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Street lights turned off in
their thousands to meet
carbon emission targets

Telegraph [UK], by Claire Duffin Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 10/27/2012 6:57:18 PM Post Reply

Lights are being turned off on motorways and major roads, in town centres and residential streets, and on footpaths and cycle ways, as councils try to save money on energy bills and meet carbon emission targets. The switch-off begins as early as 9pm. They are making the move despite concerns from safety campaigners and the police that it would lead to an increase in road accidents and crime. The full extent of the blackout can be disclosed following an investigation by The Sunday Telegraph--which comes on the day that clocks moved back an hour, making it dark earlier

U.N. Calls for Boycott of Caterpillar,
Motorola, and Hewlett-Packard

Breitbart's Big Peace, by AWR Hawkins Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 10/27/2012 6:48:28 PM Post Reply

The U.N. Human Rights Council (HRC) is calling for a boycott of U.S. companies that do business with Israel. Dominated by countries like Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Jordan, and Libya, the HRC is known to be hostile toward Israel. For this reason, the Bush Administration refused to take part in the HRC, yet the Obama administration has fully participated. The HRC is calling for "legal and economic warfare" on Caterpillar, Motorola, and Hewlett-Packard, because these companies refuse to quit doing business with Israel. Companies in Europe targeted for boycott include Volvo, the Dexia Group,

Newspaper insert
tells Romney biography

CNN, by Gregory Wallace Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/27/2012 6:43:22 PM Post Reply

Voters in several battleground states may open their newspapers and find Mitt Romney's biography this weekend. The Ending Spending Action Fund super PAC has printed 4.5 million magazine-style newspaper inserts that will appear as advertisements in more than 150 newspapers in five states in coming days, a source with knowledge of the group's activities told CNN. (Snip) This 12-page piece leads with Romney's biography, from his upbringing through his marriage, business career, wife's illness, and public service. The story emphasizes the influence upon Romney of his parents and his wife, Ann.

Why did Obama choose to
“stand down” in Benghazi?

Power Line, by Paul Mirengoff Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 10/27/2012 6:27:31 PM Post Reply

As John and Scott point out, the CIA has issued a statement making it clear that “no one at any level in the CIA told anybody not to help those in need [in Benghazi]; claims to the contrary are simply inaccurate.” That statement surely was issued with the approval, and presumably at the direction, of the CIA’s director, General Petraeus. Who, then, made the several decisions denying help to the Americans in Benghazi who needed it? Who, initially, told CIA to “stand down” in face of the attack? Who decided that American defense forces an hour or two away

Third-party candidates could tilt
election outcome in closely fought states

Boston Globe, by Tracy Jan Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/27/2012 6:27:23 PM Post Reply

Washington - They campaign in near anonymity, these third-party contenders who stand no shot at the presidency. Their supporters are castigated for wasting their votes. But don’t write them off just yet. In hotly contested swing states, their presence on the ballot may alter the course of the election. In Virginia, where Mitt Romney and President Obama are running neck and neck, former Republican congressman Virgil Goode’s crusade for the Oval Office could draw conservatives and tip the state away from Romney. In “live free or die” New Hampshire, Libertarian Gary Johnson, the former

Ten Questions for the White House

Weekly Standard, by William Kristol Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 10/27/2012 6:19:22 PM Post Reply

Friday, in response to questions regarding the events of September 11 in Benghazi, President Obama said this: "Nobody wants to find out more what happened than I do. But we want to make sure we get it right, particularly because I have made a commitment to the families impacted as well as to the American people, we're going to bring those folks to justice. So, we're going to gather all the facts, find out exactly what happened, and make sure that it doesn't happen again but we're also going to make sure

Bachmann, surprisingly, faces
strong challenge in Minn.

