Sunday, February 27, 2011
AP sources: Gingrich closer to presidential run
WASHINGTON—Republican officials say former House Speaker Newt Gingrich intends to take a formal step in the next two weeks toward a run for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination. He would be the first of many potential contenders to make the move to challenge President Barack Obama. The former Georgia congressman has been travelling to key primary and caucus states in recent months in the run-up to a campaign for the White House. The officials say an announcement is likely in the first half of March. It is not clear what type of declaration he intends to make. Some White House...
Mujahideen in Libya Possess Gaddafi's Chemical and Biological Weapons
Chemical and biological weapons and bombs seized yeaterday afternoon
First Peaceful European Revolt, As Irish Tsunami Ends 60 Years Of Fianna Fail Rule
Following Banker Bailout Fury Angela Merkel is carefully observing what can only be classified as a peaceful revolution in Ireland, where a stunning amount, over 70% by some estimates, of voters turned out to punish the ruling Fianna Fail party for its betrayal of the Irish people and for the latest (and what some say last) broad banker bailout.
Fraud Scandal Rocks Seattle’s School District
It’s hard to keep up with all the headlines that are flying fast and furious in the wake of the revelation earlier this week of a $1.8 million fraud scandal that has rocked the Seattle Public School District. But the latest news is that the Seattle Times and School Board President Steve Sundquist, historically two of the biggest apologists and fans of controversial School Superintendent Maria Goodloe-Johnson, are both saying the superintendent needs to go — either fired by the school board, or should resign. (Sundquist also mentions the option of buying out the remainder of Goodloe-Johnson’s roughly $300,000/year contract....
French foreign minister quits over Mideast gaffes
France’s foreign minister resigned on Sunday after a series of gaffes during the Middle East revolutions which president Nicolas Sarkozy has decided made her a political liability. The president will make his second cabinet reshuffle in 100 days as he seeks to reassert his country’s standing on the international stage following its tarnished image over close links between ministers and fallen north African dictators. Michèle Alliot-Marie had come under fire over a series of blunders linked to the discredited regime of Zein al-Abidine Ben Ali, the former Tunisian president, with which opposition groups and the media have made hay. Her...
The Manchurian President
Events in the world are spinning Barack Obama around like a top. Barack Obama is ill-suited to be the President of the United States. His worldly sense is really only that of a Chicago mayor, but what Obama really should have been was the Secretary General of the UN. There he could pontificate, bluster, moralize and agonize all without meaning or intent. He could carry on the UN legacy of uselessness and failure and likely scoop up another Nobel Peace Prize for achieving nothing, to bookend his first Nobel Peace Prize for achieving nothing. I have been to Israel...
rincipal, supervisor clashed from start (Atlanta Schools Scandal)
Jimmye Hawkins probably couldn’t have taken charge of Atlanta’s Scott Elementary School under more awkward circumstances. Her predecessor was among the 12 principals suddenly reassigned amid a cheating investigation that cast a shadow across the city’s school system. Her new boss was friends with the old principal, and hardly welcomed Hawkins’ arrival. On top of everything else, Hawkins is a middle-aged white woman, brought in from a mostly white Northside school. Scott Elementary sits across town on Hollywood Road. All but 10 or so of the more than 400 students are black. A week after Hawkins moved to Scott, administrators...
10 Facts to Win Every Argument on … the Evils of Public Sector Unions
One might make a case that this article is unnecessary. After all, who could possibly be supporting public sector unions after the shenanigans we’ve seen in Wisconsin and elsewhere this past few weeks? Legislators fleeing across state lines to avoid doing the job taxpayers elected them – and are paying them – to do (and they’re not exactly sleeping in their cars during their illicit vacations). Public schoolteachers calling in sick and encouraging their students to picket on their behalf (instead of going to class). Taxpayer-funded doctors unethically and fraudulently writing notes to excuse public workers from their jobs. Union...
Obama’s Socialism
President Obama’s cult of personality and feel-good message of “change” allowed him to sail through the 2008 campaign without being thoroughly vetted by the press. No one took the time to delve into his past and look at his influences, his actions, or his political theory. And when something did come up, the press allowed him to skate on by rather than press him for real information (Jeremiah Wright, anyone?). Recent guest Stanley Kurtz decided to do what the press failed to do – take an honest look at Obama’s politics. His investigation resulted in Radical-in-Chief: Barack Obama and the...
New Rules Will Cause Panic For Shorts (Metals)
Between now and Monday, February 28th be prepared for panicked short sellers who cannot make delivery to try every trick in the book to buy back their short positions.
Dems seek EPA natural gas drilling controls on heels of exposé
A top House Democrat is urging EPA to quickly toughen regulation of natural gas drilling following a New York Times report on the discharge of dangerous pollutants into rivers that supply drinking water. The Times – citing internal documents from EPA and elsewhere – claims that chemicals and radioactive elements in wastewater from gas projects are creating “dangers to the environment and health [that] are greater than previously understood.” Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) sent EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson a detailed letter Saturday calling for “immediate action.” “I am outraged that state and federal regulators were evidently well aware of the...
Top 5 China Techs Sail Through Rough Week, Earnings Loom
Even after a tough week, some of China’s tech leaders continue to shine. Their U.S. ADRs are hanging tough, and in fact, the top 5 China techs rank among the top 26 in the latest IBD 50 ranking of best stocks. Baidu’s more or less a given, but portals Sina and Sohu are strong, and solar company Jinko Solar remains hot, as does software company Camelot Information Systems. The Mideast turmoil was tough on all stocks, of course, and U.S.-traded China techs were no exception.
President Defends Stimulus Cost
After the Congressional Budget Office issued estimates that the jobs “created” or “saved” by the federal stimulus program cost between $200,000 and $500,000 apiece, President Obama stoutly defended it. “Those figures are just averages,” Obama argued. “The implication that every job was this costly is an unfair inference. Many of the jobs created were in the low income range, but the average was ballooned upward by the necessity to save expensive jobs on Wall Street and in corporate management. Over all, we provided opportunities across a wide spectrum of social classes, not just for the ‘six-figure’ guys.” “And let’s not...
