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The last telegram ever
is about to be sent

The Week, by Harold Maass Original Article

Posted By: MissMolly- 6/19/2013 5:04:46 AM Post Reply

O n July 14, someone somewhere in India will tap out what is being called the world´s last telegram. India´s state-owned telecom company, Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited, has been holding out as other countries around the world retire their antiquated telegraph services. Now, after delaying the move for two years, the business operating what is considered to be the world´s last telegraph service is finally ready to pull the plug, saying telegrams are no longer commercially viable in the age of digital communications. India´s telegram service had been upgraded in recent years — clerks now type up messages on computers

Living in Fear: Welcome
to Fascist America

PJ Media, by Roger L. Simon Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 6/19/2013 4:58:40 AM Post Reply

Back in the ’80s when, on a couple of occasions, I visited the Soviet Union, I always wondered what was it really like to live in that godforsaken place. But it didn’t much matter. For all the creepy spying that was going on, I realized I’d be out of there in a week or two. Now I know what it was like. It’s come home. I live in fear. I don’t want to admit it, but it’s true. Every phone call I make, every email I send, every text I message, every article I write including this one,

G8: Barack Obama looks like
a president going through the motions

Telegraph [UK], by Alex Spillius Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 6/19/2013 4:58:06 AM Post Reply

Listening to Barack Obama give his speech in Belfast on Monday, it was hard not to stifle a yawn. I kept waiting for the part when he would say something interesting, but, about three quarters of the way through, realised it wasn’t going to come. Judging from television pictures some of his young audience felt the same, after the initial rush of euphoria of receiving the rock star president in their midst had passed. This is not surprising, for we had already heard this number about the inspirational role of the Northern Ireland peace process and the Emerald Isle’s

Senator: IRS to pay $70M in
employee bonuses

Associated Press, by Stephen Ohlemacher Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 6/19/2013 4:50:45 AM Post Reply

WASHINGTON- The Internal Revenue Service is about to pay $70 million in employee bonuses despite an Obama administration directive to cancel discretionary bonuses because of automatic spending cuts enacted this year, according to a GOP senator. Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa says his office has learned that the IRS is executing an agreement with the employees´ union on Wednesday to pay the bonuses. Grassley says the bonuses should be canceled under an April directive from the White House budget office. The directive was written by Danny Werfel, a former budget official who has since been appointed acting IRS commissioner.

Senator: IRS to Pay $70M
in Employee Bonuses

Associated Press, by Stephen Ohlemacher Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 6/19/2013 4:49:49 AM Post Reply

WASHINGTON-- The Internal Revenue Service is about to pay $70 million in employee bonuses despite an Obama administration directive to cancel discretionary bonuses because of automatic spending cuts enacted this year, according to a GOP senator. Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa says his office has learned that the IRS is executing an agreement with the employees´ union on Wednesday to pay the bonuses. Grassley says the bonuses should be canceled under an April directive from the White House budget office. The directive was written by Danny Werfel, a former budget official who has since been appointed acting IRS commissioner.

Karzai Suspends Talks With
US Over Taliban Move

Associated Press, by Amir Shah Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 6/19/2013 4:46:19 AM Post Reply

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Afghan President Hamid Karzai says he has suspended talks with the U.S. on a new security deal to protest the way the Americans are reaching out to the Taliban in efforts to find a political solution to the war. Karzai says he has suspended negotiations with the U.S. on what troops will remain in the country after 2014. He says he did this "in view of the contradiction between acts and the statements made by the United States of America in regard to the peace process." The Afghan president´s statement was released by his office

Hagel approves plan allowing
women to join Navy SEALS,
Army Rangers

The Hill [Washington DC], by Carlo Munoz Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 6/19/2013 4:37:24 AM Post Reply

Women will have the chance to join the Navy SEALS, Army Rangers and other specialized combat outfits beginning in 2016 under plans approved Tuesday by Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel. Female candidates will also be able to join front-line Army and Marine Corps infantry units as part of the department’s decision. “The days of the ‘Rambo’ are over,” Maj. Gen. Bennet Sacolick, head of force development for Special Operations Command, said Tuesday during a briefing announcing the changes. Tuesday’s announcement builds on former Pentagon chief Leon Panetta’s decision in January to end the military’s long-standing ban

TWA Flight 800 investigators break silence
in new documentary, claim original
conclusion about cause of crash is wrong

FOX News, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: smcchk- 6/19/2013 12:41:02 AM Post Reply

A group of whistleblowers, including a number of aviation experts, have come forward in a new documentary to claim that the official explanation for the crash of TWA Flight 800 was wrong and a gas tank explosion did not bring down the flight off the coast of Long Island 17 years ago. However, the six whistleblowers, all part of the original investigation team, stopped short of saying the plane was shot down. Flight 800, a Boeing 747, had just taken off from JFK airport with 230 people aboard on July 17, 1996 enroute to Paris when it exploded

Thamesmead murder: Man
charged with killing Colin Greenway

This Is Local London [U.K.], by Robert Fisk Original Article

Posted By: PageTurner- 6/19/2013 12:13:13 AM Post Reply

A 51-YEAR-OLD man is due in court today accused of the murder of Colin Greenway in Thamesmead. Mr Greenway, 56, was pronounced dead in his ground floor flat in Abbotts Close at around 2pm on Saturday afternoon (June 15). Police arrested Daha Mohammed, also of Abbotts Close, nearby and yesterday charged him with the murder. He will appear at Bexley Magistrates’ Court this morning.

