyFoxDetroit.com reports.</p>\r\n<p style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; font-size: 14px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\">Julie Bass, of Oak Park, Michigan was first given a warning followed by a ticket and now she is being charged with a misdemeanor for her simple front-yard <a id=\"KonaLink1\" class=\"kLink\" href=\"http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/07/08/michigan-resident-faces-3-days-in-jail-for-vegetable-garden/?test=latestnews#\" style=\"outline-width: initial; outline-style: none; outline-color: initial; color: blue !important; text-decoration: underline !important; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit !important; background-image: none !important; background-attachment: initial !important; background-origin: initial !important; background-clip: initial !important; background-color: transparent !important; text-transform: none !important; display: inline !important; font-variant: normal; top: 0px; right: 0px; bottom: 0px; left: 0px; position: static; font-weight: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; background-position: initial initial !important; background-repeat: initial initial !important; padding: 0px !important; margin: 0px; border: 0px !important none !important transparent !important;\"><span style=\"color: blue !important; font-weight: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; position: static;\"><span class=\"kLink\" style=\"border-top-width: 0px !important; border-top-style: none !important; border-top-color: initial !important; border-left-width: 0px !important; border-left-style: none !important; border-left-color: initial !important; border-right-width: 0px !important; border-right-style: none !important; border-right-color: initial !important; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: initial; padding-top: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; color: blue !important; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; width: auto !important; float: none !important; display: inline !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-weight: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; position: static; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;\">garden</span></span></a>.</p>\r\n<p style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; font-size: 14px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\">\"I think it\'s sad that the City of Oak Park that\'s already strapped for cash is paying a lot of money to have a prosecutor bothering us,\" Bass told FOX 2\'s Alexis Wiley.</p>\r\n<p style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; font-size: 14px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\">The city is claiming that the garden violates a city code which states that front yards must consist of suitable, live <a id=\"KonaLink2\" class=\"kLink\" href=\"http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/07/08/michigan-resident-faces-3-days-in-jail-for-vegetable-garden/?test=latestnews#\" style=\"outline-width: initial; outline-style: none; outline-color: initial; color: blue !important; text-decoration: underline !important; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit !important; background-image: none !important; background-attachment: initial !important; background-origin: initial !important; background-clip: initial !important; background-color: transparent !important; text-transform: none !important; display: inline !important; font-variant: normal; top: 0px; right: 0px; bottom: 0px; left: 0px; position: static; font-weight: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; background-position: initial initial !important; background-repeat: initial initial !important; padding: 0px !important; margin: 0px; border: 0px !important none !important transparent !important;\"><span style=\"color: blue !important; font-weight: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; position: static;\"><span class=\"kLink\" style=\"border-top-width: 0px !important; border-top-style: none !important; border-top-color: initial !important; border-left-width: 0px !important; border-left-style: none !important; border-left-color: initial !important; border-right-width: 0px !important; border-right-style: none !important; border-right-color: initial !important; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: initial; padding-top: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; color: blue !important; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; width: auto !important; float: none !important; display: inline !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-weight: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; position: static; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;\">plant</span></span></a> material to which Bass responds, \"We think it\'s suitable.\"</p>\r\n<p style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; font-size: 14px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\">\"They say, \'Why should you grow things in the front?\' Well, why shouldn\'t I? They\'re fine. They\'re pretty. They\'re well maintained,\" Bass told the station.</p>\r\n<p style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; font-size: 14px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\">\"I could sell out and save my own self and just not have them bother me anymore, but then there\'s no telling what they\'re going to harass the next person about,\" continued Bass.</p>\r\n<p style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; font-size: 14px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\">A pretrial is scheduled for July 26 and a jury trial could be next.</p>\r\n<p style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; font-size: 14px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\"><a href=\"http://www.myfoxdetroit.com/dpp/news/local/julie-bass-of-oak-park-faces-misdemeanor-charge-for-vegetable-garden-20110630-wpms\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"outline-width: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-color: initial; color: #183a52; text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer;\">Click here for more on this story from MyFoxDetroit.com</a></p>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n<span><br style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; font-size: 12px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\" /><br style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; font-size: 12px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\" />Read more: <a href=\"http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/07/08/michigan-resident-faces-3-days-in-jail-for-vegetable-garden/#ixzz1RYcfzFCQ\" style=\"outline-width: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-color: initial; color: #003399; text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer;\">http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/07/08/michigan-resident-faces-3-days-in-jail-for-vegetable-garden/#ixzz1RYcfzFCQ</a></span></span></p>','',1,70,'2011-07-08 23:03:00',62,'FoxNews.com','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-07-08 23:03:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',1,55,'','',1,33,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(342,0,'Judicial Watch Announces List of Washington\'s “Ten Most Wanted Corrupt Politicians” for 2010','judicial-watch-announces-list-of-washingtons-ten-most-wanted-corrupt-politicians-for-2010','<p><img src=\"images/stories/jw2.jpg\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\" />Contact Information:<br />Press Office 202-646-5172, ext 305</p>\r\n<p><br />Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, today released its 2010 list of Washington\'s “Ten Most Wanted Corrupt Politicians.” The list, in alphabetical order, includes: Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Rahm Emanuel, Former Obama White House Chief of Staff, Senator John Ensign (R-NV), Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA), Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr. (D-IL), President Barack Obama, Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY), Rep. Hal Rogers (R-KY), and Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA).</p>\r\n<p><a href=\"http://www.judicialwatch.org/news/2010/dec/judicial-watch-announces-list-washingtons-ten-most-wanted-corrupt-politicians-2010\">Click here to read more at JudicialWatch.org &gt;&gt;</a></p>','',1,60,'2011-07-10 15:14:27',62,'Judicial Watch','2011-07-10 15:38:11',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-07-10 15:14:27','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',2,210,'','',1,202,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(343,0,'\"What Has America Become\"','qwhat-has-america-becomeq','<p>\r\n<p><strong>\"What Has America Become\"</strong> was the title of a letter to the editior written by Ken Huber of Tawas City, Michigan.   It contains a series of comparisons and contrasts which causes one to think about the double-standards and conditions under which we now live here in America.</p>\r\n<p>A reprint of the article has been circulating online (see photo with this article) finding its way to <a href=\"http://www.examiner.com/christianity-culture-in-fort-worth/what-has-america-become-by-ken-huber-of-tawas-city\">Fort Worth</a> and possibly all over the nation.  It was originally printed in the Iosco County News Herald (Michigan) on June 9, 2010, published in the Opinion column.</p>\r\n<p> </p>\r\n<h2>What has America become?</h2>\r\n<p>Editor,</p>\r\n<p>Has America become the land of special interest and home of the double standard?</p>\r\n<p>Lets see: if we lie to the Congress, it\'s a felony and if the Congress lies to us its just politics; if we dislike a black person, we\'re racist and if a black person dislikes whites, its their 1st Amendment right; the government spends millions to rehabilitate criminals and they do almost nothing for the victims; in public schools you can teach that homosexuality is OK, but you better not use the word God in the process; you can kill an unborn child, but it is wrong to execute a mass murderer; we don\'t burn books in America, we now rewrite them; we got rid of communist and socialist threats by renaming them progressive; we are unable to close our border with Mexico, but have no problem protecting the 38th parallel in Korea; if you protest against President Obama\'s policies you\'re a terrorist, but if you burned an American flag or George Bush in effigy it was your 1st Amendment right.</p>\r\n<p>You can have pornography on TV or the internet, but you better not put a nativity scene in a public park during Christmas; we have eliminated all criminals in America, they are now called sick people; we can use a human fetus for medical research, but it is wrong to use an animal.</p>\r\n<p>We take money from those who work hard for it and give it to those who don\'t want to work; we all support the Constitution, but only when it supports our political ideology; we still have freedom of speech, but only if we are being politically correct; parenting has been replaced with Ritalin and video games; the land of opportunity is now the land of hand outs; the similarity between Hurricane Katrina and the gulf oil spill is that neither president did anything to help.</p>\r\n<p>And how do we handle a major crisis today? The government appoints a committee to determine who\'s at fault, then threatens them, passes a law, raises our taxes; tells us the problem is solved so they can get back to their reelection campaign.</p>\r\n<p>What has happened to the land of the free and home of the brave?</p>\r\n<p>- Ken Huber</p>\r\n<p>Tawas City</p>\r\n</p>','',1,26,'2011-07-11 13:43:19',62,'submitted by Ed G','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-07-11 13:43:19','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',1,1,'','',1,8594,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(344,0,'UN Names N. Korea Chair of Disarmament Committee','un-names-n-korea-chair-of-disarmament-committee','<h2>You\'ve Got to be Kidding!!! If there ever was a doubt whether or not the UN should be taken seriously...</h2>\r\n<p>+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />|  UN Names N. Korea Chair of Disarmament Committee<br />|   from the  team-america-world-police-was-a-documentary dept.<br />|   posted by timothy on  Monday July 11, @19:20 (The Military)<br />|   with 95 comments<br />|   <a href=\"https://politics.slashdot.org/story/11/07/11/2247256/UN-Names-N-Korea-Chair-of-Disarmament-Committee?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email\">https://politics.slashdot.org/story/11/07/11/2247256/UN-Names-N-Korea-Chair-of-Disarmament-Committee?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email</a><br />+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><br />LibRT  writes \"The irony-challenged folks at the UN have [0]named North<br />Korea chair  of the Conference on Disarmament, which is heavily focused on<br />the prevention  of a nuclear arms race and nuclear disarmament. The<br />Canadian government has  boycotted the convention, calling it an \'absurd\'<br />turn of events:</p>\r\n<p> </p>\r\n','\r\n<p>\'North Korea  is simply not a credible chair of a<br />disarmament body. The fact that it gets a  turn chairing a United Nations<br />committee focused on disarmament is  unacceptable, given the North Korean<br />regime\'s efforts in the exact opposite  direction.\'\" Note that Libya was<br />once president of the UN\'s Human Rights  Commission, and only recently<br />[1]removed from its successor in interest, the  Human Rights Council.<br /><br />Discuss this story at:<br /> <a href=\"https://politics.slashdot.org/story/11/07/11/2247256/UN-Names-N-Korea-Chair-of-Disarmament-Committee?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email#commentlisting\">https://politics.slashdot.org/story/11/07/11/2247256/UN-Names-N-Korea-Chair-of-Disarmament-Committee?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email#commentlisting</a><br /><br />Links:<br /> 0. <a href=\"http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2011/07/11/pol-baird-un-north-korea.html?ref=rss\">http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2011/07/11/pol-baird-un-north-korea.html?ref=rss</a><br /> 1. <a href=\"http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/03/01/general-assembly-suspends-libya-human-rights-council/\">http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/03/01/general-assembly-suspends-libya-human-rights-council/</a></p>\r\n<p> </p>',1,20,'2011-07-12 12:52:21',62,'slashdot','2011-07-13 01:29:28',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-07-12 12:52:21','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',2,6,'','',1,604,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(345,0,'Obama Administration Ready for $1 Billion  Arms Deal with Egypt','obama-administration-ready-for-1-billion-arms-deal-with-egypt','<p><img class=\"caption\" src=\"images/stories/mikeevans.jpg\" border=\"0\" title=\"Dr. Michael Evams\" align=\"left\" />Despite the revolution that overthrew Egypt\'s government earlier this year and the near-certainty that the new government to be elected this fall will be dominated by the Muslim Brotherhood that is very hostile to Israel, the Obama Administration has announced plans to move ahead with an arms deal with Egypt worth more than one billion dollars. The highlight of the proposed package is 125 Abrams tanks—the top of the line fighting vehicle used by US forces. <br /><br />A Pentagon official described the deal as providing Egypt, \"a modern tank fleet, enhancing its capacity to meet current and future threats.\" One has to wonder exactly what threat the Obama Administration thinks Egypt faces. It is on friendly terms with all its Arab neighbors and has been at peace with Israel since the historic treaty signed by Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat. This announcement comes on the heels of the revelation that President Obama is again convening the Quartet in Washington this week to further his plan to force Israel to retreat to its 1967 borders and divide the city of Jerusalem.</p>','',1,20,'2011-07-12 13:00:29',62,'Dr. Michael Evans','2011-08-13 14:51:29',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-07-12 13:00:29','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',2,5,'','',1,257,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(346,0,'I am incensed and insulted','i-am-incensed-and-insulted','<p><img src=\"images/stories/israel-80yb.gif\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\" />I am incensed and insulted by Israel\'s treatment in the public arena. On July 11, President Barack Obama invited the Quartet—Russia, the UN, and the EU—as well as representatives from China and the Arab League, to the White House for a summit on Israel. Following the meetings, a dinner that lasted over two hours was held for the participants. Did you hear a word about it in the media? I certainly didn\'t. Why? The White House had imposed a media ban on the event. U. S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton hosted the dinner.</p>\r\n<p>I am hard-pressed to find a time in American history when a trusted ally was ever treated so shabbily. Israel is the best friend America has and to NOT invite Israel to a summit which will affect her future—and the future of Jerusalem, Judea, and Samaria—is evil.</p>\r\n<p>Why has President Obama not convened a summit on Iran, a country whose leaders are determined to wipe Israel from the map? It\'s simple; he believes that Israel is the second greatest destabilization force in the Middle East after Al Qaeda. He made this clear in his Cairo speech:</p>\r\n<p><span style=\"white-space: pre;\"> </span>The second major source of tension that we need to discuss is the situation between Israelis, Palestinians, and the Arab world.</p>\r\n<p><em><a href=\"http://jerusalemprayerteam.org/email/2011/0712-2.htm\">Click to read more &gt;&gt;&gt;</a></em></p>\r\n<p> </p>','',1,20,'2011-07-13 13:30:24',62,'Dr. Michael Evans','2011-08-05 11:58:19',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-07-13 13:30:24','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',5,4,'','',1,306,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(347,0,'The Cost Of Broadband In Every Rural Home','the-cost-of-broadband-in-every-rural-home','<p>+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />| The Cost Of Broadband In Every Rural Home<br />| from the I-miss-real-internt dept.<br />| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday July 13, @16:48 (The Internet)<br />| with 294 comments<br />| <a href=\"https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/07/13/2014244/The-Cost-Of-Broadband-In-Every-Rural-Home?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email\">https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/07/13/2014244/The-Cost-Of-Broadband-In-Every-Rural-Home?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email</a><br />+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><br />dave562 writes \"In an analysis of the effectiveness of the the 2009<br />stimulus program (American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 or<br />ARRA), one of the programs that was investigated was the project to<br />[0]bring broadband access to rural America. Some real interesting numbers<br />popped out. Quoting the article: \'Eisenach and Caves looked at three<br />areas that received stimulus funds, in the form of loans and direct<br />grants, to expand broadband access in Southwestern Montana, Northwestern<br />Kansas, and Northeastern Minnesota. The median household income in these<br />areas is between $40,100 and $50,900. The median home prices are between<br />$94,400 and $189,000.\' So how much did it cost per unserved household to<br />get them broadband access? A whopping $349,234, or many multiples of<br />household income, and significantly more than the cost of a home<br />itself.\'\"<br /><br />Discuss this story at:<br /><a href=\"https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/07/13/2014244/The-Cost-Of-Broadband-In-Every-Rural-Home?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email#commentlisting\">https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/07/13/2014244/The-Cost-Of-Broadband-In-Every-Rural-Home?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email#commentlisting</a><br /><br />Links:<br />0. <a href=\"http://blogs.forbes.com/nickschulz/2011/07/05/how-effective-was-the-2009-stimulus-program/\">http://blogs.forbes.com/nickschulz/2011/07/05/how-effective-was-the-2009-stimulus-program/</a></p>','',1,60,'2011-07-14 11:49:27',62,'slashdot','2011-08-14 21:24:52',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-07-14 11:49:27','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',2,209,'','',1,98,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(348,0,' Women Arrested For Refusing TSA Search of Children','women-arrested-for-refusing-tsa-search-of-children','<p>+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />|  Women Arrested For Refusing TSA Search of Children<br />|   from the  tiniest-terrorist dept.<br />|   posted by samzenpus on Wednesday July 13, @19:17  (Security)<br />|   with 517 comments<br />|   <a href=\"https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/07/13/2229255/Women-Arrested-For-Refusing-TSA-Search-of-Children?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email\">https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/07/13/2229255/Women-Arrested-For-Refusing-TSA-Search-of-Children?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email</a><br />+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><br />[0]CelticWhisper  writes \"A Tennessee mother was [1]arrested for refusing<br />to allow TSA  screening clerks to subject her child to a body scan or<br />patdown. This comes  in the wake of a promise by the TSA Administrator to<br />make repeated attempts  at non-physical screening of children, after which<br />another video of a child  patdown surfaced. This event may signify a<br />tipping point in the public\'s  willingness to tolerate invasive and<br />inappropriate security procedures at  airports.\"<br /><br />Discuss this story at:<br /> <a href=\"https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/07/13/2229255/Women-Arrested-For-Refusing-TSA-Search-of-Children?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email#commentlisting\">https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/07/13/2229255/Women-Arrested-For-Refusing-TSA-Search-of-Children?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email#commentlisting</a><br /><br />Links:<br /> 0. <a href=\"http://celticwhisperatgmail.com/\">http://celticwhisperatgmail.com/</a><br /> 1. <a href=\"http://www.tennessean.com/article/20110713/NEWS01/307130115/Police-charge-mother-Nashville-airport-altercation\">http://www.tennessean.com/article/20110713/NEWS01/307130115/Police-charge-mother-Nashville-airport-altercation</a></p>','',1,70,'2011-07-14 11:57:40',62,'slashdot','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-07-14 11:57:40','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',1,54,'','',1,32,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(349,0,'Mass Psychosis In the USA?','mass-psychosis-in-the-usa','<p>+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />|  Mass Psychosis In the USA?<br />|   from the don\'t-actually-want-to-be-sedated  dept.<br />|   posted by timothy on Saturday July 16, @08:17 (Medicine)<br />|    with 431 comments<br />|   <a href=\"https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/07/16/036230/Mass-Psychosis-In-the-USA?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email\">https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/07/16/036230/Mass-Psychosis-In-the-USA?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email</a><br />+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><br />[0]Hugh  Pickens writes \"James Ridgeway writes in Al Jazeera that with<br />over $14  billion in sales in 2008, antipsychotics have become the<br />[1]single  top-selling therapeutic class of prescription drugs in the<br />U.S., surpassing  drugs used to treat high cholesterol and acid reflux.<br />While once upon a time,  antipsychotics were reserved for a relatively<br />small number of patients with  hard-core psychiatric diagnoses, today it<br />seems, everyone is taking  antipsychotics. \'Parents are told that their<br />unruly kids are in fact bipolar,  and in need of anti-psychotics, while<br />old people with dementia are dosed, in  large numbers, with drugs once<br />reserved largely for schizophrenics,\' writes  Ridgeway. \'Americans with<br />symptoms ranging from chronic depression to anxiety  to insomnia are now<br />being prescribed anti-psychotics at rates that seem to  indicate a<br />national mass psychosis.\' By now, just about everyone knows how  the<br />[2]drug industry works to influence the minds of American doctors,  plying<br />them with gifts, junkets, ego-tripping awards, and research funding  in<br />exchange for endorsing or prescribing the latest and most  lucrative<br />drugs. According to Marcia Angell, former editor of the New  England<br />Journal of Medicine, under the tutelage of Big Pharma, we are  \'simply<br />[3]expanding the criteria for mental illness so that nearly everyone  has<br />one.\'\"<br /><br />Discuss this story at:<br /> <a href=\"https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/07/16/036230/Mass-Psychosis-In-the-USA?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email#commentlisting\">https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/07/16/036230/Mass-Psychosis-In-the-USA?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email#commentlisting</a><br /><br />Links:<br /> 0. <a href=\"http://hughpickens.com/\">http://hughpickens.com/</a><br /> 1. <a href=\"http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2011/07/20117313948379987.html\">http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2011/07/20117313948379987.html</a><br /> 2. <a href=\"http://unsilentgeneration.com/2009/04/06/big-pharma-psychs-out-the-shrinks/\">http://unsilentgeneration.com/2009/04/06/big-pharma-psychs-out-the-shrinks/</a><br /> 3. <a href=\"http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2011/jun/23/epidemic-mental-illness-why/\">http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2011/jun/23/epidemic-mental-illness-why/</a><br /><br /></p>','',1,60,'2011-07-17 12:34:36',62,'slashdot from Al Jazeera','2011-08-10 19:31:23',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-07-17 12:34:36','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',3,208,'','',1,332,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(350,0,'Judge Says You Can\'t Know If Google Spies For NSA','judge-says-you-cant-know-if-google-spies-for-nsa','<p>+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />| Judge Says You Can\'t Know If Google Spies For NSA<br />| from the all-fibers-lead-to-maryland dept.<br />| posted by timothy on Saturday July 16, @06:46 (Google)<br />| with 180 comments<br />| <a href=\"https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/16/0540244/Judge-Says-You-Cant-Know-If-Google-Spies-For-NSA?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email\">https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/16/0540244/Judge-Says-You-Cant-Know-If-Google-Spies-For-NSA?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email</a><br />+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><br />witherstaff writes \"A federal judge has ordered that whether Google is<br />spying for the National Security Agency or not, [0]you have no right to<br />know. EPIC, which brought the lawsuit, says [1]the NSA can neither<br />confirm nor deny any relationship with Google. EPIC is worried the \'NSA<br />is developing technical standards that would enable greater surveillance<br />of Internet users.\'\"<br /><br />Discuss this story at:<br /><a href=\"https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/16/0540244/Judge-Says-You-Cant-Know-If-Google-Spies-For-NSA?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email#commentlisting\">https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/16/0540244/Judge-Says-You-Cant-Know-If-Google-Spies-For-NSA?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email#commentlisting</a><br /><br />Links:<br />0. <a href=\"http://www.courthousenews.com/2011/07/14/38157.htm\">http://www.courthousenews.com/2011/07/14/38157.htm</a><br />1. <a href=\"http://epic.org/2011/07/epic-v-nsa-agency-can-neither.html\">http://epic.org/2011/07/epic-v-nsa-agency-can-neither.html</a></p>','',1,70,'2011-07-17 12:40:45',62,'slashdot','2011-08-08 03:29:44',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-07-17 12:40:45','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',2,53,'','',1,38,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(351,0,'32nd anniv of Jimmy Carter\'s \"malaise\" speech - Obama remix','32nd-anniv-of-jimmy-carters-qmalaiseq-speech-obama-remix','<p>{source}<span style=\"font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;\"><br /><span>&lt;</span>iframe width=\"425\" height=\"349\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/embed/mWAdt07XPgY\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen<span>&gt;</span><span>&lt;</span>/iframe<span>&gt;</span><br /></span>{/source}</p>','',1,20,'2011-07-17 13:43:06',62,'Laura Ingraham','2011-07-17 14:02:08',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-07-17 13:43:06','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',4,3,'','',1,1275,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(352,0,'App Uses Facial Profiling To Identify Perps','app-uses-facial-profiling-to-identify-perps','<p>+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />|  App Uses Facial Profiling To Identify Perps<br />|   from the  and-non-perps-as-well dept.<br />|   posted by timothy on Thursday July 14, @18:09  (Crime)<br />|   with 49 comments<br />|   <a href=\"https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/14/2120221/App-Uses-Facial-Profiling-To-Identify-Perps?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email\">https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/14/2120221/App-Uses-Facial-Profiling-To-Identify-Perps?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email</a><br />+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><br />[0]Hugh  Pickens writes writes \"Emily Steel writes that a new iPhone<br />accessory that  uses a picture of the person\'s face or iris to identify<br />them will [1]help  police units identify suspects and look up their<br />criminal record. To scan a  person\'s iris, police officers can hold the<br />special iris-scanning camera on  device, called MORIS, about 5 to 6 inches<br />away from an individual\'s irises.  After snapping a high resolution photo,<br />the MORIS system analyzes 235 unique  features in each iris and uses an<br />algorithm to match that person with their  identity if they are in the<br />database. To use the facial recognition system an  officer takes a photo<br />of a person at a distance of about 2 feet to 5 feet  that [2]analyzes<br />about 130 distinguishing points on the face (video), such as  the distance<br />between a person\'s eye and nose, then scans the database for  likely<br />matches. Bernard Melekian says challenges remain in developing  guidelines<br />for the proper use of the mobile recognition technology for police  work.<br />\'If the purpose is to determine instantly an individual\'s identity  and<br />determine whether they are wanted or have serious criminal history,  that<br />is not only a desirable use, it is an important use,\' says Melekian.  \'To<br />simply collect information on individuals to add to the database  would<br />not in my opinion be a desirable use of the technology.\'\" The range  of<br />offenses for which conviction (and sometimes mere arrest) now  triggers<br />the collection of DNA samples is expanding; I suspect that  iris<br />information, seemingly less intrusive to collect, will soon enough  become<br />part of applications for passports, driver\'s licenses, and  concealed<br />carry permits.<br /><br />Discuss this story at:<br /> <a href=\"https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/14/2120221/App-Uses-Facial-Profiling-To-Identify-Perps?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email#commentlisting\">https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/14/2120221/App-Uses-Facial-Profiling-To-Identify-Perps?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email#commentlisting</a><br /><br />Links:<br /> 0. <a href=\"http://hughpickens.com/\">http://hughpickens.com/</a><br /> 1. <a href=\"http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2011/07/13/how-a-new-police-tool-for-face-recognition-works/\">http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2011/07/13/how-a-new-police-tool-for-face-recognition-works/</a><br /> 2. <a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wkANapgWgE\">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wkANapgWgE</a></p>','',1,70,'2011-07-17 14:32:55',62,'slashdot','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-07-17 14:32:55','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',1,51,'','',1,34,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(353,0,'NH Man Arrested For Videotaping Police.. Again','nh-man-arrested-for-videotaping-police-again','<p>+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />|  NH Man Arrested For Videotaping Police.. Again<br />|   from the  at-least-he\'s-consistent dept.<br />|   posted by Soulskill on Tuesday July 19,  @20:14 (Crime)<br />|   with 618 comments<br />|   <a href=\"https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/19/235203/NH-Man-Arrested-For-Videotaping-Police-Again?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email\">https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/19/235203/NH-Man-Arrested-For-Videotaping-Police-Again?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email</a><br />+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><br />OhPlz  writes \"Back in 2006, a resident of New Hampshire\'s second largest<br />city was  arrested while at the police station attempting to file a<br />complaint against  officers. His crime? He had video tape evidence of the<br />officers\' wrongdoings.  According to the police, that\'s wiretapping. After<br />[0]world wide attention,  the police dropped the charges. His complaint<br />was found to be valid, but the  evidence never saw the light of day. Well,<br />guess what? Round two. There are  differing reports, but [1]again the<br />police arrested Mr. Gannon and again,  they seized his video camera. This<br />time it\'s \'falsifying evidence\' because he  tried to hand off the camera,<br />most likely to protect its contents. If there\'s  the potential of police<br />wrongdoing, how is it that the law permits the police  to seize the<br />evidence?\"<br /><br />Discuss this story at:<br /> <a href=\"https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/19/235203/NH-Man-Arrested-For-Videotaping-Police-Again?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email#commentlisting\">https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/19/235203/NH-Man-Arrested-For-Videotaping-Police-Again?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email#commentlisting</a><br /><br />Links:<br /> 0. <a href=\"http://slashdot.org/story/06/06/29/188221/NH-Man-Arrested-for-Videotaping-Police\">http://slashdot.org/story/06/06/29/188221/NH-Man-Arrested-for-Videotaping-Police</a><br /> 1. <a href=\"http://www.nashuatelegraph.com/news/926340-196/suspects-witness-dispute-police-version-of-july.html\">http://www.nashuatelegraph.com/news/926340-196/suspects-witness-dispute-police-version-of-july.html</a></p>','',1,70,'2011-07-21 17:32:28',62,'slashdot','2011-07-23 21:50:27',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-07-21 17:32:28','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',3,50,'','',1,44,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(354,0,'Hillary Clinton Takes Data.gov Overseas','hillary-clinton-takes-datagov-overseas','<p>+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />|  Hillary Clinton Takes Data.gov Overseas<br />|   from the i-see-what-you-did-there  dept.<br />|   posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday July 20, @09:39 (Businesses)<br />|    with 242 comments<br />|   <a href=\"https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/20/1321231/Hillary-Clinton-Takes-Datagov-Overseas?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email\">https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/20/1321231/Hillary-Clinton-Takes-Datagov-Overseas?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email</a><br />+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><br />theodp  writes \"ZDNet reports that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton\'s<br />office issued  a [0]fact sheet during her visit to India confirming that<br />[1]the U.S. and  India will be working together to develop an open source<br />version of the  Data.gov project, which was launched in 2009 by<br />[2]off-to-Harvard Federal CIO  Vivek Kundra to serve as a [3]central<br />repository of data collected by the US  government. The Hindu Business<br />Line notes that Clinton was also pressed to  [4]exempt Indian techies in<br />the States on H-1B or L1 visas from US social  security taxes, an<br />exemption that, if granted, could reportedly result in  savings of at<br />least a billion dollars for the country\'s software  industry.\"<br /><br />Discuss this story at:<br /> <a href=\"https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/20/1321231/Hillary-Clinton-Takes-Datagov-Overseas?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email#commentlisting\">https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/20/1321231/Hillary-Clinton-Takes-Datagov-Overseas?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email#commentlisting</a><br /><br />Links:<br /> 0. <a href=\"http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2011/07/168740.htm\">http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2011/07/168740.htm</a><br /> 1. <a href=\"http://www.zdnet.com/blog/india/india-and-us-to-work-together-on-datagov-and-against-cyber-crime/633\">http://www.zdnet.com/blog/india/india-and-us-to-work-together-on-datagov-and-against-cyber-crime/633</a><br /> 2. <a href=\"http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/06/16/2224240/Vivek-Kundra-Quits-As-Federal-CIO\">http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/06/16/2224240/Vivek-Kundra-Quits-As-Federal-CIO</a><br /> 3. <a href=\"http://www.data.gov/\">http://www.data.gov/</a><br /> 4. <a href=\"http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/industry-and-economy/article2260263.ece\">http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/industry-and-economy/article2260263.ece</a></p>','',1,70,'2011-07-21 17:41:18',62,'slashdot','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-07-21 17:41:18','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',1,49,'','',1,48,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(355,0,'Court Allows Webcam Spying On Rental Laptops','court-allows-webcam-spying-on-rental-laptops','<p>+-------------------------------<br /> |   Court Allows Webcam Spying On Rental Laptops<br /> |   from the renter-beware   dept.<br /> |   posted by Soulskill on Wednesday July 20, @05:13 (Privacy)<br /> |     with 230 comments<br /> | <a href=\"https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/20/0311238/Court-Allows-Webcam-Spying-On-Rental-Laptops?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email\">https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/20/0311238/Court-Allows-Webcam-Spying-On-Rental-Laptops?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email</a><br /> +----------------------------<br /> <br /> [0]tekgoblin   writes \"Back in May there was a class action lawsuit filed<br /> against the rental   company Aaron\'s, which had [1]secretly installed<br /> spying software that would   turn on a laptop\'s webcam, take pictures and<br /> then send them back to the   company. Overall it seemed like a large<br /> invasion of privacy, which should at   least warrant an injunction to stop<br /> use of the software until the case is   settled, right? Not to the judge,<br /> who [2]refused to order an injunction on   the grounds that the family was<br /> no longer in possession of the laptop. As for   everyone else still using<br /> their Aaron\'s laptops, the judge [3]had this to say   to them (PDF):<br /> \'Moreover, it is purely conjecture that the other members of   the putative<br /> class will be subjected to remote access of personal   information.