Thursday, October 01, 2009

Philippines Begins Evacuations as Typhoon Parma Heads for Luzon




By Aaron Sheldrick and Francisco Alcuaz Jr.


Oct. 2 (Bloomberg) -- The Philippines started evacuations as Typhoon Parma headed for Luzon, where recovery efforts continue after Tropical Storm Ketsana devastated Manila and other parts of the island six days ago, leaving 280 people dead.

Authorities began moving people from provinces north and southeast of Manila into shelters, Philippine Defense Secretary Gilbert Teodoro said in an interview on ABS-CBN television.
Parma’s center was 564 kilometers (290 miles) east of the city of Daet in southeastern Luzon at 2 a.m. Manila time today, according to the U.S. Navy Joint Typhoon Warning Center. The typhoon is forecast to make landfall after 8 a.m. tomorrow.

The typhoon is forecast to bring more rain to areas already devastated by Ketsana, which earlier this week left more than 100 people dead in Vietnam and Cambodia. In Indonesia, rescue workers are searching for survivors in Padang in Sumatra, where an earthquake two days ago left 230 people dead. In the South Pacific, a recovery operation is underway after a tsunami killed more than 150.

“It is almost unprecedented for any region to experience so many disasters over such a short period of time,” United Nations Under-Secretary-General Noeleen Heyzer said in a statement. “The disasters of the past week remind us that Asia Pacific is the worlds’ disaster hot spot.”

Parma’s winds decreased to 222 kilometers per hour from 241 yesterday. The typhoon remains a Category 4 storm, the second- strongest on the Saffir-Simpson scale, and is forecast to regain strength before making landfall, according to the center.

Preparing for Landfall
The Philippines Navy assembled a task force in northern Luzon to prepare for Parma’s landfall, spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Edgard Arevalo said in a phone interview yesterday. The Air Force will send trucks and rubber boats to facilitate evacuations, Air Force spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Gerardo Zamudio said.

The Philippines weather agency, which refers to Parma as Pepeng, raised its No. 2 storm signal for areas of southeastern Luzon today, meaning winds of between 60 and 100 kph are expected.

A gale warning was issued for islands to the southeast of Luzon.

Ketsana blew across Luzon on Sept. 26 dumping a month’s worth of rain in six hours and flooding most of Manila and surrounding areas.

More than 3 million people were affected by Ketsana and 676,235 are in evacuation centers, the Philippines disaster council said in its latest report. Forty-two people are missing.
The Philippine government has declared a “state of calamity” for the Manila metropolitan region and other parts of Luzon island as well as Mindoro island to the south.

Ketsana smashed into central Vietnam on Sept. 29 as a typhoon with winds of 167 kph, killing at least 92 people in the country. Nineteen people were missing.

The storm left at least 14 people dead in Cambodia after crossing Vietnam, Agence France-Presse reported yesterday.

Ketsana is the name of a tree in Laos, according to the Hong Kong Observatory, which lists names in use for Pacific storms on its Web site. Parma is the name of a ham and chicken liver dish in Macau.

To contact the reporters on this story: Aaron Sheldrick in Tokyo at asheldrick@bloomberg.net; Francisco Alcuaz Jr. in Manila at falcuaz@bloomberg.net.


Last Updated: October 1, 2009 20:17 EDT
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CFR: Bush, Obama Foreign Policy Only Differ in Rhetoric


James CorbettThe Corbett Report
17 September, 2009


In the latest podcast from Foreign Affairs—the public face of the Council on Foreign Relations—Gideon Rose and Robert McMahon discuss the differences in the foreign policy of Bush and Obama, concluding "there's a lot of rhetoric, but it's usually more about America and its ideals and what we want to be seen to be doing (whether in Gitmo or via interrogations or so forth) rather than the actual impact of our operations." Download the mp3 here.


As an example of the underlying similarity of Bush and Obama's foreign policies, they point out that Obama's "man in Afghanistan" Stan McChrystal was the former head of the Joint Special Operations Command...although they unsurprisingly leave out the fact that the JSOC was the special wing of the special ops community fingered by Seymour Hersh as Cheney's private assassination squad. Of course they could also have mentioned Defense Secretary Robert Gates as another obvious example of continuity between Bush and Obama in the defense sector. Or they could have pointed out that the Obama administration has merely replaced Bagram for Gitmo, a point made in an eloquent and powerful article from Andy Worthington released today. Or they could have pointed out that the Obama administration is going even further than Bush in invoking "state secrets" privileges in the ongoing rendition program (which has has also carried over from Bush).


Indeed, the CFR could have listed any of hundreds of other identical policies under Bush and Obama like those pointed out in the alternative media again and again and again. But perhaps they didn't need to point this out, after all, as anyone with political acumen has already come to the conclusion that Bush and Obama are like competing brands of cola; both were packaged and sold by elitist corporate interests and both are equally bad for you.


This is a message not lost on the Foreign Affairs audience. After all, as the mouthpiece of the Council on Foreign Relations, one would expect the audience of this podcast to be well aware of the political game. The CFR has, of course, been playing both sides of the political fence for decades, moving forward with their agenda of undermining American sovereignty ever since its founding in 1921 at the hands of Colonel Edward House (who also managed to puppeteer the Wilson administration and help found the Federal Reserve). The CFR was also identified by Carroll Quigley as the American version of a roundtable group created in England known as the Royal Institute for International Affairs and having as its aim "nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and he economy of the world as a whole." If Carroll Quigley is to be dismissed as a mere "crazy conspiracy theorist" then so, too is Bill Clinton, who namedropped Quigley as his mentor in his 1992 presidential nomination speech.


Those wishing to find out more about Quigley, the roundtable groups, and their use of both sides of the fake left/right political paradigm to advance their agenda, they are directed to Episode 058 of The Corbett Report. Those who are already well aware of this can merely file away this CFR podcast for future reference when confronted by a skeptic who refuses to believe that Bush and Obama are the same unless they are told it by a big, powerful, elitist "thinktank."





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Cindy Sheehan to President Obama: Give Peace a Meeting


Posted on October 1, 2009 by fromthewilderness


President Obama,

I know that you are only fulfilling your campaign promises to increase the violence in Afghanistan and Pakistan and I notice that not a significant amount of troops have been withdrawn from Iraq. However, even with your hostile rhetoric and promises to escalate the violence, many people voted for you because they believed you were the peace candidate.

Since the election, you have betrayed the progressive base that gave you victory on many occasions already, but the cause that keeps many of us motivated is the continued carnage in the Middle East. What bothers me even more, especially, is the fact that the so-called anti-war movement has given you a nine-month free pass and thousands of people have died, including hundreds of our own troops.

Since you took office, 125 of our irreplaceable young have been killed in what you called a “dumb war” in Iraq and 223 in what I call the “other dumb war,” Afghanistan. I have been waiting for a mother of one of those needlessly killed troops to demand a meeting with you to ask you: for “What Noble Cause?” her child was sacrificed.

No such mother has come forward and since your rhetoric is eerily similar to the Bush regime and you are reportedly considering strategies for Afghanistan before you condemn more than the 21,000 troops you have already condemned, I am requesting that you meet with a contingent of the true Peace Movement that will be assembling outside your house this Monday, October 5th at noon.

You are listening to your “Afghan War Council.” McChrystal, Clinton, Gates, Mullens, and Petraeus who have all fully demonstrated their Hawk credentials, and what do you really think they will tell you? It is a War Council after all and will inevitably lead our country further down the path to ruin.

Many people supported you because they say you are “smarter than Bush.” Bush would never meet with voices of reason and it appears that the voices you are listening to are extremely unreasonable, also.

President Obama, meet with us and show the country and the world that you are at least willing to listen to opposing view- points.

Give Peace a Meeting.

Peace is the only logical solution to the human made diseases that plague our planet and Peace never gets a seat at the table.

Peace will heal the economy.

Peace will heal the environment.

Peace will heal the geo-political tensions.

Peace is the only way out.

Our Peace Contingent will be ready to meet with you any time on Monday the 5th. Just say the word, we’ll clear our calendars!

Cindy Sheehan

Peace Contingent Representative

Cindy@CindySheehansSoapbox.com




The Brzezinski/Obama Axis


THE BRZEZINSKI/OBAMA AXIS

By Professor Paul Eidelberg
September 26, 2009
NewsWithViews.com


Back in 1985, I wrote an article on Brzezinski for The Intercollegiate Review. Before citing some of the more relevant passages of that article, it should be borne in mind that Brzezinski, a political scientist, served as President Jimmy Carter’s national security adviser. One does not have to read Carter’s Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid to know that Carter is an anti-Semite. Brzezinski has earned the same reputation.

Not only has Brzezinski publicly defended the anti-Semitic canard that the relationship between America and Israel is the result of Jewish pressure, but he also signed a letter demanding dialogue with Hamas, whose charter calls for Israel’s destruction. It behooves us to understand the mentality of Obama’s Middle East adviser.

Long before he became Mr. Carter’s national security adviser, Brzezinski rejected what he and most political scientists term the “black-and-white” image of the American and Soviet political systems. “This image,” he says, “is held by traditional anti-Communists.” Brzezinski thus affirmed he is not quite an anti-Communist. In fact, he deplores anti-Communism as “a relic of the Cold War, of the age of ideology.”

