Clinton's motorcade is exposed to fire on the road to Jerusalem, Tel Aviv

Source: alalam

Yesterday during their passage on the Jerusalem - Tel Aviv.
According to information published by the site, "Rutter," Israel, the type of car "Citroen" white car approached a convoy carrying Clinton and apparently fired from a car Alstroyn.

According to the guards of the convoy, the car fled from the place Alstroyn speeding No one was injured passengers from the footnote to Hillary Clinton.

The Israeli police announced the alert in the place that launched him on fire (the night of red).

According to the site The process of shooting was on the road to Jerusalem, "Tel Aviv" has reached a large force of police of the place



Read more: http://www.alalam.ir/news/1212914

Republicans to Secret Donors: We've Got Your Back (Yet Again)

Today, Senate Republicans marched in lockstep with Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) by filibustering the DISCLOSE Act for the second time in two days. Democrats needed 60 votes to proceed to an actual vote on the bill, which would require unions, corporations, and secretive nonprofits to disclose the big donors behind their political activities. The final vote was 53 to 45.

After the vote, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), who introduced DISCLOSE this spring and later whittled it down to a simpler, 19-pageversion, dinged his GOP colleagues for supporting disclosure in the past and then blocking a full vote on his bill. (No Democrats joined the Republicans in voting against a full vote.) But Whitehouse said the fight to make dark-money groups more transparent wasn't over. "Joshua didn't get the walls of Jericho to fall the first time he and the Israelites walked around the city," Whitehouse said in an interview Monday night.

Republicans offered a variety of reasons for blocking the DISCLOSE Act. Sen. McConnell claimed the bill created "the impressions of mischief where there is none," and amounts to "nothing more than member and donor harassment and intimidation." Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), a vigorous supporter of campaign finance reform in the past, said the bill favored labor unions—a claim flatly rejected by Whitehouse. "There is no union loophole in it," he said. "It is the same rules for any organization no matter what."

http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2012/07/republicans-disclose-act-dark-money-filibuster

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Sununu back tracking ....

(CNN) – Mitt Romney's national campaign co-chair John Sununu apologized Tuesday afternoon for questioning President Barack Obama patriotism earlier in the day.

Appearing on CNN's "The Situation Room" with Wolf Blitzer, Sununu said he regrets using those words.

"I'm apologizing for using those words," said Sununu. "I did say those words that were there and, frankly, I made a mistake."

Sununu harshly criticized Obama's leadership in a conference call with reporters and saying he wished "this president would learn how to be an American."

The conference call came on the heals of the Obama campaign's continued attacks on presumptive GOP nominee Mitt Romney's business record and reluctance to release more tax returns.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/07/17/sununu-im-apologizing-for-using-those-words/

20 Prominent Republicans Who Want Romney To Release More Tax Returns Right Now (ReUpdated)

Mitt Romney continues to resist pressure to turn over more tax returns. In an interview today he said he is “simply not enthusiastic about giving them hundreds or thousands of more pages to pick through, distort, and lie about.”

The call for more information about Romney’s financial past, however, is bipartisan. A poll released today found fifty six percent of all voters, including sixty one percent of independents, think that Romney should release twelve years of returns.

These fifteen prominent Republicans are calling on Romney to release more tax returns, now:


http://thinkprogress.org/election/2012/07/17/530121/15-prominent-republicans-who-want-romney-to-release-more-tax-returns-right-now/

A rising tide no longer raises all boats .... Krugman

And so, predictably, Romney is accusing Obama of “attacking capitalism” and “dividing America” by raising questions about Bain and those hidden tax returns. This is all par for the course; many of us remember how any criticism of Bush was unpatriotic, and if I recall correctly, during the dotcom bubble the Wall Street Journal argued that any skepticism about stock market valuations showed a lack of faith in free markets.

