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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Biotech Messages and Global Food Legislation

Two characteristics seem to be emerging from the Obama Administration's agriculture policy -- a global outlook and confidence in technology solutions.

U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack lately has been talking about the link between food security and global stability, warning that unless countries take immediate steps to sharply boost agricultural productivity and reduce hunger, the world risks fresh social instability.

Just how to do that is an important but… Continue

Added by C on April 23, 2009 at 1:30pm — No Comments

Dr. Katherine Albrecht to Head US Media Relations for Ixquick.com

Dr. Katherine Albrecht to Head US Media Relations for Ixquick.com

Noted privacy expert will help raise awareness for privacy-friendly search engine.

The world's most privacy-friendly search engine, Ixquick.com, announced today that Dr. Katherine Albrecht will head up the company's US media relations and marketing outreach efforts.

Dr. Albrecht is a respected expert in the privacy arena, with a decade of experience as a privacy researcher, activist, and frequent… Continue

Added by fireguy on April 23, 2009 at 5:45pm — 2 Comments

FDA Approval of 'Morning-After Pill' for Minors Without Prescription

Added by C on April 24, 2009 at 11:34am — 2 Comments

The GCC Engineering Web Site Status Update - 10/28/2009

We have just lost millions of websites through geocities, some were archived including ours, but our DX-398 page did not. This is terrible! Yahoo! shut down 85% of the web with their budget loss!

I was browsing the internet on my T Mobile G1 and I came across this site here that archives the geocities internet webpages and possibly other sites that have been taken down. I want to show you a site that has my sites that have been updated since 2005. I don't know if it backed up the… Continue

Added by WTRH-AM-AE on April 24, 2009 at 10:30pm — 5 Comments

USSA On The Path to Slavery

Global Warming Scam by Congress continues to divert attention away from serious issues.

* Social Security faces an unfunded liability of $10.4 trillion.

* Medicare's unfunded liability is $61.6 trillion - six times greater than Social Security's.

* The prescription drug benefit alone faces a funding gap of $16.6 trillion - more than 50 percent greater than Social Security's.

* By 2020, the combined deficits in these programs will consume more than one-fourth of all… Continue

Added by Jim Neubacher on April 25, 2009 at 5:00am — No Comments

What They Craved - Torture Used to Try to Link Saddam with 9/11

By MARJORIE COHN

When I testified last year before the House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties about Bush interrogation policies, Congressman Trent Franks (R-Ariz) stated that former CIA Director Michael Hayden had confirmed that the Bush administration only waterboarded Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Abu Zabaydah, and Abd al-Rahim al-Nashirit for… Continue

Added by Marklar on April 25, 2009 at 5:26am — No Comments

Recent event that they dont want you to know about, read entire post to get the full picture

From Larry Shaughnessy

CNN Pentagon Producer

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Missing vials of a potentially dangerous virus have prompted an Army investigation into the disappearance from a lab in Maryland.

Fort Detrick is the home of the Army's top biological research facility.

The Army's Criminal Investigation Command agents have been visiting Fort Detrick in Frederick, Maryland, to investigate the disappearance of the vials. Christopher Grey,… Continue

Added by Daniel F Swain on April 27, 2009 at 12:17pm — No Comments

Break from the humdrum.....

Sail the Atlantic....Azores next stop.....

Good… Continue

Added by Scotty Swashbuckeler on April 25, 2009 at 9:43am — No Comments

Want an AR-15? Found complete Lowers for $240, check it out.

http://essentialarms.com/LOWERSANDPARTS.HTML

Great deal I don't know how many are in stock.

Added by TheLasersShadow on April 20, 2009 at 8:30pm — 2 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

"The Big Money"

Another song by Rush.

Big money

goes around the world

Big money underground

Big money got a mighty voice

Big money make no sound

Big money pull a million strings

Big money hold the prize

Big money weave a mighty web

Big money draw the flies

Sometimes pushing people around

Sometimes pulling out the rug

Sometimes pushing all the buttons

Sometimes pulling out the plug

Its the power and the glory

Its a war in… Continue

Added by fireguy on April 19, 2009 at 10:28pm — No Comments

Torture Has Lasting Effects, Who Would Have Thought?

http://www.latimes.com/features/health/la-na-psychology20-2009apr20,0,139316.story

Mental damage from CIA tactics is disputed

Justice memos say no permanent harm was inflicted from interrogation techniques, but some doctors and psychologists disagree.

By Sarah Gantz and Ben Meyerson

April 20, 2009

Reporting from Washington -- The conclusion in recently released Justice Department memos that CIA interrogation techniques would not cause prolonged… Continue

Added by bob on April 20, 2009 at 12:32am — No Comments

A Carbon Cap-N-Trade Alternative?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20090419/sc_mcclatchy/3213792

Lawmakers forge alternative to cap-and-trade proposal

By Les Blumenthal, McClatchy Newspapers Les Blumenthal, Mcclatchy Newspapers – Sun Apr 19, 6:00 am ET

WASHINGTON — A growing number of lawmakers who are deeply involved in the effort to reduce greenhouse gases and global warming are beginning to question "cap-and-trade," the current hot-button solution to the problem.

The chair of the… Continue

Added by bob on April 20, 2009 at 12:44am — No Comments