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Hearing in Major Cook case is set for July 16th, 9:30 in the morning, Federal District Judge Clay D. Land » Cook v Good, summons issuedCook v Good et al I will post the pleadings, but the case filed on behalf of Major Cook, states that he is being deployed to Afghanistan and he is seeking a TRO (it is like a stay) of his deployment until Obama’s legitimacy (eligibility ) for presidency is ascertained. The judge is Federal District Judge for the middle district of GA -Clay D. Land. If you want to write to the judge it...

Obama's Twenty Fourth Week in OfficeLatest Additions to "The List" "The List" for 7/10/2009 A U.S. special envoy on Sudan, Scott Gration, stressed the need for cooperation with the country's leadership, after a prosecutor said there is enough evidence for a further arrest warrant against Sudanese President Omar al-Beshir for genocideVIDEO: report from CNN's Michael Ware that claims the Obama Administration is willing to engage in negotiations with Taliban leader Mullah OmarThe administration’s “Green Jobs” czar, Van Jones has a “very checkered past” deep-rooted in radical politics, including black nationalism, anarchism, and communism.USA to UBS: Hand Over Tax Evaders, Or...

Yesterday on their website, the People's Bank of China announced a shocker. New Chinese bank lending for June was 1.53 trillion yuan ($224 billion), double the lending in May. The total already for the year is an astounding 7.4 trillion yuan when the target for the entire year was 5 trillion. Putting this in context, total lending this year so far has amounted to 25% of 2008 GDP. As I wrote earlier this week, Chinese regulators are getting concerned that this lending is going towards poor credit and bleeding into commodity market speculation. As most know, bank lending is high...

Pope Benedict XVI gave President Barack Obama a Vatican document on bioethics, he was trying to be clear with him about church teaching and open a path to further dialogue, the Vatican spokesman said. Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi, the spokesman, told reporters after the meeting between the pope and the president that, in giving Obama the document July 10, "the intention was not to be divisive or political, but for clarity and objectivity; to say that, for us, this is extremely important." Pope Benedict gave Obama the document "Dignitas Personae" ("The Dignity of a Person"), which was published in December...

Regional prepaid cell phone carrier MetroPCS announced Wednesday a new plan that allows its customers to make unlimited international calls to over 100 different countries for only $5 extra a month. To be eligible for the $5 unlimited international calling plan, users must already be signed up to an unlimited national calling plan that costs $40, $45, or $50 a month. Making international phone calls from a cell phone has typically been rather expensive with major carriers such as AT&T and Verizon Wireless. For example, AT&T offers its WorldConnect service for $3.99 extra a month, which gives subscribers lower rates...

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WASHINGTON — It is Facebook for the fascist set, and the typical online profiles of its members reveal expected tastes. Favorite book: “Mein Kampf.” Favorite movie: the Nazi propaganda film “Triumph of the Will.” Interests: “white women.” Dislikes: “anyone who opposes the master race.” But there’s one other thing that dozens of members of newsaxon.org, a white supremacist social networking website, have in common: They proudly identify themselves as active-duty members of the U.S. armed forces. The Southern Poverty Law Center, the Montgomery, Ala.-based watchdog group that tracks extremist hate groups, has compiled a book containing the online user profiles...

WASHINGTON — It is Facebook for the fascist set, and the typical online profiles of its members reveal expected tastes. Favorite book: “Mein Kampf.” Favorite movie: the Nazi propaganda film “Triumph of the Will.” Interests: “white women.” Dislikes: “anyone who opposes the master race.” But there’s one other thing that dozens of members of newsaxon.org, a white supremacist social networking website, have in common: They proudly identify themselves as active-duty members of the U.S. armed forces. The Southern Poverty Law Center, the Montgomery, Ala.-based watchdog group that tracks extremist hate groups, has compiled a book containing the online user profiles...

The Bush administration authorized secret surveillance activities that still have not been made public, according to a new government report that questions the legal basis for the unprecedented anti-terrorism program. It's unclear how much valuable intelligence was yielded by the surveillance program started after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, according to the unclassified summary of reports by five inspectors general. The reports mandated by Congress last year were delivered to lawmakers Friday. President George W. Bush authorized other secret intelligence activities — which have yet to become public — even as he was launching the massive warrentless wiretapping program,...

