People TroubledDays is following... People who follow TroubledDays... Twitter / Home. Surviving the Obama Assault on the Rule of Law | The Foundry: Conservative Policy News. Hours after yesterday’s decision by President Bill Clinton judicial appointee Susan Bolton to preemptively stop enforcement of Arizona’s immigration enforcement law, Thomas A.
Saenz, president of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF), told The New York Times: “This is a warning to any other jurisdiction.” Just in case the message from the Obama administration and its leftist allies was not clear, Obama appointee U.S. Attorney Dennis Burke told The Associated Press: “Surely it’s going to make states pause and consider how they’re drafting legislation and how it fits in a constitutional framework.” But no amount of pause by states and localities could ever possibly satisfy the Obama administration, its amnesty allies, and activist judges like Bolton. The Obama administration’s case against Arizona sought to preemptively stop enforcement of Arizona’s new immigration law. Taken alone, the White House’s behavior on this issue is troubling enough. Quick Hits: New rule won't make <b>commodities</b> funds any safer. Stopping Obamacare or Gay Marriage? « Elections.
Think the “gay marriage” issue is off the table right now? Think again. Closing arguments wrapped-up last week over a lawsuit seeking to overturn California’s “Proposition 8,” a ballot initiative passed overwhelmingly in November 2008 amending the state constitution so as to define marriage as an exclusively heterosexual institution. Plaintiff’s Attorneys David Boies –a former legal advisor to the Al Gore for President campaign – and Ted Olson, former White House Attorney to President George W. Bush, have both expressed confidence that the judge will side with them, yet also acknowledge that regardless of the judge’s decision, the case will be appealed.
Rush Limbaugh Suffice it to say that the issue of “gay marriage” may be back in the headlines again soon. And this will impact the November 2010 elections. So what’s the strategy? Social conservatives have for decades been focused on “moral issues” like abortion, and the definition of marriage. But faith-based voters “split” again in 2008. ResistTyranny Police investigating 2 more claims of sexual abuse by AlGore: #ocra #tcot #teaparty.
IT Blogwatch's Most Recent Posts. Microsoft No need to be a developer. Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) is allowing anyone to download the near-final Preview build of Windows Phone 8.1. Although it's billed as a developer-only release, it's easy to get. The reviews are positively glowing. 8.1 is really pushing their (capacitive) buttons. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers ignore the warnings and update anyway. Wikimedia Amazon 3D phone: A bungle in the jungle? For more than three years, rumors of Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) smartphones have pricked up bloggy ears. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers switch on their Nooks. flickr.com/worldeconomicforum (cc) Dr. Dropbox is making Condoleezza Rice a director on its board. Why? In IT Blogwatch, bloggers consider waging holy war against Dropbox.
DoJ and SEC get their pound of flesh. HP (NYSE:HPQ) has, err, "resolved" several allegations that it bribed officials in Mexico and Eastern Europe. Oh. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers watch Bill and Dave roll in their respective graves. Lam Eason (cc) The S. But is it any good? SCOTUS may gut NEPA in GMO case Monsanto v Geertson Seed « Food Freedom. Supreme Court to Take First Look at Genetically Modified Crops in Case with NEPA Implications By Gabriel NelsonNew York Times The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear oral arguments Tuesday involving a federal judge’s temporary ban on a breed of pesticide-resistant alfalfa, setting the stage for the court’s first-ever ruling on genetically modified crops.
Legal experts do not expect a blockbuster decision on the merits of regulating modified plants such as Monsanto Co.’s Roundup Ready alfalfa, but the case, Monsanto Co. v. Geertson Seed Farms, has drawn widespread interest because the justices could issue a ruling that would raise or lower the threshold for challenges under the National Environmental Policy Act. Environmental groups, which frequently use the statute to bring lawsuits against government agencies and industry groups, “don’t expect anything good” to come from the Supreme Court’s eventual decision, said David Bookbinder, chief climate counsel at the Sierra Club. Oil spill off Mumbai as merchant vessels collide: India : India Today. PTI Mumbai, August 7, 2010 | UPDATED 09:11 IST Two Panamanian cargo ships collided on Saturday off the Mumbai coast causing an oil spill from one of the vessels but no casualties were reported, Indian Coast Guard (ICG)officials said. 33 crew members, including two Pakistanis, were rescued following the incident, they said.
