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Pope Francis wants Church
to be poor, and for the poor

Reuters, by Philip Pullella & Catherine Hornby Original Article

Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 3/17/2013 1:10:45 AM Post Reply

Vatican City - Pope Francis, giving his clearest indication yet that he wants a more austere Catholic Church, said on Saturday that it should be poor and remember that its mission is to serve the poor. Francis, speaking mostly off-the-cuff and smiling often, made his comments in an audience for journalists where he explained why he chose to take the name Francis, after St. Francis of Assisi, a symbol of peace, austerity and poverty. He called Francis "the man who gives us this spirit of peace, the poor man", and added: "Oh, how I would like a poor Church, and for the poor."

China, U.S. should stop war of words
on hacking, says new Chinese premier

Reuters, by Terril Yue Jones Original Article

Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 3/17/2013 12:56:48 AM Post Reply

Beijing - China and the United States should avoid "groundless accusations" against each other about cyber-security and hacking into each other´s computer systems, newly installed Premier Li Keqiang said on Sunday. Li´s comments, at the close of China´s annual meeting of parliament and a day after he assumed the premiership, come amid a war of words between Beijing and Washington over cyber-attacks and national security. A U.S. computer security company said last month that a secretive Chinese military unit was likely behind a series of hacking attacks mostly targeting the United States.

Judge rules secret FBI national
security letters unconstitutional

Fox News & Associated Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 3/17/2013 12:38:54 AM Post Reply

San Francisco - A federal judge has struck down a set of laws allowing the FBI to issue so-called national security letters to banks, phone companies and other businesses demanding customer information. U.S. District Judge Susan Illston said the laws violate the First Amendment and the separation of powers principles and ordered the government to stop issuing the secretive letters or enforcing their gag orders, The Wall Street Journal reported. The FBI almost always bars recipients of the letters from disclosing to anyone — including customers — that they have even received the

Venezuelans debate how to preserve
Chavez’s legacy — and his body

Washington Post, by Juan Forero Original Article

Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 3/17/2013 12:18:36 AM Post Reply

Caracas, Venezuela - His frenzied followers just don’t want to say goodbye, and Hugo Chavez’s heirs say maybe they won’t have to. Ten days after his death, Chavez’s most loyal lieutenants are debating where to place his body even as they keep his memory alive with a steady stream of televised tributes and speeches extolling his self-styled revolutionary movement. The initial idea to embalm him — “like Lenin,” as the new president, Nicolas Maduro, put it — is still possible. But Maduro said that plan may prove unworkable because the government waited too long to begin preparing the body

The Pope´s chalice: silver-made
austere and featuring Our Lady of Luján

Buenos Aries Herald, by Pablo Jiménez Original Article

Posted By: Zarin- 3/17/2013 12:08:06 AM Post Reply

Sitting in his workshop in San Telmo, pencil in hand, goldsmith Juan Carlos Pallarols drafts one of his most meaningful works of art: a chalice that will be delivered to “Pope Jorge” on behalf of all Argentines. Pallarols knows that this is not just another piece amongst his many other works that have earned him the reputation of being one of the best goldsmiths in the world. This is special. “It’s a particular gift, it’s for a friend, for a good man, but this is not just a gift coming from me. It comes from the Argentine population,” he said, still moved by the news.

Assad Issues a Worldwide Plea
as a Top Syrian General Defects

New York Times, by Anne Bernard Original Article

Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 3/17/2013 12:01:54 AM Post Reply

Beirut, Lebanon - A high-ranking Syrian general who once led a military intelligence office widely believed to be a torture site has defected from the army, he said Saturday, a day after the rebels’ top military commander again called for members of the armed forces to join the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad, now entering its third year. (Snip) As Europe and the United States weigh stronger action to aid the Syrian rebels, including directly arming them, Mr. Assad appeared to be appealing to those nations’ aversion to Western military interventions. Before the uprising, Ms. Shaaban portrayed

Did Obama Just Block Keystone?

