Germany Set To Allow Eurozone Bailout Fund To Buy Troubled Countries’ Debt from Talking Points Memo
"Angela Merkel is poised to allow the eurozone’s €750bn bailout fund to buy up the bonds of crisis-hit governments in a desperate effort to drive down borrowing costs for Spain and Italy and prevent the single currency from imploding."
Officials: ‘Flame’ Created by Israel, U.S. to Slow Iran from the Washington Post
"Computer virus was designed to collect intelligence in preparation for cyber-sabotage attacks aimed at slowing Iran’s ability to develop a nuclear weapon."
The Coming Oil Price Crash (Steve Levine) from Foreign policy Magazine
"Good news! Gas prices could go down to $2 a gallon by autumn -- and that's bad news for Vladimir Putin."
Poll: Don’t Extend Bush Cuts for Wealthy from National Journal
"As President Obama navigates a choppy economy in his reelection bid, he can rely on one comforting fact: Americans continue to strongly embrace his opposition to extending tax breaks for those earning more than $250,000 a year."
America's Urban Renaissance Is Being Driven by Thinking Small (Will Doig) from Alternet
"Forget stadiums: Let's build a pop-up park. Smart cities know the future is cooler, cheaper -- and smaller."
The Curse of Political Purity (Garry Wills) from the New York Review of Book
A very interesting commentary on "independent" voters (among other things).
"... the man being voted for, no matter what he says, dances with the party that brought him, dependent on its support, resources, and clientele. That is why one should always vote on the party, instead of the candidate. The party has some continuity of commitment, no matter how compromised. What you are really voting for is the party’s constituency. ... The independents, too ignorant or inexperienced to recognize these basic facts, are the people most susceptible to lying flattery. They are called the good folk too inner-directed to follow a party line or run with the herd. They are like the idealistic imperialists “with clean hands” in Graham Greene’s The Quiet American—they should wear leper bells to warn people..."
Obama Leads In Poll As Voters View Romney As Out Of Touch (Julie Hirschfeld Davis) from Bloomberg News Service
"Obama leads Romney 53 percent to 40 percent among likely voters, even as the public gives him low marks on handling the economy and the deficit, and six in 10 say the nation is headed down the wrong track, according to the poll conducted June 15- 18."
Obama’s Dreamer Immigration Move Boosts His Standing With Arizona Latinos (Terry Greene Sterling) from the Daily Beast
"The president’s decision to give young undocumented immigrants temporary relief from deportation has jump-started his support among Latinos in Arizona, but some are leery—and the state still leans toward Romney and the GOP."
GOP Leaders Line Up Against Obama’s Immigration Move — While Romney Remains Mum from Talking Points Memo
"Republicans are lining up against President Obama’s end-run around Congress to administratively grant immunity to some undocumented immigrants, effectively ensuring that he reaps the political dividends of the move among Hispanic voters — and deepening Mitt Romney’s predicament with Latinos and conservatives."
Yes, Today's Republicans Really are Different (Jonathan Bernstein) from the Washington Post
"...it’s about a rejectionist Republican Party that, among other things, is, while Democrats are in office, dedicated to opposing anything the Democratic president proposes — regardless of whether they have a history of opposing it or not. Ezra Klein has been writing a series of great items about this lately, taking as a key example the Republican history on the individual mandate."
Romney the Cautious (Ross Douthat) from the New York Times
"Why is it that in the presidential election the challenger and the incumbent have reversed their traditional roles?"
Romney is suffering from political whiplash because he worries so much about conservative nuts who spent the primary season stabbing him in the back to make sure he tows the more extreme right-wing line. I often wonder if he even remembers what his core beliefs are or ever were.
Mitt Romney's 'VP Tryout Extravaganza': Rating the Contenders from The Week
"Romney's five-day bus tour through six swing states doubled as a public audition for potential running mates. How did they do?"
Things Black Presidents (and First Ladies) Are Not Allowed to Do from I Have the Floor
"The growing list – according to Republicans and Republican-leaning media – of things white Presidents and their first ladies can do, but black ones can’t:..."
1960s CULTURE NUGGET!!
Suddenly That Summer (Sheila Weller) from Vanity Fair
"It was billed as “the Summer of Love,” a blast of glamour, ecstasy, and Utopianism that drew some 75,000 young people to the San Francisco streets in 1967. Who were the true movers behind the Haight-Ashbury happening that turned America on to a whole new age?"
HIGH-FLYING NUGGET!!
Wingman Daredevil Falls from 37,000 Feet… into the History Books (VIDEO) from the Daily Mail [of the UK]
"Breath-taking footage shows the moment a daredevil smashed four world records in one death defying jump. Fearless Jhonathan Florez, 29, leapt from 37,265ft then flew like a bird reaching speeds of up to 100mph using a wing suit."
The video really is breath-taking!!
ROBOT/DRONE NUGGET!!
Is That Really Just a Fly? Swarms of Cyborg Insect Drones are the Future of Military Surveillance from the Daily Mail [of the UK]
"... the real high-tech story of surveillance drones is going on at a much smaller level, as tiny remote controlled vehicles based on insects are already likely being deployed."
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