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Did Obama make an O.J. Simpson joke?
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  Tags10:30AM EST October 9. 2012 - It sure sounds like Obama made an O.J. Simpson crack last night.
  Again mocking Mitt Romney for his proposal to cut public television, Obama added some riffs about the fate of some Sesame Street characters.
  "Elmo has been seen in a white Suburban!" Obama told donors in San Francisco.
  "He's driving for the border!"
  Of course, Simpson rode in white Bronco -- driven by friend Al Cowlings -- during the famous slow-speed chase through Los Angeles in 1994.
  Obama -- whose campaign has a new ad on Romney's alleged attacks on Big Bird -- also referenced another Sesame Street character:
  "Oscar is hiding out in his trash can."
  David JacksonDavid Jackson has been a reporter for more than three decades, and now covers the White House for USA TODAY. He enjoys politics, books, movies, and college football -- not necessarily in that order.
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Jack Welch: I Was Right About That Strange Jobs Report - WSJ.com
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  By JACK WELCHImagine a country where challenging the ruling authorities'--questioning, say, a piece of data released by central headquarters'--would result in mobs of administration sympathizers claiming you should feel "embarrassed" and labeling you a fool, or worse.
  Related VideoEditorial board member Steve Moore on the good and bad of the jobs report and whether it will help President Obama's campaign.
  Soviet Russia perhaps? Communist China? Nope, that would be the United States right now, when a person (like me, for instance) suggests that a certain government datum (like the September unemployment rate of 7.8%) doesn't make sense.
  Unfortunately for those who would like me to pipe down, the 7.8% unemployment figure released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) last week is downright implausible. And that's why I made a stink about it.
  Before I explain why the number is questionable, though, a few words about where I'm coming from. Contrary to some of the sound-and-fury last week, I do not work for the Mitt Romney campaign. I am definitely not a surrogate. My wife, Suzy, is not associated with the campaign, either. She worked at Bain Consulting (not Bain Capital) right after business school, in 1988 and 1989, and had no contact with Mr. Romney.
  The Obama campaign and its supporters, including bigwigs like David Axelrod and Robert Gibbs, along with several cable TV anchors, would like you to believe that BLS data are handled like the gold in Fort Knox, with gun-carrying guards watching their every move, and highly trained, white-gloved super-agents counting and recounting hourly.
  Let's get real. The unemployment data reported each month are gathered over a one-week period by census workers, by phone in 70% of the cases, and the rest through home visits. In sum, they try to contact 60,000 households, asking a list of questions and recording the responses.
  Some questions allow for unambiguous answers, but others less so. For instance, the range for part-time work falls between one hour and 34 hours a week. So, if an out-of-work accountant tells a census worker, "I got one baby-sitting job this week just to cover my kid's bus fare, but I haven't been able to find anything else," that could be recorded as being employed part-time.
  The possibility of subjectivity creeping into the process is so pervasive that the BLS's own "Handbook of Methods" has a full page explaining the limitations of its data, including how non-sampling errors get made, from "misinterpretation of the questions" to "errors made in the estimations of missing data."
  Bottom line: To suggest that the input to the BLS data-collection system is precise and bias-free is'--well, let's just say, overstated.
  Even if the BLS had a perfect process, the context surrounding the 7.8% figure still bears serious skepticism. Consider the following:
  In August, the labor-force participation rate in the U.S. dropped to 63.5%, the lowest since September 1981. By definition, fewer people in the workforce leads to better unemployment numbers. That's why the unemployment rate dropped to 8.1% in August from 8.3% in July.
  Meanwhile, we're told in the BLS report that in the months of August and September, federal, state and local governments added 602,000 workers to their payrolls, the largest two-month increase in more than 20 years. And the BLS tells us that, overall, 873,000 workers were added in September, the largest one-month increase since 1983, during the booming Reagan recovery.
  These three statistics'--the labor-force participation rate, the growth in government workers, and overall job growth, all multidecade records achieved over the past two months'--have to raise some eyebrows. There were no economists, liberal or conservative, predicting that unemployment in September would drop below 8%.
  I know I'm not the only person hearing these numbers and saying, "Really? If all that's true, why are so many people I know still having such a hard time finding work? Why do I keep hearing about local, state and federal cutbacks?"
  I sat through business reviews of a dozen companies last week as part of my work in the private sector, and not one reported better results in the third quarter compared with the second quarter. Several stayed about the same, the rest were down slightly.
  The economy is not in a free-fall. Oil and gas are strong, automotive is doing well and we seem to be seeing the beginning of a housing comeback. But I doubt many of us know any businessperson who believes the economy is growing at breakneck speed, as it would have to be for unemployment to drop to 7.8% from 8.3% over the course of two months.
  The reality is the economy is experiencing a weak recovery. Everything points to that, particularly the overall employment level, which is 143 million people today, compared with 146 million people in 2007.
  Now, I realize my tweets about this matter have been somewhat incendiary. In my first tweet, sent the night before the unemployment figure was released, I wrote: "Tomorrow unemployment numbers for Sept. with all the assumptions Labor Department can make..wonder about participation assumption??" The response was a big yawn.
  My next tweet, on Oct. 5, the one that got the attention of the Obama campaign and its supporters, read: "Unbelievable jobs numbers..these Chicago guys will do anything..can't debate so change numbers."
  As I said that same evening in an interview on CNN, if I could write that tweet again, I would have added a few question marks at the end, as with my earlier tweet, to make it clear I was raising a question.
  But I'm not sorry for the heated debate that ensued. I'm not the first person to question government numbers, and hopefully I won't be the last. Take, for example, one of my chief critics in this go-round, Austan Goolsbee, former chairman of the Obama administration's Council of Economic Advisers. Back in 2003, Mr. Goolsbee himself, commenting on a Bush-era unemployment figure, wrote in a New York Times op-ed: "the government has cooked the books."
