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CONFIRMED: Romney Family Had Ann Romney's Atheist Father Posthumously Baptized Into The Mormon Church
GOOGLE Fri, 27 Jan 2012 20:36:00 GMT
After wondering aloud yesterday whether the Romneys converted Mitt's dead father-in-law to Mormonism, Gawker's John Cook has confirmed it: Yes. They did. Edward Davies, Ann Romney's father, was an atheist who was also strongly anti-religion. By the time he died, he was the only member of Ann Romney's immediate family to not convert to Mormonism. Fourteen months later, in 1993, he was baptized in a special ceremony at a Salt Lake City church. This practice requires a living person who has already been baptized to undergo the immersion in water again on behalf of the dead. No word on who this person might have been in Davies' case. Information on the ceremony was listed on a genealogical database, and another entry on Ancestry.com detailed a separate sealing ceremony that linked Davies to his wife in death. Two Gawker readers confirmed the data. Baptism of the dead is encouraged by the Church of Latter-day Saints, as it is seen as essential to salvation. But the LDS Church..
Watercooler: Impeach Once Upon a Time's Mayor!
TVGUIDE Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:17:00 GMT
Someone needs to drop a house on Storybrooke's Mayor. Ok, maybe that's a whole other children's story, but for real, this woman is a witch. Barking out orders, cutting sweet Mary Margaret down with dismissive lines like "their lives are their own, not yours," and skulking around town with a puss as sour as a poison apple. She makes her fairytale-world alter, the Evil Queen, actually ... Read More > Other Links From TVGuide.com Once Upon a Time
Romney rips fellow GOPers for criticizing his time at Bain
NYDAILYNEWS Wed, 11 Jan 2012 13:39:07 GMT
Mitt Romney may have sailed to victory in New Hampshire on Tuesday night, but he still faces rough waters as his GOP rivals attack him over his tenure as the head of a venture capital firm.
Romney Takes on Some Water in Morning Debate
REALCLEARPOLITICS Sun, 08 Jan 2012 20:36:20 GMT
Rich Lowry, NRORomney had a tough start. Santorum had a very pointed question on his decision not to run for re-election in 2006, Why did you bail out? Romney responded with what Newt rightly called pious baloney. On this question, Romney simply cant admit the truthhe didnt run for re-election because he might have lost and, more importantly, he wanted to run for president. Romney absurdly characterized leaving office to run for another office as returning to the private sector. Im not sure how much voters will be...
Gingrich says in race to stay no matter Iowa result
REUTERS Mon, 02 Jan 2012 05:40:30 GMT
WATERLOO, Iowa (Reuters) - Presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich pledged on Sunday to stay in the race for the Republican nomination regardless of the results of this week's caucuses in Iowa where he is dropping dramatically in opinion polls.
Mitt Romney's Iowa Expectations Grow
ABCNEWS Thu, 29 Dec 2011 13:45:32 GMT
By MICHAEL FALCONE (@michaelpfalcone) and AMY WALTER (@amyewalter) WATERLOO, Iowa — For months, Mitt Romney and his top aides have been  pulling out all the stops to downplay their expectations in Iowa, but there’s nothing they can do about it now. If Romney does not...
CPI-M plotting to poison drinking water: Mamata
SIFY Thu, 22 Dec 2011 14:10:00 GMT
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Thursday accused the opposition Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) of hatching a conspiracy to mix poison in a water plant in South 24-Parganas district, provoking the Left to term the remarks 'irresponsible' and 'defamatory'.
Mullaperiyar: Kerala ready for tripartite deal
IN Thu, 15 Dec 2011 05:23:38 GMT
Voicing Kerala's readiness to walk the extra mile to resolve the Mullaperiyar Dam row, Chief Minister Oommen Chandy said he was even willing to enter into a tripartite agreement and enact a law assuring Tamil Nadu that it will get 'same quantity' of water from the new dam.
Mullaperiyar row: TN resolution blames Kerala
IN Wed, 14 Dec 2011 20:07:45 GMT
Tamil Nadu has raised the pitch on the Mullaperiyar Dam row with the state Assembly on Thursday passing a resolution unanimously demanding that Kerala should take immediate steps to increase water levels in the dam to 142 feet as per Supreme Court orders.
Congressman slams Lowe’s over “All-American Muslim”
SALON Wed, 14 Dec 2011 18:37:00 GMT
Home-improvement chain Lowe's is in hot water this week over a decision to pull its ads from TLC's "All American Muslim," after a fringe group in Florida complained that the show portrayed Muslims in too positive a light. Everyone from Jon Stewart to Russell Simmons to Salon's own Matt Zoller Seitz has already slammed the company for the move. And the issue isn't going away, either. Rep. Chris Murphy, a third-term congressman from Connecticut, took to the floor of the House of Representatives this morning to issue Lowe's a harsh rebuke, and urge it to reconsider its decision: Continue Reading...
