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It was there that O'Keefe telegraphed publicly that he was working on a new, secret project in New Orleans. The Saturday night after the Pelican Institute luncheon, Angel invited the group to watch his band perform at the Bombay Club jazz bar near the Quarter. And the next night, on the eve of their visit to Landrieu's office, they returned to the club to watch the Saints on the big screen beat the Minnesota Vikings to win the NFC Championship. Basel, a Vikings fan, got ribbed by the others, Angel said. The guys weren't big drinkers or big tippers, said Bennett Sheehy, the 29-year-old bartender who served them. Flanagan drank a mojito and rum and cokes; Dai preferred Maker's Mark bourbon. Sheehy served them a traditional Mardi Gras king cake, brought out after Angel said he was hungry. More than two months before their trip to New Orleans, O'Keefe and Basel videotaped another stunt, this time testing the patience of administrators at
Washington University in St. Louis with a fake Russian gulag built in an open area. The video mocking college liberals features Basel, dressed as a gulag guard, asking a student at one point, "Don't you have the desire to have a brotherhood with the common man?" Basel, the son of a Lutheran pastor, worked at one time for a Minnesota Republican state senator and for a brief period in 2008 on a dairy farm in Morris, Minn. Like the others, Dai also has a history of political activism. It dates back to when he brought conservative political commentator Bay Buchanan to his Illinois high school as part of his work with the Young America's Foundation, group spokesman Jason Mattera said. The Washington-area foundation develops political activists and counts as one of its stars Hannah Giles, who played the prostitute in the ACORN videos. Later, Dai's interest turned to intelligence, a field where he found work as a government contractor.
Flanagan stands out from the others because he didn't share a background in conservative college publications. The AllAmerican pitcher for the Division III baseball team at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tenn., was enrolled last year at Missouri State University's Department of Defense and Strategic Studies, in Fairfax, Va. He served as a paid Washington intern for Republican Rep. Mary Fallin of Oklahoma and also interned for Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn. ___ Associated Press Writer Steve Karnowski in Minneapolis contributed to this report. ___ The AP National Investigative Team can be reached at investigate(at) ap.org Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.
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Wall Street bucks the bearish trend (Financial Times - US homepage) Submitted at 2/1/2010 7:45:20 AM
15:45 GMT. New month, same concerns, but Wall Street appears to be sick of the selling. Asian equities dropped to their lowest in three months and European bourses initially recorded further declines, as
investors continued to see strong Chinese data as a reason for caution and traders steeled themselves for another week rich with political, policy and economic catalysts. Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.
Around the Net In Media: Cablevision Asks Court To Review 'Must Carry' (MediaPost | Media News) Submitted at 1/31/2010 8:51:07 PM
Cablevision has asked the Supreme Court to review the constitutionality of the mustcarry rules, which require cable operators to carry local broadcast stations. What was once a cable monopoly, Cablevision concedes to the court, "has been replaced by vibrant competition." Specifically, Cablevision wants the court to hear the cable company's appeal of a Second Circuit decision upholding the FCC's must-carry mandate for station WRNN. A three-judge
panel in June 2009 rejected Cablevision's challenge to an FCC order requiring carriage of WRNN New York in some Long Island communities under the must-carry provision. The full court in October rejected Cablevision's petition for a rehearing before the full court. So far, the court has taken an expansive view of must-carry benefits. Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.