Ireland: Enda Kenny to call for bail-out to be renegotiated
Ireland's new prime minister will warn Angela Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy that a massive Irish backlash against the country's austerity programme means the £72 billion bail-out must be renegotiated. Enda Kenny, leader of Ireland's Fine Gael party Enda Kenny, leader of Ireland's Fine Gael party, hailed a "democratic revolution" after angry voters this weekend hammered an Irish government blamed for a catastrophic economic collapse and loss of sovereignty to the European Union. Mr Kenny is expected to form a coalition government later this week after Ireland's ruling Fianna Fail party was "wiped out" in early elections, losing over 50 seats...
Herman Cain wins Tea Party presidential live straw poll at Phoenix summit
Phoenix (CNN) – Which Republican should become the next president? Herman Cain, according to a number of Tea Party activists gathered at a weekend summit in Phoenix. Cain, a conservative talk show host and former Godfather's Pizza chief executive, won the American Policy Summit's presidential live straw poll on Sunday. Republican Rep. Ron Paul of Texas won the summit's online poll. The survey is a chance for conservative activists gathered on the last day of the Tea Party Patriots conference to name their favorite presidential picks. Cain won nearly 22 percent of the nearly 1,600 votes cast.
The Socialist Elite
The Elite, is almost a dubious term that few can define. Those who are Elites will never admit it, not even to themselves. In this article we will attempt to define the concept according to the writing of Orwell and the Socialist leaders of the mid-twentieth century and today. Orwell wrote, "There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them." At first glance the reader is incredulous; what a bizarre sentence, it doesn't make sense. However, like most deep thoughts, the sentence induces a secondary response that slowly sifts through the reader's...
Libya to Resume Oil Shipments From Rebel-Held Area
BENGHAZI, Libya—Officials of the Arabian Gulf Oil Company, Libya's largest oil producer and the only one based in the country's rebel-controlled eastern territory, said they expect to resume oil shipments later on Sunday...
Gov. Perry: $100 a barrel Oil? Think $200, $300
The uncertain situation in the Middle East could send world oil prices to $200 or $300 a barrel even as the Obama Administration fails to promote domestic energy development, Gov. Rick Perry (R-TX) warned today. Gov. Perry spoke to bloggers at a briefing in Washington, D.C., this morning. (Present were Rob Bluey of the Heritage Foundation, Jen Rubin of The Washington Post, and your Shopfloor.org correspondent.) The governor, who is chairman of the Republican Governors Association, is in town for the winter meeting of the National Governors Association. In light of oil crossing the $100 a barrel price this week,
UPMC confident about vaccine production approval (EVIL alert)
After seven years as chief legal counsel at health giant UPMC, former federal judge Robert J. Cindrich had one important piece of business to finish. One of his pet projects involved an ambitious proposal to create a one-of-a-kind vaccine factory in Western Pennsylvania that could create 1,000 jobs. Cindrich, who wanted to step down from his demanding job, felt an obligation to stay until he wrapped up the vaccine project. "I want to finish this," said Cindrich, 67, who served as a judge in the U.S. District Court in Pittsburgh for 10 years. "Just to hand it over without any...
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Ancient natural global warming ( Studies from the Artic )
Arctic environment during an ancient bout of natural global warmingScientists are unravelling the environmental changes that took place around the Arctic during an exceptional episode of ancient global warming. Newly published results from a high-resolution study of sediments collected on Spitsbergen represent a significant contribution to this endeavour. The study was led by Dr Ian Harding and Prof John Marshall of the University of Southampton’s School of Ocean and Earth Science (SOES), based at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton.Around 56 million years ago there was a period of global warming called the Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM), during which global sea...
Is Nintendo Sexualizing Our Children?
There is a new raunchy game for the Nintendo Wii that has parents up in arms, claiming it promotes orgies and lesbian sex to children as young as 12. The promotional video for the game, called We Dare, features two couples following on-screen instructions from the game console, engaging in such acts as stripping, lesbian foreplay and spanking. One version of the trailer ends with the couples swapping partners and going off to have sex. The game is intended to be marketed to adults, so a spokesperson for the French maker Ubisoft said, but it has received a rating of...
Report: Lockerbie bomber 'blackmailed' Gadhafi
LONDON (AP) -- The former Libyan justice minister has reportedly said that the man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing had blackmailed Libyan ruler Moammar Gadhafi into securing his release by threatening to expose his role in the attack. The Sunday Times newspaper quoted Mustafa Abdel-Jalil as saying that Abdel Baset al-Megrahi had warned Gadhafi that he would "reveal everything" about the 1988 bombing of an American flight over Lockerbie, Scotland, if he wasn't rescued from a Scottish prison.
Schooled in Wisconsin!
This video explains why public sector (government) workers are different from private sector (non-government) workers and private sector (non-government worker) unions. It also provides the shocking literacy rates in Wisconsin public schools despite the massive increase in education spending (that massive increase equates to increased wages and benefits for the government workers). And don’t miss the stats on how many children of government workers attend private school instead of the public government schools. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpCe79biR_8 In addition to the information in the above video, here are few more things to think about/to be clarified since most of the media outlets are...
Live Thread... Clearing of the Wisconsin Capitol
The Rotunda continues to fill up as the 4pm deadline approaches. The Ustream video showed an almost empty Rotunda 35 minutes ago. Now the Rotunda is packed.
Dem Campaign Committee Pays Senators’ Expenses (FleeBagger 14 illegal behavior)
Wisconsin Democrat tells the Associated Press his party’s campaign committee is funding the fleeing fourteen’s sojourn in Illinois: Four Democrats who were reached by The Associated Press said none of their daily expenses would be charged to taxpayers, and none will accept any per diem funds. [State Senator Chris] Larson did say his hotel room Monday was paid for by the State Senate Democratic Campaign. He said the group might pay for more nights depending on how long he stays. Others have donated food, he said, but he declined to name them. “Let’s just say the senators have friends over...
Editorial: GOP aims to keep taxes off ballot
Republican state legislators are mobilizing to thwart Gov. Jerry Brown's plan to put a tax increase on the June ballot. So far, two-thirds of Republican senators and Assembly members vow to oppose Brown's plan, but organizers say party members not yet formally aligned share the sentiment. Mr. Brown needs only two Republican votes in each house to put a tax increase before voters. . . .
So, What is the Going Price for a Soul Nowadays?
