Israel vs. Iran -- U.N. Should Censure Israel (ContributorNetwork)

COMMENTARY | Members of the United Nations should take steps to immediately censure Israel. Even if I were not a former political consultant, I would still be able to see that Israel is simply trying to get international support for a strike on Iran. If the U.N. takes steps right now to quiet the country for at least a short time, war might be averted.

I am not suggesting Israel be kicked out of the international body or permanently censured. I believe a few days to a few weeks should be considered to give the rest of the world time to focus on the reports that state Iran might be working toward nuclear armaments. The constant barrage by Benjamin Netanyahu and other Israeli officials is sure to cloud the investigation and the progress that needs to be attempted before an eruption happens in the region.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy and President Barack Obama have given their point of view on Netanyahu, albeit through a microphone they believed was shut off. Both of these world leaders apparently believe the leader of Israel is a "liar." If he is a liar, or is covering up the truth, his nation should be quieted for a short time until things can be straightened out.

While a move to censure Israel might appear as a win from Iran, it would not be. It would simply be a way to clear the air and would show that the United Nations will not tolerate the constant push to bring about war with a nation that might not even be on the way to nuclear armaments. Remember, the lesson was learned in Iraq about misleading reports that point to weapons of mass destruction.

The great thing about a censure is that a vote can be taken at any time to lift the ban on speaking in forum. If the U.N. body needs to question Israel on their intelligence, the ban can be temporarily lifted. Once a conclusion has been agreed upon by the nations as to how to deal with Iran, the censure can be lifted as well. This reduces the interference and gives everyone the opportunity to investigate this issue before something happens that cannot be reversed.

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RIM vows to keep developing Flash for BlackBerry PlayBook - no joke (Digital Trends)

Since the Steve Jobs biography came out, we?ve heard a lot about his ?reality distortion field,? or how he would make crazy things happen by getting everyone to believe it. RIM may have a reality distortion field of its own right now, but it?s not a good one. Despite Adobe vocally dropping support for Flash mobile and crowning HTML5 a victor over its own product, RIM is determined to keep developing Flash for its BlackBerry PlayBook.

?As an Adobe source code licensee, we will continue to work on and release our own implementations. RIM remains committed to delivering an uncompromised Web browsing experience to our customers, including native support for Adobe Flash Player on our BlackBerry PlayBook tablet (similar to a desktop PC browser), as well as HTML5 support on both our BlackBerry smartphone and PlayBook browsers,? RIM told AllThingsD. ?In fact, we are pleased that Adobe will focus more efforts on the opportunities that HTML5 presents for our developers, and shares our commitment to HTML5 as we discussed together at DevCon Americas.?

While we don?t necessarily want RIM to just drop support for Flash out of nowhere, its commitment to continuing to spend its own money developing a product that Adobe itself is abandoning seems, well, somewhat odd. Also, RIM still has not delivered on any of the promises it made on the BlackBerry PlayBook when it launched in April. There is still no Android app support, no native email client, and no native calendar, among other things that were promised for Summer 2011. Many apps, like its podcasting app, remain somewhat useless as well. A new Staples app shows the PlayBook at a discounted $200 price point, but even at that price, we would probably recommend somebody pick up an Amazon Kindle Fire or Nook Tablet or a $300 tablet. The PlayBook?s app library just isn?t there and we?re beginning to doubt that things will get better for the struggling tablet. We love the intuitiveness of the BlackBerry Tablet OS, but RIM has a lot of issues to fix if it hopes to move forward.?

What do you think? Do you have a PlayBook and love it? Should RIM dedicate its own resources to keeping a dying platform running on its dying tablet?

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ARM Planning OCTO-CORE Mobile Graphics Processor for 2013 [Guts]

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Alabama county files for bankruptcy (Politico)

Alabama?s most-populated county voted Wednesday to file for bankruptcy in the largest municipal bankruptcy ever in United States history, according to reports.

The Jefferson County Commission voted 4-1 to file for an estimated $4.1 billion bankruptcy, The Birmingham News reported. The commission decided to seek Chapter 9 bankruptcy protection due to the county?s $3.14 billion sewer debt.

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The move comes just a month after the Pennsylvania city of Harrisburg filed for municipal bankruptcy due to massive debt. Harrisburg is the state?s capital.

Municipality bankruptcy is extremely unusual, experts say, and Jefferson County?s filing ranks at the top of the list. Other high-profile Chapter 9 filings include two in California: Orange County?s 1994 filing with about $2 billion in debt and Vallejo?s 2008 filing with about $100 million in debt. Bridgeport, Conn., filed in 1991 with more than $100 million in debt, but the state had the bankruptcy dismissed.

Jefferson County ? home to Alabama?s largest city, Birmingham ? has been close to bankruptcy since 2008, the Birmingham News wrote. Although the county had reached an agreement with creditors such as JPMorgan Chase in September to reduce the debt, Reuters reported, the deal?s terms were never finalized. The county had first agreed to repay $2.05 billion to creditors, but that figure recently jumped to $2.19 billion and helped spark the Wednesday vote, Reuters wrote.

