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AUSTIN, Texas – A software engineer furious with the Internal Revenue Service launched a suicide attack on the agency Thursday by crashing his small plane into an office building containing nearly 200 IRS employees, setting off a raging fire that sent workers fleeing for their lives. At least one person in the building was missing. The FBI tentatively identified the pilot as Joseph Stack. A federal law official said investigators were looking at a long anti-government screed and farewell note that he apparently posted on the Web earlier in the day as an explanation for what he was about to...

Obama Ascends To Heavens On Cloud To Go Get Crabcake Sandwich Proclaims “Peace be with you. Peace Prize and a million bucks be with me.” MOUNT OLIVET, MA -- And on the third day back from Martha's Vineyard, He was feeling uncommonly peckish, and He said unto Himself: “What this moment calls for is a nice, savory crabcake sandwich. With a toasted bun and a tangy remoulade.” And so, when the women came to find Him, He was not there. Very early, before the morning talk shows, they came to the Oval Office with a selection of sweet organic teas,...

Burma says US visit 'a success', could help ties Writer: AFP Published: 18/08/2009 at 04:00 PM Burma's junta-controlled state media said Tuesday that a recent visit by a US senator was a "success for both sides" that could improve the tense relations between the two countries. Burma soldiers parade during a ceremony in Rangoon. The country's junta-controlled state media has said that a recent visit by a US senator was a "success for both sides" that could improve the tense relations between the two countries. Democratic Senator Jim Webb travelled to Burma at the weekend, securing the release of an...

US senator visits Suu Kyi Published: 16/08/2009 at 04:50 AM Rangoon (AFP) - US Senator Jim Webb met Burmese military ruler Than Shwe and democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi on Saturday after securing the release of the US citizen jailed for visiting Suu Kyi's house in May. John Yettaw, bound for Bangkok Sunday afternoon. Webb, a Democrat with close links to US President Barack Obama, became the first official US visitor to hold talks with the reclusive Than Shwe, encountering the regime's supremo in his bunker-like capital, Naypyidaw, officials said. Webb then flew to Rangoon to meet Nobel peace...

What to call the new strain of flu raising alarm around the world has taken on political, economic and diplomatic overtones. Pork producers question whether the term "swine flu" is appropriate, given that pigs so far do not seem to be falling ill. Public Health Minister Witthaya Kaewparadai said using the word "swine" would lead to consumers avoiding pork. Some people in Thailand have started referring to the disease as "Mexican flu". The US is reviewing whether to change the name, complaining that a slew of countries were misguidedly banning pork imports from North America. "This is not a food-borne...

The government has begun dismantling red shirt networks by raiding and closing down community radio stations. Police raided the pro-Thaksin DStation in Bangkok yesterday and, in central Chiang Mai, police searched the 4th floor of the Grand Waroros hotel where a community radio station is based. The Chiang Mai station is operated by the anti-government Rak Chiang Mai 51, which is known

this is the email that i was sent urging students to join the class... Dear Community: In the last few weeks a number of people have asked me about the meaning and goals of socialism. Partly this is a response to charges that President Obama is actively creating socialism in the United States. Most Americans have little or no knowledge about socialism, communism, and Marxism. These topics are generally forbidden and discouraged in our educational system. Questions abound in the U.S. about these ideologies and alternative economic systems.. For example, is the Peoples' Republic of China communist? Was the Soviet...

General Motors (Thailand) Tuesday dismissed speculation it is on the brink of bankruptcy, after the Obama administration gave the US automaker 60 days to produce a better turnaround plan. Inevitably, any US government decision on GM would be felt by its affiliates, said Steve Carlisle, the Thailand-based president of GM Southeast Asia operations. However, he said the Thai unit was a separate legal entity and self-dependent unit, responsible for its own operating cash for funding itself. "Chapter 11 (bankruptcy protection) would specifically apply to the US entity only, he said. "However, we still need to continue adapting our business plans...

China-based spies target Thailand Published: 30/03/2009 at 02:45 AM Canadian intelligence experts have unearthed a huge computer-controlled espionage ring, based in China while targetting Thailand and 102 other countries, according to the Canadian institute and The New York Times. One target of the hackers in China was the Thai embassy in the Philippines, where at least one computer with classified information was inflitrated. Another victim the Asean secretariat, along with unspecified news organisations. The Munk Centre for International Studies at the University of Toronto reported that the computer-based electronic spying run out of China had infiltrated at least 1,295 computers...

