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N. Korea]The Dear Leader’s China Trip: Rift Failed to Cover (China’s view)
Wed May 12 2010 22:43:43 GMT-0700 (Pacific Daylight Time) · by TigerLikesRooster · 1 replies · 8+ viewsMacArthur Foundation ^ | 05/11/10 | Zhu FengThe Dear Leader’s China Trip: Rift Failed to Cover Posted by Zhu Feng on May 11, 2010. Filed under China, Japan, North Korea, South Korea, United States. North Korea’s Dear Leader Kim Jong Il visited China May 3-7 in search of aid and economic cooperation. Kim’s visit puts China under fire in the US, Korea and Japan in the light of Cheonan sinking. But it was not a surprise visit, and the rumor of his coming had rippled since last January in 2010. So far, no one knows exactly why his trip was postponed time and again. Maybe his arrival… -
A Fuel-Saving Car Engine in the Blink of an IRIS
Wed May 12 2010 22:42:44 GMT-0700 (Pacific Daylight Time) · by FTJM · 30+ viewsNational Geographic News ^ | May 12, 2010 | Henry J. ReskeIn the past year, the U.S. auto industry has reeled under market pressure, faced bankruptcy, accepted billions of dollars in government bailout money, and agreed to mandates for cleaner and more efficient vehicles. But for two brothers from Colorado with an automotive start-up company, things couldn’t be better. Levi Tillemann-Dick, 28, and his brother Corban, 24, are carrying on a dream they hatched with their late father, Denver inventor and businessman Timber Dick, to bring to market a radical new engine design that is much more efficient than a traditional internal combustion engine. The four-stroke engine used in gasoline-powered cars… -
Kagan, Obama, and the Harvard Legacy of Literary Fraud
Wed May 12 2010 22:40:42 GMT-0700 (Pacific Daylight Time) · by neverdem · 2 replies · 57+ viewsAmerican Thinker ^ | May 13, 2010 | Jack CashillWhen Barack Obama’s two faculty mentors at Harvard Law got in trouble for plagiarism, they were rescued by Dean Elena Kagan. In 1989, Harvard Law professor Laurence Tribe hired first-year Harvard law student Barack Obama as his research assistant. After Obama was elected president, Tribe would gush, “His stunning combination of analytical brilliance and personal charisma, openness and maturity, vision and pragmatism, was unmistakable from my very first encounter.” Obama had one other prominent mentor among the Harvard faculty, Professor Charles Ogletree, an African American. In the run-up to the election, Ogletree would enthuse, “I’m so excited about this candidacy… -
Farewell, the Special Relationship?(The British return Obama’s coolness.)
Wed May 12 2010 22:40:12 GMT-0700 (Pacific Daylight Time) · by cold start · 3 replies · 48+ viewsThe Wall Street Journal ^ | May 4, 2010Americans following this week’s U.K. elections should know that if David Cameron becomes the next prime minister, his Conservative government will work hard to “establish a new special relationship” with . . . India. Unlike that former British colony or China, America plays a decidedly “unspecial” role in the Tory manifesto. The election platform simply says that relations with the U.S. will be “strong, close and frank,” or, in the words of Shadow Foreign Minister William Hague, “solid but not slavish.” Where Mr. Blair was both devotedly pro-American and pro-European, Mr. Cameron is neither. No doubt part of the Tories’… -
Police: DNA is a match to pit bull identified in brutal attack
Police: DNA is a match to pit bull identified in brutal attack Posted: May 12, 2010 6:36 PM PDT By Lindsey Connell – bio | email | Twitter COLUMBUS, GA (WTVM) – News Leader 9 has new details on a pit bull attack in Columbus. It’s a case that prompted Columbus investigators to take special steps to find the dog at the center of the mauling police say is one of the worst in the city’s history. This is the first time Columbus Police have done animal DNA testing in an investigation and now, the results are in. Detectives say… -
Multi Billion Programmes – Middle East and North Africa Developing Defences
Wed May 12 2010 22:24:09 GMT-0700 (Pacific Daylight Time) · by sonofstrangelove · 49+ viewsGlobal Arab Network ^ | 5/12/2010 | Robert BaileyLocal arms manufacturing in the Middle East and North Africa region is set to grow. Robert Bailey outlines some of the projects and collaborations that are underway Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) defence industries are becoming more self reliant as they shift from direct equipment purchases to local production. Where technology transfer has for more than two decades been an established part of headline-catching, multi billion dollar offset programmes, the focus now, for even the smaller countries, is to require technology transfer as a first step to developing their own armaments manufacturing capability. Nevertheless, the MENA region is still… -
Who Uses Phony Social Security Numbers?
