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An interior ministry spokeswoman said a decision was expected early next week.
Over the past few days several eligible voters from cities including Vienna and Salzburg have complained about damaged ballot papers. About 500 damaged papers have been detected so far, according to the daily Die Presse. The printing company KBPrintcom, which was commissioned by the interior ministry, declined to comme...
Experts have warned the results of the new election could be challenged again. If a ballot paper becomes invalid through no fault of the voter “that would be surely a reason for contesting the election if there is a narrow result”, the political analyst Peter Filzmaier said.
Van der Bellen called for a prompt clarification of the situation late on Thursday, telling the broadcaster ORF that every eligible voter should be able to rely on their vote being counted.
Van der Bellen has been catching up in the race but is still behind his anti-immigration rival, according to an opinion poll by the researcher Gallup.
The former professor, perceived as the intellectuals’ representative, has been travelling to public festivals and fairs in recent weeks seeking support from farmers and blue-collar workers.
A poll of 600 people on 7-8 September, published by the Österreich tabloid on Friday, showed the average support for Van der Bellen at 48%, only slightly higher than a poll in late August, against 52% for Hofer.
Concerns about security and national identity as well as dissatisfaction with traditional, more centrist parties, have fuelled support for the FPO as well as the Front National in France and the far-right party Alternative for Germany.
On Thursday, Ecuador officials decided to grant political asylum to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
Officials in Ecuador on Thursday granted political asylum to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
Assange took refuge at London's Ecuadorean embassy following the loss of his second U.K. extradition appeal in June. The WikiLeaks founder has been accused of sexual misconduct and was on the brink of being sent to Sweden to face charges.
According to BBC News, Assange called the decision "a significant victory," and thanked Ecuadorian embassy staff.
"The government of Ecuador is confident that the British government will know how to answer," Ecuadorean foreign minister Ricardo Patiño said Thursday.
Britain did know how to answer, just not with the response Ecuador was hoping to hear.
The U.K. has vowed to arrest Assange as soon as he leaves the embassy, insisting that Patiño's decision has no effect on the U.K.'s legal obligation to extradite Assange to Sweden, BBC said. The country, in fact, could invoke the Diplomatic and Consular Premises Act 1987 to strip the embassy of diplomatic status, allow...
In response, Ecuador's minister called the U.K.'s tactics an "explicit type of blackmail," and said that they "can't allow spokespeople from the U.K. to gleefully say they have been honest when they have threatened us in such a way," BBC reported.
The minister believes that Assange's fears of political persecution are "legitimate," and is concerned that Assange could face obstacles during Sweden's judicial process. Patiño has asked for confirmation that once the proceedings are through, Assange, originally from Australia, will not then be extradited to America.
"Sadly, and despite our repeated attempts, the U.K. at no moment accepted to showed any willingness to negotiate on that issue," he said Thursday.
The U.S., as well, cannot offer any guarantees of its intention regarding legal processes against Assange and other WikiLeaks members, Patiño said.
In November, Ecuador offered Assange, and his confidential information, a home.
"We are going to try and invite him to Ecuador to freely present, not only via the Internet, but also through different public forums, the information and documentation that he has," deputy foreign minister Kintto Lucas said last fall.
The invitation came just days after WikiLeaks dumped almost 250,000 diplomatic documents one of the largest releases in WikiLeaks history.
Chanhassen, Minn., no. 4 on Money's Best Places to Live, has grown a lot since it was first settled in the 1850s. Today there are nearly 30,000 residents in this suburb of Minneapolis. We talked to a few to find out why they brave the winters to live here.
It seems to be a rough day in the social media world. A lot of Twitter users have been experiencing problems on and off, and some businesses with Facebook pages have been unable to post links throughout the day.
We noticed this ourselves at first, but then when searching the Twitterverse, saw others complaining about it as well.
Here are a few of those complaints. Let us know if you’ve been experiencing problems yourself.
@lonseidman Anybody else having trouble posting items to their Facebook business page? I’ve been unable to post since last night.
