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UK newspaper the Daily Mail has topped the list of the world’s most-read online newspapers according to statistics released by tracking service Comscore.
Figures from December 2011 shows that Mail Online reached 45.3 million people, overtaking nearest competitor The New York Times which reached 44.8 million.
Martin Clarke, editor of Mail Online, said the success of the newspaper on the web is all down to providing content that people want to read. He said that the site offers its content in an ‘entertaining, engaging way with clear, concise, straightforward copy and lots of good pictures.’
However, the New York Times have disputed the figures, saying they included traffic from the Mail’s personal finance site: “It’s a roll-up of their properties. We remain the number one newspaper site in the world.”
http://www.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeedpolitics/the-biggest-newspaper-in-the-world-is-the-dailUK newspaper the Daily Mail has topped the list of the world’s most-read online... more
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By Andrew Jones
Monday, January 2, 2012
Appearing on the CBS News program 60 Minutes on Sunday night, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) experienced an awkward moment when he was challenged to admit that his hero, President Ronald Reagan, did in fact raise taxes.
Cantor was speaking with interviewer Lesley Stahl, who asked if he was ready to start compromising with Democrats on taxes. Cantor said he was indeed “ready to cooperate,” but then hedged his response.
“But what’s the difference between compromise and cooperate?” Stahl asked.
“I would say cooperate is ‘Let’s look to where we can move things forward to where we agree,” Cantor said. “Compromising principles, you don’t want to ask anybody to do that. That’s who they are as their core being.”
Stahl then mentioned to Cantor how his “idol” Reagan compromised his principles by raising taxes during his presidency. Cantor tried to deflect the focus by mentioning that Reagan cut taxes, but Stahl reiterated her point.
Upset at the reporter, Cantor’s press secretary yelled off camera, “That’s not true, and I don’t want to let that stand.”
No matter if Cantor, his staff or conservatives at-large want to deny that Reagan raised taxes, what Stahl said is completely true.
After his huge tax cut in 1981 slashed all tax rates to 23 percent, sparking a budget crisis, Reagan realized he’d also have to raise taxes in the years that followed. He raised taxes four times between 1982 to 1984, increasing the payroll tax, broadening the base of Social Security payees, applying the income tax to higher earners and rolling back corporate and individual tax breaks.
Reagan’s historic tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans, whose rate went from 70 percent to 28 percent during his administration, ultimately forced the president to raise taxes on more people than any other U.S. president during a time of peace, according to New York Times columnist Paul Krugman.
In total, Reagan raised taxes 12 times during his two terms in office.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/01/02/cantor-refuses-to-admit-reagan-raised-taxes/
WATCH: Video from CBS, which was broadcast on January 1, 2012. (Selected mark starts at 10:27.)
"Something about the Eleventh Commandment I take it???"By Andrew Jones
Monday, January 2, 2012
Appearing on the CBS News program 60... more
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Mirror, mirror on the wall: what's the weather going to be like today?
Gadget-lovers, there’s a new must-have device for you to covet: an interactive mirror called Reveal.
The mirror was created by the New York Times’ research and development team and allows users to do all the things you’d expect to do with a connected device, using hand gestures and your voice to control it via built-in Microsoft Kinect technology.
The New York Times hasn’t announced any details about a commercial release of the device, though if the prototype is anything to go by, it’s only a matter of time before we’ve all got one of these hanging up in the hallway.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZkdSqueU-IMirror, mirror on the wall: what's the weather going to be like today?... more
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An op-ed in today’s New York Times, “Does Sex Ed Undermine Parental Rights?” by Robert George and Melissa Moschella, is not as much about sexuality education as it is an overt example of how deeply the socially-conservative agenda is pervading all aspects of our culture.An op-ed in today’s New York Times, “Does Sex Ed Undermine Parental... more
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We've been covering for a while now how Senators Ron Wyden and Mark Udall have been very concerned over the secret interpretation the feds have of one piece of the PATRIOT Act. They've been trying to pressure the government into publicly explaining how they interpret the law, because they believe that it directly contrasts how most of the public (and many elected officials) believe the feds are interpreting the law. While the two Senators continue to put pressure on the feds and to hint at the feds' interpretation, just the fact that the government won't even explain its own interpretation of the law seems ridiculous.
Given all of this, reporter Charlie Savage of the NY Times filed a Freedom of Information Act request to find out the federal government's interpretation of its own law... and had it refused. According to the federal government, its own interpretation of the law is classified. What sort of democracy are we living in when the government can refuse to even say how it's interpreting its own law? That's not democracy at all.
