A non-profit group has launched a college scholarship for a demographic it claims are under-represented in society - white men.
The Former Majority Association for Equality will give grants of $500 to any man from Texas who is at least 25 per cent Caucasian, has good grades and can demonstrate they are in need.
Its founder Colby Bohannan claims whites feel excluded when they apply to college and that they are left out when it comes to funding.
The provocative move risks a backlash by anti-racism groups but college officials in Texas have said there is little they can do to prevent it.
Mr Bohannan, a former Texas State University student and Iraq veteran, said the group was named because of the idea that if you're not a male, and if you're not white, you're called a minority.
I'm not sure white males are the majority any more, he said. If everyone else can find scholarships, why are we left out?
He added that the group is not taking a stance on affirmative action and has denounced racism.
It's time in our society to look at the way our culture views race, he said. It's time to give everyone an equal shot.
FMAFE plans to offer four $500 scholarships to any college, inside Texas or outside the state, for the forthcoming academic year.
So far it has raised more than $1,600.
It is not clear how the percentage of whiteness will be evaluated but the groups officers say they will consider each applicant carefully.
On its website FMAFE claims its goal is: To financially assist young Americans seeking higher education who lack opportunities in similar organisations that are based upon race or gender.
In a country that proclaims equality for all, we provide monetary aid to those that have found the scholarship application process difficult because they do not fit into certain categories or any ethnic group, it says.
It adds that they do not want to appear racist or racially motivated and that they will not accept any donations from hate groups.
Mr Bohannan said: 'The toughest obstacles to getting this organisation off the ground seem to be not appearing racially motivated, and getting taken seriously.
'The board members of FMAFE are not trying to put anyone down or make any race or cultures seem inferior.'
Despite the apparently wild claims Bohannan may actually be correct - Hispanics accounted for two-thirds of the population growth over the past decade in Texas.
Non-Hispanic whites now make up about 45 per cent of residents.
The scholarship has already touched off a heated debate in Texas and on the Texas State University student newspaper opinion was divided.
About-time wrote: This is awesome! Its about time people realize that white people deserve help too. Its not just minorities who struggle. They can't be struggling. They're white!
Armset11 however said: Great..yet another scholarship fund that discriminates based on race.
William Lake, FMAFEs treasurer, said: There's a scholarship out there for just about any demographic, except this one.
We realise it's for good reason - this is a touchy subject.
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I'm all for it. If they can legally give funds to only Blacks, or only Latinos, or only to Women, then they can legally give funds to only White Males too.
I've been for just making it need and grade related scholarships only for a long while and hopefully this shows just how stupid the current system is and does little to promote "diversity". It only promotes "divisional" since everyone identifies with only their "group" and then the other "groups" get resentful at being left out/not getting as bit a cut.
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The Former Majority Association for Equality will give grants of $500 to any man from Texas who is at least 25 per cent Caucasian, has good grades and can demonstrate they are in need.
The math on at least 25 percent Caucasian is interesting -- esp. here in CA. That would be most of the young folks I know (we're sorta integrated here).
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That 25% would seem to be difficult to prove. On the surface it would mean one 100% caucasian grandparent, however, what if that grandparent is only 75% caucasian, would this dillute the percentage more. Also, i seem to recall that hispanics are caucasian as well and are not considered to be of a race of their own. How does this all work out.
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Go with White with green or blue-green eyes. Up. Someone's offended. Well proof is in the pudding. Many people ask 'is green a rare eye color'? Well, it is. Straight forward yes. There are only 1 to 2% people in the world who have green eyes. People of Northern Europe, Iceland, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Germany and Netherlands have green eyes and probably are 25% caucasian, at the very least.
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I was getting ready to get pissed off, until I read that business about the 25 per cent Caucasian rule. That takes it from the realm of potentially crypto-racist 'reverse discrimination" cant to a clever and novel satire of racial bean-counting.
I have to wonder what's their definition of Caucasian, though. Do Arabs, Jews, or Turks count? Would a Sicilian count for your grandparent?
