China fake parts 'used in US military equipment'
The failure of a single electronic part in any military plane could pose safety and national security risks and imposes higher costs on the Pentagon, the report said
Vast numbers of counterfeit Chinese electronic parts are being used in US military equipment, a key Senate committee has reported.
A year-long probe found 1,800 cases of fake parts in US military aircraft, the Senate Armed Services Committee found.
More than 70% of an estimated one million suspect parts were traced back to China,the report said.
It blamed weaknesses in the US supply chain, and China's failure to curb the counterfeit market.
The failure of a key part could pose safety and national security risks and lead to higher costs for the Pentagon, the committee said.
US servicemen rely on a variety of "small, incredibly sophisticated electronic components" found in night vision systems, radios and GPS devices and the failure of a single part could put a soldier at risk, the report said.
It highlighted suspect counterfeit parts in SH-60B helicopters used by the Navy, in C-130J and C-27J cargo planes and in the Navy's P-8A Poseidon plane.
After China, the UK and Canada were found to be the next-largest source countries for fake parts.
The committee criticised China for failing to shut down counterfeit manufacturers and said that committee staff wanting to travel to China for the investigation had not been granted visas.
"Counterfeit electronic parts are sold openly in public markets in China," the report said.
"Rather than acknowledging the problem and moving aggressively to shut down counterfeiters, the Chinese government has tried to avoid scrutiny," it added.
But the report said that use of Department of Defense programmes such as the Government-Industry Data Exchange Program (GIDEP), designed to log suspected fake parts, were "woefully lacking".
Between 2009 and 2010 the GIDEP only received 217 reports relating to suspected fake counterfeit components, the majority of which were filed by just six companies, it said. Only 13 reports came from government agencies.
The report also said that in some cases the US defence department had reimbursed contractors for the costs they incurred as a result of their failure to spot fake components in their own supply chain - giving companies no incentive to weed out counterfeits themselves.
But it praised the National Defense Authorization Act, signed into law on 31 December 2011 by President Barack Obama, which aims to stop counterfeit parts from entering the country and would cut down on sourcing components from unknown suppliers.
The report's focus on China comes as the US is beginning the task of "pivoting" its defence strategy towards the Asia-Pacific region.
The Pentagon is also preparing to absorb about $450bn (£285bn) of cuts over the next decade.
But it could face cutbacks of a further $500bn if mandatory across-the-board spending cuts come into effect at the end of 2012, after Congress failed to reach a deficit reduction plan last year.
The Pentagon cannot control the source of parts used in its aircraft? We need new laws to stop that? The GIDEP program is “woefully lacking”. Well the FUKUP program seems to be in high gear, but have no fear, The Pentagon is “pivoting” its defense posture towards the Asia-Pacific region, so that we can return all those parts to the 1.5 billion Chinese I suppose with our “Village People” navy.
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ReplyDeleteWASHINGTON — A huge suicide bombing on Monday left hundreds dead and wounded, stunning the beleaguered government and delivering a stark setback to the American campaign against Al Qaeda’s regional franchise.
ReplyDeleteUngrateful wogs. No thanks for US government attacks on Yemen.
You think there will be revenge from any of the other dirty dozen little wars we involve ourselves with?
ReplyDeleteOn al-Qaida in Yemen, you mean.
ReplyDeleteThe Iranian military has announced through the official FARS news agency Iran's intent to destroy Israel. This is new. They are not saying Israel should be destroyed. They are saying they WILL destroy Israel.
The Jews say in every generation there is someone out to annihilate them. This time it is Iran's turn to say so. And, now they have officially said so.
Hitler laid out his plans for the entire world to read in Mein Kampt but few read it and fewer believed it. Churchill being an exception.
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It's idiotic buying parts overseas. What else can one say.
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I fail to see what's wrong with bumping off the guy that bombed the Cole. That didn't seem like an attack on Yemen, but an attack on the guy that bombed the Cole.
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If a Canadian drone killed five people in Idaho, one of them a “terrorist”, would the average Idahoan ask why Canadian forces are bombing Idaho?
DeleteI posted the video of the suicide bombing at the end of the post.
I think that if we are going to assassinate people, it is better to do it the old fashion quiet way, perhaps with a Glock, rather than the public relations equivalent of the Goodyear Blimp.
Should we go to war with China over this?