National Review Online, by Stanley Kurtz Original Article

Posted By: Zarin- 3/16/2013 11:59:59 PM Post Reply

Deciding whether to approve the Keystone XL pipeline is surely one of the toughest challenges of Barack Obama’s presidency. He hasn’t made up his mind yet, of course. Or has he? Bloomberg reports that the Obama administration “is preparing to tell all federal agencies for the first time that they should consider the impact on global warming before approving major projects.” Up to now, under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), federally approved projects had to consider potential impacts like dangerous spills or air pollution, but not global warming.

Hagel’s Pacific vision

Khaleej Times [UAE], by Editorial Original Article

Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 3/16/2013 11:49:06 PM Post Reply

Chuck Hagel has made a valuable point. The good general from Vietnam believes that America should do some strategic homework before confronting North Korea. In pursuance of such an approach, the US defence secretary has shelved immediate plans to install the final phase of the US-European Missile Defence programme and transferred those resources to bolster its defence on the West Coast. The move is aimed at countering the threat from Pyongyang, which conducted its third nuclear test last month. To what extent can this strategic shift help Washington is difficult to guess,
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China wraps up session
to install new leadership

Associated Press, by Joe MacDonald Original Article

Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 3/16/2013 11:28:10 PM Post Reply

Beijing - China´s new leader Xi Jinping pledged a cleaner, more efficient government Sunday as the country´s ceremonial legislature wrapped up a pivotal session that installed the latest generation of communist leaders in a once-a-decade transfer of power. (Snip) "We must resolutely reject formalism, bureaucratism, hedonism and extravagance, and resolutely fight against corruption and other misconduct in all manifestations," Xi said. Xi, already the country´s overall leader since being named Communist Party general secretary in November, was installed as president during the

CPAC 2013: Ted Cruz urges
conservatives to stand up
for the U.S. Constitution

Washington Times, by Seth McLaughlin Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 3/16/2013 11:21:04 PM Post Reply

Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas closed out the annual Conservative Political Action Conference by calling on the thousands of people in attendance to join him in standing up for the U.S. Constitution. Mr. Cruz also poked fun at Sen. John McCain of Arizona, who labeled him and Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky as “wacko birds” because of the outspoken brand of politics they’ve brought to Capitol Hill. “I have to admit when Rand and I first heard that we thought it was a new kind of drone, ” Mr. Cruz said. “But if standing

NRA opposes U.N.
small-arms treaty

Washington Post, by Peter Finn Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 3/16/2013 11:17:26 PM Post Reply

The National Rifle Association, which is battling a raft of gun control measures on Capitol Hill, also has an international fight on its hand as it gears up to oppose a U.N. treaty designed to restrict the flow of arms to conflict zones. Negotiations open Monday in New York on the Arms Trade Treaty, which would require countries to determine whether weapons they sell would be used to commit serious human rights violations, terrorism or transnational organized crime. The gun lobby fears that the treaty would be used to regulate civilian weapons. Human rights activists

Bill Gates: capitalism means
male baldness research gets
more funding than malaria

Wired News [UK], by Olivia Solon Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/16/2013 10:06:52 PM Post Reply

Capitalism means that there is much more research into male baldness than there is into diseases such as malaria, which mostly affect poor people, said Bill Gates, speaking at the Royal Academy of Engineering´s Global Grand Challenges Summit. "Our priorities are tilted by marketplace imperatives," he said. "The malaria vaccine in humanist terms is the biggest need. But it gets virtually no funding. But if you are working on male baldness or other things you get an order of magnitude more research funding because of the voice in the

´2016: Obama´s America´ Filmmakers
Making Follow-Up Film (Exclusive)

Hollywood Reporter, by Paul Bond Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/16/2013 9:58:58 PM Post Reply

The filmmakers behind 2016: Obama’s America are working on a follow-up to what has become the second-biggest political documentary in the history of the domestic box office, The Hollywood Reporter has learned exclusively. Conservative commentator Dinesh D’Souza, who starred in, co-wrote and co-directed 2016, will return as the writer and star of a film simply titled America to be directed by John Sullivan, who wrote and directed 2016 with D’Souza. Gerald Molen, who won a best picture Oscar for producing Schindler’s List with Steven Spielberg in 1993, will executive produce America, as he did for 2016.

