[Arab News] US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton ... sometimes described as the Smartest Woman in the World and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another Tallyrand ... on Saturday warned of a creeping "new colonialism" in Africa from foreign investors and governments interested only in extracting natural resources to enrich themselves.
African leaders must ensure that foreign projects are sustainable and benefit all their citizens, not only elites, she said.
Clinton did not identify any perceived culprits, but a day earlier she had urged scrutiny of China's large investments and business interests in Africa so that the African people are not taken advantage of.
She said US diplomats in Africa had been asked to provide Washington with assessments of Chinese projects in the countries to which they are assigned.
"We saw that during colonial times, it is easy to come in, take out natural resources, pay off leaders and leave," Clinton said Saturday in the Zambian capital of Lusaka before flying to Tanzania.
"And when you leave, you don't leave much behind for the people who are there. We don't want to see a new colonialism in Africa."
Although she didn't mention China by name, officials traveling with Clinton said she wanted to stress that African countries should hold Chinese investors to the same standards that they apply to Americans and Europeans.
Clinton said the US didn't want any foreign governments or investors to fail in Africa, but wanted to make sure that they give back to local communities.
"We want them to do well, but also we want them to do good," she said.
"We don't want them to undermine good governance, we don't want them to basically deal with just the top elites, and frankly too often pay for their concessions or their opportunities to invest."
Clinton said that American development aid and public works projects come with good governance conditions and that the B.O. regime is interested in Africa and its people.
Their success, she said, is in everyone's long-term interest.
Her comments, in a pan-African television interview in Lusaka, came immediately after she presided over the handover of a US built pediatric hospital in Lusaka to the Zambian government.
The hospital will specialize in preventing the transmission of HIV from mothers to children and Clinton announced a boost of $15 million in US funding to Zambia to help fight HIV/AIDS.
Earlier, at the inaugural meeting of the US-Zambia Chamber of Commerce, Clinton laid out the US strategy for helping Africa.
"We want a relationship of partnership not patronage, of sustainability, not quick fixes," she said.
"We want to establish a strong foundation to attract new investment, open new businesses ... create more paychecks, and do so within the context of a positive ethic of corporate responsibility."
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projects are sustainable and benefit all their citizens, not only elites, she said.
What a great idea, Hilly!
Lessee, for the $780 billion stimulus, just how much of it was for infrastructure improvements that we can all use - like re-paved roads, new bridges, yes - even transit systems and high speed rail. (Whether you use it or not, maybe someone else will, leaving you less congestion on the roads.)
[crickets] Ten percent?
Maybe we'll find out in this election cycle.
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"We want to establish a strong foundation to attract new investment, open new businesses ... create more paychecks, and do so within the context of a positive ethic of corporate responsibility."
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Her statements strike me as odd and out of touch--really odd.
Maybe she is making these statements based on her and Bill's experiences with China. Slick Willy got chummy with the Chicoms during his administration and opened the door further for them to economically colonize the U.S. with the help of corrupt Congress critters.
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African leaders like the Chinese because they look the other way. They don't get all the baggage the west imposed on them. African leaders can operate without having their politics questioned.
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At this time China has the potential to become another United States. I push for the development of all resources for the betterment of humankind. Now a leader stands before us showing the way for the future of China. Stalin had an economist that did the same thing and he was dispatched within two months. Russia imploded, USA might, and China will if they ignore or silence this man. Capitalism commingled with China and the USA would launch us into a new age of prosperity that could reach the stars. Showing the way then others would join. Develop the fullest potential of each and every person. Then a veritable cornucopia of possibilities presents itself. I see a bright future for this leader;
"If a system fails to let its citizens breathe freely and release their creativity to the maximum extent, and fails to place those who best represent the system and its people into leadership positions, it is certain to perish,'' writes General Liu Yazhou in Hong Kong's Phoenix magazine, which is widely available on news stands and on the internet throughout China".
This is a future of what could be, what might be, and perhaps shall be. O can't handle this. We must find ourselves a leader.
