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A man reported to be a serving soldier is dead and two people have been shot in Woolwich, south east London, after what Sky sources understand is being treated as a terrorist attack. Downing Street has called a meeting of the Government's Cobra emergency committee after the incident in John Wilson Street, which David Cameron described as "truly shocking". Sky sources understand that senior police officers believe the killing was likely to be a politically-motivated Islamist terrorist attack. Dozens of weapons - including a number of knives - and pools of blood could be seen on the ground, where a...

SNIPPET: "U.S. officials familiar with intelligence reports said the websites of Ansar al-Mujahidin, Shumukh al-Islam and Al Fida — all accredited as official outlets of the terrorist group once led by Osama bin Laden — were knocked off the Internet by cyberattacks in early May. Two of the sites — Ansar al-Mujahidin (as-ansar.com) and Shumukh al-Islam (shamikh1.info) — came back up Monday and Tuesday. The site Al Fida remains down." SNIPPET: "The disruptions are prompting many jihadists to shift from Web forums to Twitter for communications and propaganda messaging."

The White House and congressional Republicans are finally talking to each other. Or at least fighting on Twitter.As House Republicans gear up for a 37th vote to repeal all or part of the Affordable Care Act, Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) put out a call for pithy descriptions of the law: Hey folks, #ObamaCareInThreeWords — go!— Darrell Issa (@DarrellIssa) May 16, 2013 Both conservatives and liberals weighed in. Then the White House got involved: It’s. The. Law. #ObamaCareInThreeWords, twitter.com/whitehouse/sta…

Does Obama’s White House twitter account flaunt an America in distress?Note the fallen Eagle (it is upside down). Is this proof of the administration’s contempt for this nation? They’ll likely claim “There’s No There There” but was this really an accident? Hat Tip to Jawa: Islam often makes use of symbolism to flaunt the destruction of non-believers. Now, Obama does too.

A US ambassador in Syria was bloodily murdered on September 11, 2012. In the immediate aftermath, the Obama Administration knowingly put forward erroneous talking points and intelligence, likely in the hopes that their mishandling of terrorism would not hurt the President's reelection campaign. The IRS, starting as early as 2010, scrutinized and targeted Tea Party groups. The Administration dismissed these claims for three years; yet, as the Tea Party has been vindicated, President Obama is scrambling to save face, saying that only lower-level employees knew about this partisanship. Today, it was also revealed that the Obama Administration is secretly wiretapping...

Dear leader's White House twitter account's background image has a fallen Eagle as in upside down.

The iconic entertainer tragically died on May 10 — three years ago that is. After a newspaper incorrectly reported that Lena died yesterday, May 10, 2013, Twitter blew up and mourned the sultry singer’s death all over again.

Mapping the world with Tweets Posted By Joshua KeatingWednesday, May 8, 2013 - 3:39 PM   A new paper on the peer-reviewed online journal First Monday summarizes the results of a project to use geographic data gathered from Tweets to create a picture of the world according to Twitter. The researches, led by GDELT co-creator Kalev Leetaru, used the Twitter decahose, a massive feed of 10 percent of all tweets, access to which is normally sold at high price to marketers. The project covers the period of the Oct. 23, 2102, to November 30, 2012. During this time, 1,535,929,521...

Official UN Twitter account follows busty German porn star in X-rated videos @PBDBigBustyStar was one of only 537 people followed by @UN — until the account got busted by Eagle-eyed tweeters at Constitutionschool.com. A United Nations staffer has been so busted. The official Twitter account was mixing business with pleasure by following a busty German porn star. Penelope Black Diamond — who regularly posts X-rated videos via @PBDBigBustyStar — was revealed to be among only 537 people followed by @UN. Rubbing virtual shoulders with dignitaries and heads of states, the adult actress was placed three accounts beneath World Bank Africa...

For the most part, the 537 accounts @UN follows include world governments, dozens of UN special missions and international heads of states. Buried within that list, however, ConstitutionSchool.com was shocked to discover one account which seemed oddly out of place: “Penelope Black Diamond,” a German porn star whose Twitter username is @BigBustyStar.....

