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site WikiLeaks is improving as a
timely source of information: It's
just released a fresh batch of
leaked U.S. cables that concern
Egypt.
Earlier today WikiLeaks's official
(if still "unverified") Twitter
account had the following t weet:
"We will soon release numerous
cables on Egypt."
Then just a few hours later,
WikiLeaks came good on its
promise, and a new suite of
leaked U.S. diplomatic cables
concerning American political
relations with a number of
factions inside Egypt have
surfaced on the WikiLeaks
website(which is still online,
despite the attempts by different
users to suppress it).
All told there are 12 Egypt-
specific cables on the single page
(though WikiLeaks's site seems to above, as we did for an earlier people across political and some of its most dramatic acts. Is tricky concept as it can only be as
imply there's another page of WikiLeaks release. Most religious persuasions in a crack- WikiLeaks trying to prove it's a powerful--or provocative--as the
documents, the links don't work), prominent in this text are the down designed to quell anti-Sadat truly journalistic entity at heart, data that's leaked to it. So unless
and they range from words Mubarak, Sadat, and jihadi activity--it failed to work. lending support to founder Julian an interested party leaks inside
"confidential" classification to the September: Mubarak is self- The cable addresses concerns, in Assange's claims that he's information from an organization
higher "secret/no foreign eyes" explanatory, and its this difficult 2007, that Mubarak's hard line on protected by freedom of the press that's actually embroiled in
level, over a period from August man that the current protests the oppositional Muslim laws? Is the site actually planning something newsworthy right at
2005 to July 2009. center around. Sadat is Anwar El Brotherhood could cause similar on becoming more of a news that moment, WikiLeaks could
The text of one particularly Sadat, third president of Egypt social tensions in Egypt. source? Or is this merely the by- hardly be regarded as a news
pertinent cable--a briefing, based and Nobel Peace Prize winner--he The cable got the dates of the product of tighter hands on the organization.
on information obtained locally, was assassinated by social tension/explosion wrong. reigns now that Assange is merely What it can do is curate the leaks
that summarizes an "Egypt in fundamentalist forces in October But WikiLeaks actually timed this under house arrest, and has access its given, and this seems to be the
transition" in September 2007-- 1981. In September 1981 (the well--releasing its information at to the Internet? case here: Among the slew of
has been turned into a word cloud third prominent word) Sadat exactly the right moment as the We suspect it's actually the latter. WIKILEAKS page 9
ordered the arrest of some 1,500 current Egyptian drama enters WikiLeaks as a "news source" is a
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and gold rose as investors sought the benchmark 10-year Treasury ( TrendHunter.com) Traveling is
that higher costs cut down its and retail business, will keep the
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note fell to 3.32 percent from 3.38 profit margins. Microsoft Corp. Sara Lee name and also operate
The Egyptian government's percent late Thursday. Bond the new Porter Matryoshka Travel
lost 4 percent after it said that the the Jimmy Dean and Hillshire
response to escalating street yields fall when their prices rise. Pouches. Porter has designed
profitability of its Windows Farms businesses. The other,
protests unnerved investors. The these nylon taffeta travel pouches
The dollar rose 0.6 percent division was falling. which has yet to be named, will
military was deployed in an effort against an index of six other to fit comfortably inside one
The Dow Jones industrial hold the current company's
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average fell 138 points, or 1.2 beverages and baked goods lines.
headquarters of the ruling party safety. Gold rose 1.6 percent to percent, to 11,852 in afternoon The company had considered
was on fire. Thousands of people $1,339.50 and crude oil rose 4.4
defied a curfew, and Internet and percent to $89.42 a barrel.
trading.
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selling the whole business but was
unable to get a satisfactory price
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In the upscale Mohandiseen them. stand for next presidential heir apparent Gamal over the past Etisalat Misr -- all stopped
neighborhood, at least 10,000 Hundreds of protesters played a elections; dissolve the parliament decade benefit the country's poor moving data in and out of the
were marching toward the city cat-and-mouse game with riot holds new elections; end to majority. country at 12:34 a.m., according
center chanting "down, down with police in a square just behind the emergency laws giving police He could also lift the emergency to a network security firm
Mubarak." The crowd later famed Egyptian Museum on extensive powers of arrest and laws in force since 1981, loosen monitoring the traffic. Telecom
swelled to about 20,000 as they Tahrir Square. Police were using detention; release all prisoners restrictions on the formation of experts said Egyptian authorities
made their way through tear gas and the protesters including protesters and those political parties and publicly state could have engineered the
residential areas. responded with rocks and chants who have been in jail for years whether he will stand for another unprecedented cutoff with a
Residents looking on from of "illegitimate, illegitimate," a without charge or trial; and six-year term in elections this simple change to the instructions
apartment block windows waved reference to Mubarak's regime. immediately fire the interior year. for the companies' networking
and whistled in support. Some Later, television footage showed minister. Friday's demonstrations also got equipment.
waved the red, white and black a chaotic and violent scene where Mubarak has not said yet whether a boost from the endorsement of The Internet appeared to remain
Egyptian flags. The marchers protesters were throwing rocks he will stand for another six-year the country's biggest opposition cut off in Cairo but was restored
were halted as they tried to cross a down on police from a highway term as president in elections this group, the Islamic fundamentalist in some smaller cities Friday
bridge over the Nile, when police overpass near Tahrir Square, year. He has never appointed a Muslim Brotherhood. The group morning. Cell-phone text and
fired dozens of tear gas canisters. while a police vehicle sped deputy and is thought to be called its supporters to join the Blackberry Messenger services
In downtown Cairo, people on through the crowd spraying tear grooming his son Gamal to protests on Friday. were all cut or operating
balconies tossed cans of Pepsi and gas on demonstrators. succeed him despite popular The Brotherhood, outlawed since sporadically in what appeared to
bottles of water to protesters on Clusters of riot police with opposition. According to leaked 1954, is Egypt's largest and best be a move by authorities to
the streets below to douse their helmets and shields were U.S. memos, hereditary organized opposition group. It disrupt the organization of
eyes, as well as onions and stationed around the city, at the succession also does not meet seeks to establish an Islamic state. demonstrations.
lemons to sniff, to cut the sting of entrances to bridges across the with the approval of the powerful It renounced violence in the 1970s Authorities appear to have been
the tear gas. Nile and other key intersections. military. and has since been a peaceful disrupting social networking sites,
At Ramsis square in the heart of The troubles were preventing Mubarak and his government movement. Its network of social used as an organizing tool by
the city, thousands clashed with trains from coming to Cairo, said have shown no hint of and medical services has protesters, throughout the week.
police as they left the al-Nur security officials. concessions to the protesters who traditionally won it popular Facebook, Twitter and Blackberry
mosque after prayers. Police used In Assiut in southern Egypt, want political reform and a support, but its detractors say its Messenger have all seen
tear gas and rubber bullets and several thousand demonstrators solution to rampant poverty, involvement in politics has interruptions.
some of the tear gas was fired clashed with police that set upon unemployment and rising food chipped away at its support base. The Associated Press contributed
inside the mosque where women them with batons and sticks, prices. It made a surprisingly strong to this report.
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mentioned have made it the right You provide one offer per day in much every month for quite some more thoughtful and articulate
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that Groupon had rejected each day. So how does Note: Contacted about this, multitasking. So...
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Dixon when Reagan was 9. day for six summers and rescued stations in Chicago, not New when the telegraph broke down). might have been his peak earning
Reagan always remembered his 77 people, making a notch on a York or Los Angeles, were the He became something of a local years, and after the war he bristled
boyhood there in elegiac terms, log for each one. That helped great innovators, presenting the celebrity and a frequent speaker to against the studios' insistence that
and the modest but comfortable make him popular enough to be first situation comedies, civic groups, and sent one-third of he play light comedy rather than
hillside house where he spent elected senior class president in sportscasts and national his paycheck home to his family. dramatic roles.
several years seems to confirm high school. convention coverage. Listening to He also did political The movies of the 1930s and
that impression. But Jack Reagan Another way up was college. the radio in his parents' homes in commentaries with future 1940s, like the radio of the 1920s
was overfond of drink and failed Only 6 percent of Americans Dixon, Dutch Reagan was at the Republican Rep. H.R. Gross. He and 1930s and the television
at one business after another, and graduated from college in the late cutting edge of innovative mass got raises and made $75 a week shows of the 1950s and 1960s,
Lee County tax records indicate 1920s, and Reagan's parents had media. (more than $1,200 in today's were a universal culture, aimed
that each place the Reagans rented not even attended high school. When he graduated from college dollars), twice what his father had not at niche audiences like the
was worth less than the one But at 17 Reagan made the in June 1932, unemployment ever made. media of today but at the entire
before. They ended up in an remarkable decision to attend stood at 24 percent, just about the In early 1937 he got the idea of population. They were intended to
apartment literally on the wrong Eureka College, 95 miles from highest rate in American history. spending his month's vacation be universally acceptable and to
side of the railroad tracks. Dixon, financing his education He hitchhiked to Chicago and following the Chicago Cubs at embody the values shared by
Every so often his mother would with his earnings as a lifeguard, applied for jobs as a radio their spring training in Catalina almost all Americans, and indeed,
send him 50 cents for expenses, an athletic half-scholarship he announcer. He was told that Island off Los Angeles. WHO 1940s movies still strike us as
and by the end of his college days talked his way into, and a job Chicago was the big time and that agreed. In Los Angeles he sought expressing the national spirit more
he was sending money home washing dishes. Every so often his he should get some seasoning at a out a singer who had worked at than any other popular art.
Yet from an early age Ronald mother would send him 50 cents small station in "the sticks." He WHO; she got him an In this national spirit Ronald
Reagan seems to have been, as for expenses, and by the end of hitchhiked home, borrowed the appointment with her agent, who Reagan was always a true
one biographer said of Abraham his college days he was sending Oldsmobile his father could not got him a screen test. When he believer. He was a believing and
Lincoln, "a little engine of money home -- and bringing afford to buy gas for, and drove to returned to Des Moines, the agent observant Christian, a Protestant
ambition." An ambition to be Moon to Eureka with him. Davenport, Iowa, the home of wired him that Warner Brothers like his mother rather than a
someone important in the world, At Eureka, Reagan played WOC, owned by the Palmer was offering him a seven-year Catholic like his father. Like both
someone who could do things for football, swam and coached the Chiropractic School (the station's contract for $100 a week. "Sign his parents he was a Democrat in
others; maybe, although he never swimming team, was president of call letters stood for world of before they change their minds," heavily Republican Downstate
said so, to be president. the student senate and -- most chiropractic). Told that there was Reagan wired back. Illinois, and he became an
But how to move up in the important for his future -- acted in no opening, he talked the station Reagan's movie career, later enthusiastic fan of Franklin
world? One way was athletics; plays. As a young boy, his mother manager into letting him audition derided by reporters and political Roosevelt and his New Deal
high school stars are celebrities in encouraged him to perform in by announcing an imaginary adversaries, was successful. He policies. As a Hollywood star he
small towns. But the young Dutch public readings and church plays, football game between Eureka learned his lines quickly, always kept up with political news; as a
Reagan stayed home reading and he was always able to and Western Illinois. He got the showed up on time, patiently board member of the Screen
while his older brother Moon memorize his lines quickly. "I job: $5 and round-trip bus fare to waited during delays in shooting. Actors Guild from 1941 and its
played baseball, and he was too knew then that I wanted to be an broadcast a University of Iowa He received many favorable president from 1947 to 1960, he
nearsighted to hit a pitch or catch actor," he told Lou Cannon, "but football game. reviews. His performances in opposed Communist activists but
a fly ball. In high school he it wasn't considered a way to That break surely fortified an "Knute Rockne, All-American" refused to name names or to
played football, but became a make a living." innate optimism. In 1933 Reagan and "Kings Row," both made just support outlawing the Communist
lineman and, as he later The way to make a living, he moved to another Palmer station, before the United States entered party.
confessed, not a good one. decided, was in the new mass WHO in Des Moines, where as a World War II, landed him a It was always in Reagan's interest
Swimming proved to be his sport. medium of radio. Dixon is 100 sports announcer he did what he million-dollar, multiyear contract. to portray himself as an ordinary
At 16 he talked his way into a job miles straight west of Chicago, had heard Chicago announcers do Military service during the war, person and certainly not as any
as lifeguard at a park along the and the signals of Chicago's clear in the 1920s -- narrate games from most of it in Los Angeles, kind of intellectual. "Mr. Norm is
treacherous Rock River. It was a channel radio stations come in a pitch-by-pitch account received prevented him from making RONALD page 38
busy place; he worked 12 hours a loud and clear. And in the 1920s, by telegraph (with lots of foul tips movies and money from what
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my alias," Reagan wrote in a 1942 professions, he was an old man by conservatism in America. Reagan campaign against an incumbent insisted he was only a citizen-
article for the fan magazine Hollywood standards. He resigned thought it was more like a president in which success politician, the president who said,
Photoplay. "Nothing about me to as head of the Screen Actors beginning, with a major role for seemed anything but assured till "They say that hard work never
make me stand out on the Guild in 1960 and General himself. Encouraged by the the weekend before the election in killed anybody, but I say why take
midway." But he also admitted, Electric cancelled his show in businessmen who had promoted 1980. the chance?"
