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Martin Sheen and Woody
Harrelson to star in 9/11
'truther' film September Morn

Daily Mail (UK), by Snejana Farberov Original Article

Posted By: pineledger- 10/21/2012 4:40:20 AM Post Reply

The tragic events of September 11 have been dramatized several times on the big screen over the past decade, but now a new film starring Woody Harrelson and Martin Sheen takes another look at the attacks, this time from the perspective of conspiracy theorists. (Snip)According to the official synopsis, the movie aims to ‘provide an insight into the findings of the 9/11 Commission, intertwined with provocative perspectives of expert architects and scientists, CIA and Department of Defense officials, Department of Homeland Security officials and concerned American citizens.’

'Atlas Shrugged': A strike for freedom

Daily Inter Lake [Kalispell MT], by Frank Miele Original Article

Posted By: davesenior- 10/21/2012 3:20:24 AM Post Reply

“I won’t be a slave.”Those are the words of Dagny Taggart, the protagonist of Ayn Rand’s classic dystopian novel “Atlas Shrugged,” and now Part 2 of the serial film adaptation.The way you interpret Taggart’s words will probably determine whether you agree with the critics (who almost universally hated this movie) [SNIP] If you think that being a slave means working voluntarily for a corporation or employer and then complaining about the job because your boss makes more than you do (or makes you work hard for your money), then you won’t understand this movie.

The man on a mission
to debunk Obama 'myth'

Agence France-Presse, by Rory Mulholland Original Article

Posted By: ketchuplover- 10/21/2012 2:41:38 AM Post Reply

Paris - He did nothing for African-Americans, left the poor even poorer, his health care reform was a step backwards, and he may yet let another financial disaster erupt on his watch. In short, Barack Obama squandered the huge wave of goodwill that gave the United States its first black president, argues the president and publisher of the high-brow and left-leaning US magazine Harper's. John R. MacArthur has been making those points all week as he tours Paris to promote his new French-language book "L'Illusion Obama" that seeks to puncture the myths about the man who was awarded the Nobel

The remarkable, unfathomable ignorance
of Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Guardian [UK], by Glenn Greenwald Original Article

Posted By: ketchuplover- 10/21/2012 2:17:24 AM Post Reply

On 29 May 2012, the New York Times published a remarkable 6,000-word story on its front page about what it termed President Obama's "kill list". It detailed the president's personal role in deciding which individuals will end up being targeted for assassination by the CIA based on Obama's secret, unchecked decree that they are "terrorists" and deserve to die. (Snip) But Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the Democratic Congresswoman from Florida and the Chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee, does not know about any of this. She has never heard of any of it. She has managed to remain

Presidential predictors
puzzled by tossup states

Boston Globe, by Matt Viser Original Article

Posted By: ketchuplover- 10/21/2012 2:08:29 AM Post Reply

Washington — With just over two weeks before voters head to the polls, the presidential campaigns are bearing down on the same swing states that have been the focus for the past year, but they are using different prescriptions for several battlegrounds. Mitt Romney hasn’t been to Wisconsin in the last 30 days, for example. But over about the same period his campaign has been outspending Obama there, $3.9 million to $2.9 million. In Virginia, the opposite is true. Romney has been there 11 times over the past 30 days — four for Obama — but is being outspent on

The Secret Bailout That Saved Romney

Rolling Stone Magazine, by Tim Dickinson Original Article

Posted By: rinohunter- 10/21/2012 1:18:58 AM Post Reply

Mitt Romney likes to say he won't "apologize" for his success in business. But what he never says is "thank you" – to the American people – for the federal bailout of Bain & Company that made so much of his outsize wealth possible. According to the candidate's mythology, Romney took leave of his duties at the private equity firm Bain Capital in 1990 and rode in on a white horse to lead a swift restructuring of Bain & Company, preventing the collapse of the consulting firm where his career began. When The Boston Globe reported on the rescue at the time of his Senate run against Ted Kennedy,

