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Idiotarian of the Year Award Watch: 2005 Fiskie Winner is Cindy Sheehan
LGF: The Envelope Please
With 21,381 votes cast in the second round, and despite the best efforts of many Venezuelans to tilt the poll toward the estimable Hugo Chavez, we’re very pleased to announce that the winner of the 2005 Idiotarian of the Year Award (Fiskie for short) is none other than the mainstream media’s favorite “peace mom,†the one and only Cindy Sheehan
Indeed!
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Gaggle – Newsbusters.org
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Iran Nuclear Watch: Britain Calls for United Nations Security Council Action Against Iran
Former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani addresses the faithful during the Eid Al-Adha prayer at Tehran University. Iran insisted it would not give up its nuclear program despite being roundly condemned by world leaders over its resumption of nuclear fuel research, risking possible enforcement action by the United Nations.
Reuters: Britain urges UN to consider action on Iran
Britain called on Wednesday for the U.N. Security Council to consider action against Iran after it resumed nuclear fuel research, but former Iranian President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani said any sanctions would be futile.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair vowed to haul Iran before the Security Council, which can impose punitive measures.
“I think the first thing to do is to secure agreement for a reference to the Security Council, (if) that is indeed what the allies jointly decide as I think seems likely,” Blair told parliament.
“Then .. we have to decide what measures to take and we obviously don’t rule out any measures at all,” he added.
Immediate referral then a military operation.
Time is running short for Iran…….
Blair made no direct reference to military force, but his remarks seemed stronger than those of Foreign Secretary Jack Straw, who said on Tuesday military action was not on Britain’s agenda and that he believed it was not on anyone else’s.
Iran must stand down.
The United States and Israel will NOT blink!
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Iran Nuclear Watch: Rafsanjani – Sanctions FUTILE
Iran Nuclear Watch: Iran Removes United Nations Seals on Nuclear Facilities
Iran Nuclear Watch: Iran Ready to Remove UN Seals at Nuclear SitesIran Nuclear Watch: Iran Confirms Resumption of Atomic Fuel Research
Iran Nuclear Watch: Iran Will Resume Atomic Fuel Research
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Iran Nuclear Watch: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad – “Israel Completed Holocaustâ€
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Iran Nuclear Watch: Is Washington Planning a Military Strike?
Iran Nuclear Watch: Iran Says Still Wants to Enrich Uranium in IRAN
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Senator Joe Biden Watch: THE WAFFLE
Poor Slow Joe Plagiarising Biden……
Radio Blogger: The Joseph Biden Princeton Waffle
READ/LISTEN TO IT ALL FOR A GREAT LAUGH.
Biden doesn’t belong in the same room as Judge and future JUSTICE Samuel Alito.
What a MORON!
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Iraq War Watch: Biden – Supports Phased Withdrawl of Troops
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Iran Nuclear Watch: Rafsanjani – Sanctions FUTILE
A security policeman works at an Uranium Conversion Facility in Isfahan 340 km (211 miles) south of the Iranian capital Tehran March 30, 2005. Iran removed U.N. seals at its uranium-enrichment plant and resumed nuclear fuel research on Tuesday, drawing sharp criticism from the West which fears Tehran is bent on acquiring the means to build atomic bombs.
Reuters: Sanctions cannot solve Iran nuclear row: Rafsanjani
Influential former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani on Wednesday dismissed as futile any move to slap sanctions on Iran for its nuclear fuel program, which the West suspects is aimed at developing bombs.
Iran removed UN seals at uranium enrichment research facilities on Tuesday and announced it would resume “research and development” on producing uranium fuel, prompting angry reactions from Washington, the
European Union and Russia.The foreign ministers of Germany, France and Britain will meet in Berlin on Thursday to discuss the crisis caused by Iran’s move to reactivate a nuclear fuel program mothballed under a November 2004 deal with the EU trio.
Iran’s action had sent shockwaves through oil markets on Tuesday, helping push up the price of crude for a while.
The Quotes from Rafsanjani:
“Adopting harsh measures like imposing sanctions cannot bring about the desired outcome,” Rafsanjani said at Tehran University in a sermon to mark the Muslim Eid al-Adha festival.
“We will stand by our right to nuclear technology. They will regret creating any problems for us,” he told worshippers, without elaborating.
Neither the EU nor Washington is actively calling for sanctions against Iran, which insists its nuclear program is entirely peaceful, but they have not ruled out the possibility.
The United States already has a full embargo against Iran, but the EU could impose painful trade restrictions.
German Deputy Foreign Minister Gernot Erler said the “EU3” had no choice but to end talks with Iran unless it promised not to begin enriching uranium.
The European Union reaction to these developments are too little too late.
Does anyone think that Russia and China who economic interests in Iran will allow sanctions against their trading partners?
Is Iran inviting a military operation?
Indeed they are.
Stay tuned…….
