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John McCain on Energy Security and Our National Security VIDEO
2008-06-24 21:01:00 ARLINGTON, VA -- U.S. Senator John McCain delivered the following remarks as prepared for delivery at a town hall meeting in Fresno, CA, June 23 at 10:00 a.m. PDT (1:00 p.m. EDT):Thank you all very much. I appreciate the kind introduction from Jim Woolsey, and the warm welcome to Fresno State. I'm here to listen about energy issues as well as to talk. So let me just offer a few ideas before we begin our discussion. All across this state and nation, people are hurting because the price of gasoline is higher than it should be, and more than many folks can afford. Because of far-off events in the world oil market, a barrel of oil has more than doubled in a year. And the bad effects of that are spreading across our economy. The cost of business is rising, the cost of food and other essentials is rising, the whole cost of living is rising. What isn't rising is the value of your paychecks and the rate of America's economic growth. Back in the 1970's, they used to call this "stagflati...
National Security Legislative Wrap-up
2008-06-10 00:06:00 Congress completed work on the Fiscal Year 2009 Budget Resolution this past week, but postponed action on the Supplemental Appropriations Bill to pay for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The House is expected to act on the Supplemental this week, and perhaps the Senate too. The Senate is also expected to consider the Fiscal Year Defense Authorization bill, but not for another week or two. The House Appropriations Committee is moving close to writing the Fiscal Year 2009 appropriations bills. FISCAL YEAR 2008 SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATION BILL The Supplemental bill now moves back to the House... [This is a content summary only. Click on the above link for the full post.]
By: Nukes of Hazard
Americans Want To Talk, Even With Enemies
2008-06-03 03:01:00 I certainly would not use polls as evidence of the validity of a complex issue, but there was a certain satisfaction in reading this one. Over the weekend I wrote a post summarizing the many ways in which Obama won the nomination by outsmarting Clinton. One factor I mentioned, but only briefly so as to ...
By: Liberal Values
National Security Legislative Wrap-up
2008-06-02 19:53:00 Congress returns from recess this week from the Memorial Day recess. Pending action on national security issues is possible, including House consideration of the Senate-passed Supplemental Appropriations bill to pay for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. On May 22, the Senate approved funding for the war, rejected Iraq-related provisions, and added, with a veto-proof majority, the G.I. bill and a number of domestic funding provisions. Rather than a House-Senate conference to resolve differences between the House version of the bill and the Senate version, the House will either accept, reject,... [This is a content summary only. Click on the above link for the full post.]
By: Nukes of Hazard
McCain?s Foreign Policy Gaffes Continue
2008-06-01 05:33:00 While the main attention has been devoted to the meeting of the rules committee and the ramifications of what remains of the Democratic primary race, there has also been some action in the more meaningful campaign between the presumptive nominees of the two major parties. Barack Obama has taken major steps to counter the perceived, ...
By: Liberal Values
A drop of life you are wasting
2008-05-31 12:32:00 In our holy Quran "Allah" SWT says "We create from Water everything life."All the experts are saying that we are heading towards a Water Crisis in the future , all the experts are saying that all the wars in the future especially in our regions will be not for oil or land or even Peace but for Water. It is something you can understand easily , water is the most important thing in life ,it is the essence of life .But of course we do not listen to all these warnings , they are just newspapers talk . Here I am not talking about environmental issues but I am speaking about a national security issue in Egypt.Last summer most Egyptians were shocked to know that there are other Egyptians in the valley who do not have access to Clean water , despite all the years of repetitive "In the time of President "X" all Egyptians have access to clean water and electricity !!" Those Egyptians do not have access to clean water where as a minority of Egyptians in the north Coast use water for their swi...
