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<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/gageskidmore/" type="external">Gage Skidmore</a> / <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/" type="external">CC BY-SA 2.0</a></p> <p>WASHINGTON &#8212; Anyone with confidence in the American people (and I have quite a lot of it) had to believe that Donald Trump&#8217;s unpreparedness, instability and just plain meanness would catch up with him eventually. This, as the polls show, is what happened over the last week or so. Simply by revealing who he really is, Trump sent millions of voters fleeing him in disgust.</p> <p>But understanding what still attracts many voters to Trump is important, not only to those who want to prevent Trump from staging a comeback but also to anyone who wants to make our democracy thrive in the long run. Those of us who are horrified by Trump&#8217;s hideous lack of empathy need empathy ourselves.</p> <p>It&#8217;s certainly true that Trump appeals to outright racists and nativists. He is, first and foremost, the product of a Republican Party that has exploited extremism since President Obama took office. GOP leaders should be called to account whenever they try to prettify Trump by ignoring his assaults on Mexican-Americans and Muslims or a checkered business record that belies his pretensions of being a friend to the working class.</p> <p /> <p>Nonetheless, to ignore the real pain experienced by Trump voters is an even bigger mistake. As a practical matter, we will not ease the divisions in our country his candidacy has underscored if we do not deal with the legitimate grievances of his supporters. As a moral matter, writing off Trump voters as unenlightened and backward-looking is to engage in the very same kind of bigoted behavior that we condemn in other spheres.</p> <p>Let&#8217;s begin by disentangling the causes of both Trumpism and the related rise of far-right parties in Europe.</p> <p>In a timely paper that will be presented at next month&#8217;s American Political Science Association meeting, &#8220;Trump, Brexit, and the Rise of Populism,&#8221; Ronald F. Inglehart of the University of Michigan and Pippa Norris of Harvard&#8217;s Kennedy School of Government argue that while there is undeniably an economic element in the ascendancy of the extreme right in the West, the key cause is &#8220;an angry and resentful counter-revolutionary backlash&#8221; to cultural changes since the 1970s.</p> <p>They highlight the role of &#8220;anti-immigrant attitudes, mistrust of global and national governance,&#8221; as well as &#8220;support for authoritarian values.&#8221; Voters for the European far right look like Trump backers: &#8220;the older generation, men, the less educated, the religious, and ethnic majorities.&#8221;</p> <p>So, yes, the new right-wing populism may not be primarily about inequality. But Inglehart and Norris are careful to note that &#8220;structural changes in the workforce&#8221; and globalized markets may &#8220;heighten economic insecurity&#8221; and sharpen the negative reaction of cultural traditionalists.</p> <p>And on the ground, says Rep. Elizabeth Esty, D-Conn., the sense of &#8220;disrespect&#8221; felt by &#8220;people who have lost work to new machines, technology and, in some cases, globalization&#8221; is palpable. This is what links cultural unease to economic distress. Esty, whose district includes ailing industrial cities such as Waterbury and New Britain, has been warning Democrats for months about Trump&#8217;s appeal to displaced workers.</p> <p>&#8220;I do not disrespect the people who support him,&#8221; Esty said of Trump. &#8220;I find him loathsome, but what he has tapped into is real.&#8221;</p> <p>Fred Yang, a Democratic pollster, pointed to NBC News/Wall Street Journal surveys showing that voters who say the Great Recession is still having an impact on them are more likely than other voters to support Trump.</p> <p>And Eric Hauser, strategic adviser at the AFL-CIO, said that both parties need to face the obvious: that &#8220;there is a lot of rage in this country.&#8221;</p> <p>&#8220;People have been angry for more than a generation about their difficulty in moving ahead despite their best efforts,&#8221; he said. Noting that most policy proposals on behalf of workers are too timid, he added: &#8220;There has been too much acceptance on the part of elites, including Democrats, that a little bit of trying is good enough.&#8221;</p> <p>Hillary Clinton&#8217;s campaign is clearly aware of the fury, and she regularly declares that &#8220;creating good-paying jobs and raising incomes is the defining challenge of our times.&#8221; Her endorsement of progressive economic proposals reflects an attempt not simply to draw in Bernie Sanders&#8217; supporters, but also to speak to at least some of Trump&#8217;s sympathizers.</p> <p>If the country is lucky, Trump will continue to do an excellent job of defeating himself. His racism and sexism are leading non-white voters and women to form a durable front of opposition. But his voters should not be demeaned or ignored, and his rise should shatter the complacency of the comfortable.</p> <p>E.J. Dionne&#8217;s email address is [email protected]. Twitter: @EJDionne.</p> <p>&#169; 2016, Washington Post Writers Group &amp;#160; &amp;#160;&amp;#160;</p>
We Have to Stop Demeaning or Ignoring Trump Voters—Elitism Won't Defeat Trumpism
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2016-08-08
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We Have to Stop Demeaning or Ignoring Trump Voters—Elitism Won't Defeat Trumpism <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/gageskidmore/" type="external">Gage Skidmore</a> / <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/" type="external">CC BY-SA 2.0</a></p> <p>WASHINGTON &#8212; Anyone with confidence in the American people (and I have quite a lot of it) had to believe that Donald Trump&#8217;s unpreparedness, instability and just plain meanness would catch up with him eventually. This, as the polls show, is what happened over the last week or so. Simply by revealing who he really is, Trump sent millions of voters fleeing him in disgust.</p> <p>But understanding what still attracts many voters to Trump is important, not only to those who want to prevent Trump from staging a comeback but also to anyone who wants to make our democracy thrive in the long run. Those of us who are horrified by Trump&#8217;s hideous lack of empathy need empathy ourselves.</p> <p>It&#8217;s certainly true that Trump appeals to outright racists and nativists. He is, first and foremost, the product of a Republican Party that has exploited extremism since President Obama took office. GOP leaders should be called to account whenever they try to prettify Trump by ignoring his assaults on Mexican-Americans and Muslims or a checkered business record that belies his pretensions of being a friend to the working class.</p> <p /> <p>Nonetheless, to ignore the real pain experienced by Trump voters is an even bigger mistake. As a practical matter, we will not ease the divisions in our country his candidacy has underscored if we do not deal with the legitimate grievances of his supporters. As a moral matter, writing off Trump voters as unenlightened and backward-looking is to engage in the very same kind of bigoted behavior that we condemn in other spheres.</p> <p>Let&#8217;s begin by disentangling the causes of both Trumpism and the related rise of far-right parties in Europe.</p> <p>In a timely paper that will be presented at next month&#8217;s American Political Science Association meeting, &#8220;Trump, Brexit, and the Rise of Populism,&#8221; Ronald F. Inglehart of the University of Michigan and Pippa Norris of Harvard&#8217;s Kennedy School of Government argue that while there is undeniably an economic element in the ascendancy of the extreme right in the West, the key cause is &#8220;an angry and resentful counter-revolutionary backlash&#8221; to cultural changes since the 1970s.</p> <p>They highlight the role of &#8220;anti-immigrant attitudes, mistrust of global and national governance,&#8221; as well as &#8220;support for authoritarian values.&#8221; Voters for the European far right look like Trump backers: &#8220;the older generation, men, the less educated, the religious, and ethnic majorities.&#8221;</p> <p>So, yes, the new right-wing populism may not be primarily about inequality. But Inglehart and Norris are careful to note that &#8220;structural changes in the workforce&#8221; and globalized markets may &#8220;heighten economic insecurity&#8221; and sharpen the negative reaction of cultural traditionalists.</p> <p>And on the ground, says Rep. Elizabeth Esty, D-Conn., the sense of &#8220;disrespect&#8221; felt by &#8220;people who have lost work to new machines, technology and, in some cases, globalization&#8221; is palpable. This is what links cultural unease to economic distress. Esty, whose district includes ailing industrial cities such as Waterbury and New Britain, has been warning Democrats for months about Trump&#8217;s appeal to displaced workers.</p> <p>&#8220;I do not disrespect the people who support him,&#8221; Esty said of Trump. &#8220;I find him loathsome, but what he has tapped into is real.&#8221;</p> <p>Fred Yang, a Democratic pollster, pointed to NBC News/Wall Street Journal surveys showing that voters who say the Great Recession is still having an impact on them are more likely than other voters to support Trump.</p> <p>And Eric Hauser, strategic adviser at the AFL-CIO, said that both parties need to face the obvious: that &#8220;there is a lot of rage in this country.&#8221;</p> <p>&#8220;People have been angry for more than a generation about their difficulty in moving ahead despite their best efforts,&#8221; he said. Noting that most policy proposals on behalf of workers are too timid, he added: &#8220;There has been too much acceptance on the part of elites, including Democrats, that a little bit of trying is good enough.&#8221;</p> <p>Hillary Clinton&#8217;s campaign is clearly aware of the fury, and she regularly declares that &#8220;creating good-paying jobs and raising incomes is the defining challenge of our times.&#8221; Her endorsement of progressive economic proposals reflects an attempt not simply to draw in Bernie Sanders&#8217; supporters, but also to speak to at least some of Trump&#8217;s sympathizers.</p> <p>If the country is lucky, Trump will continue to do an excellent job of defeating himself. His racism and sexism are leading non-white voters and women to form a durable front of opposition. But his voters should not be demeaned or ignored, and his rise should shatter the complacency of the comfortable.</p> <p>E.J. Dionne&#8217;s email address is [email protected]. Twitter: @EJDionne.</p> <p>&#169; 2016, Washington Post Writers Group &amp;#160; &amp;#160;&amp;#160;</p>
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<p>An official gauge of China's factory activity edged down in October, indicating softening business activity after hitting a more-than-five-year high in September.</p> <p>The official manufacturing purchasing managers' index fell to 51.6 in October from 52.4 in September, government data showed Tuesday.</p> <p>Continue Reading Below</p> <p>Despite the decline, the index has remained above the 50 mark that separates an expansion in activity from a contraction for 15 months.</p> <p>A reading above 50 indicates an expansion in manufacturing activity, while a reading below 50 shows a contraction.</p> <p>The October reading was a tad below the median forecast of 51.8 by economists polled earlier by The Wall Street Journal.</p> <p>The subindex measuring new orders declined to 52.9 from 54.8 in September, while the production subindex fell to 53.4 from 54.7, the statistics bureau said.</p> <p>China's official nonmanufacturing PMI, also released Tuesday, dropped to 54.3 in October from 55.4 in September.</p> <p>Advertisement</p> <p>Write to Liyan Qi at [email protected]</p> <p>(END) Dow Jones Newswires</p> <p>October 30, 2017 21:27 ET (01:27 GMT)</p>
China Factory Activity Slows in October
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China Factory Activity Slows in October <p>An official gauge of China's factory activity edged down in October, indicating softening business activity after hitting a more-than-five-year high in September.</p> <p>The official manufacturing purchasing managers' index fell to 51.6 in October from 52.4 in September, government data showed Tuesday.</p> <p>Continue Reading Below</p> <p>Despite the decline, the index has remained above the 50 mark that separates an expansion in activity from a contraction for 15 months.</p> <p>A reading above 50 indicates an expansion in manufacturing activity, while a reading below 50 shows a contraction.</p> <p>The October reading was a tad below the median forecast of 51.8 by economists polled earlier by The Wall Street Journal.</p> <p>The subindex measuring new orders declined to 52.9 from 54.8 in September, while the production subindex fell to 53.4 from 54.7, the statistics bureau said.</p> <p>China's official nonmanufacturing PMI, also released Tuesday, dropped to 54.3 in October from 55.4 in September.</p> <p>Advertisement</p> <p>Write to Liyan Qi at [email protected]</p> <p>(END) Dow Jones Newswires</p> <p>October 30, 2017 21:27 ET (01:27 GMT)</p>
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<p /> <p>Michigan passed a new bill Wednesday that will provide major new tax incentives for business that create good paying jobs in the state.</p> <p>Continue Reading Below</p> <p>The so-called &#8220;Good Jobs&#8221; program aims to encourage companies to create high-quality positions by offering incentives to businesses that create anywhere from 250 to 3,000 jobs that pay at least the average regional wage. Incentives are capped at $200 million per year.</p> <p>The bill passed the State Legislature with bipartisan support Wednesday, the only day this month state lawmakers are expected be in session.</p> <p>Gov. Rick Snyder (R-Mich.) has been pushing the Legislature to approve the "Good Jobs" program this summer, hoping it will help persuade Taiwanese electronics contractor Foxconn to build a 5,000-employee display panel factory in the state. A decision is expected by early August, but as many as six other states may be in the hunt for the factory or other Foxconn projects.</p> <p>Advocates contend that the new incentives are structured better than those Michigan used to offer and will help it compete with other states to land new, good-paying jobs. Critics argue that they amount to "crony capitalism" and come at the expense of individual taxpayers who also deserve breaks.</p> <p>The legislation passed 71-35 in the House, with 40 Republicans and 31 Democrats voting in favor and 22 Republicans &#8212; include House Speaker Tom Leonard &#8212; and 13 Democrats voting against it. The Senate, which approved the legislation in March, sent it to Snyder on 29-5 and 30-4 votes.</p> <p>Advertisement</p> <p>Businesses can qualify for the incentives in one of three ways:</p> <p>&#8212; Creating 3,000 or more jobs that pay at least the average regional wage. They can keep all of the employees' income tax withholdings for 10 years.</p> <p>&#8212; Creating at least 500 jobs that pay the average regional wage or more. They can keep half of the income taxes for five years.</p> <p>&#8212; Creating 250 or more jobs that pay at least a quarter more than the average regional wage. They can keep all of the income taxes for 10 years.</p> <p>The Michigan Strategic Fund can strike up to 15 deals a year. No more than $200 million in incentives will be awarded &#8212; a provision that backers say distinguishes the program from the Michigan Economic Growth Authority program. It was uncapped and also aided automakers and other companies that kept existing jobs in the state especially in the Great Recession.</p> <p>Retail stores, pro sports stadiums and casinos will not qualify for the new tax breaks. Legislators will have to reauthorize the program if they want it to extend beyond 2019.</p> <p>The Associated Press contributed to this report.</p>
Michigan to offer tax breaks for companies that create good paying jobs
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2017-07-12
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Michigan to offer tax breaks for companies that create good paying jobs <p /> <p>Michigan passed a new bill Wednesday that will provide major new tax incentives for business that create good paying jobs in the state.</p> <p>Continue Reading Below</p> <p>The so-called &#8220;Good Jobs&#8221; program aims to encourage companies to create high-quality positions by offering incentives to businesses that create anywhere from 250 to 3,000 jobs that pay at least the average regional wage. Incentives are capped at $200 million per year.</p> <p>The bill passed the State Legislature with bipartisan support Wednesday, the only day this month state lawmakers are expected be in session.</p> <p>Gov. Rick Snyder (R-Mich.) has been pushing the Legislature to approve the "Good Jobs" program this summer, hoping it will help persuade Taiwanese electronics contractor Foxconn to build a 5,000-employee display panel factory in the state. A decision is expected by early August, but as many as six other states may be in the hunt for the factory or other Foxconn projects.</p> <p>Advocates contend that the new incentives are structured better than those Michigan used to offer and will help it compete with other states to land new, good-paying jobs. Critics argue that they amount to "crony capitalism" and come at the expense of individual taxpayers who also deserve breaks.</p> <p>The legislation passed 71-35 in the House, with 40 Republicans and 31 Democrats voting in favor and 22 Republicans &#8212; include House Speaker Tom Leonard &#8212; and 13 Democrats voting against it. The Senate, which approved the legislation in March, sent it to Snyder on 29-5 and 30-4 votes.</p> <p>Advertisement</p> <p>Businesses can qualify for the incentives in one of three ways:</p> <p>&#8212; Creating 3,000 or more jobs that pay at least the average regional wage. They can keep all of the employees' income tax withholdings for 10 years.</p> <p>&#8212; Creating at least 500 jobs that pay the average regional wage or more. They can keep half of the income taxes for five years.</p> <p>&#8212; Creating 250 or more jobs that pay at least a quarter more than the average regional wage. They can keep all of the income taxes for 10 years.</p> <p>The Michigan Strategic Fund can strike up to 15 deals a year. No more than $200 million in incentives will be awarded &#8212; a provision that backers say distinguishes the program from the Michigan Economic Growth Authority program. It was uncapped and also aided automakers and other companies that kept existing jobs in the state especially in the Great Recession.</p> <p>Retail stores, pro sports stadiums and casinos will not qualify for the new tax breaks. Legislators will have to reauthorize the program if they want it to extend beyond 2019.</p> <p>The Associated Press contributed to this report.</p>
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<p>Several weeks ago, Texan mother&amp;#160;Candace Payne became an overnight internet sensation, after her silly video in a Chewbacca mask went viral. Garnering 155 million views and 3 million shares, Payne set the record for the most-watched Facebook video&amp;#160;ever.</p> <p>Immediately following her viral video, her internet fame transformed&amp;#160;into a nice chunk of cash, as Payne received gifts valued at $420,000. The nearly half-million dollars in gifts&amp;#160;included travel money to appear on talk shows, as well as Kohl's merchandise and a family vacation to&amp;#160;Disney World.</p> <p /> <p>But the most extravagant gift awarded to Payne so far, came from Florida's Southeastern University, which awarded the entire Payne family with full-tuition scholarships. Many liberals were outraged over the university's generous gift, immediately screaming "white privilege." One insane ope-ed piece circulated on&amp;#160;MSN titled&amp;#160;"What Chewbacca Mom's Rise to Fame Tells Us About Race in This Country," went on to bash the mother's sudden rise to fame,&amp;#160;attributing her wild success&amp;#160;to being white.</p> <p>From the article written by a disgruntled liberal:</p> <p>"It's true, free tuition is an oversized prize for such easily begotten fame. It's also true that the real rewards typically reaped for online success tend to heavily favor insta-celebrities who are white. Content derived from black users of Twitter, Vine, or Snapchat is often sidelined as part of a monolithic Black Twitter,"&amp;#160;Branstetter whined.</p> <p>The Conservative website the&amp;#160; <a href="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/kristine-marsh/2016/06/06/ridiculous-liberals-complain-chewbacca-mom-famous-because-white" type="external">Media Research Center</a>, was quick to point out the fallacies in&amp;#160;Branstetter's "white privilege" argument against Payne,&amp;#160;blasting back at with full force:</p> <p>"As explained by various media outlets including USA Today, Payne is an outspoken Christian.&amp;#160;It is a common practice for private Christian universities to give out scholarships to those who are open about their faith, as Payne has been in her online presence and in various interviews."</p> <p>"Second, one of the school's top administration faculty members founded and formerly led the same church Payne attends," MRC added. "So race has nothing to do with it, but her faith and the school's connection to her church surely does."</p> <p>Other liberals chimed in on social media, bashing Chewbacca Mom, and blasting her with ridiculous insults on Twitter.&amp;#160;Mashable initiated the onslaught, with their well-timed tweet:</p> <p /> <p /> <p>Liberals are such whiny pathetic jerks.&amp;#160;They will not be satisfied until the entire planet is miserable just like they are. What is it about these people that feel the incessant need to invent new ways to be offended?</p> <p>Screw the haters! We love you Chewbacca Mom, and we are very happy&amp;#160;for your success! It couldn't have happened to a more well-deserving woman!</p> <p>H/T [ <a href="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2016/06/07/chewbacca-mom-has-received-420k-in-free-stuff-since-her-video-hit-but-some-liberals-are-raising-a-major-complaint/" type="external">The Blaze</a>]</p> <p>&amp;#160;</p> <p>&amp;#160;</p> <p /> <p /> <p /> <p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/newsfury/" type="external">Like Us on Facebook</a></p> <p /> <p /> <p /> <p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/americafyea/" type="external">Join Our Facebook Group</a></p> <p />
Liberals VICIOUSLY Attack 'Chewbacca Mom', Cite Ridiculous Reason For Her Success
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2016-06-09
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Liberals VICIOUSLY Attack 'Chewbacca Mom', Cite Ridiculous Reason For Her Success <p>Several weeks ago, Texan mother&amp;#160;Candace Payne became an overnight internet sensation, after her silly video in a Chewbacca mask went viral. Garnering 155 million views and 3 million shares, Payne set the record for the most-watched Facebook video&amp;#160;ever.</p> <p>Immediately following her viral video, her internet fame transformed&amp;#160;into a nice chunk of cash, as Payne received gifts valued at $420,000. The nearly half-million dollars in gifts&amp;#160;included travel money to appear on talk shows, as well as Kohl's merchandise and a family vacation to&amp;#160;Disney World.</p> <p /> <p>But the most extravagant gift awarded to Payne so far, came from Florida's Southeastern University, which awarded the entire Payne family with full-tuition scholarships. Many liberals were outraged over the university's generous gift, immediately screaming "white privilege." One insane ope-ed piece circulated on&amp;#160;MSN titled&amp;#160;"What Chewbacca Mom's Rise to Fame Tells Us About Race in This Country," went on to bash the mother's sudden rise to fame,&amp;#160;attributing her wild success&amp;#160;to being white.</p> <p>From the article written by a disgruntled liberal:</p> <p>"It's true, free tuition is an oversized prize for such easily begotten fame. It's also true that the real rewards typically reaped for online success tend to heavily favor insta-celebrities who are white. Content derived from black users of Twitter, Vine, or Snapchat is often sidelined as part of a monolithic Black Twitter,"&amp;#160;Branstetter whined.</p> <p>The Conservative website the&amp;#160; <a href="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/kristine-marsh/2016/06/06/ridiculous-liberals-complain-chewbacca-mom-famous-because-white" type="external">Media Research Center</a>, was quick to point out the fallacies in&amp;#160;Branstetter's "white privilege" argument against Payne,&amp;#160;blasting back at with full force:</p> <p>"As explained by various media outlets including USA Today, Payne is an outspoken Christian.&amp;#160;It is a common practice for private Christian universities to give out scholarships to those who are open about their faith, as Payne has been in her online presence and in various interviews."</p> <p>"Second, one of the school's top administration faculty members founded and formerly led the same church Payne attends," MRC added. "So race has nothing to do with it, but her faith and the school's connection to her church surely does."</p> <p>Other liberals chimed in on social media, bashing Chewbacca Mom, and blasting her with ridiculous insults on Twitter.&amp;#160;Mashable initiated the onslaught, with their well-timed tweet:</p> <p /> <p /> <p>Liberals are such whiny pathetic jerks.&amp;#160;They will not be satisfied until the entire planet is miserable just like they are. What is it about these people that feel the incessant need to invent new ways to be offended?</p> <p>Screw the haters! We love you Chewbacca Mom, and we are very happy&amp;#160;for your success! It couldn't have happened to a more well-deserving woman!</p> <p>H/T [ <a href="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2016/06/07/chewbacca-mom-has-received-420k-in-free-stuff-since-her-video-hit-but-some-liberals-are-raising-a-major-complaint/" type="external">The Blaze</a>]</p> <p>&amp;#160;</p> <p>&amp;#160;</p> <p /> <p /> <p /> <p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/newsfury/" type="external">Like Us on Facebook</a></p> <p /> <p /> <p /> <p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/americafyea/" type="external">Join Our Facebook Group</a></p> <p />
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<p>This is Part One of a two-part series.</p> <p>March 30, 2013</p> <p>By Katy Grimes</p> <p><a href="" type="internal" /></p> <p>SACRAMENTO &#8212; The unusually speedy approval of a new NBA arena for the Kings basketball team in the heart of downtown Sacramento leaves many details and unanswered questions on the table, including how this arena project possibly will be completed and ready for opening by 2015.</p> <p>Approved by&amp;#160;the Sacramento City Council, the latest plan uses&amp;#160;overstated revenue projections, grossly overstated projected attendance numbers and city-owned parking garages to sweeten the finances. As with all of the previous schemes to keep the Sacramento Kings in town in a luxurious arena, neither city officials nor local news media have ever performed due diligence to expose the questionable business deal it will be for taxpayers.</p> <p>Local media have been cheerleading the project, with little criticism or analysis. It&#8217;s another typical government-involved project, with bad numbers, pie-in-the-sky plans, lots of hype and no accountability.</p> <p>A project of this magnitude&amp;#160;will impact downtown parking, local businesses, housing and commercial property prices, traffic congestion and even air quality. Projects a fraction of this size are required to comply with extensive state mandated regulations, including <a href="http://www.dfg.ca.gov/habcon/ceqa/intrnlproced/eir.html" type="external">Environmental Impact Reports</a> and the state&#8217;s <a href="http://ceres.ca.gov/ceqa/more/faq.html#who" type="external">California Environmental Quality Act.</a></p> <p>Many say that, given how Sacramento officials have already rammed through the term sheet approval in record time, they will also try to ram the development process through, without giving residents and businesses the standard allotted time to question the process and project. &amp;#160;And given the California Legislature&#8217;s recent history working around CEQA regulations for politically favored projects, could city officials already be working to ensure this project also is exempted from the state&#8217;s strict environmental guidelines?</p> <p>I contacted Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, D-Sacramento, to find out if he plans on sponsoring legislation for the Sacramento arena similar to <a href="http://www.californiaenvironmentallawblog.com/ceqa/california-governor-signs-ab-900-streamlining-ceqa-challenges/" type="external">AB 900</a>&amp;#160;and <a href="http://espn.go.com/los-angeles/nfl/story/_/id/7027090/governor-signs-bill-expedite-la-nfl-stadium" type="external">SB 292</a>, which were passed last year and streamlined the CEQA process for Los Angeles-area sports stadiums. AB 900 was a general bill and expires on Jan. 1, 2015. &amp;#160;But SB 292 specifically was targeted at the $1.2 billion stadium for downtown Los Angeles being sponsored by the&amp;#160;Anschutz Entertainment Group.</p> <p>&#8220;It will be up to the government to decide if the project falls under the AB 900 criteria,&#8221; said Rhys Williams, Steinberg&#8217;s spokesman.</p> <p>But in a later phone call, Williams said, &#8220;No plan was in place to fast track the stadium through CEQA, unless the project meets AB 900 criteria.&#8221; Williams also noted that Steinberg authored <a href="http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/asm/ab_0851-0900/ab_900_bill_20110927_chaptered.html" type="external">AB 900</a>.</p> <p>I also contacted Sacramento City Manager John Shirey to inquire about a CEQA exemption for the arena project. Shirey was not available, but spokeswoman Amy Williams said she hand&#8217;t heard of anything involving CEQA exemptions for the arena project, and said she would ask others working on the project for the city.&amp;#160;I did not hear back from Williams.</p> <p>Interestingly, I also contacted Anaheim city officials. Anaheim was in the running two years ago to acquire the Kings. Part of their proposal was to increase the size of the Honda Center indoor arena. Ruth Ruiz, Public Information Officer with Anaheim, forwarded the city-led&amp;#160;Environmental Impact Report&amp;#160;summary which found the Honda Center would not fall under CEQA guidelines because the&amp;#160;expansion was only intended to enhance the design and services offered at the arena, and would not increase the maximum seating capacity.</p> <p>Arena opponents are concerned that Sacramento is opening itself up to risk it cannot afford. Eye on Sacramento, a public policy watchdog group, compared Sacramento to Stockton, which filed for&amp;#160;bankruptcy protection&amp;#160;after spending tens of millions of dollars on an arena and other publicly financed facilities.</p> <p>Others are concerned about the increasing number of government projects will continue to be exempted from California&#8217;s unusually strict environmental regulations &#8212; regulations which have killed many private sector projects.</p> <p>Part Two of this two-part series will be on the stadium and jobs creation.</p>
Politicians seek special enviro deal on arena
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Politicians seek special enviro deal on arena <p>This is Part One of a two-part series.</p> <p>March 30, 2013</p> <p>By Katy Grimes</p> <p><a href="" type="internal" /></p> <p>SACRAMENTO &#8212; The unusually speedy approval of a new NBA arena for the Kings basketball team in the heart of downtown Sacramento leaves many details and unanswered questions on the table, including how this arena project possibly will be completed and ready for opening by 2015.</p> <p>Approved by&amp;#160;the Sacramento City Council, the latest plan uses&amp;#160;overstated revenue projections, grossly overstated projected attendance numbers and city-owned parking garages to sweeten the finances. As with all of the previous schemes to keep the Sacramento Kings in town in a luxurious arena, neither city officials nor local news media have ever performed due diligence to expose the questionable business deal it will be for taxpayers.</p> <p>Local media have been cheerleading the project, with little criticism or analysis. It&#8217;s another typical government-involved project, with bad numbers, pie-in-the-sky plans, lots of hype and no accountability.</p> <p>A project of this magnitude&amp;#160;will impact downtown parking, local businesses, housing and commercial property prices, traffic congestion and even air quality. Projects a fraction of this size are required to comply with extensive state mandated regulations, including <a href="http://www.dfg.ca.gov/habcon/ceqa/intrnlproced/eir.html" type="external">Environmental Impact Reports</a> and the state&#8217;s <a href="http://ceres.ca.gov/ceqa/more/faq.html#who" type="external">California Environmental Quality Act.</a></p> <p>Many say that, given how Sacramento officials have already rammed through the term sheet approval in record time, they will also try to ram the development process through, without giving residents and businesses the standard allotted time to question the process and project. &amp;#160;And given the California Legislature&#8217;s recent history working around CEQA regulations for politically favored projects, could city officials already be working to ensure this project also is exempted from the state&#8217;s strict environmental guidelines?</p> <p>I contacted Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, D-Sacramento, to find out if he plans on sponsoring legislation for the Sacramento arena similar to <a href="http://www.californiaenvironmentallawblog.com/ceqa/california-governor-signs-ab-900-streamlining-ceqa-challenges/" type="external">AB 900</a>&amp;#160;and <a href="http://espn.go.com/los-angeles/nfl/story/_/id/7027090/governor-signs-bill-expedite-la-nfl-stadium" type="external">SB 292</a>, which were passed last year and streamlined the CEQA process for Los Angeles-area sports stadiums. AB 900 was a general bill and expires on Jan. 1, 2015. &amp;#160;But SB 292 specifically was targeted at the $1.2 billion stadium for downtown Los Angeles being sponsored by the&amp;#160;Anschutz Entertainment Group.</p> <p>&#8220;It will be up to the government to decide if the project falls under the AB 900 criteria,&#8221; said Rhys Williams, Steinberg&#8217;s spokesman.</p> <p>But in a later phone call, Williams said, &#8220;No plan was in place to fast track the stadium through CEQA, unless the project meets AB 900 criteria.&#8221; Williams also noted that Steinberg authored <a href="http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/asm/ab_0851-0900/ab_900_bill_20110927_chaptered.html" type="external">AB 900</a>.</p> <p>I also contacted Sacramento City Manager John Shirey to inquire about a CEQA exemption for the arena project. Shirey was not available, but spokeswoman Amy Williams said she hand&#8217;t heard of anything involving CEQA exemptions for the arena project, and said she would ask others working on the project for the city.&amp;#160;I did not hear back from Williams.</p> <p>Interestingly, I also contacted Anaheim city officials. Anaheim was in the running two years ago to acquire the Kings. Part of their proposal was to increase the size of the Honda Center indoor arena. Ruth Ruiz, Public Information Officer with Anaheim, forwarded the city-led&amp;#160;Environmental Impact Report&amp;#160;summary which found the Honda Center would not fall under CEQA guidelines because the&amp;#160;expansion was only intended to enhance the design and services offered at the arena, and would not increase the maximum seating capacity.</p> <p>Arena opponents are concerned that Sacramento is opening itself up to risk it cannot afford. Eye on Sacramento, a public policy watchdog group, compared Sacramento to Stockton, which filed for&amp;#160;bankruptcy protection&amp;#160;after spending tens of millions of dollars on an arena and other publicly financed facilities.</p> <p>Others are concerned about the increasing number of government projects will continue to be exempted from California&#8217;s unusually strict environmental regulations &#8212; regulations which have killed many private sector projects.</p> <p>Part Two of this two-part series will be on the stadium and jobs creation.</p>
