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FBI Bust Middle Eastern Man Smuggling Weapons And Visas From US
2008-11-13 03:18:00
An FBI informant helped agents uncover a visa fraud and gun smuggling scheme run by two Annandale men, one of whom told the informant he could sell him a missile that ?can reach the Pentagon,? according to a sworn statement unsealed Monday.The investigation started when the informant met with Amjad Hamed, a Jordanian native and legal U.S. resident since 1978, in Hamed?s Annandale home in April 2006, the affidavit said. Hamed reportedly asked the informant to obtain visas for six associates who wanted to immigrate to the U.S. from Jordan and the West Bank.Hamed reportedly told the informant that three of the of the six passports and visas were for people who had been arrested by the Israeli government. Hamed added that he had been jailed in Israel three times. Months later, between May 2007 and June 2007, Hamed sold three firearms ? a fully automatic AR-15 assault rifle and two handguns, one with a serial number scratched off ? to the informant, the affidavit said.In June 2007, the ...
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Michigan: Gay anarchist group storms church service
2008-11-12 23:31:00
An update to this story.
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Radio Show Host Fired After Saying "I Want Joe The Plumber Dead"
2008-11-12 22:58:00
The talk show host that said "I want Joe the Plumber dead." has been fired:A left-leaning San Francisco radio host who doubles as a columnist for the Huffington Post has been dismissed from his broadcast job for an expletive-laden, on-air diatribe in which he called for the death of "Joe the Plumber."On his own website, Charles Raymond Bouley Jr., more popularly known as Karel, confirmed he was fired from his weekend KGO radio show for the rant, which happened when he thought he was off the air."With a two-minute phone call and one-paragraph letter I have been fired from KGO. I'm told the engineer that made the mistake has been as well," he wrote.The target of Bouley's venom was Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher, who became known during the presidential campaign as Joe the Plumber after his videotaped exchange with Barack Obama. Wurzelbacher's objection to Obama's desire to "spread the wealth," calling it socialism, became a major theme for the McCain campaign in its final weeks.SOURCE
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Alaska Has Enough Natural Gas To Heat 100 Million Homes For 10 Years
2008-11-12 22:49:00
Why are we not utilizing this?Alaska holds enough recoverable natural gas trapped in ice to heat more than 100m homes for 10 years, according to the first government assessment of a resource expected to become increasingly important as the world outlook for oil supplies dims.The US Geological Survey found that the US state holds 85,400bn cubic feet of natural gas recoverable with today?s technology. As the industry continues to invent new technologies to access further natural gas hydrates, that number could rise significantly. SOURCE
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US Treasury Names Charity As Terrorist Supporter
2008-11-12 22:33:00
WASHINGTON (Reuters) ? The U.S. Treasury Department on Wednesday named an Islamic charity as a group aiding Hamas militants in the Middle East and prohibited Americans from dealing with the Union of Good organization.The Union of Good helps funnel money to Islamist fighters in the West Bank and Gaza, the Treasury Department said, adding that the government will seize any funds in the United States controlled by the charity."Terrorist groups such as Hamas continue to exploit charities to radicalize vulnerable communities and cultivate support for their violent activities," Treasury Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, Stuart Levy, said in a statement.Hamas, which seized Gaza last year after routing the forces of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, is pushing for an independent Palestinian state.Reconciliation talks between Abbas and the political wing of Hamas collapsed last week, with a key dispute over when to hold an election.SOURCE
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FBI Arrest Al Qaeda Blogger In US
2008-11-12 22:31:00
The FBI has arrested Tarek Mehanna and charged him with lying in an affidavit about his relationship to Daniel J. Maldonado, "a former Methuen resident who was suspected of training at an Al Qaeda terrorist camp to overthrow the Somali government." Maldonado pled guilty to receiving training from a foreign terrorist organization and is currently serving time in a U.S. federal prison.The FBI picked up Mehanna, a U.S. citizen, as he was boarding a plane to "start a new job overseas," the Boston Globe reported.Mehanna's family and lawyer claim he is innocent of the charges, but the FBI recorded Mehanna's phone call in which he admitted to lying to the FBI. Mehanna's lawyer, J.W. Carney Jr., dismissed Mehanna's activities as small-time. "If this is the FBI's idea of a terrorist, they are using a net that is designed to catch minnows instead of sharks," he told the Globe.More at Weekly Standard. More details on the blogger at Jawa Report
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Audio: Obamas Cheif Of Staff Talking About REQUIRING Community Service For
2008-11-12 03:03:00
Thanks to Newsbusters for this. Obama had on the new change.gov website that he would require community service of all middle school, high school and college students. SEE HERE Well it looks like Rahm Emanuel agrees. TRANSCRIPT: SMITH: I meant to ask you about the universal service piece of the plan. Can you tell me about it? Like, how is this going to work? Are people going to live in barracks? EMANUEL: Universal Civil Defense Training?I think he had it at 18, but we were saying somewhere between the ages of 18 and 25, you will do three months of training. You can do it in your(inaudible). Some point in college you can do just that. There can be nothing wrong with all Americans having a joint similar experience of civil ...what we call civil defense training or civil service...some sense of service to country in preparation, which will give people a sense of what it means to be an American. We propose three months. At the end of the day someone says it should...
