David Plouffe, a senior White House adviser who was President Obamas 2008 campaign manager, accepted a $100,000 speaking fee in 2010 from an affiliate of a company doing business with Irans government.
A subsidiary of MTN Group, a South Africa-based telecommunications company, paid Plouffe for two speeches he made in Nigeria in December 2010, about a month before he joined the White House staff.
Since Plouffes speeches, MTN Group has come under intensified scrutiny from U.S. authorities because of its activities in Iran and Syria, which are under international sanctions intended to limit the countries access to sensitive technology. At the time of Plouffes speeches, MTN had been in a widely reported partnership for five years with a state- owned Iranian telecommunications firm.
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More on ANC MTN business investments. Linkages to the Champ, oh no, couldn't be.
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As I recall, the cover story about what happened to Norman Bates' mother was "killed by bees..."
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She's actually performing a quite useful administrative distraction whilst at the same time, providing in-country advance team coordination for the Champ's post-election Africa/world tour.
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A swarm of 'bees', eh? You may recall that those little scamps over at DARPA have been experimenting with robotic insects. I'm picturing some nerdy engineer sitting in front of his monitor, doing the Happy Chair Dance. "Fly, my pretties. Fly!"
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I believe one of the boasts of God to Israel during the invasion of Caanan was that He didn't really NEED them to flush the occupants of the land: Joshua reminded them of some Caananite kings who had been totally routed by hornets sent from God.
Bees. Not quite the same species, but the same idea. I imagine the same target as well (with regard to attitude toward Israel, that is).
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Reminds me of a 1970's TARZAN toon episode -[IIRC] "You + your Enslaved People fear the BoMangani [brutish talking Warrior Man-Apes] -'NANDO' THE HORNET IS MANY TIMES SMALLER THAN YOU, YET HE DROVE AWAY THE BO-MANGANI".
Lately he does manage to screw up whatever he promotes, doesn't he? Still quite dangerous in the election, though, so don't get cocky ...
A photograph of Barack Obama holding a baseball bat while on the telephone to the Turkish prime minister -- supposed to illustrate the close relationship between the pair -- backfired, after it sparked outrage in Turkey.
Barack Obama baseball bat photograph sparks outrage in Turkey
A photograph of Barack Obama holding a baseball bat while on the telephone to the Turkish prime minister -- supposed to illustrate the close relationship between the pair -- backfired, after it sparked outrage in Turkey.
The President was pictured in the Oval office speaking to Recep Tayyip Erdogan about the escalating crisis in Syria. In one hand was the telephone and the other a bat signed by legendary ballplayer Hank Aaron.
But the photograph caused dismay from opposition Turkish politicians who have interpreted a more menacing message behind the image.
"The photo reveals from whom our Prime Minister receives orders to rule the country," Metin Lutfi Baydar, an opposition politician for Turkey's Republican People's Party (CHP) party, said.
Another CHP leader, the party's vice president Umut Oran, said the picture was "an implicit insult to Turkey and its citizens" in Parliament.
Clearly stung by the reaction, the White House released a statement to clarify the reason for releasing the picture.
"We released the photo with only one purpose in mind, to highlight the President's continuing close relationship with Prime Minister Erdogan and draw attention to the important conversation they had about the worsening situation in Syria," Caitlin Hayden, a spokesman for the White House, wrote in a statement released Friday.
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The President was pictured in the Oval office speaking to Recep Tayyip Erdogan about the escalating crisis in Syria. In one hand was the telephone and the other a bat signed by legendary ballplayer Hank Aaron.
Probably holding it as a reminder of Hammerin' Hank's great days tearing it up with the Istanbul WhoopDeDoo's in the old Negro Leagues.
Which makes as much sense as this story...
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The President was pictured in the Oval office speaking to Recep Tayyip Erdogan about the escalating crisis in Syria. In one hand was the telephone and the other a bat signed by legendary ballplayer Hank Aaron.
I would get a stick if I had to be in the same room with Erdogan.
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If Obummer had the bat and his feet on the our desk with his soles pointed towards the camera, would there be exploding turbans, rioting, and seething in the streets of cities in Turkey and other parts of the muslim world?
The White House has left open the possibility of enacting its Internet agenda via executive order after the failed effort to bring the Democrat-supported cybersecurity bill to a full vote in the Senate last week. That way the internet can work as well as the post office...
