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Disapproval of Obama's Handling of the Economy Reaches New High

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(Photo: Reuters/Jason Reed) President Obama waves during a Labor Day event at the General Motors Headquarters in Detroit, September 5, 2011. Obama's overall job approval, when respondents were asked, Do you approve or disapprove of the way Barack Obama is handling his job as president, remained steady at 44 percent. The overall job disapproval rate, however, climbed from 46 percent last month to 56 percent this month. Americans disapproval of Obama's handling of the economy is part of an overall trend. It has steadily climbed from 51 percent in January to 62 percent this month. Obama's record on job creation also reached a new high for disapproval at 62 percent.
Disapproval of congressional Republicans is also at record highs. Only 28 percent of Americans approve of how Republicans in Congress are doing their jobs while 68 percent disapprove. The last time congressional Republicans had such low marks was September 2007. Respondents were about evenly split when asked if Obama or Republicans in Congress are doing a better job at handling the economy (Obama, 42 percent; GOP, 39 percent); creating jobs (Obama, 40 percent; GOP, 40 percent); or handling the federal budget deficit (Obama, 39 percent; GOP, 42 percent). When asked if the country is on the right track or wrong track, 77 percent of respondents answered wrong track. The last time this measure was that high was January 2009, the month that Obama took office. Like us on Facebook [unable to retrieve full-text
The poll also shows that 35 percent of Americans say they are not as well off financially since Obama became president. The last time a poll showed numbers this high for a similar question was 1992, the year that President George H. W. Bush lost his reelection bid. The poll numbers come at a bad time for Obama. He will lay out a plan before Congress and the American public Thursday night to create jobs and help the economy. Then, he will embark on a tour to sell the plan to the public, beginning in Virginia on Friday. Obama has said that he will propose an agenda that can garner bipartisan support. Some liberals, however, would like to see Obama be bolder and more effective in calling for another spending bill. The poll also shows that 56 percent of Americans would prefer a smaller government with content]
fewer services while 38 percent would prefer a larger government with more services. Also, 70 percent said they believe Obama would prefer a larger government with more services. The poll was conducted by telephone from Aug. 29 to Sept. 1, 2011, with randomly sampled 1,001 American adults. The margin of error is +/- 3.5 percent. Be the first of thousands of iPosters by sharing your news, views, and analysis. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: A 'Malign Intellectual Subculture' - George Monbiot Smears Chomsky, Herman, Peterson, Pilger And Media Lens.
Romney Calls for Corporate Tax Cut, China Sanctions in Plan - San Francisco Chronicle
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Near a Libyan Holdout Town, a Waiting Game - New York Times

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would have to return to consult with other leaders in Bani Walid. No sooner had they stepped B y R O D N O R D L A N D outside the mosque than rebels Published: September 6, 2011 began firing sidearms and heavy WISHTATA, Libya At this weapons wildly into the air. One village on the highway to the even set off a grenade. They were loyalist stronghold of Bani Walid celebrating news false, as it on Tuesday, negotiators from both turned out that Surt, another sides sat down in the small holdout place, had surrendered. mosque to talk peace, an event Still, the gunplay did not seem broadcast live by Al Jazeera. calculated to reassure the loyalist Four elders from Bani Walid, one negotiators that they would be in of a handful of holdouts still loyal safe hands, and they left in a to Muammar el-Qaddafi, came the clearly nervous state. 35 miles to the nearest major rebel Most of the fighters here are from checkpoint here to explain that 90 Bani Walid themselves, forced to percent of their town supported flee early in the rebellion when the rebels, but that many believed the town stayed pro-Qaddafi. government propaganda warning Some were imprisoned and that the rebels would rape and released only on Aug. 21, when pillage when they took over. Tripoli fell. Rebel negotiators, seeking to Between arrests and fear of reassure them, borrowed a phone arrests, half the population of from Al Jazeera to call their prime Bani Walid left, these fighters minister, Mahmoud Jibril, who said, and after the fall of places has rarely been in Libya since like Zintan and Misurata, loyalists a s s u m i n g h i s p o s t . O v e r a from those places headed into scratchy cellphone speaker, he Bani Walid, on the edge of reassured the elders that there Libyas southern desert. Some in would be no reprisals, and that Bani Walid say that it is those civil authorities were waiting loyalist outsiders who are the nearby to deliver food and to biggest impediment to a peace restore water, electric and medical deal. The town is also dominated services to the town. by the Warfalla tribe, Libyas The elders, representing some of largest, whose members packed the most prominent families there, the Qaddafi governments civil s a i d t h e y f a v o r e d e n d i n g and military service. everything peacefully, but they One of the rebel sympathizers
imprisoned in Bani Walid was Muhammed Gnaya, an engineer. He was arrested during peaceful protests in the town on May 28 and locked up at the notorious Abu Salim prison. He said that he and other rebels had been talking to their friends and relatives inside and that surrender was only a matter of time. People are hungry, there is no food, no water, no gas, no electricity, Mr. Gnaya said. They will hand over their weapons, said Jamal Abdul Muktalib, a former Libyan foreign ministry employee who fled the town even before the revolution because it was so pro-Qaddafi. He does not buy the theory that 90 percent of the town is pro-rebel perhaps 50 percent, he said. But they have seen the power of the freedom fighters, and the power of the NATO airstrikes, Mr. Muktalib said. Every conceivable military target in Bani Walid and environs has been destroyed in NATO airstrikes, so much so that strikes against Bani Walid seem to have petered out over the past couple days. Many of the rebel fighters say they have heard from people inside the town that Colonel Qaddafis sons Seif al-Islam and Saadi were there with their entourages until two days ago.
They also said they had heard Moussa Ibrahim, the Qaddafi government spokesman, on the local radio broadcasting from Bani Walid. Rebels found some encouragement from reports, so far unconfirmed, that a major convoy had crossed into Niger, possibly carrying Colonel Qaddafi and his sons. We want them to go out of our country so things can settle down, said Hussein elMagaspi, a civil engineer and a fighter from Benghazi. The endgame in Bani Walid has attracted an enormous amount of attention, with scores of journalists waiting at the last major checkpoint. The town lies on what some see as a likely escape route if Colonel Qaddafi tried to leave the capital. It is far smaller than Surt, another focal holdout. Surt is an oil port along the main highway linking eastern and western Libya. Rebels said they suspect that if Bani Walid and its powerful Warfalla families gave up, Surt and other holdouts would quickly follow suit. Jamal Gorgy, 38, was imprisoned at Abu Salim with three of his brothers, one of whom died there. Now he expects to be among the first cohort of Bani Walid natives and rebels to enter the town later on Tuesday, he expected.
If Bani Walid had fallen to us on Feb. 17th, said Mr. Gorgy, referring to the first day of the uprising against Qaddafis rule, by Feb. 18th Qaddafi would have fallen too. When he gets to Bani Walid, Mr. Gorgy said, the first thing he wants to do is not to visit his relatives, but to put up the rebel flag. That will have to wait, however. After a few hours, the elders from Bani Walid returned after having been turned away by loyalist fighters from their own community. They wouldnt even listen to them, said a rebel fighter, Jawad bin Dullah. They said go back to the rebels. Everything, Mr. bin Dullah said, is waiting for the zero hour. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: A 'Malign Intellectual Subculture' - George Monbiot Smears Chomsky, Herman, Peterson, Pilger And Media Lens.
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Obama Campaign Speech to Lay Failures on Congress

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by Brian Darling 09/06/2011 On Thursday, President Obama, after some hassling with the GOP leadership, is to speak to a joint session of Congress. He will also lecture and attack lawmakers. Expect a campaign speech cloaked as a jobs plan. The President is expected to deploy a central element of his reelection strategy: blaming Congress for his failings. White House Press Secretary Jay Carney previewed the strategy last week when he complained that the American people are sick and tired of congressional partisanship. It could work. RealClearPolitics has Congress pegged at an abysmal 12.3% approval rating. Ultimately, of course, the only job the President will try to save with this speech is his own. ObamaCare Still Unpopular One reason for the abysmal poll numbers of Congress and the President is ObamaCare. Recent ObamaCare polls from the Kaiser Family Foundation and Rasmussen indicate that the American people want it repealed today. A top adviser to Health health care law is as important as and Human Services Secretary the civil rights law. Kathleen Sebelius made the claim This is as ridiculous a claim as last week that the Presidents Vice President Joe Bidens
comparing the Tea Party to terrorists and Obamas comparing Republicans to hostage takers. The blame-then
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'We Shall Never Forget'--a 9/11 Coloring Book--Commits Thoughtcrime

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by Robert Spencer 09/06/2011 The St. Louis-based childrens publisher Really Big Coloring Books is in hot water this week. The Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and other Islamic supremacist groups are enraged, and Really Big Coloring Books is even receiving threats from enraged Muslimsall because of We Shall Never Forget, a coloring book that dares to portray the Islamic jihadists who attacked us on 9/11 as ... Islamic jihadists. With no sense of irony whatsoever, CAIRs Dawud Walid thundered: This publisher is doing a disservice to innocent young minds by showing this type of nonsense. Every single reference to Muslims in [the book] has to do with radical extremists and depictions of people being terrorists. Well, Walid, maybe if radical, extremist, terrorist Muslims, acting in the name of Islam and motivated by Islamic teaching, hadnt murdered 3,000 Americans on Sept. 11, 2001, a coloring book about that terrible day would depict Muslims in a different way. But of course, this is the one truth that Hamas-linked CAIR and
its allies and useful idiots would most like to obfuscate, so as to more easily advance their narrative that Muslims are victims and the problem is really Islamophobia. But as far as Wayne Bell of Really Big Coloring Books is concerned, We Shall Never Forget is just telling the truth: Every time we mention one of the hijackers, we call them what they are. And thats what parents wanted. Radical. Islamic. Muslim. Extremists. And every time we mention one of the hijackers like the three guys that drove the plane into the Pentagon, theres nothing else you can call them. I mean, what do you think, theyre having a bad hair day? George Orwells nightmare totalitarian state in 1984 featured the Thought Police, who watched individuals carefully for any sign of thoughtcrimethat is, of deviation from opinion that the authorities deemed acceptable. This dystopian vision was all too real in Orwells own day, a time when Soviet authorities condemned untold numbers of people to torture and death for the crime of being antiSovietthat is, of departing from the thoughts and practices that the rulers of the Soviet Union had delineated for the hapless people they ruled.
It was to prevent such totalitarian coercion that the Founding Fathers formulated the First Amendment guarantee that Congress would make no law infringing upon the freedom of speech. That freedom stands as
our fundamental bulwark against tyranny, preventing a ruler from stifling dissenting voices that call his rule to account. The First Amendment guarantee of the freedom of speech is the basis for all our freedoms, for without it, all
the rest could be taken from us, and not a word could be raised in protest. The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), which consists of 56 Muslim nations, has been working for years to compel the United Nations to criminalize what it terms Islamophobiaby which it means any truth-telling about Islam and jihad. To speak or write about what happened in New York City and Washington, D.C., on Sept. 11, 2001, would be thoughtcrime, placing one outside the realm of acceptable (and even legal) public discourse. And as the OIC continues to pursue this campaign, stateside groups such as CAIR smear and vilify anyone who dares step out of the Orwellian lockstep and depict Islamic jihad teaching and activity accurately. No one is safenot even the publisher of a coloring book depicting the reality of 9/11 and the heroic actions of courageous Americans on that day. It gets even worse. Asked whether the company had received threats, Bell pointed to a colleague and said: Thats our COO. Hes talked to the Clayton Police Department, a sergeant at the Clayton Police Department and the FBI, regarding your 'WE page 8
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Turnover in Bachmann Campaign Raises Questions About Viability

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winner might have gained. The strategy seems to have worked. The press has mostly paid attention to Perry and former (Photo: Reuters/Mary Ann Massachusetts Governor Mitt Chastain) Republican U.S. R o m n e y s i n c e t h e n , a n d presidential candidate Michele Bachmann's poll numbers have Bachmann waves during a rally in declined in the same period. Florence, South Carolina August Perry and Bachmann both appeal 18, 2011. Bachmann will wrap up to the Tea Party and social her "Join The Team" bus tour c o n s e r v a t i v e w i n g s o f t h e through South Carolina with stops Republican Party. Perry's entry in Myrtle Beach and Charleston into the race, therefore, probably on Friday. pulled away many of Bachmann's supporters. If former Alaska Rollins cited health concerns as G o v e r n o r a n d 2 0 0 8 v i c e his reason for taking a more presidential nominee Sarah Palin limited role in the campaign. I enters the race, that could further wish I was 40 years old, but Im diminish Bachmann's support. not. Im 68 years old, I had a Since Perry's announcement, it stroke a year and a half ago. Im appears the only press coverage worn out, Rollins told Politico. she has received has been more Rollins and Polyansky helped negative than positive. She said, Bachmann secure a victory in last for instance, in a campaign month's Iowa Straw Poll, but they speech, I don't know how much have been unable to gain traction God has to do to get the attention from the grassroots victory, of the politicians. We've had an mostly due to Texas Governor e a r t h q u a k e ; w e ' v e h a d a Rick Perry's entry into the race. hurricane. He said, 'Are you going Perry announced his candidacy to start listening to me here?' the same day as the Iowa Straw Like us on Facebook Poll, which was likely a strategy Bachmann was criticized for to deflate any momentum the saying that God caused the
disasters as a warning to politicians in Washington, but Bachmann later clarified that the remark was made in jest. Video of the speech shows Bachmann smiling and the audience laughing as she made the remark. Bachmann has also made minor gaffes that have caught the media's attention, such as misidentifying John Wayne's birthplace and confusing Elvis Presley's date of death with his birthday. More significantly, she recently claimed that if she were elected president gasoline would cost less than $2 per gallon. Since oil is a global commodity and its price is determined by worldwide supply and demand, the claim seemed outrageous to many. These gaffes prompted conservative columnist George Will to ask last Friday, Incompetent staffers are feeding you false information. Has anyone been fired? Do you believe that when there is no punishment for failure, failures multiply? Rollins and Polyansky both worked together on former Arkansas Governor Mike
Huckabee's presidential race in 2008. In that race, they helped Huckabee's underfunded and lesser known campaign win the Iowa caucus and eventually finish in second place. Rollins has a long political career and has worked on some other high-profile presidential campaigns in the past, including those of President Ronald Reagan (1984), Senator Jack Kemp (1988), and independent candidate Ross Perot (1992). The New York State Republican Party announced that Polyansky will become its new political director the same day he left the Bachmann campaign. Republican sources told Politico that Polyansky had some strategic differences with the campaign, and that more turnover in the campaign staff may come in the next few weeks. Bachmann already has a reputation for frequent turnover among her staff. In only two terms in office, she has had four chiefs of staff and five press secretaries. In her 2010 congressional reelection, her finance director left during the [unable to retrieve full-text content]
campaign, even though the campaign had successfully raised more than $4 million. Bachmann spokeswoman Alice Stewart said that the campaign had already planned to restructure after the Iowa Straw Poll. Keith Nahigian will move into the campaign manager position. The most recent Real Clear Politics average of seven separate polls shows Bachmann tied with Rep. Ron Paul (Texas) for fourth place, behind Perry, Romney and Palin, with 8 percent of the vote. Be the first of thousands of iPosters by sharing your news, views, and analysis. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: A 'Malign Intellectual Subculture' - George Monbiot Smears Chomsky, Herman, Peterson, Pilger And Media Lens.
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Gunman wounds several at Nevada restaurant - Washington Post

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Officers review evidence, including bullet holes, at the scene of a shooting at an IHOP restaurant in Carson City, Nev., on Tuesday, Sept. 6. Cathleen Allison/ AP A man with a rifle shot a group
of five uniformed National Guard members eating breakfast at a Nevada IHOP on Tuesday, killing two of them and another person in a hail of gunfire, authorities and witnesses said. Steve Keegan/ REUTERS Emergency personnel respond to
a shooting at an IHOP restaurant in Carson City. After shooting at a group of National Guard members, the suspect shot himself and later died at a hospital. Cathleen Allison/ AP The body of a victim lies outside of an IHOP restaurant in Carson
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Three Fall Guys Won't Make Fast and Furious Go Away

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On Tuesday, Aug. 30, Kenneth Melson, then-acting director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), was reassigned because of his involvement in the gunrunning operation known as Fast and Furious. At the same time, it was announced that Dennis Burke, the U.S. attorney in Phoenix, was resigning his post due to his involvement in Fast and Furious, and that federal prosecutor Emory Hurley would be moved fromthe criminal division in the U.S. attorney's office in Phoenix to the civil division. In other words, after 2,500 guns were bought with illegal intent, transferred to various criminals of one type or another, and used to kill well over 1,100 people to date, the Department of Justice announces that theyre going to deal firmly with three people who were involved in the operation by reassigning them and/or accepting their resignations. Wow. There are huge problems here. For starters, it looks like these three are taking the fall for bigger fish higher up the administration food chain. We know that ATF supervisors William McMahon and William
Newell knew about Fast and Furious and were directly involved in it. And we also know beyond a shadow of a doubt that Attorney General Eric Holder knew about Operation Gunrunner, which ultimately morphed into Fast and Furious. He bragged about his involvement in Gunrunner during a speech in Mexico on April 2, 2009. Moreover, we know that one White House official was receiving regular updates on Fast
and Furious. That official, Kevin OReilly, security director for North America, was briefed on the operation when it was taking place. And now we know that he wasnt the only White House official being briefed. The Los Angeles Times has uncovered emails that show Dan Restrepo, senior Latin America adviser, and Greg Gatjanis, another White House national security official, were also kept in the loop. Yet, the ATF plays dumb, Holder
claims he didnt know about Fast and Furious until the spring of 2011, and President Obama just grins and says neither he nor Holder directly authorized such an operation. And after all this, were supposed to feel like our government has done a good job policing itself because two people got reassigned and an attorney quit his job? (Moreover, the two ATF supervisors directly involved in Fast and Furious, McMahon and
Newell, were actually promoted.) Folks, it doesnt take a rocket scientist to figure out something isnt right here. Even CBS News is starting to talk about the coverups involved with this operation. This is all one big mess. Its a tangled web of death, law infractions and destruction that only gets uglier the more one looks into it. And to make THREE page 8
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plan. One element is tax relief, providing incentives for companies that create jobs and hire new workers. Paying companies to hire workers will not create long-term economic growth, and is just another administration attempt to buy its way out of high unemployment numbers. The plan may also contain a payroll tax holiday. To be effective, any tax cuts should be substantial and permanent to allow individuals and businesses to plan long-term new spending. Remember that the last Obama stimulus contained $100 billion in tax rebates to people who did not pay any income taxesyet, they called that provision a tax cut. The President also is expected to promote a so-called infrastructure bank. This will allow the government to dole out spending for road and school construction projects that will be demanded by Obamas union buddies. Another element is to have the government pay a portion of an employees salary while the employee is in the first eight
weeks of company training. This is a warmed-over version of Obamas Making Work Pay tax credit. Some would call this more corporate socialism and a way for the President to further complicate the tax code. The Republican Jobs Plan The Republicans have their own jobs agenda. According to House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R.Va.), the plan contains provisions to reduce the regulatory burden on businesses by requiring congressional review of any big new proposed regulations. It also would audit existing regulations, eliminating those that hinder economic growth. Comprehensive tax reform is another element. The Republican plan would streamline the tax code and lower tax rates to a top rate of 25% for corporations and small businesses. Congress needs to move toward a flat tax so that all Americans pay the same low tax rate. Lower taxes without complicated deductions would simplify the tax code, provide fairness and encourage economic growth.
Approval of the three pending free-trade agreements with Colombia, Panama and South Korea is another element that would open up new markets to American-made products. Free trade has been on hold because the Obama administration is using these agreements to leverage another big spending plan: Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) for workers displaced by free trade. The problem with TAA is that it is a supplement to unemployment insurance and a redundant program. United Nations Reform Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R.Fla.) has a great idea to force transparency and accountability onto the United Nations. The UN Transparency, Accountability and Reform Act of 2011 (HR 2829) would withhold funds from the UN to force reform. The Heritage Foundations Brett Schaefer has found the UNs General Assembly votes are hostile to U.S. interests. Schafer argues that over the 28-year period that the State Department has reported the statistic, only 31.7% of
nonconsensus votes at the UN have gone our way. This lack of support is jarring, considering that the United States has been the largest financial supporter of the United Nations since the organizations founding in 1945, Schafer writes. Cutting funding to an institution that thwarts U.S. foreign policy goals is long overdue. Brian Darling, a HUMAN EVENTS columnist, is senior fellow for Government Studies at The Heritage Foundation. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: A 'Malign Intellectual Subculture' - George Monbiot Smears Chomsky, Herman, Peterson, Pilger And Media Lens.
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matters worse, the three people who appear to be taking the fall for the operationMelson, Burke and Hurleyarent even facing criminal charges. I bet there are a lot of people serving time in prison for far less serious gun-related crimes who wish theyd been able to resign or be reassigned instead of going to the big house. AWR Hawkins writes for Andrew Breitbart's BIG sites, for Pajamas Media, for RedCounty.com, and for Townhall.com. He was a Visiting Fellow at the Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal (summer 2010), and holds a PhD in military history from Texas Tech University. You can e-mail him at awr@awrhawkins.com. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: A 'Malign Intellectual Subculture' - George Monbiot Smears Chomsky, Herman, Peterson, Pilger And Media Lens.
question. Thats the answer to your question. And so, its really good to be aware of your surroundings. Well put it that way." So it has come to this. In the United States of America, 10 years after 9/11, a childrens book that simply depicts the events of that terrible day accurately brings
down upon its publisher spurious charges of bigotry from a terrorlinked Islamic pressure groupand death threats from more bloody-minded Muslims. Yet against this ugly intimidation campaign, Really Big Coloring Books is hanging tough, and standing up for the truth and the freedom of speech. Show your
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GOP Candidate Rick Santorum: Opposition to Gay Marriage Is Not 'Bigotry'

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Piers Morgan pointed out that he was also a Catholic, adding that the times have changed. "Were in a different era. We're in (Photo: Reuters / Sean Gardner) a modern world," Morgan stated. In this file photo, U.S. Senator Santorum countered that the Rick Santorum (R-PA) speaks "truth" does not change, claiming during the Republican Leadership that right and wrong remains the Conference in New Orleans, same regardless of the era. Louisiana, June 17, 2011. "There are some truths that are in fact eternal and based on nature "Do you think homosexuality is a and nature's law. And that's what s i n ? " a s k e d M o r g a n i n a n the church teaches and that's what interview, which aired last week. the Bible teaches and that's what According to Santorum, that was reason dictates," he said. not his line of work but rather a Morgan insisted that such a view decision for a member of clergy. of gay marriage bordered on However, after prodding from "bigotry." Morgan he stated, "The Catholic Sanotorum, disagreed, saying, C h u r c h t e a c h e s t h a t "Just because we disagree on homosexuality is a sin. Im public policy, which is what the Catholic and subscribe to the d e b a t e h a s b e e n a b o u t Catholic Churchs teaching." marriage, it doesn't mean that Santorum added, "But that's not it's bigotry." relevant from the standpoint of According to Santorum, the how I view these issues from a churchs standing is based on public policy view." more than 2,000 years of history The GOP presidential candidate and trying to "redefine something said from a public viewpoint he has been seen as wrong from the found many things "morally standpoint of the church and wrong" that didnt "necessarily saying a church is bigoted rise to the level" that warranted because it holds that opinion that government involvement in is biblically based is in itself an "regulating that activity." act of bigotry." Like us on Facebook Santorum added, "If you look at
it from all of those perspectives, I think it's a legitimate point of view. I certainly respect people who disagree with it. But I don't call them bigoted because they disagree with me." Santorum, who previously labeled his campaign "the little engine that could" and called his GOP opponents "shiny engines" that come and go, has been struggling to break into the top rankings of the Republican race. The Pennsylvania senator lags behind Texas Gov. Rick Perry, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, Texas Rep. Ron Paul, and Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann. Be the first of thousands of iPosters by sharing your news, views, and analysis. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: A 'Malign Intellectual Subculture' - George Monbiot Smears Chomsky, Herman, Peterson, Pilger And Media Lens.
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Mitt Romney: Obama has 'payphone strategy' in 'smartphone world' - Los Angeles Times
China to recognise Libya rebels when 'conditions are ripe' - Pakistan Daily Times
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immediate steps he'd take on his first day in the Oval Office if Submitted at 9/6/2011 5:12:49 PM elected. Mitt Romney framed his They include introducing economic plan Tuesday as a job legislation to lower the corporate creator for middle-class America tax rate from 35% to 25%; signing while charging that President trade agreements with countries Obama, days before he is to like Colombia, Panama and South outline his own plan, "doesn't Korea; opening new areas of the have a clue what to do." nation to drilling for oil and gas; Speaking at a trucking company and consolidating government-run i n N o r t h L a s V e g a s , N e v . , job training programs. Romney said Obama is "not a bad Romney also continued to focus guy," but pitching stale ideas that on his private-sector experience, a have failed to turn around the point he's making with new struggling economy. urgency given the challenge he "President Obama's strategy is a now faces in the Republican pay-phone strategy and we're in a primary from three-term Texas smartphone world," Romney said. Gov. Rick Perry. "What he's doing is taking "I don't have all the answers to all quarters and stuffing them into the the problems that exist in America pay phone ... [and he] can't figure and around the world. But I know out why it's not working. It's not how to find the answers and I also c o n n e c t e d a n y m o r e , M r . know how to lead," Romney said. President!" But Perry's campaign responded The half-hour speech was an by pitting their candidate's record effort by Romney to draw a in office against Romney's record contrast with Obama, who is to as the Bay State governor. speak to a rare joint session of "Romney failed to create a proCongress on Thursday night. jobs environment and failed to The former Massachusetts institute many of the reforms he governor did not list each of the n o w c l a i m s t o s u p p o r t , " 59 proposals his campaign put spokesman Mark Miner said. forward Tuesday, but outlined "Among all the candidates for
president, Gov. Rick Perry has the strongest record of creating a climate of job creation by limiting taxes, burdensome regulations and the size and scope of government." Obama's reelection campaign said Romney "offered a plan that would tip the scales against hardworking Americans." "Gov. Romney repackaged the same old policies that helped create the economic crisis: boosting oil company profits and allowing Wall Street to write its own rules, more tax breaks for large corporations and more tax cuts for the wealthiest while working Americans are forced to carry a greater burden," spokesman Ben LaBolt emailed reporters. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: A 'Malign Intellectual Subculture' - George Monbiot Smears Chomsky, Herman, Peterson, Pilger And Media Lens.
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Independent Online Democrats urge action on China trade policies Reuters " China is systematically deploying an arsenal of trade distorting policies to corner the global market in green technology products, whether it be electric cars, wind turbines or solar
products," Representative Sander Levin, a Michigan Democrat,... U.S. looking carefully at China rare earth policy MarketWatch China regrets WTO's report on tire dispute Xinhua China'regrets' WTO ruling on US tyre dispute DAWN.com Ninemsn- Voice of America (blog) all 129 news articles
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Making Agriculture Preserve Land, Not Destroy It

Michael J. Coren (Fast Company)
Combining principles of conservation with the needs of agriculture might be the only way to keep growing enough food to feed an exploding global population. In the beginning, there was nature. Then came agriculture. Though the existed side-by-side, the two never seemed to meet except along the borders of intensively plowed and fertilized fields. Now each is being viewed (warily) as salvation for the other. Conservationists, who once vilified agriculture for taking over unspoiled land, have begun enlisting farmers and agriculture policy to help protect natural ecosystems. "Agriculture is both a major cause and victim of ecosystem degradation," says Eline Boelee, in a new report called "An Ecosystems Approach to Water and Food Security." Boelee, an agricultural researcher with the Consultative Group on International Agricultural
Research(CGIAR), suggests we can't grow enough food without managing our farmlands as integrated parts of natural ecosystems. "Sustainable intensification of agriculture is a priority for future food security, but we need to take a more holistic 'landscape' approach," she says. Examples in sub-Saharan Africa, Peru, and Colombia demonstrate that merely
protecting an ecosystem such as wetlands--if that protection displaces agriculture--may undermine both ecosystems and food production. Farmers can move, removing forests and topsoil elsewhere, eventually destroying yields and degrading ecosystems, according to Matthew McCartney in a related report by the International Water Management Institute, also part of
CGIAR. The two reports make the argument for the creation of "agroecosystems" that grow enough food while delivering clean water, clean air, and biodiversity. Given that we may to feed 9.3 billion people on the planet by 2050, about 3 billion more than today, we may have few other choices as crop productivity growth continues its
expected decline from 5.6% annually between 2001 and 2010 to just 1.3% by 202 0. "What is needed is a balance: appropriate farming practices that support sustainable food production and protect ecosystems," writes McCartney. The urgency is growing. The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has outlined the urgent need to rethink current strategies for intensifying agriculture as regions hit their ecological barriers. Food production already accounts for 70 to 90 percent of withdrawals from available water resources in some areas, and many breadbaskets, including the plains of northern China, India's Punjab, and the Western United States, have nearly "reached or breached" water limits.As the number of people living under conditions of water scarcity rises from 1.6 billion to 2 billion in the coming years, global food security will require more than business as usual. [Image: Flickr user Shreader] Reach Michael J. Coren via Twitter or email.
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Hong Kong Apple Store Near Opening Day, Tesla CEO Elon Musk Had Dutch Hack Led To Spying In Iran, Dell An Elaborate Burning Man Partners With Baidu For Chinese Tablets Setup That Cost Thousands Kit Eaton (Fast Company) security officer, following the Dutch Hack Led To Spying On
This and more important news from your Fast Company editors, with updates all day. Nokia Smartphone Shipments Lag Apple has edged ahead of Nokia on the number of smartphone shipments predicted for this year, according to a new analysis by Digitimes. It's expected to ship 86.4 million smartphones this year, raising Apple's shipment volume by 82% from the 47.5 million units it shipped in 2010. --NS Apple Store Nears Opening Day In Hong Kong. The first, brickand-mortar Apple store in Hong Kong is nearing completion. According to Bloomberg.com, "The shop will be Apple's 5th in the China region, which generated about $8.8 billion in the past three quarters or 11% of Apple's total. Demand for Apple products, and for that matter stores remains high in the region, as evidenced by a rash of Fake Apple Stores that were operating without the company's permission. --LK Sony Hires Security Chief. Sony has hired a new chief information
massive hack attacks on its server that began this spring. Philip Reitinger, Sony's new security chief, has worked for Microsoft and the U.S. Department of Defense, and was the director of the U.S. National Cyber Security Center. --NS Amazon's Tablet-friendly Website Redesign. Amazon.com has confirmed that they are testing a new website design. From the early screenshots, the decluttered, sleek design seems well suited for tablet browsing of the massive online store--on the iPad, or the new tabet that Amazon is rumored to be developing on its own. --NS --Updated 09:30 a.m. EST German Court Swats Galaxy Tab Again. A German court sided with Apple and ruled that Samsung must withdraw its newest Galaxy Tab 7.7 device from display at the IFA show in Berlin, and also withdraw it from sale alongside its bigger 10.1-inch cousin, which has been the target of IP theft allegations by Apple. The 7.7inch device had been Samsung's big hope to dodge the cloning allegations due to its different size. --KE
Iranians. Among the aftermath of a secure certificate theft from a Dutch Net security source it's emerged that around 300,000 Iranians were spied upon, with hackers using the stolen certificates to snoop on their activities on services such as Google and social networking sites. Suspicion is falling upon official sources in Iran, which has allegedly been advising Syria on how to control its rioters using Net censorship. --KE Dell, Baidu Partner For China Tablets. Dell is partnering with local search market leader Baidu in China to develop a range of tablet and smartphone devices. The mobile machines will use Dell's expertise gained from projects like its partly cancelled Streak smartphone as well as a " forked" or privately-subdeveloped version of Google's OS Android which Baidu will configure for Chinese needs (and possibly then extend overseas). -KE --Updated 05:30 a.m. EST
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long since morphed into a big party and networking event for techies and hippies -- part of the San Franciscans of a certain reason Google's founders hired mindset are slowly returning from Eric Schmidt was because he had the week long Burning Man art attended the festival. Tickets sold festival that takes place in the out for the first time ever this Nevada desert a few hours away, year, as more than 50,000 people and at least one of them will be paid at least $210 to attend. reasonably well-rested: Tesla and As a manager of Classic SpaceX founder Elon Musk. Adventures told the Journal, "We Most attendees sleep in tents or cater to the upper [class]. People rented RVs and pack their own with money do not wish to stay in water and other supplies in. It's a tent." a g a i n s t t h e c o m m u n i t y ' s Here's what it looked like from guidelines to spend money while space -- a European Space you're there. Agency satellite shot a bunch of But according to the Wall Street photos over the weekend Journal, Musk had a compound of Please follow SAI on Twitter and 8 RVs stocked with groceries, Facebook. fresh sheets, and other essentials. Join the conversation about this The compound was set up by story Classic Adventures RV, which See Also: charges between $5,000 and The Best 4 Out Of 500 Startups $10,000 per vehicle. Classic also China Tech Mogul Kai-Fu Lee helped make sure everything kept On Why The Chinese Internet running, like the critical air Will Remain "Segregated" conditioner (temperatures usually RUSH TO JUDGEMENT: Are top 100 degrees by 10 a.m.) and These 10 NYC Startups You've stocked the camp with Gatorade Never Heard Of Brilliant Or and rum. Bombs? Burning Man started as an exercise in self-reliance, but it's
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Brilliant Photos Of The Lonely Trucks That Move All Our Stuff
Morgan Clendaniel (Fast Company)
amount of freight in this country. Without trucks, we would be nowhere. Submitted at 9/6/2011 4:55:34 PM Long haul trucking is a lonely A photo series from photographer business, with drivers on the road Julie Hassett Sutton shows trucks by themselves for days at a time. as objects of art, cruising through The photographer Julie Hassett the beautiful frozen landscape of Sutton captured the loneliness of Montana. these long distance drivers in a W h e n y o u t h i n k o f t h e series of photographs she took in transportation of global trade, you Basin, Montana. "Just the idea of picture giant container ships, these guys on the lonely roads. It flying cargo planes, or endless just seemed so isolated," says trains loaded with shipping Hasset Sutton. "They were really containers. What you may forget the only ones around. There are (unless you're driving on an these people working in these interstate highway) is that 18- early mornings, when no one was wheeler trucks move a vast around. And you're in a truck, not
interacting with other people." Passing through the snow-bound landscape, to and from destinations unknown, the trucks look more like objects of design
they're needed comes at a cost: Trucks also are major polluters, making them as destructive as they are convenient. One day soon, these trucks as we know them will have to be phased out in favor of something less polluting--or removed entirely as we develop an economy that doesn't require the daily movement of goods over long distances. Until then, we can still pause and romanticize the trucker, than of commerce. But they haul driving alone on mountain roads. two-thirds of all our freight; See more of Hassett Sutton's trucks are what drive the work here. economy. But the convenience of having goods driven wherever
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GOSSIP: Today's Wall Street Buzz in 60 Seconds