Julian Sanchez points us to the news that Savage and the NY Times have now sued the federal government for not revealing its interpretation of the PATRIOT Act, pointing out that if parts of the interpretation contain classified material, the Justice Department should black that out and reveal the rest, but simply refusing to reveal the interpretation entirely is a violation of the Freedom of Information Act. You can bet that the feds will do everything they can to get out of this lawsuit, just as they did with the various lawsuits concerning warrantless wiretapping. Here's hoping the court systems don't let them. No matter what you think of this administration (or the last one) and how it's handling the threat of terrorism, I'm curious how anyone can make the argument that the US government should not reveal how it interprets the very laws under which it's required to operate.We've been covering for a while now how Senators Ron Wyden and Mark Udall have... more
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Hal L. Singer and Georganna Barry-Singer shares one of their songs to describe what's happening on wallstreet. Photos from Google images, and Google contributors, Music By Hal L. Singer and Georganna Barry-Singer.Hal L. Singer and Georganna Barry-Singer shares one of their songs to describe... more
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Living in chronic pain is frustrating enough without having bogus articles written by the NYT claiming patients are committing fraud and prescription drug abuse all funded with Medicare. Anyone that is a CPP patient knows how hard it is to get treated with respect by a doctor.Living in chronic pain is frustrating enough without having bogus articles written by... more
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FOX News and The New York Times prove yet again that both conservatives and mainstream liberals serve power:
The mainstream media’s propaganda surrounding Occupy Wall Street has been truly breathtaking. For those who believe we have a right/left divide in the mass media, coverage by FOX News and The New York Times must shatter all such delusions. Let’s be clear on this. Both conservative and “liberal” media outlets are playing for the same team. They are all either big corporations themselves or they are owned and controlled by the six mega corporations which dominate the mass media. As such, a populist revolution is against their interest.
Earlier this week, an agitator appeared at Zuccotti Park. I presume he was planted there by FOX News, although I have no proof. He was a self-styled conservative African American who wanted to defend capitalism and Wall Street. Not surprisingly, the FOX News cameras followed his every word. He made outrageous claims, such as that redistribution of wealth is impossible, not just wrong, and that teachers unions bear responsibility for America’s decline, not the big banks which stole trillions through bailouts. And unfortunately, while some of us tried to engage him in honest discussion—I and a group of activists ended up respectfully (and perhaps fruitfully) debating the issues with him for hours after FOX News left— one guy did exactly what FOX News wanted; he refused to let the agitator talk and kept shouting slogans at him, enabling FOX to achieve its goal of making us look like an angry mob. I have been unable to locate the clip, but other pieces of coverage from FOX available on the Web sufficiently illustrate the nefarious nature of their coverage... Continue Reading:
http://thebloodycrossroads.com/403/the-mass-media’s-disgraceful-coverage-of-occupy-wall-street/FOX News and The New York Times prove yet again that both conservatives and mainstream... more
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PCW Extreme Political TV
Lehigh Stabler Arena
Bethleham, PA
Monday September 12th, 2011
Host: Johnny Suave
*Ten Bell Salute to commemorate the Tenth Anniversary of 9/11*
Suave introduces Professor Paul Krugman (D) of the New York Times in the ring.
Suave reviews two matches held earlier in the night…
-California Teachers Union: ‘The Foul Pole’ Andy Golatta/Malibu Dusty (D) vs. Charlie Blackwell/’No Frills’ Chris Escondido (I)
-Corporate Might: Big Oil and Kirk Walstreit (R) vs. Big Labor/Triple R (D).
BACKSTAGE
PCW Investigative Reporter Woodward Bernstein tries to interview The Longshoremen.
PCW CHAMPION YAMAMOTO TANAKA RETROSPECTIVE
Video tribute to PCW Champion Yamamoto Tanaka (D) who’s leaving after the Lock and Load PPV show.
PCW Women’s Champion Callie Urban (D) is in the ring. Urban calls out PCW’s Queen of Extreme Valora Salinas (I) to the ring.
MAIN EVENT: Round Two of the Lock and Load Play-In
Daniel-San (I) w/Mrs. Miyagi vs. Paul Ryan’s Raiders: Nick Ray and Kevin Collins (R) vs. Triple R (D)
The card for PCW Lock and Load in less than two weeks:
First round matches in PCW Lock and Load tournament
Daniel-San (I) w/Mrs. Miyagi vs. PCW Champion Yamamoto Tanaka (D)
‘American Citizen’ Kevin Scott (R) vs. ‘The One Man Hollywood A-List’ Stone Chism (D)
PCW Women’s Tag Team Title Match
PCW Women’s Tag Team Champions Merchants of Death: Angel Scott and Angel Casey (R) vs. TBA
PCW Tag Team Title Match
PCW Tag Team Champions The Schmidt Brothers: Jack and Joe (R) vs TBA
PCW King of Extreme Title Match
PCW King of Extreme Champion Keith Olbermann (D) vs. The Queen of Political Extreme Ann Coulter (R)
PCW Women’s Title Match
PCW Women’s Champion Callie Urban (D) vs. PCW’s Queen of Extreme Valora Salinas (I)
PCW Title Match
TBA vs. TBAPCW Extreme Political TV
Lehigh Stabler Arena
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On Monday, August 15, 2011 Legendary Jane Fonda hosted and signed her book title ”Prime Time” at Barnes & Noble in Los Angeles located 189 Grove Drive Suite K 30 in Los Angeles, CA 90036. PRIME TIME book is about: Love, health, sex, fitness, friendship, spirit–making the most of all of your life.