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<p>Former Mayor of Shiloh, Israel David Rubin reacts to President Trump&#8217;s speech to the United Nations and why military action is the only option against North Korea and Iran.</p> <p>Former Mayor of Shiloh, Israel David Rubin on Tuesday said the only way to deal with North Korea and Iran is by using military force.</p> <p>Continue Reading Below</p> <p>In his first address to the United Nations, President Trump warned that the U.S. would &#8220;totally destroy North Korea&#8221; if forced to defend itself or its allies.</p> <p>&#8220;The only solution here is a military solution. Sanctions are not going to stop North Korea and Iran,&#8221; Rubin told FOX Business&#8217; Stuart Varney on &#8220;Varney &amp;amp; Co.&#8221;</p> <p>The president also drew his attention to Iran saying, &#8220;The Iranian government masks a corrupt dictatorship behind the false guise of a democracy. It has turned a wealthy country with a rich history and culture into an economically rogue state whose chief exports are violence, bloodshed and chaos.&#8221;</p> <p>Rubin believes that North Korea and Iran are working hand in glove with one another on their nuclear weapons programs.</p> <p>&#8220;Iran and North Korea, they&#8217;re soul buddies and they&#8217;re working together to aid each other&#8217;s nuclear programs. The Iranians are providing the technical know how and the North Koreans are getting ready to strike,&#8221; he said.</p> <p>Advertisement</p> <p>Rubin also acknowledged the risks of using military force against North Korea and Iran.</p> <p>&#8220;I&#8217;m not saying that it is not a risky strategy. There is risk in war. I would much rather take that risk over there in South Korea and take that risk in Iran than to have that risk applied to Israeli citizens and to American citizens,&#8221; he said.</p>
US needs to use military force against North Korea, Iran: Fmr. Israeli mayor
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US needs to use military force against North Korea, Iran: Fmr. Israeli mayor <p>Former Mayor of Shiloh, Israel David Rubin reacts to President Trump&#8217;s speech to the United Nations and why military action is the only option against North Korea and Iran.</p> <p>Former Mayor of Shiloh, Israel David Rubin on Tuesday said the only way to deal with North Korea and Iran is by using military force.</p> <p>Continue Reading Below</p> <p>In his first address to the United Nations, President Trump warned that the U.S. would &#8220;totally destroy North Korea&#8221; if forced to defend itself or its allies.</p> <p>&#8220;The only solution here is a military solution. Sanctions are not going to stop North Korea and Iran,&#8221; Rubin told FOX Business&#8217; Stuart Varney on &#8220;Varney &amp;amp; Co.&#8221;</p> <p>The president also drew his attention to Iran saying, &#8220;The Iranian government masks a corrupt dictatorship behind the false guise of a democracy. It has turned a wealthy country with a rich history and culture into an economically rogue state whose chief exports are violence, bloodshed and chaos.&#8221;</p> <p>Rubin believes that North Korea and Iran are working hand in glove with one another on their nuclear weapons programs.</p> <p>&#8220;Iran and North Korea, they&#8217;re soul buddies and they&#8217;re working together to aid each other&#8217;s nuclear programs. The Iranians are providing the technical know how and the North Koreans are getting ready to strike,&#8221; he said.</p> <p>Advertisement</p> <p>Rubin also acknowledged the risks of using military force against North Korea and Iran.</p> <p>&#8220;I&#8217;m not saying that it is not a risky strategy. There is risk in war. I would much rather take that risk over there in South Korea and take that risk in Iran than to have that risk applied to Israeli citizens and to American citizens,&#8221; he said.</p>
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<p>President Francois Hollande realizes all of France is watching how he measures up against foreign leaders.</p> <p>They also want to know about his politics.</p> <p>After the 5-foot-7 Hollande's first official visit to England this week, comments from France suggested he was trapped into appearing dominated by his hosts.</p> <p>He shrank next to the bearskin-capped Coldstream Guards during a photo-op in London, a regiment that famously helped defeat Napoleon at Waterloo.</p> <p>It's not something his predecessor, Nicolas Sarkozy, would ever fall victim to, said comments from readers viewing the Agence France-Presse photos online.</p> <p>"I find it ridiculous, not because of (Hollande's) size, but because he falls easily into the traps that Sarkozy knew how to avoid," one viewer said, according to <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2171950/Francois-Hollande-mocked-French-looking-like-dwarf-posing-Coldstream-Guards-London.html" type="external">The Daily Mail</a>.</p> <p>Others suggested it was a bad suit that made Hollande look so small, or they simply laughed.</p> <p>More from GlobalPost: <a href="http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/europe/120516/angela-merkel-and-francois-hollande-europe-s-newest-odd-couple" type="external">Merkel, Hollande: Europe's newest odd couple</a></p> <p>Hollande is actually trying to conduct business in England, <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/cameron-and-hollande-find-common-ground-on-presidents-first-visit-to-uk-7932247.html?origin=internalSearch" type="external">The Independent</a>reminded its readers.</p> <p>English Prime Minister David Cameron suggested there's "much common ground" between the two nations.</p> <p>This comes after he said England could house any French business looking for lower taxes.</p> <p>"There will always be areas where we don't agree, but we have found much common ground today, not just about European policy today but also how we develop European policy for Britain and for France in the future," Cameron said, according to The Independent.</p> <p>Sarkozy, who is 5-foot-5, was caught many times by the French press wearing heels, standing on platforms, tiptoes or next to others his size in photographs, <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/sep/07/france-sarkozy-stands-accused-height" type="external">The Guardian</a> said.</p> <p>More from GlobalPost: <a href="http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/europe/france/120515/francois-hollande-sworn-french-president-france" type="external">Hollande takes oath of office</a></p>
Francois Hollande under watchful eyes in England (VIDEO)
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Francois Hollande under watchful eyes in England (VIDEO) <p>President Francois Hollande realizes all of France is watching how he measures up against foreign leaders.</p> <p>They also want to know about his politics.</p> <p>After the 5-foot-7 Hollande's first official visit to England this week, comments from France suggested he was trapped into appearing dominated by his hosts.</p> <p>He shrank next to the bearskin-capped Coldstream Guards during a photo-op in London, a regiment that famously helped defeat Napoleon at Waterloo.</p> <p>It's not something his predecessor, Nicolas Sarkozy, would ever fall victim to, said comments from readers viewing the Agence France-Presse photos online.</p> <p>"I find it ridiculous, not because of (Hollande's) size, but because he falls easily into the traps that Sarkozy knew how to avoid," one viewer said, according to <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2171950/Francois-Hollande-mocked-French-looking-like-dwarf-posing-Coldstream-Guards-London.html" type="external">The Daily Mail</a>.</p> <p>Others suggested it was a bad suit that made Hollande look so small, or they simply laughed.</p> <p>More from GlobalPost: <a href="http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/europe/120516/angela-merkel-and-francois-hollande-europe-s-newest-odd-couple" type="external">Merkel, Hollande: Europe's newest odd couple</a></p> <p>Hollande is actually trying to conduct business in England, <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/cameron-and-hollande-find-common-ground-on-presidents-first-visit-to-uk-7932247.html?origin=internalSearch" type="external">The Independent</a>reminded its readers.</p> <p>English Prime Minister David Cameron suggested there's "much common ground" between the two nations.</p> <p>This comes after he said England could house any French business looking for lower taxes.</p> <p>"There will always be areas where we don't agree, but we have found much common ground today, not just about European policy today but also how we develop European policy for Britain and for France in the future," Cameron said, according to The Independent.</p> <p>Sarkozy, who is 5-foot-5, was caught many times by the French press wearing heels, standing on platforms, tiptoes or next to others his size in photographs, <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/sep/07/france-sarkozy-stands-accused-height" type="external">The Guardian</a> said.</p> <p>More from GlobalPost: <a href="http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/europe/france/120515/francois-hollande-sworn-french-president-france" type="external">Hollande takes oath of office</a></p>
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<p /> <p>Of the tens of thousands of Lousianans who had their homes flooded this month, most do not have flood insurance. They weren&#8217;t supposed to need it, because flooding had never been a problem where they live. And now it is clear that the federal emergency <a href="https://weather.com/news/news/uninsured-flood-victims-financial-loss" type="external">help</a> they receive will be wholly inadequate.</p> <p>Louisiana&#8217;s flood victims are in a terrible predicament, and they are not alone. In the America of 2016, thousand-year catastrophes seem to be occurring on a <a href="http://motherboard.vice.com/read/how-the-world-breaks" type="external">monthly</a> schedule, while we remain stuck with pre-greenhouse home insurance. That is leaving countless families economically devastated.</p> <p>In the greenhouse era, it&#8217;s obvious which communities around the nation and world are under direst threat of climatic disaster. But with the big capitalist economies unwilling to stop their assaults on the Earth&#8217;s atmosphere and surface, it&#8217;s no longer possible to say that in the future any place or anyone will be disaster-proof. Even if, against all odds, the world starts turning the global ecological crisis around, we will all be needing robust disaster protection for decades to come.</p> <p>In our book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/" type="external">How the World Breaks</a>, we propose the United States tackle these problems with a universal public insurance program to cover not just floods but all geoclimatic disasters. (We also propose a disaster-protection strategy for the global South, but here we focus on our domestic proposal.)</p> <p>Private disaster insurance is full of sinkholes</p> <p>It&#8217;s the nation&#8217;s flood insurance program that was already receiving the most <a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/flood-insurance-program-is-vulnerable-to-fraud-says-n-y-attorney-general/" type="external">bad press</a> even before Louisiana. But any type of insurance that covers a single type of <a href="http://www.alternet.org/books/many-so-called-natural-disasters-are-actually-caused-humans-and-theyre-only-getting-worse" type="external">(un)natural</a> disaster is burdened with inherent contradictions that always threaten to scuttle the system.</p> <p>The root of the problem is that the only people who buy flood insurance, for example, are those who are likely to be flooded. (It&#8217;s as if we had special medical coverage that was only for Tommy John surgery and only for major league pitchers.) Flooding is inevitable, and the risk is spreading beyond mapped flood zones&#8212;as in Louisiana&#8212;thanks to growing climatic chaos. So payouts over time are inevitably frequent and <a href="" type="internal" />large. An insurer would have to charge exhorbitant premiums to fully cover its losses, so the government <a href="" type="internal">has to subsidize</a> premiums to make them affordable. However, making insurance too cheap creates serious blowback, encouraging greater risk-taking by developers and policyholders and making future disaster losses worse.</p> <p>The dilemmas of private disaster insurance are illustrated best by the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), which is administered by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) but carried out by more than eighty private insurance companies. The program was crippled by Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and Superstorm Sandy in 2012 and required bailouts. Now comes Louisiana.</p> <p>Recently, Frontline and NPR <a href="" type="internal">found</a> that between 2011 and 2014, the private insurance companies providing coverage under FFIP were themselves bleeding the program and its policyholders, extracting an average profit of 30 percent. The New York Attorney General recently released a <a href="https://www.ag.ny.gov/sites/default/files/murky.waters.final_.pdf" type="external">report</a> accusing the companies of fraud. Now the nameless Louisiana storm has put the flood insurance system completely underwater.</p> <p>Flood insurance isn&#8217;t the only hazard zone for customers. For example, the hottest earthquake insurance market in recent years has been the state of Oklahoma, which has been plagued by home-damaging quakes resulting from oil drillers&#8217; injection of wastewater. In 2015, insurance companies were accused of <a href="" type="internal">stiffing policyholders</a>, denying more than 90 percent of claims on the grounds that the quakes were human-made and not &#8220;acts of God&#8221; as specified in the policies. Meanwhile, the oil companies were also refusing to take responsibility, claiming that the earthquakes were &#8220;natural disasters.&#8221; Homeowners were caught in a Catch-22.</p> <p>With privately administered disaster insurance and market-based pricing of premiums having largely flopped as a means of protecting homeowners and encouraging disaster prevention, the need for universal, single-payer disaster insurance is more obvious than ever. Responding to disasters as we do now&#8212;through a cobbled-together nonsystem of private insurance, public insurance for &#8220;uninsurable&#8221; risks, reinsurance, presidential and gubernatorial disaster declarations, catastrophe bonds, and charity drives&#8212;makes recovery highly inconsistent, with lower-income areas and families often bearing the worst burdens.</p> <p>Public insurance covering geoclimatic disasters would have two big advantages: it wouldn&#8217;t have to make profits for investors, and it could spread risks across all types of disasters and an entire population. Furthermore, governments have the unique ability to make insurance universal and compel risk reduction, including the prohibition of development in high-hazard areas.</p> <p>NFIP, in contrast, faces three age-old problems: it covers a single class of hazard, its customer base is made up largely of property owners who are highly likely to suffer damages and file claims, and it has to make money for the private companies providing the insurance. A more comprehensive public insurance program should cover all types of geoclimatic hazards, and it must be universal&#8212;so that, as with universal health insurance, risks and premium burdens could be shared broadly enough across regions, demographic groups, and types of hazards. That way, coverage could be made affordable for all.</p> <p>Covering communities at low risk of disaster would not be as odd as it might seem. The New Zealand government&#8217;s Earthquake Commission, for example, provides nationwide coverage for damage from earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis, storms, floods, and fire to all of the country&#8217;s residential property insurance policyholders; the system is paid for through a surcharge on insurance premiums.</p> <p>In Spain, all holders of private property insurance policies are required by law to have coverage for &#8220;extraordinary risks,&#8221; including geoclimatic hazards; the coverage is provided by a state-run agency that&#8217;s funded by surcharges on property insurance premiums. France has a similar system.</p> <p>&#8220;Disastercare&#8221; for all</p> <p>The public, single-payer disaster insurance program that we propose should cover all U.S. homes and include universal coverage, mandatory risk reduction, subsidized premiums for low-income households, and buyouts that would allow disaster victims to move to less hazardous areas. If we had had a program with those features in place before that storm hit Lousiana, families would not be facing sudden economic ruin as they are now.</p> <p>Having provided for risk-spreading and protection against loss, the government would be in a much stronger position to announce and enforce tougher building standards and prohibit construction in high-risk areas while providing ample authority and funds for preparedness, property buyouts, and relocation. Subsidized premiums and strict payout ceilings for repair and replacement like those in NFIP would make the system more progressive. There should also be separate coverage for personal property, and a three-tier premium structure for homeowners, landlords, and renters.</p> <p>We emphasize that replacement of Obamacare with universal single-payer health insurance should remain a top priority for the U.S. left; however, national disaster insurance would be logical next step. Yes, we realize that in today&#8217;s political climate, a bill calling for either program is sure to trigger a Congressional volcano. But as the numbers of people potentially affected by disasters grows, we can expect a majority emerge in favor of universal insurance.</p> <p>We outlined this idea to several experts in disaster risk&#8212; <a href="" type="internal">Leigh Johnson</a> of the University of Zurich; <a href="" type="internal">Lisi Krall</a> of SUNY Cortland; and <a href="http://research.create.usc.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1188&amp;amp;context=published_papers" type="external">Carolyn Kousky</a> of the nonprofit Resources for the Future&#8212;and asked them for feedback. While they agreed with us that it would be necessary to deploy the stick of tougher risk-reduction policies along with the carrot of universal insurance in order to avoid subsidizing risky behavior, they had one major concern. Our plan, they worried, would be confronted with a problem that&#8217;s at the heart of all public insurance issues: the highly political process of setting premiums.</p> <p>A uniform premium paid by all would be welcomed by those who live in hazard-prone conditions, but we agreed with our experts&#8217; feelings that it would be unfair to those living in safer areas. On the other hand, charging premiums that would cover the full risks of individual properties or neighborhoods would be harsh on people who live in potential disaster zones out of necessity rather than choice. For example, a low-lying area prone to flooding may sometimes be the only place where a family can find housing that&#8217;s close enough to a workplace and also affordable; others may not be able to bear the cost of moving out of a neighborhood near an oilfield that has started producing earthquakes. As always, lower-income households would be hit especially hard.</p> <p>In any case, property-by-property or even community-by-community risk adjustment for all types of hazards is difficult or impossible (and very expensive) to achieve or maintain with any precision, and such estimates are easily distorted by political and special-interest pressures. (But in other ways, politics sometimes works. It took strong political pressure for a buyout plan to make it financially possible for groups of Staten Island residents who&#8217;d been wiped out by Superstorm Sandy to move out of their badly exposed neighborhoods. That was certainly better than forcing them to stay and pay risk-adjusted premiums.)</p> <p>We understand the political and economic difficulties involved in setting premiums, but we still believe the universal disaster insurance system we propose can be designed to work. Because the burden of premiums would be shared by all and could therefore be modest, rates could be smoothed out across the entire population. We suggest that disaster premiums be adjusted according to income and property value. Subsidies necessary for low-income households should be paid for with increased revenues from the more progressive system of taxation that we need anyway.</p> <p>Universal coverage with universally affordable premium rates and a payout ceiling would be a forthright acknowledgment of the reality that disasters and, increasingly, many of the geoclimatic hazards associated with them are produced by societies as a whole. Most Americans are contributing more than their share to geoclimatic disasters across the nation and world (with the more affluent contributing an outsized portion), not only through greenhouse emissions but also through the countless profitable alterations of the Earth&#8217;s lands and waters that are setting the stage for fresh disasters.</p> <p>There are additional reasons for universality. For example, as geoclimatic hazards become more frequent, more destructive, and/or less predictable&#8212;as ten-thousand-year events become routine&#8212;it will become harder and harder to say which communities are at high risk of future damage and which are at low risk. Furthermore, all of us, even those who live in regions that are so far relatively &#8220;safe,&#8221; have a stake in helping disaster-struck communities recover and rebuild; we do it already with our tax payments every time there&#8217;s a federal disaster declaration. The government, with taxpayer funding, is already the nation&#8217;s crucial backstop in times of catastrophe; we just need a more rational backstopping process.</p> <p>We should have this system in place (to cite just one horrifying prospect) before there is a <a href="" type="internal">full rupture of the Cascadia subduction zone</a> in the U.S. Northwest; the resulting quake and tsunami would cause total destruction west of Interstate 5, wreck the homes of a million or more people, and knock out public services and infrastructure for months or years. Given the likelihood of that event&#8212;a 10 percent chance sometime in the next fifty years&#8212;and of extreme climate catastrophes, it would be folly to continue depending on our current insurance industry and ad hoc federal assistance.</p> <p>Of course, insurance alone cannot patch over the increasingly diverse array of disasters that capitalism is spinning off, much less prevent catastrophic storms like the one that hit Louisiana. And other people around the world, from the Philippines to Pakistan to Haiti, remain badly exposed and vulnerable to geoclimatic hazards, with no safety net in sight. Solutions that work in the rich world may not provide either prevention or adequate response for the world&#8217;s impoverished majority, no matter how resilient they are. People in Tacloban City and Port-au-Prince need national and international disaster policies very different from those that might apply in Seattle or Christchurch.</p> <p>But if the United States were to follow the lead of New Zealand and other affluent countries to establish comprehensive public disaster insurance and prevention, it would represent a small first step toward protecting all Americans in a century when no one is immune to disaster.</p>
The Louisiana Catastrophe Proves the Need for Universal, Single-Payer Disaster Insurance
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The Louisiana Catastrophe Proves the Need for Universal, Single-Payer Disaster Insurance <p /> <p>Of the tens of thousands of Lousianans who had their homes flooded this month, most do not have flood insurance. They weren&#8217;t supposed to need it, because flooding had never been a problem where they live. And now it is clear that the federal emergency <a href="https://weather.com/news/news/uninsured-flood-victims-financial-loss" type="external">help</a> they receive will be wholly inadequate.</p> <p>Louisiana&#8217;s flood victims are in a terrible predicament, and they are not alone. In the America of 2016, thousand-year catastrophes seem to be occurring on a <a href="http://motherboard.vice.com/read/how-the-world-breaks" type="external">monthly</a> schedule, while we remain stuck with pre-greenhouse home insurance. That is leaving countless families economically devastated.</p> <p>In the greenhouse era, it&#8217;s obvious which communities around the nation and world are under direst threat of climatic disaster. But with the big capitalist economies unwilling to stop their assaults on the Earth&#8217;s atmosphere and surface, it&#8217;s no longer possible to say that in the future any place or anyone will be disaster-proof. Even if, against all odds, the world starts turning the global ecological crisis around, we will all be needing robust disaster protection for decades to come.</p> <p>In our book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/" type="external">How the World Breaks</a>, we propose the United States tackle these problems with a universal public insurance program to cover not just floods but all geoclimatic disasters. (We also propose a disaster-protection strategy for the global South, but here we focus on our domestic proposal.)</p> <p>Private disaster insurance is full of sinkholes</p> <p>It&#8217;s the nation&#8217;s flood insurance program that was already receiving the most <a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/flood-insurance-program-is-vulnerable-to-fraud-says-n-y-attorney-general/" type="external">bad press</a> even before Louisiana. But any type of insurance that covers a single type of <a href="http://www.alternet.org/books/many-so-called-natural-disasters-are-actually-caused-humans-and-theyre-only-getting-worse" type="external">(un)natural</a> disaster is burdened with inherent contradictions that always threaten to scuttle the system.</p> <p>The root of the problem is that the only people who buy flood insurance, for example, are those who are likely to be flooded. (It&#8217;s as if we had special medical coverage that was only for Tommy John surgery and only for major league pitchers.) Flooding is inevitable, and the risk is spreading beyond mapped flood zones&#8212;as in Louisiana&#8212;thanks to growing climatic chaos. So payouts over time are inevitably frequent and <a href="" type="internal" />large. An insurer would have to charge exhorbitant premiums to fully cover its losses, so the government <a href="" type="internal">has to subsidize</a> premiums to make them affordable. However, making insurance too cheap creates serious blowback, encouraging greater risk-taking by developers and policyholders and making future disaster losses worse.</p> <p>The dilemmas of private disaster insurance are illustrated best by the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), which is administered by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) but carried out by more than eighty private insurance companies. The program was crippled by Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and Superstorm Sandy in 2012 and required bailouts. Now comes Louisiana.</p> <p>Recently, Frontline and NPR <a href="" type="internal">found</a> that between 2011 and 2014, the private insurance companies providing coverage under FFIP were themselves bleeding the program and its policyholders, extracting an average profit of 30 percent. The New York Attorney General recently released a <a href="https://www.ag.ny.gov/sites/default/files/murky.waters.final_.pdf" type="external">report</a> accusing the companies of fraud. Now the nameless Louisiana storm has put the flood insurance system completely underwater.</p> <p>Flood insurance isn&#8217;t the only hazard zone for customers. For example, the hottest earthquake insurance market in recent years has been the state of Oklahoma, which has been plagued by home-damaging quakes resulting from oil drillers&#8217; injection of wastewater. In 2015, insurance companies were accused of <a href="" type="internal">stiffing policyholders</a>, denying more than 90 percent of claims on the grounds that the quakes were human-made and not &#8220;acts of God&#8221; as specified in the policies. Meanwhile, the oil companies were also refusing to take responsibility, claiming that the earthquakes were &#8220;natural disasters.&#8221; Homeowners were caught in a Catch-22.</p> <p>With privately administered disaster insurance and market-based pricing of premiums having largely flopped as a means of protecting homeowners and encouraging disaster prevention, the need for universal, single-payer disaster insurance is more obvious than ever. Responding to disasters as we do now&#8212;through a cobbled-together nonsystem of private insurance, public insurance for &#8220;uninsurable&#8221; risks, reinsurance, presidential and gubernatorial disaster declarations, catastrophe bonds, and charity drives&#8212;makes recovery highly inconsistent, with lower-income areas and families often bearing the worst burdens.</p> <p>Public insurance covering geoclimatic disasters would have two big advantages: it wouldn&#8217;t have to make profits for investors, and it could spread risks across all types of disasters and an entire population. Furthermore, governments have the unique ability to make insurance universal and compel risk reduction, including the prohibition of development in high-hazard areas.</p> <p>NFIP, in contrast, faces three age-old problems: it covers a single class of hazard, its customer base is made up largely of property owners who are highly likely to suffer damages and file claims, and it has to make money for the private companies providing the insurance. A more comprehensive public insurance program should cover all types of geoclimatic hazards, and it must be universal&#8212;so that, as with universal health insurance, risks and premium burdens could be shared broadly enough across regions, demographic groups, and types of hazards. That way, coverage could be made affordable for all.</p> <p>Covering communities at low risk of disaster would not be as odd as it might seem. The New Zealand government&#8217;s Earthquake Commission, for example, provides nationwide coverage for damage from earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis, storms, floods, and fire to all of the country&#8217;s residential property insurance policyholders; the system is paid for through a surcharge on insurance premiums.</p> <p>In Spain, all holders of private property insurance policies are required by law to have coverage for &#8220;extraordinary risks,&#8221; including geoclimatic hazards; the coverage is provided by a state-run agency that&#8217;s funded by surcharges on property insurance premiums. France has a similar system.</p> <p>&#8220;Disastercare&#8221; for all</p> <p>The public, single-payer disaster insurance program that we propose should cover all U.S. homes and include universal coverage, mandatory risk reduction, subsidized premiums for low-income households, and buyouts that would allow disaster victims to move to less hazardous areas. If we had had a program with those features in place before that storm hit Lousiana, families would not be facing sudden economic ruin as they are now.</p> <p>Having provided for risk-spreading and protection against loss, the government would be in a much stronger position to announce and enforce tougher building standards and prohibit construction in high-risk areas while providing ample authority and funds for preparedness, property buyouts, and relocation. Subsidized premiums and strict payout ceilings for repair and replacement like those in NFIP would make the system more progressive. There should also be separate coverage for personal property, and a three-tier premium structure for homeowners, landlords, and renters.</p> <p>We emphasize that replacement of Obamacare with universal single-payer health insurance should remain a top priority for the U.S. left; however, national disaster insurance would be logical next step. Yes, we realize that in today&#8217;s political climate, a bill calling for either program is sure to trigger a Congressional volcano. But as the numbers of people potentially affected by disasters grows, we can expect a majority emerge in favor of universal insurance.</p> <p>We outlined this idea to several experts in disaster risk&#8212; <a href="" type="internal">Leigh Johnson</a> of the University of Zurich; <a href="" type="internal">Lisi Krall</a> of SUNY Cortland; and <a href="http://research.create.usc.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1188&amp;amp;context=published_papers" type="external">Carolyn Kousky</a> of the nonprofit Resources for the Future&#8212;and asked them for feedback. While they agreed with us that it would be necessary to deploy the stick of tougher risk-reduction policies along with the carrot of universal insurance in order to avoid subsidizing risky behavior, they had one major concern. Our plan, they worried, would be confronted with a problem that&#8217;s at the heart of all public insurance issues: the highly political process of setting premiums.</p> <p>A uniform premium paid by all would be welcomed by those who live in hazard-prone conditions, but we agreed with our experts&#8217; feelings that it would be unfair to those living in safer areas. On the other hand, charging premiums that would cover the full risks of individual properties or neighborhoods would be harsh on people who live in potential disaster zones out of necessity rather than choice. For example, a low-lying area prone to flooding may sometimes be the only place where a family can find housing that&#8217;s close enough to a workplace and also affordable; others may not be able to bear the cost of moving out of a neighborhood near an oilfield that has started producing earthquakes. As always, lower-income households would be hit especially hard.</p> <p>In any case, property-by-property or even community-by-community risk adjustment for all types of hazards is difficult or impossible (and very expensive) to achieve or maintain with any precision, and such estimates are easily distorted by political and special-interest pressures. (But in other ways, politics sometimes works. It took strong political pressure for a buyout plan to make it financially possible for groups of Staten Island residents who&#8217;d been wiped out by Superstorm Sandy to move out of their badly exposed neighborhoods. That was certainly better than forcing them to stay and pay risk-adjusted premiums.)</p> <p>We understand the political and economic difficulties involved in setting premiums, but we still believe the universal disaster insurance system we propose can be designed to work. Because the burden of premiums would be shared by all and could therefore be modest, rates could be smoothed out across the entire population. We suggest that disaster premiums be adjusted according to income and property value. Subsidies necessary for low-income households should be paid for with increased revenues from the more progressive system of taxation that we need anyway.</p> <p>Universal coverage with universally affordable premium rates and a payout ceiling would be a forthright acknowledgment of the reality that disasters and, increasingly, many of the geoclimatic hazards associated with them are produced by societies as a whole. Most Americans are contributing more than their share to geoclimatic disasters across the nation and world (with the more affluent contributing an outsized portion), not only through greenhouse emissions but also through the countless profitable alterations of the Earth&#8217;s lands and waters that are setting the stage for fresh disasters.</p> <p>There are additional reasons for universality. For example, as geoclimatic hazards become more frequent, more destructive, and/or less predictable&#8212;as ten-thousand-year events become routine&#8212;it will become harder and harder to say which communities are at high risk of future damage and which are at low risk. Furthermore, all of us, even those who live in regions that are so far relatively &#8220;safe,&#8221; have a stake in helping disaster-struck communities recover and rebuild; we do it already with our tax payments every time there&#8217;s a federal disaster declaration. The government, with taxpayer funding, is already the nation&#8217;s crucial backstop in times of catastrophe; we just need a more rational backstopping process.</p> <p>We should have this system in place (to cite just one horrifying prospect) before there is a <a href="" type="internal">full rupture of the Cascadia subduction zone</a> in the U.S. Northwest; the resulting quake and tsunami would cause total destruction west of Interstate 5, wreck the homes of a million or more people, and knock out public services and infrastructure for months or years. Given the likelihood of that event&#8212;a 10 percent chance sometime in the next fifty years&#8212;and of extreme climate catastrophes, it would be folly to continue depending on our current insurance industry and ad hoc federal assistance.</p> <p>Of course, insurance alone cannot patch over the increasingly diverse array of disasters that capitalism is spinning off, much less prevent catastrophic storms like the one that hit Louisiana. And other people around the world, from the Philippines to Pakistan to Haiti, remain badly exposed and vulnerable to geoclimatic hazards, with no safety net in sight. Solutions that work in the rich world may not provide either prevention or adequate response for the world&#8217;s impoverished majority, no matter how resilient they are. People in Tacloban City and Port-au-Prince need national and international disaster policies very different from those that might apply in Seattle or Christchurch.</p> <p>But if the United States were to follow the lead of New Zealand and other affluent countries to establish comprehensive public disaster insurance and prevention, it would represent a small first step toward protecting all Americans in a century when no one is immune to disaster.</p>
