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“Given that Europe is the world’s biggest market, will we be more prosperous if we remain or leave? |
“Given that this is a dangerous and uncertain world, are we safer and more secure by staying alongside our closest friends and neighbours? Or turning our backs on them? |
“Given the scale of international challenges of a global economy, climate change and the refugee crisis – are we better to face these together or alone? |
And he will take a swipe at the leading figures among the Tories arguing for Brexit. |
He will say: “Gove, Villiers, Grayling, IDS, Whittingdale and Priti Patel – they’re only one lurid blazer away from John Redwood’s fantasy cabinet. |
Donald Trump Tweet Raises Prospect of New Global Arms Race | Democracy Now! |
President-elect Donald Trump raised the prospect of a new global arms race on Thursday, after he suggested on Twitter he would increase the size of the U.S. nuclear arsenal. Trump’s tweet read, “The United States must greatly strengthen and expand its nuclear capability until such time as the world comes to its senses ... |
Despite President Obama’s call for an end to nuclear weapons, his administration has been quietly upgrading its nuclear arsenal to create smaller, more precise nuclear bombs as part of a massive effort that will cost up to $1 trillion over three decades. Speaking to MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow on Thursday, Trump’s former cam... |
That was Trump’s former campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway, who Trump named yesterday as counselor to the president. This morning, MSNBC host Mika Brzezinski said she spoke briefly to the president-elect on the phone and asked him about his nuclear weapons comments. Brzezinski recounted Trump’s response during a conver... |
According to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, about 93 percent of all nuclear warheads are owned by Russia and the United States, which together have about 14,000 warheads stockpiled. |
View full sizeMike Greenlar / The Post StandardRepublican state Assembly candidate Don Miller watches early vote totals with supporters on election night at his reception room at the Doubletree Hotel. On Thursday, incumbent Al Stirpe conceded the race to Miller after the absentee ballots were counted. |
Syracuse, NY -- Republican Don Miller, a former political consultant making his first run for office, has defeated Democratic incumbent Al Stirpe in the race for the 121st Assembly District seat. |
After the counting of absentee ballots in Onondaga County was completed Friday, Miller had a 953-vote lead over Stirpe. Miller had 22,853 votes and Stirpe, who was seeking a third term in the Assembly, had 21,900. |
Though the results were still unofficial, Stirpe conceded defeat even before Friday. After seeing early results of the absentee ballot counts, he called Miller on Thursday to congratulate him on his victory. |
“It didn’t look like things were moving enough,” said Stirpe, 57, of Cicero. |
He attributed the loss to voter anger at incumbents and Democrats and to a Republican party enrollment advantage in the district, which consists of the Syracuse suburbs of Clay, Cicero, Manlius, Pompey and LaFayette. |
“Most people didn’t even know his name,” he said of Miller. |
Miller, 44, who once operated a political consulting firm with offices in Albany and Washington, D.C., disagreed his election was the result of general voter anger at incumbents and Democrats. He said voters were focused on the issues of jobs, government spending and taxes. |
Drivers in D.C. soon will begin receiving tickets from more than 100 new traffic cameras that can catch more than speeders. |
City officials say live ticketing will begin Feb. 1. following a nearly month-long extension of the grace period. |
The new cameras can detect drivers who are not stopping at a stop sign or for a pedestrian in a crosswalk. Some are monitoring cars that "block the box," meaning they stop in the middle of an intersection, causing gridlock. |
These cameras can even ticket vehicles that go down neighborhood streets. |
Previously, the city had said that the new cameras would begin to issue tickets Jan. 6. But the grace period was extended so that all of the camera locations locations had clocked 30 days of issuing warning citations. |
The new cameras are of a program that the district has dubbed "D.C. Street Safe." |
Fines for the offenses will vary. Failing to stop at a red light, failing to stop on red before turning right or turning right on red where it is prohibited carries a fine of $150. Speeding fines range from $50 to $300, depending on how far over the limit the car is going. |
Failing to clear an intersection carries a fine of $50, while failing to yield to a pedestrian in a crosswalk -- or passing a car that is stopped for a pedestrian -- means a $250 fine. |
Overweight commercial vehicles can be fined $250 or more, and trucks where they are restricted can be fined $150. |
As with existing automated traffic cameras, the ticket will be mailed to the registered owner of the vehicle. |
The word of the moment is “authenticity,” and that’s what electorates are said to crave. |