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Global Insights: China Ponders U.S. Withdrawal from Afghanistan

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environment," according to a statement by the firm. Former Highfields Capital PM Submitted at 9/6/2011 5:19:06 PM and former SAC Capital PM Sallie Krawcheck is out at Bank Shakeeb Alam (who worked at of America. Highfields before SAC Capital) Rachel Uchitel first made are starting a new India-focused headlines clutching a picture of hedge fund, East Bridge Capital her fiance who died in the 9/11 Management. attacks. She later became one of FrontPoint Partners is spinning Tiger Woods' mistresses and also off its largest hedge fund into a appeared on Celebrity Rehab new fund run by Stephen Czech. With Dr. Drew. She's now The new fund doesn't have the p r e p a r i n g t o s u e P a g e S i x Chip Skowron/insider tradingclaiming the paper misquoted her soiled FrontPoint name and is in a story today saying she's called Direct Lending Fund. "almost happy" her fiance died Barclays hired former Credit during the 9/11 attacks. Suisse analyst Azuma Ohno. He The SEC slapped a five year ban will be replaced by Takehito from conducting any future Yamanaka, who joins Credit business on Robert Feinblatt, the Suisse from Goldman Sachs. c o - f o u n d e r o f n o w - d e f u n c t Ohno starts November 11. Trivium Capital Management, for Chris Solarz, head of global trading on insider information. macro strategies at Cliffwater Netherlands and London-based LLC, just set his fifth world A e t h r a A s s e t M a n a g e m e n t , record this weekend for "Most founded in 2008 by two former Pubs Visited in 24 Hours by a employees of Dutch bank ABN Team." Amro, was forced to close its Hedge fund star Pierre Lagrange, funds and return the money to who left his wife about a year ago investors as inflows had failed to for a male fashion designer, could provide a sustainable economic face possibly the largest divorce
settlement in U.K. history. JPMorgan's Private Bank's CIO used Legos in his research note to demonstrate the ongoing euro zone crisis. Citadel's Ken Griffin and Charles Schwab are amongst Wall Streeters who donated more than million dollars to the Koch brothers' conservative causes. A woman named Evelyn Echevarria, who is a vice president at AMAR CA Group, is named as a defendant in three of the 17 FHFA lawsuits. Please follow Clusterstock on Twitter and Facebook. Join the conversation about this story See Also: 10 People Who Might Lead Us To The Goldman Elevator Tweeter There Are Two Big Reasons Why Goldman Sachs Just Got Sued For Fraud Again Dick Bove's Bizarre Interview On CNBC On Why Investors Are Hammering Bank Stocks
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As part of a conference hosted by Beijing University, I spent last week conducting interviews and participating in roundtables with Chinese academics and government officials. Many of these talks addressed recent developments in Afghanistan, a country of strong interest to China due to its proximity, natural resources and historical links to regional terrorism and narcotics trafficking. Based on my conversations and other sources, it is clear that Chinese policymakers hold conflicting sentiments regarding the planned U.S. and NATO military withdrawal from Afghanistan, which has already begun and will likely be completed in a couple years. Chinese officials expressed their commitment to collaborate with the international community to promote political stability, social progress and economic development in Afghanistan. In pursuit of the latter, they are encouraging Chinese firms to secure access to Afghanistan's natural resources in order to develop them. They would also like to see Chinese companies involved in developing the
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Here's What Ticket Experts Say About The AP College Football Rankings
British envoy offers olive branch to torture victim - The Independent

Libya: rebel leader who claims he was tortured to seek British Submitted at 9/6/2011 11:00:48 PM apology Telegraph.co.uk SeatGeek (Business Insider) MI6 man who saved Gaddafi fans' demand for Sooners football relatively some of the cheapest), Globe and Mail tickets is similarly at the top of yet they're ranked as #3. Does British envoy offers olive branch r i s k s b e i n g m i r e d i n a n Submitted at 9/6/2011 5:14:05 PM intelligence minefield The the list. Star QB Landry Jones is this mean they're a relative deal? to torture victim Guardian By Liz McDonnel looking fantastic, and many say We'll have to see how the season The Independent The widely-regarded AP College the powerhouse Sooners have a plays out...the Ducks' decisive (27 By Archie Bland, Foreign Editor Libyan rebel leader Abdel Hakim Football Rankings are out for shot at a perfect season in 2011 as -40) loss to LSU on Sunday, i.e., A day after arriving in Tripoli to Belhadj could be in line for 1m 2 0 1 1 , w i t h t h e O k l a h o m a the best team in the Big 12. the marquee season-opener in re-establish a diplomatic mission payout Daily Mail Mirror.co.uk- The Press Sooners, Alabama Crimson Tide, #2 Alabama Crimson Tide Dallas' Cowboy Stadium, could there, Britain's new envoy to and Oregon Ducks rounding out SeatGeek's ranking: #5 negatively affect ticket prices in Libya said yesterday that he Association- Financial Times would meet Abdelhakim Belhaj, all 2,125 news articles the top three. Average ticket price: $181 the coming weeks. But do the top-ranked teams have Alabama's the leading team in the See the rest of the story at the Libyan rebel leader who told The Independent that MI6 knew... the most loyal fans -- fans willing SEC (in the AP's rankings), and as Business Insider to pay top dollar to see their team far as sales are concerned, Please follow Sports Page on play? Crimson Tide football tickets are Twitter and Facebook. SeatGeek used their proprietary just as hot at an average of $181. See Also: secondary market data and ticket They're breaking in a new QB, but That Was Quick: Republic Of intelligence to rank the college most in the media seem to have Libya Unveils New Football Kit football top 25 tickets by team unshakable faith in the Tide's UBS Declares "The Euro based on average resale price. veteran defense - and they Should Not Exist" In A Monster While many of the top teams do crushed Kent State 48-7 this past Report On The Odds Of An EU in fact demand the highest ticket Saturday. Breakup Mactaggart said... prices, you'll be surprised that #3 Oregon Ducks GROUPON CANCELS IPO (Nation - Google News) Nick Clegg to vote against some can be bought for a relative SeatGeek's ranking: #14 R O A D S H O W , S E C W a n t s Submitted at 9/6/2011 11:00:46 PM abortion counselling law The bargain.#1 Oklahoma Sooners Average ticket price: $105 Answers On Leaked Memo The Guardian Guardian SeatGeek's ranking: #4 Ducks football tickets are some M a n y M P s u n d e c i d e d o n Changing the rules on abortion: Average ticket price: $196 of the cheapest amongst the AP's a b o r t i o n c o u n s e l l i n g v o t e Attacking women or saving lives? AP places Oklahoma at #1, and t o p t e a m s a t $ 1 0 5 ( o k a y , The Independent Mirror.co.uk B y N i n a L a k h a n i T o d a y ' s Cameron is branded 'gutless' by parliamentary vote on changes to Tory MP after caving in to Clegg abortion counselling services has over abortion Daily Mail been deemed "too close to call" Independent Catholic Newsnoreply@blogger.com (Ad times by grant funds, and can by senior Labour MPs. Labour's BBC News- Telegraph.co.uk ServeRSS) (AdServRSS Feed) mean the difference between life Public Health spokeswoman all 265 news articles and death for hungry children. Diane Abbott and Women and and training will be multiplied 4 Your gift to provide seeds, tools, Equalities spokeswoman Fiona
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Swiss draw line in the sand to cap runaway franc

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term success depended on efforts to deal with the euro zone's debt problems given the relative Various Euro banknotes next to strength of the Swiss economy various Swiss Franc notes at a and government finances. bank in Warsaw, July 18, 2011. "The current situation therefore Credit: Reuters/Kacper Pempel/ acutely threatens our economy File and our labor market. It carries By Emma Thomasson and the risk of a recession as well as Catherine Bosley deflationary developments," SNB ZURICH| Tue Sep 6, 2011 Chairman Philipp Hildebrand 3:36pm EDT said. (Reuters) - The Swiss National "The SNB will enforce this B a n k s h o c k e d m a r k e t s o n minimum rate with the utmost Tuesday by setting an exchange determination and is prepared to rate cap on the soaring franc to buy foreign currency in unlimited stave off a recession, discouraging quantities." investors anxious about flagging The move was seen as a new shot global growth from using the in the currency wars, with Japan currency as a safe haven. expected to try to weaken the yen Using some of the strongest if the Swiss action diverts more language from a central bank in safe-haven inflows into the the modern era, the SNB said it currency. Gold, which hit a record would no longer tolerate an higher earlier on Tuesday, is also exchange rate below 1.20 francs seen gaining. to the euro and would defend the Fears that the world economy target by buying other currencies may tip back into recession have in unlimited quantities. spurred investors to dump riskier The move immediately knocked assets such as stocks and seek the about 8 percent off the value of relative safety of gold and the the franc, which had soared by a franc and yen. third since the collapse of Lehman "As the SNB's pockets are very Brothers in 2008 as investors used d e e p , i t s h o u l d s u c c e e d i n it as a safe haven from the euro stabilizing the rate above 1.20," zone's debt crisis and stock Commerzbank economist Ulrike market turmoil. Rondorf said. Analysts said the SNB should be "On the other hand, a further able to defend 1.20 as it can print depreciation of the franc seems unlimited francs but that long- unlikely to us in the current
climate. Uncertainty on the market is still very high, with no sign of the debt crisis in the euro zone abating at present," she said. The SNB, which holds its quarterly monetary policy review on September 15, said that even at a rate of 1.20 to the euro, the franc was still high and should continue to weaken over time. "If the economic outlook and deflationary risks so require, the SNB will take further measures," it said. The SNB has warned that economic growth -- already flagging in the second quarter -- is set to slow sharply in the coming months as the strong franc makes Swiss exports, from luxury watches to drugs, prohibitively expensive. The franc nearly touched parity with the common currency on August 9. It dived 8.5 percent against the euro after Tuesday's announcement to 1.203 francs at 6:51 a.m. EDT and dropped almost 8 percent against the dollar to 0.848. "That was the single largest foreign exchange move I have ever seen," said World First chief economist Jeremy Cook. "This dwarfs moves seen post Lehman Brothers, 7/7, and other major geopolitical events in the past decade."
Swiss stocks, hurt of late by the strong franc, jumped, with the blue-chip SMI index trading up 4.3 percent. E U R O Z O N E DEVELOPMENTS KEY "It will be the direction taken by the euro zone crisis that will determine how successful the SNB will be in protecting the Swiss franc from strength in the coming months," said Rabobank senior currency strategist Jane Foley. The SNB also set a formal exchange rate target in 1978 -above 0.80 francs per German Mark -- when the franc was soaring in the aftermath of an oil crisis, and successfully defended that rate, but at the price of soaring inflation. "It worked in the short term, but it came at an enormous cost and led to a huge burst of inflation," said Simon Derrick, head of currency research at Bank of New York Mellon. "The move now should work in the short term, but in the long term they are providing investors who are looking to exit the euro zone debt crisis with an easy route." The SNB move came just after data showed Swiss inflation eased by more than expected in August, dipping 0.3 percent from a month earlier, lower than a median
forecast in a Reuters poll for a fall of 0.1 percent. The SNB temporarily managed to weaken the franc last month after it cut an already low interest rate target to nil on August 3 and boosted the amount of liquidity in the banking system. But the currency jumped again last week as worries about the health of the global economy intensified. The SNB is seen in a strong position to follow through on the new target after top Swiss politicians and business groups expressed support for the central bank as the economy flags. Such political solidarity is in contrast to earlier this year when the central bank came under fire for running up a huge loss in 2010 trying to keep a lid on the franc, prompting calls for SNB chairman Philipp Hildebrand to resign. "Political support for this measure is much higher now than last year, given the extreme moves in the franc in recent months. This likely implies a stronger commitment than during the 2010 intervention," said Goldman Sachs forex research head Thomas Stolper. The SNB's forex holdings had already surged to 253.4 billion francs in August as a result of foreign exchange swaps the SNB SWISS page 24
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U.S. Troop Levels in Iraq toDrop to 3,000 by Year's End

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The Obama administration has decided to drop the number of U.S. troops in Iraq at the end of the year down to 3,000, marking a major downgrade in force strength, multiple sources familiar with the inner workings and decisions on U.S. troop movements in Iraq told Fox News. Senior commanders are said to be livid at the decision, which has already been signed off by Defense Secretary Leon Panetta. Panetta, touring sites Tuesday in advance of the Sept. 11 10th commemoration, insisted "no decision has been made" on the number of troops to stay in Iraq. "That obviously will be the subject of negotiations with the Iraqis and as a result of those negotiations. As I said no decision has been made of what the number will be," he said. Currently, about 45,000 U.S. troops are stationed in Iraq. The generals on the ground had requested that the number of troops remaining in Iraq at the end of the year reach about 27,000. But, there was major pushback about "the cost and the political optics" of that decision that the number was then reduced to 10,000.
Commanders said they could possibly make that work "in extremis," in other words, meaning they would be pushing it to make that number work security-wise and manpowerwise. Now, sources confirm that the administration has pushed the Pentagon to cut the number even lower, and commanders are concerned for the safety of the U.S. troops who would remain there. "We can't secure everybody with only 3,000 on the ground nor can we do what we need to with the Iraqis," one source said. A senior military official said by reducing the number of troops to 3,000, the White House has effectively reduced the mission to training only. "There is almost no room for security operations in that number; it will be almost purely a training mission," this official said. The official added that a very small number of troops within that 3,000 will be dedicated to counter-terrorism efforts, but that's not nearly what Gen. Lloyd Austin, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, wanted. This shift is seen by various people as a cost-saving measure and a political measure. White House spokesman Jay Carney said Tuesday that the U.S. has
operated responsibly to meet the year-end deadline to remove troops from Iraq, per a 2008 Status of Forces Agreement. He added that negotiations with the Iraqis will determine the outcome, and while costs are a factor in every decision, the administration makes decisions on what is best for the United States. The only administration official fighting for at least 10,000 forces to stay in Iraq at the end of the year was Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, sources said. But she has lost the battle. Responding to the news, Sen. Joe Lieberman, D-Conn., who has traveled to Iraq many times, said that in all the conversations he has had on force strength, he has "never heard a number as low as 3,000 troops to secure the gains Iraqis have won over the years."
Lieberman said his first question for the administration is whether the number is one Iraqis had requested or if it was chosen according to other criteria. Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said reducing the troop presence to 3,000 "would put at risk all the United States has fought for in Iraq." "The biggest winner of a U.S. decision to move to 3,000 troops in Iraq would the Iranian regime. The ayatollahs would rejoice," he said. Any of the plans will require Iraqi approval, and on that front, the Pentagon recently secured a commitment from the Iraqis to start negotiations, but they have not agreed to any number. "Discussions with the Iraqis on our post-2011 strategic relationship are ongoing, and no
decisions on troop levels have been made," said Panetta spokesman George Little. "We continue to proceed with troop withdrawals as directed by the president." On Tuesday, the head of the three -province Kurdish autonomous region in the north of Iraq, warned that if American troops leave sectarian violence might resurface. Massoud Barzani urged the central Iraqi government to sign an agreement with the U.S. to keep forces in the country. Fox News' Bret Baier contributed to this report. Aug. 15: Iraqis inspect the site of a bombing in Kirkuk, Iraq. Related Video Sen. Lieberman on Jobs, Iraq Addressing economic issues on Capitol Hill Related Stories Sources: Obama Administration to Drop Troop Levels in Iraq to 3,000 This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: A 'Malign Intellectual Subculture' - George Monbiot Smears Chomsky, Herman, Peterson, Pilger And Media Lens.
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Wall Street down on Europe; bear market fears grow

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that the problems have not been solved. "We have got a shot at trading the By Edward Krudy S&P under 1,100 again," said NEW YORK| Tue Sep 6, 2011 Nick Kalivas, an equity index 5:01pm EDT analyst at MF Global in Chicago. (Reuters) - Wall Street fell for a "I don't sense that people are third day on Tuesday on fears really going to defend the market Europe still has failed to tackle its until something like that occurs." debt crisis, prompting worries the A similar pattern of fractured market is headed to new lows for confidence exists in bank stocks. the year. Major U.S. banks were among the Investors channeled cash into less biggest decliners on Tuesday, risky assets as doubts resurfaced with the KBW Bank index off over the political will of Italy and nearly 2 percent. Late on Friday, Greece to push through tough the Federal Housing Finance budget measures and as Germany Agency sued 17 large U.S. banks h a r d e n e d i t s s t a n d a g a i n s t over subprime mortgage-backed providing more aid. The worries bonds, compounding fears about over the European debt crisis the health of the sector. renewed fears that the global JPMorgan and Bank of America, economy could fall into recession. both subjects of the suit, fell more The S&P 500 is now down 14.5 than 3 percent on Tuesday. percent from its highest point in The CBOE Volatility Index, or 2011, reached at the end of April. Vix, a measure of expected T h o u g h i n v e s t o r s h a v e market turbulence, posted its periodically taken heart from biggest gain in nearly two weeks, signs that Europe has carved out a climbing 9.4 percent to 37.08. plan to deal with its festering "Right now there is a tremendous crisis, confidence has been amount of uncertainty," said repeatedly walloped every time Michael Sheldon, chief market there is a development showing strategist at RDM Financial in
Westport, Connecticut. "There is a decent chance that we are in a bear market." The Dow Jones industrial average dropped 100.96 points, or 0.90 percent, to 11,139.30. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index fell 8.73 points, or 0.74 percent, to 1,165.24. The Nasdaq Composite Index lost 6.50 points, or 0.26 percent, to 2,473.83. Traders are monitoring lows set by major global indexes during the selloff in the first half of August. So far, only Germany's DAX, down nearly 25 percent this year, and Japan's Nikkei have fallen below those levels. The S&P 500 hit a 2011 low of 1,101 on August 9. European shares extended losses on Tuesday, after falling more than 4 percent on Monday, hitting their lowest close in more than two years on worries the euro zone debt crisis was deteriorating. The PHLX Europe sector index slumped 3.5 percent. U.S.-listed shares of Credit Suisse fell 12.9 percent to $23.84. Gold stocks got a lift as the price of gold jumped to a record high
above $1,920 after Switzerland pegged its currency to the euro in an effort to prevent its rapid appreciation in an extended spat of safe-haven buying. The precious metal then retreated 2 percent from that level as investors took profits. The Arca Gold Bugs index, which measures the performance of 16 U.S.-listed gold miners, rose 0.6 percent. Eldorado Gold Corp was the biggest percentage gainer, up 2.4 percent to $21.36. The Financial Times reported several big U.S. banks, in talks with state officials on settling claims of improper mortgage practices, were offered a deal to limit legal liability in return for a multibillion-dollar payment. Several brokerages including Nomura cut their price targets on big lenders. Bank of America Corp lost 3.6 percent to $6.99 and JPMorgan Chase & Co fell 3.4 percent to $33.44. Among gainers, Sunoco Inc rose 5.3 percent to $38.03 after the energy company said it plans to exit its refining business and
focus on its logistics operations. Packaging company TempleInland Inc jumped 25 percent to $30.85 after International Paper Co agreed to buy it for $32 per share. International Paper rose 8.9 percent to $27.77. Trading volume was lower than usual at 7.9 billion shares on the New York Stock Exchange, the American Stock Exchange and Nasdaq. Decliners beat advancers by nearly than three-to-one on the New York Stock Exchange. On Nasdaq, decliners beat advancers by about two-to-one. (Reporting by Edward Krudy; Editing by Leslie Adler) This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: A 'Malign Intellectual Subculture' - George Monbiot Smears Chomsky, Herman, Peterson, Pilger And Media Lens.
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Evangelicals Snubbed in Cathedral's 9/11 Program

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and I wish the president would refuse to speak unless it was more representative. AP Richard Weinberg, the National Cathedral Cathedrals director of A weekend of religious-themed communications, confirmed that o b s e r v a n c e s a t W a s h i n g t o n Southern Baptists were not National Cathedral marking the e x t e n d e d a n i n v i t a t i o n t o tenth anniversary of the participate. September 11 terrorist attacks will The goal was to have interfaith include a Buddhist nun and an representation, he told Fox News Imam, but not an evangelical Radio. The Cathedral itself is an Christian, leading the head of the Episcopal church and it stands to Southern Baptist Convention to reason that our own clergy serve a s k P r e s i d e n t O b a m a t o as Christian representatives. reconsider attending the event. He said the Washington National A Call to Compassion will Cathedral serves as the spiritual include an interfaith prayer vigil home for the nation and as such, on Sept. 11. It will feature the he said that diversity was first dean of the Cathedral, the Bishop and foremost a factor in the of Washington, a rabbi, Buddhist planning. nun and incarnate lama, a Hindu We certainly aim to appeal to as priest, the president of the Islamic many in the country as possible Society of North America and a and feel that our events are not Muslim musician. any one slice that could ever However, Southern Baptists, represent the entire country -- but representing the nations largest that we are doing our best Protestant denomination, were not commemorate the events as it fits invited to participate and neither with our mission, Weinberg said. were leaders from any evangelical On Sunday night the Cathedral Christian organization. will host President Obama as he Its not surprising, said Frank delivers remarks in a program Page, president of the Southern called, A Concert of Hope. At Baptist Convention Executive least five faith leaders will deliver Committee. There is a tragic prayers but those individuals have intolerance toward Protestants and not been identified. particularly toward evangelicals Weinberg said the presidents
Perkins told Fox News Radio. It is historically inaccurate that in times of need or mourning that Americans pray to the Hindu or Buddhist Gods or the God of Islam. America is overtly a Christian nation that prays to the Judeo-Christian God and specifically to Jesus Christ. Page called political correctness the elephant in the room. It is very clear that it is that it is not politically correct to include evangelical Christians, he said. Obviously, tolerance is at work event will be a secular service, a n d m a n y , m a n y s e r v i c e here. In a nation whose current but said given the setting it will members, nearly six thousand, God is tolerance, it is absolutely include an interfaith benediction. and of course that would count hypocritical that the major group Page said President Obama much more if we counted civilian to be excluded and be intolerant should cancel his appearance at lives lost. of is evangelical Christians. the Cathedral. They are also a group that we Click here to read more on the I think it would send a very want to keep in mind and lift up, story at Fox News Radio. strong and very positive signal to he said. This entry passed through the the left wing extremists in our Tony Perkins, president of the Full-Text RSS service if this is country that the president ought Family Research Council, told your content and you're reading it not show up, Page said, calling Fox News Radio the lineup was on someone else's site, please read their exclusion purposeful. better suited for the United the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentThe White House referred Nations than the United States. only/faq.php#publishers. Five questions about the services to the Three quarters of the American Filters featured article: A 'Malign Cathedral. people identify as Christian and Intellectual Subculture' - George First and foremost, the breadth of nearly a third of them are M o n b i o t S m e a r s C h o m s k y , the programming aims to honor evangelical Christian, Perkins Herman, Peterson, Pilger And those who were most affected by said. And yet, there is not a Media Lens. the tragedy of 9/11, Weinberg s i n g l e e v a n g e l i c a l o n t h e said. We also recognize as a p r o g r a m . Cathedral that this country has Theres no doubt that this is been engaged in two wars abroad clearly politically correct,
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Guard Members Killed in Rampage

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Authorities have identified the gunman who shot five uniformed National Guard members with an AK-47 at a Nevada IHOP, killing two of them and a third person in a hail of gunfire as a 32-year-old local man with no known affiliations with anyone inside the restaurant. Police say Eduardo Sencion of Carson City arrived in a minivan registered to his brother, and opened fire at an IHOP restaurant in Nevada's capital city Tuesday, wounding seven people and killing three before fatally shooting himself. Carson City Sheriff Kenny Furlong told the Las Vegas Review-Journal that the suspect was a local man with no criminal history. Furlong says Sencion was not in the military and had worked at a family business in South Lake Tahoe. "We came into this with everything we had. All agencies were committed to it," Furlong told the Associated Press. "There were concerns at the onset, so we took certain steps to ensure we had the capability to embrace an even larger circumstance. At this point in time it appears to be isolated to this parking lot." Witnesses said a man pulled up in a blue minivan around 9 a.m. at the IHOP restaurant in a strip mall on Carson City's main street. He shot a man on a motorcycle, then
walked inside the restaurant and started shooting, said Ralph Swagler, owner of Locals Barbecue in the same strip mall as the IHOP. One of the two Guard members killed was a man; the other was a woman, authorities said. Swagler told the Reno GazetteJournal that after several minutes, the man walked outside and began firing into the Locals Barbecue and an H&R Block in the strip mall.
"This happens in third-world countries, not here," Swagler said. Fran Hunter, who works at Sierra Le Bone, a pet shop just north of the IHOP, told the newspaper that the suspect fired at least two shots toward Casino Fandango across the street. "I don't know what's happening to my city," Hunter said. "This happens in L.A. or Las Vegas but not here." Local and state police and FBI agents descended on the scene,
and yellow police tape surrounded the parking lot at the restaurant, which is near a Kohl's department store. Renown Regional Medicare Center spokesman Dan Davis told The Associated Press four victims of the shooting were being treated at the hospital in Reno, but he said he could not discuss their condition or provide any other information. Kurt Althof, public relations manager for Care Flight, told the
Gazette-Journal three victims had been taken to the hospital by helicopter and that two were in critical condition. Nevada Highway Patrol Trooper Chuck Allen said extra security measures were put in place at state and military buildings in northern Nevada as a safety precaution. "As you know, when you have people in uniform who are GUARD page 25
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U.S. bank stocks slide on mortgage worries

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shares. The drop in the share prices of JPMorgan and Bank of America A trader works on the floor of the - the two biggest U.S. banks -New York Stock Exchange, exceeded the 1.7 percent decline September 6, 2011. in the KBW Bank Index and 0.7 C r e d i t : R e u t e r s / B r e n d a n percent decline in the broader McDermid S&P 500 Index. By Joe Rauch Analysts said investors are CHARLOTTE, North Carolina| becoming concerned the industry Tue Sep 6, 2011 4:23pm EDT faces a long slog of litigation due (Reuters) - JPMorgan Chase & Co to toxic mortgages. The suit by and Bank of America led bank Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac's stocks lower on Tuesday after regulator is just the latest addition mortgage lawsuits filed late on to those worries. Friday aggravated investor fears "People are realizing there are no that the biggest banks could face easy solutions and this could drag massive legal liabilities. on for years," said Matt Late on Friday, the Federal McCormick, portfolio manager Housing Finance Agency sued 17 with Cincinatti-based Bahl & large U.S. banks and financial Gaynor Investment Counsel. institutions over $200 billion in In August, investors pounded the subprime mortgage-backed bonds, shares of Bank of America -- the now owned by Fannie Mae and largest U.S. bank -- on fears it Freddie Mac. would need to raise as much as JPMorgan shares declined 3.4 $50 billion in capital to absorb percent to close at $33.44 and mortgage losses and fight related Bank of America Corp dropped litigation. 3.6 percent to $6.99, outpacing a U.S. banks have recently faced 2.5 percent fall for Citigroup Inc more lawsuits from investors who
purchased mortgage-backed securities during the housing boom that are now comprised of toxic home loans. Investors allege the loans were improperly made and failed to meet guarantees made by the banks at the time they were sold. Those guarantees -- known as representations and warranties -are now at the heart of billions of dollars of repurchase claims. But until Friday, regulators had not sued over the issue. "When you have a regulator suing on behalf of the parties it regulates, that's bad news," said Jefferson Harralson, a bank analyst with Keefe, Bruyette & Woods Inc. The legal worries have been particularly acute at Bank of America, which bought Countrywide Financial Corp -- the country's largest subprime mortgage lender -- in July 2008. The shares of the Charlotte, North Carolina-based bank have lost half their value this year and plunged by more than 20 percent
in early August after insurer American International Group Inc filed a $10 billion suit over mortgages. The plunge was temporarily arrested by a $5 billion investment in the bank by billionaire Warren Buffett, announced on August 25. The news sent Bank of America shares up by as much as 26 percent. But on Tuesday, Bank of America shares dipped back to the closing price on the day before the Buffett investment was announced. (Reporting by Joe Rauch; editing by Andre Grenon) This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: A 'Malign Intellectual Subculture' - George Monbiot Smears Chomsky, Herman, Peterson, Pilger And Media Lens.
Omar wonders about Tihar politico inmates' party symbol Times of India
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India Today Omar wonders about Tihar politico inmates' party symbol Times of India NEW DELHI: As number of politicians being lodged in Tihar Jail is increasing, Jammu & Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah appeared to have revelled over the episode on Tuesday wondering what would be the symbol of political party if these inmates... Tihar's political party ? Wonders Omar Hindustan Times Kashmir: Time for truth and reconciliation? NDTV.com Kashmir close to political solution: Omar Abdullah Daily News & Analysis Zee News- India TodayNewsClick all 49 news articles
Transport for London tests bus countdown clock website

Commuters in London are now able to find out when their next bus is coming, thanks to a data
feed that's recently been opened up by Transport for London. The capital has about 19,000 bus stops, but only 2,000 of them have electronic countdown
displays which tell you how many
minutes you'll have to wait for the next vehicle. For the rest of the bus stops, users can now get that same info on their phone. Continue reading...
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War Crimes Court Convicts Former Yugoslavian Army Chief

