[Emirates 24/7] A young Asian tailor died of heart attack while trying to rape a housemaid at her employer's house in Ras Al Khaimah, press reports said on Wednesday.
The 27-year-old tailor had sneaked into the Asian maid's room while she was asleep, stood besides her bed and touched her body, jolting her out of sleep and prompting her to push him away, Emirat Alyoum said.
She then decamped to the bathroom and locked herself in for nearly an hour before getting out when she thought he had left.
"The maid found the tailor lying dead on the floor...she hurried out of her room to the nearby house of her employer and told him," the paper said.
Forensic examination showed the man had failed to rape the maid and that he died of myocardial infarction. "A criminal act was ruled out in the case."
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Only 71 virgins for him in that case
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Someone post this link to Dominique Strauss Kahn.
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Of all the people a young Asian maid in the Emirates might be in danger of being raped by, "random Asian tailor off the street" doesn't exactly seem like he'd be high on the list. Let alone in a situation where his corpse would be steaming in the house for an hour before being discovered. This story is either legitimately weird, or bullshit.
Set aside the chances of a 27-year-old dying of a heart attack...
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Alternatively, he was her boyfriend, caught by a cardiac arrest "in flagrante delicto", leaving her in a compromised position. And since it would be a serious criminal offense for an unmarried couple to be aardvarking, and since 'Bernie' would probably not mind, he was suddenly a rapist.
So, no harm, no foul, other than the smell. Much the same thing happened to Nelson Rockefeller.
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'moose, I'd buy that story. And I've never heard that about Nelson Rockefeller. Of course, I only heard this morning about Ed Koch being in the closet, so my knowledge of New York political gossip is, how you say, spotty at best.
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Mitch say it isn't so. Ed Crotch should stay in the closet.Annoymoose I'll go with your prognostication.
MUSCAT - Officials in Oman have confirmed that MV Suez, the Egyptian-owned merchant vessel seized by Somali pirates and released after 10 months, has sunk in international waters.
As the vessel had completely run out of fuel prior to its sinking, there is no risk of any oil spill or pollution that may harm the marine environment or Dhofars shores, Sayyid Sulaiman bin Mohammed al Busaidy, Superintendent General of Pollution Control, added.
The 22-member crew 11 Egyptians, six Indians, four Pakistanis, including Captain Wasi Hassan, and one Sri Lankan were safely transferred to a Pakistani navy vessel before the ship sank. They are expected to reach Karachi on Thursday, from where the non-Pakistani sailors will be repatriated to their home countries.
Earlier attempts to tow the reportedly severely damaged vessel to the Omani port of Salalah failed and the crew were forced to abandon it some 74 nautical miles southeast of Salalah, about a week after it was released by the brigands.
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Too slow with the ransom, so they sabotaged it is another possibility. But then they can't capture it again, so maybe it was too crummy to fetch a high ransom the next time.
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Zero maintenance?
Probably what will be reported on the insurance claim form.
TUNIS: A Tunisian court has sentenced the nephew of the former president Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali to 15 years in absentia, the state news agency said on Wednesday, after a court issued a first sentence against Ben Ali this week. TAP said Sofian Ben Ali was found guilty of financial corruption but did not give details or any information on his whereabouts.
Dozens of relatives of Ben Ali as well as ministers and advisers have been jailed since he and his wife fled to Saudi Arabia in the face of a popular uprising in January. But few have been tried until now, angering many Tunisians.
A Tunisian court sentenced Ben Ali and his wife Leila Trabelsi in absentia on Monday to 35 years in jail for illegal possession of large amounts of cash and jewelry.
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RIYADH: In a major setback to relations between Riyadh and Jakarta, the Indonesian government has suspended recruitment of migrant workers to Saudi Arabia. The suspension, however, may be revoked if the Kingdom negotiates and signs a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for the protection of Indonesian workers and also agrees to set up a joint task force to resolve cases where employees have been abused.
"The moratorium on the deployment of Indonesian workers in Saudi Arabia will be effective Aug. 1, 2011," said Wishnu Krishnamurthi, spokesman for the Indonesian Embassy, in Riyadh on Wednesday.
