the big story (weekend)

Establishment Grooms “Outsider” Petraeus for Presidential Bid

Forget the Tea Party. Forget Ron Paul. Forget untried and unknown independents. America needs a strong leader. It needs an outsider.

“Many voters yearn for an outsider, someone with authenticity, integrity and proven accomplishment. Someone who has not spent their life plotting how to ascend the greasy pole, adjusting every utterance for maximum political advantage,” writes Toby Harnden for the Daily Telegraph. “In this toxic climate, perhaps the only public institution that has increased in prestige in recent years is the American military.”

That outsider is General David Petraeus.

Outsider? Petraeus is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. The “outsider” Patraeus attended the Bilderberg meeting held in Greece in 2009.

Foreign Policy magazine, the globalist Carnegie Endowment for International Peace periodical now owned by the CIA’s favorite newspaper, the Washington Post, profiled Petraeus as number eight on its list of “Top 100 Global Thinkers.” The establishment media has turned somersaults to praise him and select him as leader of the year on numerous occasions. The Atlantic Council, an insider organization par excellence — members and associates include Brent Scowcroft, Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, Colin Powell and Zbigniew Brzezinski — has bestowed its Military Leadership Award on Petraeus.

Neocon warmongers love Petraeus. The American Enterprise Institute — one of a handful of neocon think tanks behind the push to invade Iraq and kill a million plus Iraqis — bestowed its 2010 Irving Kristol Award on Petraeus. The late Kristol is considered to be the godfather of the neocon movement.

General David Petraeus is very much an insider.

Read more...

*U.S. and Colombia Cover Up Atrocities Through Mass Graves

*Karzai Slams The West AGAIN

*Economist tallies swelling cost of Israel to US

*Australia to appoint population minister; develop strategy

*Air Force's mystery spaceship: X-37 gears up for launch

*Aral Sea Almost DRIED UP




*The Cashless Society - Economics 101



*VIDEO: 7.2 Earthquake shakes southern California



earlier:

Tea Dems

Disgruntled Democrats are joining the Tea Party. The numbers are very small at this point but it could be a trend affects Obama in 2012

Grand Junction, Colorado (CNN) -- They are not typical Tea Party activists: A woman who voted for President Obama and believes he's a "phenomenal speaker." Another who said she was a "knee-jerk, bleeding heart liberal."

These two women are not alone.

Some Americans who say they have been sympathetic to Democratic causes in the past -- some even voted for Democratic candidates -- are angry with President Obama and his party. They say they are now supporting the Tea Party -- a movement that champions less government, lower taxes and the defeat of Democrats even though it's not formally aligned with the Republican Party.

Read more...

*US Special Forces staying in Iraq

*More than 200,000 to lose jobless benefits Monday with Congress out

*Bacteria detection is anti-terror effort

*Flat Unemployment Rate Masks the Race Gap

*ALSO: What do the new unemployment numbers means


*What's driving up oil prices again? Wall Street, of course

*Triple blasts in Baghdad embassies kill dozens

*TSA Letter Confirms Naked Body Scanners Transmit Images

*Obama Expands Military Involvement in Africa

*Legality of Drone Strikes Still in Question


*Feds found Pfizer too big to nail

*IBM to build 'smart' grid for electric cars. Your car managed from afar

*Girl Arrested for Doodling Sues New York City

Saturday:

Pope Protected Pedophiles

Contrary to Vatican statements, evidence continues to emerge that Ratzinger covered and shielded pedophile priest while serving as Cardinal for the US

The abuse cases of two priests in Arizona have cast further doubt on the Catholic church's insistence that Pope Benedict XVI played no role in shielding pedophiles before he became pope.

Documents reviewed by The Associated Press show that as a Vatican cardinal, the future pope took over the abuse case of the Rev. Michael Teta of Tucson, Ariz., then let it languish at the Vatican for years despite repeated pleas from the bishop for the man to be removed from the priesthood.

In another Tucson case, that of Msgr. Robert Trupia, the bishop wrote to then-Cardinal Ratzinger, who would become pope in 2005. Bishop Manuel Moreno called Trupia "a major risk factor to the children, adolescents and adults that he many have contact with." There is no indication in the case files that Ratzinger responded.

The details of the two cases come as other allegations emerge that Benedict – as a Vatican cardinal – was part of a culture of cover-up and confidentiality.

"There's no doubt that Ratzinger delayed the defrocking process of dangerous priests who were deemed 'satanic' by their own bishop," Lynne Cadigan, an attorney who represented two of Teta's victims, said Friday.


Read more...

*Contesting Jobless Claims Becomes a Boom Industry

*US Delays Decision on China Yuan Manipulation

*Angel Face: How the Media got Amanda Know Wrong