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United States 0-2 in world sports arena
Tabassum Zakaria (Front Row
Washington)
Submitted at 12/2/2010 1:37:50 PM
Dec 2, 2010 14:37 EST
The United States has now lost
out on two huge world sporting
events in the past two years. And
in each instance to first-time
winners.
It may be an unintended
consequence of the fight against
terrorism. The very
security policies aimed at
protecting the United States from
attack, might be working to bench
it in contests to host world
sporting events due to
some concerns that foreign fans,
players, even officials may have
trouble entering the United States
for the games.
FIFA awarded the 2022 World
Cup to Qatar, the smallest country
ever to host the soccer finals,
over competitors Australia,
Japan, South Korea and
the United States.
President Barack Obama was
clearly not pleased, telling
reporters: ”I think it was the
wrong decision.”
He had sent the top U.S. law
enforcement official, Attorney
General Eric Holder, to Zurich on
Tuesday to help make a last-
minute pitch in the bid to secure
the soccer games for the United
States and presumably to soothe
any concerns over security.
At that time, a Justice
Department spokesman said it
was Holder’s goal “to make clear
that the United States has the
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capacity to host a World Cup that
is both secure and welcoming to
the people of the world.”
It was the second smackdown in
as many years for the United
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Washington Extra – Chicken and ducks

Simon Denyer (Front Row Geithner, lawmakers debate Bush financial meltdown that showed
Washington) -era tax cuts Citigroup and Bank of America
Submitted at 12/1/2010 5:53:35 PM President Obama’s top economic leaning on overnight loans from
advisers and key leaders in the central bank well into the
The wrangling continues over the Congress haggled over how to spring of 2009. The findings,
Bush-era tax cuts. President extend low Bush-era tax rates on published in accordance with a
Barack Obama said he was Wednesday, seeking to break a deadline set by a wide-ranging
c o n f i d e n t D e m o c r a t s a n d political deadlock and prevent rewrite of U.S. financial rules
Republicans could break the taxes from rising next year. enacted in July, shed light on who
deadlock and reach a deal soon. Treasury Secretary Timothy benefited most from the central
But with time running out, there is G e i t h n e r , w h o i s l e a d i n g bank’s controversial efforts to
something of a game of chicken negotiations for the White House support financial institutions and
being played by the two sides. with budget director Jack Lew, credit markets.
Each is watching to see who said participants had a “civil, For more of this story by Pedro
blinks first, and with the economy constructive discussion” but he da Costa and Rachelle Younglai,
still struggling, both know the would not talk about where those read here.
stakes are high. talks were heading. U.S. economy stays on sluggish
Texas Republican Congressman For more of this story by Kim
After last-minute wrangling that over offshore exploration since growth path: Fed
Jeb Hensarling warned of the Dixon, read here.
underscored the strain facing BP’s massive oil spill earlier this The economy continued its slow
risks of failure: “In a lame duck U.S. sees big costs for banks to recovery in recent weeks with
agencies trying to implement the year.
session, a lame duck Congress fix foreclosures
biggest financial regulatory For more of this story by Tom p o c k e t s o f s t r e n g t h i n
should not turn our economy into Banks will have to cope with big manufacturing offset by
overhaul since the Great Doggett, read here.
a dead duck economy.” costs to clean up their foreclosure Depression, the proposal defined Deficit panel recalibrates, seeks “depressed” housing market s and
Let’s just hope they don’t duck practices, with some lenders also employers still reluctant to hire in
who will be subject to capital and more support
the issue. facing “significant exposure” to margin requirements as swap A presidential commission trying significant numbers. The Fed’s
Here are our top stories from investor demands that they buy
dealers and major swaps to balance the budget has softened B e i g e B o o k s h o w e d m o r e
Washington today… back faulty mortgages, a top participants. a proposed tax overhaul to win anecdotal evidence that the
White House memo outlines new official said. Fed Governor Daniel
For more of this story by Roberta broader support for its bold plan economy is struggling to break
anti-leak measures Tarullo was hesitant to put a Rampton and Christopher to slash the $1.3 trillion federal into a faster expansion needed to
The White House has set up a number on the potential costs and
Doering, read here. deficit. The plan faced an uphill generate sufficient job growth.
special anti-WikiLeaks panel after told a Senate hearing regulators
Obama won’t allow drilling off struggle to win sufficient backing For more of this story by David
the embarrassing flood of State are trying to get a handle on the
Atlantic, Florida to trigger a congressional vote. Lawder, read here.
Department cables leaked by the threat to the financial system.
The Obama administration will Even if that happens, analysts FCC chief backs some rationing
website, and its proposals include For more of this story by Dave
not allow drilling in Atlantic predict Congress won’t take of Internet traffic
teams of inspectors who would Clarke and Corbett Daly, read
Coast waters or off Florida’s Gulf substantive steps to reduce the Internet service providers would
prowl government agencies here. be allowed to ration web traffic on
shoreline as part of a new five- deficit this year.
looking for ways to tighten CFTC sets out swap dealer rules;
year offshore energy exploration For more of this story by Kevin their networks under a strategy
security. A four-page draft memo feared too tight
plan. The 2012-2017 drilling plan Drawbaugh and Donna Smith, u n v e i l e d b y t h e t o p U . S .
circulated by the White House The U.S. futures regulator communications regulator that no
reverses President Obama’s read here.
says President Obama’s national unveiled a key piece of its plan to
pledge made last spring to open Fed opens curtain on $3.3 trillion longer focuses solely on open
security staff has created an toughen rules on trading in the access. FCC Chairman Julius
up more offshore tracks, but the of crisis lending
“Interagency Policy Committee vast swaps market, making clearer
move would not be seen as a The Federal Reserve released Genachowski proposed banning
for WikiLeaks.” which firms will have to set aside surprise given the details on $3.3 trillion in WASHINGTON page 3
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Information Sharing Guru Becomes Chief Leak Plugger
Mark Hosenball (Front Row
Washington)
Submitted at 12/2/2010 2:24:47 PM
The U.S. government’s man in
charge of efforts to plug future
WikiLeaks-style mega-dumps of
government secrets is a veteran
intelligence officer who
previously spent years trying to
figure out how government
agencies could more widely share
sensitive information.
Earlier this week, Russell Travers
moved to the White House, where
he will head an interagency
committee assigned to assess the
damage caused by recent
WikiLeaks exposures and come
up with ways to prevent future
large-scale leaks.
Travers’ previous assignment
was as a senior official of the
National Counterterrorism Center
(NCTC), a branch of the Office of
the Director of National
Intelligence (ODNI) which was
set up after 9/11 to ensure that
government agencies did more to
share sensitive intelligence on
terror suspects amongst
themselves – an assignment which
makes him one of the
government’s foremost experts on
sharing classified information.
While there are still mysteries
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the blocking of lawful traffic but
allowing Internet providers to
manage network congestion and
charge consumers based on
Internet usage.
surrounding WikiLeaks’ activities
and its sources, the available
evidence suggests that one of the
reasons that the whistleblowing
website was able to get hold of so
many U.S. government secrets
was that since 9/11, such secrets
had been much more widely
shared between government
agencies.
One early result of post-9/11
intelligence reforms was the
establishment of an interagency
unit called the Terrorist Threat
Integration Center (TTIC), whose
first chief was veteran CIA officer
John Brennan, who now serves as
top White House counterterrorism
adviser to President Barack
Obama. Brennan brought in
Travers, a veteran Defense
intelligence official, to help him
sort out the information sharing
problems.
TTIC later morphed into the
NCTC, which became part of
ODNI after Congress created the
“intelligence czar” post.
Before the White House tapped
him to take charge of the
government’s response to
WikiLeaks, Travers was deputy
director in charge of TIDE, a
classified NCTC database
containing the government’s most
comprehensive collection of
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Travers was summoned to testify
before Congress about
information sharing problems
discovered in the wake of the
Christmas Day near-miss. He
insisted to a House committee that
the incident did “not raise major
information sharing issues” since
“key derogatory information (on
Abdulmutallab) was widely
shared across the U.S.
Counterterrorism Community.”
But he acknowledged that “The
‘dots’ simply were not
connected.”
In his new post, while
brainstorming ways to plug leaks,
Travers will now have to use his
information on potential terrorists. including a CIA representative, expertise in information sharing to
Not every aspect of information that his son might have hooked up try to figure out just how much
sharing from this database has with Islamic extremists in Yemen. sharing is too much.
worked perfectly. The issue The father’s report was entered in Photo credit: Reuters/Will
resurfaced with a vengeance in TIDE. But analysts deemed the Burgess (tap drips water as it
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Finally! Online Ads You Can Skip

David Zax (Fast Company) that ran on ComedyCentral.com users more control, they're also
Submitted at 12/2/2010 3:05:58 PM in September and October. looking to increase their
Viewers were presented with a frequency. The future of online
Online advertising is taking a pop-up video featuring a large video advertising, then, may look
leap forward, so to speak, with "fast-forward" button. Click it something like the the typical
ads that can be skipped or fast- once, and the ad accelerates Tivo experience: more minutes of
f o r w a r d e d . S k i p p a b l e a d s rapidly, while a hurried voice ads, all seen in a rushed blur--
officially go live on YouTube gives an elevator-pitch version of though this time around, with
today, and the digital ad company the message the ad intends to branded audio to make sure the
Panache has recently run ads that communicate. (Try it out here.) viewers catch at least some of the
viewers can fast-forward through. Why are advertisers yielding content they're trying to skip.
Y o u T u b e h a d b e e n more control to the viewer? "What users are saying is, 'you
experimenting with its new ad Because it's a win-win situation. know what, we don't like
format, which it calls TrueView, The MTV Networks Samsung ad, receiving eight minutes of
since June. Like Hulu, TrueView for instance, has gotten a click- advertising for a 30-minute
will sometimes allow viewers to through rate higher than the episode,'" Panache CEO Steve
select which ad they would prefer industry average by two percent, to increase the load of ads in identified as a "sweet spot"--just Robinson tells Fast Company.
to watch. They get much wider according to press release from online TV. Currently, if you the right amount to not irritate " W h a t w e ' d r a t h e r h a v e i s
deployment today. Panache. The campaign was such stream an hour-long drama online, viewers (it's still half of what is a d v e r t i s i n g t h a t w o r k s . "
T h e P a n a c h e a d s w o r k a success that it's moving to the you're served on average four served up on traditional TV), [Image: Flickr user steakpinball]
differently. Panache developed iPad. minutes of ads. Advertisers would while enough to substantially
the fast-forward feature, which There's another reason for the prefer to make that six or seven increase ad dollars.
made its first appearance in an n e w v i e w e r e m p o w e r m e n t . minutes, which a ComScore study So while advertisers are allowing
MTV Networks ad for Samsung There's a push among advertisers

Old Navy Testing iPod Touch-Based Checkout System

E.B. Boyd (Fast Company)
Submitted at 12/2/2010 2:52:38 PM
Standing in line at a clothing
store, loaded down with items you
want to buy—not your favorite
hobby, we’re sure. Certainly not
at holiday time, when you're in a
long line of folks laden with gifts
for family and friends. What if
you could simply find any
salesperson in the store and just
walk up to them to check out? Old
Navy is reportedly testing a new
system from Apple that could
make that a reality.
The system, called “ZipCheck”,
appears to be a modified form of
the iPod Touch-based mobile
EasyPay system Apple started
using last year at its retail stores.
An iPod containing proprietary
Apple software is attached to a
barcode reader and a credit card
scanner. The device is wirelessly
connected to printers around the
store as well as mini-printers the
staff can wear on their belts, for
easy receipt printing. The
software in use at Mac stores
allows staffers to process cash
transactions, credit and debit
cards, and even returns. In other
words, store clerks can ring you
up from anywhere.
ZipCheck is only one of several
systems trying to make it possible
for vendors to use smartphones
and comparable devices to cut the
tether to cashier-based checkout
systems. (Jack Dorsey’s Square is
another.) 9to5Mac says Old Navy
had confirmed via email that they
were indeed testing the system in
various stores. If the test is a
success and it spreads to other
outlets, it could change the way
retail stores operate. As
AppleInsider put it, a mobile
system has the potential to
“change how retail stores are laid
out and staffed and improve how
well stores can manage spikes in
demand related to holidays and
other special events.”
[Image: 9to5Mac]
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Inching Towards Offshore Wind

David Zax (Fast Company) winning record), slowing things
Submitted at 12/2/2010 2:50:12 PM further. Gordon has also
encountered opposition in a
Cape Wind, which aims to be the certain strain of Nantucket
first offshore wind farm in the NIMBYism, with people
US, pushes slowly through the red complaining about what, in
tape, reaching a milestone last Gordon's words, will ultimately
week. look like "half-inch toothpicks"
Cape Wind, which intends to be on the distant horizon.
the U.S.'s first offshore wind During the Q&A session, an
farm, continues to inch through audience member asked the
thickets of red tape. In October, question on everyone's minds:
Secretary of the Interior Ken "When will the first electron
Salazar signed a 28-year lease for flow?"
the $1 billion project in the "I think the first electron will flow
Nantucket Sound, and just last by the end of 2012," said Gordon.
His fellow presenters hailed from permitting process. tremendous potential. There's over
week, Massachusetts utility "Platts should have a Persistence
all over the country, with one "Man, that's fast!" said Gordon, to 900,000 megawatts of offshore
regulators approved an agreement Award!" called someone from the
presenter from Russia, who dealt laughter from the audience. wind identified off our coast"--
to buy half the electricity audience.
in other forms of alternative Still, Gordon's sticking with it. enough, practically, to power the
produced by its planned 130 [Image: Flickr user
energy that have been plagued by "We've been developing this country.
turbines, at a price of 18.7 cents FranceHouseHunt]
problems of their own--liquid project for 10 years," Gordon told On top of the bureaucratic red
per kilowatt-hour of electricity.
natural gas, for instance, and me before his talk. It was worth tape, vested energy interests have
Yesterday, Cape Wind CEO Jim
nuclear power. At one point, the the wait, though, since "this taken Cape Wind to court at every
Gordon spoke at the Platts Global
presenter on natural gas project has the potential to stage of the process ("We're 12
Energy Outlook Forum in New
complained of a four-year catalyze the industry. There's and 0," said Gordon of his
York City.

Amazon's Huge Investment In LivingSocial Will Be Announced

Today (AMZN)
Nick Saint (Business Insider) to value LivingSocial at "several LivingSocial is the only LivingSocial At Multi-Billion
Submitted at 12/2/2010 2:34:00 PM billion dollars." competitor that has reached a Dollar Valuation
The news comes as Groupon is scale remotely close to Groupon's. • Google's Groupon Bid Signals
Amazon's investment of $100- reportedly considering a $6 billion An industry source estimates that Desperation, Loss Of Confidence
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competitor LivingSocial will be a $700,000 earnout) from Google. Tippr and BuyWithMe -- are Founded By Groupon's Soon-To-
announced later today, a source An official announcement is probably about a tenth the size of Be Billionaires
familiar with the situation tells us. expected within the next few LivingSocial.
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The noose tightens around WikiLeaks' Assange (AP)
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Submitted at 12/2/2010 2:44:40 PM
LONDON – The law is closing in
on Julian Assange. Swedish
authorities won a court ruling
Thursday in their bid to arrest the
WikiLeaks founder for
questioning in a rape case, British
intelligence is said to know where
he's hiding, and U.S. pundits and
politicians are demanding he be
hunted down or worse.
The former computer hacker who
has embarrassed the U.S.
government and foreign leaders
with his online release of a huge
trove of secret American
diplomatic cables suffered a legal
setback when Sweden's Supreme
Court upheld an order to detain
him — a move that could lead to
his extradition.
Meanwhile, Assange continues to
leak sensitive documents. Newly
posted cables on WikiLeaks'
website detailed a host of
embarrassing disclosures,
including allegations that Italian
Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi
accepted kickbacks and a deeply
unflattering assessment of
Turkmenistan's president.
Assange is accused in Sweden of
rape, sexual molestation and
coercion in a case from August,
and Swedish officials have alerted
Interpol and issued a European
arrest warrant to bring him in for
questioning.
The 39-year-old Australian
denies the charges, which his
lawyer, Mark Stephens, said
apparently stemmed from a
"dispute over consensual but
unprotected sex." Stephens said
the case is turning into an exercise
in persecution.
While Assange has not made a
public appearance for nearly a
month, his lawyer insisted
authorities know where to find
him.
"Both the British and the Swedish
authorities know how to contact
him, and the security services
know exactly where he is,"
Stephens told The Associated
Press.
It was unclear if or when police
would act on Sweden's demands.
Police there acknowledged
Thursday they would have to
refile their European arrest
warrant after British authorities
asked for more details on the
maximum penalties for all three
crimes Assange is suspected of.
Scotland Yard declined
comment, as did the Serious and
Organized Crime Agency,
responsible for processing
European arrest warrants for
suspects in England — where The
Guardian claims Assange is
hiding out.
Stephens — who also represents
the AP on media-related matters
— said that if Assange were ever
served with a warrant, he would
fight it in British court. "The
process in this case has been so
utterly irregular that the chances
of a valid arrest warrant being
submitted to me are very small,"
he said.
The Swedish case has been
subject to a great deal of back and
forth, with Swedish prosecutors
repeatedly overruling each other
and disagreeing over whether to
classify the most serious
accusation as rape.
WikiLeaks spokesman Kristinn
Hrafnsson said late Wednesday
that the organization was trying to
keep Assange's location a secret
for security reasons. He noted that
commentators in the United States
and Canada have called for
Assange to be hunted down or
killed.
Sarah Palin likened Assange to
an al-Qaida propagandist and
accused him, without offering any
proof, of having "blood on his
hands."
"Why was he not pursued with the
same urgency we pursue al-Qaida
and Taliban leaders?" she asked in
a message posted to her Facebook
page.
Republican Rep. Peter King of
New York called for Assange to
be charged under the Espionage
Act and asked whether WikiLeaks
can be designated a terrorist
organization.
"I think Assange should be
assassinated, actually," Tom
Flanagan, a former adviser to
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen
Harper, told the CBC. "I think
Obama should put out a contract
or maybe use a drone or
something." Flanagan, a U.S.-
born professor of political science
at the University of Calgary, later
apologized.
U.S. government lawyers are
investigating whether Assange
could be prosecuted for
espionage, a senior American
defense official, speaking on
condition of anonymity, said
earlier this week. WikiLeaks has
not said how it obtained the
documents, but the government's
prime suspect is an Army private,
Bradley Manning, who is in the
brig on charges of leaking other
classified documents to
WikiLeaks.
One batch of the latest leaked
dispatches — these from the U.S.
Embassy staff in Turkmenistan —
portrays the president of the
former Soviet state in Central
Asia, Gurbanguli
Berdymukhamedov, as "vain,
suspicious, guarded, strict, very
conservative, a practiced liar," and
"not a very bright guy."
According to another one of the
cables, Georgia's ambassador in
Rome claimed that Berlusconi
was promised a cut of the profits
in energy deals with Russia.
Berlusconi denied the allegation.
The documents also included a
frank assessment from the
American envoy to Stockholm
about Sweden's historic policy of
nonalignment — a policy that the
U.S. ambassador, Michael
Woods, seemed to suggest was for
public consumption only.
Sweden's military and
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intelligence cooperation with the
U.S. "give the lie to the official
policy" of non-participation in
military alliances, Woods said. He
added in a separate cable that
Sweden's defense minister fondly
remembers his time as a high
school student in America and
"loves the U.S."
Woods cautioned American
officials not to trumpet Sweden-
U.S. cooperation in the fight
against terrorism too openly,
because that would open up the
Swedish government to domestic
criticism.
In England, meanwhile, a front-
page story in The Guardian
alleged that one of the leaked
cables showed British politicians
trying to keep Parliament in the
dark over the storage of American
cluster bombs on British territory
— despite an international ban on
the weapons. Britain's Foreign
Office denied the charge.
___
Rising and Louise Nordstrom
reported from Stockholm. Gillian
Smith in London contributed to
this report.
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newspaper, the People's Daily, Korea are to meet in Washington its blessing to attack South Korea. benefits from its old communist
South Korean marines patrol in a reported on Thursday. on Monday to discuss North Read between the lines. This must ally’s provocations. Japan and the
vehicle with a window hit by None of Wu's published remarks Korea. China is not included. translate to visible changes in our United States may be setting their
shrapnel during the North Korean m e n t i o n e d t h e r e c e n t Chinese spokeswoman Jiang policy. Pendragon wrote: hopes for a Chinese mitigation of
shelling of Yeonpyeong island, confrontation between North and gave a cautious welcome to that China has been an important North Korean adventurism a little
December 2, 2010. South Korea, or the long-running meeting. supporter of the North Korean too high. China may have
Credit: Reuters/Seo Jae-hun/ dispute over North Korea's "We are paying close attention as regime both politically and influence, true, but China has
Newsis nuclear activities. to what this meeting is actually economically for a considerable been pointedly unable to end
By Jack Kim Both Beijing and Pyongyang for," Jiang said in a statement on time now. Since the 1990s, China North Korean missile launches or
SEOUL| Thu Dec 2, 2010 were committed to "strengthening the Foreign Ministry's website has provided North Korea with up nuclear weapons testing,
11:33am EST strategic communication" and (www.mfa.gov.cn) to 90% of its fuel, 80% of its daily indicating that Chinese
SEOUL(Reuters) - China, pushed economic cooperation, said Wu. "As the situation on the Korean consumer goods and 40% of its effectiveness in moderating North
again by Washington to bring China, which said it would not Peninsular is highly complicated food supply. Beijing faces a Korean conduct is limited and
North Korea to heel after last play favorites in the dispute, has and sensitive, we expect the growing dilemma between watery. It is all very well for
week's artillery attack on the proposed emergency talks of the meeting to ease tensions and shoring up the Kim regime and Beijing to urge the ROK, Japan,
South, told Pyongyang their six countries -- the two Koreas, promote dialogue, rather than alienating South Korea and the the US and the Russian
r e l a t i o n s h i p h a d w i t h s t o o d China, Japan, Russia and the heighten tensions and intensify United States. Beijing cannot Federation to adopt calmness;
international "tempests." United States -- involved in North confrontation," she added. afford to have a situation where when the actions of North Korea
On Wednesday, South Korea's Korean denuclearization talks. SportsCar39 wrote: matters are spiralling out of fly in the face of such restraint by
spy chief said it was highly likely Chinese Foreign Ministry Don’t give North Korean what it control and thus has a common other states whose vital interests
the isolated North would attack its spokeswoman Jiang Yu said wants, they will only want more interest with the ROK and the US are being threatened. In short,
wealthy neighbor again. Admiral Moscow had expressed support later. U.S., South Korea, Japan, in checking the DPRK’s more China must do more than urge
Mike Mullen, chairman of the for emergency consultations and and even Russia should not accept dangerous behaviour. In the long talk. It must act – otherwise lose
U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, said Russian Prime Minister Vladimir talks with North Korea until they run, Chines wishes to see a more not only face but also credibility
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Deficit-cutting plan advances in uphill climb