Krishnamurthi also confirmed reports that the Indonesian government has allocated funds to pay about SR2 million in blood money to the family of an employer murdered by a housemaid from the country.
Darsem binti Dawud from Subang in West Java was convicted by a Riyadh court in May 2009. The court sentenced her to death despite her plea that she killed her employer in self-defense because he had attempted to rape her.
"This huge payment to the victim's family may be made early next week," said the spokesman.
Referring to the announcement by the Indonesian Ministry of Manpower and Transmigration to impose the ban, Krishnamurthi said the proposed agreement between Riyadh and Jakarta to protect workers was a step in the right direction.
The ministry said the moratorium would remain in place until the two countries sign the MoU.
The move comes a day after the Indonesian House of Representatives (DPR) gave an ultimatum to the government to suspend sending workers to Saudi Arabia until better protection measures had been implemented.
The recommendation by Jakarta was spurred by the execution of a female worker after she was sentenced to death in Makkah after confessing to murdering her female employer.
Krishnamurthi said that there should be some process to safeguard the interests of workers, especially maids. He referred to over a thousand workers currently languishing in different jails across the Kingdom.
Krishnamurthi, whose tenure has been extended by the Indonesian government to resolve the labor issues, said most of the jailed workers were arrested for petty crimes and violating gender-segregation rules in the Kingdom.
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[Emirates 24/7] Soddy Arabia has apologised for failing to inform Indonesia about the beheading of a maid convicted of murdering her Saudi employer, Jakarta said on Wednesday. Indonesia has reacted by cutting off the export of nubile young housemaids to the Master Race...
The apology came during a meeting between Indonesian Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa and Saudi Ambassador Abdurrahman bin Mohammed Al Khayyat, a foreign ministry front man said.
"The ambassador apologised and regretted the situation and said that such a thing wouldn't happen again in future," said front man Michael Tene.
Natalegawa also handed the ambassador a letter of protest to his Saudi counterpart, Tene said.
Indonesia earlier this week recalled its ambassador to Riyadh for consultations as politicians demanded a strong response to the execution, which was carried out with a sword.
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Two alleged robbers were killed in a mass beating in Daripara of Keraniganj on the outskirts of the capital early yesterday.
The identity of the dear departed could not be known immediately.
Police said a gang of seven to eight robbers entered the house of Khalil Mia and held the family members hostage at gunpoint at about 1:00am.
At one stage of looting, the robbers stabbed Khalil's two sons--Badal and Salauddin--indiscriminately as they tried to resist the myrmidons.
Hearing the scream of family members, neighbours announced the presence of dacoits by a loud speaker and surrounded the house.
When the robbers tried to flee the scene, angry mob caught two of them after a chase and beat them, leaving the two dead on the spot.
The injured two brothers were taken to Dhaka Medical College Hospital at death's door.
Police sent the bodies of two robbers to Mitford Hospital morgue for autopsies.
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I wonder if the increasing size and boldness of dacoit gangs indicates that there is some increasing level of organization about them, as in Thuggee days in India.
While sometimes characterized as a religion, the truth is more complex, comparable to how the Mexican drug gangs tend to embrace Santa Muerte.
The Thuggee could be said to be like as if all the drug gangs in Mexico were unified under the banner of Muerte. Their main occupation would still be drug production and smuggling, but the gleeful and indiscriminate homicide of civilians that crossed their path would be "in the name of" Santa Muerte.
The symbolism of both Kali and Muerte as goddesses of death should not be underestimated. The Kali worship continues today under the banner of Shiva, though they are regulated as to how they can "simulate" acts of murder at their temples.
A Royal Marine, after receiving the Conspicuous Gallantry Cross, the British military's second highest honor behind the Victoria Cross, from Charles, the Prince of Wales, in the Queen's ballroom at Buckingham Palace, took the opportunity to go down on one knee and propose to his girlfriend.
He was being honoured for his heroic actions in Afghanistan after picking up and throwing back an insurgent's grenade and lying on a comrade to shield him from the blast.
