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Hissyspit's JournalFluke: Obama Told Me My Parents Should Be Proud
Source: Raw Story / MSNBC
Fluke: Obama told me my parents should be proud
By David Edwards
Friday, March 2, 2012 16:12 EST
Georgetown University law student Sandra Fluke on Friday choked up as she recalled an encouraging phone call from President Barack Obama after conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh smeared her as a “slut.”
“You were in our green room getting ready to come on and the White House tells us that we can reveal that you just got off the phone with President Obama,” MSNBC host Andrea Mitchell explained.
“Yes, I did,” Fluke agreed. “He encouraged me and supported me and thanked me for speaking out about the concerns of American women.”
“And what was really personal for me was he said to tell my parents that they should be proud. And that meant a lot because Rush Limbaugh questioned whether my family would be proud of me,” she added, fighting back tears.
Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/03/02/fluke-obama-told-me-my-parents-should-be-proud
Stratfor Email: "I'm in favor of using whatever trumped up charge is available to get Assange"
http://wikileaks.org/gifiles/docs/389793_.htmlOn Monday February 27th, 2012, WikiLeaks began publishing The Global Intelligence Files, over five million e-mails from the Texas headquartered "global intelligence" company Stratfor. The e-mails date between July 2004 and late December 2011. They reveal the inner workings of a company that fronts as an intelligence publisher, but provides confidential intelligence services to large corporations, such as Bhopal's Dow Chemical Co., Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon and government agencies, including the US Department of Homeland Security, the US Marines and the US Defence Intelligence Agency. The emails show Stratfor's web of informers, pay-off structure, payment laundering techniques and psychological methods.
Email-ID 389793
Date 2010-12-10 03:34:36
From mongoven@stratfor.com
To morson@stratfor.com, defeo@stratfor.com, pubpolblog.post@blogger.com
A hero?
Avaaz is right. It's not illegal but it does make you accessory to being
an asshole. Real people are being tortured by governments that Avaaz and
Assange probably like more than the US, all the while the two of them
denounce US 'torture' at Guantanamo.
They are like the crazy IPS/CISPES/SDS people who were so full of hate
that they could not see that they are doing so much more bad than they at
doing good.
I'm in favor of using whatever trumped up charge is available to get this
guy and his servers off the streets. And I'd feed that shit head soldier
to the first pack of wild dogs I could find.
Or perhaps just do to him whatever the Iranians are doing to our sources
there.
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Ex-Attorneys General Back Siegelman (More Than 100 Sign Friend of Court Brief)
Source: Wall Street Journal
MARCH 1, 2012, 5:59 PM
Ex-Attorneys General Back Siegelman
More than 100 former attorneys general are backing one of their own — Don Siegelman, Alabama former governor and attorney general, who was convicted in 2006 on corruption charges.
Siegelman was convicted in 2006 based on allegations that a donor gave $500,000 in contributions to a state lottery campaign that Sigelman favored in exchange for a seat on a state health care-board. After years of appeals, he’s looking to the U.S. Supreme Court a second time hear his case.
On Thursday, the group of former attorneys general led by former New York AG Robert Abrams weighed in with a friend of the court brief. According to the brief,
This case is about the criminalization of First Amendment freedoms — the giving and receiving of campaign contribution — based on an indefinite standard that will significantly alter the liberty of constituents to contribute to political campaigns without fear of criminal liability and the desire of citizens to run for political office in a system that largely depends on private contributions.
The brief was backed by 113 former top state lawyers, including some who also served as governors, such as Michigan’s Jennifer Granholm and Wisconsin’s James Doyle.
Read more: http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2012/03/01/ex-attorneys-general-back-siegelman/#
Experts: Translated Toyota Memo Shows Electronic Acceleration Concern
Source: CNN
Experts: Translated Toyota memo shows electronic acceleration concern
By David Fitzpatrick and Drew Griffin, CNN Special Investigations Unit
updated 8:11 PM EST, Thu March 1, 2012
A rash of reports of sudden, unintended accelerations led to a massive recall of more than 8 million Toyota vehicles in 2010.
