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Dictatorships Leave Millions Homeless by: Emily Kanyi, June 18, 2009 Antonio Guterres, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, has termed the drop in the number of refugees under the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) mandate as an “illusion.” According to a recent annual 2008 report released by the UN Refugee Agency on June 16, 2009, the global refugee statistics represent a drop of about 700,000 refugees from 2007. However, there are concerns that a surge of displacements in 2009 not reflected in the report have already offset the decline. “The numbers are growing again. In 2009, we...

I am seeking donations of used laptop computers for a new Iraqi Regional Training Center.. These computers will be used by the RTC Cadre and students.. If you would like to donate please send them to me and I will ensure they get where they are most needed.. Please pass on this message too.

Posted by Oscar De Los Santos and Kelly L. Goodridge on Wednesday, June 17, 2009 1:45:10 PM By Kelly L. Goodridge and Oscar De Los Santos Conservative lives, freedom and property are under assault by a volley of daily liberal attacks. The Left is perpetrating racism, sexism, smears, and falsehoods. Conservatives who counter the Left are met with no-holds-barred assaults. The MEANstream media rarely misses an opportunity to demean the Right. Tragically, six months into Barack Hussein Obama’s presidency, it’s obvious that the war on conservatism is a joint White House / Right Wing venture. The White House and the...

Diplomas Count by: Emily Kanyi, June 18, 2009 A report released by Education Week and the Editorial Projects in Education (EPE) Research Center shows that despite a marked improvement in the national high school graduation rate, three out of ten U.S. public schools students still fail to get a high school diploma. The U.S. national graduation rate rose from sixty-six percent in 1996 to sixty-nine percent in 2006. From 1997 to 1999 the statistics recorded a yearly sixty-six percent graduation rate and between 2000 and 2003 there was an improved annual graduation rate of sixty-eight percent. In 2003 to 2005...

Livin’ La Vida Sonia by: Brittany Fortier, June 16, 2009 While Senate leaders discussed when the confirmation hearings for Judge Sonia Sotomayor would take place, a panel hosted by the American Constitutional Society on June 10, 2009 debated the issues surrounding the controversial nominee.* Moderator Dahlia Lithwick, a senior editor and correspondent for Slate magazine, began by asking the panelists to define and discuss terms such as “judicial activism” and “empathy.” Cristina Rodriguez, Professor of law at New York University School of Law, argued that “judicial activism” refers to instances “when a court strikes down an action by the political...

  Blood Clots/Stroke - They Now Have a Fourth Indicator, the Tongue!         I will continue to forward this every time it comes around! STROKE:Remember the 1st Three Letters....S.T.R.  My nurse friend sent this and encouraged me to post it and spread the word. I agree. If everyone can remember something this simple, we could save some folks. Seriously.. Please read: STROKE IDENTIFICATION: During a BBQ, a friend stumbled and took a little fall - she assured everyone that she was fine (they offered to call paramedics).  She said she had just tripped over a brick because of her new...

The NEFA Foundation has obtained a new video recording of most wanted American Al-Qaida spokesman Adam Yehiye Gadahn, titled "Let's Continue our Jihad and Sacrifice." During the video, produced by Al-Qaida's As-Sahab Media Foundation, Gadahn sharply criticized the Obama administration for its policies towards the Palestinians.

Note: The following blog entry is a quote: Blog Details Iranian Representative To IAEA: Construction of Arak Reactor Underway Successfully Iran's representative to the International Atomic Energy Agency, Ali-Asghar Soltanieh, said today that the construction of the Arak reactor is currently underway successfully. Soltanieh made the remarks in response to questions about Iran’s refusal to allow inspection of its Arak reactor. He said, "The IAEA secretary-general has repeatedly announced that no evidence had been found on Iran's diversion from peaceful nuclear activities... [IAEA chief] Mohamed ElBaradei has released two reports confirming that all nuclear issues have been settled." Source: Fars,...

Note: The following blog entry is a quote: Blog Details Iran Air Force Schedules Week-Long Maneuver Iran's Air Force is slated to hold a week-long drill to test its mastery of low-altitude flight operations and bombing tactics in the Persian Gulf and Sea of Oman. The “Milad-e Nour-e Velayat” aerial drill, which will begin in the coming weeks, will involve Iranian fighter jets and interceptor aircraft performing combat operations over a distance of 3,000 kilometers in four stages. "Our domestically-produced Saegheh fighters and Russian-made Sukhoi-24 jets will stage tactical operations to test new ammunitions and hone their offensive capabilities," said...

"They're Baaaack: British Terror Supporters Re-launch al-Muhajiroun, Dedicated to "Raising Flag of Islam over Downing Street"" SNIPPET: "A group of terror supporters in the UK have relaunched an organization dedicated banning criticism of Islam, beheading "blasphemers", and killing adulterers. The new and improved al-Muhajiroun will once again be led by Anjem Choudary, chairman of the Society of Muslim Lawyers. The organization was originally founded by Omar Bakri Muhammad who was recently convicted in absentia by a Lebanese court of helping train al Qaeda's local affiliate. He has also been banned from reentering the UK. The group disbanded after a conference...

