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Wikileaks Released Secret Afghanistan War Documents

July 25th 2010 Posted at Latest News, Politics
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Wikileaks released more than 90,000 secret US military records related to Afghan War. This leak is considered one of the biggest leaks in US military history.Leaked documents are published on the website Wikileaks revealing hidden details of the Afghanistan war.

Wikileaks is releasing the set of documents under the title Afghan War Diary. It says is has delayed the release of about 15,000 reports from the archive as part of a “harm minimization process demanded by our source”.

The White House has condemned the leaks as “irresponsible”.

“The data is provided in CSV and SQL formats, sorted by months, and also was rendered into KML mapping data.” WikiLeaks provided the documents in advance to the New York Times, Der Spiegel, and the UK’s Guardian, the latter also has up a video tutorial on how to read the logs. Read More…

Karenna Gore and Drew Schiff Separated

June 9th 2010 Posted at General, Latest News, Politics
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Karenna Gore and Drew Schiff Separated. It’s just a week ago the news of an Al and Tipper Gore divorce shocked the political world. Now one of their children’s marriage is broken.

Oldest daughter Karenna Gore Schiff has split from her husband of 12 years, Drew Schiff. However, a close family source says “they are not divorced.” Karenna and Schiff have been separated for a couple of months and in marriage counseling. It’s amicable and they are in therapy together.

The couple have three children: Wyatt, 10, Anna, 8, and Oscar, 3. Drew Schiff works for a biotech investment company. Read More…

Nikki Haley had an affair with a political blogger years ago!

May 24th 2010 Posted at Politics
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A political blogger called Will Folks from South Carolina claimed this morning that he had an “inappropriate relationship” physically with Republican gubernatorial candidate Nikki Haley several years ago.

Haley, a legislator vying to become the state’s first female governor, said the allegation was planted to derail a campaign gaining steam with high-powered endorsements, including former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and ex-South Carolina first lady Jenny Sanford.

Folks make clear that this alleged relationship was prior to his own marriage, but he seems to suggest that it was an indiscretion on the part of Haley, who has been married for 14 years and has two children.

Haley said the attack was a distraction to the race. Read More…

Barack Obama and Vera Baker scandal

May 17th 2010 Posted at General, Politics
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barack-obama Barack Obama’s link up with his ex campaigner Vera Bakerand and the rumor about a possible tape about the relations came up the internet recently.

None of the reports or rumors are not yet been proved due to lack of any substantial evidence. This scandal have tarnished Obama’s image a bit and wife Michelle is furious over this. The First Lady of US feels humiliated and enraged as it puts a blemish on their marriage.

According to National Acquirer,“The scandalous buzz about Obama and Ms. Baker has been out there for years. But Michelle never had any evidence positively linking the two romantically, and he and Baker always brushed off the salacious rumors as Republican lies. Michelle is furious that the political gossips are at it again. She was especially upset to learn there might be a videotape of Obama with Baker at the hotel! If true, that could ruin his presidency — and his marriage.”
Barack trashed these tales citing them as scandals to defame his political image. However, Michelle is a tad dubious and has sworn that she would leave him if there’s even a shadow of a truth in these allegations.

Jason Carter grandson Jimmy Carter was elected as a senator

May 12th 2010 Posted at Politics
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Jason Carter grandson of former President Jimmy Carter has won a suburban Atlanta state Senate seat. Jason Carter became the first in his family to win elected office since his grandfather took the White House more than three decades ago.

The 34-year-old Carter celebrated at a restaurant Tuesday night with his grandparents and other family members.

Beau Biden son of Vice President Joe Biden is hospatalized

May 11th 2010 Posted at General, Politics
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Beau Biden,Vice President Joe Biden’s oldest son was hospitalized Tuesday, but reasons for his hospitalization are not revealed. Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden, 41, was admitted to Christiana Hospital on Tuesday morning.

“He is alert and speaking with his family and his doctors,” said his spokesman, Jason Miller. Miller did not provide any details on the attorney general’s condition but said he had been in the office Monday for meetings.

Hospital spokesman Bill Schmitt referred questions to the vice president’s office. A state trooper was stationed at the main entrance of the hospital and several black SUVs and men in suits with earpieces were nearby.

“Beau Biden is a great leader with a great family, and I’m glad they’re with him right now,” said Delaware Gov. Jack Markell, who referred questions about Biden’s condition to his family.

Anti-U.S. militia returns to Baghdad

March 6th 2010 Posted at Politics
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Anti U.S. Militia Many Iraqis in areas where anti-U.S. cleric Muqtada al-Sadr’s Mahdi Army once held sway say young men who had worn the militia’s signature black shirts have returned ahead of Sunday’s parliamentary elections, albeit in smaller numbers and a low profile.

Many Sunnis in flashpoint neighborhoods say they are lying low or temporarily moving to safer areas as they wait in fear that the elections will spark a new sectarian backlash against them.

Omar al-Jubouri, a 26-year-old Sunni university worker, saw some of the same Shiite militiamen who forced him to flee his home five years ago back in his south Baghdad neighborhood.

“I sensed the threat, so we locked the house and left,” said al-Jubouri, who took his wife and two children out of Abu Dshir, a Shiite enclave in the mainly Sunni Dora district, to stay with relatives elsewhere in the capital.
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Rare Death Penalty

November 12th 2009 Posted at General, Politics
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Fort Hood Shooting Though the suspect in the shooting rampage at Fort Hood could face the death penalty, he will be prosecuted in a military justice system where no one has been executed in nearly a half-century.