Wed May 12 2010 22:22:34 GMT-0700 (Pacific Daylight Time) · by SteveH · 8 replies · 231+ viewsJon Christian Ryter’s Conservative World ^ | 4/19/2010 | Jon Christian Ryterf a friend or acquaintance posed the question: “Who uses someone else’s Social Security number?” how would you answer them? (I was going to say who uses a phony Social Security number, but since Uncle Sam is now recycling Social Security numbers because they are close to running out of them, just about any combination of numbers you put together today will be someone’s Social Security number.) Most likely the first thought that would come to your mind when asked that question would be: “An illegal alien.” Second would be someone intent on committing identity fraud, since having access to… -
Johnny Maestro, Crests and Brooklyn Bridge singer, dies at age 70 of cancer – Blow Out The Candles
Wed May 12 2010 22:20:12 GMT-0700 (Pacific Daylight Time) · by JoeProBono · 7 replies · 377+ viewsnydailynews ^ | March 25th 2010 | David HinckleyJohnny Maestro, who started out singing on the New York subways and a few years later recorded one of the great teen love anthems, “Sixteen Candles,” died late Wednesday night in Florida after a battle with cancer. He was 70. A distinctive and highly respected vocalist both among his peers and fans of early rock ‘n’ roll, Maestro spent his life in the music business, scoring hits as lead singer of the Crests in the 1950s and then the Brooklyn Bridge a decade later. He continued performing live shows with the Brooklyn Bridge until he was diagnosed several months ago… -
A certain je ne sais quoi — Say this about Tim James: He’s full of chutzpah (AL GOP candidate)
Wed May 12 2010 22:18:14 GMT-0700 (Pacific Daylight Time) · by 2ndDivisionVet · 61+ viewsThe Anniston Star ^ | April 30, 2010 | Bob Davis, Editor“This is Alabama, we speak English.” — Tim James, candidate for governor, speaking in a campaign commercial decrying that Alabama offers driver’s license exams in 12 languages What, is he loco? If this ninja candidate was feeling angst at recent polling and looking for a way to add panache to his bid to be Alabama’s next governor, James found it. With this YouTube sensation, he can say “sayonara” to campaigning under the radar. Or, as famed Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto might say, “Se trata de Alabama. Hablamos Inglés.” So, what was the motivation — the raison d’être — of… -
Record-High Gold Prices Continue
Wed May 12 2010 22:12:33 GMT-0700 (Pacific Daylight Time) · by TigerLikesRooster · 7 replies · 116+ viewsTheStreet.com ^ | 05/12/10 | Alix SteelRecord-High Gold Prices Continue Alix Steel 05/12/10 – 04:18 PM EDT NEW YORK (TheStreet ) — Gold prices Wednesday were hitting record highs as gold’s appeal as a safe haven asset exploded. Next Step for Gold Prices Gold for June delivery was popping $19.70 to $1,240 an ounce at the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange. The gold price today has traded as high as $1,249.20 and as low as $1,227.20. The U.S. dollar index was rising 0.44% to $84.84 while the euro reversed earlier gains and was falling 0.38% to $1.26 against the dollar. The spot gold… -
China’s Insult to South Korea
Wed May 12 2010 21:58:28 GMT-0700 (Pacific Daylight Time) · by sonofstrangelove · 2 replies · 117+ viewsAsia Sentinel ^ | 5/10/2010 | Lee Byong-chulChina’s decision to roll out a glitzy welcome mat for the North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il has stunned and shocked South Korea’s leaders, ignoring South Korea’s anger over the sinking, undoubtedly by the north, of a South Korean navy patrol ship on March 26 with the loss of 46 lives. South Korean President Lee Myung-bak was not given any hint from his Chinese counterpart Hu Jintao at a Shanghai summit meeting, hardly a week ago on May 1, that Kim was on his way to Beijing. It was on May 2 that the 68-year-old North Korean leader’s clandestine visit initially… -
Palin Chastises Illinois High School For Boycotting Arizona [Tells Girls Team: "Go Rogue, Girls"]
Wed May 12 2010 21:56:42 GMT-0700 (Pacific Daylight Time) · by Steelfish · 20 replies · 349+ viewsLATimes ^ | May 12th 2010Palin Chastises Illinois High School For Boycotting Arizona May 12, 2010 Sarah Palin took on officials of an Illinois high school for canceling a trip to Arizona by its girls’ basketball team because of the controversial new immigration law. She also maintained her support for oil drilling despite the massive spill in the Gulf of Mexico. “Keeping the girls’ basketball team off the court for political reasons? Those are fighting words,” the former Alaska governor and GOP vice presidential candidate said during a speech Wednesday in Rosemont, Ill., a Chicago suburb. Noting that Highland Park High School has allowed student… -
Warship blast fragments compared to NKorea torpedo
