51813/Police
Investigate Student Shooting Death a masked gunman while her twin
sister was in the house, The gunman was also killed in a firefight
with police.cops told nyp-Fort Worth Girl Killed in Robbery Was
Allegedly the Heist's Mastermind-Teenage Sociopath Murders 9-Year-Old
Neighbor-Woman Who Killed Boyfriend Has Ties to Another Murder
Investigation-Bad News For Best-Selling Author In Waterboarding
Case-Feds Need More Time To Indict Bombing Suspect-Rod Stewart's
Steroid Use Shrunk His Penis MSNNOW-bbjoker Allegedly Wrote
Confession In Boat, retaliations for the U.S. wars in Afghanistan and
Iraq. "When you attack one Muslim, you attack all MuslimsCBS
hp/in northern Argentina and southern Brazil, where the ants are
native, populations are likely held in check by other ant species and
a variety of natural enemiesThe crazy ants were first discovered in
the U.S. in 2002 by a pest control operator in a suburb of Houston,
and have since established populations in 21 counties in Texas, 20
counties in Florida, and a few sites in southern Mississippi and
southern Louisiana, species was formally identified as Nylanderia
fulva, which is native to northern Argentina and southern Brazil.
Frequently referred to as Rasberry crazy ants, these ants recently
have been given the official common name “Tawny crazy ants. The
Argentine ant invaded through the port of New Orleans in about 1891.
In 1918 the black imported fire ant showed up in Mobile, Ala. Then in
the 1930s, the red imported fire ant arrived in the U.S. and began
displacing the black fire ant and the Argentine ants, the biggest
deal is the displacement of the fire ant, which is the 300 pound
gorilla in Texas ecosystems these days,” said LeBrun. “The whole
system has changed around fire ants. Things that can’t tolerate
fire ants are gone. Many that can have flourished. New things have
come in. Now we are going to go through and whack the fire ants and
put something in its place that has a very different biology. There
are going to be a lot of changes that come from that. remains
unknown, including their potential range. So far, most of the
colonies are in fairly wet environments with mild winters, near the
coast, so it may be the case that they can’t thrive in drier or
colder climates, and that fire ants will remain dominant in those
areas. videos on YouTube of people sweeping out dustpans full of
these ants from their bathroom. You have to call pest control
operators every three or four months just to keep the infestation
under control. It’s very expensive utex/
51713/American
Family Runs out of Money The name of the game is to socialize the
gains and capitalize the losses, Nothing new about that thievery, To
be more precise,Socialize the gains for the 1%'er and the too bigg to
fail croud, capitalism for all the rest-If they poorly manage their
finance, yes-that would be ok if the table was level. If the 1% run
out of money, they get bailouts-ygs/Kelly Blasts Liberal Guest Over
Carney's False Benghazi Claims-EXPLOSIVE DEBATE: Was IRS Working to
Re-Elect Obama?-Obama Hedges on Whether WH Knew About IRS Targeting
Conservatives in News Conference-Rubio: "Obama Doesn't Have
Clean Hands in This-Boehner on IRS Scandal: 'Who's Going to Jail for
This?-Bolling: 'I Was Audited in 2011, Coincidence?-bama's
Half-Brother Gets "Sweetheart Deal" From IRS-Tea Party
Leader Tells Greta: 'It's Creepy to Be on the Govt's Enemies List'
-fni/Six hundred and sixty million dollars, to counter potential bids
from billionaires Rupert Murdoch and Charles and David Koch Corporate
media is ruining the integrity of news, the organization wrote on the
campaign's Indiegogo page. "Winning the Tribune Company back
might just start moving the tide in a different direction. Consider
this an experiment that could have an enormous positive ripple effect
for democracy, prospect of their ownership of the newspapers has
prompted protests by readers and raised alarm among staffers. Half of
the staff at the Los Angeles Times, for example, said they would quit
if the Koch brothers bought the paper. hp/FUN FACT: Obama won both
elections with only 1% avg White Racist votes. tw/Goolsbee claimed
during an interview on “Hannity” last night the IRS’
politically motivated targeting of conservative nonprofit groups was
the most troubling of the major scandals, tax status of Koch
