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Pakistan Blocks You Tube
A man watches a clip on the popular video-sharing website YouTube. Pakistan has ordered all Internet service providers to block the YouTube website for containing “blasphemous” content and material considered offensive to Islam, officials have said.
First, it was the Mohammed Cartoons and international newspaper censorship and riots in the Muslim world. Now, it is the government of Pakistan censoring electronic media, You Tube, in the name of religion.
Pakistan has ordered all Internet service providers to block the YouTube website for containing “blasphemous” content and material considered offensive to Islam, officials said Sunday.
An inter-ministerial committee has decided to block YouTube because it contained “blasphemous content, videos and documents,” a government official told Agence France-Presse. “The site will remain blocked till further orders.”
The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) told the country’s 70 Internet service providers Friday that the popular website would be blocked until further notice, the Associated Press reports.
The authority did not specify what the offensive material was, but a PTA official said the ban concerned a movie trailer for an upcoming film by Dutch lawmaker Geert Wilders, who has said he plans to release an anti-Koran movie portraying the religion as fascist and prone to inciting violence against women and homosexuals.
The PTA official, who asked not to be identified because he was not an official spokesman, said the PTA also blocks web sites that show controversial drawings of the prophet Muhammad.
Flap supposes that this site is blocked in Pakistan as well because of Flap’s refusal to NOT display the Mohammed Cartoons.
Freedom of speech becomes merely words unless it is supported by the rule of law. Shame on Pakistan.
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Gennifer Flowers Bailing From Sinking Clinton Ship
Gennifer Flowers is putting her sordid Bill Clinton “LOVE” phone tapes up for auction.
Gennifer Flowers is putting the tapes of her recorded conversations with Bill Clinton during their 12-year affair on the auction block, Vegas Confidential learned Monday.
Flowers, who came forward during Clinton’s 1992 Presidential election campaign with details of the relationship, said she decided to part with the tapes after renewed interest surfaced. She was offered $5 million by a Japanese collector in the 1990s, she said.
Looks like all of the Clinton RATS are abandoning a sinking Hillary ship and Gennifer wants to get “what she can.”
Hillary Clinton has lost the national Democrat Presidential poll lead to Barack Obama.
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Hillary Clinton Watch: Smear Photo of Obama = Beginning of the End?
The photo, taken in 2006, shows the Democrat frontrunner fitted as a Somali Elder, during his visit to Wajir, a rural area in northeastern Kenya.
Hillary Clinton’s campaign for the Presidency is in trouble and now is circulating a photo of an ethnically “DRESSED” Barack Obama.
“Wouldn’t we be seeing this on the cover of every magazine if it were HRC?” questioned one campaign staffer, in an email obtained by the DRUDGE REPORT.
In December, the campaign asked one of its volunteer county coordinators in Iowa to step down after the person forwarded an e-mail falsely stating that Barack Obama is a Muslim.
Obama campaign manager David Plouffe quickly accused the Clinton campaign Monday of ‘shameful offensive fear-mongering’ for circulating the snap.
This may be the final nail in the coffin for Hillary. But, who will tell her?
In the meantime, Obama’s campaign is slamming Hillary:
“On the very day that Senator Clinton is giving a speech about restoring respect for America in the world, her campaign has engaged in the most shameful, offensive fear-mongering we’ve seen from either party in this election. This is part of a disturbing pattern that led her county chairs to resign in Iowa, her campaign chairman to resign in New Hampshire, and it’s exactly the kind of divisive politics that turns away Americans of all parties and diminishes respect for America in the world,” said Plouffe.
Hillary continues to overplay her hand and her campaign has become a mockery. Time to exit the race.
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Iran Nuclear Watch: IAEA’s ElBaradei’s Agenda Criticized
Chief of the International Atomic Energy Agency Mohamed ElBaradei. Iran said it saw no legal basis for a new UN Security Council resolution over its nuclear activities after the UN atomic watchdog reported it had made progress in its probe.
If evaluation of Iran’s nuclear weapons program is left up to the IAEA and ElBaradei, Iran will soon develop BREAKOUT CAPABILITY.
In a scathing critique of El Baradei’s agenda in leading the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Danielle Pletka and Michael Rubin in today’s Wall Street Journal write about the IAEA whitewash of Tehran’s nuclear ambitions.
IAEA technical experts have complained anonymously to the press that the latest report on Iran was revamped to suit the director’s political goals. In 2004, Mr. ElBaradei sought to purge mention of Iranian attempts to purchase beryllium metal, an important component in a nuclear charge, from IAEA documents. He also left unmentioned Tehran’s refusal to grant IAEA inspectors access to the Parchin military complex, where satellite imagery showed a facility seemingly designed to test and produce nuclear weapons.
The IAEA’s latest report leaves unmentioned allegations by an Iranian opposition group of North Korean work on nuclear warheads at Khojir, a military research site near Tehran. It also amends previous conclusions and closes the book on questions about Iran’s work on polonium 210 — which nuclear experts suspect Iran experimented with for use as an initiator for nuclear weapons, but which the regime claims was research on radioisotope batteries. In 2004, the IAEA declared itself “somewhat uncertain regarding the plausibility of the stated purpose of the [polonium] experiments.” Today it finds these explanations “consistent with the Agency’s findings and with other information available.”
The United States opposed ElBaradei’s appointment as Director of the IAEA. He has undercut and undermined efforts to expose Iran’s nuclear ambitions. This is just the excuse Russia and China require to bog down any talk of sanctions in the United Nations Security Council.
The United States, EU and Israel have an obligation to work outside the obviously biased IAEA, impose their own sanctions on Iran or face the likely probability of a military option.
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Day By Day by Chris Muir February 24, 2008
It is a difficult call as to who will unite the GOP this summer better, Hillary or Obama. Everyone either loves or hates Hillary and after Hillary gets through with Obama in the next few months everyone will know what an “EMPTY SUIT” with a golden voice Barack is.
Flap’s best bet is that John McCain is a one term President and the REAL BATTLE for the White House will be in 2012.
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links for 2008-02-25
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But, Huckabee has seriously overstayed his welcome. But, he is through after this race anyway. Back to the pulpit for the Huckster.
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On to Mark Sanford or Tom Coburn then…….
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YAWN………
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Hillary is right on this one.
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