Wed May 12 2010 21:51:41 GMT-0700 (Pacific Daylight Time) · by sonofstrangelove · 11 replies · 174+ viewsAFP via Yahoo News ^ | 5/12/2010 | AFP via Yahoo NewsExperts investigating the blast which sank a South Korean warship are checking salvaged metal fragments against a North Korean torpedo which Seoul retrieved seven years ago, a report said Thursday. South Korea has mounted a multinational probe into what caused the explosion which split the 1,200-tonne corvette the Cheonan in two near the disputed border with the North on March 26. “Comparisons are underway to check if metal pieces recovered from the Cheonan are made of material similar to that of a North Korean torpedo,” an unidentified military official told Yonhap news agency. The official was quoted as saying the… -
Gold Investing: Protection Against Inflation
Wed May 12 2010 21:50:55 GMT-0700 (Pacific Daylight Time) · by blam · 7 replies · 154+ viewsThe Daily Reckoning ^ | 5-12-2010 | Bill BonnerGold Investing: Protection Against Inflation By Bill Bonner 05/12/10 Paris, France – People don’t realize it, but these macro economic issues have real, personal consequences, said our French MoneyWeek editor. Simone calculated that keeping the debt under control, at 2009 levels, would cost the average Greek nearly $2,500 per year. That’s just the cost, per capita, of keeping up with the interest, while holding other expenses even with government revenues. Not many Greeks want to pay that amount. Not many will be able to. And more than a few will think they’re being treated like chumps. They’ll imagine that it’s… -
Pirates hijack Greek cargo ship off Oman coast
Wed May 12 2010 21:50:10 GMT-0700 (Pacific Daylight Time) · by rdl6989 · 23 replies · 210+ viewsCNN ^ | May 12, 2010(CNN) — Pirates hijacked a Greek-owned cargo ship Wednesday morning off the coast of Oman, the European Union Naval Force Somalia said. The Liberian-flagged Eleni P, operated by Eurobulk, was carrying 26 crew members when pirates overpowered the ship, the EU naval force said. The crew — 23 Filipinos, two Romanians and one Indian — are reported to be safe, the force said. The ship was en route to India when it was taken by the pirates about 250 nautical miles off the coast of Oman, according to the force, which said it was monitoring the situation. -
China Thwarts Russian Goal(Chicom Poaching on Belarus?)
Wed May 12 2010 21:40:13 GMT-0700 (Pacific Daylight Time) · by TigerLikesRooster · 1 replies · 123+ viewsRFA ^ | 04/05/10 | Michael LelyveldChina Thwarts Russian Goal 2010-04-05 Beijing’s investment in Belarus marks move into Russia’s “sphere of influence.” Belarus employees work at a gas transfer station near Nesvizh, some 130 kms (80 miles) west of Minsk, Jan. 9, 2009. By Michael Lelyveld BOSTON—China is making major investments that will strain ties with Russia as it exercises its new economic power, analysts say. During a visit to Belarus on March 25, Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping approved support for projects worth up to U.S. $10 billion in the former Soviet republic on Russia’s western border, a Belarusian government spokesman told reporters. China’s involvement… -
“Shake Up the Army, Dave”
Wed May 12 2010 21:38:20 GMT-0700 (Pacific Daylight Time) · by neverdem · 3 replies · 171+ viewsCommentary ^ | Peter WehnerThose were the words of Pete Schoomaker, then chief of staff of the Army, to General David Petraeus, who at the time (2005) was commander of the Combined Arms Center at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. The context of Schoomaker’s remarks was that the war in Iraq, which had been going on for more than two years, wasn’t going well. The trajectory of events was, in fact, alarming. So Schoomaker tasked Petraeus, the leader of a group of intellectual-warriors in the Army, to rethink our counterinsurgency (COIN) strategy. The job was to determine the right overarching concepts and intellectual underpinnings of the… -
China: Kim’s Visit Sparks Anger(Chinese Internet decidedly hostile)
Wed May 12 2010 21:37:58 GMT-0700 (Pacific Daylight Time) · by TigerLikesRooster · 7 replies · 163+ viewsRFA ^ | 05/05/10Kim’s Visit Sparks Anger 2010-05-05 North Korea’s leader gets a cold virtual shoulder in China. HONG KONG—Chinese netizens have reacted angrily to a visit to China by North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, with large numbers taking part in a campaign on Twitter titled “Kim Jong Il, get out of China!” Kim arrived in Beijing on Wednesday and was expected to meet with Chinese President Hu Jintao later in the day. Netizens lashed out at Kim for occupying the presidential suite at the Furama Hotel in the northeastern port city of Dalian, which costs 16,000 yuan (U.S. $2,300) per night,… -
Teen mountain climber accused of ‘street surfing’ – Johnny Strange of Malibu
Wed May 12 2010 21:37:02 GMT-0700 (Pacific Daylight Time) · by JoeProBono · 13 replies · 326+ viewshosted ^ | May 12MALIBU (AP) — A California teen who made headlines as a pioneering mountain climber could face charges for allegedly surfing up the Pacific Coast Highway on top of a car on his way to school. -
Arsons Reported in North Korea (expression of discontent?)