A quote from Jim Chmelki that will resonate in history for Idaho: “We stand on the threshold of history, when it’s time to stand up to the federal government,” said Jim Chmelik, a commissioner in north-central Idaho’s Idaho County. And in the words of T F Stern: The RINOs among us have sold their souls to the devil. These are men who really get it and comprehend what is at stake. Idaho Republican Senators stood on the precipice of greatness and jumped to their treacherous political deaths last week when they cast the deciding votes AGAINST nullification in the state...
Cogent: 80% Of US Pensions Underfunded
Just one in five U.S. pension plans has enough assets to meet obligations, a state of affairs caused largely by overly optimistic projections of investment returns that points to a range of possible scenarios, from changing benefits to pensions going broke, according to a study from Cogent Research. About 54 percent of public pensions say their current funding status is below 80 percent of what is necessary to meet their obligations, and 16 percent of the pensions are below 60 percent of what they’ll need, according to Cogent’s “Institutional Investor Brandscape” study. This shortfall is even more acute among the...
Global Payments: The Next Chapter in Health Care Reform?
Global Payments: The Next Chapter in Health Care Reform? March 10, 2011 Moderated by Charlie Baker, former President and CEO, Harvard Pilgrim and 2010 Gubernatorial candidate. Thursday, March 10, 2011 4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. Reception from 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Panelists: Ellen Zane, President and CEO, Tufts Medical Center; Secretary Judy Ann Bigby, Massachusetts Secretary of Health and Human Services; Andrew Dreyfus, President and CEO Blue Cross Blue Shield Massachusetts; Representative Ron Mariano, House Majority Leader Having led the nation on health care reform, Massachusetts continues to break policy ground with the imminent filing of legislation regarding global...
Mike Tobin assaulted by Union Thugs just now on Fox News
I believe the reporter's name is Mike Tobin. He was the reporter who said last night on Geraldo's show that the thugs had hatred in their eyes. He said the crowd was hateful again today. The thugs started chanting against Fox News, blocking the camera and then, just a couple of seconds after the on screen image of the thugs at work was replaced with one of the occupied cap. building rotunda, the reporter could clearly be heard saying one thug had just hit him!
New gay museum opens in S.F.'s Castro District
SAN FRANCISCO – Harvey Milk's kitchen table finally has found its way home to the center of the Castro District. The gold-painted table that belonged to the city's first openly gay supervisor is part of an inaugural exhibit at the GLBT History Museum, the first of its kind in the nation. A project of the GLBT (Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual Transgender) Historical Society, the recently opened museum is bringing attention to a neighborhood with a rich legacy but, until now, no tangible center. "This is a unique cultural resource," said museum executive director Paul Boneberg, head of the historical society. The...
British Doctors Told to Advise Women Abortion Safer Than Giving Birth
Doctors and nurses in Britain are being advised to tell their patients that having an abortion is safer than having the baby, The Telegraph reports. The draft guidance from the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists is for all doctors, nurses and counselors advising women who are thinking about terminating their pregnancy. Its first recommendation on "what women need to know" instructs health professionals: "Women should be advised that abortion is generally safer than continuing a pregnancy to term." The guidance also says that women who are deciding whether to have an abortion must be told that most do not...
The Battlefront on our border: 7 Reasons Mexico is the Biggest Threat to American Security
Conservatives and liberals alike look to far flung shores for the biggest threats to our national security with good reason. No enemy we face is more dedicated to our destruction than Islamic Expansionists and resurgent communism worldwide has again begun to wage war against American world dominance. But these threats, as real as they are, need to gain entrance to our country to truly achieve their ends and it is through the collapsing Mexican state that they will find purchase. As they do, other threats emanating from within the hollow state of Mexico are even now exacting a heavy toll...
Wisconsin Democrats: Union Yes!
For Wisconsin’s Democratic state senators, it’s simply bad business to offend labor unions. Thirteen of the fourteen have received generous contributions from unions over the years; their cumulative donations range from $5,750 to $113,603. And anything less than, well, fleeing the state in order to prevent Gov. Scott Walker’s public-union-busting bill from passing could threaten those vital cash flows. “Judging from the reaction, the emotion you see on the capitol square, [Walker’s legislation] is obviously something labor unions care deeply about,” says Brett Healy, president of the MacIver Institute, a Wisconsin-based free-market think tank. “I suspect when they’re communicating with...
Slimmer Spud: Mr. Potato Head Sheds Some Pounds (PC Food Police Alert)
The noticeably thinner tater is part of Hasbro's “Active Adventures” campaign – and he can even fit into a pair of pants now! (via Healthland) At the recent 2011 International Toy Fair the portly Potato Heads, both Mr. and Mrs., showed off their new, fit figures. No longer are their stomachs portly or their love handles flabby. Evidently the couple has cut down on the carbs and set out on a new fitness regimen. But what does the slim-down mean for society at-large? "Obviously there's a culture-approved idea of fitness that is now part of the bigger picture of what...
After Predicting Global Anti-Gov’t Protests: What’s Next?
But what was breaking news to them was yesterday’s news for Trends Journal readers. In the summer 2010 issue, we wrote: What’s happening in Greece will spread worldwide as economies decline. There are no organizations behind this response, it’s a public response. This is a 21st century rendition of ‘Workers of the World unite’ … Initially the strikes, riots and protests by unions, student groups, the unemployed, pensioners, and the outraged were sloughed off as predictable (but short-lived and ineffectual) responses that would either peter out on their own or be stomped down by the police … The unofficial reality...
Democrat Senator's absence to cost Wisconsin $165 Million
By choosing to pander to their public sector union supporters and financiers rather than serve the hard working taxpayers of Wisconsin, the 14 Democrat Senators who are cowering in the People’s Republic of Illinois will bear the responsibility for $165 million in additional debt service costs. Lost amid the well organized protests in Madison and dwarfed by rumors of crippling strikes in the wake of meaningful fiscal reform is today’s deadline for debt restructuring. The obstructionist Democrat Senators disgraceful action will now be paid for by the people of Wisconsin.
Libya & Kenya: Mama Sarah Obama visit to Gadhafi Palace in Tripoli has caused jittery in the family
The controversial trip recently made to Tripoli, Libya by Mama Sarah Obama, the step grand mother of US President Barack Obama Jnr has caused jittery and big split within the Obama family in Alego Kogelo Nyang’oma backyard in Kenya. Mama Sarah Obama, the 88 year old step grand mother who sprung into fame immediately soon after the election victory of her step grand son Barack Obama jnr as the President of the United States of America, the most powerful nation on earth has visited other countries including Saudi Arabia and Rwanda. The Obama family in Kenya is currently embroiled in...