(Reuters: Top News) any proposal will get the 'NATIONAL SURVIVAL' their tax-loopholes have taken a Cigar-Puffing
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Lawyer for WikiLeaks' Assange denies warrant
valid
(Reuters: Top News)
Submitted at 12/2/2010 2:32:15 PM
Julian Assange, founder of
WikiLeaks, which has made
public about 500,000 classified
U.S. files on the wars in Iraq and
Afghanistan, holds a news
conference at the Geneva Press
Club in Geneva, November 4,
2010.
Credit: Reuters/Valentin
Flauraud
By Stefano Ambrogi and Patrick
Lannin
LONDON/STOCKHOLM| Thu
Dec 2, 2010 3:32pm EST
L O N D O N /
STOCKHOLM(Reuters) - The
lawyer acting for WikiLeaks
founder Julian Assange denied on
Thursday that Sweden had issued
a valid European arrest warrant
for alleged sex crimes, despite
Stockholm's insistence that legal
difficulties with the warrant were
resolved.
Swedish police earlier said
technical problems hindering the
arrest of the 39-year-old
Australian had been ironed out,
and a newspaper report said he
was in Britain.
But in an interview with Reuters,
his London lawyer Mark
Stephens, who would not divulge
his whereabouts because of death
threats against him, said no
warrant valid under Swedish,
European or international law had
been issued.
"There is no arrest warrant against
him. There was an Interpol red
notice, which is not a warrant,
alerting authorities to monitor his
movements," Stephens told
Reuters.
"The arrest warrant was sent back
by Scotland Yard (London police
headquarters) because it did not
comply with the law and was
defective."
Assange spends much of his time
in Sweden, and earlier this year
was accused of sexual misconduct
by two Swedish women. Swedish
prosecutors opened, then dropped,
then re-opened an investigation
into the allegations.
Sweden has authorized a warrant
for his arrest on suspicion of
sexual misconduct. But Assange
has not been formally charged
with any crime in Sweden.
Stephens also told Reuters his
client had not been informed of
the allegations or shown any
evidence against him. He said his
client would be happy to meet
Swedish prosecutors but they had
not wanted to meet him.
"We are in this position where we
have never been told what the
allegations are against him, we do
know that he hasn't been charged,
we do know that he has only been
asked for as a witness," he said.
The Independent newspaper said
Assange had arrived in Britain in
October, and had given police his
contact details. It cited police
sources who said they knew
where Assange was staying. He is
believed to be in southeast
England, it said.
TECHNICAL PROBLEMS
In Sweden, Assange's efforts to
have an arrest order quashed met
defeat when the High Court
declined to hear the case.
"The High Court has not granted a
leave to appeal, so the Svea Court
of Appeals ruling still stands,"
High Court official Kerstin
Norman told Reuters. The Svea
Court of Appeals is one of six
courts of appeal and covers the
Stockholm area.
The Independent, citing unnamed
sources, said Britain's Serious
Organised Crime Agency (Soca)
needed clarification about the
European Arrest Warrant issued
by Swedish prosecutors before
British police could arrest
Assange.
The Metropolitan Police and
Soca declined to comment when
contacted by Reuters.
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Comments (12) TopGunHo
wrote:
Now where are those files
fabricating trumped up charges
and getting interpol on it, the
smear campaigns and telling
americans they ought to afraid of
everything and the DDOS attacks
on wikileaks.
Rueters saw it journalists being
gunned down by US military I
wonder whose side they are on.
Conspiracy2Riot wrote:
I will NEVER buy anything from
Amazon again for their caving to
the likes of Lieberman and the US
Government on the issue of free
speech.
BOYCOTT the cowards.
GioCiampa wrote:
Would this be the security
crackdown they should have
started a decade ago when Gary
McKinnon waltzed through the
non-existent security at the
Pentagon and NASA?
I’ll believe it when I see it…
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Why 2011 Is Still
Going To Be A Dovish
Year At The Fed
Gregory White (Money Game)
Submitted at 12/2/2010 2:07:17 PM
If you were looking forward to
2011 being a more hawkish year
at the Fed, well don't get too
excited.
According to a report from
Societe Generale, the balance of
power in terms of voting still
stands with the doves. Even
though Richmond Federal
Reserve President Jeffrey Lacker
has been making hawkish
statements about future QE, he
doesn't get a vote in 2011.
That means more quantitative
easing and continued low interest
rates for the U.S. economy, so
long as sentiment remains
consistent.
From Societe Generale:
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Federal Reserve Lent $3.3 Trillion to
US, Foreign Companies
(Epoch Times | All headlines)
Submitted at 12/2/2010 12:06:51 PM
NEW YORK—New Federal
R e s e r v e B a n k
disclosures—required under the
newly enacted Dodd-Frank
Act—showed that the U.S. central
bank gave loans worth more than
$3.3 trillion to U.S. and foreign
banks during the global financial
crisis.
In a disclosure this week of more
than 21,000 transactions, the Fed
showed that the global business
sector, from banks to major
corporations, leaned heavily on
borrowings from the bank during
the financial crisis.
Top beneficiaries were large U.S.
banks, including Citigroup Inc.,
Bank of America Corp., Morgan
Stanley & Co., and Goldman
Sachs Group Inc.
Lending was heavy in 2008
during the height of the crisis, and
Bank of America—which bought
the struggling broker Merrill
Lynch & Co. in late 2008—leaned
on the Fed programs until May
2009.
Foreign Beneficiaries
Surprisingly, some of the biggest
beneficiaries were foreign
companies. Subsidiaries of
Barclays Bank Plc, the British
bank that bought the U.S.
operations of bankruptcy Lehman
Brothers in September 2008,
borrowed more than $50 billion
since 2008, according to Fed
records.
Other European lenders
benefiting from the Fed loans
were Switzerland’s UBS AG and
Credit Suisse Group, Germany’s
Deutsche Bank AG, and France’s
Societe Generale. Another Federal
Reserve financing service, termed
the Commercial Paper Funding
Facility, finances companies’
operations by giving them short
term loans. Companies taking
advantage of the commercial
paper facilities include
conglomerate General Electric
Co., fast-food operator
McDonald’s Corp., telecom firm
Verizon Communications Inc.,
and motorcycle manufacturer
Harley-Davidson.
Fed’s Role Questioned“Over
time, these programs helped to
alleviate the strains and to restore
normal functioning in a number of
key financial markets, supporting
the flow of credit to businesses
and households,” the Fed said in a
statement. The Fed said that such
programs helped restore trust in
the U.S. financial system and
averted a much deeper recession.
But critics of the bailout have
used the information release to
voice their concerns over the
government’s role in the financial
crisis.
“How many big banks repaid
Treasury Department bailouts in
order to avoid limits on executive
compensation received no-strings
attached loans from the Federal
Reserve?” questioned Sen. Bernie
Sanders (I-Vt.), one of the most
outspoken critics of the Fed’s
bailouts during the financial
crisis.
Sanders is calling for an
investigation into whether the Fed
loaned money to corporations at
near-zero interest rates while
lending cash to other
governmental agencies and
organizations at much higher
rates.
“As a result of this disclosure,
other members of Congress and I
will be taking a very extensive
look at all aspects of how the
Federal Reserve functions,”
Sanders said.
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Water Pollution Causes Villagers to
Shun Local Produce
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Submitted at 12/2/2010 12:47:31 PM
Pollution by paper mills and
fabric dye companies in Hebei
Province has resulted in an
unusual situation for farmers in
several places there: worried by
potential contaminants, they dare
not eat their own produce, so they
ship it out to other regions and
ship new produce for their own
consumption.
This is the case for residents in
Yeqiao Village, located about 500
meters to the west of the Hengli
Dyeing plant.
Rongcheng County, Hebei
Province, is known for its
manufacturing of dress shirts. The
fabric dye business is also
flourishing there as a result, and
has brought severe water pollution
to the region.
Shaheying Village has about
4,000 inhabitants who make their
living by farming. Within the
village bounds there is also the
Hengli Dyeing and Finishing
Limited Corporation and the
Rongxing Paper mill, and they
have been fouling up the ground
water.
The Yanzhao Metropolitan News
made a detailed report on the
subject on Nov. 24. In the article a
resident says that the water from
his well is all black. Because of
the pollution, the villagers dug a
400-meter deep well last year;
unlike the Yeiqao villagers, they
think crops should be safe to
consume. Toxic Waste Water
Dumping
Waste water from the Hengli
Dyeing plant is discharged
through underground pipes into an
open 3 - 4 meter wide canal about
600 meters away from the factory.
A villager, whose farm runs
along the canal, told the Yanzhao
Metropolitan News that the grain
next to the canal is not as large as
grain growing further away. He
said during the rainy season the
wastewater from the canal spills
over into the crops, and all the
crops within the flooded area die.
“The water probably contains
stuff like acid and caustic soda,”
he said.
Further to the south, there is
another, deeper, canal next to a
small workshop and two large
nearby trash piles. A stream of
dirty water is flowing out from an
opening under the building which
used to be another paper mill, but
now serves as an illegal recycling
and reprocessing plant for the
leftover plastic from the paper
mill, according to the Rongcheng
Environmental Control Bureau.
On Oct. 29, New Tang Dynasty
television reported that 6 million
tons of toxic chromium waste are
piled around 20 cities across
China, polluting the environment
for two decades according to state
media.
In Gongyi City, Henan Province,
50,000 tons of the cancer-causing
chromium waste has been left
standing less than 2 miles from a
river.
While Chinese citizens are
exposed to high levels of toxic
chemicals in their water and food,
China's high-ranking officials
reserve for themselves organic
foods grown in special supply
bases. This commonly known
information was brought to light
again in Sept. 2008, soon after the
melamine-tainted milk scandal
had broken, where infants were
poisoned from tainted milk
powder, and the authorities
initially attempted to kill the
story.
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Google Barely Whispers The
Launch Of Chrome 8
MG Siegler (TechCrunch)
Submitted at 12/2/2010 2:11:44 PM
Chrome 8 is here! Chrome 8 is
here! The latest greatest version
of Chrome! Joyous day, right?
Don’t tell Google that. The search
giant announced the (stable)
launch not on their Google blog,
and not even on their Google
Chrome blog, but on their Google
Chrome Releases blog. And in the
post, they devote a whole two
sentences to it. The rest is all
about bug fixes.
But to those who follow Chrome
closely, this shouldn’t be a big
surprise. Ever since they shifted
their strategy to release a new
version of the browser every six
weeks or so, the version numbers
have become a mere afterthought.
Before today’s update, the
Chrome stable build was version
7, the beta was version 8, and the
dev was version 9. And I’m sure
Chromium (the open source
browser on which Chrome is
built) will hit version 10 shortly.
Back in the day, Google used to
give these Chrome launches much
pomp and circumstance. Next
thing you know, there will just be
a tweet about it. Then just a
retweet. Then maybe a Plurk
update to announce Chrome 14.
Of course, all of this doesn’t
mean Chrome 8 is without any
13
new features. Google highlights
the built-in PDF viewer as one.
The other big one not stated is
that it’s likely to be
the release that makes the
forthcoming Chrome Web Store
possible.
And, of course, the latest version
is stated to be the fastest and most
stable version yet.
Here’s the meat of Google’s
Chrome 8 post:
The Chrome team is happy to
announce our latest Stable release,
8.0.552.215. In addition to the
over 800 bug fixes and stability
improvements, Chrome 8 now
contains a built in PDF viewer
that is secured in Chrome’s
sandbox. As always, it also
contains our latest security fixes,
listed below. This release will
also be posted to the Beta
Channel.
Chrome 8 is here. Shhhh.
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TSA screening protester in skivvies delayed, misses
flight
(CNET News.com)
Submitted at 12/2/2010 2:21:12 PM
It seems that America's airports
have become, in the words of San
Francisco filmmaker John
Maringouin, "YouTube City."
Ever since the TSA introduced
body scanners into the most
detailed parts of our lives,
travelers have pulled out their cell
phones in order to record
incidents that seem to verge on
the pointless, if not the slightly
degrading.
Following the YouTube video of
a little boy being strip searched
(which has since been added to
with a claim that the TSA might
not have been entirely truthful
about what happened), here is Dr.
Tammy Banovac in her
underwear.
According to CBS affiliate
KWTV in Oklahoma, Banovac,
who uses a metal wheelchair,
decided to go through security at
the Oklahoma City airport
wearing little more than her
modesty, as she was suspicious of
new security procedures which,
for some, resemble that of
baggage being handled.
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According to The Oklahoman, she
wore "her underwear because of
an unpleasant experience two
weeks ago at airport security," the
paper reported. "She is typically
hand-searched at airports because
she uses a wheelchair, she said,
and she felt violated by the more
invasive searches employed at
airports recently."
Maringouin told KWTV: "She
thought it would be a great idea to
bare all and go through like that,"
Maringouin said. "I felt like at the
time I was the only one who
noticed her. Everyone was trying
to be polite and not be too lookey
about it. Some people were
gravitating away from her,
noticeably, but I thought it was
great."
Somehow, the movie doesn't
make it seem all that great.
Worse was to come, however.
For the screeners reportedly
detected the presence of nitrate
residue on her body. An airport
spokesperson told KWTV that
such residue could be from
medication, hunting, or many
other normal human activities.
However, according to The
Oklahoman, Banovac, 52, was
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subjected to more than another
hour of hand searching and
questioning--an hour that meant
her flight to Phoenix had already
left.
This, in turn, meant that
Banovac, reportedly a retired
surgeon, had to return to the
airport the following day and
enjoy precisely the same
procedure again while dressed in
(perhaps not precisely the same)
bra and panties.
Banovac's experience seems to
contrast hugely with a gentleman
who seemed to glide through the
security at Salt Lake City airport
last week wearing only his
Speedo. Oh, and the words
"SCREW BIG SIS'" daubed on
his back. (This would be a
reference to Janet Napolitano, the
secretary of Homeland Security.)
And 31-year-old Corinne Theile
managed to pare herself down to a
bikini and sailed through security
at Los Angeles International
Airport.
Of course, Theile didn't object to
being scanned. Still, some might
wonder whether any manual pat
down might have been a little
more time-efficient than
Banovac's.
I find myself wondering, though,
about technology's inability to
create scanning systems that
manage to do the necessary job
with both efficiency and dignity.
While more incidents such as
these will no doubt become
YouTube favorites, it seems
strange that there exists no
technology that can perform the
security task a little more
discreetly. Once upon a time,
there were wands that were
wafted about one's person. These
seem not to have worked.
Surely some enterprising
engineer can come up with a
device better than the existing--
and, as Mythbusters' Adam
Savage proved--still highly
imperfect, screening technology.
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Report: Spam down, but malware NYC Investment Fund Wants to

Encourage Tech Entrepreneurship
continues hold in Financial Sector
(CNET News.com) Though the takedown of the -control servers, another example
MotherShip servers dealt of a botnet trying to use standard Audrey Watters
Submitted at 12/2/2010 2:06:29 PM
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Koobface a severe blow, the protocols to avoid being detected.
Spam may be down but malware success was short-lived as the Finally, zero-day vulnerabilities Submitted at 12/2/2010 2:35:03 PM

marches merrily on. botnet operators were able to use were found last month in Adobe 233,000 technology workers,
T h a t ' s t h e m e s s a g e f r o m stolen FTP accounts to hijack Shockwave, Adobe Flash, A group of banks, investors and including approximately 25,000 in
the"November Threat Landscape other servers, according to Microsoft PowerPoint, Apple technology experts announced New York City. The Lab
Report" released yesterday by Fortinet. QuickTime, and Microsoft's today their search for the "nation's describes this as "an enormous
security vendor Fortinet. "We confirmed that on November Internet Explorer. All of these top financial technology market and pool of talent that can
Global spam levels ultimately fell 14, when the primary servers were weaknesses were cited by Fortinet innovators" who will participate be leveraged to ensure that New
12 percent in November after taken offline, the intermediary as critical as they leave the in the FinTech Innovation Lab. York is the center of the growing
Dutch authorities took down a servers failed to proxy content, applications open to attacks that Six entrepreneurs will be selected high tech sector of the financial
large Bredolab network made up which effectively crippled the are able to run code remotely. to participate in a 12-week lab services industry."
of 140 different servers. The botnet," Derek Manky, project In terms of sheer malware attacks program that will begin in May "We're looking for entrepreneurs
Bredolab botnet was typically manager for cyber security and among the top countries hit in 2011. Qualified applicants must who have innovative technology
used by cybercriminals to send threat research at Fortinet, said in November, the U.S. accounted for have at least a working alpha solutions that address the needs of
out spam selling fake drugs, a statement. "Unfortunately, we 35 percent, up from 32 percent in version of their technology, ready the financial services industry,
according to Fortinet. Spam had saw communication restored five October. Japan took 22 percent of for testing for the institutional or including technologies from other
actually fallen as much as 26 days later on November 19th. the total attacks, up from 16 retail market. sectors that can be redirected to
p e r c e n t t h e w e e k a f t e r t h e This is likely due to the fact that percent the prior month. And Sponsor financial services," says Maria
network was dismantled but was K o o b f a c e c o n t a i n s a n F T P Korea took the brunt of 12.5 Those companies selected will be Gotsch, President & CEO of the
able to stage a bit of a recovery h a r v e s t i n g m o d u l e . " percent of the world's total provided with work space, partial New York City Investment Fund.
afterward. Looking at other botnets, Fortinet malware attacks, up from less funding for expenses, and "Our goal is to identify the best of
The ever-present Koobface found another prominent threat in than 9 percent in October. mentorship from the participating the next generation of financial
botnet, known for affecting November in the form of Sasfis, a Fortinet shares its thoughts on the financial firms. These include technology entrepreneurs and to
Facebook users, also suffered a hit botnet that infects PCs by using November threat landscape in the Bank of America, Barclays give them access to and feedback
on November 14 when U.K. the standard port 80 reserved for video below: Capital, Citigroup, and Morgan from potential customers and
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HTML5, Mozilla and the Future of the Web
Marshall Kirkpatrick
(ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 12/2/2010 1:54:28 PM
HTML5, the next major revision
of the markup language that the
web is written in, presents
exciting new possibilities for
developers across many platforms
and for user experience as well.
Determining exactly what
HTML5 ends up being, however,
is not proving to be an entirely
straightforward process. There's a
lot of active debate going on in
the technical trenches.
Enter Mozilla, everyone's
favorite consumer and web
friendly technical standards
advocacy organization. They also
make a very popular browser
called Firefox. What's Mozilla's
relationship with HTML5? That's
about to become a lot more clear,
now that the Foundation has hired
former Yahoo UK Standards
Evangelist Christian Heilmann.
Heilmann today became Mozilla's
principle Developer Evangelist
with an emphasis on HTML5. He
sent us the following statement,
which I believe will prove helpful
Apple compact wired keyboard gets discontinued
Michael Grothaus (TUAW)
Submitted at 12/2/2010 3:15:00 PM
AppleInsider notes that Apple
has quietly discontinued its
compact wired keyboard. The
keyboard, which has the part
number MB869LL/A, has been
removed from Apple's online
for anyone interested in the future
of the web.
Sponsor
Mozilla has proven time and
again that it has the capacity to
change the world - here's how
Heilmann aims to help continue
that tradition. Frankly speaking,
it's great news that he's joined
Mozilla instead of Google or
Facebook, as there's a real
centralization of standards
advocates piling up in those two
companies alone.
Heilmann says he wants to make
Mozilla "the Switzerland of
HTML5." I've been working for
large companies on the web for
the last 10 years, either directly or
through agency work and I think
it is high time to make the web a
better, more predictable space to
write applications that make it
easier for people to do their day to
day jobs. This is why I was
incredibly excited to get an offer
to join Mozilla as principal
developer evangelist focusing on
HTML5 and the open web.
HTML5 is a bit of a battleground
at the moment with Google,
Apple and Microsoft all pushing
store, yet is still available
(presumably, while supplies last)
on Amazon for US$46.99.
Apple originally introduced the
compact wired keyboard in early
2009 alongside iMac revisions.
The wired keyboard was identical
to the Apple wireless keyboard ports on either side.
with the addition of two USB For now, it appears that Apple is
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Will Kevin save Google TV's bacon? Meebo CEO Seth Sternberg
(CNET News.com)
Submitted at 12/2/2010 2:39:45 PM
characters that hypnotize with the
sheer will and intensity of their
minor degree of separation
between fantasy and reality here. On Why He’s Pushing For
performances. That's the real Kevin Bacon
I am worried about this Google For myself, I have always wanted
TV thing. Not because I don't to know more about Geico
playing a weirdo who is obsessed
with Kevin Bacon. This is every
Website Check-Ins (TCTV)
Erick Schonfeld (TechCrunch) that increasingly is appearing on
think it could somehow play a Cavemen and that nice chap who actor's most coveted role. You
role in my complicated and, well, does all those UPS ads. (Oddly have to play someone who is Submitted at 12/2/2010 2:52:54 PM many Websites. Meebo is now
infernally messy life. enough, both campaigns were obsessed with you. testing the concept of website
It's just that the darned thing created by the same entirely Now that people are just starting check-ins, where you can check
Truly, that is the toughest
l o o k s s o c o m p l i c a t e d a n d charming people at the Martin to get comfortable with the into any site you are on by
mindset any actor has ever been
i n f e r n a l l y m e s s y . A n d I ' v e Agency in Richmond, Va.) And I concept of the check-in for geo- clicking a button and sharing that
asked to inhabit.
endured so much of that already. have always wanted to know location, it is starting to spread to on Facebook or Twitter. This is
I have no idea whether this
There seem to be so many about the personal life and other areas like product check-ins, not the same as sharing a specific
joyously demented Kevin Bacon
buttons and thought processes medical history of the lady in the TV show check-ins, and website link, although it supports that as
who wishes he was Kevin Bacon
through which to twist one's mind. Progressive Insurance ads. check-ins. Just a couple weeks well. It is more just telling
can possibly create a bridge
Even those who are wise about Entering my pantheon of people I ago, Meebo introduced website everyone you know that you like a
between us, the living sane, and
these things worry that there are would like as my near, but not too check-ins as a new feature for its certain site and it acts as an
Google TV. But I wish him luck.
considerable complications to this near, neighbors is Logitech's man Meebo Bar. And before that, at implicit endorsement.
And an Emmy.
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Here Are The 12 American States Where Investors Are Most Terrified Of
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Google App Engine Now Streamlines

Push, Boosts API Limits And More
Jason Kincaid (TechCrunch) App Engine’s Technical Lead
Submitted at 12/2/2010 2:01:46 PM and Manager Kevin Gibbs and
Product Manager Sean Lynch say
Google’s App Engine, a platform that the new changes will help
that helps developers build web minimize developer headaches
applications by streamlining some across the board — the previous
of the work they’d typically have API limits, they say, were
to do themselves, is getting a big frustrating to some developers,
upgrade today. while scheduled downtime could
The App Engine team is calling draw the ire of their customers.
today’s 1.4.0 release the biggest And the new push capabilities and
they’ve done this year, with file size limits open the door to
features that include: a new
Channel API that makes it much
background tasks (like cron jobs)
that have a 10 minute limit,
new kinds of apps that can be
built on App Engine. New Right-Click Menu
easier to build real-time Push In addition to today’s new
events into your app; ‘Always
On’, which lets developers pay $9
instead of the existing 30 second
limit for user-based tasks. Size
features, the App Engine team is
also announcing some of its
item for YouTube Allows
limits on URLFetch, Memcache,
per month to keep three
‘instances’ of their application
alive at all times; and Warm Up
and Image API have all been
boosted from 1MB to 32MB; the
recent stats. The platform now
serves 1 billion page views per
day across all of its applications,
Instant Time Link
Mail API limit for outgoing Chris Burns (SlashGear) selecting “Copy Video URL at
Requests, which automatically and is used by 100,000 developers Current Time.” Simple, right?
attachments has been boosted Submitted at 12/2/2010 2:32:19 PM
load instances of applications just per month. Below is a graph You’ll get a list of options when
from 1MB to 10MB.
before they’re needed, which showing how the number of page Did you know that you can link you right-click that include “Copy
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downtime.
will now be able to run address like so: “#t=31m08s” and “Copy debug info,” “Settings…,”
bam! Whenever someone clicks “Global settings…,” and “About
Make Your Holiday Travel Easier with your YouTube link, they’ll be sent
not only to the video, but to that
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Packing Cubes [Stuff We Like] exact point in its timeline. NOW

Adam Dachis (Lifehacker)
Submitted at 12/2/2010 12:05:00 PM
Packing well isn't easy or fun, but
packing cubes.
it's a lot less stressful with
modular suitcases, they make
organization simple and are your
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Like mini
what YouTube has going on is the
ability to access this functionality
above video of Lady GAGA
promoting Android AU can be
found over at Android
simply by pausing a video where Community.
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TUAW's Holiday Gift Guide: Interactive books for

children
David Winograd (TUAW)
Submitted at 12/2/2010 3:30:00 PM
Welcome to the TUAW Holiday
Gift Guide! We've sorted the
treasure from the junk and are
serving up suggestions to make
your holiday gift-giving a little
easier.
Looking for an inexpensive gift
for that special child in a home
with an iPad, iPhone or iPod
touch? You really can't do better
than an interactive children's book
or two (or three or four -- maybe a
series of them!). Over the past
year or so, the market for these
new and exciting books has blown
wide open. A quick check of the
iTunes store shows hundreds of
such books, and last April it was
reported that a full 81 percent of
top selling book apps on the iPad
store were for kids.
In this quickly emerging market,
you'll find many of your old
favorites, as well as a huge
number of new books especially
made for iOS devices. Interactive
books allow children to jump into
the story by interacting with the
pages. Not only do they give you
the option of having the book read
by a professional narrator, but
objects seem to come alive when
new books hitting the App Store
every day, and I have only seen a
small fraction of them. I will only
recommend ones that I've read.
With series like Dr. Seuss, I
haven't read them all, but since Cluttered Gray to
they mostly work the same way, I Organized Red: An Office
feel comfortable recommending
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Interactive books for children boxes, it doesn't take much to pull
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New Start: What Would Reagan Do?

(AEI.Org: Articles)
Submitted at 12/1/2010 5:00:00 PM
President Obama has taken to the
airwaves to pump up support for
the New Start Treaty with Russia
by arguing that Ronald Reagan
would have endorsed it. Both of
us had the high honor of knowing
our 40th president. We worked for
Ronald Reagan, and we're sure
that's not the case.
There are many reasons why this
treaty falls short of those
negotiated by President Reagan.
For one thing, its verification
regime is inadequate. For another,
it gives the Kremlin an
unwarranted influence over the
structure of our nuclear deterrent.
Most important, it will almost
certainly reduce our freedom to
deploy vital defenses against
ballistic missiles.
Moreover, the administration is
asking a lame-duck Senate,
dominated by a party that was
rebuked at the polls by the
electorate, to vote for this major
arms-control treaty, in
contravention of the settled
traditions of our country--a tactic
Reagan surely would have
deplored.
This article is available in full by
subscription from The Wall Street
Journal. The full text will be
posted to AEI.org on Monday,
December 6, 2010.
Richard Perle is a resident fellow
at AEI.
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Britney Spears Puts on a

United Front With Jason
to Celebrate Her 29th!
Lauren Turner (PopSugar)
Submitted at 12/2/2010 12:30:00 PM

Britney Spears headed home with

Jason Trawick yesterday after
paying a visit to his LA office.
The couple traveled back to CA
on Monday after spending
Thanksgiving in her hometown of
Kentwood, LA with her boys
Sean Preston and Jayden James.
Britney was unfortunately greeted
upon her return with nasty rumors
about domestic abuse, which she
Google App Engine Gets Some Needed Upgrades quickly denied with a strong
statement from her team. Now
Alex Williams (ReadWriteWeb) Sponsor all limitations but that's as far as Dedicated servers will allow for that Britney has cleared up the
Submitted at 12/2/2010 2:13:09 PM Customers have been asking for Google engineers can do right developers to build a game server drama, she can hopefully focus on
such things as an increase in the now. Added Features if they wished. turning 29 today and celebrate
Google App Engine has received amount of data that can be Google has also added new Here's a list of what's to come: with Jason like last year!
some needed upgrades to its uploaded in a URL Fetch and an features for the platform. Google App Engine needed these
service that customers have been increase in the 30 second limits to Developers may push improvements. How does it
asking for over the past several upload data. notifications into the browser for compare to Amazon Web To see more Britney and Jason,
months. In conversations yesterday, the real-time commenting. Instances Services or Windows Azure? The just read more.
The issues came to a head last Google App Engine team said the may be reserved in anticipation of new features make it far more View 10 Photos ›
week after a developer posted 1 3 URL Fetch has been increased spikes to the platform. usable for developers. AWS is
reasons why he and his group f r o m o n e m e g a b y t e t o 3 0 Road Map still the king, and Azure is new to
decided to drop Google Apps. megabytes of data. The 30-second Over the next few months, the block. Nonetheless, these
Some questioned the developer's limit is now 10 minutes. Google will add MapReduce to improvements will go a long way
execution but overall many of the Detailed infrastructure upgrades Google App Engine. This will in satisfying the developer
issues have also been noted in the have been needed to make the help optimize applications and community. Discuss
Google Apps discussion boards. upgrades. The goal is to remove add a degree of personalization.
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Netflix May Be Willing to Pay $100,000 per Episode for Current

TV Episodes to be Streamed Instantly
Evan Selleck (SlashGear)
Submitted at 12/2/2010 2:34:09 PM
Netflix is busy changing things
up. The company, after making it
possible for people to pay for
streaming-only service, is now
working on getting their Watch
Instantly service a bit more
stocked, especially when it comes
to current TV episodes. They
apparently want it so bad, that
rumors are now suggesting that
the online movie-and-television
show-rental service is looking to
pay a hefty sum to make it
possible for new episodes of TV
shows to be played via Watch
Instantly.
There’s no doubt that some
people think that, while Netflix is
great, their Instant Queue could be
better. Especially when it comes
to TV shows. The higher-ups at
Netflix have been listening, and
want to make a change.
According to new rumors, Netflix
could be willing to pay anywhere
between &70,000 and$100,00 per
episode, to get the option to
stream it instantly on Watch
Instantly. The hope is that Netflix
would be able to run the season of
any particular show, even while
it’s still running on air.
are arguing that they have rights
over current-run TV series, and
therefore it would be hard for
Netflix to attain them for its own
service. As of the time of this
writing, Netflix hasn’t commented
on the rumors, and none of the TV
networks that are included have
been named specifically.
[ via NY Post]
Of course, TV networks aren’t
going easily with this, even if
there is a lot of money being
bandied about. According to the
New York Post these networks

Samsung NF210 Netbook & SF510 Notebook Land
in India
Evan Selleck (SlashGear)
Submitted at 12/2/2010 2:12:14 PM
Samsung has just launched a
brand new netbook and notebook
over in India, after their official
unveiling back in September.
Samsung says that these new
notebooks show their
commitment to providing the best
portability, performance, and an
enhanced battery life, all the while
putting it together in a nice
package.
The NF210 netbook features a
10.1-inch LED backlit, anti-glare
display, integrated WiFi, and 2GB
of RAM under the hood. Samsung
would also like to point out that
this is the first Samsung-branded
netbook to be powered by an Intel
Atom dual-core processor. The
netbook also features SRS
surround sound, and Bluetooth
good measure. Expected retail in
India is Rs. 22,900.
Lastly, the SF510 notebook
features a 15.6-inch LED backlit
HD dispay, with integrated WiFi,
1GB NVIDIA GPU, and 4GB of
RAM. Potential owners will be
able to use either an Intel Core i3
or Core i5 processor. There’s an
integrated webcam, an HDMI
port, and a spill-proof keyboard.
Samsung should be pricing the
3.0. You’ll find 3 USB 2.0 ports, SF510, which also features Fast
and Samsung says the NF210 Boot and Samsung’s AllShare
features “Fast Start,” which media-sharing software, for
means users will be able to start around Rs. 55,490.
up the netbook faster than usual. [ via Samsung Hub]
There’s also a 6-cell battery for
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How About Stopping 'One Guy with a How BlackBerry Could

Laptop?'
(AEI.Org: Articles)
Submitted at 12/1/2010 5:00:00 PM Redesign
On Fox and Friends this morning,
White House press secretary
Robert Gibbs downplayed the
Benefit From a Swedish
afraid. As former president
Clinton explained Tuesday, "I'll
be very surprised if some people
don't lose their lives" as a result of
the disclosure.
Congress can have emergency
the executive branch has the
necessary means to defeat
WikiLeaks. If it doesn't, Congress
can provide additional means and
authorities to those that already
exist. But in either case, Congress
Dylan F. Tweney (Wired Top • Eye-popping 2-D and 3-D
Stories)
visuals
Submitted at 12/2/2010 2:00:00 PM

WikiLeaks disclosures, declaring,
"We should never be afraid of one
guy who plopped down $35 and
bought a web address.... Let's not
be scared of one guy with a
laptop." Of course, this flies in the
face of the dire warnings from
State Department legal adviser
Harold Koh that the publication of
classified documents by
WikiLeaks would:
"Place at risk the lives of
countless innocent individuals--
from journalists to human rights
activists and bloggers to soldiers
to individuals providing
information to further peace and
security; Place at risk on-going
military operations, including
operations to stop terrorists,
traffickers in human beings and
illicit arms, violent criminal
enterprises and other actors that
threaten global security; and,
Place at risk on-going cooperation
between countries--partners, allies
and common stakeholders--to
confront common challenges from
terrorism to pandemic diseases to
nuclear proliferation that threaten
global stability."
Sounds like we should be very
hearings--in closed session, if
necessary--to find out if the
executive branch has the
necessary means to defeat
WikiLeaks.
But with all respect to Gibbs, the
issue is not whether Americans
are afraid of "one guy with a
laptop;" the issue is why the
Obama administration can't seem
to STOP "one guy with a laptop"
from repeatedly releasing
America's closely held secrets.
What can be done? Over at the
Weekly Standard, Bill Kristol
says the time has come for
Congress to get into the act.
"I suspect sufficient legal bases
already exist for whatever
presidential findings,
authorizations, and orders would
be needed to be given to
intelligence agencies, the military,
and federal investigative agencies
to do what they need to do to
defeat WikiLeaks. But perhaps
not. In any case, there's one
institution that can quickly find
out. Congress has just come back
into session. Congress can have
emergency hearings--in closed
session, if necessary--to find out if
can act, in an expeditious and What do you think the future
Research in Motion announced holds for BlackBerry? Let us
bipartisan manner, to encourage
this morning that it acquired know in the comments.
and authorize the use by the
Swedish interface design firm This page: TAT's vision of the "
executive branch of all necessary
TAT, whose initials stand for The Future of Screen Technology"
means to respond to and defeat
Astonishing Tribe. video (also embedded below)
WikiLeaks."
RIM clearly plans to use the includes some pretty eye-popping
Kristol is right. A lame duck
Swedes' talent to beef up future examples of touchscreens
session of Congress should be
versions of the BlackBerry user embedded into every aspect of
focused on two things--keeping
interface, which despite the daily life. A man wakes up and
the doors of government open
addition of touchscreen tech in the checks the news on a stretchable
until the newly-elected Congress
last year still seems clunky and screen that starts out iPhone-
can be seated, and dealing with
quaint compared to iOS, Android sized, but which he pulls on to
urgent threats to U.S. national
and Windows Phone 7. That could make it nearly iPad-sized. A
security. WikiLeaks constitutes
make future BlackBerry phones -- woman brushes her teeth while
just such threat. The Obama
not to mention the upcoming reading headlines and checking
administration has failed to deal
Playbook tablet -- a whole lot her calendar on a touchscreen
with this danger. The time has
more exciting. mirror. A man composes a sport
come for Congress to step up and
That got us wondering: What publication on a translucent
help them do so.
might the future, TAT-enhanced touchscreen display whose images
Marc A. Thiessen is a visiting
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State Secrets or Blazing Stupidity? US a Pawn for Oil Producers?