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Keith Olberman Doesnt Vote So He Can Remain Objective.. Yeah Right!
2008-11-12 00:20:00
You can check out the whole segment from the view at the Weekly Standard
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Crazy Leftist Attack 80 Year Old Woman Over Gay Marriage
2008-11-12 00:03:00
See the whole video HERE
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Michael Steele Seeking Position As Head Of Republican Party
2008-11-11 23:51:00
Michael Steele, former lieutenant governor of Maryland, has decided to run for the chairmanship of the Republican National Committee and is in talks with Newt Gingrich to win the former House speaker's endorsement, FOX News learned Tuesday.Steele declined to comment, but a source close to the situation said Steele would announce his candidacy as early as Thursday.The source also contradicted a report in Tuesday's Washington Times that Steele and Gingrich were competing for the RNC post."There is no fight," the source said. "This tension between Michael Steele and Newt Gingrich is totally fabricated and, in fact, Gingrich and Steele are working together to create a new strategy for the direction of the GOP."In a statement issued by the former House speaker, Gingrich said he was not interested in seeking the post of Republican Party chairman."A number of people have asked me to consider running for Republican National Committee chair. They have been very flattering, and I am very ho...
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Hezbollah Leader Nasrallah Comments On Obama Presidency
2008-11-11 21:11:00
Found this interesting here are his comments:As for the recent election of U.S. President Barack Obama to the White House, Nasrallah called on people not to "exaggerate their hopes, so that no one might be later disappointed.' He called on people to "wait and see.""Our Arab and African world might sympathize with Obama due to his past and color. However, no one must over exaggerate their hopes to be later disappointed." He explained."America is governed by interests and strategies. It would be illogical to bet on a tyrant to change. You must rather work to be strong." Nasrallah said.SOURCE
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Obama To Escape Any Investigation Into His Campaign Funds
2008-11-11 19:06:00
Even though there is evidence that he accepted foreign funds. SEE HEREThe Federal Election Commission is unlikely to conduct a potentially embarrassing audit of how Barack Obama raised and spent his presidential campaign?s record-shattering windfall, despite allegations of questionable donations and accounting that had the McCain campaign crying foul.Adding insult to injury for Republicans: The FEC is obligated to complete a rigorous audit of McCain?s campaign coffers, which will take months, if not years, and cost McCain millions of dollars to defend.Obama is expected to escape that level of scrutiny mostly because he declined an $84 million public grant for his campaign that automatically triggers an audit and because the sheer volume of cash he raised and spent minimizes the significance of his errors. Another factor: The FEC, which would have to vote to launch an audit, is prone to deadlocking on issues that inordinately impact one party or the other ? like approving a messy and...
