Wednesday, March 06, 2013
Syria Today: On Ground Updates - March 06, 2013
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The last time I looked and according to
the United Nations, more than 70,000 souls have been killed over the last two
years during the revolt against Syrian President Al-Assad.
Nearly
two years ago it all started with peaceful protesters on the streets but it wasn't soon after that Assad’s murderous forces cracked down hard on the
demonstrators and started murdering them by the 1,ooo’s.
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The
senseless murder by President Al-Assad’s forces on the innocence continues
today… not to be left out the million Syrians who have fled their war-ravaged
country and are seeking assistance in other countries…
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AubreyJ………
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* BBC had
the following report, with news video, Tuesday afternoon and it goes in part
like this. …Unverified video footage purported to show
at least two explosions hitting the city centre square, shortly after crowds
had toppled a statue of former Syrian President Hafez al-Assad… People were
seen fleeing in panic, with casualties scattered on the ground…The cameraman is
heard to say: "War plane shelling... God is greater than you, Bashar
[al-Assad]... The injured have fallen."…
Click out
the rest at link below…
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* The Huffington Post had this report posted on their website Tuesday
afternoon and it starts off like this… Secretary of State John Kerry said Tuesday
the Obama administration is confident that the vast majority of weapons being supplied to Syrian
rebels by U.S. allies are going to moderates and not finding their way to
extremists…
Read this
report in full at link below…
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Read the
full report at link below…
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* The Huffington Post has the following report/news video for us
today, click it out below…
The number of Syrians who have fled their
war-ravaged country and are seeking assistance has now topped the 1 million
mark, the U.N. refugee agency said Wednesday, warning that Syria is heading
toward a "full-scale disaster." The announcement came as government
troops and rebels fought street battles in Syria's strategic northern city of
Raqqa. The Syrian military dispatched reinforcements in an attempt to push out
opposition gunmen who now control most of the city, activists said…
Read the
rest, with the video, at link below…
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Tuesday, March 05, 2013
Venezuela President Hugo Chavez Dead at 58
Venezuela’s
58-year-old President Hugo Chavez has been confirmed dead this afternoon. Chavez made a surprise homecoming two weeks
ago with none of the celebration that accompanied previous returns from
treatment in Havana… He hasn't appeared in public since.
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No lost tears here…
AubreyJ………
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Image credit: Marcello Casal Jr./Abr
Sunday, March 03, 2013
Photo for the Day - March 03, 2013
-- Happy Berth Day --
SpaceX’s
Dragon spacecraft berthed* to the International Space Station at approximately
8:56 a.m. EST Sunday,
installed onto the Earth-facing port of the Harmony module. Dragon arrived to
station with over 2,300 pounds of cargo and packaging to ensure safe travel,
and during the next 22 days, astronauts will unload and then load cargo,
including materials to support critical science experiments. Dragon will return
to Earth with over 3,000 pounds of cargo, and has a targeted splashdown in the
Pacific Ocean off the coast of Baja, Calif. on March 25. Dragon is the only
spacecraft in the world today capable of returning significant amounts of cargo
to Earth.
Keep up
with the latest at link below:
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Have a safe and successful mission SpaceX!
AubreyJ………
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All
info/images from SpaceX website
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Tuesday, February 26, 2013
House Speaker John Boehner Tells Senate, Get Off Your Ass
John
Boehner Official Portrait
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Posted
by Speaker Boehner Press Office
February 26, 2013
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WASHINGTON,
DC - At a press conference with Republican leaders
today, House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) called on the president to stop using
the military as a campaign prop to demand more tax hikes and start working with
his own Democratic-controlled Senate to act on a credible plan to avert his
sequester. Following are Speaker Boehner’s remarks:
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“You know,
Republicans have voted twice to replace the sequester. The president, as
you’re all aware, insisted that he not have to deal with the debt ceiling twice
and insisted that the backstop for the work of the super committee be the
sequester.
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“But I
don’t think the president’s focused on trying to find a solution to the
sequester. The president has been traveling all over the country and
today going down to Newport News in order to use our military men and women as
a prop in yet another campaign rally to support his tax hikes.
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“Now the
American people know if the president gets more money they’re just going to
spend it. The fact is that he’s gotten his tax hikes. It’s
time to focus on the real problem here in Washington and that is spending.
