BRIT UN/IRAN NUKE EXPERT WAS MURDERED

British nuclear expert’s 17th floor UN death plunge ‘was not suicide’

A British nuclear expert who fell from the 17th floor of a United Nations building did not commit suicide and may have been hurled to his death, says a doctor who carried out a second post-mortem examination.

Timothy Hampton, 47, a scientist involved in monitoring nuclear activity, was found dead last week at the bottom of a stairwell in Vienna.

... He had been working for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organisation (CTBTO) at the UN building.

CTBTO staff monitor tremors in countries worldwide to uncover illegal nuclear tests.

It has been suggested that Mr Hampton may have been involved in talks discussing nuclear testing in Iran.

The UN has strongly denied the claims.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1224377/British-nuclear-expert-s-17th-floor-UN-death-plunge-suicide.html#ixzz0VZLIbJMt

(VIENNA - WHERE THE THIRD MAN TOOK PLACE.)

I'D BETCHYA HE WAS A BRITISH SPY DISCOVERED BY THE RUSSIANS AND IRANIANS AND MURDERED.

(VIA GLENN R.)

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Final GOTV Push in NY-23: Doug Hoffman Needs Volunteer Canvassers!

TENS OF THOUSANDS AT GAZA ISLAMIC JIHAD RALLY

JP:

Tens of thousands of Islamic Jihad loyalists held a rally in Gaza on Friday to commemorate the group's slain founder. Holding plastic models of rockets and wearing masks and mock suicide bomber's vests, the members chanted "death to Israel" and "Muhammad's army will be back to wipe off the Hebrew state."

ISRAEL CAN'T MAKE PEACE WITH THESE FOLKS AND DEMANDING THAT THEY DO IS ANTISEMITIC.

PAKISTAN COUNTER-OFFENSIVE IN CRITICAL STAGE

GULF NEWS: Soldiers surround major Taliban strongholds; killing over 300 rebels in 15 days

Islamabad: Pakistani troops have surrounded key strongholds of Taliban militants a fortnight after the launch of a military operation in South Waziristan tribal region.

According to a military statement yesterday the operation has entered a crucial phase.

The troops have killed 33 more terrorists, taking the number of insurgents eliminated in 15 days to more than 300.

"The important phase of operations has commenced on all three axes," said the statement issued by the public relations wing of the armed forces.

STAY TUNED: THEY MIGHT GET OSAMA...

THE NEXT BIG BUBBLE TO BURST: WIND POWER

TIM/UK: Banks back wind farms revolution

Banks are beginning to reopen for business for big wind farm projects after British Gas owner Centrica secured a £340m loan to help build a £725m site off the Lincolnshire coast.

Centrica would not disclose the terms of the loan from a banking syndicate, but industry observers said it was priced at more favourable rates than last autumn when the recession forced many developers to slash projects.

'This deal is very encouraging and shows banks are becoming more comfortable funding these types of projects,' said a senior City banker.

LENDING & INVESTING LIKE THIS IS GOING TO LEAD TO ANOTHER HUGE BUST WHEN OIL IS PROVEN TO BE ABIOTIC AND RENEWABLE AND CO2 BASED AGW IS PROVEN TO BE BULLSHIT AND THE EXPENSIVE ENERGY THESE INVESTMENTS PRODUCE MAKES THEM USELESS AND THEIR COMPANIES BANKRUPT.

MORE PROOF THAT FIDEL'S ANTI-AMERICAN PARANOIA KNOWS NO BOUNDS: BLAMES USA TOURISTS FOR SWINE FLU

Cuba swine flu 'from US tourists'

Cuba's former leader Fidel Castro blames the growth of swine flu on the increased numbers of US visitors on the island.

TYPICAL LEFT-WING BULLSHIT.

WE ARE AS GUILTY OF THIS AS WE ARE OF THIRD WORLD POVERTY AND GLOBAL WARMING.

THIS IS ONE REASON LEFTIST POLICIES FAIL ALL THE TIME: THEY'RE GROUNDED IN FANTASIES.

HAPPY HALOWEEN FROM MR. & MRS. OBAMALEFICENT

ERDOGAN: A NUCLEAR-ARMED IRAN IS OKAY

MORE PROOF THAT TURKEY IS NO LONGER AN ALLY OF THE WEST:

Turkey PM: If you don't want Iran to have nukes, give yours up

Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday that countries opposed to Iran's atomic program should give up their own nuclear weapons, and attacked as "arrogant" the sanctions imposed on Ankara's neighbor.

He also said he wanted the Middle East, and then the whole world, to rid itself of nuclear weapons.

THIS PIECE OF SHIT ISLAMIST EQUATES THE USA'S NUKES WITH IRAN'S.

WE SHOULD KICK TURKEY OUT OF NATO, NOW.

DEMOCRATS ADMIT: 'WE SHOULD CALL IT CLUSTERCARE'

Just read between the lines of the 2,000-page ObamaCare bill and you'll find two stark admissions. Democrats are convinced that the bill will lead to an unmitigated catastrophe.

Admission 1: After months of proclaiming the "urgent" need for health care reform, PelosiCare doesn't actually kick in for at least three (3) years.

There are two reasons for the delay.

First, it's a tacit acknowledgment that prompt implementation would destroy Obama's reelection chances in 2012.

Second, it's an outright financial scam authored by the Statist Democrats: " The CBO has scored the bill at $1.055 trillion [which] does not take into consideration that fact that the ten-year window contains ten years of revenue and only three to eight years of major payouts –- meaning that the bill will bleed red ink [in subsequent years."

Admission 2: The only Americans not required to join the national health care program are -- wait for it -- members of Congress. Democrats are so certain that their own health would be endangered that they want no part of the disastrous Rube Goldberg contraption they've created.

* * *
"ClusterCare" is a $700 billion tax hike that will bankrupt the country as certainly as night follows day. It is 2,000 pages of pure horror, a perfect read for Halloween.



Cross-posted at: Doug Ross @ Journal.