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<p>Two female suicide bombers linked to Boko Haram blew themselves up this week in a displacement camp meant to serve as shelter from the Nigerian terrorist group, killing <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/us-nigeria-violence-idUSKCN0VJ265" type="external">more than 60 people</a> and wounding dozens more. A third potential bomber refused to detonate her explosives after she discovered that her family was in the camp.</p> <p>"There were three female bombers who entered the camp around 6:30 a.m. [on Tuesday] disguised as displaced persons," said Satomi Alhaji Ahmed, head of the Borno State Emergency Management Agency, <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/11/africa/nigeria-suicide-bombing-boko-haram/index.html" type="external">according to CNN</a>. "Two of them set off their explosives in the camp while the third refused after realizing her parents and siblings were in the camp."</p> <p>The refugees fled a previous attack by Boko Haram - the name meaning "Western education is forbidden" - and the woman who failed to detonate her explosives told interrogators that the terrorist group is planning more attacks via female suicide bombers in response to raids on Boko Haram strongholds by Nigerian troops.</p> <p>The terrorist group - which has been labeled <a href="" type="internal">the world's deadliest</a>, even worse than the Islamic State - <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-28657085?utoken=404225.49668.f40e46266d6bd7275e8ad19b5b96c34c" type="external">has a history</a> of using women as suicide bombers. Elizabeth Pearson, a gender and radicalization researcher in defense studies at King's College London, <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/28/boko-haram-female-suicide-bombers_n_6763386.html" type="external">told the Huffington Post last year</a> that while some women genuinely subscribe to Boko Haram's philosophy and violent means, many are coerced into becoming suicide bombers.</p> <p>"A 13-year-old girl arrested in December said she was coerced into carrying out a suicide attack by her father, who she described as a Boko Haram supporter," she said then. "Another female suicide bomber last November was reportedly accompanied by two men, suggesting there may have been an element of doubt that she would go through with it."</p>
More Boko Haram Horrors
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More Boko Haram Horrors <p>Two female suicide bombers linked to Boko Haram blew themselves up this week in a displacement camp meant to serve as shelter from the Nigerian terrorist group, killing <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/us-nigeria-violence-idUSKCN0VJ265" type="external">more than 60 people</a> and wounding dozens more. A third potential bomber refused to detonate her explosives after she discovered that her family was in the camp.</p> <p>"There were three female bombers who entered the camp around 6:30 a.m. [on Tuesday] disguised as displaced persons," said Satomi Alhaji Ahmed, head of the Borno State Emergency Management Agency, <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/11/africa/nigeria-suicide-bombing-boko-haram/index.html" type="external">according to CNN</a>. "Two of them set off their explosives in the camp while the third refused after realizing her parents and siblings were in the camp."</p> <p>The refugees fled a previous attack by Boko Haram - the name meaning "Western education is forbidden" - and the woman who failed to detonate her explosives told interrogators that the terrorist group is planning more attacks via female suicide bombers in response to raids on Boko Haram strongholds by Nigerian troops.</p> <p>The terrorist group - which has been labeled <a href="" type="internal">the world's deadliest</a>, even worse than the Islamic State - <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-28657085?utoken=404225.49668.f40e46266d6bd7275e8ad19b5b96c34c" type="external">has a history</a> of using women as suicide bombers. Elizabeth Pearson, a gender and radicalization researcher in defense studies at King's College London, <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/28/boko-haram-female-suicide-bombers_n_6763386.html" type="external">told the Huffington Post last year</a> that while some women genuinely subscribe to Boko Haram's philosophy and violent means, many are coerced into becoming suicide bombers.</p> <p>"A 13-year-old girl arrested in December said she was coerced into carrying out a suicide attack by her father, who she described as a Boko Haram supporter," she said then. "Another female suicide bomber last November was reportedly accompanied by two men, suggesting there may have been an element of doubt that she would go through with it."</p>
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<p /> <p>When shopping for your next dividend stock, don't just focus on how much each stock is paying now. Sure, big dividend payments are nice, but more important than that is the dividend's (and the stock's) potential to grow over time. With that in mind, two dividend stocks that could help you create a growing stream of income are EPR Properties (NYSE: EPR) and Public Storage (NYSE: PSA).</p> <p>Continue Reading Below</p> <p>Image source: Getty Images.</p> <p>EPR Properties is a REIT with a rather unique mix of properties. About half of the portfolio consists of entertainment properties, such as megaplex theaters and entertainment-based retail centers. The rest is made up of recreational properties, such as metropolitan ski parks, and education properties, like public charter schools.</p> <p>The REIT owns just shy of 300 properties, and has a relatively low debt level, with its $2.2 billion in debt making up just 27% of its total capitalization.</p> <p>Advertisement</p> <p>Perhaps my favorite thing about EPR Properties -- other than its 5.2% dividend yield -- is that the company takes a relatively high-risk form of property and uses its lease structure and other property types to hedge against that risk.</p> <p>It shouldn't come as a surprise that properties like megaplex cinemas, indoor golf complexes, and water parks tend to suffer during recessions. However, EPR leases its properties to tenants on long-term (10-year-plus) triple-net leases, generally with rent increases built in over time. This means that not only do the tenants continue paying the leases during good times and bad, but they are also responsible for the variable costs of property ownership, such as property taxes, insurance, and maintenance. On average, just 3.5% of EPR's leases expire per year, which minimizes vacancy and turnover risk.</p> <p>Additionally, the education property portfolio serves as a nice hedge against tough times, as people need education regardless of what the economy is doing. Public charter schools remain a huge growth opportunity. Since 2000, the number of public charter schools in the U.S. has grown by 11% annually and the number of students enrolled in charter schools has grown at an even faster 15% rate. This has created big waiting lists, which currently have more than 1 million students on them.</p> <p>The stats on charter schools point to a big growth opportunity for EPR. Image source: EPR Properties.</p> <p>In short, the education portion of the portfolio should grow nicely, even if the economy goes bad, which should help lessen the effects of a recession on the overall portfolio and keep those dividends growing.</p> <p>If you live anywhere near a major metropolitan area, there's a good chance that you're familiar with Public Storage's big orange storage facilities. What you may not know is that Public Storage is one of the biggest REITs in the world, and has a low-debt, low-overhead business model that dividend investors should love.</p> <p>Public Storage owns about 2,600 properties with a total of nearly 190 million square feet of space. It is the largest player in the U.S. self-storage market by a large margin, and is the most recognizable brand in the industry -- especially in its metropolitan markets.</p> <p>To be perfectly clear, there are some downsides to the self-storage business. In particular, since most self-storage units are rented on a month-to-month basis, it's fairly easy for tenants to leave if they need to cut expenses (say, during a recession). The self-storage business has experienced five consecutive years of growth, and the main reason is because the economy is doing well.</p> <p>However, while vacancies may spike during a recession, long-term investors need not worry. Public Storage has previously said that it could break even with occupancy of just 30% of its units, and the company currently operates at more than 95% occupancy. Plus, with an extremely low corporate debt load, Public Storage doesn't need to worry too much about its interest expense. The company's dividend made up less than 80% of its funds from opreations for the last quarter, so the company could absorb a pretty big earnings hit before it would be forced to slash its payout.</p> <p>Over the past decade, Public Storage has increased its dividend at an annualized rate of 13% per share, including an 11% hike in 2016. What's more, the company has produced annualized total returns of about 17% during that time. While there's no guarantee this performance will continue, I see no reason to believe Public Storage won't produce market-beating performance for another decade and beyond.</p> <p>As a final thought, it's important to mention that I don't consider either of these to be low-risk investments over short periods of time. For instance, I wouldn't put money that I'm going to need in a year into these.</p> <p>Both have considerable risk factors. I already mentioned that since Public Storage's tenants are on short-term leases, there is more potential for high vacancy rates if the economy goes sour. Additionally, some risks have nothing to do with the businesses -- for example, if interest rates spike, it generally translates into lower share prices for REITs. In fact, that's the primary reason both stocks declined in the latter half of 2016 while the market was reaching record highs.</p> <p><a href="http://ycharts.com/companies/EPR" type="external">EPR</a> data by <a href="http://ycharts.com" type="external">YCharts Opens a New Window.</a>.</p> <p>The bottom line is that both companies have great business models and do a great job of mitigating long-term risk, so invest with that in mind. It's entirely possible these stocks will decline over the next week, month, or year, but if you hold on for the long haul, these could both deliver impressive returns.</p> <p>10 stocks we like better than Public Storage When investing geniuses David and Tom Gardner have a stock tip, it can pay to listen. After all, the newsletter they have run for over a decade, Motley Fool Stock Advisor, has tripled the market.*</p> <p>David and Tom just revealed what they believe are the <a href="http://infotron.fool.com/infotrack/click?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.fool.com%2Fmms%2Fmark%2Fe-foolcom-sa-bbn-dyn%3Faid%3D8867%26source%3Disaeditxt0010449%26ftm_cam%3Dsa-bbn-evergreen%26ftm_pit%3D6312%26ftm_veh%3Dbbn_article_pitch&amp;amp;impression=fc95f4e0-26f2-4f59-ad86-9fd1164e3d9c&amp;amp;utm_campaign=article&amp;amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;amp;utm_source=foxbusiness" type="external">10 best stocks Opens a New Window.</a> for investors to buy right now... and Public Storage wasn't one of them! That's right -- they think these 10 stocks are even better buys.</p> <p><a href="http://infotron.fool.com/infotrack/click?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.fool.com%2Fmms%2Fmark%2Fe-foolcom-sa-bbn-dyn%3Faid%3D8867%26source%3Disaeditxt0010449%26ftm_cam%3Dsa-bbn-evergreen%26ftm_pit%3D6312%26ftm_veh%3Dbbn_article_pitch&amp;amp;impression=fc95f4e0-26f2-4f59-ad86-9fd1164e3d9c&amp;amp;utm_campaign=article&amp;amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;amp;utm_source=foxbusiness" type="external">Click here Opens a New Window.</a> to learn about these picks!</p> <p>*Stock Advisor returns as of January 4, 2017</p> <p><a href="http://my.fool.com/profile/KWMatt82/info.aspx" type="external">Matthew Frankel Opens a New Window.</a> owns shares of Public Storage. The Motley Fool has no position in any of the stocks mentioned. The Motley Fool has a <a href="http://www.fool.com/Legal/fool-disclosure-policy.aspx?&amp;amp;utm_campaign=article&amp;amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;amp;utm_source=foxbusiness" type="external">disclosure policy Opens a New Window.</a>.</p>
If You Like Dividends, You Should Love These 2 Stocks
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If You Like Dividends, You Should Love These 2 Stocks <p /> <p>When shopping for your next dividend stock, don't just focus on how much each stock is paying now. Sure, big dividend payments are nice, but more important than that is the dividend's (and the stock's) potential to grow over time. With that in mind, two dividend stocks that could help you create a growing stream of income are EPR Properties (NYSE: EPR) and Public Storage (NYSE: PSA).</p> <p>Continue Reading Below</p> <p>Image source: Getty Images.</p> <p>EPR Properties is a REIT with a rather unique mix of properties. About half of the portfolio consists of entertainment properties, such as megaplex theaters and entertainment-based retail centers. The rest is made up of recreational properties, such as metropolitan ski parks, and education properties, like public charter schools.</p> <p>The REIT owns just shy of 300 properties, and has a relatively low debt level, with its $2.2 billion in debt making up just 27% of its total capitalization.</p> <p>Advertisement</p> <p>Perhaps my favorite thing about EPR Properties -- other than its 5.2% dividend yield -- is that the company takes a relatively high-risk form of property and uses its lease structure and other property types to hedge against that risk.</p> <p>It shouldn't come as a surprise that properties like megaplex cinemas, indoor golf complexes, and water parks tend to suffer during recessions. However, EPR leases its properties to tenants on long-term (10-year-plus) triple-net leases, generally with rent increases built in over time. This means that not only do the tenants continue paying the leases during good times and bad, but they are also responsible for the variable costs of property ownership, such as property taxes, insurance, and maintenance. On average, just 3.5% of EPR's leases expire per year, which minimizes vacancy and turnover risk.</p> <p>Additionally, the education property portfolio serves as a nice hedge against tough times, as people need education regardless of what the economy is doing. Public charter schools remain a huge growth opportunity. Since 2000, the number of public charter schools in the U.S. has grown by 11% annually and the number of students enrolled in charter schools has grown at an even faster 15% rate. This has created big waiting lists, which currently have more than 1 million students on them.</p> <p>The stats on charter schools point to a big growth opportunity for EPR. Image source: EPR Properties.</p> <p>In short, the education portion of the portfolio should grow nicely, even if the economy goes bad, which should help lessen the effects of a recession on the overall portfolio and keep those dividends growing.</p> <p>If you live anywhere near a major metropolitan area, there's a good chance that you're familiar with Public Storage's big orange storage facilities. What you may not know is that Public Storage is one of the biggest REITs in the world, and has a low-debt, low-overhead business model that dividend investors should love.</p> <p>Public Storage owns about 2,600 properties with a total of nearly 190 million square feet of space. It is the largest player in the U.S. self-storage market by a large margin, and is the most recognizable brand in the industry -- especially in its metropolitan markets.</p> <p>To be perfectly clear, there are some downsides to the self-storage business. In particular, since most self-storage units are rented on a month-to-month basis, it's fairly easy for tenants to leave if they need to cut expenses (say, during a recession). The self-storage business has experienced five consecutive years of growth, and the main reason is because the economy is doing well.</p> <p>However, while vacancies may spike during a recession, long-term investors need not worry. Public Storage has previously said that it could break even with occupancy of just 30% of its units, and the company currently operates at more than 95% occupancy. Plus, with an extremely low corporate debt load, Public Storage doesn't need to worry too much about its interest expense. The company's dividend made up less than 80% of its funds from opreations for the last quarter, so the company could absorb a pretty big earnings hit before it would be forced to slash its payout.</p> <p>Over the past decade, Public Storage has increased its dividend at an annualized rate of 13% per share, including an 11% hike in 2016. What's more, the company has produced annualized total returns of about 17% during that time. While there's no guarantee this performance will continue, I see no reason to believe Public Storage won't produce market-beating performance for another decade and beyond.</p> <p>As a final thought, it's important to mention that I don't consider either of these to be low-risk investments over short periods of time. For instance, I wouldn't put money that I'm going to need in a year into these.</p> <p>Both have considerable risk factors. I already mentioned that since Public Storage's tenants are on short-term leases, there is more potential for high vacancy rates if the economy goes sour. Additionally, some risks have nothing to do with the businesses -- for example, if interest rates spike, it generally translates into lower share prices for REITs. In fact, that's the primary reason both stocks declined in the latter half of 2016 while the market was reaching record highs.</p> <p><a href="http://ycharts.com/companies/EPR" type="external">EPR</a> data by <a href="http://ycharts.com" type="external">YCharts Opens a New Window.</a>.</p> <p>The bottom line is that both companies have great business models and do a great job of mitigating long-term risk, so invest with that in mind. It's entirely possible these stocks will decline over the next week, month, or year, but if you hold on for the long haul, these could both deliver impressive returns.</p> <p>10 stocks we like better than Public Storage When investing geniuses David and Tom Gardner have a stock tip, it can pay to listen. After all, the newsletter they have run for over a decade, Motley Fool Stock Advisor, has tripled the market.*</p> <p>David and Tom just revealed what they believe are the <a href="http://infotron.fool.com/infotrack/click?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.fool.com%2Fmms%2Fmark%2Fe-foolcom-sa-bbn-dyn%3Faid%3D8867%26source%3Disaeditxt0010449%26ftm_cam%3Dsa-bbn-evergreen%26ftm_pit%3D6312%26ftm_veh%3Dbbn_article_pitch&amp;amp;impression=fc95f4e0-26f2-4f59-ad86-9fd1164e3d9c&amp;amp;utm_campaign=article&amp;amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;amp;utm_source=foxbusiness" type="external">10 best stocks Opens a New Window.</a> for investors to buy right now... and Public Storage wasn't one of them! 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<p>For the past half-century, and particularly since the 1983 &#8220;Nation at Risk&#8221; report, Americans have been heaving great sacks of money at schools. Federal spending alone has tripled since the&amp;#160;1970s. The&amp;#160;New York Times&amp;#160;calculates that the federal government now spends $107.6 billion on education yearly, which is layered over an estimated $524.7 billion spent by states and localities. (Source: National Center for Education Statistics.)</p> <p>Reformers have urged &#8212; depending upon where they stand ideologically &#8212; smaller class sizes, more accountability, merit pay for teachers, and educational choice. Each year seems to bring a new fad: child-centered learning; new math; cooperative learning; and so forth. The No Child Left Behind reform focused on testing. There have been proposals to repeal teacher tenure and to provide every child with a laptop. And always there are fights over curriculum &#8212; the Common Core being the controversy du jour.</p> <p>But perhaps the most promising thinking about education arises from the discovery of economist Erik Hanushek that the most important factor in student performance is the quality of the teacher. Not class size. Not spending per pupil. Not even curriculum.</p> <p>Our system produces some great teachers, but only by luck. Each year, 400,000 new teachers enter American classrooms, many knowing little about the nuts and bolts of teaching. As Elizabeth Green argues in her new book,&amp;#160; <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/redirect/amazon.p?j=0393081591" type="external">Building a Better Teacher: How Teaching Works (and How to Teach&amp;#160;It to Everyone)</a>, our education schools do not teach the mechanics of teaching &#8212; how to control a classroom, how to engage students&#8217; imaginations, how to check for understanding. They&#8217;ve been sidetracked by educational psychology and fads at the expense of teaching how to teach.</p> <p>Green cites &#8220;education entrepreneurs&#8221; including Doug Lemov, author of&amp;#160; <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/article/386629/nationalreview.com/redirect/amazon.p" type="external">Teach Like a Champion</a>, and Deborah Loewenberg Ball, now dean of the University of Michigan&#8217;s school of education, who focus on helping ordinary teachers become great.</p> <p>Lemov, an education reformer and consultant, was struck by something he found when he pored over statistics from the state of New York. While the correlation between zip codes and educational success was notable, there were always outliers &#8212; schools or classrooms in which even kids from impoverished backgrounds were doing well. Lemov zeroed in on those schools and those particular teachers.</p> <p>The result is indicated in the subtitle of his book: &#8220;49 Techniques That Put Students on the Path to College.&#8221; Some of the techniques are inspired, others are quotidian but still important (like how not to waste time pleading for responses). The point is that teaching is a performance every day, which is not easy. Teachers must spark the interest and keep the attention of their students (who bring all kinds of troubles from home), encourage the weak ones along with the strong, maintain discipline, and build a sense of team spirit. Lemov doesn&#8217;t believe that anyone can be a great teacher, but he does think that with coaching and mentoring, good teachers can become great.</p> <p>Some of Lemov&#8217;s proven techniques will not surprise educational traditionalists. He believes in drilling, though he calls it &#8220;muscle memory.&#8221; A great teacher will drill arithmetic skills, for example, until they are second nature, so that students needn&#8217;t stumble over the easy stuff when they get to algebra and geometry. (Education schools had disdained this as &#8220;drill and kill.&#8221;) Another technique Lemov suggests is &#8220;cold calls&#8221; &#8212; that is, having the teacher choose students randomly rather than just those who raise their hands. Each child, knowing he might be called upon, must be ready. (It works in law schools.) A companion technique is &#8220;no opt out.&#8221; If the child says he doesn&#8217;t know, the teacher asks a related question to another student to narrow down the possible right answer and returns to the first child for a second chance.</p> <p>There are broad suggestions about classroom management and more subtle and difficult challenges such as maintaining &#8220;emotional constancy,&#8221; which is refraining from showing anger when a child gives the wrong answer. Anger will teach a child to try to hide his ignorance rather than accept it as a normal part of the learning enterprise.</p> <p>Teaching is a craft. It may be among the hardest to master. Renewed attention to teaching teaching seems long overdue.</p> <p>&#8212;&amp;#160;Mona Charen is a nationally syndicated columnist and a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center. &#169; 2014&amp;#160; <a href="http://creators.com/" type="external">Creators Syndicate</a>, Inc.</p>
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Build Better Teachers <p>For the past half-century, and particularly since the 1983 &#8220;Nation at Risk&#8221; report, Americans have been heaving great sacks of money at schools. Federal spending alone has tripled since the&amp;#160;1970s. The&amp;#160;New York Times&amp;#160;calculates that the federal government now spends $107.6 billion on education yearly, which is layered over an estimated $524.7 billion spent by states and localities. (Source: National Center for Education Statistics.)</p> <p>Reformers have urged &#8212; depending upon where they stand ideologically &#8212; smaller class sizes, more accountability, merit pay for teachers, and educational choice. Each year seems to bring a new fad: child-centered learning; new math; cooperative learning; and so forth. The No Child Left Behind reform focused on testing. There have been proposals to repeal teacher tenure and to provide every child with a laptop. And always there are fights over curriculum &#8212; the Common Core being the controversy du jour.</p> <p>But perhaps the most promising thinking about education arises from the discovery of economist Erik Hanushek that the most important factor in student performance is the quality of the teacher. Not class size. Not spending per pupil. Not even curriculum.</p> <p>Our system produces some great teachers, but only by luck. Each year, 400,000 new teachers enter American classrooms, many knowing little about the nuts and bolts of teaching. As Elizabeth Green argues in her new book,&amp;#160; <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/redirect/amazon.p?j=0393081591" type="external">Building a Better Teacher: How Teaching Works (and How to Teach&amp;#160;It to Everyone)</a>, our education schools do not teach the mechanics of teaching &#8212; how to control a classroom, how to engage students&#8217; imaginations, how to check for understanding. They&#8217;ve been sidetracked by educational psychology and fads at the expense of teaching how to teach.</p> <p>Green cites &#8220;education entrepreneurs&#8221; including Doug Lemov, author of&amp;#160; <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/article/386629/nationalreview.com/redirect/amazon.p" type="external">Teach Like a Champion</a>, and Deborah Loewenberg Ball, now dean of the University of Michigan&#8217;s school of education, who focus on helping ordinary teachers become great.</p> <p>Lemov, an education reformer and consultant, was struck by something he found when he pored over statistics from the state of New York. While the correlation between zip codes and educational success was notable, there were always outliers &#8212; schools or classrooms in which even kids from impoverished backgrounds were doing well. Lemov zeroed in on those schools and those particular teachers.</p> <p>The result is indicated in the subtitle of his book: &#8220;49 Techniques That Put Students on the Path to College.&#8221; Some of the techniques are inspired, others are quotidian but still important (like how not to waste time pleading for responses). The point is that teaching is a performance every day, which is not easy. Teachers must spark the interest and keep the attention of their students (who bring all kinds of troubles from home), encourage the weak ones along with the strong, maintain discipline, and build a sense of team spirit. Lemov doesn&#8217;t believe that anyone can be a great teacher, but he does think that with coaching and mentoring, good teachers can become great.</p> <p>Some of Lemov&#8217;s proven techniques will not surprise educational traditionalists. He believes in drilling, though he calls it &#8220;muscle memory.&#8221; A great teacher will drill arithmetic skills, for example, until they are second nature, so that students needn&#8217;t stumble over the easy stuff when they get to algebra and geometry. (Education schools had disdained this as &#8220;drill and kill.&#8221;) Another technique Lemov suggests is &#8220;cold calls&#8221; &#8212; that is, having the teacher choose students randomly rather than just those who raise their hands. Each child, knowing he might be called upon, must be ready. (It works in law schools.) A companion technique is &#8220;no opt out.&#8221; If the child says he doesn&#8217;t know, the teacher asks a related question to another student to narrow down the possible right answer and returns to the first child for a second chance.</p> <p>There are broad suggestions about classroom management and more subtle and difficult challenges such as maintaining &#8220;emotional constancy,&#8221; which is refraining from showing anger when a child gives the wrong answer. Anger will teach a child to try to hide his ignorance rather than accept it as a normal part of the learning enterprise.</p> <p>Teaching is a craft. It may be among the hardest to master. Renewed attention to teaching teaching seems long overdue.</p> <p>&#8212;&amp;#160;Mona Charen is a nationally syndicated columnist and a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center. &#169; 2014&amp;#160; <a href="http://creators.com/" type="external">Creators Syndicate</a>, Inc.</p>
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<p>At the ripe old age of 25, the Hubble Space Telescope is arguably the best-known science instrument in the world &#8212; but that's only partly due to the scientific wonders it has revealed.</p> <p>To appreciate the full significance of the $2 billion orbiting observatory's place in science and culture, you have to factor in the human drama behind Hubble's ups and downs, said Mario Livio, an astrophysicist at the Baltimore-based Space Telescope Science Institute.</p> <p>"What has been very unique to Hubble is that it has really taken the excitement of discovery, which normally only the scientists involved enjoy, and has made the general public part of that," Livio told NBC News.</p> <p>The idea of sending a large, general-purpose telescope into orbit dates back to the 1940s, when namesake astronomer <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Hubble" type="external">Edwin Hubble</a> was still working out the implications of his discovery that the universe was expanding. Scientists and engineers built the instrument over the course of a decade &#8212; but Hubble's "birth" is marked on the calendar as April 24, 1990, when the 43.5-foot-long (13.2-meter-long) telescope was launched into space aboard the shuttle Discovery.</p> <p>After Hubble was deployed, astronomers assumed the drama was over. But the first fuzzy pictures to come down revealed that <a href="" type="internal">something had gone horribly wrong</a>. Eventually, the Hubble team figured out that the curve of the telescope's main mirror was off by about a millimeter &#8212; enough to ruin the focus.</p> <p>"We went from being the heroes of the science world to just wanting to hide," said John Troeltzsch, a project manager at Ball Aerospace who was part of the Hubble crisis team and is now working on the <a href="http://sentinelmission.org/interviews/meet-the-team-john-troeltzsch/" type="external">Sentinel space telescope</a>.</p> <p>The story of how scientists, engineers and astronauts redeemed themselves and rescued the telescope &#8212; by installing corrective lenses during a series of five high-tension spacewalks in 1993 &#8212; is being recounted repeatedly this week for the 25th anniversary of Hubble's launch:</p> <p>The drama has continued since the '90s for most of Hubble's life. Four more space shuttle missions were devoted to upgrading Hubble's instruments, including a <a href="" type="internal">final overhaul</a> in 2009 that <a href="" type="internal">almost didn't happen</a>.</p> <p>"The whole story of Hubble being renewed is really critical to its success," said Patrick McCarthy, who was part of the science team for the telescope's Wide Field Camera 3 and is now director of the <a href="http://www.gmto.org/" type="external">Giant Magellan Telescope Organization</a>.</p> <p><a href="" type="internal">Audio: Spacewalker Story Musgrave on Hubble's Meaning</a></p> <p>Hubble's orbital odometer has now passed the 3.4 billion-mile (5.5 billion-kilometer) mark, and from its 350-mile-high (560-kilometer-high) orbit, it has sent back more than a million observations that tally up to more than 100 trillion bytes of data.</p> <p>The discoveries are notable for their quality as well as their quantity:</p> <p>Exotic discoveries aren't the only reasons for Hubble's popularity. It was built to provide pictures across a wide range of wavelengths, from ultraviolet to near-infrared, but the sweet spot is in the visible part of the spectrum. "Hubble provides the images that match your eyeballs," said Mark LaPole, director of advanced imaging at Ball Aerospace.</p> <p>The result? Looking at Hubble's pictures make you feel as if you're on the final frontier yourself &#8212; even though the colors on that frontier might sometimes be <a href="" type="internal">artificially enhanced</a>.</p> <p><a href="" type="internal">Gallery: Classic Hits From Hubble</a></p> <p>So what's next for Hubble? Six years ago, the final servicing mission left the space telescope in its best condition ever. "The telescope has been performing extremely well," said Ken Sembach, the head of the Hubble mission at the Space Telescope Science Institute. For now, the discoveries will continue.</p> <p>The next big project on the horizon is the $8.8 billion <a href="" type="internal">James Webb Space Telescope</a>, which is on track for launch in late 2018 after a series of cost overruns and schedule slips. JWST, which is named after <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_E._Webb" type="external">NASA's second administrator</a>, is bigger and more powerful &#8212; with a foldable 21-foot (6.5-meter) mirror that dwarfs Hubble's 8-foot (2.4-meter) primary mirror.</p> <p>But the Webb telescope is not designed to be serviced in space. Instead, it will be on its own, a million miles from Earth at a <a href="http://jwst.nasa.gov/orbit.html" type="external">vantage point known as Earth-Sun L2</a>. It's also optimized to see infrared wavelengths rather than visible light.</p> <p>NASA wants Hubble to last until at least 2020, so that there's some overlap with JWST's observations of far-off galaxies and exoplanets. A new generation of ground-based telescopes, including the Giant Magellan Telescope, also will complement those observations. There's talk about even farther-out space telescopes to come, including a <a href="" type="internal">Wide-Field Infrared Survey Telescope</a>, or WFIRST, and a <a href="http://www.space.com/29114-hubble-space-telescope-successor-alien-life.html" type="external">12-meter space telescope</a> capable of analyzing exoplanetary atmospheres.</p> <p>"If we learned a lesson from Hubble, it's that we shouldn't be afraid to think big," Livio said.</p> <p>During that last servicing mission, Hubble was outfitted with a docking adapter that would make it easier for a robotic tug to pull the telescope down to its destruction in a controlled atmospheric re-entry &#8212; perhaps sometime in the 2030s. But LaPole hopes that Hubble will last long enough to allow for yet another service call, perhaps by astronauts riding <a href="" type="internal">new breeds</a> of <a href="" type="internal">spaceships</a>.</p> <p>"All of us folks who work on it would love to see that happen," LaPole told NBC News. "It's our child, and we want to see it continue."</p> <p><a href="" type="internal">Flash Interactive: How Hubble Works</a></p>
