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Ex-spy: May be 50 undercover Russian couples in US
Post Date: 2010-06-29 14:24:56 by Badeye
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Ex-spy: May be 50 undercover Russian couples in US ASSOCIATED PRESS Last Updated: 12:43 PM, June 29, 2010 Posted: 11:34 AM, June 29, 2010 Comments: 11 | More Print MOSCOW — One of the Cold War's most famous defectors says Russia probably has about 50 deep-cover couples — and maybe even up to 60 of them — spying inside the United States. Oleg Gordievsky, a former deputy head of the KGB in London who defected in 1985, said Russian President Dmitry Medvedev would know the number of illegal operatives in each target country. The 71-year-old ex-double agent told The Associated Press in a phone interview Tuesday that, based on his experience in Russian intelligence, ...
Consumer confidence craters in June
Post Date: 2010-06-29 14:19:20 by Badeye
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Consumer confidence craters in June By Ben Rooney, staff reporterJune 29, 2010: 10:56 AM ET NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- A key measure of consumer confidence fell in June, reversing a three-month gain, as Americans remain nervous about the job market. The Conference Board, a New York-based research group, said its Consumer Confidence Index dropped to 52.9 in June from 62.7 in May. It was the lowest level since March, when the index stood at 52.3. 111 digg diggEmail Print CommentEconomists had expected the index to have fallen to 62 in June, according to consensus estimates from Briefing.com. "Increasing uncertainty and apprehension about the future state of the economy and labor ...
Palin suffers gaffes at college event, and in legal-defense fundraising appeal [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2010-06-29 14:15:26 by Fred Mertz
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Following in the grand tradition of flaunting gaps in basic knowledge while addressing a university, Sarah Palin told a crowd at a fundraiser at California State University, Stanislaus last weekend that Ronald Reagan, whom she counts as a personal hero and inspiration, was also a California college graduate. She told the cheering crowd: "This is Reagan country, and perhaps it was destiny that the man who went to California's Eureka College would become so woven within and interlinked to the Golden State." There's just one problem here: Reagan attended college in Illinois. The Alaska Dispatch reports that the former president went to Eureka College in Illinois from 1928 ...
Democratic Rep blasts Obama Gulf response as “incompetent”
Post Date: 2010-06-29 14:13:43 by no gnu taxes
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Plenty of Republicans have assailed Barack Obama’s handling of the Gulf crisis as “incompetent,” but few have made Katrina comparisons, mindful of the sensitivities involved in the previous disaster in the Gulf. Democratic Rep. Gene Taylor of Mississippi isn’t nearly as shy. Calling the federal response to the Gulf oil spill “a Katrina flashback,” Taylor ripped the Obama administration’s “incompetent” response and says he hasn’t seen anything like it since, well … let’s just say Taylor thinks Obama and his team are doing a heckuva job: As oil spread as close as 1½ miles from Jackson County’s coast Saturday, U.S. Rep. ...
Rough Seas Halt Skimming Operations Off Gulf Coast
Post Date: 2010-06-29 14:03:51 by Brian S
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(06-29) 10:47 PDT NEW ORLEANS, (AP) -- BP and the Coast Guard sent oil-scooping skimming ships in the Gulf of Mexico back to shore Tuesday because nasty weather from Tropical Storm Alex churned up rough seas and powerful winds. U.S. Coast Guard Lt. Dave French said all efforts had been halted for now off the Louisiana coast. Efforts also had been halted off the coasts of Florida, Alabama and Mississippi. French said workers were using the time off the water to replenish supplies and perform maintenance work on equipment. "We're ready to go as soon as conditions allow us to get those people back out and fighting this oil spill," French said. The loss of skimming work ...
GOP blocks aid to homeless vets
Post Date: 2010-06-29 13:04:18 by go65
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EVEN A BILL ON HOMELESS VETERANS.... Sen. Patty Murray's (D-Wash.) bill on homeless veterans seems like the kind of legislation that should be approved rather easily. But in this Senate, nothing's easy. As the senator's office explained, her Homeless Women Veterans and Homeless Veterans With Children Act would "expand assistance for homeless women veterans and homeless veterans with children and would increase funding and extend federal grant programs to address the unique challenges faced by these veterans." It was approved in committee with bipartisan support, and Murray brought it to the floor this morning, seeking unanimous consent. She didn't get it -- ...
