Will there be deaths from heat exposure this summer, maybe rolling blackouts? Thanks leftists. #SanOnofre latimes.com/business/la-fi…
— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) June 8, 2013
Conspiracy theorists claim it is a shadow world government. Former leading members tell the Telegraph it was the most useful meeting they ever went to and it was crucial in forming the European Union. Today, the Bilderberg Group meets in Britain.
The sky is dark
The wind is cold
The night is young
Before it's old and grey
We will know
The thrill of it all
The time has come
It's getting late
It's now or never
Don't hesitate or stall
When I call
Don't spoil
The thrill of it all
And before you go to sleep at night
Preying shadows, do they ask you why?
And in the morning through the afternoon
Do you wonder where you're going to?
Every word I use
Each crumpled page
Strange ideas
Mature with age
Like leaves
When autumn falls
Turn gold
Then they hit the ground
Every time I hear
The latest sound
It's pure whiskey
Reeling round and around
My brain
Oh and all oh that jive
It's driving me wild
The dizzy spin I'm in
Everywhere I look
I see your face
I hear your name
All over the place
Hey girl
Though you're gone
Still I recall
The thrill of it all
You might as well know what is right for you
And make the most of what you like to do
For all the pleasure that's surrounding you
Should compensate for all you're going through
So if you're feeling fraught
With mental strain
Too much thinking's got you down again
Well let your senses skip
Stay hip
Keep cool
To the thrill of it all
When you try too much
You lose control
Pressure rises
And so I'm told
Something's got to give
High life ecstasy
You might as well live
I can't see
I can't speak
I couldn't take more than another week
Without you, oh no
So I will drink my fill
Till the thrill is you
Oh the thrill of it all
Oh the thrill of it all
No I won't forget
The thrill of it all
No no no no no no no...
#SMC UPDATE: Surveillance photo shows suspect entering Santa Monica College library twitter.com/ABC7/status/34…
— ABC7 Eyewitness News (@ABC7) June 8, 2013
SMPD Sgt. Richard Lewis estimates suspect fired at least 70 rounds inside the #SMC library
— ABC7 Eyewitness News (@ABC7) June 8, 2013
SMPD Sgt. Richard Lewis about suspect -- "He heavily armed himself and was ready for battle"
— ABC7 Eyewitness News (@ABC7) June 8, 2013
SHOOTING UPDATE #SMC -- Police Chief uses "execute" to describe gunman killing one woman on street. He had "multiple" magazines. @lanow
— Andrew Blankstein (@anblanx) June 8, 2013
Looks like #santamonica shooter ain't a bitter clinger. Has #muslim name.fireandreamitchell.com/2013/06/08/joh…
— Carol Greenberg (@LadyImpactOhio) June 8, 2013
What do we know about John Zawahri, the Santa Monica shooting suspect? lat.ms/19TdClD
— LA Times City Beat (@LATimescitybeat) June 8, 2013
At a Politburo meeting in April, Xi announced an effort to reeducate party cadres, using language that harked back to Mao's "rectification" campaigns of the 1940s when he was consolidating power at his revolutionary base in Yanan.Boy, that sounds familiar. No doubt Xi's even getting a few pointers from President Dronekiller.
Trying to boost morale in the military, Xi decreed all generals and officers above the rank of lieutenant colonel must do stints of at least 15 days as rank-and-file soldiers. Mao used almost exactly the same tactic in 1958.
In public speeches, Xi tends to elevate the Communist Party above the nation and even above the Chinese people. He's tried to clamp down on criticism of Mao.
"To completely negate Mao Tse-tung would lead to the demise of the Chinese Communist Party and to great chaos in China," Xi told a high-level forum in January, according to an article last month in Study Times, an official publication of the Central Party School in Beijing.
Just to show that he is not Mikhail S. Gorbachev, Xi blames the collapse of the Soviet Union on wavering from Communist convictions.
"It's a profound lesson for us. To dismiss the history of the Soviet Union and the Soviet Communist Party, to dismiss Lenin and Stalin, and to dismiss everything else is to engage in historic nihilism, and it confuses our thoughts and undermines the party's organizations on all levels," he said in another unpublished speech from December that was widely leaked.
Xi's predecessor for the last decade, Hu Jintao, was a bland figure. But political analysts believe he may have been more inclined toward political reform.
"Xi Jinping is very good at public relations, much better than Hu, who acted like a robot," said Willy Lam, a political analyst based in Hong Kong. "But ideologically he is really a Maoist, who wants to maintain tight control over the party and the military and to put a freeze on Western values."
Nobody expects Xi to reverse the opening of China's economy and, in fact, many are predicting reforms this year to loosen the grip of state-owned enterprises. But unlike Hu, he rarely speaks about rule of law.
Tighter controls were in evidence June 4, a sensitive day marking the anniversary of the crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators at Tiananmen Square in 1989. To much ridicule, censors deleted all references to the anniversary on the Chinese Internet — including a doctored photograph of yellow rubber ducks marching like tanks toward the square. Hong Kong journalists were detained briefly and prevented from filming the daily ceremony for the raising of the Chinese flag.
Authorities made sure no commemorations took place, rounding up activists and putting others under house arrest.
The American leader’s snooping shows he has given in to the murky demands of presidential powerVia Instapundit.