"I'm interested in politics and 1962. John Kennedy, six years the 1964 broadcast, he set about Only three presidents since 1900 On the contrary, the picture we
government problems." More younger than Reagan, was a running for governor in 1966 have won popular vote majorities get from his 1970s radio scripts,
interested than he let on. His first popular president seeking to make against two-term Democrat Pat more than once: Franklin written out in his legible
wife, Jane Wyman, in seeking a big government even bigger. Brown, who had beaten Richard Roosevelt, Dwight Eisenhower handwriting and retrieved from
divorce in 1947, complained that By Reagan's reckoning, the Nixon in 1962. Events helped. and Ronald Reagan. On the the wastebasket by a history-
he talked about actors union and country seemed to be moving in Student protests at Berkeley in surface, all three seemed men of conscious secretary, show a man
political issues all the time. And the wrong direction, so he took it 1964 and the black riot in Watts great geniality, but in fact none of who was widely read and well-
in 1948 he campaigned for Harry on himself to persuade his fellow in 1965 showed that two supposed them had any really close friends informed on all manner of issues,
Truman's re-election over citizens into changing course. The beneficiaries of big government or anyone in whom they fully with a clear philosophic compass
Republican Thomas Dewey and result was a speech, developed were anything but grateful for aid confided, except for Reagan -- and a gift for phrasemaking. It
the leftist Henry Wallace, and from the talks he had delivered to provided by the tax dollars of the and his confidante was his wife, was one of his strengths that he
emceed Truman's final campaign GE employees, called "A Time ordinary middle-class Americans, Nancy. Beneath the smiles there could speak in the universal
speech in the Hollywood Bowl. for Choosing," and a group of who had flocked to California as a was a certain cold, inaccessible language of the 1930s and 1940s
Four years later, Reagan Goldwater-supporting kind of promised land after World calculation. One difference is that movies at a time of cultural
supported Republican Dwight businessmen persuaded the War II. Reagan, like so many of Roosevelt entered the White conflict, a time when other
Eisenhower. He always insisted Arizonan's reluctant campaign to those taxpayers a migrant from House at 50, Eisenhower at 62 politicians could only appeal to
that the Democratic party left him broadcast it on national television the Midwest, voiced outrage at and Reagan just a month shy of their particular niches of support.
rather than the other way around, in October 1964. Reagan was this ingratitude and at the failure turning 70. And if Roosevelt and "I think it would be hard to be
but clearly he changed his mind visibly angry at the prospect of of big government policies to Eisenhower had serious health president without having been an
on some issues. He resented the big government destroying the produce the America they problems, Reagan was shot and actor," he once said. His greatest
91 percent top tax rate when he American dream but, with his believed in. came close to dying in his second performance may have been after
was in his peak earning years, and congenital optimism, quoted Reagan showed in 1966 and 1970 full month in office. His he was shot. In the process of
before you could escape high Roosevelt quoting Lincoln that that a conservative Republican inattention to detail and his losing half his blood, he insisted
rates by averaging income over Americans had a "rendezvous could win landslide victories in reliance on chiefs of staff who on walking into the hospital and
several years. He had been with destiny." The speech raised what had recently become the rationed his time and set his buttoning his jacket, before
affected by books like Friedrich money for the Goldwater nation's largest state. To be sure, agenda arguably made him less collapsing on the floor when he
Hayek's "The Road to Serfdom," campaign, with little effect on the his record in office was not as effective than he might have been was out of camera range.
which argued that socialism result. But it convinced many that impeccably conservative as many had he come to office earlier in Ronald Reagan changed his mind
eroded personal freedoms. Hired Reagan had a rendezvous with contemporary conservatives life. on economic issues and switched
by General Electric CEO Ralph destiny himself. believe: He acquiesced in a tax But since he left office it has parties in his 40s. But if he sought
Cordiner to speak to GE Reagan was a believer, as increase and signed, to his later become apparent that the portrait to reverse the thrust of his hero
employees across the country as Roosevelt was, in American regret, one of the most liberalized of Reagan as an airheaded actor Franklin Roosevelt's economic
well as to host "GE Theater," he exceptionalism. "I, in my own abortion laws in the nation. But he manipulated by sinister aides is policies, he continued to believe
became in the 1950s a dedicated mind, have thought of America as also made himself a plausible very far from accurate. It was as Roosevelt did that America had
opponent of big government. a place in the divine scheme of candidate for the presidency and always in Reagan's interest to a special mission to deploy a
The times seemed to be going things that was set aside as a tried for it three times -- in a last- portray himself as an ordinary strong military to oppose tyranny
against Reagan. A movie star in promised land," minute campaign in 1968, in a guy, unaffected by intellectual and expand freedom in the world.
his 20s and 30s, he was less of a Conventional political wisdom prolonged march through the influences -- the actor who called The New Deal historian William
celebrity in his 40s. In his 50s, held that Goldwater's landslide primaries up to the national himself "Mr. Norm," the RONALD page 41
normally the peak years in most defeat meant the end of convention in 1976, and in a long candidate for governor who
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a central Cairo square Wednesday Dubbed a "day of revolution Zine El Abidine Ben Ali on Jan. administration official. supports Mubarak. In his response
after the biggest demonstrations in against torture, poverty, 14. Protests have spread to Egypt, President Barack Obama that ‘‘Egypt is a strong ally,’’ he
years against President Hosni corruption and unemployment," Algeria, Morocco and Yemen. privately pressed Mubarak in a avoided repeating Mubarak’s
Mubarak's authoritarian rule. Tuesday's protests in cities across Higher commodity prices are telephone call last week to name.
Mobilized largely on the Internet, Egypt began peacefully, with “leading to riots, demonstrations embrace democratic changes, said The Obama administration also
the waves of protesters filled police at first showing unusual and political instability,” Nouriel the official, who requested has been communicating through
Cairo's central Tahrir — or restraint in what appeared to be a Roubini, the New York anonymity. Secretary of State the same social media sites that
Liberation — Square on Tuesday, calculated strategy to avoid University economics professor Hillary Clinton yesterday said the Egyptian protesters have used
some hurling rocks and climbing further sullying the image of a who predicted the financial crisis, Mubarak, in power since 1981, to organize themselves. The State
atop armored police trucks. security apparatus widely said on a Davos panel. “It’s really has an “important opportunity” to Department issued statements
"Down with Hosni Mubarak, criticized as corrupt and violent. something that can topple enact economic, political and yesterday on Twitter, including
down with the tyrant," chanted the Protests Spread to Algeria, regimes, as we have seen in the social reforms. one supporting the ‘‘universal
crowds. "We don't want you!" Morocco, Jordan, Yemen Middle East.” ‘Potentially Dangerous’ rights of the Egyptian people
they screamed as thousands of riot Bloomberg reports North African In Algeria, three were killed and The Obama administration needs including freedom of
police deployed in a massive Unrest May Spread on Record 420 injured at rallies against high to move cautiously, said Anthony expression.’’
security operation that failed to Food Prices food prices and a lack of public Cordesman, a senior defense Social Media
quell the protests. Record food prices may fan housing. Jordanian opposition analyst at the Center for Strategic Twitter Inc. of San Francisco,
The sound of what appeared to be social unrest and fuel inflation groups have held peaceful protests and International Studies, a which was used to help coordinate
automatic weapons fire could be beyond North Africa as thousands against the government, and in nonpartisan research group in the Tunisian protests, yesterday
heard as riot police and of people take to the streets of Yemen today thousands gathered Washington. said access to its services was
plainclothes officers chased Cairo to denounce President outside the main university in the “There isn’t just the morning after blocked in Egypt. Facebook Inc.,
several hundred protesters who Hosni Mubarak, delegates at the capital, Sana’a, demanding that to think about, there is the decade the Palo Alto, California-based
scrambled onto the main road World Economic Forum said. President Ali Abdullah Saleh step after,” he said in a telephone owner of the world’s most
along the Nile in downtown “This protest won’t end in North down. interview. “For the U.S. to get out popular social- networking
Cairo. Some 20 officers were seen Africa; it will spread in many “If you don’t improve people’s in front now would be premature service, hasn’t seen any major
brutally beating one protester with countries because of high lives, you will have social unrest,” and potentially dangerous.” changes in user traffic in Egypt,
truncheons. unemployment and increasing Sheikh Mohammed bin EssaAl Shadi Hamid, an expert on though it is aware of reports of
Discontent with life in Egypt's food prices,” Hamza Alkholi, Khalifa, chief executive officer of Islamist politics and democratic service disruption in the country.
authoritarian police state has chairman and chief executive of the Economic Development reform in the Middle East at the Earlier, some Facebook users
simmered under the surface for Saudi Alkholi Group, a holding Board in Bahrain, said in an Brookings Institution, said the reported the site was inaccessible
years. However, it is Tunisia's company investing in industrials interview. “Each country is large pro-democracy protests may in Egypt, according to
popular uprising, which forced and real estate, said in an different, each country is unique. have broken the “psychological Herdict.org, which monitors web
that nation's autocratic ruler from interview in Davos, Switzerland. It could spurt up in Latin barrier of fear” among Egyptians. access. Clinton Defends
power, that appears to have Risks of global instability are America. It’s not an Arab thing.” "The U.S. does not want to see the Facebook, Twitter Amid Egypt
pushed young Egyptians into the rising as governments facing Obama Tells Egyptian President Egyptian regime fall any time Protests
streets, many for the first time. budget crunches cut subsidies that to "Embrace Change" soon,’’ Hamid said in a telephone Note: The entitre article that
"This is the first time I am help the poor cope with surging In the US, Obama Poised to interview. “But people who are follows is on social networking
protesting, but we have been a food and fuel costs, the head of Intensify U.S. Criticism of protesting, the tens of thousands, including, Tritter, Facebook,
cowardly nation. We have to the United Nations’ World Food Egypt’s Mubarak do want to see the regime fall Google, and Blackberry.
