<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/cac08e0f-13c7-4f02-8b45-466243080b58/691E360D-2F41-4BAF-BBE0-2A267AE93B15/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=55825" href="http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=55825" style="font-size: 11px;">worldnetdaily.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=55825"> President Bush has signed a directive granting extraordinary powers to the office of the president in the event of a declared national emergency, apparently without congressional approval or oversight.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=55825"><FONT face="Palatino, Book Antiqua, Times New Roman, Georgia, Times" nd="3">The "<A href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/05/20070509-12.html" linkindex="43" set="yes">National Security and Homeland Security Presidential Directive</A>" was signed May 9, notes Jerome R. Corsi in a <A href="http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=55824" linkindex="44" set="yes">WND column</A>. </FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=55825"><FONT face="Palatino, Book Antiqua, Times New Roman, Georgia, Times" nd="6">"Catastrophic emergency" is loosely defined as "any incident, regardless of location, that results in extraordinary levels of mass casualties, damage, or disruption severely affecting the U.S. population, infrastructure, <A class="iAs" classname="iAs" href="#" target="_blank" itxtdid="3969617">environment</A>, economy, or government functions." </FONT></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/691E360D-2F41-4BAF-BBE0-2A267AE93B15/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

New from the makers of Clipmarks:  Amplify.com - Don't just share the news...Amplify it!