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<p>NEW YORK – With chants and prayers, sermons and signs, outrage over a jury’s decision to clear George Zimmerman in the shooting of an unarmed black teenager poured from street protests and church pulpits Sunday amid calls for federal civil rights charges to be filed in the case.</p>
<p>Demonstrations large and small broke out across the country – ranging from a few dozen to several hundred – in support of the family of Trayvon Martin as protesters decried the not guilty verdict as a miscarriage of justice.</p>
<p>The NAACP and protesters called for federal civil rights charges against Zimmerman, who was acquitted Saturday in Martin’s February 2012 shooting death, which unleashed a national debate over racial profiling, self-defense and equal justice.</p>
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<p>The Justice Department said it is looking into the case to determine whether federal prosecutors should file criminal civil rights charges now that Zimmerman has been acquitted in the state case. Meanwhile, President Barack Obama and religious and civil rights leaders urged call in hopes of ensuring peaceful demonstrations in the wake of a case that became an emotional flash point.</p>
<p>At Manhattan’s Middle Collegiate Church, many congregants wore hooded sweatshirts – the same thing Martin was wearing the night he was shot. Hoodie-clad Jessica Nacinovich said she could only feel disappointment and sadness over the verdict.</p>
<p>George Zimmerman smiles after a not guilty verdict was handed down in his trial at the Seminole County Courthouse in Sanford, Fla. (The Associated Press)</p>
<p>“I’m sure jurors did what they felt was right in accordance with the law but maybe the law is wrong, maybe society is wrong; there’s a lot that needs fixing,” she said.</p>
<p>The Rev. Jacqueline Lewis, wearing a pink hoodie, urged a peaceful but vocal response.</p>
<p>“We’re going to raise our voices against the root causes of this kind of tragedy,” she said, adding, “We’ll aim our fight for justice against the ease with which people can get firearms in this country.”</p>
<p>At a youth service in Sanford, Fla., where the trial was held, teens wearing shirts displaying Martin’s picture wiped away tears during a sermon at the St. Paul Missionary Baptist Church.</p>
<p>About 200 people turned out for a rally and march in downtown Chicago, saying the verdict was symbolic of lingering racism in the United States. Seventy-three-year-old Maya Miller said the case reminded her of the 1955 slaying of Emmitt Till, a 14-year-old from Chicago who was murdered by a group of white men while visiting Mississippi. Till’s killing galvanized the civil rights movement.</p>
<p>“Fifty-eight years and nothing’s changed,” Miller said, pausing to join a chant to “Justice for Trayvon, not one more.”</p>
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<p>Protesters also gathered in Miami, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C., along with a host of other cities.</p>
<p>Hours after the verdict Saturday night, demonstrators gathered on U Street in Washington, D.C., chanting, “No justice, no peace.” One protester carried a sign that read, “Stop criminalizing black men.”</p>
<p>In Miami, more than 200 people gathered for a vigil. “You can’t justify murder,” read one poster. Another read “Don’t worry about more riots. Worry about more Zimmermans.”</p>
<p>Carol Reitner, 76, of Miami, said she heard about the vigil through an announcement at her church Sunday morning. “I was really devastated. It’s really hard to believe that someone can take the life of someone else and walk out of court free,” she said.</p>
<p>In Manhattan’s Union Square, hundreds of people gathered to voice their passions over the verdict, hoisting placards with images of Martin.</p>
<p>Some tempered their anger, saying they didn’t contest the jury’s decision based on the legal issues involved.</p>
<p>But “while the verdict may be legal, a system that doesn’t take into account what happened is a broken legal system,” said Jennifer Lue, 24.</p>
<p>Civil rights leaders, including the Revs. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, urged peace in the wake of the verdict. Jackson said the legal system “failed justice,” but violence isn’t the answer.</p>
<p>But not all the protesters heeded those calls in the protests the broke out immediately after the verdict.</p>
<p>In Oakland, Calif., some angry demonstrators broke windows, burned U.S. flags and started street fires. Some marchers also vandalized a police squad car and used spray paint to scrawl anti-police graffiti on roads and Alameda County’s Davidson courthouse. In Los Angeles, police said a crowd of about 100 protesters surrounded an officer and eventually had to be dispersed by officers firing beanbag rounds.</p>
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<p>BALTIMORE (AP) — Deputy Police Commissioner Darryl DeSousa, who has steadily risen through the ranks during a 30-year career with Baltimore’s police department, will take the helm of the force in a city struggling with a feverish pace of killings.</p>
<p>After a record year in per-capita homicides, Baltimore’s mayor on Friday fired the city’s police commissioner after 2½ years on the job and named DeSousa to the top post, saying a change in leadership was needed immediately.</p>
<p>“I am impatient. We need violence reduction. We need the numbers to go down faster,” Mayor Catherine Pugh said at a news conference at City Hall after announcing DeSousa’s promotion.</p>
<p>Although violent crime rates in Baltimore have been high for decades, Baltimore ended 2017 with 343 killings, bringing the annual homicide rate to its highest ever: roughly 56 killings per 100,000 people. Baltimore, which has shrunk over decades, currently has about 615,000 inhabitants.</p>
<p>In contrast, New York City had 290 homicides last year, its fewest on record in the modern era for the city of 8.5 million people. Los Angeles, with about 4 million residents, saw 305 homicides last year.</p>
<p>Following a record year in per-capita homicides, Baltimore’s mayor on Friday fired the city’s police commissioner, and appointed a new one, saying a change in leadership is needed to reduce violent crime more quickly. (Jan 19.)</p>
<p>The challenges facing DeSousa are numerous: the pervasive mistrust of many citizens due to a history of corruption and discriminatory police practices; a federal corruption investigation into a group of indicted officers; and the unsolved slaying of a detective that has produced rumors but no arrests.</p>
<p>His promotion also comes as a monitoring team is overseeing court-ordered reforms to Baltimore’s police department as part of a federal consent decree reached last January between Baltimore and the U.S. Justice Department due to discriminatory and unconstitutional policing.</p>
<p>DeSousa, a 53-year-old city resident who joined the department in 1988, said he’s looking forward to the challenges. He said he’ll approach his role as a strategic thinker who knows the ins and outs of the department’s operations as well as law enforcement approaches that have had success in other U.S. cities.</p>
<p>“Anyone who knows me knows that I’m a chess player, and I don’t like to be outwitted,” he told reporters.</p>
<p>The head of Baltimore’s police union, Gene Ryan, said the leadership shakeup is already improving morale, and “will bring about the positive changes that will allow us to achieve our mission of violence reduction.”</p>
<p>DeSousa on Friday pledged to reduce crime by putting more uniformed officers on the streets and saturating “hot spots,” an effort he said is already underway. He said he had a message for the city’s violent repeat offenders, a rotating cast of “trigger pullers” that law enforcers say are responsible for an outsized percentage of the city’s crime.</p>
<p>“We’re coming after them. And I want to let everybody know that it will be done in a constitutional manner,” DeSousa said.</p>
<p>The native New Yorker has served in just about every police department role over the years and in 2017 was assigned to lead the patrol bureau, the largest in Baltimore’s force. His appointment will be made permanent following “appropriate approvals,” Pugh’s office said.</p>
<p>He appears to have the backing of the City Council and a number of Baltimore’s civic leaders and organizers. Councilman Brandon Scott, who described DeSousa’s promotion as a “great decision,” said he received numerous phone messages from community leaders praising the move.</p>
<p>“Never before did I get text messages from community leaders saying, ‘Thank you, this is the right choice,’” Scott said, describing the three previous times during his career as an elected official that a police commissioner was replaced.</p>
<p>Sherrilyn Ifill, president of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, tweeted that she was perplexed by the leadership change. In a statement, she said Commissioner Kevin Davis had shown “unyielding commitment” to police reforms.</p>
<p>Some Baltimore residents were also skeptical that a veteran as entrenched as DeSousa could bring true reform.</p>
<p>“He’s been there for 30 years and that’s the guy who’s going to change things up?” said resident Gerald Spann, who was washing the windows of a convenience store where gunmen and officers exchanged a barrage of gunfire earlier this week.</p>
<p>Davis, previously chief of police in Maryland’s Anne Arundel County, replaced Anthony Batts in the job in October 2015. Batts was fired amid a spike in homicides after Freddie Gray died of a fatal spinal cord injury received while in police custody. The black man’s death triggered massive protests and the city’s worst riots in decades.</p>
<p>Pugh, who took office in December 2016, said she was grateful to Davis “for all that he has done to implement the initiatives underway to address violent crime at its root causes.”</p>
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<p>Associated Press writer Sarah Rankin in Richmond, Virginia, contributed to this report.</p>
<p>BALTIMORE (AP) — Deputy Police Commissioner Darryl DeSousa, who has steadily risen through the ranks during a 30-year career with Baltimore’s police department, will take the helm of the force in a city struggling with a feverish pace of killings.</p>
<p>After a record year in per-capita homicides, Baltimore’s mayor on Friday fired the city’s police commissioner after 2½ years on the job and named DeSousa to the top post, saying a change in leadership was needed immediately.</p>
<p>“I am impatient. We need violence reduction. We need the numbers to go down faster,” Mayor Catherine Pugh said at a news conference at City Hall after announcing DeSousa’s promotion.</p>
<p>Although violent crime rates in Baltimore have been high for decades, Baltimore ended 2017 with 343 killings, bringing the annual homicide rate to its highest ever: roughly 56 killings per 100,000 people. Baltimore, which has shrunk over decades, currently has about 615,000 inhabitants.</p>
<p>In contrast, New York City had 290 homicides last year, its fewest on record in the modern era for the city of 8.5 million people. Los Angeles, with about 4 million residents, saw 305 homicides last year.</p>
<p>Following a record year in per-capita homicides, Baltimore’s mayor on Friday fired the city’s police commissioner, and appointed a new one, saying a change in leadership is needed to reduce violent crime more quickly. (Jan 19.)</p>
<p>The challenges facing DeSousa are numerous: the pervasive mistrust of many citizens due to a history of corruption and discriminatory police practices; a federal corruption investigation into a group of indicted officers; and the unsolved slaying of a detective that has produced rumors but no arrests.</p>
<p>His promotion also comes as a monitoring team is overseeing court-ordered reforms to Baltimore’s police department as part of a federal consent decree reached last January between Baltimore and the U.S. Justice Department due to discriminatory and unconstitutional policing.</p>
<p>DeSousa, a 53-year-old city resident who joined the department in 1988, said he’s looking forward to the challenges. He said he’ll approach his role as a strategic thinker who knows the ins and outs of the department’s operations as well as law enforcement approaches that have had success in other U.S. cities.</p>
<p>“Anyone who knows me knows that I’m a chess player, and I don’t like to be outwitted,” he told reporters.</p>
<p>The head of Baltimore’s police union, Gene Ryan, said the leadership shakeup is already improving morale, and “will bring about the positive changes that will allow us to achieve our mission of violence reduction.”</p>
<p>DeSousa on Friday pledged to reduce crime by putting more uniformed officers on the streets and saturating “hot spots,” an effort he said is already underway. He said he had a message for the city’s violent repeat offenders, a rotating cast of “trigger pullers” that law enforcers say are responsible for an outsized percentage of the city’s crime.</p>
<p>“We’re coming after them. And I want to let everybody know that it will be done in a constitutional manner,” DeSousa said.</p>
<p>The native New Yorker has served in just about every police department role over the years and in 2017 was assigned to lead the patrol bureau, the largest in Baltimore’s force. His appointment will be made permanent following “appropriate approvals,” Pugh’s office said.</p>
<p>He appears to have the backing of the City Council and a number of Baltimore’s civic leaders and organizers. Councilman Brandon Scott, who described DeSousa’s promotion as a “great decision,” said he received numerous phone messages from community leaders praising the move.</p>
<p>“Never before did I get text messages from community leaders saying, ‘Thank you, this is the right choice,’” Scott said, describing the three previous times during his career as an elected official that a police commissioner was replaced.</p>
<p>Sherrilyn Ifill, president of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, tweeted that she was perplexed by the leadership change. In a statement, she said Commissioner Kevin Davis had shown “unyielding commitment” to police reforms.</p>
<p>Some Baltimore residents were also skeptical that a veteran as entrenched as DeSousa could bring true reform.</p>
<p>“He’s been there for 30 years and that’s the guy who’s going to change things up?” said resident Gerald Spann, who was washing the windows of a convenience store where gunmen and officers exchanged a barrage of gunfire earlier this week.</p>
<p>Davis, previously chief of police in Maryland’s Anne Arundel County, replaced Anthony Batts in the job in October 2015. Batts was fired amid a spike in homicides after Freddie Gray died of a fatal spinal cord injury received while in police custody. The black man’s death triggered massive protests and the city’s worst riots in decades.</p>
<p>Pugh, who took office in December 2016, said she was grateful to Davis “for all that he has done to implement the initiatives underway to address violent crime at its root causes.”</p>
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<p>Associated Press writer Sarah Rankin in Richmond, Virginia, contributed to this report.</p> | Baltimore’s new police leader faces numerous challenges | false | https://apnews.com/3a9daa30a2bd41d4a5a9dd676ee28e27 | 2018-01-20 | 2 |
<p>(The Root) - On Monday night's episode of <a href="http://www.vh1.com/shows/the_gossip_game/series.jhtml" type="external">The Gossip Game</a>, the Source magazine editor Kim Osorio shared with her husband that she was planning a roundtable with the show's cast to discuss hip-hop. She hoped that, unlike at previous gatherings with all the ladies, everyone would be on her best behavior and ready to play nice. Osorio's husband was immediately skeptical about the plans, insisting that there was no way a group of women could get together without descending into madness.</p>
<p>I've heard comments like the one from Osorio's husband more times than I can count. The idea that women, especially black women, are unable to get along is accepted as fact - an idea, of course, that's given credence by most reality-TV shows. To let them tell it, women are taking every opportunity to throw another woman a side-eye, and maybe even toss her under the bus, too.</p>
<p>And it's not just guys propagating this myth - yes, myth. I've heard plenty of women say something like, "I don't really hang out with girls because they're [insert a negative generalization of all women here]."</p>
<p>Every time I hear someone lumping all groups of women into the crazy, catty, petty, shifty or shady category, I think, "Huh? What type of women do you know?"</p>
<p>I won't pretend that I've never seen women exhibit catty behavior, never been on the receiving end of some petty remarks or even that I haven't made some myself. The worst moments stand out and had the possibility of leaving me, and other women, jaded and skeptical about womankind. However, overall, my experiences debunk the so-called rule about women's inability to get along.&#160;</p>
<p>Maybe I've been fortunate, but when I think about my interactions with other women - yes, even in groups - my experience has been more positive, more sisterly and supportive, like on Living Single or Girlfriends, than anything showcased weekly on VH1 or talked about by sisterhood's naysayers.</p>
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<p>I live within walking distance of three of my closest friends, none of whom I've had a spat with in about five years of friendship. We don't talk every day - we're adults with busy lives - but anytime there's good news to celebrate or bad news to wonder "WTH?" over, we all know the drill.</p>
<p>The one I call "my wife" opens her apartment for our gathering. Another, my "girlfriend," gets in the kitchen to cook up a big pot of comfort food. My "mistress" runs out to pick up a gift. The fourth - that's me - heads to the liquor store for the big bottle of sangria.</p>
<p>Earlier this week, a friend's father passed away. She, of course, was devastated. It was her sister-friend from college who was tracking down her friends-like-family to let everyone know what had occurred and keep us updated on the funeral arrangements.</p>
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<p>When I showed up at her house to offer my condolences and just sit with my girl to keep watch, I discovered that I'd been beaten to the punch. There was already a pair of friends, actual sisters, holding her down with their presence and nurturing her with home-cooked food on the stove and wine in the fridge.</p>
<p>In retrospect, it's been an eventful week in sisterhood for me. Over the weekend, I ran into a woman with whom I was once incredibly close before we had a falling out over something I can't even recall now. There was no screaming or snarky goodbyes, just fewer phone calls and outings, until finally there were none.</p>
<p>It was an uncomfortable "hello" when I bumped into her at a party, but after a few awkward exchanges, we got to the heart of the matter. "You know if you ever needed anything, I'm still here, right?" she said. I told her I felt the same. We had a brief heart-to-heart in the middle of a day party, one that almost left me in (happy) tears over having finally fixed a tattered bridge that thankfully had not been burned.</p>
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<p>As I write this, there's a woman sleeping on my couch. We "met" as Twitter friends years ago, and she suggested that I attend a conference. Turns out, there weren't any hotel rooms available, so she suggested that I room with her. After a quick reference check with mutual friends, I discovered that she was sane, so I took her up on the offer.</p>
<p>That was two years ago. We trekked to Austin, Texas, for another conference, South by Southwest, last month, and she's turned out to be one of my closest confidantes - so close that she can stop by for a visit, make herself at home and knock out on my sofa while I'm working. When we chat, we disagree over plenty of things, but drag-out arguments or knockdown fights? Never.</p>
<p>As women, we need to share more of our positive interactions with one another to debunk the myths about all of us being catty and confrontational. If you rack your brain and don't have any such moments to share, that says a lot more about you specifically than it does about women in general.</p>
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<p>Editor's note: This column has been updated to reflect the fact that Kim Osorio appears on VH1's The Gossip Game, not Love &amp; Hip Hop Atlanta.</p>
<p>Demetria L. Lucas is a contributing editor to The Root and the author of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1451606311/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8linkCode&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399373&amp;creativeASIN=1451606311&amp;tag=kinjaroot-20&amp;ascsubtag=e79e708068f5a881d23879fec37daff13037edca&amp;rawdata=%5Br%7C(direct)%5Bt%7Clink%5Bp%7C1790895961%5Ba%7C1451606311%5Bau%7C5876237249236879664%5Bb%7Ctheroot" type="external">A Belle in Brooklyn</a>: The Go-to Girl for Advice on Living Your Best Single Life. Follow her on <a href="http://twitter.com/#%21/abelleinbk" type="external">Twitter</a>.</p> | Yes, Black Women Can Get Along | true | https://theroot.com/yes-black-women-can-get-along-1790895961 | 2013-04-09 | 4 |
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<p>There, on the official website of Showtime sports — at the top, in big, white letters — is the name Archie Ray Marquez.</p>
<p>Well … OK. Marquez, an unbeaten lightweight professional boxer from Albuquerque, isn’t quite at the top. His nationally televised, premium-cable fight against Denver’s Juan Santiago tonight is the semi-main event of a card in Santa Ynez, Calif.</p>
<p>But that just means there’s room at the top, and Marquez intends to get there. Standing in the way for now is Santiago (13-4, eight knockouts), who is an older, bigger and more experienced fighter. Tonight’s eight-round bout is scheduled to be contested at 135 pounds, but Santiago has fought as heavy as 146½.</p>
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<p>Marquez (10-0, seven KOs) doesn’t see a problem. “I’m stronger than I’ve ever been,” he says, “and I’m in the best shape I’ve ever been.”</p>
<p>Jacob Maes, Marquez’s manager, said promoter Gary Shaw will be looking to see how ready Marquez is to fight his first 10-rounder. Shaw, one of the sport’s leading promoters, signed the Albuquerquean in October 2008.</p>
<p>“Archie’s definitely ready for that,” Maes said. “This is the best training camp he’s had.”</p>
<p>Marquez last fought in January, when he decisioned Derrick Campos over eight rounds at Tingley Coliseum. Since then, he has had to deal with an injury and with a personal and legal issue. He faces an Oct. 19 court date to answer domestic-violence charges stemming from an altercation with his wife, Jamie, in May.</p>
<p>The 22-year-old boxer said his personal situation has not been a distraction in his preparation for tonight’s fight.</p>
<p>“I’m focused, and I’m ready to go,” he said.</p>
<p>Las Vegas, N.M., featherweight Amanda Crespin (2-2-1) is also on tonight’s Showtime card, though her bout isn’t likely to be televised. Crespin is scheduled to fight Crystal Hoy (4-2, two KOs), who twice floored New Mexican Monica Lovato in Albuquerque in February 2008 — but lost by unanimous decision.</p>
<p>LOVATO UPDATE: Speaking of Lovato, the Española native and former world champion hasn’t appeared in the ring since that fight against Hoy some 32 months ago. She has been competing in mixed martial arts, but says a knee injury has brought her cagefighting career to an end.</p>
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<p>She’s scheduled to return to the ring Oct. 16 on the Melissa Hernandez-Lindsay Garbatt card at Santa Ana Star Casino.</p>
<p>Lovato said she suffered the injury before her Sept. 18 MMA fight in Tokyo, where she lost by unanimous decision to Tomomi Sunaba.</p>
<p>“I was unable to train for Tokyo and we kept it hush-hush because I really wanted to go and I thought I’d be OK,” she said. “I’ve had the injury for a few months, and I can’t get a full bend on (the knee). … I definitely don’t think I’ll be in the cage again.”</p>
<p>The 32-year-old isn’t long for the ring, either, she said.</p>
<p>“I’ve been contemplating retirement for a while,” she said. “It’s time. … I’m ready to experience the rest of my life.”</p>
<p>FIGHTING, RUNNING FOR THE CURE: October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and the Oct. 16 card at Santa Ana Star Casino is being held in association with the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation.</p>
<p>Promoter Stephanie Jaramillo is forming a team to run the Komen of Central New Mexico’s Race for the Cure on Oct. 10. The sign-up deadline is today at 10 a.m., via a link on www.wefightforthecure.com. But Jaramillo said donations made through that link will be accepted until race day.</p>
<p>HOLM-SACCURATO: Promoter Lenny Fresquez said he has a signed contract from New Yorker Ann Marie Saccurato (15-4, six KOs), whose rematch with Albuquerque’s Holly Holm (28-1-2, eight KOs) will be the main event of Fresquez’s Dec. 3 card. Holm defeated Saccurato by unanimous decision in their first meeting in March 2007.</p>
<p>Fresquez said Albuquerque’s Victoria Cisneros (5-10-2, one KO) will face Florida’s Chevelle Hallback (27-6-2, 11 KOs) in a semi-main event.</p>
<p>TOUGH NIGHT: Albuquerqueans Freddie Montoya and Willie Villanueva each lost by an early-round knockout last Friday in Tunica, Miss.</p>
<p>Villanueva (9-3, two KOs) lost by first-round KO to 2008 U.S. Olympian Gary Russell Jr. (12-0, nine KOs).</p>
<p>Montoya (3-2, two KOs) lost by second-round KO to Dominic Wade (9-0, seven KOs).</p>
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<p>GALVESTON, Texas — A mother, father and their two young sons were shot to death early Monday at a Southeast Texas beachfront hotel in what police are investigating as a possible triple killing followed by a suicide in which the woman was the shooter.</p>
<p>Galveston police Capt. Josh Schirard said the four victims were a 37-year-old woman, a 39-year-old man and two boys ages 10 and 5. He said the family from Baytown about 35 miles (56 kilometers) north of Galveston checked in Sunday evening at the San Luis Resort.</p>
<p>Police were summoned to the upscale 250-room hotel on the Gulf of Mexico after a guest in a nearby room on the eighth floor called police about 4:30 a.m. and reported popping sounds. Officers entered the locked room and found the man and two boys in bed with apparent gunshot wounds and the woman on the floor, also with a gunshot wound.</p>
<p>The woman and one of the children were “unresponsive but still appeared to be alive” and were taken to a hospital where they both died, Schirard said, adding that neither was ever able to speak.</p>
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<p>“A motive is unknown at this time, but forensic data collected at the scene indicated the female is believed to be the shooter at this time before apparently taking her own life with a 9 mm handgun found adjacent to her body,” Schirard said. “There’s no indication or evidence that there are any other persons involved or that there are any other suspects still at large.”</p>
<p>Authorities said no issues were apparent before the family checked in, and nothing about the condition of the room indicated there was a struggle.</p>
<p>“My heart goes out to the rest of their family, their extended family, their community and our community, the ones that don’t have the training to deal with this and have to be exposed to an event like this,” Schirard said.</p>
<p>Psychologists and others who have studied cases of mothers accused of killing their children have said it’s not as uncommon as people might believe. But media coverage often focuses on dramatic cases, such as Andrea Yates who was found not guilty by reason of insanity for the 2001 drowning deaths of her five children in Houston.</p> | Police: Triple homicide and suicide possible in deaths of 4 | false | https://abqjournal.com/1116346/3-dead-1-hurt-in-apparent-murder-suicide-at-galveston-hotel.html | 2018-01-08 | 2 |
<p>Los Angeles TimesOtis Chandler, who served as Times publisher from 1960 to 1980, was responsible for one of the most dramatic newspaper makeovers in the history of American journalism. "He was bold in making changes and investments in the paper that transformed The Times into a world-class news organization," says current Times publisher Jeff Johnson.</p> | Former Los Angeles Times publisher Chandler dies at 78 | false | https://poynter.org/news/former-los-angeles-times-publisher-chandler-dies-78 | 2006-02-27 | 2 |
<p>Meryl Streep called out Donald Trump at Sunday’s Golden Globe Awards where she did not even have to mention his name to get her message across.</p>
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<p>"It was one performance that this year stunned me," Meryl Streep said. "It sank its hooks in my heart, not because it was good -- there was nothing good about it. -- but it was effective. And it did its job. It made its intended audience laugh and show their teeth. It was that moment when the person asking to sit in the most respected seat in our country imitated a disabled reporter, someone he outranked in privilege, power, and the capacity to fight back. It kind of broke my heart when I saw it. And I still can't get it out of my head because it wasn't in a movie. It was real life. And this instinct to humiliate when it is modeled by someone in the public platform by someone powerful&#160;filters down into everybody's life because it kind of gives permission for other people to do the same thing. Disrespect invites disrespect. Violence insights violence. When the powerful use that position to bully others we all lose."</p>
<p>After calling out Trump without even using his name, Meryl Streep turned to the responsibility of the news media.</p>
<p>"This brings me to the press," Streep said. "We need the principled press to hold power to account, to call them on the carpet for the outrage. That's why our founders enshrined the press and its freedoms in our constitution. So I only ask the famously well-heeled Hollywood foreign press and all of us in our community to join me in supporting the committee to protect journalists because we are going to need them going forward. And they will need us to safeguard the truth."</p>
<p>Meryl Streep is theoretically correct. It is unlikely that the press, the mainstream media will do its job. After all, one cannot ask the fox to watch the henhouse. A corporate controlled media will never make an effective press. It will require the alternate media. One hopes that these celebrities will support those in the alternative&#160;media that owes their allegiance to no corporation or politician.</p>
<p>(h/t <a href="http://www.rawstory.com/2017/01/meryl-streep-obliterated-donald-trump-at-the-golden-globes-and-never-once-mentioned-his-name/" type="external">RawStory</a>)</p> | Meryl Streep calls out Trump as she admonished media to do their job (VIDEO) | true | https://egbertowillies.com/2017/01/09/meryl-streep-calls-trump-media/ | 2017-01-09 | 4 |
<p>Now here’s a headline you don’t expect to see in the twenty-first century, but it’s deadly serious.</p>
<p>AZ Family <a href="http://www.azfamily.com/story/36127163/fleas-carrying-plague-found-in-arizona" type="external">reports</a> that health officials in the Coconino and Navajo counties of Arizona have announced the discovery of fleas carrying plauge — yes, as in the disease responsible for wiping out millions of people across medieval Europe.</p>
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<p>Health officials have notified the residents whose property will be treated. The area will be closely monitored to determine if further action is required.</p>
<p>People are advised to take certain measures to reduce the risk of exposure to this serious disease, which can be present in fleas, rodents, rabbits and predators that feed on these animals.</p>
<p>The disease can be transmitted to humans and other animals by the bite of an infected flea or by direct contact with an infected animal.</p>
<p>To limit possible exposure, people are encouraged to avoid rodent burrows and keep dogs on a leash as required by Arizona state law.An abundance of active prairie dogs doesn’t indicate the disease is present.</p>
<p>However, a sudden die-off of prairie dogs and rodents may be an indicator of plague. Persons noticing a sudden die-off of rodents or rabbits are urged to contact the Navajo County Health Department.</p>
<p>Symptoms to watch out for include fever, chills, headache, weakness, muscle pain, and swollen lymph glands. It is of course much more curable than it was in the Middle Ages, but prevention and early treatment are still essential.</p>
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<p>Common-sense steps to lower risk of contracting the plague include keeping clear of dead or sick animals, not letting your pets roam free and regularly treating them for fleas, using insect repellent, and more listed at AZ Family.</p>
<p>What do you think? Scroll down to comment below.</p> | ALERT: Fleas In This State Just Tested Positive For The PLAGUE… | true | http://thefederalistpapers.org/us/alert-fleas-state-just-tested-positive-plague | 0 |
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<p>Pulling no punches, and sparing no consequences to US/China relations, the Xinhua news agency fired plenty of barbs at the current American administration, and signaled that they are growing even more displeased with the possibility of not receiving interest payments on the debt tokens they hold.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/513431/20131013/china-debt-ceiling-shutdown-xinhua-de-emericanised.htm" type="external">IBTIMES:</a></p>
<p>“China’s official news agency has called for the creation of a “de-Americanised world”, saying the destinies of people should not be left in the hands of a hypocritical nation with a dysfunctional government.</p>
<p>Heaping criticism and caustic ridicule on Washington, the Xinhua news agency called the US a civilian slayer, prisoner torturer and meddler in others’ affairs, and said the ‘Pax Americana’ was a failure on all fronts.”</p>
<p>China is a far more serious threat to the United States than Russia ever thought of being. They are a nation with a serious population problem, totaling&#160; <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_China" type="external">close to 1.35 billion</a>&#160;at last count. As our nation’s largest debt holder, they stand to receive the most damage by an&#160;American government&#160;default, and some suggest they are already planning&#160; <a href="http://freepatriot.org/2013/10/09/china-preparing-american-invasion-due-default/" type="external">an invasion on U.S. soil</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/513431/20131013/china-debt-ceiling-shutdown-xinhua-de-emericanised.htm" type="external">IBTIMES</a>:</p>
<p>“As US politicians of both&#160;political parties&#160;are still shuffling&#160;back and forth&#160;between the White House and the Capitol Hill without striking a viable deal to bring normality to the body politic they brag about, it is perhaps a good time for the befuddled world to start considering building a de-Americanised world,” the editorial said.”</p>
<p>More and more we are seeing&#160; <a href="http://www.republicmagazine.com/news/g-20-summit.html" type="external">significant international powers</a>, as well as small members of theinternational community,&#160; <a href="http://www.republicmagazine.com/news/obama-backed-out-of-syria.html" type="external">taking a very different approach</a>&#160;to how they view America. We are no longer being give credit as a World Super Power.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/513431/20131013/china-debt-ceiling-shutdown-xinhua-de-emericanised.htm" type="external">IBTIMES</a>:</p>
<p>“According to US Treasury Department data, China is the biggest foreign owner of US Treasuries at $1.28 trillion as of July. Besides, China also holds close to $3.5 trillion of dollar-denominated assets.</p>
<p>A US debt default and consequent credit downgrade would significantly erode the value of China’s holdings.</p>
<p>As the first step in creating a de-Americanised world, all nations must try to shape an international system that respects the sovereignty of all nations and ensures the US keeps out of the domestic affairs of others, Xinhua said.</p>
<p>It also called for an end to the use of the US dollar as the international reserve currency, a step that would ensure the international community could maintain a safe distance from the side-effects of domestic political turmoil in the United States.”</p>
<p>Surviving the upcoming collapse of&#160; <a href="http://survivalist.com/financial-fitness/" type="external">the American economy</a>&#160;might be the least of our worries, learning Mandarin by next March is going to be a little harder to swallow.</p> | China talking shit again, getting a little anxious that they might not receive their interest payment on the money we owe them on time, and are calling for the collapse of the US dollar, to be replaced with the Chinese yuan as the international standard reserve currency. Who the hell do these little bastards think they are? The train that is driving their prosperity is the American consumer market. Lose that and China reverts back to being a third-world rice exporter. So, go ahead, China, shoot yourself in the foot. In fact, I would like to hasten your demise and call for an immediate import tariff of, oh, say 100%. Maybe then you will understand where your newfound wealth is coming from.. THE MOST VALUABLE THING ON THE PLANET EARTH IS THE AMERICAN CONSUMER MARKET!…. | true | https://powderedwigsociety.com/china-talking-shit-again-getting-a-little-anxious-that-they-might-not-receive-their-interest-payment-on-the-money-we-owe-them-on-time-and-are-calling-for-the-collapse-of-the-us-dollar-to-be-replace/ | 2013-10-15 | 0 |
<p>The Nashville Predators re-signed restricted free agent center <a href="https://www.upi.com/topic/Ryan-Johansen/" type="external">Ryan Johansen</a> to an eight-year, $64 million contract Friday.</p>
<p>The deal will pay Johansen an average of $8 million annually through the 2024-25 season, the team announced.</p>
<p>Johansen, who turns 25 on July 31, co-led the Predators in scoring during the 2016-17 campaign with 61 points while appearing in all 82 games, recording 14 goals and 47 assists.</p>
<p>The 6-foot-3, 218-pound native of Vancouver, British Columbia, added three goals and 13 points in 14 games during Nashville’s postseason run before being sidelined due to a hit to his left thigh during Game 4 of the Western Conference final against the Anaheim Ducks on May 18.</p>
<p>The injury required emergency surgery to treat acute compartment syndrome of the left thigh. His recovery was expected to take two to three months and he is likely will be a full participant at training camp in September.</p>
<p>Johansen was acquired by the Predators on Jan. 6, 2016, from the Columbus Blue Jackets. He has appeared in 124 regular-season games with Nashville, totaling 95 points (22 goals, 73 assists) during that span. He also has 21 points (seven goals, 14 assists) in 28 postseason contests with Nashville.</p>
<p>Johansen appeared in all 82 games in three of the last four seasons, recording 60 or more points in four consecutive seasons and at least 45 assists in each of the last three campaigns.</p>
<p>Johansen appeared in the 2015 All-Star Game and set a career-high 71 points during the 2014-15 season. He was the fourth overall selection in the 2010 draft.</p> | NHL: Nashville Predators center Ryan Johansen signs 8-year, $64M deal | false | https://newsline.com/nhl-nashville-predators-center-ryan-johansen-signs-8-year-64m-deal/ | 2017-07-28 | 1 |
<p>Couples in Denmark are being offered an "ovulation discount" to help boost the country’s falling birth rate.</p>
<p>A travel company's online ad suggests romantic getaways because 10 percent of all Danish children are conceived abroad.</p>
<p>“Can sex save Denmark's future?” asks the voiceover. "Forty-six percent of Danes have more sex on holiday."</p>
<p>The firm behind the <a href="http://do-it-for-denmark.dk/" type="external">"Do it for Denmark!" campaign</a> has established an “ovulation discount” to anyone who can prove they conceived a child during one of its packages. The prize? A three-year supply of diapers and a free child-friendly future vacation.</p>
<p>To potential customers who are unwilling or unable to conceive a child on vacation, the commercial said the fun of the competition was “in the participation” rather than the winning.</p> | ‘Do It For Denmark!’ Travel Firm’s Ad Links Vacation, Birth Rate | false | http://nbcnews.com/news/world/do-it-denmark-travel-firms-ad-links-vacation-birth-rate-n65911 | 2014-03-28 | 3 |
<p><a href="" type="internal">Joe Scarborough</a> in a rather harsh rant excoriated Trump supporters for booing John McCain. But he went further as he challenged their intellect.</p>
<p>Morning Joe showed contempt for Trump supporters many have not seen before for their divisive and hateful behavior.</p>
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<p>Scarborough started is rant going for the jugular.</p>
<p>"By the way, for people watching at home, if you're in the audience and John McCain's getting attacked and <a href="" type="internal">he's fighting for his life</a>," Scarborough said. "Unless you were raised in a barn, keep your mouth shut. Alright? Show a little respect. Show a little dignity. Show a little class."</p>
<p>He admonished their upbringing.</p>
<p>"Who raised these people. Because I guarantee you, I was raised in the same region," Joe Scarborough said. "Who have they become that they would boo a man who is fighting for his very life, and has served this country in uniform, who is a prisoner of war, who was actually told, 'You know what, you can be released from prison because your father's really powerful? He's a powerful man. We will stop beating you; we will stop putting stars on your back. Go home you will be freed.' And John McCain said, for those of you booing John McCain right now and are too ignorant to read a book, John McCain said no. <a href="http://theweek.com/speedreads/567269/reminder-john-mccain-refused-early-release-from-prison-camp" type="external">I'm not gonna go home until all my men go home with me</a>."</p>
<p>Scarborough then contrasted Trump to McCain.</p>
<p>"You should keep your mouth shut, and you should go home, and you should talk to your children, and you should tell the story of John McCain to your children, a man who served his country in uniform when he could have done what Donald Trump did. He could have avoided the draft. He could have stayed home like Donald Trump. And he could have chased models. But John McCain wanted to serve his country. And when he got shot down and when he got beaten and when he got abused, he gets thrown in prison, and he refused to leave because John McCain said, 'I will not go until every one of my men goes with me.'</p>
<p>Joe then challenged their character as he admonished them to be better if not for their children.</p>
<p>"Do you have the character to do that?" Scarborough asked. "Someone has failed you in your life, and you need to examine that. If you still go to church, you need to pray for yourself this Sunday morning in church. And then when you get your head screwed on right, and you start putting humanity ahead of politics, against stupidity, against the tribalism that is destroying this country, then go home and tell your children the story of John McCain and what he did when things got tough and how he put others ahead of himself. And if you can teach your children that lesson, maybe they will grow up to have a little more character than you."</p>
<p>Just maybe some Trump voters will see themselves in the mirror and hate what they see once the veil is removed. One can hope.</p>
<p>Also published on <a href="https://medium.com/@egbertowillies/joe-scarborough-lashes-out-at-trump-voters-who-raised-these-people-video-9c1bd6b73d45" type="external">Medium</a>.</p> | Joe Scarborough lashes out at Trump voters ‘Who raised these people’ (VIDEO) | true | https://egbertowillies.com/2017/09/26/joe-scarborough-lashes-trump-voters/ | 2017-09-26 | 4 |
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<p>Donna Skeels Cygan, CFP®, MBA has written a book titled “The Joy of Financial Security.” The book covers many financial topics as well as strategies for becoming happier. It also covers “Neuroscience and How Your Brain is Wired.”</p>