finally say no," said Ismail Syed, Program said two days ago. The White House is prepared to some time soon. They are Bloomberg reports Clinton
a hotel worker who struggles to World food costs rose to a record step up its criticism of Egyptian diametrically opposed interests." Defends Facebook, Twitter Amid
live on a salary of $50 a month. in December on higher costs for President Hosni Mubarak, a key The White House Press Secretary Egypt Protests
"We want to see change, just like sugar, grain and oilseeds, the UN Middle East ally, if his Robert Gibbs created some As Egyptian authorities struggled
in Tunisia," said 24-year-old reported Jan. 4, contributing to the government intensifies its ambiguity yesterday when asked BLOOD page 45
Lamia Rayan. uprising that ousted Tunisia’s crackdown on protesters, said an whether the administration still
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to quash anti-government The UAE, Saudi Arabia and higher, and if it’s a failed one” the The U.S. relies on Mubarak as a information. While I do not
uprisings yesterday, Secretary of India last year threatened to shut cost will drop to 300 basis points mediator in the Palestinian-Israeli condone riots, I certainly
State Hillary Clinton called on down BlackBerry service unless and probably 250, Fine said in a conflict, and Egypt is the second- understand them. Nonetheless,
the longtime U.S. ally to unblock authorities were allowed to phone interview. biggest recipient of American people have a right to the news,
social networking sites that have monitor messaging, citing Higher borrowing costs may foreign aid after Israel. Relations and the same thing applies to the
been used to organize protests, concerns about illegal activities. crimp Egypt’s ability to meet its were strained during the US.
such as those operated by The Saudi and UAE governments target of cutting the budget deficit administration of President Unfortunately, the US is headed
Facebook Inc. and Twitter Inc. eventually backed down; India’s to 3 percent of gross domestic George W. Bush, who repeatedly down the path of more news
By urging Egypt’s government talks with RIM are ongoing. product by 2015 from the current called on Mubarak to allow more suppression more control over
“not to prevent peaceful protests As with other private talks, it’s 8 percent. Yields at the freedoms. media.
or block communications, hard to determine if the government’s debt auction Mubarak will probably survive North Africa proves it will not
including on social media,” intervention of U.S. officials climbed this week. The average the protests as strong ties between work and cannot be done.
Clinton in Washington renewed made a difference. RIM declined rate on 91-day bills rose 30 basis the ruling National Democratic Blood on Bernanke's Hands
her call for freedom of expression to comment. Egypt Debt Riskier points from the previous sale to Party and the military means that Most of the increases in food
and assembly online, and fueled Than Iraq 9.5 percent, while the yield on a repeat of Tunisia’s uprising is prices are due to droughts in
debate over how to promote those Bloomberg reports Egypt Riskier 182-day bills advanced 20 basis unlikely, Richard Fox, Fitch’s South America, floods in
goals without undermining other Than Iraq in Swaps as Protests points to 10.2 percent, data London-based head of Middle Australia, and poor growing
U.S. interests. Spread compiled by Bloomberg show. East and North Africa Sovereign conditions in many places.
Clinton’s defense of social Egypt is riskier than Iraq in the The yield on Egypt’s 2040 dollar- Ratings, said in a conference call However, Bernanke's
networking is “a very delicate market for credit default swaps denominated bonds jumped 50 today. "Quantitative Easing" policies
balancing act,” because of the for the first time in at least a year basis points since Tunisian “The military has long been the combined with rampant credit
longstanding U.S. relationship after protests denouncing President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali lynchpin of stability in Egypt and growth in China and India have
with Egyptian President Hosni President Hosni Mubarak. was ousted on Jan. 14 to 7.10 our base case at this stage would led to increased speculation in
Mubarak, said Ethan Zuckerman, The cost of protecting Egyptian percent, the highest level on be that stability will be restored in commodities. That speculation
a senior researcher at Harvard debt against default for five years record, according to data due course,” Fox said. has forced up food prices.
University’s Berkman Center for with the contracts jumped 69 compiled by Bloomberg. “One thing that we can all take If you are tweeting, please tweet
Internet and Society. “At the same basis points, or 0.69 percentage Mubarak, 82, has been in power from the Tunisian situation is that this "Bernanke has blood on his
time, we’re starting to see points, this week to 375 today, since 1981 and hasn’t said the unexpected can sometimes hands".
evidence of an anti-authoritarian compared with 328 for Iraq, whether he will run in the happen rather quickly,” Fox said. Please note that speculation in
revolution in the region, and she according to prices from CMA, a September elections. “It would be a brave man who commodities is not a cause of
doesn’t want to be on the wrong data provider in London. Just last Egypt is rated BB+ at Fitch would try to expect what would anything. Rather commodity
side of that either. The safe stance week, Iraqi swaps cost 19 basis Ratings and Ba1 at Moody’s happen in Egypt between now and speculation is a result of piss poor
is to be pro-free speech,” he said. points more than Egypt’s, and in Investors Service, the highest non the election.” More Videos monetary policies not only the
Google, Microsoft Corp., and June, an average 240 basis points -investment grade levels. Iraq’s http://www.youtube.com/ Fed, but central bankers
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information. “If this is a revolution, the price of stable,” Secretary of State Hillary Information is power and Twitter BLOOD page 47
Blackberry Monitoring risk for Egypt could go much Clinton said. and Facebook do help spread
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Officials fear anarchy in the Khairi Abaza, a Middle East Thankfully, the protests in outlawed Muslim Brotherhood, by Canal to the Mediterranean Sea in
country would give militants a expert and a senior fellow at the Yemen have not been violent. far the largest opposition 2009, while 0.8 million bbl/d
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military aid is expected to reach at outcome, from al-Qaeda to Iran." Mohamed ElBaradei, the statement. "We don't wish to lead economies.
least $250 million this year, a The only certainty, experts said, Egyptian dissident, flew home to it, but we do want to be part of it." Almost 35,000 ships transited the
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months ago in Tunisia. Yemen, array of difficult choices as it As Mr ElBaradei has seized the
one of the poorest and most seeks to show support for limelight, so Mr Mubarak has
heavily armed countries in the democratic expression while shunned it. There has been no
Middle East, is home to multiple working to preserve stability and sign of him since protests began.
separatist movements and has its prevent violence. Historically, Members of his family are
own particularly virulent branch U.S. governments "have never rumoured to have left the country.
of al-Qaeda. gotten these things right," he said. With the president looking ever
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undeserved. He was just they want to block,” he says. “We and their victims appeared on management, IP addresses, mandate is to block pornography,
following the regime’s orders, he don’t even know what they were Facebook and bloggers began research and development, pedophilia, nudity, and hate.”
insisits. Now that the government banning because the list is reporting the daily events with electronic commerce, and web Many Tunisians, such as
has changed, he’s following those encrypted. We can only see the first-hand accounts, photographs hosting. The agency is also the Amamou and the hackers who
new policies, helping open up number of blocked sites and some and videos. This information ISP for all public institutions. fought the ATI during the
Tunisian Internet access as never other technical aspects, such as helped drive the uprising, and the How the dictator-less Tunisia revolution, prefer a completely
before. CPO load, how much traffic… government responded by will rebuild its Internet open Internet. Saadaoui disagrees.
“We are computer and electronic things like this. Sometimes we allegedly hijakcing Tunisian architecture is still being He says the current filters are
engineers, not policemen,” learn about the blocked sites when Facebook passwords. discussed, Saadaoui says. But one necessary on a political level:
Saadaoui says at his office in the people call in and ask why their At the same time, hackers began optimistic sign is that 33-year-old “The limits are symbolic. It’s a
ATI headquarters, a handsome, blog has been blocked. Then we to attack the Tunisian blogger and activist Slim message from the government that
white bungalow near Pasteur know.” government’s control over the Amamou, who was arrested we are a Muslim and conservative
Square in a high-end At first, the regime banned Internet. They bombed the ATI’s during the revolt, is now the society and that we would
neighborhood of Tunis. “We around 300 websites, but as DNS and website, and tried to secretary of state for youth and appreciate if you didn’t go to
don’t check email and we don’t Internet use grew throughout the bomb the email centipede sports. The Ministry of these [filtered] sites.
filter websites, even though we country – from 1 percent of the gateway. The National Computer Communications and Technology Besides, Saadaoui says, everyone
have filtering engines on our population in 2000 to 37 percent Security Agency, which fights has announced that anyone who knows how to sidestep the
network. We run the engines as of last November – the hacking, phishing, viruses and has a SMTP server can have restrictions, anyway.
technically, but we don’t decide to blacklist bloated to more than fraud, took on the activists who direct access to the Internet “Tunisia has a lot of young, open
block your blog. We don’t even 2,000. When the government tried to overload government without going through the people who know how to go
know you have a blog.” started going after proxies, websites with Distributed Denial governmental post office. around filters via hotspot
‘It’s useless to block. Whatever Saadaoui said, the number jumped of Service attacks. The interface that allows the proxies,” he says. “So really it’s
we do, there are ways to get to many thousands. He estimated “When the hackers did DDOS government to block sites, useless to block. Whatever we do,
around it.’ that around 1,000 of the blocked they did a good job, and however, still exists. Saadaoui there are ways to get around it.”
“But,” he adds, “we give access to sites were political, and the rest Anonymous did a good job,” promises that it will be used only See Also:
these engines to other institutions were proxies. Saadaoui says, smiling. “But not to block pornography, child This entry passed through the
that have been mandated by the The revolution began on on everything. They weren’t able pornography, nudity and “hate,” Full-Text RSS service — if this is
government to choose which December 17, when a 26-year-old to take down the DNS, they using URL classifiers. your content and you're reading it
websites should be blocked. They fruit vendor named Mohammed weren’t able to take down the “The new government told us to on someone else's site, please read
have the gateway that has all the Bouazizi in the central Tunisian main servers or the network, but keep the filtering engines where our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/
mail to be read.” town of Sidi Bouzid set himself they were able to DDOS websites. they are and to allow them to add content-only/faq.php
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Saadaoui described the suicide jolted Tunisians; they Since Ben Ali fled the country on now is that they will ask a judge The Crosshairs.
governmental oversight of the began to protest in the streets — January 14, the transitional to approve the filtering. The
Internet as an encrypted interface and clash with police. Around 100 government has removed several problem is not filtering, the
built and maintained by the ATI. people died throughout the restrictions on Internet use while problem is who filters and based
Only the government can country. The media, controlled by the 60-person ATI aims to focus on what law. Before, people
manipulate it. Ben Ali’s advisers, reported only on tasks more befitting an Internet would filter without applying the
“We gave them an interface where that criminals were looting. But regulator: providing bandwidth law, and now we will filter with a
they can go in and add anything videos of the protests, riot police and IP numbers, DNS judicial mandate. And the current
Newstablet Edition Culture/ 51
Dangerous Game
William Galston (The New (when it was headed down, not need a grand bargain that deals increased revenues aren’t always Paul Ryan’s famous Roadmap
Republic - All Feed) up). structurally with both spending spent. The Clinton administration allows the national debt to reach
Submitted at 1/27/2011 11:00:00 PM I don’t know many economists, and our outdated tax code. Can used the proceeds from a higher 100 percent of GDP? Do you care
liberal or conservative, who view we do it? Yes, because we’ve top marginal tax rate to reduce the about facts?
