February 2011
Judge uses Obama's words against him - Washington... →
**FILE** President Obama talks about his health care plan, Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2009, at Portsmouth High School in Portsmouth, N.H.(Associated Press)
In ruling against President Obama‘s health care law, federal Judge Roger Vinson used Mr. Obama‘s own position from the 2008 campaign against him, when the then-Illinois senator argued there were other ways to achieve reform short of requiring every...
Egypt Rapidly Running Out Of Food | zero hedge →
Submitted by Tyler Durden
Forget Egypt ATMs running out of cash. A far bigger problem for the country is starting to materialize, one which would promptly shift the revolution into overdrive: the disappearance of all staples. CNN reports: “While discontent, resentment and nationalism continue to fuel demonstrations, one vital staple is in short supply: food. Many families in Egypt are...
Authoritarian governments start stockpiling food... →
Authoritarian governments across the world are aggressively stockpiling food as a buffer against soaring food costs which they fear may stoke popular discontent.
Riots started in Tunisia initally over the price of staple food like sugar, salt and grain
By Ben Farmer in Islamabad
Commodities traders have warned they are seeing the first signs of panic buying from states concerned about the...
Jon Huntsman Resigns, Fueling Speculation Among... →
Let me make this short and sweet: I’ve got a better shot at the GOP Presidential nomination than Jon Huntsman. Politico is at it again, marketing a McCain-like “maverick” as a realistic Republican candidate.
Jon M. Huntsman Jr., the U.S. ambassador to China, sent a resignation letter to President Barack Obama on Monday and now is likely to explore a Republican presidential...
A photo from Egypt that makes me extremely... →
Let’s just say that this pic doesn’t give me warm fuzzies about the future of the country or the region. It certainly didn’t take long for the Islamists to use Israel as a scapegoat for Mubarak’s pathetic regime. In truth, the Muslim Brotherhood is positioning the weak-willed Muhammad ElBaradei as a puppet president who they will control. Ambassador John Bolton says...
Stuxnet: Could Cyber Super-Weapon Be Turned on... →
The world’s most powerful cyber weapon may have been originally designed to attack Iran’s nuclear program, but it could also be manipulated the cause catastrophic damage to any industrialized nation — including the United States — experts said recently.
Stuxnet, the first computer worm ever discovered that is potent enough to physically alter the functioning of a...
200GB to 25GB: Canada gets first, bitter dose of... →
Metered Internet usage (also called “Usage-Based Billing”) is coming to Canada, and it’s going to cost Internet users. While an advance guard of Canadians are expressing creative outrage at the prospect of having to pay inflated prices for Internet use charged by the gigabyte, the consequences probably haven’t set in for most consumers. Now, however, independent...
“Oil over $100 as Egypt protests intensify”
– FT.com / Middle East & North Africa - Oil over $100 as Egypt protests intensify
Israel shocked by Obama's betrayal of Mubarak |... →
(Reuters) - If Egypt’s President Hosni Mubarak is toppled, Israel will lose one of its very few friends in a hostile neighborhood and President Barack Obama will bear a large share of the blame, Israeli pundits said on Monday.
Political commentators expressed shock at how the United States as well as its major European allies appeared to be ready to dump a staunch strategic ally of...
Home Ownership—Nearly 11 Percent of US Houses... →
I usually find the quarterly homeowner vacancy and homeownership report from Census pretty lackluster, but the latest one released this morning was anything but.
America’s home ownership rate, after holding steady for a while, took a pretty big plunge in Q4, from 66.9 percent to 66.5 percent. That’s down from the 2004 peak of 69.2 percent and the lowest level since...
Seeing red, PAC is down on Scott Brown -... →
Donor wants its green back
The National Republican Trust spent nearly $100,000 last year to help Scott Brown win the U.S. Senate seat of the late Edward M. Kennedy, Massachusetts Democrat, but now the conservative political group wishes it had that money back to help kick Mr. Brown out of office.