Wed May 12 2010 21:33:52 GMT-0700 (Pacific Daylight Time) · by TigerLikesRooster · 6 replies · 149+ viewsRFA ^ | 05/11/10Arsons Reported in North Korea 2010-05-11 Pyongyang blames “hostile elements,” but residents see the fires as protests against the regime. SEOUL—Authorities in North Korea’s Yangang province have warned citizens of the isolated Stalinist state to be vigilant for “hostile elements” following a spate of arson attacks, local residents said. “Fires of unknown origin have been set to several residential houses,” a resident of Yangang said in a recent interview. “Ministry of Public Security agents and public prosecutors have been mobilized to conduct an investigation,” said the source, who added that there is an “absence of any leads or clues” in… -
Protesters end hunger strike at UC Berkeley
Wed May 12 2010 21:26:51 GMT-0700 (Pacific Daylight Time) · by SmithL · 24 replies · 384+ viewsOakland Tribune ^ | 5/12/10 | Doog OakleyBERKELEY — UC Berkeley protesters ended a 10-day hunger strike Wednesday with a ceremonial meal of corn on the cob. The mostly Latino group of 18 students and workers went on strike in front of the administration building May 3 demanding school Chancellor Robert Birgeneau denounce Arizona’s new law that allows police to question the immigration status of anyone they stop for other crimes. They also had a host of other demands. Birgeneau denounced the new law, but stopped short of the other demands until the strikers met with him Wednesday. During the strike four students had to be hospitalized… -
India:Inside job gives call centres a pool of cheap labour(inmates to man call center)
Wed May 12 2010 21:25:22 GMT-0700 (Pacific Daylight Time) · by TigerLikesRooster · 6 replies · 156+ viewsThe Times(UK) ^ | 05/13/10 | Rhys BlakelyMay 13, 2010 Inside job gives call centres a pool of cheap labour Rhys Blakely in Mumbai Britons have grown accustomed to dialling call centres in Bangalore to check their bank details. But what if your bank’s back office was in an Indian prison — and was manned by criminals? In what has been billed as “a unique public-private experiment”, an Indian outsourcing company that claims Royal Bank of Scotland and Goldman Sachs as clients is to employ inmates at Cherlapally Central Jail in Hyderabad to help to process bank paperwork. About 250 prisoners — both convicts and those awaiting… -
Aging Sex Icon Raquel Welch: Contraceptives Shattered Marriage, the ‘Cornerstone of Civilization’
Wed May 12 2010 21:22:54 GMT-0700 (Pacific Daylight Time) · by GonzoII · 33 replies · 1,077+ viewsLife Site News ^ | May 12, 2010 | Kathleen GilbertWednesday May 12, 2010 Aging Sex Icon Raquel Welch: Contraceptives Shattered Marriage, the ‘Cornerstone of Civilization’ By Kathleen GilbertMay 12, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Once hailed as the female sex symbol Playboy deemed the “Most Desired Woman” of the 1970s, actress Raquel Welch has now taken a more critical look at the contraceptive revolution during which she shot to stardom. In a recent column for CNN, Welch rejoices in the experience of pregnancy, and laments the havoc that the free-sex ethos has wreaked on marriage and family life. Welch opens her column by noting that, after Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger… -
PlayStation foils US Air Force
Wed May 12 2010 21:22:10 GMT-0700 (Pacific Daylight Time) · by sonofstrangelove · 6 replies · 519+ viewsFlightglobal/DEW line ^ | 5/12/2010 | Stephen TrimbleWhen US Air Force researchers last year created the mother-of-all-processors using Sony PlayStation-3 game consoles, it seemed like a stroke of cost-saving genius.To deliver a 53-TerraFLOP processing cluster, the Air Force Research Laboratory in Rome, N.Y., hoovered up 1,700 PlayStation-3 game consoles, then harnessed the power of their combined processors to evaluate new breakthroughs in technology for synthetic aperture radar, high definition video and something called “neuromorphic computing”. At the time, the researchers noted that two PlayStation-3 consoles provide 150 GigaFLOPs of processing power for $600, but a single 3.2GHz cell processor delivers 200 GFLOPs for $8,000. Why spend the… -
