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Report: Ray Rice Marries Fiancee Janay Palmer The Day After Indictment For Aggravated Assault

Condi Rice In Running For 2014 Chutzpah Award

Condi Rice has joined the tut tutting brigade against Americans who aren’t crazy about fighting yet another war:

“I fully understand the sense of weariness,” she told a GOP fundraiser Wednesday, according to reports. “I fully understand that we must think: ‘Us, again?’ I know that we’ve been through two wars. I know that we’ve been vigilant against terrorism. I know that it’s hard. But leaders can’t afford to get tired. Leaders can’t afford to be weary.”

….Rice said the United States has taken a step back in conflicts including Syria, Ukraine and others. “When America steps back and there is a vacuum, trouble will fill that vacuum,” Rice said.

That’s precious, isn’t it? Maybe Rice should give some thought to the possibility that Americans aren’t weary of war, but weary of dumb, poorly fought wars. Maybe if the administration she served for eight years hadn’t launched two of the dumbest, most mismanaged wars in American history, we wouldn’t all be so weary.

As an aside, I’d point out that her administration took no military action against Iran and mounted no serious international sanctions against the regime. Her administration also did nothing when Russia invaded South Ossetia. Obama, by contrast, has doubled down in Afghanistan to try and clean up the mess left over from the Bush administration; he’s forced Iran to the negotiating table by crippling its economy; he’s participated in an invasion and regime change in Libya; he’s crippled al-Qaeda via massive drone attacks; and he’s spearheaded a growing backlash against Russia’s invasion of Crimea. And when he tried to mount an attack against Syria in retaliation for its use of chemical weapons, he was shot down not just by members of his own party, but by members of Rice’s Republican Party too.

Whatever else you can say about Obama, he’s hardly a peacemonger. His foreign policy might not be quite as blindly bellicose and unfocused as George Bush’s, but he sure isn’t shy about using or threatening military force when he thinks it’s in America’s interest. Rice should pay more attention. She might learn something.

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Condoleezza Rice Backs Sullivan in Alaska Senate Race

Condoleezza Rice has joined the midterm election fray, backing a former State Department colleague running for the U.S. Senate in Alaska. In a video sponsored by the influential conservative super PAC American Crossroads, Rice touts the credentials of Republican Dan Sullivan.

“Dan Sullivan is tireless in service for his country,” the former secretary of state says in the 32-second TV spot.

Sullivan served as Alaska’s attorney general under Govs. Sarah Palin and Sean Parnell. Prior to that, he was assistant secretary of state for economic and business affairs during part of Rice’s tenure heading the nation’s diplomatic arm.

The video—a $ 180,000 ad buy, according to American Crossroads—features Rice defending the GOP challenger against recent attacks against him by Put Alaska First, a PAC supporting the incumbent, Democratic Sen. Mark Begich.

One attack ad, titled “Sullivan’s Real Home,” charges the candidate with being insufficiently Alaskan for having been born and raised in Ohio and  for owning a million-dollar home in a “swanky D.C. suburb” while claiming voter residency in the 49th state.

In response, Rice says Sullivan “faces political attacks because he wanted his family by his side,” adding, “Remember that serving our country required some time in our capital. Dan will be a great senator because he loves and cares for the state of Alaska and because he’s a great family man.”

Sullivan is vying with Alaska Lt. Gov. Mead Treadwell for the GOP nomination. A new Rasmussen poll shows Sullivan and Begich tied in a hypothetical matchup, and Treadwell leading the incumbent by four percentage points.

Though Rice has campaigned for candidates in the past—most prominently for 2012 Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney—this is apparently the first time the Stanford professor has done so in a television ad.

It is a reunion of sorts for Rice and another former Bush administration official: American Crossroads’ co-founder Karl Rove was a senior adviser to the president.

Jose R. Gonzalez is an intern for RealClearPolitics.

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Condoleezza Rice Calls On GOP To Be More Inclusive

Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who served under President George W. Bush, on Saturday urged the Republican party to be more inclusive.

“We have a responsibility to those who do not yet have the liberties and the rights that we enjoy,” Rice said about immigration policy at the annual California Republican convention, according to Reuters. “We cannot abandon them … We were once them.”

Rice said that the GOP needs to be more inclusive on issues like immigration, but she also touched on job growth, individual liberties and education in her speech.

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Rutgers Professor Explains Why He’s Opposed To Condoleezza Rice Speaking At Commencement

Rutgers Professor Explains Why He’s Opposed To Condoleezza Rice Speaking At Commencement
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Chris Stigall talked with Dr. Rudy Bell Tuesday on Talk Radio 1210 WPHT.

