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WASHINGTON - Outgoing Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood has a frightening message: Air travel could get worse. The Obama Cabinet member and former Republican congressman made a surprise appearance at Friday's White House press briefing to warn that the looming automatic budget cuts set to go into effect on March 1 could lead to even longer air travel delays. "Travelers should expect delays of up to 90 minutes at peak airports during sequester," starting on April 1, LaHood said. "It's going to be very painful for the flying public." The sequester's across-the-board budget cuts will [...]

Surveillance camera's have become a part of our urban landscape over the last decade just take a walk down any highstreet, stop and look up and smile at the camera, wave and blow a kiss because you're probably being filmed, There is a staggering estimated 4.2 million CCTV cameras in the UK alone that figure perhaps accounts for the cameras used by law enforcement groups but private business owners too use CCTV to protect themselves and us against potential crime although a camera in reality is unable to physically protect anyone as it only serves as a means to aid [...]

Republicans Will Lose on the Sequester by  David Frum  Feb 20, 2013 2:34 PM EST What is the sequester battle? In a nutshell, it's an attempt to refight the 2012 election, only this time on terms way less favorable to Republicans. Republicans want to move early to a balanced budget. They want to reach balance through spending cuts only, no tax increases. And they want the spending cuts to fall more heavily on social programs than defense, while exempting Medicare [...]

The PowerPoint That Proves It’s Not Obama’s Sequester After All by  John Avlon  Feb 20, 2013 4:45 AM EST Republicans have taken to calling the deep cuts that could reverse our hard-won economic recovery ‘Obama’s Sequester.’ But a July 2011 PowerPoint obtained by John Avlon shows the opposite may be true . The latest semantic spin is to call the looming $1.2 trillion in cuts, which could throw the whole economy back into recession, “Obama’s Sequester.” House Speaker John Boehner indulged this approach half a dozen times [...]

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• NotestoSelf - Mr. Polite Remix with Fashawn

Sequester: Final Death Throes for Republiconomics - and Republican Party   Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.  - Adlai Stevenson House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) declared that he has been in the House for 22 years and that we have never cut spending. This from the man who tried to spend$3 billion on an alternative jet engine the military did not want, and never specifies any [...]

British-turned-Floridian Darren Ockert is a man who does it all. He sings, writes music, produces and votes for important music decisions such as The Grammy winners and inductees to The Songwriters Hall of Fame. Recently Darren added actor to his CV as he starred in a documentary (entitled Darren Ockert: A Mini Documentary) that centered around his life as a professional musician. The ten minute film was directed by Hector M. Sanchez Jr. and it  follows Darren (and his dog briefly) around his South Florida home and into the studio as he [...]

• Darren Ockert - You Don't Know Me

ABC confronts Paul Ryan for praising sequester before using it to slam Obama ABC News host Jonathan Karl on Sunday suggested that Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) was guilty of hypocrisy because he slammed President Barack Obama for the automatic spending cuts in the so-called sequester — even though congressman had personally praised it in the past. “Don’t forget it was the president who proposed the sequester, it’s the president who designed the sequester,” Ryan told Karl, adding that he had concluded that [...]

Sequestration will hurt Americans in many ways Because Congress can’t get out of its own way – or that of the nation’s – a fusillade of automatic budget cuts is scheduled to take effect on March 1, with catastrophic effects to both military and domestic programs. It will hit here, and hard. One example: If Congress and President Obama don’t find a way to avert the cuts, cancer research at Roswell Park Cancer Institute will be throttled, potentially with a cost measured in lives. [...]

TBD GOP Rep. Amash: Effort to blame Obama for sequester cuts 'disingenuous' Rep. Justin Amash (R-Mich.) said Wednesday he was unimpressed by efforts from fellow House Republicans to lay blame for the sequester on President Obama, calling the moves "disingenuous." "I think it's a mistake on the part of Republicans to try to pin the sequester on Obama," Amash  told Buzzfeed . "It's totally disingenuous. The debt ceiling deal in 2011 was agreed to by Republicans and Democrats, and regardless of who came up with the sequester, they [...]

Senate Democrats Offer a Proposal to Head Off Automatic Cuts WASHINGTON — Senate Democratic leaders reached agreement Thursday on a $110 billion mix of tax increases and spending cuts to head off automatic spending cuts through the end of the year. But with even some Democrats tepid on the proposal, the chances of a deal before the March 1 deadline have receded. The Democratic proposal would establish a 30-percent minimum tax rate on incomes over $1 million to raise about $54 billion over 10 years. It would raise $1 billion [...]