Fluke takes center stage in Reno

Gazette-Journal [Reno, NV], by Emerson Marcus Original Article

Posted By: PLPointer67- 10/21/2012 12:59:17 AM Post Reply

Sandra Fluke, the woman at the center of a media firestorm earlier this year after Rush Limbaugh called her a “slut,” spoke Saturday in front of about 10 people at the Sak ‘N Save in north Reno. The speech was part of a daylong effort by Democrats to get Northern Nevadans to the polls on the first day of early voting. “I’m trying to do everything I can for an election that I feel is very important. I have a unique opportunity for how I get to do that,” said Fluke, who is coming off recent campaign trips to Colorado, Iowa, New Hampshire and Florida as a surrogate for Democratic President

Fewer walkers for the
Susan G. Komen 3-Day

Atlanta Journal-Constitution, by Angel K. Brooks Original Article

Posted By: Ribicon- 10/21/2012 12:48:54 AM Post Reply

Participation in this year’s Susan G. Komen 3-Day walk for breast cancer across metro Atlanta is noticeably down because of the recent controversy involving grants to Planned Parenthood, organizers said. There are 1,550 walkers this year — 850 fewer than this time last year, organizers told Channel 2 Action News. Earlier this month, the Archdiocese of Atlanta directed its parishes, missions and schools to end support for activities related to Komen for the Cure and criticized grants given by some Komen affiliates to Planned Parenthood because of that organization’s role as an abortion

Will Boeing South Carolina ever
become a union shop? Time and
working conditions will tell

Post & Courier [Charleston, SC], by Brendan Kearney Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 10/21/2012 12:24:50 AM Post Reply

They trickled in and out of the North Charleston hotel meeting room, men in Boeing polo shirts meeting with a pair in red International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers polos. The workers had come to learn more about organizing their plane-making plant, and the union representatives were there to field their questions and concerns. During a lull in the intermittent meetings, Tommy Mayfield, the IAM Grand Lodge representative for the Southern territory, walked over in a pair of well-worn cowboy boots to explain what has been happening largely out of the public eye. “I’ve been meeting with these

Thefts of cell phones
rise rapidly nationwide

Associated Press, by Terry Collins Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 10/21/2012 12:01:37 AM Post Reply

SAN FRANCISCO -- In this tech-savvy city teeming with commuters and tourists, the cell phone has become a top target of robbers who use stealth, force and sometimes guns. Nearly half of all robberies in San Francisco this year are cell phone-related, police say, and most occur on bustling transit lines. One thief recently snatched a smartphone while sitting right behind his unsuspecting victim and darted out the rear of a bus in mere seconds. Another robber grabbed an iPhone from an oblivious bus rider - while she was still talking. And, in nearby Oakland

“What’s He Doing Back There?”

Power Line, by John Hinderaker Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 10/20/2012 11:28:31 PM Post Reply

Vice President Joe Biden is the most weirdly inappropriate figure in modern political history. We can’t even imagine what a figure of fun he would be if he were a Republican. Fresh off his disastrous “debate” with Paul Ryan, about which hardly anyone remembers anything except that Biden made a fool of himself, he appeared onstage with Florida Senator Bill Nelson. A woman was warming up the crowd, talking about breast cancer–a serious topic, one would think. But Biden couldn’t stand to go for more than a few moments without playing the buffoon. So, growing impatient

Source: Backchannel talks but
no US-Iran deal on one-to-one
nuclear meeting

NBC News, by Andrea Mitchell Original Article

Posted By: earlybird- 10/20/2012 11:12:33 PM Post Reply

A senior administration official told NBC on Saturday that there have been backchannel talks between the U.S. and Iran about meeting bilaterally on the Iranians’ nuclear program – but that no meeting has been agreed to. Expanding on a statement issued by the White House after The New York Times reported that there was an agreement, the official says that the backchannel talks have been done in full consultation with the allies – the P5 + 1 and Israel.

