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Obama wants "immediate" Mideast talks: Mitchell
Obamanable Seizer the Bushman demands to be rendered unto, pronto.
Let's see if the Maccabees or the Pharisees respond

"The president has told me to exert all efforts to create the circumstance when the parties can begin immediate discussions," Mitchell told reporters at the start of a Palestinian donors' conference in the Norwegian capital.

Mitchell said the purpose of the donors' meeting was to "provide support for the Palestinian authority" and pave the way for a two-state solution with Israel.

BiBi Promises Major Peace Plan
A Maccapharisee, maybe?
BiBi, hold your ground daddy, hold your ground.
If you do not the consequences are eternal.

In comments at the start of the weekly cabinet meeting, Mr. Netanyahu said, “We want to achieve peace with the Palestinians and with the countries of the Arab world, while attempting to reach maximum understanding with the United States and our friends around the world.”

Malaysia Sez: Peace-seeking OIC can play bigger world role
Glow Ball Peace through Dead Jews and Sharia!

Turkish language fest shows preacher's global reach
WhoTF is Fethullah Gulen and why should you care?

US-Backed Alliance Wins Election in Lebanon

Pakistanis rise against Taliban after mosque blast

Swooning French Whores

People gawked and cameras clicked as the Obamas cut a wide figure through the French capital even while confined to a presidential motorcade. It was more personal for the few kept not so distant — the restaurant owner who "saw God," the chauffeur reveling in a "magnificent mission."

President Barack Obama, wife Michelle and their two daughters touched lives in simple ways during a private stay in the French capital that closed out a six-day presidential tour rich in history, symbolism and giant messages to the world.

Center-Right and Fringe Parties Gain in Europe

Melanie Phillips on the BNP winning two seats in Parliament

All the public demonstrations of conspicuous nose-holding by MPs and the media, along with the repeated invocation of anti-voodoo phrases such as ‘fascist’ and ‘far right’, serve to obscure one or two salient matters. These terms are misleading. The philosophical antecedents of the BNP lie not on the right but on the left.

Labour MPs are shocked that it is their own voters who have turned to the BNP. They are shocked because it is a mantra of the left that it stands in heroic and historic opposition to fascism. This is untrue. Both fascism and communism have their roots in counter-Enlightenment, obscurantist thinking which replaced reason by emotion, Judeo-Christian ethics by paganism, and the rejection of the primacy of the individual in favour of collectively imposed authority.

Read Ze’ev Sternhell’s classic work, Neither Right Nor Left: Fascist Ideology in France to get the picture. Not for nothing were the Nazis called ’national socialists’. In similar fashion, the BNP fuse ultra-nationalism and racism with economic ideas which would sit well on the left of the Labour party. It is more helpful, and more accurate, to regard the BNP as opportunists. In the tradition of all fascist and neo-fascist parties, they prey upon a decaying body politic by taking up genuine grievances which are of overwhelming concern to the public but which, for one reason or another, mainstream politics is ignoring. By doing so, they serve to camouflage their own anti-democratic and noxious ideology.

Talk about accidental prophecy.

What is says is:
Treasury Agent Pete Trask
is trapped in an ancient Moslem tomb...
a macabre headquarters for reds!

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
[CPCLO Order No. 001-2009]
Privacy Act of 1974; System of Records
AGENCY: Criminal Division, Department of Justice.

ACTION: Notice of a modification of a system of records.

Hey! Guess what? I O C- [u] 2:

The members participating in IOC-2 will include: the FBI; U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE); the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA); U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS); the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF); U.S. Secret Service; U.S. Postal Inspection Service (USPIS); U.S. Department of State's Bureaus of Consular Affairs and Diplomatic Security; U.S. Department of Labor, Office of the Inspector General; and the U.S. Department of Justice, Criminal Division. IOC-2 will also partner with the 94 U.S. Attorneys' Offices and the U.S. Department of the Treasury, Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence.

Virtually everywhere you go ... They're watching

The use of surveillance cameras across the country has exploded in the past few years as they've gotten smaller, cheaper and easier to use. They're also more common because more people say they're willing to trade some anonymity for a stronger feeling of protection.

"You feel like Big Brother's watching," said Kim Gold, 48, of Wilmington. "I just hope he is. Wilmington is just not as safe as it used to be, so anything they can do to deter crime is great."

Privacy advocates and civil libertarians have always been uneasy about that trade-off.

DHS taps hacker Jeff Moss for cybersecurity advisory role

Jeff Moss, founder of the Black Hat and DefCon computer hacker conferences, was among those named to the Department of Homeland Security Advisory Council Friday by secretary Janet Napolitano. Moss, who has also worked in IT security for Ernst & Young, has gone by the hacker handle Dark Tangent.

