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发帖数: 29846 | 1 瞎子领路：民主党众议员Ruben Hinojosa宣布个人破产，他任职众议院金融服务委员会
Texas Democratic Congressman Ruben Hinojosa - a member of the House
Financial Services Committee - filed for personal bankruptcy late last year.
The Associated Press and Politico, citing court documents and a statement,
reported that Hinojosa attributes his financial problems to a loan he
guaranteed for his family's meat company.
"I have done everything humanly possible to avoid filing for bankruptcy
protection to no avail," Hinojosa said in the stat... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 2 Republican senators in Wisconsin Wednesday night maneuvered around Democrats
to pass legislation stripping public employees' unions of collective-
bargaining rights, setting the stage for other states to pursue similar
steps in one of the broadest challenges to organized labor in decades.
A vote on Republican Gov. Scott Walker's "budget-repair" bill had been
stymied since Feb. 17 when 14 Democratic senators left the state, kicking
off a rancorous, three-week political drama. Without the Democrat... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 7918 | 3 【 以下文字转载自 Military 讨论区 】
发信人: powerforward (今天你敏感詞了沒有), 信区: Military
标 题: 紐約時報：GE設計的冷卻系統有缺陷
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Tue Mar 15 14:15:39 2011, 美东)
Reactor Design in Japan Has Long Been Questioned
By TOM ZELLER Jr.
Published: March 15, 2011
The warnings were stark and issued repeatedly as far back as 1972: If the
cooling systems ever failed at a Mark 1 nuclear reactor, the primary
containment vessel surrounding the reactor would probably burst as the fuel
rods inside overheated. Dangerous radiation would... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 33885 | 4 【 以下文字转载自 Military 讨论区 】
发信人: xinchong (xc), 信区: Military
标 题: 奥巴马只能是个一期总统
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Tue Apr 5 19:39:38 2011, 美东)
理由如下：
1. His leadership style is one of consensus and compromise. This works OK in
a caretaker setting in which there are no crises and no demands for bold
changes of course. Unfortunately, this era is defined by structural crises,
and a leadership based on gaining consensus and compromise is basically a
rudderless one in this environment.
2. He does not understand economics ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 5 竞争激烈的威斯康星州法官选举，突然发现一个城市的选票没有输入数据库，目前共和
党候选人选票领先，之前民主党候选人已经宣布胜选
Corrected Brookfield tally puts Prosser ahead after 7,500-vote gain
In one explosive stroke Thursday, the clerk in a Republican stronghold
tilted the tight Supreme Court race in favor of Justice David Prosser by
recovering thousands of untallied votes for the incumbent.
Waukesha County Clerk Kathy Nickolaus said Thursday that she failed to save
on her computer and then report 14,315 votes in the city of Brookfield,
omitting them enti... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 6 Posted by Michael Laprarie
Published: June 21, 2011 - 9:00 AM
Lately, there's been lots of talk about the faltering state of our economy.
It's certainly the single biggest failure of the Obama Administration, and,
consequently, the single biggest weakness for candidate Obama in the 2012
presidential election.
But it's not the only one. If you are a blog reader, you are no doubt aware
of the implosion of "Operation Fast and Furious", in which the ATF and
Justice Departments worked together to al... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 7 左派媒体就把他的大学成绩单曝光了，但他们为什么至今还没搞到奥巴马的成绩单呢？
Media Unearths Rick Perry’s College Transcripts In Nothing Flat, But Still
Unable to Find Any Trace of Barack Obama’s Existence
posted at 4:24 pm on August 14, 2011 by directorblue
You may have missed the Left’s preemptive attack on Rick Perry. The GOP
candidate’s transcripts were “mysteriously released” a few days ago,
which smacks of another odd disclosure.
In 2004, Barack Obama’s GOP opponent for Senate — Jack Ryan — “
mysteriously” had his sealed divorc... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4412 | 8 Solyndra closure affects foundation linked to Obama donor
Alex Brandon/AP - In this May 26, 2010 file photo, President Barack Obama,
with Solyndra Chief Executive Officer Chris Gronet, looks at a solar panel,
during a tour of Solyndra, Inc., a solar panel manufacturing facility, in
Fremont, Calif. Solyndra received a $535 million loan from the U.S.
government has announced layoffs of 1,100 workers and plans to file for
bankruptcy.
