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Perhaps taking a cue from Jimmy Kimmel's hilarious Christmas challenge of filming loved opening the worst gift ever, this girl's parents got her ... a Ron Paul book.
Paul, the Texas Congressman and presidential candidate, inspires passion like no other political figure. Unfortunately for his chances, it's not always positive.
Watch her open the magical gift and express her gratitude:
Safe to say those aren't tears of joy, but rather disgust over Paul's libertarian viewpoints ... particularly as they pertain to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
It's also safe to say she won't be pulling the lever for Dr. Paul in 2012, but plenty of peeps will for the same reasons. Enough to win? Only time will tell.
One thing is for sure: Love him or hate him, Paul gets a reaction!
Source: http://www.thehollywoodgossip.com/2011/12/girl-receives-ron-paul-book-for-christmas-cries/
Getty ImagesOn the surface, it?s easy to shrug at Sunday?s slate of games, given the sense that only a few postseason loose ends remain.? But as our good friend Ricky Diamond, producer extraordinaire at NBC Sports, points out, all but three of the games have meaning.
Unfortunately for FOX, all three of the meaningless games ? Redskins-Eagles, Bears-Vikings, Seahawks-Cardinals ? will be televised on its network.
Here are the implications of each of the other games.
Bills at Patriots:? New England clinches the top seed in the AFC with a win.? A loss combined with a win by the Steelers or Ravens would push the Pats to No. 2.
Jets at Dolphins:? New York remains alive for the second wild-card berth in the AFC.
Titans at Texans:? Ditto for the Titans.
Colts at Jaguars:? The Colts secure the No. 1 pick if they lose; if they win (and if the Rams lose to the 49ers), the pick goes to St. Louis.
Ravens at Bengals:? The Ravens need a win to clinch the AFC North and the No. 2 seed.? The Bengals must win to secure the second wild-card berth in the AFC.
Steelers at Browns:? A Steelers win plus a Ravens loss gives Pittsburgh the AFC North title and the No. 2 seed.? Throw in a Patriots loss, and the Steelers emerge with the No. 1 seed.
Chiefs at Broncos:? Denver clinches the AFC West with a victory.
Chargers at Raiders:? Oakland takes the AFC West with a victory and a loss by the Broncos.? The Raiders with a win also have a shot at the second AFC wild-card berth.
Panthers at Saints:? The Saints can capture the No. 2 seed in the NFC with a win and a 49ers loss.
Buccaneers at Falcons:? With a Falcons win and a Lions loss, Atlanta secures the No. 5 seed in the NFC, avoiding a potential return trip to New Orleans.
Lions at Packers:? With a win, the Lions clinch the fifth seed, avoiding the Saints in the wild-card round.
49ers at Rams:? A win by San Fran nails down the No. 2 seed; a loss by the Rams could deliver the top pick in the draft, if the Colts beat the Jaguars.
Cowboys at Giants:? A true playoff play-in game, the winner takes the NFC East.? The loser goes home.
And so be sure to ring in the New Year by keeping your eyes on every NFL game on Sunday.? (Except the three that don?t matter.) We?ll be watching them all ? including the three that don?t matter ? and bringing you all the pertinent information right here.
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Alors que l'iPhone permet de r?aliser des s?quences vid?os ? tout moment, nous avions r?alis? un dossier sur les applications qui peuvent am?liorer vos films ou les rendre diff?rents.
Comme le nombre d'applis ne cesse d'augmenter sur ce th?me nous avons d?cid? de revisiter ce dossier et d'en ajouter 5. Impressionnantes, surprenantes ou juste pratiques, il y en a pour tous les gouts et c'est promis, vous ne serez pas d??us?:
Voici donc 16 applications vid?o ? d?couvrir ou ? red?couvrir dans le cadre de nos dossiers apps iPhone que vous pouvez retrouver ici?:
Avec iMovie, c?est le montage vid?o qui devient accessible ? tous. En quelques minutes et du bout des doigts, montez un film en lui ajoutant des effets, de la musique et pourquoi pas les deux.Il est ?galement possible d?ins?rer des titres et des transitions, en bref de faire un rendu pro avec votre iPhone et de l'exp?dier sur youtube par exemple.
Attention toutefois,iMovie n?est disponible que sur iPad 2, iPhone 4 et 4S et iPod Touch 4G mais la version est universelle
Splice existe en une version gratuite qui ravira par exemple les blogueurs qui cherchent ? faire rapidement de jolies vid?os sans se casser la t?te avec des logiciels de montages plus lourds et une version payante. Bien s?r la gratuit? a un prix et comme souvent c?est celui de la pub, qui, dans ce cas n?est pas fonci?rement g?nante et se fait m?me souvent rare.
Rires et amusements garantis. On adore et nous ne sommes pas les seuls vus les 4,5 ?toiles sur l'App Store!