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Cau·ca·sian
1. white-skinned: relating to people who are light-skinned or of European origin
2. of former ethnic group: belonging to the light-skinned peoples of Europe, northern Africa, and western and southern Asia, formerly considered a distinct ethnic group
3. of Caucasia: relating to Caucasia, or its peoples, languages, or cultures
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I'm waiting for the press release from the NAACP.
What we found was normal traffic in the streets, people walking, or at cafes and restaurants. At just about every bank we saw, there were long lines of men and women waiting for the cash handouts that Col. Moammar Gadhafi had just announced.
The leader was giving each family the equivalent of peanuts about $450. For most people here, that covers salary for a month or two.
As we walked up with our cameras to talk to them, many burst into pro-Gadhafi chants once they realized we were journalists. They were friendly, although some complained to the government minder with us that they had been waiting in line for hours and still had not received their handouts. There were also lines at local bakeries.
One woman we talked to at the Square today repeated the charge that anti-government protestors are taking hallucinogenic pills, and said she had been educated in America. She told us that Libyans are happy with Gadhafi as their leader, and that their country is a happy and peaceful one. She must be one of those taking the pills.
Another English-speaking man told us that while "the tension is still so thick you could cut it with a knife," things had died down since this time last week, when, he acknowledged, the sound of gunfire could be heard in Tripoli.
In his recent hour-long rant on a Tripoli balcony, Moammar Gadhafi vowed to hunt down his own rebellious people "inch by inch, house by house, room by room, alley by alley" and to wipe them out "to the last drop of blood." An Israeli musician and journalist named Noy Alooshe -- who is of Tunisian descent, by the way -- caught the speech. He noted the rhythmic repetitions, the zany clothes, and the trippy way Gadhafi kept pumping his fists, and said to himself: "Classic hit!"
Alooshe cranked up Auto-Tune and remixed Gadhafi's speech as a mash-up with "Hey Baby," a song by American rappers Pitbull and T-Pain. He overlaid the video with footage of a scantily-clad young woman apparently dancing to Gadhafi's words, tossed it up on YouTube, and put the word out about it on Facebook and Twitter.
Some Arab viewers were put off to discover the video's Israeli provenance, but the vast majority, it seems, think it's terrific. In Libya in particular, young revolutionaries are loving it. Many of them contacted Alooshe to request a version minus the dancing girl so they could show the video to their parents (he quickly obliged). The New York Times says the video has become a "popular token" of the Libyan uprising.
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Translation:
Inch, inch. house, house. home, home. zanga zanga
Forward, forward, Revolution, Revolution
(Repeat)
I got millions on my side not from the inside but from other countries. From here i send a call to all the millions of the desert.. from desert to desert the millions will march and no one will be able to stop them.
Fast, fast
(Repeat)
The bell of work has rang!, the bell to march has rang!, the bell of victory has rang!, no turning back!
[Al Jazeera] Cote d'Ivoire's state television broadcasts have been disrupted in the main city after a transmitter was damaged in fighting between forces loyal to Laurent Gbagbo, the incumbent leader, and rival groups.
RTI state television has backed Gbagbo in a three-month struggle for power with Alassane Ouattara after a November 28 presidential election which UN-certified results showed Ouattara won.
"The festivities took place around the transmitter ... this morning you can see smoke coming out of the transmitter centre," Doulaye Ouattara, a local resident said, adding that some youths had vandalised the premises. He is not related to Alassane Ouattara.
The overnight festivities were the latest in the pro-Ouattara neighbourhood of Abobo. Last week a series of kabooms and gunfire rocked Abidjan, the largest city, while an advance by rebel forces in the west of the country has prompted fears of a return to civil war in the once-prosperous African state.
The channel was not accessible by terrestrial aerials in a number of neighbourhoods in Abidjan, said residents contacted by the Rooters news agency.
An RTI journalist who did not want to be named said technicians were working to repair the transmitter.
Estimates for the size of Abidjan's population range from between three to five million out of a total population of 21 million. Some have access to RTI on satellite.