Washington (CNN) -- Toyota engineers found an electronic software problem that caused "sudden unintended acceleration" in a test vehicle during pre-production trials, according to a company engineering document obtained by and translated for CNN.
The 2006 document, marked "confidential," recounted the results of an adaptive cruise-control software test in a model internally designated the 250L, a vehicle later sold as the Lexus 460 in Japan and Europe. The document says a "fail-safe overhaul" would be needed for another model in production, internally designated the 180L, which the company says was later sold as a Toyota Tundra.
Toyota insists that the document shows no such thing, and it continues to deny that any sudden unintended acceleration in any of its vehicles was caused by electronic systems. But three translations of the report, including two commissioned by CNN after Toyota's objections, found that engineers raised concerns that the adaptive cruise control system would start the car moving forward on its own.
Read the original document and English translations here
"The cruise control activates by itself at full throttle when the accelerator pedal position sensor is abnormal," states the document, written in Japanese, translated into English.
Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2012/03/01/us/toyota-memo-acceleration-concerns/index.html
Stratfor “Source” James Casey Leaves FBI
http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2012/03/01/stratfor-source-james-casey-leaves-fbiStratfor “Source” James Casey Leaves FBI
By: Jane Hamsher Thursday March 1, 2012 4:54 pm
One of the “sources” that Stratfor chief Fred Burton probed for information about what was happening with Wikileaks was “a senior FBI Hqs agent and former DSS agent” with the email jimcasey58@aol.com.
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Burton clearly felt jimcasey58@aol.com was his own little window into the DoJ. So on 1-26-2011 when Burton sent an email to secure@stratfor.com saying he had intelligence that the DoJ had a “sealed indictment” on Assange, you have to wonder where it came from.
Now I’m thinking, might as well put the email address “jimcasey58@aol.com” through a search and see what comes up. Lo and behold, there’s only one non-Stratfor related hit: a Collier County, Florida bid solicitation for “Security Consultant,” starting on January 26, 2012 and ending on February 1, 2012:
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What is Jim Casey, LLC? Glad you asked. Because the Florida Times-Union has an article dated yesterday that tells us 25 year FBI veteran James Casey is retiring from the FBI that very day to start his own business: James Casey, LLC:
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Rep. Speier Calls for Boycott of Limbaugh Sponsors
Source: Raw Story
Rep. Speier calls for boycott of Limbaugh sponsors
By Eric W. Dolan
Thursday, March 1, 2012 16:25 EST
Rep. Jackie Speier (D-CA) on Thursday said that if the sponsors of Rush Limbaugh’s radio show continued to support his “hate mongering” then women should boycott those companies.
“I rise this morning to say to Rush Limbaugh, shame on you,” she said on the House floor. “Shame on you for being the hatemonger that you are. Shame on you for being misogynistic.”
Limbaugh on Wednesday called Georgetown University law student Sandra Fluke a “prostitute” and a “slut” because of her testimony in Congress about contraception.
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“So I say to the women in this country, do something about this,” she continued. “I say to the women of this country, ask Century 21, Quicken Loans, Legal Zoom, and Sleep Number to stop supporting the hate mongering of Rush Limbaugh and if they do not do that, then I ask them to boycott those companies.”
Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/03/01/rep-speier-calls-for-boycott-of-limbaugh-sponsors
We used pressure on advertisers to get Glenn Beck out of mainstream media, why can't we do it with Rush?
Here is a list of Limbaugh sponsors current as of Jan. 2011 (It may include some companies who are no longer sponsors. I Googled and couldn't find a more recent one.): http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002369972 (h/t trueblue2007)
DHS Tracked Occupy Wall Street to ‘Control Protesters’
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/02/29/dhs-tracked-occupy-wall-street-to-control-protesters/DHS tracked Occupy Wall Street to ‘control protesters’
By David Edwards
Wednesday, February 29, 2012 11:24 EST
Leaked documents reveal that federal government tracked Occupy Wall Street protesters because it feared the movement could turn violent.