The women at the top, working for justice | Anne Perkins
GUARDIAN Tue, 13 Dec 2011 11:35:35 GMT
From the Durban climate change conference to EU negotiations and Nobel laureates, women are at last growing in prominence Some mornings it is possible to look at the news and believe that women are taking over the world. In the past few days, images from the final minutes of the Durban climate change conference have been dominated by women. Last Saturday's EU family snap revealed that Europe's most powerful politician, Angela Merkel, is only one among six of the 27 EU leaders who are women. And later that day, the Nobel prize ceremony celebrated the achievements of three women who shared the peace prize. OK, taking over the world is pushing it. But something's changing. Nobel laureates are a handy bench mark for attitudes to women in public life. Statistically this year's peace prize winners – the Liberian president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, her colleague Leymah Gbowee and the Yemeni campaigner Tawakkol Karman – are another point in the upward curve of women Nobel laureates. In.....
Lungren, Feinstein spar over Hetch Hetchy Valley restoration
LATIMES Mon, 12 Dec 2011 22:57:00 PST
The congressman, who backs draining the Yosemite Park reservoir, seeks a federal inquiry into San Francisco's use of Hetch Hetchy water. Feinstein defends city.A call for an investigation into how San Francisco gets and consumes its water has sparked a feud between two congressional leaders on opposite sides of the aisle over a proposal to restore Hetch Hetchy Valley in Yosemite National Park, dammed 85 years ago to supply the city with clean water.
It's our narrow view of education that holds pupils back | Yvonne Roberts
GUARDIAN Sun, 11 Dec 2011 00:08:09 GMT
The understanding of the importance of motivation and persistence is growing every day – but not within schools This week, the heads of the four main examination boards and officials from Ofqual, the exam regulator, are in for a testing time. They will be required to explain to MPs why some of their profession have indulged in behaviour that prompted Michael Gove, the education secretary, to call the examination system "discredited". The revelations of the past week have only reinforced a profound unease on the part of many that while we may be educating our children, are they actually learning anything useful (except, perhaps, that cheating definitely does not come cheap)? Useful, that is, not just for their future employment prospects, but also to equip them to become rounded human beings who desist from giving up the first time they taste failure or hit a hump on the bumpy road to maturity ? As Mick Waters, a former director of the government's exam regulator says: "We need...
Simon Hoggart's week: Uncharted European waters with Captain Pit Bull
GUARDIAN Fri, 09 Dec 2011 21:00:02 GMT
We're heading into the unknown over Europe, and the Tory right appear to be in charge ✒We're always told that we are now sailing into "uncharted waters" and that nobody has the faintest idea of what is going to happen now that we are officially the most hated nation in Europe – among the leaders, at least. We're a bit like sailors heading west in the 15th century, not knowing if we're going to reach the promised land or fall off the edge of the Earth.And who is in command of this creaking vessel? Why, the Tory right, whose opinions seemingly count for more than the other 85% of MPs. Everything David Cameron does is now attributed to "pressure" from these people, MPs such as John Redwood, Julian Lewis, Mark Reckless, Philip Davies, and the Essex pit bulls, John Baron and Andrew Rosindell. I find that truly terrifying.Older readers may remember the time in 1995 when John Major resigned in order to be re-elected, and was challenged by Redwood, whose press conference was festooned by..
FTN: Are water wars going to be the conflict of the future?
IN Thu, 08 Dec 2011 05:29:50 GMT
Kerala wants a new dam as it fears that a strong earthquake might damage the existing 116-year-old Mullaperiyar dam.
It's Freedom Day, but MPs' problems won't go away | Michael White's sketch
GUARDIAN Thu, 08 Dec 2011 19:59:45 GMT
As the PM set off to liberate the land of his birth from Brussels, talk among MPs turned to water shortages It has been raining or snowing on much of Britain, so naturally MPs found time to talk about water shortages. They will fit in neatly with the promised shortages of jobs and money, though this time it will be the south and east which are most deprived unless their inhabitants can buy other people's water. It sounds more than likely. None of the challenges predicted for British water supplies, let alone for all the other problems that cropped up in the Commons, should have happened because it was the day when David Cameron set off for the EU's crisis summit to liberate the land of his birth from the cruel hand of Brussels. Freedom Day, as the rightwing thinktanks put it. Some of the younger Eurosceptic Tory MPs wept into their British-made Kleenex at the very thought. The odd thing was that nothing seemed to have changed from the bad old days. Vince Cable was as cheerful....
UK faces future of droughts if we do not cut water use, minister warns
GUARDIAN Thu, 08 Dec 2011 15:17:55 GMT
Environment secretary Caroline Spelman says attitudes must change, as she unveils plans to 'incentivise' water efficiency Households in Britain will be encouraged to install dual-flush toilets and garden water butts to try to prevent water shortages, the environment secretary has said. Caroline Spelman warned that parts of the UK faced droughts unless attitudes to water use changed, and said the government was planning to "incentivise" water efficiency. In the Water for Life white paper she has set out proposals to overhaul the industry, with plans including rules on how water should be extracted from rivers without risk of "running them dry". Water companies, farmers and businesses are bound by abstraction laws that date back to the 1960s. But the Environment Agency has warned that practices are harming conservation sites. The plans also include big changes in the operation of the water industry, aimed at making it more "resilient and efficient". Additionally, all........