Industries during a conference call with reporters in 2010. The
company is private and its tax status and structure is not public
information. The White House was in the midst of a politically
motivated public relations fight with Charles and David Koch and the
Koch-affiliated Americans for Prosperity, unclear if the White House
requested to view Koch Industries’ tax returns-Matthews: President
Runs IRS, Treasury-Feds Investigating Former Education Dept
Official-IRS Ducks GOP Softballs fbeacon/katrina: Why it's important
to separate the underlying facts from political event. CJR Covering
facts versus the 'narrative-Beltway narrative schizophrenia-Alan West
is a geat fit at FOX & fiends: paranoid, hateful, fact-free
whacko-GOP lies covered by NRA or whatever they need cover
on-RepublicanSwine GOP `Jihad' on Obama reveals serious derangement
that a `black man' is The President-Scandal Illegal ?? Media
silence..CONFIRMED GOP sources altered Benghazi e-mails to suggest a
coverup-fineman Will the FBI investigate altered classified documents
released to congress & leaked to the media by GOP or is that
TARGETING tw/Acting IRS Commissioner: Employees Made 'Foolish
Mistakes,' But They Weren't Politically Motivated-Official in Charge
During Tea Party Targeting Now Heads Health Care Office-Inside Jodi
Arias' Jail Cell-Bob Beckel's Cameo on '24'-IRS Handed Out Nearly
$100 Million in Bonuses Since 2009-Parents of Murdered NYC Children
Expecting a Baby-Bachmann on WH Scandals: "There's This Freaky
Coincidence fni/(leakoptomy continues) obstructiontopia?/obama
lemmings protecting him, making excuses and blaming everyone but
obama. really, you think he had nothing to do with the re-writes of
the bengazi lies? you think that he did not know about the
intimidation and collecting of reporters phone information (of only
the AP - the ones that had negative comments about this
administration). when Nixon was president the IRS abuses were laid at
his feet but with obama 'governments too big for him to know about
it-wow, sounds like the obama propaganda ministry must be putting in
overtime, especially the mainstream cheerleader media, who would have
ever thought that obama would be able to make nixon look honest and
carter look competent?? Go figure-Or do they reveal a government so
big and sprawling that inevitably no President can micromanage every
misjudgment and misstep that will be blown into scandal by hysterical
Republicans. They don't reveal anything about Obama's vision or
managerial skill wp/dilemma for journalists this week: How should you
cover a series of proto-scandals with seemingly little in common?
What links these events together, of course, is a new political
reality: the administration is embattled by scandal for the first
time since President Obama took office. Given the political
circumstances, that pattern appears likely to continue. So what
should reporters do? Many are covering the new “narrative” of
Obama’s administration, which is reflective of the way that
political and media elites coordinate on interpretations of events as
scandalous. As I argue in my academic research, media scandals are a
“co-production” of the opposition party and the press. When both
groups portray an event like the IRS allegations as a scandal, it
often generates strong perceptions of wrongdoing among elites in
other words, a narrative of misconduct, Others, like the Post’s
Ezra Klein, have noted the contradiction between the narrative of
scandal and the lack of evidence of high level misconduct. The
strength of evidence matters, of course, but it does not solely
determine what does or does not become a media scandal; these are
political events, not courtroom trials. Reporters could start by
taking more responsibility for their role in creating and sustaining
the media narratives, even as they acknowledge the role and
importance of elite perceptions, reporters can do more to help
readers separate the political event from the underlying facts. It’s
much easier to pontificate about the “narrative” or engage in
armchair punditry about scandal response tactics-kudos to Professor
Nyhan for identifying Greg Sargent as a liberal writer. True dat. But
how in the world did Ezra Klein (he of JournoList fame) get off
without his liberal slant being noted?-allegations? Who says- you?