OSLO (AFP)--A U.S. special envoy on Sudan Thursday stressed the need for cooperation with the country's leadership, after a prosecutor said there is enough evidence for a further arrest warrant against Sudanese President Omar al-Beshir for genocide. "Right now President al-Beshir is the president of the country and we have to work with him to solve those issues that are facing the people (of Sudan) and (that) are facing the region," said U.S. envoy Scott Gration. "But that does not mean that (Beshir) does not need to do what's right in terms of facing the International Criminal Court and those...

Chemistry World's weekly round-up of money and molecules Posted by James under News , The Commercial Chemist This week, we cover the first in a new class of contraceptive pill, the first signs of a clampdown on pay for delay deals, and further cuts to plants and personnel announced by BASF. PHARMACEUTICALS Branded drugs’ competition-free days numbered: Authorities in the US and Europe are to look carefully at the tactics pharmaceutical firms use to delay competition from generic versions of their branded drugs. The European Commission is to increase its scrutiny of the industry following the publication of its final...

For those of you who aren't yet familiar with "The Goode Family," it is an animated sitcom by Mike Judge that satirizes our obsessively politically correct, religiously "green" culture. It airs at 8:30/7:30c Friday nights on ABC. This show is worth momentarily lifting your boycott on ABC, because it is one of few that actually makes fun of liberalism instead of preaching it. Check it out: http://abc.go.com/primetime/thegoodefamily/index

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Democrats Call for Full Investigation of CIA Allegations Some accuse the CIA of misleading Congress multiple times over the past 8 years By Queenie Wong Posted July 10, 2009 Democrats on the House Intelligence panel are calling for a full-scale investigation into allegations that the Central Intelligence Agency misled Congress multiple times over the past eight years. Democratic Rep. Jan Schakowsky of Illinois said in a recent letter to the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee that the CIA's actions were inexcusable and called for lawmakers to launch an immediate investigation into the agency's alleged deception. - snip - But...

18:1010/07/2009 L'AQUILA, July 10 (RIA Novosti) - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Friday he had been given an example coin of a possible global currency at the G8 summit in Italy, adding that all aspects of reserve currencies were under discussion. "We are discussing both the use of other national currencies, including the ruble, as a reserve currency, as well as supranational currencies," the Russian leader said at a news conference following the G8 summit. Medvedev showed reporters an example of a coin of a supranational currency, which he called a "united future world currency." "This is a symbol...

NEW YORK – A runway at New York City's Kennedy Airport was shut down Wednesday morning after 78 turtles emerged from the bay and crawled onto the tarmac. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey says grounds crews rounded up the wayward reptiles in about 35 minutes and deposited them back in the water, further from airport property. The shutdown disrupted flight schedules, though, with delays climbing to nearly 1 1/2 hours. Pilots reported the first turtle sightings at around 8:30 a.m. The Port Authority identified the turtles as Diamondback Terrapins. They appeared to be about 8 inches...

The signing ceremony in Moscow was a grand affair. For Barack Obama, foreign policy neophyte and "reset" man, the arms reduction agreement had a Kissingerian air. A fine feather in his cap. And our president likes his plumage. Unfortunately for the United States, the country Obama represents, the prospective treaty is useless at best, detrimental at worst. Useless because the level of offensive nuclear weaponry, the subject of the U.S.-Russia "Joint Understanding," is an irrelevance. We could today terminate all such negotiations, invite the Russians to build as many warheads as they want, and profitably watch them spend themselves into...

URUMQI, China – The petite Muslim woman with the sky blue head scarf began by complaining that the public washrooms were closed at a crowded mosque on Friday — the most important day of the week for Islamic worship. When a group gathered around her on the sidewalk, Madina Ahtam then railed against communist rule in China's far western region of Xinjiang, rocked by ethnic rioting that has killed at least 184 people this week. The 26-year-old businesswoman eventually led the crowd of mostly men in a fist-pumping street march that was quickly blocked by riot police, some with automatic...

As the Young Republicans prepare to elect a woman on Saturday who has compared President Obama a terrorist and appears to have laughed at a comment calling blacks “coons,” Meghan McCain seeks to stage an intervention. read more...

From KTVA: Longtime political activist Ray Ward has filed the 18th ethics complaint against Governor Palin. Ward claims Palin has been paid for radio and television interviews dating back to just after she lost her vice-presidential bid. Palin's attorney, Thomas Van Flein, tells CBS 11 News the allegations are "categorically false," and says it fits a pattern of harassing and false ethics complaints.