C??tait impossible devrais-je dire car un d?veloppeur a eu la bonne id?e de proposer une application dont le seul but est de vous permettre de zoomer tout en filmant. Ca a le m?rite d??tre clair et et de ne pas couter trop cher. Pour autant cela peut s?av?rer vraiment pratique pour certaines s?quences. Pour le reste l'app est semblable ? l'appli iPhone standard.
Et bien c?est exactement ce que vous propose de faire iMotion HD et tout cela gratuitement. Le stop motion demande un peu de patience mais vous arriverez tr?s simplement ? obtenir des r?sultats sympas. Cerise sur le g?teau, une seconde appli t?l?commande vous permet de d?clencher la prise de photo ? distance avec un autre iPhone par exemple.
Astucieux non?? A faire avant le montage dans iMovie ;-).
L?appli se charge alors de zoomer un peu et d?effacer le tremblement. Deuxi?me avantage notable, DollyCam propose une version free qui apposera un watermark sur votre vid?o. Je vous conseille d?essayer car c?est tout simplement g?nial.
Les actus iPhone, les accessoires, les apps et les bons plans, c'est avec notre application iFon.fr gratuite
En bref c?est un v?ritable studio de montage vid?o que vous tiendrez au creux de votre main. Petit point qui risque d?en rebuter plus d?un, l?application est enti?rement en anglais. L?application est universelle, vous pourrez donc en profiter sur iPhone et sur iPad pour le m?me prix.
N?h?sitez pas ? tester Viddy par curiosit? ou pour le plaisir car l?application est gratuite
En effet, l?application Vimeo propose gratuitement un ?diteur de vid?o plus que respectable qui vous rendra bien des services. Montage, ajout de titre ou de bande son et m?me de filtres tout est possible dans cette appli que je vous invite ? tester.
N?h?sitez pas ? mettre un lien vers vos cr?ations vid?os dans les commentaires.
Et pour terminer, rappelons que, plus que jamais, ce type de dossier ne peut ?tre exhaustif. Vous aurez forc?ment d'autres applications ? conseiller parce que vous les appr?ciez et les pratiquez au quotidien. N'h?sitez pas ? le faire via les commentaires en indiquant leurs points forts et vos pr?f?rences !
Note?: Pour nos dossiers applis iPhone, si vous avez des souhaits de th?me ? traiter, ils seront les bienvenus ? l?adresse grobubu@iphon.fr
Et en attendant la semaine prochaine retrouvez ci-dessous nos autres dossiers applications iPhone publi?s ces derni?res semaines?:
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In partnership with Hockey Canada, Stinger Games today introduces Team Canada Table Hockey 1.0 to the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch this Christmas. Challenge a friend to a game of table hockey over Wi-Fi or Bluetooth in this face paced Red vs. White game. Showcasing realistic 3D physics using the Bullet Physics, with great graphics and challenging CPU opponents. Compete against other players worldwide to see who has the best skills using OpenFeint and Game Center Leaderboards and more.
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Hacking group ?Anonymous? claims to have stolen thousands of credit card numbers and other personal information belonging to clients of a U.S.-based security firm and then donated some of the stolen funds to charity. NBC?s Pete Williams reports and Mark Rasch, an internet security expert, discusses the case.
PALM HARBOR, Fla. ? A Florida animal sanctuary says Cheetah the chimpanzee sidekick in the Tarzan movies of the early 1930s has died at age 80.
The Suncoast Primate Sanctuary in Palm Harbor announced that Cheetah died Dec. 24 of kidney failure.
Sanctuary outreach director Debbie Cobb on Wednesday told The Tampa Tribune ( http://bit.ly/rRuTeJ) that Cheetah was outgoing, loved finger painting and liked to see people laugh. She says he seemed to be tuned into human feelings.
Based on the works of author Edgar Rice Burroughs, the Tarzan stories, which have spawned scores of books and films over the years, chronicle the adventures of a man who was raised by apes in Africa.
Cheetah was the comic relief in the Tarzan films that starred American Olympic gold medal swimmer Johnny Weissmuller. Cobb says Cheetah came to the sanctuary from Weissmuller's estate sometime around 1960.
Cobb says Cheetah wasn't a troublemaker. Still, sanctuary volunteer Ron Priest says that when the chimp didn't like what was going on, he would throw feces.
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MADRID ? Spain will slide back into recession early next year with the current quarter and the first of 2012 both registering negative growth, new Economy Minister Luis de Guindos said Monday.
De Guindos said he expects the economy ? the eurozone's fourth largest ? to contract by between 0.2 percent and 0.3 percent in the final three months of this year and again in the first quarter of next year. He said the outlook for next year was poor.
"Let nobody be fooled, the next two quarters are not going to be easy either in terms of growth or employment," de Guindos said.
Spain began to emerge from a near two-year recession last year. It had two successive quarters of growth in 2011 before posting zero growth in the third period.
