In early October, U.S. Navy SEALs secretly captured one of the most wanted terrorists in Iraq, Ahmed Hashim Abed, the alleged mastermind of the murder and mutilation of four Blackwater USA security guards in Fallujah in 2004.
Now, three of the SEALs who captured him are facing criminal charges because Abed claims he was hit in the stomach by one of the SEALs.
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To those of you who retain some remnant of dignity and the will to live your lives for yourselves, you have the chance to make the same choice. Examine your values and understand that you must choose one side or the other. Any compromise between good and evil only hurts the good and helps the evil.
~John Galt
When a long train of abuses and usurpations,pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism,it is their right,it is their duty,to throw off such government,and to provide new guards for their future securities.
~Declaration of Independence
Glenn Beck’s “Restoring Honor” Rally Supports Special Ops Troops and Families.
RESTORING HONOR 8.28.10
By: Timothy P. Carney, November 20, 2009
Washington Examiner
President Obama’s Federal Communications Commission commissioned a taxpayer-funded “independent” study of broadband policy from an institution funded by Microsoft and Google. These two companies have lobbied for and stand to profit from the policies advanced by the study and by the White House.
Obama’s FCC announced in July it had chosen Harvard University’s Berman Center for Internet and Society to “conduct an independent expert review of existing literature and studies about broadband deployment and usage throughout the world.” The study, led by professor Yochai Benkler, has provided fodder for advocates of net neutrality regulations, such as the Obama administration.
Unreported so far is the fact that on the center’s Web page naming donors is a section called “Support for Current Activities” thanking corporate and foundation donors. The list includes Google and Microsoft.
Both companies fear that the owners of the networks — companies like AT&T and Comcast — might start charging more to those buying or sending premium content (such as high-definition streaming video) over the wires. Net neutrality regulations would function as price controls — government protection against cost increases for content providers.
So Google and Microsoft want net neutrality — the principle that network owners must treat all data equally in all respects — codified into law. They fund the Berkman Center at Harvard. Obama’s FCC tapped the Berkman Center to study global broadband policies and markets.
Tech writer Bret Swanson read the study and reported: “The real purpose of the report is to make a single point: Foreign ‘open access’ broadband regulation, good; American broadband competition, bad.”
In other words, the Google- and Microsoft-funded center “independently” reported back to the Obama administration findings that support the view Obama, Google and Microsoft have been touting all along: Government should regulate the Internet as if it were a public utility.
Beltway consultants for AT&T, which would suffer under net neutrality, are objecting that the report’s lead author, Benkler, clearly entered his “independent study” with conclusions already in mind.
In the past, Benkler has made clear his vision for the Internet. In a white paper for New York University’s Brennan Center of Justice, he called for “a core communications infrastructure that no one owns and that no one can control,” which would require “a core common infrastructure equivalent to our public highway system — nonproprietary and equally open to all.”
Benkler also assailed the “deeply entrenched belief that markets based on strong property rights are the sole approach to attaining social productivity.”
In short, Benkler is deeply skeptical of the notion of private property and he firmly advocates socializing the wires and radio spectrum on which the Internet is conveyed. He is also funded by Google and Microsoft, which stand to profit from the policies his conclusions promote.
The Berkman Center’s patrons are also very close with Obama. Microsoft, for instance, was Obama’s No. 4 source of funds in the 2008 election. Obama’s $834,000 from employees and executives at the software giant was more than 10 times McCain’s Microsoft fundraising.
If you combine Microsoft’s donations to every single Republican running in 2008 for president, House or Senate, the total is still less than Obama’s Microsoft haul.
But the Obama-Google bond is much tighter.
Google Chief Executive Officer Eric Schmidt went on the campaign trail for Obama, and, according to Fortune magazine, “served as an informal economic adviser during the campaign.” Four Google executives chipped in a combined $100,000 for Obama’s inauguration.
In February, as Obama was building support for the stimulus, he brought Schmidt and other tech CEOs to the West Wing, to hear their ideas and gain their backing.
For those frustrated with corporate influence and the politicization of science in the Bush administration, Obama at least represents change: It’s a new batch of CEOs with their hands in policymaking.
Timothy P. Carney is The Washington Examiner’s Lobbying Editor, His K Street column appears on Wednesdays.
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The Slaughter Of America’s Democratic Republic
We all know liberals hold our nation in low esteem. But when this distaste for all things America is combined with their obsessive delusions of grandeur, we are learning these people will destroy anything in their path to prove their disastrous schemes (we are way beyond ‘risky’) are actually mana from Heaven!
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jbkeener1776: got a letter from the govt today telling me expect my census form shortly and that I should fill it out and send it in. Was that necessary?jbkeener1776: Not to say that I doubt what he's said about Rahm's tactics... Rahm is one creepy dude...jbkeener1776: Really curious to see how this turns out with Massa. Is he a sleaze and looking to do some damage on his way out, or is he a victim?jbkeener1776: Interesting that the doctors advised Obama to cut his alcohol...wonder how much he admitted to drinking...& is he drinking more than that?jbkeener1776: Here's why Dems keep pushing 'dead' Obamacare despite growing public opposition | http://tinyurl.com/ybzd2p7jbkeener1776: ...its like saying that in the midst of the Revol. War...hey some of us might die...maybe we should rethink this. This is their Revolution.jbkeener1776: ...and they will seize it. They have been waiting for this time in history for over a hundred years...they don't care who gets reelected.jbkeener1776: I an honestly so tired of hearing how the dems are going to do in the midterm elections. They don't care. This is their moment...
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