The hypocritical ourage from the right & the media's deliberately
ignoring it is laughable if it weren't so sad. Susan Collins said it
was "chilling" that the IRS was targeting organizations, &
SHE actally signed a letter to IRS in 2004 requesting it do just that
to the NAACP, it's truly difficult to take the right seriously when
they complain about Obama's administration & all that has
happened while he serves his SECOND term when they themselves did the
EXACT (not similar) same thing. Seems the ears with those finger
plugs are on the heads of the right-DOJ had a subpoena, signed by a
federal judge, for phone records (just the numbers) to find a leak in
the government. AP wasn't the target, it was a conduit for
information. The 1st Amendment was never in danger, but an MI-6 agent
was. The leak was the problem & AP should have been cooperative.
Perhaps you could follow your own advice and reserve
judgment-"Republicans Agree to Stop Using Word “Scandal” in
Every Sentence If Obama Resigns newyorker-GOP narrative, Obama could
be an incompetent and ineffective master plotter who had managed to
move us almost all the way to a complete government takeover of
everything-reveal a president who is weak and unable to control the
government he presides over- AP: Boo-hoo. The poor, poor, put upon
press! helped out a secret agent, and put the agent, and his family
in danger! No big deal! bama should also push for a very strong
shield law, that protects classified information, and secret agents
from big mouths in the media who abuse their right to freedom of
speech. There should be a law stating that the press must immediately
report any leaks of classified information that they receive, instead
of sitting on the information so that they can stir up trouble,
later. Despite the whining from the media- libs are so smart, of
course Obama can't be both a ineffective leader and a tyrant. I don't
know how us conservatives could have been so silly. So I defer to you
and your vast brain power... which one is he?-conservatives are the
Hindenburg of intellect. Oh, the stupidty-cons are sooo loony.
Tyrant? You should go to NK and see what tyranny is REALLY about.
Then maybe you'd ST FU-Conservatives have no trouble with this
conundrum because they live in a state of cognitive dissonance all
the time. It makes perfect sense to the--cjr/Inducted Into American
Academy of Arts, "I look forward to meeting all of you sometime
soon," wrote Bob Dylan, who was unable to attend his induction
into the American Academy of Arts rs/Mike Ludwig, Truthout: Industry
has repeatedly lobbied to death labor and environmental groups' push
for tighter regs. And as long as the McCarthy confirmation standoff
continues, an executive order to prevent more disasters like the
West, Texas, explosion is unlikely-Yves Smith, Naked Capitalism:
Corporate control over health care will make the horrors falsely
attributed to socialized medicine look pale-Ellen Dannin and Ann C.
Hodges, Truthout: How the ideal that Congress envisioned for the NLRA
has evolved into maneuvering for advantage using judge-made rules at
odds with the purpose of the law-Democracy NOW!: Pullitzer
Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges says that the governments
intrusion on freedom of the press is resulting in a deep freeze on
whistleblowers who are now even more terrified to come
forward-Valerie Tarico, Truthout: What happens when religious
institutions get to manage public funds, absorb secular hospitals and
put theology above medical science and individual patient conscience?
