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Report: Extending jobless
benefits creates jobs

Associated Press, by Sam Hananel Original Article

Posted By: NorthernDog- 11/30/2012 2:47:56 PM Post Reply

WASHINGTON — Extending the current level of long-term unemployment benefits for another year would add 300,000 jobs to the economy, according to a report from the Congressional Budget Office. The analysis released Wednesday from the nonpartisan office estimates that keeping jobless benefits would cost the government $30 billion. But it would also lead to more spending by the unemployed, boosting demand for goods and services and creating new jobs. Federal long-term unemployment benefits are set to expire on Dec. 29 for more than 2 million workers unless Congress approves an extension. Democrats have called for reauthorization of extended benefits

Fugitive in eco-terrorism case
turns herself in at US-Canada border

Christian Science Monitor, by Warren Richey Original Article

Posted By: NorthernDog- 11/30/2012 2:42:56 PM Post Reply

Washington - After a decade on the run, a fugitive in the largest eco-terrorism case in US history has turned herself in to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Rebecca Jeanette Rubin, a Canadian citizen who had been living recently in Canada, surrendered to federal agents on Thursday at the international border with Canada in Blaine, Wash., according to federal officials. Following an initial appearance in US District Court in Seattle, she was expected to be transferred to Oregon to stand trial on federal charges including arson, use of a destructive device, and conspiracy.

AAA says certain ethanol
fuel can damage cars, asks
EPA to remove from pumps

Human Events, by Audrey Hudson Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 11/30/2012 2:31:34 PM Post Reply

The recently approved use of E15 fuel made from blending gasoline and ethanol could damage vehicles and void warranties says the American Automobile Association (AAA), which is urging the federal government to ban it from the market. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) approved the fuel earlier this summer, but AAA says only five percent of vehicles on the road are approved by the manufacturers to use the special blend they say causes significant problems such as accelerated engine wear and failure, fuel-system damage and false “check engine” warning lights.

CA Union Shuts Down
America´s Largest Ports

Breitbart´s Big Government, by Breitbart News Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 11/30/2012 1:26:46 PM Post Reply

California may find itself in a disastrous fiscal situation, but that won’t stop California’s newly-empowered unions from flexing their muscle. In the aftermath of the failure of Proposition 32, which would have prevented public sector unions from funding politicians, the unions are celebrating their confirmed power by striking. The latest strikes started today with the International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 63, which shut down the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. The Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach are the busiest ports in the United States.

White House Uses Secret
Service to Shield Goldman
Sachs CEO from Press

Breitbart´s Big Government, by William Bigelow Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 11/30/2012 1:21:34 PM Post Reply

Whatever the CEOs of various Wall Street companies discussed with Barack Obama Wednesday night was off limits to reporters trying to ascertain the facts. When the CEOs left the White House, reporters tried to shout questions about the impending fiscal cliff at Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein, but the White House deployed three uniformed Secret Service officers to prevent reporters from interacting with the CEOs. Even camera crews were rebuffed in their attempt to erect stand-up locations for evening news pictures. Blankfein did appear on CNBC and CNN before he left the White House,

Washington Proposes $1
Trillion Bailout for
Delinquent Student Loans

Breitbart´s Big Government, by Ron Meyer & Celia Bigelow Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 11/30/2012 1:16:41 PM Post Reply

A possible $1 trillion bailout is coming—and soon. America’s now-nationalized student loan industry just reached a value of $1 trillion, according to Citigroup, growing at a 20 percent-per-year pace. Since President Obama nationalized the industry (a tacked-on provision of the Obamacare bill), tuition has gone up 25 percent and the three-year default rate is at a record 13.4 percent. Ron discussed this problem last night with Larry Kudlow: With many young people unable to pay their loans (average graduating debt is about $29,000), Citigroup and others are speculating that this industry might be ripe for a bailout.