[Bangla Daily Star] The leader of the opposition is creating sufferings for the people by calling hartals, ... a peculiarly Bangla combination of a general strike and a riot, used by both major political groups in lieu of actual governance ... though she used to talk against it while in power, said Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday.
Speaking to the Awami League (AL) leaders and the activists at Ganobhaban on the occasion of the day of her release from jail during the last caretaker government, she said the opposition party is trying to create anarchy in the name of hartal, reports BSS.
She urged the opposition to place in parliament if they have any proposal or formula regarding the caretaker government.
"We did not make any proposal to scrap the caretaker government system. The country's Supreme Court has declared the system illegal," the PM said.
She questioned why the opposition leader likes the caretaker government so much, though it had taken her to jail and banished her sons?
Referring the country's hard-earned democracy, the PM called upon all to remain vigilant so that none can snatch away the people's democratic rights in future.
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[Iran Press TV] Britannia's shadow Chancellor Ed Balls says he was not part a plot to topple former Prime Minister Tony Blair after leaked private documents detailed Gordon Brown's ... the hapless former British PM ... accession to power.
The denial by Balls comes as the documents showed Brown had instructed him and the current Labour leader Ed Miliband to follow a line of action to ensure Blair is forced out of office and Brown takes over as his replacement.
The papers, which include memos written by the then Chancellor Gordon Brown and letters he received from Blair, were seen in Balls' office at the Department for Children, the Daily Telegraph reported.
The documents were reportedly gone missing when Balls was moving to his House of Commons office after Labour lost its grip on power last year.
The Cabinet Office has announced they are investigating to find out whether the papers have been "in the possession of any government department" and that whether there had been "ay breach of document secrecy within government".
"The last time I saw them was when they were on my desk in the department. I don't know how they were taken and got to the Telegraph," Balls said.
"The idea that there was a plot or a coup [by Brown supporters against Blair] is untrue and not justified by these papers," Balls said, describing such speculations as "false and mendacious".
Based on the documents, Balls was assigned by Brown to "hold things together" as the supporters of Blair and Brown were locked in an inner-party row to take power.
Balls, however, confirmed that the situation "could have been better handled".
"There are important lessons to learn, people want to know that the Labour Party has learned them. We have, 100%," Balls said.
The leak has led to comments by Conservative Party deputy chairman Michael Fallon who said the documents show Balls and Miliband cannot be trusted.
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[Al Jazeera] Protesters in Japen are demonstrating against the use of nuclear power as the country marks three-months since a powerful earthquake and tsunami killed tens of thousands of people and triggered one of the world's worst nuclear disasters.
Several hundred people gathered in the Japanese capital, Tokyo, on Saturday, shouting anti-nuclear slogans and carrying banners reading "immediately stop all use of nuclear power and shut down the plants".
The magnitude-9 earthquake that hit off Japan's northeast coast on March 11 caused a massive tsunami that killed about 23,000 people.
The disasters knocked out power and cooling systems at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant, about 225km northeast of Tokyo, setting off kabooms, fires and large radiation leaks at the facility.
Al Jizz's Marga Ortigas, reporting from Sendai in the north, said protesters are frustrated by the lack of information about the government's vision for nuclear power going forward.
Damage 'worse than previously thought'
Official reports released earlier in the week said the damage and leakage at the plant was worse than previously thought, with nuclear fuel in three reactors likely melting and collecting in the bottom of the cores and some seeping into the inner containment vessels.
The reports also said radiation that leaked into the air amounted to about one-sixth of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986.
Hundreds of plant workers are still scrambling to bring the crippled Fukushima reactors to a 'cold shutdown' by early next year and end the crisis.
The accident forced more than 80,000 residents to evacuate from their homes around the plant.
Some families have been moved into temporary housing, but supplies are short and sufficient housing is not expected to be completed for several more months.
The disasters have renewed a national debate on the use of nuclear power in Japan, which has few natural resources and is heavily reliant on atomic energy.
