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Britain braced for worst snowstorm
in years as Met Office issue
rare Red Alert

Daily Mail [UK], by Nathan Rao Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 1/17/2013 3:29:02 PM Post Reply

Britain is braced for the “worst snowstorm in years” to strike tonight bringing up to a foot of snow across the country. The Met Office has issued a nationwide severe weather warning with an almost unheard of red alert for Wales. The entire country faces heavy snowfall and blizzards with up to a foot expected on high ground and several inches elsewhere. The Met Office warned of severe disruption and “severe drifting” of lying snow with bitter gales adding to the mayhem. The worst affected areas are likely to be Wales, Central England, the Midlands, and the South-west although
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NRA: NY´s quick gun law
passage nixed opposition

Associated Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: BaseballFan- 1/17/2013 3:13:08 PM Post Reply

ALBANY, N.Y. — The National Rifle Association says the secret negotiations and lightning-fast passage of New York’s tough new gun control laws squelched the powerful gun lobby’s ability to mount opposition. Gov. Andrew Cuomo says he had to engineer quick enactment to prevent a counterproductive buying spree of now-outlawed guns. The legislation was introduced and signed into law in less than two days.

A new Gold Standard
is being born

Telegraph [UK], by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 1/17/2013 3:12:57 PM Post Reply

The world is moving step by step towards a de facto Gold Standard, without any meetings of G20 leaders to announce the idea or bless the project. Some readers will already have seen the GFMS Gold Survey for 2012 which reported that central banks around the world bought more bullion last year in terms of tonnage than at any time in almost half a century. They added a net 536 tonnes in 2012 as they diversified fresh reserves away from the four fiat suspects: dollar, euro, sterling, and yen. The Washington Accord, where Britain, Spain, Holland, South Africa, Switzerland, and

Zero Dark Thirty is a truly
great film. It deserves
applause not boycotts

Telegraph [UK], by Nile Gardiner Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 1/17/2013 3:09:43 PM Post Reply

Zero Dark Thirty is already the most talked about film of the year. The Sony Pictures release about the 10-year hunt for Osama bin Laden has been nominated for five Academy Awards, and raked in an impressive $24 million in its first weekend on wide release, a huge figure for January, normally a quiet period at the US box office.[Snip]Zero Dark Thirty has also become the most controversial film of the year, with some members of the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (including Martin Sheen) calling for a boycott of the film for its depiction of the

That Didn’t Take Long

National Review Online, by Jonah Goldberg Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 1/17/2013 2:56:26 PM Post Reply

Whole Foods CEO John Mackey backs off the F-word in part because, while fairly accurate and defensible, it hurts the feelings of people who have no problem using it inaccurately and indefensibly all of the time: JOHN MACKEY: I made a bad choice of language. I was trying to distinguish it between socialism so I took the dictionary definition of fascism, which is when the means of production are still owned privately but the government controls it — that’s a type of fascism. However, I realize that that word has so much baggage associated with it

The Germans don´t trust Obama
with their gold – and can
you blame them?

Telegraph [UK], by James Delingpole Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 1/17/2013 2:49:43 PM Post Reply

Back in the mid-1920s, the head of the German Central Bank, Herr Hjalmar Schacht, went to New York to see Germany’s gold.(Snip) (H/T The Real Asset Company) (Snip) Which is why, following in the footsteps of Venezuela´s Hugo Chavez (who may be an idiot but is definitely no fool), Germany is repatriatriating its gold from the US federal reserve. It will now be stored in Frankfurt. This is an important story. One of the most spectacular con tricks of the last twelve months, pulled off by our political class with the connivance of much of the media
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GPs ´refuse to treat immigrants
as NHS too generous on
foreign nationals´

Telegraph [UK], by Rebecca Smith Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 1/17/2013 2:39:24 PM Post Reply

Half of GPs believe the NHS provision for immigrants is too generous, a survey has suggested, as many now break the rules by refusing treatment to those who cannot prove residency. While NHS hospitals are allowed to charge foreign patients for treatment if they do not come from a country with a reciprocal arrangement, GPs are forced to take on people without charging. A survey of GPs has found that the majority think this is too generous and the rules should be changed. Some family doctors are asking some patients for proof of residency before allowing them to register