http://diversitynewsmagazine.com/2011/08/prime-time-book-signing-by-legendary-jane-fonda-at-barnes-noble-in-la/On Monday, August 15, 2011 Legendary Jane Fonda hosted and signed her book title... more
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Restart the U.S. economy with massive infrastructure spending or as Chris Matthews termed it "WPA 2.0". In order for this to work however we must shame our representatives into saying no to fixing the "crumbling infrastructure" their district.
http://crumblinginfrastructure.blogspot.com/Restart the U.S. economy with massive infrastructure spending or as Chris Matthews... more
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On July 18th, the former veteran show –business correspondent for the newspaper News of the World, died in his home located in Watford (a suburb of London). Police said his death was “unexplained” and “not thought to be suspicious”. It was noted that Mr. Hoare had a history of drug and alcohol abuse. As of yet, the toxicology test has still to come forth.
The reason why Mr. Hoare’s death is so unique is because he was the whistle-blower that exposed the phone-hacking scandal involving The Murdoch Empire along with the rest of their loyal lieutenants. He told the New York Times as early as September 2010 that Andy Coulson (Prime Minister Cameron former Communication Director) was aware of phone-hacking practices at News of the World and The Sun. The Milly Dowler case- exposed the practice and weakened the Murdoch brand and exposed the power wheeled by one mogul.On July 18th, the former veteran show –business correspondent for the newspaper... more
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Investment legend Roger McNamee says mobile has already killed search. Smartphone users hardly use search. Is Google no longer the gatekeeper to the web, business, the world? Will Google+ put them back in the money? Does today’s ‘Facebook for business’ launch roll the dice once again?Investment legend Roger McNamee says mobile has already killed search. Smartphone... more
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Obama wants to do things his own way and it does not include our founding fathers advice and doctrine.Obama wants to do things his own way and it does not include our founding fathers... more
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Found this great group on Facebook thought you wonderful ladies and guys, (what the hell right?) might wanna send him your drawers too!!!
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http://figrd.blogspot.com/2011/07/mail-million-panties-to-john-boehner.htmlFound this great group on Facebook thought you wonderful ladies and guys, (what the... more
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Conservative New York Times columnist David Brooks had harsh criticism of the Republican Party in light of their budget battle with Democrats. Michael Shure breaks down a Laura Ingraham clip with Rep. Ryan's response to the issue.Conservative New York Times columnist David Brooks had harsh criticism of the... more
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By A. E. HOTCHNER
EARLY one morning, 50 years ago today, while his wife, Mary, slept upstairs, Ernest Hemingway went into the vestibule of his Ketchum, Idaho, house, selected his favorite shotgun from the rack, inserted shells into its chambers and ended his life.
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There were many differing explanations at the time: that he had terminal cancer or money problems, that it was an accident, that he’d quarreled with Mary. None were true. As his friends knew, he’d been suffering from depression and paranoia for the last year of his life.
Ernest and I were friends for 14 years. I dramatized many of his stories and novels for television specials and film, and we shared adventures in France, Italy, Cuba and Spain, where, as a pretend matador with Ernest as my manager, I participated in a Ciudad Real bullfight. Ernest’s zest for life was infectious.
In 1959 Ernest had a contract with Life magazine to write about Spain’s reigning matadors, the brothers-in-law Antonio Ordóñez and Luis Miguel Dominguín. He cabled me, urging me to join him for the tour. It was a glorious summer, and we celebrated Ernest’s 60th birthday with a party that lasted two days.
But I remember it now as the last of the good times.
In May 1960, Ernest phoned me from Cuba. He was uncharacteristically perturbed that the unfinished Life article had reached 92,453 words. The contract was for 40,000; he was having nightmares.
A month later he called again. He had cut only 530 words, he was exhausted and would it be an imposition to ask me to come to Cuba to help him?
I did, and over the next nine days I submitted list upon list of suggested cuts. At first he rejected them: “What I’ve written is Proustian in its cumulative effect, and if we eliminate detail we destroy that effect.” But eventually he grudgingly consented to cutting 54,916 words. He was resigned, surrendering, and said he would leave it to Life to cut the rest.