De Guindos took office last week as part of the new conservative Popular Party government. He said then he was confident the country would emerge from its severe economic crisis and return to prosperity and its former status as a job creator.
Spain has the highest unemployment rate of the 17 countries that use the euro, with 21.5 percent joblessness, and is running a swollen budget deficit following the recession that started with the collapse of a real estate bubble.
The Popular Party won a landslide victory in Nov. 20 elections on a promise to get the economy moving again.
Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy has pledged austerity cuts totaling euro16.5 billion ($21.6 billion) and promised labor reforms.
His government is to begin approving urgent measures Friday, including a freeze on filling new civil service vacancies. except in key areas such as the security forces.
Spain has already made sharp cuts to its national spending and introduced several reforms under the former Socialist government, but the economy has failed to respond.
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The folks at Max MP have released version 2.0 of PowerAmp, their excellent music player for Android. We've loved PowerAmp in it's previous versions, and 2.0 looks to be a great update with improved media scanning, Samsung Galaxy Nexus support, and SD card mounting fixes. Add this to their list of great features, like tag editing, theme support, scrobbling, and that amazing graphical EQ and you have one of the best music players for mobile on any platform. You can download the 15-day trial version of PowerAmp after the break, and the full version costs $4.99. PowerAmp requires Android 2.1 or higher.
To help celebrate they also have a new Twitter account and a contest to give away 32GB microSD cards to store some music on. The contest starts Friday Dec. 30 at noon Central time, and ends Jan.1 at midnight Central. Follow @PowerAmp2 for the full details.
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For amateur theorists, mainstream science is an exclusive priesthood ? like Martin Luther, they want to make their own connections
IN OCTOBER 1991, astrophysicists observed something incredible in the skies above Dugway Proving Ground, a former weapons-testing facility in a remote corner of Utah. It was a cosmic ray with an enormous amount of energy - equivalent to the kinetic energy of a baseball travelling at 100 kilometres per hour, but compressed into a subatomic particle. It came to be known as the oh-my-god-particle, and though similar events have been recorded at least 15 times since, mainstream physicists remain baffled by them.
To Jim Carter, a trailer-park owner in Enumclaw, Washington, ultra-high-energy cosmic rays pose no problem. They offer proof of a radical theory of the universe he has been developing for 50 years.
In Carter's theory, these rays are photons left over from the earliest stage of cosmic evolution. He calls them "apocalyptic photons" and believes that one of them was responsible for the Tunguska event
Carter's ideas are not taken seriously by the physics mainstream. He does not have a PhD and has never had any of his work published in a scientific journal. He has just a single semester of university education, which was enough to convince him that what was being taught in physics departments was an offence to common sense.
In response, Carter went off and developed his own ideas. Five decades on he has his very own theory of everything, an idiosyncratic alternative to quantum mechanics and general relativity, based on the idea that all matter is composed of doughnut-shaped particles called circlons. Since the 1970s he has articulated his ideas in a series of self-published books, including his magnum opus, The Other Theory of Physics.
For the past 18 years I have been collecting the works of what I have come to call "outsider physicists". I now have more than 100 such theories on my shelves. Most of them are single papers, but a number are fully fledged books, often filled with equations and technical diagrams (though I do have one that is couched as a series of poems and another that is written as a fairy tale). Carter's is by far the most elaborate work I have encountered.
The mainstream science world has a way of dealing with people like this - dismiss them as cranks and dump their letters in the bin. While I do not believe any outsider I have encountered has done any work that challenges mainstream physics, I have come to believe that they should not be so summarily ignored.
Consider the sheer numbers. Outsider physicists have their own organisation, the Natural Philosophy Alliance, whose database lists more than 2100 theorists, 5800 papers and over 1300 books worldwide. They have annual conferences, with this year's proceedings running to 735 pages. In the time I have been observing the organisation, the NPA has grown from a tiny seed whose founder photocopied his newsletter onto pastel-coloured paper to a thriving international association with video-streamed events.
The NPA's website tells us that the group is devoted "to broad-ranging, fully open-minded criticism, at the most fundamental levels, of the often irrational and unrealistic doctrines of modern physics and cosmology; and to the ultimate replacement of these doctrines by much sounder ideas".
Very little unites this disparate group of amateurs - there are as many theories as members - except for a common belief that "something is drastically wrong in contemporary physics and cosmology, and that a new spirit of open-mindedness is desperately needed". They are unanimous in the view that mainstream physics has been hijacked by a kind of priestly caste who speak a secret language - in other words, mathematics - that is incomprehensible to most human beings. They claim that the natural world speaks a language which all of us can, or should be able to, understand. Rather than having their dialogue with the world mediated by "experts", NPA members insist that they can commune with it directly and describe its patterns in accessible terms.
