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What are the GPS coordinates of this fabled court?
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This was instigated by the aclu. Doesn't the "A" in aclu represent American? The aclu should have no intrest in Pakistan, any Americans get dronezapped? Unnamed International Legal Experts, Amadinnerjackets team?
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[Al Arabiya Latest] A Chinese Communist Party newspaper accused Google on Wednesday of colluding with U.S. spies, and said the firm's retreat from China over censorship justified Beijing's efforts to promote homegrown technology. Google would never do that, it would help America ...
China's latest blast at the world's biggest Internet search company came in the overseas edition of the People's Daily, the chief newspaper of China's ruling Communist Party.
Google on Monday shut its mainland Chinese-language portal Google.cn and began rerouting searches to a Hong Kong site, over two months after it said it would not accept the self-censorship demanded by China's government, which is determined to keep a tight grip on domestic users' access to the Internet.
China's Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday it regarded Google's departure as the "individual act" of one company, and said the country remained welcoming of foreign investors.
But Beijing's response to Google's complaints about censorship and hacking has also echoed nationalist-tinged claims that Google and Washington used the dispute over Internet controls to challenge Communist Party authority.
"For Chinese people, Google is not god, and even if it puts on a full-on show about politics and values, it is still not god," said a front-page commentary in the paper.
"In fact, Google is not a virgin when it comes to values. Its cooperation and collusion with the U.S. intelligence and security agencies is well-known," said the newspaper.
"All this makes one wonder. Thinking about the United States' big efforts in recent years to engage in Internet war, perhaps this could be an exploratory pre-dawn battle," the commentary said of Google's pull-out.
The overseas edition of the newspaper is a small-circulation offshoot of the main domestic edition, and often makes bolder comments than the main edition.
The commentary said Google's actions should prompt China to focus more on developing its own technology.
While the tough comments may not reflect official policy, they reflect China's anger at the United States after recent tensions over U.S. arms sales to Taiwan, President Barack Obama's meeting with the Dalai Lama, and Washington's calls for Beijing to lift the value of its yuan.
Google "completely misjudged the situation, and does not grasp that Chinese people are extremely averse to external threats and pressure," said the newspaper commentary.
The U.S. State Department said on Tuesday Google's decision to shut Google.cn was a business decision by the company and did not involve the U.S. government.
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We should be doing everything in our power to stop feeding this red wolf in capitalist clothing.
Good for Google and I will do my best to not knowingly buy anything Chinese.
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Clinton's Folly. It took only 15 years to drain the world's wealthiest nation. And for just a few hundred thousand dollars in illegal campaign contributions picked up by Al "Bagman" Gore. In the near future Americans named Clinton will change their name in shame much like Germans named Hitler. Gore too.
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Reminds me of one of ROGER MOORE's "JAMES BOND" 1980's FLICKS > [paraph]"To the cntrary, Mr. Bond, where would Russian/Soviet Research & Development be widout America's Silicon Valley".
Virginia Rep. Eric Cantor said Thursday that his Richmond campaign office has been shot at and that he's received "threatening e-mails" -- but at the same time the House minority whip accused top Democrats of trying to exploit the threats they've been receiving for "political gain."
Cantor said "a bullet was shot through the window" of his campaign office. The incident happened Monday, Fox News has learned, the latest in a rash of apparent threats and acts of intimidation against members of Congress. Most of the threats so far have been reported by Democrats, but Cantor -- the No. 2 Republican in the House -- is one of about 10 lawmakers who has asked for increased security protection, Fox News has learned.
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About to commence breath holding waiting for Steny Hoyer to condemn this... 1... 2... 3!
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The latest police investigation indicates no one shot AT his office. The trajectory of the bullet was from almost straight down, vertical, as in a random shot that went up into the sky and came down through the front glass of the office.
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That's right, wt, that's what was reported on WTOP on the way home a few hours ago.
In other words, the Dems attacks are real, by right-wing nuts, while the attacks on the right-wing nuts are fabricated.
Got it?
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Cantor's statement remains factually correct. The Dems are exploiting the situation, and in most cases are most likely fabricating much of the substance.
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CBS no less
A CBS News poll released Wednesday finds that nearly two in three Americans want Republicans in Congress to continue to challenge parts of the health care reform bill.
The Senate version of the legislation was passed by the House Sunday night, and President Obama signed it into law on Tuesday. The House also passed a separate reconciliation bill, which cannot be filibustered, that is now being debated in the Senate. That bill would make changes to the bill already signed into law.
