Throughout her career, Russell was a staunch conservative who considered Democrats in Hollywood "crazy."
"In my day Hollywood was Republican," she once said. "All the heads of the studios were Republicans, and we were fighting Communism. You had John Wayne and Charlton Heston and myself and Bob Mitchum, and President Ronald Reagan came right out of that same group."
She was a vocal supporter of the Iraq war from its start in 2003, a vocal opponent of abortion, even in cases of rape or incest, a tireless fighter to "get the Bible back in schools." She despised the Clinton administration and was a fan of former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and conservative commentator Ann Coulter.
And in 2003, she described herself as "a teetotal, mean-spirited, right-wing, narrow-minded, conservative Christian bigot," variations of which she frequently used. Arrrr!
From IMDb: "She was ultimately signed by Howard Hughes for his production of The Outlaw (1943) in 1941, the film that was to make Jane famous.
"The film wasn't a classic by any means, but was geared to show off Jane's ample physical assets.
"Although the film was made in 1941, it wasn't released until two years later and then only on a limited basis due to the way the film portrayed Jane's assets.
"It was hard for the flick to pass the censorship board. Finally, the film gained general release in 1946. The film was a smash at the box-office."
Discovered by Howard Hughes working as a receptionist for his dentist.
Howard Hughes, in addition to designing airplanes, is said to have designed a "cantilever bra" to take care of her physical endowments.
Her breasts are the namesake for 'The Jane Russell Peaks' in Alaska, and another pair in Korea.
Unable to bear children due to an abortion at a young age, Russell championed the passage of the Federal Orphan Adoption Amendment of 1953, which allowed children of American servicemen born overseas to be placed for adoption in the United States.
Through her organization, World Adoption International Fund (WAIF), Russell has placed 51,000 children with adoptive families.
A born-again Christian decades before the term was coined, she held weekly Bible study at her home which was attended by some of the industry's biggest names.
Asked what she thinks of Hollywood liberals George Clooney, Susan Sarandon and Sean Penn: "I think they're not well."
A bunch of gold-digggers "law firm" that gets its rocks off by targets the unauthorized use of news content on the Internet has filed over thirty lawsuits in federal court in CO to stop the use of a Denver Post photo showing an airport pat-down. Their mothers would be so proud.
[Al Jazeera] The ephemeral Ban Ki-moon, the United Nations, aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society secretary-general, has expressed concern over the reported delivery of three attack helicopters by Belarus to Cote d'Ivoire for use by forces loyal to incumbent president Laurent Gbagbo.
Ban's office said the delivery, marked a "serious violation" of an arms embargo in force against the west African nation since 2004.
But Andrei Savinykh, a Belarusian foreign ministry front man, said claims that his country had violated the UN arms embargo were "groundless".
Diplomats said Ban's allegation was based on reports he had received from the UN peacekeeping mission in Cote d'Ivoire.
Speaking on condition of anonymity, the diplomats said that neither the UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations nor the Security Council's so-called Group of Experts that monitors sanctions violations could confirm the allegation.
Cote d'Ivoire has been gripped by a political crisis since Gbagbo refused to cede power to Alassane Ouattara, the internationally recognised winner of November's presidential elections.
The reports of the delivery of attack helicopters come after a week of street fighting in the main city of Abidjan which left dozens dead and prompted the UN to warn that the country was on the brink of a new civil war.
The first delivery of military equipment reportedly arrived on Sunday evening and additional flights were scheduled for Monday, according to the UN.
Ban called for "full compliance" with the embargo and warned that both the supplier of the military equipment and Gbagbo would face "appropriate action".
Political standoff
The UN, which has stationed peacekeepers in Cote d'Ivoire since 2004 following the end of the country's civil war, has been providing 24-hour protection to Ouattara since November.
He has been confined to the grounds of a heavily guarded hotel because Gbagbo refuses to leave office.
The three-month standoff has already claimed the lives of hundreds of Ouattara supporters, victims of targeted liquidations and "disappearances", according to UN Sherlocks and human rights ... which are not the same thing as individual rights, mind you... groups.
The conflict reached a new level of intensity last week when commandos allied with Ouattara infiltrated the Abidjan district of Abobo, killing seven coppers in the festivities that followed.
The violence in Abobo also resulted in the disruption of state television broadcasts in Abidjan.
Peacekeepers ambushed
On Sunday witnesses reported seeing a steady stream of families leaving Abobo, watched over by UN peacekeepers in armoured vehicles.
The UN mission said three peacekeepers were maimed when they were shot at while patrolling the area and accused Gbagbo supporters of carrying out an ambush amid violence against peacekeepers on Friday and Saturday.
The News Agency that Dare Not be Named also reported a leaked UN report as saying that two UN employees of Ukrainian descent had been kidnapped by the Young Patriots, an armed youth movement allied with the country's sitting president.
Major powers and most African neighbours have recognised Ouattara as president, but Gbagbo has refused to step down, citing a decision by the country's constitutional council to declare the vote rigged and hand him victory.
The crisis has also sparked concerns over supplies of cocoa from Cote d'Ivoire, the world's largest cocoa grower.