Mass exodus
Residents reported on Sunday a steady stream of families leaving Abobo, watched over by UN peacekeepers in armoured vehicles.
After the night's fighting, pro-Gbagbo forces also deployed a number of armoured vehicles to the neighbourhood.
The UN mission said in a statement three peacekeepers were maimed when they were shot at while patrolling Abobo, accusing supporters of Gbagbo of carrying out an ambush as part of acts of violence against peacekeepers on Friday and Saturday.
"UNOCI wishes to recall that under international conventions, any attack against UN peacekeepers constitutes a war crime," it said, noting its rules of engagement allowed use of force to defend UN staff or equipment.
Major powers and most African neighbours have recognised Ouattara as president but Gbagbo has refused to step down, citing a decision by the country's constitutional council to declare the vote rigged and hand him victory.
The crisis has pushed cocoa futures in Cote d'Ivoire, the world's largest cocoa grower, to 32-year highs over supply concerns.
The European Union has banned its ships from docking at Ivorian ports and exporters have largely followed a call by Ouattara for a temporary embargo on cocoa supplies.
Other sanctions have paralysed the country's banking sector, crippling the economy and prompting some analysts to forecast a fall in gross domestic product until the impasse is over.
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Ivorian state broadcaster disrupted
Sounds like the Romulans have arrived.
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[Emirates 24/7] Six people were killed in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Sunday in what authorities said was a failed coup attempt on a residence of President Joseph Kabila in the capital Kinshasa.
"We have witnessed a coup attempt. A group of heavily armed people attacked a residence of the president. They were stopped at the first roadblock," Information Minister Lambert Mende said by telephone, adding that the situation was now under control. No further details on the casualties were immediately available.
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[The Nation (Nairobi)] Zimbabwean President Bob Muggsy Mugabe ... who turned the former Breadbasket of Africa into the African Basket Case... on Sunday celebrated his 87th birthday, saying he still has the political ideas of a young man.
*choke* Oh dear.
Mr Mugabe who returned home a week ago from a medical review in Singapore turned 87 on Monday but usually celebrates his birthday with a lavish party hosted by the Soviet style 21st February Movement.
"87 is only 8 plus 7. I want to remain with you. My body may get spent but I wish my mind will always be with you," he told 6 000 supporters gathered at one of Harare's top hotels.
How nice that he can still do simple arithmetic. It is what young boys do.
Wearing a red neck scarf of the 21st Movement,
Just like a boy.
Mugabe who has ruled Zimbabwe since independence from Britain in 1980 cut two cakes. One cake resembled a giant Zimbabwean flag and another depicted the Great Zimbabwe monument.
Calling United States President Barack B.O. Obama "a just nobody in America," Mr Mugabe vowed to continue fighting Western sanctions imposed on his ruling elite.
He said his government was preparing to take over the Swiss owned Nestle Zimbabwe because it refused to buy milk from a dairy farm he grabbed from a white commercial farmer. In 2009, Nestle bowed to international pressure and stopped buying milk from Gushungo Holdings, a company owned by the First Family. He said his Zanu PF party was also pushing ahead with plans to seize all companies whose owners were from the European Union and the United States.
Mugabe also accused his partners in the unity government of delaying preparations for fresh elections. He threatened to end the lifespan of the inclusive government even before the country completes the drafting of a new constitution. Mugabe is pushing for early elections despite protests from opponents who say the environment is not yet conducive.
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saying he still has the political ideas of a young man
You obviously never had any ideas that an older man might have.
In mid-February, as the anti-authoritarian wave sweeping the Middle East continued to gather momentum, a Twitter user using the account name of Shudong posted a tweet announcing that "Jasmine Revolution" rallies would be held on February 20th in every large city in China, and announced that the details would be posted later elsewhere. This information was indeed posted as promised, apparently on the U.S.-based website Boxun.com; it called for rallies to be held on the 20th in Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjin, Nanjing, and other major cities around the country, and repeated every seven days thereafter, until such time as the organizers' concerns were met.