Saying the Republican senator is no different from a Democrat, the head of the group is calling...
WatchUndercover investigators buy guns without background checks
New York (CNN) — Undercover investigators purchased semiautomatic weapons at an Arizona gun show, despite telling vendors that they probably could not pass background checks, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg told reporters Monday.
“We have demonstrated how easy it is for anyone to buy a semiautomatic handgun and a high ...
January 2011
Hundreds protest billionaires' talks | The Desert... →
*** Have you wondered where CODE PINK has been since Pres Bush left office? You remember„ the ladies in PINK who protested the Iraq War, day and night and got on the nightly news, nightly? I mean, where have they gone? There’s still two wars going on, soldiers are still dying.
Well, wonder no more!! They are now trying to make the Koch Brothers the new George Soros. You gotta love...
The downsizing of America – Oil production off... →
There is a slow burn going on and it is happening in your wallet and also in the gas tank of your car. The US Treasury and Federal Reserve have made it their mission to slowly cut the value of each one of those green dollars you have. Since many Americans are struggling to make the monthly bills, many producers realize that they cannot up the price on regularly bought consumption products. ...
WatchGuard OFFICER Found Strangled in Chapel at Washington State Prison
MONROE, Wash. (AP) — A corrections officer who had raised concerns about being the sole guard in the chapel of a Washington state prison was strangled there over the weekend, and an inmate serving a life sentence is the primary suspect, authorities said Sunday.
Jayme Biendl, 34, was found dead Saturday night in the...
Barack “Gipper” Obama? « Hot Air →
by Jazz Shaw
I’ve seen some amazing mental gymnastics in my time by people stretching and twisting in an attempt to build a political meme, but Frank Rich truly brings home the gold medal this weekend. Apparently unhappy with the president’s failure to sit in a corner and pout about having to work with Republicans this session, Rich trots out one of the most stinging insults he can find for...
While Cairo Burns, Obama Parties | The Blog on... →
I am veteran White House reporter Keith Koffler. White House Dossier is the only 24/7, independent, and totally unauthorized White House blog.
The Washington A-List was out in force Saturday night at the farewell party for senior adviser David Axelrod, with a roster of guests featuring Cabinet secretaries, big shot journos and – President Obama.
As revolution threatened to sweep Egypt and...
WatchBy Jim Meyers and Kathleen Walter
Donald Trump is mad as hell — and he’s letting everybody know it.
In a wide-ranging exclusive interview with Newsmax.TV on Friday, the billionaire real estate mogul and reality TV star lashes out at China, OPEC, Obama’s Middle East dealings, the president’s State of the Union address and more. Trump takes aim at America’s “horrible” trade agreements,...
Vending Machines Try Electronic Self-Defense -... →
By ILAN BRAT
Tough economic times have spurred a rash of vending-machine thefts, prompting operators to fight back with sales-tracking devices and automated text-message alerts.
Theft rings have sprung up in Georgia, South Carolina, Florida, Mississippi and New York, among other states. More schools, hospitals and other big vending customers are complaining of such break-ins, especially...
Beck: I have ‘about 15 threats on me at any given... →
During a Fox News interview with Bill O’Reilly that aired Friday, Glenn Beck said he has around fifteen threats against him at any given moment.
“I’ve got about 15, I don’t know what you [Bill O’Reilly] have, but I’ve got about fifteen threats on me at any given time,” Beck said.
O’Reilly added that both he and Beck have heightened security to protect their safety. In an episode of...
“Poll: What was the Obamateurism of the Week?”
– Poll: What was the Obamateurism of the Week? « Hot Air
“Video: Robert Redford, environmental hypocrite?”
– Video: Robert Redford, environmental hypocrite? « Hot Air
Guard Found Strangled at Washington State Prison -... →
MONROE, Wash. — A corrections officer who had raised concerns about being the sole guard in the chapel of a Washington state prison was strangled there over the weekend, and an inmate serving a life sentence is the primary suspect, authorities said Sunday.