SAN FRANCISCO — When government officials came to Silicon Valley to demand easier ways for the world’s largest Internet companies to turn over user data as part of a secret surveillance program, the companies bristled. In the end, though, many cooperated at least a bit.Two cheers for Twitter, jeez. At least somebody's standing up for consumer privacy.
Twitter declined to make it easier for the government. But other companies were more compliant, according to people briefed on the negotiations. They opened discussions with national security officials about developing technical methods to more efficiently and securely share the personal data of foreign users in response to lawful government requests. And in some cases, they changed their computer systems to do so.
The negotiations shed a light on how Internet companies, increasingly at the center of people’s personal lives, interact with the spy agencies that look to their vast trove of information — e-mails, videos, online chats, photos and search queries — for intelligence. They illustrate how intricately the government and tech companies work together, and the depth of their behind-the-scenes transactions.
The companies that negotiated with the government include Google, which owns YouTube; Microsoft, which owns Hotmail and Skype; Yahoo; Facebook; AOL; Apple; and Paltalk, according to one of the people briefed on the discussions. The companies were legally required to share the data under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. People briefed on the discussions spoke on the condition of anonymity because they are prohibited by law from discussing the content of FISA requests or even acknowledging their existence.Continue reading.
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— Amanda Bynes (@AmandaBynes) May 2, 2013
.@dyanavalentine Love to the shooter? How about to law enforcement trying to keep people safe? Jeez... #SantaMonicaCollege
— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) June 7, 2013
.@dyanavalentine Wondering though, for you, there's no difference between the shooter and his victims? They're equivalent and love-needing?
— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) June 7, 2013
@dyanavalentine @ampowerblog LOVE TO THE SHOOTER? Are you serious? Lady wake the fuck up!
— Jesse Moody (@TheJesseMoody) June 7, 2013
.@dyanavalentine @ampowerblog How about Hitler, does he get love? Mao? Lenin? Pol Pot? Satan? #insane
— Dan Donaldson (@_donaldson) June 7, 2013
@dyanavalentine @ampowerblogmaybe you wouldn't be sending love if shooter blew your stupid head off, eh?
— NedL (@NCL387) June 8, 2013
@dyanavalentine @ampowerblog So you have the discrimination of a mosquito and the depth of a puppy. So evolved! I bet you hate this, lover!
— Jon A. Hartz, Sr. (@JonAHartzSr) June 8, 2013
Hey Let's Keep Giving Them Aid -->Al Nusra Front Takes Syrian Rebel Flag Down, Raises Al Qaeda’s Black Flag... shar.es/wz7Do
— I Yam What I Yam (@Nvr4Get91101) June 7, 2013
President Barack Obama was en route to Santa Monica to attend a Democratic National Committee fundraising event. The Secret Service has also been notified...Developing...
Secret Service says Santa Monica College shooting not impacting President @barackobama's visit nearby bit.ly/13imBHO
— ABC7 Eyewitness News (@ABC7) June 7, 2013
.@rsmccain Breaking here: is.gd/0xqfYx The fundraising must go on!
— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) June 7, 2013
BREAKING PHOTO:SWAT on scene near Santa Monica College campus after reported shooting - @the_corsair twitter.com/NewsBreaker/st… MT @newsbreaker
— ColorMeRed (@ColorMeRed) June 7, 2013
PHOTO: Officers in gear heading to Santa Monica College twitter.com/ABC7/status/34…
— ABC7 Eyewitness News (@ABC7) June 7, 2013
I'm sure Santa Monica shooter is a straight, conservative, Christian NRA, TP, Vet. Must be a transplant, though. Aren't they barred in Ca?
— Jo Anne moretti (@JoAnneMoretti) June 7, 2013
PHOTO: Students on lockdown at Santa Monica College (via @aizoz) twitter.com/ABC7/status/34…Vine videos here:
— ABC7 Eyewitness News (@ABC7) June 7, 2013
Multiple People Shot At Santa Monica College buzzfeed.com/jtes/multiple-…
— BuzzFeed News (@BuzzFeedNews) June 7, 2013
Alleged gunman in #SantaMonicaCollege shooting set fire to nearby home, carjacked vehicles, law enforcement sources say....
— Los Angeles Times (@latimes) June 7, 2013
7 dead -- including gunman -- in rampage that ended at Santa Monica College: lat.ms/19QnP2j Another person in custody.
— LA Times City Beat (@LATimescitybeat) June 8, 2013
#SMC UPDATE: 2 dead at Yorkshire1 dead Cloverfield/Pico2 dead 19th/Pearl1 died at UCLA1 suspect killed1 person of interest in custody
— ABC7 Eyewitness News (@ABC7) June 7, 2013
#SMC UPDATE: --4 VICTIMS DEAD (down from 6 victims the SMPD original reported) --POLICE: GUNMAN ACTED ALONE --SEVERAL WOUNDED, 1 CRITICAL
— L.A. Times: L.A. Now (@LANow) June 8, 2013
Frankly, I don’t know which pisses me off more: Obama’s shameless dishonesty or the White House press corps’ evident indifference to truth. The Obama presidency has been one big lie all along, and by now there is not an honest or intelligent person who believes a word he says, and you might think that White House reporters would be so thoroughly fed up with his reeking bullshit, they would call him on it.Continue reading.
