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Obama picks Baylor to win women's title

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Family: Man didn't kill black teen in selfdefense

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predecessor George W. Bush, whose ranch is located near the Submitted at 3/17/2012 8:57:00 AM school in Waco, Texas. The women's college basketball The Lady Bears enter the tournament tips off today, and tournament with a 34-0 record. As President Obama is playing Obama noted, they are trying to favorites. become the first team in college The president picked undefeated basketball history to win 40 Baylor to win the title, predicting games in a season without losing to ESPN that the Lady Bears will one. beat Notre Dame in the title game ESPN's report on Obama's on April 3. analysis of the women's "A team that has not lost, and I t o u r n a m e n t : don't expect they're going to lose," If Baylor wins the NCAA Obama told Doris Burke of women's basketball title, President ESPN. Barack Obama will have picked Three of Obama's final four picks the tournament champion for the are top seeds in their region: second time in three years. Baylor, Notre Dame, and long- Obama tabbed Baylor to beat time power Connecticut. He did Notre Dame in the championship go with one underdog, saying game in his annual women's third-seeded St. John's would beat bracket selections, which were favored Stanford. unveiled Friday. In the men's tournament, Obama Obama said that Lady Bears predicted the University of North center Brittney Griner would be Carolina would prevail. the star of the tournament. When Picking Baylor for the women's ESPN analyst Doris Burke asked title probably gives Obama whether he would play against something in common with Griner if Baylor visited the White
House, the president replied that she probably would block his shot. Griner is 6-foot-8; Obama is listed as 6-foot-1. The president's Final Four included three No. 1 seeds -Baylor, Notre Dame and Connecticut -- but he went with third-seeded St. John's to win the Fresno region, upsetting Stanford in the regional final. Obama also had seventh-seeded Louisville getting to the Elite Eight in the Raleigh region, and third-seeded Delaware upsetting second-seeded Tennessee in the Des Moines region semifinals. The only upset the president took in the first round was Iowa State, a 10th seed, beating No. 7 Wisconsin-Green Bay. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
Tibetan Man Sets Himself on Fire in Protest Over China - Voice of America
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[unable to retrieve full-text content] The father of a teenager killed by a neighborhood watch volunteer says recently released 911 tapes debunk shooter's claim of self-defense.
Pakistan extends detention of Osama bin Laden's widows

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[unable to retrieve full-text content] Authorities in Pakistan will hold three widows of alQaeda chief Osama bin Laden in custody for another 10 days.
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Army: Soldier accused of killing Afghan civilians arrives in United States - CNN International
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Suspect identified in Afghan killings STORY HIGHLIGHTS NEW: Records show Bales faced a criminal assault charge in 2002 The military has seven days to bring Robert Bales before a judge, a former lawyer says Bales, described as a loving husband and father, is accused of killing 16 Afghans The villagers demand the soldier be returned to Afghanistan to face justice (CNN)-- The man suspected of killing 16 villagers in a grisly predawn attack that sparked rage in Afghanistan has been identified by the military as Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, a decorated combat veteran who once took pride in saving civilian lives. Bales arrived late Friday at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, where he was being held in solitary, pretrial confinement at the Midwest Joint Regional Correctional Facility, the Army said in a statement. The Army had withheld Bales' name after Sunday's rampage in Panjwai district of Afghanistan's
southern Kandahar province. Saturday's statement was the first public acknowledgment by the military of the accused soldier's identity, provided earlier to CNN by unnamed military and senior
defense officials. Bales has not been formally charged, though the military has made a determination of probable cause that allows him to be detained.
The military has seven days to produce Bales before a magistrate and 120 days to take him to trial, said Greg Rinckey, a former judge advocate. Details about Bales, 38, emerged,
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the man, though far from complete, raised more questions than answers about a possible motive. Bales, described as a loving husband and father of two young children, is accused of leaving a remote U.S. combat outpost on foot early Sunday and heading to neighboring villages, where he allegedly went house to house on a rampage killing people in their homes. The chilling images of bloodied, limp bodies, including nine children, are difficult to reconcile with an Army account of Bales, who betrayed no animosity toward civilians in a different war zone years earlier. The Army said Bales participated in a 2007 attempt by the 2nd Battalion, 3rd Infantry Regiment to recover a helicopter that was shot down in Iraq, killing both pilots. The ensuing battle -- known as either the Battle of Zarqa or the Battle of Najaf -- left 250 Iraqis dead and 81 wounded, while no one in Bales' battalion was wounded, according to the February 2009 account posted online. A number of the Iraqi casualties were civilians, and the battle's clearing operation turned into a humanitarian one, according to the account. "We'd go in, find some people that we could help, because there were a bunch of dead people we couldn't, throw them on a litter and bring them out to the casualty collection point," Bales, who was
serving then as a team leader, is quoted as saying. "I've never been more proud to be a part of this unit than that day, for the simple fact that we discriminated between the bad guys and the noncombatants and then afterward we ended up helping the people that three or four hours before were trying to kill us," Bales said. "I think that's the real difference between being an American as opposed to being a bad guy, someone who puts his family in harm's way like that." Bales deployed to Afghanistan with the 3rd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division from Joint Base LewisMcChord near Tacoma, Washington, in January, according to military officials. He joined the Army two months after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and was assigned to Lewis-McChord in September 2002, said a brief summary released by the Army Saturday. It listed multiple decorations for Bales, including three Army "good conduct" medals. He deployed to Iraq three times, once right after the 2003 invasion and then again in 2006 where he as served 15 consecutive months as part of then-President Bush's so -called surge of 20,000 additional troops to quell the violence in Iraq. It was during that tour, according to Bales' attorney John Henry Browne, that he was wounded had to have part of his foot amputated. The soldier deployed to Iraq a
final time between 2009 and 2010, according the military. And it was during that tour, his attorney said, that he suffered a traumatic brain injury in a roadside bombing that flipped his vehicle. "I am confused why they would send him back to Afghanistan," Browne said. "There was no 'maybe he shouldn't go' discussion." Browne also said that the day before the Panjwai killings, Bales witnessed a fellow soldier's leg get blown off. Browne said the entire base was affected by the incident. Public records show that Bales had a brush with the law in 2002, when he faced a criminal assault charge in a Tacoma court. He plead not guilty. A judge ordered angermanagement counseling for Bales, the Wall Street Journal reported. The case was dismissed, records show. In Washington, Bales lived off base with his family in nearby Lake Tapps in a house that he and his wife purchased for $280,000 in 2006, according to records. On Friday afternoon, the twostory house was vacant. Its front porch was littered with boxes and children's toys. The house, according to realty records, was put on the market this week with a $229,000 price tag. News of Bales' arrest shook the quiet community. "I think I'm in denial. I don't want to believe that he did it," neighbor Cassie Holland told CNN.
Holland described the Bales family as"happy" and "normal." "I mean, we would go over there for birthday parties and they would come to my kids birthday parties, and always just happy," she said. "I would describe (Robert Bales) as super fun to hang around with, kind of the life of the party kinda guy. Super loving, great with his kids. I don't see how this has happened." The soldier did not want to deploy to Afghanistan on what ultimately became his fourth combat tour, Browne said, citing conversations with the soldier's family. "He was told that he was not going to be redeployed," Browne said. "The family was counting on him not being redeployed. I think it would be fair to say he and the family were not happy that he was going back." According to excerpts of blog posts written by Bales' wife published Friday by The Tacoma News-Tribune, the family was disappointed that Bales was not promoted. "Well we found out yesterday that Bob did not get promoted to E7 (sergeant first class) this year. It is very disappointing after all of the work Bob has done and all the sacrifices he has made for his love of his country, family and friends. "I am sad and disappointed too, but I am also relieved, we can finally move on to the next phase of our lives." The family was preparing to move last year and hoped to be stationed in either Germany, Italy,
Hawaii, Kentucky to "be near Bob's family" or Georgia "to be a sniper teacher," Karilyn Bales wrote, according to the NewsTribune. In light of the information that has surfaced, Rinckey, the former military lawyer, said there is a "good chance there's going to be a mental capacity defense." Bales was transferred from Afghanistan to a detention facility in Kuwait before being returned to the United States, a move that outraged Afghans. While the U.S. military investigated a case against Bales, Afghan villagers continue to call for the soldier's return to face charges. "This is our last demand. Punish him in Afghanistan. Put him on trial here and heal our broken hearts," one of the villagers told Afghan President Hamid Karzai during a meeting with the victims' families on Friday. During the meeting, Karzai suggested U.S.-Afghan relations were at a breaking point. "It is by all means the end of the rope here," he said. "The end of the rope that nobody can afford such luxuries anymore." CNN's Casey Wian, Moni Basu, Chelsea J. Carter and Tom Watkins contributed to this report. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five ARMY: page 4
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27 Killed as Two Explosions Rock Damascus - Voice of America

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appeared dazed and distraught. One young man said he was Submitted at 3/17/2012 2:22:23 PM awakened by the early morning Powerful explosions hit several blast and got hit by flying debris. important government security He says he was sleeping and was complexes in the Syrian capital, startled by a very loud noise and Damascus, Saturday, killing at debris that began to fall, including least 27 people and wounding windows, woodwork and objects nearly 100 others. The Syrian flying in his face, chipping several government is calling the blasts teeth. "terrorist attacks" that may be An elderly man with a white linked to year-long protests bandage over his head muttered against Syrian President Bashar al and stammered incoherently. He -Assad, while al-Arabiya TV said shame on those who did this. reports the government itself may Shame on them. Shame on their have been behind the explosions. rulers. Our country is important to Syrian state TV showed images us. Let them worry about their of charred bodies inside burned own countries. What do they want out vehicles which were still with us, he asked? smoldering. It blamed the twin car State TV interviewed dozens of bombings on terrorists, saying people, many of whom blamed t w o s u i c i d e - b o m b e r s b l e w Gulf leaders and Arab satellite themselves up near government channels for provoking unrest in buildings. Syria. Religious Affairs Minister The facade of one building Mohammed Abdel Sattar Sayyed crumbled from the force of the blamed Islamic extremists and first blast, projecting glass, plaster radical Islamic clerics for the and metal objects onto the street violence. below. Cars in front of the He says that religious clerics building appear to have imploded, talking about sectarian conflict their windows shattered and their and hate are behind these terrorist metal frames crumpled and acts and they bear responsibility twisted. Private homes in close for their words. The duty of proximity to the blasts were also clerics, he insists, is not to preach devastated. conflict, but to preach kind words Victims at a nearby hospital that lead to love, mercy and [unable to retrieve full-text content] [unable to retrieve full-text content]
forgiveness. Christian Orthodox Bishop Jean Qawaq of Syria insisted that he has no idea who was behind the blasts, but that the only way to resolve Syria's ongoing conflict is through dialogue. He said that he doesn't know who committed this crime and doesn't want to know, either, but that it was ugly and does not reflect the true nature of the Syrian people. He says he prays that Syrians from all parties, and those carrying arms put their arms aside and come to the dialogue table, since Syria's problems can only be solved through dialogue. Syrian opposition activist Mohammed Sawwal in Damascus told al-Jazeera TV that he thought the Syrian government itself was behind the blasts. He claimed that government security forces rerouted minibuses away from the explosion sites moments before the blasts. Joshua Landis, who heads the Center for Middle East Studies at the University of Oklahoma argues that the Syrian opposition is increasingly divided and that radical Islamic elements are increasingly in the vanguard of those opposing the regime. "The only option for the [unable to retrieve full-text content]
opposition is to pursue a classic insurgency, which is hit-and-run with terrorist operations. This is the classic stuff we've seen in Iraq and Afghanistan, to try and destroy a more powerful army. What we're going to see in the future is more of these carbombings. That's what got [the U.S.] out of Iraq and that's what is getting [the U.S.] out of Afghanistan, the inability to control the situation and the dogged willingness to martyr yourself. Landis argues that it will take many years for stability to return to Syria because numerous militias are springing up, without any central control. He says that Islamic extremists are funding part of the uprising, but insists that many Syrians dislike them as much as the government. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
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Another record-breaking facility opened for Sochi 2014

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becomes the newest. The latest high-tech refrigeration technology will ensure accurate Russian athletes practicing at and constant monitoring of the Sanki Center. (RIA Novosti / temperatures along the entire subVladimir Astapkovich)(22.9Mb) zero speedway. embed video First we put ice on the tack and The athletes have given the then we grind every centimetre to thumbs up to the latest venue reduce friction and increase completed for the Sochi Winter s p e e d , V i k t o r P r y a d e i n , Olympics. The Sanki Center O l i m p s t r o i V i c e - P r e s i d e n t , boasts the longest track in the said.And only then the athletes world for bobsleigh, luge and start to slide down starting from skeleton. the lowest mark gradually going -Located in the Western Caucasus up the track confirming its safety. 60 kilometres from the Black And finally make starts from the Sea resort of Sochi, the venue will very top. host the bobsleigh luge, and It's been designed for the three skeleton events for the 2014 O l y m p i c h i g h - s p e e d i c e Winter Olympics disciplines, with 16 turns and a At 1814 meters, it's the longest maximum speed of around 135 artificial track anywhere, and it kilometres per hour. That's a was built in just two years. recent reduction however for The venue is unique for Russia. safety reasons a major issue There have been just 14 tracks now. worldwide fully approved by the The athletes have already sports' international federation examined the run for the first a n d t h e c o m p l e x i n S o c h i time, ahead of a wide-ranging
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testing programme intended to avoid a repeat of Georgian luger Nodar Kumaritashvilis fatal crash at the 2010 Games in Vancouver. Russian bobsleigh athlete Irina Skvorstova suffered serious injuries after a collision with another competitor in Germany three years ago and was lucky to survive. Tracks now are built to mitigate risks but still the sport is dangerous and anything can happen, she said.And I think athletes' insurance should be improved. I wouldn't have been able to pay for my treatment with my insurance. Thankfully the German event hosts paid for my recovery. The Russian National Sliding Centre will become the training camp for all home athletes ahead of the Sochi Games, while the Russians are keen to start practicing as soon as possible to increase their chances of medals
at the Olympics. Everybody really enjoyed the track, Georgy Talipov, Russian luger, said.The ice is top quality. The turns are smooth and safe. We have to start practicing right now, to explore every centimetre of it. We will prepare our sleds especially for this slope. The Sochi track is the first Russian slope to pass the first stage of certification and is ready to host international events and the athletes taking their first starts on the brand new track will be keeping in mind their probable biggest start in the sport at the home Olympics in Sochi in just two years. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
China's video firms still struggling for profits - San Francisco Chronicle
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Springtime for Housing - Huffington Post

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911 tape shows George Zimmerman lamenting that the a--holes always get away. - MiamiHerald.com
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bent over backward to protect Zimmerman out of a sense of kinship for a man who had Submitted at 3/17/2012 1:59:12 PM devoted his spare time to law SANFORD -- SANFORD The enforcement. 911 tapes released by police In an interview this week with Friday show neighborhood watch the Miami Herald, Police Chief captain George Zimmerman Bill Lee said the 911 calls would called in with a problem: there prove the incident was not a case had been a few break-ins lately, of racial profiling, because when and now there was another asked whether the suspect was suspicious guy in his Retreats at white or black, Zimmerman did Twin Lakes neighborhood. not know. However the recording He looked like he might be on clearly shows that when asked, drugs and up to no good. Zimmerman said, He looks Its raining. Hes just walking black. And then a few moments a r o u n d , l o o k i n g a b o u t , later, Hes a black male. Zimmerman told the dispatcher. His family filed a lawsuit to force Hes just staring looking at all the Sanford Police Department to the houses. release the 911 tapes to clarify the Later, he lamented: These murky circumstances. A hearing a**holes always get away. had been scheduled for Monday, Zimmerman is the neighborhood and in the face of mounting watch volunteer in the Central national pressure the Sanford Florida town of Sanford who on Police decided to release the tapes Feb. 26 shot and killed Miami late Friday. They first allowed the Gardens teenager Trayvon Martin. slain teens family and attorneys Zimmerman claimed the teen to listen. started an altercation, and then -- According to the recordings in fear for his life -- Zimmerman posted on the citys website, pulled a weapon from his Zimmerman was perturbed waistband and fired. He has not because Trayvon looked a bit out been charged. of sorts. Other callers reported Family members and attorneys hearing someone calling for help believe the Sanford Police has and then a blast that silenced the
wailing. One call, so close that the cryies for help could be heard, contains two sounds, first a muted bang that family attorneys believe was a warning shot, then the louder crack of close-range gunfire. Sanford police said Sunday that a check of the weapon showed only one shot was fired. The first call came from Zimmerman. Hes just looking at all the houses, Zimmerman said. Now hes just staring at me. Then Zimmerman said the suspicious person, who appeared to be black and in his late teens, had his hand in his waist band. Somethings wrong with him. Hes coming to check me out. As he narrates where the man was headed, the dispatcher asks, are you following him? Yeah, Zimmerman said. We dont need you to do that. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
Sharapova hungry for revenge ahead of Azarenka final

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Maria Sharapova (Reuters / Mike Blake) Russian tennis queen, Maria Sharapova, says she wants to take revenge against World No. 1, Victoria Azarenka for the defeat in the Australian Open final, as the two made it into the decider at Indian Wells on Sunday. -"She's definitely the one to beat right now, someone that's playing with a lot of confidence and all the momentum in the world," Sharapova told the BNP Paribas Open official website."I'd love to get my revenge for Australia and play much better, as well. Despite taking a 2-0 lead, Sharapova was thrashed by her Belarusian opponent 6-3 6-0 in this years Australian Open final. In our previous meetings we have had really tough matches, and I hope that the quality of
tennis will be good and hopefully change a few things around. But it's nice to have that opportunity again and to be in the final of this tournament," the 24 year-old added. Azarenka reached her first Indian Wells final by beating Angelique Kerber 6-4, 6-3. The Russian won the event in 2006, and made it through after Ana Ivanovic couldnt continue her semi-final due to a hip injury. Its the Belarusian, who has a 4-3 edge over Sharapova in their head -to-head series, winning three of their last encounters. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
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-Gaddafi family fond of sharks?

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120-tonne shark tank on Gaddafi ship (AFP Photo) A Gaddafi family cruise liner had been equipped with a 120-tonne tank for sharks. But just as it was ready to set sail, the colonels regime was overthrown in the Libyan revolution. Gaddafis fourth son Hannibal commissioned the vessel when he was still in control of Libya's maritime industry. Hannibal failed to have his own cruise liner made on short notice, The Daily Telegraph reports. Therefore he bought the Phoenicia and ordered a 120-tons tank with seawater to be installed in it. Why put such a huge aquarium on a ship, one would probably wonder. The tank, with its two tiger
sharks, two blacktip sharks and two great whites, was supposed to entertain up to 3500 guests aboard the liner. A crew of four biologists was supposed to stay round the clock to look after the animals. After Hannibal fled to Algeria, the Gaddafi dream vessel was put up for sale and later purchased by MSC Cruises. The Phoenicia was renamed the MSC Preziosa and will begin its work as a public cruise liner in March 2013. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
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Westchester gets good and bad marks in affordable housing ruling - The Journal News | LoHud.com
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Westchester gets good and bad marks in affordable housing ruling The Journal News | LoHud.com Westchester County Executive is heralding a court decision in an ongoing dispute with the US Department of Housing and
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Housing market at center of mortgage crisis is blooming again - CNN

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11 Odd Things Las Vegas Has Banned

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In the middle of downtown Vegas there is a large mall called the Fremont Street Experience. Submitted at 3/17/2012 2:09:00 PM There you can shop for almost This post originally appeared at anything and give money to the Mental_Floss. dozens of quirky street performers Las Vegas lets its visitors get that are ubiquitous to the site. away with a lot. Gambling is What you cant do is Hula-Hoop. legal. Walking down the street Since many of these independent d r i n k i n g a b e e r i s l e g a l . vendors do not have permits, the P r o s t i t u t i o n i s i l l e g a l b u t city council of Las Vegas has tolerated. It calls itself Sin City continually tried to crack down on and promises that, What happens them. But it was the people in Vegas, stays in Vegas. performing with hula hoops that Despite this, there are still some really irked them. The council things you cant do in Vegas. claimed that they block pedestrian Here are eleven odd things the traffic, thus affecting businesses. city has banned over the years. As one councilman clarified, See what's been banned > More These arent little Hula-Hoops. from mental_floss: Theyre big Hula-Hoops. 4 Bizarre Experiments That (Thankfully, Richard Simmons Should Never Be Repeated can continue Hula-Hooping it up From Text Neck to Hogwarts elsewhere in Vegas.) Headache: 6 Injuries for the Source: Mental_Floss Modern Era #2 Megaphones When the Car Radio Was The ban on megaphones was also Introduced, People Freaked Out p a r t o f t h e a t t e m p t t o b a n 19 Outstanding Words You unlicensed vendors at the Fremont S h o u l d B e W o r k i n g I n t o Street Experience. It also included Conversation jugglers and Tasers, a ban that Whos the One on the Left? 22 became necessary when a Gene Famous Pairs Explained Simmons impersonator was caught on video tasering a tourist #1 Hula-Hoops for no apparent reason.
Instead the council wanted to make two small free expression areas. If that sounds like a weird compromise, it is the bans on these street performers keep getting shot down in court. It has been a 17-year battle that the council cant seem to win since the courts see such bans as restricting freedom of speech. Or as one unlicensed Elvis impersonator affected by the ban said, Theyre a whole bunch of jerks.
related to such concerts. The Gaming Control Board weighed in, warning the casinos that they would now be held responsible for any hip-hop-related violence that occurred on their premises. While the casinos put up a fight publicly, they quietly started canceling concerts featuring rappers, and stopped scheduling future shows as well. Critics of the new policy rightly pointed out that alcohol is responsible for more violence than hip-hop concerts, but no one in Vegas was trying to ban that. Source: Mental_Floss See the rest of the story at Business Insider In the end, a watered down ban Please follow The Life on Twitter allowed normal sized hula hoops and Facebook. in certain areas, and some See Also: megaphone use. Youre still not These Solar-Powered Getaways allowed to Taser people though, Will Change The Way You Think no matter who you are dressed up About Vacations The Best Spots To Catch as. Breathtaking Views Of Sin City Source: Mental_Floss Here Are The Best 10 #3 Hip-Hop Concerts In 2005, Sheriff Bill Young Affordable All-Inclusive Resorts called on casinos to ban all hiphop and gangsta rap artists from performing in Vegas. He cited a number of violent incidents
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I'm Sorry, Apple!