According to a translation posted on the China Digital Times website, which often reports on dissident and other pro-democracy activities, the Jasmine organizers cited a number of grievances as the reason for their action, including:
* corruption ("a government that grows more corrupt by the day...")
* high inequality ("Why is it that in just the last few decades China has gone from being a country with the smallest gap between the rich and the poor to one with the largest?")
* high inflation ("The excessive printing of currency is recklessly diluting the value of the people's wealth.")
* lack of judicial independence ("we are resolute in asking the government and the officials to accept the supervision of ordinary Chinese people, and we must have an independent judiciary.")
* the one-party system itself ("China belongs to every Chinese person, not to any political party.... The Chinese people's thirst for freedom and democracy is unstoppable".)
Interestingly, the "freedom and democracy" language was a direct quote from China's current premier, Wen Jiabao, and acknowledged as such. Premier Wen spoke those words during a remarkable CNN interview last year, where he appeared to support the idea of political reform, triggering speculation of a rift within China's top leadership over fundamental political issues. On the morning of February 26th, in an action that seemed clearly timed to pre-empt the second weekly Jasmine Rally (scheduled for the afternoon of the 27th), Wen conducted a highly unusual web chat with Chinese citizens, in which he promised to address a number of the grievances raised by the Jasmine Rally organizers, including taming inflation, runaway property prices, and environmental damage. This chat was heavily covered by Xinhua, the Chinese Communist Party-controlled news service, but tellingly, no mention was made of political reform.
It was unclear whether this extraordinary chat was instigated by Wen himself, or by China's top leaders as a whole. Regardless of which is the case, the lack of any similar action by President Hu Jintao was very conspicuous. This was consistent with Hu's reputation: his unwillingness to consider even the most timid political reforms has been duly noted by China's people, who have begun referring to him in sardonic Internet postings as "Hu-barak" or (more recently) "Hu-ammar Qaddafi." These appellations are partly a response to the Chinese regime's pervasive Internet censorship, which has cracked down heavily on postings that mention the fallen Arab dictators by name.
Unfortunately, the Wen chat was only the nice-guy public face of Beijing's response to the Jasmine Rallies -- the mere suggestion that its top leaders could end up like Hosni Mubarak appears to have given the CCP a serious case of the vapors, and its response was strikingly disproportionate to the actual act which triggered the rallies. Within hours of the first postings, according to Chinese sources cited by CDT, police were requesting server logs to hunt down "Shudong," who had posted anonymously. Detentions of several top dissidents soon followed, while others were put under house arrest. CCP goons even threatened to rape the wife of one dissident, according to technology blogger Jason Ng. Ng also cited claims on some websites that the army had been issued live ammunition to deal with the protests.
In addition, the regime directed a number of employees (the so called "fifty cent party," named for the amount of money they receive for each pro-regime Internet posting) to register with Twitter; these individuals immediately began cranking out posts denouncing the "Jasmine Revolution" as illegal and claiming it was a secret plot by the United States. Search terms related to the "Jasmine Rallies," including the word "Jasmine" itself, were rapidly banned from Chinese websites. Ironically, "Jasmine" is the name of a Chinese folk song that was a favorite of Jiang Zemin, and was publicly sung by Hu Jintao, meaning that censorship of the word also wiped out "patriotic" posts meant to praise CCP leaders.
All this, and many other repressive measures both in cyberspace and the real world, took place before the first actual rallies. When the initial Jasmine Rallies finally did occur on the 20th, most observers found them to be somewhat anticlimactic. In the capital, the appointed site was in front of a McDonald's in the Wangfujing neighborhood; hundreds of people appeared, but it was impossible to know how many were demonstrators and how many were accidental passersby or simply gawkers (according to Ng, some people thought that a Chinese movie star was in the area). However, there were at least three arrests, according to the Los Angeles Times, and one attendee was questioned after he attempted to photograph jasmine flowers with his mobile phone. Police presence in the area was heavy, with hundreds of officers guarding both ends of the streets and physically pushing away foreign journalists with cameras, according to an AFP report. In Shanghai, at least three people were detained, and staff at a popular Starbucks next to the appointed rally site were apparently directed to remove chairs and tables from the sidewalk outside the store. Interesting times.