\'\"<br /> <br /> Discuss this story at:<br /> <a href=\"https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/20/0311238/Court-Allows-Webcam-Spying-On-Rental-Laptops?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email#commentlisting\">https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/20/0311238/Court-Allows-Webcam-Spying-On-Rental-Laptops?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email#commentlisting</a><br /> <br /> Links:<br /> 0. <a href=\"http://www.twitter.com/tekgoblin\">http://www.twitter.com/tekgoblin</a><br /> 1. <a href=\"http://slashdot.org/story/11/05/04/0111229/Aaron-Computer-Rental-Firm-Spies-On-Users\">http://slashdot.org/story/11/05/04/0111229/Aaron-Computer-Rental-Firm-Spies-On-Users</a><br /> 2. <a href=\"http://www.tekgoblin.com/2011/07/19/court-refuses-to-stop-secret-web-spycams-from-running-on-rental-laptops/\">http://www.tekgoblin.com/2011/07/19/court-refuses-to-stop-secret-web-spycams-from-running-on-rental-laptops/</a><br /> 3. <a href=\"https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&amp;pid=explorer&amp;chrome=true&amp;srcid=0Bymxq92Dj73DYjg1NDJjMjItNTZlNi00MjcyLWExNzAtNDQyYmU4MzQ5NDBk&amp;hl=en_US\">https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&amp;pid=explorer&amp;chrome=true&amp;srcid=0Bymxq92Dj73DYjg1NDJjMjItNTZlNi00MjcyLWExNzAtNDQyYmU4MzQ5NDBk&amp;hl=en_US</a><br /> <br /></p>','',1,70,'2011-07-21 17:41:56',62,'slashdot','2011-07-21 18:02:01',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-07-21 17:41:56','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',4,48,'','',1,34,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(356,0,'Massachusetts Plans To Keep Track of Where Your Car Has Been','massachusetts-plans-to-keep-track-of-where-your-car-has-been','<p>+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />| Massachusetts Plans To Keep Track of Where Your Car Has Been<br />| from the dude-where\'s-my-car dept.<br />| posted by Soulskill on Friday July 22, @13:35 (Government)<br />| with 462 comments<br />| <a href=\"https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/07/22/1656234/Massachusetts-Plans-To-Keep-Track-of-Where-Your-Car-Has-Been?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email\">https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/07/22/1656234/Massachusetts-Plans-To-Keep-Track-of-Where-Your-Car-Has-Been?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email</a><br />+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><br />Attila Dimedici writes \"Massachusetts wants to establish a database with<br />[0]the information gathered by license plate scanners installed in police<br />cars. The scanners will scan license plates of every car the police<br />vehicle passes and transmit that information (along with the location) to<br />a database that will be made available to various government agencies.<br />The data wil be kept indefinitely.\"<br /><br />Discuss this story at:<br /><a href=\"https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/07/22/1656234/Massachusetts-Plans-To-Keep-Track-of-Where-Your-Car-Has-Been?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email#commentlisting\">https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/07/22/1656234/Massachusetts-Plans-To-Keep-Track-of-Where-Your-Car-Has-Been?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email#commentlisting</a><br /><br />Links:<br />0. <a href=\"http://www.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view.bg?articleid=1353264\">http://www.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view.bg?articleid=1353264</a></p>','',1,70,'2011-07-23 21:18:54',62,'slashdot','2011-08-13 12:07:21',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-07-23 21:18:54','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',5,47,'','',1,42,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(357,0,'Obama\'s agenda: Overwhelm the system','obamas-agenda-overwhelm-the-system','<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: normal;\"> </span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; font-size: 1.17em; padding: 0px;\"><img src=\"http://media.lvrj.com/images/100*100/wayne-allyn-root_68x68.jpg\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\" /><strong><a href=\"http://www.lvrj.com/opinion/obama-s-agenda--overwhelm-the-system-95716764.html\"><strong>Reprinted from June 6, 2010 Article in the Las Vegas Review-Journal </strong></a></strong></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; font-size: 1.17em; padding: 0px;\">Rahm Emanuel cynically said, \"You never want a crisis to go to waste.\" It is now becoming clear that the crisis he was referring to is Barack Obama\'s presidency.</p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; font-size: 1.17em; padding: 0px;\">Obama is no fool. He is not incompetent. To the contrary, he is brilliant. He knows exactly what he\'s doing. He is purposely overwhelming the U.S. economy to create systemic failure, economic crisis and social chaos -- thereby destroying capitalism and our country from within.</p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; font-size: 1.17em; padding: 0px;\">Barack Obama is my college classmate (Columbia University, class of \'83). As Glenn Beck correctly predicted from day one, Obama is following the plan of <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloward%E2%80%93Piven_strategy\">Cloward &amp; Piven</a>, two professors at Columbia University. They outlined a plan to socialize America by overwhelming the system with government spending and entitlement demands. Add up the clues below. Taken individually they\'re alarming. Taken as a whole, it is a brilliant, Machiavellian game plan to turn the United States into a socialist/Marxist state with a permanent majority that desperately needs government for survival ... and can be counted on to always vote for bigger government. Why not? They have no responsibility to pay for it.</p>\r\n','\r\n<p> </p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; font-size: 1.17em; padding: 0px;\">-- Universal health care. The health care bill had very little to do with health care. It had everything to do with unionizing millions of hospital and health care workers, as well as adding 15,000 to 20,000 new IRS agents (who will join government employee unions). Obama doesn\'t care that giving free health care to 30 million Americans will add trillions to the national debt. What he does care about is that it cements the dependence of those 30 million voters to Democrats and big government. Who but a socialist revolutionary would pass this reckless spending bill in the middle of a depression?</p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; font-size: 1.17em; padding: 0px;\">-- Cap and trade. Like health care legislation having nothing to do with health care, cap and trade has nothing to do with global warming. It has everything to do with redistribution of income, government control of the economy and a criminal payoff to Obama\'s biggest contributors. Those powerful and wealthy unions and contributors (like GE, which owns NBC, MSNBC and CNBC) can then be counted on to support everything Obama wants. They will kick-back hundreds of millions of dollars in contributions to Obama and the Democratic Party to keep them in power. The bonus is that all the new taxes on Americans with bigger cars, bigger homes and businesses helps Obama \"spread the wealth around.\"</p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; font-size: 1.17em; padding: 0px;\">-- Make Puerto Rico a state. Why? Who\'s asking for a 51st state? Who\'s asking for millions of new welfare recipients and government entitlement addicts in the middle of a depression?Â Certainly not American taxpayers. But this has been Obama\'s plan all along. His goal is to add two new Democrat senators, five Democrat congressman and a million loyal Democratic voters who are dependent on big government.</p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; font-size: 1.17em; padding: 0px;\">-- Legalize 12 million illegal immigrants. Just giving these 12 million potential new citizens free health care alone could overwhelm the system and bankrupt America. But it adds 12 million reliable new Democrat voters who can be counted on to support big government.Â Add another few trillion dollars in welfare, aid to dependent children, food stamps, free medical, education, tax credits for the poor, and eventually Social Security.</p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; font-size: 1.17em; padding: 0px;\">-- Stimulus and bailouts. Where did all that money go? It went to Democrat contributors, organizations (ACORN), and unions -- including billions of dollars to save or create jobs of government employees across the country. It went to save GM and Chrysler so that their employees could keep paying union dues. It went to AIG so that Goldman Sachs could be bailed out (after giving Obama almost $1 million in contributions). A staggering $125 billion went to teachers (thereby protecting their union dues). All those public employees will vote loyally Democrat to protect their bloated salaries and pensions that are bankrupting America. The country goes broke, future generations face a bleak future, but Obama, the Democrat Party, government, and the unions grow more powerful. The ends justify the means.</p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; font-size: 1.17em; padding: 0px;\">-- Raise taxes on small business owners, high-income earners, and job creators. Put the entire burden on only the top 20 percent of taxpayers, redistribute the income, punish success, and reward those who did nothing to deserve it (except vote for Obama). Reagan wanted to dramatically cut taxes in order to starve the government. Obama wants to dramatically raise taxes to starve his political opposition.</p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; font-size: 1.17em; padding: 0px;\">With the acts outlined above, Obama and his regime have created a vast and rapidly expanding constituency of voters dependent on big government; a vast privileged class of public employees who work for big government; and a government dedicated to destroying capitalism and installing themselves as socialist rulers by overwhelming the system.</p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; font-size: 1.17em; padding: 0px;\">Add it up and you\'ve got the perfect Marxist scheme -- all devised by my Columbia University college classmate Barack Obama.</p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; font-size: 1.17em; padding: 0px;\"> </p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; font-size: 1.17em; padding: 0px;\">Wayne Allyn Root was the 2008 Libertarian Party vice presidential nominee and serves on the Libertarian National Committee.</p>\r\n<p> </p>',1,41,'2011-07-23 22:08:03',62,'Wayne Allyn Root - Las Vegas Review-Journal','2011-07-23 22:39:37',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-07-23 22:08:03','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',3,8,'','',1,657,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(358,0,'Homosexuality and the Nazi Party','homosexuality-and-the-nazi-party','<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium;\"> </span></p>\r\n<h3>The Homosexual Roots of the Nazi Party</h3>\r\n<div>The \"gay rights\" movement often portrays itself as an American phenomenon which arose from the civil rights movement of the 1950s. It is not uncommon to hear homosexualists (those both \"gay\" and \"straight\" who promote the legitimization of homosexuality) characterize \"gay rights\" as the natural third wave of civil rights activism (following blacks and women). In reality, however, Germany was the birthplace of \"gay rights,\" and its legacy in that nation is truly alarming.</div>\r\n<p align=\"left\">The \"grandfather of gay rights\" was a homosexual German lawyer named Karl Heinrich Ulrichs. Ulrichs had been molested at age 14 by his male riding instructor. Instead of attributing his adult homosexuality to the molestation, however, Ulrich devised in the 1860s what became known as the \"third sex\" theory of homosexuality. Ulrichs\' model holds that male homosexuals are actually female souls trapped within male bodies. The reverse phenomenon supposedly explains lesbianism. Since homosexuality was an innate condition, reasoned Ulrichs, homosexual behavior should be decriminalized. An early follower of Ulrichs coined the term \"homosexual\" in an open letter to the Prussian Minister of Justice in 1869.</p>\r\n<p align=\"left\">By the time Ulrichs died in 1895, the \"gay rights\" movement in Germany had gained considerable strength. Frederich Engels noted this in a letter to Karl Marx regarding Ulrich\'s efforts: \"The pederasts start counting their numbers and discover they are a powerful group in our state. The only thing missing is an organization, but it seems to exist already, but it is hidden.\" After Ulrichs\' death, the movement split into two separate and opposed factions. One faction followed Ulrichs\' successor, Magnus Hirschfeld, who formed the Scientific Humanitarian Committee in 1897 and later opened the Institute for Sex Research in Berlin. The other faction was organized by Adolf Brand, publisher of the first homosexual magazine, <em>Der Eigene</em> (The Special). Brand, Benedict Friedlander and Wilhelm Janzen formed the <em>Gemeinschaft der Eigenen</em> (The Community of the Special) in 1902. What divided these groups was their concepts of masculinity. Ulrichs\' theory embraced a feminine identity. His, and later Hirschfeld\'s, followers literally believed they were women trapped in men\'s bodies.</p>\r\n<p align=\"left\"> </p>\r\n<p align=\"left\">The followers of Brand, however, were deeply insulted by Ulrichs\' theory. They perceived themselves not merely as masculine, but as a breed of men superior in masculine qualities even to heterosexuals. The Community of the Special (CS) asserted that male homosexuality was the foundation of all nation-states and that male homosexuals represented an elite strata of human society. The CS fashioned itself as a modern incarnation of the warrior cults of ancient Greece. Modeling themselves after the military heroes of Sparta, Thebes and Crete, the members of the CS were ultra-masculine, male-supremacist and pederastic (devoted to man/boy sex). Brand said in <em>Der Eigene</em> that he wanted men who \"thirst for a revival of Greek times and Hellenic standards of beauty after centuries of Christian barbarism.\"</p>\r\n<p align=\"left\">One of the keys to understanding both the rise of Nazism and the later persecution of some homosexuals by the Nazis is found in this early history of the German \"gay rights\" movement. For it was the CS which created and shaped what would become the Nazi persona, and it was the loathing which these \"Butches\" held for effeminate homosexuals (\"Femmes\") which led to the internment of some of the latter in slave labor camps in the Third Reich.</p>\r\n<p align=\"left\"> </p>\r\n<h3>From Boy Scouts to Brownshirts</h3>\r\n<div>The \"Butch\" homosexuals of the CS transformed Germany. Their primary vehicle was the German youth movement, known as the Wandervogel (Rovers or Wandering Youth). \"In Central Europe,\" writes homosexual historian Parker Rossman, \"there was another effort to revive the Greek ideal of pedagogic pederasty in the movement of \'Wandering Youth\'... Ultimately, Hitler used and transformed the movement...expanding and building upon its romanticism as a basis for the Nazi Party\" (Rossman:103).</div>\r\n<p align=\"left\">Rising spontaneously in the 1890s as an informal hiking and camping society, the Wandervogel became an official organization at the turn of the century, similar to the Boy Scouts. From early on, however, the Wandervogel was dominated and controlled by the pederasts of the CS. CS co-founder Wilhelm Janzen was its chief benefactor, and its leadership was rife with homosexuality. In 1912, CS theorist Hans Blueher wrote<em>The German Wandervogel Movement as an Erotic Phenomenon</em> which told how the organization was used to recruit young boys into homosexuality.</p>\r\n<p align=\"left\">Wandervogel youths were indoctrinated with Greek paganism and taught to reject the Christian values of their parents (mostly Catholics and Lutherans). The CS belief in a homosexual elite took shape within the Wandervogel in the concept of \"der Fuehrer\" (The Leader). E.Y. Hartshorne, in <em>German Youth and the Nazi Dream of Victory,</em> records the recollections of a former Wandervogel member in this regard: \"We little suspected then what power we had in our hands. We played with the fire that had set a world in flames, and it made our hearts hot...It was in our ranks that the word Fuehrer originated, with its meaning of blind obedience and devotion...And I shall never forget how in those early days we pronounced the word Gemeinschaft [\"community\"] with a trembling throaty note of excitement, as though it hid a deep secret\" (Hartshorne:12). Louis Snyder notes in the <em>Encyclopedia of the Third Reich</em> that, \"The Fuehrer Principle became identical with the elite principle. The Fuehrer elite were regarded as independent of the will of the masses\" (Snyder:104). Snyder was not writing about the Gemeinschaft der Eigenen or of the Wandervogel, but of the upper ranks of the Nazi party some thirty years later. Another Nazi custom from the Wandervogel was the \"Seig Heil\" salute, which was an early form of greeting popular among the wandering youth. During World War I, the greatest hero of the German youth movement was Gerhard Rossbach. Described by historian Robert G. L. Waite as a \"sadist, murderer and homosexual,\" Rossbach was \"the most important single contributor of the pre-Hitler youth movement\" (Waite,1969:210). More importantly, Rossbach was the bridge between the Wandervogel and the Nazi Party.</p>\r\n<p align=\"left\">In the turbulent days following Germany\'s defeat in World War I, Gerhard Rossbach was one of many former army officers placed in command of Freikorps (Free Corps) units. These unofficial auxilary military units were designed to circumvent limitations imposed on German troop strength by the Allies. Rossbach organized a Freikorps called Rossbach\'s Sturmabteilung (Rossbach\'s Storm Troopers). Rossbach also built the largest post-war youth organization in Germany, named the <em>Schilljugend</em> (Schill Youth) in honor of a famous Prussian soldier. In <em>The Black Corps</em>, historian Robert Lewis Koehl notes that both Rossbach\'s Storm Troopers and the Schilljugend \"were notorious for wearing brown shirts which had been prepared for German colonial troops, acquired from the old Imperial army stores\" (Koehl:19). These Storm Troopers would soon become known as Nazi Brownshirts. Konrad Heiden, a contemporary of Hitler and a leading authority on Nazi history, wrote that the Freikorps \"were breeding places of perversion\" and that \"Rossbach\'s troop...was especially proud\" of being homosexual (Heiden:295). Rossbach\'s adjutant was Edmund Heines, noted for his ability to procure boys for sexual orgies. Ernst Roehm, recruited by Rossbach into homosexuality, later commanded the Storm Troopers for the Nazis, where they were more commonly known as the SA (an acronym for Sturmabteilung).</p>\r\n<p align=\"left\"> </p>\r\n<h3>The Power Behind the Throne</h3>\r\n<div>While Adolf Hitler is today recognized as the central figure of Nazism, he was a less important player when the Nazi machine was first assembled. Its first leader was Ernst Roehm. Homosexual historian Frank Rector writes that \"Hitler was, to a substantial extent, Roehm\'s protegé\" (Rector:80). Roehm had been a captain in the German army. Hitler had been a mere corporal. After World War I, Roehm was highly placed in the underground nationalist movement that plotted to overthrow the Weimar government and worked to subvert it through assassinations and terrorism. In <em>The Order of the Death\'s Head</em>, author Heinz Hohne writes that Roehm met Hitler at a meeting of a socialist terrorist group called the Iron Fist and \"saw in Hitler the demagogue he required to mobilize mass support for his secret army\" (Hohne:20). Roehm, who had joined the German Worker\'s Party before Hitler, worked with him to take over the fledgling organization. With Roehm\'s backing, Hitler became the first president of the party in 1921 (ibid.:21) and changed its name to the National Socialist German Worker\'s Party. Soon after, Rossbach\'s Storm Troopers, the SA, became its military arm. In his classic Nazi history, <em>The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich</em>, author William Shirer describes Roehm as \"a stocky, bull-necked, piggish-eyed, scar- faced professional soldier...[and] like so many of the early Nazis, a homosexual\" (Shirer:64). Rector writes:</div>\r\n<p align=\"left\"> </p>\r\n<blockquote>Was not the most outstanding, most notorious, of all homosexuals the celebrated Nazi leader Ernst Ro[e]hm, the virile and manly chief of the SA, the du buddy of Adolf Hitler from the beginning of his political career? Hitler\'s rise had in fact depended upon Ro[e]hm and everyone knew it. Ro[e]hm\'s gay fun and games were certainly no secret; his amorous forays to gay bars and gay Turkish baths were riotous. Whatever anti-homosexual sentiments may have been expressed by straight Nazis were more than offset by the reality of highly visible, spectacular, gay-loving Ro[e]hm. If there were occasional ominous rumblings and grumblings about \"all those queers\" in the SA and Movement, and some anti-gay flare-ups, homosexual Nazis felt more-or-less secure in the lap of the Party. After all, the National Socialist Party member who wielded the greatest power aside from Hitler was Ro[e]hm (Rector:50f).</blockquote>\r\n<div>Betraying his roots in the \"Butch\" faction of the German \"gay rights\" movement, Roehm viewed homosexuality as the basis for a new society. Louis Snyder writes that Roehm \"projected a social order in which homosexuality would be regarded as a human behavior pattern of high repute...he flaunted his homosexuality in public and insisted that his cronies do the same. What was needed, Roehm believed, was a proud and arrogant lot who could brawl, carouse, smash windows, kill and slaughter for the hell of it. Straights, in his eyes, were not as adept in such behavior as practicing homosexuals\" (Snyder:55). \"The principle function of this army-like organization,\" writes historian Thomas Fuchs, \"was beating up anyone who opposed the Nazis, and Hitler believed this was a job best undertaken by homosexuals\" (Fuchs:48f).</div>\r\n<p align=\"left\">The favorite meeting place of the SA was a \"gay\" bar in Munich called the Bratwurstglockl where Roehm kept a reserved table (Hohne:82). This was the same tavern where some of the earliest formative meetings of the Nazi Party had been held (Rector:69). At the Bratwurstglockl, Roehm and associates-Edmund Heines, Karl Ernst, Ernst\'s partner Captain Rohrbein, Captain Petersdorf, Count Ernst Helldorf and the rest-would meet to plan and strategize. These were the men who orchestrated the Nazi campaign of intimidation and terror. All of them were homosexual (Heiden:371).</p>\r\n<p align=\"left\">Indeed, homosexuality was all that qualified many of these men for their positions in the SA. Heinrich Himmler would later complain of this: \"Does it not constitute a danger to the Nazi movement if it can be said that Nazi leaders are chosen for sexual reasons?\" (Gallo:57). Himmler was not so much opposed to homosexuality itself as to the fact that non- qualified people were given high rank based on their homosexual relations with Roehm and others. For example, SA Obergruppenfuhrer (Lieutenant General) Karl Ernst, a militant homosexual, had been a hotel doorman and a waiter before joining the SA. \"Karl Ernst is not yet 35,\" writes Gallo, \"he commands 250,000 men...he is simply a sadist, a common thug, transformed into a responsible official\" (ibid.:50f).</p>\r\n<p align=\"left\">This strange brand of nepotism was a hallmark of the SA. By 1933 the SA had grown far larger than the German army, yet the Vikingkorps (Officers\' Corps) remained almost exclusively homosexual. \"Roehm, as the head of 2,500,000 Storm Troops,\" writes historian H.R. Knickerbocker, \"had surrounded himself with a staff of perverts. His chiefs, men of rank of Gruppenfuhrer or Obergruppenfuhrer, commanding units of several hundred thousand Storm Troopers, were almost without exception homosexuals. Indeed, unless a Storm Troop officer were homosexual he had no chance of advancement\" (Knickerbocker:55).</p>\r\n<p align=\"left\">In the SA, the Community of the Special\'s Hellenic ideal of masculine homosexual supremacy and militarism was fully realized. \"Theirs was a very masculine brand of homosexuality,\" writes homosexualist historian Alfred Rowse, \"they lived in a male world, without women, a world of camps and marching, rallies and sports. They had their own relaxations, and the Munich SA became notorious on account of them\" (Rowse:214). The similarity of the SA to Freidlander and Brand\'s dream of Hellenic revival is not coincidental. In<em> Gay American History</em>, Jonathan Katz writes that Roehm was a prominent member of the Society for Human Rights (SHR), an offshoot of the CS (J.Katz:632).</p>\r\n<p align=\"left\">The \"relaxations\" to which Rowse refers were, of course, the homosexual activities (many of them pederastic) for which the SA and the CS were both famous. Hohne writes that Roehm \"used the SA for ends other than the purely political...Peter Granninger, who had been one of Roehm\'s partners...and was now given cover in the SA Intelligence Section. For a monthly salary of 200 marks he kept Roehm supplied with new friends, his main hunting ground being Geisela High School Munich; from this school he recruited no fewer than eleven boys, whom he first tried out and then took to Roehm\" (Hohne:82).</p>\r\n<p align=\"left\"> </p>\r\n<h3>Hitler\'s \"Gay\" Roots</h3>\r\n<div>In 1945 a Jewish historian by the name of Samuel Igra published <em>Germany\'s National Vice</em>, which called homosexuality the \"poisoned stream\" that ran through the heart of Nazism. (In the 1920s and 30s, homosexuality was known as \"the German vice\" across Europe because of the debaucheries of the Weimar period.) Igra, who escaped Germany in 1939, claims that Hitler \"had been a male prostitute in Vienna at the time of his sojourn there, from 1907 to 1912, and that he practiced the same calling in Munich from 1912 to 1914\" (Igra:67). Desmond Seward, in <em>Napoleon and Hitler</em>, says Hitler is listed as a homosexual in Viennese police records (Seward:299). Lending credence to this is the fact, noted by Walter Langer, that during several of those years Hitler \"chose to live in a Vienna flophouse known to be inhabited by many homosexuals\" (Langer:192). Rector writes that, as a young man, Hitler was often called \"der Schoen Adolf\" (the handsome Adolf) and that later his looks \"were also to some extent helpful in gaining big-money support from Ernst Ro[e]hm\'s circle of wealthy gay friends\" (Rector:52).</div>\r\n<p align=\"left\">Langer, a psychiatrist, was commissioned by the Allies in 1943 to prepare a thorough psychological study of Hitler. His report, kept under wraps for 29 years, was published in book form in 1972 as <em>The Mind of Adolf Hitler</em>. Langer writes that Hitler was certainly a coprophile (a person who is sexually aroused by human excrement) and may have practiced homosexuality as an adult. He cites the testimony of Hermann Rauschning, a former Hitler confidante who \"reports that he has met two boys who claimed that they were Hitler\'s homosexual partners, but their testimony can hardly be taken at face value. More condemning,\" adds Langer, \"would be the remarks dropped by [Albert] Foerster, the Danzig gauleiter, in conversation with Rauschning. Even here, however, the remarks deal only with Hitler\'s impotence as far as heterosexual relationships go, without actually implying that he indulges in homosexuality. It is probably true that Hitler calls Foerster \'Bubi,\' which is a common nickname employed by homosexuals in addressing their partners. This alone is not adequate proof that he has actually indulged in homosexual practices with Foerster, who is known to be a homosexual\" (Langer:178). However, writes Langer, \"Even today, Hitler derives sexual pleasure from looking at men\'s bodies and associating with homosexuals\" (Langer:179). Too, Hitler\'s greatest hero was Frederick the Great, a well-known homosexual (Garde:44).</p>\r\n<p align=\"left\">Like Langer, Waite also hesitates to label Hitler a homosexual but cites substantial circumstantial evidence that he was.</p>\r\n<p align=\"left\"> </p>\r\n<blockquote>It is true that Hitler was closely associated with Ernst Ro[e]hm and Rudolf Hess, two homosexuals who were among the very few people with whom he used the familiar du. But one cannot conclude that he therefore shared his friend\'s sexual tastes. Still, during the months he was with Hess in Landsberg, their relationship must have become very close. When Hitler left the prison he fretted about his friend who languished there, and spoke of him tenderly, using Austrian diminutives: \'Ach mein Rudy, mein Hesserl, isn\'t it appalling to think that he\'s still there.\' One of Hitler\'s valets, Schneider, made no explicit statement about the relationship, but he did find it strange that whenever Hitler got a present he liked or drew an architectural sketch that particularly pleased him, he would run to Hess- who was known in homosexual circles as \"Fraulein Anna\"-as a little boy would run to his mother to show his prize to her...Finally there is the nonconclusive but interesting fact that one of Hitler\'s prized possessions was a handwritten love letter which King Ludwig II had written to a manservant\" (Waite, 1977:283f).</blockquote>\r\n<div>Hitler, if homosexual, was certainly not exclusively so. There are at least four women, including his own niece, with whom Hitler had sexual relationships, although these relationships were not normal. Both Waite and Langer suggest that his sexual encounters with women included expressions of his coprophilic perversion as well as other extremely degrading forms of masochism. It is interesting to note that all four women attempted suicide after becoming sexually involved with Hitler. Two succeeded (Langer:175f).</div>\r\n<div><a href=\"http://constitutionalistnc.tripod.com/hitler-leftist/id12.html\">To Read More Click Here &gt;&gt;</a></div>\r\n<p> </p>\r\n<p> </p>','',1,41,'2011-07-23 22:59:25',62,'Scott Lively','2011-07-23 23:04:00',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-07-23 22:59:25','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',2,20,'','',1,770,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(359,0,'PayPal Joins London Police Effort','paypal-joins-london-police-effort','<p>+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />|  PayPal Joins London Police Effort<br />|   from the state-vs-man dept.<br />|    posted by timothy on Saturday July 23, @06:25 (Piracy)<br />|   with 110  comments<br />|   <a href=\"https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/22/2345217/PayPal-Joins-London-Police-Effort?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email\">https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/22/2345217/PayPal-Joins-London-Police-Effort?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email</a><br />+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><br />derGoldstein  writes this excerpt from Ars Technica: \"PayPal has joined a<br />music copyright  association and the City of London police department\'s<br />bid to financially  starve websites deemed \'illegal.\' When presented with<br />sufficient evidence of  unlicensed downloading from a site, the United<br />Kingdom\'s PayPal branch  \'[0]will require the retailer to submit proof of<br />licensing for the music  offered by the retailer,\' said the International<br />Federation of the  Phonographic Industry\'s latest press release.\" The<br />[1]press release can be  found here.<br /><br />Discuss this story at:<br /> <a href=\"https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/22/2345217/PayPal-Joins-London-Police-Effort?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email#commentlisting\">https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/22/2345217/PayPal-Joins-London-Police-Effort?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email#commentlisting</a><br /><br />Links:<br /> 0. <a href=\"http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/07/paypal-joins-london-police-bid-to-financially-starve-illegal-websites.ars\">http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/07/paypal-joins-london-police-bid-to-financially-starve-illegal-websites.ars</a><br /> 1. <a href=\"http://www.ifpi.com//content/section_news/20110721.html\">http://www.ifpi.com//content/section_news/20110721.html</a><br /><br /></p>','',1,70,'2011-07-24 16:25:47',62,'slashdot','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-07-24 16:25:47','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',1,46,'','',1,29,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(360,0,'Pergamum and Nazi Germany: The Seat of Satan','pergamum-and-nazi-germany','<p>{source}<span style=\"font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;\"><br /><span>&lt;</span>iframe width=\"560\" height=\"349\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/embed/kNnPPsfCLhc\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen<span>&gt;</span><span>&lt;</span>/iframe<span>&gt;</span><br /></span>{/source}</p>','',1,41,'2011-07-27 22:22:49',62,'CBN','2011-07-27 22:24:53',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-07-27 22:22:49','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',2,18,'','',1,382,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(361,0,'Chief NSA Lawyer Hints That NSA May Be Tracking US Citizens','chief-nsa-lawyer-hints-that-nsa-may-be-tracking-us-citizens','<p>+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />|  Chief NSA Lawyer Hints That NSA May Be Tracking US Citizens<br />|   from the  this-story-may-exist dept.<br />|   posted by Unknown Lamer on Tuesday July 26,  @16:33 (Government)<br />|   with 163 comments<br />|   <a href=\"https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/26/201214/Chief-NSA-Lawyer-Hints-That-NSA-May-Be-Tracking-US-Citizens?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email\">https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/26/201214/Chief-NSA-Lawyer-Hints-That-NSA-May-Be-Tracking-US-Citizens?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email</a><br />+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><br />[0]itwbennett  writes \"Responding to questions from the Senate Select<br />Committee on  Intelligence yesterday, Matthew Olsen, the NSA\'s general<br />counsel, said that  the NSA \'may\', under \'certain circumstances\' have the<br />authority to [1]track  U.S. citizens by intercepting location data from<br />cell phones, but it\'s \'very  complicated.\' \'There\'s no need to panic, or<br />start shopping for aluminum-foil  headwear,\' says blogger Kevin Fogarty,<br />but clearly the NSA has been thinking  about it enough \'that the agency\'s<br />chief lawyer was able to speak  intelligently about it off the cuff while<br />interviewing for a different  job.\'\"<br /><br />Discuss this story at:<br /> <a href=\"https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/26/201214/Chief-NSA-Lawyer-Hints-That-NSA-May-Be-Tracking-US-Citizens?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email#commentlisting\">https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/26/201214/Chief-NSA-Lawyer-Hints-That-NSA-May-Be-Tracking-US-Citizens?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email#commentlisting</a><br /><br />Links:<br /> 0. <a href=\"http://www.itworld.com/\">http://www.itworld.com/</a><br /> 1. <a href=\"http://www.itworld.com/security/186733/can-nsa-and-cia-use-your-phone-track-your-location\">http://www.itworld.com/security/186733/can-nsa-and-cia-use-your-phone-track-your-location</a><br /><br /></p>','',1,70,'2011-07-27 22:48:32',62,'slashdot','2011-07-27 23:13:52',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-07-27 22:48:32','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',2,45,'','',1,42,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(362,0,'Security Expert Slams Google+ Pseudonym Policy','security-expert-slams-google-pseudonym-policy','<p>+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />|  Security Expert Slams Google+ Pseudonym Policy<br />|   from the  anonymous-cowards-unite dept.<br />|   posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday July 27,  @08:55 (Security)<br />|   with 346 comments<br />|   <a href=\"https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/07/27/1246200/Security-Expert-Slams-Google-Pseudonym-Policy?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email\">https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/07/27/1246200/Security-Expert-Slams-Google-Pseudonym-Policy?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email</a><br />+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><br />An  anonymous reader writes \"A security expert has [0]panned Google\'s<br />\"real name\"  policy on Google+, claiming that the hard line will damage<br />privacy. Sophos\'s  Chester Wisniewski says that closing accounts where<br />users have adopted false  names erodes privacy on the social network.<br />\'What they seemed to have missed  is that the very foundation of privacy<br />is identity. Simply knowing my postal  code or birth date is meaningless<br />without a name to associate it with. By  requiring people to only use<br />their real names, unless they just happen to be  a celebrity, they have<br />eliminated the ability for people to be private in any  meaningful way.\'\"<br /><br />Discuss this story at:<br /> <a href=\"https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/07/27/1246200/Security-Expert-Slams-Google-Pseudonym-Policy?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email#commentlisting\">https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/07/27/1246200/Security-Expert-Slams-Google-Pseudonym-Policy?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email#commentlisting</a><br /><br />Links:<br /> 0. <a href=\"http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2011/07/27/google-misses-an-opportunity-privacy-is-an-important-part-of-openness/\">http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2011/07/27/google-misses-an-opportunity-privacy-is-an-important-part-of-openness/</a></p>','',1,70,'2011-07-28 13:38:44',62,'slashdot','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-07-28 13:38:44','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',1,44,'','',1,34,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(363,0,' Google Grabbed Locations of Phones, PCs','google-grabbed-locations-of-phones-pcs','<p>+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />|  Google Grabbed Locations of Phones, PCs<br />|   from the  gift-that-keeps-on-giving dept.<br />|   posted by Soulskill on Wednesday July 27,  @05:11 (Google)<br />|   with 213 comments<br />|   <a href=\"https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/07/27/0529228/Google-Grabbed-Locations-of-Phones-PCs?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email\">https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/07/27/0529228/Google-Grabbed-Locations-of-Phones-PCs?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email</a><br />+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><br />[0]1800maxim  writes \"As it turns out, Google didn\'t only grab the hotspot<br />[1]SSIDs and MAC  addresses with its Street View cars. As this article at<br />CNET notes, Google  also [2]recorded location data of computers using<br />wireless cards, as well as  cell phones and other Wi-Fi devices. Google\'s<br />explanation is that the data  collection was accidental, and they declined<br />to answer further questions from  CNET.\"<br /><br />Discuss this story at:<br /> <a href=\"https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/07/27/0529228/Google-Grabbed-Locations-of-Phones-PCs?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email#commentlisting\">https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/07/27/0529228/Google-Grabbed-Locations-of-Phones-PCs?