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American Airlines' attempt to ditch pension riles feds, labor unions

Sat, 11 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Seattle Times - By Steven Mufson - Feb. 11 (News Report) - Now in bankruptcy proceedings, the airline wants to terminate its four pension plans for 130,000 workers and retirees and ask the government's Pension Benefit Guarantee Corp. to bail out its unfunded pension obligations to the tune of $9 billion.

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Survey Paints Portraits of Black Women In America

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - Feb. 09 (News) -

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Capitol Assets: Some legislators send millions to groups connected to their relatives - Washington Post

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Scott Higham, Kimberly Kindy, David S. Fallis - Feb. 08 (Investigative Report) - .. the practice has continued unabated, the Post found.

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Karl Rove ‘offended’ by Clint Eastwood’s Chrysler ad

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Rachel Weiner - Feb. 07 (News Report) - A Chrysler ad aired during the Super Bowl Sunday night has inspired ire among some Republicans and admiration among some Democrats — with both sides seeing a political message that boosts President Obama.

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Unions Shocked By American Airlines Proposed Cuts

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

All Things Considered - By Wade Goodwyn - Feb. 02 (News Report) - American Airlines is looking to cut 13,00 jobs as part of a restructuring. The company — which is in bankruptcy — also wants to reduce salaries by 20 percent and end its pension plan.

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What the Occupy movement must learn from Sundance

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

The Guardian - By Naomi Wolf - Feb. 01 (Special Report) - the violent crackdown against the Occupy movement in the United States represented the first salvos of a civil war initiated by political and allied economic elites against protesters in a nascent movement whose still-not-fully articulated agenda would represent a threat to their unmediated and untransparent hold on profits. And a civil war it has indeed turned out to be. The Los Angeles Police Department is engaging in training exercises with the US military. At a parallel march in support, in New York City, a new apparition – large groups of masked men – joined the protesters, which is, globally, a sign that provocateurs intent on violence have joined the scene; ...

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British tourists arrested in America on terror charges over Twitter jokes

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Daily Mail - By Richard Hartley-Parkinson - Jan. 30 (News Report) - Two British tourists were barred from entering America after joking on Twitter that they were going to 'destroy America' and 'dig up Marilyn Monroe'. Leigh Van Bryan wrote the message weeks before he was due to go to Los Angeles with friend Emily Banting and it was picked up by American special agents. 'They asked why we wanted to destroy America and we tried to explain it meant to get trashed and party. 'I almost burst out laughing when they asked me if I was going to be Leigh's lookout while he dug up Marilyn Monroe. 'I couldn't believe it because it was a quote from the comedy Family Guy which is an American show.

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Apple: Poor working conditions inside the Chinese factories making iPads

Sun, 29 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Daily Mail - Jan. 29 (News) - Staff and safety experts have spoken out about the conditions in Chinese factories, with banners in one giving a warning of: 'Work hard on the job today or work hard to find a job tomorrow'.

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Rep. Gabrielle Giffords stepping down

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 09:07:00 -0800

Los Angeles Times - By By Ashley Powers, Lisa Mascaro, Los Angeles Times - Jan. 23 (News) - Rep. of Arizona, who came to symbolize hope and resilience as she tenaciously recovered from a gunshot wound to the head during the last year, announced she would resign from Congress to concentrate on her recovery. Giffords, 41, announced her plans in a

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Support for Internet Bill Wanes as Protests Spread

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Jonathan Weisman - Jan. 18 (News Report) - Senator Marco Rubio, Republican of Florida, announced he would no longer back the anti-Internet piracy legislation he had co-sponsored. Senator John Cornyn, a Texas Republican, quickly followed suit.

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Web Piracy Bills Invite a Protracted Battle

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Jenna Wortham, Somini Sengupta - Jan. 16 (News Report) - The Obama administration’s statement of opposition to antipiracy legislation let the technology industry claim a victory, but few in Silicon Valley or Hollywood consider the battle over.

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One Percent, Many Variations

Sun, 15 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Shaila Dewan, Robert Gebeloff - Jan. 15 (Special Report) - Adam Katz is happy to talk to reporters when he is promoting his business, a charter flight company based on Long Island called Talon Air. But when the subject was his position as one of America’s top earners, he balked. Seated at a desk fashioned from a jet fuel cell, wearing a button-down shirt with the company logo, he considered the public relations benefits and found them lacking: “It’s not very popular to be in the 1 percent these days, is it?”

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In Greece, fears that austerity is killing the economy - The Washington Post

Wed, 11 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Anthony Faiola - Jan. 11 (News Report) - Unemployment has surged to 18.8 percent from 13.3 percent only a year ago.

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Automakers in a race for buyers of mid-size family cars

Wed, 11 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Los Angeles Times - By Jerry Hirsch - Jan. 11 (News Report) - Ford, GM, Honda and Nissan are all rolling out revamped models this year, with added features and better gas mileage.