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harder and for less than American workers, and the entire electronics supply chain is now located in Submitted at 3/17/2012 2:23:00 PM China. And as Apple itself said in Two months ago, after reading Charles Duhigg's excellent New the transcript of a public-radio York Times article, fixing show ("This American Life") America's employment and about Apple's manufacturing inequality problems is not Apple's processes, I wrote a post in which responsibility. I relayed some details reported by But, right now, all that is beside Mike Daisey, the primary source the point. for the show. In relaying some details reported I relayed the details because they by Mike Daisey that have turned seemed noteworthy and because I out to be lies, I was unfair to thought they were true. Apple and our readers. Now, however, thanks to the I'm sorry about that. suspicions of Rob Schmitz, an SEE ALSO: This Article NPR reporter who has spent the Explains Why Apple Builds past 18 months covering Apple's iPhones In China And Why The supply chain, This American Life The show was followed by an of its humongous profits with its U.S. Is Screwed has discovered that Mike Daisey excellent series of articles by the supply chain, just as I'd like to see Please follow SAI on Twitter and lied to its producers and the New York Times and others that Walmart, McDonalds, Starbucks, Facebook. American public (and me) about confirmed the general gist of what and other huge, fantastically Join the conversation about this what he saw in China. Daisey's This American Life had reported. profitable American companies story fabrications were so extensive, And this scrutiny compelled pay their employees more. But, See Also: apparently, that the show felt A p p l e t o u n d e r t a k e a n unlike some Americans, I don't THE APPLE INVESTOR: compelled to retract the entire investigation of its own and take blame Apple and other electronics Everyone On The Street Is episode. the unusual (for Apple) step of m a n u f a c t u r e r s f o r b u i l d i n g Upping Estimates And Price My reaction to This American Targets giving ABC News unrestricted p r o d u c t s i n C h i n a . Life's original episode about access to the Foxconn factory in Apple is a global company that Apple Investors See Monster Apple's manufacturing processes Shenzhen where so many Apple sells gadgets in more than a Lines For The iPad Around The was not unusual. The show products are made. And it led h u n d r e d c o u n t r i e s . F o r a World, And Knock The Stock compelled lots of people to say, Foxconn to giving some of its combination of reasons, building Down 1% basically, "Hey, wait a minute, workers another raise. And so on. such products in the United States Actually, Some New iPad Lines maybe we should think more So I think some good has come these days is pretty much a non- Were Completely Empty! about how these electronic of this scrutiny and reflection. starter. For example, Chinese gadgets we love so much are I'd like to see Apple share more workers are willing to work made."
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Special Report Panel on Planned Parenthood, Sudan, and March Madness

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Convicted Nazi Criminal John Demjanjuk Dies at 91

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In this Thursday, May 12, 2011 file photo, John Demjanjuk leaves a courtroom in Munich. German police say sentenced Nazi criminal John Demjanjuk died Saturday March 17, 2012 at a home for the elderly in southern Germany where he has stayed since his trial ended in Munich last year. BERLIN John Demjanjuk, a retired U.S. autoworker who was convicted of being a guard at the Nazis' Sobibor death camp despite steadfastly maintaining over three decades of legal battles that he had been mistaken for someone else, died Saturday, his son told The Associated Press. He was 91. Demjanjuk, convicted in May of 28,060 counts of being an accessory to murder and sentenced to five years in prison, died a free man in a nursing home in the southern Bavarian town of Bad Feilnbach. He had been released pending his appeal. John Demjanjuk Jr. said in a telephone interview from Ohio that his father died of natural causes. Demjanjuk had terminal bone marrow disease, chronic kidney disease and other ailments. It was not yet known whether he would be brought back to the U.S. for burial.
Ukrainian-born Demjanjuk (dehm-YAHN'-yook) had steadfastly denied any involvement in the Nazi Holocaust since the first accusations were levied against him more than 30 years ago. "My father fell asleep with the Lord as a victim and survivor of Soviet and German brutality since childhood," Demjanjuk Jr. said. "He loved life, family and humanity. History will show Germany used him as a scapegoat to blame helpless Ukrainian POWs for the deeds of Nazi Germans." His conviction helped set new German legal precedent, being the first time someone was convicted solely on the basis of serving as a camp guard, with no evidence of being involved in a specific killing. Presiding Judge Ralph Alt said the evidence showed Demjanjuk was a piece of the Nazis' "machinery of destruction." "The court is convinced that the defendant ... served as a guard at Sobibor" from March 27, 1943, until mid-September 1943, Alt said in his ruling. Israeli Holocaust scholar Yehuda Bauer, who researches at the Yad Vashem memorial, said Demjanjuk's story showed an important moral lesson. "You don't let people, even if they
were only junior staff, get away from responsibility," Bauer said. Despite his conviction, his family never gave up its battle to have his U.S. citizenship reinstated so that he could live out his final days nearby them in the Cleveland area. One of their main arguments was that the defense had never seen a 1985 FBI document, uncovered in early 2011 by The Associated Press, calling into question the authenticity of a Nazi ID card used against him. Demjanjuk maintained that he was a victim of the Nazis himself -- first wounded as a Soviet soldier fighting German forces, then captured and held as a prisoner of war under brutal conditions. "I am again and again an innocent victim of the Germans," he told the panel of Munich state court
judges during his 18-month trial, in a statement he signed and that was read aloud by his attorney Ulrich Busch. He said after the war he was unable to return to his homeland, and that taking him away from his family in the U.S. to stand trial in Germany was a "continuation of the injustice" done to him. "Germany is responsible for the fact that I have lost for good my whole reason to live, my family, my happiness, any future and hope," he said. His claims of mistaken identity gained credence after he successfully defended himself against accusations initially brought in 1977 by the U.S. Justice Department that he was "Ivan the Terrible" -- a notoriously brutal guard at the Treblinka extermination camp. In connection with the allegation,
he was extradited to Israel from the U.S. in 1986 to stand trial on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity, convicted and sentenced to death. But the Israeli Supreme Court in 1993 overturned the verdict on appeal, saying that evidence showed another Ukrainian man was actually "Ivan the Terrible," and ordered him returned to the U.S. The Israeli judges said, however, they still believed Demjanjuk had served the Nazis, probably at the Trawniki SS training camp and Sobibor. But they declined to order a new trial, saying there was a risk of violating the law prohibiting trying someone twice on the same evidence. Demjanjuk returned to his suburban Cleveland home in 1993 and his U.S. citizenship, which had been revoked in 1981, was reinstated in 1998. Demjanjuk remained under investigation in the U.S., where a judge revoked his citizenship again in 2002 based on Justice Department evidence suggesting he concealed his service at Sobibor. Appeals failed, and the nation's chief immigration judge ruled in 2005 that Demjanjuk could be deported to Germany, Poland or Ukraine. Prosecutors in Germany filed CONVICTED page 17
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Libya says Gaddafi spy chief arrested in Mauritania

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"He was arrested this morning in Nouakchott airport and there was a young man with him. We think Abdullah Al-Senussi, head of the it is his son," he said, confirming Libyan Intelligence Service a Mauritanian state news agency speaks to the media in Tripoli report earlier that Senussi had August 21, 2011. been arrested with a false Malian Credit: Reuters/Paul Hackett passport arriving from By Laurent Prieur and Taha C a s a b l a n c a , M o r o c c o . Zargoun France, which led Western NOUAKCHOTT/TRIPOLI| Sat backing for the popular uprising Mar 17, 2012 1:47pm EDT that toppled Gaddafi, said it had (Reuters) - Mauritania arrested cooperated with Mauritanian Muammar Gaddafi's ex-spy chief, authorities over the arrest and that Abdullah al-Senussi, after he it would send an arrest warrant to arrived on an overnight flight, Mauritania "in the next few o f f i c i a l s s a i d o n S a t u r d a y , hours". triggering a three-way tussle for A statement from President his extradition. Nicolas Sarkozy's office noted Senussi, who for decades before Senussi had been sentenced in the late dictator's fall inspired fear absentia for the 1989 bombing of and hatred in ordinary Libyans, is a UTA airliner, in which a total sought by the Hague-based 170 people were killed. Families International Criminal Court on of the victims immediately c h a r g e s o f c r i m e s a g a i n s t demanded he face justice in humanity during last year's France. conflict. "For the time being, there is an But Libya's new rulers insisted he ICC arrest warrant for him, and would have a fair trial there, while the court requests it to be France - confirming it played a implemented. This remains valid, role in his arrest - stressed his unless the ICC judges decide alleged role in the 1989 bombing otherwise," ICC spokesman Fadi of an airliner over Niger in which El-Abdallah said. 54 French nationals died. However Mauritania is not a "Today we confirm the news of signatory to the Rome Statute the arrest of Abdullah al-Senussi," governing the ICC and Libya's Libyan government spokesman government spokesman Manee Nasser al-Manee told a news also confirmed it had sought the conference in Tripoli. extradition of Senussi, the last key
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figure of Gaddafi's regime still at large. "The Libyan foreign ministry is in touch with Mauritania about the procedure. The Libyan government is ready to receive Abdullah al-Senussi...and give him a fair trial in Libya," he said. Mohammed al-Harizy, spokesman for the National Transitional Council, also told a news conference that Libya would insist that Senussi be handed over to Libyan authorities. "We insist that Senussi is extradited to Libya," he said. "There are demands from the ICC and France to get Senussi but the priority is to deliver Senussi to Libya." Human Rights Watch said he should be handed over to the ICC. "Mauritania should support the Security Council's unanimous action by surrendering Senussi to the ICC," Richard Dicker, international justice director at HRW said in a statement. "Senussi is a fugitive from justice, and Security Council members should also press Mauritania to hand him over to the court." The Mauritanian government made no comment on the arrest beyond the report of its official news agency. The Casablanca flight normally arrives at Nouakchott's small, singleterminal airport just before
midnight but workers there questioned by Reuters said they had not been aware of anything unusual. A military source said Senussi had been taken to one of the residences in the grounds of Nouakchott's international conference centre which are used to house visiting officials, but it was not immediately possible to verify that information. "GADDAFI'S BLACK BOX" Senussi is suspected of a key role in the killing of more than 1,200 inmates at Tripoli's Abu Salim prison in 1996. It was the arrest of a lawyer for victims' relatives that sparked Libya's Arab Spring revolt in February last year. The ICC has charged Senussi and Gaddafi's son Saif al-Islam as being "indirect co-perpetrators" of murder and persecution. But Guillaume Denoix de Saint Marc, president of the families association for the UTA bombing, said they counted on France to ensure Senussi faced justice for the attack. "We never lost hope that those responsible for this attack, the most deadly that has hit France, would face justice," he said in a statement. Senussi's arrest provoked equally fierce emotion on the streets of Tripoli. "Senussi is Gaddafi's black box,
he has a lot of information," Tripoli resident Mustafa Jhyma said. "He has blood on his hands he should be brought here and tried in Libya." "This is a big moment for Libyans. I wish that he had been arrested here," another resident Abdullah al-Mory said. Saif al-Islam was captured disguised as a Bedouin in the Sahara in November is awaiting trial in Libya on rape and murder charges. Libya's National Transitional Council says he will get a fair hearing but his supporters want him sent to the Hague. Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, an army general who was toppled his predecessor in a 2008 coup, won election in a 2009 vote decried by rivals as rigged. Yet France has hailed him as a "key partner" and he went on to play a leading role in the awkward African diplomacy over Libya that finally led to the continent recognizing the National Transitional Council as its new leaders. (Additional reporting by Roberta Cowan in Amsterdam, MarieLouise Gumuchian in Tripoli and Lin Noueihed in Tunis; MariaVictoria Buffery in Paris; Writing LIBYA page 15
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Afghan massacre suspect identified, arrives at Kansas base

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pretty fast," said Jeffrey Lustick, a defense attorney and former Air Force military prosecutor and By Laura Myers and Missy Ryan defense attorney in Bellingham, TACOMA, W a s h . / Washington. WASHINGTON| Sat Mar 17, Bales is expected to face justice 2012 6:23am EDT under U.S. military rules, but it is (Reuters) - The U.S. Army not clear where any trial would identified the soldier implicated in take place. the massacre of 16 villagers in Photos of a soldier identified as Afghanistan this week as Staff Bales, wearing camouflage and Sergeant Robert Bales, and said battle gear, appeared in an article he arrived on Friday at a Kansas about training for soldiers headed base where he will be held in a f o r A f g h a n i s t a n o n a w e b solitary cell. publication linked to Fort Irwin, a Bales, a four-tour veteran, is C a l i f o r n i a m i l i t a r y b a s e . suspected of walking off his base According to the website, the in southern Afghanistan on photos were taken in August. Sunday and gunning down the 16 Bales' wife and two young civilians, including nine children children have been moved to Joint and three women, in a massacre Base Lewis-McChord near Seattle t h a t s e n t A m e r i c a n - A f g h a n for protection, said Bales' Seattlerelations into a tailspin. based lawyer, John Henry "The Army confirms that Staff B r o w n e . Sergeant Robert Bales was The Army said Bales will be held transferred to Fort Leavenworth, in "special housing in his own Kansas. Bales is being held in pre cell" in the Fort Leavenworth -trial confinement," the Army said d e t e n t i o n c e n t e r , w h i c h i t in a statement. described as a "medium/minimum The 38-year-old soldier, whose custody facility." military unit is based south of Bales, who completed a two-year Tacoma, Washington, had been associate college degree in 1992, held in Kuwait after he was flown joined the Army in 2001, the o u t o f A f g h a n i s t a n o n Army said. His home of record Wednesday. Bales has not yet was listed as Jensen Beach, been charged. Florida. "I would assume he'll be charged His military training included
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education in sniper skills, military leadership and a course called "combat life savers." The Baleses' off-white, spacious wood home sat dark on Friday night in a neighborhood now filled with news media in the town of Bonney Lake east of Tacoma. A children's playset was in the backyard, situated about a block from Lake Tapps. Few neighbors were present. At one house backing on to Bales' property, a handwritten sign addressed to media was posted on the door, reading: "We don't know Bales, so don't ask." Beau Britt, staying at his parents' house across the street, said he did not know Bales or his family. "It's not the sort of area where you just walk up to a house and start talking to them," Britt said. SOLDIER WAS ON FOURTH TOUR Browne told Reuters that posttraumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, would likely be part of the defense. "It is commonly used in military defense," he said, calling it a mitigating factor. Browne has said the soldier was unhappy about returning to combat after being wounded twice in Iraq. The Army statement said Bales had spent a total of 37 months
during three deployments in Iraq between 2003 and 2010. Browne added on Friday that Bales had witnessed a serious injury to a comrade the day before the massacre in the southern province of Kandahar on Sunday. "One leg was blown off," Browne said, and the sergeant was nearby. Browne or a colleague from the defense team plan to meet the sergeant next week, he said. The shootings of the 16 villagers have harmed relations between Afghanistan and the United States. Afghan President Hamid Karzai has accused the Pentagon of failing to fully cooperate with an investigation into the killings. Browne told CNN he had spoken with his client earlier in the morning, and in the short conversation the soldier "sounded distant and kind of like a deer in the headlights, but OK." At a news conference on Thursday, Browne described his client as "an exemplary soldier" who was upset at having to do a fourth tour of duty in a war zone and was likely suffering from stress after seeing colleagues wounded. An unnamed U.S. official had told The New York Times the killings were a result of "a combination of stress, alcohol and
domestic issues he just snapped." But Browne said on CNN that marital problems were "totally bogus." He said his client had a "very strong marriage and, frankly, we're all taking offense at that." Karzai met with village elders and families of victims of the shootings on Friday and appeared to back their belief that a single gunman could not have killed so many people and in different places some distance apart. On Thursday, Karzai called for NATO troops to leave Afghan villages and confine themselves to major bases, underscoring fury over the massacre and clouding U.S. plans to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan by the end of 2014. (Additional reporting by Vicki Allen and Bill Rigby; editing by Peter Cooney and Mohammad Zargham) This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
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Win, Lose or Draw? Rick, Mitt May Split Next Contests

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Mitt Romney, left, and Rick Santorum are shown campaigning in Puerto Rico. Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum could be poised to split the upcoming Republican primary contests, a scenario that would leave the tumultuous nomination battle no more decided heading into April. New polling shows Romney and Santorum each building respective leads in the remaining elections held in March. The former Massachusetts governors appears to be ahead in Illinois, which votes Tuesday and holds the biggest trove of delegates of any leftover contest this month. But a recent poll gives Santorum the edge in Louisiana, which votes next weekend. And Missouri, where presidential caucuses are ongoing, would appear to favor the former Pennsylvania senator as well -- if the results of the nonbinding primary which Santorum swept are any gauge. Santorum was hitting up caucus sites on Saturday, though delegates aren't expected to be formally chosen until June.
The only other contest this month is Puerto Rico, which holds its caucuses on Sunday. Both Romney and Santorum made inperson appeals on the U.S. island territory this week. While little polling is available, Romney does have the advantage of an endorsement from Gov. Luis Fortuno, who campaigned with the GOP front-runner on Friday. Romney so far has dominated contests held outside the mainland. On Friday night, he made an impassioned appeal to Puerto Ricans -- who do not vote in the general election but will decide the allocation of 20 primary delegates on Sunday. "I love this great land. I respect the people of this island, I respect your culture. I respect your history. I respect your leaders. I want to see the greatness that you have to be shared with our entire nation," Romney told the crowd on Sunday, as they chanted for "statehood now" -- a dominant political issue on the island. Santorum, though, is also competing for Puerto Rico, and is making a play for Illinois. Seeking another upset, Santorum told an Illinois crowd on Friday that they could "shake up this race. " Santorum once again proved his
viability as Romney's chief rival this past Tuesday when he won the Alabama and Mississippi primaries. The Santorum victory further marginalized Newt Gingrich, who was banking on Southern wins, and again raised questions about Romney's appeal in traditionally conservative areas of the country. Romney, though, walked away with more delegates than Santorum on Tuesday -- by winning contests in Hawaii and American Samoa, and peeling off some of the Southern state delegates. The candidate has been on a seemingly steady march toward the 1,144 delegates needed to clinch the nomination, though it's unclear whether his rivals might
endorsement of the Chicago Tribune. The Louisiana poll, from WWLTV, showed Santorum with 25 percent, to Romney's 21 percent. Gingrich has been campaigning hard in Louisiana in a bid to recover from his Southern losses this past Tuesday. During a visit to a New Orleans zoo, though, Gingrich softened his repeated statements that he plans to take his nomination bid all the way to the convention. Asked whether he'd make it to be able to deprive him of that Tampa, Gingrich said, "Well, it threshold come the convention. depends." A set of Santorum victories in the He continued to blast Romney for coming four contests would likely trying to "shrink" his opponents invigorate his campaign going in with constant attacks. He said that April, when big states like New if Romney is unable to pick up York and Pennsylvania weigh in. 1,000 delegates, he probably But another set of split decisions won't be the nominee. could keep the race on the same Ron Paul, meanwhile, is staying track -- with Santorum winning in the race, though so far he has enough to stay in the race, but not won any contests and trails Romney pushing ever-closer in badly in delegates. Related Stories delegates to the nomination. Santorum seeks support at A MyFox Chicago poll out late M i s s o u r i c a u c u s e s Thursday showed Romney with This entry passed through the 37 percent in the upcoming Full-Text RSS service if this is Illinois race. Santorum was your content and you're reading it behind at 31 percent. The poll of on someone else's site, please read 1,933 likely primary voters had a the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentmargin of error of 2.2 percentage only/faq.php#publishers. Five points. Filters recommends: Donate to Romney also just picked up the Wikileaks.
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Festival of Fire Welcomes Spring in Spanish City

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It may have the feel of a full-on Medierranean bachanale, but Las Fallas, Valencias big fiesta leading up to and through St. Josephs Day, has structure, tradition and intense competition underpinning this colorful Spanish shin-dig. St. Joseph is the patron saint of carpenters. This Spanish street party was originally the local workmens rite of spring. Each year they would burn the extra wood they no longer needed for their stoves and the lamp-posts they used for light in the winter. It would all go up in one big bonfire, and the ritual grew into a more elaborate symbol of cleansinggetting ready for a new season. Out with the bad! In with the good! Now, the festival involves burning the fallas after which it is named, after four full days of color, light and sound. Las fallas are the displays that adorn this entire seaside city. There are hundreds of them, each organized by a different committee from a particular neighborhood or street. Fallas involve ninots, which are the figures themselves, and then bits of furniture, food, flowers and other props. All of them are a bit fantastical, some satirical, and
some more than a bit baudy. The papier- mache and wood fallas used to just appear all over town one magical day after being assembled over the course of the year in warehouses. Over time, however, the fallas have become so large50, 60, 70 feetthat they need to be put together in pieces over a period of time and often with the help of cranes. Only the winning falla each year is spared the flames at the finale. The others burn.
One of the young falleras, Andrea Portillo, told Fox News, Its very sad when we burn it. Its really sad, because we know the project, how it is, like five months or earlier even, so we know how its going to be, and we see it built up, and then we only get to enjoy it for four days. So its very sad, but we start to think of the next year and thats it. But Jose Jimenez, president of one of the falla committees said, Its not sad, no, its a custom.
We start thinking of the next year and by March 20th we are already planning our next falla. Sad for the burningno. You only get sad here when you have a monument you think is really nice and you dont get the prize you want! The committees that organize the fallas consist of falleros and falleras who oversee the process of building these monuments and they raise the funds. Some of these sculptures cost $350,000 to
create. Artists are brought in from all over Spain to make them. The falleros and falleras and their children (the infantiles) parade around town in traditional dress all weekend. For the girlsits big, dramatic skirts and elaborate up-do hairstyles set off with glittering earrings. The men wear very artistic-looking smock-like jackets. Of course there is always FESTIVAL page 17
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charges in 2009, saying Demjanjuk's link to Sobibor and Trawniki was clear, with evidence showing that after he was captured by the Germans he volunteered to serve with the fanatical SS and trained as a camp guard. Though there are no known witnesses who remember Demjanjuk from Sobibor, prosecutors referred to an SS identity card that they said features a photo of a young, round -faced Demjanjuk and that says he worked at the death camp. That and other evidence indicating Demjanjuk had served under the SS convinced the panel of judges in Munich, and led to his conviction. He was ordered tried in Munich because he lived in the area briefly after the war. Demjanjuk, who was removed by U.S. immigration agents from his home in suburban Cleveland and deported in May 2009, questioned the evidence in the German case, saying the identity card was possibly a Soviet postwar forgery. He reiterated his contention that after he was captured in Crimea in
1942, he was held prisoner until joining the Vlasov Army -- a force of anti-communist Soviet POWs and others formed to fight with the Germans against the Soviets in the final months of the war. Demjanjuk was born April 3, 1920, in the village of Dubovi Makharintsi in central Ukraine, two years before the country became part of the Soviet Union. He grew up during a time when the country was wracked by famines that killed millions, and a wave of purges instituted by Stalin to eliminate any possible opposition. As a young man Demjanjuk worked as a tractor driver for the area's collective farm. After being called up for the Soviet Red Army, he was wounded in action but sent back to the front after he had recovered, only to be captured during the battle of Kerch Peninsula in May 1942. After the war, Demjanjuk was sent to a displaced persons camp and worked briefly as a driver for the U.S. Army. In 1950, he sought U.S. citizenship, claiming to have been a farmer in Sobibor, Poland,
during the war. Demjanjuk later said he lied about his wartime activities to avoid being sent back to Ukraine, then a part of the Soviet Union. Just to have admitted being in the Vlasov Army would also have been enough to have him barred from emigration to the U.S. or many other countries. He came to the U.S. on Feb. 9, 1952, and eventually settled in Seven Hills, a middle-class suburb of Cleveland. He was a mechanic at Ford Motor Co.'s engine plant in the Cleveland suburb of Brook Park and with his wife, Vera, raised three children -- son John Jr. and daughters Irene and Lydia. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
a Queen of the fiesta. All of this set against a dazzling back drop of street lights that give a kaleidoscope effect to the city. Individual streets compete for prizes for best lights. And the switching on and off of the lights can also be choreographed together with music. A coordinated cacophony of gunpowder (500 pounds worth) gets burnt through in one go each afternoon. That is called the mascleta and then elaborate fireworks light up the night skies, after midnight. The streets heave round the clock with celebration. In tough
economic times, there is the question of whether or not all this extravagance is worth it. But clearly the party brings cash to the city. And it certainly brings a whole lot of cheer. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
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out: poll Herald Sun QUEENSLAND'S Labor government is headed for a
d e v a s t a t i n g d e f e a t a t n e x t Poll, published in Queensland's Saturday's state election, if the Sunday Mail, the Liberal National l a t e s t o p i n i o n p o l l p r o v e s Party retains a huge... accurate. According to a Galaxy and more
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Margaret Whitlam's lifetime of love Courier Mail

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Bolton's Muamba collapses; FA Cup game abandoned

