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New Jersey men make court appearance on terror charge
Post Date: 2010-06-07 16:43:51 by WhiteSands
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Newark, New Jersey -- Two New Jersey men arrested Saturday for allegedly planning to "wage violent jihad" made their first court appearance Monday. Mohamed Mahmood Alessa, 20, of North Bergen, New Jersey, and Carlos Eduardo Almonte, 24, of Elmwood Park, New Jersey, entered U.S. District Court in Newark wearing chains around their waists and wrists. They were read a charge -- one count of conspiracy to kill, maim and murder persons outside of the United States -- which carries a maximum sentence of life in prison. Alessa had bruises on his forehead and cheek. His father, Mahmood Alessa, said they appeared to be fresh. Both defendants said "yes" when asked if they ...
Dow at 7-month lows
Post Date: 2010-06-07 16:39:43 by WhiteSands
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NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Stocks slumped Monday, with the Dow and S&P 500 ending at 7-month lows, after the euro hit a fresh four-year low, adding to worries about the global economy. The Dow Jones industrial average (INDU) lost 115 points, or 1.2%, closing at the lowest point since Nov. 4. The S&P 500 index (SPX) lost 14 points, or 1.4% and closed at its lowest point since Nov. 4. The Nasdaq composite (COMP) fell 45 points, or 2% and closed at its lowest point since Feb. 11. Stocks seesawed through the morning before turning resoundingly lower in the afternoon. News that BP is capturing some of the flow of the oil leak seemed to put an early bid under the market. But any ...
Severe weather rakes Midwest; 7 dead
Post Date: 2010-06-07 16:35:37 by WhiteSands
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Seven people were killed in Ohio as severe thunderstorms and tornadoes raked the Midwest on Saturday and early Sunday, authorities said. The deaths came in Wood County when a tornado touched down there overnight, state Emergency Management Agency spokeswoman Kelli Blackwell told CNN. Wood County is about 30 miles south of Toledo. A 5-year-old child was among the deaths in Millbury, Ohio, according to Wood County dispatchers, who received the information from Lake Township Police Chief Mark Hummer. Four other victims ranged in age from 20 to 56, dispatchers said, and details on the remaining two were not immediately available. A man was also found dead in the street in Millbury, and two ...
Bloodlust of NJ 'jihadists'
Post Date: 2010-06-07 16:22:31 by Badeye
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Bloodlust of NJ 'jihadists' Pair craved terror carnage, feds say By PERRY CHIARAMONTE, C.J. SULLIVAN, MURRAY WEISS and CHUCK BENNETT Last Updated: 11:55 AM, June 7, 2010 Posted: 3:28 AM, June 7, 2010 They were the hate-filled, homegrown terrorists next door -- ready to cut your head off if they got the chance. "They only fear you when you have a gun and when you, when you start killing them and when you take their head, and you go like this, and you behead it on camera," hissed terrorist wannabe Mohamed Alessa, 20, of North Bergen, NJ, during an undercover operation in 2009, a federal complaint unsealed yesterday revealed. "My soul cannot rest until I shed ...
You Don’t Want Him in a Foxhole with You (The Kenyan)
Post Date: 2010-06-07 16:00:13 by no gnu taxes
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Juan Williams — to the amazement of some of his co-panelists — let it rip on Fox News Sunday. The subject was nominally the Sestak and Romanoff scandals, but Williams found the bigger theme: -- I think the problem here is this is an administration that, as Hillary Clinton famously pointed out, you may not want to have answer the 3:00 a.m. call. These are guys who have tremendous vision about legislative achievements and specific things like health care, going forward on immigration, those difficult issues for America that America so far has failed to deal with. But when it comes to the crisis, when it comes to the gulf oil spill, the wars, the recession, they feel as if ...
Obama is making a bad situation worse
Post Date: 2010-06-07 15:50:47 by no gnu taxes
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In between his meek response to the oil spill fiasco and his lame attempt to talk his way out of the Joe Sestak pseudo-bribery scandal, President Obama on Friday probably thought he had something cool to talk about: the economy. People are still hurting, the president conceded, but look on the bright side: Unemployment has fallen two whole percentage points to 9.7 percent, and the economy is getting stronger, with three consecutive quarters of positive GDP growth. His stimulus package was supposed to produce shovel-ready jobs that would repair our infrastructure much like the various public-works programs instituted by Hoover and Roosevelt. But instead of spending the money on building ...
