Shirley Temple Black, Screen Darling, Dies at 85 (BLOG)

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-OTjcfrhqH_MuyosU3VzTfV9J-oEI58EvCaVxpr7y1SZuYK189PHeII0gd6-G7hm8uBYyQmhsxaObLLOXm-NFpvL0MzA1wvzA26j-2MX2SLkgy2sBiQ6-uYyOIeYzW8ZRJE6WktG6d4w/s1600/shirley.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-OTjcfrhqH_MuyosU3VzTfV9J-oEI58EvCaVxpr7y1SZuYK189PHeII0gd6-G7hm8uBYyQmhsxaObLLOXm-NFpvL0MzA1wvzA26j-2MX2SLkgy2sBiQ6-uYyOIeYzW8ZRJE6WktG6d4w/s1600/shirley.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="268" data-total-count="268" itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.4375rem; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 135px; max-width: 540px; width: 540px;">Shirley Temple Black, who as a dimpled, precocious and determined little girl in the 1930s sang and tap-danced her way to a height of Hollywood stardom and worldwide fame that no other child has reached, died on Monday night at her home in Woodside, Calif. She was 85.</div><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="49" data-total-count="317" itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.4375rem; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 135px; max-width: 540px; width: 540px;">Her publicist, Cheryl Kagan, confirmed her death.</div><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="503" data-total-count="820" itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.4375rem; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 135px; max-width: 540px; width: 540px;">Ms. Black returned to the spotlight in the 1960s in the surprising new role of diplomat, but in the popular imagination she would always be America’s darling of the Depression years, when in 23 motion pictures her sparkling personality and sunny optimism lifted spirits and made her famous. From 1935 to 1939 she was the most popular movie star in America, with Clark Gable a distant second. She received more mail than Greta Garbo and was photographed more often than President Franklin D. Roosevelt.</div><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="306" data-total-count="1126" itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.4375rem; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 135px; max-width: 540px; width: 540px;">The little girl with 56 perfect blonde ringlets and an air of relentless determination was so precocious that the usually unflappable Adolphe Menjou, her co-star in her first big hit, “Little Miss Marker,” described her as “an Ethel Barrymore at 6” and said she was “making a stooge out of me.”</div><figure class="media slideshow promo embedded has-adjacency layout-large-horizontal" data-media-action="modal" itemid="http://static01.nyt.com/images/2014/02/11/obituaries/11temple-slide-E6M7/11temple-slide-E6M7-jumbo.jpg" itemprop="associatedMedia" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: nyt-cheltenham, georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 45px 0px 45px 135px; position: relative; width: 540px;"><div class="image" style="margin-bottom: 7px; position: relative; width: 540px;"><img itemid="http://static01.nyt.com/images/2014/02/11/obituaries/11temple-slide-E6M7/11temple-slide-E6M7-jumbo.jpg" itemprop="url" src="http://static01.nyt.com/images/2014/02/11/obituaries/11temple-slide-E6M7/11temple-slide-E6M7-jumbo.jpg" style="-webkit-transition: opacity 0.15s linear, 0.15s ease-out; display: block; height: auto; max-width: 100%; transition: opacity 0.15s linear, 0.15s ease-out; width: 540px;" /><div class="media-action-overlay" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; -webkit-transition: background-color 0.15s; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85098); border-bottom-left-radius: 5px; border-bottom-right-radius: 5px; border-top-left-radius: 5px; border-top-right-radius: 5px; border: 1px solid rgba(76, 76, 76, 0.85098); bottom: 30px; color: white; left: 30px; max-width: 460px; min-height: 45px; min-width: 300px; padding: 15px; position: absolute; transition: background-color 0.15s; z-index: 5;"><span class="icon" style="background-image: url(http://a1.nyt.com/assets/article/20140209-222938/images/sprite/sprite-no-repeat.png); background-position: -118px -42px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; display: inline-block; float: left; height: 28px; line-height: 0; margin: 3px 10px 0px 0px; vertical-align: middle; width: 32px;"></span><div class="media-meta" style="float: left; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 88%;"><h5 class="kicker" style="font-size: 0.75rem; font-weight: 300; letter-spacing: 0.075em; line-height: 1rem; margin: 0px 0px auto; text-transform: uppercase;"><span class="kicker-label" style="font-family: nyt-franklin, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.75rem; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: 0.05em; line-height: 0.8125rem;">VIEW SLIDE SHOW</span><span class="pipe" style="color: #cccccc; display: inline; font-family: nyt-franklin, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.625rem; line-height: 0.8125rem; margin: 0px 10px 0px 8px; vertical-align: text-bottom;">|</span><span class="photo-count" style="display: inline; font-family: nyt-franklin, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.6875rem; line-height: 0.6875rem; text-transform: capitalize;">5 Photos</span></h5><h4 class="headline" style="display: inline-block; font-size: 1.4375rem; font-weight: 300; letter-spacing: 0.005em; line-height: 1.6875rem; margin: 7px 0px 0px;">Shirley Temple Black, Famed Child Star, Dies</h4></div></div></div><figcaption class="caption" itemprop="description" style="bottom: 23px; color: black; font-family: nyt-cheltenham-sh, georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 0.75rem; line-height: 1rem; max-width: 315px; position: static; right: 0px; width: auto;"><h4 class="headline" style="border: 0px; clip: rect(0px 0px 0px 0px); font-size: 0.8125rem; height: 1px; line-height: 1rem; margin: -1px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: absolute; width: 1px;">Shirley Temple Black, Famed Child Star, Dies</h4><div class="credit" itemprop="copyrightHolder" style="color: #999999; display: inline-block; font-size: 0.75rem; line-height: 1rem;">Agence France-Presse — Getty Images</div></figcaption></figure><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="215" data-total-count="1341" itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.4375rem; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 135px; max-width: 540px; width: 540px;">When she turned from a magical child into a teenager, audience interest slackened, and she retired from the screen at 22. But instead of retreating into nostalgia, she created a successful second career for herself.</div><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="503" data-total-count="1844" itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.4375rem; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 135px; max-width: 540px; width: 540px;">After marrying Charles Alden Black in 1950, she became a prominent Republican fund-raiser. She was appointed a delegate to the United Nations General Assembly by President Richard M. Nixon in 1969. She went on to win wide respect as the United States ambassador to Ghana from 1974 to 1976, was President Gerald R. Ford’s chief of protocol in 1976 and 1977, and became President George H. W. Bush’s ambassador to Czechoslovakia in 1989, serving there during the fall of Communism in Eastern Europe.</div><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="509" data-total-count="2353" itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.4375rem; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 135px; max-width: 540px; width: 540px;">After winning an honorary Academy Award at the age of 6 and earning $3 million before puberty, Shirley Temple grew up to be a level-headed adult. When her cancerous left breast was removed in 1972, at a time when operations for cancer were shrouded in secrecy, she held a news conference in her hospital room to speak out about her mastectomy and to urge women discovering breast lumps not to “sit home and be afraid.” She is widely credited with helping to make it acceptable to talk about breast cancer.</div><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="287" data-total-count="2640" itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.4375rem; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 135px; max-width: 540px; width: 540px;">A statement released by her family said, “We salute her for a life of remarkable achievements as an actor, as a diplomat, and most importantly as our beloved mother, grandmother, great-grandmother and adored wife for fifty-five years of the late and much missed Charles Alden Black.”</div><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="309" data-total-count="2949" itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.4375rem; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 135px; max-width: 540px; width: 540px;">Shirley Jane Temple was born in Santa Monica, Calif., on April 23, 1928. From the beginning, she and her mother, Gertrude, were a team (“I was absolutely bathed in love,” she remembered); her movie career was their joint invention. Her success was due to both her own charm and her mother’s persistence.</div><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="264" data-total-count="3213" itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.4375rem; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 135px; max-width: 540px; width: 540px;">In “Child Star,” her 1988 autobiography, Mrs. Black said her mother had made a “calculated decision” to turn her only daughter into a professional dancer. At a fee of 50 cents a week, Mrs. Temple enrolled 3-year-old Shirley in Mrs. Meglin’s Dance Studio.</div><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="667" data-total-count="3880" itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.4375rem; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 135px; max-width: 540px; width: 540px;">In 1932, Shirley was spotted by an agent from Educational Pictures and chosen to appear in “Baby Burlesks,” a series of sexually suggestive one-reel shorts in which children played all the roles. The 4- and 5-year-old children wore fancy adult costumes that ended at the waist. Below the waist, they wore diapers with oversize safety pins. In these heavy-handed parodies of well-known films like “The Front Page” (“The Runt Page”) and “What Price Glory” (“War Babies”), Shirley imitated Marlene Dietrich, Mae West and — wearing an off-the-shoulder blouse and satin garter as a hard-boiled French bar girl in “War Babies” — Dolores Del Rio.</div><div class="ad ad-placeholder" style="background-color: white; clear: right; color: #333333; float: right; font-family: nyt-cheltenham, georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 40px 7px;"><iframe class="ad-frame frame-for-article" frameborder="0" style="border-width: 0px; height: 250px; width: 300px;"></iframe></div><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="401" data-total-count="4281" itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.4375rem; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 135px; max-width: 540px; width: 540px;">When any of the two dozen children in “Baby Burlesks” misbehaved, they were locked in a windowless sound box with only a block of ice on which to sit. “So far as I can tell, the black box did no lasting damage to my psyche,” Mrs. Black wrote in “Child Star.” “Its lesson of life, however, was profound and unforgettable. Time is money. Wasted time means wasted money means trouble."</div><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="484" data-total-count="4765" itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.4375rem; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 135px; max-width: 540px; width: 540px;">“Baby Burlesks” was followed by five two-reel comedies and a year of casting calls and bit-part auditions, which garnered young Shirley half a dozen small roles. By Thanksgiving 1933 she was growing older. She was 5½, and in the previous two years she had earned a total of $702.50. Her mother did the sensible thing: she shaved a year off her daughter’s age. Shirley would be shocked to discover, at a party for her 12th birthday in April 1941, that she was actually 13.</div><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="314" data-total-count="5079" itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.4375rem; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 135px; max-width: 540px; width: 540px;">Her career began in earnest in 1934, when she was picked to play James Dunn’s daughter in the Fox fantasy “Stand Up and Cheer,” one of many films made during the Depression in which music chases away unhappy reality. She was signed to a two-week contract at $150 a week and told to provide her own tap shoes.</div><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="285" data-total-count="5364" itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.4375rem; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 135px; max-width: 540px; width: 540px;">Within an hour of completing her song-and-dance number “Baby, Take a Bow,” she was formally placed under contract to Fox for a year at $150 a week. The studio had an option for seven more years and would pay Gertrude Temple an additional $25 each week to take care of her daughter.</div><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="293" data-total-count="5657" itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.4375rem; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 135px; max-width: 540px; width: 540px;">In its review of “Stand Up and Cheer” (1934), Variety called Shirley Temple a “sure-fire potential kidlet star.” She made eight movies in 1934 and moved from potential to full star in February, when Fox lent her to Paramount for “Little Miss Marker,” based on a Damon Runyon story.</div><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="346" data-total-count="6003" itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.4375rem; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 135px; max-width: 540px; width: 540px;">Playing a child left with a bookie (Adolphe Menjou) as a marker for her father’s gambling debts, Shirley reforms a gang of gamblers, bookies and horse dopers. She would play a similarly wise and maternal miniature adult, dominating the adults around her and solving their problems with unbounded optimism and common sense, in most of her films.</div><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="484" data-total-count="6487" itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.4375rem; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 135px; max-width: 540px; width: 540px;">She brought peace to a British regiment fighting rebels in India in “Wee Willie Winkie” (1937) and to white men and Indians in “Susannah of the Mounties” (1939). She was frequently cast as an orphan, the better to show adults how to cope with adversity: her father committed suicide in “Little Miss Marker”; her aviator father crashed and her mother was killed by a car in “Bright Eyes” (1934); she was the sole survivor of a shipwreck in “Captain January” (1936).</div><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="180" data-total-count="6667" itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.4375rem; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 135px; max-width: 540px; width: 540px;">“People in the Depression wanted something to cheer them up, and they fell in love with a dog, Rin Tin Tin, and a little girl,” Mrs. Black often said in appraising her success.