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Saturday, August 13, 2011
News were posted 10:00 AM
AMES, Iowa - Thousands of Iowans are expected to flock to Ames today to cast their vote for
their favorite presidential contender and perhaps, depending on who they choose, initiate the first shake up of the 2012 GOP
... The Texas governor, who formally declares his intentions during a 1 pm speech in Charleston,
SC, is an instant contender because of his record, his appeal to conservatives, and his ability to raise money, in the view
of some ... DES MOINES - As Republicans gathered for their straw poll in Ames Saturday morning, it was
not hard to see who Democrats think is the odd-on favorite to win the party's nomination. "Casey Anthony will not be returning to her home," her parents' attorney, Mark
Lippman, said in a statement released to PEOPLE. WASHINGTON - An Appeals Court panel yesterday struck down as unconstitutional the national
health care law mandate that nearly every American buy insurance, the most prominent rejection yet of the key element of President
Obama's ... MANHEIM, Pa. (AP) - A Pennsylvania Turnpike spokesman says rescue crews are working to free
a person trapped when a Greyhound bus overturned on the interstate, injuring 29 people. Fox News - 32 minutes
ago AP Seeking
to exploit Congress's abysmally low approval ratings, President Obama is urging voters to tell their lawmakers they must
compromise for the sake of the country. ** FILE ** In this March 20, 2010, photo, young people run down South Street during a flash
mob incident that involved thousands and closed the street to traffic from Front Street to Broad in Philadelphia. David Luchsinger, the superintendent of the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island, with his wife,
Debbie. Their Sundays are for church and relaxing. DesMoinesRegister.com - 4 hours ago Sarah
Palin greets fairgoers Friday. She says she's seriously considering running for president. / RODNEY WHITE/THE REGISTER
Political rock star Sarah Palin on Friday fueled the flames of speculation that she just might run for president, telling
a mob ... SENATH, MO (KAIT) - Police are still searching for 3-year-old Breeann Rodriguez who has been
missing since last Saturday. It is possible she may have been taken while riding her bicycle. The drunken JetBlue passenger who treated a sleeping 11-year-old girl like his personal potty
is a member of the US Ski Team who refused to apologize yesterday for the high-altitude humiliation. The Associated Press - 20 hours ago PORTLAND,
Maine (AP) - A school district in the deep woods of Maine that sought out Chinese students to help boost its enrollment and
its finances fell far short of its ambitious goal of bringing in 60 students. PRINCETON, NJ -- Gallup's first measure of the 2012 congressional elections shows Democrats
leading Republicans, 51% to 44%, in registered voters' preferences for which party's candidate they would support
in their district "if the ... Free speech advocates are crying foul over the San Francisco subway's decision to shut
off cell phone service in its downtown stations to prevent a protest. Boston Globe - 6
hours ago AP /
August 13, 2011 CLEVELAND - A serial killer was sentenced to death yesterday for murdering 11 troubled women and scattering
their remains around his property in Cleveland, horrors that shook the city over police handling of crime in poor ... DesMoinesRegister.com - 4 hours ago Yet
another candidate waded into the presidential fray this week: the Iowa State Fair butter cow. The candidacy was the brainchild
of Jack Mathews of Des Moines and Web designer Michael Reid of Grinnell. Tampabay.com - 16
hours ago A Colorado
judge issued a gag order Friday preventing those involved in the Dougherty case from speaking to the media. District Judge
Thomas Flesher issued the order, which prohibits court officials, law enforcement officers and attorneys involved in ... This is a rush transcript from "Hannity," August 11, 2011. This copy may not be in
its final form and may be updated. NEWT GINGRICH, R-PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: I'd love to see the rest of tonight's
debate asking us about what we would do to lead an ... msnbc.com - 15 hours
ago The band sings
the popular song, which is off their album “The Foundation” and the winning pick from our TODAY viewers' choice
vote.
AFP - 52 minutes
ago DAMASCUS -
Syrian troops stormed the port city of Latakia and sprayed it with gunfire on Saturday, killing at least one person, activists
said, while the West aimed to pressure Damascus to end the violence. Telegraph.co.uk - 1
hour ago Singers
and musicians gather to honour Fidel Castro with a birthday concert for the former Cuban leader's 85th birthday. Musicians
and dancers from across Latin America paid tribute to the former Cuban leader and revolutionary with a concert held at ...