EIR Investigation Executive Intelligence Review (EIR), November 1, 1996 The dossier that follows is based upon a report released on Oct. 1 by EIR's bureau in Wiesbaden, Germany, titled "A Profile of Mega-Speculator George Soros." Research was contributed by Mark Burdman, Elisabeth Hellenbroich, Paolo Raimondi, and Scott Thompson. ............................................................................ Time magazine has characterized financier George Soros as a "modern-day Robin Hood," who robs from the rich to give to the poor countries of eastern Europe and Russia. It claimed that Soros makes huge financial gains by speculating against western central banks, in order to use his profits to help the...

Obama Appoints Leprechaun to Key Treasury Post “Lucky” Darby T. Boone McDoggles predicts economic recovery to begin in the Pacific Northwest, where precipitation is high and rainbows are particularly common

BLAINE, Wash. – A Canadian says he got a face full of pepper spray after repeatedly asking a U.S. border inspector in Blaine, Wash., to say please. Desiderio Fortunato says he thought the inspector who told him to turn off his engine Monday was rude and asked him to say please. The 54-year-old British Columbia resident told The Bellingham Herald that the inspector repeatedly ordered him to turn the car off and then said he would spray him if he didn't. Fortunato says he was stunned and blinded by the pepper spray and was pulled out of the car and...

Couple beheaded in Yala By: BangkokPost.com Published: 22/02/2009 at 10:19 AM A group of insurgents gunned down and beheaded a couple of local rubber farmers in the southern border province of Yala on Sunday morning. The two victims, indentified as Kongphet Janyarerk and his wife Yenjai, were brutally killed by the gunmen while they were travelling to work at a rubber plantation in Yala's Raman district. The gunmen decapitated them and took their heads away before escaping from the area. Police and soldiers were inspecting the crime scene before tracking down the culprits. In other developments in the restive South,...

New “Lèse-ISOC” Laws to Protect Kingdom’s Most Sacred Paramilitary Institution Official images of ISOC officials to be issued for display in homes and offices http://www.notthenation.com/pages/news/getnews.php?id=727

So what are friends for? Published: 16/02/2009 at 12:00 AM Newspaper section: NewsThe Barack Obama presidency starts what it promises will be a new foreign policy era this week. Top officials and envoys are off to Europe and South Asia. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton begins her term with a trip to Asia that brings mixed reactions. On one hand, Mrs Clinton is clearly showing how important this region has become. On the other, the decision to visit Indonesia but ignore close US friends and allies is confusing. The recognition that Asia is the continent of the 21st century is...

WASHINGTON DC - Eager to get his term underway, Barack Obama, his wife and two daughters have erected a family-size tent on the lawn of the White House and decided to camp out there during the remaining days of the Bush presidency. The new Coleman Durango 15’ by 10’ luxury tent, which is being protected by secret service agents, was set up with considerable effort yesterday morning by the Obamas. In the afternoon the Obama girls Malia and Sasha were seen carrying sleeping bags into the tent and as the sun set, Michelle Obama was spotted collecting firewood around the...

Update: Environmental Groups Exposed: "Every dollar spent has been aimed at helping Democrats" October 22, 2008 Posted By Marc Morano – 3:36 PM ET – Marc_Morano@EPW.Senate.Gov Update: Environmental Groups Exposed: ‘Every dollar spent has been aimed at helping Democrats’ This report is part of an ongoing oversight investigation into the funding and partisan political activities of environmental groups. An article in the trade publication Greenwire reaffirms the findings of Senator James Inhofe’s (R-OK) ongoing oversight investigation into the multi-million dollar funding and partisan political activities of environmental groups. The Greenwire article by reporter Alex Kaplun reported that “since the start...

A Principle of The Traditional American Philosophy 11. Taxes--Limited to Safeguard Liberty "He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance." (Declaration of Independence) The Principle 1. The traditional American philosophy teaches that tyranny through taxation is one of the most dangerous and oppressive aspects of Government-over-Man and must be guarded against and opposed accordingly, for the protection of Man's God-given, unalienable rights. The Precedent of 1776 2. Tyrannous abuse of the taxing power was a principal provocation of the American Revolution in 1776 and, according...

Southerners, Farmers Rejoice at Obama Victory. Follow link http://www.notthenation.com/pages/news/getnews.php?id=636

"Indisputably, this nation was founded as a republic and its leaders were justifiably afraid of a democracy, lest it destroy the nation they had risked their lives to establish" The author is secretary of Sons of Liberty (P.O. Box 44673, Boise, ID 83711-0673; phone 208-322-7863), a network of activist patriots whose goals is "the full and permanent restoration of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights as their authors intended them" — The editors. It was long ago speculated that the reason why so many Americans — especially new (naturalized) and working class Americans — register and vote as Democrats...