Maj. Nidal Hasan, the Army psychiatrist alleged to have killed 13 people at the massive Army installation in Texas last week, might also benefit from protections the military provides defendants that are greater than those offered in civilian federal courts.

“Our military justice system is not bloodthirsty. That’s clear,” said Eugene R. Fidell, who teaches military law at Yale.

Much about Hasan’s case will be decided by a senior Army officer — perhaps Lt. Gen. Robert Cone, Fort Hood’s commander — including whether to seek the death penalty and, in the event Hasan is convicted of capital murder, whether to commute a possible death sentence to life in prison.

Before a military execution can be carried out, the president must personally approve.

George W. Bush signed an execution order last year for a former Army cook who was convicted of multiple rapes and murders in the 1980s, but a federal judge has stayed that order to allow for a new round of appeals in federal court. There hasn’t been a military execution since 1961, though five men sit on the military’s death row at Fort Leavenworth, Kan.

Federal civilian executions also are rare. Three men, including Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh, have been killed by lethal injection in federal cases since 2001. Death penalties carried out by states are more common — Tuesday night’s execution of John Allen Muhammad in the Washington, D.C., sniper case was Virginia’s second of the year.

In the Fort Hood case, Hasan’s family has hired a private attorney, John Galligan, although the military also will provide a lawyer at no charge. Galligan said that he and Maj. Christopher E. Martin, Fort Hood’s senior defense attorney, spoke with Hasan on Monday and that Hasan had requested a lawyer when first approached by investigators.

Experts in the military justice system said the decision to prosecute Hasan in military court, revealed Monday by officials involved in the investigation, appears clear cut.

The shootings took place on an Army base. The suspect is an Army officer and all but one of those killed also were officers or enlisted personnel. The other person who was killed worked at Fort Hood.

Authorities would have had more reason to take the case to federal court if they had found evidence Hasan acted with the support or training of a terrorist group, but investigators believe he acted alone, without outside direction. Read more at Yahoo

President Obama is Floating Amid Three Parallel Universes

November 9th 2009 Posted at Politics
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Obama 2008 In the Republican universe, nearly all his policies have been wrong, even dangerous. His economic stimulus plan has been wasteful and ineffective. His bailouts of the banks and the auto companies have been simplistic and unfair to everyday Americans.

His government activism has set America on a path to socialism or worse. His profligate spending has run up vast and dangerous deficits as far as the eye can see. His “dithering” over Afghanistan shows that he is vacillating and weak, emboldening America’s enemies. [Read an exclusive interview with Obama.]

In the Democratic universe, Obama is a godsend. He is rapidly bringing needed change to Washington. His stimulus plan and other actions saved the economy from another depression. His bailouts have stopped a cataclysmic economic slide for crucial industries.

His activism is righting past wrongs and giving the downtrodden and the middle class a lift after years when the rich held sway in Washington. His spending policies, while leading to oceans of red ink, are well-meaning and will eventually deliver dramatic results. His ongoing re-evaluation of U.S. policy in Afghanistan is sensible and recognizes that the fast-changing situation there requires new thinking.

As the nation marks the first anniversary of Obama’s election on November 4, the gap between these two universes is widening with little or no chance of accommodation. But there is another factor—the universe of the centrists. These are the independent and loosely aligned voters who determine so much of American politics and swing from one party to the other.

Last year, they moved heavily to Obama and the Democrats, hoping that this might change Washington and end the polarization there. Since then, the independents have gone sour. They aren’t impressed with the GOP, but they also are increasingly disappointed with Obama and the Democrats. They don’t think Obama’s charisma and goodwill have delivered enough positive results, especially in strengthening the economy, creating jobs, and ending the mortgage crisis.

Illinois Senate OKs Caps on Political Donations

November 5th 2009 Posted at Politics
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The Illinois Senate signed off Friday on a compromise that would establish the state’s first limits on campaign donations, sending it to the governor despite Republican complaints that the bill concentrates power in the hands of a few political insiders.

The bill would cap the amount of money that people, interest groups and political committees can give to candidates. The goal is to end worries that donors who give $10,000, $50,000 or even $100,000 are buying themselves special treatment from elected officials.

The caps have one major exception. Political parties and legislative leaders would face limits during primary elections but would be able to give unlimited amounts to candidates during the general election.

Critics say that means candidates would be more dependent than ever on winning the favor of someone like House Speaker Michael Madigan, who leads House Democrats and chairs the Illinois Democratic Party. A lawmaker who wants Madigan’s financial help might feel intense pressure to follow his instructions in the Legislature.

“What you are asking us to do is give away our independence, give away our independence to the leaders,” said Sen. Mike Jacobs of East Moline, one of the few Democrats to criticize the measure.

Gov. Pat Quinn, a Democrat, has ducked questions about whether he supports the measure. Spokesman Bob Reed would only say Friday that the governor will review it.

Government watchdog groups agreed to support the measure, despite the loophole for party leaders, after weeks of negotiations with Democratic leaders. They concluded this was the best deal they could get.

Cindi Canary, director of the Illinois Campaign for Political Reform, said voters should see it as just one step toward repairing the damage done by two consecutive scandals involving Illinois governors.

“Their confidence in state government has been eviscerated,” Canary said. “This should be part of a rebuilding process.”

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