The Great Green Con no. 1: The hard proof
that finally shows global warming forecasts
that are costing you billions were WRONG
all along

Daily Mail (UK), by David Rose Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 3/16/2013 9:53:16 PM Post Reply

No, the world ISN´T getting warmer (as you may have noticed). Now we reveal the official data that´s making scientists suddenly change their minds about climate doom. So will eco-funded MPs stop waging a green crusade with your money? Well... what do YOU think? The Mail on Sunday today presents irrefutable evidence that official predictions of global climate warming have been catastrophically flawed. The graph on this page blows apart the ‘scientific basis’ for Britain reshaping its entire economy and spending billions in taxes and subsidies in order to cut emissions of greenhouse gases. These moves have already

Sen. Ted Cruz Outlines Battle
Plan For Conservatives In
Hard-charging CPAC Speech

Mediaite, by Garrett Quinn Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/16/2013 9:19:30 PM Post Reply

Texas GOP Senator Ted Cruz closed out CPAC with a speech that went over the difficulties conservatives face in President Obama’s second term while highlighting two key ways they can succeed in beating back his agenda. Cruz said they have to focus on defending the constitution and championing what he called “growth and opportunity.” Cruz, sounding very much like he was giving a stump speech as much as he was rallying conservatives to their cause, went through several constitutional amendments that he believes President Obama is attacking. The first, second, fourth, sixth, and tenth amendments

The Internet is a surveillance state

CNN, by Bruce Schneier Original Article

Posted By: ruready?- 3/16/2013 9:10:45 PM Post Reply

I´m going to start with three data points. One: Some of the Chinese military hackers who were implicated in a broad set of attacks against the U.S. government and corporations were identified because they accessed Facebook from the same network infrastructure they used to carry out their attacks. Two: Hector Monsegur, one of the leaders of the LulzSac hacker movement, was identified and arrested last year by the FBI. [snip] And three: Paula Broadwell,who had an affair with CIA director David Petraeus, similarly took extensive precautions to hide her identity.

House panel tells judge: Justice´s
offer in Fast & Furious settlement
a ´grave disappointment´

Associated Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/16/2013 9:10:19 PM Post Reply

The Justice Department and a congressional committee disagree on the pace of their talks to settle a lawsuit over congressional efforts to get records related to Operation Fast and Furious, a bungled gun-tracking operation. In a joint filing Friday night, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee told the judge in the case that a settlement offer it received from the Justice Department this week was a "grave disappointment" and that a settlement is not possible. "The parties are very, very far apart," lawyers for the GOP-led committee wrote. "Indeed, they are not even

FDR, Obama and the need for opposition

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

Posted By: davesenior- 3/16/2013 9:06:26 PM Post Reply

Some time ago, a reader presented me with a yellowed newspaper clipping from 1936, which seems to grow more relevant every day.It is a syndicated column by Frank R. Kent of the Baltimore Sun and was written just after the re-election of FDR.[SNIP]Kent’s column is a welcome reminder that the horror conservatives feel today at the willful blindness of their fellow citizens is nothing new. Indeed, I am more and more impressed by the similarities between our current regime and that of Roosevelt.President Obama, although from a very different background than FDR,governs from almost the same sense of privilege.

Kissinger Sees Little Hope for
Mideast Peace, Arab Spring

Bloomberg, by Indira A.R. Lakshmanan Original Article

Posted By: Drive- 3/16/2013 8:05:06 PM Post Reply

Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger says there is little chance of any breakthrough in stalled Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, as President Barack Obama visits Israel next week on his first trip there since taking office. “I’m not optimistic” about reviving peace talks, in large part because of the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamist parties in the region that aren’t inclined to support a “just outcome” with Israel, Kissinger said in an interview airing this weekend on Bloomberg TV’s “Conversations with Judy Woodruff.”