@goodthingslisa Still having problems posting links to my #Facebook page.
@pressconnects Pressconnects is having difficulty posting links on its Facebook page today. Please be patient as we work through this issue.
@ralxz Anyone else having trouble posting to a Facebook page right now?
I wonder how much web traffic this is costing everybody. Facebook can be a tremendous source of not only traffic for sites, but engagement with user around a site’s content. If Facebook doesn’t get this problem fixed soon, there will no doubt be plenty of irate businesses.
Regular status updates do appear to be working, as do links from personal profiles.
We’ve reached out to Facebook, and will update if we receive a comment.
“Corporations are rich with cash, but it is mostly in the hands of the biggest companies. As rates jumped recently, the pace of monthly credit issuance shriveled to $58 billion from $260 billion. Here’s how much companies have relied on financial engineering and buybacks to placate shareholders: Per-share profits are 1...
“Between January and the start of the tapering talk in late May, the stock market added $2.8 trillion in market value. But the size of the U.S. economy expanded just $500 billion, Pomboy notes. Credit issuance during this stretch totaled—guess what?—almost exactly $2.3 trillion. “If growth—actual and borrowed—dictate w...
On July 26, 2015 U.S. State Department Press Secretary Marie Harf tweeted her boss Secretary of State John Kerry and to the world a recent piece by Washington Post blogger and sometime print columnist Ishaan Tharoor (“How the Iran deal is good for Israel, according to Israelis who know what they’re talking about,” July...
Problems with “How the Iran deal is good for Israel, according to Israelis who know what they’re talking about” are evident immediately in the very title which implies that such Israelis have stated that the deal reached between the United States, Russia, China, France, Germany, and the United Kingdom and Iran over its...
The blogger also fails to note that former Mossad chief Meir Dagan—who he implies supports the deal—previously said that the threat from Iran’s nuclear program was dire(“Israel’s Former Mossad Chief is Playing Politics with Iran’s Nuclear Program,” National Review, March 9). In a similar vein, Tharoor says former Mossa...
Tharoor also claimed that Ami Ayalon, former head of the Shin Bet, Israel’s top domestic security agency “praised the Vienna agreement.” Yet, in an interview with The Jerusalem Post(“Ami Ayalon tells ‘Post’ he’s not upset Kerry quoted him on Iran nuclear deal,” July 26) Ayalon states: “It’s not black and white [the P5+...
This hardly is the first time Tharoor has failed to note important background and report uncritically. In one of several articles sneering at Netanyahu—this one for the prime minister’s comparison of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria—the blogger uncritically shares tweets and qoutes fr...
Expressing puzzlement over an Israeli government video comparing the terrorist group to the world’s leading state-sponsor of terrorism, the blogger claims Netanyahu is “perhaps not the most clear-eyed observer of Middle Eastern affairs” (“Sorry, Prime Minister Netanyahu, Iran is not the Islamic State,” March 3).
Nowhere does Tharoor note some of the overlap between the two, namely calls for the destruction of Israel and the genocide of its Jewish inhabitants, threats against the United States, and high numbers of executions by the Iranian regime and members of the Islamic State murders populations that fall under their rule.
An apparent unwillingness to examine his own assertions, or those of others he finds useful, can be found in Tharoor’s take on the flawed United Nations Human Rights Council’s report on the summer 2014 war in Gaza began by Hamas mortar and rocket attacks on Israel (“The U.N. report on Israel’s Gaza war: What you need t...
The article dismissively notes Israel’s own investigation into civilian Gazan deaths while claiming “that contention is not supported by the U.N. report.” Astoundingly, nowhere does Tharoor—in a piece with the subhead “What you need to know”—detail Hamas’ policy of using Gazans as human shields and encouraging the deat...
Nor does the blogger note the findings of leading military officials like U.S. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey, former commander of British troops in Afghanistan Col. Richard Kemp, and others that Israel did everything it could to limit civilian casualties while defending itself.
