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Alan Henning's Brother Begs David Cameron To Send In Troops On The Ground Oct 06, 2014 By Chris Hughes, David Hughes Reg Henning says ground troops are needed to find the "monsters" that b The brother of beheaded British aid worker Alan Henning has called on David Cameron to send ground troops to track down the Islamic State maniacs responsible for the murder. RAF jets continued yesterday to attack the IS in Iraq but Reg Henning insisted more was needed to bring the killers to court. He said: “You’re not going to find them by dropping a few bombs in...

New York's Waldorf Astoria Hotel Sold To Chinese Company For Nearly $2BN Arbang Insurance Group snatches up glamorous New York City hotel but Hilton will continue to manage it for the next 100 years nza in New York 6 October 2014 Debutantes and their escorts fill the dance floor of the Grand Ballroom at New York’s famed Waldorf Astoria Hotel. Photograph: Mike Segar/Reuters A Chinese insurance company is buying one New York’s most glamorous hotels – the Waldorf Astoria in midtown Manhattan. Anbang Insurance Group Co Ltd is purchasing the Waldorf for $1.95bn from a subsidiary of Hilton Worldwide Holdings...

Libya’s Parliament Moves To Small Port City As Dangers In Tripoli Increase The Dar al Salam, a five-star hotel in Tobruk, Libya, is being used by members of paliament who have relocated to the small port city because of the dangers in Tripoli. By Yasmine Ryan October 5 TOBRUK, Libya — Being a parliamentarian in Libya is a death- defying act. Entissar Chennib’s car was blown up in the eastern city of Derna on election day in June. Another representative, Ali Omar Tekbeli, knows it is too hazardous to go home to the capital. “I receive death threats almost every...

WHAT MAKES JON STEWART MORE INSUFFERABLE THAN BILL MAHER Aside from his being not funny enough. By Matt Purple Recently four members of that least-recognized Indian tribe “Redskins Nation” agreed to participate in a Daily Show segment discussing the controversy surrounding their team name. Their conversation with comedian Jason Jones was stretching into its third hour when eight Native American activists were suddenly brought out. The newcomers became vitriolic and one fan left the set crying, saying later that she’d felt threatened. The Washingtonians told the Washington Post that they would have gladly agreed to debate a group of the...

Air Strikes Against ISIS Are Not Working, Say Syrian Kurds Isis fighters have pushed to the edge of Kobani, undeterred by western strikes, says city official Constanze Letsch in Istanbul, Paul Lewis in Washington and Nicholas Watt 5 October 2014 Air strikes against Isis targets in northern Syria have failed to stop the militants from advancing towards the centre of the city of Kobani, Kurds have said, in the latest indication that aerial power alone may not defeat the jihadists. Fighting between the Islamist militants and Syrian Kurds continued unabated despite another volley of coalition air strikes in and around...

Kansas Surprise: Orman Leads Roberts by 10 in NBC/Marist Poll BY CARRIE DANN Independent candidate Greg Orman is leading incumbent Republican Sen. Pat Roberts in Kansas by 10 points, while Democrats have a slim lead in North Carolina’s contest and both candidates are in a dead heat in Iowa’s Senate race, new NBC News/Marist polls find. The Kansas poll, which shows Roberts trailing 38 percent to Orman’s 48 percent, is full of bad news for the incumbent and for Republicans, who have suddenly seen Roberts’ sleepy re-election race turn into a very real pickup opportunity for Democrats if Orman decides...

Top Civil Rights Lawyer Accused of Raping Woman At His Manhattan Home After Rev Al Sharpton's Star-Studded 60th Birthday Party Sanford Rubenstein, 70, allegedly assaulted woman in his Manhattan home Was after the 60th soiree held at the four-star Four Seasons restaurant Attorney has not been charged in relation with the suspected encounter Guests at party included Mayor de Blasio and Governor Andrew Cuomo By WILLS ROBINSON 4 October 2014 A top civil rights lawyer has been accused of raping a woman at his Manhattan home after Rev Al Sharpton's star-studded 60th birthday party. Sanford Rubenstein, 70, a high-powered attorney...

Obama Scrapped CDC Rule Giving Feds Power to Block Ill Travelers 03 Oct 2014 By John Blosser Four years ago, quietly and without public notice, the Obama administration scrapped quarantine plans from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) which could have blocked travelers with the deadly Ebola virus from entering the U.S. The Daily Caller reports that the rules, which would have given the federal government quarantine power over sick airline passengers, likely would have stopped Thomas Eric Duncan, a Liberian resident and the first case of Ebola reported in the U.S., from ever setting foot in the country and...

Would Jesus OK Same-Sex Marriage? By Jay Parini October 3, 2014 (CNN) -- Same-sex marriage has risen into the headlines again, as the U.S. Supreme Court mulls over whether or not it should weigh in on its constitutionality. But even Sen. Rand Paul, a likely contender for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016, has suggested that it should not be a matter of federal concern. "It is a local issue and always has been," he told an interviewer in South Carolina this past week. The tide on this issue seems, quite rapidly, to have shifted. Even Christians -- who once...

Immigration Officer Who Took Cash, Egg Rolls Gets 2 1/2 Years By VICTORIA KIM An immigration officer who demanded and received thousands of dollars in bribes and in one case, a couple of hundred egg rolls, in exchange for favorable treatment in citizenship or residency applications was sentenced Friday to two and a half years in federal prison. Mai Nhu Nguyen, 48, an eight-year official with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services in Santa Ana, pleaded guilty this year to receiving bribes as a public official between July 2011 and May 2013. As an immigration service officer, Nguyen had the power...

