http://news.antiwar.com/2008/11/09/report-bin-laden-eyes-anti-us-attack-to-outdo-by-far-911/

London-based Arabic language newspaper Al-Quds Al-Arabi is reporting indications from a Yemeni with “very close” al-Qaeda ties that Osama bin Laden is plotting an attack against the United States that will “outdo by far” September 11.

The report says that bin Laden sent a message to all jihad cells warning them not to interact with local governments in the Arab world and to reject any formal talks suggested over the past few months, and the source suggested al-Qaeda may send some signals about its intentions over the “next few days.”

The report comes just days after President Bush predicted that terrorists would use the transition to an Obama Administration as an opportunity to attack Americans, though he did not mention al-Qaeda by name. Since the September 11 attacks killed around 3,000 people, an attack that would outdo it “by far” would have to be of a completely unprecedented scale.

>>	Junior Field Reporter 08/11/16(Sun)12:06 No.9634   File: 1226866003732.jpg -(13976 B, 410x300) Thumbnail displayed, click image for full size. >>9548 >The IRA tried with their bombing campaigns in London. I dunnoo, things changed after Louie bought it.

http://www.alternet.org/workplace/106993/

In September, Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson sold his $700 billion bailout to Congress on the premise that banks were hoarding money to prop up their balance sheets and that this was bringing the economy to a screeching halt.

Paulson has thrown a big chunk of that money at the banks -- all but $60 billion of the first $350 billion authorized by Congress has been committed -- and they've started lending to each other. But it has done virtually nothing to prevent the worst-case economic scenario we are all worried may come to pass -- a meltdown of the "brick and mortar" economy -- because the banks still aren't lending to the general public.

That's not just a result of the banks restricting loans that would allow businesses to stay afloat, if not expand, and individuals to buy so much of the stuff that the global economy produces. It's also because there are fewer American families and businesses that are credit-worthy.

In the housing market, that's indicated by a drop-off in the number of new loan applications. Mortgage applications are down by about a third from this time last year. As economist Dean Baker noted this week, "If people with good credit were being turned down, we would expect the number of applications to be rising, as they apply to several banks before finally finding one that will issue a loan. The fact that applications are actually declining ... is solid evidence that the problem is not that otherwise credit-worthy borrowers can't get loans. The problem is that people are not credit-worthy."

"Canberra, Australia (AHN) - After stock markets and world economies crashed recently, its now the turn of unwanted websites to fall down. A day after computer security experts identified and cut off from the World Wide Web a San Jose IT firm responsible for 75 percent of spam emails in the world, Australia announced on Friday plans to block 10,000 portals with unwanted content.

The block of the websites is part of the federal government's plan to put in place a filter technology beginning just before Christmas and will last for six weeks. So far the Australian government has initially identified 1,300 webpages it plans to block under a clean feeds scheme.

Communications Minister Stephen Conroy said most of the sites are known child pornography portals containing lewd images and videos. For the project to have a wider impact, Conroy called on Australian ISP provider to participate in the test run. But only one ISP has come forward."

http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7013042848

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That would be that ISP then Junior Field Reporter 08/11/15(Sat)07:54 No.9627   File: 1226764483709.jpg -(6926 B, 160x160) Thumbnail displayed, click image for full size. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/11/12/aussie_firewall_row/ The Australian technology industry is starting to fight back against the government plan to force all ISPs to filter everyone's internet access. Michael Malone, boss of iiNet, an Australian ISP with 700,000 customers, said his firm would take part in the trial, but only in order to show the government how stupid it was. Malone described communications minister Stephen Conroy as the worst minister in the internet's 15-year history. The scheme would force ISPs to offer two types of internet access - one filtered for children and one filtered for adult Australians. Conroy did not help his cause with a muddled performance in the Australian Senate. Conroy said the pilot would filter a blacklist from the Australian Communications and Media Authority as well as "other unwanted content". ACMA's blacklist includes 1,300 web addresses and another 10,000 would be added to this list. But he failed to answer Senator Scott Ludlam's question as to what "unwanted" meant. The trial will test the impact on internet speeds as well as costs for providers. Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.

Science fiction writer Philip K. Dick is reported to have coined the concept of a "fake fake" -- an authentic object that has been made to look as though it is in fact non-genuine. The Eisenstadt hoax has actually turned Carl Cameron's story about Sarah Palin into a real-world "fake fake." In the process, it has created a great deal of empty, pointless noise and confusion.

It may well be true, as the Columbia Journalism Review observed recently, that "the press still seems ridiculously preoccupied with Palin (and ridiculously not preoccupied with vice-president-elect Biden). ... Palin's current news value is largely based on her entertainment value" rather than because of "anything that's very politically relevant." Carl Cameron's report about her alleged problem with Africa is certainly an example of this -- a story that barely matters with regard to any important issue of the day. However, there is still something disturbing at seeing how easily the Eisenstadt hoax has succeeded in attaching itself to the story and unfairly calling its accuracy into question.

