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US approves A123 sale to Chinese
firm despite security concerns
Fox News, by Staff
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Posted By:LittleHoodedMonk, 1/30/2013 12:25:38 AM
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| The U.S. government has approved the sale of U.S. taxpayer-backed A123 Systems to a Chinese company, despite security and economic concerns about sensitive technology changing hands. A representative with A123 Systems confirmed Tuesday to FoxNews.com that Wanxiang America Corp. has gotten approval from a Treasury Department agency to take over "substantially all" of the non-government business assets of the lithium ion battery manufacturer. (Snip) The new tech could also be used in key military operations and to power satellites and unmanned military drones.
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I can remember when we didn´t want to sell these video games years ago to the Arabs because of fear that they could rewrite firmware and use them for military purposes. I guess it doesn´t matter that a hi-tech bankrupt company not be sold to our enemies. What ever happened to the urban legend that the auto dealers keep buying and hiding replacement for cheaper, environmentally-friendly fuel, like H2O, for our vehicles? Seems like same thing.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
jl80863, 1/30/2013 12:52:02 AM (No. 9147656)
Our security is not a particularly high priority of obama and his minions.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Charactercounts, 1/30/2013 2:14:26 AM (No. 9147707)
Because the Chinese "own" us, we can´t say no easily--they can put the screws to us if we do.
He that pays the piper calls the tune.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
saryden, 1/30/2013 5:25:54 AM (No. 9147766)
The Obama Administration is filled with traitors.
Who will stop this madness???
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Saudi Arabia has 13 cases of
SARS-like coronavirus -WHO
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Reuters, by Mahmoud Habboush*
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Saudi Arabia has had 13 cases in a recent outbreak of a new strain of coronavirus that has emerged from the Gulf and spread as far as Britain and France, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday, and seven of those have died. Saudi Arabia has reported 23 confirmed cases in total, Qatar two, Jordan two, Britain two and the United Arab Emirates one, the WHO said. Although there is no evidence of sustained human-to-human spread, there are concerns about clusters of cases. France reported its first case on Wednesday. The latest Saudi outbreak was restricted to
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Pope to nuns: Don´t be old maids
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Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 5/8/2013 11:10:29 AM
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Vatican City - Pope Francis has told nuns from around the world that they must be spiritual mothers and not "old maids." Francis also warned the sisters against using their vocations for personal ambition, saying priests and sisters who do so "do more harm to the church." Francis has complained frequently about such "careerism" in the church , a buzzword that is frequently used to describe Holy See bureaucrats. The pope made the comments during an audience Wednesday with about 800 sisters attending an assembly of the International Union of Superiors General, which gathers the leaders of women's
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´Girls Gone Wild´ creator guilty
of false imprisonment, assault
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Los Angeles Times, by Andrew Blankstein
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"Girls Gone Wild" creator Joe Francis faces up to five years in Los Angeles County jail after a jury convicted him Monday of nearly half a dozen misdemeanor counts in connection with assaults on three women. Francis, 40, was found guilty after a two-week jury trial on five charges -- three counts of false imprisonment, one count of dissuading a witness from reporting and one count of assault causing great bodily injury -- stemming from the Jan. 29, 2011, incident. "Whether a celebrity or not, you will be held accountable for your misdeeds," City Atty. Carmen A. Trutanich said in a statement.
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Record $2.25B fine proposed
for PG&E over pipeline blast
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Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 5/7/2013 4:39:17 AM
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San Francisco - California regulators recommended Monday that Pacific Gas & Electric Co. pay a record $2.25 billion fine for decades of negligence that led to a deadly gas pipeline explosion that leveled a San Francisco Bay Area neighborhood. The penalty would be the largest ever imposed on a utility company by a state regulator, officials said. The California Public Utilities Commission´s investigators said the fine was an appropriate remedy for dozens of safety violations extending back several decades, and said the company´s shareholders should shoulder the cost, not the utility's customers.
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Readying New Syria Push,
Obama Sends Kerry to Moscow
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Associated Press, by Staff
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Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 5/7/2013 4:23:28 AM
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Washington - The administration of U.S. President Barack Obama is trying to leverage new evidence that Syrian President Bashar Assad´s government used chemical weapons, and make a fresh diplomatic and possible military push with allies to end the country´s civil war. (Snip) To make his case, Kerry will present the Russians with evidence of chemical weapons use and relay the Obama administration´s readiness to give weapons to the Syrian rebels, according to the officials, who demanded anonymity because they weren't authorized to speak publicly about the confidential diplomacy.
