NSA PROGRAMS ALLEGEDLY HELPED FOIL A BOMB PLOT TARGETING THE NY STOCK EXCHANGE *

THAT'S WHAT THE DEPUTY FBI DIR TOLD A HOUSE INTEL CMTE ON TUES *

THE NSA'S CHIEF SAYS THE SURVEILLANCE PROGRAMS HAVE HELPED PREVENT MORE THAN 50 POTENTIAL TERROR ATTACKS SINCE 9/11 *

WHISTLEBLOWER EDWARD SNOWDEN LEAKED INFO ON THE ONCE-SECRET PROGRAMS TO THE MEDIA TWO WKS AGO *

FOUR U.S. TROOPS KILLED IN AN ATTACK ON BAGRAM AIR BASE IN AFGHANISTAN *

THE TALIBAN IS CLAIMING RESPONSIBILITY *

TUESDAY'S ATTACK CAME JUST HOURS AFTER THE GROUP ANNOUNCED IT WOULD HOLD FORMAL TALKS WITH THE U.S. *

AFGHAN PRES HAMID KARZAI IS PROTESTING THE NEGOTIATIONS BY SUSPENDING HIS OWN TALKS WITH THE U.S. *

SEN CHUCK GRASSLEY (R-IA) SAYS THE IRS IS ABOUT TO PAY $70 MIL IN EMPLOYEE BONUSES *

THAT'S DESPITE A WH DIRECTIVE TO CANCEL DISCRETIONARY BONUSES BECAUSE OF AUTOMATIC SPENDING CUTS, ACCORDING TO THE GOP SEN *

THE IRS SAYS IT'S NEGOTIATING WITH THE EMPLOYEES' UNION OVER THE MATTER *

PRES OBAMA SAYS IT'S NO SURPRISE THERE'S FRICTION IN EARLY EFFORTS TO LAUNCH PEACE TALKS BETWEEN THE TALIBAN AND AFGHANISTAN'S GOVT *

OBAMA SAYS THE TALIBAN AND THE AFGHAN GOVT DISTRUST EACH OTHER AFTER YEARS OF FIGHTING *

OBAMA SAYS EVEN THOUGH THE WAR IS STILL ONGOING, THERE MUST BE A PARALLEL TRACK TO POLITICAL RECONCILIATION *

OBAMA SAYS ONLY AFGHANS CAN DECIDE WHETHER THE RECONCILIATION PROCESS CAN START WHILE THE WAR IS CONTINUING *

AL QAEDA-LINKED AL-SHABAB TERROR GROUP ATTACK ON THE MAIN UN COMPOUND IN SOMALIA ENDS *

OFFICIALS SAY TERRORISTS DETONATED MULTIPLE BOMBS AND BREACHED THE COMPOUND IN MOGADISHU, SPARKING GUN BATTLES WITH SECURITY FORCES THAT KILLED AT LEAST 12 PEOPLE *

OFFICIALS SAY ALL UN PERSONNEL WHO REACHED THE COMPOUND'S SECURE BUNKER SURVIVED *

AL-SHABAB EARLIER CLAIMED THAT IT WAS IN CONTROL OF THE COMPOUND *

FORMER INVESTIGATORS OF THE TWA FLIGHT 800 CRASH OFF LONG ISLAND ARE CALLING ON THE NTSB TO RE-EXAMINE THE CASE *

RETIRED INVESTIGATORS CLAIM THAT FINDINGS WERE "FALSIFIED" *

NTSB CONCLUDED FLIGHT 800 WAS DESTROYED BY A CENTER FUEL TANK EXPLOSION, LIKELY CAUSED BY A SPARK FROM A SHORT-CIRCUIT IN THE PLANE'S WIRING *

1996 CRASH OF THE PARIS-BOUND FLIGHT KILLED 230 PEOPLE *

JAPAN'S NUCLEAR WATCHDOG FORMALLY APPROVES A SET OF NEW SAFETY REQUIREMENTS FOR NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS *

MOVE PAVES THE WAY FOR THE REOPENING OF FACILITIES SHUT DOWN SINCE THE FUKUSHIMA DAI-ICHI DISASTER *

ALL BUT TWO OF JAPAN'S 50 REACTORS HAVE BEEN SHUT DOWN SINCE THE MARCH 2011 EARTHQUAKE AND TSUNAMI TRIGGERED MELTDOWNS AND RADIATION LEAKS AT FUKUSHIMA, LOCATED ABOUT 160 MILES NORTHEAST OF TOKYO *

