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WatchThe following is a report from a STRATFOR source in Hamas. Hamas, which formed in Gaza as an outgrowth of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood (MB), has an interest in exaggerating its role and coordination with the MB in this crisis. The following information has not been confirmed. Nonetheless, there is a great deal of concern building in Israel and the United States in particular over the role of...
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Egypt
As night fell and the government announced a curfew, protesters showed no signs of letting up in Cairo and other Egyptian cities on Friday as tens of thousands intensified their campaign to oust President Hosni Murbarak, pouring from mosques after noon prayers and clashing with police who fired tear gas, rubber bullets and water cannons.
The curfew went into effect at 6 p.m. security officials...
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Will.I.Am Named ‘Director of Creativity’ for Intel →
It’s a musical mash-up more shocking than Aerosmith and RUN-DMC. According to the BBC, in an effort to market their business more effectively, Intel has awarded will.i.am of the Black Eyed Peas the position of “Director of Creativity.” Although details are sketchy as of now, it seems that his role will involve working with the company to reach a wider audience.
Who knew Intel was after...
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Chad Johnson makes a return? →
A few things……
1.Chad Ochocinco is changing his name again.
Chad Johnson is making a comeback. Three years after changing his last name to Ochocinco, the man born Chad Javon Johnson will be going back to his given surname.
“I’ve done enough with Ochocinco,” the former Mr. Johnson told ESPN’s Trey Wingo. Yes, like having the least productive stretch of his...
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Greg McElroy + ? = NFL →
Now obviously I am not a Bama fan. I go to LSU. However, Greg McElroy has been a successful SEC quarterback. But what about an NFL quarterback?
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From the Times Daily
MOBILE — He was a Rhodes Scholarship finalist.
A year earlier, Greg McElroy wrapped up an undefeated season with a national...
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Jay Cutler took the stairs to dinner after NFC... →
Not that it affects the way the world turns in any way, but in case you care about Chicago Bears’ football…..
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This breaking news courtesy the Chicago Tribune:
Jay Cutler(notes) and girlfriend Kristin Cavallari dined at Mastro’s Steakhouse on Sunday after...
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SOTU
I’m happy Obama talked about green energy and how we are fast falling behind the world in infrastructure. But I wouldn’t hold my breath for anything he talked about to happen anytime soon.
In case you missed the speech, watch it here
Here to read a good summary of the speech
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Suspect pleads not guilty in deadly Ariz. shooting →
TUCSON, Ariz. – The man accused of carrying out a mass shooting in Tucson pleaded not guilty Monday to charges he tried to kill Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and two of her aides.
The plea by Jared Lee Loughner marked his second court appearance since he allegedly shot the congresswoman and 18 others at Giffords’ meet-and-greet event on Jan. 8 outside a grocery store in Tucson. Six people died,...
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State of the Union: The crafting of a speech
The election was over. He’d won. But there was still something gnawing at Woodrow Wilson in the winter of 1913.
Teddy Roosevelt! So unfair! People dismissed Wilson’s victory over Roosevelt, the volatile former Rough Rider. They said Wilson had won only because William Howard Taft had split the Republican vote.
They said that in a two-man race, Roosevelt, who ran as the “Bull...
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And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country.
My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man
Finally, whether you are citizens of America or citizens of the world, ask of us the same high standards of strength and sacrifice which we ask of you. With a...
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How Billionaires Rule Our Schools →
The cost of K–12 public schooling in the United States comes to well over $500 billion per year. So, how much influence could anyone in the private sector exert by controlling just a few billion dollars of that immense sum? Decisive influence, it turns out. A few billion dollars in private foundation money, strategically invested every year for a decade, has sufficed to define the national debate...
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Things we wouldn't know without Wikileaks
“Nearly fifty days have passed since the WikiLeaks document release in late November, this one centering on US diplomatic cables and quickly dubbed Cablegate. “ Greg Mitchell writes in his article in ”Why Wikileaks matters.”
So far, WikiLeaks has released less than 3,000 cables from the 251,000-document cache, but already the media, politicians and the public are...
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How one summer changed MLK
Article written by John Christoffersen of the Associated Press
NEW HAVEN, Conn. – Martin Luther King Jr. could hardly believe his eyes when he left the segregated South as a teenage college student to work on a tobacco farm in Connecticut.
“On our way here we saw some things I had never anticipated to see,” he wrote his father in June 1944. “After we passed Washington there...
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Steve Jobs takes medical leave of absence
Apple CEO Steve Jobs will take another medical leave of absence beginning on Monday, two years after a six-month sabbatical during which he received a liver transplant.
Tim Cook, Apple’s chief operating officer, will take over the company’s day-to-day operations in Jobs’ stead, as he did during Jobs’ last leave of absence.
“At my request, the board of directors...
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California Super storm
A group of more than 100 scientists and experts say in a new report that California faces the risk of a massive “superstorm” that could flood a quarter of the state’s homes and cause $300 billion to $400 billion in damage. Researchers point out that the potential scale of destruction in this storm scenario is four or five times the amount of damage that could be wrought by a...
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Sarah Palin really is a joke. She is starting to become more of a celebrity than a political figure.
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Two Quick Things
If Carmello gets traded to the Nets I am pretty sure that there won’t be much left on the Bench for the Nets to use.
If they do go through with this trade they need to get Jordan Farmar out of NJ. He has had a very dissapointing season.
They need to get something besides Carmello Anthony, Maybe a solid backup player or just a solid player. They obviously won’t be able to get anything...
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The Challenge of Deciding Who to Feed →
The United Nations’ World Food Program tries to stop the poorest of the poor from going hungry. But its budget has dwindled during the crisis as donor countries focus on their own economic problems. Aid workers face the unpleasant task of deciding who gets food — and who doesn’t.
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Iphone coming to Verizon
The iPhone is finally coming to Verizon Wireless.
The largest U.S. wireless carrier will make the long-awaited announcement at an event Tuesday in New York City, a person familiar with the matter said Friday.
The move will for the first time let U.S. consumers choose the network that carries their iPhone and perhaps give them additional pricing options that could affect their monthly...
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“The Nets are crazy. If they surrender Favors and five first-rounders here (…)...”
– SI’s Zach Lowe solidifies a growing sentiment: that both the Nuggets and Nets don’t have a clue.
The Nuggets are turning down a trade that “nets” them 2 or 3 1st round picks, plus last drafts 3rd overall big Derrick Favors, and for what? Because they don’t want to inherit $8 million on a contract...
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Another Big Ten Loss
Tonight is yet another of the many bowl games that the Big Ten and SEC are facing off in. They should just rename bowl season to the Big ten/SEC challenge. However, up to this point it has been pretty one sided.
For all of you sports fans out there, you know that Ohio State has never won a bowl game against an SEC opponent.
They won’t win tonight either. Arkansas probably doesn’t...
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The Best part of the NFL is that all you have to do is be the best in your divsion to make the playoffs, Even if you are 7-9. Now Pete Carroll is going to get praised for sure. I don’t think he is a bad coach, he just got lucky in terms of making the playoffs.
Do I think that the NFL should revise the rule?
No, its fine the way it is. I think every division should be represented. Does...
