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String of Iraq car bomb blasts kill at least 32

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hit a civilian neighborhood. "A car bomb entered the area and Submitted at 9/30/2012 7:34:06 AM no one... noticed this. Why did By Kareem Raheem that happen? All the houses were BAGHDAD| Sun Sep 30, 2012 destroyed," said Khadiar Abas, 8:34am EDT owner of one of the damaged ( R e u t e r s ) - B o m b i n g s a n d homes. shootings killed more than 32 In Baghdad, a suicide car bomb people across Iraq on Sunday, and two parked car bombs went underscoring the government's off, killing eight people including s t r u g g l e w i t h a s t u b b o r n a police officer and wounding insurgency more than nine months another 11. a f t e r t h e l a s t U . S . t r o o p s Another blast targeted a bus withdrew. carrying Iranian pilgrims as it In Taji, 20 km (12 miles) north of passed through the town of the capital Baghdad, bombs in Madaen, about 30 km (20 miles) three parked cars went off southeast of Baghdad, killing two separately, killing 11 people and passers-by and wounding another wounding 24, including several ten, including seven Iranians. policemen. A suicide bomber in a car blew Reuters footage of the scene of himself up in the city of Kut, 150 one of the explosions showed the km (95 miles) southeast of remains of an exploded car Baghdad, killing four policemen, surrounded by several completely police and local officials said. and partially destroyed houses and No group claimed responsibility cars. for the raft of attacks, but a local Taji has one of Iraq's largest al Qaeda affiliate and other Sunni military airbases but the bombing Islamist groups have carried out at [unable to retrieve full-text
least one major assault a month since the last American troops left in December. Al Qaeda's local wing, the Islamic State of Iraq, says it has begun a new offensive against mainly Shi'ite targets. Security experts say it has benefited from the conflict in Syria, which has given al-Qaeda the pretext to seek more money and arms from Sunni tribes, politicians and governments. Security had been tightened in Baghdad and other provinces after dozens of inmates, including convicted members of al Qaeda, fought their way out of a prison in the northern city of Tikrit on Friday using weapons officials said had been smuggled in during family visits. Two more policemen were killed when a car bomb went off in the town of Balad Ruz, 90 km (55 miles) northeast of Baghdad. In Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, a parked car content]
bomb and two roadside bombs blew up separately, killing a civilian and wounding six. The last major attacks occurred on September 9, in the capital when a series of bombs in mainly Shi'ite districts ended one of the bloodiest days of the year with more than 100 killed across the country. Violence in Iraq has eased since its height in 2006-2007 when sectarian fighting killed thousands of people, but Sunni Islamists are still seeking to undermine the Shi'ite-led government. (Writing by Suadad al-Salhy; editing by Patrick Graham) This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Incinerating Assange - The Liberal Media Go To Work.
MOTOGP: Pedrosa Powers To Aragon Triumph SPEEDtv.com

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Bombs Rock Iraq, Killing 26 In Coordinated Attacks - NPR

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to take back areas of the country, like Taji, from which it was pushed before U.S. troops Submitted at 9/30/2012 9:27:09 AM withdrew last December. BAGHDAD September 30, 2012, Shiite lawmaker Hakim al10:21 am ET Zamili, a member of parliament's BAGHDAD (AP) Bombs security and defense committee, striking Shiite neighborhoods, said the attacks were a sign alsecurity forces and other targets Qaida "is still in business." He across Iraq killed at least 26 said a deadly weekend prison people Sunday, officials said, in break in Tikrit in which many althe latest instance of coordinated Qaida-linked convicts escaped, violence to take a sectarian bent likely boosted the terror network's and undermine confidence in the morale and spurred Sunday's beleaguered government. assault. The deadliest attack came in the " A l - Q a i d a l e a d e r s h a v e n o town of Taji, a former al-Qaida intention of leaving this country stronghold just north of Baghdad, or letting Iraqis live in peace," alwhere three explosive-rigged cars Zamili said. "Thus, we should went off within minutes of each expect more attacks in the near other. Police said eight people future. The situation in Iraq is still died and 28 were injured in the unstable ... and repetition of such back-to-back blasts that began attacks shows that our security around 7:15 a.m. forces are still unqualified to deal In all, at least 94 people were with the terrorists," he added. wounded in the wave of attacks Shortly after the Taji attacks, that stretched from the restive but police said a suicide bomber set oil-rich city of Kirkuk in Iraq's off his explosives-packed car in north to the southern Shiite town the Shiite neighborhood of Shula of Kut. in northwest Baghdad. One Spokesmen for the government person was killed and seven and Baghdad's military command w o u n d e d . P o l i c e c o u l d n o t could not immediately be reached immediately identify the target. for comment, and no one claimed "So many people were hurt. A leg responsibility for the violence of a person was amputated," immediately. lamented Shula resident Naeem Car bombs however are a Frieh. "What have those innocent hallmark of al-Qaida in Iraq. The people done to deserve this?" Sunni militant network has vowed And in Baghdad's bustling
Karradah neighborhood, a parked car laden with explosives went off next to a police patrol, killing a police officer and a civilian, other officials said. Eight other people were injured. The blast was followed minutes later by another parked car bomb as people gathered, killing three civilians and injuring 12 others, they added. Secondary bomb blasts targeting those coming to help the wounded are a common insurgent tactic. An Associated Press cameraman was knocked to the ground in the second explosion and an AP photographer was slightly injured. Elsewhere in the country, another suicide bomber drove a minibus into a security checkpoint in Kut, located 160 kilometers (100 miles) southeast of Baghdad. Three police officers were killed and five wounded, Maj. Gen. Hussein Abdul-Hadi Mahbob said. And in Iraq's north, another policeman was killed when security forces were trying to defuse a car bomb parked on the main highway between the cities of Kirkuk and Tuz Khormato, said Kirkuk police chief Brig. Gen. Sarhad Qadir. A second policeman was wounded in the blast, Qadir said. Kirkuk is about 290 kilometers (180 miles) north of Baghdad.
In mid-morning, another parked car bomb went off next to a bus carrying Iranian pilgrims in the town of Madain, killing three Iraqis and injuring 11 others including seven Iranians, another police officer and health official said. Madain is a mainly Sunni area located 20 kilometers (12 miles) southeast of Baghdad. In the town of Balad Ruz, 75 kilometers (45 miles) northeast of Baghdad, a parked car bomb targeted a passing police patrol, killing two policemen and injuring seven others, a police officer and health official said. And in the nearby town of Khan Bani Saad, 15 kilometers (nine miles) northeast of Baghdad, yet another parked car bomb exploded near a market and killed one civilian and injured nine others, they added. Two Iraqi soldiers were killed in the town of Tarmiyah, 50 kilometers (30 miles) north of Baghdad, when their patrol hit a roadside bomb, another police officer and health official said. Six other people, including four civilians were wounded. Health officials in Taji, Tarmiyah and Baghdad confirmed the casualties. All officials spoke anonymously as they were not authorized to release information. Earlier this summer, the Iraqi wing of al-Qaida, also called the
Islamic State of Iraq, launched a campaign dubbed "Breaking the Walls," which aimed at retaking strongholds from which it was driven by the American military. At its peak, al-Qaida in Iraq brutalized its victims with publicized beheadings, suicide bombings and roadside bombs that targeted the Shiite government, the U.S. military and Iraqi civilians. In an attempt to goad Shiite militias to respond, Al-Qaida bombed the revered al-Askari Shiite shrine in Samarra in 2006 an attack that launched Iraq's descent into more than three years of sectarian fighting. But the Iraqi wing of al-Qaida was shunned by the worldwide terror network's central leadership, which chided it for killing civilians. The insurgency made a series of other missteps imposing overly strict Islamic discipline and alienating tribal leaders that undercut its support in Iraq's Sunni communities and helped lead to the widespread defection of fighters to groups allied with the U.S. As a result, the flow of funding, arms and fighters slowed to a trickle, and al-Qaida in Iraq has struggled to command much power. Violence has dropped since the BOMBS page 3
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US Unemployment to Remain Elevated Under Present Presidential Policies - The Desert Sun (blog)
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US Unemployment to Remain Elevated Under Present Presidential Policies Posted: September 29th, 2012 | Author: Morris Beschloss| Filed under: Economics While the pre-election confrontation reaches its crescendo on the eve of the October presidential/VP debate showdown, unemployment improvement optimists seem to expect a magic trigger mechanism to emit a post-election upward bump after the installation of the Presidential election winner. This illusion is based on the mistaken belief that the current wait and see hiring freeze will dissolve once U.S. President No. 45 is installed on January 20, 2013. An objective analysis of Americas structural Labor Department-reported 8.1% unemployment rate and a multidecade low labor force participation rate of 63.8% will not improve if current businesshostile government policies stay in place. The following major policies which will not change under a second Obama term
emphasize this rationale as follows: 1) The energy subsector, which is proceeding at an elevated intensity, will come under increasing fire from the Environmental Protection Agency, which is committed to the bankruptcy of coal companies. The increasing offshore dependence on, and ultimate elimination of oil through exorbitant prices, and even an eventual stricture on national gas, all of which are considered unacceptable fossil fuels, is on the chopping block. This stratagem is believed to be EPAs method of forcing the use of renewables, despite the fact that this segment (solar, wind, bio-mass, ethanol, etc.) have proven only useful as a supplement to fossil fuels. Nuclear, aside from expansion onsite, is dead in the water. 2) The permanent cancellation of the Trans-Canada XL oil pipeline will not only deprive the U.S. of additional energy conversion, up to 50,000 construction workers, and massive additional revenues from fossil fuel and its derivatives, but billions will be lost as an offset to an out of control debt and deficit. The war on coal is not only succeeding in the bankrupting of the nations coal mining and
exporting capability, but will continue to depress the thousands of well-paying jobs associated with an industry that has continued to represent major job opportunities until recently. The announcement by Alpha Natural to shut its coal mines (9.2% of its overall employment) eliminates thousands of mining positions with more attrition to come. Its ludicrous to contemplate that the Environmental Protection Agency is running amok in its attempt to crucify Americas energy capabilities. Another Obama Presidential term will only make such a destructive, jobkilling example worse. For future easy access to my blogs, please use the link below, and bookmark it to your desktop. The old link you may be using is still available. However, an alternate link is: http://mydesert.com/beschloss This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Incinerating Assange - The Liberal Media Go To Work.
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China to Build Kampala-Entebbe Express Way AllAfrica.com Economic experts argue that Uganda's poor road network is
one of the major bottlenecks to unlocking Uganda's economic potential. Road transport is, by far, the most dominant mode of transport in Uganda, carrying over 95% of passenger and freight traffic. and more
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Housing Proposed to Help Homeless - KCRG Labor must get its act together - The Australian
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A momentum-swinging game hanging in the balance, Oregon State coach Mike Riley pulled out a play he had been saving all game.
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If We Had To Define The State Of The Economy In 3 Charts, These Are The Ones We Would Pick
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10% lower than they were before for basically two years now. Sure it's noisy, with some spikes and Submitted at 9/30/2012 9:27:00 AM dips, but the basic point is that I was fortunate enough to be this measure has shown incredibly invited to be a guest on MSNBC's steady improvement, which Up W/ Chris Hayes yesterday. speaks to the general sense that You can find all the videos here. things aren't great, but things Before I went on, I was asked to aren't horrible and seem to getting send over a few charts that I better. thought were particularly telling The next chart shows the about the state of the economy, relationship between home prices, and which might also help frame housing starts, GDP and the stock the state of the economy in terms market. of what it means for the election. As you can see, it was really the Here are the three charts I sent fall in home prices (red line) that over. lead to the collapse of the The first is the year-over-year economy and the market in 2008. change in non-seasonally adjusted With home prices seemingly initial jobless claims. starting to inch up a little bit, the As you can see, initial jobless potential for a wealth affect that claims each week have been about helps both homeowners and banks
seems quite significant. And finally, here's a look at the latest Services ISM (blue line) vs. Manufacturing ISM (red line). Manufacturing is clearly the weak spot right now, in large part
due to the slowing global economy. The domestic economy continues to show expansion, in large part based on housing. If you want to know whether the US is going to go into recession, this
is the central tension to watch. Will the weakness in manufacturing spill into the rest of the economy, or will the strength in housing/domestic services win out. This chart also speaks to the relative resilience of the US economy vs. other economies around the world, which are struggling with downturns or slowdowns much more severe than ours. SEE ALSO: Why next week is going to be huge for the global economy > Please follow Money Game on Twitter and Facebook. Join the conversation about this story
Make 'political untouchability' an offence, says A - Zee News

