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Muse: US rightwing conspiracy
theorists tried to hijack our music

Guardian [UK], by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 9/28/2012 4:18:33 PM Post Reply

Muse have revealed the extent to which US politicians and political pundits have attempted to appropriate their music. In an interview to be published in the Observer on Sunday, singer Matt Bellamy discusses Fox News presenter Glenn Beck's embrace of their 2009 album The Resistance and the use of their hit single Uprising in rightwing conspiracy videos on YouTube. "In the US the conspiracy theory subculture has been hijacked by the right to try to take down people like Obama and put forward rightwing libertarianism," Bellamy said. Defining himself as "a left-leaning libertarian – more in the realm of Noam

We’re from the government, and . . .

Power Line, by Steven Hayward Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 9/28/2012 4:15:20 PM Post Reply

It is axiomatic that if the federal government had realized five or six years ago that the technological advances in directional drilling and hydraulic fracturing that have set off the current domestic oil and natural gas boom were coming, they surely would have done something to stop it. Now the greens and federal regulators are trying to play catch up: they can’t openly try to stop the boon of new domestic energy because its benefits (like cheap natural gas and 1 percent unemployment in North Dakota) are too evident,

Mayor Bloomberg: Israeli Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
is ‘very frustrated’ about
Iranian nuclear threat

New York Daily News, by Tina Moore Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 9/28/2012 4:05:45 PM Post Reply

The Israel Prime Minister shared his concerns about the Iranian nuclear threat with Mayor Bloomberg, hizzoner said. "He's very frustrated," Bloomberg said Friday, a day after hosting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at Gracie Mansion. "A good analogy would be if a country very close to us said they were going to annihilate us and started building nuclear bombs,” Bloomberg said. “Can you imagine?" The mayor made news Thursday by taking the meeting with Netanyahu that President Obama said he was too busy to take.

Bloomberg poll: Obama losing
support on national security

Hot Air, by Ed Morrissey Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 9/28/2012 4:05:36 PM Post Reply

I missed the Bloomberg poll in the recent avalanche of polling results, but The Cable didn’t — and for good reason. One month after Democrats bragged at their convention that they would pound Mitt Romney on foreign policy and national security, Barack Obama suddenly finds himself at a disadvantage on the issue of terrorism. That wasn’t the only decline Bloomberg measured, either:The foreign-policy results of the new Bloomberg National Poll haven’t gotten much attention yet, but the survey contains some bad news for the Obama campaign. According to the poll, Mitt Romney has a 48-42 advantage

No sign of remains in new
Mich. search for Teamsters
boss Jimmy Hoffa

New York Daily News & Associated Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 9/28/2012 3:42:10 PM Post Reply

Roseville, Mich. - Authorities drilled through concrete and removed wet soil samples in a modest Detroit-area neighborhood Friday in the latest effort to find the remains of Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa, who disappeared in 1975. There was no immediate sign of human remains, but test results could be ready by Monday, Roseville Police Chief James Berlin said. (Snip) Police detectives appeared two weeks ago and said they may need to search her yard for a dead body. "I laughed at them," Szpunar said Friday as the work began. "I looked at them and said, 'What? Do you think Jimmy Hoffa

Quebec radio DJs posing as
Stephen Harper get Ban Ki-moon
on telephone in prank

Canadian Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 9/28/2012 3:36:24 PM Post Reply

Montreal - A pair of Quebec radio personalities known for prank phone calls are boasting of another victim — the Secretary General of the United Nations. Marc-Antoine Audette and Sebastien Trudel say they posed as Prime Minister Stephen Harper and were able to get Ban Ki-moon on the phone. The so-called Masked Avengers say the diplomat was rushed out of an important meeting to speak to them. They say Ban Ki-moon became confused when fake Harper complained he was too busy combing his hair with crazy glue. Harper’s spokesman tweeted about the prank — “well played.”

No threat assessment in Benghazi
prior to ambassador's
arrival, source says

Fox News, by Catherine Herridge & Pamela Browne Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 9/28/2012 3:28:09 PM Post Reply

An intelligence source on the ground in Libya told Fox News that no threat assessment was conducted before U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and his team began "taking up residence" at the Benghazi compound -- describing the security lapses as a "total failure." The claim comes more than two weeks after Stevens and three other Americans were killed in what is now being described officially as a terror attack possibly tied to Al Qaeda. The source told Fox News that there was no real security equipment installed in the villas on the compound except for a few video cameras.