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Hubble Space Telescope Turns 25, With Discoveries and Drama Galore <p>At the ripe old age of 25, the Hubble Space Telescope is arguably the best-known science instrument in the world &#8212; but that's only partly due to the scientific wonders it has revealed.</p> <p>To appreciate the full significance of the $2 billion orbiting observatory's place in science and culture, you have to factor in the human drama behind Hubble's ups and downs, said Mario Livio, an astrophysicist at the Baltimore-based Space Telescope Science Institute.</p> <p>"What has been very unique to Hubble is that it has really taken the excitement of discovery, which normally only the scientists involved enjoy, and has made the general public part of that," Livio told NBC News.</p> <p>The idea of sending a large, general-purpose telescope into orbit dates back to the 1940s, when namesake astronomer <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Hubble" type="external">Edwin Hubble</a> was still working out the implications of his discovery that the universe was expanding. Scientists and engineers built the instrument over the course of a decade &#8212; but Hubble's "birth" is marked on the calendar as April 24, 1990, when the 43.5-foot-long (13.2-meter-long) telescope was launched into space aboard the shuttle Discovery.</p> <p>After Hubble was deployed, astronomers assumed the drama was over. But the first fuzzy pictures to come down revealed that <a href="" type="internal">something had gone horribly wrong</a>. Eventually, the Hubble team figured out that the curve of the telescope's main mirror was off by about a millimeter &#8212; enough to ruin the focus.</p> <p>"We went from being the heroes of the science world to just wanting to hide," said John Troeltzsch, a project manager at Ball Aerospace who was part of the Hubble crisis team and is now working on the <a href="http://sentinelmission.org/interviews/meet-the-team-john-troeltzsch/" type="external">Sentinel space telescope</a>.</p> <p>The story of how scientists, engineers and astronauts redeemed themselves and rescued the telescope &#8212; by installing corrective lenses during a series of five high-tension spacewalks in 1993 &#8212; is being recounted repeatedly this week for the 25th anniversary of Hubble's launch:</p> <p>The drama has continued since the '90s for most of Hubble's life. Four more space shuttle missions were devoted to upgrading Hubble's instruments, including a <a href="" type="internal">final overhaul</a> in 2009 that <a href="" type="internal">almost didn't happen</a>.</p> <p>"The whole story of Hubble being renewed is really critical to its success," said Patrick McCarthy, who was part of the science team for the telescope's Wide Field Camera 3 and is now director of the <a href="http://www.gmto.org/" type="external">Giant Magellan Telescope Organization</a>.</p> <p><a href="" type="internal">Audio: Spacewalker Story Musgrave on Hubble's Meaning</a></p> <p>Hubble's orbital odometer has now passed the 3.4 billion-mile (5.5 billion-kilometer) mark, and from its 350-mile-high (560-kilometer-high) orbit, it has sent back more than a million observations that tally up to more than 100 trillion bytes of data.</p> <p>The discoveries are notable for their quality as well as their quantity:</p> <p>Exotic discoveries aren't the only reasons for Hubble's popularity. It was built to provide pictures across a wide range of wavelengths, from ultraviolet to near-infrared, but the sweet spot is in the visible part of the spectrum. "Hubble provides the images that match your eyeballs," said Mark LaPole, director of advanced imaging at Ball Aerospace.</p> <p>The result? Looking at Hubble's pictures make you feel as if you're on the final frontier yourself &#8212; even though the colors on that frontier might sometimes be <a href="" type="internal">artificially enhanced</a>.</p> <p><a href="" type="internal">Gallery: Classic Hits From Hubble</a></p> <p>So what's next for Hubble? Six years ago, the final servicing mission left the space telescope in its best condition ever. "The telescope has been performing extremely well," said Ken Sembach, the head of the Hubble mission at the Space Telescope Science Institute. For now, the discoveries will continue.</p> <p>The next big project on the horizon is the $8.8 billion <a href="" type="internal">James Webb Space Telescope</a>, which is on track for launch in late 2018 after a series of cost overruns and schedule slips. JWST, which is named after <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_E._Webb" type="external">NASA's second administrator</a>, is bigger and more powerful &#8212; with a foldable 21-foot (6.5-meter) mirror that dwarfs Hubble's 8-foot (2.4-meter) primary mirror.</p> <p>But the Webb telescope is not designed to be serviced in space. Instead, it will be on its own, a million miles from Earth at a <a href="http://jwst.nasa.gov/orbit.html" type="external">vantage point known as Earth-Sun L2</a>. It's also optimized to see infrared wavelengths rather than visible light.</p> <p>NASA wants Hubble to last until at least 2020, so that there's some overlap with JWST's observations of far-off galaxies and exoplanets. A new generation of ground-based telescopes, including the Giant Magellan Telescope, also will complement those observations. There's talk about even farther-out space telescopes to come, including a <a href="" type="internal">Wide-Field Infrared Survey Telescope</a>, or WFIRST, and a <a href="http://www.space.com/29114-hubble-space-telescope-successor-alien-life.html" type="external">12-meter space telescope</a> capable of analyzing exoplanetary atmospheres.</p> <p>"If we learned a lesson from Hubble, it's that we shouldn't be afraid to think big," Livio said.</p> <p>During that last servicing mission, Hubble was outfitted with a docking adapter that would make it easier for a robotic tug to pull the telescope down to its destruction in a controlled atmospheric re-entry &#8212; perhaps sometime in the 2030s. But LaPole hopes that Hubble will last long enough to allow for yet another service call, perhaps by astronauts riding <a href="" type="internal">new breeds</a> of <a href="" type="internal">spaceships</a>.</p> <p>"All of us folks who work on it would love to see that happen," LaPole told NBC News. "It's our child, and we want to see it continue."</p> <p><a href="" type="internal">Flash Interactive: How Hubble Works</a></p>
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<p>.......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... ..........</p> <p /> <p>The decision comes as the judiciary prepares to move into the $63 million-plus building in April. The parking garage is underground.</p> <p>&#8220;Many things have changed with this project over the years and we have to make the best decision now based on what actually exists at this point in time. We need to do this right,&#8221; Commission Kathy Holian said.</p> <p>&#8220;Priority number one is safety and security,&#8221; she said.</p> <p>ADVERTISEMENT</p> <p>Chief District Judge Raymond Ortiz said he and his fellow judges are &#8220;opposed in the strongest terms&#8221; to eliminating public parking at the courthouse.</p> <p>Ortiz pointed out that public parking was promised to voters during a campaign in 2006 for $25 million in county bonds backed by property taxes to partly finance construction of the courthouse.</p> <p>&#8220;The idea of not having public parking associated with the courthouse&#8230; is something the judges are very, very concerned about,&#8221; Ortiz said.</p> <p>Plans have long called for about 40 of the 159 spaces in the underground parking structure at the site on Montezuma Street to be available to the public. Between 600 and 800 people visit the Santa Fe courthouse on an average day.</p> <p>In 2008, as construction was gearing up, county officials said that because of terrorism concerns, the new building was designed so that parking wouldn&#8217;t lie directly under the courthouse. Officials cited that as a reason why the project was about two-thirds of a city block and necessitated the demolition of several buildings.</p> <p>Project facilities and open space division director Mark Hogan said Tuesday that county officials &#8220;didn&#8217;t just look at this in terms of bomb threats&#8221; and large-scale catastrophes. More ordinary public safety issues were also considered, such as how someone in a &#8220;contentious frame of mind&#8221; might behave in an underground parking garage versus leaving the building through the front door.</p> <p>On Tuesday, Commissioner Liz Stefanics said the initial price estimate of the courthouse has ballooned as time went on. The county spent millions to remediate gasoline contamination found at the site after construction began.</p> <p>&#8220;Now that we&#8217;ve overcome those problems we have to decide a matter that could either play to the sympathy of the public or the public safety and I am going to err on the side of public safety,&#8221; Stefanics said.</p> <p>ADVERTISEMENT</p> <p>Commissioner Miguel Chavez said hinging a decision on a campaign promise was &#8220;a little unfair.&#8221;</p> <p>&#8220;I am not going to base my decision on that one campaign&#8230; I feel I have a larger responsibility and I need to look at the facts as they are presented and current information,&#8221; Chavez said.</p> <p>However, Commissioner Robert Anaya said discussion of the new courthouse has always involved having public parking. &#8220;People going to do court business is the definition of public parking,&#8221; he said.</p> <p>Anaya also questioned why the discussion was taking place at this point in the courthouse timeline.</p> <p>&#8220;This problem was considered after the tragedy of Oklahoma, after 9-11. So the bottom line is we didn&#8217;t do what we should have in relation to security,&#8221; Anaya said.</p> <p>Holian, Stefanics and Chavez approved the plan to eliminate public parking at the courthouse. Anaya voted against it. Commissioner Danny Mayfield abstained from voting.</p> <p>Santa Fe County Sheriff Robert Garcia and District Attorney Angela Pacheco argued that eliminating public parking will make the courthouse more secure.</p> <p>Sheriff concerned</p> <p>&#8220;Parking lots are very dangerous and I am concerned for my deputies and for my staff and the court&#8217;s staff,&#8221; Pacheco said.</p> <p>Garcia said he doesn&#8217;t have enough deputies to provide security for the main courthouse &#8220;without (also) thinking about parking.&#8221; He added that in discussions with the U.S. marshals and looking at other courthouses, he found the norm was to have ample space between the courthouse and public parking.</p> <p>&#8220;I have major concerns with public parking underground a courthouse we now provide security for. If something happens, I will be answering for it,&#8221; Garcia said.</p> <p>Ortiz said judges are equally worried about safety, but those concerns can be addressed by having an automatic door at the entrance to the parking structure, to restrict entry by potential wrongdoers. Anaya said putting sheriff&#8217;s deputies in place could also do the job.</p> <p>County manager Katherine Miller presented the commission with three options: no public parking, public parking for a fee and free public parking.</p> <p>Under the plan approved by the commission, a card-activated gate will be built at the top of the ramp to the garage. No extra staffing would be required and the county would save some money by not having to lease outside parking spaces for staff and others, according to a spreadsheet presented by Miller.</p> <p>Allowing public parking would require more infrastructure and the posting of sheriff&#8217;s deputies and parking attendants. Charging the public for parking would generate an estimated $144,000 a year.</p> <p>At Albuquerque&#8217;s district courthouse, judges and the county director park underground while courthouse staff parks in a pay lot across the street and visitors must find their own parking, according to Miller&#8217;s spreadsheet. In other more rural areas, like Farmington and Gallup, parking is free in nearby lots.</p> <p>Holian has asked county staff to investigate the possibility of securing real estate near the courthouse for public parking.</p> <p>Miller&#8217;s spreadsheet lists three nearby public parking lots: the city&#8217;s Railyard parking garage, five blocks away from the new courthouse; the city&#8217;s Sandoval lot, four blocks away; and the state garage near the Roundhouse, four blocks away.</p>
‘No Parking’ at new courthouse, unless you work there
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2013-02-13
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‘No Parking’ at new courthouse, unless you work there <p>.......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... ..........</p> <p /> <p>The decision comes as the judiciary prepares to move into the $63 million-plus building in April. The parking garage is underground.</p> <p>&#8220;Many things have changed with this project over the years and we have to make the best decision now based on what actually exists at this point in time. We need to do this right,&#8221; Commission Kathy Holian said.</p> <p>&#8220;Priority number one is safety and security,&#8221; she said.</p> <p>ADVERTISEMENT</p> <p>Chief District Judge Raymond Ortiz said he and his fellow judges are &#8220;opposed in the strongest terms&#8221; to eliminating public parking at the courthouse.</p> <p>Ortiz pointed out that public parking was promised to voters during a campaign in 2006 for $25 million in county bonds backed by property taxes to partly finance construction of the courthouse.</p> <p>&#8220;The idea of not having public parking associated with the courthouse&#8230; is something the judges are very, very concerned about,&#8221; Ortiz said.</p> <p>Plans have long called for about 40 of the 159 spaces in the underground parking structure at the site on Montezuma Street to be available to the public. Between 600 and 800 people visit the Santa Fe courthouse on an average day.</p> <p>In 2008, as construction was gearing up, county officials said that because of terrorism concerns, the new building was designed so that parking wouldn&#8217;t lie directly under the courthouse. Officials cited that as a reason why the project was about two-thirds of a city block and necessitated the demolition of several buildings.</p> <p>Project facilities and open space division director Mark Hogan said Tuesday that county officials &#8220;didn&#8217;t just look at this in terms of bomb threats&#8221; and large-scale catastrophes. More ordinary public safety issues were also considered, such as how someone in a &#8220;contentious frame of mind&#8221; might behave in an underground parking garage versus leaving the building through the front door.</p> <p>On Tuesday, Commissioner Liz Stefanics said the initial price estimate of the courthouse has ballooned as time went on. The county spent millions to remediate gasoline contamination found at the site after construction began.</p> <p>&#8220;Now that we&#8217;ve overcome those problems we have to decide a matter that could either play to the sympathy of the public or the public safety and I am going to err on the side of public safety,&#8221; Stefanics said.</p> <p>ADVERTISEMENT</p> <p>Commissioner Miguel Chavez said hinging a decision on a campaign promise was &#8220;a little unfair.&#8221;</p> <p>&#8220;I am not going to base my decision on that one campaign&#8230; I feel I have a larger responsibility and I need to look at the facts as they are presented and current information,&#8221; Chavez said.</p> <p>However, Commissioner Robert Anaya said discussion of the new courthouse has always involved having public parking. &#8220;People going to do court business is the definition of public parking,&#8221; he said.</p> <p>Anaya also questioned why the discussion was taking place at this point in the courthouse timeline.</p> <p>&#8220;This problem was considered after the tragedy of Oklahoma, after 9-11. So the bottom line is we didn&#8217;t do what we should have in relation to security,&#8221; Anaya said.</p> <p>Holian, Stefanics and Chavez approved the plan to eliminate public parking at the courthouse. Anaya voted against it. Commissioner Danny Mayfield abstained from voting.</p> <p>Santa Fe County Sheriff Robert Garcia and District Attorney Angela Pacheco argued that eliminating public parking will make the courthouse more secure.</p> <p>Sheriff concerned</p> <p>&#8220;Parking lots are very dangerous and I am concerned for my deputies and for my staff and the court&#8217;s staff,&#8221; Pacheco said.</p> <p>Garcia said he doesn&#8217;t have enough deputies to provide security for the main courthouse &#8220;without (also) thinking about parking.&#8221; He added that in discussions with the U.S. marshals and looking at other courthouses, he found the norm was to have ample space between the courthouse and public parking.</p> <p>&#8220;I have major concerns with public parking underground a courthouse we now provide security for. If something happens, I will be answering for it,&#8221; Garcia said.</p> <p>Ortiz said judges are equally worried about safety, but those concerns can be addressed by having an automatic door at the entrance to the parking structure, to restrict entry by potential wrongdoers. Anaya said putting sheriff&#8217;s deputies in place could also do the job.</p> <p>County manager Katherine Miller presented the commission with three options: no public parking, public parking for a fee and free public parking.</p> <p>Under the plan approved by the commission, a card-activated gate will be built at the top of the ramp to the garage. No extra staffing would be required and the county would save some money by not having to lease outside parking spaces for staff and others, according to a spreadsheet presented by Miller.</p> <p>Allowing public parking would require more infrastructure and the posting of sheriff&#8217;s deputies and parking attendants. Charging the public for parking would generate an estimated $144,000 a year.</p> <p>At Albuquerque&#8217;s district courthouse, judges and the county director park underground while courthouse staff parks in a pay lot across the street and visitors must find their own parking, according to Miller&#8217;s spreadsheet. In other more rural areas, like Farmington and Gallup, parking is free in nearby lots.</p> <p>Holian has asked county staff to investigate the possibility of securing real estate near the courthouse for public parking.</p> <p>Miller&#8217;s spreadsheet lists three nearby public parking lots: the city&#8217;s Railyard parking garage, five blocks away from the new courthouse; the city&#8217;s Sandoval lot, four blocks away; and the state garage near the Roundhouse, four blocks away.</p>
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<p /> <p>I got a little choked up finally watching the&amp;#160;pilot of Treme last night.</p> <p>It wasn&#8217;t when the&amp;#160;Mardi Gras Indian chief&amp;#160;walks into his flood-destroyed house for the first time and his shoulders fall like my best friend collapsed in sobs on the sidewalk after she&#8217;d broken down the swollen wooden door to her apartment in late 2005.&amp;#160;It wasn&#8217;t when the restaurant owner tries to take a shower in the morning but can&#8217;t get&amp;#160;water pressure, just like I had to turn&amp;#160;my faucet on half an hour before&amp;#160;I could splash around in just a few inches&amp;#160;of water in my cast iron tub, even in the spring of 2006.&amp;#160;It was actually when the fiery professor played by John Goodman says he won&#8217;t eat lemon ice until Brocato&#8217;s opens. It&#8217;s apparently a very emotional subject for me, gelato. <a href="http://angelobrocatoicecream.com/" type="external">Angelo Brocato&#8217;s</a> was right by where I lived, and if you ever had this gelato, you might almost cry too.</p> <p>The reason I was catching up on Treme, besides its general awesomeness, is that I&#8217;m on my way to New Orleans on assignment today. I don&#8217;t know that there is an emoticon or number of exclamation points that would adequately express my excitement about posting from the Crescent City. I&#8217;ll be talking with exploited&amp;#160;strippers, heroic and besieged public defenders, the guy who plays the bicycle-rickshaw driver in upcoming episodes of Treme. I&#8217;ll <a href="" type="internal">revisit</a> the restoration situation of the key public university, my alma mater, the University of New Orleans (hint: it&#8217;s not good). Don&#8217;t be surprised by a drunken, guiltily post about what a pussy I feel like for frantically moving, in the summer of 2006, right before the first post-Katrina hurricane season started. All while possibly puking up <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/20100429/ts_ynews/ynews_ts1872" type="external">gas fumes</a>!&amp;#160;How thrilling! Fingers crossed for a trip to an oyster reef covered in BP&#8217;s leaking crude. A friend of mine suggested some weekend kayaking, to which I responded that if he could locate some oil-befouled sensitive marsh or wetland area in Plaquemines Parish, that&#8217;d be perfect.</p> <p>&#8220;We can&#8217;t just go to a [clean] swamp and have&amp;#160;a nice time?&#8221; he asked.</p> <p>Nope.</p> <p>So I&#8217;ve packed for most of the rest of May. When I was getting things together, my friend the kayak enthusiast warned me that the sky was completely black, with super dense and dark cloud cover but not a drop of rain.&amp;#160;&#8220;It&#8217;s like the end of the world here,&#8221; he said.</p> <p>&#8220;It&#8217;s okay,&#8221; I&amp;#160;said. It&#8217;s a completely empty, throwaway phrase, and I wasn&#8217;t speaking to the encompassing, capital It, but still he paused, standing there in a house on a street that&#8217;s still mostly deserted, surrounded again by a flurry of national and international headlines in a city where attention so often fails to lead to necessary action, then said, &#8220;Well. It&#8217;s not okay.&#8221;</p> <p>Okay, it isn&#8217;t. Still. I can&#8217;t wait to touch down at Louis Armstrong New Orleans International tonight and get to work. I&#8217;ll try to keep the ice-cream weeping to a minimum. Maybe.</p> <p>&amp;#160;</p> <p />
Take Me Back to New Orleans
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Take Me Back to New Orleans <p /> <p>I got a little choked up finally watching the&amp;#160;pilot of Treme last night.</p> <p>It wasn&#8217;t when the&amp;#160;Mardi Gras Indian chief&amp;#160;walks into his flood-destroyed house for the first time and his shoulders fall like my best friend collapsed in sobs on the sidewalk after she&#8217;d broken down the swollen wooden door to her apartment in late 2005.&amp;#160;It wasn&#8217;t when the restaurant owner tries to take a shower in the morning but can&#8217;t get&amp;#160;water pressure, just like I had to turn&amp;#160;my faucet on half an hour before&amp;#160;I could splash around in just a few inches&amp;#160;of water in my cast iron tub, even in the spring of 2006.&amp;#160;It was actually when the fiery professor played by John Goodman says he won&#8217;t eat lemon ice until Brocato&#8217;s opens. It&#8217;s apparently a very emotional subject for me, gelato. <a href="http://angelobrocatoicecream.com/" type="external">Angelo Brocato&#8217;s</a> was right by where I lived, and if you ever had this gelato, you might almost cry too.</p> <p>The reason I was catching up on Treme, besides its general awesomeness, is that I&#8217;m on my way to New Orleans on assignment today. I don&#8217;t know that there is an emoticon or number of exclamation points that would adequately express my excitement about posting from the Crescent City. I&#8217;ll be talking with exploited&amp;#160;strippers, heroic and besieged public defenders, the guy who plays the bicycle-rickshaw driver in upcoming episodes of Treme. I&#8217;ll <a href="" type="internal">revisit</a> the restoration situation of the key public university, my alma mater, the University of New Orleans (hint: it&#8217;s not good). Don&#8217;t be surprised by a drunken, guiltily post about what a pussy I feel like for frantically moving, in the summer of 2006, right before the first post-Katrina hurricane season started. All while possibly puking up <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/20100429/ts_ynews/ynews_ts1872" type="external">gas fumes</a>!&amp;#160;How thrilling! Fingers crossed for a trip to an oyster reef covered in BP&#8217;s leaking crude. A friend of mine suggested some weekend kayaking, to which I responded that if he could locate some oil-befouled sensitive marsh or wetland area in Plaquemines Parish, that&#8217;d be perfect.</p> <p>&#8220;We can&#8217;t just go to a [clean] swamp and have&amp;#160;a nice time?&#8221; he asked.</p> <p>Nope.</p> <p>So I&#8217;ve packed for most of the rest of May. When I was getting things together, my friend the kayak enthusiast warned me that the sky was completely black, with super dense and dark cloud cover but not a drop of rain.&amp;#160;&#8220;It&#8217;s like the end of the world here,&#8221; he said.</p> <p>&#8220;It&#8217;s okay,&#8221; I&amp;#160;said. It&#8217;s a completely empty, throwaway phrase, and I wasn&#8217;t speaking to the encompassing, capital It, but still he paused, standing there in a house on a street that&#8217;s still mostly deserted, surrounded again by a flurry of national and international headlines in a city where attention so often fails to lead to necessary action, then said, &#8220;Well. It&#8217;s not okay.&#8221;</p> <p>Okay, it isn&#8217;t. Still. I can&#8217;t wait to touch down at Louis Armstrong New Orleans International tonight and get to work. I&#8217;ll try to keep the ice-cream weeping to a minimum. Maybe.</p> <p>&amp;#160;</p> <p />
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<p /> <p /> <p /> <p>It's unfortunate that the establishment in collaboration with the Mainstream media tried their very best to get the Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton to get elected. However, the American citizens had awakened to the fact that the oligarchist and the so-called elites have nothing in mind for the U.S. citizens, instead they are just in for their selfish interest. As a result the many citizens who have all their full faculties in place voted for the anti-establishment candidate who is now the President-elect Donald Trump. Following Trump's victory, the establishment in collaboration with the biased media are trying their best to delegitimize the incoming President Trump's administration. However, they're doomed to fail.</p> <p>Most Americans have lost trust in the MMS after the realization that the likes of CNN, CBS, ABC, and the Washington Post are infected, polluted and biased. The consequence of spreading fake news are just fatal. This malicious schemes from the MMS have led to loss of lives. The Washington Post and the New York Times played a major role in the apparent WMD fiasco in the Iraq War, this destabilized the Middle East and as a result Obama withdrew troops instead of leaving some residual forces in places. This led to the rise of ISIS since a power vacuum was created.</p> <p>The establishment particularly Obama's administration in collaboration with the Mainstream Media have blood in their hands after they led to the death of nearly 6,000 people in November as the ongoing invasions in Iraq continue.</p> <p>The recent propaganda on Russian intervention in the presidential election begs the question on why the Hillary Clinton lost the election despite giving away 20% of U.S. uranium to Russia? The Kremlin should have preferred Hillary and hence intervened in the election.</p> <p>The recent deceptive tactics that have been deployed by the Fake stream media clearly show that the outlets think they are entitled to divine monopoly on facts and hence they can have flung accusations. However, several critical thinking patriots have questioned the MMS, such include Mike Adams who points out to the recent trend that has been used by the Mainstream Media to spread the controversial Obama care, this begs the question on whether any American citizen should trust the laughable fake stories that these outlets are broadcasting.</p> <p>There are countless examples of how terrible the MMS has been in spreading fake stories, perhaps the fake news that Donald Trump couldn't win the presidential election is a good example of how these outlets are used by the Oligarchist to further their political agendas.</p>
Thousands Of People Killed In The Middle East By Fake News From The Washington Post And NYT
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http://thegoldwater.com/news/852-Thousands-Of-People-Killed-In-The-Middle-East-By-Fake-News-From-The-Washington-Post-And-NYT
2016-12-25
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Thousands Of People Killed In The Middle East By Fake News From The Washington Post And NYT <p /> <p /> <p /> <p>It's unfortunate that the establishment in collaboration with the Mainstream media tried their very best to get the Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton to get elected. However, the American citizens had awakened to the fact that the oligarchist and the so-called elites have nothing in mind for the U.S. citizens, instead they are just in for their selfish interest. As a result the many citizens who have all their full faculties in place voted for the anti-establishment candidate who is now the President-elect Donald Trump. Following Trump's victory, the establishment in collaboration with the biased media are trying their best to delegitimize the incoming President Trump's administration. However, they're doomed to fail.</p> <p>Most Americans have lost trust in the MMS after the realization that the likes of CNN, CBS, ABC, and the Washington Post are infected, polluted and biased. The consequence of spreading fake news are just fatal. This malicious schemes from the MMS have led to loss of lives. The Washington Post and the New York Times played a major role in the apparent WMD fiasco in the Iraq War, this destabilized the Middle East and as a result Obama withdrew troops instead of leaving some residual forces in places. This led to the rise of ISIS since a power vacuum was created.</p> <p>The establishment particularly Obama's administration in collaboration with the Mainstream Media have blood in their hands after they led to the death of nearly 6,000 people in November as the ongoing invasions in Iraq continue.</p> <p>The recent propaganda on Russian intervention in the presidential election begs the question on why the Hillary Clinton lost the election despite giving away 20% of U.S. uranium to Russia? The Kremlin should have preferred Hillary and hence intervened in the election.</p> <p>The recent deceptive tactics that have been deployed by the Fake stream media clearly show that the outlets think they are entitled to divine monopoly on facts and hence they can have flung accusations. However, several critical thinking patriots have questioned the MMS, such include Mike Adams who points out to the recent trend that has been used by the Mainstream Media to spread the controversial Obama care, this begs the question on whether any American citizen should trust the laughable fake stories that these outlets are broadcasting.</p> <p>There are countless examples of how terrible the MMS has been in spreading fake stories, perhaps the fake news that Donald Trump couldn't win the presidential election is a good example of how these outlets are used by the Oligarchist to further their political agendas.</p>
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<p>.......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... ..........</p> <p /> <p>&#8220;CBS Evening News&#8221; anchor Scott Pelley, his eyes red, announced the death in a special report.</p> <p>&#8220;We have some sad news from within our CBS News family,&#8221; Pelley said. &#8220;Our colleague Bob Simon was killed this evening.&#8221;</p> <p>&#8220;Vietnam is where he first began covering warfare, and he gave his firsthand reporting from virtually every major battlefield around the world since,&#8221; Pelley said.</p> <p>ADVERTISEMENT</p> <p>A town car in which Simon was a passenger hit another car stopped at a Manhattan traffic light and then slammed into metal barriers separating traffic lanes, police said. Simon and the town car&#8217;s driver were taken to a hospital, where Simon was pronounced dead.</p> <p>The town car driver suffered injuries to his legs and arms. The driver of the other car was uninjured. No arrests were made, said police, who continued to investigate the deadly accident.</p> <p>Simon was among a handful of elite journalists to cover most major overseas conflicts and news stories since the late 1960s, CBS said. He covered stories including the Vietnam War and the Oscar-nominated movie &#8220;Selma&#8221; in a career spanning five decades.</p> <p>He had been contributing to &#8220;60 Minutes&#8221; on a regular basis since 1996. He also was a correspondent for &#8220;60 Minutes II.&#8221;</p> <p>He was preparing a report on the Ebola virus and the search for a cure for this Sunday&#8217;s &#8220;60 Minutes&#8221; broadcast. He had been working on the project with his daughter, Tanya Simon, a producer with whom he collaborated on several stories.</p> <p>&#8220;60 Minutes&#8221; correspondent Bob Simon speaks with a news producer at the CBS Broadcast Center in New York in March 2010. (John Paul Filo/CBS/The Associated Press)</p> <p>Anderson Cooper, who does occasional stories for &#8220;60 Minutes,&#8221; was near tears talking about Simon&#8217;s death. He said that when Simon presented a story &#8220;you knew it was going to be something special.&#8221;</p> <p>&#8220;I dreamed of being, and still hope to be, a quarter of the writer that Bob Simon is and has been,&#8221; the CNN anchor said. &#8220;&#8230; Bob Simon was a legend, in my opinion.&#8221;</p> <p>Simon joined CBS News in 1967 as a reporter and assignment editor, covering campus unrest and inner-city riots, CBS said. He also worked in CBS&#8217; Tel Aviv bureau from 1977 to 1981 and in Washington, D.C., as its Department of State correspondent.</p> <p>ADVERTISEMENT</p> <p>Simon&#8217;s career in war reporting began in Vietnam, and he was on one of the last helicopters out of Saigon when the U.S. withdrew in 1975. At the outset of the Gulf War in January 1991, Simon was captured by Iraqi forces near the Saudi-Kuwaiti border. CBS said he and three other members of CBS News&#8217; coverage team spent 40 days in Iraqi prisons, an experience Simon wrote about in his book &#8220;Forty Days.&#8221; Simon returned to Baghdad in January 1993 to cover the American bombing of Iraq.</p> <p>Simon won numerous awards, including his fourth Peabody and an Emmy for his story from Central Africa on the world&#8217;s only all-black symphony in 2012. Another story about an orchestra in Paraguay, one whose poor members constructed their instruments from trash, won him his 27th Emmy, perhaps the most held by a journalist for field reporting, CBS said.</p> <p>He also captured electronic journalism&#8217;s highest honor, the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award, for &#8220;Shame of Srebrenica,&#8221; a &#8220;60 Minutes II&#8221; report on genocide during the Bosnian War.</p> <p>Former CBS News executive Paul Friedman, who teaches broadcast writing at Quinnipiac University, said Simon was &#8220;one of the finest reporters and writers in the business.&#8221;</p> <p>&#8220;He, better than most, knew how to make pictures and words work together to tell a story, which is television news at its best,&#8221; Friedman said.</p> <p>Simon was born May 29, 1941, in the Bronx. He graduated from Brandeis University in 1962 with a degree in history. He is survived by his wife, his daughter and his grandson.</p>
