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Markets Are Rising In The Calm Before The Storm Tomorrow is the big day, when we might get clues about whether the Fed will begin to pull back a bit on monetary easing. Today is the calm before the storm, and it’s pretty quiet. Futures are up in the US and markets are higher in Europe. Japan ended down merely 0.2%, which is super-quiet. China gained 0.4%. Today we get CPI and housing starts. Both should be [...] by Floyd Brown, WesternJournalism.com: In the book 1984, the government watches everything you do with ubiquitous cameras, microphones recording every word spoken, drones flying in the air—they literally knew what everyone was thinking before they thought it. Change the title of the book 1984 to 2013 and replace the revelations in the last few days, and one finds a surveillance state that makes 1984 look like child’s play. First, we learned that the Obama administration was keeping track of every [...] Print money. Create wealth effect in stocks & housing. Happy days. #Bernanke waited 4 yrs for this. Now he owns the crash. But he’s leaving. https://twitter.com/JamesGRickards/status/337321683906084864 Even The Pros Hate Everything About This Market And The Economy Blame Bernanke! Blame of the Bank of Japan! Just don’t enjoy Dow 15,000. Yesterday we pointed out that on the occasion of the Dow hitting 15,000, it was still clear that people still detested this stock market rally, based on the fact that everyone screams “RIGGED” or “PONZI” or “BERNANKE” on every uptick. But it’s not just mouth-breathing comment-section trolls who do this. The pros [...] raw footage Philippines – Mt. Mayon in Albay erupted on Tuesday morning, GMA News reporter Lia Mañalac del Castillo reported. http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/307144/news/regions/mayon-volcano-spews-ash-smoke-phivolcs-says-no-cause-for-panic Mount Mayon erupting – see pic in tweet https://twitter.com/anonopsmob/status/331568347953119233 One of the Philippines’ most active volcanoes rumbled to life Tuesday, spewing room-sized rocks toward nearly 30 surprised climbers, killing five and injuring others that had to be fetched with rescue helicopters and rope. http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/4-climbers-killed-in-philippine-volcano-eruption-rescue-ongoing-for-others/2013/05/06/4ff8a852-b6b8-11e2-b568-6917f6ac6d9d_story.html Philippines – Mt. Mayon in Albay erupted on Tuesday morning, GMA News reporter Lia Mañalac del Castillo reported. (Updated 12:03 p.m.) - After months of relative quiet, Mayon Volcano spewed ash and smoke early Tuesday, startling residents in Albay province in Bicol. Residents saw an ash column coming from the volcano, according to a report by radio dzBB’s Carlo Mateo. “We were starting our prayer and somebody spotted it. It was really beautiful,” Sister [...] BBC Persian reporter: Residents heard blasts in Iranian capital. Three explosions were heard in western Tehran on Tuesday, in an area where Iran carries out missile research and storage, according to a Tweet by a BBC Persian journalist. It was not immediately clear if there were injuries or damage in the incident. http://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/3-explosions-heard-in-Tehran-near-missile-facility-312369 Allegations of chemical weapons use in Syria may be supported by the United States, France, Britain, Israel, and Qatar, but former Ohio Congressman Dennis Kucinich thinks they might just be Western-manufactured pretexts for war. The anti-war Democrat, who went on a fact-finding mission to Syria in June 2011, sent out a little-noticed tweet on Thursday imploring his followers to “Google ‘Syria #FalseFlag #Chemical Weapons’” if they’re “trying to make sense of [...] Former vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin came out with a strongly worded tweet condemning the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner, calling its participants “assclowns” after the dinner concluded. Here’s the tweet:
Twitter/@SarahPalinUSA Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/sarah-palin-whcd-tweet-white-house-correspondents-dinner-2013-4#ixzz2RloKYr4j Mark M. Jaycox and Kurt Opsahl and Rainey Reitman [Editor's note: This article appeared yesterday at EFF.org] Yesterday, the US House prepared for the debate on the privacy-invading “cybersecurity” bill called CISPA, the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act. The rules committee hearing was the last stop before the bill is voted on by the full House. In the hearing, Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI) was questioned about the core problems in the bill, like [...] ‘North Korea has launched a missile’, Japan mistakenly tweets attack to 40,000 followers OFFICIALS in the Japanese city of Yokohama were left red-faced today after mistakenly announcing the launch of a North Korean missile to 40,000 followers on Twitter. The city, south of Tokyo, prematurely fired its tweet, announcing “North Korea has launched a missile.” There were also blank spaces included where the exact time of the launch was supposed to have been [...] App to be retired on July 1st