MAOBAMA'S UTOPIA

SURPRISE, SURPRISE, SURPRISE: UAW - WHICH OWNS GM - VOTES DOWN A "GM-LIKE" CONTRACT WITH FORD

(UPDATED BELOW)

GEEEEEE: WHOOOOOOODA THUNK THEY WOULDA EVER DONE THAT!?!?!? [/SARC]

NYTIMES:

Union workers at the Ford Motor Company have refused to help the company make more cuts to its labor costs.

Changes to the workers’ contract that would have allowed the cuts appeared headed for certain defeat Saturday after about 72 percent of workers voted to reject the deal, according to a tally compiled by The New York Times from results at separate plants.

Ford needed 9,000 more votes for passage, with fewer than 7,000 votes outstanding to be either cast or counted through Sunday.

Ford, which said it needed the changes to reduce some advantages the union gave to General Motors and Chrysler as those companies headed into bankruptcy in the spring, is not expected to seek a new deal.

REPEAT:

Ford, which said it needed the changes to reduce some advantages the union gave to General Motors and Chrysler as those companies headed into bankruptcy in the spring, is not expected to seek a new deal.

REPEAT:

Ford, which said it needed the changes to reduce some advantages the union gave to General Motors and Chrysler as those companies headed into bankruptcy in the spring, is not expected to seek a new deal.

THIS IS THE FRUIT OF SOCIALISM.

• IT WAS FREAKIN' RIDICULOUS TO THINK THAT FORD COULD EVER PROPERLY NEGOTIATE WITH THE UNION WHICH OWNS ONE OF THEIR MAIN COMPETITORS.

• THE UAW WOULD NEVER GIVE TO FORD WHAT THEY GAVE TO GM BECAUSE THEY CO-OWN GM.

• IT'S A CLEAR CONFLICT OF INTEREST AND IS ONE OF THE REASONS THE OBAMA "TAKEOVER" SHOULD HAVE NEVER EVER BEEN ALLOWED.

• IT'S SICKENING.

EVERY PATRIOT WHO OWNS A GM SHOULD TRADE IT IN FOR A FORD.

REPEAT: EVERY PATRIOT WHO OWNS A GM SHOULD TRADE IT IN FOR A FORD.

REPEAT: EVERY PATRIOT WHO OWNS A GM SHOULD TRADE IT IN FOR A FORD.

REPEAT: EVERY PATRIOT WHO OWNS A GM SHOULD TRADE IT IN FOR A FORD.

11/1/09 - Update: A DAY LATER AND HOT AIR NOTICES THE STORY:

UAW rank-and-file reject Ford contract

Nov 1, 2009 1:40 PM by Ed Morrissey

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Payback for not taking the bailout?

REGULAR READERS KNOW WE SCOOP THE BIGGIES ALL THE TIME. SPREAD THE WORD!

OBAMA: THE MOST LEFT-WING PRESIDENT IN THE ENTIRE WEST SINCE CLEMENT ATTLEE

WHAT OBAMA, SOROS AND THE SEIU ARE ATTEMPTING
IS NOTHING LESS THAN THE ATTLEEFICATION OF AMERICA.

AN ADMINISTRATION OF THE LEFT, BY THE LEFT AND FOR THE LEFT.

OBAMACARE: TAKE A BITE!

A POLITICIAN-DESIGNED, GOVERNMENT-RUN,
TAXPAYER-FINANCED BUREAUCRACY.


WHAT COULD GO WRONG!?

TRIPLE DELIGHT: BECK, BOLTON AND MONCKTON

THE COMPLETE VIDEOS...

LEAD, FOLLOW OR GET OUT OF THE WAY: DEDE DID THE RIGHT THING - SHE GOT OUT OF THE WAY!

SHE DESERVES CREDIT FOR WITHDRAWING.

GO HOFFMAN GO!

EVEN NEWT SEES THE LIGHT! LIKE THE MAN SAID: LEAD FOLLOW OR GET OUT OF THE WAY! NEWT USED TO LEAD, NOW HE FOLLOWS!

HOFFMAN AND THE CONSERVATIVES LEAD!

AWESOME!

FULL ROUND UP HERE AT MEMEORANDUM.

OBAMA'S STEALTH LEGAL ATTACK ON BUSH AND CHENEY

MCCARTHY/NRO:

The New York Times reports that on Friday, DOJ released "hundreds of pages of partially declassified documents" on the interrogations. Ostensibly, they were released pursuant to Freedom of Information Act demands by the ACLU and Judicial Watch. But as I've noted before, there are FOIA provisions the administration could use to withhold this information — Obama is releasing this material because he wants to, not because he has to.

The Justice Department's actions are consistent with the theory I've previously offered that the Obama administration is intentionally feeding left-wing lawyers who are trying to persuade foreign courts to prosecute Bush administration officials for actions taken in defense of the United States.

Everything Obama and his comrades do is by stealth because they know the vast majority of Americans would reject their goals.


Obamacare and Cap & Trade are Trojan Horses for socialism.


Obama is a snake and a liar and a postmodern left-wing anti-West collectivist.


Emphasis on the snake - a slithering dithering snake.

THE SECOND TIME HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF AS A FARCE, AND THIS ONE STARS OBAMA

IT'S LIKE A BAD REMAKE OF A BAD MOVIE INSPIRED FROM A BAD NOVEL:






SERIOUSLY, THERE'S NO REASON TO THINK THAT SOCIALISM WILL FARE ANY BETTER FOR OBAMA NOW, THAN IT DID FOR CLEMENT ATTLEE OR LEONID BREZHNEV...

REMEMBER: "OUTER" SPACE ONLY LOOKS EMPTY AND DARK TO THE HUMAN EYE...

THIS IS WHAT IT REALLY LOOKS LIKE . . .

AWESOME.

OBAMA'S SHAMELESS DOVER PHOTO OP: THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS SCOOPS LIZ CHENEY, GATEWAYPUNDIT, RUSH LIMBAUGH, AND ALLAPUNDIT

AS SOON AS IT WAS REPORTED THAT OBAMA WENT TO DOVER FOR A PHTO OP. WE WERE THE FIRST TO INTREPIDLY CALL IT WHAT IT WAS: A SHAMELESS PHOTO OP.

THE FIRST. BEFORE ANYONE ELSE.