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Sydney Morning Herald Margaret Whitlam's lifetime of love Courier Mail Margaret Whitlam, the wife of former Prime Minister Gough Whitlam and a revered public figure, has died. Australia mourns the loss of an inspiring figure. The wife of a former Prime Minister,
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Daily Mail Hundreds attend funeral of PC David Rathband The Independent Hundreds of people gathered today for the funeral of blinded PC David Rathband, which began in humorous style with the Monty Python song 'Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life'.
Humanist celebrant Carly Fee told the congregation at Stafford... PC David Rathband's funeral held in Stafford BBC News Hundreds pay tribute to Pc David Rathband Telegraph.co.uk Hundreds pay tribute to Pc Rathband ITN Sky News- The GuardianMirror.co.uk all 126 news articles
Bolton midfielder Fabrice Muamba was rushed to a hospital Saturday as medics appeared to try to resuscitate him after he collapsed during an FA Cup match.
Gillmor Gang: TV or Not Conroy supports TV Syria protesters BBC News

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BBC News Conroy supports Syria protesters BBC News A war photographer injured in Syria has shown his support for the country's rebel opposition at a protest outside the Syrian embassy in London. Sunday Times reporter Paul Conroy, 47,
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The Gillmor Gang Robert Scoble, John Taschek, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor pretended to care about Hipswitch, er HighLight while unwrapping Christmas in Marchs iPad Next. After a somber opening in remembrance of @kevinmarks father John Marks and Firesign Theatre co-founder Peter Bergman, the Gang got
down to brass pixels, the new breed of designer stalker software, and just what Tim Cook has up his sleeve for Christmas in December. Im still not convinced of the value of having alarms go off when @scobleizer is within 100 yards of 5,000 of his closest friends, but his argument about Twitter in the early days rings true. Whats a sure thing is how fast well use up iPad 4Gs bandwidth allotment each month.
Unlike Facetime, Skype can use all the LTE it can eat, and as a personal hotspot to boot on the Verizon version. WIth hotel WiFi costing 10-15 bucks per device, $80 bucks a month for 10 gigs starts to look like a businessmans special. @stevegillmor, @scobleizer, @kevinmarks, @jtaschek Produced and directed by Tina Chase Gillmor @tinagillmor
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Why Mobile Operators Are Becoming Mad Men

Contributor (TechCrunch)
Submitted at 3/17/2012 1:15:22 PM
Editors note: Rich LeFurgy is a general partner at Archer Advisors. LeFurgy was Founding Chairman of the IAB and sfBIG, a Venture Capitalist (WaldenVC), head of ad sales at Starwave (ESPN.com) and the Walt Disney Internet Group. Follow him on Twitter @ rich_lefurgy. The characters on AMCs television show Mad Men and the real-life mobile operators of today are pretty much the same. Both could enjoy cigars and martinis while business runs as usual, living as kings of their respective business worlds. But in 2012, both Madison Avenue and the mobile carrier world are getting turned on their heads by the likes of Google and Facebook. Both industries are re-inventing themselves as we speak, and the good news is they actually need each other to help them survive and thrive. Mad Mens main character, Don Draper, famously said Advertising is about one thing: happiness. Earlier this month, we saw one of the most interesting moves in digital media: the mobile operator SingTel purchased mobile ad company Amobee for $321 million in an all -cash deal.
Now thats happiness for Amobee. This transaction is one of the largest in the mobile ad space behind AdMobs sale to Google, and Quattros acquisition by Apple. It also signals a major chapter in the carrier world they are fighting back against the overthe-top plays by Google and Facebook. The carriers want their fair share of the media pie, and realize now is the time to act. The big question is: Can telcos add the advertising expertise to create a great value proposition for both brands and consumers that makes them both happy? Its a $22 billion question or roughly, the estimated market size of combining deals, geofence mobile marketing and locationbased services. The worlds largest carriers AT&T, Telefonica, SingTel and others have all created new business units focused on the delivery of digital advertising and mobile payments. Why? They have all recognized their uniquely valuable assets for advertisers: they can locate a user anytime and anywhere, they have a trusted relationship with their subscribers, and they can enable a closed loop, real world transaction. Most urgently, they are realizing that media and payments represent the best opportunity for growth in
their own business in the face of rising infrastructure costs, churn and declining margins. What it could look like For consumers, the proposition could be compelling. From enabling hyper-local offers and the ability to pay with your phone, consumers could finally begin to receive media that is truly a valuable service not intrusive. Consider an opt-in world, where consumers pre-select the categories and types of offers they want to receive: Get an alert from your favorite store about a sale when you are nearby? How about a discounted plan that is subsidized by advertising? Or even a free phone? Or a loyalty app with special deals just for being a subscriber? Link your credit card and pay with your phone? These and many other services are headed our way and, done right, they could transform our phones into highly personal and invaluable instruments of commerce. For advertisers, the proposition is even better. While mobile advertising is taking off with performance-based models (think Tapjoy), brands are still struggling with mobile look no further than the decline of Apples brand-centric iAd that had overly complicated pricing. Direct advertising deals are still nascent
as proprietary apps often do not achieve scale and they only work when the app is on. Consumer apps require the brand to share their audience with competitors; display ads are small and often not relevant. So whats the solution? By focusing on mobile advertising, carriers can bring brands real relevancy and the reach that has been missing from other mobile initiatives. Tailored offers triggered when a consumer is near a store without an app is a hugely powerful offering from the carriers. Combine it with consumer preferences and a host of anonymized data about subscribers, and brands finally get a tool that they can use at every point of contact. This Mad Men of mobile play focuses on the digital purchase funnel that works for driving real-world commerce (web, email, mobile app, proximity). Advertisers who are already using this approach are seeing results incomparable to any other medium: as high as 65% purchase rates for proximitybased mobile marketing. And there is real scale the carriers I mentioned above represent over a billion consumers in 30+ countries. In markets like the UK, all the major operators are trying to collaborate to make it easy for brands to reach the entire
audience of a country with a single ad buy. The potential is substantial: according to analysts, the daily deals market will be$4.2 billion over the next four years(BIA/Kelsey), while mobile proximity marketing could generate another $6 billion(Borrell Associates) and location-based services $12 billion(Juniper). The SoLoMo cocktail SoLoMo stands for social, local and mobile. While it is a ridiculous acronym, Ill use it here for simplicitys sake. The SoLoMo cocktail, when mixed together using the right recipe, is giving operators visions of their own large, tasty hunk of pie. How? The key for operators to unlock this revenue is to add digital advertising expertise to their DNA, thus bringing breakthrough opportunities to advertisers offerings that they cannot get anywhere else. For example, heres something that operators are in a unique position to offer: the ability to deliver a targeted impression on the web, then possibly on Wi-Fi or in email, then followed by a tailored alert when the consumer is near the store without an app. In addition to transactions like Amobee, these companies are WHY page 21
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Why I Wouldnt Stand In An iPad Line (But Get Why Others Do)
Don Reisinger (SlashGear)
Submitted at 3/17/2012 1:30:48 PM
As I sit here writing this on the day the new iPad has launched, Im inundated with reports of people around the globe waiting in line outside Apple stores hoping against hope that theyll get their hands on one of the iPhone makers highly soughtafter tablets. Some folks including Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak waited nearly 24 hours to get a new iPad, sleeping on sidewalks just for the chance to have it on launch day. At first glance, many among us might ask why people would do such a thing. After all, the new iPad will only be sold out for a short time, and then everyone who wants one will be able to head online or run down to their local Apple Store and pick one up. Plus, the new iPad isnt all that different than the iPad 2. So, for iPad 2 owners, sleeping outside to get Apples latest tablet really doesnt make sense. Admittedly, Im one of those people that wouldnt even consider waiting in a long line or
sleeping overnight to get my hands on a new iPad. Sure, the device is a stellar product that combines some of the finest tablet elements weve seen yet, but its just a gadget at the end of the day. And spending nearly 24 hours of my life thinking solely about that device doesnt appeal to me. Ill freely admit that waiting in line for an iPad isnt for me, but I also embrace the fact that there
are thousands among us who love the idea of it."Its about the camaraderie they just wont find elsewhere" See, to many of those folks waiting in line for a new iPad, its about the camaraderie they just wont find elsewhere. From the front of the line to the back, there are people there that share common interests, love Apple, and perhaps most importantly,
have a real passion for the same things in life. Forgive me for sounding too poetic about iPad lines, but I do think that theres something rather uplifting about them. Apple has successfully created a culture around its products, and with each new product launch, its supporters have a place to go to carry on conversations, share stories, and yes, play Angry Birds.
I just dont see any difference between going to the bar and having a couple drinks with friends and going to a line to wait for the iPad. There was a time when many people would have said waiting in line for a gadget is rather geeky, and the so-called cool among us would only be hanging out at the bar. But Apple has made tech-worship cool. And yesterdays tech-obsessed are todays norm. There is a passion that surrounds Apple products unlike anything weve seen to this point in the technology industry. The people that support the movement are often called cult-like, but Im not so sure thats the right term. Todays iPad, iPhone, and Mac faithful have built up their ranks and now, theyre millions strong. They are the mainstream now. And theyve made waiting in line for a $500 tablet cooler than ever. Why I Wouldnt Stand In An iPad Line (But Get Why Others Do) is written by Don Reisinger& originally posted on SlashGear. 2005 - 2012, SlashGear. All right reserved.
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So did the new iPad sell out or didn't it?

Chris Matyszczyk (CNET News)
Submitted at 3/17/2012 11:53:03 AM
Madera, Calif., all reports suggested that excitement was muted, when compared with, say, The line forms outside the Apple the launch of the iPhone 4. When Store in downtown San Francisco, you look at the footage I have with just over 100 people queued embedded, the word "frenzy" up. doesn't push against your lips. If you are a true American, there However, because this is a r e o n l y t w o p e r m i s s i b l e Northern California, some blamed questions this morning. the sheer softness of the One: will Peyton Manning really i n h a b i t a n t s i n t h e f a c e o f sign with the '49ers? And two: are i n c l e m e n t w e a t h e r . there still people banging on the Might the sense of a relatively windows of Apple stores begging l o w - k e y p h y s i c a l r e s p o n s e for a new iPad? portend a crisis in the fanboy There are those who believe that firmament? Might many have the excitement over yesterday's succumbed to modern methods iPad launch didn't reach the scale and simply ordered online so that of, say, that surrounding the they wouldn't miss a second of Bachelor's decision to marry a Peyton's big decision? model last Monday night. Or might Apple have simply Indeed, Boy Genius Report thought to ensure that there offered the news that it had called would, for once, be enough for a dozen Apple stores and learned everyone? that all had some sort of new iPad There is no absolute way of inventory in their stock rooms. knowing today. For the company At my local Apple store, in Corte will only put down its top and hat
and pull out a rabbit next week. If I were a betting man--and I bet the '49ers might not pay the $90 million that Manning is looking for--I'd say Apple will report rather healthy sales figures. As my evidence, might I offer a lovely ruse performed by
Gizmodo on some of the staff in its office yesterday. The sneaky tykes gave their co-workers an iPad 2 and told them it was the new, shiny, retina-displayed version. There were complaints it wasn't as sharp as people's iPhones.
There were groans that it was a little heavy. And there were many confirmations that at least these people would, yes, want to buy this fine new (old) machine. The lines in certain places might have been shorter than usual yesterday. The product availability may have been unusually strong. But how many of Apple's competitors wouldn't have loved to enjoy the interest already generated by what is, at best, a pleasantly upgraded iPad? This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
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recruiting heavily from the digital technology companies and agencies. They are also opening offices in Silicon Valley and working closely with companies like Bubble Motion and Placecast, which enable operators to get a slice of that $22 billion pie all through a differentiated media offering. (Disclosure: I am a board member at Placecast) The carriers can really succeed here because there is so much
more that marketers want from mobile ads that Google, Facebook and Apple wont be able to offer. But carriers must create a differentiated offering based on their unique attributes of user data, real-time location, direct consumer relationships and the ability to close the loop with transactions, and not just try to replicate the current ecosystem. From APIs for developers, to providing rich location context
and user data for targeting on both the web and on mobile, carriers could deliver a consumer all the way down the purchase funnel from awareness to a real-world transaction. Its become clear that brands and agencies want more than whats there today, and carriers are uniquely capable of unlocking mobile marketing at effective scale. Whether this succeeds or not will simply come down to how fast
operators embrace their future. If the industry moves towards SingTel and Telefonica, then the former kings of mobile can continue to earn a really big piece of the pie.
Titans GM: Manning works out for team on Saturday

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Peyton Manning worked out for Tennessee on Saturday in Knoxville, Titans general manager Ruston Webster said.
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Is the iPad helping women read erotic books?

Submitted at 3/17/2012 1:26:30 PM
Once upon a time, fathers and sons hid their Playboys beneath their mattresses. But what did women do with their Playgirls? Somehow, this is less well recorded, though society--or whatever is left of it--surely frowned more strongly on the notion that women openly read books of steamy intent. Then along came the iPad and the Kindle. Suddenly, it seems, sales of erotic books aimed at women are looking highly perky. I find myself excited by an indepth analysis from the Daily Mail, which offered that sales of erotic novels aimed at women have soared 30 percent. It cites Mills and Boon--the company that once published somewhat sedate bodice-rippers-as swooning with excitement at the speed with which digital sales are spurting from its catalog. For it seems that if no one can see what you are reading, you can read whatever you like. This principle first appeared when people realized the main use for a
broadsheet newspaper: a place to hide your naughty magazine. The more enterprising in olden times would have simply bought a paperback of "Jane Eyre," torn out the body, replaced it with "Debbie Gets Her Dues," and then glued the new body to the "Jane Eyre" cover. Now, however, you can download the filthiest fiction and
sit on the subway with pursed lips and ever-tightening eyes. And the lovely thing about downloading is that no one, but no one, can see what is being downloaded. They will think "recipe book," and you will think "'On Being Flayed By Bobby'? Sounds interesting." The publishing world seems especially moved by the collected works of E.L. James (who appears
to be no relation of P.D. or Henry). James is a TV executive whose " Fifty Shades of Grey" apparently manages to fill a gaping need in reading. Yes, it's a "Twilight" for grown-ups. And it's riding high on top of the New York Times bestseller list. While you consider what the more grown-up versions of Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart might look like (and do), I can only feel delighted that modern gadgetry has liberated women from the need to reveal themselves. What perfect timing for the new iPad to have a much shinier, more gorgeous screen in order to fill women's retinas with everything of which they had always dreamed. Allegedly. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
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Most millennials OK taking confidential files home

Submitted at 3/17/2012 12:42:03 PM
A scene from a FileTrek video. Feel his pain. No one ever said that human beings should be consistent. No one ever said that they should even make sense. Life is a struggle and the way bosses sometimes treat their workers can be beyond any pale-beyond even the moral code of Vlad the Impaler. Who can be surprised, therefore, that harassed workers take home confidential files in order to complete their tasks? Indeed, a survey performed by Harris Interactive on behalf of a company called FileTrek shows that 90 percent of people believe that, um, other people take confidential files home with them. I have managed to obtain an early copy of these findings because of
my well-known need to assist human beings with their schizoid tendencies. You see, this survey also showed that 72 percent of these very same respondents say that their biggest work fear is to be caught by their boss taking confidential information home. Hand, please meet cookie jar.
Naturally, these FileTrek people would love to make some money out of this difficult human situation. They leverage the cloud so that you, dear boss, can know just where your confidential files are at. However, you might have some stiff adversaries, dear boss, when it comes to keeping your files
confidential. For this survey shows that 68 percent of those who are most tech-savvy--that would be the millennials--think it's just so very cool to remove confidential files and take them home. Or, perhaps, on a date with that nice boy from accounting. Surely this is the point at which
one should mention Facebook. All of this open sharing into which we are being inveigled means that the poor, downtrodden younger generations have no mental means in which to separate the confidential from the public. This is why corporate bosses surely need to enact something very exact, but slightly passe: privacy controls. One can only wish them luck with that. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
Booze-Filled Getaway Commercials 'XXXX Beer and Mates Paradise' Campaign is an Interactive Contest (TrendHunter.com)
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Rejoice, Twitter Power Users: Next Generation Tweetdeck Apps Coming For Android And iOS
Eric Eldon (TechCrunch)
Submitted at 3/17/2012 2:20:56 PM
The big Twitter redesign at the end of last year seemed to mean that the company was ditching power users to get more mainstream. The web site and the mobile apps added Connect and Discover pages to help new users find interesting people and topics. But the unified new interface buried direct messages and other features that long-time users had grown to rely on. However, Twitter has not forgotten about its devoted base of hardcore users. You know, the types who like to do things like DM, or make custom lists of other users to track. Its busy hiring engineers to work on next generation mobile apps under the Tweetdeck brand. Heres a bit more, from a recent
job listing that the @Tweetdeck account has been tweeting about in recent weeks. The TweetDeck team, working from London, is looking for new team members to work on our cutting edge Android app. Were building the next generation of a suite of clients that millions of people love and use everyday. Youll work on our small team, own the projects that you work on, and have a great time shipping products which change the way people communicate. Tweetdeck, the client app developer that Twitter acquired last year, has been looking a little neglected. After months of inactivity, it got a web version for the Chrome browser in December, alongside the big redesign, and a new desktop version that switched from AIR to HTML5. But the change included feature loss it
dropped support for other social networks, as well as color and font customizations, keyboard shortcuts, URL shortening options and tweaks to minimize API calls. And, while Twitter pushed new versions of the iOS and Android Tweetdeck apps last September, neither has gotten an update to bring its user interface in-line with the new design. So, thankfully for the directmessaging, list-making crowd, Twitter has not left us. While theres no job listings for engineers to work on Tweetdeck for iOS, my understanding is that these positions have been filled. Don't forget, if you want to join our team in London working on the @ TweetDeck Android app, check out this job listing: j.mp/ xFqkwE (@TweetDeck) March 05, 2012
'This American Life' retracts hugely popular episode on Apple and China
Nate Anderson
Submitted at 3/17/2012 9:33:02 AM
Contemporary Toga Catwalks - The Camilla and Marc FW 2012 Show Features Haute Tied Dresses (TrendHunter.com)
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Well-loved radio show This American Life -- spawned from station WBEZ in Chicago -- has some "difficult news" about one its most popular shows, an episode on Apple and labor conditions in China. The episode "contained significant fabrications," writes TAL host Ira Glass on the show's blog. He is devoting an entire episode, called "Retraction," to the story. The original TAL episode, "Mr.
Daisey and the Apple Factory," aired on 6 January, 2012, and included portions of the one-man show "The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs" by Mike Daisey. It proved hugely popular, but recently a reporter for another public radio show tracked down one of the interpreters Daisey used on his own visit to a Shenzhen factory that makes Apple gadgets, a visit recounted in his show. By: Nate Anderson, Edited by: Duncan Geere Continue reading...
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Apple loses ITC ruling against Motorola Mobility in patent infringement case
Steven Sande (TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog)
Submitted at 3/17/2012 2:00:00 PM
Florian Mueller over at FOSS Patents noted yesterday that Apple's patent infringement case against Motorola Mobility has been dealt a nearly fatal blow in the courts of the United States International Trade Commission (ITC). The suit alleged that Motorola Mobility was infringing on three Apple patents: one all-important patent for a multipoint touchscreen, an "object-oriented system locator system" patent, and a patent for an "ellipse fitting for multi-touch surfaces." The ITC's preliminary ruling in January found no proof that Moto was infringing on Apple's patents, and Friday's final ruling(PDF) upheld the initial finding. That doesn't make this the end of the road for Apple in the fight against Motorola Mobility. In fact, Mueller notes that the
Add a Rain Gutter to a Picnic Table for a BuiltIn Drink Cooler [Weekend Project]
David Galloway (Lifehacker)
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company will most likely appeal the decision in a U.S. Federal Circuit Court, as it is doing with another ITC ruling that found in favor of smartphone manufacturer HTC. There is a much better chance that the Federal Courts will overturn the ITC ruling, but Mueller says that this will take a significant amount of time. Smartphone-related patent infringement claims at the ITC tend to have a very high drop-out rate, so many manufacturers are
Spring is here in many parts of the country and if you have a picnic table and plan on doing a lot of outdoor entertaining you now taking cases to German Motorola Mobility in patent c a n k e e p d r i n k s c o l d a n d courts for "fast and furious" infringement case originally accessible by replacing one of the decisions. Mueller notes that the a p p e a r e d o n T U A W - T h e center boards of the table with a courts in Munich and Mannheim Unofficial Apple Weblog on Sat, standard metal rain gutter as are twice as speedy as the ITC, 17 Mar 2012 14:00:00 EST. s u g g e s t e d b y T u m b l r u s e r and patent holders like Apple Please see our terms for use of p r e p i n t h e m i d w e s t . M o r e often win favorable rulings. This feeds. explains Apple's reasoning in Source| Permalink| Email this| taking a number of other patent Comments infringement complaints to the German courts for swift rulings that result in injunctions on sales of new products. Apple loses ITC ruling against
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PayDragon app brings QR codes to restaurants

Mark Raby (SlashGear)
that can interact with the PayDragon app. Customers take those menus home or to the office Placing your next order at a with them, launch the PayDragon restaurant may be as easy as app, scan the codes to order what scanning a code. Thats the goal they want, and pay for their food of PayDragons self-named app directly from the mobile app. All that hopes to be a win-win for you need to do is make the food. consumers and small businesses. This is an increasingly Its yet another entry in a growing competitive space. Other order list of mobile applications that fulfillment services like Seamless, process payment transactions for Delivery.com, and GrubHub brick-and-mortar locations in the provide similar functionality. real world. The niche here is the They all have both desktop Web inclusion of QR codes. applications as well as mobile So, the idea would be that if you a p p s . S o t h e s u c c e s s o f own a restaurant, you could print PayDragon relied on exactly how up menus with special QR codes much value users will find in the
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Sep 23rd 2011 Tattoo-form QR code generating random links on Dec 19th 2011 Special QR code condoms allow users to mark their lucky spots on Feb 29th 2012 [ via GigaOM] PayDragon app brings QR codes to restaurants is written by Mark Raby& originally posted on SlashGear. 2005 - 2012, SlashGear. All right reserved.
QR aspect, which is its only differentiating factor. Story Timeline Qriocity Music Unlimited app for Android devices on Jun 15th
2011 Sony Ericsson adding Qriocity movie streaming to XPERIAs in August on Jul 29th 2011 ToughTech Duo QR Review on
Check Out This Chart Of The Price Of Oil Vs. The InTrade Odds Of An Airstrike On Iran
Joe Weisenthal (Money Game)
Submitted at 3/17/2012 1:59:00 PM
This is a clever chart from Morgan Stanley's Hussein Allidina, CFA comparing the price of Brent Crude since December against the odds on
InTrade ( this contract) of an airstrike on Iran by the end of 2012. It's just 4 months, and it's not perfect, but it's clever, and we'll be watching the two lines to see if they keep moving together. See also: This is when Obama
will tap the strategic petroleum
reserve > Please follow Money Game on Twitter and Facebook. Join the conversation about this story See Also: BARCLAYS: Obama Will Tap The Strategic Petroleum Reserve
This Year The 10 Countries That Would Get Screwed In An Iranian Oil Shutdown The US Could Impose Sanctions On India If It Doesn't Cut Iranian Oil Imports
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SlashGear Weekly Wrap-Up: March 17, 2012