Teen prostitutes get new status
County prosecutors from across the metro said Friday they are overhauling their policies to ensure that juvenile prostitutes are treated as crime victims instead of criminals, even as some regions of the state see an uptick in teen prostitution cases. "We need to do the right thing as it relates to children who are victims of prostitution," said Ramsey County Attorney John Choi, who was joined at a news conference by prosecutors, police chiefs and victim advocates from across the Twin Cities. "I believe we should be doing everything we can to get them out of the system, and never...
Stimulus-funded war on obesity spreads nationwide
Michelle Obama isn’t the only one waging a war on obesity. Unbeknownst to them, taxpayers are too. A stimulus-funded anti-obesity campaign has spread throughout the country. And the $650 million Recovery Act program called Communities Putting Prevention to Work (CPPW) is funding not just anti-obesity campaigns in New York City, but campaigns throughout the country. Thirty-one localities — from cities in Hawaii to Maine to South Carolina — have received grants to combat the effects of sugary drinks and trans fats on residents’ waistlines. The state of California was by far the biggest beneficiary, receiving $55.1 million to do things...
Barbie in a burkha:World-famous doll gets a makeover to go under the hammer for 50th anniversary
One of the world's most famous children's toys, Barbie, has been given a makeover - wearing a burkha. Wearing the traditional Islamic dress, the iconic doll is going undercover for a charity auction in connection with Sotheby's for Save The Children. More than 500 Barbies went on show yesterday at the Salone dei Cinquecento, in Florence, Italy
The Oil Crisis: How Bad Must It Get Before Obama Chooses to Act?
When it comes to rising oil costs, there are only three options available to us in regards to the president’s handling of the situation: (1) Perhaps President Obama is an absolute moron, with no concept of how to run a nation’s energy policy. (2) The president actually wants the country to suffer through another Carter-like gasoline crisis and become like the third-world economy of his beloved Indonesia. (3) Obama is too busy planning his next family vacation on the country’s credit card, and simply doesn’t care. America is waiting. Which one is it, Obama? Inquiring minds want to know.
BREAKING: Union Member Attacks, Injures Tea Party Activist at MoveOn.org-organized Rally
Sacramento’s ABC News 10 reported on the union rally and Tea Party counter rally in Sacramento today. ABC’s online report makes cursory mention of an incident of union violence directed at a Tea Party activist: “Police cited one man for battery after he allegedly shoved a tea party supporter.”
Vile Racist Fear-Mongers Convene in Phoenix to Revel in Hate
Such may be the headline those in the mainstream media would be inclined to concoct in reference to the Tea Party Patriots American Policy Summit which kicked-off Friday and continues throughout the weekend. As truly vile racist hate-mongers continue their tax-payer funded violent tantrum in Madison, demanding recognition as a protected class set apart and above their fellow man, those gathered in Phoenix under the banner of Tea Party Patriots struck a decisively different tone. Friday’s program began with focused breakout sessions. Themes in “How to Start a Tea Party” included such hateful points as “leaders must demonstrate a positive...
Oregon Dem Rep. Wu Claims Mental Condition Won't Affect Job
PORTLAND, Ore. -- An Oregon congressman facing calls for his resignation from some of the state's largest newspapers said the mental health condition from which he suffers doesn't prevent him from doing his job. U.S. Rep. David Wu told KGW-TV in an interview aired Saturday that he won't specify his mental health issue.
Singer Shakira: Latinos in US will have 'justice'
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) -- Colombian singer Shakira was honored Saturday by Harvard University for her artistic and humanitarian work. She later said some U.S. states' proposed anti-immigrant legislation goes against her foundation's efforts to provide education to poor people around the world.
Middle East oil war spreads. First demos in Saudi Arabia, Iraq refinery blasted
Iraq's biggest oil refinery at Baiji, 180 kilometers north of Baghdad, was blown up early Saturday, Feb. 26, by an Al Qaeda cell activated by the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Al Qods Brigades, debkafile's Middle East sources report. Tehran is using the Middle East turbulence to generate fuel shortages in Iraq and boost oil prices worldwide. Thursday night, Feb. 24, saw the first signs of unrest in Saudi Arabia with demonstrations by young people demanding reforms of the kingdom's system of government and by Shiites living and working in the kingdom's oil-rich eastern regions. They demonstrated at Awwamiya in Qatif in...
To Tea Party, Pawlenty on Obama: 'What planet is he from?'
To Tea Party, Pawlenty on Obama: 'What planet is he from?'By Sean J. Miller - 02/26/11 04:07 PM ET Former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty accused President Obama and Democrats of "coddling" unions and applauded the Tea Party movement as "modern-day Paul Reveres." Speaking to a convention of Tea Party activists in Phoenix on Saturday, the Republican White House hopeful sounded a populist tone while blasting unions and Democrats. "Thank you for standing up to the ruling class ... and big bailed-out businesses," he told attendees. Pawlenty has taken an increasingly tough tone in recent weeks when talking about Obama as...
NEA to Double Member Dues Contribution to Political War Chest
Amid substantial membership losses and a $14 million shortfall in its general operating budget, the National Education Association plans to double each active member’s annual contribution to the national union’s political and media funds. Currently, $10 of each active member’s NEA dues is allocated to these special accounts. The more than $20 million collected each year is then disbursed to state affiliates and political issue campaigns – such as last year’s SQ 744 in Oklahoma. A portion of the money also pays for state and national media buys to support the union’s agenda. But the most recent numbers show NEA.....
2010 Census Numbers Will Help GOP In Electoral Votes in 2012
Let's keep in mind that the Sates that Obama won in 2008, lost a total of 6 Electoral Votes (and Congressional Seats) while the States that McCain carried gained 6 Electoral Votes (and Congressional Seats). Texas picked up a net gain of 4 EVs, South Carolina 1 and Utah 1. So, the GOP candidate in 2012, starts off with 6 more Electoral Votes than McCain received in 2008. And, I do not expect Obama to carry some States, in 2012, that he carried in 2008. States like Florida and North Carolina come to mind. Check out the losses and gains...
