Posted on 04/11/2010 9:33:03 AM PDT by Velveeta
Obama amputates our nuclear arms
By: Charles Krauthammer
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Under President Obama’s new policy, however, if the state that has just attacked us with biological or chemical weapons is “in compliance with the Non-Proliferation Treaty,” explained Gates, then “the U.S. pledges not to use or threaten to use nuclear weapons against it.”
Imagine the scenario: Hundreds of thousands are lying dead in the streets of Boston after a massive anthrax or nerve gas attack. The president immediately calls in the lawyers to determine whether the attacking state is in compliance with the NPT. If it turns out that the attacker is up-to-date with its latest IAEA inspections, well, it gets immunity from nuclear retaliation. (Our response is then restricted to bullets, bombs and other conventional munitions.)
However, if the lawyers tell the president that the attacking state is NPT noncompliant, we are free to blow the bastards to nuclear kingdom come.
This is quite insane. It’s like saying that if a terrorist deliberately uses his car to mow down a hundred people waiting at a bus stop, the decision as to whether he gets hanged or 100 hours of community service hinges entirely on whether his car had passed emissions inspections.
Apart from being morally bizarre, the Obama policy is strategically loopy. Does anyone believe that North Korea or Iran will be more persuaded to abjure nuclear weapons because they could then carry out a biological or chemical attack on the United States without fear of nuclear retaliation?
The naivete is stunning.
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There was also a tanker explosion at a Dupont plant in NY this morning.
Thank you for the ping Vel.
Bruni’s security up amid Qaeda plot fear
French First Lady Carla Bruni’s security has been stepped up in the wake of intelligence inputs that she may be a ‘priority target’ of terror group al-Qaeda’s assassination plot, a media report said.
Security services believe President Nicolas Sarkozy’s 42-year-old wife is now “high up” on the al-Qaeda hitlist of potential VIP victims in France, the Daily Mail quoted the French website Pure People as saying.
Fears for Bruni’s safety come after al-Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden issued a chilling personal threat to kill French citizens in revenge for France backing the war in Afghanistan and their new law banning the burqa.
The al-Qaeda chief released an audio tape last week: “It is a simple equation: If you kill, you will be killed.”.......
http://www.deccanherald.com/content/111402/brunis-security-up-amid-qaeda.html
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A possibility is that the missile was launched unintentionally. It may have been a screwup. Someone may have simply punched the wrong button.
Vandenberg Air Force Base officials said the facility’s last launch was a satellite on Friday. Naval Base Ventura County spokeswoman Teri Reid told the LA Times that the contrail did not originate at Naval Air Station Point Mugu.
“It didn’t happen here,” she told the Times. “There was no firing on the range yesterday.”
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View entire article here: http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local-beat/Pentagon-Has-No-Clue-Who-Launched-Missile-in-SoCal-106954903.html
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I won’t worry too much, as long as it was outgoing and not incoming.
Lots of odd things in the mail today.
The homegrown terrorists are busy this week.
Lots of odd going on, they missed the election week and we are getting the left over threats.
Didn’t see this one, fire in the engine room:
http://www.cbs8.com/Global/story.asp?S=13468196
Nearly 4,500 stranded on cruise ship off Mexico Video included
Updated: Nov 09, 2010 4:19 PM
Navy helicopters shuttled in supplies Tuesday to 4,500 passengers and crew members expected to remain stranded on a disabled cruise ship off the coast of Mexico at least through Wednesday night. More>>
Has photos and articles on the missile, it is beautiful.
http://www.cbs8.com/Global/category.asp?C=154671
Navy sailors leave Coronado for security mission
Updated: Nov 08, 2010 11:32 AM
About 280 Navy sailors were scheduled to depart from Coronado Monday for the United Arab Emirates to provide security and defense at the ports of Jebel Ali and Fujairah. More>>
http://www.cbs8.com/Global/story.asp?S=13470714
County health investigates office bldg; 11 people sick
Posted: Nov 09, 2010 9:31 AM Updated: Nov 09, 2010 9:31 AM
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Over the weekend, a contractor began work on a planter outside the building, and fire officials believe this may be to blame for the strong odor which caused the problems.
