Saturday, November 19, 2011

U.S. banks should "undermine" Occupy protesters: memo (Reuters)

U.S. banks should "undermine" Occupy protesters: memo (Reuters)

U.S. banks should "undermine" Occupy protesters: memo (Reuters)

Posted: 19 Nov 2011 02:12 PM PST

Reuters - The Occupy Wall Street movement is a big enough problem for U.S. banks that they should pay for opposition research into the political motives of protesters, said a firm that lobbies for the industry.

Oakland protesters defiantly set up new tent city (Reuters)

Posted: 19 Nov 2011 07:28 PM PST

Reuters - Throngs of anti-Wall Street protesters took over a vacant lot in downtown Oakland on Saturday and began erecting a tent camp to replace one torn down by police, setting the stage for a potential showdown.

Fire crews gain upper hand on destructive Nevada blaze (Reuters)

Posted: 19 Nov 2011 05:33 PM PST

Reuters - Firefighters working to extinguish a blaze that blackened 2,000 acres of suburban scrubland and damaged dozens of homes on the edge of northern Nevada's biggest city had the fire mostly under control on Saturday, Reno city officials said.

Former Procter & Gamble CEO John Smale dies at 84 (Reuters)

Posted: 19 Nov 2011 04:42 PM PST

Reuters - Former Procter & Gamble chief executive John G. Smale, credited with transforming the two major international companies he led during his career, died on Saturday at age 84.

Former Procter & Gamble CEO John Smale dies at 84 (AP)

Posted: 19 Nov 2011 11:35 AM PST

FILE - In this May 1993 file photo, General Motors Chairman John G. Smale appears at the automaker's annual meeting in Oklahoma City. Former Procter & Gamble Co. chief executive and chairman Smale, who expanded the consumer products maker with a major acquisition and a push into China and other emerging markets overseas, died Saturday, Nov. 19, 2011. He was 84. Smale led P&G from 1981 to 1990 and was the seventh chief executive of the 174-year-old company. He also was chairman of General Motors Co. from 1992 to 1995 and was a board member of the automaker for more than two decades, beginning in 1982. (AP Photo/David Longstreath, File)AP - John G. Smale enjoyed his work at Procter & Gamble, throwing himself into it through late nights and weekends as he rose from the toilet goods division to the top of the consumer products giant. Decades later, the company is still reaping the benefits of those long hours and the ideas and plans they helped produce.

Truck strikes Yale-Harvard tailgaters, killing 1 (AP)

Posted: 19 Nov 2011 01:34 PM PST

People look at the scene where the driver of a rental truck carrying beer kegs through a parking area before an NCAA college football game between Yale and Harvard suddenly accelerated, fatally striking a 30-year-old woman and injuring two other women, police said, Saturday, Nov. 19, 2011, in New Haven, Conn. (AP Photo/Bob Child)AP - A driver of a U-Haul truck carrying beer kegs through a tailgating area before the Yale-Harvard game Saturday suddenly accelerated, fatally striking a 30-year-old Massachusetts woman and injuring two other women, police said.

Some Va. sex offenders held long after sentence up (AP)

Posted: 19 Nov 2011 11:11 AM PST

FILE - A Tuesday June 29, 2010 file photo shows the 300-bed Virginia Center for Behavioral Rehabilitation in Burkeville, Va. Having already served their sentences, hundreds of Virginia sex offenders are held behind bars for months , some for years, while waiting to see whether they’ll be sent to a psychiatric center indefinitely, an Associated Press review has found. (AP Photo/Dena Potter, File)AP - Having already served their sentences, hundreds of Virginia sex offenders are held behind bars for months — some for years — while waiting to see whether they'll be sent to a psychiatric center indefinitely, an Associated Press review has found.

Post-9/11 tradeoff: Security vs. civil liberties (AP)

Posted: 19 Nov 2011 11:33 AM PST

FILE - In this Aug. 18, 2011 file photo, people walk below a New York Police Department security camera, upper left, which was placed next to a mosque on Fulton St. in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Bedford-Stuyvesant in New York. Working with the CIA, the New York Police Department maintained a list of “ancestries of interest” and dispatched undercover officers to monitor Muslim businesses and social groups, according to new documents that offer a rare glimpse inside an intelligence program the NYPD insists doesn't exist. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)AP - In the early months after the 9/11 terror attacks, America's visceral reaction was to gird for a relentless, whatever-it-takes quest to punish those responsible and prevent any recurrences.

