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Plot to Kill Obama: Shoot From High Vantage Point —Sources say Shawn Robert Adolph was wearing a swastika, and is thought to have ties to white supremacist organizations. 25 Aug 2008
CBS4 has learned at least four people are under arrest in connection with a possible plot to kill Barack Obama at his Thursday night acceptance speech in Denver. All are being held on either drug or weapons charges. CBS4 Investigator Brian Maass reported one of the suspects told authorities they were “going to shoot Obama from a high vantage point using a … rifle … sighted at 750 yards.” Law enforcement sources tell Maass that one of the suspects “was directly asked if they had come to Denver to kill Obama. He responded in the affirmative.” The Secret Service, FBI, ATF and the joint terrorism task force are all investigating the alleged plot. The U.S. Attorneys Office has scheduled a news conference for Tuesday afternoon.
cbs4denver.com/investigates/assisination.plot.obama.2.802827.html

Breaking: Police investigate possible plot to kill Obama 25 Aug 2008
Law enforcement authorities have arrested two men, and several law enforcement sources say the investigation is looking into whether the men intended to harm presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama. According to multiple sources, Aurora police made a routine traffic stop Sunday morning at 2:38 a.m. The Secret Service says two rifles were found in the car along with methamphetamine. Another law enforcement source says he was told at least one of the rifles was a “sniper rifle.” A second source told CBS4 authorities told officers they are concerned they may have come upon a possible “assassination plot.”
www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2008/aug/25/
police-investigate-possible-plot-kill-obama/

MSRNC Pushing PUMAs to Help the GOP By Lori Price 25 Aug 2008
In a mouth-draping irony, world’s biggest Hillary Clinton hater and misogynist, Chris Matthews, has set his MSNBC political roundtable in the middle of the PUMA (Party Unity My Ass) demonstration in Denver, so that the world would witness media-inflated strife during the Democrats’ ‘finest hour.’ Whether you agree with the PUMA point of view or not, one must realize the hypocrisy of MSNBC (MSRNC, as SoCalDem observed) in exploiting the discord, which even its own pundits — NBC News Political Director, Chuck Todd, and writer Mike Barnacle — decried on air during Monday’s ‘Hardball.’
www.legitgov.org/price_msrnc_helping_gop_250808.html

Protesters: We’re being treated like prisoners 25 Aug 2008
A small group of protesters has marched to the demonstration zone outside the Democratic National Convention, complaining they are being treated like political prisoners. Protesters derisively call the 47,000-square foot zone the “Freedom Cage.” It’s separated from the parking lot around the convention hall by metal fences atop concrete barriers.
ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hksHDv1i55R
2qYI6dkmMm10uxZ0AD92PEFBG0

Protests Grow at Denver Convention Center 25 Aug 2008
Protests are in full swing in front of the Colorado Convention Center in downtown Denver, and a specific group of four are the spotlight as cops have lined them up on the curb for questioning.
blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2008/08/25/protests-grow
-at-denver-convention-center/?mod=googlenews_wsj

“F*ck Fox News! F*ck Fox News!” Posted by NewsYouNeedNow 24 Aug 2008
Faux News’ Griff Jenkens reports from protest in Denver. (Video)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoDsQ2VNArI

Protesters confront Fox News reporter 24 Aug 2008
Security at an anti-war rally outside the state Capitol this morning allegedly had to break up a confrontation between a Fox News reporter and Ward Churchill, a former University of Colorado professor. Churchill was thrust into the national spotlight after writing a controversial essay on the 9/11 terror attacks. He was hounded by the persistent reporter, who allegedly put his hands on Churchill, organizer Glenn Spagnuolo said. The reporter, Griff Jenkins, could not be immediately reached for comment.
www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2008/aug/24/security-
breaks-confrontation-between-fox-news-and/

Man Sues Obama Because He Didn’t Get Text Message By R J Shulman 25 Aug 2008
Manley Scott, a 39-year-old out of work bricklayer has filed suit against Barack Obama because he didn’t get a text message announcing Joe Biden as the Illinois Senator’s running mate… “Textgate is a classic example of why Obama is not fit to be commander in chief,” said John McCain from one of his many houses, “when we should be bombing Iran, he would be fiddling with one of those new fangled cell phones, trying to order some arugula…” Nancy Pelosi said she is very upset Mr. Scott did not get his message and she said that impeachment may be back on the table, as long as it is impeachment of a fellow Democrat. (Satire)
www.legitgov.org/shulman_obama_text_250808.html

‘It’s a matter of how much and how fast.’ U.S. Expects to Rebuild Georgian Army 22 Aug 2008
The United States expects to help Georgia rebuild its military, a top U.S. general said Thursday. “One would assume … we would have to help them rebuild because they are a partner in the war on [of] terror, they’ve been helpful. They are going to ask us, I am sure, to replace and rebuild,” General John Craddock, who is in charge of the U.S. European Command, told reporters during a trip to Georgia. Craddock said he would assess Georgia’s needs during his visit, due to end Friday, and report back to the Pentagon.
www.moscowtimes.ru/articles/detail.php?ID=370267