  The good news is that the current debate has resulted in people giving the whole issue of unemployment data more thought. Moreover, it led to some of the campaign's biggest supporters admitting that the number merited a closer look'--and even expressing skepticism. The New York Times in a Sunday editorial, for instance, acknowledged the 7.8% figure is "partly due to a statistical fluke."
  The coming election is too important to be decided on a number. Especially when that number seems so wrong.
  Mr. Welch was the CEO of General Electric for 21 years and is the founder of the Jack Welch Management Institute at Strayer University.
  A version of this article appeared October 10, 2012, on page A19 in the U.S. edition of The Wall Street Journal, with the headline: I Was Right About That Strange Jobs Report.
MEXICO CITY: Mexico orders HPV vaccinations for all 5th-grade girls, saying it will end threat of cervical cancer | World | ADN.com
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  MEXICO CITY '-- Mexico on Wednesday launched a massive program to vaccinate fifth-grade girls against human papillomavirus, making it one of the few nations in the world with a universal campaign against the sexually transmitted virus.
  One million schoolgirls ages 11 or 12 will receive the HPV vaccination this week, Mexican President Felipe Calderon said. Another 200,000 girls who aren't in school also will be given the vaccine.
  HPV is the world's most common sexually transmitted infection and causes cervical cancer, a disease that killed an estimated 4,000 Mexican women a year, Calderon said.
  ''This cancer, unlike others, is preventable,'' Calderon said at a ceremony at the Los Pinos presidential palace. ''It is a great opportunity that human beings have to conquer one of the worst diseases . . . through a simple vaccine.''
  Mexico becomes one of the few countries in the world to follow in the footsteps of Greece, which in 2007 made the HPV vaccination mandatory for girls entering seventh grade.
  Proponents of mandatory HPV vaccinations in the United States have found widespread resistance, however. Only Virginia and the District of Columbia mandate the vaccination. Gov. Rick Perry of Texas issued an executive order in 2007 requiring 12-year-old girls to be vaccinated, but the state's legislature overturned it, and Perry's order haunted him on his failed bid to win the GOP presidential nomination last year. Efforts to compel the vaccine's use have been defeated in some 20 other states.
  U.S. medical and public health groups have been vocal this year in urging politicians to take greater action. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Academy of Family Physicians all deem the vaccine safe and recommend its use for girls ages 11 and 12.
  Calderon, who leaves office Dec. 1, was emphatic that the HPV vaccination is safe for girls. A national laboratory will examine all imported vaccine.
  ''I tell you with certainty and confidence that it is convenient, healthy and very important for every girl to receive this human papillomavirus vaccine,'' he said.
  The government has ordered state-owned Biologics and Reagents Laboratories of Mexico (Birmex), which already makes vaccines, to come up with its own HPV vaccine, Calderon said.
  Patricia Volkow Fernandez, an infectious disease and cancer specialist at Mexico's National Cancer Institute, said that more than 100,000 women have died of cervical cancers in the past quarter-century, making it the No. 2 most common cancer among women in Mexico.
  Administering the vaccine to schoolgirls, she said, is a way to sidestep language, cultural and social barriers that make rural women unlikely to accept pelvic exams to detect cervical cancer in its early stages.
  While there are more than 100 subtypes of human papillomavirus, the vaccine administered in Mexico is effective against subtypes 16 and 18, which cause 70 percent of the cervical cancers in the nation, she said.
  All fifth-grade girls will be given an initial shot, then a second shot six months later, she said. A third and final dose will be given to girls in ninth grade.
  Mexico began an obligatory vaccination program of schoolchildren and pregnant women in 1991, and currently offers 14 types of vaccines, Health Secretary Salomon Chertorivski said, adding that the campaign had helped eradicate polio, diphtheria and German measles, and limited tuberculosis and pneumonia.
  During weeklong periods three times a year, thousands of doctors and nurses spread across the country to schools and rural clinics to administer the free vaccinations.
  Calderon hailed his nation's public health record but noted that Mexicans retain the dubious distinction as ''world champions of childhood and adult obesity.''
  ''You have to do a half-hour of exercise every day, no matter what,'' Calderon lectured students at the announcement ceremony. ''You have to do it, you must be obligated to do it and we must teach our children to exercise every day.''
  Email: tjohnson@mcclatchydc.com; Twitter: @timjohnson4
Jimmy Savile linked with Haut de la Garenne children's home scandal | Media
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  Haut de la Garenne children's home in Jersey, the scene of a child-abuse scandal, where Jimmy Savile visited in 1970s. Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images
  The former head of the Jersey child abuse investigation has said he now suspects that Sir Jimmy Savile was implicated in the Haut de la Garenne children's home abuse scandal.
  Lenny Harper said he now has "no reason to doubt" that Savile was involved in indecent assault at the notorious Jersey children's home, despite there being insufficient evidence to question the Jim'll Fix It star when he was alive.
  The observation came on the day that the BBC's director general, George Entwistle, gave his first interview regarding the row, and indicated that the broadcaster would "take a look properly" and hold its own inquiry once the police investigation into alleged sexual abuse by the late DJ and presenter closes.
  Harper, the detective who led Jersey's three-year child abuse probe, told the Guardian that Savile's name came up in the initial police inquiry in 2008 '' but there were no specific allegations of abuse against the BBC presenter at the time.
  He added: "There definitely wasn't enough even to question him at the time, but in light of all the evidence that has come out then I'm not surprised because it fits perfectly the profile of what was going on."