Quote from Valerie Jarrett's nterview with New Yorker editor David Remnick for his book The Bridge (2010): "I think Barack knew that he had God-given talents that were extraordinary. He knows exactly how smart he is. . . . He knows how perceptive he is. He knows what a good reader of people he is. And he knows that he has the ability — the extraordinary, uncanny ability — to take a thousand different perspectives, digest them and make sense out of them, and I think that he has never really been challenged intellectually. . . . So what I...

Fmr. Defense Secretary Blames Obama For Ignoring His Advice In Iraq By Becky Brittain October 3, 2014 Fmr. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta says Obama should have left troops in Iraq Panetta says other military commanders shared his views Despite this, Panetta says U.S. troops should not be sent back to Iraq Panetta served as Obama's Secretary of Defense from 2011 until 2013 Washington (CNN) -- President Obama's former defense secretary, Leon Panetta, says if the White House had listened to his advice on U.S. troop levels in Iraq, the country's security situation may not have unraveled. "To this day, I...

The Inhuman Practice of Manual Scavenging Lives On Abhirr V P CNN-IBN Aug 14, 2011 Kolar: Despite being declared illegal, the practice of manual scavenging is still rampant in certain parts of the country, even after 65 years of Independence. The pictures of manual scavengers emptying a pit of human waste at Kolar in Karnataka can disgust one. Dealing with the extreme stench, inhaling toxic gases, it is one of the most inhuman jobs in the world. They earn Rs 100 each for cleaning a pit of human waste and the only way they bring themselves to do this is...

Boston Herald apologizes for Obama cartoon after backlash By Ashley Killough, CNN updated 10:29 PM EDT, Wed October 1, 2014 Your video will play in 28 secs STORY HIGHLIGHTS The Boston Herald cartoon was published Wednesday. The cartoon depicts the White House intruder and President Obama. Critics say it plays off a stereotype about African Americans. Washington (CNN) -- The Boston Herald And Its Cartoonist Apologized Wednesday for a cartoon that quickly drew criticism on social media for being racist. A satire on the recent news that an intruder got farther into the White House last month than previously known,...

October 1, 2014 Man Who Hoped To Blow Up Tree-Lighting Ceremony Gets Sentenced Mohamed Osman Mohamud was convicted of trying to blow up a van Portland tree lighting ceremony PORTLAND, Ore. - An Oregon man was sentenced Wednesday to 30 years in prison for plotting to bomb a crowded Christmas tree-lighting ceremony in Portland's town square four years ago. Prosecutors had sought a 40-year term for Mohamed Mohamud, 23, in the plot that actually was an FBI sting. Mohamud was arrested Nov. 26, 2010, after pressing a keypad button on a cellphone that he believed would trigger a massive truck...

By REBECCA KAPLAN CBS NEWS October 1, 2014 Obama Will Let Central American Kids Apply For Refugee Status: Report The Obama administration will begin allowing children from Central American countries apply for refugee status in the United States, according to the New York Times. The program, which was approved by President Obama, would allow several thousand children to legally come to the U.S. to join family members living here and is aimed at stopping a dangerous journey through Mexico that can involve violence, extortion and dangerous rides atop a train. The rise in unaccompanied children crossing the border reached crisis...

Hundreds of Thousands Face Health Law Subsidy Deadline At Risk of Losing or Having to Pay Back Health Insurance Subsidies from Affordable Care Act By STEPHANIE ARMOUR Updated Sept. 29, 2014 Americans in the hundreds of thousands may lose or have to pay back health insurance subsidies from Obamacare if they don't meet a Tuesday deadline. WASHINGTON—Hundreds of thousands of Americans face a Tuesday deadline to verify their income and are at risk of losing or having to pay back their federal health-insurance subsidies under the Affordable Care Act. The need for people to pay back the government could become...

3 Times Obama Administration Was Warned About ISIS Threat Sep 29, 2014 By JONATHAN KARL Did the intelligence community underestimate ISIS or did the president? In his "60 Minutes" interview, President Obama seemed to put the blame on the intelligence community, saying, “I think they underestimated what had been taking place in Syria.” At the White House daily briefing, Press Secretary Josh Earnest cast the net quite a bit wider. “Everybody was surprised to see the rapid advance that ISIL was able to make from Syria across the Iraqi border,” said Earnest. “To be able to take over such large...

Obama Throws America's Spies Under The Bus MICHAEL B KELLEY AND BRETT LOGIURATO SEP. 29, 2014 One Intelligence Official Says Obama's "BSing." In a "60 Minutes" interview Sunday night, President Barack Obama placed blame squarely at the foot of the US intelligence community for the rise of the Islamic State, the extremist group also known as ISIS. Citing comments from Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, Obama said the intelligence community had "underestimated what had been taking place in Syria," referring to the rise of ISIS militants in the country's northeast. But American spies, experts, and journalists who have been...

Obama on Faulty Intelligence The President blames the spooks for his own policy failure on ISIS. President Obama rode to the White House in part by assailing George W. Bush for believing faulty intelligence about Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction. So there is no small irony in his claim now that America's spooks missed the rise of the Islamic State. The difference is that U.S. intelligence did warn about the threat from ISIS. Mr. Obama chose not to listen. Asked on CBS's "60 Minutes" Sunday if ISIS's march into Iraq was a "complete surprise," Mr. Obama replied, "Well I...