<p><a href="http://sage.abqjournalfit.com/2013/05/23/headline-162/asktheexpertsdonnaskeelscygan-7/" type="external" />This is the second part in a series on neuroscience. The first blog entry discussed that the two major parts of our brain that are involved in financial decisions are the amygdala (from which emotions such as fear, greed and impulsive behavior originate) and the prefrontal cortex (from which rational decision making and logical thinking reside).</p>
<p>So how do the amygdala and the prefrontal cortex impact your decisions involving money? In a huge way!</p>
<p>Your amygdala is what causes you to panic if the stock market goes into a downward spiral. If you are likely to be impulsive and sell your investments in a panic, then your amygdala is dominant in your decision-making. If you tend to overanalyze your investments to the point where you feel paralyzed and cannot make a decision, then your prefrontal cortex is dominant.</p>
<p>Neuroscientist Richard Davidson (from the University of Wisconsin at Madison) has conducted research that shows that the left prefrontal cortex can actually calm down your emotions and allow rational thinking to prevail. He determined that the left prefrontal cortex sends inhibitory signals via the white matter (axons that connect one neuron to another) to the amygdala. These inhibitory signals tell the amygdala to “quiet down,” allowing the brain to recover from an upsetting or emotional experience. His research showed that some people have more white matter between their prefrontal cortex and their amygdala than others, and those people are more resilient.</p>
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<p>A person would want plenty of white matter between their prefrontal cortex and amygdala so the calming down can occur (and so financial decisions are not made impulsively). Not everyone has a significant amount of white matter (which may be apparent by how impulsive or fearful a person is), but Davidson’s research shows that people can actually increase their amount of white matter.</p>
<p>When making financial decisions, a wise approach is to be aware that the amygdala and prefrontal cortex portions of your brain may be in conflict with each other. If you suspect your amygdala is dominant and you have a tendency to make impulsive financial decisions that are detrimental to your financial security, try some of the strategies shown in “A Balanced Approach” (which is provided in the next blog entry).</p>
<p>Conversely, if you tend to overanalyze your financial decisions, ask yourself occasionally what your gut feeling is regarding a decision, and pay attention to your intuition. The amygdala and prefrontal cortex can both be helpful for making wise financial decisions. You just need to keep them in check and not allow one or the other to be overly dominant.</p>
<p>Ask the Experts panelist Donna Skeels Cygan is a certified financial planner in Albuquerque and owner of Sage Future Financial Services. Find her at <a href="http://sagefuture.com" type="external">sagefuture.com</a>.</p>
<p>To ask Donna a question, type your question in the comments field below. Or email your question to <a href="mailto:[email protected]" type="external">[email protected]</a> or <a href="" type="internal">[email protected].</a></p> | What your brain says to your money | false | https://abqjournal.com/510946/headline-216-2.html | 2 |
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<p>Investing.com – Gold prices gained in Asia on Wednesday with markets in China, Taiwan and South Korea shut for holidays and caution ahead of remarks later in the day from the U.S. central bank chief.</p>
<p>for December delivery on the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange rose 0.25% to $1,277.82 a troy ounce. Gold found some support on physical demand from India as the festival season in the country typically sees increased demand for the precious metal.</p>
<p>Overnight, gold prices halted their recent slump after treasury yields trimmed gains pressuring the dollar to retreat from six-week highs lifting sentiment on the yellow metal.</p>
<p>Gold prices were restricted to a narrow $7 trading range hovering above seven-week lows amid dollar weakness as investors awaited direction from top-tier economic data and a speech from Fed chair Yellen later in the week.</p>
<p>Yellen will speak at the Community Banking in the 21st Century Conference on Wednesday amid growing speculation concerning her position as Fed chair. Fed Governor Jerome Powell and former Fed governor Kevin Warsh are reportedly on a shortlist of candidates to succeed Janet Yellen.</p>
<p>“With the chatter over [President Donald] Trump’s choice for Fed chair starting to dominate, gold really is all about the greenback right now,” said Adrian Ash, head of research at BullionVault.</p>
<p>Gold prices have fallen for three-straight weeks and show no sign of abating as data on Friday suggested that traders are losing faith in gold’s upside potential in the wake of renewed tax reform hopes and an expected year-end rate hike.</p>
<p>Net bullish bets on gold fell to 212,600, according to a report from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) on Friday.</p>
<p>Gold is sensitive to moves higher in both bond yields and the U.S. dollar – A stronger dollar makes gold more expensive for holders of foreign currency while a rise in U.S. rates, lift the opportunity cost of holding non-yielding assets such as bullion.</p>
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<p>Fusion Media or anyone involved with Fusion Media will not accept any liability for loss or damage as a result of reliance on the information including data, quotes, charts and buy/sell signals contained within this website. Please be fully informed regarding the risks and costs associated with trading the financial markets, it is one of the riskiest investment forms possible.</p> | Gold Gains In Asia Ahead OF Yellen Speech, Thin Regional Trade With China Shut | false | https://newsline.com/gold-gains-in-asia-ahead-of-yellen-speech-thin-regional-trade-with-china-shut/ | 2017-10-03 | 1 |
<p>The story is repeated again and again: The dead of night, no warning, then panic after realizing the smoke and flames were approaching.</p>
<p>Fleeing residents from across Northern California wine country, where at least 31 people have died in wildfires that started Sunday, complained Thursday that they had no notice from authorities that the blazes were closing in, or the warnings arrived too late.</p>
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<p>In Sonoma County, officials used phone calls and other systems in an attempt to alert residents but also decided against using what's known as a wireless emergency alert, a widespread message sent to cellphones in the region, sometimes compared to an Amber Alert for missing children.</p>
<p>Because of its broad reach, officials concluded the message could panic people who were not in danger, triggering mass evacuations that would snarl traffic and delay emergency vehicles, county spokeswoman Jennifer Larocque said.</p>
<p>The alerts "would have reached many people not affected by the fire," she said. "It would have delayed our response."</p>
<p>Communities typically use an array of emergency systems designed to alert residents of danger: text messages, phone calls, emails and tweets. Authorities say they will review those methods after hearing concerns that some messages never got through.</p>
<p>In Santa Rosa, Christil Bell was one of the residents who said she was left in the dark. She learned about the fires from neighbors, who woke up her family at 4:30 a.m. Monday and urged them to flee.</p>
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<p>Authorities "knew the fire was out of control and coming our way. We had to run with nothing. No credit cards, no identification, no clothes, no nothing," she said.</p>
<p>Her daughter was called by college classmates, but Bell said there was no sign of police or firefighters in her neighborhood.</p>
<p>Ernest Chapman of Santa Rosa said his pit bull Sabrina woke him up Monday about 2:30 a.m., when he was stunned to find smoke, falling embers and fire. Neighbors were honking horns and yelling for everyone to flee.</p>
<p>Chapman, a mechanic and auto buff, escaped with his two dogs and not much else. He didn't have time, even though the fire had been burning for about five hours and the wind direction put his neighborhood directly in the path.</p>
<p>"There was no warning, no nothing," said Chapman, whose house was destroyed.</p>
<p>As he fled, he said he saw one police officer on a loudspeaker and one firetruck entering his neighborhood.</p>
<p>State fire agency Chief Ken Pimlott said it was too early to know if the warnings worked as intended and that officials would look into that after the danger passes.</p>
<p>"People were in bed, asleep at midnight, and these fires came down on these communities with no warning within minutes," Pimlott said.</p>
<p>"There was little time to notify anybody by any means," he added.</p>
<p>In emergencies where a few minutes or even seconds can save lives, the notification systems have inherent blind spots. Not everyone will get the message. The messages are often short and can be easily missed.</p>
<p>One state planning manual urges authorities to use multiple alerts.</p>
<p>"People rarely act on a single warning message alone," said the report, posted on the Governor's Office of Emergency Services website.</p>
<p>Sonoma County uses a service that sends out text messages or emails when an evacuation is ordered, but residents have to sign up to receive them. The county also uses a mobile phone app that can receive messages, but again it requires a resident to opt in.</p>
<p>The county also can trigger automated emergency calls to landlines in an area threatened by fire, but that would only reach homes with those phones.</p>
<p>The Sonoma County Sheriff's Department said the county's emergency alert service texted thousands of warnings to residents to flee Sunday night. However, nearly 80 cellphone towers were knocked out or badly damaged, officials said.</p>
<p>Some evacuees escaped only when they realized the fire was nearly at their doors.</p>
<p>David Leal was at his home in Santa Rosa about 11:30 p.m. Sunday when strong winds began stirring and he smelled smoke. Growing anxious, he called a fire dispatcher but was assured that there was no need to worry unless he saw flames. He and his wife went to bed.</p>
<p>At 2 a.m., they were jarred awake when a sudden blast of wind knocked a lamp off a nightstand. Leal looked out at neighbors who were packing up to get out. There was never a phone call or a knock on the door.</p>
<p>"We didn't know what was going on, but just instinct led us to agree on the decision to evacuate," he said.</p>
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<p>Blood reported from Los Angeles. Associated Press writers Brian Skoloff in Santa Rosa, Don Thompson in Sacramento and Olga Rodriguez in San Francisco contributed.</p> | Emergency alerts draw complaints in fast-moving wildfires | true | http://foxbusiness.com/features/2017/10/12/emergency-alerts-get-scrutiny-after-deadly-wildfires.html | 2017-10-12 | 0 |
<p>The German city of Frankfurt has elected its first Jewish mayor since the rise of Adolf Hitler and only the second in its history, <a href="http://forward.com/articles/153742/jew-wins-election-as-mayor-of-frankfurt/" type="external">according to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency</a>.</p>
<p>In elections held Sunday, Peter Feldmann handily defeated his rival Christian Democratic Union rival Boris Rhein by a 15-point margin, <a href="http://www.jpost.com/JewishWorld/JewishNews/Article.aspx?id=263878" type="external">according to The Jerusalem Post</a>.</p>
<p>More from GlobalPost: <a href="http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/europe/germany/120315/berlin-holocaust-memorial-may-crumble-caretakers-say" type="external">Berlin Holocaust Memorial May Crumble, caretakers say</a></p>
<p>JTA said Feldman won a landslide 57 percent of the vote. The city of 650,000 has Germany's fourth-largest Jewish population, or about 7,000 people the majority of whom are transplants from the former Soviet Union, according to the news agency.</p>
<p>The last time the city had a Jewish mayor was in 1933, according to JTA. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Landmann" type="external">Ludwig Landmann</a> served as mayor for nine years but was expelled from office when the Nazi Party took power with the stated goal of ridding Germany of its Jewish population.</p>
<p>The JTA said Feldmann was even surprised himself by his victory.</p>
<p>Formerly the head of a retirement home, Felmann told the Jerusalem Post that his religious identity did not play a part in his campaigning for office: "It was not a topic. I did not cite it is as a theme. The voters know I am Jewish. Period!" he was quoted as saying.</p>
<p>More from GlobalPost: <a href="http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/asia-pacific/120306/australian-economy-wayne-swan-mining-billionaires" type="external">Tough times for Australian billionaires</a></p>
<p>Rhein, Feldman's opponent, is a strong supporter of Israel, according to The Post.</p>
<p>Feldmann also said his city's relations with Tel Aviv - the two are partner cities - will continue, including the two cities? "regular school exchange programs."</p> | Peter Feldmann becomes Frankfurt's first Jewish mayor since Hitler | false | https://pri.org/stories/2012-03-29/peter-feldmann-becomes-frankfurts-first-jewish-mayor-hitler | 2012-03-29 | 3 |
<p>It wasn’t unusual that Rush Limbaugh went ballistic on his show, Nov. 13. He does that several times a day.</p>
<p>It wasn’t unusual that he mixed a few facts with opinion and outright lies in his three-hour daily show. Fact checking for the man who calls himself “America’s Truth Detector” is as rare as union organizers working for Walmart.</p>
<p>What is unusual is that Rush Limbaugh, whose web site shows a picture of him carrying a large gold-fringed American flag on a six-foot staff, spoke out against the Constitution of the United States.</p>
<p>Because logic and reason avoids his black-clad bouncy body, he may not have even known he was attacking the history of the United States and its Constitution. But on this Friday the 13th, the forces of evil spewed forth from his unfettered microphone mouth.</p>
<p>The United States had announced it was removing five persons accused of plotting the 9/11 terror from Guantanamo Bay and putting them into the federal judiciary system. Attorney General Eric Holder, at a press conference in Washington, D.C., had announced, “After eight years of delay, those allegedly responsible for the attacks of September the 11th will finally face justice.&#160; . . .&#160; I am confident in the ability of our courts to provide these defendants a fair trial just as they have for over 200 years [before] an impartial jury under long established rules and procedures.” He announced that the Department of Justice would “prosecute these cases vigorously,” and would seek the death penalty in each case. &#160;President Obama had said earlier that day he was “absolutely convinced that Khalid Sheik Mohammad [the alleged mastermind behind 9/11, and the other defendants] will be subject to the most exacting demands of justice. The American people insist on it, my administration will insist on it.”</p>
<p>Limbaugh called the decision a “disgusting travesty perpetuated here by Barack Obama.” That was just the beginning of his rant. Over the next few minutes, Limbaugh said the decision to bring terrorists to trial was solely “to satisfy the rabid, radical, far left that hates this country; that hates George W. Bush; that hates the U.S. military.”</p>
<p>Limbaugh opposed the use of lawyers; several times he branded them as leftist and Marxist. Although he came from a family of lawyers, he disregarded Constitutional guarantees that require even the most heinous of criminals to be assured their rights, including the right to be represented by an attorney. While erroneously claiming that terrorists have no rights, Limbaugh also objected to providing the defendants “fairness,” because in what he called the “new America,” fairness is something created by “a bunch of radical leftists.” He claimed that the defendants didn’t even deserve lawyers because, in the world of Rush Fairytale Logic, the lawyers would use the courts to attack the United States.</p>
<p>He attacked the federal judiciary, claiming, “There are a bunch of radical leftists on our federal bench,” all of whom apparently, if you believed the Mouth That Roared, are governed by such mundane and useless rules like—well—the Constitution of the United States. What Limbaugh didn’t say, possibly because the facts didn’t agree with his own distorted version of reality, is that there are more conservative judges than liberal judges in the federal judiciary. About one-third of all federal judges were appointed by George W. Bush, with a majority of all judges appointed by Ronald Reagan and the two Bushes. Limbaugh, in his deliberate distortion of facts also didn’t point out that 62 percent of all appeals court judges were appointed by Republican presidents, and that conservatives are the majority on 10 of the 13 appeals courts. He also failed to point out that six of the nine Supreme Court justices were appointed by Republican presidents. The Republican-dominated federal courts have cut down several unconstitutional provisions of the PATRIOT Act; the Republican-dominated Supreme Court has twice rebuked the Bush–Cheney Administration for procedures that are blatantly unconstitutional. In one major decision, conservative Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, speaking for the majority, ruled, “Any process in which the Executive’s factual assertions go wholly unchallenged or are simply presumed correct without any opportunity for the alleged combatant to demonstrate otherwise falls constitutionally short . . . [T]he constitutional limitations safeguarding essential liberties . . . remain vibrant even in times of security concerns.”</p>
<p>Like most conservative radio hosts and their teabag party followers, Limbaugh several times had blasted the Department of Justice for even thinking about bringing the terrorists onto the mainland, claiming the men were so evil that they would endanger all Americans. Unsaid by the talking mouths and empty heads was that the Department of Justice successfully prosecuted numerous gangsters, serial killers, and terrorists, and then successfully imprisoned them without danger to civilians.</p>
<p>For emphasis about how he thought a trial for the 9/11 terrorists would be unfair, Limbaugh threw veiled anti-Semitic attacks upon a possible jury pool. “Before it’s all said and done you’re going to find some whack nut jobs on the Upper West Side of Manhattan that are going to be on this jury,” said Limbaugh. The Upper West Side is largely identified as a community that was settled by refugee Jews, and which still has a significant percent of Jews.</p>
<p>Several times, Limbaugh stated that since the defendants had already “confessed,” the need for a trial was not necessary, and would only embarrass the U.S., placating those “leftists,” and exposing the entirety of the American intelligence community. This, said Limbaugh, is the “hidden agenda” of the Obama Administration. “They want the United States on trial,” Limbaugh cried out. Disregarding the absurdity of his own remarks, Limbaugh never acknowledged that the “confessions” were made only after severe torture. Bringing criminals, who have been subject to torture, to trial, who have confessed, said Limbaugh “is yet another internal assault on the fabric, the traditions, the institutions that have made this country great,” he told his equally rabid listeners.</p>
<p>Having attacked the President, the Attorney General, lawyers, judges, the Department of Justice, and Jews, Limbaugh put Rep. Joe Sestak (D-Pa.) into his cross-hairs. Sestak, said Limbaugh, is “a dangerous left-wing radical ideologue.” What drew Limbaugh’s rage was that Sestak not only supported the prosecution of the 9/11 terrorists in federal court, but that on Fox News, he argued that “Most studies have shown that [torture] does not give you evidence as readily or as credible as other means.” Persons who are tortured, said Sestak, raising concerns about the legitimacy of the terrorists’ “confessions,” will often confess to anything in order to stop the torture.</p>
<p>What Limbaugh didn’t tell his audience was that Sestak was a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, a retired vice-admiral who had led a carrier battle group, and was the first director of the Navy’s anti-terrorism unit after 9/11. Sestak’s views are the same as John McCain’s, also a Naval Academy graduate who had led an air squadron. Listeners could now choose between two war heroes, one of whom had suffered torture as a prisoner of war, and a college drop-out who, said his mother, flunked almost all of his classes in his only year in college, was declared 4-F in the draft, and now hails on 600 radio stations as the mouthpiece for the right-wing fringe.</p>
<p>“We are in the process of destroying American ideals; we are in the process of subordinating America’s greatness, America’s exceptionalism,” Rush Limbaugh wailed.</p>
<p>The reality is that flag-waving fact-impaired Rush Limbaugh has no idea what American ideals are, nor does he have respect for the legal history of the United States or the power of the Constitution.</p>
<p>WALTER BRASCH is author of 17 books, a syndicated columnist, and professor of journalism at Bloomsburg University and recipient of the Martin Luther King Jr. Distinguished Humanitarian Service Award. You may contact him through his website, <a href="http://www.walterbrasch.com/" type="external">www.walterbrasch.com</a></p>
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<p>Former Congressman Lt. Col. Allen West doesn't take much stock in Democratic presidential candidates' "patronizing" declarations that "black lives matter."</p>
<p>"Without a doubt, all lives matter. And I think you have to be very concerned about the patronizing statement that was made at the [Democratic] presidential debate this past Tuesday night," <a href="http://hotair.com/archives/2015/10/20/video-colonel-allen-west-on-black-lives-matter-its-just-a-tagline/" type="external">said</a> West in an exchange with Amanda Munoz at a Massachusetts Family Institute banquet Friday.</p>
<p>"And when you think about, if black lives truly matter, then why hasn’t President Obama or Hillary Clinton gone to Chicago, their hometown, where we have seen countless amounts of murders there and black on black crime?" continued West. "Martin O’Malley, who is the former mayor of Baltimore and governor of Maryland, what is he doing about what’s going on in the intercity in Baltimore?"</p>
<p>West then turned the conversation to the left's unwavering support of the scandal-ridden Planned Parenthood despite its record of targeting black communities.</p>
<p>"And when you think about, if black lives truly matter, then why hasn’t President Obama or Hillary Clinton gone to Chicago, their hometown, where we have seen countless amounts of murders there and black on black crime?"</p>
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<p>"And to all of them – they’re standing by Planned Parenthood – think about the fact that since Roe vs. Wade, 1973, somewhere between 13 and 16 million black babies have been aborted," he said. "That’s genocidal. During slavery, only 2 to 3 million blacks lost their lives</p>
<p>In the end, said West, "black lives matter" is "just a tag line."</p>
<p>"It’s just them playing politics," he said. "I don’t think they truly mean anything. But all lives matter. Let’s make sure we have the policies to ensure equality of opportunities and a better future for all children, all people in this country, and not just cherry picking based upon politics."</p>
<p>Transcript via <a href="http://hotair.com/archives/2015/10/20/video-colonel-allen-west-on-black-lives-matter-its-just-a-tagline/" type="external">HotAir</a>.</p> | Allen West Slams 'Patronizing' Dems for Claiming 'Black Lives Matter' | true | https://dailywire.com/news/532/allen-west-slams-patronizing-dems-claiming-black-james-barrett | 2015-10-20 | 0 |
<p>In a word — horrific.</p>
<p>Two weeks ago, abortionist Michael Roth hit a special needs child while driving. “14 containers of human tissue, possibly fetuses, medical equipment and large amounts of Fentanyl,” were found in his car according to <a href="http://www.wxyz.com/news/region/oakland-county/possible-fetuses-human-tissue-found-in-local-doctors-car-was-he-peforming-illegal-abortions" type="external">Detroit local news</a>. It was this discovery that lead to the police raid of Roth’s home Wednesday afternoon.</p>
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<p>According to <a href="http://www.wxyz.com/news/region/oakland-county/possible-fetuses-human-tissue-found-in-local-doctors-car-was-he-peforming-illegal-abortions" type="external">WXYZ local news</a>, investigators believe Roth may have been performing illegal abortions. As of today, no charges have been filed:</p>
<p>7 Action News has learned police in West Bloomfield found questionable evidence in a trunk of a car that suggests an area doctor may have been performing illegal abortions.</p>
<p>He has been identified as Michael Arthur Roth. Roth is under investigation, but he has not been charged.</p>
<p>Sources confirm 14 containers of human tissue, possibly fetuses, medical equipment and large amounts of Fentanyl, a drug used for pain and sedation, was found in a car owned by the doctor who works as an OB/GYN.</p>
<p>The case started two weeks ago when the doctor was driving on 14 Mile west of the new roundabout at Orchard Lake.</p>
<p>He hit a special needs child who was critically injured. Sources say the doctor was not under the influence and obtained a lawyer.</p>
<p>His car was impounded as the accident was still under investigation.</p>
<p>Then last week, officers executed a search warrant to obtain the “black box” data recorder from the car and while inside the trunk they found plastic containers and medical equipment.</p>
<p>Sources say they containers were not labeled and no medical records were in the car.</p>
<p>Steven Ertelt of <a href="http://www.lifenews.com/2015/10/14/police-raid-abortionists-home-find-14-plastic-containers-of-aborted-babies-in-his-car/" type="external">Life News</a> where we learned of this story, reported:</p>
<p>Roth’s abortion business, the Novi Laser and Aesthetic Center, was evicted in November 2014 from its second office space this year. An eviction document provided to Operation Rescue by long-time pro-life activist Lynn Mills, shows that a court request for eviction from his office at 33200 West 14 Mile in West Bloomfield was filed on October 21, 2014. The eviction was ordered due to Roth’s violation of a provision of his lease.</p>
<p>Roth had until November 27, 2014, to vacate the premises. Photos taken through his office windows on November 25 show that the office was empty and Roth had already moved out.</p>
<p>Mills told Operation Rescue that she had conducted a literature drop just prior to Thanksgiving featuring information about Roth’s abortion business and his involvement in a tax fraud case. Roth moved out soon after.</p>
<p>…Earlier in 2014 Roth was evicted from his long-time office, located at 42450 West 12 Mile Road, Suite 205, in Novi, Michigan, which was the site of several large peaceful, pro-life sit-ins, or rescues, in the early 1990s.</p>
<p>…Roth has a checkered history of Board discipline and malpractice suits related to botched abortion procedures. Some of the injuries he inflicted during abortions include perforated uteri and bowels, hemorrhage, and at least one abortion he did not finish because the abortion facility ran out of dilators of the size he needed to complete the procedure. One woman required a hysterectomy to save her life. Documents related to these incidents can be read at AbortionDocs.org.</p>
<p>Pro-abortion advocates argue that without government-funded entities like Planned Parenthood, “back alley abortions” would be a commonplace occurrence. Yet instances like the gruesome case of <a href="" type="internal">Kermit Gosnell</a> and the Roth case (if true), nullify that argument.</p>
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<p>House Republican leaders proposed on Monday to spend another $2 billion on U.S. diplomatic security this year, using money unspent in Iraq to provide cash the Obama administration said was necessary to help prevent another Benghazi-style attack.</p>
<p>The proposal, an exception amid general budget cutbacks, is part of the House Republican majority's plan for funding the government for the rest of fiscal 2013, which ends on September 30. Much of the legislation would continue government spending at the same level of last year - minus cuts mandated by the so-called sequestration that took effect last week.</p>
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<p>The additional money would be used to beef up security at embassies and other diplomatic posts around the globe in the wake of the September 11, 2012, attacks on the American mission in Benghazi, Libya and a nearby CIA outpost. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans died in the attacks.</p>
<p>Most of the extra cash would come from funds that the State Department has not spent in Iraq, a House appropriations committee aide said.</p>
<p>After the Benghazi attacks, then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton asked Congress to help reallocate $1.4 billion that was no longer needed in Iraq - where the State Department has been scaling back operations after the departure of troops in 2011 - to pay for hardened security at diplomatic facilities elsewhere.</p>
<p>Clinton's $1.4 billion request was on top of $3.79 billion the administration had already asked Congress to approve for diplomatic security in fiscal 2013, the congressional aide said. If Congress okays this amount, it will be bring the total approved for embassy security this year to $5.2 billion.</p>
<p>The Democratic-majority Senate in February approved the move of $1.1 billion from the State Department's Iraq accounts to pay for more embassy security. If the proposal by House Republican leaders passes, the House and Senate could then negotiate over a final number.</p>
<p>Clinton told lawmakers in January that the additional $1.4 billion was needed "so that we can get more Marine guards, we can get more diplomatic security guards, we can try to put more money into the maintenance, the upgrades, the construction that's needed" at diplomatic posts around the world.</p>
<p>Clinton said the State Department wanted $553 million to pay for more Marine security guard detachments at embassies; $130 million for 155 more State Department diplomatic security personnel; and $336 million for facility construction and upgrades.</p>
<p>The money for construction could help build new embassy compounds or finance upgrades at the top 80 highest-threat posts that do not meet current security standards, the congressional aide said.</p>
<p>After the Benghazi attacks, Democrats criticized Republicans for voting to cut embassy security spending during the past two years. Republicans countered that security was not merely a matter of money and that leadership failures contributed to the Benghazi tragedy.</p>
<p>An independent review of the Benghazi attacks blamed the senior leadership for failing to ensure that the security needs of the high-threat post were met. But it also said that Congress must "do its part" to provide the State Department with necessary resources to address security risks.</p>
<p>The House Republican proposal is part of a plan to avoid a government shutdown later this month while keeping automatic spending cuts in place. Accounting for the so-called sequester cuts, it would reduce the full-year discretionary spending levels to $982 billion, compared to $1.043 trillion previously.</p>
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<p>Baltimore Sun A Sun reader wonders why the paper never reported on the specifics of rumors about Baltimore's mayor. "Everyone in Baltimore knew about them. Do your job!" the reader says. Paul Moore says Sun reporters investigated -- but couldn't substantiate -- the extramarital affair gossip. "Because The Sun does not report unsubstantiated rumors in the news pages, no matter who or what the subject is, no article about the O'Malley rumors was ever published." More editor/ombud columns: &gt; <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/20/weekinreview/20bott.html" type="external">Okrent: Let NYT readers, story subjects file beefs on the web (NYT)</a> &gt; <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38531-2005Feb19.html" type="external">Getler tips his hat to NYT for coverage of 9/11 panel's report (WP)</a> &gt; <a href="http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2005/02/21/much_ado_about_a_duck/" type="external">A decade of "Mallard" is enough when there's a good alternative (BG)</a> &gt; <a href="http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/news_columnists/article/0,1299,DRMN_86_3560122,00.html" type="external">Rocky editor Temple embraces the rapid change of our era (RMN)</a> &gt; <a href="http://www.eagletribune.com/news/stories/20050220/LN_002.htm" type="external">Ketter: Verdict against Boston Herald was hostile, punitive (Eagle-Trib)</a> &gt; <a href="http://www.startribune.com/static/headline_contest.php" type="external">Parry invites Strib readers to write heds, warns that it's not easy (Strib)</a> &gt; <a href="http://www.sacbee.com/content/opinion/story/12396889p-13253064c.html" type="external">Jordan resignation put some news orgs in embarrassing position (SacBee)</a> &gt; <a href="http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/opinion/orl-edppubcol022005022005feb20,1,2075229.column?coll=orl-opinion-headlines" type="external">Pynn: Public will be hurt if press loses its battle for credibility (OS)</a> &gt; <a href="http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/public_editor/index.ssf?/base/editorial/1108818227222430.xml" type="external">Arrieta-Walden: Columnist doesn't have a vendetta against Blazers (O)</a> &gt; <a href="http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050220/COLUMNISTS10/502200374/1054/OPINION" type="external">Columns bring in complaints from Catholic League, Green Day fans (C-J)</a></p> | Ombud: Why Baltimore Sun didn't run rumors about mayor | false | https://poynter.org/news/ombud-why-baltimore-sun-didnt-run-rumors-about-mayor | 2005-02-21 | 2 |
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<p>The roughly 40 junior executives, ages 6 to 14, from the Acton Academy and other city schools will be participating in a nationwide Children’s Business Fair on Saturday during the downtown Las Cruces Farmers &amp; Crafts Market, The Las Cruces Sun-News reported ( <a href="http://bit.ly/2oU5tMu)." type="external">http://bit.ly/2oU5tMu).</a></p>
<p>The students will be introducing various projects for sale, which include arts and crafts, spa services, custom-crafted woodwork, jewelry and other items.</p>
<p>Anna Biad is one of the founders of Acton’s Las Cruces school, which launched last year. She said the goal was for students to work independently on the projects so they would learn the challenges of developing their own startup business.</p>
<p>“The big premise was to keep the parents out of it and really let the young entrepreneurs figure it out for themselves,” Biad said. “The philosophy is that, even if their business fails, they can reflect and really grow stronger versus us as parents coming in and creating their project so that they can end up with a nice product, but they didn’t experience the process.”</p>
<p>Working independently was something that Yakira de Rouen found really helped her Home Made Spa business, which offers body and lip scrubs and tips to customers on how to use the hand-crafted products.</p>
<p>“When I do my business, it has to go a certain way,” the 10-year-old said. “Before, when I first started my business, I had partners and that didn’t really work out. So now they are doing their own business and I’m doing my business.”</p>
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<p>Brothers Max and Jacob Taylor, ages 11 and 9, are offering hand-crafted boxes, swords and book marks. Their business is a way to carry on family woodworking traditions handed down to them from their grandfather.</p>
<p>Biad, who said she started in business at age 11, is hopeful the valuable skills the children are learning at the academy will serve them well as they grow older.</p>
<p>“I feel like that really benefited me as a young person, so I wanted to give that opportunity to other young people in our community,” she said.</p>
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<p>Oh, it's a party, but no one invited us. No, this is a very special party so Republican 2016 hopefuls can get to know their new best friend, Sheldon Adelson, and vice versa.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2014/03/22/sheldon-adelson-plans-vip-dinner-for-jeb-bush-at-gop-gathering-in-vegas/" type="external">Washington Post</a>:</p>
<p>Former Florida governor Jeb Bush will get top billing when he and other potential 2016 presidential candidates join billionaire casino mogul Sheldon Adelson for an exclusive Republican gathering next week in Las Vegas.</p>
<p>Bush, who is quietly exploring a run for the White House, will be the featured speaker at an exclusive VIP dinner on Thursday hosted by Adelson and his wife, Miriam, at his company’s private airplane hangar at Las Vegas Macarran International Airport, according to a draft itinerary obtained by The Washington Post. The Adelsons’ dinner for Bush will kick off the Republican Jewish Coalition’s four-day spring leadership meeting, during which politicians and major GOP donors will mingle at golf and poker tournaments, as well as in political strategy sessions.</p>
<p>New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and former U.N. ambassador John Bolton will address the group during its meeting on Saturday morning, while Ohio Gov. John Kasich is to speak at a luncheon that day. The gathering is being held at the Venetian Resort and Hotel, a glamorous property built by Las Vegas Sands Corp., the casino and hospitality company that Adelson runs.</p>
<p>So this would be the Neocon Republican meeting and strategy session. Got it.</p>
<p>Adelson sits on the RJC’s board along with a number of other prominent Republican fundraisers and operatives, including private equity executive Lewis Eisenberg, former party chairman Ken Mehlman, lobbyist Wayne Berman and former ambassador Sam Fox.</p>
<p>At next week’s gathering, former vice president Dick Cheney will address the gala dinner on Saturday evening, where he will be introduced by Rep. Billy Long (R-Mo.). Cheney will also participate in a private discussion and photo opportunity session that afternoon with RJC’s leaders, as will Walker and Kasich.</p>
<p>A number of member of Congress and other Republican leaders also are scheduled to speak. Rep. Sean Duffy (Wis.), a rising star in the Republican Party, will host a “late night dessert reception” for young leaders after the Cheney dinner.</p>
<p>It's like a state dinner-in-waiting! All the neocons gathered together to "strategize" for 2016 while doing absolutely nothing for the past six years.</p>
<p>Let's not forget Blanche Lincoln, either. She's Adelson's <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/21/sheldon-adelson-blanche-lincoln_n_5009517.html?utm_hp_ref=politics" type="external">newest lobbyist</a>. I'm sure she's getting to work right away setting the legislative table for the 2016 neocon parade, right?</p> | Adelson Holds Court For 2016 Hopefuls | true | http://crooksandliars.com/2014/03/adelson-holds-court-2016-hopefuls | 2014-03-24 | 4 |
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<p>General Electric stock is evolving.</p>
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<p>Doosan Engineering &amp; Construction's HRSG unit: now part of General Electric stock. Image source: <a href="http://www.doosanenc.com/en/main.do" type="external">Doosan Engineering &amp; Construction Opens a New Window.</a>.</p>
<p>Once a titan of the financial services industry, GE has <a href="http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2015/07/03/meet-the-new-and-improved-general-electric-now-sho.aspx?source=eptfxblnk0000004" type="external">spent the last few years reinventing itself Opens a New Window.</a>, and returning to its industrial roots -- with a particular focus on the energy industry. That evolution moved one step farther along last week, when GE announced that it is buying the Heat Recovery Steam Generator (HRSG) business away from Korean giant Doosan Engineering &amp; Construction (DEC) for $250 million.</p>
<p>As we've noted in recent writings, GE has enjoyed <a href="http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2016/05/02/general-electrics-energy-business-was-a-surprising.aspx?source=eptfxblnk0000004" type="external">some measure of success Opens a New Window.</a> from its recent energy investments. As fellow Fool Justin Loiseau pointed out last month, GE's renewable energy business "enjoyed the most organic order growth of any unit" in the company <a href="http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2016/04/30/this-general-electric-business-grew-62-last-quarte.aspx?source=eptfxblnk0000004" type="external">last quarter Opens a New Window.</a>. It only makes sense, therefore, that the company would double down on that success with an investment in heat recovery, which by its very nature is a business focused on energy efficiency.</p>
<p>Within a combined-cycle power plant, heat recovery steam technology allows a power generator to capture the exhaust heat (i.e. "waste heat") produced by a gas turbine, and use it to heat water and drive a steam turbine to produce additional power output -- from the same fuel input. So what HRSG's equipment does, in essence, is produce free power, and GE says this tech "can help generate up to 33 percent of the power output of the plant."</p>
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<p>That sounds like a good thing. But what about the price that GE is paying to acquire HRSG?</p>
<p>Valued at $239 million today, DEC shares have fallen 26%since it was learned last week that General Electric is acquiring HRSG. But why was that? After all, the $250 million that GE is paying for HRSG was worth nearly 80% of DEC's whole market cap when the deal was announced. Shouldn't that cash infusion have made DEC shares go up and not down?</p>
<p>Well, according to data from <a href="https://www.capitaliq.com/" type="external">S&amp;P Global Market Intelligence Opens a New Window.</a>, DEC is itself only a small company, and not a very successful one. Although it does $1.5 billion in annual sales, those sales resulted in a $443 million loss for the company last year. So right off the bat, you can guess that DEC was not well positioned to strike a hard bargain with GE.</p>
<p>And here's the key point: Full-year financialson DEC are not yet available, but according to what S&amp;P Global does know about the company, DEC's HRSG unit did $132 million in revenue through the first nine months of 2015. That made it DEC's smallest major operating unit but, at an operating profit margin of 8.4%, DEC's most profitable business.</p>
<p>Bluntly stated, what GE has done here is that it negotiated to buy away one of DEC's few profit-making businesses, and leave behind most of DEC's money-losing ventures. In exchange, General Electric will pay about 1.4 times sales for HRSG (GE's own price-to-sales ratio is 2.3), and acquire a business with an 8.4% operating profit margin, more profitable than its own 7.5% operating margin.</p>
<p>Translation: General Electric just bought DEC's crown jewels, and paid a costume-jewelry price for 'em. While small, this is a very good deal for General Electric stockowners, indeed.</p>
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<p>An anti-abortion group is making the shocking claim that Mitt Romney “enforced a law which required Catholic hospitals to provide abortions.” To call this a stretch is putting it mildly. What Romney enforced — after first vetoing the legislation — was a requirement that hospitals provide rape victims with the <a href="http://www.kff.org/womenshealth/upload/3344-03.pdf" type="external">morning-after pill</a>, a drug that is designed to stop pregnancy from occurring if taken within a few days of unprotected intercourse. He didn’t tell Catholic hospitals that they had to perform abortions.</p>