In response to a question from The Hill, a Washington, D.C. political newspaper, about whether President B.O. was considering advancing his party's cyber-plan by ruling by decree through an executive order, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney didn't rule out the possibility.
"In the wake of Congressional inaction and Republican stall tactics, unfortunately, we will continue to be hamstrung by outdated and inadequate statutory authorities that the legislation would have fixed," he said via email. "Moving forward, the President is determined to do absolutely everything we can to better protect our nation against today's cyber threats and we will do that." He wasn't too good at "Simon sez" when he was a kid, I'll betcha...
The failed cyber security bill, which could be revived by Sen. Majority Leader Harry Reid ... the charismatic senator-for-life from Nevada, currently majority leader ... when the Senate comes back from recess in September, would have given federal agencies in charge of regulating critical infrastructure industries like power companies and utilities the ability to mandate cybersecurity recommendations. It takes only a minor change in definition to make the internet itself a "critical infrastructure industry." Then it can be regulated for "fairness." The enforcement of "fairness" would call for a few taxes to pay for it...
Shortly before the Senate's August recess, Obama penned a Wall Street Journal op-ed in which he threw his support behind the Cybersecurity Act of 2012.
An executive order would be another action from the B.O. regime to extend executive branch authority over a largely free and open Internet.
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I think we should start taking drastic measures against Obama by starving is support base by intercepting all food stamps.
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The United States Internet Service will be a kaffirmative action, equal opportunity employer.
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Congressional Inaction? Congress did act - the bill was killed.
First this Dictator-in-fact ignores laws which Congress has legally inacted.
Now he is creating whole new laws where Congress has legally REFUSED TO ENACT A BILL.
Barack Obama is a Dictator-wannabe. One wonders if he will simply refuse to leave the Presidency when voted out. Citing some made-up-crap then media backs him on. Racism or something... anything.
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One wonders if he will simply refuse to leave the Presidency when voted out. Citing some made-up-crap then media backs him on. Racism or something... anything.
I know I have stated this as my fear. There are already claims that Romney is doing well because people hate blacks. I really do wonder if teh 0ne is voted out, especially if the election is close if he will leave.
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If he doesn't leave - I hope the military and others remembers their oath - Foreign and Domestic.
After the way I heard Clinton left office - one has to wonder how Bumbles and company will leave the White House. I don't think it'll be the way Laura Bush left it.
Republicans on Sunday escalated their attacks on Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D) over his claim that presumptive GOP presidential nominee Willard Mitt Romney ...former governor of Massachussetts, currently the presumptive Publican nominee for president. He is the son of the former governor of Michigan, George Romney, who himself ran for president after saving American Motors from failure, though not permanently. Romney's charisma is best defined as soporific, which is probably why he is leading the Publican field. On the plus side, he isn't President B.O... did not pay taxes for years, with the Republican party head calling Reid a "dirty liar.''
Republican National Committee chair Reince Priebus, speaking on ABC's "This Week,'' contrasted Reid's allegations relating to Romney's wealth with Reid's own lifestyle as a resident of the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Washington, where he lives.
"As far as Harry Reid ... the charismatic senator-for-life from Nevada, currently majority leader ... is concerned, listen. . . . I'm not going to respond to a dirty liar who hasn't filed a single page of tax returns himself. Complains about people with money but lives in the Ritz-Carlton here down the street," Priebus said. ". . . This is just a made-up issue. And the fact that we're going to spend any time talking about it is ridiculous."
Reid created a political dustup last week by suggesting that Romney is withholding his tax returns because he didn't pay taxes over a 10-year stretch, part of Democratic efforts to focus on Romney's wealth and pressure him to release more than two years of returns. Romney forcefully rejected the allegations on Friday, saying he paid "a lot of taxes" every year and that Reid should "put up or shut up.''
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To the left - being a liar is a badge of honor.
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I recall some people had problems with Sharron Angle back in 2010, but can anyone deny she would have been about 10 million times better than Harry?
Sunstein is one of the architects of Obama's regulatory state. He goes back to Harvard, but if Champ wins this fall Sunstein will find his way back to DC.
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Perhaps there is some kind of karmic relationship with these guys where all the regulations and regulatory paper they created is stuffed where the sun don't shine.
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
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The White House has left open the possibility of enacting its Internet agenda via executive order after the failed effort to bring the Democrat-supported cybersecurity bill to a full vote in the Senate last week.
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