Senate Republicans are now challenging whether the bill is truly a budget reconciliation bill (which is what makes it filibuster-proof) and inserting amendments designed to slow down passage. Republican attorneys general are also planning to challenge the constitutionality of the law.
The poll finds that 62 percent want Congressional Republicans to keep challenging the bill, while 33 percent say they should not do so. Nearly nine in ten Republicans and two in three independents want the GOP to keep challenging. Even 41 percent of Democrats support continued challenges.
Americans are split about the fact that the bill largely lacked bipartisan support. Fifty percent said they were disappointed that the bill did not have support from both parties, while 44 percent said that it doesn't matter.
Most see the bill as an important achievement for the president. Fifty-two percent called passage a major accomplishment for Mr. Obama, up from 46 percent before Sunday's vote. Thirteen percent called it a minor accomplishment, and 32 percent said passage was not an accomplishment.
For the new poll, CBS News re-interviewed 649 adults interviewed just before the House vote in a CBS News poll conducted March 18-21. The findings suggest an improvement in perceptions of the legislation: While 37 percent approved of it before the vote, 42 percent approved afterward.
Rep. Darrell Issa, the top Republican on the House Oversight committee, told CBS News Wednesday that he will call for a special prosecutor to investigate the White House if it does not address Rep. Joe Sestak's claim that he was offered a federal job in exchange for dropping out of the Pennsylvania Senate primary.
"If the public doesn't receive a satisfactory answer, the next step would be to call for a special prosecutor, which is well within the statute," Issa told Hotsheet. The California Republican has been pushing for the White House to provide details of conversations between Sestak and administration officials in the wake of Sestak's comment during a radio interview last month that he was offered a high-ranking administration job in exchange for dropping his primary challenge against Sen. Arlen Specter. Asked if that job was secretary of the Navy, Sestak declined to comment. His press secretary told CBS News that the lawmaker stands by his original statement that he was offered the job in exchange for an administration post. Sestak did not drop out of the race.
On March 10th, Issa sent a letter to White House lawyer Robert Bauer asking for details about communications between Sestak and the White House. In the letter, he pointed to statutes he said could have been violated if Sestak was offered a quid pro quo arrangement in which he would be given an administration job in exchange for leaving the race. Issa said the move may have violated anti-bribery provisions of the federal criminal code as well as prohibitions on government officials interfering in elections and using federal jobs for a political purpose. Violation of each provision is punishable by up to one year in jail.
The White House did not respond to Issa's letter by its March 18 deadline. Reporters have asked White House press secretary Robert Gibbs about the inquiry on six occasions. On February 23rd, Gibbs said he had not looked into the matter. On March 1st, he said he had not made any progress on it. On March 9th, he said he did not have an update with him. On March 11th, he said he did not have anything additional on the matter. On March 12th, he said he did not have any more information on it. On March 16th, Gibbs finally addressed the situation.
"Look, I've talked to several people in the White House; I've talked to people that have talked to others in the White House," he said. "I'm told that whatever conversations have been had are not problematic."
On Monday, Issa issued a second letter asking who Gibbs had spoken to about the matter and the basis for his comment that the interactions between the White House and Sestak were not problematic. In the letter, Issa said that Gibbs' comments that he is "collecting direct evidence from witnesses" implies "that the White House is allowing its communications staff to carry out investigative tasks ordinarily conducted by legal professionals in the Counsel's office. Such slipshodness has all the makings of a cover up." In an interview Wednesday, Issa stood by the notion that the White House is engaged in a cover up.
"I believe not answering our questions when in fact they have asked and gotten them answered" meets the standard for a cover up, he said. He compared the Obama White House to that of former President Richard Nixon and said it was not living up to its promises of transparency.
"Democrats, when they were not in the White House, had real objections to that idea of, 'whatever I want to do is OK,'" he said, referencing objections to Bush administration policy. "The public has a right to know who asked what, when. A congressman has made an allegation that is likely a felony."
Issa said that if he doesn't receive "satisfactory answers" to his letter by its April 5th deadline, "then the next step would be to call for a special prosecutor to investigate." He said it is now "a lot easier" for the White House to respond because Gibbs "has the raw information that we asked for." Asked if he expected his call for a special prosecutor to be answered, Issa said, "I'm a practicing Christian, I have always believed in the redemption of souls." He said that if the issue generates enough publicity Democrats may feel forced to appoint a prosecutor out of "the fear of the voters."