Obama Warns Of A ´Scrooge
Christmas´ If Fiscal Cliff
Deal Doesn´t Get Done

Business Insider, by Brett LoGiurato Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 11/30/2012 1:11:07 PM Post Reply

President Barack Obama gave remarks on the looming "fiscal cliff" at a manufacturing facility in Pennsylvania, the same day Republicans are panning his initial offer. Obama spoke after touring the Rodon Group manufacturing facility in Hatfield Township, which most notably has manufactured more than 30 billion parts for the K´NEX toy company. “I’ve been keeping my own naughty and nice list in Washington, so you should keep your eye on who gets K’NEX this year," he quipped. He moved onto the fiscal cliff, which he said was "not some run of the mill debate."

The Windows 8 Sales Data
Is In, And It´s Horrible
News For Microsoft

Business Insider, by Nicholas Carlson Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 11/30/2012 12:49:01 PM Post Reply

NPD research published some horrible news for Microsoft yesterday. Despite releasing an entirely new operating system on October 22 of this year, Windows PC sales shrank 21 percent between 10/21 and 11/17 versus the same period last year. Windows 8 tablet sales during that period were "almost nonexistent" – just 1 percent of all Windows 8 sales. “It hasn’t made the market any worse, but it hasn’t stimulated things either,” Stephen Baker, an analyst at NPD, told The New York Times. “It hasn’t provided the impetus to sales everybody hoped for.” No kidding. Yesterday, we reported other bad news:

Press regulation only
helps the bad guys

Telegraph [UK], by James Delingpole Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 11/30/2012 12:33:31 PM Post Reply

Should the state be doing more to protect the interests of the corrupt, powerful, mendacious, rapacious, self-serving establishment? I don´t think so.[Snip]Yet if Leveson´s statutory regulations are implemented, that will certainly be the net result. How do I know? Because I´ve experienced for myself the results of this law of unintended consequences at the hands of our current regulator the Press Complaints Commission. Don´t get me wrong: I believe the PCC is run by decent, fair-minded people anxious to strike a balance between the need to preserve a free press and the need to defend the vulnerable from

Pro-choice Republicans go public

Washington Post, by Victoria Toensing Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 11/30/2012 12:24:06 PM Post Reply

I am a pro-choice Republican. We are not an endangered species. Since the Republican Party declared itself pro-life, most of us have been in the closet. I appreciate that both viewpoints are sincerely held: Pro-choicers believe that the government should not intrude in such a private decision; pro-lifers believe that life begins at conception. I have supported each. Raised Catholic, I accepted the church’s doctrine that abortion was morally wrong. This was before Roe v. Wade, so in many states abortion was also illegal. A personal experience changed my view. At 28, pregnant with my third child,

New ethanol blend could
damage vehicles and void
warranties, AAA warns

USA Today, by Gary Strauss Original Article

Posted By: Ribicon- 11/30/2012 11:53:11 AM Post Reply

The AAA says the Environmental Protection Agency and gasoline retailers should halt the sale of E15, a new ethanol blend that could damage millions of vehicles and void car warranties. AAA, which issued its warning today, says just 12 million of more than 240 million cars, trucks and SUVs now in use have manufacturers´ approval for E15. Flex-fuel vehicles, 2012 and newer General Motors vehicles, 2013 Fords and 2001 and later model Porsches are the exceptions, according to AAA, the nation´s largest motorist group, with 53.5 million members. "It is clear that millions of Americans are unfamiliar with E15,

Huntsman: GOP should
avoid social, ´fringe´ issues

The Hill [Washington, DC], by Justin Sink Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 11/30/2012 11:47:10 AM Post Reply

Former Republican presidential candidate Jon Huntsman said Friday that the Republican Party should stress its "libertarian roots" rather than "fringe" social issues as it evaluates its election losses. “I think the deliberation about the Republican Party that we’re having is a very healthy thing," Huntsman told CNN. "And if we don’t wind up at the end of the exercise with a mission statement that is one sentence long, then we’re toast. That one statement ought to be, ‘Balance the budgets and get out of people’s lives.’ And you ought to build the party around that because we have strong