Moss, 39, will serve on the advisory council with distinguished security and law enforcement professionals including former senator Gary Hart, former FBI director Louis Freeh, New York police commissioner Raymond Kelly and 9/11 commission member Lee Hamilton.

The announcement came Friday as Napolitano spoke to a gathering of police and elected officials about the government's counternarcotics plan for Southwest border states, which was streamed live to local intelligence sharing "fusion centers" throughout the Southwest.

"As we work to fulfill the department's core mission of securing the country against the many threats it faces, the unique insights and expertise of this diverse council will be a valuable resource," Napolitano said.

Air Force Names Cyberwarfare Commander

The Air Force announced Thursday that Maj. Gen. Richard E. Webber would become the first commander of the Air Force's first numbered cyberwarfare component. The 24th Air Force, which will likely be based at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas, will focus exclusively on cyberwarfare as part of the larger Air Force Space Command. It will be a stripped-down version of the planned major command for cyberspace operations that had been headed up by Maj. Gen. William Lord, who was announced as the new Air Force CIO last month.

Link Simulation and Training's CEO have ambitious plans
I'll bet they do!

Link's revenues have more than tripled, from $183 million to $582 million, since the acquisition from Raytheon Co.

Laura Bush glad Obama picked woman for high court
Repeat after me: We do not have two parties.

The People's Democratic Rebublic of Mass:
Former House Speaker DiMasi To Be Arraigned

Congress, the Banks and Derivatives

The Obama administration has made a serious proposal to regulate derivatives — the multitrillion-dollar market in financial contracts that malfunctioned so disastrously last year. The plan goes further than many thought politically possible, especially in its call for federal oversight of all large derivatives dealers.

Senate vote 18 years ago opened the door for Fed's vast new powers:

On the day before Thanksgiving in 1991, the U.S. Senate voted to vastly expand the emergency powers of the Federal Reserve.

Almost no one noticed.

The crucial language was contained in a single, somewhat inscrutable sentence, and the only public explanation was offered during a final debate that began with a reminder that senators had airplanes to catch.Yet, in removing a long-standing prohibition on loans that supported financial speculation, the provision effectively allowed the Fed for the first time to lend money to Wall Street during a crisis.

That authority, which sat unused for more than 16 years, now provides the legal basis for the Fed's unprecedented efforts to rescue the financial system.

Since March 2008, the central bank's board of governors has invoked its emergency powers at least 19 times: to contain the wreckage of Bear Stearns and ease the fall of American International Group, to preserve Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, to limit losses at Bank of America and Citigroup, to lend more than $1 trillion. The repeated use of the once-obscure law has surprised and alarmed a wide variety of people, including economists and members of Congress. It has even raised worries among presidents of the regional banks that make up the Federal Reserve system.

The nationalization of the auto industry
STFU! You are no longer allowed to call anything what it is.
Use the proper euphemisms or pay the consequences of your clarity.
It was not nationalized.
It was liberated in the name of the people!

US to Propose Wider Oversight of Compensation
Pay Czar Cometh to Liberate Your Compensation!

What if US banks repay government too fast?
HA HA HA, silly headline!
My name is called Seizer, The Obamanable Bushman.
No one pays till I says.

World airlines seen losing $9 billion this year
Tick Tick Tick to Seizer Airways, I tell you.
Then come the trains.

Thoroughly Modern Marx Pt. 2
These are the arbiters of what is rational?
Jewsus save us.

Paul Jay speaks to Leo Panitch, Professor of Political Science at York University about the relevance of Karl Marx’s theories today. They discuss climate change and the economy as seen from a Marxist perspective. Panitch says that many non-Marxists are advocating Marxist-like ideas, such as putting "banks into the hands of the State" because "in the face of this [economic] crisis, it's rational."

Obama's summer jobs plan: work for 600,000 people
GET ON THE TRAINS!
Summer Camp is open again!

Latin America's Brave New World

2 US Journalists get 12 yrs in NK


US Interest in Caspian Sea Oil to Bring More Trouble for Russia
HA HA HA, silly journalist!
It is Vlad who brings or does not bring the balagan.
Get it right, cockroach.
What is my name?
SAY MY NAME. SAAYYYYY IT!

Russia plans leading food role, no grain OPEC
Da... as I tell to you before, silly proletariats.
When you are cold and hungry you will kneel before Vlad, Europe.
Say it. SAY IT!

Kazakhstan expects grain harvest growth

Russia proposes Kazakhstan, Ukraine to coordinate grain policies

Putin's unfinished business
They call this new, nu?

The new rules of the game are such that the state will hold controlling stakes in the most important companies, which are Gazprom and Rosneft...

Putin and his men steal show at Russia business forum
We stole nothing.
We only liberate in the name of the people.