</div><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="286" data-total-count="6953" itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.4375rem; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 135px; max-width: 540px; width: 540px;">It is no surprise that Shirley Temple dolls were the best-selling dolls of the decade (and are valuable collectibles now). In many of her films she was a living doll, adored by entire groups of men: aviators in “Bright Eyes," a Yankee regiment in “The Little Colonel” (1935).</div><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="605" data-total-count="7558" itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.4375rem; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 135px; max-width: 540px; width: 540px;">No Shirley Temple movie was complete without a song — most famously “On the Good Ship Lollipop” and “Animal Crackers in My Soup” — and a tap dance, with partners including George Murphy, Jack Haley and Buddy Ebsen. But her most successful partnership was with the legendary African-American entertainer Bill (Bojangles) Robinson. She may have been the first white actress allowed to hold hands affectionately with a black man on screen, and her staircase dance with Mr. Robinson in “The Little Colonel,” the first of four movies they made together, retains its magic almost 80 years later.</div><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="374" data-total-count="7932" itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.4375rem; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 135px; max-width: 540px; width: 540px;">Not everyone was a Shirley Temple fan. The novelist Graham Greene, who was also a film critic, was sued by 20th Century Fox for his review of “Wee Willie Winkie” in the magazine Night and Day, which he edited. In the review, he questioned whether she was a midget and wrote of her “well-shaped and desirable little body” being served up to middle-aged male admirers.</div><div class="ad ad-placeholder" style="background-color: white; clear: right; color: #333333; float: right; font-family: nyt-cheltenham, georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 40px 7px;"><iframe class="ad-frame frame-for-article" frameborder="0" style="border-width: 0px; height: 250px; width: 300px;"></iframe></div><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="385" data-total-count="8317" itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.4375rem; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 135px; max-width: 540px; width: 540px;">After the failure of “The Blue Bird” (1940), a film version of the Maeterlinck fantasy that Fox expected to be the bonanza MGM’s “Wizard of Oz” had been a year earlier, the studio dropped 12-year-old Shirley’s contract. Even before the movie was released, her mother had decided it was time for Shirley, who had been educated in a schoolroom at Fox, to go to a real school.</div><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="494" data-total-count="8811" itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.4375rem; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 135px; max-width: 540px; width: 540px;">She entered the private Westlake School for Girls in seventh grade, with little idea of how to cope. She had sat on 200 famous laps and found J. Edgar Hoover’s the most comfortable. Amelia Earhart had shared chewing gum with her. She had conversed with Eleanor Roosevelt. The Brown Derby restaurant in Hollywood had created the Shirley Temple — a nonalcoholic drink of lemon-lime soda, grenadine and a maraschino cherry — in her honor. But her playmates had been few and carefully chosen.</div><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="148" data-total-count="8959" itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.4375rem; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 135px; max-width: 540px; width: 540px;">At Westlake, after months of being given the cold shoulder, she decided she might as well be herself. She eventually spent a happy five years there.</div><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="342" data-total-count="9301" itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.4375rem; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 135px; max-width: 540px; width: 540px;">What Fox had dropped, MGM picked up eight months later. But the little girl was now entering adolescence. On her first visit to MGM, Mrs. Black wrote in her autobiography, the producer Arthur Freed unzipped his trousers and exposed himself to her. Being innocent of male anatomy, she responded by giggling, and he threw her out of his office.</div><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="439" data-total-count="9740" itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.4375rem; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 135px; max-width: 540px; width: 540px;">She made “Kathleen” (1941) for MGM and “Miss Annie Rooney” (1942) for United Artists; played supporting roles for David O. Selznick in two 1944 films, “Since You Went Away” and “I’ll Be Seeing You”; and made “Kiss and Tell” on loan to Columbia in 1945. But her golden hair had turned brown and, as the film historian David Thomson observed, she had become “an unremarkable teenager.” The public had lost interest.</div><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="284" data-total-count="10024" itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.4375rem; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 135px; max-width: 540px; width: 540px;">By then she was a strong-willed, chain-smoking 17-year-old. Determined to be the first in her Westlake class to become engaged, she had accepted a ring from a 24-year-old Army Air Corps sergeant, John Agar Jr., a few days before her 17th birthday. They were married on Sept. 19, 1945.</div><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="261" data-total-count="10285" itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.4375rem; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 135px; max-width: 540px; width: 540px;"><span style="line-height: 1.4375rem;">They were divorced in December 1949, a year after the birth of their daughter, Susan. Less than 60 days after her divorce, Miss Temple, 21, met and became engaged to Charles Alden Black, the 30-year-old assistant to the president of the Hawaiian Pineapple Company, who claimed he had never seen a Shirley Temple movie. They were betrothed after a 12-day courtship. Their marriage lasted almost 55 years, until his death in 2005.</span>Unable to handle being Mr. Shirley Temple, Mr. Agar began drinking excessively. While his wife was appearing in “The Bachelor and the Bobby Soxer” with Cary Grant and Myrna Loy and “That Hagen Girl” with Ronald Reagan, Mr. Agar tried acting, and failed.</div><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="498" data-total-count="11211" itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.4375rem; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 135px; max-width: 540px; width: 540px;">Mr. Black, who was dropped from the San Francisco Social Register for marrying an actress, told a reporter in 1988: “Over 38 years I have participated in her life 24 hours a day through thick and thin, traumatic situations, exultant situations, and I feel she has only one personality. She would be catastrophic for the psychiatric profession. You can wake her up in the middle of the night and she has the same personality everybody knows. What everybody has seen for 60 years is the bedrock.”</div><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="161" data-total-count="11372" itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.4375rem; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 135px; max-width: 540px; width: 540px;">Mrs. Black had left the movies for good by Dec. 6, 1950, when she married Mr. Black. A son, Charles Alden Jr., was born in 1952; a daughter, Lori Alden, in 1954.</div><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="202" data-total-count="11574" itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.4375rem; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 135px; max-width: 540px; width: 540px;">During the Korean War Mrs. Black followed her husband to Washington, where he was stationed at the Pentagon as a Navy lieutenant commander. In later years he would follow her to her diplomatic postings.</div><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="331" data-total-count="11905" itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.4375rem; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 135px; max-width: 540px; width: 540px;">Late in the 1950s, with her old movies being shown on television all over America, she briefly returned to show business. From 1958 to 1961 she was the host and an occasional performer on the television series “Shirley Temple’s Storybook” (also known as “The Shirley Temple Show”), an anthology of fairy-tale adaptations.</div><div class="ad ad-placeholder" style="background-color: white; clear: right; color: #333333; float: right; font-family: nyt-cheltenham, georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 40px 7px;"><iframe class="ad-frame frame-for-article" frameborder="0" style="border-width: 0px; height: 250px; width: 300px;"></iframe></div><div class="ad text-ad middle-right-ad" id="SponLinkA" style="background-color: white; clear: right; color: #333333; float: right; font-family: nyt-cheltenham, georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 40px 7px; min-height: 250px; min-width: 300px; position: relative;"><ins class="adsbygoogle" data-ad-client="nytimes_article_var" data-ad-type="text" data-adsbygoogle-status="done" data-color-bg="#f8f8f9" data-color-border="#e5e5e5" data-color-line="#fff" data-color-link="#9f9697" data-color-text="#bfbcc3" data-color-url="#9f9697" data-font-face="arial" data-font-size="small" data-safe="high" style="display: inline-block; height: 250px; width: 300px;"><ins style="background-color: transparent; border: none; display: inline-table; height: 250px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; visibility: visible; width: 300px;"><ins id="aswift_0_anchor" style="background-color: transparent; border: none; display: block; height: 250px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; visibility: visible; width: 300px;"><iframe allowtransparency="true" frameborder="0" height="250" hspace="0" id="aswift_0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" name="aswift_0" scrolling="no" style="border-width: 0px; left: 0px; position: absolute; top: 0px;" vspace="0" width="300"></iframe></ins></ins></ins></div><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="421" data-total-count="12326" itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.4375rem; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 135px; max-width: 540px; width: 540px;">By the early 1960s she was president of the Multiple Sclerosis Society and co-founder of the International Federation of Multiple Sclerosis Societies, raising funds to fight the disease that afflicted her brother, George. She was representing the federation in Prague on Aug. 21, 1968, when Soviet and Warsaw Pact tanks rolled in and brought to a premature end Alexander Dubcek’s effort to remodel the Communist system.</div><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="404" data-total-count="12730" itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.4375rem; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 135px; max-width: 540px; width: 540px;">For many years the Black family lived in the San Francisco area, where she was active in civic and community affairs. She worked particularly hard for the development of the San Francisco International Film Festival, but she resigned from the festival’s executive committee in 1966 in protest against a decision to show the Swedish film “Night Games,” which she called “pornography for profit.”</div><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="427" data-total-count="13157" itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.4375rem; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 135px; max-width: 540px; width: 540px;">Mrs. Black had become interested in politics when she lived in Washington. In 1967 she ran for Congress to fill a seat left vacant by the death of the Republican J. Arthur Younger. She hoped to emulate the California political successes of George Murphy, her dancing partner in “Little Miss Broadway,” who had become a United States senator, and Ronald Reagan, her co-star in “That Hagen Girl,” who had become governor.</div><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="260" data-total-count="13417" itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.4375rem; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 135px; max-width: 540px; width: 540px;">A backer of the Vietnam War, she lost to a more moderate Republican, Pete McCloskey, in the suburban 11th Congressional District south of San Francisco. It probably did not help that the bands kept playing “On the Good Ship Lollipop” at her campaign stops.</div><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="379" data-total-count="13796" itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.4375rem; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 135px; max-width: 540px; width: 540px;">But Mrs. Black pressed on with her decision to have a new career in public service. In 1969, President Nixon appointed her to the five-member United States delegation to the 24th session of the United Nations General Assembly. She acquitted herself well by all accounts, speaking out about the problems of the aged, the plight of refugees and, especially, environmental problems.</div><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="172" data-total-count="13968" itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.4375rem; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 135px; max-width: 540px; width: 540px;">When she was appointed ambassador to Ghana in 1974, some career diplomats were outraged, but State Department officials later conceded that her performance was outstanding.</div><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="488" data-total-count="14766" itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.4375rem; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 135px; max-width: 540px; width: 540px;">When she arrived in Prague as ambassador — a post usually reserved for career diplomats — she discovered that there had been a Shirley Temple fan club there 50 years earlier. Officials brought “Shirleyka” old membership cards to autograph. Having been Shirley Temple was extremely helpful to Shirley Temple Black, she told reporters, “mainly because it provides name identification,” although she added that it had “little bearing on whether I succeed or fail thereafter.”</div><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="427" data-total-count="15193" itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.4375rem; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 135px; max-width: 540px; width: 540px;">Mrs. Black succeeded beyond almost everyone’s expectations, winning praise during her three years in Prague from, among others, Henry Kissinger, who called her “very intelligent, very tough-minded, very disciplined.” Although she may always be best remembered as America’s sweetheart, the woman who left the screen at 22 saying she had “had enough of pretend” ended up leaving a considerable mark on the real world.</div><div><br /></div>