Liberal Democrats: Higher rates
for wealthy ´just the beginning´

The Hill [Washington, DC], by Jonathan Easley Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 11/30/2012 11:37:15 AM Post Reply

A group of House Democrats has formed its own “Gang of Six” to push for progressive tax reform — in which the expiration of the Bush-era tax rates for the wealthiest Americans is “just the beginning.” “In response to the call for progressives to draw a red line in the fiscal cliff sand, here is our big picture stance on corporate and individual tax reform,” Rep. Michael Honda (D-Calif.) said in a statement. “Six progressive tax principles from a new Gang of Six. The expiration of the Bush tax cuts for the wealthiest

Port Authority boosts
tolls again on Sunday

Associated Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Ribicon- 11/30/2012 11:34:44 AM Post Reply

Fort Lee, N.J. — Motorists will pay more as the next phase of toll increases kick in at Port Authority bridges and tunnels on Sunday. Cash tolls on the George Washington Bridge, Holland Tunnel, Lincoln Tunnel, Goethals Bridge, Bayonne Bridge and Outerbridge Crossing will increase $1 to $13. Tolls for E-ZPass users will go from $9.50 to $10.25 during peak commuting hours and from $7.50 to $8.25 during off-peak hours. The Port Authority last raised tolls in September 2011. The bistate agency said it needed to offset security-related projects following the 9/11 attacks, a drop in revenue

No, Switching To Dollar
Coins Would Not Save
The Government Money

National Public Radio, by Jacob Goldstein Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 11/30/2012 11:27:35 AM Post Reply

I have a bowlful of coins sitting on my bedside table. I do not have a bowlful of dollar bills sitting on my bedside table. Obviously. Weirdly, this profoundly boring fact is significant. It is the reason — the only reason — that getting rid of the one-dollar bill and forcing everybody to use dollar coins would provide a financial benefit to the federal government. Here´s why. It costs less than $1 to create a dollar coin or a dollar bill. As a result, the government makes a profit when it puts coins and bills into circulation.
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Chelsea Clinton Collecting
Thank-You Notes for ‘My Dad’—
And Email Addresses for Mom?

Cybercast News Service, by Susan Jones Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 11/30/2012 11:16:02 AM Post Reply

Despite her denials, it’s widely speculated that Hillary Clinton may run for president in 2016, and if she does, she´ll need as many email addresses as possible to send out fund-raising solicitations and spread her political message. Therefore it may be noteworthy that Chelsea Clinton is suddenly helping the family´s Clinton Foundation collect email addresses. In a "Dear Friend" message sent Thursday to people on Democratic lists, Chelsea says she´s gathering "thank-you" notes for “my dad,” Bill Clinton. Chelsea says her father "deserves a big ´thank you´ for everything he´s done in the past year -- especially the

O’Hare Janitors Descend On Mayor’s
House To Protest Looming Job Cuts

CBS [Chicago], by Staff Original Article

Posted By: BaseballFan- 11/30/2012 11:13:08 AM Post Reply

Dozens of union airport workers were holding a prayer vigil outside Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s house on Thursday, asking him to reconsider a decision to hand custodial work at O’Hare International Airport to a new company that doesn’t use union labor. CBS 2’s Dana Kozlov reports the O’hare janitors and window washers will lose their jobs in just over two weeks, when a new contractor takes over custodial work at the airport. The workers wanted to send a message to the mayor, on his birthday: Walk a day in our shoes.

