Exclusive - Speaker Boehner on Budget Negotiations: 'No Daylight Between Tea Party and Me' - George Stephanopoulos' Bottom Line

http://blogs.abcnews.com/george/2011/04/speaker-john-boehner-on-budget-negotiations-no-daylight-between-tea-party-and-me.html
Speaker of the House John Boehner said he is in lockstep with the Tea Party on budget negotiations despite claims from Democrats that there could be a deal if only he could buck the Tea Party.
“Listen, there’s no daylight between the Tea Party and me,” Boehner told me today during our exclusive interview.
“None?” I asked
“None. What they want is they want us to cut spending. They want us to deal with this crushing debt that’s going to crush the future for our kids and grandkids. There’s no daylight there,” he said.
Democrats have accused Boehner of being pulled further back by the Tea Party and “moving the goal post” during negotiations by increasing his demand from $33 billion in cuts to $40 billion.
I asked Boehner if he was willing to go as far as prominent Tea Party member Rep. Mike Pence who said “shut it down” if Democrats don’t agree to additional cuts.
The Speaker said he has Pence’s full support.
“Well, Mike Pence stood up at our conference today and said, 'Mr. Speaker, I’m with you.'"
But in a statement released after my interview with the Speaker, Congressman Pence made it clear that his support is qualified - just for the one-week CR, not a broader compromise:
“While I am frustrated that liberals in the Senate continue to resist our efforts to include even modest cuts in this year's budget, I will support a one-week Continuing Resolution because the troops come first. H.R. 1363 will fully fund the Department of Defense for the rest of this fiscal year and will reduce spending by $12 billion,” Pence wrote in the statement.
“We cannot put fiscal battles ahead of support for those who are fighting America’s real battles.

Related articles

• Exclusive - Speaker Boehner on Budget Negotiations: 'No Daylight Between Tea Party and Me' (blogs.abcnews.com)
• Transcript Part I: George Stephanopoulos and Speaker John Boehner (blogs.abcnews.com)
• John Boehner: 'No Daylight Between Tea Party And Me' (VIDEO) (huffingtonpost.com)
• Still no deal as shutdown looms and Boehner admits Tea Party controls him (americablog.com)
• John Boehner: Government Shutdown Is 'Irresponsible' And No Pay For Congress During It (mediaite.com)
• Schumer: Republicans 'Relish a Shutdown' [Video] (observer.com)
• Exclusive: Boehner Isn't Budging on Spending Cuts (blogs.abcnews.com)
• Boehner: 'No daylight' between tea party and me (politico.com)
• Transcript Part II: George Stephanopoulos and Speaker John Boehner (blogs.abcnews.com)
• 'Shut It Down!' Mike Pence and AFP Tea Partiers leave little doubt who's pushing for a shutdown (crooksandliars.com)

Full-Body Scan Technology Deployed In Street-Roving Vans - Andy Greenberg - The Firewall - Forbes

Image via WikipediaTechnology is advancing so much today. I don't think many realize the danger something like this can bring to a population if it was placed into the wrong hands. I talk to many people from all over the place. Some might say well you live in fear. Or you are to worried about things. Maybe even your crazy. lol
For me, I know what the Bible says. Just take a moment. Even if you don't believe. Just imagine for a moment that there is a very real Satan that manipulates the minds of men. Just imagine for a moment that the Book of Revelation just might actually be true. With an open mind to an Evil Government. Which we all know either way actually exists. Give this technology to them. What you think an Evil mind could do with something like this?
This is more than body scanners it scans everything. Though a great idea and may even come in handy. Yet, This very tech, can also become told end to privacy and our very own freedom. Think it can't Happen? You might want to read Revelation again.
Be sure to check out the link to see the full story.
http://blogs.forbes.com/andygreenberg/2010/08/24/full-body-scan-technology-deployed-in-street-roving-vans

Full-Body Scan Technology Deployed In Street-Roving Vans

By ANDY GREENBERG

As the privacy controversy around full-body security scans begins to simmer, it’s worth noting that courthouses and airport security checkpoints aren’t the only places where backscatter x-ray vision is being deployed. The same technology, capable of seeing through clothes and walls, has also been rolling out on U.S. streets.
American Science & Engineering, a company based in Billerica, Massachusetts, has sold U.S. and foreign government agencies more than 500 backscatter x-ray scanners mounted in vans that can be driven past neighboring vehicles to see their contents, Joe Reiss, a vice president of marketing at the company told me in an interview. While the biggest buyer of AS&E’s machines over the last seven years has been the Department of Defense operations in Afghanistan and Iraq, Reiss says law enforcement agencies have also deployed the vans to search for vehicle-based bombs in the U.S.
“This product is now the largest selling cargo and vehicle inspection system ever,” says Reiss.
Here’s a video of the vans in action.

