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Longform?s Top 10 Stories of 2011
"The fine system is the Institute's latest innovation. Khrzhanovsky decreed it a few months ago, fed up with staffers smuggling cell phones and talking about Facebook. Other finable offenses include tardiness, which costs a whole day's pay, and failure to renew the fake Institute pass. The program has been a hit. Not only has morale improved, a whole new euphemistic vocabulary has sprouted up. ('Google' is now 'Pravda,' as in 'Pravda it.') The fine system has also fostered a robust culture of snitching. 'In a totalitarian regime, mechanisms of suppression trigger mechanisms of betrayal,' the director explains. 'I am very interested in that.'
"Khrzhanovsky throws open the front door of one of the residential buildings, and here I gasp again. The guts of the set are as elaborate as the set itself. There are hallways that lead to apartments, and in the apartments there are kitchens, and in the iceboxes food, fresh and perfectly edible but with 1952 expiration dates. Again and again, Khrzhanovsky opens cupboards, drawers, closets, showing me matchboxes, candles, loofahs, books, salami, handkerchiefs, soap bars, cotton balls, condensed milk, p?t?. He proudly flushes at least three toilets. ?The toilet pipe is custom width,? he says, 'because it makes a difference in the volume and the tenor of the flushing sound.' He looks completely, utterly delighted."
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Friday 30 December 2011
Illegal Immigration Truth = NBC owns Telemundo, Texas Pacific Group owns Univision.
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City Data banned me. They are strict about naming companies and when I trashed NBC I got in trouble even though their members gave some minor discontent with NBC.
I don't go around and install links in my posts normally even though I did forget to remove my website link from Alipac and didn't get banned. Lots of websites ban members for leaving links. Tea Party Patriots is strict about installing links and talking openly so I stay away from that site.
No, I'm far from a troll with the NBC message I'm posting. A troll would never trash their supported media source.
As for this message being "Shit". I understand your wording but just to clarify this message is the truth and not "Shit". People do read these posts and may interpit the wording the wrong way.
OK, I'm off to post elsewhere but will post here from time to time. Gotta make people aware that massive corruption concerning immigration may exist. I've gotten replies on other sites and the people are really pissed to here it.
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Tuesday 27 December 2011
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Report: Virginia GOP May Have Improperly Excluded Signatures From Perry, Gingrich
Tom White has an exclusive that could be an important development in Virginia's ongoing GOP soap opera:
Tom suggests that Gingrich and Perry request that the signatures excluded for lack of address be reinstated and a recount be initiated.
I know that it is highly improbable that I am the only person in the country that has actually read the Code of Virginia on Presidential Primaries, but the requirement that signatures also include an address IS correct for a statewide election, but not for a Presidential Primary, though the number of signatures are identical.Anyone know an election attorney available on Christmas?
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Various reports have stated that the signatures turned in by Newt Gingrich included at least 2,000 that were invalidated because there was no address given with the signature.
If this were a Virginia Statewide office, that would be correct. But this is a Presidential Primary. And while the rules are similar, they are actually addressed in two separate sections of the Virginia Code.
There is a requirement in a Statewide General Election that the address be included, but there is no such requirement for a presidential primary. The number of signatures are the same, 10,000 and 400 per Congressional District. But the address requirements are different.
Tom suggests that Gingrich and Perry request that the signatures excluded for lack of address be reinstated and a recount be initiated.
If this report pans out, it could be another huge story attributed not to legacy media, but to what I like to call the new mainstream media.
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Tough choice looms on 9/11 health lawsuits (AP)
NEW YORK ? More than 1,600 people who filed lawsuits claiming that their health was ruined by dust and smoke from the collapsed World Trade Center must decide by Jan. 2 whether to keep fighting in court, or drop the litigation and apply for benefits from a government compensation fund.
For some, the choice is fraught with risk.
Federal lawmakers set aside $2.76 billion last winter for people who developed illnesses after spending time in the ash-choked disaster zone.
But to be considered for a share of the aid, all potential applicants must dismiss any pending lawsuits by the deadline and give up their right to sue forever over 9/11 health problems. Anyone with a lawsuit still pending on Jan. 3 is barred from the program for life.
