FBI Docs: Alleged Islamic Terrorist Training Compound Discovered In Rural Texas…

FBI Docs: Alleged Islamic Terrorist Training Compound Discovered In Rural Texas…

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The Clarion Project has unearthed Federal Bureau of Investigations documents detailing a 22-site network of terrorist training villages sprawled across the United States. According to the documents, the FBI has been concerned about these facilities for about 12 years, but cannot act against them because the U.S. State Department has not yet declared that their umbrella group, MOA/Jamaat ul-Fuqra, as a Foreign Terrorist Organization.
MOA stands for Muslims of the Americas, which is linked to radical Pakistani Muslim cleric Sheikh Mubarak Ali Gilani. The FBI documents that Clarion has obtained show that the group is headquartered in the well known “Islamberg” compound in rural New York. The facility in Texas is known as “Mahmoudberg.” It’s located in Brazoria county on County Road 3 near Sweeny. Sweeny is in far south Texas, southwest of Houston. The town of about 4,000 is a little under three hours’ drive from the state capital in Austin.
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SEVERE Birth Defects Soar In Washington State; Is Fukushima Radiation Taking Hold?

by admin · February 18, 2014

Radiation released into the atmosphere by the Fukushima, Japan nuclear accident has begun taking a human toll via newborn babies.  A cluster of severe genetic birth defects, 4 times the national average, has emerged in a 3 county area around Yakima, Washington on the US west coast.  Local Doctors are “stunned” and cannot find a reason for cluster of deformed babies; others know it is from Fukushima Radiation which saturated Washington in March, 2011.  This will get worse.  Much worse.

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Babies in a 3 county area near Yakima Washington are being born without parts of their brain or skull (anencephaly), another birth defect in which the neural tube, which forms the brain and spine, fails to close properly (spina bifida)  and a sac-like protrusion of the brain through the front or back of the skull (encephalocele) .  As of 14 months ago, by January 2013, officials with the Washington state health department and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had counted nearly two dozen cases in three years, a rate four times the national average.

Health officials originally were alerted to the problem by a nurse, Sara Barron, 58, who was in charge of infection control and quality assurance at Prosser Memorial Hospital, a 25-bed medical center in the farm town set on the Yakima River. A 30-year nursing veteran, she’d seen perhaps one or two devastating cases of anencephaly in her wide-ranging career.

“And now I was sitting at Prosser, with 30 deliveries a month and there’s two cases in a six-month period,” Barron said. “Then, I was talking to another doctor about it and she has a third one coming. My teeth dropped. It was like, ‘Oh my god.’”

At a regional medical meeting, there were more anecdotal reports. So Barron notified state health officials, who started looking into the problem.

“This is bizarre,” Barron said. “This is a very, very small area.”

Investigators pored over medical records of the 27 area women with affected pregnancies and 108 matched controls who received care at the same 13 prenatal clinics, Stahre said. They examined where the women worked, what diseases they had, whether they smoked or drank alcohol, what kind of medications they took and other factors. They looked at where they lived and whether they got their water from a public source or a private well. They looked at race and whether the problem was more pronounced in the area’s migrant farm workers or in other residents.

In the end, there was nothing — “no common exposures, conditions or causes,” state officials said — to explain the spike.

NO ONE CHECKED FOR RADIATION

Of all the testing, of all the research, no one bothered to look at what some see as the most-obvious cause: radiation from the Fukushima, Japan Nuclear Disaster site.

In March, 2011, an earthquake off the coast of Japan caused a tsunami which enveloped the Fukushima nuclear power plant and overwhelmed its sea wall.  The water shorted-out all electricity, stopping the pumps that provide water to cool the reactor cores.  Of the six reactors at Fukushima, Four melted down, three of those exploding in the process.

The disaster released countless TONS of highly radioactive materials into the air and weather patterns carried that radiation across the pacific ocean into north America with days.  According the the French Nuclear Agency, north America was literally SATURATED with intense radiation as early as March 26, 2011.  The map below was provided by the French nuclear Agency and shows the radiation cloud from Fukushima.

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Yakima, being on the U.S. west coast, was hit particularly hard as demonstrated by the darker coloring of the radiation plume above.

While the Fukushima disaster was taking place, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) made the deliberate decision to NOT deploy its portable radiation monitors to the west coast.  It seems that someone in the EPA knew things were spiraling out of control and instead of taking action to protect the public, they stuck their collective heads in the sand like an Ostrich.  After all, if they didn’t deploy the radiation measuring devices, they would not have any proof of danger.  The idiotic government view was simple: No proof=no danger.  Now, we see the danger.

Persons living anywhere in the western United States – especially in states along the west coast – must seriously worry about having children due to the genetic damage suffered by parents exposed to Fukushima Radiation.  Put simply, your genes, your chromosomes may be forever damaged by what you were exposed to.  If you try to have a child, you may end up with a mutant.

All because the nuclear industry throws its money around to buy government approval for these hideously dangerous power plants, and that same government sticks its head in the sand to cover-up the danger; even when it is literally in the air around us, because they don’t want to be blamed for unleashing this nightmare on the public.

None of the babies suffering from the deformities mentioned above, have, to this date, been checked for radiation.

Incidentally,  the International Olympic Committee has approved Tokyo as the venue for the 2020 Summer Olympics.  As our young, healthy athletes travel to that nation to compete, little will they know that their bodies will be silently pummeled by radiation, and their ability to have children later in their lives, may be destroyed.

Babies Born with No Brain Spiking Near Leaking Hanford Nuclear Site, Nobody Can Figure Out why

This is really a tough one to figure out, as there is now a spike in babies being born with deformed brains around the leaking Hanford Nuclear Power plant. Several tanks are now said to be leaking and officials don’t seem to know what to do about it. There are worries it may reach the Colombia River.