By Carol D. Leonnig and Joe Stephens, Updated: Friday, September ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 9 Chu takes responsibility for a loan deal that put more taxpayer money at
risk in Solyndra
By Carol D. Leonnig and and Joe Stephens, Published: September 29
Energy Secretary Steven Chu acknowledged Thursday making the final decision
to allow a struggling solar company to continue receiving taxpayer money
after it had technically defaulted on a $535 million federal loan guaranteed
by his agency.
Chu spokesman Damien LaVera said in a statement that the secretary
approved the restructuring agr... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 10 By Mark J. Fitzgibbons
President Obama's proclamation on Monday that he "can't wait" for
congressional action to help underwater homeowners raises two questions.
If he already had the legal authority to take action, then why did he wait?
Some may frame the second question this way: does Obama's plan exceed his
constitutional authority? Perhaps the better way to ask the second question
is whether the Obama plan is unlawful.
Either way, I can't wait for Congress to conduct some oversight hearings... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 11 'Bloated' Federal Workforce Rises 12% as Rest of US Goes Jobless
Thursday, 03 Nov 2011 07:57 PM
By Paul Scicchitano
The federal workforce appears to be immune to the country’s worst economic
downturn since the Great Depression, which has left 14 million Americans out
of work.
Civilian unemployment has mushroomed, sticking above 9 percent for months,
although many experts put the real figure in the 18-20 percent range.
Meanwhile, the number of federal employees has grown 12 percent since the
offi... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 12 预计一位知名参议员将会呼吁美国的审计监管机构应禁止中国审计机构审计在美国上市
的公司，直到在美国检查人员获准评估这些机构的工作。
公众公司会计监督委员会(Public Company Accounting Oversight Board，简称PCAOB)
的检查人员对审计美国上市公司的审计机构展开例行评估，以评估它们的表现、确保它
们遵守审计准则，而不管审计机构及其客户的总部是在美国国内还是在国外。但中国政
府以主权顾虑为由，未曾允许美国检查人员进入中国评估中国审计公司的工作。
这意味着投资者无法了解这些公司（包括主要国际会计公司的中国分支）的审计质量。
美国和中国监管机构曾为达成允许展开这类检查的协议而努力，但相关谈判在上个月破
裂。
在一封预计将于周二送出的信里，代表纽约州的民主党参议员舒默(Charles Schumer)
说，PCAOB应当对美国无法检查的中国审计公司暂停注册或撤销注册，从而禁止它们为
在美国上市的公司制作审计报告。
舒默准备致信PCAOB主席多蒂，他在信件草稿中写道，在今年曝出部分中国公司存在会
计违规行为之后，继续允许缺乏检查的情况存在是“不可接受”的。舒默... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 13 By MARCY GORDON
AP Business Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A congressional panel has voted to subpoena former Sen.
Jon Corzine to testify next Thursday about his role leading MF Global, a
brokerage firm that collapsed this fall after a disastrous bet on European
debt.
The hearing will be a rare moment in Washington. Congressional historians
had to reach back to 1908, when a former senator from North Carolina was
called to testify in connection with a corporate lobbying scandal, to find a
similar inst... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 14 Senator Chris Dodd Democrat is one of the two major culprits leading to the
housing meltdown. He kept the Senate from acting while Democrat Barney Frank
kept the U.S. House from taking steps to deal with scandals leading to the
collapse of CountryWide Mortgage and the scandals at Fannie Mae and Freddie
Mac all led by Clinton Cronies and involving Rahm Emanuel.
In May 2007 Barney Frank and the Democrat-controlled House passed GSE reform
legislation. Legislation which was adamantly opposed by the ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 15 Barney Frank continues distorting the truth on his role in the financial
crisis
By Peter J. Wallison
December 29, 2011, 11:03 am
Soon-to-be former Congressman Barney Frank continues to try to defend his
record on Fannie and Freddie by distorting, or simply reversing, the truth.
