Nikki's Blog – September 2010 Archive (8)

10,000 TSA employees get secret clearances

WASHINGTON – The new head of the Transportation Security Administration say he's giving 10,000 of the agency's employees access to secret intelligence information to better enable them to detect threats and stop terrorists.

Read more:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100923/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_tsa_secret_clearances

Added by Nikki on September 27, 2010 at 8:51pm — 2 Comments

Was the WTC nuked?

In an interview with T. Mark Hightower, an aerospace and chemical engineer, the evidence for mini-nukes being used to bring down the twin towers is discussed.

http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/mini-nukes_237.html

Added by Nikki on September 17, 2010 at 10:29pm — 6 Comments

Iceland Considers Charges in Nation’s Banking Collapse

By BLOOMBERG NEWS

Iceland’s Parliament will consider whether to charge the country’s leaders in 2008 with negligence in connection with the nation’s banking collapse, after a committee recommended on Saturday that they be indicted.

A parliamentary committee will ask the full legislature to indict former Prime Minister Geir H. Haarde, former Foreign Minister Ingibjorg Solrun Gisladottir, former Finance Minister Arni M. Mathiesen and former Business Minister Bjorgvin… Continue

Added by Nikki on September 12, 2010 at 5:35pm — No Comments

Canadian pot activist Marc Emery sentenced to five years in US prison

By Stephen C. Webster

Marc Emery, Canada's enigmatic "Prince of Pot" who sold millions of marijuana seeds over the Internet, will face a five year punishment in the United States after a U.S. district judge in Seattle handed down his sentence on Friday.

Emery, founder and publisher of Cannabis Culture magazine, is a longtime and highly vocal Canadian marijuana activist. His wife Jodie maintains that U.S. authorities targeted his operation over… Continue

Added by Nikki on September 11, 2010 at 8:53pm — 3 Comments

Trump Offers to Buy Site of Proposed Downtown Mosque

The media has just reported that Donald Trump is offering to buy the site of the proposed mosque in lower Manhattan. Is he just trying to calm down a heated situation or is he going to run for office?

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/39084934/ns/us_news-life/…

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Added by Nikki on September 9, 2010 at 5:32pm — 2 Comments

Court shuts down CIA torture flights lawsuit

This is very disappointing! But did we really expect justice for those who were tortured?

SAN FRANCISCO -- A Boeing Co subsidiary prevailed on Wednesday against a lawsuit alleging it had helped the CIA illegally transport prisoners to secret facilities overseas, a federal appeals court has ruled.

The 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in San Francisco dismissed the lawsuit against Jeppesen Dataplan Inc, finding that rules protecting state secrets made it impossible… Continue

Added by Nikki on September 8, 2010 at 10:11pm — 1 Comment

Simpson: Veterans are not helping us to save the country in this fiscal mess

VVA to Alan Simpson: Don’t Target Benefits Veterans Have Earned

September 4, 2010 posted by Michael Leon

- When the US Government sends its sons and daughters off to war, it must be prepared to pay the full price; a commitment Alan Simpson and his supporters do not understand. -

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) – “Former Senator Alan Simpson seems to have jumped from the verbal frying pan into the fire with his latest comments on government excess, this time targeting how ‘the veterans… Continue

Added by Nikki on September 4, 2010 at 5:25pm — 1 Comment

The True Cost of the War

by Paul Craig Roberts

Obama’s "end of Iraq war" speech must have shattered any remaining belief in him. Forced to appease both his supporters and the warmonger right-wing, who denounce him as a Muslim and a Marxist, Obama resorted to Orwellian DoubleSpeak. He could only announce an end to the war by praising the president who started it and the troops who fought it. Yet, as most earthlings, if not Americans, surely know by now, the war was based on a lie and on intentional deception. The… Continue

Added by Nikki on September 3, 2010 at 2:41pm — No Comments