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Canada and the United States: Time for a Joint Threat Assessment

HSPI Commentary 02

April 22, 2009

Sharon Cardash, Frank Cilluffo, and James Jay Carafano

Currently Canada and the United States share information and intelligence; cooperate extensively on law enforcement issues—particularly border-related crime and terrorist travel; and work together to thwart potential air and sea threats. Both countries routinely, and respectively, produce national intelligence assessments that are frequently published in unclassified form so that… Continue

Added by C on April 23, 2009 at 1:00pm — No Comments

Urgent: EU may block internet by 5th May

http://blackouteurope.eu/

URGENT - VOTING IN EU PARLIAMENT 5th of MAY 2009

Don't let the EU parliament lock up the Internet! There will be no way back!

Act now!

Internet access is not conditional

Everyone who owns a website has an interest in defending the free use of Internet... so has everyone who uses Google or Skype... everyone who expresses their opinions freely, does research… Continue

Added by Rufus on April 23, 2009 at 9:30am — 7 Comments

Jane Harman: Angry, Partisan, Civil Liberties Extremist

Published on Wednesday, April 22, 2009 by Salon.com

by Glenn Greenwald

Blue Dog Rep. Jane Harman -- once the most vigorous Democratic cheerleader of Bush's NSA warrantless eavesdropping program -- is rip-roarin' angry today. Apparently, her private conversations were eavesdropped on by the U.S. Government! This is a grave outrage that, as she told Andrea Mitchell just moments ago, demands a… Continue

Added by Marklar on April 22, 2009 at 9:19pm — 1 Comment

Steve Quayle Issues Serious ORANGE ALERT!

Steve Quayle Issues Serious ORANGE ALERT!

Submitted by SadInAmerica on Mon, 04/20/2009 - 3:06pm.

To all those who have taken an oath to defend the U.S. against all enemies foreign and domestic - BE ADVISED of the following... ~ AUDIO

Over the next 6 months, law enforcement and the military will be given unlawful and illegal orders to round up and purge all dissidents against the New World Order crowd. The purge is the systematic liquidation of all those identified… Continue

Added by Rivkah Cohen on April 22, 2009 at 8:47pm — 5 Comments

Barry Cooper on Jack Blood's Deadline Live Radio Mp3 April 22 2009

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Added by truth on April 22, 2009 at 6:00pm — 1 Comment

Vilsack pledges better push on biotech crops

. Publication: Des Moines Register

If there was any question about how the Obama administration would get behind agricultural biotechnology, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack is removing any doubt. In fact, he says he’s going to do a better job than the Bush administration.

Just back from the G8 summit in Italy, Vilsack pledged today to bring a “more… Continue

Added by C on April 22, 2009 at 12:25pm — 1 Comment

NIST Announces Three-Phase Plan for Smart Grid Standards

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has announced a three-phase plan to expedite development of key standards for a Smart Grid, a nationwide network that uses information technology to deliver electricity efficiently, reliably and securely.

Smart Grid is a key component of the Obama Administration’s commitment to moving the nation toward energy independence, and funding to spur the development process was included in the recently passed American Recovery and… Continue

Added by C on April 22, 2009 at 12:08pm — No Comments

Afghanistan Declares Its First National Park

One of six natural lakes now protected in Afghanistan's fist national park, Band-e-Amir.

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) applauded Afghanistan’s National Environment Protection Agency (NEPA), which announced today the… Continue

Added by C on April 22, 2009 at 11:34am — No Comments

Top Officials to Dedicate New U.S. Intelligence Facility (IARPA) in Md.'s Largest Research Park

U.S. Director of National Intelligence Dennis C. Blair, U.S. Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D- Md.), House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) and Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger (D-Md.) will be among the senior officials dedicating the new U.S. Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity’s (IARPA) building on Monday, April 27, at the University of Maryland’s M-Square – the state’s largest research park. http://www.iarpa.gov/index.html

The new… Continue

Added by C on April 22, 2009 at 11:30am — No Comments

Israel claims anti-Zionism is racism!

Why did the European Nations walk out? Why did the Jewish State, as well as Israel, boycott the conference?

Can it be that Neo Cons and liberals can't face an inconvenient truth? i.e. that Israel was founded on lies, terrorism, murder, ethnic cleansing and has existed in like manner ever since!