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"communal" BJP, its senior leader LK Advani on Sunday said like in social life there should be no place for "untouchability in politics".
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Israel Strike on Iran Nukes Will Not Begin WWIII

Daniel Greenfield (FrontPage Magazine)
Equally, as we have shown elsewhere, fears of an attack creating an oil scarcity, should Submitted at 9/30/2012 9:30:43 AM Irans global contribution be One of the best weapons that the interrupted, are entirely pro-Iran and anti-War crowd has groundless. While any at its disposal are its hysterical interruption in Irans energy assertions that an Israeli strike on exports and the effect of a Irans nuclear facilities will end regional conflict would all life as we know it. temporarily spike world oil prices, Their typical tactics are to sanctions have already effected a describe such a strike as a war significant reduction in Iranian and to warn of all sorts of terrible energy exports. consequences from the fearsome Not to mention that Israel already Iranian military which has yet to bombed Irans reactor in Syria defeat the Syrian rebels. The with no meaningful consequences. economy will collapse, cats and And Iran trying to block the Strait dogs will begin living in sin and fresh sanity on the subject. Cairo to Amman would, however, of Hormuz would be a pointless all life as we know it will end. The fact is that Shia Iran is an quietly be breathing a sigh of gesture leading to the destruction Last of all, failed former UK isolated and ailing economy with relief that someone had finally of its navy. T o r y P a r t y l e a d e r M i c h a e l no friends other than Syria in the ended Iranian nuclear regional Nuclear weapons are something Howard asserts: The only thing predominantly Sunni Middle East ambitions that could well see a t o f e a r . F e a r i t s e l f i s n o t worse than the prospect of an Iran region. We need to bear in mind nuclear-armed Iran targeting s o m e t h i n g t o f e a r . with nuclear weapons would be that, historically, there is no love them, not just Israel. This entry passed through the the consequences of using force to lost between Shia and Sunni Moreover, Russia may have Full-Text RSS service if this is stop them. Islam. We need only look at the helped build Irans nuclear facility your content and you're reading it I dont know Iran could do more murderous conflict between the at Bushehr but, as we reported in on someone else's site, please read damage with nuclear weapons two in Iraq. Has Russia Sold Out Iran for a the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentthan without nuclear weapons In response to an attack against Stake in Israeli Gas?, for all its only/faq.php#publishers. Five but then Im not a failed former Irans enrichment facilities, young public bluster, Moscow appears Filters recommends: Incinerating Tory leader so I wouldnt be privy hotheads would certainly take to already to have sold its partners Assange - The Liberal Media Go to that sort of thing. the streets to burn Israeli and US down the Moskva. In short, in the To Work. At the UKs Commentator, Peter flags and effigies to call for jihad. event of a strike on its nuclear C . G l o v e r a n d M i c h a e l J . Their leaders, from Riyadh to facilities, Iran would stand alone. Economides offer a breath of
Newly-discovered comet might outshine the moon

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Submitted at 9/30/2012 8:30:00 AM
A faint glow in the constellation of Cancer should become one of the brightest lights in the sky towards the end of 2013, if astronomers' predictions are correct. Russian astronomers Artyom Novichonok and Vitali Nevski of the International Scientific Optical Network (ISON) spotted the celestial object, which has now been confirmed as a comet by the International Astronomical Union and named 2012 S1. By: Duncan Geere, Continue reading...
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Games Are A Difficult Investment Proposition, But Crowdfunding Could Change That
Tadhg Kelly (TechCrunch)
the poor man of the startup world because, while its easy to find Submitted at 9/30/2012 8:00:59 AM small bits of seed and angel Editors note: Tadhg Kelly is a funding, and funds will also invest game designer with 20 years at IPO stages, the Series A layer experience. He is the creator of just doesnt meaningfully exist. leading game design blog What (Actually it does, but the kinds of Games Are, and consults for European startups that get that many companies on game design sort of funding tend to be very and development. You can follow unadventurous). him on Twitter here. Games startups get double-harsh The opening of the London treatment in this scenario. While Games Festival marks a month of its already tough for a technology industry- and education-focused startup to convince investors, events that take place all around what they are proposing is usually the city. It starts with an event a solution to a perceived problem. called Games Invest (attached to A Wonga has a clear and scalable the Eurogamer Expo) where proposition that could potentially various developers, investors, and deliver huge returns. However interested parties get together. investors in general tend to The main topic is typically how to believe that games are a hit-driven get games funded, and in past business. So even if your game years its tone has often been product is massive, investors tend somewhat depressing. Many such to think it will only ever be events in the European startup temporary. They may like the lean space are. startup as an idea, but in practise Typically this is because of the the kinds of investment they want conservatism of European to make in games are for investors. A speaker at an event platforms, portals, aggregation like Games Invest might sound a solutions and so on. Those are the high note of ambition (such as businesses that investors believe following blue-ocean strategies or will transcend the vagaries of hitlean-startup thinking), but in driven economics. practise they tend to be terrified of Theyve overcome this problem risk. So the conventional wisdom i n t h e f i l m i n d u s t r y u s i n g holds that Europe is doomed to be mezzanine and convertible-debt
rather than venture financing. This involves essentially loaning money to the producer in exchange for the intellectual property rights, which are then bought back through earn-out clauses. Some people have thought to apply the same model to games, but it rarely works well. The thing is, the belief about games being hit-driven is somewhat misinformed. When we say hit-driven, we often mean a piece of content that grows hot very quickly, but also cools off and (hopefully) leads to a long tail of revenue. The music industry is the classic example of this with its charts and hit parades, one-hit wonders, Gangnam-style sensations and rapid turnaround. In music, the pressure is always on to generate new hits and to remain relevant. The games industry is similar to music and film in that hit games tend to spread quickly. Its also sometimes true that a hit game can tail off (such as Draw Something) if it proves to have no depth. However where games differ radically from both film and music is in their development and their fan relationships. Games are developed like software. Iteration and
experimentation are vital, as are fairly flexible delivery times (Blizzard is famous for its done when its done approach to making games). This does not sit well with the fixed production schedules and milestones that mezzanine financing schemes bring and usually results in bad games (hence defeating the whole point of financing them in the first place). However well-iterated games show much more staying power than the vast majority of films or music could ever hope to achieve. Great games spawn franchises, leading to increased sales for release after release. They commonly show multi-year growth patterns, whether at retail (Borderlands 2 is likely to sell far more than Borderlands) or online. Fans usually find a game type that they love, play the hell out of it, evangelise it and then buy the next one. Loyalty and continuity across multiple years (or even decades) is very important, and (if the game is great) that loyalty can potentially last forever. Thats why Grand Theft Auto can sell 15 million copies every couple of years, Call of Duty sells 20 million units every year, and World of Warcraft, whose salad
days are probably gone, retains around 9.1 million subscribers. Its why most of the geek world is patiently waiting for Half Life 3. Franchising can also work laterally. Nintendo uses a number of key characters like Mario to sell many types of games, for example, as does UK war-game company Games Workshop. Zynga has attempted something similar by appending the suffix Ville to many of its games (though whether that really works, who can say). In practise the smart money should be looking not to companies who have an idea for a game, nor those who simply have a distribution or technology platform (those are a dime a dozen these days). It should look for franchise potential. Likewise, those who develop games should be thinking whether the game they want to make can really extend into franchises. Only when those two mindsets line up does real value tend to be generated, but wrong-headed understanding from both sides still persists. Until (hopefully) now. Enter The Crowd GAMES page 9
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Weekly Wrap-Up: Foxconn Riots, My Week With Android, And How To Buy A Smartphone
Adam Popescu (ReadWriteWeb)
the Apple iPhone 5 assembly line was back up and running. But with police reportedly monitoring Submitted at 9/29/2012 3:42:05 PM street corners and the factory's My week with Android, or why main entrance, Foxconn still looks I'm buying an iPhone 5; Foxconn like a powder keg with a sizzling r i o t s ; a n d h o w t o b u y a fuse, Apple Riot Aftermath: smartphone. All of this and more iPhone 5 Factory Remains A in the ReadWriteWeb Weekly Powder Keg. Wrap-up. How To Buy A Smartphone: After the jump you'll find more Which Is Better, Android or of this week's top news stories on iPhone? some of the key topics that are What is the difference between shaping the Web - Location, App Android and the iPhone, really? Stores and Real-Time Web- plus Where do Windows Phone and highlights from some of our six BlackBerry fit in? All these channels. Read on for more. My platforms do basically the same Week With Android, Or Why Im thing (connect a phone to the Buying An iPhone 5 Internet and applications), but Not long ago, one of our editors there are fundamental differences. did a very bad thing: he dropped D e t e r m i n i n g w h a t k i n d o f hisiPhone 4 and cracked the smartphone is right for you means screen. He was very sad, but the knowing your mobile operating experience proved useful as it s y s t e m s , H o w T o B u y A forced him to face up to his phone Smartphone: Which Is Better, future. Did he want a new iPhone Android or iPhone?. 5 or was it time to switch to a Why I Love Apple's Facebook different brand of smartphone, Integration My Week With Android, Or Why The Facebook integration into Im Buying An iPhone 5. Apples OS X and iOS brings More Top Posts: Apple Riot relief. Its the easiest, least icky, Aftermath: iPhone 5 Factory most user-friendly partnership Remains A Powder Keg between two major tech Two days after Sunday's riot at companies seen in a long while, t h e C h i n e s e F o x c o n n and that's saying something. The Technologies factory, the home of rubber has hit the road for the
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In the games industry the whole idea of crowdfunding caught us with our pants down, and were still trying to understand what it means. We stare in disbelief at some of the amounts being raised, wondering aloud whether the whole thing is a massive bubble just waiting to be burst. For many of us it seems like a temporary madness that will pass before the industry gets back to the regular business of developers and publishers. For a few of us (myself included) its much more than that, though. The hype started with Tim Schafer and Double Fine generating over $3.4 million on a campaign looking for $400K. Following on from this initial success, a number of other longtime luminaries have done likewise, and this has not been limited only to gaming legends. The Ouya project, to create a lean console that could play app-style games, won just under $8.6 million through the same route. Similarly, real-time strategy game Planetary Annihilation pulled in $2.2 million. Crowdfunding has also helped many game makers at smaller scales, such as helping my friend Mike Bithell raise completion funds for his indie game Thomas Was Alone. However crowdfunding raises some questions. The first question is whether the
funds raised through crowdfunding indicate the size of the addressable market or merely a small part of it. So far the signs are that the latter is true. The Kickstarter-funded game FTL (which raised just over $200K) seems to be doing very well, for example. Then there is Minecraft, a game that was effectively crowdfunded by being sold at a very early alpha stage. According to Minecraft.net it has sold 7.5 million copies of the PC version alone, and the Xbox version has sold 3.6 million copies. The second question around crowdfunding is whether the whole thing is just a hype bubble waiting to pop. At Games Invest the key speaker this year was John Vaskis, head of the games vertical at Indiegogo. Vaskis talked about efforts being made to encourage more game projects. He imparted key information such as the value of a strong video, the importance of stretch goals (if you reach your target early, you need new targets to keep encouraging funding) and so on. He also revealed that the average investment by a fan in a project on Indiegogo is $79. All of this sounds very encouraging, but the reaction from the conference attendees was less optimistic. On a panel, my friend and fellow consultant Nicholas Lovell wondered
whether crowdfunding has reached the top of the Gartner Hype Cycle and is about to dive into the trough of disillusionment. However he also cited its power at small as well as large scales, specifically with reference to a book project by Zoya Street named Dreamcast Worlds. Many wondered just how many projects fail to gain funding, and also what would happen if a major scam was perpetrated through crowdfunding. The third question is around delivery. Those who make games know that the amounts being raised by some crowdfunding projects are actually on the small side. Tim Schafers $3.4 million may sound like a lot, but its actually a dwarf compared to the budgets of most console games. So what happens if the crowdfunded project turns out to not have enough money to finish a game? What if, 75 percent of the way through development, it transpires that the game is not very good? On the same panel, Alex Chapman (a leading games lawyer at Sheridans) suggested that while invested projects are built to make money and hopefully please the fans, crowdfunded games are meant to please fans, with profit being optional. This screams risk. Suspicion of the new is natural, of course. However I think
crowdfunding is a demonstration of what I call marketing stories. It shows how players are motivated by causes in which they believe (such as the idea that adventure games are not dead, or that indie consoles should be a real thing), and put their money where their mouths are. Marketing stories are increasingly the most important factor in determining success or failure in many industries (replacing older forms of marketing like advertising), or what Seth Godin calls tribalism. In a sense, crowdfundings real value is not the money that it generates, the success of what individual projects deliver, or whether it is currently overhyped. Those things help, but really what crowdfunding should be thought of is as the best market-research tool weve ever had. It gives us a way to look into the tribal minds of the players who care, the ones that are most likely to spread the word later by correlating not just what they have already bought, but what they intend to buy. Crowdfunding of games is a way to validate franchise potential (while maybe easing some of those Series A blues into the bargain). Some have already started to recognise this potential of user voices and tribes. Valve has recently deployed a service named Steam Greenlight, for example,
which asks users to vote on which games they would like to see published on Steam. I personally think that by tying this to votes rather than funding somewhat misses the point (because its easier to vote to say you would like something than to buy it, so the data may be skewed). Another project named Gambitious has launched in the UK. Its attempting to bring crowdfunding and equity investment together under one roof, which may or may not work. The point is that, rather than making games in isolation in the hope that they will hit, the tools have emerged to poll audience intent first and even turn that into a production budget. The exact form or site on which that happens is less relevant than the longer term trend of fans connecting to developers with real money and expressing the stories that they want to be a part of. And that is a long way from finding its true peak. My hope is that game investors everywhere realise that, through crowdfunding, their fears of risk can be mitigated. Then, finally, we might see a funding structure for games that actually makes sense.
Dems Try a New Tactic to Raise Campaign Cash: Shame