Here he is in the TheAtlantic.com today on his history as he hopes we will
remember it:
In 2004, the administration of President George W. Bush began a
conscious plan of trying to increase levels of homeownership as p... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 16 https://www.judicialwatch.org/corrupt-politicians-lists/washingtons-ten-most
-wanted-corrupt-politicians-for-2011/
Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes
government corruption, today released its 2011 list of Washington’s “Ten
Most Wanted Corrupt Politicians.” The list, in alphabetical order, includes:
Rep. Spencer Bachus (R-AL)
Former Senator John Ensign (R-NV)
Rep. Alcee Hastings (D-FL)
Attorney General Eric Holder
Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr. (D-IL)
President Ba... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 17 奥巴马的白宫主管William Daley辞职了，任职1年，来自华尔街；由预算主管Jacob
Lew接任
White House Chief of Staff William Daley resigns; budget chief Jacob Lew
fills post
By David Nakamura, Published: January 9
White House Chief of Staff William M. Daley resigned Monday, a year after
taking the job, shaking up the administration’s senior management just as
President Obama gears up for what is expected to be a tough reelection
campaign.
Last January, Obama tapped Daley to replace Rahm Emanuel with high
expectations. Daley, a form... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 18 THE WALL STREET JOURNAL/NEWSCORE
Last Updated: 9:31 AM, January 30, 2012
Posted: 8:42 AM, January 30, 2012
Nearly three months after MF Global Holdings collapsed, officials hunting
for an estimated $1.2 billion in missing customer money increasingly believe
that much of it might never be recovered, according to people familiar with
the investigation.
As the sprawling probe that includes regulators, criminal and congressional
investigators, and court-appointed trustees grinds on, the findings so ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 19 Oh my: Majorities of liberal Democrats now support drone strikes, keeping
Gitmo open
posted at 6:46 pm on February 8, 2012 by Allahpundit
Pity poor Glenn Greenwald, who thought the left’s opposition to Bush’s
counterterror policies was based on something more profound than crude
partisan tribalism. Why he thought that, I don’t know: The writing was on
the wall when the anti-war movement started dying even as Obama geared up
for a surge of tens of thousands of troops in Afghanistan. In fact, I’ll... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 20 (Reuters) - Germany wants to reignite a debate over creating an EU
constitution to strengthen the bloc's ability to fight off financial
troubles and counter-balance the rising influence of emerging economies,
Germany's foreign minister said on Friday.
Guido Westerwelle said the bloc's Lisbon treaty, drafted after Dutch and
French voters rejected a proposed constitution in 2005, was not enough to
keep European decision-making structures effective.
"We have to open a new chapter in European politi... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 21 MF’s Corzine Ordered Funds Moved to JP Morgan, Memo Says
By Phil Mattingly and Silla Brush - Mar 23, 2012
Jon S. Corzine, MF Global Holding Ltd. (MFGLQ)’s chief executive officer,
gave “direct instructions” to transfer $200 million from a customer fund
account to meet an overdraft in a brokerage account with JPMorgan Chase & Co
. (JPM), according to a memo written by congressional investigators.
Edith O’Brien, a treasurer for the firm, said in an e-mail quoted in the
memo that the transfer was “... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 22 By SCOTT PATTERSON, AARON LUCCHETTI and JULIE STEINBERG
"I don't know."
Those three words dominated a House subcommittee hearing Wednesday where
lawmakers pushed MF Global Holdings Ltd. MFGLQ +5.77% executives to explain
how $1.6 billion went missing from customer accounts as the securities firm
collapsed.
For more than two hours, three MF Global executives frustrated and stymied
lawmakers in both parties who demanded answers about money transfers made in
late October that left the securities ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 23 零蛋总统！奥巴马预算案没有得到任何一个众议员支持，无论共和党还是自己的民主党
，连续第二年得到0票
GOP Rep. introduces Obama budget, measure gets 0-414 drubbing [VIDEO]
By David Martosko - The Daily Caller 9:39 AM 03/29/2012
ADVERTISEMENT
By a stunning 0-414 tally Wednesday night, the House of Representatives
voted down a budget proposal based on President Barack Obama’s 2013
recommendations. Congress hadn’t seen a budget vote that lopsided since
last May, when the Senate voted down an Obama budget plan by a 0-97 margin.
That 2011 Senate sla... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 24 Over the weeks, we have presented to you many stories about one story: Fast
& Furious, the notorious federal operation that facilitated the otherwise
illegal flow of guns to Mexican criminal organizations.
