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    links for 2009-06-20

    • Statement from the President on Iran

      The Iranian government must understand that the world is watching. We mourn each and every innocent life that is lost. We call on the Iranian government to stop all violent and unjust actions against its own people. The universal rights to assembly and free speech must be respected, and the United States stands with all who seek to exercise those rights.

      As I said in Cairo, suppressing ideas never succeeds in making them go away. The Iranian people will ultimately judge the actions of their own government. If the Iranian government seeks the respect of the international community, it must respect the dignity of its own people and govern through consent, not coercion.

      Martin Luther King once said – “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” I believe that. The international community believes that. And right now, we are bearing witness to the Iranian peoples' belief in that truth, and we will continue to bear witness.

    • President Barack Obama's job approval rating fell to 58% in Gallup Poll Daily tracking from June 16-18 — a new low for Obama in Gallup tracking, although not dissimilar to the 59% he has received on four other occasions.
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    • Sen. John Ensign’s (R-Nev.) office on Friday charged that the husband of the Senator’s ex-mistress sought cash in exchange for his silence about the affair, according to a statement released by his office. The statement did not say how much money was sought but said the proposed payment was rejected.
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    • Such attacks, including a string of devastating bomb blasts in April, have cast doubt on the ability of Iraqi security forces to take over after U.S. troops leave.

      The bloodshed diminished significantly in May, and June has also seen fewer large-scale attacks.

      It is not clear if that is due to the efforts of Iraqi police and soldiers, or if it means that insurgent groups, beaten back over the past two years in most of Iraq, now lack the organization and support to keep up the momentum.

      Interior Ministry spokesman Major General Abdul-Karim Khalaf said al-Qaeda was resorting to paying people to fight for it. It had also turned to criminal activities to raise funds.

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    • We talked about all this disruption with Joe Sebok, a poker player, the CEO of the Poker Road news site and a man with almost 330,000 people following him on Twitter. All the major poker news sites are racing to integrate Twitter and Sebok says his site isn't one of the biggest – but as far as we can tell, Poker Road's use of Twitter during the World Series of Poker may be defining the state of the art better than anyone else in the industry.

      "It's completely changing poker for the audience," Sebok says of Twitter. "Traditional poker media coverage is a lot of hand histories online. It's bland and basic. Now you get to hear players exclaim and interact – 'oh I feel so sick' or 'oh that player is a knucklehead.' They upload pictures and they reply to each other. It gives you a sense of the pressure these guys are under and what it's like to be here."

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  • Day By Day

    Day By Day by Chris Muir June 20, 2009 – Don’t Mess with Texas

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    Day By Day by Chris Muir

    Kim Jong-Il, the Dear Leader of North Korea, really covets the withdrawal of American troops from South Korea and the reunification of the Korean Peninsula under his control. This, of course, would scare the bejesus out of Japan, plus Taiwan and would spur a regional nuclear arms race.

    There is much at stake in the next few weeks and President Obama will be tested.

    So, “Gird Your Loins.”

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