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- Web Security Expert Warns Of Cyber World War
- Colorado voters reject raising taxes to support education
- Tea Party Losing Steam? Snowe’s Re-Election Now Looking Safer
- Tea Party and GOP split on Occupy Wall Street
| Web Security Expert Warns Of Cyber World War Posted: 02 Nov 2011 12:06 PM PDT By: Sam Kiley, SkyNews.com A leading internet security expert has warned that a cyber terrorist attack with “catastrophic consequences” looked increasingly likely in a world already in a state of near cyber war. Eugene Kaspersky is not given to easy hyperbole. But the Russian maths genius who founded an internet security empire with a global reach, clutched at his thick mop of hair with both hands. “I don’t want to speak about it. I don’t even want to think about it,” he said. “But we are close, very close, to cyber terrorism. Perhaps already the criminals have sold their skills to the terrorists – and then…oh, God.” Speaking privately at the London Cyber Conference, Kaspersky told Sky that he believed that cyber terrorism was the biggest immediate threat to have emerged to confront nations as diverse as China and the US. “There is already cyber espionage, cyber crime, hacktivisim (when activists attack networks for political ends) soon we will be facing cyber terrorism,” he said. Prime Minister David Cameron, talking at the conference, added to the growing chorus of world leaders sounding the cyber alarm. “We are here because international cyber security is a real and pressing concern,” he said. “Let us be frank. Every day we see attempts on an industrial scale to steal government secrets – information of interest to nation states, not just commercial organisations. To read more, visit: http://news.sky.com/home/technology/article/16101158 |
| Colorado voters reject raising taxes to support education Posted: 02 Nov 2011 12:02 PM PDT From: TheLATimes.com In what could be a harbinger of the 2012 election, Colorado voters Tuesday overwhelmingly rejected a measure that would have raised nearly $3 billion for education by temporarily increasing state income, sales and use taxes. With 59% of the projected vote counted, Proposition 103 was trailing 65% to 35%, the Associated Press reported. The debate over the measure closely mirrored recent rancor in Washington over the question of whether more spending will revive a moribund economy or slow down a nascent recovery. A likely swing state in 2012, Colorado is a particularly interesting place to see which argument voters cotton to. Its population is well-educated, with more than one-third of residents older than 25 holding at least a bachelor's degree. But the state's unemployment rate has been stuck around 8%, and a solid share of the electorate finds taxes distasteful, passing a major tax-limitation measure in 1992. If Proposition 103 had passed, individual and corporate tax rates would have temporarily jumped from 4.63% to 5% and the sales and use tax rate from 2.9% to 3%, the Associated Press reported. Supporters intended for the extra money to plug holes in the state's K-12 and college education budgets, which have endured hundreds of millions of dollars in cuts. Opponents said the state's economy was too fragile to withstand higher taxes, which would have expired after 2016, and that throwing money at education wouldn't necessarily improve its quality. To read more, visit: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/nationnow/2011/11/colorado-voters-reject-higher-taxes-education.html |
| Tea Party Losing Steam? Snowe’s Re-Election Now Looking Safer Posted: 02 Nov 2011 11:58 AM PDT POSTED BY JOE GANDELMAN, TheModerateVoice.com Is the Tea Party starting to lose some steam? A new poll from Public Policy Polling indicates Maine's Republican Sen. Olympia Snowe'sz re-election prospects are looking brighter. Olympia Snowe's prospects for winning the Republican nomination for another term as Senator from Maine are looking the best they have in two years, in what could be a sign of Tea Party fever dwindling. In October of 2009 only 31% of Maine GOP voters stood with Snowe, while 59% wanted to replace her with someone more conservative. In September of 2010, only 29% of Maine GOP voters stood with Snowe, while 63% wanted to replace her with someone more conservative. In March of this year, only 33% of Maine GOP voters stood with Snowe, while 58% wanted to replace her with someone more conservative. After all three of those polls I thought Snowe's prospects for renomination were pretty much shot. But over the last seven months there's been a major transformation, and now 46% of primary voters in the state stand with Snowe compared to only 47% who want to replace her from the right. Snowe's approval rating with GOP primary voters is up from 47/44 in March to now 51/37. She's pretty steady with voters describing themselves as 'somewhat conservative' and her popularity has actually declined a little bit with moderates. But she's done a better job over the last half year of wooing the far right voters who classify themselves as being 'very conservative.' They still don't like her but she's improved 23 points on the margin with them from -47 (21/68) to -24 (29/53). Beyond the fact that she's improved her standing with the far right, she's also benefiting from the fact that the Tea Party just isn't that strong in Maine these days. Only 21% of Republican primary voters in the state identify as members of that movement. They want to replace Snowe with someone more conservative by an 80-16 margin…but they're pretty much drowned out by the rest of the GOP electorate supporting Snowe 58-36. That Tea Party base just doesn't appear to be as large as it used to be. Tested against her actual primary opponents Snowe gets 62% to 10% for Scott D'Amboise and 7% for Andrew Ian Dodge with 20% undecided. Still the future doesn't look bright for anyone who even falls under a broad definition of a moderate Republican. But — another "still" — if Snowe survives it means RINOs are not totally extinct in the GOP. To read more, visit: http://themoderatevoice.com/127225/tea-party-losing-steam-snowes-re-election-now-looking-safer/ |
| Tea Party and GOP split on Occupy Wall Street Posted: 02 Nov 2011 11:51 AM PDT BY JUSTIN ELLIOTT, Salon.com As the Occupy Wall Street movement continues to buffet national politics, two distinct modes of reaction have emerged on the right: hostility and grudging conciliation. In the former camp is the Tea Party and much of the right-wing punditocracy. In the latter camp are establishment Republican politicians who no doubt have one eye glued on poll results that show a plurality of Americans broadly agree with the Occupy movement. Consider two very different takes on Occupy this week, both from the right. On Tuesday, a Tea Party-affiliated group called the Campaign to Defeat Barack Obama blasted out an email to supporters with the heart-pounding subject line "White House in Panic Over OWS Mobs." The group asked for donations to run an ad — which splices unflattering footage from Occupy protests with statements of support from Democratic politicians — on TV and the Web. The Campaign to Defeat Barack Obama was created by the same Sacramento, Calif.-based political action committee that started Tea Party Express, perhaps the most prominent organized Tea Party group in the country. Now, compare the Tea Party group's blistering anti-Occupy ad to remarks made by House Speaker John Boehner, the most powerful Republican in the country, on Monday. He came off as downright empathetic. To read more, visit: http://www.salon.com/2011/11/02/tea_party_and_gop_split_on_occupy_wall_street/singleton/ |
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