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[I doubt this answer, someone put something in there that caused the odor. granny]
http://www.cbs8.com/Global/story.asp?S=13455381
Navy SEAL accused of running guns out of war zone
Posted: Nov 05, 2010 5:53 PM Updated: Nov 05, 2010 5:53 PM
SAN DIEGO (CBS 8) - He’s accused of smuggling weapons from war zones in Iraq and Afghanistan and selling them to others here in the United States. On Friday, 33-year-old Navy SEAL Nicholas Bickle was ordered held without bail
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According to a criminal complaint, the active-duty special warfare operator smuggled in more than 100 firearms from Iraq and Afghanistan and conspired to sell them with two others — Richard Paul, 34, of Colorado and Andrew Kaufman, 36, of Las Vegas.
Neighbors say Andrew Kaufman’s home was always busy with activity and there was a revolving door of trucks on their street.
“We didn’t know what was going on,” neighbor Rosalynn Nettles-May said.
ATF officers say they recovered five pounds of C-4 military explosives, grenades and night vision goggles from Richard Paul’s home in Colorado.
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Extremist website that inspired stabbing of Stephen Timms urges Muslims to
‘raise the knife of jihad’ to other MPs
[This will stretch your mind, fits what we found on the east coast years ago....granny]
Security breach at Coast Guard base examined
SECURITY PROCEDURES AT
the Port Angeles Coast Guard base were immediately tightened after Lee Daniel Renfro bluffed his way onto the base last March 28 and boarded the cutter Active, Cmdr. Tony Hahn said in an interview.
By Paul Gottlieb
Peninsula Daily News
PORT ANGELES — Lee Daniel Renfro did more than illegally drive past a guard station and onto the Port Angeles Coast Guard base earlier this year.
Undetected, the Forest Grove, Ore., Navy veteran made it past a second watch shack at 5:30 a.m. March 28, then boarded the 210-foot cutter Active.
Renfro strolled into the Active’s commanding officer’s stateroom, took a shower — and smoked marijuana he had carried onto the cutter.
He was apprehended three hours later while still on the vessel, according to a Coast Guard report of the incursion obtained by the Peninsula Daily News.
Found dead
At about 6 p.m. March 31, three days after he breached security at the Coast Guard base on Ediz Hook and boarded the Active, Renfro, 32, was found dead several miles away on Rayonier Inc.’s old pulp mill site in Port Angeles, which was closed in 1997 and is undergoing environmental cleanup.
An autopsy showed Renfro — who Coast Guard personnel described as confused and at times incoherent when they found him aboard the cutter — died of hypothermia.
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At Fort Lewis, hearing starts in soldier’s ‘thrill kill’ case
By GEORGE TIBBITS
The Associated Press
JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD — The Army sergeant accused of masterminding a plan to kill Afghan civilians for sport and goading other soldiers to do the same appeared at a military hearing Tuesday to determine whether there is enough evidence to court-martial him.
In what has emerged as one of the most gruesome cases of the Afghan war, fellow soldiers say Staff Sgt. Calvin Gibbs also threatened them, collected fingers of the dead and found it amusing to slaughter animals with his assault rifle.
Gibbs has a chance to contest that portrait during the Article 32 hearing at Joint Base Lewis-McChord south of Seattle.
Charges against him include murder, dereliction of duty and trying to impede an investigation.
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http://www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/assets/DHS_Daily_Report_2010-11-09.pdf
before 9 p.m. Some liquid coming out of the storage containers in a fenced-off area near a closed chemical plant prompted the hazmat investigation. There is also an unknown odor in the area believed to be connected to the barrels. The Red Cross had set up an evacuation center at DuPont Elementary School at 7970 Kimberly Street. Union Pacific Railroad confirms their train tracks run through the area, but said the hazmat is not involving a train or their tracks. One train had been stopped on the tracks because of the investigation. When investigators showed up at the site a group of men were there but fled. Police are searching for the men. They believe the men were stealing metal seals from storage tanks and selling the material.