GATEWAY, LIZ CHENEY, RUSH LIMBAUGH AND ALLAPUNDIT ALL FOLLOWED.

REGULAR READERS KNOW WE DO THIS ALL THE TIME.

SPREAD THE WORD.

OBAMA AND PELOSI: PUTTING LAWYERS FIRST; PUTTING HEALTHCARE SAVINGS DEAD LAST!

UNBEFRICKINLIEVABLE: THE HOUSE OBAMACARE BILL PUNISHES STATES WHICH CAP LEGAL FEES AND DAMAGES:

a state is not eligible for the incentive payments if that state puts a law on the books that limits attorneys’ fees or imposes caps on damages.

USE THE LINK AND THEN RTWT AND USE MORE LINKS.

UNBEFRICKINLIEVABLE!

THE DEMOCRATS AND THE OBAMA MACHINE ARE TAKING CARE OF THEIR COMRADES: LAWYERS GAVE MORE TO THEM THAN ANYONE ELSE.

OBVIOUSLY IT WAS AN "INVESTMENT" WHICH IS PAYING OFF!

• OBAMA PROMISED OBAMACARE REFORMS WOULD SAVE MONEY, YET OBAMA AND THE DEMS WON'T ENACT THE SINGLE REFORM WHICH WOULD BEST ACCOMPLISH THAT GOAL: TORT REFORM.
  

• THEY ARE NOTHING BUT A BUNCH OF LYING CHEATING NO GOOD SPECIAL INTEREST SERVING CREEPS.

VELIB DEBACLE: PARISIAN SOCIALIST PUBLIC BICYCLE SCHEME IS A TYPICAL HUGE LIBERAL BOONDOGGLE

VELIB/ WIKI:

Vélib’ (French: vélo libre or vélo liberté, English: free bicycle or bicycle freedom) is a public bicycle rental programme in Paris, France. The initiative was pushed by Paris mayor Bertrand Delanoë from the French Socialist Party. The system was launched on 15 July 2007, following Lyon's Vélo'v success and the 1974 pioneering scheme in La Rochelle. Ten thousand bicycles were introduced to the city with 750 automated rental stations each with fifteen or more bikes/spaces. This number has since grown to 20,000 bicycles and 1,450 stations, roughly one station every 300 metres throughout the city centre, making Vélib’ the largest system of its kind in the world.

NYTIMES:

... this latest French utopia has met a prosaic reality: Many of the custom-made bikes, which cost $3,500 each, are showing up on black markets in eastern Europe and northern Africa. Many others are being spirited away for urban joy rides, then ditched by roadsides, their wheels bent and tires stripped.

With 80 percent of the initial 20,600 bicycles stolen or damaged, the program’s organizers have had to hire several hundred people just to fix them. And along with the dent in the city-subsidized budget has been a blow to the Parisian psyche.

“The symbol of a fixed-up, eco-friendly city has become a new source for criminality,” Le Monde mourned in an editorial over the summer. "Vélib’ was aimed at civilizing city travel. It has increased incivilities.”

... “We miscalculated the damage and the theft,” said Albert Asséraf, director of strategy, research and marketing at JCDecaux, the outdoor-advertising company that is a major funder and organizer of the project. “But we had no reference point in the world for this kind of initiative.”

At least 8,000 bikes have been stolen and 8,000 damaged so badly that they had to be replaced — nearly 80 percent of the initial stock, Mr. Asséraf said.

JCDecaux must repair some 1,500 bicycles a day, which absorbs the efforts of 400 fulltime staff members.

The company maintains 10 repair shops and a workshop on a boat that moves up and down the Seine.

... despite the increasing costs, the city and JCDecaux are pressing on.

The company invested about $140 million to set up the Vélib’ system and provides a yearly fee of about $5.5 million to Paris, which also receives rental fees for the bikes.

In return, its 10-year contract allows it to put up 1,628 billboards that it can rent.

JCDecaux will not discuss money figures, but the expected date for profitability has been set back.

But the City of Paris has agreed to pay JCDecaux about $600 for each stolen or irreparably damaged bike if the number exceeds 4 percent of the fleet, which it clearly does.

In an unsuccessful effort to stop vandalism, Paris launched an ad campaign this summer. Posters showed a cartoon Vélib’ being roughed up by a thug. The caption read: “It’s easy to beat up a Vélib’, it can’t defend itself. Vélib’ belongs to you, protect it!”

Socialism fails every time... and the socialists just press on spending the public's hard-earned money on the idiotic utopianist schemes...

Whatta freakin' waste.

Everybody would be better off if they paid for and took care of THEIR OWN bicycles or THEIR OWN personal transportation device - whatever it is, CAR, BIKE, SCOOTER, MOTORCYCLE WHATEVER!

Oppression of Women is Worst in Muslim Nations

Details here.

• HALF THE PEOPLE IN THESE NATIONS ARE OPPRESSED.

• HALF.
• BUT THE SUPPOSEDLY LIBERAL AND ENLIGHTENED UN DOES BUPKUS.

• THE UN IS TOO BUSY BASHING ISRAEL - A NATION WERE WOMEN ARE FREE AND EQUAL.

• BOTTOM-LINE: THE UN IS LESS THAN WORTHLESS; IT'S A FORCE FOR EVIL.

WHICH "OBAMA FIDDLES" PHOTOSHOP IS BEST?

LET ME KNOW IN COMMENTS...

Obama Saves Face - Forces Honduran Congress To Go Through The Motions Of Restating Their Position On Zelaya

From Yahoo News:

Honduras' ousted president, interim government sign pact

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras – Deposed President Manuel Zelaya and his opponents have agreed to a U.S.-brokered deal that he said will return him to power four months after a coup shook faith in Latin America's young democracies.

The power-sharing agreement reached late Thursday calls for Congress to decide whether to reinstate the leftist Zelaya. While the legislature backed his June 28 ouster, congressional leaders have since said they won't stand in the way of an agreement that ends Honduras' diplomatic isolation and legitimizes presidential elections planned for November.

"We are willing to be cooperative in Congress with the agreement of the negotiators," Porfirio Lobo, a National Party lawmaker who is favored to win the Nov. 29 presidential elections, said Friday. "The best decision for Honduras will be taken."