Sacramento Bee - 52
minutes ago AP
LONDON -- Police have charged a 21-year-old man with robbing an injured Malaysian student whose videotaped attack during the
London riots drew outrage in Britain. A Palestinian boy carted food aid he had received at a UN distribution center at the Shatie
refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip last month. BENGHAZI, Aug. 13 (Xinhua) -- Libyan rebels are fighting for a second residential district
in the oil town on the eastern front, said Colonel Ahmed Omar Bani, a military spokesman based in the rebel stronghold of
Benghazi at a regular press conference ... Sacramento Bee - 52
minutes ago AP
MOGADISHU, Somalia -- A leader from the Somali militant group al-Shabab says the group will pursue a guerrilla strategy like
that seen in Afghanistan after their withdrawal from the capital for lack of firepower. From shot 29-year-old Mark Duggan referring to the police as "feds" to the nuanced
use of the word "community", the language of the riots and the response can tell us something. Voice of America - 2
hours ago August
13, 2011 Mass Economic Protests Continue in Israel VOA News Leaders of a social protest movement in Israel say mass demonstrations
will again be held on Saturday throughout the country to demand further reforms of the Israeli economic system. The June killing of 17-year-old Sarfraz Shah was caught on video and caused unprecedented anger
after it was broadcast widely in Pakistan. -These targeted drone strikes kill civilians in extraordinarily low numbers compared to any
other combat operations in the history of mankind. Irish Times - 13
hours ago KIEV
- Former Ukrainian prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko suffered a fresh setback in her trial on a charge of abuse of power when
a higher court refused to hear her appeal against police detention yesterday. Xinhua - 13 hours
ago MOSCOW, Aug.
12 (Xinhua) -- Russia hopes that Israel will reconsider its plans for building some 1600 houses in east Jerusalem, Foreign
Ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich said Friday. A Ugandan soldier leads Richard Rouget, a military adviser with Bancroft Global Development,
to the roof of a building to monitor a firefight. Herald Sun - 2 hours
ago CAMPAIGNING
for Norway's local elections next month kicked off today with all parties making opening comments together as a sign of
solidarity with the victims of last month's deadly twin attacks.
Friday, August 12, 2011
Courts in London work day and night to process a stream of suspects, most accused of burglary,
theft and arson, with some facing murder charges. The Associated Press - 10 minutes ago BEIRUT
(AP) - Syrian soldiers opened fire Friday on tens of thousands of protesters who flooded the streets shouting "We will
not kneel! Fox News - 14 minutes
ago | AP A man
asks two kids, over an armored car, to make the victory sign at the rebel-held town of Benghazi, Libya, Tuesday, Aug. 10,
2011. While temperatures rise in tents around the country, the army and the police are making rigorous
preparation for what may happen after the Palestinians declare statehood. Estonian authorities said they have identified the gunman who attacked the defence ministry
headquarters and took hostages on Thursday and died while the two captives escaped uninjured. Xinhua - 2 hours
ago LONDON, Aug.
12 (Xinhua) -- British police have arrested a young man over death of a man who was attacked during riots in Ealing, local
media reported on Friday. AP NAIROBI, Kenya - A UN list of countries donating aid money to the Horn of Africa famine
shows that the US is by far the biggest donor, having given around $580 million in aid this year. What are we to make of the public spectacle of Hosni Mubarak's trial? One idea might be
to look at how the new democracies in Eastern Europe dealt with their deposed dictators two decades ago. San Jose Mercury News - 6 minutes ago AP
KIEV, Ukraine—A court in Ukraine has refused to consider an appeal to release former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko
from jail, where she has been kept for a week while her abuse-of-office trial proceeds. In this photograph taken on July 29, 2011 a US military Chinook helicopter lands at Forward
Operating Base in Arghandab district southern Afghanistan. Sydney Morning Herald - 48 minutes ago Scotland
Yard says it has arrested a total of 1051 people in connection with the London riots, with 591 of them charged. The London
arrest figures, updated on Friday morning (Friday afternoon AEST), are among more than 1500 arrests reported in towns ...
The Guardian - Aug
10, 2011 A man
who was robbed in the London riots as he sat injured and in need of help has been identified as an overseas student from Malaysia.
ABC Online - 1 hour
ago Umar Patek
has been extradited from Pakistan to stand trial in Indonesia over allegations he was deputy commander of the operation that
killed 220 people, including 88 Australians. The Guardian - 19
hours ago The Duchess
of Cambridge, Kate Middleton on the Grazia cover on 9 May (left) and the original image (right). Photograph: Grazia/Getty
Images Grazia has admitted that it inadvertently slimmed down the waist of the Duchess of Cambridge by digitally ... BBC News - 1 hour
ago Italian police
have arrested 20 gladiator impersonators, in an undercover operation outside the Colosseum in Rome. The suspects are accused
of intimidating and attacking their competitors, to win a share in a lucrative business. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - A Pakistani court on Friday sentenced to death a paramilitary soldier
who had shot and killed an unarmed teenager in the southern port city of Karachi. Telegraph.co.uk - 4
hours ago Wearing
a wetsuit and showing off his scuba diving skills Vladimir Putin collects ancient artefacts from the bottom of the Black Sea
as he continues to portray an action man image to the Russian public. Guillaume Ngefa, of the UN mission in Ivory Coast, said that at least 85 people were illegally
detained (file photo). Abidjan, Ivory Coast (CNN) -- Forces loyal to the Ivory Coast president killed 26 people and arrested
dozens illegally in the past ... The Associated Press - Aug 10, 2011 KABUL,
Afghanistan (AP) - Afghanistan's president issued a decree Wednesday stating that the country's courts do not have
the power to alter election results, appearing to bow to pressure to resolve an impasse over the parliament's legitimacy