We all know how the president loves a good joke. He's a regular stand up comedian. So, the good folks at Twitter are just trying to help: some of the hashtag- #ObamaJokes Some of the 'postings': Q: Have you heard about McDonald's new Obama Value Meal? A: Order anything you like and the guy behind you has to pay for it. Q: What's the difference between president Obama and God? A: God doesn't think he's the president. Q: How do you starve an Obama supporter? A: Put his food stamps in his work boots. Q: What is another name for...

In a new chilling revelation, it has been now revealed that Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev tweeted (with tweeter handle @J_tsar) the following the day of the blasts: ‘Lol those people are cooked.’ The tweet since deleted once again shows the duplicitous nature of the 19 year old who many friends have had a hard time believing was involved in the bombing whilst his tweeter feed on the other hand has shown a capacity for the venomous and sadistic. Less than three hours the attack, Dzhokhar also took to Twitter to post the following message at 5:05pm that Monday...

Tuesday’s brief and shocking market crash, which roiled stock and other financial markets, was triggered by language-reading software that got tripped up by such words as “explosion,” “Obama” and “White House.”

WASHINGTON, - Former President Bill Clinton has joined Twitter with the handle @billclinton and already has more than 200,000 followers. Clinton, who made his first Twitter post on Comedy Central's "The Colbert Report" when host Stephen Colbert opened up an account for him under the name @prezbillyjeff, joined Twitter officially with the user name @billclinton, Politico reported Thursday. "Excited to join @ChelseaClinton and my good friend @StephenAtHome on Twitter," Clinton posted in his first official tweet. Colbert responded to the 42nd president's new Twitter account. "I taught @billclinton to tweet! This is almost as exciting as the time I taught...

Currently trending on Twitter: #ObamaGoogleSearchHistory Some of what Obamatron may have been searching for... #ObamaGoogleSearchHistory - What hand to put over heart during national anthem? what dog meats are most tender Where is Wisconsin How do I erase Obama's failures from the Internet? how do you destroy a country How many states are there? How to photoshop fake gun shooting pictures I think my wife is a man Famous things that governments built Who were the United States of America's Founding Fathers? What is Congress? 57 States of America What would Marx do? How much is a Trillion dollars? what...

The US stock market went into a temporary tailspin after hackers broke into the Twitter account of the Associated Press and announced that two bombs had exploded at the White House, injuring Barack Obama. “Breaking: Two Explosions in the White House and Barack Obama is injured,” said the fake “alert” from one of America’s most trusted news sources, briefly fooling some news outlets and sending the Dow Jones plunging 145 points in the space of two minutes — or 1 per cent. The benchmark S&P 500 index also fell nearly 1 percent in the space of three minutes as the...

Associated Press says its Twitter account has been hacked, as the Twitter feed falsely said that there had been two explosions at the White House.

Shame on those who evade the constitution in frantic attempts to blame Bostons homegrown terror on something faraway&alien This enemy is us

#ObamaRealityTVShows is one of the latest hashtags trending on Twitter. Thought they were worth a mention and perhaps your own creative contribution! Here are some of the ones that are most popular at the moment... #ObamaRealityTVShows Last Commie Standing The BIGGEST Loser Who Wants To Be A Welfare Recipient? So You Think You Can Read A Teleprompter Wife Swap (please) Amerika's Next Dictator Extreme Makeover: Bill of Rights Big Brother (Wants to Bully You) Obama's got no talent! Extreme Country Makeover, socialist style! queer eye for the saudi guy America's Got Open Borders Dancing With the Czars Big Brother Money...

The Twitter accounts of CBS's 60 Minutes and 48 Hours have been hacked and suspended. According to the Hollywood Reporter, before the suspension, anti-Obama messages were sent: "Exclusive: Terror is striking the #USA and #Obama is Shamelessly in Bed with Al-Qaeda," the tweet -- published around 12:30 p.m. PT to 60 Minutes' twitter feed and then re-tweeted on 48 Hours' feed -- reads. **SNIP** A group calling itself the "Syrian Cyber Army" took the credit this time - in a Tweet that originated in Indonesian. An outfit called the "Syrian Electrionic Army" launched a similar attack on NPR last week.

