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20080630
 John
McCain -  Barack
Obama - US
-  Military
-  2008
Election -  World
-  Iraq
-  Afghanistan
-  Israel
-  Jordan
-  Germany
-  France
-  Britain
- Ireland
"Former
Nato commander questions value of McCain's military experience."
... "A top supporter of [2008 Election Democratic Presidential Candidate]
Barack Obama has questioned the value of Republican [2008 Election Presidential
Candidate] John McCain's military experience, suggesting it did not qualify
him to be president." ... "Former Nato [NATO: North Atlantic Treaty Organization]
commander Wesley Clark described Mr McCain as "untested and untried", lacking
the executive experience needed to lead the country." ... ""He [McCain]
has been a voice on the Senate armed services committee. And he has travelled
all over the world. But he hasn't held executive responsibility. That large
squadron in the navy that he commanded - that wasn't a wartime squadron,"
Mr Clark said. "I don't think getting in a fighter plane and getting shot
down is a qualification to become president."" ... "Mr Obama hopes to beef
up his foreign-policy credentials with a visit to Iraq and Afghanistan
later this year. His campaign announced at the weekend that the Democratic
candidate would go to the Middle East and Europe next month. Mr Obama will
visit Israel, Jordan, Germany, France and Britain, but does not apparently
plan to stop in Ireland, where he has ancestral roots in Co Offaly [Ireland,
Irish county in the Province of Leinster]." ... ""This trip will be an
important opportunity for me to assess the situation in countries that
are critical to American national security and to consult with some of
our closest friends and allies about the common challenges we face," Mr
Obama said." -By Denis Staunton
-IrishTimes.com
20080119
-
 Illegal
- Sports
-  Drugs
-  Business
-  Politics
-  Maine
- "A
Debt of Gratitude Owed to Tom Davis." ... "On Tuesday
morning before a standing-room only crowd in Room 2154 of the Sam Rayburn
House Office Building on Capitol Hill, former Senate Majority Leader [Maine
Democratic Senator] George Mitchell, D-Maine — a man who almost single-handedly
could give politics a good name — speaking in cogent and complete paragraphs
commanded the entire room's attention." ... "Mitchell, the author of a
409-page report on the illegal use of steroids and performance-enhancing
drugs by 86 Major League Baseball players was the leadoff witness on hearings
on that subject called by the House Committee on Oversight and Government
Reform." ... "George Mitchell, who brokered peace in war-torn Northern
Ireland, and who, if the gods were just, would have been either president
or chief justice, or both, wears no man's collar. His indictment spared
nobody in a position of influence: "Everybody involved in baseball over
the past two decades — commissioners, club officials, the players' association
and players — shares to some extent the responsibility for the steroids
era."-Mark Shields -Creators.com
20070815
-
US
-
 Iran
-  Intelligence
-  Electronic
- Voting
Machines - Company
- Election
- Politics
- "Wikipedia
'shows CIA page edits': An online tool that claims
to reveal the identity of organisations that edit Wikipedia pages has revealed
that the CIA [Central Intelligence Agency] was involved in editing entries."
... "Wikipedia Scanner allegedly shows that workers on the agency's computers
made edits to the page of Iran's president." ... "It also purportedly shows
that the Vatican has edited entries about [Ireland's] Sinn Fein leader
Gerry Adams." ... "The tool, developed by US researchers, trawls a list
of 5.3m edits and matches them to the net address of the editor." ... "Wikipedia
is a free online encyclopaedia that can be created and edited by anyone."
... "The site also indicates that a computer owned by the US Democratic
Party was used to make changes to the site of right-wing talk show host
Rush Limbaugh." ... "The changes brand Mr Limbaugh as "idiotic," a "racist",
and a "bigot". An entry about his audience now reads: "Most of them are
legally retarded."" ... "Wikipedia Scanner also points the finger at commercial
organisations that have modified entries about the pages." ... "One in
particular is Diebold, the company that supplied electronic voting machines
for the controversial US election in 2000." ... "In October 2005, a person
using a Diebold computer removed paragraphs about Walden O'Dell, chief
executive of the company, which revealed that he had been "a top fund-raiser"
for [Republican President] George Bush." ... "A month later, other paragraphs
and links to stories about the alleged rigging of the 2000 election were
also removed." ... "" -By Jonathan Fildes
-BBC/News
20060607
-
US
-
 EU
- Intelligence
-  Terrorism
-  Law
Enforcement -  Prisons
- Transport
- Human
Rights - Politics
- Britain
- Germany
-  Italy
-  Sweden
-  Turkey
-  Spain
-  Romania
-  Poland
- "Probe
of CIA Prisons Implicates EU Nations." ... "Fourteen
European nations colluded with U.S. intelligence in a "spider's web" of
human rights abuses to help the CIA spirit terror suspects to illegal detention
facilities, a European investigator said Wednesday." ... "Swiss senator
Dick Marty's report to Europe's top human rights body was thin on evidence
but raises the possibility of a cover-up involving both friends and critics
of Washington's war on terror. It says European governments "did not seem
particularly eager to establish" the facts." ... "He listed 14 European
countries - Britain, Germany, Italy, Sweden, Bosnia, Macedonia, Turkey,
Spain, Cyprus, Ireland, Greece, Portugal, Romania and Poland - as being
complicit in "unlawful interstate transfers" of people." -By
Jan Sliva -AP
via -Forbes
20050504
-
 Gordon
Smith - Money
- Politics
-  Travel
- Lawmakers
-  Oregon
-  Okla
-  NC
-  Ky
-  Fla
- US
- Ireland
- "Smith
trip to Ireland paid for by lobbyist, records show."
... "The Hill, a newspaper that covers Capitol Hill, reported Wednesday
that [Oregon Republican Senator Gordon] Smith and four other GOP [GOP=Grand
Old Party=Republican] lawmakers traveled to Ireland at the expense of a
Washington lobbying firm, Kessler & Associates Business Services Inc."
... "Smith, former [Oklahoma Republican Senator] Sen. Don Nickles, R-Okla.[Republican-Oklahoma],
and [Republican Representatives] Reps. Howard Coble, R-N.C.[Republican-North
Carolina], Harold Rogers, R-Ky.[Republican-Kentucky], and Clay Shaw, R-Fla.[Republican-Florida],
attended a four-day international trade seminar at Ashford Castle in Ireland's
County Mayo in August 2003, the newspaper said." ... "Disclosure reports
for the five lawmakers show that Kessler & Associates footed the $25,000
bill, even though congressional ethics guidelines bar lobbying firms from
paying for lawmakers' travel. " -By Matthew Day
-AP via -kgw.com
20050317
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-
- "Notre
Dame keeps Irish language alive." ... "In Ireland,
the Irish language is viewed by some affluent citizens as a peasant language
that should be allowed to fade into oblivion." ... "But at the University
of Notre Dame, where students pay nearly $40,000 a year to attend, the
little-used language is enjoying a renaissance." ... "The Keough institute,
established in 1993, allows students to examine everything from the language
to Irish history and dance. It is named for Donald Keough, an Irish-American
alumnus and former president of Coca-Cola Corp., who helped fund it and
a $13 million Keough-Notre Dame Center in Dublin, Ireland, that opened
in 1998." -AP
via -CNN
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