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American Liberty (OREO) Expands West

Posted: March 21, 2012 at 1:50 pm

NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwire -03/21/12)- American Liberty Petroleum, Corp. (OTC.BB: OREO.OB - News), a company focused on reducing America's need for imported oil through discovering major, new onshore U.S. energy resources, announced background information on their acquisition of Paradise 2-12, a well located in Gabbs Valley in Nye County, Nevada.

The Western US is not only a target by American Liberty, but companies like Occidental Petroleum (NYSE: OXY - News), whose California discovery is so large it could run into land controlled by Chevron (NYSE: CVX - News), ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM - News) and Royal Dutch Shell. The United States Geological Survey estimates the total, undiscovered, technically recoverable crude oil onshore in the US is 48.5 billion barrels, a majority of this falls into the Western half of the US.

According to the Baker Hughes rig count, the number of oil rigs on US fields has quadrupled in the past three years to 1,272. The US now has more rigs at work than the entire rest of the world. Marshall Adkins, Director of Energy Research at Raymond James, has recently stated, "If we continue growing anywhere near that pace and keep squeezing demand out of the system, that puts you in a world where we are not importing oil in 10 years."

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Joyce Lee Malcolm on Threats to Our Second Amendment Rights – Video

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20-03-2012 09:17 While in Nuremberg, Germany, Ginny Simone talked to George Mason University Law Professor Joyce Lee Malcolm - NRA News - March 19, 2012 - http://www.NRANews.com

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Legislative Day Raises Awareness for Sportsmen and Second Amendment Rights

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Assemblyman Will Barclay (R,C,IPulaski) said Tuesday he was pleased to meet with sportsmen in Albany as part of the annual Sportsmen and Outdoor Recreation Legislative Awareness Day.

Assemblyman Will Barclay, second from left, attended the Sportsmen and Outdoor Recreation Legislative Awareness Day. He is among several who attended the event today to listen to speakers discuss the importance of the Second Amendment, our right to bear arms. Pictured at the podium is Tom King, president of the New York State Rifle and Pistol Association.

The event featured a keynote speech from Wayne LaPierre, Executive Vice President & CEO of the National Rifle Association (NRA), on the importance of ensuring the Second Amendment Constitutional Freedoms of all law-abiding New Yorkers. Tom King, President of the New York State Rifle and Pistol Association (NYSRPA), industry leaders and thousands of outdoor enthusiasts from across the state attended this free event.

Hunting, fishing and trapping activities contribute more than $1.8 billion to our economy annually. Snowmobiling is a $476 million-dollar industry for the state, with over 130,000 registered snowmobiles on trails each year. There are also roughly 1.9 million New Yorkers who participate in ATV recreation.

It was great to see so many sportsmen and outdoor enthusiasts rallying for Second Amendment Rights and legislation that helps promote the sporting industry today. We need to continue to rally to raise awareness and protect our right to bear arms. Downstate interests in the Assembly would like to make owning a gun more expensive by placing microstamping mandates on gun manufacturers. This technology is unproven and would place more costs on New York gun manufacturers, said Barclay.

An Assembly budget bill proposes microstampinga unique alpha-numeric or geometric code on the firing pin, identifying the make, model, and serial number of the pistol. Manufacturers would bear the cost of implementing this new regulation. The success of this technology is unproven and gun manufacturers have yet to devise technology that can ensure the make, model, and serial number of the pistol is coded into an expended cartridge.

Our Second Amendment is the core principle that defines our nation. There is no greater freedom than to own a firearm to protect ourselves, our families, our communities and our nation, said LaPierre. Thus, Second Amendment freedom is, truly, the heart and soul of America. And, it is all at stake this year. This is a fight for our values and for the freedom we believe in. Its all or nothing and gun owners, everywhere, from Albany to Seattle, and from Anchorage to Miami are signing on. The fight is on and the NRA is ALL IN!