Councillor killed in fall from tree (Green Party)
Wed May 12 2010 21:19:28 GMT-0700 (Pacific Daylight Time) · by Free ThinkerNY · 23 replies · 220+ viewsnews.aol.co.uk ^ | May 13, 2010A councillor for the Green Party has died after falling out of a tree, it has been disclosed. Phil Gordon, a professional tree surgeon, was working in Abbey Park, Leicester, on Tuesday when the accident happened. He was taken to Leicester Royal Infirmary where he died. Mr Gordon, who represented the Green Party on Leicester City Council, was named by the authority on Wednesday. -
Crashed Libyan A330 had logged just 1,600 hours
Wed May 12 2010 21:15:39 GMT-0700 (Pacific Daylight Time) · by sonofstrangelove · 7 replies · 295+ viewsFlightglobal ^ | 5/12/2010 | David Kaminski-MorrowAirframer data for the crashed Afriqiyah Airways Airbus A330-200 shows that it had accumulated just 1,600 flight hours before the accident. Airbus has confirmed the carrier’s identification of the airframe as serial number 1024, adding that it had conducted some 420 flights since delivery in September. “Preliminary reports indicate that the aircraft crashed short of the runway threshold during approach,” it adds. There is no information on the level of experience of the cockpit crew. Afriqiyah confirms that a child was the sole survivor from among the 93 passengers – mainly Dutch nationals – and 11 crew on board. Video… -
Melting Ice Patches Reveal Ancient Artifacts
Wed May 12 2010 21:12:07 GMT-0700 (Pacific Daylight Time) · by 2ndDivisionVet · 12 replies · 370+ viewsSoftPedia ^ | April 27, 2010 | Tudor Vieru, Science EditorDue to higher annual temperatures, more ice melts each year near the Arctic, in northern Canada. The location, which was inhabited by humans centuries ago, is currently beginning to reveal numerous artifacts and other signs of civilization, that are exposed by the melting ice patches. The tools were generally encased in large blocks of ice, but excessive melting is currently laying them bare on the ground, for researchers to collect. The ice patches on the mountains of the Canadian High Arctic have been undisturbed for thousands of years, but they are currently melting more during the summer. “We’re just like… -
8 S. Koreans found dead in apparent suicides
Wed May 12 2010 21:11:19 GMT-0700 (Pacific Daylight Time) · by Free ThinkerNY · 3 replies · 148+ viewsmsnbc.msn.com ^ | May 12, 2010SEOUL, South Korea – Eight South Koreans were found dead in two separate cases of suspected group suicide, including five people who apparently inhaled toxic fumes together in a parked car, police said Thursday. Four women and one man — all in their 20s and 30s — were presumed to have inhaled the fumes by burning coal briquettes inside a parked car in Hwaseong, just south of Seoul on Wednesday, police official Song Ui-chan said. -
Palin chastises Illinois high school for boycotting Arizona
Wed May 12 2010 21:09:53 GMT-0700 (Pacific Daylight Time) · by pissant · 42 replies · 714+ viewsLA Times ^ | 5/12/10 | staffSarah Palin took on officials of an Illinois high school for canceling a trip to Arizona by its girls’ basketball team because of the controversial new immigration law. She also maintained her support for oil drilling despite the massive spill in the Gulf of Mexico. “Keeping the girls’ basketball team off the court for political reasons? Those are fighting words,” the former Alaska governor and GOP vice presidential candidate said during a speech Wednesday in Rosemont, Ill., a Chicago suburb. Noting that Highland Park High School has allowed student trips to China, Palin asked whether school officials know “how they… -
Fading Colors, Fading Ideals, Fading Nation
Wed May 12 2010 21:06:31 GMT-0700 (Pacific Daylight Time) · by stolinsky · 115+ viewswww.stolinsky.com ^ | 05-13-10 | stolinskyChildren are like new clothes – full of bright colors. They have an inherent sense of justice. They know that there are monsters in the world. But they play video games and watch cops-and-robbers movies, and learn that good guys fight monsters. But what if young people attend liberal schools and universities instead of conservative colleges? What if they are taught a secular view of life? What if they are indoctrinated with leftist ideology and moral relativism? What if they are taught to look at America through a colonoscope? The strong beliefs fade, leaving only the bland pastels of “Who… -
