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Election 2006 Watch: Francine Busby in California 50 – “You Don’t Need Papers for Voting”
Two of the three candidates in 50th Congressional District, Democrat Francine Busby, left, and Republican Brian Bilbray, are shown in this combination of file photos taken April 6, 2006, in San Diego. The candidates are competing in the tight, high-stakes California special election to replace Republican Randy ‘Duke’ Cunningham, the disgraced former lawmaker doing time for accepting millions in bribes.
Michelle Malkin: CA. DEM INVITES ILLEGAL ALIEN HELP
Oh, yes, she did.
Francine Busby, the Democratic candidate in Tuesday’s CA-50 special election has been caught on tape telling a Spanish-speaking audience “You don’t need papers for voting.â€
Responding to a question from a translator about how to help her campaign, Francine Busby also told non-English-speaking volunteers that they don’t need to be registered voters to help the campaign.
Take a listen right here.
Ian Schwartz also has audio and a photo of the candidate.
And political pundits REALLY think San Diego voters will punish the GOP with MORONS like this?
Only if Republican voter turnout is surpressed. And you can thank the President and his illegal alien amnesty bill for that…..
Stay tuned……..election is on Tuesday.
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Wen Ho Lee Watch: Checkbook Journalism Saves Reporters From Contempt of Court
Former Los Alamos National Laboratory scientist Wen Ho Lee leaves U.S. District Court in Albuquerque, N.M., followed by his daughter, Alberta Lee, Sept. 13, 2000, upon being freed after pleading guilty to a single felony count.
ASSociated Press: 5 News Organizations Agree to Pay Lee
Wen Ho Lee, the former nuclear weapons scientist once suspected of being a spy, settled his privacy lawsuit Friday and will receive $1.6 million from the government and five news organizations in a case that turned into a fight over reporters’ confidential sources.
Lee will receive $895,000 from the government for legal fees and associated taxes in the 6 1/2-year-old lawsuit in which he accused the Energy and Justice departments of violating his privacy rights by leaking information that he was under investigation as a spy for China.
The Associated Press and four other news organizations have agreed to pay Lee $750,000 as part of the settlement, which ends contempt of court proceedings against five reporters who refused to disclose the sources of their stories about the espionage investigation.
Lee said of the settlement: “We are hopeful that the agreements reached today will send the strong message that government officials and journalists must and should act responsibly in discharging their duties and be sensitive to the privacy interests afforded to every citizen of this country.”
The payment by AP, The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post and ABC is the only one of its kind in recent memory, and perhaps ever, legal and media experts said.
The companies said they agreed to the sum to forestall jail sentences for their reporters, even larger payments in the form of fines and the prospect of revealing confidential sources.
“We were reluctant to contribute anything to this settlement, but we sought relief in the courts and found none,” the companies said. “Given the rulings of the federal courts in Washington and the absence of a federal shield law, we decided this was the best course to protect our sources and to protect our journalists.”
Definitely a check on journalists publishing material without regard to the privacy rights of those folks they target in investigative pieces.
The MSM will argue for a federal shield law to protect the confidentiality of sources. What these large news organization need is more self-control and self-policing source policies.
U.S. District Judge Rosemary Collyer signed an order Friday vacating the contempt proceedings against the reporters, H. Josef Hebert of The Associated Press, James Risen of The New York Times, Bob Drogin of the Los Angeles Times, Walter Pincus of The Washington Post, and Pierre Thomas, formerly of CNN and now working for ABC News.
CNN, in a separate statement, said it declined to join in the settlement “because we had a philosophical disagreement over whether it was appropriate to pay money to Wen Ho Lee or anyone else to get out from under a subpoena.”
The reporters had appealed the contempt rulings to the Supreme Court. The justices recently delayed a decision on whether to take up the reporters’ case after being told a settlement was near.
It was easier for bi gmedia to pay for their reporter’s freedom then roll the dice with the Supremes.
No guts – no glory MSM.
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Iran Nuclear Watch: Iran President Ahmadinejad – The West Won’t Deprive Iran of Its Nuclear Technology
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (L) greets Chief of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC) Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu in Tehran, June 2, 2006.
