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Tuesday, May 21, 2013
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Taking the Fifth -- What It
Does (& Doesn´t Do) for Lerner
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Townhall, by Carol Platt Liebau
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 5/21/2013 8:36:48 PM
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Tomorrow, Lois Lerner -- director of Exempt Organizations at the IRS when all the targeting occurred -- is going to come to Capitol Hill and take the Fifth Amendment. It will be quite a spectacle. As a matter of law, a jury cannot use someone´s invocation of the Fifth Amendment as evidence of guilt. But we are not in a court of law -- we are in the court of public opinion, as everyone in The White House knows, and Lerner wouldn´t be taking the Fifth unless she was in danger of prosecution . . . or
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Three Labor Unions, Including
Teamsters, Want ObamaCare
Repealed; When Will Media
Report?
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NewsBusters, by Matt Vespa
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 5/21/2013 8:28:00 PM
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As the media, by and large, ignores the train wreck that is on the horizon with ObamaCare, yet another union has jumped ship on the president’s health care overhaul. Back in April, you may recall, the United Union of Roofers, Waterproofers, and Allied Workers officially said thanks but no thanks to the president’s plan. Well, now, a major labor union in the grocery industry is balking at the policy. According to The Hill: The United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW) — a 1.3 million-member labor group that twice endorsed Obama for president —
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BuzzFeed’s Anburajan: Ted Cruz a
‘LINO’ — ‘Latino in Name Only’
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Daily Caller, by Jeff Poor
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 5/21/2013 8:20:46 PM
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In a post on her Twitter account, Buzzfeed Director of Partnership Development Aswini Anburajan took a swipe at Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz’s ethnicity, calling him a “LINO,” or a “latino in name only.” Anburajan, who is also a contributor to WNYC’s “It’s a Free Country” blog, the website for the New York City NPR affiliate, also knocked Cruz’s presidential aspirations for his opposition to giving undocumented immigrants government benefits : “Ted Cruz is a LINO ‘latino in name only’ good luck w/ prez aspirations w/ that stand on undoc immig and benefits”
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Senator Blames Okla. Tornado
On Climate Change, GOP
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Investor´s Business Daily, by Editorial
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 5/21/2013 8:17:19 PM
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Junk Science: Despite no evidence that devastating tornadoes have increased in frequency or intensity due to fossil fuel use, another warm-monger blames the Moore, Okla., disaster on GOP "polluters and deniers." Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., thought the devastation of Moore was a crisis that should not be wasted as he took to the Senate floor Monday to rail against his Republican colleagues for denying the theory of anthropogenic (man-caused) global warming (known by its acronym, AGW). Other Democratic leaders like Al Gore, who profited handsomely off the manufactured hysteria, and President Obama, who promised the sea level would stop
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Outgoing IRS Chief: IRS Targeted
Conservatives to ‘Be More Efficient’
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Cybercast News Service, by Elizabeth Harrington
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 5/21/2013 8:11:34 PM
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Outgoing IRS Commissioner Steven Miller told a Senate committee Tuesday that the Internal Revenue Service’s targeting of conservative groups was not partisan, but merely “foolish mistakes” made by employees trying to be “more efficient.” “I do not believe that partisanship motivated the people who engaged in the practices described in the Treasury Inspector General’s report,” Miller said in his opening statement before the Senate Finance Committee. “I reviewed the Treasury Inspector General’s report and I believe its conclusions are consistent with that.” “I think that what happened here was that foolish mistakes were
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Krauthammer On IRS Scandal:
"This Is Going To Go On
And It Could Be Fatal"
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Real Clear Politics, by Ian Schwartz
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 5/21/2013 8:01:43 PM
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CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: Here´s why this has legs: Number one, as Kirsten says, everybody is outraged. Everybody knows what the IRA can do, and everybody´s afraid of it. Second, because you now have somebody that´s going to plead the Fifth, in a court of law, the jury is not supposed to interpret that as hiding something, but this isn´t a court of law, and we aren´t a jury. Clearly there´s something happening here. Everybody understands there is a red flag. And last is the fact who was a member of Congress who was just up there? That was the
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Carney Likens Questions About
Scandals To Birth Certificate
Controversy
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Real Clear Politics, by Ian Schwartz
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 5/21/2013 7:57:08 PM
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MAJOR GARRETT, CBS NEWS: On Sunday, Dan Pfeiffer said that one thing Republicans do when they lack an agenda is try -- I’m quoting him directly -- “try to drag Washington into a swamp of partisan fishing expeditions, trumped-up hearings and false allegations.” Can you describe what he’s talking about? JAY CARNEY, WHITE HOUSE: I think we have a history here already for the past several years of attempts by Republicans to politicize matters -- GARRETT: Is there anything that´s -- an issue now fall into that category in your opinion -- in the White House’s opinion?