Next Stop "Secret Police"
noreply@blogger.com (Michael nuclear weapon. FM Saud told to China or not, as long as it goes of these secret deal-makers Philip Murphy, in a cable. The
Shedlock) (Mish's Global FM Yang that Saudi Arabia was somewhere. Oil that does not go because they are doing more harm reason, Murphy suggested, was
Economic Trend Analysis) convinced Iran intended to to China may go to Europe or than good. Indeed the best way to that "Westerwelle's command of
Submitted at 12/2/2010 2:45:00 PM develop anuclear weapon, despite Japan and any price changes prevent leaks is to not have complex foreign and security
The blazing stupidity of some of its assurances, and that only would quickly go away as moronic conversations in the first policy issues still requires
the ridiculous schemes hatched by concerted international action supplies were re-routed. place. deepening."
US diplomats is staggering. could stop that. Of course if Iranian oil was Meltdown in US Foreign Policy Such comments are hardly
Take a look at Wikileaks Docs While no explicit bargain was shutoff altogether, you have a Inquiring minds are reading friendly. But in the eyes of the
Reveal Secret Scheme To Wean d i s c u s s e d , D e p F M T o r k i different situation, one in which Spiegel Online's commentary A American diplomatic corps, every
China Off Of Iranian Oil Supply explained that Saudi Arabia the only guarantee would be Superpower's View of the World actor is quickly categorized as a
by Joe Weisenthal at the Business understood China was concerned enormously higher prices for 251,000 State Department friend or foe. King Abdullah of
Insider, and I will show you about having access to energy everyone, not a guaranteed supply documents, many of them secret Saudi Arabia? A friend: Abdullah
exactly what I mean. Very supplies, which could be cut off to China. embassy reports from around the can't stand his neighbors in Iran
interesting nugget from the by Iran, and wanted to attract Negative Effects of Mountains of world, show how the US seeks to and, expressing his disdain for the
WikiLeaks dump showing how more trade and investment. Saudi Stupidity safeguard its influence around the mullah regime, said, "there is no
the world of economics, security, Arabia was willing to provide That such conversations occur at world. It is nothing short of a doubt something unstable about
and energy collide. assurances on those scores to all is a testament to global political meltdown for US foreign them." And his ally, Sheikh bin
Specifically, the documents China, but only in exchange for economic illiteracy. Did anyone policy. Zayed of Abu Dhabi? Also a
reveal a plan, hatched by the US, tangible Chinese actions to in the US or Saudi Arabia benefit What does the United States friend. He believes "a near term
whereby Saudi Arabia would restrain Iran's drive for nuclear from this stupidity? really think of German Chancellor conventional war with Iran is
guarantee China ongoing supply weapons. The answer of course is no. In Angela Merkel? Is she a reliable clearly preferable to the long term
of oil in exchange for China COMMENT: fact, there is negative benefit from ally? Did she really make an consequences of a nuclear armed
w e a n i n g i t s e l f o f f I r a n . A ...try and leverage their economic accumulating mountains of effort to patch up relations with Iran."
Selection From the Cache of relationship with China for stupidity in that someone might Washington that had been so A Political Meltdown
Diplomatic Dispatches political gain with respect to look at it, think it's important, and damaged by her predecessor? At Such surprises from the annals of
Weisenthal points to A Selection sensitive regional issues, such as try and act on it. most, it was a half-hearted one. US diplomacy will dominate the
From the Cache of Diplomatic Iran and the Israeli-Palestinian For example, I can easily imagine The tone of trans-Atlantic headlines in the coming days
Dispatches and uncovers this conflict, are significant and diplomatic idiots starting to worry relations may have improved, when the New York Times,
gem. growing. After patiently focusing about oil going to China because former US Ambassador to London's Guardian, Paris' Le
FM SAUD: CHINA NEEDS TO o n b u i l d i n g t h e e c o n o m i c of "guarantees" arising from Germany William Timken wrote Monde, Madrid's El Pais and
MORE ACTIVELY COUNTER relationship since 2006, FM those comments. This in turn in a cable to the State Department SPIEGEL begin shedding light on
IRANIAN NUKES Saud's public and private would necessitate a need to work at the end of 2006, but the the treasure trove of secret
9. (C) Deputy Foreign Minister prodding of FM Yang indicates out our own "guarantees" that chancellor "has not taken bold documents from the State
Dr. Prince Torki told visiting the Saudis are ready to try and allegedly would supersede any steps yet to improve the Department. Included are 243,270
NEA A/S Feltman on January 26 cash in some political chips. End Saudi "guarantees" to China. substantive content of the diplomatic cables filed by US
(ref C) that FM Saud had pressed comment. In fact, I would be shocked if relationship." That is not exactly embassies to the State Department
the Chinese Foreign Minister hard SMITH Global Economic such conversations did not occur, high praise. and 8,017 directives that the State
on the need to be more active in I l l i t e r a c y even though the idea that any And the verdict on German Department sent to its diplomatic
working with the rest of the Because oil is fungible, the entire "guarantees" would be honored in Foreign Minister Guido outposts around the world. There
international community and the conversation is an exercise in the face of a real crisis with oil Westerwelle? His thoughts "were is much more in the Spiegel
UN Security Council to counter blatant stupidity. It does not supplies is more than a bit foolish. short on substance," wrote the STATE page 26
the threat of Iran developing a matter one bit if Iranian oil goes The solution is to fire every one current US ambassador in Berlin,
24 Economy/
Challenger Reports Planned Layoffs Highest in 8 Months; ADP
Reports Strongest Job Gains in 3 Years; Impact of State Budget
Deficits on Jobs
noreply@blogger.com (Michael
Shedlock) (Mish's Global
Economic Trend Analysis)
Submitted at 12/2/2010 6:43:00 AM
Inquiring minds are investigating
divergences between Challenger
planned layoffs (the highest in 8
months) and the ADP payroll
report that shows +93,000 jobs
added last month, the largest
private-sector job gains in 3 years.
Planned Layoffs Highest in Eight
Months
Please consider Employers in
U.S. Announce Most Job Cuts in
Eight Months
Employers in the U.S. announced
plans in November to cut 48,711
jobs, the most in eight months, as
government agencies trimmed
payrolls.
“Job cuts that have been
concentrated at the state and local
level could expand to include
federal workers in the new year,”
John A. Challenger, chief
executive officer of Challenger,
Gray & Christmas, said in a
statement. “Other sectors have
seen significant declines in job
cuts this year and, at the moment,
there is little evidence of a
possible resurgence in 2011.”
Today’s report also showed that
employers announced plans in
November to hire 26,012 workers,
down from 124,766 the prior
month. Retail businesses led the
gains, planning to add 15,900
workers.
Government and non-profit
agencies have announced plans to
let go of 138,979 workers this
year, which is 177 percent more
than the 50,168 firings by the
pharmaceutical industry, the next
biggest job cutter, according to
Challenger.
Obama earlier this week
proposed freezing the pay of
about 2 million federal workers
this fiscal year and next as a step
toward reining in the budget
deficit. The president’s deficit-
cutting commission, which
proposes reducing the government
workforce, will vote Dec. 3 on
whether to send a plan to
Congress.
Staff reductions are expected at
state and local government
agencies. New York City, facing a
$3.3 billion deficit in next year’s
budget, will cut its workforce by
more than 10,000 over the next
year-and-a-half, Mayor Michael
Bloomberg’s budget office said
Nov. 18. More than 6,200 workers
will be fired, and the remainder of
the cuts will be made through
attrition, his office said. Hiring
Plans Sharply Lower
Challenger reports that hiring
plans crashed from 26,012
workers, down from 124,766 last
month. Some of that dropoff is
reflective of seasonal hiring
patterns. The key question is how
many of those hired last month
survive into the new year.
However, the answer to that
question depends on whether or
not we have sustained pickup in
consumer demand or merely pent-
up demand for another nice
Christmas before consumers
return to more frugal patterns.
The start of the holiday shopping
season was certainly brisk, but
black-Friday itself was a huge
disappointment. See"Seems Like
Old Times" as Black Friday
Shoppers Storm Malls, But Do
They Buy Anything? In Black
Friday Bust, Sales Increase .3%
for a full report.
A seasonal ramp that fades into
the sunset just as states and
federal workers are laid off would
quickly have the unemployment
rate back above 10 percent.
ADP Reports +93,000 Jobs
Added Last Month
The BLS jobs reports comes out
Friday, but the ADP report is out
now. Please consider the ADP
November 2010 National
Employment Report
Private-sector employment
increased by 93,000 from October
to November on a seasonally
adjusted basis, according to the
latest ADP National Employment
Report® released today. The
estimated change of employment
from September to October was
revised up from the previously
reported increase of 43,000 to an
increase of 82,000.
This is the tenth consecutive
month of gains, which have
averaged 47,000 during that
period. Nevertheless, employment
gains of this magnitude are not
sufficient to lower the
unemployment rate, which likely
will remain above 9% for all of
2011.
Furthermore, given modest GDP
growth in the second and third
quarters, and the usual lag of
employment behind GDP, it
would not be surprising to see
several more months of only
moderate gains in employment
even as the economic recovery
gathers momentum.
ADP's caution is merited, even
more so in light of Challenger
data. Moreover, there are
numerous wildcards, all with risks
to the downside.
Government Workforce
Reductions
President Barack Obama’s deficit
-cutting commission proposed a
10 percent reduction in the federal
workforce. Excluding postal
workers there are 2.1 million
executive branch civilian
employees. A 10% reduction
would be 210,000 jobs.
Looking at the broader picture,
there are 20 million government
employees at all levels (city, state,
local, federal, county, etc). A 10%
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reduction across the board would
be a reduction of 2 million jobs,
and I would call that a start.
However, even a 1% decline
would take away 200,000
employees and that number is
reasonably close to what
Challenger reported.
Will the President and Congress
get rid of those employees? If so,
factoring in city and state
cutbacks, some 400,000
government jobs would go up in
smoke in 2011. That's a fair
amount of jobs, but only a start as
to what needs to happen.
Two Million With Jobless
Benefits About To Expire
The second wildcard pertains to
unemployment benefits.
Yahoo!Finance reports Holidays
about survival as jobless benefits
end
Benefits that had been extended
up to 99 weeks started running out
Wednesday. Unless Congress
approves a longer extension, the
Labor Department estimates about
2 million people will be cut off by
Christmas.
The average weekly
unemployment benefit in the U.S.
is $302.90, though it varies
widely depending on how states
calculate the payment. Because of
supplemental state programs and
other factors, it's hard to know for
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sure who will lose their benefits at
any given time.
Congressional opponents of
extending the benefits beyond this
month say fiscal responsibility
should come first. Republicans in
the House and Senate, along with
a handful of conservative
Democrats, say they're open to
extending benefits, but not if it
means adding to the $13.8 trillion
national debt.
U.S. Rep. Mike Pence, R-Ind.,
the No. 3 Republican in the
House, said extended benefits
must be paid for now, rather than
later, if they're going to win
support from fiscal conservatives.
"The fact that we have to keep
extending unemployment benefits
shows that the economic policies
of this administration have
failed," said Pence spokeswoman
Courtney Kolb. I still expect a
compromise will extend those
benefits, but if so, for the very
last time. The next Congress will
be far tougher.
Middle Class Tax Cuts
A third wildcard is Critical
Middle-Class Tax Cut Vote
Coming Up: Will Democrats
Divide and Conquer Strategy
Work?
Tax cuts and unemployment
benefit extensions are related. I
expect a compromise will extend
both tax cuts and unemployment
benefits.
Neither tax cuts nor
unemployment benefits directly
impact jobs, but people can't
spend money they do not have. If
people do not spend money then
what are stores going to do with
all the recent hires?
Yet, Congress cannot give away
free money forever. Hill it be
higher taxes or reduced budgets?
The latter means lower wages or
fewer jobs. Long term it has to be
done. Short term there is going to
be a lot of pain.
States Investigate Ending
Medicaid
Some state budgets are in such
dire straits that States Weigh
Unthinkable Option: Ending
Medicaid
Huge budget shortfalls are
prompting a handful of states to
begin discussing a once-
unthinkable scenario: dropping
out of the Medicaid insurance
program for the poor.
Elected and appointed officials in
nearly a half-dozen states,
including Washington, Texas and
South Carolina, have publicly
thrown out the idea. Wyoming
and Nevada this year produced
detailed studies of what would
happen should they withdraw
from the program. Wyoming
found that Medicaid accounts for
63% of the state's nursing-home
revenue.
The idea of abandoning Medicaid
as a solution is so extreme that
even proponents don't expect any
state will follow through, but
officials are floating the
discussions because dire
budgetary pressures have forced
them to at least look at even the
most drastic options.
Medicaid has become one of the
biggest items on state budgets,
and states complain they don't
have enough flexibility to pare it
without losing their federal
matching funds. The federal
government, on average, covers
57% of the cost of the program
for states. In exchange, states
must keep Medicaid open to all
who qualify.
Some states, in particular those
led by Republicans, are
calculating whether they'd be
better off giving up the federal
funding and replacing Medicaid
with a narrower program of their
own. Texas Gov. Rick Perry has
proposed that his state get out of
Medicaid in favor of a state-run
system unburdened by federal
mandates—including the one that
prohibits states from reducing
eligibility for the program if they
want to qualify for the federal
matching funds.
"We feel very comfortable that we
could come up with a more
equitable, a more efficient, and
obviously a more cost-effective
way to deliver health care," he
said. Unfunded Federal mandates
are killing states. If states opt for
Texas Gov. Rick Perry's solution,
there will be cutbacks somewhere.
Once again, there would be short-
term pain for long-term gain if
states act this way.
30 States Have Deficits Totaling
$127 Billion
The Wall Street Journal reports
State Tests Limits of Spending
Cuts
Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour
hailed the Republican wave at the
polls this month as a sign that
voters want politicians who can
cut spending and reduce taxes. It's
just the kind of image that Mr.
Barbour is trying to cultivate as he
weighs a run for the 2012 GOP
presidential nomination.
"Anyone who says there isn't a
part of state government that can't
save money doesn't know what
he's talking about," Mr. Barbour
told his fellow governors at the
Republican Governors
Association meeting in San Diego
on Thursday. "There is no
department—the highway patrol,
the crime lab, the highway
department—that can't save
money."
Yet as states nationwide confront
budget shortfalls—more than 30
are facing deficits totaling more
than $127 billion over the next
two fiscal years, according to the
National Association of State
Budget Officers.
Other governors also are hacking
away at their budgets. In
Minnesota, Republican Gov. Tim
Pawlenty ordered a series of cuts,
including lowering funds for local
governments and higher
education, and his popularity has
eroded. Indiana Gov. Mitch
Daniels, another potential 2012
candidate, shrank his state's
budget, including pushing
students to get college degrees in
three years, from four.
Democratic Colorado Gov. Bill
Ritter, who was facing a tough re-
election battle, said earlier this
year he would not run again so he
could be free to make "tough and
unpopular" decisions. Political
watchers said his budget cuts had
hurt his chances to win.
"We don't have in America a $13
trillion national debt because we
25
tax too little. It's because we
spend too much," he said. He
contends any department or
agency can save money without
reducing its effectiveness or
cutting services. His goal, he said,
is to leave office with a budget
surplus. Haley Barbour's fiscal
track record is rather spotty. The
Cato institution give him a grade
of C. However, times and
sentiment have changed.
Voters have said "hell no" to
more taxes. That means some
combination of lower wages,
lower benefits, or higher
unemployment is coming up.
There is no other way out.
Nightmare In Europe, Slowdown
in Asia
The fiscal bickering on Europe
and imposed austerity plans on
Ireland, Greece, Spain, and
Portugal are going to spill over
globally. The US will not be
immune.
Nor will the US be immune to
China and India acting to reduce
their overheating economies.
Serious Headwinds in 2011
All of the above factors put huge
headwinds on any chance of
strong sustainable job growth.
I don't know what Friday's job
number will show, (I am actually
slightly inclined to take the
under), but regardless of how
strong the number is, it would be
a serious mistake to extrapolate
job growth we see now
throughout 2011.
Mike "Mish" Shedlock
h t t p : / /
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article including a nice interactive
map showing a time lapse of
251,287 documents, where the
majority of the cables originated
from, and where they had the
highest level of classification.
That interactive map will take a
while to load. Speigel also
discusses specifics about Turkey,
Yemen, Afghanistan, Iraq, and
even Germany.
Hillary Clinton said there would
be minimal damage from this. It
would be amusing to hear her
private explanations of that on
WikiLeaks.
US a Pawn for Oil Producers
Speigel concludes with an
interesting suggestion that the US
is nothing but a pawn for the oil
producing countries, not the other
way around. On the whole, the
cables from the Middle East
expose the superpower's
weaknesses. Washington has
always viewed it as vital to its
survival to secure its share of
energy reserves, but the world
power is often quickly reduced to
becoming a plaything of diverse
interests. And it is drawn into the
animosities between Arabs and
Israelis, Shiites and Sunnis,
between Islamists and secularists,
between despots and kings. Often
enough, the lesson of the
documents that have now been
obtained, is that the Arab leaders
use their friends in Washington to
expand their own positions of
power. US embassy cables:
browse the database
The Guardian also has an
Interactive Map of 250,000 US
Embassy Cables that inquiring
minds may wish to peruse.
Joe Weisenthal at the Business
Insider points out these tidbits.•
Iran has fortified its weapons
cache with the help of Russian-
designed missiles and North
Korea.
• Saudi King Abdullah can't stand
Iran. In fact, the entire Middle
East is basically uncomfortable
with Iran right now.
• The US has been involved in a
dangerous standoff with Pakistan
regarding nuclear fuel since 2007
(not surprising at all)
• Under Hillary Clinton, us
diplomats have been urged to help
spy on the UN.
• Afghanistan is seen as corrupt
(shocking!)
• US officials have been
wargaming a North Korea
collapse (again, not surprising).
• Vladimir Putin and Sylvio
Burlesconi have an unusually
close friendship (amusing).
The Moral Standards of
WikiLeaks Critics
New York Times writer Joe
Klein writes " If a single foreign
national is rounded up and put in
jail because of a leaked cable, this
entire, anarchic exercise in
'freedom' stands as a human
disaster. Assange is a criminal.
He's the one who should be in
jail."
Glenn Greewald smashes the
blazing hypocrisy of Joe Klein
right out of the ballpark with his
rebuttal The Moral Standards of
WikiLeaks Critics.
Do you have that principle down?
If "a single foreign national is
rounded up and put in jail"
because of the WikiLeaks
disclosure -- even a "single one" -
- then the entire WikiLeaks
enterprise is proven to be a
"disaster" and "Assange is a
criminal" who "should be in jail."
That's quite a rigorous moral
standard. So let's apply it
elsewhere:
What about the most destructive
"anarchic exercise in 'freedom'"
the planet has known for at least a
generation: the "human disaster"
known as the attack on Iraq,
which Klein supported? That
didn't result in the imprisonment
of "a single foreign national," but
rather the deaths of more than
100,000 innocent human beings,
the displacement of millions
more, and the destruction of a
country of 26 million people. Are
those who supported that
"anarchic exercise in 'freedom'" --
or at least those responsible for
its execution -- also "criminals
who should be in jail"?
How about the multiple
journalists and other human
beings whom the U.S.
Government imprisoned (and
continues to imprison) for years
without charges -- and tortured--
including many whom the
Government knew were
completely innocent, while Klein
assured the world that wasn't
happening? How about those
responsible for the war in
Afghanistan ( which Klein
supports) with its checkpoint
shootings of an " amazing
number" of innocent Afghans and
civilian slaughtering air strikes,
or the use of cluster bombs in
Yemen, or the civilian killing
drones in Pakistan? Are those
responsible for the sky-high
corpses of innocent people from
these actions also "criminals who
should be in jail"? I'm not singling
out Klein here; his commentary is
merely illustrative of what I'm
finding truly stunning about the
increasingly bloodthirsty two-
minute hate session aimed at
Julian Assange, also known as
the new Osama bin Laden. The
ringleaders of this hate ritual are
advocates of -- and in some cases
directly responsible for -- the
world's deadliest and most lawless
actions of the last decade. And
they're demanding Assange's
imprisonment, or his blood, in
service of a Government that has
perpetrated all of these abuses
and, more so, to preserve a Wall
of Secrecy which has enabled
them. Secret Police Tactics
My only problem with Glenn
Greenwald's article is that I want
to excerpt the whole thing. Since I
won't do that, and since there is
much more to see in his excellent
article, please click on the link
and read the whole thing.
Hopefully it will leave you with a
different perspective about the
crazies and their secret police
Tactics.
Finally I want to share an email
from reader "SB" in response to
my article Amazon Drops
WikiLeaks on Request of Sen.
Lieberman; Lie of the Day from
Hillary Clinton; How NOT to
Stop Leaks; Why we have Leaks.
"SB" Writes... Hello Mish
Thanks for your post. I am 100%
E-reader News Edition
in agreement. I'm 65, and as a
youngster worried almost daily
about being called up for the draft
for Vietnam.
Imagine what might have
happened to the Vietnam war
effort if the whole mess had been
made public from the start.
I was supportive of the war, and
would have gone if called, but the
revelations about it over the past
50 years have definitely called
that into question. It sure would
have been nice to know what
folks in the Federal Government
were hiding.
Those who are in favor of
prosecuting Mr. Assange need to
remember the words, "Secret
Police," and contemplate how
close we are coming to that
concept in our nation, and in our
actions throughout the world.
We need someone like this to
shine the light of day on what
passes for proper behavior now.
Mike "Mish" Shedlock
h t t p : / /
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ECB Offers "Unlimited Cash" for 3 Months at Top 10 Appliances We

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Prosecutors Dismiss Xbox-Modding Case Mid-Trial

David Kravets (Wired Top U.S. District Judge Philip “probably would have” acquitted.
Stories) Gutierrez had blasted the Another juror, Jerry Griffin, a 63-
Submitted at 12/2/2010 2:18:00 PM prosecution’s case Wednesday, year-old trial attorney, said “I
prompting a brief recess for think Microsoft has a right to
LOS ANGELES — Federal prosecutors to decide whether protect its proprietary
authorities in the first-of-its-kind they would forge ahead. The information.”
game console modding criminal prosecution’s decision to continue Steele, one of Crippen’s three
trial abruptly dropped their would come back to haunt them publicly-appointed defense
prosecution here Thursday “based as the government’s first witness attorneys, said afterward that the
on fairness and justice.” ultimately unraveled their case. government last year offered a
“The government has decided to Witness No. 1, Tony Rosario, plea deal in which the defendant
d i s m i s s t h e i n d i c t m e n t , ” was an undercover agent with the would get probation and have his
prosecutor Allen Chiu told the E n t e r t a i n m e n t S o f t w a r e computer usage restricted in Sacha and Isla Share a
judge shortly before the jury was Association who told jurors exchange for Crippen pleading to
to be seated on the third day of Wednesday that he paid Crippen two felonies.
Meal With Martin
trial. $60 in 2008 to modify an Xbox, Rejecting that and going to trial, Scorsese and Their New
The announcement came a day and secretly videotaped the she said, “was a role of the dice.” Bundle of Joy
a f t e r a w h i r l w i n d o f l e g a l operation. Rosario had responded “This was a risk that needed to be Katie Henry (PopSugar)
jockeying in the case against to Crippen’s advertisement on the Defense attorney Callie Steele taken,” she added.
defendant Matthew Crippen, a 28- internet, and met Crippen at his objected to the new testimony. A felony conviction, she said, Submitted at 12/2/2010 11:30:00 AM

year-old Southern California man. Anaheim house. And as court was to get underway would have precluded Crippen
Isla Fisher and Sacha Baron
The government charged that All of that had been laid out in here early Thursday, prosecutor from fulfilling his dream of
Cohen enjoyed a meal with
Crippen, a hotel car-parking pre-trial motions. But during his Chiu told the judge that he first becoming a high school special-
director Martin Scorsese and their
manager, ran a small business testimony, Rosario also said learned of Rosario’s newfound education and math teacher.
youngest child last week in
f r o m h i s A n a h e i m h o m e Crippen inserted a pirated video recollection days before trial. Crippen said he has a year left of
London. Martin recently directed
modifying the firmware on Xbox game into the console to verify Chiu conceded he never school before he gets a liberal arts
Sacha alongside fellow
360 optical drives to make them that the hack worked. That was a forwarded that information to the degree from Cal State Fullerton.
Englishmen Jude Law and Ben
capable of running pirated or n e w d e t a i l t h a t h e l p e d t h e defense. His studies have been on hold
Kingsley in his adaption of the
unauthorized games. government meet an obligation “That fact was disclosed on since he was indicted last year.
1930s children's tale of Hugo
It was the nation’s first jury trial imposed by the judge that very Sunday,” Chiu told the judge. “I’m going back to school,” he
Cabret. Isla and Sacha have been
to test the anti-circumvention morning, when Gutierrez ruled “We should have disclosed that to said.
living in the UK with their kids
provisions of the 1998 Digital that the government had to prove the defense right away.” See Also:
while their$19 million dollar
Millennium Copyright Act as Crippen knew he was breaking In light of that omission and This entry passed through the
home awaits their return to LA.
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at the October premiere of Burke
protect copyright material. Each pirated game into the console. Jurors, who heard only one day content-only/faq.php
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indictment. kind. -year-old actor. He said he
30 Culture/ Sports/ E-reader News Edition