ASSoicated Press: Iran defends right to nuclear technology
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad vowed Friday that the West won’t deprive Iran of its nuclear technology, sounding a defiant note after the world’s major powers stepped up pressure for Tehran to accept a new package of incentives to halt its uranium enrichment program.
Ahmadinejad did not directly mention the package agreed to on Thursday by the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council, plus Germany, which urges Iran to suspend uranium enrichment and come back to the negotiating table over its nuclear program.
But he insisted on Iran’s right to pursue nuclear technology.
The Quotes:
“The efforts of some Western countries to deprive us will not bear any fruit,” he said, according to the state news agency IRNA.
“The reason of their opposition is not their claim of concern over nuclear weapons, but Iran’s access to the technology that means opening of the way for all independent countries, especially Islamic countries to the advanced technology,” he said after talks with the head of the Organization of the Islamic Conference.
“Unfortunately, some who have huge arsenals of nuclear weapons and are not members of NPT, are today in the position of decision making and want to deprive us from our inalienable rights,” he said.
So, Flap understands this to mean NO.
When will the diplomats understand that Iran covets a nuclear weapon to give them POWER in the region and world.
Iran does not want to DANCE (negotiate).
In the meantime, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice turns up the diplomatic heat:
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Tehran must decide quickly whether to resume negotiations.
“We do need to have an answer and it can’t be months,” Rice said in on NBC’s “Today” show. “It really needs to be within weeks.”
The United States has won this round of world diplomacy. Iran has rejected the world community while the United States made direct overtures to defuse the crisis.
Now swift action before the UNSC is imperative and then the inevitable if Iran does NOT stand down their nuclear program.
Stay tuned……
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The Natanz uranium enrichment complex in Natanz is pictured in this January 2, 2006 satellite image.
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Iran Nuclear Watch: Iran “DETERMINED” to Go Ahead with Nuclear Enrichment Work
Iranian worshippers shout anti-U.S. slogans during Friday prayers ceremonies in Tehran, June 2, 2006.
Reuters: Iran signals more defiance on nuclear work
A senior Iranian nuclear official signaled Tehran’s determination on Friday to press on with its nuclear work, despite facing what Washington called a “moment of truth” over a program that could produce atomic weapons.
The remarks by Mohammad Saeedi, deputy head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization, suggested Tehran may have already decided to reject offers of incentives and negotiations from six of the world’s top powers in return for ending atomic fuel activities.
“Iran is determined to go ahead with its nuclear enrichment work for peaceful purposes,” Mohammad Saeedi, deputy head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization, told students news agency ISNA. “The Iranian nation will not let us give it up.”
The White House urged Iran to study a basket of incentives, approved by the U.S., British, French, German Russian and Chinese foreign ministers at a Vienna meeting on Thursday, before officially responding.
European officials will give Iranian officials a detailed presentation of the incentives in the next couple of days and a formal answer was hoped for within weeks, White House spokesman Tony Snow said.
Asked about Iran’s insistence that it would not give up uranium enrichment, Snow said: “As we’ve said, we think it’s fair to give the government of Iran an opportunity to review carefully everything in the package. We understand people may make statements, but we want to give them time to study this.”
Iran will NOT stand down their nuclear enrichment program and WILL reject this Big 6 offer. Ahmadinejad knows the Western media cycle and derives his power at home by conflict with Europe and the United States.
If the United States offer to negotiate with Iran was not an attempt/trap at “diplomatic cover” then it was a mistake.
Iran will say no and Russia and/or China will veto any attempt to impose UNSC sanctions.
So, what has REALLY changed in the past six months?
NOTHING.
Stay tuned for Ahmadinejad’s bloviation for the Sunday talk shows.
Pakistani Shiites take part in a rally to condemn the United States in Islamabad, Pakistan, Friday, June 2, 2006. Protesters chanted slogans against US President George Bush and praising Iran’s leadership for their stand to continue their nuclear activites.
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The Natanz uranium enrichment complex in Natanz is pictured in this January 2, 2006 satellite image.
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Day By Day by Chris Muir
