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Government Steering Americans
Toward a Tele-Work, Tele-Shop,
Mass-Transit Future

Cybercast News Service, by Susan Jones Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/15/2013 6:53:52 PM Post Reply

The Obama administration envisions a "low-carbon, low-petroleum" future where Americans tele-work, tele-shop, walk, bike and use carpools or mass transit if they must leave the neighborhood at all. A study released Friday says the U.S. has the potential to reduce petroleum use and pollution in the transportation sector by more than 80 percent by 2050. In other words, gasoline-powered cars may go the way of the dinosaur, and many Americans may end up living in planned, mixed-use, "walkable" neighborhoods, built along mass transit lines.

Mayor complains to Human Rights
Commission about "Being White in Philly" article

Philadelphia Daily News, by Jenice Armstrong Original Article

Posted By: bldrrepub- 3/15/2013 6:24:12 PM Post Reply

Controversy over that problematic Philadelphia magazine March cover story called “Being White in Philly” continues to simmer. In the latest development, Mayor Michael Nutter has sent a letter to the Philadelphia Commission on Human Relations decrying the “disgusting” tone of the piece and accusing the magazine of having “sunk to a new low... (SNIP) In the piece, based on anonymous interviews, Robert Huber makes the claim that white people are afraid to talk about race for fear of being called racist.

Red Bull says blackmailers
threatening feces in cans

Associated Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Hazymac- 3/15/2013 6:22:01 PM Post Reply

VIENNA – Energy drink producer Red Bull says it is being blackmailed, with the perpetrators threatening to place cans of its product contaminated with feces on supermarket shelves. The company says the threats started several weeks ago. But Marcus Neher of the Salzburg Public Prosecutor´s office said Friday that "up to now there has only been a claim of contamination," and the company also says that supermarket checks have shown no signs that the product was tampered with. The company sells its energy drink worldwide. In a statement, it says it is "cooperating closely" with police

Why Canceled White House Tours
Are Sinking Obama on the Sequester

Daily Beast, by David Freedlander Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 3/15/2013 6:18:47 PM Post Reply

The sequester kicked in two weeks ago. By the time the automatic spending cuts are fully realized, it could cost the country more than 700,000 jobs, shave more than $200 billion off the GDP, and result in longer lines at the airport, fewer inspectors examining the safety of the food supply, fewer agents securing the border. But for now, Washington is consumed with the Obama administration’s decision to cancel tours of the White House. According to a study by the liberal website Think Progress, since March 6 the three cable-news networks have mentioned the canceled tours 33 times as often

An unstable truce
with the Axis of Crazy

Orange County Register (Ca), by Mark Steyn Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 3/15/2013 6:16:54 PM Post Reply

I greatly enjoy the new Hollywood genre in which dysfunctional American families fly to a foreign city and slaughter large numbers of the inhabitants as a kind of bonding experience. Liam Neeson takes his estranged wife and their teenage daughter for just such a vacation in "Taken 2," in which the spectacular mountain of corpses in Istanbul brings the family back together again and ends with them (spoiler alert) enjoying a chocolate malt back at the soda fountain in California and getting to know the daughter´s new boyfriend. "Don´t shoot this one, Dad," she cautions.

Ben Affleck could be
hanged for war crimes:
US intelligence expert

PressTV [Teheran, Iran], by Dr. Kevin Barrett Original Article

Posted By: Hazymac- 3/15/2013 6:11:18 PM Post Reply

Is Argo “just a movie?” Or is it a disguised intelligence operation - maybe even a war crime? These questions may soon be answered in court. Well-known French lawyer Isabelle Coutant-Peyre has met with Iranian officials planning a lawsuit against the makers and distributors of the controversial film. Mohammad Lesani, General Secretary of Monday´s Hoax of Hollywood conference in Tehran, announced, "Argo is made by three film-producing companies in Hollywood...the Islamic Republic of Iran is going to sue all those who have been active in the anti-Iran domain, including directors and producers.”

