Taking the pill for past 40 years 'has put women off masculine men'

(Analyst's note:  Now we know ...  With this story, one only has to look at the pictures over time.  Simply click on the above title.)

Local Agents Bust Dozens in Major 'Phish Fry'

from KTLA News

LOS ANGELES -- Dozens of people are under arrest in Southern California, Nevada, North Carolina and Egypt in a major crackdown against identity theft.

The FBI launched "Operation Phish Fry" to bust an identity theft ring that has victimized thousands of people.

An FBI statement says an indictment unsealed Wednesday in Los Angeles charges more than 50 people in the United States with running the "phishing" scheme.

Egyptian authorities have charged another 47.

The FBI says it's the largest number of defendants ever charged in a cybercrime case.

Laura Eimiller, an FBI spokeswoman in Los Angeles, says the suspects are accused of running a "phishing" scheme that used computer intrusion and fraud to obtain personal information that allowed them to withdraw money from bank accounts. Egyptian hackers used e-mails to direct victims to phony bank Web sites, where they were to asked to provide account numbers and passwords. Authorities say the thieves then raided their bank accounts.

A large number of marijuana plants were found during a raid of a home in Baldwin Village belonging to a "key" player in the phishing scheme.

The FBI says 33 people were arrested Wednesday morning, mostly in Southern California, Nevada and North Carolina.

Eimiller says victims lost about $2 million dollars.

2 Arrested After Connecticut Police Find Car Filled With Explosives

Two people were arrested after authorities in Connecticut stopped a car full of explosives in a New Haven residential neighborhood.

Police charged 38-year-old John Iannucci of Branford and 27-year-old Jessup Bollinger of New Haven with manufacture of bombs, illegal possession of explosives and other charges.

Both men were being held on $500,000 bond. It was unclear if they had attorneys.
New Haven Officer Joseph Avery says police don't know if the suspects planned to use the explosives, because they're not talking much to investigators.

FBI New Haven spokesman William Reiner told FOXNews.com that the bureau is now helping local police in the probe, but declined to elaborate.

Cops pulled over a motorist Tuesday night allegedly driving a car full of pipe bombs, rifles and a propane tank in New Haven around 11:30 p.m. Tuesday, according to FOX 61.

SLIDESHOW: Bomb-Packed Car Case

A bomb squad was called in and a silver Mercedes was towed away, according to FOX 61. There have been no reports of injuries.

Authorities closed off a four-block area because of the danger posed by the explosives, but did not evacuate.

Click here for more from FOX 61.

Islamophobes urge Canadian government to ban burqas, niqabs in public -- no, wait...

by Robert Spencer

Actually it was a Canadian Muslim group -- a group that knows full well what these garments mean for the subjugation of women. But our enlightened multicultural Western governments know better, of course. "Muslim group urges gov't to ban burkas, niqabs in public," from The Canadian Press, October 7 (thanks to Maxwell):

TORONTO -- Middle Eastern garments designed to cover a woman's face are "medieval" and "misogynist" symbols of extremism with no basis in Islam, a Canadian Muslim lobby group said Wednesday as it urged Ottawa to ban the burka and the niqab.

The Muslim Canadian Congress called on the federal government to prohibit the two garments in order to prevent women from covering their faces in public -- a practice the group said has no place in a society that supports gender equality.

"To cover your face is to conceal your identity," congress spokeswoman Farzana Hassan said in a telephone interview, describing the issue as a matter of public safety, since concealing one's identity is a common practice for criminals.

The tradition of Muslim women covering their faces in public is a tradition rooted more in Middle Eastern culture than in the Islamic faith, Hassan added.

There is nothing in any of the primary Islamic religious texts, including the Qur'an, that requires women to cover their faces, she said -- not even in the controversial, ultra-conservative tenets of Sharia law.

Considering the fact that women are in fact forbidden from wearing burkas in the grand mosque in Mecca, Islam's holiest site, it hardly makes sense that the practice should be permitted in Canada, she said.

"If a government claims to uphold equality between men and women, there is no reason for them to support a practice that marginalizes women."...

Federal Reserve - The People's Gov't and Associates at Work

(Analyst's note: Just received an interesting, absolutely must read e-mail from a friend in Maryland and one of the responses of which he speaks.)

Last week I sent a question to Senator Mikulski, asking what happened to 2,000,000,000 dollars that apparently has gone missing from the Federal Reserve. And other question like who has the oversight, who monitors it, with what regularity, where can citizens go to see and read about the results, etc.