Xmarks Lives: LastPass Buys Downtrodden

Bookmark-Syncing Service
Michael Calore (Wired Top users, and there was an outcry
Stories) when Xmarks announced the
Submitted at 12/2/2010 2:00:00 PM shutdown. Later, the company
asked its fans if they would be NBA Power
Just when we all thought we’d
never see it again, the cross-
willing to pay a subscription fee
to keep Xmarks alive. Over Rankings:
browser bookmark syncing 30,000 of them pledged to do so,
service Xmarks has received a life and that was enough to attract the Amazing Mavs
-saving injection. attention of LastPass. Brett Pollakoff (FanHouse Main)
The company has been acquired The two companies will continue
Submitted at 12/2/2010 1:00:00 PM
by LastPass, maker of a cross- to operate under independent
browser password manager and brands, though they may merge Filed under: Bulls, Cavaliers,
form filler add-on. The deal was everything later. Celtics, Hawks, Heat, Hornets,
announced Thursday, and terms So, it turns out this dark story of Jazz, Knicks, Lakers, Magic,
were not disclosed. cloud computing had a silver Mavericks, Nuggets, Spurs, Trail
Xmarks will live on as a lining after all. Blazers, NBA Power Rankings,
freemium service. The initial This article originally appeared NBA Videos, Thunder
cross-browser syncing tool you’re on Webmonkey.com, Wired’s site All the attention this week has
already familiar with will be free, for all things web development, been on LeBron James, and his
but users will be encouraged to browsers, and web apps. Follow first return to Cleveland since
upgrade to a paid subscription to Webmonkey on Twitter. leaving the Cavs to sign with the
unlock more advanced features. There’s already an iPhone app for service in early 2011. More from Webmonkey: Miami Heat last summer. While
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be able to bundle the premium in September, when the company afloat. to Texas. The Mavericks top our
offerings from LastPass and announced it would shut down its The service has some 4.5 million rankings this week based on the
Xmarks together for $20 per year. strength of their seven-game
winning streak, while the Spurs sit
atop the overall standings with the
league's best record 18 games into
the season.
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Best of 2010: Who's Survivor Rant: Should Quitters Get to

Your Favorite Female Vote for the Winner?
Kate Stanhope (TVGuide.com:
Star of the Year? Breaking News)
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Submitted at 12/2/2010 12:00:00 PM Jeff Probst

It was the most shocking move
We've managed to pick ten on Survivor: Nicaragua yet.
female stars who can belt out hit Following a devastating camp fire
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Cambodia’s Democratic Warrior
Dustin Roasa (The New
Republic - All Feed)
Submitted at 12/1/2010 11:00:00 PM
On a Saturday morning in July,
Cambodian opposition politician
Mu Sochua traveled to the dusty,
sun-baked suburbs of Phnom
Penh for a rally. Close to 100
Cambodians—most of them poor
women sitting on plastic chairs
squeezed into the ground-floor
room of a supporter’s
house—stood and applauded
when she arrived. Wearing a
traditional sarong, with her silver-
streaked brown hair tied back, the
American-educated
parliamentarian took a
microphone and began to speak.
“People are in the mood for
change. The government is afraid
of the power of the opposition,”
she said, her rising voice
punctuated by the chants of
Buddhist monks wafting in from a
nearby temple. A supporter
dimmed the lights, and Mu
Sochua, who represents the
southern Kampot Province, lit a
slender white candle, the symbol
of her political party. She then led
the room in a stirring rendition of
the patriotic song “We Are
Khmer.”
The next general election in
Cambodia is not until 2013, so
Mu Sochua wasn’t trying to
convince people to go to the polls.
But there was still pressing
political business to attend to: She
had recently been the target of a
defamation lawsuit, surreal even
by Cambodia’s authoritarian
standards. In April 2009, Prime
Minister Hun Sen used the epithet
“strong legs,” a colloquialism for
a prostitute, to describe Mu
Sochua in a speech. She sued him
for defamation, and Hun Sen
countersued—the logic being that
accusing the prime minister of
defamation is itself an act of
defamation. Predictably, the
courts, which are stocked with
judges loyal to Hun Sen’s
Cambodian People’s Party (CPP),
threw out the case against the
prime minister, found Mu Sochua
guilty, and fined her. She refused
to pay the fine, even when the
courts threatened to throw her in
jail.
Taking advantage of a seemingly
bad situation, Mu Sochua used
rallies, like the one I attended, to
draw support for both her legal
dilemma and her broader goal of
democratic reform. And, in late
July, as criticism from human
rights groups in Cambodia and
abroad mounted, the government
backed down and ordered her fine
deducted from Mu Sochua’s
parliamentary wages. She was
spared from prison—but the
damage, at least to the
government, had already been
done.
Using the defamation suit as a
springboard, Mu Sochua had
positioned herself almost
overnight as the leading
opposition figure in Cambodia.
Her story garnered significant
attention from both the local and
international press, the U.S.
Congress and the European
Parliament have highlighted her
case, and many Cambodians now
see her as the natural successor to
Sam Rainsy, the longtime
opposition leader who was forced
into exile following his own court
convictions for criticizing the
government. “Before the
defamation case, she was not very
well-known by the Cambodian
public, but this case has raised her
profile significantly,” says human
rights activist Ou Virak. “She’s
the only woman who’s willing to
stand up to Hun Sen.”
Although Cambodia is ostensibly
democratic—national elections
are held every five years—Hun
Sen dominates the country with
an efficient, omnipresent
patronage network that rewards
loyalty and punishes dissent.
Corruption is endemic, the
country’s health and education
systems are among the weakest in
Asia, and, while the per capita
income has doubled over the last
decade from a starting point of
nearly zero, the fruits of that
growth are hoarded by a political
and military elite.
It was not supposed to be this
way. In 1992, after years of
Khmer Rouge rule and
Vietnamese occupation, the U.N.
Transitional Authority in
Cambodia (UNTAC) arrived in
Phnom Penh to administer
elections and bring an end to
decades of armed conflict. Driven
by guilt from complicity in
Cambodia’s misery, donor
countries like the United States
and France made UNTAC the
largest and most expensive nation
-building exercise of its time, and
hopes were high that it would
establish a multiparty democracy
that would protect human rights.
In 1993, 90 percent of
Cambodians ignored threats of
violence from remnants of the
Khmer Rouge, who were fighting
an insurgency against the
government from bases on the
border with Thailand, and voted
in the UNTAC-administered
national election. By 1997,
however, the royalist party that
won that election was forced out
by Hun Sen, himself a former mid
-level Khmer Rouge commander,
in a bloody coup. That same year,
Sam Rainsy nearly died in a
grenade attack widely thought to
be orchestrated by troops loyal to
Hun Sen.
Today, nearly 20 years after the
arrival of UNTAC, diplomats and
aid workers rarely use the lofty
rhetoric of democracy. Rather,
there is tacit acceptance that
Cambodia has settled into a “one-
party plus” existence, as a recent
U.S. government-sponsored
assessment put it, with the
opposition providing the patina of
pluralism. “Democratic space is
shrinking, and dissenting views
are being stifled,” said Yeng
Virak, head of a Cambodian legal-
aid organization. “Cambodia is
going back to square one.”
Mu Sochua has witnessed much
of this tumult firsthand. As a
young girl growing up in a
merchant family in Phnom Penh
in the 1950s and ’60s, Mu
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Sochua’s father warned her never
to go into politics. “He had many
friends in government, and he
knew about corruption,” she told
me. She intended to take his
advice, but the war in Vietnam
intervened and sent her on the
long path to becoming a
politician. With Phnom Penh
under rocket attacks from a
growing Khmer Rouge
insurgency, she left for Paris in
1972 and ended up in San
Francisco a year later. In 1975,
news stopped arriving from
Cambodia. The Khmer Rouge had
taken Phnom Penh, and she later
learned that her parents had died.
After helping resettle Cambodian
immigrants in the United States
and earning a master’s degree in
social work from the University
of California at Berkeley, Mu
Sochua returned to Southeast Asia
in 1981 to work with the 300,000
Cambodian refugees living in
camps along the Thai border.
Determined to help rebuild her
country, she moved back to
Phnom Penh in 1989, worked
with UNTAC, and, in 1998,
successfully ran for parliament as
a member of the royalist
FUNCINPEC Party, which was
then part of the ruling coalition.
She was appointed Minister of
Women’s Affairs that same year,
and she authored Cambodia’s first
domestic violence law.
The defining moment of her
political career, as she describes
it, came in 2004. Chea Vichea, a
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Kimpossible
Joshua Kurlantzick (The New
Republic - All Feed)
Submitted at 12/1/2010 11:00:00 PM
As the North Korea crisis spirals
into its second week, and
seemingly out of control, many
American policymakers and
pundits agree on one thing: China
needs to do something about
Pyongyang. “China is not
behaving as a responsible world
power,” Senator John McCain
told CNN. “They could bring the
North Korean economy to their
knees if they wanted to.” State
Department spokesman P.J.
Crowley echoed that sentiment,
saying that “China does have
influence with North Korea and
we would hope and expect that
China will use that influence.”
But in reality, China’s leverage
over North Korea is far more
limited than it often appears.
China’s strategy has been to
demonstrate to Kim Jong Il that
he could copy Beijing’s economic
reforms without losing his grip on
political power, while
simultaneously using multilateral
talks—and occasional
demonstrations of Chinese
pressure—to show other countries
that Beijing is committed to a
peaceful resolution of the Korean
crisis.
Yet none of these strategies is
working for Beijing. It has failed
to convince Kim to copy its
modernizing reforms, and it has
failed to convince the outside
world it is taking any meaningful
steps to pressure Pyongyang.
Instead, like nearly everyone else,
China is getting played by the
wily North, while taking fire from
the world for its failures.
For years now, Beijing has been
trying to get Kim Jong Il to copy
some of its economic reforms—a
strategy it has also used when
dealing with the Burmese junta
and other autocratic regimes. It
has hosted Kim for visits to
booming Shanghai and parts of
southern China, where he could
marvel at the pace of growth. Its
officials have stressed to Kim, in
private, that if he initiated
economic reforms he might
actually improve the stability of
the North. And at times, Kim has
appeared ready to adopt some of
their recommendations: Earlier in
the 2000s, Kim seemed to allow
greater economic openness.
Private markets sprang up across
North Korea; products were more
or less openly imported from
China; and many Chinese
merchants began crossing into
North Korea to make significant
fortunes.
While prodding Kim, China has
taken pains not to push too hard.
It pointedly did not criticize North
Korea for sinking a South Korean
naval vessel earlier this year,
which killed more than 40 sailors.
And it has tried to water down
U.N. resolutions sanctioning
Pyongyang, while deflecting
criticism of the North by
highlighting Washington and
Seoul’s military maneuvers off
the coast of Korea. Beijing has
also continued to deliver lifelines
of fuel and food aid to the North,
which have helped preserve
Kim’s regime, since much of the
food likely went to the military.
China’s concerns are, of course,
that an implosion of the Kim
regime would lead to a refugee
outflow into the People’s
Republic and a movement of
American troops up to the
Chinese border. Beijing also
always wants to defend the
principle of sovereignty in
international affairs, since it does
not want other countries
criticizing China’s own rights
abuses.
But over time, China’s lack of
real influence has become clearer
and clearer, no matter what
Crowley or McCain might think.
Rather than exerting leverage,
China has been played for a fool,
revealing that China is not yet
ready for the great power status to
which it aspires. Over and over,
Kim has apparently offered just
enough reforms to convince China
that he might be on the road to
real change, but then pulled back
after winning new tranches of aid,
embarrassing Beijing yet again.
And when China uses its
diplomatic leverage to defend
Pyongyang at the United Nations,
or in the six-party talks on North
Korea's nuclear program, held in
Beijing, Pyongyang often seems
to go out of its way to embarrass
its benefactor.
Indeed, after initially allowing
some economic openness, in
recent years Kim has slammed the
door on reforms, cracking down
on private markets and forcing
North Koreans and even foreign
merchants operating in the
country to convert their foreign
currencies to the worthless North
Korean won, costing them huge
sums of money. (An obvious
slap in the face to China.) Kim
also seems to have kept China in
the dark about many of the details
of his nuclear program, so that
Beijing winds up embarrassed
when the United States uncovers
them, as when Kim recently
revealed his highly enriched
uranium program to visiting
American scientists. In the
recently released Wikileaks
cables, Chinese officials come off
as uninformed about the state of
the uranium program, telling their
American counterparts it was only
“in an initial phase.” In another
cable, Chinese officials’
knowledge of plans for North
Korean succession appears
minimal. In yet another, a
Chinese ambassador admits to his
American counterpart that their
efforts to pressure North Korea to
negotiate with the rest of the
world “had had no effect.”
China can at least take solace in
the fact that it has plenty of
company. For nearly two decades,
North Korea has pulled the same
kind of games with South Korea,
Japan, and the United
States—agreeing to halt and open
up its nuclear program, or at least
to discuss it at multilateral
forums, in exchange for economic
and food aid. Foreign officials
would trumpet these
Politics-Left/ 33
breakthroughs as signs that, with
the right incentives, North Korea
would change, and would
potentially give up its nukes.
Jimmy Carter is still writing op-
eds and giving talks about the
deal he made back in 1994,
which fell apart when it became
obvious that Pyongyang had
simply ignored its promises in the
agreement and continued with a
clandestine nuclear program. A
decade later, the Bush
administration touted their six-
party talks, including North
Korea, as a sign that Pyongyang
was willing to discuss its nuclear
program, to come to the table and
potentially give up the nukes, for
the right incentives. But again
Pyongyang flouted the deal, and
instead it has now built an
enriched uranium program. By
this point, it should be obvious
that Pyongyang has no interest in
disarmament.
Ultimately, the only real leverage
China has is to force the whole
North Korean system to collapse,
since attempts to use subtle
pressure have allowed Kim to
take advantage of Beijing. A total
Chinese withdrawal of food and
fuel aid might indeed trigger
instability in the North, which has
virtually no other trading partners
—at least for legal exports—now
that South Korean President Lee
Myung-Bak has shut down much
of the commerce which existed
under his predecessor’s “sunshine
policy.” (The North also
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CAMBODIA’S
continued from page 32
labor leader and government
critic, was shot dead in the middle
of the day while reading a
newspaper on the street. “I saw
his body covered with blood, and
heard his daughter saying to her
daddy, ‘Wake up, wake up,’” she
recounts. Unable to work any
longer in Hun Sen’s regime, Mu
Sochua left the government to
join the opposition Sam Rainsy
Party. She vowed to promote
policies that protected democracy,
human rights, and the rule of law.
But it’s been difficult to make a
dent in her country’s political and
policy landscapes: Mu Sochua
made her move out of the ruling
coalition at a time when Hun
Sen’s CPP was ascending, and,
since then, successive national
elections have only seen it
consolidate its hold on parliament.
Opposition politicians accuse the
government of electoral cheating,
and, undoubtedly, some vote-
buying and intimidation occur.
But, in reality, the CPP has
evolved into a sophisticated
political machine that no longer
needs to cheat on a large scale to
win. (That’s why international
observers agreed the 2008
election Cambodia’s freest and
fairest yet.) With its vast financial
resources, far-reaching party
apparatus, and control of the
country’s broadcast media, the
CPP has managed to use carefully
crafted propaganda to keep many
Cambodians, particularly rural
ones, on their side.
Where does this leave the
opposition? With no real
legislative power, it is reduced to
publicly antagonizing the
government, a tactic polling has
shown Cambodians don’t respond
to. “It’s a chicken and egg issue.
Because of the opposition’s
antagonistic approach, there are
lawsuits against them, which
feeds their antagonism,” Ou Virak
said. Lacking the resources
necessary to spread its message
and win more votes without this
aggressive edge, the opposition
has turned to stoking moral
indignation about Cambodia’s
situation abroad, operating more
like a dissident movement in an
authoritarian country than a
political party trying to build a
constituency.
But the international community,
including the United States,
remains an unreliable partner,
according to activists in
Cambodia. Donor countries can
take credit for some
achievements—for instance, the
revitalization of Cambodian civil
society after it was decimated by
the Khmer Rouge. But embassies
and the U.N. today are hesitant to
publicly criticize the government
on its human rights record,
allowing their abuses to go on
largely unchecked. “What the
international community is failing
to do is fulfill their role of
promoting democracy. The donors
announced $1.2 billion in aid the
same day the court upheld my
defamation conviction. What’s the
message?” Mu Sochua said.
It’s between a weak opposition
and unreliable international
support where Mu Sochua might
be able to step in and change
things. Although she speaks of
feeling a kinship with Barack
Obama and the U.S. Democratic
Party, it’s her emphasis on issues
particular to Cambodia, such as
land rights for the thousands of
poor farmers and government
corruption, that has attracted a
strong following. By holding
rallies and meeting face-to-face
with voters—a style of retail
politics not typical in this country,
where many people do not know
who represents them in
parliament—Mu Sochua is
building a grassroots movement
that many Cambodians see as the
best chance to revive the
opposition and hold Hun Sen’s
government accountable for its
actions (and inactions).
Though it is virtually impossible
to quantify her support, political
observers in Cambodia say Mu
Sochua’s star is
rising—particularly after she used
her increased visibility in the
wake of the defamation case to
promote her agenda. “She is a role
model for many Cambodian men
and women,” Yeng Virak said. At
the rally I attended, Mu Sochua
invited a woman to the front of
the room and handed her the
microphone. Dressed in worn
pajamas, with her eyes cast
downward, the woman tearfully
described the daily police
harassment that makes it
impossible for her to make a
living as a vegetable seller in the
local market. Mu Sochua put her
arm around the woman and said,
“The problem is no justice. We
must find justice for her.”
While it is unlikely she could
find this justice by single-
handedly unseating the ruling
CPP (the next elections are years
away, and the CPP’s apparatus is
still mighty), Mu Sochua could
shine a spotlight on human rights,
judicial, and other abuses better
than any Cambodian political
force in recent memory. Granted,
this sort of opposition has always
been a difficult to build. While
Sam Rainsy was exiled, lesser
critics, including the head of a
cultural foundation who dared to
ask whether a lighting system
being drilled into Angkor Wat
might harm the ancient temples,
have faced prison sentences and
either fled the country or publicly
apologized. And the government
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has Mu Sochua in its sights:
When the rally I attended was
over, she wanted to tour the local
market and talk to poor voters, but
her security detail advised against
it due to the many plainclothes
police lurking. “Things are just
too tense right now,” she said.
But there are glimmers of hope
that things might be different for
Mu Sochua. Back in the car, she
discussed the defamation case and
the government’s decision to
spare her from jail. “Hun Sen
miscalculated,” she said. “For
fifteen months now, I’ve been
dragging this thing out, and I got
free publicity.” But, while she
may have avoided punishment
and been able to augment the
reach and media presence of her
democratic crusade, Mu Sochua
doesn’t think she’s won—not yet.
“If the prime minister were to
admit that he was wrong in the
past, and he called everyone
together for reform, that would be
a victory for me,” she said.
Dustin Roasa is a journalist living
in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
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specializes in exporting
counterfeit currency, nuclear
expertise, missiles, etc.) China has
long feared the implications of
using the only real leverage it has,
but as the Wikileaks cables reveal,
perhaps Kim Jong Il has finally
played Beijing one time too many.
In another tranche of the cables,
Chinese officials admit that they
are now willing to see North and
South Korea reunited, and that
Beijing is not looking to prop up
Pyongyang after Kim Jong Il, who
is reportedly very ill, passes
away. As one Chinese
commentator recently wrote in the
prominent online publication
The Best TV of 2010: The Top 10 Roster
Maureen Ryan (TV Squad)
Submitted at 12/2/2010 8:30:00 AM
Filed under: Reality-Free, Stay
Tuned Narrowing down my
yearly Top 10 list to only ten
individual TV shows proved very
difficult this year. There was just
too much good TV, and thank
goodness for that. None of the
new shows that the broadcast
networks debuted this fall made
the cut, but no matter, there was
Caijing, “Why do we still help
North Korea?” Because if China
keeps helping Pyongyang, it’s
only going to get fooled again.
Joshua Kurlantzick is a special
correspondent for The New
Republic and a fellow at the
Council on Foreign Relations.
Thanks also to Elizabeth
Economy.
For more TNR, become a fan on
Facebook and follow us on
Twitter.
still plenty of good drama and
comedy to choose from.
So much, in fact, that I decided
expand my list a bit. There are, as
you can see below, ten entries in
my Best of 2010 list, but a couple
of entries mention multiple
shows. I've got a new job and new
editors, so why not try a new way
of approaching the Top 10 list,
right? All I can say is, it would below off my list.
have melted my brain and hurt my By the way, in the next week or
heart to leave any of the shows so, I'll post a long list of runners
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Katie Couric to Appear on Glee
Joyce Eng (TVGuide.com:
Breaking News)
Submitted at 12/2/2010 2:08:00 PM
Katie Couric
This just in: Katie Couric will
guest-star on Glee, her rep tells
TVGuide.com.
The CBS Evening News anchor
will appear in the post-Super
Bowl episode. Couric will play
herself opposite Sue ( Jane
Lynch), according to Deadline,
which first reported the news. Fox
had no further details.
Are fans ready for Glee 2.0?
A self-described Gleek, Couric
recently expressed disappointment Morrison on CBS Sunday Casting, Celebs, CBS, FOX
in Glee stars Lea Michele, Dianna Morning this Sunday. This entry passed through the
Agron and Cory Monteith's racy Are you excited to see Katie on Full-Text RSS service — if this is
GQ photoshoot. The spread didn't Glee? Related Links Stories: Are your content and you're reading it
"fit the Glee gestalt," she said on fans ready for Glee 2.0? Other on someone else's site, please read
the Evening News. Links: Jane Lynch, Katie Couric, our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/
Check out the rest of today's Matthew Morrison, Sunday content-only/faq.php
news Morning, Lea Michele, CBS Five Filters featured article:
Couric's episode will air Feb. 6. Evening News With Katie Couric, Beyond Hiroshima - The Non-
In the meantime, she will Cory Monteith, Glee, Dianna Reporting of Falluja's Cancer
interview Glee star Matthew Agron Tags: Breaking News, Catastrophe.
up -- more than two dozen
scripted shows that didn't quite
make the cut here but which were
nevertheless pleasing, compelling
or noteworthy during the past
year.
Without further ado, here's my
list of the best television shows of
2010:
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Top Chef: All-Stars' Elia: There Was a Lot of
Fighting You Didn't See
Gina DiNunno (TVGuide.com:
Breaking News)
Submitted at 12/2/2010 1:31:00 PM
Top Chef
Talk about evil: On Wednesday's
premiere of Top Chef: All-Stars,
the cheftestants were asked to
redo the dish that got them
eliminated the first time around.
And in the eyes of the judges,
some chefs were unable to learn
from their previous mistakes.
But according to Season 2's Elia
Aboumrad, the first chef asked to
pack her knives this season, it
wasn't exactly an even playing
field. Find out why the Los
Angeles-based chef thinks the
challenge was unfair and why she
and the judges shared and intense
back-and-forth we didn't see.
Plus: Did she think Fabio's dish
was as bad as Anthony Bourdain
made it out to be?
PHOTOS: Who made the cut?
Casting Top Chef-All Stars
TVGuide.com: What was going
through your head when you
found out you had to remake the
dish that got you eliminated
during your season?
Elia Aboumrad: I didn't have a
specific feeling. It was very
interesting because everyone had
a different theme. Everybody used
different ingredients and were all
in different areas. It was different
for everyone, and it wasn't even.
The main ingredient on my dish
was a ti leaf with red snapper and
I was given a palm tree leaf. Of
course I fought [about] that with
Tom, but they didn't put that on
[the episode].
TVGuide.com: You chose to
stay very close to your original
dish. Why?
Elia: When Tom said the rules
and we read them, it specifically
said not to stray from your dish —
don't change technique, don't add
too much, and you're not allowed
to take anything off. I remember
going back and forth with those
rules to be clear, and it was kind
of surprising when most of the
people changed the technique and
... a lot of the main ingredients
where not in the dishes. I went
back and forth with that a lot at
judges' table, but unfortunately it's
not shown.
TVGuide.com: So do you think
it was unfair the others weren't
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Elia: I think that it had
motivation that I didn't like. It was
all so we'd get on the nerves of
our colleagues. I didn't want to
participate in something I saw a
very wrong motivation behind.
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Tony Bourdain, who travels the and gingery gingerbread for us.
world, has never seen the Italian ~Elise
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techniques? of parchment paper. I've seen it in for the spicy, treacly flavor of
Elia: I think it was unfair. It got Italy so many times. It blew me gingerbread. Sure, I can easily
to the point where Gail Simmons away. satisfy myself come December
turned around and said, "Well TVGuide.com: What's next for when the baking world goes gaga
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literally." And that really made Elia: I'm in Los Angeles now and known to make it in the middle of
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meant to be followed, then there with a colleague of mine. It's my ginger-obsession. By itself or
shouldn't be any rules! I fought going to be a French restaurant ... served toasted with a bit of butter
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Kevin Bacon Plays Kevin Would You Name Your Polaroid HD

