Apr. 26, 2012 (Reuters) — PepsiCo Inc reported a smaller dip in quarterly profit than Wall Street was expecting, helped by price increases Windows 7 Product Key, and stood by its full-year outlook. Cases of Pepsi are displayed for sale in Carlsbad, California February 7, 2012. REUTERS/Mike Blake
Net income was $1.13 billion, or 71 cents per share Windows 7 activation key, in the first quarter Windows XP Key, down from $1.14 billion, or 71 cents per share, a year earlier.
Excluding items, earnings were 69 cents per share, in line with management’s expectations, but 2 cents per share ahead of analysts’ estimates, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.
Net revenue rose 4 percent to $12.43 billion.
The company stood by its 2012 outlook, which calls for earnings to fall 5 percent from the $4.40 per share reported for 2011.
PepsiCo expects net revenue growth in the low single-digit percentage range for this year.
Separately on Thursday Coca-Cola Enterprises Inc, a bottler of Coca-Cola Co drinks, also reported better-than-expected quarterly profit and stood by its full-year outlook.
(Reporting By Martinne Geller in New York; Editing by Lisa Von Ahn)
The Australian Greens have joined the federal coalition in attacking Labor's carbon tax compensation advertisements replica watches, which don't actually mention the carbon tax.
Opposition Leader Tony Abbott predicts the television, radio and print “political propaganda” ads will blow up in the government's face.
“This is the tax which dare not speak its name,” he told reporters in Brisbane on Tuesday.
Mr Abbott said the government was spending millions on the campaign but was too scared to mention what the assistance was for.
“The public are sick of dishonesty from governments and from political leaders,” he said.
“These carbon tax ads are going to blow up big time in the government's face.”
Greens leader Christine Milne is also upset with Labor's approach, describing it as a missed opportunity to explain how the carbon price, which starts in seven weeks replica watches, will actually work.
“It really disappoints me,” Senator Milne told ABC Radio.
“If you are actually going to lead people you have to explain to them what are the threats to them and to the country into the future and how we are going to address it.”
The carbon tax is to be imposed on the biggest emitters, who are expected to pass on increased energy costs to customers through higher prices.
Senator Milne said the government should have linked increased extreme weather events to the need for a carbon tax.
Instead the ads, launched on Monday, explain that millions of Australians will get additional help with their expenses as “the first part of the Australian government's household assistance package”.
There's no mention of the carbon price.
Families who receive welfare will get extra cash in their bank accounts from Wednesday. Pensioners will get their first payments in a fortnight.
Low- and middle-income earners will benefit from a tripling in the tax-free threshold from July 1.
Treasurer Wayne Swan denied the government was trying to hide the carbon price.
“This is a laughable criticism,” he told ABC Radio.
“We have been talking about a carbon price in this country for the past five years.
“What we're doing is informing people of what they're going to see in their bank accounts.
“The government in no way apologises for doing that.”
Some $14 million will be spent this financial year on the campaign, with $22 million budgeted for 2012/13.
Opposition climate action spokesman Greg Hunt told ABC Radio it was a waste of public money.
When the tax starts on July 1 it will be like “a python that will progressively tighten and cause greater and greater damage in manufacturing industries, to families … and around the economy” replica watches, he said.
Anti-terror laws, government-sponsored arms-dealers and testing the limits of free speech and protest: Mark Thomas has tackled them all.
His comedy manages to be full of conscience and political righteousness without descending into buzzkill. That’s particularly impressive when dealing with material based on walking the length of Israel’s wall of separation – a structure of oppression that is dispossessing people of their land and making peace difficult across Palestine’s occupied West Bank.
Thomas toured his show based on these experiences in 2011, and the paperback edition of Extreme Rambling: Walking Israel’s Separation Barrier. For Fun is now available all over the place, including Mark Thomas’ website.
One of the places Thomas performed was Greenbelt Cheap Tattoo Machines, a festival of art, music and justice that is still predominantly attended by Christians. A week or two later I caught up with him at one of his shows to ask the son of a lay-preacher and brother of a C of E vicar about his own religious views, what Palestine was like and whether Christian and leftist groups need to learn from each other. He’s a really nice man.
You have to be fairly brave to take on the subject of Palestine in comedy, don’t you?
The thing is, as soon as you start thinking you shouldn’t deal with these subjects you start having censorship. And there’s no fucking way on God’s earth that I’m going to do that. The whole point is that we can say what we like. If people don’t like it, don’t come. Say you don’t like it. That’s how it works. That’s called freedom of speech.
An Israeli orchestra was heckled at the proms. Have you had any interesting zionist walk-outs during any of your shows?