that ... Ijaz Muhammad/AP Pakistani villagers carried the casket of a person reportedly killed by a
US drone attack in a Pakistani tribal area, during his funeral in Bannu in 2010. |
Thursday, August 11, 2011
News
were posted at 6:23 AM
Seven Republican presidential contenders will try to use Thursday's debate in the leadoff
caucus state of Iowa to cast themselves as the strongest alternative to one rival: front-runner Mitt Romney. Asbury Park Press - 7
minutes ago AP
NEW YORK - The Statue of Liberty will close for a year at the end of October as it undergoes a $27.25 million renovation that
will make the interior safer and more accessible, US Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar announced Wednesday. msnbc.com - 9 minutes
ago SAN DIEGO -
Search-and-rescue teams took to the air and water early Thursday looking for a Marine Corps fighter jet that went missing
over the Pacific Ocean near San Diego, the US Coast Guard said. Sarah Palin of Alaska will make an appearance Friday at the Iowa State Fair, a popular venue
for presidential candidates. Her visit falls during the same week as a nationally televised Republican debate and the Iowa
straw poll - two events she's not ... WASHINGTON - Fourteen million people are out of work. Millions more are losing fortunes in
the stock market. America's AAA bond rating has slipped. Tonight in Iowa, television viewers will see the above advertisement from a SuperPAC urging
them to write in a particular candidate during the Ames Straw Poll. San Francisco Chronicle - 3 hours ago Elaine
Thompson / AP Left: Reps. Jeb Hensarling, R-Texas (center), Eric Cantor, R-Va. (left), and Kevin McCarthy, R-Bakersfield,
speak on the debt deal. The hotel housekeeper who has accused Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sexually assaulting her in
his 28th-floor suite sued him in State Supreme Court in the Bronx on Monday, seeking unspecified damages for a “violent
... Seattle Post Intelligencer - 1 hour ago NEW
YORK (AP) — Police say the back window of a car driven by New York state Assemblyman William Boyland was
shattered by gunfire in Brooklyn while his 7-year-old son was in the vehicle. Entertainment News from AP AP National News Video More>> By LARRY MARGASAK AP WASHINGTON
(AP) - A movie about the hunt for Osama bin Laden, expected in theaters just weeks before the 2012 presidential election,
is already generating a partisan ... Telegraph.co.uk - 26
minutes ago Voters
have given their support to Republicans in Wisconsin recall elections that Democrats hoped they would win amid a backlash
against Tea Party conservatives. Fox News - 58 minutes
ago | AP WASHINGTON
- President Barack Obama was making a pitch Thursday about the job-creating potential of investing in clean energy before
talking up his re-election at a pair of fundraising events with high-dollar campaign contributors. Do you agree or disagree with the Casey Anthony jury's verdict of not guilty of first-degree
murder? Yes, I agree. The prosecution's case was not strong enough to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Casey Anthony
was guilty. Telegraph.co.uk - 1
hour ago At a White
House dinner to mark the evening meal when Muslims break their daily fast for Ramadan, the president praises the support given
to victims of 9/11 by members of the Muslim community. UPI.com - 7 hours
ago COLUMBUS, Ohio,
Aug. 10 (UPI) -- Franklin County, Ohio, will pay $68500 to two families whose deceased children's bodies were mixed up,
resulting in one being mistakenly cremated. Damian Mulinix / AP Surf rescue swimmer Doug Knutzen carries 12 year-old Charles Ostrander
to the shore of the Cranberry Road beach in Long Beach, Wash. Fox News - 3 hours
ago New York -
Now the students have become the litigators. Graduates of New York Law School on Wednesday filed a class action lawsuit against
their alma mater, claiming they were duped into enrolling with false promises of practically guaranteed ...
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Britain told Iran on Thursday it was happy to discuss its handling of street
unrest after President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad accused its police of "savage" aggression against demonstrators. Hindustan Times - 1
hour ago PTI Residents
stand by flowers laid at the crime scene where Haroon Jahan and two other Asian men were...... An uneasy calm prevailed over
Britain's cities on Thursday after four days of rioting and looting, with security being beefed up and a stern ... HUA HIN, Thailand - Beijing's low-key launch of its first aircraft carrier on Wednesday
was aimed at allaying fears of the United States and regional neighbors over the vessel's impact on the balance of power
in the Pacific. A burqa-clad female suicide bomber attacked police at the scene of an earlier explosion in
northwestern Pakistan on Thursday, twin strikes that killed five people and broke a relative lull in militant violence in
the country. The student who was beaten up in the riots and then mugged as he struggled to his feet told
yesterday how his attackers - some as young as 11 - threatened to stab him. Tripoli, Libya (CNN) -- A leading human rights organization is demanding NATO investigate allegations
that it killed 85 Libyan civilians during airstrikes on forces loyal to Moammar Gadhafi. Daily Mail - 16
minutes ago By
Daily Mail Reporter Police are looking for a camera that Norwegian terror suspect Anders Behring Breivik may have used to
film his shooting spree on Utoya island. Indonesia's anti-terrorism agency signed a memorandum of understanding with eight Muslim
organizations to study programs that could help prevent attacks fueled by religious extremism. During the escalating UK riots, there have been calls for Twitter and most vociferously for
Blackberry Messenger (BBM) to suspend their services. Interior Minister: People need to live. If there was room to build in Rehavia, Nahlaot, we'd
build there, but there's no land for building. BBC News - 1 hour
ago A man, believed
to be former News of the World news editor Greg Miskiw, has been released on bail after he was arrested in the phone-hacking
probe. Xinhua - 4 hours
ago BEIJING,Aug
11 (Xinhuanet) - Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has unveiled a new 35-member cabinet. Thailand's King Bhumibol
Adulyadej has approved the line-up, which is dominated by Yingluck's Puea Thai Party.
