Saudi Arabian Prince Bandar Bush's Coup d'Etat Against King Abdullah Fails?

There was a potential coup d'état in Saudi Arabia, and I have not heard a peep about it on the mainstream news. However, I did hear Dr. Webster Tarpley talking on The Alex Jones Show today about how this coup is related to a potential Saudi Arabia/Russia alliance (you can listen to the entire Tarpley-Alex Jones interview here). I do not know what effects a potential Saudi/Russian alliance would have on the United States, but if true, that type of alliance certainly will not benefit this country.

Saudi Prince Bandar bin Sultan, the kingdom's former ambassador to the United States, is reportedly under house arrest over a conspiracy against the monarch...after Saudi officials discovered that he had provoked 200 agents working for the Saudi security service to stage a coup against King Abdullah, he was put under house arrest.

Source: Press TV

Secretary Geithner Cusses Out Bernanke, Schapiro and Bair Over Obama's Proposed Financial Regulatory Overhaul

U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Timothy Geithner is getting quite upset! I wish they recorded these meetings, because a Geithner profanity-laced tirade would garner some huge viewing numbers on YouTube. Apparently, Geitner cussed out Obama's other top financial regulators over the faltering financial plan in a recent meeting.

Geithner is no fool. He realizes that the bankers are running out of time to implement the globalist banking agenda. His frustration is now spilling out to his minions.

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner blasted top U.S. financial regulators in an expletive-laced critique last Friday as frustration grows over the Obama administration's faltering plan to overhaul U.S. financial regulation, according to people familiar with the meeting.

Among those gathered in the Treasury conference room were Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Mary Schapiro and Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Chairman Sheila Bair.

Source: Free Republic; Wall Street Journal

Easy, Simple Guide To What Is In Obama's Healthcare Bill (America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009)!

Download the full text of the 1,018 page America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009 (a/k/a/ the HealthCare Bill) by clicking anywhere on this sentence.

If you are like Senator Specter and do not want to read thousands of pages, you can read this simple guide to the gems in the healthcare bill.

• Page 16: States that if you have insurance at the time of the bill becoming law and change, you will be required to take a similar plan. If that is not available, you will be required to take the gov option!
• Page 22: Mandates audits of all employers that self-insure!
• Page 29: Admission: your health care will be rationed!
• Page 30: A government committee will decide what treatments and benefits you get (and, unlike an insurer, there will be no appeals process)
• Page 42: The "Health Choices Commissioner" will decide health benefits for you. You will have no choice. None.
• Page 50: All non-US citizens, illegal or not, will be provided with free healthcare services.
• Page 58: Every person will be issued a National ID Healthcard.
• Page 59: The federal government will have direct, real-time access to all individual bank accounts for electronic funds transfer.
• Page 65: Taxpayers will subsidize all union retiree and community organizer health plans (example: SEIU, UAW and ACORN)
• Page 72: All private healthcare plans must conform to government rules to participate in a Healthcare Exchange.
• Page 84: All private healthcare plans must participate in the Healthcare Exchange (i.e., total government control of private plans)
• Page 91: Government mandates linguistic infrastructure for services; translation: illegal aliens
• Page 95: The Government will pay ACORN and Americorps to sign up individuals for Government-run Health Care plan.
• Page 102: Those eligible for Medicaid will be automatically enrolled: you have no choice in the matter.
• Page 124: No company can sue the government for price-fixing. No "judicial review" is permitted against the government monopoly. Put simply, private insurers will be crushed.
• Page 127: The AMA sold doctors out: the government will set wages.
• Page 145: An employer MUST auto-enroll employees into the government-run public plan. No alternatives.
• Page 126: Employers MUST pay healthcare bills for part-time employees AND their families.
• Page 149: Any employer with a payroll of $400K or more, who does not offer the public option, pays an 8% tax on payroll.
• Page 150: Any employer with a payroll of $250K-400K or more, who does not offer the public option, pays a 2 to 6% tax on payroll.
• Page 167: Any individual who doesnt' have acceptable healthcare (according to the government) will be taxed 2.5% of income.
• Page 170: Any NON-RESIDENT alien is exempt from individual taxes (Americans will pay for them).
• Page 195: Officers and employees of Government Healthcare Bureaucracy will have access to ALL American financial and personal records.
• Page 203: "The tax imposed under this section shall not be treated as tax." Yes, it really says that.
• Page 239: Bill will reduce physician services for Medicaid. Seniors and the poor most affected."
• Page 241: Doctors: no matter what specialty you have, you'll all be paid the same (thanks, AMA!).
• Page 253: Government sets value of doctors' time, their professional judgment, etc.
• Page 265: Government mandates and controls productivity for private healthcare industries.
• Page 268: Government regulates rental and purchase of power-driven wheelchairs.
• Page 272: Cancer patients: welcome to the wonderful world of rationing!
• Page 280: Hospitals will be penalized for what the government deems preventable re-admissions.
• Page 298: Doctors: if you treat a patient during an initial admission that results in a readmission, you will be penalized by the government.
• Page 317: Doctors: you are now prohibited for owning and investing in healthcare companies!
• Page 318: Prohibition on hospital expansion. Hospitals cannot expand without government approval.
• Page 321: Hospital expansion hinges on "community" input: in other words, yet another payoff for ACORN.
• Page 335: Government mandates establishment of outcome-based measures: i.e., rationing.
• Page 341: Government has authority to disqualify Medicare Advantage Plans, HMOs, etc.
• Page 354: Government will restrict enrollment of SPECIAL NEEDS individuals.
• Page 379: More bureaucracy: Telehealth Advisory Committee (healthcare by phone).
• Page 425: More bureaucracy: Advance Care Planning Consult: Senior Citizens, assisted suicide, euthanasia?
• Page 425: Government will instruct and consult regarding living wills, durable powers of attorney, etc. Mandatory. Appears to lock in estate taxes ahead of time.
• Page 425: Goverment provides approved list of end-of-life resources, guiding you in death.
• Page 427: Government mandates program that orders end-of-life treatment; government dictates how your life ends.
• Page 429: Advance Care Planning Consult will be used to dictate treatment as patient's health deteriorates. This can include an ORDER for end-of-life plans. An ORDER from the GOVERNMENT.
• Page 430: Government will decide what level of treatments you may have at end-of-life.
• Page 469: Community-based Home Medical Services: more payoffs for ACORN.
• Page 472: Payments to Community-based organizations: more payoffs for ACORN.
• Page 489: Government will cover marriage and family therapy. Government intervenes in your marriage.
• Page 494: Government will cover mental health services: defining, creating and rationing those services.

Source: Free Republic ; The Health Ranger; U.S. House of Representatives

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

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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)