After 17 consecutive days of protests, demonstrators have left the Wisconsin State House. A judge ordered it closed for 48 hours for cleaning, and said protesters could only return during business hours. (March 4)
Continue reading …$430k settlement reached in Courtney Love Twitter lawsuit; ‘American Idol’ down to 13 contestants; Mariah Carey ‘embarrassed’ over Gadhafi-linked concert. (March 4)
Continue reading …Click here to view this media [YouTube version] Via The Guardian : The ugly face of Islamophobia in Orange County, California The Southern California chapter of the Islamic Circle of North America Relief USA organised a fundraising dinner in Orange County, last month. But guess who also turned up? A motley collection of protesters who can be seen here chanting in the above video distributed by the Council on American-Islamic Relations civil rights group : As the video shows, the rhetoric of the protesters became increasingly venomous toward the families and children who came to attend the ICNA Relief fundraising dinner. Protesters shouted invective statements such as “Go home terrorist,” “Muhammad is a pervert, Muhammad is a child molester,” “Go home and beat your wife, she needs a good beating,” at the event-goers. One of the protesters’ guest speakers, seen in the video, is a local councilwoman who denounces the event as “pure, unadulterated evil,” and continues: I know quite a few Marines who would be very happy to help these terrorists to an early meeting in paradise. The local paper, the Orange County Register , noted the signs saying “No Sharia law” but added: “In the afternoon, the event had the atmosphere of a July 4 picnic.” Two Republican congressmen also attended the protest rally, including one, Ed Royce, who spoke of how “multiculturalism” was paralysing America. And the fundraising? For disaster relief, womens shelters, halal food banks, according to the Islamic Circle of North America. And here’s what a U.S. Congressman had to say on the matter: REP. ED ROYCE (R-CA): “A big part of the problem we face today is our children are taught in schools that every idea is right, and no one should criticize others’ positions no matter how odious. And . . . that’s . . . What do we call it? We call it multiculturalism, and it has paralyzed too many of our fellow citizens to make the critical judgments we need to make to be a prosperous society.”
Continue reading …Protesters in Tripoli face a test of courage as they prepare for fresh demonstrations amid a deadly crackdown by forces loyal to Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi. A wave of arrests, killings and disappearances has terrorised the capital as Gaddafi opponents try to organise new protests. Bodies of people who vanished have been dumped in the street and gunmen in SUVs have descended on homes in the night to drag away suspected protesters, identified by video footage pored over by militiamen. Other loyalists have searched hospitals for wounded to take away. Residents say they are under the watchful eyes of a variety of Gaddafi militias prowling the streets under numerous names – Internal…
Continue reading …NewsBusters has documented the left's ongoing attempts to push a false narrative with respect to last year's “Citizens United v. FEC” Supreme Court decision. One such attempt caught the eye of Lee Doren of the Competetive Enterprise Institute and the popular YouTube channel How the World Works . Doren decided to take on this latest attempt to twist and distort the issue. Check out his retort below the break. The video is a bit long, but every minute is worth watching. The most frightening part: the agitprop Doren debunked was intended for students !
Continue reading …Anyone who believes we’re nearing some sort of saturation point with the two hottest device classes of the moment — smartphones and tablets — ought to check out this latest data from investment bank RBC Capital Markets. It shows an estimated 394 million people already possess one of these newfangled gadgets, and — while we don’t consider the world’s population a relevant metric here — sets that number up against some other illustrative stats.The most important one for smartphone growth is the tally of mobile subscribers, which stands at just over five billion presently and dwarfs any inroads that smart mobile devices have made to this point. The total of nearly 1.3 billion PCs should also be encouraging for companies seeking a market for their tablets, as it quantifies the sheer volume of computers we use and need. So, next time anyone asks you if it’s “too late” for Nokia to right its smartphone strategy or HP to deliver its tablets , you can juice up your negatory response by dropping this statistical knowledge bomb. Smartphones and tablets still have a long way to grow originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 04 Mar 2011 09:07:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Continue reading …Has it got the fourgees ? Well, if you’re talking about Apple’s iPhone and believe what you hear from China Mobile Chairman Wang Jianzhou, it very soon will. Following in the well publicized footsteps of Verizon CEO Dan Mead, Mr. Jianzhou tells us that Steve Jobs himself “has expressed his interest in an LTE iPhone and is willing to start the development at an early date.” Of course, the crux of the issue will be in ascertaining how early “an early date” might be, but it’s not completely out of the realm of reason to believe that Apple may already be cranking away on an LTE-capable iPhone 5. We all know how much Steve loves to compare measurements with the competition and the iPhone’s lack of a fourth G will probably be driving him mad by the time the summer rolls around. Either way, we’ve now got two extremely senior dudes claiming LTE is on Apple’s roadmap. LTE iPhone noise builds steam with a grain of Wang originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 04 Mar 2011 09:31:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Continue reading …While comfortable performing for an overseas audience, the comedy duo, The Pajama Men admit to feeling nervous when they first arrived in Britain. (March 3)
Continue reading …WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama and Mexican President Felipe Calderon announced a solution Thursday to their long-running dispute over the passage of trucks across the border, settling one of the issues that has aggravated tensions between the two countries. The agreement was cheered by business leaders, who say the dispute hurt trade. But union leaders and many Democrats fear that a free-flow of trucks from Mexico will come at…
Continue reading …The Obama administration has spoken with two voices on Libya. On the one hand Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has repeatedly said that “nothing is off the table so long as the Libyan Government continues to threaten and kill Libyans.” That talk has been amplified by calls from the Senate Foreign Relations chairman John Kerry and Senators Joe Lieberman and John McCain for the immediate imposition of a no fly zone over Libya. On the other hand, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates told Congress that “there’s a lot of, frankly, loose talk about some of these military options,” and suggested that a no fly zone would be harder to impose than people thought, a position echoed by the head of…
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