I’ve just spent a snowed-in day this prospect with equanimity. done it before—in the 1990s, to deficit. And those rates didn’t Memo to Democrats:
p l o w i n g t h r o u g h t h e The CBO certainly doesn’t; its be precise, starting with the exactly suppress economic growth Denouncing the proposal offered
Congressional Budget Office’s report states that “Although bipartisan budget deal that may or job generation either. by the president’s commission as
l a t e s t t e n - y e a r b u d g e t a n d deficits during or shortly after a have cost George H. W. Bush a I wish I could say that today’s a “cat food” budget for the elderly
economic outlook. The short-term r e c e s s i o n g e n e r a l l y h a s t e n second presidential term, elected officials are as serious is a political talking-point, not a
outlook is grim enough, with an economic recovery, persistent continuing with Bill Clinton’s about our fiscal future as Clinton serious argument. Is Dick Durbin
e s t i m a t e d d e f i c i t o f $ 1 . 5 deficits and continually mounting brave 1993 austerity budget, and was. Republicans are proposing no longer liberal enough for you?
trillion—a new record, and the debt would have ... negative concluding with an agreement damaging cuts in domestic Have you forgotten that fiscal
third consecutive 13-figure result. economic consequences for the between the Clinton discretionary spending (a small restraint and full employment
As for the long-term outlook, it’s United States”—among them, administration and the Gingrich- part of the total budget) while were partners, not adversaries,
not as bad as you’ve read; it’s reduced investment, output, and led House Republicans. ducking far more important little more than a decade ago?
worse. incomes; less room for maneuver Let’s look at a snapshot of the drivers of the long-term deficit Memo to Obama: During your
H e r e ’ s w h y t h e h e a d l i n e s when the next economic crisis eight Clinton years (all numbers problem—such as entitlements. 2008 campaign, you said that the
understate the gravity of our erupts; and worst of all higher expressed as a percentage of Democrats seem to be hoping that president has to be able to walk
situation. CBO is required to use probability that investors would GDP). they can score tactical political and chew gum at the same time.
current law as the basis for its eventually lose confidence in our 1993 2000 points by hanging back and You were absolutely right. You
e s t i m a t e s — t o a s s u m e , f o r country’s creditworthiness and T o t a l s p e n d i n g forcing the Republicans to put can talk, as you should, about
example, that all the Bush tax cuts demand much higher interest 21.4 18.2 specifics on the table. And vital public investments and take
will expire at the end of 2012, that rates. While no one can predict Domestic discretionary although the State of the Union the lead, as you must, to head off
Medicare payments to physicians when that “tipping point” might 3.4 3.0 address left the door open to a a fiscal train wreck.
will be cut sharply, and that the occur, the report notes that as the D e f i c i t serious discussion, not even the During the next two years, we
alternative minimum tax will be global economic recovery gathers 3.9 -2.4 president’s supporters are have to do what Clinton did, and
allowed to affect millions more strength, investors will be less (surplus) claiming that it etched a profile in more. We have to restrain
A m e r i c a n s . U s i n g t h e s e inclined to purchase U.S. Debt held by the public fiscal courage. (As intended, his discretionary spending (defense as
assumptions, taxes as a share of government debt as a safe haven 49.3 34.7 investment message had far more well as domestic) and boost
G D P w o u l d b y a l l o w e d t o and will focus instead on its rising During the Clinton years, resonance.) Senator Kent Conrad, revenues. And because what was
increase by five percentage points risks. spending of all kinds declined as a the Democratic chair of the only a cloud on the horizon in the
by 2014 and would keep on rising What should we do? Answer: share of GDP, deficits turned into Senate Budget Committee, is 1990s—the retirement of the baby
t h e r e a f t e r , w e ’ d h a v e a Use the tax compromise struck surpluses, and debt held by the publicly lamenting the president’s boom generation—is now a
cumulative deficit of about $7 during the lame-duck session of public barely budged: $3.2 trillion unwillingness to join in a budget swelling reality, we have to do
trillion dollars over the next the 111th Congress as a two-year at the beginning, $3.4 at the end. summit with the bipartisan what Clinton didn’t: Namely, find
decade, and debt held by the window to get our house in order. During the Bush years, by congressional leadership. a way to reduce the anticipated
public would increase from 62 By the time that legislation contrast, every form of spending Memo to Republicans: You’re increases in entitlement spending
percent to 77 percent of GDP. expires, we should agree on a increased substantially, surpluses rightly critical of George W. without imposing hardship on the
Using more politically realistic long-term plan that halts and then turned into deficits, and debt held Bush’s fiscal performance. But lower-income elderly who depend
assumptions, the cumulative reverses our downward fiscal by the public almost doubled, there is no evidence—none—that on these programs for a decent
deficit would be about $12 plunge. How should we do it? A from $3.3 to $5.8 trillion. you can get the deficit and debt and dignified old age.
trillion, and debt held by the n u m b e r o f h i g h - l e v e l The experience of the Clinton under control with your preferred William Galston is a contributing
public would reach 97 percent of commissions have come to years contradicts a standard combination of spending cuts and editor for The New Republic.
GDP, the highest level since 1946 roughly the same conclusion: We Republican talking point: tax cuts. Have you noticed that
54 Politics-Left/ Technology/ Newstablet Edition
but tonight it is eerily quiet. There dominated by pro-democratic be participating as citizens, rather
is an unusual amount of elbow youth activists, these post-prayer than as members of specific Alan Taylor
room—make that enough room to protests promise a greater voice Islamist organizations. “Muslim The director who brought Mad
extend one’s arms fully—in for Islamists. And as harshly as Brothers are among the people,” Men to life will now do the same
Tahrir Square, the heart of the city the regime deals with its liberal said Brotherhood official for another 1960s-set drama, the
which many thousands of opponents, it deals with Mohamed Morsi. “They will NBC pilot Playboy.
demonstrators descended on last Islamists—and particularly the move with others to the mosque Alan Taylor was hired late
Tuesday. The steps of the Muslim Brotherhood—far more and make demonstrations with the Thursday to direct the pilot of
Journalists Syndicate, a key locus brutally. The regime views others.” Playboy, which takes place during
of protest that was packed only Islamists, correctly, as its Whatever happens, the linkage of the same era that helped make
yesterday, are completely empty. foremost domestic challenge: prayer and protest—and the fact Mad Men a critical darling. Like
The Lawyers Syndicate is hosting Islamists provide a coherent, if that the protests will originate Mad Men, Playboy is aiming to
a demonstration for the third uncompromising, ideology that from such a wide variety of capture the look and feel of the
straight day, but it is noticeably contrasts sharply with the locations—promises to make this social and cultural revolution of
smaller, and relatively few people regime’s non-ideological the most consequential day of the the early 1960s. The story follows
beyond the participants and the demeanor, and they have further current standoff. And if the the exploits of a group of women Playboy as a cross between Mad
riot police seem to be paying recruited millions of followers regime prevents people from hired to work at a Playboy Club in Men and The Sopranos. "It's a
attention. through intensive interpersonal praying or interferes too overtly in Chicago. provocative title and a sexy
Indeed, after losing round one of networking and the provision of their day of worship, the gloves Taylor directed the first episode world," said 20th Century Fox TV
these anti-authoritarian social services. will surely be off. If Cairo is quiet of Mad Men, titled "Smoke Gets executive vice president Jennifer
demonstrations when protesters To some extent, the greater tonight, it is likely a misleading in Your Eyes," in 2007 and has Nicholson Salke.
stormed Tahrir Square, the involvement of Islamists will be a calm before the storm. directed several more episodes Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine
security forces have won round gift to the regime. Since Tuesday, Eric Trager is a Ph.D. candidate since then, including "Nixon vs. now!
two decisively. Hundreds, at least, state-run television has defended at the University of Pennsylvania. Kennedy" from Season One and This entry passed through the
have been arrested; thousands the government’s brutal He was a Fulbright fellow in "The Mountain King" in Season Full-Text RSS service — if this is
have been tear-gassed; and crackdown by portraying the Egypt from 2006-2007. Two. He has also directed your content and you're reading it
millions have watched their city protests, inaccurately, as the work For more TNR, become a fan on episodes of HBO hits Boardwalk on someone else's site, please read
fall under a police occupation. But of the Brotherhood. The actual Facebook and follow us on Empire, Big Love, Lost, our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/
round three begins tomorrow, involvement of Islamists Twitter. Deadwood, Sex and the City and content-only/faq.php
when the opposition activists have tomorrow will make the regime’s The Sopranos. Five Filters featured article:
called on worshippers to case more convincing to As a matter of fact, executives at Collateral Damage - WikiLeaks In
commence demonstrations international and domestic 20th Century Fox TV — which is The Crosshairs.
producing Playboy, along with
Imagine TV — are positioning
56 TV/ Newstablet Edition
series'Episodes,' a couple of
weeks ago. They had just come Filed under: TV Previews, TV
News Recent Oscar nominee
off their TCA press tour session,
and they were speaking to me
'The Real Housewives of Orange Jesse Eisenberg is set to
host'Saturday Night Live' this
from a private room at the tour's
hotel. It inspired Klarik to
couple whose hit U.K. series is
being adapted for a U.S. network,
County' Season 6 Trailer: Divorce, week alongside musical guest
Nicki Minaj, but he could have
describe why a phone in the
bathroom isn't as luxurious a
and the show is getting lost in
translation. Among the
Catfights and Gold Diggers another very special visitor attend
notion as it once was, thanks to adaptations the network has Jean Bentley (TV Squad) shouts "Your husband was rude to tomorrow night's taping.
cell phones. "suggested"? Matt LeBlanc as the Submitted at 1/28/2011 7:30:00 AM my husband!" before a shoving According to the New York Post,
"You know, sometimes I'll be star of the show. We talked about match breaks out. Ah, it feels Mark Zuckerberg is angling to
talking to my mother, she lives in whether LeBlanc was reluctant to Filed under: TV Previews'The good to be back. appear on the episode. A source
Florida, and in the middle, I'll play himself, if the executives Real Housewives of Orange Though Lynne Curtin isn't listed told the paper that the Facebook
hear like tinkling and I'll realize depicted on the show are accurate, C o u n t y ' m i g h t ' v e b e e n as a full-time cast member, she founder wants "to show he has a
she's talking to me while she's and which show of theirs they o v e r s h a d o w e d b y t h e i r pops up in the trailer along with sense of humor" after complaining
peeing. And I'm like 'Oh gee, wish was still on the air. counterparts in Beverly Hills, former Housewife Jeana Keough. publicly that he was portrayed
Ma!'" Permalink| Email this| Linking Atlanta, New York and New The newbies this season are poorly in 'The Social Network.'
After the fun, we talked about the Blogs| Comments Jersey these past few years, but Peggy Tanous, a stay-at-home- Dueling Zuckerbergs? We're in.
series, where Tamsin Greig and Bravo's trailer for the newest mom-slash-model, and Fernanda It'll be best if 'SNL' uses him in an
Shaun Marcum play a British season of the original Housewives Rocha, the first lesbian cast actual sketch, but we have a
proves they haven't lost their flair member. feeling he's going to be relegated
for the dramatic just yet. 'The Real Housewives of Orange to a short Weekend Update guest
In the one-and-a-half-minute clip, County' season 6 premieres Sun., spot. Either way, the results could
t h e l a d i e s t a l k v a g i n a l March 6 at 10PM ET on Bravo. be great.
rejuvenation, the danger of gold Watch the trailer after the jump. Watch Eisenberg's promos for
diggers (pot, meet kettle) and Permalink| Email this| Linking this week's show after the jump.
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Danko sneers at the Western legal joined his fellow foreign heel the Communist bad guys just don't
Ephesians 3:16 (01-28-
niceties that keep Chicago cops
like Jim Belushi's Art Ridzic from
Iron Sheik in an axis of Russian-
Iranian evil, capturing the WWF
pack the same punch they used to
- even a remake of Red Dawn 11)
really knocking some heads. Tag-Team title in 1985 only to featuring the Chinese as bad guys (Verse of the Day) valley of dry bones (Ezekiel 37).