The heart of the program was the policy of watching the guns as they "walked
." This is a common tactic in law enforcement for the purposes of learning
how criminals operate. This tactic was tragically performed by the Bureau of
Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, as its agents routinel... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 25 By: Scott Kaufman
6/20/2012 03:50 PM
Attorney General Eric Holder has been held in contempt of Congress by the
House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
The vote, 23 to 17 along party lines, was expected after an eleventh hour
meeting between Holder and Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) Tuesday evening
failed to produce documents relating to the controversial gun-walking
operation, known as Fast and Furious -- Issa noted that "We waited all night
for the documents to arrive." Speaking befor... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 26 Obama Invokes Executive Privilege Over Justice Department Fast And Furious
Documents
June 20, 2012 by Kevin
Well this is interesting. Facing a contempt of Congress vote in the House,
Attorney General Eric Holder got President Obama to invoke executive
privilege over Justice Department documents the House Oversight Committee
had subpoenaed.
WASHINGTON — The Justice Dept says that President Barack Obama has
asserted executive privilege over documents a House committee is seeking in
an invest... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 27 Soda Ban
Government union bosses are really overdue to get a lashing from voters. And
there are some hopeful signs, such as the recent defeat of a union-backed
recall election of a pro-reform governor in Wisconsin.
From children's lemonade stands to sneaky new speed traps, bureaucrats are
getting in our faces, big-time.
Enter New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's proposed soda ban on servings
larger than 16 oz. at restaurants, fast food joints, and street vendors. It'
s nanny-state government ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4091 | 28 只有选择ron paul才有意义。
选择一个共和党的侯赛因就如同选择侯赛因这个民主党的小布什一样，
Romney backers leery of Ron Paul effort to audit the Fed
By Julie Hirscfeld Davis
Bloomberg News staff
Wed, 08/08/2012 - 11:43pm
Images
In this photo taken Aug. 8, 2012, Republican presidential candidate, former
Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney campaigns in Des Moines, Iowa. Welfare is
causing a ruckus in the presidential campaign, but the program is a shadow
of its old self in the 1970s, when Ronald Reagan used the image of “welfare
queens” agains... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 29 A civil lawsuit filed Monday by House Republicans asks a federal court to
enforce a congressional subpoena of Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. in
his refusal to turn over documents sought in an investigation by a House
committee into the failed Fast and Furious gunrunning operation.
House Speaker John A. Boehner said in a statement the lawsuit seeks to
overturn the Obama administration’s “frivolous executives privilege claims
,” forcing the Justice Department to make public documents the Hous... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 30 In contrast to President Obama’s budget which included a 0.5% Federal
employee (GS) pay raise in 2013, Congress has elected to exclude any federal
pay raise provisions for next year from its annual government appropriation
bills. The GS pay scale covers all federal workers, including civilian
Defense Department employees, but does not apply to military personnel,
government contractors, postal workers, members of Congress, Congressional
staffers, or federal court judges and workers.
The House Ap... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 31 By Patrick J. Buchanan
September 7, 2012
The authors of the Democratic platform have inadvertently revealed to the
world the sea change that has taken place in that party we once knew.
For the first time — and in the longest Democratic platform in history, 26,
000 words — there was not a single mention of God, the Creator, whom Thomas
Jefferson himself, father of the party, proclaimed to be the author of our
right to life and liberty.
The convention had approved the new platform, but when a fire... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 32 Obama’s New Lie – No Funding For Embassy Security Was The Problem
October 11, 2012 by Doug Johnson
Libyagate has team Obama reeling. Here’s David Axelrod on CNN’s Starting
Point with Soledad O’Brien (video) trotting out the new Obama spin on how
they weren’t really lying about the attack in Libya and trying to pin the
blame on Republicans. It’s really quite comical:
“Well, the role of the White House was to convey the information that
we were receiving from our intelligence people on the gr... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 33 October 12, 2012 12:00 A.M.
An anonymous State Department official told the Associated Press last
Tuesday: “That was not our conclusion” — namely, that a notorious YouTube
video that lampooned the Islamic prophet Mohammed unleashed deadly mayhem
upon America’s consulate in Benghazi, Libya.
This denial should shock anyone who watched the news after U.S. ambassador J
. Christopher Stevens, Foreign Service officer Sean Smith, and former Navy
SEALs Glen Doherty and Tyrone Woods were murdered on the ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 34 by wheatington
If a Republican were president, perhaps even if an American were president,
the media would have been all over the Libyan situation like ugly on a toad.