Commissioner Jimmie Stephens said the county ?has, in effect, been in bankruptcy for three years,? according to The Associated Press.

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Mississippi and Kentucky elect governors

Christi Chandler, left, and Stacy Hawsey, both of Madison and supporters of the Personhood Amendment promote their initiative as they waver signs at drivers in the midst of last minute campaigning Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2011 in Madison, Miss. The Mississippi measure that would define life as beginning at conception was given a decent chance of approval. Passage would be the first victory in the country for the so-called personhood movement, which aims to make abortion all but illegal. Similar attempts have failed in Colorado and are under way elsewhere. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

Christi Chandler, left, and Stacy Hawsey, both of Madison and supporters of the Personhood Amendment promote their initiative as they waver signs at drivers in the midst of last minute campaigning Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2011 in Madison, Miss. The Mississippi measure that would define life as beginning at conception was given a decent chance of approval. Passage would be the first victory in the country for the so-called personhood movement, which aims to make abortion all but illegal. Similar attempts have failed in Colorado and are under way elsewhere. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

Firefighter Tom Sullivan campaigns against Issue 2 outside a polling location in Strongsville, Ohio Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2011. Ohioans are deciding the winner of this year's drawn-out fight over a law limiting collective bargaining for 350,000 unionized public workers. The issue tops the Election Day list of ballot questions before the state's voters. (AP Photo/Mark Duncan)

Firefighter Tom Sullivan campaigns against Issue 2 outside a polling location in Strongsville, Ohio Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2011. Ohioans are deciding the winner of this year's drawn-out fight over a law limiting collective bargaining for 350,000 unionized public workers. The issue tops the election day list of ballot questions before the state's voters. (AP Photo/Mark Duncan)

Denita Jones casts her affidavit ballot Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2011 in Brandon, Miss. Voters throughout the state are voting for statewide offices, legislative seats and some county offices. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

Voters chose governors in Mississippi and Kentucky on Tuesday, casting ballots that could foreshadow the public's political mood just two months ahead of the first presidential primary and nearly four years into the worst economic slowdown since the Depression.

A wide range of ballot measures was also being decided, including a hotly debated proposal to restore the bargaining rights of Ohio public employees and a Mississippi referendum on whether to define life as beginning at conception. Supporters of the Mississippi measure hope to use it to mount a legal attack on Roe v. Wade, the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decision that established the right to abortion.

In both governors' races, the offices were expected to stay in the hands of incumbent parties, suggesting voters are not ready to abandon their loyalties, despite the nation's economic woes. Still, the contests were being closely watched for any hints going into 2012, when 10 states will elect governors.

Faced with deep budget gaps and tea-party pressure to curb spending, Republican governors around the country have sought union-limiting measures throughout the year. In Ohio, voters will decide whether to repeal a new law severely limiting the bargaining rights of more than 350,000 teachers, firefighters, police officers and other public employees.

Recent polls suggested the repeal movement would succeed. The disputed law permits workers to negotiate wages but not pensions or health care benefits, and it bans public-worker strikes, scraps binding arbitration and eliminates annual raises for teachers.

The outcome will no doubt be watched by presidential candidates as a gauge of the Ohio electorate, which is seen as a bellwether. No Republican has won the White House without Ohio, and only two Democrats have done so in more than a century.

Also on the Ohio ballot was a proposal to prohibit people from being required to buy health insurance as part of the national health care overhaul. A vote against the health care law would be mostly symbolic, but Republicans hope to use the outcome as part of a legal challenge.

The governors' races will be of keen interest to both parties, since governors can marshal get-out-the-vote efforts crucial to any White House candidate. The first presidential primary is Jan. 10 in New Hampshire.

In Mississippi, Lt. Gov. Phil Bryant appeared poised to keep the governor's mansion in GOP hands, succeeding Haley Barbour, who toyed with a run for president. Bryant faced Hattiesburg Mayor Johnny Dupree, the first black major-party nominee for governor in Mississippi.

In Kentucky, Democratic Gov. Steve Beshear cruised toward re-election despite high unemployment, budget shortfalls and an onslaught of third-party attack ads.

The Mississippi measure that would define life as beginning at conception was given a decent chance of approval. Passage would be the first victory in the country for the so-called personhood movement, which aims to make abortion all but illegal. Similar attempts have failed in Colorado and are under way elsewhere.

In Arizona, state Sen. Russell Pearce, architect of the tough immigration law that put the state at the forefront of the national debate, faced a recall attempt led by a fellow Republican. But Pearce held a 3-to-1 fundraising advantage.

Other votes of note:

? In Kentucky, comic-turned-politician Robert Farmer upset some with his hillbilly jokes but hoped to ride name recognition to a new job as agriculture commissioner. In Ohio, politically incorrect comedian Drew Hastings, a "Comedy Central" fixture, ran for mayor of tiny Hillsboro.