According to Coast Guard officials, MSC Chitra, the outbound merchant vessel from Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT), collided with MV Khalijia-III, five nautical miles from the shores at 9:50 am when the latter was sailing towards Mumbai Port Trust (MPT), off Mumbai harbour, for berthing. Both the ships, measuring at least 180 metres in length, developed cracks following the collision.
A senior Coast Guard official said on condition of that the spill was "significant" but claimed the situation was "under control". The Indian captain and 32 crew members of Chitra were evacuated and the ship was grounded in the vicinity of the Prong Reef Lighthouse. Prince Charles's messianic delusions are beginning to worry me. Does he think he can turn the UK into his personal cult?
Prince Charles: beginning to sound like a cult leader Every passing week brings a new reason to hope that Her Majesty the Queen will equal or exceed the lifespan of Jeanne Calment, the French housewife taken from us in 1997 at the age of 122. Let me draw your attention to an incredibly worrying interview the Prince of Wales has given to an American documentary entitled Harmony, in which he brushes aside constitutional niceties to adopt the delusional language of a cult leader. "I can only somehow imagine that I find myself being born into this position for a purpose," says Charles.
And that purpose is? To save the planet and the whole of humanity. Let's get this straight. No: he believes that it has fallen to him to restore to mankind "that understanding of the whole of nature and the universe as a living entity". I've heard this sort of nonsense before. But Charles is due to come into a kingdom – ours – and that's what worries me. So, as I say, long live the Queen. WhatDoesItMean.Com. World's Largest English Language News Service with Over 500 Articles Updated Daily "The News You Need Today…For The World You’ll Live In Tomorrow.
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The Treason Lobby is now making a lot of noise about slipping its Amnesty/ Immigration Surge agenda via parliamentary maneuver in 2014. Of course they lie all the time—remember how passing the Amnesty/ Immigration Surge in 2013 was going to be a triumphal cakewalk? But it’s very clear that the GOP Leadership really wants to pass something too . And this is just the beginning. Scientists question government team's report of shrinking gulf oil spill. The "greatest environmental disaster" in U.S. history -- which has appeared at times to leave a high-control White House powerless -- seemed to have lost its power to scare. A few hours after BP's well was declared virtually dead, the Obama administration announced Wednesday that only about 26 percent of the oil spilled in the Gulf of Mexico was unaccounted for. "A significant amount of this," said Jane Lubchenco, head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, "is a direct result of the very robust federal response efforts.
" But, in interviews, scientists who worked on the report said the figures were based in large part on assumptions and estimates with a significant margin of error. Some outside scientists went further: In a situation in which many facts remain murky, they said, the government seemed to have used interpretations that made the gulf -- and the federal efforts to save it -- look as good as possible. Why Wikileaks, and the newspapers, were right to publish | World news. The Wikileaks revelations about the conduct of the war in Afghanistan have been rightly hailed as a triumph of "data journalism.
" There was, of course, a source of sorts, because someone leaked the 92,000 classified military documents. But the importance of placing the information in the public domain is that it enables us to obtain a clearer picture of what has been happening in Afghanistan. The detractors have attacked the leak from two contradictory positions. So we have the Pentagon/White House line that the material threatens national security and puts soldiers' lives at risk. And then there's the view that the material isn't up to much (example: The Spectator blog posting, Few smoking guns in these leaks). They can't both be right.
But they can both be wrong. As for the latter claim that the material is without much value, the readers can decide. Do we believe factual reports by US soldiers about the killing of civilians is worthless? More valuable? General Petraeuss leaked emails about Israel. I've written the cover story for this week's New Statesman on the rise and rise of David Petraeus and America's "cult of the generals". Here's an extract: Twelve of the 43 men who have served as US president have been former generals -- including the very first occupant of the Oval Office, George Washington. Nonetheless, there has not been a general in the White House since Dwight D Eisenhower, the former Supreme Allied Commander in the Second World War and architect of the D-Day landings, left office in 1961 (excoriating the "military-industrial complex" on his way out). But the rise of the generals in recent years, exemplified by the hallowed status of Petraeus, has altered the dynamic.