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Magically 504 Votes Appear In Minnesota... All For Franken
2008-11-11 17:01:00
This is election fraud on the highest level! Minnesota is becoming to 2008 politics what Florida was in 2000 or Washington State in 2004 -- a real mess. The outcome will determine whether Democrats get 58 members of the U.S. Senate, giving them an effective filibuster-proof vote on many issues.When voters woke up on Wednesday morning after the election, Senator Norm Coleman led Al Franken by what seemed like a relatively comfortable 725 votes. By Wednesday night, that lead had shrunk to 477. By Thursday night, it was down to 336. By Friday, it was 239. Late Sunday night, the difference had gone down to just 221 -- a total change over 4 days of 504 votes.Amazingly, this all has occurred even though there hasn?t even yet been a recount. Just local election officials correcting claimed typos in how the numbers were reported. Counties will certify their results today, and their final results will be sent to the secretary of state by Friday. The actual recount won?t even start until Nove...
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Obamas Ever Changing Change.gov Website
2008-11-11 16:45:00
The Real Barack Obama has more on this.
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Obama Aides Leak Information From Private Talk With Bush
2008-11-11 16:07:00
Headline on DRUDGE right now:BUSH ANGER: OBAMA AIDES LEAK CHAT DETAILSTue Nov 11 2008 09:28:10 ETJust hours after President Bush and President-elect Obama met in the Oval Office of the White House, details of their confidential conversation began leaking out to the press, igniting anger from the president, sources claim."Senator Obama would be wise to keep close counsel," a top Bush source warned."BUSH AND OBAMA AT ODDS OVER AID FOR AUTO INDUSTRY," splashed the NEW YORK TIMES in an exclusive Monday evening, quoting "people familiar with the discussion."The two met at the White House in private, without staff."Bush indicated at the meeting that he might support some aid and a broader economic stimulus package if Obama and congressional Democrats dropped their opposition to a free-trade agreement with Colombia," claimed the TIMES.MOREThe ASSOCIATED PRESS quickly followed with details of the conversation, citing "aides who described the discussion on grounds of anonymity, citing the pr...
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AIG Still Living It Up On Your Tax Dollars
2008-11-11 15:16:00
Brian Ross has the whole story:Even as the company was pleading the federal government for another $40 billion dollars in loans, AIG sent top executives to a secret gathering at a luxury resort in Phoenix last week. Reporters for abc15.com (KNXV) caught the AIG executives on hidden cameras poolside and leaving the spa at the Pointe Hilton Squaw Peak Resort, despite apparent efforts by the company to disguise its involvement."AIG made significant efforts to disguise the conference, making sure there were no AIG logos or signs anywhere on the property," KNXV reported. A hotel employee told KNXV reporter Josh Bernstein, "We can't even say the word [AIG]."A company spokesperson, Nick Ashooh, confirmed AIG instructed the hotel to make sure there were no AIG signs or mention of the company by staff."We're trying to avoid confrontation, keep our profile low," said Ashooh. "Some of our employees have been harassed." READ IT ALL
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Obama To Look For Iran To Help Us In Afghanistan
2008-11-11 15:05:00
Things are really going to be a mess under Obama . Does he really think the same Iran that chants "Death to America" is going to help us in Afghanistan ? What a joke.WASHINGTON (Reuters) ? President-elect Barack Obama plans to try a more regional approach to the war in Afghanistan including possible talks with Iran, The Washington Post reported on Tuesday, citing national security advisers to Obama.The president-elect also intends to move ahead with a planned deployment of thousands of additional U.S. troops to Afghanistan and refocus on the hunt for al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, the newspaper reported.However, the Obama team is far from working out how to bring bin Laden back to the forefront of the U.S. counter-terrorism agenda, The Washington Post reported....Iran, on Afghanistan's western border, has been kept at arm's length by the Bush administration, but should be considered in formulating a new Afghanistan strategy, a senior U.S. military official was cited as saying."A...

Obamas Advisers Met With Hamas... UPDATE: Obama Denies This
2008-11-11 15:01:00
How surprising! Not really...Hamas political adviser Ahmad Yousef claimed on Tuesday morning that prior to the US general elections, a secret meeting was held between officials from the group and President-elect Barack Obama 's advisers in the Gaza Strip. "We are maintaining contact with them", said Yousef who disclosed no further information as to the nature of the meeting.In an interview with the London-based Al Hayat newspaper, Yousef reportedly said that contact between Hamas and Obama's advisers was first established over the Internet.The Jerusalem Post could not confirm the report."We first made contact on the Internet and then met with some of them here in the Gaza Strip. They advised us not to reveal this information lest it influence the elections or become manipulated by [Republican candidate John] McCain's campaign".Yousef added that he personally had friendly relations with a few of Obama's advisers whom he had met when he lived in the US."Prime Minister Ismail Haniye...