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Are Obama´s Policies To
The Left Of Communist China?
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Investor´s Business Daily, by Editorial
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 5/21/2013 7:51:13 PM
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Free Market: The government has decided that less intervention on its part will be better for economic growth. Is this a new initiative coming out of Washington? No. This is the thinking in Beijing. Under the headline "China Cuts Red Tape As Premier Li Shows Stimulus Reluctance," Bloomberg reported last week that Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, who "pledged to reduce the government´s role in the world´s second biggest economy after a new leadership took over in March," wants to cut red tape and regulation. Bloomberg went on to report that Chinese government "authorities" are "reluctant to use stimulus to counter
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Inspector General: IRS Leaking
Info to ProPublica
Could Be Criminal
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Breitbart´s Big Government, by Wynton Hall
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Posted By: mitzi- 5/21/2013 7:48:29 PM
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During Tuesday´s Senate Finance Committee hearing on the Internal Revenue Service´s (IRS) targeting of conservative groups, Sen. John Thune (R-SD) honed in on a critical question with possible criminal implications. In questioning Treasury Inspector General J. Russell George, Thune focused on the claims by progressive journalism group ProPublica that IRS agents gave them conservative organizations’ confidential tax documents. “You mentioned earlier that disclosure of confidential information would be a violation of the law,” said Thune.
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Fraud, security concerns as
approval rate for ´dreamers´
hits 99 percent
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Fox News, by Judson Berger
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 5/21/2013 7:48:28 PM
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Illegal immigrants seeking a reprieve under an election-year program implemented by the Obama administration are being approved at a rate of over 99 percent -- a situation that has the immigration officer union raising concerns about fraud and security risks. The program in question is called Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, which allows some illegal immigrants who came to the U.S. as children to seek tentative legal status. It was the administration´s answer to the "Dream Act," a bill Congress drafted but did not approve. The union representing thousands of employees in U.S. Citizenship and
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The Bystander President
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Investor´s Business Daily, by Editorial
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 5/21/2013 7:47:16 PM
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Leadership: Is Barack Obama the president or not? If you were visiting from another planet, you´d have to wonder. He says he learns what his government is doing from the news, and seems detached from his role as leader. Let´s take Obama at his word (for now) that he didn´t know his Justice Department was spying on reporters. Or that his IRS agents were targeting his political enemies. Or that al-Qaida was attacking his diplomats — after they´d asked for more protection, which he also didn´t know about. The ignorance and incompetence defense looks just as bad as guilt.
