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Obama has almost created a red-line for his own Presidency. He's is pulling out all the stops to win this vote - now planned for Wednesday (the 12th anniversary of 9/11), including a full-court press in the media on Monday, and a national address on Tuesday.
He is probably going to have to give up on a lot of his second term "legacy" just to be able launch a few hundred Tomahawk missiles.
He'll have to cave on Health Care, Farm Bill/Food Stamps, Debt Limit, the NSA, appointments. I hope it's worth it?
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To stop Iran, Obama must enforce red lines with AssadBy Stephen J. Hadley, Monday, September 9, 6:35 AMStephen J. Hadley was national security adviser in the George W. Bush administration.Every American committed to preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon should urge Congress to grant President Obama authority to use military force against the Assad regime in Syria.
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It's not PC to use the term regime change, but surely the US 'broader strategy" is to assist the Syrian Government in Exile to gain power and replace the Assad regime. The current leader of the opposition, who replaced the US sponsored leader, is Ahmad Assi al-Jarba who has close ties with Saudi Arabia, as well as the alleged capability of minimising Sunni inter-tribal conflict in Syria. With Saudi/US/NATO support you would assume to also have the political will to take on Al Qaeda forces in Syria. Their again will he be become just another Sunni dictator, supported by his personal tribal affiliation, with the ability to stablise Syria.
If this is indeed the "broader strategy" it seems to require an almost perfect storm of events to have even have a remote chance of being successful, and I'm not sure what defines success? And it has the potential to become another debacle. And it will require boots on the ground. Maybe, this sponsored leader has the alleged capability, and political will, to become "our" dictator. Did we pick the right guy(s) after we executed Ngo Dinh Diem, and murdered 2 million Vietnamese, Laos and Cambodian people?
The very fact that Obama and Kerry are unwilling to articulate this strategy, assuming it is accurate, and instead resort to lies to justify a regime change, is disappointing, at best. And criminal, at worst.
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You either accept that or you don't.Based on past performances, since oh 1954, I think any intelligent person would probably choose to not accept, "... the analysis, evaluations, assessments of my government in this matter of intervention in the Syrian civil war."
But I guess your point is that eventually, just by sheer dumb luck, we're bound to get something right at least once, at some point.
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Lingering doubts over Syria gas attack evidence
The U.S. government insists it has the intelligence to prove it, but the American public has yet to see a single piece of concrete evidence — no satellite imagery, no transcripts of Syrian military communications — connecting the government of President Bashar Assad to the alleged chemical weapons attack last month that killed hundreds of people.In the absence of such evidence, Damascus and its ally Russia have aggressively pushed another scenario: that rebels carried out the Aug. 21 chemical attack. Neither has produced evidence for that case, either. That's left more questions than answers as the U.S. threatens a possible military strike.Yet one week after Secretary of State John Kerry outlined the case against Assad, Americans — at least those without access to classified reports — haven't seen a shred of his proof.John Forbes Kerry, how far you've fallen. I ashamed to say I've cast many votes for this man. -
"We have a broader strategy that will allow us to upgrade the capabilities of the opposition, allow Syria ultimately to free itself from the kinds of terrible civil war, death and activity that we've been seeing on the ground," Mr Obama said on Tuesday as he met Congressional leaders at the White House.
Would it be asking too much to share this "broader strategy"? Or is it top secret?
He also addressed major concerns in Congress about the US engaging in yet another conflict in the Middle East saying that his plan was "limited" and "proportional"."It does not involve boots on the ground. This is not Iraq, and this is not Afghanistan," he said.Uhm, thanks for telling us what your strategy is not, maybe you could share what it is?“This is not the time for armchair isolationism,” said Secretary of State John KerryAgain, telling us what it is not. The fact that Kerry or Obama cannot articulate what it is they want to do, and what the planned outcome might be, only raises more questions.On Tuesday, however, a powerful pro-Israel lobbying group, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, threw its support behind military action in Syria, citing the need to send a strong message to Iran and the militant group Hezbollah, both of which support Mr. Assad.Ah finally, the strategy in attacking Syria is to send a message to Iran.-
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One of the provinces in the north east is renowned for its dog cuisine
Maybe the Tourism Authority of Thailand should promote canine cuisine foodie tours? Amazing Thailand, the hub of Doggie Dining. Welcome to Chez Chienne.