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Perisic repeatedly exercised his authority to provide logistical and Former Yugoslav army chief personnel assistance that made it Momcilo Perisic was sentenced to possible for the [Bosnian Serb 27 years in prison on Sept 6, by forces] to wage a war." the United Nations war crimes To assist Bosnian Serb forces, he court in The Hague. (ICTY) provided logistical support as well Former Yugoslav army chief as large amounts of troops, Momcilo Perisic was sentenced to artillery, ammunition, fuel, spare 27 years in prison on Tuesday, by parts, training, and other forms of the United Nations war crimes assistance during the conflict. court in The Hague. The 67-yearThe tribunal added that the old was convicted of war crimes communist general knew that and crimes against humanity for their operations encompassed aiding Bosnian Serb military grave and systematic crimes forces that were responsible for against Muslim civilians, which the massacre in Srebrenica and included the indiscriminate the four-year siege of Sarajevo in sniping and shelling of civilians. the mid-1990s in what is now For several years, the tribunal has Bosnia and Croatia. been investigating allegations Perisic is the first person that the against top-level officials in the Yugoslav tribunal convicted of former Yugoslavia for their roles war crimes committed during the in the conflict. In the city of Balkan wars, the tribunal noted. Srebrenica, more than 8,000 He was also found guilty of Muslim men and boys were killed assisting crimes committed in by Bosnian Serb troopsthe Zagreb in 1995, when Bosian worst post-World War II atrocity Serb-aligned forces fired rockets committed in Europe. at the city, killing seven and The court noted that Perisic did injuring dozens more. not have superior responsibility The tribunal trial concluded, but said he was in charge of a well
-organized operation to send military aid to the Bosnian Serb army. Just three months earlier, the Serbian government handed over fugitive war crimes suspect Ratko Mladic for allegedly ordering troops to commit the killings in Srebrenica.
Although Perisic had a collaborative relationship with Mladic, there is no evidence that he exercised effective control over him or any other Yugoslav army officer during the war, said Judge Bakone Moloto, the presiding judge for the tribunal. His lawyer, Gregor Guy-Smith,
told AFP that his client was not pleased with the conviction and would file an appeal. Perisics trial lasted more than three years, with more than 100 witnesses and nearly 3,800 evidence exhibits, including delivery forms, personnel files, internal military reports, and communication records. Since the tribunal for war crimes in Yugoslavia was established, it has indicted 161 people accused of violating humanitarian law during the war. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: A 'Malign Intellectual Subculture' - George Monbiot Smears Chomsky, Herman, Peterson, Pilger And Media Lens.
8 tips for getting a Twitter chat off the ground

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your fan community, but it takes a little planning to launch one successfully, SmartBrief's Jesse Twitter chats can be a fun, Stanchak writes. It's important to informative way to get to know maintain a clear focus, use the
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Milky Way Could Be Loaded With Time Bombs

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Artist's conception of a supernova explosion about to obliterate an orbiting Saturn-like planet. (David A. Aguilar/CfA) White dwarfs scattered throughout our galaxy could be ticking time bombs ready to explode as Type Ia supernovae once their rapid spins slow down. These burned out old stars usually weigh up to 1.4 times the sun's mass, a measurement known as the Chandrasekhar mass. If a white dwarf was heavier, gravity would compact it, causing nuclear fusion and a supernova. Extra mass could be acquired via two white dwarfs merging or gas accretion from a companion star, the more likely scenario, but evidence in support of this theory is scarcely seen in Type Ia supernovae. No donor stars have been found, and traces of hydrogen and helium near supernovae are absent, even though small amounts of unaccreted matter would be expected. Instead, white dwarf spin could provide an explanation because a spin-up/spin-down process would create a delay between the time of accretion and the supernova.
"We haven't found one of these 'time bomb' stars yet in the Milky Way, but this research suggests that we've been looking for the wrong signs," astrophysicist Rosanne Di Stefano of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) said in a press release. While gaining mass, a white dwarf's angular momentum and spin would increase, thus crossing the 1.4-solar-mass barrier to form
accretion and the explosion, allowing the companion star to evolve into a second white dwarf, and any surrounding matter to dissipate. On this basis, astronomers estimate that there are three Type Ia supernovae every one thousand years in the Milky Way, meaning there could be plenty of supernova precursors within a few thousand light-years of Earth. "We don't know of any superChandrasekhar-mass white dwarfs in the Milky Way yet, but we're looking forward to hunting them out," said co-author Rasmus Voss at Holland's Radboud University Nijmegen in the release. The study was published online in The Astrophysical Journal Letters on Sept. 1. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is a super-Chandrasekhar-mass star. your content and you're reading it As accretion diminishes, so does on someone else's site, please read the spin rate, generating a the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentsupernova once gravity cannot be only/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: A 'Malign counteracted. "Astronomers therefore must take Intellectual Subculture' - George angular momentum of accreting M o n b i o t S m e a r s C h o m s k y , white dwarfs seriously, even Herman, Peterson, Pilger And though it's very difficult science," Media Lens. De Stefano said. The time delay from the spindown process could be up to a billion years between the end of
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Australian PM Slides in Poll

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Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard speaks at a joint press conference at Parliament House on September 3, in Canberra, Australia. (Stefan Postles/Getty Images) Public support for Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard is declining rapidly, with a Newspoll on Tuesday saying that her dissatisfaction rating is at 68 percent. The poll, which was published in The Australian newspaper, found that 57 percent of voters preferred former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd to Gillard. Gillard assumed the post of Australia's prime minister in June last year after ousting Kevin Rudd in what Australian media at the time described as a "bloodless coup." Those polled also said they would prefer opposition leader Tony Abbott to Gillard. The Newspoll also found that Gillards approval rating fell 6 percentage points within two weeks to a record low 23 percent. It is the worst approval rating for a prime minister since Paul Keatings tenure during the mid-
1990s. I dont do this job as Prime Minister because I want to see it reflected in opinion polls, Gillard told The Australian. In a democracy, it isnt about looking at fortnightly opinion polls it is about making decisions that give people opportunities and prosperity today, Gillard, a member of the Labor Party, added. Gillard has been under fire, since she took office a year ago by conservatives, over new mining and carbon taxes. She maintained that she is not going anywhere and that she will
lead her partys elections in two years, according to The Herald Sun newspaper. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: A 'Malign Intellectual Subculture' - George Monbiot Smears Chomsky, Herman, Peterson, Pilger And Media Lens.
launched to ease the franc. Swiss Economy Minster Johann Schneider-Ammann, who has proposed 870 million francs in government aid to counter the impact of the franc, welcomed the SNB action: " "It has a material impact and especially a psychological impact." The strong franc has started to dampen exports, hurting companies like speciality chemicals maker Clariant AG which cut its 2011 sales target on Monday, while the tourism sector is also suffering as foreign visitors stay away. Hildebrand said the costs associated with capping the soaring franc would be high, but it was necessary to stop the currency's strength causing longterm damage to the economy. "The strong national currency is presenting existential problems not only to the export sector and tourism but the whole Swiss economy," Gerold Buehrer, president of business lobby group Economiesuisse, said in a statement. "It is central that politicians and business stand united behind the
national bank." The SNB step should also help economies in eastern Europe with two-thirds of mortgages in Hungary and about half of Poland's denominated in Swiss francs. "This unusual step by the Swiss National Bank should be seen positively," said UniCredit unit Bank Austria, the leading lender in emerging Europe. But it added: "For the holders of foreign currency loans this is by no means the all-clear." (Additional reporting by Katie Reid and Caroline Copley; Editing by Hugh Lawson) This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: A 'Malign Intellectual Subculture' - George Monbiot Smears Chomsky, Herman, Peterson, Pilger And Media Lens.
Businessman-philanthropist Dan David dies (AP)

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AP - Romanian-born businessman Dan David, who set up a foundation to award $1
million prizes to people who impact society in science, culture and other fields, died Tuesday. He was 82.
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randomly targeted for whatever reason this may have been, it is a safety precaution we take very seriously," Allen said. Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., released a statement expressing condolences to the victims' families. "I'm deeply saddened by this senseless act and extend my sympathies to those afflicted this morning," Reid said. "I applaud the first responders for their professionalism, and my thoughts are with the victims and their families during this difficult time." Rep. Joe Heck, R-Nev., posted on
Twitter that his heart and prayers go out to the victims' friends and families. And state Sen. Ben Kieckhefer tweeted: "My God be with the families of those hurt and killed in the senseless violence today in Carson City." The Associated Press contributed to this report Sept. 6: Officers look through a bullet-damaged window of an IHOP restaurant in Carson City. Seven people were wounded after a gunman opened fire at the restaurant, authorities said. This picture, provided by the Reno Journal Gazette, shows the IHOP restaurant in Carson City,
Nev., where multiple people were shot Tuesday. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/content- (Nation - Google News) only/faq.php#publishers. Five Submitted at 9/6/2011 10:32:40 PM Filters featured article: A 'Malign Intellectual Subculture' - George The Age M o n b i o t S m e a r s C h o m s k y , Police investigate stabbing death Herman, Peterson, Pilger And in Dandenong Media Lens. Herald Sun Police at the scene where a man was stabbed in Dandenong. Picture: Ellen Smith Source: Herald Sun THE homicide squad
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In an Age of Austerity, London Riots May Be Just the Beginning

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Riots, like those that wracked the U.K. last month, tend to be portrayed as either righteous rebellions of the oppressed or mere criminality. The truth is that riots are propelled by a complex mixture of political motivations and the enjoyment by everyday people of the power to loot and otherwise transgress without punishment. The spectacle of British police losing the tactical advantage to swarms of
electronically networked rioters amid general government paralysis does not bode well for a future in which economic austerity collides with raw public anger. Politics is about power, and containment of the crowd is a core element of state power. The modern state is built on massive legalized coercion, as sociologist Charles Tilly noted. Power, in turn, is maintained through a combination of legitimacy and coercion. Significant political disturbances are rare in advanced Western
states because the main currents of political life are contained within representative systems of government. But the existence of a powerful state apparatus that is simultaneously respected and feared prevents discontent and criminality from boiling over into mass social disturbance. We obey the law both because we see doing so as natural and because we have little choice. But when we no longer respect the legitimacy of power and cease to fear the consequences of resistance, the passivity of the populace also
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GoM on graft pushes Amar Singh to share cell with Madhu Koda for transparency - Times of India Times of India
Bank of America chief executive Brian Moynihan shakes up management

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Bank of America has promoted Tom Montag and David Darnell to co-chief operating officers and announced the departures of wealth management division head Sallie Krawcheck and consumer banking leader Joseph Price, Bloomberg reported.
AT&Ts Response To Sprints Lawsuit: Bring It On

Greg Kumparak (TechCrunch)
The full text of the response: This simply demonstrates what weve said all along Sprint is And the fun just goes on, and on, more interested in protecting itself and on. than it is in promoting Following this mornings news c o m p e t i t i o n t h a t b e n e f i t s that Sprint is suing AT&T/T- consumers. We of course will Mobile in an attempt to block vigorously contest this matter in their proposed merger, AT&T has court as AT&Ts merger with Tjust returned with a response. As Mobile USA will: help solve our you might expect, it pretty much n a t i o n s s p e c t r u m e x h a u s t boils down to Yeah, yeah, see situation and improve wireless you in court. Oh, and here are service for millions; allow AT&T some reasons were awesome. t o e x p a n d 4 G L T E m o b i l e
broadband to another 55 million Americans, or 97% of the population; and result in billions of additional investment and tens of thousands of jobs, at a time when our nation needs them most. How else could they have responded, really? Tucked tail and given up? Of course not. AT&Ts not about to give up on this one if only because doing so would mean they still have to cough up around $6 billion to T-Mobile thanks to a few fail-safes in the
deal terms. AT&Ts already battling the Department of Justice and trying to maneuver their way through investigations lead by just about every other branch of the government in the grand scheme of things, Sprints lawsuit is just a means of forcing AT&T to spread their legal team that much thinner. Crunchbase SPRINT NEXTEL Company: SPRINT NEXTEL Website: Launch Date:
1999 IPO: NYSE:S Sprint Nextel offers a comprehensive range of wireless and wireline communications services bringing the freedom of mobility to consumers, businesses and government users. Sprint Nextel is widely recognized for developing,... Learn more
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How to Run the Modern-Day Cross -Country Caravan: 3 Cars with Broadband
David Strom (ReadWriteWeb)
survive? This isn't Tippins & Crew first Submitted at 9/6/2011 5:15:18 PM cross-country trip: they have done What is required to take your many over several summers. But family on a cross-country move it is the biggest caravan and these days? With four kids, four probably the best organized, given adults and three vehicles, it isn't their past experience. And it easy. You might need almost a makes sense, given the family: full-time IT department to keep when I visited their home in the everything running, or at least a East Bay earlier this summer, full-time mediator to broker who there was so much hardware is going to get which electronic strewn around their living areas I d e v i c e . I t i s p a r t C a r m e n thought I was in Best Buy, or at Sandiego, part Matt Lauer, and all least one of the better equipped Robyn Tipps and family. Tippins computer labs that I have worked is our community manager and in. The living room contained she and her family are relocating Tippins' office, a large screen TV, from left to right coast this week. and several video boxes such as a Sponsor DVR, an AppleTV, and a few There is the mobile broadband to other devices. But now they have distribute Internet to everyone, packed up all their gear and are on plus Nintendo DS units for each the road, crossing somewhere child and a DVD player for those over the Texas border hopefully that want to watch movies. Plus tonight. iPads and full-fledged computers So far the Eastward Ho for the grown ups, who are trying experience hasn't had any big to get work done while in transit. issues. "The Arizona desert is Remember when we were little really the only place so far that we and played the license plate struggle with connectivity," said game? Or when vans came with a Tippins. And everyone is very self single DVD player as a factory- -directed, which helps to keep the installed option? They seem so device conflicts to a minimum. quaint now. How did we ever So if you are contemplating such
years, now they use a special charger that looks like a coffee mug and has two AC outlets, and plugs into the lighter port. Walkie-talkie radios are helpful too, though Tippins uses a selfinstalled 25W Kenwood UHF mobile unit in 2 cars with a repeater in car 3. Communication that won't fail is essential if you have multiple cars and you get separated by a few miles and you want to coordinate your rest stops. a journey, consider these battle- A cell phone isn't fast enough to tested travel tips from Tippins. s a y , " Q u i c k , t u r n h e r e . " Everyone has their own screen, Software. Bring plenty of games now a DS isn't exactly on par with and DVDs for the kids, goes a 17-inch MacBook Pro, but still without saying. Analog fun also it can keep the little ones engaged never goes out of style. A pad for hours. Power management is and a box of colored pencils or key."In the beginning we used a crayons each keeps all aged DC inverter, wired to the cigarette c h i l d r e n h a p p y . M u l t i p l e lighter. Once we wired the broadband accounts are useful. inverter straight to the battery, Use tethering options or Mifi to which worked fine. We learned share them amongst your brood. not to use the auxiliary cigarette lighter outlet. We burned out the master relay in the van and had to change that (a fuse) along the way, to get our blinkers, ABS, and air conditioning back." After Discuss using a more industrial-strength under-the-seat inverter for several
In pictures: Dyson Awards unveil UK winners

Submitted at 9/6/2011 10:50:00 AM
A retractable room divider based on technology used in space, by the military and the oil and gas industry, has won the national leg of the James Dyson Award and with it, 1,000. Launched eight months ago, the KwickScreen is already in use within 25 NHS Trusts as well as in hospitals in Italy, Canada and UAE. It uses RolaTube Technology to create 3m-wide screens that can be stored away into a cartridge just 25cm wide. The screens are being used to section off isolation areas in hospitals -- but designer Michael Korn adds that his company has also had interest from schools, interior design outfits and office architects, among others. Continue reading...
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Groupon postponing IPO over market chaos?

(CNET News.com)
their initial price of $25. However, the market has been hit hard over the last few months. Daily-deals provider Groupon With the financial crisis in Europe has decided to postpone its initial c o n t i n u i n g t o w o r s e n , a n d public offering, The Wall Street economic and political issues in Journal is reporting, citing the United States prompting the anonymous sources. Standard & Poors rating agency to The Journal's sources claim that downgrade the U.S. debt rating Groupon's management has from AAA to AA+, the markets decided against an IPO anytime swung wildly. Such volatility, soon due to the stock market's which continues to linger, is fine continued "volatility." Initially, f o r s a v v y i n v e s t o r s , b u t the Journal's sources claim, companies looking to go public Groupon was planning to price its are finding a difficult environment shares during the middle of in which to initially offer their September and go public soon shares. thereafter. Related stories: Groupon filed for its IPO with Groupon files its IPO papers the U.S. Securities and Exchange Zynga files for IPO Commission in June. The $750 Carbonite shares rise in first day million IPO could value the of trading company at a reported $20 billion The less than ideal conditions of to $25 billion, depending on the the current IPO market was made n u m b e r o f s h a r e s i t w o u l d abundantly clear last month, when eventually offer. online-backup provider Carbonite When Groupon announced plans went public. The company was to go public, the stock market forced to offer its shares at $10, a p p e a r e d w e l c o m i n g f o r rather than the $15 to $17 a share companies hoping to score big for which it initially hoped. with an IPO. In May, LinkedIn During a call with reporters last saw its shares soar 109 percent in month, Carbonite co-founder and its first day of trading. Later that CEO David Friend said his month, Yandex shares were company almost wasn't able to go offered on the Nasdaq, and they public, due to concerns from closed the day at $37.75, up from i n v e s t m e n t b a n k s o v e r t h e
viability of such a move. Carbonite shares are now trading at about $12. Whether or not other companies will want to follow Carbonite in navigating the choppy waters toward an IPO remains to be seen. At this point, it might simply be the wrong time and the wrong market for going public. Groupon, naturally, isn't the only Internet company being forced to make the public-or-private decision. Earlier this year, socialgaming company Zynga announced plans to go public. Last month, however, reports surfaced claiming that Zynga is also considering delaying its IPO because of chaos in the stock market. Groupon declined CNET's request for comment. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: A 'Malign Intellectual Subculture' - George Monbiot Smears Chomsky, Herman, Peterson, Pilger And Media Lens.
Android TouchPad Project Finally Gets Working Touch Screens

Chris Velazco (TechCrunch)
Its not clear whether or not Team TouchDroids experimental TouchPad has anything else going Regardless of your thoughts on for it, like working WiFi or audio, what OS should be used on HPs but its certainly within the realm TouchPad, work on getting a fully of possibility. These are, after all, -featured version of Android up the guys who managed to get a and running continues unabated. TouchPad to successfully dual Theres been a lot of progress in boot into both Android and the past few weeks, but a group of WebOS. devs revealed today that one Considering the collective crucial piece of the puzzle has just amount of time poured into this been popped into place: the touch project, its starting to look like a screen finally works! feature-complete Android In addition to getting a TouchPad TouchPad is going to materialize going on Android 2.3.5, a video sooner rather than later. It could released by Team TouchDroid happen just in the nick of time, earlier today shows that their new too: with HP possibly churning multitouch drivers seem to work out a farewell production run, a without a hitch. The TouchPad user-friendly port process (which can detect up to ten input points is required to claim Hacknmods simultaneously, which is utter bounty) could give clamoring overkill for most applications, but consumers yet another reason to its heartening to see nonetheless. mob their local retailers. With this, HPs FrankenPad is one step closer to being a reality.
Daily App Deals: Take Control of Your Hard Drives with Partition Manager, Free for Today [Deals]
John Verive (Lifehacker)
The Daily App Deals post is a round-up of the best app discounts of the day, as well as some
notable mentions for ones that are on sale. More
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Can Google Grow Up?

David Strom (ReadWriteWeb)
As mentioned last week on Google's blog, this fall the company will shut down a series of services, including Aardvark, Desktop, Notebook, Web Security (the original Postini technology) and others less well known. Jeff Reeves at Smart Money magazine has even suggested spinning off several divisions to give Google more focus, and giving employees an incentive for some of its farout ideas. Sponsor But first, you'll need a scorecard to keep track. Some of the shutdowns are complete: for example, with Google Desktop, nothing will kept up: the APIs, gadgets, plug-ins and everything else will go away next week. Other shutdowns are more transitional: For example, Google will continue to support existing Web Security customers, although it will not sell any new subscriptions. And Aardvark? Shuttered. All we can do is sigh. ( See here for our thoughts on when Google acquired them.) What does this mean? Obviously, Google is maturing as a company,
and even with all of its resources can't continue many of its product lines. The Postini acquisition is a good case in point. When Google acquired them four years ago, they were one of the leaders in email filtering and Web security. Since then, Google has integrated these features into their browsers and email products. According to a PR rep, the full set of remaining email-related Postini services, such as Google Message Continuity, will continue to be sold and supported. But this maturation process is tricky, as any parent can tell you. What kind of adult is Google going to be when it grows up? A surly teen that never comes out of its room, other than for meals? A spoiled child who always gets
what it wants? A polished welladjusted adult, with lots of friends and a nice house in the suburbs, or at least in a fancy San Francisco neighborhood? Or, as Reeves suggests, twins that eventually part ways, with one taking all the excitement and the other delivering more predictable performance and profits? Google's blog claims "this will make things much simpler for our users, improving the overall Google experience." I disagree. While shutting down services is never easy, it isn't about the experience; it is about saving money on under-performing assets, or reassigning engineering talent elsewhere, or because the original developers for these services have left the company and no one else has picked up the ball. Or perhaps because at its core Google is a cloud-based company and anything that it creates that requires a download to your desktop (like Desktop) is going to be marked as a potential short-timer. I just wish they could be more forthcoming in their announcements. Discuss
Reminder: Help Us Celebrate TC Gadgets And Mobile At Our First San Francisco Meet-Up On 9/15
John Biggs (TechCrunch)
San Franciscans, start your thrusters. On September 15 at 6:30pm TechCrunch Mobile and Gadgets will host our first meetup at Roe @ 651 Howard St. in sunny SF. Sponsored by Samsung, this meet-up will be the first chance for our readers to get ahold of some of Samsungs latest products including the justannounced Galaxy S II. It is an event not to be missed. Well have some finger food, a little dancing, maybe some networking and an open bar (Its 21 and over, obviously). We invite you to meet the entire TCG/ M team and chill with some of Samsungs newest gear and the chance to win a new Samsung Infuse 4G. Specs:
Date: Thursday, 9/15/11 Time: 6:30-9:30pm Location: Roe To RSVP pop over to this Eventbrite link and sign up. Well be releasing six hundred tickets over the next two weeks so there will be plenty of chances to sign up. This next batch of 250 tickets is waiting for your click. Special thanks to Samsung for the sponsorship and we hope to see you in SF on September 15. Samsung Telecommunications America, LLC, a Dallas-based subsidiary of Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., researches, develops and markets wireless handsets, wireless infrastructure and other telecommunications products throughout North America. For more information, please visit www.samsung.com.
Hoover, Alaska artist of Native imagery, has died (AP)

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A Budgeting Solution to Keep You Sane

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AP - John Hoover, a revered artist in Alaska who used imagery and tales from Native traditions in contemporary works, has died at 91.
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Windows Phone apps could run on Windows 8

Rue Liu (SlashGear)
There could be some good news for Windows Phone developers that are frustrated with the platforms current penetration of less than 2% of the smartphone market. Windows Phone apps may be able to run on Windows 8, which would mean that the time spent on developing apps for the meager platform hasnt gone to waste. Instead, the same apps may suddenly find a whole new market with the most popular computing platform in the world. Microsoft has been hinting that its tablets, phones, PCs, and TVs would eventually run on one single platform for a unified and streamlined ecosystem. Back in July, during the WPC event, Microsoft exec Andy Lees had further emphasized this vision, which led to predictions that the convergence could happen as soon as 2015right at the junction where the Xbox 360s 10-
year life cycle and the Windows 8 3-year life cycle meetup for a full revamp. And now in an interview with CNET, chipmaker NVIDIAs CEO seems to further confirm this development, saying that he believes that Windows Phone apps will run on Windows 8. NVIDIA is a huge supplier of ARM-based processors for both
smartphones and tablets, second only to Qualcomm, while Windows 8 will be the first Microsoft desktop operating system to support ARM. But for more official details on Windows 8, well have to wait until Microsofts Build developer conference later this month, where its expected that the company will do a more in-depth
preview of the next-gen platform and possibly giveaway compatible hardware to attending developers. [ via Business Insider] Relevant Entries on SlashGear.com Windows Phone 7 App Marketplace Growing Windows Phone 7 Drawing Developer Interest A Juicy Surprise for
Tomorrow says Microsofts Sr. Director of Communications for Windows Phone 3,000 Windows Phone 7 apps and 15k developers boasts Microsoft Microsoft To Port Zune HD Apps To Windows Phone Microsoft Wants Android devs to work on Windows Phone 7 apps too, offers translation dictionary 2,000 Windows Phone 7 apps at launch; Samsung Cetus for Three UK? Windows Phone 7 Marketplace Now Has 5,000 Applications and Games Windows Phone apps could run on Windows 8 is written by Rue Liu& originally posted on SlashGear. 2005 - 2011, SlashGear. All right reserved.
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PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 Modded into One Console

Chris Burns (SlashGear)
It wasnt a matter of IF it were going to happen, it was much more a matter of WHEN and that time is now a single box with two of the top gaming systems in the world running in and out of it, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. Reddit user timofiend has found what he considers the perfect combination of two systems and a rather simple encasement for a single gaming unit that stomps out all others. As many commenters on the project have mentioned already: finally theres a use for this ol PC tower Ive got lying around. Of course those offended by such claims that build-your-own PCs are out will be glad to know that without a doubt the culture is
alive and well, not least of all here in this timofiend project. What the developer has reported thus far is no large problems on the software OR hardware front, noting instead that hes working on an instructions list for those that hope to create the same setup in the near future. Heat, on the other hand, may be an issue for some folks, but timofiend has some sort of open air situation where it doesnt matter. Instead of liquid cooling, which would have been rather expensive when it came down to it, timofiend appears to have been alright with the temps: 37-38 degrees celsius (98.6-100 degrees fahrenheit) for the Xbox 360 and 38-39 degrees celsius (100-102 degrees fahrenheit) for the PS3. One of the reasons why more cooling was not installed was the
Xbox 360 Slim gets torn down hardware geek style Xbox 360 Spring 2011 Update Rolls Out Two New Features Microsoft Xbox 360 Sees Some Staggering Failure Rates X-Arcade announces PS2 to Xbox 360 adapter for X-Arcade controllers Why I Dont Have A Favorite Game Console Xbox 360s Hacked; Microsoft Cries Foul Its Official: Xbox 360 Is the Best Console of This Generation large size of the guts on the bigger -version PS3(aka not the slim model) used for this setup. Were hoping timofiend can work in a few more consoles in the future thinking of a Wii U and heck, why not, an N64 for a wild card? Check out some of the images from this masterpiece below: [ via Reddit] Relevant Entries on SlashGear.com New Xbox 360 torn down and modded PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 Modded into One Console is written by Chris Burns& originally posted on SlashGear. 2005 - 2011, SlashGear. All right reserved.
Q&A: Richard Stallman on free software, the UK riots, and 'malicious' DVDs
Before Richard Stallman's talk at the Turing Festival, Wired.co.uk sat down with him to talk about
the Free Software Foundation -the movement he started in the 80s whilst working on the GNU/ Linux operating system. The foundation opposes
proprietary software, programs
that don't allow, or restrict, a user's use of them, by not letting users share, or modify, the source code. Wired.co.uk discussed with the Stallman the role of free
software, Facebook and how he thinks it ties in with the recent UK riots. Continue reading...
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Googles Korean offices get raided over Android antitrust concerns

Rue Liu (SlashGear)
Bullet-Filled Wristwatches - The Artya 'Son of a Gun' Features Real Bullets in Its Face (TrendHunter.com)
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Googles offices in Seoul have been raided today by the Korean Fair Trade Commission over antitrust concerns relating to Android. Regulators conducted the investigation based on allegations that Google is limiting access to rival search engines on its Android platform, an investigation likely brought on by complaints from other South Korean internet search engine companies as well as Android mobile device makers. Back in April, two Korean internet companies, NHN and Daum Communications, had asked the KFTC to investigate Googles business practices, alleging that the company was restricting competing search engines from its Android mobile operating system. Other mobile device makers may have also raised concerns on the restrictions Google has in place for using the Android OS. Google has responded that it intends to comply with Korean regulators and has issued the following statement: We will work with the KFTC to address any questions they may
( TrendHunter.com) You would be hard-pressed to find a watch more badass than the Artya 'Son of a Gun.' This watch is custom made by Swedish art watchmaker Artya using actual ammunition. The watch is a one-off and was made...
have about our business. Android is an open platform, and carrier and OEM partners are free to decide which applications and services to include on their Android phones. We do not require carriers or manufacturers to include Google Search or Google applications on Androidpowered devices. The company is under similar investigations here in the US for antitrust concerns involving both Android well as its core search business. [ via CNET]
Relevant Entries on SlashGear.com FTC Antitrust Probe On Google Focuses On Android And Search Googles Seoul Office Raided by Police Developers: Android Fragmentation is a Huge Problem Android still open insists Googles Andy Rubin; Antifragmentation rumors are FUD AT&T, T-Mobile Merger Opposed By Senate Antitrust Subcommittee Chairman Face-Recognition app lights
firestorm between Google and CNN [Updated] Microsoft demands EU antitrust investigation into Google My Two Concerns for Android Googles Korean offices get raided over Android antitrust concerns is written by Rue Liu& originally posted on SlashGear. 2005 - 2011, SlashGear. All right reserved.
Top economists urge Chancellor George Osborne to scrap 50p tax rate
Twenty of Britain's leading economists have urged the Chancellor to scrap the 50p top rate of income tax - for the sake of the recovery.
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20th Anniversary Mac on eBay is new-in-the -box

(CNET News.com)
Get your brand new Twentieth Anniversary Mac right here. (Click to enlarge.)(Credit: Screenshot by Amanda Kooser/ CNET) In 1997, I was watching "The XFiles," going to college, and using floppy disks in computer class. In 1997, Apple was showing off with the Twentieth Anniversary Macintosh (also known as TAM), a sleek and imaginative take on the personal computer. The TAM was ahead of its time. It was slim, had an integrated screen, and shimmered with metal -flake paint. You can now relive all the excitement of ordering and
unboxing your very own TAM by buying one new-in-the-box on eBay. The eBay TAM's accessory box has been opened to check for damage, but the rest of it is pristine. The substantial user manual is still shrink-wrapped. Not surprisingly, the system is being sold as-is. The TAM has a 250MHz PowerPC processor, a CD-ROM drive, 32MB of RAM, a Bose speaker system, a 12.1-inch LCD display, and a keyboard with a luxurious Italian leather palm rest. Yes, it has a floppy disk drive. Those specs won't get you very far with today's software demands, but it's not really about what you can do with it. It's about
having one in your personal Apple museum. It's the sort of item you would place on your fireplace mantel and stare at while sipping a cocktail. You'll have to hurry up and
travel back to 1997 without a souped-up DeLorean. Still need a refresher on this blast from the past? Check out this vintage interview with designer Jonathan Ive talking up the Twentieth Anniversary Mac. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: A 'Malign decide whether to bid, though, as Intellectual Subculture' - George the auction ends tomorrow. The M o n b i o t S m e a r s C h o m s k y , TAM is currently at $3,400. Herman, Peterson, Pilger And That's less than the original Media Lens. $7,500 price tag. It may also be the cheapest possible way to time
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Google Reportedly Willing to Spend Big to Acquire Hulu

John Paul Titlow (ReadWriteWeb)
Google must really want Hulu. As it fields bids from potential future owners, the premium video content site is reportedly seeing the most generous offer come from Google, reports AllThingsD. Google joins Yahoo, Amazon and the Dish Network in bidding on the company, but is apparently going above and beyond what those companies are willing to offer. The exact numbers are not known, but Google may well be offering "a couple billion dollars more" than the other bidders, presumably for an acquisition that goes beyond what Hulu was originally offering to sell. Sponsor Hulu is selling its video website and subscription service, along with exclusive content rights for a minimum of two years. Currently, the site is a joint venture between NBCUniversal,
just what the search giant needs to revamp its Google TV product, which has been met with a lukewarm reception in the United States so far. In addition to user experience issues, the platform struggled early on as content providers moved to block their content from working on Google TV-powered devices. That said, if it were to take over Hulu, Google would need to assuage any concerns held by its Fox Entertainment Group and chief content providers, whose Disney-ABC Television Group, businesses are entrenched in the who collectively supply the lion's older, more lucrative distribution share of the site's content. model and may be at liberty to In making an aggressive bid for pull their content from the site at Hulu, Google appears determined some point in the future. to shore up its holdings in the Of course, it's still very early in video content space, where it the game and it's possible that already owns YouTube, the Hulu's owners may end up largest video site on the Internet. holding onto the site. Whatever Historically, the company has had ends up happening with Hulu may a somewhat tense relationship well foretell the future of Internet with traditional content providers, TV, if not indicate a few things although it's been extending a few about the future of the Web in olive branches lately. general. Discuss An acquisition like Hulu could be
Shake-to-Undo on the Mac via open source app