Not only did Brzezinski reject the “black-and-white” image of the American and Soviet forms of government, he rejects the very notion of good and bad regimes! Brzezinski is simply a moral or cultural (or historical) relativist, and relativism has certainly modulated Barack Obama’s mentality.The influence of political scientists like Brzezinski is wide and deep. His relativism prompts him to negotiate with and appease terrorist regimes. With Brzezinski as his adviser, Obama will be more disposed to appease Iran and betray America’s allies, above all Israel.
Since Brzezinski is a relativist, he denies the existence of objective or trans-historical standards for determining whether the way of life of one nation, group, or individual is morally superior to that of another. (The members of the UN General Assembly must be pleased to hear this, despite the UN’s notorious record of condemning Israel without having ever condemned an Islamic state.)

Brzezinski’s relativism also makes him a “weather-vane” political scientist. He turns with the winds of power. Working in a pluralistic and egalitarian country like America—a secular society—he conveniently adopts tolerance as his operational principle on the one hand, and equality as his primary value on the other. He is quite at home with the moral equivalency that has shaped US foreign policy toward Israel and Islamic dictatorships.

Brzezinski views history through the lens of Marxism, which, despite its atheism, has much in common with Islam. Both Communism and Islam are universalistic ideologies that reject the idea of the nation-state. Both do not regard adherence to treaties between nations as obligatory. Both Communism and Islam are militaristic and expansionist creeds that do not recognize international borders. Brzezinski’s globalism is evident in Jimmy Carter. Under Brzezinski’s influence, Carter lowered the defense budget and pursued a soft line toward the Soviet Union. Obama is pursuing a very soft line toward Islam.

As a crypto-Marxist, Brzezinski deplores the nation-state. His book Between Two Ages: America’s Role in the Technetronic Era, declares that “With the splitting and eclipse of Christianity man began to worship a new deity: the nation. The nation became a mystical object claiming man’s love and loyalty. The nation-state along with the doctrine of national sovereignty fragmented humanity. It could not provide a rational framework within which the relations between nations could develop.” Brzezinski sees the nation-state as having only partly increased man’s social consciousness and only partially alleviated the human condition.

“That is why Marxism,” he contends, “represents a further vital and creative stage in the maturing and man’s universal vision.” Marxism, he says, “was the most powerful doctrine for generating a universal and secular human consciousness.” Embodied in the Soviet Union, however, Communism became the dogma of a party and, under Stalin, “was wedded to Russian nationalism.”

Although Brzezinski poses as a humanist, he makes a most inhumane statement by saying that: “although Stalinism may have been a needless tragedy, for both the Russian people and Communism as an ideal, there is the intellectually tantalizing possibility that for the world at large it was … a blessing in disguise.” Brzezinski could as readily say: “Yes, Muslims slaughtered more than 200 million people, but Islam brought hundreds of Christian, Jewish, Zoroastrian, Hindu, and Buddhist communities under a single universal vision, that of the Quran”!!!

Brzezinski, a self-professed secularist, is an internationalist whose moral relativism contradicts the moral law or natural rights doctrine of America’s Declaration of Independence. His relativism and internationalism contradict the teachings of the America’s Founding Fathers, who endowed the United States with a national identity and character, the same that animated Abraham Lincoln. To put it more bluntly: Brzezinski’s political mentality — like that of countless other American academics — is anti-American. An Obama-Brzezinski axis has revolutionary significance. It may accelerate the de-Americanization and decline of the United States.



© 2009 Paul Eidelberg - All Rights Reserved


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Liberal Lunacy: Obama Ignores Afghan War and Blows Big Bucks on Olympic Mission


Liberal Lunacy: Obama Ignores Afghan War and Blows Big Bucks on Olympic Mission
OK, WE'RE RIGHT! ^ September 30, 2009 Oscar De Los Santos and Kelly L. Goodridge

Posted on Wednesday, September 30, 2009 8:06:57 AM by OK Right

Countless articles, documentaries and films recently heralded the Woodstock Festival’s 40th anniversary. Few of the retrospectives mentioned the soldiers dying in Vietnam as stoners rocked out in rural New York.

Something similar is happening now. Afghan War Commander General McChrystal requested 40 thousand additional troops weeks ago. Instead of complying, President Barrack Hussein Obama continues to stall even as he attends to matters he deems more important than losing a war.

There’s the ongoing healthcare issue – something the president seems determined to ram down America’s throat, polls be damned. As of September 28, “Just 41% of voters nationwide now favor the healthcare reform proposed by President Obama and congressional Democrats” (“Health Care Reform: Support for Health Care Plan Hits New Low,” Rasmussen Reports, http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/current_events/healthcare/september_2009/health_care_reform).


But Obama must consider the 2016 Olympics his most pressing political matter. He wants the games held in Chicago. So of course, he and First Lady Michelle are jetting off to Copenhagen– in separate planes – to make a personal appeal to the Olympic Committee. Never mind that the cost of Obama alone making the four thousand mile trip aboard Air Force One will set American taxpayers back anywhere from $300K to $500K, each way (Penny Starr, CNS News, September 30,2009, http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/54762). After all, there’s no other way to get in touch with the Olympic Committee except to go meet it face-to-face, right?

The Afghan war should be tops on Obama’s list. Instead, he’s doing anything but making a decision on whether or not to honor General McChrystal’s troop request. That stall is costing us lives. McChrystal admitted on last Sunday’s 60 Minutes that he’s spoken to Obama just once in the past 70 days. Never mind that there’s a chain of command in place and Obama wants McChrystal to communicate with the Pentagon first. The president can do better than have a single direct communiqué with his on-site commander in 70 days. To do otherwise is an insult to McChrystal and every soldier who volunteered to serve his country in any way it deems necessary.

Funny how Obama continues to hedge – and liberals continue to give him a pass – on an Afghan war decision. Remember how the libs crucified President George W. Bush for not taking a firmer stance on Afghanistan? Remember how they vilified W for the troop surge in Iraq, which finally turned things around?

Truth be told, the Iraq surge was a resounding success. And in that fact is the key to Obama’s fudging on a similar Afghan surge. Sure, angering liberals may account for part of the president’s hesitancy, but there’s also this to consider: To give McChrystal the additional troops he requested would be tantamount to admitting that W was right in ordering the Iraq surge.

In fact, George W. Bush was right about a lot of things. He was right about the Iraq surge and he was right about Iran. Recall that Bush was laughed at for treating Iran as a dangerous enemy determined to join the nuclear arms community. Now we’ve learned that Ahmadinejad and company have long been cooking up uranium in hidden sites throughout the country.

W understood what President Ronald Reagan understood all too well: peace is best upheld through strength. Iran wouldn’t be processing nuke fuel and preparing an Israel doomsday bomb if Reagan, George W. Bush and Dick Cheney were still in power.

And neither Reagan nor W would be running a fool’s errand to Denmark in order to secure a round of games while our troops are pleading for help.




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New-fangled Calendars?


Since the beginning of the year I have begun seeing calendars in which the week starts on Mondays. First, I saw them on European sites; Recently I have started seeing them here in the U.S. web pages. I believe these calendars are called Gregorian Calendars.
Now, not only is the Latin Mass back in fashion, so are these calendars. They're back!
Prophecy is being fulfilled before our eyes; Thank you Lord for giving me the eyes to see!

What is the world coming to? Exactly what the Lord foretold would happen!

Voila:


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THE VOLCANOS OF THE WESTERN UNITED STATES


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Mexico: Emergence of an Unexpected Threat


By Scott Stewart
September 30, 2009 1745 GMT


At approximately 2 a.m. on Sept. 25, a small improvised explosive device (IED) consisting of three or four butane canisters was used to attack a Banamex bank branch in the Milpa Alta delegation of Mexico City. The device damaged an ATM and shattered the bank’s front windows. It was not an isolated event. The bombing was the seventh recorded IED attack in the Federal District — and the fifth such attack against a local bank branch — since the beginning of September.

The attack was claimed in a communique posted to a Spanish-language anarchist Web site by a group calling itself the Subversive Alliance for the Liberation of the Earth, Animals and Humans (ASLTAH). The note said, “Once again we have proven who our enemies are,” indicating that the organization’s “cells for the dissolution of civilization” were behind the other, similar attacks. The communique noted that the organization had attacked Banamex because it was a “business that promotes torture, destruction and slavery” and vowed that ASLTAH would not stop attacking “until we see your ashes.” The group closed its communique by sending greetings to the Earth Liberation Front (ELF), the Animal Liberation Front (ALF) and the “eco-pyromaniacs for the liberation of the earth in this place.” Communiques have also claimed some of the other recent IED attacks in the name of ASLTAH.

