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Steve Flesher has an interesting post over at American Thinker about "rehabilitating" Sarah Palin, or more specifically, how she can help rehabilitate the GOP. Goodness knows, the GOP needs all the help it can get. Between the very public "war" between Chris Christie and Rand Paul,...
Mideast Media Sampler - 08/20/2013 - Why Hezbollah takes a shine to the shrine...
The fallout of NSA surveillance revelations continues to produce the closings of many services and outlets in the name of privacy. After the closure of encrypted email service provider Lavabit and Silent Circle's shuttering of its Silent Mail product, another valuable tool has decided to...
Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger revealed Monday that security experts with the UK Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) entered the Guardian's building weeks ago and oversaw the destruction of hard drives containing documents leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden. In a post published at The Guardian, Rusbridger...
Don't say we didn't warn you repeatedly about Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his administration: Turkish Deputy Prime Minister blames “Jewish Diaspora” for Gezi Park protests Turkish Prime Minister drops what little is left of his moderate mask Turkish Foreign Minister salutes “all those martyrs who were...
The crazying of Ted Cruz continues unabated...
San Diegans have been gathering together for a number of events with Mayor Bob Filner as their central theme. However, the messages for Filner, who has now been accused by 16 women publicly of sexual harassment, have been strikingly different. [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="360"] From San Diego...
Via Amanda Turkel at Huffington Post comes news that The Coalition to Stop Gun Violence has released a video "reenactment" of the shooting of Trayvon Martin in order to encourage people to oppose "Stand Your Ground Laws": The Coalition to Stop Gun Violence has released a chilling...
Mideast Media Sampler 08/19/2013 - The New York Times faults Israel for looking out for its own interests...
Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald warns that he will publish many more documents about the British government's surveillance activities, after his partner was detained and questioned at a London airport this weekend. From Reuters (via Huffington Post): "I will be far more aggressive in my reporting from now....
Google experienced a massive outage Friday night 8/16. All of its services were disrupted, and while it was only down for a period of just under five minutes, the blackout had a rather large impact on internet traffic overall. From the Daily Mail: Worldwide internet traffic...
All the media attention has been on Egypt the past few weeks. But Syria continues to implode, with death and destruction everywhere. The latest is the mass exodus of civilians. Here's the image: Here's the video: https://twitter.com/Jecon/status/369490385405374464...
Professor Jacobson is right: With the acquittal of Egypt's supposedly evil dictator Hosni Mubarak, we’re almost back to square one. Square one minus many national treasures of unsurpassed beauty and historical importance, that is. I have been following the nearly unreported news of the plundering of Egypt's...
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Exploiting children to achieve full amnesty -- Actual question asked of Rep. Tom Reed: "Would you consider adopting one of those kids?"...
The partner of Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald was detained and questioned for nine hours on Sunday at Heathrow airport in London as he was returning home to Rio de Janeiro. Authorities ultimately released him, but not before confiscating several pieces of his electronics equipment. From The...