DeleteA military General from the Chinese National Defense University says that China should not hesitate to protect Iran, even if it means launching world war three, as more US warships are dispatched to the region amidst heightening tensions.
According to NDTV, a Chinese news station based outside the country, in regard to recent speculation that Iran would be the target of a US-Israeli military assault, Major General Zhang Zhaozhong commented that, “China will not hesitate to protect Iran even with a third world war,” remarks described as “puzzling to some”.
The news report also quotes Professor Xia Ming as paraphrasing Zhaozhong’s quote that, “not hesitating to fight a third world war would be entirely for domestic political needs.”
China has vehemently reaffirmed its alliance with Iran in recent weeks, most notably yesterday when it refused to criticize Iran for a raid on the British Embassy in Tehran launched by Iranian students earlier this week.
May 22, 2012
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Ed Kaitz
Doug Ross at Director Blue has clearly revealed the dubious maneuvers over at Obama's literary agency by noting that sometime between April 3rd and April 21st of 2007 someone at the agency was told to change presidential candidate Barack Obama's birthplace from Kenya to Hawaii.
What seems to have gone unnoticed however is the equally compelling metamorphosis regarding the origins of Obama's own parents. For example, from June 1998 to June 2007 Obama's literary agency repeated the following claim:
"[Obama] was born in Kenya to an American anthropologist and a Kenyan finance minister, and was raised in Indonesia, Hawaii, and Chicago."
On June 14 Obama's parents suddenly transformed from what Madame Mao used to call "capitalist sprouts" (successful finance minister and anthropologist) to the more proletarian friendly "socialist grass":
"[Obama] was born in Hawaii to a father who was raised in a small village in Kenya and a mother who grew up in small-town Kansas."
Heaven forbid, in other words, that Democrat candidate Obama is discovered with overly favorable bourgeois origins.
Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2012/05/complications_from_his_father_and_mother.html#ixzz1vZynfM6n
heh :) that's really funny
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People in Punxsutawney Pennsylvania would not take well to a foreign air force taking out a car on Harmony Road because this same foreign power said it must be so. Is that really so hard to understand?
ReplyDeleteThe same crowd in DC that takes the moral high ground on placing a wet towel on the face of a suspected terrorist and takes ten years to bring him to court, thinks it is a good idea to assassinate on high with a video game missile at a time and place of its choosing?
You see B, what goes around, comes around. We are flying deeply in "an eye for an eye country”. We are not the white knights in their eyes. We are grey wolves taking down helpless elk. You get the narrative.
ReplyDelete:) heh, I get it, but really don't agree with it. I wouldn't have been able to think of the guy that bombed the Cole as a helpless elk, and I doubt the dead of the Cole could either.
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You miss my point or I fail to make it. Everyone killed in Viet Nam was a VC. In a hot war everyone expects "collateral damage”. That is Pentagon speak for women and children getting killed and murdered by our guys. If an enemy kills women and children, that is terrorism. Collateral damage is somewhat balanced by the human brain because there is danger to the soldiers in the combat. They are also at risk. A bomber pilot is at risk. A downed pilot’s parachute is just the beginning of his problems, especially from all those farmers who’s family and animals have been killed and property destroyed.
DeleteNo one knows who has been killed by these drone attacks. What is known is that they all cannot be terrorists. Revenge for the killings will be had. Since there is no soldier or pilot to torture and kill, so where do you expect they will go? To the mall perhaps?
Their eyes also pop open at 3:00 AM wondering how to strike back at the big bad wolf.
ReplyDeleteThere are many people, including me, that are freaking out thinking about the US government using surveillance drones in the US. The US Senate has authorized the the IRS, without court orders, to seize passports of US citizens that they claim owe them $50,000 or more. What happens when they authorize the IRS to use drones to catch "tax cheats"?
ReplyDeleteThat is nothing compared to the anonymous attacks by the US on targets in Middle Eastern countries. It freaks them out as well.
Do you trust the IRS to solely determine who is guilty of tax fraud without due process? of course not. Why would someone trust another US agency to make random bombing strikes in their country and do so with impunity?
The same Pentagon that cannot identify parts for their own aircraft can determine who gets “taken out”, half way around the world, from 15,000 feet by a 19 year old looking at a video screen in Las Vegas.
ReplyDeleteNot any more, perhaps I think I read the decisions are no longer made by the Pentagon. It seem Obama is beginning to do an LBJ, and he, or some underling, have taken it upon themselves to do the deciding.