Wednesday, August 10, 2011
News
posted in my blog at 11:28 PM
Alberta Darling thanks supporters including fellow state senators Leah Vukmir, middle and Pam
Galloway, 29th district (Wausau) during her recall victory party in Thiensville, Aug. 9, 2011. Jerusha Jeffs, niece of polygamist religious leader Warren Jeffs, speaks with "Good Morning
America", Aug. 10, 2011. (ABC News) The niece of polygamist religious leader Warren ... Ryan Edward Dougherty, 21, Lee Grace Dougherty, 29, and 26-year-old Dylan Dougherty Stanley
are pictured in police photos. (CBS/WTSP/AP) DENVER - Police in Colorado Springs said Tuesday they have received "credible
information" that people matching the ... Deficit hawk Alan Simpson said Wednesday he doubts the congressional debt super committee will
be effective, questioning whether two of the three Senate Democrats picked for the panel are interested in finding concrete
ways to reduce the deficit. Republican presidential candidate Jon Huntsman is in South Florida on Wednesday to announce
the endorsement of Jeb Bush Jr. But the former Utah governor's campaign is struggling amid low poll numbers and a campaign
staff shakeup. ABC News (blog) - 1
hour ago 10:45
am Matthew Jaffe caught a glimpse of Tim Pawlenty praying at the Humboldt County Republicans Picnic. Pawlenty, like Michele
Bachmann, is an Evangelical Christian. Jon Stewart says the worst part about conservative complaints of media bias is when they contain
"a kernal of truth" -- and that conservatives have a point about Newsweek's unflattering Michelle Bachmann cover.
Seattle Post Intelligencer - 1 hour ago LONG
BEACH, Wash. -- Dale Ostrander was swimming in the Pacific Ocean when he was dragged under by a rip tide. The 12-year-old
spent at least 25 minutes submerged underwater on Friday before rescuers pulled him out. AHN | All Headline News - 27 minutes ago The
wrong child was cremated after a county employee released the wrong body to a funeral home. Franklin County Commissioners
in Columbus, Ohio, approved two settlement offers Tuesday to the families whose dead children got mixed up by the morgue,
... Huffington Post - Jon Ward - 51 minutes ago In a forthcoming series of articles, HuffPost is taking a close look at the charitable giving
of Republican presidential candidates. US Army soldier Naser Jason Abdo, 21, is pictured in this police booking photograph released
on July 28, 2011. By Sandra Sanchez WACO, Texas (Reuters) - A Texas grand jury on Tuesday indicted an Army private accused
of plotting to kill soldiers from ... Patch.com - 1 hour
ago US Rep. Keith
Ellison (D-MN) looks on during the first in a series of hearings on radicalization in the American Muslim community on Capitol
Hill in Washington, DC, March 10, 2011. Campaign ads, columns, endorsements, and more - the Fifth Estate is a crucial part of politics
in the Empire State. What would New York politics be without a healthy helping of pols in trouble? Los Angeles Times - 1
hour ago Bryan
Stow, the Giants fan who suffered brain damage after being severely beaten at Dodger Stadium on March 31, is responding to
more commands and lifting his arms and legs, according to his family. Congress's new deficit supercommittee should push for tax increases on the wealthy and
major cuts in domestic spending - but not in entitlement programs, most Americans say in a new CNN poll. NY1 - 2 hours ago A suspect has been charged in connection with a series
of gropings and sexual assaults in Manhattan. Jose Alfredo Perez Hernandez, 18, is charged with burglary, sex abuse and forcible
touching. San Jose Mercury News - 25 minutes ago AP
ORLANDO, Fla.—A former Playboy playmate is in hot water after police say a .45 caliber revolver loaded with six hollow-point
bullets was found in her duffel bag as she passed through an Orlando airport security checkpoint. USA Today - 3 minutes
ago NEW YORK (AP)
- Mandatory sex-education classes are returning to New York City public schools for the first time in nearly two decades.