Navarrette: Gingrich dared to speak truth on teens' work ethic
CNN Wed, 07 Dec 2011 15:47:27 EST
Ruben Navarrette says Newt Gingrich got in hot water for saying poor teens need to learn the work ethic, but it's a problem for all kids.
Forestry sell-off plan overlooked benefits, panel says
GUARDIAN Wed, 07 Dec 2011 19:40:32 GMT
Another blow to government's green credentials as report says public owned forests and woodlands are 'greatly undervalued' The benefits of England's publicly owned forests were "greatly undervalued" by the planned state sell-off, a government-appointed panel will say on Thursday in a report that deals a new blow to the coalition's green credentials. The independent report, seen by the Guardian, says the £20m cost to the state of maintaining the forests and woodlands is "very modest and delivers benefits far in excess of this" and contrasts the sum with the £250m spent on reinstating weekly bin collections. The social benefits of the natural environment – estimated at £1bn-£2bn for woodlands alone – were highlighted by the government's own landmark assessment in June, but the new report makes clear these benefits were overlooked in the forestry proposals. It comes amid a furore over plans to relax planning rules and just a week after George Osborne enraged environmentalists by....
What the 99% Have Gotten Wrong
BUZZLE Wed, 07 Dec 2011 00:00:00 EST
The author's examination of the 99% movement and their drastic flaw in their logic. Admitting there are problems with our economic system but showing that throwing the baby out with the bath water is not a strategy for success.
Trump, Gingrich to Create Apprentice Program for Poor Kids
ABCNEWS Mon, 05 Dec 2011 23:35:21 GMT
Donald Trump may not have officially endorsed Newt Gingrich’s presidential bid, but the billionaire businessman gave his hat tip of approval to Gingrich’s plan to put poor schoolchildren to work. Gingrich, who found himself in hot water last month for saying America’s child labor laws...
The government must embrace a green future | Letters
GUARDIAN Sat, 03 Dec 2011 21:01:22 GMT
A stunning disregard for the environment means our children will have a lower quality of life The environmental movement has spoken out repeatedly against policies that put short-term profit ahead of our countryside and wildlife, eroding our natural capital and quality of life, but rarely have we been as incredulous as we were last Tuesday, hearing the autumn statement. The stunning disregard shown for the value of the natural environment not only flies in the face of popular opinion but goes against everything the government said in June when it launched two major pieces of environmental policy – the natural environment white paper and the England biodiversity strategy. It is increasingly clear that society needs a new economic model that accounts properly for our natural capital. Yet with this statement, its "red-tape challenge", sudden cuts to solar subsidies and its ill-conceived planning reforms, the government is continuing an out-of-date approach that casts regulation and..
Watercooler: American Horror Story's Crowded House
TVGUIDE Thu, 01 Dec 2011 00:06:00 GMT
It's a good thing the Harmon's new crib is so roomy, because the damn place is filling up fast! As we know, if you die on the American Horror Story property, you stay on the property. Which means... Read More > Other Links From TVGuide.com Ryan Murphy American Horror Story
Bring down Mullaperiyar water level: Kerala CM
IN Wed, 30 Nov 2011 22:21:50 GMT
Left MPs from Tamil Nadu met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today to discuss the Mullaperiyar dam issue, seeking his intervention.
How striking! Heathrow queues shorter on day of protest
GUARDIAN Wed, 30 Nov 2011 19:40:47 GMT
Faster passport checks and quieter airport when most predicted public sector strikes would lead to chaos and long waits The immigration hall at Heathrow terminal 3 was about as quiet as a library. Of the 44 UK Border Agency (UKBA) desks, 21 were manned – and half of those had no queue at all. "Normally it is a long queue over here, but today it looks empty," said Irfan Sakhiani, an Indian arriving from Canada. "I was expecting much worse that this from what I saw on the BBC," said Saraf, another passenger who arrived on the flight from Calgary. "The news was saying 12 hours' delay." "It was the fastest we've ever cleared immigration here," said Sue Bates, with her husband, Ben, who had landed from Bangkok after a holiday in Koh Samui. Alanrewaju Adewunmi, 58, flying in from Lagos via Madrid, said he waited no more than two minutes before clearing the border after a face check and passport scan. "I was expecting something much worse and hours of waiting before I got out of......