DeleteWhy not egalize, regulate and tax drugs, earmarking some of the tax revenue for education to reduce drug use and rehabilitation programs to help abusers? Then work out agreements with the producer countries, which would enforce production quotas and, like India does, make sure the crop is not siphoned off by criminals.
ReplyDeleteThat would make sense, but many of the most powerful western countries - especially the USA - don't do sense.
Anyway, let's not overlook the massive vested interests we are confronted with as countless billions are spent on pointless wars and fat cat arms manufacturers and others who leech off the defense industry rake in the profits.
I know, let's legalize drugs, and regulate them at the same time - how that is done, to regulate a legal drug, is left to the imagination - though Rufus might know how - then we can tax the drugs for rehabilitation programs for those we have gotten hooked. Then we will simply negotiate with the cartels, and the producing countries, and they will reduce voluntarily their output, putting themselves out of business. In like manner we can make sure the crop in South America, Afghanistan and elsewhere, is not siphoned off by criminals, like India.
DeleteSounds like a 'go' to me.
As Trish might say, "What could possibly go wrong?"
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“legalize"
ReplyDeleteVicoden, muscle relaxers, sleeping pills, . . . . all manner of legal drugs are regulated.
ReplyDeleteThere's an idea, Rufus. We'll legalize h, and crack, then make you get a doctor's prescription for it. No doctor that is ethical would ever prescribe such.
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opiates (i.e. heroin) have some very beneficial uses in medecine.
DeleteObviously, Ash. Good painkillers. What's the point? I think I read somewhere that even strychnine I think it was in very small doses can be good for something or other. Doesn't mean you should shoot it in your vein every time you feel like it.
DeleteSomeone had a reasonable enough proposal to buy up all the Afghan poppy crop, build facilities to turn it into legitimate painkillers and ship it to the third world where such medicines are in short supply.
But then the growers would go into extra production to supply the addict market as well.
Almost seems hopeless, doesn't it, like the situation of the women there.
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The point is b, that allowing drugs to be regulated (i.e. legalized) does NOT mean that society is saying it is ok for you to shoot up whenever you like - which has been one of your ongoing arguments against legalization.
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ReplyDeleteBut not very well.
As I said before, the argument is beyond my pay grade and there are many pros as well as cons.
However, legalized prescription drug abuse is the fastest growing problem with drugs right. Many pre-teens, as well as teens and adults are abusing. I would imagine that problem would only get worse was usage of these drugs legalized.
I've always thought legalizing marijuana would be the logical first step. It is readily available. Those who want it can get it now. I think it represents about a quarter of the cartels take. It would provide tax money. There would probably be an initial spike in usage but I expect it would eventually normalize with the big push on not smoking anything. And if the policy didn't work, you could eventually reverse it without fear of leaving a trail of addicts. The end result, you would have some kind of data to judge if further legalization of other drugs makes sense.
But I could be wrong.
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Drug addiction is definitely a problem but the blunt hammer of jails does not seem to be working.
DeleteThe real tragedy is the thousands and thousands of people doing jail time (and the corrupting influence that has) over addiction problems. Putting people in jail for smoking and distributing Marijuana is just insane. It is also a bad approach for more severe addictions.
Quirk's idea of a test run with marijuana has some merit maybe, but crack and heroin are so much more serious that marijuana I doubt we'd really learn much.
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Ash, you failed to include your usual "booze is so much worse than marijuana" argument so I will include it for you. And on that, I think you are probably more right than wrong.
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A lot more right than wrong, when I think about it. After all no one yet has marijuanaed themselves to death, far as I know, nor gotten in bar fights with knives and guns.
DeleteWe had a guy here played tight end, the cousin of our new quarterback. He was signed up to live in our what is turning into football dorm. But he took two bullets in the chest at a drunker party in LA, so he won't be checking in. If they all had just been smoking pot it is unlikely this would have occurred.
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DeleteRead an interesting article the other day regarding the health related aspects of marijuana smoking.
I didn't pay to much attention to it as it was a first of its kind study. As I recall, it was by a well respected group and peer reviewed. The results of the study were anti-intuitive and indicated that there is no evidence that smoking pot contributes to pulmonary issues or cancer.
Naturally, the first instinct of many in the medical field was to downplay the results and offer caution since it was only one study and its results needed to be duplicated and confirmed.