While officials did not explicitly say the deal would return Zelaya to power to serve out the remaining three months of his term, the ousted president was clearly confident that it will.

"This signifies my return to power in the coming days, and peace for Honduras," Zelaya told opposition Radio Globo.

Zelaya told The Associated Press that he expects Congress will take "a week or so" to make its decision. In the meantime, he said he will remain at the Brazilian Embassy in Tegucigalpa, where he took refuge after slipping back into the country from his forced exile.

"I'm not going anywhere," he said Friday surrounded by jubilant supporters.

Soldiers still surrounded the embassy and floodlights still interrupted sleep but it has been several days since troops have crowed and meowed in the wee hours to keep those inside awake.

That's right, Zelaya. You're not going anywhere. The Honduran Congress will merely vote, once again, to oust you for violating the Honduran Constitution. The Honduran Constitution explicitly limits Presidents to one term, and states that the President shall, at no time, ever, call for himself to be re-elected.

Zelaya violated the Constitution, and the Congress and Supreme Court asked the Military to remove him from the country.

So, now to get the egg off his face, after months of calling this a coup, Obama is forcing the Honduran Congress to restate it's position.

They will vote and the outcome of the vote will be the exact same thing. Zelaya will not be allowed back into the country.

End of story.

ENGAGEMENT WITH SUDAN IS A BAD OMEN

Barry Rubin at the Gloria Center writes about how Obama's policy of engagement with Sudan is only leading to more disaster.

So Much for That "Democratically Elected" Hamas Government

They are Islamic, after all. Even if they did hold elections, they've already killed off or exiled everyone from Fatah, so there's no competition. The global jihad simply has too much riding on Hamas.

Oops, there goes any faint shred of legitimacy they might have had!

Hamas yesterday declared that it would not allow elections in the Gaza Strip early next year, further ratcheting tensions between the Islamist movement and Fatah.

The Hamas-run interior ministry in Gaza City said last week’s decree by the president, Mahmoud Abbas, calling for parliamentary and presidential voting on January 24 was made “by someone who has no right to make such an announcement”. Any campaigning was therefore illegal, said a ministry spokesman, Ehab al Ghsain.

“Any preparations, any committees, any collecting of names will be regarded as an illegal action that we will pursue,” Mr al Ghsain said.

Can we stop funding them now? Or is Obama determined to give a cool $2 billion to the genocidal terror organization this year?

H/T: Susan P. at MASH.

I'm sure this is just a coincidence, but the Islamic Republic of Iran has just declared questioning of the sham of last summer's election to be a state crime, "the biggest crime," in fact.

AGW RUN AMOK: Australians Could be Banned From Living on the Coast

Forced evacuations of all humans from coastal areas? Mother Ocean must be protected. If this ain't Paganism, then what is?

From the Telegraph:

Australians could be banned from living on the coast under a radical environmental plan to protect the population from rising sea levels.

The National Sea Change Taskforce, a parliamentary committee, spent 18 months examining the effect that changing climate could have on coastal Australia and concluded that urgent action was needed to safeguard the coast from seas that are expected to rise more than 31 inches this century.

Among the panel’s recommendations were forced evacuations from coastal areas and a ban on new homes in regions considered to be at risk from flooding and rising seas.

TURKEY SOLIDIFIES ECONOMIC TIES WITH IRAN

ERDOGAN'S ISLAMIST TURKEY CONTINUES ITS DESCENT INTO THE UMMAH - SIGNING SEVERAL ENERGY DEALS WITH THE JIHADO-THUGS OF IRAN.

TURKEY SHOULD BE THROWN OUT OF NATO.

OIL WELLS THAT REFUSE TO RUN DRY

From Power and Control:

Mystery in the Gulf

In 1973 oil was discovered in the Gulf of Mexico approximately 80 miles south of Louisiana known as Eugene Island 330. Producing 15,000 barrels per day, it was thought the well had seen better days when in 1989 its output dropped to 4,000 barrels per day. In 1990 the production of the well increased to about 13,000 barrels daily and has held steady. Although its output has slightly dropped it still refuses to run dry.

Want a Refill - Is That Possible?

Scientist working at the site discovered two important changes in the oil properties. Its age was was more recent than in previous years and its temperature was hotter. Using 3-D seismic technology scientist found a deep fault at the bottom of the well. What they saw startled, intrigued, and forced them to rethink the origins of oil. What they clearly saw was a deep fault gushing oil and refilling the well. There was no debate about it.

Mystery in the Mideast and Elsewhere

It's been said that the Mideast oil was a finite resource and could last 40 or 50 years at best. Yet over the past 25 years, reserves have more than doubled. With no new wells geologist have been hard pressed to explain why and it appears there is no end in sight. These fields have been methodically exploited since the first gusher was discovered. Today, OPEC is pumping over 30 million barrels of oil per day.

Cook Island in the Gulf of Mexico and oil fields in Uzbekistan are other examples of wells that refuse to dry out. Many wells around the world are refilling.

Of course, we reported, here at Astute Bloggers, that scientists in Sweden had discovered that oil is a naturally occurring substance in nature.

Perhals oil is a renewable resource - a by-product of natural geothermal activity in and around the Earth's core??:

Deep underwater, and deeper underground, scientists see surprising hints that gas and oil deposits can be replenished, filling up again, sometimes rapidly.

Although it sounds too good to be true, increasing evidence from the Gulf of Mexico suggests that some old oil fields are being refilled by petroleum surging up from deep below, scientists report. That may mean that current estimates of oil and gas abundance are far too low.

Recent measurements in a major oil field show "that the fluids were changing over time; that very light oil and gas were being injected from below, even as the producing [oil pumping] was going on," said chemical oceanographer Mahlon "Chuck" Kennicutt. "They are refilling as we speak. But whether this is a worldwide phenomenon, we don´t know."

Also not known, Kennicutt said, is whether the injection of new oil from deeper strata is of any economic significance, whether there will be enough to be exploitable. The discovery was unexpected, and it is still "somewhat controversial" within the oil industry.