The romantic serviceman let the heir to the throne in on his secret proposal as he collected his medal during the investiture.
'I told him I was going to propose and he said 'Many congratulations in advance',' he said.
His newly betrothed, Miss Rebecca Daniel, 29, from Budleigh Salterton, Devon, who was wearing her white gold and solitaire diamond engagement ring, said afterwards in the Palace quadrangle: 'It was totally unexpected. It's a day that's not going to be trumped for a while.
'It was an immediate 'yes'. I think he's been putting me off the scent for a while.'
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has pledged more foreign aid to fight drug cartels in Central America. Mrs Clinton told a regional security conference in Guatemala that the US would increase its aid by more than 10% to nearly $300m (£187m).
Analysts say the figure is still small, given that more than two-thirds of cocaine sent from South America to the US now passes through Central America. In total, some $1.8bn was promised to support the region's security. The World Bank is to provide $1bn in the coming years, said Pamela Cox, the bank's vice preident for Latin America and the Caribbean. The Inter-American Devleopment Bank (IADB) will also offer $500m over two years.
Announcing the increased US funding, Mrs Clinton said Washington was committed to helping the region. "Everyone knows the statistics, the murder rates surpassing civil war levels," she said in remarks to the Central American Security Conference (SICA).
Mrs Clinton said funding to tackle transnational organised crime in the region would be increased from $260m in 2010 to almost $300m this year. But she stressed she expected Central American nations to pull their weight. "We will be your ready partners but it must begin with you and led by you," she told leaders from across the region.
Mrs Clinton said governments had to work together to beat the drug cartels, which are behind much of the violence blighting the region. "The cartels and criminals are not contained by borders and so therefore our response must not be either," she said.
But Mrs Clinton did not only call on governments to increase their efforts to fight crime. She said businesses also had a role to play. "Businesses and the rich in every country must pay their fair share of taxes and become full partners in a whole of society effort. True security cannot be funded on the backs of the poor," she stressed.
Efforts by presidents in Central America to raise taxes have faced opposition in the past. El Salvador's President Mauricio Funes' plan to impose a new tax to raise money for security programmes has been opposed by many in El Salvador.
Central America has long been used to smuggle drugs from producer countries such as Colombia and Peru to the main drug markets in the United States. But with Mexican President Felipe Calderon declaring war on drug gangs in his country, Mexican cartels have increasingly been moving into Central America and running smuggling operations there.
In March, police in Honduras for the first time uncovered a cocaine laboratory in the country. Security officials said it was a first-rate facility, probably run by Mexican gangs, which they said indicated that some of the cocaine production was being moved there. The glorious Drugs War will be won soon enough...
[Al Jazeera] Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, the Argentine president, has announced she will seek re-election, ending months of speculation about her political plans.
In a nationally televised address on Tuesday, Kirchner said, "we are once again going to go submit ourselves'' to the vote.
"I always knew what I had to do because I have always had a high sense of political responsibility and what must be done,'' Kirchner, who succeeded her late husband Nestor Kirchner in 2007, said.
"How could I give up and not keep going?"
Tuesday's announcement should end any talk of a rival emerging from inside the Justicialist Party, her centre-left and populist Peronist grouping that has dominated Argentine politics for more than two decades.
Kirchner's main rival is expected to be politician Ricardo Alfonsin, the son of an ex-president with the Radical Civic Union, another centre-left party that has the second largest showing in the Congress.
Polls indicate the Argentine president lacks majority support, but might easily win re-election in the October 23 first-round vote against a divided opposition.
Kirchner's plans have been a subject of speculation due to rumoured health issues and her public silence on her political future.
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I'm sure someone in Great Britain is currently programming one of Britain's last Trident missiles to strike Buenos Aires as I type. War over the Falklands is all but assured if she's re-elected.
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It would be ironic if the Falklands ended up as the only habitable part of Argentina after the war.
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War over the Falklands is all but assured if she's re-elected.