Hurricane, Plus Oil Spill: It’s Never Happened, and We Sure Don’t Want It To [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2010-06-29 12:59:10 by no gnu taxes
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The Gulf oil spill is terrible, but it could become much, much worse and soon.
The threat comes in the form of a hurricane moving over the spill. If a hurricane’s violent winds track over the oil slicks this season, we will witness a natural and economic calamity that history has never recorded anywhere or anytime. We will literally be in oil-soaked uncharted waters, suffering the first ever “oilicane.”
A Category One hurricane — the scale ranks them from one to five — has maximum sustained winds of 74 to 95 miles per hour near the eye. A Category Five hurricane has maximum sustained winds of 156 to 200 miles per hour. The difference between the two storms is gigantic, and non-linear. ...
GOPers Who Slammed Marshall's Activism Can't Name A Case Typifying It
Post Date: 2010-06-29 12:58:36 by go65
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Republicans raised eyebrows yesterday when they criticized the first African-American Supreme Court justice, Thurgood Marshall, as a way to attack nominee Elena Kagan, his former clerk. One would think that, to avoid any appearance of racial dog-whistling, the senators attacking Marshall's record would be able to name the decisions or opinions with which they so vociferously disagreed. After the hearing broke last night, TPMDC asked three of the top Republicans on the Judiciary Committee which of Marshall's opinions best exemplified his activism. And while two of the three were careful to praise Marshall the man, none of them could name a single case. "You could name ...
Top Republican: Raise Social Security's Retirement Age To 70
Post Date: 2010-06-29 12:58:01 by Brian S
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A Republican-held Congress might look to raise the retirement age to 70, House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) suggested Monday. Boehner, the top Republican lawmaker in the House, said raising the retirement age by five years, indexing benefits to the rate of inflation and means-testing benefits would make the massive entitlement program more solvent. "We're all living a lot longer than anyone ever expected," Boehner said in a meeting with the editors of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. "And I think that raising the retirement age — going out 20 years, so you're not affecting anyone close to retirement — and eventually getting the retirement age to 70 ...
Fannie-Freddie Bailout Could Cost Taxpayers $1 Trillion (The Obama depression)
Post Date: 2010-06-29 12:45:05 by no gnu taxes
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For American taxpayers, now on the hook for some $145 billion in housing losses connected to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac loans, that amount could be just the tip of the iceberg. According to the Congressional Budget Office, the losses could balloon to $400 billion. And if housing prices fall further, the cost to the taxpayer could hit as much as $1 trillion. Two things are clear: Taxpayers don't want to foot the bill, and Fannie and Freddie, taken over by the government in 2008 to stanch the financial bloodletting, need a major overhaul. "Some of us who don't even own homes are paying to support others and their home ownership, and they ask 'why?' said Robert J. ...
Illegal Immigrants To Lose Out On BP Claims
Post Date: 2010-06-29 12:31:07 by Brian S
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Illegal immigrants working on the Gulf Coast will not be able to claim for economic losses they suffer as a result of the BP oil spill, according to Kenneth Feinberg, the administrator of BP’s $20bn claims fund. Mr Feinberg, who will take over the administration of the claims process from BP, is now drawing up parameters for assessing claims, which have been flooding in since his appointment 10 days ago. “I think it’s very difficult for the fund to engage in any programme that violates federal law,” Mr Feinberg told the Financial Times. “I don’t think the fund can be in a position to be paying compensation [to illegal immigrants].” But his position on ...
Al Gore and the Media Protection Racket
Post Date: 2010-06-29 12:17:30 by Badeye
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Al Gore and the Media Protection Racket By Jeffrey Lord on 6.29.10 @ 6:10AM The Al Gore police report is disturbing. To be specific, it's 67 pages of the quite graphically disturbing, as posted here by Red State. You are reading the news of this police report -- originally filed in October of 2006 -- only because the National Enquirer scooped the story. In June of 2010. You did not read it in the Portland Tribune, which has been on this story since 2007 and failed to tell its readers until the Enquirer broke the story. The Tribune's explanation for this is to be found here. Then there's the interesting news that Kathleen Parker, she the "conservative" columnist who ...
Kagan Nomination Should Be Filibustered – Republicans, No Guts?