Would YOU want this guy lose it to "the U.S. Express" a few has been indefinitely shelved. Submitted at 1/28/2011 2:00:00 AM And this same Holy Spirit will
finding cocaine in your artifical months later. Darn the luck. Like their real-life counterparts, it strengthen those we love in the
leg? Unnamed Soviet agent, Spies seems, the scary fictional Soviets I pray that out of his glorious Lord if we ask for him to! My
Near as I can tell, despite his Like Us of the '80s will remain relics of a riches he may strengthen you with Prayer... Mighty and awesome
ideal look for the role, this is the In the era of Anna Kournikova bygone age. If they die, they die. power through his Spirit in your God, I have several brothers and
only time Arnie ever played a and Russian mail-order brides, it's But I know I must have left some inner being. sisters in Christ who need your
Soviet. He probably figured he'd funny to recall that the out. What pop-cultural Russian — Ephesians 3:16(NIV) Thoughts grace, mercy, and power poured
have plenty of time for that. Little stereotypical Soviet woman was spectres gave you nightmares? on Today's Verse... What is one of into their lives by your Spirit.
did he, or anyone, know. once a husky, wart-faced If you read this far, you might the most important things we can Some need to be convicted of
Nikolai Volkoff, World babushka who smelled strongly of also like: do for those we love in the Lord? their sinfulness. Some need
Wrestling Federation rotting potatoes. But then there • The 12 Most Eighties-Style We can pray for them. But more strength and courage for their
Pro wrestling is nothing without were Red temptresses like this, Superheroes and Supervillains than that, we can pray that God difficult road ahead. Some need
its villains. Nikolai Volkoff didn't from the Dan Aykroyd/Chevy • 6 Songs About The Iran will strengthen them with power power to overcome besetting sin
just want to hit you with a chair - Chase vehicle Spies Like Us, who Hostage Crisis through his indwelling Spirit. This in their lives. Please strengthen
he wanted to put you in a camp made adolescent boys consider same Holy Spirit raised Jesus them with your power in their
and force your children to dig up that perhaps it wouldn't be so bad from death (Eph. 1:19). This same inner being through your Holy
beets. Actually a Croatian named to be conquered by the Soviet Holy Spirit is God's great gift for Spirit. In Jesus' name I pray.
Josip Peruzovic, he wisely Union. (Never mind that she was those who ask (Luke 11:13). This Amen.
guessed that WWF fans wouldn't actually played by British actress same Holy Spirit reanimated a
know the difference. Volkoff Vanessa Angel.)
General Motors speeds nationwide sources, reported that Pouncey to be serious enough to put his
had a broken bone in his left ankle status for Super Bowl XLV in
to go with a sprain. Damage to question.
rollout of Chevrolet Volt ankle ligaments remains the major Defensive end Aaron Smith
obstacle for Pouncey, the report continues to be limited in practice
said.
Consumer Reports Shopping and deliveries will begin in the no corresponding announcement participation, as he has been for
Blog (Consumer Reports) third quarter of this year in of any additional production Pouncey said after Sunday's the past three weeks. He has not
Submitted at 1/28/2011 10:34:04 AM Delaware, Florida, Georgia, beyond the 10,000 units it has game that he intended on playing played since tearing a triceps Oct.
Hawaii, Maryland, North promised for this year, nor its in the Super Bowl. He was seen in 24 and is not expected to be ready
G e n e r a l M o t o r s s p e e d s Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, projection of 30,000 sales in a c a s t a n d o n c r u t c h e s to face the Green Bay Packers on
nationwide rollout of Chevrolet South Carolina, Virginia, and 2012. That leads us to wonder if W e d n e s d a y ; l a t e r t h a t d a y , Feb. 6.
Volt Washington. the company is having trouble teammate Chris Kemoeatu told Information from The Associated
General Motors announced Deliveries to other states won’t getting enough orders for the reporters that Pouncey was not Press was used in this report.
Thursday that it would speed up start until sometime in the fourth $41,000 compact sedan in the going to play in the Super Bowl. This entry passed through the
the rollout of its Chevrolet Volt quarter. initial rollout states. Kemoeatu backed off those Full-Text RSS service — if this is
plug-in hybrid to all 50 states by This announcement comes on the — Eric Evarts comments Thursday. your content and you're reading it
the end of this year. heels of reports in December that Subscribe now! Also not practicing for the on someone else's site, please read
The Volt is currently available in N i s s a n w a s h a v i n g t r o u b l e S u b s c r i b e t o Steelers was starting cornerback our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/
California, New York, New delivering many of the all-electric ConsumerReports.org for expert Bryant McFadden, who has a content-only/faq.php
Jersey, Connecticut, Texas, and Leaf hatchbacks that customers Ratings, buying advice and strained abdomen. McFadden also Five Filters featured article:
Washington, D.C. GM says it have ordered. Some observers reliability on hundreds of did not practice early last week, Collateral Damage - WikiLeaks In
expects sales in Michigan to begin have seen it as a feather in GM’s products. Update your feed but he returned to practice Friday The Crosshairs.
to begin this spring. Chevrolet cap that it is beating Nissan to the preferences and played Sunday -- albeit with a
d e a l e r s w i l l b e g i n t a k i n g nationwide rollout.
nationwide orders by this June, Interestingly, however, GM made
64 Sports/ Newstablet Edition
Tennessee Titans coach Jeff Fisher says split is best for him
and franchise
ESPN.com news services I'll move forward with whatever future. I think we have good He also had losing skids of at treat us like men.
(ESPN.com) happens in the future." players. I believe in [senior least five games in five of the last "He's a guy you could always talk
Submitted at 1/28/2011 12:53:09 PM The team announced the split executive vice president] Steve seven seasons. to about your situation and was
Thursday night, shocking players, Underwood and [general He has coached more NFL games respectful of his players. I really
Updated: January 28, 2011, 1:53 assistant coaches and the rest of manager] Mike Reinfeldt to find for one franchise than all but six don't have anything bad to say
PM ET the NFL because owner Bud our next head coach." Titans Fish Hall of Famers: George Halas, about coach Fisher."
NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Jeff Adams decided three weeks ago for Answers Tom Landry, Don Shula, Chuck Reinfeldt noted Fisher's departure
Fisher said he and the Tennessee to keep Fisher for the final year of The Titans' record took a tumble Noll, Curly Lambeau and Bud didn't change the Titans' decision
Titans had reached a point where his contract. in Jeff Fisher's past few seasons. Grant. He ranks third among to either trade quarterback Vince
it was "time to move on" and part A source told ESPN.com's John Titans, Past 3 Seasons 2008 2009 active coaches in career wins with Young or release him later this
ways with each other after 16 full Clayton that one of the final 2010 W-L 13-3* 8-8 6-10 PPG a record of 147-126, behind only offseason. The general manager
seasons. disagreements that led to Fisher's 23.4 22.1 22.3 Opp YPG 293.6 Bill Belichick (176) and Mike also noted Fisher just finished his
Fisher, who declined to address departure involved his son, 365.6 367.7 Turnover diff+14-4- Shanahan (160), and he is 20th in 17th season with the organization
specific details about the decision, Brandon. Fisher wanted to have 4*Top seed in AFC career coaching victories. and called the feat unbelievable in
acknowledged some differences his son on the staff as a quality • More notes from ESPN Stats & He could coach again this season. a difficult job that takes a toll.
with the team, but said Friday control coach and thought it Info A team executive noted that's up "He was the face of the franchise
morning it was the best decision would be approved. Brandon powered by to Fisher, but the coach wouldn't for such a long time," Reinfeldt
in the wake of two difficult Fisher helped out during the The search to replace Fisher is speculate when asked if he might said. "At the same time, I think
seasons. The Titans rebounded s e a s o n w h i l e o f f e n s i v e already under way, and Reinfeldt work on television for a season. change is part of the NFL. You
from an 0-6 start to finish 8-8 in coordinator Mike Heimerdinger and Underwood will handle the "I think I need the rest. Those that look other places where change
2009, then wasted a 5-2 start in was receiving cancer treatment. process. The only timetable is "as coach 10 years that take a year off has happened, change can be a
2010 by losing eight of their final For several years, Adams has long as it takes." Underwood said are three times better coaches ... wonderful thing, and we can use
10 games for a 6-10 record. Mike stressed that he didn't want family reports of the coach's settlement at in year 11. I'm going to take that change to get us to where we
and Mike in the Morning hired to the Titans' coaching staff $8 million were "erroneous." time," Fisher said. want to be."
ESPN NFL analyst Ron Jaworski and he apparently stuck by those Among the four major U.S. Titans linebacker Stephen Information from The Associated
explains why he wasn't surprised p r i n c i p l e s t h i s w e e k i n sports, only Jerry Sloan with the Tulloch told The (Nashville) Press was used in this report.
Jeff Fisher was dismissed from c o n v e r s a t i o n s w i t h F i s h e r . NBA's Utah Jazz has been with Tennessean that he believes This entry passed through the
the Titans. Plus, Jaworski says Speaking Friday by telephone the same team longer than Fisher Fisher would be in demand Full-Text RSS service — if this is
he'd take Terry Bradshaw over from Houston, Adams said teams had been with the Titans. Andy around the league "because he's a your content and you're reading it
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More Podcasts » a point when it's time for change. over as the NFL's longest-tenured respected." our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/
"I've been coaching for 24 years, "This is where we are," Adams coach, having finished up his 12th "At the end of the day, he's a content-only/faq.php
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wise this is a perfect opportunity both the team and Jeff will benefit relocation from Houston to somebody I can definitely say a The Crosshairs.
to do this so the organization can in the long run from this move. Tennessee and took the Titans to lot of players enjoyed playing for.
move forward with their plan, and Now I'm still confident about our their lone Super Bowl appearance. He knew how to coach us and
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In addition to walking off Aaron Rodgers, who has already on such hits, the risk/reward ratio
yardage against the transgressing suffered two concussions this of these fouls still makes it
team, football could establish a season. tempting for tacklers to hit
virtual penalty box that forces a "He lowers his head, leads with quarterbacks this way.
team to use 10 men instead of the the crown and it's helmet-to- Even a loss of 15 yards is worth
usual 11 for one or more plays helmet,'' FOX announcer Troy the risk if such a collision puts a
after a dangerous foul. Aikman said while watching the star quarterback out of a game or
An example of the need for such replay. "It's a wonder there that leaves him at less than his best. So
a rule came Sunday in the NFC Rodgers (was) even able to get why not do it? Even a fine of
Championship Game when the up.'' $10,000 is a small deterrent,
Green Bay Packers defeated the The screen showed Rodgers especially if a player earning
Chicago Bears, 21-14, for the rising slowly and with difficulty millions of dollars has bonus
right to play Pittsburgh in the to his feet with blood on his money in a contract related to
Super Bowl.
In the fourth quarter, defensive
end Julius Peppers of the Bears
tongue while Peppers argued with
the officials. In addition to the
Bears losing 15 yards, Peppers
overall team success.