Bacon's Biggest Fan in Kid After a TV
New Ad Character?
Joel Keller (TV Squad)
Submitted at 12/2/2010 9:00:00 AM
Filed under: Reality-Free,
Features Kevin Bacon is not one
of those movie stars that's above
doing TV ads for American
audiences; he did a really
funny"Six Degrees of Kevin
Bacon"-themed ad for Visa in the
early '00s and he got repeatedly
rejected by Michael Jordan in a
Hanes ad.
But there, Kevin was playing
"famous actor Kevin Bacon." In
this new ad for the new Google
TV device from Logitech, Bacon
takes it one step further, playing
Kevin Bacon's biggest fan.
If this were just a random actor
playing the 'Footloose' star's
biggest fan, proudly displaying
his needlepoint portraits of Bacon
while surrounded by posters of his
Jean Bentley (TV Squad)
Submitted at 12/2/2010 9:30:00 AM
Filed under: TV News Let's say
you love'Glee'-- really, really love
it. You watch it every week.
Download the songs on iTunes.
Snag some prime seats for the live
tour. Start a 'Glee'-related Tumblr.
But do you really, really, really
love it? Enough to name your kid
after one of the New Directions
singers?
movies, the ad would be creepy. Turns out more than a few
But because Bacon plays the guy, p a r e n t s h a v e s h o w n t h e i r
dedication to the show in the
it feels even more creepy.
But, you know what? It's so ultimate way: naming their
creepy that it's circled back to children after its characters.
being funny again. The ad and According to Linda Murray,
editor of the parenting website
more after the jump.
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continued from page 37
by “anybody,” I mean anybody
able-bodied enough to hike out
into the woods, hale enough to
endure cold temperatures, patient
enough to sit still and be quiet,
and handy enough with a rifle to
hit a dinner plate at 50 yards. And
that eliminates a lot of candidates,
admittedly. My co-workers kvetch
about the office temperature when
it dips below 73. So they’re out.
But my point is that I demand a
more difficult proposition than
that, myself.
It’s why I hunt with a Polaroid
HD camcorder.
Imagine that instead of stalking
within 200 yards of a bull elk, you
had to creep right up alongside
him, close enough to touch. Close
enough to capture high-definition
video of his wheezing bugle.
And then imagine you had to do
so with a video camera that was
either bright red or silver, so as to
be easily visible to your prey.
And then imagine that the camera
also made little electronic noises
when you pressed the buttons,
and even though there was
probably a way to turn them off,
you hadn’t figured it out.
Finally, imagine that the ultimate
goal of such a hunt is not merely
to capture high-definition video of
your quarry, but to get video of
your quarry doing something
sufficiently bizarre or humorous
as to become a huge YouTube
sensation, so you could live off
the adsharing revenue.
Oh, and also imagine that you
live in Jersey City and don’t have
a car, so you can only hunt within
walking distance of your
apartment.
Now that, my friends, gives big
game a truly sporting chance!
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Google to launch Editions e-book
service by New Years Day
Kevin McCarthy (Consumer
Reports)
Submitted at 12/2/2010 11:26:36 AM
Google to launch Editions e-book
service by New Years Day
Google will forge into the e-book
game with its new service, Google
Editions, by the end of the year,
reports the Wall Street Journal.
Google promises that its service,
unlike those from competitors
Amazon and Apple, will offer e-
books that consumers can read on
most devices with a Web browser.
Readers will be able to purchase
the books directly through Google
or through other retailers,
including independent and local
bookstores. Instead of requiring a
specific device or software,
Edition users will be able to
access the books from an online
library tied to a Google account
using their computer, smart
phone, or tablet.
Here’s how Google describes the
service to booksellers and rights-
holders: Google Editions is an
upcoming program that will allow
consumers to easily purchase and
read digital editions of books.
Consumers will be able to
preview a book, as they do today
in Google Books, and will also
have the option to purchase its
Google Edition. After purchase,
the book will live in the
consumer's online bookshelf,
available to be accessed and read
on most devices with internet
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So long to all-you-can-
watch video plans?
highlighted that technology in a Eileen McCooey (Consumer
Web production called "20 Things Reports)
I Learned About Browsers and the Submitted at 12/2/2010 11:56:56 AM
Web," but told the Post that it was
not meant to preview Editions. So long to all-you-can-watch
The new service should also video plans?
enable users to book mark their Cheap, all-you-can-watch video-
pages and share annotations streaming plans from companies
between devices and other like Netflix could be threatened if
access and a Web browser; as r e a d e r s . a proposal by FCC chairman month over broadband lines
well as on supported partner If you're in the market for an e- Julius Genachowski wins provided by their cable company
devices (to be announced during book reader or tablet, check out approval when the full for a flat monthly rate.
our public launch). our latest tests. We found that e- commission meets later this That's the potential downside to a
The default list price, according book readers are better, and month, Reuters reported today. proposal that otherwise offers
to Google, will be "80% of the cheaper than ever. But for full Reuters quotes MF Global positive news for consumers.
lowest list price of the print book entertainment potential, our brand analyst Paul Gallant as saying that Costs aside, the FCC proposal
(regardless of format)" unless new Ratings found that tablets are "new Internet access pricing could could otherwise benefit
sellers specify a different price. giving them a run for their money. represent a blow to content consumers by protecting Net
But Google reserves the right to Also check out our head-to-head providers like online movie rental Neutrality, the concept of a free
"sell a book at a price discounted comparison of the Kindle vs. the site Netflix" and lead to "usage- and open Internet, and Consumers
from its Google Editions list iPad. based pricing." Union supports it on that basis, as
price, or to not sell a book." And Google Set to Launch E-Book Some analysts said usage-based we reported yesterday.
Editions gives book sellers the Venture[ Wall Street Journal] pricing could enable landline We'll keep you posted as things
option of declining to apply *subscription Internet providers such as develop.
Digital Rights Management Google readies Google Editions e Comcast Corp. and Time Warner —Eileen McCooey Subscribe
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Hornet 5x42 Digital Night Vision NASCAR takes a green

Monocular turn, commits to racing
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Qatar, Russia to host World Cups; United States shut out
Associated Press (ESPN.com)
Submitted at 12/2/2010 2:11:02 PM
Updated: December 2, 2010, 3:11
PM ET
ZURICH -- The tiny desert
nation of Qatar beat out the
United States as the 2022 World
Cup host, with FIFA brushing
aside doubts about blistering heat
to bring soccer's showcase event
for the first time to the Middle
East. More from ESPN.com
In the most bizarre World Cup
bidding process ever, it was only
fitting Russia and Qatar landed
the rights to host the 2018 and
2022 World Cup tournaments,
writes Ravi Ubha. Story
Jeff Carlisle looks at how the
United States' failed bid will
affect U.S. Soccer president Sunil
Gulati's legacy. Story
• Ubha: FIFA's new frontiers
• Schaerlaeckens: U.S. bid
hampered
• Young: England has self to
blame
The 22 voters on FIFA's
executive committee, some
accused of corruption in the
weeks leading up to their meeting,
picked Russia to stage the 2018
tournament, another first-time
host. Both votes were taken
Thursday and the results
announced minutes apart.
Qatar, an oil-rich nation that has
been independent since 1971, has
a population of about 1.7 million -
- 500,000 less than Houston. At
4,416 square miles, it is smaller
than Connecticut.
"We go to new lands," FIFA
president Sepp Blatter said.
Qatar, which has promised to
overcome heat of up to 130
degrees with air conditioned
outdoor stadiums, led on every
round of balloting that initially
included Australia, Japan and
South Korea. The lowest vote-
getter was eliminated after each
round until only the U.S. and
Qatar remained. Qatar won the
final vote 14-8.
"Basically, oil and natural gas
won today. This was not about
merit, this was about money,"
former U.S. national team star
Eric Wynalda said in a telephone
interview with The Associated
Press. Qatar "is a country that is
really going to struggle to host
this event. A successful World
Cup would mean the attendance
would be twice the population."
The U.S. Soccer Federation,
which spent millions of dollars on
its bid and brought over former
President Bill Clinton for its
closing presentation, was hoping
to bring the World Cup back to
America for the first time since
1994 and boost the steady but
slow growth of the sport in the
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Fans in Los Angeles were
disappointed when FIFA didn't
choose the U.S. to host the 2022
World Cup.
"I consider it a disappointment for
me personally, for sure, and a
setback as we're trying to move
this sport forward," USSF
president Sunil Gulati said.
"Getting the right to host this
Sports/ 41
its 30-minute presentation to
underline how the tournament
could unify a region ravaged by
conflict. Presenters also promised
to dismantle the stadiums built for
the tournament and give them to
needy countries.
The nation promised to spend
$50 billion on infrastructure
upgrades and $4 billion to build
nine stadiums and renovate three
others. One advantage of the
having the tournament in a small
country: The stadiums will all be
within an hour of each other.
Qataris and others -- including
workers from south Asia --
event 12 years from now, with international event. Last year, the immediately started dancing in the
that sort of buildup time, was the International Olympic Committee s t r e e t s a l o n g D o h a ' s G u l f
equivalent of putting your foot on c h o s e R i o d e J a n e i r o o v e r w a t e r f r o n t . S o m e b l e w t h e
the accelerator and really taking a Chicago and others for the 2016 v u v u z e l a s t h a t b e c a m e
big jump. Olympics despite a personal synonymous with the World Cup
"And so from that perspective, it's lobbying effort by President in South Africa.
certainly an opportunity lost. Do I Barack Obama. FIFA's inspection report
think we're going to get to where At the White House on Thursday, highlighted a danger posted by
we want to get eventually? The Obama said, "I think it was the heat -- the average high in late
answer is yes." wrong decision," when asked June is 106 degrees. Qatar said
Russia was chosen over England about FIFA's 2022 choice, but the World Cup thrived despite hot
and joint bids by Spain-Portugal added that he still thought the temperatures during tournaments
and Netherlands-Belgium. "We U.S. team would acquit itself in Mexico in 1970 and 1986, and
cannot really express how happy well. World Cup Hosts Year the U.S. in 1994.
we are," said Alexey Sorokin, Country 2022 Qatar 2018 Russia "On behalf of millions of people
CEO of Russia's bid. "It's a great 2014 Brazil 2010 South Africa living in the Middle East, thank
victory." 2006 Germany 2002 Japan, South you," Qatar bid chair Sheikh
Following corruption allegations Korea 1998 France 1994 United Mohammad bin Hamad Al-Thani
t h a t l e d t o t w o e x e c u t i v e States 1990 Italy 1986 Mexico said. "Thank you for believing in
c o m m i t t e e m e m b e r s b e i n g 1982 Spain 1978 Argentina 1974 us, thank you for having such
excluded from the final votes, the West Germany 1970 Mexico 1966 bold vision. ... Thank you also for
decisions were bound to be England 1962 Chile 1958 Sweden acknowledging this is the right
controversial even before they 1954 Switzerland 1950 Brazil time for the Middle East. We have
were made. 1938 France 1934 Italy 1930 a date with history which is
American sports executives are Uruguay summer 2022."
now left to wonder what they Qatar, which has never even
QATAR, page 43
have do to host another major qualified for a World Cup, used
42 Sports/ Technology/ E-reader News Edition

Mo Williams, Cleveland Cavaliers 'excited' to play

LeBron James, Miami Heat
Associated Press (ESPN.com) "We're excited about tonight," used to cheer. "They'll be extra hostile, and I
Submitted at 12/2/2010 2:41:40 PM Williams offered to a media The Heat did not hold a morning understand that, but I think we
assembly rivaling the NBA shootaround, choosing to relax at should keep it safe," he said.
Updated: December 2, 2010, 3:41 Finals. "That's all I'll say. I can't their posh hotel a few blocks "Sticks and stones may break my
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CLEVELAND -- Mo Williams The Heat kept to themselves
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The Cavaliers' guard sported a lounge of the team hotel in the member of the Lakers' away."
Submitted at 12/2/2010 3:11:00 PM
Boston Red Sox jacket following afternoon. Once the meeting "Showtime" teams, he Williams wasn't sure how he'll
the team's morning shootaround, ended, James headed for the experienced suddenly being an react when he first sees James Impressed by some of the Kinect
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James, a die-hard New York ready for whatever Cleveland fans while with Indiana and probably give him a hug "out of Create but don't know where to
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first game in Cleveland as a "Yes sir," he replied. "I will be. I Morning Afterward, he and James will now provided just that in the form
visitor -- a homecoming expected will be." ESPN 850 in Cleveland's Aaron again go their separate ways. of a tutorial that guides you
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Bid chief executive Hassan al-
Thawadi promised Israel would
be allowed to participate if it
qualifies.
"We are a very, very hospitable
place that welcomes people from
all parts of the world," he said.
"Bringing the World Cup to the
Middle East now ... will showcase
to the world that the Middle East
is home to a lot of people, it's
opening its arms to the rest of the
world. In doing so, such
misconceptions will be
dissolved."
Al-Thani also said groundwork
was being laid for women's
league.
"This is another perception,
another perception that women
are oppressed in the Middle East
and this is a wrong, wrong
perception," he said. "We hope
with the World Cup being
awarded to Qatar, we can change
that."
The World Cup was played in the
United States for the first time in
1994, setting a record with 3.58
million tickets sold, and the U.S.
Soccer Federation had hoped a
second World Cup in America
would help the country move into
the game's elite, giving a big lift
to Major League Soccer in the
process. The U.S. also has hosted
the women's World Cup twice.
Now the U.S. will have to wait
until at least 2026 for the men's
tournament, when it may have to
compete with bids from Europe,
soccer's financial base. The 2014
tournament will be held in Brazil.
By selecting Qatar, FIFA
precluded a 2026 bid from China,
since the same continent cannot
host consecutive World Cups.
The 2018 vote was especially
crushing for England, the
motherland of soccer, which has
not hosted the World Cup since
winning it for the only time in
1966. England's final presentation
Thursday included Prince
William, Prime Minister David
Cameron and Los Angeles Galaxy
midfielder David Beckham, a
former captain of England's
soccer team.
England received just two votes
and was eliminated first, with
Russia getting nine, Spain-
Portugal seven and Belgium-
Netherlands four. Russia received
13 in the second round, winning
the vote because it had a majority.
"You will never regret" the
decision, Russian Deputy Prime
Minister Igor Shuvalov said. "Let
us make history together."
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It's Just Basketball, but Cleveland's Emotions Are Real

Pat McManamon (FanHouse
Main)
Submitted at 12/2/2010 1:16:00 PM
Filed under: Cavaliers, Heat
CLEVELAND - Zydrunas
Ilgauskas is right, of course. One
hundred percent correct. Thursday
night's game between the
Cleveland Cavaliers and Miami
Heat is just that: A basketball
game.
"There are more important things
in life: people dying from cancer
every day, kids dying every day,
people having HIV, people
fighting wars," Ilgauskas told
FanHouse Wednesday night.
"There are more important things
than the Miami Heat going back
to Cleveland.
"Let's put life in perspective, it's Cavs owner Dan Gilbert hiring a
just a basketball game."
Ilgauskas spoke in the context of
the Heat acquired James while
breaking NBA rules, a story
broken by Yahoo's Adrian
Wojnarowski on Wednesday.
Longshot? Who knows. But
Gilbert has the right to hire the
law firm if he wishes; it's his
money, and if he thinks the Heat
broke the rules, more power to
him for pursuing it.
law firm to investigate whether In that sense, Ilgauskas might be
a tiny bit off.
But in the bigger picture, the all-
of-life picture, his words are
noted, proper, correct and
commendable. It is just a
basketball game, and it pales in
comparison to cancer and war. To
even insinuate it doesn't is
ludicrous.
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Jon Embree Reportedly Xbox-modder trial underway, no plea

Offered Colorado Head bargain offered
James Ransom-Wiley (Joystiq)
Coaching Job Submitted at 12/2/2010 3:22:00 PM
of Crippen allegedly playing a
pirated game on the modded
console. Still, the prosecution
FanHouse Staff (FanHouse
Main) The landmark jury trial of offered up a pile of a 150 pirated
Matthew Crippen, indicted on two games, apparently seized by
Submitted at 12/2/2010 12:19:00 PM federal counts last fall for authorities from Crippen's home,
modding Xbox 360s, began which it hoped would show jurors
Filed under: Colorado, Coaching yesterday with opening statements that the defendant had a clear
Jon Embree has received a formal in a Los Angeles court. Wired's understanding that he was
offer to become the next coach at colorful report of U.S. District involved in illegal activity.
Colorado, according to Bill Judge Philip Gutierrez's colorful Rosario is expected to return to
McCartney. reaction to the prosecution's case the stand today, followed by two
The coaching great, a candidate suggested that the government games is to circumvent the additional prosecution witnesses:
to replace Dan Hawkins himself, could be headed toward a deal technology," Gutierrez said. "How a f e d e r a l a g e n t , w h o a l s o
would have hired Embree and with Crippen during an early- about back-up games and the allegedly paid Crippen to mod a
former Buffalo Eric Bieniemy on afternoon recess. homebrewed?" 360, and a Microsoft employee, a
his staff if he got the job, only to "I really don't understand what However, prosecutors returned so-called expert on Xbox security
coach). And he (Mike Bohn) hired
groom one of the two to we're doing here," Gutierrez from recess yesterday determined (and self-admitted modder in his
one. Now, give him a chance."
eventually replace him. Instead, apparently"roared," as he ripped to convict Crippen, 28, on two younger days). The defense is
Embree is currently the tight ends
the supposed hope is that Embree into the prosecution. The judge counts of violating the DMCA scheduled to begin its case
coach for the Washington
accepts the job and hires q u e s t i o n e d g o v e r n m e n t (for a maximum sentence of ten tomorrow.
Redskins, while Bieniemy
Bieniemy as his offensive prosecutors' use of two witnesses years) by proving he knew he was Follow the drama on Wired's
coaches running backs for the
coordinator. who may have broken the law b r e a k i n g t h e l a w . E S A Threat Level blog.
Minnesota Vikings.
"It was never about me doing it themselves and prosecutors' investigator Tony Rosario was [Pictured: Matthew Crippen;
Colorado AD Mike Bohn
again," McCartney said in an instructions to the jury that it was called to the stand to recount how photo credit: David Kravets/
released a statement Thursday
interview with The Denver Post. unnecessary to prove Crippen had he had visited Crippen's Anaheim, Wired.com]
saying no one had been offered
"It was about setting the table for knowingly breached the Digital Calif. home in 2008 and paid the Xbox-modder trial underway, no
the job.
a black man to come in (as head Millennium Copyright Act. The defendant $60 to mod an Xbox plea bargain offered originally
judge apparently backtracked on 360. Rosario secretly videotaped appeared on Joystiq on Thu, 02
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Nintendo phasing out Wii

Speak peripheral from
retailers
Gameloft announces NOVA 2 and the Griffin McElroy (Joystiq)
Submitted at 12/2/2010 3:05:00 PM
final nail into the poor, puck-
shaped microphone's coffin,
Uncharted-inspired Shadow Guardian We're finding it hard to accept
the fact that future generations of
however, telling GameSpot that
"additional shipments can be
Andrew Yoon (Joystiq) does it continue the story of the shoot your way through waves of made if consumer demand
first game, but will reward players enemies, taking cover, blind- Wii gamers won't be able to increases." In that case, we
Submitted at 12/2/2010 3:45:00 PM
of the original with bonus XP. firing, and rushing in for melee experience the raw thrill of one suppose our grandchildren can
M o b i l e g a m e s p u b l i s h e r Perhaps of most interesting title kills. Yes, you've seen all of this roomful of people chatting it up still have conversations with
Gameloft is showing no signs of was Gameloft's new IP, Shadow before -- but have you seen it with another roomful of people strangers' living rooms -- but
slowing down. The company Guardian(pictured above). In running on an iPhone? during an Animal Crossing: City they'll have to organize some kind
announced its upcoming slate of typical Gameloft fashion, Shadow All of these games should be Folk session. Sadly, that's the of movement in order to do so.
iOS games at a press conference Guardian bears more than a little available later this month, "before hard, hard truth one must extract Nintendo phasing out Wii Speak
in Paris today, including sequels resemblance to other popular Christmas." from Nintendo's recently peripheral from retailers
to some of the company's most console games, notably Uncharted Gameloft announces NOVA 2 announced decision to phase out originally appeared on Joystiq on
successful properties, such as and Tomb Raider: You travel and the Uncharted-inspired the Wii Speak peripheral, which is Thu, 02 Dec 2010 15:05:00 EST.
Asphalt 6: Adrenaline and NOVA through a variety of locations, Shadow Guardian originally now only available "at limited Please see our terms for use of
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A server for testing FeedHose apps Judge Lets Murkowski

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Submitted at 12/1/2010 3:57:46 PM
1. name, is the name of the hose
you're inquiring about. If it's not
specified the information returned
There are three additional values
that are passed back, the feedUrl,
feedTitle and feedLink of the feed
into Senate Challenge
In the server mess I had to take is about the default hose (on this
the FeedHose server off the air so server, Hacker News).
the item came from. Hoses can be
made up of many feeds, and it's Case
I could reorganize things. Now 2. timeout, is the number of sometimes useful to know which (Newsmax - Inside Cover) Murkowski with 101,088 votes,
I'm ready to turn it on again. seconds before the call times out. feed an item came from. Submitted at 12/2/2010 9:10:02 AM compared to Miller's 90,760.
This server is for testing for If it's not specified, the default There are two other entry-points: Excluding ballots challenged by
interop only. Please don't build value is 120 seconds. 1. recent, which just returns the Thursday, 02 Dec 2010 03:10 Miller observers over a week of
serious systems on it. 3. format, indicates whether the latest stories. It's useful to see PM hand-counting ballots, she held a
The default hose on this server is return is in XML or JSON. The what you get back from the JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — A 2,169-vote lead.
Hacker News. default is XML. feednose while you're developing, state court judge is allowing Sen. Kendall said Murkowski was at
The main entrypoint is the default 4. seed, a string returned from a or to show someone roughly what Lisa Murkowski to have a say in a odds with the state over its
page. It's meant to be called from previous call to the hose, passed the hose looks like at a technical legal challenge to Alaska's U.S. deciding not to count another
an application. It's a long-poll, back to the next call. If any new level. It looks for several optional Senate race. 2,016 ballots for her.
m e a n i n g i t r e t u r n s w h e n items came in while you were parameters, as described above: Attorneys for Murkowski argued Many of those did not have the
something new is available from processing the the previous call, name and format that determine that she should be allowed to ballot ovals filled but had her
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out. In either case you're expected otherwise went away for a long format the returned text is in. Republican rival, Joe Miller, according to attorney Scott
to loop back around and call it time, passing back the seed There's an additional optional brought against the state over the Kendall, had "Lisa M." written in
again. assures that you don't miss any parameter, count. If not specified manner in which it conducted the or various misspellings. He said
Here's an example call that times news. If you don't mind possibly it's 3. The maximum count is 15. election. Miller contends the state those ballots represent a
out after three seconds, returns missing some news you don't 2. seed, which returns the current did not follow the law, notably in significant chunk of the more than
JSON-formatted news from have to specify the seed. seed without waiting and without its decision to use discretion in 258,000 total ballots cast. The
Hacker News. (If no new stories None of the parameters are case- returning any news. You can tallying write-in votes for judge's decision means
came in during the three seconds, sensitive. In other words, JSON is specify the name and format, as Murkowski. Murkowski would be able to fight
which is almost a certainty, you'll the same as json is the same as optional parameters, as described Attorney Scott Kendall said in to have those ballots included, if
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Winning Candidate Arrested in New Jersey Voter Boehner Calls

Fraud Case Tax Bill
Carla Baranauckas (Politics
Daily)
each of the three was charged
with third-degree witness
In October, Superior Court Judge
Thomas Brogan ruled that there
got nothing to do with it. I'm just
a candidate. People voted for me."
'Chicken Crap'
(Newsmax - Inside Cover)
Submitted at 12/2/2010 2:00:00 PM tampering but that additional was no evidence of impropriety in When asked if he thought voter
Submitted at 12/2/2010 9:05:26 AM
charges may be brought. On the election, but McDaniel fraud had occurred, McDaniel
Copy Editor In what has become Tuesday and Wednesday, 11 appealed to Attorney General told WCBS: "Oh, yes. No Thursday, 02 Dec 2010 03:05
a topsy-turvy city council election people were arrested on charges Paula Dow to investigate. This question. There were too many PM
in Paterson, N.J., the candidate of voter fraud. week, Dow found grounds for irregularities." WASHINGTON (AP) — The tax
who was declared the winner in "It is alleged that after the fraud, which could result in One of the defendants, Dalia cut bill considered by the House
May was arrested Thursday on a defendants became aware of an McDaniel ousting Rodriguez after Rodriguez, told WCBS: "It's not on Thursday isn't merely
charge of witness tampering in a active investigation by the all. true. I didn't do nothing wrong." disappointing, it's "chicken crap."
voter-fraud investigation being Division of Criminal Justice and The 11 people who were arrested She said that she supported And Rep. Rob Bishop's three-
conducted by the state attorney State Police, they instructed on Tuesday and Wednesday are Councilman Rodriguez but that piece suit?
general and the state criminal voters as to how to answer police accused of falsifying absentee she was not related to him. "I told Mr. Bishop on the way in
justice director. questions, including advising ballots by writing in the names of If convicted, the suspects could that just because he inherited this
The candidate, Rigo Rodriguez, them to lying (sic) to police," a voters without their knowledge, face penalties of three to five suit from his grandfather didn't
38, was arrested at his home in news release from Attorney according to The Record years in prison and a fine of mean he had to wear it," House
Paterson on Thursday morning General Paula Dow and Taylor newspaper. One woman is also $15,000 or five to 10 years in Republican leader John Boehner
along with his wife, Lissette, 31. said. accused of voting twice, under her prison and a fine of $150,000, teased his friend Thursday. "But
His campaign manager, Juan The investigation stems from the married name and her maiden depending on the charges. his hair looks good."
Jimenez, 45, was also arrested. election in which Rodriguez, the name. All 11 were issued This entry passed through the Thus sayeth the next speaker of
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NYC Mayor: Obama Has Broken Campaign Promises

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Submitted at 12/2/2010 7:54:36 AM
Thursday, 02 Dec 2010 01:54
PM
NEW YORK — New York
Mayor Michael Bloomberg says
President Barack Obama has
broken campaign promises and
needs better advisers.
The billionaire mayor is
occasionally mentioned as a long-
shot presidential candidate. He is
a Democrat-turned-Republican-
turned-independent who flirted
with the idea of running in 2008.
He has mostly shied away from
criticizing Obama.
But that changed in an interview
that appears in the December
issue of GQ magazine. The
magazine chose Bloomberg as
one of its "men of the year" for
2010.
Bloomberg was asked Thursday
about his comments. The former
CEO said he has urged the
president to include more business
people in his inner circle.
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given to smoking, tanning, golfing
and teasing people he likes most.
He's also a weeper at key public
moments and liked for his
geniality by many lawmakers on
both sides of the aisle.
The famously composed Pelosi,
in contrast, is not known to have
used even salty language in
public. In private, the California
Democrat might express her
displeasure with something by
describing it as "doggy doo" or
just "poo," those who know her
say.
Boehner often comes right out
with it, even when cameras are
rolling.
Asked about the Democrats' bill
Thursday to extend Bush-era tax
cuts only for the first $250,000 of
income, the Ohio Republican was
blunt. The Democrats' bill, unlike
the Republican proposal to extend
the cuts for every American, has
no chance of passing the Senate.
So do House Democrats risk
losing any glint of bipartisan
goodwill by bringing it up at all?
"I'm trying to catch my breath so I
don't refer to this maneuver going
on today as chicken crap, all
right?" Boehner said Thursday at
a news conference. "But this is
nonsense, all right? The election
was one month ago. We are 23
months from the next election,
and the political games have
already started trying to set up the
next election."
At another point during the
Thursday press conference,
Oregon Republican Greg Walden,
chairman of the GOP's transition
to power, said one big change will
be a reduction in the number of
commemorative resolutions of the
House considers every day. But
one of his examples was a
Boehner golf hero.
"If Americans knew we spent this
week honoring and saluting golf
legend Chi Chi Rodriguez ...
while their taxes are about to go
up and our national debt is
exploding, they'd send us all
packing," Walden said.
Boehner frowned.
"Now, there's nothing wrong with
Chi Chi," Walden quickly added,
glancing over his shoulder at the
speaker-to-be. The House just has
more important things to do,
Walden said.
Boehner didn't dispute that
premise. But he stepped up to the
microphone, teased Bishop about
his suit, and added this:
"Let me also express my
apologies to my friend Chi Chi
Rodriguez," Boehner said.
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Conservative Fight
Brewing? Grover Norquist
Versus Tom Coburn
Matt Lewis (Politics Daily)
Submitted at 12/2/2010 2:25:00 PM
Columnist Reuters' James
Pethokoukis is keeping a close
eye on the internecine dispute
between conservative tax
cruisader Grover Norquist and
conservative Sen. Tom Coburn (R
-Okla.).
As Pethokoukis reports,
"On Twitter, Ryan Ellis
(@taxplayer) of Grover Norquist's
Americans for Tax Reform had
this to say about Judd Gregg, Tom
Coburn and Mike Crapo
supporting the Obama debt panel
recommendations: 'by agreeing to
the simpson-bowles tax hikes,
pledge breakers coburn, crapo,
and gregg have admitted they lied
about taxes to get elected'."
John Hart from Tom Coburn's
office emailed Pethokoukis this:
We don't want to argue with
someone calls himself a
"taxplaya" but Ryan might want
to cool it or tell his boss to come
over and tell Dr. Coburn in person
that he is a liar and tax-hiker. Dr.
Coburn was asked about the
pledge this morning. He said that
if he was a pledge breaker then so
was Reagan. This plan actually
brings tax rates to their lowest
level since 1916. Coburn is
widely perceived as being a solid
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fiscal conservative.
Norquist's organization,
Americans for Tax Reform,
responded by posting a public
letter to Coburn, Sen. Judd Gregg
(R-N.H.) , and Mike Crapo (R-
Idaho) about the Simpson-Bowles
debt commission.
Here's an excerpt:
In 1982, President Reagan agreed
to $3 in spending cuts for every
$1 in tax hikes. The tax hikes
became law, but spending went
up. President Reagan called this
the worst mistake of his
presidency. In 1990, President
George H.W. Bush broke his
"read my lips" Pledge when he
agreed to $2 in spending cuts for
every $1 in tax hikes at the
infamous Andrews Air Force
Base summit. He later lost re-
election largely on the tax issue,
and actual spending was higher
than CBO predicted it would be
before the deal.
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Wildfire in Northern Israel Rages, Holiday Cookbook

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Suze Orman's 10 Money Tips For The 20 Something