Post Date: 2010-06-29 12:03:41 by Skip MacLure
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The very lack of information on Elena Kagan’s opinions regarding constitutional issues, which are key to this country’s survival as a free Republic, is the reason that Kagan should be dissected before Senate Republicans, carefully and in great depth. Statements like “It’s fine if the law bans books because government won’t really enforce it” are stunning, with implications in several different directions. For one, it certainly indicates someone who has little or no respect for the Constitution, or by extension the people of this great country. It highlights the fundamental distrust of the individual right of free speech, on not only the part of the DeMarxist ...
California Cities Start Shutting Down Police Forces to Close Budget Gaps
Post Date: 2010-06-29 11:32:33 by Brian S
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San Carlos, a Silicon Valley suburb that calls itself the City of Good Living, will hire contractors to maintain parks and negotiate with county officials to take over policing, becoming the latest California community eliminating basic services to close budget deficits. Measures passed by the City Council last night may save the community of 28,000 residents about $2.5 million a year, according to Mayor Randy Royce. San Carlos faces a $3.5 million deficit for the fiscal year that begins July 1, on a budget of $25.8 million. About 70 percent of U.S. municipalities are cutting jobs to cope with declining tax revenue, according to a survey published last month by the National League of ...
Alex to Become Hurricane as Swells Reach Gulf Spill
Post Date: 2010-06-29 11:31:34 by Brian S
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Tropical Storm Alex, the first named system of the Atlantic hurricane season, strengthened today over open waters, forcing the evacuation of rigs in the Gulf of Mexico while pushing swells toward the worst U.S. oil spill. The storm, packing maximum sustained winds of 70 miles (110 kilometers) per hour, was 380 miles southeast of Brownsville, Texas, heading north-northwest at 12 mph, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said in a 7 a.m. CDT advisory. The circulating winds approached hurricane status of 74 mph. A hurricane warning was issued for the coast of Texas near Padre Island to the mouth of the Rio Grande and south of the Mexico border to La Cruz, the hurricane center said. The storm ...
Racism, Your Name Is Jeremiah Wright (Obama's hero)
Post Date: 2010-06-29 11:16:24 by no gnu taxes
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Barack Obama’s hateful, racist ”pastor” of twenty years is at it again, not that he’s ever stopped. The New York Post reported on a seminar that Jeremiah Wright gave last week at the University of Chicago. It was a five-day session which cost $1000 if taken for college credit or $300 with no college credit. The Post reported there were about 15 to 20 attendees who were mostly older black women. It was a seminar ostensibly about politics and public policy in South Africa and America, but Wright let the attendees know his disdain for “whites” and Jews. He believes white people and Jews are oppressing black people in Israel and America and controlling the flow ...
THE DEMOCRATS “CULTURE OF INCOMPETENCE”
Post Date: 2010-06-29 10:57:38 by no gnu taxes
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Remember in November, 2006, when the Democrats got control of Congress, Nancy Pelosi, the future Speaker of the House, said that she was going to end the “Culture of Corruption” that was permeating Wash. D.C.? Well, they failed miserably at that task, so since that time and with the election of Barack Hussein Obama in 2008, a new culture has come about, it is called the “Culture of Incompetence”. It has resulted in the mismanagement of the federal bureaucracy, the economy, and the ballooning deficit. During the past couple of years, it seems no matter what Obama or the Democrats touch or propose, it is not in the best interests of America. The people who are in charge ...
Crist sued over GOP contributions
Post Date: 2010-06-29 10:30:44 by Badeye
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Crist sued over GOP contributions Donor says party switch leaves funds off limits. Posted: June 28, 2010 - 11:11pmPhotos Crist Advertisement By David Hunt A Jacksonville businessman who once was one of Gov. Charlie Crist's strongest allies in Northeast Florida is suing on behalf of Republican donors who feel cheated that Crist left the GOP without refunding campaign contributions. John Rood, a former U.S. ambassador to the Bahamas who runs The Vestcor Cos., is one of two lead plaintiffs in the class-action lawsuit asking a judge to block Crist from using Republicans' money to finance his U.S. Senate run. The lawsuit was filed last week in Circuit Court in Collier County. Linda ...
New Jersey legislature passes Christie’s budget
Post Date: 2010-06-29 10:27:18 by Badeye
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New Jersey legislature passes Christie’s budget By AP | Published: Tuesday, June 29th, 2010 Governor-elect Chris Christie gives a thumbs up sign as he sits with Lt. governor elect Kim Guadagno at the Robert Treat Academy charter school Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2009, in Newark, N.J., the day after he won over incumbent Jon S. Corzine. Christie said with the visit to the highly successful school, he wanted to highlight his plans to improve education. (AP Photo/Mel Evans) TTRENTON, N.J. — New Jersey’s Democratic-controlled Legislature has approved a $29.4 billion budget, sending back to the Republican governor a spending plan that cuts hundreds of millions of dollars in public ...