Related articles by Zemanta

• Jay Stanley: Full Body Scanners: From Airports to the Streets? (huffingtonpost.com)
• Full-Body Scan Technology Deployed In Street-Roving Vans (blogs.forbes.com)
• Airport Scanner Technology Mounted On US Gov't Vans To Scan What's In Nearby Vehicles (techdirt.com)
• Full-body Scanners, in Vans, Scanning People and Vehicles (socyberty.com)
• X-Ray Vans Challenge Privacy (slaw.ca)
• Good News! If You Like Full Body Scanners At The Airport, You're Going To Love It When They Come To You Neighborhood (minx.cc)
• Senators Demand Huawei Cyberespionage Answers (Andy Greenberg/The Firewall) (techmeme.com)
• Full-Body Scan Technology Deployed In Street-Roving Vans (angryindian.blogspot.com)
• Lawsuit Filed Over Airport Scanner Privacy, Health Concerns (livescience.com)
• Full-body scanners raise privacy, time concerns, but N.J. travelers say safety is worth the wait (nj.com)
• Feds Found Storing Checkpoint Body Scan Images (cbsnews.com)

Afganistan 2010

Afganistan 2010

7 minutes ago from todaysworld

• 
  
  
  read more on www.boston.com
  Be sure to click the link below to see the rest of the pictures.
• 
  
  
  read more on www.boston.com
  This month has been the deadliest month yet for foreign troops in Afghanistan. The U.S. Department of Defense now reports that one hundred coalition troops were killed this month. The death toll for 2010 to date now stands at 320. With soldiers and equipment still arriving in the country, peak troop strength is anticipated to reach 150,000 by August.
• 
  

Share 

0comments       

See and download the full gallery on posterous

Posted via email from Todays World

Related articles by Zemanta

• Obama makes surprise visit to Afganistan (politics.ie)
• Pentagon 'Discovers' Huge Lithium Deposit in Afganistan (treehugger.com)
• McChrystal's timing could not have been worse (sfgate.com)
• McChrystal Is Fired, Will Be Replaced By David Petraeus (businessinsider.com)
• A Note Of Thanks To General Stanley McChrystal (businessinsider.com)
• Afganistan powerpoint intro (slideshare.net)
• Trip to Afghanistan by SDLP MLA Thomas Burns (politics.ie)
• John Perkins: Will U.S. Enslave Afghanistan With Discovery of Valuable Mineral Source (huffingtonpost.com)

Outrage: Obama Administration Targets Military for Pay Reductions

Image via Wikipedia

clipped from www.newsmax.com This weekend The Washington Post headlined story, "Pentagon Asking Congress to Hold Back on Generous Increases in Troop Pay,” disclosed that the Obama administration is “pleading” with Congress to give military personnel a much smaller increase in pay than lawmakers have proposed. In fact, lawmakers have lavished so much money on troops, according to the Post, that service members are now better compensated than workers in the private sector with similar experience and education levels. Critics of the Obama administration’s efforts to cut soldier’s pay say America’s security has been strengthened by higher pay rates, as qualified veterans are re-enlisting at record rates, reversing the problem the military witnessed just a few years ago. "If the Defense Department needs a larger budget for personnel programs, then let the VFW carry that message to Congress. Just don't pin the budget blame on service members and military retirees."