Mike Schramm (TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog)
Like I said, funny. This is more of a joke than anything else -- it's not really practical to be shaking Submitted at 9/6/2011 7:00:00 PM your MacBook around every time This is funny: I've only really you want to undo something. But ever used the "shake-to-undo" on "Shake-to-undo" is pretty cheesy the iPhone either by accident, or as it is, and it's extra silly to be when it wasn't actually available flinging your device around on a (when I had to undo something, bigger computer. Apple's brought and thought the app I was using quite a few iOS features over to supported it). But it can be a Lion lately, but this is one that handy feature for some, and should probably just stick to the because of that, someone (named smaller devices. Nate Stedman) has "ported" it Shake-to-Undo on the Mac via over to the Mac, available for open source app originally download on your laptop appeared on TUAW - The MacBook, MacBook Pro, or Air. Unofficial Apple Weblog on Tue, In other words, install the app, 06 Sep 2011 19:00:00 EST. and then whenever you shake Please see our terms for use of y o u r p o r t a b l e M a c , t h e feeds. accelerometer inside will try Source| Permalink| Email this| whatever Ctrl-Z does on the app Comments you're working on, essentially implementing "shake-to-undo."
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DocsFlow links GoogleDocs with Adobe InDesign

Megan Lavey-Heaton (TUAW The Unofficial Apple Weblog)
MONEY GAME DEBATE: Does Bank Of America Need To Raise More Capital?
Linette Lopez (Money Game)
Earlier this afternoon, I had lunch with a co-worker, and we discussed the pros and cons of Google Docs in newsrooms. The idea is a sound one, but one of the issues was that there's no direct integration with Adobe InDesign that other solutions such as Adobe InCopy has. Almost as if they overheard us, Em Software has released the DocsFlow plug-in for InDesign that integrates Google Docs with Adobe's publishing software. It bills itself as not being a direct competitor to InCopy. InCopy is great for formatting, line breaks, handing copy overflow, etc., and I like it a lot. Google Docs excels at collaboration. It allows editing of the copy in real time and can be accessed by multiple people. For example, if I'm working on a page and the reporter wants to correct something, they just update the Google Docs story connected to the InDesign file, and it's instantly updated. The plug-in itself works
beautifully and is very stable. I tested it with TUAW editor Victor Agreda by placing a document from Google Docs on a blank InDesign, then gave Victor edit permissions. Before: Then, the links panel alerted me of a change: After: DocsFlow is great for freelancers or smaller publications that can't afford traditional pagination systems. It requires InDesign CS
mortgage bond contracts. In fact, Whalen says the problem is beyond raising capital: Things are looking bad for Bank "The only sane way of fixing this of America, its stock is still taking and I mean fix it so that Bank of a beating and the FHFA is suing. America comes out of the process And think, who knows who else restructured, ready to support will want a piece of the bank if growth, support leverage, is a the lawsuit is a success... classic chapter 11..." So does Bank of America needs That's pretty extreme. So what do to raise capital? you think? Is Bank of America Rochdale's Dick Bove says it still going to have to have a serious has a lot of liquid value: yard sale, or do you think they can ...(it) has a credit card business handle everything as they are? worth $77 billion, a capital Leave your thoughts below. markets business worth $75 Please follow Money Game on billion and a deposit business Twitter and Facebook. worth between $20 and $100 Join the conversation about this billion. You can subtract $50 - story $100 billion from that in bad See Also: loans liabilities, but that is risk Wall Street Has Been that does not exist on BoA's books Consistently Over-Bullish On Job - that is risk just because BoA Growth For The Past Decade securitized $2.1 trillion in bad UBS Declares "The Euro Should Not Exist" In A Monster 5 or higher. It's free to try with a loans, he said on C NBC. But what if $50-$100 billion isn't Report On The Odds Of An EU single Google Docs story. A full enough? Chris Whalen, Co- Breakup license is $200 per seat. DocsFlow links GoogleDocs with founder of Institutional Risk GROUPON CANCELS IPO A d o b e I n D e s i g n o r i g i n a l l y Analytics, thinks that the lawsuits R O A D S H O W , S E C W a n t s a p p e a r e d o n T U A W - T h e could force $100s of billions out Answers On Leaked Memo Unofficial Apple Weblog on Tue, of Bank of America if they're 06 Sep 2011 18:00:00 EST. forced to renegotiate busted Please see our terms for use of feeds. Source| Permalink| Email this| Comments
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Study finds post-Steve Jobs consumer optimism

Michael Grothaus (TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog)
the company. Overall, Steve Jobs' resignation has had little material impact on Submitted at 9/6/2011 5:00:00 PM Apple (the stock is currently The general consensus before about $5 higher than its close the Steve Jobs resigned from Apple hour before Jobs' resignation was was that, when he did so, people announced), but as the would expect Apple to go ConsumerAffairs analysis shows downhill from there. However, an consumer faith in the company analysis by ConsumerAffairs also moved in the opposite finds that people's view of Apple direction many would have and its future actually became expected it to. more positive after Jobs resigned. Study finds post-Steve Jobs ConsumerAffairs analyzed 27 consumer optimism originally m i l l i o n T w e e t s , F a c e b o o k 234,000 comments in August, thanks to him [Jobs]." Also of a p p e a r e d o n T U A W - T h e comments, and sentiments from 50% were positive, 30% were interest is that of the 20% of Unofficial Apple Weblog on Tue, other social networking sites over neutral, and only 20% were comments that were negative, 06 Sep 2011 17:00:00 EST. the previous twelve month period. negative. Typical comments most of those focused on pricing Please see our terms for use of After August 24th, the day Steve included: "Apple will be fine or technical issues with Apple feeds. Jobs resigned, positive sentiments thanks to his [Jobs'] leadership" p r o d u c t s , r a t h e r t h a n t h e Source| Permalink| Email this| for Apple hit a high for the year. and "Apple is incredibly solid perceived outlook in the future of Comments ConsumerAffairs says that out of
Head in the Clouds: The Apple iCloud Quiz

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10 Mobile Apps for Film Buffs

"I am big! It's the pictures that got small." -- Norma Desmond in "Sunset Blvd." A waning star rails against a new technology that she accuses of ruining the film industry; if the mere addition of sound made her so bitter, what might she have thought of us watching movies on
Apple iCloud offers easy access to the same music, movies, docs and important data files from anywhere. Think you know iCloud? Test your iCloud knowledge with our quiz. Earn a point for every right answer! Save your score at the end of the quiz. This entry passed through the smartphones, where the pictures In the following pages, we'll look This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is are literally small? Probably at these apps and other must- Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it nothing good, although her haves for the film fanatic's phone. your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read opinion might have softened What these programs lack in on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentsomewhat if she knew that some screen size, they make up for in the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five apps make her out-of-print silent features and portability. You can only/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: A 'Malign films easier to find, read about, use them, not just in a moldering Filters featured article: A 'Malign Intellectual Subculture' - George discuss and watch. Then again, mansion, wrapped in a turban and Intellectual Subculture' - George M o n b i o t S m e a r s C h o m s k y , the app that enables people to find fading glamour, but out in the M o n b i o t S m e a r s C h o m s k y , Herman, Peterson, Pilger And her mansion on Google maps world, wherever you take your Herman, Peterson, Pilger And Media Lens. might not go over so well. Norma mobile device. Media Lens. n e v e r h a d g o o d l u c k w i t h All right, Mr. DeMille, these uninvited guests. apps are ready for their close-ups.
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New and upcoming Apple AirPlay products

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Altec's curvaceous InAir 5000 is due to ship this fall.(Credit: Altec Lansing) Updated September 6, 2011, with five new products, plus updated release dates and pricing. At some point you've probably heard about AirPlay, a wireless streaming feature found on your iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, and your Mac. It was first announced in 2010, but with the arrival of
iOS 4.3, its features have been enhanced, and more third-party consumer electronics manufacturers are adding it to their products. Related links Apple AirPlay: 10 things you need to know How to get started with Apple AirPlay Top 10 AirPlay-compatible apps Alas, only a few products that take advantage of the feature are currently available, with the most popular one (Apple TV) coming
from Apple itself. But plenty more are on the way, so we thought we'd put together a quick roundup of what's out there and
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Greek 1-Year Bond Yield Hits 88.48%; No Comments from Trichet, ECB, or EU
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that matter anyone in the ECB or EU regarding Greek bond yields and the implications of this move. Here is some advice for Trichet Submitted at 9/6/2011 1:37:00 PM Greek one-year bonds march and Drahgi: If you ignore a relentlessly towards a yield of default, it will not go away. 100%. Not that Trichet is listening, but I No Comments from Trichet, offered additional advice in ECB, or EU Trichet Warns Heads of States; During this massive spike, there Italian President Warns "Markets Click Here To Scroll Thru My has been no comment from Lost Confidence in Italy"; IMF Mike "Mish" Shedlock h t t p : / / Recent Post List Mike outgoing ECB president Jean- W a r n s a g a i n o n B a n k globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot. "Mish" Shedlock is a registered Claude Trichet, incoming ECB Capitalization; Mish Warns com investment advisor representative president Mario Drahgi, or for Trichet
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5 ways to save money without spoiling the fun

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7 Things You Didnt Know About the War on Terror - By Eric Schmitt and Thomas Shanker
ERIC SCHMITT, THOMAS SHANKER (Foreign Policy)
Submitted at 9/6/2011 11:18:06 AM
From an attempt to negotiate with Osama bin Laden to a proposal to threaten to bomb Mecca, it's been a wild decade for the U.S. national security establishment. BY ERIC SCHMITT, THOMAS SHANKER| SEPTEMBER 6, 2011 Our new book, Counterstrike: The Untold Story of America's Secret Campaign Against Al Qaeda, is in many ways a summary of the past decade of our reporting on the military, intelligence community, and domestic law enforcement as it entered a new era of Darwinian evolution to counter violent extremism. It also is our deep dive into a decade of American counterterrorism efforts -- from the work of commando triggerpullers and spies on the ground up to senior political leaders who wanted to defend the nation (and get re-elected). Our efforts to report and write this book allowed us to uncover many new missions never discussed before -- and gave us an understanding of how over the last decade. the "war on terror" had changed Our book assesses the 10 years
since 9/11 as the military divides the fight: into tactical missions on
the battlefields of modern terrorism; then the operational
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advancements that provided the means to success while not securing final victory; and at the top, the strategic level of policy debates about how the nation should combat this threat to its security. Here are seven vignettes from Counterstrike that offer glimpses into the thinking of policymakers and commanders in early days after the Sept. 11 attacks and how that thinking evolved over the following decade into a more whole-of-government approach to combating terrorists: ALEXANDER NEMENOV/AFP /Getty Images 1. Bush Tried to Negotiate with al Qaeda The George W. Bush administration, like all of its predecessors, swore never to negotiate with terrorists. But it did undertake an extraordinary, and extraordinarily secret, outreach effort to open a line of communication with Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda's senior leadership. It was an attempt to replicate how the United States tried to sustain a dialogue with the Soviet Union, even during the darkest days of the Cold War, when White House and Kremlin leaders described in private and in public a set of acceptable behaviors -- and described with equal clarity the swift, vicious, even nuclear punishment for gross violations. In the months after the Sept. 11 attacks, Bush's national security staff, working through the intelligence agencies, made
several attempts to get a private message to bin Laden and his inner circle. The messages were sent through business associates of the bin Laden family's vast financial empire as well as through some of the al Qaeda leader's closest relatives, a number of whom were receptive to opening a secret dialogue to restrain and contain their terrorist kinsman, whom they viewed as a blot on their name. (To be sure, other relatives were openly hostile to the American entreaties.) According to a senior American intelligence officer with first-hand knowledge of the effort, the response from Osama bin Laden was silence. And the effort was suspended. AFP/Getty Images 2. Sometimes a Wedding Is Just a Wedding In the early days after the Sept. 11 attacks, the CIA and FBI vied to produce the most compelling intelligence reports that tracked suspected terrorist plots. The agencies often worked at cross purposes, sometimes unwittingly. At one point in early 2002, both agencies were tracking what American analysts said were growing preparations for a major "wedding" somewhere in the Midwest. (In terrorist vernacular, the word "wedding" is often code for a major attack.) Dribs and drabs on this "wedding" planning made their way to President Bush from both agencies, independent of each other, of course. Finally, over the Easter holiday, during a video-teleconference with top
aides in Washington from his ranch in Crawford, Texas, Bush stopped the briefing, exasperated by the discrepancies in the rival agencies' reporting about the suspected threat. "George, Bob, get together and sort this out," Bush told his CIA director, George J. Tenet, and FBI director, Robert S. Mueller III. Bush's instincts were correct. When the analysts finally untangled their clues, it turned out that the ominous "wedding" really was just that: the matrimony of a young man and a young woman from two prominent PakistaniAmerican families. There was no threat. There was no plot. TIM SLOAN/AFP/Getty Images 3. The Threat to Bomb Mecca As fears of a second attack mounted following the 9/11 strikes, U.S. government planners frantically cast about for strategies to protect the country. Even the most far-fetched ideas had a hearing, however briefly. In one case, some government planners proposed that if al Qaeda appeared ready to attack America again, the United States should publicly threaten to bomb the city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia, the holiest site in all of Islam, in retaliation. "Just nuts!" one Pentagon aide wrote to himself when he heard the proposal. The idea was quickly and permanently shelved. MUSTAFA OZER/AFP/Getty Images 4. The SEAL Raid in Iran That Didn't Happen When U.S. forces routed the
Taliban government in Afghanistan and forced bin Laden and his top lieutenants to flee, many senior al Qaeda leaders, including bin Laden and his deputy, Ayman al-Zawahri, escaped to neighboring Pakistan. But a separate group, including the al Qaeda leader's son, Saad bin Laden, fled to northern Iran, where American troops would not pursue them and the Iranians would likely not detain them. But the Shiite clerics running Iran placed the al Qaeda operatives and their family members under virtual house arrest, and they became a shield against possible attacks from the Sunni-based terrorist organization. One plan in particular illustrated the bold thinking and wildly unrealistic aims of the military's initial approach after 9/11 to kill or capture terrorist leaders. The plan called for hunting the eight to 10 senior al Qaeda leaders and operatives who had sought refuge in Chalus, an Iranian resort town on the Caspian Sea, where they had been detained. At the Joint Special Operations Command at Fort Bragg, N.C., military planners drew up options for Navy SEALs to sneak ashore at night using state-of-the-art mini -submarines. Once they landed, the SEALs would slip past Iranian guards to snatch the al Qaeda leaders. Another option called for Special Operations helicopters to spirit American commandos into the town and whisk them out again with their quarry. The Americans went as far as
conducting two or three rehearsals at an undisclosed location along the U.S. Gulf Coast in early 2002. They conducted small-boat insertion exercises involving about 30 Special Operations personnel, most SEALs, and eventually concluded the mission was feasible if they were provided with more detailed intelligence on the locations of the al Qaeda members and the security around them. The logistics of the mission were daunting. Chalus sits at the edge of the Elburz coastal mountain range about 70 miles north of Tehran, and the failed rescue of the American hostages in Iran in April 1980 loomed large in commanders' memories. Eventually, Gen. Richard B. Myers, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, rejected the mission as too risky and too politically volatile. Many of the al Qaeda operatives are reportedly still there. Getty Images 5. Intelligence Hauls of Unusual Size U.S. intelligence and military commandos have carried out tens of thousands of raids in the decade since 9/11. The amount of material seized from terrorist and insurgent targets has grown to a massive size. The Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) operates exploitation triage centers and giant warehouses for storing intelligence products -- in war zones, rear headquarters in THINGS page 44
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Red Dawn - China's Rise - By Charles Kenny

CHARLES KENNY (Foreign Policy)
Why the United States should embrace, not fear, China's economic rise. BY CHARLES KENNY| SEPTEMBER 6, 2011 Henry Kissinger's 2001 book Does America Need a Foreign Policy? opens with the observation that "[a]t the dawn of the new millennium, the United States is enjoying a preeminence unrivaled by even the greatest empires of the past. From weaponry to entrepreneurship, from science to technology, from higher education to popular culture, America exercises an unparalleled ascendancy around the globe." One decade, two military quagmires, and an economic meltdown later, few authors would venture such a presumption -- not least Kissinger, whose most recent tome reflects the obsession of those who have come to realize that the post-Cold War world is not so unipolar after all. It's called On China. But for all the urgent attention paid to China in recent years, we might actually be underestimating how fast the world has already changed. This is the argument that Arvind Subramanian advances in Eclipse, his new book on the Sino
-American balance of power. "The economic dominance of China relative to the United States is more imminent (it may already have begun), will be more broad-
based and could be as large in magnitude in the next 20 years as that of the United Kingdom in the halcyon days of empire or the United States in the aftermath of
World War II," he suggests. for Global Development), notes Subramanian, an economist at the that by 2010 China had overtaken Peterson Institute for International the United States as the world's Economics (and also a part-time colleague of mine at the Center RED page 41
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largest economy in terms of purchasing power parity(a measure that accounts for the fact that many goods are cheaper in the developing world). Historically, there has been far more to global power than brute output statistics, of course. In 1870, when Britain was undoubtedly the world's top dog, it accounted for 9 percent of global output. But the economy of the United States, still a geopolitical start-up and barely through its catastrophic Civil War at the time, was already almost the same size -- and China's share was nearly the size of Britain's and America's combined, amounting to 17 percent of global output. And remarkably, this was at the beginning of a period roundly considered to be China's historical nadir: Twelve years earlier, China had signed the Treaty of Tientsin, a humiliating ending to a war with Britain that forced the Middle Kingdom to open its borders to foreign goods, accelerating a decline that eventually earned China the pitying epithet "the sick man of Asia." Indeed, China has been the world's largest economy -- though not its richest -- for most of the last 500 years, according to data from late economist Angus Maddison, who collected historical statistics on the global economy for the OECD. But the 21st century is not the 19th -- China's place in the world and the nature of its power are quite different. Not least, China's growing prominence extends
beyond simple measures of output. While the United States and the European Union each had shares of world trade more than four times larger than China's as recently as 2000, by 2010, their shares were all within a percentage point of each other (and China had overtaken the European Union). In 2000, China accounted for only 4 percent of world net capital exports; by 2010, it had climbed to 18 percent. And when it comes to the technological and educational underpinnings of modern growth, while the United States is still far ahead, China is fast gaining. The World Intellectual Property Organization reports that U.S. filings under the Patent Cooperation Treaty dropped from 51,000 to 45,000 between 2006 and 2010. Over the same period, China's international patent filings tripled from under 4,000 to over 12,000. According to Subramanian, in 2006 China was producing twice as many science and engineering graduates as the United States, and by 2008 the United States' lead in peerreviewed scientific article publications had shrunk by more than half from the sixfold advantage it enjoyed in 2002. By 2030, Subramanian predicts, China is likely to account for about a quarter of world GDP compared with America's 12 percent, and 15 to 20 percent of world trade compared with 7 percent each for the United States and the European Union. China's
share of global trade and GDP will look similar to those for the United States in 1950, and its net capital exports share similar to America's in 1973. But if the world is underestimating the accelerating speed of China's rise, Subramanian's analysis also suggests that we're overestimating the problems that an economically ascendant China will impose on the rest of us. The country's rise, he points out, has been intimately connected with globalization, including the expansion of trade under the World Trade Organization (WTO) umbrella as well as growing cross-border flows of finance and technology. In 1820, during the last period in which China was the world's economic heavyweight -- and a fiercely isolationist one -- exports accounted for 1 percent of global GDP and considerably less than 1 percent of China's economy. In 2008, the same statistics were 29 percent for the world and 35 percent for China. China is already a far more globally integrated economy than either Britain or the United States was in their respective heydays. In 1870, exports accounted for only 12 percent of Britain's output. In 1975, they accounted for a mere 7 percent of the U.S. economy. The same percentages for imports were 7 percent for the United States in 1975 and 25 percent for China in 2008. And the fact that much of today's trade is part of multicountry production processes for goods makes China even more
bound to an open global economic system than the raw numbers would suggest. Furthermore, China will become the dominant economic power in a period where the international trading regime appears likely to have weathered the threat of a retreat behind tariff walls that doomed the last great period of globalization during the Great Depression. And it will do so as an economy still benefiting from "catch-up growth" -- the lowhanging economic fruit that China, as a poorer country, can grab by adopting innovations already widely used in richer countries -- which, because it involves exploiting technologies and processes developed in those rich countries, demands a level of openness to the world. Both of these points suggest that China will remain a fair-dealing member of the WTO out of self-interest. Certainly, it is an active one. In 2009, half of the WTO disputes filed involved China on one side or the other. Most are still working their way through the settlement process, so it is too early to say with certainty how law-abiding China will be; nonetheless, Subramanian notes that the WTO has been a powerful mechanism for controlling the bullying instincts of economic heavyweights in the past. The United States, for example, has been subject to complaints in 88 WTO disputes, leading to findings of 33 violations, and the United States has complied or is complying in 26 cases.
Meanwhile, China's rise -- and the United States' concomitant decline -- is likely to increase the likelihood of the renminbi becoming a global reserve currency, a prospect that economic prognosticators have begun to consider with some seriousness since the 2008 economic crisis. But if anything, this shift -- if it happens -- is likely to mitigate some aspects of China's role in the global economy that the rest of the world finds most problematic. As Subramanian notes, China will have to develop financial markets that are deep, liquid, and open to foreigners. At the moment, the country's capital market is closed, the renminbi is undervalued and not fully convertible, and domestic financial markets are rudimentary. At the same time, there are signs that the government is responding to some of these challenges, for example by issuing 6 billion renminbidenominated sovereign bonds to offshore investors in Hong Kong in 2009. And further steps in that direction would increase the export competitiveness of the rest of the world's goods as well as create an exciting investment opportunity for those few in the rich world still actually saving money. In short, China will be a different kind of global power because the nature of global power has changed dramatically over the past two centuries. Geographical RED page 43
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Libya's Nightmare Factory - By Felix Kuehn

FELIX KUEHN (Foreign Policy)
A visit to Qaddafi's scariest prison. BY FELIX KUEHN| SEPTEMBER 6, 2011 TRIPOLI, Libya The cells are barely large enough for one person to lie down in. There is no water, no toilet. Light falls through a small hole in the ceiling. Most cells don't even have a mattress, just a strip of cloth on the floor, a cut-open plastic bottle, and the naked concrete walls, inscribed with memories of those once held here. It is dark -claustrophobic -- in the narrow corridors of the cell wings. The entrance is scattered with clothes and medicine; the air thick with decay. Only days ago, the bodies were retrieved from here. After a few minutes the lingering stench grips you at the throat, gagging you. This is Maktab al-Nasser, a dusty compound of a few buildings that stand deserted in the pale midday sun, only a few minutes away from the infamous Abu Salim prison. Many who ended up in Abu Salim would first be swallowed by this office of the internal security agency. Many never emerged. The grim cells of Maktab al-Nasser offer stark a contrast with the painted rooms at Abu Salim prison, with its kitchen facilities and bathrooms that mask the horrors that doubtlessly took place there. The pain and horror of Maktab al-Nasser seem to have
penetrated its very walls and steel doors. It looks like a place one goes to die. Abu Bashir al-Hajji, a 57-yearold laborer, spent 42 days in Maktab al-Nasser. His face strains with pain when he gets out of the
chair. His ribs are broken in three places from the beatings he received. On Feb. 17, he had been out on the streets of Tripoli, demonstrating against Muammar al-Qaddafi and in support of the uprising in Benghazi. Like others,
he went to what is now known as Martyrs' Square in Tripoli. He reached out to the rebels and started to ferry information back and forth between Benghazi and the capital. On March 24, the 18th Brigade broke down his door at 2
o'clock in the morning. They came with five cars. "They knew my family," Abu Bashir explains. "My brother, Jamal al-Hajji, was writing about Qaddafi even before LIBYA'S page 43
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the revolution started." They threw him in a car, beat him, and pushed him into a tiny cell. "I did not know where I was," he says. "Only later when I was transferred to Abu Salim prison did I understand where I had been." At Maktab al-Nasser, half the complex is burned out and much has collapsed into itself as a result of the NATO bombing. The outer shell of what looks like an American cruise missile rests outside. Old files are scattered in the office building: Interrogation reports date back as far as the early 1990s, chronicling the activities of individuals and their families over pages and pages amid accusations of espionage and terrorism. "Many people died in Maktab alNasser," Abu Bashir says. "The guards would beat us in the lower abdomen and stomach. Something breaks inside and some people die." Abu Bashir, now in charge of
security in a central area in Tripoli, seems to be on the verge of breaking down as he recollects what happened to him in this place only a few months ago. His head sinks into his hands. "It was Walid Diab," an internal security agent, says Abu Bashir. "He took me." "Walid Diab brought me into a room and tied a cable that was hooked to the ceiling around my neck -- as if he would hang me. He forced me to stand on CocaCola cans. If I moved or even sneezed, I would fall and hang myself." "He left me like this for 72 hours." Abu Bashir was later transferred to Tripoli's notorious Abu Salim prison, where about 1,200 people died in a massacre in 1996. He was freed on Wednesday, Aug. 24, he says, when rebels took over the facility and liberated the inmates. The man who freed him might have been Mr. Fajallah, who still
stands guard at the prison, though its cells are now empty. His leg is bandaged, and a deep scratch traces his face from a ricochet bullet. "I used the Kalashnikov to shoot the doors open," he explains. The fighting had come close to Abu Salim, and the ruling family's Bab al-Aziziya complex had already fallen, when Fajallah and three others went to the prison to tell the remaining guards that the prisoners needed to be released. "We told them to release the prisoners, but they said they cannot." The small group went home to get weapons. When they returned, they found the guardrooms deserted; they had fled the prison. "There were four or five thousand prisoners here. It took five or even six hours to release them all," says Fajallah. The prison has become a local tourist destination as former prisoners now bring their family and friends to Abu Salim prison to
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domination is no longer necessary; today a considerable part of power does not even involve physical goods, let alone land, but rather is tied up in finance, technologies, and services. Just as the United States demonstrated in its eclipse of Britain that a sovereign empire wasn't needed to dominate the world economy, China may not need even the military strength that the United States exercised
for the last 50 years to remain preeminent. And China's reliance on global trade and financial links, underpinned neither by force of arms nor sovereign control, means the newly dominant power has considerable self-interest in maintaining multilateralism. That suggests the more China embraces its role as economic heavyweight in an integrated world, the better for the rest of the
explain what went on there. Small groups walk through the corridors and past the cells, recounting what happened to them. But Maktab alNasser stands deserted. Those who survived try to forget about this factory of nightmares. "Not even a spider can survive in this place," says Bashir, exhaling sharply. He gets up and heads out to look after the rebels under his command as they work to secure the buzzing streets of downtown Tripoli. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: A 'Malign (Holy Kaw!) Intellectual Subculture' - George M o n b i o t S m e a r s C h o m s k y , Submitted at 9/6/2011 5:43:00 PM Herman, Peterson, Pilger And The only problem I have found in Media Lens. creating infographics for the web is not being able to tangibly enjoy them. This is where our friends at Canvas Pop came in to help. The process was so easy all we had to do was upload our graphic, click a button, and we had our world -- and perhaps in particular Filters featured article: A 'Malign first infographic printed on canvas the United States -- in terms of Intellectual Subculture' - George and here in the office to enjoy. national security and economic M o n b i o t S m e a r s C h o m s k y , T h e y h a v e g i v e n a s p e c i a l opportunity. Even for Americans Herman, Peterson, Pilger And discount to HolyKaw readers for 15% off, just use the code who fear the rise of China, then, Media Lens. HOLYKAW15. the best advice is to embrace the Permalink| Leave a comment inevitable. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five
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countries like Qatar, and back in the United States. One intelligence analyst said that walking into one of the warehouses for documents and media exploitation reminded him of the final scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark, when the captured Ark of the Covenant is crated up and rolled into a cavernous storage area that contains all the government's other dangerous secrets. All told, more than two million individual documents and electronic files have been catalogued by media type: hard copy, phone number, thumb drive. Each is inspected by a linguist working with a communications analyst or computer expert. The DIA analysts are joined by specialists from other agencies, including the FBI and the Drug Enforcement Administration. Yet given the overwhelming volume, no more than about 10 percent of the captured intelligence has ever been analyzed. Intelligence
officers say they simply are overwhelmed, and untold quality leads may still be buried in the piles of computers, digital files, travel documents, and pocket litter. Getty Images 6. The Digital Counterjihad Cyberspace is the terrorists' ultimate safe haven. It's where they recruit, raise money, and even plot attacks, using coded language while playing online video war games. The U.S. government fights back. One technique is called false band replacement, whereby the intelligence agencies infiltrate militants' networks and post their own material to counter extremist efforts on those same jihadist websites. The trick is to forge the onscreen trademarks -- "web watermarks" -- of al Qaeda media sites. This makes messages posted on these sites official, and sows dissent and confusion among the militants. This Internet spoofing can be
used in support of more traditional combat missions. There is at least one case confirmed by American officials in which a jihadist website was hacked by American cyberwarriors to lure a high-value al Qaeda to a surreptitious meeting with extremist counterparts -- only to find a U.S. military team in waiting. HAZEM BADER/AFP/Getty Images 7. First, Kill the Mullahs U.S. counterterrorism officials have learned fighting terrorists effectively means targeting specific nodes of that network that support and enable militants who strap on suicide vests. This strategy focuses on neutralizing enablers such as the financiers, gun-runners, and logisticians. Among these terror linchpins are religious leaders who bless attacks. Heavenly reward will not await a suicide bomber unless his death and those of his victims is deemed halal, in keeping with
Islam's sacred sharia law. Each militant network has a sharia emir, usually at the level of a sheikh or mullah. In Iraq, American commanders specifically killed emirs to throw a wrench in a suicide bombing networks. "Take him out, and suicide bombings from that network are frozen until he is replaced," said one military officer with command experience in Iraq. Chris Hondros/Getty Images This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: A 'Malign Intellectual Subculture' - George Monbiot Smears Chomsky, Herman, Peterson, Pilger And Media Lens.
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Buying things online is so easy, it opens us up to purchasing more things we probably don't needbut want in the heat of the moment. Personal finance weblog The Simple Dollar offers a few easy ways to avoid impulse buys online. More
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Italian PM Calls Vote of Confidence; 70,000 Protest in Rome Against Austerity; Strikers Shut Down Transport; European Stocks at July 2009 Levels
attracted as many as a million people, according to the union. Fifteen percent of workers at Fiat SpA (F) took part in the strike, the Submitted at 9/6/2011 2:42:00 PM Attention turns to the German nations biggest manufacturer said courts tomorrow for a ruling on by e-mail. the legality of bailouts. Today, Fifty-eight percent of employees eyes are on Italy. stayed off the job, the union said I t a l i a n P M C a l l s V o t e o f in a statement on its website, Confidence citing a survey. Innovation Bloomberg reports Berlusconi Minister Renato Brunetta, citing a Cabinet Will Call for Confidence poll of 10 percent of civil Vote on Revised Austerity Plan servants, said 3.1 percent of Italian Prime Minister Silvio public-sector workers participated Berlusconi called a Cabinet in the strike, according to an emeeting today to authorize a mailed statement. confidence vote in Parliament on About 50 percent of trains, most an amended 45.5 billion-euro of them regional, were halted, ($64.5 billion) austerity plan that according to CGIL. Romes two prompted a general strike. metro lines and local commuter The meeting at 6 p.m. in Rome trains were shut down, ATAC, the will pave the way for a vote on company that runs them, said in a the measures, which will include statement on its website. raising the value-added tax rate by Stranded Passengers one percentage point to 21 Hundreds of people were percent, a 3 percent levy on stranded at airports in the capital incomes of more than 500,000 and Milan as flights were delayed euros a year as well as an increase or canceled. Alitalia SpA said it in the retirement age of women in canceled some domestic and the private sector starting in 2014, international flights and Ryanair Berlusconis office said in an e- Holdings Plc (RYA) said it mailed statement. canceled 200 flights to and from Travel Woes Italy, affecting some 35,000 The eight-hour walkout by CGIL, passengers. Italys biggest union, disrupted Italian Workers Strike Against travel and manufacturing as Austerity Measures protests in Rome and other cities The New York Times reports
said. Its useless to pass it quickly if its not done well. Otherwise we will end up having a new austerity package every week. On Monday, Mario Draghi, the outgoing Bank of Italy president and incoming president of the European Central Bank, became the latest European leader to pressure Mr. Berlusconi to approve the measures swiftly. He said that Italy should not take it for granted that the Italian Workers Strike Against retirement age for women, since Austerity Measures in Italy public day care is scarce European Central Bank would Thousands of workers took to the and grandmothers routinely serve continue buying Italian debt. Expect Hit to Tourism streets in Italy on Tuesday in a as child care providers. general strike to protest a package Addressing a crowd of an One of Italy's bright spots is o f e v e r - c h a n g i n g a u s t e r i t y estimated 70,000 people in Rome tourism. Don't expect that to last m e a s u r e s r e q u i r e d b y t h e on Tuesday, Susanna Camusso, if transportation disruptions European Central Bank and now the leader of C.G.I.L., called the become the norm. up for debate in the Italian Senate. change to the labor law unjust European Stocks Lowest in Two The eight-hour strike shut down and threatened more strike actions Years Please consider European Stocks t r a n s p o r t a n d b u s i n e s s e s if it werent removed. Drop to Two-Year Low; Shell, nationwide. It was called by the If Parliament doesnt strike this C.G.I.L. union, which represents from the bill, they have to know Lloyds Lead Decline European 2 million public and private sector that we will use every path and stocks declined for a second day, workers, in opposition to a 45.5 initiative possible so that this dragging the Stoxx Europe 600 billion-euro austerity package of shameful measure is removed, Index to the lowest in two years, tax hikes and spending cuts she told an estimated 70,000 amid concern that the global p r o p o s e d b y t h e I t a l i a n supporters outside the Colosseum economy is slowing. The Stoxx 600 lost 1.6 percent to government last month to reduce on Tuesday. 223.13 at the 4:30 p.m. close in Italys budget deficit by 2013. Pierluigi Bersani, the leader of The Northern League, the most t h e c e n t e r - l e f t o p p o s i t i o n , London, the lowest since July 29, p o w e r f u l p a r t y i n M r . criticized the measures. This 2009. The gauge has tumbled 23 Berlusconis coalition, had been package should be strengthened ITALIAN page 47 vehemently opposed to raising the and made more equitable, he
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Switzerland to "Buy Foreign Currency in Unlimited Quantities", Sets Euro Peg 1.20; Extreme Mid-Day Currency Volatility; Gold is Safe Haven, Not Francs
some of the strongest language from a central bank in the modern era, the SNB said it would no longer tolerate an exchange rate Submitted at 9/6/2011 8:20:00 AM In a stunning morning press below 1.20 francs to the euro and release, Swiss National Bank sets would defend the target by buying minimum exchange rate at CHF other currencies in unlimited 1.20 per euro The current massive quantities. overvaluation of the Swiss franc The move immediately knocked poses an acute threat to the Swiss about 8 percent off the value of economy and carries the risk of a the franc, which had soared by a deflationary development. third since the collapse of Lehman The Swiss National Bank (SNB) Brothers in 2008 as investors used i s t h e r e f o r e a i m i n g f o r a it as a safe haven from the euro s u b s t a n t i a l a n d s u s t a i n e d zone's debt crisis and stock weakening of the Swiss franc. market turmoil. With immediate effect, it will no The move was seen as a new shot longer tolerate a EUR/CHF in the currency wars, with Japan exchange rate below the minimum expected to try to weaken the yen rate of CHF 1.20. The SNB will if the Swiss action diverts more enforce this minimum rate with safe-haven inflows into the the utmost determination and is currency. Gold, which hit a record prepared to buy foreign currency higher earlier on Tuesday, is also in unlimited quantities. seen gaining. Even at a rate of CHF 1.20 per "That was the single largest euro, the Swiss franc is still high foreign exchange move I have and should continue to weaken ever seen," said World First chief over time. If the economic economist Jeremy Cook. "This outlook and deflationary risks so dwarfs moves seen post Lehman require, the SNB will take further Brothers, 7/7, and other major measures. Line in the Sand geopolitical events in the past Reuters Reports Swiss draw line decade." Gold, is Safe Haven, Not in the sand to weaken franc Using Francs
not the Swiss Franc). It's gold. The fireworks started an hour or so later. Here are some charts to consider. Swiss Franc 15-Minute Chart US$ Index 15-Minute Chart Gold 15-Minute Chart Unlike the Swiss Franc, Gold continued on its merry way in the face of competitive currency debasement. Mike "Mish" Shedlock h t t p : / / globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot. com At 1:25 AM today I wrote Gold Yen, and the Yuan all look sick Click Here To Scroll Thru My Hits New High of $1920; Miners for differing reasons. The Recent Post List Mike Should Follow. E u r o z o n e m a y b r e a k a p a r t , "Mish" Shedlock is a registered When I wrote that, I had no idea Bernanke is likely to double up investment advisor representative fireworks would hit about an hour on QE and the US deficit is out of f o r S i t k a P a c i f i c C a p i t a l later. First, take a look at what I control, Japan has a horrendous Management. Sitka Pacific is an said: It only took 7 sessions to debt problem, and inflation is out asset management firm whose take back a sharp $200 plunge of control in china as is China's goal is strong performance and about a week ago. infrastructure spending and low volatility, regardless of click on chart for sharper image housing bubble. market direction. Visit http:// In 2008, gold sold off with The one thing the Euro, the US w w w . s i t k a p a c i f i c . c o m / everything else but treasuries. dollar, the Yen, and the Yuan all account_management.html to Miners were crushed. This time I have in common is competitive l e a r n m o r e a b o u t w e a l t h expect gold and miners to do currency debasement by central m a n a g e m e n t a n d c a p i t a l much better in a big market bankers hoping to increase export preservation strategies of Sitka decline, perhaps even rise. to everyone else. Mathematically Pacific. Other Currencies Look Sick that is impossible. The Euro, the US dollar, the Once currency stands out (and it's
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Romney Blasts Obama's Inaction On Jobs, Says He Would Create 11.5 Million In His First Term
Zeke Miller (Money Game)
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Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney unveiled his detailing jobs proposal Tuesday, saying it will create 11.5 million jobs in four years and grow GDP at 4% annually. Seeking to draw contrast between himself and President Barack Obama, Romney says "Obama is not working. Obamanomics is a failure," and outlining his plans for his first day in office if he is elected president. Five Bills For Day One: The American Competitiveness Act: Reduces the corporate income tax rate to 25 percent The Open Markets Act" Implements the Colombia, Panama, and South Korea Free Trade Agreements The Domestic Energy Act: Directs the Department of the Interior to undertake a comprehensive survey of American energy reserves in partnership with exploration companies and initiates leasing in all areas currently approved for exploration The Retraining Reform Act: Consolidates the sprawl of federal retraining programs and returns
funding and responsibility for these programs to the states The Down Payment on Fiscal Sanity Act: Immediately cuts nonsecurity discretionary spending by 5 percent, reducing the annual federal budget by $20 billion Five Executive Orders For Day One: An Order to Pave the Way to End Obamacare: Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services and all relevant federal officials to return the maximum possible authority to the states to innovate and design health care solutions that work best for them An Order to Cut Red Tape: Directs all agencies to immediately initiate the elimination of Obama-era regulations that unduly burden the economy or job creation, and then caps annual increases in regulatory costs at zero dollars An Order to Boost Domestic Energy Production: Directs the Department of the Interior to implement a process for rapid issuance of drilling permits to developers with established safety records seeking to use preapproved techniques in preapproved areas An Order to Sanction China for
Unfair Trade Practices: Directs the Department of the Treasury to list China as a currency manipulator in its biannual report and directs the Department of Commerce to assess countervailing duties on Chinese imports if China does not quickly move to float its currency An Order to Empower American Businesses and Workers: Reverses the executive orders issued by President Obama that tilt the playing field in favor of organized labor, including the one encouraging the use of union labor on major government construction project Please follow Politics on Twitter and Facebook. Join the conversation about this story See Also: Romney's Unveils Boring 59Point Jobs Plan With Few Fresh Ideas Boehner And Cantor Send Letter To Obama Asking To See His Jobs Plan Before Thursday's Big Speech With Baseball Mitt, Huntsman Goes After Romney's Jobs Record In New Ad
percent from this year's peak in February amid concern that Europe will fail to contain its sovereign-debt crisis and that the economic recovery in the U.S. will falter. The Stoxx 600 pared an earlier loss of as much as 3.6 percent as the European Commission said it may present draft legislation on joint bond sales by euro-area nations when completing a report on the feasibility of common debt sales, putting pressure on Germany to drop its opposition. Euro Bonds Aren't Happening Anytime Soon, If Ever This is the third reported eurobond rally attempt in a few week. Here's the real deal: they aren't happening. Italy Bond Yields Relatively Quiet Yield on Italian 10-Year government bonds was relatively quiet on a day of massive turmoil elsewhere related to Swiss Franc intervention (see Switzerland to "Buy Foreign Currency in Unlimited Quantities", Sets Euro Peg 1.20; Extreme Mid-Day Currency Volatility; Gold is Safe Haven, Not Francs) No Confidence Stunt
Berlusconi's approval rating is 22%. Nonetheless, he will survive a vote of no confidence because for now, he has over 50% of the votes in Parliament. That Berlusconi needs to pull this stunt is certainly not confidence inspiring. Mike "Mish" Shedlock h t t p : / / globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot. com Click Here To Scroll Thru My Recent Post List Mike "Mish" Shedlock is a registered investment advisor representative for SitkaPacific Capital Management. Sitka Pacific is an asset management firm whose goal is strong performance and low volatility, regardless of market direction. Visit http:// www.sitkapacific.com/ account_management.html to learn more about wealth management and capital preservation strategies of Sitka Pacific.
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Nomura On What Giveaway: Win a DVD of The Big Swiss Move Community Season 2 Means For Gold
Angela Watercutter (Wired Top Stories)
Joe Weisenthal (Money Game)