Shirley Temple Black, Screen Darling, Dies at 85 (BLOG)

Shirley Temple Black, who as a dimpled, precocious and determined little girl in the 1930s sang and tap-danced her way to a height of Hollyw...

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World News Briefs -- February 11, 2014

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0iZW2cDRK76MAZCEHs838BvBkNzv7RUmBusxPhNdvbyDZDMHI9SzCo-k3I5U5OIClzwkZinTkCW6gUxYEO2HhW-AMqYoXe__TkrXgzx5sTFv0gmOJ8tTr5EeY46ERq05tFGTkxT-zHDgZ/s1600/2013-09-12-BZSSR.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0iZW2cDRK76MAZCEHs838BvBkNzv7RUmBusxPhNdvbyDZDMHI9SzCo-k3I5U5OIClzwkZinTkCW6gUxYEO2HhW-AMqYoXe__TkrXgzx5sTFv0gmOJ8tTr5EeY46ERq05tFGTkxT-zHDgZ/s1600/2013-09-12-BZSSR.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Head of the State Council Taiwan Affairs Office Zhang Zhijun (4th R) meets with Wang Yu-chi (4th L), Taiwan's mainland affairs chief, in Nanjing, Jiangsu province, February 11, 2014. Credit: Reuters/China Daily</span></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>China, Taiwan Agree To Open Offices After Historic Talks -- Reuters</b></span></div><br />(Reuters) - China and Taiwan, at odds for more than six decades, agreed at historic talks on Tuesday to set up representative offices as early as possible, though sensitive political issues like a formal peace treaty were not up for discussion.<br /><br />The talks between Taiwan's Mainland Affairs Minister Wang Yu-chi and China's Vice Foreign Minister Zhang Zhijun, who heads the Taiwan Affairs Office, were the first since the 1949 creation of the People's Republic of China.<br /><br />They mark a big step towards expanding cross-strait dialogue beyond economic and trade issues.<br /><br /><b><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/02/11/us-china-taiwan-idUSBREA1A0EP20140211">Read more</a></b> ....<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>MIDDLE EAST</b></span></div><br />Syrian talks<b><a href="http://www.voanews.com/content/syrian-sides-meet-for-joint-peace-talks/1848748.html"> adjourn with discord</a></b>. Syrian foes meet <b><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/02/11/us-syria-crisis-talks-idUSBREA1A0QX20140211">face to face in Geneva</a></b>.<br /><br />Third chemical-arms shipment <b><a href="http://www.nti.org/gsn/article/third-chemical-arms-shipment-leaves-syria/">leaves Syria</a></b>.<br /><br />Syria conflict: UN concerned <b><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-26131742">over Homs detentions</a></b>.<br /><br />Iraq violence: Militants kill <b><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-26134598">15 soldiers near Mosul</a></b>.<br /><br />Iranians rally to mark <b><a href="http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2014/02/iran-rallies-mark-35-years-revolution-201421171757311457.html">35 years of revolution</a></b>.<br /><br />Rouhani calls for national unity, healing; says Iran <b><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/rouhani-calls-for-national-unity-healing-says-iran-will-not-relinquish-defense-capability/2014/02/11/380413b8-9307-11e3-b3f7-f5107432ca45_story.html">will not relinquish defense capability</a></b>.<br /><br />Israeli military hits Gaza <b><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/israeli-military-hits-gaza-in-response-to-rocket/2014/02/11/30bc6056-92e9-11e3-b3f7-f5107432ca45_story.html">in response to rocket.</a></b><br /><br />Yemen rebels oppose<b><a href="http://www.aljazeera.com/video/middleeast/2014/02/yemen-rebels-oppose-six-region-federation-2014211101417410323.html"> six-region federation</a></b>. Yemen Shiite rebels, southern group <b><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/yemen-shiite-rebels-slam-federation-plan-unfair-110611950.html">slam federation plan.</a></b><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>ASIA</b></span></div><br />China and Taiwan in <b><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-26129171">first government talks</a></b>. Taiwan, China talks end cordially, <b><a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20140211-707010.html">leave door open--Update.</a></b><br /><br />Grenade attack in <b><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/02/11/us-pakistan-peshawarblast-idUSBREA1A0YB20140211">Pakistani cinema city kills 10</a></b>.<br /><br />North and South Korea to hold<b><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/11/world/asia/north-korea-talks/index.html?hpt=wo_c2"> 'high-level' meeting</a></b>.<br /><br />North Korea seen readying<b><a href="http://www.nti.org/gsn/article/north-korea-seen-prepared-nuclear-missile-tests/"> nuclear, missile tests</a></b>.<br /><br />Thailand in political limbo with <b><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/thai-government-admits-lack-power-renew-troubled-rice-080432138--business.html">vote re-runs seen in April</a></b>.<br /><br />Afghan girl has first case of polio <b><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/11/world/asia/afghanistan-polio/index.html?hpt=wo_c2">in Kabul in 13 years</a></b>.<br /><br />US envoy visits Okinawa amid long-running row <b><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/11/us-envoy-okinawa-dispute-caroline-kennedy">over military bases</a></b>.<br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>AFRICA</b></span></div><br />South Sudan peace talks <b><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/south-sudan-peace-talks-set-open-ethiopia-135653651.html">set to open in Ethiopia</a></b>.<br /><br />'Scores killed' in<b><a href="http://www.aljazeera.com/news/africa/2014/02/killed-algeria-army-plane-crash-201421113959587831.html"> Algeria army plane crash</a></b>.<br /><br />UN: C. African Republic likely<b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2014/02/10/world/africa/ap-un-un-central-african-republic.html?ref=world"> needs more troops</a></b>.<br /><br />Hundreds of Eritreans enslaved in torture camps <b><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/11/eritreans-enslaved-traffickers-sudan-egypt-torture-camps">in Sudan and Egypt</a></b>.<br /><br />Flooding kills 50 in Burundi <b><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/11/world/africa/burundi-floods/index.html?hpt=wo_c2">after torrential rains</a></b>.<br /><br />Mali Red Cross team <b><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2014/feb/11/mali-red-cross-team-abducted-islamists-movement-oneness-jihad">'abducted by Islamists'</a></b>.<br /><br />African Nations establish council to<b><a href="http://www.voanews.com/content/african-nations-establish-council-to-improve-policy-implementation/1847672.html"> improve policy implementation</a></b>.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>EUROPE</b></span></div><br />Cypriot leaders seek settlement <b><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/peace-talks-reunite-cyprus-resume-two-break-104040519.html">'as soon as possible'</a></b>.<br /><br />Ukraine unrest overshadows <b><a href="http://www.voanews.com/content/reu-ukraine-unrest-overshadows-lviv-2022-olympic-games-bid/1847863.html">Lviv 2022 Olympic Games bid</a></b>.<br /><br />China bristling, Spain seeks to limit its judges'<b><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/china-bristling-spain-seeks-limit-judges-39-international-110953178.html"> international rights powers.</a></b><br /><br />Germany warns Switzerland over <b><a href="http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/germany-warns-switzerland-over-immigration-curb-vote/story-e6frg6so-1226823259327">immigration curb vote</a></b>.<br /><br />9 Serbs jailed <b><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/9-serbs-jailed-kosovo-massacre-131134955.html">for Kosovo massacre</a></b>.<br /><br />UK floods: Flood-hit areas in for 'long haul',<b><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-26131515"> says David Cameron.</a></b><br /><br />Italy, U.S. police crack <b><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/italy-u-police-crack-big-mafia-drug-ring-151620287.html">big mafia drug ring</a></b>.<br /><br />US destroyer arrives in Spain <b><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/us-destroyer-arrives-spain-nato-shield-130418241.html">for NATO shield.</a></b><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>AMERICAS</b></span></div><br />Major US winter storm <b><a href="http://washington.cbslocal.com/2014/02/10/major-winter-storm-targets-battered-east-coast/">‘could be biggest of the season’.</a></b><br /><br />US Congress faces scramble to <b><a href="http://www.voanews.com/content/congress-faces-scramble-to-raise-debt-ceiling/1847725.html">raise debt ceiling</a></b>. <br /><br />Obama welcomes France's Hollande for<b><a href="http://www.voanews.com/content/obama-hosts-frances-hollande-for-state-visit/1848773.html"> talks at White House</a></b>.<br /><br />Mexico finds skeletal remains<b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2014/02/10/world/americas/ap-lt-mexico-violence.html?ref=world"> along US border</a></b>.<br /><br />EU agrees to launch <b><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-26123441">negotiations with Cuba</a></b>.<br /><br />4 Latin America economic powers<b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2014/02/10/world/americas/ap-lt-colombia-pacific-alliance.html?ref=world"> sign trade pact</a></b>.<br /><br />Honduras suspends<b><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-26141335"> eight US consuls</a></b>.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>TERRORISM/THE LONG WAR</b></span></div><br />Video shows U.S. military abduction by Delta Force of Libyan charged in <b><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/video-shows-u-s-military-abduction-terror-suspect-article-1.1608812">‘98 Al Qaeda embassy plot: report</a></b>.<br /><br />Pakistan Taliban readies 500 female suicide bombers, <b><a href="http://www.stripes.com/news/middle-east/pakistan-taliban-readies-500-female-suicide-bombers-negotiator-says-1.266803">negotiator says</a></b>.<br /><br />Yemen hands 29 Qaeda militants <b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2014/02/11/world/middleeast/11reuters-yemen-saudi-qaeda.html?ref=world">to Saudi Arabia: Website</a></b>.<br /><br />U.S. weighs lethal strike <b><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/us-weighs-lethal-strike-against-american-citizen/2014/02/10/24bc47ac-9268-11e3-b46a-5a3d0d2130da_story.html">against American citizen</a></b>.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>ECONOMY/FINANCE/BUSINESS</b></span></div><br />US Fed Chief sees continued cuts <b><a href="http://www.voanews.com/content/us-fed-chief-sees-continued-cuts-in-economic-stimulus/1848943.html">in economic stimulus</a></b>.<br /><br />OECD admits overstating growth forecasts amid <b><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/feb/11/oecd-overstating-growth-forecasts">eurozone crisis and global crash</a></b>.<br /><br />Barclays to cut <b><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-26131799">up to 12,000 jobs</a></b>.