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Congressman Warns of Obama Dictatorship
2008-11-11 04:39:00
WASHINGTON ? A Republican congressman from Georgia said Monday he fears that President-elect Obama will establish a Gestapo-like security force to impose a Marxist or fascist dictatorship."It may sound a bit crazy and off base, but the thing is, he's the one who proposed this national security force," Rep. Paul Broun said of Obama in an interview Monday with The Associated Press. "I'm just trying to bring attention to the fact that we may ? may not, I hope not ? but we may have a problem with that type of philosophy of radical socialism or Marxism."Broun cited a July speech by Obama that has circulated on the Internet in which the then-Democratic presidential candidate called for a civilian force to take some of the national security burden off the military."That's exactly what Hitler did in Nazi Germany and it's exactly what the Soviet Union did," Broun said. "When he's proposing to have a national security force that's answering to him, that is as strong as the U.S. military...
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Radical Michigan Gay Group Attacks Christian Church Service
2008-11-11 01:35:00
Gateway Pundit has the whole story.On Sunday, November 9, 2008 Michigan liberals sat peacefully through announcements, worship and prayer for the sick, our nation and our President-elect before staging a coordinated, disgusting and repulsive attack on worshipers and the broader concept of the church itself at Lansing's Mount Hope Church .The lefties were a part of a liberal organization known as Bash Back Lansing and their collection of radical blogs, including one of the state's most widely read "mainstream" progressive blogs (and none which will receive a link on this website) called on "queers and trannies" from across the state and the region to converge on Lansing for what they refer to as an "action."...over 30 of them showed up in force yesterday. Wearing secret-service style ear pieces and microphones they received the "go" from their ringleader and off they went....Prayer had just finished when men and women stood up in pockets across the congregation, on the main floor an...
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Obama Planning US Trials For Terrorist
2008-11-10 12:22:00
WASHINGTON ? President-elect Obama 's advisers are quietly crafting a proposal to ship dozens, if not hundreds, of imprisoned terrorism suspects to the United States to face criminal trials, a plan that would make good on his promise to close the Guantanamo Bay prison but could require creation of a controversial new system of justice.During his campaign, Obama described Guantanamo as a "sad chapter in American history" and has said generally that the U.S. legal system is equipped to handle the detainees. But he has offered few details on what he planned to do once the facility is closed.Under plans being put together in Obama's camp, some detainees would be released and many others would be prosecuted in U.S. criminal courts.A third group of detainees ? the ones whose cases are most entangled in highly classified information ? might have to go before a new court designed especially to handle sensitive national security cases, according to advisers and Democrats involved in the tal...
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The Obama Prayer
2008-11-10 12:13:00
What in the world is wrong with these people!Thanks to Atlas
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Obama Sends Anti-Israel Foreign Policy Advisor To Syria
2008-11-10 03:08:00
What great news. Obama sends Rober Malley to Syria for talks. Malley is as anti-Israel as they come. SEE HEREWASHINGTON [MENL] -- Presidential-elect Barack Obama has promised to improveU.S. relations with Egypt and Syria. Aides said Obama had sent senior foreign policy adviser Robert Malley toEgypt and Syria over the last few weeks to outline the Democraticcandidate's policy on the Middle East. The aides said Malley, who served inthe administration of President Bill Clinton, relayed a pledge from Obama thatthe United States would seek to enhance relations with Cairo as well asreconcile with Damascus. "The tenor of the messages was that the Obama administration would takeinto greater account Egyptian and Syrian interests," an aide said.SOURCE
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Leftist Group Wants National Holiday For Obama
2008-11-10 03:05:00
How ridiculous is this?Plans are being made to promote a national holiday for Barack Obama , who will become the nation?s 44th president when he takes the oath of office Jan. 20.?Yes We Can? planning rallies will be at 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. every Tuesday at the downtown McDonald?s restaurant, 1100 Kansas Ave., until Jan. 13. The goals are to secure a national holiday in Obama?s honor, to organize celebrations around his inauguration and to celebrate the 200th birthday of President Abraham Lincoln, who was born on Feb. 12 1809.At 7:30 a.m. on Inauguration Day, Obama Cake will be served at the downtown McDonald?s, and a celebration is scheduled for 8 p.m. to midnight Jan. 20 at the Ramada Hotel and Convention Center, 420 S.E. 6th.SOURCE