Mark Raby (SlashGear)
featured stories from this week: Foosball HD Retina Quality Review Hey everyone. Hope youre Infinity Blade II 1.0.3 Retina enjoying your weekend. In case Quality Review this is the first time youve been Apple TV 1080p Review able to check up on tech news this Sony Vaio S series 13.3-inch week, you missed a lot. Of course, 2012 refresh Review the new iPad was released. And iPad 3rd Gen Hands-on vs g e t t h i s , i t s a l r e a d y b e e n Android: Part 1 jailbroken. In addition, weve Just How Important Are Video learned that the Verizon iPa can Game Storylines? connect to AT&Ts 3G network. Google+ shouldve squashed Although, youre probably more Instagram for Android (but it interested in our extensive iPad 3 hasnt) review. Other Stuff: If youre not Featured: Here are some of the interested or dont have all that
Submitted at 3/17/2012 1:37:19 PM
dough for a new iPad, heres something more your style Forget the iPad, heres the $40 Android tablet. So we always like to showcase interesting novelty
tech, and this fits that bill perfectly Swann MP3 DJ doorbell revealed and detailed. If thats not your style, maybe portable high-speed drives are up
your alley. If so, check out our Elgato Thunderbolt SSD handson. Moving on to the gamers out there Mass Effect 3 ending solidified by director. And finally, ending the day with some unique news, the London Tube is getting free WiFi for the Olympics. Thats all for now. SlashGear Weekly Wrap-Up: March 17, 2012 is written by Mark Raby& originally posted on SlashGear. 2005 - 2012, SlashGear. All right reserved.
5 myths about social media and business

(Holy Kaw!)
waste of time. Social media let users quickly connect and communicate with Still wondering whether or not other people -- lots of other your business should jump on the people. Suddenly people are social media boat, but scared of catching up online with their third being drowned by all the advice -grade teachers, finding soul being thrown around in the mates and connecting with others blogosphere? who share their interests. Chris Wallace at Entrepreneur So why does that matter? A would like to help you sort fundamental shift has occurred in through the chaff by busting five the way people communicate and myths of the social media world, make decisions. Simply put, they so you can overcome the initial talk and they listen to what other apprehensions and get the world people say -- and those people are of social media to work for you. your potential customers. Dont 1. Social media marketing is a you think your business should be
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part of that conversation? 2. My business is too small to benefit from social media. Social networks revolve around communities of people with a
connection to one another. Most likely, numerous communities would be relevant to your business, no matter how small, niche-oriented or local it is. If you
show an interest in and appreciation for some of the people in these social groups, chances are good that youll win some loyal customers. Whats more, these new customers wont be quiet about it because social networks thrive on people passing the word along Full story at Entrepreneur. Jump into social media. Photo credit: Fotolia Permalink| Leave a comment
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Draw Something hits 30 million downloads, overtakes Zynga on Facebook

Mike Schramm (TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog)
Submitted at 3/17/2012 3:00:00 PM
The iOS phenomenon Draw Something has continued to blow up on an unprecedented level, and it's now reached another crazy milestone: The app has garnered 30 million downloads already, despite only being available to the public for about five weeks. And that's not all: Facebook says the app has picked up 10.8 million daily active users, which tops Zynga's Words with Friends' more than 8 million, thus making it the most popular app on the big blue social network. Pretty astounding, considering that just a few days ago we reported that the app had reached 20 million downloads. It's hard to believe an iOS app
has grown so huge so quickly, but sure enough, with the Internet and social networks and all of the various mechanics Apple has put together to share and grow these audiences, Draw Something is only the latest in a long line of incredible success stories. This
"We want to make games for people that don't put games on their phone. ... That's how you get to massive scale." Apple has essentially made a smartphone for people who didn't buy smartphones, and because it did, there are mobile audiences out there like the one Draw Something has clearly found. Draw Something hits 30 million downloads, overtakes Zynga on Facebook originally appeared on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Sat, 17 Mar 2012 kind of app is definitely a rarity, 15:00:00 EST. Please see our as most iOS developers will tell terms for use of feeds. you, but it definitely shows the Source| Permalink| Email this| potential of just how big this Comments software platform has become, and how quickly users will take to games like this. As OMGPOP's Dan Porter says,
St. Patricks Day the Muppet way [videos]

(Holy Kaw!)
Submitted at 3/17/2012 1:41:00 PM
Its not easy being green, but one day of the year, its positively fabulous, and the only thing that could make it better is a serenade a la Muppet. Enjoy! Videos via YouTube. Muppets for the holidays. Permalink| Leave a comment
Top 10 Ways to Get a Better Job [Lifehacker Top 10]

Adam Dachis (Lifehacker)
Submitted at 3/17/2012 8:00:00 AM
So your job sucks. You could
resign yourself to a life of dull (or even miserable) days in the office or you could set aside some time and get a better job. Here are ten
great tips to help you put together
a great application, ace the interview, and ultimately work for a company you'll love rather than hate. More
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We Are This Far From A Turnkey Totalitarian State" - Big Brother Goes Live September 2013
Tyler Durden
Submitted at 3/17/2012 1:56:54 PM
George Orwell was right. He was just 30 years early. In its April cover story, Wired has an exclusive report on the NSA's Utah Data Center, which is a must read for anyone who believes any privacy is still a possibility in the United States: "A project of immense secrecy, it is the final piece in a complex puzzle assembled over the past decade. Its purpose: to intercept, decipher, analyze, and store vast swaths of the worlds communications as they zap down from satellites and zip through the underground and undersea cables of international, foreign, and domestic networks.... Flowing through its servers and routers and stored in near-bottomless databases will be all forms of communication, including the complete contents of private emails, cell phone calls, and Google searches, as well as all sorts of personal data trailsparking receipts, travel itineraries, bookstore purchases, and other digital pocket litter.... The heavily fortified $2 billion center should be up and running in September 2013." In other
words, in just over 1 year, virtually anything one communicates through any traceable medium, or any record of one's existence in the electronic medium, which these days is everything, will unofficially be property of the US government to deal with as it sees fit. The codename of the project: Stellar Wind. As Wired says, " there is no doubt that it has transformed itself into the largest, most covert, and potentially most intrusive intelligence agency ever created." And as former NSA operative William Binney who was a senior NSA crypto-mathematician, and is the basis for the Wired article (which we guess makes him merely the latest whistleblower to step up: is America suddenly experiencing an ethical revulsion?), and quit his job only after he realized that the NSA is now openly trampling the constitution, says as he holds his thumb and forefinger close together. " We are, like, that far from a turnkey totalitarian state." There was a time when Americans still cared about matters such as personal privacy. Luckily, they now have iGadgets to keep them distracted as they
bottomless databases will be all forms of communication, including the complete contents of private emails, cell phone calls, and Google searches, as well as all sorts of personal data trailsparking receipts, travel itineraries, bookstore purchases, and other digital pocket litter. It is, in some measure, the realization of the total information awareness program created during the first term of the Bush administrationan effort that was killed by Congress in 2003 after it caused an outcry over its potential for invading Americans privacy. hand over their last pieces of Utah Data Center is being built But this is more than just a data individuality to the Tzar of for the National Security Agency. c e n t e r , s a y s o n e s e n i o r conformity. And there are those A project of immense secrecy, it intelligence official who until who wonder just what the purpose is the final piece in a complex recently was involved with the of the NDAA is. puzzle assembled over the past program. The mammoth Bluffdale In the meantime please continue decade. Its purpose: to intercept, center will have another important to pretend that America is decipher, analyze, and store vast and far more secret role that until democracy... s w a t h s o f t h e w o r l d s now has gone unrevealed. It is Here are some of the highlights communications as they zap down also critical, he says, for breaking from the Wired article: from satellites and zip through the codes. And code-breaking is The Utah Data Center in a underground and undersea cables crucial, because much of the data nutshell, and the summary of the of international, foreign, and t h a t t h e c e n t e r w i l l current status of the NSA's domestic networks. The heavily handlefinancial information, eavesdropping on US citizens. fortified $2 billion center should stock transactions, business deals, U n d e r c o n s t r u c t i o n b y be up and running in September foreign military and diplomatic c o n t r a c t o r s w i t h t o p - s e c r e t 2013. Flowing through its servers s e c r e t s , l e g a l d o c u m e n t s , WE page 30 clearances, the blandly named and routers and stored in near-
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confidential personal communicationswill be heavily encrypted. According to another top official also involved with the program, the NSA made an enormous breakthrough several years ago in its ability to cryptanalyze, or break, unfathomably complex encryption systems employed by not only governments around the world but also many average computer users in the US. The upshot, according to this official:Everybodys a target; everybody with communication is a target. In the processand for the first time since Watergate and the other scandals of the Nixon administrationthe NSA has turned its surveillance apparatus on the US and its citizens. It has established listening posts throughout the nation to collect and sift through billions of email messages and phone calls, whether they originate within the country or overseas. It has created a supercomputer of almost unimaginable speed to look for patterns and unscramble codes. Finally, the agency has begun building a place to store all the trillions of words and thoughts and whispers captured in its electronic net. And, of course, its all being done in secret. To those on the inside, the old adage that NSA stands for Never Say Anything applies more than ever. ...Shrouded in secrecy: A short time later, Inglis arrived in Bluffdale at the site of the future data center, a flat, unpaved runway on a little-used part of
Camp Williams, a National Guard training site. There, in a white tent set up for the occasion, Inglis joined Harvey Davis, the agencys associate director for installations and logistics, and Utah senator Orrin Hatch, along with a few generals and politicians in a surreal ceremony. Standing in an odd wooden sandbox and holding gold-painted shovels, they made awkward jabs at the sand and thus officially broke ground on what the local media had simply dubbed the spy center. Hoping for some details on what was about to be built, reporters turned to one of the invited guests, Lane Beattie of the Salt Lake Chamber of Commerce. Did he have any idea of the purpose behind the new facility in his backyard? Absolutely not, he said with a self-conscious half laugh. Nor do I want them spying on me. Within days, the tent and sandbox and gold shovels would be gone and Inglis and the generals would be replaced by some 10,000 construction workers. Weve been asked not to talk about the project, Rob Moore, president of Big-D Construction, one of the three major contractors working on the project, told a local reporter. The plans for the center show an extensive security system: an elaborate $10 million antiterrorism protection program, including a fence designed to stop a 15,000-pound vehicle traveling 50 miles per hour, closed-circuit cameras, a biometric identification system, a vehicle
inspection facility, and a visitorcontrol center. Inside, the facility will consist of four 25,000-square-foot halls filled with servers, complete with raised floor space for cables and storage. In addition, there will be more than 900,000 square feet for technical support and administration. The entire site will be self-sustaining, with fuel tanks large enough to power the backup generators for three days in an emergency, water storage with the capability of pumping 1.7 million gallons of liquid per day, as well as a sewage system and massive air-conditioning system to keep all those servers cool. Electricity will come from the centers own substation built by Rocky Mountain Power to satisfy the 65megawatt power demand. Such a mammoth amount of energy comes with a mammoth price tagabout $40 million a year, according to one estimate. Presenting the Yottabyte, aka 500 q u i n t i l l i o n (500,000,000,000,000,000,000) pages of text: Given the facilitys scale and the fact that a terabyte of data can now be stored on a flash drive the size of a mans pinky, the potential amount of information that could be housed in Bluffdale is truly staggering. But so is the exponential growth in the amount of intelligence data being produced every day by the eavesdropping sensors of the NSA and other intelligence agencies. As a result of this expanding array of theater airborne and other
sensor networks, as a 2007 Department of Defense report puts it, the Pentagon is attempting to expand its worldwide communications network, known as the Global Information Grid, to handle yottabytes (1024 bytes) of data. (A yottabyte is a septillion bytesso large that no one has yet coined a term for the next higher magnitude.) It needs that capacity because, according to a recent report by Cisco, global Internet traffic will quadruple from 2010 to 2015, reaching 966 exabytes per year. (A million exabytes equal a yottabyte.) In terms of scale, Eric Schmidt, Googles former CEO, once estimated that the total of all human knowledge created from the dawn of man to 2003 totaled 5 exabytes. And the data flow shows no sign of slowing. In 2011 more than 2 billion of the worlds 6.9 billion people were connected to the Internet. By 2015, market research firm IDC estimates, there will be 2.7 billion users. Thus, the NSAs need for a 1-millionsquare-foot data storehouse. Should the agency ever fill the Utah center with a yottabyte of information, it would be equal to about 500 quintillion (500,000,000,000,000,000,000) pages of text. Summarizing the NSA's entire spy network: Before yottabytes of data from the deep web and elsewhere can begin piling up inside the servers of the NSAs new center, they must be collected. To better accomplish that, the agency has
undergone the largest building boom in its history, including installing secret electronic monitoring rooms in major US telecom facilities. Controlled by the NSA, these highly secured spaces are where the agency taps into the US communications networks, a practice that came to light during the Bush years but was never acknowledged by the agency. The broad outlines of the so-called warrantless-wiretapping program have long been exposedhow the NSA secretly and illegally bypassed the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, which was supposed to oversee and authorize highly targeted domestic eavesdropping; how the program allowed wholesale monitoring of millions of American phone calls and email. In the wake of the programs exposure, Congress passed the FISA Amendments Act of 2008, which largely made the practices legal. Telecoms that had agreed to participate in the illegal activity were granted immunity from prosecution and lawsuits. What wasnt revealed until now, however, was the enormity of this ongoing domestic spying program. Luckily, we now know, courtesy of yet another whistleblower, who has exposed the NSA's mindblowing efforts at pervasive Big Brotherness: For the first time, a former NSA official has gone on the record to describe the program, codenamed WE page 31
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Stellar Wind, in detail. William Binney was a senior NSA cryptomathematician largely responsible for automating the agencys worldwide eavesdropping network. A tall man with strands of black hair across the front of his scalp and dark, determined eyes behind thick-rimmed glasses, the 68-year-old spent nearly four decades breaking codes and finding new ways to channel billions of private phone calls and email messages from around the world into the NSAs bulging databases. As chief and one of the two cofounders of the agencys Signals Intelligence Automation Research Center, Binney and his team designed much of the infrastructure thats still likely used to intercept international and foreign communications. He explains that the agency could have installed its tapping gear at the nations cable landing stationsthe more than two dozen sites on the periphery of the US where fiber-optic cables come ashore. If it had taken that route, the NSA would have been able to limit its eavesdropping to just international communications, which at the time was all that was allowed under US law. Instead it chose to put the wiretapping rooms at key junction points throughout the countrylarge, windowless buildings known as switchesthus gaining access to not just international communications but also to most of the domestic traffic flowing through the US. The network of intercept stations goes far beyond
the single room in an AT&T building in San Francisco exposed by a whistle-blower in 2006. I think theres 10 to 20 of them, Binney says. Thats not just San Francisco; they have them in the middle of the country and also on the East Coast. The eavesdropping on Americans doesnt stop at the telecom switches. To capture satellite communications in and out of the US, the agency also monitors AT&Ts powerful earth stations, satellite receivers in locations that include Roaring Creek and Salt Creek. Tucked away on a back road in rural Catawissa, Pennsylvania, Roaring Creeks three 105-foot dishes handle much of the countrys communications to and from Europe and the Middle East. And on an isolated stretch of land in remote Arbuckle, California, three similar dishes at the companys Salt Creek station service the Pacific Rim and Asia. In other words, the NSA has absolutely everyone covered. We now know all of this, courtesy of yet another person finally stepping up and exposing the truth: Binney left the NSA in late 2001, shortly after the agency launched its warrantless-wiretapping program. They violated the Constitution setting it up, he says bluntly. But they didnt care. They were going to do it anyway, and they were going to crucify anyone who stood in the way. When they started violating the Constitution, I couldnt stay.
Binney says Stellar Wind was far larger than has been publicly disclosed and included not just eavesdropping on domestic phone calls but the inspection of domestic email. At the outset the program recorded 320 million calls a day, he says, which represented about 73 to 80 percent of the total volume of the agencys worldwide intercepts. The haul only grew from there. According to Binneywho has maintained close contact with agency employees until a few years agothe taps in the secret rooms dotting the country are actually powered by highly sophisticated software programs that conduct deep packet inspection, examining Internet traffic as it passes through the 10gigabit-per-second cables at the speed of light. The software, created by a company called Narus thats now part of Boeing, is controlled remotely from NSA headquarters at Fort Meade in Maryland and searches US sources for target addresses, locations, countries, and phone numbers, as well as watch-listed names, keywords, and phrases in email. Any communication that arouses suspicion, especially those to or from the million or so people on agency watch lists, are automatically copied or recorded and then transmitted to the NSA. Everyone is a target. The scope of surveillance expands from there, Binney says. Once a name is entered into the Narus database, all phone calls
and other communications to and from that person are automatically routed to the NSAs recorders. Anybody you want, route to a recorder, Binney says. If your numbers in there? Routed and gets recorded. He adds, The Narus device allows you to take it all. And when Bluffdale is completed, whatever is collected will be routed there for storage and analysis. After he left the NSA, Binney suggested a system for monitoring peoples communications according to how closely they are connected to an initial target. The further away from the targetsay youre just an acquaintance of a friend of the targetthe less the surveillance. But the agency rejected the idea, and, given the massive new storage facility in Utah, Binney suspects that it now simply collects everything. The whole idea was, how do you manage 20 terabytes of intercept a minute? he says. The way we proposed was to distinguish between things you want and things you dont want. Instead, he adds, theyre storing everything they gather. And the agency is gathering as much as it can. Once the communications are intercepted and stored, the datamining begins. You can watch everybody all the time with datamining, Binney says. Everything a person does becomes charted on a graph, financial transactions or travel or anything, he says. Thus, as data like bookstore receipts, bank statements, and commuter
toll records flow in, the NSA is able to paint a more and more detailed picture of someones life. Can you hear me now? The NSA sure can: According to Binney, one of the deepest secrets of the Stellar Wind programagain, never confirmed until now was that the NSA gained warrantless access to AT&Ts vast trove of domestic and international billing records, detailed information about who called whom in the US and around the world. As of 2007, AT&T had more than 2.8 trillion records housed in a database at its Florham Park, New Jersey, complex. Verizon was also part of the program, Binney says, and that greatly expanded the volume of calls subject to the agencys domestic eavesdropping. That multiplies the call rate by at least a factor of five, he says. So youre over a billion and a half calls a day. (Spokespeople for Verizon and AT&T said their companies would not comment on matters of national security.) In fact, as you talk now, the NSA's computers are listening, recording it all, and looking for keywords. The NSA also has the ability to eavesdrop on phone calls directly and in real time. According to Adrienne J. Kinne, who worked both before and after 9/11 as a voice interceptor at the NSA facility in Georgia, in the wake of the World Trade Center attacks WE page 34
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What the End Result of the Feds Cancerous Policies Will Be and When It Will Hit
Phoenix Capital Research
Submitted at 3/17/2012 11:04:08 AM
sovereign bonds: the asset class against which all monetary policy and investment theory has been Yesterday I noted that the addict based for the last 80+ years. / dealer metaphor for the Feds Indeed, basic financial theory has intervention in the markets was in proposed that sovereign bonds are fact not accurate and that the essentially the only true riskFeds actions would be more free investment in the world. a p p r o p r i a t e l y d e s c r i b e d a s While history shows this theory to permitted cancerous beliefs to be false (sovereign defaults have spread throughout the financial occurred throughout the 20 th s y s t e m , t h e r e b y k i l l i n g century) this has been the basic Democratic Capitalism which is tenant for all investment models the basis of the capital markets. and indeed the financial system at Today Im going to explain what large going back for 80 some odd the final outcome for this years. process will be. The short version The reason for this is that the is what happens to a cancer Treasury (US sovereign bond) patient who allows the disease to market is the basis of the entire spread unchecked (death). monetary system in the US and In the case of the Feds actions the Global financial system in we will see a similar death of general. Indeed, US Treasuries are Democratic Capitalism and the the senior most assets on the subsequent death of the capital Primary Dealers (worlds largest markets. I am, of course, talking b a n k s ) b a l a n c e s h e e t s . T o in metaphors here: the world will understand why this is as well as not end, and commerce and why the Feds policies will business will continue, but the ultimately destroy this system, form of capital markets and you first need to understand the Capitalism we are experiencing Primary Dealer system that is the today will cease to exist as the basis for the US banking system Feds policies result in the market at large. a n d e c o n o m y e v e n t u a l l y If youre unfamiliar with the collapsing in such a fashion that Primary Dealers, these are the 18 what follows will bear little banks at the top of the US private resemblance to that which we are banking system. Theyre in experiencing now. charge of handling US Treasury The focus of this death will not Debt auctions and as such they be stocks, but bonds, particularly have unprecedented access to US
debt both in terms of pricing and monetary control. The Primary Dealers are: Bank of America Barclays Capital Inc. BNP Paribas Securities Corp. Cantor Fitzgerald & Co. Citigroup Global Markets Inc. Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC Daiwa Securities America Inc. Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. Goldman, Sachs & Co. HSBC Securities (USA) Inc. J. P. Morgan Securities Inc. Jefferies & Company Inc. Mizuho Securities USA Inc. Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated Nomura Securities International Inc. RBC Capital Markets RBS Securities Inc. UBS Securities LLC.
The Primary Dealers are the firms that buy US Treasuries during debt auctions. Once the Treasury debt is acquired by the Primary Dealer, its parked on their balance sheet as an asset. The Primary Dealer can then leverage up that asset and also fractionally lend on it, i.e. create more debt and issue more loans, mortgages, corporate bonds, or what have you. Put another way, Treasuries are not only the primary asset on the large banks balance sheets, they are in fact the asset against which these banks lend/ extend additional debt into the monetary system, thereby controlling the amount of money in circulation in the economy. When the Financial Crisis hit in 2007-2008, the Fed responded in several ways, but the most important for the point of todays Im youll sure youll recognize discussion is the Fed removing these names by the mere fact that the risk of failure for the they are the exact banks that the Primary Dealers by spreading Fed focused on saving thereby these firms toxic debts onto the removing their risk of failure p u b l i c s b a l a n c e s h e e t a n d during the Financial Crisis. funneling trillions of dollars into These banks are also the largest t h e m v i a v a r i o u s l e n d i n g beneficiaries of the Feds largest w i n d o w s . monetary policies: QE 1, QE lite, In simple terms, the Fed took QE 2, etc. Indeed, we now know what was killing the Primary that QE 2 was in fact was meant Dealers (toxic debts) and then to benefit those Primary Dealers spread it onto the USs balance in Europe, not the US housing sheet (which was already sickly market. due to our excessive debt levels).
This again ties in with my cancer metaphor, much as cancer spreads by infecting healthy cells. When the Fed did this it did not save capitalism or the Capital Markets. What it did was allow the cancer of excessive leverage, toxic debts, and moral hazard to spread to the very basis of the US, indeed the entire worlds, financial system: the US balance sheet/ Sovereign Bond market. These actions have already resulted in the US losing its AAA credit rating. But that is just the beginning. Indeed, few if any understand the real risk of what the Fed has done. The reality is that the Fed has done the following: Set itself up for a collapse: at $2.8 trillion, the Feds balance sheet is now larger that the economies of Brazil, the UK, or France. And with capital of only $54 billion, the Fed is leveraged at 51 to 1 (Lehman was at 30 to 1 when it failed). Called the risk profile of US sovereign debt into question: foreign investors, now fully aware that the USs balance sheet is suspect (the US has lost its AAA WHAT page 36
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A Canadian Journalist Recalls His Banker Days, Or Was The Soul-For-Cash Exchange Worth It
Tyler Durden
lighter piece from the Globae and Mail's Tim Kiladze, who while Submitted at 3/17/2012 11:00:09 AM not exposing anything new, shares In the aftermath of the "Greg with his readers just what the Smith" phenomenon, where now a transition from "soulless banker" variety of sources (for now of the to a "less demanding, more terminated kind, but soon likely fulfilling life" entails, and that it from those still on the payroll) does, in the end, pay off. As Tim have stepped up against the Wall says - "The latter is a real option: Street and D.C. omerta, it is Im proof of it." Here is his story assured that we will see many for all those 'wannabe Greg more such pieces before the Smiths' who are on the fence c o o l n e s s f a c t o r o f p u b l i c about burning that bridge in employer humiliation. It is our perpetuity. hope that these lead to an actual From the Globe and Mail i m p r o v e m e n t i n A m e r i c a ' s Why I gave up my six-figure criminal corporate culture (such salary and quit Bay Street as in " How a Whistleblower I still vividly remember the call Halted JPMorgan Chase's Card that landed me on Bay Street. It Collections"), which is nowhere was 2006, and on an overcast more prevalent than in the corner October morning, someone from offices of Wall Street, long a the investment arm of the Royal place where "obfuscation" and Bank of Canada offered me my "complexity" (recall that it was dream job. As I took in the news, none other than the Fed telling us I stared out the window of my t h a t " L i q u i d i t y r e q u i r e s tiny bachelor apartment that symmetric information, which is overlooked McGill Universitys easiest to achieve when everyone sprawling campus and couldnt i s i g n o r a n t " ) h a v e b e e n help but think: I finally made it. s y n o n y m o u s w i t h l e g a l i z e d For as long as I can remember, I wealth transfer (after all, we now wanted to work in finance. know that nobody ever read the Though Gordon Gekko wasnt fine print, and when the chips fell exactly my idol, I yearned to be it was all the rating agencies' rich like him. The funny thing is, fault). Alas we are skeptical. But once I got what I thought I while we wait, here is a slightly wanted, including a robust six-
figure salary in my early 20s, I wasnt nearly as enamoured. As a junior banker or trader, you may not have much responsibility, but you see everything with fresh eyes. What I saw was an industry unbelievably out of touch with reality. The problems werent confined to the places I worked, RBC Dominion Securities and National Bank Financial; they were widespread. Retail investors are routinely gouged for ridiculous fees, and the Street is so clubby that rivals gang up on each other when someone tries to undercut the advisory fee schedule. The Streets culture was rotten. I once saw an investment banker become enraged when his plane ticket was booked economy instead of business class. Im not sitting in the back with the proletariat! he declared. Im not the only person who was disillusioned. Whole books have been written about the recklessness of Wall Street, and Greg Smiths op-ed in The New York Times is nothing less than an indictment of the culture of Goldman Sachs, his former firm. While Mr. Smith and I had very different experiences, we made the same decision: to flee finance.
I know so many others who wish they could do the same. Yet they never make the move because they are scared to part ways with their large paycheques, or they feel trapped by their big houses and private golf club memberships. When I left, one typically unemotional 30something trader e-mailed me privately to say: Good for you for having the balls to do this. Heres the thing: its not so hard. Once you leave the office towers, you quickly realize that there is meaningful work beyond Bay Street. --When someone hears that I left banking behind, there is only one question that comes next: How big was the pay cut? Big, I say. So big that after being hired by The Globe and Mail, I no longer met the $60,000 minimum salary for the Infinite Visa I once used to pay my bar tabs at Bymark and Vertical. Almost three years later, I still miss the money. I probably always will. I miss not having to fret about my weekly budget. I miss not having to worry that someone at my dinner table will order an expensive bottle of wine, forcing me to opt out and drink by
-the-glass alone. Sometimes I even have moments of rage when I hear rumours that someone I know has signed a new contract that guarantees a salary plus bonus of more than $300,000. Then I remember why I left. No longer do I arrive at my desk at the crack of dawn to mindlessly enter bond yields into a convoluted spreadsheet. No one tells me that my Banana Republic cardigan is too fashion-forward for the office. No longer does a superior tell me that I leave the desk to pee too many times during the day. When I left Bay Street, I left something else behind: a sense that I was living in denial. Back then, I had to pretend that I didnt hear or see certain things. While working on the Street, I heard people say that even if clever institutional investors like pension funds realize that a new deal isnt worth buying, unsophisticated retail investors wont know any better. I saw investment banks get paid millions of dollars to offer fairness opinions on proposed takeovers, while rarely raising an objection to any deal. And I saw research analysts getting paid CANADIAN page 37
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basically all rules were thrown out the window, and they would use any excuse to justify a waiver to spy on Americans. Even journalists calling home from overseas were included. A lot of time you could tell they were calling their families, she says, incredibly intimate, personal conversations. Kinne found the act of eavesdropping on innocent fellow citizens personally distressing. Its almost like going through and finding somebodys diary, she says. There is a simple matter of encryption... Which won't be an issue for the NSA shortly, once the High Productivity Computing Systems project goes online. Anyonefrom terrorists and weapons dealers to corporations, financial institutions, and ordinary email senderscan use it to seal their messages, plans, photos, and documents in hardened data shells. For years, one of the hardest shells has been the Advanced Encryption Standard, one of several algorithms used by much of the world to encrypt data. Available in three different strengths128 bits, 192 bits, and 256 bitsits incorporated in most commercial email programs and web browsers and is considered so strong that the NSA has even approved its use for topsecret US government communications. Most experts say that a so-called brute-force computer attack on the algorithmtrying one combination after another to unlock the encryptionwould
likely take longer than the age of the universe. For a 128-bit cipher, the number of trial-and-error attempts would be 340 undecillion (10 36). Breaking into those complex mathematical shells like the AES is one of the key reasons for the construction going on in Bluffdale. That kind of cryptanalysis requires two major ingredients: super-fast computers to conduct brute-force attacks on encrypted messages and a massive number of those messages for the computers to analyze. The more messages from a given target, the more likely it is for the computers to detect telltale patterns, and Bluffdale will be able to hold a great many messages. We questioned it one time, says another source, a senior intelligence manager who was also involved with the planning. Why were we building this NSA facility? And, boy, they rolled out all the old guysthe crypto guys. According to the official, these experts told then-director of national intelligence Dennis Blair, Youve got to build this thing because we just dont have the capability of doing the codebreaking. It was a candid admission. In the long war between the code breakers and the code makersthe tens of thousands of cryptographers in the worldwide computer security industrythe code breakers were admitting defeat. So the agency had one major ingredienta massive data storage facilityunder way.
Meanwhile, across the country in Tennessee, the government was working in utmost secrecy on the other vital element: the most powerful computer the world has ever known. The plan was launched in 2004 as a modern-day Manhattan Project. Dubbed the High Productivity Computing Systems program, its goal was to advance computer speed a thousandfold, creating a machine that could execute a quadrillion (10 15) operations a second, known as a petaflopthe computer equivalent of breaking the land speed record. And as with the Manhattan Project, the venue chosen for the supercomputing program was the town of Oak Ridge in eastern Tennessee, a rural area where sharp ridges give way to low, scattered hills, and the southwestward-flowing Clinch River bends sharply to the southeast. About 25 miles from Knoxville, it is the secret city where uranium- 235 was extracted for the first atomic bomb. A sign near the exit read: what you see here, what you do here, what you hear here, when you leave here, let it stay here. Today, not far from where that sign stood, Oak Ridge is home to the Department of Energys Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and its engaged in a new secret war. But this time, instead of a bomb of almost unimaginable power, the weapon is a computer of almost unimaginable speed. At the DOEs unclassified center at Oak Ridge, work progressed at
a furious pace, although it was a one-way street when it came to cooperation with the closemouthed people in Building 5300. Nevertheless, the unclassified team had its Cray XT4 supercomputer upgraded to a warehouse-sized XT5. Named Jaguar for its speed, it clocked in at 1.75 petaflops, officially becoming the worlds fastest computer in 2009. Meanwhile, over in Building 5300, the NSA succeeded in building an even faster supercomputer. They made a big breakthrough, says another former senior intelligence official, who helped oversee the program. The NSAs machine was likely similar to the unclassified Jaguar, but it was much faster out of the gate, modified specifically for cryptanalysis and targeted against one or more specific algorithms, like the AES. In other words, they were moving from the research and development phase to actually attacking extremely difficult encryption systems. The codebreaking effort was up and running. The breakthrough was enormous, says the former official, and soon afterward the agency pulled the shade down tight on the project, even within the intelligence community and Congress. Only the chairman and vice chairman and the two staff directors of each intelligence committee were told about it, he says. The reason? They were thinking that this computing breakthrough was going to give them the ability to
crack current public encryption. So kiss PGP goodbye. In fact kiss every aspect of your privacy goodbye. Yottabytes and exaflops, septillions and undecillionsthe race for computing speed and data storage goes on. In his 1941 story The Library of Babel, Jorge Luis Borges imagined a collection of information where the entire worlds knowledge is stored but barely a single word is understood. In Bluffdale the NSA is constructing a library on a scale that even Borges might not have contemplated. And to hear the masters of the agency tell it, its only a matter of time until every word is illuminated. As for the Constitution... What Constitution? Before he gave up and left the NSA, Binney tried to persuade officials to create a more targeted system that could be authorized by a court. At the time, the agency had 72 hours to obtain a legal warrant, and Binney devised a method to computerize the system. I had proposed that we automate the process of requesting a warrant and automate approval so we could manage a couple of million intercepts a day, rather than subvert the whole process. But such a system would have required close coordination with the courts, and NSA officials werent interested in that, Binney says. Instead they continued to haul in data on a grand scale. Asked how many WE page 36
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Marc Faber: The Perils Of Money Printing's Unintended Consequences