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Lauryn Hill sentenced to 3 months
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Star-Ledger [Newark, NJ], by Jason Grant & Tris McCall
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Newark - Over the weekend, Lauryn Hill released the song "Neurotic Society Compulsory Mix" on iTunes, her first in several years. And on Sunday, in the hours before she would be sentenced to three months in federal prison for failing to pay taxes on millions of dollars in income, Hill handed over more than $970,000 in back taxes and penalties to the federal government and the state of New Jersey. (Snip) "I am a child of former slaves, who had a system imposed on them — I got into a system" of economic power in the recording industry that was "imposed on me, and all I sought to do was
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Disabled Couple Seek Life
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Port Jefferson, N.Y. - With the beaming smiles of newlyweds, Paul Forziano and Hava Samuels hold hands, exchange adoring glances and complete each other´s sentences. Their first wedding dance, he recalls, was to the song "Unchained ..." ´´Melody," she chimes in. They spend their days together in the performing arts education center where they met. But every night, they must part ways. Forziano goes to his group home. His wife goes to hers. The mentally disabled couple is not allowed to share a bedroom by the state-sanctioned nonprofits that run the group homes — a practice the newlyweds
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Why Was Kermit Gosnell´s
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Regulations for me but not for thee. A large percentage of abortion clinics in the United States are located in minority neighborhoods. My diagnostic radiology practice is too. Most of our receptionists and technicians are bilingual, although we have some that only speak Spanish. Many of us speak basic Creole, enough not only to communicate instructions, but also to elicit a happy smile from our Haitian patients who are made to feel at home. The government´s eagle eye is trained on us with oppressive attention. We have regulations that determine the most minute details of our practice.
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Senate Passes Bill to Widen
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Washington - A bipartisan coalition in the Senate easily passed legislation on Monday to force Internet retailers to collect sales taxes for state and local governments, sending the issue to the House, where antitax forces have vowed to kill it. But the 69-to-27 vote in the Senate will give the measure significant momentum. Hundreds of retailers are flying to Washington this week to pressure House lawmakers and counter the arguments of small-government groups, including Grover Norquist’s Americans for Tax Reform, which wields great influence in the House.
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Three women missing for a decade
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New York Daily News, by Bill Hutchinson
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Two women who vanished about a decade ago when they were teenagers were miraculously found alive Monday inside a home in Cleveland, along with a third missing woman, authorities said. Amanda Berry, who was missing for a decade and is now 27, and Gina DeJesus, who disappeared nine years ago and is now 23, were rescued after a neighbor heard Berry’s pleas for help coming from inside the home. “I heard screaming ... and I see this girl going nuts trying to get outside,” said neighbor Charles Ramsey, who rescued women. “I go on the porch and she said ‘Help me get out!
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Guide to Philadelphia
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Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 5/6/2013 5:20:39 PM
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Dr. Kermit Gosnell is on trial, charged with murder, in the deaths of a female patient and four babies prosecutors say were born alive at the abortion clinic he ran. A look at the facts in the case: The Investigation - In 2010, federal agents who were raiding Gosnell´s clinic in search of drug violations instead stumbled upon "deplorable and unsanitary" conditions, including blood on the floor and parts of aborted fetuses in jars. State regulators shut down the Women´s Medical Society clinic in west Philadelphia and suspended Gosnell´s license. The Grand Jury Report - A nearly 300-page grand jury
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A Homemade Style of Terror:
Jihadists Push New Tactics
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Washington - Aware that intensified American counterterrorism efforts have made an ambitious Sept. 11-style plot a long shot, Al Qaeda propagandists for several years have called on their devotees in the United States to carry out smaller-scale solo attacks and provided the online education to teach them how. (Snip) It shows how plotters can construct powerful bombs without attracting official attention. It offers a case study in the complex mix of personality and ideology at work in extremist violence. And it raises a pressing question: Is there any way to detect such plotters before they can act?
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Hillary Clinton — culpable for
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When it first became clear that the CIA’s Benghazi talking points had been altered, many of us viewed the White House as the prime suspect. After all, it served President Obama’s political purposes to claim, at the height of a political campaign in which he was taking credit for the fall of al Qaeda, that the death of a U.S. ambassador was down to spontaneous outrage over a video, rather than pre-planned terrorism. It turns out, however, that the State Department was the prime culprit. It was State that pushed back hard against the original talking points.
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Republican probe of Benghazi
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Republican lawmakers, who have spent months seeking to tie President Obama to last year’s deadly attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, are increasingly focusing their probe on a new target: former secretary of state Hillary Rodham Clinton. The GOP-led investigation of the Sept. 11, 2012, assaults that killed U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three others now centers heavily on the State Department and whether officials there deliberately misled the public about the nature of the assault. Three State Department officials are scheduled to testify before a House committee on Wednesday about the Benghazi attack and its aftermath.
