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Purveyor's JournalCosta Mesa Mayor Proposes To Shut Down Soup Kitchens To Deal With Homeless Problem
COSTA MESA (CBSLA.com) — The mayor of Costa Mesa proposed to get rid of soup kitchens to deal with the area’s homeless problem at a city council meeting on Tuesday.
“My belief is that if we manage to put the soup kitchen out of business that will go a long way to addressing the attractiveness in our city that’s creating a huge negative impact,” Eric Bever said.
According to Bever, the “negative impact” is homeless people who like Costa Mesa because of services that offer food to less fortunate individuals.
Clients at Someone Cares Soup Kitchen and the non-profit Share Our Selves were stunned by the controversial comments.
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http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2012/10/05/costa-mesa-mayor-proposes-to-shut-down-soup-kitchens-to-deal-with-homeless-problem/
Fledging Electric Car Market In Turmoil
By Agence France-Presse
Friday, October 5, 2012 18:30 EDT
The fledgling electric car business is in turmoil as predictions about potential sales have proven to be wildly optimistic despite volatile fuel prices and plenty of media hype.
Weak consumer demand is hitting both the big automakers like General Motors and Nissan — which have failed to meet sales targets on the plug-in Volt and all-electric Leaf — and smaller start-up firms trying to carve out a piece of a very small niche.
“Electric vehicles don’t make any more sense today than they did in 1912,” says Sean McAlinden, an analyst with the Center for Automotive Research in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
“They take too long to charge, the range is too short and they cost too much.”
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http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/10/05/fledging-electric-car-market-in-turmoil/
Traders See Signs Of Squeeze Behind L.A. Gasoline Spike
Source: Reuters
By Erwin Seba
HOUSTON, Oct 5 (Reuters) - The unprecedented surge in California's wholesale gasoline market this week has many hallmarks of a classic short squeeze, traders said on Friday, evoking a once common ploy in unregulated oil markets.
With the isolated West Coast gasoline market already reduced by refinery outages and a pipeline closure that had diminished stockpiles to near their lowest in over two decades, the pump was already primed for a rise in prices, especially as refiners prepare to switch to winter fuel production.
But industry sources who operate in the close-knit, fiercely competitive market say fundamental factors alone cannot explain the 97-cent surge in the premium for prompt-delivery CARBOB gasoline this week. Even in the notoriously volatile California market the spike was unprecedented, pushing retail prices to near a record high of nearly $5 a gallon.
Multiple trade sources say West Coast refiner Tesoro was caught short, forcing it to scramble to buy additional fuel from other companies in order to meet its commitments.
Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/10/06/gasoline-squeeze-idUSL1E8L5HZA20121006?type=marketsNews
DC Metro Ordered To Display Pro-Israel Ads That It Worried Might Incite Violence
By Del Quentin Wilber, Published: October 5
A federal judge has ordered Metro to begin displaying controversial advertisements on Monday, even though the transit agency has worried the ads might incite violence.
The decision came Friday in a one-page order granting an injunction to a pro-Israel group that sought to force Metro to display provocative posters in four stations. The posters, purchased by the American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI), will say: “In Any War Between the Civilized Man and the Savage, Support the Civilized Man. Support Israel. Defeat Jihad.”
A spokesman for the transit agency said in an e-mail that it would comply with the court order. Metro was sued last month by AFDI after trying to delay displaying the advertisements in the wake of violence in the Middle East that was sparked by an Internet video that disparaged the prophet Muhammad.
Metro’s lawyers argued in court papers that displaying the posters would endanger the public. “Faced with the choice between endangering the public by displaying the AFDI Ad when it was likely to cause violence on Metrorail, or delaying the display to avoid the danger to passengers and without impinging on AFDI’s freedom of expression, WMATA chose delay.”
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/metro-ordered-to-display-pro-israel-ads-that-it-worried-might-incite-violence/2012/10/05/639f1efa-0f2d-11e2-bb5e-492c0d30bff6_story.html?tid=pm_local_pop
Netanyahu Envoy Says U.S. Should Expand Arms Aid To Israel
Source: LATIMES
October 5, 2012 | 3:06 pm
WASHINGTON -- A special envoy of the Israeli prime minister said the United States should expand its arms aid to Israel in light of the increased threats posed by the unstable aftermath of the "Arab Spring" revolutions.
Zalman Shoval, a former Israeli ambassador to the United States and foreign policy advisor to Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud Party, said in an interview Friday that the instability in Egypt, Libya and Syria suggest that the U.S.-Israel security ties will be “probably more important than ever before.”
He said the United States should consider increasing its emergency inventory of military equipment in Israel, and step up joint military exercises with the Israel Defense Forces to demonstrate to neighboring governments the U.S. commitment to regional stability. Since 1990, the United States has stored military equipment in Israel for use by U.S. armed forces or by the IDF in an emergency.
Shoval said political instability and violence in the region and the advance of Islamist parties show that Americans were generally too optimistic about the uprisings.
Read more: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/world_now/2012/10/israeli-official-argues-us-should-expand-arms-aid-to-israel.html
Wiping Palestinians Off the Agenda
At the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) last week the Israeli Prime Minister succeeded and failed simultaneously. With a cartoonish display, Benjamin Netanyahu managed to become the laughing stock of the internet as parodied images of his bomb chart filled blogs and websites. Iran’s nuclear program, which is something the Israelis have demanded the world take seriously, became a subject of jest. But at the same time something else happened: by the time Netanyahu was done with his classroom antics, no one even remembered that Mahmoud Abbas, the Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), had spoken just minutes before.