I'll take good news this week wherever I find it. If TARP actually works to stabilize the financial system without costing us an arm and a leg, that's good news.
Washington Almost three years after a series of government bailouts began, what many feared would be a deep black hole for taxpayer money isn't looking nearly so dark. The brighter picture is highlighted by the outlook for the bailouts' centerpiece the $700-billion Troubled Asset Relief Program.
"It's turning out to cost one heck of a lot less than what we all thought at the beginning," said Ted Kaufman, a former U.S. senator from Delaware who heads the congressionally appointed panel overseeing TARP.
In mid-2009, the program was projected to lose as much as $341 billion. That's been reduced to $25 billion partly because of the controversial decision to pump much of the TARP money into banks instead of launching a large-scale purchase of securities backed by toxic subprime mortgages.
There is now broad agreement that the bailouts worked, stabilizing the financial system and preventing an even deeper crisis.
Still, many people are worried about the long-term effects of the government actions. They said that in demonstrating a belief that some companies were too big to fail, the government set a dangerous precedent, opening the door to future crises.
Those critics also said that hundreds of billions of dollars in bailout money from TARP, the Treasury and the Federal Reserve will not come back, mainly because of the rising tab for seized housing finance giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which combined have consumed $150 billion in taxpayer money so far.
That's the issue. We forced the banks, brokerages and insurance companies to clean up their balances sheets. But we haven't done the same to Fannie and Freddie, and as a result we're losing everything we put in. We need to put a stake into both of these without further killing the housing market.
"We're not going to recoup those losses," said Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-N.C.), chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform subcommittee monitoring the bailouts. "It's extraordinary, just absolutely extraordinary."
Fannie and Freddie, which the Obama administration recently proposed to shut down, are the main reason most recent estimates of losses for all the various bailout efforts range from $238 billion to $380 billion. But Treasury officials think those estimates might be too high. They said the total cost of all the financial interventions is likely to be less than $140 billion, or 1% of the United State's $14-trillion annual economic output.
That's less expensive than the federal losses from the savings and loan crisis in the late 1980s and early 1990s, which cost an estimated 2.4% of the nation's annual economic output at the time, according to a study by the International Monetary Fund.
In the recent recession, the federal government intervened with "overwhelming force and speed," said Timothy Massad, TARP's acting manager.
"We stopped the panic," he said. "We were then able to recapitalize the system very quickly with private capital get the credit markets working again, and that laid the foundation for an economic recovery."
Which we haven't seen yet thanks to Obama's failed fiscal policies. Imagine if we had W for a third term -- whatever else one might want to say, the economy would indeed be going forward.
The bleak prospects for recouping taxpayer funds began to improve even though jobs evaporated and unemployment rates soared.
Banks have paid back close to all of the $245 billion they received, and the Treasury Department estimates that interest and dividends on those cash infusions ultimately will give taxpayers a $20-billion profit.
Last year's highly successful stock offering by General Motors Co. means losses from its rescue, along with losses from rescuing fellow automaker Chrysler and the two companies' financing arms, are projected to be $19 billion much less than what was anticipated when the government pumped about $80 billion into the auto industry.
That's a big if, since the stock price has to rise considerably for us to recoup the loss in GM, and Chrysler has yet to pay back anything.
And a rise in the stock price of worldwide insurer American International Group Inc. as it sells many of its assets has reduced the estimated taxpayer cost to $14 billion on financial aid totaling about $125 billion. The New York company has vowed to pay it all back.
Much more accounting and specifics at the link. Bottom line: TARP isn't killing us, Obama is.
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I'll take good news this week wherever I find it. If TARP actually works to stabilize the financial system without costing us an arm and a leg, that's good news.