WASHINGTON — W. B. Yeats’ “The Second Coming,” written in 1919, is my nominee for the most cited poem in political commentary. The line invoked most — “The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity” — is irresistible. It’s always tempting to assume that the side we oppose brings vast re... |
Trumpism does have its uniquely American characteristics. Not many places would turn a loud-mouthed real estate tycoon first into a television celebrity and then into a (temporarily, at least) front-running presidential candidate. You can see Trump as a gift to us all from a raucous entrepreneurial culture that does no... |
But Trump is a symptom of a much wider problem in the Western democracies. In country after country, traditional, broadly based parties and their politicians face scorn. More voters than usual seem tired of carefully focus-grouped public statements, deftly cultivated public personas, and cautiously crafted political pl... |
But the center-right is hurting, too. If social democrats in Europe (and labor Democrats in the U.S.) are weakened by the decline of the unions, Christian Democrats are hit by the decline of the churches. Globalization weakens the ability of moderate governments of both varieties to deliver on their promises. Capital c... |
Microsoft is expected to show off Office 15, the next version of the company's productivity suite, on Monday at an event in San Francisco, according to numerous reports. |
Office has been available to a select group of users in a technical preview since January. It's not clear whether a public beta of Office might be available Monday, or whether it will arrive later this summer. |
Few details have seeped out about Office 15. Several reports claim Windows XP and Windows Vista won't be able to run Office 15. Microsoft is scheduled to stop supporting XP in 2014 and Vista support is expected to run out in 2017. |
If XP and Vista won't run the new Office, that leaves only Windows 7 and 8 PCs to run Microsoft's newest productivity suite. Of course, rumors persist that Microsoft will bring Office to the iPad with native Word, Excel, and PowerPoint apps. Microsoft in late 2011 released OneNote for the iPad. |
Nor has Microsoft said whether it will offer a touch-only Metro version of Office on Windows 8, the next version of the operating system, scheduled for release in October. So far, only desktop UI versions of Office 15 have surfaced online. Microsoft is building Office 15 into Windows RT (the version of Windows 8 for AR... |
Based on leaks from the Technical Preview, it appears Metro, the main design language for Windows 8 and Windows Phone, will figure prominently in the look and feel of Office 15. |
This includes bold, basic colors, and square edges. Office's famous Ribbon UI will reportedly be hidden by default, giving Office 15 a more stripped-down and basic look. |
The new version of Office will also feature integration with cloud services such as Facebook, Flickr, Hotmail, and SkyDrive. Microsoft is reportedly preparing an Office Marketplace for extensions and tools, and Office 15 will also feature a touch-optimized mode for tablets and all-in-one touchscreens. |
In January, PJ Hough, vice president of development for Office, called Office 15 "the most ambitious undertaking yet for the Office Division." |
The centenary of the outbreak of the First World War has been greeted with not much more than a yawn by citizens of the West. |
Sure, there have been the obligatory documentaries, the reconciliation hugs by the leaders of France and Germany and the commemorative ceremonies played out on that War's most ravaged battlefields. |
But for most, the war remains not even a distant memory. No man or woman who fought during that time is now alive and the events that took place between August 4,1914 and November 11,1918 have been vastly overshadowed by the outbreak of a far deeper conflict which engulfed the world 21 years later. |
Yet to fail to recognize the significance of this date is to ignore what is probably the most cataclysmic event in world history, one that overturned a century of extraordinary human progress and set the political, economic, cultural, and social tone for the remainder of the century. Not a man, woman, or child born in ... |
The First World War has been called a futile war, one marked by military ineptitude and diplomatic failures in which 10 million lives were sacrificed for no gain. Its most memorable slogans -- "Make the World Safe for Democracy" and "Your Country Wants You!" have been regarded with hindsight as just facile and empty pr... |
But what if they were true? What if the war, much like the much more decisively ended conflict which followed it, was really about the defense of a way of life and the shape of human progress? What, in fact, if the militant absolutism the Allied forces found themselves confronting in 1914, finds its mirror in some of t... |
For we should make no mistake: in the Islamic Republic of Iran, the West is looking into the eyes of exactly the kind of unbridled militarism and reckless opportunism it confronted at the beginning of the 20th Century. Failure to meet it with force could bring disaster. |
Before getting to the modern day however, it might help to examine the question of how it was possible for Europe to drift into a continent-wide conflagration in the first place, when so many seeming safeguards had been set in place by the Great Powers in order to avoid it? |