By Nick Assinder/London Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2011 Looters carry boxes out of a home-cinema shop
in central Birmingham, in central England, on Aug. 9, 2011 British Prime Minister David Cameron's leadership is gradually
being defined by the riots that ... Los Angeles Times - 36
minutes ago An
airstrike near the site of the Chinook helicopter shoot-down killed the ringleader of Taliban operations in the area along
with the man determined to have shot down the chopper carrying 22 Navy SEALs and eight other service members, NATO officials
... LONDON, Aug 10 (Reuters) - Property investors will think twice about pouring money into UK
retail assets outside of central London after rioters damaged shops and malls around the country, undermining renewed interest
in ... In the wake of the riots in English cities, law-abiding citizens have been picking up brooms
and brushes and joining the clean-up. BEIRUT, Lebanon - Syria's government rebuffed international calls for restraint Wednesday
and pressed ahead with military assaults on restive locales in northern and eastern Syria, killing at least 35 people on an
especially bloody ... Voice of America - 2
hours ago August
10, 2011 China's First Aircraft Carrier Begins Sea Trial William Ide | Beijing China's first aircraft carrier set
sail for the first time Wednesday, steaming out of the northeastern port of Dalian for a long-awaited sea trial. Sky News - 31 minutes
ago Dozens of women
and children are among 85 people killed by a NATO airstrike near Tripoli, Libyan officials have claimed. A spokesman for Colonel
Muammar Gaddafi's regime said missiles struck a cluster of farm buildings in the village of Majar. South Korean Marines patrol along the seashore on Yeonpyeong Island. Photographer: Kim Jae-Hwan/AFP/Getty
Images South Korean Marines patrol along the seashore on Yeonpyeong Island. The current economic crisis in the US will have no impact at all on US financial assistance
to Israel, US Congressman Steny Hoyer (D-MD) said Thursday. By the CNN Wire Staff Police are investigating claims of phone hacking at the News of the World
newspaper, which has since been closed. BBC News - 1 hour
ago A hacker group
has attacked Blackberry's website after the company said it would assist police investigating riots in the UK. Team Poison
defaced the official Blackberry blog, posting a message that threatened the firm with retaliation if it handed ... BANGKOK—Thailand's new astrology-buff finance minister will likely need more than
the stars to guide him as he attempts to steer the nation's economy through the threat of a fresh global slowdown and
high expectations for a wave of new ... Two American missiles hit a militant camp in Pakistan early Wednesday morning, killing up to
21 suspected militants as they prepared a meal before their Ramadan fast, according to security officials. BBC News - 45 minutes
ago Police are
continuing to arrest people following a second night of trouble across the West Midlands. Chief Constable Chris Sims said
it had been a "very difficult" night in Birmingham and elsewhere. Fox News - 1 hour
ago AP Jan. 1,
2011: Worshippers shout around an exploded car in front of a Coptic Christian church in the Egyptian city of Alexandria, Egypt.
Tuesday, August 9, 2011
News
were posted in my blog at 9:12 AM
On Saturday, Gov. Rick Perry is expected to announce that he's running for president. His
bid is predicted to shake up the GOP primary. Smith and Martin peer ahead at the general election: Barack Obama's aides and advisers
are preparing to center the president's re-election campaign on a ferocious personal assault on Mitt Romney's character
and business background, a strategy grounded ... The Associated Press - 1 hour ago COPLEY,
Ohio (AP) - A former police officer credited with helping stop a gunman who police say killed seven people described feeling
terrified but said he reacted the way he was trained. fProbably to his chagrin, the past week has launched Donald Rumsfeld back into the media spotlight
amidst allegations of torture and harsh interrogation techniques. “It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.” -- Einstein Learn what's
really happening in the world of education with veteran education writer Valerie Strauss and her guests. Former White House adviser David Axelrod on Sunday pinned responsibility for the recent US
economic downgrade on the Tea Party movement, arguing that the group's political "brinksmanship" during debt
ceiling negotiations "brought us to the brink of a ... Even the temperatures are bigger in Texas this summer, as heat records tumble across the bone-dry
Lone Star State. By Darron Cummings, AP Visitors to the Indiana State Fair cool off on Monday. International Business Times - 1 hour ago By
IB Times Staff Reporter | August 9, 2011 7:14 AM EDT Scientists have identified the mysterious orange-colored goo, which has
washed ashore and sparked pollution concerns in an Alaska village last week, as small and possibly toxic crustacean eggs.
Authorities are using digital billboards across the Southeast in their manhunt for three siblings,
all in their 20s, who are wanted for an alleged armed bank robbery in Georgia and are suspects in the attempted murder of
a Florida police officer, ... Less than a quarter of Americans say most members of Congress deserve re-election - the lowest
number ever found in the 20-year history of Gallup/USAToday polling - and the dismal numbers could mean another “wave
election” is in the cards for ... On Thursday, Republican Senator Dale Schultz leveled a shocking allegation that Governor Walker
had dry-gulched him into missing the vote on the budget bill that eliminated collective bargaining, where, Schultz claims,
he had planned to ... Congressional pages listen to President Barack Obama's State of the Union address in the
House Chamber on January 25, 2011. First stagecoach drivers, then assembly-line workers, and now congressional pages. A former employee of Manhattan's Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center was sentenced Monday
to up to 7 ½ years in prison for stealing more than $1.5 million worth of printer toner to finance a life of luxury.