FBI TO CONTINUE DIGGING TODAY IN SUBURBAN DETROIT FOR THE REMAINS OF FORMER TEAMSTERS LEADER JIMMY HOFFA *

AUTHORITIES HAVE PURSUED MULTIPLE LEADS INTO HOFFA'S WHEREABOUTS SINCE HIS DISAPPEARANCE 38 YEARS AGO *

LATEST TIP CAME FROM REPUTED MAFIA CAPTAIN TONY ZERILLI, WHO SAYS HOFFA WAS BURIED BENEATH A CONCRETE SLAB IN A BARN IN OAKLAND TOWNSHIP, NORTH OF DETROIT *

OTHER THEORIES ON THE WHEREABOUTS OF HOFFA'S REMAINS HAVE SUGGESTED HE WAS ENTOMBED IN CONCRETE AT GIANTS STADIUM IN NJ, GROUND UP AND THROWN IN A FL SWAMP OR OBLITERATED IN A MOB-OWNED FAT-RENDERING PLANT *

UN REFUGEE AGENCY SAYS SYRIA'S CIVIL WAR HELPED PUSH THE NUMBER OF REFUGEES AND THOSE DISPLACED BY CONFLICT WITHIN THEIR OWN NATIONS TO AN 18-YEAR HIGH OF 45.2 MIL LAST YEAR *

CHILDREN BELOW THE AGE OF 18 ACCOUNT FOR 46% OF REFUGEES WORLDWIDE *

ADVISER TO PALESTINIAN PRES MAHMOUD ABBAS' FATAH MOVEMENT SAYS HE WANTS ABBAS TO STICK TO LONG-STANDING DEMANDS FOR RESUMING TALKS WITH ISRAEL *

ABBAS HAS SAID HE CAN'T NEGOTIATE UNLESS ISRAEL STOPS BUILDING IN SETTLEMENTS OR ACCEPTS ITS 1967 FRONTIER AS A STARTING POINT FOR BORDER TALKS *

ISRAEL HAS REJECTED THOSE DEMANDS *

SECY OF STATE JOHN KERRY IS EXPECTED IN THE REGION NEXT WEEK TO TRY TO RESTART TALKS, WHICH BROKE OFF IN 2008 *

INDIA'S PRIME MIN MANMOHAN SINGH SAYS THE DEATH TOLL FROM FLOODING THIS WEEK IN THE NORTHERN STATE OF UTTRAKHAND HAD SURPASSED 100 AND COULD RISE SUBSTANTIALLY *

OFFICIALS SAY NEARLY 12,000 HINDU PILGRIMS STRANDED IN A MOUNTAINOUS AREA BY MONSOON RAINS AND LANDSLIDES HAVE BEEN EVACUATED, ADDING NEARLY 63,000 PEOPLE REMAIN CUT OFF *

FLOODING IS AN ANNUAL OCCURRENCE IN INDIA, WHICH DEPENDS ON MONSOON RAINS TO SUSTAIN AGRICULTURE *

HOWEVER, SOME AREAS HAVE RECEIVED 14 INCHES OF RAIN IN THE PAST WEEK, NEARLY FIVE TIMES THE AVERAGE FOR THE TIME PERIOD *

MEXICAN AUTHORITIES IN THE RESORT CITY OF PLAYA DEL CARMEN ARREST A FORMER UNIV PROFESSOR WHO WAS ON THE FBI'S MOST WANTED LIST *

64-YR-OLD WALTER LEE WILLIAMS IS WANTED ON CHARGES OF SEXUAL EXPLOITATION OF CHILDREN AND TRAVELING ABROAD FOR THE PURPOSE OF ENGAGING IN SEXUAL ACTS WITH KIDS *

FED ARREST WARRANT WAS ISSUED FOR WILLIAMS IN APRIL *

UNTIL 2011, HE WAS A TENURED PROFESSOR AT THE UNIV OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA WHERE HIS FIELD OF STUDY WAS GENDER DEVELOPMENT *

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Let’s get something straight – Senator John McCain is NOT a racist (and while I am at it, neither is President Bill Clinton) – MS/NBC needs to direct its employee RIchard Wolffe to apologize

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Update, November 26, 4:37pm.  