On Sept. 22, authorities also discovered and disabled a small IED left outside of a MetLife insurance office in Guadalajara, Jalisco state. A message spray-painted on a wall near where the device was found read, “Novartis stop torturing animals,” a reference to the multinational pharmaceutical company, which has an office near where the IED was found and which has been heavily targeted by the group Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (SHAC). Novartis is a large customer of Huntingdon Life Sciences, the research company SHAC was formed to destroy because Huntingdon uses animals in its testing for harmful side effects of drugs, chemicals and consumer items. A second message spray-painted on a wall near where the device was found on Sept. 22 read, “Novartis break with HLS.” Two other IEDs were detonated at banks in Mexico City on the same day.

These IED attacks are the most recent incidents in a wave of anarchist, animal rights, and eco-protest attacks that have swept across Mexico this year. Activists have conducted literally hundreds of incidents of vandalism, arson and, in more recent months, IED attacks in various locations across the country. The most active cells are in Mexico City and Guadalajara.
For a country in the midst of a bloody cartel war in which thousands of people are killed every year — and where serious crimes like kidnapping terrorize nearly every segment of society — direct-action attacks by militant activists are hardly the biggest threat faced by the Mexican government. However, the escalation of direct-action attacks in Mexico that has resulted in the more frequent use of IEDs shows no sign of abating, and these attacks are likely to grow more frequent, spectacular and deadly.

The Wave
Precisely quantifying the wave of direct-action attacks in Mexico is difficult for a number of reasons. One is that the reporting of such incidents is spotty and the police, the press and the activists themselves are often not consistent in what they report and how. Moreover, is often hard to separate direct-action vandalism from incidents of plain old non-political vandalism or tell the difference between an anarchist IED attack against a bank and an IED attack against a bank conducted by a Marxist group such as the Popular Revolutionary Army (EPR). Then there is the issue of counting. Should a series of five Molotov cocktail attacks against ATMs or the destruction of 20 Telmex phone booths in one night be counted as one attack or as separate incidents?

If we count conservatively — e.g., consider a series of like incidents as one — we can say there have been around 200 direct-action attacks to date in 2009. But if we count each incident separately, we can easily claim there have been more than 400 such attacks. For example, by our count, there have been more than 350 Telmex phone booths smashed, burned or otherwise vandalized so far this year. (Activists will do things like glue metal shavings into the calling-card and coin slots.) However, for the sake of this analysis we’ll go with the conservative number of about 200 attacks.

Now, Telmex seems to be the most popular target so far for direct-action attacks. In addition to hitting phone booths, activists also have attacked Telmex vehicles and offices and have cut Telmex cables. From their statements, the activists appear to hold a special hatred for Carlos Slim, one of the richest men in the world and the chairman of Telmex and several other companies. In many ways, Slim — a patriarchal billionaire industrialist — is the personification of almost everything that the anarchistic activists hate. In addition to Telmex and banks, the activists also have attacked other targets such as restaurants (including McDonald’s and KFC), meat shops, pet shops, fur and leather stores, luxury vehicles, and construction equipment.
The activists’ most common tactics tend to be on the lower end of the violence scale and include graffiti and paint (frequently red to symbolize the blood of animals) to vandalize a target. They also frequently release captive birds or animals as well as use superglue and pieces of metal to obstruct locks, pay phones and ATM card readers. Moving up the violence continuum, activists less frequently will break windows, burn buildings and vehicles, and make bomb threats — there have been at least 157 incidents involving arson or incendiary devices so far in 2009. To help put this into perspective, these activists have conducted more arson attacks in Mexico to date in 2009 than their American counterparts have conducted in the United States since 2001.
At the high end of the violence spectrum are the IED attacks, and this is where there has really been an increase in activity in recent weeks. In the first six months of 2009, there were several bomb threats and hoaxes and a few acid bombs, but only two real IEDs were used. In June, July and August there was one IED attack per month — and so far in September there have been seven IED attacks in Mexico City alone and one successful attack and one attempted attack in Guadalajara. Again, by way of comparison, these eight IED attacks by Mexican activists in September are more than American activists have conducted in the United States since 2001.

Proliferation of IEDs
There are several factors that can explain this trend toward the activists’ increasing use of IEDs. The first is, quite simply, that IEDs generate more attention than graffiti, glue or even an arson attack — indeed, here we are devoting a weekly security report to activist IED attacks in Mexico. In light of the overall level of violence in Mexico, most observers have ignored the past lower-level activity by these activist groups, and IEDs help cut through the noise and bring attention to the activists’ causes. The scope and frequency of IED attacks this month ensured that they could not be overlooked.

The second factor is the learning curve of the cells’ bombmakers. As a bombmaker becomes more proficient in his tradecraft, the devices he crafts tend to become both more reliable and more powerful. The improvement in tradecraft also means that the bombmaker is able to increase his operational tempo and deploy devices more frequently. It is quite possible that the few IEDs that were reported as hoaxes in March, April and May could have been IEDs that did not function properly — a common occurrence for new bombmakers who do not extensively test their devices.

The third factor is thrill and ego. In many past cases, militant activists have launched progressively larger attacks. One reason for this is that after a series of direct-action attacks, the activists get bored doing lower-level things like gluing locks or paint-stripping cars and they move to more destructive and spectacular attacks, such as those using timed incendiary devices. For many activists, there is a thrill associated with getting increased attention for the cause, in causing more damage to their targets and in getting away with increasingly brazen attacks.
Finally, in recent years, we have noted a shift among activist groups away from a strict concern for human life. Many activists are becoming convinced that less violent tactics have been ineffective, and if they really want to save the Earth and animals, they need to take more aggressive action. There is a small but growing fringe of hard-core activists who believe that, to paraphrase Lenin, you have to break eggs to make an omelet.

The Ruckus Society, a direct-action activist training organization, explains it this way in a training document: “There is a law against breaking into a house. However, if you break into a house as part of a greater good, such as rushing into the house to save a child from a fire, it is permissible to break that law. In fact, you can say that there is even a moral obligation to break that law. In the same way then, it is permissible to break minor laws to save the Earth.” In general, activists do not condone violent action directed at humans, but neither do they always condemn it in very strong terms — they often explain that the anger that prompts such violence is “understandable” in light of what they perceive as ecological injustice and cruelty to animals.
In recent years there has been a polarization in the animal rights and environmental movements, with fringe activists becoming increasingly isolated and violent — and more likely to use potentially deadly tools like IEDs in their attacks.

Confluences
The very name of ASLTAH — the Subversive Alliance for the Liberation of the Earth, Animals and Humans — illustrates the interesting confluence of animal rights, ecological activism and anti-imperialism/anarchism that inhabit the radical fringe. It is not uncommon for one cell of independent activists to claim it carried out its attacks under the banner of “organizations” such as ELF, ALF or SHAC. In true anarchistic style, however, these organizations are amorphous and nonhierarchical — there is no single ELF, ALF or SHAC. Rather, the individual activists and cells who act on behalf of the organizations control their own activities while adhering to guidelines circulated in meetings and conferences, via the Internet, and in various magazines, newsletters and other publications. These individual activists and cells are driven only by their consciences, or by group decisions within the cell. This results in a level of operational security that can be hard for law enforcement and security officials to breach.
As noted above, these activists have been far more active in Mexico than they have in the United States. One reason for this is that the operating environment north of the border is markedly different than it is in Mexico. In the United States, the FBI and local and state police agencies have focused hard on these activists, and groups like ELF and ALF have been branded as domestic terrorists. There have been several major investigations into these groups in recent years.

South of the border it is a different matter. Mexican authorities are plagued with problems ranging from drug cartels to Marxist terrorist/insurgent groups like the EPR to rampant police and government corruption. Simply put, there is a vacuum of law and order in Mexico and that vacuum is clearly reflected in statistics such as the number of kidnappings inside the country every year. The overall level of violence in Mexico and this vacuum of authority provide room for the activists to operate, and the host of other crime and violence issues plaguing the country works to ensure that the authorities are simply too busy to place much emphasis on investigating activist attacks and catching those responsible for them. Therefore, the activists operate boldly and with a sense of impunity that often leads to an increase in violence — especially within the context of a very violent place, which Mexico is at the present time.
This atmosphere means that the activist cells behind the increase in IED attacks will be able to continue their campaigns against assorted capitalist, animal and ecological targets with very little chance of being seriously pursued. Consequently, as the IED campaign continues, the attacks will likely become more frequent and more destructive. And given Mexico’s densely populated cities and the activists’ target sets, this escalation will ensure that the attacks will eventually turn deadly.


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America - A Nation Dying in Her Sleep!


Volume XXVIII Issue IX September 2009
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America - A Nation Dying in Her Sleep!

"For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape. But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief. Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness. Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober. For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night."

I Thessalonians 5:3-7

"But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way. But when the blade was sprung up, and brought forth fruit, then appeared the tares also. So the servants of the householder came and said unto him, Sir, didst not thou sow good seed in thy field? From whence then hath it tares? He said unto them, An enemy hath done this….."

Matthew 13:25-28

"While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept. And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him. Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps. And the foolish said unto the wise, Give us of your oil; for our lamps are gone out."

