http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/breaking-news/ en-us Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:26:37 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2391118/posts FORT LEONARD WOOD, Mo. (Nov. 20, 2009) — A Missouri National Guardsman in training to become a military truck driver faces charges of making a terrorist threat in a school near Whiteman Air Force Base. According to court records, the trainee, Pfc. Michael John Frederick, 19, went into a Sedalia high school during a Saturday evening event and told the superintendent that the Army had told him to warn area schools that escaped prisoners might be trying to kidnap students. Frederick was wearing his military uniform when he made his warning about escaped inmates. However, there were no escaped inmates... Pulaski County Daily News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2391118/posts#comment Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:26:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2391062/posts GLOBAL WARMING JUNK SCIENCE PROVEN A CONSPIRACY—- ManBearPig Is Finally Dead! I’m serial! Recently “discovered” classified emails and files prove that the junk scientists behind the global warming movement knowingly perpetrated a fraud on the global community. The files were posted on the internet– HERE. The Telegraph reported: If you own any shares in alternative energy companies I should start dumping them NOW. The conspiracy behind the Anthropogenic Global Warming myth (aka AGW; aka ManBearPig) has been suddenly, brutally and quite deliciously exposed after a hacker broke into the computers at the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit (aka... Gateway Pundit http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2391062/posts#comment Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:11:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2391023/posts Heard on CNN: Hasan conversant and aware of his charges, coherent. Paralysed from waist down. Targeted only soldiers, passed over civilians. Shot one soldier 3 times until he fell, then shot him 3 more times. Soldier survived. CNN http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2391023/posts#comment Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:06:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2390865/posts John McCain's problems inside his own party were hardly overcome by his place as its nominee, Rasmussen reports. The new poll shows McCain up just two points, 45% to 43%, in a hypothetical contest with former Rep. J.D. Hayworth, now a popular local radio talker, who's mulling a bid. Politico / Rasmussen http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2390865/posts#comment Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:50:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2390862/posts A Russian Orthodox priest, Fr. Daniel Sysoyev, who carried out missionary work among immigrants from ex-Soviet republics, many of them Muslims, received over a dozen death threats before his murder on Thursday, a Russian paper said. Fr. Daniel of St. Thomas Church in Moscow foresaw his death, writing in his internet diary that he had received telephone threats from Muslims. Fr. Daniel’s evening ‘talks’ for inquirers included several especially designed for Muslims. RIA Novosti http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2390862/posts#comment Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:46:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2390848/posts President Obama's approval rating in the Rasmussen Presidential Approval Index is now at -14, the third straight day it has been at that number. That is equal to the lowest rating recorded during the Obama Presidency. The "Presidential Approval Index" is figured based on those who "strongly approve" of the job Obama is doing, minus those who "strongly disapprove" of his performance. Today, that stands at 27%-41%. Obama's overall approval rating is at 47%-52%. freedomslighthouse.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2390848/posts#comment Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:30:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2390823/posts Gallup Daily tracking results just in. Obama will be below 50% for the first time... Collection of various articles Stealth Fusion http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2390823/posts#comment Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:10:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2390766/posts Days after controversy erupted over new breast cancer screening guidelines, a US health group has said women should wait longer to get their first cervical cancer test. The New York Times reported Friday that the American College of Obstetricians is now advising women to wait until age 21 to get their first Pap smear. The advice is intended to cut down on unnecessary testing and reduce the risk of harmful invasive procedures to remove non-cancerous lesions that may show up on tests but often disappear if left alone, the group said. The new recommendations overturn previous guidance, which suggested women... AFP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2390766/posts#comment Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:07:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2390574/posts UPDATE: Response from CRU in interview with another website, see end of this post. The details on this are still sketchy, we’ll probably never know what went on. But it appears that University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit has been hacked and many many files have been released by the hacker or person unknown. http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/cru/annrep93/cru.jpg UPDATED: Original image was for Met Office – corrected This image source: www.cru.uea.ac.uk I’m currently traveling and writing this from an airport, but here is what I know so far: An unknown person put postings on