The Hill [Washington, DC], by Cameron Joseph Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/27/2012 6:16:22 PM Post Reply

Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) is facing a surprisingly tough reelection battle. The Tea Party favorite and former presidential candidate has over the years warded off a succession of well-funded challengers with a combination of hard work and huge fundraising hauls. But her challenger this time around, moderate businessman Jim Graves (D), is better suited to the district than previous opponents, and has a new line of attack: That she has abandoned Minnesota and is more interested in being a national figure. (Snip) Polls show a surprisingly close race, especially since the newly redrawn district is

Has General Ham Been Fired?

American Thinker, by Mike Johnson Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 10/27/2012 6:13:38 PM Post Reply

Has General Carter F. Ham, commander of U.S. Africa Command, been fired for defying Leon Panetta on Benghazi? Glenn Reynolds, the Instapundit, ran a piece Saturday afternoon titled "Interesting Rumor Concerning General Carter Ham and Stand Down Order." This piece is presented as a rumor. It suggests that General Ham was told to stand down from sending aid to Benghazi, that General Ham on his own decided to proceed, and that he was then relieved of his command. Remember, all rumor at this point. On 18 October 2012, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta participated

'Stand Down': U.S. Had Two Drones,
AC-130 Gunship, and Targets
Painted in Benghazi

Breitbart's Big Peace, by AWR Hawkins Original Article

Posted By: Robinsolana- 10/27/2012 6:11:20 PM Post Reply

Reports indicate two drones and an AC-130 gunship were in the area when Benghazi was attacked, yet their resources were not used. This runs completely against the current explanation coming out of the White House, which is that Obama did everything he could once he learned of the attack. You'll remember that in the second presidential debate, Obama said that as "soon as I was aware the Benghazi consulate was being overrun, I was on the phone with my national security team." The not-so-subtle intimation is that Obama was stepping up to the protect the U.S. personnel who were in Libya.

Warren up by six points
over Brown in Massachusetts

Daily Caller, by Grae Stafford Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/27/2012 6:03:07 PM Post Reply

Elizabeth Warren, the Democratic challenger to Republican Sen. Scott Brown, has opened up a six-point lead over her GOP rival, according to a new poll. Speaking to CBS earlier this week, Warren hit Brown hard on his record as senator and described the enthusiastic response she is receiving from voters. “The folks that I’m meeting, day after day after day … they’re saying to me, ‘You go girl, you know, he voted against jobs and that affects me, he voted against the extension of unemployment, and that affects me.’”

Republicans appear to
be winning early vote

Express-News [San Antonio, TX], by Brian Chasnoff Original Article

Posted By: Lost in Santa Fe- 10/27/2012 5:58:50 PM Post Reply

Red alert, local Democrats: One week into early voting, Republicans are beating you in turnout. This analysis comes courtesy of fourth-day data from early voting sites across Bexar County, comparing turnout in 2008 to this year's numbers. Democrats, of course, swept elections in 2008, when Barack Obama won the presidency and, incidentally, beat John McCain in Bexar County by more than five percentage points. (Snip) “The voters for the more Republican precincts appear to be more motivated in this election,”

The media and Mormonism,
on the eve of the election

Human Events, by John Hayward Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/27/2012 5:52:55 PM Post Reply

At the end of August, Ed Klein, author of The Amateur: Barack Obama in the White House, wrote an editorial for Fox News in which he described a meeting headed by Obama’s campaign manager, David Axelrod. “According to my sources inside the campaign, Axelrod & Co. discussed what might be called the nuclear option: unleashing an attack on Romney’s Mormon faith via the mainstream media,” Klein wrote. The primary strategic goal would be turning evangelical voters, a key element of George Bush’s winning 2004 coalition, away from Romney. Klein’s sources told him Axelrod

Obama to nominate Army
Gen. Rodriguez to lead AFRICOM

Stars and Stripes, by Jennifer Hlad Original Article

Posted By: Robinsolana- 10/27/2012 5:50:00 PM Post Reply

Washington — President Barack Obama will nominate Army Gen. David Rodriguez to succeed Gen. Carter Ham as commander of U.S. Africa Command and Marine Lt. Gen. John Paxton to succeed Gen. Joseph Dunford as assistant commandant of the Marine Corps, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta announced Thursday. Both appointments must be confirmed by the Senate. Rodriguez is the commander of U.S. Army Forces Command and has served in a “variety of key leadership roles on the battlefield,” Panetta said. He’s “a proven leader” who oversaw coalition and Afghan forces during