Mike's Sequestration Countdown Share this with your friends and send it to your Republican Senators/Representatives.  The time is for action is short (and getting shorter by the second as shown in my Countdown Clock)

Bey and Hypnotic Brass Ensemble got together to cover Fela's 'Water No Get Enemy' with a little feature of Def's 'New World Water' mixed in live at the Shrine in Chicago last year during their "Felabration" commemorating his birthday (Oct. 15th) hip hop doesn't always have to be an MC, two turnatables and a microphone after all what is it that defines hip hop? It's always great however when art educates and in doing this is able to cross man made borders over vast distances and even travel through time to connect people who share similar ideologies, Yasiin Bey [...]

Stream: Desaparecidos - "Anonymous" / "The Left Is Right" Conor Oberst's post-hardcore band Desaparecidos made its return after a ten-year hiatus last year with the " Backsell / MariKKKopa " single, a pair of songs that criticized the music industry and the attitude many anti-immigration activists hold, respectively. The group is now back again with another single, "Anonymous / The Left Is Right," which can be streamed via the SoundCloud widget above. The single continues down the lyrically passionate road of the band's previous single, this time speaking out [...]

Everything's always "Hitler this, Hitler that." What about Mussolini, huh? He was a bloodthirsty dictator, too! And he was Hitler's bud, eventually overthrown and killed by his own Italian countrymen, they hated him so. Well, not all of them. Like whoever started the mussolinibenito.net site (sign their guestbook !). Quite a generous assortment of pro-Fascism/Il Duce mp3s are found on the site - mostly music, but some speeches ("discorsi") as well. The music seems to consist of upbeat marches and rousing sing-alongs, e.g. "Allarmi siam Fascisti," which translates to "At arms, Fascists!" It's the kind of pre-caffeine [...]

Good evening, Death and Taxes readers. When news broke of George W. Bush's hacked emails, we at D&T decided to not comment on the majority of the findings—nobody wants to read about the funeral arrangements of a still-living George Bush Sr; that's over the line. But what isn't over the line is George Bush Jr's rather hilarious self portraits of him in the shower and in the bath. We asked art critic Alexis Hyde to comment on the portraits. Here's what she had to say: When trying to wrap my [...]

Reuters is reporting that a new poll released Friday finds that Hillary Clinton is the most popular politician in America, with a nationwide approval rating of 61% that beats out President Obama, Joe Biden, or any of the Republican party leaders that they were asked about. Which is a hell of an image change for Hillary. Four years ago when Barack Obama was running against her in the presidential primary he capitalized on the impression that she was cold, aloof, and not nearly as beloved as her husband by telling her in a national debate, " You're [...]

Obama has tapped Sally Jewell, CEO and President of REI, to take over the Department of the Interior from the outgoing Ken Salazar. (The DOI oversees much of America’s public lands through the Bureau of Land Management, National Park Service, and other agencies.) Jewell, who is 57 years young, has grown the company's sales from $900 million to $2 billion since taking over  the stewardship of REI in 2005. More info over at Adventure Journal : She grew up sailing and camping and spent five weeks climbing in Antarctica. She’s won numerous [...]

FOR their latest LP, Leeds's Humanfly have undergone a metamorphosis. The group had initially found fame with an ISIS-esque sound, full of 10-minute-plus tracks and slow-burning epic metal - but now the group have climbed out of the sludge and are hoping to create a buzz having transformed into a fully-fledged punk band. And despite this departure, judged on its merits, Awesome Science is an experiment that works. Hard-hitting, political, raw and aggressive, in completely opposition to the proggy sounds of before, the sound isn't big any more but it is clever, hitting the listener with slogans [...]

Recently I have only been doing the New on Netflix posts as a large "dump". I have been watching House of Cards all night and figured it deserved the recognition of its own post. So here it is. House of Cards (2013) Creator: Beau Willimon Starring: Kevin Spacey, Robin Wright, Kate Mara, Kristen Connolly, Corey Stoll Genre: Drama, Politics, Thriller [...] Like this? Check out some Related Posts: New On Netflix Instant Streaming: Breaking Bad New on Netflix Instant Streaming: January Dump List New On Netflix Instant [...]