Are we to believe that the only people who can never, ever be accused of racism - despite the Talmud and the facts we see in reports from Palestine - are the Jews? Just as the only… Continue

Added by Rufus on April 22, 2009 at 7:30am — 3 Comments

April 21, 2009 is Yom Hashoah Day, The Auschwitz Album - the day of remembrance

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April 21, 2009 is Yom Hashoah Day, The Auschwitz Album - the day of remembrance

http://www1.yadvashem.org/exhibitions/album_auschwitz/mutimedia/index.html

also here - http://boudicabpi.boudica.us/?p=112

Please light a special Yellow Candle, if you have one, or any yahrzeit… Continue

Added by Charles Kolb on April 22, 2009 at 1:24am — No Comments

Obama Pushing Treaty To Ban Reloading, Even BB guns could be on the chopping block.

Obama Pushing Treaty To Ban Reloading

-- Even BB guns could be on the chopping block

Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Remember CANDIDATE Barack Obama? The guy who “wasn’t going to take away our guns”?

Well, guess what?

Less than 100 days into his administration, he’s never met a gun he didn’t hate.

A week ago, Obama went to Mexico, whined about the United States, and bemoaned (before the whole world) the fact that he didn’t have the… Continue

Added by TheLasersShadow on April 22, 2009 at 12:35am — No Comments

FLASH: 9th Circuit Court of Appeals Rules State and Local Governments Subject to Second Amendment

The Most Liberal Court in the land finally says something that makes sense (Sorta)

Excerpts of the 9th Circuit ruling follow:

To summarize, our task is to determine whether the right to keep and bear arms ranks as fundamental, meaning "necessary to an Anglo-American regime of ordered liberty." Duncan, 391 U.S. at 149 n.14 (emphasis added). If it does, then the Fourteenth Amendment incorporates it. This… Continue

Added by fireguy on April 22, 2009 at 12:30am — 2 Comments

For The Morons Who Think Torture Gets Information, More Proof it DOES NOT work!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090421/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_does_torture_work

Unresolved debate in DOJ memos: Does torture work?

By MATT APUZZO, Associated Press Writer Matt Apuzzo, Associated Press Writer – Tue Apr 21, 5:50 pm ET

WASHINGTON – Interrogators have centuries of experience extracting information from the unwilling. Medieval inquisitors hanged heretics from ceilings. Salem magistrates used fire to elicit witchcraft confessions. And CIA officers… Continue

Added by bob on April 21, 2009 at 11:45pm — 3 Comments

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Added by truth on April 21, 2009 at 6:01pm — No Comments

State urges farmers to participate in first major organic farming survey

April 21, 2009

The Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (VDACS) encourages all organic farmers in the state to participate in the first wide-scale survey of organic producers and producers transitioning from traditional to organic production methods.

The National Agricultural Statistics… Continue

Added by C on April 21, 2009 at 3:13pm — No Comments

South Africa: Violence Lower But Food Used as Election Weapon, Say Monitors

Cape Town — Levels of political violence in South Africa are lower than might be expected but there have been instances of intolerance across the country, and party activists have threatened voters with loss of food and jobs if they vote for the opposition, reports the Election Monitoring Network, a group of civil society organisations which has deployed 500 monitors nationwide to watch for election-related abuse or… Continue

Added by C on April 21, 2009 at 2:30pm — No Comments

Keeping slim is good for the planet, say scientists

Maintaining a healthy body weight is good news for the environment, according to a study which appears today in the International Journal of Epidemiology.

Because food production is a major contributor to global warming, a lean population, such as that seen in… Continue

Added by C on April 21, 2009 at 1:00pm — No Comments

Honda unveils helmet that lets wearer control a robot by thought alone

Ian Sample

Washington Post

Tue, 31 Mar 2009 01:54 UTC…

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Added by truth on April 20, 2009 at 10:42pm — No Comments

Bombshell: Rep. Jane Harman Caught on Tape Agreeing to Lobby for Alleged AIPAC/Israel Spies?

Alternet

Posted by Jeremy Scahill, Rebel Reports at 8:50 AM on April 20, 2009.

Harman was allegedly heard saying she'd 'waddle into' the AIPAC case in return for support for her bid to become chair of the Intelligence Committee.

This is a huge story:… Continue

Added by Marklar on April 20, 2009 at 10:12pm — 2 Comments