The government program is attractive because it spares the sick from having to prove that their illness is related to 9/11, and that someone other than the terrorists put them in harm's way. But applicants won't know for months, or even years, how much money they might eventually receive from the program. That means some people may give up their lawsuits and find out later that they only qualify for a modest payment.
Others face a deeper problem. People exposed to trade center dust have blamed it for hundreds of illnesses, but currently the fund only covers a limited number of ailments, including asthma, scarred lungs and other respiratory system problems. That list does not currently include any type of cancer, which scientists have yet to link to trade center toxins.
But the very possibility that cancer could, someday, be covered has led some plaintiffs to drop their lawsuits anyway.
"In a sense, I've weighed my options and rolled the dice believing that the country I helped is not going to let me down," said former New York City police detective John Walcott, who retired after being diagnosed with acute myelogenous leukemia in 2003.
He decided a few days before Christmas to drop his case, saying he had come to believe he would never get anything out of the legal system.
"The court system was set up for attorneys to make a lot of money," he said. He added that at age 47, he is tired of a court fight that had no end in sight. "I'm done with 9/11. I can't go forward with my life and family and live in peace with this hanging over me."
The special master overseeing the compensation fund, Sheila Birnbaum, acknowledged that the deadline would put some people in a tight spot, especially if they have an illness that isn't currently covered by the fund.
"That is one of the dilemmas," she said.
Birnbaum noted, though, that the law gives her no wiggle room. Anyone who has a lawsuit active on Jan. 3 will be disqualified from consideration, she said, even if their illness is later deemed to be covered.
"It's a hard decision that they have to make," she said.
The lengthy application process for the fund began in October, and Birnbaum said she expected thousands to apply. She could not say how many might do so by the time the fund closes years from now.
Lawyers who represent people with pending cases said they have been going over the pros and cons with their clients for several months, to see which option might suit them better.
"It's a complicated analysis," said attorney Gregory Cannata, whose firm represents about 100 people, including laborers brought in to repair damaged buildings and cleaners who swept tons of dust from office suites.
Cannata said that for the most part, his clients have decided to stick with their lawsuits, in part because of the possibility of a larger payout than they might receive under the government program.
Police officers, firefighters and city contractors who cleared away the 9/11 rubble make up only a small slice of the people facing the dilemma. Most of the more than 5,000 city workers who filed lawsuits claiming that the city had failed to protect them from the dust settled their cases in 2010, before the compensation fund was created.
Walcott was one of a few who rejected the deal, worth more than $700 million. Under the law, people who settled previously will be allowed to apply for government benefits. Any award they receive will be reduced by whatever they got from the legal settlement.
The tough decisions won't end Jan. 2.
In addition to people with legal claims already pending, thousands more New Yorkers have become ill because of exposure to the dust. They will have to decide in the coming years whether to sue someone over their illness or try their luck in the government program.
If too many people apply for aid from the compensation fund ? including people with common illnesses that may, or may not, have anything to do with 9/11 toxins ? the nearly $2.8 billion set aside by Congress may get exhausted quickly. Adding just 1,000 people with cancer to the program could eat up $1 billion, said Noah Kushlefsky, an attorney with the firm Kreindler & Kreindler.
"The real question is, how many more cases are there out there?" Kushlefsky said.
Enough, it seems, to keep both the courts and the 9/11 fund administrators busy for some time yet.
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Tear gas fired at protesters in China seaside town (AP)
BEIJING ? Riot police in a southern Chinese coastal town fired tear gas at protesters Friday on the fourth day of unrest over a planned power plant expansion, according to a demonstrator's account and TV footage.
A crowd of protesters were locked in a standoff with police near the entrance to a highway in the town of Haimen, demanding authorities release an unknown number of demonstrators, a man surnamed Lin told The Associated Press.
Police fired tear gas at the protesters, who were gathered quietly a few hundred yards (meters) from the highway entrance, Lin said.
"When they saw that more and more people had come to protest, they fired the tear gas to try to chase us away. At the same time, a big gust of wind blew toward us, so we all had to run," Lin said. "My tears ran continuously. Our eyes are all red."
This is the third time police have used tear gas to disperse protesters in Haimen this week.
"We have no weapons at all. All we are doing is standing here and protesting," Lin added.