4 Girls Charged as Adults
in Taped Pa. Beating

ABC News, by Patrick Walters Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 9/28/2012 3:24:43 PM Post Reply

Chester, Pa. - Four teens were being held Friday on $50,000 bail in the taped beating of a neighbor on her stoop "for fun" outside Philadelphia, an attack that was recorded on one of the youths' cellphones and posted on Facebook, authorities said. Police said the 16- and 17-year-old girls were charged as adults in the attack in Chester on a 48-year-old woman they described as "mentally challenged." The girls were charged with aggravated assault, reckless endangerment, burglary and harassment. (Snip) Authorities say the victim was punched, kicked and hit with a shoe and chair. They say she suffered cuts

Convicted TSA Officer Reveals
Secrets of Thefts at Airports

ABC News, by Megan Chuchmach Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 9/28/2012 3:17:57 PM Post Reply

A convicted TSA security officer says he was part of a "culture" of indifference that allowed corrupt employees to prey on passengers' luggage and personal belongings with impunity, thanks to lax oversight and tip-offs from TSA colleagues. "It was very commonplace, very," said Pythias Brown, a former TSA officer at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey who admits he stole more than $800,000 worth of items from luggage and security checkpoints over a four-year period. "It was very convenient to steal," he said.

Leno: ‘We Wasted Four Years
Waiting For Obama To Do Something
About The Economy’

NewsBusters, by Noel Sheppard Original Article

Posted By: Maryland_Patriot- 9/28/2012 3:15:21 PM Post Reply

Jay Leno took some surprising shots at President Obama Thursday night. During the opening monologue of NBC's Tonight Show, the host said Americans wasted four years for the current White House resident to do something about the economy (video follows with transcribed highlights and commentary): "I love how the politicians capitalize on this kind of thing," teased Leno. "Like the minute the replacement refs were fired, President Obama said, 'See, sometimes losing jobs can be a good thing. It's a good thing.'"

Sen. Kerry lashes out
at GOP for exploiting
bipartisan Libya letter

The Hill [Washington, DC], by Geneva Sands Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 9/28/2012 3:09:48 PM Post Reply

Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry (D-Mass.) admonished Republicans on Friday for trying to "exploit" the bipartisan letter sent to the Obama administration on Libya. "Let me be crystal clear as chairman of that committee … the Republicans are working overtime to try to exploit a very normal, run-of-the course, administrative letter that we agreed to on a bipartisan basis in our committee," said Kerry on MSNBC's "Andrea Mitchell Reports." "All the Republicans can do or see is politics. All they can see is exploiting it," Kerry said. Sen. Bob Corker (Tenn.), the ranking member on Kerry's

Michael Savage Leaves Radio
Show after Legal Win

Associated Press, by Anthony McCartney Original Article

Posted By: Maryland_Patriot- 9/28/2012 3:07:16 PM Post Reply

Los Angeles -- Michael Savage's talk show left the airwaves Thursday after the conservative host won a legal battle with his longtime employer, although his attorney said discussions with new networks are already under way. Savage posted a message on his website Thursday evening under the headline "Free at Last!" that said he was free to work with any station or network from now on. He said he "will not be heard on the radio for some time." His attorney Daniel Horowitz said Savage left Talk Radio Network after obtaining a favorable ruling in arbitration Thursday afternoon.

Shoo-in Jackson absent from
his campaign, such as it is - Thread Closed

Chicago Tribune, by Katherine Skiba Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 9/28/2012 3:03:30 PM Post Reply

Battling mental illness and personal financial troubles, Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. is a heavy favorite for re-election Nov. 6 despite a surreal campaign in which he has been absent for almost four months. His two rivals on the ballot are running hard but uphill, lacking both name recognition and campaign cash. Republican challenger Brian Woodworth, 41, a college educator from Bourbonnais, says he is getting no financial help from the national GOP and has spent only $11,000. Independent Marcus Lewis, 53, a postal worker who lives in Matteson and has filed twice for bankruptcy, says he expects his campaign to
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Cornyn on Missouri: ‘This
is not a winnable race’