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email#commentlisting</a><br /><br />Links:<br /> 0. <a href=\"mailto:max.bar@hotmail.com\">mailto:max.bar@hotmail.com</a><br /> 1.  <a href=\"http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/04/23/0522228/Google-Street-View-Logs-Wi-Fi-Networks-MAC-Addresses\">http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/04/23/0522228/Google-Street-View-Logs-Wi-Fi-Networks-MAC-Addresses</a><br /> 2. <a href=\"http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-20082777-281/street-view-cars-grabbed-locations-of-phones-pcs/\">http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-20082777-281/street-view-cars-grabbed-locations-of-phones-pcs/</a><br /><br /></p>','',1,70,'2011-07-28 13:43:36',62,'slashdot','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-07-28 13:43:36','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',1,43,'','',1,42,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(364,0,'Don\'t Tax Me Bro!','dont-tax-me-bro','<p><img src=\"images/stories/humor/spirit_logo.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Spirit Airlines\" /></p>\r\n<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"444\" align=\"left\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td>\r\n<h1>Don\'t Tax Me Bro!</h1>\r\n<p align=\"justify\">Following the elimination of several taxes on airline tickets   on July 23rd, Spirit\'s customers began saving up to $50 roundtrip. As a result,   the volume of tickets sold jumped over 22 percent week over week in the first   three days.</p>\r\n<p align=\"justify\">However, Spirit is aware that some policy makers are   considering not only bringing these taxes back but also increasing the Federal   Excise tax on air travelers and airlines and doubling several other governmental   fees. Another proposal under consideration would add a new $35 takeoff tax to   every ticket.</p>\r\n<p align=\"justify\">Spirit calls on airline customers, governmental leaders, policy   makers, taxi drivers, hotel operators, cruise line personnel, restaurant   employees, travel agents, tour operators, and others who would be directly   harmed by an increased tax burden on travelers to join us in our efforts to keep   airline user taxes low.</p>\r\n<p align=\"justify\">Learn more by visiting <a href=\"http://link.spiritairlines.com/u.d?bYGhEL1SFlyrPJ8I9Ur=21\" target=\"_blank\">www.DontTaxMeBro.org</a> and help keep your fares low by   contacting your Congressmen below (please reference AIRLINE TAXES in your   correspondence):</p>\r\n<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"100%\" align=\"center\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td></td>\r\n<td><a href=\"http://link.spiritairlines.com/u.d?IYGhEL1SFlyrPJ8I9Uu=31\"><img src=\"http://www.spirit.com/content/images/email/congress.gif\" border=\"0\" width=\"200\" height=\"60\" /></a></td>\r\n<td><a href=\"http://link.spiritairlines.com/u.d?QYGhEL1SFlyrPJ8I9Uxs=41\"><img src=\"http://www.spirit.com/content/images/email/senator.gif\" border=\"0\" width=\"200\" height=\"60\" /></a></td>\r\n</tr>\r\n</tbody>\r\n</table>\r\n</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n</tbody>\r\n</table>','',1,60,'2011-07-28 17:19:59',62,'Spirit Airlines','2011-07-28 17:29:41',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-07-28 17:19:59','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',3,207,'','',1,211,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(365,0,'OBAMA EXECUTIVE ORDERS IMPOSE NEW GUN RULES','obama-executive-orders-impose-new-gun-rules','<p><span style=\"line-height: 22px; font-size: 14px;\">A few days ago, the <a href=\"http://www.theblaze.com/stories/white-house-plans-to-release-new-gun-safety-measures-in-the-near-future/\" target=\"_self\" style=\"font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; text-align: left; color: #d50b0b; text-decoration: underline; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">Blaze reported</a> on the low-key plans of the Obama administration to increase the penalties for certain gun law violations, and add steps to the background checks for legal gun ownership.</span></p>\r\n<div id=\"postContent\" class=\"clearfix\" style=\"display: block; padding-bottom: 10px;\">\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; font-family: inherit; text-align: left; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\"><a href=\"http://www.theblaze.com/stories/obama-executive-orders-impose-new-gun-rules/barack-obama-73/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-93361\" style=\"font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; text-align: left; color: #d50b0b; text-decoration: underline; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\"><img class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-93361\" src=\"http://www.theblaze.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Barack-Obama-270x178.jpg\" border=\"0\" title=\"Barack Obama\" width=\"270\" height=\"178\" style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 10px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 10px; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1; font-family: inherit; text-align: left; float: right; border: 0px initial initial;\" /></a></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; font-family: inherit; text-align: left; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">Today the administration’s plans are beginning to <a href=\"http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-07-11/gun-sellers-required-to-report-certain-rifle-purchases-in-u-s-.html\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; text-align: left; color: #d50b0b; text-decoration: underline; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">come into effect</a>. Through an Executive Order, the Obama administration is implementing new restrictions on the sale of certain weapons in border states, and increasing the penalties for violating certain firearms laws.</p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; font-family: inherit; text-align: left; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\"><a href=\"http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/07/11/atf-to-require-information-on-frequent-gunbuyers-in-border-states/\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; text-align: left; color: #d50b0b; text-decoration: underline; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">Fox News</a> is reporting on the purpose of the gun control executive orders:</p>\r\n<blockquote style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 30px; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: 24px; font-family: inherit; text-align: left; color: #777777; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">\r\n<p style=\"padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 9px; padding-left: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: 24px; font-family: inherit; text-align: left; color: #777777; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">“In an effort to stem the illicit flow of weapons into Mexico, the Justice Department announced Monday that all gun shops in four Southwest border states will be required to alert the <span style=\"color: blue;\"><span style=\"color: #333300;\">f</span><span style=\"color: #333300;\"><span style=\"color: #333300;\">ede</span>ral government</span></span><span style=\"color: #333300;\"> </span>to frequent buyers of high-powered rifles.</p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 9px; padding-left: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: 24px; font-family: inherit; text-align: left; color: #777777; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">Under the new policy, federal firearms licensees in Texas, California, Arizona and New Mexico must report purchases of two or more of some types of rifles by the same person in a five-day span. The requirement applies to purchases of semi-automatic rifles that have detachable magazines and a caliber of greater than .22.</p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 9px; padding-left: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: 24px; font-family: inherit; text-align: left; color: #777777; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">ATF estimates it will generate 18,000 reports a year. ATF will retain the information and if no investigative leads have been realized after two years, it will be purged.”</p>\r\n</blockquote>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; font-family: inherit; text-align: left; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\"><a href=\"http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/07/11/obama-s-new-gun-control-regulations-exclusive.html\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; text-align: left; color: #d50b0b; text-decoration: underline; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">The Daily Beast</a> seems to have the inside track on more Executive Orders, however, claiming recent conversations with administration officials. TDB says the upcoming Executive Orders will have more impact than what Fox outlines above, including:</p>\r\n<blockquote style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 30px; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: 24px; font-family: inherit; text-align: left; color: #777777; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">\r\n<p style=\"padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 9px; padding-left: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: 24px; font-family: inherit; text-align: left; color: #777777; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">“A national electronic system designed to make background checks for handgun buyers simpler and faster, leaving an electronic paper trail. [And] Tougher sentencing guidelines for straw buyers that Holder’s department pushed through procedural hoops at the U.S. Sentencing Commission earlier this year.” <strong><a href=\"http://www.theblaze.com/stories/obama-executive-orders-impose-new-gun-rules/\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE &gt;&gt;&gt;</a></strong></p>\r\n</blockquote>\r\n</div>\r\n<p> </p>','',1,72,'2011-07-30 13:03:53',62,'Buck Sexton','2011-07-30 13:10:39',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-07-30 13:03:53','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',4,21,'','',1,329,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(366,0,'The Fed Audit','the-fed-audit','<p><strong><strong>The first ever GAO (Government   Accountability Office) audit of the Federal Reserve was carried out in the past   few months due to the Ron Paul, Alan Grayson Amendment to the Dodd-Frank bill,   which passed last year.</strong></strong></p>\r\n<p>Jim   DeMint, a Republican Senator, and Bernie Sanders, an independent Senator, led   the charge for a Federal Reserve audit in the Senate, but watered down the   original language of the house bill (HR1207), so that a complete audit would not   be carried out. <strong><strong>Ben Bernanke, Alan Greenspan, and various other bankers   vehemently opposed the audit and lied to Congress about the effects an audit   would have on markets.</strong></strong> Nevertheless, the results of the first audit in   the Federal Reserve\'s nearly 100   year history were   posted on <a href=\"http://sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/news/?id=9E2A4EA8-6E73-4BE2-A753-62060DCBB3C3\">Senator Sander\'s   webpage</a> earlier this morning. <strong><strong>What was revealed in the audit was   startling: </strong></strong><strong><strong>$16,000,000,000,000.00   (TRILLION) had been secretly given out to US banks and corporations and foreign   banks everywhere   from France to Scotland</strong></strong><strong><strong>.</strong></strong> From the period   between December 2007 and June 2010, the Federal Reserve had secretly bailed out   many of the world\'s banks, corporations, and governments.   The Federal Reserve likes to refer to these secret bailouts as an all-inclusive   loan program, but virtually none of the money has been returned and it was   loaned out at 0% interest. <strong><strong>Why the Federal Reserve had never been public   about this or even informed the United   States Congress about the $16 trillion dollar bailout is obvious   -</strong></strong><strong><strong> the American public would have been   outraged to find out that the Federal Reserve bailed out foreign banks while   Americans were struggling to find jobs.</strong></strong> <br /> <br /> To place $16 trillion into perspective,   remember that GDP of the United States is only   $14.12 trillion. The entire national debt of the United States government   spanning its 200+ year history is \"only\" $14.5 trillion. The budget   that is being debated so heavily in Congress and the Senate is   \"only\" $3.5 trillion. Take all of the outrage   and debate over the $1.5 trillion deficit into consideration, and swallow this   Red pill: There was no debate about whether $16,000,000,000,000 would be given   to failing banks and failing corporations around the   world.<br /> <br /> In late 2008, the TARP Bailout bill was   passed and loans of $800 billion were given to failing banks and companies. That   was a blatant lie considering the fact that Goldman Sachs alone received 814   billion dollars. As is turns out, the Federal Reserve donated $2.5 trillion to   Citigroup, while Morgan Stanley received $2.04 trillion. The Royal   Bank of Scotland and Deutsche Bank, a German bank,   split about a trillion and numerous other banks received hefty chunks of the $16   trillion.      \"This is a clear case of socialism for   the rich and rugged, you\'re-on-your-own individualism for   everyone else.\" Bernie   Sanders(I-VT)    When you have conservative Republican   stalwarts like Jim DeMint(R-SC) and Ron Paul(R-TX) as well as self identified   Democratic socialists like Bernie Sanders all fighting against the Federal   Reserve, you know that it is no longer an issue of Right versus Left. When you   have every single member of the Republican Party in Congress and progressive   Congressmen like Dennis Kucinich sponsoring a bill to audit the   Federal Reserve, you realize that the Federal Reserve is an entity onto itself,   which has no oversight and no accountability.<br /> <br /> Americans should be swelled with anger   and outrage at the abysmal state of affairs when an unelected group of bankers   can create money out of thin air and give it out to megabanks and   supercorporations like Halloween candy.<em><em> </em></em>If the Federal   Reserve and the bankers who control it believe that they can continue to devalue   the savings of Americans and continue to destroy   the US economy, they will have to face the   realization that their trillion dollar printing presses can be stopped with five   dollars worth of bullets. <br /> <strong><strong><em><br /> </em></strong></strong> Regardless of whether this money is fiat   money (money printed with nothing of value to back it), if it is a currency   forced on society and the world, with enforcement by the Fed, IRS, the U.S.   military, et al, --which it is-- the acts of the Federal Reserve are, in   essence, the transfer of greater wealth to the rich insider banks and   corporations, while the rest of the world grows poorer, and as the value of this   funny money grows less and less in purchasing   power.   These insider banks, etc., then, exchange   this funny money for gold and silver, the real wealth of the world, which, then,   reinflates the world with more and more devaluing federal reserve notes. This,   then, creates hyper-inflation, increasing the cost of all resources and   commodities, while gold and silver climb to never-seen-before levels of   value. <br /> <br /> This is how the Federal Reserve insiders   steal the wealth of the world and why the rich get richer while the poor get   poorer. It\'s the world\'s largest Ponzi scheme! The Federal Reserve is nothing   but a front for a small group of families who run a very large and successful   white collar criminal Ponzi scheme. This criminal institution should be seized   by the U.S. Treasury department and all assets frozen, and   returned to the coffers of the U.S. Treasury in order to settle   the U.S. debt and help begin to balance   the U.S. deficit.   All banks (listed below) should be forced   to return the money received by the Federal Reserve. All families in ownership   of the Fed and their agents should be located, caught, tried and jailed for   grand larceny and treason against the people of   the U.S.A. All government agents who protect and   help facilitate this criminal organization should be fired from the positions   and similarly tried and jailed for grand larceny and treason. Meanwhile,   Congress should return our country to its original monetary system   (Lincoln greenbacks backed by precious metals) and, again, do   its <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">duty</span> to regulate the coining of the currency   of America as per   the U.S.Constitution.</p>\r\n<p> </p>\r\n<h3>The list of   institutions that received the most money from the Federal   Reserve can be found on page   131 of the <a href=\"http://sanders.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/GAO%20Fed%20Investigation.pdf\"><span style=\"color: #135cae;\"><strong>GAO   Audit</strong></span></a> and are as follows..<span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px;\"> </span></h3>\r\n<p><br /> Citigroup: <strong><strong>$2.5   trillion</strong></strong> ($2,500,000,000,000) <br /> Morgan   Stanley: <strong><strong>$2.04 trillion</strong></strong> ($2,040,000,000,000)<br /> Merrill   Lynch: <strong><strong>$1.949 trillion</strong></strong> ($1,949,000,000,000)<br /> Bank   of America: <strong><strong>$1.344   trillion</strong></strong> ($1,344,000,000,000)<br /> Barclays PLC (United   Kingdom): <strong><strong>$868 billion</strong></strong> ($868,000,000,000)<br /> Bear   Sterns: <strong><strong>$853 billion</strong></strong> ($853,000,000,000)<br /> Goldman   Sachs:<strong><strong> $814 billion</strong></strong> ($814,000,000,000)<br /> Royal Bank of <span id=\"yiv497719292lw_1311860795_0\">Scotland</span> (UK):<strong><strong> $541 billion</strong></strong> ($541,000,000,000)<br /> JP Morgan   Chase: <strong><strong>$391 billion</strong></strong> ($391,000,000,000)<br /> Deutsche Bank   (Germany): <strong><strong>$354   billion</strong></strong> ($354,000,000,000)<br /> UBS   (Switzerland): <strong><strong>$287   billion</strong></strong> ($287,000,000,000)<br /> Credit Suisse   (Switzerland): <strong><strong>$262   billion</strong></strong> ($262,000,000,000)<br /> Lehman Brothers: <strong><strong>$183   billion</strong></strong> ($183,000,000,000)<br /> Bank of Scotland (United   Kingdom):<strong><strong> $181 billion</strong></strong> ($181,000,000,000)<br /> BNP   Paribas (France): <strong><strong>$175   billion</strong></strong> ($175,000,000,000)                                                                                                                                                                                                                              <br /><br /></p>\r\n<p> </p>\r\n<h3>Here are the links to the GAO Audit of the   Federal Reserve:                                                   by way of Bernie Sanders (imagine   that!)</h3>\r\n<p><br /> <a href=\"http://sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/news/?id=9E2A4EA8-6E73-4BE2-A753-62060DCBB3C3\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"http://sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/news/?id=9E2A4EA8-6E73-4BE2-A753-62060DCBB3C3\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span id=\"yiv497719292lw_1311860795_1\">http://sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/news/?id=9E2A4EA8-6E73-4BE2-A753-62060DCBB3C3</span></a> <br /> <a href=\"http://sanders.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/GAO%20Fed%20Investigation.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"http://sanders.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/GAO Fed Investigation.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span id=\"yiv497719292lw_1311860795_2\">http://sanders.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/GAO%20Fed%20Investigation.pdf</span></a> <br /><br /> This certainly did NOT make the evening   news.</p>\r\n<p> </p>','',1,60,'2011-07-30 13:16:50',62,'GAO - US Senate','2011-07-30 14:17:16',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-07-30 13:16:50','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',8,206,'','',1,777,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(367,0,'House Panel Approves Bill Forcing ISPs To Log Users','house-panel-approves-bill-forcing-isps-to-log-users','<p>+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />|  House Panel Approves Bill Forcing ISPs To Log Users<br />|   from the  uncle-sam-wants-to-know-you-better dept.<br />|   posted by Soulskill on Friday  July 29, @16:18 (Government)<br />|   with 233 comments<br />|   <a href=\"https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/29/194213/House-Panel-Approves-Bill-Forcing-ISPs-To-Log-Users?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email\">https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/29/194213/House-Panel-Approves-Bill-Forcing-ISPs-To-Log-Users?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email</a><br />+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><br />skids  writes \"Under the guise of fighting child pornography, the House<br />Judiciary  Committee [0]approved legislation on Thursday that would<br />require internet  service providers to [1]collect and retain records about<br />Internet users\'  activity. The [2]19 to 10 vote represents a victory for<br />conservative  Republicans, who made data retention their first major<br />technology initiative  after last fall\'s elections. A last-minute rewrite<br />of the bill expands the  information that commercial Internet providers<br />are required to store to  include customers\' names, addresses, phone<br />numbers, credit card numbers, bank  account numbers, and<br />temporarily-assigned IP addresses. Per dissenting Rep.  John Conyers<br />(D-MI): \'The bill is mislabeled... This is not protecting  children from<br />Internet pornography. It\'s creating a database for everybody in  this<br />country for a lot of other purposes.\'\"<br /><br />Discuss this story  at:<br /> <a href=\"https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/29/194213/House-Panel-Approves-Bill-Forcing-ISPs-To-Log-Users?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email#commentlisting\">https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/29/194213/House-Panel-Approves-Bill-Forcing-ISPs-To-Log-Users?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email#commentlisting</a><br /><br />Links:<br /> 0. <a href=\"http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-20084939-281/house-panel-approves-broadened-isp-snooping-bill/\">http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-20084939-281/house-panel-approves-broadened-isp-snooping-bill/</a><br /> 1. <a href=\"https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/07/house-committee-approves-bill-mandating-internet\">https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/07/house-committee-approves-bill-mandating-internet</a><br /> 2. <a href=\"http://thatsmycongress.com/index.php/2011/07/29/online-surveillance-bill-approved-by-house-judiciary-committee/\">http://thatsmycongress.com/index.php/2011/07/29/online-surveillance-bill-approved-by-house-judiciary-committee/</a></p>','',1,70,'2011-07-30 14:42:31',62,'slashdot','2011-07-30 14:44:40',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-07-30 14:42:31','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',2,42,'','',1,38,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(368,0,'Prosecuted For Critical Twittering','prosecuted-for-critical-twittering','<h2>You\'ve got to be kidding me! ... \"The prosecution\'s theory in this case is that using Twitter to criticize a public figure can be a criminal act if the person\'s feelings are hurt.\"</h2>\r\n<p>+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />|  Prosecuted For Critical Twittering<br />|   from the tweets-are-for-jailbirds  dept.<br />|   posted by Soulskill on Monday August 01, @14:29 (Electronic  Frontier Foundation)<br />|   with 262 comments<br />|   <a href=\"https://politics.slashdot.org/story/11/08/01/180258/Prosecuted-For-Critical-Twittering?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email\">https://politics.slashdot.org/story/11/08/01/180258/Prosecuted-For-Critical-Twittering?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email</a><br />+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><br />[0]lee1  writes \"The Electronic Frontier Foundation is trying to [1]urge a<br />federal  court (PDF) to block what they claim is the unconstitutional use<br />of the  federal anti-stalking law to [2]prosecute a man for posting<br />criticism of a  public figure to Twitter. The law was originally targeted<br />against crossing  state lines for the purpose of stalking, but was<br />modified in 2005 to make the  \'intentional infliction of emotional<br />distress\' by the use of \'any interactive  computer service\' a crime. The<br />prosecution\'s theory in this case is that  using Twitter to criticize a<br />public figure can be a criminal act if the  person\'s feelings are hurt.\"<br /><br />Discuss this story at:<br /> <a href=\"https://politics.slashdot.org/story/11/08/01/180258/Prosecuted-For-Critical-Twittering?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email#commentlisting\">https://politics.slashdot.org/story/11/08/01/180258/Prosecuted-For-Critical-Twittering?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email#commentlisting</a><br /><br />Links:<br /> 0. <a href=\"http://lee-phillips.org/\">http://lee-phillips.org/</a><br /> 1. <a href=\"https://www.eff.org/files/filenode/us_v_cassidy/eff_amicus_cassidy.pdf\">https://www.eff.org/files/filenode/us_v_cassidy/eff_amicus_cassidy.pdf</a><br /> 2. <a href=\"https://www.eff.org/press/archives/2011/07/29\">https://www.eff.org/press/archives/2011/07/29</a></p>','',1,70,'2011-08-02 13:56:51',62,'slashdot','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-08-02 13:56:51','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',1,41,'','',1,45,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(369,0,'Beatings','beatings','<p><span style=\"line-height: normal; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New; font-size: 13pt;\"><img src=\"http://www.nationalgunrights.org/images/NAGR_email.gif\" border=\"0\" /><br /><br />John,  <br /><br />Have you ever thought of videotaping police officers to document their  actions?<br /><br />As a concealed weapons permit holder, I know I  have.<br /><br /><strong>Did you think that you could be beat up and arrested for  doing it?</strong><br /><br />Check out this story of that very thing  happening.<br /><br /><a href=\"http://paracom.paramountcommunication.com/ct/6446600:9500456213:m:1:177854183:8F10C9F19F22220351EC47297AB2D427\"><img src=\"http://www.nationalgunrights.org/images/LVPDBeatDown_forWeb.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"LVPD\" /></a><a><br /><br />Was  a crime committed?<br /><br />Nope. <br /><br />And despite the Las Vegas Police  Department admitting the officer’s actions “violated several Metropolitan Police  Department policies,” <strong>the officer is probably not going to be  punished!</strong><br /><br />Amazing, isn’t it?<br /><br />A cop can grab a guy and  beat the snot out of him for the simple act of operating a video camera, yet he  may not even get fired.<br /><br />It’s possible that all he will get is a 40-hour  unpaid suspension.<br /><br />Now get ready for the worst part…<br /><br /><strong>…he’s  been on paid “administrative leave” for 4 months!</strong><br /><br />I should tell  you, I have several friends in law enforcement. <br /><br />I’ve done ride-alongs  with them, and witnessed firsthand, from their perspective, what a tough job  they have.<br /><br />And <strong>I deeply respect them for doing that job, because  I think we need more constitutionally-minded law enforcement  officers.</strong><br /><br />But this Las Vegas incident is yet another example of  the ever-growing police state that you and I live in.<br /><br />In a mad rush to  make our country safer, police departments are using strong-arm tactics that go  far beyond their moral and legal boundaries.<br /><br />I think Ben Franklin put it  best when he said that <strong>those who would give up essential liberty to  purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor  safety.</strong><br /><br />I don’t want to lose our freedom in exchange for some  perceived temporary safety by creating a police state, and I know you feel the  same.<br /><br /><strong>Can you imagine if the guy in the video had been carrying a  firearm?</strong><br /><br />The cops would probably have branded him as a  “terrorist,” or worse, they might have simply shot him as a matter of  course.<br /><br />Today it’s a random guy with a video  camera.<br /><br /><strong>Tomorrow it could be you. <br /></strong><br /> For  Freedom,<br /><br /> <img src=\"http://nationalgunrights.org/images/DWBsigBlue.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"signature\" /><br /> Dudley  Brown<br /> Executive Director<br /><br />P.S. Please help the National Association  for Gun Rights continue to fight against police state actions like the one  witnessed in the story linked above.<br /><br /></a><strong><a href=\"http://paracom.paramountcommunication.com/ct/6446601:9500456213:m:1:177854183:8F10C9F19F22220351EC47297AB2D427\">Chipping  in $15 or $20 goes a long way toward making your voice heard with hundreds of  thousands of other gun owners who feel the same way.</a> </strong><br /><br />Please  act TODAY! <br /><br /><br /><br /> </span></span></p>\r\n<hr width=\"100%\" size=\"2\" />\r\n<p><strong>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"center\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: \'Courier New\'; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: \'Times New Roman\';\"><br /><em><span style=\"font-family: \'Courier New\';\">The National Association for Gun Rights is a  nonprofit, nonpartisan, single-purpose citizens\' organization dedicated to  preserving and protecting the Constitutionally protected  right-to-keep-and-bear-arms through an aggressive program designed to mobilize  public opposition to anti-gun legislation. The National Association for Gun  Rights\' mailing address is P.O 7002, Fredericksburg, VA 22404. They can be  contacted toll-free at 1-877-405-4570. Its web address is <a href=\"http://paracom.paramountcommunication.com/ct/6446602:9500456213:m:1:177854183:8F10C9F19F22220351EC47297AB2D427\">www.NationalGunRights.org/</a><a><strong><em><br /><br />Not  produced or e-mailed at taxpayer expense. </em></strong></a></span></em></span></strong></p>\r\n<hr />\r\n<strong> </strong>\r\n<p><strong>To help the National Association for Gun Rights grow, please <a href=\"http://paracom.paramountcommunication.com/forwardthis/ft.php?mID=2029416&amp;em=jhbrake%40comcast.net&amp;ch=7c9f1270dbf8d2cf0e46f4bc78c3724c\">forward  this</a> to a friend.<br /><br />To view this email as a web page, please click this  link: <a href=\"http://paracom.paramountcommunication.com/hostedemail/email.htm?h=b38302e04dab183620bcd1d8e177fc73&amp;CID=9500456213&amp;ch=8F10C9F19F22220351EC47297AB2D427\">view  online</a>.<br /><br />Help fight gun control. Donate to the National Association  for Gun Rights!<br /></strong></p>\r\n</strong></p>\r\n<p> </p>','',1,70,'2011-08-03 21:45:16',62,'NAGR','2011-08-03 21:49:46',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-08-03 21:45:16','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',2,40,'','',1,44,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(370,0,'Iran\'s Revolutionary Guard Head to Take Leadership of OPEC','irans-revolutionary-guard-head-to-take-leadership-of-opec','<p> </p>\r\n<p><img class=\"caption\" src=\"images/stories/mikeevans.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Dr. Michael Evans\" title=\"Dr. Michael Evans\" align=\"left\" /><strong>Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has appointed the radical head of Iran\'s Revolutionary Guard, Rostam Ghasemi, as the country\'s oil minister</strong>, which means he will also be the head of OPEC. This year is Iran\'s turn to take the rotating presidential office of the oil exporting group. The rising price of gasoline and oil has played a critical role in the struggling economies of the West, and having a leader who hates the entire Western world in charge of OPEC is a bad sign for the future.</p>\r\n<p>Ghasemi is under international sanctions because of his and the Revolutionary Guard\'s connections to the sponsorship of terrorist groups around the world. All of his assets in Western banks have been frozen, and he is not permitted to travel to the United States or most of the countries of Europe. His appointment is seen by many analysts as an indication that Iran intends to wage economic warfare on Israel and the West.</p>\r\n<p>Yet rather than responding to this growing threat, the Obama Administration and the United Nations continue to pressure Israel to make concessions to create a Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital in the false hope of bringing peace to the Middle East. As long as enemies like Iran have the means, they will work for Israel\'s destruction; they are fully committed to this evil cause.</p>\r\n<p>Understand this clearly--every nation and individual that supports this plan to curse Israel and steal from her the land God promised the Jews as an eternal possession will suffer His chastisement and judgment. Every nation and individual that opposes this plan and stands with Israel as a blessing to her will enjoy His blessing. Your gift today to bless Israel is urgently needed.</p>\r\n<p> </p>\r\n<p>America is on a prophetic countdown to the gravest days in our history. In a few weeks, a vote will be taken at the United Nations that will force America to choose between standing with Israel and standing with her enemies. Israeli leaders have asked the Jerusalem Prayer Team for its support at the United Nations and a week later as the nations of the world gather for the demonic Durban III conference to continue accusing Zionists of being racists. The first Durban Conference happened in 2001. At that conference, the Palestinians distributed copies of the anti-Semitic The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion to all delegates. It was the most evil, anti-Semitic UN assembly ever against Israel.</p>\r\n<p>The conference ended on September 8, 2001...and 72 hours later, the US was attacked by Radical Islam. I can assure you that in the spirit realm, this was no coincidence. God\'s Word promises a curse on any nation that touches Jerusalem. Once before, an American President attempted to divide Jerusalem and surrender the Temple Mount to radical Islam. That president was Bill Clinton. Now President Obama plans to do the same--this time by formally recognizing a Palestine State at the UN in September within days of the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.</p>\r\n<p>I do not believe for a second that all the economic and political turmoil America is going through is coincidental. America needs Divine intervention that can only come from God\'s people standing in the gap like Esther.</p>\r\n<p> </p>\r\n<p> </p>','',1,30,'2011-08-04 16:21:18',62,'Dr. Michael Evans','2012-02-27 03:06:51',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-08-04 16:21:18','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',3,20,'','',1,482,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(371,0,'Top Hillary Clinton Aide Linked to Muslim Brotherhood','top-hillary-clinton-aide-linked-to-muslim-brotherhood','<p>Huma Abedin, best known as the wife of disgraced former Congressman Anthony  Weiner, is also a top aide to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton...and a woman  with intense family ties to the radical terrorist organization, The Muslim  Brotherhood. Though born in Michigan, she was raised in Saudi Arabia, where she  met the Clintons in 1996. Abedin\'s mother helped found the Dar El-Hekma women\'s  college, closely tied to the Muslim Sisterhood (the female counterpart to the  Muslim Brotherhood). <br /><br />In addition, Abedin\'s brother Hassan is business  partner with a number of Muslim Brotherhood members and works at the Oxford  Center for Islamic Studies to promote the study of Islam in England. Oxford is  home to some of the most radical versions of Islam being spread today. It is  troubling indeed to have someone with such intimate ties to a known terrorist  group that hates both America and Israel so close to so much sensitive  information without a proper security vetting.</p>','',1,71,'2011-08-05 01:42:49',62,'Jerusalem Watch','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-08-05 01:42:49','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',1,8,'','',1,429,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(372,0,'HOORAY for Germany!','hooray-for-germany','<p>+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />| Germany Says Facebook\'s Facial Recognition Is Illegal<br />| from the pictures-of-you dept.<br />| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday August 03, @23:05 (Facebook)<br />| with 271 comments<br />| <a href=\"wlmailhtml:{A3BC50DA-54F8-48CB-8154-8EF261BD04ED}mid://00000031/!x-usc:https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/08/03/2352200/Germany-Says-Facebooks-Facial-Recognition-Is-Illegal?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/08/03/2352200/Germany-Says-Facebooks-Facial-Recognition-Is-Illegal?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email</span></span></a><br />+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><br />[0]fysdt writes \"Although we think it\'s generally a pretty nifty feature,<br />valid concerns over the misuse of Facebook\'s auto-recognition tagging<br />have lead Germany to [1]ban it entirely. That\'s right â€” Facebook in its<br />current state is now illegal. The German government, which possesses<br />perhaps the world\'s most adamant privacy laws as a result of postwar<br />abuse, considers Facebook\'s facial recognition a violation of \'the right<br />to anonymity.\'\"<br /><br />Discuss this story at:<br /><a href=\"wlmailhtml:{A3BC50DA-54F8-48CB-8154-8EF261BD04ED}mid://00000031/!x-usc:https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/08/03/2352200/Germany-Says-Facebooks-Facial-Recognition-Is-Illegal?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email#commentlisting\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/08/03/2352200/Germany-Says-Facebooks-Facial-Recognition-Is-Illegal?