? In Maine, voters decided whether to repeal a new state law that requires voters to register at least two days before an election. Repeal would effectively restore Election Day voter registration, which had been available for nearly four decades. Maine voters also decided whether to allow casinos in certain communities.

? In Philadelphia, Democratic Mayor Michael Nutter was expected to win re-election easily.

? Washington state voters decided whether to end the state-run liquor system and allow large stores to sell alcohol. The effort has been bankrolled by giant retailer Costco, which spent more than $22 million, making it the costliest initiative in Washington history.

? Oregon held a special primary to replace Democratic Rep. David Wu, who resigned in August after being accused of an unwanted sexual encounter with an 18-year-old woman. Wu was the fourth member of Congress to quit this year in a sex scandal.

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Associated Press Writer Andrew Welsh-Huggins in Columbus, Ohio, contributed to this report.

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Greece waits for new PM amid party bickering (AP)

ATHENS, Greece ? Pressure mounted on Greece's two main political parties on Wednesday to wrap up three days of critical power-sharing talks and name a new prime minister to take over at the helm of an interim government.

Over the past couple of days, attention has focused more on Rome than on Athens amid concerns that Italy's economy was heading the same way as Greece's. The fear that Italy is running out of time to get a handle on its debts hit markets in Europe hard Wednesday even though Italy's Premier Silvio Berlusconi pledged to stand down, echoing a similar decision from Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou.

Greek officials defended the time it was taking for the new unity government to be established. Greece's big two political parties, the Socialist PASOK party and the conservative New Democracy, are renowned for their opposition to each other and have rarely worked together since the rejection of the monarchy in 1974.

Papandreou was due to meet with Greece's president at 5:00 p.m. (1500 GMT), a possible indication that an agreement was close.

However, a person with close knowledge of the talks told The Associated Press that no decision had been finalized an hour before the scheduled meeting. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the talks were ongoing.

Papandreou's office said the premier spoke by telephone with French President Nicolas Sarkozy Wednesday morning and discussed "the developments in Europe and the eurozone," as well as the power-sharing negotiations in Athens.

Papandreou informed the French president "of the imminent (formation) of a new government in Greece supported by the majority and the opposition," Sarkozy's office said.

Former European Central Bank vice president Lucas Papademos had been widely tipped as the strongest candidate for interim prime minister. But two officials from the main parties said that by Wednesday afternoon another strong candidate had emerged ? current Parliament speaker and former justice and public order minister Philippos Petsalnikos.

Both officials spoke on condition of anonymity because a final decision had not been made.

By early afternoon, the conservative opposition was issuing angry statements demanding a swift conclusion to the talks, and blaming the embarassing delay on the current government.

"The solution is in the hands of Mr. Papandreou," said a statement from the New Democracy party. "No further delay is conceivable. We must finally finish this."

Earlier, deputy government spokesman Angelos Tolkas had said the new government would be announced later in the day, but gave no indication who the new prime minister would be. Similar comments had been made on Tuesday, too.

"This process is new to the country," Tolkas told television channel Skai in the morning. "So I think three days was a reasonable time for the consultations to be made and for each side to make the necessary concession."

On Tuesday, Papandreou's ministers offered their resignations as part of the process of creating the new government, which is only expected to last until February when early elections are to be held.

The new government will be tasked to secure the country's new euro130 billion ($179 billion) European rescue package and then get it through parliament. That approval will allow the release of a euro8 billion ($11 billion) loan installment from its existing bailout. Without the funds, Greece will go bankrupt before Christmas, potentially wrecking Europe's banking system and sending the global economy back into recession.

The political crisis erupted last week, when Papandreou said he would put the new European rescue package to a referendum. Other eurozone nations were horrified by the delay, markets around the world tanked and Greece's international creditors froze the payment of the next bailout installment.

On Monday, eurozone finance ministers said the heads of the two main parties had to commit in writing to the terms of the country's bailouts before Athens can receive the next loan installment.

Government officials in Greece say the written agreement requires the signatures of Papandreou, New Democracy leader Antonis Samaras, the Bank of Greece governor, the new coalition prime minister and the new finance minister ? a demand that has prompted an angry response from Greece's conservatives.

Greece has survived since May 2010 on a euro110 billion ($150 billion) bailout package from its eurozone partners and the International Monetary Fund. The second rescue package involves private bondholders voluntarily agreeing to cancel 50 percent of their Greek debt.

In return for the rescue funds, Greece has endured 20 months of punishing austerity measures. The efforts by Papandreou's government to keep the country solvent have prompted violent protests, crippling strikes and a sharp decline in living standards for most Greeks.

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Kantouris reported from Thessaloniki. Associated Press writers Derek Gatopoulos and Elena Becatoros contributed to this report.

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Dr. Conrad Murray has been placed on suicide watch

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Have You Ever Noticed That All Movie Posters Look the Same? [Wtf]

I love this. Someone noticed that movie posters are always the same and collected them to prove it. Some of the design clich?s are hilarious, like Tiny People On the Beach With Giant Heads in the Clouds or Legs Wide Spread. More »


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