the correlation has dropped markedly in recent weeks. One explanation is that CHFs appeal Nomura's Geoffrey Kendrick as a safe haven is diminishing talks about what the big Swissie given the SNBs attempts to intervention means for gold: weaken the currency. Hence, we For gold there has been a positive could see a situation where gold correlation between CHF vs USD strengthens and CHF weakens and gold, largely because of the going forward. general negative correlation This increases the safe-haven between USD and gold. Recently, appeal of gold, which has a finite the nature of this correlation has supply. started to change with other USD Please follow Money Game on crosses. In Exhibit 3, we plot the Twitter and Facebook. rolling 1-month correlation Join the conversation about this between CHF/USD, EUR/USD story and gold. Notably, we see that See Also: EUR/USD has become negatively 15 Countries Sitting On A correlated with gold, as EUR has Fortune Of Metals And Minerals become increasingly affected by Gold Falls Back To $1819 the situation in the European Gold Jumps To Highest Level periphery. Although CHF/USD is In 9 Days still positively correlated in our rolling correlation, we note that
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Use Clear Nail Polish to Keep Metal Cans from Rusting [Clever Uses]
Whitson Gordon (Lifehacker)
Shaving cream, cooking spray, and other products in metal cans can often rust and leave marks on your counters. You can fix this
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Point/Counterpoint: Will Pay-to-Play Dragon Quest X Online Flop or Fly?

Chris Kohler (Wired Top Stories)
Dragon Quest X will be the series' first online RPG, Square Enix said Monday. Image: Square Enix The Dragon Quest series of roleplaying games has long been a bulwark of tradition in its native Japan. While other game series have evolved far beyond their original scope or disappeared entirely, Dragon Quest has stuck with its original, simple RPG formula ever since 1986. It has never gone out of style, selling millions of copies every time a new edition gets released. Thats why gamers were shocked Monday morning to hear Square Enixs plans for the next installment of the series. It was long known that Dragon Quest X would be released for Nintendos Wii. What no one could have predicted was that it would be an online game, one with massively multiplayer elements and an asyet-undetermined monthly service fee. The Wii version will be released in Japan in 2012, with an upgraded version for Nintendos new Wii U console following later. Has Dragon Quest finally jumped the shark, or will this end up being hailed as a shot in the arm
that keeps the series from going downhill? Game|Life writers Chris Kohler and Jason Schreier have come to different conclusions. Read on for Schreiers reasons why Dragon Quest X Online is a colossally dumb move, and Kohlers take on why it might just work.
This Could Be a Terrible Disaster Everything seems to be going downhill for the Japanese development side of Square Enix. The Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest makers recent releases have valued flash over substance. The company is more concerned with remakes and spinoffs than
original ideas, and recent Square Enix RPGs like The Last Remnant and Final Fantasy XIII have not been received well. Dragon Quest X Online may be the pinnacle of Square Enixs ineptitude, an idea so dumb that it dropped the companys stock by more than 10 percent. Heres why
Dragon Quest X could be a terrible disaster for the former king of all things RPG. Square Enixs MMO History The developer is already reeling from the failure of Final Fantasy XIV, the MMORPG it released POINT/COUNTERPOINT: page 50
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last fall to disappointing reviews. Square Enix had to shuffle around some numbers after that, cutting its profit forecast by 91 percent in a quarterly report last December. The company even apologized for FFXIVs mediocrity. Final Fantasy XIV still isnt up to snuff in fact, the game is treading water in an indefinite free-to-play trial period that Square Enix implemented in response to player complaints. So why would anybody think itd be a good idea to work on another MMO? Shouldnt Square Enix be focusing on fixing the critical flaws in its last one? Granted, Square Enix is a very big company and development on Dragon Quest X is likely being handled by an entirely different team than FFXIV. But the 14th Final Fantasy has left a very bad taste in many gamers mouths, a taste that even Dragon Quest might not be pungent enough to wash out. No Level-5 Level-5, the small Japanese developer responsible for Dragon Quest VIII and Dragon Quest IX among other titles, appears to have no involvement with the series 10th installment. This is unfortunate, because the Professor Layton creator has done a phenomenal job with the series so far, delivering two charming games that have been both commercially and critically successful. Square Enixs track record isnt nearly as hot. Its on Nintendo Consoles If youve tried to play Super Smash Bros. Brawl or any other
online Wii games, youve likely experienced all sorts of critical problems, ranging from serious lag to random disconnections. Nintendos online gaming has not exactly been top-notch, and though the company has promised to make some significant structural changes for its upcoming Wii U console, its hard to imagine playing a persistent online game on the Wii as it stands right now. Will the Wii Us tablet controller facilitate turn-based online gameplay? How will friend codes play into the game? Will digital distribution be an option? While its certainly possible that the game could work smoothly on the Wii and Wii U, the thought of playing an online game on one of Nintendos consoles is enough to give most Wii owners a serious headache. Breaking Tradition Dragon Quest is the old gray lady of the gaming industry, maintaining tradition no matter how much the world changes. In many ways, last years Dragon Quest IX is a prettier version of the first Dragon Quest, released 25 years ago. Interestingly, Dragon Quest IX was originally slated to be an action-based RPG until the development team switched courses and made it turn-based like its predecessors, fearing fan backlash and outrage. So its tough to imagine Dragon Questobsessed Japanese gamers taking kindly to such a drastic directional shift this time. Series creator Yuji Horii once
told me in a phone interview that Dragon Quest V was his favorite installment because of its emotional impact. How can an online game, where the narrative centers on player interactions rather than scripted stories, capture the feelings Horii and other Dragon Quest fans enjoy so much? I think Dragon Quest X will do well in Japan; the series is too ginormous there for any of its games to flop. But I dont think it will get any traction outside Japan, so I cant imagine it coming close to Final Fantasy XIs subscription numbers, which have hovered between 500,000 and 2 million since its release in 2003. Like most RPG fans, Ill just twiddle my thumbs and do what I do every time Square Enix announces a Final Fantasy MMO skip it and wait for the next one.Jason Schreier Next: Chris Kohler on why Dragon Quest X Online just might work. Dragon Quest IX owners meet to play together in Tokyo's Akihabara district in 2009. Photo: Jon Snyder/Wired.com Why This Just Might Work Its easy to roll ones eyes at the news: Why muck with a perfect formula, right? Dragon Quest fans want an offline, single-player role -playing game. They dont want to have to interact with other people or pay a monthly fee. Right? Im not so sure. Gaming Is Rapidly Changing in Japan, Too Much of the discussions at this
years Tokyo Game Show will be about the rise of social networking and mobile games. Mobile has always had a significant presence in the Japanese gaming sphere, so much so that when I first talked to Yuji Horii back in 2003, he said the biggest threat to the gaming industry was cellphones. At that time, I dont think he imagined what the Japanese gaming world would look like now, as sales of traditional games plummet and mobile explodes. If Dragon Quest stays as an offline game, it will become irrelevant. It doesnt take very long for a pillar of the game industry to crumble. And besides that Dragon Quest IX Was an Offline MMO In the United States, where Dragon Quest IX only sold about half a million copies, it is easy to assume that the Nintendo DS release was just a stodgy old traditional clunker of a game. In Japan, that couldnt be further from the truth. The implementation of the Street Pass feature caused Japanese gamers to take the game with them wherever they went in hopes of meeting new people. Some of them may simply have been trying to get new virtual treasure maps from the folks they passed on the streets of Japan, but many of the people I talked to said they were doing it because they liked the sense of community, of discovering what other sorts of people were out there. And Im supposed to believe that
these people dont want to play an MMO? Console Games Are Not PC Games It is difficult to ignore the fact that Final Fantasy XIV Online has been, at least at this point in its lifespan, a face-plant of epic proportions. The quality of the game was so bad that the team was replaced and Square Enix has not yet charged a monthly fee for the game, nearly a year since its release. Thats a whole lot of money its had to cut out of its annual budget projections. This does not per se mean that Dragon Quest X will be a similar misstep. Gamers will be rightfully wary of it, but should the game be released and turn out to be fun, it wont matter that Final Fantasy XIV was junk. Why should it? Also, since Dragon Quest X is a Wii game, the challenges are quite different. Final Fantasy XIV didnt run well on many PCs, but Dragon Quest wont have that problem. Square Enix also wont really be able to do extensive patching, since the game will ship on a disc on a console with very little flash memory storage (although apparently a USB memory stick will be included with the game). Its also quite likely that Square Enix is working very closely with Nintendo, which will probably publish the game outside Japan. So while Wii may not seem suited to online play, Im sure Square Enix is receiving all sorts of special dispensations to develop POINT/COUNTERPOINT: page 53
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Elite Splits Call of Duty Players Into Haves, Have-Nots

Ben Kuchera (Wired Top Stories)
Last weekend, the hardest of the hardcore descended upon Los Angeles to take part in Call of Duty XP, a convention celebrating everything Call of Duty. Each attendee paid $150 for their ticketbut its hard to quibble over the cost of the ticket when 100 percent of the proceeds went to a charity that supports veteransand the closing concert featured Kanye West. A new Modern Warfare 3-themed Xbox 360 was shown, highlighting Microsofts dominance in Activisions world. The full details surrounding the for-pay Call of Duty: Elite were also announced, and it feels like the series has hit its turning point: Activision is beginning to ratchet up how much youll need to pay to continue to be competitive. If you thought a yearly release was excessive, this may cause you to yearn for the days when you only had to pay $60 for the game each year. Everyone will be able to access some of the social features of Call of Duty: Elite, but to take advantage of everything the service has to offer youll need to pay for a $50 yearly subscription. Or you can buy the Hardened
Edition of Modern Warfare 3, which will gave you the game, a years subscription to the service, and a lifetime founder status for your account. Activision is estimating there will be a jaw-dropping 20 pieces of downloadable content released after the games launch, and Elite
members who pay for the service will get them all. The content will be released monthly for members, instead of the quarterly releases were used to. There is some audacity here: Activision thinks they can make a selling point out of paying for content first, before the rest of its fan base is allowed
to buy it la carte. Keep in mind this content is being sold to you sight unseen as of publication. Youll see this argument in many stories about the service; since youre paying less for the content if youre subscribing, its a good deal. Thats assuming youre the fan that already knew you were
going to buy 20 pieces of content for the game you just paid $60 or more to play. There will also be celebrityfueled video content for subscribers, and a number of features for clans that will add ELITE page 52
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more hooks for players who are competitive. This is where things start to fall apart: you may not have to pay for Elite to play Modern Warfare 3, but youre quickly going to become a second -class citizen if you dont. This is how theyll get you Since premium subscribers will be getting the maps and other content before the rest of the community is able to buy it, nonsubscribers are going to be walking into content that the hardcore players have been practicing and mastering for days, if not weeks. Its going to be a bloodbath. There will be no moments of learning the new maps and modes along with the rest of the community; youre going to be going up against pros who know all the good hiding spots and tactical positions from your very first session until your last. Unless, of course, youre willing to pay to get the content early. Clan support will also be beefed up, with premium clan features that allow your clan to level up as
well as your character, and to unlock items and features specific to your clan. Your clan could earn its own double-XP weekend, and of course youll be able to compete against other clans and test your mettle. Both players and clans can take part in competitive matches for real-world prizes, and Activision promises these matches will be refereed by actual people, and open to players of all skill levels. Activision is creaing a lower class of gamers that will have to work much harder to compete online. If you want to be a part of a competitive clan, every member will have to pay, or else youll be playing against other clans that get a head start on maps you cant access, and have the leveling advantage of XP bonuses you wont be offered. You could fight these advantages by setting up your own matches against other clans that arent willing to pay for Elite, and that will bifurcate the community. There will be those that pay for the service who have a very real advantage playing
online, and everyone else. Activision has a strong financial incentive to give premium subscribers as many advantages and bonuses as possible, and by increasing the amount of content released after the games launch and limiting when the regular players are allowed to pay for content, it can create a lower class of gamers that will have to work much harder to compete online. The $15 map packs were a massive success for Activision, but its clear gamers are willing to pay for more, and Activision is going to take advantage of that. For serious players, its going to be hard to not pay for Elite if theyd like to keep up with the online community, and the constant drip of content and tips from the pros that will be included with Elite will make the players paying for the service even more effective at killing those that dont. We complained about $15 map packs, which sold by the millions, and now we have Elite. If Elite proves to be a success, Im scared about what well be asked
to pay for next year. Now that the players are going to be split between those who pay for Elite and those that dont, there is no reason to develop new features for non-paying customers. Welcome to the future. See Also: Gamers Rage Over Call of Duty Elite Plans Call of Duty Elite Service Musters Treasure Trove of Stats Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 | GameLife | Wired.com
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Cheap Flights Are A Lie, Hai-Diddly-Ai

Ben Popken (The Consumerist)
This little ditty lampoons the whole dirt-cheap flight industry that attracts flyers with super low fares and then adds on fee after fee. It's sung by the British comedy singing group Fascinating
Ada in the style of an Irish folk song and is clearly a dig at Ryan Air. It's also pretty amusing, and true. Possibly NSFW if your work considers feck, shite, and arse to be curse words. The video is subtitled. BTW "p" stands for pence, a form of British
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All the stuff being covered outside the unfriendly confines of the award-winning Dirty Tackle... Italian prisoners either think that Mario Balotelli showed up to set This entry passed through the them free or he is still their hero Full-Text RSS service if this is for trespassing at that women's your content and you're reading it prison with his brother. [ 101gg] on someone else's site, please read Newcastle making lingerie now the FAQ at fivefilters.org/content- (for women, not Mike Ashley). [ only/faq.php#publishers. Five KCKRS] Filters featured article: A 'Malign "Ashley Young's as good as Messi Intellectual Subculture' - George and Ronaldo." [ Express] M o n b i o t S m e a r s C h o m s k y , Juventus' new stadium. [ The Herman, Peterson, Pilger And Offside] Media Lens. Interesting 47-minute video on the finances of English football (mostly about Liverpool). [ ONTD] This needs to be a real magazine right now. [ Hot Footy News] The fine line between Roy Keane's indiscipline and Man United's success. [ TFR] Steve Nash trains with the MLS team he happens to own. [ MLSS] Filters featured article: A 'Malign My story about Alex Ferguson Intellectual Subculture' - George hiring a detective to investigate M o n b i o t S m e a r s C h o m s k y , the twisted underworld of FIFA Herman, Peterson, Pilger And nightlife in case you missed it last Media Lens. week. [ KCKRS] Joey Barton still stranded in Geordie Nation after passport issues. [ The Gaffer]
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for the console in a way that other publishers may not even be able to. Community Means Legs We dont really know that much about how this will work as of yet, but Square Enix says that youll be able to use your 3DS for some kind of gameplay functionality. I imagine this will entail something like putting your character data on the 3DS when you leave the house, and passing by other Dragon Quest X players on the street to exchange information. Surely Square Enix would love to replicate scenes like the one pictured above. Without Street Passing, I dont think IX would have been as popular or as enduring as it was. The ability to use the game as a
social conversation-starter (whether those conversations were real or imaginary) gave it longer legs and more sales. An offline Wii game would not have had that chance to capture lightning in a bottle again. From what we know about Dragon Quest X, its attempting to recreate that addictive, communitybased play. Dragon Quest X Onlines success is far from a sure thing. Nothing is too big to fail, not even Japans most beloved game series. But given what weve seen so far, this looks like a sensible next step, not a wild veering off the course.Chris Kohler See Also: Classic Dragon Quest Games Collected on Japanese Wii
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Happy Birthday to Pippa Middleton - See 28 of Her Most Fun Photos!

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Pippa Middleton turns 28 today, and we're celebrating with a look at some of her most fun photos. She was catapulted into the limelight with a star turn at her sister Kate's wedding on April 29, 2011, and now both Middleton girls are setting trends worldwide. Pippa is known as the fun-loving member of her family, which also included little brother James, as well as parents Michael and Carole. When she's not working in London, Pippa loves to escape to the countryside for sporting events or to foreign countries for
weekends away. Her boyfriend Alex Loudon is often by her side, along with numerous good friends. Happy birthday to Pippa, and check out her most fun photos! View Slideshow
leading a man around the streets of Paris. Emma's had her own real Submitted at 9/6/2011 2:46:39 PM -life romance and she was spotted (TEDTalks (video)) Emma Watson hit the red carpet kissing her Perks of Being a Submitted at 9/6/2011 9:37:23 AM in a tartan McQ minidress and a Wallflower costar Johnny leather jacket for the GQ Men of Simmons during a day out in LA Every new invention changes the the Year Awards at the Royal in August. Their relationship world -- in ways both intentional Opera House in London today. might become long distance, and unexpected. Historian Edward The actress spent much of her though, since Emma will be Summer promoting the final s h o r t f i l m f o r L a n c m e ' s studying at Oxford for her third installment of Harry Potter, but fragrance was recently released, year of college later this month. she's since switched gears to and it features Emma flirtatiously View Slideshow smaller projects. Emma Watson's
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Gwyneth, Keira, Kate, Matt and George - See All the Glamorous Venice Film Festival Pictures So Far!
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The Venice Film Festival kicked off last Wednesday with George Clooney's self-directed political drama The Ides of March opening the competition, and since then many of Hollywood's hottest stars have also premiered upcoming projects in front of Italian audiences. Gwyneth Paltrow and Matt Damon were among the latest to roll through over the weekend, along with Colin Firth, James Franco, Michael Fassbender, and others. There's
New NASA Photos Show Footprints on the Moon

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The Shop Scores Secretariat's Horseshoe on 'Pawn Stars' (VIDEO)
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Footprints on the Moon NASA/ LRO In new photographs taken by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, we can see the landing sites of some lunar craft, as well as the tracks Nick Zaino (AOL TV) by Penny Chenery, Secretariat's left by those who flew in them. owner, and the expert said he What creatures left these prints? Submitted at 9/6/2011 1:00:00 PM could establish that the letter had A semi-dormant species known as Filed under: TV Replay On b e e n s e n t f r o m C h e n e r y ' s the Earth astronaut; to be precise, Monday's'Pawn Stars'(Mondays, daughter's house in New York. Alan Bean and Pete Conrad, the 10PM on History), a customer T h e s h o e a l s o h a d m a r k s crew of the Apollo 12 mission in brought the Gold & Silver Pawn consistent with the brand of 1969. S h o p w h a t h e s a i d w a s a horseshoe that Secretariat had The windless moon preserves horseshoe worn by Secretariat. If worn. The big test, according to tracks in dust pretty nicely. In it were a genuine item, it would the expert, was whether it was a addition to this Apollo 12 shot ( be a real catch for the guys at the race shoe or a farm shoe: race click to see it with labels), NASA s h o p , b u t i t n e e d e d t o b e shoes are aluminum and farm has released images of the Apollo 14 and Apollo 17 landing sites. authenticated. So Corey Harrison shoes are steel. and the Old Man brought in their Permalink| Email this| Linking [ NASA] expert to check it out. Blogs| Comments The customer had a letter signed
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Attack on Gaddafi stronghold 'imminent'

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city, thats why no negotations work here." Libyan fighters have surrounded Libya's National Transitional the town and given remnants of Council fighters are preparing for Gaddafi forces two deadlines to an imminent attack on Bani surrender. Both the deadlines Walid, a stronghold of the have passed. deposed Libyan leader Muammar Thousands of NTC fighters Gaddafi, as efforts for a peaceful have been camping outside Bani resolution to the standoff seem to Walid. They have also built a have failed. field hospital and deployed 10 During p r o l o n g e d volunteer doctors to prepare for negotiations on Tuesday, the the possibility of a fight. N T C t r i e d t o c o n v i n c e Gaddafi loyalists cross into Niger representatives from Bani Walid, Also on Tuesday, a large convoy about 150km southeast of the of about 250 armoured vehicles capital Tripoli, that there would carrying Gaddafi loyalists crossed be no retributions if the the town into neighbouring Niger, raising surrendered peacefully. fresh speculations over the But the representatives, upon t o p p l e d L i b y a n l e a d e r ' s returning to the town to deliver w h e r e a b o u t s . the message, were fired at and Gaddafi or his sons were not forced to retreat to NTC territory. s p o t t e d i n t h e c o n v o y t h a t A l J a z e e r a ' s S u e T u r t o n , reportedly carried gold and cash reporting from north of Bani and was escorted by Niger troops. Walid, said the situation seemed The convoy included officers bleak and an attack seemed from Libya's southern army imminent. battalions and pro-Gaddafi Tuareg " T h e f i v e B a n i W a l i d fighters and is likely to have representatives went back with the crossed from Libya into Algeria assurances from NTC, but as they before entering Niger, sources approached the city, they were said. fired upon. They quickly came Niger's minister of internal back to the rebel territory to take affairs, Abdou Labo, however, shelter for the night," she said. denied that a Libyan convoy had "We have talked to commanders entered his country. But he and people here. They believe two confirmed that Niger had given of Gaddafi sons are still in the asylum to Gaddafi's internal
Gaddafi's arrival. We are not expecting him," Communications Minister Alain Edouard Traore said on state television. Mansour El Kikhia, chair of the political science department at the University of Texas, told Al Jazeera: "What is bothersome to me more than anything else is that security chief Abdullah Mansoor have entered the country. Gaddafi is aided by some of on humanitarian grounds. A French military source said he Tuareg supporters." A l J a z e e r a ' s J a m e s B a y s , had been told the commander of "Gaddafi is going to cause reporting from Tripoli, said Libya's southern forces, General mischief, and it is now imperative information about the specifics of Ali Khana, may also be in Niger, that the council [NTC] prepares the convoy were contradictory, not far from the Libyan border. for these contingencies." but it was certain that a convoy He said he had been told that Gaddafi has said he is ready to had crossed. Gaddafi and his son Saif would fight to the death on Libyan soil, "What is significant is that none join Khana and catch up with the although there have been a of the reports we have heard so convoy should they choose to number of reports that he might far says anything about sighting accept Burkina Faso's offer of seek refuge in an African nation. of Gaddafi and his sons in the exile. Meanwhile, the NTC said that convoy." Burkina Faso, a former recipient Khaled Kaim, Gaddafi's deputy Exile in Burkina Faso? of large amounts of Libyan aid, f o r e i g n m i n i s t e r , h a s b e e n Niger's harbouring of wanted had reportedly offered Gaddafi c a p t u r e d . Gaddafi-regime officials is "a exile about two weeks ago but has This entry passed through the breach of the United Nations also recognised the National Full-Text RSS service if this is travel [restrictions] for most of T r a n s i t i t i o n a l C o u n c i l your content and you're reading it these people", Aly Abuzaakouk, (NTC) as Libya's government. on someone else's site, please read executive director of Libya On Tuesday, however, Burkina the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentH u m a n a n d P o l i t i c a l Faso's government said it had not only/faq.php#publishers. Five Development Forum, told Al received a request for exile from Filters featured article: A 'Malign Jazeera. Gaddafi and the ousted leader was Intellectual Subculture' - George He said Niger should "not side not expected in the West African M o n b i o t S m e a r s C h o m s k y , with the enemy of the Libyan state. Herman, Peterson, Pilger And people". "Gaddafi in not in Burkina Faso Media Lens. The US state department in a and we have not been approached statement called on Niger to for any exile demand. Burkina detain the Gaddafi loyalists who (Faso) has not been informed of
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Turkey suspends Israel defence and trade ties