Flames Take Hot Streak
was penalized 15 yards for
delivering a blind-side hit to the
was fined $10,000, it was reported
a few days later. Into Break FLAMES page 67
head of Packers quarterback Despite the league's crackdown Rita Mingo (FanHouse Main)
Friday, 28 Jan 2011 11:21 AM Friday, 28 Jan 2011 11:44 AM To Silence Protesters,
Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt By Dan Weil
Romney(pictured) has placed at or Senate Majority Leader Harry Egypt Unplugs Itself
near the top of polls for potential Reid took umbrage with President From the Internet
Republican 2012 presidential Barack Obama’s pledge in his
candidates. But an ominous sign State of the Union address to veto
Entirely
has emerged for him: several any bill with earmarks in it. But Rebecca Boyle (Popular
Republican bigwigs who the White House isn’t backing Science - New Technology,
supported his presidential down, The Hill reports. Science News, The Future
Now)
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now, Politico reports. Robert Gibbs says that if a bill spends far, far more than it takes Submitted at 1/28/2011 10:45:02 AM
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Gregg of New Hampshire, whose of South Carolina: Sen. Jim president, "he will veto it, and he © Newsmax. All rights reserved. the street in front of The l-
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Egypt this week, with calls for the reaches far beyond the protesters coming in or out.
president to resign and outcries to Egypt's entire economy. "There is literally no route. It's as
over the jailing of political Cowie's Internet-monitoring firm, if the entire country disappeared,"
dissidents, the government shut Renesys, said "every Egyptian Cowie said.
off the Internet Friday. provider, every business, bank, A wholesale shutoff, rather than
"According to our analysis, 88 internet cafe, website, school, some blocked tweets, may be
percent of the ‘Egyptian Internet' embassy and government office more likely to spark interest from
has fallen off the Internet,'" said that relied on the big four other governments. "We are
Andree Toonk at BGPmon, a Egyptian ISPs for their internet concerned that communication
monitoring site that checks connectivity is now cut off from services, including the Internet,
connectivity of countries and the rest of the world. Link Egypt, social media and even this tweet,
networks, to the Guardian. Vodafone/Raya, Telecom Egypt, are being blocked in Egypt," State
The Internet went dead around Etisalat Misr, and all their Department spokesman P. J.
midnight Egypt time on Friday, customers and partners are, for the Crowley said on Twitter.
and at the same time, the few moment, off the air." The Internet and social media
companies that pipe Internet The Egyptian Stock Market is were key instruments of
connections into and out of Egypt
went dark as well, the AP said.
still online, however, because the
ISP that powers it, Noor Group,
communication during the 2009-
2010 election protests in Iran,
Watch for Zuckerberg
The government apparently
wields enough control over the
country's Internet service
was left alone.
In this country, discussions about
shutting off the Internet have
dubbed the "Twitter Revolution"
for the site's importance in
allowing protesters to
on “SNL” Tomorrow
Charlie White (Mashable!) program last month, where
providers that it shut them all centered on attacks from other communicate with each other.
down at once, something that is nations. Sen. Joe Lieberman Now it appears Egypt wants to Submitted at 1/28/2011 12:27:07 PM WikiLeaks founder Julian
unprecedented in the history of wants to give the president an prevent communication Assange ended up looking like a
the Internet, according to network Internet "kill switch" that would altogether. Oscar nominee Jesse Eisenberg hero.
security expert Jim Cowie. disconnect America from [ AP] h osts Saturday Night Live Our guess? Zuckerberg will do a
This is a departure from other incoming worldwide traffic. But it tomorrow night, but the big cameo walk-on similar to those
regimes' attempts to quash online probably wouldn't work anyway, question is: Will the real Mark done by President Barack Obama
communication- typically, a few because hackers would use proxy Zuckerberg appear alongside and Sarah Palin.
websites are blocked, not the servers and other workarounds to him? [via All Facebook]
entire pipeline. That was the case circumvent any blockade. The Facebook CEO and his More About: Cameo Appearance,
earlier this week, as Egyptian That may be why Egypt shut off handlers remain quiet about the jesse eisenberg, mark zuckerberg,
ISPs restricted access to social the whole thing, security experts possibility of him stepping before snl
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Nnamdi Asomugha
(Mensfitness.com) I knew that once it came to that party and go out and do all that
Submitted at 1/28/2011 2:00:00 AM point, a decision was going to stuff like that anymore. I felt like I
have to be made. had a responsibility to everyone to
by Brandon Guarneri| Print On the field, lots of opposing show up.
Article| Email to Friend QB's are so intimidated by you Did you learn anything from
Four-time Pro Bowl cornerback that they won't even throw to your Charles Woodson when he was on
Nnamdi Asomugha showed up at side of the field. How do you stay the team? He's enjoyed a career
MF's New York office looking focused mentally when teams are resurgence in Green Bay, and he's
nothing like a superstar NFL going the other direction no a big reason the Packers are in the
athlete, which makes sense for a matter where you line up? Super Bowl.
guy that's still a mystery to most You always stay focused in the When he was in Oakland, the
casual fans. Wearing jeans, game, because at any point they stuff that I learned from him
sneakers and a hoodie, without can come at you. And it's wasn't really "X's and O's"
being flanked by a publicist, he happened to me before. That one football type stuff. The stuff that I
was practically anonymous. moment where you've gotten into learned from him was just about
Maybe he's just used to it. He's a routine, that's when they try to the swag that you have to have
widely considered to be the best catch you off guard. I don't think when you're on the field, that
defensive backs in the game, yet you can ever get bored or lose confidence in the way you move.
some can't pronounce his last focus as a competitor. I sat back as a young guy and just
name (HINT: try Ahh-Sum-Wah.) You've been considered one of watched that, and it helps having
After earning nearly $30 million guys go out and the plan is to the NFL and realized I wasn't as
the best CB's in the league for the that type of internal confidence
in the first two years of the three- work out with another 30 guys. prepared for it as I thought I was.
last five seasons. Year in and year when you go out there that you're
year deal, the Raiders recently And some guys feed off that, In high school, you can just go out
out, how do you stay on top? the best. It was like nothing ever
voided his contract, surprisingly whereas I feed off a smaller there and play. In the NFL it was
I think it's just the amount of fazed him on the field.
making the star cornerback a free g r o u p , m o s t l y j u s t f r i e n d s , so much more mental. It was
hours that you put into whatever it You did say you're interested in
agent right in his prime. And because I'm a little more focused probably about my second or third
is that you do. I'm one of the guys returning back to the Raiders if
while Asomugha can't negotiate when I do it that way. And I'm a year in the NFL when it clicked
that thinks you have to spend a lot that's something that develops, is
with teams until the NFL's owners big time basketball fan, so I'll and it was like, you have a chance
of time at whatever your craft is that right? Certainly the door isn't
and players union reach a new always shoot hoops during the to be great, you have to hone your
in order to sustain it, and in order closed there.
collective bargaining agreement, period between now and March. skills.
to get better at it. If you have Right, the door is not closed at
just about every team in the You've been dominant for so What did you do differently?
those goals, you have to continue all, and obviously when we go
league will be interested when long. Do you remember back My focus changed. The first
to focus your attention on them. into free agency anything can
that times comes. So we jumped when you first realized you were couple of years in the league it
You can't just think things are happen and all doors are open,
on the chance to find out how on a different level than those was just go out and play and have
going to happen. pretty much, for me. So yeah, that
Asomugha plans to stay on top of around you? fun. It was just making a lot of
How are you approaching this off door will never be closed for me.
his game this off-season. In high school, my dream was to young decisions as opposed to
-season in terms of training? Related articles:
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I'll be in Los Angeles. That's my MF Interview: Michael Strahan
signed that contract, that you recruiting came around, the letters At the time I wasn't playing much
home—that's where I'm from, MF Interview: LaMarr Woodley
might end up leaving Oakland? f o r f o o t b a l l c o m p a r e d t o because we had two cornerbacks,
where I was raised. I always go MF Interview: Ndamukong Suh
There was a huge salary number basketball were like 25 to one, Charles Woodson and Philip
back to L.A. and train. It's all [on Facebook, Digg, Reddit and
due for you this year. and my one wasn't from Duke. I Buchanon. I was the guy that
about feel for me, it's all about more]
I knew that something could just loved being a part of the comes off the bench and runs
how my body feels, what I feel I This entry passed through the
happen, but you know, you're sport, and it wasn't something that down on special teams. And once
need to work on as far as speed,
never sure of it or planning for it. I really took that seriously. It I was thrown into the starting NNAMDI page 75
agility or strength. A lot of times
became a business when I got to lineup, it kind of hit me. I can't
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NNAMDI
Seven Tips for Winter Running continued from page 74
Muscle Mixers
(Mensfitness.com)
Submitted at 1/28/2011 3:00:00 AM
A Sputnik Moment?
Submitted at 1/28/2011 3:00:41 AM
inside their borders. seemed to be seized with a sudden #page#In fact, by 1960, the U.S. #ad#The Democrats did seize the
#ad#It is hard to imagine today worry that our defenses had led the Soviets in every aspect of “Sputnik Moment” to expand the
Who does the president think he what a huge advantage totalitarian crumbled, but also with an equally nuclear weapons and delivery federal government’s role in
is kidding? states had in the pre-Sputnik era. unjustified alarm that our entire technology, especially in education. Eisenhower conceded
D emocrats should be careful They were closed societies, educational system was submarine-launched missiles. that there was a national
when they invoke Sputnik. Their allowing the rest of the world to defective.” The Democrats would Instead of listening to the emergency that justified
party’s response to the Soviet see only a carefully molded image not let a good crisis go to waste. president’s reassurances, the temporarily spending federal
Union’s achievement may have of military strength, political Sen. Stuart Symington (D., Ct.) media chose to believe dollars on science and math
helped win them three elections, regimentation, and economic was one of those who accused the Khrushchev’s claim that missiles instruction, and thanks to his
in 1958, 1960, and 1962, but it success. They were aided in this Eisenhower administration of were coming off the Soviet support, the National Defense
also helped bring about the Cuban by Western intellectuals, being in a “state of complacency assembly lines “like sausages.” In Education Act passed Congress in
missile crisis and durably journalists, and celebrities such as not justified by the facts.” He the 1960 election, John F. August 1958. The act allocated $1
poisoned the political atmosphere George Bernard Shaw, Walter claimed that by 1962, Russia Kennedy promised to close the billion over four years. But
around national-security issues. Duranty, and Charles Lindbergh. would have 3,000 intercontinental missile gap. He taunted Richard Eisenhower feared the impact this
After Sputnik was launched on From Hitler’s march into the ballistic missiles. Official U.S. Nixon, saying, “I think that color money would have. He wrote,
Oct. 4, 1957, President Rhineland in 1936 to the Soviet intelligence estimates gave that television is not as important as “the process of taking money
Eisenhower reacted calmly; he invasion of Hungary in 1956, number as 500; the recently rocket thrust.” Given the briefings away from citizens to return it to
knew that by not complaining Western governments had to published third volume of Boris he had received, he knew that the localities for special (educational)
about the overflight of U.S. estimate the strength of their Chertok’s memoir Rockets and U.S. was ahead in both television purposes implies a centralization
territory by the Soviet spacecraft, enemies in a fog of ignorance. People: Hot Days of the Cold War and rockets, but he could not let of wisdom in Washington that
he was setting a precedent. He Spy satellites dispersed that fog. claims that in 1962, “the US had the truth get in the way of a good certainly does not necessarily
understood the significance of Totalitarian power became a lot 5,000 units of nuclear weaponry political jab at Nixon. At least one exist.”
Sputnik in large part because in less total. supported by delivery systems (to biography claims that as The Nation, then as now the
1953, almost immediately after From a strategic point of view, strike the territory of the USSR) president, JFK said, “Who ever principal voice of the Left, wanted
taking office, he had ordered work Sputnik was a Soviet blunder of against the USSR’s 300 units.” believed in the missile gap more, but noted that “the bill does
to begin on America’s first spy the first magnitude. If the Yet the Democrats launched an anyway?” at least crack the ice of resistance
satellite, the WS-117. As the Americans had gone first, it unceasing campaign on the theme When the Kennedy to federal aid to education.” How
Russians were basking in the would have given Russia a chance of a missile gap. Accusing administration exposed the Soviet right they were; there is nothing
glow of their space triumph, to demonize all space operations Eisenhower, of all people, of bluff, Khrushchev’s response was quite so immortal as temporary
Deputy Secretary of Defense as imperialist aggression in the failing to understand a vital to deploy almost all of his government spending. In spite of
Donald Quarles said that the heavens. Every U.S. satellite military question would seem medium- and intermediate-range all the racial injustices that thrived
Soviets “might have done us a launch would have been ridiculous. But thanks to Sputnik, missiles to Cuba. Having relied on in late-1950s America, its overall
good turn unintentionally, in denounced as a crime against to the need to keep America’s spy the illusion of the missile gap for educational standards are now to
establishing the concept of humanity. The U.S. space -satellite program secret, and to so long, the Soviet leader thought be found only in places such as
international freedom of space.” program in both its civil and the partisans in the media, they he had to make a desperate Singapore and South Korea.