Obama cracks a sequester joke

Washington Post, by Aaron Blake Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 3/15/2013 5:56:03 PM Post Reply

President Obama’s administration is taking heat from Republicans and fact-checkers for over-selling the effects of the sequester.[video] But that didn’t stop Obama from cracking a joke about the whole situation during an appearance in Illinois on Friday. While appearing at the Argonne National Laboratory in Argonne, Ill., Obama was met by a crowd that failed to sit down — apparently because he had not told them to. “I wasn’t sure everybody had chairs there. Please feel free to sit down. I’m sorry,” he said. “Everybody was standing. I thought

A Kildee Comeuppance?
Or More Obama Aloofness?

Roll Call, by Jonathan Strong Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 3/15/2013 5:50:02 PM Post Reply

Michigan Democratic Rep. Dan Kildee has been in Congress for a little more than two months, and today the leader of the free world gave him a gentle ribbing about just how new he is to Capitol Hill. At a closed-door meeting between President Barack Obama and House Democrats, Kildee introduced himself as a freshman, to which Obama said, “Wow, you’re really classing up the place then.” Kildee then proceeded to ask what one person described as a somewhat “long-winded” question about the importance of creating jobs for his economically distraught district. “I can tell you’re a freshman because

House Delegation Plans Journey
to Rome for Installation of
Pope Francis

National Journal, by Billy House Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/15/2013 5:38:57 PM Post Reply

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi is going somewhere next week that Speaker John Boehner says he cannot because of congressional work: She will join Vice President Joe Biden to attend the installation of the new Pope in Rome. Boehner declined the invitation to travel with Biden for the inauguration mass on Tuesday of Argentina’s Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio as Pope Francis, although he said Friday that the House will be sending its own bipartisan delegation of members. As for himself, the Ohio Republican said in a statement

US to strengthen missile defence in
response to North Korea ´provocations´

Guardian [UK], by Chris McGreal Original Article

Posted By: earlybird- 3/15/2013 5:36:47 PM Post Reply

The US is to strengthen its missile defence shield on the Pacific coast in response to North Korea´s strides in developing nuclear weapons and threats of war, defence secretary Chuck Hagel announced on Friday. Hagel said the US will deploy 14 additional missile interceptors in Alaska to "make clear to the world that the United States stands firm against aggression". The additional interceptors will bring to 44 the total deployed in Alaska and California, although the numbers will not increase for four years and the defensive missiles have proved unreliable in tests.

UN says US drones violate
Pakistan´s sovereignty

Associated Press, by Sebastian Abbott Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 3/15/2013 5:24:47 PM Post Reply

ISLAMABAD -- The head of a U.N. team investigating casualties from U.S. drone strikes in Pakistan declared after a secret research trip to the country that the attacks violate Pakistan´s sovereignty. Ben Emmerson, the U.N. special rapporteur on human rights and counter-terrorism, said the Pakistani government made clear to him that it does not consent to the strikes - a position that has been disputed by U.S. officials. President Barack Obama has stepped up covert CIA drone strikes targeting al-Qaida and Taliban militants in Pakistan´s tribal region along the Afghan border since he took office in 2009.

Romney: Learn from ´My Mistakes´

Weekly Standard, by Daniel Halper Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 3/15/2013 5:18:51 PM Post Reply

Mitt Romney, giving his first speech since he lost his election for president of the United States: "I left the race disappointed that I didn´t win, but, but I also left honored and humbled to have represented the values we believe in, and to speak for so many good and decent people," said Romney. "We´ve lost races before in the past but the setbacks prepared us for larger victories. It´s up to us to make sure we learn from our mistakes, and my mistakes, and that we take advantage of that learning to make sure that

Denver Broncos safety arrested for
allegedly cheating in Vegas craps game

Associated Press, by Arnie Stapleton Original Article

Posted By: Pluperfect- 3/15/2013 5:15:20 PM Post Reply

LAS VEGAS — Denver Broncos safety Quinton Carter is facing felony charges in Nevada alleging that he cheated at a craps game last weekend at a Las Vegas-area casino, authorities said Thursday. Carter, 24, was arrested late Saturday at the Texas Station casino in North Las Vegas. Security officials reported he was videotaped adding a $5 chip to three bets after the dice already rolled, according to a police report. Carter denied wrongdoing when police arrived. Carter faces three counts of committing a fraudulent act in a gaming establishment, a felony in Nevada