World News Briefs -- February 11, 2014

Head of the State Council Taiwan Affairs Office Zhang Zhijun (4th R) meets with Wang Yu-chi (4th L), Taiwan's mainland affairs chief, in...

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Obama officials weigh drone attack on US suspect (BLOG)

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRjJ05cdhBcGs1frIDSNumIk-6AUqGEvbGgqQkg353d8LkIShjyUNg9e8DJUQMUeZRp2YlUA7uib2STv7VsrR3ANhqkHMPRzc4sol9kwIled8Nqa6Y4HzXSrDeHH0Xrj8EirCwlsjXEkU/s1600/dd.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="219" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRjJ05cdhBcGs1frIDSNumIk-6AUqGEvbGgqQkg353d8LkIShjyUNg9e8DJUQMUeZRp2YlUA7uib2STv7VsrR3ANhqkHMPRzc4sol9kwIled8Nqa6Y4HzXSrDeHH0Xrj8EirCwlsjXEkU/s1600/dd.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1392087371019_12399" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">WASHINGTON (AP) — The case of an American citizen and suspected member of al-Qaida who is allegedly planning attacks on U.S. targets overseas underscores the complexities of President Barack Obama's new stricter targeting guidelines for the use of deadly drones.</div><div class="body-slot-mod" style="background-color: white; clear: right; float: right; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17.307693481445313px; margin: 0px 0px 1.1em 10px; max-width: 300px;"><div class="yom-remote"><div class="" id="mediacontentrelatedstory_container"></div></div></div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1392087371019_12422" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">The CIA drones watching him cannot strike because he's a U.S. citizen. The Pentagon drones that could are barred from the country where he's hiding, and the Justice Department has not yet finished building a case against him.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1392087371019_12432" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Four U.S. officials said the American suspected terrorist is in a country that refuses U.S. military action on its soil and that has proved unable to go after him. And Obama's new policy says American suspected terrorists overseas can only be killed by the military, not the CIA, creating a policy conundrum for the White House.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1392087371019_12442" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Two of the officials described the man as an al-Qaida facilitator who has been directly responsible for deadly attacks against U.S. citizens overseas and who continues to plan attacks against them that would use improvised explosive devices.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">The officials said the suspected terrorist is well-guarded and in a fairly remote location, so any unilateral attempt by U.S. troops to capture him would be risky and even more politically explosive than a U.S. missile strike.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">White House press secretary Jay Carney said Monday he would not comment on specific operations and pointed to Obama's comments in the major counterterrorism speech last May about drone policy.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">"When a U.S. citizen goes abroad to wage war against America and is actively plotting to kill U.S. citizens, and when neither the United States, nor our partners are in a position to capture him before he carries out a plot, his citizenship should no more serve as a shield than a sniper shooting down on an innocent crowd should be protected from a SWAT team," Carney said, quoting from Obama's speech last year.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Under new guidelines Obama addressed in the speech made to calm anger overseas at the extent of the U.S. drone campaign, lethal force must only be used "to prevent or stop attacks against U.S. persons, and even then, only when capture is not feasible and no other reasonable alternatives exist to address the threat effectively." The target must also pose "a continuing, imminent threat to U.S. persons" — the legal definition of catching someone in the act of plotting a lethal attack.</div><div class="body-related" style="background-color: white; clear: right; float: right; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 10px; position: relative;"><a class="body-related-link body-related-image go-to-slideshow-lightbox rapid-noclick-resp landscape onesize get-lbdata-from-dom" data-rapid_p="8" data-uuid="3317c4a9-4199-3461-b89e-8baf91fcd3f8" href="http://news.yahoo.com/photos/file-june-18-2013-file-photo-shows-house-photo-071700141.html" style="color: #324fe1; cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 300px; position: relative; text-decoration: none;" title="FILE - This June 18, 2013 file photo shows House Intelligence&nbsp;&hellip;"><div class="img-wrap" style="position: relative;"><div class="cta-overlay" style="-webkit-transition: background-color 0.24s linear; font-size: 13px; height: 223px; left: 0px; position: absolute; top: 0px; transition: background-color 0.24s linear; width: 300px;"><span class="clearfix title cta-text medium" style="-webkit-transition: opacity 0.24s linear; color: white; font-size: 16px; left: 5px; opacity: 0; position: absolute; top: 5px; transition: opacity 0.24s linear; white-space: pre-wrap; width: 270px; zoom: 1;"></span><span class="cta-text xsmall" style="-webkit-transition: opacity 0.24s linear; bottom: 5px; color: white; font-size: 16px; margin-left: 42px; opacity: 0; position: absolute; transition: opacity 0.24s linear;">View gallery</span><span class="icon-slideshow icon-white-slideshow-xsmall" style="-webkit-transition: opacity 0.16s linear; background-color: #324fe1; background-image: url(data:image/svg+xml; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; background-size: cover; border-bottom-left-radius: 4px; border-bottom-right-radius: 4px; border-top-left-radius: 4px; border-top-right-radius: 4px; bottom: 5px; cursor: pointer; height: 23px; left: 5px; line-height: 0; opacity: 0; padding: 0px; position: absolute; text-indent: -1000em; transition: opacity 0.16s linear; width: 32px; z-index: 1;"></span></div><img alt="FILE - This June 18, 2013 file photo shows House Intelligence&nbsp;&hellip;" class="body-related-thumb" data-src-2x="" height="223" src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/qoD6GjkbL48ARdS.vz7zDA--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTIyMztxPTc1O3c9MzAw/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/04c6e588c79167054b0f6a7067007c18.jpg" style="-webkit-transition: opacity 0.3333s ease 0ms; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border: 0px; display: block; opacity: 1 !important; transition: opacity 0.3333s ease 0ms; vertical-align: baseline; visibility: visible !important;" width="300" /></div></a><div class="body-related-title photo-caption" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: grey; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16.5px; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 5px 5px 0px 0px; position: relative; width: 300px;">FILE - This June 18, 2013 file photo shows House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Mike Rogers, R …</div></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">The Associated Press has agreed to the government's request to withhold the name of the country where the suspected terrorist is believed to be because officials said publishing it could interrupt ongoing counterterror operations.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the classified drone targeting program publicly.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers, R-Mich., complained last week that a number of terrorist suspects were all but out of reach under the administration's new rules that limit drone strikes based on the target's nationality or location. Two of the U.S. officials said the Justice Department review of the American suspected terrorist started last fall.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">The senior administration official confirmed that the Justice Department was working to build a case against the suspected terrorist. The official said, however, the legal procedure being followed is the same as when the U.S. killed militant cleric and former Virginia resident Anwar al-Awlaki by drone in Yemen in 2011, long before the new targeted killing policy took effect.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">The official said the president could make an exception to his policy and authorize the CIA to strike on a onetime basis or authorize the Pentagon to act despite the possible objections of the country in question.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">The Justice Department, the Pentagon and the CIA declined to comment.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">If the target is an American citizen, the Justice Department is required to show that killing the person through military action is "legal and constitutional"— in this case, that the Pentagon can take action against the American, as the administration has ruled him an enemy combatant under the Authorization for Use of Military Force, a resolution Congress passed a week after the 9/11 attacks to target al-Qaida.</div><div class="body-related" style="background-color: white; clear: right; float: right; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 10px; position: relative;"><a class="body-related-link body-related-image go-to-slideshow-lightbox rapid-noclick-resp landscape onesize get-lbdata-from-dom" data-rapid_p="9" data-uuid="9a08a975-8c79-395c-8dfb-795c82e6e17c" href="http://news.yahoo.com/photos/file-sept-5-2013-file-photo-senate-intelligence-photo-071814938.html" style="color: #324fe1; cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 300px; position: relative; text-decoration: none;" title="FILE - In this Sept. 5, 2013 file photo, Senate Intelligence&nbsp;&hellip;"><div class="img-wrap" style="position: relative;"><div class="cta-overlay" style="-webkit-transition: background-color 0.24s linear; font-size: 13px; height: 194px; left: 0px; position: absolute; top: 0px; transition: background-color 0.24s linear; width: 300px;"><span class="clearfix title cta-text medium" style="-webkit-transition: opacity 0.24s linear; color: white; font-size: 16px; left: 5px; opacity: 0; position: absolute; top: 5px; transition: opacity 0.24s linear; white-space: pre-wrap; width: 270px; zoom: 1;"></span><span class="cta-text xsmall" style="-webkit-transition: opacity 0.24s linear; bottom: 5px; color: white; font-size: 16px; margin-left: 42px; opacity: 0; position: absolute; transition: opacity 0.24s linear;">View gallery</span><span class="icon-slideshow icon-white-slideshow-xsmall" style="-webkit-transition: opacity 0.16s linear; background-color: #324fe1; background-image: url(data:image/svg+xml; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; background-size: cover; border-bottom-left-radius: 4px; border-bottom-right-radius: 4px; border-top-left-radius: 4px; border-top-right-radius: 4px; bottom: 5px; cursor: pointer; height: 23px; left: 5px; line-height: 0; opacity: 0; padding: 0px; position: absolute; text-indent: -1000em; transition: opacity 0.16s linear; width: 32px; z-index: 1;"></span></div><img alt="FILE - In this Sept. 5, 2013 file photo, Senate Intelligence&nbsp;&hellip;" class="body-related-thumb" data-src-2x="" height="194" src="http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/efi9wDZ0kesXUZkv7Ylgng--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTE5NDtxPTc1O3c9MzAw/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/16853572c79267054b0f6a7067001df7.jpg" style="-webkit-transition: opacity 0.3333s ease 0ms; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border: 0px; display: block; opacity: 1 !important; transition: opacity 0.3333s ease 0ms; vertical-align: baseline; visibility: visible !important;" width="300" /></div></a><div class="body-related-title photo-caption" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: grey; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16.5px; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 5px 5px 0px 0px; position: relative; width: 300px;">FILE - In this Sept. 5, 2013 file photo, Senate Intelligence Committee Chair Sen. Dianne Feinstein,  …</div></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">"So little has changed since last year, when it comes to government secrecy over killings," said Amnesty International's Naureen Shah on Monday. "The policy is still the stuff of official secrecy and speculation, when it should be a matter of open debate and explicit constraints."</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">The administration says U.S. drones have killed four Americans since 2009, including al-Awlaki, who officials said was actively plotting to kill U.S. citizens.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Attorney General Eric Holder said the three other Americans were killed by drones, but were not targeted. The three are Samir Khan, who was killed in the same drone strike as al-Awlaki; al-Awlaki's 16-year-old son, Abdulrahman, a native of Denver who was killed in Yemen two weeks later; and Jude Kenan Mohammed, who was killed in a drone strike in Pakistan.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">The case has galvanized congressional opponents of Obama's plan to transfer drones from the CIA to the Defense Department. Before the plan was announced, either CIA or Pentagon drones could go after terrorist targets, even if they were U.S. citizens. The CIA could also fly drones in areas where host countries might object. But by law, the Pentagon can only strike in war zones, in countries that agree to U.S. counterterrorism action or in lawless areas like parts of Somalia where that government's security forces cannot reach. Even then only al-Qaida-linked suspects can be targeted.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">"It is very clear that there have been missed opportunities that I believe increase the risk of the lives of our soldiers and for disrupting operations underway," Rogers said last week.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">U.S. officials said both Senate and House appropriators have blocked funding that would transfer the CIA's stealth RQ-170 drone fleet to the Pentagon. Some lawmakers want the White House to first come up with a fix for targeting suspects in areas where the Pentagon is banned from operating — either by leaving some part of the CIA operation running or by granting the Pentagon authority to strike covertly despite the location — meaning they could legally deny the operation.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Lawmakers like Senate Intelligence Committee Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., have also objected to the shift to the Pentagon, arguing that the CIA has more experience flying drones. U.S. officials say Pentagon chiefs defending their drone program in closed congressional session last week pointed out that the same cadre of Air Force pilots fly both the CIA and the Pentagon drones.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">___</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1392087371019_12487" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Associated Press writer Nedra Pickler contributed to this report.</div>

