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Leading Democratic senators call for US diplomatic presence in Iran
In a letter to President Bush, John Kerry and others back the establishment of a US interests section in Iran, which would be the first US diplomatic presence in the country since 1979
The Guardian – 12 hours, 44 minutes ago ¦ comment?
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In a letter to President Bush, John Kerry and others back the establishment of a US interests section in Iran, which would be the first US diplomatic presence in the country since 1979
The Guardian – 12 hours, 44 minutes ago ¦ comment?
found in World
Junk Science: Is T. Boone 'Swiftboating' America?
Former backer of smear campaign against John Kerry now adored by Democrats -- for trying to hoodwink the rest of us about his hot-air natural-gas plan.
Fox News – 18 hours, 15 minutes ago ¦ comment?
found in Politics: Opinions
Former backer of smear campaign against John Kerry now adored by Democrats -- for trying to hoodwink the rest of us about his hot-air natural-gas plan.
Fox News – 18 hours, 15 minutes ago ¦ comment?
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BWL executive gets $49K raise
Six months after the commission governing the Board of Water and Light approved rate hikes for its customers, commissioners Tuesday voted General Manager J. Peter Lark a $49,000 pay raise.The move, which comes a year into LarkWed, 23 Jul 2008 15:33:00 EDThttp://www.lansingstatejournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080723/NEWS01/307230003/1002/NEWS01McCain, Obama spend $6M on Michigan TV adshttp://www.lansingstatejournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080723/NEWS01/807230402/1002/NEWS01Presidential candidates John McCain and Barack Obama have appealed to Michigan voters with nearly $6 million in campaign ads so far.The nonpartisan Michigan Campaign Finance Network said today that a check of advertising data at television stations shows Republican McCain spent $3.2 million airing ads between May 28 and July 20.Democrat Obama spent $2.7 million for ads running between June 20 and July 28.Total spending is far less than in 2004, when advertising by President Bush and Democrat John Kerry started in March.The Republican National Committee has run nearly $1 million in ads for McCain, but other third-party advertising has been light.Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:10:00 EDThttp://www.lansingstatejournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080723/NEWS01/807230402/1002/NEWS01Chrysler plans to cut 1,000 salaried jobshttp://www.lansingstatejournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080723/NEWS01/807230399/1002/NEWS01DETROIT - Chrysler LLC says it will cut 1,000 salaried jobs worldwide by Sept. 30.Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:48:00 EDThttp://www.lansingstatejournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080723/NEWS01/807230399/1002/NEWS01Youth ministry continues work on Lansing homehttp://www.lansingstatejournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080723/NEWS01/807230401/1002/NEWS01The volunteers on the Reaching a Generation for Eternity Youth Ministries mission trip continue to work today on a new home in Lansing.Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:27:00 EDThttp://www.lansingstatejournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080723/NEWS01/807230401/1002/NEWS0154A District Court closed for computer upgradeshttp://www.lansingstatejournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080723/NEWS01/807230398/1002/NEWS01The 54A District Court will be closed today and Thursday so employees can complete a planned conversion of the court's computer system, which contains all case information.Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:24:00 EDThttp://www.lansingstatejournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080723/NEWS01/807230398/1002/NEWS01
Lansing State Journal – Jul 23, 2008 7:55 PM [GMT] ¦ comment?