Some nuclear plants across the country have been shut down in the wake of the disaster, leading to fears Japan may not have enough electricity for the peak summer months, and several anti-nuclear protests have been held.
All along the coast, a massive clean-up effort continues as cranes and dump trucks haul away the wreckage from hundreds of thousands of buildings that were destroyed or damaged by the tsunami.
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When are the Germans going to protest about Organic food!?
Maintenance issues aren't just a problem for the US Navy. Western countries around the world are finding it more and more difficult to fund their militaries. One of these days they're going to need those militaries and won't have them.
FOR the first time in a generation, Australia does not have a single submarine available to defend the nation today. The Australian understands the entire fleet of six Collins-class submarines cannot be put to sea despite the navy's claim that two of them remain officially "operational".
The situation is so dire the navy is believed to have deferred major scheduled maintenance work on its most seaworthy submarine, HMAS Waller, in the hope that at least one submarine will be available in the coming weeks.
Not having a single task-ready submarine is an embarrassment for the navy, whose attempts to improve the performance of the $10 billion fleet have been stymied by breakdowns, accidents and the growing unreliability of the ageing vessels. The navy claims two of its submarines, HMAS Waller and HMAS Dechaineux, are available, but insiders say the reality is that neither vessel could be put to sea today if required because each is undergoing detailed inspections for mechanical problems.
HMAS Dechaineux is in dock at HMAS Stirling in Perth for an intrusive inspection of its main motor after limping home from Singapore, where defects were found in its propulsion system. It is understood Dechaineux will be unable to sail for at least several weeks.
HMAS Waller is also in dock at HMAS Stirling after engineers found signs of the same propulsion system problems that last month forced Dechaineux to withdraw from a five-nation defence exercise in the South China Sea. It is understood that HMAS Waller will be unable to leave port until next week.
The other four subs are unavailable. HMAS Farncomb is out of the water at the submarine repair facility at Henderson near Perth as workers seek to replace a broken emergency propulsion unit. HMAS Collins is undergoing scheduled maintenance at Henderson and is due out later this month, while HMAS Sheean and HMAS Rankin are both in long-term maintenance at the Australian Submarine Corporation in Adelaide.
The navy's plans to improve the reliability of the fleet are being undermined by the discovery of unexpected defects, especially with the propulsion system, as the submarines begin to age. There is also a shortage of spare parts.
The Australian understands HMAS Waller was originally scheduled to begin a mid-cycle docking maintenance for 12 months today, but that the navy has now deferred this plan for several months because so many other boats are out of action.
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The Aussies had better do something quick, as FIJI is getting border ornery wid neighboring New Zealand oer some small islands.
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>Whoda thunk that driving off all the qualified people would have consequences?<
A lot of outfits are going to be facing the experience/qualified issue as the experienced guys begin to retire and the ones in line to replace them come from our dysfunctional education system. Not too much on discipline and education but loads of self-esteem.
Should make future flying a more riskier business not to mention the effect on nuclear power utilities, etc.
* PEOPLE'S DAILY FORUM > [PLA Gen. Luo Yuan]CHINESE NAVY IS [inevitably] BOUND TO BREAK THE FIRST ISLAND CHAIN, as the PLA on-going modernization + rise to de facto GLOBAL PROJECTION CAPABILITY by or shortly after 2020 is unstoppable.
and
* SAME > CHINA HAS SOVEREIGNTY OVER OKINAWA [Ryukyus], DAOYUS [Senkakus], SPRATLEYS + PARACELS SOUTH CHINA SEA ISLANDS DUE TO POST-WAR TAIWAN CLAIMS.
Post-Surrender/WW2 JAPAN turned 'em over to GEN. KAI-SHEK + POST-WAR 1945-1949 KUOMINTANG CHINA [Republic of China], whose claims were then assumed by post-1949-present COMMIE MAOIST CHINA.
versus
* DEFENCE. PK/FORUMS > US NOT COMING TO PHILIPPINES AID VERSUS CHINA.