Well, it's not costing us $700B+, anyway. In order to make it impossible to distinguish who should have died and who didn't, the government forced all big banks to take the money "offered". A lot of that was destined to come back from those that did not need it. In my opinion they knew darned well that this money would come back for sure. It's the shaky stuff that I wonder about. Hopefully they will stabilize and be able pay it back over time.
And after all that, Obean will be able to say "See, we only lost $200B" or whatever and claim victory.
Of course, now Obean and crew are treating it as a slush fund.
[Arab News] Croatian police say 52 protesters remain in jug after they were jugged during a weekend clash at an anti-government rally.
Police say 36 of the jugged face criminal charges for attacking the police, while others are suspected of violating public order. They said Sunday young soccer fans are among those jugged.
Clashes erupted Saturday when some of 15,000 protesters tried to break through a police cordon near the government headquarters in capital Zagreb. Some 50 people were maimed during the clash.
The violence marked the second time past week that demonstrators clashed with the police in Zagreb. Protesters are demanding the government ouster over economic crisis and alleged corruption.
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House Speaker John A. Boehner lashed out against efforts to regulate Internet traffic before an audience of evangelical Christian media leaders and pointedly responded to President Obama by comparing the challenge of the burgeoning national debt to the Sputnik-era space race.
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How about defunding the FCC since the Obama cronies seem intent on destroying the free flow of information. Consider saving a few billion as icing on the cake.
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[Iran Press TV] The American middle class is being attacked by an oligarchy, who wants to control economy, as Wisconsin protests the plan to constrain public sector unions, a US expert says.
I believe Freud called that sort of assertion 'projection'.
The demonstration against the controversial move to curb power of labor unions and lay off thousands of public servants in the US state of Wisconsin has been driven by the middle classes who say they are witnessing a dramatic decline in unions and are outraged by an attack on public sectors, Jennifer Loewenstein, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, told Press TV on Sunday.
On Saturday, about 100,000 people converged in the Wisconsin State Capitol to show their anger at the Republican governors' decision to strip public sector unions of most collective bargaining rights in areas of healthcare coverage, pensions and other benefits.
The demonstration, which was one of the biggest rallies since the Vietnam War, has taken place on the character of revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt whose autocratic leaders had control of vast areas of the economy in their countries.
When asked about the fact that five percent of the US population control 85 percent of the productive wealth, Loewenstein stated that "It's unbelievable, in fact, how much the middle class... is being attacked by an oligarchy, basically, of people who want to control the nations' economy."
"In Madison, this [problem] came out in the form of a so-called reform bill by our state governor... and this is now the last straw. This is an attack on public sector workers and public labor unions...this is time for a democratic revival in the United States," said Loewenstein, who is also the Associate Director of the Middle East Studies Program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Perhaps it's because she specialized in the Middle East that Associate Director Loewenstein does not realize the U.S. is a republic, not a democracy.
Elsewhere in her remarks, she turned the spotlight on the overhanging issue of the budget deficit of $137 million and a projected $3.6 billion gap over the next two years in Wisconsin, which have often times been referred to as the primary cause of the curb in power of public sector unions.
"The state does not have to cut the collective bargaining rights of the middle class or the lower class in order to repair its budget, what it needs to do is to start taxing corporations, taxing the rich, raising taxes on people who have billions of dollars,
Are there many billionaires in Wisconsin?
and, in addition, we should have long ago realized that the trillions of dollars going towards our overseas military adventures are going to have a profound effect on the US economy," she noted.
Sound the alarm! The Cheesehead Army is sailing toward Michigan -- it looks like they have designs on Grand Rapids!! What is it with those people?
"Why don't we cut our defense spending, which is not defensive spending in any case, because we are not fighting defensive wars, we are fighting offensive wars, and ruing, destroying countries overseas with state of the art weaponry, which also has an economic base in the United States," the American expert emphasized.
I hope her course lectures are more coherent...
She went on to say that "the budget crisis and the attempt by the governor of Wisconsin to grab power in favor of big money, and powers that control our presidential elections are going to wake up our public sector workers and make them realize that we can afford to go off on these adventures overseas."