Issa said that while backroom dealing is not uncommon in politics, an explicit quid pro quo arrangement crosses the line, and that there is no way to know exactly what happened until either Sestak or the White House provides details. Asked why he was taking up the fight, he pointed to efforts by Democrats on the House Oversight committee to examine Bush administration e-mails and the Valerie Plame matter and said he had the right to look into any potential violation of the Hatch Act.
"I'm not going to let this issue go away between now and November until it's resolved," Issa said. "I think an unanswered allegation of a criminal activity is one that even a back burner boil will eventually lead to steam rising," he added. "I don't believe the question will stop being asked until original source information is delivered."
Asked if he wanted to comment on Issa's intention to seek a special prosecutor in the case, Gibbs said he would say "nothing more than what I said last week." "Look, I've talked to several people in the White House; I've talked to people that have talked to others in the White House," he said. "I'm told that whatever conversations have been had are not problematic." = 'Unsatisfactory answer'
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The left hammered George W. for 8 years. The MSM was a willing party to this continual and unrelenting onslaught. Go for it GOP. The GOP is faced with an opponent who does not mind lying or the rigging of elections through ACORN, SEIU, and other shadowy accomplices such as George Soros. They need to talk about the "vast left-wing conspiracy" that is trying to destroy the Republic.
WASHINGTON -- President Obama and his Russian counterpart, President Dmitri A. Medvedev, have broken through a logjam in their arms control negotiations and expect to sign a new treaty in Prague next month that would slash American and Russian nuclear arsenals, officials from both nations said Wednesday.
Mr. Obama and Mr. Medvedev still need to talk once more to finalize the agreement, but officials were optimistic that the deal was nearly done.
The two sides have discussed a signing ceremony in Prague in early April, marking the anniversary of the first meeting between the two presidents and of Mr. Obama's speech outlining his vision for eventually eliminating nuclear weapons.
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Another Obama Giveaway to the world's dictators and odious regimes. Unfortunately, this Senate doesn't know the meaning of Advise and Consent.
The sad part is that Russia can't maintain her current arsenal and would have drastically cut theirs anyway. Not that Putin's KGB w/ a country is in any way, shape or form equal to the USA.
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I believe we are well on the way toward eliminating Obama. Any treaty with Russia will require Senate confirmation. He better hope he can get it before the Senate before the election.
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DMFD, I think Obama thinks or believes that, if America leads by example and gives up our nukes, the rest of the world will follow and give up theirs.
In some kind of fantasy world, that might be so. Unfortunately for us, this is the real world.
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I'm thinking there are going to be layoffs in Oak Ridge; maybe other nuke producing facilities.
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John Q there have already been layoffs in Oak Ridge.
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03/25/2010 12:12 Comments ||
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DMFD, I think Obama thinks or believes that, if America leads by example and gives up our nukes, the rest of the world will follow and give up theirs.
He does not believe anything of the sort! He is being directed by unseen forces inimical to our survival. He is systematically breaking us down for our eventual destruction. The Left have been setting the stage for this over decades. They are now playing their end game.
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You'll recall the runner-up for worst president in history* gave up breeder reactors so that others would follow our lead.
As a result, we have gobs of low-level nuclear waste laying about waiting for a repository.
Ya think Yucca Flats will get approved this year?
*For those of you just joining us here, that'd be James Earl Carter, POTUS from 1980-1984. Also a one-term wonder.
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03/25/2010 13:17 Comments ||
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Yucca Flats? You mean that government scam to fleece $34 billion from nuclear power generators?
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Ah am so happy we have a few of our own nukes for a rainy day.
I never believed in Hillary's promise of a Nuclear Umbrella protecting Israel.
Just give Bambi a couple more years and he will demolish the US from within - the US enemies do not have to do anything besides stand back and give Bambi enough rope to hang himself (and, unfortunately, take an entire nation down with him).
On the funny side - Instead of reducing US nuke arsenal by dismantling some of it, I think the Iranians will be willing to buy some of it off Bambi's hands and pay handsomely for this gift !
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There's also a process to reduce the stock pile by using some.
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So how's the hope and change and Kumbaya thing working out for us? I see where General Electric is starting to use old Ronald Reagan video in their most recent commericials. Thought GE was really way in the bag for Obama.
Today at City Hall Mayor David Miller is to help unveil a poster of the great African-American singer, actor and activist Paul Robeson. The city says the poster is the first in a series "recognizing the global humanitarian efforts of individuals in the areas of equality, justice and diversity."
Fair enough, you might say. Toronto is a diverse city that is searching for role models. Robeson spoke out courageously about the oppression of blacks in the United States. But the city's display on Robeson completely glosses over the other side of his controversial career: his enthusiastic lifelong support for Soviet Communism.