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email#commentlisting</span></span></a><br /><br />Links:<br />0. <a href=\"wlmailhtml:{A3BC50DA-54F8-48CB-8154-8EF261BD04ED}mid://00000031/!x-usc:http://definely.com/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">http://definely.com/</span></span></a><br />1. <a href=\"wlmailhtml:{A3BC50DA-54F8-48CB-8154-8EF261BD04ED}mid://00000031/!x-usc:http://www.theatlanticwire.com/technology/2011/08/germanys-war-facebook/40771/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">http://www.theatlanticwire.com/technology/2011/08/germanys-war-facebook/40771/</span></span></a></p>','',1,70,'2011-08-05 12:09:42',62,'slashdot','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-08-05 12:09:42','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',1,39,'','',1,65,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(373,0,'Obama Mocks & Attacks Jesus Christ And The Bible','obama-mocks-a-attacks-jesus-christ-and-the-bible','<p>{source}<span style=\"font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;\"><br /><span>&lt;</span>iframe width=\"425\" height=\"349\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/embed/Hi-V_ilJu0w\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen<span>&gt;</span><span>&lt;</span>/iframe<span>&gt;</span><br /></span>{/source}</p>','',1,42,'2011-08-05 12:44:29',62,'YouTube','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-08-05 12:44:29','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',1,12,'','',1,279,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(374,0,'Obama Is Going To Pay For My Gas And Mortgage!!!','obama-is-going-to-pay-for-my-gas-and-mortgage','<p>{source}<span style=\"font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;\"><br /><span>&lt;</span>iframe width=\"425\" height=\"349\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/embed/P36x8rTb3jI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen<span>&gt;</span><span>&lt;</span>/iframe<span>&gt;</span><br /></span>{/source}</p>','',1,42,'2011-08-05 12:48:55',62,'Channel 6 News Tonight','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-08-05 12:48:55','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',1,11,'','',1,430,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(375,0,'Barack Obama \"Public Will Have 5 Days To Look At Every Bill That Lands On My Desk\"','barack-obama-qpublic-will-have-5-days-to-look-at-every-bill-that-lands-on-my-deskq','<p>{source}<span style=\"font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;\"><br /><span>&lt;</span>iframe width=\"425\" height=\"349\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/embed/o5t8GdxFYBU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen<span>&gt;</span><span>&lt;</span>/iframe<span>&gt;</span><br /></span>{/source}</p>','',1,42,'2011-08-05 12:53:24',62,'YouTube','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-08-05 12:53:24','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',1,10,'','',1,304,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(376,0,'Jon Voight tells the truth about Obama.','jon-voight-tells-the-truth-about-obama','<p>{source}<span style=\"font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;\"><br /><span>&lt;</span>iframe width=\"425\" height=\"349\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/embed/PgbCtHV2cA8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen<span>&gt;</span><span>&lt;</span>/iframe<span>&gt;</span><br /></span>{/source}</p>','',1,42,'2011-08-05 12:57:11',62,'Huckabee','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-08-05 12:57:11','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',1,9,'','',1,290,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(377,0,'A Prophet Warns America','a-prophet-warns-america','<p>{source}<span style=\"font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;\"><br />Interview with Dr. Thomas Sowell before the November 2008 elections.<br /><span>&lt;</span>iframe width=\"425\" height=\"349\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/embed/uQ7eusnT9Pk\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen<span>&gt;</span><span>&lt;</span>/iframe<span>&gt;</span><br /></span>{/source}</p>','',1,42,'2011-08-05 13:04:01',62,'Hoover Institution','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-08-05 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Cartel case document.</em></a></p>\r\n<p>The allegations are made by Vicente Zambada-Niebla, a top ranking cartel boss extradited to the U.S. last year on drug charges. He is a close associate of Mexico\'s most wanted man, Joaquin \"El Chapo\" Guzman and the son of Ismael \"Mayo\" Zambada-Garcia. </p>\r\n<p>Both remain fugitives, in part, because of the deal Zambada- Niebla made with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency, according to a defense motion filed last Friday in the case.</p>\r\n<p>Alvin Michaelson, the Los Angeles attorney representing Zambada- Niebla who wrote the brief, refused comment.</p>\r\n<p>The deal allegedly began with Humberto Loya-Castro, a Sinaloa cartel lawyer who became an informant for the D.E.A. after a drug case against him was dismissed in 2008. </p>\r\n','\r\n<p> </p>\r\n<p>According to the motion, the deal was part of a \'divide and conquer\' strategy, where the U.S. helped finance and arm the Sinaloa cartel, through Operation Fast and Furious, in exchange for information that allowed the D.E.A. and <a class=\"r_lapi\" href=\"http://www.foxnews.com/topics/politics/federal-bureau-of-investigation.htm#r_src=ramp\">FBI</a> to destroy and dismantle rival Mexican cartels. Operation Fast and Furious is the failed Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives anti-gun trafficking program which allowed thousand of guns to cross into Mexico.</p>\r\n<p>\"Under that agreement, the Sinaloa Cartel, through Loya, was to provide information accumulated by Mayo, Chapo, and others, against rival Mexican Drug Trafficking Organizations to the <a class=\"r_lapi\" href=\"http://www.foxnews.com/topics/u.s.htm#r_src=ramp\">United States</a> government. In return, the United States government agreed to dismiss the prosecution of the pending case against Loya, not to interfere with his drug trafficking activities and those of the Sinaloa Cartel, to not actively prosecute him, Chapo, Mayo, and the leadership of the Sinaloa Cartel, and to not apprehend them.”</p>\r\n<p>Zambada- Niebla was arrested in <a class=\"r_lapi\" href=\"http://www.foxnews.com/topics/mexico.htm#r_src=ramp\">Mexico</a> City in March 2009 and extradited to the U.S. in February to stand trial on narco-trafficking-related charges. The indictment claims he served as the cartel\'s \"logistical coordinator\" who oversaw an operation that imported tons of cocaine into the U.S. by jets, buses, rail cars, tractor-trailers, and automobiles. Zambada-Niebla is now being held in solitary confinement in a Chicago jail cell.</p>\r\n<p>The motion claims Mayo, Chapo and Zambada- Niebla routinely passed information through Loya to the D.E.A. that allowed it to make drug busts. 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There, the four men met and Zambada-Niebla claims he received immunity from an indictment out of federal court in Washington D.C.</p>\r\n<p>\"There is also evidence that at the hotel, Mr. Zambada-Niebla did accept the agreement and thereafter in reliance on that agreement, provided further information regarding rival drug cartels. Mr. Zambada-Niebla was told that the government agents were satisfied with the information he had provided to them and that arrangements would be made to meet with him again. Mr. Zambada-Niebla then left the meeting. Approximately five hours after the meeting, Mr. Zambada-Niebla was arrested by Mexican authorities. “</p>\r\n<p>Experts who reviewed the document say the U.S. typically has written agreements with paid informants that spell out each other\'s responsibilities. They doubt Zambada-Niebla had one, although Loya probably did. 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Treaty to Regulate Global Firearms Trade Raising Concerns for U.S. Gun Makers','proposed-un-treaty-to-regulate-global-firearms-trade-raising-concerns-for-us-gun-makers','<p>A controversial U.N. proposed treaty aimed at regulating guns worldwide has been shrouded by confusion and misinformation.</p>\r\n<p>Known informally as the \'Small Arms Treaty,\' its detractors have charged the proposed agreement with secretly trying to take guns out of the hands of Americans and circumventing the 2nd Amendment.</p>\r\n<p>While that is unlikely, a working draft proposal obtained by FoxNews.com contains language that some gun advocates say could have a real impact on American gun makers.</p>\r\n<p>Last month a U.N. committee met in New York and signed off on several provisions, including the creation of a new U.N. agency to regulate international weapon sales, and require countries that host firearms manufacturers to set up a compensation fund for victims of gun violence worldwide.</p>\r\n<p>Tom Mason, who represented the World Forum on the Future of Sports Shooting at the U.N. conference, told FoxNews.com the provisions are worrying.</p>\r\n<p>“No, there are no black helicopters. There is no secret treaty that Hillary Clinton has signed,” Mason said. “But on the other hand, the treaty is a significant threat to gun owners. 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That could happen here, under the treaty,” said the gun manufacturer representative.</p>\r\n<p>Daniel Prins, chief of the Conventional Arms Branch for the U.N.’s Office for Disarmament Affairs (ODA) told FoxNews.com that no provisions have been finalized.</p>\r\n<p>“All the issues remain on the table,” said Prins.</p>\r\n<p>Other gun control supporters who attended the U.N. conference say that American gun owners have nothing to worry about.</p>\r\n<p>“People within the U.S. should not be worried about it unless they sell arms internationally,” Collin Goddard, of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, told FoxNews.com. “The whole treaty is to prevent countries from selling guns to other countries that have gross violations of human rights.”</p>\r\n<p>Goddard said that concerns about a possible national gun registry is ridiculous because the intent of the treaty was only to restrict arms sales between countries. “This does not cover weapons that are kept internally,” he said, adding that the ISU would be kept efficient.</p>\r\n<p>“They are just trying to establish a regulatory board… Everyone’s worried about another big bureaucracy, and I can understand that. 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DHS wants to exempt the<br />Watchlist Service from  Privacy Act provisions, meaning [0]you will never<br />know if you are wrongfully  listed. Privacy groups worried about<br />inaccurate info and mission creep have  filed a protest, arguing the<br />Privacy Act says DHS must notify subject of  government surveillance. DHS<br />has admitted that it \'does not control the  accuracy of the information in<br />system of records\' and that \'individuals do  not have an opportunity to<br />decline to provide information.\' Additionally, the  DHS Watchlist Service<br />attempts to circumvent privacy protections established  by the Privacy<br />Act. Who\'s watching the watchers?\"<br /><br />Discuss this story  at:<br /> <a href=\"https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/08/09/2318246/DHS-Creating-Database-of-Secret-Watchlists?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email#commentlisting\">https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/08/09/2318246/DHS-Creating-Database-of-Secret-Watchlists?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email#commentlisting</a><br /><br />Links:<br /> 0. <a href=\"https://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/privacy-groups-protest-massive-dhs-database-s\">https://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/privacy-groups-protest-massive-dhs-database-s</a></p>','',1,70,'2011-08-10 19:28:04',62,'slashdot','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-08-10 19:28:04','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',1,38,'','',1,70,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(385,0,'The London Riots and Facial Recognition Technology','the-london-riots-and-facial-recognition-technology','<p>+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />| The London Riots and Facial Recognition Technology<br />| from the digital-mobs-fighting-real-mobs dept.<br />| posted by Soulskill on Wednesday August 10, @02:19 (Crime)<br />| with 441 comments<br />| <a href=\"wlmailhtml:{A3BC50DA-54F8-48CB-8154-8EF261BD04ED}mid://00000013/!x-usc:https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/08/10/062225/The-London-Riots-and-Facial-Recognition-Technology?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/08/10/062225/The-London-Riots-and-Facial-Recognition-Technology?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email</span></span></a><br />+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><br />nonprofiteer writes \"A bunch of vigilantes are organizing a Google Group<br />dedicated to using recently revealed [0]facial recognition tools to<br />[1]identify looters in the London riots. While Vancouver discussed doing<br />something similar after the Stanley Cup riots, the city never actually<br />moved forward on it. Ring of Steel London, though, is [2]far more likely<br />to incorporate FRT into its investigative work.\" A related article points<br />out how development of face-recognition technology has been [3]kept under<br />wraps by some organizations, but [4]we\'re getting to the point where<br />it\'ll soon be ubiquitous.<br /><br />Discuss this story at:<br /><a href=\"wlmailhtml:{A3BC50DA-54F8-48CB-8154-8EF261BD04ED}mid://00000013/!x-usc:https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/08/10/062225/The-London-Riots-and-Facial-Recognition-Technology?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email#commentlisting\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/08/10/062225/The-London-Riots-and-Facial-Recognition-Technology?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email#commentlisting</span></span></a><br /><br />Links:<br />0. <a href=\"wlmailhtml:{A3BC50DA-54F8-48CB-8154-8EF261BD04ED}mid://00000013/!x-usc:http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/08/01/1533210/How-Face-Recognition-Can-Uncover-SSNs\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/08/01/1533210/How-Face-Recognition-Can-Uncover-SSNs</span></span></a><br />1. <a href=\"wlmailhtml:{A3BC50DA-54F8-48CB-8154-8EF261BD04ED}mid://00000013/!x-usc:http://blogs.forbes.com/kashmirhill/2011/08/09/will-london-riots-be-the-turning-point-for-facial-recognition-as-crime-fighting-tool/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">http://blogs.forbes.com/kashmirhill/2011/08/09/will-london-riots-be-the-turning-point-for-facial-recognition-as-crime-fighting-tool/</span></span></a><br />2. <a href=\"wlmailhtml:{A3BC50DA-54F8-48CB-8154-8EF261BD04ED}mid://00000013/!x-usc:http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/09/google-group-members-to-use-facial-recognition-to-identify-london-rioter/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/09/google-group-members-to-use-facial-recognition-to-identify-london-rioter/</span></span></a><br />3. <a href=\"wlmailhtml:{A3BC50DA-54F8-48CB-8154-8EF261BD04ED}mid://00000013/!x-usc:http://www.slate.com/id/2299134/pagenum/all/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">http://www.slate.com/id/2299134/pagenum/all/</span></span></a><br />4. <a href=\"wlmailhtml:{A3BC50DA-54F8-48CB-8154-8EF261BD04ED}mid://00000013/!x-usc:http://www.motherboard.tv/2011/8/9/the-cop-iphone-app-that-knows-your-face-and-can-send-you-to-jail\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">http://www.motherboard.tv/2011/8/9/the-cop-iphone-app-that-knows-your-face-and-can-send-you-to-jail</span></span></a></p>','',1,70,'2011-08-11 10:11:42',62,'slashdot','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-08-11 10:11:42','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',1,37,'','',1,24,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(386,0,'Court Rules Sending Too Many Emails Is \"Hacking\"','court-rules-sending-too-many-emails-is-qhackingq','<p>+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />| Court Rules Sending Too Many Emails Is \"Hacking\"<br />| from the if-you-send-it-more-than-twice-your-hacking-it dept.<br />| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday August 10, @15:02 (The Courts)<br />| with 253 comments<br />| <a href=\"wlmailhtml:{A3BC50DA-54F8-48CB-8154-8EF261BD04ED}mid://00000013/!x-usc:https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/08/10/182224/Court-Rules-Sending-Too-Many-Emails-Is-Hacking?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/08/10/182224/Court-Rules-Sending-Too-Many-Emails-Is-Hacking?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email</span></span></a><br />+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><br />An anonymous reader writes \"An appeals court has ruled that having people<br />send a company a lot of emails (in this case, a union protesting a<br />company\'s business practices) [0]qualifies as hacking under the Computer<br />Fraud &amp; Abuse Act. We\'re not even talking about a true DDoS action here,<br />but just a bunch of protest emails. Part of the problem is that the<br />company apparently set up their email to only hold a small number of<br />emails in their inbox, and the court seems to think the union should take<br />the blame for stuffing those inboxes.\"<br /><br />Discuss this story at:<br /><a href=\"wlmailhtml:{A3BC50DA-54F8-48CB-8154-8EF261BD04ED}mid://00000013/!x-usc:https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/08/10/182224/Court-Rules-Sending-Too-Many-Emails-Is-Hacking?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email#commentlisting\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/08/10/182224/Court-Rules-Sending-Too-Many-Emails-Is-Hacking?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email#commentlisting</span></span></a><br /><br />Links:<br />0. <a href=\"wlmailhtml:{A3BC50DA-54F8-48CB-8154-8EF261BD04ED}mid://00000013/!x-usc:http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110809/03492415447/court-says-sending-too-many-emails-to-someone-is-computer-hacking.shtml\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110809/03492415447/court-says-sending-too-many-emails-to-someone-is-computer-hacking.shtml</span></span></a><br /><br /></p>','',0,70,'2011-08-11 10:14:06',62,'slashdot','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-08-11 10:14:06','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',1,36,'','',1,1,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(387,0,'Court Rules Sending Too Many Emails Is \"Hacking\"','court-rules-sending-too-many-emails-is-qhackingq-1','<p>+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />| Court Rules Sending Too Many Emails Is \"Hacking\"<br />| from the if-you-send-it-more-than-twice-your-hacking-it dept.<br />| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday August 10, @15:02 (The Courts)<br />| with 253 comments<br />| <a href=\"wlmailhtml:{A3BC50DA-54F8-48CB-8154-8EF261BD04ED}mid://00000013/!x-usc:https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/08/10/182224/Court-Rules-Sending-Too-Many-Emails-Is-Hacking?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/08/10/182224/Court-Rules-Sending-Too-Many-Emails-Is-Hacking?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email</span></span></a><br />+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><br />An anonymous reader writes \"An appeals court has ruled that having people<br />send a company a lot of emails (in this case, a union protesting a<br />company\'s business practices) [0]qualifies as hacking under the Computer<br />Fraud &amp; Abuse Act. We\'re not even talking about a true DDoS action here,<br />but just a bunch of protest emails. Part of the problem is that the<br />company apparently set up their email to only hold a small number of<br />emails in their inbox, and the court seems to think the union should take<br />the blame for stuffing those inboxes.\"<br /><br />Discuss this story at:<br /><a href=\"wlmailhtml:{A3BC50DA-54F8-48CB-8154-8EF261BD04ED}mid://00000013/!x-usc:https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/08/10/182224/Court-Rules-Sending-Too-Many-Emails-Is-Hacking?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email#commentlisting\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/08/10/182224/Court-Rules-Sending-Too-Many-Emails-Is-Hacking?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email#commentlisting</span></span></a><br /><br />Links:<br />0. <a href=\"wlmailhtml:{A3BC50DA-54F8-48CB-8154-8EF261BD04ED}mid://00000013/!x-usc:http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110809/03492415447/court-says-sending-too-many-emails-to-someone-is-computer-hacking.shtml\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110809/03492415447/court-says-sending-too-many-emails-to-someone-is-computer-hacking.shtml</span></span></a><br /><br /></p>','',1,70,'2011-08-11 10:14:06',62,'slashdot','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-08-11 10:14:06','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',1,35,'','',1,32,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(388,0,'Transit Officials Jam Cellphone Signals','mubarak-like-tactics-transit-officials-jam-cellphone-signals-to-block-protests-in-san-francisco','<h3>Mubarak-Like Tactics? Transit Officials Jam Cellphone Signals to Block Protests in San Francisco</h3>\r\n<p>SAN FRANCISCO (The Blaze/AP) — Transit officials blocked cellphone reception in San Francisco train stations for three hours to disrupt planned demonstrations over a police shooting.</p>\r\n<p>Officials with the Bay Area Rapid Transit system, better known as BART, said Friday that they turned off electricity to cellular towers in four stations from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. Thursday. The move was made after BART learned that protesters planned to use mobile devices to coordinate a demonstration on train platforms.</p>\r\n<p>The tactic drew comparisons to those used by the former president of Egypt to squelch protests demanding an end to his authoritarian rule. Authorities there cut Internet and cellphone services in the country for days earlier this year.</p>\r\n<p>“BART officials are showing themselves to be of a mind with the former president of Egypt, Hosni Mubarak,” the Electronic Frontier Foundation said on its website.</p>\r\n<p>Using the comparison, protestors took to Twitter to express their outrage with the hashtag <a href=\"https://twitter.com/#!/search/realtime/mubartak\" target=\"_blank\">#muBARTak</a>.</p>\r\n<p>The American Civil Liberties Union criticized the tactic, saying on its blog that it was the “wrong response to political protests.”</p>\r\n<p>BART officials were confident the cellphone disruptions were legal. They said in a statement that it’s illegal to demonstrate on the platform or aboard the trains, and that it has set aside special areas for demonstrations.</p>\r\n<p>The demonstration planned Thursday failed to develop. “We had a commute that was safe and without disruption,” said BART spokesman Jim Allison.</p>\r\n<p>Lt. Andy Alkire told <a href=\"http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2011/08/11/phil-matier-planned-protest-at-bart-station-fails-to-materialize/\" target=\"_blank\">CBS San Francisco</a> that although the shutting off cell phone service was an unusual tactic, it was “a great tool to use for this specific purpose.”</p>\r\n<p>The demonstrators were protesting the July 3 shooting of Charles Blair Hill by BART police, who claimed Hill came at them with a knife. Several people were arrested when a July 11 demonstration disrupted service during the rush-hour commute and prompted the closing of BART’s Civic Center station.</p>','',1,70,'2011-08-13 12:04:56',62,'The Blaze','2011-08-13 14:46:43',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-08-13 12:04:56','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',18,34,'','',1,195,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(389,0,'Sen. Rubio: \"Save The Whole House Or It Will All Burn Down\"','sen-rubio-qsave-the-whole-house-or-it-will-all-burn-downq','<p>{source}<span style=\"font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;\"><br /><span>&lt;</span>iframe width=\"400\" height=\"328\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/embed/_68GjR6V6zI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen<span>&gt;</span><span>&lt;</span>/iframe<span>&gt;</span><br /></span>{/source}</p>','',1,60,'2011-08-13 14:49:02',62,'U.S. Senate','2011-08-13 14:54:52',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-08-13 14:49:02','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',3,204,'','',1,362,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(390,0,'Can You Really Clean Polluted Water With…Banana Peels?','can-you-really-clean-polluted-water-withbanana-peels','<p><a href=\"http://www.theblaze.com/\">The Blaze</a> - Posted on August 13, 2011 at 1:41am by <img class=\"photo\" src=\"http://www.theblaze.com/wp-content/uploads/userphoto/elizabeth-klimas.thumbnail.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Liz Klimas\" width=\"17\" height=\"17\" /><a href=\"http://www.theblaze.com/blog/author/elizabeth.klimas\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"author\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #d50b0b;\">Liz Klimas</span></span></a></p>\r\n<p>Looks like banana peels have the last laugh. Once a prop for pranks with seemingly no value after doing it’s job of protecting the mashable fruit within, researchers have found its higher calling: water purification.</p>\r\n<p><a href=\"http://portal.acs.org/portal/acs/corg/content?_nfpb=true&amp;_pageLabel=PP_ARTICLEMAIN&amp;node_id=2103&amp;content_id=CNBP_027976&amp;use_sec=true&amp;sec_url_var=region1&amp;__uuid=e89f3692-9610-446f-b79a-0d7fae8c87ed\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #d50b0b;\">Listen to the American Chemical Society (ACS) podcast</span></span></a> to learn more and to find some other interesting uses for banana peels (25 seconds in).</p>\r\n<p>As <a href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2011/08/11/139547323/slippery-banana-peels-could-be-a-savior-for-polluted-water?ft=1&amp;f=1001\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #d50b0b;\">NPR reports</span></span></a>, environmental chemist Gustavo Castro at São Paulo State University found that banana peels can help turn water polluted with heavy metals from mining operations or other activities into drinking water.</p>\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<p>What he found was that banana peels contain nitrogen, sulfur and organic compounds such as carboxylic acids. Castro was especially pleased to find these acids because they can bind with positively charged metals that leach into rivers from industrial operations.</p>\r\n</blockquote>\r\n<p>Not only can it do this effectively but it cleans even better than other water purification materials, according to the paper published in <a href=\"http://pubs.acs.org/stoken/presspac/presspac/full/10.1021/ie101499e\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #d50b0b;\">ACS’ <em>Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research</em></span></span></a> journal.</p>\r\n<div id=\"attachment_114638\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 630px;\"><a href=\"http://www.theblaze.com/stories/can-you-really-clean-polluted-water-with-banana-peels/mercado-municipal-de-sao-paulo/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-114638\"><img class=\"size-large wp-image-114638\" src=\"http://www.theblaze.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/flickr-Fernando-Stankuns-620x410.jpg\" border=\"0\" title=\"Mercado Municipal de São Paulo\" width=\"620\" height=\"410\" /></a>\r\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">These peels could be useful long after the fruit is gone. (flickr, Fernando-Stankuns)</p>\r\n</div>\r\n<p>The researchers found the minced banana peels could be used up to 11 times before losing effectiveness at removing the contaminants.</p>\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<p>“I was surprised to learn that something so simple could work so well,” [Castro said in the podcast.] I believe that banana peels can be of great importance in water purification. Sustainability is very important.”</p>\r\n</blockquote>\r\n<p>The scientists added that banana peels are very attractive because of their low cost and because they don’t have to be chemically modified in order to work.</p>','',-2,67,'2011-08-13 15:30:48',62,'The Blaze','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-08-13 15:30:48','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',1,0,'','',1,0,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(391,0,'Can You Really Clean Polluted Water With…Banana Peels?','can-you-really-clean-polluted-water-withbanana-peels-1','<p><a href=\"http://www.theblaze.com/\">The Blaze</a> - Posted on August 13, 2011 at 1:41am by <img class=\"photo\" src=\"http://www.theblaze.com/wp-content/uploads/userphoto/elizabeth-klimas.thumbnail.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Liz Klimas\" width=\"17\" height=\"17\" /><a href=\"http://www.theblaze.com/blog/author/elizabeth.klimas\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"author\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #d50b0b;\">Liz Klimas</span></span></a></p>\r\n<p>Looks like banana peels have the last laugh. Once a prop for pranks with seemingly no value after doing it’s job of protecting the mashable fruit within, researchers have found its higher calling: water purification.</p>\r\n<p><a href=\"http://portal.acs.org/portal/acs/corg/content?_nfpb=true&amp;_pageLabel=PP_ARTICLEMAIN&amp;node_id=2103&amp;content_id=CNBP_027976&amp;use_sec=true&amp;sec_url_var=region1&amp;__uuid=e89f3692-9610-446f-b79a-0d7fae8c87ed\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #d50b0b;\">Listen to the American Chemical Society (ACS) podcast</span></span></a> to learn more and to find some other interesting uses for banana peels (25 seconds in).</p>\r\n<p>As <a href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2011/08/11/139547323/slippery-banana-peels-could-be-a-savior-for-polluted-water?ft=1&amp;f=1001\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #d50b0b;\">NPR reports</span></span></a>, environmental chemist Gustavo Castro at São Paulo State University found that banana peels can help turn water polluted with heavy metals from mining operations or other activities into drinking water.</p>\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<p>What he found was that banana peels contain nitrogen, sulfur and organic compounds such as carboxylic acids. Castro was especially pleased to find these acids because they can bind with positively charged metals that leach into rivers from industrial operations.</p>\r\n</blockquote>\r\n<p>Not only can it do this effectively but it cleans even better than other water purification materials, according to the paper published in <a href=\"http://pubs.acs.org/stoken/presspac/presspac/full/10.1021/ie101499e\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #d50b0b;\">ACS’ <em>Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research</em></span></span></a> journal.</p>\r\n<div id=\"attachment_114638\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 630px;\"><a href=\"http://www.theblaze.com/stories/can-you-really-clean-polluted-water-with-banana-peels/mercado-municipal-de-sao-paulo/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-114638\"><img class=\"size-large wp-image-114638\" src=\"http://www.theblaze.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/flickr-Fernando-Stankuns-620x410.jpg\" border=\"0\" title=\"Mercado Municipal de São Paulo\" width=\"620\" height=\"410\" /></a>\r\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">These peels could be useful long after the fruit is gone. (flickr, Fernando-Stankuns)</p>\r\n</div>\r\n<p>The researchers found the minced banana peels could be used up to 11 times before losing effectiveness at removing the contaminants.</p>\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<p>“I was surprised to learn that something so simple could work so well,” [Castro said in the podcast.] I believe that banana peels can be of great importance in water purification. Sustainability is very important.”</p>\r\n</blockquote>\r\n<p>The scientists added that banana peels are very attractive because of their low cost and because they don’t have to be chemically modified in order to work.</p>','',1,67,'2011-08-13 15:30:48',62,'The Blaze','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-08-13 15:30:48','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',1,1,'','',1,463,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(392,0,'Jefferson - a chronology','jefferson-a-chronology','<h2>Thomas Jefferson was a remarkable man who began his learning very early in life and never stopped.</h2>\r\n<p>At 5, he began studying under his cousins\' tutor.</p>\r\n<p>At 9, he studied Latin, Greek and French.</p>\r\n<p>At 14, he studied classical literature and additional languages.</p>\r\n<p>At 16, he entered the College of William and Mary.</p>\r\n<p>At 19, he studied Law for 5 years, starting under George Wythe.</p>\r\n<p>At 23, he started his own law practice.</p>\r\n<p>At 25, he was elected to the Virginia House of Burgesses.</p>\r\n<p>At 31, he wrote the widely circulated,\"Summary View of the Rights of British America,\" and retired from his law practice.<br /> <br />At 32, he was a Delegate to the Second Continental Congress, where he wrote the seminal document, “Declarationof the Causes and Necessity of Taking up Arms.”</p>\r\n<p>At 33, he wrote the Declaration of Independence.</p>\r\n<p>At 33, he took three years to revise Virginia\'s legal code,wrote a Public Education bill and a statute for Religious Freedom.</p>\r\n<p>At 36, he was elected the second Governor of Virginia, succeeding Patrick Henry.</p>\r\n<p>At 40, he served in Congress for two years.</p>\r\n<p>At 41, he was the American minister to  France and negotiated commercial treaties with European nations along with Ben Franklin and John Adams.</p>\r\n<p>At 46, he served as the first Secretary of State under George Washington.</p>\r\n<p>At 53, he served as Vice President and was elected president of the American Philosophical Society.</p>\r\n<p>At 55, he drafted the Kentucky Resolutions and became the active head of the Republican Party.</p>\r\n<p>At 57, he was elected the third president of the United States .</p>\r\n<p>At 60, he obtained the Louisiana Purchase, doubling the nation\'s size.</p>\r\n<p>At 61, he was elected to a second term as President.</p>\r\n<p>At 65, he retired to Monticello .</p>\r\n<p>At 80, he helped President Monroe shape the Monroe Doctrine.</p>\r\n<p>At 81, he almost single-handedly created the University of Virginia and served as its first president.</p>\r\n<p>At 83, he died, on the 50th anniversary of the Signing of the Declaration of Independence, the same day as his lifelong friend, John Adams…100 miles apart. Adams last words were, “ Jefferson lives.”</p>\r\n<p><strong><em>Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) 3rd President of the United States</em></strong></p>','',1,35,'2011-08-14 19:38:32',62,'Submitted by Jan Thompson','2011-08-14 20:01:08',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-08-14 19:38:32','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',2,3,'','',1,294,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(393,0,'Jefferson - quotes','jefferson-quotes','<p><span><strong>Thomas Jefferson knew because he himself had studied the previously failed attempts at government. He understood actual history, the nature of God, God\'s laws, and the nature of man.That happens to be way more than what most understand today. His is a voice from the past to lead us into the future. Quotes marked \"(Attributed)\" are attributed to Jefferson although unproven.</strong></span></p>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe.</li>\r\n<br />\r\n<li>The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not. (Attributed)</li>\r\n<br />\r\n<li>It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes, a principle which if acted on, would save one-half the wars of the world.</li>\r\n<br />\r\n<li>I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.</li>\r\n<br />\r\n<li>My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government. (Attributed)</li>\r\n<br />\r\n<li>No free man shall ever be deprived the use of arms.</li>\r\n<br />\r\n<li>The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government. (Attributed)</li>\r\n<br />\r\n<li>The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.</li>\r\n<br />\r\n<li>To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical.</li>\r\n<br />\r\n<li>I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around [the banks] will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs. (anno domini 1802) </li>\r\n<br />\r\n<li>And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with his wrath? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep for ever. --- <strong>Notes on the State of Virginia, Query 18, 1781</strong></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<p>\r\n<hr />\r\n</p>\r\n<h3>When we post an email to this web site, to the best of our ability, we check the veracity of the content before posting. In the instant case, there appears to be conflicting opinions, and data, as to the actual author of these quotes. The former was researched by <a href=\"http://truthorfiction.com/rumors/j/jefferson-quotes.htm\"><strong>Truth or Fiction</strong></a> who used the \"Jeffersonian Cyclopedia\", published in 1900 by Funk and Wagnalls, as their source.  We leave it to you to study both the former and the latter and decide for yourselves.</h3>\r\n<p>Following is an excerpt from <strong><em><a href=\"http://timpanogos.wordpress.com/2009/02/01/misquoting-jefferson/\">MILLARD FILMORE\"S BATHTUB</a></em></strong> , a website whose author disputes the quotes above are Thomas Jefferson\'s:</p>\r\n<p><a href=\"http://www.calthomas.com/index.php?news=2493\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">A commentary from Cal Thomas caught my eye </span></a>– little more than a few quotes from Thomas Jefferson strung together. Jefferson seems oddly prescient in these quotes, and, also oddly, rather endorsing the views of the right wing.</p>\r\n<p>From the way the text is laid out, and the brevity of the piece, I’m guessing it’s a radio commentary.</p>\r\n<p><strong>I read Jefferson often. I’ve read Jefferson a lot. I don’t recognize any of the quotes. </strong></p>\r\n<p>So I plugged them into the <a href=\"http://oll.libertyfund.org/?option=com_staticxt&amp;staticfile=show.php%3Ftitle=1734\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">Jefferson collection at Liberty Fund’s Online Library of Liberty</span></a>, which has a lot of Jefferson ready for full-text searching.</p>\r\n<p><em><strong>Oops. None of the quotes scored a hit.</strong></em></p>\r\n<p>Couldn’t find them in the <a href=\"http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">Library of Congress’s on-line list of quotes</span></a>, either.</p>\r\n<p><strong>It looks as though Jefferson didn’t say these things that are being attributed to him.</strong></p>\r\n<p>Cal, is that you?</p>','',1,35,'2011-08-14 19:40:00',62,'Submitted by Jan Thompson','2011-08-17 19:12:37',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-08-14 19:40:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',4,2,'','',1,495,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(394,0,'Where Have All the Leaders Gone?','where-have-all-the-leaders-gone','<table border=\"0\" width=\"400\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td>\r\n<p><img src=\"images/stories/iacocca.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Iacocca\" title=\"Lee Iascocca\" hspace=\"12\" align=\"left\" /></p>\r\n<p>This is a repost. Worth reading again.</p>\r\n<p><strong>Iacocca:</strong> Am I the only guy in this country who\'s fed up with what\'s happening? Where the hell is our outrage? We should be screaming bloody murder. We\'ve got a gang of clueless bozos steering our ship of state right over a cliff, we\'ve got corporate gangsters stealing us blind, and we can\'t even clean up after a hurricane much less build a hybrid car. But instead of getting mad, everyone sits around and nods their heads when the politicians say, \'Stay the course\'</p>\r\n<p>Stay the course? You\'ve got to be kidding. This is America , not the damned \'Titanic\'. I\'ll give you a sound bite: \'Throw all the bums out!\'</p>\r\n<p>You might think I\'m getting senile, that I\'ve gone off my rocker, and maybe I have. But someone has to speak up. I hardly recognize this country anymore.</p>\r\n<p>The most famous business leaders are not the innovators but the guys in handcuffs. While we\'re fiddling in Iraq , the Middle East is burning and nobody seems to know what to do. And the press is waving \'pom-poms\' instead of asking hard questions. That\'s not the promise of the \' America \' my parents and yours traveled across the ocean for. I\'ve had enough. How about you?</p>\r\n<p>I\'ll go a step further. You can\'t call yourself a patriot if you\'re not outraged. This is a fight I\'m ready and willing to have. The Biggest \'C\' is Crisis! Leaders are made, not born. Leadership is forged in times of crisis. It\'s easy to sit there with your feet up on the desk and talk theory. Or send someone else\'s kids off to war when you\'ve never seen a battlefield yourself. It\'s another thing to lead when your world comes tumbling down.</p>\r\n<p>On September 11, 2001, we needed a strong leader more than any other time in our history. We needed a steady hand to guide us out of the ashes.</p>\r\n<p>A Hell of a Mess. So here\'s where we stand. We\'re immersed in a bloody war with no plan for winning and no plan for leaving. We\'re running the biggest deficit in the history of the country. We\'re losing the manufacturing edge to Asia , while our once-great companies are getting slaughtered by health care costs. Gas prices are skyrocketing, and nobody in power has a coherent energy policy. Our schools are in trouble. Our borders are like sieves.