President Carter and the Israeli Nukes
2008-05-28 17:38:00 President Carter is continuing on breaking all the taboos and is saying the truth about the Israel Nuke arsenal , of course many people do not like this , truth hurts sometimes but here is the former president of the United States is saying what we have been saying as Arabs for more 60 years ; watch out for the Israel Nuke arsenal people !! They have 150 nuclear assorted weapons from bombs to rockets to submarines ,you name it but no one care , the IAEA does not inspect nor demand an inspection nor the EU and American administration impose sanctions on Israel !! Thank you again President Carter for saying the truth , we do not need anything except the truth , we do not want you to condemn the inhuman siege of Gaza , but just say the truth. 150 Nuclear assorted weapons and what is hidden can be greater like the Arabic classic proverb !! With my all respect the IAEA should stalk Israel instead of Stalking Iran, Syria and all other Arab countries with Nuclear ambitions with Isr...
National Security Legislative Wrap-Up
2008-05-27 21:54:00 Congress took action on a number of national security bills before heading out for the Memorial Day recess. Last week, the Senate completed action on the Supplemental Appropriations Bill to pay for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. As in the House, the bill was divided into three parts. The Senate approved funding for the war, rejected Iraq-related provisions and added, with a veto-proof majority, the G.I. bill and a number of domestic funding provisions. The House of Representatives last week completed action on the Fiscal Year 2009 Defense Authorization Bill, rejecting funding for... [This is a content summary only. Click on the above link for the full post.]
By: Nukes of Hazard
Diet OKs bill allowing space programs for national security
2008-05-22 00:00:00 {mosgoogle right}TOKYO (AP) -- Japan's National Dier voted to allow the nation's space programs to be used for defense for the first time Wednesday as part of Tokyo's push to give its military a greater international role.The upper house of parliament approved the legislation with an overwhelming 221-14 vote. The vote followed earlier approval by the lower house, thereby lifting a 1969 ban on military use of outer space.The law, one of several moves in recent years by Ja ...
Mexican military takes over town?s police force
2008-05-21 18:38:00 CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (AP) - There are no police anymore in Villa Ahumada. Even the mayor has fled. Drug gangs have virtually seized this town of 1,500 not far from Texas, as Mexico’s cartels grow increasingly audacious. The Mexican military took over the police department this week because all 20 officers on the force have either been ...
By: TexasFred's
National Security Legislative Wrap-Up
2008-05-20 03:34:00 With Congress headed into a Memorial Day recess at the end of the week, the pace of action on national security legislation has picked up. There is nothing like a deadline to force decisions. Last week, the House of Representatives completed action on the Supplemental Appropriations bill to pay for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and unexpectedly rejected new war funding. The Senate Appropriations Committee approved a similar supplemental bill, and the full Senate is expected to take action on the bill this week. Last week, the House Armed Services Committee completed its mark-up of the... [This is a content summary only. Click on the above link for the full post.]
By: Nukes of Hazard
China upgrades nuclear enabled missiles, threat to India?
2008-05-17 19:53:00 China has completed the upgrade of its intermediate range CSS2 ballistic missiles in Tibet from liquid to solid fuel. Missile experts say the upgrade reduces the logistic train for these missiles and will enable shorter launch times, increasing India’s vulnerability to a pre-emptive strike. Read More… China’s Boomers [Ballistic missile submarines are called "boomers".] This summer’s public revelation that China ...
By: 1913 Intel
Not a secret anymore
2008-05-12 17:18:00 Some times I wonder Where is Egypt from what is going in Sudan ?? It is part from national security and since General Omar Soliman took the file of Sudan we do not know where or what our stand is from it !! To be honest I think the Sudanese issue is from the issues that we do not follow the United States administration in it , thank Goodness for that. I do not know if you know or not but there was an attack on the Sudanese capital Khartoum by the Darfur rebels , yes I know it is strange because this is the capital and should be a fortress to any attack , but what you know , it seems that the Sudanese army need an urgent help for Egypt that Mubarak ordered the EAF to send a couple of air fighters to the capital and an army cargo military plane to the Khartoum on Saturday according to the eye witnesses to Reuters . No body mentioned anything in the news about any aid from kind to Khartoum , all views now towards Lebanon. It is a little dirty secret that may be put the Egyptian reg...