<p>The group behind the ad calls itself <a href="http://prolifesuperpac.com/" type="external">Pro-Life Super PAC</a>. We contacted the group’s spokesman, Jason Jones, to get more information about the group and the ad. He said the PAC was formed on Feb. 16 and that “money is pouring in and we will be committed though Super Tuesday.”</p>
<p>The Pro-Life Super PAC’s claim echoes a Newt Gingrich ad from January that said Romney “expanded access to abortion pills.” We <a href="" type="internal">called that highly misleading</a>, explaining that the reference was to emergency contraception, known as the morning-after pill or Plan B, and not the much more controversial RU-486, known as “the abortion pill,” which induces an abortion. At least Gingrich called them “pills.” The Pro-Life Super PAC leaves the impression that Catholic hospitals in Massachusetts are performing abortion procedures, thanks to Romney. They’re not.</p>
<p>The group’s website includes a link to a <a href="http://voices.washingtonpost.com/fact-checker/2007/12/mitt_romneys_flip_flop_flip.html" type="external">Washington Post FactChecker item</a> that explains exactly what Romney did and didn’t do. It took Romney to task for changing his position “so often on abortion that he lacks much credibility on this one.” It does not support the specific claim in the ad.</p>
<p>Here’s the background on the state’s requirement that hospitals provide emergency contraception to rape victims: In July 2005, Romney <a href="http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2005/07/26/why_i_vetoed_contraception_bill/" type="external">vetoed a bill</a> requiring hospitals to provide Plan B to rape victims and for pharmacies to provide the drug over the counter. The Legislature overrode his veto. In December 2005, Romney said Catholic hospitals wouldn’t be exempt from the rule, a decision he made on the advice of his legal counsel. Romney managed to upset both pro-abortion rights and anti-abortion groups with his seemingly conflicting actions.</p>
<p>As for the pill itself, it has been available without a prescription across the country <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/08/health/policy/sebelius-overrules-fda-on-freer-sale-of-emergency-contraceptives.html" type="external">since 2006</a>. It’s true that some people — and certainly Catholic hospitals — are opposed to the morning-after pill on the grounds that it could be an abortifacient (a drug that induces abortion) — though the drug does not terminate an established pregnancy. It’s essentially a high dose of the birth control pill that will delay ovulation. But the drug can also prevent a fertilized egg from implanting in the uterus. It’s that possibility that prompts anti-abortion groups to object, though they don’t always take a clear stance on the drug, either. The National Right to Life Committee specifically <a href="http://www.nrlc.org/RU486/ru486info.html" type="external">states</a> on its website that emergency contraception is not “the abortion pill.” We tried to get a clear statement of the group’s position on the morning-after pill, but we did not receive a response. The president of Massachusetts Citizens for Life would only call the pill “ <a href="" type="internal">a possible abortifacient</a>.”</p>
<p>Romney himself has exhibited conflicting positions on the drug. When he vetoed the legislation in question, he wrote in an <a href="http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2005/07/26/why_i_vetoed_contraception_bill/" type="external">op-ed in the Boston Globe</a>: “The bill does not involve only the prevention of conception: The drug it authorizes would also terminate life after conception.” But he later said, when deciding that Catholic hospitals wouldn’t be exempt from providing the pill to rape victims: “My personal view in my heart of hearts is that people who are subject to rape should have the option of having emergency contraceptives or emergency contraceptive information.”</p>
<p>More evidence that even those with conservative, anti-abortion views don’t see a problem with emergency contraception: Rep. Ron Paul of Texas, a physician, who <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/ron-paul-gay-marriage-abortion-other-social-issues-162300001.html" type="external">is anti-abortion</a>, <a href="http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1202/22/se.05.html" type="external">described</a> the morning-after pill as “nothing more than a birth control pill” a few days ago at the Feb. 22 Republican presidential debate in Arizona.</p>
<p>Paul, Feb. 22: You know, we talk about the morning-after pill. Actually, the morning-after pill is nothing more than a birth control pill, so if birth control pills are on the market, the morning-after pill — so if you’re going to legalize birth control pills, you really — you can’t separate the two. They’re all basically the same, hormonally.</p>
<p>We understand that the group behind the ad may believe that emergency contraception is akin to abortion, but the ad doesn’t give voters the opportunity to make their own decisions on the facts of the matter. Instead, the ad misleads viewers into thinking Catholic hospitals were required by Romney to provide abortion procedures — when they were really required to provide an over-the-counter pill to rape victims. Nothing in Massachusetts law required Catholic hospitals to provide abortion procedures.</p>
<p>The ad goes on to say that Romney “personally appointed a notorious pro-abortion judge.” Gingrich <a href="" type="internal">has made this claim, too</a>. It’s true that Romney nominated a Democrat who once campaigned as a “pro-choice” candidate, to a lifetime position on a district court. Matthew J. Nestor was later confirmed.</p>
<p>Finally, the ad makes the tired claim that Romney “created a government-run health care system, using taxpayer dollars to fund abortions.” The Massachusetts health care law expanded Medicaid, but also expanded private insurance. It’s not a “ <a href="" type="internal">government-run</a>” system. And the <a href="http://www.malegislature.gov/Laws/SessionLaws/Acts/2006/Chapter58" type="external">law Romney signed</a> said nothing about abortion. Instead, the state exchange later determined that subsidized insurance plans would cover abortion. That follows two Massachusetts Supreme Court rulings, in 1981 and 1997, that said the state must cover medically necessary abortions. Some have said that Romney should have put limits on abortion coverage in the Massachusetts health care law, but the legislation actually says nothing on this topic.</p>
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<p>“Afghanistan remains a very dangerous place,” Obama said in explaining his decision at a press conference after Afghan President Ashraf Ghani’s first visit to the White House since his election six months ago. Obama added that the size of the U.S. troop presence for 2016 will be decided later this year.</p>
<p>Ghani had asked Obama to slow the withdrawal because Afghan security forces are bracing for a tough spring fighting season and are also contending with Islamic State fighters looking to recruit on their soil.</p>
<p>The original plan was to cut the U.S. force to 5,500 by the end of this year.</p>
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<p>Obama said he still intends to complete the drawdown by the end of 2016 and that the U.S. transition out of a combat role has not changed.</p>
<p>“We want to make sure we’re doing everything we can to help Afghan security forces succeed so we don’t have to go back,” Obama said. He said he and the U.S. commanders in Afghanistan have concluded the extra time in the country “is well worth it.”</p>
<p>Ghani thanked American servicemen and women and civilian contractors. “I’d also like to thank the American taxpayer for his and her hard-earned dollars,” he said.</p>
<p>“Tragedy brought us together; interests now unite us,” Ghani said.</p>
<p>He said the slower U.S. troop withdrawal “will be used to accelerate reforms, to ensure that the Afghan National Security Forces are much better led, equipped, trained and are focused on their fundamental mission. He added that he was pleased to say that “the departure of 120,000 international troops has not brought about the security gap or collapse that was often anticipated.”</p>
<p>In Washington this week, Ghani is making his case that he’s a reliable partner worthy of American support, despite his fractured government and a litany of problems still rampant in Afghanistan’s military — illiteracy, drug abuse and desertions, to name a few.</p>
<p>For Obama, Ghani represents the last, best hope to make good on the president’s promise to end America’s longest war by the time he leaves office, keeping just a thousand or so troops at the embassy to coordinate security. Ghani predecessor Hamid Karzai’s relationship with the White House was increasingly dysfunctional, and if the dealings with Ghani don’t turn out better, Obama risks leaving Afghanistan still vulnerable to the kinds of violent extremist groups that operated with impunity until 14 years ago, when the U.S. attacked after 9/11.</p>
<p>Also at stake: the future of U.S. bases in Jalalabad and in Kandahar, where the Taliban had their capital until 2001. U.S. military leaders have seemed receptive to Ghani’s request that those bases stay open as long as possible.</p>
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<p>Drawing a contrast with his predecessor, Ghani has taken pains on his U.S. visit to display gratitude for U.S. sacrifices in Afghanistan that the White House found lacking from Karzai. He began his trip by explicitly thanking the U.S. for its support. And on Tuesday morning, Ghani joined Defense Secretary Ash Carter and Vice President Joe Biden in laying a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetery.</p>
<p>Further underscoring the fragile security situation, gunmen killed at least 13 people overnight during a midnight assault on a highway near Taliban-held territory in eastern Afghanistan, although no group immediately claimed responsibility. And elsewhere in Afghanistan, a suspected U.S. drone strike near the border with Pakistan killed at least nine militants from a Pakistani terror group, intelligence officials in Pakistan said.</p>
<p>Ghani, who lived in the U.S. for more than a decade, has been a welcome change for the Obama administration. Frustration with his predecessor reached a boiling point when Karzai refused to sign the security agreements needed for the U.S. to leave troops in Afghanistan. Ghani signed them within days of taking office, and has sought to differentiate himself by showing appreciation for U.S. investment in his military — more than $60 billion so far.</p>
<p>After hotly contested election results, Ghani and chief rival Abdullah Abdullah agreed to share power, with Abdullah assuming the new role of chief executive. They made the trip to the U.S. together in a show of unity.</p>
<p>Yet political tensions have prevented the leaders from even putting together a full cabinet, half a year into their term.</p>
<p>Imbuing the visit with added anxiety is a new, home-grown affiliate of the Islamic State group, whose flagship branch in Iraq and Syria is another menace to Obama’s legacy on foreign policy. It’s not fully clear how strong or widespread the offshoot’s presence is in Afghanistan.</p>
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<p>Associated Press writers Robert Burns in Washington and Amir Shah in Kabul, Afghanistan, contributed to this report.</p> | U.S. to slow troop withdrawal from Afghanistan | false | https://abqjournal.com/559555/us-to-slow-troop-withdrawal-from-afghanistan.html | 2 |
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<p>The Common Core, the education establishment’s cherished <a href="http://www.corestandards.org/" type="external">set of national educational standards</a>, is under attack.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Conform-Exposing-Common-Public-Education/dp/1476773882/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1400687315&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=glenn+beck+conform" type="external">Glenn Beck</a> and <a href="http://dianeravitch.net/2014/05/07/breaking-news-chicago-teachers-union-opposes-common-core/" type="external">Karen Lewis</a>, <a href="http://www.gilbertwatch.com/index.cfm/blog/common-core-stop-eroding-states-and-parental-rights/" type="external">state’s rights proponents</a> and <a href="http://dianeravitch.net/2014/03/17/jack-hassard-why-bill-gates-defends-the-common-core/" type="external">Gates critics</a>, anti-standardized testing skeptics <a href="http://www.glennbeck.com/2013/03/14/exposing-common-core-kids-are-being-indoctrinated-with-extreme-leftist-ideology/" type="external">right</a>and <a href="http://iamaneducator.com/2014/04/07/an-act-of-conscience-teachers-at-new-yorks-earth-school-boycott-common-core-tests/" type="external">left</a> — all are lining up to pillory a policy that counts Randi Weingarten, Jeb Bush, and the National Parent Teacher Association among its supporters. Opponents, if one can draw parallels between the grievances of <a href="http://www.eagleforum.org/publications/educate/jan14/controversy-porn-pervade-common-core-curriculum.html" type="external">prudish conservatives</a>, <a href="http://iamaneducator.com/2014/04/07/an-act-of-conscience-teachers-at-new-yorks-earth-school-boycott-common-core-tests/" type="external">militant unionists</a>, and <a href="http://billmoyers.com/2014/05/06/louis-c-k-takes-aim-at-common-core/" type="external">Louis C.&#160;K.</a>, fret that the Common Core circumscribes creativity and regiments schooling. Conservative detractors are skittish about government indoctrination, lefties about corporate domination.</p>
<p>So severe is the scorn that even the Gates Foundation, a financial backer of the standards, <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2014/06/10/gates-foundation-backs-two-year-delay-in-linking-common-core-test-scores-to-teacher-evaluation-student-promotion/" type="external">is backpedaling</a>; last week, it said schools should hold off on using test scores to evaluate teachers and promote students until the two-year initial implementation process is complete.</p>
<p>The Common Core debate is important not simply because of the standards’ immediate effects on pupils, but because it offers us an opportunity to ask the biggest questions about our education system: What should be the guiding ethos of public education in a democratic society? What are we preparing students for, other than participation in economic life? And how should schooling be structured to reflect democratic values?</p>
<p>The short answers: Incredulity, not docility, is the trait to inculcate, along with a citizenry disposed to questioning received wisdom and orthodoxy and a less hierarchical teacher-student relationship. In each instance, the Common Core is an impediment.</p>
<p>The <a href="http://www.corestandards.org/about-the-standards/" type="external">avowed purpose</a> of the Common Core is to “ensure that all students graduate from high school with the skills and knowledge necessary to succeed in college, career, and life, regardless of where they live.” The benchmarks for math and English are intended to achieve a uniformity currently missing in the patchwork of state standards. Fourth graders in Iowa, advocates say, should be able to complete the same complex math problems as fourth graders in Mississippi.</p>
<p>The Common Core doesn’t directly set curricula. Keeping with the American tradition of local control in education, that’s left to states and school districts. (Critics <a href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2014/05/09/chris_hayes_whats_the_case_for_common_core.html" type="external">argue</a> that fidelity to the standards ends up shaping curricula anyway.) After their development in 2009 by the National Governors Association Center for Best Practices and the Council of Chief State School Officers, forty-five states quickly adopted the standards — voluntarily, but with money dangled from the Obama administration through its Race to the Top initiative. That number is now dropping, with three states having <a href="http://stateimpact.npr.org/ohio/2014/06/08/three-states-are-now-ditching-the-common-core/" type="external">recently backed out</a> and several others threatening to follow suit.</p>
<p>If the substance matters, so does the process. Particularly important is the role of the Gates Foundation — absolutely critical, as the Washington Post’s Lyndsey Layton has <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/how-bill-gates-pulled-off-the-swift-common-core-revolution/2014/06/07/a830e32e-ec34-11e3-9f5c-9075d5508f0a_story.html" type="external">extensively documented</a>. In 2008, national standards had numerous supporters but little chance of widespread passage. Then Bill Gates got involved, and everything changed.</p>
<p>The billionaire showered money on the Chamber of Commerce, the nation’s two major teachers’ unions, and state and local players. He bankrolled research and advocacy alike. In just two years, after $200&#160;million in Gates money had been dispensed, all but five states had lent the standards their imprimatur. Most states adopted the standards via unelected state officials, without public input.</p>
<p>From a democracy standpoint, there’s much to question here. First, the virtual omission of civic education, an area already treated as an afterthought in many public schools. The civic education we do have tends to be sanitized, fact-heavy regurgitation that casts democratic participation more as a duty than as a vehicle for emancipation.</p>
<p>The Common Core, through its aligned standardized tests, pushes non-tested subjects like civics to the periphery. It looks at a public education system saturated with standardization — witness the increase in boycotts and opt-outs — and prescribes more testing. In their resolution opposing the standards, the Chicago Teachers Union <a href="http://preaprez.wordpress.com/2014/05/07/chicago-teachers-union-adopts-resolution-opposing-the-common-core-state-standards/" type="external">rightly objected</a> to this: “Common Core assessments disrupt student learning, consuming tremendous amounts of time and resources for test preparation and administration.”</p>
<p>Finally, the Common Core seeks to foster <a href="http://vimeo.com/51933492" type="external">competition</a> among students and countries. Beat the Chinese, it subtly implores. There’s no place for collaboration under global capitalism. In short, the Common Core omits and constricts: It shunts to the side vitally important areas of inquiry in favor of more high-stakes testing.</p>
<p>The adoption process was also anathema to democratic values. Gates was instrumental, probably decisive, in reshaping the content of education in nearly every state. He used his financial power to, in Layton’s words, “overcome the politics that had thwarted every previous attempt to institute national standards.” It’s unproductive to impugn the billionaire’s motives. The extraordinary arrogation of decision-making power to one man simply because he excelled at computer programming — this is what’s unseemly.</p>
<p>The support of national teachers unions and civil rights groups for the Common Core gives some leftists pause, and their goal of equity across state borders is indeed desirable. Some of the principles of the controversial standards are unobjectionable, even progressive. There’s a conscious effort, for instance, to dispense with rote learning. But any policy approach that doesn’t significantly ratchet down standardized testing militates against educational justice.</p>
<p>Partisans of the Common Core <a href="http://education.uschamber.com/blog/common-core-brings-benefits-both-education-and-our-economy" type="external">like to crow</a> that the standards will prepare students to “compete and lead in the global economy.” An emancipatory, democratic education, in contrast, pushes students to examine those very relations of work. It prioritizes the interrogation of received knowledge rather than simple acquisition. Capitalism, the structure which most shapes our existence, comes out into the open as a subject worthy of critical study. The mantra for this form of education could be cribbed from the <a href="https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1843/letters/43_09.htm" type="external">old man himself</a>: “a ruthless criticism of all that exists.”</p>
<p>Curricula changes would be welcome. No more <a href="" type="internal">whitewashed MLK</a>, labor history elevated to the prominent position it deserves, civic education that borrows more from <a href="http://www.uncpress.unc.edu/books/t-391.html" type="external">Ella Baker</a> than <a href="http://charactercounts.org/sixpillars.html" type="external">Character Counts</a>. Above all, democratic education enshrines self-governance as schooling’s guiding ethos. Uncritical acceptance would dissipate as students assessed whether the common sense of the day actually made sense.</p>
<p>Students can only develop into self-determining citizens — active agents, authors of history — if they can assess the merits of the present system of social, political, and economic relations. Is it just? Whose interests are served and who suffers? Are its institutions and mores in line with their values? Is tinkering or broad-based change necessary? This would be the new civic education, in which the <a href="http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0101032.html" type="external">order of presidential succession</a> would take a backseat to discussions about the morality of capitalism.</p>
<p>Some students would come away as staunch proponents of existing social arrangements, convinced that there’s nothing abhorrent about a profit-driven society based on wage labor. They’d be wrong, in my view. But such a decision would be the consequence of active inquiry and intentional reflection. This is what separates democratic education from mere indoctrination. Knowledge transferral and easy assimilation would give way to searching examination.</p>
<p>For leftist critics of the Common Core, it’s important not to appeal to some idealized past in which public education was supposedly inoculated against business influence. The democratic promise of public schools has never been a reality. If privatization and standardization have quickened, it’s less a wholesale departure from the past than a purer form of corporatization.</p>
<p>K-12 public education, as Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis argued <a href="http://www.haymarketbooks.org/pb/schooling-in-capitalist-america" type="external">decades ago</a>, has long functioned to socialize students into the capitalist economy. Most provocatively, Bowles and Gintis <a href="http://www.santafe.edu/~bowles/SchoolCapitalistAmerRevisit.pdf" type="external">showed</a>, “the contribution of schooling to cognitive development plays little part in explaining why those with more schooling have higher earnings.” Students learn, both through instruction and the top-down structure of schooling, that getting ahead means acceding to authority.</p>
<p>This pattern of relations mirrors the boss-worker relationship in the corporate workplace &#160;(the “correspondence principle,” as the two called it). The “people production process” taking place in the nation’s schools is thus governed “by the imperatives of profit and domination rather than by human need.”</p>
<p>This isn’t to say that our public schools are a site of wholesale indoctrination — they still impart valuable skills and, in working class communities especially, serve as a vital community space — or that privatization is the answer. No, <a href="" type="internal">the proper response</a> is a deepening of democracy in the classroom. Following <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paulo_Freire" type="external">Paulo Freire</a>, the “banking” concept of education — educators as depositors of knowledge, students as passive recipients — should be supplanted by an active, less hierarchical learning process.</p>
<p>Education is never neutral. For radicals and progressives, the metric should be whether schooling actively sustains or unsettles the status quo. Unreflectively ingested information is noxious for future citizens of the body politic. This is what the Common Core encourages. As one might expect from a policy endorsed by the Chamber of Commerce, the Business Roundtable, and Bill Gates, it shores up the status quo.</p>
<p>And it leaves intact the longstanding ethos of American public education: what’s good for capital is good for the student.</p>
<p>It’s an ethos that doesn’t suit a society that calls itself democratic.</p> | Educating for the Status Quo | true | https://jacobinmag.com/2014/06/educating-for-the-status-quo-common-core/ | 2018-10-05 | 4 |
<p>In a now <a href="https://archive.fo/tveBZ" type="external">deleted</a> Huffington Post article, Chris Cali said that Trump supporters deserve to die "more than he does." He premised this article off President Donald Trump's decision to drop a "Mother of All Bombs" on Islamic State terrorists in Afghanistan and that the world might now be on the verge of a major war with North Korea. Cali contemplated whether his parka will "be enough for this nuclear winter, or should I buy a new pair of long johns." He argued that if nuclear war comes to the United States, it will not come toward middle America or "Trump country," but rather the major liberal metropolises of New York and Los Angeles.</p>
<p>Thus, Cali argues that the ones who "deserve to get nuked" are the ones who voted for President Trump, whom he says is responsible for putting the United States on the "verge" of nuclear war. He ends his article as follows:</p>
<p>[Trump voters] are the people who should be filling the front lines of whatever war Trump wants to start so he and his billionaire buddies can profit off weapons manufacturing and oil contracts. These are the people who deserve to have their towns annihilated. These people are who actually deserve to die in a war that they’ll line up to support. Not my ass. I have a lot to live for. They’ve already decided that they don’t.</p>
<p>The fact that Huffington Post editors allowed this article to be published caused plenty of concern among the journalistic community.</p>
<p>Huffington Post editors deleted the blog post once the Washington Free Beacon <a href="http://freebeacon.com/politics/huffington-post-blogger-declares-trump-supporters-deserve-to-die/" type="external">exposed</a> it. Alex Griswold's tweet got the following response from Huffington Post Editor-in-Chief Lydia Polgreen:</p>
<p>Griswold did not buy it.</p>
<p>Gotcha.</p>
<p>Follow Elliott on <a href="https://twitter.com/ElliottRHams" type="external">Twitter</a> and <a href="https://www.facebook.com/ElliottRHams/" type="external">Facebook</a></p> | Huffington Post Columnist: Trump Supporters ‘Deserve To Die’ | true | https://dailywire.com/news/15630/huffington-post-columnist-trump-supporters-deserve-elliott-hamilton | 2017-04-21 | 0 |
<p>TRENTON, N.J. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday evening’s drawing of the New Jersey Lottery’s “5 Card Cash” game were:</p>
<p>KH-3D-3S-6S-10S</p>
<p>(KH, 3D, 3S, 6S, 10S)</p>
<p>TRENTON, N.J. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday evening’s drawing of the New Jersey Lottery’s “5 Card Cash” game were:</p>
<p>KH-3D-3S-6S-10S</p>
<p>(KH, 3D, 3S, 6S, 10S)</p> | Winning numbers drawn in ‘5 Card Cash’ game | false | https://apnews.com/c4dcb66a861d47aeabba7ed54a6fba62 | 2018-01-21 | 2 |
<p>By George Bullard</p>
<p>What is your most memorable experience at a church camp or conference center? Write it down quickly before these camps and conference centers disappear.</p>
<p>My first remembrance of Ridgecrest Conference Center in western North Carolina is when I was 5 years old. I leaned too far over a walkway above a creek, and the girl next to me pushed me in. That should have been a warning about something, but I never figured out what.</p>
<p>My family tells me I attended Ridgecrest every year from birth forward. I even went to college nearby and enjoyed going by it regularly. I also went every time I could in adulthood.</p>
<p>I was 9 years old before I made it to New Mexico to the other major Baptist conference center known as Glorieta, which was 13 miles from Santa Fe. I made attendance there a regular habit.</p>
<p>These are but two of the church-related camps and conference centers I have loved during my life. I can recount numerous joyous experiences. How about you and the camps and conferences centers you love?</p>
<p>It is this emotional attachment to place, and the spiritual, inspirational, social, and even romantic experiences that happened at camps and conference centers that cause us to have an unreal attachment to them. Our judgment is often cloudy when it comes to truly understanding their worth and value, and what it takes for them to be vital and vibrant.</p>
<p>The church-related conference center I was most deeply with was the Hollifield Leadership Center in North Carolina. It was the dream of a great man and close friend in denominational work. He visualized a new dimension of leadership development taking place.</p>
<p>High quality things happened at Hollifield that included the food provided by a chef, the uncharacteristically comfortable and well-appointed sleeping rooms, and the groundbreaking Christian Leadership Coaching certification and the Sustaining Pastoral Excellence project we conducted there.</p>
<p>But it was a challenge. I left after five years when the management of the regional denomination shifted to a leadership group with a different perspective. In an exit interview the chairperson of the denominational board asked me, “Why did you ever allow a non-North Carolina Baptist to set foot on the grounds of Hollifield?”</p>
<p>In shock I answered, “Because their money spends real good! And, if you will look at the other two conference centers run by North Carolina Baptists you will discover that without non-Baptist fees they would have to close.” He showed a lack of knowledge about the economic realities of church-related camps and conference centers. Yet he was expressing a common emotion about “our” camps and conference centers.</p>
<p>The most significant challenge for church-related camps and conference centers are the emotional attachments people develop about experiences and relationships they associate with these places. These emotional attachments cause them to fail to objectively assess what is necessary to maintain the vitality and vibrancy of their beloved camp or conference center. It also keeps them from being willing to take strategic actions needed for the next phase of these sacred places of holy experiences.</p>
<p>Beyond the emotional attachment there must also be a clear realization of economic realities. There must be a business plan and an economic engine that drives the success and significance of these camps and conference centers. In too many situations this does not happen.</p>
<p>At times the organizations who own the camps or conference centers understand what needs to happen. When they take it to their board, or when their constituent groups discover big plans for change, the positive steps forward are not approved. The process of rejection continues until the only viable choices become selling the camp or conference center, or giving it to someone who can refocus it and move towards greater vitality and vibrancy.</p>
<p>The economic realities include that there are more camps, conference centers, college/university facilities, hotels, and other places for Christian groups to use than ever before. Additionally the money from sponsoring organizations to supplement the operation of camps and conference centers is drying up. Loyalty is diminishing. The necessary fees camps and conferences must charge have become tougher for church groups to pay during the past half-dozen years.</p>
<p>Other events now compete with those held at church and denominational camps and conference centers. People are going to these alternative events in increasing numbers.</p>
<p>Finally, the vision of the owners and operators of Christian camps and conference centers is too narrow. They need to not only see their facilities as a religious place, but as a leadership and education place with a Christian atmosphere. This latter vision would allow for the recruitment of a broader spectrum of meetings and events.</p>
<p>Alas! Goodbye, Hollifield Leadership Center and Glorieta Conference Center. Goodbye soon to Simpsonwood Conference Center in north Georgia and a host of others.</p> | Are church camps and conference centers going away? | false | https://baptistnews.com/article/are-church-camps-and-conference-centers-going-away/ | 3 |
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<p>Standard Chartered shares fell and the cost of insuring its debt against default jumped on Monday after U.S. activist investor Muddy Waters said it had bet against the bank because of its "deteriorating" loan quality.</p>
<p>Muddy Waters' founder Carson Block told a conference in Las Vegas last week he had bet against Standard Chartered debt because the market is underestimating the risk that is in the bank's loan book, a spokesman for the short seller said.</p>
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<p>Block, whose company says it analyses the true worth of Chinese companies, argued that while Standard Chartered is diversified across emerging markets, a slowdown in China will lead to "considerable stress" at the lender.</p>
<p>Block was buying 5-year credit default swaps (CDS) for the bank, which is insurance against a default and yields a profit for buyers on any rise, the spokesman added.</p>
<p>Standard Chartered's 5-year CDS jumped almost 13 percent to 103.75 basis points on Monday, according to Markit. That means it costs $103,750 to insure $10 million of debt, less than for most other banks. But the price has widened from 84.5 points a week ago and was the biggest riser of the iTraxx Main and Senior Financials indices constituents on Monday.</p>
<p>Standard Chartered shares fell 3.9 percent to 15.22 pounds by 1139 GMT, the second biggest FTSE 100 faller.</p>
<p>"The comments have added to the momentum that has built up post the trading update," said Gary Greenwood, analyst at Shore Capital. The shares have lost 10 percent since the bank warned on Wednesday it could miss this year's revenue target after a drop in first quarter operating profit.</p>
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<p>It said losses from bad loans were up on the year, driven by an increase in its consumer bank, notably in Korea. But it said bad debts in the wholesale bank remained low and it still expected to meet analysts' profit forecasts for 2013.</p>
<p>"Concerns are building around China and the impact on Asia. Ultimately your view on a bank comes down to the economic backdrop, and over the long-term, China and Asia are going to be reasonably strong growth markets, maybe with some bumps along the way," Shore Capital's Greenwood said.</p>
<p>Standard Chartered declined to comment on Block's comments.</p>
<p>Muddy Waters last year bet against Asia commodities company Olam after slamming its high debt and business practices, forcing it to be propped up by Singapore investor Temasek and shrink its business. Temasek is also Standard Chartered's biggest investor with a stake of about 18 percent.</p>
<p>(Reporting by Steve Slater, Simon Jessop and Natalie Harrison; Editing by Louise Heavens)</p> | StanChart Shares Take a Hit after Short Seller Flags Bad Debts | true | http://foxbusiness.com/markets/2013/05/13/stanchart-falls-after-short-seller-muddy-waters-flags-bad-debts.html | 2016-03-05 | 0 |
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<p>Visa (NYSE: V) reported fiscal fourth-quarter results on Oct. 24. The global payments network operator delivered strong increases in sales and profits as it ramps up its European operations.</p>
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<p>Net operating revenue jumped 19% year over year to $4.3 billion, boosted by Visa's recent <a href="http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2015/11/25/visa-spends-23-billion-to-buy-itself.aspx?&amp;utm_campaign=article&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_source=foxbusiness" type="external">acquisition Opens a New Window.</a> of Visa Europe, as well as growth in processed transactions and payments volume. Excluding the effects of foreign exchange rate fluctuations, revenue increased 22%.</p>
<p>Service revenue, which is recognized based on payment volume in the prior quarter, rose 8% to$1.8 billion as payments volume increased 10% to $1.3 trillion on a constant-dollar basis and excluding Visa Europe.</p>
<p>Data processing revenue leapt 25% to$1.8 billion, with the number of transactions processed on Visa's network (including Visa Europe) surging 41% to 25.9 billion.</p>
<p>International transaction revenue soared 36% to$1.5 billion, and other revenue inched up 1% to $218 million.</p>
<p>Client incentives, which are a contra revenue item, were $993 million. That represented 18.9% of gross revenue, up from 18.4% in the year-ago quarter.</p>
<p>Total operating expenses increased 27% to $1.6 billion, mostly due to increased expenses related to the acquisition of Visa Europe. Excluding non-recurring severance costs, adjusted operating expenses were$1.5 billion, an 18% increase from the prior-year period.</p>
<p>All told, adjusted net income improved 27% to $1.9 billion, or $0.78 per share.</p>
<p>"We continue to deliver healthy earnings growth in the face of continued, but abating headwinds," saidCEO Charlie Scharf. "We have begun to see the benefits from our acquisition of Visa Europe and strong cost discipline helped our results."</p>
<p>Visa issued its financial outlook for fiscal 2017, including:</p>
<p>"We are unwavering in our commitment to invest in client partnership opportunities and the further build out of our digital payments capabilities," added Scharf. "As we enter fiscal 2017, we are positioned well as revenue headwinds will continue to ease, we will continue to see the benefits from VisaEuropein our results, and our strong client franchise continues to grow."</p>
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<p>Zbigniew Brzezinski’s <a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-op-brzezinski23apr23,0,3700317.story?coll=la-news-comment-opinions" type="external">op-ed</a> on why we shouldn’t start bombing Iran is truly excellent, but it’s worth re-emphasizing the best reasons not to go to war; namely, that it wouldn’t actually solve anything. At best, it would only set back Iran’s nuclear program a few years and make the mullahs even more determined to acquire the bomb in order to deter the United States (at the moment, they seem to be divided on the subject; Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has even issued a <a href="http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/iran/nuke/mehr080905.html" type="external">fatwa</a> against actual nuclear weapons). It would also kill off the only long term hope of preventing a nuclear Iran, by making a real disarmament and non-proliferation agreement virtually impossible to put in place. And it would effectively prevent Iran from becoming a more liberal and democratic state anytime soon, which, as Shirin Ebadi <a href="http://plumer.blogspot.com/2006_01_01_plumer_archive.html#113778540096534334" type="external">pointed out</a>, is the only other viable long-term “solution” here.</p>
<p>Plus bombing would kill lots of civilians, something that’s worth repeating again and again. It would very likely escalate into a broader war. And all for something that’s not even necessary—Iran is almost certainly still years away from making a nuclear bomb, and even if it were to acquire one, there’s little reason to think they’d try to destroy Israel or whatever else we think they’d do (as Matt Yglesias <a href="http://www.prospect.org/web/page.ww?section=root&amp;name=ViewWeb&amp;articleId=11431" type="external">pointed out</a>, when Iran had a chance to help Hamas out earlier this month, it responded with a token aid offering; oddly stingy for a regime supposedly hell-bent on wiping out Israel). We shouldn’t be going to war with Iran ever. And for the time being, there’s every reason to at least try and negotiate with Tehran.</p>
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<p>A controversial new law paves the way for American families of 9/11 victims to sue Saudi Arabia over that government's alleged involvement in the deadliest terrorist attack on U.S. soil.</p>
<p>And lawyers representing the 9/11 victims say they aren’t wasting any time.</p>
<p>Jack Quinn, a co-counsel to more than 2,000 family members affected by 9/11, told NBC News that he will be moving quickly to get the ball rolling again. It’s been a long time coming; the initial case was filed in 2003 against Saudi Arabia and has been stuck in appellate court following three appeals from both sides over whether or not Saudi Arabia was exempt due to sovereign immunity.</p>
<p>Wednesday’s congressional action, <a href="" type="internal">voting overwhelmingly on Wednesday to override</a> President Obama's veto of the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act, allows the legal action to go forward.</p>
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<p>The White House is against the legislation and has cited concerns that it could open U.S. businesses and the military to a slew of similar lawsuits stemming from litigation in hot-spots like Iraq or Afghanistan.</p>
<p>The debate centers on the belief, held by many of the 9/11 victims' families and a number of lawmakers, that the Saudi government was involved in the terror attacks. Fifteen of the 19 terrorists were Saudi.</p>
<p>Saudi Arabia has long denied any involvement in the 9/11 attacks.</p>
<p>Still, the families feel their cases are buoyed by the House Intelligence Committee release earlier this year of 28 pages of previously classified pages of a congressional probe into the attacks.</p>
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<p>"While in the United States, some of the September 11 hijackers were in contact with, and received support or assistance from, individuals who may be connected to the Saudi Government,” the report said.</p>
<p>Related: <a href="" type="internal">Secret 28 Pages of 9/11 Report Released, Hold No Proof of Saudi Link</a></p>
<p>The report shows no direct link to a Saudi government role in the 9/11 attacks. A later inquiry by the 9/11 Commission also found no evidence of Saudi government involvement in the attacks.</p>
<p>"There is zero evidence of any Saudi official acting as an agent of the state in support of the 9/11 (or any terrorist) act," a Saudi-funded American public relations firm said in a statement in July.</p>
<p>Still, the 9/11 families remain hopeful.</p>
<p>Quinn said as early as next week, he’ll officially inform the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals of the new law, ask that they dispose of the appeal, and kick it back to the Southern District of New York Court. Then, explained Quinn, the discovery process would begin, in which his clients would seek testimony, deposition and documents.</p>
<p>“You go on a fact finding mission,” Quinn said, later adding, “There is already ample evidence that agents and employees of the Saudi government aided and abetted the hijackers. And when those facts are established, nobody else will have doubt either.”</p>
<p>Related: <a href="" type="internal">On Saudi Arabia Trip Obama Seeks to Quell Tensions</a></p>
<p>James Kreindler, the other co-counsel to 9/11 families and victims, said there’s always the possibility Saudi Arabia may want to settle out of court.</p>
<p>“The Saudis may wise up and may move to open a discussion…The facts are so overwhelming. Saudi Arabia doesn’t want to see this continue in the media or in the court. Either the Saudis will come to the table or we’ll go to court and win there,”</p>
<p>Michael Kellogg, one of the lawyers representing Saudi Arabia, did not respond to a request for comment.</p>
<p>Even as the lawsuits go forward, there are plenty of potential obstacles that could slow any new momentum, said Stephen Vladek, a professor at the University of Texas School of Law who specializes in national security and international criminal law.</p>