</p>\r\n<p>The middle class is being squeezed every which way. These are times that cry out for leadership. But when you look around, you\'ve got to ask: \'Where have all the leaders gone?\' Where are the curious, creative communicators? Where are the people of character, courage, conviction, omnipotence, and common sense? I may be a sucker for alliteration, but I think you get the point.</p>\r\n<p>Name me a leader who has a better idea for homeland security than making us take off our shoes in airports and throw away our shampoo? We\'ve spent billions of dollars building a huge new bureaucracy, and all we know how to do is react to things that have already happened.</p>\r\n<p>Name me one leader who emerged from the crisis of Hurricane Katrina. Congress has yet to spend a single day evaluating the response to the hurricane, or demanding accountability for the decisions that were made in the crucial hours after the storm.</p>\r\n<p>Everyone\'s hunkering down, fingers crossed, hoping it doesn\'t happen again. Now, that\'s just crazy. Storms happen. Deal with it. Make a plan. Figure out what you\'re going to do the next time.</p>\r\n<p>Name me an industry leader who is thinking creatively about how we can restore our competitive edge in manufacturing. Who would have believed that there could ever be a time when \'The Big Three\' referred to Japanese car companies? How did this happen, and more important, what are we going to do about it?</p>\r\n<p>Name me a government leader who can articulate a plan for paying down the debt, or solving the energy crisis, or managing the health care problem. The silence is deafening. But these are the crises that are eating away at our country and milking the middle class dry.</p>\r\n<p>I have news for the gang in Congress. We didn\'t elect you to sit on your asses and do nothing and remain silent while our democracy is being hijacked and our greatness is being replaced with mediocrity. What is everybody so afraid of? That some bonehead on Fox News will call them a name? Give me a break. Why don\'t you guys show some spine for a change?</p>\r\n<p>Had Enough?</p>\r\n<p>Hey, I\'m not trying to be the voice of gloom and doom here. I\'m trying to light a fire. I\'m speaking out because I have hope, I believe in America . In my lifetime I\'ve had the privilege of living through some of America\'s greatest moments. I\'ve also experienced some of our worst crises: the \'Great Depression\', \'World War II\', the \'Korean War\', the \'Kennedy Assassination\', the \'Vietnam War\', the 1970s oil crisis, and the struggles of recent years culminating with 9/11. If I\'ve learned one thing, it\'s this: \'You don\'t get anywhere by standing on the sidelines waiting for somebody else to take action. Whether it\'s building a better car or building a better future for our children, we all have a role to play. That\'s the challenge I\'m raising in this book. It\'s a call to \'Action\' for people who, like me, believe in America . It\'s not too late, but it\'s getting pretty close. So let\'s shake off the crap and go to work. Let\'s tell \'em all we\'ve had \'enough.\'</p>\r\n<p>Excerpted from \'Where Have All the Leaders Gone?\'. Copyright (c) 2007 by Lee Iacocca. All rights reserved</p>\r\n</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n</tbody>\r\n</table>','',1,41,'2011-08-14 21:16:35',62,'Lee Iacocca','2011-08-14 21:57:32',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-08-14 21:16:35','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',19,17,'','',1,521,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(395,0,'How to foward an email','how-to-foward-an-email','<h1>FAQ</h1>\r\n<p>Q. How do I forward an article to a friend?</p>\r\n<p>A. Click the \"letter\" icon <img src=\"images/stories/emailbutton.png\" border=\"0\" /> on the upper right hand side of the article and follow instructions.</p>\r\n<p> </p>','',1,64,'2011-08-14 22:08:49',62,'LRB','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-08-14 22:08:49','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',1,1,'','',1,0,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(396,0,'Inside Job','inside-job','<p>{source}<span style=\"font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;\"><br /><span>&lt;</span>iframe width=\"425\" height=\"349\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/embed/ffHFjlqIzKE\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen<span>&gt;</span><span>&lt;</span>/iframe<span>&gt;</span><br /></span>{/source}</p>','',1,28,'2011-08-16 23:42:58',62,'Charles Ferguson','2011-08-17 00:44:15',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-08-16 23:42:58','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',4,1,'','',1,568,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(397,0,'DHS Tries To Hide Mobile Scanner Details','dhs-tries-to-hide-mobile-scanner-details','<p>+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />|  DHS Tries To Hide Mobile Scanner Details<br />|   from the the-new-black  dept.<br />|   posted by Unknown Lamer on Thursday August 18, @18:15  (Security)<br />|   with 124 comments<br />|   <a href=\"https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/08/18/215259/DHS-Tries-To-Hide-Mobile-Scanner-Details?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email\">https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/08/18/215259/DHS-Tries-To-Hide-Mobile-Scanner-Details?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email</a><br />+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><br />OverTheGeicoE  writes \"The Electronic Privacy Information Center filed a<br />[0]Freedom of  Information Act request last year (PDF) with the US<br />Department of Homeland  Security, whose Transportation Security<br />Administration has been investigating  the use of x-ray scanning<br />technology for covert use in more public places,  like train stations and<br />even ordinary city streets. TSA has tested  interesting devices like the<br />[1]Z Backscatter Vans both privately and [2]on  members of the general<br />public. EPIC recently received [3]new documents from  DHS. Some of the<br />documents are [4]almost completely black from  redactions.\"<br /><br />Discuss this story at:<br /> <a href=\"https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/08/18/215259/DHS-Tries-To-Hide-Mobile-Scanner-Details?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email#commentlisting\">https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/08/18/215259/DHS-Tries-To-Hide-Mobile-Scanner-Details?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email#commentlisting</a><br /><br />Links:<br /> 0. <a href=\"http://epic.org/foia/transitfoia.pdf\">http://epic.org/foia/transitfoia.pdf</a><br /> 1. <a href=\"http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2010/08/24/full-body-scan-technology-deployed-in-street-roving-vans/\">http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2010/08/24/full-body-scan-technology-deployed-in-street-roving-vans/</a><br /> 2. <a href=\"http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2011/03/09/tsa-never-tested-full-body-scans-for-mass-transit-except-when-it-did/\">http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2011/03/09/tsa-never-tested-full-body-scans-for-mass-transit-except-when-it-did/</a><br /> 3. <a href=\"http://epic.org/2011/08/dhs-refuses-to-disclose-detail.html\">http://epic.org/2011/08/dhs-refuses-to-disclose-detail.html</a><br /> 4. <a href=\"http://epic.org/foia_notes/foia_note_20_august_15_2011.html\">http://epic.org/foia_notes/foia_note_20_august_15_2011.html</a></p>','',1,70,'2011-08-19 12:12:40',62,'slashdot','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-08-19 12:12:40','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',1,33,'','',1,40,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(398,0,'OBAMA\'S GAFF WENT UNNOTICED!','obamas-gaff-went-unnoticed','<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"widows: 2; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; border-collapse: separate; font: medium \'Times New Roman\'; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; color: #000000; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"line-height: 20px; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px;\">\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em; padding: 0px;\">September 9, 2011</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em; padding: 0px;\">Dear Supporters of the Constitution and our Republic,</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em; padding: 0px;\">Last night, in his address to the joint session of Congress, Obama made two of the most startling remarks coming from the mouth of a sitting President.  However, the sentiment contained in those remarks is, unfortunately, shared by most of the politicians in Washington D.C. and around the country.  We have come so far from the sound thinking of our Founding Fathers who did not trust a powerful central government and did all they could to create “chains” which would “bind from mischief” politicians of their day and those of future generations.</p>\r\n</span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em; padding: 0px;\">This distrust of the federal government, in particular, is clearly laid out in both the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Federalist Papers</span> and the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Anti-Federalist Papers</span>., the latter being largely unknown and unread by Americans today.  The Constitution, itself, was a clear declaration of the great fear of the Founders that some day the people might again be enslaved by their own government.  Therefore, the separation of powers, the clear and detailed enumeration of delegated powers, and the Ninth and Tenth Amendments to the Constitution forge what the wise founders of this once-great Republic envisioned as “chains” to leash the natural consequence of government at any level: the tendency to grow and gain more and more power over the people.  Fresh in their memories were the tyrannies of the British crown and the almost totalitarian control of its “subjects.”  No more were the people to be considered “subjects” but the government itself was envisioned as being subject to the States and the People.</p>\r\n','\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em; padding: 0px;\"> </p>\r\n<p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em; padding: 0px;\">For those who rarely, if ever, read the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, I will include the two most powerful amendments of them all in restraining centralized government and the schemes they would envision to amass power: (My emphasis added in bold print)</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em; padding: 0px;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Ninth Amendment</span></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em; padding: 0px;\">“The enumeration in the Constitution of certain rights <strong style=\"font-weight: bold;\">shall not be construed to deny or disparage</strong> others retained by the people.”</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em; padding: 0px;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Tenth Amendment:</span></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em; padding: 0px;\">“The Powers <strong style=\"font-weight: bold;\">not delegated </strong>to the United States <strong style=\"font-weight: bold;\">by the Constitution </strong>nor <strong style=\"font-weight: bold;\">prohibited by it</strong> to the States <strong style=\"font-weight: bold;\">are reserved to the States </strong>respectively or <strong style=\"font-weight: bold;\">to the people.</strong></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em; padding: 0px;\">Compare these two short sentences to these remarks uttered by Obama in his speech: (about 29 minutes from the beginning)</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em; padding: 0px;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold;\">“How many jobs would it have cost us if past Congresses decided (sic) not to support the basic research that led to the internet and the computer chip.”</strong></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em; padding: 0px;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold;\">“What kind of a country would this be if this chamber had voted down Social Security and Medicare just because it <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">VIOLATED </span>some rigid idea about what government could or could not do?  How many Americans would have suffered as a result?” ( Emphasis added)</strong></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em; padding: 0px;\">Comes now Obama, a self-described Constitutional “lecturer” admitting that violations of the Supreme Law of the Land can be justified for any reason if there be benefits to some areas of the economy.  Of course, the socialist/communist theologians and their minions who would destroy our Republic, have historically bemoaned the inconvenience to their schemes posed by the Constitution of the United  States.  Their Machiavellian schemes have used Acts of Congress, judicial activism and the creation of “law” by decree, purposefully misinterpreting the plain language of the Constitution, and the institution of clearly un-Constitutional <strong style=\"font-weight: bold;\">“Administrative Law” </strong>which is that “law” resulting from the millions of pages of regulations emanating from the vast bureaucracy which ignores both the Congress and the Constitution.  This is not to mention illegal “Executive Orders” and “Signing Statements” issued by Presidents for decades—again, clearly un-Constitutional.</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em; padding: 0px;\">What struck me most, however, was the complete silence of the press and commentators on the above gaff committed by Obama.  But should we really be surprised when these same apologists for bigger and more intrusive government have been beating the drum for decades in defense of the scoundrels who are perpetrating the destruction of our Republic and our way of life in favor of international socialism, domestic collectivism, and statism?</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em; padding: 0px;\">Our people <strong style=\"font-weight: bold;\">MUST </strong>recognize that the <strong style=\"font-weight: bold;\">STATE</strong> is not our friend—it is a fearful force like fire, which, if controlled closely, can accomplish limited and proper functions.  In the case of a true Republic, the “fire” of the state is charged with  protection of life and property rights, protection of individual liberty, and, most of all, protection from government itself.  Like fire, the state, left to its own devices and unrestrained, can burn the whole house down.</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em; padding: 0px;\">For Constitutional Government, Liberty, and Accountability,<br />Dick Mills<br />Editor<br />Keep the Republic Newsletter<br />Houston, Texas</p>\r\n</p>',1,60,'2011-09-12 16:19:10',62,'Dick Mills','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-09-12 16:19:10','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',1,203,'','',1,394,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(399,0,'Obama\'s General','obamas-general','<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: \'Courier New\'; font-size: 12pt;\"><br />Top AFL-CIO union chief Richard Trumka -- President Barack Obama\'s guest of honor at his speech to Congress Thursday night -- urged Obama to \"go to the mat\" for Big Labor.<br /><br />Of course, Obama hasn\'t been shy about doing just that for the last three years. Trumka just wants more, more, more.<br /><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><br />Obama\'s \"jobs\" proposal appears to be full of it -- more special deals and bailouts for the union hierarchy</span>.<br /><br />And unsurprisingly, Obama made no mention of the Boeing jobs in South Carolina the Acting General Counsel of his National Labor Relations Board is trying to destroy. <br /><br />Meanwhile, Big Labor has become even more militant, as events this week demonstrate.<br /><br />On Labor Day, Obama and Trumka shared the stage at a political rally <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">where Teamster union president Jimmy Hoffa urged his \"army\" of union militants to \"take these sons of bitches out</span>\" -- threatening everyday Americans concerned about our struggling economy and growing debt.<br /><br />And on Thursday, we saw a real live example of the militancy of some union extremists who really seem to think they\'re in an \"army\" -- and their enemies are job providers, independent workers, security guards and even the police.<br /><br /><a href=\"wlmailhtml:{A3BC50DA-54F8-48CB-8154-8EF261BD04ED}mid://00000187/!x-usc:http://paracom.paramountcommunication.com/ct/6682707:9788217694:m:1:152029745:EDDFAA95A0372F68F205F5E0EDB263A3:r\"><strong><strong><span style=\"font-family: Courier New; color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"font-family: \'Courier New\';\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Associated Press reported</span></span></span></strong></strong></a><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"> that hundreds of Longshoreman union militants held security guards hostage for hours at a port in Longview, Washington</span>.<br /><br />Union thugs reportedly committed numerous acts of vandalism and violence including breaking windows, cutting brake lines on railroad cars, and threatening police officers with baseball bats.<br /><br /><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Not a single arrest has been made</span>.<br /><br />The local police chief told the AP union militants warned him that Thursday\'s events were \"<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">only the start</span>.\"<br /><br />You might say they took a page straight out of <a href=\"wlmailhtml:{A3BC50DA-54F8-48CB-8154-8EF261BD04ED}mid://00000187/!x-usc:http://paracom.paramountcommunication.com/ct/6682708:9788217694:m:1:152029745:EDDFAA95A0372F68F205F5E0EDB263A3:r\"><strong><strong><span style=\"font-family: Courier New; color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"font-family: \'Courier New\';\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">the playbook of Richard Trumka</span></span></span></strong></strong></a>, who climbed through the union boss ranks by encouraging militancy and even violence.<br /><br /><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">As President of the United Mineworkers (UMW) union in the 1980s and 1990s, Trumka led three violent strikes in which militancy was actively encouraged -- and workers who dared to continue working to provide for their families were subjected to threats and outright violence</span>.<br /><br />In 1997, the UMW was forced to settle with the widow of a nonunion worker who was shot in the back of his head. UMW officials even financially aided and filed grievances on behalf of seven union militants who pleaded guilty to crimes during the violent strike.<br /><br />And after Trumka left the UMW and became the AFL-CIO\'s treasurer, he was implicated in a money-laundering scheme.<br /><br />A former prosecutor at the Justice Department told ABC News in 2000, \"<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">If I were advising a candidate, I would advise him or her very strongly that [Richard Trumka is] not someone you want to embrace</span>.\" <br /><br />Eleven years later, Trumka is flying in Air Force One and sitting next to the First Lady as the President speaks before a joint session of Congress.<br /><br />Trumka is as powerful as he is due to all the special privileges for Big Labor tucked into federal law.<br /><br />The National Right to Work Committee has an aggressive plan of action to secure roll call votes on legislation that would eliminate some of Big Labor\'s most egregious special privileges. </span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-indent: -22.5pt; margin-left: 52.5pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: \'Courier New\'; font-size: 12pt;\">&gt;&gt; The National Right to Work Act would eliminate the provisions of federal labor law that authorize union officials to compel workers to pay union dues or \"fees\" as a condition of employment.</span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-indent: -22.5pt; margin-left: 52.5pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: \'Courier New\'; font-size: 12pt;\">&gt;&gt; The Freedom from Union Violence Act would close the loophole that exempts union officials from federal prosecution for acts of violence and vandalism they orchestrate in the so-called \"pursuit of legitimate union objectives.\"</span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: \'Courier New\'; font-size: 12pt;\">It\'s time to turn up the heat on Congress and demand they reign in the out-of-control executive branch that has further empowered Trumka and the rest of the union hierarchy.<br /><br />Please, <a href=\"wlmailhtml:{A3BC50DA-54F8-48CB-8154-8EF261BD04ED}mid://00000187/!x-usc:http://paracom.paramountcommunication.com/ct/6682709:9788217694:m:1:152029745:EDDFAA95A0372F68F205F5E0EDB263A3:r\"><strong><strong><span style=\"font-family: Courier New; color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"font-family: \'Courier New\';\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">chip in with a contribution of $10 or more today</span></span></span></strong></strong></a> to help the Committee mobilize hundreds of thousands or even millions of concerned citizens.<br /><br />Obama\'s army will do whatever they can to protect their ill-gotten power. Help us fight back.<br /><br />Sincerely,<br /><br />Mark Mix</span></span></p>','',1,60,'2011-09-12 16:22:14',62,'National Right to Work Committee','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-09-12 16:22:14','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',1,202,'','',1,547,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(400,0,'The Threat of Europeanization and the Need to Defend the Nation-State','the-threat-of-europeanization-and-the-need-to-defend-the-nation-state','<p align=\"left\"> </p>\r\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,Calibri; font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,Calibri; font-size: x-small;\">S<img src=\"images/stories/OAKI-logo.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"The Oak Initiative\" title=\"The Oak Initiative\" align=\"left\" />peech of Geert Wilders in Berlin 9/3/2011 </span></span></strong>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Arial; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Arial; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">  </span>Thank you for inviting me to Berlin. It is an honor to be here in this beautiful city of Berlin. When I was here last year I emphasized how important Germany is for all of us. We all benefit from a healthy, democratic, self-confident Germany.</span><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Arial; font-size: small;\">\r\n<p> </p>\r\n</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n<p>Much has happened since my last visit. In the Netherlands we were able to achieve many amazing things. We have successfully started to roll back the process of Islamization in the Netherlands.</p>\r\n<p>We have done so in a peaceful way and through the democratic process. Recently, a deranged narcissistic psychopath from Norway committed a horrible crime. In cold blood he murdered nearly eighty innocent fellow citizens. The assassin pretended to be a concerned European. He said that he had committed his atrocity because \"It is meaningless to participate in the democratic process.\"</p>\r\n<p>But he is wrong! The mass murderer from Oslo murdered and maimed, and he justified his heinous crime by denying – I quote – \"that it is remotely possible to change the system democratically.\" – End of quote.</p>\r\n<p>But he is wrong! The Oslo murderer falsely claims to be one of us. But he is not one of us. We abhor violence. We are democrats. We believe in peaceful solutions.</p>\r\n<p>The reason why we reject Islam is exactly Islam?s violent nature. We believe in democracy. We fight with the force of our conviction, but we never use violence. Our commitment to truth, human dignity and a just and honorable defense of the West does not allow us to use violence nor to give in to cynicism and despair. We cherish the tradition of Aleksander Solzhenitsyn, Jelena Bonner, Lech Walesa and Ronald Reagan. These heroes defeated a totalitarian ideology by the power of their conviction and without firing a single shot. As the ex-Muslim and Islam-critic Ali Sina said in a reaction to the Oslo atrocity: \"We didn?t raise a sword against darkness; we lit a light.\"</p>\r\n<p>So it is. We lit the light of the truth. And the truth will set us free.</p>\r\n<p>The truth is that Islam can be successfully fought with democratic means. We do so in the Netherlands. You can do so, too, in Germany! Let me tell you what we have achieved in the Netherlands since my last visit to Berlin, less than one year ago. It will encourage you. What can be done in the Netherlands can also be done in Germany.</p>\r\n','\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Arial,Arial; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Arial; font-size: small;\">\r\n<p> </p>\r\n</span></span></p>\r\n<p> </p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,Calibri; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,Calibri; font-size: small;\">Page </span></span><strong><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,Calibri; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,Calibri; font-size: small;\">2 </span></span></strong><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,Calibri; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,Calibri; font-size: small;\">of </span></span>\r\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,Calibri; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,Calibri; font-size: small;\">9 </span></span></strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Arial; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Arial; font-size: small;\">\r\n<p>My party, the Party for Freedom, which has 24 seats of the 150 seats in parliament, supports a minority government of Liberals and Christian-Democrats. We do this in return for measures to restrict immigration, roll back crime, counter cultural relativism, and restore our traditional Western freedoms, such as freedom of speech.</p>\r\n<p>The Party for Freedom has been in this position for less than a year, but we are achieving great things.</p>\r\n<p>We have achieved that the Netherlands will soon ban the face-covering Islamic burkas and the niqabs!</p>\r\n<p>We will restrict immigration from non-Western countries by up to 50% in the next four years!</p>\r\n<p>We are going to strip criminals of their Dutch nationality who have a double nationality and who repeatedly commit serious crimes!</p>\r\n<p>The Party for Freedom is bringing a message of hope to the Netherlands.</p>\r\n<p>The new policies will place more demands on immigrants.</p>\r\n<p>Integration will not be tailored to different groups anymore.</p>\r\n<p>There will be a tougher approach to immigrants who disobey the law.</p>\r\n<p>Those who lower their chances of employment by the way they dress will see their access to welfare payments diminished.</p>\r\n<p>We have also achieved that anti-Israeli activities will no longer be funded with Dutch taxes. So-called humanitarian aid organizations that directly or indirectly support anti-Israel boycotts, divestments and sanctions and that deny Israel?s right to exist will no longer get government funding.</p>\r\n<p>The Dutch government will boycott the United Nation?s Durban III meeting against racial discrimination because it has been transformed into a tribunal for accusations against Israel. The government will strengthen our political and economic relations with Israel. Investment rather than divestment will be our policies towards Israel.</p>\r\n<p>We stand with Israel. We love Israel. Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East. Israel is part of our civilization.</p>\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Arial,Arial; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Arial; font-size: small;\">\r\n<p>My friends, what the Party for Freedom has achieved, shows that it can be done. To borrow a phrase from President Obama: Yes, we can! We can stop the islamization of our societies. The Dutch example shows that we can win. David can defeat Goliath!</p>\r\n</span></span></span><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Arial; font-size: small;\">\r\n<p> </p>\r\n</span></span>\r\n<p> </p>\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri,Calibri; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,Calibri; font-size: small;\">Page </span></span><strong><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,Calibri; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,Calibri; font-size: small;\">3 </span></span></strong><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,Calibri; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,Calibri; font-size: small;\">of </span></span>\r\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,Calibri; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,Calibri; font-size: small;\">9 </span></span></strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Arial; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Arial; font-size: small;\">\r\n<p>Last July, the Dutch government even did something which not a single nation has dared to do before. It spoke out firmly against the Organization of Islamic Cooperation. The OIC is an international organization of 57 Islamic countries, most of them barbaric tyrannies. This OIC constitutes the largest voting bloc in the United Nation. It had criticized the fact that Dutch judges had acquitted me of all charges of group insult and incitement to hatred and discrimination. But the Dutch government made it clear to the OIC that freedom of speech will not be muzzled in the Netherlands. It told the OIC very bluntly: \"The Dutch government dissociates itself fully from the request to silence a politician.\" – End of quote. We will never submit to the Islamic OIC bullies!</p>\r\n<p>As you probably know, for almost two years I went through the ordeal of being a suspect in a criminal case. I was dragged to court in Amsterdam on the accusation of hate speech crimes. Last June, this legal charade ended with a full acquittal.</p>\r\n<p>The Dutch people learned through my acquittal that political debate has not been stifled in their country. My acquittal was a victory for freedom of speech. The Dutch people also learned that they are allowed to speak critically about Islam. They learned that resistance against Islamization is not a crime. They learned that there is hope and that liberation is near.</p>\r\n<p>My acquittal marks the turning of the tide - Not only in the Netherlands, but in the whole of Europe. It is the first breach of the dyke. We have started the roll-back operation. We have sent a message to the ideologues of Islam: Don?t tread on us!</p>\r\n<p>My acquittal has a significance which far surpasses the Netherlands. It has a meaning for the whole of Europe and the free world. My acquittal marks the end of an evolution whereby our civil liberties in Europe are constantly being restricted in order not to offend Islam and anger Islamic fanatics.</p>\r\n<p>My acquittal legitimizes criticism of Islam. It does so also in Germany and everywhere else.</p>\r\n<p>Indeed, why should you Germans not enjoy the same rights as the Dutch! If peaceful and democratic resistance to Islamization is not a crime in the Netherlands, it should not be a crime in Germany either.</p>\r\n<p>So, here is my message to you: Continue your fight for freedom and freedom of speech!</p>\r\n<p>Do not let your politicians and judges grant you fewer rights than the Dutch!</p>\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Arial,Arial; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Arial; font-size: small;\">\r\n<p>Do not let yourselves be intimidated by Islamic or leftist opponents who shriek and yell. Do not let yourselves be intimidated by media who claim that a murderer who has lost his belief in the democratic process has somehow been influenced by us.</p>\r\n</span></span></span><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Arial; font-size: small;\">\r\n<p> </p>\r\n</span></span>\r\n<p> </p>\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri,Calibri; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,Calibri; font-size: small;\">Page </span></span><strong><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,Calibri; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,Calibri; font-size: small;\">4 </span></span></strong><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,Calibri; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,Calibri; font-size: small;\">of </span></span>\r\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,Calibri; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,Calibri; font-size: small;\">9 </span></span></strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Arial; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Arial; font-size: small;\">\r\n<p>My friends, when I visited you last year, even in my wildest dreams I could not have imagined that we would have been able to influence government policies in the way we have done.</p>\r\n<p>That is why I tell you: Never give in to the bullies! Never give up hope. Never despair! You can still turn the tide! One can always turn the tide!</p>\r\n<p>It is true: Germany has been less fortunate than the Netherlands.</p>\r\n<p>When I was here last year, Tilo Sarrazin had just published his book \"Deutschland schafft sich ab.\" Sarrazin?s book was a bestseller. It hit a nerve. It sold over one-and-a-half million copies. This shows that German society is ripe for change. But politically Sarrazin?s book has changed nothing yet. On the contrary, the German political elite raised the speed of Islamization in Germany. Bundespresident Wulff said \"Islam is a part of Germany.\" Chancellor Merkel said that multiculturalism is an absolute failure, but she continues to defend Turkey?s entry into the EU. The spread of Islam continues unabated in the German classrooms, on Germany?s streets, through the construction of new mosques, etcetera, and etcetera.</p>\r\n<p>Your situation has worsened because you do not have a party – yet – with enough electoral support to influence German politics for the better. Germany needs a rightwing party that is not tainted by ties to neo-Nazis and by anti-Semitism that is decent and respectable, but also firm.</p>\r\n<p>René Stadtkewitz is working very hard to make Die Freiheit as successful as the Party for Freedom in the Netherlands. René, we are here to help you! Because Germany deserves better than what it gets today!</p>\r\n<p>My friends, your country is the political backbone of Europe.</p>\r\n<p>Germany is the most populous country in Europe. Germany is the economic motor of Europe. If Germany is sick, we are all sick.</p>\r\n<p>Last year, I urged you: Stop being ashamed of Germany. It is unfair to reduce German patriotism to national-socialism, just as it is unfair to reduce Russia to Stalinism. Be proud of your country. Only if the Germans have pride in Germany, they will be prepared to stand for Germany and to defend Germany. And you must stand for Germany, just as the Party for Freedom in the Netherlands stands for the Netherlands. We must all stand for the survival of our nation-states because our nation-states embody the democratic liberties which we enjoy.</p>\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Arial,Arial; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Arial; font-size: small;\">\r\n<p>Without the nation-state there can be no real national political freedom. That is why we must be good patriots. Patriotism is often branded as fascism. But patriotism is not fascism. On the contrary, every democrat and defender of freedom must by definition be a patriot. A soul needs a body. The spirit of political liberty cannot flourish outside the body of the nation-state. The nation-state is the political body in which we live. That is</p>\r\n</span></span></span><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Arial; font-size: small;\">\r\n<p> </p>\r\n</span></span>\r\n<p> </p>\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri,Calibri; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,Calibri; font-size: small;\">Page </span></span><strong><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,Calibri; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,Calibri; font-size: small;\">5 </span></span></strong><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,Calibri; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,Calibri; font-size: small;\">of </span></span>\r\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,Calibri; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,Calibri; font-size: small;\">9 </span></span></strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Arial; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Arial; font-size: small;\">\r\n<p>why we must preserve and cherish the nation-state, so that we can pass on the liberty and the democracy which we enjoy to our children.</p>\r\n<p>Without a nation-state, without self-governance, without self-determination there can be no security for a people or preservation of its identity. This was the insight which led the Zionists to re-establish the state of Israel. Theodore Herzl said that there had to be a Jewish state because – I quote – \"what we want is a new blossoming of the Jewish spirit.\"</p>\r\n<p>Dear friends, we urgently need a new blossoming of the German spirit. For decades, the Germans have been ashamed of themselves. They preferred to be Europeans rather than Germans. And they have paid a heavy price for it. We have all paid a heavy price for it.</p>\r\n<p>Europe is not a nation; it is a cluster of nations. The strength of Europe is its diversity. We are one family but we live in different bodies. Our cultures are branches of a common Judeo-Christian and humanist culture, but we have different national cultural identities. That is how it should be.</p>\r\n<p>Uniformity is a characteristic of Islam, but not of Europe. Islam eradicated the national identities of the peoples it conquered. The Coptic identity of Egypt, the Indian identity of Pakistan, the Assyrian identity of Iraq, the Persian identity of Iran, they were all wiped away, cracked down upon, or discriminated against until this very day. Islam wants all nations replaced by the so-called Ummah, the common identity of the Nation of Islam to which all have to be subservient and into which all national identities have to vanish.</p>\r\n<p>Islam tried to conquer Europe, but has not succeeded so far. That is why we Europeans were able to develop our different identities as nation-states. If we want to hold on to these we must stand together against the forces which threaten our identities. Today we are confronted by two dangerous forces: Islamization and Europeanization.</p>\r\n<p>When I was here last year, I spoke at length about the threat of Islam. Today, I want to draw your attention to the threat of Europeanization. By Europeanization I mean the ideology which posits that our sovereign nation-states have to submerge in a pan-European super state.</p>\r\n<p>The European Union?s Founding Fathers held that in order to avoid a future war in Europe, Europe?s nations, and especially Germany, had to be encapsulated in what the Rome Treaty called \"an ever closer union among the peoples of Europe.\" Robert Schuman said that the EU?s aim was – I quote – \"to make war not only unthinkable but materially impossible.\" – End of quote.</p>\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Arial,Arial; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Arial; font-size: small;\">\r\n<p>The Eurocrats think that nation states in general – and especially Germany, Europe?s largest nation-state – are the problem. They are wrong. The real cause of the Second World War had not been the German nation state – it had been Nazi totalitarianism.