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James O'Keefe, the 28-year-old filmmaker known for a series of undercover video stings targeting federally-funded organizations, called the use of secret cameras that captured Mitt Romney's comments at a private fundraiser "an effective tactic that has a place in a democracy." But he accused the news media of using a double standard when covering the new video and when writing about the films he produced. "I think that there's definitely been a double standard amongst professional journalists here because they've been pretty much raking Project Veritas [his company] over the coals for about three years," O'Keefe told Yahoo News during a phone interview from his office in New York. Project Veritas is the organization he founded to produce his videos. "There are no questions about whether Moncler Outlet it [the video of Romney] was dubbed or doctored, whether there are criminal, potentially state crimes committed in the course of taking that camera around, whether somebody left the camera there and walked away." A series of video clips taken surreptitiously during a May fundraiser showed Romney telling donors in Florida that he will "never convince" people who are not eligible to pay income taxes to "take personal responsibility and care for their lives." These Americans, who Romney characterized as Obama supporters, "are dependent upon government...believe that they are victims...believe the government has a responsibility to care for them," Romney said. The videos, taken by an anonymous source and popularized by the left-leaning Mother Jones magazine on Tuesday, received so much media coverage that Romney called an emergency press conference on Tuesday night to discuss his remarks. One of the nation's most notorious young political filmmakers, O'Keefe first made a name for himself in 2009 when he filmed employees of the advocacy group ACORN offering advice to what they were told was a couple seeking to establish a brothel using Moncler Maillol underage girls. In response, Congress voted to cut off federal funding for ACORN. In January 2010, O'Keefe was arrested when he posed as a telephone repairman at the New Orleans offices of Louisiana Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu. The congresswoman had told constituents that her phone lines were not functioning, and O'Keefe intended to prove that the phones were working properly. He was caught during production and received a misdemeanor for entering a federal building under false pretenses. O'Keefe's exploits made him a hero among conservatives, but they invited a wave of scrutiny from the left. An article posted on the liberal Salon.com, for instance, tried to paint him as a racist. Several media outlets incorrectly printed stories that he was a convicted felon, and others dismissed his videos because they were "selectively edited." While O'Keefe's videos were edited, he made it a Womens Moncler Vests common practice to provide raw video online. Mother Jones released the full video of Romney on Wednesday, taking "a page out of the Breitbart playbook," after "releasing the tapes one at a time," O'Keefe said. "I have been required to release everything. All my source material," O'Keefe told Yahoo News. "And I've even been accused by these same journalists of committing crimes in the course of conducting my investigations. Journalists have to learn to be consistent."

Two mines in South Africa reopened their doors on Monday after suspending operations last week as a Moncler Quality precaution against the labor unrest sweeping through the region's platinum belt, although the situation on the ground remained tense. Police launched a crackdown over the weekend to disarm miners and end five weeks of labor unrest, following a government promise to get tough on strikes that have choked off platinum output in the world's top producer of the metal. Soldiers have also been called in to help the police, although their precise role is not clear. Aquarius Platinum's Kroondal platinum mine and Xstrata's chrome mine near Rustenburg restarted on Monday. Anglo American Platinum (Amplats), the world's top platinum producer, said work at its strike-hit Rustenburg mines would resume on Tuesday, although a representative of one group of strikers described that as a "joke", adding Amplats management were "whistling in the dark". "For us, the reality is that the general strike is on," Mametlwe Sebei, a self-styled Rustenburg community Mens Moncler Jackets leader and Marxist politician, told Reuters. "We are going to be demonstrating in defiance. We will not be intimidated." Christopher Tsatsawane, a spokesman for Xstrata Alloys, said the situation in Rustenburg remained tense. "As our employees were coming to work, there has been intimidation which is all over Rustenburg," he said, adding that only 10 percent of its chrome mine's employees reported for work at the weekend due to intimidation. Xstrata and other platinum mines in the area have been hit by wildcat strikes since police killed 34 miners at Lonmin's Marikana platinum mine on August 16, the bloodiest police action since the end of apartheid in 1994. A total of 45 people have been killed in the unrest. Police raided a Lonmin hostel on Saturday and seized spears, machetes and other weapons from strikers. They Moncler Jackets late used rubber bullets and tear gas to disperse groups of protesters. Wage talks between the miners and Lonmin are due to resume at 0800 GMT.