  A solicitor who acted for victims of child abuse in Jersey also told the Guardian that some former Haut de la Garenne residents, both women and men, now claim they were assaulted by Savile in the 1970s.
  Alan Collins, a solicitor for several Haut de la Garenne victims, said "a handful" of former residents have now made abuse allegations about Savile. He said Savile's name was mentioned several times during the police investigation of 2008 but that the evidence did not seem to stack up at the time.
  The States of Jersey police confirmed last week that Savile was investigated as part of the 2008 inquiry into abuse at the children's home, following claims from a former Haut de la Garenne resident that Savile was involved in an indecent assault in the 1970s. The BBC entertainer, who died last year aged 84, was never charged with any abuse offences.
  Elsewhere at the BBC, Sandi Toksvig on Monday reacted angrily to the way her revelation that she had been groped on air by a celebrity was being used as a way to criticise the corporation.
  "It's not about the BBC, and I'm distressed it's being portrayed in that way," the presenter told the Guardian, 24 hours after she disclosed that she had been "very unpleasantly groped by a famous individual" during a broadcast in the 1980s.
  "It's being used as a stick to beat the BBC, but it was commonplace, it was the culture," she said.
  Toksvig refused to name the man involved. "This is isn't about who he is '' I'm going to grant the man who assaulted me the respect he did not grant me, by never naming him. Because otherwise it becomes about that one individual, when in fact it was going on everywhere."
  In a statement, Toksvig said that the man who groped her is now dead. She added: "Whilst the recent manifold revelations regarding the abuse and mistreatment of women in broadcasting have focused on the BBC, I would like to clarify that I consider this a culture endemic across the whole of radio and television and is certainly not limited to the BBC."
  Entwistle told BBC Radio 4's Today programme on Monday that he deeply regretted what had happened and apologised to the women involved for what they have had to endure, but he said he did not want to compromise the police inquiry.
  "I think this has to be done in two phases," Entwistle said. "First the police are given the chance to do everything they have to do '' that is the only way justice can possibly be done for the women in question. But once the police assure me that they have done everything they have to do, then we can take a look properly."
  Last night, the chairman of the BBC Trust, Lord Patten, said it was "no excuse to say 'that was then' in the 1960s, 70s and 80s and attitudes were different then".
  He told the Cardiff Business Club: "It's no excuse to say, 'I'm sure the same thing used to happen with pop groups and others at the time'. Those things may be true but they don't provide an excuse.
  "So there will be a full police inquiry and we will encourage people to co-operate with it, and when that is completed, we will then look at the issues which still remain to be resolved."
  The comedian Freddie Starr has admitted he did appear on Savile's show Clunk Click in the 1970s after earlier denying it.
  His lawyers clarified the matter after Channel 4 News broadcast footage of Starr with Karin Ward, the woman who has accused him and Savile of assaulting her.
  The lawyers continued: "It would now appear from seeing footage of a Clunk Click show aired in 1974 that in fact Freddie was mistaken and therefore that he had in fact been on a Jimmy Savile show.
  "However, this does not detract from the fact that Freddie vigorously denies the awful allegation that has been made by Karin Ward, which despite this footage is still totally unsupported and uncorroborated by any other evidence."
Revealed: VP Debate Moderator Martha Raddatz Hosted President Obama at Wedding, Never Told Public
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  The liberal media/politician/bureaucrat revolving door spins so rapidly, sometimes it's hard to keep pace. Today we learn via the Daily Caller that the moderator for tomorrow's vice presidential debate, ABC News reporter Martha Raddatz, hosted President Obama as a guest at her 1991 wedding to the man who would later become Obama's FCC commissioner, Julius Genachowski.
  That's shocking enough in its own right but things are further compounded by the fact that ABC News, home of veteran Democratic adviser George Stephanopolous, has long known about this conflict of interest and did nothing about it. Even worse, the network has actively tried to prevent the public from learning of it.
  The Obama-Raddatz connection is not as clear-cut as one might think, however, since Raddatz and Genachowski divorced in 1997 and have since remarried. Still, ABC News is acting very curious in its behavior as the Daily Caller's Josh Peterson reports:
  After TheDC made preliminary inquiries Monday to confirm Obama's attendance at the wedding, ABC leaked a pre-emptive statement to liberal-leaning news outlets including Politico and The Daily Beast Tuesday, revealing what may have been internal network pressure felt just days before Raddatz was scheduled to moderate the one and only vice-presidential debate Thursday night.
  Both Politico and The Daily Beast jumped to ABC and Raddatz's defense. The Huffington Post, another liberal news outlet, joined them shortly thereafter, while calling ''unusual'' ABC's attempt to kill the story before it gained wide circulation. [...]
  On Monday evening ABC spokesman David Ford grudgingly confirmed Obama's attendance at the wedding, after shielding Raddatz in August by declining to comment when The Daily Caller first reported the story.
  ''This is absurd,'' Ford said, in the same statement now circulated by ABC's media allies on the left.
  Obama, Ford wrote, ''attended their wedding over two decades ago along with nearly the entire Law Review, many of whom went onto successful careers, including some in the Bush administration,'' he said without providing a specific number of Harvard Law Review employees to verify the statement.
  When pressed further on Tuesday for a specific number of Harvard Law Review employees in attendance at the wedding, Ford could offer none, despite circulating the same unverified approximation through sympathetic media outlets earlier that day in order to discredit The Daily Caller's reporting.
  Of course, if a Fox News employee hosting a presidential debate were to exposed as having such a relationship with a Republican president, the story would be plastered all over the media and left-leaning journalists would be calling for him/her to be immediately replaced. Clearly this would be a good idea in this case as well.