No. I’m sure some people have left at the interval because they didn’t like the show. And that’s fine. But there’s been none of that.
Way, way long ago when we were just getting the show together, I was running two shows: I was rehearsing for this show and then also doing a show called the manifesto where we’d get ideas from the audience Tattoo Machine Parts, discuss the ideas and vote on the best policy. And I was running one week with the manifesto and one week this show, trying to get this show up and running. And about 45 minutes into the manifesto one evening, somebody mentioned Israel. I just told a joke, just a flippant joke, something like: ‘Israelis are always welcome here. Mainly because, you know, if you take the piss out of the Israelis, they’ll jump on stage, start building settlements, tell you God gave them the stage and the stage belongs to them in the Bible and all that.
At this point, two people stood up and said: ‘you’re an anti-semite, you’re a bastard,’ and then they went out, telling everyone in the theatre: ‘he’s an anti-semite, he’s a bastard, you’ve booked anti-semites, you’ve booked bastards,’ and I suddenly thought: ‘Oh my lord, they came to the wrong show!’ They came along wanting to heckle the Israeli wall show, and only by chance was Israel mentioned, 45 minutes into it. They must have been sitting there, just going: ‘we’ve come to the wrong show. Oh geez.’ Suddenly, someone mentions Israel and they go: ‘quick, go, go go! Now! Shout “antisemite” and run!’
What I did was I posted a note on the website saying: ‘thank you very much for the heckle, I’ve donated your tickets to a Palestinian medical charity. Any time anyone does something like this in future I will do exactly the same.
The one time I went to Palestine, I found the IDF terrifying. Do you think of yourself as brave?
No, I don’t. I take calculated risks, which are entirely different. I don’t think I’m brave, I just think I’m of a habit where I get in people’s faces. And I don’t see why I should back down. If people say: ‘you can’t do that’, I say: ‘Why? Why can’t I?’ I want to find out why I can’t do something. I assume that I can do it. I like that idea that you can do it until you’re told not to. Because actually many of us live our lives like we shouldn’t do things: ‘we can’t get away with it, do you think we should?’ Fuck it. Assume that you can and then wait until you’re told you can’t. That’s a good way of living.
That’s an idea you captured in ‘My Life In Serious Organised Crime’.
Yeah.
Was this as much fun?
Yeah, this was, hugely. It was a different type of fun. It was very intensive, very emotional and very surprising. Very shocking. And you’d move from one state to the next very quickly. So you’d start the morning with with a panic and a rush to get everything ready – you had to prepare everything. Make sure all the kit was dry, make sure you had waterproofs and sunny clothes, make sure you had what route you were taking, who you were walking with,your translators, all your cameras and phones charged up, and then you get out. You’d start, you’ stop Tattoo Inks, you’d start with an interview, something happens, you get dragged off somewhere else, then you suddenly go: ‘fuck, we’ve got to get to the walk!’ You start the walk, something else happens, you meet someone, you get stopped, you move somewhere, you discover something – and then suddenly it’s dark and you have to get back home. And then you just strip the kit down, load everything on a computer and prepare for the next day and then you’re exhausted, you’re knackered, you’re asleep.
That’s every day. I remember we were walking once and we thought we’d got off to a good start. This was in the afternoon so we’d had the whole morning. In the afternoon we were mushroom-picking and we bumped into a bloke. The bloke has been moved off his land. He tells us all the story. We see this other bloke who lives on the other side of the wall and hasn’t met his mother in four years, then we fall over, we get lost, we fall into a swamp, go mushroom picking, but accidentally pick up some live ammunition by mistake and then finally end up in this rather beautiful almond grove. And then it’s dark. And suddenly you’re looking at the green lights on the minarets and hearing the imams call the faithful to prayer. And they become like these little belisha beacons for us in those first winter weeks. Because they call you in. that’s where you’re going to finish your walk. you’re finishing in the villages and the towns. The green lights and the sound of the imam calling the faithful for prayer became very synonymous with home and the end of the day for us. It became this lovely sound that was very relaxing and soothing.
A different kind of religious experience is the Christian festival. Tell me about playing Greenbelt?
Gigs like Greenbelt are important. They are really important. Because people are more willing to be engaged with the issues. I loved it. One of my favourite festival gigs. I really really enjoyed being there. I was in such a bad mood when I arrived. I was really tired and really lacking coffee. I walked into the wrong door at reception and couldn’t open it. Someone came up to me and asked: ‘can I help you?’ and I was so tired, I went: ‘No!’ And then had to spend two minutes going: ‘I’m terribly sorry. I’m not normally like this.’ But it did really surprise me. It was pleasantly surprising.