Google+ reunites lost waterlogged camera, owner
GOOGLE Wed, 30 Nov 2011 13:14:40 PST
By the time it was recovered, the camera had seen better days. (Credit: Markus Thompson) Social networking and a bit of amateur sleuthing have reunited a Canadian firefighter with the camera he accidentally dropped to the bottom of the sea during a family vacation more than a year ago. Stephen Wood was sure he'd said a final goodbye to his Canon EOS Rebel when it slipped from his hands into the Deep Bay off the east coast of Vancouver Island last summer. The photo that led the camera back to its owner. (Credit: Stephen Woods, via Markus Thompson) "We figured the camera and the pictures were gone. We didn't even bother trying to retrieve it," Wood told CNET today. "It was on when it went in the water, and [it was] salt water, and at high tide, I think it's roughly about 60 feet deep there. It was also like 9 o'clock at night so it was dark." Not to mention that Wood and his wife had a baby in tow. Conditions, in other words, were hardly ideal for a gadget-retrieval.....
Watercooler: In Praise of Glee's Santana
TVGUIDE Wed, 30 Nov 2011 14:07:00 GMT
See, this is why you should make Christmas lists, kids! Almost a year ago, Watercooler asked Santa for a few things in regards to Glee, and last night, we got the one we wanted the most: More Santana. In fact, it was like a "a very special Santanisode" that saw the spitfire who once declared "the only straight I am is straight-up bitch" officially embracing her Sapphic self and showcased the always-delicious Naya Rivera's ability to be all sorts of fierce, funny and believably vulnerable. Her version of "Constant Craving" with Idina Menzel? That was just extra awesome-sauce on the side. Read More > Other Links From TVGuide.com Idina Menzel Naya Rivera Glee
South West Water customers to receive £50 rebate
GUARDIAN Tue, 29 Nov 2011 16:11:43 GMT
Announcement in autumn statement of subsidy for customers supplied by South West Water follows long campaign by MPs and local groups Households in the south-west who have long faced the highest water bills in the country are to get a £50 rebate, but not until 1 April 2013 at the earliest. The surprise announcement in the chancellor's autumn statement, which looks designed to appease the Liberal Democrat MPs who dominate that area, will see a £50 a customer subsidy paid directly from the Treasury to South West Water, the privatised company which supplies the area. The move ends a long campaign by MPs and others in the area who say local consumers have been penalised by their geography. The vast coastline and increased cost of treating sewage that in the past was pushed into the sea has resulted in residents paying the UK's highest water charges. Data from the water industry regulator Ofwat, which approves companies' charges, shows the average water and sewerage bill for.......
Mullaperiyar Dam: War over water reaches Parliament
IN Tue, 29 Nov 2011 07:00:19 GMT
The Kerala MPs claim that the dam would be a compromise with the safety of the people of the state while Tamil Nadu rules out any safety issues concerning the MD.
DEAR BANKS: If You Thought Barney Frank Was Bad, Just Wait Until You See His Replacement
GOOGLE Mon, 28 Nov 2011 16:34:00 GMT
Massachusetts Rep. Barney Frank, one of the architects of the sweeping financial regulations overhaul, announced today that he plans to retire at the end of his term in 2012, leaving an open spot at the top of the powerful House Financial Services Committee.  Unfortunately for the banking sector, the next Democrat in line to succeed Frank as the committee's ranking member is none other than Rep. Maxine Waters, the controversial California congresswoman best known for her questionable ethics and apparent lack of understanding about how the U.S. financial system works. If the 2009 TARP hearings are any indication, Waters's ascension will likely have Wall Street longing for the days of Dodd and Frank. During those hearings, Waters totally befuddled bank CEOs — and Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner — with crazy, rambling questions and conspiracy theories about Goldman Sachs. She also introduced a bill calling for a ban on credit-default swaps and, more recently, called on........
Watercooler: Once Upon a Time Enchants Once Again
TVGUIDE Mon, 28 Nov 2011 15:21:00 GMT
OK, so Walt Disney is either rolling in his grave or LOLing from the beyond. Hopefully it's the latter, because Once Upon a Time is such a hoot. It would be a shame to think the man behind the Mouse wouldn't be down with the fun being had over in Storybrooke. As the season's top new drama, the delightful ... Read More > Other Links From TVGuide.com Once Upon a Time
Is the AT&T/T-Mobile deal in very hot water? - House E&C readies FCC process reform markup - Tech, telecom leaders give thanks in 2011 - Tech highlights from GOP prez debate - U.S., China to talk clou
POLITICO Wed, 23 Nov 2011 09:27:52 EST
Is the AT&T/T-Mobile deal in very hot water?
'R2D2s of the sea' set sail across Pacific for science
GOOGLE Tue, 22 Nov 2011 13:26:59 PST
The Wave Rider robots will travel 33,000 nautical miles on their journey and coolect 2.25 million pieces of data. (Credit: Liquidr) As you read this, four wave-propelled robots are making their way across the Pacific Ocean in a record-setting journey that will hopefully lead to new scientific discoveries, but they need your help. With the support of Virgin Oceanic and Google Earth, Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company Liquid Robotics launched four of its Wave Glider ocean robots on November 17 to embark on a PacX (as in Pacific crossing) expedition, where they are expected to collect 2.25 million pieces of data about the ocean. The Wave Gliders feature a wing system that uses wave motion to propel the robots, while solar panels power the various sensors used to collect data. The robots set sail from San Francisco and will travel together to Hawaii. From there, the group will split up, with one pair going to Japan and the other pair sailing to Australia. The journey will cover....