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NSA Surveillance Watch: AP Poll- Most Say U.S. Needs Warrant to Snoop? – RECYCLED
Why is the ASSociated Press and AP reporter KATHERINE SHRADER recycling and republishing this story from January 7th – 4 days ago: Most Say U.S. Needs Warrant to Snoop
The story was WRONG then and CONTINUES TO BE MISLEADING……
From Powerline and the ABC News there is a NEWER POLL:
6. What do you think is more important right now – (for the federal government to investigate possible terrorist threats, even if that intrudes on personal privacy); or (for the federal government not to intrude on personal privacy, even if that limits its ability to investigate possible terrorist threats)?
Investigate threats: 65%
Respect privacy: 32%
No opinion: 3%7. In investigating terrorism, do you think federal agencies are or are not intruding on some Americans’ privacy rights?
Are: 64%
Are not: 32%
No opinion: 4%8. (IF FEDERAL AGENCIES ARE INTRUDING, Q7) Do you think those intrusions are justified or not justified?
Justified: 49%
Not justified: 46%
No opinion: 5%Unfortunately, we have no definition of what constitutes “intruding on some Americans’ privacy rights.” But, using whatever definition respondents assume, two-thirds of Americans believe that no “unjustified” intrusions are taking place.
These questions and answers strike me as more meaningful than the one that specifically addresses the current NSA “spying” controversy, where the numbers basically follow a partisan breakdown: 51% consider “this wiretapping of telephone calls and e-mails without court approval” acceptable, while 47% call it unacceptable.
A more meaningful poll and certainly a better analysis. Now, back to the inanity of the ASSociated Press poll…….
Flap: NSA Surveillance Watch: AP Poll- Most Say U.S. Needs Warrant to Snoop?
The ASSociated Press: Poll: Most Say U.S. Needs Warrant to Snoop
A majority of Americans want the Bush administration to get court approval before eavesdropping on people inside the United States, even if those calls might involve suspected terrorists, an AP-Ipsos poll shows.
Over the past three weeks, President Bush and top aides have defended the electronic monitoring program they secretly launched shortly after Sept. 11, 2001, as a vital tool to protect the nation from al-Qaida and its affiliates.
Yet 56 percent of respondents in an AP-Ipsos poll said the government should be required to first get a court warrant to eavesdrop on the overseas calls and e-mails of U.S. citizens when those communications are believed to be tied to terrorism.
Flap reads the poll differently than KATHERINE SHRADER, Associated Press Writer.
Look at the poll graphic above.
Does the poll NOT ask the question:
Should the Bush Administration be required to get a warrant before monitoring communications between Americans in the United States and suspected terrorists?
Look at the Rasmussen Poll taken December 26-27 and whose question more accurately reflects the NSA Surveillance progam.
The Rasmussen question:Should the National Security Agency be allowed to intercept telephone conversations between terrorism suspects in other countries and people living in the United States?
The RESULTS of the Rasmussen Poll:
Survey of 1,000 Adults
December 26-27, 2005
Should the National Security Agency be allowed to intercept telephone conversations between terrorism suspects in other countries and people living in the United States?
Yes 64%
No 23%Is President Bush the first President to authorize a program for intercepting telephone conversations between terrorism suspects in other countries and people living in the United States?
Yes 26%
No 48%Sixty-four percent (64%) of Americans believe the National Security Agency (NSA) should be allowed to intercept telephone conversations between terrorism suspects in other countries and people living in the United States. A Rasmussen Reports survey found that just 23% disagree.
Sixty-eight percent (68%) of Americans say they are following the NSA story somewhat or very closely.
Just 26% believe President Bush is the first to authorize a program like the one currently in the news. Forty-eight percent (48%) say he is not while 26% are not sure.
Eighty-one percent (81%) of Republicans believe the NSA should be allowed to listen in on conversations between terror suspects and people living in the United States. That view is shared by 51% of Democrats and 57% of those not affiliated with either major political party.
Survey of 1,000 Adults
December 26-27, 2005
Should the National Security Agency be allowed to intercept telephone conversations between terrorism suspects in other countries and people living in the United States?
Yes 64% No 23%
Is President Bush the first President to authorize a program for intercepting telephone conversations between terrorism suspects in other countries and people living in the United States?
Yes 26% No 48%
Did the ASSociated Press come/jump to the wrong conclusion or was the AP conclusion simply validated by a faulty or poorly worded poll question.
Or was this simply MSM BIAS?
The NSA Surveillance program whose details of which remain classified involved the intercepts between suspected foreign terrorists outside the United States to people within the United States.
This was NOT merely a DOMESTIC or within the United States warrantless surveillance program. But, a limited program for communications originating outside the United States.
President Bush: “The NSA program is one that listens to a few numbers called from the outside of the United States of known al-Qaida or affiliated people.â€
The ASSociated Press does NOT make this distinction or publish the facts.
Media Bias?
You betcha……..
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Cox & Forkum: One Man’s Whistleblower
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Day By Day by Chris Muir