Adam Taggart (Money Game)
Submitted at 3/17/2012 11:33:00 AM
reduce their balance sheets. Theyve gone the path of money printing and once you choose that Marc Faber does not mince path youre in it, and you have to words. He believes the money print more money. printing policies of the Federal If you start to print, it has the Reserve and its sister central biggest impact. Then you print banks around the globe have put more - it has a lesser impact the world's currencies on an unless you increase the rate of i n e x o r a b l e , a c c e l e r a t i n g money printing very significantly. i n f l a t i o n a r y d o w n s l o p e . And, the third money printing has The dangers of money printing e v e n l e s s i m p a c t . A n d t h e are many in his eyes. But in problem is like the Fed: they particular, he worries about the printed money because they unintended consequences it wanted to lift the housing market, subjects the populace to. Beyond but the housing market is the only currency devaluation, it creates a s s e t t h a t d i d n t g o u p malinvestment that leads to asset s u b s t a n t i a l l y . bubbles that wreak havoc when In general, I think that the they burst. And even more purchasing power of money has n e f a r i o u s , m o n e y p r i n t i n g diminished very significantly over disproportionately punishes the the last ten, twenty, thirty years, lower classes, resulting in volatile and will continue to do so. So by social and political tensions. being in cash and government It's no surprise then that he's bonds is not a protection against feeling particularly defensive this depreciation in the value of these days. While he generally money. On His Love for Central advises those looking to protect Bankers their purchasing power to invest Basically the U.S. had a capital in precious metals and the significant increase in the average equity markets (the rationale household income in real terms being inflation should hurt equity from the late 1940s to essentially prices less than bond prices), he the mid-1960s. And, then inflation w a r n s t h a t e q u i t i e s a p p e a r began to bite and real income overbought at this time. On growth slowed down. Then came Inflation the 1980s and in order not to First of all, I do not believe that disappoint the household income the central banks around the recipients you essentially printed world will ever, and I repeat ever, money and had a huge debt
expansion. So if you have an economic system and you suddenly grow your debt at a very high rate, it's like an injection of a stimulant of steroids. So the economy grew at a relatively fast pace, but built on additional debt. And this obviously cannot go on forever and when it comes to an end, you have a problem. But the Fed had never paid any attention. The Fed is about the worst economic forecaster you can imagine. They are academics. They never go to a local pub. They never go shopping -- or they lie. But basically they are a bunch of people who never worked a single day in their lives. Theyre not businessmen that have to balance the books, earn some money by selling goods, and paying the expenditures. They get paid by the government. And so these people have no clue about the economy. And, so what happens is they never paid any attention to excessive credit growth -- and let me remind you, between 2000 and 2007, credit growth was five times the growth of the economy in nominal terms. In other words, in order to create one dollar of GDP, you had to borrow another five dollars from the credit market. Now this came to an end in 2008.
Now the Fed never having paid any attention to credit growth, they realized if we have a creditaddicted economy and credit growth slows down we have to print money. So thats what they did. But believe me it doesnt take a rocket scientist to see that if you print money you dont create prosperity. Otherwise, every country would be unbelievably rich because every country would print money and be happy thereafter. On The Unintended Consequences of Money Printing In the short term, it has been working to some extent in the sense that equity prices are up and interest rates are down. And, so companies can issue bonds at extremely low rates. But every money printing exercise in the world leads to unintended consequences at a later point. And, this is the important issue to remember. We dont know yet for sure what the unintended consequences are. We know one unintended consequence, and this is that the middle class and the lower classes of society, say 50% of the U.S. has rather been hurt by the increase in the quantity of money in the sense that commodity prices in particular food and energy have gone up very substantially. And, since below 50% of income recipients in the
U.S. spend a lot, a much larger portion of their income on food and energy than to say the 10% richest people in America and highest income earners, they have been hurt by monetary policy. In addition, the lower income groups, if they have savings, traditionally they keep them in safe deposits and in cash because they dont have much money to invest in the first place. So the increase in the value of the S&P hasnt helped them, but it helped the 5% or 10% or 1% of the population that owns equities. So it's created a wider wealth inequality and that is a negative from a society point of view. Click the play button below to listen to Chris' interview with Marc Faber (runtime 40m:45s): Download/Play the Podcast (mp3) Report a Problem Playing the Podcast Or click here to read the full transcript. Please follow Money Game on Twitter and Facebook. Join the conversation about this story See Also: Marc Faber: DJI Lost 80% In 10 Years In Gold Term... So What? Marc Faber On The Massive MARC page 36
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credit rating), are dumping Treasuries (see China and Russia). This has resulted in the Fed now being responsible for the purchase of up to 91% of all new long-term (20+ years) US debt issuance.
This has resulted in retail investors fleeing the markets while institutional investors and those forced to participate in the markets for professional reasons now invest based on either the hope of more intervention from the Fed or simply front-running those Fed policies that have Put the entire Financial System already been announced. (not just the private banks) at risk. Put another way, the financial system and capital markets are no The Financial System requires longer a healthy, thriving system trust to operate. Having changed of Democratic Capitalism in the risk profile of US sovereign which a multitude of participants debt, the Fed has undermined the pursue different strategies. Instead very basis of the US banking they are an environment fraught system (remember Treasuries are with risk in which there is the senior most asset against essentially one trade, and that which all banks lend). trade is based on cancerous Moreover, the Fed has policies and beliefs that undermined investor confidence undermine the very basis of in the capital markets as most now Democratic Capitalism, which in perceive the markets to be a the end, is the foundation of the rigged game in which certain capital markets. participants, namely the large In simple terms, by damaging banks, are favored, while the rest trust and permitting Wall Street to of us (including even smaller dump its toxic debts on the banks) are still subject to the basic publics balance sheet, the Fed tenants of Democratic Capitalism: has taken the Financial System risk of failure. from a status of extremely
unhealthy to terminal. The end result will be a Crisis that makes 2008 look like a joke. It will be a Crisis in which the US Treasury market implodes, taking down much of the US banking system with it (remember, Treasuries are the senior most assets on US bank balance sheets). I cannot say when this will happen. But it will happen. It might be next week, next month, or several years from now. But weve crossed the point of no return. The Treasury market is almost entirely dependent on the Fed to continue to function. That alone should make it clear that we are heading for a period of systemic risk that is far greater than anything weve seen in 80+ years (including 2008). The Fed is not a dealer giving hits of monetary morphine to an addict the Fed has permitted cancerous beliefs to spread throughout the financial system. And the end result is going to be the same as that of a patient who ignores cancer and simply acts as
though everything is fine. That patient is now past the point of no return. There can be no return to health. Instead the system will eventually collapse and then be replaced by a new one. For more market insights and economic commentary, swing by www.gainspainscapital.com. We offer a number of FREE Special Reports designed to help investors prepare for the inevitable collapse Ive described above. Graham Summers Chief Market Strategist Phoenix Capital Research Average: Your rating: None This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
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communicationstransactions, in NSAs lingothe agency has intercepted since 9/11, Binney estimates the number at between 15 and 20 trillion, the aggregate over 11 years. When Barack Obama took office, Binney hoped the new administration might be open to reforming the program to address his constitutional concerns. He
and another former senior NSA analyst, J. Kirk Wiebe, tried to bring the idea of an automated warrant-approval system to the attention of the Department of Justices inspector general. They were given the brush-off. They said, oh, OK, we cant comment, Binney says. In conclusion, the NSA's own whistleblower summarizes it best.
Sitting in a restaurant not far from NSA headquarters, the place where he spent nearly 40 years of his life, Binney held his thumb and forefinger close together. We are, like, that far from a turnkey totalitarian state, he says. ... And nobody cares. Average: Your rating: None Average: 5( 7 votes) This entry passed through the
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enormous money, even though their predictions are so often wrong. Having said goodbye to all that, I now get a certain pleasure out of hearing bankers, traders and corporate lawyers grumble about their bonuses, even though the annual cheques are worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. Unlike them, I no longer have to use that number as my main measure of self-worth. My friends on the Street know Ive got it good now, too. Last year I watched the Super Bowl with a few of them, and during our post-game chit-chat one turned to me and said matter-offactly: You literally put a price on happiness. This doesnt mean that investment banks or corporate law firms are the root of all evil. A number of my best friends still work on Bay Street, and some people I truly respect have been in the game for 30 years. Most people in shiny office towers mean well. They really do. They love their kids, and they give loads of money to charity. The way they see it, every now and then they do something that is just a little offside, but it cant be
that bad. What they dont realize is that when everybody does just a little something wrong, it creates one hell of a mess. Rating agencies who bear some of the blame for the financial crisis relied on mathematical models that assumed widespread defaults werent possible. The analysts who trusted those models didnt mean to nearly crash capitalism as we know it they just took a shortcut. In all fairness, no industry is perfect. (Have you ever met a car salesperson willing to offer you their wholesale price?) Journalists, too, deserve some blame for not raising more red flags about the excesses of the financial business, before the crisis reared its ugly head. The big difference, though, is that bankers and traders make millions, and their poor due diligence can bring down financial markets. Will Bay Street or Wall Street ever change? Probably not. Michael Lewis wrote Liars Poker to demonstrate just how crazy the 1980s were, and hes since acknowledged that things only got worse.
Financial professionals who are as fed up as Greg Smith have two choices. They can try to stay the course, or they can opt for a less demanding, more fulfilling life. The latter is a real option: Im proof of it. A few weeks ago the Globe sent out a new job posting for our finance department, so I re-posted it on Facebook. Someone from Bay Street inquired about it and I initially laughed it off, telling him we could never match his current salary. But he was serious. You starting to feel like your soul is dying? I texted to him. Starting? he replied. Dead my friend. Average: Your rating: None Average: 4.3( 9 votes) This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
Julia Roberts and Lily Collins Make the Mirror Mirror Premiere a Fairy Tale Affair
Lauren Turner (PopSugar)
Submitted at 3/17/2012 12:09:30 PM
The Mirror Mirror premiere was an exciting affair at Grauman's Chinese Theater in LA today. Lily Collins chose a princess-like Dolce & Gabbana dress, which she accessorized with a wand, while Julia Roberts brought a pop of color in a pink top. Julia and Lily, who play the Evil Queen and Snow White in the big screen adaptation of the classic children's book, posed together and with costumed characters on their way inside. Their Prince Charming, Armie Hammer, is expected to attend during a break from filming his next project, Lone Ranger, with Johnny Depp. The first picture of Armie and Johnny in Lone Ranger was released last
week after production on the film got started last month. Mad Men's Kiernan Shipka turned out for the event as did Ali Landry and her daughter Estella. Click into the gallery to see all the red carpet fun and don't forget to check out the new zoom feature! View Slideshow
Illinois Republicans Hold Similarly Favorable Views of Santorum and Romney

Jeffrey H. Anderson (The Weekly Standard)
Submitted at 3/17/2012 10:34:00 AM
Rasmussens polling shows Mitt Romney leading Rick Santorum by 9 percentage points (41 to 32 percent) in Illinois, yet likely
primary voters in the Prairie State
hold almost identically favorable views of each candidate. Romneys net favorability ratin
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James Grant Says Bond Market Is "Bubble of Modern Banking, a Desert of Value; Gold a Reciprocal Faith in Bernanke"; Time for an "Office of Unintended Consequences?"
noreply@blogger.com (Mike Mish Shedlock) (Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis)
Submitted at 3/17/2012 12:41:00 PM
Jessica Simpson Does Date Night With Eric Following a Big Fashion Star Week
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James Grant, publisher of Grant's Interest Rate Observer, talks about Federal Reserve monetary policy, the bond market and investment strategy. Grant, speaking with Deirdre Bolton on Bloomberg Television's "Money Moves," also discusses the Chinese economy. Link if video does not play: Bond Market 'Desert of Value' Select Interview Quotes Grant: The Fed seem bent on suppressing this most elegant thing we have called a price mechanism, the movement of price that determines all manner of things in a market economy. Yet the Fed seems bound and determined to superimpose its will in place of the price mechanism. Take the bond market for example, the Fed has hammered down yields directly and indirectly and in response people are throwing money at things like high-yield or junk bonds. These are the prices the Fed wants, but are they the right prices? No not necessarily.
Deirdre Bolton: How is a bond investor to deal with this current environment? You are calling actually for a bear market in bonds, am I correct?. Grant: I have forever. So I am no help there. But it seems to me a bond investor is almost better off in cash. If you were to go out 10 years in a US treasury security you earn yield of approximate 2%. To remain in cash and be flexible you sacrifice those 2%. The bond market is a desert of value. Deirdre Bolton: What does this mean for gold? Grant: The price of gold is the reciprocal of the world's faith in the deeds and words of the likes of Ben Bernanke. The world over, central banks are printing money as it has never been printed before. The European Central Bank has increased the size of its balance sheet at the annual rate of 89%. It's amazing. The Fed is far behind at only 15%. The Bank of England 67% over the past few months. These are rates of increases in the production of paper currencies we have never seen in the modern age. It takes no effort at all. They simply tap
the computer screen. Time for an "Office of Unintended Consequences?" Grant proposes the Fed start an "Office of Unintended Consequences" to study all the things that go wrong with Fed policy. I believe Grant is speaking tongue-in-cheek. We certainly do not need such an office. Instead, we need to abolish the Fed. Mike "Mish" Shedlock h t t p : / / globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot. com Click Here To Scroll Thru My Recent Post List Mike "Mish" Shedlock is a registered investment advisor representative for SitkaPacific Capital Management. Sitka Pacific is an asset management firm whose goal is strong performance and low volatility, regardless of market direction. Visit http:// www.sitkapacific.com/ account_management.html to learn more about wealth management and capital preservation strategies of Sitka Pacific.
Jessica Simpson and her fianc Eric Johnson kicked off their weekend with a date night at Mr. Chow in Beverly Hills yesterday. It was a big week for Jessica following the premiere of her new reality competition, Fashion Star, on Tuesday. The show allows viewers to buy items from select designers in stores the day after the episode airs, and on Wednesday, six winning looks went on sale, with some selling out, at H&M, Macy's, and Saks Fifth Avenue. Jessica's smallscreen project is off to a good start, which hopefully means she'll have time to focus on the upcoming arrival of her first child
with Eric. Jessica revealed that they are expecting a girl, and if rumors that Jessica's baby shower is this Sunday hold true, she may be unwrapping plenty of pink items in a few days. View Slideshow
Ryan Murphy Casts MTV Star In New Comedy Pilot

