Scoop’s Views

A group of protestors, numbering somewhere between 2,000 and 5,000, and described as Chinese-Americans, decided to protest CNN’s Hollywood office yesterday, protesting CNN’s commentator Jack Cafferty, who made a comment on CNN’s The Situation Room, back on April 9 — almost two weeks ago. Among his comments that day, Cafferty apparently called China’s goods “junk” and its leaders a “bunch of goons and thugs.”

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Ultra-sensitive technology developed for the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), one of several U.S. ultra-secret spy agencies, has been released to the world for all to see.

The NRO, an agency shrouded in secrecy, with less publicly-available information about the organization, its missions, and funding than the National Security Agency (NSA), is often involved in mapping, satellite spying, and other high-tech areas.

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A pal of many years from what some consider the backwoods of Illinois, PapaGrizz, sent me an email with yet another item added to the list of Chinese-made toys being recalled. Here’s the most current addition to the list of Chinese toys being recalled in the United States.

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