I find it hard to believe myself but still...
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I'm hoping John Wolfe wins the Arkansas democratic primary today over Obama.
ReplyDeleteWould be a real gas.
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Here you go - if Obama had been caught smoking dope and doing a little blow, he wouldn't have been able to become President. This speaks loudly for enforcing the drug laws. (Is he still doing a little blow?)
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http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2012/05/21/penn_jillette_on_drug_war_states_rights_doesnt_mean_jack_sht_to_obama.html
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DeleteThere is also the hypocrisy factor. His administration doubles down on the WOD and then he laughs about times he got wasted on blow and weed, how his last two years in high school were a daze. He goes on Jimmy Fallon and smirks about it. He says, "Of course I inhaled. That was the point," all the time with a shit=eating grin on his face."
Gotta keep up the street cred. He is after all the "Cool" president.
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May 14, 2012 6:01 PM
ReplyDeleteKen McRoyal, U. of Idaho football player, shot dead at L.A. artists' venue.
Police are investigating the shooting death of University of Idaho football player Ken McRoyal, early Sunday in Los Angeles.
(Credit: CBS Los Angeles)
(CBS/AP) LOS ANGELES, Calif. - Police detectives are searching for the killer of University of Idaho football player Ken McRoyal, who was shot to death in downtown Los Angeles early Sunday morning.
The Los Angeles County coroner's office said McRoyal was shot during an argument. Details are sketchy, but police said there was a verbal altercation between McRoyal and at least four men, CBS Los Angeles reported. One of them opened fire, shooting McRoyal and another man who was shot in the arm.
The participants had been attending a photo shoot to promote a new woman's clothing line. The incident happened around 130 a.m. Sunday at the Brewery Lofts, a living and working space for artists.
McRoyal was a receiver at Idaho after two seasons at El Camino Junior College. He earned a football scholarship for the 2012 season, and his former coach John Featherstone told CBS Los Angeles that he could have played in the NFL.
Idaho coach Robb Akey told the AP that McRoyal's loss is devastating. "We've lost a brother, a teammate, a family member. But, more importantly, a momma lost her son today."
Police are seeking a motive for the shooting.
Dominique Blackman, McRoyal's cousin, is trying to make sense of the killing.
"They took somebody who meant a lot to our family and not only to our family but to a lot, to college football, to this community," Blackman told CBS Los Angeles. "He's a Katrina survivor. He's bigger than that - he's a father, my friend."
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Finally this article on Afghan women which I would have posted yesterday if I had seen it -
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The Government has absolutely No business telling any Adult man, or woman, what he or she can smoke, smack, shoot up, snort, drink, or rub their nuts in.
ReplyDeleteAs for selling to kids? Well, that should probably be handled in the same manner that we make it illegal to sell Booze to minors (with stiffer penalties for the heavy drugs, of course.)
Things are going to get tough, folks, be prepared. Food, ammo, medical supplies, water.
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I DID MENTIONED THIS TO YOU SOME TIME BACK AND THE REAL STORM CLOUDS ARE GATHERING BECAUSE IT LOOKS LIKE HE THAT EVIL STINK WILL LOSE THIS ELECTION SO I FEEL AS MANY OTHERS NOW FEEL THAT HE WILL TURN HIS CUR DOGS LOOSE TO START RIOTS IN SOME MAJOR CITIES AND TO QUELL THOSE RIOTS THAT HE STARTED HE WILL CALL FOR MARTIAL LAW AND SUSPEND THE ELECTIONS.
BLESSINGS DALE
ONLY TIME WILL TELL
Referencing the 'secret amnesty' buried at page one thousand and something in some new bill or other.
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Whose side of the barricades will you be on, Rufus? Not choosing is not an option.
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I'll probly go fishin'.
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Actually, I do think there might be some rioting if Obama's defeated. Won't last long, I figure - a couple of days.
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DeleteInteresting observation.
For a long time, I've contended the fruit loops on the fringes of both sides, right and left, are both nutz and kind of balance each other out. I am not changing my mind on that one; however, that observation is based in the broad and general sense. When you get down to a specific precipitating event, the left does seem to become volatile quicker and in greater numbers than the right.
For instance, it is hard to think there would be rioting if Obama wins.