Hong Kong's Cable TV showed footage of tear gas clouds being blown toward protesters, scattering the crowd of hundreds of people. Riot police with helmets and shields had formed a blockade at the entrance to the highway.
Police have detained five people for vandalism during the protests, the official Xinhua News Agency said Thursday.
The protesters think an existing coal-fired power plant has contributed to what they say is a rise in cancer cases and heavy pollution in the seas, a serious problem for a town where fishing is a source of livelihood.
In response to the protests, the local government said Tuesday it would temporarily suspend the power plant project, Xinhua said.
But protesters say they have not heard directly from authorities on the matter. They were also angered by rumors that one or two young protesters had died in clashes with police, but Xinhua cited a local Communist Party official as saying that no deaths had occurred.
After three decades of laxly regulated industrialization, China is seeing a surge in protests over such environmental worries.
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Saturday 24 December 2011
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Is Your Business Planning to Hire in 2012?
American Express OPEN recently took a look back at its past 10 years? worth of Small Business Monitor surveys, with a particular focus on hiring. The resulting new report,?Trends in Small Business Hiring: 2002-2011, hones in on business owners? responses when asked whether they plan to hire new full-time or part-time employees, cut staff, or keep the same staffing levels over the next six months. The survey used a ?net hiring score,? subtracting the percent of firms that plan to cut staff from the percent planning to hire.
Here?s some of what they found:
Overall, small business owners tend to ?hold the line.? No matter what the economic situation, over the past 10 years the percentage of entrepreneurs who are planning to add employees has consistently surpassed the percentage planning cutbacks. This doesn?t surprise me, as entrepreneurs who work closely with their teams are likely to do everything in their power to avoid layoffs.
The bigger the small business, the more likely it is to hire. Over the 10-year period, companies with 20 or more workers, or sales of $500,000 and up, were consistently more likely to plan to hire than other groups.
That?s also not surprising, but what is more unexpected is that the smallest companies?those with under 10 employees?were far more likely to fall in line with the hiring average. In contrast, companies with 10 to 19 employees have consistently been the most volatile. In Fall 2006, Fall 2007 and again in Fall 2010, their hiring plans fell far below the national average. Why? Perhaps these companies are in the ?growth pains? stage of business where it?s often difficult to judge hiring needs.
So what?s the current outlook? In the Fall 2011 survey, 31 percent of business owners surveyed were planning to hire new employees while 9 percent planned to cut back, for a net hiring score of +22. American Express OPEN notes that while regional differences in hiring have lessened since the 2008 recession, industry?differences have increased.
The Fall 2011 survey reports a net hiring score of +28 score among small manufacturers, +26 among business/professional service firms, +17 among retailers and +17 in all other firms.
How do small businesses? hiring plans compare to those of big business? In the most recent Manpower Employment Outlook Survey of global companies, 14 percent of U.S. employers surveyed expected to add staff in the first quarter of 2012, while 9 percent planned to cut, for a Net Employment Outlook of +5 percent (or +9 percent if seasonally adjusted). Some 70 percent planned no change, while 7 percent were uncertain about their hiring plans. This 7 percent was an increase from 3 percent in the last survey and was a historically high level of uncertainty.
What does it all mean? Whether you?re a big business sitting on unprecedented amounts of cash, or a small entrepreneur with far less room for error, employers are still fearful of hiring in this uncertain economy. Still, small business owners are significantly more optimistic about hiring, showing that their reputations as job creators and engines of the economy are well deserved.