CBS ’60 Minutes’ correspondent Bob Simon dies in car crash
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CBS ’60 Minutes’ correspondent Bob Simon dies in car crash <p>.......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... ..........</p> <p /> <p>&#8220;CBS Evening News&#8221; anchor Scott Pelley, his eyes red, announced the death in a special report.</p> <p>&#8220;We have some sad news from within our CBS News family,&#8221; Pelley said. &#8220;Our colleague Bob Simon was killed this evening.&#8221;</p> <p>&#8220;Vietnam is where he first began covering warfare, and he gave his firsthand reporting from virtually every major battlefield around the world since,&#8221; Pelley said.</p> <p>ADVERTISEMENT</p> <p>A town car in which Simon was a passenger hit another car stopped at a Manhattan traffic light and then slammed into metal barriers separating traffic lanes, police said. Simon and the town car&#8217;s driver were taken to a hospital, where Simon was pronounced dead.</p> <p>The town car driver suffered injuries to his legs and arms. The driver of the other car was uninjured. No arrests were made, said police, who continued to investigate the deadly accident.</p> <p>Simon was among a handful of elite journalists to cover most major overseas conflicts and news stories since the late 1960s, CBS said. He covered stories including the Vietnam War and the Oscar-nominated movie &#8220;Selma&#8221; in a career spanning five decades.</p> <p>He had been contributing to &#8220;60 Minutes&#8221; on a regular basis since 1996. He also was a correspondent for &#8220;60 Minutes II.&#8221;</p> <p>He was preparing a report on the Ebola virus and the search for a cure for this Sunday&#8217;s &#8220;60 Minutes&#8221; broadcast. He had been working on the project with his daughter, Tanya Simon, a producer with whom he collaborated on several stories.</p> <p>&#8220;60 Minutes&#8221; correspondent Bob Simon speaks with a news producer at the CBS Broadcast Center in New York in March 2010. (John Paul Filo/CBS/The Associated Press)</p> <p>Anderson Cooper, who does occasional stories for &#8220;60 Minutes,&#8221; was near tears talking about Simon&#8217;s death. He said that when Simon presented a story &#8220;you knew it was going to be something special.&#8221;</p> <p>&#8220;I dreamed of being, and still hope to be, a quarter of the writer that Bob Simon is and has been,&#8221; the CNN anchor said. &#8220;&#8230; Bob Simon was a legend, in my opinion.&#8221;</p> <p>Simon joined CBS News in 1967 as a reporter and assignment editor, covering campus unrest and inner-city riots, CBS said. He also worked in CBS&#8217; Tel Aviv bureau from 1977 to 1981 and in Washington, D.C., as its Department of State correspondent.</p> <p>ADVERTISEMENT</p> <p>Simon&#8217;s career in war reporting began in Vietnam, and he was on one of the last helicopters out of Saigon when the U.S. withdrew in 1975. At the outset of the Gulf War in January 1991, Simon was captured by Iraqi forces near the Saudi-Kuwaiti border. CBS said he and three other members of CBS News&#8217; coverage team spent 40 days in Iraqi prisons, an experience Simon wrote about in his book &#8220;Forty Days.&#8221; Simon returned to Baghdad in January 1993 to cover the American bombing of Iraq.</p> <p>Simon won numerous awards, including his fourth Peabody and an Emmy for his story from Central Africa on the world&#8217;s only all-black symphony in 2012. Another story about an orchestra in Paraguay, one whose poor members constructed their instruments from trash, won him his 27th Emmy, perhaps the most held by a journalist for field reporting, CBS said.</p> <p>He also captured electronic journalism&#8217;s highest honor, the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award, for &#8220;Shame of Srebrenica,&#8221; a &#8220;60 Minutes II&#8221; report on genocide during the Bosnian War.</p> <p>Former CBS News executive Paul Friedman, who teaches broadcast writing at Quinnipiac University, said Simon was &#8220;one of the finest reporters and writers in the business.&#8221;</p> <p>&#8220;He, better than most, knew how to make pictures and words work together to tell a story, which is television news at its best,&#8221; Friedman said.</p> <p>Simon was born May 29, 1941, in the Bronx. He graduated from Brandeis University in 1962 with a degree in history. He is survived by his wife, his daughter and his grandson.</p>
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Homebuilders continue rally after tax cuts
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2017-12-04
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<p>Anthem's first-quarter earnings soared past Wall Street forecasts, and the health insurer raised its 2017 forecast after jumping deeper into government-funded business and cutting costs.</p> <p>The nation's second-largest insurer said Tuesday that operating revenue, which excludes investment gains, climbed 10 percent to $22.32 billion due in part to price hikes and growth in Medicaid and Medicare plans as well as other enrollment gains.</p> <p>Continue Reading Below</p> <p>The Blue Cross-Blue Shield insurer operates employer-sponsored and individual plans in big markets like New York and California and sells coverage on several public exchanges created by the Affordable Care Act.</p> <p>It also has been pushing deeper into the state- and federally funded Medicaid program that covers people with low incomes. Medicaid enrollment climbed more than 8 percent in the first quarter to about 6.6 million people, but some of that gain was tempered by higher medical costs, especially in Iowa.</p> <p>The insurer countered rising expenses by trimming selling, general and administrative costs. It also saw a 17-percent drop in income tax expense due to a health insurance tax moratorium, and it booked higher investment income.</p> <p>Anthem also had lower expenses from its attempt to acquire rival health insurer Cigna Corp. A federal judge blocked that $48-billion deal earlier this year, and the two companies are now fighting in court over the agreement.</p> <p>Overall, the insurer earned $1 billion in the quarter. Earnings, adjusted for non-recurring costs and amortization costs, came to $4.68 per share.</p> <p>Advertisement</p> <p>Analysts expected, on average, earnings of $3.85 per share on $21.27 billion in revenue.</p> <p>Anthem now expects full-year earnings to top $11.60 per share.</p> <p>That edges the average analyst forecast of $11.58 per share, according to FactSet.</p> <p>Anthem shares climbed to $173.28 on Tuesday, 31 cents away from the all-time high the stock reached nearly two years ago. Anthem shares have risen 20 percent since the beginning of the year. The stock has climbed 18 percent in the last 12 months.</p> <p>_____</p> <p>Elements of this story were generated by Automated Insights using data from Zacks Investment Research. Access a Zacks stock report on ANTM at https://www.zacks.com/ap/ANTM</p> <p>_____</p> <p>Keywords: Anthem, Earnings Report</p>
Enrollment gains help Anthem trump 1Q Street forecasts
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2017-04-26
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Enrollment gains help Anthem trump 1Q Street forecasts <p>Anthem's first-quarter earnings soared past Wall Street forecasts, and the health insurer raised its 2017 forecast after jumping deeper into government-funded business and cutting costs.</p> <p>The nation's second-largest insurer said Tuesday that operating revenue, which excludes investment gains, climbed 10 percent to $22.32 billion due in part to price hikes and growth in Medicaid and Medicare plans as well as other enrollment gains.</p> <p>Continue Reading Below</p> <p>The Blue Cross-Blue Shield insurer operates employer-sponsored and individual plans in big markets like New York and California and sells coverage on several public exchanges created by the Affordable Care Act.</p> <p>It also has been pushing deeper into the state- and federally funded Medicaid program that covers people with low incomes. Medicaid enrollment climbed more than 8 percent in the first quarter to about 6.6 million people, but some of that gain was tempered by higher medical costs, especially in Iowa.</p> <p>The insurer countered rising expenses by trimming selling, general and administrative costs. It also saw a 17-percent drop in income tax expense due to a health insurance tax moratorium, and it booked higher investment income.</p> <p>Anthem also had lower expenses from its attempt to acquire rival health insurer Cigna Corp. A federal judge blocked that $48-billion deal earlier this year, and the two companies are now fighting in court over the agreement.</p> <p>Overall, the insurer earned $1 billion in the quarter. Earnings, adjusted for non-recurring costs and amortization costs, came to $4.68 per share.</p> <p>Advertisement</p> <p>Analysts expected, on average, earnings of $3.85 per share on $21.27 billion in revenue.</p> <p>Anthem now expects full-year earnings to top $11.60 per share.</p> <p>That edges the average analyst forecast of $11.58 per share, according to FactSet.</p> <p>Anthem shares climbed to $173.28 on Tuesday, 31 cents away from the all-time high the stock reached nearly two years ago. Anthem shares have risen 20 percent since the beginning of the year. The stock has climbed 18 percent in the last 12 months.</p> <p>_____</p> <p>Elements of this story were generated by Automated Insights using data from Zacks Investment Research. Access a Zacks stock report on ANTM at https://www.zacks.com/ap/ANTM</p> <p>_____</p> <p>Keywords: Anthem, Earnings Report</p>
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<p /> <p>Image source: salesforce.com.</p> <p>Continue Reading Below</p> <p>salesforce.com's (NYSE: CRM) recent interest in purchasing LinkedIn and Twitter made waves in the tech and investing world. With that talk now in the past, it's worth noting that the company has nonetheless been on a purchasing streak this year.</p> <p>Since June, the customer relationship management behemoth has purchased six smaller tech companies, bringing the 2016 total to nine.</p> <p>At its investor day back on Oct. 4, Salesforce talked about its innovation in software over the years. Developments have included social and mobile software tools, and more recently, focus has shifted to the Internet of Things and artificial intelligence.</p> <p>Advertisement</p> <p>The purchases of smaller companies and start-ups made this year have especially focused on artificial intelligence, with six of the nine being AI companies. Demandware is a divergence from that trend. The e-commerce services platform was purchased to start a new commerce-cloud segment at Salesforce.</p> <p>While most of the buyouts were for small or undisclosed amounts, the Demandware acquisition was for a cool $2.8 billion, the most Salesforce has ever forked out in a single purchase. Quip and Krux also fetched handsome sums of about $750 million and $800 million, respectively.</p> <p>Data source: Crunchbase.</p> <p>It's been a busy year for Salesforce. Even when excluding the lost bid for LinkedIn to rival software giant Microsoft and investors' critical view of a Twitter purchase, 2016 will set a new record for Salesforce in number of acquisitions. Why all of the activity?</p> <p>Company founder and CEO Marc Benioff has been criticized for acquisitions in the past, accused of overpaying for companies and making purchases that don't really add much in the way of growth. At a recent technology conference, though, Benioff was asked about his strategy of innovating.</p> <p>Rather than doing everything organically, Benioff admitted that innovation will often come from someone other than himself or from someone within his company. As a result, Salesforce is always on the lookout for innovators in the software space that can help the company grow.</p> <p>This feeds into the merger-and-acquisition strategy outlined at Salesforce's Investor Day. Some of the purchases made, such as Demandware, help start up a new product segment. Others help augment and push growth in existing segments, such as the addition of BeyondCore to Salesforce's small but growing pure analytics-cloud service. Krux, as another example, was added to the marketing cloud to help with the segment's AI-predictive capabilities.</p> <p>While the business currently runs at a loss, growing profits is not at the heart of the strategy here. Salesforce is the world's fourth largest enterprise-software company, but top-line growth is still the objective here. The better than 20% revenue growth rate over the last couple of years would indicate this, and trailing one-year revenue was just under $7.5 billion at the end of the last quarter.</p> <p>The company has made reaching $20 billion in annual revenue an objective. If Salesforce keeps up its recent pace of top-line growth and its acquisitions can be credited, don't expect the spending spree to let up anytime soon.</p> <p>10 stocks we like better than Salesforce.com When investing geniuses David and Tom Gardner have a stock tip, it can pay to listen. After all, the newsletter they have run for over a decade, Motley Fool Stock Advisor, has tripled the market.*</p> <p>David and Tom just revealed what they believe are the <a href="http://infotron.fool.com/infotrack/click?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.fool.com%2Fmms%2Fmark%2Fe-foolcom-sa-bbn-dyn%3Faid%3D8867%26source%3Disaeditxt0010449%26ftm_cam%3Dsa-bbn-evergreen%26ftm_pit%3D6312%26ftm_veh%3Dbbn_article_pitch&amp;amp;impression=00823408-01bd-4f2c-8143-fdfe028e06f1&amp;amp;utm_campaign=article&amp;amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;amp;utm_source=foxbusiness" type="external">ten best stocks Opens a New Window.</a> for investors to buy right now and Salesforce.com wasn't one of them! That's right -- they think these 10 stocks are even better buys.</p> <p><a href="http://infotron.fool.com/infotrack/click?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.fool.com%2Fmms%2Fmark%2Fe-foolcom-sa-bbn-dyn%3Faid%3D8867%26source%3Disaeditxt0010449%26ftm_cam%3Dsa-bbn-evergreen%26ftm_pit%3D6312%26ftm_veh%3Dbbn_article_pitch&amp;amp;impression=00823408-01bd-4f2c-8143-fdfe028e06f1&amp;amp;utm_campaign=article&amp;amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;amp;utm_source=foxbusiness" type="external">Click here Opens a New Window.</a> to learn about these picks!</p> <p>*Stock Advisor returns as of November 7, 2016</p> <p><a href="http://my.fool.com/profile/nrossolillo/info.aspx" type="external">Nicholas Rossolillo Opens a New Window.</a> has no position in any stocks mentioned. The Motley Fool recommends Salesforce.com. Try any of our Foolish newsletter services <a href="http://www.fool.com/shop/newsletters/index.aspx?source=isiedilnk018048&amp;amp;utm_campaign=article&amp;amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;amp;utm_source=foxbusiness" type="external">free for 30 days Opens a New Window.</a>. We Fools may not all hold the same opinions, but we all believe that <a href="http://www.fool.com/knowledge-center/motley.aspx?&amp;amp;utm_campaign=article&amp;amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;amp;utm_source=foxbusiness" type="external">considering a diverse range of insights Opens a New Window.</a> makes us better investors. The Motley Fool has a <a href="http://www.fool.com/Legal/fool-disclosure-policy.aspx?&amp;amp;utm_campaign=article&amp;amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;amp;utm_source=foxbusiness" type="external">disclosure policy Opens a New Window.</a>.</p>
Salesforce's 2016 Acquisition Count Is Up to 9
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Salesforce's 2016 Acquisition Count Is Up to 9 <p /> <p>Image source: salesforce.com.</p> <p>Continue Reading Below</p> <p>salesforce.com's (NYSE: CRM) recent interest in purchasing LinkedIn and Twitter made waves in the tech and investing world. With that talk now in the past, it's worth noting that the company has nonetheless been on a purchasing streak this year.</p> <p>Since June, the customer relationship management behemoth has purchased six smaller tech companies, bringing the 2016 total to nine.</p> <p>At its investor day back on Oct. 4, Salesforce talked about its innovation in software over the years. Developments have included social and mobile software tools, and more recently, focus has shifted to the Internet of Things and artificial intelligence.</p> <p>Advertisement</p> <p>The purchases of smaller companies and start-ups made this year have especially focused on artificial intelligence, with six of the nine being AI companies. Demandware is a divergence from that trend. The e-commerce services platform was purchased to start a new commerce-cloud segment at Salesforce.</p> <p>While most of the buyouts were for small or undisclosed amounts, the Demandware acquisition was for a cool $2.8 billion, the most Salesforce has ever forked out in a single purchase. Quip and Krux also fetched handsome sums of about $750 million and $800 million, respectively.</p> <p>Data source: Crunchbase.</p> <p>It's been a busy year for Salesforce. Even when excluding the lost bid for LinkedIn to rival software giant Microsoft and investors' critical view of a Twitter purchase, 2016 will set a new record for Salesforce in number of acquisitions. Why all of the activity?</p> <p>Company founder and CEO Marc Benioff has been criticized for acquisitions in the past, accused of overpaying for companies and making purchases that don't really add much in the way of growth. At a recent technology conference, though, Benioff was asked about his strategy of innovating.</p> <p>Rather than doing everything organically, Benioff admitted that innovation will often come from someone other than himself or from someone within his company. As a result, Salesforce is always on the lookout for innovators in the software space that can help the company grow.</p> <p>This feeds into the merger-and-acquisition strategy outlined at Salesforce's Investor Day. Some of the purchases made, such as Demandware, help start up a new product segment. Others help augment and push growth in existing segments, such as the addition of BeyondCore to Salesforce's small but growing pure analytics-cloud service. Krux, as another example, was added to the marketing cloud to help with the segment's AI-predictive capabilities.</p> <p>While the business currently runs at a loss, growing profits is not at the heart of the strategy here. Salesforce is the world's fourth largest enterprise-software company, but top-line growth is still the objective here. The better than 20% revenue growth rate over the last couple of years would indicate this, and trailing one-year revenue was just under $7.5 billion at the end of the last quarter.</p> <p>The company has made reaching $20 billion in annual revenue an objective. If Salesforce keeps up its recent pace of top-line growth and its acquisitions can be credited, don't expect the spending spree to let up anytime soon.</p> <p>10 stocks we like better than Salesforce.com When investing geniuses David and Tom Gardner have a stock tip, it can pay to listen. 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That's right -- they think these 10 stocks are even better buys.</p> <p><a href="http://infotron.fool.com/infotrack/click?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.fool.com%2Fmms%2Fmark%2Fe-foolcom-sa-bbn-dyn%3Faid%3D8867%26source%3Disaeditxt0010449%26ftm_cam%3Dsa-bbn-evergreen%26ftm_pit%3D6312%26ftm_veh%3Dbbn_article_pitch&amp;amp;impression=00823408-01bd-4f2c-8143-fdfe028e06f1&amp;amp;utm_campaign=article&amp;amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;amp;utm_source=foxbusiness" type="external">Click here Opens a New Window.</a> to learn about these picks!</p> <p>*Stock Advisor returns as of November 7, 2016</p> <p><a href="http://my.fool.com/profile/nrossolillo/info.aspx" type="external">Nicholas Rossolillo Opens a New Window.</a> has no position in any stocks mentioned. The Motley Fool recommends Salesforce.com. 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<p>&amp;lt;img class="alignright wp-image-288372" src="http://www.bizpacreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/DC-NEWS-300X71.jpg" alt="DC-NEWS 300X71" width="232" height="55" /&amp;gt; By Juliwegrace Brufke, <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2016/09/04/weiners-weiner-tops-our-list-of-the-summers-biggest-political-blunders/" type="external">DCNF</a></p> <p>Labor Day weekend has arrived, marking the unofficial end of a summer filled with gaffes and controversies. Let&#8217;s take a look at six of the biggest political blunders of the season.</p> <p>Notorious sexting aficionado former Democratic Rep. Anthony Weiner of New York, also known by social-media pseudonym Carlos Danger, was caught in yet another Twitter scandal.</p> <p>Credit: Boss Tweed/Flickr, via DCNF</p> <p>The disgraced former congressman was forced to step down from his seat in 2011 following a scandal involving the Democratic representative sending explicit Twitter messages to a 21-year-old college student. On Aug. 28, 2016 a series of photos were leaked to The New York Post of Weiner once again direct messaging graphic photos, this time with his 4-year-old son next to him in a bed, to a young woman via social media. Weiner&#8217;s wife, Huma Abedin, a top aide to Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, announced she is separating from her husband in the wake of the scandal.</p> <p>GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump&#8217;s wife, Melania Trump, plagiarized her Republican National convention speech.</p> <p>Credit: ABC/ Ida Mae Astute/Flickr, via DCNF</p> <p>Potential future first lady Melania Trump, a former supermodel, seemed poised and elegant as she made her husband&#8217;s case as to why he should be elected in November &#8211; until it came to light a large chunk of her remarks resembled a 2008 speech given by first lady Michelle Obama&#8217;s a little more than it should have. Campaign speechwriter Meredith McIver apologized for the mishap and offered her resignation which was rejected by the Trump campaign.</p> <p>The Democratic National Committee&#8217;s emails were leaked just ahead of the party&#8217;s convention.</p> <p>Credit: Elena Schneider/ Medill News Service/Flickr, via DCNF</p> <p>Just ahead of the Democratic National Convention held in Philadelphia, nearly 20,000 emails between Democratic National Committee staffers were published on Wikileaks &#8211; with several confirming disgraced former DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz attempted to derail former Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Bernie Sanders&#8217; campaign in favor of Clinton. Wasserman Schultz along with several other DNC employees were forced to step down from their roles following the revelation.</p> <p>Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump calls on Russian hackers to find Clinton&#8217;s missing emails.</p> <p>Credit: Gage Skidmore/Flickr, via DCNF</p> <p>In the wake of the major DNC WikiLeaks email dump, the GOP nominee called on Russia to &#8220;find the 30,000 emails that are missing&#8221; from Clinton&#8217;s private email server at a press conference via Twitter in July. Trump, who was coming off a convention boost, started to lose momentum after critics on both sides of the aisle slammed the presidential hopeful, with the Clinton campaign blasting him for having &#8220;actively encouraged a foreign power to conduct espionage against his political opponent.&#8221; Several political analysts suspect, if the candidate had remained silent on the issue, he would have been able to ride the wave of the convention bump for a little longer. Trump later said he was being sarcastic when he made the remarks.</p> <p>The IRS launches a major investigation into the Clinton Foundation over alleged pay-to-play activities.</p> <p>Credit: ABC/Ida Mae Astute/Flickr, via DCNF</p> <p>The Internal Revenue Service announced in July it was launching an investigation into the Clinton Foundation for its alleged &#8220;public corruption&#8221; for ties between Clinton Foundation donors and Clinton&#8217;s policies as secretary of State. The ongoing scandal continues to plague the Clinton campaign as pressure mounts on the Clinton camp to release additional emails.</p> <p>Trump publicly feuded with a deceased Muslim-American soldier&#8217;s family, leading to a major campaign slump.</p> <p>Credit: Michael Vadon/Flickr, via DCNF</p> <p>A number of Republicans denounced Trump&#8217;s comments deceased soldier Captain Humayun Khan&#8217;s father, Khizr Khan, who strongly criticized Trump for his proposed temporary Muslim ban at the Democratic National Convention, delivered the entire speech because his wife &#8220;was not allowed to speak.&#8221; The controversial feud took a major toll on the GOP presidential hopeful&#8217;s poll numbers with 73 percent saying they disagreed with how he handled the situation, including 59 percent of those who identified as Republicans. Trump later released a statement referring to the fallen soldier as a hero, but he continues to struggle to gain back voters turned off by his remarks.</p> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/juliegraceb" type="external">Follow Juliegrace Brufke on Twitter</a></p> <p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href="mailto:[email protected]" type="external">[email protected]</a>.</p>
Weiner’s weiner tops our list of the summer’s biggest political blunders
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2016-09-05
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Weiner’s weiner tops our list of the summer’s biggest political blunders <p>&amp;lt;img class="alignright wp-image-288372" src="http://www.bizpacreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/DC-NEWS-300X71.jpg" alt="DC-NEWS 300X71" width="232" height="55" /&amp;gt; By Juliwegrace Brufke, <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2016/09/04/weiners-weiner-tops-our-list-of-the-summers-biggest-political-blunders/" type="external">DCNF</a></p> <p>Labor Day weekend has arrived, marking the unofficial end of a summer filled with gaffes and controversies. Let&#8217;s take a look at six of the biggest political blunders of the season.</p> <p>Notorious sexting aficionado former Democratic Rep. Anthony Weiner of New York, also known by social-media pseudonym Carlos Danger, was caught in yet another Twitter scandal.</p> <p>Credit: Boss Tweed/Flickr, via DCNF</p> <p>The disgraced former congressman was forced to step down from his seat in 2011 following a scandal involving the Democratic representative sending explicit Twitter messages to a 21-year-old college student. On Aug. 28, 2016 a series of photos were leaked to The New York Post of Weiner once again direct messaging graphic photos, this time with his 4-year-old son next to him in a bed, to a young woman via social media. Weiner&#8217;s wife, Huma Abedin, a top aide to Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, announced she is separating from her husband in the wake of the scandal.</p> <p>GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump&#8217;s wife, Melania Trump, plagiarized her Republican National convention speech.</p> <p>Credit: ABC/ Ida Mae Astute/Flickr, via DCNF</p> <p>Potential future first lady Melania Trump, a former supermodel, seemed poised and elegant as she made her husband&#8217;s case as to why he should be elected in November &#8211; until it came to light a large chunk of her remarks resembled a 2008 speech given by first lady Michelle Obama&#8217;s a little more than it should have. Campaign speechwriter Meredith McIver apologized for the mishap and offered her resignation which was rejected by the Trump campaign.</p> <p>The Democratic National Committee&#8217;s emails were leaked just ahead of the party&#8217;s convention.</p> <p>Credit: Elena Schneider/ Medill News Service/Flickr, via DCNF</p> <p>Just ahead of the Democratic National Convention held in Philadelphia, nearly 20,000 emails between Democratic National Committee staffers were published on Wikileaks &#8211; with several confirming disgraced former DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz attempted to derail former Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Bernie Sanders&#8217; campaign in favor of Clinton. Wasserman Schultz along with several other DNC employees were forced to step down from their roles following the revelation.</p> <p>Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump calls on Russian hackers to find Clinton&#8217;s missing emails.</p> <p>Credit: Gage Skidmore/Flickr, via DCNF</p> <p>In the wake of the major DNC WikiLeaks email dump, the GOP nominee called on Russia to &#8220;find the 30,000 emails that are missing&#8221; from Clinton&#8217;s private email server at a press conference via Twitter in July. Trump, who was coming off a convention boost, started to lose momentum after critics on both sides of the aisle slammed the presidential hopeful, with the Clinton campaign blasting him for having &#8220;actively encouraged a foreign power to conduct espionage against his political opponent.&#8221; Several political analysts suspect, if the candidate had remained silent on the issue, he would have been able to ride the wave of the convention bump for a little longer. Trump later said he was being sarcastic when he made the remarks.</p> <p>The IRS launches a major investigation into the Clinton Foundation over alleged pay-to-play activities.</p> <p>Credit: ABC/Ida Mae Astute/Flickr, via DCNF</p> <p>The Internal Revenue Service announced in July it was launching an investigation into the Clinton Foundation for its alleged &#8220;public corruption&#8221; for ties between Clinton Foundation donors and Clinton&#8217;s policies as secretary of State. The ongoing scandal continues to plague the Clinton campaign as pressure mounts on the Clinton camp to release additional emails.</p> <p>Trump publicly feuded with a deceased Muslim-American soldier&#8217;s family, leading to a major campaign slump.</p> <p>Credit: Michael Vadon/Flickr, via DCNF</p> <p>A number of Republicans denounced Trump&#8217;s comments deceased soldier Captain Humayun Khan&#8217;s father, Khizr Khan, who strongly criticized Trump for his proposed temporary Muslim ban at the Democratic National Convention, delivered the entire speech because his wife &#8220;was not allowed to speak.&#8221; The controversial feud took a major toll on the GOP presidential hopeful&#8217;s poll numbers with 73 percent saying they disagreed with how he handled the situation, including 59 percent of those who identified as Republicans. Trump later released a statement referring to the fallen soldier as a hero, but he continues to struggle to gain back voters turned off by his remarks.</p> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/juliegraceb" type="external">Follow Juliegrace Brufke on Twitter</a></p> <p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href="mailto:[email protected]" type="external">[email protected]</a>.</p>
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<p>Investing.com &#8211; Greece stocks were higher after the close on Thursday, as gains in the , and sectors led shares higher.</p> <p>At the close in Athens, the rose 0.42%.</p> <p>The best performers of the session on the were Attica Bank SA (AT:), which rose 14.44% or 0.013 points to trade at 0.103 at the close. Meanwhile, Marfin Invest (AT:) added 6.45% or 0.008 points to end at 0.132 and Halcor (AT:) was up 4.39% or 0.041 points to 0.974 in late trade.</p> <p>The worst performers of the session were Papoutsanis (AT:), which fell 10.68% or 0.036 points to trade at 0.301 at the close. Fourlis Hld (AT:) declined 3.84% or 0.220 points to end at 5.510 and Centric Hold (AT:) was down 3.68% or 0.006 points to 0.157.</p> <p>Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Athens Stock Exchange by 52 to 47 and 11 ended unchanged.</p> <p>Shares in Halcor (AT:) rose to 3-years highs; up 4.39% or 0.041 to 0.974.</p> <p>Gold Futures for December delivery was up 1.12% or 15.00 to $1354.00 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in October fell 0.39% or 0.19 to hit $48.97 a barrel, while the November Brent oil contract fell 0.20% or 0.11 to trade at $54.09 a barrel.</p> <p>EUR/USD was up 0.94% to 1.2029, while EUR/GBP rose 0.40% to 0.9174.</p> <p>The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.84% at 91.44.</p> <p /> <p>Fusion Media or anyone involved with Fusion Media will not accept any liability for loss or damage as a result of reliance on the information including data, quotes, charts and buy/sell signals contained within this website. Please be fully informed regarding the risks and costs associated with trading the financial markets, it is one of the riskiest investment forms possible.</p>
Greece stocks higher at close of trade; Athens General Composite up 0.42%
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Greece stocks higher at close of trade; Athens General Composite up 0.42% <p>Investing.com &#8211; Greece stocks were higher after the close on Thursday, as gains in the , and sectors led shares higher.</p> <p>At the close in Athens, the rose 0.42%.</p> <p>The best performers of the session on the were Attica Bank SA (AT:), which rose 14.44% or 0.013 points to trade at 0.103 at the close. Meanwhile, Marfin Invest (AT:) added 6.45% or 0.008 points to end at 0.132 and Halcor (AT:) was up 4.39% or 0.041 points to 0.974 in late trade.</p> <p>The worst performers of the session were Papoutsanis (AT:), which fell 10.68% or 0.036 points to trade at 0.301 at the close. Fourlis Hld (AT:) declined 3.84% or 0.220 points to end at 5.510 and Centric Hold (AT:) was down 3.68% or 0.006 points to 0.157.</p> <p>Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Athens Stock Exchange by 52 to 47 and 11 ended unchanged.</p> <p>Shares in Halcor (AT:) rose to 3-years highs; up 4.39% or 0.041 to 0.974.</p> <p>Gold Futures for December delivery was up 1.12% or 15.00 to $1354.00 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in October fell 0.39% or 0.19 to hit $48.97 a barrel, while the November Brent oil contract fell 0.20% or 0.11 to trade at $54.09 a barrel.</p> <p>EUR/USD was up 0.94% to 1.2029, while EUR/GBP rose 0.40% to 0.9174.</p> <p>The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.84% at 91.44.</p> <p /> <p>Fusion Media or anyone involved with Fusion Media will not accept any liability for loss or damage as a result of reliance on the information including data, quotes, charts and buy/sell signals contained within this website. Please be fully informed regarding the risks and costs associated with trading the financial markets, it is one of the riskiest investment forms possible.</p>
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<p>.......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... ..........</p> <p>ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. &#8212; State Police are investigating an officer involved shooting that occurred Monday night on the Isleta Pueblo.</p> <p>&amp;#160;</p> <p>An Isleta Pueblo police officer was allegedly battered and assaulted by another man about 8 p.m. near the Tribal Center adjacent to Isleta Lakes on the pueblo. During the incident, the police officer shot the man, according to State Police Lt. Eric Garcia.</p> <p>The man was taken to University of New Mexico Hospital, Garcia said. His condition as well as his name and age were not immediately available Tuesday.</p> <p>The man is thought to be homeless.</p> <p>The Isleta Pueblo police officer received injuries to his face and upper body during the incident, Garcia said.</p> <p>ADVERTISEMENT</p>