Daniel Halper (The Weekly Standard)
Democrats today trotted out a new tactic for raising campaign
cash: shame.
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Secure browsing on iOS in Safari or iCab Mobile

TJ Luoma (TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog)
Submitted at 9/30/2012 8:00:00 AM
A friend who values her privacy asked: "How do you delete Google search history on an iPhone?" There are two ways to do this, the first of which is to go to the Settings app, scroll down to 'Safari' and then click the 'Clear History' button as shown above. The second can be done from inside Safari itself. Tap the 'bookmarks' icon on the toolbar, then select History (note: if you don't see 'History' tap on whatever button is shown at the top-left until you see 'Bookmarks' at the top of the screen), then tap 'Clear.' This might be easier to understand visually, so here are some screenshots: Private Browsing in Safari Mobile Safari now has a 'Private Browsing' option to prevent history items, searches, cookies, and form data from being stored. Private Browsing is great for short web browsing sessions, but what if you want to be able to keep your history and cookies and bookmarks but not allow anyone who uses your iPhone or iPad to be able to access them? You can't do that with Safari, but you can do it with iCab. iCab
Mobile: Everything Safari does, and much more iCab Mobile(AKA iCab) is a US$1.99 app that continues to be my browser of choice on my iPad and iPhone. I reviewed iCab last year, but let me focus on some of iCab's privacy features here. iCab offers Private Browsing, of course, but it also offers many more privacy controls than Safari, such as the ability to delete history, cookies, saved form data, HTTP Auth credentials, databases, and local storage. You can also set it to automatically delete history, cookies, databases, and/or local storage when quitting the app. As if that wasn't enough, you can password protect the entire application, so anyone else who launches the app is unable to see your bookmarks, history, or anything else. Once password protected, it's possible to enable a 'Guest Mode' to let someone use iCab but still keep your information protected. In my opinion, iCab is also better at everything else you use a browser for. iCab sync bookmarks, filters, search engines, and/or settings using iCloud. It lets you change the Browser ID (User Agent) which can be handy for sites that
restrict access to certain kinds of browsers or automatically redirect mobile browsers to a strippeddown version of the site. You can download files right to iCab, and then either store them in iCab or open them in other apps. You can even upload those files to Dropbox. Images can be saved from websites directly to Dropbox.
The only downside to using iCab is that Apple does not allow any browser except Safari to be set as the default browser, so any web links clicked in other applications like Mail will continue to open in Safari. In practice that doesn't bother me too much, because Safari is a very good mobile browser. If I want to open a page from Safari in iCab, I can do one
of two things: I can tap on the URL and change the "http://" or "https://" to "web://" or "webs://" - which opens the current page in iCab -- or I can install the Open in iCab bookmark. iCab Mobile also supports xcallback-url which helps iCab interact with other iOS applications. If you don't know what x-callback-url is, don't worry about it, but if you do know what it is, you'll be glad to know iCab supports it. To some people, spending two bucks on a browser when Safari is free sounds like wasting money. To me, spending two bucks for a much better browser is a complete bargain. iCab is the 3rd-party app that I use most often on my iOS devices, and it continues to be improved at a much faster rate than Safari. Secure browsing on iOS in Safari or iCab Mobile originally appeared on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Sun, 30 Sep 2012 08:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Source| Permalink| Email this| Comments
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NASA coming up with ideas for future Mars missions

Eric Abent (SlashGear)
this time with the intention of collecting rocks and soil. Where humans come in is with the Curiosity is currently at the transport of those samples, with center of the publics attention NASA saying that humans could w h e n i t c o m e s t o s p a c e potentially set up somewhere in exploration, but NASA scientists between Earth and Mars to act as have started shooting around ideas a shuttle for the samples collected for future missions to Mars. on the surface of the red planet. Ultimately, scientists would like If NASA chooses to go this route, to retrieve rocks from the surface the astronauts would be taking of Mars and bring them back to advantage of new rockets and E a r t h f o r m o r e i n - d e p t h spaceships that are expected to be examination, though they arent ready for showtime in the next planning to have humans on the decade. By having astronauts red planet until the 2030s. One of collect the rocks from a spacecraft NASAs mission ideas, however, somewhere in between Earth and could have humans involved in Mars, NASA wont have to worry Mars missions long before the as much about contamination. 2030s roll around. Perhaps more importantly, this The Associated Press(via New would be much safer for the York Newsday) reports that one astronauts involved than if they of NASAs ideas involves using actually touched down on the humans as runners for these surface of Mars. samples. Heres how things could Of course, this is only one of a potentially play out: NASA will number of options NASA is send rovers to Mars once again, currently looking at, and we
Submitted at 9/29/2012 8:19:17 PM
the Stars" music playback goes off without a hitch Curiosity rover leaves Mars landing site for first time Mars Curiosity rover breathes in the air around it Curiosity beams back high-res self portraits during 7ft robo-arm testing Curiosity Rover robotic arm tests are nearly complete Curiosity discovers pyramidshaped rock on Mars Curiosity snaps pictures of Martian eclipses Curiosity rover discovers ancient streambed on surface of Mars probably wont have a decision until next year. At the moment, NASA is also deciding on whether or not to send more rovers to Mars in 2018, so it seems that mission will take precedence, at least for the time being. Still, this is a pretty exciting possibility, and it may not be long before we have Martian soil and rock samples back here on Earth. Story Timeline Curiosity beams back new images from Mars Curiosity will.i.am "Reach for NASA coming up with ideas for future Mars missions is written by Eric Abent& originally posted on SlashGear. 2005 - 2012, SlashGear. All right reserved.
Get More Juice Out of Citrus Fruit with Kitchen Tongs [Clever Uses]
David Galloway (Lifehacker)
Submitted at 9/29/2012 4:00:00 PM
Martha Stewart Living recommends squeezing lemon (or other citrus fruit of similar size)
halves with a set of kitchen tongs
to get more juice than you would by using your hands alone. More
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Watch Live: Harvest Moon Meets Up With Uranus in Opposition

