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Obama diverts CIA to spy on ... polar bears!

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Terrorist-watching satellites used to keep an eye on climate change By Jerome Corsi Posted: January 10, 2010 ~ 6:54 pm Eastern © 2010 WorldNetDaily Despite terrorist attacks against the United States recurring with the Fort Hood shooting and the December underwear bomber, President Obama has tasked the Central Intelligence Agency with investigating global warming. Obama has resurrected a program formerly cancelled by President Bush that shares information from the CIA's spy satellites and other classified sensors with environmental scientists. The program, called Measurements of Earth Data for Environmental Analysis, or MEDEA, has already been used by a group of government-chosen scientists to measure Arctic sea ice. Norbert Untersteiner, a University of Washington professor among the chosen scientists, told the New York Times the images are "really useful," since climate change specialists "have no way to send out 500 people" across the polar caps to take similar measurements. The program is not without its detractors, however, including Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., who called the creation of the CIA Center on Climate Change and National Security "irresponsible." "In times of peace and prosperity, this center would completely defy common sense," Barrasso said in a statement last week. "But today, only two weeks after a terrorist attempted to blow up a plane over our country, this center is absolutely ridiculous. The CIA's resources should be focused on monitoring terrorists in caves – not polar bears on icebergs." Barrasso concluded, "We must ensure that our intelligence officials are focused on their most important task – protecting our country from immediate terror threats." Federal officials reportedly told the Times the program has little or no impact on current intelligence gathering, since it relies on information already archived or collected when sensors are passing over empty wilderness. Nonetheless, the images provided to scientists have been intentionally blurred or cloaked to prevent revealing the full capabilities of the CIA's spy satellites. 'Geo-engineering' for climate control In addition to opening up CIA resources, and despite Democrats in the Senate backing away from supporting Obama efforts to pass cap-and-trade legislation, the administration has maintained a commitment to expensive and even radical efforts to "save the planet" from global climate change. As WND reported, White House science czar John Holdren favors "geo-engineering" in order to manipulate the climate. READ FULL STORY >

Terrorism and health care: Connecting the dots ~ By Star Parker

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By Star Parker Posted: January 09, 2010 ~ 1:00 am Eastern © 2010 As President Obama announced his analysis of how the Christmas Day near miss terrorist attack occurred, Democratic Senate and House leaders conferred in secret to produce a health-care reform bill. Despite extensive information on the would-be terrorist, each piece of which was incriminating on its own, the man evaded a vast government bureaucracy and almost blew up a plane filled with Americans. Yet, Democrats, with the health-care bill they are now piecing together behind closed doors, will bring all American lives and health care under the purview and control of government bureaucracy. Talk about an inability to connect the dots. The initial assessments of the terrorist incident that both the president and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano shared with the nation were wrong. The president called the man an "isolated extremist." Napolitano said the "system worked" and expressed doubt that the man had al-Qaida connections. But the president and Napolitano did get something right. They identified what did work. What saved the lives of innocent Americans were private citizens, using their own brains and initiative, who acted to bring this terrorist down. The president said that this near disaster was "not the fault of a single individual or organization, but rather a systematic failure across organizations and agencies." So no heads will roll. READ FULL STORY >

CIA bomber wanted body used as 'fertilizer' for jihadists

Proof we are still in a war, from WorldNetDaily

'Oh God, I beseech Thee that I would massacre Your enemies' By Bob Unruh Posted: January 08, 2010 ~ 1:00 am Eastern © 2010 WorldNetDaily A jihadi website posted a posthumous statement from the attacker who blew up himself and seven CIA employees in Afghanistan in which the man frets about not being a "martyr" and having to face judgment for his sins. "I'm afraid of shameful exposure in the courts of the day of resurrection if I'm not killed by the weapon of my enemy. I'm afraid to be branded as a liar, and that my words will be the evidence for my conviction. Whenever I hear of someone who died I die, and with every illness about which I hear – I become ill," said the statement from Abu Dajana Al-Khorasani. The statement was captured from the jihadi forum site by the Middle East Media Research Institute, which has included it in a report on its subscription Jihad & Terrorism Threat Monitor report. The article, "When Will My Words Drink My Blood? – I Am Now Fit For Publication," apparently was written shortly before the bomber took on his suicide mission. It is attributed to Al-Khorasani, a pen name used by Hammam Khalil al-Balawi to post jihad writings. READ FULL STORY >

