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Holder thinks Republicans want to use voter ID for their own gain

Attorney General Eric Holder didn’t hold back on his contempt for voter identification measures in an MSNBC interview Thursday, referring to them as a Republican attempt to depress the votes of people who don’t support them politically.

While Republicans see voter ID as a way to prevent voter fraud, Holder dismissed that notion during the interview, saying that voter fraud does not exist to any extent that should require identification.

“I think we’ve come up with a remedy in search of a problem,” Holder told MSNBC. “And I think it’s being used in too many instances to depress the vote of particular groups of people who are not supportive of the party that is advancing these photo ID measures.”

Holder made it clear that he is not opposed to all identification entirely, but he is opposed to any sort of identification used to disenfranchise particular groups of people.

“People have to understand that we are not opposed to photo identification in a vacuum,” Holder said. “But when it is used in certain ways to disenfranchise particular groups of people whether by racial designation, ethic origin or partisan reasons, that from my perspective is problematic.”

Just last year, Holder took the state of Texas to federal court insisting that the state acquire “pre-approval” from either the Department of Justice or a federal court before implementing any future changes in voting laws. The Attorney General cited “evidence of intentional racial discrimination” along with a ”history of pervasive voting-related discrimination against racial minorities.”

Not long after taking Texas to court, Holder filed suit against the state of North Carolina for the same reason.

Even though Holder doesn’t see voter fraud as an issue, the numbers prove otherwise.

According to True the Vote, there are more than 24 million invalid voter registrations on the books along with 1.8 million dead voters who are still eligible on the rolls. On top of that, federal records showed 160 counties in 19 states have more than 100 percent voter registration.

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US stocks waver; poised to post big October gain

US stocks waver; poised to post big October gain

NEW YORK (AP) — Stock indexes are little changed in midday trading on Wall Street, leaving the market on track to post a big gain for October.
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White House tries to gain support for Syria strike

President Barack arrives on the South Lawn of the White House on Friday, Sept. 6, 2013 in Washington. Beset by divisions at home and abroad, Obama candidly acknowledged deep challenges Friday in pursuing support for a military strike against Syria from international allies and the U.S. Congress. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

President Barack arrives on the South Lawn of the White House on Friday, Sept. 6, 2013 in Washington. Beset by divisions at home and abroad, Obama candidly acknowledged deep challenges Friday in pursuing support for a military strike against Syria from international allies and the U.S. Congress. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Protesters against U.S. military action in Syria march to Capitol Hill from the White House in Washington, Saturday, Sept. 7, 2013. President Barack Obama has asked the U.S. Congress to approve the use of force. A final vote in the U.S. Senate is expected at the end of the coming week. A U.S. House vote is likely in the week of Sept. 16. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Protesters against U.S. military action in Syria march to Capitol Hill from the White House in Washington, Saturday, Sept. 7, 2013. President Barack Obama has asked the U.S. Congress to approve the use of force. A final vote in the U.S. Senate is expected at the end of the coming week. A U.S. House vote is likely in the week of Sept. 16. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)is a

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is making a big push to rally members of Congress and the American public behind President Barack Obama’s plan for a U.S. military strike against Syria.

His administration says the government of Syrian President Bassar Assad used chemical weapons in an attack last month near Damascus, and that a strong U.S. response is needed to deter the future use of deadly chemicals.

Syria claims rebels carried out the Aug. 21 attack.

Obama’s chief of staff, Denis McDonough, is set to make the White House’s case during interviews on five Sunday talk shows.

Vice President Joe Biden plans to host a dinner Sunday night for a group of Senate Republicans. And lawmakers should expect more phone calls from top officials.

Obama is giving a national address Tuesday night.

Recent opinion surveys show intense American skepticism about military intervention in Syria, even among those who believe Syria’s government used chemical weapons on its people.

Congress resumes work Monday after its summer break, but already a heated debate is underway about Syria.

On Wednesday, the first showdown Senate vote is likely over a resolution authorizing the “limited and specified use” of U.S. armed forces against Syria for no more than 90 days and barring American ground troops from combat. A final vote is expected at week’s end.

A House vote appears likely during the week of Sept. 16.

A survey by The Associated Press shows that House members who are staking out positions are either opposed to or leaning against Obama’s plan for a military strike by more than a 6-1 margin. The Senate is more evenly divided ahead of its vote.

Nearly half of the 433-member House and a third of the 100-member Senate remain undecided.

Complicating the effort in the Senate is the possibility that a three-fifths majority may be required. Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky says he is going to filibuster.

Still, Sen. Harry Reid, the Democratic leader, has predicted, “I think we’re going to get 60 votes,”

Another bipartisan, classified briefing for Congress is set for Monday. McDonough plans to meet Tuesday with the House Democratic Caucus, whose support could be crucial as Obama faces opposition from House Republicans.

Obama’s national security adviser, Susan Rice, plans to discuss Syria in a speech Monday at the New America Foundation.

At least 150 people picketed outside the White House on Saturday to oppose any military action against Syria. Demonstrations also took place in New York City, Boston and Indianapolis and in Louisiana and Michigan.

Also Saturday, a U.S. official released a DVD compilation of videos showing victims of the Aug. 21 attack. The DVD was shown to senators during a classified briefing on Thursday, and some of the videos were first broadcast on CNN. Supporters of the Syrian rebels had posted the videos on YouTube.