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Opium addicts of Afghanistan:
Number of junkies TRIPLES to
150,000 despite war on drugs
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Daily Mail [UK], by Staff
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Posted By: Attercliffe- 5/21/2013 7:41:16 PM
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A heroin addict father smokes the deadly drug contentedly as his two innocent children sit watching him adoringly. The oblivious man is part of a growing epidemic in the war-torn country of Afghanistan, which has seen the number of opium and heroin addicts tripling to 150,000, according to latest United Nations Figures, while 225,000 used the drug in 2012. In a country with a population 35million, there are now more than 1m addicts of one drug or another. It represents a major problem for the country, which produces 90 percent of all opiates in the world. Until recently
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Jay Carney Insists Obama Comfortable
With Learning About IRS Scandal
From News Rather Than Advisors
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Mediaite, by Noah Rothman
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 5/21/2013 7:37:02 PM
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White House Press Sec. Jay Carney told reporters on Tuesday at the daily press briefing that President Barack Obama was not upset with his closest advisors who chose not to inform him of the brewing scandal surrounding the Internal Revenue Service’s systemic targeting of conservative groups. Carney said that the president would not have been able to comment on the Inspector General’s ongoing investigation into the IRS’s abuses and was not upset over being kept out of the loop. “I wasn’t present when he learned about it, but I know that he
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Benghazi Suspects ID’d, But
Administration Won’t Nab
Them Because It Doesn’t Want
to Send Them to Gitmo
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PJ Media, by Bridget Johnson
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 5/21/2013 7:24:11 PM
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Despite the fact that the Obama administration regularly strike at terrorists with lethal drone hits in Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia, the White House is reportedly not rounding up five suspects identified in the Benghazi attack because of a lack of evidence to try them in civilian court. The Associated Press cites officials who said there is enough evidence to seize the men as enemy combatants and send them to Guantanamo Bay. But apparently the Obama administration wants civilian trials for anyone involved in the Benghazi attack and has sent the FBI back to collect more evidence, which
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´I never knew people could love an
old man so much´: WWII vet, 91,
´saved from daughter´s eviction´
after $138,000 raised online
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Daily Mail [UK], by Staff
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Posted By: Attercliffe- 5/21/2013 7:18:36 PM
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A 91-year-old WWII veteran fighting to prevent his daughter from evicting him from his Ohio home has raised more than $138,000 from online donors to buy back his home, easily surpassing his goal. John Potter says he´s ´amazed´ by the more than 5,000 people who have donated toward his original $125,000 goal while telling his granddaughter, Jaclyn Fraley, ´I never knew people could love an old man so much.´ After Mr Potter´s daughter sent him an eviction notice earlier this year, Ms Fraley organized the desperate fundraiser for him in April while sharing with the public his dire situation.
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IRS Worker Used Federal
Plastic For Amazon Buys
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Smoking Gun, by Staff
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 5/21/2013 7:13:53 PM
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Entrusted with a government credit card, an Internal Revenue Service worker allegedly used the plastic for a years-long Amazon.com shopping spree that netted her hundreds of items, including a chocolate fondue fountain; Bollywood movies; Pampers; Harlequin romance novels; Omaha Steaks; Apple Bottoms skinny jeans; mango body wash; and a Ginsu knife set. Yetunde Oseni, 37, was named this month in a U.S. District Court felony complaint charging her with embezzling government funds. Oseni has worked since 2000 as a secretary in an IRS office in Lanham, Maryland. According to a court filing, Oseni was given a Citibank MasterCard
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Stocks are booming,
so beware the bust
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Telegraph [UK], by Jeremy Warner
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Posted By: Attercliffe- 5/21/2013 6:55:48 PM
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The return of ´animal spirits’ usually points to better times, but it’s more complicated now. One of the defining characteristics of an asset bubble is that most professional money men know one when they see one, but on the “greater fool theory”--the belief that when making a questionable investment there is always some idiot willing to pay even more--are very reluctant to leave it.[Snip] With equity prices again hitting new, post-credit-crunch highs--the FTSE 100 is nearly back to its turn-of-the-century peak, and the US S&P 500 already is--the old question has arisen anew: are we once again in
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The Justice Department and Fox
News’s Phone Records
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New Yorker, by Ryan Lizza
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Posted By: mitzi- 5/21/2013 6:52:48 PM
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The Obama Justice Department has seized the phone records of numbers that are associated with White House staffers and, apparently, with Fox News reporters, according to a document filed in the case of Stephen Jin-Woo Kim, on October 13, 2011. Kim is a former State Department contractor accused of violating the Espionage Act for allegedly leaking classified information to James Rosen, a Fox News reporter. Ronald C. Machen, Jr., the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia,
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Oklahoma tornado:
