Bank Break Ins Leading to Litigation

The War That's Not a War
In January 1991, we went to War in the Middle East against Saddam Hussein, Iraq’s dictator who was our ally during the Iran-Iraq War. A border dispute between Kuwait and Iraq broke out after our State Department gave a green light for Hussein’s invasion. After Iraq’s successful invasion of Kuwait we reacted with gusto and have been militarily involved in the entire region, six thousand miles from our shores, ever since. This has included Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, and...

Iraq " Is Today the "Still Before the Storm"?
During his time in his office as 43rd President of the United States, George H. W. Bush formulated a concept which he called the “New World Order”; he envisioned a one world government, and considered that such government could be brought about within a few decades. Bush’s son, President George W. Bush, may have been influenced by that concept when he chose to respond to Terrorist Attacks of September, 2001, with a preemptive Military strike upon Iraq, and upon the Iraqi...

Donilon to Replace Jones as National Security Adviser
Jim Watson/Agence France-Presse Getty Images Gen. James Jones (right) at a Press Conference with then President elect Barack Obama and Sen. Hillary Clinton in Chicago, December 1, 2008. President Obama will announce on Friday that Gen. James Jones, the National Security adviser, is resigning and will be replaced by his deputy, Thomas E. Donilon, senior Administration officials said. General Joness departure had been long rumored , and he had previously indicated to his staff that he...

Tom Donilon To Be Obama's National Security Adviser
The White House announced Friday that Gen. James Jones is resigning his Post as National Security Adviser, making way for his top deputy, Tom Donilon. According to the AP reports , President Obama will announce the staff shakeup Friday in a Speech from the White House Rose Garden. Plans of James's Resignation were no secret among Washington circles, nor is Donilon's promotion to the top spot, though there had been some buzz last month about him replacing the resigning Rahm Emanuel's as Chief...

Curtis Black: The FBI's 'War on Dissent'
FBI Whistleblower Coleen Rowley points out that last week's Raids on Anti-War and solidarity Activists in Chicago and Minneapolis came just days after a "scathing review" by the Justice Department's inspector general, which slammed the agency's post 9/11 "Terrorism investigations" of peace and social Justice groups. The FBI is conducting a "war on dissent, rather than Terrorism," she writes. The IG report apparently "gave no pause to the FBI," which is "continuing to do more of the same,"...

DraftHillary.com
I’ve been very curious about the kick off of this site since seemingly Grassroots political movements these days turn out to be Astroturf. I also don’t want to be mistaken for some Republican operative or shill which has been a problem since a lot of PUMA started getting co-opted by folks that seemed less aligned with correcting Democratic party wrongs than sinking the Democratic party altogether. I’m all for rehabilitating the Democratic Party, I’m just wondering...

Bill spills the beans" linkage of global terror and Palestinian issue
Speaking to a group of Egyptian businessmen in Cairo Tuesday Clinton said Tuesday that solving the Israel-Palestinian conflict would take away much of the motivation for Terrorism around the world. "It will take about half the impetus in the whole world not just the region, the whole world for terror away," he told an audience of Egyptian businessmen from the American Chamber of Commerce in Egypt. "It would have more impact by far than anything else that could be done."...

Obama: 'All Americans are safer' because of Medal of Honor winner's actions
As the Afghanistan war enters its 10th year on Thursday, President Obama awarded the nation's highest Military honor today to a Green Beret who gave his life to save more than 20 U.S. and Afghan comrades. The Medal of Honor went to the parents of Army Staff Sgt. Robert Miller, 24, who drew enemy fire away from his squad after a 2008 ambush by the Taliban in northwest Afghanistan. During a somber ceremony at the White House, Obama said Miller embodies the dangerous yet often secretive work of...

Tomgram: Andrew Bacevich, The U.S. Military as Quagmire Specialists
And what's happened so far may be only the beginning. In his new book, Bob Woodward reports that Obama Administration officials, Military and civilian, were eager to do something more in Pakistan as early as the fall of 2009. As Dennis Blair, the Director of National Intelligence, put it obliquely but clearly enough to the Pakistani ambassador at the time, if his country didn't agree to a "strategic partnership," essentially by moving against Militant networks in North Waziristan, "[W]e will...

PSYCHOLOGY: Threat to free speech?
Psychology: Threat to free Speech? ...

Psychology beyond the Brain
The brain has long enjoyed a privileged status as Psychology's favorite body organ. This is, of course, unsurprising given that the brain instantiates virtually all mental operations, from understanding language, to learning that fire is dangerous, to recalling the name of one's kindergarten teacher, to categorizing fruits and vegetables, to predicting the future. Arguing for the importance of the brain in Psychology is like arguing for the importance of money in economics. More surprising,...

First 100 Days
President Obama said Monday that "only Government" can shake the country out of Recession, as he tried to settle doubts about his Administration's costly Economic Recovery package during a Prime-time Press Conference.  Obama painted a bleak picture of the State of The Economy as he described scenes "across America" in which Job-seekers are standing in long lines for scarce opportunities at employment.  He pointed to such scenes as proof the country is in a "full-blown crisis" and...

Democrats see glimmers of hope in election gloom
Chicago — With only weeks left in the campaign, some staggering Democrats have jumped back into contention in Congressional and gubernatorial races around the country, giving the Party glimmers of hope that Election Day won't also be doomsday. In Illinois, Gov. Pat Quinn has caught up in recent polls after running scathing ads suggesting his opponent is a gun-happy Tax cheat who wants to cut the Minimum Wage. And California Sen. Barbara Boxer gained by portraying the Republican...