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PFF supports no-treason call for West Papua

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Monday, March 19, 2012

PFF, Rarotonga, COOK ISLANDS --Three years in jail for five West Papua activists is a further erosion of free speech and other human rights for the province, says the Pacific Freedom Forum. There is no treason in freedom of expression shared peacefully, says PFF chair Titi Gabi, in Indonesia, or anywhere else. The five men were sentenced by judges after being convicted for a public speech. Made last October, leaders at the Third Papua Peoples Congress ended the speech with a Declaration of Independence in front of a crowd of thousands. Shortly after the activist event, three people were killed when security forces opened fire on dispersing crowds. None of the military involved have been given jail terms. Under guarantees of free speech, strong opinion must be allowed without risking unconstitutional persecution by the state, says Gabi, a Papua New Guinea journalist. "The statements which so riled the Indonesia government were made during a peaceful assembly. Matters reportedly turned ugly when the military fired guns into the crowd. An unarmed, peaceful gathering sharing political ideas can hardly be labelled as an act of terrorism." The Pacific Freedom Forum supports calls from Human Rights Watch and other groups for convictions to be dropped against the group now dubbed the Jayapura Five.

The convicted men are Selpius Bobii, a social media activist; August Sananay Kraar, public servant; Dominikus Sorabut; film maker, Edison Waromi, a former political prisoner, and Forkorus Yaboisembut, a Papua tribal leader elected president at the congress. Co-chair of the Pacific Freedom Forum, Monica Miller, says that authorities in Indonesia must "follow through on the constitutional mandate to open up public spaces for all people of West Papua to share ideas safely with each other and their leaders. Miller says an impression of widespread injustice is growing worldwide, quoting a report from the US-based Freedom House on contradictory rulings within the Indonesian legal system. Until they feel heard by their rulers and the global community, the people of Papua will continue to pay the ultimate price for trying to speak freely on their lives, says Miller. Sentencing of the five in west Papua comes as Pacific journalists prepare to attend a regional media meet in Fiji. Miller called on colleagues at the forthcoming Pacific Media Summit in Suva this month to also focus outside Fiji, on wider challenges facing freedoms of speech, including in west Papua. Journalists and the media must balance the news needs of their local markets with reporting urgent regional issues, says Miller. The continued erosion of free speech in west Papua goes against Article 19 of the 1946 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, to which Indonesia is a signatory.--ENDS

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Pacific Media Watch ( archives and background) http://www.pmc.aut.ac.nz/pmw-nius

Jakarta Post: Papuans found guilty of subversion, get 3-year jail terms Human Rights Watch Condemns Conviction of Papua Activists

Sydney Morning Herald: Anger greets jailing of West Papua activists

Pacific Scoop: Indonesia: Guilty Treason Verdicts For Congress Leaders Sentence Violates Human Rights Law Appeal against Papuan Congress treason convictions launched

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Rihanna’s ‘Illuminati’ Tattoo and Other Celebs with Tiny Cross Tats

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Rihanna recently got a tiny, tilted cross tattoo inked on her collarbone, with her favorite tattoo artist Bang Bang saying that he put it there so that she could easily hide it with a necklace if she wanted to.

It seems like a simple display of the singer's faith, but the website Media Take Out speculates that it's an actually an Illuminati symbol - Masons supposedly used a slanted cross as a symbol of their secret society centuries ago.

It's hard to imagine RiRi being a part of the shadowy organization that many conspiracy theorists suspect is running the world - after all, why would she want to advertise her involvement in something that's supposed to be a secret? However, some people really seem to believe that many musicians are part of the Illuminati - there were even rumors that Beyonce and Jay-Z's daughter Blue Ivy was given her odd name as an ode to the organization. According one conspiracy theorist, I.V.Y. = Illuminati's Very Youngest and B.L.U.E. = Born Living Under Evil.