Russia threatens sale of offensive weapons to Israel’s enemies 20 Aug 2008
Russian security officials threatened retaliation against Israel for its weapons exports to Georgia including eight different aerial drones. Russian Deputy Chief of Staff Col. Gen. Anatoly Nogovitsyn said Israel supplied at least eight different models of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to Georgia. Nogovitsyn said Israel has also sold a range of weapons and sought to export main battle tanks to Georgia.
www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/WT
ARC/2008/eu_russia0447_08_20.asp

Iraq insists on troop time frame 26 Aug 2008
Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Al-Maliki dug in his heels yesterday on the future of US military in Iraq, insisting that all foreign soldiers leave the country by a specific date in 2011 and rejecting legal immunity for American troops [Awesome!]. Al-Maliki’s aides insisted that a compromise could be found on the two main stumbling blocks to an accord, which would govern the US military presence in Iraq after the UN mandate expires at the end of the year.
www.arabnews.com/?page=4&section=
0&article=113373&d=26&m=8&y=2008

Maliki demands ‘specifc deadline’ for U.S. troop pullout 25 Aug 2008
Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki said Monday there would be no security agreement between the United States and Iraq without an unconditional timetable for withdrawal — a direct challenge to the Bush administration, which insists that the timing for troop departure would be based on conditions on the ground. “No pact or an agreement should be set without being based on full sovereignty, national common interests, and no foreign soldier should remain on Iraqi land, and there should be a specific deadline and it should not be open,” Maliki told a meeting of tribal Sheikhs in Baghdad.
www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/story/50633.html

Obama calls for stepping up pressure on Iran 26 Aug 2008
U.S. Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama called on Monday for enhancing diplomatic pressures on Iran before Israel feels “cornered.” He was responding to a reporter’s question whether Israel will bomb Iran’s nuclear sites some time in the year during a campaign stop in Iowa.
news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-08/26/content_9710056.htm

Afghan Govt demands new rules of engagement 26 Aug 2008
Afghanistan is demanding a renegotiation of the rules for international troops in the country after 90 people were killed in US-led attacks on Friday. The Afghan Cabinet wants to review the “limits of authority and responsibilities” of international troops after 90 people, including 50 children, were killed in the air strikes in Herat. A Government statement says air strikes on civilian targets, unilateral searches of homes, and illegal detentions of Afghan civilians must be stopped.
www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/08/26/2346361.htm

US investigating civilian deaths in Afghanistan 25 Aug 2008
The United States says it shares Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s concerns about civilian casualties caused during fighting in that country and that an ‘investigation’ is under way. Karzai has fired two Afghan army officers following a joint Afghan-U.S.-led operation that he says killed at least 89 civilians.
ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hAR057
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U.S. CENTCOM Conducts Fla. Training for ‘Continuity of Operations’ 22 Aug 2008
The United States Central Command has deployed approximately 200 personnel from Tampa to Central Command Forward Headquarters in the Middle East to conduct training on the Continuity of Operations Plan (COOP). The training includes the emergency deployment of the USCENTCOM headquarters in Tampa to an alternate location forward in the CENTCOM area of responsibility (AOR). The alternate command post will provide the Commander of US Central Command the ability to maintain situational awareness and command and control of contingency operations throughout the USCENTCOM AOR as well as Headquarters, USCENTCOM during a natural [Bush engendered] disaster.
www.centcom.mil/en/press-releases/u.s.-
central-command-conducts-training-2.html

Pakistan warns of world insurgency 25 Aug 2008
In Pakistan, Asif Ali Zardari, who has been nominated by his party to be the country’s next president, has said the Taliban now have an upper hand in Pakistan. Mr Zardari, speaking to the BBC, said the Taliban should be immediately put on the country’s list of banned organisations.
feeds.bignewsnetwork.com/index.php?sid=398697

Downturn could ‘drag on for some time’, warns Bank deputy governor —Charles Bean tells US meeting of central bankers financial climate is as bad as the 1970s 25 Aug 2008
The current global economic downturn could “drag on for some considerable time”, the Bank of England’s new deputy governor warned today. Charles Bean said the financial climate appeared to be as bad as the 1970s and admitted senior analysts had “their fingers crossed”.
www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/aug/25/creditcrunch.oil

FBI saw threat of mortgage crisis —A top official warned of widening loan fraud in 2004, but the agency focused its resources elsewhere. 25 Aug 2008
Long before the mortgage crisis began rocking Main Street and Wall Street, a top FBI official made a chilling, if little-noticed, prediction: The booming mortgage business, fueled by low interest rates and soaring home values, was starting to attract shady operators and billions in losses were possible. “It has the potential to be an epidemic,” Chris Swecker, the FBI official in charge of criminal investigations, told reporters in September 2004. But, he added reassuringly, the FBI was on the case. Today, the damage from the [GOP-created] global mortgage meltdown has more than matched that of the [GOP-created] savings-and-loan bailouts of the 1980s and early 1990s. By some estimates, it has made that costly debacle look like chump change. But it’s also clear that the FBI failed to avert a problem it had accurately forecast.
www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-mort
gagefraud25-2008aug25,1,4792318.story