  Besides employing Stephanopolous to interview his friends and former colleagues and Raddatz to cover the White House of her former wedding guest, ABC is also the place that current Fox Business Network host John Stossel left after he couldn't take the suffocating liberally biased atmosphere. "I can't stand it anymore," he told Fox News chief Roger Ailes.
  Asked later about his time at ABC, Stossel described a climate of intolerance for anything that was non-liberal:
  "It sucked there. They were hostile to these ideas that have made us [America] prosperous and I consider so important. I mean, they tolerated me for years. I got good ratings, so they put the stuff on. They sort of held their nose and put it on."
  ABC is also the home of one Brian Ross, the investigative reporter who falsely smeared a Tea Party leader as a mass murderer simply because he shared the same name as James Holmes, the lunatic who shot up a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado.
  Even left-wing comedian Jon Stewart thought the error was so bad he should've been fired. Sadly he hasn't been, despite his making a mistake so stupid, even a high school journalist would've known better.
  For more of our coverage on the ease with which liberals move between government, politics, and the media, click here.
  Or for a succinct summary, please see this excellent post from Red State's Erick Erickson which is more than just a recounting of recent revolving door spins, it is also a discussion of how the "conventional wisdom" in DC inevitably is liberal:
  Neil King is a political reporter for the Wall Street Journal. He is married to Shailagh Murray who left a reporting job at the Washington Post to take the job of Joe Biden's communications director. She replaced Jay Carney who moved to the White House and who himself left Time to take the communications director role for Biden.
  John Harris of the Politico is married to an abortion rights activist who used to run NARAL Virginia.
  The Politico's Chief Washington Correspondent, Jonathan Allen, left the Politico to work for Debbie Wasserman Schultz, then returned to the Politico.
  Andy Barr of the Politico left the Politico to work for the Democratic National Committee and now works for Richard Carmona, the Democrats' candidate for Senate in Arizona against Jeff Flake.
  George Stephanopolous of ABC News used to be a strategist for Bill Clinton and even after becoming Chief Washington Correspondent still engaged in regular conversations with Rahm Emanuel, James Carville, and Paul Begala from the Clinton days. (Ironic, isn't it, that John Harris wrote that story)
  Michael Scherer of Time, where Jay Carney left to go to Joe Biden's office, got his start in left wing publications, as did Ezra Klein of the Washington Post who famously created the left wing Journolist filled with Washington journalists and pundits to bounce around themes in the left wing echo chamber.
  Linda Douglass of ABC News left ABC to serve as Chief Propaganda Officer for the Obama White House in charge of getting Obamacare through.
  Andrew Rosenthal of the New York Times made up the story about President George H. W. Bush being surprised and taken aback by a common supermarket check out scanner. The story was made up by Rosenthal who was not even present. Andrew Rosenthal is now the Editor of the New York Times Editorial Page.
  The BuzzFeed crew are mostly left of center, hang out with left of center reporters and pundits, and the media considers them and their cat GIFs the second coming of a supposedly objective Huffington Post.
  Chuck Todd himself is married to a former DNC staffer and he worked as a Democratic staffer to Senator Tom Harkin. He works with Chris Matthews who worked for a Democrat in Congress and Jimmy Carter. They both work with Andrea Mitchell who is married to Alan Greenspan, the former Chairman of the Federal Reserve. And they're all just a degree or two removed from Tawana Brawley thanks to their relationship with MSNBC host Al Sharpton.
Gillard labels Abbott a misogynist
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The Corbett Report | Episode 246 '' Meet The Clintons
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  Below is an excerpt from The Oil Road: Journeys from the Caspian Sea to the City of London by James Marriott and Mika Minio-Paluello, an important new book from Platform tracing the journey of Caspian Sea oil into Northern Europe, and exploring how lives and politics along the route of the pipelines have been transformed.
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  BTC 671 KM '' KP 484 '' áƒáƒ áƒ¬áƒ�áƒ'áƒáƒáƒ (KRTSANISI), GEORGIA
  Leaving the US military base behind, we drive through a dusty valley strewn with plastic bags. As Krtsanisi village appears in front of us, we spot the markers of the BTC and SCP pipelines on our left. For the past 20 kilometres these two pipelines have run on a path quite separate from Baku''Supsa, which swings north of Tbilisi. From now on our journey will follow BTC as it heads for the Turkish coast at Ceyhan. At Krtsanisi the marker posts show the two lines climbing up the hill, heading straight for the village. As we approach, we see marker 475 km within 25 metres of the buildings. The pipes run under the land between the houses and the local school.
  This four-street village has only about a hundred homes. Each is set in its own fenced-in plot of land, used for cattle-grazing or dotted with fruit bushes. The paths between the houses are unpaved. Today they are dry and dusty, but when it rains they must turn to mud. There are few people outside.
  A man in his fifties, wearing slippers, joins us on the path outside his house. He explains that the pipelines are bad for Krtsanisi: 'How can they not be? They run though the village.' Petitions had been made before the construction period, demanding resettlement for the whole community. BP refused, saying the villagers would be safe, but the man questions whether this is possible when the pipelines run so close to people's homes. Although willing to share these thoughts, he is not particularly forthcoming. His neighbours are even less open to speaking. Whether this reflects a suspicion of outsiders or a fear of the consequences of talk- ing to them is unclear.
  After walking through the village, Manana brings us to the home of the Pangani family. A woman in her thirties, talkative and extrovert, invites us into her front yard. Bright quilts hang from the second-floor veranda, airing in the sunlight. Her husband, a large man in a pale tracksuit, is casting seed to a flock of grey and speck- led hens with thick feathery legs. Introducing herself as Pikria, she seats us on a bench in a strip of shade, and starts talking. Manana translates for us.