But back to RiRi's ink. It's not like tiny cross tattoos are unusual in Hollywood, and it's likely that it's just a coincidence that hers was tilted (it looks like it's just following the line of her collarbone). Other celebs that have gotten tiny cross tattoos include Miley Cyrus, who displayed her faith by having one inked on one of her fingers. But unfortunately her faith came under fire from some fans later on when she was attacked for also getting an equal sign inked on another finger to show her support for gay marriage.

Her fellow former teen star Demi Lovato has a slightly larger cross tattoo inked on her right hand - she placed it so that it can be seen while she's holding her microphone to show all her fans that she's a devout Christian. Her tats obviously mean a lot to her - she even turned the "Stay Strong" tattoos on her wrists into the title of an MTV special documenting her tough road to recovery after rehab.

Singer Ke$ha has a much messier cross tat on her wrist - she let one of her friends ink it there as a way to commemorate the day she finished recording an album. However, he's evidently not the best tattoo artist, because this is how she describes the tat: "He gave me a cross. Or one could call it a t. Or an x." She's such an avid tattoo fan that she even tried to show off her own skills by inking a dollar sign on one of her fans.

Nicole Richie probably has one of the prettiest cross tattoos - she has a delicate cross on a rosary around her left ankle. According to the artist who inked it, girls have poured into his shop requesting the same tat.

So which celebrity tattoo do you like best? Or do you think that celebs shouldn't wear their faith on their skin? Sound off in the comments!

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Sen. Wyden demands vote on American copyright, patent treaties

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Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) is a long-time opponent of the secretly negotiated Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA). Today he introduced an amendment to a Senate "jobs bill" that would force ACTA to come before Congress for approval. A second amendment would make the US Trade Representative, which negotiates US trade deals, drop the veil of secrecy around its copyright and patent negotiations.

USTR currently insists the president can ratify ACTA without the usual Senate sign-off on treaties. The current legal thinking seems to be that Congress delegated this authority to the executive branch by passing 2008's PRO-IP Act, which contained a general call to cut down on counterfeiting, etc.

That legal approach is contested; Wyden's amendment simply overrules it. "Notwithstanding section 303 of the Prioritizing Resources and Organization for Intellectual Property Act of 2008 (15 U.S.C. 8113) or any other provision of law," it says, "the President may not accept, or provide for the entry into force with respect to the United States of, any legally binding trade agreement that imposes obligations on the United States with respect to the enforcement of intellectual property rights, including the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, without the formal and express approval of Congress."

His second amendment tries to force a change in how the whole process around such treaties is handled. Right now, the US attempts to keep its negotiating positions a secret. What vital national security interests could be at stake if the public knew USTR was promoting "graduated response" laws or proposing changes in ISP liability? Wyden doesn't believe there are any.

Even with ACTA, where the text was officially kept secret until it was too late to make major changes, unofficial leaks stirred public debate and ultimately removed many of the most odious provisions from the final text. The "next ACTA" is the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP), a regional trade deal involving countries from around the Pacific Rim. Wyden wants to ensure the public doesn't have to rely on leaks to find out what's being proposed in its name.

He proposes a rule that would force USTR to release any negotiating proposals already shared with other nations in the TPP talks if they apply to "intellectual property, the Internet, or entities that use the Internet, including electronic commerce." In the future, USTR would have to post such documents from all trade negotiations within 24 hours of being shared with other countries.

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Spitzer Tells Judge Free Speech Protects Against Libel Suit

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By Don Jeffrey - Tue Mar 20 20:11:41 GMT 2012

Lawyers for Eliot Spitzer, the former New York governor, asked a federal judge to dismiss a libel suit over an article he wrote, claiming it was accurate and protected by the Constitutions First Amendment.

Spitzers lawyers argued before U.S. District Judge Paul Oetken today in Manhattan that the article he wrote for the online magazine Slate didnt libel former Marsh & McLennan Cos. (MMC) executive William Gilman.