Kennicutt, a faculty member at Texas A&M University, said it is now clear that gas and oil are coming into the known reservoirs very rapidly in terms of geologic time. The inflow of new gas, and some oil, has been detectable in as little as three to 10 years. In the past, it was not suspected that oil fields can refill because it was assumed the oil formed in place, or nearby, rather than far below.

According to marine geologist Harry Roberts, at Louisiana State University, "petroleum geologists don´t accept it as a general phenomenon because it doesn´t happen in most reservoirs. But in this case, it does seem to be happening. You have a very leaky fault system that does allow it to migrate in. It´s directly connected to an oil and gas generating system at great depth."

What the scientists suspect is that very old petroleum -- formed tens of millions of years ago -- has continued migrating up into reservoirs that oil companies have been exploiting for years. But no one had expected that depleted oil fields might refill themselves.

Now, if it is found that gas and oil are coming up in significant amounts, and if the same is occurring in oil fields around the globe, then a lot more fuel than anyone expected could become available eventually. It hints that the world may not, in fact, be running out of petroleum.

"No one has been more astonished by the potential implications of our work than myself," said analytic chemist Jean Whelan, at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, in Massachusetts. "There already appears to be a large body of evidence consistent with ... oil and gas generation and migration on very short time scales in many areas globally," she wrote in the journal Sea Technology.

"Almost equally surprising," she added, is that "there seem to be no compelling arguments refuting the existence of these rapid, dynamic migration processes."

The first sketchy evidence of this emerged in 1984, when Kennicutt and colleagues from Texas A&M University were in the Gulf of Mexico trying to understand a phenomenon called "seeps," areas on the seafloor where sometimes large amounts of oil and gas escape through natural fissures.

"Our first discovery was with trawls. We knew it was an area of massive seepage, and we expected that the oil seeps would poison everything around" the site. But they found just the opposite.

"On the first trawl, we brought up over two tons of stuff. We had a tough time getting the nets back on board because they were so full" of very odd-looking sea floor creatures, Kennicutt said. "They were long strawlike things that turned out to be tube worms.

"The clams were the first thing I noticed," he added. "They were pretty big, like the size of your hand, and it was obvious they had red blood inside, which is unusual. And these long tubes -- 3, 4 and 5 feet long -- we didn´t know what they were, but they started bleeding red fluid, too. We didn´t know what to make of it."

The biologists they consulted did know what to make of it. "The experts immediately recognized them as chemo-synthetic communities," creatures that get their energy from hydrocarbons -- oil and gas -- rather than from ordinary foods. So these animals are very much like, but still different from, recently discovered creatures living near very hot seafloor vent sites in the Pacific, Atlantic and other oceans.

The difference, Kennicutt said, is that the animals living around cold seeps live on methane and oil, while the creatures growing near hot water vents exploit sulfur compounds in the hot water.

The discovery of abundant life where scientists expected a deserted seafloor also suggested that the seeps are a long-duration phenomenon. Indeed, the clams are thought to be about 100 years old, and the tube worms may live as long as 600 years, or more, Kennicutt said.

I am skeptical of the above article. It is written by Robert Cooke, who is purported to be a Staff Writer for Newsday, but it's most recent major publication was Rense.com. I am unable to source the article to Newsday.

Here, however, is Robert Cooke's Random House Biography page, which does back up the claim that he, indeed, writes on science and medicine for major newspapers, including The Boston Globe, The Atlantic journal and Constitution, and Newsday.

I'm sure more shall reveal itself.

For now, however, suffice it to say, the evidence is leaning towards the theory that oil is a natually occurring substance which emits from some forces within the Earth.

RELIAPUNDIT ADDS:

SOON THE ABIOTIC THEORY WILL BE PROVEN - AND AGW DISPROVEN - AND THEN THE "GREEN ECONOMY" BUBBLE WILL BURST, AND ALL THE "INVESTMENTS" IN EXPENSIVE "ALTERNATIVE" ENERGY WILL BE SEEN FOR WHAT IT WAS: A COLOSSAL HOAX AND A STUPENDOUS WASTE.

USA TODAY: OBAMA PICKS DONORS FOR TOP POSTS

UPDATED BELOW...

USA TODAY:

More than 40% of President Obama's top-level fundraisers have secured posts in his administration, from key executive branch jobs to diplomatic postings in countries such as France, Spain and the Bahamas, a USA TODAY analysis finds.

Twenty of the 47 fundraisers that Obama's campaign identified as collecting more than $500,000 have been named to government positions, the analysis found.

Overall, about 600 individuals and couples raised money from their friends, family members and business associates to help fund Obama's presidential campaign. USA TODAY's analysis found that 54 have been named to government positions, ranging from Cabinet and White House posts to advisory roles, such as serving on the economic recovery board charged with helping guide the country out of recession.

Nearly a year after he was elected on a pledge to change business-as-usual in Washington, Obama also has taken a cue from his predecessors and appointed fundraisers to coveted ambassadorships, drawing protests from groups representing career diplomats. A separate analysis by the American Foreign Service Association, the diplomats' union, found that more than half of the ambassadors named by Obama so far are political appointees, said Susan Johnson, president of the association. An appointment is considered political if it does not go to a career diplomat in the State Department.

That's a rate higher than any president in more than four decades,

THIS CRONYISM AND CORRUPTION IS TYPICAL OF THE CHICAGO MACHINE AND OF BREZHNEV, CASTRO, CHAVEZ AND THE LIKE.

PEOPLE WHO VOTED FOR OBAMA THINKING HE WOULD HAVE A TRANSPARENT AND HONEST ADMINISTRATION WERE FLAT OUT DUPED.

[ASIDE: THIS REPORT AND AP'S HONEST ANALYSIS OF THE WASTEFUL STIMULUS PACKAGE MAKES ME HOPEFUL THAT MORE AND MORE PEOPLE ARE SEEING THROUGH OBAMA'S FACILE CHARMS.]

UPDATE: HALF AN HOUR LATER AND INSTAPUNDIT FINDS THE STORY...

OBAMA'S PORKULUS PLUS: THE MOST COLOSSAL WASTE OF MONEY OF ALL TIME

AP IMPACT: Stimulus jobs overstated by thousands:

The government has overstated by thousands the number of jobs it has created or saved with federal contracts under the president's $787 billion recovery program, according to an Associated Press review of data released in the program's first progress report.