<p>He pointed to <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/senate-bill/2040/text" type="external">Section 5</a> of the law, which allows the attorney general to intervene and seek a stay, or to put the case on hold. He also noted the legislation does not seem to allow a claim based on indirect support of terror. And the law doesn’t necessarily allow an American court to seize Saudi Arabia’s assets.</p>
<p>“Even if the plaintiffs win, all they get is a piece of paper saying ‘yes we agree with you, congratulations.,'" said Vladek. He added because this is a civil case, there really is no foreign court option besides the Saudi courts which are unrealistic as "countries tend to be jealous about their own immunity in their own courts."</p>
<p>Breitweiser, too, acknowledged the possibility that the lawsuit could take years to settle. “It’s been 15 years since the 9/11 attacks. Justice hasn’t been swift but we’re hoping we can start with the discovery process.”</p>
<p>Foreign policy experts <a href="" type="internal">say</a> <a href="" type="internal">there are a number of other tools</a>the country could use to fight back against the new law. Those tactics could include curtailing official contacts, pulling billions of dollars from the U.S. economy, and persuading its close allies in the six-member Gulf Cooperation Council it dominates to scale back counterterrorism cooperation, investments and U.S. access to important regional air bases, foreign policy experts said.</p>
<p>However, lawyers for the families said that if the 9/11 families' suit does go forward, Saudi Arabia could be found financially liable.</p>
<p>“The damages would certainly be substantially in the billions,” Quinn said. But he stressed the primary goal was truth and accountability. “Only after we get justice are we going to be thinking about if damages are in order,” he said.</p>
<p>Kristen Breitweiser, whose husband was killed in the 9/11 attacks, echoed that sentiment. “First and foremost, justice is what this is about.” Breitweiser added, “We’re very grateful Congress gave us a path to justice. We just want our day in court.”</p> | The 9/11 Victims’ Bill Is Now Law — What’s Next? | false | http://nbcnews.com/news/us-news/9-11-victims-bill-now-law-what-s-next-n656886 | 2016-09-29 | 3 |
<p>Anheuser-Busch InBev SA (ABI.BT), the world's largest brewer by sales, on Thursday lifted for the second time in a year its cost-savings target from its multibillion-dollar acquisition of former rival SABMiller, as it reported a sharp rise in net profit for the third quarter of 2017.</p>
<p>The maker of Budweiser, Stella Artois and Corona now expects full-year synergies and cost savings from the deal of $3.2 billion on a constant currency basis, up from its previous forecast of $2.8 billion. Previously, the company in March had already raised its savings expectation from the acquisition from an initial estimate of $2.45 billion.</p>
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<p>AB InBev's net profit for the three months to Sept. 30 stood at $2.06 billion, up from $557 million a year earlier when it was hit by financing costs related to the SABMiller deal. This compares with a consensus estimate of $2.57 billion provided by FactSet.</p>
<p>Revenue grew 3.6% on an organic basis--stripping out currency fluctuations--in the third quarter to $14.74 billion, as the company continued to promote premium beers, it said.</p>
<p>Total volumes sold fell 1.2% to 161 million hectoliters, mainly due to the impact of the hurricane season in the U.S.--the company's largest market--and soft shipments in Brazil, the brewer said. AB InBev added that combined revenue for its three largest brands--Corona, Stella Artois and Budweiser--rose 1.6%.</p>
<p>The company also reported third-quarter adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization of $5.73 billion, up 13.8% on the year-earlier period.</p>
<p>The beer giant reaffirmed its full-year outlook of an acceleration of revenue growth, despite increased volatility in key markets.</p>
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<p>There was breaking news on Thursday about the investigation into Donald Trump’s unsavory connections to Russia. Special counsel Robert Mueller issued a new subpoena to the Trump Organization for all documents related to its dealings with Vladimir Putin and the Kremlin. It’s a significant development that indicates that the investigation is continuing to expand and has the President squarely in its sights.</p>
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<p>So it will surprise nobody that Fox News found a way to report this news that is both trivializing and confusing. In fact, they made it sound like good news for Trump. The mission of Fox News, of course, is to act as a shield for Trump and his Republican backers by defending him, and maligning his critics, at all costs. To that end Fox News host Dana Perino broke into her program with a Fox News Alert to rapidly misinform their viewers before any morsels of the truth could get out. She interviewed reporter Catherine Herridge on the Mueller subpoena (video below):</p>
<p>Perino: The New York Times is reporting that special counsel Robert Mueller has subpoenaed the Trump Organization for documents related to Russia. Chief intelligence correspondent Catherine Herridge is on Capitol Hill. Catherine, this news just broke right before the hour started. Herridge: That’s right Dana. I’ve been making some phone calls and I spoke with one of the President’s personal attorneys who confirmed to me that the Trump Organization has been working closely and cooperatively with the office of the special counsel Robert Mueller. And at this time he was unaware that a subpoena had been issued, but he was going to check further. The key thing he said was the driving force, or the objective of the subpoena, whether it was in fact going down a new line of inquiry, or whether this was what they call a “wrap up subpoena” or a “clean up subpoena,” which is when you request records as you’re getting close to the end the of the investigation and you’re trying to tie up some loose ends.</p>
<p>First of all, it’s notable that Herridge only called Trump’s personal attorney to confirm this report, rather than someone at the Justice Department who would have knowledge of the subpoenas they issue. It’s also notable that Herridge didn’t identify the attorney she spoke with. Were these remarks off the record or anonymous?</p>
<p>More to the point, the introduction of the terms “wrap/clean up subpoena” muddies up the reporting. A quick Google of the terms found few results that weren’t referencing this Fox News segment. In fact, it’s a rather pointless distinction because all subpoenas are intended to secure information that’s relevant to the investigation and could lead to new paths of inquiry. But this spin by Fox News is intended to imply that the investigation is nearing completion and that nothing incriminating has been found. But they weren’t through trying to further deflect from the Trump/Russia connection:</p>
<p>Perino: So it might not signal a new aggressive approach by the special counselor? Herridge: Well what we know through our own independent reporting is that the special counsel has been looking at the issue of the United Arab Emirates, and whether there was any financial input into the campaign by the United Arab Emirates, or whether there was a promise of better treatment after the election because of their support of then-candidate Trump.</p>
<p>Technically, that’s true. The UAE, along with other areas of financial misdeeds, is under investigation. But that has nothing to do with this new subpoena that specifically seeks documents from Trump related to Russia. This is an obvious dodge to create confusion and pretend that Russia isn’t the focus of this investigation. And the segment ended with a virtual admission that their furious spinning was probably all made up:</p>
<p>Perino: I’ve never heard of clean up subpoenas. I’m glad I had you on. Herridge: I know. I learned of them recently too. That’s the kind of subpoena you want, apparently. Perino: I used to work at the Justice Department. Someone was holding out on me.</p>
<p>See? It’s all very innocent. There’s nothing to worry about here. And the fact that these two experienced media professionals never heard of the type of subpoena that they just introduced on the air shouldn’t raise any suspicions. According to Fox News Mueller’s new subpoenas are not only uncontroversial, they are “the kind of subpoena you want.” It’s actually good news for Trump. And Fox News is the only place you’re gonna get that kind of twisted analysis.</p>
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<p>Your biography is all about sports. How did you get started?</p>
<p>My whole family is very sports-oriented and active. I started swimming young and, like every little kid I guess, started soccer. I liked being active and it built from there.</p>
<p>Were your parents athletes? Yes, my dad did helicopter skiing and all the extreme sports, raced dirt bikes. My mom played soccer and softball.</p>
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<p>You were successful at three sports in high school? How difficult was that? I did swimming and volleyball my eighth-grade year and got talked into track my freshman year. The coach convinced me to try high jump and I ended up liking it. I did all three as a sophomore but swimming was a lot harder to balance with club volleyball and school. I ended up not swimming after my sophomore year, and quit track after my junior year. It’s been all volleyball since then.</p>
<p>Why did you decide to focus on volleyball? College. I committed after my sophomore year, started playing club at New Mexico Juniors and got passionate about it. All the girls on my team became my sisters and it was my thing.</p>
<p>You’ve traveled a lot with volleyball the last few years. What’s craziest thing that’s happened on your travels? (laughs) Probably jumping off a cliff into the Adriatic Sea and going to play volleyball later that afternoon. It was in Croatia, before the semifinals of the Global Challenge and we went cliff jumping. (UNM teammate Hannah Johnson) had done it earlier and said it was no big deal. The first cliff was 35 feet, but I’m a daredevil, adrenaline junkie, so I decided to try one a little bit higher. It turned out to be about 50 feet and my whole team jumped off that one. It was a lot of fun.</p>
<p>What’s your sports highlight so far? For any athlete making it to the collegiate level is a big accomplishment, especially at a D-I school.</p>
<p>What are your goals as a volleyball player? First, contribute all I can to the program. Long-term, I want to be an All-American and play international ball. Playing sand volleyball is a goal of mine, too.</p>
<p>Why did you decide to play at UNM? When I came here on an unofficial visit, I got the feeling this was where I was supposed to be. Then, when I walked in the gym I got butterflies. The crowd here just makes the gym come alive. I love playing here.</p>
<p>– Ken Sickenger</p>
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<p>Food: New Mexican just in general</p>
<p>Actor/Actress: Ryan Reynolds – he’s easy on the eyes</p>
<p>Athletes: Kerri Walsh and April Ross</p>
<p>Non-sports hobby: I like river rafting, but also just spending time with family</p>
<p>On your iPod: Country, hip-hop, dub-stuff, alternative, jazz – I’m all over the place</p>
<p>Thursday: UNM at San Diego State, 7 p.m.</p>
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<p>LOS ANGELES - U.S. immigration authorities say they have deported a Salvadoran gang member wanted in his country in the slaying of a government prosecutor.</p>
<p>Immigration and Customs Enforcement says 21-year-old Javier Arnoldo Ceron Gomez was flown from Mesa, Arizona, to San Salvador Friday and turned over to authorities.</p>
<p>Immigration officials say they were notified by Interpol in June the MS-13 gang member was wanted in connection with the March shooting death of prosecuting attorney Andres Ernesto Oliva Tejada.</p>
<p>ICE says Ceron was arrested a week later at a car dealership in Santa Ana, California, where he worked washing cars.</p>
<p>ICE says Ceron entered the country illegally in April so he was placed in deportation proceedings, where a judge ruled he should be returned to El Salvador.</p>
<p>Another suspect in Oliva's slaying was already deported.</p>
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<p>Whether you want to admit it or not, the United States is a nation that runs on plastic. Credit cards are convenient, and many these days offer rewards to cardholders as a perk to keep them loyal, making plastic the preferred choice for quite a few consumers (including yours truly).</p>
<p>According to data from the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston between 2011 and 2012, 72.1% of all consumers had at least one credit card. Based on Census Bureau data from 2014, this would work out to about 167 million American adults walking around with at least one credit card in their wallet.</p>
<p>When averaged across all adult Americans, the average American had 2.6 credit cards in their wallet as of 2014. This was actually down about 10% from the mean of 2.9 per American that was noted in 2004, 2006, and 2008. The findings also showed that close to a fifth of credit card holders (18%) have three or four cards, 9% had five or six, and 7% had seven or more credit cards in 2014.</p>
<p>Average debt per household -- how do you compare? But just because the mean number of credit cards that Americans have in their wallet appears to be falling, it doesn't mean that average credit debt per household is as well. The <a href="http://www.cardhub.com/edu/credit-card-debt-study/" type="external">2015 Credit Card Debt Study Opens a New Window.</a>, which was released by CardHub earlier this month, shows that average household credit card debt is once again on the rise.</p>
<p>Based on CardHub's data, the average credit card debt per household in the U.S. hit $7,879 in the fourth quarter of 2015, its highest level since the first quarter of 2009 ($7,887) and very close to the point at which credit delinquencies and charge-offs proved unsustainable during the Great Recession. In fact, CardHub pinpoints U.S. households as being an average of less than $500 away from unsustainable credit debt levels. Now think about where you or your family's current credit card debt situation stands next to that $7,879 average per household.</p>
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<p>Chart by author. Data source: CardHub 2015 Credit Card Debt Study.</p>
<p>As you can see from the chart above, credit card debt often drops during the first quarter every year as consumers use federal tax refunds to pay down debt. In an average year about 80% of taxpayers will receive refunds, so this tends to be a trend you can almost count on each year. However, the second half of the year, which features a number of retail holidays and events, including back-to-school shopping and Christmas, has a tendency to cancel out what was paid off during the first half of the year. In 2015, the fourth-quarter debt buildup of $52.4 billion was the highest since the Great Recession.</p>
<p>If there is good news here, it's that quarterly charge-off rates for credit issuers remain near their historic lows. For now it would appear that American households are absorbing higher credit card debt levels with ease thanks to a growing U.S. economy and very favorable lending rates on account of an accommodative Federal Reserve.</p>
<p>Chart by author. Data source: 2015 CardHub Credit Card Debt Study.</p>
<p>But as the report points out, it also appears that consumers' poor spending habits may be rearing their ugly head once more.</p>
<p>How to avoid becoming an unfavorable credit card statisticAt some point it seems likely that credit delinquencies are going to rise. It's unclear what "X factor" will cause this to happen (perhaps a recession or a series of Federal Reserve rate hikes), but it's in credit card holders' best interests to practice smart spending habits from here on out so they don't become unfavorable credit card statistics.</p>
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<p>The first step for all credit card-toting Americans is to formulate a budget and stick to it. Chances are that if you asked consumers how much money they bring in each month they'd have a pretty good idea. However, ask these same consumers where their money goes once it's deposited into their bank account and you're liable to get a number of shoulder shrugs. Formulating a budget allows consumers to completely understand their cash flow, and understanding your cash flow is the first step to saving more and paying down potentially crippling levels of debt. Best of all, reviewing your budget won't take but 30 minutes a month, so it really is as easy as one, two, three!</p>
<p>Secondly, understand the importance of <a href="http://www.fool.com/how-to-invest/personal-finance/credit/2014/12/15/this-is-how-your-credit-score-is-actually-calculat.aspx?source=eptfxblnk0000004" type="external">maintaining a good credit score Opens a New Window.</a>. Lenders usually base your interest rate off of your credit score, which is in turn predominantly derived from your payment history and credit utilization, and to a smaller degree on your length of credit history, credit mix, and new accounts opened. Understanding how your credit score can affect the interest rate you'll pay can be a strong motivator to develop good credit card habits.</p>
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<p>Third, ensure that you have sufficient funds to cover your monthly expenses should an emergency arise instead of having to turn to your plastic. Emergencies can take many shapes, such as a surprise medical bill or even losing your job. While there's no concrete number that's correct, I personally advocate having an emergency fund that could cover six months' worth of basic expenses (mortgage, food, electricity, and so on) should an emergency arise. Plus, you can always consider using excess cash in an emergency fund to pay down some, or all, of your debt.</p>
<p>Fourth, keep in mind that you always have options available to you. If you have a good payment history and credit score, consider asking your lenders for a reduction in your interest rate. You may wind up hearing "No," but competition among credit lenders can be fierce. It's just as possible you could indeed wind up with a lowered interest rate, which saves you money on debt carried over to the next month.</p>
<p>Along those same lines, if you find that your debt load is unsustainable, consider talking it over with your creditors instead of crawling into the fetal position under the sheets. Your lenders would very much prefer not to send your loans to a collection agency, because that means having to share a percentage of whatever is collected with the collection agency. More often than not, your lenders will be willing to work out a payment plan with you.</p>
<p>The last idea involves consolidating your debt to a 0% APR or low-interest rate credit card. Although doing so could adversely impact your credit score (it may negatively impact your credit utilization rate), lumping your debt on a 0% APR or low-interest card should allow you to tackle your remaining debt at a quicker rate.</p>
<p>Don't allow yourself to become an unfavorable credit statistic. Take action today to become a smart credit card user.</p>
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<p>On last night’s “The Colbert Report,” <a href="" type="internal">Stephen Colbert</a> used “The Word” segment to look at how the House GOP is “defending” <a href="" type="internal">DOMA</a>, concluding gays can’t get rights until they’re wronged, and the LGBT community has been too successful to warrant equality from the Supreme Court.</p>
<p>DOMA, as you know, is the Defense of Marriage Act of 1996 that bans the federal government from recognizing same-sex marriages.</p>
<p>Of course, those of you who aren’t familiar with Stephen Colbert, it’s satire at it’s finest, and this is one of Colbert’s finest.</p>
<p>Watch, enjoy, share:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/423360/january-30-2013/the-word---it-gets-worse" type="external">The Colbert Report</a>Get More: <a href="http://www.colbertnation.com/full-episodes/" type="external">Colbert Report Full Episodes</a>, <a href="http://www.indecisionforever.com/" type="external">Political Humor &amp; Satire Blog</a>, <a href="http://www.colbertnation.com/video" type="external">Video Archive</a></p>
<p>For more on the House GOP’s unconscionable defense of DOMA, (which is now budgeted for $3 million) read:</p>
<p><a href="" type="internal">DOMA: Supreme Court Doesn’t Have Jurisdiction, House Doesn’t Have Standing Says SCOTUS Lawyer</a></p>
<p><a href="" type="internal">House GOP’s Anti-Gay Supreme Court Brief Reads Like 1950′s Racist Propaganda</a></p>
<p><a href="" type="internal">Republicans File Brief in Support Of DOMA – Gays Are Doing Fine Without Any Help</a></p>
<p><a href="" type="internal">Astonishing NOM Lie: ‘Gay and lesbian people already enjoy full equal rights under the law.’</a></p>
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<p>Hat tip: <a href="http://www.goodasyou.org/good_as_you/2013/01/video-colbert-on-the-logic-paul-clement-has-yanked-out-of-his-law-hole.html" type="external">Jeremy Hooper at Good As You</a></p>
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<p>WASHINGTON (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday afternoon's drawing of the Dist. of Columbia Lottery's "DC 4 Midday" game were:</p>
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<p>WASHINGTON (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday afternoon's drawing of the Dist. of Columbia Lottery's "DC 4 Midday" game were:</p>
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<p>Born in Brooklyn in 1942, she studied Russian language and literature at Vassar College and the University of Pennsylvania. After marrying Philip Blume, now deceased, she moved with him to Bethesda, Md.</p>
<p>The family, which would come to include two children, moved around, mainly for career reasons, but also at times for adventure. Their stops prior to Albuquerque included Minnesota, where Blume worked at Minnesota Public Radio, and Portland, Ore., where she directed public affairs at KBOO radio, did public relations for the Portland Opera, and performed Israeli folk dances, according to family members.</p>
<p>When the Blume moved to Albuquerque in 1987, she found a position as interim general manager of the radio station KUNM, and then she founded Desert Sky Communications, a public relations and marketing firm that she ran until her death.</p>
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<p>Through all of her activities, she gave her all, according to her children.</p>
<p>“Curious, energetic, extremely friendly and unabashedly engaged in the world,” is how her daughter, Kathryn Blume, remembers her, adding that she easily took on leadership roles.</p>
<p>“Whatever organization she joined, she would end up as president,” she said. “It was never a search for power; it was always a deep commitment to what she was doing, and the capacity to very generously support everyone she was working with.”</p>
<p>She gave an example of how friendly and encouraging she was to everyone who knew her: “The woman who cleans her house came over. She didn’t know that Mom had died. When I told her, she collapsed. That the woman who cleans my mother’s house was that distraught about her death tells a lot about my mother.”</p>
<p>Her son, Arthur, recalled her as having a generous, welcoming spirit. “There would always be big dinner parties at Thanksgiving and other holidays,” he said, adding that his parents had taken strangers into their home that they met at airports when they had nowhere else to spend a holiday.</p>
<p>He added that she had a wide range of intellectual interests. “History, languages, science, world culture,” he recalled. “Privately, she was a voracious reader,” he said, with a library of more than a thousand books. “She was unbeatable at Scrabble to the point that my dad would jokingly say she cheated.”</p>
<p>Blume was diagnosed with leukemia only four days before she died.</p>
<p>On Friday, she was feeling a little short of breath, so a friend took her to Heart Hospital, where she was initially diagnosed with pneumonia; further tests showed her extremely high white blood cell count pointed to a previously undiagnosed case of leukemia, according to her daughter.</p>
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<p>“They gave her one round of chemo and she responded really bad from it,” Kathryn Blume said. “By Monday night, things were not looking very good.”</p>
<p>She died peacefully the next day, surrounded by her loved ones, Kathryn Blume said.</p>
<p>She is survived by her son, Arthur Blume, of Melrose, Mass., her daughter, Kathryn Blume, of Charlotte, Vt., two granddaughters, a sister and a brother.</p>
<p>A memorial service will be held today at 1:30 p.m. at Congregation Albert, 3800 Louisiana NE.</p>
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<p>I’m told that this night-walking in the desert is foolishness, and that I will get lost, not find the trail again, go deep in the wrong direction.&#160; And the body found weeks later, or probably never, sun-mummified, blackened as charcoal, clutching an empty water bottle.&#160; The reassurance is in the Utah sky: Too many stars in the clear nights of the canyonlands to get lost, Polaris with its pinprick to point the way home.</p>
<p>Now here in Elephant Canyon, in the Needles District, the prophecy is as foretold: the night-walker does not know the way.&#160; Polaris is shrouding in clouds drawn up from the south, and soon Ursa Major, and Hercules, and Cassiopeia on her throne, all the constellation maps, turning on the gyre, are gone.&#160; &#160;No compass in the pack, and the canyon has turned east and north and east again and maybe west – who knows.</p>
<p>Fool, fool; should’ve watched the weather.&#160; Old black night unfolds to something small and intimate in a desert of impossible distances, this country of cliff and wall and spire, everywhere plummeting and leaping.&#160; &#160;No more distances now; the images in the rock a mile away seem to brush up to your legs.&#160; The eyes are taller, wider, uncertain, dosed with the night-vision hallucinogenic.&#160; All is seen as if underwater: grey and blue-grey amid black-swimming schools of black fish.&#160; The rocks that in the daylight are shocked to stillness under the sun now pick up their skirts and their shadows and dance about, flitting in the sidelong glance.&#160; The night-eyes and the night-ears play games. The junipers and pinyons stretching animal arms in their branches stirred by breeze.&#160; Once I thought I saw a great cat moving on the cliff – my own shadow-cat in the moonlight.&#160;&#160; &#160;The boulders creeping, the cliffs sliding, the towers bending, and where you find running water, it babbles a hundred human voices, whole crowds familiar and unfamiliar, some of them friends you have known, some of them your father, mother, daughter.&#160;&#160; The water plashes and plays and communicates the news that it knows exactly where it’s going, and, ha ha, you do not.&#160; I sometimes wonder if hungry creatures have watched me waiting for the hominid night-walker to make a mistake.&#160; I conclude that in the desert the mammals with big teeth, what few are left, aren’t interested, nor are the rattlesnakes, nor the scorpions, nor the great blooming banks of flowers, white-fluorescent, that open only after the sun has gone down, and which to us nightwalkers are the secret we look for.</p>
<p>The habit has lasted ten years.&#160; I do it wherever no one wants to venture into the wilderness in the dark, which is pretty much everywhere there is wilderness.&#160; So, for example, in the Catskill Mountains, north of New York City, among the hardwoods in the winter, when the forest is cleared of its cover and the moon is out playing its light on the snow, the black bears have gone to sleep, and my dog whistles at me when I miss the cold trail.&#160; So in Death Valley, in the dunes and the salt flats.&#160; &#160;So even in Fontainebleau Park, south of Paris, in December, amid the boulders and the pine duff, with the smell of wood burning in old stone chimneys in villages nearby, with my daughter, who is not happy that night has fallen, thinking the Thing in the woods will stomp us and eat out our eyes and violate us in ways only she can imagine.&#160; I tell her the darkness eats our eyes only if we let it.</p>
<p>I don’t do the night-walking in grizzly country in any season, nor in any of the megafauna grounds.&#160; I don’t do it with weight – no big pack or equipment that gets in the way of sharp footing.&#160; Best to do it in the cool rainless springtime on the Colorado Plateau. &#160;One of the planet’s darkest nights is here, on high Cedar Mesa, near the Natural Bridges National Monument, declared as the first of the so-called Dark Sky Parks worldwide, rated by the International Dark Sky Association as a 2 on the Bortle scale’s measure of light pollution (which rates the super-lit downtowns of cities as a 9). &#160;&#160;That means Cedar Mesa is just a little less light-polluted than the 1-rated skies in the open ocean, where there is no light pollution whatsoever. &#160;&#160;What the Dark Sky people mean to say by “dark night,” of course, is that it’s well-lit by the heavens.</p>
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<p>The great majority of Americans live only in marginal night, when the street lamps come on, the TVs jolt in the bedrooms, the headlights flash on the roads, the Walmarts and all-night Shell stations and the office buildings and car dealerships and billboards and baseball stadiums blaze unto God – night merely as an interruption of day, a waiting-out, an inconvenience to commerce.&#160; It makes no sense at all to light these dead zones, but modern man can’t have darkness where he has invested money. Our light pollution with its errant photons will scatter as far as the photons carry, into the reaches of the solar system and the galaxy and beyond. &#160;The screaming light from the casinos of Las Vegas alone extends a dome to eight national parks and monuments, the 30-story Luxor Tower dimming the views at Death Valley a hundred miles to the west. &#160;&#160;Twice that distance the light of the casinos runs east to the Grand Canyon.&#160; &#160;Two-thirds of Americans live in places that no longer afford a sight of the Milky Way.&#160; Light pollution increases at rates that experts say will cancel out every dark sky in the contiguous United States within 15 years – there will be no more Milky Way for us.&#160; The alien light burns out the people it touches.&#160; Light pollution in excess – and it always appears in excess – correlates with higher rates of cancer; it poisons sleep, sucks melatonin from the brain; it is unnatural and invasive and accepted as the norm. Against this deracinated night the code in our genetic make-up rebels.&#160;&#160; We need night, clean night, as much as clean water or air. &#160;Or as much perhaps as the night-walker mammals that began their peculiar speciation 80 million years ago to evolve into primates: the Euarchonta – four-legged, long-tailed, lemur-like – lived in trees, leaping among branches, eating insects in the dark, likely with shining eyes.&#160; The name means “true ancestors.”</p>
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<p>We need clean night too simply for the stars, the planets, the moon in its phases.&#160; The celestial objects bring the required messages, known to all who listen, that put us in our place and context, Homo sapiens being small as small can be and mostly insignificant, probably worthless in the big picture, and certainly ill-comprehending of the many more things in heaven than on earth.</p>
<p>We make of them utile objects nonetheless.&#160; In Elephant Canyon, I am lost in the dark, and then found again, as the clouds split, the stars unveil, and I am at ease, seeing their maps.&#160; A mere 5,000 of them tonight, the most the naked eye can find in the&#160; moonless desert, poured out like diamonds on the usual bed of cheap velvet and with the usual cognitive dissonance (how many are dead and gone but still alive to us light-years distant?).&#160;&#160; I have at least twice this month walked underneath star beds ducking, thinking I’d bang my head, so low-hanging is that light.&#160; Or staring up at them nearly falling off a cliff from vertigo.&#160;&#160; Once in the canyonlands I saw the crescent moon racing after blue Venus up the sky, like rockets, and once I reached a hand and drew five new constellations, known only to me; a ringtail cat, his eyes like lamps, stood at the edge of my bed in the sand and stared.&#160;&#160; Once I saw the rare zodiacal light, product of cosmic dust that catches the sheen of the sun, named thus because it mounts its faint oval aura on the ecliptic, among the constellations of the zodiac.&#160; Astronomers call it the Second Milky Way, and tell us the zodiacal light, when it hits right and the moon is new, provides almost three-quarters of the ambient light in the night atmosphere.</p>
<p>Mohammed in the five daily prayers of Islam preferred to call it the false dawn.</p>
<p>Thus there is light upon light in this dark, and the true night has enough entertainments for prophets and scientists and also for men with fewer ambitions, who by this starshine find quite simply, like the speechless animals, that they can see in the dark.&#160; I imagine my eyes then glowing like the ringtail’s or the coyote’s or the housecat’s. &#160;&#160;So I walk and walk.&#160;&#160; Up Elephant Canyon, and then out along the rim, aiming for Polaris where it points to the Needles jeep road and to my camp near the sheltering of a cave. &#160;I’ll sleep out much of the day.</p>
<p>CHRISTOPHER KETCHAM, a freelance writer who splits his time between Brooklyn, NY and Moab, Utah, is writing a book about secession movements. Contact him at <a href="mailto:[email protected]" type="external">[email protected]</a></p>
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<p>Third baseman <a href="https://www.upi.com/topic/Chipper_Jones/" type="external">Chipper Jones</a> and designated hitter <a href="https://www.upi.com/topic/Jim_Thome/" type="external">Jim Thome</a> are among the 19 newcomers on the 2018 Hall of Fame ballot, the Baseball Writers’ Association of America announced Monday.</p>
<p>The ballot is being mailed this week to more than 425 voting members of the BBWAA. The results of the voting will be announced on Jan. 24.</p>
<p>Infielder <a href="https://www.upi.com/topic/Omar_Vizquel/" type="external">Omar Vizquel</a> and pitchers <a href="https://www.upi.com/topic/Jamie_Moyer/" type="external">Jamie Moyer</a> and <a href="https://www.upi.com/topic/Johan_Santana/" type="external">Johan Santana</a> also are new candidates who will join 14 holdovers from the 2017 balloting in which first baseman <a href="https://www.upi.com/topic/Jeff_Bagwell/" type="external">Jeff Bagwell</a>, outfielder Tim Raines and catcher <a href="https://www.upi.com/topic/Ivan_Rodriguez/" type="external">Ivan Rodriguez</a> were elected to the National <a href="https://www.upi.com/topic/Baseball_Hall_of_Fame/" type="external">Baseball Hall of Fame</a> in Cooperstown, N.Y.</p>
<p>Candidates must be named on 75 percent of ballots cast by selected BBWAA members with 10 or more consecutive years of Major League Baseball coverage to gain election. Falling five votes short of last year’s total required for election was relief pitcher <a href="https://www.upi.com/topic/Trevor_Hoffman/" type="external">Trevor Hoffman</a>, who polled 74 percent. Outfielder <a href="https://www.upi.com/topic/Vladimir_Guerrero/" type="external">Vladimir Guerrero</a> came within 15 votes at 71.7 percent.</p>
<p>Other players named on more than half the ballots were designated hitter/third baseman <a href="https://www.upi.com/topic/Edgar_Martinez/" type="external">Edgar Martinez</a> (58.6), pitcher <a href="https://www.upi.com/topic/Roger_Clemens/" type="external">Roger Clemens</a> (54.1), outfielder <a href="https://www.upi.com/topic/Barry_Bonds/" type="external">Barry Bonds</a> (53.8) and pitcher <a href="https://www.upi.com/topic/Mike_Mussina/" type="external">Mike Mussina</a> (51.8).</p>
<p>Players may remain on the ballot for up to 10 years provided they receive at least five percent of the vote. Other holdovers from the 2017 ballot are pitchers <a href="https://www.upi.com/topic/Curt_Schilling/" type="external">Curt Schilling</a> and <a href="https://www.upi.com/topic/Billy_Wagner/" type="external">Billy Wagner</a>, first baseman <a href="https://www.upi.com/topic/Fred_McGriff/" type="external">Fred McGriff</a>, second baseman <a href="https://www.upi.com/topic/Jeff_Kent/" type="external">Jeff Kent</a> and outfielders <a href="https://www.upi.com/topic/Manny_Ramirez/" type="external">Manny Ramirez</a>, <a href="https://www.upi.com/topic/Gary_Sheffield/" type="external">Gary Sheffield</a>, <a href="https://www.upi.com/topic/Sammy_Sosa/" type="external">Sammy Sosa</a> and <a href="https://www.upi.com/topic/Larry_Walker/" type="external">Larry Walker</a>.</p>
<p>Jones was the National League MVP in 1999 and posted a .303 career batting average — featuring a .364 mark in his batting title year of 2008 — with 2,726 hits, including 468 home runs and 1,623 RBIs, over 19 seasons, all with the <a href="https://www.upi.com/topic/Atlanta-Braves/" type="external">Atlanta Braves</a>.</p>
<p>Jones is one of only nine players in history — and the only switch hitter — with at least a .300 batting average, .400 on-base percentage, .500 slugging average and 400 home runs, along with <a href="https://www.upi.com/topic/Jimmie_Foxx/" type="external">Jimmie Foxx</a>, <a href="https://www.upi.com/topic/Lou_Gehrig/" type="external">Lou Gehrig</a>, Mel Ott, <a href="https://www.upi.com/topic/Stan_Musial/" type="external">Stan Musial</a>, Ramirez, <a href="https://www.upi.com/topic/Babe_Ruth/" type="external">Babe Ruth</a>, <a href="https://www.upi.com/topic/Frank_Thomas/" type="external">Frank Thomas</a> and <a href="https://www.upi.com/topic/Ted_Williams/" type="external">Ted Williams</a>.</p>
<p>Jones, an eight-time All-Star, is also the only player who appeared in at least 50 percent of his games at third base to record at least 1,600 runs batted in and score at least 1,600 runs.</p>
<p>Thome played for six teams and finished his 22-season career with 612 home runs, the eighth-highest total in history, and one RBI shy of 1,700 while batting .276 and compiling a .956 on-base-plus-slugging percentage. He is one of only five players in big-league history with at least 500 homers, 1,500 runs, 1,600 RBIs and 1,700 walks, along with Bonds, Ott, Ruth and Williams.</p>
<p>Vizquel, Thome’s former <a href="https://www.upi.com/topic/Cleveland-Indians/" type="external">Cleveland Indians</a> teammate, played 24 seasons during which he logged the most defensive games (2,709) at shortstop and the highest career fielding percentage (.985) at the position. The 11-time Gold Glove Award winner also banged out 2,877 hits, stole 404 bases and scored 1,445 runs.</p>
<p>Moyer wore the uniform of eight major league clubs in a career covering 25 seasons, making him one of five pitchers and 10 players overall to appear in at least that many big-league seasons. The left-hander won 269 games, two of which came in 2012 when he became at age 49 the oldest pitcher to win an a major league game.</p>
<p>Santana was a unanimous choice for the American League <a href="https://www.upi.com/topic/Cy_Young/" type="external">Cy Young</a> Award twice (2004, 2006) with the <a href="https://www.upi.com/topic/Minnesota-Twins/" type="external">Minnesota Twins</a>, and pitched the first no-hitter in <a href="https://www.upi.com/topic/New-York-Mets/" type="external">New York Mets</a> history June 1, 2012, against the <a href="https://www.upi.com/topic/St-Louis-Cardinals/" type="external">St. Louis Cardinals</a>. The left-hander led his league in WHIP four times, earned run average three times, strikeouts three times, hits-per-nine-innings three times, strikeouts per nine innings three times, innings pitched twice (2006, 2008), games started twice (2006, 2008) and victories once.</p> | Chipper Jones, Jim Thome lead 2018 MLB Hall of Fame ballot | false | https://newsline.com/chipper-jones-jim-thome-lead-2018-mlb-hall-of-fame-ballot/ | 2017-11-20 | 1 |
<p>A Marxist group called the Revolutionary People’s Liberation Party-Front <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/03/world/europe/marxist-group-claims-attack-on-us-embassy-in-turkey.html?_r=0" type="external">claimed responsibility</a> Saturday for a suicide bombing the previous day at the U.S. Embassy in Ankara, Turkey. An embassy guard was killed in the blast along with the attacker, who has been identified by Turkish authorities as 40-year-old Alisan Sanli.</p>
<p>In a statement released Saturday by the organization, the Revolutionary People’s Liberation Party-Front condemned the United States as “the murderer of the peoples of the world.”</p>
<p>—Posted by Kasia Anderson.</p>
<p>The New York Times:</p>
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<p>The statement, which also denounced American foreign policy, was released by the Revolutionary People’s Liberation Party-Front, and a translation was distributed by the SITE Intelligence Group, which monitors the communications of extremist groups. The message, which was posted on a Web site that has previously carried statements from the group, condemned Turkey for its cooperation with the United States and for its policy of supporting Syrian rebels fighting the government of President Bashar al-Assad.</p>
<p>[…] The attack, coming in the wake of the attack on an American diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, by Islamic extremists in September, initially raised fears that it was the work of jihadists. That the bomber has ties to a relatively minor Marxist group is likely to challenge assumptions about the nature of international terrorism and the risks to American interests abroad. American officials, however, have not confirmed the identity of the attacker or a motive, and the United States plans to investigate.</p>
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<p>TUCSON, Ariz. — A judge sentenced a former Arizona fire captain to two life terms in prison on Monday for killing his ex-wife, her mother and another person in a case that remained unsolved for over a decade.</p>
<p>David Watson, who worked for the Tucson Fire Department, cried as he told a Pima County judge that he was innocent.</p>
<p>“We’re clear that we’ll never know what truly happened,” Watson said. “There are people in this courtroom and obviously this court who think I was the one who did all that.”</p>
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<p>The court previously said that his sentence was for 66 years. It revised its statement later on Monday, saying the judge had not read the full sentence in court. Watson got a life term with the possibility of release after 25 years for the killing of his ex-mother-in-law, Marilyn Cox, followed by another life term for the killing of her friend, Renee Farnsworth, that will begin after he serves the first one.</p>
<p>He was also sentenced to 16 years for the killing of his ex-wife, Linda Watson, in 2000.</p>
<p>Watson, 48, was found guilty in March after prosecutors said he killed his ex-wife, Linda Watson, during a custody battle.</p>
<p>Linda Watson went missing in 2000. Her body was found in the desert three years later, but it wasn’t identified until 2011 through DNA testing because of a backlog at the medical examiner’s office.</p>
<p>Three years after she went missing, her mother, Marilyn Cox, was embroiled in a legal battle with David Watson over visitation rights involving her granddaughter.</p>
<p>Cox and her friend, Renee Farnsworth, had just dropped off the girl after a court-ordered visitation when they were gunned down in 2003.</p>
<p>A jury deadlocked in November after a months-long trial that included testimony from Watson’s second ex-wife, who said she had lied when she provided him an alibi during the attacks.</p>
<p>Watson was tried for a second time this year and found guilty of two counts of first-degree murder and one count of second-degree murder.</p>
<p>He worked for the Tucson fire department for 20 years and in 2007 was promoted to captain. He resigned shortly after his arrest in April 2015.</p>
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<p>SANTA FE, N.M. — We’re coming up on another of those weeks when the Lensic Performing Arts Center, 211 W. San Francisco St., has a streak of bright performers coming to its stage.</p>