Alex 'Butcher' Salmond has
destroyed Scotland

Telegraph [UK], by James Delingpole Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 10/20/2012 11:01:58 PM Post Reply

Today is the Scottish National Party conference in Perth. At some stage, SNP leader Alex Salmond will no doubt be crowing, as he is wont to do, about his success in transforming Scotland into the "Saudi Arabia of renewables". This is inaccurate. What he has actually done is transform Scotland into the Saudi Arabia of tourism, which is to say he has turned a once-beautiful country into a vast, inhospitable desert which no one in their right mind would want to visit. Scotland's landscape was, until recently, one of the great glories of our national heritage. What made it

White House: NYT Report
of U.S.-Iran Talks ‘Not True’

PJ Media, by Bridget Johnson Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 10/20/2012 10:44:18 PM Post Reply

The White House claimed this evening that a New York Times report saying that the U.S. and Iran have for the first time agreed to one-on-one nuclear talks isn’t true. The NYT quotes unnamed senior administration officials as saying Iran wants to wait after the presidential election is over to sit down and start talking — “a result of intense, secret exchanges between American and Iranian officials that date almost to the beginning of President Obama’s term,” states the paper. “It’s not true that the United States and Iran have agreed to one-on-one talks

Brazilian newspapers pull
out of Google News

BBC News [UK], by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 10/20/2012 10:11:41 PM Post Reply

Newspapers accounting for 90% of the circulation in Brazil have abandoned Google News. Brazil's National Association of Newspapers says all 154 members had followed its recommendation to ban the search engine aggregator from using their content. The papers say Google News refused to pay for content and was driving traffic away from their websites. Google said previously that the service boosted traffic to news websites. "Staying with Google News was not helping us grow our digital audiences, on the contrary," said the association's president, Carlos Fernando Lindenberg Neto. "By providing the first few lines of our stories to Internet

New poll: Egyptians turning toward
Iran, want nuclear weapons

Foreign Policy, by Josh Rogin Original Article

Posted By: earlybird- 10/20/2012 9:43:48 PM Post Reply

A poll of Egyptians conducted last month shows that they have increasingly positive views of Iran, believe that both Iran and Egypt should obtain nuclear weapons, and still trust their own military more than any other institution in Egypt. The poll of 812 Egyptians, half of them women, was conducted in a series of in-person interviews by the firm Greenberg Quinlan Rosner and sponsored by the Israel Project, a pro-Israel advocacy organization with offices in Washington and Jerusalem. According to the poll, Iran is viewed favorably in Egypt, with 65 percent of those surveyed expressing support

Intelligence Shows No Planning
for Benghazi Consulate Attack

ABC News, by Luis Martinez Original Article

Posted By: NorthernDog- 10/20/2012 9:36:04 PM Post Reply

The latest intelligence assessment of the attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi indicates there was little if any pre-planning for it and that it was in part an opportunistic response to the protests at the U.S. Embassy in Cairo. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans were killed in the attack, which has become a political hot potato in the presidential campaign with questions over when the Obama administration called the attack an act of terrorism. "Right now, there isn't any intelligence that the attackers pre-planned their assault days or weeks in advance,"

Iran: Israel can expect
100s more UAV infiltrations

Jerusalem Post [Israel], by Staff Original Article

Posted By: jeffblair- 10/20/2012 9:16:05 PM Post Reply

Israel can expect more drone infiltrations into its airspace in the future, the head of Iran's Basij militia Mohammed Reza Naqdi said Friday according to Iran's semi-official Fars news agency. The IAF shot down a small unmanned aerial vehicle as it flew over southern Israel earlier this month, in one of the most flagrant violations of the nation’s airspace in years. Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah took credit for sending the drone aircraft into Israel, saying that it was Iranian-made and that it was shot down near the Dimona reactor. “Zionists must expect hundreds of other drones in 25 different models with new flying systems