The discrepancy raises questions about the reliability of a key benchmark the administration uses to gauge the success of the stimulus.

... The AP's review, which was not an exhaustive accounting of all 9,000 contracts reported by the government so far, homed in on the most obvious cases of jobs wrongly tied to the stimulus because of duplications or misinterpretations of how the jobs should be counted.
While the thousands of overstated jobs represent a tiny sliver of the overall economy, they represent a significant percentage of the initial employment count credited to the stimulus program.

... The AP's review identified nearly 600 contracts claiming stimulus money for more than 2,700 jobs that appear to have similar duplicated counts.

THE WASTE AIN'T JUST LIMITED TO THE SO-CALLED STIMULUS, EITHER:

• THE CASH FOR CLUNKERS PROGRAM EFFECTIVELY SHELLED OUT $24,000 FOR EACH CAR WHICH WAS SOLD BECAUSE OF THE PLAN.

AND THEY'VE JUST ANNOPUNCED ANNOTHER LIN BOONDOGGLE:

• A NEW FEDERALLY NDER-WRITTEN PROJECT ION TEXAS WILL GENEATE 30 PERMANENT JOBS AND 300 TEMPORARY IONES - AT A COST OF $4,545,455 PER JOB.

THIS IS DISGUSTING.

$4,545,455 PER JOB!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!

SHEESH.

THE WHOLE OBAMADOGGLE COST US A TRILLION BUCKS - ALL OF IT WASTED.

ALL IT REALLY DOES IS MAKE THE POLITICIANS MORE POWERFUL AND THEIR COMRADES RICHER.

IT'S SICKENING.

124 YEARS OF USA HIGH TEMPERATURE RECORDS SHOWS NO WARMING TREND

THE GRAPH SHOWS THAT THERE IS NO WARMING TREND IN THE USA.

VIA WUWT.

LARGER VERSION HERE, TOO.

Disappearing The Past - Has the FBI Targeted the Internet Archive With Secret "National Security Letters"?

UPDATED: I made an error on this post. I posted that there were no archives for September 11, 2001. I was wrong. I accidentally looked at September 11, 2002. I don't know how I made that mistake. Sorry. The September 11, 2001 Internet Archive for CNN is exactly what you would expect it to be.

Back in May of 2008, this article appeared in Wired Magazine. The actual title of the article was "FBI Targets Internet Archives With Secret 'National Security Letter', Loses".

Sadly, it does not seem to have worked out that way.

First, let's read the 5-2008 Wired article.

From Wired:

The Internet Archive, a project to create a digital library of the web for posterity, successfully fought a secret government Patriot Act order for records about one of its patrons and won the right to make the order public, civil liberties groups announced Wednesday morning.

On November 26, 2007, the FBI served a controversial National Security Letter (.pdf) on the Internet Archive’s founder Brewster Kahle, asking for records about one of the library’s registered users, asking for the user’s name, address and activity on the site.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Internet Archive’s lawyers, fought the NSL, challenging its constitutionality in a December 14 complaint (.pdf) to a federal court in San Francisco. The FBI agreed on April 21 to withdraw the letter and unseal the court case, making some of the documents available to the public.

The Patriot Act greatly expanded the reach of NSLs, which are subpoenas for documents such as billing records and telephone records that the FBI can issue in terrorism investigations without a judge’s approval. Nearly all NSLs come with gag orders forbidding the recipient from ever speaking of the subpoena, except to a lawyer.

Brewster Kahle called the gag order "horrendous," saying he couldn’t talk about the case with his board members, wife or staff ...

Hard to believe, huh? The FBI can tell you to shut up, and you can't even tell anyone you've been told to shut up, or what you've been told to shut up about.

When my friend Michael called me tonight and started droning on about it, I thought I was listening to another Conspiracy Theory. Michael was telling me that back in days of old, before blogging was invented, the "biggest thing on the internet" was CNN Message Boards.

He said, it was on the CNN Message Boards that he became aware of the brewing Intifada, and of the impending Islamic attacks on America (which were to happen on September 11, 2001). Michael said the Jihadis were out in full force on the CNN Message Boards, threatening everyone and anyone of what was to come.

Michael said he reported these threats to the ADL, who in turn, believe it or not, reported HIM to the FBI. Yes, that's right, Michael, who is a Jew and an Israeli citizen, claims he was reported to the FBI by the ADL for the crime of alerting the ADL to Islamic Jihadism and anti-Semitism.

Do you feel as if you have gone through Alice's Mirror, or what? Up is down. Black is white. Your don't know your ass from, well, let's let that one go.

And then, Michael started going on about how CNN eliminated these Message Boards, ERASED THEM.

I had a hard time believing this.

But this I could check, and I did.

Here it is. You go to the Wayback Machine. You type in www.cnn.com, and it takes you to a page that shows you the Internet Archive of CNN's history.

Click on April 10, 2001, just for the fun of it. Here's what you get. (Note, some of these load times are a long wait. Sorry about that. This is an archive, after all. Picture the Librarian getting out one of those old Periodicals of Periodicals and trying to work through the Dewey Decimal System for the precise old Periodical you are looking for).

Here's what happens when you click the Message Boards.

Now, click on the "Middle East" discussion boards. Here's what you get.

NOT IN ARCHIVE.

Did they also disappear the "Seattle Quake" discussion board from that day? Sort of, but sort of not. Something actually comes up. Here it is.

Ok, what about the "Mideast Peace" Message Board? Nope. It's disappeared.

Looks like Michael was right. They actually disappeared the Middle East Message Boards at the CNN Website.

(Ok, here's where my post goes wrong. I'll italicize and indent this whole section to note that it is a mistake -

Ok, so then I backed up and went to look at the September 11, 2001 Internet Archive. Well, what do you know, there is no page from that day.

There is, however, a September 12, 2001 Internet Archive Page. Here's what it looks like.

Does that reflect the news as you remember it on September 12, 2001?

And, do you notice the little blue and white World Trade Center advertisement down towards the bottom of the page? Does that look like something that would have been on CNN's front page on September 12, 2001?)