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Rieva Lesonsky is CEO of GrowBiz Media, a media company that helps entrepreneurs start and grow their businesses. Visit her blog, SmallBizDaily. Visit her website SmallBizTrendCast to get the scoop on business trends and sign up for Rieva?s free TrendCast reports. Connect with Rieva Lesonsky:
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Journalist: Morgan must have known about hacking
Piers Morgan, host of CNN's "Piers Morgan Tonight," leaves the CNN building in Los Angeles, Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2011. A tense and sometimes hostile Piers Morgan refuses to disclose details about the most damning link between himself and Britain's phone hacking scandal ? his acknowledgment that he listened to a phone message left by Paul McCartney for his then-wife Heather Mills. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
Piers Morgan, host of CNN's "Piers Morgan Tonight," leaves the CNN building in Los Angeles, Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2011. A tense and sometimes hostile Piers Morgan refuses to disclose details about the most damning link between himself and Britain's phone hacking scandal ? his acknowledgment that he listened to a phone message left by Paul McCartney for his then-wife Heather Mills. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
Piers Morgan, host of CNN's "Piers Morgan Tonight," leaves the CNN building in Los Angeles, Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2011. A tense and sometimes hostile Piers Morgan refuses to disclose details about the most damning link between himself and Britain's phone hacking scandal ? his acknowledgment that he listened to a phone message left by Paul McCartney for his then-wife Heather Mills. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
In this image made from video, CNN star interviewer Piers Morgan answers questions Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2011 from a media ethics inquiry sitting in London, England, about his time at the top of Britain's tabloid industry, at an unknown location in the U.S. Morgan ran two British tabloids - the News of the World and the Daily Mirror - before his editorship was cut short by scandal in 2004. (AP Photo, Pool)
LONDON (AP) ? CNN celebrity interviewer Piers Morgan was an extremely hands-on tabloid editor who must have known that phone hacking was rife at his paper, a former employee claimed Wednesday.
Business journalist James Hipwell said voicemail interception was an everyday activity at Britain's Daily Mirror, where he worked in the late 1990s as a columnist providing stock tips.
Hipwell told a British inquiry into media ethics that while he had no direct evidence that Morgan, the Daily Mirror editor at the time, was involved in the practice, he said it was impossible to imagine that Morgan had been kept in the dark.
"Nothing happened at the newspaper without him knowing," Hipwell testified, speaking a day after Morgan was grilled Tuesday in a tense, nationally televised hearing before the inquiry.
Before his U.S. television career, Morgan ran two British tabloids ? Murdoch's now-shuttered News of the World, between 1994 and 1995, which has been at the center of the U.K. phone hacking scandal, then the rival Daily Mirror, which is not connected to the Murdoch empire, where he stayed for nearly a decade.
Hipwell and Morgan have a long history. Both were investigated as part of an inquiry into market manipulation after it emerged that Morgan had made a quick profit of thousands of pounds (dollars) by buying shares that were promoted in the next day's paper.
Morgan was cleared of wrongdoing, but Hipwell and another tipster, Anil Bhoyrul, were convicted in 2005. Hipwell expressed remorse over his role in the stock scam but said he always believed that his former boss had been as guilty as he was.
"I can understand why people think that I have an ax to grind against him," Hipwell told the inquiry.
By Hipwell's account, phone hacking was a matter of routine ? a "standard journalistic tool for gathering information." He said journalists openly boasted about breaking into phones to intercept voice mails..
He challenged Morgan's assertion Tuesday that a tabloid editor could only monitor about 5 percent of his journalists' work, saying he often saw Morgan inspecting reporter's computer screens or working late into the night to tweak headlines.
Morgan "stamped his authority on every single page," Hipwell said. "The newspaper was built around the cult of Piers."
Morgan, 46, has already dismissed Hipwell's claims as the "unsubstantiated allegations of a liar and convicted criminal." Trinity Mirror Group lawyer Desmond Browne made a similar argument, saying his newspaper group rejected Hipwell's allegations.
However, testimony to the inquiry is given under oath, meaning speakers could be subject to criminal proceedings if found to have violated any British laws.
More than a dozen News of the World journalists have been arrested in the hacking scandal, senior executives with Murdoch's News Corp. media empire have lost their jobs, and top U.K. police officers have resigned over their failure to tackle the problem.
Authorities on Wednesday arrested their first serving police officer as part of an investigation into bribes paid to police by journalists seeking scoops.
London police said a 52-year-old woman, who has not been identified, was arrested on suspicion of corruption and misconduct in a public office. The woman was detained at a house in Essex, in southeastern England, and was being questioned.
Eight people, including a reporter working for The Sun tabloid, have so far been arrested as part of the police corruption inquiry, although no one has yet been charged.
Also Wednesday, the former editor of the News of the World lost a legal bid to make the owner of the now-defunct newspaper pay his legal bills.
Andy Coulson left the tabloid after a reporter and a private investigator were jailed for hacking in 2007.
He became Prime Minister David Cameron's communications chief but resigned when the phone hacking scandal erupted again earlier this year.