  'We have a small plot', Pikria says, 'but we don't know if we are still allowed to access it because it's close to the pipeline.' She explains that when the contractors were digging the trenches, they ruined the irrigation channel that brings water to the fields. 'So now everything is very dry. The land is not much use without water. BP used to send the police force instead of coming to speak to us themselves.'
  We are joined by Pikria's mother, Vardo. When she talks, Vardo's fingers are more expressive than her words, moving in time with her argument and empha- sising her statements. 'In the beginning we wrote letters and made petitions, asking to be resettled somewhere else. They didn't listen to us, so the people of the village made many protests. We went to Tbilisi and demonstrated outside govern- ment offices. We also blocked the highway leading to Rustavi. But the government wasn't listening '' they sent the spetznaz. It was a very bad situation; they even beat the children. The people tried to block the pipe-laying in the trench, and so the spetznaz attacked us again. It was so bad that it was on the international TV. Relatives in Greece and other countries were phoning to check up on us.'
  The sun beats down. The narrow line of shade covering our bench gets thinner and thinner. The Panganis insist that we come inside and drink something. An old episode of The Bold and the Beautiful is showing on TV, dubbed into Georgian. One wall is covered with an array of icons '' images and newspaper cuttings of Jesus, St George and the Dragon, and Saint Nino.
  Vardo explains that differing compensation payments to the village's 115 fami- lies caused division, tension and 'great tragedy in relationships in the village'. She feels this partly explains why people in the village would not speak to us. 'Some people in the village are afraid of others '' that's why they won't speak. But I think Saakashvili is enough to be afraid of.'
  Vardo is not sure how long the village has been here, but it is a settlement made up entirely of refugees. Most of the other families are from the mountain region Svaneti, displaced by landslides, but the Panganis are from Abkhazia. 'We came sixteen years ago, after my husband was killed during the war. First we lived in a cramped school in Tbilisi.' Like Gusein, near Gori, they must have come to Krtsanisi when they knew that their return to their home would not be swift; they have remained here since. Perhaps Gusein, too, will still be living in his cube of a house in fifteen years' time.
  A bowl of yellow apples from the garden is already on the table, alongside a plate of fig rolls broken into pieces. While her mother makes coffee, Pikria holds forth, balancing on the end of the sofa. 'I think the pipelines bring a great threat to our village. Our home has become a very dangerous place. We are surrounded on three sides, by the pipeline and several military sites. There is much shooting '' we live in a corridor of violence.' She explains how both Georgian and US soldiers often train in the village, running down the paths between the houses. 'Sometimes I walk out of my gate and find men in camouflage with guns crouch- ing behind my fence '' I've screamed several times. I don't understand, why do they do this in our village? I think maybe it's because the pipeline is so close. Many of us experienced the war in Abkhazia, so it's easy to make people panic.'
  It seems this is how the US Special Forces teach their Georgian students 'ground combat skills' and 'urban operations'. Nearby villages simulate Iraqi or Afghan communities, and the Pangani family have become unwitting bystanders in military training exercises.
  Pikria feels the village's position is especially dangerous, given the new tension with Russia. She explains that, during the recent war of August 2008, they could hear distant bombs falling and were frightened. 'The easiest way to impact the military base would be to bomb the pipeline; then the village would be gone.' She says that during the pipeline construction the villagers forced BP into meetings over safety, but felt they received no answers. The issue even went to the local court: 'I'm a lawyer, so I observed the court hearings over our disputes. But it was always delayed. In the end it came to nothing.' We think of the craters near Alkahi Samgori, only a few kilometres to the east.
  While Pikria's speaking, her husband turns the TV volume up to watch the news. It briefly shows an opposition rally and then we spot Saakashvili outside the Ministry of Interior. Seeing him, Pikria curses. 'Satan. The war with Russia was his fault. Always emphasising how strong the Georgian Army is and trying to provoke. All he is good for is designing pretty and pointless fountains.'
  Pikria is smart: she knows who is responsible. Soon after we arrived, she had mentioned the name Ed Johnson. General Manager of BP Georgia until 2005, Johnson oversaw the company's lobbying of Shevardnadze and the relationship- building with Saakashvili after the Rose Revolution; he was in post during the pipeline construction period, when the riot police battered the Krtsanisi villagers.6
  It is rare to hear people along the pipeline name names '' usually it is just 'the company' or 'BP' or 'BTC Co.'. One of Pikria's first lines to Manana was: 'How do we sue Ed Johnson? Can we do this in England or America?' Here is someone who has identified an individual who she believes is responsible for her predica- ment, and wants to hold them judicially accountable. She knows it will be impossible to hold him to account in Georgia, but hopes that the British or American judicial system might be fairer. The sad reality is that getting Johnson into court would be challenging. Persuading a UK or US court to hear cases on a company's practices abroad is difficult '' achieving a guilty verdict harder still. So, for the time being, the Texan Ed Johnson need not worry about being called before a jury, and can focus on his job expanding BP's offshore platforms in Norwegian waters.
  This large living room, with its sofas covered in drapes, reminds us of the hours we spent in the house of Mehmen in Hacalli. How different the response in Azerbaijan is to the impacts of the pipeline from that in Georgia. Mansura Ibishova in Qarabork seemed powerless even though BTC and SCP effectively passed through her home. She placed faith in the idea of writing to President Aliyev. Mehmen and his neighbours were intimidated by the Executive Power in their village, who was effectively protecting BP's assets. Here in Krtsanisi, as at Rustavi, residents had blockaded the construction sites, and thereby succeeded in bringing the issue to the attention of national and international media. Pikria knows perfectly well that President Saakashvili will not defend her from the actions of Ed Johnson's company. It seems to us that the determination of these Georgian citizens to defend their rights has been greatly strengthened by the work of Manana, Keti and their colleagues, whose position is so much less beleaguered than that of Mayis.
