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Media props up offshore drilling myth

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 15:07:55 GMT

clipped by: spirithiker
clipper's remarks: Does anyone still need proof of media bias?

More oil will only give oil companies more profit by sending it overseas and keeping America's prices high.

Clip Source: www.coloradoindependent.com

the straight numbers crunched by energy experts at the Dept. of Energy’s Energy Information Admin. — that says drilling in off-limits coastal areas will NOT affect gas prices. But apparently, we may be among the few outlets doing this.

The Center for Economic and Policy Research released an analysis today finding that the “myth that offshore drilling would lower gas prices” is getting a “boost from major media.”

The nonprofit research group has found that in a total of 267 TV news broadcasts to date, the EIA data was only cited one time. In 91 percent of those broadcasts, there were no opinions presented questioning whether offshore drilling would reduce energy prices.

“This is a clear case where the overwhelming majority of the media has not done its job, and the McCain campaign is benefiting as a result,” said Mark Weisbrot, co-author of the analysis and the center’s co-director, according to a press release.

Tags: oil, corporate media, sham

cocaine crime

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 15:05:47 GMT

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clipper's remarks: These numbers have made me think about the prohibition times; I know it will be almost impossible to go back to those “happy days” but I think it will be possible to decrease the consume by raising the alcohol taxes.

Clip Source: www.vistabay.com

Tags: law

FRENCH CALL IT GOVERNMENT WE CALL IT GOOGLE !

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 11:21:21 GMT

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clipper's remarks: We are turning into spy vs spy and it's dam sickening !

Clip Source: www.reuters.com

French issue call to storm "electronic Bastille"

PARIS (Reuters) - Opposition to a new security database is gaining momentum in France as people return to work after a summer break during which the government authorized the state to store personal information on people as young as 13.

The decree creating the "Edvige" electronic database appeared in the official gazette on July 1, when the country was winding down for the summer, but news of its content has been gradually filtering out and is now stirring fierce criticism.

The information that can be collected includes addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, physical appearance, behavioral traits, fiscal and financial records, and details about people who have personal ties with the subject.

Soldier Suicides Continue To Climb In 2008

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 06:39:53 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Could be a record year. Bonus - 12% of soldiers in Iraq take anti-depressants or sleeping pills. Not a great thing, to be sure.

Clip Source: wjz.com

Soldier suicides this year could surpass the record rate of last year, Army officials said Thursday, urging military leaders at all levels to redouble prevention efforts for a force strained by two wars.

As of the end of August, there were 62 confirmed suicides among active duty soldiers and Guard and Reserve troops called to active duty, officials said. Another 31 deaths appear to be suicides but are still being investigated.

If all are confirmed, that means that the number for 2008 could eclipse the 115 of last year - and the rate per 100,000 could surpass that of the civilian population, Col. Eddie Stephens, deputy director of human resources policy, said at a Pentagon news conference.

"Army leaders are fully aware that repeated deployments have led to increased distress and anxiety for both soldiers and their families," Army Secretary Pete Geren said.

If the overall numbers continue

they would eclipse the 115 of 2007, 102 in 2006, 87 in 2005 and 67 in 2004.

Palin the polarizer

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 04:39:04 GMT

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clipper's remarks: And this comment from a Republican no less. I think he's right. This time there are more D than R's.

Clip Source: www.bloglines.com

Republican political consultant Mike Murphy finds himself lonely among his fellow GOPers since he doesn't think Gov. Sarah Palin was a good choice as Sen. John McCain's running mate.

"I think she'll ultimately be a polarizer. After last night's smash, Republicans are in deep love. Nothing thrills 'em like a good 'us vs. them' speech. But I'd guess that most Democrats had the opposite reaction. In a year where the Democrat generic numbers are 10+ points better than the Republican, I don't like the math of a strategy that just polarized the election along party base lines. Among the vital sliver of voters in the middle, I think Palin's rock solid social conservatism will be a turn off. And while voters may value vision over experience, Palin's inexperience is a weakness, denying McCain an argument that has been helping him against Obama."

Tags: palin, mccain

Chrome is 42x faster than IE7, 9x faster than FF3

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 03:19:08 GMT

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Clip Source: blogs.zdnet.com

Chrome is 42x faster than IE7, 9x faster than FF3

I’ve been testing the new Google Chrome browser and one thing’s for sure: they weren’t kidding about great JavaScript performance in this beta. Check out these numbers I got from running Google’s V8 benchmark suite (higher is better):

IE7: 30
FF3.0.1: 131
Chrome Beta 1: 1279.6

That’s a whopping 42.6 times improvement over IE7, and 9.7 times over FireFox 3. Keep in mind that these benchmarks were chosen by the team that wrote Chrome’s JavaScript engine (V8). Other benchmarks show a lesser, but still significant, improvement.