A High Court judge ruled that Coulson's severance agreement did not require the company to pay his costs relating to allegations of criminal behavior.
Separately, another judge ruled that Murdoch's News Group Newspapers had to continue paying the legal fees of Glenn Mulcaire, the private investigator at the center of the scandal.
High Court justice Andrew Morritt said the News International subsidiary News Group Newspapers was bound by an agreement last year protecting Mulcaire from costs and damages arising from voicemail litigation in which they were joint defendants.
The company, itself a subsidiary of Murdoch's News Corp., had tried to end the contract after it emerged publicly that it was still guaranteeing the costs of a convicted criminal. Mulcaire was jailed briefly in 2007, along with News of the World royal correspondent Clive Goodman, for eavesdropping on the phone messages of royal aides.
Goodman and Mulcaire remain the only two people ever convicted over the practice.
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Associated Press writers Jill Lawless and David Stringer contributed to this report.
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Toyota aims to sell 8.48 million vehicles in 2012 (AP)
TOKYO ? Toyota is aiming for a comeback, targeting global sales of 8.48 million vehicles in 2012 and an even bigger number in 2013, after being battered this year by the March disaster in Japan and flooding in Thailand.
Toyota Motor Corp., Japan's top automaker, relinquished its title as the world's biggest in global vehicle sales for the first half of this year, sinking to No. 3 trailing U.S. rival General Motors Co. and Volkswagen AG of Germany.
Toyota's global vehicle sales for this year total 7.9 million vehicles, including group companies, down 6 percent from the previous year, it said in a statement Thursday.
General Motors Co. has not yet released its global sales numbers for this year. The Detroit-based automaker had been at the top for more than seven decades until Toyota took the crown in 2008.
Toyota's targets for 2012 and 2013 do not include group companies such as Daihatsu Motor Co. and Hino Motors, and so aren't directly comparable with any forecasts from GM and Volkswagen.
Toyota said the sales target for calendar 2012 would represent 20 percent growth from its global sales this year.
Toyota has been making up for sales declines in North America and Japan with momentum in relatively new but booming markets such as China and India.
The manufacturer behind the Prius hybrid and Lexus luxury models said it plans to sell 8.95 million vehicles around the world in 2013, not including group companies.
Toyota said it had not yet figured out forecasts for group companies. It is possible the target may exceed 9 million vehicles, had they been included.
Toyota acknowledged many uncertainties, which could push the numbers in either direction. One possible plus is the extension of Japanese government incentives for green vehicles, according to Toyota.
Toyota, with its strong hybrid lineup, has been a major beneficiary of such incentives.
Still, Toyota has gone through some hard times lately.
The global financial crisis in 2008 was behind a serious sales plunge in the key North American market.
Then came the massive recalls, mostly in the U.S., that tarnished Toyota's once pristine reputation for quality amid speculation it had not been as forthright as it should have been about defects.
Toyota was on a gradual recovery track when the March 11 earthquake and tsunami struck in northeastern Japan, damaging suppliers and disrupting production because of a severe parts shortage.
Production got slammed again later in the year, although on a smaller scale, from flooding in Thailand.
Toyota also said it expects to produce 8.65 million vehicles next year, up 24 percent from 6.97 million this year. It expects to produce 8.98 million vehicles in 2013, it said. Those numbers do not include group companies.
Michael Robinet, managing director of IHS Automotive Consultants in Northville, Michigan, said a global sales lead doesn't matter as much as how much money the company makes per vehicle, its model portfolio and overall profit.
A difference of several tens of thousands of vehicles is not significant for automakers that sell millions of vehicles like Toyota and GM, he said.
"It doesn't matter all that much when you're already in the 9 million to 10 million unit range," Robinet said.
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AP Auto Writer Tom Krisher contributed from Detroit.
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Thursday 22 December 2011
Newt Gingrich assails Mitt Romney for 'negative smear campaign' in Iowa by PAC (Star Tribune)
Sunday 18 December 2011
Reopening OF Highway 60 Delayed Again
MONTEBELLO, Calif. ? Workers tearing down a fire-damaged freeway overpass had to stop when they found frazzled telephone lines snaked through the bridge and wrapped in potentially hazardous material, which scuttled plans to remove part of the span, repair the pavement and reopen the freeway before Friday's rush hour.