Daily Caller, by Alexis Levinson Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 9/28/2012 3:00:17 PM Post Reply

Sen. John Cornyn, Chair of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, said Thursday that the group did not plan to get involved in the Missouri Senate race to help Republican Congressman Todd Akin. The NRSC pulled its funding for Akin in August after the congressman said in a television interview that victims of “legitimate rape” rarely become pregnant, setting off a firestorm. “We have no plans to do so,” Cornyn told Kentucky’s Courier-Journal, when asked Thursday if the Committee intended to expend resources on the race.

Christians 'flee Egypt town after
death threats'

Agence France Press, by staff Original Article

Posted By: crimea river- 9/28/2012 3:00:09 PM Post Reply

Several Christian families have fled their homes in Egypt's Sinai peninsula after receiving death threats from suspected Islamist militants, officials and residents told AFP on Friday. Last week, flyers began circulating in the town of Rafah on the Gaza Strip border demanding that its tiny Coptic population move out, residents said. Officials at the local church informed the authorities of the threats, but no action was taken, they added. Days later, a shop belonging to one of the families was fired on with automatic rifles, witnesses said.

Harper to PM: Your UN speech
'reverberating' around world

Jerusalem Post [Israel] & Reuters, by Herb Keinon Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 9/28/2012 2:55:24 PM Post Reply

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper told Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu that his speech at the UN is now "reverberating" around the world, Netanyahu said Friday.(Snip) Harper said that Canada wanted to see a peaceful resolution to the Iranian crisis, "and we work closely with our allies to try and alert the world to the danger this presents and the necessity of dealing with it." Netanyahu said his speech was an attempt to translate the principle of stopping Iran into practice."In practice, that means setting red lines on their enrichment process. It's their only discernible and vulnerable part of their nuclear
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NJ Students Plan Strike to
Protest Obama Food Rules

Fox News Radio, by Todd Starnes Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 9/28/2012 2:51:54 PM Post Reply

As many as 1,000 students at a New Jersey high school are expected to boycott their cafeteria today to protest the Obama administration’s new lunch guidelines that many teenagers say are leaving them hungry. Instead of purchasing their lunch in the cafeteria, many students at Parsippany Hills High School are brown-bagging it – upset over smaller portions and higher prices. “We’re asking everybody not to buy lunch or anything from the cafeteria,” student Brandon Faris told the Parsippany Patch. Faris, a 17-year-old senior and junior Nicholas Caccavale, organized the strike and more than 1,000 of their classmates have joined a

Business Activity in U.S.
Shrinks for First Time Since 2009

Bloomberg News, by Michelle Jamrisko Original Article

Posted By: NorthernDog- 9/28/2012 2:50:52 PM Post Reply

Business activity in the U.S. unexpectedly contracted in September for the first time in three years, adding to signs manufacturing will contribute less to the economic recovery. The Institute for Supply Management-Chicago Inc. said today its business barometer fell 49.7 this month from 53 in August. A reading of 50 is the dividing line between expansion and contraction. Uncertainties surrounding domestic fiscal policy and weakening economies in Europe and China may prevent companies from adding to headcount and ramping up production. Slow growth prospects prompted the Federal Reserve to announce more

Stocks lower on consumer
spending worries

Associated Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 9/28/2012 2:49:34 PM Post Reply

Stocks fell on Friday after news that U.S. consumers spent more last month only because higher gas prices forced them to. Even with the declines on the last trading day of the quarter, stocks were set to post small gains for the three-month period. (Snip) Americans spent more in August even though their income barely grew, the Commerce Department said. But the spending increase was driven by higher gasoline prices.Investors were also worried about Spain’s economy. The Spanish government announced big spending cuts on Thursday aimed at convincing potential bailout creditors and investors that it has a rock-solid plan to

France budget: Taxes
favoured over spending cuts

BBC News, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 9/28/2012 2:47:05 PM Post Reply

France has unveiled its budget for 2013, avoiding big austerity spending cuts in favour of higher taxes on the wealthy and big businesses. French Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault confirmed that there is to be a new 75% tax rate for people earning more than 1m euros (£800,000; $1.3m) a year. But he insisted that nine out of 10 citizens will not see their income taxes rise in the new budget. The government plans to raise 20bn euros in extra revenue. That compares to 10bn euros in spending cuts.