Widow of Colorado masscre victim
sues James Holmes´ psychiatrist

Telegraph [UK], by Nick Allen Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 1/17/2013 2:37:33 PM Post Reply

Los Angeles,- Chantel Blunk´s husband Jonathan, 26, a Navy veteran and father of two, was among the 12 people who died when James Holmes opened fire during a movie screening in the city of Aurora on July 20 last year. Mrs Blunk is also suing the University of Colorado where Holmes was a PhD neuroscience student. She alleges that Dr Lynne Fenton advised campus police after Holmes told her about the fantasy the month before the shooting. According to the lawsuit, police offered to apprehend Holmes for 72 hours so he could undergo psychiatric assessment, but
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Man finds mammoth £200,000
gold nugget in Australia

Telegraph [UK], by Staff Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 1/17/2013 2:31:40 PM Post Reply

An amateur prospector hunting for gold in Australia has astonished experts after stumbling across a mammoth nugget worth some £200,000. The Y-shaped nugget, weighing 5.5kg (177 ounces), was buried 60cm beneath the ground near the town of Ballarat in Victoria. Local experts said they could not recall any nugget even approaching that size being discovered in the area previously. The prospector, who has not been named, was using a top-of-the-line handheld metal detector when he found the nugget. Video footage of the find was posted online by user TroyAurum, who wrote that the prospector described the sound given off by the detector as being "like the bonnet of a car through the headphones".
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William Ayers a keynote speaker
next month at the Association
of Teacher Educators conference

Washington Examiner, by Charlie Spiering Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 1/17/2013 2:27:21 PM Post Reply

The Association of Teacher Educators has recruited Chicago professor – and former domestic terrorist – William Ayers to speak at their the 2013 Annual Meeting in Atlanta, Georgia which will be held next month. William Ayers, a co-founder of the radical Weather Underground domestic terror group, was a key figure during the 2008 presidential campaign due to his Chicago ties to then-Senator Obama. The organization’s executive director, David Ritchey, confirmed that Ayers would be a keynote speaker at the conference although he admitted that he wasn’t involved in the selection process.

Sheriff Cannon: I would be
violating the law if I enforced
unconstitutional law

Post & Courier [Charleston, SC], by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 1/17/2013 2:27:14 PM Post Reply

Charleston County’s Sheriff Al Cannon voiced his opposition to proposed national gun restrictions in the wake of the Newtown, Conn. shooting. During a press conference this morning, Cannon said people are “taking advantage of broken hearts” to push the gun agenda. He also told reporters he would be violating the law if he enforced a law that was unconstutional. “An officer is obligated not to follow any unlawful order,” Cannon said. During the press conference, Cannon dumped bullets out of a revolver and said: “The only way I can hurt you with this is if I hit you with it.”

The War between the Amendments

Tribune Media Services, by Victor Davis Hanson Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 1/17/2013 2:24:03 PM Post Reply

The horrific Newtown, Conn., mass shooting has unleashed a frenzy to pass new gun-control legislation. But the war over restricting firearms is not just between liberals and conservatives, it also pits the first two amendments to the U.S. Constitution against each other. Apparently, in the sequential thinking of James Madison and the Founding Fathers, the right to free expression and the guarantee to own arms were the two most important personal liberties. But now these two cherished rights seem to be at odds with each other and have caused bitter exchanges between interpreters of the Constitution.