Free Internet Under Fire

Washington Free Beacon, by Bill Gertz Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 11/30/2012 11:08:36 AM Post Reply

The United States will seek to block an “alarming” Russian proposal to give a United Nations telecommunications group control over the Internet, a senior State Department official said on Thursday. “We will actively oppose the Russian proposal,” Terry Kramer, head of the U.S. delegation to a U.N. conference in Dubai, told reporters. “I have to say, out of all the proposals that have come in, the Russian one candidly is the most shocking and most disappointing in terms of achieving the success that we are seeking globally,” he said. A Russian government proposal to amend a U.N. treaty at

Video: Staten Island Hurricane
Recovery Meeting Erupts in Rage

PJ Media, by Bryan Preston Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 11/30/2012 11:01:37 AM Post Reply

“No one is doing what’s right for us!” “We go from one to another,” one homeowner said. “We go from FEMA to our homeowners. My homeowners’ insurance offered me $150. What can I do with that?” Borough President James Molinaro almost accidentally riffed the old Reagan line about the most terrifying words in the English language during Thursday night’s meeting: “We’re from the government, and we’re here to help.” “We are friends, we’re here to help,” he said. “There’s a lot of confusion. There’s a lot of statements and mis-statements being made by individuals.”

White House: Obama ´Will
Not Sign´ a Deal Unless
It Increases Taxes

Cybercast News Service, by Terence P. Jeffrey Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 11/30/2012 10:46:28 AM Post Reply

White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said today that no matter what else happens President Barack Obama--who is the only modern president other than Franklin Roosevelt to serve in four years when federal spending topped 24 percent of GDP--will not sign a deal to avoid the so-called fiscal cliff that will arrive at the end of this year unless that deal increases taxes. "So the President made clear that he is not wedded to every detail of his plan," said Carney. "The President has also made categorically and abundantly clear that he will not sign an extension of the

French Socialist in Mittal Row:
We´re Just Doing What Obama Does

CNBC, by Stephane & Catherine Boyle Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 11/30/2012 10:37:45 AM Post Reply

The French politician who said Indian steel company ArcelorMittal should leave the country has told CNBC that his government is only acting like U.S. President Barack Obama. Industry Minister Arnaud Montebourg, a member of the governing Socialist party, caused controversy last week when he said that the Indian company, which employs close to 20,000 people in France, should leave after it said it would have to close down a factory. The French government announced on Thursday that it could nationalize the factory in question, with backing from an unnamed businessman.

If GOP continues to ignore
health care, U.S. will end
up with single payer

Washington Examiner, by Philip Klein Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 11/30/2012 10:29:56 AM Post Reply

One of the main consequences of President Obama’s reelection is that his national health care law will be implemented. Though there are various measures that Republicans can take to gum up the works in the coming years and though there will be a number of logistical hurdles facing the administration, the reality is that any future Republican proposals for reforming the health care system will have to wrestle with the existing Obamacare framework. Even if premiums spike, wait times at doctors’ offices swell, exchanges are a mess and some people lose coverage they like as a

Hillary Clinton: ‘President
Obama and I’ restored America’s
relationship with Europe

Washington Examiner, by Charlie Spiering Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 11/30/2012 10:22:09 AM Post Reply

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton delivered a major foreign policy speech to the Brookings Institution yesterday, highlighting her record of diplomacy with Europe. “I must begin by being very frank,” Clinton said. “When President Obama and I came into office, this relationship was frayed.” She added, “From day one, President Obama and I made clear that if we were going to make progress, we had to do the hard work of renewing and reinvigorating our partnerships around the world, and that began with Europe.” Clinton praised America’s record of partnership with Europe rising to meet foreign policy challenges

Harvard approves student club
dedicated to ‘kinky sex’

Daily Mail [UK], by Staff Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 11/30/2012 10:13:50 AM Post Reply

A Harvard student group that relishes in conversations about erotic sex has been officially recognized by the prestigious university based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The group, which goes by ‘Harvard College Munch,’ first began its meetings in one of the university’s dining halls to discuss personal stories and broader issues related to BDSM and other forms of ‘kinky sex’, the Harvard Crimson reports. Munch’s membership has grown to about 30 members from seven when it began more than a year ago and is one of 15 student organization that will be approved by Harvard’s Committee on Student

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