Officials say power lines likely caused Reno fire (AP)

Posted: 19 Nov 2011 11:10 AM PST

AP - Fire investigators in Reno say arcing power lines likely caused the wind-fueled wild fire that destroyed 15 homes and damaged at least 40 more.

Deficit deal failure would pose crummy choice (AP)

Posted: 19 Nov 2011 02:15 PM PST

Rep. Jeb Hensarling, R-Texas, co-chair of the supercommittee, tells reporters outside his office that the deficit reduction panel would work over the weekend as the deadline for its work nears, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, Nov. 18, 2011. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)AP - If the deficit-cutting supercommittee fails, Congress will face a crummy choice. Lawmakers can allow payroll tax cuts and jobless aid for millions to expire or they extend them and increase the nation's $15 trillion debt by at least $160 billion.

NTSB rules out weather in Okla. St. coaches' crash (AP)

Posted: 19 Nov 2011 05:53 PM PST

AP - Federal investigators said Saturday that weather likely wasn't a factor in the plane crash that killed two Oklahoma State women's basketball coaches this week in Arkansas.

Obama cites jobs payoff from Asia trip (AP)

Posted: 19 Nov 2011 05:12 AM PST

U.S. President Barack Obama looks after attending the East Asia Summit at Nusa Dua, Bali, Indonesia on Saturday Nov. 19, 2011. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)AP - After a nine-day trip through Asia in which he showed command on the world stage, President Barack Obama is headed back to debt-deadlocked Washington, where he'll confront fresh reminders of the limits of his power at home.

Passive Occupy protesters take pepper spray blast (AP)

Posted: 19 Nov 2011 07:17 PM PST

In this image made from video, a police officer uses pepper spray as he walks down a line of Occupy demonstrators sitting on the ground at the University of California, Davis on Friday, Nov. 18, 2011. The video - posted on YouTube - was shot Friday as police moved in on more than a dozen tents erected on campus and arrested 10 people, nine of them students. (AP Photo/Thomas K. Fowler)AP - Protesters sitting on the ground supporting the Occupy Wall Street movement on the campus of the University of California, Davis took a face full of pepper spray at close range from an officer in riot gear in an incident that was captured on cellphone video and spread virally across the Internet Saturday.

After fire and tornado, Miss. church is rebuilt (AP)

Posted: 19 Nov 2011 08:37 AM PST

In this Nov. 16, 2011 photograph a newly rebuilt Hillcrest Baptist Church stands in place of the previous Yazoo City, Miss., church which was destroyed by a tornado April 24, 2010. Donations from around the world and from its small membership has helped them rebuild almost debt free. The church will be rededicated Sunday. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)AP - In this quiet little town where the hill country rises up from the pancake-flat Delta farmlands, reminders of the killer tornado are all around. The bent flag poles and broken crosses, snapped trees and abandoned houses, all claim a spot in the landscape now.

Upscale Fla. town in fight over immigrant prison (AP)

Posted: 19 Nov 2011 12:09 PM PST

In this photo taken Tuesday, July 26, 2011, Diana Bramhall walks with one of her horses at her home in Southwest Ranches, Fla. Town leaders in this upscale rural enclave have plans to build a 1,500-bed detention center facility for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. A growing group of residents from Southwest Ranches and neighboring cities are seeking to halt the effort. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)AP - In one of South Florida's upscale, rural enclaves, where peacocks roam and horse trails are as common as sidewalks, town leaders decided to bring in much of their money from an unusual business: a prison.

Analysis: Obama gets little pushback on Asia trip (AP)

Posted: 19 Nov 2011 12:03 PM PST

U.S. President Barack Obama walks as he attends the East Asia Summit at Nusa Dua, Bali, Indonesia on Saturday Nov. 19, 2011. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)AP - An assertive President Barack Obama got much of what he wanted during his Asia-Pacific trip because the results didn't depend on negotiating with the world.

Firefighters aided by easing winds in Reno fire (AP)

Posted: 19 Nov 2011 08:42 AM PST

Water from a fire department hose forms a cloud above a home burning on Star Meadows Loop during the Caughlin Fire in southwest Reno, Nev. Friday, Nov. 18, 2011. The blaze raged through more than 400 acres, claimed at least one life, injured several others, destroyed 20 homes and blanketed Reno and its suburban enclaves in a fiery curtain as violent winds sidelined firefighters and rescue helicopters. (AP Photo/Reno Gazette-Journal, David B. Parker)AP - Kristina Wright fell asleep listening to the TV weatherman's forecast for possible snow on the valley floor where she lives on edge of the foothills of the Sierra Nevada.
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