“Worrisome” spike in deadly birth defects around leaking U.S. nuclear site — Officials claim “it could be a complete coincidence” — No news reports mention it’s by the most contaminated area in Western Hemisphere #Hanford

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Local Police Train With Special Forces To Raid Farm Houses, Conduct Domestic Raids

Posted on February 18, 2014 by Brandon Turbeville

On January 20, I wrote an article entitled “Upcoming Military Drill Off Limits To Reporters,” in which I reported on the announcement that South Carolina’s Richland County Sheriff’s Office would be engaged in joint training exercises with unidentified units from Ft. Bragg.
The official Richland County Sheriff’s Department’s press release stated that “Citizens may see military and departmental vehicles traveling in and around rural and metropolitan areas and may hear ordinance being set off or fired which will be simulated/ blanks and controlled by trained personnel.”
The release also stated that the exercise was being held “Due to Sheriff Leon Lott’s longstanding commitment to making sure that deputies are trained and prepared for every event and potential threat and his desire to assist the military to ensure their preparations.”
It is worth noting that Ft. Bragg hosts some of the U.S. Army’s more elite units such as Special Forces as well as more elite airborne and aviation support units. Ft. Bragg is also home to the elite Delta Force.
Beyond this information, however, very little was known about the drills. That is, until now.
According to independent sources, Special Forces were indeed involved in the drills in concert with local civilian police forces.
Civilian police and military units worked together in practice for setting up and maintaining checkpoints as well as other checkpoint-related drills. Both police and military also worked together to practice chopper insertion – the deployment of troops/operatives by way of helicopters.
What is most disturbing, however, is that, according to sources, both the civilian police and U.S. military forces were also training to raid farm houses and engage in domestic raids.
No wonder the Richland County Sheriff’s Department was so tight-lipped about the operations they were taking part in during the process of these joint drills.
The fact that the police and military are engaging in joint drill exercises in violation of Posse Comitatus and a long-standing American tradition of separation between domestic policing and military activity is concerning enough. However, the fact that they are training for domestic operations such as raiding American farm houses, setting up domestic checkpoints, and conducting other related raids on the home-front should be terrifying to every single American that desires to keep what little shred of freedom they have left.
If the reports of these sources are accurate, the American military and indeed the Richland County Sheriff’s Department clearly see the American people and the people of South Carolina as the enemy.
Brandon Turbeville is an author out of Florence, South Carolina. He has a Bachelor’s Degree from Francis Marion University and is the author of six books, Codex Alimentarius — The End of Health Freedom, 7 Real Conspiracies, Five Sense Solutions and Dispatches From a Dissident, volume 1 and volume 2, and The Road to Damascus: The Anglo-American Assault on Syria. Turbeville has published over 275 articles dealing on a wide variety of subjects including health, economics, government corruption, and civil liberties. Brandon Turbeville’s podcast Truth on The Tracks can be found every Monday night 9 pm EST at UCYTV.  He is available for radio and TV interviews. Please contact activistpost@gmail.com. 

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Due Process and the Assassination Leak

by d.johnson | Feb 18, 2014 | Civil Liberties Watch | 0 comments

February 18, 2014
Last week the Obama administration anonymously leaked (under terms of anonymity obligingly offered by the Associated Press) the information that it has decided to assassinate another American citizen without charge or trial.
Four safely unnamed officials reassured the public of all the soul-searching, hand-wringing and gratifyingly intense West-Wing-style backroom drama which the Administration had undergone in the course of its decision to kill this newest, as-yet-unnamed American, setting itself (we are told) some genuinely difficult hoops to jump through, which, once jumped, would of course give it the legal authority to kill an American citizen without the mere formality of actual charges or a trial.
“One U.S. official” (unnamed) “said the Defense Department was divided over whether the man is dangerous enough to merit the potential domestic fallout“ – quite the P.R. brouhaha – “of killing an American without charging him with a crime or trying him.” However, the article continued, “Another of the U.S. officials” (also unnamed) “said the Pentagon did ultimately decide to recommend lethal action.”
So that’s that, then.
DUE PROCESS
The Obama Administration has so  far assassinated four Americans by drone– specifically targeting extremist lecturer Anwar Al-Awlaki for a raft of unevidenced crimes, and killing along with him his fellow anti-American propagandist (and fellow American) Samir Khan, followed two weeks later by Awlaki’s nonpolitical (and American-born) sixteen-year-old son, apparently a nice kid, killed dining with young, similarly civilian, friends: when questioned on the second killing, Obama campaign senior adviser Robert Gibbs answered “He should have had a more responsible father.”
On March 5, 2012, in defense of the Awlaki killings, Attorney General Eric Holder addressed the nation insisting that precisely the kind of exciting deliberative process leaked to us today is all the “due process” ensured U.S. people by our Bill of Rights even in cases of planned execution – the drafters of our Constitution having carelessly failed to mention, or mention in enough places, the specific need for any “judicial” process involving courts and laws, foolishly considered necessary in two centuries of American legal practice where an American was facing execution by his or her government.  Judicial, Legislative, Executive?  That last office, without need for courts or the laws they interpret, could now be judge, jury, and executioner.
WHO WILL PILOT?

Today’s AP story spotlights Justice Department guidelines leaked in 2013, the “prudent limits” boasted in Obama’s recent State of the Union Address, specifying that the Pentagon and not the CIA would perform the killing of future American citizens, not to mention hundreds of potentially dangerous civilians in countries with which we are not at war.   All this in compliance with Council of Foreign Relations recommendations intended “to ensure drone strikes do not go the way of third-country renditions and enhanced interrogation techniques,” given the unpopularity (66% vs. 75% approval in poll the recommendations cite), of CIA assassinations versus those the Pentagon conducts.   Pentagon assassinations, unlike CIA hits, can be defended after the fact in the court of public opinion.
This weekend’s soul-searching, AP tells us, has been chiefly a search for ways to retain these guidelines and have Pentagon soldiers, and not CIA spies, perform the actual assassination using the drones currently tracking the unnamed American. However, dissenting voices such as Sen Diane Feinstein (D-CA) are quoted insisting that the drone-savvy CIA are far more skilled at this sort of killing, while House Intelligence Chair Mike Rogers (R-Mich) laments “missed opportunities” for assassination when only blank check permission for death by air can fully safeguard American lives.
Congress may indeed have tied the President’s hands, the article continues, by its refusal to allocate specific funding to allow a cash-strapped Pentagon to fire the needed missile at this new target, making the pressing question that of whether Obama’s self-imposed guidelines on the killing of uncharged, untried American citizens still entitle him to legally kill a citizen without trial, if, due to their inconvenience, he ignores them maybe just this once.
CONSTITUTIONAL WITHOUT COURTS