These sentences cant be about Mr. Gilman, Lee Levine, a lawyer for Spitzer, told the judge, referring to the part of the article Gilman claims defames him. The piece doesnt say Mr. Gilmans verdict was vacated but he was guilty anyway.

Oetken said he will rule later on the motion.

Gilman, who worked at Marsh & McLennan from 1976 to 2004, was indicted in 2005 after an investigation by then-Attorney General Spitzer over practices in the insurance industry. He and other executives were charged with a conspiracy to fix prices and rig bids on insurance contracts. The state had filed a bid- rigging lawsuit against Marsh in 2004. Gilman was fired by the company, according to court papers.

After an 11-month trial without a jury, New York Supreme Court Justice James Yates found Gilman and co-defendant Edward McNenney guilty of one count of restraint of trade and competition. Yates vacated that verdict in July 2010 after ruling that certain evidence wasnt disclosed by the prosecutors to the defense. In January 2011, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman declined to retry the men and dropped the charges against them.

In August 2010, the Wall Street Journal ran an editorial critical of Spitzers investigation of Marsh & McLennan. In response, Spitzer wrote the piece for Slate the same month. In it, he noted that Marsh & McLennan agreed to pay $850 million to customers for reimbursements of premiums in connection with the investigation. He also said that unnamed Marsh executives pocketed increased fees and kickbacks.

This wasnt journalism, Jeffrey Liddle, a lawyer for Gilman, told the judge. This was an attempt to justify one person at the expense of another.

Gilman sued Spitzer and Slate Group LLC in August 2011. Slate is owned by Washington Post Co. (WPO)

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Santorum says freedom, not jobs, is key

Posted: March 20, 2012 at 6:09 pm

Republican Presidential hopeful Rick Santorum speaks in front of a Ronald Reagan statue at a rally in Dixon, Ill., March 19, 2012. UPI/David Banks

Published: March. 19, 2012 at 9:13 PM

MOLINE, Ill., March 19 (UPI) -- U.S. Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum said Monday freedom, not the jobless rate, is the key issue in the 2012 election.

In a campaign speech the day before the Illinois primary election, in which he is chasing former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, the former U.S. senator from Pennsylvania said his candidacy is "more foundational" than the ups-and-downs of the economy, CBS News reported.

"We need a candidate who's going to be a fighter for freedom. Who's going to get up and make that the central theme in this race because it is the central theme in this race," Santorum told about 200 supporters in Moline. "I don't care what the unemployment rate's going to be. Doesn't matter to me. My campaign doesn't hinge on unemployment rates and growth rates. It's something more foundational that's going on."

Romney spokeswoman Andrea Saul responded in an e-mail to reporters that Santorum's remarks show him to be an "economic lightweight."

"Wow. Sen. Santorum may not care about the unemployment rate in this country or the nearly 24 million Americans struggling for work, but Mitt Romney does and is running to get people back to work," Saul said. "If anyone needed evidence that Rick Santorum is an economic lightweight, they needn't look any further than his various statements today."

CBS said Santorum later told reporters, "Of course I care about the unemployment rate."

"I want the unemployment rate to go down, but I'm saying, my candidacy doesn't hinge on whether the unemployment rate goes up and down," he said. "Our candidacy's about something that transcends that; it's about freedom, it's not about, you know, Gov. Romney's idea that he's going to fix the economy, which is something that, of course, we as Republicans don't believe that presidents fix the economy; we believe that we try to do things to create an atmosphere for the economy to fix itself."

Polls have shown Romney leading Santorum heading into the Illinois primary, with former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich of Georgia and U.S. Rep. Ron Paul of Texas trailing well behind. Fifty-four of Illinois' 69 delegates are at stake in the primary, with the remainder to be apportioned at the GOP's state convention. Santorum isn't registered in all of Illinois' congressional district so the most delegates he could win is 44.