found in Local: Michigan: Lansing
Six months after the commission governing the Board of Water and Light approved rate hikes for its customers, commissioners Tuesday voted General Manager J. Peter Lark a $49,000 pay raise.The move, which comes a year into LarkWed, 23 Jul 2008 15:33:00 EDThttp://www.lansingstatejournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080723/NEWS01/307230003/1002/NEWS01McCain, Obama spend $6M on Michigan TV adshttp://www.lansingstatejournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080723/NEWS01/807230402/1002/NEWS01Presidential candidates John McCain and Barack Obama have appealed to Michigan voters with nearly $6 million in campaign ads so far.The nonpartisan Michigan Campaign Finance Network said today that a check of advertising data at television stations shows Republican McCain spent $3.2 million airing ads between May 28 and July 20.Democrat Obama spent $2.7 million for ads running between June 20 and July 28.Total spending is far less than in 2004, when advertising by President Bush and Democrat John Kerry started in March.The Republican National Committee has run nearly $1 million in ads for McCain, but other third-party advertising has been light.Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:10:00 EDThttp://www.lansingstatejournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080723/NEWS01/807230402/1002/NEWS01Chrysler plans to cut 1,000 salaried jobshttp://www.lansingstatejournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080723/NEWS01/807230399/1002/NEWS01DETROIT - Chrysler LLC says it will cut 1,000 salaried jobs worldwide by Sept. 30.Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:48:00 EDThttp://www.lansingstatejournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080723/NEWS01/807230399/1002/NEWS01Youth ministry continues work on Lansing homehttp://www.lansingstatejournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080723/NEWS01/807230401/1002/NEWS01The volunteers on the Reaching a Generation for Eternity Youth Ministries mission trip continue to work today on a new home in Lansing.Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:27:00 EDThttp://www.lansingstatejournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080723/NEWS01/807230401/1002/NEWS0154A District Court closed for computer upgradeshttp://www.lansingstatejournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080723/NEWS01/807230398/1002/NEWS01The 54A District Court will be closed today and Thursday so employees can complete a planned conversion of the court's computer system, which contains all case information.Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:24:00 EDThttp://www.lansingstatejournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080723/NEWS01/807230398/1002/NEWS01
Lansing State Journal – Jul 23, 2008 7:55 PM [GMT] ¦ comment?
found in Local: Michigan: Lansing
McCain and Obama Courting Military Vets
The power of veterans as voters was dramatized in the 2004 election, when John Kerry's military service became a centerpiece of his campaign and a target for opponents. This week, both presidential candidates launched efforts to woo what could be a decicive voting bloc.
Military.com – Jul 22, 2008 04:00 AM [GMT] ¦ comment?
found in Politics: Military
The power of veterans as voters was dramatized in the 2004 election, when John Kerry's military service became a centerpiece of his campaign and a target for opponents. This week, both presidential candidates launched efforts to woo what could be a decicive voting bloc.
Military.com – Jul 22, 2008 04:00 AM [GMT] ¦ comment?
found in Politics: Military
Independent Groups Step Up On-Air Ads
Independent groups have yet to unveil an ad as damaging as the Swift Boat Veterans spot that hurt Sen. John Kerry's presidential bid in 2004. But as the summer goes on, more groups are producing radio and TV spots targeting the presidential race and key Senate battles.
NPR.org – Jul 18, 2008 8:21 PM [GMT] ¦ comment?
found in Politics
Independent groups have yet to unveil an ad as damaging as the Swift Boat Veterans spot that hurt Sen. John Kerry's presidential bid in 2004. But as the summer goes on, more groups are producing radio and TV spots targeting the presidential race and key Senate battles.
NPR.org – Jul 18, 2008 8:21 PM [GMT] ¦ comment?
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Clark's experience in combat was brief
This letter responds to the Sunday letter "Retired general knows about combat," from Greg King. Obviously, King didn't do his homework on retired Gen. Wesley Clark's combat experience. Clark served only one month of combat in Vietnam before being air-evacuated to the United States because of wounds he received from the Viet Cong. This is about three months less than Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., served as a Swift Boat commander.
Columbus Dispatch – Jul 18, 2008 07:21 AM [GMT] ¦ comment?
found in Politics: Opinions
This letter responds to the Sunday letter "Retired general knows about combat," from Greg King. Obviously, King didn't do his homework on retired Gen. Wesley Clark's combat experience. Clark served only one month of combat in Vietnam before being air-evacuated to the United States because of wounds he received from the Viet Cong. This is about three months less than Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., served as a Swift Boat commander.
