Obama "Joker" Socialism Poster Waking People Up in Los Angeles?

Is this picture going to be the 2009 version of Shepard Fairey's "Hope"? No matter what happens with this picture, it certainly seems to be causing a stir on the Los Angeles city streets.

The Obama-Joker poster [as Heath Ledger's character in the "Dark Knight" movie] shows President Obama with white face paint, dark eye shadow and smudged red lipstick and also has the word "socialism" printed in bold, dark letters under the image of his face.

It's unclear who created the image and who is posting it across the city. No one has taken credit so far.

Source: KTLA ; Daily Paul

U.S. Tomato Crops Face Major Late Blight Fungus Risk! (Northeast & Mid-Atlantic States)

I love tomatoes. I do not know what I will do if tomatoes become hard to get. However, it appears that tomato costs may soon be rising if not worse. It appears that a fungus similar to the one that caused the Potato Famine in Ireland back in the day is spreading to tomato crops and there may be no defenses. One professor has said that he has never seen such a widespread fungi tomato infection.

A highly contagious fungus that destroys tomato plants has quickly spread to nearly every state in the Northeast and the mid-Atlantic, and the weather over the next week may determine whether the outbreak abates or whether tomato crops are ruined, according to federal and state agriculture officials.

Source: The New York Times

Olympiacos Reportedly To Offer Allen Iverson $10 Million to Play in Euroleague

I do not usually post a lot of sports stories, but I had to post this story, because it directly relates to a previous blog article I wrote called Iverson Should Play Overseas in the Euroleague if NBA Teams Don't Want to Start Him in 2009-10 back in April, 2009. No one really picked up on that article, but I suggested that the best bet for Allen Iverson in 2009-2010 would be overseas.

Lithuania-based Basketworld.lt is today reporting that Olympiacos will be extending a contract offer to Allen Iverson.

Source: Ballin Europe

New Hazardous Waste Dump Opens Up in Palm Springs (Riverside County Regional Permanent Household Hazardous Waste Facility)

UPDATE (April 16, 2011) - The below links from 2009 have expired, but it appears that the waste location is still open as evidenced by this recent article.

That's why a new Household Hazardous Waste Facility in Palm Springs has opened up.

The facility on 1100 South Vella Road is open every Saturday from 9 a.m. until 2 p.m October through May and 7 a.m. until noon in June through September.

Source: KPSP2 - Cathedral City

###

If you have some hazardous waste, then Palm Springs and Riverside County, California have a FREE place for you to properly dispose of it. The facility is located at 1100 Vella Road and is open to the public on Saturdays. The hours are 7 a.m. to noon June through September and from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. October through May.

Riverside County residents looking to dump motor oil, paint, batteries, computers, televisions, telephones and other hazardous waste will soon have a new place to take their items.

However, if you have any of the below items and are looking for disposal, then you are out of luck!

Appliances, explosives, radioactive waste, ammunition, asbestos, compressed gas cylinders more than 40 pounds, and infectious or medical waste — other than sharp materials — are not accepted.

Source: The Desert Sun

Myanmar - Future Axis of Evil Member? (Defectors Reveal Burma's Secret Nuclear Reactor Facility)

What's the over/under on how long it takes Secretary Clinton to use this information to add Myanmar to the Axis of Evil membership list with Iraq, Iran and North Korea now that it is being revealed that Myanmar may have secret nuclear reactor and plutonium extraction facilities? I guess membership has its privileges. Iraq has been demolished, Iraq is being threatened and North Korea is isolated. I wonder how long before we are landing troops on the shores of Myanmar.

BURMA’s isolated military junta is building a secret nuclear reactor and plutonium extraction facilities with North Korean help, with the aim of acquiring its first nuclear bomb in five years...

The secret complex, much of it in caves tunnelled into a mountain at Naung Laing in northern Burma, runs parallel to a civilian reactor being built at another site by Russia...

Source: Sydney Morning Herald

Gas Shortages in Calgary, Alberta Canada.

I do not know if this is really a bigger story or if this fuel shortage is indeed caused by a storm knocking oil refineries offline.

Dozens of gas stations across the city were hit by shortages after two Edmonton-area refineries were shut down by a severe storm in mid-July.

Although both refineries have since resumed operations, the situation came at the peak of summer driving season. Petro-Canada and Imperial Oil have been working to replenish gas stations that ran dry. But the situation only worsened as motorists hit the highways for the long weekend.

Source: Calgary Herald

Angry Crowd Boos Secretary Sebelius and Senator Specter Over Obama's Health Care Plan

People are starting to wake up and they are not happy!

Federal TARP Agents Raid Colonial Bank in Orlando, Florida

I do not know if this is related to the current banking crisis (FDIC Failed Bank List), but federal agents have raided Colonial Bank in Orlando, Florida. I will continue following this story to see if it develops into something bigger, but it appears that it may not have an effect on Colonial's day-to-day operations.

