(SAN FRANCISCO) - A case involving genetically modified (GM) food will be in front of a federal judge Friday in San Francisco.

Researchers say the future of generations of Americans hangs in the balance, as the judge could order a halt to the planting or harvesting of any GM “Roundup Ready” sugar beets in the U.S.

This would strike a blow to growers in the Red River Valley, where more sugar beets are grown than any other region. Most of these growers have already been using Roundup Ready seed varieties for two years.

In a nationwide referendum Saturday, more than 90 percent of voters have resoundingly rejected a $5.3 billion plan to pay off Britain and the Netherlands for debts spawned by the Iceland financial crisis.

Why is the national security community treating the "Enemy Belligerent, Interrogation, Detention, and Prosecution Act of 2010," introduced by Sens. John McCain and Joseph Lieberman on Thursday as a standard proposal, as a simple response to the administration’s choices in the aftermath of the Christmas Day bombing attempt? A close reading of the bill suggests it would allow the U.S. military to detain U.S. citizens without trial indefinitely in the U.S. based on suspected activity. Read the bill here, and then read the summarized points after the jump.

According to the summary, the bill sets out a comprehensive policy for the detention, interrogation and trial of suspected enemy belligerents who are believed to have engaged in hostilities against the United States by requiring these individuals to be held in military custody, interrogated for their intelligence value and not provided with a Miranda warning.

(There is no distinction between U.S. persons-visa holders or citizens-and non-U.S. persons.)

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What would you say if you were told that airplanes were regularly spraying toxic aerosols in the skies above every major region of the world?

That is exactly what a group of protestors were claiming outside of the annual American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) meeting that was held in San Diego from February 18-22. However, inside the convention center was a different story.

The scientists gathered to discuss the “plausibility” of implementing various Geo-engineering campaigns throughout the world, all under the guise that the Earth has a man-made global warming problem that can be solved in-part by spraying aerosol aluminum and other particles into the sky to block the sun.

When these scientists were asked about the possibility of existing aerosol programs; they stated that no aerosol spraying programs have been implemented to date.

A little confused? Why would protestors gather outside of a meeting making claims that world-wide aerosol programs were under way if scientist were only now discussing the possibility of implementing these programs? Could it be that one of these groups is being deceived?

Mauro Oliveira, the Webmaster of Geoengineeringwatch.org, was one of the protestors. He claimed that the program for Stratospheric Aerosol Geo-engineering (SAG), AKA chemtrails, has been well under way around the world. As a matter of fact, Oliveira stated that witnesses from around the globe claim that heavy aerosol spraying is occurring almost every day over just about every city. He went on to explain the difference between a contrail and a chemtrail. He stated that when a jet airplane flies at a certain altitude, a visible trail of streaks of condensed water vapor sometimes form in the wake of the aircraft.

This is called a contrail. Contrails are normal and usually dissipate in a few seconds. They are very similar to when we breathe in cold weather. According to Oliveira, what occurs behind a SAG plane spraying aerosols is quite different. What can be seen is a thick white line also called a chemtrail that lingers in the sky for several hours. The SAG lines are sprayed into the upper atmosphere and then spread out forming what then appear to be clouds. The particles from these aerosols then fall to the ground where they enter our soil and water and can also be inhaled.

WASHINGTON — Eleven major airports will begin using body scanners to screen passengers as the Transportation Security Administration launches a plan to buy 1,000 of the machines over the next two years.
The scanners can look under passengers' clothing in order to detect weapons and explosives.

Boston Logan International Airport received one new scanner this week and will get two more next week. All will go into the same terminal. Among the other airports getting the scanners are Los Angeles International, Chicago O'Hare and Charlotte Douglas International.

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The Transportation Security Administration bought 150 scanners in September using $25 million from the federal stimulus package. It plans to buy 300 more this year and 500 next year. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano ordered the installation accelerated after the failed Christmas Day bombing attempt of an airliner over Detroit.

The scanners, made by California-based Rapiscan, are 9 feet long and 6½ feet wide, much larger than metal detectors. Airport screeners view images from the machines in a nearby closed room.

Some airport officials have expressed worry because the scanners are larger and slower than metal detectors. "That's a big concern," Ed Freni, aviation director at Logan airport, said of the slower speed. "We have to monitor it very closely because if it slows things, we're going to have to adjust."

Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport operations director Mike Nonnemacher said he learned Tuesday from the TSA that the airport would be getting an unspecified number of the scanners. "We'll do what we have to to make the space available for these machines," Nonnemacher said.

About half of nearly 40 airports that answered a survey last month by the Airports Council International said their security checkpoints are too small to handle the machines, according to Christopher Bidwell, the council's security chief.

The new scanners will bring the total number of airports with the machines to 29. That includes 17 of the nation's 30 largest airports.

Airports with scanners will continue to use metal detectors, both as an alternative for passengers who want to avoid the machines and in checkpoints without the scanners. Passengers who opt to skip a scanner will go through a metal detector and be hand-searched by a screener.

Officials at Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport are not worried about the TSA plan, airport spokeswoman Barb Schempf said. The airport recently finished a new checkpoint. "It was constructed in anticipation of this type of equipment being installed," Schempf said. "We're probably in a better position than most."

Kinzers, PA- At 9:40 a.m. Thursday, February 4, only a few miles from the scene of the Nickel Mines Amish massacre of 2006, another drama against the Amish began as agents of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) came onto the property of Amish farmer Dan Allgyer, without permission, claiming to be conducting an investigation.

Agents Joshua Schafer and Deborah Haney, from the Delaware FDA office, drove past Allgyer's "No Trespassing"signs and up his driveway almost to his barn, where Allgyer happened to be outside. Allgyer approached the car, the agents got out and Allgyer asked them why they were there. They produced a piece of paper, asked Allgyer if he was Dan Allgyer, which Allgyer confirmed, asked him his middle initial and phone number, entered the information on the paper, told Allgyer they were there to do an inspection and started reading the paper to him, saying it gave them jurisdiction to be there.

The agents- Schafer did most of the talking- said they had a right to be there because "you produce food for human consumption." Dan asked why they believed that and they said, "Well, you have cows. You cannot be consuming all the milk you produce."They further stated, "If you get a milk truck in to move all this milk you sell milk to the public, therefore we have jurisdiction."

Dan said, "This is a private farm, I do not sell anything to the public."

As they continued to harass him about doing an inspection, Allgyer said, "You can sit in your car. I will call my lawyer."

The agents remained standing.

Allgyer called his attorney who advised him to have the agents call him. When Allgyer told them to call his attorney Schafer replied, "You are the owner and you have to speak for yourself."

They pressed him to talk and Schafer asked, "Are you refusing us an investigation? Allgyer replied, "That's not what I'm saying."

They kept repeating, "Are you refusing an investigation?"

Allgyer kept saying, "Call this guy”- meaning his attorney.

Allgyer said they must have asked him six times.

One of them said, "Even if you do not say so, you are still refusing an investigation."

Eventually Schafer said, "If you refuse an investigation will you answer some questions?"

Allgyer said, "I'd rather not."

When the agents continued to push him Dan said, "Is that a question?

Sheepishly, they said. ‘Yes."

Allgyer said, "What did I say about questions?'

They replied, "Well we're going to write this up as a refusal to have an investigation and give it to our higher officials."

Dan felt they were threatening him at this point.

After that, they got in their car, drove out the driveway and parked on the neighbor's property watching Allgyer.

A visitor, Ivan, who had been on the farm, though not part of the conversation, left in his truck soon after, and the FDA agents proceeded to follow him in their car, even when he stopped at a convenience store to use the facilities. After forty or fifty miles, Ivan called 911 and told the police he was being followed.

The state police- in two cruisers- pulled the agents over. Ivan pulled over as well.

Ivan said the police told him that the agents explained they were FDA agents and they had the right to follow him because they were conducting an investigation on the farm he left. They thought he had product and they wanted samples of the product.

Ivan responded by opening the back of the truck and revealing it was empty. The agents photographed the inside of the empty truck and gave Ivan a paper, claiming they had a right to inspect his truck. He told them they were harassing him. The state trooper said they had a right to follow and pull him over but they were in an unmarked car so Ivan would not have had to pull over.

As with Allgyer, the agents asked Ivan some information which they wrote on the paper they produced, then handed it to him.

Ivan asked them, "Why are you writing up a paper on me when you have no cause?"

They said, "We have a cause, because you left the farm."