Jayme Biendl, 34, was found dead Saturday night in the chapel at Monroe Correctional Complex about 30 miles northeast of Seattle,...
“Egypt in Revolt A Nation in the Hands of Youth”
– ***PHOTO ESSAY
Newsmax - Egypt in Revolt
“Beware Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood”
– Beware Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood - The Daily Beast
FoxNews.com - Man Survives 1,000-Foot Fall Down... →
SGURR CHOINNICH MOR, Scotland — A 35-year-old mountain climber who tumbled almost 1,000 feet Saturday not only survived the fall, but was standing on his feet looking at a map when rescuers arrived, the (London) Daily Telegraph reported.
The unidentified man had just reached the summit of Sgurr Choinnich Mor about five miles east of Ben Nevis, when he lost his footing and fell down the...
Dozens dead as thousands escape Egypt prisons -... →
Bodies littered the road outside a Cairo prison and troops with bayonets fixed moved into another facility after thousands of convicts broke out of jails or were abandoned by guards in protest-hit Egypt. Soldiers set up checkpoints along the Nile in the upmarket Maadi district, near the notorious
Tora prison, searching cars for escapees, as protests against President Hosni Mubarak raged into...
Cairo: Anger starting to focus on Israel, US →
‘Where is your democracy?’ protesters ask in anti-American, anti-Mubarak rallies.
CAIRO – Saturday’s optimism on the streets of Cairo for imminent political change gave way to anger on Sunday, as thousands of demonstrators became increasingly frustrated with the lack of response from major world leaders, especially the US. During the main protest on Sunday in downtown Cairo, one man painted...
Obama will go down in history as the president who... →
The street revolts in Tunisia and Egypt show that the United States can do very little to save its friends from the wrath of their citizens.
By Aluf Benn
Jimmy Carter will go down in American history as “the president who lost Iran,” which during his term went from being a major strategic ally of the United States to being the revolutionary Islamic...
Chris Matthews: Obama Plans Separate Gun-Control... →
By Hiram Reisner
“Hardball” anchor Chris Matthews surprised his MSNBC colleagues during a broadcast before President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address Tuesday night with the announcement that Obama is planning a special speech to address gun-control regulation. Matthews revealed the plan during a discussion that centered on why a prepared copy of Obama’s speech did not contain any...
The U.S. Goes Back To The Gold Standard -... →
French economist Jacques Rueff once said “Tomorrow, to save man, we will give him a real currency.” For a world that has suffered nearly 40 years of economy-retarding currency instability, that tomorrow is very near.
If history is any kind of indicator, by 2013 we’ll return to money defined in terms of something real. No currency in history has lasted longer than 42 years...
Interactive Map Of Recent Food Riots And Price... →
Submitted by Tyler Durden
While the Fed refuses to extract its head from deep within the sand of ignorant hubris that only a career in Ivy League education can provide, the world continues to burn, in many places quite literally. For all those who are finding it hard to juggle all the rioting, and confuse their Cairos with their Calcuttas, below we present an interactive map disclosing all...
Fate of Coptic Christians in post-Mubarak Egypt... →
Former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton warns Egypt’s ancient Coptic Christian minority could become increasingly endangered should the protests against Egyptian strongman Hosni Mubarak drive him from power.
The rioting against the Mubarak regime began on Jan. 25, in the wake of the Jan. 15 overthrow of Tunisian dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, with the publicly stated goals of ousting Mubarak...
Ed Schultz ordered by MSNBC to discontinue ‘Psycho... →
MSNBC host Ed Schultz announced Thursday on his radio show that his “Psycho Talk” segment had been discontinued by MSNBC executives.
“I work for somebody,” said Schultz. “I don’t call all the shots.”