Tharoor also omits key details regarding the authors of the report: The original chair, William Schabas, belatedly admitted to being paid by the Palestinian Authority for previously representing it legally—a revelation that prompted an outcry leading to his stepping down, but the report largely still amounted to a coll...
Iranian leaders’ past vows, even without nuclear weapons, to destroy Israel?
Tharoor misses the opportunity to highlight Iranian hypocrisy—calls for Israel’s elimination violate the U.N. Charter. Instead he pivots from Iran’s purported illegal nuclear weapons program that violates the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) to a country whose own supposed nuclear program predates the existence of the NP...
More facts were absent without leave from the blogger’s Israeli elections analysis (“What Netanyahu’s election victory means for the Palestinians,” March 18). He claims that “4 million Palestinians living in the West Bank and Gaza have no place in Israel’s electoral system and are allowed no say in an election whose ou...
Also missing from Tharoor’s facile comparison: Palestinian Arabs gave Hamas, a U.S.-designated terrorist organization, a plurality in 2006, and the Palestinian Authority of President Mahmoud Abbas, in the tenth year of a four-year term, hasn’t called an election since then.
Tharoor then quotes from Israeli journalist Gideon Levy (whose documented inaccuracies are legion and can be found here) and former Abbas adviser Diana Buttu. These citations suggest that Israel is solely responsible for lack of progress in Israeli-Palestinian diplomacy. Tharoor fails to mention Palestinian rejections ...
The Post blogger fails to mention U.S. and Israel-backed attempts to achieve Israeli-Palestinian peace in another article in which he repeats the falsehood that the “Old City [of Jerusalem] is technically Palestinian territory” (“British bans Israeli tourism ad because it shows Jerusalem’s Old City as part of Israel,” ...
The blogger’s confusion, ambivalence or animus towards Israel, whose democratic electoral process he sometimes heralds (“4 ways Israel’s electoral system could improve the U.S.,” March 17) until it disappoints him (“What Netanyahu’s election victory means for Palestinians,” March 18), seem to date all the way back to t...
The Islamic Republic is of course the land where U.S. prisoners are still being held and abused and which regularly calls for “Death to Israel” and “Death to America”—rhetoric it tries to turn into reality through backing terrorist groups including Hezbollah, Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad and others who have killed ...
Yet Tharoor does not heed his own call for carefulness when writing about the Islamic Republic.
He repeatedly refers—without evidence—to current Iranian president Hassan Rouhani as a “moderate” (“The key moments in the long history of U.S.-Iran tensions,” March 31), never mentioning Rouhani’s role as head of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council during the bombings of the Israeli embassy and Jewish community h...
Tharoor’s recounting of U.S.-Iran ties (“The key moments in the long history of U.S.-Iran tensions,” March 31) omits that some Iranians worked with British and American officials during the 1953 coup that removed democratically-elected Iranian Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadegh, in part for his ties to the pro-Soviet Tu...
Tharoor continued to provide questionable analysis in “A parallel debate is underway in Iran, where hard-liners want a better nuclear deal, too.” The Washington Post blogger appears in print as well (August 4 edition) with this offering, casting a false narrative based on a false parallel: Iranian “hard-liners” who opp...
Comparisons between so-called “hard-liners” in Iran and U.S. critics of the proposed agreement are not just overblown—they’re untenable. Iran’s hardliners lead and dominate a theocratic police state that calls for “Death to America” and “Death to Israel.” American “hard-liners” engaging in constitutionally protected fr...
“Particularly” but not exclusively. That is, it’s not just the hard-liners who view with “profound distrust and loathing” the U.S. government, but also the country as a whole, which they refer to as the “Great Satan” whose death they repeatedly call for at public rallies attended by thousands. It must be that so-called...
The closest he comes to defining a “moderate” is by pointing to what he perceives to be their traits. For example, Foreign Minister Javad Zarif “has a number of degrees from U.S. universities.” But if Western-educated is what makes a “moderate” then by extension much of the Imperial Japanese military and government dur...