Regardless of the credibility of this claim, it is sociologically significant. In their militantly egalitarian opposition to what they see as a physics elite, NPA members mirror the stance of Martin Luther and other pioneers of the Protestant Reformation. Luther was rebelling against the abstractions of the Latin-writing Catholic priesthood, and one of his most revolutionary moves was to translate the Bible into vernacular German. Just as Luther declared that all people could read the book of God for themselves, so the NPA today asserts that all of us ought to be able to read the book of nature for ourselves.
And just as Luther didn't reject the basic tenets of Christianity, outsider theorists do not reject science: they believe that it provides the right tools to reveal the majesty of our world. But they insist that the wonders of science be available to everyone.
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GOP Presidential candidate Ron Paul furrowed his eyebrows and grew agitated before taking off his mic and walking away from CNN interview about his old newsletters.
As Paul has gained traction in recent polls, the media has turned up the heat, alleging that he made money and won fame with a sometimes racist series of publications.
Paul claims he did not read most of the newsletters and their controversial content, written during the 1980s and 1990s, despite them being published under his name.
He has taken responsibility for being a bad publisher, but disavowed the views, as he explained to CNN's Gloria Borger, who grilled him on the topic yesterday ...
"Why don't you go back and look at what I said yesterday on CNN and what I’ve said for 20 something years. 22 years ago?" the 76-year-old Paul said at the outset.
"I didn't write them, I disavow them, that's it."
Borger pressed on for a few seconds before urging Paul to react to what people are saying about the allegations. "These things are pretty incendiary," Borger said.
"Because of people like you," Paul snapped back.
Later, when talking with Borger about the interview incident on air, Situation Room host Wolf Blizter suggested that Paul "got tired of talking about" the allegations.
He could have probably handled it a lot better, although he has answered the same question the same way dozens of times now, including last week on Hannity.
What do you think? Is Paul's explanation satisfactory? Will the fiery newsletters from long ago continue to dog him, or will they become background noise?
NEW YORK (AP) ? The journal Science is retracting a controversial 2009 report that linked chronic fatigue syndrome to a virus.
In an unusual move, Science is taking that step on its own. Normally, authors retract their own research papers when serious problems arise after publication.
But Science has lost confidence in the report and the validity of its conclusions, editor-in-chief Bruce Alberts writes in Friday's issue. He said most of the authors have agreed in principle to retract the paper, "but they have been unable to agree on the wording of their statement." A retraction signed by all the authors "is unlikely to be forthcoming," Alberts wrote.
The original paper, from scientists at the Whittemore Peterson Institute in Nevada and the National Cancer Institute, reported finding a virus called XMRV in blood cells of patients with chronic fatigue syndrome. That raised hope that a cause of the mysterious illness had been found.
But follow-up studies by other scientists found no evidence of such a link. Last May, Science published two reports suggesting the original finding was due to lab contamination.
At the time, Alberts published a statement declaring that the validity of the study was "now seriously in question."
Then in September, the authors retracted some of the data, citing contamination.
In his statement on the full retraction, Alberts said the authors had also acknowledged omitting important information about the study's procedures in an illustration of some lab results.
Robert Silverman of the Cleveland Clinic, one of the paper's 13 authors, said in a statement Thursday that he was pleased by the full retraction. He said he had sought one this summer after finding that blood samples were contaminated.
The Whittemore Peterson Institute is preparing a statement about the retraction, a spokeswoman said Thursday.
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A girl who was believed to have been swept away by a massive tsunami that devastated coastlines in Asia has reportedly shown up alive, nearly seven years to the day after she vanished.
Indonesian state news agency Antara reported the girl, named only?as Wati, was?aged eight when she was ripped from her mother's arms by the rushing waters near her home in West Aceh, Indonesia, in December 2004. Her mother, Yusniar, was trying to get her and two other children to safety at the time.
Antara?reported Wednesday that the girl's grandfather, Ibrahim, met a teenager who had traveled from another region, Banda Aceh, saying she was trying to find her way home.
The girl?said she could not remember any of her relatives' names apart from one -- Ibrahim, Antara said.
He became convinced the girl was Wati, and her parents also later identified the girl as their daughter by a small mole and a scar over her eyebrow, Antara said.
It added that reporters were not immediately told what had happened to the girl?during the time she was away.
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MORRIS TOWNSHIP, N.J. ? After a normal takeoff and a routine conversation with air traffic controllers about potential icing conditions, a small plane carrying two investment bankers and three others to Georgia headed off into the skies over New Jersey on Tuesday morning.
Minutes later, the high-performance Socata TBM-700 turboprop had spun out of control and crashed in a fireball on a busy highway, killing all five people aboard and narrowly avoiding dozens of cars and trucks speeding by.
Federal investigators were to resume searching the area for wreckage Wednesday morning. The debris was scattered over at least a half-mile, with one section found lodged in a tree a quarter-mile away. The crash closed both sides of busy Interstate 287 for hours on Tuesday.
The New York investment banking firm Greenhill & Co. said two of its managing directors, Jeffrey Buckalew, 45, and Rakesh Chawla, 36, as well as Buckalew's wife and two children, were on the plane. Buckalew was the registered owner of the single-engine plane and had a pilot's license.