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How offended are you? ~ By Barbara Simpson

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By Barbara Simpson Posted: January 04, 2010 ~ 1:00 am Eastern © 2010 I've had it. I'm offended and want my government to know it. I'm tired of being treated like a criminal. You can put me on the "being offended" bandwagon. Why not? It happens all the time and seems to work. If a person is ticked off by something, doesn't like something, disagrees with something or just doesn't like the look of something, all they have to say is they're "offended!" I don't want to undress in airports. I don't want to walk in stocking feet on dirty floors where thousands of feet have walked. I don't want strangers patting and touching my body. I don't want my personal items pawed through. I don't want to be exposed to machines that invade my privacy and could have health consequences! I'm tired of being treated like a criminal by my own government in my own country. I'm offended! It's the magic word to get action from weak-kneed bureaucrats and politicians and generally anyone "in charge" of some aspect of government, institutions, businesses, schools, churches, social organizations and unfortunately, even the military. Their knee-jerk reaction to any claim of alleged offense is institutional collapse. It's the result of pervasive political correctness, multi-culturalism, diversity and, quite frankly, blatant gutlessness by anyone with a title. The legitimacy of the complaint doesn't matter and, generally, no one cares. Just say it and that "something" has to stop, be changed, be derided, ridiculed or just ignored. My message to Washington is that I'm offended because every time I travel by air, you and all your transportation security people treat me like a terrorist. I am not a terrorist, never have been, never will be. There's no evidence linking me to any such activities, and I have no record of any such inclinations. There is no question of my loyalty to my country and our Constitution. I do not fit any terrorist profile. Oops. That's the problem! You and the TSA are too politically correct (read that "chicken") to profile passengers in your legitimate concern about terrorism on airliners. As a result, you treat everyone like a terrorist. READ FULL STORY >

Get ready for 2010 election bloodbath ~ By Craig R. Smith

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"By 2012 America will have looked back at the election of 2008 and will wish Sarah Palin had been at the helm. She has more experience in leadership in her bra strap than Obama in his entire empty suit."

By Craig R. Smith Posted: January 04, 2010 ~ 1:00 am Eastern © 2010 I keep asking myself the same haunting question: How on earth did this community organizer ever become president of the greatest country in the world? Am I the only one who feels this way? Just one look at the last couple of weeks reveals the total incompetence of this president and his administration. Nobody is on the same page. Larry Summers say the economy is growing. Christina Romer says it is not. Janet Napolitano claims the TSA/Intel system worked flawlessly, then says it failed completely. Heck of a job, Nappy! What we need in the Oval Office is a leader, and we are getting everything but. Even his ardent supporters are turning against Mr. Obama. They are waking up to the sobering reality that they were duped. How can we have a terrorist act on an American airliner and it be 48 hours before we hear a word from the White House – and when the word comes it is through Napolitano and Robert Gibbs? It took our president 72 hours to make a brief statement before heading off to play a round of golf. It makes you appreciate George Bush taking eight minutes before leaving the classroom on Sept. 11. This may just be a perfect example of how "manmade disasters" are handled by this clueless administration. Terrorist acts are viewed like a robbery at your local minimart, or a simple criminal issue Eric Holder will address from his leftist Justice Department. Now the underwear bomber is lawyered up and not providing intel on the other 24 terrorists who trained with him to execute the same act. That is how the Obama administration rolls. What this terrorist should have gotten was a one-way ticket to Gitmo and an appointment for an H2O facial on a flat board until we learned where the others live and their future plans of attack. But no, this administration would never dream of such lifesaving measures. It is to focused on getting the world to love us. It wants to restore our "image" in the world – you know, the one of weakness Bill Clinton brought us by refusing to respond to the terrorist act on the USS Cole, and the one that cost 17 American sailors their lives. Terrorists are terrorists. We don't need to understand them, negotiate with them or appease them. We need to eliminate them. Until our fearless leader understands that, we are all in danger. But this president won't even call them terrorists. He won't even acknowledge an act of terrorism when it occurs. READ FULL STORY >