<p>The website tells us it’s sold out, but you never know when a ticket might pop up to see humorist and author David Sedaris at 7:30 p.m. Monday, when he will read from his works and sign some books ($57.50).</p>
<p>On Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. “Rockin’ Road to Dublin” is stopping by during its national tour with modernized, rocked-out versions of Irish classic tunes and dances ($25—$45).</p>
<p>For another ethnic take, Performance Santa Fe is bringing the Havana Cuba All-Stars to the Lensic at 7:30 p.m. Thursday. Some of the island’s best musicians put together the group to bring to the world the Afro-Cuban rhythms of their heritage ($27—$100).</p>
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<p>Tickets for all these events can be found at the Lensic box office, www.ticketssantafe.org or by calling 988-1234.</p>
<p>Musician Jonathan Richman</p>
<p>PUNK PRECURSOR: Jonathan Richman is portrayed as providing the genesis of punk rock when he formed Modern Lovers in the 1970s. He’s been morphing musical styles ever since then, along with drummer Tommy Larkins. On his website, Richman says, “I still feel like we’re just starting out, and I still learn new stuff every night.” You can give a listen to his new stuff when he performs 7:30 p.m. Saturday at Meow Wolf, 1352 Rufina Circle. Tickets are $19 in advance, $22 day of the show, available from www.holdmyticket.com or by calling 505-886-1251.</p>
<p>Ann Randolph has written and performs “Inappropriate in All the Right Ways.”</p>
<p>MEMORY MASH-UPS: We’ve written about Ann Randolph in these pages before when she stopped by with her one-woman show. Well, she’s coming back, presenting “Loveland,” which presents multiple characte rs as she describes her journey back to her small Ohio town for her mother’s funeral. That show is 7:30 p.m. Thursday at the Adobe Rose Theatre, 1213 Parkway Drive. At the same time the following night, Randolph will present “Inappropriate in All the Right Ways,” tracing her artistic journey’s twists and turns over the years. Tickets are $20 for each show, available through www.brownpapertickets.com.</p>
<p>NEW MUSIC: Listen to new compositions when the Santa Fe Community Orchestra performs the two finalists in its annual competition 7 p.m. today in Stieren Hall at the Santa Fe Opera. Admission is free. This show will have an open rehearsal format. Afterwards, orchestra members will vote for their favorite, which will get a more formal performance June 4.</p>
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<p>Oracle Corp. said Thursday it has agreed to acquire Textura Corp. , a provider of construction contracts and payment management cloud services, in a deal valued at about $663 million, net of Textura's cash. Oracle said it will pay $26 per Textura share, sending the stock up 28% in premarket trade. Textura processes $3.4 billion in payments a month, keeping projects on time and under budget, Oracle said in a statement. "The increasingly global engineering and construction industry requires digital modernization in a way that automates manual processes and embraces the power of cloud computing to easily connect the construction job site, reduce cost overruns, and improve productivity," Oracle senior vice president Mike Sicilia said in the statement. Oracle is expecting the deal to close in 2016. Oracle shares were not yet active in premarket trade, but are up 12% in the year so far, while the S&amp;P 500 has gained 2.5%.</p>
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<p>Washington PostBill O'Reilly, emceeing a fundraiser for inner-city schoolchildren, asked of the young men scheduled to perform: "Does anyone know where the 'Best Men' are? I hope they're not in the parking lot stealing our hubcaps." One attendee tells Lloyd Grove: "To say that this conservative audience -- dominated undoubtedly by many of Mr. O'Reilly's biggest fans -- was aghast, is an understatement." O'Reilly says "This is ridiculous and foolish. ...Everybody was happy. I don't want to comment on anything else."</p> | O'Reilly says flap over hubcaps crack at fundraiser is "foolish" | false | https://poynter.org/news/oreilly-says-flap-over-hubcaps-crack-fundraiser-foolish | 2003-04-15 | 2 |
<p>A U.S. law firm claiming to represent several of the <a href="" type="internal">Flight 370</a> families said Thursday that it hopes to prove that the Boeing 777 fleet has a design defect – even as investigators struggle to locate a single piece of wreckage.</p>
<p>Monica Kelly, head of global aviation litigation at Ribbeck Law, told NBC News she was meeting families in Beijing “at their request,” hours after the firm filed a petition at a Chicago court against Boeing, seeking evidence of possible design and manufacturing defects <a href="" type="internal">that it believes will form the basis of a lawsuit</a>.</p>
<p>The move has raised eyebrows, even among seasoned observers of litigation specialists who approach the victims of air disasters. It has also prompted some to ask how it is even possible to start forming a lawsuit on behalf of families before a single victim has been found.</p>
<p>"We see this sort of thing all the time," said James Healy-Pratt, an attorney with Stewarts Law who represented some of the families of Air France Flight 447. "It's entirely possible. They do it in order to get publicity and to encourage families to sign up. The question is whether it is sensible."</p>
<p>The Boeing 777 “has probably been one of the safest aircraft in aviation history,” according to one aviation expert.</p>
<p>An initial action could be amended or withdrawn as more information comes to light, he said.</p>
<p>“It’s not against the law to file a lawsuit,” said lawyer <a href="http://www.speiserkrause.com/attorneys/bio.cfm?attorneyID=236" type="external">Gerard Lear with Speiser Krause</a>, a specialist firm that has been involved in cases following most major air disasters. “But doing so before you’ve even found the wreckage seems to be highly speculative.”</p>
<p>Indeed, the National Transportation Safety Board last year said it had received an unspecified number of complaints about solicitations in the wake of the July 6 Asiana crash at San Francisco airport. At least one pof the complaints involved was Ribbeck Law.</p>
<p>The NTSB <a href="http://www.nbcchicago.com/traffic/transit/NATL-BAY-NTSB-Gets-Complaints-About-Asiana-Air-Crash-Attorneys-217931711.html" type="external">told NBC Chicago last year</a> that it had reported the company to the Illinois agency that regulates attorneys. Nobody at the NTSB was available to comment Thursday about the outcome of last year's complaints or the latest case.</p>
<p>A U.S. law bars uninvited solicitation of air disaster victims in the first 45 days after an accident, but it was not immediately clear how that would apply in other jurisdictions.</p>
<p>Healy-Pratt said it was unlikely that families could successfully sue Boeing in the United States even if an eventual investigation found the manufacturer responsible. “I think it is highly misleading to tell the families they might get additional compensation in the United States when all of the recent accidents prove otherwise,” he said.</p>
<p>He said most cases were settled in the courts of the country where accidents occur, or where the airline involved is based.</p>
<p>All 239 people on the plane — 227 passengers and 12 crew — are assumed by Malaysian authorities to be dead. Under the Montreal Convention, the airline <a href="" type="internal">must pay the families</a> minimum compensation of $176,000. Malaysia Airlines has already paid an interim $5,000.</p>
<p>Extracting further damages, such as claims for negligence based on the findings of investigators, is a more opaque process – and likely less lucrative outside of the United States. “Getting punitive damages” of the kind often awarded in U.S. courts “is highly doubtful” for the families of MH370, said Healy-Pratt.</p>
<p>However, that hasn’t deterred Kelly, who said she intends to meet other families in Beijing.</p>
<p>“We already have agreements with several of the families,” she said. “It takes a little time to meet all of them. We expect to represent at least 50 percent of the passengers in this case.</p>
<p>“We believe that we are going to be able to prove that the fleet of the Boeing 777 has a design defect with the fuselage, with cracks in the fuselage, so we don't really need to wait for the official investigators or for the wreckage of the plane, of course it would be good to have it.”</p>
<p>It appeared she was referring to a federal airworthiness directive issued in response to <a href="" type="internal">a cracking and corrosion problem</a> found close to the satellite antenna on several Boeing 777s. However, the aircraft involved in the Malaysia crash had a different antenna system and was not affected by the directive.</p>
<p>The Boeing 777 “has probably been one of the safest aircraft in aviation history,” according to Neil Hansford, the chairman of consultancy firm Strategic Aviation Solutions and a former air freight executive.</p>
<p>Boeing declined to comment on Ribbeck’s planned lawsuit. In a statement, Malaysia Airlines said it was "aware of the lawsuit and our lawyers have been advised of this development," adding: "At this point in time, our top priority remains to provide any and all assistance to the families of the passengers and crew. Other matters will be dealt with appropriately."</p>
<p>At Ribbeck’s offices in downtown Chicago Thursday, there was no immediate response to messages left by NBC News.</p>
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<p>A wave of attacks by Chinese hackers on Germany's cutting-edge manufacturers is raising alarm in Berlin and prompting the government to step in to defend the country's competitive edge.</p>
<p>The small and midsize companies that make Germany an export powerhouse have landed in the crosshairs of foreign hackers attracted to the firms' valuable but often poorly protected intellectual property, German intelligence officials warn.</p>
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<p>Some 65% of German manufacturing and technology firms were hit by cyberattacks in 2016, compared with 62% in the U.S. and 50% in the U.K., according to insurer Hiscox Ltd. Germany's BfV domestic intelligence agency estimates German firms lost EUR55 billion euros ($65.3 billion) to espionage, sabotage and data theft last year, up from EUR51 billion in 2015.</p>
<p>Spooked by the losses, the German government is now moving to shield companies from state-backed hackers and criminal gangs, offering to pay to harden the defenses of Germany's most vulnerable firms. Industry groups are also reaching out to members about the threat.</p>
<p>"The German economy is the focus of industrial espionage," Hans-Georg Maassen, head of Germany's domestic intelligence agency, said in July. "Attacks have increased over the last two years."</p>
<p>Two years ago, the U.S. and China signed an agreement not to support hacking aimed at industrial espionage. But despite high-level talks, German officials have yet to secure a similar deal. The G-20, which includes China and Germany, announced a pact against commercial cyberespionage in 2015.</p>
<p>In June 2016, a delegation led by German Chancellor Angela Merkel flew to Beijing for talks on the matter. While Chinese officials led by Premier Li Keqiang told Ms. Merkel that Beijing would protect German firms' intellectual property in China, they didn't agree to stop hacking.</p>
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<p>As Chinese attacks on U.S. companies have eased, Germany has become a bigger target, according to Nigel Inkster, senior adviser to the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London.</p>
<p>In a faxed statement, China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said it was unaware of the German allegations but reiterated Beijing's official position that it "resolutely opposes" cyberhacking in every form.</p>
<p>"If the relevant parties have definitive evidence of hacking attacks, they can provide it to the Chinese side and we will handle it according to the law," the statement said. It added that, "baseless accusations and speculation are not only unprofessional, they also do nothing to solve the problem."</p>
<p>German firms lead the world in advanced-manufacturing patents, with 3,917 filed last year versus 1,410 by U.S. and 860 by Japanese companies, according to the World Intellectual Property Organization. The world's third-largest exporter spends 2.9% of gross domestic product on research and development, a higher percentage than the U.S. and the U.K do, according to the most recent figures from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.</p>
<p>Large multinationals can afford to protect their property. Not so the more than 3.5 million small and midsize businesses -- known collectively as the Mittelstand -- that produce more than half of Germany's economic output and sell the tools, parts and components that power factories around the world, experts say.</p>
<p>"The ignorance at smaller firms is extreme," Alexander Dörsam, head of IT security at computer-security firm Antago GmbH said. "The founders of the company are often its leaders. They are older and don't understand the technology."</p>
<p>China has long fed its voracious appetite for German technology via Chinese regulations and directives that force foreign investors to share knowledge with local partners and by acquiring German businesses. But China's spy agencies have also joined the hunt, counterintelligence officials here say.</p>
<p>Deutsche Telekom AG, Germany's largest telecommunications company, said it detected 30,150 cyberattacks from China so far in this month, with Russia the second-largest source at 7,661 attacks.</p>
<p>Chinese state-backed hacking of Western companies is conducted by the cyberwarfare units of the People's Liberation Army or China's Ministry of State Security intelligence agency, according to Western intelligence agencies and security firms.</p>
<p>Chinese companies used to be able to direct the PLA or MSS to hack into Western competitors, according to James Lewis, director of the Strategic Technologies Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington. After Beijing cracked down on businesses using intelligence resources, companies can still put in a request for a target to be hacked but no longer can assign tasks to the teams directly, Mr. Lewis said.</p>
<p>Germany's domestic intelligence agency said in May it had evidence the APT-10 Chinese hacker group -- also known as Menupass Team and Stone Panda -- was behind a recent hacking campaign against German high-tech firms.</p>
<p>APT-10 has been active since 2009 when it started hacking U.S. military research institutions and companies, according to an April report by BAE Systems PLC and consulting firm PWC in collaboration with Britain's GCHQ intelligence agency. APT-10 has significant financial and human resources and was active during Chinese working hours, according to the report.</p>
<p>Intelligence officials in the South-German state of Baden-Württemberg in March said hackers likely controlled by Chinese intelligence had penetrated in 2016 the systems of a Mittelstand manufacturer -- a leading manufacturer in its field -- injecting software to steal blueprints and other data.</p>
<p>Deepening economic ties between China and Germany makes Berlin wary of confronting Beijing over the attacks, according to Nadège Rolland, a senior China analyst at the National Bureau of Asian Research in Washington. Exports to China, one of the fastest-growing markets for German goods, hit $76 billion in 2016.</p>
<p>A spokesman for Germany's foreign ministry said Berlin often raises the issues of cyberattacks and intellectual property with Beijing.</p>
<p>Berlin offers to cover some of the cost of shielding Mittelstand firms from cyberattacks. The economics ministry now pays for consultants to visit smaller firms and plot countermeasures.</p>
<p>Some German Mittelstand firms have been reluctant to invest in protection, the cost of which can exceed EUR100,000 a year for a 1,000-person firm, according to Armin Harbrecht of computer-security company Aramido GmbH.</p>
<p>Almost 90% of Germany's Mittelstand firms have turnover of less than EUR1 million, according to the KfW bank, making cyber protection expensive.</p>
<p>Germany's chambers of commerce have sounded the alarm on hacking too, organizing cybersecurity education seminars for companies. German insurers have started offering coverage.</p>
<p>"Company leaders in Germany have slowly woken up," said Claudia Philipp, cyberdefense expert at security firm Atarax GmbH.</p>
<p>Josh Chin contributed to this article.</p>
<p>Write to William Wilkes at [email protected]</p>
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<p>ROSWELL, N.M. — Roswell police say a possible homicide victim’s body has been found buried on the property of a vacant home.</p>
<p>Police say the person hasn’t been identified but that the death wasn’t recent and the body had been buried on the property for an extended time.</p>
<p>According to police, investigators found the body Tuesday while executing a search warrant.</p>
<p>Police say their investigation is just beginning and that no additional information is available.</p>
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<p>Small Business Spotlight: Dr. Paul’s Piggy Paste, @piggypasteguy</p>
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<p>Who: Dr. Paul Kinsinger</p>
<p>What: A safe and effective treatment for toenail fungus</p>
<p>When: 2010</p>
<p>Where: Washington, Illinois</p>
<p>How: Dr. Paul Kinsinger, a family doctor in Washington, Illinois, first read about using vinegar to cure toenail fungus in a medical journal. But when a patient didn’t have the patience to soak his foot in white vinegar every day for nine months, Dr. Kinsinger had an idea. Using the penetrating gels he had frequently used to deliver medications to hospice patients, he says he whipped up a concentrated batch of vinegar, and made 20 tubes to try on patients.</p>
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<p>“I tried it on 110 patients and it cleared up 81 toenails,” says Dr. Kinsinger.</p>
<p>After selling the tube locally, Dr. Paul’s Piggy Paste gained a loyal following: Today, Dr. Paul’s Piggy Paste is sold nationally for $30 a tube at retailers like Duane Reade, Walgreen’s, CVS and Rite Aid.</p>
<p>Biggest challenge: Word-of-mouth has proved difficult, says Dr. Kinsinger. “You would never talk about toenail fungus at Thanksgiving dinner,” he says.</p>
<p>One moment in time: Dr. Kinsinger is proudest of the fact that his paste has helped users clear up embarrassing toe fungus. “It’s a cosmetic problem, like acne. You can live with it, but it’s a problem. The question is, how do you take care of it in a safe way?” he says. Many prescription treatments are liver-toxic and interfere with other medications, he says, making the Piggy Paste a safe solution.</p>
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<p><a href="" type="internal" />On Tuesday, Slate.com contributor Aisha Harris posted a story titled “ <a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2013/05/07/charles_ramsey_amanda_berry_rescuer_becomes_internet_meme_video.html" type="external">The Troubling Viral Trend of the “Hilarious” Black Neighbor</a>,” in which she described how she believes the internet picks on black people and turns them into unwitting internet celebrities. There are so many things wrong with this argument that it’s hard to even fathom how it passed the sniff test with the editors at Slate, but let’s start by taking a look at this quote directly from the article:</p>
<p>Granted, the buzzworthy tactic of reporters interviewing the most loquacious witnesses to a crime or other event is nothing new, and YouTube has countless examples of people of all ethnicities saying ridiculous things.</p>
<p>With this one sentence, Harris basically discredits her entire premise. In making this connection, Harris is suggesting that the reporter who interviewed Charles Ramsey only chose to interview him because he looked like he would give an engaging interview, even though there were other “witnesses” they could have interviewed instead. By saying this, Harris is completely disregarding the fact that Ramsey wasn’t just a “witness” to the event, he was the key figure who aided in rescuing the women from the house. Furthermore, Harris herself admits there are “countless examples of people of all ethnicities saying ridiculous things” on Youtube. Let me clue Harris in on something here — that’s how the internet works. People post and share all sorts of absurd and/or funny things that other people, cats, dogs and animals of all kinds have been caught on camera doing — often with funny headlines or captions to grab the eye of potential viewers and aid in the general “virility” of the photos or clips. This is the same for people of all races — there is no conspiracy here. If you look long enough, you’ll eventually come across internet “memes” that are racist, sexist or just downright distasteful. That’s the nature of the internet.</p>
<p>Harris goes on to say:</p>
<p>It’s difficult to watch these videos and not sense that their popularity has something to do with a persistent, if unconscious, desire to see black people perform.</p>
<p>Excuse me? So, Harris is saying that people became enthralled with Charles Ramsey’s interview for no other reason than wanting to see “black people perform?” It couldn’t have anything to do with the fact that he was a key figure in rescuing three women who had been missing for up to a decade, and even presumed dead by some. No, definitely not that. By the same token, it couldn’t be because he gave an interview in which he spoke from the heart and didn’t seem to have the type of robotic, canned answers to questions that we often see in news interviews. Nope, it had to be because we’re all obsessed with wanting to see “black people perform.” I shouldn’t have to point out how absolutely outrageous this argument is, but judging by how widely shared Harris’ article has been, apparently it needs to be done.</p>
<p>In constructing her argument, Harris found three other examples of Youtube “sensations” who had gone viral online —&#160;Antoine Dodson, Sweet Brown and Michelle Clark. Dodson and Brown are probably instantly recognizable to anybody who has had a Facebook account for the past few years, but Clark is a rather obscure third choice to use when trying to make the broad argument of racism against black people in “viral memes.” Harris makes the argument that Kai the “hatchet-wielding hitchhiker” (a white man) wasn’t “subjected to quite the same level of derisive memeification” as Clark, which is far from the case from what I’ve seen online. Yet, Michelle Clark was the most notable third example Harris could find of this so-called “troubling viral trend.”</p>
<p>Let’s not forget the premise of Harris’ article — that black people are being singled out for “memeification” to fulfill our secret desire to watch black people perform. I already explained how this is absolutely ridiculous when it comes to the internet and “viral memes,” but it applies to television as well. Just look at our country’s obsession during the 90’s with TV talk shows like Ricki Lake or Jerry Springer, or even today with shows like Tosh.0 and “Here Comes Honey Boo Boo.” The desire to see people share their problems or make us laugh with their absurdity is something that transcends race itself. Harris’ argument is flawed inside and out.</p>
<p>It seems to me the real issue here is Harris had been sitting on this idea for a while, waiting for another “viral” interview of a black person to hit the news so she could pounce and tie everything together, with no regard for any coherence to her theory. In doing so, she’s doing a disservice to those of us who have been working to expose and eliminate real racism in this country. Harris took a shallow approach to an issue and tried to paint it with the broad stroke of racism, attacking each and every one of us who were fascinated by Charles Ramsey’s story and actions on Monday to help save three women from the nightmare they had been living. Sadly, it’s rather ironic that Harris ended her article by saying this:</p>
<p>Ramsey is particularly striking in this regard, since, for a moment at least, he put the issue of race front and center himself. Describing the rescue of Amanda Berry and her fellow captives, he says, “I knew something was wrong when a little pretty white girl ran into a black man’s arms. Something is wrong here. Dead giveaway!”</p>
<p>The candid statement seems to catch the reporter off guard; he ends the interview shortly afterward. And it’s notable that among the many memorable things Ramsey said on camera, this one has gotten less meme-attention than most. Those who are simply having fun with the footage of Ramsey might pause for a second to actually listen to the man. He clearly knows a thing or two about the way racism prevents us from seeing each other as people.</p>
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<p>Harris had a golden opportunity to talk about the implications of what Charles Ramsey said, and delve into the societal problems which we do still face today, which could have made for a thought-provoking and worthwhile read. Instead she only gave it a short paragraph, choosing to focus on internet memes in formulating a fluff piece of misleading nonsense. Not only is her argument disappointing, but it’s downright dangerous in how it takes the reader’s attention away from real life issues of racism and redirects their anger toward a nonexistent problem.</p>
<p><a href="" type="internal">Jon Stewart Crushes Fox News, Where 'Poverty is a Choice' but Racism 'Is a Product of Your Environment' (Video)</a></p>
<p><a href="" type="internal">The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week for Racial Justice</a></p>
<p><a href="" type="internal">MSBNC Host Melissa Harris-Perry Tries to Turn Star Wars Into a PC Racial Issue (Video)</a></p>
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<p>Conservative UK Prime Minister David Cameron today in the British House of Commons discussed the murder of Scotland’s Stuart Walker, who was beaten and burned, and found by the side of the road, possibly also a victim of sexual assault. During <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Question_Time" type="external">Question Time</a>, Cameron urged for public assistance in helping police solve the murder, stating,</p>
<p>“It was once said that the police are the public and the public are the police.</p>
<p>“The police cannot solve crimes without the help of the public and I hope everyone will co-operate in the best way they can.”</p>
<p>Walker was a&#160; <a href="" type="internal">gay 28-​year old Scottish man who became a murder victim,</a> found beaten and burned, who was definitely targeted, may have known his killer, and may also have been sexually assaulted, according to police in&#160;Cumnock in Ayrshire, Scotland. Walker, a&#160;barman and former assistant hotel manager was on his way to his grandmother’s 80th birthday party when he was killed. Walker’s murder has been described as “horrific,” “a very violent and sustained attack,”&#160;and now as possibly the worst anti-​gay hate crime in U.K. history.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-15463274" type="external">BBC News</a> adds,</p>
<p>Speaking at Prime Minister’s Questions in the Commons, local MP Sandra Osborne said: “My constituency is in a state of shock following the very brutal murder of a very popular local man, Stuart Walker.”</p>
<p>The MP for Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock condemned “unhelpful speculation” about why Mr Walker was killed and encouraged people to come forward with information.</p>
<p>Can you imagine any conservative politician in America speaking out for a murdered gay man?</p>
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<p>The hum of economic activity along the U.S.-Mexico border in Santa Teresa is the welcome sound of money changing hands. It’s called trade.</p>
<p>Companies are flocking to the industrial border zone just north of the Santa Teresa Port of Entry at a pace not seen since the 2008 recession. They will be supplying the maquiladoras in Mexico with components, raw materials, storage for finished goods coming out of the factories and transportation to distribute the goods around the U.S. and into Canada.</p>
<p>And that’s good news for New Mexico.</p>
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<p>“Our vision is to see New Mexico and the state of Chihuahua develop a world-class, one-of-its-kind, binational port that eventually will be home to hundreds, if not thousands of businesses,” says Jon Barela, Economic Development Department secretary.</p>
<p>Jerry Pacheco, executive director of the International Business Accelerator at Santa Teresa, predicts the zone, which has two industrial parks, could become one of the biggest trade centers along the U.S.-Mexico border.</p>
<p>Helping to spur the boom is construction of a new rail line and terminal for the Union Pacific Railroad. The 12-mile facility on the business parks’ northwest edge, includes new track, two locomotive refueling stations and a huge intermodal transshipment terminal. Expected to be operational in 2015, it will be Union Pacific’s largest refueling and transshipment center along the border, making Santa Teresa competitive with El Paso for trade.</p>
<p>Another factor in the nascent growth of Santa Teresa’s importance to New Mexico’s economic picture is Foxconn’s plans to expand its facility just across the border in San Jerónimo to eight times its current size in the next few years. The company makes up to 55,000 Dell computers daily for the U.S. market.</p>
<p>Sites in the zone are filling up fast. Companies that have moved in or plan to do so number nearly 50, up from 40 a year ago. About 2,000 people currently work in the business parks, not counting construction workers.</p>
<p>New Mexico is doing its part to fuel this economic fire. In 2011, Gov. Susana Martinez signed into law a tax exemption that lifts the tax on locomotive fuel in exchange for Union Pacific agreeing to build the $400 million terminal at Santa Teresa.</p>
<p>The Martinez administration is working with communities on both sides of border on trade and infrastructure issues, Barela said.</p>
<p>Last year the state approved an “overweight” commercial zone that allows trucks from Mexico to travel up to six miles into New Mexico with more weight than federal law permits on U.S. highways. That means shippers can carry full loads into the business parks without off-loading cargo at the border.</p>
<p>And the state Department of Transportation is building a $9.9 million road to connect Union Pacific’s railyard to the Pete Domenici Highway that runs from the port of entry to Interstate 10.</p>
<p>These are exciting signs of economic life that bode well for better opportunities with our trade partner, Mexico.</p>
<p>This editorial first appeared in the Albuquerque Journal. It was written by members of the editorial board and is unsigned as it represents the opinion of the newspaper rather than the writers.</p> | Editorial: Santa Teresa economic boom good for N.M. | false | https://abqjournal.com/203446/santa-teresa-economic-boom-good-for-nm.html | 2013-05-26 | 2 |
<p>Before the invasion of Iraq, Gen. Tommy Franks gathered with his top advisers to review their plans. The recently released slides from that meeting offer an insight into the startling <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/15/washington/15military.html?ex=1329195600&amp;en=ab52e1ac30c1c717&amp;ei=5088&amp;partner=rssnyt&amp;emc=rss" type="external">optimism</a> of the men who designed the war. Four years post-invasion, the commanders expected Iraq to have a fully representative government, a functioning army and as few as 5,000 U.S. troops. Whoops!</p>
<p>New York Times:</p>
<p>When Gen. Tommy R. Franks and his top officers gathered in August 2002 to review an invasion plan for Iraq, it reflected a decidedly upbeat vision of what the country would look like four years after Saddam Hussein was ousted from power.</p>
<p>A broadly representative Iraqi government would be in place. The Iraqi Army would be working to keep the peace. And the United States would have as few as 5,000 troops in the country.</p>
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<p>Military planning slides obtained by the National Security Archive under the Freedom of Information Act outline the command’s video projection of the stable, pro-American and democratic Iraq that was to be.</p>
<p>The general optimism and some details of General Franks’ planning session have been disclosed in the copious postwar literature. But the once classified slides provide a firsthand look at how far the violent reality of Iraq today has deviated from assumptions that once laid the basis for an exercise in pre-emptive war.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/15/washington/15military.html?ex=1329195600&amp;en=ab52e1ac30c1c717&amp;ei=5088&amp;partner=rssnyt&amp;emc=rss" type="external">Read more</a></p> | Prewar Slide Show Exposes Iraq Fantasy | true | https://truthdig.com/articles/prewar-slide-show-exposes-iraq-fantasy/ | 2007-02-15 | 4 |
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<p>Much has been said about the Islamic terrorists’ “culture of death.”</p>
<p>As <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golda_Meir" type="external">PM Golda Meir</a> famously said:</p>
<p>Peace will come when the Arabs will love their children more than they hate us.</p>
<p>Via This Ongoing War: <a href="http://thisongoingwar.blogspot.co.il/2014/07/30-jul-14-ordinariness-of-utter-evil.html" type="external">30-Jul-14: The ordinariness of utter evil</a></p>
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<p>….How do you co-exist with a society that sends you its children for world-class medical attention (or education or anything valuable that their society can never produce) and wants to destroy you, down to the last of you?</p>
<p>How do you compromise with them? How do you reach an understanding?</p>
<p>How do you live beside them?</p>
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<p>The “This Ongoing War” blog is posted by Frimet and Arnold Roth, whose daughter Malki, age 15, was killed in the Jerusalem Sbarro restaurant terrorist suicide bombing, August 2001.</p>
<p>(“shahid” in caption means “martyr”)</p>
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<p>And if there are costumes involved, so much the better.</p>
<p>Those basic facts make Kristin Roush’s idea sheer genius. Last semester, the Central New Mexico Community College psychology professor proposed having all faculty and staff members show up in their full academic regalia – robes, caps and hoods – to focus attention on the tremendous value of graduation.</p>
<p>Last week they did it.</p>
<p>The event included an electronic road sign near the Main Campus with various messages promoting graduation, life-sized cardboard cutouts of graduation finery where students could pose for photos, as well as campus group photos.</p>
<p>But the underlying message is much more than a day of dress-up. It’s that others have done this and you can, and should, too.</p>
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<p>That’s vital in New Mexico, where three of every 10 students fail to graduate high school in four years, just 32 percent of residents have an associate’s degree or higher, and six-year graduation rates have yet to top 50 percent at any N.M. institution. According to the Chronicle of Higher Education, just three states graduate a lower percentage of their public university students.</p>
<p>Melanie Viramontes, who wore her New Mexico State University gown to teach freshman English last week, says “education is the gateway to a better life.”</p>
<p>And Roush and the CNM brass deserve credit for understanding that seeing the tangible evidence of that better life, in the form of caps and gowns and hoods, makes the gateway more real to New Mexicans of any age.</p>
<p>This editorial first appeared in the Albuquerque Journal. It was written by members of the editorial board and is unsigned as it represents the opinion of the newspaper rather than the writers.</p>
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<p>The U.S. and Qatar signed an agreement in Doha Tuesday to crack down on terrorist financing, part of efforts by Secretary of State Rex Tillerson as he shuttles around the Persian Gulf to resolve a weekslong conflict between four Arab states and Qatar.</p>
<p>Under the agreement, the two countries will step up efforts to track down terrorist funding sources and will do more to collaborate and share information.</p>
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<p>Speaking to reporters after meetings with senior Qatari officials, Mr. Tillerson said the agreement lays out steps both sides will take in coming months and years to "interrupt and disable terror financing flows and intensify counterterrorism activities globally."</p>
<p>Both Mr. Tillerson and his Qatari counterpart said Tuesday the accord isn't directly related to the feud with Qatar on one side and Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt on the other.</p>
<p>"The United States has one goal, drive terrorism off the face of the earth," Mr. Tillerson said. "The agreement in which we both have signed on behalf of our governments represents weeks of intensive discussions between experts and reinvigorates the spirit of the Riyadh summit," he said in reference to meetings in May in Riyadh among the leaders of the U.S. and Arab countries.</p>
<p>He added: "Together the United States and Qatar will do more to track down funding sources, will do more to collaborate and share information and will do more to keep the region and our homeland safe."</p>
<p>"The blockading countries have accused Qatar of financing terrorism, now the state of Qatar is the first country to sign this memorandum of understanding with the United States. We invite the other blockading countries to join," said Qatar's Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani, who spoke to reporters alongside Mr. Tillerson.</p>
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<p>The four countries cut diplomatic ties and imposed a travel ban on June 5 in response to allegations that Qatar funds terrorist groups. U.S. officials have said they fear the conflict could drag on for months.</p>
<p>Qatar denies the allegations and has accused the bloc of Arab nations of waging a smear campaign. The four Arab countries rejected Qatar's response to a list of demands to try to resolve the crisis, including curbing diplomatic ties with Iran, severing links with the Muslim Brotherhood and closing the Al Jazeera television network.</p>
<p>Mr. Tillerson will meet with officials from the four-nation bloc Wednesday in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.</p>
<p>Trump administration officials want to bring an end to the conflict as well as combat the flow of funds to terrorist groups. Mr. Tillerson said some of the work on the agreement signed Tuesday began a year ago, and that experts have held discussions on the document for weeks.</p>
<p>"I applaud the leadership of his Highness the Emir of Qatar [ Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani] for the being first to respond to President Trump's challenge at the Riyadh summit to stop the funding of terrorism, " Mr. Tillerson said Tuesday.</p>
<p>Earlier, Mr. Tillerson called Qatar's position in the feud with the four Arab nations "very reasonable."</p>
<p>At the start of the conflict in June, President Donald Trump sided with Saudi Arabia and the other countries, criticizing Qatar's alleged support to terrorist groups and taking credit for the decision to crack down on Doha as evidence of the success of his visit to Riyadh in May. Mr. Tillerson, on the other hand, has been sympathetic to Qatar throughout and has urged calm and moderation.</p>
<p>Before Mr. Tillerson arrived in Kuwait on Monday, a senior adviser traveling with him told reporters that the list of 13 demands put forward to Qatar by the four Arab countries aren't viable as a package.</p>
<p>Mr. Tillerson is using Kuwait as a base to travel around the Persian Gulf region throughout the week.</p>
<p>"They are not worth revisiting as a package but individually there are things in there that could work," R.C. Hammond, the adviser, told reporters in Istanbul.</p>
<p>Mr. Hammond said both sides will need to make concessions to bring about an end to the conflict, as all nations in the region could do more to combat terror financing.</p>
<p>"This is a two-way street," he said Monday.</p>
<p>Qatar and its neighbors in 2013 and 2014 agreed on a number of actions that would result in Doha ending its support for political groups active in those countries and in Yemen. Details of that agreement, which were disclosed for the first time earlier this week, show that Qatar has until now failed to comply with these demands, the four Arab countries said Monday.</p>
<p>In a joint statement, Saudi Arabia, the U.A.E., Bahrain and Egypt said the documents "confirm beyond any doubt Qatar's failure to meet its commitments and its full violations of its pledges."</p>
<p>In response, Qatar said the publication of the documents was an attempt to undermine Mr. Tillerson's efforts to resolve the crisis. Doha also repeated earlier accusations that the quartet is seeking to destabilize Qatar's government and sovereignty.</p>
<p>Nicolas Parasie in Dubai contributed to this article.</p>
<p>Write to Felicia Schwartz at [email protected]</p>
<p>WASHINGTON -- The U.S. and Qatar signed an agreement in Doha Tuesday to crack down on terrorist financing, part of efforts by Secretary of State Rex Tillerson as he shuttles around the Persian Gulf to resolve a weekslong conflict between four Arab states and Qatar.</p>
<p>Under the agreement, the two countries will step up efforts to track down terrorist funding sources and will do more to collaborate and share information.</p>
<p>Speaking to reporters after meetings with senior Qatari officials, Mr. Tillerson said the agreement lays out steps both sides will take in coming months and years to "interrupt and disable terror financing flows and intensify counterterrorism activities globally."</p>
<p>Both Mr. Tillerson and his Qatari counterpart said Tuesday the accord isn't directly related to the feud with Qatar on one side and Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt on the other.</p>
<p>"The United States has one goal, drive terrorism off the face of the earth," Mr. Tillerson said. "The agreement in which we both have signed on behalf of our governments represents weeks of intensive discussions between experts and reinvigorates the spirit of the Riyadh summit," he said in reference to meetings in May in Riyadh among the leaders of the U.S. and Arab countries.</p>
<p>He added: "Together the United States and Qatar will do more to track down funding sources, will do more to collaborate and share information and will do more to keep the region and our homeland safe."</p>
<p>Qatar's Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani, who spoke to reporters alongside Mr. Tillerson, said, "The blockading countries have accused Qatar of financing terrorism, now the state of Qatar is the first country to sign this memorandum of understanding with the United States. We invite the other blockading countries to join."</p>
<p>The four countries cut diplomatic ties and imposed a travel ban on June 5 in response to allegations that Qatar funds terrorist groups. U.S. officials have said they fear the conflict could drag on for months.</p>
<p>Qatar denies the allegations and has accused the bloc of Arab nations of waging a smear campaign. The four Arab countries rejected Qatar's response to a list of demands to try to resolve the crisis, including curbing diplomatic ties with Iran, severing links with the Muslim Brotherhood and closing the Al Jazeera television network.</p>
<p>Mr. Tillerson will meet with officials from the four-nation bloc Wednesday in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.</p>
<p>Trump administration officials want to bring an end to the conflict as well as combat the flow of funds to terrorist groups. Mr. Tillerson said some of the work on the agreement signed Tuesday began a year ago, and that experts have held discussions on the document for weeks.</p>
<p>"I applaud the leadership of his Highness the Emir of Qatar [ Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani] for being the first to respond to President Trump's challenge at the Riyadh summit to stop the funding of terrorism, " Mr. Tillerson said Tuesday.</p>
