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*************** At least 27 killed in Syria protests: activists Killings took place amid nationwide protests called by opposition in defiance of a crackdown *************** War & Terror *************** Gamers Target U.S. Troops in Chinese Military ‘Shooter’ *************** Death of the War Powers Act? By Bruce Ackerman and Oona Hathaway This week, the War Powers Act confronts its moment of truth. Friday will mark the 60th day since President Obama told Congress of his Libyan campaign. According to the act, that declaration started a 60-day clock: If Obama fails to obtain congressional support for his decision within this time limit, he has only one option — end American involvement within the following 30 days. *************** The Badass Gear the Dog on the Bin Laden Raid Wore *************** Chinese General: Don’t Worry, America, Our Military Doesn’t Compare To Yours Jonathon M. Seidl WASHINGTON (AP) — Seeking to counter U.S. worries about his country’s rapid military growth, a top Chinese general said Wednesday the communist nation’s defense clout lags decades behind the U.S., and that China wants warmer relations. *************** Porn Industry Wants To See Bin Laden's Porn Stash Porn actresses like Joanna Angel are curious to see if which of their films, if any, made it into Osama Bin Laden's infamous 'porn stash.' Politics makes strange bedfellows indeed -- especially when pornography is involved. *************** Death of the War Powers Act? By Bruce Ackerman and Oona Hathaway This week, the War Powers Act confronts its moment of truth. Friday will mark the 60th day since President Obama told Congress of his Libyan campaign. According to the act, that declaration started a 60-day clock: If Obama fails to obtain congressional support for his decision within this time limit, he has only one option — end American involvement within the following 30 days. *************** Iran building rocket bases in Venezuela By BENJAMIN WEINTHAL, JPOST CORRESPONDENT German paper says Iranians paid cash to build mid-range missile launch pads on Paraguana Peninsula; Iranian engineers visited site in Feb. National *************** The Scourge of the Feminist Word Police How feminist writer Kate Swift created her own Newspeak Dictionary and helped ruin everyday English. *************** John Perez Fabricates College Degree, Admits Blame In Prepared Statement Posted by Jon Fleischman Despite false claims, Speaker John Perez never graduated from U.C. Berkeley. Yesterday the online investigative website California Watch broke a story that has stunned the political community of the Golden State. They published a story, complete with documentation, proving that the Speaker of the California State Assembly, John Perez, for nearly a decade made assertions that he was a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, when this simply was not true. Perez attended Cal, but never graduated. In his biography he boasted graduating, and subsequently news stories and political journals printed that he was a graduate as fact, which he did not dispute or seek to correct. *************** Recent college grads sour on Obama, surveys say By Neil Munro A very large proportion of recent university graduates have soured on President Barack Obama, and many will vote GOP or stay at home in the 2012 election, according to two new surveys of younger voters. *************** College Course: US Flag Is Racist, How-To Defeat America In Iraq And Afghanistan by Dan Riehl While claiming the American flag represents racism and discussing today’s Progressive Movement’s efforts to defeat America both at home and abroad, including on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan to help their international “comrades,” Communist Tony Pecinovsky pulls the mask off today’s Progressive Movement in two new exclusive Big Government videos of a University of Missouri course offering, already much in the news. *************** Nevada judge: political parties to pick U.S. House election candidates Former Rep. Dean Heller, R-Carson City, apparently contributed to the uncertainty of filling his own House vacancy. Nevada legislators in 2003 passed a bill providing for a special election to fill House vacancies and directed the secretary of state to adopt regulations on how the process would be conducted. Heller was secretary of state at the time, and there's no indication regulations were ever adopted. Unless it is altered by the Nevada Supreme Court, a ruling by a judge in Carson City on Thursday changes the way the Sept. 13 special election to fill Nevada's vacant 2nd Congressional District seat will be conducted. *************** Australian brewers aim to tackle the final frontier with space-age beer Entrepreneurs looking to capitalise upon space tourism have tested prototype on zero-gravity flight *************** Why Is the NSEA Afraid of Me? Posted by Mike Chamberlain Saturday I was kicked out of the Nevada State Education Association, the state teachers union, convention for, well, for being a conservative at the NSEA convention. Not only did they kick me out of their meeting but, later, one of the directors called me and the others who attended as guests of one of the delegates “enemies” of the organization. Economy
& Taxes *************** The Hidden State Financial Crisis My latest research into opaque state financial statements suggests taxpayers will be surprised by how much pensions are underfunded. *************** Dominique Strauss-Kahn resigns as head of IMF By Howard Schneider and Zachary A. Goldfarb Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund, who is facing attempted rape charges in New York, announced his resignation late Wednesday night. In a statement, Strauss-Kahn said he is resigning “with infinite sadness” in an effort “to protect this institution.” *************** International *************** German insurer Munich Re held orgy for salesmen By Stephen Evans, BBC News, Berlin One of the biggest insurance companies in the world held a party for salesmen where they were rewarded with the services of prostitutes. *************** Norway Stops Aid Payments To Greece Submitted by Tyler Durden And here comes the first domino: according to Swiss journal NZZ, the Greek bailout is about to take a turn for the worse. "Norway will first stop all further financial aid payments to the highly indebted Greece. The reason is that Greece does not fulfill its obligations descendants, the Norwegian Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Store said on Thursday before the Parliament." And with Norway which is a member of the European Economic Area, and actually one of the few solvent and non-basket case European countries saying let the chips fall where they may, it is just the first. Look for every other country currently on the sidelines vis-a-vis Greece (and just as insolvent) to follow suit as the European experiment falls apart. *************** German wins world best beard title at Norway contest A German hairdresser has won the title of world's best beard at the World Beard and Moustache Championship in Trondheim, Norway. *************** China farmers face 'exploding' watermelon problem Farmers in eastern China have been left perplexed after their watermelons began to explode one by one. *************** Opinion *************** Spain’s Socialist Utopia Mugged by Reality A massive wave of social unrest in cities across Spain, dubbed the Spanish Revolution, reflects the failure of the social welfare state model to provide Spanish youth with a future, much less a present. *************** |
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