By the way, let's back up to the main CNN Internet Archive Page, and take note that there are no archives, at all, for 2009. Neither are there 2009 archives for CBS.com. I guess the Wayback Machine Internet Archive has given up business entirely. That is a damned shame, frankly.

Did the government put them out of business with a National Security Letter, after all?

What the hell is going on here?

L.A. SYNAGOGUE SHOOTING

The Los Angeles Times (via Phyllis Chesler) reports that there's been a shooting attack at a synagogue. The victims are lucky to have survived with minor injuries. While the perpetrator appears to be black, it's not certain if the police arrested the culprit yet.

2 GOP CONGRESSMAN WANT VENEZUELA DESIGNATED A STATE SPONSOR OF TERROR

EC:

Two South Florida congressmen introduced a resolution yesterday to officially designate Venezuela as a state sponsor of terrorism.

According to the News Sun-Sentinel, Ron Klein, a Democrat from Boca Raton, and Connie Mack, a Republican from Fort Myers, cited Venezuela’s alleged ties to the FARC, an terrorist group in Colombia, and Hizballah, a Middle Eastern terrorist group sponsored by the Iran government and based in Lebanon.

"The evidence linking Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez to the FARC and Hezbollah – two of the most dangerous terrorist organizations, responsible for many bombings, kidnappings, killings and drug trafficking – is overwhelming," Mack said in a statement announcing the resolution.

The Venezuelan government has strong economic ties to three of the four countries currently on the state sponsor list—Cuba, Iran, and Syria.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez has publicly expressed an affinity for the FARC’s ideology, but has repeatedly denied providing any financial or materiel support to the organization.

GOOD ON THEM.

PELOSI WON'T EVEN LET IT COME TO A VOTE.

BIRDS OF A FEATHER...

IN OTHER CHAVEZ NEWS:

Michael Moore's tequila story angers Hugo Chavez supporters

Michael Moore, the campaigning documentary-maker, has caused outrage among Hugo Chavez's supporters by claiming he drank a bottle of tequila with the Venezuelan leader in a luxury hotel suite during the recent Venice Film Festival.

Speaking on the ABC earlier this month, Moore alleged that he and his wife had been woken at 2am by a racket coming from Mr Chavez's room and ventured upstairs to ask him to quieten down.

"A bottle and a half of tequila later," Moore claimed, he had helped the President to write the speech he recently delivered to the UN. "At the very least, the guy owes me a year's worth of free petrol!" he joked.

The story enraged Chavez supporters because the socialist leader is teetotal. They dispute that the meeting even took place.

THEN THERE'S THIS BIT OF LEFT-WING CHAVEZALLATIO:

Oscar-winning actor and political activist Sean Penn may film a movie in Venezuela, according to the country's firebrand President Hugo Chavez.

Penn "told me was very interested in a film project ... that would most likely be shot in part in Venezuela," Chavez told state television on Wednesday after meeting the actor along with film producer Art Linson at the presidential palace.

Chavez said Penn, who he described as a "friend of just causes," hoped to make a movie based on the 1953 adventure novel "The Lost Steps" by Cuban writer Alejo Carpentier, which takes place mostly in the lush forests of southeastern Venezuela.

MOORE AND PENN AND CHAVEZ DESERVE EACH OTHER.

RICO - The Beginning of the End of Radical Islam In America - The Feds Are Claiming A "Criminal Conspiracy"

Yesterday, Imam Abdullah was shot dead by Federal Authorities, after he opened fire on those who were attempting to arrest him.

Normally, that would be enough cause for celebration.

But, in this case, we have even more cause for celebration. I have been scanning the horizon of Internet news, for over a year now, waiting to find the Magic Words; "Criminal Conspiracy".

Why?

Because I am, and have been convinced, that we already have laws on the books which can bring Radical Islam to it's knees here in America.

The most important of these laws are the Smith Act (Sedition), and the RICO Statutes (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization Act). For today, we will just concentrate on RICO, because that is what we have before us in the, apparent, Federal Prosecution which is brewing against the ten people who were sought yesterday in the raid which ended with Abdullah dead.

First, let's look at some of the text from the original New York Times article:

"Federal authorities say a leader of what they describe as a nationwide radical Sunni Islam group ... at a Dearborn warehouse on charges that included conspiracy to sell stolen goods and illegal possession and sale of firearms. Authorities also conducted raids elsewhere to try to round up 10 followers named in a federal complaint."

Now, let's look at what is covered by the RICO Act:

Under RICO, a person who is a member of an enterprise that has committed any two of 35 crimes—27 federal crimes and 8 state crimes—within a 10-year period can be charged with racketeering. Those found guilty of racketeering can be fined up to $250,000 and/or sentenced to 20 years in prison per racketeering count. In addition, the racketeer must forfeit all ill-gotten gains and interest in any business gained through a pattern of "racketeering activity." RICO also permits a private individual harmed by the actions of such an enterprise to file a civil suit; if successful, the individual can collect treble damages.

Under the law, racketeering activity means:

• Any violation of state statutes against gambling, murder, kidnapping, extortion, arson, robbery, bribery, dealing in obscene matter, or dealing in a controlled substance or listed chemical (as defined in the Controlled Substances Act);
• Any act of bribery, counterfeiting, theft, embezzlement, fraud, dealing in obscene matter, obstruction of justice, slavery, racketeering, gambling, money laundering, commission of murder-for-hire, and several other offenses covered under the Federal criminal code (Title 18);
• Embezzlement of union funds;
• Bankruptcy fraud or securities fraud;
• Drug trafficking;
• Money laundering and related offenses;
• Bringing in, aiding or assisting aliens in illegally entering the country (if the action was for financial gain);
• Acts of terrorism.

And now, let's look at how RICO has been used in past years:

While its intended use was to prosecute the Mafia as well as others who were actively engaged in organized crime, its application has been more widespread.

Famous cases

Hells Angels Motorcycle Club

In 1979, the United States federal government went after Sonny Barger and several members and associates of the Oakland chapter of the Hells Angels using RICO. In United States v. Barger, the prosecution team attempted to demonstrate a pattern of behavior to convict Barger and other members of the club of RICO offenses related to guns and illegal drugs.