Source: http://cbs4denver.com/news/hazmat.hazardous.materials.2.1998550.html
November 7, Foxborough Country Gazette – (Massachusetts) Probe into unodorized propane behind Norfolk, Massachusetts explosion is concluded. Findings of a probe into the source of unodorized propane gas identified as the cause of a deadly explosion at the Village at River’s Edge July 30 have been released by the Massachusetts Attorney General and state fire marshal. The review, conducted by an independent propane expert, found unodorized propane gas was potentially distributed throughout the state and in other states from distributor DCP Midstream’s (DCP) Westfield facility, starting in May 2010. Authorities began an investigation into the distribution of unodorized propane gas following the July 2010 explosion in Norfolk which claimed the life of a 48-year-old resident of Blackstone. The explosion occurred while the victim and fellow construction workers were at work on a condominium unit at the
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Village at River’s Edge of Rockwood Road in Norfolk. Two firefighters, a resident and four construction workers also suffered some injuries from the explosion. Workers reported at the time they had no indication there was a propane leak in the condo unit, since the distinctive odor that is supposed to have been added to the supply was not present — propane gas is naturally odorless and state and federal law require an odorous additive to be put into supplies so it can be detected if there is a leak.
Source: http://www.wickedlocal.com/foxborough/news/x1775214243/Probe-into-unodorized-propane-behind-Norfolk-explosion-is-concluded
http://www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/assets/DHS_Daily_Report_2010-11-09.pdf
Many articles at link on the things we watch, several electic outages for large areas and an arson attempt to burn out a railroad.
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John Pike, director of globalsecurity.org, a website for military policy research, agrees. He said the idea that the government would carry out a secret launch illuminated at sunset, within view of 8 million Angelenos, is hard to believe.
“If it were secret, we’d do it at night in Alaska where only the caribou could see it,” Pike said. “It’s an airplane contrail, pure and simple.”
The vehicle is not moving fast enough and does not have the trajectory characteristics of a rocket, he said. The reason people think it’s a rocket is because it’s an optical illusion, he said.
The plane is coming over the horizon, straight at the camera. Because of the angle and the lighting at sunset it appears as a rocket rising, he said.
“I’ve seen a lot of rocket and airplane contrails over the years,” he said. “What I saw was an airplane contrail.”
France – 5 Arrested on Terrorism Charges
Homeland Security NTARC News | 11/9/2010 | no comments
The authorities have arrested five people suspected of intending to “commit terrorist acts” in France, said Agnès Labrégère, a spokeswoman for the Paris prosecutor’s office.
Those plans included the assassination of the moderate rector of the Great Mosque of Paris, according to Bernard Squarcini, chief of the French domestic intelligence service, Agence France-Presse reported.
Read More
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/10/world/europe/10briefs-France.html?_r=2
Bomb found on board cargo plane last month was on track to explode over eastern seaboard of U.S. - British police http://on.msnbc.com/bQQFSu
that coexist was awsome
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I have been stockpiling for over ayear, by the way! :)
Speaking of threats - Debt Commission report Obama’s Deficit Panel
Gas taxes
cuts in SS
Lockheed F35 canceled
Eliminate NASA funding for commercial space flight
Index the retirement age to longevity — i.e., increase the retirement age to qualify for Social Security — to age 69
75% Spending Cuts and 25% tax law changes
This is an advisory for North Concord, Avon, Clyde and Vine Hill.An incident at the Tesoro Refinery in Avon could affect individuals with respiratory sensitivities.Most people will not be affected. Eye, skin, nose or throat irritation may be possible for some people in the immediate vicinity of Tesoro.If people experience any irritation, advise them to go inside and rinse any irritated area of their body with water. Handle this as advisory information only.
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Craig Cannon October 10, 2010 at 2:20 PM
I’m on scene. Looks, like a tank burning. Thick black smoke appears to be drifting toward North Concord. It disapates just beyond refinery boundaries.
