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GOP senators: Obama failing in oil clean-up – POLITICO Live – POLITICO.com

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Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) told “Fox News Sunday” that President Barack Obama is focusing too much on concealing the BP oil spill, rather than the clean-up.

“I’m afraid he’s decided to deal with this issue, at least politically, by not coming back here at all and trying to move it off the front page rather than dealing with the situation forcefully,” Vitter said.

Asked if he believes the president is trying to sweep the environmental catastrophe under the rug, the senator responded that he did believe that was Obama’s “political motivation.”

Vitter pointed out that Obama hasn’t visited Louisiana since June 4 – ignoring the president’s recent statement that he’d go back down to the Gulf Coast in the “next several weeks.”

GOP senators: Obama failing in oil clean-up – POLITICO Live – POLITICO.com.

GOOGLE’S ADMITS CENSORSHIP – Atlas Shrugs

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The most powerful and protean of these Internet gatekeepers is, of course, Google. With control of 63 percent of the world’s Internet searches, as well as ownership of YouTube, Google has enormous influence over who can find an audience on the Web around the world. As an acknowledgment of its power, Google has given Nicole Wong a central role in the company’s decision-making process about what controversial user-generated content goes down or stays up on YouTube and other applications owned by Google, including Blogger, the blog site; Picasa, the photo-sharing site; and Orkut, the social networking site. Wong and her colleagues also oversee Google’s search engine: they decide what controversial material does and doesn’t appear on the local search engines that Google maintains in many countries in the world, as well as on Google.com. As a result, Wong and her colleagues arguably have more influence over the contours of online expression than anyone else on the planet.

via GOOGLE’S ADMITS CENSORSHIP – Atlas Shrugs.