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Obama Administration Calls BS on Al Qaeda Claim
Posted by: | CommentsAl Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula claimed “credit” for the failed attack on the Northwest Airlines flight on Christmas Day, claiming that the attempted terrorist attack was retaliation for the December 17 airstrike against al Qaeda in Yemen.
Or in their words, “The oneness of our belief and brotherhood in Islam is what protected our young Nigerian man, the mujahid brother Omar Al Farouq to directly respond to his oppressive American enemy’s attack on the Arab Peninsula.”
A senior administration official rejects this entirely, pointing out that Omar Abdulmutallab was in the field long before that airstrike.
“He had been deployed before December 17,” the official said. “They’d like to make this seem like retaliation, but the reason they tried to blow up the plane is because they have a hateful, murderous agenda. And that’s why we’re on the forward lean against them.”
Michelle Obama monkey offensive image pictures
Posted by: | CommentsAlmost two weeks ago if you searched for Michelle Obama in Google’s image search you would find a racist caricature depicting the first lady as a monkey. Last Thursday Google removed the image but the image has since returned and Google has purchased a search advert above the image results explaining “search engines
are a reflection of the content and information that is available on the Internet.”
Google is apologizing over a racially offensive picture of Michelle Obama that pops up when users search for images of the First Lady — but refuses to take it down.
Here’s Google’s statement, which you can also read by click
Sometimes Google search results from the Internet can include disturbing content, even from innocuous queries. We assure you that the views expressed by such sites are not in any way endorsed by Google.
Search engines are a reflection of the content and information that is available on the Internet. A site’s ranking in Google’s search results relies heavily on computer algorithms using thousands of factors to calculate a page’s relevance to a given query.
The beliefs and preferences of those who work at Google, as well as the opinions of the general public, do not determine or impact our search results. Individual citizens and public interest groups do periodically urge us to remove particular links or otherwise adjust search results. Although Google reserves the right to address such requests individually, Google views the integrity of our search results as an extremely important priority. Accordingly, we do not remove a page from our search results simply because its content is unpopular or because we receive complaints concerning it. We will, however, remove pages from our results if we believe the page (or its site) violates our Webmaster Guidelines, if we believe we are required to do so by law, or at the request of the webmaster who is responsible for the page.
We apologize if you’ve had an upsetting experience using Google. We hope you understand our position regarding offensive results.
According to SearchEngineLand, the racist image was previously removed by Google on the grounds that the site hosting the Michelle Obama picture “violated Google’s guidelines by serving malware to visitors.”
Now, however, the offensive photo has been posted to another site that does not violate Google rules.
Global warming hoax
Posted by: | Comments“Unknown alleged Russian entity allegedly hacked into computers of a major center of ‘global warming’ hoax manufacturing (the Hadley Climate Research Unit of U. of East Anglia, England) obtained 1079 emails and 72 files containing nearly 4000 documents on ‘global warming,’ which if true – will prove that this is the greatest of all hoaxes ever posted and documentation on the internet. (Get this – the file name containing the allegedly hacked info was FOI2009 = ref to ‘freedom of information’ act …) That site/webpage has been shut down. The content of these emails is said to draw into question the validity of global warming and the claims that have been made by climate change researchers.
Some 1,000 e-mails and 3,000 documents from the Climate Research Unit, or CRU, at the U.K.’s University of East Anglia (where the “world’s leading climate scientists work”) have been leaked. The blogosphere is on fire – cover up, falsified studies, intimidation of skeptics. It’s all there.
There’s big news for climate change students. A hacker has gotten into the computers at Hadley CRU, Britain’s largest climate research institute and a proponent of global warming, and seems to have uncovered evidence of substantial fraud in reporting the “evidence” on global warming; the unlawful destruction of records to cover up this fraud ,conspiracy,and deceit in the entire operation.
The Washington Post (”Hackers steal electronic data from top climate research center”) quotes the “researchers” at the CRU saying “that the e-mails have been taken out of context.” No analysis of the “context” is provided.
The BBC assured its listeners that “the police have been informed” of the break-in. Just another hacker story. Ho hum. Just as the scientific method has suffered a reversion to dogma in the climate-change campaign, so too the “journalism” of the Old Media has degenerated into laughable propaganda.