Federal agents working with the U.S. Treasury's Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) executed search warrants at two Florida banks on Monday and Colonial Bank (CNB.N) said one of them was its office in Orlando.

Unfortunately, if Colonial Banks fails, it is likely that the FDIC will not be able to cover the loss due to the high number of banks which have already failed this year. This is a scary thought, because it means that the FDIC guarantee stamped on the door at almost every local bank would be worthless and everyone could potentially lose any and all monies held by FDIC banks.

Source: WOFL FOX 35; Reuters; DailyKos

FLASHBACK: State By State Vaccination Exceptions & Exemptions for H1N1 "Swine" Flu (Includes Australia, Canada and Guam)

I previously posted this link to the Vaccination Liberation Exemptions, but because there has been a lot of traffic this week for vaccination information, I wanted to post it again. If you want to find out whether you may be able to claim an exemption for the upcoming mandatory H1N1 "swine" flu vaccination program. Make sure to scroll down the whole page once you get to the Vaccination Liberation page to find your State.

Source: Vaccination Liberation

President Obama's Kenyan Birth Registration - World Net Daily Smoking Gun Hoax?

***UPDATE-- The alleged Kenyan birth certificate is a fake.***

Is this the smoking gun that will prove that Barack Obama is not eligible to serve as President,of the United States of America because he is not a natural born citizen? Shocking new documentation has been released by a California attorney who is seeking to have this documentation authenticated by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. The documentation purports to be a certified copy of a Kenyan birth registration for Barack Obama. Remixx World! will continue to follow this story to track the authentication process.

California attorney Orly Taitz, who has filed a number of lawsuits demanding proof of Barack Obama's eligibility to serve as president, has released a copy of what purports to be a Kenyan certification of birth and has filed a new motion in U.S. District Court for its authentication.

This document purports to be a Kenyan certification of birth for Barack Obama, allegedly born in Mombasa, Kenya, in 1961

The document lists Obama's parents as Barack Hussein Obama and Stanley Ann Obama, formerly Stanley Ann Dunham, the birth date as Aug. 4, 1961, and the hospital of birth as Coast General Hospital in Mombasa, Kenya.

Source: World Net Daily

Osama Bin Laden Worked for United States Government Until September 11, 2001!

I am not surprised by this DailyKos story that Osama bin Laden was working for the USA until 9/11. Anyone who reads even a little news would know that Osama is one of the CIA's greatest assets. I have heard that Al-Qaeda means the "base," which is short for "database," namely the CIA's database of assassins, terrorists and operatives used to destabilize governments and regions.

Former FBI translator Sibel Edmonds dropped a bombshell on the Mike Malloy radio show, guest-hosted by Brad Friedman (audio, partial transcript).

In the interview, Sibel says that the US maintained 'intimate relations' with Bin Laden, and the Taliban, "all the way until that day of September 11."

Source: Daily Kos: State of the Nation

Intelligent Pet Cat Catches Daily Bus Regularly for Four (4) Years!

This sounds like a story for a Saturday morning cartoon, but a pet cat in the United Kingdom has caught the 10:55 am bus regularly for four (4) years. As a former cat owner, I can tell you that cats love to ride in vehicles. Every cat that I owned hated it as first, but once they get adjusted to being in a vehicle, they love it. If you simply jingled the keys, the cat would come running straight to the car for a ride.

I guess this Casper cat loved being in a vehicle too. I would love for a cat to ride my bus everyday. I actually want to take a trip to the U.K. just to see Casper in real life.

Casper, which is 12 years old, boards the No3 service at 10.55am from outside his home in Plymouth, Devon, and travels the entire 11-mile route before returning home about an hour later.

Source: The London Telegraph

Medical Journal Warns About H1N1 "Swine Flu Vaccine" (Does Not Want Repeat of 1976 U.S. Swine Flu Vaccination Program)

More and more people are sounding the alarm against the rapid deployment of the experimental H1N1 "swine" vaccine which has a street date release of sometime in October, 2009, including a notable medical journal and a mainstream newspaper.

Young schoolkids are being targeted to receive the vaccine. Pregnant women. The military. First-line responders. People ages 19-24. You! Please do the research before you allow yourself to be assaulted and battered with this experimental vaccine.

COUNTRIES NEED to assess carefully the risks and benefits of the rapid approval of a human swine flu vaccine to avoid the repeat of past problems with mass-vaccination, medical journal The Lancet has said.

The publication said the fast- tracking of vaccines could lead to a repeat of the problems surrounding a 1976 H1N1 vaccination programme in the United States...

The chief medical officer Dr Tony Holohan said they would not be recommending the vaccine to any group unless the balance of risk is in favour of them being vaccinated.