Half of Britain 'would vote for far-Right parties if they gave up violence'
Almost half the country would back a far-Right party if they gave up violence, an astonishing new poll revealed today. A total of 48 per cent said that they would support a group that vowed to crack down on immigration and Islamic extremists. They would also restrict the building of mosques and order the flag of St George or the Union Jack be flown on all public buildings. --- The report identified a resurgence of English identity, with 39 per cent preferring to call themselves English rather than British. Just 5 per cent labelled themselves European. In one of the...
U.S., Kuwait celebrate 20th anniversary of victory in Iraq
Operation Desert Storm lasted just over six weeks from first strike to cease-fire. But 20 years later, the decision to send more than 600,000 American troops to free a small, oil-rich, Muslim country that few Americans knew about has had a lasting legacy. For Kuwait, it simply means liberation. On Saturday, tens of thousands of people, from children to heads of state, lined a stretch of highway outside of Kuwait City for a two-hour military parade of nations from the coalition forces that in 1991 repelled Saddam Hussein’s invading army. Tanks, troops, armored vehicles, helicopters and barrel-rolling fighters jets streaming...
'Heroes' Judged Harshly for Bad Behavior, Study Finds
SATURDAY, Feb. 26 (HealthDay News) -- Your past record of good deeds won't help you escape blame when you do something wrong, suggests a new study. But you may get off easier if you're perceived as a victim. Click here to find out more! U.S. researchers looked at study participants' reactions to a number of fictional scenarios representing real-life transgressions, ranging from stealing money to harming another person. The results showed that, no matter how many previous good deeds a person had done, they received just as much blame -- if not more -- than people with less heroic backgrounds....
Pressures Mount to Resume Drilling
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar plans to meet with oil industry executives in Houston Friday to assess the industry's readiness to handle a major offshore oil spill, amid growing pressure from congressional Republicans and a federal judge to resume deep-water drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. The Obama administration has said the oil industry must demonstrate it can quickly contain a large offshore spill before it will allow companies to resume drilling in waters deeper than 500 feet. The recent jump in world oil prices and U.S. gasoline prices following unrest in Libya has spurred renewed calls from many Republicans and...
The Public vs. Private Sector Civil War
The inevitable battle between the runaway public sector and the private sector that funds it has begun. What started recently in Wisconsin will continue to spread across the country as the unworkable fiscal mathematics that are so many state budgets finally degenerate into social unrest between the payers and the payees. More specifically, the instigators of this mess, the public sector union managements and their progressive political operatives, will struggle against their most existential threat to date. It will not be pretty. The true nature of the issue is revealed by AFL-CIO leader Richard Trumka’s bellowing about this being about...
Growing number of teens falling victim to cyberbullying
It is the kind of torment that no parent would want their child to endure. Cyberbullying can and does lead to suicide. Special laws have now been passed to try and deal with this relatively new phenomenon, which affects an estimated 50 percent of all teenagers at one time or another. That's because the Internet is now part of our daily routine. But increasingly, online communications cause severe trauma. Take the case of Jessi Slaughter, a young girl whose You Tube video that has gone viral. It shows her crying hysterically, telling her peers to "stop hating." Young people with...
Facebook page calls for Qatar emir's ouster
A Facebook page demanding the ouster of Qatar's moderate, pro-Western emir, accusing him of being an agent of Israel, had attracted 18,262 fans by Saturday in the latest web-driven push for change in the Arab world. In what is apparently the first call for change in the gas-rich state since popular revolts began sweeping the Arab world, the page has a profile picture with an image of Emir Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, crossed out in red. Against a backdrop of Qatar's flag is the tagline: "For Qatar: try the traitor, an agent of Israel." Entitled "Freedom Revolution, March 16, Qatar,"...
Obama Admin's Response to Crisis Puts American Lives, Interests in Danger (By Oliver North)
According to Hillary Rodham Clinton, "the safety and well-being of Americans has to be our highest priority." Oh, really? That comment, proffered by our secretary of state Tuesday, is overshadowed by the serious jeopardy U.S. citizens now encounter thanks to the ideological blindness and national security incompetence of the Obama administration. Since 2011 began, more than 20 Americans have been injured, killed or gone missing in the midst of violence in Lebanon, Tunisia, Iran, Egypt, Yemen, Bahrain, Libya, Mexico and the Indian Ocean. American citizens are being held by government authorities in Iran, Yemen and Pakistan and by pirates in...
Palin exposes the Elite Media: Can ride the public's disgust with Elites right into the WH
This article is for our Sarah Palin fans. We know they are legion because our logs show us repeatedly that such stories garner more readers than anything else we post. We think this story by Lloyd Marcus in the American Thinker illustrates two things that are, in our opinion, irrefutable in current American politics: Sarah Palin is the most phenomenal success in politics since….well, Barack Obama; and secondly, it is this success that so threatens the Elite Media that they are obsesses with trying to destroy Sarah Palin. This article is not about endorsing Sarah Palin for president. It is...
Iran aiming to exploit anarchy in post-Mubarak Sinai
Iran is working to bolster its weapons-smuggling infrastructure in the Sinai Peninsula as anarchy continues to prevail in Egypt following the toppling of the Mubarak regime earlier this month. According to information obtained by Israel, Iran has been working to build new infrastructure in the Sinai that can be used to smuggle advanced weaponry in large quantities into the Gaza Strip. Iran wants to take advantage of the current anarchy in Egypt and establish a stronger foothold in Gaza,� a senior defense official said. “They are building new capabilities, upgrading smuggling mechanisms and studying the new military presence there to...
Iranian opposition leaders moved to secret hideout
[VIDEO AT SOURCE] Unconfirmed reports from Iran say senior opposition figures Mehdi Karoubi and Mir Hossein Mousavi have been moved to a secret location near Tehran. Supporters of the two leaders say they were recently placed under house arrest following renewed anti-government protests in Iran. Tehran has neither confirmed or denied the accusations. Former reformist president Mohammad Khatami has urged authorities to release them. The opposition has called for fresh demonstrations every Tuesday until they are freed. Copyright © 2011 euronews
Newsmax Experts: Mideast Will Never Be the Same Again
On a day in which President Barack Obama insisted that Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi must step down “now” and pro-Gadhafi gangs patrolled their terrorized capital, the Middle East continued its march toward democracy Saturday, undeterred by violence and bloodshed. Analyzing the historic upheaval, Newsmax's foreign policy experts say that no matter how the multi-nation drama unfolds in the days and weeks to come, the region has been permanently transformed. Ronald Kessler, chief Washington correspondent of Newsmax.com, says Facebook, YouTube and cable TV have transformed the Mideast's landscape, informing people of what the rest of the world is like and enabling...