Barack Obama for Re-Election

New York Times, by Editorial Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 10/27/2012 5:46:59 PM Post Reply

The economy is slowly recovering from the 2008 meltdown, and the country could suffer another recession if the wrong policies take hold. The United States is embroiled in unstable regions that could easily explode into full-blown disaster. An ideological assault from the right has started to undermine the vital health reform law passed in 2010. Those forces are eroding women’s access to health care, and their right to control their lives. Nearly 50 years after passage of the Civil Rights Act, all Americans’ rights are cheapened by the right wing’s determination to deny marriage benefits to a selected

Obama's Approval Rating Has
Collapsed In The Past 3 Days

Business Insider, by Brett LoGiurato Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/27/2012 5:29:59 PM Post Reply

President Barack Obama's approval rating has fallen to dangerous lows for historical precedent on re-election in just the past three days, according to Gallup's rolling three-day average. (Snip) Obama's disapproval rating, meanwhile, jumped to 49 percent. That accounts for another 7-point change since Wednesday, meaning the total swing has been 14 points. The disapproval rating is the president's highest since mid-August. A lot of this could be statistical noise, considering such wild swings without any major-moving events in the past few days are extremely rare. But though Gallup's numbers are lower than

Obama avoids question on whether
Americans in Libya were
denied requests for help

Fox News, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/27/2012 5:26:32 PM Post Reply

President Obama declined to answer directly whether a CIA annex was denied urgent requests for military assistance during the deadly attacks last month on U.S. outposts in Libya. The president did not give a yes-or-no answer Friday when asked pointedly whether the Americans under attack in Benghazi, Libya, were denied requests for help during the attack. (Snip) Woods and at least two others ignored those orders and went to the consulate, evacuating survivors and Smith, who had been killed in the initial attack. They could not find the ambassador and returned to the CIA annex at about midnight.

Will Obama’s Benghazi
Cover-Up Succeed?

Power Line, by John Hinderaker Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 10/27/2012 5:23:49 PM Post Reply

Barack Obama’s prospects for re-election have been fading for some time now. As Mitt Romney surges, Obama flails, embarrassing himself with silly trivialities that are often summed up as Big Bird, binders and bayonets. That’s what happens when your record is so bad that you can’t talk about it; not truthfully, anyway. So it has been clear for a while that Obama’s re-election hopes can’t absorb another blow. Which the Benghazi story, to the extent the facts get out, surely is. That is why Obama made a decision early on to stop referring to the Benghazi debacle

Black Farmers Group
Endorse Republican in
Georgia Congressional Race
Against CBC's Sanford Bishop

Breitbart Big Government, by Lee Stranahan Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/27/2012 5:18:54 PM Post Reply

A group of black farmers led by Pigford critic Eddie Slaughter has endorsed Republican John House in the race for Georgia's 2nd district. House is running against longtime Democratic incumbent and Congressional Black Caucus member Sanford Bishop. In a video posted to Facebook, Slaughter discusses the many attempts the farmers made to expose fraud in the Pigford "black farmers" lawsuit. Breitbart News reported a series of stories in 2011 about Mr. Slaughter and his claim that when Sanford Bishop was informed about Pigford fraud by a group of black farmers,

The World Never Came Closer
To Nuclear War Than
On January 25, 1995

Business Insider, by Robert Johnson Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/27/2012 5:15:43 PM Post Reply

n the 67 years since the first nuclear weapon was used, there is only one time the so-called nuclear briefcases were broken out and opened up, and on January 25, 1995 they nearly launched Russia's nuclear arsenal at the United States. (Snip) The radar operators at Russia's Olenegorsk early warning station promptly reported the incoming missile to their superiors, but not a soul on duty within the military had been notified of Adolfsen's plans. The officers at Olenegork believed it could be the first leg of a U.S. nuclear attack. Four years after the Berlin Wall came down and Russia was