National Transportation Safety Board officials said Tuesday the plane wasn't required to have a black box, which would have recorded flight data, but they said investigators would be searching for other memory devices, including GPS, collision avoidance systems or any device with a recordable chip that might yield more information.
The NTSB didn't say what role icing may have played in the crash. But an audio recording available online of the pilot speaking to air traffic controllers in the minutes before the crash offered some early clues.
The pilot was told to maintain an altitude of 10,000 feet as he headed southwest over northern New Jersey as a controller warned him about the conditions in the clouds above ? specifically accumulations of ice particles known as rime.
"There are reports of moderate rime. ... If it gets worse let me know and when center takes your handoff I'll climb you and maybe get you higher," one controller said.
The pilot responded: "We'll let you know what happens when we get in there. And, yeah, if we could go straight through it, that's no problem for us."
Seconds later, another controller is heard telling a different pilot about reports of severe icing at 14,000 feet.
Ice can form on airplanes when temperatures are near freezing and there is visible moisture, such as clouds or rain. The ice adds weight to an aircraft, and rough accumulations known as rime interrupt the flow of air over wings. In extreme cases, a plane can lose so much lift that it falls out of the sky.
Several eyewitnesses to Tuesday's crash described an out-of-control descent.
Will Keyser, who works in maintenance at the Spring Brook Country Club in Morristown, is used to hearing small planes fly over en route to nearby Morristown Memorial Airport. He was near the 13th hole Tuesday when he heard a loud plane overhead.
"It didn't sound quite right," Keyser said, recalling how he and his co-workers all looked up simultaneously. "We kind of lost it in the clouds, it came out of the clouds on the other side of the course, and it didn't look right, it didn't look like the pilot had control."
Keyser said the plane pitched back and forth, and for a moment he thought it was a stunt pilot.
"It was kind of rolling and making circles ? 'cause I've seen air shows before ? so I thought: `Oh, OK;' but then he finally did a nosedive and we realized that was completely wrong."
Greenhill & Co. said Buckalew's wife, Corinne, and the couple's two children, Jackson and Meriwether, were traveling with him.
"The firm is in deep mourning over the tragic and untimely death of two of its esteemed colleagues and members of Jeff's family," the company said in a written statement.
A resident at Chawla's Manhattan apartment building remembered him as being constantly on the go, leaving early and getting home late. Arthur Yellin said that Chawla and his family were "wonderful people" and that the banker doted on his three children.
Authorities said a dog aboard the plane also was killed.
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Contributing to this report were Associated Press writers Shawn Marsh and Beth DeFalco in Trenton, David Porter in Newark, Christopher Hawley and Cristian Salazar in New York, and Leonard Pallats in Atlanta.
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DUBLIN ? Alarming financial news flowed out of Europe in a torrent Friday, just a week after the EU leaders struck a deal they thought would contain the continent's debt crisis.
The bombardment shredded hopes of a lasting solution to the turmoil that is endangering the euro ? the currency used by 17 European nations ? and threatening the entire global economy.
In quick succession:
? The Fitch Ratings agency announced it was considering further cuts to the credit scores of six eurozone nations ? heavyweights Italy and Spain, as well as Belgium, Cyprus, Ireland and Slovenia. It said all six could face downgrades of one or two notches.
? Moody's Investors Services downgraded Belgium's credit rating by two notches. Belgium's local- and foreign-currency government bond ratings fell to "Aa3" from Aa1," with a negative outlook. The ratings remain investment grade.
? Ireland's economy shrunk again much deeper than had been expected, with its third-quarter gross domestic product falling 1.9 percent. Ireland is one of three eurozone nations kept solvent only by an international bailout.
? Bankers and hedge funds were balking in talks about forgiving 50 percent of Greece's massive debts, a key issue in the debate over Greece's second rescue bailout.
? The red ink in Spain's regional governments surged 22 percent in the last year, endangering the central government's efforts to cut overall Spanish debt.
? France, the second-largest eurozone economy after Germany, warned that it faced at least a temporary recession next year.
? The euro hovered Friday just above $1.30, a cent higher than its 11-month low.
On the positive side, Fitch said France should keep its top AAA credit rating even though the country's debt load is projected to rise through 2014. Italian lawmakers overwhelmingly passed Premier Mario Monti's new austerity package in a confidence vote, even though many still objected to its pension reforms.
French officials and investors had feared that France could get downgraded, which would have immediate repercussions for the entire eurozone. France and Germany's AAA credit ratings underpin the rating for the eurozone's bailout fund.
European Union leaders confirmed Friday they have distributed the text of their proposed new budget-stability treaty, a pact designed to deter runaway deficits and supposed to become EU law by March. But as growth prospects fade across the continent, governments are facing the likelihood that Europe's debt crisis will prove longer and tougher to overcome than even their most recently revised forecasts.