The reopening was pushed to the weekend.
California Department of Transportation officials did not immediately return telephone calls early Friday.
The Friday morning commute was long, slow and unavoidable, said California Highway Patrol Officer Francisco Villalobos.
"It will not be a typical Friday light commute," he said.
Volume on alternate freeways was jammed for miles and getting worse. "No matter what you bring along, make sure patience is at the top of the list," Villalobos said.
Demolition work came to a halt when the phone lines were discovered, California Department of Transportation spokesman Patrick Chandler said late Thursday. Workers also discovered a fiber-optic line that, if cut, could disrupt phone service for nearby businesses and homes, he said.
Transit engineers were working with AT&T officials to find a solution.
"This is a challenge and we're going to try to meet it," Chandler said, "but it has caused demolition work to cease at this time."
A double-tanker hauling nearly 9,000 gallons of gasoline went up in flames Wednesday under the Paramount Boulevard bridge in Montebello, east of Los Angeles. The driver was not hurt, but the intense flames and heat melted the truck, cratered the road beneath it and cracked the concrete on the overpass so that chunks crashed onto the pavement below.
Authorities quickly closed the freeway, a major route connecting Los Angeles to dozens of bedroom communities to the city's east. Rush-hour traffic Wednesday evening and Thursday morning quickly became gridlocked for miles, delaying commuters by as many as two hours or more and spilling over onto other freeways and surface streets.
Engineers determined that the damaged steel and concrete made the eastern side of the bridge, built in 1966, too dangerous to save. Concrete core samples were being examined to determine whether the western side would be pulled down as well.
Tens of thousands of drivers use the freeway daily to commute from communities in eastern Los Angeles County and adjoining Riverside and San Bernardino counties. It also is a main route for trucks delivering vast streams of goods from the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach to inland warehouses.
The shutdown of a key section of Los Angeles area freeway revived memories of the first Carmageddon earlier this year.
In July, a 10-mile stretch of another freeway was closed for a weekend so a bridge could be demolished. Officials had warned for weeks that the work on Interstate 405 in West Los Angeles could create epic traffic jams, however, and people who got the word stayed far away. Traffic in many areas was actually lighter than usual.
That wasn't the case Wednesday.
"We couldn't warn people about this because it was an accident," California Highway Patrol Officer Luis Mendoza said of the tanker fire.
The cause of the fire remained under investigation. There was no crash, so investigators planned to look at other factors, such as possible brake or other mechanical failure.
There were nearly 400 accidents involving tanker trucks hauling chemicals in the U.S. last year and they resulted in five deaths, according to statistics from the U.S. Department of Transportation's Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration.
Most accidents occurred as the tankers were unloading. Only seven occurred in California and none involved a fire.
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Taxin reported from Montebello and Jablon reported from Los Angeles.
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Saturday 17 December 2011
Brooke Burke Charvet: Blended Families Are ?Challenging?
"I wish I were always calm in the chaos. I have children with very strong personalities, and as elating as that is, it can also be deflating," the Dancing With the Stars co-host, 40, says in Fitness's January issue.
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Android leads US market share, iOS may have stopped growing, RIM is still falling
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Friday 16 December 2011
Video: Gingrich takes big lead in NBC/WSJ poll
>>> we turn to presidential politics . tonight according to some of the very best people in the business of measuring the mood of the american electorate, there's reason to believe that the united states is approaching a tumultuous and game changing election year. we've never seen the voting attitude, exactly the way it is now. tonight we're going to take a few minutes here to talk about this because of some new data that was shared with us today. we have the pollster himself, and the rest of our veteran political team with us, our political director, chuck todd is here as is peter hart , meet the press moderator david gregory , and from washington , andrea mitchell . chuck, let's start with the hard numbers today and what they tell us.