Three years later, when the first military aspects would have been convinced a lot of voters that the gamble in order to restore his lost Study after study shows that our
U.S. spy satellites successfully crippled. Republicans had neglected the prestige. If, beginning in 1957, the educational system results in “A
delivered pictures from deep But from a propaganda point of defense of the nation in favor of Democrats had clearly and Nation at Risk,” the federal
inside the USSR, no one in view, Sputnik was a triumph, and budgetary restraint. This after explicitly said that Eisenhower’s government’s investment grows,
Moscow denounced the in this they were aided and eight years in which more than 10 sober assessment of the balance of and the system keeps failing.
Americans for violations of the abetted by America’s Democrats. percent of GDP had been devoted forces between the two President Obama’s call for
sacred airspace of Mother Russia. President Eisenhower later wrote to defense, and in an era when the superpowers was largely correct, 10,000 new science, technology,
The U.S. no longer needed to fly that “in the weeks and months U.S. still had a largely conscript the world might have been spared
U-2 missions in order to look after Sputnik, many Americans force. that near catastrophe. SPUTNIK page 88
78 Politics-Right/ Newstablet Edition
Khomeini’s Return?
Arnold Ahlert (FrontPage reportedly aroused in similar
Magazine » FrontPage) fashion by the killing of Khaled
Submitted at 1/27/2011 10:50:58 PM Said, a young Egyptian who was
reportedly beaten to death by two
What happened in Tunisia policemen in Alexandria last year.
apparently hasn’t stayed in Further reports revealed that both
Tunisia. Reportedly organized via Facebook and Twitter were
the website Facebook, 90,000 instrumental in the organization of
Egyptians agreed to demonstrate the demonstrations and their
in a “National Day of Wrath” on coordination. Demands posted on
Police Day, an Egyptian national Facebook were far-reaching: the
holiday. Demonstrators marched protesters are insisting that
in Alexandria, the Nile Delta Mubarak and Prime Minister
cities of Mansura and Tanta, and Ahmed Nazif resign, that the
the southern cities of Aswan and parliament be dissolved, and that
Assiut, witnesses a national unity government be
reported. Thousands massed in instituted. In response, the
the capital city of Cairo, government has reportedly shut
congregating at the central Tahrir down mobile phone and internet
(Liberation) Square on Tuesday networks, and blocked both
chanting, ”Down with Hosni Twitter and Facebook accounts.
Mubarak, down with the tyrant. At the heart of the protests are a
We don’t want you!” All across dismal economy, an oppressive
the Muslim world turmoil is government, and widespread
erupting — Tunisia, Egypt, corruption. Egypt is a country of
Lebanon, and now Yemen. The 83 million people,
frightening possibility is that, approximately 60 percent of
rather than being a force for whom are under 30. That
liberation, these regional protests demographic also comprises 90
may in fact be undermining percent of the unemployed. About
democracy by imperiling pro- 40 percent live below the poverty
Western allies one-by-one and line, set by the World Bank at
fertilizing the soil for Khomeini- $2.00 a day, and one-third of the
like Islamic factions to gain country is illiterate. Egypt is
power and sow their killing fields. ranked 138th out of 167 countries
It could be the Iranian Revolution on the Democracy Index, as
of 1979 all over again in these compiled by The Economist
nations, and if it is, it represents a Despite claims by the Interior that another opposition We will be millions,” one activist magazine, a respected source for
horrific scenario for Western and Ministry that the Muslim group, Sixth of April Youth, was wrote on its website. As in measuring political freedom. As
Israeli interests — as well as for Brotherhood, Egypt’s largest responsible for the uprising. Tunisia, where protesters were recently as last November,
the people who will find opposition group (although ”Tomorrow, don’t go to work. apparently inspired by the death Egyptians rioted to protest what
themselves the victims of the legally banned), is to blame for Don’t go to college. We will all of a poor Tunisian vegetable they characterized as a “rigged”
Islamist bloodbaths that will by the mobilization, the Evening go down to the streets and stand vendor who set himself on fire to
necessity ensue. KHOMEINI’S page 87
Standard of London is reporting hand in hand for you, our Egypt. protest corruption, Egyptians were
82 Politics-Right/ Newstablet Edition
Evil-Man Economics
Submitted at 1/28/2011 3:00:53 AM
have produced an analysis that bubble was cheered on by the went looking for somewhere to losses were concentrated in a
relies upon and reinforces the American government, the invest: Where better than the small number of firms, and
C hairman Phil Angelides and the mythology of the Left, producing American consumer, and the American mortgage market, because those firms were
Democratic majority on the a document that may as well have American banker, because nearly where a great many of the dramatically over-leveraged. If
F i n a n c i a l C r i s i s I n q u i r y been written by Rolling Stone’s everybody likes appreciating asset underlying loans were insured by there is a public-policy proposal
Commission have released their Matt “Vampire Squid” Taibbi, prices and the illusion of wealth the government or its proxies? to be extracted from this mess, it
r e p o r t , a t e x t b o o k - w o r t h y minus the literary flair. that accompanies them. When the Third, we would need to is that in a world of “too big to
example of the “Evil Man School Yes, this crisis was avoidable. To dot-com bubble burst, convince a great many Americans fail” banks -- and, like it or not,
of Economics.” Something went avoid it, we would have had to do Washington responded the way not to take out mortgages they that is the world in which we live
wrong, and a villain must be a number of things differently. Washington always responds: by could not afford should their -- large financial institutions
identified. This is tediously The first is to alert the authorities, slashing interest rates, hoping that houses fail to appreciate, and should be subject to tighter
familiar territory for those who beginning in the 1930s, that a sluice of cheap money and easy convince a great many financial leverage controls, with higher
have followed the political federal policies designed to credit sloshing through the managers not to make bad standards for capital reserves and
e s t a b l i s h m e n t ’ s y e a r s - l o n g encourage homeownership -- well economy would stimulate investments large enough to bring liquidity. That dry, technical
attempt to evade responsibility for -intentioned though they have productive economic activity, or down their firms. reform would solve most of the
the crisis of which it was a cause. been -- would create, and today the illusion of productive Mr. Angelides, formerly the problems that we might hope to
#ad#“We conclude this crisis was continue to sustain, a set of economic activity, sufficient to treasurer of California, should solve with new financial
avoidable,” they write. “The crisis economic incentives driving vast disguise the damage done by the know something about man-made regulation, but it would not
was the result of human action amounts of capital from around bubble. Having been burned by financial disasters. And the truth provide any emotional satisfaction
and inaction, not of Mother the world into the U.S. residential unprofitable start-ups at home and is that Goldman Sachs did not to those who wish to use this
Nature or computer models gone real-estate market. From the disappointing emerging-market cause this crisis, and neither did crisis to rail against executive
haywire.” That much is hardly Federal Housing Administration investments abroad, a great many Barney Frank. Bad investments, bonuses, which had almost
objectionable. But which human to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to Americans decided to invest that economics, and well-meaning nothing to do with the problem, or
actions? On that question, the the mortgage-interest deduction, easy money in houses. government policies caused it. to those who wish to sermonize
commission’s report is both U . S . g o v e r n m e n t p o l i c i e s Washington was keeping interest There were, and are, bad actors in about the alleged moral failings of
implausible and nakedly political: distorted the market, creating a rates down and encouraging the this story. But the main problems capitalism. Still less would it offer
T h e E v i l M e n a r e g r e e d y massive misallocation of capital loosening of mortgage-lending have been the natural limitations any political opportunity to
corporate executives and Wall under the naïve theory that standards; at the same time, on human knowledge, including former real-estate developer Phil
Street moneymen, and the crisis housing prices only move in one Washington’s creatures, Fannie the knowledge of government Angelides and his Wall
might have been averted if only direction: up. Mae and Freddie Mac, helped officials and the managers of Street–backed Democratic
they had been endowed with The second action would be to give the mortgage market enough large financial institutions. colleagues, who wish to use the
sufficient moral fiber -- or had an prevent the dot-com bubble of the liquidity to alarm Noah. They The dot-com bubble actually crisis as an opportunity to expand
appropriately mindful policeman 1990s, of which the housing- were helped mightily in that destroyed more wealth than did the size and scope of the
appointed over them, which is the market meltdown was both an endeavor by the rise of massive the decline in housing prices; the managerial state that did so much
real point of the Angelides report. echo and a consequence. Like the savings in China and elsewhere in housing meltdown became a crisis to create it. The Editors
Which is to say, the Democrats real-estate bubble, the dot-com the developing world, all of which because the related securities
TRUTH
continued from page 78
Development Program, “the unknown, and perhaps to pay for Throw in the corruption and solar panels.
U.N.’s flagship anti-poverty consultants who were helping chaos of the United Nations, and A new “Earth Summit” is President Obama's storytellers
agency,” and see how their big those officials renovate their it’s easy to see how the already scheduled for Rio de Janeiro in recently launched a White House
initiative to create “green” jobs administrations.” Green jobs are appalling cost of American green May 2012, where the agenda will blog series called "Voices of
was coming along. still fabulously expensive in the jobs would double or triple into include giving “Increased Health Reform," where "readers
The agency threw out a lot of United States, with our more the figures hidden by shady U.N. momentum to the notion of can meet average Americans
conflicting answers, eventually modest, Charles Rangel levels of accounting. Efficient investment “sustainable development in a already benefiting from the health
coming up with a “curiously corruption. Depending on who of its funds was never the object global green economy, and to reform law."
specific” number of 5280 “green you ask, the cost per job ranges of the game for the UNDP establish new instruments of I propose a new White House
jobs” created – a figure Fox from $50,000 to over $100,000 anyway. Russell writes of the global governance to make those series: "Voices of Health Reform
reporter George Russell gently apiece. philosophical debate under way in changes permanent.” I’m sure that Waivers," where taxpayers can
suggests they might have pulled The green jobs hustle is an the environmentalist community: permanent global government meet all the politically connected
out of the united posteriors.(If that example of politicians attempting “The old view was that poverty would display all the fiduciary unions benefiting from exclusive
number sounds strangely familiar, to override the laws of basic and environmental decay went responsibility and accounting get-out-of-ObamaCare passes --
it just happens to be the exact economics. A job is not a product hand in hand, as poor people rigor of the United Nations after squandering millions of their
number of feet in a mile.) to be manufactured, or a gift that abused scarce natural resources in Development Program. Every workers' dues to lobby for the job-
Stumbling through the billowing can be bestowed by a benevolent the struggle to survive. The new Republican presidential candidate killing, private insurance-
clouds of smoke pouring out of State. Jobs are the sustained view is that the so-called “poverty in 2012 should make it clear that sabotaging law from which they
the UNDP, Russell tripped over demand for labor, created in -environment nexus” can be under his or her leadership, are now exempt.