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Submitted at 12/2/2010 6:07:26 PM
Take Suze Orman's advice and
put away the tiny violins – the
future really isn't that bleak!
OK as a 23-year-old, who only
graduated from college a mere
year and a half ago, I know a worst economy since The Great stern) tips for us twenty-
thing or two about how hard it can Depression’ is no small task. It’s somethings. I may have felt like
be to enter the dreaded “real even been projected that we’re crying after my conversation with
world.” Our parents may think going to be the first generation not the tough money guru (she scared
they’re able to commiserate – to earn more than our parents over me sh*tless), but I came away
we’ve all heard the “honey, we’ve our lifetime. with some great financial advice.
all been there” speech before – But before you go crying about Luckily for you, I’m going to
but our generation is in a very your unfortunate luck, Suze share the wealth (so to speak).
in what people are calling ‘the
unique situation. Starting a career Orman has some great (albeit
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NASA's Newly Discovered Arsenic-Loving Bacteria Are

Fascinating, but Not Aliens [Updated + Video]
Rebecca Boyle (Popular habitable environment on another
Science - New Technology, planet. We have to increasingly
Science News, The Future broaden our perspective."
Now)
In terms of its metabolism, the
Submitted at 12/2/2010 11:46:18 AM bacterium - a proteobacteria
Arsenic-Loving Bacteria This is a called GFAJ-1 - is actually not
transmission electron micrograph very interesting, according to
of a strain of proteobacteria that Felisa Wolfe-Simon, a scientist
has been exposed to arsenic in with NASA's Astrobiology
place of phosphorus. The bacteria Institute and lead author of the
grew much larger with the paper released today. It is not a
addition of arsenic and the chemosynthetic bacteria, for
subtraction of phosphorus, and instance, using chemicals instead
scientists think the internal of light to produce food. In that
vacuole-like structures shown in way, it's less exciting than well-
this image may be responsible for studied extremophiles that live
the larger size. Courtesy Science/ near superheated hydrothermal
AAAS So everyone chill out. It vents or the unforgiving sulfur
does raise interesting questions lakes of Yellowstone National
for alien life-hunters, however Park.
Biologists have isolated a But it's interesting because it's a
bacterium that can use a deadly chemical mutant. In an arsenic-
chemical in place of one of life's enriched environment in Wolfe-
key building blocks, in a finding Simon's lab, its very DNA
NASA says could have major oxygen, nitrogen, sulfur and p r o f e s s o r a t A r i z o n a S t a t e who knows what might lurk changed. It swapped arsenic for
implications for astrobiology and phosphorus. This bacteria can U n i v e r s i t y . elsewhere in the solar system? phosphorus in the nucleic acids
our understanding of life on Earth. switch from phosphorus to arsenic What this means for astrobiology We'll have to recalibrate our mass that make up the backbone of
I n t h e s t u d y , r e s e a r c h e r s - usually a deadly toxin - and not is pretty speculative, however. spectrometers. DNA, and that's a revolutionary
examined a bacteria living in a only survive, but thrive. It can When looking for life in other "I find this result delightful result, Elser said.
very salty and arsenic-heavy lake swap arsenic for phosphorus so worlds, especially promising because it may have to expand my " E v e r y l i v i n g t h i n g u s e s
in northeastern California, not far c o m p l e t e l y t h a t a r s e n i c i s places like Saturn's moon Titan or notion of what environmental phosphorus to build its DNA,"
from Yosemite National Park. It is incorporated into its DNA and in the Martian soil, scientists look c o n s t i t u e n t s m i g h t e n a b l e Elser said at a press conference
not a space alien, nor is it "new other biomolecules like ATP, for telltale signs of life as we habitability," said Pamela Conrad, Thursday. "The fact that I am
life" - it's an existing bacteria that according to the study. This is a know it. That means carbon-based an astrobiologist at NASA's sitting here today discussing the
lives in a difficult environment f i r s t , a n d i t u p e n d s o u r life, respiration with oxygen and Goddard Space Flight Center and possibility that that is not true is
and was deliberately manipulated assumptions about how life carbon dioxide, amino acids, and a principal investigator on the quite shocking."
in a lab. works. so on. new Curiosity Mars rover, which At the very least, that is
But the results are interesting Updated:"I don't know about a This finding tells us that we will carry experiments designed to interesting for our understanding
because nothing like this has ever new textbook, but certainly some should ditch these assumptions look for signs of life. "The of microbes, Wolfe-Simon said.
been done before. All life as we paragraphs and sentences are and broaden our horizons. If a implication is that we still don't Microorganisms are the oldest and
know it depends on six key going to have to be rewritten after humble Earthling bacteria can live know everything there is to know NASA'S page 51
ingredients - carbon, hydrogen, today," said James Elser, a on a poisonous chemical, then a b o u t w h a t m i g h t m a k e a
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most prevalent form of life, and
this study shows that we know
less about them than we thought.
There may be many other species
of microbes that can tolerate or
thrive with arsenic, for instance.
This is just the first time anyone
has really ever tried to find one.
Wolfe-Simon said she had been
thinking about chemical
substitution for several years.
Back in 2006, while she was a
postdoctoral fellow at ASU, she
proposed looking for life forms
that can survive even substituting
various chemicals for the building
blocks of life. It's not a wild
hypothesis - there are a few
previous examples of trace
metallic elements substituting for
one another, including the
switching of copper for iron as an
oxygen carrier in some mollusks,
for instance. The swapped
elements share some chemical
similarities, making the transition
simpler.
Arsenic and phosphorus are also
chemically analagous - arsenic is
directly below phosphorus on
your periodic table, and the
elements have the same number
of electrons in their outer shells,
which makes them behave
similarly. So swapping arsenic for
phosphorus makes sense on paper.
Wolfe-Simon wanted to find out
if it worked in practice, and she
went looking in a likely place -
California's Mono Lake, which
teems with life despite containing
high levels of arsenic and a
salinity level three times that of
the oceans.
Wolfe-Simon and colleagues
took core samples from the lake
and brought GFAJ-1 into the lab.
They simulated the lake
environment and diluted the
natural phosphorus until the
mixture was rich in arsenic
instead. The microbe thrived, and
grew 1.5 times its previous size -
its cells developed internal
vacuole-like structures that
account for some of that growth.
Conrad, at NASA, said it makes
sense that a life form's structure
would change in response to its
environment.
The team used various types of
analysis to show the microbe
accumulated arsenic in its DNA.
It still contained some
phosphorus, too, but not nearly
enough to account for its growth,
Wolfe-Simon said.
She is already working on an
updated study to determine what
the microbe will do when it can
replicate with both arsenic and
phosphorus as DNA ingredients.
It will likely be the first of many
studies to determine what the
microbe can do - and how it can
be used. It could help clean up
arsenic-laden toxic waste, for
instance. In a world with
diminishing energy supplies (and
dwindling phosphorus supplies) it
could even conceivably lead to
non-phosphorus-based sources of
biofuel. But for now, that's largely
science fiction, Elser said.
And, despite the hype over this
little microbe, alien life remains
firmly in that category as well.
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The Cartel: Where Are
Our Education Dollars
Going?
Inez Feltscher (The Foundry: The film shows education unions
Conservative Policy News.) as being more concerned about
Submitted at 12/2/2010 1:00:04 PM “lining their pockets” than about a
quality education for every child.
Posted December 2nd, 2010 at One particularly frustrating
2:00pm in Education Print This segment features New Jersey
Post teacher union head Joyce Powell
The Cartel, a searing education asserting that 99.97 percent of
documentary, opens nationwide teachers are doing a great job
on Wednesday. The film, by because only 0.03 percent of
director Bob Bowden, exposes tenured teachers are removed
where our multiplying education from the classroom.
tax dollars are going. Spoiler The film’s message? Until we
alert: In too many instances, they bring reform and accountability to
aren’t going toward teaching the public school system, despite
children. the objections of the unions, too
Bowden focuses on New Jersey, much of taxpayers’ hard-earned
a state that spends over $17,000 dollars will go down a rabbit hole
per student annually. A few of self-interest and corruption, not
simple calculations show the real t o w a r d h e l p i n g s t r u g g l i n g
picture: Instead of being students.
chronically under-funded, as Inez Feltscher is currently a
union advocates claim, each member of the Young Leaders
classroom in the state costs the P r o g r a m a t t h e H e r i t a g e
taxpayer between $300,000 and Foundation. For more information
almost $450,000 annually. But the on interning at Heritage, please
reality is that charter schools, such visit: http://www.heritage.org/
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52 Science/
Help Buy a Satellite from a Bankrupt Telecom to
Beam Free Web to the Developing World
Clay Dillow (Popular Science -
New Technology, Science
News, The Future Now)
Submitted at 12/2/2010 1:15:00 PM
Terrastar-1 This diagram shows
how Terrastar-1 can beam the
Web to handheld devices - in this
case in North America.
Ahumanright.org wants to buy
Terrastar-1 from its parent
company and move it to an orbit
over a developing nation to
provide free Internet to the
population there. Terrastar
Increasing web connectivity in
the developing world has been a
focus of philanthropists,
international bodies like the U.N.,
and individual states alike. But,
like most grand visions, wiring
entire countries for the Web is
expensive. So how does a
philanthropist sidestep the
massive expense of building and
launching a satellite that can beam
Internet to remote regions of the
world? You wait for a company to
go bankrupt, then you buy their
brand new communications
satellite already in orbit on the
cheap.
At least, that's the idea. A
philanthropic group called
Ahumanright.org (universal
Internet is that human right) has
launched a site called " Buy This
Satellite" that aims to raise
$150,000 to bid for Terrastar-1, a
school-bus-sized satellite
launched in 2008. Terrastar-1 is
currently in orbital limbo, so to
speak, after its owner filed for
bankruptcy. The group will also
invest in the development of an
open source, low cost modem for
use in the developing world.
Once acquired, the group hopes
to park the satellite over a
developing country or countries--
Papua New Guinea, the site points
out, has an open orbital slot and
only 2.1 percent of its population
is online--and allow its citizens
access to the Web for free. That,
theoretically, will help educate the
population, open up new avenues
for commerce, and otherwise
provide lagging economies with
all the technological advantages
offered to the wired world.
There are plenty of aspects of the
plan that seem easy to poke holes
in. For one, satellites generally go
for more than $150,000 (even at a
bankruptcy auction). And the
phase one plan calls for hiring
several full-time engineers for the
project, but that'll cost $50,000
per year per engineer (and that's
only if the engineers are content
to work on the cheap)--well, you
can see why we might be a bit
skeptical.
However, the notion is both
noble and ambitious, and we're all
about nobility and ambition. If the
money can be found, a project
like this has the power to
seriously affect change in places
where connectivity is scarce (if
it's available at all). Go to
buythissatellite.org to do your part
to purchase Terrastar-1. There
might just be a T-shirt in it for
you.
[ Buy This Satellite via Gizmodo]
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Testing the Best:
Sony's NEX-5,
the Small Wonder
Corinne Iozzio (Popular
Science - New Technology,
Science News, The Future
Now)
Submitted at 12/2/2010 2:00:00 PM
Sony NEX-5 Compact Camera
Dan Nosowitz The compact
camera to sell you on compact
cameras
Earlier this year, I bought my
first DSLR, and took it (and its
gigantic lens) everywhere. My
vacation photos and day-to-day
snaps never looked better. But I
couldn't say the same for my left
(A.K.A. my bag-carrying)
shoulder. So slowly, day by day, I
stopped lugging my camera
around with me. Then along came
Sony's NEX-5.
This fall, I started carrying the
NEX-5, the smallest lens-
changing camera on the market,
and I was snap-happy all over
again. I'd used other compact,
interchangeable-lens systems,
such as the Olympus EP-series,
before, even toting Panasonic's
Lumix GF1 as my primary
camera at this year's Consumer
TESTING page 53
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Electronics Show. Even so, I focuser, so I was never left with

Chris Bosh
(Mensfitness.com)
became addicted to the NEX-5 that sinking I-missed-the-shot
like no other. feeling; quick start-up helps avoid Submitted at 12/2/2010 3:00:00 AM

Even though its body is no that woe, too.

thicker than my old point-and- Compact lens-changers from | Print Article| Email to Friend
shoot, its images matched any of their inception over a year ago What went through your mind
my best DSLR shots. The magic have promised DSLR quality when you first realized you'd be
is in the versatility. The 18-55mm images in point-and-shoot joining Dwyane Wade and
kit lens was able to handle nearly packages -- the best of both LeBron James in Miami?
every shot (from close-ups to worlds. Until I tossed the NEX-5 I started thinking about Magic
wider-angle landscapes), and full into a small side pocket in my and Bird and M.J., about the
manual control (aperture, bag, though, I wasn't really a dynasties that happened before.
exposure, and shutter speed) believer. Now I am. It's kind of surreal because I've
allowed me to make every shot never been mentioned with
look exactly how I wanted. I was "championship." We have the
able to brighten and freeze a chance to have a great decade of
shadow-y waterfall, or sharpen a basketball.
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I'm not going to change anything. felt as though you needed to gain MF Interview: Kobe Bryant
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and Lord of all. For us, his How's your diet? run, my knees swelled up at the on someone else's site, please read
In the past God spoke to our Church, to be what he wants us to
I have a chef now. It's funny, I beginning of the season, and then our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/
forefathers through the prophets at be, we must not just look at
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I need to work on my discipline low." It doesn't matter how skinny
universe. to see Jesus and his work and because that's what it takes to be you are, it just matters who wants
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Then there was the written record Jesus, my Lord and Savior I pray.
in the Scriptures. But God's Amen.
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powerful words, were not really
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Supplement Guide: Taurine