Hollywood Reporter (TV on HuffingtonPost.com)
Submitted at 3/17/2012 12:46:31 PM
Ryan Murphy's NBC comedy pilot "The New Normal" has picked up a new bad boy.
The Hollywood Reporter has learned that Jayson Blair (MTV's "The Hard Times of RJ Berger") has been cast as a guest star on the pilot, which would become a major recurring role if NBC picks it up to series.
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GUNDLACH: Rates Will Keep Rising, But Then They'll Start Killing The Recovery
Joe Weisenthal (Money Game)
Submitted at 3/17/2012 1:42:00 PM
Kate Middleton Goes Green For a Royal St. Patrick's Day Appearance
Submitted at 3/17/2012 9:33:40 AM
In a Reuters piece, bond god Jeff Gundlach weighs in on the latest interest rates surge. Veteran bond investor Jeffrey Gundlach, who runs $30 billion at DoubleLine Capital in Los Angeles, said yields could rise further but the 10-year yield would have trouble holding much above 3 percent because that level would hurt the economy. " Now that Treasuries have broken out to higher yields after six months of mind-numbingly low volatility, it is logical to expect the move to higher rates to last more than one week," Gundlach said. "The way things look today I think a move toward 3.25 percent would weaken the economy noticeably." 3.25% is still a ways away, but it's an interesting question whether at that level economic activity would start to slow down
One theory that people have held is that a climb in rates might actually encourage some activity, such as housing, if people started to feel that the era of low rates was coming to an end, and that now was the last change they'd get to lock in cheap rates. We might get to put that to the test soon. Please follow Money Game on Twitter and Facebook.
Join the conversation about this story See Also: JEFF GUNDLACH: This Is The 'Really Scary' Chart In Europe 9 Must-See Slides On The Dismal Situation On Europe Jeffrey Gundlach Speaks On The Markets And The Economy
Kate Middleton belted her green Emilia Wickstead dress at a St. Patrick's Day event with Irish Guards in Aldershot, England today. She accessorized her emerald look with a gold clover brooch that belonged the the Queen Mother. Kate watched the traditional parade with a smile before handing three-leafed clovers to forty lucky officers and one to their canine mascot, an Irish Wolfhound. When the presenting of shamrocks ceremony was complete, Kate went inside the barracks and sipped on sherry before attending a luncheon. It's been a busy week
of appearances for the Duchess, who also showed off her hockey skills at the Olympic Park and visited the Prince's Foundation for Children and the Arts at the Dulwich Picture Gallery with Prince Charles. View Slideshow
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Top Saudi Religious Official Calls for 'Destruction of All Churches'

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Kuwait and impose Islamic law, according to Catholic News Service. Party officials said later the legislation would not remove ( P h o t o : W i k i m e d i a the churches but prohibit further Commons)'Abd al-'Aziz ibn construction of Christian churches 'Abdillah l ash-Shaikh, the Grand a n d n o n - M u s l i m p l a c e s o f Mufti of Saudi Arabia. worship in the country. Saudi Arabia is a country that is March 15, 2012| 4:56 pm officially 100 percent Muslim, Al-Asheikh made the statement and other religions are forbidden. Monday during a meeting with a Nevertheless, a small minority of delegation of a Kuwait-based Christians is known to worship NGO, Society of the Revival of there, unofficially. According to Islamic Heritage, in response to a one 2008 estimate, there were question of what Shariah law says 800,000 Catholics living in Saudi about building churches, reported Arabia at the time. Although there an Arabic Christian publication, are no official church buildings, Linga.org. Christians are allowed to worship The question was a reference to a a t h o m e s a n d s o m e o t h e r recent controversial statement by d e s i g n a t e d b u i l d i n g s . a Kuwaiti member of parliament Saudi Christians often include who reportedly called for the foreign immigrants. Recently, a "removal" of churches. The MP Christian watchdog organization reportedly specified later that he informed The Christian Post that a merely meant that no churches group of Christians from Ethiopia should be built in Kuwait. In had been imprisoned in the Saudi February, a legislation was kingdom for holding a prayer introduced in the parliament to meeting in a private apartment. remove Christian churches from In Kuwait, however, there are
church buildings. Like us on Facebook The Kuwaiti delegation reportedly wanted to confirm with the Grand Mufti what Islamic law says concerning the building of churches, and Al-Asheikh stressed that Kuwait was part of the Arabian Peninsula, and therefore it is necessary to destroy all churches in it. He referred to one of the phrases believed to have been uttered by the prophet Muhammad in which the prophet said that there are "not to be two religions in the [Arabian] Peninsula," which has always been interpreted to mean that only Islam can be practiced in the region. The Grand Mufti's words evoked some heated reactions. Raymond Ibrahim of Jihad Watch, a blog critical of Islamic laws considered extremist or intolerant, said that if a similar event took place in the Western world, its religious leaders would surely be shunned. "Considering the hysteria that besets the West whenever non-
authoritative individuals offend Islam -- for instance, a fringe, unknown pastor -- imagine what would happen if a Christian counterpart to the Grand Mufti, say the Pope, were to declare that all mosques in Italy must be destroyed; imagine the nonstop Western media frenzy that would erupt, all the shrill screams of 'intolerance' and 'bigot,' demands for apologies if not resignation, nonstop handwringing by sensitive politicians, and worse," Ibrahim, a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center and an Associate Fellow at the Middle East Forum, wrote. Luiza.o@christianpost.com;@Lui za_CP This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
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Should I Divorce If I'm Miserable?

March 16, 2012| 10:37 am My wife and I are at an impasse. There's been no abandonment, no sexual immorality, and no abuse. We just don't get along. We shouldn't have married. We should have known we are incompatible. I know God hates divorce but I don't have any other option. My pastor and some Christian counselors have told me that while God hates divorce, this is the lesser of two evils because God doesn't want me to be miserable. What do you think? Married but Miserable Dear Miserable, Here's what I think (and I'm paraphrasing a pastor friend of mine here). With "Christian" pastors and counselors like these, who needs demons? Divorce isn't about you, and it's not just about your marriage. Divorce is the repudiation of a covenant. It doesn't start anything over again. It instead defaces the icon God has embedded in the creation of the union between Christ and his church (Eph. 5:2231) . Like us on Facebook I do believe that there are exceptions to Jesus' prohibition against divorce: namely
unrepentant sexual immorality or abandonment by a gospelrepudiating spouse. Neither of these, according to you, are present here and so you do not have reason to leave. I plead with you to reconsider this and to understand that when you give account before the Judgment Seat of Christ, these "counselors" you have around you will not be present, and their cowardly justifications for sin will ring quite hollow. Does God want you to be miserable? Long-term, no. And that's why God has designed marriage as a life-long covenant signaling the gospel of Jesus Christ. In the long-term, God wants you to be deliriously happy. But by long-term, I mean the next trillion years, and beyond. In the short-term, one often must bear difficulty and, yes, even misery. Remaining faithful to a wife you wish you hadn't married might seem miserable to you, but taking up a cross and following Jesus is "miserable," in the short-run. That's why the Book of Hebrews presents the life of faith in terms of not receiving what was promised (Heb. 11:39), but seeing it and embracing it from afar. If you take the nuclear option of divorce off the table, you might find that you and your wife have
more reason to seek help with your problems and make this work. But even if your marriage never becomes what you thought it might be, it is worth it to stand by your words and maintain fidelity to the wife of your youth. What God has joined together, let no man separate (Mk. 10:9). And that includes the "shepherds" whose craven counsel leads to simply more chewable mutton for the wolves. Adapted from Russell D. Moore's weblog at russellmoore.com. Dr. Russell D. Moore is the Dean of the School of Theology and Senior Vice-President for Academic Administration at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky. He also serves as a preaching pastor at Highview Baptist Church, where he ministers weekly at the congregation's Fegenbush location. Dr. Moore is the author of The Kingdom of Christ and Adopted for Life. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
Marc Maron's 'WTF' Coming To IFC

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Last June, Marc Maron announced that he shot a pilot for a TV semi-adaptation of his podcast "WTF." On Saturday, Laughspin cites insiders that IFC plans to officially announce soon that the cable channel has picked up a full ten-episode season of the show. Maron's show (currently untitled, but possibly also called "WTF") will join another podcast-turnedTV show on IFC's lineup, "Comedy Bang! Bang!", an offkilter talk show with Scott Aukerman and Reggie Watts. The game show "Bunk," hosted by Kurt Braunohler, will also see its premiere next summer, and IFC's breakout comedy hit "Portlandia" will return sometime this year as well. In the pilot for Maron's show, which IFC did not ask to be reshot, Maron plays himself -- a grizzled comedian who hosts a podcast called "WTF," where he interviews his comedy colleagues from his garage (the pilot was
even shot in his actual house). Although Laughspin reports that no casting has been confirmed, Ed Asner played Maron's father and Ken Jeong played himself as a podcast guest in the pilot episode. The episode was directed by Academy Award winner Luke Matheny and cowritten by Duncan Birmingham. Maron's podcast, which he launched in 2009 and quickly became something of a phenomenon, has attracted both listeners and critics with the veteran comedian's open style of talking about his life, in comedy and in private. The last few weeks alone have seen Maron interview "Weird Al" Yankovic, Bill Maher and Mindy Kaling. He also recently was the subject of Hulu's documentary "A Day in the Life," which may serve as a more nonfiction precursor to the IFC show. IFC will make a formal announcement of the series during their upfronts on Tuesday, according to Laughspin's sources. We will report more information at that time.
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Jeremy Lin Combats Racist Tweet With Love of Jesus

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(Photo: Reuters/Mike Segar) New York Knicks guard Jeremy Lin celebrates after a play in the second quarter of their NBA game against the Sacramento Kings in New York's Madison Square Garden, Feb. 15, 2012. March 15, 2012| 12:43 pm Lin, an Asian-American Harvard Graduate, was called a "Chink" on Twitter after the Knicks' 121-79 win against the Portland Trailblazers, where Lin only scored six points with six turnovers and six assists. Instead of ignoring the Tweet, Lin responded by re-tweeting the message and offering the love of Jesus to the person behind the racial slur. "This is happening in 2012," Lin tweeted to the individual who
wrote the slur. "Jesus loves you bro and I do too." Since leading the New York Knicks to a winning streak after a stint in the D-League and being dropped by multiple NBA teams, Lin has been no stranger to racial jabs at the expense of his AsianAmerican heritage. Two ESPN employees were publicly reprimanded after using the phrase "chink in the armor" to describe Lin's trouble with turning over the ball while running the Knicks offense last month. Ben & Jerry's ice cream company was also accused of committing insensitive racial acts against Lin after producing a "Taste the LinSanity" flavor that featured vanilla frozen yogurt, lychee honey swirls and fortune-cookie pieces that people complained reinforced Asian stereotypes last month. Last month, athletes also took part in highlighting the Knicks guard's ethnicity in an insensitive way
that sparked outrage. Floyd Mayweather, a polarizing undefeated boxer, tweeted about Lin being overrated because of his ethnicity. Like us on Facebook "Jeremy Lin is a good player but all the hype is because he's Asian," Mayweather tweeted in February. "Black players do what he does every night and don't get the same praise." However, Lin's fans backed him up on Twitter during the most recent racial slur being made against the Harvard graduate on Wednesday night. After Lin and fans spoke out against the offensive tweeter, the individual deleted their account. "This man called Jeremy Lin a chink, then was getting violated so much he had to delete his account," one person tweeted. "#Linsanity." Another respected the fact that Lin combated the offensive tweet
with the love of Jesus. "Jeremy Lin just hit somebody with the most peaceful ether ever for calling him a chink," the person tweeted. It seemed others began to see the error in referring to the AsianAmerican guard's ethnicity in an insensitive way. "After the Jeremy Lin thing, I don't think I will ever use 'chink in the armor' in a sentence naturally again," the person tweeted. Lin is the first American player in the NBA to be of Chinese or of Taiwanese descent. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
RT Marilyn Monroe photos go up for auction Washington Post Rare photos from the estate of Monroe's personal makeup artist will be auctioned March 31 and April 1 in Beverly Hills, Calif. This image, taken in 1960, shows Allan "Whitey" Snyder applying Marilyn Monroe's makeup on the set of "Let's Make Love. Recommended: Never-beforeseen Marilyn Monroe photos up for auction msnbc.com Never-before-seen Marilyn Monroe photos to be auctioned TheCelebrityCafe.com Rare Marilyn Monroe photos up for auction CBS News HULIQ- RT- Kansas City Star all 238 news articles
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husband in U.S. Herald Times Reporter Isabel Martinez, 6, center, has tears running down her face
Friday as she is comforted by her town of Newton. Family and mother, Jennifer, right, during a friends gathered to protest... candlelight prayer service at St. and more Thomas the Apostle Church in the
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10 tips for getting a better job

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Submitted at 3/17/2012 12:39:00 PM
If the motivation behind your destructive snooze button habit is dread of walking into the office every day, it might be time to start searching for new employment digs and put that spring back in your step. The thing is, much has changed since the days of whipping open the want-ads and adding another line to the old resume, so where is the best place to start? Adam Dachis at Lifehacker has compiled a how-to list of great advice for nabbing the job of your dreams or at the very least, not staying in the one that gives you night sweats. 10. Put Together a Resume That's Actually Compelling While I'm no fan of the resumeas they're often documents skimmed rather than readthey're still requested by the majority of jobs you'll come across. You don't want to reinvent the wheel, but a little creativity can set you apart and help you stand out from the pool. Online tools can be of great help when it comes to creating something a little less ordinary 9. Ensure Your Resume Isn't Filled with Common Words and Redundant Phrasing
Jury Deadlocked In 'Desperate Housewives' Case

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When writing your resume, you don't want to use the sort of language that'll make you sound like everyone else. That means avoiding overused terms (e.g motivated, innovative, dynamic) and cliche phrases (e.g. detail oriented, team player, excellent communication skills). Also, terms like "references available upon request" are implied statements, waste space, and do not need to be on your resume. It helps to read your resume from bottom to top to help catch errors, and when you're done you can run
it through RezScore to find out where you can still improve. 8. Search Unconventional and Career-Specific Job Sites If you don't know where you want to work you're obviously going to have to search for some options., but you'll be looking for a needle in a haystack if you go to popular sites like Monster.com and Craigslist. That isn't to say they won't have a great job here and there, but you'll find yourself wading through a lot of undesirable positions just to find the ones you want
LOS ANGELES A judge has ordered the jury considering whether Nicollette Sheridan was wrongfully fired from TV's "Desperate Housewives" to keep deliberating even though jurors say they are hopelessly deadlocked. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Elizabeth Allen White sent jurors home Friday after they reported the impasse. The group is considering whether Sheridan was wrongfully terminated after complaining that Alternatively, you can focus on she was struck on the set by series sites that target the specific kind creator Marc Cherry. of job you want. For example, The group says it is split eight to Dice.com is a good option for four but didn't indicate which side tech-related jobs and Authentic the majority favored. Nine jurors J o b s i s a g r e a t o p t i o n f o r have to agree on a verdict. d e s i g n e r s a n d d e v e l o p e r s . The panel says the split hasn't Conduct a web search for the type changed since deliberations began of job you're looking for and the Wednesday afternoon. term "job search site" and you Cherry and ABC have denied may find a tool that's more wrongdoing, and say the decision focused on your specific needs. to cut Sheridan's role was made four months before the on-set Full story at Lifehacker. dispute. Find a better job. Photo credit: Fotolia Permalink| Leave a comment
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Twin car bombs kill dozens in Damascus

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The blasts, minutes apart, reportedly hit police and air force intelligence buildings [AFP] At least 27 people have been killed and 97 others wounded in a pair of explosions in Damascus, the Syrian health minister has said. State television blamed "terrorists" for the Saturday morning explosions and reported that vehicles packed with explosives had been used. The blasts targeted buildings belonging to a customs office and air force intelligence. Most of the casualties were civilians, state television said. The channel broadcasted interviews with Syrians who blamed the attack on the United States and Gulf nations, including Saudi Arabia and Qatar, who they said had sent terrorists. The attacks come two days after the one-year anniversary of the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad. "I woke up to two massive explosions around 7:30 this morning - one was on Baghdad street less than a mile away from my home," a witness in Damascus told Al Jazeera. "Relatives closer to the explosion told me their windows were blown out and doors destroyed from the blast." It was not the first time bombers have struck in the heart of Assad's power. There were three suicide
bombings in Damascus between December and January "A few weeks ago, we saw security buildings also come under attack and the government has been blaming what they are calling 'terrorist groups,'" said Al Jazeera's Zeina Khodr, reporting from Beirut. Khodr said no one had claimed responsibility for Saturday's attacks but that the opposition has in the past blamed the government
for "orchestrating" them to bolster its case against alleged terrorists. "But we also have to remember that US officials have hinted in the past that they believe that alQaeda could be involved, could be taking advantage of the security vacuum in that country," Khodr said. The spectre of al-Qaeda could make Syria's large minority populations more nervous about the Sunni-led uprising against
Assad, whose government has sought to rally Alawi, Christian and Shia communities to its side. Private emails allegedly sent among Assad and members of his inner circle and leaked to the media by opposition hackers show Assad receiving advice to not blame the December bombings on al-Qaeda. "Such statements clear the US administration and the Syrian opposition of any responsibility,"
wrote Hosein Mortada, a Lebanese businessman with ties to Iran and Hezbollah. Calls for unity On Friday, special envoy Kofi Annan renewed calls for international unity in dealing with the crisis in Syria. Addressing a closed-door meeting of the Security Council, Annan appealed for the divided TWIN page 46
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Egypt's Coptic Pope Shenouda dies at 89

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Shenouda endured more than three years of exile in the 1980s but later rarely fought with Mubarak's regime [EPA] Egypt's Coptic Pope Shenouda III, the leader of the Middle East's largest Christian minority, has died at 89, state television and church sources said. The cause of death was not immediately clear, but for years Shenouda had suffered from back and liver problems, and health issues forced him to cancel his weekly sermon on Wednesday. Named pope in 1971, Shenouda led the Coptic Orthodox Church through 40 years of quiet expansion, including a strong growth in North America, but came under criticism in his native Egypt during the later years of his papacy. Most of the church's more than 10 million members are in Egypt, where Copts are believed to make up around 10 per cent of the population. For most Egyptian Copts, Shenouda was the only spiritual leader they have ever known, a beloved figure who nonetheless became controversial for rarely opposing a government that was often accused of promoting Muslims' rights over those of Copts. Naguib Sawiris, a liberal Coptic Christian political leader and billionaire telecommunications
tycoon, wrote on Twitter that Shenouda had been "an icon of wisdom, intellect and knowledge, a man of courage and honour". Exile and return Shenouda, who worked as a journalist before spending years as a monk and being elected pope, entered his tenure with a political agenda, set on reforming the church from within, Al Jazeera's Sherine Tadros reported from Cairo. In the 1980s, Shenouda spent more than three years in exile in a desert monastery after former president Anwar Sadat stripped
him of his powers by decree. At the time, Shenouda had been pressing for more rights for the Coptic community and trying to preserve his congregation from escalating attacks by Muslim extremists. Former president Hosni Mubarak canceled Sadat's decree in 1985, and Shenouda returned to lead Christmas Mass before a crowd of thousands in Cairo's St Mark's Cathedral. After returning, Shenouda oversaw the growth of the church in the United States and South America. He emphasised
Christian unity and dialogue between churches throughout the world. 'Beloved children' In recent years, some Egyptian Copts had begun to express criticism of Shenouda for not speaking out on Coptic rights, particularly as sectarian violence seemed to increase. "It was really after the former president Hosni Mubarak then took power that you saw a more cordial relationship ... and at that point people began to criticize the pope," Tadros said. Although Shenouda gave limited
praise to Egypt's revolution, he often encouraged protesters to go home, both before and after Mubarak's fall, and he pleaded for stability. The later part of his papacy was marked by co-operation with Mubarak and, after the revolt, the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces. When sectarian clashes began to erupt after Mubarak's removal, including church burnings throughout the country, Shenouda praised the military leadership for helping to EGYPT'S page 47
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members to send a unified message to end the yearold crackdown and military assault on protest cities that have left more than 8,000 people dead. (AL JAZEERA ENGLISH (AJE)) Criminal Court], mostly because a signatory to [ICC extradition Al Jazeera reports on the cost of the uprising one year on Senussi has not been charged with laws]," our correspondent said. Submitted at 3/17/2012 8:49:20 AM "The stronger and more unified any crime in Mauritania," our "For some 40 years he was leader your message, the better chance L i b y a h a s c o n f i r m e d t h a t correspondent said. of intelligence forces here in we have of shifting the dynamics Muammar Gaddafi's intelligence 'War crimes' Libya, and one thing he is known chief Abdullah Senussi was Senussi was the right-hand man for is the massacre of some 1,200 of the conflict," said Annan, who a r r e s t e d i n M a u r i t a n i a , and brother-in-law of Gaddafi, political prisoners in Abu Salim was selected by the United Nations and Arab League to find a government spokesman Nasser al- who was deposed from power and prison." negotiated end to the violence. Manee said. eventually killed in a nine-month Security sources in Niger and "[Senussi] was arrested this uprising against his decades-long Mali said in October that Senussi He said a UN team would visit Syria this weekend for talks with morning in Nouakchott airport rule last year. and several of his men passed Assad's government on proposals and there was a young man with The 62-year-old spy chief, along through their territory. to end the bloodshed and allow in him. We think it is his son," with Gaddafi and his son Saif alA month later, Libya's new Manee told a news conference on Islam, was indicted on suspicion g o v e r n m e n t e r r o n e o u s l y humanitarian aid. Saturday, adding that he was of war crimes by the International announced his arrest but no "I hope they will have all the carrying a passport from Mali. Criminal Court last June and his pictures of Senussi have been access that is necessary," he told journalists in Geneva after "Calls are under way by Libyan whereabouts has been unknown released since then. a u t h o r i t i e s t o r e q u e s t h i s since Tripoli, Libyas capital, fell Senussi was also one of six the briefing. Annan's address to the council e x t r a d i t i o n , " M a n e e s a i d . to rebel forces last August. Libyans convicted in absentia and came as mass anti-government The government "is ready to The ICC indictment accuses sentenced to life in prison in receive Abdullah Senussi and to Senussi of being an "indirect France for the 1989 bombing of a protests continued across Syria to detain him in a Libyan prison and perpetrator of crimes against French passenger over Niger that call for international military intervention in the country. to give him a fair trial in Libya," h u m a n i t y o f m u r d e r a n d killed all 170 people on board. Activists from the Syrian he added. persecution based on political The French government had Al Jazeera's Mohammed Fadel, grounds" committed in the eastern previously asked that he be reporting from the Mauritanian city and rebel stronghold of handed over to France. capital Nouakchott, said Senussi Benghazi. This entry passed through the arrived on an Air Morocco flight Al Jazeera's Nicole Johnston, Full-Text RSS service if this is from Casablanca on a forged reporting from Tripoli, said your content and you're reading it Malian passport and is now under Libya's National Transitional on someone else's site, please read police interrogation in Mauritania. Council (NTC) had made an the FAQ at fivefilters.org/content"In a short, brief statement, the official request to Mauritania to only/faq.php#publishers. Five (news photos - Google News) authorities did not give any more have him deported back to Libya. Filters recommends: Donate to Submitted at 3/17/2012 1:57:47 PM information on Senussi. No one "They want him to face Libyan Wikileaks. Kaptur wrangles together your knows exactly how the authorities justice in Tripoli. [The NTC] has friend's photos from your special are going to co-operate with not heard back, and it should be event Libya or the ICC [International pointed out that Mauritania is not VentureBeat Kaptur, a photo-centric startup
Revolution Co-ordination Union said 15 people, including two children, were killed in violence across the country on Friday. Syria's foreign ministry said on Friday the government would cooperate with Annan while at the same time fighting "terrorism". "The Syrian government is determined to protect its citizens by disarming the terrorists and continues to search for a peaceful solution to the crisis by cooperating with special envoy Kofi Annan," it said in a letter addressed to the UN and carried by the state news agency SANA. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
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rebuild. But in October, when soldiers brutally dispersed a Coptic protest outside state media headquarters, leaving at least 26 people dead, Shenouda declared that those killed were martyrs and blamed the military for the violence. "These martyrs are our beloved children and their blood does not come cheap," he said. "I, along with all the bishops, priests and monks, will pray for them. And we know that God will
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How To Save On Laundry Without Having To Steal Tide Detergent