At the end of Greenbelt you came back for an encore and said someone had asked why you were playing a Christian festival and you said: “missionary work”. Is there some truth in that?
The whole tour is missionary work.
For the Palestinian cause?
Not necessarily for the Palestinian cause, because I think the Israelis have got as much to gain as the Palestinians. You’ve got to remember this is about their liberation. A chance to live in a genuine democracy that isn’t pump-primed full of fear. And where their children aren’t forced into military service. That’s really quite a lot to gain. To not sink into the oblivion of becoming the pariah state of the world. To not be isolated by the international community. To not be in a situation where your orchestra is heckled. These things we see as gains, as positive things.
So, for me, it’s not about waving a Palestinian flag or an Israeli flag. it’s about justice and it’s about human rights. Palestinians have got an an enormous amount of ground to make up on when they either get statehood or there’s a one-state solution. The ground that they have to make up on is actually that their leaders are just devoid of human rights at the moment. Their leaders don’t know how that bloody works. This whole idea that they get behind the cause is distracting from the corruption of Fatah or the stupidity of Hamas and the brutality of the police. I met Palestinians who said, ‘we’d rather be arrested by the Israeli army than be taken in by the Palestinian police.’ It’s not about flag-waving. It’s about human rights. They’re universal. It’s for everyone. that’s the gig.
So it’s missionary work, but missionary work about what I saw and what I think people should engage with. The atmosphere at Greenbelt was one very much of acceptance. And it was about the ideas which was wonderful.
For me, it’s actually about the faith groups taking leadership. The thing that I said was that the reason I had come there was because the faith groups have to be the bedrock of this campaign. You have to say we’re not going to have another apartheid. You have to support BDS. And actually, the faith groups have to lead on this. Absolutely, fundamentally, faith groups have to show leadership. The trade unions have prevaricated to a degree. And they have to show leadership too. If we are to get anywhere with this, then it is the faith groups and the trade unions that will form the bedrock of the campaign.
You made a joke about how you left the world of schism in Christianity for the unity and friendship of leftist politics. There are many similarities between the two groups.
Yeah!
Do you think they can learn from each other or would they would encourage the worst in each other?
I don’t know a huge amount about the way in which churches cooperate these days. I meet a lot of people who are really good, and who I like. And on the left you meet a lot of really great grassroots campaigners. It’s just all the leadership that just do your head in. There is a feeling that the leadership of these two camps, which often intermingle, are far more conservative than the people they purport to represent. I love the fact that Methodists get stuck in there. I really do. I love the fact that the Church of England eventually get there. And it’s really important that these groups actually react to the grassroots pressures.
What can they learn from each other? Campaigners need to learn that what we need to learn above all else is to mistrust our leaders and always fucking tell them what to do. You know, in a vacuum, unless we tell our leaders what to do, they will do all sorts of shit that we don’t want them to.
So assume that we’re in the driving seat. that’s what we have to do. Behave like were’ in the driving seat, because we have to be. Because we are.
You did a great joke about telling your sister the vicar to ‘get inside before the neighbours see you!’ Is there any seriousness there?
I’ve said before I’d rather have a Christian socialist than an atheist capitalist and that’s heartfelt. I love the fact that there are Christian campaigners who use their faith for courage rather than some kind of solace at times of trouble. Yeah yeah, that’s fine. Yeah, yeah, it’s human. Yeah, we’d all like to be able to say ‘we’re immortal!’ But, what I like are the Christians that go: ‘I’m going to have these bastards because it’s wrong.’ I work with all sorts of people from the Quakers through to Methodists, C of E’s and all of that. It doesn’t matter what you believe about the afterlife. It matters what you believe here.
Mark Thomas is currently touring.You should check him out.
This piece first appeared on the Narnian Socialist Review
Friday was FEC filing day — that day when political campaigns and independent expenditure committees (more commonly known as Super PACs) are required to submit their financial reports for the previous month. Today’s reports — which covered the month of March — showed that Romney and Obama had good months for fundraising, while Santorum, Gingrich and Paul had less than stellar months. For Santorum Damascus Steel Tattoo Machines, his debt had begun to pile up by the end of March, and looking over the numbers, the logic behind his decision to drop out of the race in mid-April is reinforced.
On the Super PAC end, the group supporting Romney — Restore Our Future — continued to pull in big donations, while Priorities USA, the group supporting Obama, continues to see slightly anemic numbers. Gingrich’s Super PAC continues to be financed almost exclusively by the family of Sheldon Adelson, the Las Vegas casino magnate Tattoo Steel Machines, and Karl Rove’s Crossroads is king where fundraising is concerned.