National Security Legislative Wrap-up
2008-05-12 16:18:00 Postponement is the name of the game. The House had planned to consider the Supplemental Appropriations bill to pay for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, but postponed consideration until this week. The Senate Appropriations Committee was scheduled to consider the same bill last week, but delayed the mark-up to a new tentative date of May 15. The Senate had tentatively planned to consider the Fiscal Year Defense Authorization bill before the Memorial Day recess, but that consideration has apparently been put off until June. The House Armed Services Committee is scheduled to complete its... [This is a content summary only. Click on the above link for the full post.]
By: Nukes of Hazard
Coal is Critical to our National Security
2008-05-11 04:50:00 Barack Obama is trying to appeal to rural voters in Kentucky by running a coal ad that touts his accomplishment of helping secure funds for clean coal technology. (See Ad Here) He is also planning on campaigning a bit in the Bluegrass State. I am little surprised he is but glad to see it. But I am not sure just how coal friendly Barack Obama really is, I hate to say that but it is true. We look at Saudi Arabia as the king of good light crude oil. Venezuela's heavier crude is becoming more coveted and is making that small country very rich. The United States is the Saudi Arabia of coal and our very future depends on providing cheap energy to America and then the world. A study a few years ago weighed in on the possibility of the tap running dry in the Middle East and or soaring oil prices becoming a prelude to a bitter recession that could provide a death blow to part of our society as we know it. The impact on the economy would be devastating and then our national s...
Radical Muslim preacher Abu Qatada granted bail in Britain
2008-05-09 03:56:00 LONDON (AP) - A radical Muslim preacher accused of having close ties to al-Qaida was granted bail by a British immigration appeals commission Thursday. Abu Qatada, who was jailed in 2002 over accusations that he played a key role in raising money for extremist groups and provided spiritual advice to militants planning terror attacks, will ...
By: TexasFred's
Congressman Ron Paul Speaks Out on National Security
2008-05-08 08:14:00 Washington, DC - At a packed meeting of the American Conservative Defense Alliance on Wednesday, Congressman Ron Paul, MD (R-TX) addressed a wide range of national security issues. During the meeting he expressed serious concerns about what the Patriot Act has meant to the liberty of Americans stating, ?What?s left of the 4th Amendment? Not much ...
National Security Legislative Wrap-up
2008-05-05 22:56:00 Last week, the Senate Armed Services Committee completed its mark up of the Fiscal Year (FY) 2009 Defense Authorization bill. The marked up bill fully funds the administration?s $612.5 billion FY2009 national defense request, as did the FY2009 Budget Resolution passed by the Senate on March 13, by authorizing $542.5 billion in "base" budgetary authority and $70 billion in war funding. Bush sent to Congress last week specifics of the $70 billion "bridge" war funding request for Fiscal Year 2009. If Congress bundles residual FY2008 funding with this advance FY2009 funding, the resulting "super... [This is a content summary only. Click on the above link for the full post.]
By: Nukes of Hazard
Government Jobs: Technical School Graduates Targeted for National Security
2008-05-03 00:00:00 U.S. Customs and Border Protection sent letters to over 100 technical schools around the country, encouraging graduating students to consider pursuing a federal career in a host of available jobs. CBP?s rapid growth has brought thousands of entry-level opportunities in mission support and operational support positions.
Hillary Strangelove?Keep Her Away From That Red Phone
2008-04-29 00:31:00 Earlier in the race the Clinton campaign tried to portray Obama as being reckless on foreign policy, even when making proposals which were the same as Clinton has made or which, like pursuing known terrorists into Pakistan, are consistent with current U.S. policy. The Boston Globe discusses how Clinton is really the dangerous one: AMERICANS have ...
