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Source: NY Daily News
George Zimmerman apparently called into "The View" to make nice with Barbara Walters on Thursday, one day after the famed TV journalist nixed a possible interview with him over his demands for a monthlong hotel stay.
Walters told the show's viewers Thursday that she flew to Florida on Wednesday to set up an on-air chat with Zimmerman, but walked away after the volunteer watchman showed up in a T-shirt and made some steep demands.
She didn't elaborate, but sources told The Miami Herald that Zimmerman wanted ABC to put him and his wife up in a hotel for a month.
Walters walked away, saying only, "It was a condition that, being a member of ABC News, I was unable to grant."
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/zimmerman-calls-view-barbara-walters-walks-interview-meeting-article-1.1117912
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5 things George Zimmerman told Sean Hannity that may come back to haunt himGeorge Zimmerman gave an exclusive interview to Fox News host Sean Hannity Wednesday, telling the conservative commentator he had no regrets about the incidents surrounding the shooting of Trayvon Martin, but that he was sorry for Martin’s family. Prosecutors have now added transcripts of the Hannity interview to their packet of evidence in the case, and that means some of Zimmerman’s statements on Fox could resurface in his second degree murder trial.
So what did Zimmerman say that could have piqued the interest of prosecutors?
1. Trayvon wasn’t running.
Hannity seemed taken aback when Zimmerman repeatedly insisted that Trayvon Martin wasn’t running, since Zimmerman told the police dispatcher that he was. The Fox News host asked Zimmerman to try to “get into the mind-set” of the teen, and questioned whether he might have been running from Zimmerman because he was afraid of him and didn’t know who Zimmerman was. Zimmerman’s one word response to that proposition: “no.”
“You don’t think — why do you think that he was running then?” Hannity asked, to which Zimmerman replied that maybe he “said running,” but that Martin was “more … like skipping, going away quickly. But he wasn’t running out of fear.”
http://thegrio.com/2012/07/19/5-things-george-zimmerman-told-sean-hannity-that-may-come-back-to-haunt-him/
Computer Model Predicts Fewer Than 200 Deaths from Fukushima Radiation
Immediate and future radiation from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster may result in hundreds of deaths and emerging cancer cases, according to a yearlong modeling project undertaken by researchers at Stanford University.
Started within a week of the Fukushima meltdown, the project is the most detailed model yet of the emission, transport and deposition of radioactive material from the site, accounting for complex interactions between atmospheric conditions and the microphysics of radioactive particles.
Combining the projected spread of radioactive material with a standard radiation health-effects model, co-authors John Hoeve, a recent Stanford Ph.D. graduate, and civil engineering professor Mark Jacobson calculated that between 15 and 1,300 premature deaths would occur as a result of the accident.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=computer-model-predicts-fewer-than-200-deaths-fukushima-radiation&WT.mc_id=SA_CAT_ENGYSUS_20120719
Ex-Gitmo Prisoner Suspected as Bulgaria Suicide Bomber
Source: USNEWS
The suicide bomber who blew up a bus full of Israeli tourists Wednesday in Bulgaria is believed to be a former Guantanamo Bay detainee whose charges were dropped after being extradited to Sweden, the Daily Mail reports.
The suspect, Mehdi Ghezali, is a Swedish citizen who spent two years as a detainee at the United States's Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba after being arrested for suspected terrorism at the border of Pakistan and Afghanistan. After two years, Ghezali was released by the U.S. government and extradited to Sweden, which declined to press charges. He was arrested in Pakistan again in September of 2009 on suspicion of links to al Qaeda. He was released by Pakistani authorities and returned to Sweden again.
Swedish intellegence agencies contend that the Bulgarian bomber is not Ghezali.
Earlier today, Bulgarian authorities released images of man resembling Ghezali who is believed to have detonated explosives among Israeli tourists in the Black Sea resort city of Burgas. The blast killed five Israelis, a Bulgarian bus driver, and the bomber.
Read more: http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2012/07/19/ex-gitmo-prisoner-suspected-as-bulgaria-suicide-bomber
Controversial Spewed Iron Experiment Succeeds as Carbon Sink
Dumping iron into the ocean stimulates blooms of diatoms that pull down carbon dioxide in the atmosphere--but only under the right conditions
Fertilizing the ocean with iron could help reduce atmospheric carbon dioxide levels, according to newly released findings of a research cruise. Why? In a word, diatoms.
A hunger for iron rules the microscopic sea life of the Southern Ocean surrounding ice-covered Antarctica. Cut off from most continental dirt and dust, the plankton, diatoms and other life that make up the broad bottom of the food chain there can't get enough iron to grow. And that's why some scientists think that artificially fertilizing such waters with the metal could promote blooms that suck CO2 out of the air. Then, when these microscopic creatures die, they would sink to the bottom of the ocean and take the carbon with them.
Such blooms occur naturally, of course, so the first part of the hypothesis is not controversial. What remained questionable until now is whether such blooms in fact sequestered much carbon or if it was being quickly recycled back into the atmosphere. The problem for scientists is that oceanic waters tend to mix, which makes monitoring and delineating an experiment in the ocean challenging.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=fertilizing-ocean-with-iron-sequesters-co2&WT.mc_id=SA_CAT_ENGYSUS_20120719
Mr. say anything I want and hope it sticks, up for reelection challenge ...