Obama Campaign Manager
Sends Email Begging
for Gun Control Support

Townhall, by Katie Pavlich Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 1/17/2013 2:18:23 PM Post Reply

President Obama´s top campaign adviser Jim Messina is still sending campaign emails (the campaign ended over two months ago). This time, Messina is asking supporters to help push President Obama´s gun control agenda. From the email: Friend -- Yesterday, President Obama announced his plan to protect our children and our communities by helping reduce gun violence. We won´t stop every violent act like the one in Newtown, Connecticut. But if we can save the life of even one child, the President believes each of us has a responsibility to

Kaine: Rand Paul Using
´Code Word´ on Gun Control

Weekly Standard, by Michael Warren Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 1/17/2013 2:08:08 PM Post Reply

Virginia senator Tim Kaine, a Democrat, told CNN´s Soledad O´Brien Thursday morning that a fellow senator´s recently announced effort to "nullify" Barack Obama´s executive actions on gun control is a "code word." When asked about Kentucky Republican Rand Paul´s pledge to nullify the president´s actions, Kaine said, "Nullification is a code word." O´Brien asked Kaine to explain what he meant by that. "It’s a states right argument that gets used in times of great controversy," Kaine said. "The president is acting by executive power that is legally conferred on him. And as you pointed out,

And the most bedbug-
infested U.S. city is …

Houston Chronicle, by Eric Berger Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 1/17/2013 1:57:41 PM Post Reply

As most everyone knows by now, bedbugs are back. The exact cause is not known, but experts associate the resurgence with increased resistance of bed bugs to available pesticides, greater international and domestic travel, lack of knowledge regarding control of bed bugs due to their prolonged absence, and the continuing decline or elimination of effective pest control programs at state and local public health agencies. The only people that are happy, it would seem, are pest control specialists. To that end, Orkin has announced its top 50 bed bug cities for 2012.

Report: ´Dear Abby´ dies at 94

Houston Chronicle, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 1/17/2013 1:50:50 PM Post Reply

TMZ.com is reporting that Pauline Phillips, the creator of the "Dear Abby" advice column, died yesterday at the age of 94. Phillips retired in 2002 and was diagnosed with Alzheimer´s disease. Her daughter, Jeanne Phillips, took over the column. We will provide more information as it becomes available. Phillips´ Wikipedia entry has already been changed to reflect the death. The "Dear Abby" column started in the mid-1950s in The San Francisco Chronicle. Jeanne Phillips had been helping her mother with the column since she was a teenager, she told the newspaper in 2008.

Mitt Romney Knew About
The Brewing Mali Conflict
Before You Did

BuzzFeed, by Rosie Gray Original Article

Posted By: BuckeyeRon- 1/17/2013 1:50:31 PM Post Reply

After France´s military intervention in Islamist-controlled northern Mali over the weekend, the North African country has become a hot topic in the news. But one man was introducing the problems in Mali to a mainstream audience before most other politicians and commentators: Mitt Romney. During the third and final presidential debate, which focused on foreign policy, Romney slipped in an aside about Mali that attracted some derision on Twitter at the time, but now looks wise in retrospect.(Snip) At the time of the debate, Romney was receiving intelligence briefings from administration officials, a tradition for the presidential nominees

Senate okays Jonathan’s
troops deployment to Mali

Vanguard[Nigeria], by Henry Umoru & Joseph Erunke Original Article

Posted By: BuckeyeRon- 1/17/2013 1:28:51 PM Post Reply

Abuja—The Senate, Thursday, gave constitutional consent to the deployment of Nigerian military troops to Mali by President Goodluck Jonathan. The action of the upper legislative chamber was in response to a letter it received from the president, asking it to give consent to the 1,200 Nigerian troops he deployed last Wednesday, to Mali for a peace keeping operation. But the Senate failed short of directing the president to borrow a leaf from western powers especially the United States of America, USA, by considering Nigeria’s economic interest in foreign policies, following a sharp division among senators on the issue.

Notre Dame’s real dead woman

Salon, by Irin Carmon Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 1/17/2013 1:06:07 PM Post Reply

Less than a day into the Manti Te’o revelations, we’ve heard more about a fake dead girlfriend of a Notre Dame football player than a real dead girl. Lizzy Seeberg committed suicide, not long after being intimidated by Notre Dame football players for reporting a sexual assault by one of their teammates. A second woman who was taken to the hospital for a rape exam declined to formally accuse another Notre Dame football player after getting a series of bullying texts from players. The handful of people who immediately took note of the contrast in the attention —

Illinois in top 5 for
foreclosures in 2012

Chicago Tribune, by Mary Ellen Podmolik Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 1/17/2013 1:03:57 PM Post Reply

Foreclosure activity fell 3 percent on a national level last year from 2011 but higher foreclosures in half of the states, including Illinois, showed the uneven pace of the housing recovery. Homeowners, including those in the Chicago area, did get some good news in a second report issued Thursday that showed fewer homeowners were underwater on their mortgages. Nationwide, foreclosure notices were filed against 1.84 million properties last year, a sizable decline from 2010, the peak year, when foreclosures affected 2.9 million properties, according to a year-end RealtyTrac report issued Thursday.