(Mensfitness.com) energy drinks such as Red Bull
Submitted at 12/2/2010 4:00:00 AM and can easily be ingested that
way, as opposed to supplements.
by Lisa Freedman| Print Article| But take note: These drinks are
Email to Friend loaded with sugar and are not the
Where it comes from: Taurine is best when it comes to keeping a
an amino acid that's found in large low-calorie diet.
amounts in the heart and brain. It's
also found in food sources—the
best ones being meat and fish,
When it comes to treating
congestive heart failure, patients Strengthen
are typically given two to six
though it's also included in energy
drinks and some supplements
grams of taurine per day in up to
three divided doses. There's one
Your Knees
used to support athletic activity.
What it'll do for you: Taurine is
often prescribed to treat
gram of taurine in each can of
Red Bull.
Associated risks/scrutiny:
and Ankles
(Mensfitness.com)
congestive heart failure, high Taurine is possibly safe for adults.
Submitted at 12/2/2010 2:00:00 AM
blood pressure, liver disease, high It has been used safely by adults
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does not help to build muscle Austrian researchers published a significant increases in VO2max who took about 14 grams of vulnerable when you run or play
because it doesn't link with other study in 2000 that examined their (the maximum capacity of a taurine in combination with sports. Work these knee- and
amino acids or the building blocks effectiveness on 10 graduate person's body to transport and use insulin and anabolic steroids. It is ankle-strengthening moves into
of protein," explains Roberta students. The results? The Red oxygen) and time until exhaustion not known if this was due to the your regimen to minimize your
Anding, RD, American Dietetic Bull energy drink mixture (with set in. The researchers credited taurine or the other drugs taken. risk of injury.
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sunset in 2004. But in November newer M4 carbine (used in the detail: Rifles in general are often “Gun Violence Reduction
2009, NBC interviewed Traver Afghanistan and Iraq wars). Deer- able to penetrate body armor Project.”
The Obama administration has and reported: “Traver says the hunting rifles fire rounds that are simply because their bullets travel The fact that Mr. Traver uses the
nominated an anti-gun zealot as power and randomness of the very similar to those used by the faster than those fired from same misleading claims as groups
the U.S.’s top gun cop. heavy caliber, military-style AK-47. handguns. The same can be said such as the Brady Campaign
T he Obama administration is weapons make them so dangerous Speaking of M16s, M4s, and AK- for going through the walls of shouldn’t make it too surprising
moving into high gear in putting not only to people, but to police. 47s, Traver is correct when he houses. But if he had said that that gun-control groups are
g u n - c o n t r o l a d v o c a t e s i n t o They’re so powerful, body armor states that the guns covered by the deer-hunting rifles can often applauding his nomination. Nor is
important government positions. can’t withstand a hit, and they’re federal assault-weapons ban were penetrate walls and lower-level Traver’s nomination very
The administration’s nominee to so difficult to control, their bullets “military-style weapons.” But he types of body armor, it is unlikely surprising after President Obama
head the Bureau of Alcohol, often get sprayed beyond the fails to note that this really just that his comments would have appointed two strong anti-self-
Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives intended targets, striking innocent deals with style-- the cosmetics of generated the same fear. defense members to the Supreme
(BATFE), Andrew Traver, should victims even when they’re in their the guns, not how they actually Unfortunately, Mr. Traver has Court. But Mr. Traver’s
be of particular concern. His own homes.” operate. The guns covered by the done more than make clearly nomination is dangerous. Making
attacks on the civilian use of so- #ad#The list of problems with Mr. ban were not the machine guns inaccurate claims about so-called up claims about guns to demonize
called assault weapons raise real Traver’s claims is very long. If he actually used by the military, but “assault weapons.” He has them is beyond what is acceptable
questions about his willingness to really believes that these weapons civilian, semi-automatic versions supported banning .50-caliber for someone who wants a position
distort the truth for political fire unacceptably “heavy caliber” of those guns. The civilian version rifles, regulations that would force in which he will be regulating
purposes. The person nominated bullets, he is going to have to ban of the AK-47 may look like the many gun shows to close down, American gun ownership.
to be the nation’s top gun cop virtually all rifles. Small-game guns used by militaries around the the Chicago handgun ban, and — John R. Lott Jr. is a
s h o u l d n ’ t u s e i n a c c u r a t e rifles -- guns designed to kill world, but it is different. It fires repealing the Tiahrt Amendment, FOXNews.com contributor, an
descriptions to scare people into squirrels and rabbits without essentially the same bullets as which protects sensitive trace data economist, and the author of More
supporting gun control. destroying too much meat -- deer-hunting rifles at the same from being misused in frivolous Guns, Less Crime, the third
Mr. Traver is the special agent in typically fire .22-caliber bullets, rapidity (one bullet per pull of the municipal lawsuits against gun edition of which was recently
charge of the BATFE’s Chicago which are only slightly smaller trigger), and does the same makers. He also worked with the published by the University of
field division. Therefore, he than the .223-caliber bullets fired damage. Joyce Foundation, which has Chicago Press. John R. Lott Jr.
knows what was covered by the by the M16 (used by the U.S. On penetrating body armor, Mr. funded gun-ban groups such as
federal assault-weapons ban that military since Vietnam) and the Traver leaves out one important the Violence Policy Center, on the
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In this panel discussion on the
future of conservatism,
Congressman Steven King,
columnist Ronald Radosh,
Emmett Tyrrell of The American
Spectator, and David Horowitz
talk about the Tea Party,
ideological purity vs. winning
over moderates, and other issues
that will determine the character
and success of the conservative
movement. (David Horowitz
Freedom Center, Restoration
Weekend 2010, November 20,
2010).
Part I
Part II
Congressman Steven King: I’m
happy to talk about the economy
and the things that we can do and
should do. And I have some, I
think, strong and firm ideas on
that that have been well-vetted.
But in the end, we’ve got to get
our culture right.
And I see — I learned in the
Iowa Senate, where I was elected
in ’96 — I got to know everybody
in there. I knew their wives and
their families. And when they
stood up and spoke, I knew who
they were speaking for. And I
knew — I could tell who they’d
been talking to. I knew them well
enough I could tell who had
ginned them up to give the speech
that they gave.
And in fact, there was a
Chairman of the Ways and Means
Committee that got up in our
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C-SPAN, which was a significant
component, too. And boy, they
were loud, they were fervent, they
had deep, ringing, clear tones of
their conviction. And it inspired
me. And I got engaged to try to
help a candidate get elected to
Congress. And little did I know
that I was going to be drawn
along in the jet stream of that later
on.
But the inspiration that comes
from our ideas recruit young
people especially to step into
public life. And I have — I’ve
seen that transition, I’ve been part
of that transition. And I’ve also
seen some other dynamics that I’d
like to try to explain.
And that is that when I was
elected to the Iowa Senate those
years ago, we took over a new
majority. Our majority leaders
said, “We have the votes. So sit
on your hands and don’t speak,
caucus one day. And he said, you Committee got up, and he said, foreign policy address, that don’t debate with them, don’t
know, I think we can raise some “Remember what I said yesterday changes the dynamics in the argue. Because it just burns up
taxes and spend some money in this caucus? Well, I slept on world sometimes. debate time, and we’re going to
better than we’re doing it now. that last night, and I’ve got a But in between that spectrum are win anyway. And I sat there and
And I was just appalled. And so, different opinion today.” all the rest of us. And everything thought, No, we won’t. We won’t
nobody said anything. And I I tell you that because you that we do and say moves this win anyway. Because we’ll lose
went out into the lobby and found matter. Your voice matters. political center of America a little the argument if we’re not willing
just the right people and said, Everybody’s voice in this country bit, especially in this modern era, to engage in the argument.”
“You know that fellow that you matters. And when you think in when we have the modern media I lay that foundation because I’ve
worked so hard to get elected to terms of two kindergarteners that we’ve seen make so much seen the cycle now in my state.
the Senate because he was a fiscal sitting next to each other at a difference. If you go back to ’94, I’ve seen the cycle here in
conservative, and he wanted low desk, and if one of them tells a lie, and you look at what we had — Congress, where I have — I came
taxes and more freedom? Well, and the other one says, You can’t we had Rush Limbaugh and not a in the majority, we lost the
he has some ideas entirely be my friend if you’re going to be very loud voice anywhere else — majority, and now we won the
different than that, and I think you a liar — that conversation the fledgling cable news. And majority back again; serving now
should talk to him.” changed America, in a small way still, still, we took back America under two separate Presidents for
And the next day, in our private or maybe a large way; we don’t in ’94. me.
little caucus, that same Chairman know. When the President goes I remember the voices of the
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And some of the reasons for that
— some of them came out of the
Democrats in Florida, some of the
30-something group that came to
the floor of the House under
special orders, and, night after
night after night, just pounded
President Bush and pounded
Republicans. And a lot of times
the screen went blue because
Republicans didn’t bother to come
down to the floor to oppose and
rebut the voices that were there
that were directly undermining
our visions and our ideals.
And I looked at that. And I
thought, “Why would we ever
waste a minute of C-SPAN time?
Why would we concede any
component of the debate?” So I
just had my staff sign me up for C
-SPAN every day. At 9 o’clock in
the morning, it would be — just
make the call, sign me up. That
way, somebody was going to be
taking care of at least one hour
every night that it was available.
And the result of that over the
years has been that I actually have
more words in the Congressional
record than anybody else. And I
don’t know that that’s necessarily
a good thing. Because it tells you
that others haven’t been standing
there in line to carry that
message. It’s important that we
carry the message.
And it is the culture. It’s the
culture from bottom-up. And the
voices of members of Congress
that are elected are often fighting
a rear guard while we refurbish
our culture with our ideals. They
are also a reflection of the
community at large. We’d like to
think that everybody there is a
statesman. And, course, it’s not
true. But we’re more likely to
have a higher percentage of
statesmen and -women there when
we take care of things at the
grassroots level.
I’ll make two more points on
this. One of them is, when people
get elected into leadership, they
may have been revolutionaries in
their earlier days. But by time
they make the agreements
necessary to have a broad enough
coalition to be elected into
leadership, they have decided that
now they know the course for
everyone else. And they’re very
interested in smooth sailing. And
anybody that rocks the boat like
they did may not be met with a
pat on the back and an “atta-
boy.” Instead, they’ll be met
probably with something that will
drag their power down and
diminish their ability to rock the
boat. Because leaders want to
chart a smooth course.
And when they chart a smooth
course, that means that there can’t
be confrontation as often it might
be. It means the challenge isn’t
there as much, and it means that
the voice of our visions and our
deals, and our ideals and our
rhetoric, will diminish over time,
if we hold back.
So what I’m suggesting is, I and
others will need to hold the feet to
the fire of our leadership, so that
there’s somebody pushing out
there, so we can be a little bit
edgy, so we can carry out our
principles and not compromise
five or 10 percent of it along the
way.
And while that’s going on, those
members that are pushing on the
leadership to make sure that we
keep over there on the true path,
the conscience of the
conservatives, they need to be
pushed on by you. And it goes on
down across the whole country in
that fashion. I kind of see it as the
rank-and-file need to push on
leadership, the Constitutional
conservatives in America need to
push on the rank-and-file.
While we’re doing that, and as
aggressively as we can while we
have an interested America —
and by the way, if we don’t do
that, and if everybody gets in
lockstep, and we all follow a
formula that perhaps might be
written in a document, and fold
our hands and just march through
in lockstep, who’s going to be
inspired? Who’s going to be
testing us for ideas? Where’s the
vision going to come from? Do
we really think that the formula
we have today is the one that will
be good for all time? Or are we
going to be out front and taking
this nation to another level of our
destiny?
I think we got a long ways to go.
And I think our job is to keep the
pressure on, to keep the
movement going, to take the
foundation that goes back, so far
back [but] I think of Goldwater;
and grow that to the modern era,
and put these pieces in place that
set America on a foundation
where we really can chart a stable
course.
And the important part of this is
— back to the first thing I said —
the culture. It is the culture. And
the institutions that have been
taken over by the Left have to be
taken back again, piece by piece,
until we can look at this and say
the American civilization has
been established in all of its
institutions.
And for us, the simple one goes
to the D.C. vouchers as just a pilot
program. To have the state take
over our kids and decide what
they will be taught, and then tell
our parents they can’t send their
children to a school of their
choice — I mean, how is that an
American vision? It’s a control of
the culture and the mindset that’s
here.
Also, David Horowitz has
articulated, I think, better than
anybody else the situation we
have on our campuses and how
bad it is. I go to the University of
Iowa School of Law. And there,
they have 50 professors. And
there are, as I understand this, 48
Democrats, one independent and
one token Republican that I
wouldn’t call a Republican. And
so, I go on that campus and tell
them the Constitution means what
it says, and I’m met with a whole
fusillade from people that have
been taught something entirely
different.
This country believes in our core
principles. We’ve seen that in the
streets of this country over and
over again. I fly a Gadsden flag
outside my office in Washington,
D.C. Because I don’t want them
to tread on me. The architect of
the Capitol came by and said,
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“You can’t have that flag there.”
And I said, “Well, I’ve got that
answer that the Texans had when
they had that flag with the cannon
on it — come and take it!” It’s
still there. It’ll stay there.
And we need to set about
refurbishing America’s belief in
our ideals. And that will be this
— we need to restore those
beautiful marble pillars of
American exceptionalism, one by
one by one, and teach our young
people that those principles, tied
to the Constitution, are what’s
made this country the greatest
country in the world. And if we
always revert back to those
principles, it will be an unerring
force for us, no matter what
technology might do into the
future. Those first principles still
prevail. And we need to get —
restore our institutions, so that we
restore our culture. We’ll get the
rest of it right.
Thank you very much.
Ronald Radosh: I think my
comments will actually relate
somewhat to what Representative
King said. You’ll be glad to
know, Representative, I did get
my Masters at the University of
Iowa. So I’m familiar with the
campus, not the Law School.
David and I both come, as you
know — unfortunate, but what
can we do — from the old
Communist background. So I
want to start with an insight from
the late Italian Communist,
activist intellectual Antonio
Gramsci, who argued that before
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any kind of political or social
change can occur — he, of course,
wanted a Communist
revolution—a fight must be
waged for what he called cultural
hegemony. That meant a war
which acknowledges that cultural
issues decide the nation’s future.
And taking off from that, the
American historian Eugene D.
Genovese — once a Marxist;
now, like us, a rock-ribbed
conservative — wrote about what
he called the cult of perpetual
adolescence, in which would-be
revolutionaries rebelled against
society for its own sake and “did
not want to face the necessity of
waging a long, hard struggle to
reshape our national culture as
well as our national politics.”
And that’s what is meant by
waging a war over the culture.
And I maintain that conservatives
would do well to adopt this
insight from Gramsci, and wage a
major intellectual war over the
cultural issues before we can
successfully change the nation’s
politics.
And I think there are some
people who were conservatives
that were doing this. My two
favorite journals that engage in
this kind of thoughtful comments
in our culture are National
Affairs, edited by Yuval Levin;
and the Claremont Review of
Books, which not enough people
are reading, and should read.
To win the culture war,
conservatives need a well-thought
out and serious alternative to that
advanced by the liberals, one that
I argue should not undermine the
entire edifice of the welfare state.
Take Social Security, for
example. William Buckley once
said, when asked by someone in a
discussion if we shouldn’t get rid
of the entire New Deal structure,
get rid of Social Security — and
Buckley responded, It’s one thing
to engage in a great intellectual
argument in the 1930s when they
should never have passed Social
Security. But he went on to say
that it’s one thing to wage an
intellectual debate about Social
Security and its origins; another
thing to try and win and take
control of the country by
opposing it now. It’s something
that all the polls show a majority
of the American public do not
want to undo.
So I say that conservatives must
not undo the entire past. But what
we have to do instead is try and
argue for fiscally responsible
ways of saving a minimal welfare
state. We should make it clear,
for example, that in opposing
Obamacare, we are opposing a
plan that in fact leaves decent
medical care only for a small
minority of the extremely
wealthy, and very bad healthcare
for the majority of the American
people, all put over by the liberals
in the name of social equality.
We have to propose valid
conservative alternatives to statist
liberalism. And, as the former
mayor of New York, Ed Koch,
said a week ago in his weekly
blog, we have to stop the
Democratic Party in particular
from moving along the Obama
path which is moving America
toward socialism. Now, if Ed
Koch could say that, a Democrat,
he understands that the Obama
agenda is to move America
toward socialism.
And I want to quote one
intellectual who writes in The
Claremont Review, a very smart
man named William Voegeli.
And he wrote the following —
The roadmap we need will be to
transform America’s social
contact, enshrining a New Deal
principle that the nation has a
responsibility to alleviate and
prevent poverty through
government action, while
stipulating that these actions
should be targeted and limited,
replacing the open-ended
universal approach that defines
the New Deal and Great Society
liberalism. Not do away with the
whole thing, but show the need
for a limited welfare state that is
fiscally responsible and possible
to carry out.
Now, the Tea Party has played a
phenomenal role, as everybody
has said. It has created
enthusiasm. It was largely
responsible for the recent electoral
triumph. But there is a danger
here. And that danger is insisting
on complete ideological purity.
Let’s use some examples, again
from the Left, in history. Go back
to 1896. There was a strong,
leftwing populist upsurge in the
1890s, particularly among the
farmers, who were getting bashed
by both laborers in the East and
the corporations. And the farmers
felt they were getting the short
end of the stick. And they had a
whole populist agenda. They
elected people to state Senates, to
Congress. And of course, their
main demand was free and
unlimited coinage of silver.
Well, they finally got co-opted by
the Democratic Party whose
nominee William Jennings Bryan
gave his famous — it was the
equivalent then of the Rick
Santelli rant — the Cross of Gold
speech: “Mankind will not be
crucified upon a cross of gold.”
The delegates gave him minutes
of thunderous applause and
stamping, everyone went wild.
But as you know, William
Jennings Bryan did not win the
election. The election went to
McKinley. The public at large
would not vote for the program of
the activist base, which they
maintained was misguided and
wrongheaded, as it was.
It’s very easy for an activist
minority to take control of a party
through the primary process and
get their candidate. But we have
to worry about getting a candidate
elected who will not turn off the
center and the center right, and
particularly those working-class
Democrats who, in the ‘80s, were
Reagan Democrats and are now
leaving the Democratic Party in
drove and returning to vote
Republican. We need their votes
to win.
And if we go too far, many of
these Democrats who are not now
— as Michele Bachmann
said—supporting Obama, even
though they may have voted for
him two years ago – [will not
support our side.] Because they
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are quite a little bit worried about
elements of what they see as
ideological purity that got a
candidate on the Republican ticket
that they don’t feel they can
support.
And that’s why I want to raise the
Sarah Palin question at this point.
Sarah Palin is a phenomenal
woman. She’s done a lot for the
conservative movement, she’s
done a lot for the Republican
Party, she has energized
thousands of people. She is a
strong woman with a great, broad
appeal. But I don’t think it’s an
appeal that is broad enough. I
think we cannot afford to put in as
a Republican nominee a
polarizing figure, no matter what
her strengths, that could lead us to
lose the presidency two years
hence.
Too much is at stake. And I
think we have scores of great
candidates, one of whom will
emerge. My favorite is the same
as Ann Coulter’s — Chris
Christie of New Jersey, a man
who can speak the truth, who is
fiscally responsible, who is tough-
minded, who has a great
personality. He will reach out to
people and say what has to be
said, and convince them that this
is the right path forward.
I think that these are the dangers
we have to look out for. We
should focus on things like
reducing the deficit and the debt,
repealing Obamacare, fiscal
discipline, balancing the budget.
But we must appeal to
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NR cruise, sí, Caribbean, no;
immigration morality; and more.
Cruising: the blanket apology
Highlight of the month was of
course the National Review post-
election cruise. I got reacquainted
with some old friends and made
some new ones. I don’t recall
ticking anyone off, but some of
the evening events continued well
past the (for me) critical third-
drink stage, so it’s hard to be sure.
I therefore offer the following
blanket apology: If at any point on
the cruise I forgot your name,
disagreed with you too
vehemently, fell asleep while you
were telling a joke, scoffed at
your profession, insulted your
state, mocked your religion,
groped your wife, vomited in your
lap, punched you on the nose,
pitched your significant other
overboard, or stepped on your
blue suede shoes, I am truly sorry.
And to those cruisers who
purchased permitted me to gift
them with my book: THANK
YOU!
The shabby Caribbean I must
admit that I enjoyed my shipboard
time much more than my shore
time. I’m just not much of a
tourist. This puts me at odds with
Mrs. Derb, who is always keen to
sample whatever is on offer, from
souvenir stores to snorkeling
expeditions. For the sake of
marital harmony I allow myself to
be dragged along on these
adventures with only the barest
minimum of passive-aggressive
resistance displays. I thus got to
see some of the Caribbean (not for
the first time).
Overall impression: You can
keep it. The people harvesting the
tourist dollars were of course very
pleasant, and at least one of them
(hey there, pájaro!) plainly took
real pleasure in his work and left
an impression of genuine
friendliness and hospitality.
People like that make getting off
the ship seem almost worth the
trouble.
Net-net, though, if you’re not in
the rich-folks compounds or at
one of the up-market tourist spots,
the Caribbean is a shabby place.
Grand Turk is worse than shabby
— it’s a slum. NASA used to
have some tracking facilities
there, but they were
decommissioned in 1984 and now
are just rotting away undeveloped,
fences sagging and concrete
crumbling.
Cozumel’s better, and — as the
locals hasten to assure you within
15 seconds of being introduced —
“Not like the rest of Mexico!” but
still not a place you’d want to live
unless you had a ton of money.
Even the climate isn’t that great.
The last hurricane that came
through Cozumel, our guide told
us casually, “took off all the
roofs.” Hmm, that could be an
inconvenience.
The water really does have that
lovely turquoise color, though. I’ll
say that for the place.
Cruising for health A cruise ship
is the healthiest place you can be.
Imagine an outbreak of, say,
stomach flu on a cruise ship. With
a high proportion of oldsters on
board, there would likely be a
death or two, and consequent
lawsuits. Even without that, the
cruise line would lose millions
from the publicity.
Those in charge are not going to
let this happen. The crews on
these ships are trained rigorously
in hygiene. All surfaces are
scrubbed and inspected
constantly. Food with the least
mark of unfreshness will feed the
fishes. The air quality is likewise
closely monitored: Legionnaires’
Disease is another nightmare for
the owners.
So strong are these obsessions
that seasoned cruisers whisper
dark tales of people taken ill on
board ship who mysteriously
vanish — hustled away to an
airtight room somewhere in the
bowels of the vessel. I haven’t yet
heard a version in which the
invalid’s cabin itself disappears,
as in one telling of the classic
Paris Exposition urban legend, but
if there is not currently such a
story going round, I am sure there
soon will be.
The downside of all that hygienic
purity is that one’s immune
system, seeing that there is
nothing for it to do, does an
automatic power-down. It’s still
slumbering when you reach dry
land at the end of the cruise and
get on a plane to go home. Now,
the cabin of a plane is one of the
least healthy places on earth.
Passing from cruise ship to plane
cabin is like going from an iPod
assembly room to the Congo
basin. Result: I spent much of the
post-cruise week moaning and
coughing in bed with a savage bad
cold. (That’s the reason for no
Radio Derb last week -- sorry, RD
fans.)
Morality and the law A reader
has invited me to get into a debate
with Victor Davis Hanson on the
subject of Victor’s November 26
essay, “ Is Illegal Immigration
Moral?”
I’ll give it a shot, but obliquely. I
disagree with VDH that
“ultimately it is a complicated
moral issue.” Seems to me that
ultimately it’s a simple legal
issue.
#page#Illegal immigration is
illegal. Persons found to be
resident here illegally should be
swiftly and humanely deported to
their home countries. If they have
children here, those children
should be deported with them;
and if those children have
citizenship, it should be revoked,
just as in any other case where
citizenship was obtained via an
illegal act.
It may be true, as the open-
borders cant has it, that we can’t
deport all illegals. So what? We
can’t ticket everyone who violates
the speed limit; but we ticket as
many as we can catch, and the
knowledge of that keeps the rest
of us mindful of the speed-limit
laws. Deporting any illegal we
find would have a similar
magnifying effect, leading many
others to self-deport.
#ad#With all respect to VDH,
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whom I admire as a scholar and a
gentleman, I think it’s a
distraction to moralize the issue.
Our job as commentators is to
remind public officials of their
duties and obligations under the
law, to stiffen their spines so that
they perform their statutory duties
conscientiously and impartially.
Appeals to morality don’t
accomplish that. If anything they
militate against it.
Morality is too squishy a
business. Discussions founded in
morality too easily degenerate
into sanctimony, into “I’m a nicer
person than you are!” one-
upmanship, especially in the soft,
emotional, girlified present state
of our culture. Far too much of
our public policy is already based
not on data and logic but on
romantic fantasies, hysterical
fads, and hot flashes.
The people’s officials should
enforce the people’s laws. If they
won’t do so, they should be
impeached by the people’s
representatives. If we hold fast to
those principles, we live in a
constitutional republic. If we let
go of them, we live in a realm of
chaos and uncertainty, in which
unscrupulous people seize
privileges for themselves by
fraudulent appeals to low emotion
-- a rule not of laws, but of men.
Is that how we want to live?
The hidden issue Furthermore,
the endless talk about illegal
immigration, concerning which
there is really nothing to talk
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independents. Pat Caddell made
the point yesterday that it’s the
first time since 1930 that a party
has taken the House and not the
Senate. And it’s the first time
since 1859 that the Republicans
have controlled the House without
the Senate or the White House.
And I think picking someone
who is polarizing, and insisting on
complete ideological purity, is a
danger we have to watch out for.
An activist base can elect
someone to get the nomination,
but that does not translate
necessarily into winning the
election.
You can play to the base. But if
you emphasize issues that are
very divisive, you’re going to lose
the center and some of these
Reagan Democrats. I think we
need the support of centrists and
independents, and working-class
Democrats. We’ve got to keep
them with us. And you know, if
you don’t like Christie, there’s
Tim Pawlenty, there’s John
Thune, there’s Mitch Daniels. If
Palin is the nominee, she’s going
to become the issue, rather than
the issues we all support.
So that’s my point now. We can
go on to victory in 2012 by doing
these two things — winning the
cultural war, waging it
relentlessly, introducing great,
sound, conservative alternatives;
and putting in a candidate who
can enunciate them, but a
candidate who will maintain the
appeal to the moderates and to the
center. Because we can’t win
without them.
Emmett Tyrrell: Well, I guess it
falls to me to defend the
pulchritudinous Sarah Palin. But
as I see it, people are holding her
pulchritude against her. And I for
one will not be a part of such a
discriminatory movement.
The culture is a very central part
of any political problem. We at
The American Spectator have
coined the term “culture smog.”
Because our culture has, until
recently, been thoroughly the
culture of the other side. You see
this in rock ‘n roll, which now,
I’m happy to say, is moribund.
One of the reasons you know it’s
moribund is every city in the
country has talk radio, which is
overwhelming rock ‘n roll, and
which is listened to by people
who I assume are either sick and
tired of 40 years of rock ‘n roll or
really interested in American
politics. Either way, I’m for both.
But you saw it when rock ‘n roll
moved from happy songs, kind of
like Elvis Presley’s happy songs;
to preachy songs, like the Beatles,
and even worse. And that really
became — and I think now, every
23-year-old kid in the country
with a guitar thinks he’s got to tell
us how to live, even though the
average lifespan of a rock ‘n roll
singer is not very long. I love to
hear rock ‘n roll singers sing
about pot and marijuana, and
other drugs, and tell me what I
should be smoking, even as
they’ve got about 10 years to live.
Jim Morrison — I remember
hearing so much about this fellow
Morrison, who’s actually buried
in a cemetery in Paris with
philosophers and poets. He died
with a bottle of Jim Beam’s in his
hand, or something like that. I
mean, I don’t even have an old
uncle that died with a bottle of
Jim Beam’s in his hand.
And of course, our literature has
almost completely declined into a
literature of preachment. And it’s
preaching the politics of the other
side. The Pulitzer Prize is a prize
that is utterly politicized, so much
so now that you have a new
political movement in the country,
a new literary movement in the
country. And that is the literary
movement of the plagiarist. And
you notice that many of our finest
Pulitzer Prize winners are also
plagiarists.
And other forms of our culture
are taken over by politics. And
the political seers of the country,
we could say I suppose, are
almost always people of the Left.
But we know — we who read
The American Spectator, and The
Claremont Review, and National
Review, and Commentary, and
Weekly Standard— we know that
there are other political seers in
the country, and they’re actually
conservative. And there’s
probably a rock ‘n roll singer out
there who is conservative. And
it’s — one of the things that we
try to do at The American
Spectator is bring forward the
people who don’t get a proper
accounting.
The political class of the country
that has allowed this politicization
of our culture to take place is now
moribund. And it’s being met
with a strong competition from
the Right. And the competition
comes from talk radio. And it
comes from our magazines. And
it comes from cable, and it comes
from The Wall Street Journal, and
it comes from Fox News. And it
is putting up a competition to this
moribund culture.
Not long ago, a judge, Judge
Posner from Chicago, showed
himself, again, to be a bit of a
fool. He held forth that there are
no public thinkers out in the
country anymore. They all died
with Irving Kristol and Bill
Buckley and people like that.
And I would like to say to Judge
Posner, if there were a public
intellectual of Irving Kristol’s
significance or William Buckley’s
significance, who would listen to
them today? The culture has
shifted. The culture has shifted to
talk radio.
And talk radio has some real
superstars. Mark Levin, Rush
Limbaugh, Sean Hannity. These
people have changed the direction
of American culture and affected
American culture. And they’re
bringing forward in our culture
new voices.
And so I would end by saying, by
happy with Fox News. Be happy
with talk radio. Be happy with
the magazines of the Right.
Because I think those magazines
and those thinkers, and those
public speakers, public
intellectuals, if you will, are the
public intellectuals of the future.
Thank you very much.
David Horowitz: The subject of
this panel is the future of
conservatism. And when
conservatives think about the
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future, they bump into what is an
occupational hazard, since
conservatives are inclined to
pessimism and fatalism. And the
reason is that conservatives are
pragmatic people. Of course,
conservatism has core principles.
But even the core principles are
derived from a look at human
reality, unpleasant as that may be.
When the founders were putting
together the Constitution and
trying to decide on the form of
government, they did a study of
how governments actually worked
with the material that they had to
work with. And they decided,
pretty much as Churchill said, that
democracy is the worst form of
government except for all the rest.
And because they so distrusted
people, knowing that people are
swept up by passions which
override their intelligence —
particularly passions for hope and
change — they made it very
difficult to change the system.
They put in all these checks and
balances. They made sure that
we did not have a parliamentary
system, where you have really one
body that decides things. And
you had a Senate which wasn’t
elected in the founders’ days, and
a Supreme Court. And you all
know this.
But this is basically the way
conservatives look at the world —
that the root cause of all social
problems is us. It’s that people
have to be civilized, and they’re
not naturally born moral and
cooperative and harmonious,
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about, prevents us from coming to
grips with legal immigration,
where there is actual policy to be
made.
Not that you’d think there was
any policy to be made. Official
dogma of both the Left and the
Right is that the 1965
Immigration Act and its
subsequent slight adjustments
were the absolute last word on
this topic, creating a legal-
immigration regime of seamless
splendor and unimprovable
perfection that should stand
unquestioned and untouched for
ever, in saecula saeculorum,
world without end, amen.
How this dogma got established
in immigration is a bafflement to
me. In any other policy area it
would be thought preposterous.
How it ever got established
among conservatives, given that
the prime mover of the 1965 Act
was über-liberal Edward M.
Kennedy, is a double bafflement.
In fact our legal-immigration
regime is badly flawed in all three
of its principal components.
• Family unification. There is no
reason in logic or humanity why
settlement should be granted to
parents, adult siblings, or adult
children of citizens. Spouses and
dependent children only, please.
• Skills. A skill should be deemed
to be in short supply when the
wages on offer for that skill are
rising steeply. Even that should be
only a necessary condition for
importing skilled foreigners, not a
sufficient one. If the wages on
offer for, say, web designers are
rising fast, young Americans will
flock to web-design courses to get
some of those high wages.
This is called a “market
solution.” I’m not convinced of
the need to permit any settlement
by foreigners on a “needed skills”
basis, though perhaps some
exceptions might be made for
skills like foreign-language
translation. There is a widespread
suspicion among ordinary
Americans that the lobbying for
“skills” visas by outfits like
Microsoft is based not on any
genuine skill shortages but on a
desire for cheap labor. That
suspicion seems to me entirely
justified.
If there’s a shortage of
something, the price will rise.
Let’s at least see clear signs that
the price is rising before we agree
there’s a shortage. Then let’s
discuss whether immigration is
the best answer to the shortage.
• Humanitarian. I’m not quite as
stone-hearted as the
Comprehensive Immigration
Reduction guy, who suggests zero
as an appropriate figure for
settlement on humanitarian
grounds (see under “Refugees”),
but I’m close. There are cases —
I’d guess a few dozen per
annum— where I think settlement
might reasonably be allowed for
humanitarian reasons. I’d put
Elián González in that category,
for example, contra Mark Steyn,
Pat Buchanan, Peter Brimelow,
and several others whose opinions
I respect and usually agree with.
By and large, though,
humanitarian immigration is just
what the CIR guy says it is: “a
giant scam.” The world is full of
sob stories, as any bartender will
tell you. We don’t have to make
them all America’s business. We
don’t have to make any of them
our business. This is our country.
We can allow or forbid settlement
rights in any way we collectively
please.
Agree with me or disagree, it
would be nice if we could raise
these topics in public. We live,
however, in a nation which has
only recently, after a titanic
decade-long struggle, been able to
bring itself to discuss illegal
immigration in anything like a
calm tone of voice. One of the
reasons for all that agonizing has
been our national passion for
moralizing about everything.
It seems to me that our policy
debates would be more fruitful,
and the resultant policies more
sensible, if we did less moralizing
and more cold calculating. The
proper sphere of morality is
private action. Public policy needs
data, calm sense, and a green
eyeshade.
The great British Conservative
prime minister Harold Macmillan
was once asked what his
government would do to help the
British people find a sense of
purpose in their lives. Replied
Macmillan (who was a pious
Anglican): “If people want a
sense of purpose they should get it
from their archbishop. They
should certainly not get it from
their politicians.”
Now there was a man who had
things in their proper places.
Dame Joan Sutherland, R.I.P. A
fellow opera fan demands to
know why I didn’t record the
October 10 passing of Dame Joan
Sutherland in last month’s diary.
Uh . . . because I forgot.
I was a huge fan of the lady — so
much so, I put her in a novel. I
came to opera quite late in life,
and Sutherland’s was one of the
first voices I heard. I was
thereupon, as the psychologists
say, “imprinted.”
If you want to know what the
fuss was about, here she is singing
Ah, fors’ è lui from La Traviata
just as well as it can be sung.
An exceptionalism too far Here it
is, that annual letter from my
health-insurance middleman. Next
year I’ll be paying $923.96 a
month to cover myself, the Mrs.,
and two teenage kids. Note that I,
though not the other three Derbs,
am covered by Medicare at an
additional $110 a month. Note
also that my coverage goes
through a big-company retiree
health package, with the company
paying 40 percent of the cost.
#page# the expense I mind so
much as the complexity. Why
does it all have to be so darn
difficult? My premium notice
comes with a sheaf of
“advisories,” all written in
Administranto:
If you go 63 continuous days or
longer without prescription drug
coverage that’s at least as good as
Medicare’s prescription drug
coverage, your monthly premium
may go up by at least one percent
of the Medicare base beneficiary
premium . . .
On and on for pages and pages
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and pages. I suppose there is
someone somewhere who has the
time and patience to master this
gobbledygook, but it ain’t me.
#ad#There has been a TV ad
airing recently that I find
obnoxious. It shows two oldsters
out walking, a man and a woman.
The woman is of course the more
knowledgeable of the two. (This
is an iron rule in TV commercials
— indeed, in TV generally.) She
lectures the man about the new
rules for prescription drugs in
Obamacare. If you’re in the
doughnut hole [? don’t ask me],
she tells him, you can save up to
50 percent on your drug costs!
The man expresses surprise and
gratitude at her having imparted
this valuable information to him.
From the lofty heights of feminine
wisdom, the woman then
discharges a friendly reproof:
“You’ve got to keep up!”
I’m sitting there watching this,
thinking to myself: That guy’s at
least 70. Why does he still have to
“keep up”? Shouldn’t there be
some age at which you don’t have
to “keep up” any more?
Imagine someone born in 1925,
who dropped out of high school
before World War II, worked hard
for half a century, served his
country and paid his taxes, and is
now entering his third decade of
retirement with gout, emphysema,
diverticulitis, and incipient
Alzheimer’s. Should we really be
expecting this citizen to “keep up”
in the sense intended by that
commercial — to spend his
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which is the opposite of our
opponents’ view.
So conservatives are inclined to
be happy when the world isn’t
worse than it is. So it’s hard for
conservatives to be optimistic.
One of the unnecessary reasons
that we’re inclined to pessimism
in these times is that we don’t call
things by their right names. So if
it’s conservatives versus liberals,
then what do you have? You
have people who are always
saying, No, no, you can’t do that,
that’s not a good idea, that could
be dangerous, as opposed to
people who are promising you the
moon — liberals, who are “open-
minded.” I mean, the word is
such a wonderful word. Its root is
“liberty.” Once you understand
and stop using “liberal” and start
calling our opponents leftists or
socialists, everything changes.
Here’s the thing about socialism
— it doesn’t work. It just doesn’t
work. So whatever scheme they
have, and whatever snake oil they
can sell to the voters at any given
time, you know this is not going
to work. And it is going to cause
huge problems, and it’s going to
make people angry in the end.
So despite this handicap of not
selling people the moon, we can
count on the fact that the left’s
plans are going to fail. And the
problem, of course, is that they
can ruin a country before
everybody wakes up. And that’s
really the task we have that draws
us into politics.
For 20 years as a former radical,
understanding exactly what’s
happening, or what has been
happening to the Democratic
Party, which is a leftwing,
socialist party since McGovern.
The McGovernites came in, they
changed the rules of the party.
And anti-American, anti-
democratic socialists have
increasingly been in control of the
Democratic Party and have been
in control of the Congressional
party for decades — while — that
was a source of incredible
frustration in me — while our
team is calling them “liberals.”
And I got a dose of this when I
first stepped out into the
conservative world. How many
people remember Cardinal
Mindszenty? A few. Well,
Cardinal Mindszenty was a
cardinal in Hungary. And when
the Soviets and the Communists
overthrew the government of
Hungary, and made it a Soviet
satellite, he did not flee the
country; he took refuge in the
American Embassy and became a
symbol of the anti-Communist
struggle.
When I came out of what we
called the New Left, but was
really a Communist Left — I was
invited to speak to the Mindszenty
Foundation in St. Louis. And I
went and spoke. And I was
introduced by my host, the
Mindszenty Foundation, the
president of the Mindszenty
Foundation — and said, “This is
David Horowitz, a former civil
rights worker and peace activist.”
That’s how bad it was.
And it’s bad in part, it’s because
conservatives are so polite. So
well-bred. You’re going to have
to fight this upbringing to engage
effectively in the political battle.
And I’ve said, probably, to many
of you before, but I often think
that I was sent as a former radical
to teach conservatives bad
manners. But you have to have
some bad manners to win this
political battle.
I am absolutely thrilled by the
developments of the last two
years. The Tea Party movement
has taken a great burden from my
shoulders, because I’m always
banging up against this wall and
this frustration.
Three years ago, you couldn’t
have found 10 conservatives to
march on Washington. They’d
look at each other and say — if
they saw [you] marching in step,
What are we becoming,
collectivists? It just would feel so
uncomfortable for a conservative
to protest. And all that’s now
changed. We have a mass
movement that’s going to keep
the Republican Party honest, I
hope. That’s what they’re there
for.
Jim DeMint, it was obvious, has
been at these weekends and the
reason I invited him was because
he is a leader, really, of the Tea
Party syndrome. Jim DeMint has
a book out about how the
Democratic Party’s leading us
into socialism. It is a socialist
party. He has called it by its right
name.
I just get tremendously optimistic
about the next phase of our
struggle because of this.
Conservatives don’t like politics.
They don’t like government, and
they don’t like politics. And we
lost the California governorship
this year — a woman who never
voted until she ran for governor.
Anyway, here’s something, I
think, is very important. Again,
conservatives — when they see
these government, these statist
programs — and of course, we
have to thank Obama for all this
— that Obama has [waked] up
everybody. As I said the other
night, he fooled the people some
of the time, but he couldn’t fool
them all the time. But he is the
reason that people are waking up.
We have elected the most radical
President in our history. And
that’s waked people up. But now,
we have to also understand what
the political battle is about.
And I wrote a book about this
called “The Art of Political War.”
But in a democracy like ours
politics is never really about
reality. It is a drama. And if you
are on the side of the underdog in
a democracy like ours, you’re
going to win. Or you have an
enormous advantage, so people
will believe a lot of your blather
and most of your promises, until
they see differently.
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dwindling time on earth obsessing
over the bureaucratic minutiae of
Medicare Part D? And should we
be expecting him to make an
informed decision thereon?
There are many ways to ration a
service. You can ration it by
expense, excluding those who
can’t afford it. You can ration it
by fiat, excluding applicants
according to some set of rules
administered by gatekeepers. Or
you can ration it by complexity,
paving the access path to it with
tests of intelligence, patience, and
persistence, thereby excluding
applicants who are less well
equipped with those attributes.
That third method is the one you
end up with in a society run by
and for meritocrats -- lawyers,
accountants, economists, and
other exam-passing grinds. Of the
three methods, it seems to me to
be the slyest, the most dishonest.
I’d actually prefer either of the
other two. In fact, as fiddling with
health-care bills, rules, options,
and plans takes over more and
more of my life, I find myself
increasingly receptive to a plain
single-payer system.
A skeptical e-mailer recently
posed the following question to
me: “Is there any advanced nation
anywhere in the world with a
lobby of any significant size
pressing for a healthcare system
modeled on the one we have in
the U.S.A.?” I’ve never had the
energy or financial incentive to
research an answer to that
question, but I think I know it
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The Saudi Problem
Rich Trzupek (FrontPage
Magazine » FrontPage)
Submitted at 12/1/2010 10:45:54 PM
It shouldn’t have needed
confirmation, but the latest
WikiLeaks release affirmed what
astute observers of the Middle
East have known for a long time:
Saudi Arabia is a most dangerous
ally. On the one hand, King
Abdullah is reported as having
urged America to “cut off the
head of the snake,” referring to
the radical fundamentalist regime
in Iran. On the other hand, another
cable states that“Saudi donors
remain the chief financiers of
Sunni militant groups like al-
Qaida.” Neither bit of news is
terribly surprising, but it puts new
focus on the troubling, entangling
and often hypocritical alliance
between the United States and the
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The
Obama administration, like
administrations before it, surely
understands the complexity of the
Saudi problem. The question is:
how to solve it? Given Obama’s
lamentable foreign policy track
record, it would seem that
America is farther away than ever
from formulating a plan to deal
with the Saudi monarchy.
There are multiple challenges in
dealing with the Saudis and
they’re all intertwined. Oil is at
the root of the problem of course.
As much as we love to dream of a
world in which Saudi crude
doesn’t matter, that’s not the
world we live in. Nor will we live
in such a world in the foreseeable
future. No amount of cornfields or
wind farms are going to supplant
crude in any meaningful way. A
stable, reliable global petroleum
supply chain is essential to
America’s economic health, and
the nation that churns out twenty
per cent of the world’s crude oil is
the most critical aspect of that
supply chain. So, in the case of
Saudi Arabia, we are choosing the
devil we know and hope we can
make the relationship work. Yet,
the larger problem inherent in
dealing with Saudi Arabia is that
we’re not dealing with the
interests of a nation, but rather
those of a family.
Estimates vary, but the Royal
House of Saud, which has ruled
the kingdom since unification in
1932, has between 7,000 and
20,000 members. In a nation of 25
million, a stunning amount of
national wealth flows through the
hands of the Sauds – around forty
percent of GDP by some
estimates. Over $200 billion per
year is under the control of one
extended family. The princes of
the House of Saud and their
families live very well and they
know it. They are also very aware
that the foundation of their
authority rests on two very shaky
pillars: their continued control of
the kingdom’s vast oil reserves,
and keeping the restless and often
resentful populace of the nation in
check. Those two over-riding
goals of the royal family manifest
themselves in two very
contradictory policies when it
comes to relations with the United
States of America.
Keeping control of the source of
the family’s wealth (those
enormous oil reserves) means
ensuring that none of Saudi
Arabia’s more dangerous,
covetous neighbors get their
hands on it. Thus, King Fahd was
happy to help American during
the First Gulf War in order to
thwart Saddam Hussein’s naked
ambitions — even if doing so
meant suffering the undying
enmity of Islamic purists like
Osama bin Laden. In the same
vein, which nation in the region
represents the greatest threat to
the royal family today? Iran, and
in particular, a nuclear-capable
Iran. Thus, King Abdullah’s wish
that America use its military
might to cut off the head of the
kingdom’s latest threat comes as
no surprise. The King could
hardly be expected to hope for
anything else.
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Don't Ask
Don't Tell
Blackmail
Submitted at 12/2/2010 11:30:00 AM
O f all the possible reasons to
repeal Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,
Secretary of Defense Robert
Gates offered the worst on
Tuesday. According to Gates,
Congress must act before a judge
acts for it.
As the Pentagon released its long
-anticipated report blessing a
repeal, Gates warned that there is
a “very real possibility that this
change would be imposed
immediately by judicial fiat.” If
that “disruptive and damaging
scenario” occurred, it would be
“most hazardous to military
morale, readiness, and battlefield
performance.”
#ad#This is blackmail via judicial
imperialism. Gates perhaps spoke
better than he knew when he
referred to “judicial fiat.” That
phrase describes perfectly the
September ruling of federal
district judge Virginia Phillips in
California that DADT was
unconstitutional and that its
enforcement had to be suspended
immediately by the military. This
was so outrageous that even the
notoriously liberal Ninth Circuit
countermanded her and allowed
the military to continue the policy
while the lower-court ruling is
being appealed.
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In Mexico, Homeland Secretary Napolitano Glosses
Over Drug War
Ray Walser (The Foundry:
Conservative Policy News.)
Submitted at 12/2/2010 2:00:39 PM
The “ readout” from Secretary of
Homeland Security Janet
Napolitano’s November 30 visit
to Mexico City constitutes a
soothing tidbit of
information—bureaucratic
Muzak:
In the face of ever-evolving,
multinational threats, the U.S. is
committed to working with our
international partners to enhance
information-sharing and our
mutual security. We look forward
to our continued partnership with
the Mexican government as we
forge an unprecedented
international security framework
that facilitates legitimate trade and
travel while protecting our
citizens.
Not once does the Secretary
mention the raging war against
the drug cartels. Napolitano’s visit
comes as Mexicans somberly
recall that in December 2006,
President Calderon ordered an
offensive against Mexico’s drug
cartels. This action he vigorously
defends. “There are those who
think that it would have been
better not to combat the criminal
actions. Those people are wrong.”
Since then, citizens of Mexico
have ridden a violent rollercoaster
of fear and death. While Mexican
law enforcement scores important
arrests—such as that of Arturo
Gallegos Castrellón, leader of the
Aztecas, and Antonio Ezequiel
Cárdenas Guillén, leader of the
Gulf Cartel—there are dangerous
signs of deep-seated weakness
and growing uncertainty about
Mexico’s future.
Reuters reports, “as the bodies
pile up—more than 31,000 across
Mexico since December
2006—49 percent of Mexicans
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Mexico’s membership in NORAD Reporting of Falluja's Cancer especially since George W.
should be put on the table. Catastrophe.
Bush’s asinine 2002 speech(“We
Defeating the cartels requires want 5.5 million more
homeowners by 2010 — million
more minority homeowners by
2010 . . . ”), mortgage lenders
were on clear notice that they’d be
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Iranian Air Force Officer Defects
Ryan Mauro (FrontPage
Magazine » FrontPage)
Submitted at 12/1/2010 10:40:16 PM
A former pilot for the Iranian Air
Force has defected to the Green
Wave Movement that hopes to
bring together all the Iranian
democratic opposition groups. He
did so to fight for regime change
and testify that the military is
ready to turn on the government.
The Green Wave is drawing up
plans to make that happen,
warning the West that regional
war will erupt if the regime is not
taken down.
Lieutenant Behzad Masoumi
Legwan was tortured in 2001 after
he was accused of sedition. He
was discharged from the military
in 2007 and he began making
plans to defect with the help of
other dissident officers. He made
contact with the Kurdish
Democratic Party and the Green
Wave Movement to prepare for
his escape to Kurdistan in
northern Iraq. Once there, the
Iranian regime tried to get the
Iraqis to arrest and hand him over
to no avail, allowing him to arrive
in France.
Legwan made his first public
appearance alongside Mohammad
Reza Heydari, the former Iranian
consul in Norway who defected in
January and became executive-
director of the Green Embassies
Campaign, as well as Amir
Hossein Jahanchahi, the
billionaire founding chairman of
the Green Wave.
“It is a fact that the overwhelming
majority of the officer corps are in
no way obedient followers of the
regime. On the contrary, they are
looking for the first opportunity
whereby they can openly display
their true sentiments by standing
shoulder-to-shoulder with the
people of Iran,” Legwan said. He
says that he has contacts in the
Iranian military, including senior
members of the air force and
Revolutionary Guards.
Jahanchahi says that he doesn’t
want the Green Wave to be a
political party or organization, but
a “constellation” containing all of
the democratic opposition groups.
His father was the finance
minister when the Shah was
overthrown. After Khomeini took
power, Jahanchahi fled to Europe.
He compares Ahmadinejad to
Hitler and says all of the region’s
instability is fomented by Iran.
“My position is very simple that
the people who go to the streets in
order to change the regime need
the backing of people from inside
the system. That’s why I am
contacting and seeking the
support of people who say ‘we
will go with you’ when the time
of protests comes,” he says.
Jahanchahi says that he and his
colleagues are in a rush against
time to bring down the regime
before it sparks a “destructive
regional war with unimaginable
consequences for international
peace and security.” He says that
this scenario is unavoidable unless
the regime falls because “if Israel
does not attack, there will be war;
but if Israel does attack, it would
be the biggest gift the
Ahmadinejad regime could ever
receive and would send the entire
region into war.”
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DON'T
continued from page 63
Secretary Gates might have a
little less to fear from the courts if
the administration he serves were
truly interested in defending the
policy from legal assault. All
indications are that the
Department of Justice has chosen
to make a deliberately weak case
for the law’s constitutionality.
Phillips observed that in the
course of the DADT trial, DOJ
“called no witnesses, put on no
affirmative case, and only entered
into evidence the legislative
history of [DADT].” President
Obama, of course, wants the
policy repealed -- but that doesn’t
mean it’s unconstitutional. If his
administration believes it is
unconstitutional, it should say so
rather than engage in a sham
defense. As it is, it is abetting the
war against the policy in the court
and then turning around and
telling Congress it must act
immediately because things look
so grim in the courts. This is
cynical even by the standards of
the administration of hope and
change.
The Pentagon report itself is
being portrayed as a slam-dunk
case for ending the policy. It
concludes that repeal wouldn’t
harm the military and adduces
widespread support for that
proposition in the ranks. But the
report’s survey found that nearly
60 percent of combat Marines and
50 percent of Army troops
expressed concern that working
with an openly gay or lesbian
colleague could have negative or
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Nelson on New START: “I think we can hold off”