Google has angered thousands of internet users by announcing it is to close its ‘Reader’ service. The service lets users see updates from their favourite websites in one place. However, the growth of Twitter has made it far less popular. Google announced the closure of Reader is this [...] from Zerohedge: As ZD reports, last night Anonymous once again hacked a .gov site, this time the Alabama Criminal Justice Information Center (ACJIC). But it was not the site hacked that was material, but rather what was posted on it. What was posted is an extended data dump sheet, titled “oops we did it again” which lists some 4,606 rows of confidential credential data including titles, names, addresses, emails, phone numbers, logins, [...] Gross: The cliff is better than a 50% probability & then comes the debt ceiling! Dysfunctional Washington is bad for risk assets. https://twitter.com/PIMCO/status/282878279277498372 Gross: Japan’s Abe means business this time. Trillions of yen to be printed. Weak yen, positive inflation. https://twitter.com/PIMCO/status/283247035363250177 Ethan A. Huff The annual Santa Claus parade in Kingston, Ontario, does not normally feature any type of Grinch character. But the Canadian town’s longtime tradition was obstructed by one this year, who decided to go around telling all the young children in attendance that Santa Claus is not real. According to the Toronto Star, the 24-year-old man, who has not been publicly named, was arrested by police for [...] Fox News anchor Brian Kilmeade is under fire after saying his own network finds its female on-air talent by flipping through a Victoria’s Secret catalog and making sure ‘they went to college.’ During Kilmeade’s radio show on Friday, a guest called in and complimented Alisyn Camerota, a fellow Fox News anchor who joins Kilmeade on his radio program and typically fills in for Fox & Friends host Gretchen Carlson. The caller said: ‘I [...] from Zerohedge: Update: the following tweet from Israel’s ambassador to the US, Michael Oren, will hardly help:“ALERT: Tel Aviv area was just hit by a rocket attack from #Gaza” Despite having lost its prominent headline position in the global media, the things in Gaza are going from bad to worse with news reports that Israeli ground forces are preparing to enter the Gaza Strip which will take the confrontation to an effective ground war level, even [...] (CNSNews.com) – The Secret Service has expanded its operation to Twitter, urging Americans to report on their fellow citizens whose tweets “concern you.”
“To report a tweet that concerns you, call the nearest field office in your state,” the Secret Service tweeted on Oct. 23. The agency then links to a list of contact numbers for Field Offices in each state. The Secret Service sent another tweet on Wednesday, again asking its followers to report tweets. [...] RT.com With less than two weeks to go before the US presidential election, the Secret Service is ramping up its intelligence-gathering efforts and asking Twitter users to report threatening tweets against politicians to a local field office. Debates over the November 6 election are already raging on social media: Users exchanged around 6.5 million tweets during the third presidential debate on Monday, and a few of the messages contained death [...] Republicans are bracing themselves for Gloria Allred to make a potentially damaging revelation about Mitt Romney, just weeks before the election. The pro-President Obama lawyer is rumoured to be preparing for her so-called ‘October surprise’ in which she will strike the Republican presidential hopeful’s chances by unearthing some sort of secret or scandal. Ms Allred has refused to comment on the rumours, which first surfaced in a tweet by the Drudge Report’s [...] |
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‘Oh, screw them!’ Ann Coulter dismisses her critics as ‘word police’ after refusing to apologize for calling Obama a ‘retard’
Conservative political commentator Ann Coulter has defended calling President Obama a ‘retard,’ brusquely dismissing her critics after her tweet set off a firestorm among advocates of people with mental disabilities.
During her appearance on Alan Colmes’ Fox News Radio show on Thursday, Coulter shrugged off the outcry over her choice of words, saying she doesn’t regret using the offensive term in reference to the president and blaming ‘liberal bullies’ for the [...]