Dr. Bell is a professor of history at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ who helped organize a petition and faculty protest against the school’s decision to offer their commencement keynote address to former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.

“Rice we feel is a particularly inappropriate choice because the controversy about the degree to which she actively is involved in interrogation techniques which were declared by international courts to amount to torture. She brings no positive merit,” Bell said, explaining why he’s against Rice speaking.

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Dr. Bell is a professor of history at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ who helped organize a petition and faculty protest against the school’s decision to offer their commencement keynote address to former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.

“Rice we feel is a particularly inappropriate choice because the controversy about the degree to which she actively is involved in interrogation techniques which were declared by international courts to amount to torture. She brings no positive merit,” Bell said, explaining why he’s against Rice speaking.

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GM Golden Rice yet another quack science fraud

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(NaturalNews) Much has been said by the biotech lobby about the alleged merits of genetically modified (GM) “Golden Rice,” which supposedly contains added vitamin A in the form of beta-carotene that some say could help alleviate blindness and other illnesses that plague the Third World. But a new report by GMWatch.org shows that this novel “Frankenrice” is a complete quack science fraud that does not work as claimed and is completely unnecessary.

Citing dozens of published scientific papers, reports, public admissions by insiders and other evidence to back its case, GMWatch.org deconstructs the myth that Golden Rice is at all necessary to cure the ills of the less fortunate among us. Far from the miracle panacea that its developers claim it is, Golden Rice has yet to be proven effective in vitamin A-deficient individuals, for instance, and is still orders of magnitude less viable than other methods already in existence for addressing malnutrition.

“Golden Rice is not a realistic solution to the problem of malnutrition and could well create further serious problems for the people who grow and eat it,” explains GMWatch.org.

First unveiled nearly 14 years ago by a Swiss professor and a German researcher, Golden Rice has become something of a humanitarian icon over the years — the “golden ticket,” if you will, towards a more viable future for the world’s poor and needy. The “Golden Rice Project” has received massive cash infusions over the years from the likes of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, for instance, which heavily pushes vaccines as a form of population control.

But all the time, money and effort being poured into the ongoing development of Golden Rice could be used for more viable projects like simply teaching people in the Third World how to cultivate more green leafy vegetables. According to extensive research conducted by the Navdanya Research Foundation, the non-profit run by environmental and agricultural expert Dr. Vandana Shiva, leafy greens naturally contain up to 3,500 percent more beta-carotene than the piddly amount of artificial beta-carotene engineered into Golden Rice.

“World Health Organization programs to combat vitamin A deficiency are cheap, already available — and proven to work,” adds GMWatch.org. “They focus on methods such as educating people to grow green leafy vegetables in kitchen gardens, encouraging breastfeeding of babies, and giving supplements and fortified foods when necessary.”

Each of these methods is far less expensive to implement than developing synthetic rice that gleams orange due to artificial nutrient pigments. But practicality and efficacy do not appear to be the main priorities driving the Golden Rice agenda, which is inherently flawed in the way it is approaching the issue.

Basic science dictates that certain nutrients require other nutrients in order for the body to properly absorb them. Beta-carotene, a precursor to vitamin A, is one such nutrient that requires the presence of dietary fat in order for the body to absorb it. What this means is that dumping untold tons of patented Golden Rice on Third World masses will be completely useless if not accompanied by large volumes of dietary fat.

“[B]eta-carotene can only be absorbed by the body if the person eats enough fat,” explains GMWatch.org. “Will [Golden Rice] proponents give out dietary fat with the GR to those who need it?”

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Rice: Sanctions stay until Iran proves it isn’t seeking a bomb

Despite signals that Iran and the US were working towards a nuclear deal, National Security Adviser Susan Rice said Sunday that sanctions against the Islamic Republic would remain in place until the US and its allies are satisfied Iran is not pursuing nuclear weapons.

“Obviously, we and others in the international community have every reason to be skeptical of that and we need to test it, and any agreement must be fully verifiable and enforceable,” said Rice in an interview with CNN’s Fareed Zakaria.

She said it had been clear to Iran that it “had to meet its international obligations under Security Council resolutions and that the sanctions would remain until those obligations were satisfied.”

The White House national security adviser and former ambassador to the UN said the US wouldn’t agree to let Iran enrich its own uranium. She said US President Barack Obama made clear that Washington accepted Iran’s right to use enriched uranium for peaceful energy purposes — apparently from supervised overseas sources — but not to enrich the material itself.

