LiveNetMedia.com - World Politics http://www.livenetmedia.com/ en-us Fresh off its latest political victory in Alaska, the Tea Party Express is now jumping into the Delaware Republican Senate primary to back longshot Christine O'Donnell, a fiscal conservative whose deep financial problems are grabbing headlines and could prevent the increasingly powerful grassroots movement from scoring another major upset in two weeks.
Reported by FOXNews.com Wed, 01 Sep 2010 22:55:01 +0000 One of William Hague's special advisers has resigned over "untrue and malicious" rumours made against him, the foreign secretary has said.
Reported by BBC News Wed, 01 Sep 2010 22:45:34 +0000 *Dog days of August*
Augusts, to be frank, are not President Obama's friend. The past month was no different, at least as measured by public opinion polling. Obama was on a downswing heading into the month, and his numbers reflect this in a stark way. In other words, it was a bad month for Obama.
As I pointed out last month, "Augusts, to put it mildly, haven't been very kind to Obama. Wed, 01 Sep 2010 22:45:34 +0000 Candidates have been in their districts, making nice to likely mid-term voters. They're more scarce than general election voters, and typically a more polarized bunch. What if there were more of them and more low-income people, particularly women, were in the mix?
In a country where 131 million people voted in the 2008 presidential election, a few million more voters sprinkled across the states,... Wed, 01 Sep 2010 22:45:34 +0000 Quebec pundits feast on probe of former justice minister's allegations of influence peddling against Premier Jean Charest
Reported by Globe and Mail Wed, 01 Sep 2010 22:42:38 +0000 U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Jim Steinberg held talks Wednesday with China's top envoy on the six-party talks on North Korea's nuclear programs as Beijing seeks an early resumption of the long-stalled denuclearization framework, the State Department said. During their meeting at the State Department,... Wed, 01 Sep 2010 22:42:38 +0000 The United Nations said Wednesday that actors, singers, athletes and other celebrities are joining the push for action against extreme poverty, hunger and disease. The move is intended to accelerate progress toward achieving the eight-point antipoverty Millennium Development Goals by the 2015 target date, ahead of a U.N. summit on the goals slated for Sept. 20-22 in New York.
Reported by Kyodo Wed, 01 Sep 2010 22:42:38 +0000 The SA Government wants more details on a special meeting of Burnside Council which will discuss the Chelsea Cinema.
Reported by ABC News Wed, 01 Sep 2010 22:40:38 +0000 Failed Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Jeff Greene is suing the St. Petersburg Times and The Miami Herald for libel over articles Greene claims cost him votes.
Reported by Miami Herald Wed, 01 Sep 2010 22:40:38 +0000 Montgomery Co. Police Dept. Chief Thomas Major told reports that the suspect in the hostage situation at Discovery Channel headquarters has been shot and is in custody. His condition is unknown at this time.
Reported by CBS News Wed, 01 Sep 2010 22:40:38 +0000 NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Wednesday shot down speculation he might succeed Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, saying he would only leave office early if he were totally incapacitated or died.
Reported by Reuters Wed, 01 Sep 2010 22:40:38 +0000 Sharron Angle's (R-NV) campaign today announced a new website titled, Harry Reid Soundboard. It is an interactive site that shows Reid gaffes in balloons like you would read in a cartoon and by clicking on the gaffe it plays a sound bite of Reid saying the gaffe. Announcement from the website of Sharron Angle:... Wed, 01 Sep 2010 22:26:33 +0000 Former Clark County Sheriff Bill Young (R-NV) yesterday announced his endorsement for US Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV). (Click here to watch video) Bill Young adds his name to a growing list of Nevada Republicans who are now supporting Senator Reid because of the extremist views of Sharron Angle (R-NV). Wed, 01 Sep 2010 22:26:33 +0000 Bjorn Lomborg is author of The Skeptical Environmentalist and Cool It, both books about the environment that tried to put global warming into some kind of rational perspective, which God knows it needs. Yesterday he issued a call for $100 billion a year to be spent fighting global warming, which has got everybody confused. Wed, 01 Sep 2010 22:26:33 +0000 New York Mayor Michael R, Bloomberg today sought to dispel rumors that he might be aspiring to higher office, vowing to serve out his full term as mayor. Asked in a Bronx news conference if there were any circumstances under which he might leave office early, the mayor said "yes, if I died." Beyond that he said that only "total incapacitation" would cause