By: Liberal Values
National Security Legislative Wrap-Up
2008-04-28 20:31:00 Confusion continues to reign over the remainder of the Fiscal Year 2008 Supplemental Appropriations bill to fund the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Last year, Congress approved a first portion of funding at $86 billion. The timing, the composition and the procedures for the new bill are still up in the air. In the meantime, mark-up of the Fiscal Year 2009 Defense Authorization bill begins this week in the Senate Armed Services Committee and next week in the House Armed Services Committee. The House and Senate both hope to complete action on the bill before the Memorial Day recess. [This is a content summary only. Click on the above link for the full post.]
By: Nukes of Hazard
National Security Legislative Wrap-Up
2008-04-23 01:56:00 Confusion reigns over the remainder of the Fiscal Year 2008 Supplemental Appropriations Bill to fund the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Last year, Congress approved a first portion of funding: $86 billion. The timing, the composition and the procedures for the new bill are all up in the air. Some major questions about the bill: - While the new supplemental was supposed to be about $108 billion, will Congress add another $70 billion to fund the wars into Fiscal Year 2009 in order to avoid new votes on war funding in the fall just before the election and early next year while the... [This is a content summary only. Click on the above link for the full post.]
By: Nukes of Hazard
Haitian Cargo Ships Present Too Great A Risk To Bahamas National Security
2008-04-21 23:49:00 Ban on Haitian boat would double import costs: By INDERIA SAUNDERS, Guardian Business Desk - Nassau, Bahamas: A pending ban on Haitian sloops in our waters could take the wind out of the sails of a business that has only begun to develop – entirely legal trade between Haiti and The Bahamas. Last week, Director of Immigration Vernon Burrows confirmed the policy change, suggesting those cargo ships present too great a risk to national security. While the wooden-hulled vessels are suspected of playing a major role in the trafficking of drugs, guns and humans, they're also the only freighters that conduct regular and direct import runs from the impoverished nation. It is, of course, the homeland of an increasing number of Bahamians and a target for local businesses looking to trim supply costs. The government decision represents yet another hurdle in the latter's path and is most likely an answer to requests from American officials. Just last month, the new U.S. Internat...
Another stupid presidential decree
2008-04-21 22:21:00 President Mubarak issued another stupid presidential decree in the weekend . Mubarak decided to divide Egypt more and more municipally , he divided the Governates in to another new Governates , new Governates came to life like the 6 of October Governate and Helwan Governate !! Some areas were taken from their old Governates and included in other Governates. People are very angry especially the locals , you may have heard that the people at the Baharia Oasis were so angry and protested , about 5000 citizens in this very far away place because of the new arrangement that made them follow the Mania Governate instead of Giza , of course the interior ministry had to deal with the protests by its way , they sent their infamous anti-riots forces there , thank God the army was not involved. The Security forces went there to secure the iron mines , oh yes we got Iron mines and the security was afraid that they would be closed The people protested because according to the Pr...
Why we are fighting
2008-04-17 05:06:00 via email Cross posted at Grizzly Groundswell Why doesn't someone like this run for president? This is one of the most profound articles that I have ever read about this Presidency, this era, and this so-called war. No matter your...
By: Stix Blog
Countdown: Sen. Biden Interview 'Dems Stronger on National Security'
2008-04-16 18:13:00 The laughable bullshit starts at the 4:20 mark. Democrats have a LONG history of appeasement, back stabbing, and cowering towards direct threats to America. You only have to look at Jimmy Carters trip to meet with Hamas to see that. They've continually denounced everything about America, and blamed America and Americans for the world's ills, so you tell me, who's stronger on national security? The folks who went after threats to this country, or those who let attack after attack happen to Americans for almost a decade without doing anything about it until 1998? Let's not forget the 1993 bombing of the WTC, the US Embassy bombings, the USS Cole, and the list goes on and on. The response? A couple of missile strikes. Travis travis@rightwinglunatic.com
National Security Legislative Wrap-up
2008-04-15 08:37:00 The mark-up or writing of the second portion of the Fiscal Year 2008 Supplemental Appropriations bill, totaling about $108 billion, is still floating in the air. The House Appropriations Committee mark-up could be this week, next week or later. The Senate Appropriations Committee has set a tentative date for mark-up of the same bill on April 23. At this point, the bill could become a "Christmas tree" on which to hang many amendments: setting a deadline for bringing U.S. troops home from Iraq, mandates for training and equipping troops, longer rest time between deployments, blocking a... [This is a content summary only. Click on the above link for the full post.]