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Warren Buffett Ready to Take Republicans' Tax Challenge

Wed, 11 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Time - By Rana Foroohar - Jan. 11 (News) - Buffett has pledged to match 1 for 1 all such voluntary contributions made by Republican members of Congress. “And I’ll even go 3 for 1 for McConnell,” he says. That could be quite a bill if McConnell takes the challenge; after all, the Senator is worth at least $10 million. As Buffett put it to me, “I’m not worried.”

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Google's Social Move Attracts Critics - NYTimes.com

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - Jan. 10 (News Report) - After Google announced that it was integrating material from Google+ into its search results, the Web shot back, attacking the company and accusing it of pushing aside competing social networks, including Twitter and Facebook.

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U.S. Car Manufacturers Have Record December

Wed, 04 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

ABC News - By Susanna Kim - Jan. 04 (News Report) - Chrysler announced its best monthly retail sales in four year years, leading the pack of U.S. car makers who had capped a robust 2011 with strong December sales.

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Obama: Recess appointment is his "obligation"

Wed, 04 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

USA Today - By Aamer Madhani - Jan. 04 (News Report) - In a speech in Shaker Heights, Ohio, Obama made it official that he would install the former Ohio general as the head of the newly created Consumer Financial Protection Bureau through recess appointment and hammered Republicans for blocking Cordray's appointment.

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@MentionMachine tracks the presidential candidates: Who’s up, who’s down on Twitter?

Tue, 03 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Cory Haik, Amanda Zamora, Natalie Jennings - Jan. 03 (Special Report) - When Texas Gov. Rick Perry declared his candidacy for the Republican nomination Aug. 13, the same day as the Ames Straw Poll, those watching social streams could have rightfully assumed he had won the Iowa contest. Twitter exploded with Perry mentions, even though he didn’t participate in the straw poll, while the winner, Rep. Michele Bachmann (Minn.), drew far less attention. Social media was the writing on the wall. Perry would soon trend up in polls, surpassing Bachmann and the rest of the field. Twitter was the early — scratch that — Twitter was the real-time warning ...

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Powerhouse Websites Consider Internet Blackout

Fri, 30 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Fox News - Dec. 30 (News) - Anti-SOPA pop-up banners online protest a law that many argue will dramatically alter the Internet. In the growing battle for the future of the Web, some of the biggest sites online -- Google, Facebook, and other tech stalwarts -- are considering a coord

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Under Obama, an emerging global apparatus for drone killing

Wed, 28 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Greg Miller - Dec. 28 (Special Report) - The Obama administration’s counterterrorism accomplishments are most apparent in what it has been able to dismantle, including CIA prisons and entire tiers of al-Qaeda’s leadership. But what the administration has assembled, hidden from public view, may be equally consequential. In the space of three years, the administration has built an extensive apparatus for using drones to carry out targeted killings of suspected terrorists and stealth surveillance of other adversaries. The apparatus involves dozens of secret facilities, including two operational hubs on the East Coast, virtual Air Force cockpits in the Southwest and clandestine bases in at least six countries on two continents. ...

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Kim Jong Un Leads Funeral Procession For His Father

Wed, 28 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Associated Press - Dec. 28 (News) - Wailing and clutching at their hearts, tens of thousands of North Koreans lined the snowy streets of Pyongyang on Wednesday as the hearse carrying late leader Kim Jong Il's body wound its way through the capital for a final farewell.

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FDA Won’t Act Against Ag Antibiotic Use

Fri, 23 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Wired - Dec. 23 (News) - With no notice other than a holiday-eve posting in the Federal Register, the US Food and Drug Administration has reneged on its long-stated intention to

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Sen. Ron Wyden leaps into middle of Internet piracy fight

Thu, 22 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

The Oregonian - Dec. 22 (News) - WASHINGTON -- There's a lot of stealing going on across the Internet's great wide expanse, with movies, music and software all protected by copyrights particularly ripe for the illegal taking. But how to deal with a problem that by one estimate costs pr

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Special Report: The watchdogs that didn't bark

Thu, 22 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Reuters - Dec. 22 (News) - Special Report: The watchdogs that didn't bark Reuters By Scot Paltrow (Reuters) - Four years after the banking system nearly collapsed from reckless mortgage lending, federal prosecutors have stayed on the sidelines, even as judges around the country are pointing fingers at possible wrongdoing. ... The Mortgage Law Group Shares Good News With Homeowners Facing Holiday Foreclosure MarketWatch (press release) New state law will regulate foreclosure rescue fraud scams The Star-Ledger - NJ.com Despite Widespread Wrongdoing, Fed'l Prosecution of Institutions Involved in ... ABA Journal The Olympian LoanSafe all 30 news ...

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