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UK Leader: "Its Time To Build A Global Society"
2008-11-10 02:35:00
Wow! I wonder what the president elect thinks about this?LONDON (Reuters) - The international financial crisis has given world leaders a unique opportunity to create a truly global society, Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown will say in a keynote foreign policy speech on Monday.In his annual speech at the Lord Mayor's Banquet, Brown -- who has spearheaded calls for the reform of international financial institutions -- will say Britain, the United States and Europe are key to forging a new world order."The alliance between Britain and the U.S. -- and more broadly between Europe and the U.S. -- can and must provide leadership, not in order to make the rules ourselves, but to lead the global effort to build a stronger and more just international order," an excerpt from the speech says.Brown and other leaders meet in Washington next weekend to discuss longer term solutions for dealing with economic issues following a series of coordinated moves on interest rates and to recapitalize...
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Al Sharpton Calls On Obama To Investigate Sean Bell Case
2008-11-08 19:05:00
The incoming attorney general in the Obama administration must make investigating police brutality a top priority, the Rev. Al Sharpton said Saturday."The minute we get a new attorney general, we must go to that attorney general and deal with the issue of police misconduct," Sharpton said in a fiery address at his Harlem headquarters."We must bring the case of Sean Bell and other cases that haven't been handled well in the states to the federal level."Sharpton said that federal investigations in the Abner Louima and Rodney King cases led to convictions, while state prosecutions in the cases of Bell and Amadou Diallo did not."We want a society where the police are not above the law," Sharpton said.The president-elect has yet to select an attorney general. Among those under consideration are Eric Holder, former deputy attorney general; Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano; Rep. Artur Davis, D-Ala.; and Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick.Sharpton also said federal involvement would benefit law...
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Man Arrested For Wearing Mccain/Palin T-Shirt At Obama Rally??
2008-11-08 18:58:00
If this video really is the whole story then this man has done nothing wrong. I am not one to question police. But it seems this man has done nothing. It will be interesting to see what else comes out about this story:World Net Daily has more on this story.
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Obama Makes No Promises On Poland Missle Defense System
2008-11-08 17:19:00
Lets see the Russian leader threatens Poland by deploying missles near Poland. Now Obama tells Poland.. "Uh I dont know about that missle defense system that you want."CHICAGO (AP) - President-elect Obama has spoken to the president of Poland about relations between the two countries but didn't make a commitment on the multibillion-dollar missile defense program undertaken by the Bush administration, an Obama aide said Saturday. That contrasts with a statement by Polish President Lech Kaczynski, who said Obama told him the missile defense project would continue. The U.S. and Poland signed an agreement in August for basing American missiles in Poland as part of a shield against possible missile attacks from Iran. The plan received relatively little discussion during the presidential campaign. Republican candidate John McCain supported it while Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton, his rival for the Democratic nomination, expressed skepticism about its effectiveness and cost. Obama said ...
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In His Own Words: Obama Knew The Kind Of Things Rev Wright Preached
2008-11-08 17:10:00
Just listen and you be the judge:
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Telegraph Still Publishing LIE That "Kill Him" Was Yelled At Palin Rally
2008-11-08 15:49:00
In this article ridiculously titled Sarah Palin blamed by the US Secret Service over death threats against Barack Obama they say that "kill him" was yelled at a Palin rally. This has proven to be false!SCRANTON ? The agent in charge of the Secret Service field office in Scranton said allegations that someone yelled ?kill him? when presidential hopeful Barack Obama?s name was mentioned during Tuesday?s Sarah Palin rally are unfounded.SOURCEBut apparently this means nothing to the Telegraph. They will continue to publish this lie as news and it will be believed by many. Disgusting!
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