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Viscount’s Freedom Selected for Department of Homeland Security Agency

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BURNABY, British Columbia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--

Viscount Systems (OTC Markets:VSYS), a leading edge high technology supplier of security systems and software today is pleased to announce that Viscounts Freedom has been selected to secure its first US Department of Homeland Security agency facility.

We are very pleased that the top echelon of US Government agencies are now recognizing the benefits of Freedom compared to traditional control panel architecture, noted Stephen Pineau, CEO of Viscount Systems. In addition to cost savings, Freedom eliminates the cyber security vulnerabilities of panels and our new unified Microsoft Active Directory platform provides a simplified and more secure architecture for administering the system. The Freedom platform is Cloud ready and Microsoft Azure compatible to allow a seamless migration. Finally, physical security at US Government facilities is being driven by the requirement to be compliant with the new FIPS 201 standard and there are estimates that tens of thousands of systems will be required to be upgraded in the coming years. With the budgetary issues facing government agencies, Freedom is incredibly well positioned as a fully compliant, cloud based and low cost alternative to become a major factor in the US Government physical security market.

This project involves the potential deployment of approximately 300 US government sites which expands our total potential deployments to close to 1500 US government facilities based on other pilot projects underway. We expect this number to increase rapidly through the coming months. The typical revenue per site should average approximately $10,000.

About Viscount Systems

Viscount Systems Inc., designs unified software platforms for building security and emergency planning. Recent awards include SIA Convergence Solution of the Year 2011 and Homeland Securities Platinum Award for Emergency Response and Gold Award for Access Control at GOVSEC 2011.

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ESGR Announces Nominations for 2012 Secretary of Defense Employer Support Freedom Award

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ARLINGTON, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--

Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve (ESGR), a Department of Defense agency, received 3,236 nominations for the 2012 Secretary of Defense Employer Support Freedom Award. The Freedom Award is the Department of Defenses highest recognition for employers supporting members of the Guard and Reserve. Up to 15 recipients will be announced this summer and honored in Washington, D.C. on September 20 at the 17th annual Freedom Award Ceremony.

Guard and Reserve members, or family members acting on their behalf, nominated their civilian employers for the Freedom Award during the 12-week nomination season. Guard and Reserve members, who stand ready to serve whenever our Nation needs them, often put their civilian lives on hold when they answer the call to duty. Supportive employers provide a tremendous amount of stability and peace of mind to these Citizen Warriors and their families, enabling them to continue their dedicated service to our country.

"Guardsmen and Reservists continue to receive outstanding support from their employers," said ESGR National Chair James G. Rebholz. "America's employers have not wavered in their commitment to these Citizen Warriors."

Almost one-half of the U.S. military is comprised of the Guard and Reserve, and while most employers proudly support their military employees, Freedom Award recipients go above and beyond what is required by law. Last years recipients were nominated for superior acts of support including driving a deployed employees children to school, replacing a military employees broken family refrigerator while he was serving abroad, and working overtime to cover a service members shifts so he could take part in military training.

A list of nominations from all 50 states, U.S. territories and the District of Columbia are available at http://www.FreedomAward.mil. Semifinalists for the 2012 Freedom Award will be announced later next month.

About ESGR and the Freedom Award:

The Freedom Award was instituted in 1996 under the auspices of ESGR to recognize exceptional support from the employer community. In the years since, 160 employers have been honored with the award. Established as a DoD agency 40 years ago, ESGR develops and maintain employer support for Guard and Reserve service. ESGR advocates relevant initiatives, recognizes outstanding support, increases awareness of applicable laws, and resolves conflict between service members and employers. Paramount to ESGR's mission is encouraging employment of Guardsmen and Reservists who bring integrity, global perspective and proven leadership to the civilian workforce.

For questions or interviews regarding the Freedom Award, please contact Beth Sherman, ESGR Public Affairs, at 571-372-0705 or by email at ESGR-PA@osd.mil.

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