The Limits of American Power

Townhall, by Caroline Glick Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/27/2012 5:12:03 PM Post Reply

Monday's US presidential debate on foreign policy came and went. And we are none the wiser for it. Not surprisingly, at the height of the campaign season, neither US President Barack Obama nor his Republican challenger Gov. Mitt Romney was interested in revealing his plans for the next four years. But from what was said, we can be fairly certain that a second Obama term will involve no departure from his foreign policy in his current term in office. (Snip) If there was ever much to recommend it, the "sanction Iran into abandoning its nuclear weapons" policy is no longer

Obama Down the Rabbit
Hole in Davenport

American Thinker, by Richard Butrick Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/27/2012 5:03:11 PM Post Reply

Campaigning in Davenport Iowa last Wednesday, Obama confidently and with serious mien held up a 20 page green Pamphlet entitled "Blueprint for America's Future." It has already been taken apart by Romney and Ryan as a "slick" repackaging of more of the same failed policies the President pushed in his first term. (Snip) The center piece of The Plan - the 20 page pamphlet that Obama held up pridefully before the cheering audience - he claimed, "will cut the deficit by $4 trillion over the next 10 years," Got that? A ten year plan to cut the deficit [sic] 4

Land O' Lakes preps for
tonight's Romney visit

13 News [Central Florida], by Laurie Davison Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/27/2012 4:58:22 PM Post Reply

LAND O' LAKES --The stage is set at Land O' Lakes High for today's Mitt Romney rally. The former Massachusetts governor is slated to speak at about 7:30 p.m. at the school's football stadium. A crowd of thousands is anticipated. Many in the crowd began arriving hours earlier this afternoon. Romney spent the early part of the day campaigning in Pensacola and Kissimmee before heading to the Bay area. Romney addressed a crowd of about 10,000 today in Pensacola. U.S. Senator Marco Rubio and Senate hopeful Connie Mack IV are campaigning with Romney today. Both are slated to

What a Shock -- Obama
Doesn't Like Rand!

American Thinker, by Charlotte Cushman Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/27/2012 4:58:15 PM Post Reply

In the latest issue of Rolling Stone, Obama is interviewed by Douglas Brinkley and was questioned about Ayn Rand. When asked if he had ever read Ayn Rand, Obama replied, "Sure." Then he said, "Ayn Rand is one of those things that a lot of us, when we were 17 or 18 and feeling misunderstood, we'd pick up. Then, as we get older, we realize that a world in which we're only thinking about ourselves and not thinking about anybody else, in which we're considering the entire project of developing ourselves as more important than our relationships to other people
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A real windstorm blows
in on the Sunday shows

Investor's Business Daily, by Andrew Malcolm Original Article

Posted By: SurferLad- 10/27/2012 4:50:43 PM Post Reply

If the powerful tropical storm formerly known as Hurricane Sandy was going anywhere but the Northeast, it would be an also-ran among the upcoming days' news feeds. But it seems aimed at New York, the center of the (media) universe. And it's approaching on a weekend, a perfect storm for excitable media with no government news to drone about. So, standby for lots of wind talk this weekend. CBS' Face the Nation headlines "Latest on Hurricane Sandy." The giveaway is that both of the show's guests are political: Sen. John McCain and Obama pal Rahm Emanuel. ov. Mitt Romney has canceled

Young millennials _ fiscal conservatives?

Associated Press, by Martha Irvine Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/27/2012 4:46:09 PM Post Reply

CHICAGO— This generation of young Americans has been called many things, from civic-minded to "entitled." But fiscally conservative? That's a new one, and it just might have an impact on the presidential election. Listen to Caroline Winsett, a senior at DePaul University, who considers herself fairly socially liberal but says being fiscally conservative matters most right now. "Ultimately, I'm voting with my pocketbook," says Winsett, a 22-year-old political science major who's president of the DePaul student body. She recently cast an absentee ballot for Republican Mitt Romney in her home state of Tennessee.

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