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Military And Intelligence News Briefs -- February 11, 2014

<div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/tIlslzPsPBM" width="560"></iframe><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Iran Touts Launch Of New Missiles; U.S. Says It's Watching Closely -- CNN</b></span></div><br />(CNN) -- Iran is lauding the successful test-firing of new missiles, including one designed to destroy "all types of enemy military equipment," state media said.<br /><br />U.S. officials say they're paying close attention.<br /><br />The Iranian Defense Ministry said the new missiles include a laser-guided surface-to-surface and air-to-surface missile as well as a new long-range ballistic missile that can carry multiple warheads, Iran's semi-official Fars news agency reported.<br /><br />Iranian Defense Minister Brig. Gen. Hossein Dehqan said the long-range ballistic missile can evade enemies' anti-missile defense systems and has "the capability of destroying massive targets and destroying multiple targets."<br /><br /><b><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/11/world/meast/iran-missiles-launch/">Read more</a></b> ....<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>MILITARY AND INTELLIGENCE NEWS BRIEFS</b></span></div><br /><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/02/11/us-iran-nuclear-west-idUSBREA1A0GR20140211">Iran says nuclear program 'forever', dismisses military talk </a>-- Reuters<br /><br /><a href="http://www.nti.org/gsn/article/iran-long-range-missile-succeeds-trial-launch/">Amid Test Launches, Iran Touts Multi-Warhead Missile Capacity</a> -- Global Security Newswire<br /><br /><a href="http://www.defensenews.com/article/20140210/DEFREG03/302100041/Singapore-Airshow-Focus-F-16s-F-35s">Singapore Airshow To Focus on F-16s and F-35s</a> -- Defense News<br /><br /><a href="http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/singapore-airshow-organisers-expect-25bn-orders-1435865">Singapore Airshow: Organisers Expect $25bn in Orders</a> -- IBTimes<br /><br /><a href="http://www.defensenews.com/article/20140211/DEFREG03/302110010/China-Pushing-Into-SE-Asia-s-Defense-Market?odyssey=mod|newswell|text|FRONTPAGE|p">China Pushing Into SE Asia's Defense Market</a> -- Defense News<br /><br /><a href="http://www.aljazeera.com/news/africa/2014/02/killed-algeria-army-plane-crash-201421113959587831.html">'Scores killed' in Algeria army plane crash </a>-- Al Jazeera<br /><br /><a href="http://www.nti.org/gsn/article/north-korea-seen-prepared-nuclear-missile-tests/">North Korea Seen Readying Nuclear, Missile Tests </a>-- Global Security Newswire<br /><br /><a href="http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/841748.shtml#.Uvop4YW0ykN">Nuclear submarine facilities in Russia's Far East to be completed by year end: ministry</a> -- Global Times/Xinhua<br /><br /><a href="http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2014-02-10/news/47200826_1_operational-clearance-defence-minister-ak-antony-ijt">5th gen fighter aircraft project with Russia delayed</a> -- Economic Times<br /><br /><a href="http://www.defensenews.com/article/20140210/DEFREG04/302100027/Report-Iraq-Heading-Toward-Fully-Operational-Air-Force">Report: Iraq Heading Toward Fully Operational Air Force</a> -- Defense News<br /><br /><a href="http://www.defensenews.com/article/20140210/DEFREG01/302100048/UK-Speeds-Up-Sea-King-Replacement">UK Speeds Up Sea King Replacement</a> -- Defense News<br /><br /><a href="http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/kyodo-news-international/140211/annual-cobra-gold-military-drill-kicks-thailand">Annual Cobra Gold military drill kicks off in Thailand</a> -- Global Post/Kyodo News<br /><br /><a href="http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2014-02/11/c_133106975.htm">China concerned over upcoming ROK-U.S. military drills</a> -- Xinhuanet<br /><br /><a href="http://www.dodbuzz.com/2014/02/11/congress-questions-plan-to-pay-for-11-carrier-navy/">Congress Questions Plan to Pay for 11-Carrier Navy</a> -- DoD Buzz<br /><br /><a href="http://www.upi.com/Business_News/Security-Industry/2014/02/10/US-Air-Force-reveals-modified-gunship-makes-first-flight/UPI-35591392065294/">U.S. Air Force reveals modified gunship makes first flight</a> -- UPI<br /><br /><a href="http://www.space.com/24639-united-states-military-space-plane-xs1.html">New US Military Space Plane Aims for 2017 Liftoff </a>-- Space.com<br /><br /><a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-11386_3-57618692-76/military-starts-testing-smart-rifles-for-battlefield-use/">Military starts testing smart rifles for battlefield use</a> -- CNet<br /><br /><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/02/11/maryland-lawmakers-want-to-cut-water-electricity-to-nsa-headquarters/">Maryland bill would cut water, electricity to NSA headquarters </a>-- FOX News<br /><br /><a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-57618703-83/the-day-we-fight-back-calls-for-protests-against-nsa-spying/">'The Day We Fight Back' calls for protests against NSA spying </a>-- CNet<br /><br /><a href="http://www.stripes.com/news/us/nine-soldier-crime-ring-linked-to-death-of-lt-col-roy-tisdale-1.266763">Nine-soldier crime ring linked to death of Lt. Col. Roy Tisdale</a> -- Stars and Stripes/The Fayetteville Observer, N.C.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.voanews.com/content/scandals-raise-questions-across-the-military/1848221.html">Scandals Raise Questions Across US Military</a> -- Voice of America<br /><br /><a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/defcon-hill/policy-strategy/197984-clinton-to-petraeus-i-have-experience">Clinton to Petraeus: ‘I have experience’</a> -- The Hill<br /><br /><a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/defcon-hill/policy-strategy/198025-house-panel-issues-new-benghazi-report-questions-9-11">House panel issues new Benghazi report, questions 9/11 preparations</a> -- The Hill<br /><br /><a href="http://www.defensenews.com/article/20140210/DEFREG02/302100036/Interview-Gen-Hawk-Carlisle-Commander-US-Pacific-Air-Forces">Interview: Gen. Hawk Carlisle, Commander, US Pacific Air Forces </a>-- Defense News<br /><br /><a href="http://www.nola.com/news/index.ssf/2014/02/us_military_issued_order_to_ri.html">Email shows US military ordered disposal of Osama bin Laden corpse photos in 2011 after AP asked for copies</a> -- Nola.com<br /><br /><a href="http://warontherocks.com/2014/02/the-pickup-truck-era-of-warfare/">The Pickup Truck Era of Warfare </a>-- Jack Mulcaire, War On The Rocks<br /><br /><a href="http://www.defenseone.com/technology/2014/02/actually-some-us-missile-defense-already-prime-time/78590/">Navy’s Aegis Missile Defense Is Ready for Prime Time</a> -- Scott C. Truver, Defense One<br /><br /><a href="http://nationalinterest.org/commentary/russia-violating-the-inf-treaty-9859">Is Russia Violating the INF Treaty?</a> -- Nikolai Sokov, Miles A. Pomper, National Interest<br /><br /><a href="http://www.worldmag.com/2014/02/is_troubled_f_35_caught_in_a_death_spiral">Is troubled F-35 caught in a ‘death spiral’? </a>-- Michael F. Cochrane, World Mag<br /><br /><a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/lorenthompson/2014/02/10/washington-spends-less-on-weapons-than-you-think/">Washington Spends Less On Weapons Than You Think </a>-- Loren Thompson, Forbes<br /><br /><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/11/opinion/army-auditors-shock-and-awe.html?ref=opinion">Army Auditors’ Shock and Awe</a> -- New York Times editorial

Military And Intelligence News Briefs -- February 11, 2014

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In Congress, a war on obnoxious airline passengers (BLOG)