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“The
president has known for 16 months that the sequester was looming out there when
the super committee failed to come to an agreement. And so for 16 months
the president’s been traveling all over the country holding rallies instead of
sitting down with Senate leaders in order to try to forge an agreement over
there in order to move a bill. We have moved a bill in the House twice,
we should not have to move a third bill before the Senate gets off their ass and
begins to do something.”
Posted by Speaker Boehner Press Office
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The
Huffington Post had this
report today and it goes in part like this… "The president has known for 16
months that this sequester was looming out there when the super committee
failed to come to an agreement," Boehner told reporters on Capitol Hill.
"And so for 16 months, the president has been traveling all over the
country holding rallies instead of sitting down with Senate leaders in order to
try to forge an agreement over there in order to move a bill… "We have moved a bill in the House twice. We should not
have to move a third bill before the Senate gets off their ass and begins to do
something," Boehner added…
Read the story/watch
the video at link below…
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Personally, I think they ALL need to get off
their asses!
AubreyJ………
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Thursday, February 07, 2013
Dr Benjamin Carson Gives Keynote Address at Annual National Prayer Breakfast
Cropped-File White House photo by Shealah Craighead
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Thursday, February 07, 2013
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This morning at the annual National Prayer
Breakfast that is held in Washington, D.C. every year… best-selling
author and a world-renowned pediatric neurosurgeon at the Johns Hopkins
Hospital, Dr. Ben Carson delivered the keynote address and what
a GREAT speech it was. Lol… had President Obama looking down, around and with a
frown at the end too!
Click it
out below…
(Note: the best
part of his speech to me was after about 17-18 minutes into his speech, Taxes
and healthcare… Powerful stuff so check it out!)
This video courtesy of C-SPAN – Just under 27
minutes long
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AubreyJ………
Tuesday, January 22, 2013
Algeria Hostage Crisis Updates - January 22, 2013
Tuesday, January 22, 2013
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* Fox News had the following report posted up on their
website this past Friday evening and it starts off like this… Earlier Friday, the State Department confirmed
there are still American hostages being held by an Al Qaeda-linked group at the
gas plant, deep in the Saharan desert. When asked about a report that
the group wants to trade hostages for terror figures jailed in the United
States, spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said: “The United States does not negotiate
with terrorists.”…
Read this report in full at link below…
* The New
York Times reports… With more than 60 hostages still missing and many feared
dead, Prime Minister David Cameron told
Parliament on Friday that the Qaeda-linked attack on a remote Algerian gas
installation demonstrated the need for Britain and its western
allies, including the United States, to direct more of their diplomatic,
military and intelligence resources to the intensifying threat emanating from
“the ungoverned space” of the North African desert, treating it with as much concern
as the terrorist challenge in Pakistan and Afghanistan…
Read the
full report at link below…
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* BBC had the following report posted up
on their website Sunday evening and it starts off like this… At least 48 hostages are now thought to have
died in a four-day siege at an Algerian gas plant, as reports say that 25 bodies
found at the complex on Sunday were all those of captives…
It had initially been unclear whether the bodies found were those of
hostage-takers or staff at the facility… A day earlier, Algerian officials
reported the deaths of 23 hostages, saying many more were unaccounted for… Five
suspected Islamist attackers were reportedly arrested on Sunday… The Algerian
authorities had said on Saturday that all 32 hostage-takers had been killed…
The siege was ended in a raid by troops on Saturday. Officials say a definitive
death toll will be released later…
Read this
report in full at link below…
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* CBSNews.com
has the following News
report/Video…
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* CNN.com has this good read, (with lots of links to other great reads,) posted on their website this Tuesday
afternoon and it starts off like this…
All eyes are on Algeria following the hostage
crisis at a BP gas facility that left at least 37 hostages -- and dozens of
militants -- dead. And while we're uncovering details of what
happened at the remote desert complex at In Amenas and why, we must also
scrutinize what this crisis tells us about security in North Africa, or the
Maghreb…
Read the
rest at link below…
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Yeah, Obama… you really got them Terrorist on the
run,
shaking to death in their flip-flops...
AubreyJ………
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Saturday, January 12, 2013
Obama says Fewer Troops in Afghanistan this spring setting New Mission Goal to Train, Advise and Assist Afghan Troops only
This News Video by PBS News Hour: President
Obama sat down with Afghan President Hamid Karzai to discuss the future role of
U.S. troops in Afghanistan. While combat forces are scheduled to exit the
region in 2014, the two leaders met to talk over a range of troop level options
and responsibilities. Judy Woodruff reports.
Originally posted on Friday, January 11, 2012
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AubreyJ………
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