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Alaska GOP Governor Sarah Palin Says Yes to National Office – VP?
Chris Cillizza of the Washington Post – The Fix interviews Governor PalinSarah Palin, the Republican Governor of Alaska says she IS interested in national office. Palin is refreshingly honest and definitely a rising star in the GOP.
She discounts the possibility that John McCain would pick her for Vice President this year but should Hillary Clinton make a comeback and win the Democrat nomination, Governor Palin would be on everyone’s short list.
A new generation of Republican pols will lead the party and Governor Palin is one such leader.
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Pakistan Lifts You Tube Ban
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From the BBC: Pakistan’s Attempt to Block YouTube Causes Two-Hour Global Site Blackout
Pakistan has relented and lifted their ban of the media giant, YouTube.
Pakistan said Tuesday that it has lifted a ban on YouTube after the website removed cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed, adding that an earlier worldwide outage sparked by its actions was unintentional.
Telecommunications officials told AFP that the popular website was up and running again in the conservative Muslim nation after YouTube removed “highly profane and sacrilegious footage” that was offensive to Islam.
“We have issued instructions to all Internet service providers that YouTube should be unblocked as the specific content has been removed by the website,” Pakistan Telecommunications Authority (PTA) spokesman Khurram Mehran told AFP.
YouTube was not immediately available to confirm whether it had removed the material, which the PTA said was controversial cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed that were republished by Danish newspapers earlier this month.
So, why did Pakistan block YouTube and inadvertently bollock up a good deal of Asia’s internet traffic on Sunday? Some say it was Mohammed Cartoons like this:
Or was it because of a Geert Wilders Promo for his Islamic critical film Forbidden:[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5S3OA3nJRBQ[/youtube]
Some in Pakistan say it was the Musharraf government preventing local television coverage of voter fraud being broadcast around the world.
Some Pakistani users have expressed doubts over the official reason for Pakistan’s YouTube ban, saying that authorities wanted to block access to footage of alleged rigging in last week’s parliamentary elections.
President Pervez Musharraf’s allies lost heavily to opposition parties in the polls, which were preceded by allegations of massive vote fraud.
“Some Internet users are sceptical that the government banned YouTube because it contained clips from a private television station which showed election rigging,” said Wahaj us Siraj, chief of the Pakistan Internet Service Providers Association.
Internet user Sajid Ali said the ban was unnecessary because Muslims in Pakistan would not want to access blasphemous material anyway.
“No Muslim would want to view the blasphemous content on any website. The government is really disturbed over its defeat in elections and afraid of critical videos and remarks on YouTube,” Ali, a banker, told AFP.
In any case, the outage highlights governments ability to censure internet content. A warning for us all and certainly a wake-up for internet content providers.
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Pakistan Blocks You Tube Part Two
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Hillary Clinton Watch: Slip Sliding Away NOW in Ohio
Hillary Clinton has already lost Texas but NOW is fading in the polls in Ohio. Husband Bill has already said whoever wins Texas and Ohio WILL BE the Democrat nominee.
Hillary is a sinking ship.
What other Clinton rats will jump ship?
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Pakistan Blocks You Tube Part Two
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Geert Wilders Promo for film Forbidden
Yesterday evening Flap had the story about the government of Pakistan ordering the block of American media giant You Tube because of Islamic religious objections.
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.â€
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.
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An extended interview with popular Dutch Member of Parliament Geert Wilders on his upcoming anti-Koran film for Dutch television. Also discussed – Muslim immigration, tolerance and democracy.
But, apparently, Pakistan blocked more than just Pakistan’s access to You Tube.
Most of the world’s Internet users lost access to YouTube for several hours Sunday after an attempt by Pakistan’s government to block access domestically affected other countries.
The outage highlighted yet another of the Internet’s vulnerabilities, coming less than a month after broken fiber-optic cables in the Mediterranean took Egypt off line and caused communications problems from the Middle East to India.
An Internet expert explained that Sunday’s problems arose when a Pakistani telecommunications company accidentally identified itself to Internet computers as the world’s fastest route to YouTube. But instead of serving up videos of skateboarding dogs, it sent the traffic into oblivion.
On Friday, the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority ordered 70 Internet service providers to block access to YouTube.com, because of anti-Islamic movies on the video-sharing site, which is owned by Google.
The block was intended to cover only Pakistan, but extended to about two-thirds of the global Internet population, starting at 1:47 p.m. ET Sunday, according to Renesys Corp., a Manchester, N.H., firm that keeps track of the pathways of the Internet for telecommunications companies and other clients.
The greatest effect was in Asia, were the outage lasted for up to two hours, Renesys said.
And, why?
To silence Dutch member of Parliament Geert Wilders who just happens to have an anti-radical Islamic film about to debut on You Tube.
No freedom of speech in Pakistan. But, other countries had better work with Google to correct the ability of one country to limit internet access to the rest of the world.
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Hillary Clinton Watch: Smear Photo of Obama = Beginning of the End? Part Two
Photo Courtesy of Matt Drudge
The photo of Democrat Presidential candidate Barack Obama “DRESSED” in African native attire has created quite a stir since yesterday.
The Hillary Clinton campaign, sinking like a stone in the national polls, has denied ANY involvement.
“I just want to make it very clear that we were not aware of it, the campaign didn’t sanction it and don’t know anything about it,” Clinton spokesman Howard Wolfson said in a teleconference with reporters. “None of us have seen the e-mail in question. If anybody has independent reporting that they’ve done on it I would welcome it.”
Right and EVERYONE believes Hillary and the Clinton Cabal.
The Hillary campaign is a disaster and has overplayed its hand again. Looks like Matt Drudge will be losing his cash cow for the next 4-8 years.
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Day By Day by Chris Muir February 25, 2008
Captain Ed Morrisey is leaving his Captain Quarter’s Blog for Michelle Malkin’s Hot Air.
Flap is sad that Captain’s Quarters will be shuttered although he enjoys Hot Air albeit Allah and Michelle run a different type of show.
By the way, Day By Day will continue here as well as Chris Muir’s site.
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links for 2008-02-26
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Who WILL bell Hillary? Flap’s bet = Richardson and Gore.
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Pawlenty or Sanford = likely GOP VP nominees
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And the GOP attack is coming….
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IT is over for Hillary!
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First it was the Mohammed Cartoons that were blocked and there were riots. Now, You Tube?
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So, who leaked the photo? Obama? Hardly…..
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2,500 troops is not many. Canada can bring them home and start defending their own country – for once.