  Eventually, Vardo announces that they need to tend their cattle; it is time for them to be taken to their pastures. Bidding farewell, we see the six family cows already gathered by the gate, waiting patiently to amble out to their grazing.
  'The Oil Road: Journeys from the Caspian Sea to the City of London' by James Marriott and Mika Minio-Paluello is published by Verso
De Jager en IMF zijn totaal de weg kwijt
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  Geplaatst @ 10 oktober 2012Het koffieapparaat staat te roken hier op GSHQ. Na 242 espresso's en anderhalve dag blokken kunnen we nog steeds geen enkele consistentie vinden in de berichtgeving over de bijeenkomst van 't IMF in Tokio. Op IMF-feestjes zijn een aantal zaken in ieder geval zeker: er zijn achterlijk veel hoeren, vrachtwagens vol coca¯ne, en er is steevast overspannen spierballentaal te horen. Om de berichtgeving te duiden kunt u zich het beste een oud vrouwtje (we noemen haar Christine) voorstellen die haar spieren voor de show eens heel hard aanspant. Binnen luttele seconden schreeuwt haar verlepte lichaam in helse pijn: ''WTF TR*T, NIET DOEN, JE BENT F*CKING 137.'' Ze ontspant, maar net (C)(C)n spier teveel en oeps, d'r gouden glitterstring zit vol. Serieus, zo gaat dat ongeveer. Eerst roept het IMF (in koor met De Jager en vriendjes): ''DEADLINE voor Griekenland, geen woorden maar daden'', etc. Om een paar uur later te komen met: ''Aaahhh joh, rustig aan homie.'' Een dag verder komt er een IMF-rapport uit waarin staat dat de tijd toch wel op is en dat er snel naar meer Europese integratie moet worden gewerkt. Anders FRAGMENTEERT de euro. WTF willen ze nou daar? Oja, dit is precies wat ze willen: volstrekte onduidelijkheid. Dit zijn nou die blaffende honden die niet bijten. Spierballentaal zonder gevolgen. Niemand is de baas, niemand heeft de oplossing, dus dan maar de (mis)communicatie laten doen door verschillende pionnen (president, hoofdeconoom, directeur, etc.) door elkaar heen. Maar alle bobo's en EU-dromers houden vooral zichzelf voor de gek. Zelfs lezers van de NRC-newsier slopen de EU-agitpropin slechts 4 korte alinea's. Griekenland gaat niet op tijd voldoen aan de bezuinigingseisen, Griekenland gaat z'n staatsschuld niet op tijd naar beneden krijgen en Griekenland gaat z'n noodsteun never-nooit-niet terugbetalen, niet eens de rente. Tegelijkertijd blijft de geldkraan met nieuwe noodsteun toch wel open, want de euro mag niet dood. Het lijkt erop dat de scheidend minister omwille van de federale EU-droom en zijn knuffelbeer-imago een lijk of 15 per dag in de kast gooit (ruimte zat daar), die de volgende minister er weer uit mag halen. De Jager is de weg totaal kwijt, of zou hij hier expres naar toe werken?
  GeenStijl : De Jager en IMF zijn totaal de weg kwijt.
Greek deaths sow panic over Swiss 'fraud list'
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  Two men on a list of almost 2,000 Greek businessmen and politicians suspected of using Swiss bank accounts for fraudulent tax evasion have been found dead in the past week.
  They were on a list of wealthy personalities that the Greek government has obtained, reportedly sowing panic among the elite of Athens.
  The names were initially passed on to the Greeks two years ago by Christine Lagarde, now head of the International Monetary Fund, when she was French finance minister.
  The so-called ''Lagarde list'' includes information about 22,000 wealthy European residents suspected of tax fraud on the basis of data stolen by Herv(C) Falciani from the Geneva branch of HSBC, which he gave to the French government.
  The details of 1,991 wealthy Greeks went missing but were recently tracked down by Greece's finance minister, Yannis Stournaras, who declared the issue as a priority, the Financial Times reported earlier this month.
  Vlassis Kambouroglou, a Greek businessman in the defence industry, was found dead on Monday in a Jakarta, Indonesia hotel room.
  Kambouroglou had been linked to a bribery and money-laundering network involving former Greek defence minister Akis Tsochatzopopoulos, jailed for stealing up to $1.29 billion from defence contracts, according to Greek Reporter, an English-language website.
  Kambouroglou's death came after LeonidasTzanis, a former Greek minister under investigation for financial wrongdoing, was found dead in his home on Friday.
  Both deaths are being treated as suspected suicides.
  A report on the cases by the Business Insider website, which cites various sources, suggests the Greek government is taking action on the Largarde list after previous politicians had failed to do so.
  Greece's financial crimes unit, using information from the list, last week arrested Yiannis Sbokos, a former Greek minister, for suspected financial corruption.
  Questions are now being raised as to why previous government ministers did not act on the Lagarde list earlier.
  Given the connection with Swiss bank accounts and banking data theft, Switzerland's media have been closely following the Greek developments.
Static OPML for all!
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  Wed, 10 Oct 2012 09:09
  Okay, in the corner-turn I did today that turns Scripting News, as a feed, over to Radio2 -- we lost the full text for each post.
  But there was also a link to the OPML in each story, that's also gone. I want to try to bring it back, in the worldoutline context.
  Of course there is no single static OPML file for each story on the threads site. They're all part of a single big outline. Every month I save the archive and turn the node into an include node, so the actual outline never gets too big. But all the content will remain reachable through it.