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmbCKo4Rh-A7grvVJzYe7W8uDXFsuKfz-DQ-I5JcFORpKlE09Q9F_fkBPVqADIw7kSpaQaHTLnfGbSd2-pv9Edfh6auUG8OI3tEKqqbeMVyLtlr0Xe6XQx6nA-ziq-o5SW67Hi9a4jqkw/s1600/ll.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmbCKo4Rh-A7grvVJzYe7W8uDXFsuKfz-DQ-I5JcFORpKlE09Q9F_fkBPVqADIw7kSpaQaHTLnfGbSd2-pv9Edfh6auUG8OI3tEKqqbeMVyLtlr0Xe6XQx6nA-ziq-o5SW67Hi9a4jqkw/s1600/ll.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px;">Congress may soon save you from ever having to deal with an annoying, horrible person who insists on yakking away on a cell phone during a commercial airline flight.</span><br /><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"></div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1392087371019_7885" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">The House Transportation Committee plans to take up a bill Tuesday that would ban cell phone conversations during commercial flights. Advancements in technology combined with the possibility of <a data-rapid_p="10" href="http://www.fcc.gov/guides/wireless-devices-airplanes" id="yui_3_9_1_1_1392087371019_7894" style="color: #324fe1; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">looser rules from the Federal Communication Commission</a> could make it possible to hold voice conversations at 35,000 feet, a practice some lawmakers on both sides of the aisle want to stamp out before it starts.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1392087371019_7905" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Transportation Committee Chairman Bill Shuster, a Republican from Pennsylvania who is leading the charge in the War on Insufferable Plane Phone Talkers, said he expects the bill to pass through the committee. The bill, aptly named the “Prohibiting In-Flight Voice Communications on Mobile Wireless Devices Act of 2013” has a bipartisan coalition of 29 co-sponsors. California Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein and Tennessee Republican Sen. Lamar Alexander have introduced a companion bill in the Senate. The bill would not ban the use of phones to browse the Internet or to text.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1392087371019_7915" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">The move, Shuster said, has more to do with preserving sanity than safety.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">“This is about people not being obnoxious and annoying in the air space. At the end of the day, this is all about social discourse,” Shuster told Yahoo News in an interview. “You’re in an environment on an airplane that’s close quarters. You’re captive, and the last thing people want to hear is some salesman making a pitch to a client or a father scolding his child or a husband and wife having an argument.”</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">The bill, however, raises serious questions about whether the federal government should have a say in a matter that really comes down to etiquette.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Should it be illegal to be obnoxious?</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">“In some cases, I think it is” the government’s role to stop people from being annoying, Shuster said.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Those who oppose a government ban argue that passengers and airlines will be able to self-police.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">“Let us have our inflight cell phone calls,” Digital Trends editor Andrew Couts <a data-rapid_p="11" href="http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/airlines-allow-cell-phone-calls-planes/" style="color: #324fe1; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">wrote in November.</a> “The people who abuse the privilege will have an earful from their fellow passengers soon enough, trust us.”</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1392087371019_7925" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Some airlines already are taking steps to block phone conversations before the government does. Delta and JetBlue <a data-rapid_p="12" href="http://www.cnbc.com/id/101282711" style="color: #324fe1; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">have already declared company bans</a> on in-flight phone blabbering, and more may follow if it becomes a problem.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Shuster doesn’t think the airlines’ efforts go far enough. He defended the need for the federal government to mandate the ban across the board and cites polls showing that people don’t want to be subjected to their fellow fliers' phone conversations.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">“There’s a role for the government to play on some of these regulations about what people can and can’t do on flights,” Shuster said. “I think because the polling data is so strong — the public doesn’t want this — that this is an opportunity for us to make it simpler for everybody and say this is not something we want to do.”</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">The problem with planes, advocates of the government ban say, is that they offer no escape if a seat mate decides to sustain an hours-long conversation. Other public transportation options, such as planes and buses, have their own self-policing policies against irritating phone talkers. Trains offer escape options from yappy seatmates — passengers can find another seat or retreat to the dining car. Some Amtrak trains have a “Quiet Car” where passengers strictly enforce a policy of near-total silence. But most planes don’t offer anything close to that.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">“This is a case where we’re captive up there in the airspace,” Shuster said.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">The push for the bill came after the FCC announced last year that it will seek public comment on a proposal to allow airlines to decide their own in-flight rules.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1392087371019_7948" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">"I do not want the person in the seat next to me yapping at 35,000 feet any more than anyone else," FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler said during a congressional hearing in December. "But we are not the Federal Courtesy Commission."</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1392087371019_7948" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Yahoo</div>

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Is President Obama Seeking An Alliance With Iran?

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyhpeVcw1mWRHkQ9jJGewIchHP2Nh32fYritfsO1Il9wP0C4eYkbFrmlS_8TfPLhnPcPBTOLivkLooy-L6l2G_2jMHqEg_A-nVAC1rkaNJuI3Ny8FHpT1Z5xq_c-3dMHLnjmmroRRddcIT/s1600/2013-09-12-BZSSR.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="118" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyhpeVcw1mWRHkQ9jJGewIchHP2Nh32fYritfsO1Il9wP0C4eYkbFrmlS_8TfPLhnPcPBTOLivkLooy-L6l2G_2jMHqEg_A-nVAC1rkaNJuI3Ny8FHpT1Z5xq_c-3dMHLnjmmroRRddcIT/s1600/2013-09-12-BZSSR.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Is Obama Quietly Courting A Coalition With Iran? -- Michael Barone, Investor.com</b></span></div><br />Is Barack Obama trying to shift alliances in the Middle East away from traditional allies and toward Iran? Robert Kaplan, author and geopolitical analyst for the Stratford consulting firm, thinks so.<br /><br />In a realclearworld.com article, Kaplan argues that the Obama administration sees the recently elected Iranian President Hassan Rouhani "as a potential Deng Xiaoping, someone from within the ideological solidarity system who can, measure-by-stealthy-measure, lead his country away from ideology and toward internal reform."<br /><br />Such a development, he goes on, is "something that could, in turn, result in an understanding with the West."<br /><br />That of course is not what the president and Secretary of State John Kerry say they're up to. They say they're trying to get Iran to agree to stop its nuclear weapons development. No talk of a new alliance.<br /><br /><b><a href="http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials-perspective/021014-689504-obama-shifting-mideast-alliance-to-iran.htm?p=full">Read more</a></b> ....<br /><br /><b>My Comment:</b> The signs and actions indicate that The U.S. is serious in seeking such a political arrangement. The Saudis clearly believe that <b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/26/world/middleeast/saudis-faulting-american-policy-on-middle-east.html">this is the case</a></b> .... and the Israelis<b><a href="http://www.vanderbiltpoliticalreview.com/?p=2230"> are also displeased</a></b>. As to what is my take .... it takes two to tango, and I have trouble seeing the mullahs in Iran agreeing to such an arrangement with the "Great Satan".<br /><br />Robert Kaplan's Real Clear World/Stratfor commentary <b><a href="http://www.realclearworld.com/articles/2014/01/30/what_rouhani_means_for_post-imperial_america-full.html">is here.</a></b>

Is President Obama Seeking An Alliance With Iran?

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It's Janet Yellen Day on Wall Street

<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>W.W.J.D.? </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>What will Janet do?</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><b><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/janet-yellen-humphrey-hawkins-testimony-11-2014-2" style="color: red;">http://www.businessinsider.com/janet-yellen-humphrey-hawkins-testimony-11-2014-2</a></b><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqFAlUWsdLklTpVbg6e4Xma-g_aS9_7iNCbJsGSX5Tn13x3mig7cUOJffXHJQCpPP5zDhtiPX0qH4q9_lccVjDZbJuu1XUvFF4tIjhoLo412xDmZFL_XrzxTQnYRKX3X-YLm1hHj7wjQE/s1600/JanetYellenPICmicrophone.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="137" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqFAlUWsdLklTpVbg6e4Xma-g_aS9_7iNCbJsGSX5Tn13x3mig7cUOJffXHJQCpPP5zDhtiPX0qH4q9_lccVjDZbJuu1XUvFF4tIjhoLo412xDmZFL_XrzxTQnYRKX3X-YLm1hHj7wjQE/s1600/JanetYellenPICmicrophone.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><b><br /></b><b><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;">*****<u>UPDATES</u> WILL BE POSTED HERE AS THE DAY UNFOLDS*****REFRESH THIS POST*****</span></span> </b><br /><br /><b><a href="http://www.marketwatch.com/story/markets-alert-for-any-new-policy-signal-from-yellen-2014-02-10?dist=beforebell" style="color: red;">http://www.marketwatch.com/story/markets-alert-for-any-new-policy-signal-from-yellen-2014-02-10?dist=beforebell</a></b><br /><br /><b><span style="font-size: large;">The U.S. ECONOMY HANGS on the BALANCE </span></b><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVJcBB1TKWbltHuHs5iM5bRQMlJ8JjycBw45vNmkKoIt2h7dakeYkK214ATNuh2Vl4QN_t05L3aRjRd83a-I6LXtHIcxZ1dkmcRcaX_CgVLb9uAHpEnOF7__97RfRdWXeLt960Um7oJqs/s1600/balancePIC.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="135" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVJcBB1TKWbltHuHs5iM5bRQMlJ8JjycBw45vNmkKoIt2h7dakeYkK214ATNuh2Vl4QN_t05L3aRjRd83a-I6LXtHIcxZ1dkmcRcaX_CgVLb9uAHpEnOF7__97RfRdWXeLt960Um7oJqs/s1600/balancePIC.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><br /><b><span style="font-size: large;">NEWS DRIVEN ECONOMY set to react to HEADLINES</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: red;"><b>****MARKET ALERT---1929 STYLE CRASH SIGNS APPEAR*****</b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /><b><span style="color: red;"><u>IMPORTANT:</u></span> </b><br /><b>SIGNS of 1929 STYLE MARKET CRASH APPEAR as Janet Yellen speaks:</b><br /><b><a href="http://www.marketwatch.com/story/scary-1929-market-chart-gains-traction-2014-02-11?dist=lcountdown" style="color: red;">http://www.marketwatch.com/story/scary-1929-market-chart-gains-traction-2014-02-11?dist=lcountdown</a> </b><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b>LIVE COVERAGE Janet Yellen:</b></span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/080ywkt4CM8?feature=player_detailpage" width="640"></iframe></div><br /><b>OTHER NEWS REPORTS BELOW: </b><br /><br /><b>TEXT of Janet Yellen's PREPARED REMARKS:</b><br /><b><a href="http://www.marketwatch.com/story/text-of-yellens-prepared-remarks-2014-02-11?link=MW_home_latest_news" style="color: red;">http://www.marketwatch.com/story/text-of-yellens-prepared-remarks-2014-02-11?link=MW_home_latest_news</a> </b><br /><br /><b>Barclays lays off 12,000 EMPLOYEES to pay bigger bonuses to CEOs:</b><br /><b><a href="http://uk.reuters.com/article/2014/02/11/uk-barclays-earnings-idUKBREA1A08O20140211" style="color: red;">http://uk.reuters.com/article/2014/02/11/uk-barclays-earnings-idUKBREA1A08O20140211</a> </b><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0RtXlopzj4nm-I67jE5DR_SxoS-duF_sgkx5LASXP7MCZZlsxcSsq6FfZhdh6PCbxdoaJKJhoKrR31bENLvgK7be2Fxz42LJ9UTgjnKJJ8APn4QPRms7pmS2pPCCYupFia7bTn-mVn4Q/s1600/CNBClogo_SMALLSIZE.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0RtXlopzj4nm-I67jE5DR_SxoS-duF_sgkx5LASXP7MCZZlsxcSsq6FfZhdh6PCbxdoaJKJhoKrR31bENLvgK7be2Fxz42LJ9UTgjnKJJ8APn4QPRms7pmS2pPCCYupFia7bTn-mVn4Q/s1600/CNBClogo_SMALLSIZE.JPG" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><b>CNBC beginning to discuss the likelihood of INFLATION...awaiting Janet Yellen's speech...</b><br /><br /><b>How will Janet Yellen address DEFLATION?  Analysts suggest she is concerned we are way below our inflation rate of 2%...</b><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="223" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/MlwUXCNaRrg?feature=player_detailpage" width="308"></iframe></div><b></b><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><b>China the world's GOLD producer:</b></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><b><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2014/02/china-owns-gold.html" style="color: red;">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2014/02/china-owns-gold.html</a> </b></b></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><b><b>Silver prices set to rise toward $100:</b></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><b><a color:="" color:red="" href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2014/02/china-owns-gold.html" style="color: red;">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2014/02/china-owns-gold.html</a> </b></b></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><b><b>U.S. and IRAN tensions rising:</b></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><b><a color:="" color:red="" href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2014/02/usa-and-iran-and-rumors-of-war.html" style="color: red;">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2014/02/usa-and-iran-and-rumors-of-war.html</a></b></b></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Markets await the Yellen effect:</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><a color:="" color:red="" href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2014/02/janet-yellen-to-speak-tuesday.html" style="color: red;">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2014/02/janet-yellen-to-speak-tuesday.html</a></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Metals and mining stocks are rising:</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><a color:="" color:red="" href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2014/02/metals-and-mining-stocks-start-to-rise.html" style="color: red;">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2014/02/metals-and-mining-stocks-start-to-rise.html</a></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Tacos' Take on the YOU TUBE analysts: </b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><a color:="" color:red="" href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2014/02/tacos-take-on-all-economic-news-and-you.html" style="color: red;">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2014/02/tacos-take-on-all-economic-news-and-you.html</a></b><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhy_fcDmyQgMv0MFYaEr2U3pFByijmtixZ-8b2JlQ6GqPgQjUtSGlG62jFO4ZrMQyaVoQp7Uau2XCLzKBh5utVg-umC4mzuwUnRSKb6OXACBCzHHb1tn4H905Drg_Mn1wY5Sgwff9aG8Og/s1600/WallStreetmoneyPIC.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="128" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhy_fcDmyQgMv0MFYaEr2U3pFByijmtixZ-8b2JlQ6GqPgQjUtSGlG62jFO4ZrMQyaVoQp7Uau2XCLzKBh5utVg-umC4mzuwUnRSKb6OXACBCzHHb1tn4H905Drg_Mn1wY5Sgwff9aG8Og/s1600/WallStreetmoneyPIC.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><b>Watch WALL STREET'S REACTION on THE CHART BELOW:</b><br /><b>(If you can't see the CHART then CLICK THE PLUGIN; it may need to be REFRESHED)</b><br /><b><br /></b><b><br /></b><!-- Start FreeStockCharts.com Chart Widget --><br /><div align="center" width="100%"><iframe frameborder="0" height="390" scrolling="no" src="http://widgets.freestockcharts.com/WidgetServer/InteractiveChartWidget.aspx?guid=375a2c1e-3001-4cd5-8f22-23ec9f81ccfe&w=500&h=390" style="border: none;" width="500"></iframe></div><!-- End FreeStockCharts.com Chart Widget --> <br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>How will GOLD react to Janet Yellen at 15 GMT?</b></span></div><b><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/jFEKMSD5ApY?feature=player_detailpage" width="640"></iframe> <br /><b>...developing... </b></b></div>