Individual freedom of conscience, and health suffers- 5 words that
matter to conservatives: Perjury, Fraud, Felony, Subpoena,
Impeachment, forgot one: jail-What about murder? RT-Allen
West...ROFL... @FoxNews Always Reminding Us Why THEY ARE PURE CABLE
TRASH!-GOP obstruction of GOVERNING. A congress that favors the rich
& attacks women, poor-tw/Zionism says Jews have a right to Israel
but do they have the right to control America? Do they have the right
to rule all the major institutions in USA as if they are not a
political group. So are they not a political group actively
controlling the political structure of the U.S Government and
dictating its foreign and domestic policy to some degree as only the
politicians and Government officials are meant to? Is that not a type
of defacto Government? Hell they print America's money and control
its economy from the Federal Reserve Bank. How much power one must
have before they should be deemed accountable for it or responsible
as a Government official is?-0I haven't called you an
anti-Semite-Zionist are atheist like me they don't care about
religion.-I think Israel should do whatever they like. I like their
laws on voting and citizenship and things like that-Israel should
pursue their national ambitions is one thing. Saying we should
finance their their defense and go to war for them is another. I care
about Israel as much as I care about Guatemala. Zionists scream
loudly and as often as possible to any criticism of Israel and Jews
because they know their arguments could never hold up under any
examination of the facts fb/Ohio Republicans Push Law to Penalize
Colleges for Helping Students Vote tpm/When U.S. personnel were
airlifted from Benghazi the night of the attack, there were seven
Foreign Service and State Department officers and 23 CIA officers
onboard. This fact alone indicates that the consulate was primarily
diplomatic cover for an intelligence operation that was known to
Libyan militia groups. After the attack, the long delay in debriefing
evacuated personnel contributed to the confusing assessments to/If
Obama went Bulworth, this new fake outrage of Republicans. They
constantly lie to and deceive the American people. Their outrage on
Benghazi is feigned. Has anyone asked why the building was attacked?
The US has actively been funding and supplying arms to various groups
in Libya. The US played their part in overthrowing the Qaddafi regime
- as with Egypt, the country has fallen into disarray with militias
exerting control. Many of these militias are opposed to what they see
as a US-backed regime. Common sense tells us that an attack was
always plausible. Obama knows this. So do the Republicans. They both
deceive the US populace routinely on the subject, the only difference
here is that for political reasons, the Reps decided to call out the
Democrats on Benghazi. Clearly they were counting on a
poorly-informed public actually taking such a debate seriously. it
has worked. In part because Republicans will lap up anything to
discredit Obama - no matter how self-contradictory and deluded.
chiefly because of the Democrats inability to show just how ludicrous
the whole debate is, Did Republicans demanding hearings into the Iraq
War?-substituting the word "negro" anytime words like
"Patriot," "Tea Party," or "conservative"
appear and substituting the word "God's chosen White Man"
wherever "liberal" appears? Doing so reveals both that
bigotry is truly alive in America and that Republicans of today wp/If
eviscerating the American middle-class was their end-goal, President
Bush and his corrupt administration succeeded with flying colors. The
data is in, proving that, since 2007, the Bush Recession has
decimated the income of working families, exacerbating poverty and
socioeconomic inequality to unprecedented levels-bachmann crazy plain
and simple. She's a lunatic. Just like Sarah Palin and the rest. They
are all wacked out. I love how they voted ONE MORE time to defeat the
Affordable Care Act. I love how they just cannot keep their hands to
themselves. They just keep going after women even though there is not
war on women! DOH! Of course not, that's why they decided on vaginal
probes in 5 states-Hyperbole suits Batshit Barbie- fb/Krugman argues
that the economic crisis was not a failure of theory, but rather a
failure of observation-Walmart and Gap refuse to join major European
retailers who announced their plans to implement a sweeping safety
agreement to protect garment workers in Bangladesh; after legalizing
same sex marriage in Minnesota, Democratic state senators voted to
allow childcare and personal care workers to unionize/Eidelson, The
Nation: Yesterday, fast-food employees and activists released a new
report in which 84 percent of the industry's workers reported that
their employer had committed some form of wage theft over the