Google Chrome - first benchmarks. Summary: wow.

Google Chrome is insanely fast … faster than Firefox 3.0

Tags: browser

Americas Imperial Bases In Numbers

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 01:52:39 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Rom, England and at the front the US with Imperial Glamor and Military Might. Not Russia, not China, no America is the Imperial Power

Clip Source: www.informationclearinghouse.info

Going on an Imperial Bender

How the U.S. Garrisons the Planet and Doesn't Even Notice

04/09/08 "TomDispatch" -- - Here it is, as simply as I can put it: In the course of any year, there must be relatively few countries on this planet on which U.S. soldiers do not set foot, whether with guns blazing, humanitarian aid in hand, or just for a friendly visit. In startling numbers of countries, our soldiers not only arrive, but stay interminably, if not indefinitely. Sometimes they live on military bases built to the tune of billions of dollars that amount to sizeable American towns (with accompanying amenities), sometimes on stripped down forward operating bases that may not even have showers. When those troops don't stay, often American equipment does -- carefully stored for further use at tiny "cooperative security locations," known informally as "lily pads" (from which U.S. troops, like so many frogs, could assumedly leap quickly into a region in crisis).

761 active military "sites

DRUG CZAR and His Numbers

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 01:40:00 GMT

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clipper's remarks: A little late for the RNC, but the drug war is lost the way our government is waging it, raging it....

Clip Source: www.alternet.org

New Drug Survey Demolishes Drug Czar's Claims

Well, now we know why federal officials chose to release the 2007 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) on a day when the Republican convention's climax and a string of hurricanes is likely to keep it out of the headlines. The survey pretty much dynamites Office of National Drug Control Policy chief John Walters' claims of success in reducing marijuana and drug use during his tenure, which he'd like us to attribute to his aggressive policies, and particularly ONDCP's near-obsession with demonizing marijuana.

First, some raw numbers: The total number of Americans who have used illicit drugs is up from 108 million in 2002, the first full year of Walters' tenure, to 114 million in 2007. And the number of Americans who've used marijuana has passed the 100 million mark for the first time -- up from 95 million in 2002.

huffing and puffing about marijuana

number of Americans starting marijuana

has not budged during his tenure.

Desperation

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 01:24:44 GMT

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clipper's remarks: A reminder to remember Palin and her family in my prayers.

"As usual, the DailyKos has been in the forefront of the attacks on Palin. Many of the more despicable attacks, such as the story that it was Palin's daughter Bristol who gave birth to Trig, have been removed from DailyKos' site -- not because they were inaccurate (which they were), but because they were becoming embarrassing to DailyKos and its owner and chief propagandist, Markos Moulitsas."

"But DailyKos still has 51 lines of attack against Governor Palin up on their website, and to show you how depraved the mainstream media has become, many of them have been embraced by outlets such as CNN (embracing Kos Attack #4)."

Clip Source: www.americanthinker.com

The Democrats have even gotten so desperate that one of their party operatives has released the first five numbers of Sarah Palin's Social Security number to the public as part of a Democratic opposition research file. That means, by the way, that they have the whole number, and have previously used it as part of their research against her. And it's probably not too difficult for some lefty hacker to figure out the remaining four digits if it hasn't already been released -- it's a simple permutation equation with just 10,000 solutions. The Politico has helpfully posted the entire opposition report, including the partial SS number, here. Is this a surprise? Not really -- Chuck Schumer did the same thing to Michael Steele in 2006. Make no mistake about it; the media and the Dems are out to destroy Palin and her family by any means necessary.

Palin's Nielsen ratings nearly match Obama's

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:00:51 GMT

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Clip Source: www.redstate.com

The Nielsen numbers are out, and wow, they are good. Sarah Palin's speech, despite being carried on only six channels compared to Obama's ten, despite the lack of a huge venue or months of hype, was viewed by only a million fewer people than Barack Obama's Speech o' the Century.

The Sara Palin speech generated 37.2 million viewers, just a 1.1 million viewers short of Barack Obama's record-breaking speech on Day 4 of the Democratic Convention. The Palin speech was carried on only six networks while the Obama speech was carried on ten (including BET, TV One, Univision and Telemundo).

Palin attracted a large female audience (19.5 million women, or 4.9 million more than Day 3 of the Democratic Convention).

Ratings for viewers 55+ (25.2) continue to be about ten times higher than for teens (2.2)

Day 3 for the GOP attracted more Hispanic viewers (1.4 million) than Day 3 of the Democratic Convention (1.2 million), even though Univision and Telemundo did not carry the speech.