Turkey downgraded diplomatic relations after Israel refused to apologise for a deadly raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla[GALLO/ GETTY] Turkey is "totally suspending" all trade, military and defence industry ties with Israel, the Turkish prime minister said. "Trade ties, military ties, regarding defence industry ties, we are completely suspending them," Recep Tayyip Erdogan, said in Ankara on Tuesday. "This process will be followed by different measures," said Erdogan, who referred to Israel as "a spoiled child". Turkey has not frozen military ties with Israel, Amos Gilad, the head of the Israeli defence ministry's diplomatic-security bureau, told Israel's Army Radio, saying that the Israeli military attache in Turkey is still serving as usual. "Turkey has a lot to lose from making this kind of extreme decision," Gilad said. The call to suspend the ties comes a day after the Turkish minister of economy had said that bilateral commercial ties would continue as usual, Al Jazeera's Serpil Karacan reported from Istanbul.
Suspension of "the miiltary ties is very significant between the two countries to the degree that it'll have some impact on Turkey as well, especially for the Heron planes and especially for military intelligence," she said. Turkey downgraded diplomatic relations with its former ally to the level of second secretary last week after Israel refused to
apologise for the deadly Israeli raid on a Gaza-bound Turkishflagged protest flotilla that killed nine pro-Palestinian activists last year. On Friday, Turkey expelled the Israeli ambassador in Ankara, suspended military deals and vowed a greater naval presence in the eastern Mediterranean Sea. Erdogan said the Israeli
diplomats who had been ordered out of Turkey must leave by Wednesday. 'Excessive' force Last week, a United Nationsmandated inquiry into the deadly Israeli attack on the flotilla said Israel's action were "excessive". "Israel's decision to board the vessels with such substantial force at a great distance from the
blockade zone and with no final warning immediately prior to the boarding was excessive and unreasonable," the inquiry says. The UN investigation into the events on the Turkish-flagged ship known as the Mavi Marmara, the largest of six vessels that were commandeered by Israeli TURKEY page 58
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Somalia signs 'roadmap' for political reform

Tens of thousands of Somalis have died in their war-torn famine -stricken country [GALLO/ GETTY] Somali leaders have signed a "roadmap" for the formation of a government to replace the fragile transitional body that has failed to bring peace to the fragmented country. "We are clearly committed to implement this roadmap, the Somali people have suffered a lot," said Somali President Sharif Sheikh Ahmed. "We want the Somali people to be secure, to lead them to prosperity," Ahmed added. The roadmap was adopted on Tuesday, the last day of a threeday national reconciliation conference in Mogadishu, the Somali capital. The meeting was the first major political event of its kind in four years. Somalia's prime minister, as well as representatives of the breakaway Puntland region, the central Galmudug region, and the pro-government militia Ahlu Sunna Wal Jamaa signed the deal. Representatives of the United Nations, African Union, Arab League and East African peace bloc, the Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD), also inked the agreement. The UN-sponsored talks began on Sunday under heavily
security, as political leaders worked to build on last month's withdrawal of al-Qaeda linked alShabab fighters from the capital. James Swann, the US representative to Somalia, said he was "particularly pleased by the broad participation" at the conference, but also warned of challenges ahead to implement the deal. "The roadmap gives us a set of benchmarks, some of them with tight deadlines," he said, speaking at the conclusion of the meeting. "We have to look at them closely to make sure they do indeed stay
on track." Deadline for reforms The meeting was the latest in what has been more than a dozen attempts to resolve the embattled country's more than two decadeslong civil war. Somalia has been run since 2004 by a string of transitional governments that have failed to achieve any tangible constitutional reform, political reconciliation or security, exasperating international donors and Somalis alike. Under the roadmap, Somali political leaders will have 12
months to carry out reforms they have agreed since a deal struck in Kampala, the Ugandan capital, in June ended months of high-level bickering. In addition to drafting a new constitution and reforming parliament, the roadmap will lay out timetables for improving security in Mogadishu and other parts of southern Somalia, reaching out to political foes and tackling rampant graft. "I hope that all Somali people will forget what has been happening in the country and it is up to us to responsibly lead our society
through a peace process and reconciliation," President Ahmed said ahead of a consultative meeting in Tuesday's conference. There has been improved security in Mogadishu since al-Shabab rebels withdrew from the capital. But the group, which still controls huge chunks of southern and central Somalia, has vowed attacks on the government and African Union troops in Mogadishu. At the meeting attended by local and international organisations, SOMALIA page 58
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commandos on May 31, 2010, was headed by Sir Geoffrey Palmer, a former prime minister of New Zealand, aided by Alvaro Uribe, the former Colombian president, along with a representative each from Israel and Turkey. It said, however, that the flotilla "acted recklessly in attempting to breach the naval blockade" set up by Israel around Gaza. The inquiry called for Israel to make "an appropriate statement of regret" for the raid and pay compensation to the families of the dead as well as to injured victims. Turkey and Israel should resume full diplomatic relations "repairing their relationship in the interests of stability in the Middle East," the report said.
Gaza trip hinted Erdogan hinted on Tuesday that he might make a visit to Gaza, though adding that no final decision had been made yet. "We are talking with the Egyptians on this matter ... A trip to Gaza is not finalised yet," Erdogan, who is due to visit Egypt next week. Israel has expressed regret for the loss of lives in the 2010 flotilla raid but refused to issue an apology for what they say was their soldiers' act of "selfdefence". Karacan said the tension between Israel and Turkey was deeply rooted and had escalated as Ankara displayed an active interest in the Palestinian question. "Israel was never happy that
Turkey had a more Islamistinclined government that shows more interest in the Palestinian question and takes it to heart and supports it in all international platforms," she said. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: A 'Malign Intellectual Subculture' - George Monbiot Smears Chomsky, Herman, Peterson, Pilger And Media Lens.
Paul Sr. Hands Over the Black Widow Bike to Paul Jr. on 'American Chopper' (VIDEO)
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Mike Bowden, the UN Humanitarian chief, said drought has seriously affected the population leading some to seek refuge in neighbouring countries. The Horn of Africa nation has been under extra duress this year as tens of thousands of people have already from food shortages and a raging famine which has spread to a sixth area in the country. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is
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Filed under: TV Replay Paul Teutul Sr. and Paul Teutul Jr. are now officially in business separately, which is why 'American Chopper' is now'American Chopper: Senior vs. Junior'(Mondays, 9PM on Discovery). But one of the first bikes Orange County Choppers showcased on the old show, the Black Widow bike, had been with Senior, and it's rightfully Junior's bike. Junior finally got it back on
Monday's episode. "Don't want it to be weird," said Junior. "We'll just go in there, we'll get the bike, and we'll leave." All seemed to go well as Senior and Junior talked about whether the bike would fire up. But apparently that was just the surface calm. "I maintained a calmness," said Junior, "but inside, it was just a fraction of a second away from it being not so pretty. Permalink| Email this| Linking Blogs| Comments
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Dremel Trio Rotary Tool Kit

Warranty: 2 Year Dremel Condition: New Features: NOOOOOOOO! The multi-purpose cutting bit Wow. As many times as Ive included with the Dremel Trio lets seen this scene, I never noticed you cut a variety of materials that Greedo was cutting drywall. using only one bit I guess thats the mark of a great The pivoting handle on the work of art: you see something Dremel Trio can be positioned new every time. Well, maybe not straight-up or at a 90-degree angle every time. I didnt notice for superior tool control and anything new the last time I maximum comfort watched it, or the time before that, Plunge cut capability and 360 or probably the time before that. d e g r e e c u t t i n g t e c h n o l o g y But still, there it is, the Dremel eliminate the need for pilot Trio Rotary Tool Kit, right there drilling and the need to stop in the Cantina. cutting for turning corners It just goes to show what a On board dust extraction port to Nick Zaino (AOL TV) on an NFL salary, Owens was visionary Lucas was, to put a then maintain a clean workplace trying to be more conscious of his -futuristic tool like this in a movie Non-marring base to protect Submitted at 9/6/2011 12:15:00 PM accounts, but the person he had made almost 35 years ago. Back delicate work pieces Filed under: TV Replay Terrell managing them was nowhere to then, the world wouldnt have Telescoping foot for accurate Owens is used to multi-million be found. "This has been going on believed that you could cut a wide depth control while cutting, dollar NFL contracts, not the for the last... three to four variety of materials with a single sanding and routing uncertainty of unemployment. months," said Owens. "Every time high-speed cutter. Well, looks like 10,000 20,000 RPM variable While rehabbing his knee and I call about my accounts or what science fiction has become speed switch for greater versatility and optimal control trying to get back into football, he have you, he's always gone. science fact. hit a low point on the'T.O. Football season is on a standstill, And whoa, whats this? Who Lock-on button for comfort Show'(Mondays, 9:30PM on so I have no income at this point. knew Chewbacca could wield a during extended use router like that? And now hes Note: The Dremel Trio uses VH1). Feeling dire about his None." financial situation and frustrated Permalink| Email this| Linking sanding, with sanding bands in only Trio accessories. Dremel four different grits. I thought I rotary tool accessories are not by his rehab, Owens couldn't help Blogs| Comments knew a thing or two about compatible with the Trio tool but shed some tears. Wookiees, but their carpentry Since he could no longer count skills are new to me. Maybe Additional Photos: things like that just stand out more Pivoting Handle i n H D . A u t h o r i z e d f o r Side Profile SquareTrade Extended Warranty Straight Edge/Circle Guide
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Former Citi VP Admits E Ink promises color To Stealing $22 electronic-ink e-readers (but Million From Bank we've heard that before)
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homes and cars. "The defendant violated his Consumer Reports News employer's trust and stole a were " not ready for prime time." Submitted at 9/6/2011 3:15:00 PM (Consumer Reports) stunning amount of money over And while a color Kindle may If you think you need Ben an extended period of time to still be in development, Bezos Submitted at 9/6/2011 3:00:59 PM warned to"stay tuned" for an Affleck in a creepy nun mask to finance his personal lifestyle," heist millions from a bank, there's U.S. Atty. Loretta Lynch said in a E Ink promises color electronicAmazon tablet. ink e-readers (but we've heard that What's more, early reports on the a former VP of Citigroup who can statement. before) device suggest it looks and teach you a thing or two about a "We are pleased that Mr. Foster E-book readers with full-color efunctions pretty close to its rival, bloodless robbery. Of course, this will be held accountable for his ink displays could be just around the B&N Nook Color, which also guy also got caught and has crimes," a Citigroup rep chimed the corner, according to their frugal propertiesup to two made our list of Recommended e- pleaded guilty to embezzling in. proponents at a recent trade show. months of battery life, says E b o o k r e a d e r s ( a v a i l a b l e t o more than $22 million from his The government is expected to former employer, so he's probably request a prison sentence of 8-10 But this isn't the first time that Inkand legibility in bright s u b s c r i b e r s ) . color displays that use less energy sunlight. The color electronic ink What do you think? Is there still a not one to look to for get-rich- years, at which point the ex-con than those on computers and displays are also easily mass- place for dedicated e-book readers quick advice. banker will if movies and TV today's color e-book readers have producedin production rolls that feature color digital ink Authorities arrested the 35-year- are to be believed slip into a been promisedand then failed to measuring three meters wide by schemes? Or are tablet computers old onetime VP and charged with dimly lit parking garage, where a appear. one kilometer longsays E Ink. the way forward for mobile funneling millions in bank funds dusty '71 Chevelle awaits with a to his personal accounts during a suitcase full of gold bricks in the At the IFA 2011 trade show in In fact, E Ink says the Triton devices? Berlin last week, E Ink showed displays will be featured in For helpful information on how 7-year period. trunk. off its color digital display, called newbut unnamede-readers to choose, see our recent report on From Reuters: Ex- vice president pleads guilty According to the government, t o s t e a l i n g $ 2 2 M f r o m Triton. The screen uses the same soon. Tablets & e-readers. Foster first transferred money C i t i [ C h i c a g o T r i b u n e ] electronic-ink technology found Still, that's something the YouTube video from Charbax. in current monochromatic e-book company claimed last year before E Ink promises thinner, lighter, from various Citigroup accounts This entry passed through the readers such as the top-rated the Consumer Electronics Show higher resolution, and color e- to Citigroup's cash account and Full-Text RSS service if this is then wired the money to his your content and you're reading it Amazon Kindle and Barnes & 2011, and what Qualcomm, with paper displays[Geek.com] Noble Nook Simple Touch. And its competing Mirasol display, Amazons Kindle Tablet Is Very personal account at another bank. on someone else's site, please read while the Triton's palleta mere told us at CES in January. Real. Ive Seen It, Played With He concealed his thefts by, among the FAQ at fivefilters.org/content4,096 colorswon't hold a candle And we can't help but wonder if It.[Tech Crunch] Subscribe now! other methods, making false only/faq.php#publishers. Five to the gamut of colors possible it's already too late for color S u b s c r i b e t o accounting entries to create the Filters featured article: A 'Malign from the Apple iPad tablet digital-ink based displays. For ConsumerReports.org for expert appearance that the bank's cash Intellectual Subculture' - George computer or Nook Color e-reader, example, when Amazon CEO Jeff Ratings, buying advice and account was in balance. Monbiot Smears Chomsky, it will offer advantages over those Bezos was visiting Consumer r e l i a b i l i t y o n h u n d r e d s o f In a shocking change of pace for Herman, Peterson, Pilger And devices' color LCD screen. R e p o r t s i n J u n e , h e t o l d products. Update your feed white collar criminals, Foster Media Lens. spent the money on expensive For one, Triton retains the Electronics Editor Paul Reynolds preferences monochrome display's energy- that color electronic ink displays
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The Debunker: Ken Jennings vs. Map Myths, Part 1

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New Netflix Restriction: One Stream Per Customer

Ben Popken (The Consumerist)
a mile taller than Everest. So why dont we hear about rugged Submitted at 9/6/2011 12:00:00 AM adventurers and their Sherpas Every Tuesday, we ask Jeopardy! scaling snowy Mauna Kea? know-it-all Ken Jennings to blow Because the base of Mauna Kea our minds by debunking a sits not on a lofty plateau, but on cherished myth that everybody the floor of the Pacific Ocean. knows even though its dead Well over half its height is wasted wrong. Since Kens new book underwater, where only exotic Maphead, about geography nerds, Hawaiian fish with hard-tohits shelves September 20, we pronounce names can appreciate pulled him away from the it. gazetteer long enough for him to So what is Everest? Just the demolish four incredibly wrong Earths tallest mountain above sea facts about geography. level, which is nothing to sneeze Map Myth #1: Mount Everest Is at. And the summit is still rising at the Highest Point on Earth. the rate of 3-5 millimeters a year I t s n o t ? y o u w h i s p e r , story short: the Earth is about 25 as due to plate tectonics. This heartbroken, wondering what little miles wider at the Equator than means, in essence, that each new technicality youve missed. So it is tall at the poles, which climber who summits Everest is what is the highest place on means that equatorial mountains setting a new altitude record. (If Earth? Another mountain? Some extend way further into space than y o u i g n o r e t h a t k i l l j o y futuristic Asian skyscraper from a more northerly ones like Everest. C h i m b o r a z o , o f c o u r s e . ) Mission: Impossible movie? In fact, the peak of Mount Quick Quiz: Sir Edmund Hillary, Three rows back at a Phish C h i m b o r a z o , a n A n d e a n the first person to summit Mount stratovolcano that happens to be concert? Everest, appears on what nations Well, heres the catch about the the highest point of Ecuador, is five-dollar bill (as shown above)? Earth: its not a sphere. (Bonus over a mile further from the center Ken Jennings is the author of D e b u n k e r ! ) B e c a u s e o f i t s of the Earth than Everest is. Brainiac, Ken Jennings's Trivia rotation, the Earth is more or less Ah, you say, nodding wisely. So Almanac, and the forthcoming like an adult human: it bulges Mount Everest may not be the Maphead. Follow him at kenmore in the middle as time goes technical highest point, but it is jennings.com or on Twitter by. Geodesistspeople who still the planets tallest mountain. as@KenJennings. study the shape of the Earthcall Not so fast! Hawaiis Mauna Kea it an oblate spheroid. Long volcano is 33,000 feet tall, almost
Netflix continued its recent tightening and price-raising by making it so there can only be one streaming video feed per account. For families that share accounts and want to be able to watch more than one instant stream at the same time, they'll have to sign up for an additional Unlimited Streaming account at $7.99 a month or increase the number of DVDs in their package. To get two streams, you need to pay $19.98/month for two DVD's at a time, or $23.98 for three streams and three DVDs, or four of both for $29.98. It's always been an unenforced Netflix policy that you should only watch the number of concurrent streams as the number of DVDs in your package. But in the past they didn't do anything to prevent it besides a sporadic popup warning. Now an error
message will appear if you try to watch more than your designated number of streams and you won't be able to watch more than you're allowed. With the price increases, Starz removing its programming, and now this move, Netflix's cherryred teflon shell could be losing some its luster. Netflix Cracks Down on Sharing: One Stream Per Customer Unless You Pay More[Stop The Cap] RELATED Timing Of Netflix Price Increase Depends On Your Billing Date This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: A 'Malign Intellectual Subculture' - George Monbiot Smears Chomsky, Herman, Peterson, Pilger And Media Lens.
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Average gas Pricing: 2012 Buick Verano to prices--September start at $23,470 6, 2011
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Turkey Meatballs with Tomatoes and Basil

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Pricing: 2012 Buick Verano to start at $23,470 Buick has announced pricing for the Verano, their new entry-level compact sedan, which will start at $23,470. The top-of-the-line model comes in at $26,850 including $885 for destination charges. All models will be powered by a 2.4-liter four-cylinder engine delivering 180 hp mated to a sixspeed automatic transmission. Standard features include leatherette seats, a color-LED touch-screen radio display with Buicks IntelliLink technology for Bluetooth, USB capabilities, and smartphone control with voice activation and streaming music through the stereo system. Other standard features include steering wheel controls, remote start, power windows, and 10 air bags. Seat heaters will automatically activate when using the remote start and temperatures
fall below 45 degrees. The rear defogger and heated outside mirrors will kick in as well. A heated steering wheel is available as well as a push-button engine start. The top-level trim will offer the leather material currently available in the LaCrosse. GMs OnStar service is free for the first six months. The Verano hits dealerships later this year. Subscribe now! S u b s c r i b e t o ConsumerReports.org for expert Ratings, buying advice and reliability on hundreds of products. Update your feed preferences
Average gas prices--September 6, 2011 Gasoline prices are up in all areas around the country compared to the week before. The national gasoline average is $.99 above the price this time last year. Diesel fuel is about $.94 above this time last year. The national premium fuel price is $3.91. National regular gasoline prices Price Change from last week Regular gasoline/gallon$3.67.05 Diesel fuel/gallon$3.87.05 Regional regular gasoline prices East Coast$3.64.03New England$3.75.03Central Atlantic$3.67.04Lower A t l a n t i c $ 3 . 5 9 . 0 3 Midwest$3.71.04 Gulf Coast$3.49.02 Rocky Mountain$3.58.04 West Coast$3.86.12California$3.94.1
We used to have a cat named Jack. Jack was a sly, slowmoving, long-haired Persian that 4 Source: Energy Information would rarely come when called, Administration, 9/6/11. Figures but if you put out a small bowl of vanilla ice cream, out of nowhere rounded to the nearest cent. See our guide to fuel economy he would magically appear. This for advice on saving gasoline, is sort of how my dad is with including reports on how to get meatballs. All I have to do is say, the best gas mileage and where to "Dad, I'm making meatballs," and find the cheapest gas. Learn about he's half-way out the door on the future technologies in our guide to way over. He loved these. Continue reading "Turkey alternative fuels. Subscribe now! S u b s c r i b e t o Meatballs with Tomatoes and ConsumerReports.org for expert Basil" Ratings, buying advice and reliability on hundreds of products. Update your feed preferences
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LSU moves to No. 2, Auburn drops out of AP Top 25 - Forbes

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Video: A Tough Year for Big Labor

Mike Brownfield (The Foundry: Conservative Policy News Blog from The Heritage Foundation)
home. The Tigers became just the Submitted at 9/6/2011 2:41:41 PM second defending national NEW YORK -champions since the preseason Winning the biggest game of poll started in 1950 to fall out of c o l l e g e f o o t b a l l ' s o p e n i n g the rankings after the first week of weekend boosted LSU to No. 2 in the season in the first regularThe Associated Press Top 25. season poll - though the No. 1 Oklahoma held on to the circumstances were far different top spot in the first regular-season the first time it happened. rankings, while the Tigers used Alabama, the 1964 AP champion, their 40-27 victory against Oregon started the '65 season ranked No. to jump rival Alabama, which 5. The Crimson Tide lost 18-17 to slipped to No. 3. Georgia to open the season and "It's way too early to feel like we dropped out, but The Associated have accomplished anything," Press only ranked 10 teams that LSU coach Les Miles said. "Our season. Alabama eventually guys understand the need to returned to the Top 10 and won improve each game." another national title. The Sooners received 32 of 60 The 1961 Minnesota team is the first-place votes and 1,448 points. only defending champion to be LSU received 17 first-place votes unranked in the preseason poll. and 1,415 points. Moving into this week's rankings Alabama had nine first-place were No. 20 Baylor, which beat votes, and two voters had No. 4 TCU 50-48, and No. 22 South Boise State top-ranked after the Florida, 23-20 winners at Notre Broncos' impressive 35-21 win Dame. against Georgia. Florida State "When you look at it, the one that moved up to No. 5. I'm most concerned about is the Oregon dropped nine spots to No. last one," Bulls coach Skip Holtz 1 3 a n d d e f e n d i n g n a t i o n a l said. "After the end of the year champion Auburn, which started we'll talk about the rankings and the season at No. 23, fell out of all that because that's the only the Top 25 after needing a late time it really matters. So what rally to beat Utah State 42-38 at we've got to do right now is just
focus on what we've got to do on a day-to-day basis." Also ranked for the first time this season were No. 23 Penn State and No. 24 Texas. The Longhorns started the season unranked for the first time since 1998. Penn State moves into the rankings ahead of Saturday's home game against third-ranked Alabama. It's the only game this week matching ranked teams. TCU dropped 11 spots to No. 25. Notre Dame and Georgia tumbled out of the Top 25 after losses. Like Auburn, Southern California, which opened the season ranked 25th, fell out of the rankings after a victory. USC squeaked by Minnesota 19-17. The rest of the top 10 had No. 6 Stanford, followed by Texas A&M, Wisconsin, Oklahoma State and Nebraska. No. 11 is Virginia Tech, followed by South Carolina, Oregon, Arkansas and Ohio State. No. 16 Mississippi State and No. 18 Florida give the Southeastern Conference six ranked teams this week, matching the Big 12 for the most. No. 21 Missouri, joins Oklahoma, Texas A&M, Oklahoma State, Baylor and Texas.
The Big Ten has five ranked teams, with No. 17 Michigan State joining Wisconsin, Nebraska, Penn State and Ohio State. No. 19 West Virginia and USF give the Big East two teams in the Top 25. The Atlantic Coast Conference (Florida State and Virginia Tech), the Pac-12 (Stanford and Oregon) and the Mountain West (Boise State and TCU) also have two ranked teams. AP freelance writer Mark Didtler contributed to this report. Copyright 2011 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: A 'Malign Intellectual Subculture' - George Monbiot Smears Chomsky, Herman, Peterson, Pilger And Media Lens.
Its been a rough year for unions in America. Yesterday on PBS NewsHour, Heritages James Sherk explained why unionsboth in the public and private sectorsare in so much trouble. In a new paper, Sherk and Rea Hederman, Jr., explain how unions make businesses less competitive and discourage investment. In doing so, employment is significantly affected. Meanwhile, 14 million Americans are unemployed, and the economy is at a near standstill. Read their paper, Heritage Employment Report: This Labor Day, No New Jobs, High Unemployment, at Heritage.org. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: A 'Malign Intellectual Subculture' - George Monbiot Smears Chomsky, Herman, Peterson, Pilger And Media Lens.
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Josh Beckett likely to miss start - ESPN.com

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Beckett told a team trainer that he was feeling some improvement in the area. And two unidentified Updated: September 6, 2011, sources with knowledge of the 5:27 PM ET ESPNBoston.com situation told CSNNE.com that Boston Red Sox manager Terry Beckett's injury was more of a Francona said the team was still short-term ailment that wasn't waiting for the results of an exam likely to affect him for the on Josh Beckett's injured right postseason. ankle, but he did indicate that the Beckett left Monday's 1-0 extraright-hander will likely miss his inning loss against the Toronto next start. Blue Jays in the bottom of the Beckett, who was flown back to fourth inning with a sprained right Boston for the exam after injuring ankle after catching the foot on the ankle Monday night, was the area just in front of the slated to go against the Rays pitching rubber when delivering a Sunday. With Erik Bedard's next pitch to Brett Lawrie. start also being skipped due to a "It's always concerning," Beckett knee issue, the Red Sox will start said after the game Monday. John Lackey on Friday, rookie "That's my power leg." Kyle Weiland on Saturday and Beckett said he slipped and fell Jon Lester on Sunday. while stepping off a mound in the While the results of the exam are bullpen before the game but didn't not yet known, there are a couple think that had anything to do with of promising signs. the pain that forced him out. Francona said Tuesday that "I felt it on the second to last pitch
and then it felt a little bit different on the last pitch I threw," he said. "I didn't feel it 'til those last two pitches." "It felt like it was locked up and then it popped in and out of the socket or something," Beckett added. Information from The Associated Press was used in this report. Updated: September 6, 2011, 5:27 PM ET ESPNBoston.com This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: A 'Malign Intellectual Subculture' - George Monbiot Smears Chomsky, Herman, Peterson, Pilger And Media Lens.
Williams, Wozniacki move on in different ways - Salt Lake Tribune

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NEW YORK Rain washed out all of Tuesdays schedule at the U.S. Open, postponing matches involving defending champion Rafael Nadal and the three American men left in the tournament: Andy Roddick, John Isner and Donald Young. Second-seeded Vera Zvonareva, the 2010 runner-up, also had been scheduled to play Tuesday, the first time play has been delayed by rain at this years U.S. Open. Steady showers than began overnight carried into the morning, first delaying what was supposed to be an 11 a.m. EDT start. About 2 hours later, the U.S. Tennis Association announced that the day and night sessions were being called off, issuing a statement that said: The latest forecast indicates worsening conditions with no projected breaks in the rain through the remainder of the day and into the night. A total of 54 matches including four in the fourth round of mens singles and two in the quarterfinals of womens singles, along with doubles and juniors action were postponed at least until Wednesday, when the
forecast predicts more rain. There also is a chance of rain Thursday and Friday, which could throw the schedule into disarray. The two-week U.S. Open began Aug. 29, and is scheduled to end Sunday. Each of the past three years, though, rain pushed the mens final back a day until Monday. The mens matches originally set for Tuesday were No. 2 Nadal against unseeded Gilles Muller of Luxembourg; No. 21 Roddick, the 2003 U.S. Open champion, against No. 5 David Ferrer of Spain; No. 28 Isner against No. 12 Gilles Simon of France; and the unseeded Young against No. 4 Andy Murray, a three-time Grand Slam finalist. In womens singles, Zvonareva was to face No. 9 Sam Stosur, and No. 26 Flavia Pennetta was scheduled to play unseeded Angelique Kerber of Germany. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: A 'Malign Intellectual Subculture' - George Monbiot Smears Chomsky, Herman, Peterson, Pilger And Media Lens.
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The lockout starts in earnest this week

Eric Freeman (Y! Sports Blogs - Yahoo! Sports)
practices or games during the summer, so we've only missed the hot-stove portion of the league Submitted at 9/6/2011 3:25:07 PM calendar. Now that Labor Day has This summer has been a stone hit, we're nearing the typical start cold bummer for NBA fans, all of the NBA season. And that because of the lockout. There has means we're about to miss some not been the usual offseason major events. moving and/or shaking, leaving us Each September, players return to with a set of several months in team's training facilities for which "LeBron trips at charity voluntary (but really involuntary) auction" stands as a bloggable workouts. This season, that's not story. No one's entirely happy happening. Paul Coro has more with the NBA landscape, and for for the Arizona Republic(in a good reason. Very little is piece already highlighted by Kelly happening right now. Dwyer earlier today): Yet, for all our boredom, it's The NBA lockout has entered its important to remember that we third month, but Tuesday is the haven't reached the really tough day that will look and feel the part of the lockout. After all, NBA most different at US Airways t e a m s d o n ' t h o l d f u l l - t e a m Center.
The day after Labor Day usually marks the start of Suns voluntary workouts in earnest. Some players come earlier but most, if not all, are normally in the Valley by early September to use the
facilities for workouts and pickup games. This year, players are barred from NBA contact, let alone facilities, due to the lockout and are on their own for workouts.
This moment was predictable and should came as no surprise, but it helps inaugurate a portion of the lockout in which players will miss legitimate basketballular activities. Most Augusts are dull - Mickael Pietrus's annual search for a new home is not exactly a front-page story. September, though, is a month in which we start to get a sense of how teams will develop before the start of the regular season. That won't be the case this year. Let this post serve as a reminder that, as tough as the lockout has been already, it's only going to get more annoying. The normal flow of our basketball calendar is about to be thrown into terrible flux.
There may not be any U.S. Open tennis on Wednesday either

Chris Chase (Y! Sports Blogs Yahoo! Sports)
This is the current Wednesday forecast for New York (as of 5:45 p.m ET on Tuesday). Could two straight days of washouts be in the offing for the U.S. Open? The Wednesday schedule is an embarrassment of riches for tennis fans. Rafael Nadal, Andy Roddick and the Andy Murray vs. Donald Young match are all scheduled for
11 a.m. and Rafa, Novak Djokovic, Serena Williams and Federer will play in successive matches at Arthur Ashe Stadium. The best women's match of the round, Caroline Wozniacki vs. Andrea Petkovic, is on Armstrong. Andy Roddick is there too, playing on the court for the first time in nine years. (He's been exclusively on Ashe since then.) Murray-Young is on Grandstand! How crazy is the schedule? A
mixed doubles match involving Jack Sock and Melanie Oudin originally scheduled Tuesday for Ashe is all the way out on Court
11. Or maybe that's just a sign of how ridiculous it was that said match was scheduled for Ashe in the first place.
We all may have to wait until Thursday though. And if that nightmare scenario happens for the USTA, we could be looking at a Monday men's final for the fourth consecutive year. Whenever play does get underway, it's going to be a jampacked 12 hours of tennis. Good thing we all have ESPN2 and the Tennis Channel to watch all the action!
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1 Thessalonians 4:11-12 (09-0611)