Columbus Dispatch – Jul 18, 2008 07:21 AM [GMT] ¦ comment?
found in Politics: Opinions
Lionel Beehner: Doctored photos undermine credibility of photojournalism
Leave it to the Iranians to make waves by launching a bunch of missiles, only to flub it up by falsifying the photos of missile tests. Yet Iran's military honchos are not the only ones guilty of using Photoshop for propagandistic purposes. The Kremlin has begun digitally removing images of dissidents from political talk shows - but sloppily leaving their feet in the footage, for some reason. Russia, of course, has a long history of altering images for nefarious reasons - Stalin used to airbrush his opponents out of photographs and insert himself next to his comrade in arms, Lenin. If a photo is worth a thousand words, then a doctored photo is worth a million. In this age of Photoshop, nothing is sacred ground, not even reporters' mug shots at the paper of record. Fox News allegedly altered photos of two New York Times reporters its host smeared as "attack dogs" by - yes - yellowing their teeth and moving back their hairlines. Yet this is no case of Republican camera trickery. Remember that Ann Coulter got similar treatment when her leggy body graced the cover of Time Magazine. Madison Avenue has also gotten in on the photo-altering act. Recall a Gatorade ad recently making the rounds on YouTube, where a girl leaps over the leftfield wall to catch a fly ball. The footage, of course, was faked - cables lifted her off the ground, not grit, determination or thirst-quenching Gatorade. Or take the NBA's latest marketing campaign, which melds together the mug shots of on-court foes like Larry Bird and Magic Johnson. Not one but two magazine covers - Time and the New Republic - gave similar treatment to the faces of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, prompting accusations of unoriginality from both sides (both are guilty of plagiarism - it was first done by Late Night with Conan O'Brien's "If they mated" bit). Humourists, too, have jumped on the Photoshop bandwagon. One of the most popular websites of recent memory shows the Garfield comic strip, minus the cat - leaving a lonely Jon talking to himself, pathetically staring off into space. Or watch a popular digitally altered YouTube clip of PBS' Charlie Rose hilariously interviewing himself. Yet where will this new era of visual dissembling leave us? Will it turn us all into dupes, holed up in our basements listening only to Morse code because it'll be only remaining thing we can trust? Maybe not, but we should be more aware than ever that the field of photojournalism has been invaded by myriad amateurs lurking on the web, where ample material exists to doctor, twist, embellish or distort. Who can forget the falsified image of a just-back-from-Vietnam John Kerry at a 1970s anti-war rally behind Jane Fonda? The whole point of photojournalism, of course, is that it does not lie - it illustrates to readers what so many column inches can't. More worrisome, however, is that photos in the news do not even have to be doctored to distort reality or damage someone's credibility. Take the picture beamed around the world by helicopter last month of a lost Amazonian tribe, clad in saffron and angrily shaking their sticks. The photo was not doctored but it turns out to have been a hoax no less - the tribe had been known for 100 years. Or recall the photograph of Obama clad in Muslim garb? Every election leaves some iconic image embedded in the minds of voters, for better or worse. The photo that sticks in my head most recently has nothing to do with politics. It captures a car ploughing headfirst into a motorcade of oncoming Mexican bicyclists. With bike and body parts messily splayed across the photo, like a reality-based version of a Jackson Pollack painting, it is a snapshot of a horrific moment in time, a freeze frame of utter chaos. No Photoshop wizard can touch up such a tragedy. The picture, as it should, speaks for itself.Related StoriesMultimillion pound security project shelved by ministersCybercrime: Teenage hacker in global scam dischargedJonathan Glancey: Full steam againSteve Boxer: The videogames that will never see the light of dayThe videogames that will never see the light of day
The Guardian – Jul 16, 2008 4:00 PM [GMT] ¦ comment?