Adam Mann (Wired Top Stories)
Submitted at 9/29/2012 5:15:00 PM
Update: This is the second Slooh show, the first is below. Subscribe to the ReadWriteWeb An odd pair of solar system Weekly Wrap-up objects will be meeting up in the Hack Want to have this wrap up night sky tonight: the full moon Follow ReadWriteHack on delivered to you automagically? and distant Uranus. Youve got Mobile Twitter. You can subscribe to the Weekly two opportunities to watch this Facebook Friends: How Many Google Adds New Toys to Wrap-up by RSS or by email. sweet celestial action go down Is Too Many? OAuth Playground during two live Slooh Space Fuzebox, the iPad and the Trello: Online Collaboration Camera shows, the first at 4 p.m. R e a l i t y o f S i m p l e U n i f i e d Software at Its Finest Pacific/7 p.m. Eastern and the Communications Revenge of the DevOps: second at 7 p.m. Pacific/10 p.m. Squashing Bugs: The Many Microsoft Targets Next Visual Eastern on Sept. 29. Uranus, discovered in 1781 by astronomer William Herschel, is the seventh planet from the sun. The planet is an ice giant, about Daniel Terdiman (CNET News) European boosters are realizing used the sky as a backdrop for a four times the size of Earth, with that their heroes might need a hash-tagged message, but it could an atmosphere composed of Submitted at 9/29/2012 5:50:19 PM little extra encouragement. be one of the most prominent. hydrogen, helium, and methane, You might not be a golf fan, and That's probably why attendees on And it would seem logical to the last of which gives Uranus its if that's true, you probably don't hand in Medinah, Ill., could look expect to see this a lot more in the familiar blue-green color. Uranus is a strange planet in many ways, know that this weekend, the up into the sky today and see an future. United States is facing off against unusual type of pep talk aimed at This entry passed through the not least of which because it Europe in the biennial Ryder Cup. the European squad -- skywriting Full-Text RSS service if this is orbits on its side its North You may not even know what the w i t h a T w i t t e r h a s h t a g : your content and you're reading it Pole is about where Earths Ryder Cup is. But a hash tag in " # G O E U R O P E . " on someone else's site, please read equator is and it is host of a the sky might get your attention. Whether the European golfers are the FAQ at fivefilters.org/content- spectacular array of thin rings and R e g a r d l e s s o f y o u r g o l f checking out Twitter while trying only/faq.php#publishers. Five knowledge, a lot of people have to sink putts is debatable, but it's Filters recommends: Incinerating been paying attention -- and probably nice for them to see such Assange - The Liberal Media Go enjoying the Americans' lead in a thing above them. To Work. t h e c o m p e t i t i o n . B u t s o m e This isn't the first time someone's
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27 moons. Uranus has only been visited by a spacecraft from Earth once, Voyager 2, which flew by in 1986 and took spectacular images. This weekends full moon will be known as the Harvest Moon, since it occurs nearest to the autumn equinox. Uranus will be in opposition to Earth, meaning it will be as close and bright as it can be in the night sky, and will be nearly perfectly lined up with the moon. Amateur astronomers can get a good glimpse at Uranus by aiming just below the moon and searching for the only green star in their field of view. The Slooh show will be hosted by Patrick Paolucci, who will be joined by Bob Berman, columnist for Astronomy magazine. Video: Slooh Space Camera This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Incinerating Assange - The Liberal Media Go To Work.
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JPMorgan, Bank of America Forgive Debts that No Longer Exist; Wonderful News! But For Whom?
The Book of Life

(The Christian Post)
Submitted at 9/30/2012 9:35:04 AM
Top Stories Assemblies of God Launches '7:14 Prayer Initiative' noreply@blogger.com (Mike has been legally wiped out. If these events are happening on Ahead of Presidential Election Mish Shedlock) (Mish's Global Others have received similar a broad scale, and I suspect they Election Polling: Why So Much Economic Trend Analysis) letters about phantom debts. A are, that $25 billion settlement Variation in the Polls? (Pt. 1) borrower in Florida received word will end up costing peanuts. Submitted at 9/29/2012 8:18:00 PM The previous seven polls for the In February, five of the nation's this month that Chase was erasing Bear in mind, I have little p r e s i d e n t i a l r a c e a t largest banks agreed on a$25 $190,065.10 of debt that had s y m p a t h y f o r p e o p l e w h o RealClearPolitics.com ranges b i l l i o n s e t t l e m e n t o v e r already been wiped out. Bank of themselves purposely took out from a seven percentage point widespread, systemic mortgage America told a Virginia resident loans they knew they could never advantage for Obama (National fraud and related issues. that a $231,767 home equity loan pay back, nor do I have sympathy Journal) to a one percentage point The $25 Billion Deal, announced was being forgiven, even though for people who were willing advantage for Obama (Associated with huge fanfare, was supposed the debt was discharged last May. partners in bank fraud. Press). With a ... Texas AG Backs to help up to a million struggling Are the banks forgiveness letters Regardless, I wondered at the School Cheerleaders' Right to Use homeowners, primarily via debt a way to gain credits for debts time how the banks would take a Bible Banners forgiveness. these institutions are improperly $25 billion hit without getting Cheerleaders of an East Texas Let's flash forward a few months claiming to have extinguished? crushed. Well, now we know. high school, who ... Pastor Rick to see how debt forgiveness is The banks say no. Mike "Mish" Shedlock Warren Returns Home After Brief working out in practice. But Chase appears to be claiming h t t p : / / Hospitalization Today, the New York Times to release a lien on Ms. Espositos globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot. Pastor Rick Warren of notes Banks Forgive Debt That property that it does not hold. And com Saddleback Church, who was ... Isn't There. under the mortgage settlement, it Click Here To Scroll Thru My Tenn. Christian College Sorry for G R E E T I N G S , u n h a p p y could receive a credit. Recent Post List Mike "Mish" Suppressing News of Sex Charges h o m e o w n e r s ! H e r e s s o m e As for Ms. Esposito, she said she S h e d l o c k i s a r e g i s t e r e d The president of a Christian w o n d e r f u l n e w s : W e a r e found the bogus loan forgiveness investment advisor representative college in East Tennessee has canceling the remaining amount letter from Chase especially f o r S i t k a P a c i f i c C a p i t a l you owe Chase! says a letter that upsetting because of the years she Management. Sitka Pacific is an JPMorgan Chase sent recently to has spent trying to have the bank asset management firm whose t h o u s a n d s o f h o m e l o a n modify her first mortgage. She goal is strong performance and borrowers. You are approved for pays 9 percent on her loan and low volatility, regardless of a full principal forgiveness of cannot refinance it into a lower- market direction. Visit http:// your Home Equity Account, says rate mortgage, given her recent w w w . s i t k a p a c i f i c . c o m / another, from Bank of America. bankruptcy. account_management.html to Jackie Esposito, of Guilford, Chase wont help her modify her l e a r n m o r e a b o u t w e a l t h Telegraph staff (Finance News Conn., got a letter like that. But loan, Ms. Esposito said, but it is m a n a g e m e n t a n d c a p i t a l Business news from the UK and she wasnt elated because she happy to help by forgiving a loan preservation strategies of Sitka world) doesnt owe the money anymore. that has already been discharged Pacific. Submitted at 9/30/2012 8:58:54 AM She and her husband filed for and releasing a lien that is already Analysts expect Wolseley, the bankruptcy three years ago. The gone. Wonderful News! But For British building services giant, to roughly $64,000 they owed Chase Whom?
apologized for trying to restrict a student newspaper from publishing a story about a professor arrested on charges of attempted child molestation. James Dobson Honored With Service Award by Louisiana College Dr. James Dobson, founder of Focus on the Family ... This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Incinerating Assange - The Liberal Media Go To Work.
Week ahead in business and economics: October 1 -5

announce a special dividend of between 250m and 550m at its full-year results on Tuesday.
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China's Great Wall Of Suds: Chemical Spill Results In 50 Foot Foam Tsunami
Tyler Durden (Zero Hedge)
Submitted at 9/30/2012 9:29:46 AM
This is just the second time in three days that China's province of Guangdong is being discussed on Zero Hedge. On Thursday we wrote that the mega city of Dongguang, once Guangdong richest, is now on the verge of bankruptcy as China's hard landing begins to take its toll. Today, we learn that instead of the rivers running red once all hell breaks loose in China, the color will be soapy white. Specifically, following a chemical spill in Xintang, in the provine of Guandong, the result was a 50 foot tsunami of foam which was swept down a river by heavy rainfall, causing widespread panic and evacuations. It also caused the following brilliant explanation from a Chinese spokesman: "People are right to be cautious but it is harmless. It made very large bubbles when it went over a waterfall, but apart from one or two dead fish, it is harmless." We
can't wait to hear Chinese justifications of mushroom clouds: " aside from one or two billion dead people, they give you a healthy green afterglow"? More: This wall of foam sparked widespread panic among locals as it rushed along a river in southern China. The mass of soapy suds
blanketed the water in Xintang, in China's Guangdong province, leading to evacuations along the banks of the river. But officials have now said the only threat posed by the foam thought to have been caused by chemicals washed into the river was the possibility of 'one or two dead fish' lurking in the bubbles. The bizarre scene is thought to
have been caused after heavy rainfall washed a non-toxic chemical deodorant from a household rubbish tip into the river. The bubbles were created when the chemical was swept over a waterfall, officials said. A spokesman said: 'People are right to be cautious but it is harmless. It made very large
bubbles when it went over a waterfall, but apart from one or two dead fish, it is harmless.' This is how China's great wall of soap suds looks like: River of bubbles: The mass of foam sparked panic along the banks of the river in Xintang Panic': A local man is dwarfed by the mass of suds floating down a river in southern China Wall of foam: The suds are thought to have been caused by a chemical spillage in Xintang in China's Guangdong provinced by the mass of suds floating down a river in southern China Average: Your rating: None Average: 4( 1 vote) This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Incinerating Assange - The Liberal Media Go To Work.
TED: Aris Venetikidis: Making sense of maps - Aris Venetikidis (2012)

TEDTalks (TEDTalks (video))
Submitted at 9/29/2012 9:02:27 AM
Map designer Aris Venetikidis is
fascinated by the maps we draw in our minds as we move around a city -- less like street maps, more like schematics or wiring
diagrams, abstract images of ones? As a test case, he remakes relationships between places. the notorious Dublin bus map. How can we learn from these (Filmed at TEDxDublin) mental maps to make better real
Economy/ Gaming/
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If We Had To Define The State Of The Economy In 3 Charts, These Are The Ones We Would Pick
Joe Weisenthal (Money Game)
for basically two years now. Sure it's noisy, with some spikes and Submitted at 9/30/2012 9:27:00 AM dips, but the basic point is that I was fortunate enough to be this measure has shown incredibly invited to be a guest on MSNBC's steady improvement, which Up W/ Chris Hayes yesterday. speaks to the general sense that You can find all the videos here. things aren't great, but things Before I went on, I was asked to aren't horrible and seem to getting send over a few charts that I better. thought were particularly telling The next chart shows the about the state of the economy, relationship between home prices, and which might also help frame housing starts, GDP and the stock the state of the economy in terms market. of what it means for the election. As you can see, it was really the Here are the three charts I sent fall in home prices (red line) that over. lead to the collapse of the The first is the year-over-year economy and the market in 2008. change in non-seasonally adjusted With home prices seemingly initial jobless claims. starting to inch up a little bit, the As you can see, initial jobless potential for a wealth affect that claims each week have been about helps both homeowners and banks 10% lower than they were before seems quite significant.
And finally, here's a look at the latest Services ISM (blue line) vs. Manufacturing ISM (red line). Manufacturing is clearly the weak spot right now, in large part due to the slowing global economy. The domestic economy
continues to show expansion, in large part based on housing. If you want to know whether the US is going to go into recession, this is the central tension to watch. Will the weakness in manufacturing spill into the rest
of the economy, or will the strength in housing/domestic services win out. This chart also speaks to the relative resilience of the US economy vs. other economies around the world, which are struggling with downturns or slowdowns much more severe than ours. SEE ALSO: Why next week is going to be huge for the global economy > Please follow Money Game on Twitter and Facebook. Join the conversation about this story
Final Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn video debuts squad

Mike Suszek (Joystiq)
Submitted at 9/30/2012 10:30:00 AM
The final installment of the Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn vignette
series debuts the Hastati squad from the Corbulo Academy of Military Science, which fight for a cause they don't seem to believe in. The live-action mini-series
kicks off on Halo Waypoint and
Machinima Prime on October 5 Please see our terms for use of Final Halo 4: Forward Unto feeds. D a w n v i d e o d e b u t s s q u a d Permalink| Email this| Comments originally appeared on Joystiq on Sun, 30 Sep 2012 10:30:00 EST.
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27 Cowboy Slang Terms for Things You Eat and Drink