In return two days ago I received a stupid response telling me about the clean water act and how that was going. I have/had no interested in my question to the clean water act and it was the response from one of her staff, thinking that they were being funny.

So I answered the clean water response with a - OK let's see how funny I can be. I told them that I personally know several people who write for the Annapolis Newspaper and the Maryland Gazette. I explained that I have received several responses to my serious questions, with no related answers - and that I thought they were intentional ridicules of a Maryland Citizen. I have them all here on my computer and thought I would send them to the Newspapers, FOX and my entire distribution list on my Internet account. I told them that I will personally call the Senator and request a meeting and I will send that email into her "EYES ONLY" And I promise to get together the largest group in the state of Maryland to see that she and her staff are not around after 2010 to ridicule Maryland Citizens.

Thus far today, I have received two answers to previously asked questions giving me much better, although incomplete, answers to my emails to the Senator. I want to know where the missing 2 trillion dollars from the Federal Reserve is? Who spent it, By what Authority, where did it go, and who signed the authority document? It is taxpayers money and we are entitled to know that. Please write to your representatives and ask them where it went - it was our money. Did we send it to Iran to help them build the bomb faster, Did we send it to Palestine to help the needy there???? Like the man said, "Show me My Money!)"


My Friend's Name
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Dear Mr. ______:

Thank you for getting in touch with me about the Federal Reserve.  It's great to hear from you.

I appreciate hearing your views and I understand your concerns.  Congress created the Fed in 1913 to serve as the central bank and set monetary policy for the United States.  It has two equally critical goals: to promote full employment and contain inflation.  Pursuing these goals requires the Federal Reserve be insulated against political pressures so that it can make decisions in the long term best interests of the economy.  At the same time, the Fed must be accountable for its actions.  This is especially true now after the Fed has taken such dramatic and unprecedented steps to head off the collapse of the financial system and the economy.

I supported amendments to the Congressional Budget Resolution (S. Con. Res. 13) and the Helping Families Save Their Homes Act (Public Law 111-22) that would have increased transparency at the Federal Reserve and required additional information about the Fed's use of monetary policy in response to the credit crisis.  But these amendments ultimately did not become law.

The Government Accountability Office currently audits the Fed, but it is prohibited from examining the agency's monetary policy actions.  The Federal Reserve Sunshine Act (S. 604) would provide additional authority to audit the entire Federal Reserve System by 2010 and report to Congress.

S. 604 is currently pending in the Senate Banking Committee.  Knowing of your views is helpful to me, and I will keep them in mind should this legislation come before the full Senate.

Again, thanks for contacting me.  Please let me know if I can be of assistance to you in the future.

Sincerely,
Barbara A. Mikulski
United States Senator


Please do not respond directly to this e-mail. The originating e-mail account is not monitored.
If you would like to get in touch with me again, please visit my Webform at http://mikulski.senate.gov/Contact/contact.cfm
 

Beck: US Newspapers Print More About ‘Jon and Kate’ Than Demise of the Dollar

Senate Health Bill Imposes $29B More in Taxes

Congressional tax experts (Congressional Budget Office) reported that the bill would impose more taxes on health care industries than originally thought -- levies that could be passed on to consumers

Riqa Bary Dependency Trial Court docs: Ohio terror imam Hany Saqr is Muslim Brotherhood leader

from the Jawa Report

One of the more interesting development that has come out of the Riqa Bary dependency trial thus far is the meticulously footnoted 35 page memorandum submitted to the Florida court by Rifqa's attorney, John Stemberger, concerning the Bary family mosque in Ohio, the Noor Islamic Cultural Center. According to Rifqa's affidavit, individuals from the mosque had reported her Christian faith to her father and the mosque leaders ordered him to get his daughter "in line", leading to the threats her parents have admitted to that prompted her to flee to Florida. Her affidavit also documents the Bary's families activity with the Noor Center.

We've reported on the Noor mosque previously, but there are important elements to the Stemberger memo worth additional attention concerns the head of the mosque, Hany Saqr, who is identified on the Noor website as the "founder, spiritual leader, administrator and chairman" of the mosque.
Saqr's name came up during the Holy Land Foundation terrorism finance trial (which resulted in convictions against the defendants on all counts) as one of the top leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood movement in North America. Specifically, he was identified in a 1992 Muslim Brotherhood phone directory entered into evidence by the Department of Justice as a member of the Board of Directors, the Executive Committee, and the Eastern region "masul" for the group. The image below (taken from the illustrated memo on the Florida Security Council's website) shows the cover of the directory and Hany Saqr's name listed on the board of directors page:  (Note: click on title above to see this full picture)

As Fox News reported after the memo had been submitted to the court, Saqr denied all the charges. Presumably, this includes his denial that he was identified in the court documents. But not only was the home phone number listed in the directory registered to his home address at the time (as it appeared on his Ohio drivers license), but the office number also went to his office in the pathology department at Ohio State University according to university records. Additionally, the home phone listed in the court documents was registered for several years following that time, including to the address Saqr used when he and his colleagues incorporated the American Islamic Waqf - the parent corporation of the Noor Islamic Cultural Center.