Following the abrupt departure of Keith Olbermann from the network, Schultz’s show on MSNBC was moved from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m.
“There’s probably people in positions that are a helluva lot smarter...
Committee Passes Plan for Internet ‘Kill Switch’ |... →
Committee Passes Plan for Internet ‘Kill Switch’ in Egypt — U.S.
Pending legislation that would grant the President of the United States the power to pull the plug on the country’s internet access in a declared “emergency” returned to the forefront this week on the same day Egyptians faced a nation-wide blackout designed to curtail widespread government protests. Egypt flipped it’s so-called...
Would-Be Looters Rip Heads Off Two Egyptian Museum... →
CAIRO (The Blaze/AP) — Would-be looters broke into Cairo’s famed Egyptian Museum, ripping the heads off two mummies and damaging about 10 small artifacts before being caught and detained by soldiers, Egypt’s antiquities chief said Saturday.
Zahi Hawass said the vandals did not manage to steal any of the museum’s antiquities, and that the prized collection was now safe and under...
Text message blows up suicide bomber by accident →
A “Black Widow” suicide bomber planned a terrorist attack in central Moscow on New Year’s Eve but was killed when an unexpected text message set off her bomb too early, according to Russian security sources.
The unnamed woman, who is thought to be part of the same group that struck Moscow’s Domodedovo airport on Monday, intended to detonate a suicide belt near Red...
Controversial Muslim cleric caught being smuggled... →
U.S. border guards got a surprise when they searched a Mexican BMW and found a hardline Muslim cleric - banned from France and Canada - curled up in the boot.
Said Jaziri, who called for the death of a Danish cartoonist that drew pictures of the prophet Mohammed, was being smuggled into California when he was arrested, along with his driver Kenneth Robert Lawler.
The 43-year-old was...
President Obama, say the 'D-Word' - Opinion - Al... →
*** Coming from Aljazeera
US appears to shy away from talk about democracy in Middle East, despite historic anti-government rallies in ally Egypt.
Obama has ‘sought to equate Egypt’s protesters and government as equally pitted parties in the growing conflict’ [AFP]
It’s incredible, really. The president of the United States can’t bring himself to talk about...
Amazon.com Security Flaw Accepts Passwords That... →
An Amazon.com security flaw allows some customers to log in with variations of their actual password that are close to, but not exactly, their real password.
The flaw lets Amazon accept as valid some passwords that have extra characters added on after the 8th character, and also makes the password case-insensitive.
For example, if your password is “Password,” Amazon.com will also let you...
Hannity Talks to Walid About Egyptian Chaos
Big changes coming? Listen
Walid is Consulted by Sean Hannity to Comment on the Situation in Egypt
*** Who is Walid?
About the author
Born in Bethlehem of Judea, Walid’s grandfather was the Muslim Mukhtar (chieftain) of Beit Sahour-Bethlehem (The Shepherd’s Fields) and a friend of Haj-Ameen Al-Husseni, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and notorious friend of Adolf Hitler.
...
It's Not Just Egypt: Japan Is Headed for the Brink... →
The headline sounds relatively innocuous: “Japan Credit Rating Cut by S&P on Absence of Strategy to Curb Debt Levels”. However, the ramifications are anything but.
Japan’s credit rating was cut for the first time in nine years by Standard & Poor’s as persistent deflation and political gridlock undermine efforts to reduce a 943 trillion yen ($11 trillion) debt burden.
...
My Way News - Jordan's opposition: Arabs will... →
By JAMAL HALABY
AMMAN, Jordan (AP) - The leader of Jordan’s powerful Muslim Brotherhood warned Saturday that unrest in Egypt will spread across the Mideast and Arabs will topple leaders allied with the United States.
Hammam Saeed’s comments were made at a protest outside the Egyptian Embassy in Amman, inspired by massive rallies in neighboring Egypt demanding the downfall of...
““Socialism, a large dose of which we have in America today, brings out the...”
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