Source: The Irish Times ; The Lancet Medical Journal (may require registration)

FDIC Closes Five (5) More Banks on July 31, 2009 in New Jersey, Illinois, Ohio, Florida, Oklahoma

Bank Name	City	State	CERT #	Closing Date	Updated Date
Mutual Bank	Harvey	IL	18659	July 31, 2009	July 31, 2009
First BankAmericano	Elizabeth	NJ	34270	July 31, 2009	July 31, 2009
Peoples Community Bank	West Chester	OH	32288	July 31, 2009	July 31, 2009
Integrity Bank	Jupiter	FL	57604	July 31, 2009	July 31, 2009
First State Bank of Altus	Altus	OK	9873	July 31, 2009	July 31, 2009

The FDIC closed five (5) more banks on July 31, 2009.

Source: FDIC

FLASHBACK: "MySpace Nation - Heroes of Social Networking" in PC World Magazine (2006 Joe Ford Jr. Political Campaign for U.S. Congress)

They always used to tell me that everyone gets their fifteen (15) minutes of fame in life. If my life ended tomorrow, then my fifteen (15) minutes of fame was back in June, 2006 when I ran for U.S. Congress and was featured in a national magazine. As a computer science major in college, recognition in a computer magazine was extra special.

I wanted to link to this PCMag.com (formerly "PC World Magazine") article "MySpace Nation - Heroes of Social Networking" where I was featured as being one of the first politicians to have a political social networking page. I recall that many people criticized me saying that it was not professional to have a MySpace.com page.

Joe Ford, Jr., is trying to get to Washington via MySpace. Along with traditional campaign methods, the lawyer has set up a MySpace page instead of creating an official campaign Web site. The advantages of this approach, Ford says, are the cost savings and direct access to his target voters, people ages 18 to 35. "People that age aren't as interested in the traditional Web site," he says.

My MySpace.com page has been updated and changed since 2006, but most of the information in the archives remain. I have to thank my campaign manager Justin Ford for agreeing to this "radical" strategy back in 2006 as evidenced by this WMC-TV Memphis story called "Willie Herenton in Cyberspace." There used to be a video, but it is no longer accessible.

Justin Ford is a member of the MySpace Generation. His brother has set up a legitimate MySpace page for his campaign.

"It talks about key issues that we think fit the age demographic of 18-25," the younger Ford says.

Source: PCMag.com - "MySpace Nation - Heroes of Social Networking" ; WMC-TV

NORTHCOM Ready to Aid FEMA in Case of H1N1 "Swine" Flu Outbreak (Corporate Propaganda for Military Quarantines and Mandatory Vaccinations)!

If you want review a cumulative resource of the H1N1 "swine" flu outbreak, Infowars has provided a Flu Pandemic Resource Page.

Also, if you do not believe the above video, here is a CNN report, "Military planning for possible H1N1 outbreak," dated July 29, 2009.

The U.S. military wants to establish regional teams of military personnel to assist civilian authorities in the event of a significant outbreak of the H1N1 virus this fall, according to Defense Department officials.

If the military is operating domestically, then the likelihood of Posse Comitatus being violated increases exponentially. I have previously blogged about Posse Comitatus in numerous posts. Unfortunately, I do not hear the mainstream media ever discussing Posse Comitatus whenever it discusses domestic military operations. Perhaps it has gotten a memo or something saying that Posse Comitatus is no longer applicable and is only a myth. I certainly do not agree with that position, but the mainstream media operates as if Posse Comitatus is indeed a myth.

Source: CNN; Prison Planet; Fox

Effects of Mercury on Brain Neurons (University of Calgary Video)

Mercury in the H1N1 "Swine" Flu Vaccine Says Washington Post

Some of the vaccine will be stored in multi-dose vials containing thimerosal, an antibacterial additive that contains mercury.

Click here for the definition of Thimerosal.

Click here for the definition of mercury.

Click here for a video showing mercury's effects on a brain neurons.

Remember, mercury is poisonous to humans and mankind. No amount is safe! Why would you want it in your vaccine?

Source: Washington Post

H1N1 "Swine" Flu Outbreak at NORTHCOM, NORAD & U.S. Air Force Academy?

I will keep my eyes on this story to see if there is a further outbreak as Colorado has suffered its first H1N1 "swine" flu death. The victim's husband is also infected. This story comes a few weeks after 138 freshmen Air Force Academy cadets became infected with the H1N1 virus. None of the cadets required hospitalization and all recovered.

A 41-year-old woman from Peyton is Colorado's first reported death related to the H1N1 flu, authorities said Wednesday.

The woman has been identified as 41-year-old Debra Burton. She worked at NORAD and US NORTHCOM in Colorado Springs.

Source: The DenverChannel.com

United States of China? (Chinese Flag to Fly Over White House on September 20, 2009)

I am quite sure that veterans will not be happy about this news. I cannot believe that we are flying a communist country's flag over the White House. Are we about to see the merger of the United States and China predicted in the television show "Firefly?"

The national flag of the People's Republic of China (PRC) will be hoisted at the South Lawn of the White House in Washington on September 20, media reported Sunday. Chinese associations in the United States had applied to hold a ceremony in front of the US President’s residence to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the founding of PRC.

Source: China Daily

Image Source: Openesf.net