<p>Earlier, Mr. Tillerson called Qatar's position in the feud with the four Arab nations "very reasonable."</p>
<p>Later Tuesday, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt said in a statement that the agreement reached between Washington and Doha "is not enough," and said they would "closely monitor the seriousness of Qatar in combating all forms of funding, supporting and fostering of terrorism," according to Emirati state news agency WAM. The four nations also said sanctions on Qatar would remain in place until Doha abides by their list of 13 demands.</p>
<p>At the start of the conflict in June, President Donald Trump sided with Saudi Arabia and the other countries, criticizing Qatar's alleged support to terrorist groups and taking credit for the decision to crack down on Doha as evidence of the success of his visit to Riyadh in May. Mr. Tillerson, on the other hand, has been sympathetic to Qatar throughout and has urged calm and moderation.</p>
<p>Before Mr. Tillerson arrived in Kuwait on Monday, a senior adviser traveling with him told reporters that the list of 13 demands put forward to Qatar by the four Arab countries aren't viable as a package.</p>
<p>Mr. Tillerson is using Kuwait as a base to travel around the Persian Gulf region throughout the week.</p>
<p>"They are not worth revisiting as a package but individually there are things in there that could work," R.C. Hammond, the adviser, told reporters in Istanbul.</p>
<p>Mr. Hammond said both sides will need to make concessions to bring about an end to the conflict, as all nations in the region could do more to combat terror financing.</p>
<p>"This is a two-way street," he said Monday.</p>
<p>Qatar and its neighbors in 2013 and 2014 agreed on a number of actions that would result in Doha ending its support for political groups active in those countries and in Yemen. Details of that agreement, which were disclosed for the first time earlier this week, show that Qatar has until now failed to comply with these demands, the four Arab countries said Monday.</p>
<p>In a joint statement, Saudi Arabia, the U.A.E., Bahrain and Egypt said the documents "confirm beyond any doubt Qatar's failure to meet its commitments and its full violations of its pledges."</p>
<p>In response, Qatar said the publication of the documents was an attempt to undermine Mr. Tillerson's efforts to resolve the crisis. Doha also repeated earlier accusations that the quartet is seeking to destabilize Qatar's government and sovereignty.</p>
<p>Nicolas Parasie in Dubai contributed to this article.</p>
<p>Write to Felicia Schwartz at [email protected]</p>
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<p>July 11, 2017 17:05 ET (21:05 GMT)</p> | Tillerson, Mediating Gulf Dispute, Signs Antiterrorism Pact With Qatar -- 2nd Update | true | http://foxbusiness.com/features/2017/07/11/tillerson-mediating-gulf-dispute-signs-antiterrorism-pact-with-qatar.html | 2017-07-11 | 0 |
<p>In the story of Greece’s subjugation by European capital, there is a seemingly endless cast of villains. At the top of that list are <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financialcrisis/10013814/Angela-Merkel-Austerity-makes-it-sound-evil-I-call-it-balancing-the-budget.html" type="external">Angela Merkel</a> and the almost cartoonishly loathsome <a href="http://yanisvaroufakis.eu/2015/07/17/dr-schaubles-plan-for-europe-do-europeans-approve-english-version-of-my-article-in-die-zeit/" type="external">Wolfgang Schauble</a>. Right below them, officials like <a href="" type="internal">Jeroen Dijsselbloem</a>, president of the Eurogroup of finance ministers, a caricature of a grey-suited technocrat.</p>
<p>Yet of all the people who bear responsibility for forcing this latest Memorandum on the Greek people, few played as reprehensible a role as French President François Hollande. For months, Hollande has made noises about the need for a different approach to the European debt crisis. In the face of German intransigence, he consistently argued in public that Greece could not be allowed to leave the eurozone. At one point in late June, he even described Alexis Tsipras’s counter-proposals for a new bailout deal as “ <a href="http://www.liberation.fr/politiques/2015/06/22/pour-hollande-les-propositions-de-tsipras-sont-acceptables_1334599" type="external">acceptable</a>.”</p>
<p>But in the end, these words amounted to nothing. Hollande, the “ <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/07/14/francois-hollande-greece_n_7793494.html" type="external">good cop</a>,” stood <a href="http://www.france24.com/en/20150706-live-blog-greece-no-vote-day-after" type="external">side-by-side</a> with Merkel and other eurozone leaders, as they <a href="http://www.euractiv.com/sections/euro-finance/hollande-merkel-press-greece-bring-serious-proposals-eurogroup-summit-316047" type="external">pushed</a>&#160;Tsipras into <a href="http://www.france24.com/en/20150713-liveblog-greece-crisis-summit-tsipras-merkel-hollande-schauble" type="external">accepting</a> a “compromise” deal that imposed devastating terms on the already-ravaged Greek economy.</p>
<p>For the far left, this sordid affair provided confirmation, in case there were any doubts, that all the rumblings of growing <a href="https://www.stratfor.com/sample/analysis/greece-and-looming-german-french-divide" type="external">French-German tensions</a> over the euro during the past year meant little. And really, how could anyone expect anything else? Why would the French government, which has made <a href="http://www.ibtimes.com/macron-law-french-labor-reforms-force-vote-confidence-parliament-1822080" type="external">austerity</a> the <a href="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/3e2f4314-b67b-11e4-a5f2-00144feab7de,Authorised=false.html?siteedition=uk&amp;_i_location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ft.com%2Fcms%2Fs%2F0%2F3e2f4314-b67b-11e4-a5f2-00144feab7de.html%3Fsiteedition%3Duk&amp;_i_referer=&amp;classification=conditional_standard&amp;iab=barrier-app#axzz3hBkzfzjM" type="external">pillar</a> of its own <a href="http://www.wsj.com/articles/frances-hollande-casts-fate-with-ex-banker-macron-1425851639" type="external">economic agenda</a> at home, lead the charge against austerity abroad?</p>
<p>The actions of Hollande’s Socialist Party (PS) government constitute one more reminder of just how rotten the carcass of European social democracy has become. In this regard, the PS’s role in the evisceration of Greek democracy was hardly unique on the European center-left: quite the contrary, Europe’s social-democratic and labor parties were, for the most part, firmly behind Merkel and Schauble throughout the negotiations with Greece — literally so in the case of <a href="https://global.handelsblatt.com/edition/215/ressort/politics/article/social-democrats-get-tough-on-greece" type="external">Sigmar Gabriel</a>, leader of Germany’s Social Democratic Party (SPD), who serves as <a href="http://www.socialeurope.eu/2015/07/german-vice-chancellor-says-tsipras-is-threat-to-european-order-and-he-is-right/" type="external">vice chancellor</a> in the grand coalition Merkel heads.</p> | The Many Lives of François Mitterrand | true | https://jacobinmag.com/2015/08/francois-mitterrand-socialist-party-common-program-communist-pcf-1981-elections-austerity/ | 2018-10-05 | 4 |
<p>Shares of some top insurance companies were mixed at the close of trading:</p>
<p>ACE L fell $.63 or .6 percent, to $107.88.</p>
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<p>Aflac Inc. fell $.17 or .3 percent, to $64.02.</p>
<p>American International Group rose $.01 or percent, to $57.00.</p>
<p>MBIA rose $.01 or .1 percent, to $9.11.</p>
<p>MGIC Investments Corp. fell $.18 or 1.7 percent, to $10.60.</p>
<p>MetLife fell $.41 or .8 percent, to $50.25.</p>
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<p>XL Group PLC rose $.02 or .1 percent, to $37.81.</p> | Insurance companies shares mixed at the close of trading | true | http://foxbusiness.com/markets/2014/12/22/insurance-companies-shares-mixed-at-close-trading.html | 2016-03-05 | 0 |
<p>Donald Trump on Tuesday told the <a href="https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/01/10/us/repeal-affordable-care-act-donald-trump.html" type="external">New York Times</a> that Republican lawmakers should repeal Obamacare and replace it with a new health care law at the same time, and that he would not agree to delay a replacement plan beyond a few weeks.</p>
<p>"Long to me would be weeks," Trump told the New York Times, referring to a replacement delay. "It won't be repeal and then two years later go in with another plan."</p>
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<p>Trump's comments differ from the planned approach from congressional Republican leaders, who have proposed repealing Obamacare quickly, but delaying a replacement plan for up to two or three years. His comments are more in line with the apprehension displayed by some Republicans this week who are concerned about delaying a replacement plan. Certain key senators, as well as members of the House Freedom Caucus, have <a href="" type="internal">indicated</a> that they need to see more details about a replacement plan before supporting a repeal of Obamacare.</p>
<p>After those hesitations surfaced, House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) <a href="" type="internal">said on Tuesday</a> that repeal and replace should take place "concurrently."</p>
<p>Trump seemed confident that Republicans on the Hill would be able to repeal Obamacare very soon and come up with a replacement plan shortly thereafter. He told the New York Times that Republicans should vote on repeal "probably some time next week," and he said that the replacement should come "very quickly or simultaneously, very shortly thereafter."</p> | Trump Says GOP Must Repeal And Replace Obamacare 'Together' | true | http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/trump-repeal-replace-same-time | 4 |
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<p>The following are forecasts for this week's remaining U.S. data from a survey compiled by The Wall Street Journal. Forecasts were last updated on Monday afternoon.</p>
<p>DATE TIME RELEASE PERIOD CONSENSUS PREVIOUS</p>
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<p>Friday 0830 Retail Sales Jun +0.1% (22) -0.3%</p>
<p>-- ex autos Jun +0.2% (22) -0.3%</p>
<p>0830 Consumer Price Index Jun +0.1% (23) -0.1%</p>
<p>-- ex food &amp; energy Jun +0.2% (23) +0.1%</p>
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<p>0915 Industrial Production Jun +0.3% (22) +0.0%</p>
<p>0915 Capacity Utilization Jun 76.8% (20) 76.6%</p>
<p>1000 Consumer Sentiment Jul 94.7 (19) 95.1*</p>
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<p>1000 Business Inventories May +0.3% (14) -0.2%</p>
<p>*End-June Reading</p>
<p>(Figures in parentheses refer to number of economists surveyed.)</p>
<p>Write to Tim Merle at [email protected]</p>
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<p>July 13, 2017 10:14 ET (14:14 GMT)</p> | Retail Sales Expected to Rise -- Data Week Ahead | true | http://foxbusiness.com/features/2017/07/12/retail-sales-expected-to-rise-data-week-ahead.html | 2017-07-13 | 0 |
<p>NEW ORLEANS — For most of the regular season, <a href="https://www.upi.com/topic/New-Orleans-Saints/" type="external">New Orleans Saints</a> quarterback <a href="https://www.upi.com/topic/Drew_Brees/" type="external">Drew Brees</a> has carefully placed his future Hall of Fame right arm in a protective sleeve, using it only when necessary.</p>
<p>On Sunday, it was necessary.</p>
<p>After relying on a strong running attack most of the season, Brees passed for 376 yards and two touchdowns, including an 80-yarder to <a href="https://www.upi.com/topic/Ted_Ginn/" type="external">Ted Ginn</a> Jr. that “broke the seal” on the game in the first half of the Saints’ 31-26 wild-card playoff victory over the <a href="https://www.upi.com/topic/Carolina_Panthers/" type="external">Carolina Panthers</a>.</p>
<p>The win advanced the Saints into a divisional playoff matchup next Sunday against the <a href="https://www.upi.com/topic/Minnesota-Vikings/" type="external">Minnesota Vikings</a>.</p>
<p>The Saints rushed for only 41 yards, their lowest total of the season, against the Panthers and about 100 yards fewer than they ran for in the two previous regular-season victories over Carolina.</p>
<p>But it didn’t matter.</p>
<p>“I’ve been telling you all year that you don’t sleep on Drew,” Saints running back <a href="https://www.upi.com/topic/Mark_Ingram/" type="external">Mark Ingram</a> II said. “If you are going to stack the box, try to stop the run and try to take us (running backs) out of the game, then he is going to hurt you. We have been telling you that he is the best quarterback in the league. He is still Drew Brees.”</p>
<p>Brees completed 23-of-33 passes (69.6 percent), and he now has 3,915 career passing yards in the postseason, ranking him 10th in NFL history. The 376 yards were the fourth most in an NFL playoff game.</p>
<p>Brees also has 329 career completions in the postseason, 10th in league history.</p>
<p>“He’s a Hall of Fame quarterback,” Carolina cornerback Captain <a href="https://www.upi.com/topic/Munnerlyn/" type="external">Munnerlyn</a> said.</p>
<p>“When he has time, he’s going to find players downfield,” Carolina head coach <a href="https://www.upi.com/topic/Ron_Rivera/" type="external">Ron Rivera</a> said. “Unfortunately, that’s what he did. He got a little bit too much a couple of times and was able to advance the ball downfield. Their chunk yardage was tremendous.”</p>
<p>Saints head coach <a href="https://www.upi.com/topic/Sean_Payton/" type="external">Sean Payton</a> simply marvels at Brees’ ability to dissect coverages. Brees will turn 39 on Jan. 15.</p>
<p>“You start looking at how Drew has played in these games at home,” Payton said. “There is a sense of urgency throughout the week. You just sense it around your team you get to this stage of the season, the experience these guys have varies.”</p>
<p>When Carolina stacked their defense to shut down the run, Brees picked up the challenge.</p>
<p>“If a team is going to give you that, then I feel with the matchups we have outside that there should be opportunities,” Brees said. “I think we’ve shown offensively that we have a lot of ways to be effective, a lot of weapons to spread the ball around.”</p> | Drew Brees comes to pass when New Orleans Saints need him | false | https://newsline.com/drew-brees-comes-to-pass-when-new-orleans-saints-need-him/ | 2018-01-08 | 1 |
<p>As a kid, I must have asked my mom something like five times if I was supposed to be a boy. To me that seemed rational: maybe I was drawn towards action figures and boys’ clothes and sports and video games because it was a surprise that I was a girl. It was a mistake.</p>
<p>But it wasn’t a mistake.</p>
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<p>I identify strongly as a woman; I just have never identified with the images of women that have been presented to me. Reclaiming my masculinity&#160;has been a messy process, as <a href="" type="internal">I’ve written about before</a>. I’m not a&#160;perfect feminist, and there are things with which I constantly grapple. One of those things is the delicate balance of being marginalized and privileged in the same space, depending on the lens I employ at the time.</p>
<p>As a masculine of center woman, I often do not find inclusion in many spaces, and there is a certain pain that comes with constant erasure. I can’t quite put my finger on it, but it feels a little like a gut punch that never ends.</p>
<p>I stopped wearing dresses when I was six. I chopped off my hair, and refused to wear anything except And 1 gear, because I was obsessed with street ball and the And 1 Mixtape Tour. I wore khakis and sweaters to church and was constantly misread as a boy.</p>
<p>It became clear to me around fifth grade that in order to fit in with my girlish friends, I needed to wear tighter jeans, shave my legs, and wear shorter shorts. There was also high school, when I wore a skirt nearly every day for four years. Being conflicted about my gender expression was an everyday occurrence for the better part of my first two decades on earth. There are so many assumptions and expectations that come with being read as a woman, and yet I find that box is not quite built to fit me.</p>
<p>That is the history I carry with me in every space I occupy.&#160; When talking with friends and colleagues about&#160;women, I find that most people do not think of women as including masculine expression unless I push them to do so. In that way, I am not seen. I am mispronouned by colleagues, friends, family, and activists in the movements I hold dear. I can go weeks without being referred to in the way that I identify. That is deeply painful for me, and there are times when hearing my correct pronouns brings tears to my eyes.</p>
<p>But that is what I mean about lens. Queer and feminist critiques of&#160;&#160;traditional gender performance help explain the ways my gender expression is not affirmed. But they also require that&#160;I recognize&#160;the privilege I have as a masculine expressing person.</p>
<p>Sexism as a system upholds masculine superiority, while demonizing the feminine. That holds true across gender identity. Femme women, femme men, trans-feminine folks, and trans women all face disgust from varying sectors of our society. That disgust sometimes manifests as&#160;a sideways glance; to often it rears its head&#160;physical and/or sexual violence.</p>
<p>That does not mean that butch/masculine-of-center women are not at risk. Too often, we are punished for being “bad” (read: insufficiently feminine) women.&#160;There is also&#160;always a danger of being read–or misread–as visibly&#160;queer.&#160;And when LGBTQ&#160;aren’t feared, we are too often rendered invisible.</p>
<p>The tension I struggle with is holding both sides of that coin at the same time when I am in a space of all femme women.</p>
<p>I like to talk, and I always have&#160;something to say. Is it ok for me to take up that space because there is often no other masculine of center, queer woman of color in the room? Does my masculinity bolster my willingness to take up space, at the expense of other voices that may not be heard elsewhere? This is a tension that I find is often not acknowledged or explored within queer or feminist communities.</p>
<p>I’m not quite sure where to go other than acknowledging that this is something I’m thinking about and struggling with. I bet I’m not alone.</p>
<p>Header Image Credit: <a href="http://www.qwoc.org/2013/04/female-boxing-champion-pat-manuel-launches-buff-butch-an-online-fitness-resource-for-masculine-of-center/" type="external">qwoc.org</a></p> | On reclaiming and revisiting my masculinity | true | http://feministing.com/2016/02/01/on-reclaiming-and-revisiting-my-masculinity/ | 4 |
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<p>That’s straight from his lapel camera footage released by the Albuquerque Police Department this week.</p>
<p>The footage shows Nadas entering through the window of an apartment – with gun in hand – and tripping on something. His gun goes off once, startling him and his partner, who was outside the apartment. Police said a bullet struck a man in a downstairs apartment about 6 a.m. Sunday.</p>
<p>“I almost fell down, Sarge,” Nadas explained to his sergeant. “This leg got caught up here and because we clear houses my gun was right here. And then I fell down, and that’s when my trigger finger went down at the same time.”</p>
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<p>Alex Ramirez, a relative of the man who was shot, identified him as Ramiro Armendariz. He said the 46-year-old man was staying with his sister, Alicia Armendariz, at an apartment in the 500 block of Charleston SE.</p>
<p>Ramirez said Armendariz got up early in the morning and was going for a glass of water when he was shot in the upper back.</p>
<p>“Basically, he was in the wrong place at the wrong time,” Ramirez said.</p>
<p>Armendariz was taken to University of New Mexico Hospital, and police said Wednesday that he is expected to survive. His family members said he was doing well.</p>
<p>Nadas was investigating a burglary at the apartment complex, and police arrested one person in connection with the investigation.</p>
<p>Nadas was in the news last April after he purchased lunch for 20 homeless people at the Noon Day Ministries homeless shelter during a power outage. He has been with APD since April 2013 after moving to Albuquerque from Hungary.</p>
<p>Officer Tanner Tixier, an APD spokesman, said Nadas is on administrative leave and police are investigating whether he violated any policies by climbing through the window with his weapon out. Tixier said the department-issued handguns that Nadas had don’t have a safety lock.</p>
<p>The multiagency task force that investigates officer-involved shootings in the county is handling the case. But Tixier said the police department is classifying the incident as an accidental discharge and not an officer-involved shooting for statistical purposes.</p>
<p>The Sunday morning incident was the first time in months an Albuquerque officer fired a weapon in the field. The department’s last officer-involved shooting was in July.</p>
<p>The gap in the department’s police shootings comes after a Department of Justice investigation found Albuquerque police had a pattern of using excessive force, which included police shootings. The department shot and killed 27 people since 2010, and the police department is currently in the process of implementing reforms aimed at resolving issues found during the DOJ investigation.</p>
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<p>Members of the Senate Judiciary Committee got a real-life example last week showing why it is essential for everyone’s safety to make wire and cable theft that results in an outage a felony.</p>
<p>The Democrats on the committee have balked at SB 28, which elevates the crime from larceny tied to the value of the wire, saying forcing thieves to go to jail and have a felony record would present disadvantaged folks with a hardship.</p>
<p>What do they call being hospitalized in an Albuquerque burn unit? Because that’s the end result for a man who tried to steal copper wire from the Tohatchi Electric Substation last week; he was first transported to the Gallup hospital by ambulance and then to one in Albuquerque with extensive burns to his body.</p>
<p>And what do they call doing without essential power in a remote community? Because that attempted theft resulted in a five-hour blackout for Tohlakai, Twin Lakes, Coyote Canyon, Tohatchi and from Buffalo Springs to Naschitti. They are the all-too-common results of what has become an all-too-common crime. Police say there were more than 600 such thefts in the Metro area last year alone, primarily involving drug abusers trying to support their habits.</p>
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<p>The House has voted unanimously, 60-0, for the increased penalties in that house’s version, HB 57. So has the Senate Public Affairs Committee, 8-0, on mirror bill SB 28.</p>
<p>The Senate Judiciary Committee, and the Senate as a whole, should also do the proactive and humane thing and also vote to increase penalties when wire/cable theft results in an outage. That vote will help protect the public at large as well as thieves who would short-circuit safety for what they think will be easy money.</p>
<p>This editorial first appeared in the Albuquerque Journal. It was written by members of the editorial board and is unsigned as it represents the opinion of the newspaper rather than the writers.</p> | Editorial: Will injured wire thief jolt Senate into action? | false | https://abqjournal.com/172296/will-injured-wire-thief-jolt-senate-into-action.html | 2013-02-25 | 2 |
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<p>BURNET, Texas — A leading elected official in Central Texas is apologizing for a social media post that said a “tree and a rope” were needed for the man accused of fatally shooting a San Antonio police detective.</p>
<p>Burnet County Judge James Oakley, the county’s top administrator, tells the San Antonio Express-News that his post suggesting suspect Otis Tyrone McKane should be lynched was “curt and harsh.” Oakley is white and McKane black.</p>
<p>The Austin American-Statesman initially reported Oakley’s Facebook comment and that it was later removed. It was posted Monday, the same day McKane was arrested in the death of Detective Benjamin Marconi.</p>
<p>Oakley says his comment was off the cuff but had nothing to do with McKane’s race.</p>
<p>Marconi was shot Sunday as he sat in his patrol car writing a traffic ticket.</p>
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<p>Starting a new job can be an exciting, but nerve-racking time. There are a few things you can and should do to limit your risk and ensure you're making the right decision when it comes to accepting a new role.</p>
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<p>During your job search, you should be on the lookout for the following warning signs. That way, you can be more confident about the changes you make while avoiding potential career disasters.</p>
<p>1. Goals and Expectations Aren't Clear and Reasonable</p>
<p>Has the company been direct about what they need from you and how your success will be measured? Are the expectations realistic and attainable? Make sure you can answer "yes" to these questions before starting a new job.</p>
<p>Be especially careful if your boss comes from a background that is different from��the work you'll be doing. For example, let's say you join a startup and you're the first person in marketing, and your boss is the head of operations. You should have a discussion about marketing with them to make sure you see eye-to-eye on exactly what you're expected to accomplish in your first month, your first three months, and your first year with the company.</p>
<p>2. There Isn't a Strong Process for Onboarding or Training</p>
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<p>Ask the company about the training process and listen to how they describe it. Are they confident and enthusiastic about it when they lay out the steps ahead? Or does it seem like just another thing they have to "deal with" as part of the hiring process?</p>
<p>Try to find out how other team members in the group describe it as well, not just the hiring manager. If you get a chance to interview with other people, ask them, "How would you rate the training and support you received while getting ramped up in your role?"</p>
<p>3. You Don't Feel a Strong��Connection With the Hiring Manager</p>
<p>There's a saying that people don't quit jobs, they quit bosses. Having a great boss has a big impact on your happiness at work.</p>
<p>Imagine having a great relationship with your boss, seeing��them as a mentor, feeling free to share your challenges and setbacks, and getting experience-driven advice to help you grow. That's what you should look for.</p>
<p>On the opposite end of the spectrum, a bad boss will feel like somebody who just monitors��and watches��you ��� or somebody you're afraid to go talk to because they will jump to conclusions or won't understand your perspective. So remember that the hiring manager is also your future boss in most cases. Make sure they are somebody you'd genuinely feel comfortable working with.</p>
<p>4. There Isn't a Clear Picture of Your Long-Term Career Path</p>
<p>How does the company respond when you ask what your role will look like in one or two years? Also ask them to describe what other employees have gone on to do after spending time in your position. Have they moved up and been promoted?</p>
<p>Be careful if a company only has vague answers or seems like they haven't figured out what your next step could possibly be. This might be a sign that they need to plug a gap quickly and are only thinking about their short-term needs. A good job is like a relationship. Your needs and interests should be��balanced with those of the company.</p>
<p>5. There's a High Turnover Rate</p>
<p>Many of the factors above will lead to the same result: high turnover. So this final step is a great way to quickly check the overall quality of the company and the group you're looking��to join.</p>
<p>If you're given an opportunity to meet multiple people during your interview, ask each one how long they've been with the company. If you don't meet with everyone in the group, you can go on LinkedIn after the interview and look at their dates of employment. It's a good sign if you see people have been there for many years.</p>
<p>How to Use This Information Moving Forward</p>
<p>Use the five points above as a reminder before your interview and as a checklist before making your final decision. Ask questions that will help you find out about these topics throughout your job search, and don't be afraid to follow up after your interview if you don't have enough information yet.</p>
<p>Not only will this process help you gather data so you can feel confident when you make a decision, but it will��also help you come across as a better job candidate! Showing an interest in these topics sends a signal to employers��that you are career-oriented, thorough, and careful when it comes to your job search. Those are all attractive qualities to demonstrate as a candidate.</p>
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<p>France's Air Liquide SA (AI.FR) said Wednesday that its third-quarter revenue decreased slightly on the year, citing a foreign-exchange hit which offset positive currency effects in the first half.</p>
<p>Revenue at the French industrial-gases producer was 4.94 billion euros ($5.81 billion), down 0.3% from EUR4.96 billion a year earlier.</p>
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<p>The company is using restated sales--which take into account the divestitures of Aqua Lung and Air Liquide Welding--as its baseline for comparison. Prior to the restatement, Air Liquide reported its third-quarter 2016 revenue as EUR5.08 billion.</p>
<p>Sales at Air Liquide's main gas-and-services business rose 0.1% to EUR4.79 billion, driven largely by developing economies and the Asia-Pacific region, it said. China reported 15% revenue growth thanks to an increase in prices and volumes, while European sales grew by 4.2%, the company said.</p>
<p>Synergies from the acquisition of Airgas, which Air Liquide bought for $10 billion in 2016, came in ahead of schedule thanks to quicker project execution, the company said. Air Liquide now expects synergies of $195 million by the end of 2017 compared with an earlier forecast of $175 million.</p>
<p>Air Liquide said that lower demand in the U.S. due to hurricanes Harvey and Irma had a moderate negative effect on sales. However, it expects insurance to cover most of the impact on operating profit, while forthcoming reconstruction work should drive higher volumes in the coming months.</p>
<p>"Assuming a comparable environment, Air Liquide is confident in its ability to deliver net profit growth in 2017," said Chief Executive Benoit Potier.</p>
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<p>By slipping a simple, three-sentence provision into the gargantuan spending bill passed by the House of Representatives last week, a congressman from Silicon Valley is trying to nudge Congress into the 21st Century. Rep. Mike Honda (D-Calif.) placed a measure in the bill directing Congress and its affiliated organs—including the Library of Congress and the Government Printing Office—to make its data available to the public in raw form. This will enable members of the public and watchdog groups to craft websites and databases showcasing government data that are more user-friendly than the government’s own.</p>
<p>If the Senate passes the bill with the provision intact, citizens seeking information about Congress’ activities—such as bill names and numbers, amendments, votes, and committee reports—won’t have to rely on government websites, which often filter information, are incomplete, or are difficult to use. Instead, the underlying data will be available to anyone who wants to build a superior site or tool to sift through it. “The language is groundbreaking in that it supports providing unfiltered legislative information to the public,” says Honda’s online communications director, Rob Pierson. “Instead of silo-ing the information, and only allowing access through a limited web form, access to the raw data will make it easier for people to learn what their government is doing.”</p>
<p>Successful, privately-created websites that provide the public with information about Congress’ actions already exist. <a href="http://www.opencongress.org/" type="external">OpenCongress.org</a>, <a href="http://www.govtrack.us/" type="external">GovTrack.us</a>, <a href="http://www.legistorm.com/" type="external">Legistorm.com</a>, and <a href="http://www.maplight.org/" type="external">MAPLight.org</a> all make legislative data available to the public in ways that are easier to navigate than Congress’ primary web portal, a system called <a href="http://thomas.loc.gov/" type="external">Thomas</a>. Those sites currently get their data through techies who “scrape” Thomas and other government websites, which means they use bots to process the HTML and gather what is valuable. The process is labor-intensive and imprecise. “It’s difficult to keep the data up to date, in some cases impossible, and occasionally there are errors in the data,” says Josh Tauberer, the 26-year-old who runs GovTrack.us and does lots of the “scraping” that others use. “This could all be fixed by a bulk data download.”</p>
<p>Tauberer expects that the availability of additional and easier-to-use congressional data will spur innovation. “You can expect to see other sites spring up doing new and interesting things with the information.” He anticipates charts, graphs, and maps that represent congressional goings-on visually—”ways of visualizing the congressional process that we couldn’t yet imagine.” Honda, with his Silicon Valley roots, expects that developers and coders will quickly outpace the government’s efforts to date. “We hope that we can learn from the wisdom of crowds,” says Pierson.</p>
<p>There are government agencies that already provide massive amounts of data via databases. The Census Bureau provides huge amounts of information in raw form, allowing academics, statisticians, and think tank scholars to comb through it in any way they please. The Federal Elections Commission publishes unedited data on campaign contributions, giving rise to sites like <a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/" type="external">OpenSecrets.org</a>, which allows the public to see who is donating to whom, and allows journalists and watchdogs to investigate the influence of money in politics.</p>
<p>“In our Web 2.0 world, we can empower the public by providing them with raw data that they can remix and reuse in new and innovative ways,” Honda told Mother Jones in a statement. (Disclosure: In the summer of 2002, I briefly worked as an intern in Honda’s district office.) Honda’s provision, however, pertains only to legislative data. Federal departments like the Environmental Protection Agency, the Food and Drug Administration, and the Department of Energy have reams of data that political scientists, economists, and researchers of all stripes would love to get their hands on. Many who work at the intersection of technology, politics, and transparency believe that the key player in broadening Honda’s effort to include the executive branch will be Vivek Kundra, the former Chief Technology Officer of the District of the Columbia who was named Obama’s Chief Information Officer on Thursday. According to the National Journal‘s <a href="http://techdailydose.nationaljournal.com/2009/03/federal-cio-lays-out-ambitious.php" type="external">Tech Daily Dose</a>, Kundra “told reporters Thursday he will launch data.gov, a Web site intended to ‘democratize data’ by giving the public raw feeds of information from a range of agencies.”</p>
<p>John Wonderlich, the policy director at the Sunlight Foundation, which has created or funded <a href="http://www.sunlightfoundation.com/projects/" type="external">several tools</a> that make government data easier to analyze, is holding out hope that the president’s <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/TransparencyandOpenGovernment/" type="external">Open Government Directive</a>, which is due at the end of May, will further address the issue of data availability. He applauds Honda for putting Congress, at least, on the right track. “Without Honda’s attention to this issue, congressional level attention to bulk data access would be unlikely,” he says. “We’re happy to see this first step.”</p>
<p /> | Congressional Data Mining: Coming Soon? | true | https://motherjones.com/politics/2009/03/congressional-data-mining-coming-soon/ | 2009-03-05 | 4 |
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<p><a href="" type="internal" />On Friday, the Los Angeles Times reported that Micah Xavier Johnson, the 25-year-old veteran who told Dallas police he “wanted to kill white people, especially white officers,” followed and “liked” the Facebook pages for the founder of the Nation of Islam and the Black Riders Liberation Party,&#160;organizations classified as hate groups by the Southern Poverty Law Center.</p>
<p>The Times added:</p>
<p>In addition to his interest in separatist groups, Johnson had “liked” a page for the Huey P. Newton Gun Club, named for the Black Panther Party’s co-founder. The group, founded last year, teaches its members self-defense and conducts what it calls “armed patrols” through neighborhoods where the police have killed black men.</p>
<p>In a press release issued last year, the group said police agencies with officers who shoot and kill black people “protect the interests of the ruling class, much as they did in the past with slave patrols in the South and strike breakers in the late 19th and early 20th century.”</p>
<p>“We’d never seen him and we don’t know him,” said member Erick Khafre by phone. “The gun club isn’t affiliated with him in any way.”</p>
<p>The Santa Monica Observer reported:</p>
<p>Among the five suspects now in Dallas Police custody are self described “Islamic Americans” who attended a Nation of Islam mosque in the South Dallas area. It should be noted that the Nation of Islam itself is splintered into several groups. Louis Farrakhan, who took over the organization in 1981, subscribes to Dianetics and appears to have left Islam altogether. It’s ideology is barely recognizable as Islamic.</p>
<p>Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings identified the shooter as Micah X. Johnson. “Micah X.” appears to have been named after Black Nationalist leader Malcolm X. a member of the Nation of Islam. “While in prison, Malcolm X became a member of the Nation of Islam, and after his parole in 1952, quickly rose to become one of the organization’s most influential leaders.”</p>
<p>Just hours before the attack in Dallas, Nation of Islam founder Louis Farrakhan posted:</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2016/07/08/hours-before-officers-were-gunned-down-in-dallas-louis-farrakhan-posted-this-shocking-message-of-racism-and-violence/" type="external">The Blaze</a> posted some of what Farrakhan said:</p>
<p>“When you are willing and not afraid anymore to pay the price for freedom — don’t let this white man tell you that violence is wrong,” Farrakhan said. “Every damn thing that he got, he got it by being violent — killing people, raping and robbing and murdering. He’s doing it as we speak, and then he has the nerve to come and tell us that violence and hatred won’t get it. Don’t buy that!”</p>
<p>Speaking about white people as one entity, Farrakhan proclaimed, “He is worthy to be hated.” He also claimed that “God hates,” and man is no better than God.</p>
<p>Steven H. Ahle <a href="http://dailyheadlines.net/2016/07/video-hours-before-the-dallas-cop-killings-louis-farrakhan-calls-for-violence-against-whites/" type="external">noted</a>: “Just hours before five police officers were killed and six more injured, noted racist posted a racist rant on social media calling for violence against whites.&#160; You may remember that <a href="http://hotair.com/archives/2008/01/15/obamas-mentor-and-pastor-honors-louis-farrakhan/" type="external">Obama and his church bestowed a lifetime achievement award to Farrakhan</a>.”</p>
<p>No wonder ISIS and al Qaeda <a href="" type="internal">celebrated the shootings</a> while calling for more attacks…</p>
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<p>Recently, Alastair McKechnie, the World Bank director for Afghanistan, <a href="http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2007/05/deea145a-41b7-4151-a0f7-337ae314889c.html" type="external">called</a> the changes in Afghanistan “staggering.” According to McKechnie, the Afghan economy has grown at a 10% rate, and though he concedes that there is no available data on unemployment, “people even in rural areas look more prosperous,” and are “generally much better off.”</p>
<p>Now the Bush administration has <a href="http://usinfo.state.gov/xarchives/display.html?p=washfile-english&amp;y=2007&amp;m=March&amp;x=20070308165635idybeekcm0.8657343" type="external">requested</a> an additional $11.8 billion from Congress “to accelerate Afghan reconstruction projects and security forces training in 2007-2008,” and to “ <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/02/20070215.html" type="external">help</a> President Karzai defeat our common enemies.” This, they claim, is to demonstrate a “commitment to the Afghan people.”</p>
<p>Hopefully, the average Afghan, including the Afghan government, will reap some benefits, but so far it’s not looking good. IRIN <a href="http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=72002" type="external">reports</a> that since the 2001, about 60 donors have spent $13 billion in reconstruction and development activities; yet “out of every US dollar spent by donors in Afghanistan’s reconstruction 80 cents finds its way out of the country.” The “rest has been spent by donors themselves,” with some Afghan officials stating that the money has been allocated through foreign subcontractors, leaving little accountability of where all the aid money is going.</p>
<p>In February, 64 countries and 11 international organizations met in London, <a href="http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=69862" type="external">pledging</a> $10.5 billion to Afghanistan by 2010 for “security, governance and economic development.” Not for the basic needs of the citizens, 6.5 million of whom are starving, most having no access to potable water, sanitation, and heath and social services, and more than half of Afghans living below the poverty line.</p>
<p>Further, the San Francisco Chronicle <a href="http://www.rawa.org/rebuild3.htm" type="external">pointed out</a> that perhaps 40% of promised aid is actually delivered, and,</p>
<p>“70% of U.S. aid is contingent upon the recipient spending it on American stuff, including especially American-made armaments. The upshot is that 86 cents of every dollar of U.S. aid is phantom aid.”</p>
<p>Why has pouring billions of dollars into Afghanistan been important? It’s for “reconstruction,” but reconstructing Afghanistan for the purposes of the “ <a href="http://www.state.gov/p/sca/rls/rm/2007/81528.htm" type="external">Great Game</a>“– a game that’s about energy exports and ensuring US hegemony in South Asia.</p>
<p>—Neha Inamdar</p>
<p /> | Afghanistan’s “Staggering” Economic Growth Doesn’t Stem Poverty | true | https://motherjones.com/politics/2007/05/afghanistans-staggering-economic-growth-doesnt-stem-poverty/ | 2007-05-17 | 4 |
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<p>HOUSTON - Six years after the Texas Legislature approved $10 million to equip more school buses with seat belts, the money has been spent but little of it went for its stated purpose.</p>
<p>The Houston Chronicle reports ( <a href="http://bit.ly/1L6YbtD)" type="external">http://bit.ly/1L6YbtD)</a> that only about $415,000 was awarded to school districts to equip school buses with seat belts. That's because the funding approved in 2009 had a loophole meaning districts weren't required to install them.</p>
<p>The only direct funding for school bus seat belts therefore came in 2011 from the Texas Education Agency. The rest returned to state coffers or was used elsewhere in the agency budget.</p>
<p>There's no official tally, but most standard-size school buses across Texas still lack seat belts.</p>
<p>In all, about 35,000 school buses transport 1.5 million school children statewide daily.</p>