</p>\r\n</span></span></span><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Arial; font-size: small;\">\r\n<p> </p>\r\n</span></span>\r\n<p> </p>\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri,Calibri; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,Calibri; font-size: small;\">Page </span></span><strong><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,Calibri; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,Calibri; font-size: small;\">6 </span></span></strong><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,Calibri; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,Calibri; font-size: small;\">of </span></span>\r\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,Calibri; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,Calibri; font-size: small;\">9 </span></span></strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Arial; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Arial; font-size: small;\">\r\n<p>There is nothing wrong with Germany. The cause of the war was the Nazi ideology. The remedy against totalitarianism is not building a super state. The remedy is introducing more direct forms of democracy at the lowest possible levels. Instead of depriving Germany and other nation-states of their sovereignty, the post-war leaders should have introduced a Swiss-like system in our countries. Small units should have a large degree of local sovereignty. The individual citizen should be given a direct democratic say over his own fate and that of his community.</p>\r\n<p>Instead, the peoples of Europe were robbed of their sovereignty, which was transferred to far-away Brussels. Decisions are now being made behind closed doors by unelected bureaucrats. This is not the kind of government we want!</p>\r\n<p>We want less bureaucracy! We want more democracy!</p>\r\n<p>We want less Europe! We want to hold on to our sovereignty. We want home rule! We want to remain independent and free! We want to be the masters in our own house!</p>\r\n<p>In December 1991, the Maastricht Treaty called for a single European currency. The Dutch guilder and the D-mark were sacrificed on the altar of European unification. Helmut Kohl sold this project to the German people as – I quote – \"a matter of war or peace.\" – End of quote. The euro was presented as \"an angel of peace\" which the Germans had to sponsor by giving up the mark. During the past six decades German politicians have told the Germans that the nation state, and especially Germany, was so dangerous that it had to be emasculated. The Germans had to become Europeans instead of Germans. To achieve this political project, national and monetary sovereignty was relinquished. Economic and national interests were sacrificed on the political altar of so-called Europeanization.</p>\r\n<p>All the countries which joined the euro lost the power to adjust their currency to their own economic needs. They have all suffered as a consequence. The currency of some countries is undervalued, the currency of others is overvalued; they all have to share in carrying the burden of other countries, even if the latter are suffering from self-inflicted policies, corruption or fraud. The European monetary system has allowed some countries to get a free ride at the expense of others, while those who cheat are in a position to blackmail those who have to foot the bill. This charade has to stop!</p>\r\n<p>The European monetary system is deeply flawed. It is also immoral. As Theodore Herzl said \"The character of a people may be ruined by charity.\" This applies for those at the receiving end of charity, but also for those who donate it. The so-called pan-European solidarity is literally ruining us! Germany has paid enough for Europe already!</p>\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Arial,Arial; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Arial; font-size: small;\">\r\n<p>The same applies for the Netherlands. Our citizens do not have to pay the debts of others!</p>\r\n</span></span></span><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Arial; font-size: small;\">\r\n<p> </p>\r\n</span></span>\r\n<p> </p>\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri,Calibri; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,Calibri; font-size: small;\">Page </span></span><strong><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,Calibri; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,Calibri; font-size: small;\">7 </span></span></strong><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,Calibri; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,Calibri; font-size: small;\">of </span></span>\r\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,Calibri; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,Calibri; font-size: small;\">9 </span></span></strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Arial; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Arial; font-size: small;\">\r\n<p>My friends, your party Die Freiheit embodies the best hope for Germany. Because your party is the only party in Germany which has the courage to state loud and clear that those countries which cannot pay their debts should leave the euro. I fully agree.</p>\r\n<p>My friends, time is running out. We have to act for the sake of democracy and the future prosperity of our children. The former Soviet dissident Vladimir Bukovsky warns that rather than preventing war, the European project makes conflicts more likely. He draws a parallel between the EU and the former Soviet Union which also worked to suppress feelings of national unity. When economic reality defeated the Soviets? political project, the suppressed feelings of national identity bounced back with a vengeance and destroyed the Union. Bukovksy fears that if we do not stop the European Moloch from expanding the same thing might happen in Europe.</p>\r\n<p>The European leaders state that the only way to solve the current crisis is more European governance. They advocate more powers for Brussels. They are wrong. More Europe only makes matters worse. We have to oppose their attempt of further centralization.</p>\r\n<p>We do not want more Europe! The EU lacks democracy, accountability, and transparency. That is why we reject it. We want less Europe! Let us hope that next Wednesday the German Constitutional Court protects national sovereignty.</p>\r\n<p>As a national legislator in the Netherlands I experience day by day how little we still have to say about our own fate. We are expected to rubberstamp laws which have been made by the EU Council of Ministers. The 27 EU commissioners convene behind closed doors with their colleagues. They negotiate in secret and then emerge to announce their agreement and present it. That is how the system works.</p>\r\n<p>Recently, your Chancellor, Frau Merkel, went to Paris. Together with President Sarkozy she announced plans for an economic government of the euro zone.</p>\r\n<p>We oppose this. We want the national parliaments to decide about our economic policies. We do not want to spend our taxpayers? money on euro zone countries, such as Greece. Let those who have cheated us, who have mismanaged their economy or who have foolishly lived beyond their means, take care of themselves.</p>\r\n<p>Moreover, the EU treaties forbid bailouts.</p>\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Arial,Arial; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Arial; font-size: small;\">\r\n<p>The Party for Freedom opposes every bail out. The Dutch minority government will never be able to count on our support in this regard. Today its wrongheaded euro policies are supported by the Europhile leftist parties. I repeat: We will never support the Dutch government?s approval of the bailouts, not even if the government would lose the support of the left.</p>\r\n</span></span></span><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Arial; font-size: small;\">\r\n<p> </p>\r\n</span></span>\r\n<p> </p>\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri,Calibri; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,Calibri; font-size: small;\">Page </span></span><strong><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,Calibri; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,Calibri; font-size: small;\">8 </span></span></strong><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,Calibri; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,Calibri; font-size: small;\">of </span></span>\r\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,Calibri; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,Calibri; font-size: small;\">9 </span></span></strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Arial; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Arial; font-size: small;\">\r\n<p>We have voted, and we will vote, against every plan to bail out other countries. Sovereign countries have to take care of their own needs. That is what sovereignty is about: freedom and the ability to take care of oneself.</p>\r\n<p>Our peoples resent the fact that they have to pay for others. Our peoples resent the permanent alienation of power from their nation-states. They care about their nation because they care about democracy and freedom and the well-being of their children. They see their democratic rights and their age-old liberties symbolized in their national flag.</p>\r\n<p>But there is more. National identity also ties an individual to an inheritance, a tradition, a loyalty, and a culture. National identity is also an inclusive identity: It considers everyone to be equal - whatever his religion or race - who is willing to assimilate into a nation by sharing the fate and future of a people.</p>\r\n<p>My friends, we need to give political power back to the nation-state, in the name of democracy, in the name of freedom, in the name of human dignity. By defending the nation-states we defend our own identity. By defending our identity we defend our liberties. By defending our liberty we defend our dignity.</p>\r\n<p>I urge you: Stand up for the nation-state. Be proud of your country!</p>\r\n<p>In his Farewell Address as American President, Ronald Reagan said that the thing he was most proud of in his presidency was – I quote – \"the resurgence of national pride that I called, „The New Patriotism.?\" – End of quote.</p>\r\n<p>Europe needs new patriotisms. Europe needs dozens of new patriotisms. We need True Finns, and True Danes, True Frenchmen, and True Irishmen, True Dutchmen, and, my friends, we need True Germans!</p>\r\n<p>Reagan said that we had to teach our children what our country is, what it stands for and what it represents in the long history of the world. He said that Americans need – I quote – \"a love of country and an appreciation of its institutions.\"</p>\r\n<p>Reagan?s words apply to us, Europeans, too. We need a resurgence of national pride, a love of country and institutions. Our national parliaments are our democratic institutions. We must defend them.</p>\r\n<p>Ladies and gentlemen, dear friends, I have said enough. It is time to act. We must make haste. Time is running out for Germany, for the Netherlands, for all the other great nations of Europe. As Ronald Reagan said: \"We need to act today, to preserve tomorrow\".</p>\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Arial,Arial; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Arial; font-size: small;\">\r\n<p>Here is a short summary of five things which we need to do in order to preserve our freedoms.</p>\r\n</span></span></span><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Arial; font-size: small;\">\r\n<p> </p>\r\n</span></span>\r\n<p> </p>\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri,Calibri; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,Calibri; font-size: small;\">Page </span></span><strong><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,Calibri; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,Calibri; font-size: small;\">9 </span></span></strong><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,Calibri; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,Calibri; font-size: small;\">of </span></span>\r\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,Calibri; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,Calibri; font-size: small;\">9 </span></span></strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Arial; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Arial; font-size: small;\">\r\n<p>First, we must defend freedom of speech. It is the most important of our liberties.</p>\r\n<p>Second, we must end cultural relativism. Our Western culture is far superior to other cultures.</p>\r\n<p>Third, we must stop Islamization. More Islam means less freedom. There is enough Islam in Europe already. Immigrants must assimilate and adapt to our values.</p>\r\n<p>Fourth, we must restore the right to decide about our own money. We should not pay the debts of others. The survival of the euro should not be used as an excuse to reward countries which have shown that they were not worthy to belong to the euro zone.</p>\r\n<p>Fifth, we must restore the supremacy and sovereignty of the nation-state. Our nations are the legacy which our fathers bestowed on us and which we want to bestow on our children. We are the free men and women of the West. We are the true men and women of the West. We do not stand for a super state. We stand for our own country.</p>\r\n<p>You stand for Germany. I stand for the Netherlands. Others stand for Switzerland, Denmark, Finland, France, Spain, and all these other beautiful freedom-loving nations of Europe. Together we represent the nations of Europe. Together we stand.</p>\r\n<p>We will stand firm. We will survive. We will defend our freedoms. We will remain free.</p>\r\n<p>Thank you very much.</p>\r\n</span></span></p>\r\n</p>\r\n</p>\r\n</p>\r\n</p>\r\n</p>\r\n</p>\r\n</p>\r\n</p>\r\n</p>',1,75,'2011-09-12 17:56:35',62,' - by Geert Wilders- Submitted by The Oak Initiative','2012-02-04 13:11:07',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-09-12 17:56:35','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',4,67,'','',1,309,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(401,0,'911 and the Angel of Death','911-and-the-angel-of-death','<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\"><img class=\"caption\" src=\"images/stories/mikeevans.jpg\" border=\"0\" title=\"Dr. Michael Evans\" align=\"left\" />Yesterday was the tenth anniversary of the most horrible day in America’s history. I have been here in New York City praying and getting ready for the gravest battle we have ever seen; in just 9 days the proclamation of Palestinian statehood will be voted on at the United Nations. <br /><br />The ideological, political, military, and strategic questions of why 9/11 happened have all been exhausted. The spiritual question has not been addressed. Without a doubt, God’s hand of protection was lifted from America on 9/11. Hundreds of glassy-eyed prophets of doom have come up with thousands of reasons why it happened. I’m not interested in joining that chorus. The key question, in my mind, is how we regain God’s protection over our beloved nation so that this never happens again. <br /><br />The story of the Angel of Death is best known from the days of Moses and Pharaoh. In preparation for the final plague, Moses was instructed to place the blood of the lamb on the doorposts so that the Angel of Death would pass over and not strike the house of Israel. <br /><br />During a dark hour in the life of King David, a famine and plague spread across the kingdom. David stood on Mount Moriah and saw the Angel of Death nearing Jerusalem. He experienced a theophany—a divine revelation—in which he was ordered to build an altar there. One of the original inhabitants of the city, Araunah the Jebusite, owned land on Moriah. This suggests that the city had expanded from the <em>Ophel</em> (a ridge of hills in Jerusalem) to the neighboring mountains. <br /><br />David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver. He built an altar unto the Lord and offered a burnt offering and a peace offering. His obedience was a crowning moment in his career—the bringing together of God and His people. After David’s death, his son, Solomon, consecrated the House of the Lord on that very spot. The cloud of God’s divine presence, the Shekinah glory of the Lord, filled the Temple. <br /><br />Many years ago in Rome, Mother Teresa prayed with me for the children of Jerusalem. I said to her, “It must be difficult living in Calcutta, one of the poorest cities in the world, and with such terrible suffering.” She looked at me with sparkling eyes and said, “Where? Calcutta?” She said, “I don’t live there.” I was amazed when she said, “I live in the city of joy, but I’m going to the poorest country in the world tomorrow—America. It suffers from a poverty of spirit. Pray for me.” \r\n','\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\">\r\n<p>/Jesus looked at the Temple in Jerusalem where the Shekinah glory had abided and wept over it. He prophesied that it would be taken apart stone by stone. After a four-month siege of Jerusalem, and on the eighth day of the Jewish month of Av (our July) in AD 70, Titus, the Roman emperor’s son, ordered his entire army to storm the Temple at dawn. <br /><br />The next day was the same day on which the Babylonians had destroyed Jerusalem five thousand years before. Within the walls of Jerusalem, nearly one-half million starving Jews were living in horrific conditions. The gates of the Temple were set afire. As the wooden doorways and windows burned, gruesome scenes unfolded. Thousands of bodies putrefied in the sun. Packs of dogs and jackals feasted on human flesh. <br /><br />In the preceding months, Titus had ordered all prisoners crucified; five hundred Jews died each day. The Mount of Olives and the craggy mountains around the city were so crowded with crucifixes, there was scarcely room for any more to be stood upright or trees with which to make them. So, the Romans began ripping open the bellies of the Jews and disemboweling them while they were still alive. <br /><br />Children who roamed the streets of the city fell over dead from starvation. Bodies were being tossed over the walls. The people were eating cow dung, leather girdles, shoes, old hay, and even cannibalizing the corpses. Six thousand Jewish women and children huddled inside the Temple, believing for divine intervention and protection. All were massacred. <br /><br />Is it possible for America to truly believe it will be exempt from God’s judgment if Jerusalem was not? The words of Mother Teresa are echoing through eternity: America is, in fact, the poorest country on earth. It suffers from poverty of spirit. All of that can change. In the Oval Office during Ronald Reagan’s presidency, he showed me a small sign on his desk. It said, “A man can become too big in his own eyes to be used by God, but never too small.” Then I saw his mother’s Bible opened to 2 Chronicles 7:14: “If My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.” In the margin she had written, “Son, this scripture is for the healing of the nation.”</p>\r\n</span></span></p>\r\n<p> </p>\r\n<p><br />We have 9 days until the UN Palestinian statehood vote. The bottom line is this…while a Security Council veto would deny the Palestinians official member status, they can also seek upgraded observer status at the General Assembly as a non-member state. <br /><br />This could be interpreted as implicit UN recognition of Palestinian statehood because the assembly would be acknowledging that the Palestinians control an actual state. The advantage of this option is that it would require only a simple majority of the General Assembly. Since around 120 countries have already recognized the state of Palestine to date, it would likely win such a vote overwhelmingly. <br /><br />If the Palestinians were to be recognized as a non-member state, they would be able to sign certain international treaties, such as the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, which they cannot currently sign. This will mean thousands of lawsuits against Israel and isolation and demonization of the State of Israel. <br /><br />Every child of God must fight this battle in prayer. This is a spirit battle led by Satan himself…please join me right now in binding that spirit in the name of JESUS…and pray for the peace of Jerusalem. <br /><br />We must continue our national campaign to alert people to the danger posed—not just to Israel but to America as well—by the Obama Administration’s plan to divide Jerusalem and curse Israel. I need your financial support in order to be able to go to New York for these two major events—the UN General Assembly meeting and the Durban III conference. I have just returned from speaking to the world from Israel, and I must go to New York as your ambassador to stand for Israel in the face of opposition from nearly the entire world. <br /><br />We must raise at least $200,000 to keep this campaign going until the UN vote. We have received a matching gift offer of $100,000...in other words if you give $100, your gift will be worth $200 to the Jerusalem Prayer Team. Please, please let\'s all finish strong this month. We have been fighting this battle all year, and we are so very close to Ground Zero. Thus far 380 loving Jerusalem Prayer Team members have given $40,800 toward the matching gift challenge. Please join me right now and pray a commanded blessing over them. <em>Father, open the windows of Heaven and pour out a blessing on those who have given that they will not have room to contain, and rebuke the devourer for their sake in the name of Yeshua—Jesus, Amen.</em> <br /><br />Now is our moment. This is our time. God has brought us together for this defining crossroads moment of human history. Will you help me stand for Israel? Will you pray for God\'s blessing and protection for me on this vital trip? Will you give to meet the needs of the Jewish people and allow me to continue to stand for them on the world stage? <br /><br />Every nation and individual that supports the plan to curse Israel and steal from her the land God promised the Jews as an eternal possession will suffer His chastisement and judgment. Every nation and individual that opposes this plan and stands with Israel as a blessing to her will enjoy His blessing. That is why we have launched a national campaign to rally opposition to the Obama Administration\'s plan, to expose the anti-Semitism that lies behind world efforts to curse Israel, and to support the Jewish people. Your gift today to bless Israel is urgently needed.</p>\r\n<p><a href=\"Yesterday was the tenth anniversary of the most horrible day in America’s history. I have been here in New York City praying and getting ready for the gravest battle we have ever seen; in just 9 days the proclamation of Palestinian statehood will be voted on at the United Nations.\">DONATE NOW</a></p>',1,20,'2011-09-13 03:59:36',62,'Dr. Michael Evans','2011-09-13 04:06:38',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-09-13 03:59:36','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',3,2,'','',1,814,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(402,0,'Calif. Appeals Court Approves Cell Phone Searches','calif-appeals-court-approves-cell-phone-searches','<p>+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />| Calif. Appeals Court Approves Cell Phone Searches<br />| from the say-what\'s-your-unlock-code? dept.<br />| posted by timothy on Thursday October 06, @08:53 (Privacy)<br />| with 308 comments<br />| <a href=\"wlmailhtml:{A3BC50DA-54F8-48CB-8154-8EF261BD04ED}mid://00000025/!x-usc:https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/10/06/1234232/calif-appeals-court-approves-cell-phone-searches?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/10/06/1234232/calif-appeals-court-approves-cell-phone-searches?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email</span></span></a><br />+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><br />[0]Local ID10T writes with this excerpt from The Blaze: \"In a case<br />explicitly decided to set a precedent, the California Appellate court has<br />determined [1] police officers can rifle through your cellphone during a<br />traffic violation stop. ... Florida and Georgia are among the states that<br />give no protection to a phone during a search. In particular, Florida law<br />treats a smartphone as a \'container\' for the purposes of a search,<br />similar to say a cardboard box open on the passenger seat, despite the<br />thousands of personal emails, contacts, and photos a phone can carry<br />stretching back years. But after initially striking down cell phone<br />snooping, California has now joined the list of states that allow cops to<br />go through your phone without a warrant.\" [2]Interesting additional<br />commentary, too, from UCSD law professor Shaun Martin.<br /><br />Discuss this story at:<br /><a href=\"wlmailhtml:{A3BC50DA-54F8-48CB-8154-8EF261BD04ED}mid://00000025/!x-usc:https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/10/06/1234232/calif-appeals-court-approves-cell-phone-searches?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email#commentlisting\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/10/06/1234232/calif-appeals-court-approves-cell-phone-searches?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email#commentlisting</span></span></a><br /><br />Links:<br />0. <a href=\"wlmailhtml:{A3BC50DA-54F8-48CB-8154-8EF261BD04ED}mid://00000025/!x-usc:mailto:ID10T.L.USER@gmail.com\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">mailto:ID10T.L.USER@gmail.com</span></span></a><br />1. <a href=\"wlmailhtml:{A3BC50DA-54F8-48CB-8154-8EF261BD04ED}mid://00000025/!x-usc:http://www.theblaze.com/stories/calif-appeals-court-approves-cell-phone-searches-during-traffic-stops/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">http://www.theblaze.com/stories/calif-appeals-court-approves-cell-phone-searches-during-traffic-stops/</span></span></a><br />2. <a href=\"wlmailhtml:{A3BC50DA-54F8-48CB-8154-8EF261BD04ED}mid://00000025/!x-usc:http://calapp.blogspot.com/2011/09/people-v-nottoli-cal-ct-app-sept-26.html\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">http://calapp.blogspot.com/2011/09/people-v-nottoli-cal-ct-app-sept-26.html</span></span></a></p>','',1,70,'2011-10-07 15:54:30',62,'slashdot','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-10-07 15:54:30','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',1,32,'','',1,153,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(403,0,'Energy Tax Credits','energy-tax-credits','<p>{source}<span style=\"font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;\"><br />\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family: \'courier new\', courier, monospace;\">&lt;iframe frameborder=\"0\" height=\"360px\" scrolling=\"no\"</span></p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family: \'courier new\', courier, monospace;\">src=\"http://act.theteaparty.net/5481/end-energy-tax-credits/wt/?src=widget\" width=\"220px\"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;</span></p>\r\n</span>{/source}</p>','',1,77,'2011-11-06 12:51:07',62,'Tea Party','2012-03-25 23:37:40',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-11-06 12:51:07','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',5,6,'','',1,518,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(404,0,'Stop Online Piracy Act Supports Blacklisting, Says EFF','stop-online-piracy-act-supports-blacklisting-says-eff','<p>+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />| Stop Online Piracy Act Supports Blacklisting, Says EFF<br />| from the by-any-other-name dept.<br />| posted by Soulskill on Wednesday November 09, @00:15 (Government)<br />| with 71 comments<br />| <a href=\"https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/11/09/0436200/stop-online-piracy-act-supports-blacklisting-says-eff?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email\">https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/11/09/0436200/stop-online-piracy-act-supports-blacklisting-says-eff?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email</a><br />+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><br />[0]hessian writes with this quote from the Electronic Frontier Foundation<br />about the Stop Online Piracy Act: \"Of course the word \'blacklist\' does<br />not appear in the bill\'s text â€” the folks who wrote it know Americans<br />don\'t approve of blatant censorship. The early versions of PROTECT-IP,<br />the Senate\'s counterpart to SOPA, did include an explicit Blacklist<br />Provision, but this transparent attempt at extrajudicial censorship was<br />so offensive that the Senate had to re-write that part of the bill.<br />However, provisions that encourage unofficial blacklisting remained, and<br />[1]they are still alive and well in SOPA. First, the new law would allow<br />the Attorney General to cut off sites from the Internet, essentially<br />\'blacklisting\' companies from doing business on the web. Under section<br />102, the Attorney General can seek a court order that would force search<br />engines, DNS providers, servers, payment processors, and advertisers to<br />stop doing business with allegedly infringing websites. Second, the bill<br />encourages private corporations to create a literal target listâ€”a process<br />that is ripe for abuse.\"<br /><br />Discuss this story at:<br /><a href=\"https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/11/09/0436200/stop-online-piracy-act-supports-blacklisting-says-eff?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email#commentlisting\">https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/11/09/0436200/stop-online-piracy-act-supports-blacklisting-says-eff?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email#commentlisting</a><br /><br />Links:<br />0. <a href=\"http://www.deathmetal.org/\">http://www.deathmetal.org/</a><br />1. <a href=\"https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/11/stop-online-piracy-act-blacklist-any-other-name-still-blacklist\">https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/11/stop-online-piracy-act-blacklist-any-other-name-still-blacklist</a></p>','',1,70,'2011-11-10 13:39:15',62,'slashdot','2011-12-11 00:36:52',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-11-10 13:39:15','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',2,31,'','',1,154,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(405,0,'Palantir, the War On Terror\'s Secret Weapon','palantir-the-war-on-terrors-secret-weapon','<p>+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />| Palantir, the War On Terror\'s Secret Weapon<br />| from the i-blame-the-elves dept.<br />| posted by Soulskill on Saturday November 26, @13:59 (Government)<br />| with 201 comments<br />| <a href=\"https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/11/26/1823200/palantir-the-war-on-terrors-secret-weapon?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email\">https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/11/26/1823200/palantir-the-war-on-terrors-secret-weapon?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email</a><br />+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><br />[0]hessian tips a story in BusinessWeek about Palantir, a system designed<br />to aggregate disparate data points gathered by intelligence agencies and<br />weave them into a more useful narrative. The article summarizes it thus:<br />\"Depending where you fall on the spectrum between civil liberties<br />absolutism and homeland security lockdown, Palantirâ€™s technology is<br />either creepy or heroic.\" \"The day Fikri drives to Orlando, he gets a<br />speeding ticket, which triggers an alert in the CIA\'s Palantir system. An<br />analyst types Fikri\'s name into a search box and [1]up pops a wealth of<br />information pulled from every database at the government\'s disposal.<br />There\'s fingerprint and DNA evidence for Fikri gathered by a CIA<br />operative in Cairo; video of him going to an ATM in Miami; shots of his<br />rental truck\'s license plate at a tollbooth; phone records; and a map<br />pinpointing his movements across the globe. All this information is then<br />displayed on a clearly designed graphical interface that looks like<br />something Tom Cruise would use in a Mission: Impossible movie.\"<br /><br />Discuss this story at:<br /><a href=\"https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/11/26/1823200/palantir-the-war-on-terrors-secret-weapon?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email#commentlisting\">https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/11/26/1823200/palantir-the-war-on-terrors-secret-weapon?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email#commentlisting</a><br /><br />Links:<br />0. <a href=\"http://www.deathmetal.org/\">http://www.deathmetal.org/</a><br />1. <a href=\"http://www.businessweek.com/printer/magazine/palantir-the-vanguard-of-cyberterror-security-11222011.html\">http://www.businessweek.com/printer/magazine/palantir-the-vanguard-of-cyberterror-security-11222011.html</a></p>','',1,70,'2011-11-27 17:53:46',62,'slashdot','2011-12-11 00:36:37',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-11-27 17:53:46','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',2,30,'','',1,96,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(406,0,'Michelle Obama Tells the Truth - Finally!','michelle-obama-tells-the-truth-finally','<p>\r\n<div style=\"font-family: \'Calibri\'; color: #000000; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"line-height: normal;\">\r\n<p style=\"line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 22px; padding: 0px;\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;\">At a recent fundraiser for President Obama’s  re-election campaign in Providence, Rhode Island, the first lady told her  audience:</span></p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-bottom: 0px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 22px; padding-left: 30px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><em>“We stand at a fundamental crossroads for our  country. You’re here because you know that in just 13 months, we’re going to  make a choice that will impact our lives for decades to come … let’s not forget  what it meant when my husband appointed those two brilliant Supreme Court  justices … let’s not forget the impact that their decisions will have on our  lives for decades to come.”</em></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-bottom: 0px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 22px; padding-left: 30px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><strong> </strong></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-bottom: 0px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 22px; padding-left: 30px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><strong>Amen.</strong></span></p>\r\n</span></div>\r\n</p>','',1,60,'2011-11-27 17:55:50',62,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-11-27 17:55:50','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',1,201,'','',1,136,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(407,0,'Who does President Obama fear most, Mitt Romney or Newt Gingrich?','who-does-president-obama-fear-most-mitt-romney-or-newt-gingrich','<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, \'Times New Roman\', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; color: #000000; \"> </span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 30px; \"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, \'Times New Roman\', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; color: #000000;\">\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 30px;\">Who does President Obama fear most, Mitt Romney or Newt Gingrich?</p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;\">This is the wrong question. The right question is, Who will energize the conservative base? McCain, and Dole before him, did nothing for the conservative base. If conservatives voted, they voted out of duty not conviction. To this day I can’t tell you what either of these men believed. All I knew about the 2008 election was that I didn’t want Barack Obama and all that he and his Leftist cronies would bring with him to the presidency.</p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;\">Trying to appeal to Liberals and Blacks is a lost cause. I don’t care how liberal-lite Republicans get, Liberals are not going to vote for them, so there is no sense trying to appeal to them. “Forgedaboudit.”</p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;\">The same is true for Blacks but for different reasons. They believe that Democrats have their best interests in mind, that Liberal economic policies will lift them out of poverty. You would think that the gigantic failure of LBJ’s Great Society programs would turn them around, but it hasn’t. The Black family is in disintegration, youth employment is at record levels, and self-segregation is a growing problem. While the majority of Blacks are socially conservative, they are fiscally Liberal, and they haven’t figured out that there is a relationship between the two.</p>\r\n<span><br /><br />Read more: <a href=\"http://godfatherpolitics.com/2435/who-does-obama-fear-most-mitt-romney-or-newt-gingrich/#ixzz1ffkWynKj\" style=\"color: #003399;\">Who Does Obama Fear Most, Mitt Romney or Newt Gingrich? | Godfather Politics</a> <a href=\"http://godfatherpolitics.com/2435/who-does-obama-fear-most-mitt-romney-or-newt-gingrich/#ixzz1ffkWynKj\" style=\"color: #003399;\">http://godfatherpolitics.com/2435/who-does-obama-fear-most-mitt-romney-or-newt-gingrich/#ixzz1ffkWynKj</a></span></span></p>','',1,60,'2011-12-05 14:57:54',62,'Godfather Politics','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-12-05 14:57:54','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',1,200,'','',1,114,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(408,0,'The End is Near','the-end-is-near','<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, lucida, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px; color: #000000; \"> </span></p>\r\n<p><img src=\"images/stories/r_joyner_85px.jpg\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\" /></p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, lucida, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px; color: #000000; \">The end of America as we know it is near. This can be a good thing or a bad thing. We are at the place where we will return to the remarkable and wise foundations on which the nation was built, or we will cease to be a Republic at all. Which it will be will likely be determined in 2012. </span><span style=\"font-family: verdana, lucida, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px; color: #000000; \"><br /></span><span style=\"font-family: verdana, lucida, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px; color: #000000; \"><br /></span><span style=\"font-family: verdana, lucida, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px; color: #000000; \">This is not to say that this will happen next year, but the choices we make over the next year will determine how we end up, and then we will get there very fast. Remember the saying, “If you do not change your direction, you will end up where you are headed”? We are now headed toward an ultimate collapse and meltdown of America as we know it. If this happens, we will not just morph into some European style socialism. As we can see, that is failing too. The alternative is the worst kind of totalitarian tyranny. </span><span style=\"font-family: verdana, lucida, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px; color: #000000; \"><br /></span><span style=\"font-family: verdana, lucida, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px; color: #000000; \"><br /></span><span style=\"font-family: verdana, lucida, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px; color: #000000; \">The 2012 elections will no doubt be the most important of our lifetime and maybe our history. Even so, all of the choices that will determine our future are not just about the elections. Our government is in crisis, and if radical change does not come next year, we will not survive as a Republic much longer.