It is weird that people, who might have not been so good in a previous life, are reincarnated as dogs, only to get BBQed at a roadside stand, or shipped off the Vietnamese restaurants?
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Pentagon adjusts plans for more intense attacks on Syria
U.S. war planners are preparing for three days of attacks on Syria, a longer bombardment than originally envisioned.
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon is preparing for a longer bombardment of Syria than it originally had planned, with a heavy barrage of missile strikes followed soon after by more attacks on targets that the opening salvos missed or failed to destroy, officials said.The planning for intense attacks over a three-day period reflects the growing belief in the White House and the Pentagon that the United States needs more firepower to inflict even minimal damage on Syrian President Bashar Assad's forces, which have been widely dispersed over the last two weeks, the officials said. -
In addition to ASN transitioning to HD this week, ASN also has decent college football coverage via ESPN.
Just today they had: Florida at Miami (great game), South Carolina at Georgia and Notre Dame at Michigan.
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K-9 Angels?
Thailand And The Dog Meat Industry
Perhaps one of the things the K-9 Angels have become most renowned for is their work with dogs in Thailand. Their efforts to save and re-home dogs rescued from the illegal dog meat trade have captured the attention of celebrities and the Press, not to mention thousands of Facebook users, and their winged and haloed paw print logo is becoming synonymous with the fight against this nauseating trade.
http://k-9angels.org/straytoday/thailand-dog-meat-industry/
Smugglers drive Thailand's grim trade in dog meat
Packed tight into wire baskets -- sometimes 20 or more to a cage -- animal rights activists say as many as 200,000 live dogs every year are smuggled from northeast Thailand across the Mekong River destined for restaurants in Vietnam.Dehydrated, stressed, some even dying of suffocation on the trip, the dogs are often stacked 1,000 to a truck on a journey that lasts for days."Obviously when you've got dogs stacked on top of each other they start biting each other because they are so uncomfortable, any kind of movement then the dog next to the one that's being crushed is going to bite back," said Tuan Bendixsen, director of Animals Asia Foundation Vietnam, a Hanoi-based animal welfare group.-
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NSA can tap into BlackBerry, iOs, and Android systems – report
The US National Security Agency (NSA) can access data on smart phones using the world’s most popular systems including iOs, Android, and even BlackBerry - which markets itself to be highly secure, according to a new report. The NSA has tapped into all the leading mobile operating systems to gain access to contact lists, SMS traffic, notes, and users’ current and past locations, Der Spiegel reported, citing internal NSA documents.The leaked information also revealed that the NSA has organized a working group for each operating system. The groups are responsible for clandestine operations to gather data saved on the phones. -
Obama administration had restrictions on NSA reversed in 2011
The Obama administration secretly won permission from a surveillance court in 2011 to reverse restrictions on the National Security Agency’s use of intercepted phone calls and e-mails, permitting the agency to search deliberately for Americans’ communications in its massive databases, according to interviews with government officials and recently declassified material.In addition, the court extended the length of time that the NSA is allowed to retain intercepted U.S. communications from five years to six years — and more under special circumstances, according to the documents, which include a recently released 2011 opinion by U.S. District Judge John D. Bates, then chief judge of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. -
Microsoft and Yahoo voice alarm over NSA's assault on internet encryption
Two of the world's biggest technology companies, Microsoft and Yahoo, expressed deep concern on Friday about widespread attempts by the US and UK intelligence services to circumvent the online security systems that protect the privacy of millions of people online.Microsoft said it had "significant concerns" about reports that the National Security Agency and its British counterpart, GCHQ, had succeeded in cracking most of the codes that protect the privacy of internet users. Yahoo said it feared "substantial potential for abuse". -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9--FJ1WjLs
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1630146
I have no experience with HTC's but have this vague recollection that unlocking the bootloader is much more convoluted than with many other Android phones.