Obama: "Hand to hand combat"
Just what kind of divisive, non-unifying, non-post-partisan, ego-riding fool is in our White House ? A Republican majority in Congress would mean “hand-to-hand combat” on Capitol Hill for the next two years, threatening policies Democrats have enacted to stabilize The Economy, President Obama warned Wednesday. Speaking on Michael Baisden’s syndicated radio show, Obama also made a direct appeal to African Americans about the importance of the November vote, even though...

Liberals: If You Don't Cut Carbon You Should Die
I know I’m late on this, but it would be amiss of me to exclude this ridiculousness from my blog. I think we get the message. No dissent allowed! How many tree huggers out there want to kill kids that don’t buy into your Propaganda? There are real groups out there that are willing to kill for this cause and they are called Terrorists. This appears to me to promote such activities. Sick. Michelle Malkin has an excellent write up on this.

Cutting the Fuse
I’m thrilled to be participating in a day-long conference on Capitol Hill next week to coincide with the release of a new book from the University of Chicago, Cutting the Fuse: The Explosion of Suicide Terrorism and How to Stop It . Co-authored by Robert Pape and James Feldman, the book builds on Pape’s earlier pioneering work, including here and here , into the causes of Terrorism. Drawing on data compiled by the Chicago Project on Suicide Terrorism (CPOST) , the book...

October 2000 - The Grim Anniversary
The News this October week in 2000 was a curious mixture of domestic barb-trading, Middle-East saber rattling with shuttle Diplomacy and suspicious eyes cast in the direction of Afghanistan. The Suicide bombing of the USS Cole while refueling in Yemen gave further evidence Terrorism was, not only on the rise, it was becoming more brazen in its targets. And there was universal agreement as to who the main culprit was. Jim Stewart (CBS News): There is no hard evidence as yet, but the working...

People Power! 'Anti-Iran terror plot backfires'
© Press TV Twelve people were killed in the Mahabad Attack on September 22 An Iranian cleric says a Terrorist Attack in western Iran has "backfired," not only failing to create a rift among Shias and Sunnis, but also bringing the two communities closer. "The Terrorist Attack in Sanandaj, which was aimed at creating tribal and religious hostilities, has only united and strengthened the Iranians, especially Shias and Sunnis," Friday Prayers leader of Orumiyeh Mullah Abdul Qader Beizavi...

American war against terrorism in afghanistan and its losses
Urdu Columns Urdu columns and Newspaper Cartoons from leading Urdu Newspapers of Pakistan. Browse columns by Source

October 2000 - The Grim Anniversary
The News this October week in 2000 was a curious mixture of domestic barb-trading, Middle-East saber rattling with shuttle Diplomacy and suspicious eyes cast in the direction of Afghanistan. The Suicide bombing of the USS Cole while refueling in Yemen gave further evidence Terrorism was, not only on the rise, it was becoming more brazen in its targets. And there was universal agreement as to who the main culprit was. Jim Stewart (CBS News): There is no hard evidence as yet, but the working...

Eboo Patel in Washington Post forgets about jihad terrorism, blames "fear of Muslims" on antijihadists
Eboo Patel has a Used Car to sell you. "Nine years after 9/11, a debate about Islam," by Eboo Patel in the Washington Post , October 4 (thanks to all who sent this in): How is it that fear of Muslims in America is actually higher nine years Post 9/11? Watching Christiane Amanpour's special on Islam Sunday provides plenty of clues. Patel, you see, wants to fool his eminently foolable Washington Post readers into thinking that If there is any actual suspicion of or negative feelings toward...

The Ineffectiveness of Vague Security Warnings
From Slate : We do nothing, first and foremost, because there is nothing we can do. Unless the State Department gets specifice.g., "don't go to the Eiffel Tower tomorrow"information at that level of generality is completely meaningless. Unless we are talking about Weapons of Mass Destruction, the chances of being hit by a Car while crossing the street are still greater than the chances of being on the one plane or one Subway Car that comes under attack. Besides, nobody living or...

Explosive violence
Explosive violence involves the use of explosive weapons for the immediate purpose of creating harm to health or damage to physical assets.  Explosive violence is most commonly employed in circumstances of traditional warfare (conflict) and in certain acts of non-state political violence (commonly called ‘Terrorist bombings’). ‘Explosive weapons’ include artillery shells, bombs (such as Aircraft bombs, Car Bombs, Suicide bombs), cluster munitions, grenades,...

U.S. Offers Tax Breaks for Terror Funding
The United States government has been allowing citizens to take a Tax Deduction for donations to Viva Palestina, a group that aids the anti-Israel and anti-America Terrorist group Hamas. Now a U.S. Congressman is trying to put a stop to it, as reported by the International Business Times . Congressman Brad Sherman (D-CA) told the paper that he has written to the State Department, the Department of Justice, and the IRS, informing them that Viva Palestina funds Terrorism and is soliciting...

U.S. Offers Tax Breaks for Terror Funding
George Galloway in Gaza U.S. Offers Tax Breaks for Terror Funding Israel National News The United States government has been allowing citizens to take a Tax Deduction for donations to Viva Palestina, a group that aids the anti-Israel and anti-America Terrorist group Hamas. Now a U.S. Congressman is trying to put a stop to it, as reported by the International Business Times. Congressman Brad Sherman (D-CA) told the paper that he has written to the State Department, the Department of Justice,...