Here is more from the Boston jihad bomber's Twitter account, about which I posted yesterday. Kamala writes in about this ABC report: Of course, what they don't tell you is what this fine young lad has posted about Islam, such as this pearl, from January 2013: I don't argue with fools who say islam is terrorism it's not worth a thing, let an idiot remain an idiot https://twitter.com/J_tsar/status/291423943418597376Last year (May 12, 2012), he retweeted this: I don't know of anything in this Dunya that could uplift & increase the good manners & behavior of a person the way Islam does....

“A decade in America already, I want out,” – March 2012.

Twitter and web are exploding with idea that t=Suspect #2 is Sunil Tripathy - missing Brown University student (missing for one month now). Suspect 1: Mike Mulugeta Suspect 2: Sunil Tripathi Example: http://www.punditpress.com/2013/04/sunil-tripathi-information-4182013.html

(CNSNews.com) – Although no group has claimed responsibility for Monday’s deadly bomb blasts at the Boston Marathon, a leading al-Qaeda ideologue last year recommended that jihadists in America include sporting events in their list of prospective terror targets.

Much, presumably, to the posthumous chagrin of her hero, Geri Halliwell has revealed herself as a lady all too ready for turning. On Thursday the Spice Girl explained why she had deleted a tweet mourning the death of Margaret Thatcher – and indulged in some self-flagellation. When news of Thatcher's death broke on Monday, Halliwell tweeted: "Thinking of our 1st Lady of girl power, Margaret Thatcher, a greengrocer's daughter who taught me any thing is possible…x." However, when her tribute met with a hostile response online, the singer removed it and apologised for any offence it had caused. Three days...

Hijack Obama's Twitter Call for Gun Control Obama is ordering his supporters to tweet calls for gun control preceded by #NowIsTheTime. AR15.com and Reddit Guns are organizing a plan to hijack it so that pro 2A messages overwhelm the system. Simply tweet #NowIsTheTime followed by a pro gun message or slogan to help. __________________

PHILADELPHIA, April 12, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Tens of thousands of pro-life activists posted messages on Twitter on Friday with the hashtag #Gosnell to break through a pervasive media blackout that continues to envelope mainstream media outlets from the Washington Post and New York Times to the Big Three cable networks. Some 23.600 Twitter messages were sent using the abortionist's last name within one hour -- 11 a.m. Eastern. A screenshot shows, enough people have used the term on the online messenger service to make it the site's top trending term. The tweets have totalled more than 10,000 messages an hour...

Vin Scully asks: ‘What in the world is hashtag?’ That's the question, isn't it? Legendary Los Angeles Dodgers broadcaster Vin Scully, who makes everything sound better, especially baseball, also can make the word "hashtag" sound like some kind of illegal activity. He was curious about hashtagging, along with a new television channel called "Dog TV" that a satellite company is starting, so he worked both constructs into the broadcast of the Dodgers-San Diego Padres game Wednesday night. Naturally.

One of the UK Telegraph's in-house Labourites, Dan Hodges, urged his comrades on the Left to maintain their dignity in the wake of Margaret Thatcher's death earlier today:   Everyone on the Left is being scrutinised today. Does the compassion we claim to be our driving force extend to the passing of a frail 87-year-old woman? Does the Labour movement’s dignity and discipline enable us to mark with appropriate solemnity the death of a former Prime Minister who successfully secured three independent mandates from the people? Do we have the basic good grace and wisdom to set aside – for...

Seems that Obama has his goon squad on Twitter - and Politico is crowing about the "trash-talking" going on - I say we give the trash talkers a little taste of their own medicine. I thought it might be nice if Freepers follow them all so we can engage in a little "spirited debate" David Plouffe @davidplouffe Tommy Vietor @TVietor08 Jon Favreau @jonfavs Jon Lovett @jonlovett Bill Burton @billburton Ben LaBolt @BenLaBolt David Axelrod @davidaxelrod Just a note - if you use their twitter handle in the body of your tweet - rather than at the beginning - it will...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — Mayor Michael Bloomberg doesn’t understand why people just don’t think before they tweet. “Anything you send out is going to be re-tweeted, re-Facebooked, re-this, re-that,” Bloomberg said Monday.

