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- Gingrich leads, but Paul most likely to beat Obama in latest Iowa poll
- Cuomo Pushes New Tax Rates for Big Earners
- Record U.S. Exports Led by Caterpillar Seen in Worldwide Markets
- U.S. Government Now Asserts More Power Than Hitler or Stalin
- How Microchipped Jerseys Are Changing Hockey Fans’ Experience
- Another Elderly Woman Says She Was Exposed At Kennedy Airport
- Iowa Poll: Gingrich leads GOP pack, then Paul, Romney
- Rand Paul pushes his tea party style of change
| Gingrich leads, but Paul most likely to beat Obama in latest Iowa poll Posted: 05 Dec 2011 02:23 PM PST
With less than a month before the Iowa caucus, GOP presidential candidate and former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich has surged into the lead, but Texas Rep. Ron Paul is the only Republican candidate who could best President Obama, a new Iowa poll says. According to the latest NBC/Marist poll, Gingrich is the first choice among 26 percent of Republican caucus-goers, followed by former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney with 18 percent and Paul with 17 percent. The poll represents a dramatic shift in the race. In October, Romney led the field in Iowa with 26 percent, while Gingrich only received a paltry 5 percent of the vote. With Herman Cain's announcement on Saturday that he would suspend his campaign, the NBC/Marist poll predicted that Gingrich's support will increase to to 28 percent, while Romney and Paul tie at 19 percent. "As the roller coaster picks up speed in the month leading up to the Iowa caucus, Newt Gingrich has moved into the lead car," said Dr. Lee M. Miringoff, director of The Marist College Institute for Public Opinion, in a statement. "Hold on tight for any further twists and turns." To read more, visit: http://dailycaller.com/2011/12/05/gingrich-leads-but-paul-most-likely-to-beat-obama-in-latest-iowa-poll/ |
| Cuomo Pushes New Tax Rates for Big Earners Posted: 05 Dec 2011 07:49 AM PST By THOMAS KAPLAN, NYTimes.com Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo on Sunday called for "comprehensive reform" of New York's tax code that would mean higher tax rates for the wealthy and a tax cut for the middle class, according to officials briefed on the plan. Mr. Cuomo, a Democrat whose popularity soared as he cut spending and won concessions from labor unions during his first year in office, also called for a stimulus package that would increase spending on road and bridge construction; finance new programs to train poor urban youths; and legalize resort-style casino gambling. Mr. Cuomo was expected to call lawmakers back to Albany as soon as this week to take up some of his proposals. While Mr. Cuomo did not provide specifics on his tax proposals, he and legislative leaders were negotiating a deal, the officials briefed on the plan said, that would allow the state's so-called millionaires' tax — a surcharge on incomes over $200,000 for individuals — to lapse as scheduled on Dec. 31. But one or more new tax brackets for high-income earners would have those individuals paying less than they did under the surcharge — allowing officials to say that the millionaires' tax had lapsed — but paying at a higher rate than they would have been under existing tax brackets. The proposal would also lower the tax rate for middle-income earners and might include tax incentives for businesses. It was not clear on Sunday what the income thresholds would be. The officials, speaking on the condition of anonymity because the talks were private, said that if agreed upon, the new rates would last for several years; a commission would be created to come up with permanent new rates and to address tax loopholes and changes to business taxes. To read more, visit: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/05/nyregion/andrew-cuomo-calls-for-stimulus-package-in-addition-to-tax-reform.html?_r=1 |
| Record U.S. Exports Led by Caterpillar Seen in Worldwide Markets Posted: 05 Dec 2011 07:46 AM PST By Shobhana Chandra, Bloomberg.com U.S. exports, a driver of expansion in the world's largest economy, will grow next year even as a sovereign-debt crisis pushes Europe into recession. The euro area's share of overseas sales for American-made goods has dwindled to 13 percent from 19 percent at the peak in the early 1990s, according to Joseph Carson of AllianceBernstein LP. A trade shock that cuts all euro-zone imports by 10 percent in the next 12 months would trim U.S. economic output by only 0.2 percent, UBS AG estimates. Total U.S. exports — responsible for almost half of growth since the 18-month recession ended in June 2009 — reached a record $180.4 billion in September, even as Europe's woes were escalating. America's push into faster-growing emerging markets such as China is helping to sustain demand for goods from Caterpillar Inc. (CAT) machinery to Apple Inc. iPhones. "The best thing for the economy is that growth in the rest of the world is positive," said Carson, director of global economic research at AllianceBernstein in New York and a former Commerce Department economist. "It is likely our exports slow down, but it doesn't mean they collapse. We'll still have an investment- and export-led expansion next year." Sales of U.S. goods abroad have jumped 29 percent in the nine quarters of the recovery, the fastest growth at the start of any economic rebound in the past five decades, as the country "piggybacked" on demand in developing nations, said Carson, who is also a former chief U.S. economist at Deutsche Bank AG. U.S. merchandise exports to emerging economies climbed 20 percent (MXEF) through September from a year earlier, while sales to the euro area grew 14 percent, Carson said. Developing markets now account for 55 percent of U.S. goods shipments, which include crude oil and natural gas, up from 40 percent in 2000. To read more, visit: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-12-05/record-u-s-exports-led-by-caterpillar-in-developing-markets-seen-for-2012.html |