I got on the plane back to New York knowing my friend was “bone-tired and very beat-up,” but thinking he simply needed rest and would soon be his old dominating self again.
In November I went out West for our annual pheasant shoot and realized how wrong I was. When Ernest and our friend Duke MacMullen met my train at Shoshone, Idaho, for the drive to Ketchum, we did not stop at the bar opposite the station as we usually did because Ernest was anxious to get on the road. I asked why the hurry.
“The feds.”
“What?”
“They tailed us all the way. Ask Duke.”
“Well ... there was a car back of us out of Hailey.”
“Why are F.B.I. agents pursuing you?” I asked.
“It’s the worst hell. The goddamnedest hell. They’ve bugged everything. That’s why we’re using Duke’s car. Mine’s bugged. Everything’s bugged. Can’t use the phone. Mail intercepted.”
We rode for miles in silence. As we turned into Ketchum, Ernest said quietly: “Duke, pull over. Cut your lights.” He peered across the street at a bank. Two men were working inside. “What is it?” I asked.
“Auditors. The F.B.I.’s got them going over my account.”
“But how do you know?”
“Why would two auditors be working in the middle of the night? Of course it’s my account.”
All his friends were worried: he had changed; he was depressed; he wouldn’t hunt; he looked bad.
Ernest, Mary and I went to dinner the night before I left. Halfway through the meal Ernest said we had to leave immediately. Mary asked what was wrong.
“Those two F.B.I. agents at the bar, that’s what’s wrong.”
The next day Mary had a private talk with me. She was terribly distraught. Ernest spent hours every day with the manuscript of his Paris sketches — published as “A Moveable Feast” after his death — trying to write but unable to do more than turn its pages. He often spoke of destroying himself and would sometimes stand at the gun rack, holding one of the guns, staring out the window.
On Nov. 30 he was registered under an assumed name in the psychiatric section of St. Mary’s Hospital in Rochester, Minn., where, during December, he was given 11 electric shock treatments.
In January he called me from outside his room. He sounded in control, but his voice held a heartiness that didn’t belong there and his delusions had not changed or diminished. His room was bugged, and the phone was tapped. He suspected that one of the interns was a fed.
During a short release he twice attempted suicide with a gun from the vestibule rack. And on a flight to the Mayo Clinic, though heavily sedated, he tried to jump from the plane. When it stopped in Casper, Wyo., for repairs, he tried to walk into the moving propeller.
I visited him in June. He had been given a new series of shock treatments, but it was as before: the car bugged, his room bugged. I said it very gently: “Papa, why do you want to kill yourself?”
“What do you think happens to a man going on 62 when he realizes that he can never write the books and stories he promised himself? Or do any of the other things he promised himself in the good days?”
“But how can you say that? You have written a beautiful book about Paris, as beautiful as anyone can hope to write.”
“The best of that I wrote before. And now I can’t finish it.”
I told him to relax or even retire.
“Retire?” he said. “Unlike your baseball player and your prizefighter and your matador, how does a writer retire? No one accepts that his legs are shot or the whiplash gone from his reflexes. Everywhere he goes, he hears the same damn question: what are you working on?”
I told him he never cared about those dumb questions.
“What does a man care about? Staying healthy. Working good. Eating and drinking with his friends. Enjoying himself in bed. I haven’t any of them. You understand, goddamn it? None of them.” Then he turned on me. I was just like the others, pumping him for information and selling him out to the feds. After that day, I never saw him again.
This man, who had stood his ground against charging water buffaloes, who had flown missions over Germany, who had refused to accept the prevailing style of writing but, enduring rejection and poverty, had insisted on writing in his own unique way, this man, my deepest friend, was afraid — afraid that the F.B.I. was after him, that his body was disintegrating, that his friends had turned on him, that living was no longer an option.
Decades later, in response to a Freedom of Information petition, the F.B.I. released its Hemingway file. It revealed that beginning in the 1940s J. Edgar Hoover had placed Ernest under surveillance because he was suspicious of Ernest’s activities in Cuba. Over the following years, agents filed reports on him and tapped his phones. The surveillance continued all through his confinement at St. Mary’s Hospital. It is likely that the phone outside his room was tapped after all.
In the years since, I have tried to reconcile Ernest’s fear of the F.B.I., which I regretfully misjudged, with the reality of the F.B.I. file. I now believe he truly sensed the surveillance, and that it substantially contributed to his anguish and his suicide.
I was in Rome the day he died.
I did not go to Ketchum for the funeral. Instead I went to Santa Maria Sopra Minerva, one of his favorite churches, and said goodbye to him there. I recalled a favorite dictum of his: man can be destroyed, but not defeated.
A. E. Hotchner is the author of “Papa Hemingway” and “Hemingway and His World.”By A. E. HOTCHNER
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