Asked whether the US shared Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s four demands — that Iran halt uranium enrichment, remove already enriched material, close the Fordo nuclear facility, and discontinue the plutonium track in Arak — Rice replied: “Obviously, we are in constant contact and communication with our Israeli allies and other key allies in this process. And we have been largely united in agreeing on the process going forward, and on what is necessary to give us a shared degree of confidence. And when I say us, I mean all of us in the international community, a shared degree of confidence that at the end of this process, that Iran’s nuclear program, if there is to be one, is only for peaceful purposes.”

She said she would not “get into the contours of a negotiation that really hasn’t gotten underway in any meaningful way,” but stressed “that we have been on this program in the P5+1 and with Israel and other partners in the region, and, indeed, within the entire international community, as enshrined in Security Council resolutions on insisting on the steps that need to be taken.”

Concerning the UN Security Council resolution to strip Syria of its chemical weapons, Rice said the demand was worded strongly enough, but noted that military action against Syria in case of noncompliance would require Security Council approval. 

“I think it’s important for people to understand what this resolution accomplishes,” Rice said. ”In fact, it does say, in very clear-cut terms, that if there is noncompliance on the part of the Syrians, there will be action taken under Chapter 7 of the United Nations Charter. Chapter 7 is the only chapter of the Charter that calls for — and allows for — enforcement action.”

Rice admitted, however, that before the UN could act under Chapter 7, the Security Council would have to reconvene and approve military action.

“Obviously, in any circumstance, we would need to come back to the Security Council if we sought multilateral endorsement of such enforcement action in the circumstances, [and] have a negotiation about what that action ought to be,” she said.

On Friday, the UN Security Council unanimously voted to eliminate all of Syria’s estimated 1,000-ton chemical weapons stockpile by mid-2014.

Rice said that the threat of further action if Syria doesn’t follow through with relinquishing its chemical weapons was a key aspect that US Secretary of State John Kerry negotiated with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov when they met in Geneva earlier this month.

Besides the UN resolution, Rice warned, the US reserves the right to act of its own accord, including using military force.

“The president has been very clear that we remain postured to act if the choice is taken by him and if the necessity arises,” she said. “We’re not taking any options off the table. And the president has been very clear that, as commander-in-chief, he has the authority to act in the interests of the United States and to use force if necessary.”

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Rice: Sanctions stay until Iran proves it isn’t seeking a bomb

Despite signals that Iran and the US were working towards a nuclear deal, National Security Adviser Susan Rice said Sunday that sanctions against the Islamic Republic would remain in place until the US and its allies are satisfied Iran is not pursuing nuclear weapons.

“Obviously, we and others in the international community have every reason to be skeptical of that and we need to test it, and any agreement must be fully verifiable and enforceable,” said Rice in an interview with CNN’s Fareed Zakaria.

She said it had been clear to Iran that it “had to meet its international obligations under Security Council resolutions and that the sanctions would remain until those obligations were satisfied.”

The White House national security adviser and former ambassador to the UN said the US wouldn’t agree to let Iran enrich its own uranium. She said US President Barack Obama made clear that Washington accepted Iran’s right to use enriched uranium for peaceful energy purposes — apparently from supervised overseas sources — but not to enrich the material itself.

Asked whether the US shared Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s four demands — that Iran halt uranium enrichment, remove already enriched material, close the Fordo nuclear facility, and discontinue the plutonium track in Arak — Rice replied: “Obviously, we are in constant contact and communication with our Israeli allies and other key allies in this process. And we have been largely united in agreeing on the process going forward, and on what is necessary to give us a shared degree of confidence. And when I say us, I mean all of us in the international community, a shared degree of confidence that at the end of this process, that Iran’s nuclear program, if there is to be one, is only for peaceful purposes.”

She said she would not “get into the contours of a negotiation that really hasn’t gotten underway in any meaningful way,” but stressed “that we have been on this program in the P5+1 and with Israel and other partners in the region, and, indeed, within the entire international community, as enshrined in Security Council resolutions on insisting on the steps that need to be taken.”

Concerning the UN Security Council resolution to strip Syria of its chemical weapons, Rice said the demand was worded strongly enough, but noted that military action against Syria in case of noncompliance would require Security Council approval. 