(Holy Kaw!)
Submitted at 9/30/2012 9:21:00 AM
If your bread wallet is empty and you need to line the flue, knight the ribbons and mosey to a beanery. Your cookie-pusher will know what you mean when you order any of these 27 cowboy food and drink items. 1. Bear Sign: Doughnuts 2. Overland trout: Bacon 3. Blue John: Skimmed milk 4. Boggy-top: A pie with no top crust 5. Cackleberries: Eggs 6. Charlie Taylor: A butter
substitute made of sorghum or syrup mixed with fat. It wasnt good, and apparently neither was Charlie Taylor, who was terrible enough to lend his name to the unpopular trail staple.
7. Hen-fruit Stir and Long Sweetenin: Pancakes and molasses 8. Horse Thief Special / Spotted Pup: Rice or tapioca pudding with raisins
9. Hot Rock / Sinker / Doughgods: Biscuits 10. Huckdummy: Biscuits with raisins 11. Love Apples: Canned tomatoes 12. Music Roots: Sweet potatoes 13. Mysteries: Sausage of any variety, so-called because thats what theyre made of See the rest at mental_floss. All the top stories from mental_floss. Permalink| Leave a comment
On the Road to Benghazi

(American Thinker)
Submitted at 9/30/2012 1:04:59 AM
In retrospect, the Democratic Convention highlighted a liar, ROAD page 17
Canon EOS Rebel Digital SLR

(Woot)
All right, in this photo you can see a Seattle resident disposing of her cardboard box in the Northern Man COMPOST bin. This modern-day Don't be fooled, the North has its Spartacus has clearly thrown off fair share of rebels. the shackles of disposalThe American South thinks it has separation tyranny. She tried to a monopoly on rebellion. What, wage her guerrilla war against the you secede from the union one waste disposal hierarchy late at time and suddenly you're the only night, but the Rebel camera's wide ones who can call themselves ISO range let me capture her rebels? Well guess what, us nefariousness even in low light. Northerners are CHOCK FULL of (For the record, cardboard is seditious tendencies. Don't believe compostable, but it is also us? Check out these photos of recyclable, and should therefore Northerners rising up that I took go in the recycling bin.) with my Canon EOS Rebel SLR. For exhibit 2, we have this
Submitted at 9/30/2012 12:00:47 AM
Bostonian sowing insurrection by pulling his Prius onto the shoulder to drive around another car trying to make a left turn. The rebel spirit of our founding fathers is clearly alive and well in the site of the Tea Party, and I captured 3
frames per second of this flagrant breach of municipal vehicle code with the Rebel's continuous shooting feature. Finally, the North will rise again if this St. Paul, MN resident has anything to say about it. Here we see him building a treehouse for his sons despite a local zoning code forbidding backyard structures over 10 ft. This scofflaw thinks he's getting away with his treasonous escapades, but my 12.2 megapixel CMOS (APSC) sensor captures every detail. Here in the North we might not have a "Rebel Yell," but we do
have a "Rebel Passive-Aggressive Comment" that this Saint Pauly is sure to bear in full from his neighbors. Watch out! So there you have it. The North is a powder keg of rebellion, waiting for the merest spark to explode. What's that? This writeup is treason? Well then forget everything I said, it would be so embarrassing to go through a trial like that.
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Elizabeth Warren. She was hired by Harvard law school because she lied about her ethnicity to gain affirmative action benefits, exaggerated her scholarship which was shoddy, practiced law for years in Massachusetts out of her law school office without being a member of that state's bar -- and possibly at the time a member of no bar at all. She gummed on before the crowd about working for the middle class hiding from the audience that she had made hundreds of thousands of dollars representing big corporations in disputes against steel workers and asbestos victims among others. This week, Professor William Jacobson exposed all of that. But she was hardly the only world class mythomaniac from Harvard law school on the podium at that Convention, the theme of which was Obama the bold slayer of Bin Laden and destroyer of Al Qaeda, the experienced and aggressive counter terrorist expert. After all, his domestic policies, are so bad they were hardly anything about which to spike the ball so the brain trust picked international anti-terrorist hero theme. If you've been too busy to keep track of the lies about the origin and perpetrators of the tragedy in Libya, Iowahawk has once again condensed this to its essence: "Fast & Furious, Benghazi edition?" Let's review the sad history of an Obama foreign policy initiative which resulted in the murder of
our Ambassador, and three other Americans in an action which suggests that (reminiscent of Fast & Furious) the Administration let loose countless dangerous weapons , cannot trace them and has unloosed even more destruction -- including against the U.S. -- in this highly unstable region. March 2012 According to Mark Hosenball of Reuters, sometime in that month, Obama decided to aid the rebels in ousting Gaddafi, a man who was at the time seemingly much subdued after we invaded Iraq and no longer creating the trouble in the region he'd been infamous for. President Barack Obama has signed a secret order authorizing covert U.S. government support for rebel forces seeking to oust Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, government officials told Reuters on Wednesday. Obama signed the order, known as a presidential "finding", within the last two or three weeks, according to government sources familiar with the matter. Such findings are a principal form of presidential directive used to authorize secret operations by the Central Intelligence Agency. This is a necessary legal step before such action can take place but does not mean that it will. As is common practice for this and all administrations, I am not going to comment on intelligence matters," White House spokesman Jay Carney said in a statement. "I will reiterate what the president said yesterday -- no decision has
been made about providing arms to the opposition or to any group in Libya." Congress was not consulted. Congress did not authorize this. The entire decision and responsibility is Obama's. While it may have appeared that we were only providing air support to the rebels, Obama announced at the time he had not ruled out supplying the rebels with arms, and from the nature of the attack on our consulate and a nearby "farm" in Benghazi we can assume that we, in fact, provided them. I can think of no other reason why we had so many former Seals and outside contractors in these locations except that we were trying unsuccessfully to retrieve these arms before they fell in the hands of Al Qaeda. And this development was as Hosenball reported something of great concern to people with a great deal more experience and historic knowledge than Obama: Members of Congress have expressed anxiety about U.S. government activities in Libya. Some have recalled that weapons provided by the U.S. and Saudis to mujahedeen fighting Soviet occupation forces in Afghanistan in the 1980s later ended up in the hands of anti-American militants. There are fears that the same thing could happen in Libya unless the U.S. is sure who it is dealing with. The chairman of the House intelligence committee, Rep. Mike Rogers, said on Wednesday he opposed supplying
arms to the Libyan rebels fighting Gaddafi "at this time." "We need to understand more about the opposition before I would support passing out guns and advanced weapons to them," Rogers said in a statement. A Little song, A Little dance, A little Seltzer Down Your Pants It was reasonably obvious from the outset -- especially considering the words of the Libyan government and the reports on the ground -- that the attacks on the consulate and at a nearby " farm" were not spontaneous outbursts occasioned by fury at a video which was critical of Muhammad, "Innocence of Muslims." At the Daily Beast, Eli Lake reported it was known within 24 hours of the incident that al Qaeda affiliates were behind the well-supplied and orchestrated attacks, but the Administration persisted for a week using various spokespersons, especially Susan Rice, Jay Carney and Secretary of State Clinton, to lie and suggest that was the cause of the murder of the Ambassador and three others. Charles Krauthammer is the go to guy on why such an obviously juvenile effort to deflect blame onto a stupid video (probably few people have seen) was made: This was clearly deception on part of the administration in sending Susan Rice to say this was a spontaneous demonstration, when as you reported, it was known inside the administration within a day that it was not. It was
a terror attack. So why did they deceive? It's obvious. Because the attack took place five days after the Democrats had spent a week in Charlotte touting, spiking the football on Osama. And essentially, since it's the only foreign policy achievement of the four years they repeated it over and over again, the great triumph over al-Qaeda. Well, within a week, al-Qaeda sacks a U.S. embassy, kills an ambassador and the administration did not want to admit it so it spent a week deceiving Americans to think it's about demonstration, it's about a film, thinking, I think correctly that if it strung it out long enough the media would let it slide and now that it becomes it's obvious and true, nobody will care, I guarantee you. This is not a headline in the mainstream media. John Nolte at Breitbart shared that point of view: The false White House narrative blaming the murders on a protest gone bad over a YouTube video never really passed the smell test. But Obama maintained that illusion straight through to his speech before the United Nations two days ago, even as reports surfaced that our government knew al-Qaeda was behind the attack within 24 hours. Apparently, this has become too much to sweep under the rug for some of the mainstream press and Democrats. The behavior of Obama and Secretary of State Clinton over ROAD page 18
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the past 14 days is a scandal of the highest order. Lies, cover ups, and neglect for security of American intelligence and personnel that borders on criminal. I've been skeptical that the same media, that early on conspired in this cover up by intentionally pouring all of its focus and fire on Mitt Romney's criticism of the Cairo Embassy apology, would go near this before the election. But the sins are so great and glaring, it doesn't look as though ignoring it will be possible for another 40 days. After lying the Administration is now refusing to respond to inquiries based on a phony claim that the matter is "under investigation," an investigation that is nonexistent. (See video2 here.) And Now a Little Two Step Even though the make believe scenario has fallen apart, Obama still publicly continues to act as if it were true. His Attorney general got involved and the film maker was widely photographed being hustled off (for questioning) by the Los Angeles police department and was just jailed on a pretense -- a probation violation. The "offense" seems at best a technical violation and at worst a signal to the Middle Eastern fanatics that while we say we can't do anything to stop them from being offended because the First Amendment forecloses such
action, we really can and will punish those who offend them, The same message was made more explicit in Obama's silly and groveling statement before the UN: " The Future Must Not Belong To Those Who Slander the Prophet of Islam." The use of the word "Prophet" in this context is bizarre. Do we refer to "Lord Jesus" or "Prophet Moses" in news accounts and secular speech? The suggestion that criticism of Islam is the equivalent of slander (a justiciable offense) and must result in the defeat of the speaker is nonsensical. The entire statement indicates to me the President is appeasing our attackers, bowing to the jihadis as earlier he touched the ground before the Saudi King. The entire claim that we must not give religious offense, moreover, is odd coming from a President who sees nothing wrong with "piss Christ" exhibits in publicly financed museums and whose Secretary of State publicly indicated she thought a play mocking Mormons was terrifically funny. The pretense that Islam is entitled to some special protection because otherwise the world will suffer has even spread to NYC where after an MSNBC commenter was arrested for spray painting a pro-Israel poster the transit authority decided to remove those posters to avoid giving further offense to people
like the defacer! To recap, this was an armed assault, not a spontaneous demonstration. The weapons used against us were likely in the hands of Al Qaeda because our President on his own put them there, and we are being denied our free speech rights as part of an elaborate ruse to keep the press from reporting the scandal and the voters from learning before the election what really went down. Other Implications My friend Matt Holtzmann adds a coda, a description of the current state of play as a result of this series of administration blunders: Susan Rice, our ambassador to the U.N., decided to have lunch with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton yesterday instead of attending Israeli PM Netanyahu's speech. Diplomatically this was the equivalent of flipping the bird. I believe this sends as clear a message as possible of the Administration's intentions in the Middle East. That Mohammed Morsi released Mostafa Hamza, a leader of The Islamic Group, who was responsible for the Luxor temple bombing in 1997, is indicative of a new phase in the global war on terror. In that attack, which killed 58 foreign tourists, the terrorists locked the gates of the temple grounds and for over 30 minutes raped, terrorized, and murdered
almost everyone within the grounds. From the survivors' descriptions it was an orgy of violence. It was the worst terrorist attack in Egyptian history. Morsi is also pressing for the release of the Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, the "Blind Sheikh," who was behind the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center and who is at the center of an extradition battle in the U.K. trying to evade imprisonment in the United States. With what we have just learned about the Administration's prevarications regarding the nature of the assassination of Ambassador Stevens in Libya, the refusal to maintain some form of common front with our greatest ally in the region should ring alarm bells regarding our commitments and obligations to allies in the region. Should Iran advance its agenda there is a very high probability that not only Israel, but the Gulf States will also go nuclear. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Incinerating Assange - The Liberal Media Go To Work.
Top 5 Apps Your Kids Will Love This Week