DELRAY BEACH, Fla. — Not far from the beach, Representative Allen West recited the Declaration of Independence at a sweltering Fourth of July fair, lobbing the sentences into the crowd and hoping the gravitas of the words would sink in.
Patrick Murphy, greeting Palm Springs, Fla., residents in July, is locked in a tight battle for Florida's first congressional district with Representative Allen West.
Mr. West, a Republican positioned near the top of the Democrats’ knockout list, is fond of letting words speak for themselves — no parsing, no apologizing, no backtracking. In this era of survey-tested language, he is a verbal street brawler, unflinching in his speech, a trait that has won him the adulation (and the campaign contributions) of conservatives and Tea Party supporters who cheer on his every Westism. He is one of the top fund-raisers among House Republicans, rivaling Speaker John A. Boehner of Ohio.
“People are looking for leadership,” said Mr. West, 51, a first-term congressman, in a brief interview as supporters posed for photographs and exchanged a few words. “Principles, pragmatism, passion and leadership: It’s obvious we are representing those values.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/20/us/politics/allen-west-faces-challenge-in-new-florida-district.html?smid=tw-nytimespolitics&seid=auto
Republicon laughing point (s) of the day ....
House Republicans Revive The Contraception WarsThey’re back!
This spring’s political contretemps over access to contraception are returning to Capitol Hill — and this time Republicans are trying to tie the issue to must-pass legislation, foreshadowing a possible government shutdown standoff unless conservatives back down and temporarily agree to set aside earlier grievances.
House Republicans renewed their effort Wednesday by advancing a measure through the Labor-HHS appropriations subcommittee with a rider to roll back President Obama’s contraception mandate. Authorized by the Affordable Care Act, the rule requires employer-provided health insurance plans to cover contraception without co-pays, with carve-outs for churches and religious non-profits. Republicans on the panel defeated a Democratic amendment to strip the provision, suggesting they’re willing to pick the fight.
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/07/house-gop-contraception-birth-control.php?ref=fpblg
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Rush Limbaugh: ‘The Dark Knight Rises’/Bane slam got more backlash than ‘anything’ else on his show
Consevative radio host Rush Limbaugh says he never claimed Bane was created in 1993 as a dig against Mitt Romney's ties to Bain - and says Batman is a conservative hero
Holy backlash, Batman!
One day after slamming "The Dark Knight Rises" for featuring a villain named Bane, which he said benefits the Obama campaign because of its similarity to Mitt Romney's venture capital firm, Bain, Rush Limbaugh backtracked - slightly - from his earlier comments.
Comic book fans eagerly awaiting the final installment of director Chris Nolan's Batman trilogy, which opens Friday, however, turned out to be worse whiners than his usual liberal critics.
http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv-movies/rush-limbaugh-dark-knight-rises-bane-slam-backlash-show-article-1.1117266
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Top Obamacare Critic's Op-Eds Drafted by PR Firm That Reps Drug, Health Care Clients
Last Tuesday, a week after the Supreme Court's ruling upholding Obamacare, Sally Pipes appeared before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee to enumerate the evils of the law. The president of the Pacific Research Institute, a San Francisco-based freemarket think tank, Pipes warned members of Congress that if they didn't act quickly Americans would soon suffer the rationed care and long waits supposedly plaguing her native Canada. The country's health care system, she insisted, had killed her mother by refusing to test her for colon cancer, which she later died from.
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/07/sally-pipes-pacific-research-institute-keybridge-communications
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Rick Perry Accuses Attorney General Holder Of Intentionally Inciting Racial Tensions
Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) believes that US Attorney General Eric Holder “purposefully” made remarks meant to “incite racial tensions” by talking about voter identification efforts at the NAACP.
In a statement released Tuesday, Perry calls on President Obama to apologize for Holder’s speech at the NAACP, during which he said that voter identification laws amounted to a “poll tax“:
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/07/19/546551/perry-holder-racial-tensions/
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Aid cut to 'Benedict Arnold' Pakistan
The House agreed to a $650 million cut from Pakistan military aid Wednesday night as Republicans sought to tamp down demands for still deeper reductions because of conservative anger at the Islamabad government.
Rep. Ted Poe (R-Texas) first came to the floor demanding a $1.3 billion cut and initially won the endorsement of Rep. Bill Young (R-Fla.), who was managing the defense bill on the floor. But ultimately a cut of $650 million was settled upon with the intention of reducing Pakistan’s funds by half.
Rep. Norman Dicks (D-Wash.), the ranking Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee, appeared to agree to the compromise, since it was approved by a voice vote. And the end result is to conform with prior cuts agreed to this spring as part of a defense authorization bill.
Nonetheless, the fresh cut follows on Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s recent efforts to bridge the gap with Pakistan. And the combination of Poe’s inflammatory rhetoric and Young’s cheerful endorsement was not a reassuring for the Obama administration as it tries to rebuild relations.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0712/78702.html
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