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A precipitating event to the second power might be if Zimmerman is found innocent on the day, or week, that Obama is defeated. Pray there is some months between the two. (more likely Zim will get a hung jury)
DeleteNo rioting if Obama wins, is right.
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A lot of drunkenness, though. :)
DeleteA senior Nasdaq Stock Market official told customers Tuesday afternoon that it would have pulled the plug on Facebook Inc.'s initial public offering had it known the full extent of the technical problems that plagued its systems.
ReplyDeleteIn 2007, Mitt Romney, facing a surging Huckabee campaign in an Iowa caucus that was supposed to launch him to the nomination, delivered a speech about the role of faith in public life. As eloquent as the speech, entitled “Faith in America,” may have been, it did little to bolster his Iowa campaign.
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et Romney chose, rightly, not to ignore what had occurred, and ended up delivering one of the most effective speeches of his political career. In understanding why this is so, it is instructive to study the writings of the Orthodox Jewish Talmudist and philosopher Joseph Soloveitchik.
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Soloveitchik, moreover, insisted that primary subjects of interfaith engagement should include “man’s moral values” and “the threat of secularism,” matters that “revolve about religious spiritual aspects of our civilization.” He then added that in engaging these matters, people of different faiths can discover a profound commonality:
As men of God, our thoughts, feelings, perceptions, and terminology bear the imprint of a religious world outlook. We define ideas in religious categories and we express our feelings in a peculiar language which quite often is incomprehensible to the secularist.
It is here, too, that the IMF had the most useful things to say about Britain yesterday. Ms Lagarde not only backed further monetary easing.
ReplyDeleteShe also called on the Government to do more to prioritise economically productive areas (such as capital investment) over unproductive ones (such as public sector wages), and to ramp up efforts to boost business lending. All are sensible suggestions.
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After the bursting of the biggest credit bubble in history, there is no way to avoid a painful correction. It is time for politicians to stop making false promises, to stop posturing about differences that scarcely exist, and to start telling the truth about what is possible and what is not.
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ReplyDeleteThe 'reply' button only works for me on a spotty basis, worked on Ruf's but not on Sam's.
Regarding Facebook I understand the SEC is looking into various aspects of the IPO, the technical issues, the amount of insider trading, the shifting around of the opening IPO prices in the days leading up to it, the apparent over-pricing of the IPO.
Doubt they will find anything, it is rare they do; however, the process did seem a little screwed up given the publicity and excitement surrounding the IPO.
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Doubt they will find anything
DeleteChances are about the same as anything coming from Sharron Angle's complaint to the Federal Elections Commission complaining about Reid paying off the hotel workers to vote for him in the Nevada Senate race last time around - nil.
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As this column was being written, Mitt Romney, who pioneered ObamaCare’s individual mandate when he was governor of Massachusetts, was close to locking down the Republican presidential nomination. Despite the wealth of targets created by Obama’s desolating presidency, the Republicans had managed to seize on nothing but dud issues: immigration (at a time when immigration is in sharp decline), pornography, and the strange claim that the president who ordered the assassination of Osama bin Laden, claims the authority to kill U.S. citizens, and agitates for war with Iran is insufficiently martial.
ReplyDeleteA Quinnipiac poll taken in March showed Obama leading Romney by 50 percent to 42 percent.
Why would a president who gave America vast unemployment, soaring inflation, a moribund economy, record deficits, and a manically ill-conceived energy policy be coasting toward re-election? For the same reason Dianne Feinstein (who, like Romney, generates little excitement in her base but is considered electable) is a lock.
What do we want?
ReplyDeleteTime travel!
When do we want it?
It's irrelevant!
A Mafia Godfather finds out that his bookkeeper of 20 years, Guido, has cheated him out of $10,000,000.00. Guido is deaf which is why he got the job in the first place. The Godfather assumed that since Guido could not hear anything, he could never testify in court.
ReplyDeleteWhen the Godfather goes to confront Guido about his missing $10 million, he takes along his personal lawyer because he knows sign language. The Godfather tells the lawyer, "Ask him where the money is!"
The lawyer, using sign language, asks Guido, "Where's the money?"
Guido signs back, "I don't know what you are talking about." The lawyer tells the Godfather, "He says he doesn't know what you are talking about."
The Godfather pulls out a pistol, puts it to Guido's head and says, "Ask him again or I'll kill him!"
The lawyer signs to Guido, "He'll kill you if you don't tell him."