Steven Groves (The Foundry: should be focused on jobs, taxes, demanding that the treaty be
Conservative Policy News.) and debt reduction. … I think we passed by the Senate in a“lame
Submitted at 12/2/2010 2:30:16 PM can hold off on START; I don’t duck” session of Congress.
want it to crowd out taxes, debt This doesn’t seem to be the
Posted December 2nd, 2010 at reduction, and jobs. optimal time to have a legitimate
3:30pm in American Leadership Senator Nelson is only saying debate over the merits, or lack
Print This Post what I imagine the vast majority thereof, of New START.
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Most of the [legislation] being A d m i n i s t r a t i o n a n d S e n a t e nation that has threatened to start Reporting of Falluja's Cancer Submitted at 12/2/2010 2:42:01 PM
dealt with right now should be Democratic leadership have a new nuclear arms race if it Catastrophe. NEW page 67
held over until 2011, because we prioritized a deeply flawed treaty doesn’t get its way. And they are
NOVEMBER DON'T
continued from page 64 continued from page 65

didn’t scrap rational risk-
assessment standards. They duly
scrapped them, and the result
followed.
The evil and sentimental
Diversity ideology led to the
politicization of mortgage
lending. That in turn led to the
housing crisis and subsequent
financial ructions.
#ad#Let’s ask the question: (a)
Just how much of a factor was
Diversity ideology in driving the
implosion?
My responses would be: (b) I
don’t know, (c) Surely some, and
(d) How odd that no respectable
commentator has shown any
interest in researching (a).
Math Corner The solution to last
month’s puzzle is here.
For this month’s puzzle, a reader
draws my attention to the
following passage in Chapter 2 of
Charles Murray’s book Real
Education. Charles is trying to
illustrate what “below average”
actually means when it comes to
academic ability. For this purpose
he borrows a number of test
questions from the National
Assessment of Educational
Progress (NAEP), the program
used by the federal Department of
Education to track student
accomplishment. Murray:
. . . Now consider some items that
more specifically identify what it
means to be below average in
math as an eighth-grader.
Example 2. Amanda wants to
paint each face of a cube a
different color. How many colors
will she need?
(A) Three (B) Four (C) Six
(D) Eight
Twenty percent of eighth-graders
did not choose C. Approximately
27 percent did not know the right
answer.
Charles is quite correct; but how
did he get from the 20 percent of
the penultimate sentence to the 27
percent of the last one? John
Derbyshire
very negative effects. These are
the troops on the frontlines and
often in the pressure cooker of
combat, whose views should
weigh most heavily. No doubt
many of them are puzzled as to
why this social change has to
happen right now, in the midst of
two wars of counterinsurgency.
The administration hopes to pass
repeal through the lame-duck
session to avoid dealing with five
more Republican votes in the new
Senate, not to mention the
Republican majority in the House.
In its rush, it’s using any
argument at hand, including the
new Gates Doctrine: Preemptively
capitulate to liberal judges lest
they make a hash of things by
unilaterally imposing their will.
That’s obviously not how
legislators in a self-governing
society should go about their
business. Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell
must stay or go on its merits as
determined by our elected
representatives. Shame on Robert
Gates for suggesting otherwise.
The Editors
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NEW
continued from page 66
Sometimes a device doesn’t get it
right immediately. It might get
rushed to market, or maybe some
bugs just slip through the final
tests. It’s expected, and it happens
to the best of them.
Fortunately, modern hardware is
a lot smarter than it was even a
few years ago. Firmware updates
are capable of squashing most
bugs even after a device has hit
the market. Even better, firmware
updates also often add new
features that can greatly expand
the life cycle of a device.
The result from our perspective is
that devices can sometimes show
a lot of promise, but aren’t quite
there yet. These three devices
have piqued our interest in the
past few months, but, for one
reason or another, just didn’t meet
their potential. We’ll be keeping
an eye on them to see if they get it
right. T-Mobile myTouch 4G
T-Mobile already had a strong
Android device in the G2, but the
addition of the myTouch 4G gives
T-Mobile a very formidable
lineup. Where the G2 is focused
on a streamlined Android
experience, the myTouch 4G is
about as tweaked out as Android
comes.
The myTouch 4G carries many of
the same internal components
currently popular among Android
devices. The phone is snappy and
its 1GHz Snapdragon processor is
well utilized. It’s also the second
device to feature T-Mobile’s 4G
HSPA+ (the first being the G2)
and HSPA+ mobile broadband
speeds are always appreciated.
The biggest problem with the
myTouch 4G is its most
advertised feature: video chat.
The device features T-Mobile’s
new Qik video chat capabilities,
which are unfortunately a little
complicated to set up. If you’re
like me, it’s likely you’ll be doing
most of your video chatting with
you your parents. It’s far easier to
just fire off a couple of text
messages to your friends than set
up a chat session. If you do want
to video chat with your parents,
good luck getting them set up on
Qik.
That said, if you’re looking for an
Android device with a ton of
features, the T-Mobile myTouch
4G is one of the most feature-
heavy Androids on the market.
Samsung Galaxy Tab
The Samsung Galaxy Tab isn’t
the iPad. That’s not up for debate.
It is, however, an interesting
implementation of the Android
platform within a tablet
environment.
Contrary to statements claiming
that tablets don’t perform well at
sizes under 10 inches, I’ve found
the Tab’s size to be one of its
most compelling features. Where
the iPad, at times, feels unwieldy,
the Galaxy Tab fits well in the
palm of your hand.
It’s not always the fastest
Android device (the myTouch 4G
will load the same programs faster
almost every time), but it does
perform sufficiently. A lot of this
could have to do with the fact that
Android 2.2 ( froyo) isn’t
intended for tablet deployments,
but the Tab is promising enough
to think that a swift update to
Android 2.3 ( Gingerbread) could
be enough to solve some of its
nagging issues. Verizon Fivespot
Verizon is arguably the most
reliable mobile carrier in the U.S.,
but its devices only work within
the country use because the
carrier’s current infrastructure is
built on code division multiple
access ( CDMA). Because most of
the world’s cellular
communications are based on the
global system for mobile
communications ( GSM), devices
from carriers like AT&T and T-
Mobile are often able to function
in a wide array of countries.
In recent years, we’ve seen
phones that support both CDMA
and GSM protocols, but the
Verizon Fivespot is the first MiFi-
like device to include this
functionality. So whether at home
or abroad, you’ll be able to
blanket yourself in a personal Wi-
Fi network, from which you can
connect up to five devices (hence
the name Fivespot).
Of course, there is a downside.
While $60 per month will get you
5GB of mobile broadband in the
U.S., it costs $220 per month to
add 200MB of international data
on top of that. Nevertheless, the
Fivespot is a solid option for
anyone who appreciates the
convenience of a MiFi and often
travels abroad. What’s Your Pick?
Which mobile devices do you
feel show a lot of promise, but
aren’t quite up to snuff just yet?
Let us know in the comments.
More Mobile Resources from
Mashable:
- 3 Magnificent Mobile Apps That
Ruled 2010
- HOW TO: Develop a Branded
iPhone App on a Budget
- 5 Excellent E-Card iPhone Apps
- Why the “Dumbphone” Market
Is Still Ripe for Innovation
- Mobile Music: Top 4 Streaming
Services Compared
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eBay Infiltrates Local
Commerce With
Latest Acquisition
Jennifer Van Grove (Mashable!)
Submitted at 12/2/2010 1:37:35 PM
eBay has acquired local shopping
startup Milo in a strategic move to
infiltrate the increasingly
significant local commerce
market.
Milo is a local shopping search
engine where consumers can look
for products in stock at stores in
their area. For retailers, Milo is a
platform for driving online
shoppers to offline stores. Before
piquing eBay’s local shopping
interests, the startup raised
roughly $5 million and attracted
the attention of notable investors
including Keith Rabois and Ron
Conway’s SV Angel.
“Local commerce companies like
Milo are blurring the lines
between in-store and online
shopping,” says Mark Carges,
chief technology officer and
senior vice president, global
products, eBay Marketplaces. “By
making accurate, real-time, local
store inventory and pricing
available to online and mobile
shoppers, we see a huge
opportunity for local retailers,
small businesses and eBay sellers
EBAY page 68
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Android Gingerbread User Interface
Gets Quick Demo [VIDEO]
Blake Robinson (Mashable!)
Submitted at 12/2/2010 1:52:40 PM
Update: Google pulled the first
video, but we’ve found a
replacement. Unfortunately, it’s
also on Youtube, so it’s life
expectancy is short. We’re
working on getting a local copy
and there is a screenshot below
that shows the two UI changes
mentioned.
Google’s Hong Kong group
released this seemingly innocuous
video last week, demonstrating
Google Voice Search in Chinese.
It went mostly unnoticed until it
was realized that the device in the
demo was running a build of
Android 2.3 ( Gingerbread).
It happens fast (and it’s in
Cantonese), but there are two key
user interface ( UI) differences to
watch for. First, the top status bar
is now cleaner and in a much less
glaring black. It’s a minor tweak,
PeeWee PC netbook moves to 2.0, rated to take the worst your tot
can deliver
Tim Stevens (Engadget)
Submitted at 12/2/2010 2:46:00 PM
Little fingers can dish out big
pain for gadgets, and unless your
little one is beefy enough to lug
around a Toughbook you'll be
wanting something small and
durable for them. Enter the $449
PeeWee Power 2.0, the latest
but it definitely represents the
honing of the platform.
Additionally, the launcher now
seems to feature icons instead of
the buttons found in Android 2.2 (
froyo). If this is indeed the case,
users will likely be able to swap
them with any other icon, so
phone and browser won’t
revision to the company's series of
kid-friendly computers. This
netbook is said to survive drops
with aplomb, but only has a
"water resistant" keyboard, so
don't toss those sippy cups just
yet. It also comes loaded with
security software to hopefully
keep your kids from finding the
worst the 'net has to offer, but
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EBAY
continued from page 67
to reach more buyers, and for competitive than ever.
consumers to make more
informed buying decisions.”
Image courtesy of Milo Reviews:
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Suze Orman's 10 Money Tips For The 20 Something

(Financiallyfit on Shine) Suze's Tip # 1: Make those that hard is not an excuse! Make your into set percentages these days – The thing is that credit card debt
Submitted at 12/2/2010 6:07:26 PM you’re dependent on for a food and bring it to work with salaries are just so low right now. isn’t bad,but if your interest rate is
paycheck, dependent on you! you. If you want to be a loser If all you’re making is $1000 per at 30% that’s bad – actually
Want a friend on the inside? Add The first thing you have to realize forever and continue to waste month, it’s almost impossible to horrific! A 1% to 2% interest rate
us on Facebook to always stay in is that even though it’s a horrific money, then fine by me. Stop divide up, but all of you know is ok. If the debt is because you’re
touch. time for people your age [20- giving yourself excuses. You’ll when you’re spending too much! trying to make your mark and
Take Suze Orman's advice and somethings], this is a time that never enjoy life if you continue to It’s not about being so specific, make your way in the world, then
put away the tiny violins – the many of you can use to your waste money. but if your rent is taking up 80% I don’t have a problem with that.
future really isn't that bleak! advantage. You come in before When I first became a stock of your spending, then you’re in If you have debt because of
OK as a 23-year-old, who only the boss, stay after he is gone, broker, all the other stock brokers big trouble. clubbing, excessive shopping and
graduated from college a mere come in on Saturdays – make would go out to fancy lunches The first thing you should do weekend trips to Tahoe, then
year and a half ago, I know a them dependent on you and you everyday. On the other hand, I with your money is spend every you’re an idiot – that’s the debt
thing or two about how hard it can will grow! You have to get went to taco bell, had two tacos extra dollar you have to get out of that will do you in.
be to enter the dreaded “real people’s attention and establish and a diet coke and it cost me $2 a credit card debt, saving an 8- If you have a good FICO score,
world.” Our parents may think yourself! day. That’s how I got to go out month emergency fund. that’s the most important thing.
they’re able to commiserate – Suze's Tip # 2: You have to make and still be OK. Suze's Tip # 7: It’s not about Most creditors determine whether
we’ve all heard the “honey, we’ve sure your bills are almost nil. Suze's Tip # 4: You don’t need to cutting everything out; it’s about they are going to lend to you
all been there” speech before – It’s not the time for you to go out spend a fortune on designer cutting a little bit off of based on your FICO score, not
but our generation is in a very and rent your own apartment; it’s clothes. everything. your credit score. You wont be
unique situation. Starting a career the time you suck it up and live Honest to God, the amount of Don’t try to give up all your able to rent, buy or do anything in
in what people are calling ‘the with four or five other people. I money they [young people] waste favorite things at once. If you go life without a good FICO score.
worst economy since The Great know someone who started out on designer clothes is the worst cold turkey, you will explode. Just 10 Perfect and Affordable Fall
Depression’ is no small task. It’s with a job at Kenneth Cole for habit I’ve seen! Having to have cut down! You can indulge, but Wines
even been projected that we’re $28K a year and lived with four the Jimmy Choos or $700 purse is indulging doesn’t mean every Suze's Tip # 10: Credit Unions
going to be the first generation not other people in a tiny apartment. ridiculous. Do you think anyone day. I mean come on! Do you are better than banks.
to earn more than our parents over She just turned 30 – she’s now even cares? really have to have Starbucks You should open a card at a
our lifetime. making high in the six figures and Suze's Tip # 5: Clubbing is a every day? Can you go clubbing credit union and do a balance
But before you go crying about just got a quarter million dollar huge waste of money. twice a month instead of every transfer from any existing credit
your unfortunate luck, Suze bonus. Do you know how? She The amount of money spent on weekend? Pick the things you c a r d s . G o t o
Orman has some great (albeit sucked it up and made sacrifices clubbing is absolutely amazing! really love to do and just do them creditcardconnection.org to find
s t e r n ) t i p s f o r u s t w e n t y - in her twenties. If you say you Go to each other’s houses and twice a month. out if your card is a good one. Be
somethings. I may have felt like can’t, you never will. Get off your have a great time in your home. Suze's Tip # 8: Start saving now! on time with payments – you
crying after my conversation with pity pot because you won't get You can buy a bottle of vodka for The best thing you could do is to really have to make it a priority.
the tough money guru (she scared anywhere by crying. If that means what it costs for one drink at a have a Roth IRA. You can When it comes to financial
me sh*tless), but I came away moving back in with your parents, club. I mean $90 in one night? withdraw any money you put into advice, Suze Orman is the most
with some great financial advice. do it! I had to live in my van – so That’s the amount of money it at any time, without any taxes recognized expert in the industry.
Luckily for you, I’m going to you can’t complain! needed to fund your Roth IRA or penalties. That’s where you Along with being a two-time
share the wealth (so to speak). Three Major Money Mistakes every month. should get money from, not your Emmy Award winner and New
Spice Up Your Date Night That Can Cost You Wanna Be Rich, Skinny And 401K or pension plans. You York Time’s Best Seller, Orman
Without Breaking The Bank Suze's Tip # 3: Only Losers Eat Fabulous? should be investing in individual was also named one of Forbes 100
Below in Suze Orman's own Out Every Meal! Suze's Tip # 6: It’s not about stocks that pay a high dividend Most Powerful Women of 2010.
words, tips for the derelict kids I fly private and I bring my being so specific with how you yield. To read more of Suze’s tips, make
our age to not fall into financial lunch! No one works harder than divide up your salary. Suze's Tip # 9: Credit Card Debt
ruin: me, and I never eat out! Working It’s hard to divide your salary isn’t necessarily bad. SUZE page 71
70 Finance/ E-reader News Edition

Don't Let My Stolen Debit Card Happen to You

(Financiallyfit on Shine) They supposedly cancelled the this from happening. But here are statements and get everything sent
Submitted at 12/2/2010 7:36:45 PM card. Then they said I had to wait a few quick tips: to you via email.
until Tuesday when the charges • Be hyper-vigilant about • Have an emergency account. If
Piggy bank On one not-so-special went through (they were currently checking your account. This is this thief had managed to drain
Saturday night, my roommate got listed as "pending") and call the most important. Most people don't my entire account, I'd be utterly
a call from her bank saying there claims department, who'd credit check every day, but they should and completely screwed. There'd
w e r e s o m e s t r a n g e - l o o k i n g my account. start. Waiting for too long means be no way to pay the rent or bills
c h a r g e s c o m i n g o u t o f h e r Just in case, I headed to the bank you're more liable for charges, and my credit would suffer. It's
checking account. Two charges to talk to someone in person so I and once your money's gone, it's important to set up a separate
had been made, one for over could make sure I wasn't missing gone. If it's a large amount of account for emergencies such as
$100, from a grocery store in the a step. The teller told me that it money and you waited too long to this one.
Bronx (we live in downtown would be safer to open up an see it, you could have to wait for Has this kind of fraud ever
Manhattan). Luckily, her bank, entirely new checking account. months for the bank to issue your happened to you? What do you do
account, which isn't the case with
Bank of America, caught the Everything I had set up through money back and figure out what to avoid it?
a credit card. Turns out it's super-
fraudulent charges early and even that account, my bill payments, happened. Image via bradipo/Flickr
easy for a thief to take the
reimbursed her for the $100 one direct deposit, even my Kindle • Use cash at restaurants and Written by Jill Baughman for
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Apple granted patents for glasses-free, multi-viewer 3D system,

colorful keyboard backlighting
Ben Bowers (Engadget) that then bounces separate images environmental conditions and you
Submitted at 12/2/2010 3:36:00 PM into the left and right eye. Virtual get the gist. Hey, if it means a
interaction methods with the 3D return for the Bondi Blue late 90's
We've seen a few Apple 3D projections are also described in iMac design (with bright,
patents before, but this latest IP the document, implying the matching keyboards), then we're
p o r t f o l i o a d d i t i o n s h o w s technology has aspirations beyond excited. But it doesn't.
Cupertino has clearly been passive viewing. Apple granted patents for glasses
thinking differently. At its core Speaking of aspirations, Apple's -free, multi-viewer 3D system,
the system involves a screen, approach clearly seeks to fix colorful keyboard backlighting
projector, sensor, and a 3D many common 3D issues at once. originally appeared on Engadget
imager, which work together to The most obvious is literally on Thu, 02 Dec 2010 15:36:00
allow multiple viewers to perceive taking 3D glasses of the picture -- EDT. Please see our terms for use
3D images from nearly any which we firmly support. On the of feeds. Permalink The Register,
position in a room without flip side, the design addresses That sounds magical to us, but patents, a handful more popped in Apple Insider| USPTO (1),(2),(3)|
g l a s s e s . T h i s f l e x i b l e common faults with current considering the patent was filed by way of Apple related to Email this| Comments
autostereoscopic 3D effect is glasses-free options too such as: back in 2006, we still expect 3D keyboard backlighting. Think
achieved by tracking user's ghosting and narrow viewing to be handled the old fashion way multiple colors, individually lit,
positions and projecting pixels a n g l e s , w h i l e s t i l l k e e p i n g for quite a while to come. customizable by the user or
onto a reflective, textured surface commercial viability in mind. While we're on the subject of automated based on