The special Romney twist– aside from the willful misrepresentation of what Obama actually said about business success — is Mitt’s desire to have it both ways. He’s proud of his business record and his success, he says, but at the same time wants us to believe that he had nothing to do with Bain’s actions over a three-year period when he was still its CEO, and is completely unwilling to let us see the tax returns that would tell us something about exactly how he achieved his current wealth. (There are two competing theories about his tax stonewalling. One is that he had one or more years of zero taxes. The other is that he actually made a lot of money in 2009, because he shorted the market. We may never know which is true.)

Anyway, just a reminder about what’s really dividing America: the fact that a rising tide no longer raises all boats. Remember what the CBO told us:

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/17/decoupled-and-divided/?smid=tw-NytimesKrugman&seid=auto

John McCain's back tracking .....

John McCain sought to clarify his remarks on Tuesday that he picked Sarah Palin as his running mate over Mitt Romney because she was the “better candidate” and not due to Romney’s tax returns. A statement released by his Senate office reads:

“Some in the media have chosen to take my answer today, in response to the question of why I did not select Governor Romney as my vice presidential nominee, out of context. I selected Sarah Palin because she was the best fit for my campaign, and my decision had nothing to do with the bogus tax return attacks currently being waged by the Obama campaign. I have the highest respect for Governor Romney and his record of public service, and he will make an outstanding president.”

http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entries/mccain-i-didnt-mean-palin-was-better-than

Researchers Consider Graphene as a Cure for Desalination Woes

The earth harbors about 1.4 billion cubic kilometers of water. Unfortunately, the vast majority of that water comes from the sea and is not potable unless treated by expensive, energy-hungry desalination plants. Those problems stem largely from inefficiency in the way salt ions are separated from water molecules, and the solution, says a team of materials scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, lies in fundamentally revising that process.

The predominant desalination method today—reverse osmosis (RO)—relies on polymer-based membranes to remove salt and requires great pressure to push water through a semipermeable film.The more pressure applied, the higher the cost. The M.I.T. researchers, led by Jeffrey Grossman and David Cohen-Tanugi, propose that films made of graphene could filter out salt without inhibiting the water flow as much. Graphene, a superstrong sheet of carbon that is only one atom thick, has mostly been seen as a material for improving electronics and optical communications.

Reverse osmosis requires less energy than other desalination approaches—such as thermal distillation—but graphene membranes containing nanoscale pores that are more permeable than the polymers currently used would further cut energy requirements, the researchers reported online last month in Nano Letters.

The idea is to discriminate between water molecules and salt ions based on size. "Reverse osmosis uses size exclusion, except it excludes everything," says Grossman, an associate professor of power engineering.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=graphene-desalination-water-crisis&WT.mc_id=SA_CAT_TECH_20120717

Walmart Heirs Have As Much Wealth As Bottom 40 Percent Of Americans Combined

Last year, Sylvia Allegretto, a labor economist at the Center on Wage and Employment Dynamics, found that as of 2007, the Walton family — heirs to the Walmart fortune — had a net worth equal to that of the bottom 30 percent of Americans. And due to the effects of the Great Recession that ratio has gotten substantially worse.

New Federal Reserve data analyzed by both Allegretto and Josn Bivens at the Economic Policy Institute shows that the Waltons now hold as much wealth as the bottom 40 percent of Americans combined:

http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2012/07/17/534591/walmart-heirs-wealth-combined/

How the powerful rig the system ...

How 17 people funded the Republican super PAC world — in one chart (interactive)

That the rise of super PACs has given a small number of wealthy donors an outsized level of influence in our political discourse isn’t a secret.

After all, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich wouldn’t have even been in the Republican primary game if it wasn’t for a supportive super PAC funded by casino magnate Sheldon Adelson. And super PACs supportive of Mitt Romney have kept him within financial shouting distance of President Obama in critical swing states like Florida and Virginia.

But, wrapping your arms around just how few people are behind these hyper-influential groups is always tough. Until now.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/post/how-17-people-funded-the-republican-super-pac-world--in-one-chart/2012/07/17/gJQAKc6hrW_blog.html