Mohamed Morsi Is a Scandal
Bigger than Benghazi

PJ Media, by David P. Goldman Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 1/17/2013 1:03:42 PM Post Reply

After betting the foreign-policy store on the Muslim Brotherhood as the new wave of Arab democracy in the Middle East, the Eastern Establishment and the Obama administration seem ready to cut their losses. Syria already is a failed state — no alternative government can replace the odious Basher al-Assad, and Assad cannot reunify the country — and Egypt is a failed state in waiting. The latter observation should have been obvious to anyone with a pocket calculator. It’s no news that Mohamed Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood is an extremist, anti-Semitic monstrosity. The disgusting eruption of Jew-hatred

What Lance Armstrong Did

New Yorker, by Michael Specter Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 1/17/2013 12:59:23 PM Post Reply

A few days ago, I was waiting for a friend in one of those Brooklyn bars where all the bartenders have Ph.D.s in philology or phrenology or something. Two people were shouting at a third, who, it turned out, had a problem with Lance Armstrong. “Everyone did it,” one of the men screamed. “Everyone. If they gave Tour de France trophies to people who were drug-free, they would have to find their winners in grade school.” “He lied,” the anti-Lance man replied, somewhat timidly. “Why didn’t he just tell the truth?” “Grow up, you moron,” the third shouted,

Algeria says 600 hostagages
freed; terrorists say 35 died

USA Today, by Charles McPhedron & Louise Osborne Original Article

Posted By: Pluperfect- 1/17/2013 12:53:23 PM Post Reply

The fate of hostages being held at a gas complex deep in the Sahara desert drew conflicting reports Thursday, with an Algerian news service reporting that 600 hostages were freed while militants claimed 35 were killed in an Algerian military raid. Algerian news service ANP reported that the Algerian military conducted air strikes and a ground operation to free the hostages, who were picked up by military helicopters. It remained unclear if any of the hostages were injured, ANP said. However, Islamist terrorists told a Mauritanian news outlet that Algerian military helicopters strafed the gas complex, killing 35 foreign hostages

U.S. Embassy in Algeria Posts ...
´Rubik’s Cubes Portrait of
Martin Luther King Jr.´

Weekly Standard, by Daniel Halper Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 1/17/2013 12:17:31 PM Post Reply

With Americans being held hostage in Algeria, the U.S. embassy in that country is posting Facebook photos of ... "Rubik’s Cubes Portrait of Martin Luther King Jr." Here´s a screen grab: (Snip) Earlier in the day, however, the American embassy in Algeria did acknowledge the hostage crisis. The embassy posts on Facebook a statement given by State Department spokesman Victoria Nuland: State Department Spokesperson Victoria Nuland said yesterday, "We condemn in the strongest terms the terrorist attack on British Petroleum personnel and facilities

A little bit of Solyndra
— yours for $9.50

San Francisco Chronicle, by David R. Baker Original Article

Posted By: Ribicon- 1/17/2013 12:17:14 PM Post Reply

At this point, it’s entirely possible that no one wants Solyndra’s solar modules except political junkies and clean-tech geeks. But an electronics dealership in Santa Clara will happily sell you one for $9.50. HSC Electronic Supply scooped up a few hundred of the unique, tube-shaped modules that were left at Solyndra’s Fremont HQ after the company plunged into bankruptcy in 2011. HSC announced their availability Wednesday. Solyndra’s collapse, after the company received $528 million in federal loans to build its factory, touched off a political firestorm and turned into a public relations disaster that the solar industry is still struggling

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