Angela Merkel: Europe's saviour – or biggest problem?
GUARDIAN Tue, 22 Nov 2011 20:00:05 GMT
The German chancellor holds Europe's economic fate in her hands. But critics say she is not up to the job On 22 December 1999, a letter appeared on the front page of Germany's leading conservative daily, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. It contained a searing attack on the country's most highly regarded statesman, Helmut Kohl, recently retired chancellor and much-feted architect of reunification. Kohl, then mired in an ugly party funding scandal, had to be cut loose, the letter urged, as teenagers must jettison their parents to grow into adults. The only way forward for his Christian Democrats was a complete break with their past. It was a remarkable letter, a clinical and very public coup-de-grace delivered to an eminent, mortally wounded elder. What made it more remarkable was that the person who signed it was not one of the obviously thrusting young pretenders to Kohl's CDU throne, but a moon-faced and oddly unmemorable protege whom he used to refer to, dismissively, as.....
Nano-fabrication produces super-light lattice
GOOGLE Fri, 18 Nov 2011 01:59:16 PST
The super-low density of this metal lattice means it can perch with no trouble on a dandelion. (Credit: HRL) Call them a bunch of intellectual lightweights. Researchers at HRL Laboratories and University of Southern California's Composites Center have created what they say is the lowest-density material, a lattice of hollow tubes of the metal nickel. Its volume is 99.99 percent air, and its density is 0.9 milligrams per cubic centimeter--not including the air in or between its tubes. That density is less than a thousandth that of water. The researchers made it by fabricating structures with features whose dimensions range from millimeters to a ten-thousandth of that. They described their methods in a paper published yesterday in the journal Science. "The trick is to fabricate a lattice of interconnected hollow tubes with a wall thickness of 100 nanometers, 1,000 times thinner than a human hair," said Tobias Schaedler, the HRL researcher who's lead author of the.......
Government workers cough up $1.1 million in overdue fines, bills
SUNTIMES Fri, 18 Nov 2011 04:41:01 GMT
Local government employees with overdue parking tickets and water bills have coughed up $1.1 million in the five weeks since Mayor Rahm Emanuel threatened to fire or suspend them if they didn’t settle their debts. Within a week of the mayor’s ultimatum, more than 1,210 city employee scofflaws had scratched their names off the deadbeat list — either by paying their debts in full or entering into payment plans. In extreme cases, the Law Department orders “involuntary payroll deductions,” officials said. As of last Friday, 19 of the city’s 36 departments had no employees with outstanding debt. That’s compared to …
Waterboarding Isn't Torture & It Did Work
REALCLEARPOLITICS Wed, 16 Nov 2011 20:05:48 GMT
Marc Thiessen, Wash PostIt was disappointing to see The Posts editorial on waterboarding this morning replete with so many discredited arguments. Reasonable people can disagree about whether the United States should resume using enhanced interrogation techniques (as it appears it will if a Republican assumes the presidency in January 2013). But we should at least debate this proposition based on facts.For example, The Post writes: Imagine that a U.S. soldier is captured and subjected to waterboarding. Would Herman Cain and Michele Bachmann consider that torture?...
Schumacher was no radical – if you curtail growth, living standards drop | Daniel Ben-Ami
GUARDIAN Wed, 16 Nov 2011 11:30:01 GMT
By suggesting it's better to be economically poorer and spiritually richer, Schumacher ignores links between growth and wellbeing EF Schumacher's Small is Beautiful is widely viewed as a humanistic and radical tract. Nothing could be further from the truth. Viewed in its proper context it is both profoundly anti-human and deeply conservative. The central idea in Schumacher's text is that there is a natural limit to economic growth. As he put it: "Economic growth, which viewed from the point of view of economics, physics, chemistry and technology, has no discernible limit, must necessarily run into decisive bottlenecks when viewed from the point of view of the environmental sciences." Schumacher objected to organising the economy on a large scale precisely because he believed that more prosperity would damage the environment. He correctly understood that small-scale communities cannot produce nearly as much as those operating on a regional or global scale. A modern car, for.......
Gingrich Skirts Truth On Freddie Mac Payments, Made At Least $1.6 Million
GOOGLE Wed, 16 Nov 2011 11:35:42 GMT
In last week's CNBC debate, newly-minted top-tier Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich claimed he was hired by Fannie Mae to be a "historian," and claimed that pointed out flaws in their "insane" business model. But an investigation by Bloomberg reveals that Gingrich was much more involved with the government-backed lender than he let on — and that he was hired to promote the company to other conservatives. Bloomberg reports: "Former Freddie Mac officials familiar with the consulting work Gingrich was hired to perform for the company in 2006 tell a different story. They say the former House speaker was asked to build bridges to Capitol Hill Republicans and develop an argument on behalf of the company's public-private structure that would resonate with conservatives seeking to dismantle it." While not technically lobbying, he worked directly for Mitchell Delk, Freddie Mac’s chief lobbyist, taking in at least $1.6 million from Freddie Mac from 1999 to 2008. In..