| U.S. Government Now Asserts More Power Than Hitler or Stalin Posted: 05 Dec 2011 07:43 AM PST By: CHRIS FLOYD, InfoWars.com Many people have commented on the Congressional vote to codify the authoritarian powers asserted by George W. Bush and Barack Obama, i.e., the arbitrary, unchallengeable power to declare anyone on earth — including American citizens — an "enemy of the state" and incarcerate them, indefinitely, outside of due process, in military custody. There is, at this writing, an outside chance that Barack Obama might possibly veto this "enabling decree" — but only on the grounds that to accept Congressional approval of these tyrannical powers might encroach upon the presidential autocrat's authority to do whatever he or she damn well pleases to anyone he or she wants to destroy. But in any case and every case, the bipartisan political ruling class is united in its steadfast determination to eliminate any last vestige of constitutional liberty or rule of law in the United States. And whatever the outcome of this particular bill, the reality will remain the same: the President of the United States will continue to claim — and exercise — absolute arbitrary power over the life and liberty of every person on earth. As we've said here before, not even Adolf Hitler or Josef Stalin at their most megalomaniacal ever dreamed of asserting the kind of universal power now asserted by American presidents and the lickspittlish lackeys in the United States Congress. There is, alas, no "news" in this. I wrote my first "If the Republic Had Not Died a Long Time Ago" piece several years ago. And Arthur Silber was one of the first (and one of the very few) to point out that the election of then-candidate Barack Obama would only bring the retrenchment, expansion — and codification — of George W. Bush's worst constitutional depredations. So it has proven, over and over and over. But as the Congressional vote shows, one shouldn't fetishize Obama (or Bush, as I was often guilty of doing in the past) as some kind of unique locus for the authoritarianism that is now, beyond all doubt, the essence and practice of the "American way" in the modern world. Both Bush and now Obama have, in many ways, only exemplified and made manifest the zeitgeist of the ruling elite. This is what they believe: the Constitution is a dead letter. The Republic is a dead letter. Might makes right. Mammon is God. Liberty is inconvenient. And any human being who does not belong to the elite or serve it with dog-like devotion is a piece of shit who can be abused, neglected, discarded or eliminated without the slightest shame or consequence. This is the mindset of our elites and their servitors. But I want to say one further thing. Every one of these elites, every one of these bowing, scraping, enabling courtiers, is also a individual human being, born with the same inestimable worth and capacity for the same astonishing feats of love and comity that all individuals have in potentia. But they have given themselves over to systems and mindsets that are implacably inhuman. They are all in the process of self-murdering their own souls. It's a horrible, sickening sight. And although I condemn their crimes and tainted minds with all the fury and outrage and scorn they deserve, I take no pleasure in this rage. I am heartsick, truly, at every soul lost to the machines — the War Machine, the Money Machine, the Power Machine — that rule our world. To read more, visit: http://www.infowars.com/u-s-government-now-asserts-more-power-than-hitler-or-stalin/ |
| How Microchipped Jerseys Are Changing Hockey Fans’ Experience Posted: 05 Dec 2011 07:40 AM PST By: Sam Laird, Mashable.com Electronic breakthroughs — from home radios to instant replay to stadium Jumbotrons — have revolutionized the way spectators experience sports from the stands and the couch for decades. Now, one National Hockey League franchise has added technological fan apparel to that list of changes. This year, the Tampa Bay Lightning introduced a replica team jersey equipped with a radio frequency chip embedded in the sleeve that fans can scan at stadium stores to receive discounts on refreshments and team merchandise for all season ticket holders. The promotion has worked — it helped spur a nearly twofold increase in season ticket sales this year. According to Brad Lott, the team's executive vice president of service and operations, the unique innovation — believed to be the first of its kind in the sporting world — was spurred by lagging season-long fan support in an area of the U.S. known for attracting migrants from other parts of the country. "Initially we just wanted to give all season ticket holders a jersey," Lott says, adding that the home team's colors would sometimes be outnumbered by visiting teams' jerseys. "Then that morphed into the idea of a chip." Season ticket sales have boomed from some 6,000 last year to about 11,000 this year, Lott says. The chip isn't the only difference in the exclusive new jerseys — the Lightning also added a patch identifying wearers as "Season Ticket Members" and gave their most loyal fans the option to personalize the backs of their jerseys with custom names and numbers. To read more, visit: http://mashable.com/2011/12/02/microchip-nhl-jersey/ |