Disabled man had throat slit
in ´brutal attack´ in Abbotts
Close, Thamesmead: Murder
probe underway

This Is Local London [U.K.], by Robert Fisk Original Article

Posted By: PageTurner- 6/19/2013 12:10:55 AM Post Reply

A MURDER investigation has been launched after a disabled man had his throat slit in a ‘brutal attack’ in his Thamesmead home. The victim, who has been named as 56-year-old Colin Greenway, was pronounced dead in his ground floor flat in Abbotts Close at around 2pm yesterday (June 15). Some neighbours reportedly saw two men going over the gate at the side of his property into the back garden about an hour before Mr Greenway´s body was discovered by the emergency services. Forensics officers are at the scene of the murder this afternoon and have removed one of the doors

Would you be caught wearing
these? The ´hairy leg´ stockings
designed to help women ward
off unwanted male attention

Daily Mail [UK], by Sadie Whitelocks Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 6/19/2013 12:08:44 AM Post Reply

It might seem like the androgynous fashion trend taken too far, but a Chinese company’s new ‘hairy leg’ hosiery hopes to help women ward off unwanted male attention. A photograph posted to the Shanghai-based website ChinaSMACK shows a model from the waist down wearing the on-trend stockings. A caption below touts them as the perfect ´summertime anti-pervert´ device and ´essential for young girls going out’. It does not state where shoppers can find the garment and internet searches prove fruitless. The image of the tights has triggered hundreds of responses from amused and horrified viewers. ‘Damn, so disgusting!’ commented one.

Michael Hastings

Washington Post, by Max Fisher Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 6/18/2013 9:59:49 PM Post Reply

Michael Hastings, a contributor to Rolling Stone and BuzzFeed, died on Tuesday morning in a car crash in Los Angeles at the unforgivably young age of 33.He is best known, rightly, for his 2010 Rolling Stone profile of Gen. Stanley McChrystal, who as commander of the U.S.-led force in Afghanistan was the face of the war that Hastings saw as misguided and poorly managed. His profile, “The Runaway General,” portrayed McChrystal as a loose cannon so sure of himself and his strategy for the war that he and his staff openly derided their civilian overseers,

US soldiers killed hours after US
announces peace talks with Taliban

Telegraph [UK], by Rob Crilly and Peter Foster Original Article

Posted By: NorthernDog- 6/18/2013 9:58:18 PM Post Reply

Islamabad - Four US soldiers have been killed in an attack in Afghanistan hours after the US announced it will engage in its first formal direct talks with the Taliban after dropping its long-standing demand that the movement renounce ties with al-Qaeda in order for them to progress. A US official said insurgents attacked Bagram Air Base with "indirect fire", suggesting the soldiers were killed by mortars or rockets. There were very few details of the attack, which threatens to impact on the US´s first formal direct talks with the Taliban, due to start on Thursday. One key condition

Rubio Flips Again, Helps Sink
Biometric Visa Tracking Amendment

Breitbart´s Big Government, by Kerry Picket Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 6/18/2013 9:56:38 PM Post Reply

The Senate voted down an amendment to the upper chamber´s immigration bill proposed by Sen. David Vitter (R-LA) that would require a full biometric visa tracking system placed at every land, sea, and air port of entry in the United States before legalized immigrants could receive green cards. The measure, which was also called for by the 9/11 Commission in the wake of the 2001 terrorist attacks, would establish a biometric exit-entry system. Gang of Eight member Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) told Breitbart News last week

Immigration Reform Would Boost
Economy, CBO Report Finds

ABC News, by Jim Avila & Serena Marshall Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 6/18/2013 9:43:07 PM Post Reply

The immigration reform bill drawn up by the Senate Gang of 8 would boost the economy and lower the deficit, the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office says in a report out today. The newly released, and highly anticipated, report from the government’s nonpartisan bookkeeper comes as the Senate debates the bipartisan immigration legislation offered by the Gang of 8 and the House moves forward on a more piecemeal approach. The report, “The Economic Impact of S. 744, the Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act,” says overall the legislation

Civil rights groups sue
NYPD over Muslim spying

Associated Press, by Adam Goldman* Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 6/18/2013 9:13:51 PM Post Reply

NEW YORK — The New York Police Department´s widespread spying programs directed at Muslims have undermined free worship by innocent people and should be declared unconstitutional, religious leaders and civil rights advocates said Tuesday after the filing of a federal lawsuit. "Our mosque should be an open, religious and spiritual sanctuary, but NYPD spying has turned it into a place of suspicion and censorship," Hamid Hassan Raza, an imam named as a plaintiff, told a rally outside police headquarters shortly after the suit was filed in federal court in Brooklyn.