The Kenyan White House Resident Knew….The Asshole Knew And He Did Nothing
Post Date: 2010-06-07 14:24:50 by no gnu taxes
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Barack Obama tries to pick the tar balls off of his legacy What did the President know and when did he know it? According to Richard Wolffe Barack Obama was apprised not only of the leak, but of the magnitude of the leak, how hard it would be to repair and how long it could go on: Critics have bashed President Obama for being slow to seize the political initiative in combating the BP oil spill in the Gulf Coast, now widely believed to be the worst environmental disaster in U.S. history. The White House has battled back, releasing a timeline of events showing that Obama was briefed—and deploying the Coast Guard—within 24 hours of the Deepwater Horizon blowout. What has not ...
The Kenyan -- Blaming Bush/Republicans for his policies and failures (and everything under the sun)
Post Date: 2010-06-07 12:58:10 by no gnu taxes
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Typical Democrat. Create a problem, then blame Bush or the Republicans for your creation when it blows up. Further proof that when Barack Obama tells you the sky is blue, it’s best to stick your head out the window and check for yourself. The BP oil leak, it’s Bush and the Republicans fault. Record deficits created by Obama and the Democrats. Nope, not their fault! It’s Bush and the Republicans fault! Al Gore’s marriage disillusionment? You got it! It’s Bush and the Republicans again! Responsibility and accountability are alien to Obama and the Democrats (unless something goes well). That party is even trying to rewrite history by claiming responsibility for the ...
Helen Thomas to Retire 'Effective Immediately' [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2010-06-07 12:32:07 by Badeye
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Helen Thomas to Retire 'Effective Immediately' Published June 07, 2010 | FOXNews.com Print Email Share Comments (0) Text Size DEVELOPING ... Veteran White House correspondent Helen Thomas is retiring, Hearst Corporation announced Monday. The announcement comes after Thomas faced criticism for saying last month that Jews should "get the hell out of Palestine." The statement said the retirement is "effective immediately."
White House: Columnist's remarks on Israel 'offensive and reprehensible' (Gibbs)
Post Date: 2010-06-07 12:18:38 by Badeye
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White House: Columnist's remarks on Israel 'offensive and reprehensible' By Sam Youngman - 06/07/10 11:02 AM ET The White House press secretary rebuked a long-time reporter and columnist over controversial comments about Israel. White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said Monday that comments made by a long-time White House reporter and columnist were "offensive and reprehensible." Helen Thomas remarked in video posted to RabbiLive.com that Jews in Israel should "get the hell out of Palestine" and "go back home to Poland, Germany, America and everywhere else." The comments were made during a White House event on May 27 celebrating Jewish ...
U.S.’s $13 Trillion Debt Poised to Overtake GDP: Chart of Day
Post Date: 2010-06-07 11:20:52 by Badeye
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U.S.’s $13 Trillion Debt Poised to Overtake GDP: Chart of Day Share Business ExchangeTwitterFacebook| Email | Print | A A A By Garfield Reynolds and Wes Goodman June 4 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama is poised to increase the U.S. debt to a level that exceeds the value of the nation’s annual economic output, a step toward what Bill Gross called a “debt super cycle.” The CHART OF THE DAY tracks U.S. gross domestic product and the government’s total debt, which rose past $13 trillion for the first time this month. The amount owed will surpass GDP in 2012, based on forecasts by the International Monetary Fund. The lower panel shows U.S. annual GDP growth as ...
Key Indicators of a New Depression (The Obama Depression)
Post Date: 2010-06-07 11:20:18 by no gnu taxes
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With the mainstream media focusing on the country’s leveling unemployment rate, improving retail sales, and nascent housing recovery, one might think that the US government has successfully navigated the economy through recession and growth has returned. But I will argue that a look under the proverbial hood reveals a very different picture. I believe the data shows that the US economy is badly damaged, and a modern-day depression has begun. In fact, just as World War I was originally called The Great War (and was retroactively renamed after World War II), Peter Schiff has said that one day the world will refer to the 1929-41 era as Great Depression I, and the current period as Great ...
Feds Arrest Analyst Who Allegedly Exposed US Army Killing Of Civilians
Post Date: 2010-06-07 11:13:22 by Brian S
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Website that exposed video says Washington Post withheld video of attack for over a year and didn't release to publicFederal officials have arrested a 22-year-old intelligence analyst who they accuse of leaking classified materials to the web site Wikileaks.org, which released video showing the US military killing innocent civilians in Iraq.In the wake of the arrest, Wikileaks issued a statement alleging that the Washington Post had a copy of the video showing the attack but didn't release it for over a year. A statement on the group's Twitter feed said, "Statement: Washington Post had Collateral murder video for over a year but DID NOT RELEASE IT [sic] it to the ...