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by washing your duds in cold water. In addition to being a money saver, this detergent T i d e h a s b e c o m e a h o t received the top rating in CR's c o m m o d i t y l a t e l y . L a w 2010 tests. It even beat non-cold enforcement officials from around water formulas. the nation say there has been an 2) Don't use too much.You may outbreak of thefts of the pricey- think you aren't wasting detergent, but-well-regarded detergent. One but it's very likely that you are the guy allegedly stole $25,000 worth victim of a confusing cap. Many of Tide before Minnesota police p e o p l e u s e t w i c e t h e nabbed him. Why? Tide can be recommended amount, says Brian pricey (up to $20 a bottle), and, Sansoni, spokesman for the well, it's in high demand. But how American Cleaning Institute, a can you save on detergent without t r a d e g r o u p t h a t i n c l u d e s resorting to buying black-market- detergent manufacturers. That Tide? could be due to poor cap design, a 1) Buy Tide 2X Ultra for Cold "more is better" philosophy, Water. This tip will only work if misreading the caps' lines, or you do your laundry at home, of simply not reading directions. course, but if you do, you can Using too much detergent not save$60 per year on heating costs only wastes money but also can
prolong the rinse cycle: Some washers keep going when the water is too sudsy. 3) Shop online or use coupons. Amazon's Subscribe & Save program can have great deals and is super convenient. If you like going to the store, Tide's manufacturer, P&G has an entire website dedicated to Tide and, if you're willing to sign up for a newsletter, they'll send you coupons. How on earth there could be enough news about Tide to warrant a newsletter is beyond us. If you're looking to cash in on the fact that Tide is cool enough to steal now, the site even has some faux vintage "Tide" t-shirts you can buy (and $4 from the sale of each tee goes to help disaster victims.)
4) If you have a HE washer, try Gain. Ok, this isn't advice about how to save on Tide. You caught us. Tide costs about $0.23 per load, but Gain Original Fresh HE , which performed well in Consumer Reports'* 2010 detergent ratings, cost only $0.06. Hey, it's better than a life of crime, right? *Consumerist is published by Consumer Reports. From ConsumerReports.org: This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
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Kawakami: Andrew Bogut can't play yet, but he looks like a good fit with the Golden State Warriors - San Jose Mercury News
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into this spot like a natural. You had to keep reminding yourself Submitted at 3/17/2012 6:20:46 AM that he wouldn't be in the lineup Except for that big plastic boot for weeks or probably months. on his left foot, Andrew Bogut "Very polished, great guy, sense looked like he could walk right of humor," said coach Mark into the Warriors' lineup and Jackson, who watched coverage maybe block five or six shots of Bogut's news conference on Friday night. TV. "I think he certainly fits what He was at ease. He made jokes. we're trying to do here." He said the right things. He was ... Indeed, Bogut gave me a little well, he is very large. jolt later in the locker room -- yes, Bogut can't play yet -- thanks to he has Ellis' old spot -- when his fractured ankle -- but the 27- Bogut arrived in full uniform. year-old 7-foot Australian was Wait, Andrew, are you playing? hindered in no other way. "Pictures, 'mate," Bogut said with Throughout Bogut's jaunty a shrug, pointing to the Warriors' introductory Warriors' news photo room. conference and afterward, he was Oops, yes, he was still wearing the center of attention and quite that boot. comfortable in that reality. Bogut will undergo another MRI "It is something I'm fine with," in a few weeks, and at that point, Bogut said of his semi-savior he and the Warriors will decide status after arriving in this week's w h e t h e r t o a c c e l e r a t e h i s trade for Monta Ellis. "But timetable or to just wait until next looking at our roster, we've got a season. lot of guys that can play. Best guess: Wait until next "It's not like I'm coming into a D- season. League team, where everything's And, though Bogut has missed kind of aimed at me." big parts of the last three seasons Yep, Bogut passed every possible with ankle and elbow injuries, he non-basketball test, though I knocked down any contention that r e a l i z e t h o s e a r e t h e l e a s t he has chronic problems. important ones for such a key "Well, I'd go on Google and I'd piece of the Warriors' future. research my last two injuries and More than anything, Bogut eased realize they're not chronic," Bogut
said. "One of them I fell 10 feet from a basket and broke my elbow, which is a one-in-a-million type injury. And the other one, I blocked four shots in the first quarter in a game against Houston and went for my fifth block and landed on someone's foot and broke my ankle. "So these aren't issues of being overweight or being out of condition or not doing the right things in the offseason. These are just freak occurrences." There is no sure way to prove that he can remain healthy, of course, other than remaining healthy for years. Warriors co-owner Joe Lacob said team doctors believe that the fractured ankle should heal 100 percent and that Bogut's right elbow is "obviously way past healed." Again, that can't be displayed or disputed until Bogut makes it oncourt, and mixes in with David Lee, Stephen Curry and the rest of the remaining Warriors' roster. Bogut watched the game (against the Bucks, his former team) from the Warriors bench and clapped a bit during the team's first-quarter tribute to Ellis on the video board. "I know the franchise has made a
load of changes, I guess everyone from players to the ball boys, which is a good fresh approach," Bogut said. "And I think everyone's excited to build this thing in the right direction, as am I." I asked him how he believes he fits into Lacob and Jackson's proclamations about giving the Warriors' a defensive culture. "Perfectly," Bogut said. "I think I can play both ends of the floor ... "There's going to be nights where I'm going to have a scoring drought, but if I can affect the game by blocking shots, taking charges, grabbing rebounds, getting loose balls, I will remain on the floor and help my team win. Sometimes it doesn't always show up on the stat sheet. "I love playing defense, I love getting the crowd involved by blocking a shot and leading to a fast break. So I don't anticipate anything different." What does he think of Jackson? "He said, 'Hand down, man down,' so you've got to know, got to get a hand up, that's the first thing," Bogut said, referencing Jackson's famous TV phrase. Did Jackson really say that to you? "No, he didn't," Bogut said,
laughing. "He's been great. He seems like a players' coach. I've heard from a lot of guys ... "I couldn't believe he was eating lunch with us. I'm not used to a head coach eating lunch with us -which isn't a dig at anybody. It's just, I'm not used to that." He has to get used to the Warriors, the Warriors have to get used to him. This is going to happen rather rapidly, I'm pretty sure. Bogut is too laid-back for this to be overly complicated. Then it'll all come down to the basketball, when there will be other tests, probably slightly tougher to pass. Read Tim Kawakami's Talking P o i n t s b l o g a t blogs.mercurynews.com/ kawakami. Contact him at tkawakami@mercurynews.com. Copyright 2012 San Jose Mercury News. All rights reserved. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks. KAWAKAMI: page 50
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Rumor: Shenmue 1 and 2 HD finished, hitting XBLA/PSN

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Shenmue 1 and 2 have been completed for more than a year and are pending release on XBLA All right, before we go any a n d P S N , a c c o r d i n g t o a n further than that headline up there, anonymous source reporting to we want everyone playing along Gamerzines. The source goes on at home to go to the kitchen and to say that Sega has been sitting bring back one of those big on the remakes while it decides cardboard cylinders of Morton's the fate of a potential Shenmue 3, salt with the little metal flap on though the source did not specify top. what that fate is. Got it? Okay great, because Look, we're not saying that it isn't games ever, because of course we you're going to need more than a true, or that we don't want HD do. We just want you to be careful grain for this one: HD versions of remakes of two of our favorite and not get your precious little
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hopes up, only to have them dashed to pieces -- your broken, mangled hearts never able to trust or love again. Rumor: Shenmue 1 and 2 HD finished, hitting XBLA/PSN Jordan Mallory (Joystiq) originally appeared on Joystiq on Sat, 17 Mar 2012 15:00:00 EST. Submitted at 3/17/2012 1:30:00 PM Please see our terms for use of During a heavily curated question feeds. and answer session at the Permalink| Email this| Comments Smithsonian Museum of Art, KOJIMA page 51
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New Witcher 2 trailer details new and improved newness, Dark Edition
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Submitted at 3/17/2012 12:00:00 PM
There are plenty of non-PC gamers out there anxiously awaiting the April 17 release of The Witcher 2: Assassin of Kings Enhanced Edition for the 360, but
you PC gaming types who've played Witcher 2 already may be on the fence about whether the new version is worth your dollars. Perhaps this latest trailer, which runs through the Enhanced E d i t i o n ' s n e w f e a t u r e s a n d decision making process. content, can help aid in your
The trailer also briefly teases the game's Dark Edition bundle, which includes the game, its soundtrack, a making of DVD, stickers, a world map, a "Witcher Medallion," a quest handbook, game manual and art book. New Witcher 2 trailer details new
and improved newness, Dark Edition originally appeared on Joystiq on Sat, 17 Mar 2012 12:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink| Email this| Comments
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Hideo Kojima was asked whether he is interested in making films, as his lifelong passion for the cinema has heavily influenced the way he makes games. According to the Metal Gear Mogul himself, filmmaking is something he's always been interested in and has wanted to try, although he doesn't believe Metal Gear Solid would work as a film in its current form. That doesn't mean he isn't working on anything, however: "I'm working on something, and I hope in the near future I'll have something to announce."
Well then! Here's hoping for that live-action Snatcher adaptation we've been dreaming of since 1994. Kojima working on 'something' related to film, announcement coming in the 'near future' originally appeared on Joystiq on Sat, 17 Mar 2012 13:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of Richard Lawler (Engadget) feeds. Submitted at 3/17/2012 1:51:00 PM Permalink| Email this| Comments Co-founder of TiVo and CTO Jim Barton has long outlasted our deathwatch, but his time as an executive at the DVR maker quietly came to an end this week according to documents filed with the SEC. CEO Tom Rogers thanked Jim for his "commitment to innovation" in a statement, and the filing indicates he will stick around as a $25,000 per month consultant in "patent matters and litigation" among other things -nice work if you can get it -- until March 15, 2015, but his reason for stepping down is unspecified. As Multichannel News notes, Barton was working with fellow cofounder Mike Ramsay (who left in 2007) at Silicon Graphics on a project for Time Warner when they had the idea for the DVR and eventually founded TiVo in 1997. That early movement may not have resulted in dominance over pay-Tv provided DVRs, but some favorable legal settlements and successful partnerships like its deal with Virgin Media mean he's
TiVo co-founder, CTO Jim Barton resigns
leaving the company with its prospects looking a bit better than they did back in the dark days of '05. [Thanks, David] TiVo co-founder, CTO Jim Barton resigns originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 17 Mar 2012 13:51:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink| Multichannel News, TiVo| Email this| Comments
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Obama Disappoints on the Falkland Islands

Luke Coffey (The Foundry: Conservative Policy News Blog from The Heritage Foundation)
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President Obama holds a press conference in the Rose Garden of the White House with Prime Minister David Cameron, Wednesday, March 14, 2012 . Photo By Andrew Parsons/ iImages This week in 1982, Argentine forces were probably preparing their equipment and checking plans ahead of their invasion of the Falkland Islands, to happen a couple of weeks later. Thirty years on, even after heaping cringe-worthy amounts of lavish praise on the Obama Administration during his recent visit, British Prime Minister David Cameron is still no closer to receiving explicit American support for British sovereignty over the Falkland Islands. This is a shameful disregard of the Special Relationship. The Special Relationship is not about basketball games, barbeques, state dinners, or as one U.K. paper curiously described, bromance. The Special Relationship, as described by Winston Churchill in his famous Iron Curtain Speech, is first and foremost built on military cooperation, defense and security issues, and hardheaded geopolitical concerns of the U.S. and the U.K. The fact that President Obama could not bring himself, or his
State Department for that matter, to publicly support and acknowledge Britains control over the Falkland Islands is, at best, embarrassing for Cameron and at worst, dangerous for the Special Relationship. Especially when the subject of the Falkland Islands is so important to the U.K. However, Cameron is at fault as well. He should have ensured that the issue of the Falklands was raised publicly so there would be no doubt in the minds of the British, the Argentines, and the Falklanders about where America
stands on the issue. Surprisingly, at the very end of an article on David Camerons visit, The New York Times reports: On Wednesday, Mr. Obama offered Mr. Cameron some comfort. The United States, he said, would stop prodding Britain and Argentina to talk to each other, but stick to its historic position of neutrality. There are two problems here. First, there is no direct quote from President Obama, the White House, or the State Department.
There is no source for these unattributed comments. This is important, because if what The New York Times reported is actually true, then this would mean a reversal of the Obama Administrations policy on backing U.N. mediation over the status of the Islands. Secondly, even if the Times report was true, neutrality is still not good enough. America should fully back Britain in its claim on the Falkland Islands. The British people should not accept Americas neutrality on the issue
but should demand Americas support. The strongest argument the United Kingdom has for its claim on the Falkland Islands is the inhabitants right to selfdeterminationa principle on which America was founded and in which most Americans believe. The 3,000 residents of the Falklands overwhelmingly want to be British and not Argentine. Linguistically, culturally, and historically, nobody can deny that they are British. The right to selfdetermination is guaranteed by the United Nations Charter and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rightsand Argentina is a signatory to both. Once again, President Obama has shown how little he cares about the Special Relationship. No number of flights on Air Force One, state dinners stuffed with wealthy political donors, or basketball games in swing states can change this fact. As previous analysis from The Heritage Foundation has pointed out: The Special Relationship is vital to the interests of both the United States and Great Britain, and its preservation is of paramount importance to the defense of freedom and liberty across the world. It is time for Washington to recognize and support British sovereignty over the Falkland Islands and stand by Americas OBAMA page 54
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James Madison: Father and Defender of the Constitution

Julia Shaw (The Foundry: Conservative Policy News Blog from The Heritage Foundation)
Submitted at 3/17/2012 9:30:30 AM
George Washington has a monument; Jefferson has a memorial; and even James Buchanan has a spot in Washington, D.C., dedicated to his legacy. But theres no slab of marble in honor of James Madison. Yesterday was James Madisons birthday, so today let us then remember his legacy as the father of our Constitution. Madison conceived the basic outline of the Constitution before the Constitutional Convention even met. He came to the Convention steeped in the histories of ancient republics, well -versed in the political theory of the ages, and prepared with a plan for the new government. The Convention took an oath of secrecy but did not remain shrouded in mystery, because we have Madisons detailed notes. After the Constitution was drafted, Madison teamed up with Alexander Hamilton and John Jay to write the Federalist, which in Jeffersons words was the best commentary on the principles of government, which ever was written. The key phrases we associate with the
Constitutionfederalism, checks and balances, and the separation of powersappear not in the document itself, but in the Federalist. Its James Madison who writes, If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. And Madison who concludes: In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself. Once the new Constitution was implemented, Madison served in Congress. As chairman of the House conference committee on the Bill of Rights, he was the principle author. This position enabled him to look after a cause dear to him throughout his political careerreligious liberty. Madisons original draft of the First Amendment read: the civil rights of none shall be abridged on account of religious belief or worship nor shall the full and equal rights of conscience be in any manner, or on any pretext, infringed Though somewhat less expansive in its protections, the final version bears Madisons mark: Congress shall make no
law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof. Joe Loconte argues that thanks largely to Madison, free exercise replaced toleration as the national standard for protecting religious liberty. Madison is sometimes invoked as the father of nullification, too. But, as Christian Fritz expertly lays out, Madison may deny
paternity. Madison maintained that single states lacked constitutional authority to nullify national laws. But interposition refers to various state actions designed to arouse public opposition, challenge federal actions, and ultimately change or stop the objectionable action. Through public opinion, protests, petitions, or even the state
legislatures acting as an instrument of the people, the interposer would focus attention on whether the governments actions were permissible under the Constitution. Though often confused with nullification, Madisons understanding of interposition was consistent with the Constitution and encouraged states and citizens to remain vigilant against federal encroachment. We dont need a slab of marble to remember James Madison. Instead, we have the Constitution that created the framework for ordered liberty and more than 200 years of stable, peaceful republican government. We have the Bill of Rights that singles out specific individual liberties that all Americans possess, especially the right to religious liberty. And, most importantly, we have his legacy on how to defend this document. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
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Scribecast: Voter ID Proponents Launch Counteroffensive Against DOJ

Rob Bluey (The Foundry: Conservative Policy News Blog from The Heritage Foundation)
Submitted at 3/17/2012 1:03:04 PM
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder is currently blocking implementation of voter ID laws in South Carolina and Texas. Its the latest battle in the fight for voter integrity at the ballot box and the reason two supporters of voter ID are launching a robust defense the laws. We believe this offensive by the Justice Department must be met with a counteroffensive, said Ken Blackwell, Ohios former secretary of state. He is working on the project with Ken Klukowski, a fellow with the American Civil Rights Union and faculty member at Liberty Universitys School of Law. The two will launch their project in the coming days.
Blackwell and Klukowski warn that liberals will stop at nothing in their quest to topple voter ID laws. The NAACP has even brought the issue to the U.N. Human Rights Council, an organization whose members include China, Cuba and Russia. Blackwell previously served as U.S. ambassador to the U.N. Human Rights Commission, the organizations predecessor. Listen to the interview with Blackwell and Klukowski on Scribecast Klukowski believes the Holders actions against South Carolina on Texas are driven purely by politics to gin up an electoral base to drive turnout on Election Day. He noted that Holder is only blocking laws in states subject to Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, a civil rights-era law that gives the Department of
Justice authority over voting changes. The Obama-Holder Department of Justice has launched an all-out war on voter ID and other measures, Blackwell said. Although Holders actions are
purported to prevent AfricanAmericans from being disenfranchised, in reality they serve as a crass political attempt to ensure his boss gets re-elected this year. The U.S. Supreme Court upheld
Indianas voter ID law in 2008. Klukowski said that decision even had the backing of liberal Justice John Paul Stevens. The laws in South Carolina and Texas are similar to the one in Indiana. The podcast runs about 10 minutes. It was produced with the help of Hannah Sternberg. Listen to previous interviews on Scribecast or subscribe to future episodes. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
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closest ally, not least at a time when nearly 10,000 British troops are standing shoulder to shoulder with their U.S. allies on the battlefields of Afghanistan. An unattributed overture of American neutrality in The New York Times hardly amounts to the policy statement Britain deserves. The Obama Administration needs
to make it crystal clear that it backs the United Kingdom over Argentina regarding the status of the Falklands. The sooner it does this, the better. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/content-
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How a Mysterious Robot Dinosaur Won Over Techs Top Influencers

Sarah Kessler (Mashable!)
Submitted at 3/17/2012 12:32:09 PM
Wait, are you going to write my answers in human talk? a man wearing a grey cardboard dinosaur head asks me. His hands are covered in what looks like metallic duct tape, and I can see a microphone secured to the bottom of his cardboard snout. He switches back to his online personality, which is based on a robot T-Rex named Grimlock from the original Transformers cartoon. On the Internet, the voice of FAKEGRIMLOCK is written in all caps with caveman syntax. In person, its an artificially low growling voice that struggles to misuse pronouns. THAT HOW DINO TALK. HAVE TINY BRAIN, he says. Nobody knows who FAKEGRIMLOCK is, but in some circles, he counts as famous. Its the Saturday of South by Southwest Interactive, and he has been called upon to promote a startup called Shelby.TV by chatting with tech influencers invited to meet a mystery celebrity. The video startups plan is to post the resulting reactions online. My curiosity about who would persistently impersonate a robot dinosaur and how this could come to constitute celebrity, combined with a
miscommunication surrounding the word interview, has landed me a reluctant starring role in this production. I ask him why he adopts a dinosaur personality in blog
comment sections, his own site and on Twitter. TWITTER BEST PLACE WHERE ANYONE BECOME ANYTHING, he says. ONLY PLACE WHERE SOMEONE
RAPIDLY GAIN FOLLOWERS BECAUSE OF WHAT SAY, WHAT DO, INSTEAD OF WHAT ONE IS. FAKEGRIMLOCK, who says on his blog that he works in the IT
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technology blog TechCrunch. Most blogs have anonymous commenters they call trolls, but what FAKEGRIMLOCK does is a bit different. His comments, despite being written in robot speak, are usually on-point and insightful rather than purely malicious. Occasionally he doles out compliments, and he has a habit of phrasing them like the Dali Lamas Twitter account: IF PARTNERS NOT AGREE ON WHO ARE TOGETHER, IT NOT PARTNERSHIP, WILL FAIL. Or, BEST TIME TO BREAK WORLD IN HALF IS WHEN IT SHOWS UP TO STOP YOU. One reader called him the best reason to read the blog. Although FAKEGRIMLOCK says the publication deleted some of his comments, at least one writer started to appreciate him. At first he was annoying and now I cant help but look for his nuggets of wisdom, wrote former TechCrunch writer Steve Poland on recommendation site Jig.
Fake Grimlock, who refuses to join Facebook, started focusing on other blogs comment sections when TechCrunch switched to Facebook comments. Celebrity might be a stretch when describing the robot dinosaurs status. At South by Southwest, I informally polled about 25 startup founders, VCs and others who are deeply involved in the tech scene on whether anyone had heard the name, but failed to get a positive r e s p o n s e . W h a t FAKEGRIMLOCK has cultivated, however, is respect from a bunch of very smart people. Hes written guest blog posts, complete with cartoon illustrations, for The Lean Startup author Eric Ries, Union Square Ventures Principal Fred Wilson and Foundry Group Managing Director Brad Feld. Im a huge fan of FAKEGRIMLOCK, occasionally commenting on his comments, but often laughing out loud or smiling with recognition of their brilliance
when I saw them, Feld wrote on his blog. Despite having a relatively small following (about 7,000 on Twitter), FAKEGRIMLOCK was able to raise more than $22,000 from just 300 backers on Kickstarter who wanted to see his cartoons in print. An excerpt from FAKEGRIMLOCKs guest post on Brad Felds blog. As he becomes more well-known in entrepreneurial circles, FAKEGRIMLOCK sees his role as an inspiring one. ME BE ON TWITTER NOT FOR ME, FOR EVERYONE, Fake Grimlock tells me. FOR HELP EVERYONE BE MORE AWESOME. THAT WHY WRITE BLOGS, WRITE GUEST POSTS, WHY MAKE POSTERS. IT TO INSPIRE PEOPLE TO DO BETTER, TO DO MORE. TO NOT LIMIT SELVES. SELF HAVE NO LIMIT, ONLY LIMIT PUT ON SELF. The be yourself line is hard to take coming from someone
wearing a cardboard robot head, but somehow it also seems sincere. Who is Fake Grimlock? Even Shelby.TVs founders, who brought him to SXSW, say they failed to get a real name out of him. It might be that nobody, anywhere, actually knows and wouldnt recognize the name if they did. That, as far as I can tell, is his point. More About: fakegrimlock, features, Marketing, Startups, sxsw, trending, Twitter For more Business coverage: Follow Mashable Business on Twitter Become a Fan on Facebook Subscribe to the Business channel Download our free apps for Android, Mac, iPhone and iPad
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AT&T Loses Throttling Case, Pays $935 to Customer