  It's simple!
  I love how simple this turned out.
  I put two new meta elements in the head section of story pages for Scripting News.
  <meta name="sourceOutlineUrl" content="<%rootOutlineUrl%>">
  <meta name="pathIntoOutline" content="<%pathIntoOutline%>">
  There are two source values. The first is the URL of the outline the page came from, and the second is the path into that outline.
  To traverse the path, normalize the text of each node. But look for a name attribute, and if present it overrides the normalized text. If you're writing a walk routine for this, you will understand this paragraph as you debug it.
  Those two bits of information get you to the source for the document. It's unambiguous because it's the information that worldOutline software uses to locate it, and it works.
  Now, if you want the full text of a post, you have the means to get it.
  You're soaking in it
  I went ahead and added it for blogpost nodes too. So if you do a view-source on this page you'll find the two "source" links in the head section.
  <meta name="sourceOutlineUrl" content="http://static.reallysimple.org/worldoutline/dave/2012/01/05/archive039.opml">
  <meta name="pathIntoOutline" content="/october2012/10912ByDw/staticOpmlForAll">
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Paul Ryan Walks Out On Interview
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Gunmen Steal Corpse Of Zetas Drug Cartel Leader Before Police Get Positive ID
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Josh Romney: Dad 'Learned How To Debate An Obstinate Child'
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  Eric Kleefeld 1:31 PM EDT, Tuesday October 9, 2012Josh Romney, one of Mitt Romney's sons, told a pointed joke Tuesday about President Obama's debate performance, while warming up the crowd for his father at a campaign rally in Van Meter, Iowa.
  "I don't know if you guys saw the debate last week," Josh Romney said, as the crowd cheered and applauded. "I take a lot of pride in that, because '-- I don't know if you noticed, but I was '-- me and my brothers were responsible for my dad doing so well. We were the ones, as kids, that kept saying the same thing over and over. And we'd say the same lie over and over. And my dad learned then, not to believe it. While we didn't go to any of the formal debate preparation, we did the real hard stuff.
  "So as a father, he learned how to debate an obstinate child. We had a lot of fun, we had a lot of fun watching the debate."
  Previously, Mitt Romney told a similar retort to Obama at the debate last week: "I've got five boys. I'm used to people saying the same thing over and over again hoping it becomes true."
Bernie Sanders "We're Trying To Buck Up This President & Get Him To Say What Americans Want To Hear"
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Nancy Pelosi "If these People Win Medicare As We Know It Will Be Gone!"
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Exxon Mobile's Response To Obama
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  This is a few days old, but still noteworthy. The folks at Exxon Mobile weren't too happy about being singled out by President Obama during his miserable debate performance last week. Because there is nothing like showing up on the president's enemies list.
  Here is the company's response.
  Because we've been pulled into this debate, I feel like asking the moderator to let me respond with several points.
  The first is that ExxonMobil receives no special treatment in the U.S. tax code.
  What the president often calls subsidies for ''Big Oil'' are legitimate tax provisions that apply to virtually all American manufacturers and producers. In fact, companies like ExxonMobil actually are specifically disadvantaged: The oil and gas industry deduction under section 199 of the tax code, for instance, is lower than the deduction allowed for nearly all other U.S. manufacturers.
  The president has said he wants to remove these provisions for the oil and gas industry entirely '' a punitive proposal that would do nothing except raise the cost of producing the energy that America needs to support economic recovery.
  Keep in mind, too, that ExxonMobil's U.S. tax expense amounts to more than $1 billion per month. In 2011, our total U.S. taxes of $12.3 billion exceeded our U.S. earnings by almost $3 billion, and our effective income tax rate in the U.S. was 31.4 percent '' far higher than many critics have claimed. We are a large corporation with a disciplined business approach that has generated substantial earnings for our shareholders as well as energy for millions of U.S. consumers. Our earnings may be large '' but so are our taxes.
  Finally, there's one more thing we do with the money we earn: We re-invest it. ExxonMobil plans to spend close to $37 billion for each of the next five years on forward-looking projects to develop the energy supplies the world will need in the decades to come. (Read More)
  H/T Michael A.
  Tags:debate, Exxon Mobile, obama, response
"I'm Not Gonna Let Oil Companies Collect Another Four Billion In Corporate Welfare Every Year!"
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Is It Time To Start Loving Bankers?
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NYT: With Military Suicides Rising,
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  With nearly half of all suicides in the military having been committed with privately owned firearms, the Pentagon and Congress are moving to establish policies intended to separate at-risk service members from their personal weapons.
  The issue is a thorny one for the Pentagon. Gun rights advocates and many service members fiercely oppose any policies that could be construed as limiting the private ownership of firearms.
  But as suicides continue to rise this year, senior Defense Department officials are developing a suicide prevention campaign that will encourage friends and families of potentially suicidal service members to safely store or voluntarily remove personal firearms from their homes.
  "This is not about authoritarian regulation," said Dr. Jonathan Woodson, the assistant secretary of defense for health affairs. "It is about the spouse understanding warning signs and, if there are firearms in the home, responsibly separating the individual at risk from the firearm."
  Dr. Woodson, who declined to provide details, said the campaign would also include measures to encourage service members, their friends and their relatives to remove possibly dangerous prescription drugs from the homes of potentially suicidal troops.
  In another step considered significant by suicide-prevention advocates, Congress appears poised to enact legislation that would allow military mental health counselors and commanders to talk to troops about their private firearms. The measure, which is being promoted by the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, would amend a law enacted last year that prohibited the Defense Department from collecting information from service members about lawfully owned firearms kept at home.