| Another Elderly Woman Says She Was Exposed At Kennedy Airport Posted: 05 Dec 2011 07:36 AM PST From: CBSNewYork.com NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — Lenore Zimmerman, 85, was angry and embarrassed after what she claims was a strip search at Kennedy Airport Tuesday. Now another woman in her 80′s at the very same terminal says she was exposed one day before. From her home in Sunrise, Florida, 88-year-old Ruth Sherman says she knows for a fact senior citizens are being violated at a screening checkpoint at JFK. "I felt like I was invaded," she told CBS 2′s Dave Carlin. Sherman says week-long Thanksgiving holiday with family in New York ended with an ordeal that started when the screeners wanted to check the bulge from Sherman's colostomy bag. "This is private for me. It's bad enough that I have it," she said. "I had to pull from my sweatpants and I had to pull my underwear, my underwear down." "You don't do that anybody," she added. "I felt like I was invaded." To read more, visit: http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2011/12/04/another-elderly-woman-says-she-was-exposed-at-kennedy-airport/ |
| Iowa Poll: Gingrich leads GOP pack, then Paul, Romney Posted: 05 Dec 2011 07:33 AM PST By: JENNIFER JACOBS, DesMoinesRegister.com With the dizzying fall of Herman Cain, Newt Gingrich has stepped into the breach and now stands alone as the most popular GOP presidential candidate in The Des Moines Register's new Iowa Poll. Gingrich, with support of 25 percent of likely Republican caucusgoers, is seven points ahead of the rising Ron Paul, who's at 18 percent. Mitt Romney drops to third, at 16percent, denting his previously armor-plated Iowa polling average. Romney's support stood at 22 percent last month. Cain, who suspended his campaign Saturday, had plunged from 23 percent to 8 percent in just over a month, tied with Michele Bachmann. In a race that's still far from settled, previous candidate surges have had a half life. But Gingrich's comes at a critical time — with just a month until the first votes are cast in the nation's GOP nominating contest. The key question is whether his support represents momentum or a peak. Politics watchers say it could be difficult for Gingrich to withstand the rigors of front-runner status, especially when his campaign has shown a lack of discipline so far, plagued by early debt, staff turnover and a paper-thin organization. Gingrich has been "a one-man band just standing onstage and pontificating," Republican strategist Mike Murphy said. "On caucus night, can you convoy and get people there?" To read more, visit: http://caucuses.desmoinesregister.com/2011/12/04/iowa-poll-newt-gingrich-most-popular-gop-candidate/ |
| Rand Paul pushes his tea party style of change Posted: 05 Dec 2011 07:30 AM PST BY HALIMAH ABDULLAH, MiamiHerald.com The freshman Republican senator from Kentucky on Tuesday took on Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. – a highly decorated veteran and former presidential candidate – over a provision in the defense authorization bill that would deny civilian trials to American terrorism suspects. Paul’s impassioned opposition to the provision put him on the same side as the White House and many Democrats and at odds with many Republicans, including his fellow Kentuckian, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. “There is one thing and one thing only protecting innocent Americans from being detained at will at the hands of a too-powerful state – our Constitution and the checks we put on government power,” the libertarian-leaning Paul said in a speech on the Senate floor. McCain, who is the top Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee, countered that Paul didn’t fully understand the threat of terrorism on American soil. “Facts are stubborn things,” McCain said repeatedly on the floor. “If the senator from Kentucky wants to have a situation prevail where people who are released go back into the fight to kill Americans, he is entitled to his opinion.” Although Paul’s attempt to strip the provision ultimately failed – the fate of many of his similar stands over the past year – he was successful in raising the issue’s profile. After a series of protracted negotiations, the Senate passed the $662 billion Pentagon funding bill Thursday night. To read more, visit: http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/12/04/2530867/rand-paul-pushes-his-tea-party.html |
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