* SAME > VIETNAM SEEKS INTERNATIONAL HELP IN SOUTH CHINA SEAS DISPUTE.
Less than a decade ago, major American energy companies were investing billions in constructing new terminals for importing liquefied natural gas the cooled, dense state of methane that makes it economical for it to be transported by ship. Today, some of those same companies are contemplating spending billions to retrofit those facilities in order to export LNG.
What happened in the interim? Natural gas boomed in the U.S., thanks to major discoveries of unconventional gas deposits in shale rock and new extraction techniques. In 2011, the U.S. Energy Information Administration raised its estimate for technically recoverable natural gas reserves in the U.S. from 353,000 billion cubic feet to 827,000 billion cubic feet. At $4 for every million BTU, natural gas isnt that much more expensive than coal, which trades at a little over $2 per million BTU but produces twice as much greenhouse gas and significantly more air pollution.
Despite increased demand and a push to replace coal-fired power with natural gas, the U.S. is suffering what experts call a gas glut.
The real problem for shale gas is demand they dont know where to put all of it, says Ben Schlesinger, an independent consultant to the natural gas industry. Meanwhile, Europe is paying two to three times the prices in the U.S., and countries that are entirely dependent on LNG, including Japan, Taiwan and South Korea, are paying even more between $20 and $30 per million BTU.
Europe also has security and political reasons for wanting access to U.S. gas. Its current primary source, Russia, has shown a willingness to use Europes dependence as a bargaining chip. In three of the past five winters, Russia has cut off the supply of gas to some part of Europe in a dispute over prices and other issues.
Currently there are plans for up to three LNG export terminals on the U.S. gulf coast, and one on the Pacific coast of Canada, in Kitimat. Historically, the only LNG export facility in the U.S. was in Kenai, Alaska. LNG ships bound for Japan have departed from the terminal since the 1960s, but its slated to be shut down in the near future. If the first two export plants in the U.S., both converted import facilities, come online by 2015 as projected, they would be the first constructed in the U.S. in 40 years.
Whether or not the U.S. will become the next Qatar, which is the largest exporter of natural gas in the world, will depend on a number of factors. Together, these variables will determine whether investors think LNG export terminals are worth the risk, and whether or not the U.S. will even be capable of sending its bounty overseas.
First, U.S. gas consumption must remain low. That means no Pickens Plan for using our natural gas reserves to fuel our trucking fleet, and no quick changeover from coal to natural gas for energy production. Second, we have to continue to drill at the rapid pace set over the past few years. More than half the natural gas consumed in the U.S. today comes from wells drilled in the last three years, and unconventional wells deplete rapidly, unlike conventional gas fields.
The Pickens Plan means that yes, we wouldn't export NG: but we'd use it for ourselves, and use NG instead of burning more coal. That wouldn't be a bad thing at all. Cheap, clean NG instead of cheap, dirty coal means energy without most of the air pollution. Save the coal for later when we've figured out how to clean it up.
Economics and more responsible drilling practices suggest that the drilling bonanza will continue, however. Pennsylvania, for example, could turn into the a state literally covered with wells. One engineer at Cornell speculated the state could eventually be home to as many as 100,000.
The increase [in unconventional natural gas production] has been so dramatic its amazing, says Schlesinger. Ten years ago, production was a tenth what it is today, and fracking technology is evolving rapidly. If current trends in the U.S. continue slow turnover of old power plants, reduced demand due to efficiency its likely that much of that gas will be sent overseas as LNG.
Either scenario is fine, and either means a lot of new jobs. Jobs in Pennsylvania would be especially welcome. Let's watch how the Democrats hose this up.
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People should generate their own electricity from NG at home.
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In 2011, the U.S. Energy Information Administration raised its estimate for "technically recoverable" natural gas reserves in the U.S. from 353,000 billion cubic feet to 827,000 billion cubic feet.
If I was a gamblin' man, I'd bet that the guy at the EIA who wrote this report has on his speed-dial the guy over at Interior who drafts proposals for designating tracts of land as undrillable, un-mineable (sp?) "National Monuments".