Until this week, EU leaders held up Ireland as the model for how a debt-struck nation should behave ? defying economic gravity by simultaneously growing its economy while sucking billions out of that same economy in Europe's longest austerity drive.
But on Friday, Ireland announced its third-quarter gross domestic product fell 1.9 percent, its national product 2.2 percent. Economists had expected only an 0.5 percent fall for GDP and none at all for GNP. The latter figure is considered a better measure of Ireland's economic vitality because it excludes the largely exported profits of about 600 American companies based in the country.
Ireland has been cutting spending and hiking taxes since late 2008 and has plans to keep doing so through 2015. Next year's target is euro2.2 billion ($2.9 billion) in cuts and euro1.6 billion ($2.1 billion) in extra charges, including a hike in national sales tax to 23 percent and introduction of a new euro100 ($131) tax on every property.
But the country's finances this year are seriously out of whack: It is spending euro57 billion ($74.5 billion), including euro10 billion ($13 billion) to keep its five nationalized banks afloat, but collecting just euro34 billion ($44 billion) in taxes.
Labor union leaders say the unexpected slump confirmed Friday is irrefutable evidence that Ireland's 4.5 million citizens already have been squeezed too much, too quickly.
"Current policies are making recovery almost impossible," said David Begg, general secretary of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions. "No economy can sustain the sort of ongoing damage that is being inflicted on us."
"We need growth and we need it quickly," he added.
Ireland's year-old international bailout requires the Irish to reduce their annual deficits from an EU record 32 percent of GDP in 2010 to the traditional eurozone limit of 3 percent by 2015. But analysts agree that Ireland cannot hope to meet the 2015 goal if its economy doesn't grow sufficiently.
Ireland's recovery plan now presumes 1.6 percent growth in 2012 and 2.8 percent growth in each of the next three years ? figures many consider way too optimistic.
Alan McQuaid, chief economist at Bloxham Stockbrokers in Dublin, said Ireland would "do well" to reach 0.5 percent growth this year "given the deteriorating world economic backdrop and the fall-off in global demand." He said he doubted Ireland could top 1 percent growth next year.
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The new premier's austerity package passed 495-88 Friday, but lawmakers on both the left and right criticized the pension reforms as too harsh. The plan raises euro30 billion ($39 billion) in extra taxes and pension reforms and plows about euro10 billion ($13 billion) of that back into growth measures.
Prosecutors in the southern region of Calabria, meanwhile, said they were investigating 10 envelopes with bullets inside found in a post office in the town of Lamezia Terme. The envelopes were addressed to the new leader Monti, his labor minister, former Premier Silvio Berlusconi and other top political or media figures, according to the Italian news agency ANSA.
Reports said the envelopes contained notes threatening those named if the austerity package wasn't changed.
GREECE:
European officials told The Associated Press that private holders of Greek bonds were resisting EU efforts to persuade them to take a voluntary 50 percent cut in the value of their holdings. The talks in Paris between EU and Greek leaders against representatives of global banks and hedge funds have been very difficult, they said.
The proposed euro100 billion ($130.6 billion) write-off of privately held Greek bonds is supposed to be agreed upon by early next year ? and it's central to Greece's second bailout deal. Without it, Greece's debt is forecast to escalate to nearly 200 percent of GDP.
SPAIN:
A new conservative government committed to increased austerity is coming into office next week, but it faces a rapidly deteriorating financial outlook.
The Bank of Spain announced a 22 percent surge over the past year in the debts of the country's 17 regional governments to euro135.2 billion ($176.6 billion). Spain's central government debt rose 15 percent to above euro706 billion ($922.3 billion).
PORTUGAL:
The main opposition party refused Friday to support the government's plan to amend the constitution to include a budget-deficit limit. All 17 members of the eurozone are supposed to make such commitments as part of the bloc's week-old plan to enshrine spending controls in a new treaty.
In a further worrying development, ratings agency Standard & Poor's on Friday downgraded the credit rating of six leading Portuguese banks to junk status.
Portugal received its own euro80 billion ($104.5 billion) international bailout deal in April.
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Associated Press writers Angela Charlton in Paris, Gabriele Steinhauser in Brussels, Barry Hatton in Lisbon and Ciaran Giles in Madrid contributed to this report.
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WASHINGTON ? Newt Gingrich overlooked a couple of years of red ink when he asserted Thursday night that he balanced the budget for four years as House speaker. And in claiming sole credit for the achievement, he glossed over the fact that budgets are not a one-man show: There was a Democratic president in town, too.
In the last debate before the leadoff Iowa Republican presidential caucuses, Gingrich persisted in repeating a claim he has made often in the campaign, sometimes more accurately than others. Here and there, other candidates, too, reprised misstatements or partial truths from the string of debates and from the stump. Mitt Romney once again declared he has spent his life in the private sector, once again ignoring his years as governor and political candidate.