The article explains: “If the target is an American citizen, the Justice Department is required to show that killing the person through military action is “legal and constitutional”.” Not to show any judge or jury, of course: “due process,” as Eric Holder has confirmed, no longer entails “judicial process” and the Supreme Court at any rate has shown every recent willingness to invoke technicalities in evading challenges to the constitutionality of post-9/11 legal innovations.
A.P. insists that, even if the CIA shouldn’t, “the Pentagon can take action against the American, as the administration has ruled him an enemy combatant under the [2001] Authorization for Use of Military Force.” This was Congress’s panicked legislative response to 9/11 which, though it might not have specifically _mentioned_ any doctrine of White House-designated “enemy combatants” losing all constitutional rights, has now been interpreted as doing so by both the Bush and Obama Administrations.  Years ago, when the Bush Administration was jailing (but not yet killing) “enemy combatants” without trial, reporters were apt to label the “enemy combatant” doctrine controversial.  But now that Obama is not just jailing but killing the bad people against whom it can produce no evidence, now that it defines every last corner of the world as governed not by any civil law but by a universally precedent Law of War, the “enemy combatant” principle is more than constitutional: it’s downright bipartisan.
With no courts to speak of and with blank-check law left to the President to write retroactively, all that’s left for the commanders of our military and intelligence organizations to consider is “the potential domestic fallout” of assassination of Americans.  How will it poll?   Will it give one of the parties an advantage in its quadrennial contest against the other, for the last office in the Government that has any influence over the reasons for which an American is executed?
THE GIFT OF TODAY
Today’s leaks represent another historic softening of Obama assassination policy following generous promises leaked last year, to _try_ and have soldiers rather than spies do the killing, whether of Americans without trial or foreign civilians without number, on a newly declared global battlefield where no law but the Law of War remains.
Not that the Executive Branch’s former rivals to power, the courts or the legislature, will be relevant to the process: this is “due process” and doesn’t need to be “judicial”: but they might let the Pentagon in instead of giving the CIA sole access, which is apparently supposed to be a balance of power.
And the press!  Today’s leaks go even beyond empowering the Pentagon, with the exciting promise of an assassination list that may still have been drafted behind closed White House doors, but this time with exciting press leaks accompanying them.  This is openness.  Democracy!
The sources can’t be identified, lest they be called upon to defend what they’re witnessed and said: but when an unnamed American is to be killed, to prevent crimes they haven’t actually committed but might even now be planning, we will not be denied our celebrity gossip.   We breathlessly await the reveal of their name, along with the star footage the drone will have filmed of their Gala Event, their Candid Camera surprise.   We might even get a few more hints of why it had to happen.   Through the press, in leaks and speeches, lip service will continue to be paid to the principles on which our country was founded and which it has nostalgically, lovingly outgrown – new rules will be thrown up and then only partly broken so as to avoid “domestic fallout,” measured not in prison sentences for rogue politicians using lethal force, but ratings dips.
Lip service will have a new name.   We’re already calling it “due process.”

Arizona Senate to Vote on Bill to Nullify Federal Gun Laws

By Top Right News on February 16, 2014 in 2016, Arizona, GOP, Guns, Politics

by Gina Cassini | Top Right News
Today, an Arizona state senate committee approved a bill that would virtually nullify all federal gun acts, laws, orders, rules or regulations. The vote was 6-3.
Along with twelve sponsors and co-sponsors, Arizona State Sen. Kelli Ward introduced the Second Amendment Preservation Act in the Grand Canyon State. SB1294 prohibits the state from enforcing “any federal act, law, order, rule or regulation that relates to a personal firearm, firearm accessory or ammunition within the limits of this state.”

“We’ve sat back and allowed the federal government to trample the Constitution long enough,” Ward said. “We’re going to pass this bill and stop the state of Arizona from helping the feds violate your rights.”

Fox News Senior Judicial Analyst Judge Andrew Napolitano said that a single state refusing to enforce federal gun laws would make them “nearly impossible to enforce.” Napolitano praised Arizona’s effort in the current session.
After initial backing from the Tenth Amendment Center, SB1294 garnered support from the well-respected Arizona Citizens Defense League, along with national organizations such as Gun Owners of America and the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association (CSPOA).
“We are in league with this legislation, and we encourage every state to enact similar laws,” said Sheriff Richard Mack, founder of CSPOA and a lead plaintiff of the 1997 Printz case which provides the legal basis for the bill.
SB1294 rests on a well-established legal principle known as the anti-commandeering doctrine. Simply put, the federal government cannot “commandeer” or coerce states into implementing or enforcing federal acts or regulations – constitutional or not.
The anti-commandeering doctrine is backed by four major Supreme Court cases dating back to 1842. The 1997 case, Printz v. US, serves as the modern cornerstone. In that case, that majority wrote,
“We held in New York that Congress cannot compel the States to enact or enforce a federal regulatory program. Today we hold that Congress cannot circumvent that prohibition by conscripting the States’ officers directly. The Federal Government may neither issue directives requiring the States to address particular problems, nor command the States’ officers, or those of their political subdivisions, to administer or enforce a federal regulatory program. It matters not whether policy making is involved, and no case by case weighing of the burdens or benefits is necessary; such commands are fundamentally incompatible with our constitutional system of dual sovereignty.”
No one came to testify in opposition to the bill, and Arizona Tenth Amendment Center coordinator Adam Henriksen is hopeful that the National Rifle Association will get behind SB1294 as well.
“The Arizona representative of the NRA told us that they support the intent of the legislation, and we are very happy to hear that,” said Henriksen. “He said they were concerned about potential unintended consequences and might suggest some minor changes. While we don’t have the same concerns because we believe there is no such a thing as a ‘good’ federal gun law, we are absolutely committed to working with our friends in the NRA to find common ground, and ensure that we can get SB1294 passed as law.”
SB1294 now moves on to the Arizona Senate Rules Committee, where it will need to pass by a majority vote before consideration by the full state senate.
Way to go, Arizona!

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What can you do? The Tenth Amendment Center suggests the following:

1. Contact your State Senator. You can find your legislator’s contact information by clicking here
2. Contact your State Representative. You can find your legislator’s contact information by clicking here
3. Call Back – any NO or UNDECIDED – in 2-3 days
4. Write a letter to the editor of your local newspaper, voicing support for SB1294.

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Gina Cassini is a Texas Mom of 4, proud gun owner, and vigilant patriot.

8 Allegedly Anti-Sovereignty Actions Taken by Maine Attorney General’s Office

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Maine Attorney General Janet Mills, above, has allegedly made a number of blatantly anti-Indian moves that undermine sovereignty, according to Penobscot Indian Nation Chief Kirk Francis.