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I see local natural gas cogen plants, with generators making electricity, and using the rejected heat for heating or absorption chillers. It is more efficient to transport natural gas than going from a thermal power plant and going over transmission lines.
We need to utilize this blessing of natural gas wisely to get off of foreign oil. Gas to liquids or coal to liquids (e.g. Fischer-Tropsch process) can eliminate the need for foreign crude oil, and rejected heat from the process can be captured for district heating.
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I'd get one of the home electricity generators but in Perth we only need to heat our homes for less than 4 months a year. So there isn't the same benefit you would get in a colder climate.
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US natural gas is less than $30 for the equivalent energy of a barrel of oil. That should be used in this country for gas to liquids fuel production or to upgrade coal, shale and tar sands oil that goes for $100 per barrel. The only place surplus natural gas should be exported is to Canada to increase oil sands production.
But good luck with that as Barack the Red shuts down coal fired electricity plants and won't even issue permits for oil drilling, let alone sources of unconventional oil.
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Diesel engines / transport trucking industry accounts for a big chunk of US oil consumption. NG is not the fuel for them, but does work for buses & most US autos (except for a lack of distribution facilities aka 'natural gas stations'. The Fischer-Tropsch process needs a lot of energy to make it work, this is where abundant nuclear power might become very useful, should the US ever get un-stuck from stupid.
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1 million BTU's is pretty much the same as one thousand cubic feet (MCF) of natural gas.
30 years ago I paid about $2 / MCF for my natural gas. Last month my bill was $14.62 / MCF. The 'trading cost' for the gas was $5.89 / MCF, all other costs were added on by the public utilities commission and the gas distribution company. 'Trading cost' is one thing, and cost to the consumer quite something else.
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We need to...get off of foreign oil. The faster we move towards energy independence the better off the country will be. Screw OPEC.
I think grid powered electric vehicles are a dumb idea
The idea strikes me the same way. The intial cost of the Volt or the Leaf seems too high and the range of travel is too limited. If a battery could deliver a range of 500-600 miles or so, it might be attractive.
Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann raised the pressure on governments to agree to a Greek bailout without the European Central Bank taking part in easing the countrys debt burden, saying the euro can withstand a default.
Weidmann said the ECB was unwilling to turn its emergency bond-buying program into a lasting institution and that Greeces implementation of austerity measures and asset sales was crucial to securing the handout to prevent a default. He spoke in an interview with German newspaper Welt am Sonntag.
If the commitments are not met, that cancels the basis for further funds from the aid package, Weidmann told the newspaper. This would be Greeces decision, and the country then would have to bear the surely dramatic economic consequences of a default. I dont think this would be sensible, and it would surely put partner countries in a difficult situation. But the euro would even in this case remain stable.
Weidmanns depiction of a default as a liveable outcome contrasts with warnings from fellow ECB officials Lorenzo Bini Smaghi and Christian Noyer, as well as European Union Economic and Monetary Affairs Commissioner Olli Rehn, who described it as a Lehman Brothers catastrophe last week.
European officials are racing to find a plan to stem Greeces debt crisis by June 24 while sharing the cost of a new rescue with bondholders. German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble is calling for Greek bondholders to extend the maturities of their debt by seven years, a move ECB officials say is akin to a default.
The Guardian's voyeuristic obsessive just plain sick breathless search of Palin's emails produces a smoking gun: not only does she believe in God (gasp!) but prays for divine guidance before making important decisions.
Sarah Palin ought advice from an unusual source when she was deliberating over how to frame the Alaskan state budget in 2008 -- she called on God for guidance, And all right-thinking people know that you're supposed to call on Paul Krugman for guidance instead. Even though you know what that guidance is going to be. Praying to God is 'unusual'. Tells you their mindset right there.
In an email written in March 2008 she said that she had been praying for direction over the financial negotiations. "I have been praying for wisdom on this ... God will have to show me what to do on the people's budget because I don't yet know the right path ... He will show me though." Given the current condition of our state and federal budgets, we can only hope her confidence is justified.