Former Montana sheriff Dick Britzman,believes Tea Party members are sex offenders
"Like I said- the only ones that thrive from this radical right extremist/gun law extremist/skinhead-neonazi extremist legislation is the criminals-- which in MT looks to be the sex offenders ( I always wondered about those skinheads that form the radical core of the new MT Teabagger movement-- AC/DC or multi pronged)" Notice this guy's www link http://lazy-bar-b.com/about.html "Dick has retired from being the Sheriff of Valley County and devotes his time to the ranch"
End Forced Unionism
Where would we be without labor unions? We would be much better off. Americans do not understand what "labor unions" mean. Nothing prevents a group of workers at a plant or office from getting together, signing an agreement which delegates power to negotiate contracts to certain representatives, and then proceeding with collective bargaining by those workers who chose to sign the agreement. That is not unionism; it is simply a business arrangement, much like when an athlete has an agent or a client has a lawyer. The problem with unionism is that those who do not feel such an agreement...
Possible pullback, high oil raise risks
On Wall Street they wonder: Was that it? Is the pullback over? Following the S&P 500's worst week in 15, investors are trying to determine whether the predictions of a correction have been fulfilled or if there's still downside ahead as oil prices remain at elevated levels. Along with the direction of oil, potential market movers for traders will be the February payrolls report, which will be released on Friday, and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke's speech on Tuesday. ...We were looking for a pullback of at least 5 percent and we didn't get it, ...since tensions remain high in...
North Korea Threatens US, South With 'All-Out War'
SEOUL (AFP) - North Korea threatened "all-out war" in response to exercises by South Korean and US troops due to start Monday and told Seoul to stop cross-border propaganda, upping the rhetoric against its arch rivals. Pyongyang would respond to the upcoming drill, with "unprecedented all-out counteraction" that would turn the South's capital Seoul into a "sea of flames", the Korean Central News Agency said Sunday. "The army and people of the DPRK will return bolstered nuclear deterrent of our own style for the continued nuclear threat... and our own missile striking action for their vicious attempt to eliminate our...
1,500 teachers paid to do union business and miss class
The Department of Education pays about 1,500 teachers for time they spend on union activities -- and pays other teachers to replace them in the classroom. It's a sweetheart deal that costs taxpayers an extra $9 million a year to pay fill-ins for instructors who are sprung -- at full pay -- to carry out responsibilities for the United Federation of Teachers.
Hacker Writes Easy-to-Use Mac Trojan
In a sign that hackers, like everyone else, are taking an interest in everything Apple, researchers at Sophos say they've spotted a new Trojan horse program written for the Mac.IDG News Service — In a sign that hackers, like everyone else, are taking an interest in everything Apple (AAPL), researchers at Sophos say they've spotted a new Trojan horse program written for the Mac. It's called the BlackHole RAT (the RAT part is for "remote access Trojan") and it's pretty easy to find online in hacking forums, according to Chet Wisniewski a researcher with antivirus vendor Sophos. There's even a...
Letter: Kalamazoo County Sheriff's deputies could use classes in understanding the Constitution
In the article, "Guns in Church" which in and of itself is inflammatory, Kalamazoo County Undersheriff Pali Matyas believes, "there's no reason to be going to a school and some of these places with a gun on your belt and then claim it's my constitutional freedom to do that." Well, Mr. Undersheriff, you've got that correct. It isn't my "constitutional freedom" to do so, it's my God-given, inalienable Second Amendment right to do so. The U.S. Supreme Court, in D.C. vs Heller, confirmed this right. Pali Matyas' assertion that he doesn't "think the Constitution was meant to be applied for...
Legislators seek wider protection for self-defense(NC)
RALEIGH — Ben Miles Jr. credits a bit of dumb luck for keeping him out of trouble three decades ago, and for making him a gun-rights advocate. Miles and a friend had been target shooting early in the day before he drove to Greensboro’s Central Library to do research for a term paper. Four young men followed Miles as he walked out of the library, giving the then-student a strong sense they were up to no good. Miles reached his car, and the .22 -caliber pistol on his passenger seat. “The group by which I was being accosted saw the...
WI union protesters hold up “O’Reilly is sex predator” sign, shout “Fox lies!"
Wisconsin union protesters hold up “O’Reilly is sex predator” sign, shout “Fox lies.” Another day of Democrat-voting union people protesting in Wisconsin, another day of hatred and slurs hurled against Fox News Channel. Yesterday was yet another day of union people acting like a bunch of rioters, all because they’re finally being asked to pay just a little bit of their fair share to help the state budget. Fox News reporter Mike Tobin was right among the crowd, trying to get the perspective of some who appeared to have legitimate reasons for protesting. However, every time Fox News broadcasts a...
The Wicked Witch Explains Her Motives (for manipulating and keeping gold&silver prices low)
VIDEO---- >>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FGVtJRWP6k Blythe Sally Jess Masters (born 22 March 1969) is an economist and current head of global commodities at J.P. Morgan Chase, and led the development of so-called Credit Default Swaps (CDSs) widely used by financial institutions.She is in this cartoon video explaining gold price suppression She is blamed for being a key figure in gold and silver price suppression schemes. This cartoon explains why she and other suppress the gold priceThis is gold bug mythology and may or may not be true. Either way JP Morgan and her are blamed
Saudi Arabia to use reserves for govt handouts
DUBAI, Feb 27 - Top OPEC oil exporter Saudi Arabia will draw on its reserves to help fund government handouts unveiled by King Abdullah last week to address social pressures, its finance minister said on Sunday.