´Tornado Alley´ explained
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Telegraph [UK], by Paul Wright
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Posted By: Attercliffe- 5/21/2013 6:46:17 PM
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On May 3 1999, Moore was one of several cities left devastated after 74 tornadoes touched down across Oklahoma and Kansas in just 21 hours. Following a path similar to yesterday´s lethal twister, the storms that struck the city 14 years ago to the month left 46 dead and 800 injured. Due to the high number of mobile homes and less robust housing in this part of the US, more than 8,000 homes were destroyed. It caused almost $1.5 billion in property damage making it the fourth costliest in the world. The National Weather Service also recorded wind speeds
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Investors.com: Obama´s White House
´Reminiscent Of Totalitarian Regimes´
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Breitbart's Big Journalism, by Dr. Susan Berry
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Posted By: PageTurner- 5/21/2013 6:41:46 PM
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An editorial at Investors.com Monday noted that, having succeeded twice at electing a candidate with a radical socialist background, Barack Obama’s political advisors have now moved from a goal of merely controlling the “narrative,” to one of control of the actual “news.” The “seizure of AP phone records and surveillance of Fox employees,” says the editorial, demonstrates the White House’s “real aim.” The editorial observes that Obama’s political advisors have reveled in their ability to work the media. They took an otherwise inferior candidate, who is not representative of most Americans in
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White House IRS timeline shifts again
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Politico, by Jennifer Epstein & Reid J. Epstein
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Posted By: JoniTx- 5/21/2013 5:56:09 PM
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The White House’s explanation of what it knew about the investigation into the IRS’s scrutiny of conservative political groups and how it planned for the eventual release of that information shifted once again Tuesday. Just a day after telling reporters that chief of staff Denis McDonough and other senior White House staff learned of the situation nearly a month ago, press secretary Jay Carney revealed Tuesday that White House officials had consulted with the Treasury Department on how to make the findings public.(Snip) Carney said he hadn’t revealed more information about which officials
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Florida girl, 18, arrested and
expelled after relationship with
15-year-old female classmate
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New York Daily News, by Erik Ortiz
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Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 5/21/2013 5:44:52 PM
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An 18-year-old Florida student’s senior year has become a nightmare — all because she was in a same-sex relationship with a 15-year-old, her family says. Kaitlyn Hunt was arrested Feb. 16 for having a physical relationship with a younger classmate, who was her girlfriend at the time, mom Kelley Hunt Smith wrote on Facebook. Under Florida law, Hunt could see up to 15 years in prison and must register as a sex offender. A plea deal, however, remains on the table that would give Hunt two years´ house arrest and one year of probation, her family said. “Does my daughter deserve to lose her life for
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IRS ‘Blemish’ Prompts Scorn
From Unappeased Senators
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ABC News, by Jeff Zeleny
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Posted By: JoniTx- 5/21/2013 5:40:04 PM
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Douglas Shulman, the former commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service, said today he was “dismayed and saddened” that his agency had improperly targeting conservative groups, but declined to offer a direct apology and dismissed suggestions that he mislead Congress. The testimony from Shulman, who was making his first public appearance since the IRS controversy broke into the open two weeks ago, did not satisfy members of the Senate Finance Committee. He faced more than three hours of stern questioning from Democrats and Republicans, but said “I don’t believe I was aware” when asked
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Spain´s Angry and
Unemployed Young Men
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Real Clear World, by George Friedman
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Posted By: Kevin6497- 5/21/2013 5:31:38 PM
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Spain invites endless historical considerations, but on this trip I was struck by something more immediate and prosaic. We were on the road from Granada, near the coast, to Madrid, the capital in the center of the country. It was a four-lane highway, what Americans would call an interstate. The road was clean, well maintained and, as we moved north, nearly empty. Every few kilometers a car would pass in the opposite direction, or we would run alongside another car heading north. It was not the paucity of cars that struck me; it was the almost complete absence of trucks.
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Clear or nuclear:
Will Saudi Arabia get the bomb?
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Al Arabiya [UAE], by Dr. Naser al-Tamimi
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Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 5/21/2013 5:27:52 PM
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As the impasse over Tehran’s nuclear program worsens, those most likely to be directly affected by an Iranian bomb are showing greater alarm. While the media fixates on Israel and its possible reaction, other regional players have no less at stake. Despite Riyadh’s long-held advocacy of making the Middle East a zone free of weapons of mass destruction, there has been much speculation in the past few years about the possibility of its acquiring, or developing, nuclear weapons should Tehran obtain the bomb. In the words of Saudi King Abdullah: “If Iran developed nuclear weapons (...) everyone in the
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