Matthew 25:5-8



In this issue of the Last Trumpet Newsletter, we will use the Word of God, our God-given discernment, and prayer to examine a prevailing condition that is of the severest danger. I have dedicated the past twenty-eight years of my life to the Word of God and prayer, and I have been a watchman of the prophetic signs for the duration of my ministry. It never ceases to amaze me how so many things can be obvious, and yet the masses of people remain in a condition of indifference and abject apathy. I have come to realize that the people of this world, especially those of the United States of America, are in a spiritual slumber. Satan and his powers of antichrist governance have used various devices and methods to induce this spiritual slumber, and it is a deep and deadly sleep that has come upon America.

The above verses warn us of this very condition, and truly it is upon us. So many things happen in the darkness while people sleep. Men like Barack Obama become President, financial bailout bills are passed, climate bills are passed, and governmental health reform is advanced. Designer influenza viruses seem to appear from nowhere, which provide an excuse for inoculating countless millions of unsuspecting people. Never before has the world been in the condition it is now. Peace is constantly touted, yet we are always at war somewhere. Tares or weeds are being sown or planted among the wheat in this great spiritual field of the world, and confusion is everywhere. Religions are a great problem as well, especially those that wave the banner of "Christianity" and do not know the first thing about obedience to the Lord Jesus Christ. The lamps of discernment have gone out.

There is a sleep from which some people never awaken. Some people die in their sleep, and this is also true in the spiritual sense. The United States of America is rapidly being destroyed, and people refuse to wake up and rise up to oppose the evil. Souls are being destroyed by mega-churches, televangelists, and religious organizations; and people sleep on while it happens. We must sound the alarm and bring people to the rude awakening of what is happening to them. It is almost over, and eternity is just ahead. The Apostle Paul wrote of this time we are now living in. In Romans 13:11-12 we read as follows: "And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed. The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light."

While our nation and the world sleep on, you can come fully awake right now and call upon the Lord Jesus with a true and sincere repentance. He will hear you and respond with salvation for your soul, and you will receive a great blessing and purpose in your life. Do it now! Time will come to an abrupt end very soon!

The Rise of Marxist Socialism in America!

Is the United States of America in a state of transition into a Marxist-socialist or even a communist country? Could the sleeping masses of people be so deceived and oblivious to what is going on that the unthinkable is happening? Most educated people are familiar with two books written by George Orwell. One is entitled 1984, and the other is entitled Animal Farm. Both books are about a one-world, communistic government that micro-manages every person. Those infamous words "Big Brother is watching you" came from the book 1984. In the book, the entire world becomes a panopticon, which means you are always being watched. But you don't know who's watching you. In the book Animal Farm, we find a microcosm of the world in the form of a happy farm of animals, protected by a firm constitution, which guarantees individual rights for all. Soon, a gradual but persistent takeover began to transform the farmyard into a communist-socialist state, and by the time many of the animals came fully awake it was too late. Here let it be noted that during the week following Obama's 100th day in office, the massive internet marketplace known as Amazon.com pulled these two books by Orwell on their Kindle electronic-book reader device, saying they are not authorized to be sold because of a questionable copyright violation. (1) They also flatly and assertively stated that there is no government conspiracy! Obama, like Adolph Hitler, must have realized that certain books needed to be eliminated so people would not catch on to what is happening to them! (Amazon has since re-added these books, likely due to public outcry.)

On August 6th, 2009, the U.S. Observer reported that Obama and the White House are compiling a list of enemies that oppose the Obama health plan. Obama called upon all Americans to report on each other if they detect opposition to Obama's plan. This includes e-mails and casual conversation. Here let it be noted for the benefit of any bemused doubting Thomas who may be reading this that Texas Senator John Cornyn called attention to this Obama list of enemies and demanded that Obama stop it. (2) I have no doubt that the hit list continues. The official White House blog also offered a website that Americans can use to "flag and report" each other. I will not list the name of that website in this newsletter for obvious reasons.

Every socialist/communist state also needs a propaganda ministry and the complete management of the news media. Even though the news media have been performing like trained seals for Obama, these were not enough. On July 30th, former CBS News anchor Dan Rather called for a "White House commission on public media" to be established. (3) This would mean that all news would be controlled by the White House in the name of democracy. This is nothing short of a propaganda ministry. We must remember Nazi Germany and Hitler's propaganda minister, Dr. Joseph Goebbels, who was given the job of deceiving the German people for their own good. It was Goebbels who said, "Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play." I have no doubt that if Dr. Goebbels were still alive, Obama would hire him. Here is one more infamous quote from Dr. Joseph Goebbels: "If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the state to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State." (4)

Strange things are happening in this government-in-transition. On July 9th, 2009, the United States Department of the Treasury posted a contractor job notice in an attempt to procure comedians to conduct "humor in the workplace programs." These programs are designed to relieve stress in the workplace for the workers in the Bureau of the Public Debt (BPD). (5) Considering the sad shape our country is in, is it a time to just laugh it off? When filthy humor is used in the presence of the misfortune of so many others, it is also a reaction to the spirit of antichrist. It is a mocking spirit of satanic laughter.

It also seems that Barack Obama has taken over the automobile industry in America. On July 15th, Obama put a firm stop on any attempts to restore relationships between the dealers of Chrysler and General Motors' products and their manufacturers. (6) Then came the "cash for clunkers" program. Here let it be noted that this program does nothing for the poor, who are driving the old "rust bucket" cars. They cannot afford to buy a new car even with the $4,500 government voucher. It was the middle class people that came running like squealing pigs to stick their snouts into the new government trough. Many hundreds of thousands of cars were turned in to the government, and of all of those, there were an estimated 560,000 that were in good to very good running condition. The government orders required the dealers to destroy these vehicles. They could not be resold. The dealers were ordered by law to pour an additive into the engines of all of these vehicles, which caused these beautiful engines to seize up and become useless blocks of metal. Then the cars were sent to the crushers for scrap. Many of these vehicles were as new as the model year 2001. There are so many people who could have used these vehicles. But Obama wants you to drive his cars. It is a strange spirit, but we know that Adolph Hitler did the same thing when he ordered the development and production of the Volkswagen, the "people's car," in Germany. Meanwhile, Hitler himself rode around in a gas-guzzling Mercedes. We know that Obama rides around in a heavy gas-guzzling car, which he calls "the beast." Would he be willing to send that car to the crusher?

The elitist attitude of the corrupt government officials reveals their complete lack of empathy for the ones that they call the "ordinary Americans." On July 16th, 2009, ABC News reported that a recent conference of executives for the Social Security Administration, held in Phoenix, Arizona, cost $700,000.00, including dancing girls and other entertainment. The event was held at the Arizona Biltmore Resort & Spa. (7)

So much has happened since our country was handed over to a man who cannot even prove he is eligible to be President of the United States. Furthermore, there seems to be a general fear to criticize him in any way, which is a guaranteed right of every American. Obama does not understand that because he was not born in America. I applaud the courageous U.S. Army officer, Major Stefan F. Cook, who wanted to go to Afghanistan, but refused to go on orders from Barack Obama. He demanded clarification that Obama was a legitimate Commander in Chief, and he demanded proof that Obama was born in America. The Major also hired an attorney, and suddenly, the U.S. Army rescinded the orders. Major Cook's attorney issued the following statement: "It means that the military has nothing to show for Obama. It means that the military has directly responded by saying Obama is illegitimate, and they cannot fight it. Therefore, they are revoking the order. (8) This should have been front page news, but only WorldNetDaily featured the story!

What are Obama's long-range plans? Why is the U.S. Army advertising under their Careers & Jobs posting for workers to staff internment and resettlement camps? The military calls these camps confinement/correctional and detention/internment facilities. (9) The Marxist socialists will continue to move forward as long as people refuse to believe it is happening and continue to do nothing about it. I am sometimes told by people that they don't have time to pray. I believe the time is coming when all you have time for is prayer.

Your Health in the Hands of a Dictator!

One of the greatest controversies in America at this time is the Obama Health Care Reform proposal. On July 30th, 2009, Time Magazine reported that the Obama Administration has made great progress, but it is now being violently opposed by many. The article went on to say that Obama is suffering from frustration over the battle, and he considers it to be his most important domestic issue. (10) The many town hall meetings have become sessions of frenzied screaming and intense opposition to the Obama plan. Congressmen have been shouted down vehemently in these meetings throughout the United States. The response of Obama to all of his congressional emissaries that are holding these town hall meetings was, "Punch back twice as hard." (11)

The new health care plan is antichrist and completely evil. I make this bold statement for a number of reasons, and no, I am not worried about being reported to Obama's hit list. I am already on it, and probably in capital letters. One of the problems with this "Government insurance" is that it allows coverage for any and all abortions for whatever reason. This was verified by an Associated Press article dated August 6th, 2009. (12) The article clearly states, "Since abortion is a legal medical procedure, experts on both side say not mentioning it would allow health care plans in the new insurance exchange to provide unrestricted coverage."