The Twitter account @BarackObama tonight retweeted Yoko Ono’s picture of John Lennon”s bloody glasses from the day he was murdered. The arresting photo, which includes text that more than a million people have been killed by guns since Lennon was shot in 1980, has been retweeted more than 11,000 times since it was posted Wednesday. A retweet by the account associated with President Obama forwarded it to his more than 28 million followers. Retweets aren’t always endorsements in Twitter etiquette, but Ono’s activism comes at a time when President Obama and Democrats’ push for more gun control after the Sandy...

On his verified Twitter account, CNN contributor Roland Martin seems to be telling some of his followers that, as of April 6, he will no longer be with the network. When asked by one of his Twitter followers why he was leaving, Martin explained, "new boss wants his own peeps."

Labour MP David Lammy has apologised after accusing the BBC of being racist following its tweet which said "LIVE VIDEO: Chimney of Sistine Chapel as conclave votes for #Pope - will smoke be black or white?" Lammy replied saying: "This tweet from the BBC is crass and unnecessary. Do we really need silly innuendo about the race of the next Pope?" However, after receiving several messages alerting him to the fact that black smoke appears from a Vatican chimney when no decision has been made, and white smoke alerts the public to the election of a new Pope, the politician...

It was probably a mistake, planning our #AskFLOTUS live event on the 6 month anniversary of the start of Benghazigate. Twitchy is all a twitter. Some of the haters aren’t pulling any punches, I see: Here’s one of the more respectful ones: To make them big and schtrong, S. M., that’s why. Sheeze! Where’s all this hate coming from? Moms who are still mad that their kiddies’ class trips to Washington “during the popular Spring vacation season” were cancelled? Or do you suppose they’re actually coming from journalists who are still mad at being shut out of the annual Gridiron...

Hi #AskFLOTUS Was Barack with you on 9/11/12 during #Benghazi...Asking for about 300 million or so people. Thanks.... Boom. Michelle Obama announced via her Twitter feed that she’d be taking questions this morning at 11:05 a.m. EST on her always-absurd “Let’s move” campaign.... #askFLOTUS Is Barack ever jolted awake at night all sweaty thinking about the 4 Americans he left behind to die in Benghazi?

Confession: I yell at my TV while watching The Ed Show and Morning Joe because Twitter spambots are also boosting those programs. Apparently the use of spambots to boost Rachel Maddow's show which was revealed here on Saturday now includes at least two other MSNBC programs: The Ed Show and Morning Joe. This revelation was made by liberal blogger Paul Bibeau at the Goblinbooks blog. First he establishes his liberal bonafides in no uncertain terms before presenting his Twitter spam case against those programs:

The acronym TCOT has been bandied about a lot recently on the Twitter microblogging site, frequently in the form of the hashtag #TCOT. For starters, the acronym and hashtag are references to the "Top Conservatives On Twitter." When used in the hashtag form, as it is most often, the term provides a way for conservatives in particular and Republicans in general to locate and follow the tweets of their like-minded brethren. And the term is also a reference to an influential list of those so-called top conservatives, which is maintained at the website Top Conservatives on Twitter. The site provides...

A poster on Twitter, upon seeing what he thought were very similar posts referencing MSNBC host Rachel Maddow's show, did some searching and found out that Maddow has been using phony twitter accounts to boost her "mentions" on the popular website. As can be seen by screenshots collected by a tweeter named @LeftyBollocks, Maddow has massive amount of accounts posting the exact same claim that "Confession: I yell at my TV while watching Rachel #Maddow talk about filibuster reform in the same way most people do during football." With so many supposedly unique accounts mentioning her name, the term #Maddow...

On Tuesday, Rep. Steve Stockman (Texas, Rep.) accused President Barack Obama of using fake Twitter followers to pressure congress into passing new gun control legislation. Stockman announced that he will be releasing evidence that the Obama administration used fictitious messages to pressure lawmakers regarding Fourth Amendment-related bills.