The Socialist Judge: Elena Kagan and the Teachable Moment
Wed May 12 2010 21:06:05 GMT-0700 (Pacific Daylight Time) · by Steelfish · 6 replies · 187+ viewsAmerican Spectator ^ | May 12th 2010The Socialist Judge: Elena Kagan and the Teachable Moment By Jeffrey Lord on 5.12.10 “In our own times, a coherent socialist movement is nowhere to be found in the United States. Americans are more likely to speak of a golden past than of a golden future, of capitalism’s glories than of socialism’s greatness.” — Elena Kagan, Obama nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court “This is a great opportunity to find out what’s in this woman’s mind.” — Rush Limbaugh The teachable moment on socialism is here. Courtesy of Barack Obama and Elena Kagan.. The issue — the issue — of… -
Simple, cheap drug holds cancer treatment promise
Wed May 12 2010 21:04:41 GMT-0700 (Pacific Daylight Time) · by Grig · 5 replies · 360+ viewsCTV.ca ^ | Wed. May. 12 2010 9:48 PM ETAn inexpensive drug already in use for other diseases might hold the key to a completely new way of treating cancers — not by killing off cancer cells, but by simply reprogramming them. The finding comes from some exciting Canadian research on patients with brain tumours. The study found that DCA — or dichloroacetate — can shrink the tumours by altering a cancer cell’s metabolism…. -
First, last men on moon: Obama plan ill-conceived
Wed May 12 2010 21:01:52 GMT-0700 (Pacific Daylight Time) · by Nachum · 10 replies · 175+ viewschron.com ^ | 5/12/10 | STEWART M. POWELLWASHINGTON — Pioneering moonwalking astronauts Neil Armstrong and Eugene Cernan on Wednesday accused the Obama administration of hastily concocting an ill-conceived road map for manned space exploration in its move to shelve NASA’s back-to-the-moon program. Armstrong, who took man’s first steps on the moon in 1969, and Cernan, who took the last steps in 1972, told the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation that President Barack Obama’s plans to end shuttle flights and shift responsibility for building manned spacecraft to commercial companies was a risky strategy that reflected a predilection for developing commercial spacecraft industry at all costs.
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- The CIA Should Kill Julian AssangeJulian Assange is the founder of Wikileaks and as you have probably heard, he’s publicly posting a large number of uncensored intelligence documents he’s received. Happily, most of them haven’t done a lot of damage. However, the same can’t be said for the information he’s released about Afghan informants: THE Australian founder of WikiLeaks has been […]
- Minute 16 Of Her 15 Minutes Of Fame: Shirley Sherrod To File Nuisance Lawsuit Against Andrew BreitbartShirley Sherrod, who seems to spend most of her time accusing everyone who doesn’t agree with her of being racist, is going to try to sue Andrew Breitbart, Ousted USDA employee Shirley Sherrod says she will sue conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart, the Associated Press reports. Sherrod made the announcement Thursday in San Diego at the National […]
- Filling The Swamp: Has Charlie Rangel Cut A Deal? (Updated: Or Not)So much for transparency, responsibility, upholding the law, draining the swamp, and the “most ethical Congress EVAH!” CBS NY is reporting: Reports: Rangel Cuts Deal, Avoids Trial New York Congressman Charles Rangel has reportedly cut a deal to admit to ethical wrongdoing and avoid a potentially humiliating public trial. Harlem friends of Rangel tell […]
- BREAKING: Sherrod Says She’ll Sue Andrew BreitbartNew Media mogul Andrew Breitbart faces a lawsuit from former USDA employee Shirley Sherrod over his posting of video of the woman in a seemingly racist outburst at an NAACP meeting. Sherrod made the announcement at the San Diego convention of the National Association of Black Journalists on Thursday, July 29. Isn’t it a bit amusing that […]