Included in Obama's health care plan is a very dangerous provision that would encourage euthanasia of the elderly. A former New York lieutenant governor, Betsy McCaughey, is actively trying to get the word out about this insidious danger of the health care reform act. McCaughey issued the following statement: "The provision requires senior citizens to submit to end-of-life consultations. Congress would make it mandatory, absolutely require, that every five years, people in Medicare have a required counseling session that will tell them how to end their life sooner. The bill expressly says if you get sick somewhere in that five year period, you have to go through that session again - all to do what is in society's best interest, or your family's best interest, and cut your life short." (13) Even former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, in reference to this provision, said that Obama's plan is "downright evil." Palin also referred to a "death panel" that would deny care to certain Americans. (14)

When I think of all the nursing homes I have been in to sing and minister the Word of God to the beloved elderly people, I realize how vulnerable these people are. Many of them are so drugged and controlled that they would say yes to anything. Highly trained, smiling, end-of-life counselors could and would easily persuade these people to end their lives. What a great evil is rising up! Who is this strange President, and what will he try to do next? We remember Adolph Hitler and his Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, or Nazi party, with its hard-line policies to eliminate what were called "useless eaters." The German people did not know what they were getting into with Der Fuehrer as an answer man. Germany was in financial ruin, and numerous other problems prevailed, just like in the United States at the time Obama stepped in and promised change and hope! The same evil spirits that drove dictators before did not die with those dictators. They moved forward to new human stooges and are somewhere right now. The Bible tells us the ultimate dictator will arise in the last days. How long will it be until people awaken from their spiritual death sleep and realize they are living out the final prophecies of the Bible? They will either come fully awake or die in their sleep. I pray to Almighty God for a great awakening! One good thing that is happening right now is a strong push by certain senators to eliminate the end-of-life provision from the national health care plan. I pray that it is removed!

The Planned Pandemic!

One story seems to predominate the news, and it coincides with Obama's health care reform. I am referring to the "swine flu campaign." When schools reopen nationwide, millions of young people are scheduled to receive immunizations against this designer virus that seemed to appear from nowhere. We know that conspiracy has always been the method of Satan's operation. We find this to be true throughout the Word of God. Things don't just happen to happen; they happen because someone wants them to happen. In the July 16th, 2009, edition of the New England Journal of Medicine on page 225, we find the following words: "The current international pandemic caused by a novel influenza A (H1N1) virus derived from two unrelated swine viruses, one of them a derivative of the 1918 human virus, adds to the complexity surrounding this persistent progenitor virus, its descendants, and its several lineages." (15) Quite obviously, this did not happen by itself, but was manufactured for use in both manipulating and reducing the population of the world. Strangely enough, the flu is not as dangerous as the vaccine that is supposed to prevent it!

One type of anti-flu drug that has been used is known as Tamiflu. On July 31st, 2009, the London Times newspaper featured an article with the following headline: "Tamiflu causes sickness and nightmares in children." The article goes on to tell how a significant number of children who received the anti-flu immunization developed an inability to think clearly. Nightmares and strange behavior followed. (16) We have now also learned that one of the ingredients being used to make the new vaccine for the H1N1 flu vaccine is derived from the kidneys of diseased monkeys, whose kidneys are harvested for that specific purpose. (17) We must also bear in mind that monkeys in Africa were used to host the HIV AIDS virus when it was being developed and thrust upon the world several decades ago. This is all Satan's business and the workings of conspiratorial darkness.

America - Looking Up to See Bottom!

Regardless of what anyone says, it is becoming quite evident that the erstwhile great economic superpower of the world, the United States of America, is in deep trouble. The news media is so reluctant to use the word depression, but that is exactly what we are in. On August 1st, 2009, which happens to be a high cross-quarter witches' sabat, Bloomberg News Service announced that the current "recession" is the worst since the Great Depression. The article also stated that during the past twelve months we saw the economy shrink more than twice as much as previously estimated. (18) On July 31st, 2009, which is the eve of that same witches' sabat, Federal regulators shut down more banks in five different states, namely Florida, New Jersey, Ohio, Oklahoma, and Illinois. (19) On August 14th, 2009, the giant bank Colonial Bancgroup failed and was taken over by the Federal Government. The assets of this bank exceeded 25 billion dollars, and the bank is now in receivership as a failure. (20) According to an Associated Press article published on July 12th, countless other banks are near the point of collapse and are only delaying their day of reckoning! (21)

While the financial systems of our nation continue to fail, the government is finding their tax revenues shrinking. They are estimating a drop of 18% in Federal tax collected for 2009. (22) While this problem grows continually worse, the government continues to spend money like a drunken sailor. The White House recently awarded the following purchases: $1,191,200.00 for sliced ham, $351,807.00 to replace and upgrade the dumbwaiter, $1,562,568.00 for mozzarella cheese, $5,708,260.00 for process cheese, $16,784,272.00 for canned pork, $1,444,100.00 to repair a door in building 5112, and $541,119.00 to install one traffic signal. (23)

Is there a curse on our U.S. Government with its policies on baby killing, euthanasia, homosexuality, and so on? It seems like everything the government does costs at least three times as much as it should and is only half as efficient. Everything they touch moves toward ruin and demise! Since Obama personally fired the head of General Motors and GM became Government Motors with the Feds controlling 66.666 percent of the company, global sales plummeted 22 percent! (24) Obama promised change, and what have we seen thus far? We have learned that the May-June joblessness rate is up dramatically in 90 percent of American metropolitan areas. (25) The state of Michigan has been hit hard with an unemployment rate of 15.2 percent. (26) In the little state of Rhode Island, 1,200 businesses are currently facing closure because they cannot pay their sales taxes. (27) All of these troubles have brought forth a nation of depressed people, who have run to doctors and druggists for help. In the year 2008 alone, more than 164 million prescriptions have been written for antidepressants. The costs of these drugs were 9.6 billion dollars! (28) New Orleans, Louisiana, is a city that has literally gone mad; insanity rates have doubled in that accursed city. The last mental hospital in New Orleans will be closing on September 1st for lack of funding. (29) New Orleans has long been a stronghold of satanic perversion, witchcraft, voodoo, and every evil of the worst kind. Many thousands are wandering the streets in a mental stupor of madness, reaping only a fraction of the penalties of rebellion against Almighty God!

The economies of the entire world are in transition toward the one-world economy soon to emerge. Even something as basic as water will soon be traded on the just market like oil and other commodities now traded, according to predictions made by the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. (30) In fact, water summits are now being held in various places in the world, including Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and the country of Israel, to deal with growing water demands and severe shortages. (31)

We have now learned that Red China is buying vast amounts of metals, primarily copper. Many experts in the field of economics are predicting that copper will be the new standard for the world currency system. (32) I am amazed at this, especially when I consider that we were once on the gold standard, then on silver, and now heading towards copper, I immediately thought of Daniel 2:31-33 which reads as follows: "Thou, O King, sawest, and behold a great image. This great image, whose brightness was excellent, stood before thee; and the form thereof was terrible. This image's head was of fine gold, his breast and his arms of silver, his belly and his thighs of brass. His legs of iron, his feet part of iron and part of clay." The third metal is called brass in the Scripture and was actually bronzed copper. The image in Daniel, chapter two, represented world government, as is clear from the context of the chapter. As we read on in Daniel, chapter two, we will find that when the copper system fails, we will be under the iron fist of the Beast, who will be broken and destroyed by the return of the Lord Jesus Christ!

Upheaval in the Creation!

Political leaders from around the world, including Barack Obama, are gearing up for the forthcoming Copenhagen Treaty to halt global warming. One-world government bodies such as the G-8 and the G-20 have already committed their respective nations to cut the use of fossil fuels more than 80 percent. To accomplish this in the United States, it would require the shutting down of virtually all economic activity, meaning no electricity, no transport, and no industry. It is all a scam and a hoax. Even though Al Gore recently compared our war against global warming to battling the Nazis, all computer models and statistics show that the earth is actually cooling. In fact, it has cooled to levels it was at thirty years ago. (33) I have no doubt that the unusually cool weather this summer in the majority of the United States is a statement from the Almighty, just to make monkeys out of these conspirators that are so in need of a gimmick to promote their cause. The whole global warming concept is a gimmick to promote a "save the planet" movement that is to weld people together in an antichrist system. It is interesting to note that in Al Gore's home state of Tennessee, there was such a wave of cooling this summer that previous records were broken. On July 21st during the heat of summer, Nashville, Tennessee, temperatures dropped to 58 degrees Fahrenheit, which broke the low temperature record for that day in 1877 when Rutherford B. Hayes was President. (34)

In the Bible we find no direct predictions by our Saviour for global warming. The real global heat will be felt on Judgment Day when the lake of fire looms largely against the ungodly! We are seeing many other signs happening right now as predicted by our Saviour! NASA astronomers have recently discovered a new monster black hole in space that is sucking up gas, dust, and stars at a rapid rate. (35) Many strange things are happening in space involving major shifts that have never been known to happen before.

One of the great signs that our Saviour told us to watch for at the very end is the number and intensity of earthquakes happening in various areas throughout the world. It is to be like a woman in the travail of giving birth with the labor pains getting closer together and more intense. In the past 30 days, as of August 15th, 2009, there have been 324 earthquakes with a magnitude of at least 4 or greater. Many of these quakes were intense, and they are now happening closer together. (36) The world should have been stunned by a true act of God on July 22nd, 2009, when a massive earthquake moved the nation New Zealand a full foot closer to Australia. (37) We cannot begin to imagine the amount of energy it would take to do that.