I first blogged about a similar matter by MS/NBC on November 22.  I now update it

When MS/NBC  finally develops the decency to apologize to Senator John McCain for Richard Wolffe calling him a racist (see below to the Nov 22 posting), they should add into the mix one of the employees named Toure.  See the headline from Mediaite.com [click here]

Senator McCain (and if you read below even the Washington Post’s Dana Milbank) has legitimate questions about Ambassador Susan Rice…so what do some people employed by MS/NBC do?  They throw horrible insults.  See the headline from www.mediaite.com:

 

 Here is more from the www.mediaite.com article:

And now below to my November 22 posting where I point out MS/NBC’s Richard Wolffe’s false and painful accusation about Senator McCain:

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MS/NBC should apologize to Senator McCain if they can’t get their employee Richard Wolffe to do so.  What Richard Wolffe said about Senator McCain is deplorable and he should be condemned for it.

It is about time we stop something — and that is the gratuitous and hurtful insult of falsely calling someone a racist and people not standing up and defending those falsely accused.  It happens often to our leaders — from 2008 when President Clinton was falsely called a racist by a politician during his campaigning for his wife and to now with Senator John McCain being called a racist by MS/NBC’s Richard Wolffe.

(from FoxNews.com)

Here is a fact: not every challenge or criticism of anyone who happens to be African American is racist.  This is not to say there is no racism in this country – there is and it is terrible – but by throwing the term around recklessly and cruelly against someone with whom you don’t agree dilutes the serious charge of racism when it is warranted.  It is like crying wolf.

Secondly, there are legitimate reasons someone might oppose Ambassador Rice’s nomination to Secretary of State, should she be nominated.  The job of Secretary of State includes the ability to get it right and not just take what is spoon fed to you by others.  We need thinkers with good judgment, not those who are willing to be Administration robots and accept the bizarre as fact and then go out and promote it to the American people.

At a minimum, before Ambassador Rice went out on the 5 Sunday talk shows representing the Obama Administration on something so important as the murder of 4 people, including a US Ambassador, she should have asked questions of the Administration, including the simple and obvious questions, ‘are you sure? and what makes you say that?’

Not convinced by what I write above?

Try this: the Washington Post’s Dana Milbank had this to say about Ambassador Rice:

“….It’s true that, in her much-criticized TV performance, she was reciting talking points given to her by the intelligence agencies. But that’s the trouble. Rice stuck with her points even though they had been contradicted by the president of the Libyan National Assembly, who, on CBS’s “Face the Nation” just before Rice, said there was “no doubt” that the attack on Americans in Benghazi “was preplanned.” Rice rebutted the Libyan official, arguing — falsely, it turned out — that there was no evidence of such planning….” [Dana Milbank / Washington Post / click here ]

That is not all Washington Post’s Dana Milbank had to say.  Here is more:

“…True, Rice was following orders from the White House, which she does well. But the nation’s top diplomat needs to show more sensitivity and independence — traits Clinton has demonstrated in abundance. Obama can do better at State than Susan Rice…”

I have not heard MS/NBC’s Richard Wolffe call the Washington Post’s Dana Milbank a racist.  Why not?  Under Wolf’s definition of a racist – opposing Ambassador Rice as Secretary of State –  the Washington Post’s Milbank, like Senator McCain, is a racist.  They both oppose Ambassador Rice as Secretary of State.

Of course you and I both know that neither Milbank nor McCain is a racist for opposing Ambassador Rice.  But Richard Wolffe?  What is he?  What is he for falsely accusing someone of being something as terrible as a racist?  I have some ideas….but I will let you come up with your own.

It is cruel and mean spirited to falsely call someone a racist.  I have known Senator McCain for years.  He is not a racist and I will stand up for him on this.  This is not right to accuse him.  Who else will stand up and be heard?

By the way, Senator McCain and his wife have an adopted African child who is now a young adult so my guess is that this cruel insult is particularly painful to his family. MS/NBC’s Richard Wolffe might want to extend a special apology directly to their child since I bet it was extra painful for her to read that her Father, Sen. McCain, was falsely being called a racist.

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