Chris Crowell (Mashable!)
Submitted at 9/30/2012 9:14:51 AM
Ever wanted to explore NASA's Curiosity rover? Want to customize a a book to help your early reader? Maybe you just want to sing along with your child in a jamboree. Check out this week's five apps your kids will love. SEE ALSO Top 5 Apps Your Kids WIll Love This Week Children's Technology Review has shared with Mashable five top apps from its comprehensive monthly database of kid-tested reviews. The site covers everything from math and counting to reading and phonics. Check back next week for more Top Kids Apps from Children's Technology Review. More About: Feature, Top Kids Apps, android, apps, contributor, games, ipad, trending
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Lots of new posts over on the threads site. 9/29/12: Twitter is a tragic tale 9/28/12: Developing in 2012 9/28/12: This is another test 9/28/12: Sites should have a "readable" button 9/28/12: Romney as human being 9/28/12: Twitter may need a Plan B 9/27/12: Romney's 47 percent 9/27/12: The Angry Birds platform? 9/26/12: I want a Galaxy S3 but.. 9/26/12: I thought "stench" was real 9/26/12: 47% was not a gaffe 9/26/12: Why Obama didn't meet at UN 9/25/12: Problem posting to Twitter 9/24/12: Today's podcast 9/24/12: Open fields for discourse 9/23/12: Why didn't Apple ease into maps? 9/23/12: As a renewed Knicks fan 9/23/12: Humanity doesn't scale 9/22/12: Favorite movie reviews feeds? 9/22/12: Comments on Costolo
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Miso Glazed Salmon

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a miso glaze couldn't be easier. The strong flavor of the salmon holds up beautifully with the Fermented soybean paste. Sounds sweet and salty miso glaze. To great, right? Heh. But that's make, you just mix miso, some essentially what Japanese miso is, s a k e a n d s o y s a u c e i n t o a a savory, salty paste usually made marinade, coat the fillets, and let with fermented soybeans or rice t h e s a l m o n m a r i n a t e w h i l e and barley. Rich in protein and working on the rest of the meal. nutrients, and utterly delicious, a The fish cooks under the broiler in little tub of miso is quite a useful 10 minutes or less. Marinate the ingredient to have on hand. Stir it fish longer, even overnight, for with a little yogurt and rice more infused miso flavor. You vinegar for a quick and lovely can also dress up simple cod with salad dressing, or mix it with sake this method. a n d t o s s i t w i t h s t i r - f r i e d Continue reading "Miso Glazed vegetables. Salmon" This recipe of salmon fillets with
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Acupuncture Confirmed Helpful for Chronic Pain

Dr. Mercola (Articles)
Submitted at 9/29/2012 12:00:00 AM
By Dr. Mercola Chronic pain is an exceedingly common condition impacting an estimated 76.5 million Americans, one-third of whom describe their pain as severe and "disabling." When it comes to treating ailments such as chronic pain, I definitely prefer non-toxic options to modern medicine's poor excuses for "cures." One such option is acupuncture, which can be an effective option for a number of health problems, but pain in particular. In a recent analysis published in the Archives of Internal Medicine, 1 researchers concluded that acupuncture has a definite effect in reducing chronic pain, such as back pain and headaches more so than standard pain treatment. Real acupuncture also produced slightly better results than using sham needles, which suggests the benefits of needling are due to more than the placebo effect. According to Time magazine: 2 "The findings counter those of the last large study on the subject, which found that the needle technique was no better than a fake acupuncture treatment using random pricking with toothpicks in reducing people's pain. But Vickers says his meta-
analysis of the data, in which researchers reviewed 29 previous studies involving 17,922 participants, does a few things the previous studies did not. For one, he and his colleagues began by looking at only the most rigorous trials involving acupuncture and pain relief those that directly compared acupuncture treatment with some type of sham needle therapy in which needles were either inserted only superficially or placed in locations that are not known by acupuncture standards to be key treatment points in the body. The authors of the analysis contacted each of the researchers on the previous studies to discuss with them how they separated the two treatment groups. By limiting their review to the most robust studies published, the authors could assess with more confidence acupuncture's true effect on participants' reports of pain before and after treatment." Clear and Robust Effects of Acupuncture The researchers also went the extra mile by retrieving the raw data on self-reported pain. By standardizing the various study participants' responses, they were able to more accurately assess and compare them as a whole. The team discovered a "clear and robust" effect of acupuncture in
the treatment of: Back pain Neck pain Shoulder pain Osteoarthritis Headaches
'of major importance for clinical practice.' 'Basically what we see here is that the pain relief difference from acupuncture versus no acupuncture is notable, and important, and difficult to ignore,' O n a s c a l e o f 0 t o 1 0 0 , [lead author] Vickers said." What participants who started out with a is Acupuncture? pain rating of 60 experienced an Acupuncture is an ancient average 30 point drop (a 50 Chinese medical practice with percent reduction) in response to roots that go back thousands of the real acupuncture treatments years. According to the Eastern (using needles); a 25 point drop mindset, your body is a cohesive w h e n r e c e i v i n g s h a m unit, or whole a complex system acupuncture; and a mere 17 point where everything within it is inter drop when receiving "standard -connected, and where each part pain care" that did not include affects all other parts. A major acupuncture. According to the component is the acceptance of an lead author: 3 invisible flow of chi (or ki). This "The effects of acupuncture are chi can be translated as "energy" statistically significant and or "life force," which circulates different from those of sham or through meridians in your body. placebo treatments... So we W h e n e n e r g e t i c b l o c k s o r conclude that the effects aren't deficiencies occur within a due merely to the placebo effect." meridian, an imbalance is created Furthermore, as reported by that can cause a ripple effect of HealthDay: 4 physical symptoms. Needles " T h e a u t h o r s s t r e s s e d t h a t inserted into certain points along although the superiority of true the meridians can stimulate a c u p u n c t u r e o v e r s h a m sluggish chi, disperse blocks, or acupuncture appeared to be otherwise manipulate the flow of relatively small, the real-world energy. choice patients face is not In essence, lack of balance within between acupuncture or fake this bio-energetic system which acupuncture but rather between also includes blood flow and acupuncture or no acupuncture at nutrients is the precursor to all all. And in that context they illness. Your body exhibits suggested that their findings are symptoms when suffering from
inner disease and if it is not rebalanced, these symptoms may lead to acute or chronic illnesses of all kinds. Chinese medicine, contrary to Western allopathic medicine, does not treat symptoms, but rather seeks to find the origin of the imbalance that produced the symptoms in the first place. Another major difference is that acupuncture, which is part of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), is remarkably safe with few, if any, negative side effects, so it certainly doesn't hurt to try. Traditionally, acupuncture is used to treat all kinds of health problems. In many Asian cultures, you see an acupuncturist in the same way you'd see a primary care physician here in the West, and in some US states acupuncturists are in fact considered primary health care physicians. Still, many Westerners have been slow to grasp this type of holistic view, where your body is perceived as being perfectly capable of selfcorrection and healing without drug intervention. Scientists are still at a loss to explain why acupuncture works, but for those who get relief or healing, the mechanics may not be of great importance. Other Alternative ACUPUNCTURE page 21
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Pain Treatments Besides acupuncture, there are a number of treatment modalities that can help ease pain, such as: Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT): Few people want to be told that their pain is psychological or emotional in origin, but there's quite a bit of evidence that backs this up. Underlying emotional issues and unresolved trauma can have a massive influence on your health, particularly as it relates to physical pain. According to Dr. John Sarno, a psychiatrist who uses mind-body techniques to treat patients with severe low back pain, EFT has a greater than 80 percent success rate Chiropractic adjustments: According to a recent study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine 5 and funded by the National Institutes of Health, patients with neck pain who used a chiropractor and/or exercise were more than twice as likely to be pain free in 12 weeks compared to those who took medication Massage: Massage releases endorphins, which help induce relaxation, relieve pain, and reduce levels of stress chemicals such as cortisol and noradrenaline reversing the damaging effects of stress by slowing heart rate, respiration and metabolism and lowering raised blood pressure. It
is a particularly effective therapy for stress-related tension, which experts believe accounts for as much as 80 to 90 percent of disease Neuro-Structural Integration Technique (NST): NST is a gentle, non-invasive technique that stimulates your body's reflexes, which can provide relief for back pain. Simple movements are done across muscles, nerves and connective tissue, which helps your neuromuscular system to reset all related tension levels, promoting natural healing. The results can be both profound and lasting, and are usually apparent within two or three sessions.
animal and clinical studies to have anti-inflammatory properties. Reduce your intake of most processed foods as not only do they contain sugar and additives but most are loaded with omega-6 fats that upset your delicate omega 3-6 ratio, which will contribute to inflammation. Eliminate or radically reduce most grains and sugars (especially fructose) from your diet. Avoiding grains and sugars will lower your insulin and leptin levels. Elevated insulin and leptin levels are one of the most profound stimulators of inflammatory prostaglandin production. That is why eliminating sugar and grains is so More Natural Solutions for Pain important to controlling your If you have chronic pain of any pain. kind, please understand that there Optimize your production of are many safe and effective vitamin D by getting regular, alternatives to prescription and appropriate sun exposure, which over-the-counter painkillers, will work through a variety of though they may require some different mechanisms to reduce patience. Among the best are: your pain. Start taking a high-quality, animal-based omega-3 fat like In the meantime, you don't need krill oil. Omega-3 fats are to suffer unnecessarily. Following p r e c u r s o r s t o m e d i a t o r s o f are options that provide excellent inflammation c a l l e d pain relief without any of the prostaglandins. (In fact, that is h e a l t h h a z a r d s t h a t p a i n how anti-inflammatory painkillers m e d i c a t i o n s o f t e n c a r r y . work, they positively influence Astaxanthin: One of the most prostaglandins.) The omega-3 fats effective oil-soluble antioxidants EPA and DHA contained in krill known. It has very potent antioil have also been found in many inflammatory properties and in
many cases works far more effectively than NSAIDs. Higher doses are typically required and one may need 8 mg or more per day to achieve this benefit. Ginger: This herb is antiinflammatory and offers pain relief and stomach-settling properties. Fresh ginger works well steeped in boiling water as a tea or grated into vegetable juice. Curcumin: Curcumin is the primary therapeutic compound identified in the spice turmeric. In a study of osteoarthritis patients, those who added 200 mg of curcumin a day to their treatment plan had reduced pain and increased mobility. In fact, curcumin has been shown in over 50 clinical studies to have potent anti-inflammatory activity, as well as demonstrating the ability in four studies to reduce Tylenolassociated adverse health effects. Boswellia: Also known as boswellin or "Indian frankincense," this herb contains powerful anti-inflammatory properties, which have been prized for thousands of years. This is one of my personal favorites as I have seen it work well with many rheumatoid arthritis patients. Bromelain: This proteindigesting enzyme, found in pineapples, is a natural antiinflammatory. It can be taken in
supplement form, but eating fresh pineapple may also be helpful. Keep in mind that most of the bromelain is found within the core of the pineapple, so consider leaving a little of the pulpy core intact when you consume the fruit. Cetyl Myristoleate (CMO): This oil, found in fish and dairy butter, acts as a "joint lubricant" and an anti-inflammatory. I have used a topical preparation for myself to relieve ganglion cysts and a mild annoying carpal tunnel syndrome that pops up when I type too much on non-ergonomic keyboards. Evening Primrose, Black Currant and Borage Oils: These contain the fatty acid gamma linolenic acid (GLA), which is useful for treating arthritic pain. Cayenne Cream: Also called capsaicin cream, this spice comes from dried hot peppers. It alleviates pain by depleting the body's supply of substance P, a chemical component of nerve cells that transmit pain signals to your brain.
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(David Frum)
Andrew Sullivan complained yesterday that I had engaged in a McCarthyite attack on Ron Paul by writing the following: A politician isnt answerable for the antics of every one of his supporters. But theres surely a reason, isnt there, that racists, anti-Semites, 9/11 Truthers, and Holocaust deniers are so strongly attracted to the Paul campaign. They hear something. They continue to hear it too, no matter how firmly Ron Pauls more mainstream supporters clamp their hands over their own ears. Andrews riposte: Notice how pure the smear is, enabled and not diminished by the first sentence. Notice the key concept of Beltway ideological policemen: there is a mainstream and a non-mainstream. Dabble with the latter at your peril. Since David has perished by the cult of the mainstream, its odd he should deploy it against others. But to throw in Holocaust denial and 9/11 Truthers for good measure! Really. And notice how particularly cheap and easy it is to use such tactics against a libertarian. The traditional left is often based on collective associations, building a movement out of oppressed groups and their grievances, whether it be class or race or even
sexual orientation. Libertarianism is the opposite. Its about dis associating. When you listen to Paul saying he will not turn anyone away from supporting his platform regardless of their motives or beliefs, you are hearing a reflection of his libertarianism, not his bigotry. He will accept support from any quarter and compared with the corporate money flowing into the other candidates coffers, he is about as independent as a presidential candidate can be. Because he is a radical individualist, he doesnt even understand why he should somehow explain the belief of others, or justify their support. You should ask them, not him. This kind of gotcha-association game is particularly easy because libertarians favor liberty above all, and that will necessarily mean liberty for bigots as well as others. A principled belief in states rights will doubtless lead to more racist and homophobic policies in many states but also, of course, more enlightened and successful inclusive states like Oregon or New York or Massachusetts or California. A rejection of statism might lead to more discrimination in the private sector. But it doesnt mandate it. And it need not encourage it. A noninterventionist foreign policy will allow evil to triumph elsewhere in
the world, because it believes its none of our business or too riddled with unintended consequences to try extirpating. That may be right or wrong, but it is not an approval of the evil of Assad or Ahmedinejad or the North Korean junta. And again, it is actually much deeper an American tradition than permanent warfare. But if you can trot out David Duke or Ayatollah Khamenei as potential Paul supporters, you have a very easy, cheap and essentially McCarthyite target. It saddens me that this kind of tactic works. I still believe that the newsletters, because they were in Pauls name, require a clearer explanation from Paul than the muddled ones he has given. He should not be left off the hook. And his proposals deserve a thorough vetting and discussion. But there is something awry when a candidate is assessed not on his arguments and proposals but on the shadiness and ugliness of some of his fringe supporters. Ron Pauls supporters ask that their candidate not be judged by his associates. Or by the people he chose to employ. Or by the newsletters he published. Or by the book he wrote. Or by the way he earned the largest part of his living when out of office in the 1990s. Or by his purchase of the mailing list of the Holocaust-
denying Liberty Lobby. Or by the radio shows he chooses to appear on. Or by his strategic decision to reach out to racist voters. Or by the conspiracy theories to which he lends credence, from government creation of AIDS to Israeli culpability for the 1993 bombing to a putative 9/11 coverup. And here I thought that libertarianism was a doctrine of personal responsibility? May Ron Paul at least be judged by the words he has spoken with his own mouth within the current campaign? The supporters say no again. When Ron Paul tells an interviewer that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 made race relations worse, were not supposed to consider what he might mean by better. When Ron Paul warns that a border fence would be used to prevent fleeing American citizens from exiting the country, were not supposed to conclude that hes a paranoid crank. Andrew deploys what might be called the ontological defense of Ron Paul, as follows: 1) Ron Paul is a libertarian. 2) Libertarians espouse individualism. 3) Racism is a form of antiindividualism. 4) Therefore Ron Paul cannot be a racist. That is a demonstration of what
might be called the deductive method of reasoning. But theres another way to study reality: induction. Like this: 1) Ron Paul has again and again exploited bigotry, paranoia, and hate as fundraising devices. 2) Ron Paul is a libertarian. 3) So yes, I guess it is possible for a libertarian to do that. Heres my question for Ron Paul supporters: why the denial of the undeniable? Perhaps you like Pauls message of legalized marijuana? Why not just say so? You dont think its important to stop Iran from gaining nuclear weapons? Argue it forthrightly. If you regard Social Security and Medicare as literally the moral equivalents of slavery, go ahead, make your case. But all this excuse-making, special pleading and jiggering of the rules of evidence so as to exculpate Ron Paul from the record of his whole political life? For what? This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Incinerating Assange - The Liberal Media Go To Work.
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Afghan Army Issues 'American Soldiers for Dummies'