“I think it’s important for people to understand what this resolution accomplishes,” Rice said. ”In fact, it does say, in very clear-cut terms, that if there is noncompliance on the part of the Syrians, there will be action taken under Chapter 7 of the United Nations Charter. Chapter 7 is the only chapter of the Charter that calls for — and allows for — enforcement action.”

Rice admitted, however, that before the UN could act under Chapter 7, the Security Council would have to reconvene and approve military action.

“Obviously, in any circumstance, we would need to come back to the Security Council if we sought multilateral endorsement of such enforcement action in the circumstances, [and] have a negotiation about what that action ought to be,” she said.

On Friday, the UN Security Council unanimously voted to eliminate all of Syria’s estimated 1,000-ton chemical weapons stockpile by mid-2014.

Rice said that the threat of further action if Syria doesn’t follow through with relinquishing its chemical weapons was a key aspect that US Secretary of State John Kerry negotiated with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov when they met in Geneva earlier this month.

Besides the UN resolution, Rice warned, the US reserves the right to act of its own accord, including using military force.

“The president has been very clear that we remain postured to act if the choice is taken by him and if the necessity arises,” she said. “We’re not taking any options off the table. And the president has been very clear that, as commander-in-chief, he has the authority to act in the interests of the United States and to use force if necessary.”

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W.H. Sends Out Rice, Who Misled on Benghazi, to Make Case for Syria

Daniel Halper
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September 9, 2013

Susan Rice famously blamed the Benghazi terror attack that took the lives of four Americans, including Ambassador Chris Stevens, on an Internet video. She further said the terror attack occurred after a spontaneous protest over that anti-Muslim film got out of hand, instead of blaming the al Qaeda backed terrorists responsible for the murders.

“The White House has had quite enough of the controversy over ambassador to the U.N. Susan Rice, the misleading talking points she used in TV interviews about the jihadist attacks in Benghazi, and the Obama administration’s contradictory narrative about those attacks,” Steve Hayes reported in December.

But today, Rice will be called upon again to make a public case for the White House — this time, she’ll be talking about Syria. Except now Rice is the national security adviser, a promotion she received in the last year.

Here’s the press release from the New America Foundation, where Rice will be speaking today, which the White House forwarded along:

MEDIA ADVISORY

New America Foundation to Host White House National Security Advisor, Susan E. Rice

WASHINGTON, DC — On Monday September 9, the New America Foundation will host a public event on the situation in Syria featuring White House National Security Adviser Susan E. Rice. Ambassador Rice will discuss the Assad regime’s use of chemical weapons against Syrian civilians, the longstanding international norm against the use of chemical weapons, and the need for action to deter the Assad regime from future use of chemical weapons.

WHO:

Introduction: Anne-Marie Slaughter, President, New America Foundation

Keynote remarks: Ambassador Susan E. Rice, White House National Security Advisor

WHEN:

Monday, September 9, 2013

12:30 p.m. EST – 1:30 p.m. EST

Talk about not putting your best foot forward.

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Rice named as Obama"s top security adviser

By Michael O’Brien, Political Reporter, NBC News

Hailing her longtime role as a “trusted adviser,” President Barack Obama formally named U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice as his next national security adviser on Wednesday.

Obama tapped Rice, a target of Republican criticism in recent months, to succeed Tom Donilon; the president also nominated Samantha Power, a longtime foreign policy adviser, to take over Rice’s role at the United Nations.

“I am absolutely thrilled that she’ll be back at my side leading my national security team in my second term,” Obama said of Rice, a longtime confidant whose role in publicly explaining the administration’s initial assessment of last year’s terror attack in Benghazi, Libya, has made her a lightning rod for criticism.

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President Barack Obama stands with U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice, his choice to be his next national security adviser, right, current national security adviser Tom Donilon, who is resigning, second from right, and Samantha Power, his nominee to be the next UN Ambassador, left, Wednesday, June 5, 2013, at the White House.

“I’m deeply honored and humbled to serve our country as your national security adviser,” Rice said at a White House event to formally announce the shake-up, just the latest instance of staff turnover on Obama’s foreign policy and national security teams in his second term.

Rice also told Obama she was “deeply grateful for [his] enduring confidence,” a seeming nod toward the whirlwind of controversy around her role in the Benghazi explanation, which helped scuttle her chances of becoming secretary of State.

Republicans who targeted Rice over the handling of the 2012 attacks in Benghazi reacted with the knowledge they have no role in confirming her for the post. “Obviously I disagree [with Obama’s] appointment of Susan Rice as Nat’l Security Adviser, but I’ll make every effort to work [with] her on [important] issues,” Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain, one of Rice’s foremost critics on Benghazi, wrote on Twitter.

