REP. CHARLES RANGEL (D-N.Y.) put on quite a show for the House Ethics Committee today. Our guess is he'll ride this as long as possible, but remember — ultimately, it's a distraction.
Also: Michael Chertoff and George Soros shill for scanners; Yemen rumbles; Swilley's "god"; and Sam Dachshund sings.

REBELLION AGAINST the full-body X-ray scanners at American airports continues to grow. Apparently fighting terror in the air means a choice between risking skin cancer or a sexual assault by a TSA employee.
Also: media continues to sell the "missile was a plane" meme; the first study of links between pesticides and disappearing bees ready to begin; and big money backs a treatment for smallpox — which the World Health Organization declared eradicated more than 30 years ago!

SHE SOUNDS loony, but self-proclaimed Pleiadian mother Colleen Thomas isn't the only one who looks for alien intervention to solve all our problems. A family in Miami, members of the Raelian UFO cult, starved to death in April while waiting for "the Elohim" to beam down some groceries.
Also: a cruise missile in a shipping box (thanks to Kimberly for the tip!); Charlotte police lose radios twice in a week; and Amazon.com pulls e-book praising pedophiles.
And on this Veteran's Day, please listen to this 2006 interview with the author of Expendable Elite, Lt. Col. "Dangerous" Dan Marvin, a genuine American hero.

THE GOVERNMENT insists that the missile off the California coast Monday night was an airplane. It doesn't take an expert, like the editor of defense publication Jane's Missiles and Rockets, to see that the smoke trail wasn't coming from a jet.
Sean Osborne at the Northeast Intelligence Network suggests a motive for the Chinese to want to launch a missile 35 miles from Los Angeles.
Also: Broward County, Florida locks down schools after vague threat; student violence in the U.K.; and Derek's new column at HearkenTheWatchmen.com.

EXPERTS STILL say they don't know what exactly was launched into the darkening sky west of Los Angeles last night.  Doug Hagmann of the Northeast Intelligence Network has information not being shared by the major media.
Also: ingestible RFID chip tracks your meds from the inside; Congress not required by law to check the eligibility of Barack Obama to be president; and the Fed begins to monetize America's debt — inflation to follow.

GOOD NEWS from the FBI: 884 people were arrested over the last three days in a roundup of traffickers in child prostitutes.
Also: the Vatican warns its bishops against a secretive sect that prays to angels; a border dispute caused by Google; and novel uses for human urine.

MOUNT MERAPI in Indonesia continues to rumble.  According to German geologists, this is serious: they estimate that there "three times more magma [under Mount Merapi] than what was ejected by the Indonesian volcano Tambora in 1815 – the biggest eruption in the last 10,000 years".
Also: American takes out a suspected Palestinian terrorist in Gaza; Beck's new book (yeah, right); and Olbermann suspended indefinitely.

PRESIDENT OBAMA heads for India with an impressive collection of military hardware and 200 leading CEOs.  India, a gracious host, is removing coconuts from the trees and deploying monkey catchers near the president's travel route.
Also: TimeWave Zero; Mount Merapi rumbles; and Californians have to do without their Happy Meals and welfare psychics.

MORE ON the possible intelligence connections of Wikileaks frontman Julian Assange. For an in-depth discussion, we recommend the excellent For The Record podcast by longtime anti-fascist researcher and broadcaster, Dave Emory. See shows number 724 and 725.
Also: Chaldean Catholic church bombed in Baghdad; police use pepper spray on Halloween crowd in Wilmington, NC (link opens YouTube video); and the dilemma of the voting Christian.

13 CRYSTAL skulls were brought to New York City for an "activation gathering" on 10/10/10, just three days before the daytime UFO sighting over the Big Apple. The UFOs may have been a hoax or runaway birthday balloons, but somebody sure wants us to believe that our space brothers are about to reveal themselves.
Also: Arizona police downplay occult connection to beheading in Chandler; Next Day Air terror event averted; mystery hum in Hull, England; and Mount Merapi continues to rumble.
Here's the link to The Pedophocracy, Part 1 by Dave McGowan.