By: Nukes of Hazard
GOP Representative Apologizes for Calling Obama ?That Boy?
2008-04-15 03:57:00 Representative Geoff Davis (R-KY) has issued an apology after making the following statements about Obama while at a Northern Kentucky dinner on Saturday. Here’s an audio recording that I tried my best to transcribe: He began by talking about Obama and his message of change being like a “snake oil salesman.” He went on to say ...
Botnets Declared a National Security Threat
2008-04-11 13:26:00 OuterVillage.com | Technology News & Ideas – The federal government is starting to realize the real threats of botnets around the world. U.S. homeland security secretary Michael Chertoff speaking at the RSA conference said that the US government has launched a cyber security Manhattan Project. The US is realizing that online attacks can be a form of devastating warfare, and equivalent in damage to physical destruction of ... read more
What happened last week
2008-04-11 12:49:00 These things I forgot to cover in my blog last week thanks to the strike and Mahalla events, I did not imagine things would take this turn. A 19 years old Mohammed from Bahaira died from Bird Flu H5N1 to become the 21 victim I think who died from this virus, it is interesting that he is a young man not a child nor a woman, he was transferred to Alexandria to receive treatment, he was given Tamflu but it was either too late or the virus formed a resistance against it. The Very few newspapers talked about it first then forgot about it thanks to the events of the week and yesterday independent MP Gamal Zahran requested an inquiry about it : The visit of Gamal Mubarak to the Special Operation Forces Exhibition and Conference "SOFEX" in Jordan on the 1st of April 2008 The visit could have been a secret one; unfortunately the AFP took some shots for GM with Prince Faisal of Jordan "He changed so much, he used to be more handsome than this" May I ask...
Conservatives Equate Occupation of Iraq with American Military Presence In
2008-04-10 05:09:00 As I’ve noted before, Republicans are to some degree right in defending John McCain over the 100 years in Iraq line. On the one hand McCain was not talking about another one hundred years of war in its current form. On the other hand, McCain, and his defenders, are wrong in thinking that we can ...
By: Liberal Values
Hillary?s Keeps Losing Credibility on National Security
2008-04-09 21:55:00 While cooling down on the elliptical trainer after my workout today, I looked up to the television monitor to see clip of Ms. Hillary somewhere in Pennsylvania in front of a background with the logo “Strong Military.” But, after her bizarre “questioning” yesterday of General David Petraeus, a more accurate slogan for her campaign ...
By: GayPatriot
National Security Legislative Wrap-up
2008-04-07 19:04:00 Congress returns this week from recess. On April 8 and 9, Gen. David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker will testify before the Senate and House Armed Services Committees and the Senate Foreign Relations and House Foreign Affairs Committees. These hearings will provide the focus for questions about the U.S. occupation of Iraq. Click on The Iraq Insider early and often for live blogging during the hearings. The first mark-up or writing of the second portion of the Fiscal Year 2008 Supplemental Appropriations bill totaling more than $100 billion is likely to begin next week or the week... [This is a content summary only. Click on the above link for the full post.]
By: Nukes of Hazard
Links of the day
2008-04-07 11:21:00 It is all about the strike in Egypt yesterday From IHT ; Day of angry protests stuns Egypt From the New York Times; In Egypt, Technology Helps Spread Discontent of WorkersFrom Yahoo! News based on AFP reprot;Egypt strike plans fizzle out under security measures From Yahoo ! Canada News based on AP report; Egypt's workers battle police amid rising economic discontent
what brings the Egyptian army in the equation ??