A lovely example of stringing hot-button terms together with only the slightest pretense of an actual meaning. Well done, Associate Director.
Nice to see our taxpayer GM bailout money being put to intelligent use. I believe the GM plant in Janesville has permanently closed. Are these Union thugs somehow hanging on?
*Views Israel as an illegitimate entity that has no moral or legal right to exist.
Board member of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions-USA.
*Portrayed Israelis as masters in the art of destruction who seek to devastate and decimate Palestinian society with record-breaking violations of international law and basic human morality.
*Says that Hamas suicide bombings are "not an outgrowth of displaced fanaticism" but rather a form of legitimate popular resistance.
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With a name like Loewenstein, I wonder how Jenny would do if she were to study the Middle East up close and personal? Maybe Lara Logan will call her and give her a few pointers.
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"US political elites and their purple shirts attack the middle class"
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Wow. The sheer lack of self-awareness of this flower of American oligarchy could power a mid-size aluminum mill. And I like the nickname "Purple Shirts" for the union gooncracy. It's got the same lame, fruity flare as the old Silver Shirts.
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[Geo News] Pakistain Mohammedan League-N Chief Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Müslim League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... has said that there was no place in PML-N for those who were trying to undermine the party after joining Pervez Perv Musharraf, ... former dictator of Pakistain, who was less dictatorial and corrupt than any Pak civilian government to date ... Geo News reported on Saturday. Then his lips fell off.
He said this while addressing his party workers belonging to Hazara and Bannu.
"The party's doors are wide open for those who remained loyal and caused no harm to it," Nawaz Sharif asserted.
The PML-N Chief said his party would have supported the government if the latter had resolved people's problems.
He said Mohammedan League has the capacity to salvage the country from the present crisis. The long march had proved that Pakistain nation is the flag barrier of the supremacy of the Constitution and justice, he added.
"We will rebuild the country through the revolutionary spirit of long march," Nawaz Sharif vowed.
He said it was the dictators who 'ruined' the country and plunged it into the quagmire of crisis. Today's independent judiciary is discharging the sacred responsibility of cleansing the society of corruption, he added.
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Did Nawaz just fire himself?
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Frank Buckles, the last living U.S. World War I veteran, has died, a spokesman for his family said Sunday. He was 110.
Buckles "died peacefully in his home of natural causes" early Sunday morning, the family said in a statement sent to CNN late Sunday by spokesman David DeJonge.
Buckles marked his 110th birthday on February 1, but his family had earlier told CNN he had slowed considerably since last fall, according his daughter Susannah Buckles Flanagan, who lives at the family home near Charles Town, West Virginia. RIP
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In Flanders Fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
-- In Flanders Fields, by LTC John McCrae, MD (1872-1918)
Canadian Army
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They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
A non-profit group has launched a college scholarship for a demographic it claims are under-represented in society - white men.
In his recent hour-long rant on a Tripoli balcony, Moammar Gadhafi vowed to hunt down his own rebellious people "inch by inch, house by house, room by room, alley by alley" and to wipe them out "to the last drop of blood." An Israeli musician and journalist named Noy Alooshe -- who is of Tunisian descent, by the way -- caught the speech. He noted the rhythmic repetitions, the zany clothes, and the trippy way Gadhafi kept pumping his fists, and said to himself: "Classic hit!"
In mid-February, as the anti-authoritarian wave sweeping the Middle East continued to gather momentum, a Twitter user using the account name of Shudong posted a tweet announcing that "Jasmine Revolution" rallies would be held on February 20th in every large city in China, and announced that the details would be posted later elsewhere. This information was indeed posted as promised, apparently on the U.S.-based website Boxun.com; it called for rallies to be held on the 20th in Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjin, Nanjing, and other major cities around the country, and repeated every seven days thereafter, until such time as the organizers' concerns were met.
The American middle class is being attacked by an oligarchy, who wants to control economy, as Wisconsin protests the plan to constrain public sector unions, a US expert says. 
Nawaz Sharif