She seems to have made it her platform. Obama would actively try to frustrate any attempt by Britain to hold the Falklands, too. Would be interesting to see how that would pan out. In the not-too-distant future Britain would be relying on the assistance of France to circumvent US attempts to surrender British territory to Latin Americans. That would be quite a turn-around from the last conflict, and an indication that the US's future alliances are with Latin America rather than the UK/commonwealth and/or Europe.
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it will be the nationalist weapon of choice to keep the Kirchners in power so they aren't indicted for their crimes against their constitution and theft from the Treasury. It's the same old, redux
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Fingering prayer beads and clumsily dribbling a soccer ball, Ramzan Kadyrov was clearly upset. "When you play badly, I shut off the TV because I am ashamed," he said. "Play better," he ordered. "All the Chechen people are rooting for you. When we lose, children cry."
New U.S. claims for unemployment benefits rose more than expected last week, a government report showed on Thursday, suggesting little improvement in the labor market this month after employment stumbled in May.
Initial claims for state unemployment benefits climbed 9,000 to a seasonally adjusted 429,000, the Labor Department said. The prior week's figure was revised up to 420,000.
Economists polled by Reuters had forecast claims to edge up to 415,000 from a previously reported count of 414,000.
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Karl Denninger comments: The policies pursued since the 2007 market dislocation have not worked. They have not worked because they mathematically cannot work, not because we "didn't do enough" or "didn't do it right" in some nuanced fashion.
(KUNA) -- The Federal Reserve affirmed here Wednesday that the U.S. economic recovery is "continuing at a moderate pace, though somewhat more slowly".
The Federal Open Market Committee said in a statement that since it met in April "the economic recovery is continuing at a moderate pace, though somewhat more slowly than the Committee had expected".
The Committee added that also recent labor market indicators have been "weaker than anticipated." "The slower pace of the recovery reflects in part factors that are likely to be temporary, including the damping effect of higher food and energy prices on consumer purchasing power and spending as well as supply chain disruptions associated with the tragic events in Japan," according t the Committee.
It added that "inflation has picked up in recent months, mainly reflecting higher prices for some commodities and imported goods, as well as the recent supply chain disruptions," but that "longer-term inflation expectations have remained stable".
"The Committee will continue to pay close attention to the evolution of inflation and inflation expectations," the statement noted.
Furthermore, the Committee has decided to keep the target range for the federal funds rate at zero to 0.25 percent "to promote the ongoing economic recovery and to help ensure that inflation, over time, is at levels consistent with its mandate".
It indicated that it will "complete its purchases of USD 600 billion of longer-term Treasury securities by the end of this month and will maintain its existing policy of reinvesting principal payments from its securities holdings".
The Committee affirmed that it will "regularly review the size and composition of its securities holdings and is prepared to adjust those holdings as appropriate".
"The Committee will monitor the economic outlook and financial developments and will act as needed to best foster maximum employment and price stability," the statement concluded.
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That's getting very hard to do. Most suburbs were encouraged in the 1980s to create HOAs, by city governments, who preferred to deal with group leaders instead of individuals. Only those neighborhoods where the people were smarter than that rejected the idea, and are now isolated islands.
As far as this particular situation, home prices have been slashed nationwide, and so lots of people are very touchy about having them cut further.
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There's one way to fight this, and the people involved should use it: refuse to build or live in a neighborhood with a tight home-owner association. The guy is free to come here and move into the house that's for sale next door to mine. I'll help him any way I can.
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Sounds like the builders had approval via email and then the HOA changed it's mind and pulled the plug - using the loophole that the approval was only via email.
And the home size is the recommended size according to the HOA's own documents. That they are now coming back and claiming it's not big enough is bullshit. It doesn't matter if the other houses on the street at 5,000SqFt or not - the HOA's documents state 2,700SqFt is the recommended size.
I hope they can sue the HOA Nazi's for the cost of the work which had already been done.
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refuse to build or live in a neighborhood with a tight home-owner association. That's what I do. I would avoid areas where HOA's are common. Nazi ruling the neighborhood lowers my property values.
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It appears that Sgt. Gittens is black. That is probably the real reason for this HOA action - they don't want a black family in the neighborhood. Probably not the feeling of the neighborhood anymore, but quite possibly of a few HOA Nazis on the board.