Tax Hikes And The Coming 2011 Economic Collapse
Post Date: 2010-06-07 10:40:41 by no gnu taxes
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People can change the volume, the location and the composition of their income, and they can do so in response to changes in government policies. It shouldn't surprise anyone that the nine states without an income tax are growing far faster and attracting more people than are the nine states with the highest income tax rates. People and businesses change the location of income based on incentives. Likewise, who is gobsmacked when they are told that the two wealthiest Americans—Bill Gates and Warren Buffett—hold the bulk of their wealth in the nontaxed form of unrealized capital gains? The composition of wealth also responds to incentives. And it's also simple enough for ...
Why Are We Tolerating Helen Thomas' Journalistic Hypocrisy?
Post Date: 2010-06-07 10:38:38 by Badeye
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Why Are We Tolerating Helen Thomas' Journalistic Hypocrisy? By Judith Miller Published June 07, 2010 AP “Blessed are the peacemakers,” if you can find any in the Middle East. They seem to be in short supply these days. One place not to look is on the Gaza flotilla. According to a radio communication the IDF released over the weekend, when Israeli warships issued a calm, but forceful warning to the “peace” flotilla to change course from Gaza, which is under blockade, and head instead for the Israeli port of Ashdod, an unidentified man on one of the ships – it’s unclear whether he was on the now infamous Mavi Marmara -- replied, in English: “Go back to ...
Ex-Spokesmen Lead Charge for White House Reporter Helen Thomas to Be Fired
Post Date: 2010-06-07 10:32:14 by Badeye
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Ex-Spokesmen Lead Charge for White House Reporter Helen Thomas to Be Fired Published June 06, 2010 Aug. 4, 2009: President Obama mugs for the camera with Hearst White House columnist Helen Thomas during a mutual birthday celebration in the White House briefing room. (Reuters) Two former White House spokesmen say it's time for Hearst reporter Helen Thomas to be fired -- or at least have her White House press credentials revoked -- after she told a rabbi that Israelis should "get the hell out of Palestine." Ari Fleischer, President George W. Bush's press secretary, led the call in an e-mail Friday to the Huffington Post saying Thomas' comments amount to ...
Radio Host Rush Limbaugh Heads Down the Aisle
Post Date: 2010-06-07 10:29:02 by Badeye
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Radio Host Rush Limbaugh Heads Down the Aisle Published June 06, 2010 American radio host and conservative political commentator Rush Limbaugh, 59, wed for the fourth time in a Florida ceremony Saturday, The Palm Beach Post reported. Uncharacteristic to his conservative and anti-gay commentary, Limbaugh reportedly hired British crooner Sir Elton John to play at his Hawaiian-themed wedding. Sir Elton, who is openly gay, will reportedly receive $1 million for the singing gig. Limbaugh married West Palm Beach resident Kathryn Rogers, 33, whom he met at a celebrity golf tournament in 2004. Rogers is a direct descendant of former U.S. President John Adams and her father was a classmate of ...
The Helen Thomas Backlash
Post Date: 2010-06-07 10:05:47 by Badeye
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The Helen Thomas Backlash [Daniel Foster] Former Clinton attorney and White House spokesman Lanny Davis issued the following statement on White House correspondent Helen Thomas's incindiary remarks contra Israel. The statement is lightly edited for clarity: Helen Thomas, who I used to consider a close friend and who I used to respect, has showed herself to be an anti-Semitic bigot. This is not about her criticisms of Israel. She has a right to criticize Israel and that is not the same as being an anti-Semite. However, her statement that Jews in Israel should leave Israel and go back to Poland or Germany is an ancient and well-known anti-Semitic stereotype of the Alien Jew not ...
Two N.J. Men Face Terrorism Charges
Post Date: 2010-06-06 20:28:09 by WhiteSands
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Two New Jersey men were arrested at John F. Kennedy International Airport as they were allegedly trying to board separate flights to Egypt on their way to join the terrorist group Al Shabaab and wage "violent jihad" against people outside the U.S., prosecutors said Sunday. Mohamed Mahmood Alessa, 20 years old, of North Bergen, N.J. and Carlos Eduardo Almonte, 24, of Elmwood Park, N.J., were charged with conspiring to kill, maim and kidnap outside of the U.S., according to the U.S. Attorney's office in Newark, N.J. They face up to life in prison if convicted of the charge. Mr. Alessa, an American whose parents are Palestinian, and Mr. Almonte, a naturalized citizen from the ...