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8 Allegedly Anti-Sovereignty Actions Taken by Maine Attorney General’s Office

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In calling for an investigation of the office of Maine Attorney General Janet Mills, Penobscot Indian Nation Chief Kirk Francis cited a number of actions on the part of her office that he said fly in the face of Indian sovereignty and are an attempt to undermine numerous agreements and precepts that uphold tribal rights.
“Let’s just look at the last few years,” Francis told Indian Country Today Media Network. Below, some samples of Mills’s “anti-Indian sovereignty actions,” according to the chief. Mills's office did not respond to requests for comment.
RELATED: Penobscot Chief Calls for Investigation of Maine Attorney General's Office
1. You’ve Been Here How Long?
“[We receive] a letter from the AG that they do not think our 10,000-year-old presence in the Penobscot River and the cultural practices associated with that exist any more and that our rights are on land only.” (This letter resulted in a lawsuit pending in federal court filed by the Nation against the attorney.)
RELATED: Feds Join Penobscot Suit Against State of Maine on Fishing Rights
2. Stafford Act Amendment: Maine Tribes Need Not Apply
“[The AG] writes language to Senator Susan Collins to exclude the tribes of Maine from the Stafford Act amendments (that allow tribes to apply directly to the federal government for disaster and emergency relief funds rather than having to go through the state).
RELATED: President Obama Signs Law Putting Tribes on Equal Footing as States for Federal Emergency Aid
Tribes Ask UN for Help Fighting Anti-Indian Laws in Maine
3. Penobscot Need State Approval for Bingo Machines
“[The AG] writes an opinion that the Penobscot cannot implement bingo machines without state approval,” Francis said. “Ironically, she writes this as two out-of-state-managed casinos are operating in Maine. She writes this opinion saying the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act. Equal protection claim here maybe?”
4. Threatening Lawsuit Against Feds for Enforcing Water Quality Standards
“The state threatens to sue the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for respecting tribal waters and not approving Maine’s water quality standards within our territory. Maine refused EPA's request for consultation with us.”
5. Blocking Wind Farm Memorandum of Understanding
“The AG would not allow an MOU (Memorandum of Understanding) between the state and the Penobscot on permitting our wind farm. [She] claimed it was state authority to do it and would not acknowledge our permit. This [claim was made] a year after negotiations began with the Department of Conservation, which when [the AG’s office] stepped in.”
6. Elver Agreements Deemed Unconstitutional
“She raises constitutional concerns over elver agreements, ignoring federal Indian law and salt water rights that were never ceded.”
RELATED: Mills Kills Passamaquoddy-State Elvers Agreement
7. Interfering With Settlement Act Implementation
“In 2007 [she] was against almost every recommendation of the Tribal State Work Group (TSWG),” Francis said. If implemented, the recommendations “would have started to change or clarify the Maine Indian Claims Settlement Act. [The AG intervened] two years after the TSWG process started.”
RELATED: Chiefs Blast Attorney General’s ‘Distorted, Revisionist Account’ of Settlement Act Negotiations
Penobscot Chief Calls on Obama to Help Stop State Erosion of Tribal Sovereignty
8. Attempts to Alter Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) Provisions for Maine Tribes
“[The AG] recently called the Department of Justice to get a copy of our Violence Against Women (VAWA) pilot project,” Francis said. “The AG wrote in a report to the legislature that our right to VAWA provisions was not a view [she] shared and she said the act would have to be amended for it to apply to the tribes of Maine. The VAWA specifically says that nothing in the act preempts state jurisdiction. Again, her world view.”

Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2014/02/18/8-allegedly-anti-sovereignty-actions-taken-maine-attorney-generals-office-153635

Serious Questions Loom After IED Found in a Truck Near Colorado Highway (UPDATED)

Feb. 18, 2014 6:10pm Oliver Darcy

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The FBI and dozens of local authorities are responding to an improvised explosive device found in a truck near a Colorado highway, a county official confirmed Tuesday afternoon.
Chaffee County spokeswoman Laura Smith told TheBlaze that more than 50 members of law enforcement are responding to an explosive device after it was discovered in a truck at about 7:15 a.m. At least one member of the FBI is also on the scene providing assistance to local authorities, she confirmed.
“They’ve sent a robot in to assess the IED,” Smith said. “The goal is to disarm the device.”

In this photo provided by The Chaffee County Times a truck is parked in Buena Vista, Colo., Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2014. Chaffee County Sheriff Pete Palmer said a member of the library’s maintenance staff discovered a suspected bomb in the bed of the truck. (AP Photo/The Chaffee County Times, Mary Lee Bensman)

According to the Gazette, the device is being described as a “mortar round with wires and a cell phone attached to it.”
It was not clear if federal authorities were investigating the incident as a potential act of terrorism. Neither a spokesperson for the FBI or Department of Homeland Security immediately responded to TheBlaze’s request for comment.
Smith, however, said she was “unaware” if authorities were currently looking into who may be responsible for the device.
“Not that I know of,” she said. “I’m not aware of that. The whole situation is under investigation, but the only thing I am aware of is they are trying to assess the IED and disarm it.”

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The device was discovered by a cleaning lady early in the morning. Smith said the cleaning lady left her keys in her vehicle, went back to retrieve them and noticed a device in the bed of her truck.
Authorities immediately responded, issued a “code red alert,” established a 100 foot perimeter and phoned in a bomb squad.
Highway 24 has been closed and traffic is being diverted from mile marker 210 to 211, Smith said, adding that some schools are implementing emergency procedures.
For updates, residents are urged to follow the Chaffee County Office of Emergency Management’s Facebook page.
UPDATE, 9:35 p.m. ET — 2/18/14: An update to the Chaffee County Office of Emergency Management’s Facebook page says that the mortar found was a “practice round and nothing suspicious.”
The highway has reopened and “the Buena Vista Police Department assumed custody of the scene and assigned the investigation to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF).”
“Officials with the ATF will take the device to their lab for processing,” the Facebook post added.
Smith told TheBlaze that authorities are still not certain how or why the device was placed in the back of the truck. She confirmed that it was thought to have had wires connected to a cell phone streaming out of it, but stressed that police ultimately determined the device was a practice round.
The investigation is still ongoing. It is sill unclear if federal authorities are looking into the incident as a potential terrorism related event.
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Obama’s fuel-efficiency speech another ‘do as I say’ event

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President Obama’s visit to suburban Maryland on Tuesday to announce new fuel-efficiency standards for trucks was anything but efficient, as the commander-in-chief took a 15-vehicle caravan on an hour-long round trip just to deliver a 17-minute speech at a local Safeway distribution center.
It was the latest example of what critics say has become a habit — the president’s words not exactly aligning with his actions. Over the weekend, Mr. Obama came under fire for golfing at some of California’s most water-intensive courses, despite having spent last Friday touring drought-ravaged areas of the state and declaring that the Western U.S. must “rethink” how it uses water resources and blaming global “climate change.”