The European Union has banned its ships from docking at Ivorian ports and exporters have largely followed a call by Ouattara for a temporary embargo on cocoa supplies.
Other sanctions have paralysed the country's banking sector, crippling the economy and prompting some analysts to forecast a fall in gross domestic product until the crisis is over.
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Ban called for "full compliance" with the embargo and warned that both the supplier of the military equipment and Gbagbo would face "appropriate action".
Yes, I'm sure the "strongly worded letter" department has cancelled all leaves and has sharpened all pencils.
BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq: The UK is to stop direct aid to 16 countries, including Russia, China and Iraq, papers seen by the BBC suggest.
Why would Russia and China need direct aid?
A draft copy of a government review of its £7.8bn overseas aid budget - to be published this week - also reveals assistance for India will be frozen. But, overall, the international development budget will rise by a third in this parliament, it says.
International Development Secretary Andrew Mitchell said spending would be a "good deal better focused".
Resources will be concentrated on the 27 countries that account for three-quarters of the world's maternal mortality and malaria deaths, such as Ghana and Afghanistan.
In other words, the bottom billion.
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[Iran Press TV] China has nabbed foreign journalists attempting to report on peaceful protests, which were being held for the second consecutive Sunday.
Large numbers of coppers were deployed to stop the rallies, which resemble pro-democracy movements in the Middle East and North Africa.
Hundreds of uniformed and plainclothes police aggressively pushed away foreign news hounds with cameras and briefly jugged several.
Police blew shrill whistles nonstop to keep protesters from coming close to the People's Square in Shanghai. Water trucks, which are used to clean streets, have been brought out and police is using this as an excuse to prevent any gatherings.
US Ambassador to China Jon Huntsman on Monday condemned the harassment, detention and beating of some foreign news hounds, who sought to cover the protests.
The campaigners behind the "Jasmine rallies" -- a reference to the "Jasmine revolution" in Tunisia that sparked Islamic Awakening across the Arab world -- said their movement had support in dozens of cities.
According to a newly created Facebook page called "Chinese Jasmine Revolution," organizers have called for another round of protests this Sunday.
Online protest appeals have urged citizens to gather for subtle "strolling" demonstrations each Sunday in cities across China to highlight public anger with the government.
Analysts believe that the recurrence of the Sunday rallies would provide an opportunity for Chinese Mohammedans to set objectives for the popular movement by joining the protests.
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ION CATHAY, DAILY TIMES.PK > [Online = Net]CAMPAIGNERS PLAN NEW RALLIES IN CHINA, proclaiming that the Jasmine-style movement has spread to 100 cities.
* PEOPLE'S DAILY FORUM > 84,000 KAREN PEOPLE ASK UN TO INTERVENE AGZ BURMA GOVT [human rights abuses = possible war crimes].
* SAME > HIRING CHINESE WORKERS, RUSSIA STRENGTHENS GRIP ON [disputed]KURILS, vee JAPAN.
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More troublemaking by people who don't live in China. The foreign journalists make all of us foreigners look bad. All they ever want to do is "recite the narrative" with their premade bullshit stories about China. There is no support for overthrowing the government, because China is better off now than it has ever been in its 5,000 year history, and only getting better every day.
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Yes, gromky, you've reassured us several times on that point. And yet I keep hearing from Chinese friends that they are not happy at all with the corruption of local officials etc.
One need not intend to overthrow a government in order to protest and pressure for changes.
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Lotp. Historically, China only has two states: (i) A strong autocratic central rule; or (ii) anarchy and warlordism. And most educated Chinese are aware of the fact.
The old definition would be two people or groups negotiating a compensation plan. That already occurs as the Donks represent the unions on the floors of the various legislative branches. All legally bought and paid for representation. The Trunks are the only ones looking out for the taxpayer. This confuses people because they don't understand this is not the definition of what the union terms 'collective bargaining'.
The new definition to which the public hasn't fully grasped is the 'collective' is the same as in a Soviet collective. All employees are entered into a closed shop whether they want to or not and money is extracted by cohesion to be given to the Donks. Just like the mafia practice of 'protection' money. Just another form of graft laid upon tax generated revenue. That the Donks have sold their souls so cheap is what makes it a 'bargain'.
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China has been funding state bank debt with our T-bills. What happens if they crash and demand the money back? 2011 will be a very interesting year.
.Consumer Reports offered a harsh initial review of the Chevrolet Volt, questioning whether General Motors Co.'s flagship vehicle makes economic "sense."The extended-range plug-in electric vehicle is on the cover of the April issue -- the influential magazine's annual survey of vehicles -- but the GM vehicle comes in for criticism.
"When you are looking at purely dollars and cents, it doesn't really make a lot of sense. The Volt isn't particularly efficient as an electric vehicle and it's not particularly good as a gas vehicle either in terms of fuel economy," said David Champion, the senior director of Consumer Reports auto testing center at a meeting with reporters here. "This is going to be a tough sell to the average consumer.
But a source on a White House conference call with liberal allies this morning says the Administration is presenting it to Democrats as an opportunity to offer more expansive health care plans than the one Congress passed.