Since the convention of the Congress of Vienna in 1815 and the establishment of the Concert of Europe -- a traditional balance of power arrangement among the leading European nations -- a major continental war had been avoided on multiple occasions through advanced statecraft developed by a series of brilliant leaders ... |
Both Palmerston and Disraeli in particular had witnessed the devastations of the American Civil War and well recognized how new technology made modern warfare likely to involve a terrible carnage. With booming economies, expanding trade, and growing colonial empires, there was no stomach among the 19th Century European... |
The drive toward lasting peace culminated with the Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907 which produced the Convention for the Pacific Settlement of International Disputes, the Permanent Court of Arbitration, and the Convention with Respect to the Laws and Customs of War on Land -- all of which were designed to build safe... |
This is not to mention the familial ties of the European monarchs themselves. In a remarkable tangle of ancestral roots, the leaders of three of the Five Great Powers were first cousins, grandchildren of Great Britain's Queen Victoria. They had known each other since childhood, referred to one another by their nickname... |
But there were forces at work which undermined the Concert of Europe and set in motion an inevitable collision of national interests. When we remember that the concept of war in the European mind was always associated with glory, the absence of it created something of a national itch in many European countries which co... |
The undisputed historical trigger for the First World War was the assassination of the Austro-Hungarian heir Archduke Ferdinand in Sarajevo on June 28, 1914. But Germany had been aggressively preparing for a wide-scale continental war for at least the previous eighteen months. In 1961, the German historian Fritz Fische... |
No such documents have ever been produced which display an equally self-aggrandizing and militant approach from the other major belligerents of the First World War. |
If the Great War was then a German War, it leaves us with us with important questions about its inevitability and what it meant for the rise of Nazism. If Germany was bent on expansion and gaining its rightful place as a world leader and felt confined and hemmed in by the other Great Powers, could anything have stopped... |
The answer is almost certainly no. Flushed with military confidence after its defeat of France in 1870; buoyed by the unification of the German states the following year; catapulted into the limelight as a world financial power by the Zollverein -- its successful economic union -- German nationalism was at a peak and t... |
The conflict between world views was not lost on Adolf Hitler nor his backers. Indeed, the Nazis seemed to have picked up the fallen banner of the Imperial Germany Army where it lay, advancing a set of values which competed directly with those of the democracies and which were propagated without shame. |
The Nazis certainly learned some vital military lessons about subjugating restive populations from the Imperial Germany Army. The Kaiser's little-remembered campaign against the Herero and Namaqua tribes in South West Africa in 1904-07 was the first true genocide of the 20th Century, executed with a methodicism which w... |
And should anyone doubt the ideological link between Imperial Germany and the Nazi regime, let them then remember that only weeks after he was forced to abdicate, Wilhelm foreshadowed the moral abyss into which the German state would plunge just 14 years later. In a letter to Field Marshal August von Mackensen, on Dece... |
Seen in this light, the First World War was a desperate conflict between two diametrically opposed concepts of world advancement. The struggle between these competing ideas and ideals would consume the world for the first half of the 20th Century and then continue into the second on on to the Cold War, the war with com... |
But having ultimately won a 75 year- long -war with fascism/totalitarianism, the West, perhaps exhausted by the toll it has exacted and with its self-confidence and morale significantly shaken, has been unprepared to confront the arrival of a third menace whose militancy threatens its survival. The similarities between... |
Today, modern Germany has learned that it can exercise dominance without military conquest and its virtual suzerainty of Europe has been somewhat welcomed as a stabilizing influence on a continent that has otherwise lost its bearings. Iran and the satellite organizations it controls may well have to face total defeat a... |
The First World War, poorly fought, execrably settled, and memorialized for the wrong reasons, should today be recalled for what it was -- a necessary war, fought justly over values as much as over territory and leaving us with the conviction that reckless militarism should never be ignored nor laughed off. While milli... |
The storms didn't pack the punch of the atmospheric rivers that swept across California in January. |
But the first of two storms that arrived before sunrise Monday dropped much welcomed rain and snow from the Sacramento Valley and Sierra Nevada down to San Diego County. |