Eyewitnesses: 2 arrested in Christmas flight terror

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'How stupid do you think the American public is?' By Chelsea Schilling Posted: December 31, 2009 ~ 11:20 pm Eastern © 2010 WorldNetDaily Several passengers aboard the Christmas Day flight to Detroit where a Nigerian man attempted to blow up the airplane say a second passenger was arrested after the foiled terrorist attack – and they suggested other men may have played roles as well. Kurt Haskell of Newport, Mich., and his wife, Lori, claim they were aboard Flight 253 as they returned from a safari in Uganda, seated only a few rows behind suspected attacker Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, a man who admitted to affiliation with the terrorist group al-Qaida. Haskell presented a boarding pass to Michigan Live to show that he had been a passenger on the plane. Kurt and Lori Haskell, both U.S. attorneys with Haskell Law Firm in Taylor, Mich., told the newspaper that prior to the flight they were seated on the floor near the boarding gate in Amsterdam when Abdulmutallab approached the gate with another "Indian man" who was dressed in an expensive suit. Kurt Haskell told Michigan Live the unidentified man in the suit approached ticket agents and asked them if Abdulmutallab could board without a passport, and he tried to convince them Abdulmutallab was a Sudanese refugee. "The guy said, 'He's from Sudan and we do this all the time,'" Haskell told the newspaper. But Dutch security officials claim Abdulmutallab was carrying a valid Nigerian passport and U.S. visa, according to CBS News. Charlie Keepman of Oconomowoc, Wis., told the Detroit News that his daughter, Ricki, saw yet another man videotaping the flight from Amsterdam to Detroit, including the episode when Abdulmutallab purportedly attempted to set off explosive chemicals in his underwear. Following the foiled terrorist attack, Haskell said passengers were corralled into a small, evacuated luggage claim area of an airport terminal. Then, he says, bomb-sniffing dogs were brought in. "During this time period, all of the passengers had their carry-on bags with them," he wrote in a posting on MLive.com. "When the bomb sniffing dogs arrived, one dog found something in a carry-on bag of a 30-ish Indian man." Haskell explained that the second "Indian" man was not the same well-dressed person who assisted Abdulmutallab in boarding the flight. He said this man wore orange clothing. "The man in orange, who stood some 20ft away from me the entire time until he was taken away, was immediately taken away to be searched and interrogated in a nearby room," Haskell explained. "At this time, he was not handcuffed. When he emerged from the room, he was then handcuffed and taken away." Immediately after the questioning, Haskell said an FBI agent approached the remaining passengers and, referring to the man in orange, said, "You all are being moved to another area because this area is not safe. I am sure many of you saw what just happened and are smart enough to read between the lines and figure it out." READ FULL STORY >

Do you feel safe now? ~ By Joseph Farah

Commentary from WorldNetDaily

Excerpt: "And to every American reading this column, know that your personal security is up to you. The government is not watching out for you." By Joseph Farah Posted: December 28, 2009 ~ 1:00 am Eastern © 2009 If you have traveled by airline lately – domestically or internationally – you know the meaning of the word "hassle." Ordinary people who pose no possible threat to life and limb are forced to take off their shoes, their belts, walk through metal detectors, get their bags X-rayed and stand on long security lines. Meanwhile, as we saw last weekend, a man with "significant terrorist connections" boards a plan in Nigeria with the components of a bomb and nearly succeeds in detonating it as it approached Detroit. In other words, all the best efforts of government's politically correct, non-profiling of airline passengers proves worthless once again. In fact, if it hadn't been for the alert passengers on Flight 253, all 278 of them might have perished in the latest act of Islamic terrorism. Passengers, not crew members, jumped over one another to subdue the fiend. There was not a TSA agent or a sky marshal in sight. The government's response to the latest incident is to increase its meaningless security charade in which all passengers – elderly grandmas and newborns – are scrutinized with the same level of enthusiasm as those with "significant terrorism connections." Maybe you're asking yourself why someone with "significant terrorism connections" is permitted on a commercial airliner headed for the U.S. What is the purpose of the "no-fly list" if not to keep those with "significant terrorism connections" from getting on board? Don't expect to get an answer to that question. Just expect your own personal airline hassles to increase. READ FULL STORY >