Arsonists aiming to distract forces battling massive blaze, police officials say; alert level raised
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Arab media disparages Israel over disaster; Officials in Jerusalem: PR damage huge
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Doctors at Rambam Medical Center in Haifa manage to stabilize condition of Ahuva Tomer who was critically injured Thursday. Opposition chairwoman Livni visits wounded in hospital
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Firefighters continue to fight raging Carmel fire for second day. Flames nearing Haifa’s Denia neighborhood, whose residents were evacuated Thursday. Blaze erupts in Mitzpe Adi, several residents evacuate
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Thousands attend funerals of Prison Service cadets who died in Carmel fire disaster en route to evacuating Damon Prison
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Aerial extinguishing efforts suspended for night as firefighters enter defensive mode. Blaze still raging near Hai Bar nature reserve, Nir Etzion. Meanwhile, police arrest two Daliyat al-Karmel residents who hurled suspicious bottle
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Spokesman for Haifa firefighters expresses hope even as authorities fear fires in Kiryat Bialik, Tivon were arson; also chastises those who returned to Beit Oren despite evacuation. ‘Lots of homes were ruined,’ he says
Continue reading …Palestinian official says authority decided to help because blaze in north is ‘human catastrophe’
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Members of Prison Service officers course almost all perished in Carmel fire disaster. Among few survivors: Three cadets who were late in catching bus; six mothers who stayed home; three who escaped fire
Continue reading …Nets Expound on ‘Cost’ of Maintaining Tax Rates, Stress How ‘Tax Break for the Wealthy Increases the Deficit’
December 3, 2010 No Comment
Framing the debate through a liberal prism hostile to continuing the current income tax rates, ABC and CBS worried Thursday night about the “cost” of not raising taxes, as if all money belongs to the government, as both expounded on how not ending the Bush rates will fuel massive deficits. “If all the Bush tax cuts end for the top two percent of earners, $700 billion will be added to government coffers,” CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric warned, and “if all the cuts stay in place, the deficit will soar by $3.7 trillion over ten years.”
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