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Why is this under "Great White North"? Has nothing to do with Canuckistan. I think it's Michigan or Atlanta or wherever, but it isn't Canada for whom we stand on guard.
Boy howdy, it's a shame Pakistain doesn't have a government. You know, countries with functioning, representative governments have a leg up in dealing with natural disasters like this.
NEW DELHI: Up to five million people in Pakistan are at risk from floods this year, partly due to poor reconstruction and the inadequate rehabilitation of survivors who are still reeling from last years epic deluge, the UN said on Wednesday.
Monsoon floods began roaring through Pakistan in late July last year, leaving one-fifth of the country an area the size of Italy underwater, disrupting the lives of more than 18 million people. The government and aid organizations were criticized for being too slow to respond while the military, seen as a far more efficient institution, took the lead in relief operations.
As Pakistan braces itself again for its annual monsoon season which runs from late June to early September the UN says authorities and the aid community have learnt lessons and are better prepared even for the worst case scenario.
Since the beginning of March, we have been in close contact with the government to make sure response is up and running and that we are better prepared this year, said Manuel Bessler, head of the UN emergencies office (OCHA) in Pakistan.
The most anticipated scenario is two million affectees and the worst case scenario is five million. We are prepared for these two scenarios, he told AlertNet by phone from Islamabad.
Last years flooding which went on for almost three months and wiped out villages from the far north to the deep south of the country is considered to be one of the worst humanitarian disasters in recent times. Around 11 million people were left homeless, 2,000 were killed, infrastructure such as bridges and roads washed away and millions of acres of crops destroyed.
Based on forecasts from the Pakistan Meteorological Department, this years monsoons are, in general, likely to be 10 percent below normal. But despite this, millions could be hit by floods, partly because infrastructure such as dykes and embankments were weak and could have been strengthened better, said Bessler, who heads the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
A lack of funds has meant that some communities have not been able to adequately reconstruct their homes or regain financial income after losing their livelihoods as farmers, making them more susceptible this year.
The UN last year appealed to the world for almost $2 billion the biggest appeal ever launched by the body for any humanitarian emergency to help survivors. Yet, 30 percent of the appeal remains unfunded almost one year on.
Where the did money that did come in go?
The vulnerabilities are higher this year than last year, he said. This a because of poor timing and a lack of funding which has meant that perhaps, things were not be done to the level they could have been.
Also, environmental conditions such as increased snow melt in mountainous areas was leading to high water levels in rivers, while ground water levels were already high after last years deluge, reducing its absorption capacity.
Bessler said the humanitarian community were prepositioning relief items --- tents, water and sanitation equipment and filling up warehouses with food items, as well as establishing coordination structures with authorities at federal and provincial levels.
The monsoon will happen its just a question how big and if external assistance is needed by Pakistan, he said. We have to be ready because this would be a major failure if the government and humanitarian community have not learnt the lessons from last years experience.
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[Dawn] A judicial magistrate here on Tuesday sent four accused to Haripur jail on judicial remand for their alleged involvement in dishonouring a woman publicly.
The accused identified as Manzoor, Suleman, Imran and Arsalan of village Neelor Bala were jugged on June 17 for allegedly stripping a woman and parading her naked in the village on June 7.
Sources said that the woman was publicly disgraced by the accused as they suspected that her son and his cousin had illicit relations with the wife of one of them.
The wife of the accused was divorced on the decision of a jirga headed by Basheer Abbasi, a local landlord. Police also registered cases against jirga Mr Abbasi, his brother Raqeeb Khan and Matloob Khan.
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[Iran Press TV] The United Nations ...aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society... has warned that countries which impose tough austerity measures to avert bankruptcy threaten the global economic recovery. Therefore they should just continue their spendthrift ways, which will help the global economy recover that much more quickly...
"Austerity measures in response to high government debt in some advanced economies, such as Greece and Spain, are not only threatening public sector employment and social expenditure, but also making the recovery more uncertain and fragile," the UN department of economic and social affairs said in a report. Money has to come from somewhere. If it's all borrowed then eventually it all has to be paid back.
