Morning Briefing
For February 8, 2013
1. North Korean Dreams of America: New Translation
It is no surprise that North Korea isn’t a fan of the United States, however, a recent video has lead Americans to question how the country sees our relations going forward.
In response to new sanctions introduced by the UN after their December rocket launch, North Korea has been threatening a third nuclear test sometime in the near future. In the midst of analyzing when they will execute their next prohibited test, the country released an online video that many perceived to be a veiled threat against the United States.
In the video a North Korean man is seen sleeping, his video camera lying beside him while a piano version of “We Are The World” plays in the background. The viewer is then taken into the man’s dream, in which Unha-9, a newer version of the rocket Unha-3 that North Korea launched in December, successfully launches. Through what appears to be his camera lens, a reunified Korea is then seen from space before a space shuttle, named Kwangmyongsong-21 after the Kwangmyongsong-3 satellite put in to orbit via the Unha-3, flies over a United States, which is in flames. While an American Flag flies overhead, the viewer is flown through an animated Manhattan skyline interrupted with fires flaring from buildings. The scene is actually from a popular video game, Call of Duty:
Modern Warfare 3, and was the reason the video was removed from YouTube; The video game maker, Activision, filed a copyright complaint and the original video was taken down Tuesday. After stars sprinkle like confetti in space while the space shuttle appears to be doing victory laps, the video circles back to footage of the new rocket again being launched and ends with the sleeping man. Text appear throughout the video so the viewer doesn’t misinterpret the messages. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
2. ICE Union Bombshell: ICE ‘Guided’ By Illegal Alien Interest Groups, Agents ‘Prohibited’ From Enforcing Laws
Amid the ongoing clamor and debate over so-called immigration reform and with the majority of AFL-CIO union bosses having flip-flopped on illegal immigration in 2000, the rank and file voices of those charged with securing America’s borders–the ICE agents–are often overlooked and ignored.
However, on Tuesday, Chris Crane, President of the National Immigration and Customs Enforcement Council 118 testified before the House Judiciary Committee.
In his testimony, Crane explains how ICE is “now guided in large part by the influences of powerful special interest groups that advocate on behalf of illegal aliens.” . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
3. Whose side is Google on? We’re going to find out this year.
A few years ago, Google was deeply in bed with the left wing activists like Moveon.org and Free Press pushing for Internet regulation. When Obama was elected, Google got even more deeply embedded with both the left and the government. At this point, Republicans began paying more attention to Google and Google realized it had a political problem.
So, after years of lining up with the left to demand more government regulation of the internet, Google changed course. (“Google cozies up to the GOP“) Google promoted their Republican lobbyists, hired Republican consultants, sucked up to conservative organizations and even hired a squishy Republican, Susan Molinari (R-MSNBC) to run their DC office. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
4. Gov. Kasich’s Medicaid Arguments Mirror Strickland’s Pleas for Passenger Rail Spending
Governor John Kasich has defended his decision to expand Medicaid eligibility in Ohio with logic he rejected when killing a “high-speed rail” project barely two years ago. Governor Ted Strickland, a Democrat, emphasized the need to goose Ohio’s economy using our “fair share” of federal funds – an argument Kasich, a Republican, is now employing to justify Medicaid expansion.
The 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) was designed to add millions of Americans to Medicaid by promising generous funding to compliant states – and by withholding all Medicaid funding from states that refused to raise the eligibility cap to 138 percent of the federal poverty line. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
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