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Daimler CEO uses windfall gain to buy $1.5 million in stock

Dieter Zetsche, CEO of German carmaker Daimler, poses in a new Mercedes-Benz S-class car during a presentation in Hamburg, May 15, 2013.

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Women Gain Ground in Forbes "Richest People on Earth"

Since Warren Buffett and Bill Gates launched the Giving Pledge, promising to give away at least half their wealth, 105 billionaires have signed the pledge.

Steve Forbes, the magazine’s editor in chief, weighed in with his ritual hosanna in the richest by headlining “THEY SUCCEED” followed in red ink “By Meeting Your Needs.” And they almost all have one or several of the 3,500 private jets in the United States.

The top 20 are worth $ 714 billion, up $ 80 billion in a year.

Mexico’s Carlos Slim Helu is the world’s wealthiest man for the fourth consecutive year, with $ 73 big ones, up $ 4 billion in a year. Spain’s Amancio Ortega displaced Buffett in the No. 3 slot by providing women with low-priced fashion clothes.

The youngest is Dustin Moskovitz, 28, “beating fellow Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg by a week.”

Four decades after Communist Vietnam declared victory it produced its first billionaire. Pham Nhat Vuong studied in Moscow and made $ 1.5 billion selling condos and luxury resorts — presumably to non-Vietnamese.

Thailand’s Charoen Sirivadhanabhakdi, 68, takes longer than most to sign his name but his Thai beer empire gave him $ 11.7 billion.

Forbes sees a link between the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and “the abandonment of Communism in China” and “the astonishing rises in the global standard of living.”

“The Daily Show” host Jon Stewart, opines Forbes, “should be awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics” and “revoke the one awarded to the New York Times’ Paul Krugman in 2008.”

Forbes recognized Stewart because last January “he spooked the idea of the trillion-dollar platinum coin, which had been floated as a way of getting around the ceiling on the national debt.”

Perhaps Stewart should be drafted, suggested Forbes, “to replace Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, whose monetary policies are doing immense harm to the U.S. and global economies.”

Forbes lists the top three as Ortega with $ 19.5 billion (net worth $ 57 billion), Buffett with $ 9.5 billion (net worth $ 53.5 billion), and Charles Koch with $ 9 billion in rising refining and chemical profits (net $ 34 billion).

Almost all the world’s 1,426 billionaires are married (“many multiple times”), but Forbes publishes the list of the most eligible — five multibillionaires in their 30′s and 40′s who have never tied the knot.

“From Oligarch to President?” is a Forbes story on Russian tycoon Mikhail Prokhorov who stays in a $ 35,000-a-night penthouse suite at the top of the Four Seasons hotel in midtown Manhattan, and whose full-time job is his ambition to succeed Vladimir Putin.

Prokhorov bought the NBA’s Brooklyn Nets for $ 200 million and frequently flies over to watch them play.

In 1995, the wild days of anything-goes-capitalism in Russia, Prokhorov bought control of Norilsk Nickel — and never looked back.

Forbes’ “Prince of Insecurity” article challenged Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal who says he’s one of the 10 richest people in the world with $ 20 billion.

“Forbes doesn’t buy it,” said the headline. But the Saudi Prince has a palace in Riyadh with 420 rooms and a country weekend hideaway carved out of the desert with five artificial lakes and mini Grand Canyon, five other homes, and his own 747.

Saudi royals don’t advertise their wealth and they go to great lengths to operate below Forbes’ radar screen. Talal is an exception. He courts publicity and tries to maintain the fiction he’s the richest man in the kingdom, the gulf, the Arab world.

Forbes is a welcome change of pace from the depressing daily articles in the Financial Times and The Wall Street Journal about the latest rip-offs on Wall Street, London, Zurich, and other global financial centers.

There isn’t a day without a major financial scandal in the world of democratic capitalism. 

This week, a U.S. Senate investigation issued an angry assessment of JPMorgan’s $ 6.2 billion trading loss in 2012 as bank officials concealed losses from investors and federal regulators.

The U.S. Treasury says its financial institutions file more than 15 million “suspicious activity reports” every year. 

Switzerland was the long-time paradise for the world’s gazillionaires — at one stage tax cheats were willing to fork over a negative interest rate in return for Swiss protection — but the Swiss gravy train has just been flagged down by a national referendum that spells big trouble.

The Swiss have voted to give shareholders the right to veto the salaries, bonuses, and overall pay packages of senior corporate executives and board directors.

Adding insult to injury, no more signing bonuses, golden parachutes, or special compensation payouts to executives when their companies are taken over in buyouts,

Violations earn prison for three years and fines of six times yearly compensation.

With the U.S. borrowing 46 cents of every dollar it spends, warn today’s Internet doomsayers, there are plenty of Cassandras, scaremongers, and Chicken Littles with fancy logos and voiceovers to tell us the end is near.

Breathing from his diaphragm, an authoritative voice told us “we are trapped” and “there is no way out.” Or “life as we have lived it for the past 40 years is about to die” and “martial law is coming” because “the savings of millions and retirement funds will soon be wiped out.”

There is no law against crying fire in a crowded theater on the Internet.

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Women Gain Ground in Forbes "Richest People on Earth"