previous year-CounterPunch: When Congressional Republicans complete
manipulating the Benghazi tragedy, it will be time for the virtually
silent Senate Intelligence Committee to take up three major issues
that have been largely ignored/1.4M$ hotel robbery, gnute sez
obamacare and irs tied, with 300k$ bonus, apology not good enough 27
tea party groups denied tax free status-tronto mayor robford smokes
crack on video-rtexgoodlock ap irs immagration leak jud chair step by
step protecting freedoms, doesn't like presidential powers aleging
drug cartels alciada connection, expressing the views of almost
everyone in the country, hoping for good results from the gang of 8,
fresk happy about jama problems, leaks national security issues, akin
to bay of pigs, press freedoms, dhs be damned-rumsfield interview
speech goes arwy discombobulation, perfect storm, pressure,
misstatments confessions, leading by consent, seasoned leaders stay
in town, leading from behind, in a hands off way, alciada protection,
humping book rummy rules, with taxpayer money, looking fotrward to
information leaks, eventually finding weather it was a big enough
deal, to make a big deal out of it. during unknown known unknowns,
political knife fight issa vs holder reclusion, neopoitano show
concern about faux snooze phone records, burlisconi club with
crossdressed women, for whc bias journalist terrorist security
mixup, , sharing talking points, humping his latest book skillful
dinosaur bildoe opium theory, hightech world changing shift in power
by allowing the rulers to become passive know people really don't
care, on whistleblower apocolypsgate (agreeing with rummy) everything
is harder if ur a liar geraldo wkok 18 killed in kabel moske bomb,
good lost cat story/ lovin white women jungle fever arsenio, braidy,
and daultry on the view/levit sez like ground hog day/
51613/broad
surveillance operation that started in 2005 with routine preparations
for the scheduled executions of two men on death row, called a "waste
of resources" by the current police superintendent and
"undemocratic" by the governor, they inappropriately
labeled 53 individuals as terrorists in their database, information
that was shared with federal authorities. But the new documents
reveal a far more expansive set of police targets and indicate that
police did not close some files until late 2007. fears of civil
liberties groups that have warned about domestic spying since the
Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. Interviews, e-mails, public records and an
independent state review reveal that police in Maryland were
motivated by something far narrower: Sept. 11 opened the door. "No
one was thinking this was al-Qaeda," said Stephen H. Sachs, a
former U.S. attorney and state attorney general appointed by Gov.
Martin O'Malley (D) to review the case. "But 9/11 created an
atmosphere where cutting corners was easier. several cities,
including Denver in 2002 and New York before the 2004 Republican
National Convention, also responded to the threat of terrorism by
spying on activists aibafs/Jeremy Scahill, Blackwater, described as
"a one man truth squad" by Bill Moyers. now Dirty Wars,
follows the consequences of America's covert wars from Afghanistan to
Yemen, Somalia, and beyond to uncover perhaps the most important
foreign policy story, paint a bleak picture-as does Sabrina Jones and
Marc Mauer, the truth about our "justice" system depicted
in a new graphic retelling of Race To Incarcerate-the meaning of
freedom? Angela Davis' life and work have been dedicated to examining
this fundamental question and to ending all forms of oppression that
deny people their political, cultural, and sexual freedom. confronts
the interconnected issues of power, race, gender, class, and
incarceration penetrating analysis- Former NAACP Chair: Julian Bond,
Tea Party Is "Taliban Wing of American Politics hp/EU Probes
Global Oil Price Rigging CNN/US Stands Idle as Oil Exploration
Threatens Rain Forests With Obliteration BuzzFlash/Leftovers on FOX:
Shut Up a bit hypocritical for Bush administration officials to go on
FOX News and yell about how terrible the Obama administration
Hartmann/Press freedom (nutjob) advocates say it's part of a larger
ongoing battle for control of information.rs/HSBC admitted to
laundering $881 million for Mexican and Colombian drug cartels and
also admitted to violating U.S. economic sanctions for Iran, Libya,
Cuba, Burma, and Sudan. HSBC paid a fine, but no individual went to
trial or was banned from the financial services industry, and there
was no hearing to consider shutting down HSBC's activities, how many
billions of dollars to you have to launder for drug lords and how
many economic sanctions do you have to violate before someone will
consider shutting down a financial institution like this?-Congress is