Guido trembles and signs back, "OK! You win! The money is in a brown briefcase, buried behind the shed at my cousin Bruno's house."
The Godfather asks the lawyer, "What did he say?"
The lawyer replies, "He says you don't have the balls to pull the trigger."
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On this day in 1992, Johnny Carson hosted "The Tonight Show" for the final time, ending a 30-year career.
ReplyDeleteThank God! After thirty years in the wilderness, we are free at last.
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Mr. Papademos stressed that "for the second program to be successful it is essential that the fiscal-consolidation measures and structural reforms should be supplemented by additional policies that would have an immediate and significant positive impact on economic activity and employment."
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Equally misguided, he said, are expectations by the far-left Syriza political group, which surged in the last election and is now neck-and-neck with the largest mainstream conservative New Democracy party, that Greece's euro-zone partners will blink and won't force it out of the euro, even if it suspends austerity measures and defaults on its loans.
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"Adjustment fatigue in countries under programs has been accompanied by bailout fatigue in creditor countries. We should not forget this."
With 50% of the Kentucky vote in, Obama is leading Mr. Uncommitted 57K votes to 42K votes.
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Arkansas Dem | 55 delegates (14%)
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Obama 28,063 58.7
Wolfe 19,707 41.3
Margaret Thatcher adviser talks Obama eligibility
ReplyDeleteLord Monckton to appear at Arizona tea-party event
Lord Christopher Monckton, an adviser to former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, has lectured on the fakery behind the worldwide global-warming fearmongering, appearing on CNN, Fox News, ABC and CBS. He’s delivering his warnings in the U.S., Russia and Australia, earning recognition as a leading expert on the case against man-made climate change.
Now he’s scheduled to appear Monday in Sun City West, Ariz., at a meeting of the Surprise, Ariz., Tea Party, which has been integral in advocating for a formal investigation into Barack Obama’s eligibility to hold the presidential office.
So what do global warming and Obama’s birth certificate have in common?
Monckton himself explains.
“Obama comes very much from the hard left,” he said in a recent interview with the Article 2 Superpac.
In fact, he said, there are many who believe “Obama is as far to the left as you can go without being Fidel Castro.”
“He may not carry a card … but it’s very difficult to tell the difference between him and a Marxist,” he said.
Likewise, the driving forces now engineering claims that humanity is creating chaos in the world with uncontrolled carbon dioxide emissions and forcing the global climate to heat up dramatically are coming from the hard left, he said.
Both campaigns are marked by the “destructiveness of the hard left,” he said.
“The Climate of Freedom: With Lord Christopher Monckton and Tom Ballantyne” is scheduled Monday, May 28, at 6:30 p.m. at Sun City West.
It is a fundraiser that will benefit the Cold Case Posse commissioned by Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio to investigate Obama’s eligibility. The preliminary conclusion already released said there is probable cause that there was forgery in the creation of Obama’s birth documentation released last year by the White House and probable cause that there was fraud in its presentation as a genuine document.
In the recent interview with the Article 2 Superpac, Monckton said he has no idea where Obama was born, and he’s seen plenty of fraudulent Kenyan birth certificates. But he also said Obama should be taking the issue seriously.
“What is very plain,” he said, is the purported Hawaiian birth certificate that is on the White House website … is manifestly in your face bogus.”
He said the research done on the computerized image posted online revealed anomalies in the layers of the digital image.
“What disturbs me is that within 24 hours of that being posted …. zitty teenagers who understand … computers had exposed what had been done,” he said. And that was the creation of the document from various sources, not a single scan of an existing government record.
“Somebody has tampered with that,” he said. “I can’t understand why that was done. What one can say for certain … this is a bogus document. It is a forged document.”
Notably, it is posted on a federal website and pertains to the “highest officer” of state,” he said.
“This is no small matter,” he said.
Also on the podium will be Tom M. Ballantyne Jr., author of “Oh Really, O’Reilly!” which uses a “fair and balanced” approach to consider the constitutional legitimacy of the nation’s 44th president.
Monckton is to discuss ways modern people are relinquishing their freedoms and the ability to make decisions for themselves.
UPDATE: With 99.8 percent reporting, Barack Obama has 119,245 votes, while 'Uncommitted' has 86,789 votes. That is, Obama has 57.9 percent of the vote, while 'Uncommitted' has 42.1 percent.
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