Category Archives: American Politics

Moscow to UN: We’re not happy

http://www.thehindu.com/news/international/article1718528.ece to which the UN United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon replied “So are you going to support my reelection”?

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Happy Earth Day

Happy Earth Day – or as I prefer to call it – Happy Vladimir Lenin’s birthday. It hadn’t occurred to me that the final day would coincide with Earth Day, but I guess there is some irony to that.

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John McCain is in Libya

John McCain is in Benghazi “The Rebels are my heroes” Senator McCain is the Ranking leader of the US Armed Services committee.

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Send in the drones

Well, today’s escalation news is that President Obama (did you know he won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize?) has authorized using drones to attack targets inside Laos…. err…. Libya, since they have been so successful at protecting civilians in Afghanistan … Continue reading

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Tunisia Sandwich

Libyan Mortars land in Tunisia “Free” Tunisia sits between Algeria and Libya. Algeria is making it clearer they intend to help the Qadaffi regime. Tunisia used to be under the colonial control of Italy, but was invaded by France in … Continue reading

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The ReColonization of Africa

Newspaper opinion From Namibia – this is the first account I’ve read where someone has pointed to the big elephant in the room. Are the events in Libya and Ivory Coast the Europeans using the pretext of “Duty to Protect … Continue reading

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We know where you’ve been

PC World Okay, it’s tin foil hat day… Combined with the bit about the tools available to law enforcement to break into your phone…. PC World is reporting your iPhone or 3G iPad is keeping a log that you can’t … Continue reading

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Government Employees and you

Part of my unhappiness at the moment is that I’m living in what turns out to be a cesspool of local corruption. New Haven Independent Story Just one of the local stories in the area. Over in Shelton, just to … Continue reading

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Why do you need the 4th Amendment if you have nothing to hide?

http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/34/3458.asp “Sir, your car was weaving” Thank you officer. “I see you have a cell phone.   Would you mind if I have a look at your call history?” I do not consent to a search. “Very well.   You know I … Continue reading

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Tic Tac heir dies of heart attack riding bicycle at 47

April 19 (Bloomberg) — Pietro Ferrero, chief executive officer of the Ferrero group, maker of Nutella chocolate spread and Tic Tacs, and heir to Italy’s biggest fortune, died of a suspected heart attack in South Africa. He was 47. [search … Continue reading

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U.S. Pledges $123 million for Chernobyl cleanup

Jimmy Carter’s National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brezezinski (his daughter works with Joe Scarborough) has offered up $123 million to help pay for a $1 billion dome containing the worst of the mess at Chernobyl for the next 100 years. (only … Continue reading

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The Next Government power grab

Prescription drug registry arrives in MT I just heard on the hourly news this is now being pushed from Washington DC. Because we need to protect people [the children?] from drug overdoses, each state is going urged to create a … Continue reading

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The Breitbart / Glenn Beck rift

Daily Beast Interview If you listened to Beck yesterday, he droned on and on about the phrase “The Truth has no agenda”, and how he was accused of stealing it (and other stuff) from bloggers. Glenn introduced the audience to … Continue reading

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Monitor Group and “dirty hands”

Harvard and Libya The Monitor group is affiliated with Harvard University and for the past few years was advising Libya how to improve Libya’s economy – and now embarrassed that they took money to assist the Libyan “regime”. You know… … Continue reading

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“C” is for China

About a week ago, I wrote that WAGE-AM in the Washington DC market was about to return to the air as WCRW-AM. I was hoping that stood for Conservative Radio Washington. I couldn’t have been more wrong. WCRW will be … Continue reading

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