</span><span style=\"font-family: verdana, lucida, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px; color: #000000; \"><br /></span><span style=\"font-family: verdana, lucida, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px; color: #000000; \"><br /></span><span style=\"font-family: verdana, lucida, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px; color: #000000; \">I received a huge response for my recent evaluations of the Republican Presidential candidates, virtually all of which were very positive. I will do more evaluations as there is such an obvious desire for this. However, first we need to discuss what I think is the biggest issue facing our nation at this time—one that the candidates are addressing only superficially and the Administration is not addressing at all. </span><span style=\"font-family: verdana, lucida, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px; color: #000000; \"><br /></span><span style=\"font-family: verdana, lucida, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px; color: #000000; \"><br /></span><span style=\"font-family: verdana, lucida, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px; color: #000000; \">Let me also preface this by saying that I am not implying this is the most important issue facing our nation at this time, but the biggest, and it is the one that has the potential to sink the ship before the others do. Therefore, it must take precedence until it is resolved, or we won’t have a Republic much longer.</span><span style=\"font-family: verdana, lucida, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px; color: #000000; \"><br /></span><span style=\"font-family: verdana, lucida, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px; color: #000000; \"><br /></span><span style=\"font-family: verdana, lucida, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px; color: #000000; \">I also don’t want to make the judgment that none of the candidates understand this issue. The debates are mostly driven by questions asked by the media moderators, who seem to be almost completely blind to this primary issue. </span></p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, lucida, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px; color: #000000; \"><a href=\"http://www.morningstarministries.org/Articles/1000116494/MorningStar_Ministries/Media/Special_Bulletins/2011/Special_Bulletin_6.aspx?utm_source=The+MorningStar+Ministries+eNewsletter&amp;utm_campaign=d6a5b228ad-Special_Bulletin_November_28_20118_22_2011&amp;utm_medium=email\">CLICK TO READ MORE &gt;&gt;&gt;</a></span></p>','',1,74,'2011-12-05 15:08:37',62,'Rick Joyner','2012-02-04 13:10:45',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-12-05 15:08:37','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',2,13,'','',1,466,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(409,0,'New US Government Project To Monitor Electronic Communication','new-us-government-project-to-monitor-electronic-communication','<p>+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />| New US Government Project To Monitor Electronic Communication<br />| from the unseen-mechanized-eye dept.<br />| posted by samzenpus on Monday December 05, @10:57 (Government)<br />| with 150 comments<br />| <a href=\"wlmailhtml:{A3BC50DA-54F8-48CB-8154-8EF261BD04ED}mid://00000049/!x-usc:https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/12/05/1511239/new-us-government-project-to-monitor-electronic-communication?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/12/05/1511239/new-us-government-project-to-monitor-electronic-communication?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email</span></span></a><br />+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><br />An anonymous reader writes \"PRODIGAL (Proactive Discovery of Insider<br />Threats Using Graph Analysis and Learning) is a recently uncovered U.S.<br />government program created in partnership with the Georgia Tech School of<br />Computational Science and Engineering, ostensibly to [0]monitor IMs,<br />texts, and emails on government networks, is feared to be turned on the<br />U.S. population at large. From the article: \'Cherie Anderson runs a<br />travel company in southern California, and she\'s convinced the federal<br />government is reading her emails. But she\'s all right with that. \"I<br />assume it\'s part of the Patriot Act and I really don\'t mind,\" she says.<br />\"I figure I\'m probably boring them to death.\"\'\"<br /><br />Discuss this story at:<br /><a href=\"wlmailhtml:{A3BC50DA-54F8-48CB-8154-8EF261BD04ED}mid://00000049/!x-usc:https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/12/05/1511239/new-us-government-project-to-monitor-electronic-communication?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email#commentlisting\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/12/05/1511239/new-us-government-project-to-monitor-electronic-communication?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email#commentlisting</span></span></a><br /><br />Links:<br />0. <a href=\"http://news.discovery.com/tech/government-reading-emails-privacy-111203.html\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">http://news.discovery.com/tech/government-reading-emails-privacy-111203.html</span></span></a></p>\r\n<p>UMM....She\'s from California right?{jcomments on}</p>','',1,70,'2011-12-06 16:44:19',62,'slashdot','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-12-06 16:44:19','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',1,29,'','',1,278,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(410,0,'FLORIDA COURT SETS ATHEIST HOLY DAY','florida-court-sets-atheist-holy-day','<p><strong>This is a copy of an email that has been circulating via the net for some time. It is not true but it is humorous and on point.</strong></p>\r\n<p>In Florida , an atheist created a case against Easter and Passover Holy days. He hired an attorney to bring a discrimination case against Christians and Jews for observance of their days. The argument was that it was unfair that atheists had no such recognized days. The case was brought before a judge. After listening to the passionate presentation by the lawyer, the judge banged his gavel declaring,\"Case dismissed!\" The lawyer immediately stood objecting to the ruling saying, \"Your honor, How can you possibly dismiss this case? The Christians have Christmas, Easter and others. The Jews have Passover, Yom Kippur and Hanukkah, yet my client and all other atheists have no such holidays...\"The judge leaned forward in his chair saying, \"But you do. Your client, counsel, is woefully ignorant.\"The lawyer said, \"Your Honor, we are unaware of any special observance or holiday for atheists.\" The judge said, \"The calendar says April 1st is April Fools Day. Psalm 14:1 states, \'The fool says in his heart, there is no God.\' Thus, it is the opinion of this court, that, if your client says there is no God, then he is a fool. Therefore, April 1st is his day. Court is adjourned...\"</p>','',1,73,'2011-12-07 15:26:34',62,'','2011-12-11 01:10:10',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-12-07 15:26:34','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',4,16,'','',1,118,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(411,0,'‘Absolutley Abhorrent’: Bachmann Shocked After White House Ignores Beastiality Question','absolutley-abhorrent-bachmann-shocked-after-white-house-ignores-beastiality-question','<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"widows: 2; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; border-collapse: separate; font: medium \'Times New Roman\'; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; color: #000000; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"line-height: 24px; font-family: Georgia, \'Bitstream Charter\', serif; color: #333333; font-size: 16px;\">\r\n<p style=\"background-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 24px; vertical-align: baseline; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma;\">Last week, we reported that the Senate had voted to repeal bans on sodomy and bestiality in the military. That raised more than a few eyebrows. Considering the many questions that surrounded the move, a reporter decided to ask White House Press Secretary Jay Carney about the move this week. The reporter was shunned and even mocked.</span></p>\r\n<p style=\"background-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 24px; vertical-align: baseline; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma;\">On Tuesday, GOP presidential candidate Michele Bachmann joined Glenn Beck on his GBTV program. After discussing Newt Gingrich, Beck decided to play the video of Carney brushing off the question and get Bachmann’s reaction. She didn’t disappoint.</span></p>\r\n<p style=\"background-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 24px; vertical-align: baseline; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma;\">“It’s absolutely abhorrent, reprehensible,” Bachmann said, before adding, “people have to be outraged and they have to let their member of congress know, and the White House, that they expect better than this.”</span></p>\r\n<p style=\"background-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 24px; vertical-align: baseline; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma;\">“Are we really going to say ‘ho hum’ and laugh and go back to sleep? There’s got to be something we stand for?”</span></p>\r\n<p style=\"background-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 24px; vertical-align: baseline; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px;\"> </p>\r\n</span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"background-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 24px; vertical-align: baseline; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px;\"> </p>','',1,60,'2011-12-07 16:06:35',62,'Posted on the Blaze','2011-12-11 00:34:35',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-12-07 16:06:35','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',3,199,'','',1,175,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(412,0,'Revealed: How Countrywide Crashed the Housing Market and Got Away With It','revealed-how-countrywide-crashed-the-housing-market-and-got-away-with-it','<p>Although it seems that Occupy Wall Street and Tea Party are as different as night and day, there may be one important thing that they have in common: anger about the dysfunction and cronyism crippling the U.S. government and economy.</p>\r\n<p>This two-part video by 60 Minutes carefully details how both Countrywide Financial and Citigroup partook in reckless and oftentimes illegal behavior that helped bring about the housing market collapse–with zero repercussions.</p>\r\n<p>Eileen Foster, a former executive vice president in charge of fraud investigations at mortgage lender Countrywide Financial, told <a href=\"http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7390540n&amp;tag=contentMain;contentBody\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #d50b0b;\">CBS <em>60 Minutes</em> reporter Steve Kroft</span></span></a> that mortgage fraud was a common occurrence at the firm.</p>\r\n<p>She claims that she faced illegal retaliation for filing reports investigating the fraud, alleging Countrywide fired her when she refused to lie to federal regulators on Countrywide’s behalf, reports the Huffington Post.</p>\r\n<p>“From what I saw, the types of things I saw, it was, it appeared systemic,” <a href=\"http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7390540n&amp;tag=contentMain;contentBody\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #d50b0b;\">Foster said on <em>60 Minutes</em> Sunday</span></span></a>. “It wasn’t just one individual or two or three individuals, it was branches of individuals, it was regions of individuals.”</p>\r\n<p><a href=\"http://www.theblaze.com/stories/revealed-how-countrywide-crashed-the-housing-market-and-got-away-with-it/\">Continued on The Blaze &gt;&gt;</a></p>','',1,28,'2011-12-07 17:09:34',62,'Posted on The Blaze','2011-12-07 17:32:01',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-12-07 17:09:34','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',3,2,'','',1,445,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(413,0,'E-Mails Show Fast and Furious was Vehicle for Gun Control','e-mails-show-fast-and-furious-was-vehicle-for-gun-control','<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"widows: 2; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; border-collapse: separate; font: medium \'Times New Roman\'; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; color: #000000; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"text-align: center; line-height: 24px; font-family: Georgia, \'Bitstream Charter\', serif; color: #333333; font-size: 16px;\">\r\n<p style=\"background-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 24px; vertical-align: baseline; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px;\">{jcomments on}<img src=\"images/stories/holder.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Holder\" width=\"290\" height=\"75\" align=\"right\" />Documents obtained by CBS News show that the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) discussed using their covert operation “Fast and Furious” to argue for controversial new rules about gun sales.</p>\r\n<p>\r\n<p>\r\n<p style=\"background-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 24px; vertical-align: baseline; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px;\">In Fast and Furious, ATF secretly encouraged gun dealers to sell to suspected traffickers for Mexican drug cartels to go after the “big fish.” But ATF whistleblowers told CBS News and Congress it was a dangerous practice called “gunwalking,” and it put thousands of weapons on the street. Many were used in violent crimes in Mexico. Two were found at the murder scene of a U.S. Border Patrol agent.</p>\r\n<p style=\"background-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 24px; vertical-align: baseline; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px;\">So you remember Fast and Furious. This is where we arranged for thousands of guns, long guns, automatic, semiautomatic, AK-47s, machine guns, bazookas, whatever, to end up in the hands of drug lords, right out of gun stores, gun shops in Phoenix, just walked outta there right across the border into Mexico, into the hands of the drug cartel and the cartel was supposed to do with those guns what drug cartel people do, start using them, bam, bam, you’re dead. They did. Hundreds of people died as a result of these guns being walked out of Phoenix gun shops and others along the border. And in this period of time a border agent got killed. So when attention was brought to bear on this, I said, “Well, it’s clear what this is all about. Who do we have in the White House? We have a quasi-liberal socialist Marxist. What do they hate? They hate citizens having guns. They hate the Second Amendment.”</p>\r\n<p style=\"background-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 24px; vertical-align: baseline; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px;\">It took me a split second to understand what this was all about. They have lost the gun control argument. In presidential debates they don’t dare bring it up, they have lost it, the left has lost the gun control argument, just like they’ve lost the abortion argument. But that doesn’t mean they go away, they never accept defeat. Okay, so let’s engineer a program where the baddest of bad guys get hold of American guns easily because we essentially give them to them, but we don’t tell anybody that. We make it look like the drug cartel could just cross the border, walk in there and buy ‘em and walk back across the border or really rotten Americans could walk into the gun stores, buy those guns, go to Mexico and sell them to the drug cartel. Yes, evil Americans could, and then people would die, and the conclusion is supposed to be, “See, we have got to have more control over guns. Look at what happened here.” That was the plan. Backfired. Sharyl Attkisson with repeated random act of journalism after random act of journalism has been doggedly following this story and her latest report on the Early Show on CBS today featured this. One of the hostettes said, “Some officials originally discussed using the gun walking case to press for new gun regulations?”</p>\r\n<p style=\"background-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 24px; vertical-align: baseline; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px;\">ATTKISSON: That’s right. New e-mails that we have add to some documentation that we already had that show government officials never planned to reveal publicly their role in letting those guns fall into the hands of Mexican drug cartels but planned to use the end result to argue for new gun regulations that they wanted, and you can read more about that story on our website, CBSNews.com.</p>\r\n<p style=\"background-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 24px; vertical-align: baseline; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px;\">RUSH: Which we’ve done and we’ve read the e-mails, and Sharyl Attkisson is exactly correct, exactly right. It’s exactly what this program was all about, to a T. Another El Rushbo bull’s-eye. Precisely what it was all about. So now they’ve got Holder up there, and they’re asking him about this. Before we get to that, back in 2009, this is in Mexico City, Obama and the Mexican President Felipe Calderon held a joint press conference. This is a portion of what Obama said back in April of 2009.</p>\r\n<p style=\"background-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 24px; vertical-align: baseline; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px;\">OBAMA: This war is being waged with guns purchased not here, but in the United States. More than 90% of the guns recovered in Mexico come from the United States, many from gun shops that line our shared border. So we have responsibilities as well.</p>\r\n<p style=\"background-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 24px; vertical-align: baseline; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px;\">RUSH: Damn right. It’s your program. So you go to Mexico after instituting this program with Eric Holder, you engineer these guns walking across the border, you engineer it, then you go to Mexico and you point out how horrible it is these guns actually came from the United States. It was all part of an Obama scam. This is who liberals are. Don’t ever doubt yourself or me.</p>\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center; background-color: transparent; margin: 0px; float: none; vertical-align: baseline; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px;\">\r\n<div style=\"background-color: transparent; margin: 0px; clear: both; vertical-align: baseline; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px;\"><a href=\"http://conservativebyte.com/2011/12/e-mails-show-fast-and-furious-was-vehicle-for-gun-control/\">Read Comments at Conservative Byte&gt;&gt;&gt;</a></div>\r\n</div>\r\n</p>\r\n</p>\r\n</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n<p> </p>\r\n</p>\r\n<p> </p>','',1,72,'2011-12-10 01:10:04',62,'Conservative Byte','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-12-10 01:10:04','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',1,17,'','',1,971,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(414,0,'Another Bill Ayers Connection? Obama’s Anti-Capitalism Speech in Osawatomie May Not Have Been By Chance','another-bill-ayers-connection-obamas-anti-capitalism-speech-in-osawatomie-may-not-have-been-by-chance','<p><strong>Posted on December 9, 2011 at 11:39pm by <img class=\"photo\" src=\"http://www.theblaze.com/wp-content/uploads/userphoto/tiffanygabbay.thumbnail.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Tiffany Gabbay\" width=\"17\" height=\"17\" /></strong><a href=\"http://www.theblaze.com/blog/author/TiffanyGabbay\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"author\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #d50b0b;\"><strong>Tiffany Gabbay</strong></span></span></a></p>\r\n<p>Does it seem curious to anyone why President Obama chose Osawatomie, Kansas, of all places, to give a <a href=\"http://www.theblaze.com/stories/watch-live-obama-gives-class-warfare-speech/\" target=\"_self\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #d50b0b;\">controversial speech</span></span></a> attacking capitalism?</p>\r\n<p>Trevor Loudon of <a href=\"http://www.trevorloudon.com/2011/12/the-osawatomie-coincidence/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"New Zeal Blog\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #d50b0b;\">New Zeal Blog</span></span></a> does, and he’s not the only one.</p>\r\n<p>Loudon points out that the odd sounding Osawatomie was also the name given to the Weather Underground’s publication. Of course, Weather Underground was lead by none other than Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn.</p>\r\n<p><a href=\"http://www.theblaze.com/stories/another-bill-ayers-connection-obamas-anti-capitalism-speech-in-osawatomie-may-not-have-been-by-chance/osawatomie/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-199661\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-199661\" src=\"http://www.theblaze.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Osawatomie-467x620.jpg\" border=\"0\" title=\"Osawatomie\" width=\"325\" height=\"504\" /></a></p>\r\n<p>To top it off, <a href=\"http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/43080\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #d50b0b;\">Judi McLeod</span></span></a> of Canada Free Press highlighted yet another Obama and Osawatomie-Weather Underground connection that was first exposed by <a href=\"http://www.zombietime.com/zomblog/index.php?s=osawatomie\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #d50b0b;\">Zombietime</span></span></a>:</p>\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<p>Here’s another one of those “coincidences” about Obama and Osawatomie unearthed by Zombietime.com back in 2008: “Obama’s Election ’08 logo, and the logo of <em>Osawatomie</em>, the newspaper of the Weather Underground are one and the same. “Confronted, they (Obama and Ayers) would laugh it off as coincidence and conspiracy theory, and generations of graduates from the public school system, would counter a unified: “So what?”</p>\r\n<p>So when Obama was doing the talking in Osawatomie on Tuesday, Billy Ayers and the Weather Underground were pulling his wobbly strings.</p>\r\n</blockquote>\r\n<p><a href=\"http://www.theblaze.com/stories/another-bill-ayers-connection-obamas-anti-capitalism-speech-in-osawatomie-may-not-have-been-by-chance/obama-osawatomie/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-199660\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-199660\" src=\"http://www.theblaze.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Obama-Osawatomie.jpg\" border=\"0\" title=\"Obama Osawatomie\" width=\"371\" height=\"159\" /></a></p>\r\n<p> </p>\r\n<p>Are these coincidences or is Obama signaling in code (or in this case, out in the open) that he is in lock-step with the radical left?</p>\r\n<p><a href=\"http://www.theblaze.com/stories/another-bill-ayers-connection-obamas-anti-capitalism-speech-in-osawatomie-may-not-have-been-by-chance/\">GO TO COMMENTS ON THE BLAZE&gt;&gt;&gt;</a></p>','',1,42,'2011-12-10 22:28:08',62,'Posted on The Blaze','2011-12-31 17:22:36',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-12-10 22:28:08','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',2,4,'','',1,712,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(415,0,'Man Claims He Signed Walker Recall Petitions 80 Times','man-claims-he-signed-walker-recall-petitions-80-times','<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><img class=\"caption\" src=\"images/stories/walkerrecallfraudwbay.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"The best of the LEFT\" width=\"459\" height=\"208\" /></span></p>\r\n<h3><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Need We Say More?</span></h3>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">{jcomments on}</span></p>','',1,60,'2011-12-10 22:41:50',62,'abc','2011-12-11 00:30:28',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-12-10 22:41:50','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',4,198,'','',1,300,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(416,0,'Charles Krauthammer on Obama: ‘More a Hugo Chavez Than He is a Teddy Roosevelt’','charles-krauthammer-on-obama-more-a-hugo-chavez-than-he-is-a-teddy-roosevelt','<p><img src=\"http://www.theblaze.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Krauthammer.jpg\" border=\"0\" title=\"Krauthammer\" hspace=\"7\" width=\"153\" height=\"136\" align=\"left\" />President Barack Obama intended to capture <a href=\"http://www.theblaze.com/stories/watch-live-obama-gives-class-warfare-speech/\" target=\"_self\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">the spirit of Theodore Roosevelt</span></span></a> with what was previewed as a <a href=\"http://www.theblaze.com/stories/obama-looking-to-channel-teddy-roosevelt-with-speech-on-paying-fair-share/\" target=\"_self\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">“class warfare” speech</span></span></a> earlier this week, but Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer thinks he fell short of that. Instead, he said Obama’s particular brand of populism channeled “not Teddy Roosevelt so much as [Venezuelan President] Hugo Chavez.”</p>\r\n<p>In his <a href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/obamas-campaign-for-class-resentment/2011/12/08/gIQApYDagO_story.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">column Thursday</span></span></a>, Krauthammer said when Obama spoke about the millions who “are now forced to take their children to food banks,” he said so implying he himself bears no responsibility for the current economic climate.</p>\r\n<p>“It’s the rich” Obama blames, Krauthammer wrote. “And, like Horatius at the bridge, Obama stands with the American masses against the soulless plutocrats. This is populism so crude that it channels not Teddy Roosevelt so much as Hugo Chavez.</p>\r\n<p>Speaking Friday on “Inside Washington,” Krauthammer discussed the point further:</p>\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<p>“He talked about how we got here. He gave a nice historical rundown except that he left out a critical three years – his presidency. It’s as if it didn’t exist. It’s as if we jumped from ’08 to today….This is a classic example of how little it takes to stir the erogenous zones of liberals. You give them a speech with social justice, a little bit of class war, you wrap it up in the patina of intellectualism in what is essentially a speech that exonerates anything he’s done and obviously not done and says all of our problems today are the result of the plutocrats.”</p>\r\n<p><a href=\"http://www.theblaze.com/stories/charles-krauthammer-on-obama-more-a-hugo-chavez-than-he-is-a-teddy-roosevelt/\">VIEW VIDEO ON THE BLAZE&gt;&gt;&gt;</a></p>\r\n</blockquote>','',1,60,'2011-12-11 17:52:06',62,'Viewed on The Blaze','2011-12-13 02:29:05',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-12-11 17:52:06','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',2,197,'','',1,191,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(417,0,'Change','change','<p><img src=\"images/stories/change-hitler-obama-lenin-300x196.jpg\" border=\"0\" /></p>','',0,70,'2011-12-11 18:03:07',62,'Posted on Conservative Byte','2011-12-25 00:20:30',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-12-11 18:03:07','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',3,28,'','',1,3,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(418,0,'Internal DOJ Email: Kagan Was Brought Into Loop on Mark Levin’s Obamacare Complaint','internal-doj-email-kagan-was-brought-into-loop-on-mark-levins-obamacare-complaint','<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"widows: 2; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; border-collapse: separate; font: medium \'Times New Roman\'; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; color: #000000; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"line-height: 20px; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px;\">\r\n<p><img src=\"images/stories/kagan20con-smaller-use.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Kagan\" hspace=\"3\" align=\"left\" />(CNSNews.com) - Internal Justice Department email communications made just days before the House of Representatives passed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act show that then-Solicitor General Elena Kagan was brought into the loop as DOJ began preparing to respond to an anticipated legal complaint that Mark Levin and the Landmark Legal Foundation were planning to file against the act if the House used a procedural rule to “deem” the bill passed even if members never directly voted on it.</p>\r\n<p>\r\n<p>In another internal DOJ email communication that same week, Kagan alerted the chief of DOJ’s Office of Legal Counsel to the constitutional argument that a former U.S. Appeals Court judge was making against the use of this rule.</p>\r\n<p>Then, during Kagan’s Supreme Court confirmation process four months later, Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee <a href=\"sites/default/files/documents/JUDICIARY%20COMMITTEE%20REPUBLICANS-LETTER%20TO%20KAGAN-07-13-10.pdf\"><span style=\"color: #0e5ad4;\">asked her in writing</span></a> if she had “ever been asked about your opinion” or “offered any view or comments” on the “the underlying legal or constitutional issues related to any proposed health care legislation, including but not limited to Pub. L. No. 111-148 [PPACA], or the underlying legal or constitutional issues related to potential litigation resulting from such legislation?\"</p>\r\n<p>Kagan <a href=\"sites/default/files/documents/KAGAN-WRITTEN%20RESPONSES%20TO%20JUDICIARY%20COMMITTEE.pdf\"><span style=\"color: #0e5ad4;\">answered both questions</span></a>: “No.”</p>\r\n<p><a href=\"http://cnsnews.com/news/article/internal-doj-email-kagan-was-brought-loop-mark-levin-s-obamacare-complaint\">Continue Reading on CNSNews.com&gt;&gt;&gt;</a></p>\r\n</p>\r\n</span></span></p>\r\n<p> </p>','',1,60,'2011-12-13 02:14:05',62,'CNSNews.com','2011-12-13 02:34:13',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-12-13 02:14:05','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',5,196,'','',1,148,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(419,0,'Liberals Argue that Obama\'s Too Smart for America','liberals-argue-that-obamas-too-smart-for-america','<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"widows: 2; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; border-collapse: separate; font: medium \'Times New Roman\'; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; color: #000000; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;\"></span></span>\r\n<p> </p>\r\n</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;\">RUSH: I gotta play this for you. I’ve told you countless times how most recent instance being when, what’s his name, Caddell and Schoen wrote a piece: Obama you should quit and turn it over to Hillary. I said, “That’s not the way you go about it. You don’t tell him he blew it. You don’t tell a narcissist he’s failed and to get out of the of way. You’ve gotta say, ‘Barack, this job is beneath you! It’s too small. You’re destined for bigger. You need to be running the world, Barack! Running the United States is not even interesting to you. We can tell you’re bored silly.” That’s how you get rid of him: You tell him that there’s something far bigger, far more important out there than just being president of the United States.</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;\">Well, get this. This is this morning on MSNBC, on Morning Joe. This is Mike Barnicle, syndicated columnist, along with Jon Meacham, former editor of Newsweek and now the Random House executive editor.</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;\">BARNICLE: He has reeeemarkable gifts. He’s eloquent, he’s convincing, he’s clearly very smart. He wins the presidency in 2008; overcoming all sorts of doubts and surpassing a field filled with a couple of truly, truly good candidates –</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;\">RUSH: What doubts?</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;\">BARNICLE: I think he is stunned, given his gifts, and his inability to get anything really done in Congress. I think he’s stunned by it.</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;\">MEACHAM: In a weird way the country is not commensurate with his gifts. That’s a harsh thing to say but I have a feeling in the dark night of the soul –</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;\">BARNICLE: Yeah!</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;\"><a href=\"http://visiontoamerica.org/6252/liberals-argue-that-obamas-too-smart-for-america/\">GOTO VISION TO AMERICA&gt;&gt;&gt;</a></p>','',1,60,'2011-12-13 22:56:38',62,'Vision to America','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-12-13 22:56:38','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',1,195,'','',1,172,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(420,0,'Radical Islamists Win Big in Egypt, Taking the First Step Toward the Caliphate. (New York Times and CNN, Are You Listening?)','radical-islamists-win-big-in-egypt-taking-the-first-step-toward-the-caliphate-new-york-times-and-cnn-are-you-listening','<div style=\"line-height: 16px; font-family: courier, georgia, serif; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: 12px;\">\r\n<p>Dear Friend of FLAME:</p>\r\n<p>Brace yourself for a new Middle East: Islamists just won a large majority in Egypt\'s recent elections---bigger than anyone in the mainstream media dared to predict.</p>\r\n<p>To the contrary: For months commentators at CNN and <em>The</em> <em>New York Times </em>have been assuring us in the face of all facts that not only is Egypt\'s radical Islamic Muslim Brotherhood <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">a peaceful, moderate force</span>, but also that the group would <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">not</span> be a significant political player in the so-called \"Arab democracy movement.\"</p>\r\n<p>We at FLAME were not fooled and have fully documented the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">terrorist roots, connections and murderous mission</span> of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB). Let\'s start with the fact that the MB is the parent organization of the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas and that al Qaeda founder Ayman al Zawahiri was primarily inspired by notorious Brotherhood founder Sayyid Qutb.</p>\r\n<p>Yes, those gullible Middle East commentators (as well as numerous U.S. diplomats) insisted that the Muslim Brotherhood would take no more than 20-30% of the final vote in Egypt---but the highly organized MB actually captured 36% of the early vote! What\'s even worse---much worse---the Salafist Nour party, an <em>even more hard-line</em> Islamist group, took an additional 25% of the vote. When final votes are in from rural areas, we predict <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">the two parties will capture an astonishing 65-70% of the vote</span>.</p>\r\n','\r\n<p> </p>\r\n<p>This week\'s FLAME Hotline takes those naïve media commentators and elected officials, including the U.S. State Department, to task for misleading the American public. The author of the article below, Tony Blankley, a former political operative, current author and Washington, D.C. public relations executive, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">renews the warning about trusting Egypt\'s insidious and determined Islamist parties</span>.</p>\r\n<p>Their avowed purpose is to impose hard-core Sharia law upon the entire region. They are <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">committed to oppressing women, expelling infidels (like Christians), and restricting power to ultra-conservative Muslims</span>. The Islamists do not stand for democracy (and have never said they do), and once in power are virtually certain to eliminate free elections and the rule of law, just as the imams in Iran and Hamas thugs in Gaza have done.</p>\r\n<p>I think you\'ll profit greatly from Blankley\'s short, but powerful article. As always, I urge you to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">pass this issue along to friends, colleagues and family</span> who would benefit from a wake-up call about the threat of radical Islam in the Middle East.</p>\r\n<p>Best regards,</p>\r\n<p>Jim Sinkinson<br />Vice President, FLAME</p>\r\n<table style=\"line-height: 18px; font-family: Courier, Verdana, Helvetica; color: black; font-size: 12px;\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"2\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"98%\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"line-height: 16px; font-family: Courier, Verdana, Helvetica; margin-bottom: 10px; color: black; font-size: 12px;\" width=\"10%\" valign=\"top\">P.S.</td>\r\n<td style=\"padding-bottom: 15px;\" rowspan=\"2\" valign=\"top\">\r\n<p style=\"line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; font-family: Courier, Verdana, Helvetica; font-size: 12px;\">Earlier this year FLAME became one of the first pro-Israel groups to raise an alarm about the dangers of trusting the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. We published this warning in publications nationwide, reaching some 10 million readers, as well as mailing it to every member of the House of Representatives and every U.S. Senator. I invite you to review this piece now, so you can better explain the rising threat to your contacts: \"<a href=\"wlmailhtml:{A3BC50DA-54F8-48CB-8154-8EF261BD04ED}mid://00000122/!x-usc:http://econnect.dmsgs.com/t/14707619/110750721/2432224/0/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">The Truth About the Muslim Brotherhood: Is it a moderate Egyptian party committed to democracy . . . or a jihadist group seeking to create an Islamist empire</span></span></a>?\" If you support of this kind of powerful, outspoken public relations effort on Israel\'s behalf, I hope you\'ll take a minute to support us. Remember: FLAME\'s ability to influence public and political opinion comes from individuals like you, one by one. I hope you\'ll consider giving a donation now, as you\'re able---with $500, $250, $100, or even $18. (Remember, your donation to FLAME is tax deductible.) To donate online, just go to <a href=\"wlmailhtml:{A3BC50DA-54F8-48CB-8154-8EF261BD04ED}mid://00000122/!x-usc:http://econnect.dmsgs.com/t/14707619/110750721/2289518/0/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">http://www.factsandlogic.org/make_a_donation.html</span></span></a>. Now more than ever we need your support to ensure that Israel gets the support it needs---from the U.S. Congress, from President Obama, and from the American people.</p>\r\n</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td height=\"15\"><img src=\"wlmailhtml:{A3BC50DA-54F8-48CB-8154-8EF261BD04ED}mid://00000122/!x-usc:http://www.factsandlogic.org/_images/pixel.gif\" border=\"0\" width=\"34\" height=\"15\" /></td>\r\n</tr>\r\n</tbody>\r\n</table>\r\n<table style=\"line-height: 18px; font-family: Courier, Verdana, Helvetica; color: black; font-size: 12px;\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"2\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"98%\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"line-height: 16px; font-family: Courier, Verdana, Helvetica; margin-bottom: 10px; color: black; font-size: 12px;\" width=\"10%\" valign=\"top\">P.P.S.</td>\r\n<td rowspan=\"2\" valign=\"top\">\r\n<p style=\"line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; font-family: Courier, Verdana, Helvetica; font-size: 12px;\">If you only subscribe to one information service about Israel and the Middle East, I recommend you make it the <em>FLAME Hotline</em>. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Won\'t you join us</span> to start receiving this high-value email service? Just go to <a href=\"wlmailhtml:{A3BC50DA-54F8-48CB-8154-8EF261BD04ED}mid://00000122/!x-usc:http://econnect.dmsgs.com/t/14707619/110750721/2289541/0/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">free subscription</span></span></a>.</p>\r\n</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td height=\"15\"><img src=\"wlmailhtml:{A3BC50DA-54F8-48CB-8154-8EF261BD04ED}mid://00000122/!x-usc:http://www.factsandlogic.org/_images/pixel.gif\" border=\"0\" width=\"34\" height=\"15\" /></td>\r\n</tr>\r\n</tbody>\r\n</table>\r\n</div>\r\n<!-- End Letter --><!-- Begin Featured Article -->\r\n<div style=\"line-height: 17px; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica; color: #000; font-size: 13px;\">\r\n<p><strong style=\"font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold;\">Short-lived Shibboleth of a Moderate Egypt<br />I</strong><strong>slamists\' election victory leaves Western predictions in shambles</strong></p>\r\n<p>By Tony Blankley, <em>The Washington Times</em>, December 5, 2011</p>\r\n<p><em>[Editor\'s Note: A </em>shibboleth<em> is a belief usually regarded by others as false or empty of real meaning.]