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Martin Luther King Jr.: preacher, civil rights icon, martyr - and German luxury-car pitchman? [snip] King's heirs licensed [MLK's] footage to Mercedes for an undisclosed fee through their for-profit company, Intellectual Properties Management of Atlanta. IPM's representatives didn't respond to requests for comment.
His family's handling of his 'legacy' has been and remains an embarrassment to us all.
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President Obama is pulling no punches when it comes to Fox News, declaring the cable news outlet to be "destructive to [America's] long-term growth." In a more than 8,000-word interview with Rolling Stone Magazine, Obama compared the cable news channel to papers owned by William Randolph Hearst at the turn of the 20th century that unabashedly pushed the media titan's own political views.
"You had folks like Hearst who used their newspapers very intentionally to promote their viewpoints. I think Fox is part of that tradition – it is part of the tradition that has a very clear, undeniable point of view," Obama told the magazine.
This man is dangerously stupid - Hearst was almost single-handedly responsible for the Progressive Movement getting started and taking power in the early 20th century. I could argue convincingly that without William Randolph Hearst, there would have been no Woodrow Wilson, no FDR, no Spanish American War, WWI, WWII and Barack Obama would not be POTUS. It is this depth of ignorance - of history, in this particular instance - which gives this nation such an ignoramus. It is exactly this ignorance which creates voters who know no better. The man went to Harvard, for God's sake! No better case can be presented for some kind of minimum intelligence test for voting and holding office.
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No fewer than eight out of 10 news items in the U.S. media regarding Tijuana are bad news reports. Everyone reads that there are drug cartel gangs in Tijuana but, as one of many examples, how many know that Los Angeles is the gang capital of the United States? That’s because it’s not media daily fodder as is the Tijuana and Mexico gang coverage.
So it’s not surprising that San Diegans find it difficult to accept that Tijuana is an international powerhouse and Mexico’s fourth most populated city. Much of San Diego’s international business community is aware of Tijuana’s significance, but the public is not and has a mindset running contrary to the reality of the size and scope of Tijuana’s achievements and impact, not just on San Diego, but throughout the United States, Canada and numerous other countries.
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The rapid proliferation of military drone planes and armed robots should be subject to international legal controls, conferences in London and Berlin will argue this month.
What arrogance, that we could ever control this new intelligence. We can't control ourselves.
Sparky was conducting experiments today.
Not too sure how they came out.