Below are the top line fundraising numbers for each of the respective campaigns and groups: for the month of March.
ROMNEY
Raised: $12.59 million
Spent: $10.27 million
Cash on Hand: $10 million
They have no debt.
RESTORE OUR FUTURE (PRO-ROMNEY SUPER PAC)
Raised: $8.6 million in March.
Spent: $12.7 million
COH: $10.4 million
No debt.
SANTORUM
Raised: $4.9 million
Spent: $5.8 million
COH: $1.8 million
DEBT: $1.99 million
RED WHITE AND BLUE FUND (PRO-SANTORUM SUPER PAC)
Raised: $2.56 million
Spent: $2.68 million
COH: $262,949
No Debt
OBAMA FOR AMERICA
Raised: $27 million
Spent: $15.6 million
COH: $104 million
No debt.
OBAMA VICTORY FUND (Joint Fundraising Committee with Obama and DNC)
Raised: $18 million
Spent: $22 million
COH: $3.7 million
No debt.
PRIORITIES USA (PRO-OBAMA SUPER PAC)
Raised: $2.4 million
Spent: $318,254
COH: $5 million
No debt.
GINGRICH
Raised: $1.6 million
Spent: $2 million
COH: $1.2 million
Debt: $4.3 million
WINNING OUR FUTURE (PRO-GINGRICH SUPER PAC)
Raised: $5.05 million ($5 million of which was donated by Dr. Miriam Adelson Tattoo Gun Set, Sheldon Adelson’s wife.)
Spent: $1.5 million
COH: $5.8 million
No debt.
CROSSROADS (American Crossroads plus its grassroots groups, Crossroads GPS)
Raised: $49 million for January, February, March
Spent: $444,639 in March (for American Crossroads only)
COH: $24.4 million (for American Crossroads only)
No debt.
RON PAUL
Raised: $2.6 million — down for the third month in a row
Spent: $2.2 million
COH: $1.8 million
No debt.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The decision by Ally Financial Inc’s mortgage unit to file for bankruptcy should make it easier for the government to recover its investment in the auto lender, the U.S. Treasury said on Monday.
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(Reporting by Timothy Ahmann; Editing by Padraic Cassidy)
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Every other year, Nissan trots out another Pivo concept to the Tokyo Motor Show, and each successive version is weirder than the next. But this latest version – the predictably named Pivo 3 – is different. Nissan wants to build it, and while its awkward shape and trick doors won’t make it to production, much of the underlying tech will.
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So when are we going to see it hit the Japanese and European markets? Two years? Five years? Your guess is as good as ours as Nissan isn’t giving up much.
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Scalia’s point is that it’s not his responsibility to prove that textualism or originalism are perfect constitutional theories. It’s enough for him to demonstrate they are better than the alternative. And the alternative, says Scalia, is for a justice to “make the law what he thinks it should be.” His parable of the Bear, the Hunters Discount DKNY Clothing, and the Originalist reminded me of what Scalia does so well that liberal constitutional thinkers can’t always manage. Where he is pithy and clear in his prescription for judicial restraint, they get all tangled up in an effort to make their own jurisprudential theory sound perfect. Perhaps in advance of what is shaping up to be a galactic fight about President Obama’s next Supreme Court nominee, liberals should take Scalia’s adage to heart and content themselves just to outrun the other guy. In other words, maybe there is no time like the present to tell the country about the hazards and pitfalls of the conservative theories of originalism and textualism and the cult of balls-and-strikes-ism that has taken over the American jurisprudential debate.
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The public conversation about the judiciary in recent decades has often conflated a broad fear of unelected judges with a clear definition of what judges should do. In the wake of the Jackson Pollock-style jurisprudence of the Warren Court, anxiety about overreaching judges morphed into a widespread sense that judges simply do too much. Conservative groups happily pushed the line that liberal judges were all merely unelected “activists” bent on “legislating from the bench.” But this says little about how a judge should decide cases and much about our fear of the bench. Originalism and textualism aren’t the only way to constrain judges, but they dovetail nicely with the idea that if you confine yourself to what the framers would want, you can’t make as much of a mess with the yellow paint.
That’s how judicial “activism”—a word we all should acknowledge is meaningless—turned into a catchall term for judges who did anything one didn’t like. They were, after all, acting. It’s only in recent years that we’ve discovered that the opposite of an “activist” judge is, in fact, a deceased one.