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I watched the Baltimore at Denver kick-off game live on TrueSport HD (Ch. 150), in HD, and thought the coverage was absolutely brilliant. Granted the game was late kicking off, and I was switching between the Red Sox at Yankees (in HD) and the U.S. Open (in HD), but the NFL coverage seemed like I was back home, albeit without the commercials. I've just learned to tune out the commercials/breaks. And I get to use my PC as a PC, my TV as a TV and my internet for the internet. I think if I stayed permanently in the U.S., and had a 50 Mbps/10 Mbps internet connection I might go for one of the NFL offers, but I find it hard to go back down to anything after HD. With more and more video streaming consuming internet bandwidth - in the U.S. NetFlix consumes 1/3 of all internet bandwidth in the evenings, and peering imbalances, I think the odds of streaming decent quality from the U.S. will only get longer.
Later this week I think ASN moves to HD format on channel 157, which is perfect timing.
I just roped a nephew into digitally recording my home-town team's NFL games (720P/H264/MP4 ~ 4 GB) which he will upload to Google Drive for me, drop me an email with the link and then easy to download here.
I think I'd prefer to watch the playoffs and Superbowl live, thank you very much.
BTW, the Farmer's Almanac has predicted a Nor'easter for the Superbowl! Can you say "Snow Bowl".
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^ Thanks. Sounds useless for me. Cobbling together PC to TV connections, hogging my internet, etc. Meh. Glad to hear it works OK for you.
True is showing eight (8) games live (week 1 anyway) and/or replayed in SD/HD. The replays go fast, are available at many reasonable times, no too many breaks. Also enjoy NFL total Access, NFL Gameday, More than enough for me; I'm interested in the NFL but not bat-sh*t crazy for it.
If I must have a replay/game then I can torrent it.
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With the NFL streamed offers can anyone comment:
1.) Are these in HD, SD or something less?
2.) Assuming you want to watch at your liesure, are there any bandwidth issues in the evening here in Thailand?
3.) Do you watch on a PC, notebook, tablet or TV? If a TV, can you describe the connections, and do you have "control" over the stream?
4.) Do you have the VPN configured in your router? Or on each/any device? What is the make/model.OS for the router?
5.) Which VPN provider are you using?
6.) For the playoffs and Superbowl, I assume 'Game Rewind' does not enable live viewing?
I am kind of used to HD - I only pay 800 baht/month for the full TrueVisions HD Platinum package via a legal 4-box 'share' - both here and on frequent visits to the U.S., so going back to SD or worse would not really be an option.
Ideally, I'd like to use Chromecast but they do not support the NFL, and I think I'd need a DD-WRT router?
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If you have an Android tablet this Android app., which aggregates streamed content from myriad sources, is very popular:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.iamm.android.tvthai
There may be others for iTunes?
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Thread title is "illegal organ harvesting in thailand".People pass out flyers in the streets of Shanghai to bring awareness to this problem in China.
Agreed. I'd much rather rely on my ex-wife's brother-in-law, who has a friend, who knows somebody, who heard about something.If you're looking for truth I wouldn't depend on the media to get it. -
Outside of the ~ 30 day on-line schedule it will be challenging to predict which Sunday day games (1:00 PM/4:30 PM ET) might be shown live here on TrueVisions.
But it is probably safe to assume that the Sunday night (8:30 PM EDT) and both MNF (7:10 PM/10:20 PM ET for week 1 anyway) games will definitely be shown here live, in case you were looking for a specific game.
The on-line schedule seems to show September, as of today anyway, so not sure at what point they might start to display October (week 5) games?
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I know everyone naturally assumes that service providers sell their customer lists, even though this makes absolutely no sense.
Mobile service providers try to reduce churn, and would not risk losing customers by selling their phone number, which might allow a competitor to snatch them away. And everyone knows that SPAM p*sses customers off.
Typically, you are getting SPAM because you've provided your phone number to any number of people, government entities or commercial enterprises, who then have allowed your number to leak into the public domain.
A service provider cannot block an SMS, unless there is reason to suspect illegal activity.
You should contact the b*tches who are sending you SMSes and ask them to remove your number from their list. Failing that, you can get a new number, and make sure you never give it to anyone.
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Where does one easiest find them?
On the outside of the faux-wood box, there is a bar-code and label where the model no. is displayed, along with the THL designation.
I'd recommend the I9500 as 3G is fine - LTE benefits the service provider as much or more than the consumer, yields a slight increase in speed along with a hotter unit which drains the battery faster, and the specs are a bit better than with the I9505.
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You can watch the Samsung IFA announcements here:
http://www.samsung.com/th/UnpackedEp2/#
at about the one hour mark the Note 3 is featured.
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