Tags: palin, obama, tv, politics, media

Drill Your What?

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 23:56:24 GMT

clipped by: klippety
clipper's remarks: The Numbers are not in Favor of this Approach

Clip Source: www.commondreams.org

John McCain Wants to Drill in Your Tolilet: Part II

Two months ago, I wrote a column saying that John McCain wants to drill in your toilet. I was joking at the time, but that comment turned out to be pretty much accurate. The Republicans' top slogan going into the fall elections is "drill here, drill now." It all depends on your definition of "here."

Anyhow, the basic point is straightforward. There is very little oil potentially available in the areas in which the Republicans are anxious to drill here and now. The Energy Information Agency (EIA) - remember, these people work for President Bush - tells us that the oil in the offshore-protected areas will eventually add about 0.2 percent to world's oil output. This would be sufficient to lower the price of gas by 3-4 cents a gallon.

The EIA projects that it will take ten years before we get the first drops of oil from drilling in currently protected areas

Fed's Yellen: Crisis "ongoing and perhaps deepening"

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 23:14:23 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Second, export growth alone contributed one-half of the total real GDP growth registered in the second quarter. This element has been an important source of strength in our economy for over a year, being buoyed by strong growth abroad and by the weakening of the dollar. However, as I discussed, in recent months the dollar has risen somewhat and economic growth in many of our industrialized trading partners has slowed or even turned negative, suggesting that we can no longer count on exports as an important source of strength.

Third, the problems in the housing markets, financial markets, and labor markets continue to be a drag on growth and employment. Fortunately, the recent fall in commodity prices should help to cushion some of this downward pressure on activity.
Overall, I anticipate that real GDP growth in the second half of this year will come in below the growth of potential output which implies that the unemployment rate will rise. On its own, this obviously is not good new

Clip Source: www.frbsf.org

Regrettably, the nation's economy has been in rough waters for over a year now. Last summer, a precipitous slide in house prices triggered a crisis in financial markets and a credit crunch that is making it hard for consumers and some firms to borrow. These developments are ongoing and perhaps deepening

Turning to the national economy, it was recently reported that growth in the second quarter came in at a fairly robust rate of 3¼ percent.

While one might be tempted to interpret the recent strong numbers as a sign that things are turning around, there are three important reasons to think that the strength will not hold up, and that economic performance will be decidedly subpar in the second half of the year. First, consumer spending in the second quarter came in at only a moderate rate, even though it was boosted by substantial tax rebates. But there are no plans in place to repeat those rebates, so by the fourth quarter, the economy will no longer benefit from that fiscal stimulus.

Marge

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 22:53:48 GMT

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clipper's remarks: marge

Clip Source: www.whitepages.com

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What they have to offer

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 22:14:20 GMT

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Clip Source: article.nationalreview.com

We are in a war against terrorists, and the other side has nominated a man who has been a friend and business partner of an unrepentant, America-hating terrorist. The press lauds Obama as post-partisan when even a cursory glance at his record shows he is as partisan as it gets. The press lauds him as post-racial, but he sat comfortably for years in Trinity Church, drinking in the racist ravings of Jeremiah Wright, and he sat comfortably for years in rough-and-tumble Chicago, playing by-the-numbers race-based politics.

Obama blathers about “change” but then chooses as his running-mate a Washington relic

In an era of complex, vicious, asymmetrical threats, Democrats give us a “community organizer” without a shred of executive experience wh

In a nation repulsed by partial birth abortion, Obama decided to make his stand enabling the practitioners of infanticide.

Why cheaper oil signals trouble

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 18:24:44 GMT

clipped by: JICWyllie
clipper's remarks: Deflation will win over inflation.

But the "good news" will go on until just after the USA election. Then reality will begin to intrude its ugly head, again.

Clip Source: money.cnn.com

Food and energy prices are coming down in part because of a global growth slowdown that could also cool the red hot U.S. export sector - the major bright spot in an economy still struggling with a massive housing bust.

If prices keep sliding, year-over-year inflation numbers - after hitting a 17-year high last month - could soon look much healthier, reducing fears that the Federal Reserve may have to raise interest rates to stamp out rising inflation expectations.

If the growth party is over around the world, the U.S. export boom will quickly fizzle.

A pullback by some of its overseas customers offers the latest bit of unhappy news for the U.S. economy, which this year has continued to grow - if only tepidly - in large measure thanks to slowing imports and rising exports.

The halo effect from exports could already be wearing off.

second-quarter GDP data showed U.S. corporate profits from foreign sources dropped 15% from first-quarter levels, due to softer worldwide economic conditions.

Tags: economy, commodities, i-prices, i-decrease, i-consequences, i-deflation