Multiple Twitter Users Threaten to Assassinate Mitt Romney: 'Shoot Him Dead'
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  Editor's note: This story contains graphic language and will be offensive to some readers.
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  ''
  The race to the White House can be ugly and cruel, an inconvenient truth that rears its ugly head in U.S. politics every four years. Unfortunately, there will always be those who reserve pure, unadulterated hatred for anyone they disagree with.
  Nothing displays that fact more clearly than the dozens of horrific death threats made against GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney via Twitter, which were uncovered Sunday night. South Carolina attorney Todd Kincannon, who is also the former executive director of the South Carolina Republican Party, took notice of the intense hatred coming from the left and directed the threatening messages to the Secret Service and FBI's official Twitter accounts.
  Here's a rundown of some of the threatening tweets discovered by Kincannon, though there are many more (Warning! Graphic language):
  Then there was this repulsive tweet about Ann Romney:
  Kincannon also said via his Twitter account that he plans to call a former Secret Service agent ''first thing in the morning'' to ''get this to who it needs to get to.''
  According to federal law, the individuals who made the threats should expect a visit from the Secret Service:
  (a) Whoever knowingly and willfully threatens to kill, kidnap, or inflict bodily harm upon'--(1) a former President or a member of the immediate family of a former President;(2) a member of the immediate family of the President, the President-elect, the Vice President, or the Vice President-elect;(3) a major candidate for the office of President or Vice President, or a member of the immediate family of such candidate; or(4) a person protected by the Secret Service under section 3056 (a)(6);shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 5 years, or both.
  As reported by TheBlaze earlier this month, ''a Charlotte, N.C., man was arrested for death threats against the president issued on Twitter Monday. Donte Jamar Sims, 21, going by the Twitter handle @DestroyLeague_D posted several tweets that suggested plotting the murder of Obama, according to the Charlotte Observer.''
  To read more of the Twitter death threats against Romney, visit Kincannon's Twitter page.
  TheBlaze is currently reaching out to the Secret Service for comment. This story may be updated with additional information.
  ''
  Update: Secret Service spokesman George Olgilvie told TheBlaze on Monday that the agency takes any and all threats made against its ''protecteees'' very seriously. Olgilvie couldn't say whether the Twitter users broke the law or whether there would be a formal investigation into any of the threats.
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  Mysterious Algorithm Was 4% of Trading Activity Last Week
  CNBC.com | October 08, 2012 | 04:27 PM EDT
  A single mysterious computer program that placed orders '-- and then subsequently canceled them '-- made up 4 percent of all quote traffic in the U.S. stock market last week, according to the top tracker of high-frequency trading activity. The motive of the algorithm is still unclear.
  The program placed orders in 25-millisecond bursts involving about 500 stocks, according to Nanex, a market data firm. The algorithm never executed a single trade, and it abruptly ended at about 10:30 a.m. ET Friday.
  ''Just goes to show you how just one person can have such an outsized impact on the market,'' said Eric Hunsader, head of Nanex and the No. 1 detector of trading anomalies watching Wall Street today. ''Exchanges are just not monitoring it.''
  Hunsader's sonar picked up that this was a single high-frequency trader after seeing the program's pattern (200 fake quotes, then 400, then 1,000) repeated over and over. Also, it was being routed from the same place, the Nasdaq [ COMP 3065.02 +0.00 (+0.00%) ].
  ''My guess is that the algo was testing the market, as high-frequency frequently does,'' says Jon Najarian, co-founder of TradeMonster.com. ''As soon as they add bandwidth, the HFT crowd sees how quickly they can top out to create latency.'' (Read More: Unclear What Caused Kraft Spike: Nanex Founder.)
  Translation: The ultimate goal of many of these programs is to gum up the system so it slows down the quote feed to others and allows the computer traders (with their co-located servers at the exchanges) to gain a money-making arbitrage opportunity.
  The scariest part of this single program was that its millions of quotes accounted for 10 percent of the bandwidth that is allowed for trading on any given day, according to Nanex. (The size of the bandwidth pipe is determined by a group made up of the exchanges called the Consolidated Quote System.) (Read More: Cuban, Cooperman: Curb High-Frequency Trading.)
  ''This is pretty out there to see this affect this many stocks at the same time,'' said Hunsader, adding that high-frequency traders are doing anything to ''tip the odds in their favor.''
  A Senate panel at the end of September sought answers on high-frequency trading, as investigators look into the best way to stop wealth-destroying events such as the Knight Capital Group [ KCG 2.49 -0.06 (-2.35%) ] computer glitch in August and the market ''flash crash'' two years ago. (Read More: Ex-Insider Calls High-Frequency Trading 'Cheating'.)
  Regulators are trying to see how they can rein in the practice, which accounts for 70 percent of trading each day, without slowing down progress and profits for Wall Street and the U.S. exchanges.
  ''I feel a tax on order-stuffing is what the markets need at this point,'' said David Greenberg of Greenberg Capital. ''This will cut down on the number of erroneous bids and offers placed into the market at any given time and should help stabilize the trading environment.''
  Hunsader warned that regulators better do something fast, speculating that this single program could have led to something very bad if big news broke, or if a sell-off occurred and one entity was hogging this much of the system.
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Goverment Accountability Institute Inc. Company Profile - Located in Tallahassee, FL
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Home >> Campaign Funding Risks
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  the truthaboutdigitaldonations.
  Federal Election Commission (FEC) laws do not require federal candidates to use the same kinds of industry-standard, anti-fraud credit card security measures commonly used when purchasing things online. This oversight creates a dangerous pathway for illegal foreign and fraudulent online contributions to influence U.S. elections.
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