2008-04-05 22:10:00 Ayman El-Zowahary , the second man in Al-Qaida released another single , another audio speech in some so-called Islamist website and of course the media all over the world rushed to speak about the new release of the second wanted man in the world "as if it were real" The same old words are repeated , the new thing is that Ayman said that all those civilians were killed in their attacks were unintended targets and they were killed because their governments used them as shields !!?? " I would not even waste my time or yours about this" The only thing that made me stop is that Islamic group veteran mentioned the Egyptian army in his talk ;oh yes the Egyptian army was mentioned in specific in his silly talk , he claims that the Al-Qaida has fans in the Egyptian army !! Its popularity is growing in the biggest and most powerful and important army in the Arab world !! Some will say that the man is trying to repeat some ancient ,well not that ancient , some old hi...
South Texas leaders blast plan to speed up border fence
2008-04-03 01:12:00 Texas border land owners, mayors and wildlife groups blasted the Bush administration’s sweeping plan to waive nearly three dozen federal laws to speed construction of a border fence by year’s end. Using authority granted by Congress, the Department of Homeland Security announced Tuesday it plans to issue two waivers to complete 670 miles of fencing in ...
By: TexasFred's
Lee Hamilton Endorses Obama
2008-04-02 18:05:00 Barack Obama has picked up another major endorsement. Lee Hamilton has endorsed Obama, adding to his credentials on national security: Hamilton, a former U.S. House member who co-chaired the commission that investigated the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and headed the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, said he was impressed by Obama’s approach to national security and ...
By: Liberal Values
National Security Legislative Wrap-up
2008-03-31 19:30:00 Congress returns this week from recess. A House-Senate conference to resolve differences between the two versions of the Fiscal Year 2009 Budget Resolution may begin this week. The President will attend a NATO summit this week in Bucharest, Romania, and then hold a quickly scheduled summit meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. A major topic of conversation is the proposed missile defense site in Poland and the Czech Republic. Gen. David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker are slated to testify before Congress next week, tentatively April 8 and 9. The first mark-up or writing of... [This is a content summary only. Click on the above link for the full post.]
By: Nukes of Hazard
Zbigniew Brzezinski On Getting Out Of a Foolish War
2008-03-29 21:31:00 Zbigniew Brzezinski has an op-ed in The Washington Post which makes a number of excellent points, beginning with the characterization of the war as foolish in the title. Those who argue against leaving point out the risks of leaving but ignore the damage that is done by staying. I think many liberal bloggers have being playing ...
By: Liberal Values
And what will the sorry do ??
2008-03-28 10:10:00 President G.W Bush is regretting at last for the murder of an Egyptian citizen by the his troops in the Suez Canal , in an accident the Egyptian regime could not hide nor could it use its technique to divert the people's attention ,how can they do it ?? Believe it or not they tried to do ,but they failed it is not a martyr of bread queue but a man who was killed by foreigners in our Egyptian territorial waters , not any Foreigners but American navy members in the Suez Canal ,the Suez Canal that drunk a lot of Egyptian blood. The people of Suez are very angry ,really angry those people saw lots of wars , saw their children got killed by all the invaders who came in the modern time to get Egypt , this accident opened some wounds in the Egyptian memory , Yes the U.S is not officially an invader or an occupier but for many it is already invading us without armies , thought economy , through culture and most important through politics , through the puppets they gave their ...