Sen. Rand Paul, a Kentucky Republican with designs on seeking his party’s presidential nomination in 2016, was sharply more critical.

“I can’t imagine that we would be keeping Ambassador Rice in any significant position, much less promoting her to an important position,” he said on Fox News.

Power is not without controversy, either. She stepped down from the Obama campaign after referring to Hillary Clinton, then Obama’s opponent in the Democratic primary, as a “monster.”

NBC News’ Chuck Todd joins Morning Joe to report on the breaking news that Susan Rice has been tapped by President Obama to replace Tom Donilon as National Security Adviser.

Republicans have vocally criticized Rice for emerging on the Sunday morning talk show circuit on the weekend following the Benghazi attack, where she asserted that the attacks were the spontaneous outgrowth of protests related to an anti-Islamic video. In the months since then, senior Republicans have demanded more information about how the talking points provided to Rice were drafted; many in the GOP have suggested the talking points were motivated by electoral politics, since the attack occurred during the height of last fall’s presidential campaign.

The furor was enough to prompt Rice to withdraw her name from consideration to become Obama’s next secretary of state earlier this year.

Had the president nominated Rice to become secretary of state, she would have been forced to undergo bruising confirmation hearings; her new appointment as national security adviser does not require Senate confirmation. She complained about the “very prolonged, very politicized, very distracting and very disruptive” process of confirmation hearings.

Last month, Vice President Joe Biden praised Rice and her role in the Obama administration, saying she had “the absolute, total, complete confidence of the president.”

NBC News’ Chuck Todd, Alastair Jamieson and Ian Johnston contributed to this report.

This story was originally published on Wed Jun 5, 2013 7:21 AM EDT

Rice named as Obama"s top security adviser

Rice to be national security adviser

NBC News’ Chuck Todd joins Morning Joe to report on the breaking news that Susan Rice has been tapped by President Obama to replace Tom Donilon as National Security Adviser.

By Chuck Todd, Chief White House Correspondent, NBC News

Susan Rice will replace Tom Donilon as national security adviser, the White House is expected to announce Wednesday.

Rice, currently the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, will be formally introduced in her new role by President Barack Obama at 2 p.m. ET. A White House official says Samantha Power, a former special assistant to the president on the National Security Council, will be nominated to replace Susan Rice as the U.N. ambassador.

Republicans who targeted Rice over the handling of the 2012 attacks in Benghazi reacted with the knowledge they have no role in confirming her for the post.  “Obviously I disagree [with Obama’s] appointment of Susan Rice as Nat’l Security Adviser, but I’ll make every effort to work [with] her on [important] issues,” Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., one of Rice’s foremost critics on Benghazi, wrote on Twitter.

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Susan Rice, the U.S. ambassador to the United States, will be nominated to become the new national security adviser.

The changes mark a significant reshuffle of the White House foreign policy team, which has undergone significant turnover (along with the president’s national security staff) in Obama’s second term.

Rice in particular has been at the center of a political firestorm involving the Obama administration’s early accounts for the terror attack last year against the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, which later proved to be incorrect.

Power is not without controversy, either. She stepped down from the Obama campaign after referring to Hillary Clinton, then Obama’s opponent in the Democratic primary, as a “monster.”

Republicans have vocally criticized Rice for emerging on the Sunday morning talk show circuit on the weekend following the Benghazi attack, where she asserted that the attacks were the spontaneous outgrowth of protests related to an anti-Islamic video. In the months since then, senior Republicans have demanded more information about how the talking points provided to Rice were drafted; many in the GOP have suggested the talking points were motivated by electoral politics, since the attack occurred during the height of last fall’s presidential campaign.

The furor was enough to prompt Rice to withdraw her name from consideration to become Obama’s next secretary of state earlier this year.

Had the president nominated Rice to become secretary of state, she would have been forced to undergo bruising confirmation hearings; her new appointment as national security adviser does not require Senate confirmation. She complained about the “very prolonged, very politicized, very distracting and very disruptive” process of confirmation hearings.

Last month, Vice President Joe Biden praised Rice and her role in the Obama administration, saying she had “the absolute, total, complete confidence of the president.”

NBC News’ Michael O’Brien, Alastair Jamieson and Ian Johnston contributed to this report.

This story was originally published on Wed Jun 5, 2013 7:21 AM EDT

Rice to be national security adviser