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Last week, the White House served a 2,500-calorie meal at a state dinner in honor of French President Francois Hollande even though first lady Michelle Obama and the Obama administration have focused intensely on serving nutritious food in schools. Even apart from the cost of such items as dry-aged rib-eye beef with blue cheese and American Osetra caviar, that dinner could not be served as a school lunch for calorie-count reasons.
“Obama is losing his connection to Americans that can’t afford to take long and flashy vacations. He is talking the talk on fuel efficiency, but certainly isn’t walking the walk. Instead he’s taking a gas-guzzling motorcade everywhere he goes,” said Republican strategist Ron Bonjean, former chief of staff to then-Sen. Jon Kyl, Arizona Republican, and also communications director to then-House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert, Illinois Republican.
The Republican Party also has taken aim at the president’s recent actions. Republican National Committee spokeswoman Kirsten Kukowski told Time over the weekend the California golf outings — which began less than 24 hours after Mr. Obama attended a town hall meeting focused on the state’s worsening water crisis — are the latest example of a “brand of hypocrisy” frequently exhibited by this White House.

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“This time it seems his soapbox doubles as a tee box,” she said, according to Time.
The White House didn’t respond to The Washington Times’ request for comment regarding Tuesday’s event. Time also said the administration declined to comment about the president’s three rounds of golf while in California.
Aside from golf, fattening meals and fuel-eating trips on the Beltway, the administration also has faced hypocrisy charges on a more policy-oriented front.

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Republican lawmakers and other critics have charged that this president, after repeatedly criticizing his predecessor for frequent use of executive actions, has followed the same path.
Indeed, Mr. Obama in recent weeks has boasted of how 2014 will be a “year of action” in which he’ll work without Congress wherever possible, and denied that he is abusing executive authority.
“There is no question that this president has been judicious in his use of executive action, executive orders,” White House press secretary Jay Carney said last week, correctly pointing out Mr. Obama has issued fewer executive orders than former presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton did at this point in their presidency.
Critics charge it’s the not the number of actions, but rather the type and scope, with Mr. Obama frequently using his authority to change mandates and deadlines under Obamacare and in other areas.
Brushing off the criticism, Mr. Obama continued his wave of executive actions.
Speaking at the Safeway distribution center, Mr. Obama announced a new round of fuel-economy goals the trucking industry must meet by 2025.
Under current federal standards, medium and heavy-duty trucks must reduce their fuel consumption by 10 percent to 20 percent by 2018. The president’s new proposal, which is not scheduled to be finalized until March 2016 near the end of his term, will set even more ambitious goals the trucking industry must achieve in the years after 2018.mproving gas mileage for these trucks is going to drive down our oil imports even further,” Mr. Obama said. “That reduces carbon pollution even more, cuts down on businesses’ fuel costs, which should pay off in lower prices for consumers. So it’s not just a win-win. It’s a win-win-win.”

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BARRY THE DOPE DEALER (Obama), is Why His School Files are Sealed

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Friday, May 31, 2013

BARRY THE DOPE DEALER (Obama), is Why His School Files are Sealed

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WHY WASN'T THIS ALL ON THE NEWS IN 2008 WHEN HE WAS RUNNING FOR OFFICE ?????

and WHY ISN'T THE NEWS TALKING ABOUT IT TODAY ?????

What about this one? >>  Obama & His Ex-Lovers (may be offensive) *videos*

Some people have the vocabulary to sum up things in a way that you can quickly understand them. This quote came from the Czech Republic. Someone over there has it figured out. It was translated into English from an article in the Prague newspaper Prager Zeitungon on 04.28.2010.

"The danger to America is not Barack Obama, but a citizenry capable of entrusting a man like him with the Presidency. It will be far easier to limit and undo the follies of an Obama presidency than to restore the necessary common sense and good judgment to a depraved electorate willing to have such a man for their president. The problem is much deeper and far more serious than Mr. Obama, who is a mere symptom of what ails America. Blaming the prince of the fools should not blind anyone to the vast confederacy of fools that made him their prince. The Republic can survive a Barack Obama, who is, after all, 'merely a fool'. It is less likely to survive a multitude of fools, such as those who made him their President."

Barry was quite the accomplished marijuana addicted enthusiast back in high school and college. Excerpts from David Maraniss' Barack Obama: The Story "Barry the Dope dealer" with the elaborate drug culture surrounding the president when he attended Punahou School in Honolulu and Occidental College in Los Angeles . He definitely inhaled, a hell of a lot of smoke.

1. The Choom Gang

A self-selected group of boys at Punahou School who loved basketball and good times called themselves the Choom Gang. Choom is a verb, meaning "to smoke marijuana."

2. Total Absorption

As a member of the Choom Gang, Barry Obama was known for starting a few pot-smoking trends. The first was called "TA," short for "total absorption." To place this in the physical and political context of another young man who would grow up to be president, TA was the antithesis of Bill Clinton's claim that as a Rhodes scholar at Oxford he smoked dope but never inhaled.

3. Roof Hits

Along with TA, Barry popularized the concept of "roof hits": when they were chooming in the car all the windows had to be rolled up so no smoke blew out and went to waste; when the pot was gone, they tilted their heads back and sucked in the last bit of smoke from the ceiling.

4. Penalties

When you were with Barry and his pals, if you exhaled precious pakalolo (Hawaiian slang for marijuana, meaning "numbing tobacco") instead of absorbing it fully into your lungs, you were assessed a penalty and your turn was skipped the next time the joint came around. "Wasting good bud smoke was not tolerated," explained one member of the Choom Gang, Tom Topolinski, the Chinese-looking kid with a Polish name who answered to Topo.

5. The Choomwagon[Choom Gang member] Mark Bendix's Volkswagen bus, also known as the Choomwagon. … The other members considered Mark Bendix the glue, he was funny, creative, and uninhibited, with a penchant for Marvel Comics. He also had that VW bus and a house with a pool, a bong, and a Nerf basketball, all enticements for them to slip off midday for a few unauthorized hours of recreation...