But since the Oval Office has been usurped by a person of colour and thus
is immune from personal responsibility for incompetence or malice, no one
is much interested in looking for the truth.
Obama has lied to Americans and has attempted to cover up his lie. Tricky
Dick Nixon tried that and it cost him a rich presidential lega... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1137 | 35 Thanks for your info. “The vote showed bipartisan support in the House for
greater scrutiny of the U.S. central bank's powers which, were expanded to
help it tackle the financial crisis.” 从这篇报道哪里能看到你所指控的Obama“
号召民主党誓死捍卫FED投票反对查假账”？
至于O vs. R on wallstreet regulation，看看这个吧
http://www.newsday.com/elections/obama-and-romney-where-they-st
“Romney also would make it harder for financial oversight agencies to
impose new rules.”
我当然知道RP “end the fed"的主张。如果是RP和Obama PK，I will certainly pick
RP over O8.
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发帖数: 29846 | 36 by Jammie
Let’s just go and round it up to a cool billion since anything Obama
touches winds up costing us far more than is ever originally reported. Now
we have a trifling discrepancy of a few hundred million from earlier
reports about the mess that is Solyndra.
The cost to taxpayers for the failure of solar panel company Solyndra
may be much higher than the $535 million dollar federal loan guarantee the
company received. After the company went bankrupt in last August, 2011, the
Energy Dep... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 37 Surprise! Obama’s Pal Morsi Appoints Himself Dictator of Egypt
by Jammie
Gee, we never saw this coming. Let’s send him a few billion more.
Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi issued constitutional amendments
yesterday, granting himself sweeping powers and ordering the retrial of
leaders of Hosni Mubarak’s regime for the killing of protesters in the 2011
uprising that ousted Egypt’s old guard.
After ordering the retrials, he dismissed the Mubarak-era prosecutor
general, immediately swearing ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 38 How did the U.S. reach a 'fiscal cliff' and what does it mean? Here are the
facts.
Posted on November 30, 2012
Summary
The U.S. faces the possibility of another recession — the third in 11 years
— if President Obama and Congress cannot find a way to avoid the so-called
fiscal cliff. The one-two combination of massive tax increases and spending
cuts scheduled to take effect, beginning Jan. 1, would push the
unemployment rate back above 9 percent, according to the Congressional
Budget Office.
Ther... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 39 December 7, 2012 Posted by Doug Johnson
It looks like the courts will have the final say in the case of NBC’s
reporting on George Zimmerman. Zimmerman is suing NBC, NBC correspondents
Ron Allen and Lilia Rodriguez Luciano, and Jeff Burnside, a reporter for the
NBC-owned station in Miami, over their blatantly dishonest editing of
Zimmerman’s recorded conversation with police dispatchers. Luciano,
Burnside, and an unnamed producer were fired by NBC after the issue came to
light in the blogospher... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 40 U.S.-Approved Arms for Libya Rebels Fell Into Jihadis’ Hands
By JAMES RISEN, MARK MAZZETTI and MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration secretly gave its blessing to arms
shipments to Libyan rebels from Qatar last year, but American officials
later grew alarmed as evidence grew that Qatar was turning some of the
weapons over to Islamic militants, according to United States officials and
foreign diplomats.
No evidence has emerged linking the weapons provided by the Qataris during
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发帖数: 29846 | 41 What we know (and what we don’t) about Bob Menendez, Salomon Melgen and the
Dominican Republic
By Chris Cillizza , Updated: February 5, 2013
The allegations regarding Sen. Bob Menendez and his ties to a West Palm
Beach eye doctor named Salomen Melgen are piling up.
In an attempt to defuse those allegations, the New Jersey Democrat is
meeting them head on, huddling with reporters Monday to explain why he took
so long to reimburse Melgen for two flights on the doctor’s plane in 2010
and to outrigh... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 42 【 以下文字转载自 LosAngeles 讨论区 】
发信人: ydjz (衣带渐窄), 信区: LosAngeles
标 题: Re: 纳税人的钱真好骗
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Mon Feb 18 23:07:18 2013, 美东)
不是第一次了,黑幕重重，到最后都是加州老百姓苦哈哈交税买单...然后还有个
revised plan继续圈钱~
"The DMV has struggled with technology upgrades in the past. The state spent
$50 million on a faulty project before it was scrapped by Gov. Pete Wilson
in 1994, sparking outrage and calls for better oversight."