On August 3rd, 2009, a strong 6.9 magnitude quake struck Baja California, and it rattled buildings as far away as San Diego. (38) On August 10th, 2009, a powerful 6.6 earthquake shook the Tokyo area of Japan. This quake came from a depth of 12 miles. (39) On that same day of August 10th, 2009, another powerful quake struck near India in the region of the Andaman Islands. The magnitude was 7.6. (40) These are major upheavals, and they are intensifying. On August 13th, 2009, the third of three major quakes in what can be called rapid succession struck Tokyo, Japan. There is now great fear that the giant quake is about to happen, which would decimate Tokyo, the world's largest city. (41)

Truly, these are the last days, and another great sign has happened. On July 14th, 2009, the Assyrian International News reported that the great river Euphrates is drying up and is reduced to a trickle in some areas. (42) We understood this in the spiritual sense, but it is literally about dried up in Iraq. The drying up of this great and ancient river, dating back to the Garden of Eden, has caused a plague of swarms of poisonous snakes to enter into populated areas, and people are fleeing in terror. (43) In Revelation 16:12 we are told of this great sign!

In closing, I once again send my sincerest thanks to all of you who support this end time prophetic ministry. Your prayer requests are always given individual attention by our prayer teams. Please remember us in your prayers, and remember that God loves you and so do we. Grace and peace be unto you in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

David J. Meyer

Acknowledgements

01. Associated Press, Jul. 17, 2009.
02. Dallas Morning News, Aug. 6, 2009, Dallas, TX.
03. Aspen Daily News, Jul. 30, 2009, by Andrew Travers, Aspen, CO.
04. Joseph Goebbels Quotes, http://en.thinkexist.com/quotes/joseph.goebbels/.
05. U.S. Dept. of Treasury, Jul. 9, 2009, solicitation #RFI-BPD-09-0028.
06. Bloomberg News Service, Jul. 15, 2009, by Brian Faler, Washington, D.C.
07. ABC News 15, Jul. 16, 2009, by Josh Bernstein, Phoenix, AZ.
08. WorldNetDaily, Jul. 14, 2009, by Chelsea Schilling, http://www.wnd.com/.
09. U.S. Army Careers & Jobs, Aug. 8, 2009, http://www.goarmy.com/JobDetail.do?id=292.
10. Time Magazine, Jul. 30, 2009, by Karen Tumulty, Time-CNN.
11. Politico, Aug. 6, 2009, by Carrie Budoff Brown, Washington, D.C.
12. Associated Press, Aug. 6, 2009, by Ricardo Alonzozaldivar, Washington, D.C.
13. Politico, July 28, 2009, by Carrie Budoff Brown, Washington, D.C.
14. Associated Press, Aug. 8, 2009, by Mark Thiessen, Anchorage, AK.
15. New England Journal of Medicine, Jul. 16, 2009, page 225.
16. London Times, Jul. 31, 2009, by David Rose, London, England, U.K.
17. Dr. Scott Johnson Health Alert, Aug. 5, 2009, drjohnson@ix.netcom.com
18. Bloomberg News Service, Aug. 1, 2009, by Bob Willis, New York, NY.
19. Associated Press, Jul. 31, 2009, by Marcy Gordon & Leva M. Augstums, Washington, D.C.
20. Associated Press, Aug. 14, 2009, by Marcy Gordon, Washington, D.C.
21. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Jul. 12, 2009, by Rachel Beck, New York, NY.
22. Associated Press, Aug. 3, 2009, by Stephen Ohlemacher, Washington, D.C.
23. Matt Drudge Report, Jul. 20, 2009, by Matt Drudge, http://wwwdrudgereport.com/.
24. Reuters News Service, Jul. 22, 2009, Detroit, MI.
25. Associated Press, Jul.30, 2009, by Jeannine Aversa, Washington, D.C.
26. Traverse City Record-Eagle, July 16, 2009, AP, Lansing, MI.
27. Providence Journal, Jul. 30, 2009, by Kris Craig, Providence, RI.
28. Reuters News Service, Aug. 3, 2009, by Maggie Fox, Washington, D.C.
29. Washington Times, Aug. 4, 2009, by Audrey Hudson, New Orleans, LA.
30. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Jul. 21, 2009, by John Schmid, Milwaukee, WI.
31. Ibid.
32. London Daily Telegraph, Apr. 16, 2009, by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, London, England, U.K.
33. London Daily Telegraph, Jul. 11, 2009, by Christopher Booker, London, England.
34. Associated Press, Jul. 21, 2009, Nashville, TN.
35. London Daily Telegraph, Jul. 24, 2009, by Heidi Blake, London, England, U.K.
36. U.S. Geological Survey, Aug. 15, 2009, http://www.iris.edu/seismon/.
37. AFP News Service, Jul. 22, 2009, New Zealand.
38. Reuters News Service, Aug. 3, 2009, Tijuana, Mexico/
39. Associated Press, Aug. 10, 2009, Tokyo, Japan.
40. U.S. Geological Survey, Aug. 10, 2009, http://www.iris.edu/seismon/.
41. Earth Changes Media, Aug. 13, 2009, by Mitch Battros, http://earthchangesmedia.com/.
42. Assyrian International News Agency, Jul, 14, 2009, Jubaish, Iraq.
43. London Independent, Jun 15, 2009, by Patrick Cockburn, London, England, U.K.

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Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Empire State Building honors China, riling critics


Empire State Building honors China, riling critics
(AP) – 9 hours ago


NEW YORK — Critics of China's communist government are protesting plans to light the top of New York's Empire State Building red and yellow to honor that nation's 60th anniversary.
Several supporters of Tibet protested Wednesday outside the iconic building, where a lighting ceremony is planned. The building often changes its lighting colors to mark holidays and big events.


Democratic Congressman Anthony Weiner (WEE'-nur) of New York says the lights should not be used to pay tribute to what he called "a nation with a shameful history on human rights."
Building spokeswoman Marisa Picker had no immediate comment.
China is marking 60 years of communist rule on Wednesday.



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Strong earthquake rattles southeastern Peru

NBC News and news services
updated 20 minutes ago

JULIACA, Peru - A magnitude 5.9 quake struck in southeastern Peru on Wednesday, close to Bolivia's capital of La Paz, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.

It said the quake, fairly deep at 155 miles, occurred about 60 miles east of the Peruvian city of Juliaca and 100 miles northwest of La Paz.

The temblor was not felt in La Paz, nor in Peru's capital of Lima, people in those cities said.
There were no immediate reports of damages or injuries.


Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33094936/ns/world_news-americas/

NY Health Workers’ Vaccination: Protest over Mandatory Rule (Video, Photos)

With a new mandatory rule in place regarding NY health workers’ vaccination for H1N1 (commonly known as swine flu), many took part in a rally at the state’s capitol in Albany to protest. Find out more below.


The new regulation, issued by the the New York State Department of Health requires all health care workers, including nurses and doctors, in health facilities including hospitals, out-patient clinics, hospices as well as home health care, to be vaccinated against both seasonal flu as well as the H1N1. New York State thus far is unique in the country for this mandatory ruling.

The rule which requires the workers to undergo the mandatory immunization by November 30, 2009 or lose their jobs has been met with resistance both by individuals as well as by unions, including the The New York State Nurses Association and the Public Employees Federation. New York Newsday quotes a spokesperson for the nurses’ union, Nancy Webber, who states:
“We as an organization have not questioned the safety of the vaccine. “We see this as an issue of workers’ rights.”

Individual health care professionals have made statements to media outlets indicating their concern over safety and efficacy of the H1N1 vaccine, such as Tara Accavallo, a registered nurse at a Stony Brook, NY facility whom Newsday quotes:

“This vaccine has not been clinically tested to the same degree as the regular flu vaccine. If something happens to me, if I get seriously injured from this vaccine, who’s going to help me?”
As CBS News reports, prior to the NY Health Workers’ vaccination rally in Albany, the State Health Commissioner Richard Daines, issued an open letter in defense of the requirement, which states in part:

“We, as health care workers, owe it to our patients and to society in general to demonstrate our confidence in those scientific standards. Even more importantly, we should reconfirm our noble commitment to the tradition of putting patients’ interests first by supporting the mandatory influenza vaccination requirement.”

The above-cited article contains a link to the actual letter and additional links to studies in medical journals, reports on government Web sites, etc. regarding the issue of vaccination and immunization against the H1N1 swine flu.

Several photos and video from the rally at the state capitol can be seen here. Additional video is below. A search on YouTube will reveal numerous additional videos documenting the event. That is the latest on the NY Health Workers’ vaccination rally in Albany protesting a new mandatory ruling.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u61OPcOFGTA&feature=player_embeddedhttp://
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NY health workers vaccination

NY health workers vaccination
by Staff


NY health workers vaccination (VIDEO) - The trend toward mandatory H1N1 vaccinations for U.S. healthcare workers is meeting resistance from unions and anti-government groups, officials said.

Hundreds of thousands of nurses, doctors and other healthcare workers are being ordered to become vaccinated as the second wave of the H1N1 pandemic spreads this fall.

