OWS Doctor Arrested for Bomb-Making Materials

You won't read or hear this story in the mainstream media...

Via Citizen Journalist:

Police have arrested a 60 year old unemployed doctor, Roberto Rivera, after finding a large quantity of chemicals used in bomb making after they conducted a raid on his home in Ridgewood, New Jersey. The search of Rivera’s home on Friday night also revealed a number of assault rifles and other weapons

Rivera was charged with second degree recklessly creating a risk of widespread injury or damage; fourth degree failure to mitigate against recklessly creating a risk of widespread injury or damage; third degree unlawful possession of a destructive device; fourth degree unlawful possession of a stun gun; fourth degree unlawful possession of a large capacity ammunition magazine; and second degree unlawful possession of an assault firearm. His bail has been set at $1 million dollars.

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Euro-zone is officially in double-dip recession..

The USA is next?

Via European Voice: 

The eurozone is officially back in recession after three years of sluggish growth as the sovereign-debt crisis continues to impede recovery.

Figures out today (15 November) show that gross domestic product in the 17-country eurozone decreased by 0.1% between July and September after contracting by 0.2% in the three months before that.

The eurozone was last in recession in 2009, when the economy contracted for five successive quarters.

Video: Generation Identitaire - "A Declaration of War" - From the Youth of France

I don't know what to make of this video, but it has over 100,000 views on YouTube since October 6, 2012. It seems some French youth are fed up with multiculturalism and ready for revolution...

Obama loses Maureen Dowd over defense of Susan Rice

Wow!  Maureen Dowd threw Susan Rice completely under the bus in this opinion piece and gave Obama a slap too.

[snip] Rice was given the toned-down talking points, but she has access to classified information. Though she told Bob Schieffer on CBS’s “Face the Nation” that the extremist elements could have included Qaeda affiliates or Al Qaeda itself, she mostly used her appearances to emphasize the story line of the spontaneous demonstration over an anti-Muslim video. She disputed the contention of the president of Libya’s General National Congress, who called the attack “preplanned” when he talked to Schieffer just before Rice.[...]

An Africa expert, Rice should have realized that when a gang showed up with R.P.G.’s and mortars in a place known as a hotbed of Qaeda sympathizers and Islamic extremist training camps, it was not anger over a movie. She should have been savvy enough to wonder why the wily Hillary was avoiding the talk shows. 

The president’s fierce defense of Rice had virile flare. But he might have been better off leaving it to aides, so he did not end up going mano a mano with his nemesis John McCain on an appointment he hasn’t even made (though now Obama might feel compelled to, just to prove that he can’t be pushed around), and so he could focus on fiscal cliff bipartisanship. 

His argument that Rice “had nothing to do with Benghazi,” raises the question: Then why was she the point person? 

The president’s protecting a diplomatic damsel in distress made Rice look more vulnerable, when her reason for doing those shows in the first place was to look more venerable. Keep on reading...

Chart of the Day: Inflation-Adjusted Gross Domestic Product After Recessions...

Very scary chart for our long-term economy...

Via WONKBLOG: 

A new study from the Congressional Budget Office starts with the scariest graph you’ll see today.

Source: Congressional Budget Office

In other words, you’re not imagining it: This economic recovery has been a big disappointment relative to what the United States has usually experienced after a recession.

Shocker: Nancy Pelosi doesn't sound open to a compromise on “fiscal cliff”

Nancy Pelosi seems to be holding out for a complete cave...

WASHINGTON — House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi says she’s hopeful lawmakers can come to a deal to avoid a year-end “fiscal cliff” but any agreement has to include tax rate increases for the wealthy.

She tells ABC’s “This Week” that she can’t accept a deal that caps deductions and closes some loopholes but does not alter current tax rates for the wealthy.
The California Democrat says “just to close loopholes is far too little money” and other ideas have to be considered. Republicans have suggested they are open to finding more revenues.

Lawmakers are facing expiration of the George W. Bush-era tax deductions and across-the-board spending cuts that automatically hit in January – the result of Congress’ failure to reach a deficit-cutting deal last year.

Michael Moore:Fox News Viewers “Have De-Evolved” or Something…

Speaking of devolving...

Rubio 2016?

Marco Rubio is Hispanic, conservative. well spoken, attractive, youthful and from a major battleground state...

ALTOONA, Iowa – As the Republican Party regroups after Mitt Romney’s defeat, the message Saturday night at Iowa Republican Gov. Terry Branstad’s birthday fundraiser was “turn the page” and “look to the future” — and what that future apparently holds is Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, the event’s featured speaker.

Rubio was invited to speak at the event around Sept. 1, Branstad told The Daily Caller, and had Romney won, the atmosphere might have been a bit different. But only 11 days after voters went to the polls and Republicans came up short, Rubio was speaking to a crowd that had trained its sights squarely on 2016.

In his speech, Rubio weaved together the personal and the economic. He discussed the importance of a stable family life to a stable economy, and how critical the success of the middle class is not just to the country’s financial situation, but also to its place in the world. American exceptionalism, Rubio said, is important to every nation, not just the United States.