6. Interceptions

Barry also had a knack for interceptions. When a joint was making the rounds, he often elbowed his way in, out of turn, shouted "Intercepted!," and took an extra hit. No one seemed to mind.

7. Slippers

Choom Gang members often made their way to Aku Ponds at the end of Manoa Stream, where they slipped past the liliko'i vines and the KAPU (keep out) signs, waded into waist-high cool mountain water, stood near the rock where water rushed overhead, and held up a slipper (what flip-flops are called in Hawaii) to create an air pocket canopy. It was a natural high, they said, stoned or not.

8. Ray The Dealer

He was a long-haired haole hippie who worked at the Mama Mia Pizza Parlor not far from Punahou and lived in a dilapidated bus in an abandoned warehouse. … According to Topolinski, Ray the dealer was "freakin' scary." Many years later they learned that he had been killed with a ball-peen hammer by a scorned gay lover. But at the time he was useful because of his ability to "score quality weed."...In another section of the [senior] yearbook, students were given a block of space to express thanks and define their high school experience. … Nestled below [Obama's] photographs was one odd line of gratitude: "Thanks Tut, Gramps, Choom Gang, and Ray for all the good times." … A hippie drug-dealer made his acknowledgments; his own mother did not.

9. Pumping Stations

Their favorite hangout was a place they called Pumping Stations, a lush hideaway off an unmarked, roughly paved road partway up Mount Tantalus . They parked single file on the grassy edge, turned up their stereos playing Aerosmith, Blue Oyster Cult, and Stevie Wonder, lit up some "sweet-sticky Hawaiian buds" and washed it down with "green bottle beer" (the Choom Gang preferred Heineken, Becks, and St. Pauli Girl).

10. Veto

One of the favorite words in their subculture revealed their democratic nature. The word was veto. Whenever an idea was broached, someone could hold up his hand in the V sign (a backward peace sign of that era) and indicate that the motion was not approved. They later shortened the process so that you could just shout "V" to get the point across.. In the Choom Gang, all V's were created equal.

11. Maui Wowie, Kauai Electric, Puna Bud And Kona Gold:

In the Honolulu of Barry's teenage years marijuana was flourishing up in the hills, out in the countryside, in covert greenhouses everywhere. It was sold and smoked right there in front of your nose; Maui Wowie, Kauai Electric, Puna Bud, Kona Gold, and other local variations of pakololo were readily available.

12. The Barf Couch

The Barf Couch earned its name early in the first trimester when a freshman across the hall from Obama [in the Haines Hall Annex dorm at Occidental College ] drank himself into a stupor and threw up all over himself and the couch. In the manner of pallbearers hoisting a coffin, a line of Annexers lifted the tainted sofa with the freshman aboard and toted it out the back door and down four steps to the first concrete landing on the way to the parking lot. A day later, the couch remained outside in the sun, resting on its side with cushions off (someone had hosed it clean), and soon it was back in the hallway nook.

13. The Annex Olympics

(The main hallway at Haines Hall was called the Annex,) home to the impromptu Annex Olympics: long-jumping onto a pile of mattresses, wrestling in underwear, hacking golf balls down the hallway toward the open back door, boxing while drunk. There were the non-Olympic sports of lighting farts and judging them by color, tipping over the Coke machine, breaking the glass fire extinguisher case, putting out cigarettes on the carpet, falling asleep on the carpet, flinging Frisbees at the ceiling-mounted alarm bell, tasting pizza boxes to the floor, and smoking pot from a three-foot crimson opaque bong, a two-man event involving the smoker and an accomplice standing ready to respond to the order "Hey, dude, light the bowl!

Resources:

1. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/election-2012/post/the-ch...

2. http://www.unitedliberty.org/articles/10218-for-choom-the-bel...

3. http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/politics-...

4. http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/05/obama-and-his-po...

5. http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2012/05/27/the_choom_gang_ob...

6. http://theweek.com/article/index/228490/the-choom-gang-9-juic...

7. http://www.theblaze.com/stories/the-top-headlines-about-barac...

8. http://www.buzzfeed.com/gavon/a-users-guide-to-smoking-pot-wi...

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A Muslim Terrorist Enclave Grows in Mahmoudberg, Texas

February 18, 2014 by Daniel Greenfield Leave a Comment

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Ryan Mauro at the Clarion Project brings us the story of a little terrorist town named Mahmoudberg in Texas.

A Clarion Project investigation has discovered a jihadist enclave in Texas where a deadly shooting took place in 2002… The enclave belongs to the network of Muslims of the Americas, a radical group linked to a Pakistani militant group called Jamaat ul-Fuqra. Its members are devoted followers of Sheikh Mubarak Ali Gilani, an extremist cleric in Pakistan.
The organization says it has a network of 22 “villages” around the U.S., with Islamberg as its main headquarters in New York. The Clarion Project obtained secret MOA footage showing female members receiving paramilitary training at Islamberg…  A second MOA tape released by Clarion shows its spokesman declaring the U.S. to be a Muslim-majority country.
A 2007 FBI record states that MOA members have been involved in at least 10 murders, one disappearance, three firebombings, one attempted firebombing, two explosive bombings and one attempted bombing.
The MOA compound in Texas, described by the FBI as an “enclave” and “communal living site,” is in Brazoria county along County Road 3 near Sweeny. The MOA referred to its Texas commune as “Mahmoudberg” in online instructions for a parade in New York in 2010.
Locals told the ACT members that they have heard gunfire coming from the commune. Interviewed residents all agreed that the MOA members are private, yet when the ACT members were spotted in the area, they were immediately and repeatedly approached. At one point, a commune resident gave them a final warning to leave, despite the fact that they were not trespassing or harassing MOA members.
“It was definitely very threatening and menacing,” an ACT member told me.
Locals told the ACT members that government investigators had visited the area a few times and the commune residents refused to talk to them. According to one local, two ambulances were denied entry earlier this year until the police intervened.
So why is MOA/JUF allowed to operate in the country?

The answer is that the State Department has not designated MOA/Jamaat ul-Fuqra as a Foreign Terrorist Organization. The group is thus permitted to organize in the U.S. until that happens.

That’s only a small part of the larger article and it’s also a reminder that No Go Zones already exist in America and that they can form even more easily in rural areas than in cities. These are base communities meant to serve as an expansion point for future Emirates as Islamic settlements in the United States grow and Jihadist activity rises.
The violence begins with terrorism, moves on to guerrilla warfare and then to a conventional war when they have the population numbers.