Justice, State Departments Hosting
Gay Pride Events This Week

U.S. News & World Report, by Elizabeth Flock Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 6/18/2013 9:06:14 PM Post Reply

The departments of Justice and State this week are holding back-to-back LGBT events in honor of gay pride month, and as the Supreme Court prepares to deliver two landmark decisions on same-sex marriage. On Tuesday, the Justice Department celebrated pride with speeches from Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis., the first openly gay member of the Senate, singer-songwriter and gay and lesbian activist Melissa Etheridge, and Attorney General Eric Holder, all on the theme "A Year of Firsts," according to DOJPride.com, the official site for LGBT Employees at the department. And on Wednesday, the State Department will follow

Distrust Growing: 70% Believe IRS
Decision to Target Conservatives
Was Made in DC

Rasmussen Reports, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 6/18/2013 9:01:06 PM Post Reply

While the controversy over the National Security Agency surveillance program has dominated the news recently, concern about the Internal Revenue Service’s targeting of Tea Party groups and other conservative organizations remains high and is inching up. Despite the large number of controversies engulfing official Washington, the number of people following the IRS scandal has actually increased in recent weeks. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 82% of voters nationwide are now following the IRS targeting story, including 44% who are following the story

Conservatives more racist than
liberals, says government-funded study

Daily Caller, by Robby Soave Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 6/18/2013 8:54:16 PM Post Reply

Mixed-race people are more likely to be considered black by conservatives, who are subconsciously attempting to “justify racial divisions,” said the authors of a new government-funded study. The report, originally released earlier this month, has begun attracting criticism from those who see political bias in the results. The study was conducted by graduate students and faculty in the psychology department of New York University. Researchers asked participants to look at pictures of mixed-race people and say whether they

Hillary 2016 — What
difference does it make?

Washington Times, by Charles Hurt Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 6/18/2013 8:42:41 PM Post Reply

The Clintons are getting the old band back together again for one last geriatric tour. Hillary 2016. Because 22 years of Clintons dominating the Beltway isn’t enough. Her campaign slogan: “Vote for me. I am a woman. What difference does it make?” The Draft Hillary movement is really taking off. There hasn’t been this much excitement behind a Draft Hillary movement since, well, the last time there was a Draft Hillary movement. Remember that? Back in 2008? When she was the “inevitable nominee?” She was the “most electable” Democrat running? She was the only one who

Obama thwarted: ´No indication´
he will win back House

Washington Examiner, by Paul Bedard Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 6/18/2013 8:24:04 PM Post Reply

President Obama´s nonstop fundraising for congressional Democrats is building a huge campaign war chest for next fall, but there is little hope that his party will win back control of the House and make Rep. Nancy Pelosi speaker again, according to an exhaustive new analysis. But the report from the University of Virginia´s Center for Politics also shows that Obama may suffer the fewest losses of House seats for a second-term president since Ronald Reagan in 1986, itself a big victory. "While it would be foolish to rule out any outcome, there is no indication at this

In Berlin, Obama will invoke JFK,
Reagan to push climate change

Washington Examiner, by Paul Bedard Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 6/18/2013 8:19:03 PM Post Reply

Following a well-worn path to Germany´s Brandenburg Gate, President Obama plans to invoke America´s most important speakers at the Berlin landmark -- John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan -- as he seeks to revive his promise to curb climate change. "Any time a U.S. president speaks in Berlin it´s a powerful backdrop to our postwar history," said national security spokesman Ben Rhodes as the president arrived in Berlin Tuesday night. "This is a place U.S. presidents have gone to talk about the role of the free world, essentially, whether it´s President Reagan or President Kennedy,"

Benghazi Whistleblower Lawyer Says
Joint Chief’s Chairman Lied to Congress

Cybercast News Service, by Fred Lucas Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 6/18/2013 8:06:14 PM Post Reply

An attorney whose firm represents two Benghazi whistleblowers said Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, lied to the Senate when he said there was never a “stand down” order during the Benghazi attack on Sept. 11, 2012. “What was fascinating is that he explained his lie to them,” Joe DiGenova, an attorney representing one of the whistleblowers, told CNSNews.com. “He actually said they were sent to Tripoli. They were needed in Benghazi,” said DiGenova, a former U.S. attorney, now with the Washington firm of DiGenova & Toensing.

Rep. Nadler: Post-Five Month
Abortion Ban ‘Morally Outrageous’

Cybercast News Service, by Elizabeth Harrington Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 6/18/2013 7:58:34 PM Post Reply

Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) said Tuesday it is “morally outrageous” to ban abortions after five months of pregnancy. “It is morally outrageous, frankly,” Nadler said about the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act (H.R. 1797), a bill that would ban abortions 20 weeks post-fertilization, or five months into pregnancy. “Here we go again,” he said. “Every single year we have to go through the same nonsense with the same morally presumptuous, morally arrogant attitude that we know better. ‘We know better than women and their doctors. We know better about their health care.

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