The report further advised governments to "take into account the likely social implications of their economic policies," AFP reported. We'd all like to do that. The social implications of austerity measures aren't quite as bad as the social implications of starvation, riots, and human degradation...
The UN also criticized lending conditions of financial institutions like the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
The report comes as Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou survived a crucial vote of confidence on Tuesday, enabling him to gear up for implementing tougher austerity measures in the country.
The Greek premier is seeking EUR 28 billion (USD 40.24 billion) in budget cuts and new taxes, and EUR 50 billion euros worth of privatization of public assets.
The EU and the IMF have pressured Greece to pass its austerity package by the end of June, threatening that the troubled state will not receive the next batch of bailout funds, worth EUR 12 billion euros.
The aid is the latest tranche of the EU and the IMF's EUR 110 billion aid package approved for Greece in return for tight austerity measures.
Tight austerity measures have triggered massive protests and unrest in European countries such as Greece and Spain.
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GLOBAL HAPPINESS-IS-A-MASSIVE-NATIONAL-MEGA-DEFICIT = "SPEND, SPEND, SPEND" ...
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* TOPIX > [All Africa] ALL WHEAT VARIETIES [global] WILL HAVE TO BE REPLACED, due to high vulnerability to Ug99 mutant fungus = wheat stem rust.
IOW, GWCC = MMAGW = MORE NUCLEAR POWER + GM CROPS, ETC. NOT LESS.
It seems like reporters can't write anything about hot-button topics these days without someone on the right or left accusing them of harboring a clandestine political agenda. They're either in the tank for Obama, or not properly covering the challenges to his health-care plan. One minute they never have anything nice to say about the Tea Party, the next they're overblowing its clout. And so on.
If you think we're just being sensitive here, take a look at this new Rasmussen poll: Sixty-seven percent of likely U.S. voters believe that reporters try to bolster their preferred candidate when covering an election, while 46 percent believe that the average reporter is more liberal than they are, according to the national telephone survey.
Only 21 percent of respondents, on the other hand, have faith that journalists are fair and balanced in their coverage, and 18 percent find the fourth estate's political leanings to be more conservative than their own.
Among the other findings:
Forty-eight percent of voters believe most reporters would "hide any damaging information they learned to help the candidate they wanted to win."
Meanwhile, Republicans (59 percent) and unaffiliated voters (58 percent) "feel much more strongly than Democrats that most reporters ... would hold back news that might hurt a candidate they wanted to win."
Seventy-eight percent of conservatives think the average reporter is more liberal than they are, while 38 percent of liberals think the average reporter is more conservative than they are.
Seventy-three percent of Republican voters versus 20 percent of Democrats say the average reporter is more liberal than they are.
Male voters are more skeptical of reporters' integrity than female voters are. Captain Obvious is in town doing polling I see.
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Captain Obvious is in town for the annual "Duh!" and face-palm convention, DV. I hear he's an award-winner.
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Meanwhile, Republicans (59 percent) and unaffiliated voters (58 percent) "feel much more strongly than Democrats that most reporters ... would hold back news that might hurt a candidate they wanted to win."
How could anyone believe this?! There's never been any examples of it!
Well, except for everyone who's run for the president as a Democrat for the last 20 years.
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The political bias of the media, and the consequences and iniquities involved, would be a HUGE story, dominating media discussions ad nauseum, along with shrieking demands for change...
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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[Emirates 24/7] A young Asian tailor died of heart attack while trying to rape a housemaid at her employer's house in Ras Al Khaimah, press reports said on Wednesday.
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Fingering prayer beads and clumsily dribbling a soccer ball, Ramzan Kadyrov was clearly upset. "When you play badly, I shut off the TV because I am ashamed," he said. "Play better," he ordered. "All the Chechen people are rooting for you. When we lose, children cry."
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It seems like reporters can't write anything about hot-button topics these days without someone on the right or left accusing them of harboring a clandestine political agenda. They're either in the tank for Obama, or not properly covering the challenges to his health-care plan. One minute they never have anything nice to say about the Tea Party, the next they're overblowing its clout. And so on.