The Islamic Development Bank (IDB) to finance Kazak-Turkmen-Iranian railroad
Someone's in the kitchen with Dinah, strummin' on the old banjo.

Al Mansouri visits Uzbekistan

UAE Economy Minister HE Engineer Sultan bin Saeed Al Mansouri, will head high profile UAE delegation to Uzbekistan from June 10 to 12, in an official visit to that central Asian country in response to an invitation from Uzbek government.

Kazakhstanian Tango
I have seen our future baby, and it is murder.

Kairat Kelimbetov, the Chairman of the Board of Samruk-Kazyna National Welfare Fund, a state holding company established in October 2008, and which owns and manages Kazakhstan’s national companies — including oil and gas major KasMunaiGas, uranium company KazAtomProm and Kazakhstan Electricity Grid Operating Company (KEGOC) — in various sectors of the economy, including the oil and gas industry, telecommunications, transport, and the financial development institutions, at a press conference with Kazakh and foreign media, discussed the effects of the economic crisis on Kazakhstan’s oil-dependent economy.

Politics to play bigger role in SF Gay Pride Parade
Behold the Peoples Democratic Union of Gay Gramscian Whores....

China Orders PCs Be Equipped With Anit-Porn Software
NO pr0n for you!

Health insurance 'haves' to pay for 'have-nots'?
How did you think it worked?

Talk about propaganda:
New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin, wife held in China with swine flu
No one is getting properly panicked and there are already millions invested in making medicines and vaccines for this thing. Quick, get me a swine stooge.
~ The Seizer

Sweeping Health Plan Is Drafted by Kennedy
How to best prevent drinking and drowning by Teddy K.

Google Advisor Found Dead

Tech visionary and "angel investor" Rajeev Motwani, 47, was found dead in the backyard swimming pool of his Palo Alto, Calif., home on Friday. According to the Associated Press, his friends reported Motwani could not swim. There was no official word about the cause of his death; an autopsy report is pending.

Motwani was a professor at Stanford and was dedicated to helping entrepreneurs: Motwani founded the Mining Data at Stanford project (MIDAS), which provided support for developing innovative data management concepts. He was an early supporter of companies such as Google Inc.; he was unofficial advisor to Sergey Brin and Larry Page while they were studying at Stanford.

A Vatican-backed conference on evolution is under attack from people who weren't invited to participate: those espousing creationism and intelligent design:

The Discovery Institute, the main organization supporting intelligent design research, says it was shut out from presenting its views because the meeting was funded in part by the John Templeton Foundation, a major U.S. nonprofit that has criticized the intelligent design movement.

John Templeton Foundation:
Featured Grant: Darwin in Istanbul

Phone call from Istanbul!
GOD save us from "social scientists"

In keeping with Sir John Templeton's intent, his Foundation serves as a philanthropic catalyst for research and discoveries relating to what scientists and philosophers call the Big Questions. We support work at the world's top universities in such fields as theoretical physics, cosmology, evolutionary biology, cognitive science, and social science relating to love, forgiveness, creativity, purpose, and the nature and origin of religious belief. We also seek to stimulate new thinking about wealth creation in the developing world, character education in schools and universities, and programs for cultivating the talents of gifted children. Learn more about the Foundation's "Core Themes."

Sleeping giant lurks off the coast
Referring to the Cascadia Subduction Zone:

...if the next big earthquake is anything like the last, we could expect 600 miles of rupture with up to 50 feet of slip. The coastline from Cape Mendocino to Vancouver Island would take the brunt of the tsunami, however, with wave heights of 20 feet or more expected.

Waves would arrive within 30 minutes so warning time would be short. Some coastal communities are now aware of tsunami dangers and warning signs have been posted. The coastline may likely be down dropped due to drag along the offshore fault, which would expand inundation zones and flood coastal properties.

New earthquake sensors installed along Inland area's San Andreas fault

Aftershock of small earthquake felt in North Texas

Small East Bay Weekend Earthquake Widely Felt

4.2 in Greece

5.0 in Papua New Guinea

Wales Hit by Earthquake: Thousands Shit Pants
LOL! That's really the headline.

An earthquake, the largest measured in south Wales for 14 million years, has been confirmed by seismologists at the Llandudno Institute of Volcanology. The quake was felt at 15:42 BST on Saturday afternoon with the epicentre near Twatyffyllon, 6.2 miles north east of Port Scrunt.
The Welsh Geological Survey confirmed it had a magnitude of two-point-eight, which is almost equivalent to a bailiff banging on your front door or the coalman delivering a sack of nutty slack.

BOGOTA: Volcano eruption forces evacuation of thousands

Mount Redoubt's lava dome appears unstable