Man Shot by Police on Isleta Pueblo
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Man Shot by Police on Isleta Pueblo <p>.......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... ..........</p> <p>ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. &#8212; State Police are investigating an officer involved shooting that occurred Monday night on the Isleta Pueblo.</p> <p>&amp;#160;</p> <p>An Isleta Pueblo police officer was allegedly battered and assaulted by another man about 8 p.m. near the Tribal Center adjacent to Isleta Lakes on the pueblo. During the incident, the police officer shot the man, according to State Police Lt. Eric Garcia.</p> <p>The man was taken to University of New Mexico Hospital, Garcia said. His condition as well as his name and age were not immediately available Tuesday.</p> <p>The man is thought to be homeless.</p> <p>The Isleta Pueblo police officer received injuries to his face and upper body during the incident, Garcia said.</p> <p>ADVERTISEMENT</p>
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<p>The world is eagerly waiting to see if the European Central Bank (ECB) will take the steps needed to save the euro. Specifically, is the ECB prepared to act as a central bank and guarantee the sovereign debt of the countries in the eurozone as the lender of last resort ordinarily does in a crisis?</p> <p>If not, there is little doubt what the outcome will be. The austerity being imposed on country after country will slow GDP growth and throw workers out of jobs. Higher unemployment will worsen deficits, since it means less tax revenue coming in and more unemployment benefits and other transfers being paid out. Higher deficits will cause investors to worry about the solvency of the government, leading interest rates to rise.</p> <p>This gives us the famous downward spiral that already sank Greece&#8217;s economy and government. It will soon sink Italy and Spain if the ECB doesn&#8217;t start acting like a central bank. The fallout from disorderly defaults from these two countries will cause banks throughout the eurozone to become insolvent, leading to another Lehman-type freeze-up of the financial system.</p> <p>The end result will be a second recession and another sharp spike in unemployment, not just in the eurozone, but almost certainly across the globe. The finances and the economies of the eurozone are too intertwined with the rest of the world to envision a meltdown that doesn&#8217;t also push the rest of the world into recession. At the end of this story, the euro itself is likely to be placed in the dustbin of history, another failed monetary experiment.</p> <p>This story is especially painful since this crisis is the outcome of one set of failed policies layered on top of another set of failed policies. The original downturn came about because the ECB, like the Fed and the Bank of England, chose to ignore the buildup of enormous housing bubbles and the resulting economic imbalances.</p> <p>It was 100 percent predictable that the collapse of these bubbles would lead to a serious recession. The financial crises that accompanied this collapse was also a&amp;#160; <a href="http://www.cepr.net/index.php/publications/reports/the-run-up-in-home-prices-is-it-real-or-is-it-another-bubble" type="external">predictable outcome</a>&amp;#160;of the rapid disappearance of trillions of dollars of wealth. Yet the central bankers at ECB and elsewhere were completely caught by surprise.</p> <p>At least the Fed and Bank of England have been reasonably aggressive in trying to correct the damage they caused. They have both pushed their overnight lending rates to near zero and have engaged in large-scale purchases of long-term debt to try to directly lower long-term interest rates.</p> <p>By contrast, the ECB never lowered its short-term rate below 1.0 percent and actually raised it to 1.5 percent last spring in order to dampen inflation. While other central banks were trying to boost their economies, the ECB was actually trying to reduce growth in the eurozone.</p> <p>The question at the moment is whether the ECB will be allowed to continue this course to disaster or whether it will be persuaded by a combination of internal and external forces to change course. The joint action last week by the Fed and five other major central banks is encouraging in this respect. Their plan to extend lines of credit to eurozone banks in other currencies in effect meant that these central banks would supply the necessary liquidity to keep the eurozone economy moving forward if the ECB failed in this task.</p> <p>While the immediate effect of this measure is limited, it was nonetheless important for two reasons. First, it is an acknowledgement that other central banks can fill the role of the ECB if it fails in its responsibilities to the eurozone economies. There are other deep pockets in the world that can provide the guarantees of eurozone sovereign debt that will be needed to prevent disorderly defaults and the resulting freeze-up of credit.</p> <p>The second reason that the move was important is that it suggested that the other central banks, most importantly the Fed, would act to fill this role if it becomes necessary. This is not a question of being altruistic. The collapse of the eurozone would be a disaster for economies that are still reeling from the collapse of the housing bubbles in the United States and elsewhere.</p> <p>In the case of the Federal Reserve Board, a purchase of a few hundred billion dollars of sovereign debt, coupled with guarantees on the debt of Italy, Spain, and possibly other indebted countries, will have far more impact in supporting growth than any other policy that it is currently contemplating. And, as the promoters of the TARP and other bank bailouts endlessly repeat, we will make money on the deal.</p> <p>Once it is known that Fed is standing behind these countries debt, their interest rates will fall, causing bond prices to rise. This will allow the Fed to resell its holdings at a profit. (This is still a subsidy to the indebted countries, or in the case of the TARP, to the banks.)</p> <p>The key point is that if the ECB still lacks the competence to manage the eurozone economy then the Fed and other central banks will have to step in. The eurozone is too important to the world economy to allow it be destroyed by incompetent central bankers.</p> <p>Dean Baker&amp;#160;is the co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR). He is the author of&amp;#160; <a href="http://p3books.com/falseprofits/" type="external">False Profits: Recovering from the Bubble Economy</a>.</p> <p>This article originally appeared in&amp;#160; <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/" type="external">The Guardian</a></p>
Wrecking the World Economy
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2011-12-06
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Wrecking the World Economy <p>The world is eagerly waiting to see if the European Central Bank (ECB) will take the steps needed to save the euro. Specifically, is the ECB prepared to act as a central bank and guarantee the sovereign debt of the countries in the eurozone as the lender of last resort ordinarily does in a crisis?</p> <p>If not, there is little doubt what the outcome will be. The austerity being imposed on country after country will slow GDP growth and throw workers out of jobs. Higher unemployment will worsen deficits, since it means less tax revenue coming in and more unemployment benefits and other transfers being paid out. Higher deficits will cause investors to worry about the solvency of the government, leading interest rates to rise.</p> <p>This gives us the famous downward spiral that already sank Greece&#8217;s economy and government. It will soon sink Italy and Spain if the ECB doesn&#8217;t start acting like a central bank. The fallout from disorderly defaults from these two countries will cause banks throughout the eurozone to become insolvent, leading to another Lehman-type freeze-up of the financial system.</p> <p>The end result will be a second recession and another sharp spike in unemployment, not just in the eurozone, but almost certainly across the globe. The finances and the economies of the eurozone are too intertwined with the rest of the world to envision a meltdown that doesn&#8217;t also push the rest of the world into recession. At the end of this story, the euro itself is likely to be placed in the dustbin of history, another failed monetary experiment.</p> <p>This story is especially painful since this crisis is the outcome of one set of failed policies layered on top of another set of failed policies. The original downturn came about because the ECB, like the Fed and the Bank of England, chose to ignore the buildup of enormous housing bubbles and the resulting economic imbalances.</p> <p>It was 100 percent predictable that the collapse of these bubbles would lead to a serious recession. The financial crises that accompanied this collapse was also a&amp;#160; <a href="http://www.cepr.net/index.php/publications/reports/the-run-up-in-home-prices-is-it-real-or-is-it-another-bubble" type="external">predictable outcome</a>&amp;#160;of the rapid disappearance of trillions of dollars of wealth. Yet the central bankers at ECB and elsewhere were completely caught by surprise.</p> <p>At least the Fed and Bank of England have been reasonably aggressive in trying to correct the damage they caused. They have both pushed their overnight lending rates to near zero and have engaged in large-scale purchases of long-term debt to try to directly lower long-term interest rates.</p> <p>By contrast, the ECB never lowered its short-term rate below 1.0 percent and actually raised it to 1.5 percent last spring in order to dampen inflation. While other central banks were trying to boost their economies, the ECB was actually trying to reduce growth in the eurozone.</p> <p>The question at the moment is whether the ECB will be allowed to continue this course to disaster or whether it will be persuaded by a combination of internal and external forces to change course. The joint action last week by the Fed and five other major central banks is encouraging in this respect. Their plan to extend lines of credit to eurozone banks in other currencies in effect meant that these central banks would supply the necessary liquidity to keep the eurozone economy moving forward if the ECB failed in this task.</p> <p>While the immediate effect of this measure is limited, it was nonetheless important for two reasons. First, it is an acknowledgement that other central banks can fill the role of the ECB if it fails in its responsibilities to the eurozone economies. There are other deep pockets in the world that can provide the guarantees of eurozone sovereign debt that will be needed to prevent disorderly defaults and the resulting freeze-up of credit.</p> <p>The second reason that the move was important is that it suggested that the other central banks, most importantly the Fed, would act to fill this role if it becomes necessary. This is not a question of being altruistic. The collapse of the eurozone would be a disaster for economies that are still reeling from the collapse of the housing bubbles in the United States and elsewhere.</p> <p>In the case of the Federal Reserve Board, a purchase of a few hundred billion dollars of sovereign debt, coupled with guarantees on the debt of Italy, Spain, and possibly other indebted countries, will have far more impact in supporting growth than any other policy that it is currently contemplating. And, as the promoters of the TARP and other bank bailouts endlessly repeat, we will make money on the deal.</p> <p>Once it is known that Fed is standing behind these countries debt, their interest rates will fall, causing bond prices to rise. This will allow the Fed to resell its holdings at a profit. (This is still a subsidy to the indebted countries, or in the case of the TARP, to the banks.)</p> <p>The key point is that if the ECB still lacks the competence to manage the eurozone economy then the Fed and other central banks will have to step in. The eurozone is too important to the world economy to allow it be destroyed by incompetent central bankers.</p> <p>Dean Baker&amp;#160;is the co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR). He is the author of&amp;#160; <a href="http://p3books.com/falseprofits/" type="external">False Profits: Recovering from the Bubble Economy</a>.</p> <p>This article originally appeared in&amp;#160; <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/" type="external">The Guardian</a></p>
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<p>This week&#8217;s job opportunities are a true American melting pot. From food to freight to books, we found several different fields that are looking for workers.</p> <p>Happy hunting!</p> <p>Continue Reading Below</p> <p>EXPRESS EMPLOYMENT PROFESSIONALS &#8211; a privately-held staffing firm *Currently has 19,000 jobs open *Hiring in the central and northeast U.S. is up *Top Jobs: Industrial, Administrative, Engineering, Accounting/Finance, Marketing and IT *Company helped 335,000 people land jobs last year in the U.S., Canada and South Africa. *Benefits include holiday/vacation pay, medical/dental/vision, a scholarship program and training programs &amp;#160; *Express has more than 585 offices in the U.S., Canada and South Africa and expects company growth to be up 110% in 2012 compared with 2009.</p> <p>YRC WORLDWIDE - one of the largest transportation service providers in the world *The company is looking to fill 500 positions coast to coast, across several of its subsidiaries *Top Jobs: Drivers, Sales Personnel, Dock Workers and Administrative Staff *Most of the jobs are starting at approximately $50k + plus health-care benefits *YRC brands include YRC Freight, YRC Reimer, New Penn, Holland and Reddaway.</p> <p>DICKEY&#8217;S BARBECUE - world's largest barbecue chain *Has 142 open positions available at corporate headquarters in Dallas and plans to open 50 new restaurant locations by end of the year which would add at least 500 positions *Top Jobs: Operations, Construction/Development, Training, Marketing, HR, General Managers, Cashiers and Franchise owners *When opening own franchise, Dickey&#8217;s offers a Veteran&#8217;s Discount Package, low startup costs, a business model and special training programs at their &#8220;Barbecue University&#8221; *Offers full benefits for all corporate employees. Also, packages for hourly employees are available. *Named &#8220;Best Franchise Deal&#8221; and &#8220;Top 5 Growth Chain&#8221; by two different industry publications.</p> <p>UNITEK GLOBAL SERVICES - &amp;#160;a provider of engineering, construction management &amp;amp; installation services to companies specializing in telecommunications, broadband cable, safety &amp;amp; transportation. *Currently has 2,790 openings across the entire company. &amp;#160; *UniTek is the parent company, owns a satellite, cable, wireless &amp;amp; wireline company, and &amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;they&#8217;re looking hire within their wireless division, Nexlink Global Services *Top Job: Technicians, Tower Climbers (looking to hire at least 200 in the next 90-120 days in MD, NY, NJ, MA, NC, SC &amp;amp; Southern California) *The salary range for these positions is $13-$25/hr. Also offering a $500 sign-on bonus + training to those who have no experience. Offers complete benefits package, medical, dental, vision etc. *Also targeting are military veterans for openings.</p> <p>TEXTBOOK-CONNECTION - website allowing university students the ability to buy &amp;amp; sell used textbooks. *For college students as school starts back up *Looking for 2-3 sales associates per university in the U.S. and since there are more than 10,000 universities that is more than 20,000 jobs! *Students must be actively enrolled in the university and work is only part-time *Earnings are commission based, but company estimates earning potential to be between $1,000-$2,000 per semester. *Company was created by pair of parents with 2 kids in school after they paid tons of money for textbooks at the beginning of the semester, and only got $20-$50 back at the end.</p> <p>Advertisement</p>
Where the Jobs Are this Week
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Where the Jobs Are this Week <p>This week&#8217;s job opportunities are a true American melting pot. From food to freight to books, we found several different fields that are looking for workers.</p> <p>Happy hunting!</p> <p>Continue Reading Below</p> <p>EXPRESS EMPLOYMENT PROFESSIONALS &#8211; a privately-held staffing firm *Currently has 19,000 jobs open *Hiring in the central and northeast U.S. is up *Top Jobs: Industrial, Administrative, Engineering, Accounting/Finance, Marketing and IT *Company helped 335,000 people land jobs last year in the U.S., Canada and South Africa. *Benefits include holiday/vacation pay, medical/dental/vision, a scholarship program and training programs &amp;#160; *Express has more than 585 offices in the U.S., Canada and South Africa and expects company growth to be up 110% in 2012 compared with 2009.</p> <p>YRC WORLDWIDE - one of the largest transportation service providers in the world *The company is looking to fill 500 positions coast to coast, across several of its subsidiaries *Top Jobs: Drivers, Sales Personnel, Dock Workers and Administrative Staff *Most of the jobs are starting at approximately $50k + plus health-care benefits *YRC brands include YRC Freight, YRC Reimer, New Penn, Holland and Reddaway.</p> <p>DICKEY&#8217;S BARBECUE - world's largest barbecue chain *Has 142 open positions available at corporate headquarters in Dallas and plans to open 50 new restaurant locations by end of the year which would add at least 500 positions *Top Jobs: Operations, Construction/Development, Training, Marketing, HR, General Managers, Cashiers and Franchise owners *When opening own franchise, Dickey&#8217;s offers a Veteran&#8217;s Discount Package, low startup costs, a business model and special training programs at their &#8220;Barbecue University&#8221; *Offers full benefits for all corporate employees. Also, packages for hourly employees are available. *Named &#8220;Best Franchise Deal&#8221; and &#8220;Top 5 Growth Chain&#8221; by two different industry publications.</p> <p>UNITEK GLOBAL SERVICES - &amp;#160;a provider of engineering, construction management &amp;amp; installation services to companies specializing in telecommunications, broadband cable, safety &amp;amp; transportation. *Currently has 2,790 openings across the entire company. &amp;#160; *UniTek is the parent company, owns a satellite, cable, wireless &amp;amp; wireline company, and &amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;they&#8217;re looking hire within their wireless division, Nexlink Global Services *Top Job: Technicians, Tower Climbers (looking to hire at least 200 in the next 90-120 days in MD, NY, NJ, MA, NC, SC &amp;amp; Southern California) *The salary range for these positions is $13-$25/hr. Also offering a $500 sign-on bonus + training to those who have no experience. Offers complete benefits package, medical, dental, vision etc. *Also targeting are military veterans for openings.</p> <p>TEXTBOOK-CONNECTION - website allowing university students the ability to buy &amp;amp; sell used textbooks. *For college students as school starts back up *Looking for 2-3 sales associates per university in the U.S. and since there are more than 10,000 universities that is more than 20,000 jobs! *Students must be actively enrolled in the university and work is only part-time *Earnings are commission based, but company estimates earning potential to be between $1,000-$2,000 per semester. *Company was created by pair of parents with 2 kids in school after they paid tons of money for textbooks at the beginning of the semester, and only got $20-$50 back at the end.</p> <p>Advertisement</p>
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<p>Ally Financial Inc. has signed a 12-year lease making a landmark downtown Detroit office building its headquarters.</p> <p>The automotive financial services firm announced Tuesday that it also will move 600 additional workers from other locations to the One Detroit Center on Woodward Avenue.</p> <p>Continue Reading Below</p> <p>The building will be renamed Ally Detroit Center. Ally will occupy 13 floors and 321,000 square feet in the 43-story building.</p> <p>Ally had been looking to move its current headquarters and 700 employees from the Renaissance Center downtown to the suburbs. But Mayor Mike Duggan says he convinced the company to listen to a proposal to stay in Detroit.</p> <p>The lease was brokered by Detroit-based Bedrock Real Estate Services. The deal comes about three months after Detroit exited the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history.</p>
Ally Financial lease deal keeps headquarters in Detroit; plans to move other workers downtown
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2016-03-05
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Ally Financial lease deal keeps headquarters in Detroit; plans to move other workers downtown <p>Ally Financial Inc. has signed a 12-year lease making a landmark downtown Detroit office building its headquarters.</p> <p>The automotive financial services firm announced Tuesday that it also will move 600 additional workers from other locations to the One Detroit Center on Woodward Avenue.</p> <p>Continue Reading Below</p> <p>The building will be renamed Ally Detroit Center. Ally will occupy 13 floors and 321,000 square feet in the 43-story building.</p> <p>Ally had been looking to move its current headquarters and 700 employees from the Renaissance Center downtown to the suburbs. But Mayor Mike Duggan says he convinced the company to listen to a proposal to stay in Detroit.</p> <p>The lease was brokered by Detroit-based Bedrock Real Estate Services. The deal comes about three months after Detroit exited the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history.</p>
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<p /> <p>Uber today followed in the footsteps of other major companies and released its first <a href="https://www.uber.com/info/diversity/" type="external">diversity report Opens a New Window.</a>, which illuminates a lack of diversity at the company.</p> <p>Continue Reading Below</p> <p>As it stands, Uber's workforce is largely white and Asian men, especially among those in tech and leadership roles. Just 15.4 percent of the company's tech staffers are female, while only 2.1 percent are Hispanic and 1 percent are black. Uber's diversity problem is perhaps most apparent when looking at the makeup of its tech leadership team, which is 88.7 percent male and entirely white or Asian.</p> <p>Uber's operations and administrative (aka "non-tech") teams are more diverse: 44.4 percent female, 15.2 percent black, and 8.5 percent Hispanic. The same is true for the company's customer support team, which is 49.7 percent female, 33.5 percent black, and 15.2 percent Hispanic. Uber's report does not include stats on drivers, as company classifies them as independent contractors.</p> <p>"Of course, we need to do better and have much more work to do," Uber's Chief Human Resources Officer Liane Hornsey wrote in a <a href="https://newsroom.uber.com/diversity-report/" type="external">blog post Opens a New Window.</a>. "But we've made some strides in diversifying our workforce: last year, 41 percent of new employees were women, which is 5 percent more than the proportion of women in our overall employee population. Similarly, we hired 3 percent more Black and 2 percent more Hispanic employees compared to our overall employee base."</p> <p>Alongside its report, Uber announced plans to donate $3 million over the next three years to "support organizations working to bring more women and underrepresented groups into tech."</p> <p>Advertisement</p> <p>The report comes after former Uber engineer Susan J. Fowler last month posted a scathing <a href="https://www.susanjfowler.com/blog/2017/2/19/reflecting-on-one-very-strange-year-at-uber" type="external">blog post Opens a New Window.</a> describing a culture of sexism and sexual harassment at the company. Among other claims, Fowler said a male manager solicited sex over company chat, and was only given a "stern stalking-to." Uber CEO Travis Kalanick has <a href="http://www.pcmag.com/news/351853/uber-hires-former-ag-for-sexual-harassment-review" type="external">pledged to "conduct an independent review" Opens a New Window.</a> into allegations that upper management at the company ignored incidents of sexual harassment.</p> <p>This article <a href="http://www.pcmag.com/news/352706/surprise-uber-workforce-skews-heavily-white-male" type="external">originally appeared Opens a New Window.</a> on <a href="http://www.pcmag.com" type="external">PCMag.com Opens a New Window.</a>.</p>
Surprise! Uber Workforce Skews Heavily White, Male
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Surprise! Uber Workforce Skews Heavily White, Male <p /> <p>Uber today followed in the footsteps of other major companies and released its first <a href="https://www.uber.com/info/diversity/" type="external">diversity report Opens a New Window.</a>, which illuminates a lack of diversity at the company.</p> <p>Continue Reading Below</p> <p>As it stands, Uber's workforce is largely white and Asian men, especially among those in tech and leadership roles. Just 15.4 percent of the company's tech staffers are female, while only 2.1 percent are Hispanic and 1 percent are black. Uber's diversity problem is perhaps most apparent when looking at the makeup of its tech leadership team, which is 88.7 percent male and entirely white or Asian.</p> <p>Uber's operations and administrative (aka "non-tech") teams are more diverse: 44.4 percent female, 15.2 percent black, and 8.5 percent Hispanic. The same is true for the company's customer support team, which is 49.7 percent female, 33.5 percent black, and 15.2 percent Hispanic. Uber's report does not include stats on drivers, as company classifies them as independent contractors.</p> <p>"Of course, we need to do better and have much more work to do," Uber's Chief Human Resources Officer Liane Hornsey wrote in a <a href="https://newsroom.uber.com/diversity-report/" type="external">blog post Opens a New Window.</a>. "But we've made some strides in diversifying our workforce: last year, 41 percent of new employees were women, which is 5 percent more than the proportion of women in our overall employee population. Similarly, we hired 3 percent more Black and 2 percent more Hispanic employees compared to our overall employee base."</p> <p>Alongside its report, Uber announced plans to donate $3 million over the next three years to "support organizations working to bring more women and underrepresented groups into tech."</p> <p>Advertisement</p> <p>The report comes after former Uber engineer Susan J. Fowler last month posted a scathing <a href="https://www.susanjfowler.com/blog/2017/2/19/reflecting-on-one-very-strange-year-at-uber" type="external">blog post Opens a New Window.</a> describing a culture of sexism and sexual harassment at the company. Among other claims, Fowler said a male manager solicited sex over company chat, and was only given a "stern stalking-to." Uber CEO Travis Kalanick has <a href="http://www.pcmag.com/news/351853/uber-hires-former-ag-for-sexual-harassment-review" type="external">pledged to "conduct an independent review" Opens a New Window.</a> into allegations that upper management at the company ignored incidents of sexual harassment.</p> <p>This article <a href="http://www.pcmag.com/news/352706/surprise-uber-workforce-skews-heavily-white-male" type="external">originally appeared Opens a New Window.</a> on <a href="http://www.pcmag.com" type="external">PCMag.com Opens a New Window.</a>.</p>
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<p>.......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... ..........</p> <p>WASHINGTON (AP) &#8212; Government safety rules are changing to let airline passengers use most electronic devices from gate-to-gate.</p> <p>The change will let passengers read, work, play games, watch movies and listen to music.</p> <p>The Federal Aviation Administration says airlines can allow passengers to use the devices during takeoffs and landings on planes that meet certain criteria for protecting aircraft systems from electronic interference.</p> <p>Most new airliners are expected to meet the criteria, but changes won&#8217;t happen immediately. Timing will depend upon the airline.</p> <p>Connections to the Internet to surf, exchange emails, text or download data will still be prohibited below 10,000 feet. Heavier devices like laptops will have to be stowed. Passengers will be told to switch their smartphones, tablets and other devices to airplane mode.</p> <p>And cellphone calls will still be prohibited.</p> <p>ADVERTISEMENT</p>
FAA OKs air passengers using gadgets on planes
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FAA OKs air passengers using gadgets on planes <p>.......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... ..........</p> <p>WASHINGTON (AP) &#8212; Government safety rules are changing to let airline passengers use most electronic devices from gate-to-gate.</p> <p>The change will let passengers read, work, play games, watch movies and listen to music.</p> <p>The Federal Aviation Administration says airlines can allow passengers to use the devices during takeoffs and landings on planes that meet certain criteria for protecting aircraft systems from electronic interference.</p> <p>Most new airliners are expected to meet the criteria, but changes won&#8217;t happen immediately. Timing will depend upon the airline.</p> <p>Connections to the Internet to surf, exchange emails, text or download data will still be prohibited below 10,000 feet. Heavier devices like laptops will have to be stowed. Passengers will be told to switch their smartphones, tablets and other devices to airplane mode.</p> <p>And cellphone calls will still be prohibited.</p> <p>ADVERTISEMENT</p>
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<p>Individual seating resulted in a much higher engagement level than round table seating, and students were much more engaged when the teacher assigned seats. When students got to select their own seats, engagement dropped&#8212;perhaps because they sat near friends and socialized, the authors suggest.</p> <p>Researchers considered that Hispanics might prefer collaborative work because it allowed them to learn in their native language with other Spanish-speakers. The data did not support that hypothesis.</p> <p>The study looked at the relationship of engagement to the students&#8217; perception of the relevance of the material to college studies, everyday life, testing and a future job. Engagement was highest when students found the content related to everyday life.</p>
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Other noteworthy findings <p>Individual seating resulted in a much higher engagement level than round table seating, and students were much more engaged when the teacher assigned seats. When students got to select their own seats, engagement dropped&#8212;perhaps because they sat near friends and socialized, the authors suggest.</p> <p>Researchers considered that Hispanics might prefer collaborative work because it allowed them to learn in their native language with other Spanish-speakers. The data did not support that hypothesis.</p> <p>The study looked at the relationship of engagement to the students&#8217; perception of the relevance of the material to college studies, everyday life, testing and a future job. Engagement was highest when students found the content related to everyday life.</p>
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<p>Human Rights Campaign President Joe Solmonese (DC Agenda photo by Michael Key)</p> <p>Joe Solmonese, president of the Human Rights Campaign, jumped into the debate triggered this week by gay Army Lt. Dan Choi over whether LGBT leaders and organizations are doing enough to advance LGBT equality, saying there should be a place for different tactics and strategies, including civil disobedience.</p> <p>In response to questions from DC Agenda, Solmonese disputed Choi&#8217;s assertion that a deep &#8220;schism&#8221; exists in the LGBT movement over tactics and strategy.</p> <p>Here are Solmonese&#8217;s responses to our questions:</p> <p>DC Agenda: Dan Choi told Newsweek that groups like HRC &#8220;do not represent us if all you are looking for is a ladder to elite society.&#8221; He also said there&#8217;s a &#8220;deep schism&#8221; in the gay movement over strategy and tactics. What&#8217;s HRC&#8217;s response to this?</p> <p>Joe Solmonese: Any healthy and diverse social movement will have a diversity of voices and opinions. Individuals and groups will take different approaches based on their ideology, life experience and other sincerely and deeply held beliefs about the political process. This is not indicative of a schism, but rather a sign of vibrant engagement.</p> <p>Differences over tactics are nothing new; they have been a part of the LGBT rights movement since its inception. While there are some differences over strategy and tactics, there is a wide and deep consensus about movement priorities &#8212; LGBT non-discrimination laws (ENDA, DADT repeal, education, housing, credit, etc&#8230;), hate crimes protections and relationship recognition (marriage, DOMA repeal, domestic partnership benefits, adoption). Again, some in the community dissent from one or more of these goals, but these objectives enjoy significant support across the LGBT community.</p> <p>Quick facts on our work:</p> <p>&#8226; Our recent efforts across the country, with particular emphasis on 103 priority congressional districts, have resulted in over 190,000 phone calls and e-mails to members of Congress.</p> <p>&#8226; 2,500 veterans recently said in a survey they&#8217;re willing to take action to repeal &#8220;Don&#8217;t Ask, Don&#8217;t Tell.&#8221;</p> <p>&#8226; Our members submitted over 1,300 letters to editors in papers in priority media markets.</p> <p>&#8226; Earlier this month, HRC sent 275 of our members to lobby on the Hill in support of ENDA, DADT and other key legislation.</p> <p>&#8226; Beyond the Beltway, our members conducted over 250 in-district lobby visits.</p> <p>&#8226; In 41 cities, we held events that highlighted veterans who are opposed to &#8220;Don&#8217;t Ask, Don&#8217;t Tell.&#8221; Over the next several months, we will conduct at least 20 more of these events.</p> <p>&#8226; In May, we will send an even larger number of veterans to the Hill to lobby for repeal of the &#8220;Don&#8217;t Ask, Don&#8217;t Tell&#8221; law.</p> <p>DC Agenda: What&#8217;s HRC&#8217;s view on how, or whether, non-violent civil disobedience action &#8212; as Dan Choi and Robin McGehee of the new national group GetEqual.org are now calling for &#8212; fits into the overall efforts to advance LGBT rights that HRC is working for?</p> <p>Solmonese: The beauty of our movement is that we have a dedicated community that is constantly searching for new and innovative ways to effect change in Washington and at home. Whether it be the actions last week or meeting with a senator in a district office, these are ways that our community continues to advocate for LGBT equality. Activism by Dan Choi and others has one common intent in mind that we also share: to advance equality in the fastest way possible. As we said last week, this is the nature of social change and everyone has a role to play.</p> <p>DC Agenda: Members of GetEqual.org, as you know, were arrested in the Washington and San Francisco offices of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in a protest over what they say is Pelosi and Congress&#8217;s failure to hold a vote this year on ENDA. HRC has not included ENDA on its list of LGBT-related bills it expects Congress to vote on this year. What is HRC&#8217;s understanding of why ENDA hasn&#8217;t been scheduled for a mark up in the House and Senate and may not be voted on in the Senate this year?</p> <p>Solmonese: The Human Rights Campaign and the entire LGBT community have worked hard over the last two years to build support in Congress to pass a fully inclusive Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA). In recent weeks, Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.), the lead sponsor of ENDA, has publicly stated on a number of occasions that he believes that the House should move ENDA in the coming weeks and that we can pass an inclusive bill. We agree. We also agree with Speaker Pelosi that ensuring we will win that vote and protect the bill from harmful amendments is a critical factor in timing of floor action.</p> <p>DC Agenda: Dan Choi and others have suggested that mainstream LGBT groups like HRC are too accommodating to the White House and congressional Democratic leaders on issues like ENDA and DADT. What is HRC&#8217;s current count of U.S. senators on an up or down vote on ENDA right now? Can you release a list of which of the 17 Democratic senators who are not ENDA co-sponsors will vote for or against ENDA?</p> <p>Solmonese: There has been understandable frustration in the community at the pace of progress at advancing some of the pieces of key legislation that are important to the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community. We continue to press the president and Congress to live up to the promises they made to advance real, substantive equality for LGBT Americans. It is critical that everyone in the LGBT community and our allies engage in this effort.</p> <p>All senators (or House members) who are not co-sponsors of ENDA, DADT or other LGBT bills are pursued as key votes needed in order to pass pro-equality legislation.</p> <p>DC Agenda: If you choose not to release this list, please explain why you feel it should not be released at this time. Many activists feel they could better direct their lobbying or &#8216;direct action&#8217; if they know which way their senators stand on ENDA. As far as I can see, HRC&#8217;s lengthy and detailed web site page on ENDA makes no mention at all of which lawmakers are for or against ENDA.</p> <p>Solmonese: Members&#8217; positions on ENDA are determined by their co-sponsorship of the legislation, a clear public statement or their vote. Ensuring we will win that vote and protect the bill from harmful amendments is a critical factor for determining floor action and timing. There are 17 Democratic senators and 39 Republican senators who are not cosponsors of ENDA. We must win 14 of these votes to get to 60 votes to overcome a potential filibuster. Unless a member of Congress makes a clear public statement, we do not assume we have their vote.</p> <p>Direct action toward a member of Congress should be done after a careful analysis of that member&#8217;s position on the issue and, if they are not publicly supportive, after determining why are they not publicly supportive. This involves significantly more research than checking a web site. HRC works every day with individual activists and organizations in those states and districts that require the most intensive grassroots work. Every LGBT person who cares about these issues should lobby their House member and two senators. Even cosponsors must be asked to do more to bring these bills to successful votes.</p> <p>DC Agenda: Robin McGehee of GetEqual.org says her group wants a vote on ENDA, even if there aren&#8217;t enough votes to pass it. What is HRC&#8217;s view on this? What are the pros and cons of having a vote on an important bill if you know in advance there aren&#8217;t enough votes to pass it?</p> <p>Solmonese: An unsuccessful vote can be very harmful to an issue and prevent successful action for many years. In some cases, having the vote can be a useful marker. Particularly in regard to ENDA, bringing the bill to the Senate floor without very careful consideration could result in some incredibly harmful amendments, some related to ENDA and other anti-LGBT-related amendments. Harmful congressional votes can spill over into fights over state legislation and into state and federal court cases. In addition, it is unusual for congressional leaders to schedule votes that are expected to fail.</p>