An internal Department of Homeland Security report (PDF) titled “SPECIAL COVERAGE: Occupy Wall Street” was part of 5 million leaked documents published by WikiLeaks and examined by Rolling Stone contributing editor Michael Hastings.
The report indicates that the department monitored protesters’ social media activities to assess the movement’s impacts in individuals sectors, including financial services, commercial facilities, transportation, emergency services and government facilities.
Reuters FLASH: James Murdoch Steps Down as Executive Chairman of News International
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/11/23/us-newscorp-murdoch-idUSTRE7AM18E20111123James Murdoch quits UK newspaper boards
Wed, Nov 23 2011Analysis & OpinionFacebook is starting to lose its touch
LONDON | Wed Nov 23, 2011 5:15pm EST
LONDON (Reuters) - James Murdoch has resigned from the boards of the publishing units within News Corp's British newspaper arm, which used to include the now-defunct News of the World tabloid at the center of the phone hacking scandal, regulatory filings show.
Murdoch, son of media mogul Rupert and deputy chief operating officer of News Corp, remains chairman of News International, the News Corp unit that houses its British newspapers, and a member of the Times editorial board.
The News International unit has been damaged this year by the revelation that people working for the popular Sunday tabloid hacked into the phones of thousands to generate news.
Slow-burning investigations into the matter became front-page national news when it was revealed in July that one of the victims was missing schoolgirl Milly Dowler, who appeared to have been picking up voicemails but was later found murdered.
Ex-News of the World editor Rebekah Brooks resigned as chief executive of News International the following week, and was replaced by Tom Mockridge, the former head of News Corp-owned Sky Italia, on July 15.
Gen Y May End Up 'Intellectual Lightweights' Because of Technology: Pew
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/02/29/gen-y-may-end-up-intellectual-lightweights-because-of-technology-pewGen Y may end up ‘intellectual lightweights’ because of technology: Pew
By Reuters
Wednesday, February 29, 2012 3:34 EST
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – There is a good chance young people growing up in today’s always-wired world will eventually become bright, nimble decision makers – if they don’t wind up intellectual lightweights unable to concentrate long enough to chew over a good book.
So say 1,021 technology insiders, critics and students surveyed by the Pew Research Center who were fairly evenly split about how always-on technology will impact the teenagers and twenty-somethings of “Generation Y.”
In the survey, released on Wednesday, 55 percent agreed with a statement that in 2020 the brains of young people would be “wired” differently from those over 35, with good results for finding answers quickly and without shortcomings in their mental processes.
But 42 percent were pessimistic, agreeing with a second statement that in 2020 young technology users would be easily distracted, would lack deep thinking skills and would thirst only for instant gratification.
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Supreme Court Appears to Back Corporations in Torture Cases
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-court-torture-20120229,0,1578783.storySupreme Court appears to back corporations in torture cases
Conservative justices indicate that multinational firms and political groups should be shielded from lawsuits in the U.S. over atrocities overseas.
By David G. Savage, Washington Bureau
February 28, 2012, 6:55 p.m.
Reporting from Washington— The Supreme Court's conservative justices said they were inclined to shield multinational corporations as well as political groups such as the Palestine Liberation Organization from being sued in this country for torture or other atrocities around the world.
At issue is whether human rights lawsuits can target not just torturers and tyrants but the corporations and political groups that support them.
Though several liberal justices said they saw no reason to limit such lawsuits, the court's conservatives said they were skeptical of allowing American courts to become the world's forum for overseas violations of international law.
Corporations are sued every day in this country and accused of violating state or federal laws. But Justices Anthony M. Kennedy and Samuel A. Alito Jr. said it was quite different to permit suits here based on allegations that a multinational corporation conspired with a brutal regime in Africa or Asia.
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