Obama Executive Order Imposes Martial Law On United States

March 19, 2012 by Doug Book 43 Comments

On Friday evening Barack Hussein Obama signed into existence “National Defense Resources Preparedness,” an Executive Order which will afford the president dictatorial powers over the nation and the American people whenever he chooses to implement it.

Some of the more important—and frightening—dictates of the Obama decree:

The President can place the Order in effect virtually whenever and for whatever reason he wishes. Although related to the Defense Production Act of 1950, written as a result of the Korean War, the current Executive Order makes it clear that the nation need not be at war or threatened with aggression by outside forces to be implemented. The Order specifically states that it may be activated in peacetime.

All actions of the Order are ultimately controlled by the President. Obama has appointed the National Security Council and DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano as the “integrated policymaking forum” for all Order policies.

All commerce will be conducted according to the demands of the President. All “services, materials and facilities” may be commandeered by the President “as deemed necessary or appropriate to promote the national defense…”

Regulations will be issued by the President’s representatives, establishing nationwide standards and procedures of production. The entire economy will literally work under the President’s direction. He and his representatives will also decide how all important resources shall be apportioned. They will “control the general distribution of any material (including applicable services) to the civilian market.”

The President’s representatives will have authority to grant or guarantee loans for the production of goods and materials or to “create, maintain, protect, expand or restore domestic industrial base capabilities essential for the national defense.” They may also “encourage the exploration, development and mining of strategic and critical materials…” Apparently oil may be sought only after the President has become a dictator.

Manufacturers will not be permitted to produce or sell goods unless authorized by the President. Anything produced will be made available for the President’s (that is, the nation’s) use before it may be offered elsewhere. The President’s representatives have authority to take over privately owned companies, plants and facilities, modify them, add or delete equipment and “authorize” production schedules. In short, private businessmen will be told what to make, how to make it, how much, when and for whom.

The Director of Selective Service and the Secretary of Defense will decide who will be inducted into the armed forces and who will be deferred.

In addition to those powers listed above, the President will also control all civil transportation; all forms, supplies and suppliers of energy; farm equipment; all food resources; food resource facilities; all water resources; health resources; strategic and critical materials and national defense.

And there are two additional items to consider. Janet Napolitano will be in charge of the National Defense Executive Reserve program. NDER refers to individuals recruited for specific tasks based upon specific abilities. And though they might be builders, they could also be mercenaries armed by Obama to “control” an unruly populace.

Also, emergency preparedness mandates of Obama’s Executive Order will be carried out according to title VI of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief Act. Managed for years by FEMA, the Act is known for its creation of “temporary housing” facilities for displaced persons also known as FEMA camps.

As the American people consider what Obama has done, it is also necessary to ask why. Does he know or expect something the American public does not? And how will the enslavement of 300 million Americans make the United States better prepared for the requirements of “national defense?” Sleep well, America.

Spying on United Nations leaders by United States diplomats

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Spying on United Nations leaders by United States diplomats refers to a 2009 confidential directive from the United States Department of State instructing US diplomats to spy on top officials of the United Nations. The intelligence information to be gathered included biometric information and passwords and other authentication keys used in official communications. The directives were revealed as part of the United States diplomatic cables leak in late 2010. While spying by the US on the UN was not new, the directive's aggressive goals for information gathering and desire for use of regular diplomats in the gathering was, and caused a strain in relations between the US and UN.

Contents

• 1 The directive
• 2 Breach of international laws
• 3 International reactions
• 4 See also
• 5 References
• 6 External links

The directive

In July 2009, a confidential cable^[1] originating from the United States Department of State, and under US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's name, ordered US diplomats to spy on Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations, and other top UN officials.^[2] The intelligence information the diplomats were ordered to gather included biometric information (which apparently included DNA, fingerprints, and iris scans), passwords, and personal encryption keys used in private and commercial networks for official communications.^[2][3] It also included Internet and intranet usernames, e-mail addresses, web site URLs useful for identification, credit card numbers, frequent flier account numbers, and work schedules.^[2][4][5] The targeted human intelligence was requested in a process known as the National Humint Collection Directive, and was aimed at foreign diplomats of US allies as well.^[5]
The news of the cable and directive was revealed by website WikiLeaks on 28 November 2010, as part of the overall United States diplomatic cables leak.
The disclosed cables on the more aggressive intelligence gathering went back to 2008 when they went out under Condoleezza Rice's name during her tenure as Secretary of State.^[5]
US State Department spokesman Philip J. Crowley stated that Clinton had not drafted the directive and that the Secretary of State's name is systematically attached to the bottom of cables originating from Washington.^[6] In fact, further leaked material revealed that the guidance in the cables was actually written by the Central Intelligence Agency before being sent out under Clinton's name, as the CIA cannot directly instruct State Department personnel.^[3][7] Specifically, the effort came from the National Clandestine Service, a CIA service formed in the years following the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks with the goal of better coordinating human intelligence activities.^[3] According to former US officials, the instructions given in these cables may have been largely ignored by American diplomats as ill-advised.^[7]

Breach of international laws

The UN had previously declared that spying on the secretary-general was illegal, as a breach of the 1946 UN convention.^[2] Peter Kemp, Solicitor of the Supreme Court of New South Wales, and international-law professor Ben Saul, publicly asked Julia Gillard, Prime Minister of Australia, to complain "to the U.S. about both Secretaries of State Condoleezza Rice and Hillary Clinton being in major breach of International law ie UN Covenants, by making orders to spy on UN personnel, including the Secretary General, to include theft of their credit card details and communication passwords. Perhaps the Attorney General should investigate this clear prima facie evidence of crime (likely against Australian diplomats as well), rather than he attempts to prosecute the messenger of those crimes."^[8][9]
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange claimed that not only Secretary Clinton, but "the whole chain of command who was aware of this order, and approved it, must resign if the U.S. is to be seen to be a credible nation that obeys the rule of law."^[10] When asked whether US President Barack Obama was also responsible for the order and should resign, Assange added that "the order is so serious it may well have been put to the president for approval", and that "Obama must answer what he knew about this illegal order and when. If he refuses to answer or there is evidence he approved of these actions, he must resign." ^[10] President of Venezuela Hugo Chávez also said that Clinton should resign.^[11]

International reactions

The practice of the US and the State Department gathering intelligence on the UN was not new.^[12] Former UN diplomats commented that UN officials already work under the assumption that they are spied on and are used to getting around it, but the surprise in this case was that it was done by other diplomats rather than intelligence agencies.^[13] The Guardian wrote that the directive "appears to blur the line between diplomacy and spying".^[2] Another surprise was the specific types of information being asked for, including the biometric information and credit card and frequent flyer numbers, which went beyond past practice and was not the kind of information diplomats would normally be expected to gather.^{[citation needed] [3][5][7][13][14]}
Responding to the call from Assange for Clinton's possible resignation, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said, "I think that is absurd and ridiculous. I think Secretary of State Clinton is doing a wonderful job."^[15][16]

At this early December 2010 summit in Kazakhstan, US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton (center left) expressed her regrets to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon (far left) for the leaked disclosures regarding US diplomats spying on the UN.