Robeson, who died in 1976 at the age of 77, is a fascinating and in many ways admirable figure. The son of a onetime slave turned preacher, he became an all-American football player then won a degree from Columbia Law School. With his commanding presence and resonant voice, he gravitated to the theatre and the movies, playing Shakespeare's Othello on the London stage and becoming famous world over for his role as Joe in the musical Show Boat. His rendition of Ol' Man River is still moving to watch today.
But after a visit to the U.S.S.R. in 1934, he became captivated by the Soviet experiment. He accepted the Stalin Peace Prize from Moscow. He defended the 1939 Nazi-Soviet pact. He made excuses for the Soviet invasion of Hungary in 1956. He praised the paper promises in the Soviet Constitution to punish racial discrimination and respect ethnic minorities. He chose to overlook the mass deportation and murder of minority groups that Stalin suspected of treason.
When challenged about Soviet anti-Semitism, he said that he "met Jewish people all over the place" in Russia and "I heard no word about it." When Moscow executed a group of "counter-revolutionary assassins" -- its label for political opponents -- he said that "they ought to destroy anybody who seeks to harm that great country."
Decades after other fellow travellers had seen the light about Soviet totalitarianism -- long after George Orwell's Animal Farm or Arthur Koestler's Darkness at Noon -- Robeson remained a true believer. There is no record of him ever saying a bad word about the Soviet Union, no acknowledgment of the millions who died in the purges and the Gulag or suffered under the Kremlin's boot in Eastern Europe.
The city's presentation on Robeson in the City Hall rotunda ignores all of this, admitting only that "Robeson was perceived as being too pro-Soviet" and that "Paul Robeson's socially conscious approach would often be mistaken for communist tendencies." The worshipful photo display, titled "The Tallest Tree in the Forest," concludes that "Paul Robeson continues to represent strength, beauty and peace."
Coming just a few months after a similar City Hall display praised the glories of Fidel Castro's Cuba -- not a word about persecution of homosexuals, dissidents and Christians -- the Robeson presentation sends an unfortunate message to the thousands of refugees from Communism who live in Toronto, whether they are Russians, Hungarians, Czechs, Chinese or Vietnamese.
The presentation was put together by Ken Jeffers, the access and diversity manager at the parks and recreation division. A native of Trinidad who once campaigned in the U.S. civil-rights movement, he says that after the racism Robeson experienced at home, it is no surprise that he felt welcomed by the Soviet Union or that he was angry at the U.S. government, which took away his passport in the 1950s and had the FBI and the CIA spy on him.
As for Robeson "being a so-called Communist," Mr. Jeffers says, "I think Toronto needs to understand the spirit of this man rather than saying how terrible he was or what he didn't do."
But if the city is going to tell Torontonians about Robeson, shouldn't it present the bad along with the good? Isn't it better to draw a rounded picture and let people decide whether his virtues outweigh his sins?
Robeson was so enamoured with the Soviet Union that he shut his eyes to its faults. Let's not do the same to his.
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Stalin apologists - the concentration camp builders of the future.
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Seems like there are many who are enanmoured with the ghosts of communism these days. Lest it not be forgotten there were some 100 million people killed in the name of communism.
The peer leading the second Climategate enquiry at the University of East Anglia serves as a director of one of the most powerful environmental networks in the world, according to Companies House documents - and has failed to declare it.
Lord Oxburgh, a geologist by training and the former scientific advisor to the Ministry of Defence, was appointed to lead the enquiry into the scientific aspects of the Climategate scandal on Monday. But Oxburgh is also a director of GLOBE, the Global Legislators Organisation for a Balanced Environment.
GLOBE may be too obscure to merit its own Wikipedia entry, but that belies its wealth and influence. It funds meetings for parliamentarians worldwide with an interest in climate change, and prior to the Copenhagen Summit GLOBE issued guidelines for legislators.
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The University of Tennessee takes its football as seriously as a heart attack maybe more so. Lane Kiffin, the last head coach left after one year taking much of his staff with him. Needless to say the local fans were talking tar and feathers and finding a rope.
Recently, Al Gore got an honorary doctorate from UT for his global warming scam. I got a chuckle this morning concerning a letter to the editor in the local newspaper that was headed: "UT degree to Kiffin makes more sense."
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.
Today at City Hall Mayor David Miller is to help unveil a poster of the great African-American singer, actor and activist Paul Robeson. The city says the poster is the first in a series "recognizing the global humanitarian efforts of individuals in the areas of equality, justice and diversity."