about to let the interest rate charged for new student loans double
to 6.8 percent at a time when the too-big-to-fail banks that caused
the Great Recession continue to be bailed out at the rate of 0.75
percent. Yes, the banks pay less than 1 percent for money that we the
taxpayers lend them. I know that such statistics are thought to be
boring, but as Warren explained, the rate that students will have to
pay “is nine times higher than the rate at which the government
loans money to the big banks-a step further, offer the same rates to
homeowners so they could provide some needed stability to families by
keeping them in their homes. The strength of America is a stable
family home life, more important by far than advanced education. I
would sooner have stability at home with an excess of plumbers,
carpenters and electricians then displaced and/or homeless families
and an excess of bachelors degrees-and only offer it to companies
which produce in the U.S.- a breath of fresh air in the corrupted
miasma of the Senate and the House of Representatives. She should
make a run for president-probably stay off small airplanes-I fear
that to be true. ripples in the water attract darker forces-Warren
isn't perfect, but she certainly embodies some of the principles
public servants should embrace. The sad fact is, the government we
have now totally neutralizes any populist efforts that Warren (or
anyone else) might advocate. We all know her efforts will lead
nowhere in the long run. The corporations and wealthy elites will
side-step all that "moral hazard" the rest of us are
supposed to avoid by paying our "obligations" and we will
be left to struggle whilst the elites get away with murder- Jesus
told the desciples to "sell their cloaks to buy a sword",
when 2 were presented, Jesus said they will suffice. to use the
"occupy" movement as some sort of example is laughable at
best. a bunch of 60s wanna bes and has beens do not a movement
make-BECAUSE the violence was perpetrated against them and they did
not strike back, that they were reasonable, moral men who were
standing for a just cause and being persecuted for that cause, that
turned people's sympathies and support. It's also a good idea when
paraphrasing Biblical passages to keep them in context, and to know
when to read something figuratively (as in a metaphor or symbol)
truthdig/all of this gushing, can't wait for when she becomes another
jaded stuffed shirt looking out only for herself and her handlers.
it'll be as humorous watching the left turn against her as it was
watching the left wing turn against their last savior, B.
Obama/Alberto, the Bush administration once considered issuing the
type of subpoena that the Justice Department issued against the
Associated Press, but ultimately opted against it MSNBCmj “And
sometimes, the department finds itself in a situation where they have
exhausted all means/vaccination exemptions for all states-Although MS
still is an incurable disease of the central nervous system, scalp
acupuncture provides an important complementary/alternative treatment
approach for improving many MS symptoms and the patient's quality of
life by slowing or reversing the progression of physical disability
and reducing the number of relapses. By directly stimulating affected
areas of the central nervous system, scalp acupuncture has showed
more effective results compared to other acupuncture techniques. Our
studies showed that 87 percent of the patients had instant
improvements after only one scalp acupuncture treatment. The study
also demonstrated that scalp acupuncture treatment for MS is
accessible, less expensive, safer, more effective, and caused fewer
side effects. Scalp acupuncture not only benefits patients with MS,
but also significantly helps us to better understand the mechanisms
that cause the condition. It may guide us to the discovery of new
effective treatments and hopefully to a cure for this disease in the
future./jfk 50 yrs ago warren commision commie sympathizer oswald cia
report still classified no pictures in cuban or mexico embassies,
conspiracy radio/astroidphobe buzz aldrin reems of information, mars
mission tybor sifi gig, alberto correctly assumes, if during the bush
years, any liberal organization was targeted, could be trouble for
the gop baggers, jaun sez issa is cable king, dr krauthammer
retouches all faux snooze talk points, on geraldo/ wkok humping house
flip/gordon and gina irs culture of rotteness using liz apolitical
keywords, spike in dui's, hard to dispell what children learn in
school, indisputable, undefencable lingering pending investigations
with a hugh amout of unknowns (rumsfieldesq), undermining
administration successes. aaa electric cars useful, sez families will
need an extra car for vacations, superstorm coaster, wsjpc /sf
finance manipulation, on crosscurrents/