We Are Change Idaho will host the first annual "Freedom Fest" on 9/11/2010 to honor the first responders from 9/11. Please join us at Ann Morrison Park at the "Old Timers Shelter" from 5-9 pm. The Old Timers shelter is located off of Royal Blvd. We will have music, a potluck, speakers and free information and dvds on topics such as the plight of the 9/11 first responders, vaccines, fluoride, Oath Keepers and our monetary system. All donations raised will go to the Fealgood Foundation, a fabulous organization that has been working tirelessly over the past 9 years to assist sick and dying 9/11 first responders. As of today there are over 52,000 first responders who are affected by the toxic elements they were exposed to at Ground Zero. These heroes were there for America in our country's time of need, now it's time to let them know we haven't forgotten them. Please join us and invite all you know, let's show these heroes that Idaho will NEVER FORGET! You can read more about the Fealgood Foundation at their website: www.fealgoodfoundation.com.
After the first World Trade Center tower is hit, Barry Jennings, a City Housing Authority worker, and Michael Hess, New York’s corporation counsel, head up to the emergency command center of the Mayor’s Office of Emergency Management (OEM), which is on the 23rd floor of WTC 7. Testimony from Barry Jennings and Michael Hess has rarely been confirmed, until now. This video was just released via a FOIA (freedom of information act request) and New World Order Report has obtained and released it on the internet.
Take a look for yourself. Michael Hess, clearly visible, is stuck in the building. This corroborates the story they told that on the way down trying to evacuate the building, an explosion occurred inside of the building which trapped them. The stairway, where the explosion occurred, blew out the last floors in the stairwell. Barry Jennings gave an exclusive interview with Loose Change creator Dylan Avery where Barry stated that when he was finally found by firefighters, they stepped over dead bodies in the lobby on their way out. After the video publicly aired, Barry Jennings mysteriously died just before the BBC aired a piece about World Trade Center Building 7...
WASHINGTON (AFP) – The chief of US intelligence has warned spy agencies against "blabbing secrets" to the media, saying employees should be "seen not heard."
In a blunt memo, James Clapper, the new director of national intelligence, scolded staff members about leaks that appeared in recent news reports, saying it was a "serious matter."
"I am concerned that recent leaks regarding our work have received prominent attention in the media," he said in the memo obtained by AFP.
He did not say to which reports he was referring, but US newspapers have recently quoted unnamed officials about proposed drone CIA operations in Yemen and Afghan officials allegedly on the spy agency's payroll.
Top US officials were also stunned earlier in July by the release of tens of thousands of secret files on the war in Afghanistan, posted on the WikiLeaks website.
There are "established procedures for authorized officers to interact with the media," Clapper wrote.
But for other personnel, passing on classified information without approval "is both a serious matter and a diversion from the critical tasks we face.
"In other words, blabbing secrets to the media is not 'in' as far as I'm concerned."
Clapper recalled that when President Barack Obama nominated him to the intelligence director's position, "I said that people in the intelligence business should be like my grandchildren -- seen but not heard."
The Obama administration has adopted a tough line against leaks, filing charges against those suspected of disclosing classified information.
But news reporting suggests government officials continue to reveal secret details to journalists in an attempt to shape policy and undermine rival agencies.
The memo was the latest sign "that the administration remains vexed by leaks," said Steven Aftergood of the Federation of American Scientists, who writes a blog on government secrecy.
"But the memo itself is just a reminder, and doesn't seem to represent a new policy. The pending prosecutions send a more ominous signal," he told AFP in an email.
Last week, the Justice Department unveiled an indictment against a State Department contractor, Stephen Jin-Woo Kim, for allegedly passing on defense information. Kim has pleaded not guilty.
The case reportedly involves a 2009 intelligence assessment given to Fox News, saying that North Korea was likely to respond to UN sanctions by launching another nuclear test.
US Defense Secretary Robert Gates in July also gave a stern warning to the Pentagon work force over the media, saying those who violated the law would be prosecuted.
The furor over the mosque near Ground Zero may be good for one thing: It's fueling New York legislators' push to pass the 9/11 health bill.
Lawmakers and sources told the Daily News they are starting a push to get balky Republicans on board.
A lobbying campaign will play off the GOP's recent embrace of 9/11 victims in the mosque fight. The measure also will be tweaked to satisfy GOP complaints on how it's paid for.