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Ms. 'Splosion Man challenge round two Skyrim's promotional features Fruit 'Friend' army of Dragonborn coming for you
Richard Mitchell (Joystiq)
Listen, Penny Arcade's Fruit F**cker certainly isn't a "friend" to fruit, though we can understand the need to tone down the juicing robot's vile moniker for more tender audiences. It turns out he's not a friend to Ms. 'Splosion Man either, as he now appears in a new challenge level for Twisted Pixel's latest 'sploderific opus. The challenge level is available now -- handily offered without needing a special download-- and is littered with 9 of the little buggers. The challenge level is open until September 11, and the three players who walk away with
the highest scores will receive a prize pack filled with Twisted Pixel and Penny Arcade goodies. We're not sure if said prize packs include a Fruit "Friend," but you might want to hide your produce just in case. Gallery: Ms. 'Splosion Man Fruit "Friend" challenge level Continue reading Ms. 'Splosion Man challenge round two features Fruit 'Friend' Ms. 'Splosion Man challenge round two features Fruit 'Friend' originally appeared on Joystiq on Tue, 06 Sep 2011 19:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink| Email this| Comments
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The most important part of any transaction is the close, when the salesperson in question has to be just a little bit aggressive and really "ask" for the sale. But we worry Bethesda might have overdone the aggressive thing just a tad with these bronzed Dragonborn statues headed to a retailer near you. Good luck buying any game not called Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim after November 11, what with Dovahkiin glowering over you,
Make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, to mind your own business and to work with your hands, just as we told you, so that your daily life may win the respect of outsiders and so that you will not be dependent on anybody. 1 Thessalonians 4:11-12(NIV) Thoughts on Today's Verse... What's your ambition? I don't know about you, but I'm not so sure I could say my ambition is to "live a quiet life ...." But when I hear the reason for that directive, I understand. So many people I meet are frazzled, run down, and exhausted with all their "busyness." So let's make a commitment to cycle down a the smell of mutton and mead still little, trust God more and more thick on his breath. each day, and seek to live a life " Uncharted 3, peon? That's what that wins the respect of those you're buying? Well, I hope around us! My Prayer... O you're not split on the decision!" precious and righteous Father, I ... Oh, sorry, he cuts you in half need your help to learn to slow with a battle axe when he says the down and tend to my own "split" part. Forgot to mention. responsibilities instead of running Skyrim's promotional army of around out of control and without Dragonborn coming for you purpose. Please grant me not only originally appeared on Joystiq on the wisdom that I have been Tue, 06 Sep 2011 18:30:00 EST. praying for, but also the patience Please see our terms for use of and quietude that I need for that feeds. wisdom to change my heart and Permalink| Email this| Comments mind. In Jesus' name I ask it. Amen.
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A second launch couldn't hurt

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Submitted at 9/6/2011 11:31:55 AM
Space Invaders Infinity Gene propagates to Android tomorrow

JC Fletcher (Joystiq)
After engagements on iOS, PSN, and XBLA, the techno-trippy, genetics-themed shmup Space Invaders Infinity Gene is mutating into an Android game. The shooter will be available for purchase tomorrow on the Android Market for $5. If you're an Android adherent, and at all interested in the idea of a shooter that slowly "evolves" new abilities, visual styles, and gameplay elements as you play it,
you'll want to check this out. Not only because we think it's a novel shooter with accessible touch controls, but also so you can use your money to influence Square Enix to port Reisuke Ishida's follow-up game, the amazing Groove Coaster. Space Invaders Infinity Gene propagates to Android tomorrow originally appeared on Joystiq on (news photos - Google News) Tue, 06 Sep 2011 18:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of Submitted at 9/6/2011 9:28:18 PM feeds. Eddie Murphy Hosting 2012 Permalink| Email this| Comments Oscars: Pros And Cons ( PHOTOS, VIDEOS) Huffington Post (satire) The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences officially
It's great if your product takes off with the first launch, sometimes they do. Sometimes they don't. That doesn't mean the product is doomed to fail, it may just mean that you have to follow-through. And a lot of people don't. There was a fair amount of hoohah about Bootstrap when Twitter announced it. The usual quick pieces on TechCrunch, GigaOm, PaidContent. Maybe a few posts from bloggers like Scoble or Jeff Jarvis (I don't know if these guys specificially wrote about it). The product rolls through in a wave of publicity and that's it. But just a half-hour after writing the review of Bootstrap here,
weeks after its rollout, I'm getting emails from people who hadn't heard of it, people who could really use it. No one promoted the product to me, and believe me, I'm not asking them to. But here's what can't possibly hurt. If you're the developer of the product, think of the people you read and whose opinions you care about. Not just who the PR people say are influential. Who influences you? In general those are good people for you to tell about your product. You don't have to write a fancy marketing piece, just an email that says hey, I read your blog and I thought you might find this intereresting. Include a link. Say thanks, and sign off. For me, products that were made
by my readers are inherently interesting. Here's a product developer I know I can influence, who I am influencing. If I see something in their product they're likely to listen. That matters a lot. I don't think of this as a conversational medium like some people do, because I think that leads to people saying empty things just to "engage" with you, and I prefer to be treated like a human being, not a business model. BTW, when I have a product that I think someone influential would find interesting, I don't wait for them to discover it. I send a link. No pressure. Here's something you might like. Bing.
Eddie Murphy Hosting 2012 Oscars: Pros And Cons (PHOTOS, VIDEOS) - Huffington Post (satire)
announced today that iconic comedian Eddie Murphy would host the 84th Annual Academy Award in 2012. Few comedians today have seen as varied a career as Murphy, who is (correctly) regarded as... and more
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Twitter's Bootstrap toolkit

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Submitted at 9/6/2011 11:02:31 AM
This morning I released a new UI for Blork on my server and to other people who are running Blork servers. I'm already getting congratulations on such a nicelooking UI, but I don't deserve it. The credit should go to Twitter for releasing the Bootstrap toolkit, which I have been learning and building on. I needed a framework of solved problems that I could hook into. Trying to put all the pieces together when I'm already managing a billion pieces in my own world was going to take forever. They just put out a set of easy UI techniques that I could hook into. From there, it was
mostly just programming. The complexities melted away. This has been the problem with CSS. It was designed for laying out documents, for apps we need something akin to the Mac
Toolkit (they call it Cocoa these days, I think). I'm not sure Twitter realized they were developing that, but they gave a guy like me what I needed to put it together. They aren't the first, but I've spent a fair amount of time staring at other UI toolkits and never got to Hello World. With this one, once I realized the answers were available by doing a View Source, it was off to the races. Now we have some glitches to clean up, no problemmo, because we have plenty of CSS gurus in our midst who can tell me what I did wrong. What I needed was a place to start. So -- thank you to the people at Twitter who had the talent to put this together, and the generosity to give it to the world.
New Photos Show Astronauts' Treks on the Moon - Discovery News

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NASA to Release Rare Photos of Apollo Moon Landing Site Fox News CTV.ca Astronauts' tracks, trash seen in New Photos Show Astronauts' new moon photos The Associated Treks on the Moon Press Discovery News NASA Releases New Photos Of The God's-eye-view of the lunar Apollo Lunar Landing Sites ( s u r f a c e s h o w s f o o t t r a i l s , PHOTOS, VIDEO) Huffington equipment and rover tracks left Post behind by astronauts on the NPR (blog)- ITworld.comApollo 12, 14 and 17 missions -- WKZO three of six human expeditions to all 407 news articles the moon that took place between 1969 and 1972....
Perry Won't Commit to GOP Debate

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Via CBS News: Texas Gov. Rick Perry said on CBS The Early Show Tuesday that he doesnt know whether he will participate in the first Republican debate since his entry for the partys nomination for president as his state continues to
battle persistent wildfires. Perry left the campaign trail Monday and returned to Texas for the latest outbreak of blazes, which have destroyed nearly 500 homes and caused the evacuations of many residents. Speaking to Early Show anchors Erica Hill and Chris Wragge from the state capital of Austin, Perry wouldnt say whether hed attend the
Republican debate scheduled for Wednesday night at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Library in Simi Valley, Calif. I dont know, Perry told Wragge. Thats a fluid situation at the moment, so again I go back to were going to be taking care of the folks here. I got a great team of people to work with. Thats one of the things Ive been
blessed with for 10 years.. . . Perry wins again. He can avoid the debate for good reason and then respond to President Obamas job plan after the fact, rather than trying to guess whats in it like the rest of the GOP field. Greg Pollowitz This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it
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Deutsche Bank CEO: Antibiotics May Be Hey, European Banks Permanently Altering the Are in Real Trouble Guts of Humanity
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Submitted at 9/6/2011 11:05:40 AM
Clay Dillow (Popular Science New Technology, Science News, The Future Now)
If you're one of those people worried that the over-prescription of antibiotics is leading us toward biological calamity, you're not going to like this. Writing in the journal Nature this week, Martin Blaser of NYU's Langone Medical Center makes the case that antibiotics aren't just leading to highly resistant superbugs, but that they are permanently altering our bacterial microbiomes, and not for the better. Our microbiomes are the collection of bacterial microbes that we carry around with us all the time, those symbiotic little bugs that live on our skin and in our esophagi and--very importantly--in our guts. And while we've long known that a cycle of antibiotics prescribed to kill off an infection can also kill off some of our most important beneficial microorganisms, the general line of thinking is that once the cycle of antibiotics ends our microbiomes correct
themselves and the natural order of things returns. Related Articles New BacteriaKilling Light Can Destroy Superbugs With the Flip of a Switch Newly Found Gonorrhea Superbug Resists All Existing Antibiotics Bacteria in Gut Influence Brains of Mice, Soothed by Probiotic Broth Tags Science, Clay Dillow, antibiotic resistance, antibiotics, health, microbiomes, superbugs Blaser presents arguments otherwise in an editorial that suggests that our gut bacteria is permanently affected by a cycle of antibiotics, and that the impact is so profound that it might be time to seriously consider not giving antibiotics to anyone other than very young children and pregnant women. Quoted by Maryn McKenna in Wired: Early evidence from my lab and others hints that, sometimes, our friendly flora never fully recover. These longterm changes to the beneficial bacteria within people's bodies may even increase our susceptibility to infections and disease. Overuse of antibiotics
Europe and have a lot of exposure to, for example, Greek bonds. Since the financial crisis, some could be fueling the dramatic European banks have lost a third increase in conditions such as Via Business Insider: o b e s i t y , t y p e 1 d i a b e t e s , Josef Ackermann just gave a o r m o r e o f t h e i r m a r k e t inflammatory bowel disease, terrifying speech about the capitalization, he said, according allergies and asthma, which have fragility of the Euro banking to Google Translate. . . more than doubled in many sector right now. At a conference Whoa. Greg Pollowitz in Frankfurt he said, It is an open This entry passed through the populations. He then goes on to present some secret that numerous European Full-Text RSS service if this is d i s c o n c e r t i n g c o r r e l a t i o n s banks would not survive having to your content and you're reading it between the absence of certain revalue sovereign debt held on the on someone else's site, please read bacteria and the rise in incidences banking book at market levels. the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentof things like allergy, asthma, and We have translated the speech only/faq.php#publishers. Five w e i g h t g a i n . H e p o i n t s t o based on Handelsbatts, the Filters featured article: A 'Malign evidence that children are getting organizer of the event where Intellectual Subculture' - George too many doses of antibiotics Ackermann spoke, account of it. M o n b i o t S m e a r s C h o m s k y , before adulthood and that their In recent weeks, the distrust of Herman, Peterson, Pilger And microbiomes are never the same the financial markets has spread Media Lens. for it--specifically that the damage to the banks because they are now to our gut bacteria populations is suffering from the debt crisis in permanent from that point forward. Which leads to an eventual conclusion that when our children are sick we shouldn't give them what we know will make them better. And that's a tough pill to swallow. [ Wired]
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Christchurch is Thinking of Replacing Its Earthquake-Ravaged Church with a Cardboard Cathedral

Clay Dillow (Popular Science New Technology, Science News, The Future Now)
The Cardboard Cathedral Shigeru Ban Architects via Yahoo Real Estate The Bible has at least a little to say about how to construct a building, but mostly in Proverbs and mostly not having anything to do actually building a structure (metaphor!). So without rock solid instructions, officials overseeing the Christchurch Cathedral--the one in Christchurch, New Zealand, that was all but leveled in February's 6.3-magnitude earthquake--plan to build a 700-seat cardboard cathedral as a temporary replacement. Japanese architect Shigeru Ban is heading up the design effort, which is currently in the midst of a $50,000 feasibility study. If the plan is approved, Ban plans to erect a massive 78-foot-high Aframe cathedral from cardboard tubes that will sit upon a foundation of 20-foot shipping containers (and we're pretty positive that building plan is nowhere in the Good Book). Don't be misled by the term
Memory Quizzes Still Best For Alzheimer's Diagnosis

(NPR Blogs: Shots - Health Blog)
Image courtesy of the National Institute on Aging/National Institutes of Health PET scans of the brains of a person with normal memory ability and someone diagnosed "temporary." This structure is architect," Ban is a big proponent That means a lot of cardboard will with Alzheimer's meant to serve as a stand-in for of cardboard as a building have to be erected in quite a When it comes to predicting Christchurch Cathedral--the city's material, particularly after natural hurry. But it's silly to think of the whether someone will have iconic landmark--for a full ten disasters when the prices of strength of a building in terms of Alzheimer's disease, newfangled years. It will cost about $3.4 building materials spike. It's h o w m u c h t i m e y o u s p e n d diagnostic tests for the illness million and could be erected in as cheap and abundant, it recycles moving heavy materials into aren't as good as old-fashioned few as three months. And try not when you're done with it, and it's place, Ban says. After all, he said quizzes of thinking and memory. to associate cardboard with surprisingly strong. In a pinch, in remarks to Christchurch That's the word from a study that "temporary" either--Ban has been you can usually get your hands on C a t h e d r a l o f f i c i a l s , p a p e r compared different methods for building cardboard structures a lot of it fast at low cost. buildings don't collapse during an identifying Alzheimer's. The since 1989 (including a church in If the plan is approved, the earthquake. results was just published in the K o b e , J a p a n a n d s e v e r a l cardboard cathedral may be [ Yahoo Real Estate] Archives of General Psychiatry. temporary housing buildings in swiftly built to open on Feb 22 of Scientists have been looking for a Haiti), and he builds them to last. n e x t y e a r , t h e o n e - y e a r scan or lab test, such as changes K n o w n a s a n " e m e r g e n c y anniversary of the earthquake. MEMORY page 72
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Haggle, Don't Settle, When It Comes To Health Costs

iStockphoto.com If you don't ask, you can't save money on health care. Seems like forever that Consumer Reports has been telling people to haggle over the price of a microwave or a car. Now the folks behind the magazine want you to haggle with your doctor or at least let her know that you can't afford that bypass. The cost of health care is expected to almost double in the next decade, and insurers and employers are increasingly shoving that cost onto individuals. As a result, even people with good insurance are finding it harder to pay medical bills. Shots talked with John Santa, an internal medicine doctor who directs the magazine's Health Ratings Center and wrote this call to medical bargain shopping. He says it's the first time the organization has advised people to dicker with their doctors, he says. And he understands why some people would rather have a colonoscopy than tell their doctor they're having money trouble.
Still, he says, "Your doctor needs to know about the stresses in your life." Doctors' No. 1 frustration with patients is that they don't do what the doctor tells them to do take the medicine or follow through on treatment. Very often that's because patients can't afford the medicine or treatment. Santa says a doctor really wants to know if money is tight, because there are many treatment options that are
Hospitals and doctors usually offer discounted rates to insurance companies, and there's no reason that an individual couldn't get a discount, too. Consumer Reports' advice includes disputing any charges you think the insurance company should pay, and holding off on payment until you've exhausted all options. The nonprofit also suggests offering a discounted price with a payment plan that you know you can manage. One of the biggest hang-ups in shopping for helath care is that it's hard to find out the real price. There's no Google Shopper for hip replacements. But the Healthcare Blue Book is a good start. This free service provides at least an inkling of what the going just as good if not better, and also treatment. That would really help r a t e m i g h t b e f o r t h a t h i p replacement ($20,566) or dental less costly. me." He cites the diabetes drug Doctors and other health-care crown ($959). Avandia, which got slammed by providers also have an ethical This entry passed through the the Food and Drug Administration o b l i g a t i o n t o p u t p a t i e n t s ' Full-Text RSS service if this is for posing heart-attack risks. financial situation ahead of their your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read Patients would have been much own, he notes better off taking metformin, a Talking with the doctor about the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentcheaper drug without the risky costs before treatment is the best only/faq.php#publishers. Five side effects. He suggests starting bet. But it's still OK to negotiate Filters featured article: A 'Malign the conversation with something after getting slammed with a big Intellectual Subculture' - George general, like: "Let me know where bill for a high-ticket item like M o n b i o t S m e a r s C h o m s k y , I might be able to save on this coronary angioplasty, Santa says. Herman, Peterson, Pilger And Media Lens.
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in particular proteins in the blood, to simplify and speed up the detection of Alzheimer's. The goal is to be able to identify people at risk of the illness long before symptoms such as impaired thinking surface. But that goal is far from being realized. In this study, researchers compared how well biological and cognitive tests did at identifying whether people who already had mild cognitive impairment would go on to develop Alzheimer's. They found that two tests measuring verbal memory were the best at predicting whether someone would develop Alzheimer's in the next two years. In those tests, people were read a story or a list of words, and then asked to recall the information 30 minutes later. In people who are progressing to Alzheimer's, "there's forgetting," neuroscientist Terry Goldberg, a co-author of the study, told Shots. "There's an increased rate of forgetting." One biological marker, a brain scan that measured changes in the thickness of the middle temporal lobe, also predicted people who went on to have Alzheimer's. Other biological markers, such as tests for telltale proteins in blood and cerebrospinal fluid, also revealed changes, but not as well.
Those tests have been used in research laboratories, but aren't being used to test for Alzheimer's in clinical practice. "It's not that the biomarkers didn't work," says Goldberg, a professor at Hofstra North Shore-LIJ School of Medicine in Manhasset, N.Y. "But when you compared them head to head, you find that the cognitive markers are the most robust." That means that the thinking tests can also be used for guides in designing therapies. In fact, Goldberg says, they may ultimately be more useful that the biological tests. "What you want to change is how people do in everyday life," he says. The trick is to diagnose mild cognitive impairment, a stage between normal forgetfulness and serious cognitive problems. It sometimes leads to Alzheimer's, but can be caused by other diseases, too. People with MCI can be more forgetful, have trouble multitasking, and take longer to remember or decide. This study looked at 116 people with MCI who were diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in two years, 204 people with MCI who didn't get Alzheimer's and 197 healthy people as controls. The study used information from
the Alzheimer's Disease NeuroImaging Initiative, which is looking for ways to identify risk factors for Alzheimer's, and techniques for early diagnosis. The goal would then be to create treatments that could profoundly slow or even halt the disease's process. No such treatments exist now. Earlier this year, the National Institute on Aging redefined Alzheimer's, broadening the definition and including the fact that biomarkers can be used for early detection. But since there is no treatment that slows or halts the disease, those biomarker tests don't help patients or families manage the disease. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: A 'Malign Intellectual Subculture' - George M o n b i o t S m e a r s C h o m s k y , David Frum (FrumForum Herman, Peterson, Pilger And David Frum) Media Lens. Submitted at 9/6/2011 12:27:59 PM
Never Stop Talking About Reagan

Reading Mitt Romneys op-ed in USA Today, I was saddened by a missed opportunity. Gov. Romney commits to opening more trade talks to build a Reagan Economic Zone: a partnership among countries committed to free enterprise and free trade. Good start. But why is only the trade plan named after Ronald Reagan? Why not a Reagan tax plan, Reagan regulatory relief, a Ronald Reagan balanced budget, a Reagan worker training program? Or go for the whole kahuna: the Reagan Economic Reagan Reagan. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: A 'Malign Intellectual Subculture' - George Monbiot Smears Chomsky, Herman, Peterson, Pilger And Media Lens.
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Paintball Injury? Your Hospital Has A Code For That

Uri Baruchin/ Flickr Coney Island, N.Y.'s "Shoot the Freak" boardwalk attraction, as seen in 2005. Crouching in the center of the photo is the wellprotected human who served as paintball target.
Maybe, like me, you're one of the few who missed the recent report on injuries caused by BB and paintball guns that showed how often mishaps lead to emergency room visits. I'm surprised my mom didn't call me personally just to say she told me so. Anyway, there are about 56 visits a day to emergency rooms around the country due to injuries from
the guns, according to estimates compiled by the federal Agency for Healthcare Quality and Research. BB and pellet guns are the biggest problem, accounting for 97 percent of the more than 20,000 injuries in 2008. But paintball, too, can hurt, with bruises their No. 1 problem. Kids sustain most of the injuries 57 percent. Injury rates for air
guns, but not paintball weapons, are higher in the South and rural areas. Overall, though, the ER visits declined about 20 percent between 2006 and 2008. Now how in the world would people be able to figure this out? There are standardized diagnostic codes specific to these injuries. Really. The AHRQ researchers used
some nifty software to sift through medical data looking for case patterns. And that's possible because of an international system of diagnostic codes. In the U.S.,the International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification, is the official rule book. The PAINTBALL page 74
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codes are used for research and billing, and, less often, blog posts. So, with the right database, you could look for codes like these: E922.4: Accident caused by firearm and air gun missile air gun (BB gun, pellet gun) E922.5: Accident caused by firearm and air gun missile paintball gun E968.6: Assault by air gun E985.6: Injury by air gun, undetermined whether accident or on purpose E985.7: Injury by paintball gun, undetermined whether accident or on purpose But why stop there? There are some even wilder codes among the more than 13,000 in the ICD-9 -CM. Scorpion bite? Yep. Centipede bite? Sure. Hurt by a spacecraft? Yep, it's in there, too: E845.0. Now just because there's a code, doesn't mean it's ever been used, as the Wall Street Journal Health
Blog reported a few years back. "Whether someone was injured [by a spacecraft] or not was immaterial because somebody thought, 'What If?' " Sheri Poe Bernard from the American Academy of Professional Coders told the blog. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: A 'Malign Intellectual Subculture' - George Monbiot Smears Chomsky, Herman, Peterson, Pilger And Media Lens.
Reddit Transforms Into a Separate Company

Ben Parr (Mashable!)
Social news website Reddit has announced that it has spun off from parent company Conde Nast and become a separate operation albeit one that isnt changing hands. Reddit Inc. will be 100% owned by Advanced Publications, the parent company of Conde Nast. We can set up a structure that has the benefits of outside influence, without giving up equity to an outside firm, Advance Publications biz dev chief Steve Newhouse told AllThingsD. The newly-formed company will have more operational freedom than before. Conde Nast CEO Bob Sauerberg and CTO Joe Simon will join the companys board of directors, along with Advances Newhouse and Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian. Reddit has become the engine for creating innovative and influential communities online, Ohanian said in a Google+ post. Ill do everything I can to help and guide the Reddit, Inc. team and our CEO to grow true to the vision weve had since that summer of 2005. First order of business for the reformed Reddit: find a new CEO.
As part of the new structure, Reddit Inc. has also started the search for a CEO who can help us reach our full, unbridled potential, Reddit general manager Erik Martin said in a blog post. Make no mistake, Reddit owes its past, present, and future success to the community. We wouldnt seriously consider any individuals for the CEO position unless they understood the community and were passionate about serving its needs. Since its acquisition by Conde Nast, Reddit has had to fight for resources. It was forced to launch a freemium program because it was unable to secure the money it needed to run its servers and hire
new engineers. Since then, however, the sites traffic has exploded, partly due to the collapse of Digg. Greater autonomy will allow the company to hire more engineers and potentially ascend even greater heights. More About: alexis ohanian, conde nast, reddit For more Social Media coverage: Follow Mashable Social Media on Twitter Become a Fan on Facebook Subscribe to the Social Media channel Download our free apps for Android, Mac, iPhone and iPad
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Gov Romney: Heres Your Jobs Speech

David Frum (FrumForum David Frum)
But seriously, heres the way I would have expected a keen analytic mind like Mitt Romneys to approach the jobs issue. The analysis would begin with the question: why is recovery so slow from this sharp and deep recession? The answer cannot be high taxes. Taxes are lower today than they were during the 2004-2007 expansion, and notably lower than during the 1995-2000 growth surge. Government spending? Thats predominantly a consequence of the slump, not a cause. It would be like saying: It rained because the ground got muddy. Excess regulation? Notoriously tough to quantify, but its very hard to argue that there exists significantly more regulation today than in 2007. Most of the regulatory apparatus of the Affordable Care Act does not bite until 2014. The burden of government may be taking a toll on Americas long -term growth, but it strains credulity that a level of government consistent with strong employment increase in 2006 has abruptly become inconsistent with employment increase in 2011. The most obvious culprit for the weak recovery is the very high level of consumer debt, which peaked in 2007 at almost 100% of
GDP the same level as in 1929, by ominous coincidence. Compare this recovery to the 1980s recovery. Back then, a cut in interest rates incentivized consumers to buy new homes, new cars, new furniture and other durable goods. Today, interest rates have tumbled to post-Depression lows but consumers prefer to use their incomes to extinguish debt, not buy more.
Consumer debt has declined since 2007. It has now receded back to the level of 1995, and still tumbling. Consumers use extra dollars to extinguish debt, not buy more goods and services. If high consumer debt is the anchor on economic growth, what (if anything) can the federal government do to accelerate job creation? Thats the question Id expect a Mitt Romney to pose. And Id
expect him to see five possible answers. If its right that excess consumer debt is the force holding back the recovery because even near-zero interest rates do not translate into more consumer activity then the challenge for the federal government is to accelerate the decline in consumer debt. But how? I see a menu of five possible policy responses. I would expect that Mitt Romney must see
them too. 1) Tear the bandage off the scab. Accelerate foreclosures and bankruptcy in hope of touching bottom faster. This was the spirit behind Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellons famous advice to President Hoover to Liquidate labor, liquidate stocks, liquidate the farmers, liquidate real estate. President Hoover rejected GOV page 76
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Mellons advice, and it has not commanded much assent from economists in the decades since. But the liquidation school of depression economics has been making a comeback with some influential conservative writers today. Nicole Gelinas, for example, co-signed last Novembers much publicized open letter to Ben Bernanke opposing a QE2. Here is her advice on the mortgage situtation from the current issue of City Journal. the Fed could allow interest rates to rise, raising costs for borrowers and forcing them to give up bad debt. Regulators could also set a deadline on foreclosures, giving banks and servicers six months, say, to take back property whose mortgage holders are more than 90 days delinquent; banks that couldnt comply would be compelled to write down the principal on such mortgages, thereby reducing the nations debt. Whatever the solutions are, one thing is clear: America, like the Kingsbridge buildings a halfdecade ago, owes too much money. Until it reduces its enormous debt burden, economic recovery will continue to flag. The problem with this approach is the high risk approaching to near-certainty that it would lock
the country into a self-reinforcing spiral of deflation, as indeed ultimately happened in 1931-33. 2) Keynesian stimulus. This is the approach tried in 2009. The government borrows, sloshes money through the economy, and hopes to spark a virtuous cycle of economic activity. People who return to work can then earn the funds to reduce their debts in an orderly, managed transition to a more normal private-sector-led expansion. Among the many problems with this approach: it can bequeath a permanently enlarged government, enmeshed in the economy in ways not easy to reverse. 3) Supply side stimulus. This is the approach endorsed first by Tim Pawlenty and now by Jon Huntsman, and of course always by the Wall Street Journal, regardless of economic or fiscal circumstances: a big 1981 style tax cut for so-called wealthcreators. Its hoped that by reducing the tax load on businesses and wealthy individuals, the government can free more funds for investment in productive capacity. The problem with this approach: People invest in productive capacity in order to earn a return.
If consumers are too indebted to buy very much, then the return on investment will look negligible, no matter how low the tax rate. Its very hard to see the mechanism by which the Wall Street Journals policy will translate into beneficial outcomes under the conditions of today. 4) Mortgage relief. The largest part of consumer debt is mortgage debt. If that could somehow be written down, consumers would feel freer to buy goods and services. Many smart people have advanced various forms of mortgage write-down. Problem: no matter how clever the concept, in practice, mortgage write-downs are unbearably administratively complex and accordingly, likely to prove very slow to implement. 5) Inflation. Nothing reduces debt like inflation. (Note how flat consumer indebtedness remains through the inflationary period of 1969 through 1981. Problem: its inflation. ** Which to choose? The country has tried #2. As the stimulus has ended and as Washington has been gripped by policy paralysis, were increasingly trending toward the
de facto adoption of #1, with dismal results. The Republican party is sold on a solution that wont work: #3. #4 is the correct answer on the blackboard, but cannot be expeditiously delivered by the American political system. That leaves #5, which no politician can advocate outright. So heres the plan and maybe this is what Romney is doing on this campaign: Pretend to believe in #3, seasoned with a good dose of #1 while hoping that if elected, you can provide political cover to the Federal Reserve for enough of a dose of #5 to lighten the load on consumers and pull the economy out of its slump in time for your re -election campaign in 2016. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: A 'Malign Intellectual Subculture' - George Monbiot Smears Chomsky, Herman, Peterson, Pilger And Media Lens.
Did 9/11 Change the World?