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<p>Information from: Houston Chronicle, <a href="http://www.houstonchronicle.com" type="external">http://www.houstonchronicle.com</a></p>
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<p>Yesterday several sites reported that a Nevada Republican group was encouraging members to <a href="http://www.politicususa.com/2016/02/19/republicans-urge-members-commit-akin-voter-fraud-nevada.html" type="external">vote against</a> Hillary Clinton in the Democratic caucus on Saturday and then also vote in the GOP caucus on Tuesday. Today the Nevada State Democratic Party reacted by promising to prosecute voters who “violate the integrity of the caucus process.” From <a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/270051-nevada-dems-threaten-prosecution-for-anyone-participating-in-caucuses-under" type="external">The Hill</a>:</p>
<p>“After reviewing Nevada law, we believe that registering under false pretenses in order to participate in the Democratic caucuses for purposes of manipulating the presidential nominating process is a felony,” Nevada Democratic Chairwoman Roberta Lange said in a statement.</p>
<p>“The Nevada State Democratic Party will work with law enforcement to prosecute anyone who falsely registers as a Democrat to caucus tomorrow and subsequently participates in the Republican caucuses on Tuesday.”</p>
<p>On Thursday, a College Republicans chapter at University of Nevada, Reno, encouraged its members to exploit a loophole that allows voters to switch party allegiance in time to participate in both party’s caucuses.</p>
<p>The Republican group claims that voting in both caucuses in legal.</p> | NEVADA: State Democratic Party Threatens To Prosecute Anybody Who Votes In Both Party Caucuses | true | http://joemygod.com/2016/02/19/nevada-state-democratic-party-threatens-to-prosecute-anybody-who-votes-in-both-party-caucuses/ | 2016-02-19 | 4 |
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<p>The Las Cruces Police Department received three reports Monday of a person calling residents claiming to be a representative of law enforcement and demanding money or credit card information to avoid arrest.</p>
<p>In one of the incidents reported to police, a 79-year-old woman lost $1,000 when she purchased a prepaid card and provided its account number to the thief. The caller, a “Lieutenant Donaldson,” claimed to be from the Doña Ana County Sheriff’s Office and told the woman she had failed to respond to a jury summons. The perpetrator reportedly told the woman she could avoid arrest by paying $1,000 via a Green Dot Money Pak card.</p>
<p>The Doña Ana County Sheriff’s Office has no lieutenant with the last name Donaldson, and the call did not originate from the sheriff’s office.</p>
<p>The collection of any debt is a civil matter and law enforcement agencies have limited roles in civil cases. Police will not make an arrest simply for an outstanding debt.</p>
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<p>Anyone who has been victimized by a financial scam should file a police report immediately. The non-emergency phone number is 526-0795</p>
<p>If anyone is contacted regarding an outstanding warrant over the phone, you are asked to report it in person to the Doña Ana County Sheriff’s Office main headquarters at 845 N. Motel Boulevard.</p>
<p>Investigators ask that you collect as much information as you can, such as the phone number of the person calling you, and/or the name of the person making contact.</p> | Police warn residents of phone scheme | false | https://abqjournal.com/483527/police-warn-residents-of-phone-scheme.html | 2 |
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<p>Donations continue to flow in for presidential hopefuls as they head into Super Tuesday, the single most important presidential contest in the 2016 election. For Florida Senator Marco Rubio’s campaign it’s a moment to seize on “Marcomentum” and win key primary states on Tuesday with 595 delegates up for grabs in the GOP race.</p>
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<p>“If you win a state on Super Tuesday there is a possibility that you will win Florida, if Marco wins Florida then he is still in the game,” said Ford O’Connell, Republican strategist and former advisor for the 2008 McCain-Palin campaign.</p>
<p>He says a lot is riding on Rubio’s candidacy for the Republican party now that establishment candidate, Jeb Bush is out of the race.</p>
<p>According to a recent Wall Street Journal <a href="http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2016/02/29/rubio-campaign-to-hold-strategy-session-and-former-bush-backers-are-invited/" type="external">report Opens a New Window.</a>, Dirk Van Dongen, a Washington lobbyist and political power player in fundraising, is asking former Bush backers to “attend a strategy session with top Rubio officials.” Originally a Jeb Bush supporter, Van Dongen is now supporting the Florida Senator and convincing GOP donors to follow his lead. In an email obtained by the Wall Street Journal, Van Dongen tries to convince Bush supporters to coalesce around Rubio because he is “the only one who can beat Trump for the nomination and Hillary Clinton in the general. And he needs the support now, not later.”</p>
<p>“A lot of the Bush supporters have realized that Rubio gives them the best chance to win, in terms of beating Trump in a one on one. I believe if Rubio puts up a ‘W’ and certainly holds on to Florida, then you will see a whole bunch of people supporting him,” said O’Connell.</p>
<p>Republican strategist Doug Heye, who served in the George W. Bush Administration, says while winning is important, narrowing the margins on Super Tuesday will give Rubio’s “under dog” campaign a boost for big money donations.</p>
<p>“Dirk is one of the most respected people in Washington and there is nobody in that world of finance and campaigns who won’t take his call and listen to him. When I saw his name of someone who is coming on board, I thought it’s very good news for Rubio,” said Heye. “These are the things his campaign must do, keep attacking Trump like he has been the last couple days, keep making calls and increase fundraising from Bush supporters.”</p>
<p>O’Connell says Rubio’s recent attacks on Trump’s character have done more than just garner media attention; they also translate into dollars and a platform to connect with voters.</p>
<p>“Rubio is trying to make the case that Trump is not a serious candidate, he is getting wall to wall coverage but what he is really trying to do is drive home the narrative to donors this is a two-person race,” said O’Connell. “Money won’t be enough to take down Trump, but the idea is that money will be able to push Rubio’s message farther.”</p>
<p>In a new <a href="http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2016/images/02/28/rel4a.-.2016.primaries.pdf" type="external">CNN poll Opens a New Window.</a>, Rubio beats Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton 50-47 in a hypothetical matchup while Trump, the GOP frontrunner, loses to both Clinton, 52-44 and Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, 55-43.</p>
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<p>Mitch McConnell is sounding confident.</p>
<p>On the day before Christmas, the Senate minority leader released a radio-ad parody of “A Visit from St. Nicholas,” slamming the Obamacare rollout, poking fun at the Democrat running to replace him, and overlooking his primary challenger completely.</p>
<p>&lt;img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-90251" alt="mitchmcconnell1224" src="http://www.bizpacreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/mitchmcconnell1224-150x150.jpg" width="150" height="150" /&gt; “‘Twas the night before Christmas, four years ago. Liberals wanted ObamaCare, but Kentucky said ‘no,'” McConnell intones, a Kentucky drawl melding with erratic meter.</p>
<p>“‘If you like your plan, you can keep it,’ ” they said with a twinkle in their eye. Newspapers now say that was the year’s biggest lie. Higher taxes, more spending, sky high record debt. Obama’s war on coal — had enough yet?”</p>
<p>McConnell’s ad splices in the voice of Alison Lundergan Grimes, the Kentucky secretary of state trying to take his job, and closes by wishing the state residents – including Grimes – a merry Christmas.</p>
<p>“So Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to Kentuckians all — especially Alison Lundergan Grimes, I’ll see you next fall,” he says.</p>
<p>Unmentioned at all was the possibility McConnell won’t be running against anyone in the fall. Challenger Matt Bevin, backed by tea party groups and former Sen. Jim DeMint’s Senate Conservatives Fund, is running at McConnell from the right, charging McConnell is an “establishment conservative” who’s too accommodating with President Obama’s Democrats.</p>
<p>McConnell and his campaign strategists didn’t forget to include Bevin, of course. They’re just hoping Kentucky GOP voters will forget he’s even there.</p>
<p>Check out the ad here:</p>
<p /> | McConnell ‘T’was the Night’ parody pokes fun at Obamacare | true | http://bizpacreview.com/2013/12/24/mcconnell-twas-the-night-parody-pokes-fun-at-obamacare-90250 | 2013-12-24 | 0 |
<p>I’ve lost track who is pro-James Comey or anti-James Comey (see&#160; <a href="" type="internal">Democrats Rage After Trump Fires Comey</a>&#160;and&#160; <a href="" type="internal">Comey Wanted to go Public with Russian Election Tampering but Stopped by Obama</a>). But I do know the Democrat hypocrisy balances between maddening and hysterical. Thankfully, there’s Mark Levin to make sense of things.</p>
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<p>But I have a couple of questions, if I might, for Chuck Schumer who is the leading demagogue of&#160;all of this. Tell me something, Mr. Schumer, can you name a single Russian, just one, who colluded with Donald Trump and his campaign? Just give us a one, one.</p>
<p>‘We can’t trust the Justice Department to investigate.’ They can’t even name the FBI agents who are involved in this investigation. I am sure they are career agents that will do their job regardless of who the FBI director is. But Mr. Schumer likes these independent special prosecutors. Let me ask you something, do you support and independent special prosecutor for Hillary Clinton and her multiple violations of the Espionage Act?</p>
<p>Do you support an independent prosecutor for the Obama administration surveillance and unmasking of Trump transition team members and God knows who else? The Israeli ambassador was surveilled. The prime minister of Israel was surveilled. Members of Congress were surveilled. Jewish leaders and Jewish groups were surveilled. How about an independent investigation of that?</p>
<p>I’ve got another one, Mr. Schumer. How about an independent special prosecutor to investigate this whole seedy Iranian deal, with the secret deals, the ransom payments, the release of terrorists as we find out after the fact.</p>
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<p>Of course, we’re not going to&#160;get answers, what with ratings and clicks and all. Well, that and Chuck Schumer having all the integrity of a toe wart. But the questions&#160;needed asking, if for no other reason than to illustrate the glaring hypocrisy had by all. But particularly Chuck Schumer. Someone in his office should remind him how digital things like “the internet” work.</p>
<p>The constant focus on Trump and Russia is almost as ardent as some on the right who harped on Obama being an illegitimate president, because, according to the conspiracy theorists, there was a possibility&#160;he was&#160;born in Kenya. A&#160;giant conspiracy which focused solely on illegitimacy, despite Obama’s mother being a naturalized citizen of America. The whole kerfuffle was a moot point. Seems the left treats this Russian/Trump conspiracy similarly, no?</p>
<p>FBI Director Comey, who everybody hated at one point, and everyone loved at another point, was dead center to many a breaking conspiracy or story.</p>
<p>Mark Levin is a partner on CRTV. Which you should subscribe to, by the way. For more truth nuggets, here’s a segment from Louder with Crowder, all about James Comey…</p>
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<p /> | Mark Levin Throws Down on Chuck Schumer for Shameless Comey Hypocrisy | true | https://louderwithcrowder.com/mark-levin-chews-chuck-schumer-james-comey-spits/ | 2017-05-11 | 0 |
<p>By Elizabeth Evans Hagan</p>
<p>“You should try Twitter, Elizabeth; it would be a good networking tool for the church.”</p>
<p>For months those words uttered by a communications specialist friend of mine fell on deaf ears. My distant impression of Twitter was having an unlimited platform to say: “I had a peanut butter sandwich for lunch,” and I didn’t see any value in that.</p>
<p>Besides, why in the world would I want one more thing to keep up with in my already overcrowded pastoral schedule and media-stimulated life? Isn’t maintaining a Facebook page, blog and the regular deluge of e-mails enough to do?</p>
<p>Never wanting to be behind on something new, I finally gave in and after a short tutorial was up and tweeting for the first time in the spring of 2009.</p>
<p>Over the past couple of years through Twitter, I’ve become friends with new colleagues that I still haven’t met face-to-face but count as great encouragers in my ministry. I’ve recruited new church members who found me on this site and later began attending weekly worship. And additionally, a bridge has emerged through Twitter for greater possibilities of sharing the weekly text of my sermons with folks who might never attend a local congregation.</p>
<p>Unlike Facebook, Twitter allows shared conversations without sharing any more information than you are comfortable with. Choosing to “follow” particular individuals or groups, you gain access to their updates, but they don’t see yours unless they “follow” you as well. If you want more followers, it is good to follow others. If you want others to keep following you, it is good to tweet more than once a month. It is also wise to follow only people in whom you have an interest. Otherwise your home page will fill up with spam.</p>
<p>The key to Twitter is that you only have 140 characters at a time to say something. Whether sending a public message or a private one through the personal inbox function, all you have to speak is 140 letters, lines and spaces. If you go over this limit, your thoughts are not shared.</p>
<p>Beyond its effectiveness for outreach, I think the church has a lot to learn from Twitter as a newly minted word in our vocabulary.</p>
<p>First, say what we need to say and stop. The days of long typed memos addressed with a stamp on a letter in the mail are over. If we want to make connections with new colleagues or potential church members, we must speak concisely. It is easy to fall into the temptation — especially in religious life – to think the prettier the words, the better. The truth is people stop reading or listening if their attention is not fully engaged from the start to the finish.&#160;</p>
<p>Second, if we want to reach more people with our churches, then we must “follow” people outside our normal social circles. If we continue to interact solely with people with whom we naturally connect– moms at our children’s schools, other retirees at the community center or the neighbors on our streets – we miss out on amazing possibilities of relationships with people who would benefit from knowing all people of faith aren’t Bible beating, know-it all, condemning types, and there might be a place for a seeker at our church.</p>
<p>Third, it’s a necessity to stay connected to those on our membership rolls. Relationships, like Twitter followers, take time and effort to keep going. Just because someone joined the church several years ago doesn’t mean that finish line has been reached; it has only just begun! It is easy for folks to feel “de-followed” when we miss important life events like births, deaths or anniversaries of deaths without some sort of contact with them. Communities must communicate together.</p>
<p>After all, the church, like any good means of technology, is never something to be mastered to use perfectly all at once but rather to grow into as we learn and practice it together.&#160;</p> | What Twitter can teach the church | false | https://baptistnews.com/article/what-twitter-can-teach-the-church/ | 3 |
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<p>Until capitalism is viewed as only a tool to efficiently serve humanity when applicable, the American society will ultimately fail. Many Americans are indoctrinated into believing that capitalism is the America religion not far removed from “Christianity”. Anyone professing any ills about it is admonished.</p>
<p>Here is the fact; capitalism has no soul or morals. Societies must decide what their morals and objectives are, and fit its economic constructs, capitalism, socialism, etc. to achieve those.</p>
<p>Last week I wrote the article “ <a href="http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/04/15/supreme-court-will-decide-if-corporations-have-the-right-to-own-your-genome/" type="external">Supreme Court Will Decide If Corporations Have The Right To Own Your Genome</a>”. It is a must read about Myriad Genetics patenting our genes, specifically BRCA1 and BRCA2, having to do with a mutation that leave certain women susceptible to certain types of cancers. If they win the case they will have the right to stymie anyone interested in researching that sequence and implicitly will have a monopoly on all having to do with those genes.</p>
<p>Sadly, this problem occurs because as a society that attempts to fit capitalism to every function or construct, we are blinded to its very own perils. The article “ <a href="http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/04/21/gene-wars-the-last-ditch-battle-over-who-owns-the-rights-to-our-dna/" type="external">Gene wars: the last-ditch battle over who owns the rights to our DNA”</a> in The Raw Story, has three short paragraphs that illustrates this.</p>
<p>“It is certainly true that people will not invest in medicine unless there is some return on that investment,” said Justin Hitchcock, a UK expert on patent law and medicine. “That is why Myriad has sought these patents.”</p>
<p>In Britain, women such as Tracey Barraclough have been given BRCA tests for free on the NHS. In the US, where Myriad holds patents, those seeking such tests have to pay the company $4,000. It might therefore seem to be a peculiarly American debate based on the nation’s insistence on having a completely privatised health service. Professor Alan Ashworth, director of the Institute for Cancer Research, disagreed, however.</p>
<p>“I think that, if Myriad win this case, the impact will be retrograde for the whole of genetic research across the globe,” he said. “The idea that you can take a piece of DNA and claim that only you are allowed to test for its existence is wrong. It stinks, morally and intellectually. People are becoming easier about using and exchanging genetic information at present. Any move to back Myriad would take us back decades.”</p>
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<p>The first of the three paragraphs illustrates the lack of morality or soul of capitalism. This is not a derision of capitalism per se, it is a statement of fact. Capital is only invested where profits are likely to be made. It is not there to solve problems or to do a good. It is for this reason that diseases that are not found in many people or diseases in a subset of people that cannot afford said drugs if invented, will be ignored.</p>
<p>The second of the three paragraphs illustrates the economic disaster on the healthcare economics of a nation when a company that has a monopoly on a drug or for that matter decides it must make a large profit on said drug. These are the reasons why our healthcare system is so much more expensive than all other industrialized nations <a href="http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/2012/10/health-costs-how-the-us-compares-with-other-countries.html" type="external">even though our outcomes are worse</a>.</p>
<p>The third of the three paragraphs illustrates most importantly the stifling of innovation that occurs with a system that allows the patenting of genes (and seeds, and animals, etc). Contrary to those who claim it would prevent research, the actual outcome is the opposite.</p>
<p>It is true that a pure capitalist market will efficiently allocate resources. Bad ideas, bad products, bad designs, unwanted products will all wither away because the profit motive will make it a disincentive to invest in them. Warehouses will not be all filled ever mounting bad products etc.</p>
<p>Many attempt to define every aspect of exchange in our society as a product in order to capitalize it; that is an immoral flaw. Compared to cancer, there are few people who suffer from lupus. As such there is no incentive for much research on lupus. The very limited drugs that have been developed specifically for this disease then cost so much that many will simply have to choose to die.</p>
<p>America’s middle class is being decimated from all sides, healthcare, taxes, property rights, corporate rights, &amp; patents policies. It is time that the masses pay attention not only to this case but many other cases that slowly strip power from the masses.</p>
<p>The Myriad case should be enough of a warning to those who scream against “socialized” medicine. They should use it as a warning to socialize <a href="" type="internal">the portions of our healthcare system that would best work without a profit motive</a> and a portion where a profit a motive is justified. Much is resting on the outcome of this case.</p>
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<p><a href="http://michellemalkin.com/" type="external">Michelle Malkin</a> was on <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/fox-and-friends/index.html" type="external">Fox and Friends</a> Wednesday and provided excellent commentary on a number of topics.</p>
<p>After discussing the recent gruesome deaths of border patrol agents she then discussed her time on Capitol Hill as an intern. Based on her experience she was not surprised&#160;by the recent reports of corruption coming from the D.C. swamp and the sex scandals unearthed and reported of Congressmen in Washington. The subject then changed to the Alabama Senate race.</p>
<p>When asked whether Malkin thought Roy Moore (the Republican Senate hopeful in Alabama) should get a pass on recent accusations of sex abuse from 40 years ago because Democrat Senator Al Frankin and Democrat Congressman John Conyers are getting passes from the media, Malkin responded as follows:</p>
<p>…Each and every one of these allegations needs to be vetted. I will say it until I am blue in the face, that assertions are not truth until there is corroboration, corroboration of evidence, and that these assertions have to be established as facts. And my concern is that so many of these allegations are being litigated in the court of public opinion rather than having any kind of empirical evidence and any kind of vetting. Instead you’ve got these activists in the liberal media that are going out and procuring victims, so called victims and accusers to voice their own political narratives and intervene in these campaigns.</p>
<p>I’m very troubled whether we’re talking about a Republican or a Democrat, whether talking about a liberal actor or a conservative public figure. When you’ve got these investigations which can turn into witch hunts and band wagons of women who for whatever reason only come out 15, 20, 30 years later. Here’s my advice to young women and girls, and I have been saying this for the 25 years that I have worked in public life. If somebody does something wrong to you, if you are uncomfortable, don’t wait to tell. There is nothing worth it for you to be quiet. There is no job that is worth&#160;risking for you not to stand up and defend your own integrity and safety. That is my feminist message.“</p>
<p>When asked her thoughts on the accusers of Judge Roy Moore, Malkin replied:</p>
<p>Unfortunately for the voters of Alabama they’re going to have to make cost – benefit calculations before they’re able to undertake their own independent investigations of what’s happened. But with particular regard to the Roy Moore case, what we have to remember about how these women came forward at the very last minute&#160;after he’s been in public life for how many decades? Is that that investigation came from the partisan Washington Post that went out and dug out these victims. And when you’ve got Gloria Allred doing the ‘jump the shark’ press conference you’ve got to take that into consideration when you are evaluating the credibility of these stories.”</p> | Questions of Roy Moore Attacks Due to “Credibility” of far Left WaPo and “Jump the Shark” Gloria Allred | false | https://studionewsnetwork.com/government-corruption/questions-roy-moore-attacks-due-credibility-far-left-wapo-jump-shark-gloria-allred/ | 2017-11-23 | 3 |
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<p>Oil prices fell on Thursday on profit-taking, after markets rallied the previous day on another unseasonal draw in U.S. crude oil stocks helping bullish sentiment from an expectation of an OPEC-led cut in production.</p>
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<p>U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude oil futures were at $50.78 per barrel at 1230 GMT (0830 EDT), down 82 cents from their previous close. Brent crude futures were at $51.85 per barrel, also down 82 cents.</p>
<p>WTI futures settled at a 15-month high the previous day, fueled by a fall in U.S. crude stocks by 5.2 million barrels in the week ended Oct. 14 to 468.7 million barrels.</p>
<p>"Today we are drifting lower with WTI crude oil finding resistance at $52. The dollar gained some strength during the Asian session which also helped trigger some profit taking ahead of today's ECB meeting," said Ole Hansen, Saxo Bank's head of commodity research.</p>
<p>The dollar stayed close to a seven-month high against a currency basket &#160;and a three-month high to the euro ahead of a European Central Bank (ECB) news conference. Oil extended losses a touch after the ECB held interest rates.</p>
<p>Analysts at JBC noted that U.S. crude oil stocks have been depleted by 26.5 million barrels in the past seven weeks which was unusual even when taking into account hurricanes that can disrupt oil production and supplies by tankers.</p>
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<p>"The counterseasonal nature of the draw is also notable as we ought to be seeing builds on the back of fall refinery maintenance."</p>
<p>This reduction in stocks in the world's largest oil consumer has added to bullish sentiment that arose after the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) proposed to cut or at least curb oil production.</p>
<p>While many remain skeptical about OPEC's ability to strike and effectively implement a deal at a Nov. 30 meeting, the notion of coordination among the 14 member states has at least put a floor under Brent and WTI prices at around $50 a barrel.</p>
<p>Technical analysts are looking for both contracts to test higher levels soon, while BMI Research said it saw "significant potential for an upwards break in Brent towards $60 per barrel," due to technical drivers even though there were few fundamentals supporting higher prices.</p>
<p>But analysts at PVM note OPEC's record high production in recent months as well as rising global crude inventories.</p>
<p>"The oil market has been getting stronger on hopes and expectations in the absence of hard facts. Another way to put it is that oil prices are inflated. Whether the bubble will burst or grow even bigger depends on the end-November meeting."</p>
<p>OPEC's November meeting may agree on a half a million to 1 million barrels per day oil production cut. The producer cartel hopes non-OPEC exporters, especially Russia, will cooperate.</p>
<p>(Additional reporting by Henning Gloystein in SINGAPORE; Editing by Keith Weir and William Hardy)</p> | Oil Prices Fall After Strong Rally | true | http://foxbusiness.com/markets/2016/10/20/oil-prices-fall-after-strong-rally.html | 2016-10-20 | 0 |
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<p>Italian prosecutors in the city of Turin have failed to jail five suspected members of an ISIS-linked cell, “ready to commit a terrorist attack” on Italian soil, citing a law that grants them the right to appeal a custody warrant.</p>
<p>The efforts to capture the suspected jihadists have been dragging on for at least six months, Italian news agency ANSA reports. In May, Turin public prosecutor Andrea Padalino asked the court to arrest the suspects and further place them into custody, but his petition was rejected by a preliminary investigative judge. Padalino then successfully appealed the decision to the upper court, which in its ruling on November 10 greenlighted the move.</p>
<p>However, the prosecutor’s quest is far over, as he will now have to wait if the suspects, three of whom are under house arrest for drug offenses and two are free, decide to contest the ruling.</p>
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<p>By law, the defendants have 10 days to file an appeal with the Supreme Court, which can potentially further prolong the probe if it accepts the motion. In case of an appeal, it is not the essence of the allegations that will be reviewed, but the legality of the order itself, <a href="http://www.ansa.it/piemonte/notizie/2017/11/16/isis5-arresti-non-eseguibili-a-torino_cff9c034-bc13-40a5-8738-c5099e5d5131.html" type="external">according</a> to ANSA.</p>
<p>All the suspects came to Italy from Tunisia in 2014 and were granted residence permits after duping the authorities into believing that they had enrolled into a university and passed some exams. Upon securing their stay, the men then moved to the city of Pisa, where they engaged in an illicit drug trade.</p>
<p>The court of appeals said it took into account that at least one of the suspects was found to be “ready to commit a terrorist action on Italian territory,” while all of them “expressed adherence to the ideology of extremist and violent jihad,” Corriere Della Sera <a href="http://www.corriere.it/cronache/17_novembre_16/isis-cinque-arresti-torino-ma-non-non-eseguibili-questioni-procedurali-a21a570a-caab-11e7-bd3e-51a6bf213dd1.shtml?refresh_ce-cp" type="external">reported</a>. The men reportedly kept in touch with other extremists on social media, hailed slain jihadist fighters as martyrs and provided “legal and economic assistance” to the arrested militants and sought to facilitate the travel of aspiring jihadists to war zones.</p>
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<p>The court argued that the evidence pointed to the fact that the Tunisians were not merely indoctrinated, but actually members of a terrorist cell, some members of which went to Syria and were killed there.</p>
<p>The investigation into the group was launched after Italian military police examined the Facebook page of one of the suspects in a series of drug-dealing episodes. The police then found out that the man was in steady contact with ISIS militants and even promised some of his friends to follow in the footsteps of his killed ISIS friends by mounting a suicide bomb attack in Italy. The man was later arrested in Tuscany, La Stampa <a href="http://www.lastampa.it/2017/11/16/cronaca/isis-cinque-arresti-per-terrorismo-a-torino-non-ancora-eseguibili-NrMo7FPOUmc1nSrUAwwuDK/pagina.html" type="external">reported.</a></p>
<p>With the investigation being stuck in red tape since then, two of the initial suspects managed to sneak out to Syria and are believed to have been killed there. Another one is said to have been expelled from Italy in 2016.</p> | Bound by red tape: Italian prosecutors struggle to imprison 5 ISIS-linked terrorist suspects | false | https://newsline.com/bound-by-red-tape-italian-prosecutors-struggle-to-imprison-5-isis-linked-terrorist-suspects/ | 2017-11-16 | 1 |
<p>Town Danceboutique (Washington Blade photo by Michael Key)</p>
<p>By Dorgham Abusalim</p>
<p>On Saturday, Nov. 7, Town Danceboutique, D.C.’s destination gay dance club, featured an event called Tel Aviv Vibe with Israeli DJ Erez Ben Ishay and drag performer Osher Sebbag.</p>
<p>When I first heard about the event through <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/806282792830840/" type="external">Facbeook</a>, I was excited at the prospect of going to celebrate global equality and human rights. It isn’t often that D.C.’s gay nightlife features international faces.</p>
<p>Besides good tunes and the lively atmosphere Town has to offer, I noticed something unusual. Step-up posters and a table of giveaways that promoted EL AL, Israel’s airline, bearing the words: “It’s not just an airline, it’s Israel.” As the night went on, I began to wonder, why EL AL? How is it related to the event?</p>
<p>After some digging, I learned that two officials of the Israeli embassy in Washington were present and promoted the event on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/search/str/tlvibe%2Btown/stories-keyword/stories-live" type="external">social media</a>: <a href="http://www.brown.edu/academics/judaic-studies/news/2015-06/alumni-news-evan-pelz-11-and-sophie-felder-married-may-31-2015" type="external">Sophie Felder</a>, director of regional affairs, and colleague <a href="https://www.facebook.com/glintdc/posts/799902270079837" type="external">Zafrir Nesher-Kazaz</a>.</p>
<p>It wasn’t surprising then that a question kept nagging at me: Did I partake in pinkwashing?</p>
<p>Pinkwashing: a portmanteau compound word of the words pink and whitewashing. In the context of LGBT rights, it is used to describe a variety of marketing and political strategies aimed at promoting a product or an entity through an appeal to queer-friendliness, primarily by political or social activists.</p>
<p>In the context of Israeli-Palestinian affairs, pinkwashing highlights Israel’s branding efforts abroad at a time human rights violations it commits against Palestinians are increasingly visible. The Tel Aviv Vibe campaign dates back to 2010, when Israel’s Ministry of Tourism, the Tel Aviv Tourism Board, and Agudah, an Israeli LGBT organization, set out to brand the city as the world’s gay capital.</p>
<p>Controversy surrounding LGBT issues in this context persist. For instance, as Philip Weiss, founder and co-editor of Mondoweiss, highlights in a 2014 article, Israel has repeatedly used knowledge of sexual orientation of Palestinians, among other private information, to blackmail them into becoming informants —&#160;that is to forcefully make them to take part in a violent conflict contrary to their well-being and beliefs.</p>
<p>The issue here is not only the use of sexual orientation as a tool of extortion, but also the assumption that one can paint Palestinian society with a single brush as unfriendly and homophobic, standing in stark contrast to Israel’s promoted tolerance. As with every society around the world, including Israel’s own outside the confines of the Tel Aviv bubble, human sexuality is always a hot-button issue, spanning a wide range of complex and diverse opinions. Such was the case in Palestine when the SCOTUS marriage equality decision was delivered according to&#160;Khaled Jarrar, a Palestinian artist whose “ <a href="https://electronicintifada.net/content/why-i-painted-rainbow-flag-israels-apartheid-wall/14660" type="external">Through the Spectrum</a>” rainbow mural on Israel’s illegally built wall in Palestine raised eyebrows.</p>
<p>Events like the Tel Aviv Vibe at Town suggest a lack of a much needed understanding of these dynamics, <a href="http://www.alqaws.org/siteEn/index/language/en" type="external">Palestinian</a> LGBT issues and the role of Israeli branding efforts that maintain a false and misguided image of Palestinian society, especially at a time civil rights alliances are growing between Americans and Palestinians. Indeed, while Palestine is not free of homophobia, any effort to advance human rights and LGBT protections must begin with the recognition of Israel’s abuse of the difficult reality LGBT Palestinians face — being stuck between a rock (the occupation) and a hard place (a society that de-prioritizes sexual matters).</p>
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<p>Dorgham Abusalim recently graduated with a master’s in International Affairs from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, Switzerland. He is originally from Palestine and writes frequently on Israeli-Palestinian affairs in&#160;English&#160;and Arabic.</p>
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<p>Last week, the pilot union for Hawaiian Holdings (NASDAQ: HA) announced that it had opened a "Strike Operations Center" to serve as its headquarters in the event of a strike.</p>
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<p>Across the U.S. airline industry, there are plenty more airline pilots hoping to strike in order to get a larger share of the industry's record profits. However, investors and the flying public should recognize that the collective bargaining rules governing the airline industry make strikes extremely rare and difficult to pull off.</p>
<p>Pilots at Hawaiian Airlines claim that they earn 35%-45% less than their peers at other carriers. What's more, the pilot union has stated that Hawaiian Airlines' management is demanding onerous concessions in return for any pay raises.</p>
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<p>The company and the pilot union have been in contract negotiations for 18 months, during which time the pilots have become increasingly restless. In May, 99% of Hawaiian's pilots voted to authorize the union to call a strike. This was followed by the opening of the strike operations center last week. The union has also asked the National Mediation Board (NMB) to declare an impasse in negotiations.</p>
<p>The situation at Hawaiian Airlines is far from unique. Last year, Southwest Airlines' (NYSE: LUV) pilot union formed a "strike preparedness committee" after three years of contract talks had not produced an agreement. (Southwest finally reached a tentative agreement with the union last month, though.)</p>
<p>Unlike most unionized industries in the U.S., airlines are governed by the Railway Labor Act. Under the RLA, union contracts eventually become amendable but never expire. To be allowed to strike, airline employees must first get the NMB (which oversees airline labor negotiations) to declare an impasse, then observe a 30 day cooling-off period.</p>
<p>The NMB hardly ever grants airline unions the right to call a strike. It is equally difficult for management to impose a lockout. Given the economic disruption caused by airline strikes, the NMB is extremely reluctant to abandon mediated negotiations.</p>
<p>That's why Southwest Airlines and its pilot union were still at the bargaining table last month, nearly four years after the previous contract became amendable. In most industries, the potential for a strike would have forced a quicker resolution of that dispute.</p>
<p>Southwest Airlines pilots were never permitted to strike during their long-running contract dispute. Image source: The Motley Fool.</p>
<p>Indeed, the last time that the NMB authorized a pilot strike was more than six years ago, when pilots at Spirit Airlines (NASDAQ: SAVE) walked off the job for several days. That came after more than three years of fruitless negotiations.</p>
<p>At the time, Spirit Airlines was a small airline, with annual revenue of less than $800 million. Hawaiian Airlines is roughly three times that size and has a large market share or outright monopoly on many of its routes. Thus, a pilot strike there would cause more disruption than the 2010 Spirit Airlines strike, making the NMB less likely to declare an impasse.</p>
<p>Given the legal restrictions governing strikes in the airline industry, rhetoric takes on an outsized role in union contract negotiations. That means it is important to take public statements and actions by either side with a grain of salt.</p>
<p>For instance, Southwest Airlines pilots picketed in Dallas (home to the company's headquarters) in late August to protest "negligible progress" in contract talks. Less than a week later, the union and company reached their tentative agreement, which suggests that the two sides weren't so far apart after all.</p>
<p>The upshot is that a pilot strike at Hawaiian Airlines is a lot further away than the union would have you think. It would likely take several more years of stalled negotiations for the NMB to declare an impasse. Pilot strikes are even less likely at larger airlines. For better or worse, airline management teams and labor unions will need to work out their disagreements at the bargaining table.</p>
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<p>Democratic presidential candidates Hillary Clinton, Martin O’Malley, and Bernie Sanders will appear at a special Iowa forum tonight to answer questions about issues that affect people of color and young people.</p>
<p>The <a href="http://fusion.net/video/250933/clinton-omalley-and-sanders-live-from-iowa/" type="external">Iowa Black and Brown Forum</a> starts at 8 p.m. EST and will be broadcast on Fusion’s cable network. It’s likely that social justice, immigration, education, health care, and the economy will be hot topics. Social justice and police violence have become major issues during the campaign as the <a href="" type="internal">influential Black Lives Matter movement</a> has organized demonstrations around the nation to protest the deaths of people who have died in police custody or who were shot by officers.</p>
<p>The forum will be moderated by Fusion anchors Jorge Ramos and Alicia Menendez as well as Fusion contributor Akilah Hughes and New York magazine writer-at-large Rembert Browne. The event will be held at Drake University in Des Moines.</p>
<p>Fusion scrapped a similar forum for Republican candidates because of <a href="http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/elections/presidential/caucus/2015/11/20/gop-presidential-iowa-brown-black-forum/76112534/" type="external">“unresolved scheduling conflicts.”</a></p>
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<p>Aug. 1 (UPI) — Summer Phoenix has filed for divorce from <a href="https://www.upi.com/topic/Casey_Affleck/" type="external">Casey Affleck</a> after nearly 10 years of marriage.</p>
<p>Phoenix, who is the younger sister of actor <a href="https://www.upi.com/topic/Joaquin_Phoenix/" type="external">Joaquin Phoenix</a>, cited irreconcilable differences in court documents filed Monday as the reason for the divorce, <a href="http://www.eonline.com/news/870472/summer-phoenix-files-for-divorce-from-casey-affleck" type="external">E! News</a> reported.</p>
<p>Phoenix is asking for joint physical and legal custody of the pair’s two sons, Indiana, 12 and Atticus, 9, noted <a href="http://people.com/movies/casey-afflecks-wife-summer-phoenix-files-for-divorce/" type="external">People magazine</a>.</p>
<p>Affleck, 40, and Phoenix 37, met through Joaquin and started dating in 2000 before tying the knot in 2006. The former couple <a href="https://www.upi.com/Entertainment_News/2016/03/16/Casey-Affleck-Summer-Phoenix-split-after-10-years-of-marriage/6401458153113/" type="external">announced</a> their separation in March 2016.</p>
<p>“Casey Affleck and Summer Phoenix have amicably separated. They remain very close friends,” a rep said.</p>
<p>Affleck and Phoenix have yet to comment on the divorce. They were last seen together publicly in 2014.</p> | Summer Phoenix files for divorce from Casey Affleck | false | https://newsline.com/summer-phoenix-files-for-divorce-from-casey-affleck/ | 2017-08-01 | 1 |
<p>The Left's shameless assault on faithful Catholics participating in public service — knowing that their presence in branches like the judiciary would spoil their agenda of shoving godless laws by way of judicial fiat onto the American public — continued this week at The New York Times, which clearly views them as too "radical" for the mainstream.</p>
<p>Earlier this month, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) attempted to set a religious litmus test for nominees to the judiciary when she attacked Notre Dame professor <a href="http://www.lifenews.com/2017/09/07/democrats-trash-judicial-nominees-catholic-faith-do-you-consider-yourself-a-catholic-thats-a-concern/" type="external">Amy Barrett about her Catholic faith</a>. “The dogma lives loudly within you,” Feinstein <a href="https://townhall.com/tipsheet/cortneyobrien/2017/09/07/feinstein-attacks-catholic-mother-at-hearing-n2378269" type="external">told</a> Barrett, who is nominated to serve on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in Chicago.</p>