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HRC president responds to Choi protest <p>Human Rights Campaign President Joe Solmonese (DC Agenda photo by Michael Key)</p> <p>Joe Solmonese, president of the Human Rights Campaign, jumped into the debate triggered this week by gay Army Lt. Dan Choi over whether LGBT leaders and organizations are doing enough to advance LGBT equality, saying there should be a place for different tactics and strategies, including civil disobedience.</p> <p>In response to questions from DC Agenda, Solmonese disputed Choi&#8217;s assertion that a deep &#8220;schism&#8221; exists in the LGBT movement over tactics and strategy.</p> <p>Here are Solmonese&#8217;s responses to our questions:</p> <p>DC Agenda: Dan Choi told Newsweek that groups like HRC &#8220;do not represent us if all you are looking for is a ladder to elite society.&#8221; He also said there&#8217;s a &#8220;deep schism&#8221; in the gay movement over strategy and tactics. What&#8217;s HRC&#8217;s response to this?</p> <p>Joe Solmonese: Any healthy and diverse social movement will have a diversity of voices and opinions. Individuals and groups will take different approaches based on their ideology, life experience and other sincerely and deeply held beliefs about the political process. This is not indicative of a schism, but rather a sign of vibrant engagement.</p> <p>Differences over tactics are nothing new; they have been a part of the LGBT rights movement since its inception. While there are some differences over strategy and tactics, there is a wide and deep consensus about movement priorities &#8212; LGBT non-discrimination laws (ENDA, DADT repeal, education, housing, credit, etc&#8230;), hate crimes protections and relationship recognition (marriage, DOMA repeal, domestic partnership benefits, adoption). Again, some in the community dissent from one or more of these goals, but these objectives enjoy significant support across the LGBT community.</p> <p>Quick facts on our work:</p> <p>&#8226; Our recent efforts across the country, with particular emphasis on 103 priority congressional districts, have resulted in over 190,000 phone calls and e-mails to members of Congress.</p> <p>&#8226; 2,500 veterans recently said in a survey they&#8217;re willing to take action to repeal &#8220;Don&#8217;t Ask, Don&#8217;t Tell.&#8221;</p> <p>&#8226; Our members submitted over 1,300 letters to editors in papers in priority media markets.</p> <p>&#8226; Earlier this month, HRC sent 275 of our members to lobby on the Hill in support of ENDA, DADT and other key legislation.</p> <p>&#8226; Beyond the Beltway, our members conducted over 250 in-district lobby visits.</p> <p>&#8226; In 41 cities, we held events that highlighted veterans who are opposed to &#8220;Don&#8217;t Ask, Don&#8217;t Tell.&#8221; Over the next several months, we will conduct at least 20 more of these events.</p> <p>&#8226; In May, we will send an even larger number of veterans to the Hill to lobby for repeal of the &#8220;Don&#8217;t Ask, Don&#8217;t Tell&#8221; law.</p> <p>DC Agenda: What&#8217;s HRC&#8217;s view on how, or whether, non-violent civil disobedience action &#8212; as Dan Choi and Robin McGehee of the new national group GetEqual.org are now calling for &#8212; fits into the overall efforts to advance LGBT rights that HRC is working for?</p> <p>Solmonese: The beauty of our movement is that we have a dedicated community that is constantly searching for new and innovative ways to effect change in Washington and at home. Whether it be the actions last week or meeting with a senator in a district office, these are ways that our community continues to advocate for LGBT equality. Activism by Dan Choi and others has one common intent in mind that we also share: to advance equality in the fastest way possible. As we said last week, this is the nature of social change and everyone has a role to play.</p> <p>DC Agenda: Members of GetEqual.org, as you know, were arrested in the Washington and San Francisco offices of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in a protest over what they say is Pelosi and Congress&#8217;s failure to hold a vote this year on ENDA. HRC has not included ENDA on its list of LGBT-related bills it expects Congress to vote on this year. What is HRC&#8217;s understanding of why ENDA hasn&#8217;t been scheduled for a mark up in the House and Senate and may not be voted on in the Senate this year?</p> <p>Solmonese: The Human Rights Campaign and the entire LGBT community have worked hard over the last two years to build support in Congress to pass a fully inclusive Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA). In recent weeks, Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.), the lead sponsor of ENDA, has publicly stated on a number of occasions that he believes that the House should move ENDA in the coming weeks and that we can pass an inclusive bill. We agree. We also agree with Speaker Pelosi that ensuring we will win that vote and protect the bill from harmful amendments is a critical factor in timing of floor action.</p> <p>DC Agenda: Dan Choi and others have suggested that mainstream LGBT groups like HRC are too accommodating to the White House and congressional Democratic leaders on issues like ENDA and DADT. What is HRC&#8217;s current count of U.S. senators on an up or down vote on ENDA right now? Can you release a list of which of the 17 Democratic senators who are not ENDA co-sponsors will vote for or against ENDA?</p> <p>Solmonese: There has been understandable frustration in the community at the pace of progress at advancing some of the pieces of key legislation that are important to the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community. We continue to press the president and Congress to live up to the promises they made to advance real, substantive equality for LGBT Americans. It is critical that everyone in the LGBT community and our allies engage in this effort.</p> <p>All senators (or House members) who are not co-sponsors of ENDA, DADT or other LGBT bills are pursued as key votes needed in order to pass pro-equality legislation.</p> <p>DC Agenda: If you choose not to release this list, please explain why you feel it should not be released at this time. Many activists feel they could better direct their lobbying or &#8216;direct action&#8217; if they know which way their senators stand on ENDA. As far as I can see, HRC&#8217;s lengthy and detailed web site page on ENDA makes no mention at all of which lawmakers are for or against ENDA.</p> <p>Solmonese: Members&#8217; positions on ENDA are determined by their co-sponsorship of the legislation, a clear public statement or their vote. Ensuring we will win that vote and protect the bill from harmful amendments is a critical factor for determining floor action and timing. There are 17 Democratic senators and 39 Republican senators who are not cosponsors of ENDA. We must win 14 of these votes to get to 60 votes to overcome a potential filibuster. Unless a member of Congress makes a clear public statement, we do not assume we have their vote.</p> <p>Direct action toward a member of Congress should be done after a careful analysis of that member&#8217;s position on the issue and, if they are not publicly supportive, after determining why are they not publicly supportive. This involves significantly more research than checking a web site. HRC works every day with individual activists and organizations in those states and districts that require the most intensive grassroots work. Every LGBT person who cares about these issues should lobby their House member and two senators. Even cosponsors must be asked to do more to bring these bills to successful votes.</p> <p>DC Agenda: Robin McGehee of GetEqual.org says her group wants a vote on ENDA, even if there aren&#8217;t enough votes to pass it. What is HRC&#8217;s view on this? What are the pros and cons of having a vote on an important bill if you know in advance there aren&#8217;t enough votes to pass it?</p> <p>Solmonese: An unsuccessful vote can be very harmful to an issue and prevent successful action for many years. In some cases, having the vote can be a useful marker. Particularly in regard to ENDA, bringing the bill to the Senate floor without very careful consideration could result in some incredibly harmful amendments, some related to ENDA and other anti-LGBT-related amendments. Harmful congressional votes can spill over into fights over state legislation and into state and federal court cases. In addition, it is unusual for congressional leaders to schedule votes that are expected to fail.</p>
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<p>Palestinians across the West Bank and Gaza celebrated the return of their loved ones last Sunday as the final wave of prisoners were released in an exchange between Hamas and Israel. However, one prisoner was notably absent. Marwan Barghouti, the jailed Fatah leader known by many Palestinians as the &#8220;prince of resistance&#8221;, remains behind bars in Israel despite promises from the Palestinian leadership that his freedom would be secured through the exchange of captive Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit. On the eve of the prisoner swap, Barghouti released a 255-page book, written secretly behind bars and smuggled out via lawyers and family members, detailing his experience in Israeli jails.</p> <p>Barghouti is a figure of towering reverence among Palestinians and even some Israelis, regardless of political persuasion. Yet, he was reluctant to begin a life in the political spotlight. In fact, the Israeli occupation came to him, his long-time friend Sa&#8217;ad Nimer noted during a long conversation in a dank Ramallah coffee shop. When Barghouti was just 15, living in the small village of Kober just outside Ramallah, Israeli soldiers shot his beloved dog during a military sweep of the village. From that moment on, Nimer said in a haze of nostalgia, the occupation was a personal issue for Barghouti.</p> <p>A natural leader with admirable charisma and an unwavering hatred of Israeli occupation, Barghouti has been an active political leader since the early 1980s. At age 18, during one of his early stints in an Israeli prison for political organising, he was elected the prisoner representative, a task which required him to unify competing political affiliations of prisoners and negotiate with Israeli authorities. The appointment foreshadowed a long career of uniting Palestinians regardless of political agenda.</p> <p>Despite his vocal support for the two-state solution and attempts at reconciliation with Israeli civil society, Barghouti has remained a puzzling and aggressive figure for Israel. &#8220;When Marwan got out of jail the second time [in 1982 at age 23], the Israelis did not know what to do with him,&#8221; said Nimer, who is the director of the Free Marwan Baghouti Campaign based in Ramallah. In the early 1980s, Barghouti was a primary organiser in the Shabibia movement, a Fatah-based student group that campaigned for better education standards in Palestine. The movement, still active in the West Bank, was a primary organising vehicle of the First Intifada.</p> <p>While not overtly against the occupation, Barghouti&#8217;s early political activity was understood by Israel as a threat and he was deported to Jordan under extraordinary circumstances. According to Nimer, &#8220;Jordan was not taking deportees at the time, so the Israelis just put him on a helicopter and dropped him into the middle of the Jordanian desert, desperate to get rid of him&#8221;.</p> <p>From Jordan, Barghouti helped organise the First Intifada, relaying messages and tactics to Palestinians, mostly aligned with Shabibia, in the West Bank. After the signing of the Oslo peace accords in 1994 he returned to the West Bank as a member of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC), the parliament of the Palestinian Authority, and embraced the peace process wholeheartedly.</p> <p>During his time as a PLC member, he maintained a tough stance on corruption inside Palestinian politics and won himself many enemies in the upper echelons of power in the West Bank and Gaza. Unlike many of his colleagues in the PLC, Barghouti was never appointed to public office and derived his political capital directly from the people who consistently provided him with strong electoral results.</p> <p>For Kadoura Fares, the current president of the Palestinian Prisoners Association and former member of the PLC, Barghouti&#8217;s pragmatic approach to peace during the 1990s demonstrated his overarching desire to end Israeli occupation at all costs. &#8220;We had a meeting with Israeli officials in Jerusalem in 1996,&#8221; Fares told me in his comfortable Ramallah office adorned with paintings of the Palestinian national poet Mahmoud Darwish. &#8220;I was very worried because of the negative reaction of many Palestinians towards meeting with the Israelis, but Marwan calmed me down. He told me that it was the time for peace and we must pursue it despite the public pressure. He would always say that there is a time for peace and a time for resistance. It was a time for peace.&#8221;</p> <p>When Oslo collapsed and the Second Intifada engulfed Israel and the Palestinian territories in violence, Barghouti embraced armed resistance. He assumed a leadership position in Fatah&#8217;s armed wing, coordinating attacks against the Israeli military in the West Bank and Israeli civilians in Tel Aviv. It is for these activities that Israelis understand Barghouti as a terrorist leader. His friends and colleagues maintain that his support of armed resistance as a vehicle to achieving an end to occupation was in line with the popular sentiments expressed on the street at the time.</p> <p>&#8220;He got credibility for supporting armed resistance from the Palestinian street,&#8221; recalls Laila Jamal, a member of the Palestinian Authority&#8217;s media department from the village of Salfit in the central West Bank. &#8220;During that time, we saw the occupation in action and everyone supported armed resistance. He understood this and acted in line with the popular sentiment.&#8221;</p> <p>Barghouti was arrested by Israeli forces conducting sweeps in Ramallah in April 2002 while he was a sitting member of the Palestinian Legislative Council. He was quickly transferred to Israel for trial in a civilian court on multiple counts of murder including authorising and organising an attack in Tel Aviv in which many civilians were killed, attempted murder and membership in a terrorist organisation.</p> <p>Citing the illegitimacy of the Israeli legal system over occupied Palestinians, Barghouti refused to accept the charges or stage a defence in the Tel Aviv court. During the drawn out proceedings, he delivered impassioned and researched speeches arguing that the court and the practices of the Israeli military in the West Bank were illegal under international law.</p> <p>He never recognised the authority of the Israeli court system from his first statement to the judge in which he proclaimed, &#8220;I am a political leader, a member of the Palestinian Legislative Council, elected by my people. Israel has no right to try me, to accuse me, judge me. This is a violation of international law. I have a right to resist occupation.&#8221; Dismissing the allegation, Israel charged him with five life sentences for murdering Israelis and 40 years imprisonment for attempted murder, which he is currently serving.</p> <p>Since his conviction, Barghouti has done what he knows best; actively campaigning for the reunification of Palestinian political factions. After the 2006 Hamas-Fatah split, which resulted in bloody infighting among the factions, Barghouti organised a prisoners&#8217; campaign with members of Hamas, Fatah as well as PFLP and DFLP that called for immediate reunification. According to those close to him, like Fares, his work on Palestinian unity is a reason why so many Palestinian politicians are afraid of his freedom and a possible reason why he was left out of the recent prisoner swap.</p> <p>***</p> <p>If there is one experience that has the potential to unify the Palestinian people, it is the experience of being a prisoner in an Israeli military jail. Barghouti&#8217;s new book, One Thousand Nights in Solitude, is, at its core, a book about dealing with the Israeli prison system as a Palestinian. Reading like an instruction manual for coping with the experiences of interrogation and prolonged detainment, the book breaks new ground in the underreported subject of Israel&#8217;s treatment of Palestinian political prisoners.</p> <p>Israel&#8217;s military court system has processed roughly 750,000 Palestinians according to the Red Crescent, but exact numbers are hard to obtain. In fact, any sort of exact information about Israel&#8217;s military jail system is difficult to find given its role as one of the primary Israeli mechanisms of controlling Palestinian dissent and nascent resistance to the occupation.</p> <p>According to a recent expose by the Israeli liberal daily Haaretz, military courts have an astonishingly high conviction rate of 99.74 per cent. Many Palestinian defendants are put through a programme of psychological and physical torture that often results in coerced testimonies necessary in the maintenance of a high conviction rate. Haaretz has also released reports seemingly confirming the widespread belief that torture is widely used and that Israeli military judges are often aware that information used in tribunals is obtained through psychological and physical torture.</p> <p>&#8220;He is trying to create a civil resistance inside the military prison system,&#8221; said Majad Abdel Hamid, a young artist and political activist in Ramallah. &#8220;If all Palestinians refused to recognise the legitimacy of the Israeli military court system, Israel would be in big trouble. This is partly what the new book is about.&#8221;</p> <p>Kept in solitary confinement for an extended period and put through various periods of psychological and even physical torture, Barghouti&#8217;s book details the tenacity required to not wilt under such difficult conditions. In the first chapter, he describes in verbose language how Israel used various interrogators to coerce information out of him regarding senior Fatah leaders in the West Bank. This common procedure was extremely tough on Barghouti since, in the words of Sa&#8217;ad Nimer, &#8220;they wanted information tying Yasser Arafat to terrorism and they never got it from Marwan&#8221;.</p> <p>Following a political career best understood as leading by example, Barghouti sets out to demonstrate how Palestinians can achieve a meaningful non-violent resistance against the military court system. In addition to the practical information of surviving within the Israeli prison system, he details his arguments for Palestinian political unity as a means of resistance to Israeli occupation.</p> <p>The book devotes great detail to his three years housed in a tiny cell (measuring one by 1.5 metres) in solitary confinement. It is from this experience that the title,&amp;#160;One Thousand Nights in Solitude&amp;#160;was born.</p> <p>Fadwa Barghouti is a carefully appointed woman who has spearheaded her husband&#8217;s awareness campaign since the beginning of his current imprisonment. From the same village of Kober, Fadwa is a distant relative of Marwan, sharing the same fourth-generation great grandfather. Sitting in her comfortable office overlooking the Muqata compound where Yasser Arafat was confined by Israeli forces at the height of the Second Intifada, Fadwa remains confident that her husband will be released soon, but is visibly upset at the recent failure by Hamas to gain his freedom. &#8220;I know why he was not released,&#8221; she told me sipping sugary tea, &#8220;but I am not going to tell you.&#8221;</p> <p>Sitting under the ubiquitous photo of her husband surrounded by Israeli prison guards with handcuffed hands held high, she glowingly reports that he is using his time in prison to enrich himself intellectually.</p> <p>He is a ferocious reader, consuming books in English, Arabic, Hebrew and French on topics ranging from French colonial rule in Algeria to the latest biographies of the former US president Bill Clinton and Margaret Thatcher, the former British prime minister. He also has a deep respect for the work of Paulo Coehlo and the Israeli philosopher Yeshayahu Liebowitz. Additionally, Barghouti has written two books and completed his PhD from the University of Cairo entitled,&amp;#160;The Legislative and Political Performance of the Palestinian Legislative Council and its Contribution to the Democratic Process in Palestine from 1996 to 2008. His doctorate, like the recent book, was smuggled out of jail one page at a time and took years to complete.</p> <p>In addition to maintaining public and international pressure on Palestinian and Israeli leaders for the release of her husband, Fadwa has had to raise her family without a father. One of their three sons is now living in the United Kingdom while completing his higher education. His other two sons and one daughter live in the West Bank and are known in Ramallah for their active social lives and lack of interest in Palestinian national politics. Fadwa&#8217;s dedication to her husband is demonstrated in the romantic language used to describe his meaning to the Palestinian people.</p> <p>&#8220;Marwan Barghouti is the natural leader of the Palestinian people,&#8221; Fadwa said. &#8220;In opinion polls, he is regularly shown to be the choice of Palestinians because of his adherence to the two-state solution, his fight against corruption and for the rights of women and democracy. The people want Marwan Barghouti to lead them in their fight against occupation.&#8221;</p> <p>Palestinians are exhausted from the emotional and physical toll of the Second Intifada. Most express dismay at the infighting that has plagued the political establishment since the 2006 fallout between Hamas and Fatah but offer little solution for dealing with it. There is also a sense that the political establishment is no longer working in the interests of the people despite the highly popular attempt to achieve statehood recognition at the United Nations earlier this year, which Barghouti supported from jail.</p> <p>&#8220;I think what is needed now from the leadership is to have honesty and self-reflection. In a way, this is one of the strengths of Marwan Barghouti in that he is honest with Palestinians. He doesn&#8217;t b******* us. We are sick and tired of Palestinian leaders who [do],&#8221; said Majd Abdel Hamid, who is part of the March 15th youth movement that demanded reconciliation of political factions earlier this year after the revolutions in Egypt and Tunisia reshaped the Middle East. He does not support any Palestinian political party, like many in the March 15th movement, but believes that Barghouti has the power to open a new chapter in the Palestinian national struggle if only he is released from jail.</p> <p>Dancing around the subject of the recent prisoner swap, Fadwa Barghouti remains confident that the current political leadership is afraid of a free Barghouti. For five years she was told by Fatah and Hamas leaders that her husband&#8217;s freedom would come in the form of the captive Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit. But, at the last minute, a month before the controversial deal between Hamas and Israel was signed in Egypt, Barghouti, along with nine other senior political prisoners, were dropped from this list.</p> <p>&#8220;I believe that there was a weak attempt in the prisoners swap to free my husband,&#8221; Fadwa said, asserting that securing her husband&#8217;s release was indeed possible. &#8220;I am talking about the Palestinian leadership of Hamas and Fatah. The people have been demanding his release for the last 10 years and they simply ignored the people&#8217;s will.&#8221;</p> <p>Indeed, Marwan Barghouti is often cited as a potential replacement for Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. Barghouti along with Kadoura Fares and Mohammad Dahlan threatened to begin an independent party called Al-Mustaqbal (The Future) in 2005 after Abbas offered Barghouti second place in Fatah despite clear indications that Barghouti would win national election. Ultimately, according to Fares, Barghouti felt that a second party would harm Palestinian unity and ran on the Fatah party ticket, securing a seat in the PLC as a Fatah member.</p> <p>Due to the belief that Barghouti would be part of the recent prisoner swap, the grassroots movement to free him has lost momentum in recent years.</p> <p>But, according to Fadwa Barghouti, things have changed and with the release of his new book there are renewed efforts to pressure the Palestinian leadership to negotiate his release. The Free Marwan Barghouti campaign is planning to stage several demonstrations in March under the banner that Palestinians refuse negotiations with Israel without a free Barghouti to lead them.</p> <p>&#8220;The pressure is on the politicians, all the politicians, to release Marwan if they want to move forward with negotiations with Israel,&#8221; Fadwa told me. &#8220;Palestinians want their leader to move them forward and the political establishment will have to deal with this reality in the new year.&#8221;</p> <p>Whenever discussions arise about Marwan Barghouti in Israel or Palestine, one name is unavoidable: Nelson Mandela. In the 1990s, dovish Israeli politicians and political thinkers such as Uri Avenry began calling Barghouti Palestine&#8217;s Mandela. The comparison is not without merit: both leaders have refused to swear off armed resistance, both have spent long periods of time in jail, unwilling to cooperate with authorities, and both have enjoyed a unique loyalty from their people that has transcended political affiliations. Israeli society will continue to see Barghouti as a symbol of the violent Second Intifada, but after his inevitable release, they will likely be seeing him sitting at a negotiations table working to end the conflict and dismantle the Israeli occupation.</p> <p>After the statehood campaign in the UN that failed to achieve independence, Palestinians are left with a power vacuum and a tough road to reconciliation. Now, more than ever, a leader is required to bring Palestine&#8217;s political factions together. When asked who might be the leader to open a new chapter in Palestinian politics, Kadura Fares paused, and took a long drag from his ever present cigarette, &#8220;it is not necessarily one individual who can do that with the snap of his fingers. Abu Mazen tried, he did a lot, but it was not enough, but I do think that Marwan could be the person.&#8221;</p> <p>Joseph Dana is a journalist based in Ramallah.</p> <p>This article originally appeared in <a href="http://www.thenational.ae/" type="external">The National</a>.</p>
