Archives: September 2012
NATO: 119 killed in ‘green-on-blue’ insider attacks…
Becoming the ‘signature attack’ in Afghanistan…
2,000 DEAD SOLDIERS:
‘Insider’ Attack Lifts US Military
Toll to Grim Milestone in Afghanistan…
Poe: ‘We don’t need to pay them to betray us.
They’ll do it for free…’
‘US-Egypt relationship has never
been under more scrutiny, and rightly so…’
REP. KAY GRANGER
BLOCKS $450M AID TO EGYPT…
Chief spy: Terrorist origins of Libya attack were not immediately clear…
Shifting accounts leave Obama exposed on national security and foreign policy…
A good debate angle for Romney?
Romney ‘not a good political candidate in this era…’ but ‘highly qualified to be president…’
‘I’m not Obama’ is no longer enough…
It’s ‘modern conservatism that has sunk his campaign…’
Or maybe it’s Karl Rove, whose work ‘with Romney has been a disaster…’
The race is no longer ‘within the margin of error…’
It’s ‘still winnable for Romney…but the window is closing soon…’
Ann Romney concerned for Mitt’s ‘mental well-being’ if he becomes president…
US will recognize lesbian and gay partners in deportation cases…
First recognition ‘within federal immigration policies…’
Israel says sanctions are working, calls for another round…
‘Iran uses diplomatic negotiations to buy time to advance its nuclear program…’
Full speech video…
Draws red line on cartoon-like bomb…
Whoever produced the ‘cheesy graphic of a bomb…should consider a new line of work…’
Record low coverage, by an amount ‘about equal to the entire state of Texas…’
CANDIDATES SILENT ON CLIMATE CHANGE…
Yet, Arctic Ocean will be entirely ice-free by summer 2016…
Fast-running and relatively deep…for thousands to millions of years…
CalTech: ‘We’re really excited about this…’
‘A transition from speculation about the size of streambed material to direct observation of it…’
Video: There had to be weather to make the stream…
Held today, the election ‘could look pretty ugly for Mr. Romney…’
Enjoy it while it lasts: Obama may be near his ceiling…
FOX accuses national polls of favoring Obama, but FOX polls also show Obama surging…
Breitbart: Media over-sampling Democrats, replacing Independents with women…
MSNBC edits video so crowd appears to prefer Ryan over Romney…
Krauthammer: ‘Think how far ahead Romney would be if he were actually running a campaign…’
Wall Street, eyes on data and percentages, bracing for Obama victory…
Emir of Qatar: Arab nations should intervene
‘to stop the bloodshed in Syria…’
30,000 dead in 18 months…
‘Only going to get worse for the regime…’
Egypt’s Morsi: ‘Tragedy of the age’ that ‘we all must end…’
Obama failures ‘can no longer be ignored…’
Romney offers no ‘coherent alternative approach…’
REBELS ATTACK MILITARY HQ
IN THE ‘HEART’ OF DAMASCUS…
Finally: Clinton admits al Qaeda link in Benghazi attack…
What took so long? Knew within 24 hours…
US is ‘taking aim at the support structure of al Qaeda…’
Protesters in Greece lob Molotov cocktails at police…
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Video: ‘Every country of the EU should fight to detach itself from the EU…’
Romney dampens hope for deep tax cuts…
‘Unpleasant details left intentionally blank…’
Tomasky: ‘His numbers don’t add up, he knows they don’t add up…’
No better: ‘Obama has few plans to clean this [tax] mess up…’
Economist video: Comparing Obama and Romney tax plans…
In Ohio, Obama speaks to 6,600; Romney to 2,000…
Indicative of Romney’s Ohio problem…
‘No Republican has ever won the White House without carrying Ohio…’
‘But perhaps 2012 will be the first year that changes…’
Don’t count on it: Obama’s ‘bounce has cascaded across the battleground states…’
‘Threatening’ Romney’s ‘best route to victory…
Obama leads in Ohio by 52% to 47%…
Beleaguered Spaniards demand ‘government, resign!’…
Video: Police harassment and intimidation…
Chris Hedges on the decline of fact-based journalism…
The ‘process of establishing verifiable fact has largely been dispensed with…’
Pundits wrong about invading Iraq, globalization, and unregulated capitalism ‘hang on to their positions as if nothing happened…’
Reporters ‘scrambling to figure out how the hell to cover these a*sholes…’
Rachel Carson’s environmental classic, Silent Spring, is 50 years old…
‘Widely credited with launching the modern environmental movement…
But guilty of ‘alarmism, technophobia, failure to consider the costs and benefits of alternatives…’
The stock market is a net loser 99.5% of the time…
Most gains happened on 138 days in past 116 years…
National Academy of Sciences missile defense report ‘flawed…’