documentation that “appeared to response to opportunity. If the managed differently so that America will take a pass on that At the end of last year, the
be in vast disarray,” in which economy wanted green jobs, it environmentalist projects can lead “global governance.” We have Department of Health and Human
“portions of the electronic would create them without poor people to win new plenty of corrupt bureaucracies on Services had granted some 222
paperwork appeared to have been massive government subsidies – employment and better standards our own soil, and we’re done temporary waivers to businesses
openly altered.” which must be sustained over of living in the global ‘green trying to conjure jobs by burning small and large, insurers, labor
The initial cost figure for those long periods of time, since jobs economy’ - especially at a time huge piles of taxpayer money. It’s and other organizations that offer
5280 jobs provided by the UNDP, that vanish after a few months when traditional anti-poverty aid just not environmentally sensitive. affordable health insurance or
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waiver recipient -- the left- passage that "finally, affordable enrollees; and SEIU Health & ultimate goal, as I've reported
leaning, nationalized health care- and comprehensive health care Welfare Fund, representing 1,620 before: forcing a massive shift
promoting Robert Wood Johnson coverage will be available for enrollees. from private to public insurance
Foundation -- has direct ties to the millions of working Americans" - That's in addition to three other designed by government-knows-
White House. Obama health care - saw eight of its affiliates win previous SEIU waiver winners: best bureaucrats.
czar Nancy-Ann DeParle sits on shelter from the Obamacare Local 25 SEIU in Chicago with House and Senate Republicans
the foundation's board of trustees. wrecking ball. 31,000 enrollees; Local 1199 plan separate investigations of the
Most noteworthy: One-fourth of The Communications Workers of SEIU Greater New York Benefit Obamacare waiver process. Who
all the waivers (182) so far have America, which sent its workers Fund with 4,544 enrollees; and got one when and why? Who
gone to Big Labor groups across to lobby for Obamacare on SEIU Local 1 Cleveland Welfare knew whom? Who didn't? HHS
the country. Capitol Hill as part of the left- Fund with 520 enrollees. This acknowledged Thursday that
The Teamsters Union, which wing billionaire George Soros- brings the total number of some 50 sanctuary-seekers had
hailed Obama last March for funded Health Care for America Obamacare-promoting SEIU their waiver applications denied,
"enacting historic health care Now front group, snagged a Obamacare refugees to an but would not say more. Perhaps
reform, providing health waiver that will spare a hefty estimated 45,000 workers the White House storytellers, so
insurance to millions of 19,000 of its members from the represented by seven SEIU locals. eager to profile the "Voices of
Americans who don't have it and onerous federal mandate. Without the HHS-approved Health Reform," can enlighten us.
controlling costs for millions And the Service Employees exemptions, these health This entry passed through the
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Obamacare as "an achievement affiliates to the waiver list: SEIU successfully begging the feds to Collateral Damage - WikiLeaks In
that will rank among the highest Local 2000 Health and Welfare spare them from Obamacare. The Crosshairs.
in our national experience," Fund, representing 161 enrollees; The Democrats' law seeks to
secured waivers for 28 different SEIU 32BJ North Health Benefit eliminate the low-cost plans
affiliates. Fund, representing 7,020 (known as "mini-med" plans)
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Electrical Workers -- which Service Forum Employees insurer spending on executive
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engineering, and math teachers technology. Only a few mavericks New York Times editorial page
will probably result, if enacted, in understand that the old design said he “seems to lack the
the hiring of a new cohort of habits of systems engineers that knowledge ladled out daily in our
propagandists for whatever scare worked so well on the Apollo high schools.” On July 20, 1969,
the environmentalists have program are ill suited to the needs as Neil Armstrong and Buzz
cooked up this month. If America of today’s projects. Our Aldrin walked on the moon, the
were going to hire 10,000 math universities, corporations, and paper published a correction.)
and science teachers of the quality entrepreneurs need to rethink the The “Sputnik Moment” was a
we had in 1958, it might be worth way engineers are trained. No very real moment in American
it. Now, however, teachers amount of federal money can history. It just doesn’t mean what
who’ve been trained to believe in substitute for this lack of President Obama thinks it does.
the “Pedagogy of the Oppressed” leadership. --- Taylor Dinerman is a senior
and whose vision of America When President Obama said that editor at the Hudson Institute's
owes more to Howard Zinn than “we didn’t know how we’d beat New York branch and co-author
to Samuel Eliot Morison are them to the moon,” and that “the of the forthcoming Towards a
going to be no more competent at science wasn’t there yet,” he was Theory of Spacepower: Selected
teaching molecular biology than misinformed. German Walter Essays, from National Defense
they are at teaching why the
Battle of Midway is important.
In addition, the president did not
Holman worked out the basic
mathematics of getting to the
moon in 1916. In America, Robert
University Press. Taylor
Dinerman Hands Off My Purse!
address the broad failure of
America’s engineering schools to
Goddard published the basic
principles of liquid-engine rockets
Why Money Bills
adapt to the complexities of
today’s high-performance
in 1920, though his argument was
controversial at the time. (The Originate in the House
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included about 150 older cartoons the arch-villain of the piece (or of our own behavior, we make different contests in there with not merely a larger Senate. The
and massively cleaned them up in one of them; it’s like an MSNBC guilty of our disasters real prizes. If you come up with Constitution divided the
terms of drawing quality and roundtable, this play). At one the sun, the moon, and stars; as if the best funny caption to a legislative branch into two
character consistency. point he speaks the following we were particular cartoon I’ve featured Houses, with different
FP: You quote Shakespeare at the lines, and in so doing voices and villains on necessity; fools by you can win a pretty valuable constituencies, term lengths, sizes,
outset of the book—any specific mocks one of liberalism’s heavenly compulsion; prize. Plus there’s a “Find the and functions for each house. For
reason for this choice? definitive beliefs: that wrongdoers knaves, thieves, and treachers by Conservative Element in the Lane example, only the Senate offers
Rawsthorne: Initially I just are often not responsible for their spherical Home” contest. This is sort of advice and consent on treaties and
wanted to class up the joint with misdeeds, it’s Society or a bad predominance; drunkards, liars, like one of those hidden picture appointments of judges and
that quote from Lear but like all upbringing or Sarah Palin that’s to and adulterers by things on the back of a cereal box executive officials. And as Erik
of Shakespeare the play blame. Shakespeare poetically an enforced obedience of except that you have to provide M. Jensen explains in his
demonstrates profoundly makes mincemeat of this notion in planetary influence; and the cereal yourself. Constitutional Guidance for
conservative ideas and it’s very no uncertain terms. all that we are evil in, by a divine Lawmakers essay, only the House
obvious that Shakespeare had “This is the excellent foppery of thrusting on.” of Representatives holds the
common sense about, for the world, FP: Anything you’d like to point power to raise revenue – an
example, human evil– marking that when we are sick in fortune, out about the format of the book? essential element of the power of
him as a conservative. Edgar is often the surfeits Rawsthorn e: I put a couple
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create ideas that work. Look for the ability to post job listings. portfolio. is no match for a three sentence Each product or service (for each
Traction’s LinkedIn page and free LinkedIn also automatically The impact of these is substantial endorsement attached to the audience segment) also has a
toolkit. Catch him tweeting displays the profiles of employees and the fact that LinkedIn allows personal profile of an enthusiastic placeholder for a unique offer
at@adamkleinberg and blogging and new hires. This can be a great you to create links that take users customer. associated with it. For example,
at tractionco.com/blog. tool for business development away from their website (and LinkedIn has elected to give you you can easily create an offer for
Boasting 90 million users, pros because they can quickly advertising revenue) is to be administrative approval over a free white paper or a free
LinkedIn is one of the social discover the people with the applauded. YouTube Videos which testimonials go on your coupon for your tasty and
media titans. For business “right” job titles at companies You can now also embed a profile. Users are savvy and will delicious consumer packaged
professionals, it has become an they are targeting. YouTube video on the Overview recognize this, so don’t think good.
essential tool for staying Unfortunately, LinkedIn does this page and each of the individual Recommendations can replace Once you’ve got your products
connected to their business by keyword association, so there Products & Services pages you actually having good products and and services all set up, you can
network. is a significant degree of create. When done well, video is a services. Google is only a click create targeted Campaigns to
But for companies, there’s been inaccuracy in the profiles listed. powerful tool to convey your away. Audiences drive traffic to your profile.
little reason to pay attention to Of the forty-four “employees” message to customers. This is a This is where LinkedIn LinkedIn has a self-service tool
their presence there. LinkedIn has listed for my agency, at least ten huge opportunity to engage Companies gets powerful. with simple filtering options to
been about individuals, not are from other companies with people in a contextually relevant LinkedIn allows you to find the right audience. Self-
organizations. LinkedIn similar names. Allowing manner. You can use a different completely customize how you service is a good thing because it
Companies existed, but offered administrative control over this video on every page and present your products and services means you don’t have to be a big
little in the way of functionality. would be nice. Products & embedding them is as simple as to distinct audience segments. company with a big budget to
That has now changed. Services copying and pasting a URL from If your ears just perked up, you start generating traffic, leads and
In November, LinkedIn quietly The biggest new feature of YouTube. Recommendations may work for a company with a revenue.
introduced an upgrade to LinkedIn Companies is the Probably the most important new diverse customer base or product The system works a lot like
LinkedIn Companies that makes it addition of the Products & feature is the ability to solicit offering. Or maybe you’re a Google AdWords. You can create
both a critical and powerful tool Services tab. Your company can recommendations from your marketer who knows that creating multiple versions of your
for managing your company’s list each of its products or customers for each of your content that is relevant to your campaign — up to fifteen of them
digital presence (especially if you services, upload a 100 x 80 pixel products or services. This works target is essential for provoking — to see what works best. You
market B2B). icon and description of each, and just like the Recommendations engagement, inciting response and can set a daily budget and a
Here’s a primer to help you plan create a bullet list of attributes. feature does on an individual maximizing ROI. maximum bid for either clicks or
and make the most of some of the Pretty standard, right? LinkedIn profile. You’ll want to Either way, you’re probably CPMs (cost per thousand views).
powerful new features on This is where we begin to have take the time to edit the default realizing that this is not something And you can set campaigns to run
LinkedIn Companies. The Basics fun and start to build a really message when asking for an you’re going to do in one indefinitely or until a specific
The basic features have not powerful marketing tool. The first endorsement. afternoon. You’re going to want date. Analytics
changed since previous iterations thing you’ll notice when you visit This will soon become a vital to be strategic in your approach Lastly, it wouldn’t be digital if
of LinkedIn Companies. (In fact, a souped-up page is the reference checkpoint that people and thoughtful about the content you couldn’t measure it. LinkedIn
if I have one criticism of the new “carousel.” Through a simple use before doing business with you create. has some nice charts that allow
version it’s the utter lack of admin tool, you can upload three your company. According to Taking advantage of Audiences you to view your performance in
integration between the new whopping 640 x 220 banners Forrester Research (in may take strategic planning, but it terms of page views, visitors,
features and old. The new ones all (JPEG, GIF or PNG, no Flash) Groundswell), 83% of us say we won’t take technical acumen. clicks on various types of content
live under one tab.) You can that rotate on the page and link to are at least somewhat influenced LinkedIn lets you easily “Create visits by industry and followers.
upload a logo, add a paragraph specific URLs that you designate. by word-of-mouth. While the an audience segment,” select its What I really like is that
describing your business, list Obviously, these can be landing highly edited “Success Stories” on attributes (job title, seniority, LinkedIn compares your
contacts and attach their profiles. pages set up to generate leads. your website may company size, industry, location, performance in each of these
There’s a decent chance someone You can also go with a softer sell comprehensively cover the etc.) with a few clicks and then categories with similar
at your company has already done — my agency put up ads driving breadth of benefits and messages edit a clone of your base company HOW page 91
this. Other legacy features include toward case studies in our website you want to convey, their impact profile. Offers and Campaigns
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