They claimed he had a load off the farm and they wanted samples.

Ivan said, "I didn't know who you were."

An agent replied, "You saw us at the farm."

Ivan said. "That doesn't make any difference, I didn't know who you were."

Ivan pointed out that he was at the farm but did not hear what they said. He was twenty feet or more away from them and was not involved in their conversation.

Ivan said the police told him they would record that the agents had been following him.

A spokeswoman for the FDA (reached at the phone number on the paper the FDA agents gave to Allgyer) said the FDA has no comment at this time because it is an ongoing investigation.

Dan Allgyer will meet with his county sheriff in the near future to apprise him of this incident.

We will update this story as needed.

In 2001 we witnessed as a nation the smearing of an entire race and creed of people based on the actions of nineteen muslim individuals. The mainstream media successfully wiped out the decades of peaceful co-existence that Americans had shared with millions of American Muslims here in our country. According to the mainstream media all Muslims were the enemy, all Muslims were hate filled religious fanatics that wanted to destroy our way of life. And the United States was ushered into a new era of respectable bigotry.

Next up the media smeared the pacifists. Anyone who spoke out against the illegal war against Iraq, a war based on lies and fought for control of oil, was a traitor to our nation. The media directed the thoughts of the pro-war right to attack and criticize the anti-war left, and they did. Booing catcalls at patriots like The Dixie Chicks and the media concocted moniker of “freedom fries” were all the rage. Freedom fries? Forgotten was the history of the founding of our nation, a nation that would not have ever come into existence were it not for the help of the French military. The French shed their blood for America, and as a token of our thanks we poured their champagne into our sewers.

Then the conservative “Right” got their taste of media bashing and propaganda and were decried as racists for daring to speak out against the government. Surely no criticism of the government takeover of our health care system could have any validity, the media directed. And the left piled on, eager for vengeance on the right who ignored and marginalized their angry protests only months before. But two wrongs still don’t make a right.

And now today they come for the constitution. Today they come for you and I. They will take the Joe Stack plane crash incident and drum it over and over again, creating a crisis in the hearts and minds of the America people until they demand that, “Something must be done!”. Arguments that the government breaks the law and does not obey the constitution will be twisted and distorted as nothing more than the manic and irrelevant babbling of madmen. The actions of one individual (or perhaps even the actions of a few) will be used to smear an entire political movement that is asking only for a return to the constitution of the United States.

And through it all one entity is consistantly at the epicenter of the turmoil, the hatred and the finger pointing.. the mainstream media. They are preachers to a choir of citizens who are lost in a sea of mainstream media fear-mongering and hate and who are now confused, scared, and feeling ever more alone. Forgotten by them are the principles of what it is to be an American, principles that would bring comfort to them in this time of need.

Never before has the quote from Pastor Martin Niemöller been more true in our day. With modifications..

First they came for the Muslims, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Muslim;
Then they came for the pacifists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a pacifist;
Then they came for the conservatives, and I did not speak out—because I was not a conservative;
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak out for me.

And so today more and more of us are coming to the realization that the Mainstream media’s propaganda is the number one enemy of people who wish to live under the constitution of the United States. But we are still lucky. The mainstream media does not come to take away our lives, they come to take away our voices. But know that once our voices are gone, our lives will be in the greatest of danger.

Perhaps now that the vitriol of the mainstream media has come full circle and touched us all, instead of listening to how they tell us we should think Americans will finally start listening to one another.

Sorry, Sarah, it's Ron Paul in a sweep!

Conservatives want the Texas congressman as their next President.

Paul was preferred by 31% of voters in the Conservative Political Action Conference's presidential preference straw poll yesterday, one of the strongest wins in CPAC history.

Sarah Palin, who skipped the group's conference, came in a distant third with 7% of the vote.

Paul ran for President in 2008 but didn't come close to claiming the GOP's nomination.

Mitt Romney, after topping CPAC's poll for the past three years, came in second, with 22% of the 2400 votes cast.

Paul's resistance to government spending resonated this year.

"Congressman Paul is committed to bringing the conservative movement back to its traditional platform of limited government, balanced budgets and a foreign policy of nonintervention," said Paul spokesman Jesse Benton.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2010/02/21/2010-02-21_ron_paul_for_prez_say_rightwingers.html#ixzz0gBfuSTKg