Idea that US can’t defend against rogue ICBMs ‘totally incompatible’ with earlier reports…
UN: China and Japan engage in ‘severe’ meeting…
Neither side showing signs of compromise…
Chinese white paper: Disputed islands ‘an inseparable part of the Chinese territory…’
Beijing summit: China will ‘absolutely not tolerate’ unilateral action by Japan…
Cracks along a diplomatic fault line…Sino-Japanese war?…
No, ‘rational minds would prevail…’
CHINA’S FIRST AIRCRAFT CARRIER
Obama at the UN: US will ‘prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon…’
Raises more questions than answers… response muted…
Dreyfuss: Obama ‘failed to outline a single significant initiative…’
Ahmadinejad urges new world order: US following a ‘policy of bullying…’
Cash-strapped Spain boils over…
‘Indignados’ storm Parliament in rage against austerity…
‘Put everyone in Parliament out on the street so they know what it’s like…’
Romney needs ‘a change of the trajectory’ to win…
Losing Ohio by 8 points…’alarming to other members of his party…’
Unfavorable rating highest in three decades for a presidential hopeful…
Trails Obama among likely voters, 49% to 43%…
Israel ‘a clash of personality and policy between Obama and Netanyahu…’
Obama’s policies in Afghanistan and Iraq have ‘left US interests vulnerable…’
A drama of waning American power…
Yet, Romney is ‘inexperienced’ and advised by
Bush neocons, whose foreign policy ‘was a disaster…’
FOREIGN POLICY PICKLE:
OBAMA INEFFECTIVE, ROMNEY UNORIGINAL
Japan fires water cannons at Taiwanese boats…
Taiwanese coast guard ‘armed and ordered to defend’ against ‘Japanese aggression…’
Debate on US finances ‘largely superficial,’ debt crisis ‘far more severe’ than realized…
Obama couldn’t recall size of US debt (over $16 trillion)…
Democrats blamed GOP for deficit in 2008, GOP now blaming Democrats for it…
US should ‘retire the American Dream…an exercise in make-believe…’
High oil prices capping economic growth…
Super PAC money is a wash, despite fears…
Operation Video: Obama should pay voters to watch Romney’s 47% video and Clinton’s speech…
Apple + Twitter = Facebook killer?
Video: spectacular Tokyo Station light show…
Women hate being moms: ‘Every day is the same…like a prison sentence…thankless…’
Google News provides media with 4 billion clicks per month…
100,000 business opportunities every minute…
Romney holds 14-pt lead among middle class — 54% of the electorate…
Colorado is leaning toward Romney…
TIME: ‘Underlying numbers…suggest…a close race to the end…’
YET NEWSWEEK COMPARES OBAMA TO REAGAN,
SAYS SECOND TERM ‘HAS GOTTEN LIKELIER…’
State Dept: CNN taking Stevens’s journal from crime scene ‘disgusting…’
Senate GOP furious White House provided more details to newspapers…
‘An attack that should have been anticipated…’
‘Preceded by a succession of security lapses and misjudgments…’
White House flip-flops on claim of demonstration over a video… ‘credibility has suffered…’
WHITE HOUSE’S LIBYAN LIES ‘A SCANDAL…’
Romney’s tax rate averaged 20.2% from 1990 to 2009…
Obama’s 2011 tax rate was 20.5%…
Romney’s income: $6.8M capital gains, $3.7M dividends, $3M interest…
Why release now? ‘Romney campaign wants the worst of both worlds…’
Romney: My campaign ‘doesn’t need a turnaround…’
2011 ROMNEY RATE:
14.1% TAX ON $13.7 MILLION INCOME
Japan, US practice defending remote islands from foreign assault…
US says disputed islands covered by treaty…obligated to defend…
Why doesn’t China just buy the islands?…
AARP boos Ryan…but less as he ‘laid out the disaster that Obamacare spells for seniors…’
‘Obama won cheers for discussing his signature health care law…
Protesters seize militia headquarters in Benghazi…
19 killed in Pakistan protests…
Not caused by a movie, but by ‘Obama’s own foreign-policy failures…’
Policymakers ‘lack a clear understanding of what constitutes terrorism…’
Drones capture Pakistani mountain footage ‘that no human has ever seen…’
No fish? We may be the last generation to catch food from the oceans…
Can fear be erased from the human brain?…
Wonders if she ‘got ahead’ by misrepresenting herself…
Warren: Brown ‘rigged the playing field’ with oil company subsidies…
Warren: ‘Senator Brown is always standing…with the billionaires…’
Opinion: Warren showed ‘she can go toe-to-toe…knows how to punch and counter punch…’
Opinion: ‘Brown rocked…did a good job painting her as a tax and spend liberal…’
China and Japan ‘too busy making money to have time for making war…’
China is now Japan’s biggest trading partner…
Will ‘the world’s top three economies’ really go to war over these tiny islands?