We'll wait and see if his supporters show up in the comments to deny this.

In the next few days we will have more info on Dr. Saqr, but for anyone who isn't familiar with the Muslim Brotherhood, we would recommend this 2004 Chicago Tribune article as an intro into the terrorist ties of the organization (that also came up during the Holy Land Foundation trial) and the secretive nature of their operations in the US. Stay tuned for more!

Jihad terror cell found in Hamburg, where 9/11 was plotted

(Analyst's note:  Remember the recent AQ warning to Germany found and posted here?  One can reason that it was more than just a warning.)

from Jihad Watch

"The danger is absolutely real."

"Terrorist cell found in Hamburg where 9/11 attacks conceived," from the Telegraph, October 7 (thanks to James):

An Islamic terrorist cell has been discovered in Hamburg, the city where the 9/11 attacks were planned eight years ago.

German intelligence services learned that a new militant group with ten members, headed by a German of Syrian origins, had sprung up in the port city....

The ten members are understood to have left Hamburg early this year to attend paramilitary camps in the Hindu Kush, however, two are thought to have recently returned.

All of them were said to have used Hamburg's Taiba Mosque as a meeting place, the same location frequented by the 9/11 leader Mohammed Atta and his accomplices. They went onto carry out the attacks on New York's World Trade Centre and Washington.
"It is to be assumed that these persons are absolutely prepared to carry out suicide or other attacks at home or abroad," the report said, according to Die Welt and Report Mainz.
"The members of the group have a basic commitment to jihad and belong to Hamburg's potentially violent pro-jihad scene."...

Anti-terrorist police set up a security cordon around the Oktoberfest in Munich, the world's largest beer festival, and fighter jets were put on standby.

"The danger is absolutely real," said Joachim Hermann, the Bavarian Interior Minister. "We know that increasing numbers are attending these training camps."

Your health records available to millions Including sensitive details about diseases, prescriptions, addictions, mental illness

(Analyst's note:  Troubling.)


By Chelsea Schilling

Would American citizens object if they knew 4 million health-related businesses distributed private details about their mental illnesses, cancer diagnoses, sexually transmitted diseases, prescriptions, addictions and sensitive genetic information?

Psychoanalyst Dr. Deborah Peel told WND most patients don't know that their highly sensitive information is being shared with thousands of law-enforcement agencies, insurance brokers, life and health insurance companies, credit bureaus, transcription vendors, disease registries, employers and banks every day – and the data can be used to discriminate against Americans.

"Part of the language that keeps people assured is they say things like, 'No unauthorized users can see your information.' That sounds pretty good," she said. "The problem is, they don't tell you how many authorized users there are."

Peel, founder of Patient Privacy Rights, the nation's leading consumer health privacy advocacy organization, said patients often have a false sense of security when they sign Health Insurance

Portability and Accountability Act, or HIPAA, forms in doctors' offices. She warned that those forms only affirm that the patient has received notice that health-related businesses can share records.

PPR's website warns that this information sharing can effect Americans in a variety of ways. It posted the following list of examples:

• If a school or university learns your child has ADHD or is being treated for depression, they may deny admission.

• If a boss knows you take Xanax or Zoloft, they may reconsider your promotion.

• If you or your spouse have a serious or costly chronic illness, an employer may not hire you or your children. A bank may deny a loan or credit.

• If you get a genetic test, most researchers and companies claim to own your DNA. Hospitals freely use the DNA of all newborns. If you carry the breast cancer gene, you, your children and grandchildren may always be stigmatized, even if they aren't sick.....

Gulf officials deny plan to replace dollar

(Wall Street Journal) Arab officials in the Persian Gulf strongly denied a report that they're in secret talks to replace the U.S. dollar with a basket of currencies to price oil ...

Obama administration backs U.N. limits on free speech

(Anne Bayefsky) Islamic states quickly interpreted the president's penchant for "engagement" as meaning fundamental rights were now up for grabs ...