Appearing in New Hampshire Monday, Mitt Romney tried to turn the page on the controversy that
has unfurled around a $1 million donation to the pro-Romney Restore Our Future super PAC from W Spann LLC, an apparent shell
company formed solely for the ... The Justice Department and four states have accused the second-largest for-profit college company
in the US of running a boiler-room operation to illegally recruit students who received about $11 billion in financial aid
... AP file photo For months, the people behind “Run, Ed, Run” pushed for Mayor Ed
Lee to run in November - but they were nowhere to be found Monday night as San Francisco's interim leader was roundly
booed, jeered and heckled at his first mayoral debate. (CNN) -- Police in Philadelphia will enforce a strict curfew on minors after mobs of violent
young people attacked strangers in several instances. The memoirs of ex-Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick are expected to hit four small Detroit area bookstores
-- a week after his release from a Michigan prison where he was serving time for probation violation. FOX 4 News - 33
minutes ago (NewsCore)
- Newsweek magazine has come under fire from conservatives and liberals alike for its portrayal of Republican presidential
candidate Michele Bachmann on its latest cover. Daily Caller - U.S. News & World Report (blog) - Minneapolis Star Tribune - BestWeekEver.tv (satire) all 196 news articles »The Associated Press - 1 hour ago BEIRUT (AP) - The Syrian army launched raids on restive
areas Tuesday, defying growing international reproach over the regime's deadly crackdown on a 5-month-old uprising as
Turkey's foreign minister met with President Bashar Assad to express his ... The Associated Press - 21 minutes ago NAIROBI,
Kenya (AP) - The World Food Program is sending 800 metric tons of high energy biscuits to East Africa to help fight the famine
in Somalia. Reuters Africa - 25
minutes ago LONDON
(Reuters) - Libya's rebel government, the National Transitional Council (NTC), said its diplomats will move into the London
embassy previously occupied by the Gaddafi government on Tuesday, furthering its goal of international recognition. BBC News - Aug 7,
2011 The Metropolitan
Police has launched a "major investigation" into the riot in Tottenham which saw attacks on people, fires and looting.
KIEV - Ukraine on Tuesday strongly rejected Western criticism of the arrest of opposition leader
Yulia Tymoshenko as supporters maintained an indefinite protest in central Kiev against her detention. A torture camp run by Zimbabwe's security forces is operating in the country's rich
Marange diamond fields, BBC Panorama has found. |
Monday, August 8, 2011
Is the economic
advantage shifting from America to Asia? Gabriel Kazakias 08/08/11 As a result of downgrading the U.S. rating from AAA to AA+ the markets from Asia to Europe and also
here in U.S. reacted violently. The news channels are inundated with opinions from the “experts” trying to analyze
and predict the impact this downgrade would have to the stock market, the mortgage and auto industries and the overall world
economy. The S&P decision to downgrade
the U.S. government, even though I thought was premature, nevertheless it jolted the global financial system reinforcing the
fears that the world economy is weakening. The crisis may in part
be the consequence of trying to maintain the national prosperity and the high living standards even though the economic indicators
showed otherwise. The root cause of the problem, however, starts from the individual who is purchasing things on credit having
no available money to cover the expenses. It is not hard to understand why the stock markets reacted forcefully about our
credit crisis. After all the U.S., the anchor of the world seemed uncomfortable sustaining the weight of its debt. Many predict
that the U.S. will cease to be the leader of the world. Some believe that China is already the world's top economic power. But let’s examine
the situation carefully before we reach to conclusions. It is my opinion that China has a long way
to go to equal the power of the United States. China has a vast underdeveloped countryside and their working force is not
as efficient as ours. One can get a rough approximation of a country’s worker efficiency by dividing
the country’s GDP by its population. This is not an exact number but it shows the productive capacity of the workers
and also the country’s ability to provide the necessary means in order to enhance productivity. So, if we do this simple
math we will see that China’s productive capacity of its workers is approximately one tenth of ours. Even if China’s GDP (appr. $5.0 Trillion)
passed that of the United States (appr. $14.5 Trillion), the two economies would not be equivalent in composition. Per capita
income provides a measure of the sophistication of an economy. Assuming a 6% Chinese GDP growth rate and only 2% American
GDP growth rate, China would probably not equal the United States in per capita income until sometime around the middle of
the century.