The trend is fueling rumors that the H1N1 vaccine may become mandatory for everyone, said Lori Price of Citizens for Legitimate Government, a Connecticut-based group that opposes government expansion.

"It's all part of an encroachment on our liberties," Price told The Wall Street Journal in a story published Saturday.

Hospital Corp. of America, with clinics and hospitals in 20 states, is requiring its 120,000 employees to be vaccinated and the state of New York is requiring all healthcare workers to get both seasonal and H1N1 flu shots.

Mandatory vaccination diverts attention from more effective infection-control methods, such as state-of-the-art masks, said Bill Borwegen, a occupational health and safety director of the Service Employees International Union. (c) UPI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GghTkw_BLLQ&feature=player_embeddedhttp://


Source: http://www.postchronicle.com/news/health/article_212259067.shtml?rssfeed

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Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Who Is Jay Rockefeller?


Jay Rockefeller
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Jay Rockefeller

United States Senatorfrom West Virginia
Incumbent
Assumed office January 15, 1985Serving with Robert Byrd
Preceded by
Jennings Randolph
29th Governor of West Virginia
In officeJanuary 17, 1977 – January 14, 1985
Preceded by
Arch A. Moore, Jr.
Succeeded by
Arch A. Moore, Jr.
Chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation
Incumbent
Assumed office January 3, 2009
Preceded by
Daniel Inouye
Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
In officeJanuary 3, 2007 – January 3, 2009
Preceded by
Pat Roberts
Succeeded by
Dianne Feinstein
Chairman of the Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs
In officeJanuary 3, 1993 – January 3, 1995
Preceded by
Alan Cranston
Succeeded by
Alan Simpson
In officeJanuary 3 – January 20, 2001
Preceded by
Arlen Specter
Succeeded by
Arlen Specter
In officeJune 6, 2001 – January 3, 2003
Preceded by
Arlen Specter
Succeeded by
Arlen Specter
22nd Secretary of State of West Virginia
In office1968 – 1972
Governor
Arch A. Moore, Jr.
Preceded by
Robert D. Bailey, Jr.
Succeeded by
Edgar F. Heiskell, III
Born
June 18, 1937 (1937-06-18) (age 72)New York City, New York
Political party
Democratic
Spouse(s)
Sharon Percy Rockefeller
Children
John D. Rockefeller VValerie RockefellerCharles RockefellerJustin Rockefeller
Residence
Charleston, West Virginia
Alma mater
Harvard University
Occupation
Politician, College Administrator
Religion
Presbyterian

John Davison "Jay" Rockefeller IV (born June 18, 1937) is a Democratic U.S. Senator from West Virginia since 1985. He was Governor of West Virginia from 1977 to 1985. As a great-grandson of oil tycoon John D. Rockefeller, he is the only current politician of the prominent six-generation Rockefeller family and the only Democrat in what has been a traditionally progressive Republican dynasty.[1]
He is related to several prominent Republican supporters and former officeholders: he is a great-grandson of Rhode Island Senator Nelson W. Aldrich; a nephew of banker David Rockefeller and Arkansas Governor Winthrop Rockefeller and of former U.S. Vice President Nelson A. Rockefeller; son-in-law of former Senator Charles H. Percy of Illinois; and cousin of Arkansas Lieutenant Governor Winthrop Paul Rockefeller.
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Early life, education, and family
Born on Friday, June 18, 1937, at 9:30 PM at New York Hospital in New York City to John D. Rockefeller III and Blanchette Ferry Hooker just 26 days after the death of his great-grandfather John D. Rockefeller, Sr., Jay Rockefeller graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy in 1954. He graduated from Harvard University in 1961 with a B.A. in Far Eastern Languages and History after having spent three years studying Japanese at the International Christian University in Tokyo.
After college, Rockefeller worked for the Peace Corps in Washington, D.C., under John F. Kennedy, where he developed a friendship with Robert Kennedy and worked as an assistant to Peace Corps Director Sargent Shriver. He served as the operations director for the Corps' largest overseas program in the Philippines. He continued his public service in 1964–1965 as a VISTA volunteer, under President Lyndon B. Johnson, during which time he moved to Emmons, West Virginia.
Rockefeller -- along with his son Charles -- is a trustee of New York's Asia Society, established by his father in 1956; he is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He voted against the 1993 North American Free Trade Agreement, which was heavily backed by his uncle David Rockefeller.
Since 1967, Rockefeller has been married to the former Sharon Percy, the chief executive officer of WETA-TV, the leading PBS station in the Washington, D.C., area, which broadcasts such notable programs as The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer and Washington Week.
Sharon is the daughter of former U.S. Senator Charles H. Percy of Illinois, who had an association with the Rockefeller family. They have four children: John D. Rockefeller V ("Jamie"), Valerie, Charles, and Justin. Jamie's wife Emily is the daughter of former NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue.
The Rockefellers reside in Charleston, West Virginia. They also, like other members of the family, have a ranch in the Grand Teton National Park in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Bill Clinton (a friend of Rockefeller's) and his family spent their summer vacation in August 1995, at the ranch.[2]
West Virginia state politics
He was elected to the West Virginia House of Delegates in 1966, and to the office of West Virginia Secretary of State in 1968. He won the Democratic nomination for Governor in 1972, but was defeated in the general election by the Republican incumbent Governor Arch Moore. Rockefeller then served as president of West Virginia Wesleyan College from 1973 to 1976.