"The mosque is going to guarantee we pass this bill," a Democratic aide predicted.
If GOPers want to block it, they could add a poison pill to the bill. Just 12 Republicans backed the measure to care and compensate for 9/11 victims when it failed earlier this month under a procedure meant to outmaneuver GOP opponents.
But the mosque fight changes the equation, creating a bind for Republicans who lambaste the Park Place Islamic center plan as an insult to 9/11 families - but who have fought legislation to help ailing heroes.
Government agents can sneak onto your property in the middle of the night, put a GPS device on the bottom of your car and keep track of everywhere you go. This doesn't violate your Fourth Amendment rights, because you do not have any reasonable expectation of privacy in your own driveway - and no reasonable expectation that the government isn't tracking your movements. That is the bizarre - and scary - rule that now applies in California and eight other Western states.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, which covers this vast jurisdiction, recently decided the government can monitor you in this way virtually anytime it wants - with no need for a search warrant. (See a TIME photoessay on Cannabis Culture.) It is a dangerous decision - one that, as the dissenting judges warned, could turn America into the sort of totalitarian state imagined by George Orwell. It is particularly offensive because the judges added insult to injury with some shocking class bias: the little personal privacy that still exists, the court suggested, should belong mainly to the rich. This case began in 2007, when Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agents decided to monitor Juan Pineda-Moreno, an Oregon resident who they suspected was growing marijuana. They snuck onto his property in the middle of the night and found his Jeep in his driveway, a few feet from his trailer home. Then they attached a GPS tracking device to the vehicle's underside.
SANDPOINT -- The Sandpoint City Council has voted to quit adding fluoride to the municipal water system that also serves communities from Kootenai to Dover.
The 4-2 vote last week followed comments by more than a dozen people arguing against fluoridation at the meeting.
Some who spoke out against fluoridation said they were being medicated against their will.
Fluoride is added to drinking water to help reduce tooth decay.
Congress turned thumbs down tonight on a bill to help the heroes and victims of 9/11, raising doubts it will ever pass.
Most Republicans refused to back the measure, calling it a “slush fund,” and saying it was another example of Democratic overreach and an “insatiable” appetite for taxpayers’ money.
The bill would spend $3.2 billion on health care over the next 10 years for people sickened from their exposure to the toxic smoke and debris of the shattered World Trade Center. It would spend another $4.2 billion to compensate victims over that span, and make another $4.2 billion in compensation available for the next 11 years.
“This legislation as written creates a huge $8.4 billion slush fund paid by taxpayers that is open to abuse, fraud and waste,” said Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas), arguing that it would be raided by undeserving scammers with tenuous links to 9/11.
Rep. John Shimkus (R-Ill.) cast it as a money grab for New York because the bill would pay for care at higher rates than Medicare. “What this is is politics,” Shimkus said. “What this is is enfranchising a bunch of New York City hospitals.”
A federal judge has ordered the release of another Yemeni captive at Guantanamo, the 37th time a war on terror captive in southeast Cuba has won his unlawful detention suit against the U.S. government.
Judge Paul Friedman's order in the case of Hussein Almerfedi at the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., instructs the Obama administration to "take all necessary and appropriate steps to facilitate the release of petitioner forthwith.''
His reasoning on why the U.S. had unlawfully detained Almerfedi, 33, held at Guantanamo since May 2003, was still under seal.
But as far back as 2005, Almerfedi had argued before a military panel at the Navy base in southeast Cuba that he fled his native Aden, Yemen, with plans to settle in Europe, not to join a jihad. Instead, he said, his journey took him to Pakistan and then Tehran where Iranian forces turned him over to Afghan forces, who in turn handed over to the United States. [more]
New York (CNN) -- The dollar is an unreliable international currency and should be replaced by a more stable system, the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs said in a report released Tuesday.
The use of the dollar for international trade came under increasing scrutiny when the U.S. economy fell into recession. "The dollar has proved not to be a stable store of value, which is a requisite for a stable reserve currency," the report said.
Many countries, in Asia in particular, have been building up massive dollar reserves. As a result, those countries' currencies have become undervalued, decreasing their ability to import goods from abroad.
The World Economic and Social Survey 2010 is supporting a proposal long advocated by the International Monetary Fund to create a standardized international system for liquidity transfer. [more]