Abbas, for his part, delivered an important speech even though it contained little in terms of a clear strategy for moving forward. There were, however, noticeable shifts in the language he chose to use, including emphasis on “ethnic cleansing,” “apartheid,” and “boycott.” Abbas has long been seen as a moderate Palestinian voice by Washington and his adoption of this language may well be a veiled message that it’s becoming too difficult to maintain cooperation and moderation while there is no progress toward Palestinian self-determination. Most importantly, Abbas took the opportunity to warn the world of the ongoing and impending Nakba the Palestinians are experiencing at the hands of Israeli occupation. Here, in a hall of world leaders, Abbas stood, literally saying that the Palestinian people are being “wiped off the map.”
Enter Netanyahu, and his cartoon. Abbas’s warning was all but forgotten.
What we saw at the UNGA last week was a microcosm of a much larger and ongoing strategy on the part of Netanyahu: to use the Iranian issue to make the Palestinian issue disappear.
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http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/10/04/wiping-palestinians-off-the-agenda.html
Turkey Is Going Down a Highly Dangerous Path
Retaliatory strikes by Turkey against Syria on Wednesday have created an entirely new dimension to a civil war that now threatens to become a full-fledged regional conflict in the Middle East. The moves by Ankara came after shelling by Syrian forces that killed five women and children in the Turkish border town of Akcakale.
European leaders including German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle have strongly criticized the shelling by Syria. And on Thursday, the United Nations Security Council overcame divisions to issue a statement condemning the shelling "in the strongest terms." The statement, which had been watered down at Russia's behest, said the incident "highlighted the grave impact the crisis in Syria has on the security of its neighbors and on regional peace and stability."
Turkey's intensified role in the crisis is raising serious concerns that the country, a member of NATO, may ultimately drag the rest of its partners into war with Syria by invoking Article Five, which stipulates that all alliance members must come to the defense of any other member country that has been attacked.
On Thursday, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan also sought to assuage concerns his country might be preparing for war. "We as Turkey just want peace and security in our region," he told reporters. "The consequences of war are plain to see in Iraq and Afghanistan."
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http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/german-press-review-on-the-turkish-syrian-conflict-a-859675.html
Gambling Baron Adelson Uses Million Dollar War Chest to Convince Jewish Voters to Abandon Dems
BILL BERKOWITZ FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT
If Sheldon Adelson were an ordinary guy, some might say that he is spending like a drunken sailor. But Adelson is no ordinary guy. The billionaire right wing casino magnate who is committed to expending perhaps as much as $100 million on this presidential campaign, is, as he recently described it, merely putting his money where his mouth is. And both his money and his mouth are writ large over the Republican Party's campaign to win the presidency and grab total control of both houses of Congress.
After spending millions of dollars to just about single-handedly keep Newt Gingrich in the Republican Party's presidential race earlier this year, Adelson is now all in when it comes to funding Mitt Romney's campaign. What is the latest campaign incursion by the man who was worth $20.5 billion according to the most recent Forbes magazine list of The World's Billionaires (ranking #14 on that list and #12 on the Forbes 400)?
He is putting up the lion's share of a $6.5 million dollar war chest aimed at convincing Jewish voters in several swing states (most notably South Florida) to abandon Obama.
"Obama ... Oy Vey!!" says Florida Billboard
According to The New York Times the $6.5 million campaign that includes television advertisements, billboards, and voter lists, is part of a larger battle Republicans (most notably the Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC)) wage annually to convince Jewish voters to abandon the Democratic Party. However, never before has the RJC been so well stocked with money.
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http://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/item/17560-gambling-baron-sheldon-adelson-uses-million-dollar-war-chest-in-swing-states-to-convince-jewish-voters-to-abandon-democratic-party
Guest Lineups For The Sunday News Shows
ABC's "This Week" - To be announced.
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NBC's "Meet the Press" - Robert Gibbs, adviser to President Barack Obama's re-election campaign; former House Speaker Newt Gingrich; former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, R-Calif.
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CBS' "Face the Nation" - David Axelrod, adviser to the Obama campaign.
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CNN's "State of the Union" - Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine; former Gov. Ted Strickland, D-Ohio.
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"Fox News Sunday" - Sen. Kelly Ayotte, R-N.H.; Gov. Martin O'Malley, D-Md.
CEO To Workers: No To Obama
GRAND RAPIDS, MI -- The president and CEO of Lacks Enterprises is warning his company's 2,300 employees their paychecks will be smaller if President Barack Obama is re-elected.
Richard Lacks urged his employees to “vote to improve your standard of living” in a letter notifying them of their sixth bonus in almost three years thanks to the good times his automotive parts company has enjoyed.
But Lacks was not about to give Obama any credit for the auto industry’s recovery. He told his employees the Affordable Care Act, which he called Obama Care, will raise his company’s health insurance costs by 2 percent a year.
“As employees, you will receive no additional direct benefit other than you will have to pay for it,” said Lacks in a letter he sent to hourly employees last Friday.
“The talk of additional tax increases by the administration, if re-elected, will have an additional negative impact on the organization,” he wrote. “ It is always important to remember the more government takes the less there will be available to spread around to the working people of this company.
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http://www.mlive.com/business/west-michigan/index.ssf/2012/10/lacks_enterprises_ceo_has_sugg.html
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