It's Janet Yellen Day on Wall Street

W.W.J.D.?  What will Janet do? http://www.businessinsider.com/janet-yellen-humphrey-hawkins-testimony-11-2014-2 ***** UPDATES WILL BE POSTE...

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President Obama: 'I Can Do Whatever I Want'

<div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/czleWdUggow" width="560"></iframe><br /></div><br /><b>My Comment: </b>I get a chill when I hear leaders talk like this. I grew up in the Soviet Union .... and senior Soviet officials in Moscow always talked like this. Fortunately .... the U.S. is not the Soviet Union, and there are checks and balances .... but I still get the chills. .... and yes .... I know that the beltway Republicans are also guilty with this mindset.

President Obama: 'I Can Do Whatever I Want'

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Teenage con artist accused of stealing nearly $30,000 from Walmart

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4s__3TOV1ExwLehQffxdGuQCxLa6BsEihEA90N9uO1BjM0tUTl8Q4YEB8v2yMRuhSgYwHTpTkXxtDxsK9Ey_0wyGX1RMtw9A-Ks404dXQ5EnOVQRuZ5z4hHeqw0J5WEH7QL0UHt0ZN8Q/s1600/walmart9n-2-web.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4s__3TOV1ExwLehQffxdGuQCxLa6BsEihEA90N9uO1BjM0tUTl8Q4YEB8v2yMRuhSgYwHTpTkXxtDxsK9Ey_0wyGX1RMtw9A-Ks404dXQ5EnOVQRuZ5z4hHeqw0J5WEH7QL0UHt0ZN8Q/s1600/walmart9n-2-web.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1392087371019_4102" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">An unnamed teenage juvenile was arrested by Norman, Oklahoma police for stealing nearly $30,000 from three area Walmart stores. The arrest happened at the end of January and was recently reported by <a data-rapid_p="9" href="http://kfor.com/2014/02/06/exclusive-teen-tricks-walmart-stores-out-of-nearly-30000/" id="yui_3_9_1_1_1392087371019_4111" style="color: #324fe1; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">KFOR NewsChannel 4</a>. Apparently the teen convinced Walmart employees that <em>he</em> was employed by the big box retailer and once inside, was able to steal thousands. Police say the accused was well acquainted with the chain’s practices because he worked in an Oklahoma City Walmart before being fired for taking money.</div><div class="yom-fig-frame" id="yui_3_9_1_1_1392087371019_4119" style="margin: auto; text-align: center; width: 714.125px;"><span id="schemaorg"><div class="yom-figure yom-fig-middle" id="yui_3_9_1_1_1392087371019_4118" style="float: none; margin: 0px auto 15px; max-width: 100%; overflow: hidden; width: 630px;"><img alt="" class="editorial " id="yui_3_9_1_1_1392087371019_4117" src="http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/xyx4sINcNNIHjPvrhdvDUw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7cT04NTt3PTYzMA--/http://l.yimg.com/os/publish-images/news/2014-02-10/5c15f330-929d-11e3-a028-31968a696da6_report-bundles-of-cash.png" style="-webkit-transition: opacity 0.3333s ease 0ms; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border: 0px; display: inline; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; opacity: 1 !important; transition: opacity 0.3333s ease 0ms; vertical-align: bottom; visibility: visible !important;" title="The police report noted that surveillance video caught the suspect taking, ...multiple bundles of cash, stuffing them inside his pockets and clothes." width="630" /><div class="legend" style="background-image: none; color: grey; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; max-width: 100%; padding: 5px; text-align: left;">The police report noted that surveillance video caught the suspect taking, ...multiple bundles of cash, stuffing …</div></div></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">According to the police report, in December the 17-year-old suspect donned a Walmart name tag and, “…acted as if he was a general manager from another store.” He told employees of the Moore, Oklahoma Walmart that he was there to conduct an inventory of the store before general managers would arrive to do a post holiday inspection.</div><div class="yom-fig-frame" style="margin: auto; text-align: center; width: 714.125px;"><span id="schemaorg"><div class="yom-figure yom-fig-middle" style="float: none; margin: 0px auto 15px; max-width: 100%; overflow: hidden; width: 630px;"><img alt="" class="editorial " src="http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/Z103CUsopvr7Wdwd_OELNQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7cT04NTt3PTYzMA--/http://l.yimg.com/os/publish-images/news/2014-02-10/0fb8e370-929e-11e3-aa37-875990b2cfb8_uniform.png" style="-webkit-transition: opacity 0.3333s ease 0ms; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border: 0px; display: inline; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; opacity: 1 !important; transition: opacity 0.3333s ease 0ms; vertical-align: bottom; visibility: visible !important;" title="(KFOR)" width="630" /><div class="legend" style="background-image: none; color: grey; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; max-width: 100%; padding: 5px; text-align: left;">(KFOR)</div></div></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Surveillance video from the store, which has not been released by the D.A., showed that the teen was left alone in an office where money was stored and he grabbed, “…multiple bundles of cash, stuffing them inside his pockets and clothes,” hugging the manager as he left. Moore Police Sergeant Jeremy Lewis said, “He’s obviously confident in what he’s doing and has a good story.”</div><div class="yom-fig-frame" style="margin: auto; text-align: center; width: 714.125px;"><span id="schemaorg"><div class="yom-figure yom-fig-middle" style="float: none; margin: 0px auto 15px; max-width: 100%; overflow: hidden; width: 630px;"><img alt="" class="editorial " src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/3EwqNni2vYGHhrUfISCq3w--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7cT04NTt3PTYzMA--/http://l.yimg.com/os/publish-images/news/2014-02-10/5c0d8ec0-929d-11e3-aa37-875990b2cfb8_Moore-Police-Sergeant-Jeremy-Lewis-.png" style="-webkit-transition: opacity 0.3333s ease 0ms; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border: 0px; display: inline; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; opacity: 1 !important; transition: opacity 0.3333s ease 0ms; vertical-align: bottom; visibility: visible !important;" title="Sergeant Jeremy Lewis, Moore Police Department (KFOR)" width="630" /><div class="legend" style="background-image: none; color: grey; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; max-width: 100%; padding: 5px; text-align: left;">Sergeant Jeremy Lewis, Moore Police Department (KFOR)</div></div></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">After his heist in Moore, the hustler, who is also reportedly an actor with a local talent agency, took his act to a Walmart in the city of Edmond. Dressed in his old Walmart uniform, he walked into the store and was assigned to work at a register where he was able to swipe $3,000 in one day.</div><div class="yom-fig-frame" id="yui_3_9_1_1_1392087371019_4125" style="margin: auto; text-align: center; width: 714.125px;"><span id="schemaorg"><div class="yom-figure yom-fig-middle" id="yui_3_9_1_1_1392087371019_4124" style="float: none; margin: 0px auto 15px; max-width: 100%; overflow: hidden; width: 630px;"><img alt="" class="editorial " id="yui_3_9_1_1_1392087371019_4123" src="http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/iPpw8HKDupRQeWSGpHwFcA--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7cT04NTt3PTYzMA--/http://l.yimg.com/os/publish-images/news/2014-02-10/48fc4560-929d-11e3-a028-31968a696da6_Walmart.png" style="-webkit-transition: opacity 0.3333s ease 0ms; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border: 0px; display: inline; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; opacity: 1 !important; transition: opacity 0.3333s ease 0ms; vertical-align: bottom; visibility: visible !important;" title="(KFOR)" width="630" /><div class="legend" id="yui_3_9_1_1_1392087371019_4264" style="background-image: none; color: grey; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; max-width: 100%; padding: 5px; text-align: left;">(KFOR)</div></div></span></div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1392087371019_4274" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">The jig was up when the teenage swindler tried his routine at a Walmart in Norman. Police were there to take him into custody. It’s unknown if the teen will be tried as an adult, but the Cleveland County District Attorney is working on the case.</div><div id="yui-tmp-12" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"></div><span class="yui-editorial-embed" id="yui_3_0_0-2-1392069377948" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px;"></span><span class="yui-editorial-embed" id="yui_3_0_0-2-1392069377951" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px;"></span><span class="yui-editorial-embed" id="yui_3_0_0-2-1392069377954" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px;"></span><span class="yui-editorial-embed" id="yui_3_0_0-2-1392069377957" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px;"></span><br /><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1392087371019_4284" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Video and more info: <a data-rapid_p="10" href="http://kfor.com/2014/02/06/exclusive-teen-tricks-walmart-stores-out-of-nearly-30000/" style="color: #324fe1; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">KFOR</a></div>