Obama asks Congress for $2 BILLION for
energy research as he predicts cars that
drive from ´coast to coast without a drop
of oil´

Associated Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 3/16/2013 7:31:38 PM Post Reply

Envisioning cars that can go ´coast to coast without using a drop of oil,´ President Barack Obama on Friday urged Congress to authorize spending $2 billion over the next decade to expand research into electric cars and biofuels to wean automobiles off gasoline. Obama, expanding on an initiative he addressed in his State of the Union speech last month, said the United States must shift its cars and trucks entirely off oil to avoid perpetual fluctuations in gas prices. Citing policies that already require automakers to increase gas mileage, he said he expects that by the

Socialists ready to make power
grab of world citizens’ money

Canada Free Press, by Judi McLeod Original Article

Posted By: snowcloud- 3/16/2013 7:25:19 PM Post Reply

Get your money out of the banks.Due to an “emergency deal reached today in Brussels”, a one-time 9.9% tax is to be levied on Cypriot bank deposits of more than 100,000 euros effective Tuesday, March 19. Virtually overnight and with no warning of any kind, the emergency tax deal was imposed on the people of Cyprus without vote or debate. People ran to ATM machines today only to discover that the taxed amount of their cash had already been frozen. Monday in Cyprus is a national holiday, the first day of Greek Orthodox Easter.

Remarkable time-lapse video
captures comet PanSTARRS
racing the moon across
evening skies of Georgia

Daily Mail (UK), by Staff Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 3/16/2013 7:24:16 PM Post Reply

Comet Pan-STARRS dazzled stargazers while streaking across the skies of North America and Europe on Tuesday with a newly released time-lapse video capturing its flight. The video captures the white comet gently soaring alongside the moon at a similarly leisurely pace as they both drop into the horizon over Atlanta, Georgia. PanSTARRS was the talk of the world this week with stargazers in the northern hemisphere having finally had their chance to view the first of two comets set to blaze through the skies in 2013. Scroll down for video.

U.S. Immigration Extends
Casper Aussie´s Visa

Casper Star-Tribune, by Kyle Roerink Original Article

Posted By: Husker Infidel- 3/16/2013 7:10:50 PM Post Reply

Australian expatriate Ashley Fuller received a call from the Department of Immigration and Naturalization Services on Thursday. He was expecting the worst. Fuller’s visa was set to expire Friday. The Casper small-business owner and father of three had been fighting to stay in the country for 25 years. A public outcry erupted when folks in Wyoming found out in a Star-Tribune story on Monday that Fuller was in danger of deportation.

Violence in Iraq goes up
despite US pull out, as freed
prisoners rejoin militias

Telegraph [UK], by Colin Freeman Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 3/16/2013 6:48:18 PM Post Reply

In a blow to hopes that the pull-out would remove the key catalyst for bloodshed, figures show that death rates have actually gone up since the last American soldier left Iraqi soil in December 2011. Last year, some 4,570 civilians were killed, compared to 4,147 in 2011, according to the Iraq Body Count, the independent organisation that has analysed death rates in Iraq since the US invasion in 2003.[Snip] The upsurge in violence has been attributed mainly to al-Qaeda in Iraq, which has made a comeback in the past year after being put on the back foot during the US-led

Palin Electrifies CPAC Crowd

Townhall, by Katie Pavlich Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 3/16/2013 6:40:14 PM Post Reply

Former Alaska Governor and Vice Presidential Candidate Sarah Palin repeatedly brought a jam packed crowd to its feet during her speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference Saturday. Palin covered everything from overpaid Washington D.C. consultants, gun control and crony capitalism to New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg’s recently shot down big gulp ban. As Townhall readers know, elections are always on our minds and the next one was on Palin’s mind today as she advocated for an outside-the-beltway approach to the future. “The next election is 20 months away, now is the time to toss the consultants,”

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