Telegraph: At least 200 potential terrorists are actively planning suicide attacks while living freely in Britain, intelligence chiefs have warned ministers. A senior intelligence source has revealed that the figure is a “conservative” estimate of the threat facing the country from UK-based Islamist suicide bombers. The would-be killers are among 2,000 extremists who the security [...]
“I just know that the right-wingers are going to try to claim him because he was a giant success. Please don’t do it, right-wingers. He was not one of you. He was not a corporate type. He was an Obama voting, pot-smoking Buddhist. He wasn’t one of you. So don’t try to claim Steve Jobs.” [...]
Financial Times: Weeks after taking to the streets in Manhattan, Occupy Wall St demonstrators are camped a block from the White House. Many of them are wondering: do they have a friend inside? While not endorsing the protests, Barack Obama and Joe Biden have expressed understanding of the movement that has spread rapidly across the [...]
Washington Post: The Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum on the Mall was abruptly closed Saturday afternoon after a “large group of protesters” tried to push past security guards and enter the museum, a spokeswoman said. A demonstrator lies on the ground at an entrance to the National Air and Space Museum in Washington after [...]
CARACAS (Reuters) – Socialist firebrand Hugo Chavez condemned on Saturday the “horrible repression” of anti-Wall Street protesters and termed a Republican presidential candidate “crazy” for his criticism of Cuba and Venezuela. Not surprisingly, Chavez expressed solidarity with American activists who have been staging rallies and marches against what they view as corporate greed by Wall [...]
Wall Street Journal: When Barack Obama and Herman Cain both ran for U.S. Senate seats in 2004, Mr. Obama was the media’s Chosen One and Mr. Cain was the Invisible Man. That was then. A CBS News poll released this week shows Mr. Cain and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney tied for first place in [...]
MOSCOW (AFP) – Vladimir Putin will travel to China next week to cement long-standing ties with the world’s top energy consumer, the prime minister’s first trip abroad since he announced his planned Kremlin comeback. Accompanied by a 160-member delegation including top tycoons, Mr Putin will visit Beijing on October 11-12 for energy and political talks [...]
The Hill: House Republicans released an email Friday evening showing that a senior Treasury Department official in August expressed concern that the Energy Department’s early 2011 restructuring of the solar company Solyndra’s $535 million loan guarantee may have been illegal. The restructuring put private investors, who were providing another $75 million to the struggling company, [...]
Jerusalem World News: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has accused Turkey of agreeing to install an early warning system that is designed to protect Israel against Iranian missile attack if war breaks out between Iran and Israel. “The missile defense shield is aimed at defending the Zionist regime. They don’t want to let our missiles land [...]
Excerpted from The Daily Caller: Rep. Paul Gosar jabbed back at Attorney General Eric Holder after he swiped at him and other congressional Operation Fast and Furious investigators in a late Friday letter. Gosar told The Daily Caller that “In Main Street America, you’d never get away with” dissembling about the gun-walking program, and that [...]
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Reuters: Authorities shut down Washington’s popular National Air and Space Museum on Saturday afternoon after antiwar protesters tried to enter the building and clashed with guards, a museum spokeswoman said. One person was arrested during the melee at the Smithsonian museum involving between 150 and 200 protesters and six guards, museum spokeswoman Isabel Lara said. [...]