The former Alaskan governor's deep religious beliefs are well known. She is an evangelical Christian who belongs to the Assembly of God in her home town of Wasilla, The Guardianistas love to mention Wasilla. Since none of them know a thing about it, they can project their peculiar fantasies of America on to it.
a church whose congregants have been known to speak in tongues. Right, and they probably all say "God damn America!" Or am I thinking of the wrong church?
But rarely has such a direct connection been drawn between her faith and her policymaking. But Ben does it too.
The email is all the more poignant Note to self: buy these chuckleheads a dictionary
in that it was sent from Palin's private yahoo account just five months before she was thrown into the national and international limelight. Chill out, Guardian guys. She is not currently the President.
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Note that nothing like this has ever been released about BO's past correspondence, since everything Obama has ever said or done is always & everywhere perfect & beyond criticism. Every act past, present & future by his opponents is totally wrongheaded if not racist.
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Where are obama's e-mails? The same place his real birth certificate, college papers, grades & every other bit of his writings & documentation incompatible with his messianic status - in some place the sun will never shine.
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yes, and not just emails, what about Obama's private blackberry use
I bet Biden's emails would be very entertaining as well
This one sided crap is very tiring
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Now you might not think it from Grauniad/BBC axis. But the majority of the U.K. is still God-Botherers*. So this will just make the Grauniad seem even more out-of-touch.
[Beirut Daily Star] Newt Gingrich is vowing to remain in the presidential race despite the walkout of his entire senior campaign staff. But whether he remains a viable candidate is in serious doubt.
Already, his opponents in the Republican field are scrambling to capitalize on the upheaval, courting disillusioned Gingrich donors and picking off campaign supporters of the former speaker of the House of Representatives.
Shortly after news of the Gingrich staff exodus broke Thursday, former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty was trumpeting word that one of Gingrich's national co-chairmen -- former Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue -- had jumped ship and joined Pawlenty's White House campaign.
Two top staffers who decamped Gingrich's campaign -- including campaign manager Rob Johnson -- have close ties to Rick Perry, ramping up speculation that the brash Texas governor could jump into the unsettled Republican race. Perry has so far said only that he is considering a White House bid.
Other contenders for the party's nomination to take on President Barack B.O. Obama in next year's election include former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, former Sen. Rick Santorum, Rep. Ron Paul and former Utah Gov Jon Huntsman, who had been Obama's ambassador to China.
Among the potential candidates who have not declared their intentions is Sarah Mama Grizzly Palin, ... the babe libs love to hate ... the Republican 2008 vice presidential candidate.
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He has an ego that is too big to recognize reality. Good Lord I am glad he is gone (hoped for outcome).
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We'v got an egomaniac in the WH now. Don't need another. I think he is almost as politically dead as Weiner.
Who's left that looks good and can win: Cain, Pawlenty, Romney, Perry, Jindal Bachmann, Jendal, Palin, Santorum, Paul, Barbour Johnson, Thune?
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Nearly 40% of the jobs being created in the U.S. are being created in Texas according to FN. Perry may be a candidate who can win and get us off of the "stuck on stupid" position we are currently in.
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JohnQC Hello. I have enjoyed you posts today. I like Palin. She is true blue. Women don't like her, the left are afraid of her and the media hates her. Family, God and Country. That's Sara.
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"Lots more do" I hope you were correct. Check into this and I think you will find this is what is happening. Just do your own survey of women you know. I believe you will be surprised how conservative women respond. Be prepared for action.
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The Ruling Elite and their minions (the media) are terrified if her.
And by Ruling Elite I mean both Donks and Rinos.
The Media are terrified of her because she won't bend to their will like the other Pols. She 'falls into their traps' because she doesn't play their games.
The elite are afraid of her because she's not a product of, and anoited by, an Ivy League University.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Hillary Rodham Clinton
The leader of the opposition is creating sufferings for the people by calling
Gordon Brown's