A look at some of the claims in the debate and how they compare with the facts:
GINGRICH: "I balanced the budget for four straight years, paid off $405 billion in debt ? pretty conservative."
THE FACTS: In the 1996 and 1997 budget years, the first two years he shaped as speaker of the House of Representatives, the government actually ran deficits. In 1998 and 1999, the government ran surpluses. Two more years of surpluses followed, but Gingrich was gone from politics by then and had nothing to do with them.
Moreover, the national debt went up during the four years Gingrich was speaker. In January 1995, when he became speaker, the gross national debt was $4.8 trillion. When he left four years later, it was $5.6 trillion, an increase of $800 billion.
To be sure, Gingrich did not single-handedly deepen America's debt, just as he didn't balance any budgets on his own. He was a driving force along with Democratic President Bill Clinton and figures in both houses of Congress in the economic setbacks and advancements of that time.
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ROMNEY: "I spent my life, my career, in the private sector."
THE FACTS: Except, that is, for four years as Massachusetts governor, recent years running for president in the 2008 and 2012 elections, a few years running the Olympics, and the time he put into his failed run for a Senate seat in 1994.
In essence, Romney has devoted himself to political endeavors since his successful run for governor in 2002, and has been pursuing the presidency for five years.
The month after his term as governor ended in 2007, he announced his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination. After John McCain defeated him for the nomination, Romney devoted himself to building a political network, helping Republican candidates raise money, and writing a book that set the stage for his second run for president.
Indeed, Romney, who made his fortune as founder of the investment firm Bain Capital, has not held a private-sector job with a regular paycheck in more than a decade.
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MICHELE BACHMANN: "We have an IAEA report that just recently came out that said literally Iran is within just months of being able to obtain that (a nuclear) weapon."
RON PAUL: "There is no U.N. report that said that. It's totally wrong, what you just said."
Bachmann: "It's the IAEA report."
THE FACTS: As Paul said, the report of the International Atomic Energy Agency does not state that Iran is within months of having nuclear arms. The U.N. agency report does suggest that Iran conducted secret experiments whose sole purpose is the development of nuclear weapons but did not put a time frame on when Iran might succeed in building a bomb, and it made no final conclusion on Tehran's intent.
Bachmann also erred by arguing that Iran has "stated they will use it (a nuclear weapon) against the United States."
Iran vehemently rejects that it is developing a nuclear bomb, let alone that it plans to drop one on the U.S.
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ROMNEY: "I'm firmly in support of people not being discriminated against based upon their sexual orientation. At the same time, I oppose same-sex marriage. That's been my position from the beginning."
THE FACTS: In large measure, Romney has been consistent in those two positions, despite accusations of flip-flopping on gay rights.
He walked a fine line back in his failed 1994 Senate campaign, vowing to fight for equality but stopping short of endorsing gay marriage. That's the same line he walked Thursday night.
He has changed, though, on whether gay marriage should be addressed at the state or federal level. He has favored a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage at least since the beginning of his 2008 presidential bid, when he was the only major Republican candidate to do so. In 1994, he had said the matter should be decided by individual states. That was before the idea of a constitutional ban had gained traction in politics.
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BACHMANN: "After the debates that we had last week, PolitiFact came out and said that everything I said was true."
THE FACTS: Not true.
For the second debate in a row, Gingrich complained that Bachmann wasn't getting her facts straight, this time when she went after him for the big money he made from Freddie Mac. In her own defense, Bachmann cited ratings from PolitiFact, a fact-checking organization that ranks statements on a scale from true to false, with the worst offender being "Pants on Fire" false.
PolitiFact rated two Bachmann statements from last week's debate. One, claiming Gingrich believed in an individual health care mandate as Massachusetts governor, was ranked mostly true. The other, that Romney introduced "socialized medicine" in his state, was judged burning-pants false.
Indeed, Bachmann has the worst record of accuracy in the Republican field, as rated by that organization and traced by others. Fully 73 percent of her statements checked by PolitiFact were judged mostly false or worse. Gingrich was wrong the next most often, 59 percent of the time.
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Associated Press writers Steve Peoples, Bradley Klapper, Douglass K. Daniel and Jim Drinkard contributed to this report.
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WASHINGTON ? Most Americans want Congress to vote to continue the payroll tax reduction, according to a new Associated Press-GfK poll that comes as Democrats and Republicans wrestle over whether to extend the cut through 2012.
It's the latest instance in which lawmakers on Capitol Hill have allowed partisan sniping to hold up a measure to put in place a policy that most Americans support, like ending the Bush tax cuts, cap and trade, and a surcharge on millionaires.
The dragged-out debate over whether to extend an expiring payroll tax reduction is one of many developments that have kept voters furious with their leaders all year. On the brink of the 2012 presidential and congressional elections, virtually all Americans are disappointed and frustrated with the political scene and nearly 6 in 10 say they are angry, the AP-GfK survey showed.