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Chart of the Week: Obamacares Barrage of Tax Hikes Coming in 2013

Rob Bluey (The Foundry: Conservative Policy News Blog from The Heritage Foundation)
Via Washington Post: During the Vietnam War, American soldiers shipped out armed with government-issued guides to the distant land and the mysterious people. In Afghanistan, the U.S. military has tried training sessions, embedded cultural advisers, recommended reading lists and even a video game designed to school the troops in local custom. But 11 years into the war, NATO troops and Afghan soldiers are still beset by a dangerous lack of cultural awareness, officials say, contributing to a string of insider attacks that have threatened to undermine the military partnership. So the Afghan army is trying
something new: a guide to the strange ways of the American soldier. The goal is to convince Afghan troops that when their Western counterparts do something deeply insulting, its likely a product of cultural ignorance and not worthy of revenge. . . Weve been at war for eleven years, and they are just getting around to creating this? Greg Pollowitz This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Incinerating Assange - The Liberal Media Go To Work.
a new payroll tax on investment income goes into effect in January 2013. It was cited by Americans for Tax Submitted at 9/30/2012 8:51:05 AM The first presidential debate takes Reform as one of the top five place in Denver on Wednesday worst Obamacare taxes coming in with a focus on domestic issues, 2013. including President Obamas More charts like this one are u n p o p u l a r h e a l t h - c a r e l a w . available in Heritages Federal Obamacare imposes numerous tax Budget in Pictures. increases on Americans, totaling This entry passed through the more than $500 billion over a 10- Full-Text RSS service if this is year period. your content and you're reading it According to Heritages analysis, on someone else's site, please read these higher tax rates on income the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentand investment threaten to slow only/faq.php#publishers. Five economic growth. With so much Filters recommends: Incinerating uncertainty already stemming Assange - The Liberal Media Go from Taxmageddon, this only To Work. adds to the concerns of American families and businesses. One of the most alarming taxes
Yellowstone National Park Lives Up To Its Reputation (PHOTOS) Huffington Post

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Submitted at 9/30/2012 9:13:14 AM
Yellowstone National Park Lives Up To Its Reputation ( PHOTOS) Huffington Post In planning my latest , partly due to the film, Where the Yellowstone Goes, I had been giving thought to the Yellowstone River and our nation's first national park. So I flew into Missoula and met up with friend and fly fishing guide Joel Thompson of... and more
Verse of the Day - Nehemiah 9:30

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Nehemiah 9:30 Thoughts on Today's Verse... God has spoken repeatedly to his people through For many years you were patient the prophets who spoke as they with them. By your Spirit you were inspired by the Holy Spirit admonished them through your of God. But so often, these people prophets. Yet they paid no ignored their voice and abandoned attention, so you handed them their God. Let's not let the same over to the neighboring peoples. thing be said of us! My Prayer...
Submitted at 9/30/2012 12:00:00 AM
Sovereign LORD and Abba Father, I praise you! Please never let me ever outlive my love for you or my heart's desire to be obedient and pleasing to you! In Jesus' name I pray. Amen. The Thoughts and Prayer on Today's Verse are written by Phil Ware. You can email questions or
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Miliband attacks union boss on pay

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Submitted at 9/30/2012 9:30:09 AM
Mr McCluskey used an eve-ofconference interview with the Sunday Times to set out his plans Ed Miliband hit back at a senior to "kick the New Labour cuckoos trade union leader - saying he was out of our nest" and win back the "wrong" to oppose a public sector p a r t y f o r t h e t r a d e u n i o n pay freeze and insisting Labour m o v e m e n t . under his leadership would be And he warned that his members "the party of the private sector" as were "furious" with the Labour much as the public. leadership's "crazy" policy of The Labour leader sought to use supporting pay restraint. the row with Len McCluskey - Mr Miliband, who is battling to general secretary of Labour's improve personal poll ratings and biggest union donor Unite - to shake off his "Red Ed" tag, told show that the movement is not BBC1's Andrew Marr Show: "It's "pulling our strings". not going very well for him is it? He issued a strongly-worded put- "You can't say at one and the down as the party gathered for its same time that Len McCluskey is autumn conference in Manchester, saying 'you're wrong on pay two years on from Mr Miliband's restraint' and then say we're surprise leadership election giving in to him and he is pulling victory in the city with the help of our strings." union votes. Asked about the pay freeze, he
said: "He is entitled to his view but he is wrong. "We've got the right policy to say we put jobs in the public sector ahead of pay rises. That's what we said we would do this parliament. It is a difficult decision but it is the way to keep jobs in the public sector." Mr Miliband said Labour would reverse the coalition's cut in the top rate of tax from 50p to 45p "if there was an election tomorrow". This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Incinerating Assange - The Liberal Media Go To Work.
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Poll: What was the Obamateurism of the Week?

