Mitt Romney’s financial advisers shed all his investments in China, worth as much as $1.5 million, at some point after mid-August, about the time he made “confronting China” on trade a central plank of his platform as a GOP candidate.
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Romney Blind Trusts Shed Chinese Holdings
Yes, it’s true. Terry Jones, the man who ignited a firestorm (literally) when he made great fanfare out of burning the Koran, is seeking the American presidency. A few days ago, the New York Daily News reported : The nutty pastor of a fringe religious group who sparked deadly riots in Afghanistan this year by burning the Koran announced Wednesday that he’s running for president. Terry Jones’ campaign, Stand Up for America Now, issued a press release laying out his platform, which includes deporting “all illegals,” bringing home all of the country’s military personnel until America gets its economic house in order and reducing corporate taxes and bureaucracy. Don’t believe it’s true? See his statement of candidacy, here . And read more about his plans (via the Daily News).
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Nutty Koran-burning pastor is running for president (yes, really)
Details are sketchy surrounding the incident you’re about to see. Here’s what we know for sure: one man is seen repeatedly beating another man in the head on a New York City subway train. Two bystanders, a man and a woman, try to intervene throughout, and for the most part are unsuccessful. The beating eventually spills over from the train care to the platform. Now, here’s what’s alleged. According to the video description, the fight started over a seat. As Gawker rightly points out , so far we can’t verify that. Still, the video is quite dramatic: Gothamist contacted the MTA — the transit authority that runs the subways — but it had no information on the incident.
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NYC Subway Showdown: Alleged Seat Dispute Ends in Head-Beating Brawl
At LAT , ” Oil Platform Explodes off Louisiana “: The opening scene was all too familiar. Black smoke rising from a burning oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico and workers plucked from the sea. But Thursday’s fire on an oil production facility 100 miles off the Louisiana coast appears to have ended without disaster. None of the 13 workers on board the platform was injured. The Coast Guard found no evidence of an oil leak, and by Thursday afternoon the fire was out. The accident — the cause is unknown and under investigation — happened a little more than four months after BP’s Deepwater Horizon rig blowout, which killed 11 workers and resulted in the largest offshore oil spill in U.S. history. Thursday’s fire sent shudders along the Gulf Coast, but Houston-based Mariner Energy Inc. reported that it was able to shut in the wells connected to the oil and gas platform, averting leaks. “Automated shutoff equipment on the platform safely turned off the flow of oil and gas from the platform’s seven producing wells before the fire occurred and the crew evacuated,” the company said in a news release. Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal said the company told officials that the fire burned an oil product stored on the platform — unlike the BP drilling rig blaze, which was fed by an uncontrollable gush from its blown-out well. “That’s a very important point,” Jindal said. Thursday’s accident occurred farther west than the BP blowout, on an oil and gas platform in shallow water south of Terrebonne Bay, according to the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement. Coast Guard officials said they received a call at 9:18 a.m. Central time that the platform was engulfed in flames. Crews on a nearby oil facility reported seeing an explosion on the platform. The 13 workers, wearing red floatation suits, apparently leaped into the water, which is about 340 feet deep. They were picked up by a supply vessel and flown by helicopter to an onshore hospital. Mariner said were no reported injuries. See also Memeorandum .
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Another Offshore Oil Rig Explosion in Gulf of Mexico
I love this clip. All three of these women, wives and mothers with busy lives at home and in the workplace, are running for elective office. It takes a lot, especially fundraising. Some day I may throw my hat in the ring, although this blog probably wouldn’t help my campaign, LOL! RELATED SCORCHER : At Fox News, ” 100 Days to Decide: Republicans Bank on Anti-Dem Strategy, Platform Unclear .” PLUS : At The Hill , ” Franken warns that GOP Congress would bring ‘truly dangerous agenda’ ” (via Memeorandum ). And at Sweetness & Light, ” Franken: GOP Brings ‘Dangerous Agenda’ .”
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