Related articles by Zemanta

• Pentagon: Decrease spending on troops (msnbc.msn.com)
• TOM PHILPOTT | Is Era of Super-Sized Military Pay Raises Ending? (kitsapsun.com)
• Pentagon to Congress: Stop giving troops pay increases! (hotair.com)
• Kristol's Smear On Kagan (andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com)
• Schwarzenegger May Disenfranchise Thousands of Overseas Troops with Early Special Election Date (bradblog.com)
• Call for Videos: Straight and Gay Service Members against “Don't Ask Don't Tell” (pinkbananaworld.com)
• Army chief: I won't discharge gay personnel (msnbc.msn.com)
• Gates: Pentagon must cut overhead, restrain spending (cnn.com)
• New Colonialism: Pentagon Carves Africa Into Military Zones... (projectworldawareness.com)

clipped from www.wired.com How To: Risk World War III, and Blow Billions Doing It The Pentagon’s plan to fire ballistic missiles at terrorists isn’t just a nuclear Armageddon risk. It’s a ludicrously expensive way to accidentally start World War III: each weapon could cost anywhere from a few hundred million to $1 billion. The Defense Department wants to spend about $240 million next year on the controversial “prompt global strike” project. Eventually, it could lead to weapons that could strike virtually anywhere in the planet within an hour or two. Official price tags are a little lower. The Air Force figures a single demonstration of such a missile might eat up $500 million. Follow-on weapons missiles might only cost $300 million apiece, (And maybe, as commenter “Almanac” notes, the Russian and Chinese radars are functioning well enough to tell the difference.) Maybe. But what happens other countries follow our lead, and start assembling their own conventional ballistic missile stockpiles?

Related articles by Zemanta

• Obama Revives Rumsfeld's Missile Scheme, Risks Nuke War (wired.com)
• Obama To Decide On New Weapons (tech.slashdot.org)
• A cruise missile in a shipping box on sale to rogue bidders (telegraph.co.uk)
• US confident it could defeat Iranian missile (seattletimes.nwsource.com)
• The Iran missile threat to US (tech.bl0x.info)
• Iran could develop missile capable of US strike by 2015 (telegraph.co.uk)
• Russ Wellen: What's It Feel Like to Be Well and Promptly Globally-Struck? (huffingtonpost.com)
• Rocket-Launched 'Rapid Eye' Drone's Rapid Demise (wired.com)
• Laser Jet Blasts Ballistic Missile in Landmark Test (wired.com)
• U.S. Push for New Class of Weapons Alarms Russia (nytimes.com)

Pentagon Confident It Could Intercept an Iranian Missile

Image via Wikipedia

clipped from www.foxnews.com The Pentagon is "very confident" that it could defend the United States against the threat of an Iranian ballistic missile strike, the Defense Department's chief spokesman said Wednesday. A recent Defense Department report to Congress concludes that Iran could develop a missile capable of striking the United States by 2015. Iran already has the largest deployed ballistic missile force in the Middle East, comprising about 1,000 missiles capable of hitting targets up to 1,200 miles (1930 kilometers) away, the report warns. The United States has 25 long-range interceptor missiles based in Alaska and California, as part of a system designed to defend the nation against an attack from North Korea or Iran. Eight of 14 tests of the interceptors have been successful, while the remaining tests suffered software glitches and other technical problems. But U.S. officials say the system should still work in the event of an attack.

Related articles by Zemanta

• US confident it could defeat Iranian missile (seattletimes.nwsource.com)
• The Iran missile threat to US (tech.bl0x.info)
• US Missile Test Mimicking Iran Strike FAILS To Shoot Down Missile (huffingtonpost.com)
• Iran could have missiles for US strike in five years (telegraph.co.uk)
• Iran could develop missile capable of US strike by 2015 (telegraph.co.uk)
• Iran Says No Plan for Missile Capable of Hitting U.S. (Update2) (businessweek.com)
• Government missile fails at defending against test mimicking possible Iran strike (dvorak.org)

Special army unit ready to be deployed on American soil just before Nov. elections

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The United States military's Northern Command, formed in the wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks, is dedicating a combat infantry team to deal with catastrophes in the U.S., including terrorist attacks and natural disasters.

Soldiers preparing for a mission coordinated by Joint Task Force North, the U.S. Northern Command unit.

The 1st Brigade Combat Team of the 3rd Infantry, which was first into Baghdad, Iraq, in 2003, started its controversial assignment Wednesday.

The First Raiders will spend 2009 as the first active-duty military unit attached to the U.S. Northern Command since it was created. They will be based in Fort Stewart, Georgia, and focus primarily on logistics and support for local police and rescue personnel, the Army says.

The plan is drawing skepticism from some observers who are concerned that the unit has been training with equipment generally used in law enforcement, including beanbag bullets, Tasers, spike strips and roadblocks.