</em></p>\r\n<p>One of the nice things about human history is that no matter how much people or their leaders misjudge events and make a hash of things, within a few centuries, the debris is cleared away and we can have a another go at getting things right.</p>\r\n<p>Yes, I am thinking about the Middle East and the latest mix-up by the experts—their assessment just a few months ago of the nature of the Arab Spring and its democracy movement. Back in the spring, leading experts—from the Obama administration to the neoconservatives on the right to the major liberal media to most of the academic area specialists—were overwhelmingly predicting that all those great secular, liberal, college-educated kids with their iPhones in Tahrir Square represented the new Egypt and would bring all their wonderful values to the revolution. It was primarily us cranky right-wingers who have been writing about radical Islamic politics (and, of course, the Israelis, who can\'t afford to get it wrong on Muslim political habits) who warned that this was all going to end in the rise in still-ancient Egypt of radical Islamist, anti-Israeli, anti-Semitic, anti-Christian, anti American, anti-Western governance.</p>\r\n<p>So our government—as I said, cheered on by neoconservatives as well as liberals—undercut Hosni Mubarak\'s regime and told us not to worry about the Islamists. The Muslim Brotherhood was a group of really old, tired men who were no longer really radical and had been propped up just to provide the regime with an opposition punching bag. Armed with their social-media devices, the kids would run rings around the sorry excuse for Islamists and deliver real democracy.</p>\r\n<p><strong>Hadn\'t any of those experts been to Egypt? </strong>There are not a lot of secular liberals hanging out—even at the universities—let alone in the thousands of villages and urban slums. Who the heck did the experts think those angry, bearded men were who were roaming around glaring at Westerners and Muslim women who dared to walk on the street? I saw them back in the 1960s and \'70s, and they were scary even then. By the way, as I recall, Tahrir Square was pretty much a circle. But who\'s counting when you are having deranged, liberal fantasies? Even if these experts on Sunday political round-table chatters had not been to Egypt, perhaps it was a clue that a Pew poll in the spring said 65 percent of the public would vote Islamist.</p>\r\n<p>The early returns are in. (There are still two more rounds of voting in 18 of the country\'s 27 provinces over the next month.) The Islamists look likely to get 65 percent 70 percent of the eventual vote. According to the High Election Commission, the Islamic fundamentalist Muslim Brotherhood\'s Freedom and Justice Party got about 36 percent, while the Salafist Nour Party got a stunning 25 percent. The Salafists are the hysterical wing of the fundamentally reactionary general Muslim population, while the Brotherhood is merely the fanatical wing.</p>\r\n<p>The grand total for all the parties that, by the ancient cultural standards of Pharaonic Egypt, are considered the liberal-secular bloc—the makers of the glorious Arab Spring democracy was, wait for it—13 percent. I predict that if any of them try to practice any of that liberal-secular stuff in public, either the military eventually will lock them up or the Salafists eventually will beat them up or kill them on the street. Adios, liberal-secular Egypt, we hardly new ya. Hello, kill the Coptic Christians and the Jews.</p>\r\n<p><strong>Of course, the various ever-bewildered wire services and newspapers</strong> are reporting the \"unpredicted,\" \"unexpected\" size of the Islamist vote while taking to calling the Brotherhood, in its 2.0 form, \"moderate.\" But anyway, not to worry. As our brother in journalism Jackson Diehl wrote in this weekend\'s Washington Post, he has talked with various former terrorists and Muslim Brotherhood leaders in Egypt, and he assures us that \"the ascendancy of parties such as the Muslim Brotherhood should not be as alarming as many in the West suppose. ... The biggest reason for this is that the Muslim Brotherhood, as well as the more fundamentalist parties to its right, has renounced violence.\"</p>\r\n<p>Well, that\'s a relief. I suppose the Brotherhood also has no more territorial demands. Oh, wait a moment. Mr. Diehl notes that the Brotherhood\'s platform does say that Egypt should \"aid and support the Palestinian people and Palestinian resistance against the Zionist usurpers of their homeland.\" So, I guess, after they kill all the Jews, they will stop practicing violence. Of course, even then there will be the little matter of the Brotherhood\'s credo: \"God is our objective; the Koran is our constitution; the prophet is our leader; jihad is our way; and death for the sake of God is the highest of our aspirations.\" But it\'s OK. That is the moderate wing of the upcoming Egyptian parliament.</p>\r\n<!-- End Featured Article Copy --></div>\r\n<!-- End Featured Article --><!-- Print Document Link -->\r\n<p style=\"line-height: 17px; font-family: Arial,  Verdana, Helvetica; color: black; font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-style: normal; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold;\"><span style=\"color: #ff3300;\">PRINTER FRIENDLY VERSION</span></span><br />If you\'d like a printer-friendly, text version of this newsletter click the button below.<br /><br /><a href=\"wlmailhtml:{A3BC50DA-54F8-48CB-8154-8EF261BD04ED}mid://00000122/!x-usc:http://econnect.dmsgs.com/t/14707619/110750721/2934188/0/\"><img src=\"wlmailhtml:{A3BC50DA-54F8-48CB-8154-8EF261BD04ED}mid://00000122/!x-usc:http://www.factsandlogic.org/_images/button_text_ed.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"text\" width=\"97\" height=\"24\" /></a></p>\r\n<!-- Print Document Link -->\r\n<p style=\"line-height: 17px; font-family: Arial,  Verdana, Helvetica; color: black; font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-style: normal; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold;\"><span style=\"color: #ff3300;\">DONATE</span></span><br />How many times have you heard someone lament that Israel doesn\'t have good public relations? 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(New York Times and CNN, Are You Listening?)','radical-islamists-win-big-in-egypt-taking-the-first-step-toward-the-caliphate-new-york-times-and-cnn-are-you-listening-1','<table style=\"line-height: 18px; width: 98%; font-family: Courier, Verdana, Helvetica; color: black; font-size: 12px;\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"2\" cellpadding=\"0\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"line-height: 16px; font-family: Courier, Verdana, Helvetica; margin-bottom: 10px; color: black; font-size: 12px;\" width=\"10%\" valign=\"top\">P.P.S.</td>\r\n<td rowspan=\"2\" valign=\"top\">\r\n<p style=\"line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; font-family: Courier, Verdana, Helvetica; font-size: 12px;\">If you only subscribe to one information service about Israel and the Middle East, I recommend you make it the <em>FLAME Hotline</em>. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Won\'t you join us</span> to start receiving this high-value email service? Just go to <a href=\"wlmailhtml:{A3BC50DA-54F8-48CB-8154-8EF261BD04ED}mid:/00000122/!x-usc:http:/econnect.dmsgs.com/t/14707619/110750721/2289541/0/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">free subscription</span></span></a>.</p>\r\n</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td height=\"15\"><img src=\"wlmailhtml:{A3BC50DA-54F8-48CB-8154-8EF261BD04ED}mid:/00000122/!x-usc:http:/www.factsandlogic.org/_images/pixel.gif\" border=\"0\" width=\"34\" height=\"15\" /></td>\r\n</tr>\r\n</tbody>\r\n</table>\r\n<p> </p>','',1,30,'2011-12-14 16:19:09',62,'FLAME','2012-02-27 03:06:20',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-12-14 16:19:09','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',2,19,'','',1,390,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(422,0,'Jet Fuel-Gate is Obama\'s New Solyndra','jet-fuel-gate-is-obamas-new-solyndra','<p><strong>Ecofanaticism:</strong> SolyndraGate was no isolated case of corrupt government misspending. The U.S. Navy was just forced to buy 450,000 gallons of biofuels from an Obama-connected firm at an outrageous $16 per gallon.</p>\r\n<p>The massive Obama stimulus was supposed to generate millions of jobs, but the $535 million loan guarantee it gave to solar panel maker Solyndra on the eve of its Chapter 11 bankruptcy illustrated the fundamental incompetence of Obama\'s neo-Keynesian economic ideology.</p>\r\n<p>Now we find the Navy partnering with the Agriculture Department to purchase hundreds of thousands of gallons of alternative biofuel in place of standard JP-5 fuel for Navy aircraft — the biggest federal purchase of biofuel ever.</p>\r\n<p>It\'s part of the White House\'s \"we can\'t wait for Congress\" strategy as the 2012 election year looms. But JP-5 typically costs less than $4 a gallon. If a family on a budget started filling up with $16-a-gallon gas, it might want to adopt the motto, \"we can\'t wait to go broke.\"</p>\r\n<p>A look at the lucky seller of this environmentalist version of the proverbial $600 Pentagon toilet seat indicates that the move is not just wasteful, but ethically suspect.</p>\r\n<p>As J.E. Dyer noted over the weekend on the Hot Air Green Room, \"a member of Obama\'s presidential transition team, T. J. Glauthier, is a \'strategic advisor\' at Solazyme, the California company that is selling a portion of the biofuel to the Navy. Glauthier worked — shock, shock — on the energy-sector portion of the 2009 stimulus bill.\"</p>\r\n<p><a href=\"http://news.investors.com/Article/594703/201112131858/navy-biofuel-gate-latest-obama-green-scam.htm\">READ MORE AT INVESTORS.COM&gt;&gt;&gt;</a></p>','',1,77,'2011-12-15 23:48:49',62,'Investors Daily','2012-03-25 23:37:10',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-12-15 23:48:49','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',2,5,'','',1,384,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(423,0,'After America, There is No Place to Go','after-america-there-is-no-place-to-go','<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: black; font-size: 11pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,Geneva;\"><span><strong>After America, There is No Place to Go</strong></span><br />by Kitty Werthmann </span></p>\r\n</em></div>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0px; font-family: Verdana,Geneva; margin-bottom: 0px; color: #000000; font-size: 10pt;\" align=\"justify\">What I am about to tell you is something you\'ve probably never heard or will ever read in history books. I believe that I am an eyewitness to history.</p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\"> </p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0px; font-family: Verdana,Geneva; margin-bottom: 0px; color: #000000; font-size: 10pt;\" align=\"justify\">I cannot tell you that Hitler took Austria by tanks and guns; it would distort history. We elected him by a landslide-98 percent of the vote. I\'ve never read that in any American publications. Everyone thinks that Hitler just rolled in with his tanks and took Austria by force. In 1938, Austria was in a deep depression. Nearly one-third of our workforce was unemployed. We had 25 percent inflation and 25 percent bank loan interest rates.</p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\"> </p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0px; font-family: Verdana,Geneva; margin-bottom: 0px; color: #000000; font-size: 10pt;\" align=\"justify\">Farmers and business people were declaring bankruptcy daily. Young people were going from house to house begging for food-not that they didn\'t want to work-there simply weren\'t any jobs. My mother was a Christian and believed in helping people in need. Every day we cooked a big kettle of soup and baked bread to feed those poor, hungry people, about thirty daily. The Communist Party and the National Socialist Party were fighting each other. Blocks and blocks of cities like Vienna, Linz, and Graz were destroyed. The people became desperate and petitioned the government to let them decide what kind of government they wanted. We looked to our neighbor on the north, Germany, where Hitler had been in power since 1933. We had been told that they didn\'t have unemployment or crime, and they had a high standard of living. Nothing was ever said about persecution of any group...<a href=\"http://www.theoakinitiative.org/oak-leaf-16\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: blue; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;\">read more</a></p>','',1,75,'2011-12-17 16:29:23',62,'Posted on The Oak Initiative','2012-02-04 13:10:23',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-12-17 16:29:23','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',4,66,'','',1,243,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(424,0,'Where You See Injustice - Ask God for His Kingdom to Manifest','where-you-see-injustice-ask-god-for-his-kingdom-to-manifest','<p style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; font: 12pt/14pt verdana;\"><img src=\"images/stories/f_frangipane_100px.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Francis Frangipane\" align=\"left\" />We live in unparalleled times. Not since the first century have more Scriptures been fulfilled in a single generation. Each unfolding Word brings down another mountain; it lifts another valley. In truth, the way is being prepared for our King\'s return into this world.</p>\r\n<p class=\"subtitle\" style=\"text-align: center; padding-bottom: 5px; margin-top: 30px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; font: 15pt/17pt verdana; color: #016d88; padding-top: 5px;\">The Great Revolt</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; font: 12pt/14pt verdana;\">The Lord forewarned that, during the End Time,<span class=\"script_text\" style=\"text-align: left; font-style: italic; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #016d88;\"><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> </span>\"many will go back and forth, and knowledge will increase\"</span><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> </span>(<span class=\"script_ref\" style=\"text-align: left; font-style: italic; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #016d88; font-weight: bold;\">Daniel 12:4</span>). Contrast our time with any other in history: Not only are we traveling farther and more frequently, but we do so in a world inundated with increasing<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> </span><em>knowledge</em>. It has been our privilege to behold the prophetic return of Israel to its land (see Jeremiah 16:14-15), and our misfortune to live when<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> </span><span class=\"script_text\" style=\"text-align: left; font-style: italic; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #016d88;\">\"the earth is... polluted by its inhabitants\"</span><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> </span>(<span class=\"script_ref\" style=\"text-align: left; font-style: italic; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #016d88; font-weight: bold;\">Isaiah 24:5</span>).</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; font: 12pt/14pt verdana;\">As though Jesus were reading a news summary of recent years, His prophecies of two thousand years ago clearly describe our times. Thus, we are compelled to discern accurately the significant era in which we live. Indeed, of the many prophetic fulfillments of our day, one in particular rises with undimmed candor. I am speaking of what the Bible calls the \"apostasy.\" You will recall Paul\'s warning:</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; font: 12pt/14pt verdana;\"><span class=\"script_text\" style=\"text-align: left; font-style: italic; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #016d88;\">\"Let no one in any way deceive you, for [the day of the Lord] will not come unless the apostasy comes first\"</span><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> </span><span class=\"script_ref\" style=\"text-align: left; font-style: italic; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #016d88; font-weight: bold;\">(2 Thessalonians 2:3</span>).</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; font: 12pt/14pt verdana;\">The apostasy has traditionally been described as<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> </span><em>a time of deception and massive falling away from authentic faith in Christ</em>. Depending upon your specific view, sometime before or after the apostasy the rapture of the Church will occur. However, the concept of apostasy as merely \"a falling away\" is incomplete. The original Greek word for apostasy, apostasia, when used in classical Greek literature, meant \"a political revolt.\" From this we understand that the End Time apostasy is not just a time of sinfulness or large scale backsliding; it is actually<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> </span><em>a time of open defiance and warlike aggression against divine moral foundations</em>. In other words, the apostasia is a political insurrection against the laws of God.</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; font: 12pt/14pt verdana;\">This interpretation of the apostasy is not an isolated view. The New International Version, Revised Standard Version, Phillips Translation, and New English Bible all render apostasia as \"the rebellion.\" The Living Bible interprets the apostasy as the \"great rebellion,\" while the Jerusalem Bible assigns a proper name to this era: \"The Great Revolt.\"</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; font: 12pt/14pt verdana;\">As we consider the fulfillment of so many other prophecies, let us carefully observe: mankind has entered an era of open revolt and outright rebellion – an apostasy – against the moral standards of God.</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; font: 12pt/14pt verdana;\">Today, we are witnessing a large-scale rebellion against godliness and moral values. Indeed, this brazen attitude has had a name for itself since the 1960s: the sexual revolution. And \"revolution\" is exactly what it is. Our moral standards have not only been challenged, they have been replaced by a nonstandard. Indeed, the great rebellion seeks to legitimize and then mainstream every perversity known to man!</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; font: 12pt/14pt verdana;\">There is much to say on behalf of those trapped in perversity and who hate sin\'s affect on their lives. We must be compassionate toward them and not strident; many are sitting in our churches afraid to even speak of their need lest they be disowned. I am not speaking with reference to the victims of this advance, but of those who are engaged in a mutiny against the sway of God in our nation. They argue the only standard Americans have is the standard of individual freedom. In their view, freedom itself is the \"god\" ruling America, with self-indulgence sitting as chief counsel.</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; font: 12pt/14pt verdana;\"><a href=\"http://campaign.r20.constantcontact.com/render?llr=4xrw9udab&amp;v=001PxvKDHU1N4qrmwb7lICDG5c-hHAxDO028H2Y9BGlnbvodFJAwKiiIdKeaOuK2MsSqhmaJucZr87m33unWXH4bYFHlU-2B6tU4y-KnOYodOGz_OTn15lxwFmxwbuvc7tw8F-Y6-L9dYvEuE6Tj9q3pLpMeK37K1YrrjYEQhhP0mnC90y-3zlvOAAvWYt9m6NmO1CxjJqjJx4LA7IqDKef7NetsmrIVopEQPSf1ncG0MQ%3D\">Read More&gt;&gt;&gt;</a></p>','',1,60,'2011-12-18 00:39:19',62,'Francis Frangipane as posted on Elijah List','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-12-18 00:39:19','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',1,194,'','',1,230,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(425,0,'Gingrich\'s Assertion That the Palestinians Are \"Invented\" Is True. But Why Did They Do It?','gingrichs-assertion-that-the-palestinians-are-qinventedq-is-true-but-why-did-they-do-it','<p>Dear Friend of FLAME:</p>\r\n<p>In a rare display of honest reporting on the part of American media, the Associated Press affirmed Newt Gingrich\'s statement that the Palestinians are an \"invented\" people---and the story ran in hundreds of newspapers. Of course, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">it\'s sad and ironic that we cheer simply when the media tell the truth about the Middle East</span>.</p>\r\n<p>In any case, the fact that the Palestinians are a made-up people has been established by <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">all manner of historical research and acclamation</span>, even by Arabs themselves.</p>\r\n<p>We know that never in history was there a Palestinian state. We also know that the original Palestinians in the 20th century were Jewish---they called their newspaper the <em>Palestine Post</em> and their orchestra the Palestine Symphony. In those days, the Arabs called themselves <em>Arabs</em>, or in some cases Syrians. Even after Israel\'s birth in 1948, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">no Arabs called themselves Palestinians</span>. The \"Palestinians\" began calling themselves that only after the 1967 war, when Israel chased Jordan and Egypt out of Jerusalem, the West Bank, Sinai and Gaza.</p>\r\n<p>The name Palestine is Greek transmuted from Latin, and was applied by the region\'s ancient conquerors. Nearly all the cities in Israel, the West Bank and Gaza have Hebrew names---like Bethlehem, Nazareth, Hebron---and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">their current Arabic names are translations of these names</span>. The capital of the West Bank, Nablus isn\'t an Arabic name, but a mispronunciation of Neapolis, or Latin for \"New City.\"</p>\r\n<p>Need more proof? Way back in 1937, the Arab leader Auni Bey Abdul-Hadi told the Peel Commission, \"There is no such country [as Palestine]! <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Palestine is a term the Zionists invented</span>! There is no Palestine in the Bible. Our country was for centuries part of Syria.\"</p>\r\n<p>Next consider the statement of Zahir Muhsein, a member of the PLO Executive Committee, who in 1977 told the Dutch newspaper <em>Trouw</em> that \"<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Palestinian people does not exist</span>. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel . . . Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak about the existence of the Palestinian people.\"</p>\r\n<p>Mahmoud Abbas, however, in a dazzling display of chutzpah and mendacity at the U.N. recently, recounted a history of ancient Palestine full of Palestinians and a guy named Jesus (no mention of his religion), but no Jews at all. In fact, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">today\'s Palestinians are a group of Arabs left over after Syria and Jordan were formed</span> from the 1947 U.N. Partition Plan (which the Arabs rejected and the Jews accepted).</p>\r\n<p><a href=\"http://www.factsandlogic.org/flame_hotline_122011-p.html\">READ MORE&gt;&gt;&gt;</a></p>','',1,71,'2011-12-20 18:03:26',62,'Posted on the FLAME','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-12-20 18:03:26','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',1,7,'','',1,486,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(426,0,'Biblical Duty','biblical-duty','<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"WIDOWS: 2; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; LETTER-SPACING: normal; BORDER-COLLAPSE: separate; FONT: 16px \'Times New Roman\'; WHITE-SPACE: normal; ORPHANS: 2; COLOR: #000000; WORD-SPACING: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"LINE-HEIGHT: 20px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; COLOR: #333333; FONT-SIZE: 13px\">\r\n<div style=\"PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent; MARGIN: 0px; OUTLINE-COLOR: ; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; OUTLINE-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 13px; VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border-top-left-radius: 0px 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px 0px; -webkit-box-shadow: none\">\r\n<p style=\"PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent; MARGIN: 0px; OUTLINE-COLOR: ; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; OUTLINE-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 13px; VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border-top-left-radius: 0px 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px 0px; -webkit-box-shadow: none\" align=\"center\"><strong style=\"PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent; MARGIN: 0px; OUTLINE-COLOR: ; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; OUTLINE-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 13px; VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border-top-left-radius: 0px 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px 0px; -webkit-box-shadow: none\"><img src=\"images/stories/OAKI-logo.png\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\" />Biblical Duty</strong><br style=\"MARGIN: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px 0px; -webkit-box-shadow: none\" />by Lloyd Phillips</p>\r\n</div>\r\n<p>\r\n<p> </p>\r\n<p style=\"PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent; MARGIN: 0px 0px 20px; OUTLINE-COLOR: ; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; OUTLINE-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 13px; VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border-top-left-radius: 0px 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px 0px; -webkit-box-shadow: none\"> </p>\r\n<p style=\"PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent; MARGIN: 0px 0px 20px; OUTLINE-COLOR: ; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; OUTLINE-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 13px; VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border-top-left-radius: 0px 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px 0px; -webkit-box-shadow: none\">     As you know, if we can change a person’s mind, we will change their actions. One of the most powerful tools a Christian has is the power to pull down strongholds or change beliefs and thereby change actions of people.</p>\r\n<p style=\"PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent; MARGIN: 0px 0px 20px; OUTLINE-COLOR: ; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; OUTLINE-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 13px; VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border-top-left-radius: 0px 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px 0px; -webkit-box-shadow: none\">    I have found that the interpretation of Romans 13 repeated at the OAK Initiative and in many Christian circles is not helpful to the cause in America currently. In fact, it doesn’t differ much at all from the interpretations used in Germany under Hitler. Hitler considered the following his favorite verse.</p>\r\n<p style=\"PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent; MARGIN: 0px 0px 20px 0.5in; OUTLINE-COLOR: ; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; OUTLINE-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 13px; VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border-top-left-radius: 0px 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px 0px; -webkit-box-shadow: none\"><strong style=\"PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent; MARGIN: 0px; OUTLINE-COLOR: ; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; OUTLINE-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 13px; VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border-top-left-radius: 0px 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px 0px; -webkit-box-shadow: none\">Let every soul be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and the authorities that exist are appointed by God (Romans 13:1).</strong></p>\r\n<p style=\"PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent; MARGIN: 0px 0px 20px; OUTLINE-COLOR: ; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; OUTLINE-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 13px; VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border-top-left-radius: 0px 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px 0px; -webkit-box-shadow: none\">    He was able to use this belief to influence and eventually control the church. I have also found this belief to be a hindrance when endeavoring to mobilize church leaders against ungodly immoral or unconstitutional acts or laws of the government. Some interpret the following verse as the limits to obedience.</p>\r\n<p style=\"PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent; MARGIN: 0px 0px 20px 0.5in; OUTLINE-COLOR: ; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; OUTLINE-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 13px; VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border-top-left-radius: 0px 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px 0px; -webkit-box-shadow: none\"><strong style=\"PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent; MARGIN: 0px; OUTLINE-COLOR: ; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; OUTLINE-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 13px; VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border-top-left-radius: 0px 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px 0px; -webkit-box-shadow: none\">For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to evil. Do you want to be unafraid of the authority? Do what is good, and you will have praise from the same (Romans 13:3).</strong></p>\r\n<p style=\"PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent; MARGIN: 0px 0px 20px; OUTLINE-COLOR: ; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; OUTLINE-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 13px; VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border-top-left-radius: 0px 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px 0px; -webkit-box-shadow: none\">    In other words, once a governing power has ceased to terrorize evil works and reward good works, it has become illegitimate and has ceased to require biblical obedience to such governments or laws. This may have been the dominant view of our founders. However, today you will hear this countered with I Peter 2:13,<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> </span><strong style=\"PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent; MARGIN: 0px; OUTLINE-COLOR: ; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; OUTLINE-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 13px; VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border-top-left-radius: 0px 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px 0px; -webkit-box-shadow: none\">“Therefore submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord\'s sake, whether to the king as supreme.”</strong><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> </span>However, one will never hear the following verse, which also echoes the second verse of Romans 13, and tends to strengthen that view.</p>\r\n<p style=\"PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent; MARGIN: 0px 0px 20px; OUTLINE-COLOR: ; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; OUTLINE-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 13px; VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border-top-left-radius: 0px 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px 0px; -webkit-box-shadow: none\"><strong style=\"PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent; MARGIN: 0px; OUTLINE-COLOR: ; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; OUTLINE-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 13px; VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border-top-left-radius: 0px 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px 0px; -webkit-box-shadow: none\">          Or to governors, as to those who are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers and for the praise of those who do good (I Peter 2:14).</strong></p>\r\n<p style=\"PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent; MARGIN: 0px 0px 20px; OUTLINE-COLOR: ; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; OUTLINE-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 13px; VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border-top-left-radius: 0px 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px 0px; -webkit-box-shadow: none\">    Likewise, almost never do we hear one of the most clearly exhibited verses in the New Testament, the apostolic declaration of Acts 5:29:<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> </span><strong style=\"PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent; MARGIN: 0px; OUTLINE-COLOR: ; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; OUTLINE-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 13px; VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border-top-left-radius: 0px 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px 0px; -webkit-box-shadow: none\">“But Peter and the other apostles answered and said: ‘We ought to obey God rather than men.’”</strong></p>\r\n<p style=\"PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent; MARGIN: 0px 0px 20px; OUTLINE-COLOR: ; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; OUTLINE-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 13px; VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border-top-left-radius: 0px 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px 0px; -webkit-box-shadow: none\">    Once again we find the church in need of the apostolic direction that the early church had on this issue. Today it is predominantly absent.</p>\r\n<p style=\"PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent; MARGIN: 0px 0px 20px; OUTLINE-COLOR: ; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; OUTLINE-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 13px; VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border-top-left-radius: 0px 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px 0px; -webkit-box-shadow: none\">    The section I referred to earlier in I Peter 2:13-14 ends with the exhortation in verse 17,<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> </span><strong style=\"PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent; MARGIN: 0px; OUTLINE-COLOR: ; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; OUTLINE-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 13px; VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border-top-left-radius: 0px 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px 0px; -webkit-box-shadow: none\">“Honor all people. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king.”</strong><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> </span>This puts the honor of the king on the same level of honoring all people, although it is specifically singled out. This does not say to obey the king that you are honoring any more than it says to obey the people that you are honoring. This is significant because when this was written, the person was the law since they had no constitution.  Much more than now, they had rulers, not governors. This is a significant difference and is the main stronghold that we must take aim upon to set people free from the bondage of incorrect interpretation and application.</p>\r\n<p style=\"PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent; MARGIN: 0px 0px 20px; OUTLINE-COLOR: ; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; OUTLINE-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 13px; VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border-top-left-radius: 0px 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px 0px; -webkit-box-shadow: none\">    Among the nations, and unlike any nation existing at the time the Bible was written, we have a nation with a unique constitution and a legally binding set of documents presenting what our founders said was the line of authority for legitimate governments. Primary to these, and all of our laws, is what the Supreme Court has called “the organic law of the United States”, known as the Declaration of Independence. It states: </p>\r\n<p style=\"PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent; MARGIN: 0px 0px 20px 0.5in; OUTLINE-COLOR: ; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; OUTLINE-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 13px; VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border-top-left-radius: 0px 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px 0px; -webkit-box-shadow: none\">“... to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed....”</p>\r\n<p style=\"PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent; MARGIN: 0px 0px 20px; OUTLINE-COLOR: ; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; OUTLINE-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 13px; VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border-top-left-radius: 0px 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px 0px; -webkit-box-shadow: none\">    This clarifies the interpretation of Romans 13:1, which our Founders held and was different than that of the Europeans. They believed the higher powers receive their God-ordained authority from the Creator (earlier in the same sentence) through the consent of the people! This is an important distinction and echoes Acts 5:29. The Declaration continues, “That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government . . .” thus showing that their interpretation of Scripture is the less heard, but very legitimate interpretation that when a Government ceases to punish the evildoer, but instead punishes the good, it forfeits its right to the authority granted by God.</p>\r\n<p style=\"PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent; MARGIN: 0px 0px 20px; OUTLINE-COLOR: ; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; OUTLINE-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 13px; VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border-top-left-radius: 0px 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px 0px; -webkit-box-shadow: none\"><a href=\"http://www.theoakinitiative.org/oak-leaf-17\">READ MORE AT THE OAK INITIATIVE&gt;&gt;&gt;</a></p>\r\n</p>\r\n</span></span></p>\r\n<p> </p>\r\n<p> </p>','',1,75,'2011-12-21 17:52:40',62,'The Oak Initiative','2012-02-04 13:10:05',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-12-21 17:52:40','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',3,65,'','',1,383,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),(427,0,'MSNBC-2 women share 1st kiss at US Navy ship\'s return ','msnbc-2-women-share-1st-kiss-at-us-navy-ships-return','<p><strong><img src=\"images/stories/fruit/nofruitsandnuts.jpg\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"7\" width=\"101\" height=\"101\" align=\"left\" />Kiss marks first time on record that a same-sex couple was chosen for homecoming tradition</strong></p>\r\n<p>By BROCK VERGAKIS (Pronounced \"braaaaughkK vur gag us\")</p>\r\n<div id=\"source\"><img src=\"http://msnbcmedia3.msn.com/i/msnbc/Components/Sources/sourceAP.gif\" border=\"0\" /></div>\r\n<div>updated <abbr style=\"display: inline;\" title=\"2011-12-22T01:51:40\">1 hour 24 minutes ago</abbr>2011-12-22T01:51:40</div>\r\n<div><a href=\"http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45753034/ns/us_news-life/\">Article published here-MSNBC wants exclusive credit for covering this Sodom &amp; Gomorrah update&gt;&gt;&gt;</a></div>\r\n<div>{jcomments on}</div>\r\n<div id=\"intelliTXT\">\r\n<div>\r\n<hr />\r\n</div>\r\n<div><strong>WHEN IS ENOUGH GOING TO BE ENOUGH WITH THIS GODLESS CREW? </strong></div>\r\n<div><strong> </strong></div>\r\n<div><strong>\"WOE UNTO YOU WHO CALL EVIL GOOD AND GOOD EVIL.\"</strong></div>\r\n</div>','',1,60,'2011-12-22 02:10:05',62,'From the No Fruits & Nuts Department','2012-03-25 23:36:16',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-12-22 02:10:05','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','{\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"show_section\":\"\",\"link_section\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_pdf_icon\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"language\":\"\",\"keyref\":\"\",\"readmore\":\"\"}',4,193,'','',1,435,'{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\"}',0,'*','',''),