Who really owns the islands? Long ago, China, but Japan won them in war…
On Univision, Obama says Romney’s 47% comment shows he hasn’t ‘gotten around a lot…’
Ramos: ‘With all due respect, you didn’t keep that promise’ about immigration reform…
Romney: Obama ‘threw in the white towel of surrender again…can’t change Washington from inside…’
Obama and Karzai discuss ‘the need for restraint…’
Foreign Policy: Obama’s Afghanistan strategy is a ‘total failure…’
After 11 years and 2,000 Americans dead, what happens when the US leaves?…
US may be tempted to ‘pursue a strictly isolationist approach…’
Without Google, Apple’s iOS 6 mapping function is a disaster…
‘A tremendous step backwards…’
Google enjoying Apple’s bad press…has a map app awaiting approval…
Cohen: ‘Mitt Romney is a bad politician…he may very well also be a bad person.’
Pundits have short memories. It’s too early to write off Romney…
Romney in a hole…can’t depend on debates for a rebound…changing focus…
Yet, ‘47%’ remarks ‘may have been taken out of context,’ ‘one to two minutes missing…’
Xi Jinping: Japan should ‘rein in its behavior’ and respect China’s sovereignty…
Chinese mob attacks US ambassador’s car in Beijing…
Japanese candidate: ‘Our beautiful countryside and ocean are under threat…’
Most of the 47% who pay no federal income tax are not dependent on government…
They ‘simply do not earn very much money…’
Jesus’s wife discovery just feminist propaganda?
Arctic sea ice levels at record low, humans are ‘running out of time…’
Firenado caught on film in Australian Outback…
GOP frets Romney ‘is blowing a presidential race he should be winning…’
Romney’s is ‘a mind closed to the lives of most Americans…’
POLLS STILL TIGHT: Gallup Obama +1, Rasmussen Romney +2…
FLARE-UPS LIKE THIS ‘ALMOST NEVER AS
SIGNIFICANT AS WE INITIALLY THINK THEY ARE’
The China/Japan fight is more dangerous than you think…
China: ‘Further actions’ are possible…
Could use ‘bond war’ to force ‘Tokyo’s festering fiscal crisis to a head…’
Chinese commissar: military forces must be ‘prepared’ for ‘combat…’
US Def Sec Panetta meets with Chinese leader-in-waiting…
US military deaths in Afghanistan at 1,988…
PA Supreme Court sends GOP-backed voter-ID law to lower court…
‘Evidence of disarray in the record, and I would not allow chaos to beget chaos…
Clouds dropping ‘dry ice’ snow on Mars…
Never before seen in scripture: Jesus said, ‘My wife…’
iPhone 5 ‘one of the fastest ARM devices out there…’
But Samsung is ‘winning the anti-Apple’ wars…
WHAT ROMNEY SAID: 47% are with Obama, dependent on government, believe they’re victims…
DOUBLES DOWN: Obama’s approach is ‘attractive to people who are not paying taxes…’
WOLF: ‘It is true that about 47% of Americans do not pay income tax…’
SPOKESWOMAN: Romney ‘concerned about the growing number of people’ dependent on government…’
ROMNEY: 47% OF AMERICANS ARE DEADBEATS,
WILL VOTE FOR OBAMA NO MATTER WHAT
US, Libya offer vastly different accounts of Benghazi tragedy…
HEZBOLLAH: ‘The world should know that our anger is not a passing thing…’
PERSPECTIVE: ‘The protests in more than 20 Muslim countries…have been small…’
America must apply more pressure, not less, on Gulf monarchies it supports…
Anti-Japan protests in 100 Chinese cities…
Japanese businesses in China close for safety…
VIDEO: Violent clash with police…
Under Obama or Romney, ‘2013 is shaping up to be a rough year’ for the economy…
HSBC: Fed action only ‘a modest impact on economic growth…’
iPhone 5 sells 2M units in first 24 hours…
Planned by foreigners – 50 arrested…
Afghan insurgents wore US uniforms…
Libyan officials warned US diplomats about deteriorating security…
‘Obama’s terror touchdown dance is over…’
Iran just six months from having 90% of material needed for atomic weapon…
NETANYAHU: US must draw a ‘red line’ over which Iran’s nuclear program can’t cross…
40% of Israeli jews disagree with Netanyahu’s demand on US…
PAPER: Too late – the West may be in a game ‘it has already lost…’
Iran foundation ups reward for author Rushdie to $3.3M from $2.8M…
Fed launches ‘ultra-easy,’ ‘unlimited’ bond buying scheme…
‘A $40B/mo plan to reelect Obama…’
Could backfire as Fed signals Obama’s economy is in terrible shape…
SAMUELSON: ‘There is a desperate air to Bernanke’s latest move…’
RASMUSSEN: Romney 47%, Obama 46%
With ‘leaners:’ Obama 49%, Romney 48%
Penn no longer a swing state, Obama ahead by 11 points, Romney pulls ads…
PELOSI: ‘Everybody knows’ Romney won’t become president…
Too early for a ‘pre-mortem’ of Romney’s campaign…
Apple ‘blown away’ by demand for iPhone 5…
Pre-orders sold out within hours – fastest ever…
Publicity stunt? Supplies limited to cause sellout and long lines…
US urges China, Japan to settle ‘increasingly angry’ island dispute…
PANETTA: ‘A misjudgment…could result in violence…’
US, Japan agree to build a second missile defense system in Japan…