Nintendo disclosed the price and release date of its new Wii U game machine and unveiled television features for it. Thursday's announcement comes as a host of companies launch new gadgets for the holiday season. The Wii U will go on sale in the U.S. on Nov. 18. A basic, white model will Moncler Jackets cost $300. A deluxe version, which comes in black and sports extra features, will cost $50 more. Nintendo Co. has been trying to drum up excitement for the Wii U, the first major gaming console to launch since 2006. The device has a touch-screen controller called the Wii U GamePad. That controller will work as a fancy remote control for a new "Nintendo TVii" service. Makers of consumer electronics have been refreshing their products for the holiday shopping season. Apple announced a new iPhone and other products on Wednesday, while Amazon, Nokia and Motorola unveiled new mobile devices last week. These are some of the gadgets to expect in the coming months: — NEW IPHONE On Friday, advance orders for the iPhone 5 will start. The new smartphones from Apple Inc. go on sale a week later in the U.S. and eight other countries. They are bigger, but thinner than previous models and they work with faster cellular networks known as 4G. Apple is also updating its phone software and will ditch Google Inc.'s mapping Moncler Roussea service for its own. Besides appearing on the new phone, the new iOS 6 software will be a free upgrade for older devices, including the past three iPhones and the past two iPads. That upgrade will be available starting next Wednesday. Sales of Apple's iPhones are still strong, though the company lost the lead in smartphones to Samsung this year. Samsung Electronics Co. benefited from having its Galaxy S III out in the U.S. in June. A new iPhone will allow Apple to recapture the attention and the revenue. — SMALLER IPAD Apple has done well selling its full-sized tablet computer, which has a screen that measures nearly 10 inches diagonally. Many companies have come out with iPad alternatives, but the ones that have had moderate success have tended to be those with smaller, 7-inch screens and lower price tags. There's speculation that Apple will come out with a mini iPad — possibly with a 7.85-inch screen — to maintain its dominance. Although Apple said nothing about it Wednesday when it revealed the iPhone 5, the belief is that it will come this fall. — REKINDLING THE FIRE Amazon.com Inc.'s 7-inch Kindle Fire is one of the smaller tablets with decent sales. On Friday, it will sell an updated version with a faster processor, more memory and longer battery life. It will also cut the price to $159, from $199, making Mens Moncler Vests it far cheaper than the iPad, which starts at $399 for the 2011 version still on sale. (The most recent ones start at $499.) Amazon is also releasing higher-end models under the Kindle Fire HD line. A 7-inch one will go for $199, while an 8.9-inch one will go for $299. There's also a $499 model that can use the 4G cellular networks that phone companies have been building. A data plan will cost an extra $50 a year. The smaller HD model will start shipping Friday, while the larger ones will be available Nov. 20. Buyers of the Fire HD will get the option to turn off the advertisements that appear on its standby screen for $15.

Firefighters battled stubborn blazes that kept residents from homes in Montana, Wyoming and Washington as authorities worried the weather could worsen the volatile situation. High temperatures, lower humidity and greater instability increase the potential for fires to grow, said Ed Delgado, the national predictive services meteorologist for the National Interagency Fire Center in Boise, Idaho. "Our biggest concern right now is existing fires," he said. "We're not expecting lightning over the next few days, although that doesn't alleviate the potential for human-caused fires, especially as we get into camping and hunting seasons." Seven homes were destroyed and hundreds of people were evacuated near Casper, Wyo., where a wildfire Moncler Outlet burned almost 24 square miles. In western Montana, fire crews were struggling to control a blaze that prompted an evacuation order for 400 houses west of Hamilton. In eastern Washington, a grass and sagebrush fire that ballooned from 11,000 acres to more than 60,000 — or 95 square miles — before winds died down was blamed for destroying three homes near Grand Coulee, a fire official said. As winds eased, crews were hopeful they could gain ground on dozens of fires sparked by weekend lightning storms. But more evacuation orders were issued Tuesday as a wildfire moved into the hills west of Wenatchee, a fruit capital on the banks of the Columbia River. More than 150 homes were evacuated as the fire burned about 140 miles east of Seattle. About 160 firefighters gathered to help fight the blaze, which covered 1,000 acres. Only a shed has been lost near Wenatchee, and no injuries were reported at what appeared to be the most threatening of numerous lightning-sparked wildfires in the state. In Montana, Sawtooth Fire spokesman Gregg DeNitto with the U.S. Forest Service said there was no word on when residents there might be allowed to return. The fire exploded over the past two days from just over 1 square mile to more than 6, although no houses were reported lost. DeNitto said most threatened houses were a half-mile to one mile from the fire's edge. An estimated 1,000 people live within the evacuated area, although Ravalli County Commissioner Womens Moncler Vests Suzy Foss said not all of them left. Of those who fled, most were staying with friends, relatives or acquaintances, Foss said. Only a couple of residents spent the night at a Red Cross shelter set up in Hamilton for evacuees, DeNitto said. Firefighters got help from the weather in Wyoming, where cooler temperatures and calmer winds bought time to put more people and equipment into action around two large fires. As many as 750 homes were threatened by the large wildfire near Casper. Some 400 people were evacuated from 150 homes. In central Oregon, smoke settled in the town of Sisters for about six hours Tuesday as crews battled a forest fire on about 4,300 acres southwest of town. Sisters has about 2,000 residents and is a center for tourists and outdoor recreation. The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality said atmospheric conditions — a temperature inversion — could mean poor air quality in the mornings through Saturday. Residents of a subdivision west of Sisters have been warned that they might have to evacuate, but the Cheap Moncler Jackets fire has not yet advanced on populated areas. Blazes have scorched more than 8.1 million acres across the West so far this year, up from the 10-year average of 6.1 million acres, according to the National Interagency Fire Center.