News
were posted in my blog at 8:12 AM
US Stock Futures Down After
S&P Downgrade; Gold Higher, Oil Slides Wall Street was set for a sharply lower opening Monday after the unprecedented downgrade of
US debt by Standard & Poor's, while gold futures soared nearly $60 as investors sought a safe haven. LONDON - Stock markets in Europe and Asia continued a bitter string of declines on Monday,
despite pledges of action by world leaders and a radical move by the European Central Bank to ease fears of an escalating
... RealClearPolitics - 11
minutes ago Treasury
Secretary Timothy Geithner says Standard & Poor's has "terrible judgement and they've shown a stunning lack
of knowledge of basic US fiscal budget math. SEOUL—For a case study on the fear and confusion that coursed through Asian markets on
Monday, take South Korea. In line with many other markets in the region, the main Kospi stock index was down around 3% for
much of the day. Unions representing tens of thousands of Verizon Communications Inc. workers have called a
strike after failing to reach an agreement with the company on a new labor contract. LONDON—The spot price of gold surged above $1700 a troy ounce, setting new records, as
continuing concerns over European debt and an historic US credit-rating downgrade sent investors flocking to the perceived
safety of the yellow ... AFP - 1 hour
ago LONDON - Oil
prices slumped more than three dollars Monday over fears of slowing energy demand in the United States after a shock credit
rating downgrade for the world's biggest economy, analysts said. Bizjournals.com - 1
hour ago Bank of
America told investors that its liabilities for mortgage repurchases from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac could be worse than expected
as the two companies become “more rigid” in dealing with the bank, the San Francisco Business Times reports. BBC News - 41 minutes
ago The Swiss government
is holding an emergency meeting on Monday on how to respond to the financial turmoil. Currency investors have been piling
into the Swiss franc, which - like gold - is popular in times of trouble because of its relative safety. ATHENS -(Dow Jones)- Europe should triple the size of its temporary bailout mechanism--the
European Financial Stability Facility--in order to cope with the continent's widening debt crisis, Greece's former
labor minister said Monday. Warren Buffett says there's no question that the United States' debt is still AAA and
that he's not changing his mind about Treasurys based on Standard & Poor's downgrade. Dollar Thrifty Automotive Group Inc.'s (DTG) second-quarter earnings rose 0.6% as the car-rental
company posted lower merger-related expenses, though results missed analyst expectations. Washington Post - 1
hour ago August
8 (Bloomberg) -- Jane King summarizes the top stories this morning on the Bloomberg Business Report. (Source: Bloomberg) (/Bloomberg)
Correction: Clarification: SuperFan badge holders consistently post smart, timely comments about Washington ... NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Reinsurer Transatlantic Holdings(TRH) announced Sunday it has received
a $3.25 billion buyout offer from National Indemnity Co. SINGAPORE, Aug 8 (Reuters) - US Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, an expert on the Great
Depression, once promised that the central bank would never repeat its 1937 mistake of rushing to tighten monetary policy
too soon and ... FRANKFURT (Dow Jones)--Reinsurer Hannover Re AG (HNR1.XE) Monday reported a 4.1% rise in second-quarter
net profit, on a solid contribution from its investment portfolio and a substantially lower tax rate, as well as subdued ...
PARIS (Reuters) - Growth rates in the world's leading economies may have peaked, the OECD
said on Monday in its latest monthly economic overview, pointing to continued slowdowns in the euro zone and in China. |
The New York Times devotes nearly 2000 words to a story today about the political relationship
between Jon Huntsman and his father, Jon Huntsman Sr. After months of argument, temper tantrums and harsh rhetoric, Congress made the monumental
decision to pay America's bills - generations of debt obligations. In the coming week, a debate and a straw poll in Iowa could sort out the still-unsettled GOP
field. Mitt Romney has staked a claim as the Republican Party's front-runner for 2012, but key events in Iowa this week
could shake up his status. Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann today chided President Barack Obama for
holding a 50th birthday party on Thursday night, even though the stock market had plummeted. New York's PIX11 / WPIX-TV - Marvin Scott - 38 minutes ago Former Governor Hugh Carey is being hailed by Democrats and Republicans as the man who saved
New York from financial ruin. He died Sunday at his summer home on Shelter Island at the age of 92. Former Oregon governor and US senator Mark O. Hatfield, shown here in 2002, served as a member
of the Oregon Legislature, secretary of state, governor and senator for 50 years and opened the way for fellow moderate Republicans
to succeed in statewide ... Well-known entrepreneur and philanthropist Charles Wyly died Sunday after a traffic accident
on Highway 82. Wyly, 77, was making a left turn out of the private aviation area of the Aspen-Pitkin County ... Sen. Dave Hansen, a Green Bay, Wis., Democrat, leans in to kiss his wife, Jane, during a victory
party on July 19. Sen. Hansen survived a recall election that gave voters the most direct opportunity yet to react to a Republican-backed
law that stripped ... A Delta Airlines jet takes off from Washington's Reagan National Airport in Alexandria,
Virginia August 4, 2011. By John Crawley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A deal in Congress to end a two-week standoff over US aviation
funding presaged a larger and more ... San Jose Mercury News - 10 minutes ago AP
SAN FRANCISCO—San Francisco interim Mayor Ed Lee has decided to run for a full four-year term. The San Francisco Chronicle
says Lee will file Monday to be a candidate in the November election. Education Secretary Arne Duncan says he will announce a new waiver system Monday to give schools
a break from student testing mandates in the federal No Child Left Behind law.
Sunday, August 7, 2011
Xinhua - 1 hour
ago CAIRO, Aug.
7 (Xinhua) -- About 52 people were killed Sunday in separate operations carried out by government troops in Syria's central
and northern regions, a human rights activist said. The 30 American service members who died on Saturday were aboard a Chinook helicopter like
this one when it was hit by a rocket-propelled grenade. Three more areas in Southern Somalia have been added to the famine zone and the UN warns that
without urgent intervention all of Southern Somalia will be engulfed in famine. Israel's benchmark stock index plunged the most in almost 11 years after Standard &
Poor's lowered the US credit rating and amid concern the widening sovereign debt crisis in Europe will stall global ...