Ed Morrissey (Hot Air Top Picks)
Submitted at 9/30/2012 8:31:24 AM
posted at 9:31 am on September 30, 2012 by Ed Morrissey Its time once again to deal with the gaffes we inherited this week and choose the OOTW! Just remember, the future must not belong to those who slack off on OOTW selections. Hey, I know its tough to choose the biggest failure, but its your patriotic duty to make a choice. And dont blame anyone else if youre confused, but at least take comfort in the fact that youre in good company. What was the Obamateurism of the Week (9/30)? Previous weekly winners in 2012: Goes to Las Vegas fundraiser after attack on Benghazi consulate No time to meet with Netanyahu, makes time for the Pimp with a Limp radio show Ordering platform change after criticism over God, Jerusalem Sends form letters to families of SEALs KIA, personal letter to family of rapper Heavy D I dont think you or anybody whos been watching the campaign would say that in any way we have tried to divide the country. Hiding from WH press corps
while giving interviews to People and Entertainment Tonight Asks supporters to find businesses to support his you didnt build that argument Because were leading around the world, people have a new attitude toward America. Theres more confidence in our leadership. We see it everywhere we go. Just like weve tried their plan, we tried our plan and it worked. If youve got a business, you didnt build that. Somebody else made that happen. But the nature of this office is also to tell a story to the American people Pitches amnesty policy at naturalization ceremony of people who entered legally Removing silverware from tables before speaking to Hispanic voters Scolds American Crossroads for lack of transparency on same
day Obama asserted executive privilege in Fast & Furious probe The private sector is doing fine Declares Lech Walesa too political to accept award, gives another to Dolores Huerta, chair of Democratic Socialists of America Polish death camp [T]hose of us who have spent time in the real world. . . Adds himself into presidential histories of his predecessors, screws up JFK quote When I think about, ah, those soldiers or airmen or Marines, sailors, who are out there fighting on my behalf Includes Nazi collaborator/ Hitler admirer in proclamation for Jewish American Heritage Month Obamas griped that the American public just did not appreciate their exceptional leader Gets annoyed when asked about number of vacations, doesnt answer question
Im confident that the Supreme Court will not take what would be an unprecedented, extraordinary step of overturning a law that was passed by a strong majority of a democratically elected Congress. This is my last election. After my election I have more flexibility. Blames Fox News for his unpopularity because they hear Obama is a Muslim 24/7, and it begins to seep in Attacks Limbaugh while remaining silent on Maher contribution to his super-PAC Says when the chips are down, I have Israels back, WH claims its not a military doctrine Apology to Karzai calmed things down Uses Boeing plant in SC to cheer manufacturing after his NLRB tried to shut it down Emphasizes graduation rates in SOTU, cuts DC voucher program that nearly doubled grad rates Well, it turns out our Founders
designed a system that makes it more difficult to bring about change that I would like sometimes. Finds claim of unemployment interesting because he is getting the word that womans husband should have no trouble finding work Hails Roe as essential to allow our daughters to fulfill their dreams Shuts down DisneyWorld in order to promote tourism He didnt want to take pictures with any more soldiers; he was complaining about i t[.] Famous opponent of signing statements issues one covering 17 provisions of bill he signed Previous Obamateurisms of the Year: Giving 2 minutes of shoutouts before getting to the Fort Hood shooting ( 2009) Obama leaves Clinton at press conference podium on tax deal to attend Christmas party ( 2010) I would put our legislative and foreign policy accomplishments in our first two years against any president with the possible exceptions of Johnson, F.D.R., and Lincoln. ( 2011) Got an Obamateurism of the POLL: page 26
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Day? If you see a foul-up by Barack Obama, e-mail it to me at obamaisms@edmorrissey.com with the quote and the link to the Obamateurism. Ill post the best Obamateurisms on a daily basis, depending on how many I receive. Include a link to your blog, and Ill give some link love as well. And unlike Slate, I promise to end the feature when Barack Obama leaves office. This entry passed through the
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Younger Emelianenko brother not disappointed with Fedors decision to retire

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Submitted at 9/30/2012 8:45:02 AM
The M-1 Challenge MMA tournament hits the Russian capital on Sunday night, and there is a very familiar name topping the bill Fedor Emelianenkos younger brother Aleksandr, who spoke with RT about his next bout, and a few other things. Fedor retired, but the Emelianenko name fights on! Though the arguably greatest mixed martial artist of all time left the sport in June, his younger brother Aleksandr is still in the game. Both earned fame during the heyday of the PRIDE fighting championships in Japan in the
early 2000s the world's biggest MMA competition at the time. I'm not disappointed with Fedor's decision to leave at all. Of course, fans would love him to keep on fighting, because he's the best, Aleksandr says. Everybody enjoyed watching him fight, seeing his unique style, proving his outstanding skills over and over again, he said. That's why his retirement was just slightly disappointing. But he's not a machine. He realized it was time to leave and devote himself to other things. And I'm glad for him. Fedor's legacy is near untouchable. The 'Last Emperor' was undefeated for a decade,
while Aleksandr's career has been all about ups and downs. He earned his record of 20 wins through sheer aggression and no end of class, and handled five defeats without fear or reproach. One of Aleksandr's most devastating losses came in November of last year, when he was knocked out by his fellow countryman Magomed Malikov just 20 seconds into the bout. Still, he recovered with aplomb and went on to claim three wins in a row. On Sunday, the 31-year-old is set to face Latvia's Konstantin Glukhov in the main event of the M-1 Challenge tournament in Moscow.
He will be there to give his all and win. I respect him as a fighter. He is tall, he is good at both punching and kicking, although I've also seen him take his opponents to the ground. And I must be ready for that, too. However, he's first and foremost a very good striker, Aleksandr explained. Glukhov also won't make the mistake of underestimating his opponent:I consider Aleksandr Emelyanenko a very strong and experienced opponent. I'm preparing myself for a very tough clash. I wish him all the best. I want to be involved in a spectacular fight. I hope the crowd will enjoy it, he says.
There's more than just crowd appreciation at stake for Aleksandr Emelianenko. A win could mean his road to redemption is almost complete; a loss could send him right back to square one. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Incinerating Assange - The Liberal Media Go To Work.
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BIAS ALERT: MSNBC Caught in Big Video Gaffe

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than have an incident that made Romney look bad, this one made him look good. In the process, it Working for MSNBC has gone to was the latest black mark on the Joe Scarboroughs head, or at far-left network and another l e a s t h i s e a r s . T h e J o e o f example of how out of touch Morning Joe, broadcast on the MSNBCs token conservative Lean Forward network, was host truly is. caught in the latest TV video Buzzfeed described it by saying scandal because he wont listen. t h e s u b t i t l e i n t h e c l i p During his Wednesday broadcast, misrepresented what actually took Scarborough again mocked GOP place. The original New York p r e s i d e n t i a l c a n d i d a t e M i t t Times report said the same: As Romney, this time for how he t h e c r o w d b e g a n c h a n t i n g handled an Ohio appearance with Romney! Romney! he cut them vice presidential running mate off. Wait a second, Mr. Romney Paul Ryan. The show played a said, instructing the audience to clip of Romney taking the mike c h e e r f o r R o m n e y - R y a n ! and saying Ryan is quite a guy. R o m n e y - R y a n ! T h e y d i d . The crowd was then shown Buzzfeed gave credit to The Blaze chanting as the words Ryan! and Breitbart News for noting the popped up on the screen to discrepancies. indicate thats what they were Several different Internet sites saying. have called Scarborough on the Romney then instructed the bogus criticism. Even HuffPo has crowd to chant Romney/Ryan. said the initial report is wrong. The camera flashed back to the U P D A T E : A r e p o r t e r w h o M o r n i n g J o e s e t w h e r e attended the event contacted The Scarborough put head in hands Huffington Post to say that the and said "Oh, sweet Jesus. That crowd was chanting Romney's reaction made the front page of name, not Ryan's, and that Huffington Post and, as things do Romney added his running mate's when spurred on by HuffPo, it name to the chant, not the other went viral. way around, the story now Only that isnt what happened at begins. all shocking, I know. Rather When MSNBC loses respect
Submitted at 9/30/2012 9:09:49 AM
from Huffington Post, thats the greatest fail imaginable. Its like Castros Cuba being chastised by the old Soviet Union. Conservative sites from Twitchy.com to Newsbusters were having a field day with Scarborough. The Morning Joe host is already viewed by many on the right as a RINO (Republican in Name Only) in the mold of "conservative" newspaper columnists Kathleen Parker and David Brooks, who make their career bashing conservatives. Conservatives again had good reason to mock him. Twitchy was one of those leading the charge, saying that MSNBC ran a clip that tried to paint a false narrative. But Scarborough wouldnt give up. On Twitter he made a series of statements standing by his original comments. Because, of course, Joe is never wrong. The fake controversy over the Ryan chants is a joke. Romney said What a guy!" The crowd chanted Ryan! and then Mitt jokes Romney/Ryan! he wrote, in the face of all evidence. Scarborough vowed to have the tape linked this weekend and told viewers you watch and be the judge. As of this writing it
was not featured prominently on either the MSNBC site or his own personal site. We will also play the CSPAN tape on Monday. Going to be fun, he promised. This is far from the first time MSNBC has been caught playing games with video. Back in June, Andrea Mitchell ran a piece of Romney speaking about shopping at Wawa which was edited to make him look foolish. In another incident, MSNBC misrepresented a Herman Cain video where he quoted Ben Franklin. Again the goal was to make him look foolish. MSNBC comes by its bogus video skills like a misbehaving child of a bad parent. Parent NBC, in this case, famously doctored Trayvon Martin 911 call audio to falsely depict George Zimmerman as racist. They later apologized and staffers were fired, but long after the damage had been done. Perhaps Morning Joe needs a bigger jolt of caffeine in the morning before it does its obligatory attack on conservatives, Republicans and anyone else Joes lefty paymasters oppose. Dan Gainor is the Boone Pickens Fellow and the Media Research Centers Vice President for
Business and Culture. He can also be contacted on Facebook and Twitter as dangainor. Dan Gainor is the Boone Pickens Fellow and the Media Research Centers Vice President for Business and Culture. He writes frequently about media for Fox News Opinion. He can also be contacted on Facebook and Twitter as dangainor. Print Email Share Comments Recommend Tweet Share This Article Newsletter Signup Sign up for free e-mail news alerts from FoxNews.com and FoxBusiness.com. Newsletter Signup This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Incinerating Assange - The Liberal Media Go To Work.
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Inhabitat's Week in Green: ECOLAR house, transparent solar panel and Star Wars terrariums
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house took top honors in the architecture and sustainability Submitted at 9/30/2012 10:30:00 AM categories, and it features a 10.7 E a c h w e e k o u r f r i e n d s a t kW photovoltaic array on the roof Inhabitat recap the week's most that produces more than enough interesting green developments energy to power the home. and clean tech news for us -- it's Some of the other standouts at the Week in Green. the Solar Decathlon Europe For the past two weeks Inhabitat include Germany's ECOLAR has been reporting live from the House, which features a flexible, S o l a r D e c a t h l o n E u r o p e i n modular design that can expand or Madrid, where 18 student teams shrink to accommodate the needs from around the world have been of its owners. It came as no competing for the title of the surprise that the German team world's most efficient solar- was tops in the engineering powered prefab house. As usual, c a t e g o r y , a n d t h e t e a m suspense was running high in the incorporated hemp insulation in final days of the competition, and the floors, walls and ceiling to we're excited to announce that prevent thermal loss. Team Team Rhne-Alpes' Canopea Andalucia's Patio 2.12 House, House has been named this year's which consists of four separate winner! The beautiful modular prefabricated modules built
around an interior courtyard, scored high marks for energy efficiency and innovation. And although Italy's MED in Italy House might not look like much on the outside, step inside and you'll enter a different world
altogether. The highly efficient home features a central courtyard and a rooftop photovoltaic array that generates about 9.33 kWh of energy per year -- roughly double what it needs. Team Rome also added wall layers that can be
filled with heavy materials to provide high thermal mass once the home is installed. Continue reading Inhabitat's Week in Green: ECOLAR house, transparent solar panel and Star Wars terrariums Filed under: Misc, Transportation, Science Inhabitat's Week in Green: ECOLAR house, transparent solar panel and Star Wars terrariums originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 30 Sep 2012 10:30:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink| | Email this| Comments

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