Staff at the UN privately expressed unhappiness at the apparent scale of the intelligence-gathering operation,^[13] and the UN sought an official explanation from the US.^[14] On 1 December, Clinton and Ban met at a summit of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe in Astana, Kazakhstan,^[17] where Clinton was doing damage control with world leaders regarding the embarrassing contents of the State Department cables overall.^[18] In an attempt to repair the strain for the Humint relevations, Clinton expressed regret for the disclosures, but did not make an apology per se.^[13][17] A UN statement relayed that Ban thanked Clinton "for clarifying the matter and for expressing her concern about the difficulties created."^[13]
Germany Ministry of the Interior Thomas de Maizière said he was "astounded" by the order, though he expressed regret that Wikileaks activity was being focused on "transparent and open Western democracies" instead of "the world's dictatorships and oppressive regimes" and thus lacked "genuine informative purpose".^[19] Former US official Carl Ford called the order "unprecedented", although "other U.S. diplomats said such headquarters directives were a longtime and routine practice", albeit one which was "not always fully obeyed." ^[19]
The Guardian quoted Carne Ross, "a former British diplomat at the UN who now runs the Independent Diplomat advisory group", as saying that "The fact that the US is spying on the UN can't be a surprise. Lots of countries do it, including our own." ^[14] Christopher Meyer, a former British ambassador to the United States, said that it would be a "serious misinterpretation" to conclude that the cables were asking diplomats to spy, adding that "In reality this is the usual vast bureaucratic laundry list dumped by the US intelligence establishment on diplomats around the world asking them to do a number of things".^[14]

See also

• Dropmire

References

1. Jump up ^ (S) Reporting and collection needs: the United Nations. WikiLeaks. 2009-07-31. WikiLeaks cable:09STATE80163. Archived from the original on 2011-01-01. Retrieved 2011-01-01.
2. ^ Jump up to: ^{a b c d e} Booth, Robert; Borger, Julian (28 November 2010). "US Diplomats Spied on UN Leadership". The Guardian. Retrieved 3 December 2010.
3. ^ Jump up to: ^{a b c d} MacAskill, Ewen; Booth, Robert (2 December 2010). "WikiLeaks cables: CIA drew up UN spying wishlist for diplomats". The Guardian. Retrieved 13 December 2010.
4. Jump up ^ "Cables show US sought personal info of foreign diplomats at UN". The Times of India. Press Trust of India. 29 November 2010. Retrieved 30 November 2010.
5. ^ Jump up to: ^{a b c d} Mazzetti, Mark (28 November 2010). "U.S. Expands Role of Diplomats in Spying". The New York Times. Retrieved 13 December 2010.
6. Jump up ^ Tandon, Shaun (2 December 2010). "Arrest Warrant for WikiLeaks Chief as Chaos Spreads". The China Post. Agence France-Presse. Retrieved 10 December 2010.
7. ^ Jump up to: ^{a b c} "Diplomats ignored spying requests, former officials say". Los Angeles Times. 2 December 2010. Retrieved 13 December 2010.
8. Jump up ^ "2010-12-04: NSW Supreme Court Solicitor Peter Kemp: Letter to Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard". WL Central. 4 December 2010. Retrieved 10 December 2010.
9. Jump up ^ Saul, Ben (2 December 2010). "Don't Cry over WikiLeaks". The Age. Retrieved 10 December 2010.
10. ^ Jump up to: ^{a b} Elola, Joseba (5 December 2010). "Julian Assange: "Geopolitics Will Be Separated into Pre and Post 'Cablegate"". El País. Retrieved 6 December 2010.
11. Jump up ^ Cancel, Daniel; Orozco, José (29 November 2010). "Chavez Praises Wikileaks Cables, Calls on Clinton to Resign". Business Week. Retrieved 13 December 2010.
12. Jump up ^ Ambinder, Marc (30 November 2010). "What Hillary Clinton Didn't Do". National Journal. Retrieved 13 December 2010.
13. ^ Jump up to: ^{a b c d e} MacAskill, Ewen; Booth, Robert; Borger, Julian (2 December 2010). "WikiLeaks Cables: Hillary Clinton Meets Ban Ki-Moon after Spying Revelations". The Guardian (London). Retrieved 6 December 2010.
14. ^ Jump up to: ^{a b c d} Booth, Robert; MacAskill, Ewen (29 November 2010). "US Embassy Cables: UN Seeks Answers from Washington". The Guardian. Retrieved 10 December 2010.
15. Jump up ^ Bacon, Jr., Perry (1 December 2010). "Gibbs defends Clinton amid WikiLeaks criticism". The Washington Post. Retrieved 13 December 2010.
16. Jump up ^ Jha, Lalit K (2 December 2010). "White House dismisses Clinton's resignation call". MSN India. Retrieved 13 December 2010.
17. ^ Jump up to: ^{a b} Norington, Brad (4 December 2010). "Hillary Clinton 'regrets' spying on Ban Ki-moon". The Australian. Retrieved 13 December 2010.
18. Jump up ^ Dougherty, Jill; Labott, Elise (16 December 2010). "WikiLeaks stirs anarchy online". The Sweep (CNN). Retrieved 25 December 2010.
19. ^ Jump up to: ^{a b} Stein, Jeff (21 December 2010). "WikiLeaks 'no threat,' top German official says". The Washington Post. Retrieved 22 December 2010.

External links

• The original cable at WikiLeaks. Archived on 24 April 2012.
• The cable at the Internet Archive
• "US embassy cables: Washington calls for intelligence on top UN officials". 28 November 2010. Archived from the original on 24 April 2012. Retrieved 22 April 2012.

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