found in Technology
Leave it to the Iranians to make waves by launching a bunch of missiles, only to flub it up by falsifying the photos of missile tests. Yet Iran's military honchos are not the only ones guilty of using Photoshop for propagandistic purposes. The Kremlin has begun digitally removing images of dissidents from political talk shows - but sloppily leaving their feet in the footage, for some reason. Russia, of course, has a long history of altering images for nefarious reasons - Stalin used to airbrush his opponents out of photographs and insert himself next to his comrade in arms, Lenin. If a photo is worth a thousand words, then a doctored photo is worth a million. In this age of Photoshop, nothing is sacred ground, not even reporters' mug shots at the paper of record. Fox News allegedly altered photos of two New York Times reporters its host smeared as "attack dogs" by - yes - yellowing their teeth and moving back their hairlines. Yet this is no case of Republican camera trickery. Remember that Ann Coulter got similar treatment when her leggy body graced the cover of Time Magazine. Madison Avenue has also gotten in on the photo-altering act. Recall a Gatorade ad recently making the rounds on YouTube, where a girl leaps over the leftfield wall to catch a fly ball. The footage, of course, was faked - cables lifted her off the ground, not grit, determination or thirst-quenching Gatorade. Or take the NBA's latest marketing campaign, which melds together the mug shots of on-court foes like Larry Bird and Magic Johnson. Not one but two magazine covers - Time and the New Republic - gave similar treatment to the faces of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, prompting accusations of unoriginality from both sides (both are guilty of plagiarism - it was first done by Late Night with Conan O'Brien's "If they mated" bit). Humourists, too, have jumped on the Photoshop bandwagon. One of the most popular websites of recent memory shows the Garfield comic strip, minus the cat - leaving a lonely Jon talking to himself, pathetically staring off into space. Or watch a popular digitally altered YouTube clip of PBS' Charlie Rose hilariously interviewing himself. Yet where will this new era of visual dissembling leave us? Will it turn us all into dupes, holed up in our basements listening only to Morse code because it'll be only remaining thing we can trust? Maybe not, but we should be more aware than ever that the field of photojournalism has been invaded by myriad amateurs lurking on the web, where ample material exists to doctor, twist, embellish or distort. Who can forget the falsified image of a just-back-from-Vietnam John Kerry at a 1970s anti-war rally behind Jane Fonda? The whole point of photojournalism, of course, is that it does not lie - it illustrates to readers what so many column inches can't. More worrisome, however, is that photos in the news do not even have to be doctored to distort reality or damage someone's credibility. Take the picture beamed around the world by helicopter last month of a lost Amazonian tribe, clad in saffron and angrily shaking their sticks. The photo was not doctored but it turns out to have been a hoax no less - the tribe had been known for 100 years. Or recall the photograph of Obama clad in Muslim garb? Every election leaves some iconic image embedded in the minds of voters, for better or worse. The photo that sticks in my head most recently has nothing to do with politics. It captures a car ploughing headfirst into a motorcade of oncoming Mexican bicyclists. With bike and body parts messily splayed across the photo, like a reality-based version of a Jackson Pollack painting, it is a snapshot of a horrific moment in time, a freeze frame of utter chaos. No Photoshop wizard can touch up such a tragedy. The picture, as it should, speaks for itself.Related StoriesMultimillion pound security project shelved by ministersCybercrime: Teenage hacker in global scam dischargedJonathan Glancey: Full steam againSteve Boxer: The videogames that will never see the light of dayThe videogames that will never see the light of day
The Guardian – Jul 16, 2008 4:00 PM [GMT] ¦ comment?
found in Technology
CBS Poll: Obama Leads But Race Looks Fluid
Barack Obama leads John McCain 45 percent to 39 percent in the latest CBS News/New York Times poll of registered voters nationwide. But the race appears more fluid than the 2004 battle between George Bush and John Kerry.
CBS News – Jul 15, 2008 10:27 PM [GMT] ¦ comment?
found in Politics
Barack Obama leads John McCain 45 percent to 39 percent in the latest CBS News/New York Times poll of registered voters nationwide. But the race appears more fluid than the 2004 battle between George Bush and John Kerry.
CBS News – Jul 15, 2008 10:27 PM [GMT] ¦ comment?
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Terror alerts misused, Sen. John Kerry says
Sen. John Kerry yesterday strongly suggested that President George W. Bush used the terror alert system created after the 2001 terrorist attacks to boost his political campaign...
BostonHerald.com – Jul 15, 2008 03:26 AM [GMT] ¦ comment?
found in Local: Massachusetts: Boston
Sen. John Kerry yesterday strongly suggested that President George W. Bush used the terror alert system created after the 2001 terrorist attacks to boost his political campaign...
BostonHerald.com – Jul 15, 2008 03:26 AM [GMT] ¦ comment?
found in Local: Massachusetts: Boston
Veterans, Senators, Once Pals
John Kerry has stepped up criticism of John McCain, but those who know them both say they once shared a genuine affection for each other.
Washington Post – Jul 9, 2008 6:07 PM [GMT] ¦ comment?
found in Top Stories
John Kerry has stepped up criticism of John McCain, but those who know them both say they once shared a genuine affection for each other.
Washington Post – Jul 9, 2008 6:07 PM [GMT] ¦ comment?
found in Top Stories