If a general is elected to the White House in 2012 or 2016, the grip of this cult on the US polity will once again have been demonstrated. The [Israel-Palestine] conflict foments anti-American sentiment, due to a perception of US favouritism for Israel. But guess what? You can read the full details here. Afghanistan war logs: How US marines sanitised record of bloodbath | World news.
The site of a suicide bomb which was followed by civilian deaths as US marines escaped. Photograph: Noorullah/EPA Brevity is the hallmark of military reporting, but even by those standards the description of one disastrous event is remarkably short: "The patrol returned to base. " It started with a suicide bomb. On 4 March 2007 a convoy of US marines, who arrived in Afghanistan three weeks earlier, were hit by an explosives-rigged minivan outside the city of Jalalabad.
The marines made a frenzied escape, opening fire with automatic weapons as they tore down a six-mile stretch of highway, hitting almost anyone in their way – teenage girls in fields, motorists in their cars, old men as they walked along the road. Nineteen unarmed civilians were killed and 50 wounded. None of this, however, was captured in the initial military account, written by the marines themselves.
The soldiers' initial concern, it appears, was a wounded marine – their only casualty. It was not the last one. Wikileaks Afghanistan: former Pakistani general blames US for war leak. The files also link active and retired ISI officers to some of the conflict's most notorious leaders. According to the reports, in 2007, they sent also 1,000 motorbikes for use in suicide attacks. The Financial Times said Mr Gul’s name appears in about 10 of roughly 180 classified US files that allege Pakistan’s intelligence service supported Afghan militants fighting Nato forces.
Mr Gul told the newspaper his main occupation in retirement was spending time with his grandchildren and pursuing his horticultural hobby of refining mango and peach species. He said the US had lost the war in Afghanistan, and that the leak of the documents would help the Obama administration deflect blame by suggesting that Pakistan was responsible.
July has fuelled concerns in Pakistan that a rapid US withdrawal will sow further turmoil in its neighbour. Press TV Under Attack Britain Cannot Handle the Truth To tell the truth about Israeli barbarism is a breach of impartiality. The Guardian and the Jewish Chronicle reported today that, Ofcom, the UK broadcasting standards body, has ruled that Iranian-backed Press TV’s coverage of the Gaza flotilla incident breached guidelines on impartiality. You ask yourself why? Their coverage of the Flotilla wasn’t pro-Israeli enough. The regulator said the station had not shown due impartiality during a broadcast on June 5th which dealt exclusively with the events surrounding the interception by Israeli commandos of the pro-Palestinian convoy off the coast of Gaza.
The Jewish Chronicle reports that During an episode of a current affairs show Remembering Palestine, presenter Lauren Booth discussed the flotilla with studio guests and participants of the convoy. Watch the Israeli execution on the Mavi Marmara Booth also said “This was obviously a barbarous attack on civilians. Desperate days for the warmists. Senate Cuts Food Stamp Funds; Leaves Oil and Gas Subsidies Intact | Sustainable Food | Change.org. Cloned cattle in the human food chain: officialdom talks a lot of bull. Food from a cloned animal, or the offspring of a cloned animal, is illegal, according to the FSA (Photo: REUTERS) There are few more familiar and pathetic spectacles than British bumbledom, caught red-handed in some grotesque piece of incompetence, burbling its denials of accountability.
Now that the public has become aware that both milk and meat from cloned cows and their numerous offspring are apparently coursing freely through the human food chain, the stampede for alibis has begun among officialdom. In the front line is the Food Standards Agency, set up 10 years ago in panic reaction to the provoked by the BSE scare. For 48 hours the FSA stoutly maintained that no milk or meat from cloned animals or their offspring had ever entered the food chain. Smith insisted the FSA had “no concerns” about the safety of milk or meat from animals derived from clones. Many of the FSA’s responsibilities are being transferred to Defra. Food Standards Agency's future in doubt after cloned cattle fiasco.
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