After years of sustained drought, California's landscape has been inundated with storm after storm since the beginning of the water year in October. |
The Sierra Nevada snowpack — which provides a third of the state's water in the warmer months when it melts — is at 173% of its historical average, and the range's foothills are saturated with water. |
The bulk of the state is on pace for its wettest year on record and reservoirs are at or above historical averages for this time of year. |
"It's a very beneficial type of rain. With any luck it doesn't get any heavier," said National Weather Service meteorologist Dave Bruno. |
Foothill residents along the northern Sierra Nevada and the San Gabriel Mountains in Los Angeles County were warned Monday that mud and debris flows were possible in the short-term. |
The city of Duarte issued a yellow alert Sunday night for residents in the impact area around last year's Fish fire, limiting where residents could park their vehicles and place their trash cans. |
The National Weather Service issued a flood advisory for Ventura County through Monday morning that cautioned water could pond on roads, highways and other low lying areas. |
But Southern California's rain was only a sprinkling of what the Bay Area and beyond experienced, said Steve Anderson, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service. |
The storm that soaked the Southland was expected to drop up to 2 inches of rain around downtown San Francisco and up to 5 inches in the coastal hills of central and Northern California by Tuesday afternoon, Anderson said. |
Though the storm is a warm "atmospheric river," meaning it flows east from warm waters in the Pacific and brings more rain than snow, it is still expected to add up to 3 feet to the Sierra snowpack, Anderson said. |
The storm is expected to stretch across most of the state and could trigger floods in streams and rivers up north, the weather service said. |
The storm, followed by another one on Thursday and Friday, could overwhelm the Sacramento River in some areas and cause flooding in Susanville, according to the California Nevada River Forecast Center. |
A winter storm warning was issued for the Northern Sierra Nevada, where wind gusts up to 120 mph could blast across mountain peaks, the weather service warned. Mountain passes could be snowed out and drivers were urged to bring chains. |
According to the latest U.S. Drought Report, this winter's rains have alleviated drought conditions for most of Northern California and made a significant dent in the southern half. |
1:20 p.m.: This article was updated with Northern California's forecast. |
Inception by Christopher Nolan is a great and very complicated movie. Too complicated in the opinion of some, the new Matrix in the opinion of others. |
Anyway the dream-world thriller which splits levels of human conscious into some crazy tiered architecture thing is the high-brow geek movie fare of the moment. Without making any judgements on the scriptwriter, I just couldn’t help feeling that if Leo & buddies had all had a little search around on Amazon and possibly... |
Sure, Leo had that little spinny brass thing with him for keeping it real, but a few other commonly-available devices would have helped out too.. |
Here are five little suggestions. |
A dog found shivering and alone in a bus shelter was reunited with his owners after he was spotted by a City of Regina bus operator who called for help. |
A dog found shivering and alone in a bus shelter on Wednesday afternoon was reunited with his owners thanks to a concerned passenger and a compassionate bus driver. |
“He was just as scared as he was cold,” said Darren Szabo, the transportation service officer who ended up waiting with the dog until the Regina Humane Society (RHS) arrived. |
After the dog was spotted by a passenger who called the RHS, the bus driver contacted dispatch which in turn called Szabo. Already out on the road, Szabo headed to the bus shelter. |
“I looked inside and sure enough there was the dog just shivering and shaking on the ground,” said Szabo, who used his own fleece jacket to try and keep the dog warm. |
“I kind of threw it on him to begin with because he as a little bit growly at first. And then he kind of was like, OK, this person is here to help,” said Szabo. |
After gaining some trust, he was able to tuck the jacket more tightly around the dog. RHS staff arrived about 10 minutes later. |
The German shepherd mix was given the name Baclava by the RHS until his true identify was discovered after his owners called in looking for him. |
“It was not common for the dog to be missing, so they noticed he was missing fairly quickly and phoned us,” said Lindsay West, director of operations for the RHS. |
Baclava was monitored for frostbite, but did not appear to be suffering from any cold related injuries or illness and was sent home with his owners. |
West said the RHS has experienced a slight increase in calls lately due to the extreme cold that’s gripped the province. |
“If we get a call about an animal outside at an address that belongs to people, then animal protection officers will go out and have a look and speak with the owner,” said West. |
She said sometimes there ends up being no real cause for concern, but reporting any situations where an animal may appear to be at risk is important. |
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