California's computer problems, which have already cost taxpayers hundreds
of millions of dollars, have moun... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 43 #BENGHAZI: Interim Progress Report Published; Clinton Lied.
April 24, 2013 Posted by LL1885
The Interim Progress report on the attacks in Benghazi on September 11, 2012
was published today. You can read the full report via The Hill.
http://thehill.com/images/stories/blogs/globalaffairs/benghazi.
The write up of the report by The Hill hits the nail on the head in the
title, GOP Benghazi Report Blames Clinton.
The 46-page report accused Clinton — a possible White House contender
in 2016 — of... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 44 by Quin Hillyer
At CFIF, I explain why the Boston bombing was the predictable outcome of (
even if not, of course, directly blamable on) policies deliberately forced
on the FBI by the Obama administration. This is actually really important
stuff, and it’s not jsut some ex post facto blame-game: Some of us were
warning about these policies six months (or more) ago.
Here’s a rather lengthy, key passage:
Granted, hindsight is 20/20. But the whole point is that it should not
have taken hindsight... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 45 250million发子弹, 它一年也就消耗一半而已. 为什么要储备两年的存货?
DHS Bullet Inventory Is 246,451,611, Chief Procurement Officer Testifies
April 25, 2013
By Penny Starr
(CNSNews.com) – The Department of Homeland Security’s chief procurement
officer testified at a House hearing Thursday that the agency’s bullet
stockpile is almost 250 million, and the procurement of ammunition has “
remained constant” in relation to the number of employees that carry and
use firearms.
“As of April 15, 2013, this amounted to DHS having ap... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 46 Massachusetts Democrat Vows to Open Tsarnaevs Welfare Records: “I will not
let it go”
by Jammie
Well, there’s at least one Democrat with some common sense. Go for it,
brother. These lowlifes do not deserve any privacy.
A top Democratic lawmaker is demanding the Patrick administration turn
over more documents detailing the taxpayer-funded lifestyle of the accused
marathon bombers — and the former prosecutor vowed he won’t give up until
every record is unearthed.
State Rep. David Linsky (D... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 47 Tsarnaev family received $100G in benefits
Monday, April 29, 2013
Author(s):
Chris Cassidy
The Tsarnaev family, including the suspected terrorists and their parents,
benefited from more than $100,000 in taxpayer-funded assistance — a bonanza
ranging from cash and food stamps to Section 8 housing from 2002 to 2012,
the Herald has learned.
“The breadth of the benefits the family was receiving was stunning,” said
a person with knowledge of documents handed over to a legislative committee
today.
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发帖数: 29846 | 48 班加西丑闻：美国驻利比亚副大使Gregory Hicks证词与奥巴马政府相反，他指出特种
部队在恐怖袭击时准备飞往班加西救援，但被军方制止
Diplomat: U.S. Special Forces told "you can't go" to Benghazi during attacks
U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans were killed in the
consulate attack in Benghazi, Libya on Sept. 11, 2012.
The deputy of slain U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens has told
congressional investigators that a team of Special Forces prepared to fly
from Tripoli to Benghazi during the Sept. 11, 2012 attacks was forbidden
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发帖数: 29846 | 49 How Obama Betrayed America
A policy of appeasement and intervention abets our enemies.
By David Horowitz
“If we have to use force, it is because we are America. We are the
indispensable nation. We stand tall. We see farther into the future.”
— Madeleine Albright, secretary of state (1997–2001), Clinton
administration
It is a judgment on Barack Obama’s timorous, apologetic, and irresponsible
conduct of foreign affairs that Madeleine Albright’s words, spoken little
more than 15 years ago, now sou... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 50 Guilty Verdicts in Liu Trial
The Former Campaign Treasurer, Fundraiser for City Comptroller John Liu Were
Found Guilty of Various Charges Involving Campaign Fraud.
By SEAN GARDINER And MICHAEL HOWARD SAUL
A federal jury found two former associates of New York City Comptroller John
Liu guilty Thursday of various counts of campaign-finance fraud, a setback
for the comptroller who vowed to continue his bid for mayor amid renewed
questions about his campaign's viability.
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