Firing teachers, attacking unions
When the acclaimed and controversial U.S. public school documentary Waiting for Superman came out last fall, one of its most talked-about subjects was Washington D.C. schools chancellor Michelle Rhee. Waiting for Superman is director Davis Guggenheim’s (also of An Inconvenient Truth fame) dissection of what’s wrong with America’s public school system. Immobile bureaucracies and teacher unions take it on the chin. Certain charter schools geared towards poor, inner-city kids are heroes. At the time the movie was shot, Rhee was still chancellor. She had been brought in by D.C. Democrat mayor Adrian Fenty in 2007 to shake the system up...
Anger over 'luxury junket' for gay NHS managers (Preview of ObamaCare?)
The Department of Health (DoH) has been accused of “unbelievable waste” after paying £1,000 a head for bureaucrats to attend the programme, as hospitals announce swingeing job cuts. Managers enrolled on the first ever NHS leadership course for gay, lesbian and bisexual managers will spend two days at a Gothic manor in Hertfordshire, where facilities include a swimming pool, tennis courts and 190 acres of gardens. Paul Burstow, the health minister, said the programme, being run next month by gay campaign group Stonewall, would give “targeted leadership support” to lesbian, gay and bisexual staff, at a cost of £36,000. Stonewall..
FAIL… Dems Left Red-Faced; Protesters Fail to Materialize at National MoveOn Rallies
Despite the best efforts of the state-run media and the far left, protesters failed to materialize today at the dozens of rallies in support of government employee unions. Maybe it’s because government employees make twice as much as the private sector? In Jefferson City, Missouri about 200 and around 300 counter tea party protesters turned out at competing rallies. The tea party protesters, of course, showed more energy. In St. Louis only 40-50 protested. In Utah maybe a couple hundred turned out. Possibly 300 in Virginia. Around 500 in Washington DC where a bunch of loosely-connected leftist groups took turns...
Unions are the Bully
Enshrining work rules in public union contracts restricts managers from getting a full day's work from employees and prevents them from firing poor performers. If collective bargaining were confined to wages, contracts could be streamlined, and management control over disciplinary procedures could be restored. There wouldn't be hundreds of teachers earning their full salary while grievance processes drag on for years. Padded payrolls could be reduced significantly. Union dues form a vast pool for buying influence. In effect, dues let workers hire their bosses when used as campaign contributions—gifts that typically aren't subject to the limits imposed on individuals and...
The People Mover's Pricey Pensions
Barbara Hansen made $114,815 in 2010 as general manager of Detroit Transportation Corporation. DTC exists to operate the Detroit People Mover, the municipal rail system that serves downtown Detroit. Hansen also received a $14,696 pension contribution made by her employer last year. It is a benefit DTC employees get that far exceeds the private sector. The DTC contributes 12.8 percent of W-2 wages for employees’ pensions, more than double the payment made to a typical private sector employee with a retirement benefit. “That’s not where you want to be,” said Rick Dreyfuss, a pension expert and adjunct scholar at the...
Contract snafu Bumps Teacher Salaries Unexpectedly High, some by almost $30K
The Monroe County schools superintendent said he thought the biggest pay raise for teachers this year would be about $2,000, but many are getting five to 15 times that amount because of a misinterp" Two teachers received a $29,000 pay raise, three got $20,000 more, eight got $15,000-plus more, two got $10,000-plus more and about six dozen others received raises ranging from $450 to $10,000. The raises come at a time when most public agencies are cutting staff, freezing salaries and not giving raises until the economy recovers. In all, the teachers' raises will cost $550,000 more than district officials...
Somali Pirates? More Like Jihadists With Sea-Doos
How do you think the media would report a story if a radical Christian cult, such as Westboro Baptist Church, had a group of their idiots patrolling the Florida Keys with AK-47s in Go-Fast boats, ripping off yachts, taking seafarers hostage and giving their stolen loot and ransom cash to their Apocalyptic Dipstick Fund for Violent Global Domination? Do you think the Blame Stream Media would report that these sea urchins were Christians? Do you think they’d try to link these losers to George W. Bush, Sarah Palin, Mike Huckabee, the Tea Party and all evangelicals far and wide? Of...
Open Carry Supporters, Opponents Square Off In Pleasant Hill(CA)
PLEASANT HILL, Calif. -- The state legislature is expected to debate a bill that would make it a crime to openly carry a firearm in public. It’s been legal to openly carry a firearm in California since 1968. If the legislature votes to ban it, gun rights supporters said they expect a hefty legal challenge. Supporters of both sides of the issue squared off Saturday morning in front of a Starbucks in Pleasant Hill. Alany Helmantoler and other supporters of open carry said that not one person who has been an open carrier has committed a crime. On the other...
Labor Secretary Solis: "Elections do matter"
An impassioned Labor Secretary Hilda Solis rallied Democratic party members Saturday to tell voters "elections do matter" as she gave a detailed – and political – response to the Wisconsin union fight. Solis delivered her remarks before the Democratic National Committee winter meeting, in the same hotel where conservative activists held their annual convention two weeks ago. But the message was decidedly different, as Solis accused Republicans of turning back the clock on workers' rights. The Labor Secretary told the crowd cuts in benefits isn't the issue in the dispute playing out in Wisconsin and other states. "We know, we...
The Cheesehead Rubicon
In 2008, 56 percent of Wisconsin voters supported Barack Obama for president. In 2009, Wisconsin's Democratic governor and Democratic Legislature passed legislation that raised taxes and fees by about $1.2 billion over three years. State lawmakers approved the bill on the very day it was introduced, with no public hearing. Remember that. In 2011, the tables have turned. The Assembly has 60 Republicans to 38 Democrats, and the state Senate is weighted 19 Repubs to 14 Dems. GOP Gov. Scott Walker has inherited a budget shortfall that is expected to grow to $3.6 billion over the next two-year budget. He...
A first-hand look at Wisconsin lawmakers' life on the lam
WOODSTOCK, Ill. — Bob Jauch was here. The Democratic state senator from Poplar and the rest of the 14 senators who escaped from Wisconsin spent parts of several days last week in this charming northern Illinois town of 22,000 where the movie “Groundhog Day” was filmed. But why be so evasive? When asked what he’s afraid of, Jauch doesn’t flinch. “Those Tea Party folks are very harassing,” Jauch said, in an interview conducted under the agreement that the specific location wouldn’t be revealed. “They’re very intimidating. They’re in your face. They don’t care about anything that goes on in Wisconsin,...
Piracy is Funny: Hillary Laughs and Cackles While Explaining US "Strategy".