Prosecutors: University banned
Colorado theater shooting
suspect for threat

Associated Press, by P. Solomon Banda Original Article

Posted By: Ribicon- 9/28/2012 2:43:04 PM Post Reply

Denver — The suspect in Colorado's deadly movie theater attack was barred from university property for threatening a professor, prosecutors said in court documents released Friday, raising more questions about why campus police didn't report his actions to other authorities. The revelation conflicts with the university's statements that James Holmes was denied access to non-public parts of the campus because he had withdrawn from school. The name of the person Holmes allegedly threatened has been blacked out. In court testimony Aug. 30, University of Colorado psychiatrist Lynne Fenton, also a professor at the school, said she contacted campus police after meeting
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Voter registration problems
widening in Florida

Associated Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 9/28/2012 2:42:37 PM Post Reply

Tallahassee, Fla. - The Republican Party of Florida is filing an election fraud complaint against a vendor suspected of submitting questionable voter registration forms. The move comes as counties across Florida are turning over to prosecutors registration forms the vendor collected for the state party. Election officials in Escambia and Santa Rosa counties on Thursday handed over more than 100 suspect forms to local prosecutors. They did so days after officials in Palm Beach County also alerted prosecutors.

Should Tuna Be Banned
from School Lunches?

US News and World Report, by Melinda Johnson Original Article

Posted By: NorthernDog- 9/28/2012 2:40:21 PM Post Reply

Canned tuna made news last week as the star in a scandalous debate: A coalition of consumer groups is reportedly urging schools to take tuna off the lunch menu. The reason? A recently published study that reported higher amounts of mercury than expected, as well as large variances in the levels of mercury, based on tests of several different brands and types of canned tuna. The problem with these headlines is that they aren't exactly true. The report, titled Tuna Surprise: Mercury in School Lunches, doesn't actually call for tuna to be banished from the lunch menu.

George Soros Panics About Romney
Win, Mother Jones Scrubs Story

Breitbart's Big Journalism, by RB Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 9/28/2012 2:40:02 PM Post Reply

On Thursday, Mother Jones reported that billionaire financier George Soros was "panicked" that Mitt Romney would win the election--and then scrubbed the story without explanation. Mother Jones--the left-wing outlet that published the incomplete "47 percent" video of Romney--was reporting on Soros's reasons for donating $1 million to the Paul Begala / Bill Burton run Priorities USA Action PAC on Sep. 27. (Snip) The donation is significant because Soros has always tried to play, at least in public, the role of the rich guy trying to "give back" by supporting "grassroots" movements--and not hack operations like Priorities USA, which are more

Obama Cabinet Flunks Disclosure
Test With 19 in 20 Ignoring Law

Bloomberg News, by Jim Snyder & Danielle Ivory Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 9/28/2012 2:37:11 PM Post Reply

Washington - On his first full day in office, President Barack Obama ordered federal officials to “usher in a new era of open government” and “act promptly” to make information public. As Obama nears the end of his term, his administration hasn’t met those goals, failing to follow the requirements of the Freedom of Information Act, according to an analysis of open-government requests filed by Bloomberg News. (Snip) The travel costs generated by some other Obama officials --Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, Energy Secretary Steven Chu, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson, and Homeland Security chief Janet Napolitano -- also remain

Progressive Media Run with Two
Fake Anti-Romney Stories

Breitbart's Big Journalism, by John Sexton Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 9/28/2012 2:31:58 PM Post Reply

Twice this week, progressive media outlets have embarrassed themselves by jumping on stories that looked like promising anti-Republican material only to discover hours later they'd been fooled. In one case, the mistake was a piece of satire, the other a joke mistaken for a serious comment. Tuesday morning Politico's Roger Simon posted an article which was clearly not meant to be taken seriously. The thrust of the piece was that Paul Ryan had become unhinged and was "marching around his campaign bus, saying things like, 'If Stench calls, take a message' and 'Tell Stench I’m having finger sandwiches with Peggy

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