Great price? More like great reward. Tharoor fails to note that $100 billion or more in frozen Iranian oil revenue will be returned to Iran. Such a sum, Illan Berman of the American Foreign Policy Council notes, “is difficult to put in context. It amounts to roughly a quarter of Iran’s annual gross domestic product, wh...
The Post blogger adds mischaracterizations to his omissions claiming “young hard-liners belonging to the Basij, a paramilitary organization” are “tethered to the regime [emphasis added].” Tethered? Loosely tied yet distinct? Hardly.
As noted Iran analyst Ali Alfoneh has written (“The Basij Resistance Force: A weak link in the Iranian regime?” February 2010, Washington Institute for Near East Policy), the Basij force was created by the regime itself following direct orders from regime founder Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, a teacher to both current S...
Tharoor would do well to take American Enterprise Institute (AEI) scholar Michael Rubin’s advice (noted above): Imagining a multicultural norm can be dangerous. Assuming that everyone—including leaders of hostile regimes in different cultures—thinks as you do amounts to an ethnocentric delusion.
Announcing Tharoor’s hiring in March 2014, Post editors—noting his years at TIME Magazine—stated they looked forward to his bringing “formidable skills and knowledge of foreign affairs” and noted his prodigious output. So far, prodigious one-sided or out-of-context quotations, repeated omissions of relevant facts, and ...
The Washington Post’s online (and occasionally in-print) analyst Ishaan Tharoor has again displayed a bit of “fly over journalism,” this time on both Iran and Israel (“Putin v. Obama and other main storylines at the U.N. General Assembly,” Sept. 28, 2015).
True, but why? Tharoor again omitted that Palestinian leadership didn’t comply with the Oslo accords of 1993 that were meant to lead to “final status” talks by 1998 and that it rejected negotiations and talks for two-state solutions and peace in 2000, 2001, 2008 and most recently U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry’s “f...
“If not for the U.S. military invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq, and its unwarranted support for the inhumane actions of the Zionist regime against the oppressed nation of Palestine, today the terrorists [such as the Islamic State] would not have an excuse for the justification of their crimes” (“Iranian leader blames U...
Of course, the problem of Middle East terror long predates the U.S.-led coalition military actions that ousted the oppressive Taliban regime in Afghanistan or Saddam Hussein’s dictatorship in Iraq. The Taliban provided sanctuary to the al-Qaeda terror group and its leader, Osama bin Laden. Hussein, besides terrorizing ...
And it’s Iran, not Israel who signed and then broke promises contained in the 1969 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), while regularly threatening both the United States and Israel. By casting Iranian anti-American, anti-Israel rhetoric as little worse than an aside aimed only against the Jewish state, Tharoor obsc...
Tharoor classifies opponents of the Iran nuclear deal as “neo-conservatives.” This is odd terminology; although the blogger in the past has exhibited a tendency to rely on fringe sources that use that term (often employed by conspiracy theorists to imply war-mongering Jews), it has not turned up readily in mainstream n...
Tharoor has continued to provide more faulty analysis with recent blogs on U.S. sailors held hostage by naval forces of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
On Jan. 12, 2016 IRGC forces captured two U.S. naval vessels and detained their ten person crew. The crew had reportedly accidentally drifted into Iranian territorial waters near Farsi Island due to mechanical problems. They were released the next day, but not before Tehran took pictures of the sailors on their knees w...
Iran has since disseminated the images and what may have been forced apologies by the sailors. Some, such as Bill Luti, a former U.S. navy commander, have remarked that Iran’s actions violate established practices by nations on how to deal with distressed seacraft as well as international law, including articles 13 and...
Tharoor notes none of this. Instead he dismisses some reactions to the incident as overblown in “The freakout over the U.S.-Iran boat drama looks a bit silly now” (January 13). The Post blogger details what he considers to be partisan criticisms by Republican politicians over the incident. In contrast, the portrayal by...
In a subsequent article, (“That time U.S. serviceman were detained overseas by a hostile power, and America said sorry twice,” January 15) Tharoor again attempts to minimize the incident with U.S. sailors by comparing it to an April 2001 incident in which a Chinese fighter jet collided with a U.S. surveillance plane. T...