<p>The New York Times agrees with Feinstein's assertion that the dogma living "loudly" in Catholics is problematic. In a new piece titled “Some Worry About Judicial Nominee’s Ties to a Religious Group,” Laurie Goodstein <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/28/us/amy-coney-barrett-nominee-religion.html?mcubz=1" type="external">writes</a> that Barrett’s Catholic faith does not belong in the mainstream for having ties to a religious group called People of Praise.</p>
<p>According to Goodstein, People of Praise is a radical organization that many "mainstream" Catholics — and by that, she means cafeteria Catholics that go to Mass once a year — would find abhorrent because it endorses oppressive concepts like . . . THE PATRIARCHY!!!</p>
<p>"Some of the group’s practices would surprise many faithful Catholics," writes Goodstein. "Members of the group swear a lifelong oath of loyalty, called a covenant, to one another, and are assigned and are accountable to a personal adviser, called a 'head' for men and a 'handmaid' for women. The group teaches that husbands are the heads of their wives and should take authority over the family."</p>
<p>Nothing angers feminists more than men gluing their Johnsons back on and taking authority over the household in defiance of modern culture's emasculating attitudes.</p>
<p>After quoting various legal scholars to support her thesis that Barrett is just too radical to handle, she then admits that People of Praise does not "control" people, nor suggest that husbands control their wives. Her piece concludes by admitting that Barrett has sound credentials:</p>
<p>Ms. Barrett, 45, has never served in the judiciary but has won praise for her legal credentials. A law clerk for Justice Antonin Scalia, she was hired at 30 at Notre Dame Law School.</p>
<p>She is a member of the conservative Federalist Society, a conduit for judicial nominees to the Trump White House. More than 70 law professors across the country signed a <a href="http://abovethelaw.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Amy-Coney-Barrett-Professors-Letter-of-Support.pdf" type="external">glowing letter of endorsement</a>. A separate <a href="http://abovethelaw.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Amy-Coney-Barrett-NDLS-faculty-letter.pdf" type="external">letter of endorsement</a> was signed by all of her fellow faculty members.</p>
<p>Ashley McGuire, Senior Fellow with The Catholic Association, called the article a hit-piece supporting the religious litmus test imposed by Senator Feinstein.</p>
<p>“The New York Times picks up where Senators Feinstein (D-CA) and Durbin (D-IL) left off in trying to use Amy Barrett’s faith as a smear against her,” McGuire said. “An accomplished professor and legal scholar at the University of Notre Dame, the qualifications and credentials of Amy Barrett are unchallenged. That the left continues to treat her Roman Catholic faith as an impediment to office is a testament to just how beholden they are to their anti-religious bigotries.”</p> | DEAR CATHOLICS, 'The Dogma Lives Loudly Within You,' And The New York Times Hates You For It | true | https://dailywire.com/news/21697/dear-catholics-dogma-lives-loudly-within-you-and-paul-bois | 2017-09-29 | 0 |
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<p>RUSH: An economist at the Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics — this is an Obama administration official — is undergoing a review after she apparently sent out a tweet claiming that Christians vote for Nazis. Economist Elizabeth Ashack’s Twitter account, sometime over the weekend, appeared to tweet out, “People in the red states vote for Nazis to govern and then call themselves Christian. It will not end well for them.” And then she includes the hashtag #BoycottIndiana.</p>
<p>They captured the screen shot of the tweet. It was captured by somebody called SooperMexican.com, S-o-o-p-e-r. Now, the tweet obviously is a reference to the new Indiana law that some say would make it easier to discriminate against gay people. Supporters of the law say it would only require courts to weigh the right to religious liberty in cases that might involve discrimination.</p>
<p>I told you yesterday that this story, this case uniquely parallels Ferguson, Missouri. And you know how? There were two things in Ferguson, Missouri, that became fact that were not fact, they were never, ever, true, but they became the identifiers of the story. One, “hands up, don’t shoot,” that the Gentle Giant was indeed that, a Gentle Giant, strolling the street on a beautiful Saturday afternoon, or as beautiful as Saturdays can be in Ferguson, Missouri, strolling down the street, contemplating — this is what they told us — the Gentle Giant was contemplating eagerly his first days at university.</p>
<p>This is before anybody knew that he had held up a convenience store, liquor store for some Swisher Sweets to make blunts out of. So the story was he tried to surrender, the Gentle Giant was only thinking about going to college, “hands up, don’t shoot,” he tried to surrender, and a white cop murdered him in cold blood.</p>
<p>The second aspect of the story was that this happens all the time, and it’s finally time to bring it to a stop. It’s finally time to do something about this. It’s time we end this never ending white cop shooting innocent black kid story that happens way too much in this country.</p>
<p>Except, neither of them were true. White cops are not wantonly murdering innocent black kids, and the Gentle Giant didn’t try to surrender. The facts of that story were buried and the illusions and the lies took their place.</p>
<p>Well, in Indiana and everywhere else this whole concept is being discussed, the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, there is this assumption that has become almost a Daily News story that Christian-owned businesses routinely, many times a day, discriminate against innocent, loving gay and lesbian couples. That innocent and lovable gay and lesbian couples multiple times a day are being denied service, are being denied the opportunity to conduct business.</p>
<p>Just like a lie that sprung up in Ferguson, so is one springing up here out of Indiana, and that is that Christian people are wantonly discrimination against gays and lesbians every day, multiple times a day, denying them this, denying them that, and it’s about time it comes to a screeching halt.</p>
<p>When the fact of the matter is the stories that we have detailing this, the Christians involved were saying, “We’re not discriminating against anybody. We are simply practicing our religious beliefs, just like the Indians wanting to use peyote. We’re simply practicing our religious beliefs. We’re not denying service to anybody. If we don’t bake their cake, there are plenty of other bakeries that will. We do not wish to be forced into violating our religious beliefs.”</p>
<p>We are being led to believe that’s not what’s going on. No, no, no. It’s genuine discrimination. It’s mean-spirited, extreme discrimination. It’s happening all over the place. Just like the lies of Ferguson, this one has been given life, and it’s now what they call operative. It is the lie on which everybody is making statements of opinion on this law.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, in the real world over at the Labor Department, there is an economist at the Bureau of Labor Statistics who tweeted that people in the red states vote for Nazis to govern and then call themselves Christian. The woman’s name is Elizabeth Ashack, it’s A-s-h-a-c-k, Ashack. Now, she’s denying it. She’s claiming that her account was hacked. A new tweet apparently written, which was that her work and her home computers were hacked and that an investigation’s underway. Neither this tweet nor the original Nazi tweet were on her Twitter account as of yesterday.</p>
<p>Ashack’s past Twitter profile said she was an economist at the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Department of Labor, but her Twitter profile no longer includes any note about her work for the government, which has led some to speculate that she was recently fired from the BLS.</p>
<p>This new host that they have named excitedly to replace Jon Stewart on The Daily Show, guy’s name is Trevor Noah or Noah Trevor. What is this clown’s name? Is it Noah Trevor? (interruption) It’s Trevor Noah. Okay. Trevor Noah. Anyway, they’ve discovered this guy is one of the biggest anti-Semites out there, based on things that he has tweeted. I have a list of some of these things that he has tweeted.</p>
<p>“South Africans know how to recycle like Israel knows how to be peaceful.”</p>
<p>“Behind every successful rap billionaire is a double as rich Jewish man.”</p>
<p>And there are others that are worse than that. But they’re praising this guy, and they’re talking about how the right wingers are gonna come gunning for this guy. They’re not gonna understand that he’s a comedian and he’s making salient, funny points. The TV editor at Salon.com actually wrote: “I hope we, the audience, can prove to Noah that we deserve him and that we will stand for him, too, when it’s necessary, because it’s clear that he’s used to backlash. I’m not sure that we are.”</p>
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<p>RUSH: Trevor Noah, the replacement for Jon Stewart at The Daily Show. By the way, he was like fourth on the list. They wanted Amy Poehler. (Is that her name?) She said no. They wanted Tina Fey. She said no. They tried for some other guy. I can’t think of who the other guy was, some famous name who said (paraphrased), “No, I don’t want to be shoehorned into a format like that.” So he was the fourth guy on the list. But the new Daily Show host said that present day America has worse race relations than apartheid South Africa.</p>
<p>I kid you not. And the audience of The Daily Show laughed. “Oh, yeah! This guy’s great, man! We can’t wait ’til this guy is the host of the show!” NewsBusters tells about the time he was introduced by Jon Stewart on the program as the newest contributor. Stewart said, “I know that you flew in I guess yesterday from South Africa.” And Trevor Noah said, “Yep, yep. I just flew in, and boy, my arms are tired,” and he put his hands up as in “hands up, don’t shoot.” “Seriously, I’ve been holding my arms like this since I got here.”</p>
<p>“Hands up, don’t shoot,” and he said, “I never thought I’d be more afraid of police in America than in South Africa. It kind of makes me a little nostalgic for the old days back home.” So why move here? If you’re more afraid of the cops in the United States than you were during Apartheid in South Africa, why move here? Why move to such a violently racist country? What was he thinking? Anyway, the audience of The Daily Show loved it. They ate it up. So all of this lying bigotry and discrimination and hatred is perfectly fine wherever it occurs on the left.</p>
<p>They have to make things up about conservatives and white police officers! They have to make things up and then perpetuate the lies that they tell. This Religious Freedom Restoration Act, think of it as it’s a shield. It’s protection is right there is in the name of the law. It’s not a gun; it’s not a weapon. It’s not a sword, as people say. It’s a shield. It protects people. And, boy, has it been distorted way out of the ballpark.</p>
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<p>Now, I mentioned this in the first part of the program, but some people I think got confused. The first half hour of the program is always a challenge ’cause the audience has things they want to hear first, and if I didn’t talk about what some people want to hear first they listen casually until I get to what they really think is the most important thing of the day, and that’s when they really tune in.</p>
<p>Now, I think most people who listen to this program are more attentive than the average audience out there. So when I say that people listen casually, they’re still far more aware of what’s happening out there than most audiences, particularly television, cable news. And everybody was revved up to hear about two things today: Indiana number one, and Iran and the nuke deal, number two. And The Daily Show, to people in this audience, big deal, big whoop. But this is fascinating stuff to me. This is pop culture. This is, to me, it’s very important. Not that I care, I’m not invested in this, but it nevertheless is interesting in a know-your-enemy framework.</p>
<p>So Stewart is leaving, no mas, no mas, just like Dingy Harry is leaving. I told you that no matter what the Drive-Bys make it look like day to day, the left, they’re not riding high. That’s what all of this anger and outrage is all about, folks. They’re miserable people. They’re angry. They’re unhappy. They are constantly outraged and enraged, and everything they believe in — Obama was their messiah. This was gonna be utopia. It’s an absolute disaster and a mess and they know it, and of course they can’t blame themselves and their ideas, so it has to be our fault. It has to be the Republicans’ fault, Bush’s fault, you name it.</p>
<p>But strip all that away and they’re miserable, they’re unhappy. And Dingy Harry leaving the Senate tells me that he doesn’t think the Democrats are gonna win it back any time soon. Stewart leaving the Daily Show, there’s something going on there other than tired of doing it. The audience, growing complacent, whatever. This is not to say that conservatism is in an ascendancy. It could be, but the two don’t mutually go together. The left could be falling apart and that could be all that’s happening.</p>
<p>It does not mean that the opposition to the left is doing great things at the same time. I mean, people can grow fed up. It’s like what we’ve always heard about the Millennials. This is a very distressing thing when I learned it and heard about it. They don’t think America’s best days are ahead. They think the best days are behind us. They don’t think they’re gonna have a chance to live as well their parents did. But they’re blaming America. They’re not blaming Obama. They’re not blaming Obama policies. They’re not blaming the political party, the Democrat Party.</p>
<p>They’re blaming the country. The country has finally failed to live up to its promise. That’s a bad, bad thing here. And I think people can grow weary of the Democrat Party and the left, but not at the same time think we ought to choose conservatives or Republicans. The Republicans and conservatives have to earn that support. And that’s a whole ‘nother matter.</p>
<p>So I think that all of these resignations from entertainment and politics by people on the left means something when you include what is obvious to anybody observing. They’re not happy. Even comediennes, even the people trying to make people laugh, they’re mad. Everybody out there is enraged. Everybody’s upset to one degree or another. Mad, enraged, outraged, fit to be tied, disappointed, you name it. The range of negativity and pessimism I think has totally overwhelmed the left, more so than usual.</p>
<p>So, anyway, in the midst of all this we get a new host for the Daily Show, and you realize the left is totally invested in this show. This show, The Daily Show, is the daily dose. It is the prescription that fulfills the needed ingredients for hate of Republicans and conservatives every day. That’s why this show is important to the left. Fake news for liberals is one of the only things that keeps them from going totally insane. And so it matters to them who’s gonna host this show.</p>
<p>This show is where they get their daily injection of hate and bigotry and anger and all of that. And they’re worried now that somebody coming along may not be able to fill that syringe as well as Stewart has. So they’re interested in this new host, this Trevor Noah guy from South Africa. And I’m reading some of the leftist critics about the guy. You know why they like him? “You know what? He’s just like Obama. He’s half white and he’s half black.” That’s a great qualification, right? It is to people on the left who judge people totally on the basis of surface characteristics.</p>
<p>Also, there is the TV columnist at Salon.com. Salon.com is also part of the insane leftist Internet blogosphere website coalition. The name of the TV critic at Salon is Sonia Saraiya, and listen to some of the things that she has written about this guy. She’s just so excited. She thinks that he’s great because he’s biracial. She thinks he’s great because he’s from another hemisphere.</p>
<p>“Noah is a literal product of apartheid, as his mother was black and his father was white, an illegal union at the time in South Africa. It’s this, ultimately, that is going to get the most attention. Praise, from those of us excited to see any club of all-white all-men rendered extinct.” Yeah, you heard me. That’s right. That’s what she said.</p>
<p>She’s a TV critic at Salon and she likes this guy because he represents the rendering extinct of all-white, all-male institutions, “whether that’s late-night television or, you know, the presidency. … The tenor of conservative criticism of ‘The Daily Show’ is about to get very, very ugly. This country spent years embroiled in a debate over whether an American citizen who became the president was ‘really’ American; what are we going to do to Trevor Noah? Conservative critics have a practiced, doublespeaking method of piling on the heat on figures who stand out because of their race or gender or sexuality.”</p>
<p>Meanwhile, the left is the only people talking about this. I didn’t know the guy was biracial. I didn’t know he was from South Africa. I didn’t know he had a black mother and a white father or vice-versa until they told me, in the midst passing their judgments on that. And now they’re predicting that conservatives are gonna be the ones that have the cows over it while they’re in the process of giving birth to the cow over it.</p>
<p>And then she says, “Look: Prove me wrong. I hope I’m wrong. Because I am so excited about Trevor Noah.” Get this next. “He’s going to bring the perspective of a whole other hemisphere to the American conversation, and he’s ushering late-night into an era where it’s not an oddity or a fluke to have a host that isn’t a white man. Noah joins Larry Willmore on Comedy Central to make a daily late-night bloc of two hosts of color; this, while network late-night continues to be all-white, even with new hires James Corden and Stephen Colbert on CBS.”</p>
<p>Anyway, it’s so great, finally gonna have somebody from a different hemisphere because this hemisphere sucks, don’t you know. This hemisphere, the home of global warming, the home of discrimination, the home of blatant sexism and racism and bigotry and homophobia. We deserve somebody from another hemisphere and their perspective, and in Trevor Noah we are getting it.</p>
<p>And then she concludes by writing this: “I hope we can prove to Noah that we deserve him — and that we’ll stand for him, too, when it’s necessary. Because though it’s clear that he’s used to backlash, I’m not sure that we are.”</p>
<p>This is insanity. This is insanity on parade. This is lunaticism. “I hope we can prove to Trevor Noah that we deserve him.” What? What an attitude to have. You’re in an audience, they’re hiring a comedian to host the show and you hope that you as an audience member can prove to him that you deserve him. What is he, a god? You have the same attitude about Obama, “Oh, I hope that we can really prove to Obama that we deserve him.”</p>
<p>Meanwhile, this savior from another hemisphere, this first attempt at making extinct the all-white, all-male late-night TV host, has put some very anti-Semitic, anti-Jew tweets out there, and they have been found, and they have been reprinted and published here. I’ll share with you some of them.</p>
<p>“South Africans know how to recycle like Israeli knows how to be peaceful.”</p>
<p>“Behind every successful rap billionaire is a double as rich Jewish man.”</p>
<p>What does that mean, Mr. Snerdley? It means that behind Jay-Z is some rich Jewish guy? All right. If it weren’t for the rich Jewish guy Jay-Z wouldn’t stand a chance. Jay-Z is nothing more than a front man for some rich Jewish guy pulling strings behind the scenes. Right. That’s what the tweet is. “Behind every successful rap billionaire is a double as rich Jewish man.” (interruption) Farrakhan? You don’t want to be that blatant about it. You gotta hold some cards close to your vest.</p>
<p>Now, they also found some stuff from his Facebook page and this printed out, it printed the graphic of the Facebook page, and it’s really too small for me to read so I’m gonna go back and reprint this in a readable format. It’s found at PJ Tatler. But these posts at Facebook and some of these tweets, I mean this guy genuinely has a problem with Jews. And so we’re just gonna have to wait and see here how — (interruption) Mr. Snerdley asked what if this guy’s ratings suck. Well, that’s always a risk.</p>
<p>But it doesn’t matter. It all depends who his writers are. If the writing team stays the same and the words on the prompter are the same thing that Stewart would say, this guy has a little bit of input. Look, this show is what it is. The people that do this show know what it is, and as long as there’s anybody up there that can deliver hate for Republicans and conservatives and make it look like humor, they’ll be fine. That’s all it is.</p>
<p>See, it’s the comedy that provides the buffer, it’s the comedian. Come on, you need to learn to laugh at yourselves, conservatives. It’s just a comedian, come on, we’re not talking about anybody with really any power here. That’s how they excuse all of this stuff. Anyway, they’re just all atwitter here. This is news everywhere, this guy being hired. That’s how important this show is. Fake news is the biggest show of the day to liberals.</p>
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<p>RUSH: Why didn’t one of these reporters ask Josh Earnest why Obama voted for the same damn law? Why didn’t any reporter think to ask that? Obama voted for the same damn law. This law is in 25 or 30 states. It was the AP, January 3rd, 2006: “British Woman Marries Dolphin.” I told you I don’t make these things up.</p>
<p>And we’ve got a audio sound bite, grab number 19. This is Trevor Noah. This is the new savior of The Daily Show sitting in for Jon Stewart when Stewart finally takes a train out of town. This is December 4th of last year when they were introducing this guy to The Daily Show audience. He had just arrived from South Africa, and Jon Stewart said, “I just understand you just flew in here from South Africa?” And this what Trevor Noah said.</p>
<p>NOAH: I’ve been holding my arms like this since I got here. I never thought I’d be more afraid of police in America than in South Africa. It’s kind of makes me a little nostalgic for the old days back home.</p>
<p>RUSH: What he was saying was, and this was one of the tweets, is that it’s worse for blacks in America than it ever was for blacks in Apartheid South Africa. And he came out with his “hands up, don’t shoot.” He was mimicking the lie about the Gentle Giant trying to surrender. (imitating Noah) “I’ve been holding my arms like this since I got here. I never thought I’d be more afraid of police in America than South Africa,” ha-ha-ha-ha-ha. Funny, funny. “Hands up, don’t shoot.”</p>
<p>Yes, it kind of makes me nostalgic for the old days back at home when we were able to necklace people that disagreed, remember that? We’d put gasoline in the tire, put it around their necks and we’d light it on fire and we burned them alive. I miss those days, don’t you know.</p> | Liberal Hate Tweets: Obama Regime Economist and New Daily Show Host | true | http://rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2015/03/31/liberal_hate_tweets_obama_regime_economist_and_new_daily_show_host | 2015-03-31 | 0 |
<p>Most of the time, Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) likes to introduce new features to the iPhone before subsequently bringing those features to the iPad. A couple notable examples would be high-resolution Retina displays and Touch ID, among others. The company never brought 3D Touch to the iPad, and <a href="https://www.fool.com/investing/2017/10/02/apple-incs-3d-touch-tech-might-never-come-to-the-i.aspx?&amp;utm_campaign=article&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;uuid=f18113f6-ad1e-11e7-b50b-0050569d32b9&amp;utm_source=foxbusiness" type="external">may never do so</a>, since 3D Touch never quite lived up to its hype as a potential interface game-changer, combined with the fact that implementing the technology on such a large display comes with incredible technical challenges.</p>
<p>Well, the headline feature of iPhone X might actually make it to next year's iPad Pros.</p>
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<p>KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has issued a research note to investors (via <a href="https://www.macrumors.com/2017/10/09/ipad-pro-2018-truedepth-camera/" type="external">MacRumors</a>) predicting that Apple will add its TrueDepth camera system and Face ID to 2018 iPad Pros. That would make sense for a number of reasons.</p>
<p>For starters, if Apple truly believes that Face ID is more secure than Touch ID, then transitioning away from fingerprint recognition to 3D facial recognition could represent an improvement in biometric security. It's too early to say how Face ID will perform both in terms of everyday usage as well as the security implications, since iPhone X won't launch until next month.</p>
<p>Additionally, the TrueDepth camera system is comprised of just a handful of components that could easily be implemented into the iPad form factor, a contrast to a technology like 3D Touch, whose implementation difficulty is directly related to the size of the display. Apple can pack in all those components into the top of the iPad display relatively easily to bring Face ID to the iPad Pro. On top of that, TrueDepth has incredible potential for augmented reality (AR) applications that are largely untapped right now since developers only recently got their hands on ARKit, which will allow Apple to extend its AR platform to the iPad. What's less clear is whether or not Apple will kill off the home button or if the 2018 iPad Pros will have either an edge-to-edge display, an OLED display, or both.</p>
<p>Apple has adopted a " <a href="https://www.fool.com/investing/2017/09/15/apple-incs-iphone-lineup-is-getting-overcrowded.aspx?&amp;utm_campaign=article&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;uuid=f18113f6-ad1e-11e7-b50b-0050569d32b9&amp;utm_source=foxbusiness" type="external">bifurcat[ed]</a>" approach to iPad (and is now pursuing a similar strategy with the iPhone), and including TrueDepth and Face ID would be another differentiating feature for the flagship tablets, in addition to other features exclusive to the iPad Pros like Apple Pencil and Smart Keyboard support and ProMotion displays. The company will likely continue offering more basic iPads at lower price points, while justifying premium prices for iPad Pros with exclusive features like TrueDepth, Face ID, and enhanced AR.</p>
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<p>While iPads don't command the same unit volumes as iPhones, this is all still good news for TrueDepth component suppliers&#160;Lumentum, Finisar, and II-VI, which provide the vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) that Apple refers to as "Dot Projectors." The broader VCSEL industry is aggressively working to ramp manufacturing capacity in order to accommodate demand from a new generation of 3D sensing mobile devices. Meanwhile, Android OEMs will be <a href="https://www.fool.com/investing/2017/09/15/it-might-take-a-while-for-android-to-catch-up-with.aspx?&amp;utm_campaign=article&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;uuid=f18113f6-ad1e-11e7-b50b-0050569d32b9&amp;utm_source=foxbusiness" type="external">scrambling to catch up</a> and add 3D sensing to their flagships, which will be challenging since Apple has locked down much of the industry's initial supply.</p>
<p>Importantly, all of this demand is incremental upside that is coming from new use cases, which is why the VCSEL market is expected to skyrocket from approximately $950 million in 2015 to $3.1 billion by 2022, according&#160;to Markets and Markets.</p>
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<p>Apparently, gay men are becoming lesbians. Or something.</p>
<p>On Tuesday night, <a href="https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/article/the-trans-women-who-become-lesbians-after-years-as-gay-men" type="external">Broadly</a>hit the internet with possibly the most confusing headline of all time: "The trans women who become lesbians after years as gay men."</p>
<p>This left a lot of us scratching our heads, attempting to enter Leftist Fantasy Land to figure out the chronology of a gay man becoming a lesbian. But it's much more simple than it sounds. Here's how it works:</p>
<p>Boy is attracted to boys.</p>
<p>Boy attracted to boys believes he's female and "transitions" into a woman.</p>
<p>Boy who was attracted to boys and thinks he's a woman suddenly becomes attracted to women.</p>
<p>Boy once attracted to boys who thinks he's a woman and is now attracted to women now identities as a lesbian transgender woman.</p>
<p>A tale as old as time, really.</p>
<p>The article introduces us to two former gay men who turn into lesbian transgender women.</p>
<p>One of the trans lesbians, who went by the pseudonym Alison for reasons of anonymity, grew up a "slight and slender" gay biological male. When he entered puberty, he "began to struggle with feelings of discomfort in and anxiety about her body—she was terrified of becoming big, muscular, and masculine like her older brother, whom she described as 'a very s***ty misogynist.'"</p>
<p>"I found guys hot, but I also found a lot of them repellant in terms of personality or maturity," said Alison. "I was raised by a feminist mother, so almost all dudes and their misogyny were a complete turn-off."</p>
<p>Allison eventually started to believe that he was a woman and transitioned. It was then that he could finally "'conceive of women as possible romantic or sexual interests' without having to stomach her 'disgust at male heterosexuality' or having to view herself as complicit in it.'"</p>
<p>Those heterosexuals are the worst. All that procreation and what not? The worst!</p>
<p>The other gay man-turned-trans lesbian went by the name Ann, and like Alison, grew up as a gay biological male before transitioning and becoming attracted to women.</p>
<p>I "pretty much forced myself to be gay" pre-transition, Ann told Broadly. "It might've been partly that I was forced to feel that way, or it was that with a man I felt truly feminine, so it's hard to say for sure."</p>
<p>As noted by Broadly, Alison and Ann alike feel that "testosterone—and, later, estrogen—may have played a role in her sexual shift, but she recognizes that it probably occurred in conjunction with the social and psychological changes that occurred once she was able to live as a woman."</p>
<p>"I think now that I've transitioned it's easier for me to date a woman, honestly," added Ann. "I don't feel forced into that male role."</p>
<p>Brave New World.</p> | Apparently, Gay Men Are Becoming Lesbians | true | https://dailywire.com/news/13990/apparently-gay-men-are-becoming-lesbians-amanda-prestigiacomo | 2017-03-01 | 0 |
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<p>U.S. stock indexes rose on Tuesday, led by the Dow, as stronger-than-expected results and forecasts from companies including 3M, Caterpillar and General Motors fueled optimism about strength in the economy.</p>
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<p>3M and Caterpillar gave the Dow its biggest boost. The index hit another intraday record high and was on track to post its biggest intraday percentage gain since Sept. 11.</p>
<p>3M jumped 7.2 percent and Caterpillar 4.7 percent after the two companies reported quarterly results and gave upbeat forecasts. The S&amp;P industrial sector &lt;.SPLRCI&gt;, up 0.6 percent, also hit a record high.</p>
<p>"It has been encouraging to see some of these industrial names report solid numbers and raise their guidance," said Lindsey Bell, investment strategist at CFRA Research in New York.</p>
<p>"Looking at some the earnings we got yesterday and the ones today, you're seeing strength domestically here in the U.S."</p>
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<p>General Motors rose 2.9 percent. The No.1 U.S. automaker reported stronger-than-expected earnings, reaffirmed its full-year earnings forecast and promised to slash stocks of unsold vehicles.</p>
<p>But the financial index &lt;.SPSY&gt;, up 0.9 percent, gave the S&amp;P 500 its biggest boost, followed by technology &lt;.SPLRCT&gt;, up 0.5 percent.</p>
<p>The Dow Jones Industrial Average &lt;.DJI&gt; rose 200.03 points, or 0.86 percent, to 23,473.99, the S&amp;P 500 &lt;.SPX&gt; gained 6.5 points, or 0.25 percent, to 2,571.48 and the Nasdaq Composite &lt;.IXIC&gt; added 23.42 points, or 0.36 percent, to 6,610.25.</p>
<p>McDonald's , another Dow component, also rose following results. The stock was last up 0.8 percent.</p>
<p>Strong earnings and optimism about President Donald Trump's tax plans helped the Dow and S&amp;P close at a record high on all five trading days last week.</p>
<p>Offsetting some of the day's gains, Biogen slipped 3.4 percent after disappointing U.S. sales of a potential blockbuster drug, Spinraza.</p>
<p>Whirlpool tumbled 10.8 percent after the home appliances maker reported profit and sales below estimates and lowered full-year earnings guidance.</p>
<p>Advancing issues outnumbered declining ones on the NYSE by a 1.36-to-1 ratio; on Nasdaq, a 1.44-to-1 ratio favored advancers.</p>
<p>(Additional reporting by Sruthi Shankar in Bengaluru; Editing by Anil D'Silva and Nick Zieminski)</p> | Wall St. gains on 3M, Caterpillar earnings; Dow jumps | true | http://foxbusiness.com/markets/2017/10/24/dow-rallies-on-strong-earnings-from-3m-caterpillar.html | 2017-10-24 | 0 |
<p>A new study has discovered a link between chronic sleep loss and <a href="http://www.cdc.gov/healthyyouth/obesity/facts.htm" type="external">obesity in children</a>.</p>
<p>Lead study author Elsie Taveras, MD, MPH, chief of General Pediatrics at MGHfC, and investigators from MassGeneral Hospital for Children (MGHfC) discovered compelling evidence that children who experienced chronic sleep deprivation in infancy and early childhood had an increase in overall body fat by the age of seven.</p>
<p>Unlike previous studies, the new study took into account factors other than body mass index (BMI). The current study looked at information from Project Viva, an investigation of the health effects of various factors during pregnancy and in early childhood. The data was gathered from mothers during interviews and from questionnaires completed at various points in the children’s lives.</p>
<p>Body measurements were taken at the seven-year visit, and included height and weight, total body fat, lean body tissue, abdominal fat, and waist and hip girths. Overall, kids who experienced the lowest amount of sleep had the highest levels of all body measurements, including abdominal fat which is especially dangerous. The link between lack of adequate sleep and body fat deposits was consistent among all ages.</p>
<p>“Our study found convincing evidence that getting less than recommended amounts of sleep across early childhood is an independent and strong risk factor for obesity and adiposity. Contrary to some published studies, we did not find a particular ‘critical period’ for the influence of sleep duration on weight gain. Instead, insufficient sleep at any time in early childhood had adverse effects,” said Taveras in a statement.</p>
<p>The findings of the study are to be published in the June issue of the journal&#160; <a href="http://www.jpeds.com" type="external">Pediatrics</a>.</p>
<p /> | Chronic sleep loss linked to weight gain in young children | false | http://natmonitor.com/2014/05/19/chronic-sleep-loss-linked-to-weight-gain-in-young-children/ | 2014-05-19 | 3 |
<p>Sales of Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC Corp dropped 30 percent in November from a month before as the world's No.4 smartphone brand struggled to compete against bigger rivals Apple and <a href="" type="internal">Samsung</a> Electronics.</p>
<p>HTC said on Tuesday consolidated sales for November fell to T$30.94 billion ($1.03 billion) from T$38.48 billion a year ago and T$44.11 billion in October 2011.</p>
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<p>"It shows how volatile the mobile device market is," said John Strand, founder of Danish mobile industry consultancy Strand Consult.</p>
<p>Since Apple entered the smartphone market with its <a href="" type="internal">iPhone</a> in 2007, old market leaders <a href="" type="internal">Nokia</a> and <a href="" type="internal">Research In Motion</a> have quickly lost ground. RIM warned last week on its sales and profits.</p>
<p>"Apple fans want the new iPhone model. HTC customers do not have the same desire for the next HTC phone. They need to reinvent themselves. It is difficult for consumers to see what they get if they buy a new HTC phone," Strand said.</p>
<p>HTC warned on Nov. 23 its revenues would not grow in the fourth quarter, shocking a market used to double- and even triple-digit percentage growth rates.</p>
<p>Shares in the Taiwanese company more than trebled in the 14 months to April, while sales grew four-fold in a year and a half, as consumers snapped up its innovative phones with their distinctive large clock numerals.</p>
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<p>But the stock has slumped 62 percent over the past six months. It closed up 2.1 percent at T$458 before the sales figures were published.</p>
<p>HTC had 10.8 percent smartphone market share in the third quarter, according to research firm IDC, behind Samsung, Apple and Nokia.</p>
<p>In addition to falling sales HTC is battling legal challenges in its key markets in the United States and Germany.</p>
<p>($1 = 30.1730 Taiwan dollars) (Reporting By Clare Jim and Tarmo Virki, Editing by Mark Potter)</p> | HTC Sales Fall 30% in a Month | true | http://foxbusiness.com/markets/2011/12/06/htc-sales-fall-30-pct-in-month.html | 2016-03-04 | 0 |
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<p>Amy Holmes of The Blaze, on Morning Joe, clearly articulated Obama’s anti Netanyahu/anti-Israel stance.</p>
<p>And former Obama Press Secretary Robert Gibbs’ response?</p>
<p>“I’m really confused…I think that’s the silliest thing I’ve probably heard in a long time”</p>
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<p>Which is one of the silliest responses we’ve heard in a long time, Mr. Gibbs.</p>
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<p>Via Right Scoop: <a href="http://therightscoop.com/watch-how-exasperated-this-obama-hack-gets-when-conservative-lays-out-obamas-entire-anti-israel-history/" type="external">Watch how exasperated this Obama hack gets when conservative lays out Obama’s ENTIRE anti-Israel history</a></p>
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<p>And looks like Amy’s comments hit a nerve:</p>
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<p>LA Times: <a href="http://www.latimes.com/world/middleeast/la-fg-us-israel-20150318-story.html#page=1" type="external">U.S. support for Israel at the U.N. is in jeopardy, White House says</a></p>
<p>Daily Caller: <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2015/03/18/krauthammer-on-obama-clear-he-loathes-netanyahu-more-than-any-other-world-leader-video/" type="external">Krauthammer On Obama: ‘Clear’ He ‘Loathes Netanyahu More Than Any Other World Leader’</a></p> | true | http://tammybruce.com/2015/03/video-robert-gibbs-gets-a-smackdown-over-obamas-bibi-hatred.html | 0 |
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<p>ORANGE, Texas - The Coast Guard has advised boaters to stay off a 25-mile stretch of the rain-swollen Sabine (suh-BEEN?) River in Southeast Texas amid flood and safety concerns.</p>
<p>A Coast Guard statement Sunday afternoon says all mariners should avoid the Sabine River between Orange and Bon Wier (bahn WEER?) until Friday. The Coast Guard warned of extreme flood currents linked to last week's rainstorms.</p>
<p>Experts say water being released from Toledo Bend Reservoir has swollen the river and the Deweyville area could be flooded within days.</p>
<p>Newton County officials on Saturday declared a local disaster due to the flood threat in Deweyville. A mandatory evacuation order was issued Saturday for the town of about 1,000, with no reports of anyone hurt.</p>
<p>Emergency management officials Sunday didn't immediately return messages.</p>
<p>ADVERTISEMENT</p> | Coast Guard advises boaters to stay off flooded Sabine River | false | https://abqjournal.com/739806/coast-guard-advises-boaters-to-stay-off-flooded-sabine-river.html | 2 |
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<p>Radar has fun detailing “ <a href="http://radaronline.com/features/2006/10/americas_dumbest_congressmen_a_radar_special_report.php" type="external">America’s Dumbest Congressmen</a>.” Readers of Mother Jones‘ regular feature “The Diddly Award” will know many of the names and anecdotes already but when it comes to the antics of wise legislators such as <a href="/news/feature/2004/07/diddly-16.html" type="external">Jim Bunning</a>, <a href="/news/outfront/2005/03/diddly.html" type="external">Katherine Harris</a>, and <a href="/news/feature/2004/07/diddly-20.html" type="external">Patrick Kennedy</a>, is it possible for familiarity to breed even more contempt?</p>
<p>Update, May 26, 2010: Hi Huffington Post readers! That Radar link (to their 2006 feature on America’s “dumbest” members of Congress)&#160;doesn’t work anymore, probably because of Radar’s <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RadarOnline" type="external">complicated history</a>. I’ve&#160;reproduced the list here for your convenience (minus Radar’s commentary, which I can’t find in a complete form is <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20061113232516/www.radaronline.com/features/2006/10/americas_dumbest_congressmen_a_radar_special_report.php" type="external">available on the internet archive</a>—thanks, Anon.):</p>
<p>10. Senator <a href="/mojo/2010/03/jim-bunning-tea-party-darling" type="external">Jim Bunning</a> (R-KY) 9. Representative <a href="/mojo/2010/02/can-dems-be-saved" type="external">Patrick Kennedy</a> (D-RI) 8. Senator <a href="/politics/2004/09/crossing-lines" type="external">Conrad Burns</a> (R-MT) 7. Representative <a href="/kevin-drum/2010/04/coffee-conservatives" type="external">Cynthia McKinney</a> (D-GA) 6. Representative <a href="/politics/2006/01/diddly-awards" type="external">Jean Schmidt</a> (R-OH) 5. Senator <a href="/blue-marble/2010/03/fiorina-v-hindenboxer-climate" type="external">Barbara Boxer</a> (D-CA) 4. Representative <a href="/mojo/2009/11/5-reasons-dems-should-hope-jd-hayworth-challenges-mccain" type="external">J.D. Hayworth</a> (R-AZ) 3. Senator <a href="/blue-marble/2009/12/inhofe-brings-one-man-truth-squad-0" type="external">James Inhofe</a> (R-OK) 2. Representative <a href="/politics/2006/01/diddly-awards" type="external">Donald Young</a> (R-AK) 1. Representative <a href="/mojo/2007/09/laura-dern-katherine-harris" type="external">Katherine Harris</a> (R-FL)</p>
<p>A lot of these folks are no longer in Congress. Burns (8) lost to Jon Tester in 2006. McKinney (7) lost to <a href="/mojo/2010/04/rep-hank-johnson-thinks-guam-could-capsize" type="external">Hank Johnson</a>&#160;(of “ <a href="/mojo/2010/04/rep-hank-johnson-thinks-guam-could-capsize" type="external">Guam capsizing</a>” fame) in a Democratic primary the same year. J.D. Hayworth is no longer a member of the House, but he’s <a href="/mojo/2009/11/5-reasons-dems-should-hope-jd-hayworth-challenges-mccain" type="external">running against John McCain</a> in the GOP senate primary in Arizona. Harris (1) ran for Senate in 2006 and lost. Vern Buchanan now holds her House seat. Bunning (10) and Kennedy (9) are retiring this year. That leaves Schmidt (6), Boxer (5), <a href="" type="internal">Inhofe</a> (3), and Young (2) still in Congress. None of those four seem particularly “dumb” to me, although I disagree with some of them on the issues. Anyway, here’s Mother Jones <a href="/politics/2006/05/fools-hill" type="external">being mean</a> about some of these very same folks back in 2006.&#160;</p>
<p>—Nick Baumann</p>
<p /> | Radar’s Ten Dumbest Congressmen | true | https://motherjones.com/politics/2006/10/radars-ten-dumbest-congressmen/ | 2006-10-17 | 4 |
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