BEYOND INSIDER TRADING: Here's How Members Of Congress Get Rich Off Earmarks
GOOGLE Tue, 15 Nov 2011 21:05:09 GMT
Throw Them All Out, Peter Schweizer's explosive new expose, has pulled back the lid on congressional insider trading, revealing the shocking regularity with which elected officials use their legislative positions to reap financial rewards. This 'honest' graft is by no means limited to using inside knowledge to play the stock market. Schweizer, a fellow at the conservative Hoover Institute, reports that members of Congress are also making a killing in real estate, using federal funds to boost their personal land holdings. Like Congress's questionable trading practices, mixing real estate investments with taxpayer money is technically legal. Actually, it's pretty easy for members of Congress to get rich off of federal projects — land deals are more difficult to detect than trades, and land, unlike stocks, doesn't have a set price. Members of Congress aren't required to disclose if a land deal would benefit them personally. In the corporate world, using company money for........
Fuel fraud crackdown sparks industry uproar - Minibus hits the gas - Energy and Water up next - GOP wants Keystone quicker
POLITICO Tue, 15 Nov 2011 09:24:45 EST
Fuel fraud crackdown sparks industry uproar.
U.S. on way to more secure energy
POLITICO Sun, 13 Nov 2011 21:22:04 EST
Opinion: Oil and gas production is expanding while protecting our land, water and wildlife.
The energy, and expense, of bringing water to the Southland
LATIMES Sun, 13 Nov 2011 22:00:00 GMT
The twin forces of power costs and climate-change regulations are threatening Southern California's long love affair with imported water, forcing the region to consider more mundane sources closer to home.Reporting from Chiriaco Summit, Calif.
Cain, Bachmann support waterboarding at GOP debate
NYDAILYNEWS Sun, 13 Nov 2011 13:54:21 GMT
Republicans vying to challenge President Obama for his job tangled over waterboarding, Iran and what to do about the decade-long war in Afghanistan.
Herman Cain backs waterboarding, frets over 'Arab Spring' at GOP debate
LATIMES Sat, 12 Nov 2011 18:43:00 PST
Herman Cain, who struggled at times during Saturday’s national security-focused debate in South Carolina, found one issue on which he apparently feels comfortable: waterboarding.
Watercooler: Grey's Anatomy ... TV's 99 Percent Pure Soap
TVGUIDE Fri, 11 Nov 2011 16:07:00 GMT
Hey daytime fans, if you're not already watching Grey's Anatomy, or gave up on it, the time has come to give ABC's scrubs-opera another look-see. Because this here is a solid serial that could teach a certain other medical-based sudser on ABC's early shift a thing or two about how to operate effectively without bipolar mobsters or James Franco. Read More > Other Links From TVGuide.com Scott Foley Grey's Anatomy
Nixon grand jury testimony on Watergate released
CBSNEWS Thu, 10 Nov 2011 18:46:19 EST
In transcript, former president says missing 18 ½ minutes in Oval Office tapes was an "accident;" New audio also released
James Murdoch: never has one man known so little, and so often
GUARDIAN Thu, 10 Nov 2011 23:43:44 GMT
News Corp chief executive displays total lack of recall when appearing before Commons culture committee He knew nothing. Nothing at all. Never in the field of human management has one man known so little and so often. There may have been tea ladies at News International who knew more than James Murdoch about what was happening at the top of the company. The water cooler was further inside the loop. Rupert Murdoch's son sat down and gazed balefully at the Commons culture committee. I thought he resembled a sixth-former hauled before the headmaster for some appalling act of insubordination – fearful, but at the same time knowing there is only so much the head can do as the school needs the fees. He has a weird accent: half American, half Australian, half English, if that were possible. A colleague calls it a Learjet accent, the voice of someone for whom home is a hotel room, somewhere, everywhere, nowhere. In the Murdoch world all cities blur together into one. He has the........
Nixon 'Self-Pitying,' 'Whining' in Newly-Released Testimony
ABCNEWS Thu, 10 Nov 2011 22:42:44 GMT
Less than 12 miles from the Watergate apartments, documents containing former President Richard Nixon’s grand jury testimony about the scandal that bears the building’s name were released to the public today. “It’s Nixon being Nixon,” said Stanley Kutler, one of the foremost historians on Nixon and...
Nixon nearly "blew my stack" over Watergate tape gap
REUTERS Thu, 10 Nov 2011 22:40:37 GMT
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former President Richard Nixon told a U.S. grand jury "I practically blew my stack" when he learned of the long gap on a White House tape sought in the Watergate scandal investigation, according to transcripts released Thursday.
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Cops to begin new search for baby Ayla
CNN Thu, 02 Feb 2012 21:52:48 GMT
With the search entering its third month, police are planning a renewed water search for missing toddler Ayla Reynolds.