Teenage con artist accused of stealing nearly $30,000 from Walmart

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Tuesday Already?

I lose track.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVsGZnp_B7hVDy3tRnZajcSZUtsBItxqZ20KCsgCTCg2d3O-fRnPWE_THEZIaF7ulsnHLtgRzT-5Sn_nNZYI-s0556qsdI9z57ppHOFPG76eusostYyB0HeAsO_gn4a_9p7-idf3gPh2FR/s1600/beautiful_Ashlynn_brooke_hd_wallpaper_collection-2560x1600.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVsGZnp_B7hVDy3tRnZajcSZUtsBItxqZ20KCsgCTCg2d3O-fRnPWE_THEZIaF7ulsnHLtgRzT-5Sn_nNZYI-s0556qsdI9z57ppHOFPG76eusostYyB0HeAsO_gn4a_9p7-idf3gPh2FR/s640/beautiful_Ashlynn_brooke_hd_wallpaper_collection-2560x1600.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5QhOexKWsl0kzxYQ4yRgColcDb0WnLzWzfh5PT_gM-ALLLMqdZEYCrb94Q8Uc_witLCeL-Tz4tZzCW4yJGcHGEcfJUR-7gxgYB9yLnF73rZuPN_RzSdy9r2Z5mQn8A09nSHwgzPdf-bBf/s1600/08.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5QhOexKWsl0kzxYQ4yRgColcDb0WnLzWzfh5PT_gM-ALLLMqdZEYCrb94Q8Uc_witLCeL-Tz4tZzCW4yJGcHGEcfJUR-7gxgYB9yLnF73rZuPN_RzSdy9r2Z5mQn8A09nSHwgzPdf-bBf/s640/08.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2gYatu_NI2LU-B1208L3s6Q9U3yuHiz00PRSVrFSQzg9RNHot-hBO4g4TdEI7wBJmx6oxuhYc5TjAYcOP1kn_h8TouNSSVNarjl36D9brGAfba7TNwfLStkBOhyphenhypheno3Lr9gTnxOR5odtvb3/s1600/beautiful-girl-girls-hq-hd-598531.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2gYatu_NI2LU-B1208L3s6Q9U3yuHiz00PRSVrFSQzg9RNHot-hBO4g4TdEI7wBJmx6oxuhYc5TjAYcOP1kn_h8TouNSSVNarjl36D9brGAfba7TNwfLStkBOhyphenhypheno3Lr9gTnxOR5odtvb3/s640/beautiful-girl-girls-hq-hd-598531.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2NMTkaqSPviNPRJosH_ep5ANvb8hehPCOBxMFCNbxn7ZzDRwdyceNVYqbqQMvO0cvO8Mo49arYN9xyLdoz5UqNgFFp8xKtLBQreuXYpJiwNvj8nbDuHpsH4LlFXg2YI_3iXReVuUNfS9U/s1600/biggirls1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2NMTkaqSPviNPRJosH_ep5ANvb8hehPCOBxMFCNbxn7ZzDRwdyceNVYqbqQMvO0cvO8Mo49arYN9xyLdoz5UqNgFFp8xKtLBQreuXYpJiwNvj8nbDuHpsH4LlFXg2YI_3iXReVuUNfS9U/s640/biggirls1.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnM1uC1gjQl6uf_7-fr6RVEkAAX_oIQUsGXOlOA413nF2Xbd_wqmSTsk1T9TT98j-Rf4z-XK43MPJppeXEHbGXsPHXGViTxBcTY9Gbg0Oic60QGVqUm-V_Pa5jV7NH0ZWovmtUQUzrlqPw/s1600/legs.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnM1uC1gjQl6uf_7-fr6RVEkAAX_oIQUsGXOlOA413nF2Xbd_wqmSTsk1T9TT98j-Rf4z-XK43MPJppeXEHbGXsPHXGViTxBcTY9Gbg0Oic60QGVqUm-V_Pa5jV7NH0ZWovmtUQUzrlqPw/s640/legs.jpg" /></a></div>

Tuesday Already?

I lose track.

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Tacos' Take on all the economic news and YOU TUBE analysts

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3RIxcth4fxI5t_X-I-PF3CuSf7iCZ-7U6ZnMEayXdR1yAkWMlLZjwsyUGd54OoGccaZy_5M6aoOlgWBkqS3NYhkWyej81xy2Cy1vLXzDCfDi3UVXjtkwZPEWSEtEOi76j8upyAQl1v3s/s1600/TacosPIC.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="131" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3RIxcth4fxI5t_X-I-PF3CuSf7iCZ-7U6ZnMEayXdR1yAkWMlLZjwsyUGd54OoGccaZy_5M6aoOlgWBkqS3NYhkWyej81xy2Cy1vLXzDCfDi3UVXjtkwZPEWSEtEOi76j8upyAQl1v3s/s1600/TacosPIC.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><b>Tacos examines the confusing economic news on YOU TUBE and self-professing analysts who are not even FINRA and SIPC certified financial advisers:</b><br /><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/AAunlo01FZQ?feature=player_detailpage" width="640"></iframe><br /><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/y9dYBMe49tA?feature=player_detailpage" width="640"></iframe>

Tacos' Take on all the economic news and YOU TUBE analysts

Tacos examines the confusing economic news on YOU TUBE and self-professing analysts who are not even FINRA and SIPC certified financial advi...

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A good KIDNEY CLEANSING

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A good KIDNEY CLEANSING

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Turkey's New 'Aircraft Carrier' Is Being Built To Send A Message To Greece, Cyprus, And Israel

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbogbJAGJjykpf6yWes2n5yEyWLz5mmkrv83DZm-H9RA3xIddakko-5t0_glYrKpycnfJcD5hrww-A9xbRYQGL_Os0Tkz8ypXqMB8qpB8aFsbJq-2RmAX9sQyzEPhGAjcrvGjw-V2cNHGN/s1600/2013-09-12-BZSSR.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="267" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbogbJAGJjykpf6yWes2n5yEyWLz5mmkrv83DZm-H9RA3xIddakko-5t0_glYrKpycnfJcD5hrww-A9xbRYQGL_Os0Tkz8ypXqMB8qpB8aFsbJq-2RmAX9sQyzEPhGAjcrvGjw-V2cNHGN/s1600/2013-09-12-BZSSR.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Juan Carlos I on the Ria of Ferrol. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_ship_Juan_Carlos_I_%28L61%29">Wikipedia</a></span></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Turkey’s New Carrier Alters Eastern Mediterranean Energy And Security Calculus -- Jerusalem Post</b></span></div><br />Turkey took a major step in altering the naval balance in the eastern Mediterranean by contracting the construction of a multi-purpose amphibious assault ship.<br /><br />In late December 2013, Turkey took a major step in altering the naval balance in the eastern Mediterranean by contracting the construction of a multi-purpose amphibious assault ship that can function as an aircraft carrier, potentially providing Turkey an unprecedented measure of sea control in the region.<br /><br />The heightened threat perception for Israel, Cyprus and Greece will impact the imminent decision regarding whether Israel will export its natural gas to a planned Cypriot LNG terminal with a European export route through Greece, or build a subsea pipeline to Turkey. Turkey’s next diplomatic moves could make the difference between a comprehensive regional agreement for a Turkish export route for eastern Mediterranean offshore energy, or a naval arms race which Turkey economically cannot win.<br /><br /><b><a href="http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Op-Ed-Contributors/Turkeys-new-carrier-alters-eastern-Mediterranean-energy-and-security-calculus-340352">Read more</a></b> ....<br /><br /><b>My Comment</b>: Expect Greece, Cyprus, and Israel to form some form of defensive and/or military arrangement to counter this Turkish development.

Turkey's New 'Aircraft Carrier' Is Being Built To Send A Message To Greece, Cyprus, And Israel

Juan Carlos I on the Ria of Ferrol. Wikipedia Turkey’s New Carrier Alters Eastern Mediterranean Energy And Security Calculus -- Jerusalem Po...

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Fuckin' Commies

Obama care explained easily<br /><br />To insure the uninsured, we first make the insured uninsured, and then<br />make them pay more to be insured again, so the original uninsured can be<br />insured for free.<br /> <br /><br />Hope this explains it.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVZrPPhBwGACSoVmB85OKK_euNwfCqVz-tVnkx-URJ7kKakgFzkKQTg3wOfPcxSb27ZKr4alqqYk0yYCCFh8aIsTp8TUportYK10hKSOYtn5wN13ytEWAfBwe_9hvm-u-X_Uji4m7q9en4/s1600/bangHeadAgainstWall.gif" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVZrPPhBwGACSoVmB85OKK_euNwfCqVz-tVnkx-URJ7kKakgFzkKQTg3wOfPcxSb27ZKr4alqqYk0yYCCFh8aIsTp8TUportYK10hKSOYtn5wN13ytEWAfBwe_9hvm-u-X_Uji4m7q9en4/s640/bangHeadAgainstWall.gif" /></a></div>

Fuckin' Commies

Obama care explained easily To insure the uninsured, we first make the insured uninsured, and then make them pay more to be insured again, s...

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