Obama Will Use Nixon-Era
Law to Fight Climate Change

Bloomberg News, by Mark Drajem Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 3/15/2013 5:07:51 PM Post Reply

President Barack Obama is preparing to tell all federal agencies for the first time that they should consider the impact on global warming before approving major projects, from pipelines to highways. The result could be significant delays for natural gas- export facilities, ports for coal sales to Asia, and even new forest roads, industry lobbyists warn. “It’s got us very freaked out,” said Ross Eisenberg, vice president of the National Association of Manufacturers, a Washington-based group that represents 11,000 companies such as Exxon Mobil Corp. (XOM) and Southern Co. (SO) The standards, which constitute

Indiana Jones and the Lib Crusade

Rushlimbaugh.com, by Rush Limbaugh Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 3/15/2013 5:06:09 PM Post Reply

RUSH: Back to the phones. Open Line Friday. This is Indiana in Hastings, Nebraska. Indiana... don´t tell me. Let me guess your last name. Can I guess your last name? CALLER: Take a crack at it. RUSH: Jones. CALLER: Yes, sir. Yes, Mr. Limbaugh, you are right. RUSH: No, I do believe it. CALLER: I was born in 1990. My mom said I was the last crusade. RUSH: Well, I understand. Pop culture, big. Anyway, welcome to the program. Great to have you here. So you were born in 1990. So you are 22, 23, somewhere around there? CALLER: Yes, sir. A birthday coming up,

Oregon Company to Sell Drone
Defense Technology to Public

U.S. News & World Report, by Jason Koebler Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 3/15/2013 5:02:09 PM Post Reply

Do you want to keep drones out of your backyard? An Oregon company says that it has developed and will soon start selling technology that disables unmanned aircraft. The company, called Domestic Drone Countermeasures, was founded in late February because some of its engineers see unmanned aerial vehicles—which are already being flown by law enforcement in some areas and could see wider commercial integration into American airspace by 2015—as unwanted eyes in the sky. "I was personally concerned and I think there´s a lot of other people worried about this," says Timothy Faucett, a lead engineer on the project.

Court deals blow to
CIA drone secrecy

Politico, by Josh Gerstein Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 3/15/2013 5:00:07 PM Post Reply

For now, the Central Intelligence Agency can still maintain its official silence on whether it uses armed drones. But a new court decision Friday could force the agency to provide some information about what kind of records they have on the subject and spell out why it’s not required to say more about them. In the first judicial blow to secrecy surrounding the Obama Administration’s armed drone program, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit unanimously rejected the CIA’s claim that it could refuse to confirm or deny whether it possesses any records

CPAC Red Meat:
Perry, Trump, LaPierre

Rushlimbaugh.com, by Rush Limbaugh Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 3/15/2013 4:57:47 PM Post Reply

RUSH: I´ve got a lot of CPAC sound bites here, and a lot of the people that have spoken have really been great. They´ve raised the roof. Now, I mentioned Rick Perry in the opening of the program. Let´s actually listen. He, among other things, made the point. They say conservatism´s dead. Everybody thinks conservatism has gone by the wayside. How do we know? We haven´t nominated any conservatives. McCain wasn´t conservative. Romney wasn´t conservative. Of course, the CPAC audience loved hearing that. So I think we got three bites here from Rick Perry. Here´s the first...

Caddell Rips the GOP
Consultant Class

Rushlimbaugh.com, by Rush Limbaugh Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 3/15/2013 4:52:39 PM Post Reply

RUSH: Now, CPAC. I don´t know if you get this same impression, but it seems to me that the Drive-Bys are spending more time covering everything at CPAC this year than they normally do. Now, C-SPAN is there for the most part wall-to-wall every year. But some of these cable networks are also going wall-to-wall with it, too. There is a fascination with what´s happening there, and it´s actually good because there are a lot of really, really great future stars on display, and they´re not holding back.

Pope´s Childhood Love
´Made Him Become Priest´

Sky News [UK], by Staff Original Article

Posted By: earlybird- 3/15/2013 4:33:33 PM Post Reply

A former child sweetheart of Pope Francis has claimed that he went on to become a catholic priest after she turned down his marriage proposal. Amalia Damonte, 76, grew up in the same Flores neighbourhood of Buenos Aires as Jorge Bergoglio and said that when the Pontiff was 12, he wrote a letter declaring his love. Speaking to Argentinian TV, she said: "He said that if I didn´t say yes, he would have to become a priest. Luckily for him, I said no. (Snip)"He was wonderful. He was a proper guy."