Old but worth watching to see who our leaders are at this time of crisis. Cackling Clinton Explains Piracy
The Top 6 Issues That Can Unite the Conservative Movement
I think the Right is at a crucial crossroads. If we have too many more moments like these, conservatives will be known for what we can’t agree on more than what we can. I believe it’s time for the Right to rally around certain issues and unite. There’s too much that true conservatives can unite around, and that’s what this list is about. I’d like to make one note here: in this post I’m avoiding certain social issues for one particular reason. While there are plenty of conservatives who are passionate about abortion, traditional marriage, and several other issues, we...
VIDEO: What We Saw at the MoveOn.org D.C. Union Protest
On Saturday Feb. 26, a protest rally was thrown together by MoveOn.org and the SEIU. It just so happened that Code Pink’s Medea Benjamin and Barack Obama’s former green jobs czar and self-admitted communist Van Jones stopped by to show their support for the 14 Wisconsin State Senators who fled as well as the unions and teachers taking fake sick notes from doctors to stay out and protest. At one point, Van Jones claims that the Tea Party turned off the television after the word ‘liberty’ and missed the ‘and justice for all’ part. These people can never get a...
Sen. Scott Brown: ‘Reagan Democrats’ helped me win seat.
U.S. Sen. Scott Brown is crediting so-called "Reagan Democrats" for helping him win the seat once held by Democratic stalwart Edward Kennedy The Republican made the comments Friday at the Reagan Presidential Library in California. Brown said Reagan Democrats, who crossed party lines twice to elect the former Republican president, also turned out to back his candidacy. He said Reagan Democrats are still a force in Massachusetts and without their support he would not have been elected senator.
Some protesters plan peaceful resistance when Capitol is closed today (Freeloaders just won't leave)
Some protesters plan peaceful resistance when Capitol is closed todayBy Ron Seely / Wisconsin State Journal Posted: Sunday, February 27, 2011 7:15 am MADISON - With police planning to clear the state Capitol of protesters Sunday, some demonstrators Saturday night were preparing to peacefully resist removal from the building. Capitol Police announced early Saturday that they intend to close down the Capitol at 4 p.m. Sunday. But little information was provided about exactly how the huge building will be cleared of thousands of protesters, some of whom have been sleeping on the marble floors since Feb. 15. And there were...
Lt. Col. Bill Cowan Warns of Growing Dangerous Influence of Iran – 2/25/11
Here is video of Lt. Col. Bill Cowan talking to Don Imus about the ominous signals that the United States is headed for even worse problems in the Middle East the years ahead. Cowan said that while the focus is on Libya right now, it is Iran that is exerting growing influence throughout the region. Cowan believes that as the United States moves toward Obama’s complete withdrawal from Iraq by the end of this year, Iran is succeeding in getting its fingers into the business of what Iraq’s future will be like. He believes that once our troops are gone,...
The Saucer is as Hot as the Tea
WASHINGTON – The only sound visitors hear on the Senate side of the U.S. Capitol on an early Sunday morning is the click of heels on the marble floor, echoing off the 20-foot ceiling. Hard to imagine that, less than 100 years ago, the men serving here weren’t elected by voters. “That is because the Framers did not want two chambers to be controlled by the frenzy of popular opinion,” said Senate historian Donald Ritchie. From 1789 to 1912, senators were elected by state legislatures. That changed in 1913 with ratification of the Constitution's 17th Amendment. The Senate joined the...
Libya: Zimbabwean Army Helping Gaddafi in Libya
Libya: Zimbabwean Army Helping Gaddafi in Libya Lance Guma 24 February 2011 Speculation that members of the Zimbabwe National Army are in Libya to help prop up cornered dictator Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, has gained momentum. This follows Zimbabwe's Defence Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa avoiding giving a straight answer to a question posed in Parliament. With the eastern part of Libya having fallen to anti-Gaddafi protesters, it's being reported that mercenaries from several African countries, including Zimbabwe, are putting up a stand in the west of the country, including the capital Tripoli, on behalf of Gaddafi. They are reportedly gunning down unarmed...
Wisconsin Budget Stalemate Threatens Up to 12,000 Public Jobs
The ongoing budget stalemate in Wisconsin threatened to jeopardize as many as 12,000 public-sector jobs beginning next week as Democrats in the state Senate continued to abandon their jobs. Gov. Scott Walker, a Republican whose plan to cut nearly all public employees' collective bargaining rights remains in limbo, said Friday that he didn't want to see layoffs, but insisted that if the bill is not passed by the end of next week, his administration would have to start preparing layoff notices for as many as 1,500 state employees. They would be laid off by July in order to achieve the...
Oregon Democrat David Wu and his troubled career in Congress
As a freshman congressman in 1999, Rep. David Wu openly hungered to serve on the powerful House Appropriations Committee that controls federal spending, even though new members rarely get on the panel. Wu's fellow Oregon Democrats thought any opening should go to Rep. Darlene Hooley. Wu dutifully joined his colleagues in signing a letter to House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt, D-Mo., urging her appointment to the committee. But Wu, still heady with his sudden ascent to Congress after winning a come-from-nowhere victory in his first campaign, wouldn't leave it at that -- and in the end, doomed himself and Hooley....
China's Wen says price rises threaten social stability
China's Wen says price rises threaten social stability Chris Buckley, 2:20, Sunday 27 February 2011 BEIJING (Reuters) - Rapid price rises in China have affected social stability, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said on Sunday, telling citizens that taming inflation is a government priority that he is sure can be met. Wen, speaking in an online forum ahead of China's annual parliament session from March 5, did not cite specific examples of how social stability had been affected, but his comments reflected the sensitivity among top Communist Party leaders to public grumbling about rising real estate and food prices. "Rapid price...
N. Korea: From rice to toothpaste, items floated to North
From rice to toothpaste, items floated to North February 26, 2011 In addition to fliers, the South Korean military has been sending up necessities like medicine and clothes in giant balloons across the demilitarized zone into North Korea. The military has been flying more than 10,000 material goods over the border since early this month, according to a Ministry of National Defense report given to National Assembly lawmaker Representative Song Young-sun on Thursday. The goods in the airborne packages include instant rice, radios, toothpaste, toothbrushes, pens and erasers. The total cost of the operation is estimated to be 620 million...
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