>> this poll that we have tonight is a tale of two republicans with their own set of electability problems. let's start with mitt romney , his problem is getting the republican nomination. as you can see, newt gingrich has surged to 40%. the highest number any republican has had in the calendar year of 2011 , since we've started polling this primary. when the race shrinks down to three candidates, gingrich's lead expands. what is rom any's electability problem? it is simply one word, ideology. 70% of republicans call themselves conservative. only 29% believe mitt romney is conservative. mitt romney and barack obama would be a neck and neck race. newt gingrich , different story. 51 for the president, just 40% for newt gingrich . independent voters really are sour on newt gingrich . who could you just not vote for. newt gingrich . half the country says they just could not vote for gingrich. to hit the 50% mark, though, a big deal . newt gingrich 's image is the same as it was in october 1998 , the last time we polled him as speaker of the house . 27 to 46. 27 to 24 now.
>> you've been in this game a long time, peter hart , you and your partner in polling briefed our staff today. i don't think i've ever heard your assessment the way it was today. give us the view of this country from, as they say, 50,000 feet.
>> from up above, it's terrible. direction of the country 70% the wrong direction. are people feeling about this year? one of the worst years. when they look at this congress, they say, this is the worst congress i've seen. how do i feel about the economy, america going-forward? every element the american public comes up negative. there's no sense of optimism, there's no sense of hope.
>> you were saying earlier today, if this is a so-called referendum election, which is a type of election that taps into a certain voter anger, it could be perilous for the current president?
>> absolutely. because if it's an up or down with 29% saying, i think the country's going in the right direction, you just can't make it. the sense of the president and the economy, he can't make it, but if it's a choice election, how do i choose between the two? well, you just heard what chuck said. neither of the republican candidates look all that good to the american public. three flawed candidates.
>> now, are you talking about a potential entry for a third party this year being a possibility?
>> well, as bill mcinterf says, expect the unexpected. one of the unexpecteds is expect a third candidate in the race. that will help president obama .
>> david gregory , there's a very energized right word facet of the republican party out there. what's fuelling it, and what manifestation could we see?
>> the tea party effect. it's driving the conservative base, and that's where newt gingrich does well. these where romney is still coming up short. what peter and chuck is describing is something we don't exactly know yet, in terms of what's happening inside the republican party . they're rejecting the establishment candidate, and going back to a guy who 13 years to the day of the iowa caucuses had his last day as speaker of the house . that's newt gingrich . he can take the fight to obama, he can debate, well, yes, he's erratic, but he's viewed negatively. there's so much emotion, and passion in this campaign right now. i think that's what the driving force is on the right.
>> andrea mitchell in washington , i spoke to a veteran of the social wars in this country of a few decades back, who said, look for the summer of 2012 , if this all -- if this spark becomes a prairie fire , look for the summer of 2012 , when we have two political conventions to look a lot like the summer of '68 perhaps.
>> well, it could happen, because you got so much anger, so much frustration. the numbers that peter sites and that chuck has cited show there is an extraordinary disaffectionate all institutions. there's no respect for anything except perhaps the military here. with that kind of anger building, and you have the occupy folks on one side, the tea party on the other, i think you could start seeing a joining of forces with these two parties. you don't know what to expect and it's all been so unpredictable until now.
>> peter hart , it's safe to say, we haven't seen this country in this shape before, and we certainly haven't seen the electorate look like this before?
>> anger is all around. the thing that most disappoints people in 2011 , and that is the declining middle class , the rich are getting richer.
>> peter, david, andrea mitchell in washington , thank you all. and
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Lindsay Lohan, who was scheduled to return from her hit -and- miss Hawaiian vacation Tuesday, missed her flight back to Los Angeles that would have had her back in town in time for a scheduled taping of "The Ellen DeGeneres Show."
But more importantly, Lohan's due in court bright and early Wednesday. She doesn't need a passport to get back to the mainland, so what can the problem be ? and will it keep her from her date with Judge Stephanie Sautner?!
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"Lindsay had a travel-related issue arise that took a few hours to sort out," rep Steve Honig tells E! News. "It has been resolved and she will be back in Los Angeles in time for her court appearance."
Phew!
A source also tells us that Lohan is already in the air and will be touching down at LAX in a few hours.
The community-servicing actress is due in court Wednesday at 9:30 a.m. for another checkup as to how she's been handling the terms of her probation.
Sautner ordered her to complete at least 12 days of work at the L.A. County morgue by her hearing date ? and Lohan's done that, so we're not expecting too much tap-dancing on the part of Playboy's latest cover girl.
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