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Reviewing these trends at the Roberts court last spring, Jeffrey Toobin concluded that
[t]he kind of humility that Roberts favors reflects a view that the Court should almost always defer to the existing power relationships in society. In every major case since he became the nation’s seventeenth Chief Justice, Roberts has sided with the prosecution over the defendant, the state over the condemned, the executive branch over the legislative, and the corporate defendant over the individual plaintiff.
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Champion mare Black Caviar has drawn barrier three of 10 for her Adelaide debut in Saturday’s Robert Sangster Stakes.
A sell-out crowd of 30,000 is expected at Morphettville racecourse to cheer on the world’s highest-rated sprinter as she attempts to stretch her winning streak to 20.
Plans for Black Caviar are for two starts in Adelaide before she flies to England to take on Europe’s best in the Diamond Jubilee Stakes at Royal Ascot in June.
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General admission tickets have sold out for Saturday’s racing at Morphettville.
Brenton Wilkinson from the South Australian Jockey Club said bookmakers had sought approval for special collectors’ edition tickets for people who bet on the mare.
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In his despairing book about the future of journalism, Losing the News: The Future of the News That Feeds Democracy, Alex S. Jones worries that the slow-motion collapse of traditional news-gathering media—broadcasters, newsmagazines, and newspapers (especially newspapers)—might drastically diminish democracy.
In Jones’ view, these old-fashioned collectors and disseminators of “news of verification” produce the “iron core of information” that sustains our democracy and fuels all the derivative media. Without the iron core, no editorial page, columnist, op-ed artist, blogger, talk-show host, or aggregator will know what to say. Without the iron core, Jones fears, the public will have little clue about what governments, corporations, politicians, and the wealthy are up to.
New forms of journalism may prevent the iron core from corroding, Jones writes, but he doesn’t have a lot of faith in “citizen journalists” or the reinvention of traditional media to halt the coming media apocalypse. It generally takes money to make consistently great journalism, and Jones lays out how the iron core was made possible by an economic model—now in tatters—that tossed off immense profits for decades to support foreign and regional news bureaus, Washington bureaus Christian Audigier Clothes sale, investigative coverage, and all the rest we associate with quality journalism.
Just because Jones heads Harvard University’s Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy, don’t mistake him for a pointy-headed intellectual pining away for some lost journalistic Eden. He hails from a newspaper-owning clan in Greeneville, Tenn.,served as managing editor of the Daily Post-Athenian in Athens, Tenn., and covered the press—among other topics—as a New York Times reporter. Other résumé highlights: He snagged a Pulitzer Prize, hosted programs on the press on NPR and on PBS Replica Herve Leger gown, taught journalism at Duke University, and with Susan E. Tifft has authored two well-regarded newspaper histories, The Patriarch: The Rise and Fall of the Bingham Dynasty (1991) and The Trust: The Private and Powerful Family Behind the New York Times (1999). Jones doesn’t bleed printer’s ink; he breathes it.
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Quality journalism, Jones seems to argue in Losing the News, helps sustain democracy by giving readers the vital information they need to vote intelligently and engage as citizens. I write “seems” because after reading the book a second time and taking a boatload of notes, I can’t say for certain whether Jones really believes the press that we’ve come to take for granted is really essential for democracy. If it really does “feed” democracy Replica White Herve leger, as his title puts it, he produces only tangential evidence to support his argument.
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The “exact nature” of the loss to society if quality journalism expired, Jones writes, would be “unclear,” which is a very large hedge. Perhaps Jones never chalks his cue and lines up the quality-press-equals-a-vibrant-democracy shot because it’s impossible to make. Democracy thrived in the United States in the 1800s, long before the invention of what we call quality journalism. Between 1856 and 1888, when most newspapers were crap and controlled by, or beholden to, a political party, voter turnout hovered around 80 percent for presidential elections. Compare that with the 55.3 percent and 56.8 percent turnouts in the 2004 and 2008 presidential elections.
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Not to be snide about it, but is quality journalism the best tool to foster democracy? Advocates of participatory democracy and government accountability might be smarter to invest their time directly in reforming government. For instance, wouldn’t the passage of tough sunshine laws that required Web publication of all nonclassified government information and proceedings do more for accountability than preserving the Minneapolis Star Tribune and the Detroit News?
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Jaguar has announced that Managing Director Mike O’Driscoll will retire from the company early next year Fake Piaget Watches for sale, at least from his day-to-day duties. The charismatic executive has been on-board at the Leaping Cat since the company was still part of the Ford portfolio. He helped usher Jaguar out from under the glare of the Blue Oval and into the hands of India’s Tata Motors. From there Where find Replica Richard Mille Watches, O’Driscoll was among the key hands in the introduction of the new XF, XK and the super-sexy XJ.
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