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- Poll: Romney, Paul Tie Obama
- Almost 1 In 3 U.S. Warplanes Is a Robot
- Oil Prices Could Soar 80% If Iran Shut Hormuz: Analyst
- Amazon, Indiana strike state sales tax deal
- Vitamin C mega-dosing continues to unleash healing miracles around the world
- Tea Party Is Taking Back Seat In Primary
- TSA defends banning cupcake from airplane
- Poll: Americans, 2-1, Fear Obama’s Reelection
| Posted: 10 Jan 2012 04:39 AM PST By Steven Shepard, National Journal Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, run neck-and-neck with President Obama in a general-election matchup, according to a new CBS News poll released late on Monday that shows the two front-runners in Tuesday’s New Hampshire GOP primary running stronger against the president than their fellow Republicans. Romney posts a two-point lead over Obama, 47 percent to 45 percent, within the poll’s margin of error of plus or minus 2.8 percentage points. He leads Obama, 45 percent to 39 percent, among independent voters. Obama’s lead over Paul is just one point, 46 percent to 45 percent, as Paul leads among independents by 7 points. The president posts more significant leads over the other GOP candidates, but against each he is below the critical 50-percent threshold: He leads former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, 49 percent to 41 percent; former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman, 48 percent to 41 percent; Texas Gov. Rick Perry, 49 percent to 42 percent; and former Sen. Rick Santorum, R-Pa., 47 percent to 43 percent. Among all adults, just 45 percent of Americans approve of the job Obama is doing as president, slightly worse than the 47-percent approval rating he posted last month. Among independents, 38 percent approve of Obama’s job performance, while 49 percent disapprove. To read more, visit: http://www.nationaljournal.com/2012-presidential-campaign/poll-romney-paul-tie-obama-20120109 |
| Almost 1 In 3 U.S. Warplanes Is a Robot Posted: 09 Jan 2012 05:02 PM PST
Remember when the military actually put human beings in the cockpits of its planes? They still do, but in far fewer numbers. According to a new congressional report acquired by Danger Room, drones now account for 31 percent of all military aircraft. To be fair, lots of those drones are tiny flying spies, like the Army's Raven, that could never accommodate even the most diminutive pilot. (Specifically, the Army has 5,346 Ravens, making it the most numerous military drone by far.) But in 2005, only five percent of military aircraft were robots, a report by the Congressional Research Service notes. Barely seven years later, the military has 7,494 drones. Total number of old school, manned aircraft: 10,767 planes. A small sliver of those nearly 7,500 drones gets all of the attention. The military owns 161 Predators — the iconic flying strike drone used over Pakistan, Yemen and elsewhere — and Reapers, the Predator's bigger, better-armed brother. But even as the military's bought a ton of drones in the past few years, the Pentagon spends much, much more money on planes with people in them. Manned aircraft still get 92 percent of the Pentagon's aircraft procurement money. Still, since 2001, the military has spent $26 billion on drones, the report — our Document of the Day — finds. To read more, visit: http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/01/drone-report/ |
| Oil Prices Could Soar 80% If Iran Shut Hormuz: Analyst Posted: 09 Jan 2012 04:57 PM PST
If Iran were to shut down the Strait of Hormuz, a key oil transportation route where millions of barrels travel out of the Persian Gulf every day, Brent crude [LCOCV1 112.27 --- UNCH] would surge to between $150 and $200 a barrel, according to an oil analyst with Societe Generale."We believe it would be relatively easy for Iran to shut down the Straits of Hormuz," wrote Michael Wittner, in a report late Friday to clients. "A credible threat from missiles, mines, or fast attack boats is all it would take for tanker insurers to stop coverage, which would halt tanker traffic. However, we believe that Iran would not be able to keep the Straits shut for longer than two weeks, due to a US-led military response." However, the analyst puts this aggressive action as a low probability event. The more likely scenario is an embargo imposed by the European Union, accompanied by U.S. pressure on other countries to do the same, which could still send Brent prices to the $125 to $150 range. Brent was trading above $112 a barrel on Monday. "An EU embargo is considered likely, especially after the EU reached an agreement in principle on an embargo on January 4th," wrote the analyst. "When it is announced, depending on the timing and details, we may revise our base case oil price forecast upward." To read more, visit: http://www.cnbc.com/id/45929942 |
| Amazon, Indiana strike state sales tax deal Posted: 09 Jan 2012 04:52 PM PST
Amazon.com and Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels unveiled an agreement on Monday that may mean that the world’s largest Internet retailer starts collecting sales tax in the state in 2014. Amazon will voluntarily begin collecting Indiana sales tax on Internet purchases on Jan 1, 2014, or 90 days from any federal online sales tax legislation that may pass before that time, according to a statement from Daniels’ office. Online retailers without a physical presence in a state do not have to collect sales tax on purchases by those residents. As e-commerce ballooned in recent years, that exemption came under pressure from several states looking to fill big budget gaps. Brick and mortar retailers have been pushing hard behind the scenes to get Amazon to collect sales tax. Some traditional retailers argue Amazon has an unfair price advantage because it does not collect the tax in many states, although Amazon has said customers shop with it for other reasons, such as wide product selection and availability. To read more, visit: http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/breaking/chi-amazon-indiana-strike-state-sales-tax-deal-20120109,0,5788598.story |
