Coalition

A number of large national groups—including SEIU, MoveOn.org Political Action, A number of large national groups—including SEIU, MoveOn.org Political Action, USAction, Campaign for America’s Future, Win Without War, VoteVets, United States Student Association and Center for American Progress Action Fund launced a campaign to oppose the escalation of the war in Iraq called “Americans Against Escalation in Iraq” at the National Press Club in Washington, DC on Thursday, Jan. 11, 2007.

Eli Pariser, MoveOn.org’s Executive Director, talked about some of the actions that MoveOn is planning in the coming weeks and months

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-big business supported nazis firmly
-alternative was a coalition including groups from the political left
-hindenburg was a nazi
-nazis won a majority of the popular vote in the last election

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The first two plus Hitler claimed that he was the only one who could restore order to the country and avoid social unrest

A. political converters
B. coalitions
C. machines
D. superdelegates
E. linkage institutions

D) Super delegates

Canadians speak out about the political situation in Canada. The prospect of a Coalition Government, Jobs and the Economy.

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What if you put all 120,000 US troops + coalition forces to seal Iraqi border instead of slugging it out in the streets of Baghdad and other combat zones?

Granting it’s almost impossible to put ground forces on all points in & out of Iraq (particularly those it share w/ Iran, Syria), my impression is that, with US superiority in electronic warfare capabilities (satellites, drones, remote sensors), it doesn’t even have to put ground forces everywhere.

Not enough equipments? What it lack in equipments…they can build.

What about the Billion-$ price tag to maintain it? I’m sure money is no object if to consider the moral and political value of each soldier killed. Besides, it is already an expensive war.

This way, US and Coalition forces can hand over the combat duties to Iraqi forces where it should be. With no weapons and supplies coming in for the militias, even a weak Iraqi security force can now handle the job.

It may be easier said than done…but it sure can be done.

This is actually being done by British forces around Basra, and Australian forces in the south, they carry out interdiction and interception missions with quite some success!..The American forces, because of the rigidity of their command and engagement structure appear to incapable of doing this! By the time an American field officer has received approval to engage, the enemy has invariably bolted and the opportunity lost, usually with unnecessary US casualty’s!..You have to intercept and destroy the insurgents before they do the deed, not sit back and wait for it to happen!..What has to happen is someone in US politics has to have the ‘balls’ to get the bungling bumbling political general officers out of it, and replace them with officers with field experience who know how to fight a war like this!..They have to follow what the Brits and the Aussies are doing, or they cant win!

Manchester, England. 23 February 2004. George Galloway speaks at the North West Convention of the Left. This rally launched the new anti-war political coalition Respect in the North West of England.

Galloway had been kicked out of the Labour Party for his anti-war stance in 2003. He stood for Parliament as a Respect candidate in 2005 and beat the sitting Labour candidate in east London to become Member of Parliament for Bethnall Green and Bow. In Manchester, Respect got 21% of the vote in the 2006 local council elections.

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They’re also called folk tales. And many of them were very simple expressions of the authors political beliefs. Kinda like political cartoons. I find "The Gingerbread Man" very appropriate, especially the ending, to describe the globalization coalition that exists between todays liberals and the labor exploitive capitalist.
Can you take a few minutes to read this simple little folk tale and tell me if the Fox represents the humanitarian liberals or the labor exploitive capitalist?
"And after that, the little Gingerbread Boy never said anything more at all."

http://www.ink.imagedjinn.com/gingerbread_man.htm

Yes, it was the only way in feudal or Medieval times to protest without a visit from the headsman. Peasants knew the code of the tales, fortunately for them the Royals never found out.

I’m writing a paper and looking for sources about King George V’s role in the Parliament Act of 1911, the Home Rule Act, and the encouragement of the Coalition of the 3 Parties during the 1930’s depression or any other political contribution he made.

George also took an interest in the political turmoil in Ireland, expressing his horror at government-sanctioned killings and reprisals in a letter to Prime Minister Lloyd George.