For anyone who has not yet figured this out yet, here's the story in a nutshell:

http://www.counterpunch.org/rampton11142008.html

http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/johann-hari/johann-hari-obamas-chance-to-end-the--fantasy-that-is-star-wars-1015509.html

The world is still pleasurably suffering from Woah-bama whiplash. Did he really win? Are we all awake? And would anybody mind if he starts a few months early? The need for decisions is rapidly piling up – and one of Obama's first choices is whether to bring to an end one of the strangest episodes in American political history.

This is the tale of how a man with Alzheimer's Disease came up with a physically impossible fantasy based on a B-movie he once starred in – and how the US spent $160bn trying to make it come true. These billions succeeded only in making some defence companies very rich, and making Russia point its nukes at Poland and the UK once more. And if Obama doesn't decide to close this long-running farce now, it will make one more contribution to world history: the number of Weapons of Mass Destruction in the world will dramatically increase.

Here's how this story began – and continued into our time. In the early 1980s, President Ronald Reagan was increasingly worried that a nuclear war with the Soviet Union was inevitable, until a long-suppressed memory resurfaced in his mind. In 1940, he had starred in a hokey movie called Murder in the Air. He played a secret agent who had to protect a newly invented super-weapon called the "Intertia Projector", which fired an electrical current at any plane or missile approaching the US, rendering it worthless. In the film, a scientist tells Reagan that this weapon "makes the US invincible in war, and promises to become the greatest force for world peace ever discovered".

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"As NASA prepares to double the number of astronauts living aboard the International Space Station, nothing may do more for crew bonding than a machine being launched aboard the space shuttle Endeavour on Friday.

It's a water-recycling device that will process the crew's urine for communal consumption.

"We did blind taste tests of the water," said NASA's Bob Bagdigian, the system's lead engineer. "Nobody had any strong objections. Other than a faint taste of iodine, it is just as refreshing as any other kind of water.""

http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSTRE4AD3MB20081114

>>	Junior Field Reporter 08/11/14(Fri)13:16 No.9617   File: 1226697399769.jpg -(2815 B, 103x137) Thumbnail displayed, click image for full size. Well, American beer has always been as weak as piss, so they should have no problem with this.

"A 200-year-old church building has disappeared from a village in central Russia, officials from the Russian Orthodox Church say.

The building had stood near the village of Komarovo since 1809.

It was intact in July but some time in early October thieves made off with it brick by brick, they said.

Local prosecutors had been informed and an investigation was under way, a spokesman for the local Russian Orthodox Church said.

The disappearance of the Church of the Resurrection, some 300 km (186 miles) north-east of Moscow, was not immediately noticed. "

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7728407.stm

>>	Paul Soth!.faa6Jx25. 08/11/14(Fri)11:57 No.9613   File: 1226692674259.jpg -(27825 B, 468x444) Thumbnail displayed, click image for full size. Suspect sought for questioning.

"We've been hearing talk of mini-sized nuclear reactors for a year or longer, but now it looks like Hyperion is actually starting to build them. The hot tub-sized fission nukes, each capable of cranking out 25 megawatts of clean power (enough to run 20,000 homes), will use what's called "low-enriched" uranium fuel.

The $25 million mini-nukes, also called "nuclear batteries," will have no moving parts, and will be sealed up in a cask that's buried deep underground, operating without the need for human intervention for five years at a time. They're going to be cost-effective, too — in a 10,000-home community it would cost about $2,500 per home served. Many homeowners spend that much on energy in a year. If this happens, that'll be some cheap power.

The company says it's already begun construction of the first 4,000 units in three factories, with the initial 100 destined for industrial use in remote locations."

http://dvice.com/archives/2008/11/hyperion_starts.php

>>	Junior Field Reporter 08/11/14(Fri)12:23 No.9614   File: 1226694185641.jpg -(67039 B, 500x317) Thumbnail displayed, click image for full size. Great Scott, it's started already! Now we just have to wait until Pocari Sweat becomes commonplace in America.

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Junior Field Reporter 08/11/14(Fri)13:02 No.9616   File: 1226696538686.png -(120268 B, 730x856) Thumbnail displayed, click image for full size. I bet the power producing industries first started crapping bricks when messrs. Pons & Fleischman first revealed their Cold Fusion experiment. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_fusion Imagine if every home had it's own little fusion reactor? There'd be mass suicides in the nuclear power industry!

"France's President Nicolas Sarkozy says he is concerned about Russia's threat to deploy missiles near Poland and wants a summit on European security.

"We really must move forward... to remove sources of friction," Mr Sarkozy said at a joint news conference with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. "

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7729371.stm

"A campaigner has won a legal victory in a long-running battle with the government over the use of pesticides.

A High Court judge ruled Georgina Downs, who lives near Chichester, West Sussex, had produced "solid evidence" that residents had suffered harm. "

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/sussex/7729112.stm