| Vitamin C mega-dosing continues to unleash healing miracles around the world Posted: 09 Jan 2012 04:49 PM PST
Remember the story of Alan Smith from New Zealand, and his dramatic recovery from a coma with mega-dose vitamin C? That story went viral and was featured in the New Zealand version of “60 Minutes.” But some sources didn’t have it quite right. The mega-dose vitamin C was not by IV for the last two weeks. They were through a uniquely new oral C product. Alan pulled out of his coma from white-out pneumonia (lungs whited out in X-rays) and complications with leukemia. He had been on life support, and doctors were threatening to turn it off and let him die when his family intervened. They went through a series of sagas and legal hassles to get the hospital to administer IV C. The doctors complied at first, and there was enough improvement to convince the hospital staff not to pull the plug on his life support as they had threatened. But the hospital felt they knew better and stopped the IV C. Alan’s condition worsened. After legal intervention, they continued at only two grams IV C daily instead of the 50 grams daily before. Alan’s condition went into a critical limbo. To read more, visit: http://www.naturalnews.com/034591_vitamin_C_mega-dose_healing.html |
| Tea Party Is Taking Back Seat In Primary Posted: 09 Jan 2012 04:22 PM PST By JANET HOOK And NEIL KING JR., The Wall Street Journal The New Hampshire tea-party movement, which helped Republicans score major victories in 2010 elections, has taken a back seat in this year’s presidential primary amid deep divisions over whom to support. Second-tier candidates Ron Paul, Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum have each had some allure for tea partiers reluctant to back GOP front-runner Mitt Romney, but none has galvanized and unified the decentralized movement. “It is split,” said Ken Eyring, founder of the Southern New Hampshire 9.12 Project, who has compiled an online guide to the candidates’ positions on major issues. “There’s an awful lot of research being done by everyone I know. “Gov. Romney is not one of the favorites of the tea party,” said Mr. Eyring, who hasn’t said whom he will support. But just as the former Massachusetts governor benefited from a fractured social-conservative electorate in Iowa, he appears likely to be helped by a fractured tea-party vote Tuesday in New Hampshire. The latest survey by the University of New Hampshire, taken from Thursday to Sunday, shows Mr. Romney doing about as well among voters who say they are active in or supportive of the tea party as he does among all voters: He drew 36% of tea-party backers, followed by Mr. Paul (19%), Mr. Santorum (19%), Mr. Gingrich (14%) and Mr. Huntsman (4%). To read more, visit: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204124204577151020845721022.html |
| TSA defends banning cupcake from airplane Posted: 09 Jan 2012 03:40 PM PST By Charlie Spiering, The Examiner “I wanted to make it clear that this wasn't your everyday, run-of-the-mill cupcake.” blogs TSA Blogger Bob Burns today, defending the TSA’s “Cupcate-Gate,” incident against critics. According to the story that went viral during the Christmas holiday, a TSA agent confiscated the cupcake from Rebecca Hains, a teacher who planned to feed it to her son on the plane. "The TSA at Logan Airport said the cupcakes looked delicious and told us to have a great trip. But in Las Vegas, they were dangerous. They shouldn't be delicious in one part of the country and a security threat in the other." Hains said at the time Burns defended the decision, clarifying that this cupcake was in a jar, prompting a different reaction from the TSA agent. “Unlike a thin layer of icing that resides on the top of most cupcakes, this cupcake had a thick layer of icing inside a jar.” he wrote, “The officer in this case used their discretion on whether or not to allow the newfangled modern take on a cupcake per 3-1-1 guidelines. They chose not to let it go.” To read more, visit: http://campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/tsa-defends-banning-cupcake-airplane/302656 |
| Poll: Americans, 2-1, Fear Obama’s Reelection Posted: 09 Jan 2012 03:32 PM PST
When it comes to how Americans view President Obama going into the new year, there appears to be very little spirit of Auld Lang Syne. Instead, according to the new Washington Whispers poll, many voters aren’t forgetting what they dislike about Obama and want him out office. In our New Year’s poll, when asked what news event they fear most about 2012, Americans by a margin of two-to-one said Obama’s reelection. Only 16 percent said they fear the Democrat won’t win a second term, while 33 percent said they fear four more years. Next to Obama’s reelection, 31 percent of Americans said they feared higher taxes, which may be proof that the president’s focus on the payroll tax cut has hit paydirt. The poll, however, held out some hope for Obama. Some 38 percent of younger Americans, 18-24, said their biggest fear was higher taxes. Just 28 percent of those same voters said they feared Obama winning in November. But in results backed up by other polls, older Americans and those earning $75,000 or more are especially worried about the president getting a second term, according to the poll done by Synovate eNation. To read more, visit: http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/washington-whispers/2012/01/09/poll-americans-2-1-fear-obamas-reelection |
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