Voice of America - Aug
6, 2011 August
06, 2011 Mubarak Trial Should Serve as a Lesson to Africa's Strong Men, Says Analyst. Douglas Mpuga The long-awaited trial
of former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak opened in Cairo this week. CNN International - 2
hours ago By the
CNN Wire Staff Havana, Cuba (CNN) -- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has arrived in Cuba for the next phase of his cancer
treatment, Venezuelan state media reported Sunday. TRIPOLI Aug 7 (Reuters) - Power and petrol shortages are afflicting the Libyan capital Tripoli,
deepening public frustration as months of conflict with NATO-backed rebels take their toll on the seat of leader Muammar Gaddafi's
power. Sergey Svetlitsky/AP Riot police held off former Prime Minister Yulia V. Tymoshenko's supporters
at the courthouse in Kiev, Ukraine, where she was arrested for contempt. The Guardian - 17
hours ago Children
of African migrants play inside the Bialik-Rogozin school in Tel Aviv, Israel, in February 2011. Pupils at the school have
survived genocide, war and famine. BENGHAZI, Libya - Rebel leaders, still reeling from the assassination of their top military
commander last week, braced for a reshuffling in their ranks on Thursday, while law enforcement officials said a ... Sacramento Bee - 54
minutes ago AP
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- Two former lawmakers from Bahrain's Shiite opposition say they have been released from
jail pending trial. Ali Abdullah Saleh, the Yemeni president, has been discharged from hospital in Saudi Arabia,
raising fears among protesters that he could attempt a dramatic return to his violence-plagued homeland.
News posted in my blog at 12:41 PM Rick Perry, whose Saturday prayer rally drew some 30000 attendees, lamented a "nation
in crisis" and faced protests outside Houston's Reliant Stadium by gay rights activists who blasted the Texas governor
for his event's ties to the ... Los Angeles Times - 2
hours ago The shotgun
attack in which a San Diego police officer was critically wounded was "unprovoked" and followed a shooting nearby
by the same suspect, who was later killed by other officers, police said. Top Pentagon brass should craft plans so the Defense Department is ready if a so-called trigger
in the debt-ceiling law is pulled, a move that would return the annual military budget to the 2007 level according ... A tornado hit Tuscaloosa, Alabama, in April, killing six students at the University of Alabama.
There might not have been a truer definition of bittersweet than the events that unfolded this weekend in an Alabama college
town recovering from an April ... 1 of 4. A man removes his shirt to cope with the heat as he sits in the shade in Dallas, Texas
August 5, 2011. By Karen Brooks HOUSTON (Reuters) - The southern United States stood mired on Saturday in an unrelenting heat
wave that promised more of the ... National Journal - 1
hour ago By National
Journal staff Republican presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty predicted his struggling campaign would move “closer to
the front of the pack” after the straw poll in Ames, Iowa, next weekend. When Congress returns to work after Labor Day it will have the opportunity to achieve a goal
that has largely eluded it by passing bills that might actually create some jobs. Fox News - Aug 6,
2011 Detroit police
have made an arrest in the gruesome murder of a 5-year-old girl, MyFoxDetroit.com reports. Darnell Cheatham, the aunt's
boyfriend, was taken into custody Friday as a person of interest in the death of Mariha Smith. Wisconsin State Journal - 2 hours ago Money
flowing into the race between Sen. Alberta Darling, R-River Hills, and her recall challenger, Rep. Sandy Pasch, D-Whitefish
Bay, has shattered previous spending records for any legislative race in Wisconsin. Boston Globe - Aug
6, 2011 MILFORD,
NH - Kate Lehoux, a Republican voter who works for the New Hampshire electronics company Cirtronics, got an e-mail informing
her that Republican presidential candidate Jon Huntsman would be speaking at her office. The Guardian - 4
hours ago AP Brooks-Jeffrey
Marketing in Mountain Home, Arkansas, which hosted many of the websites targeted by Anonymous. Photograph: Frank Wallis/AP
The group of hackers known as Anonymous says it has hacked into about 70 mostly rural law enforcement websites ... A mystery company that pumped $1 million into a political committee backing Mitt Romney has
been dissolved just months after it was formed, leaving few clues as to who was behind one of the ... US Army SPC Charles Graner arrives for day two of his court martial at Fort Hood, Texas January
11, 2005 on charges in connection with prisoner abuse at the Iraq Abu Ghraib prison. City Administrator Janet Mitchell said the village is requesting that an algae expert from
the University of Alaska Fairbanks investigate. Hugh Carey, the two-term New York governor who helped New York City avert bankruptcy in 1975
by imposing financial controls and made tough choices to cut taxes and balance the state budget ... Jordan Daniel Clark says he was traveling as part of a school group when his plane had "a
rough landing." An American Airlines flight arriving at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport deployed its emergency
slides for passengers Friday afternoon after ... Sen. John Kerry on Sunday laid the blame for the recent downgrade of the nation's credit
rating at the feet of conservative House Republicans. President Barack Obama is back in town tonight, doing some birthday fundraising for his 2012
re-election bid at a North Side concert hall. Park rangers and search-and-rescue teams continue to search for another man and woman who slipped
over the edge of Vernal Fall with him. Atlanta Journal Constitution - Ernie Suggs - 4 hours ago Since the sudden death of their leader, officials with the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
have vowed to carry on the late Rev.
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