Yet, the comparison by The Post blogger is faulty: China did not violate established practices of how to deal with distressed seacraft nor did it violate the Geneva Convention by using U.S. serviceman and women for propaganda purposes. Additionally, China, unlike Iran, was not on the verge of receiving 150 billion U.S....
Asking the right questions, a wider range of relevant sources and more critical analyses may yet save Tharoor’s work from a sort of superficial stenography. But not if the examples noted above harden into a pattern.
The iPhone is still a wonderful phone, but the latest handsets from the competition have passed it in form and function.
My iPhone 4S is still a nice phone, and the iPhone 5 is even better. Apple has nothing to worry about in spite of doomsayers crying the end is near, given the latest financials from Cupertino, California. While the iPhone is still a popular phone, looking at the latest crop of smartphones hitting the scene shows that t...
Both the HTC One and the Samsung Galaxy S4 show design and functionality that make the iPhone look dated. The hardware design of the HTC One is simply beautiful, and in my view is the nicest phone ever produced. While I've felt for a while that Samsung's Android is better than the rest of the Android field, the Galaxy ...
The BlinkFeed function of the HTC One looks positively wonderful in the way that it presents what's important to the user. Scrolling through the stunningly presented information, each user can marvel at his/her own information of note. It's a case of form meeting function, and that's powerful stuff.
Samsung's Galaxy S4 doesn't equal the hardware design of the HTC One but the software leaves everything else in the dust. Samsung has taken Android and not only made it its own; it has also made it more useful to the individual than any other software.
The S4 takes all the tweaked functionality of older Samsung phones and makes it better. Simple features like the Smart Stay function, which senses if the user is looking at the screen and prevents it from dimming and turning off, is not game changing by itself. But Samsung has added a lot of really useful features like...
Samsung has really upped its game on the S4 with the Air View and Air Gesture features. The former lets you place your finger near the screen but without touching it, a hover maneuver if you will, to trigger popup information. Air Gesture works the same way to swipe through different screens without touching the displa...
While Apple made the iPhone 5 screen bigger to be more useful, the decision to maintain the narrow width of the display was not the best in my opinion. Using a 5-inch Android phone with its wider format is better for seeing more information at a time than on the iPhone 5. To me, that's the only reason to make a screen ...
Don't get me wrong; Apple is not in any trouble, and iPhone owners still love their phones. But if they happen to play with either the HTC One or the Samsung Galaxy S4, they will see what they are missing. The latest phones in the Android world are really, really good. Apple better be spinning some magic for the next i...
Head of EVOLVE Wrestling Gabe Sapolsky revealed on Twitter this afternoon that current-Impact World Tag Team Champions LAX (Ortiz and Santana) have been pulled from their upcoming bookings.
LAX was scheduled to face AR Fox & Leon Ruff and NXT Superstars The Street Profits in a triple threat tag team match for the EVOLVE Tag Team Championships at EVOLVE 117. They were then scheduled for the main event of EVOLVE 118, where they’d team with Austin Theory to face The Street Profits & Darby Allin.
No replacements have been announced as of press time.
Impact Wrestling has pulled LAX off the 12/15 & 16 dates. Working on replacements now. I was just informed. Our apologies to the fans.
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Congregating in front of the town hall in Snow Hill, around 20 activists bear signs reading, "Oliver deserved to live."
The protest is part of an ongoing dilemma regarding the policy of euthanasia as a first measure Worcester County Animal Control implements for stray cats. Oliver, a cat that had been in possession of Berlin's Community Cat Coalition prior to being picked up by animal control on June 28, had received all proper vaccinat...
"Oliver was ear-chipped as a trap and return cat," said Molly Armus, of Bethesda's Alley Cat Allies. "That means animal control knew that he was neutered and disease free."
Alley Cat Allies state that of all of the cats that come through Worcester County Animal Control, 86 percent are euthanized. A campaign for letters to Worcester County Animal Control has so far sent 56,000 letters, according to Alley Cat Allies.

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