Video: Texas towns running out of water
CBSNEWS Wed, 01 Feb 2012 11:25:39 EST
Water levels are down in Texas and towns are drying up. CBS News correspondent Anna Werner reports.
Video: Water skiers towed by single boat break record
CBSNEWS Tue, 31 Jan 2012 08:40:59 EST
Video shows 145 water skiers in Tasmania, Australia broke their own world record for the largest number of skiers towed by a single boat. Erica Hill reports.
Video: 154 water skiers set world record
TODAY.MSNBC.MSN Tue, 31 Jan 2012 12:47:40 GMT
154 water skiers glided their way one nautical mile across waters off Australia, setting the world record for the highest number of people pulled by a single boat. TODAY’s Natalie Morales reports. (TODAY)
Video: Exclusive: tensions flare near crucial oil chokepoint
MSNBC.MSN Sat, 28 Jan 2012 00:01:18 GMT
An NBC reporter gains access to a region just a few nautical miles from the Strait of Hormuz, one of the world’s most strategic waterways. NBC’s Ali Arouzi reports. (Nightly News)
Video: Safety first: Check out your cruise ship
MSNBC.MSN Sat, 21 Jan 2012 15:57:42 GMT
Planning to cruise the wild blue ocean aboard one of those floating cities you saw TV? Travelzoo.com’s Gabe Saglie offers important tips for a fun and safe excursion on the water. (TODAY)
Video: Underwater robots monitor Costa Concordia
MSNBC.MSN Sat, 21 Jan 2012
Divers had to stay out of the water, at risk of getting injured by the beached ship. NBC’s Michelle Kosinski reports. (Nightly News)
Water rushes into crippled Concordia
CNN Fri, 20 Jan 2012 02:46:33 GMT
Video shows water rushing down a staircase inside the crippled cruise liner Costa Concordia.
Cows sleep on waterbeds at one farm
CNN Thu, 19 Jan 2012 13:20:43 GMT
An Ohio farmer says his cows' milk production has increased since he bought them waterbeds.
Dangerous waters for rescue divers
CNN Wed, 18 Jan 2012 03:08:45 GMT
CNN's Anderson Cooper talks to an expert about the conditions for rescue divers searching the Costa Concordia ship.
Video: Emergency announcement panics passengers
MSNBC.MSN Wed, 18 Jan 2012 00:03:21 GMT
British Airways passengers were mistakenly told that the plane may need to make an emergency landing on water. NBC’s Brian Williams reports. (Nightly News)
Video: Evening News Online, 01.15.12
CBSNEWS Sun, 15 Jan 2012 19:11:30 EST
Divers are working in the icy water of the partially sunken cruise liner Costa Concordia to find any signs of the thirteen missing passengers; Then, the Justice Department has stepped in to block a controversial South Carolina voter I.D. law; Also, American companies are registering as Benefit Corporations in order to freely divert profits to their community and environmental causes.
Video: Divers search for missing passengers of sunken cruise ship
CBSNEWS Sun, 15 Jan 2012 18:48:16 EST
Divers are working in the icy water of the partially sunken cruise liner Costa Concordia to find any signs of the thirteen missing passengers in an accident which claimed at least five lives. Allen Pizzey reports.
Video: Dog rescued from frozen Colo. pond
CBSNEWS Tue, 03 Jan 2012 09:24:56 EST
The rescue of a golden retriever was caught on tape in Colorado, after the dog got stuck in the frozen waters of a pond. Debbye Turner Bell reports.
Video: Manatees swarm a power plant's waters
MSNBC.MSN Fri, 30 Dec 2011 19:29:16 GMT
Manatees in Florida have gathered in the waters of a coastal power facility. TODAY.com's Richard Lui reports. (TODAY)
Video: Bill Maher blasted over Tim Tebow, Jesus tweet
CBSNEWS Wed, 28 Dec 2011 15:35:46 EST
Bill Maher is in hot water after Tweeting a joke on Christmas Eve about Denver Broncos quarterback and notorious Evangelical Christian Tim Tebow, Jesus, and Hitler. CBSNews.com's Ken Lombardi reports.
Divers find plane off Florida coast
CNN Mon, 26 Dec 2011 20:56:39 GMT
Divers discover a WWII-era plane in nearly 200 feet of water off the coast of Palm Beach, Florida.
Video: WWII plane discovered by scuba divers in Fla.
CBSNEWS Tue, 27 Dec 2011 09:36:28 EST
A World War II plane, still intact, was found in the waters of Jupiter, Fla. Jeff Glor reports on the historic discovery by scuba divers.
Video: Search continues for missing Maine toddler
MSNBC.MSN Thu, 22 Dec 2011 12:56:25 GMT
Authorities in Maine are expanding their search for 20-month-old Ayla Reynolds, who her father says vanished after he put her to bed. NBC’s Aditi Roy reports the FBI is examining waterways and trails. (TODAY)
Kayakers go over 90-foot waterfall
CNN Thu, 15 Dec 2011 22:16:51 GMT
Extreme kayaker Isaac Levinson talks to CNN's Brooke Baldwin about riding down Alabama's Noccalula Falls.
