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WMF > US INDECISIVE ON CHOOSING BETWEEN NEW MILBASE(S) CONTRUX, VERSUS BILATERAL NATIONAL-MIL ASSISTANCE TO REGIONAL ALLIES, AS PER GEOPOL SECURITY IN ASIA-PACIFIC REGION.
* ION FREEREPUBLIC > WAR CLOUDS GATHER AS NATIONS DEMAND A PIECE OF THE NILE.
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* SAME WMF > PLAN EXPERT ZHAO YIN: DEPLOYMENT OF JAPANESE SDF WARSHIPS ["Miyako/Okinawa" PLAN Incident + after], + US-ROK NAVAL DRILL, DEPLOYMENT OF USS GEORGE WASHINGTON NIMTZ-CLASS CARRIER [post-CHEONAN] THREATENS CHINA'S NAVAL, TRADE ACCESS INTO NORTHEAST ASIA + WESTPAC.
* SAME > US AND RUSSIA FAIL TO STAND UP IN SUPPORT: MONGOLIA RECOGNIZES THAT ITS TRUE NATIONAL DEV + MODERNIZATION RESTS IN ITS COOPER OR ALLIANCE WID CHINA, NOT RUSSIA. RUSS WORRIES OER POTEN CHINESE CONTROL OF MONGOLIA'S ECONOMY, FUTURE POL DEVELOPMENT.
* SAME > "BLOOMBERG" MEDIA: CHINA'S POST-CHEONAN INTERESTS LIES IN PREVENTING NORTH KOREAN NATIONAL COLLAPSE + MASSIVE DPRK REFUGEE/ DIASPORAS INTO CHINA, AND US-DPRK RELATIONSHIP AGZ CHINA. RECOGNITION BY CHINA THAT A PRO-US, NUCLEAR-ARMED DPRK, OR A COLLAPSED DPRK STATE, WILL AFFECT CHINA'S ECON + FUNDAMENTALLY ALTER [perhaps FOREVER?] THE BALANCE OF POWER IN NORTHEAST ASIA.
* SAME > THE HATOYAMA RESIGNATION + FUTENMA BASE CONTROVERSY ENDANGERS JAPAN'S UTILITY TO THE US AS A STRATEGIC AIR, NAVAL, + POL INTEL + RECCE GATHERING BASE AGZ FORMER SOVIET UNION NOW CHINA.
ARTIC > Among other, IIUC infers that as TECHS IMPROVES, "BLACK/CRIMINAL" NAVAL OR MARITIME ACTIVITIES E.G. SOMALIA PIRATES WERE SUPPOS TO DISAPPEAR FOREVER LIKE THE DODO, or in altern be EASILY/QUICKLY SIOLATED + DEFEATED [but has NOT been the case]???
Big Labor: Is there any low to which the SEIU won't stoop? Now it's interrupting blood donations in a strike against the American Red Cross. The Boy Scouts and Baptist churches are also on unions' enemies list.
Demanding higher wages and better benefits, the Service Employees International Union on Wednesday launched a three-day strike against the Red Cross' blood donation operations. The job action comes as the nonprofit, in a realistic response to the weak economy, is cutting salaries, ending bonuses and reducing pensions.
SEIU thinks its members should not only be exempt from the Red Cross' efforts to live within its means, but actually get a raise.
But it's not about the money, you see. It's really about safety.
"Cutting jobs, slashing wages and benefits of employees and cutting corners are affecting the safety of the blood supply," the union's Frank Hornick told the Parkersburg (W.Va.) News & Sentinel.
So SEIU's way to get a safe supply is to pay higher union wages? It's hardly compassion for consumers to hold 40% of the nation's blood supply hostage.
The union's strike probably won't affect blood supplies much, but it sends a message: Consumers who need transfusions come second to union wish lists. Feel safer now?
SEIU's attack on the Red Cross is one in a series of actions against privately funded civil society groups. By foisting union work rules and union salaries on volunteer groups, SEIU seems to want to make them as bloated, costly and inefficient as U.S. automakers. Service groups operate on a shoestring and can't raise their "prices" to donors the way companies can. They're stuck.
The Red Cross isn't the only one feeling this new kind of heat. Last November, the SEIU targeted a 17-year-old Eagle Scout who spent 200 hours cleaning up walking paths in pursuit of a badge.
An SEIU boss told the Allentown (Pa.) City Council he wanted to file a grievance to the city for permitting the teen to clear the paths at a time of cutbacks. Then he got thuggish: "We'll be looking into the Cub Scout or Boy Scout who did the trails," the Allentown Morning Call reported.
Other unions have also targeted these volunteer groups. Last week in Bakersfield, Calif., a local carpenters union went after a tiny Baptist church for hiring a contractor who employed non-union labor, protesting at its doors with "Shame" signs.
What does this say about union values? Are they merely going after weaker prey, or do they envision a nastier America where only the state provides charity? Either way, it's not the America de Tocqueville observed, the one where citizens voluntarily came together out of private initiative to serve others.
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...At any rate, to say that the president's men don't seem to have committed any federal crimes that we know of is rather faint praise. Obama has certainly made fools of all who believed his campaign rhetoric about vanquishing cynicism. He tried to clear the field for the re-election of Arlen Specter, for crying out loud. It doesn't get more cynical than that.
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Carly can win in California. California Republicans have a habit of putting losers, and I say that in the best sense of the word, up for election. As bad as Arnold has turned out to be, he is still head and shoulders above any Dem in the state. Fiorina and Whitman have a chance, however slim, to win in the Peoples Republic. Guys like Campbell and Devore cannot win a state-wide race.
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The Dems really fear conservative or pseudo conservative women, it makes it harder for them to lock up the female vote than running against a conservative man.
Guys like Campbell and Devore cannot win a state-wide race.
Dunno about Campbell but I think the real problem with DeVore is the establishment Republicans will not support him. They're the ones who would rather watch Boxer win than support a real conservative. They wouldn't give him a dime anymore than they would give Dick Mountjoy a dime when he ran against Feinstein. Well, this fall they're gonna watch as conservative Republicans stay home and let Boxer win. I can't do this "lesser of two evils" thing anymore. The lesser of two evils is still evil.
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When Ronald Reagan was elected President in 1980 the white non-Hispanic population percentage in California was about 67%. That percentage is now in the low 40s and sinking. Does anyone really think a "True Conservative" can be elected? Do the math. Ethnic voters tend to vote Dem/liberal.
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You never know. I've witness a true blue district flip that had major Hispanic population when the Trunk played the Roman Catholic principles back at the pro-choice liberal, and continued to hammer through the election. He let the record of the liberal's votes tell the story for him. It worked.
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You keep putting these milquetoast, so-called Republicans up against Boxer and she is gonna keep getting re-elected. Give people a choice. Give us a chance.
GB, it's Republicans like Fiorina and McCain who are responsible for that demographic shift that you mention and those Hispanics are not gonna vote for Fiorina any more than I will. But do not underestimate the Hispanics. You don't think they know when lame brains like McCain are trying to pander to them? Tell them the truth. Give them some logic and let them make up their own minds. They are not stupid.
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Good; the building of this mosque ought to be protested loudly and continually until it is stopped. There is little to no religious freedom in muslim countries. Try building a church or a monument to 911 in the shadow of mecca. Good friggin luck!
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
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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