Iran PressTV has found an expert they like. Professor Loewenstein will be able to retire soon on the consulting fees.
[Iran Press TV] Americans who oppose Republican Governor Scott Walker's plan to bust Wisconsin workers' unions are ready to shut the state down before he can take away their collective bargaining right, says an American expert.
"Every person I have spoken to, admittedly people who are supporting these demonstrations, has expressed to me and to many others that they are willing to shut the state down completely before letting Walker and his cronies and his big money supporters to take away the last of our rights as collective bargainers and as individuals in a democratic society," Jennifer Loewenstein, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Wisconsin, told Press TV on Sunday.
"I don't know how Nixon won. Nobody I know voted for him."
Protests against Governor Walker's plan to keep a tight rein on Wisconsin workers' unions have spilled into nearly all 50 states of America, including Washington, New York, Caliphornia, and Nevada.
Tens of thousands of people staged rallies in cities across the United States on Saturday to express their solidarity with people in Wisconsin.
On February 25, Wisconsin's State Assembly passed a controversial bill, proposed by Walker, to curtail the state's labor unions as the ongoing political wrangling between organized workers and cash-strapped state governments spreads across the US.
About 100,000 people converged on Saturday in the Wisconsin State Capitol to air their grievances over the decision by the Republican governor.
In Caliphornia, the Los Angeles City Hall turned into the focal point of anti-bill demonstrations, as more than 3,000 people attended the rallies, chanting slogans against what has been widely viewed as an "assault" on public sector unions.
Denver saw another demonstration in support of the Wisconsin workers with police estimating that crowd at more than 1,200 people. In Washington, protesters cheered on Saturday during a rally in support of Wisconsin workers, calling for the defeat of the plan.
Hundreds of Kansas labor union members and supporters rallied outside the Statehouse against what they see as political attacks on workers.
"I don't believe the momentum for these protests is anywhere near over. I don't think it has peaked yet," Loewenstein said.
This article starring:
Jennifer Loewenstein
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Unions are not "the people" Government unions are not "the people". Most "people" do not use graft or extortion to feed their families. Especially if they are fat enough already.
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Wisconsin COULD be the first domino to fall. As these bankrupt states begin to dissolve into chaos, watch the Obama administration begin to roll out their regionally based, FEMA Emergency Action Plan (EAP) which will initially be aimed at providing...... medical care and food. To be followed soon thereafter by state boundry reconsolidations and name changes along FEMA boundry lines; fuel (travel) restrictions and of course rationing of all types. All must share thke burden of this crisis. Regional 'identity' ration cards will be issued and our outdated, apartheid based dollars will be discontinued in favour of FEMA transition script, issued on a 'needs based' formula. Curfews will be enforced to reduce our dependency upon electricity; lights out everyone. The US Constitution will be temporarily set asside and private ownership of weapons will be disconinuted. The Obama vehicle of societal "change" will have been fully enacted.
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Walker and his cronies and his big money supporters
Including a majority of Wisconsin voters, but clearly not "the people". No, those are probably dupes of the "cronies".
Iran Press TV probably finds the "one man and his supporters and cronies" plausable, because that's what happens in their little corner of the world.
As for the American "expert", Wikipedia says - The Yemen Times has praised Loewenstein's work as deserving "all the honors one can bestow on a great journalist."
Wotta coincidence!
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Another opinion on the good professor, also from Wikipedia
"[She] ... is herself a Jew, but obviously a self-hating member of the [Jewish] tribe, with a sordid lineage going back to the 'kapos' who shoveled their companions into the ovens and collaborated with their murderers. Like many of her political comrades in the secular and religious left she has joined the forces of Islamic barbarism that are ranged against the civilized people of America and Israel."
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Mr. Soros, Ms. Loewenstein.
Ms. Loewenstein, Mr. Soros.
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Enough of this crap. Start laying the bastards off, Scotty.
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Don't disallow the right to strike but make sure that the other part of the law allowing mass firings is enforced when a strike does occur. In fact make it a legal obligation of the state to sack those who strike.
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Don't disallow the right to strike but make sure that the other part of the law allowing mass firings is enforced when a strike does occur
Sounds good in theory. But in practice...
In {some|most|all} jurisdictions in the US, it is illegal for public employees to strike. But they do. And no judge will sign the injunction to force them back to work, because it will be political suicide next election when you have the teachers, clerical workers, auto workers, police, firemen, garbage collectors and anyone else with a union card voting against you at the polls.
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...but, tomorrow, everyone without a union card will be made to remember who the judge choose to work for. Hint - it's not the citizens of the city or state they reside in.
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.
Throughout her career, Russell was a staunch conservative who considered Democrats in Hollywood "crazy." 
The ephemeral Ban Ki-moon
.Consumer Reports offered a harsh initial review of the Chevrolet Volt, questioning whether General Motors Co.'s flagship vehicle makes economic "sense."The extended-range plug-in electric vehicle is on the cover of the April issue -- the influential magazine's annual survey of vehicles -- but the GM vehicle comes in for criticism.
But a source on a White House conference call with liberal allies this morning says the Administration is presenting it to Democrats as an opportunity to offer more expansive health care plans than the one Congress passed.