Scientists: Evidence of water on Mars
CNN Sat, 10 Dec 2011 01:01:39 GMT
Scientists have uncovered evidence they say provides the most sound evidence yet that water once existed on Mars.
Video: Study: High arsenic levels in apple, grape juice
MSNBC.MSN Wed, 30 Nov 2011 14:28:28 GMT
A recent Consumer Reports study revealed higher levels of arsenic in grape and apple juice than is allowed in federal drinking water. NBC’s Tom Costello reports. (TODAY)
Santa helps soldier propose
CNN Wed, 30 Nov 2011 02:55:28 GMT
A solider proposes to his girlfriend during the Parade of Lights in Waterville, Maine. HLN's Vinnie Politan reports.
Matt Damon's Mission on Water
ABCNEWS Sun, 27 Nov 2011 16:05:27 GMT
The actor and co-founder of water.org on improving access to clean water.
Matt Damon's Mission on Water
ABCNEWS Sun, 27 Nov 2011 16:05:27 GMT
The actor and co-founder of water.org on improving access to clean water.
Texas town running out of water
CNN Fri, 25 Nov 2011 19:25:14 GMT
Extreme heat has evaporated most of the water supply for Groesbeck, Texas. CNN talks to Mayor Jackie Levingston.
Video: Texas town running out of water
CBSNEWS Tue, 22 Nov 2011 19:38:10 EST
Texas is in the middle of its worst drought on record with farmers experiencing billions of dollars in losses. Anna Werner reports from Groesbeck, where residents are two weeks away from completely running out of water.
Video: Lagarde encounters Watergate
CBSNEWS Sun, 20 Nov 2011 15:30:11 EST
Working as an intern for a House Judiciary Committee member in 1973, a teenage Christine Lagarde had a front row seat to the Watergate investigation.
Video: From the Archives:  The death of Natalie Wood
MSNBC.MSN Fri, 18 Nov 2011 18:19:00 GMT
Actress Natalie Wood's body was found in the waters off Catalina Island, California November 29, 1981 by the local harbor master. She was 43. NBC's Jessica Savitch and David Burrington report. (Nightly News)
Video: From the Archives:  The death of Natalie Wood
MSNBC.MSN Fri, 18 Nov 2011 18:19:00 GMT
Actress Natalie Wood's body was found in the waters off Catalina Island, California November 29, 1981 by the local harbor master. She was 43. NBC's Jessica Savitch and David Burrington report. (Nightly News)
Dog does amazing spiral dive into pool
CNN Thu, 17 Nov 2011 15:48:32 GMT
Many dogs love water but this pooch is taking that love to a new depth.
'The Everest of great white sharks'
CNN Tue, 15 Nov 2011 22:58:33 GMT
iReporter Jupp Baron Kerckerinck swims with great white sharks near Isla Guadalupe in the open waters of the Pacific.
Disabled vets find strength on the water
CNN Tue, 15 Nov 2011 19:17:32 GMT
Veterans take to the water to help them deal with their disabilities.
Video: President Nixon resigns from office
MSNBC.MSN Mon, 14 Nov 2011 14:16:41 GMT
Aug. 9, 1974: TODAY’s Barbara Walters and Jim Hartz, along with White House correspondent Tom Brokaw, report on the resignation of President Nixon following mounting pressure amid the Watergate scandal. (TODAY)
Nixon's Watergate testimony released
CNN Thu, 10 Nov 2011 23:05:32 GMT
The National Archives released audio of President Nixon's grand jury testimony during the Watergate investigation.
Video: Rescued manatee released in Florida
MSNBC.MSN Thu, 10 Nov 2011 16:44:13 GMT
An injured manatee is returned to Florida waters after being cut by a boat propeller and spending a year in rehab. TODAY.com's Dara Brown reports. (TODAY)
Bridge protester plunges into water
CNN Mon, 07 Nov 2011 20:21:48 GMT
A man dangling from the Tappan Zee Bridge plunges into the water after trying to escape rescuers on Monday afternoon.
Video: Workers rush to control Fukushima reactor
MSNBC.MSN Wed, 02 Nov 2011 23:00:16 GMT
A new report claims Fukushima workers are rushing to control radioactive elements inside the number 2 reactor. Tuesday, a politician publicly drank a glass of water from a puddle inside the nuclear plant. NBC’s Brian Williams reports. (Nightly News)
Video: Kayaking gives wounded vets therapy on the water
CBSNEWS Tue, 01 Nov 2011 19:22:50 EDT
Team River Runner, an organization of volunteers, is providing an opportunity for America's war wounded veterans to find therapy though kayaking. Chip Reid reports.
Cow Sh*t to Clean Water
YOUTUBE 24 November 2008
Over 1.1 billion people in the world don't have access to clean drinking water. When I heard of a nanotech water purifier that can be used to purify water from even fecal matter contaminated...

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