Midwest twisters kill 5; idle nuke plant
Post Date: 2010-06-06 20:06:00 by WhiteSands
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STREATOR, Ill., June 6 (UPI) -- Operators of a nuclear power plant in Michigan said they shut down early Sunday during a powerful storm system that produced tornadoes that killed five people. The storms were rolling into the Northeast Sunday afternoon, triggering tornado watches from Virginia to New England. The Fermi 2 Power Plant near Monroe, Mich., shut down automatically after the foul weather knocked out one of two offsite power feeds to the plant. DTE Energy said in a written statement that a low-priority alert was also generated after the winds knocked some siding off a building at the complex, but there was no radiation danger. Elsewhere, the death toll in Ohio rose to five as ...
Ohio Tornado Kills 7, Wrecks Cop Cars, Graduation
Post Date: 2010-06-06 18:12:19 by Brian S
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MILLBURY, Ohio — A tornado unleashed a "war zone" of destruction in northwest Ohio, destroying dozens of homes and an emergency services building as a line of storms killed at least seven people and threatened to do more damage Sunday as it hit the Northeast. Storms collapsed a movie-theater roof in Illinois and ripped siding off a building at a Michigan nuclear plant, forcing a shutdown. But most of the worst was reserved for a 100-yard-wide, 7-mile-long strip southeast of Toledo now littered with wrecked vehicles, splintered wood and family possessions. The tornado ripped the roof and back wall off Lake High School's gymnasium about 11 p.m. Saturday, several hours ...
Some Oil Spill Events From Sunday, June 6, 2010
Post Date: 2010-06-06 17:53:59 by Brian S
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(06-06) 12:42 PDT , (AP) -- A summary of events on Sunday, June 6, Day 47 of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill that began with the April 20 explosion and fire on the drilling rig Deepwater Horizon, owned by Transocean Ltd. and leased by BP PLC, which is in charge of cleanup and containment. The blast killed 11 workers. Since then, oil has been pouring into the Gulf from a blown-out undersea well. CAP The cap placed over the plume began collecting a larger portion of the oil gushing out at an estimated rate of about a half-million to a million gallons a day, officials said. It trapped about 441,000 gallons Saturday, BP spokesman Mark Proegler said, up from around 250,000 gallons the day ...
Arizona Law Backers Overwhelmingly Support Path To Citizenship: Poll
Post Date: 2010-06-06 17:40:59 by Brian S
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If you believe the popularity of Arizona's tough crackdown on immigration reflects a growing anti-immigrant wave, think again.Supporters of the measure are even more likely than its opponents to favor a comprehensive immigration overhaul, a new survey conducted by Lake Research Partners and Public Opinion Strategies found Friday.A whopping eighty-four percent of Arizona law backers said they support reform that includes a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants – higher than the seventy-eight percent of overall national voters in favor of such a program.Despite its high-profile controversies and legal challenges, voters said they favor the state's measure by a ...
President George W. Bush Finally Speaks
Post Date: 2010-06-06 16:35:51 by no gnu taxes
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United States President George W. Bush has finally spoken out. After remaining silent since Barack Hussein Obama assumed office and claimed he could lead America, President Bush has had enough and is once again giving his sage wisdom and leadership to America. President Bush is a man of action and decision; he knows what is best for America and does not cater to the whims of polls or the press. President Bush uses his pulpit as an executive and only takes orders from the highest order: God. This is how our Christian nation should be lead. A dignified leader, President George W. Bush kept a low profile and tried to help Obama smoothly transition into office, despite his gut instinct to ...
Normandy ceremonies mark 66th anniversary of D-Day
Post Date: 2010-06-06 15:26:34 by war
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COLVILLE-SUR-MER, France — Veterans and those grateful for their sacrifices have marked the 66th anniversary of the D-Day landings, remembering the invasion that turned the tide of World War II. U.S. veteran William Duane Bush, wearing a military jacket, raised the American flag at the Normandy American Cemetery in Colleville-sur-Mer, which overlooks Omaha Beach. It was the first time 93-year-old Bush of Lincoln, Nebraska had returned to Europe since the war's end. An ecumenical service was held at the cathedral in the town of Bayeux, where a wreath-laying service also took place at the British military cemetery. Some 215,000 Allied soldiers, and roughly as many Germans, were ...
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