Marion Smith (The Foundry: Conservative Policy News Blog from The Heritage Foundation)
In each century since our nations founding, foreign enemies have tested the strength of the American republic, our national security, and our political principles. September 11, 2001 was not the first devastating attack on U.S. territory: in 1814, the British burned Washington, D.C., and, in 1941, the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. A look back at these two events reminds us that 9/11 was not a wholly unique event. The death, destruction, and shock of the attacks reinforced a lesson learned previously by generations of brave Americans who bequeathed to us a United States, independent, strong, and free. Soon after the American Revolution, the Napoleonic wars in Europe prompted England and DID page 77
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France to infringe upon American sovereignty on the high seas. France demanded bribes in its diplomacy and England impressed American citizens, forcing them to serve in the British Navy. In response to these violations of American independence, the United States sought to assert its sovereignty and secure the hardwon blessings of liberty for American citizens. But years of inadequate defense spending had left the United States ill-prepared to fight the War of 1812. The few American victories against the British were directly attributable to earlier congressional appropriations for forts, frigates, regular troops, and officer training. These military preparations were far less than what Presidents Washington, Adams, and Jefferson had requested, because Congress was confident that diplomacy was sufficient to maintain peace. As a result, President James Madison was unable to defend the young capital. In the summer of 1814, British troops landed in Maryland and within eleven days captured Washington, D.C. They burned
the Houses of Congress, the White House, and the Library of Congress (which housed Jeffersons collection of books). Though Great Britain and America soon negotiated a peace, the ultimate cost of the war was much more expensive than increased defense preparations would have been. Over a century later, Japans growing military and increasingly aggressive policies in East Asia during the 1930s went largely unchecked. Confusion and discord at home in America led to timidity abroad. A growing isolationism on the one hand, and a deferring, altruistic foreign policy on the other, left American interests unprotected. Even as World War II raged on, many Americans (having forgotten the lessons of their early foreign policy) pretended that the U.S. would remain unaffected. The attack on Pearl Harbor shattered such notions and required a bloody and costly war to defeat Americas enemies and reassert Americas sovereign independence. Combating the radical Islamic
terrorism responsible for the attacks on September 11, 2001 has its own set of unique challenges and requires new policies. But 9/11 did not change the world such that new principles are required to protect America. We are still a people who desire the exercise self-government at home and independence abroad. America has faced implacable enemies before: the British in the nineteenth century and the Japanese in the twentieth century. But the grand strategy required to address these challenges is still that of Americas founding fathers. Throughout this twenty-first century, foreign powers will invariably continue to threaten our independence. America certainly cannot withdraw from world affairs in a nave hope for isolated safety. Indeed, experience has shown that ignoring threats abroad makes Americans less safe at home. Two centuries ago, In the midst of Americas fight to protect its independence against the coercion of foreign powers, James Madison wrote: It is a principle incorporated into the
settled policy of America, that peace is better than war, war is better than tribute. Americas commitment to protect its sovereign independence and Americas military preparedness against its enemies continues to secure the blessings of liberty for its citizens. That is the lesson of 9/ 11; a lesson that has been reinforced throughout Americas history as an independent nation and one that must never be forgotten. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: A 'Malign Intellectual Subculture' - George Monbiot Smears Chomsky, Herman, Peterson, Pilger And Media Lens.
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Report: Justice Department Let IEDs Walk Into Mexico

Lachlan Markay (The Foundry: Conservative Policy News Blog from The Heritage Foundation)
Officials from the U.S. federal government have admitted to arresting, then releasing mere hours later, a man who admitted to manufacturing hundreds of improvised explosive devices for a Mexican drug cartel, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal. The man was arrested last week in Mexico, where authorities reportedly seized materials that could be used to manufacture 500 grenades. The U.S. Attorneys office in Phoenix, AZ, declined to charge Jean Baptiste Kingrey, the Wall Street Journal reported, despite the strenuous objections of at least one agent from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, who was leading the ATFs investigation into the grenades case. The U.S. Attorneys office sought to enlist Kingrey as an informant against the La Familia Michoacana cartel. Kingrey maintained contact with agents for several weeks, according to the Journal, then disappeared, the
U.S. officials familiar with the case said. But while the ATF apparently insisted on charging Kingrey when he was arrested in June, the man was also part of an ATF operation earlier this year that involved allowing him to walk explosives over the U.S.-Mexico border as part of the Bureaus efforts to investigate drug cartels, federal prosecutors claim. ATF agents hoped to track Kingreys
movements, but apparently lost track of him before he arrived at the border, where Mexican authorities failed to prevent his entry. The ATF operation appears to have taken place parallel to and not an official part of the Bureaus Fast and Furious gunrunning operation. But it bears some striking similarities to the scandalous operation that has come under fire since Border
Patrol Agent Brian Terry was killed in the line of duty in December. Guns identified as part of that operation were found at the scene. Peter Forcelli, the ATF agent who reportedly pushed to charge Kingrey when he was arrested in June, was also involved in Fast and Furious, and has testified before Congress on the botched operation. Forcelli claims that Justice Department officials
authorized the Bureaus attempt in February to track Kingrey across the border. Agree [with] the course of action as the variables play out, read one internal email from the U.S. attorney, according to the Journal. Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), who has been leading the investigation into Fast and Furious from his post as chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, issued a brief statement on the revelations regarding the ATFs February operation, calling the information disconcerting. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: A 'Malign Intellectual Subculture' - George Monbiot Smears Chomsky, Herman, Peterson, Pilger And Media Lens.
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Post-Auto America?
David Frum (FrumForum David Frum)
not, or anyway not so fast. The oil shock of the 1970s prompted permanent changes in the patterns Submitted at 9/6/2011 7:53:54 AM of American energy use: the The Wall Street Journal reports houses that converted from oil this morning (in the print edition) burners to gas never converted that Americans drove 14% fewer back. The electrical utilities that miles in June 2011 than June retired their oil-fired generators 2010. This marks the fourth never returned those generators to c o n s e c u t i v e y e a r - o v e r - y e a r service. The switch from trucking reduction in driving mileage. to rail transport continues to chug The bad economy explains much ahead. of the decline: unemployed people Likewise, the recession-induced dont commute to work, and preference for smaller homes economically distressed people closer to work may prove an dont take long driving vacations. enduring trend. The surge in gasoline prices I wrote at longer length about earlier in 2011 no doubt also these social changes last week in contributes. my column for The Week. Will the trend reverse itself when Perhaps our next chapter of the economy recovers? Maybe energy progress will feature some
over-the-horizon new engine or alternative fuel. But more likely, well achieve the next generation of efficiencies the same way as we achieved the last more by changing the way we use fuel than
by changing the fuel we use. The point is: energy markets work. If we dont like the results those markets deliver if we want specifically to end our addiction to oil as George W. Bush
phrased it then we must institute the incentives and disincentives necessary to achieve that result. A protracted recession is one way. Surely less painful ways can be devised and adopted? This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: A 'Malign Intellectual Subculture' - George Monbiot Smears Chomsky, Herman, Peterson, Pilger And Media Lens.
Google Voice Users Can Now Export Texts, Voicemails & Phone Numbers
Jennifer Van Grove (Mashable!)
This means that all of the data associated with your Google Voice account, from your call An update to Google Takeout, history to voicemail messages, the search giants data export greetings and call recordings, is service, now allows Google Voice now available for download, he users to retrieve all of their adds. account data. The Google Takeout update, also We believe that our users should announced by way of the quirky be able to export any data that YouTube video below, comes out of Google. they create in (or import into) one courtesy of The Data Liberation Google Takeout was first of our many products, Google F r o n t , a t e a m o f i n - h o u s e released in July. The service engineer Anthony Jawad writes in engineers building products to launched with the ability to export a post on the news. help users move their data in and
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.XXX Domains Go On Sale Wednesday

Todd Wasserman (Mashable!)
File Expert Android app taps NFC to hasten your Bluetooth data transfers
Lydia Leavitt (Engadget)
Registered trademark and brand holders will get a chance to secure .xxx domains Wednesday, if only to fend off cybersquatters. The ICM Registry, which doles out domains to third parties like GoDaddy and Network Solutions, is giving brands 50 days to claim their domain. For example, CocaCola can grab www.cocacola.xxx. Stuart Lawley, the CEO of ICM Registry, says it should cost around $200 for brands to get their .xxx domains. Unlike other top-level domains, which charge roughly $50 a year to maintain rights to a URL, brand holders will pay a one-time fee for .xxx domains. The truth is, no one is going to be going to coca-cola.xxx, but some may not want their brands associated [with .xxx domains] in any way, Lawley says. After the 50-day period, there will be a 17-day period where domains are sold exclusively to the adult entertainment industry. Lawley says the appeal of such domains is that they will provide more traffic and offer a verification of sorts.
What may seem like technology thought up for insert-some-Bondflick-here, the File Expert Android app has added NFC functionality to its latest build -making single-tap transfers a new reality. Like the previous rendition, it uses Bluetooth to send data, but a friendly bump replaces the traditional pairing process, speeding up the exchange dramatically (like we said, perfect for overworked spies). We've seen Its a win because youll be able should have removed trademarked magic like this before, and we'll to surf porn safely, says Lawley, URLs from the table at no cost to certainly see more like it as NFC adding that its also a win for the brands. becomes more ubiquitous, but consumers wishing to avoid porn Image courtesy of Flickr, Ryan what's next? NFC-to-NFC file since they can filter out all .xxx Christopher VanWilliams transfers, no middleman required. sites. More About:.xxx, dot-whatever, Fist bump to that. The .xxx top-level-domain is the ICANN, ICM Registry [Thanks, Binoy] first to be approved by ICANN For more Business & Marketing File Expert Android app taps since .co, which was approved for coverage: commercial use in July 2010. Follow Mashable Business & ICANN has also approved a so- Marketing on Twitter called dot-whatever plan that Become a Fan on Facebook will allow for all kinds of Subscribe to the Business & suffixes. That proposal has been Marketing channel opposed by marketers, who claim Download our free apps for it is a shakedown. For his part, Android, Mac, iPhone and iPad Lawley says he is empathetic to marketers and thinks ICANN
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Murdoch rejects hacking claims

(Evening Standard - News)
Submitted at 9/6/2011 11:48:47 AM
6 Sep 2011 James Murdoch has clashed with two former senior staff after they insisted he was told about an explosive email which proved that knowledge of phone hacking was more widespread at the News of the World (NOTW) than News International had claimed. The Sunday tabloid's former editor Colin Myler and ex-legal chief Tom Crone told MPs investigating the scandal they were "certain" they informed the News International chairman about the email at a meeting in 2008. However after the hearing, Mr Murdoch, who had previously told the Commons Culture Committee he was not aware of the document, insisted: "I stand by my testimony, which is an accurate account of events." And NOTW publisher News International accused the two men of giving MPs "unclear and contradictory" evidence. The Culture Committee will decide at a meeting next week whether to subject Mr Murdoch to further questioning. Chairman John Whittingdale said last month it was "very possible" that the
committee would want to hear again from him following the evidence of Mr Myler and Mr Crone, who were recalled after publicly challenging his account. Mr Murdoch came out fighting after Mr Crone and Mr Myler were subjected to more than two hours of intense questioning by the committee. Both men were quizzed about the so-called 'For Neville' email, which blew apart the company's stance that hacking was the fault of a single rogue reporter - former royal correspondent Clive Goodman, who was paying private investigator Glenn Mulcaire to carry it out. It is widely thought that the document - a transcript of hacked private information about Professional Footballers' Association chief executive Gordon Taylor - was intended for NOTW chief reporter Neville Thurlbeck, though Mr Crone told MPs that Mr Thurlbeck denied having seen it. Mr Crone, who quit as News Group Newspapers legal manager amid the furore over hacking earlier this year, told the committee he was "certain" he informed Mr Murdoch about the document at the 2008 meeting, which lasted 15 minutes or less
and resulted in Mr Murdoch authorising him to reach a settlement with Mr Taylor, who was eventually paid 425,000. He could not remember whether he showed Mr Murdoch a copy of the email. But he told MPs: "It was clear evidence that phone hacking was taking place beyond Clive Goodman. It was the reason we had to settle the (Taylor) case and in order to settle the case, we had to explain the case to Mr Murdoch and get his authority to settle, so clearly it was discussed." In a statement released after the hearing, Mr Murdoch said: "My recollection of the meeting regarding the Gordon Taylor settlement is absolutely clear and consistent. I stand by my testimony, which is an accurate account of events." This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: A 'Malign Intellectual Subculture' - George Monbiot Smears Chomsky, Herman, Peterson, Pilger And Media Lens.
Vizio rolls out Tablet software update, promises performance boosts aplenty
Donald Melanson (Engadget)
boasts support for "up to 95 percent of all CE devices in North America." No, it's still not Honeycomb, but Continue reading Vizio rolls out Vizio has just rolled out an update Tablet software update, promises for its 8-inch Tablet that promises performance boosts aplenty q u i t e a f e w i m p r o v e m e n t s , Vizio rolls out Tablet software i n c l u d i n g b e t t e r g r a p h i c s update, promises performance performance, faster UI navigation, boosts aplenty originally appeared and better battery life. Home on Engadget on Tue, 06 Sep 2011 theater-minded folks will also no 17:37:00 EDT. Please see our doubt be pleased with the updates terms for use of feeds. Permalink| to the company's Universal | Email this| Comments Remote Control app, which now
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Osborne warns of 'choppy' I Wonder If President Obama recovery

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interest rates to stay lower for longer. "The plan we have set out is 6 Sep 2011 designed in tough times for tough George Osborne has admitted times. It is the rock of stability that forecasts for the British upon which any sustainable economy have been downgraded recovery depends and we will following a slew of poor data. hold to it." But the Chancellor insisted the Signalling that UK growth Government would stick to its forecasts will be lowered when he tough deficit reduction plan delivers his autumn statement to despite the evidence of a sharp Parliament on November 27, the slowdown over recent weeks. Chancellor said recovery from In a speech at Lloyd's of London, financial crises were "slower and Mr Osborne said: "We warned choppier" than other recessions. repeatedly that the recovery "So, while we have all had to would be choppy. And we set in revise down our short-term t r a i n a p l a n t h a t w a s expectations over recent weeks, comprehensive and clear in its the only people who should be vision, but also flexible enough to fundamentally re-examining their withstand shocks along the way. view of the world are those who "A plan for fiscal responsibility to t h o u g h t t h a t t h i s t i m e w a s bring unsustainable government d i f f e r e n t , " h e a d d e d . borrowing under control, so that "Those whose plans depended on monetary activism can allow unrealistic assumptions of a rapid
return to business as usual and a continuation of forgiving financial market conditions. "This Government has never thought that this time would be different. We understood right from the beginning that the world of the boom years had changed beyond recognition." Mr Osborne said Britain was benefiting from being "ahead of the curve" in dealing with the deficit. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: A 'Malign Intellectual Subculture' - George Monbiot Smears Chomsky, Herman, Peterson, Pilger And Media Lens.
Really Believes This

James Fallows (Politics : The Atlantic)
has observed reality and knows that no matter what he proposes the GOP simply will not sign on, Submitted at 9/6/2011 5:35:26 PM what's the next move? And lot Read the two bits of testimony by depends on whether and when the Congressional staffers -- one "Mr. Reasonable" strategy pays Republican, one Democratic-- off. about the nihilist freefire zone that For more on the intentional is the modern Congress. Then destruction of our system of selfconsider President Obama's Labor government, here is another note Day pledge: from a former staffer to a "We've got a lot more work to do Republican U.S. senator: t o r e c o v e r f u l l y f r o m t h i s >>I'll spare you a lengthy reaction recession," Mr. Obama said. "I'm to the Mike Lofgren piece, as by going to propose ways to put n o w y o u ' v e p r o b a b l y b e e n America back to work that both bombarded by many others. As parties can agree to because I still another former Hill staffer, believe both parties can work though, let me make a few together to solve our problems." observations: An objective observer must of First, Lofgren underestimates the course conclude that in fact there influence of the mechanics of is no way "to put American back permanent campaign politics, both to work that both parties can agree on politicians and on public to," because not agreeing is, for dialogue. We do, as he says, have today's Republican leadership, a more goofy types in Congress paramount goal. than we used to -- because we It is admirable, even touching, have more safe Congressional that the President of all the people Districts than we used to. Even in states his faith that "both parties statewide races, electoral politics can work together to solve our is now a science, not an art. This problems." But can he actually means it is possible to know with "still believe" this? Based on what increased certainty what is vote? By what Republican? On required to win a given election, what bill? At what point during as it was not only a few years Obama's time in office? It is hard ago. Election being the foremost to imagine that he has not noticed WONDER page 85 the real-world evidence. So if he
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Michele Bachmann's Tough Fall

Jill Lawrence (Politics : The Atlantic)
With her campaign for the GOP presidential nomination stalled, the Minnesota congresswoman shakes ups her staff. But can it work? Who "executes a planned restructuring strategy" that involves the departure of your top two strategists at a crucial moment in a stalled campaign? That would be Michele Bachmann, who is losing campaign manager Ed Rollins and his deputy just as she is grappling with the Rick Perry effect and a new, more substantive phase of the nomination race. Rollins did Bachmann no favors when he told CNN on Monday night that "legitimately it's a (Mitt) Romney-Perry race" because they are leading in polls and leading in money, even though he added that Perry remains untested and Bachmann is doing much better than anyone thought she would. He also offered a candid assessment of the damage Perry has done to Bachmann: "We're sort of going after the same voter base and I think to a certain extent it slowed our money down. It took a lot of the momentum that we would have gotten out of the straw poll victory. To win the straw poll after eight weeks being in the race is unheard of and normally that would have given you a gigantic
boost." Perry has not just robbed Bachmann of money and momentum, he's caused her to backslide. Between June and August, Bachmann fell from 11 percent to 4 percent in the Fox News poll. She fell 3 to 8 percentage points from July to August in polls conducted by or for NBC- Wall Street Journal, Quinnipiac, CNN, Public Policy Polling and Gallup. Rollins cast early contests in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina as testing grounds for Perry. "He has to win
somewhere," Rollins said. But in reality, those states look far more difficult for Bachmann than for Perry. He's leading in the three most recent polls of Iowa while she has dropped up to 7 points in the past month. She's running third in South Carolina, where Perry has double-digit leads over both her and Romney. And in the only New Hampshire poll since Perry became a candidate, Romney is a distant first, followed by Perry. Bachmann is fourth, behind Ron Paul. What can Bachmann do to shake things up? She made news in the
first candidate debate by announcing her intention to run for president, and by performing above expectations. She'll have plenty of opportunities to reassert her claim on the tea party crown and spark some drama -- maybe even take Perry down a peg or two -- in the string of debates this fall. More fundamentally, Bachmann is going to need to show depth. The devastating August jobs report is putting a burden on all candidates, including President Obama, to demonstrate they have ideas to make things better. Jon
Huntsman released a detailed plan last week. Romney's is out and Obama's is due Thursday. Perry can rely on his record of job creation in Texas for a while, but both he and Bachmann will have to put their proposals on the table before long. Interestingly, a questioner at Jim DeMint's Labor Day candidate forum on the Constitution took a detour to the issue of the day and asked Bachmann to describe her jobs program. She said the country could get a $1.2 trillion MICHELE page 85
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Sneak preview: New survey captures notable voter views of the presidents leadership
Tina Korbe (Hot Air Top Picks)
To me, this just speaks to the waning enthusiasm among groups that you would typically think of Submitted at 9/6/2011 4:35:30 PM as part of the Democratic base, I t s n o t j u s t t h a t v o t e r s explains Luke Frans, executive disapprove of President Obama; director of Resurgent Republic. its also that they think hes able Non-urban voters also believe to offer far less in the way of President Obama is a weaker leadership than they originally leader than they expected, 65 hoped. In fact, by an almost two percent to 27 percent. Thats to one margin (60 to 32 percent), significant when you consider that voters believe President Obama the president just devoted his has turned out to be a weaker entire jobs tour to non-urban areas leader than expected. Among (much to the chagrin of urbanites, critical swing voters, the outcome who by a plurality 48 to 44 is bleaker (65 to 24 percent, with percent agree that the president 36 percent saying much weaker has been a weaker leader). compared to 7 percent much So, whats the difference between stronger). A majority of women disapproval and characterizing the also share this view, 56 to 35 presidents leadership as weaker percent. than expected? Disapproval Thats all according to a study to connotes disappointment with b e r e l e a s e d t o m o r r o w b y decisions, policies and, perhaps, R e s u r g e n t R e p u b l i c , a n leadership (among other things) independent non-profit dedicated but for voters to say outright to shaping the debate on the that the president has displayed proper role of government. weaker leadership than they Not surprisingly, Democrats still expected is to suggest they doubt s a y t h e y f i n d T h e O n e s his presidential capacity his leadership to their liking. Fifty- ability to ever be a president of nine percent said the president has w i d e s p r e a d a c c l a i m a n d been a stronger leader than approval. As Frans put it, the expected, while 34 percent said question becomes, To what h e s b e e n w e a k e r . B u t extent have these voters come to interestingly, union voters said the the conclusion that the president inverse: 58 percent characterized is in over his head? the president as weaker, while 33 Voters who have reached that percent characterized him as conclusion just might be right. stronger. Obama appears to fundamentally
lack the brilliance required to be an effective president. In their book Executive Thinking: From Brightness to Brilliance, executive development consultants Morris A. Graham and Kevin Baize posit that the best executives possess strong visual-spatial thinking capacity, along with the ability to be decisive, directional and speedy third and fourth dimensions of thinking that transcend verbal and mathematical ability. This president, however bright, seems to lack the ability to effectively process conflicting information to arrive at innovative solutions. Just recollect his performance during the debt ceiling debate to see that. Not only could he not decide whether his end goal was a clean increase or a grand bargain, he also failed to ever present a vision that drew from the strengths of every competing partys proposals what a truly brilliant leader might have been able to do. The president can offer all the excuses he wants but, in the end, take away excuses and all thats left are results. It also surely doesnt help that Obama came of age in the 60s, the anti-authority age if ever there was one. Who knows if some subconscious part of Obama finds truly strong leadership whether
thats the leadership of the president in our country or the leadership of our country in the world to be a vice of sorts? No matter the reasons for now. Its all bad news for the president as he stages a speech as much for the benefit of raising reelection funds as for the sake of substantively addressing the jobs crisis. Plus, past research from Resurgent Republic suggests Obamas Thursday speech will do little to raise Obamas leadership profile. On July 8, RR conducted four focus groups in the critical states of Pennsylvania, Virginia, Florida and Colorado and found at least one of Obamas noted strengths was actually contributing to independents growing disappointment with him. From the results memo: Hes voiced leadership, he just hasnt shown it, said one senior Independent female in Florida. The theme that President Obama needs to follow through on his rhetoric was common in both Independent groups. President Obamas strength of being an effective communicator has the potential of reinforcing voters appetite for more than rhetoric. Participants could not name an economic accomplishment and did not believe President Obama has a plan to create jobs or to
solve the financial problems of Medicare. Voters give President Obama credit for killing Osama bin Laden, but that event did not bolster his leadership standing on domestic issues. In other words, Obama still as sound an orator as the teleprompter president has ever been will probably sound appealing to listeners Thursday but that doesnt mean theyll be snowed by the speech. Independents recognize that words are no substitute for a substantive policy shift. (Nor, again, should verbal ability ever be conflated with executive intelligence.) Independents like what theyve heard, but theres a level of skepticism in the follow-through and would things really end up the way they had been framed by the president? Frans said. They werent quite sure or as willing to answer that question in the affirmative. There is that dichotomy in what they hear and what they see. That cognitive dissonance will likely only grow after Thursday. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentSNEAK page 85
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preoccupation of every elected official, the influence of this fact on Congress is profound. Second, Lofgren's observations echo those of Mann and Ornstein in The Broken Branch a few years ago. You will be familiar with this book, which sounded as a voice in the wilderness during Bush's second term. The fecklessness of Congress then, its indifference to its own rules, and its eagerness to avoid politically risky exercise of its Constitutional responsibilities is a very small step -- to be precise, the step taken by the American public in electing a Democratic rather than a Republican President -- from what we've seen this year. Third and finally, let me add a couple of things drawn from my own experience. I worked for a Senator in the majority party, who chaired an Appropriations subcommittee in the late 1980s. He was neither the best nor the worst legislator ever to serve on the North Side of the Capitol, but I can tell you that neither he nor any of his fellow subcommittee chairmen were indifferent to the pressure they would have gotten from other Senators if they hadn't gotten their appropriations bills passed in a timely way. This meant, as a rule, not just before the end of the federal fiscal year but far enough before it to allow action by the full Senate and negotiations with the House. An Appropriations subcommittee chairman who failed to move his bills would have damaged his
career in the Senate, and the same was true in the House. It isn't true any longer -- the FY 2011 appropriations bills, every one of them, were not enacted until FY 2011 was half over. This would have been unthinkable 20 years ago. There are still some Senators left from that earlier time. I think it should be noted for the record that they have surrendered what Mann and Ornstein call the institutional patriotism of the Senate without a fight. I have in mind Sens. Cochran, Lugar, Hatch and McCain in particular -- men who made their public lives in the Senate, but having served long past their time could not find the strength to lift a hand in its defense. Cochran, Lugar, Hatch, McCain -- more names to note in chronicling how we've ended up where we are. As a late bonus, after the jump one more analysis of what has gone wrong with politics, this one with at least a suggestion of what might do some good. A reader writes: >>I think you and your congressional staffer are exactly right about the conservative stragtegy to kill confidence in governing institutions generally. I would argue that Katrina, with its tribal and government optics, whatever the truth, was the greatest conservative triumph of the last 20 years. I think that illustrates what a contemptible force this "conservatism" is, but it doesn't change the effectiveness.
However, I would take issue with this sentence: "it builds a nihilistic suspicion of any public effort, from road-building to Medicare to schools" because of its inclusion of Medicare. If there is one thing health reform showed, it is that Medicare, more than supported by the voting public, is craved, depended upon, treated as an axiom. It is also, as you well know, so much huger on a federal level than road-building or schools as to constitute a category difference. I would argue that "Keep government out my Medicare" is the most important political development, by far, of the Obama administration. I keep coming back to the fact that 60 percent of seniors voted Republican in 2010. If you were to reduce that to white seniors, it would almost certainly top 70 percent. Those white seniors don't hate government; they consume it more voraciously than any other age and demographic cohort. They just don't recognize it as government, but they will if anyone really tries to take it away. Hence Paul Ryan's breathtakingly cynical 54-year-old cutoff for his voucherization of Medicare. Those white seniors think of government as Katrina, bumbling along trying to help a hapless, undeserving foreign tribe. They want government to fail because they don't actually think Medicare and Defense is "government." But, from a budget/deficit pointof-view, those two are
EVERYTHING. The truth is that the core of the Republican party is now white seniors, the most governmentloving in reality, but governmenthating in abstract, demographic of our society. How we/Republicans/ Democrats deal with this tribal/ economic reality paradox of perception is the central political question of our time. My own bet is that when a 68year white woman named Hillary Clinton, who has done nothing but distinguish herself in largely noncontroversial foreign policy roles, runs for president in 2016, that there will be a rather overwhlemingly realignment. If I were a conservative strategist, that political scenario, Hillary Clinton running as the candidate of Medicare, would terrify me. This article available online at: http://www.theatlantic.com/ politics/archive/2011/09/i-wonder -if-president-obama-reallybelieves-this/244567/ This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: A 'Malign Intellectual Subculture' - George Monbiot Smears Chomsky, Herman, Peterson, Pilger And Media Lens.
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capital infusion if U.S. corporations could bring home overseas profits at a zero percent tax rate. She also talked about lowering the corporate tax rate to 20 percent and blocking regulations in the new health law. "We need private directed solutions and we also need permanent solutions rather than temporary government gimmicks," she said. There were no contentious rivals, moderators or audience questioners to ask Bachmann how any of that would raise consumer demand or get companies already sitting on cash to start hiring. No one asked her to define "gimmicks," or to explain what if anything she might do right now to get things moving in the short term. Nor did anyone ask her who she might listen to for economic advice; she has already ruled out financial experts at places like PIMCO and Standard & Poor's. Bachmann did demonstrate at the forum the key leadership trait of MICHELE page 86
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What Obama Should Say on Thursday

Clive Crook (Politics : The Atlantic)
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just by talking tough. He also needs to say the right things. Elections have consequences, the Submitted at 9/6/2011 4:45:13 PM Democrats said after 2008. Indeed I offer the president a little advice they do. In 2010 the party was in a new FT column. routed, and the president's ratings He needs to be bold - but not in have fallen since then. Was this the way his party would like. He because the Democrats were too should propose a strong new gentle and accommodating? Only stimulus, more ambitious than the a fantasist could think so. measures mooted so far. At the If Mr Obama does what many in same time, with new and equal his party advise - stop giving way emphasis, he should call for and advance an unflinching strong fiscal restraint in the longer progressive programme - the GOP term. This means tax increases for will finish the job in 2012. the middle class as well as the Republicans pray (literally, I rich, and cuts to Social Security expect) for Mr Obama to show and Medicare. The president, more spine on behalf of an finally, must spell this out. uncompromising liberal agenda. Strange, isn't it, that so few That would give them undivided people seem to be in favor of control of House, Senate and stimulus now, restraint later--as White House next year. though this recommendation was For an instance of the fantasyt e r r i f i c a l l y c o m p l i c a t e d o r analysis I had in mind, consider controversial. Yet here we are, this: Matt Stoller, calling for a deadlocked, while the argument Democratic primary challenge, rages between those who call for devotes fewer than 100 words out further stimulus (and let's discuss of 1500 to why Obama has failed. the longer term when we get Here they are: there), and those who call for [His] failures have come precisely spending cuts now, now, now. because Obama has not listened to In the column I also say this: Democratic Party voters. He He cannot restore his authority continued idiotic wars, bailed out
compartmentalization. It wasn't quite the feat Obama pulled off last spring at the White House Correspondents Dinner, when he delivered a comic speech just after having ordered special forces banks, ignored luminaries like to go after Osama bin Laden. Still, Paul Krugman, and generally did on the day of a campaign shakeup whatever he could to repudiate the she knew would make news, New Deal. The Democratic Party Bachmann was her usual poised should be the party of pay raises self onstage. She denounced and homes, but under Obama it Franklin Roosevelt's "elastic" has become the party of pay cuts view of the Constitution as a and foreclosures. Getting rid of means to an end, described the Obama as the head of the party is new health insurance mandate and the first step in reverting to form. the appointment of presidential Reverting to form? Would that "czars" as unconstitutional, and mean listening to progressive suggested the existence of the voters the way, say, Bill Clinton federal Department of Education did? goes counter to the constitutional This article available online at: understanding of education as a http://www.theatlantic.com/ state and local responsibility. politics/archive/2011/09/whatBachmann and Rollins said he obama-should-say-on-thursday/ stepped aside due to health 244638/ concerns at his advanced age of This entry passed through the 68. They also said Rollins would Full-Text RSS service if this is continue to advise her. As for the your content and you're reading it simultaneous departure of deputy on someone else's site, please read campaign manager David the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentPolyansky, a longtime Rollins only/faq.php#publishers. Five colleague, it was "just a good time Filters featured article: A 'Malign to make a change," Rollins said Intellectual Subculture' - George on CNN. Monbiot Smears Chomsky, There is always more to the story. Herman, Peterson, Pilger And In this case, Rollins may have Media Lens. been responsible for a major fiasco during Bachmann's rollout. Citing campaign sources, Jan Crawford of CBS said Rollins recalled from a Reagan campaign event that John Wayne was from Waterloo. He passed along the tidbit to Bachmann, and she ran with it. As many of us now know, the real Waterloo native was John
Wayne Gacy. Crawford's report made me wonder if Bachmann had read George Will's Washington Post column on Sunday. "Incompetent staffers are feeding you false information," Will wrote to Bachmann. "Has anyone been fired? Do you believe that when there is no punishment for failure, failures multiply?" Rollins helped Bachmann set up an organization strong enough to win the Iowa straw poll. But he also apparently contributed to her reputation for gaffes and, now, the perception that she can't hang onto staff. His successor, Keith Nahigian, has worked for many prominent Republicans, including presidential candidates Steve Forbes and Bob Dole in 1996 and John McCain in 2000. One fun fact that he doesn't highlight on his resume is that in 1992, he was the advance man who arranged for Vice President Dan Quayle to participate in a spelling bee. Yes, that spelling bee. Image credit: Chris Keane/ Reuters This article available online at: http://www.theatlantic.com/ politics/archive/2011/09/michelebachmanns-tough-fall/244631/ This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: A 'Malign Intellectual Subculture' - George MICHELE page 87
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Tapper grills Carney: Why isnt it fair to blame Obama for Hoffas remarks?
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about Hoffa rather than denouncing him. How soon things change. Submitted at 9/6/2011 3:55:39 PM Speaking of change, my favorite Nice catch by JT. Id forgotten part of the Hoffa story is the lefts a b o u t t h i s i n c i d e n t f r o m defense that he was talking Campaign 08, when McCain specifically about voting when he apologized for Bill Cunninghams called for taking those tea-party reference to Barack Hussein sons of bitches out. Thats Obama in his intro at one of super, but the whole point of the M a v e r i c k s r a l l i e s . B y new tone demagoguery after comparison, not only is Hoffa not Tucson was that intent doesnt sorry for what he said, the best m a t t e r . G o r e - r e a d P a l i n s C a r n e y c a n d o b y w a y o f Facebook post from March 2010 repudiation on Obamas behalf is showcasing the crosshairs map to say that no one speaks for The that the media would make One (except him). Will that famous 10 months later. Sample s t a n d a r d a l s o a p p l y t o t h e quote: This is just the first salvo Republican nominee next year? in a fight to elect people across Of course not, but dont expect t h e n a t i o n w h o w i l l b r i n g any reporter there to challenge common sense to Washington. Carney on it later when the Elections. Voting. And yet it Democrats smear campaign didnt matter to our liberal betters against him/her gets going after Giffords was shot; the except Tapper himself, of course. argument then was that the In fact, the new head of the DNC, political climate in America had who was one of the most adamant become so heated that it was proponents of the new tone irresponsible to use violent after the Tucson shooting, spent rhetoric or imagery even in an entire segment on Fox News service to a perfectly pedestrian this morning deflecting questions nonviolent call for voter turnout.
Remember? We were all going to clean up our language lest the scrambled brains of the Jared Loughners of the world derive some sort of incitement to murder from them where none was intended. Fast forward eight months and heres the president of the Teamsters coloring his own turnout plea with a bunch of war metaphors and a call to start taking sons of bitches out, oblivious to the possibility that Loughners might exist on his side as well. Hows that post-Tucson rhetorical standard working out for you now, liberal friends? Is that bed you made for yourselves comfortable? This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: A 'Malign Intellectual Subculture' - George Monbiot Smears Chomsky, Herman, Peterson, Pilger And Allahpundit (Hot Air Top Media Lens. Picks)
New online game: Tea Party Zombies Must Die

Via Stephen Gutowski of MRC TV, an essential complement to the Tapper/Carney/Hoffa post insofar as it raises the following question: How goofy does partisan nastiness have to be before the goofiness outweighs the nastiness and it fails to NEW page 88
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generate outrageously outrageous outrage? Answer: About this goofy. I tried to get worked up about it, truly, knowing full well thered be urine puddles on the floor all over Media Matters HQ had some conservative programmer done a version of this involving union leaders or whatever. But then I saw the Fox News/Glenn Beck zombies. Its simply too silly to be threatening. Heres the obligatory link, although you can watch the MRC clip below to get the gist. Fearless prediction: If this kicks up a storm of outrage, the defense will be that its all in the spirit of good, clean, dumb fun. On that point, do note the zombie in the tattered Klan robes. Uh huh. Click the
image to watch. Update: Dan Foster of NRO played the game for awhile and took screenshots. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: A 'Malign Intellectual Subculture' - George Monbiot Smears Chomsky, Herman, Peterson, Pilger And Media Lens.
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NEC's MultiSync P241W Monitor packs more 'e' than your LCD
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We know, it's kind of tough to get excited about yet another 24inch IPS panel. But, what if we told you that NEC's MultiSync
P241W was packing something special... namely, the letter 'e.' No wait, don't go. Look, this 1920 x 1200 e-IPS actually delivers serious, professional-level color reproduction and viewing angles for a price that's not too shabby
($749) given the target audience. In addition to the 8ms response time, ambient light sensor and ECO Mode options, the monitor includes a USB hub with NEC'S page 88

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