Governor Rockefeller giving a speech aboard the USS Stump, July 1984
Rockefeller was elected Governor of West Virginia in 1976 and re-elected in 1980. He served as Governor when manufacturing plants and coal mines were closing as the national recession of the early 1980s hit West Virginia particularly hard. Between 1982 and 1984, West Virginia's unemployment rate hovered between 15 and 20 percent.
United States Senate
In 1984, he was elected to the United States Senate, narrowly defeating businessman John Raese as Ronald Reagan narrowly carried the state in the presidential election. As in his 1980 gubernatorial campaign against Arch Moore, Rockefeller spent over $12 million to win his Senate seat. To date, this has been the last competitive Senate race in West Virginia. Rockefeller was re-elected in 1990, 1996, 2002 and 2008 by substantial margins. He was chair of the Committee on Veterans' Affairs (1993–1995; January 3 to January 20, 2001; and June 6, 2001–January 3, 2003).
In April 1992, he was the Democratic Party's finance chairman and considered running for the presidency, but pulled out after consulting with friends and advisers. He went on to strongly endorse Clinton as the Democratic candidate.[3]
He was the Chairman of the prominent Senate Intelligence Committee (retiring in January 2009), from which he commented frequently on the war in Iraq. He now serves as a member of the Committee, taking on the role of Chairmanship at the Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation.
In 1993 Rockefeller became the principal Senate supporter, with Ted Kennedy, behind Bill and Hillary Clinton's sweeping health-care reform package, liaising closely with the First Lady, even opening up his mansion in Rock Creek Park for its first strategy meeting. The reform was subsequently defeated by an alliance between the Business Roundtable and a small-business coalition. [4]
In 2002, Rockefeller made an official visit to several Middle Eastern countries, during which he discussed his personal views regarding United States military intentions with the leaders of those countries. In October of that year, Rockefeller strongly expressed his concern for Saddam Hussein's alleged weapons of mass destruction program while addressing the U.S. Senate,
"There has been some debate over how 'imminent' a threat Iraq poses. I do believe that Iraq poses an imminent threat, but I also believe that after September 11, that question is increasingly outdated. It is in the nature of these weapons, and the way they are targeted against civilian populations, that documented capability and demonstrated intent may be the only warning we get. To insist on further evidence could put some of our fellow Americans at risk. Can we afford to take that chance? We cannot!" [5]
In November 2005 during a TV interview, Rockefeller stated: "I took a trip...in January of 2002 to Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Syria, and I told each of the heads of state that it was my view that George Bush had already made up his mind to go to war against Iraq, that that was a predetermined set course that had taken shape shortly after 9/11."
Rockefeller noted that this was his personal opinion, and that he was not privy to any confidential information indicating that such action was planned. [6] On October 11 of that year, he was one of 77 Senators who voted for the Iraq Resolution authorizing the Iraq invasion.
Iraq War
Rockefeller has been an outspoken critic of President Bush and the Iraq war in the past years, especially starting in late 2003. As chair of the Intelligence committee, he has indicted the President for his handling of intelligence and war operations. The previous year, however, Rockefeller was very much in line with Bush and those pushing for strong action – military, if necessary – against Iraq and Saddam Hussein.
On October 10, 2002, he said that "There is unmistakable evidence that Saddam Hussein is working aggressively to develop nuclear weapons and will likely have nuclear weapons within the next five years... The global community – in the form of the United Nations – has declared repeatedly, through multiple resolutions, that the frightening prospect of a nuclear-armed Saddam cannot come to pass. But the U.N. has been unable to enforce those resolutions. We must eliminate that threat now, before it is too late... Saddam Hussein represents a grave threat to the United States, and I have concluded we must use force to deal with him if all other means fail."[5]
Rockefeller and the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence released the final two pieces of the Phase II report on Iraq war intelliegence on June 5, 2008.[7] Senator Rockefeller said, "The president and his advisers undertook a relentless public campaign in the aftermath of the attacks to use the war against Al Qaeda as a justification for overthrowing Saddam Hussein."[8]
Television violence
In July 2007, Senator Rockefeller announced that he planned to introduce legislation before the August Congressional recess that would give the FCC the power to regulate TV violence. According to the July 16, 2007 edition of Broadcasting & Cable, the new law would apply to both broadcast as well as cable and satellite programming. This would mark the first time that the FCC would be given power to regulate such a vast spectrum of content, which would include almost everything except material produced strictly for direct internet use. An aide to the senator said that his staff had also been carefully formulating the bill in such a way that it would be able to pass constitutional scrutiny by the courts.
[edit] Retroactive immunity for telecommunications companies
In 2007, Senator Rockefeller began steering the Senate Intelligence Committee to grant retroactive immunity to telecommunications companies who were accused of unlawfully assisting the National Security Agency (NSA) in monitoring the communications of American citizens (see Hepting v. AT&T).[9]
This was an about-face of sorts for Senator Rockefeller, who had hand-written a letter to Vice President Cheney in 2003 expressing his concerns about the legality of NSA's warrantless wire-tapping program. Some have attributed this change of heart to the spike in contributions from telecommunications companies to the senator just as these companies began lobbying Congress to protect them from lawsuits regarding their cooperation with the NSA[10].
Between 2001 and the start of this lobbying effort, AT&T employees had contributed $300 to the senator.[10]. After the lobbying effort began, AT&T employees and executives donated $19,350 in 3 months[10]. The senator has pledged not to rely on his vast fortune to fund his campaigns[11], and the AT&T contributions represent about 2% of the money he raised during the previous year[10].
Retroactive immunity for torture
Though publicly deploring torture, Rockefeller was one of two Congressional Democrats briefed on waterboarding and other secret CIA practices in the early years of the Bush Administration, as well as the existence of taped evidence of such interrogations (later destroyed).[12] In December 2007, Rockefeller opposed a special counsel or commission inquiry into the destruction of the tapes, stating "it is the job of the intelligence committees to do that."[13]
On September 28, 2006, Rockefeller voted with a largely Republican majority to suspend habeas corpus provisions for anyone deemed by the Executive Branch an "unlawful combatant," barring them from challenging their detentions in court. Rockefeller's vote gave a retroactive, nine-year immunity to U.S. officials who authorized, ordered, or committed acts of torture and abuse, permitting the use of statements obtained through torture to be used in military tribunals so long as the abuse took place by December 30, 2005.[14] Rockefeller's vote authorized the President to establish permissible interrogation techniques and to "interpret the meaning and application" of international Geneva Convention standards, so long as the coercion fell short of "serious" bodily or psychological injury.[15][16] The bill became law on October 17, 2006.
2008 presidential election
On February 29, 2008, he endorsed Barack Obama for President of the United States, citing Obama's judgment on the Iraq war and national security issues, and calling him the right candidate to lead America during a time of instability at home and abroad. This endorsement stood in stark contrast to the results of the state primary that was easily won by Hillary Clinton.
On April 7, 2008 in an interview for The Charleston Gazette, Rockefeller criticized John McCain's Vietnam experience:
“McCain was a fighter pilot, who dropped laser-guided missiles from 35,000 feet. He was long gone when they hit. What happened when they get to the ground? He doesn’t know. You have to care about the lives of people. McCain never gets into those issues.”[17]
The McCain campaign called for an apology from Senator Rockefeller and for Barack Obama, whom Rockefeller has endorsed, to denounce the comment. Rockefeller later apologized for the comment[18] and the Obama campaign issued a statement expressing Obama's disagreement with the comment. Senator Lindsey Graham (R) of South Carolina noted that "John didn't drop bombs from 35,000 feet....the bombs were not laser guided (in the 1960 and 1970s)".[19]
Cybersecurity Act of 2009
On April 1, 2009, Rockefeller introduced the Cybersecurity Act of 2009 (S.773). Citing the vulnerability of the Internet to cyber-attacks, the bill makes provisions to turn the Department of Commerce into a public-private clearing house to share potential threat information with the owners of large private networks. It authorizes the Secretary of Commerce to sequester any information he deems necessary, without regard to any law. [20]
It also authorizes the president to declare an undefined "cyber-emergecy" which allows him to shut down any and all traffic to what he considers to be a compromised server. [21]
[edit] Health care reform
Rockafeller has been a proponent of a public option, fighting vociferously with some Democrats on the finance committee, in particular Max Baucus, the chairman of the committee, who contended that there was not enough support for a public option to gather the 60 votes needed to prevent a filibuster. Baucus asked repeatedly for Rockefeller to stop speaking on the issue.[22]
Further reading
Jay Rockefeller: Old Money, New Politics, Richard Grimes, Parsons, West Virginia: McClain Printing Company, 1984.
The System: The American Way of Politics at the Breaking Point, Haynes Johnson and David S. Broder, Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1996. (Significant mention)
Electoral history
See also: United States Senate election in West Virginia, 2008
United States Senate election in West Virginia, 2008
Party
Candidate
Votes
Percentage
Democratic
Jay Rockefeller
447,985
63.71%
Republican
Jay Wolfe
255,074
36.27%
United States Senate election in West Virginia, 2002
Party
Candidate
Votes
Percentage
Democratic
Jay Rockefeller
275,281
63.11%
Republican
Jay Wolfe
160,902
36.89%
United States Senate election in West Virginia, 1996
Party
Candidate
Votes
Percentage
Democratic
Jay Rockefeller
456,526
76.65%
Republican
Betty Burkes
139,088
23.35%
United States Senate election in West Virginia, 1990
Party
Candidate
Votes
Percentage
Democratic
Jay Rockefeller
276,234
68.32%
Republican
John Yoder
128,071
31.68%
United States Senate election in West Virginia, 1984
Party
Candidate
Votes
Percentage
Democratic
Jay Rockefeller
'
51.8%
Republican
John Raese
47.7%
[edit] See also
Rockefeller family
John D. Rockefeller III
David Rockefeller
Asia Society
Kykuit
US Senate Report on chemical weapons Rockefeller chaired this committee.
2005 CIA interrogation tapes destruction
References
^ Only Democrat in a staunchly Republican dynasty – see John Ensor Harr and Peter J. Johnson, The Rockefeller Century: Three Generations of America's Greatest Family, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1988. (p.394)
^ CHRONICLE - New York Times
^ THE 1992 CAMPAIGN: The Front-Runner; Like Voters, Superdelegates Have Doubts About Clinton - New York Times
^ The Clintons and health care reform – see Haynes Johnson & David S. Broder, The System: The American Way of Politics at the Breaking Point, Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1996. (pp.32–34,50,227)
^ a b http://www.senate.gov/~rockefeller/news/2002/flrstmt0102002.html
^ FOXNews.com - Transcript: Sens. Roberts, Rockefeller on 'FNS' - FOX News Sunday Chris Wallace
^ Senator Jay Rockefeller (D-WV)
^ Bush Overstated Iraq Evidence, Senators Report - NYTimes.com
^ Senate panel OKs spy measure - Los Angeles Times
^ a b c d Democratic Lawmaker Pushing Immunity Is Newly Flush With Telco Cash Threat Level from Wired.com
^ Election 2008
^ "Chairman Rockefeller Statement on the CIA Decision to Destroy Tapes of Early Detainee Interrogations". U.S. Senate website. 2007-12-06. http://rockefeller.senate.gov/news/2007/pr120607a.html. Retrieved 2007-12-11.
^ Calvin Woodward (2007-12-10). "White House Stays Quiet on CIA Tapes". Associated Press. http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hyL3au-RZxEcch2P9ymXaJ9mroogD8TER1IO0. Retrieved 2007-12-10.
^ William Neikirk, Andrew Zajac, Mark Silva (2006-09-29). "Tribunal bill OKd by Senate". Chicago Tribute. http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0609290178sep29,1,1387725.story. Retrieved 2006-09-29.
^ "Senate Passes Broad New Detainee Rules". New York Times. 2006-09-28. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/29/washington/29detain.html. Retrieved 2007-12-10.
^ Anne Plummer Flaherty (2006-09-28). "Senate OKs detainee interrogation bill". Associated Press. http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/politics/4223241.html. Retrieved 2006-09-29.
^ West Virginia Senator Apologizes for Comments on McCain
^ The Register-Herald, Beckley, West Virginia - Rockefeller apologizes to McCain over Vietnam service comment
^ After Rockefeller Insult, McCain Camp Claims Obama Won’t Shut Down Campaign Smears - America’s Election HQ
^ Senator John D. Rockefeller (2009-04-01). "Cybersecurity Act of 2009 Sec. 14". Library of congress. http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/F?c111:1:./temp/~c111b4Mr6Z:e49464:. Retrieved 2009-06-15.
^ Senator John D. Rockefeller (2009-04-01). "Cybersecurity Act of 2009 Sec. 18". Library of congress. http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/F?c111:1:./temp/~c111b4Mr6Z:e54375:. Retrieved 2009-06-15.
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