Speakers: Jeffrey D. Straussman, Dean of Rockefeller College of Public Affairs & Policy, University at Albany;
Theodore R. Marmor, Adjunct Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School;
Alan Altshuler, Ruth and Frank Stanton Professor of Urban Policy and Planning, Harvard Kennedy School

President-elect Barack Obama created history by being elected the first African-American President of the United States of America. In his acceptance speech he declared that change has come to America and also acknowledged the difficult times facing the country. Set to assume office in less than a week, the incoming administration is concretizing its plans for change and preparing to address the ongoing financial crisis as well as many other challenges and constraints that face him in a range of areas. In so doing, Obama will have to cope with the double edged sword of unusually high expectations of both Americans and people worldwide. What strategies will Obama need to adopt to use presidential power effectively in this time of significant turmoil? How will he prioritize among competing issues calling out for his administrations attention? And how he will proceed to keep a workable political coalition intact while making difficult choices that will alienate some supporters? The three panelists, all distinguished senior analysts of executive power and American public policy, will discuss the challenges of Barack Obamas transition and will also respond to questions from the audience.

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Media nervous on new Duke U. rape case (updated)
Thomas Lifson
A new and even more scandalous rape allegation has surfaced at Duke University. Yet the usual media and campus PC crowd are keeping mighty quiet. Identity politics apparently trumps all sense of outrage.

Of course, after the disgraceful media and university reaction to the phony allegations against Duke Lacrosse team members, it is wise avoid jumping to conclusions, but the comparative silence on the current case is nonetheless remarkable, considering how many particulars of the case were left out of the main AP account.

Mike Adams, writing on Townhall, lays out the facts the MSM won’t:

Frank Lombard is the associate director of Duke’s Center for Health Policy. The university administrator was recently arrested by the FBI and charged with offering up his adopted 5-year-old son for sex. I tried to contact Frank Lombard over the weekend to probe his expertise regarding the health benefits of raping small children. So far, he’s declined to comment.

University administrator Lombard is accused of logging on to a chat room online and describing himself as a "perv dad for fun." The detective who wisely looked into the suspicious screen name says that Lombard admitted to molesting his own adopted son. All this was before allegedly inviting a stranger to travel to North Carolina from another state to statutorily rape his already-molested adopted son.

It gets worse. The allegations are stunning and sickening. Adams spares us what he says is the worst.

However, identity politics are probably also involved in understanding the media response. Again, Adams:

The Associate Press (AP) did not mention the fact that the five-year old offered up for molestation was black. Bringing that fact to light might be damaging to the political coalition that exists between blacks and gays. Nor did the AP mention that the adopted child is being raised by a homosexual couple. Bringing that fact to light might harm the gay adoption movement.

I am afraid that as far as the media and academic communities are involved, it is not the crime itself that matters, but rather whether the alleged perp is a member of an "oppressor" group. Although white, Lombard is gay, so in the interest of avoiding unpleasant stories involving homosexual adoption, the media is anxious to shut down public interest in the affair.

However, the outspokenness and willingness to judge in advance a case involving white jocks – easy targets – of Duke and media, inevitably place a spotlight on their handling of another Duke rape allegation.

Update: Thomas Lifson notes that Stanley B. Chambers of the Raleigh News and Observer (hat tip: C. Edmund Wright) brings is the following nugget:

Lombard, a licensed clinical social worker with a master’s degree in social work, is a health-disparities researcher who studies HIV/AIDS in the rural South.

This means that Lombard toiled in fields of the victimology industry, mining data for correlations that would underwrite government favoritism of victim groups.

A victimologist victimized at least one child in the most heinous way. The ultimate victim(s). And the media see no hypocrisy, and want to make sure the public doesn’t either. Nothing to see here, move along.

The media fundamentally agree with this guy’s activism; therefore, it would be politically correct to "out" his reprehensible behavior. I saw this story today on Michelle Malkin’s blog.