BP Discussing a Backup Strategy to Plug Well [Reads Like They Are Afraid Relief Well Won't Work]
Post Date: 2010-06-29 07:36:11 by war
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Since shortly after oil began spewing into the Gulf of Mexico two months ago, relief wells have been discussed as the ultimate solution, their success in permanently plugging the runaway well deemed a foregone conclusion. But BP and government officials are now talking about a long-term containment plan to pump the oil to an existing platform should the relief well effort fail. While such a failure is considered highly unlikely, the contingency plan is the latest sign that with this most vexing of engineering challenges — snuffing a gusher 5,000 feet down in the gulf — nothing is a sure thing. Kent Wells, a BP senior vice president in charge of subsea containment and capping ...
In Ordinary Lives, U.S. Sees the Work of Russian Agents
Post Date: 2010-06-29 07:33:57 by war
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They had lived for more than a decade in American cities and suburbs from Seattle to New York, where they seemed to be ordinary couples working ordinary jobs, chatting to the neighbors about schools and apologizing for noisy teenagers. But on Monday, federal prosecutors accused 11 people of being part of a Russian espionage ring, living under false names and deep cover in a patient scheme to penetrate what one coded message called American “policy making circles.” An F.B.I. investigation that began at least seven years ago culminated with the arrest on Sunday of 10 people in Yonkers, Boston and northern Virginia. The documents detailed what the authorities called the ...
In Nevada, Running for Senate and From Cameras [Angle Refuses To Answer The Hard Questions]
Post Date: 2010-06-29 07:25:29 by war
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RENO — There is a game in Nevada called “Where’s Sharron Angle?” that the press is tired of playing. Ms. Angle, a Nevada Senate candidate and Tea Party darling, has steadfastly refused to talk to reporters here, leading to some unusually aggressive behavior by local television stations. In a segment fit for TMZ, one intrepid reporter chased her on foot outside a restaurant this month, repeatedly asking why she had once said that “if this Congress keeps going the way it is, people are really looking toward those Second Amendment remedies.” She ignored the questioner and tried to outpace him, in a video clip replayed across the state. In her silence, Ms. Angle ...
Tropical Storm Could Disrupt Oil Spill Cleanup
Post Date: 2010-06-29 00:44:51 by Brian S
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Tropical Storm Alex steamed across the Gulf of Mexico on Monday on a path that could keep it away from BP's busted well but could still stir up heavy winds, rain and choppy seas that drive the oil deeper inland and bring much of the cleanup to a standstill. By midweek, boats skimming the sludge from the water may have to return to port for their own safety, and the floating oil-containment booms could be rendered useless by waves slopping over them and may have to be pulled out of the water. The upside is that the storm could stay far enough away that BP will not have to abandon its efforts to capture much of the crude spewing from the sea floor. Nor is the storm ...
Ten arrested in US on charges of spying for Russia
Post Date: 2010-06-28 20:15:49 by WhiteSands
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Ten people have been arrested in the US for allegedly spying for the Russian government, US officials say. They are charged with conspiracy to act as unlawful agents of a foreign government, a crime which carries up to five years in prison. An 11th suspect remains at large, according to the US justice department. Nine of them are also charged with conspiracy to launder money, which carries a 20-year sentence. The US Department of Justice says eight of the suspects allegedly carried out "long-term, 'deep-cover' assignments" on US soil. The alleged agents were trained by the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) and sent to the US to infiltrate policy-making ...
Gen. Stanley McChrystal, Relieved Of Afghan Command, Tells Army He Will Retire
Post Date: 2010-06-28 17:48:14 by Brian S
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WASHINGTON - Gen. Stanley McChrystal, who was fired last week as the top U.S. general in the stalemated Afghanistan war, has told the Army that he will retire. Army spokesman Col. Tom Collins said McChrystal notified the service of his plans on Monday, but he has not yet submitted formal retirement papers. It is not clear when he will leave the service, but the process usually take a few months. President Barack Obama has praised McChrystal's long Army career but says his intemperate remarks in a magazine article that appeared last week could not be abided. McChrystal apologized for the remarks in Rolling Stone magazine and flew to Washington last week to resign as commanding ...
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