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JaneyVee's JournalGays Out, Racists in at CPAC, Again.
Last year we wrote about how CPAC allowed notorious white nationalists to speak on multiple panels but banned the gay conservative group GOProud. This year the CPAC organizers, who aren’t entirely oblivious to the 2012 election, are trying to emphasize diversity. There’s even a panel entitled, “Conservative Inclusion: Promoting the Freedom Message to all Americans,” which boasts a racially diverse lineup of conservative activists.
“Conservative inclusion” is a nice idea, but it doesn’t go very far at CPAC. For the second year in a row, the gay conservative group GOProud has been banned from the conference. So at best, “inclusion” at CPAC means “straights only.”
Even more telling is the roster of sponsors and exhibitors at CPAC. Most troubling is the inclusion of the anti-immigrant group ProEnglish, which is run by longtime white nationalist organizer Bob Vandervoort. The Institute for Research & Education on Human Rights has reported extensively on his activities:
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Also, CPAC is being held at the Gaylord Convention Center where guns are banned and the hotel is union run.
Confirmed! Newfound Particle Is the Higgs
A newfound particle discovered at the world's largest atom smasher last year is, indeed, the Higgs boson, the particle thought to give other matter its mass, scientists reported today (March 14) at the annual Rencontres de Moriond conference in Italy.
Physicists announced on July 4, 2012, that, with more than 99 percent certainty, they had found a new elementary particle weighing about 126 times the mass of the proton that was likely the long-sought Higgs boson. The Higgs is sometimes referred to as the "God particle," to the chagrin of many scientists, who prefer its official name.
But the two experiments, CMS and ATLAS, hadn't collected enough data to say the particle was, for sure, the Higgs boson, the last undiscovered piece of the puzzle predicted by the Standard Model, the reigning theory of particle physics.
Now, after collecting two and a half times more data inside the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) — where protons zip at near light-speed around the 17-mile-long (27 kilometer) underground ring beneath Switzerland and France — physicists say the particle is the Higgs.
The rest: http://news.yahoo.com/confirmed-newfound-particle-higgs-130317830.html
Providence - Leaked Bradley Manning testimony
**WARNING** Video contains graphic reality of war.
The previously unreleased audio sheds light on Manning's motivation for leaking thousands of government documents.
From: https://pressfreedomfoundation.org/blog/2013/03/fpf-publishes-leaked-audio-of-bradley-mannings-statement
Next time someone says "America is broke", show them this article:
Pentagon needs $12.6 billion per year through 2037 for F-35: Report.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon needs to budget $12.6 billion each year through 2037 to finish developing and paying for all the Lockheed Martin Corp F-35 fighters it plans to buy, according to a report released by a congressional watchdog agency on Monday.
This amounts to $2 billion more in projected annual funding needs than the Government Accountability Office (GAO) had included in a draft report obtained and published by Reuters on Saturday.
The draft report excluded the cost of the fighter's single engine, which is built by Pratt & Whitney, a unit of United Technologies Corp, said Joe DellaVedova, a spokesman for the Pentagon's F-35 program office.
The report said the Pentagon was expected to shell out $316 billion through 2037 on the remaining development and purchase of the radar-evading warplane, on top of billions of dollars already spent, for a total program cost of around $400 billion.
The rest: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/pentagon-needs-12-6-billion-222706531.html
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But lets cut social security, medicare, & food-aid to those already struggling to survive instead.
A Guide To The Conservative Movement In One Handy Chart
Credit to Markos Moulitsas @ http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/03/07/1192334/-A-guide-to-the-conservative-movement-in-one-handy-chart
Breaking: Attorney General - Obama Can't Order Drone Attack On Americans On US Soil
It took Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) filibustering for 13 straight hours, but the White House has finally clarified that President Barack Obama cannot order a drone strike on an American citizen on American soil. In a curt, forty-three word letter, Attorney General Eric Holder clarified the administration's stance.
"It has come to my attention that you have now asked an additional question: "Does the President have the authority to use a weaponized drone to kill an American not engaged in combat on American soil?" Holder wrote. "The answer to that question is no."
http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/03/holder-president-cant-order-drone-attack-americans-us-soil
SHOCKING Truth About Income Inequality in America
Obama Pardons Higher Proportion Of Drug Offenders Than Bush, Clinton
One-third of President Obama's clemency actions have been drug-related, a higher rate of drug-crime forgiveness than other recent presidents.
On Friday, the White House released information about Obama's first pardons in more than a year. With 17 new pardons for minor offenses, the president's total number of commutations and pardons is 40 — 13 of which forgave people who committed crimes related to cocaine or marijuana.
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15 percent of his total number of pardons have involved marijuana charges, and 17.5 percent have involved cocaine. George W. Bush pardoned, commuted, or rescinded convictions of 200 people, and only about 20 percent of those cases involved marijuana and cocaine.
Bill Clinton pardoned, commuted or rescinded convictions for 459 people, also with about 20 percent of those actions related to marijuana and cocaine.
Link: http://www.buzzfeed.com/cjlotz/obama-pardons-higher-proportion-of-drug-offenders-than-bush
Love him or hate him, 14 years later, Hugo Chavez final approval rating was 70.3%
http://venezuela-us.org/2013/02/14/approval-for-president-chavez-at-70/I think JFK was the only US Prez to even come close at 67%.
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