That kind of training seems a bit out of line for the unit's designated role as Northern Command's CCMRF (Sea Smurf), or CBRNE Consequence Management Response Force. CBRNE stands for chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear and high-yield explosive incidents.

According to Northern Command's Web site, the CBRNE Consequence Management Response Force is a team that will ultimately number about 4,700 personnel from the different military branches that would deploy as the Department of Defense's initial response force.

Its capabilities include search and rescue, decontamination, medical, aviation, communications and logistical support. Each CCMRF will be composed of three functional task forces -- Task Force Operations, Task Force Medical and Task Force Aviation -- that have individual operational focus and mission skills, the Web site says.

The Army says the unit would be deployed to help local, state or federal agencies deal with such incidents, not take the lead. The law enforcement-type training is not connected to its new mission, it says.

Use of active-duty military as a domestic police force has been severely limited since passage of the Posse Comitatus Act following the Civil War.

See and download the full gallery on posterous

Posted via email from Todays World

Related articles by Zemanta

• Military supports wind power despite radar worries (seattletimes.nwsource.com)
• Admiral: Smaller-scale terror plots a big concern (seattletimes.nwsource.com)
• Military Backs Wind Power (huffingtonpost.com)
• Martial Law in America (lewrockwell.com)
• General: Military supports wind power despite concerns that turbines can block radar (taragana.com)
• General Cites Attacks on Military Computers (nytimes.com)
• David Isenberg: DynCorp Begs to Differ (huffingtonpost.com)

Army combat unit to deploy within U.S.

clipped from www.cnn.com WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The United States military's Northern Command, formed in the wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks, is dedicating a combat infantry team to deal with catastrophes in the U.S., including terrorist attacks and natural disasters. The 1st Brigade Combat Team of the 3rd Infantry, which was first into Baghdad, Iraq, in 2003, started its controversial assignment Wednesday. The First Raiders will spend 2009 as the first active-duty military unit attached to the U.S. Northern Command since it was created. They will be based in Fort Stewart, Georgia, and focus primarily on logistics and support for local police and rescue personnel, the Army says. According to Northern Command's Web site, the CBRNE Consequence Management Response Force is a team that will ultimately number about 4,700 personnel from the different military branches that would deploy as the Department of Defense's initial response force.

Related articles by Zemanta

• Admiral: Smaller-scale terror plots a big concern (seattletimes.nwsource.com)
• Army discharging single mom who refused deployment (seattletimes.nwsource.com)
• Alexis Hutchinson, Single Mom, Discharged From Army For Refusing Deployment (huffingtonpost.com)
• Terry Lakin: Court Martial for Birther Colonel (outsidethebeltway.com)
• Martial Law in America (lewrockwell.com)
• From Cold Start to AZM-e- NOU III (teabreak.pk)
• US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,390 (seattletimes.nwsource.com)
• Iraq war veteran arrested over 'violent' rap song (telegraph.co.uk)

REALITY REPORT #38 - Militias, Biometrics, The Obama Army, Agenda 21

REALITY REPORT #38 - Militias, Biometrics, The Obama Army, Agenda 21

"); } http://RealityReport.TV | http://RestoreTheRepublic.com | Was a secret army writen into the Healthcare bill? Will the Moscow bombings result in bus stop scanners? Has the Department of Defense created the foundation for a national Biometrics database? We break it all down for you and welcome Ton DeWeese from the American Policy Center to the show to expose Agenda 21. FULL Interview with Tom DeWeese is here: NEW: Show your support for the show and pledge $10 by texting "RTR 10" to 95495.

Click here to download:

backto.gif?v=9856121030 (0 KB)

Posted via email from Todays World

Related articles by Zemanta

• David Isenberg: It Came From Annex W (huffingtonpost.com)
• Obama appoints veteran IT consolidator to DOD (computerworld.com)
• Should General Mixon serve openly? (powerlineblog.com)
• Lt. Col. Barry Wingard: Obama: Bush Lite on Guantanamo (huffingtonpost.com)
• Reduction of contract work-force in Iraq questioned (seattletimes.nwsource.com)
• U.S. Director of Defense Research and Engineering Zachary Lemnios to Speak at IMS2010 (eon.businesswire.com)