Alissa Skelton (Mashable!)
Submitted at 3/17/2012 1:53:10 PM
Team_Shep#netneutrality#throttli ng twitter.com/matthewspacc/s M a t t AT&T decided to pay up after a Spaccarelli(@matthewspacc) California small claims court March 17, 2012 judge ruled it was unfair to In an email, AT&T spokesman throttle a cellphone data plan Mark Siegel confirmed AT&T advertised as unlimited. wrote a check to Spaccarelli, but Matt Spaccarelli, 39, challenged would not comment further. AT&T in February after he AT&T is still throttling noticed his 4G network wasnt Spaccarellis phone he had a operating as fast as it should. .31 Mbps download speed on Spaccarelli is among the 5% of Saturday but he considers the AT&T customers who use the court ruling a win. He said he most data. He told the court plans to use the money to shut off speeds slowed once he used his cellphone service before his 1.5GB to 2GB of data after the contract is up and to go to the billing cycle began. AT&T stockholders meeting in The judge said slowing down April in Salt Lake City, Utah. data violated AT&Ts unlimited To me the check means AT&T data plan terms and ordered didnt stand a chance in the AT&T pay $850 plus $85 for appeal, Spaccarelli said. If they court costs. did, they wouldnt have paid me. The cellphone provider initially AT&Ts pay-up decision comes said it planned to appeal the after the company offered to settle r u l i n g , b u t d e c i d e d t o p a y the case. AT&T asked Spaccarelli Spaccarelli late Friday afternoon. t o s i g n a n o n - d i s c l o s u r e He tweeted a picture of his check agreement[PDF] that threatened for $935: to shut off his phone service for Its official! I win! Thanks for all tethering. Spaccarelli refused to t h e s u p p o r t . @ A T T @ sign the agreement. p e t e r s v e n s s o n @ It isnt about the money,
4G customers who use more than 3GB during a billing cycle will experience slowing speeds and 4G LTE customers wont be allowed more than 5GB. Even with the change, AT&T says 95% of its smartphone customers wont be throttled. Spaccarelli said. Its about Spaccarelli said he has found a getting the service Im paying for. way to avoid slow speeds. He I pay $130 per month and with bought a second iPhone and that I expect a little bit of plugged in a SIM card from reasonableness. Straight Talk, a reseller. He said SEE ALSO: Your Bandwidth the download speed is 3.83 Mbps Will Be Throttled. Heres Why. on a AT&T 3G network. Not bad Both AT&T and Verizon throttle for paying $45 per month for users who gobble up the most unlimited talking, texting, data data. About 17 million AT&T and no contract, Spaccarelli said. customers have unlimited data More About: att, iphone 3g, plans, according to the Associated iphone 4g, throttling, trending Press. Small claims court is the For more Mobile coverage: only legal route that has been Follow Mashable Mobile on s u c c e s s f u l f o r c h a l l e n g i n g Twitter AT&Ts throttling policies. A Become a Fan on Facebook Supreme Court case last year Subscribe to the Mobile channel ruled AT&T does not have to Download our free apps for allow class action lawsuits, so Android, Mac, iPhone and iPad customers cant rally in court for a policy change on throttling. AT&T put limits on its unlimited data plans earlier this month. The company said 3G and
SpaceX Prepares Dragon Spacecraft for Human Flight [PICS]

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Submitted at 3/17/2012 1:06:22 PM
SpaceX is preparing a spacecraft to accommodate seven astronauts on its first flight. With the goal of sending a manned Dragon spacecraft first to the International Space Station, the companys built a prototype of the capsule, including seven comfy seats for those lucky voyageurs. SpaceX, a company run by PayPal cofounder and Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk, hopes to soon pick up where NASAs 30year shuttle program left off last July. With a little help from NASA, the companys designing the spacecrafts seating, lighting, storage spaces and environmental controls for the comfort and safety of its crew. As you can see in the gallery below, this is not a tiny tin can where astronauts are crammed in like sardines the company says SPACEX page 58
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Dragons big enough for seven adults that are up to 65 tall and weigh 250 pounds. Theres enough room in the capsule for three others to stand and help the astronauts get comfortable in preparation for their mission. Brags SpaceX on its website, In fact, Dragon has so much interior volume, that we could place an entire three-person Russian Soyuz capsule descent module inside Dragons pressure vessel. How long will it be until this relatively large spacecraft atop its mighty Falcon 9 booster rocket makes it to the International Space Station? The companys not ready for human spaceflight just yet the first step is to send an unmanned cargo version of the Dragon spacecraft filled with supplies to the International Space Station, a mission that was originally scheduled for February 7 of this year. The company announced Friday it is aiming for a April 30 launch with plans for docking with the
space station on May 3, according Aero News. Although this upcoming mission will test maneuverability and docking, a first for a privately developed spacecraft. SpaceX has contracted two cargo missions for this year, the first of which is tentatively scheduled for July. In all, SpaceX has 16 flights on its manifest through 2015. So far, SpaceX has successfully flown the Falcon 9 rocket with the SpaceX Dragon capsule on top, in a mission on December 8, 2010. The spacecraft orbited the earth at an altitude of around 190 miles for three hours, and the company was able to test its maneuverability before it splashed down in the Pacific Ocean. Earlier this month, the Dragon spacecraft and its Falcon booster passed a crucial test, a dress rehearsal for its unmanned first voyage to the International Space Station. Do you think private space exploration will be as successful as NASAs exploits?
Take a look at this gallery of the interior of the Dragon spacecraft and some of its other attributes: Dragon Prototype According to SpaceX, "SpaceX and NASA conducted a day-long review of the Dragon crew vehicle layout using the Dragon engineering model equipped with seats and representations of crew systems." Photo: SpaceX Click here to view this gallery. More About: elon musk, International Space Station, NASA, space, SpaceX, trending For more Startups coverage: Follow Mashable Startups on Twitter Become a Fan on Facebook Subscribe to the Startups channel Jason Hidalgo (Engadget) Download our free apps for Android, Mac, iPhone and iPad Submitted at 3/17/2012 2:20:00 PM
Kinect makes pact with head-mounted display, virtual reality Skyrim ensues
first-person perspective. Admittedly, stomping around and flailing one's arms may lack the Yeah, streaming Skyrim on a elegance and playability of The Tegra 3-powered Ice Cream G a d g e t S h o w ' s $ 6 5 0 , 0 0 0 Sandwich tablet is nice and all, Battlefield 3 simulator, but at but what about folks who want a $1500, it's a homegrown virtual more immersive experience with reality experience that's actually their beloved time sink? One tech- within reach. Now go forth and savvy gamer took matters into his explore the video after the break. own hands -- conjuring a bit of Continue reading Kinect makes electronics alchemy by throwing pact with head-mounted display, together Sony's HMZ-T1 head- virtual reality Skyrim ensues mounted display with a Kinect Kinect makes pact with headsensor, a TrackIR5 for head mounted display, virtual reality tracking and voice recognition S k y r i m e n s u e s o r i g i n a l l y s o f t w a r e . T h e r e s u l t i s a n appeared on Engadget on Sat, 17 experience that allows any Mar 2012 14:20:00 EDT. Please wannabe adventurer to press see our terms for use of feeds. onward into Tamriel's frozen Permalink The Next Web| Zookal| north by marching in place while Email this| Comments imbibing in a true, head-mounted
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Intel on Irans nuclear weapons program: An endless do-loop

J.E. Dyer (Hot Air Top Picks)
Submitted at 3/17/2012 2:40:00 PM
posted at 3:40 pm on March 17, 2012 by J.E. Dyer Maybe we know more now about something that started 12 years go. That would be nice. The Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS), which follows the Iran nuclear problem closely, believes it has identified a building where IAEA has information that explosive tests have been conducted for a nuclear warhead detonator. ISIS issued a report on 13 March highlighting the building in imagery near the Parchin weapons facility southeast of Tehran. An interesting aspect of the ISIS analysis is the fact that the building in question is located well outside the main area of the Parchin facility. Basically, it is in an area the ISIS analysts had apparently not reviewed before, at least not prior to the November 2011 IAEA report in which the Parchin building was featured as a suspect site. The building is between 4 and 5 kilometers northeast of the Parchin main installation, at the edge of a seasonal riverbed across from a small village. ISIS imagery: Parchin in 2004. Berm building site at upper right. The ISIS report suggests the
analysts approach was to look for a site with the features provided in the November 2011 IAEA report: a building with its own perimeter fence and a berm between it and the adjacent building. Thats how they came up with the site in the report. They may be right that this is the building IAEA wants to inspect. An additional feature of
this particular building is that it lies at the north end of a two-lane, paved north-south road. Vehicle traffic can only approach it from one direction, a common feature of high-security sites the world over. On the other hand, it is a serious question why this building hasnt been visited before. Was it
actually not identified by authorities until recently? We could throw confetti at the new ISIS report, but we should gain a little perspective first. Some of the important facts are included in the ISIS report: IAEAs information (in the November 2011 report) is that the explosive testing done in this building
occurred in the early 2000s, and that the building houses a test chamber (described as being the size of a double-decker bus) that was put in place in 2000. The information, in other words, is not about a new development. And we have to go elsewhere for other pieces of the puzzle. When we put everything together, the central question we end up with is this one: when IAEA last visited the Parchin installation in 2005, why did its team not inspect this building? It wasnt because there was no input from national intelligence agencies. In fact, a key reason IAEA visited Parchin in 2005 was that the United States had forwarded evidence in 2004 of high-explosive testing for a nuclear weapon at Parchin. In a September 2004 analysis done because of the aggregate reporting at that time, ISIS cited AFP stating that IAEA already regarded Parchin as a suspect site. The ISIS summary indicated that the agency had independent sources of information on the site. IAEA identified four areas of interest at the installation, according to its own documents. There is no public information on where those four areas were. But IAEA was allowed to visit no INTEL page 61
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Is Gingrich Much Crazier Than The Rest of Us?

Robert Wright (Politics : The Atlantic)
Submitted at 3/17/2012 9:26:00 AM
My previous post suggested that maybe Newt Gingrich suffers from a condition known as hypomania--which is like the manic phase of classic manicdepressive illness except a bit less so. (Hence, as the commenter Xclamation noted, the prefix "hypo" rather than "hyper"-signifying a state of mind that is sub-manic, though still intense.) Speaking of commenters: Some weren't happy with my post. Two kinds of complaints seem especially worth addressing: 1) I didn't offer enough evidence for my armchair diagnosis and, anyway, I don't have the credentials to make it. True and true. But I did link to the Slate piece in which Jacob Weisberg had made the Newt-is-hypomanic argument in December, and there you'll find more evidence, including a quote about Newt from an actual hypomania expert. 2) Even if we accept that Gingrich suffers from hypomania, does that really make him "crazy" --a term I used in the headline of my post?The "crazy" question is a good one. First the technical answer: hypomania is found in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual
of Mental Disorders, so if you equate having a mental disorder with "crazy," then you can justify using that term. Still, it's true that many people use "crazy" to mean "delusional," and Newt isn't delusional in the sense of hearing voices. He is delusional in the sense of being prone to a grandiose selfconception--thinking he can be president when almost nobody else does, telling us that he's a "transformational figure," a guy who will "shift the entire planet," etc. And you could argue that we're all kind of like that. I don't mean we all think we can be president, let alone transformational ones. But don't we all, at some point in our lives, feel optimistic about accomplishing something that is in fact really unlikely--writing the pathbreaking book, charming the beautiful woman who seems to be gazing at us longingly but in fact is just wondering whether to tell us that we have a piece of potato salad on our chin? Everyone is sometimes delusional in some sense--it's just a question of how big and persistent the delusions are. Still, the fact that a psychological tendency can exist in varying degrees doesn't mean you can't draw a line at some point on the
thermometer and define everything to its north as crazy. Most of us exhibit paranoid tendencies in the sense of suspecting malicious intent when a cool consideration of the evidence doesn't warrant that suspicion. And some people do that a lot, and some people do it a whole lot--and at some point people are doing it so much that they can be diagnosed as paranoid. But where exactly you put that threshold is a judgment call. A common place to put the threshold is the place where significant dysfunction sets in. One commenter ( Xclamation again!) said "if a person can, by and large, make it through the day without more hassle than is 'normal,' then they're not crazy." If dysfunction is the threshold, then whether Newt is beyond it depends on things such as (1) Whether you think his past marital turmoil was dysfunctional, and whether you attribute that to hypomania; (2) How dysfunctional you think it is when his more grandiose endeavors-like introducing legislation that specifies conditions under which a moon colony can apply for statehood--come back to damage him politically. In any event, it's worth noting
that we often, in common parlance, use the word "crazy"-with a straight face--to describe someone whose mental condition isn't obviously dysfunctional. (Haven't you ever said to someone in a hushed, emphatic tone, "He's crazy," while discussing someone who on the surface leads a normal life?) Some who commented on my previous post seemed to take this line. The commenter evensteve wrote, "The description of someone as 'mentally ill' is not a categorical one. It is well known that many politicians, and even successful world leaders, are high on the sociopathic dimension, so one might reasonably refer to some of these people as mentally ill as well." This idea of non-dysfunctional craziness seems to be embraced by John D. Gartner, a psychologist at Johns Hopkins who is quoted in the Weisberg piece and has opined that Gingrich is hypomanic. Gartner, citing Christopher Columbus and Andrew Carnegie as examples, sees hypomania as sometimes being an ingredient of high achievement. His book on the subject is called The Hypomanic Edge: The Link Between (a Little) Craziness and (a Lot of) Success in America. (Of course, it's the successful hypomanics who come
to our attention--there's no telling how many derailed hypomanic careers there are for every Andrew Carnegie.) I should note that, according to Wikipedia, Gartner is unusual in thinking of hypomania as a more or less stable personality trait. In the aforementioned Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, hypomania is described as a phase that can wax and wane. In particular, it can be a recurring phase in "bipolar II" disorder, which is less severe than "bipolar I," i.e., classic manic-depressive illness. Weisberg adduces some evidence that Gingrich is prone to depressive phases. When Gingrich's presidential bid finally ends, there may be more evidence --though, if so, it probably won't be available for public inspection. This article available online at: http://www.theatlantic.com/ politics/archive/2012/03/isgingrich-much-crazier-than-therest-of-us/254662/ This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
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Sprint bails on LightSquared

Ed Morrissey (Hot Air Top Picks)
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first by a month from its original December 31 date and then to mid -March. Submitted at 3/17/2012 12:05:16 PM LSQ has continued its publicposted at 1:05 pm on March 17, relations blitz, the only other 2012 by Ed Morrissey forum still open to them, claiming Yesterday brought good and bad that the FCCs decision amounts news to LightSquared, which still to a bait and switch by the wants to get an approval from the federal government of historic FCC that would swamp out most scale. Thats a reference to the GPS receivers already on the FCCs decision to grant the commercial market and interfere temporary, limited waiver that with a critical aviation system encouraged LSQ to ramp up its used by commercial pilots to development rather than simply a v o i d o b s t a c l e s l i k e test the devices and networking mountains. The good news? itself, which the FCC had plenty Sprint paid LightSquared $65 of capacity to do. In fact, Senator million, cash badly needed by Charles Grassley has spent almost LSQ to pursue the waiver needed a year demanding answers to that to roll out its network. The bad question, which the FCC and its n e w s ? S p r i n t p a i d i t a s a chair Julius Genachowski refuses severance, ending the partnership to answer. Now, however, the that drove the network plan: House Energy and Commerce Hedge fund manager Philip chair Fred Upton has requested Falcones LightSquared lost its answers to those same questions, main business partner, Sprint and Uptons committee has Nextel Corp , but gained $65 jurisdiction over the FCC million from the breakup that may which means Upton can subpoena help its last-ditch effort to get their records if needed, and slap regulatory approval to establish a Genachowski with a contempt high-speed wireless network. charge if he continues to Sprint said on Friday it would s t o n e w a l l . exercise its right to scuttle the $9 The real bait-and-switch, though, billion agreement that would have would have been on users of GPS, allowed LightSquared to use a including commercial aviation network Sprint is building to sell and the military, both of which its own high-speed wireless objected from the beginning to services. LSQs plans. GPS receivers have Sprint had the right to back out of been built for years decades, the deal if LightSquared failed to really, including military and get regulatory approval by a aviation systems on the deadline that was twice extended, understanding that adjacent
frequency bands would only be used for low-power satellite transmissions. Philip Falcone and Harbinger formed LSQ from satellite communications firms they consolidated or licensed, and attempted to use their licensed frequencies to built a high-power terrestrial 4G network, with a waiver from the FCC to allow them to use the frequencies despite the power restrictions on that spectrum. That represented a bait-and-switch for millions of current GPS users, all of whom would have had to replace their GPS receivers, which would have worked much less effectively thanks to greatly-lowered sensitivity sensitivity needed to receive and amplify those lowpower satellite signals that allow the receivers to accurately pinpoint terrestrial locations. The other forum still open to LSQ is the courts, of course, and it looks like LSQ is headed there. According to this report, they have retained some very highpowered and conservative legal counsel: Ted Olson and Eugene Scalia. People dont hire Olson to avoid litigation, and Falcone can hardly afford to blow that kind of money on a whim: When asked if LightSquared may pursue legal action against the FCC, Carlisle said the company is prepared to examine all options. The companys fate is critical to investors in Falcones Harbinger Capital Partners, which once
controlled $26 billion in assets but is now down to about $4 billion. A little more than half of Harbingers money is tied up in LightSquared. The hedge fund is the companys single largest equity investor. They dont have a prayer in court of overturning the FCC denial of the waiver, thanks to the terms of the waiver itself. LSQ had to show that their network didnt interfere with GPS systems for the waiver to be granted permanently. At least two rounds of testing by government agencies showed that LSQ substantially interfered with most current uses for GPS, and that it was so bad that mere mitigation wouldnt solve the problem. If LSQ goes to court, it will be to sue over the lost investment resulting from the waiver grant, and the plaintiffs will oddly find themselves on the same side as Grassley and Upton challenging the FCC to explain why they didnt just test the system themselves rather than have a year and many millions of dollars wasted on an obviously insurmountable problem. Stay tuned. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
more than two areas, in two separate visits in 2005 (the reports from 2005 are here and here). According to IAEA, the January inspection team was given its choice of one of the four areas. The January 2005 visit was described as including five buildings, which means that it was not a visit to the site of the building identified yesterday by ISIS. The earlier ISIS reporting suggests that the area visited in January 2005 was in the main part of the Parchin installation. The National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) reported that the November 2005 visit was to a site for testing air-defense systems, unrelated to the nuclear program. The bottom line is that US intelligence had information in 2004 that explosive tests had been conducted at Parchin in the early 2000s, and IAEA also regarded the site as suspect for its own reasons. The evidence suggests, however, that in two visits to Parchin in 2005, IAEA did not visit the site northeast of the main installation where ISIS now thinks the test building is located. If ISIS is right and its still possible theyre not; there are a lot of nondescript buildings in the Greater Parchin area this is the building that has been there since 2000 (a fact IAEA has established) and is also the building where explosive tests were conducted in the early 2000s (an intelligence report put forward by the US in 2004). INTEL page 62
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Obama stuck on repeat: End subsidies for big oil

Tina Korbe (Hot Air Top Picks)
Submitted at 3/17/2012 1:20:12 PM
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posted at 2:20 pm on March 17, 2012 by Tina Korbe For the fourth straight week, energy issues dominated the Democratic and Republican weekly addresses. I wonder why they bother to make new videos: The president and whoever is the Republican-of-the-week say the same thing every time. Just replay the first energy-themed addresses and leave it at that! As long as the president is going to repeat his call to end subsidies for big oil, though, Im going to echo it with the call to end all energy subsidies. As Ive written before, its a myth that the tax code favors oil over renewables; in fact, under the Obama administration, renewable energy has been and continues to be more heavily subsidized by tax carveouts than any other energy sector. We all know how those alternative energy subsidies have worked out for us. It doesnt matter who the cronies are; crony
capitalism is the problem. The president also implied in his address that high prices right now might be partially the fault of traders who distort the price of oil, and make big profits for themselves at your expense. But Daniel Yergin, chairman of IHS Cambridge Energy Research Associates, explains in The Wall Street Journal that the oil market is [just] reading the front page. The price reflects whats going on in the world. Far from a distortion, its the one reflection we have of the state of American energy today. Yergin writes: In 2012, the reason is mainly geopolitics. Last November, the United Nations declared that Iran was clearly developing nuclearweapons capabilities. The West is responding with sanctions aimed at reducing Irans ability to export oil, on which it depends for more than half of its government revenues, to get it to halt its nuclear-weapons program. Tehran has answered by conducting large naval exercises and threatening to close the Strait of Hormuz, through which passes some 35%
of the worlds oil exports. Global oil prices and U.S. gasoline prices have both risen about 20% since mid-December. And all this is occurring in a world oil market that is already tight, tighter than it was last year, with no more than 2.5 million barrels of spare capacity. At least half a million barrels a day are currently out of the market because of disruptions in South Sudan and Yemen and civil war in Syria. A market this tight would already be susceptible to upward price pressures. But the market is operating on expectations that supplies will become even tighter as new U.S. and European sanctions against Iran take effect and the risk of military conflict increases. These facts actually work in Obamas favor; theres no need for him to invoke traders who distort the price of oil. Still, while it might be true that the president isnt responsible for every factor currently driving up the price of gas, he also cant hide the evidence of the first three
years of his administration. At every turn, he has pursued an energy policy that punishes oil and gas companies and rewards alternative energy companies. Had he taken a different approach from the beginning, we might not be facing the high prices we do today. Yet, in the face of these high prices, all the president proposes is to double down on his already questionable approach. Perhaps he lacks the humility to learn from his past mistakes. Tags: alternative energy, Barack Obama, energy, energy subsidies, gas, gas prices, oil, Presidential Weekly Address, renewables, Republican Weekly Address, weekly addresses This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
The most positive construction on the failure to visit the building in 2005 is that no one knew it was the site to visit. Perhaps that was the case. The US deduced that beryllium might have been used in the nuclear-detonator testing, but that kind of information does not depend on knowing exactly where tests have been conducted. It appears that descriptive information about the building (i.e., the berm at one end, the dedicated perimeter security), while already available from unnamed national intelligence agencies, did not become significant to IAEA until the agency debriefed Vyacheslav Danilenko, the Russian scientist who is said to have assisted Iran in testing a nuclear detonator. Reporting on that aspect of the problem did not emerge until November 2011. (IAEA doesnt name Danilenko in its report, but news outlets like Washington Post cite diplomats as identifying Danilenko. Danilenko denied he had had any connection with Irans nuclear program, stating that he understood his stint in Iran, which lasted from the mid1990s to 2002, to be related to the explosive generation of nanodiamonds.) Perhaps it shouldnt strain credulity that IAEA had regarded Parchin as a suspect site prior to 2004, that the US knew of nuclear -related explosive testing there by 2004, and that IAEA visited two areas of Parchin in 2005, but it INTEL page 63
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wasnt until 2011 that anyone had enough information on the whole matter to identify the building with the berm. It does, however. Meanwhile, one other matter requires clarification. News reporting last week seemed to suggest that IAEA had observed attempts to clean up an area of Parchin a very short time ago at least, as the news customer would imagine, sometime in 2012. But the original reports about this activity were made in November 2011, shortly after that months IAEA report was issued. On 21 November, AP reported that national officials from several nations had discussed unusual activity at Parchin on 4-5 November, using exactly the same
references to freight trucks and haulage vehicles found in the statements from last week. Perhaps the more recent comments are about an ongoing effort to truck things out of Parchin, one stretching back to early November 2011 an effort of truly prodigious proportions. It is more likely, however, that the reports from last week were about the observations from early November. Thats how the Iran problem generally rolls. Whatever new thing you hear, its probably something we knew about months or even years ago. Hat tips/see also: Challah Hu Akbar, Elder of Ziyon, Israel Matzav J.E. Dyers articles have appeared at The Green Room,
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Windows 8 app keeps perps under virtual lock and key, frightens pedestrians (video)
Joseph Volpe (Engadget)
Submitted at 3/17/2012 2:50:00 PM
Need something to sate that Windows 8-lust Microsoft stirred up with its Consumer Preview? Then take a gander at this indevelopment vehicle control app shown off at the company's Redmond campus as part of this year's Worldwide Public Safety
Symposium. Developed by Modularis, an outfit known for their enterprise, federal and OEM automation solutions, the Metrostyle application turns its host slate into a virtual controller, granting users remote access to door locks, sirens, lights, as well as the ability to pull cloud-based determine GPS location. And, as data -- courtesy of Windows you'll see in the video after the Azure-- from multiple cars to break, it also has the unintended
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