some climate skeptic websites that advertised an FTP... Watts Up With That? http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2390574/posts#comment Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:39:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2390728/posts Senator Daniel Akaka (D-Hawaii)Chief of Staff Joan Ohashi joan_ohashi@akaka.senate.gov Communications Director Jon Yoshimura jon_yoshimura@akaka.senate.gov Press Secretary Jesse Broder Van Dyke jesse_brodervandyke@akaka.senate.gov Legislative Director Jennifer Tyree jennifer_tyree@akaka.senate.gov Deputy Legislative Director Matt Pippin matt_pippin@akaka.senate.gov Senator Max Baucus (D-Montana)Chief of Staff Jon Selib jon_selib@baucus.senate.gov Communications Director Tyler Ryan “Ty” Matsdorf tyler_matsdorf@baucus.senate.gov Press Secretary Carolyn Bunce carolyn_bunce@baucus.senate.gov Legislative Director Paul Stockton Wilkins paul_wilkins@baucus.senate.gov Senator Evan Bayh (D-Indiana)Chief of Staff Charles Salem charlie_salem@bayh.senate.gov Deputy Chief of Staff Linda Moore Forbes linda_forbes@bayh.senate.gov Communications Director Eric D. Kleiman eric_kleiman@bayh.senate.gov Press Secretary Brian Weiss brian_weiss@bayh.senate.gov Counsel Jesse Gabriel jesse_gabriel@bayh.senate.gov Fax: (202) 228-1377 Legislative Director Jayme Roth jayme_roth@bayh.senate.gov Legislative... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2390728/posts#comment Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:21:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2390721/posts The Army has guidelines on how to deal with racist views and actions within the ranks, but none on how to deal with Islamic jihadism, a former Army vice chief of staff told Congress on Thursday. Retired Army Gen. John M. Keane said this absence of guidance fostered a politically correct reluctance to investigate the man accused in the Fort Hood shootings, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan. A military pamphlet created after the 1995 racially motivated shootings at Fort Bragg is the intended guidebook on how to deal with extremist activities and prohibited conduct but is mostly focused on white supremacist... Washington Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2390721/posts#comment Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:15:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2390650/posts 8.15 PM UPDATE: The Hadley CRU director admits the emails seem to be genuine: The director of Britain’s leading Climate Research Unit, Phil Jones, has told Investigate magazine’s TGIF Edition tonight ..."It was a hacker. We were aware of this about three or four days ago that someone had hacked into our system and taken and copied loads of data files and emails."… TGIF asked Jones about the controversial email discussing “hiding the decline”, and Jones explained what he was trying to say…. So the 1079 emails and 72 documents seem indeed evidence of a scandal involving most of the... Herald Sun (AU) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2390650/posts#comment Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:42:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2390184/posts Attorney General Eric Holder lacks authority to make a decision on moving terror detainees to civilian courts for trial, one of his predecessors said Wednesday. Former Attorney General John Ashcroft, who held his position during the Bush administration from 2001-2005, said that Holder lacked the legal standing to decide to move alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and other terror detainees to federal courts in New York City to stand trial. >p> "The attorney general doesn't have the authority to mandate that the secretary of Defense turn somebody over to him and yield jurisdiction so that something that would have... The Hill http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2390184/posts#comment Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:44:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2390331/posts "Stop portraying the Prophet Mohammed as a suicide bomber or more Muslims will become suicide bombers and murder you blasphemers." That's pretty much what Algeria's Ambassador to the U.N., Idriss Jazairy, who serves as chairman of the U.N.'s Ad Hoc Committee on Complementary Standards told the Associated Press in an interview about efforts by the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) to pass a U.N. treaty banning blasphemy against Islam.The exact quote from the AP:"If we keep hitting this glass wall and say there's nothing you can do about Islamophobia — you can do something about anti-Semitism but Islamophobia is... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2390331/posts#comment Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:45:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2390270/posts European Union leaders have named two relatively unknowns to be the first permanent EU president and foreign minister. Belgian Prime Minister Herman Van Rompuy will be the new president and EU Trade Commissioner Catherine Ashton was appointed foreign policy chief. Both names were approved by consensus Thursday at a summit in Brussels. Diplomats say both are compromise candidates with little foreign policy experience. Britain had been insisting on a famous name - specifically former British Prime Minster Tony Blair - to be president. Other members wanted someone who they say would be less divisive as the EU looks for a... Voice of America http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2390270/posts#comment Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:33:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2390266/posts United States Army Major Nidal Hasan told a radical cleric considered by authorities to be an al-Qaeda recruiter, "I can't wait to join you" in the afterlife, according to an American official with top secret access to 18 e-mails exchanged between Hasan