Sacred mystery: Blockbuster ratings
for ‘The Bible’ confound Hollywood

Washington Times, by Daniel Wattenberg Original Article

Posted By: Maryland_Patriot- 3/15/2013 3:58:46 PM Post Reply

Sure, it’s easy to criticize Hollywood, but try to remember that the entertainment industry today is an intellectually demanding environment, fraught with cognitively challenging, even intractable, questions, like, to take one recent example: How can the cable mini-series “The Bible” be such a ratings hit when there is no audience for overtly religious entertainment programming? According to the latest Nielsens, released Tuesday, Sunday night’s telecast of “The Bible,” produced by husband-and-wife team Mark Burnett and Roma Downey for basic cable’s History channel, managed to attract more viewers than anything on broadcast network NBC … during the entire week.

Sandy Hook families rip
Michael Moore´s call to
release crime scene photos

Fox News, by Joshua Rhett Miller Original Article

Posted By: Hazymac- 3/15/2013 3:58:11 PM Post Reply

Filmmaker Michael Moore’s suggestion that showing crime scene photos of the children slain at Sandy Hook will hasten the demise of the National Rifle Association is not getting rave reviews in the shattered Connecticut community. The left-wing social critic wrote in his blog Wednesday an item titled "America, You Must Not Look Away (How to Finish Off the NRA)," in which he recommended releasing the undoubtedly gruesome photos of the 20 children killed on Dec. 14, 2012, some of whom were shot up to 11 times. Moore said the fact that Americans have “done nothing to revise

Romney: ´I´m Sorry I
Won´t Be Your President´

Weekly Standard, by Daniel Halper Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 3/15/2013 3:22:50 PM Post Reply

Mitt Romney expressed regret at not being the next president of the United States in a speech today at CPAC:(Snip for video)"Each of us in our own way is going to have to step up and meet our responsibility. I´m sorry I won´t be your president," said Romney. "But I will be your co-worker and I will stand shoulder to shoulder alongside you."

RNC to Revamp GOTV Operations

Roll Call, by David M. Drucker Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 3/15/2013 3:19:03 PM Post Reply

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — The Republican National Committee is moving forward with a comprehensive overhaul of its antiquated voter turnout operation, including a focus on fixing a collection of broken state parties, CQ Roll Call confirmed Friday. The effort will be directed by the RNC’s political department, under the supervision of political director Chris McNulty and a full-time state party director — a new committee position created as part of the get-out-the-vote overhaul. The modernized national field operation will focus on improving voter registration, identification and turnout through a “bottom-up” approach that reinvigorates the party organization at the precinct,

Chinese birth tourism
booms in Southern California

San Francisco Chronicle, by Amy Graff Original Article

Posted By: Ribicon- 3/15/2013 3:00:38 PM Post Reply

Any child born on U.S. soil is granted citizenship. Hundreds of expecting moms from Mexico have been crossing the border into Arizona to deliver their babies for years as a result. Now, a growing number of pregnant Chinese women are flying to the U.S. to secure their child that prized U.S. birth certificate, and Southern California has become a hot bed of what’s called "birth tourism." This week KTLA-TV reported on a motel in Arcadia where expectant women from China are checking in to give birth. Every three to four months a new group arrives. The hotel provides guests

Jay Carney Snarks At Fox
News Host: ‘If You Did A
Little Reporting, You’d Know…’

Mediaite, by Andrew Kirell Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 3/15/2013 2:51:10 PM Post Reply

White House Press Secretary Jay Carney made a rare appearance on Fox News today, taking a grilling from Happening Now host Jenna Lee. At one point, Carney made a biting comment about Lee’s reporting skills during a tense exchange on the canceled White House tours, perhaps indicating that the administration’s relationship with the network is still an overtly standoffish one. Lee asked Carney about the “common ground” President Obama intends to find with Republican lawmakers on the nation’s budget issues. The press secretary answered that he will ultimately seek “a deficit reduction path by agreeing that we should pair cuts

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