Three Billion for the Wall St. Kings with offices in the sky Seven billion for the auto manufacturers and the unions drones Nine for the insurance industry doomed to die And for Lord Czaron, his Oval Office throne In the land of the Washington where politicians lie One Czar to rule them all, One Czar to find them One Czar to bring them all and in the darkness bind them In the land of the Washington where the politicians lie ***The world is changed. I feel it in the water. I feel it in the earth. I smell it in...

The New York Times Co. has hired Goldman Sachs to find a buyer for the money losing Boston Globe. From Boston.com The New York Times Co. has hired an investment bank to manage the possible sale of The Boston Globe, and the company plans to request bids for Boston's major daily in the next couple of weeks, according to two people who say they may make offers on the newspaper. The Times Co., which has declined to comment in recent months on whether it is selling the Globe, has hired Goldman Sachs, the same Wall Street investment bank the Times...

I videotaped Letterpervs show last night and zipped through it this morning to see who the advertisers were, and here they are. Note, this is not a complete list, I missed the first 10 to 15 minutes of the lie/hate fest. Paramount Pictures Lincoln-Mercury Met-Life AT&T Actonel AAA McDonalds HBO Mazda Direct TV Olive Garden Listerine MyCricket.com Toyota Geico Best Buy Icy Hot Chase Bank (credit card) Touchstone Pictures Verizon Wireless Kelloggs Pepcid I won't be able to look up the contact info like I did yesterday until later this afternoon. If someone can do it, I am sure everyone...

"Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism. It is the notion of ascribing moral, social or political significance to a man's genetic lineage—the notion that a man's intellectual and characterological traits are produced and transmitted by his internal body chemistry. Which means, in practice, that a man is to be judged, not by his own character and actions, but by the characters and actions of a collective of ancestors."- Ayn Rand  The Department of Homeland Security has, as been the case time and time again, chosen to lump the 'Right' with radical racist groups such as the...

Note: The following blog entry is a quote: Blog Details Senior Iranian Official: We Did Not Stop Uranium Enrichment during Khatami's Presidency Hassan Rohani, who served as secretary of the Iranian Supreme National Security Council during the Khatami administration, denied Ahmadinejad's accusations that the reformists had suspended Iran's uranium enrichment during Khatami's presidency. He claimed that one of the purposes of the nuclear dossier negotiations during that period was to buy time to complete the construction of the nuclear facilities in Esfahan and Natanz. He added that the Khatami government had not suspended for a single moment either the construction...

I was introduced to Airplane investigations more than 30 years ago as a young Airman while serving in Europe in the US Air Force as part of a military aircraft crash recovery detail. The recovered items of an outstanding military pilot that I retrieved for the investigation that day will always remind me of the terrible plain and loss that the Air France Flt 447 families are currently going through. It is for this reason that I have always paid particular attention to NTSB investigator briefings. I cannot recall a single time when the NTSB was not professional, forthcoming, always...

The last five years have taught me that I bring only three skills to the anti-jihad movement. The first is a knack for writing propaganda. By “propaganda” I do not mean the 20th-century version as practiced by the Nazis, the Soviets, the New Deal, and other huge and repressive state enterprises. I use the word in its original sense, which was derived via the Romance languages from the Latin verb propagare, “to cause to increase or spread, as of a plant”. In the 18th century it referred to the work of a committee of cardinals (congregatio de propaganda fide, “the...

May 13th, 2009 China's 'secure' OS Kylin - a threat to U.S offensive cyber capabilities? Posted by Dancho Danchev @ 6:23 am Categories: Browsers, Complex Attacks, Governments, Hackers, Kernel-level Exploits... Tags: China, Operating System, Operating Systems, Linux, Software... Picture a cyber warfare arms race where the participating countries have spent years of building offensive cyber warfare capabilities by exploiting the monoculture on one another’s IT infrastructure. Suddenly, one of the countries starts migrating to a hardened operating system of its own, and by integrating it on systems managing the critical infrastructure it successfully undermines the offensive cyber warfare capabilities developed...

Blog: Note: The following blog entry is a quote: Blog Details Iranian Navy Gets Three Locally Made Submarines The Iranian army has received three light locally made Ghadir-class submarines. The submarines were handed over at a ceremony at Bandar Abbas port in southern Iran, which was attended by Iranian security officials. Source: Mehr, Iran, June 1, 2009 Posted at: 2009-06-02

New Deal Reality Check by: Malcolm A. Kline, June 02, 2009 As self-proclaimed intellectuals get embarassingly excited over the prospect of a new, New Deal, the rest of us would do well to take every opportunity to examine how the first one turned out. For one thing, it didn’t start under Roosevelt. In The Politically Incorrect Guide To The Great Depression And The New Deal, economist Robert P. Murphy, Ph. D., gives us a very useful comparison of what happened in another recession that occurred in the 1920s when so-called laissez-faire economics was practiced and the more famous economic collapse...