"It seems like there are parties that only want to get their agenda done," said liquor store owner James Jacobsen, 47, of East Hartford, Conn. "They're catering to special interests and not Americans. They are not representing the individual American."
Nearly 6 in 10 respondents say they want Congress to pass the extension, according to the poll. Letting the payroll tax break expire would cost a family making $50,000 about $1,000.
Yet, Republicans and Democrats are rejecting each other's proposals and trying to make law from what's left, a tactic they've used all year on debates over the budget and the nation's debt. The stalemates have caused a decline in confidence so severe that 15 percent of all adults and 32 percent of political independents say they don't trust either party to manage the federal budget deficit.
Economic discontent has spilled over into the political sphere all year and could influence the 2012 presidential and congressional elections. Occupy Wall Street and other protests against inequality have grabbed some attention from politicians, with Democrats the most supportive. Last week, a group of demonstrators camped out on the National Mall, crashed stately holiday parties and marched on Capitol Hill, demanding that Congress extend the payroll tax and insurance for the long-term unemployed.
On the payroll tax deduction, 58 percent of respondents said they want Congress to extend the break, while 35 percent want it to expire.
Democrats and independents are the strongest supporters of continuing the tax cut, while Republicans were evenly divided. But the difference is more partisan than ideological: Conservatives supported an extension, 54 percent to the 42 percent who prefer to let the reduction expire.
Those with annual incomes below $50,000 more strongly support the extension compared with higher-income respondents, and seniors were more likely than younger adults to back the extension.
On Wednesday, there was little sign Congress was listening.
Democrats who control the Senate rejected a GOP-ruled House plan to extend the payroll tax cut and unemployment benefits, but only with cuts to spending and sped-up approval of an oil pipeline. The Senate is crafting its own proposal in response.
If an agreement is not reached by the end of the year, payroll taxes will jump on Jan. 1 from this year's 4.2 percent back to their normal level of 6.2 percent.
Americans are virtually out of patience, the polling shows. And their distrust crosses party lines.
"I really don't feel that they are having the best interests of us as a people," said Rogersville, Tenn., resident Andrea Stafford, 38, a single mother of two who has been unemployed since the summer.
"And when I say people," she added, "I don't mean millionaires and government officials. I'm talking about the normal person who gets up and fixes their children's lunch and has to take off work when their child is sick because we don't have nannies."
The AP-GfK poll found congressional approval near its all-time low and nearly all Americans disappointed with politics. Eighty-four percent of the respondents disapproved of the way Congress is doing its job, with at least 8 in 10 Republicans, Democrats and independents feeling that way.
As for how to balance the federal budget, more now favor cutting government services as the best means to bring federal spending into balance. Sixty percent think lawmakers should focus on budget cuts over tax increases. That figure had been as low as 53 percent in August, during the showdown over raising the country's debt limit.
The biggest shift on that question has come from independents. In the August poll, 37 percent said lawmakers should focus on increasing taxes and 42 percent said cutting services. Now, that divide stands at 28 percent for raising taxes and 59 percent for cutting services.
The Associated Press-GfK Poll was conducted Dec. 8-12 by GfK Roper Public Affairs and Corporate Communications. It involved landline and cell phone interviews with 1,000 adults nationwide and has a margin of error of plus or minus 4 percentage points.
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AP Deputy Director of Polling Jennifer Agiesta, writer Stacy Anderson and News Survey Specialist Dennis Junius contributed to this report.
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The season to be jolly has turned a bit nasty in Rhode Island, where residents incensed about Gov. Lincoln Chafee?s decision to refer to the 17-foot spruce in the Statehouse as a ?holiday tree? crashed a tree lighting ceremony Tuesday night.
After Chafee lit up the ?holiday tree,? dozens of carolers interrupted a children?s choir by bursting into the song ?O Christmas Tree,? while the Providence Diocese hosted a competing Christmas tree-lighting ceremony just a block away from the Statehouse, The Associated Press reports.
Continue Reading?If it?s in my house, it?s a Christmas tree, but when I?m representing all of Rhode Island I have to be respectful of everyone,? Chafee, who didn?t address the crowd, said after the tree lighting, according to the AP. ?Now we can get back to next year?s budget ? with pleasure.?
Chafee, a Republican turned independent, has bothered so many in his state with his insistence on political correctness that one state legislator has labeled him a ?Grinch.? Earlier this year, a symbolic state resolution declaring the tree in question be called a Christmas tree, not a holiday tree, passed the state?s House of Representatives.
The governor?s office reportedly has received some 3,500 calls, mostly from Rhode Island, protesting his controversial decision.
According to the governor?s office, the Rhode Island Children?s Chorus and the Governor?s Own 88th Army Band were scheduled to perform at the tree-lighting ceremony, while Santa Claus and Mrs. Claus also were expected to make appearances. The ornaments on the Statehouse ?holiday tree? are made by family and friends of military veterans.
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