and the cleric, Anwar al Awlaki, over a six month period between Dec. 2008 and June 2009. abc http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2390266/posts#comment Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:29:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2390252/posts Republican Sen. Tom Coburn is backing off his threat to require that the Senate read the 2,074-page health care bill because some GOP colleagues aren't supporting the effort. The Oklahoma lawmaker said there's uncertainty about whether reading the bill during Thanksgiving week would be productive. He also said that if the Republicans do decide to tie up the Senate for the dozens of hours it would take, six GOP colleagues have committed to pitching in on reading duty. AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2390252/posts#comment Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:00:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2390248/posts WASHINGTON — The Senate will hold its first vote on health care legislation on Saturday night and Democrats will need 60 votes to prevail.Majority Leader Harry Reid announced the schedule on the Senate floor, one day after unveiling a nearly $1 trillion bill to expand health coverage.Republicans have vowed to block passage of the measure, and Democrats must put up 60 votes to clear the way for a lengthy debate next month. AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2390248/posts#comment Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:53:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2390235/posts Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) officially joined Sen. Joe Lieberman (ID-Conn.) as the second member of the Democratic Conference to threaten a filibuster of the Senate’s health care reform bill. http://bit.ly/2yYu8c Roll Call http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2390235/posts#comment Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:33:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2389608/posts A top federal health official said Wednesday that the controversial new guidelines for breast cancer screening do not represent government policy, as the Obama administration sought to keep the debate over mammograms from undermining the prospects for health-care reform. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, in a written statement, said the new guidelines had "caused a great deal of confusion and worry among women and their families across this country," and she stressed that they were issued by "an outside independent panel of doctors and scientists who . . . do not set federal policy and . . .... Washington Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2389608/posts#comment Thu, 19 Nov 2009 04:04:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2390110/posts Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani has decided not to run for governor next year - but will run for U.S. Senate instead, sources told the Daily News. A source familiar with Giuliani's thinking said the failed presidential candidate has been telling people he plans to run against Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand in 2010 to fill out the remaining two years of Hillary Clinton's term. daily news http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2390110/posts#comment Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:00:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2390106/posts by Dana Blanton , FOXNews.com President Obama's approval rating has hit a new low of 46 percent, even as a majority of Americans says he is providing the kind of leadership they expected. print email share recommend (2) President Obama's approval rating has hit a new low of 46 percent, according to a FOX News poll released Thursday. An equal number -- 46 percent -- disapprove of the job he's doing. Breaking down the numbers by political party shows how sharply split American voters are over the president's job performance. While 85 percent of Democrats approve of their party leader,... FoxNews.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2390106/posts#comment Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:45:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2390109/posts Because article is so short, mainly just posting the link... http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N19144921.htm "Uniformed men, apparently from the Venezuelan army, arrived in trucks on the Venezuelan side at two pedestrian bridges that link communities on both sides ... and then proceeded to dynamite them," Colombian Defense Minister Gabriel Silva said. Reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2390109/posts#comment Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:54:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2390107/posts Army officials plan to prevent media from covering Sarah Palin's appearance at Fort Bragg on Monday, saying they fear the event will turn into political grandstanding against President Barack Obama. Fort Bragg spokesman Tom McCollum told The Associated Press on Thursday that Army officials had decided to keep media away from Palin's book promotion at the North Carolina base. SNIP McCollum said the Army did not want the event to become a platform for Palin supporters to express political opinions "directed against the commander in chief." AP via Denver Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2390107/posts#comment Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:46:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2390100/posts TAMPA - Business owners in Florida are about to get hit with a big tax hike: starting January 1st, all Florida businesses will have to pay skyrocketing unemployment compensation taxes to replenish the unemployment compensation trust fund. Tampa Bay Fox TV http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2390100/posts#comment Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:40:40 GMT