'Some of the people looked me
right in the eye and lied to me':
Mother of U.S. diplomat killed in
Libya attack renews her attacks
on President after 'not optimal' remark

Daily Mail [UK], by Daniel Bates* Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 10/20/2012 9:12:21 PM Post Reply

The mother of an American diplomat killed during a terrorist raid on the U.S. consulate in Libya has renewed her attacks on Barack Obama after the President's appearance on The Daily Show. Pat Smith, whose son Sean died in the raid in Benghazi, spoke of her anger to the New York Post after the President told Jon Stewart that her son's death was not 'optimal' on Thursday night. She hit out at Mr Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's handling of the crisis and security at the consulate, telling the paper: 'They’re on the top. They’re the big cheeses.

Get orf our land! (or how my
village blew away a 140ft turbine)

Daily Mail [UK], by James Delingpole Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 10/20/2012 9:00:56 PM Post Reply

Two months ago my family and I finally moved out of the Big City and into paradise--a pretty rented cottage on a 2,500-acre estate in Northamptonshire with lakes, Capability Brown parkland, a 12th Century church, a ruined Elizabethan haunted house, an 18th Century walled garden and an ancient bluebell wood teeming with badgers, bats, deer and rare birds. But what we didn’t know was that there was a snake in the garden: a planning application for an ugly 140ft wind turbine on the hill overlooking our new idyll. The first I heard of it was when a woman called Sue accosted me at the Fawsley village

Cookson loses her crown as
Britain’s library queen after
readers turn to crime

Daily Mail [UK], by Chris Hastings Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 10/20/2012 8:52:23 PM Post Reply

For almost 20 years, Dame Catherine Cookson was the most popular author in British libraries, with more copies of her novels borrowed than any other writer. But she has suffered a massive drop in popularity--not even managing to make the top ten most popular authors of the past nine years. And in the latest annual charts, for 2010-2011, she ranked a lowly 147th in the list of most borrowed writers, as readers find her work--inspired by her illegitimate childhood and grinding poverty in the North East--increasingly irrelevant. Instead they are opting for ‘grittier’ crime novels by authors such

VP candidate Paul Ryan
attends Pittsburgh airport rally

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette [PA], by Mackenzie Carpenter Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/20/2012 8:25:59 PM Post Reply

Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan made a short speech to a cheering crowd of several hundred people at an airport rally in Moon Township this morning, pounding away at President Barack Obama's record on the economy and energy. "With the right ideas and the right leadership we can turn this economy around," he said as the crowd cheered. The running mate of former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney noted at the outset that U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey was "one of my best friends" in Congress.

The Ghosts of World War II:
The photographs found at flea markets
superimposed on to modern street scenes

Daily Mail [UK], by Emma Reynolds Original Article

Posted By: happywarrior- 10/20/2012 8:05:23 PM Post Reply

This haunting collection of images shows what it would look like if the ghosts of World War II returned to our streets. The remarkable pictures overlay modern scenes from France with atmospheric photographs taken in the same place during the war. Historical expert Jo Teeuwisse, from Amsterdam, began the project after finding 300 old negatives at a flea market in her home city depicting familiar places in a very different context. She researched the background to each of the most interesting finds and created a beautiful series of pictures by super-imposing the old pictures on top of new ones.

All 16 and 17 year
olds to have vote on
Scottish independence

Telegraph [UK], by Patrick Hennessy Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 10/20/2012 8:02:42 PM Post Reply

Scotland’s First Minister unveiled the plan at his party’s annual conference in Perth. Although he struck a deal with David Cameron last week to allow all over-16s to vote, there was confusion as to how many would actually be able to cast their ballots because most 16-year-olds are not listed on the current electoral register. Mr Salmond’s move will mean complex changes to the registering process. Most Tory MPs in England do not want 16 and 17 year olds to have a vote in the referendum, scheduled for autumn 2014, because they believe it would then be impossible

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