Outsourced passports netting govt. profits, risking national security
2008-03-27 00:33:00 The United States has outsourced the manufacturing of its electronic passports to overseas companies ? including one in Thailand that was victimized by Chinese espionage ? raising concerns that cost savings are being put ahead of national security, an investigation by The Washington Times has found. The Government Printing Office's decision to export the work has proved lucrative, allowing the agency to book more than $100 million in recent profits by charging the State Department more money for blank passports than it actually costs to make them, according to interviews with federal officials and documents obtained by The Times. The profits have raised questions both inside the agency and in Congress because the law that created GPO as the federal government's official printer explicitly requires the agency to break even by charging only enough to recover its costs. Re-read that again. It's ok, I'll wait. Someone in the government thought it was a GREAT FUCKING IDEA...
Samantha Power, Tonya Harding, Monster-Gate, And Clinton?s ?Jewish Problem?
2008-03-26 20:55:00 Just this morning I was thinking that there was a growing consensus that Samanta Power was right, even if politically indiscrete, in calling Hillary Clinton a monster and therefore it may be time for her to return. As I mentioned yesterday,Clinton is now being compared to Tonya Harding. After alienating many black voters with the ...
By: Liberal Values
Death wish
2008-03-20 12:54:00 When I was growing up, the hostilities between Jews and Arabs living in America weren?t so strong, our Israeli-Arab friends regularly flew El Al to go back to Israel. They complained bitterly about the treatment meted out to them ? but they flew it anyway, because it was the only airline on which they felt ...
By: Webloggin
The Rise of the Machines
2008-03-20 06:02:00 Danger Will Robinson! The video above is of BigDog, a robot made by Boston Dynamics and funded by the Defense Advanced Research Products Agency. Haven’t these people ever watched any of the Terminator movies, The Sarah Connor Chronicles, or Battlestar Galactica? One day they are fighting for us, and the next day Skynet might ...
By: Liberal Values
Liberals Pushing Global Warming As Biggest ?Threat to National Security?
2008-03-19 14:23:00 The extreme left of the Democrat Party are at an annual gathering in Washington, D.C., dubbed the “Take Back America” conference, or as I refer to it, the “Take Blame, America” conference, have declared that Global Warming is one of the biggest threats facing America and the world as we know it!!: (CNSNews.com) - Global warming ...
UK government?s National Security Strategy
2008-03-19 13:00:00 On the back of criticisms by Demos last year, Gordon Brown will reveal details of UK’s first National Security Strategy at PM’s questions today. It’ll probably miss the point of various factors likely to impact on Britain’s security, but it should be an interesting statement anyway. For an apolitical treatment of the likely security risks ...
By: KuiperCliff
From Kenya to Kansas, Barack Obama Talks About Race
2008-03-18 18:23:00 This speech is just incredible. It actually made me weepy at the end. The whole experience question gets turned on its head when you listen to Barack Obama talk about his life experiences, and his awareness of the racism mixed with the love all around him as he grew up. Here is ...
By: Kmareka.com
National Security Legislative Wrap-up
2008-03-17 22:44:00 Both the Senate and the House are in recess for the next two weeks. Before they adjourned, both chambers approved the Fiscal Year 2009 Budget Resolution. There were no challenges in the Senate to the military budget requested by the Bush Administration: $542 billion for defense budget authority (function 050 in the budget) plus $70 billion as a down payment for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. In the House, Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA) offered a Progressive Caucus alternative budget that would have cut the defense budget authority to $468 billion, $69 billion less than requested. The amendment... [This is a content summary only. Click on the above link for the full post.]
By: Nukes of Hazard
Progressives lead on national security: a responsible plan to get us out of
2008-03-17 18:27:00 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_OchMcu4ON0 Goldy has the details at HorsesAss.
The Foreign Policy and National Security Implications of Global Climate Cha
2008-03-15 02:45:00 In August 2007, a Russian adventurer descended 4,300 meters under the thinning ice of the North Pole to plant a titanium flag, claiming some 1.2 million square kilometers of the Arctic for mother Russia. Not to be outdone, the Prime Minister of Canada stated his intention to boost his nation’s military presence in the Arctic, with the stakes raised by...
By: Asiaing.com
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