Finally, at least one Republican is getting tech-savvy: A Texas Republican on Monday said President Obama’s gun control campaign is a fraud based on fake messages over Twitter. Rep. Steve Stockman (R-Texas) accused Obama of trying to make support for his position look stronger than it really is by flooding Twitter with messages from people who don’t exist. . . . Stockman said that in response to Obama’s call for people to tweet their congressman in support of gun control legislation, he received just 16 tweets. But he said all of these messages were identical, and that a closer look...

"Obama's anti-gun campaign is a fraud," Stockman said. "Obama's supporters are panicking and willing to do anything to create the appearance of popular support, even if it means trying to defraud Congress," he added. "I call upon the president to denounce this phony spam campaign."Stockman said that in response to Obama's call for people to tweet their congressman in support of gun control legislation, he received just 16 tweets. But he said all of these messages were identical, and that a closer look at them revealed that only six were from real people.

"Obama's anti-gun campaign is a fraud," Stockman said. "Obama's supporters are panicking and willing to do anything to create the appearance of popular support, even if it means trying to defraud Congress," he added. "I call upon the president to denounce this phony spam campaign."

A Texas Republican on Monday said President Obama's gun control campaign is a fraud based on fake messages over Twitter.

Matt Lauer and New York Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan appear on NBC’s “Today� show in New York in this handout photo taken Feb. 11. The cardinal talked about Pope Benedict XVI’s announcement earlier that morning that he will resign as pope at the end of the month. The 85-year-old pontiff said he no longer has the energy to exercise his ministry over the universal church. (CNS photo/Peter Kramer, NBC via Reuters) VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Parrots may squawk in the Vatican Gardens during a conclave, but the cardinals are not allowed to tweet.For most of the 117 red-vested princes of...

Rep. Steve Cohen, a Tennessee Democrat, attracted unwanted attention during the State of the Union address, when press reported on what appeared to be flirtatious tweets sent to a very pretty 24-year-old blonde. It didn't help Cohen's case when he then deleted the tweets just a few minutes. Oh no, it's another Weinergate only not as exciting because there's no penis photo, the conservative media crowed. Turns out Rep. Cohen actually has a very pretty 24-year-old daughter, a fact that has been kept secret from the public for, well, 24 years. Scandal dodged. Sort of. It's actually pretty sweet story....

Rep. Steve Cohen repeatedly tweeted, and then deleted, messages to a woman on Twitter who his office is calling “the daughter of a longtime friend” and who has the same name as a Texas State University blonde bombshell featured in a college co-ed calendar. Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/282881-dem-lawmaker-tweets-college-co-ed-then-deletes-messages#ixzz2KtD4dNn3 Follow us: @thehill on Twitter | TheHill on Facebook

The day after “killer cop” Christopher Dorner was presumably killed following a firefight in a rural California cabin, conspiracy theories have swept Twitter asserting that the charred body found in the burned cabin did not belong to Dorner, but to an unidentified female. A Twitter hoax quickly gained traction on Wednesday, stating that a burned body found in the remains of the cabin did not belong to Christopher Dorner, but rather to an unidentified female. The hoax quickly swept Twitter under the guise of a fake screengrab from CNN. In the fake image, CNN’s news ticker was edited to read...

On Sunday, Mother Jones co-editor Clara Jeffery used the murder of former Navy SEAL Chris Kyle to push for gun control in a series of tweets that sparked controversy and anger, Twitchy reported. "So much for good/talented guy with a gun being able to stop mentally ill guy with a gun," she tweeted early Sunday morning. "So if a Navy SEAL and reputed best sniper in the world AT A GUN RANGE can't take down a sick guy on a rampage," she added a short time later. Twitchy characterized her tweets as "ghoulish and repugnant" and said she was "not...

Perhaps as a result of TGDN’s rapid rise, the intent of the movement became blurred. Quickly forgotten by many in the mad scramble to follow everyone on the suggested lists was the ‘defense’ part. Instead of acting as a shield to protect long-battered free speech rights, some began using the group as a weapon of their own...