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Turning on Obama
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If ponies rode men and grass ate cows, And cats were chased into holes by the mouse … If summer were spring and the other way round, Then all the world would be upside down. Once in a long while, an event evokes one of my favorite historical images: the British Army band, at Lord Cornwallis’ surrender at Yorktown which sealed the Americans’ revolutionary victory, playing “The World Turned Upside Down.” In this case, the event is the dramatic change over the past two weeks
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Seattle to melt buyback guns
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The Seattle Police Department collected more than 700 guns during a buyback in January, and now city officials have a plan for what to do with them. Mayor Mike McGinn is expected to announce Tuesday that they´ll be melted into bricks carrying messages of peace, and the bricks will be placed around the city. The buyback program was announced a month after last December´s elementary school massacre in Newtown, Conn., by city leaders sick of hearing about gun violence. Private sponsors including Amazon.com contributed tens of thousands of dollars
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Sanford gets second chance:
On political scrapheap 4 years ago,
ex-governor wins 1st district seat
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Post & Courier [Charleston, SC], by Glenn Smith*
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Posted By: Attercliffe- 5/8/2013 12:59:28 AM
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Former Gov. Mark Sanford completed the trail to political redemption Tuesday with a win over Democrat Elizabeth Colbert Busch to reclaim his old seat in Congress. Sanford defeated Colbert Busch 54 percent to 45 percent, according to full unofficial results. Turnout was heavier than expected, with about 32 percent of the district’s 455,702 registered voters casting ballots. Sanford, who has never lost an election, returns to the 1st District seat he held for three terms from 1995-2001. It’s a remarkable comeback for a man many pundits had written off after his highly publicized affair with an Argentine
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A new ‘Dawn’ at ABC:
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New York Post, by Tara Palmeri
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 5/8/2013 11:26:11 AM
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Top ABC News editor Don Ennis walked into his Manhattan office on Friday in a “little black dress” and a brunette bobbed wig and announced to colleagues that from now on, he would like to be known as Dawn. The 49-year-old father of three said he’s splitting from his wife of 17 years to become a woman, or Dawn Stacey Ennis, as she is now known on her governmental records. “Today I begin anew,” she wrote on her Facebook timeline, where she debuted a flirty new profile picture. “Please understand: This is not a game of
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Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee: Constitution
implies a right to health care, education
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Washington Times, by Douglas Ernst
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 5/7/2013 8:22:18 PM
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Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee took to the House floor Monday night and implied that the right to health care and education exists in the Constitution. Ms. Jackson Lee, Texas Democrat, also made the case that the moral authority for such services is also derived from the Declaration of Independence. “One might argue that education and health care fall into those provisions of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness,” she said. Ms. Jackson Lee added, “I think that what should be continuously emphasized is the president’s leadership on one single point: that although health care was not
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Mark Sanford wins South
Carolina special election
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Washington Post, by Rachel Weiner
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Posted By: supersid- 5/7/2013 8:55:20 PM
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Mark Sanford has won the South Carolina special election in a competitive race for what in normal circumstances is a safe Republican seat. The former governor beat Democrat Elizabeth Colbert Busch, the sister of comedian Stephen Colbert Busch, for the state’s 1st congressional district. The AP called the race for Sanford early in the evening, with the Republican leading Colbert Busch 54 percent 46 percent.
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Sharyl Attkisson of CBS News,
a persistent voice of media
skepticism on Benghazi
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Washington Post, by Paul Farhi
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Posted By: BuckeyeRon- 5/7/2013 11:01:43 PM
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From the start, the Obama administration’s account of what happened in Benghazi, Libya, on Sept. 11 last year didn’t quite square for Sharyl Attkisson. So the veteran CBS News reporter dug in, and kept digging. The result: Attkisson has been a persistent voice of news-media skepticism about the government’s story. On the air and online, Attkisson has questioned the administration’s timeline and its response. (Snip) While other media, particularly Fox News, have been similarly skeptical about the official narrative about Benghazi, Attkisson and CBS might put the story in a different light. As a much-decorated reporter from a news
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Dem Sen: Second Amendment Not
Meant For Citizens To Take Up
Arms Against Government
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Real Clear Politics, by Ian Schwartz
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 5/7/2013 9:28:03 AM
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Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) on states nullifying federal gun laws: I mean, let´s look at the context of nullification. Nullification was last used by Southern states to try to eviscerate Civil Rights legislation, to try to prevent states from basically enforcing desegregation and frankly, I think history will look back on this round of nullification as kindly as it did on the last round. It is laughable also because it is a total bastardization of the Second Amendment. The Second Amendment is not an absolute right, not a God given right, always had conditions upon
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