Today's News Talk Online on the Paltalk News Network focused on a slew of important topics.
The threat of terrorists entering the U.S. from Mexico, tensions between Israel and Hezbollah, more tensions on the Korean Peninsula and the latest attempts to cap the Gulf oil spill were all explored.
Michael Fitzgerald of Petro Buster Products was the guest for the first segment of today's News Talk Online on the Paltalk News Network. He believes his product, which is environmentally safe, could be used to combat the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. But no one from the government or any of the companies involved are returning his calls.
The showdown between the Koreas was the second topic. U.S./South Korean war games are planned in response to the North Koreans sinking of a South Korean navy ship - increasing tensions between the Koreas.
Mexican President Calderon's visit to Washington and his criticism of the new Arizona immigration law in statements made at the White House and on Capitol Hill are refueling the debate over the issue of what to do about illegal immigrants.
Every caller, save one, two the show, said they favored sending illegal immigrants back to their countries. One caller suggested making giving every Mexican and every American dual citizenship - of the other's nation - as an unusual solution.
No callers favored amnesty nor the status quo.
Join the chat on News Talk Online on the Paltalk News Network at 5 PM NY time weekdays at www.joinchatnow.comTwo issues were discussed on today's News Talk Online on the Paltalk News Network.
The excommunication of a nun for approving a lifesaving abortion was the first topic. Then we discussed Tea Party Express chairman Mark Williams' characterization of Allah as a "monkey god," his reference to Muslims as "animals of Allah," and his suggestion that there be built "a nice, shiny new U.S. military base on the smoldering ruins of Mecca."
Russia and China are now on board with the United States wanting to impose sanctions on Iran.
Joining us to discuss the new developments on today's News Talk Online on the Paltalk News Network was Heather Hurlburt, executive director of the National Security Network.
The arrests of three alleged conspirators - the cash couriers the feds say - in the Times Square bombing plot was the topic of today's News Talk Online on the Paltalk News Network.
Paltalk News Network correspondent Cassandra Wood reported on the new coalition government in the UK on the first segment of today's News Talk Online on the Paltalk News Network.
Guest for the second segment was NYU international security professor Patricia DeGennaro - freshly back from a trip to Afghanistan - who analyzed the bilateral talks between that nation and the United States.
Finally, Paltalk News Network contributor and Free Press.org senior editor Harvey Wasserman spoke about the environmental disaster the BP oil spill is creating in the Gulf of Mexico - and he criticized the U.S. government for not doing enough to mitigate its effects.
The bankers and bond traders want cuts introduced as rapidly and quickly as possible, and appear to believe that a coalition of Tories and Liberals would be just the ticket in the present circumstances. That much was made clear by the sudden upsurge in share values when Clegg announced that he would prefer to deal with the Tories, duly reported by the BBC immediately after Clegg had made his statement.
If the bankers want to impose cuts on the electorate as quickly as possible, and with as authoritative a mandate as possible, then the prospect of social turmoil, strikes and protests greeting a government with a weak mandate is a problem for them. This is why capital threw its weight behind the Conservatives, why the right-wing press went crazy over the Liberals’ brief moment in the sun, and why Cameron warned of calamity in the event of a hung parliament.
Whatever the final form of federal financial services reform legislation, one thing is now certain: The biggest of the big banks will still be calling the shots.
Not surprisingly, the January 2007 issue of the American Journal of Imperial Law–otherwise known as the self-styled American Journal of International Law but originally founded a century ago and still operated by U.S. War and State Department legal apparatchiks and their law professorial fellow-travelers – published an article by Harvard Law School’s recently retired Bemis Professor of International Law Detlev Vagts (who only taught me the required course on legal accounting) arguing in favor of the Pentagon’s kangaroo courts system on Guantanamo despite the fact that they have been soundly condemned by every human rights organization and every human rights official and leader in the entire world as well as by the United States Supreme Court itself in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld (2006).….
As for Harvard Laws Neo-Con Dean Kagan, Harvard Law Graduate President Barack Obama appointed her Solicitor General in his Department of Justice as the third highest ranking official in that department and thus as the proverbial oeTenth Justice for the 9-Justice U.S. Supreme Court. In this capacity Kagan has quarter-backed, supervised, and defended in all U.S. federal courts the Obama administrations continuation of the Bush Jr. administrations hideous atrocities perpetrated against human rights, international law, civil rights, civil liberties, the U.S. Constitution, and Americas Bill of Rights.
In choosing Solicitor General Elena Kagan as his next nominee to the United States Supreme Court, President Obama has managed to achieve three important goals at once. He’s picked another distinguished woman to become a justice — for the first time in its history three women will sit at the same time on the high court. He’s chosen a younger person to join the group, a mortality-table parry to the 2005 Republican nomination of the youthful Supreme Court Chief Justice John G. Roberts. And he’s selected a candidate whom some Senate Republicans were publicly signaling they’d accept and confirm even before she was named.
Not surprisingly, the January 2007 issue of the American Journal of Imperial Law–otherwise known as the self-styled American Journal of International Law but originally founded a century ago and still operated by U.S. War and State Department legal apparatchiks and their law professorial fellow-travelers – published an article by Harvard Law School’s recently retired Bemis Professor of International Law Detlev Vagts (who only taught me the required course on legal accounting) arguing in favor of the Pentagon’s kangaroo courts system on Guantanamo despite the fact that they have been soundly condemned by every human rights organization and every human rights official and leader in the entire world as well as by the United States Supreme Court itself in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld (2006).….
As for Harvard Laws Neo-Con Dean Kagan, Harvard Law Graduate President Barack Obama appointed her Solicitor General in his Department of Justice as the third highest ranking official in that department and thus as the proverbial oeTenth Justice for the 9-Justice U.S. Supreme Court. In this capacity Kagan has quarter-backed, supervised, and defended in all U.S. federal courts the Obama administrations continuation of the Bush Jr. administrations hideous atrocities perpetrated against human rights, international law, civil rights, civil liberties, the U.S. Constitution, and Americas Bill of Rights.
In choosing Solicitor General Elena Kagan as his next nominee to the United States Supreme Court, President Obama has managed to achieve three important goals at once. He’s picked another distinguished woman to become a justice — for the first time in its history three women will sit at the same time on the high court. He’s chosen a younger person to join the group, a mortality-table parry to the 2005 Republican nomination of the youthful Supreme Court Chief Justice John G. Roberts. And he’s selected a candidate whom some Senate Republicans were publicly signaling they’d accept and confirm even before she was named.
Paltalk News Network Correspondent Cassandra Wood reported the first segment of News Talk Online from the UK about Prime Minister Gordon Brown's resignation from the Labour Party - an attempt to keep the party in power as a result of the hung Parliament there.
The second segment featured a report from Washington correspondent Jeff Holtzman from the Talk Radio News Service about the nomination of Solicitor General Elena Kagan to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Then Paltalk News Network correspondent James Hickman told us about the latest, failed, efforts to stop the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico.
Les Kinsolving, who has been a thorn in the side of every president and every presidential press secretary since and including Richard Nixon and his daughter, Kathleen Kinsolving, were guest during the first segment of News Talk Online on the Paltalk News Network today. They talked about their new book, Gadfly, The Life and Times of Les Kinsolving, White House Watchdog.
The second segment included a live report from Paltalk News Network UK correspondent Cassandra Wood about today's British parliamentary election.
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