Obama in China
Posted by: | CommentsSHANGHAI – President Barack Obama is walking a tightrope on his first trip to China, seeking to enlist help in tackling urgent global problems while weighing when and how — or if — he should raise traditional human rights concerns.
Obama arrived in Shanghai late at night, in a driving rain, hustling through a phalanx of umbrella-holding dignitaries to reach his limousine. On Monday, the president is holding talks with local politicians and, in one of the marquee events of his weeklong Asian trip, conducting an American-style town hall discussion with Chinese university students.
Thirty years after the start of diplomatic relations between the two countries, the ties are growing — but remain mixed on virtually every front.
The two nations are partnering more than ever on battling global warming, but they still differ deeply over hard targets for reductions in the greenhouse-gas emissions that cause it. China has supported sterner sanctions to halt North Korea’s nuclear weapons program, but it still balks at getting more aggressive about reining in Iran’s uranium enrichment.
U.S. President Barack Obama gestures as he delivers a speech at a dialogue with Chinese youth at the Shanghai Science and Technology Museum during his four-day state visit to China, Nov. 16, 2009
Obama said here Monday the United States does not seek to contain China’s rise and he welcomes China as a “strong, prosperous and successful member of the community of nations.”
Obama made the remarks during a dialogue with Chinese youth at the Shanghai Science and Technology Museum in China’s economic hub Shanghai.
In the event aired live on xinhuanet.com and Chinese and foreign television channels, Obama said the world is fundamentally interconnected and power in the 21st century is no longer a zero-sum game.
The dialogue, chaired by Fudan University President Yang Yuliang, attracted about 600 students from several universities in Shanghai.
“The jobs we do, the prosperity we build, the environment we protect and the security we seek are all shared,” he told the audience. “One country’s success does not come at the expense of another.”
Veterans Day 2009 Quotes
Posted by: | CommentsIn honor of Veterans Day 2009, here’s a list of 25 quotes to live by:
1. We make war that we may live in peace. -Aristotle
2. Nobody ever drowned in sweat. -US Marines
3. Those who cannot bravely face danger are the slaves of their attackers. -Aristotle
4. More powerful than the will to win is the courage to begin. -Unknown
5. Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him. -Dwight D. Eisenhower
6. Many become brave when brought to bay. -Norwegian proverb
7. Courage is fear holding on a minute longer. -George S. Patton
8. It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you. -Unknown
9. Either war is obsolete or men are. -Buckminster Fuller
10. There never was a good war or a bad peace. -Benjamin Franklin
11. Unless one says goodbye to what one loves, and unless one travels to completely new territories, one can expect merely a long wearing away of oneself. -Jean Dubuffet
12. This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave. -Elmer Davis
13. Freedom is never free. -Author Unknown
14. Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul. -Michel de Montaigne
15. The more we sweat in peace the less we bleed in war. -Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
16. In the beginning of a change, the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot. -Mark Twain
17. Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous. -George Bernard Shaw
18. It is not only the living who are killed in war. -Isaac Asimov
19. Life is 10 percent what you make it and 90 percent how you take it. -Irving Berlin
20. History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap. -Ronald Reagan
21. Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them. -Napoleon Bonaparte
22. “Where there are too many policemen, there is no liberty. Where there are too many soldiers, there is no peace. Where there are too many lawyers, there is no justice.” -Lyn Yutang
23. Moral courage is the most valuable and usually the most absent characteristic in men. -George Patton
24. I think there is one higher office than president and I would call that patriot. -Gary Hart
25. Have the courage to act instead of react. -Earlene Larson Jenks
todd christie brother Chrisopher Cristie wins governor of new jersey
Posted by: | CommentsRepublican candidate Christopher Christie has defeated incumbent Jon Corzine to become the first Republican Governor of New Jersey in 12 years.
Christie landed 49% of the vote vs 45% for Corzine with 98% of the precincts counted, in a race that surprised many political pundits. Christie, a former U.S. attorney campaigned on dissatisfaction with the Corzine’s performance during the recession.
According to some analysts, the poll was the first test of the popularity of the Obama administration.