him to leave before 2013. Wed, 01 Sep 2010 22:26:33 +0000 New York Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg today said that he welcomed an anti-mosque protest on the 10th anniversary of the 9-11 terrorist attacks. "Why do I have to have a reaction?," responded Bloomberg, a chief proponent of the Park51 Islamic Cultural Center. "It's the First Amendment. They have a right to protest. They have a right to say what they want. There's no reason to even have the question. Wed, 01 Sep 2010 22:26:33 +0000 Alan Simpson is a name you might not be familiar with. He's a former Republican senator from Wyoming (which already says a lot), a former member of the Iraq Study Group and current co-chair of President Obama's National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform. That he's a Republican who wants to dismantle social security isn't that big of a surprise,... Wed, 01 Sep 2010 22:26:33 +0000 In three 5-2 rulings, the Florida Supreme Court has slapped down and out the latest set of partisan ideological overreaches by Republican legislators. Proposed 2010 ballot amendments 3, 7 and 9 are now history. The first was an ill-advised tax giveaway, a vote-getting ploy at a time of economic crisis. The second was an attempt to undermine Citizens Initiative Amendments 5 & 6. Wed, 01 Sep 2010 22:26:33 +0000 Democrats for Israel, Los Angeles is the southern California voice of the Jewish community in the Democratic Party, and the voice of the Democratic Party in the Jewish Community. Twenty years ago, California Democratic Party activists organized to oppose anti-Israel resolutions at state party annual conventions. Wed, 01 Sep 2010 22:26:33 +0000 Parley's Nature Park is not only making waves with dog owners, preservationists, bike riders and property owners; it's causing more friction between Salt Lake City and Salt Lake County. Earlier this year, the city complained that the county gets double taxation by having the city pay the county for emergency services it already provides. Wed, 01 Sep 2010 22:26:33 +0000 In a "shocking" development, the richest members of Congress keep getting richer. That's the news from an analysis out today by the Congressional newspaper, The Hill, which found that despite the worst economic downturn since the Depression, the 50 wealthiest members of Congress saw their collective fortunes rise to $1.4 billion in 2009 --an $85.1 million jump from 2008. Wed, 01 Sep 2010 22:26:33 +0000 The government in Kenya is setting up laws to protect the new constitutional equality. A new republic began on August 27 when President Mwai Kibaki announced the change to a constitution with a bill of rights. Labor leaders will settle on laws that implement the labor protections in Section 41. The large majority of the people, 66. Wed, 01 Sep 2010 22:26:33 +0000 The following are the headlines of top stories carried by major Japanese newspapers in their Thursday morning editions: -- Kan, Ozawa in heated debate at press conference as DPJ leadership race kicks off (Asahi, Mainichi)
Reported by Kyodo Wed, 01 Sep 2010 22:16:16 +0000 Selected editorial excerpts from the Japanese press: DPJ ON RIGHT COURSE WITH OPEN SHOWDOWN (The Daily Yomiuri as translated from The Yomiuri Shimbun's editorial published Sept. 1)
Reported by Kyodo Wed, 01 Sep 2010 22:16:16 +0000 We read of it nearly every day: Mexico appears to be imploding. Murders, assassinations of local politicians, kidnappings. A war between the drug cartels which acted with what appeared -- from the outside at least -- to be governmental neglect if not permission, and the presidency of Felipe Calderon who has taken them on. Wed, 01 Sep 2010 22:10:57 +0000 Over the past several years, grassroots groups across the country have held mass marches, lobbied government officials and used civil disobedience to call for reform of the nation's immigration system. As part of a continuing series of interviews on the prospects of comprehensive immigration reform (CIR) and the pro-CIR movement, I interviewed grassroots leaders from Michigan,... Wed, 01 Sep 2010 22:10:57 +0000 When people think of political films, their thoughts usually turn to stories of dense intrigue and skullduggery like "The Manchurian Candidate," or morally uplifting fare like "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington." And yet, Hollywood has long known that politics was a sphere ripe for satirical appropriation. Wed, 01 Sep 2010 22:10:57 +0000 Mission accomplished? The Iraq war did more than anything to alienate the Atlantic powers from the rest of the world today the Iraq war was declared over by Barack Obama. As his troops return home, Iraqis are marginally freer than in 2003, and considerably less secure. Two million remain abroad as refugees from seven years of anarchy, with another 2 million internally displaced. Wed, 01 Sep 2010 22:10:57 +0000