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kpete's JournalLOL: Jeb Bush: “I don’t think there’s any Bush baggage at all."
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Pie_hGENp7c/UMSgny3NWyI/AAAAAAAAXS8/Tv0afXORP-0/s1600/Jeb+Bush.JPG.jpg“I don’t think there’s any Bush baggage at all. I love my brother. I’m proud of his accomplishments. I love my dad. I’m proud to be a Bush and if I run for president it’s not because of something in my DNA that compels me to do it,” Bush said on “Fox News Sunday” after host Chris Wallace cited a poll showing the former president with a 49 percent
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WHAT DRONES? Air Force Stops Reporting Drone Strikes in Afghanistan
AF removes RPA airstrike number from summary
By Brian Everstine and Aaron Mehta - Staff writers
Posted : Friday Mar 8, 2013 12:34:50 EST
As scrutiny and debate over the use of remotely piloted aircraft (RPA) by the American military increased last month, the Air Force reversed a policy of sharing the number of airstrikes launched from RPAs in Afghanistan and quietly scrubbed those statistics from previous releases kept on their website.
Last October, Air Force Central Command started tallying weapons releases from RPAs, broken down into monthly updates. At the time, AFCENT spokeswoman Capt. Kim Bender said the numbers would be put out every month as part of a service effort to “provide more detailed information on RPA ops in Afghanistan.”
The Air Force maintained that policy for the statistics reports for November, December and January. But the February numbers, released March 7, contained empty space where the box of RPA statistics had previously been.
Additionally, monthly reports hosted on the Air Force website have had the RPA data removed — and recently.
http://www.airforcetimes.com/news/2013/03/air-force-drone-airstrike-summary-030813/
Warning: " the surveillance state is effectively abolishing your right to be a critical thinker."
The Premise of Digital Surveillance Precludes ScholarshipFriday, 08 March 2013 00:00
By R. Lila Steinberg, Truthout | Op-Ed
Since 9/11, sweeping and indiscriminate digital surveillance of all computer and telecommunications users has been conducted, and more recently, systems have been developed to store every byte of that information forever. This means that if actors within some government agency decide to target you, they can immediately access every telecommunication: email, phone call, etcetera, that you have made or sent for years, as well as every web site you have visited.
By claiming falsely that reviewing materials, for example, about creationism, makes one necessarily a creationist, or reviewing materials about jihad makes one a jihadist, or that reviewing materials about anarchism makes one necessarily an anarchist, and, further, that reviewing anything or even claiming these titles is the same as actually committing any crime, the surveillance state is effectively abolishing your right to be a critical thinker.
the rest:
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/14839-the-premise-of-digital-surveillance-precludes-scholarship#i
Juan Williams Accused Of Plagiarism (But It's Not His Fault)
Juan Williams Accused Of PlagiarismDAVID TAINTOR 8:16 AM EST, FRIDAY MARCH 8, 2013
Fox News commentator Juan Williams has found himself accused of plagiarism. Salon's Alex Seitz-Wald reported Thursday that Williams copied, without attribution, material from a Center for American Progress report in a recent column:
In a phone interview Thursday evening, Williams pinned the blame on a researcher who he described as a “young man.”
More at Salon.
http://www.salon.com/2013/03/08/juan_williams_column_cribs_from_think_tank_report/
http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/juan-williams-column-copied-material-from-think-tank
KRUGMAN: The Market Speaks
OP-ED COLUMNIST
The Market Speaks
By PAUL KRUGMAN
Published: March 7, 2013
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What, then, are the markets actually telling us?
I wish I could say that it’s all good news, but it isn’t. Those low interest rates are the sign of an economy that is nowhere near to a full recovery from the financial crisis of 2008, while the high level of stock prices shouldn’t be cause for celebration; it is, in large part, a reflection of the growing disconnect between productivity and wages.
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Under these conditions, of course, the government should ignore its short-run deficit and ramp up spending to support the economy. Unfortunately, policy makers have been intimidated by those false priests, who have convinced them that they must pursue austerity or face the wrath of the invisible market gods.
Meanwhile, about the stock market: Stocks are high, in part, because bond yields are so low, and investors have to put their money somewhere. It’s also true, however, that while the economy remains deeply depressed, corporate profits have staged a strong recovery. And that’s a bad thing! Not only are workers failing to share in the fruits of their own rising productivity, hundreds of billions of dollars are piling up in the treasuries of corporations that, facing weak consumer demand, see no reason to put those dollars to work.
So the message from the markets is by no means a happy one. What the markets are clearly saying, however, is that the fears and prejudices that have dominated Washington discussion for years are entirely misguided. And they’re also telling us that the people who have been feeding those fears and peddling those prejudices don’t have a clue about how the economy actually works.
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MORE:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/08/opinion/krugman-the-market-speaks.html?_r=1&
Capitalism sure seems to be doing OK under our socialist regime...
you betcha....
kpete
Georgia town mulls MANDATORY gun ownership
Georgia town mulls mandatory gun ownershipBy Melissa Gray, CNN
updated 7:05 AM EST, Fri March 8, 2013
"Basically this is a deterrent ordinance," Councilman Duane Cronic said at the meeting. "It's no more than putting a sign in your front yard saying that 'ADT protects this home.' Now the person that may be there (checking) your home out to cause harm to you or your family to break into your house has to decide, 'When I break that door down, what's on the other side of that door?'"
the rest:
http://www.cnn.com/2013/03/07/us/georgia-gun-requirement/index.html?c=us
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