Christie overcome negative coverage of his campaign due to the involvement of his brother, Todd Christie. Todd Christie was the CEO of Spear Leeds & Kellogg, one of the five biggest trading firms on Wall Street that was found by the SEC to have engaged in illegal trading practices from 1999-2003. When the SEC investigation became public in 2003, Todd Christie was forced out of his position.
where do i vote
Posted by: | CommentsIf you don’t have your sample ballot and don’t know where your poll is, look for a link to the registrar’s office Web site at mydesert.com/elections. Click on “polling place,” then on your ZIP code and finally on your street. It’s easy.
Don’t have the Internet? Call the office at (951) 486-7200.
We urge Dunmore and her team to count quickly tonight so voters can get results to the readers as soon as possible. If the turnout turns out to be as meager as expected, this shouldn’t be difficult.
And tomorrow, we hope to see candidates taking down their signs as soon as possible.
Campaign signs have been an issue this election season.
election day november 2009
Posted by: | CommentsThe early voting for the Utah election had concluded on 30th October 2009. People who did not cast their vote in the early elections would come to vote on 3rd November 2009. On the municipal election day 2009, people of Utah would have to cast and select the suitable candidate. As stated by the sources, three points were brought for the Utah election and it is expected, the new mayor would take care of it.
The first issue was for the public safety building of Salt Lake City. It has been reported by the sources that people were asked to cast vote for supporting the 125 million dollar bond needed to construct a building for public safety administration. Sources also stated that this would increase the property taxes of people.
Some other improvements were also planned for the state. According to the reports of the sources, the second proposition was related to the “Granite School District Bond”. Earlier a sum of 256 million dollar was borrowed by school district to make some improvements and also to construct new schools. It has been stated that plans were made so that school board can repay the loan without increasing property taxes.
The “Davis School District Bond” is the third proposition raised before this election. According to the sources, Wasatch Elementary school’s replacement has been planned by the district. They have also planned for replacing 1 special needs school, 3 elementary schools and 2 junior high schools. It has come to the news that the district have also planned for utilizing the fund that they had previously kept aside.
Jerry Brown admits secretly taping calls
Posted by: | CommentsA spokesman for Attorney General Jerry Brown acknowledged Thursday that he taped a phone conversation with a reporter for The Chronicle this week without disclosing the fact or asking permission – and admitted he has taped conversations with other news reporters.
Meanwhile, another veteran California politics observer, Bill Bradley, says the media got it wrong in speculating that a Bill Clinton-Jerry Brown feud led to Clinton’s endorsement of Newsom:
“Obviously, it’s troubling whenever someone is recording a phone call without your knowledge, particularly a person in that position — of being in the attorney general’s office,” Chronicle Managing Editor Stephen Proctor said.
“Here’s the implication: Reporters now have one hell of a story about a guy who’s running for governor of California,” said Lucy Dalglish, executive director of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, based in Virginia. “He’s just lit a fire under a real big political thing.”
… “California law says all parties to a conversation must know they are being taped,” she said. “So if one person didn’t (know), it’s a violation of the law, and it doesn’t matter that it’s the AG’s office doing the taping.”
Hamas says Obama does not deserve Nobel Peace Prize
Posted by: | CommentsGAZA, Oct. 9 (Xinhua) — Islamic Hamas movement said Friday that U.S. President Barack Obama does not deserve a Noble Peace Prize since he failed to give the Palestinian people their legitimate rights.
Fawzi Barhoum, Gaza Hamas spokesman told Xinhua that “Obama does not deserve this prize,” after the Norwegian Nobel Committee announced Obama was awarded the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize.
“We believe that there are lots of things needed from Obama to be presented to the Palestinian people in order to deserve this reward. Obama should change his manner and be fair,” said Barhoum.
Right after Obama took office, he promised that resolving the conflict in the Middle East is his priority.
“So far, nothing changed. He was giving statements, promises and hopes, while on the ground nothing practical has been done,” said Barhoum.
“I think Obama has a lot more to do,” he added.
Meanwhile, chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat said in a statement that the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) hopes Obama will be able to achieve peace in the Middle East.