It’s been going on now for over one hour. Seems to be calming a bit. We hear fire traffic that has them preparing to foam the fire. Now starting to small like a sulfer burnt toast odor. I’m out of here. Shut your windows,doors. Seems like it’s taking long to control.
3 Benicia Bridge Driver October 10, 2010 at 2:27 PM
Just came over the Benicia bridge. You could see quite a smoke column coming up. I told my wife lets get home and check out Claycord I’m sure they will have the story.
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* BREAKING NEWS: Huge fire at the Tesoro refinery near North Concord
* Major power outage in Concord, traffic signals out all over the city
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“Normally we do not see a contrail reaching all the way to the horizon,” he said. “Normally there are houses or trees or clouds or something, enabling us to see the contrail way up in the middle of the air but not seeing it go all the way to the horizon. So your first instinct is to believe you are seeing a contrail emerge from the horizon.”
An update from the Department of Defense Tuesday evening said the source of the contrail was still unknown, but that no unusual radar readings were reported by the Federal Aviation Administration even after they were replayed for that time and area.
No foreign missile launches were detected, and no accidental launches were made by U.S., the statement from a Department of Defense spokesman, Col. Dave Lapan.
“If any new information comes to light in the coming days, we will update the press and public,” the statement said.
Source: http://sciencedude.ocregister.com/2010/11/09/west-coast-missile-launch-a-mystery/114640/
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Wife Calls Radio Station To Report Husband’s Plans to Attack Florida School
Hundreds of Schools Have Been Places on Lockdown in Florida
http://abcnews.go.com/US/florida-schools-lockdown-shooting-threat/comments?type=story&id=12109125
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Nov. 10, 2010
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As many as 300 schools in South Florida have been placed on lockdown today after a woman called a radio station to warn that her husband was allegedly preparing to open fire at an area school.
Capt. Dan Rakofsky of Pembroke Pines Police Department said today that an e-mail threat deemed to be “credible” was also received prompting the security measures.
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Nuclear bomb material found for sale on Georgia black market
Exclusive: Georgia trial reveals how sting netted highly enriched uranium that had been smuggled via train inside lead-lined cigarette box
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/nov/07/nuclear-material-black-market-georgia
Note: update and page contains other articles that are related.
http://blog.bahneman.com/content/it-was-us-airways-flight-808
He has looked into the California missile photo and has one up for today, interesting blog on the subject.
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November 11, 2010
In This Issue
German Interior Minister Warns Of ‘Serious’ Terrorist Attacks in the United
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Cargo Plane Bomb Plot: Timeline Of How The Worldwide Terrorism Event Unfolded
Mail Bomb Hidden in Poetry Book Sent to French Embassy In Greece — The
14th Confirmed in/from Greece
FBI: Al-Qaida’s Yemen Group Behind Mail Bombs But Not UPS Cargo Plane Crash
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Mail Bomb Plot Raises Questions About Why The 2 Packages From Yemen Had
Chicago Addresses
Going Postal— A History Of Parcel Bombs
U.S. Issues Tougher Air Cargo Measures In Response to Thwarted Bomb Plot
Man Charged With Mailing Fake Anthrax Letters To Alabama Republican Party
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Arizona Congressman Receives Letter With Suspicious Powde
Bulgarian Mail Service Raises Security Level After Discovery of Suspicious
Mail Addressed to Israeli Embassy
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Employees at NY Sports Clubs Offices
NPR Receives Bomb Threat Letter, FBI Confirms
Minnesota Man Pleads Guilty To Mailing Suspicious White Powder To Dow Jones
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Employee Charged In White Powder Scare At John Deere
Anthrax Hoax Package Is Sent To Public School in Queens
Huntingdon Life Sciences Supplier’s Life ‘Under Siege’ By Animal Rights
Extremists
Rejected Suitor Accused of Stalking and Sending Threatening Letters to
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California Animal Rights Activist Jailed For Stalking UCLA Researchers
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