Major League Baseball

In 2002, the former minority owners of the Montreal Expos baseball team filed charges under the RICO Act against Major League Baseball commissioner Bud Selig and former Expos owner Jeffrey Loria, claiming that Selig and Loria deliberately conspired to devalue the team for personal benefit in preparation for a move.^[11] If found liable, Major League Baseball could have been found liable for up to $300 million in punitive damages. The case lasted for two years, successfully stalling the Expos' move to Washington or contraction during that time. It was eventually sent to arbitration where the arbiters ruled in favor of Major League Baseball,^[12] permitting the move to Washington to take place.

Key West PD

In June 1984, the Key West Police Department in Monroe County, Florida was declared a criminal enterprise under the Federal RICO statutes after a lengthy United States Department of Justice investigation. Several high-ranking officers of the department, including Deputy Police Chief Raymond Cassamayor, were arrested on federal charges of running a protection racket for illegal cocaine smugglers. ^[8] At trial, a witness testified he routinely delivered bags of cocaine to the Deputy Chief's office at City Hall. ^[9]

So, we see there is a history of RICO being used to go after larger corporations, police departments, and gangs, not ordinarily thought of as Organized Criminal Organizations. RICO has also been used to prosecute the Gambino Crime Family, the Chicago Outfit, and Mohawk Industries. Most interestingly, RICO Statutes were cited in the Civil Suit NOW v. Scheidler, which sought damages and an injunction against pro-life activists who physically block access to abortion clinics.

This demonstrates that RICO can be used against organizations of all types, and may be used to prosecute anyone who participates knowingly in a Criminal Conspiracy which involves, as has already been pointed out, just two of a list of thirty-five total crimes.

Now, here is a case of a bust, from earlier this year, which demonstrates how closely many Mosques may be tied to large Criminal Conspiracies:

May 15, 2009 · From Fairfax Gov and Silent Majority. Fairfax County Police led a massive bust near the popular and growing radical Dar al-Hijrah mosque in Falls Church, VA Fairfax County, home to Falls Church, one of the major frontlines of Islamist aggression. We have:

• The Dar al-Hijrah Wahabbi corridor which is a massive Islamist enclave built up around the mosque
• Tax payer subsidized K-B.A. in Jihad via the Islamic Saudi Academy and George Mason (ISA is not taxed and Mason is public)that has already produced one convicted terrorist
• Gitmo trials and Gitmo prisoners coming And our first pro-jihad candidate

On Wednesday, May 6, over 135 law enforcement personnel participated in concluding a year-long undercover investigation. Operation Build America
was launched in May 2008 to better understand the criminal activity
taking place in and around the Build America Shopping Center. The
shopping center is nestled in the Skyline community in the 3800 block
of South George Mason Drive. Community concerns of illegal activities
in the shopping center coupled with indicators that crime was in the
upswing sprung the operation into motion.

The investigation successfully infiltrated several criminal
organizations and businesses operating around the center. Undercover
police officers identified nearly 40 people suspected of criminal
activity that ranges from property crimes to crimes of violence. The
undercover operation successfully recovered stolen firearms and illegal
narcotics including cocaine and marijuana.

Collectively, 143 criminal arrest warrants and 15 search warrants were issued in this undercover operation.

If it could be proven that money from those criminal enterprises was donated at Zakat (Islamic Charity) to the local Mosque or Islamic Saudi Academy, and that the authorities within those Mosques knowingly accepted that money gained from criminal activity, then RICO could be used to bring down the entire structure of what is here called the Dar al-Hijrah Wahabbi corridor.Think about it, with all these criminal businesses, run by Muslim men, operating right in the neighborhood surrouding the Mosque and the ISA, do you really believe the Imams and the directors of ISA are completely ignorant of what is going on right under their noses. (Have the Feds even thought to look into the Imams and the Zakat payments?)
Futhermore, if my sources are correct, nearly 80% of the Mosques in the United States are funded, at least in part, by Saudi Arabia. (Here's some information on the Saudi-funding of Wahabbist education and Mosques in the United States.)

So, what's the point? Why do I bring up the Saudi-funding of Mosques? What does this have to do with using RICO to prosecute Radical Islamists?

Simply this, I believe it is possible that one could show Criminal Conspiracy involving whole groups of Saudi-funded Mosques. Once again, this depends on whether one can prove that Imams and Directors of Mosques knowingly accept money gained from Organized Criminal Activity as Zakat. It would also help if one could prove that some of that Zakat was then used to promote terrorist organizations (such as the Holy Land Foundation), or for aiding or assisting aliens in illegally entering the country.

Does that sound far-fetched? Perhaps. Imams knowingly involved in Criminal Activity?

What do you think?

Have we not seen examples already, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here?

And, most of all, what about THIS?


UPDATE: There is precedence for Western governments going after religions as, essentially, Racketeering Organizations. Check out this article on how France is handling Scientology:

The German domestic intelligence service keeps the Church of Scientology under surveillance as a potential threat to democracy. Belgian prosecutors have been building a blackmail case against it for 11 years.

Now the French have taken a more forceful step.

In a decision that could reverberate across Europe, a court in Paris Tuesday convicted the French branch of the church of “organized fraud” and said it had systematically tricked recruits out of their savings.

The two flagship Scientology outposts in Paris, a bookstore and an information centre, were ordered to pay €600,000 in fines. The head of the church in France was given a two-year suspended sentence for fraud and fined €30,000.

However, the court allowed the church to keep operating in France. In May, when the trial began, prosecutors asked that it be shut down as a criminal enterprise, only to discover that the law that might have allowed its banishment had just been deleted as part of an overhaul of the penal code.

The judges said they did not order the church offices closed because they did not want to drive Scientologists underground, where they could not be monitored.

They also said a paid notice of the church's conviction would be published in Time magazine and the International Herald Tribune so that news of the church's conviction would spread beyond France.

“The court told the Scientologists, in essence, to be very, very careful, because if you continue to use the same methods of harassment, you won't escape next time,” said Olivier Morice, the lawyer for the civil plaintiffs in the case.