Alleged ‘Cop Rage’ Witness Plans to Sue City 23 Aug 2008
A man says two off-duty New York City police officers attacked him when he tried to help a driver they were battering over a traffic dispute. Cyle Perry-Osby filed a notice of claim Friday — the first step toward suing the city. The officers are accused of attacking a motorist whose open car door was blocking traffic in the Bronx Aug. 15. They have pleaded not guilty to gang assault and have been stripped of their guns and badges. Perry-Osby says he witnessed the attack, went to help the victim and was assaulted by the officers. His lawyer says Perry-Osby was sprayed with mace, hit in the head and hospitalized.
www.1010wins.com/Alleged—Cop-Rage
—Witness-Plans-to-Sue-City/2836743

Biden Camp Pressed Hard For a Slot on the Ticket 25 Aug 2008
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama’s selection of Sen. Joe Biden to be his running mate reached a pivotal point in a secret meeting on the night of Aug. 6. Sen. Biden was whisked into a Minneapolis hotel room through a back entrance before Sen. Obama left for his Hawaii vacation. They talked one-on-one for 90 minutes. The rendezvous capped weeks of pitching by Biden advisers.
online.wsj.com/article/SB12196220701
2167649.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

Accentuate the Negative By Paul Krugman 24 Aug 2008
The central fact of this year’s election is that voters are fed up with Republican rule. The only way Mr. McCain can win the presidential race is if it becomes a contest of personalities rather than parties — and if his campaign can instill in voters the perception that Mr. Obama is a suspicious character while Mr. McCain is a fine, upstanding gentleman. The Obama campaign, on the other hand, doesn’t need to convince voters either that he’s the awesomest candidate ever or that Mr. McCain is a villain. All it has to do is tarnish Mr. McCain’s image enough so that voters see this as a race between a Democrat and a Republican.
www.nytimes.com/2008/08/25/opinion/25krugman.html

Nuclear waste containers likely to fail, warns ‘devastating’ report —Environment Agency reveals thousands of holders do not meet basic specifications for storage and disposal 24 Aug 2008
Thousands of containers of lethal nuclear waste are likely to fail before being safely sealed away underground, a devastating official report concludes. The unpublicised report is by the Environment Agency, which has to approve any proposals for getting rid of the waste that remains deadly for tens of thousands of years. The document effectively destroys Britain’s already shaky disposal plans just as ministers are preparing an expansion of nuclear power.
www.independent.co.uk/environment/green-living/nuclear-
waste-containers-likely-to-fail-warns-devastating-report-907200.html

Homeland Security waives protection laws for border fence —Environmentalists have uphill battle 24 Aug 2008
Environmentalists are still smarting over the Homeland Security secretary’s use of his authority to waive 37 environmental laws to expedite construction of the [Texas] border fence. Efforts failed to challenge the constitutionality of the waivers in the U.S. Supreme Court. Allen D. McReynolds, who was a member of President Clinton’s team of environmental advisers, called the waiver and the subsequent rule change “tragic.” “This means any time there is a new federal construction project, well, NEPA (the National Environmental Policy Act) will be waived and there’ll be no environmental review,” he said.
www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/headline/metro/5963966.html

Polar bears’ long swims blamed on global warming —Satellite images show little ice in region 23 Aug 2008
Nine polar bears found swimming 20 to 100 kilometres off the northwest coast of Alaska last week represent another sign that the rapid retreat of ice in the Arctic is forcing bears to make dangerous, long-distance swims to get to land or ice, scientists and environmentalists say.
www.canada.com/calgaryherald/news/story.html?id=
56296daf-ad8b-4c7a-abe8-5ecafe349e22

Agrobacterium & Morgellons Disease, A GM Connection? By Dr. Mae-Wan Ho and Prof. Joe Cummins 20 Aug 2008
Preliminary findings suggest a link between Morgellons Disease and Agrobacterium, a soil bacterium extensively manipulated and used in making GM crops; has genetic engineering created a new epidemic? The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in the United States announced the launch of an investigation on ‘Morgellons Disease’ in January 2008… CDC’s investigation is to be carried out in conjunction with Kaiser Permanente’s Northern California Division of Research and the US Armed Forces Institute of Pathology. [LOL! I’m sure we’ll get *lots* of answers with pharma-terrorists/US Armed Forces ‘investigating.’]
www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=9891

Gardasil Meets Measles: A Coincidence? By Barbara Loe Fisher 25 Aug 2008
The bad news about GARDASIL [Gardakill] vaccine keeps getting worse and it was only a matter of time before government health officials promoted an “epidemic” to deflect attention from GARDASIL risks and create an excuse to point accusing fingers at parents who decline to give their children one or more of the 16 federally promoted vaccines. They did the same thing in 1985, when publicity about DPT vaccine reactions prompted officials at the CDC and American Academy of Pediatrics to allege there were whooping cough epidemics in eight states due to parents rejecting DPT.
vaccineawakening.blogspot.com/2008/08/
gardasil-meets-measles-coincidence.html

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