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One Thousand Nights in Solitude <p>Palestinians across the West Bank and Gaza celebrated the return of their loved ones last Sunday as the final wave of prisoners were released in an exchange between Hamas and Israel. However, one prisoner was notably absent. Marwan Barghouti, the jailed Fatah leader known by many Palestinians as the &#8220;prince of resistance&#8221;, remains behind bars in Israel despite promises from the Palestinian leadership that his freedom would be secured through the exchange of captive Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit. On the eve of the prisoner swap, Barghouti released a 255-page book, written secretly behind bars and smuggled out via lawyers and family members, detailing his experience in Israeli jails.</p> <p>Barghouti is a figure of towering reverence among Palestinians and even some Israelis, regardless of political persuasion. Yet, he was reluctant to begin a life in the political spotlight. In fact, the Israeli occupation came to him, his long-time friend Sa&#8217;ad Nimer noted during a long conversation in a dank Ramallah coffee shop. When Barghouti was just 15, living in the small village of Kober just outside Ramallah, Israeli soldiers shot his beloved dog during a military sweep of the village. From that moment on, Nimer said in a haze of nostalgia, the occupation was a personal issue for Barghouti.</p> <p>A natural leader with admirable charisma and an unwavering hatred of Israeli occupation, Barghouti has been an active political leader since the early 1980s. At age 18, during one of his early stints in an Israeli prison for political organising, he was elected the prisoner representative, a task which required him to unify competing political affiliations of prisoners and negotiate with Israeli authorities. The appointment foreshadowed a long career of uniting Palestinians regardless of political agenda.</p> <p>Despite his vocal support for the two-state solution and attempts at reconciliation with Israeli civil society, Barghouti has remained a puzzling and aggressive figure for Israel. &#8220;When Marwan got out of jail the second time [in 1982 at age 23], the Israelis did not know what to do with him,&#8221; said Nimer, who is the director of the Free Marwan Baghouti Campaign based in Ramallah. In the early 1980s, Barghouti was a primary organiser in the Shabibia movement, a Fatah-based student group that campaigned for better education standards in Palestine. The movement, still active in the West Bank, was a primary organising vehicle of the First Intifada.</p> <p>While not overtly against the occupation, Barghouti&#8217;s early political activity was understood by Israel as a threat and he was deported to Jordan under extraordinary circumstances. According to Nimer, &#8220;Jordan was not taking deportees at the time, so the Israelis just put him on a helicopter and dropped him into the middle of the Jordanian desert, desperate to get rid of him&#8221;.</p> <p>From Jordan, Barghouti helped organise the First Intifada, relaying messages and tactics to Palestinians, mostly aligned with Shabibia, in the West Bank. After the signing of the Oslo peace accords in 1994 he returned to the West Bank as a member of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC), the parliament of the Palestinian Authority, and embraced the peace process wholeheartedly.</p> <p>During his time as a PLC member, he maintained a tough stance on corruption inside Palestinian politics and won himself many enemies in the upper echelons of power in the West Bank and Gaza. Unlike many of his colleagues in the PLC, Barghouti was never appointed to public office and derived his political capital directly from the people who consistently provided him with strong electoral results.</p> <p>For Kadoura Fares, the current president of the Palestinian Prisoners Association and former member of the PLC, Barghouti&#8217;s pragmatic approach to peace during the 1990s demonstrated his overarching desire to end Israeli occupation at all costs. &#8220;We had a meeting with Israeli officials in Jerusalem in 1996,&#8221; Fares told me in his comfortable Ramallah office adorned with paintings of the Palestinian national poet Mahmoud Darwish. &#8220;I was very worried because of the negative reaction of many Palestinians towards meeting with the Israelis, but Marwan calmed me down. He told me that it was the time for peace and we must pursue it despite the public pressure. He would always say that there is a time for peace and a time for resistance. It was a time for peace.&#8221;</p> <p>When Oslo collapsed and the Second Intifada engulfed Israel and the Palestinian territories in violence, Barghouti embraced armed resistance. He assumed a leadership position in Fatah&#8217;s armed wing, coordinating attacks against the Israeli military in the West Bank and Israeli civilians in Tel Aviv. It is for these activities that Israelis understand Barghouti as a terrorist leader. His friends and colleagues maintain that his support of armed resistance as a vehicle to achieving an end to occupation was in line with the popular sentiments expressed on the street at the time.</p> <p>&#8220;He got credibility for supporting armed resistance from the Palestinian street,&#8221; recalls Laila Jamal, a member of the Palestinian Authority&#8217;s media department from the village of Salfit in the central West Bank. &#8220;During that time, we saw the occupation in action and everyone supported armed resistance. He understood this and acted in line with the popular sentiment.&#8221;</p> <p>Barghouti was arrested by Israeli forces conducting sweeps in Ramallah in April 2002 while he was a sitting member of the Palestinian Legislative Council. He was quickly transferred to Israel for trial in a civilian court on multiple counts of murder including authorising and organising an attack in Tel Aviv in which many civilians were killed, attempted murder and membership in a terrorist organisation.</p> <p>Citing the illegitimacy of the Israeli legal system over occupied Palestinians, Barghouti refused to accept the charges or stage a defence in the Tel Aviv court. During the drawn out proceedings, he delivered impassioned and researched speeches arguing that the court and the practices of the Israeli military in the West Bank were illegal under international law.</p> <p>He never recognised the authority of the Israeli court system from his first statement to the judge in which he proclaimed, &#8220;I am a political leader, a member of the Palestinian Legislative Council, elected by my people. Israel has no right to try me, to accuse me, judge me. This is a violation of international law. I have a right to resist occupation.&#8221; Dismissing the allegation, Israel charged him with five life sentences for murdering Israelis and 40 years imprisonment for attempted murder, which he is currently serving.</p> <p>Since his conviction, Barghouti has done what he knows best; actively campaigning for the reunification of Palestinian political factions. After the 2006 Hamas-Fatah split, which resulted in bloody infighting among the factions, Barghouti organised a prisoners&#8217; campaign with members of Hamas, Fatah as well as PFLP and DFLP that called for immediate reunification. According to those close to him, like Fares, his work on Palestinian unity is a reason why so many Palestinian politicians are afraid of his freedom and a possible reason why he was left out of the recent prisoner swap.</p> <p>***</p> <p>If there is one experience that has the potential to unify the Palestinian people, it is the experience of being a prisoner in an Israeli military jail. Barghouti&#8217;s new book, One Thousand Nights in Solitude, is, at its core, a book about dealing with the Israeli prison system as a Palestinian. Reading like an instruction manual for coping with the experiences of interrogation and prolonged detainment, the book breaks new ground in the underreported subject of Israel&#8217;s treatment of Palestinian political prisoners.</p> <p>Israel&#8217;s military court system has processed roughly 750,000 Palestinians according to the Red Crescent, but exact numbers are hard to obtain. In fact, any sort of exact information about Israel&#8217;s military jail system is difficult to find given its role as one of the primary Israeli mechanisms of controlling Palestinian dissent and nascent resistance to the occupation.</p> <p>According to a recent expose by the Israeli liberal daily Haaretz, military courts have an astonishingly high conviction rate of 99.74 per cent. Many Palestinian defendants are put through a programme of psychological and physical torture that often results in coerced testimonies necessary in the maintenance of a high conviction rate. Haaretz has also released reports seemingly confirming the widespread belief that torture is widely used and that Israeli military judges are often aware that information used in tribunals is obtained through psychological and physical torture.</p> <p>&#8220;He is trying to create a civil resistance inside the military prison system,&#8221; said Majad Abdel Hamid, a young artist and political activist in Ramallah. &#8220;If all Palestinians refused to recognise the legitimacy of the Israeli military court system, Israel would be in big trouble. This is partly what the new book is about.&#8221;</p> <p>Kept in solitary confinement for an extended period and put through various periods of psychological and even physical torture, Barghouti&#8217;s book details the tenacity required to not wilt under such difficult conditions. In the first chapter, he describes in verbose language how Israel used various interrogators to coerce information out of him regarding senior Fatah leaders in the West Bank. This common procedure was extremely tough on Barghouti since, in the words of Sa&#8217;ad Nimer, &#8220;they wanted information tying Yasser Arafat to terrorism and they never got it from Marwan&#8221;.</p> <p>Following a political career best understood as leading by example, Barghouti sets out to demonstrate how Palestinians can achieve a meaningful non-violent resistance against the military court system. In addition to the practical information of surviving within the Israeli prison system, he details his arguments for Palestinian political unity as a means of resistance to Israeli occupation.</p> <p>The book devotes great detail to his three years housed in a tiny cell (measuring one by 1.5 metres) in solitary confinement. It is from this experience that the title,&amp;#160;One Thousand Nights in Solitude&amp;#160;was born.</p> <p>Fadwa Barghouti is a carefully appointed woman who has spearheaded her husband&#8217;s awareness campaign since the beginning of his current imprisonment. From the same village of Kober, Fadwa is a distant relative of Marwan, sharing the same fourth-generation great grandfather. Sitting in her comfortable office overlooking the Muqata compound where Yasser Arafat was confined by Israeli forces at the height of the Second Intifada, Fadwa remains confident that her husband will be released soon, but is visibly upset at the recent failure by Hamas to gain his freedom. &#8220;I know why he was not released,&#8221; she told me sipping sugary tea, &#8220;but I am not going to tell you.&#8221;</p> <p>Sitting under the ubiquitous photo of her husband surrounded by Israeli prison guards with handcuffed hands held high, she glowingly reports that he is using his time in prison to enrich himself intellectually.</p> <p>He is a ferocious reader, consuming books in English, Arabic, Hebrew and French on topics ranging from French colonial rule in Algeria to the latest biographies of the former US president Bill Clinton and Margaret Thatcher, the former British prime minister. He also has a deep respect for the work of Paulo Coehlo and the Israeli philosopher Yeshayahu Liebowitz. Additionally, Barghouti has written two books and completed his PhD from the University of Cairo entitled,&amp;#160;The Legislative and Political Performance of the Palestinian Legislative Council and its Contribution to the Democratic Process in Palestine from 1996 to 2008. His doctorate, like the recent book, was smuggled out of jail one page at a time and took years to complete.</p> <p>In addition to maintaining public and international pressure on Palestinian and Israeli leaders for the release of her husband, Fadwa has had to raise her family without a father. One of their three sons is now living in the United Kingdom while completing his higher education. His other two sons and one daughter live in the West Bank and are known in Ramallah for their active social lives and lack of interest in Palestinian national politics. Fadwa&#8217;s dedication to her husband is demonstrated in the romantic language used to describe his meaning to the Palestinian people.</p> <p>&#8220;Marwan Barghouti is the natural leader of the Palestinian people,&#8221; Fadwa said. &#8220;In opinion polls, he is regularly shown to be the choice of Palestinians because of his adherence to the two-state solution, his fight against corruption and for the rights of women and democracy. The people want Marwan Barghouti to lead them in their fight against occupation.&#8221;</p> <p>Palestinians are exhausted from the emotional and physical toll of the Second Intifada. Most express dismay at the infighting that has plagued the political establishment since the 2006 fallout between Hamas and Fatah but offer little solution for dealing with it. There is also a sense that the political establishment is no longer working in the interests of the people despite the highly popular attempt to achieve statehood recognition at the United Nations earlier this year, which Barghouti supported from jail.</p> <p>&#8220;I think what is needed now from the leadership is to have honesty and self-reflection. In a way, this is one of the strengths of Marwan Barghouti in that he is honest with Palestinians. He doesn&#8217;t b******* us. We are sick and tired of Palestinian leaders who [do],&#8221; said Majd Abdel Hamid, who is part of the March 15th youth movement that demanded reconciliation of political factions earlier this year after the revolutions in Egypt and Tunisia reshaped the Middle East. He does not support any Palestinian political party, like many in the March 15th movement, but believes that Barghouti has the power to open a new chapter in the Palestinian national struggle if only he is released from jail.</p> <p>Dancing around the subject of the recent prisoner swap, Fadwa Barghouti remains confident that the current political leadership is afraid of a free Barghouti. For five years she was told by Fatah and Hamas leaders that her husband&#8217;s freedom would come in the form of the captive Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit. But, at the last minute, a month before the controversial deal between Hamas and Israel was signed in Egypt, Barghouti, along with nine other senior political prisoners, were dropped from this list.</p> <p>&#8220;I believe that there was a weak attempt in the prisoners swap to free my husband,&#8221; Fadwa said, asserting that securing her husband&#8217;s release was indeed possible. &#8220;I am talking about the Palestinian leadership of Hamas and Fatah. The people have been demanding his release for the last 10 years and they simply ignored the people&#8217;s will.&#8221;</p> <p>Indeed, Marwan Barghouti is often cited as a potential replacement for Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. Barghouti along with Kadoura Fares and Mohammad Dahlan threatened to begin an independent party called Al-Mustaqbal (The Future) in 2005 after Abbas offered Barghouti second place in Fatah despite clear indications that Barghouti would win national election. Ultimately, according to Fares, Barghouti felt that a second party would harm Palestinian unity and ran on the Fatah party ticket, securing a seat in the PLC as a Fatah member.</p> <p>Due to the belief that Barghouti would be part of the recent prisoner swap, the grassroots movement to free him has lost momentum in recent years.</p> <p>But, according to Fadwa Barghouti, things have changed and with the release of his new book there are renewed efforts to pressure the Palestinian leadership to negotiate his release. The Free Marwan Barghouti campaign is planning to stage several demonstrations in March under the banner that Palestinians refuse negotiations with Israel without a free Barghouti to lead them.</p> <p>&#8220;The pressure is on the politicians, all the politicians, to release Marwan if they want to move forward with negotiations with Israel,&#8221; Fadwa told me. &#8220;Palestinians want their leader to move them forward and the political establishment will have to deal with this reality in the new year.&#8221;</p> <p>Whenever discussions arise about Marwan Barghouti in Israel or Palestine, one name is unavoidable: Nelson Mandela. In the 1990s, dovish Israeli politicians and political thinkers such as Uri Avenry began calling Barghouti Palestine&#8217;s Mandela. The comparison is not without merit: both leaders have refused to swear off armed resistance, both have spent long periods of time in jail, unwilling to cooperate with authorities, and both have enjoyed a unique loyalty from their people that has transcended political affiliations. Israeli society will continue to see Barghouti as a symbol of the violent Second Intifada, but after his inevitable release, they will likely be seeing him sitting at a negotiations table working to end the conflict and dismantle the Israeli occupation.</p> <p>After the statehood campaign in the UN that failed to achieve independence, Palestinians are left with a power vacuum and a tough road to reconciliation. Now, more than ever, a leader is required to bring Palestine&#8217;s political factions together. When asked who might be the leader to open a new chapter in Palestinian politics, Kadura Fares paused, and took a long drag from his ever present cigarette, &#8220;it is not necessarily one individual who can do that with the snap of his fingers. Abu Mazen tried, he did a lot, but it was not enough, but I do think that Marwan could be the person.&#8221;</p> <p>Joseph Dana is a journalist based in Ramallah.</p> <p>This article originally appeared in <a href="http://www.thenational.ae/" type="external">The National</a>.</p>
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<p /> <p>Business is booming in Green Bay.</p> <p>Continue Reading Below</p> <p>The Packers posted a second straight club record in profits over the one year period ending March 31. The team&#8217;s profit jumped 26% from one year ago, climbing to $54.3 million.</p> <p>A decrease in player contracts helped lower the team&#8217;s expenses, which decreased by $5.2 million to $253.8 million, while player expenses fell $19 million to $136 million.</p> <p>Packers&#8217; CEO and President Matt Murphy attributed the decline in expenses to the late signings of star players Aaron Rodgers and Clay Matthews. Rodgers, who was voted the league&#8217;s Most Valuable Player in 2011, signed a five-year, $110 million contract extension while linebacker Matthews agreed to a five-year extension for $65 million. Both deals were reached in late April and therefore not included in the latest report.</p> <p>Local revenue fell by 2% to $128 million while national revenue climbed to $180 million, totaling an overall revenue increase of 2% to $308 million.</p> <p>The Packers are required to release fiscal information each year since it is the only NFL team that is not privately owned. Rather, the team has been publicly owned by fans since 1923, despite the fact that shares cannot be sold or traded.</p> <p>Advertisement</p> <p>Fans have financially supported the team through five stock sales; 1923, 1935, 1950, 1997 and 2011. &amp;#160;The most recent stock offering, which ended in February 2012, attracted more than 250,000 new shareholders who purchased more than 269,000 shares, bringing the total number of owners to approximately 364,000. All proceeds from the offering were used to help fund a $143 million renovation project at Lambeau Field. The expansion will add 7,000 seats in the south end-zone area of the field; including nine levels of viewing areas, suites and concession stands.</p> <p>The Packers will hold an annual meeting of shareholders on Wednesday, July 24.</p>
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Green Bay Packers Post Record Profit <p /> <p>Business is booming in Green Bay.</p> <p>Continue Reading Below</p> <p>The Packers posted a second straight club record in profits over the one year period ending March 31. The team&#8217;s profit jumped 26% from one year ago, climbing to $54.3 million.</p> <p>A decrease in player contracts helped lower the team&#8217;s expenses, which decreased by $5.2 million to $253.8 million, while player expenses fell $19 million to $136 million.</p> <p>Packers&#8217; CEO and President Matt Murphy attributed the decline in expenses to the late signings of star players Aaron Rodgers and Clay Matthews. Rodgers, who was voted the league&#8217;s Most Valuable Player in 2011, signed a five-year, $110 million contract extension while linebacker Matthews agreed to a five-year extension for $65 million. Both deals were reached in late April and therefore not included in the latest report.</p> <p>Local revenue fell by 2% to $128 million while national revenue climbed to $180 million, totaling an overall revenue increase of 2% to $308 million.</p> <p>The Packers are required to release fiscal information each year since it is the only NFL team that is not privately owned. Rather, the team has been publicly owned by fans since 1923, despite the fact that shares cannot be sold or traded.</p> <p>Advertisement</p> <p>Fans have financially supported the team through five stock sales; 1923, 1935, 1950, 1997 and 2011. &amp;#160;The most recent stock offering, which ended in February 2012, attracted more than 250,000 new shareholders who purchased more than 269,000 shares, bringing the total number of owners to approximately 364,000. All proceeds from the offering were used to help fund a $143 million renovation project at Lambeau Field. The expansion will add 7,000 seats in the south end-zone area of the field; including nine levels of viewing areas, suites and concession stands.</p> <p>The Packers will hold an annual meeting of shareholders on Wednesday, July 24.</p>
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Can SINA Keep Going After Last Week's 11% Pop? <p /> <p>Image source: SINA.</p> <p>Continue Reading Below</p> <p>Cutting loose with a chunk of one of its most valuable assets helped push shares of SINA (NASDAQ: SINA) higher last week. The Chinese internet portal climbed 11% on the week, after announcing a plan to distribute shares of its fast-growing microblogging site, Weibo (NASDAQ: WB).</p> <p>SINA will distribute a single share of Weibo next month for every 10 shares of SINA. The move will reduce SINA's equity stake in Weibo from 54% to 51%, but it will continue to own a dominant 75% of Weibo's voting power.</p> <p>Weibo stock also moved slightly higher on the week. The social-media darling saw its shares climb 2%, even if there are concerns that SINA shareholders will flood the market next month after receiving their Weibo shares. That's something that could happen. SINA shareholders can simply treat the distribution like a dividend that can be cashed out.</p> <p>Advertisement</p> <p>Viewing the partial distribution of Weibo as a dividend isn't enough to explain the 11% pop in SINA stock. The value of that single share of Weibo is actually less than 7% of the value of 10 shares of SINA.</p> <p>It's also important to point out that SINA shares have closed higher in nine consecutive trading days -- up 16% in that time -- so it's not as if this was the only thing pushing the stock higher. There's an impressive streak of positive momentum happening here, and that can string us all the way to earlier in August, when it posted <a href="http://www.fool.com/investing/2016/08/09/sina-corp-delivers-a-beat-and-raise.aspx?&amp;amp;utm_campaign=article&amp;amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;amp;utm_source=foxbusiness" type="external">strong financial results Opens a New Window.</a> for the second quarter.</p> <p>Revenue climbed 14% since the prior year, and adjusted earnings soared nearly fivefold. The stock landed well ahead of Wall Street's top- and bottom-line targets, but that's not much of a surprise. SINA has consistently beaten analyst profit expectations for more than a year.</p> <p>SINA's namesake portal isn't holding up as well as its results seem to suggest. There's a lot riding on Weibo. SINA posted a 16% year-over-year spike in online advertising during the second quarter, but that was a $38.4 million increase in Weibo advertising helping to bail out a $9.7 million decline in its portal advertising business.</p> <p>Weibo has been a big winner since going public at $17 two years ago. The stock has gone on to nearly triple in that time. It hasn't been a disappointment. Weibo had 130 million monthly active users when it went public. The tally is up to 282 million now.</p> <p>SINA is unlikely to unload all of its shares of Weibo -- it's too important -- but it can keep giving investors more shares in the future without relinquishing its controlling voting stake in the dot-com speedster. Weibo's success is a big reason for SINA's success, but it's not the only reason for the stock's recent good fortune.</p> <p>A secret billion-dollar stock opportunity The world's biggest tech company forgot to show you something, but a few Wall Street analysts and the Fool didn't miss a beat: There's a small company that's powering their brand-new gadgets and the coming revolution in technology. And we think its stock price has nearly unlimited room to run for early in-the-know investors! To be one of them, <a href="http://www.fool.com/mms/mark/ecap-foolcom-apple-wearable?aid=6965&amp;amp;source=irbeditxt0000017&amp;amp;ftm_cam=rb-wearable-d&amp;amp;ftm_pit=2668&amp;amp;ftm_veh=article_pitch&amp;amp;utm_campaign=article&amp;amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;amp;utm_source=foxbusiness" type="external">just click here Opens a New Window.</a>.</p> <p><a href="http://my.fool.com/profile/TMFBreakerRick/info.aspx" type="external">Rick Munarriz Opens a New Window.</a> has no position in any stocks mentioned. The Motley Fool recommends Sina. Try any of our Foolish newsletter services <a href="http://www.fool.com/shop/newsletters/index.aspx?source=isiedilnk018048&amp;amp;utm_campaign=article&amp;amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;amp;utm_source=foxbusiness" type="external">free for 30 days Opens a New Window.</a>. We Fools may not all hold the same opinions, but we all believe that <a href="http://www.fool.com/knowledge-center/motley.aspx?&amp;amp;utm_campaign=article&amp;amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;amp;utm_source=foxbusiness" type="external">considering a diverse range of insights Opens a New Window.</a> makes us better investors. The Motley Fool has a <a href="http://www.fool.com/Legal/fool-disclosure-policy.aspx?&amp;amp;utm_campaign=article&amp;amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;amp;utm_source=foxbusiness" type="external">disclosure policy Opens a New Window.</a>.</p>
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<p>.......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... ..........</p> <p>BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. &#8212; &#8220;House of Cards&#8221; will return in May for a fifth season.</p> <p>The show&#8217;s Twitter account posted a video on Inauguration Day featuring an upside-down U.S. flag in front of the U.S. Capitol. The video ends with the date May 30. An upside-down flag is a signal of distress.</p> <p>The show stars Kevin Spacey as President Frank Underwood and Robin Wright as his wife, first lady Claire Underwood.</p> <p>The upcoming season will be the first under new co-showrunners Melissa James Gibson and Frank Pugliese. Former showrunner Beau Willimon stepped away from the role after last season.</p> <p>ADVERTISEMENT</p>
On Inauguration Day, ‘House of Cards’ announces May return
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On Inauguration Day, ‘House of Cards’ announces May return <p>.......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... ..........</p> <p>BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. &#8212; &#8220;House of Cards&#8221; will return in May for a fifth season.</p> <p>The show&#8217;s Twitter account posted a video on Inauguration Day featuring an upside-down U.S. flag in front of the U.S. Capitol. The video ends with the date May 30. An upside-down flag is a signal of distress.</p> <p>The show stars Kevin Spacey as President Frank Underwood and Robin Wright as his wife, first lady Claire Underwood.</p> <p>The upcoming season will be the first under new co-showrunners Melissa James Gibson and Frank Pugliese. Former showrunner Beau Willimon stepped away from the role after last season.</p> <p>ADVERTISEMENT</p>
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<p /> <p>Yahoo! (NASDAQ:YHOO) CEO Marissa Mayer said Monday she plans to stay with the Internet company following its $4.83 billion acquisition by Verizon Communications (NYSE:VZ).</p> <p>Continue Reading Below</p> <p>The Verizon deal ends a long sale process for Yahoo, which Mayer has led during a challenging attempt at a turnaround. Yahoo, which will also auction off patents valued at an estimated $1 billion, will join Verizon&#8217;s AOL subsidiary when the buyout is completed. When news of the agreement became official, Mayer said she expects to see things through.</p> <p>&#8220;I&#8217;m incredibly proud of everything that we&#8217;ve achieved, and I&#8217;m incredibly proud of our team. For me personally, I&#8217;m planning to stay,&#8221; <a href="http://marissamayr.tumblr.com/" type="external">Mayer wrote in a memo to Yahoo employees Opens a New Window.</a>. &#8220;I love Yahoo, and I believe in all of you. It&#8217;s important to me to see Yahoo into its next chapter.&#8221;</p> <p>Still, her tenure as the top executive overseeing Yahoo could be coming to a close.</p> <p>In its press release announcing the deal, Verizon did not specify what role&#8212;if any&#8212;Mayer will have once Yahoo is under Verizon ownership. Likewise, AOL CEO Tim Armstrong, who overlapped with Mayer during their tenures at Google (NASDAQ:GOOGL), said in a letter to employees that executives &#8220;will be working closely&#8221; with Mayer and rest of Yahoo&#8217;s leadership team &#8220;during the time before close.&#8221; Verizon expects to complete the transaction during the first quarter of 2017.</p> <p>Advertisement</p> <p>According to multiple reports, Mayer could be on her way out. <a href="http://www.recode.net/2016/7/25/12269944/last-yahoo-ceo-standing-here-s-marissa-mayer-s-letter-to-employees-on-sale" type="external">Recode Opens a New Window.</a> cited sources as saying Mayer would likely leave Yahoo once the deal closes in six to nine months. Also, the <a href="http://www.wsj.com/articles/verizon-agrees-to-buy-yahoo-for-4-83-billion-1469444984" type="external">Wall Street Journal Opens a New Window.</a> reported that Mayer likely won&#8217;t have a prominent role under Verizon, if she assumes any position at all.</p> <p>Yahoo disclosed in April that Mayer would receive an exit package valued at approximately $55 million if she is terminated without cause or if there&#8217;s a &#8220;change of control&#8221; at Yahoo. The bulk of the package comes in the form of accelerated restricted stock and options worth close to $52 million. She is also poised to cash in on a $3 million severance, and Yahoo would cover the cost of health benefits and outplacement.</p> <p>Mayer&#8217;s total compensation in 2015 was $36 million, according to Yahoo regulatory filings.</p>
Yahoo's Marissa Mayer Not Going Anywhere -- For Now
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Yahoo's Marissa Mayer Not Going Anywhere -- For Now <p /> <p>Yahoo! (NASDAQ:YHOO) CEO Marissa Mayer said Monday she plans to stay with the Internet company following its $4.83 billion acquisition by Verizon Communications (NYSE:VZ).</p> <p>Continue Reading Below</p> <p>The Verizon deal ends a long sale process for Yahoo, which Mayer has led during a challenging attempt at a turnaround. Yahoo, which will also auction off patents valued at an estimated $1 billion, will join Verizon&#8217;s AOL subsidiary when the buyout is completed. When news of the agreement became official, Mayer said she expects to see things through.</p> <p>&#8220;I&#8217;m incredibly proud of everything that we&#8217;ve achieved, and I&#8217;m incredibly proud of our team. For me personally, I&#8217;m planning to stay,&#8221; <a href="http://marissamayr.tumblr.com/" type="external">Mayer wrote in a memo to Yahoo employees Opens a New Window.</a>. &#8220;I love Yahoo, and I believe in all of you. It&#8217;s important to me to see Yahoo into its next chapter.&#8221;</p> <p>Still, her tenure as the top executive overseeing Yahoo could be coming to a close.</p> <p>In its press release announcing the deal, Verizon did not specify what role&#8212;if any&#8212;Mayer will have once Yahoo is under Verizon ownership. Likewise, AOL CEO Tim Armstrong, who overlapped with Mayer during their tenures at Google (NASDAQ:GOOGL), said in a letter to employees that executives &#8220;will be working closely&#8221; with Mayer and rest of Yahoo&#8217;s leadership team &#8220;during the time before close.&#8221; Verizon expects to complete the transaction during the first quarter of 2017.</p> <p>Advertisement</p> <p>According to multiple reports, Mayer could be on her way out. <a href="http://www.recode.net/2016/7/25/12269944/last-yahoo-ceo-standing-here-s-marissa-mayer-s-letter-to-employees-on-sale" type="external">Recode Opens a New Window.</a> cited sources as saying Mayer would likely leave Yahoo once the deal closes in six to nine months. Also, the <a href="http://www.wsj.com/articles/verizon-agrees-to-buy-yahoo-for-4-83-billion-1469444984" type="external">Wall Street Journal Opens a New Window.</a> reported that Mayer likely won&#8217;t have a prominent role under Verizon, if she assumes any position at all.</p> <p>Yahoo disclosed in April that Mayer would receive an exit package valued at approximately $55 million if she is terminated without cause or if there&#8217;s a &#8220;change of control&#8221; at Yahoo. The bulk of the package comes in the form of accelerated restricted stock and options worth close to $52 million. She is also poised to cash in on a $3 million severance, and Yahoo would cover the cost of health benefits and outplacement.</p> <p>Mayer&#8217;s total compensation in 2015 was $36 million, according to Yahoo regulatory filings.</p>
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<p>The Supreme Court's right-wingers said it was fine for corporations to drown out the pleas of the non-rich. Last week, Senate Republicans agreed.</p> <p>Senate Republicans voted unanimously last week for elections that are competitions of cash, with candidates who amass the most money empowered to shout down opponents.</p> <p>The GOP rejected elections that are contests of ideas won by candidates offering the best concepts.</p> <p>Forty-two Republican Senators on Thursday opposed advancing a proposed constitutional amendment called Democracy for All. It would have ended the one percent&#8217;s control over elections and politicians. It would have reversed the democracy-destroying Citizens United and McCutcheon decisions by permitting Congress and state legislatures to once again limit campaign spending. Republicans said no because they favor the system that indentures politicians to wealthy benefactors.&amp;#160;</p> <p>As it stands now, corporations and billionaires may spend unbounded and unreported billions to buy elections. They&#8217;re likely to invest $2 billion in this fall&#8217;s contests. That&#8217;s thanks to the activist right-wing justices on the Supreme Court who upended a century of campaign finance law with rulings like Citizens United in 2010 and McCutcheon this year.</p> <p>The result is that everyone retains their free speech rights, but the wealthy and corporations, who can afford gigantic amplifiers, can now use their money to buy the loudest voice, one that overwhelms and silences those of tens of millions of working Americans. The right-wingers on the Supreme Court said it was fine for the wealthy and corporations to use their money to drown out the pleas of the non-rich. And Senate Republicans agreed last week.</p> <p>This has made the majority of Americans very, very cynical about politicians and elections. The typical voter knows his or her $5 or $25 or $100 contribution to a candidate can&#8217;t compete with the $10,000 or $100,000 or $1 million gifts from corporations and billionaires.</p> <p>Americans aren&#8217;t stupid. They knew what big bucks buy.</p> <p>They pay for access. The Senator will make time to see the CEO whose corporation donated $250,000. The Senator won&#8217;t do the same for the worker who gave $25.</p> <p>Big bucks also buy votes. Americans believe politicians&#8217; positions on issues are the ones that the biggest benefactors told them to take. In private meetings, of course. A poll by the Opinion Research Corporation in 2012&amp;#160; <a href="http://www.citizen.org/documents/The-Conservative-Case-for-Overturning-Citizens-United.pdf" type="external">found that 68 percent of voters</a>, including 71 percent of Republicans, think that a corporation that spends $100,000 to help elect a Congressman could successfully pressure him to change position on proposed legislation.</p> <p>While Republican politicians celebrate that outcome, most Americans do not. And that includes Republican voters. A poll in July by Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research found&amp;#160; <a href="http://campaignmoney.org/sites/default/files/July2014EveryVoicePoll.pdf" type="external">73 percent of voters in the 12 most competitive Senate battleground states want the Citizens United</a>&amp;#160;ruling reversed, including significant majorities of Republicans.</p> <p>In 2012, Montana voters passed a referendum by&amp;#160; <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/09/10/the-new-war-on-big-money-in-politics.html" type="external">74 percent</a>&amp;#160;telling the red state&#8217;s congressional delegation to support a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United. In purple Colorado, voters passed a similar referendum by&amp;#160; <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/09/10/the-new-war-on-big-money-in-politics.html" type="external">73.8 percent</a>.&amp;#160; <a href="http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/09/the-threat-to-american-democracy-110683.html#ixzz3CwndWPcX" type="external">Fourteen other states, the District of Columbia and 600 communities</a>&amp;#160;have called for reversal of Citizens United.</p> <p>Still, Senate Republicans, groomed by Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, ignored the sentiments of the majority of citizens and blocked the Democracy for All amendment. McConnell, who&amp;#160; <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/09/10/the-new-war-on-big-money-in-politics.html" type="external">once supported a similar constitutional amendment</a>, now praises unlimited, unregulated, undisclosed campaign contributions. He told a group of fat cat GOP donors in June that he just didn&#8217;t know where he&#8217;d be without them.</p> <p>Well, not in office, that&#8217;s for sure. He would be in far greener &#8211; as in greenbacks &#8211; pastures, cleaning up with former House GOP Majority Leader Eric Cantor, who lost his primary this year, then quickly resigned so he could grab&amp;#160; <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2014/09/02/eric-cantors-new-job-by-the-numbers/" type="external">$1.8 million as vice chairman at a Wall Street investment bank</a>. Wealthy donors and corporations reward their indentured servants even when they lose elections.</p> <p>Republicans didn&#8217;t always endorse this corruption. Conservative GOP Sen.&amp;#160; <a href="http://martinezgazette.com/archives/16408" type="external">Barry Goldwater, the party&#8217;s nominee for President in 1964, supported campaign finance reform in 1983, saying</a>: &#8220;Our nation is facing a crisis of liberty if we do not control campaign expenditures. We must prove that elective office is not for sale. We must convince the public that elected officials are what James Madison intended us to be, agents of the sovereign people, not the hired hands of rich givers.&#8221;</p> <p>Former Sen. Warren Rudman, a Republican from New Hampshire who campaigned for reform,&amp;#160; <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/04/AR2010020403624.html" type="external">wrote after the Citizens United ruling, which he called rash and immoderate:</a>&amp;#160;&#8220;Supreme Court opinion notwithstanding, corporations are not defined as people under the Constitution, and free speech can hardly be called free when only the rich are heard.&#8221;</p> <p>Another Republican Presidential nominee, John McCain, whose name graced the bipartisan McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform act of 2002, said after it was struck down by the Citizens United ruling: &#8220;What the Supreme Court did is a combination of arrogance, naivet&#233; and stupidity the likes of which I have never seen.&#8221;</p> <p>Still, McCain joined all of the other Republicans in the Senate Thursday to obstruct a constitutional amendment to fix that problem. &amp;#160;</p> <p>Sen. Tom Udall, the New Mexico Democrat who proposed the amendment, said he&#8217;ll continue to press for its passage. He must because that limitless campaign cash is ruining the American democracy.</p> <p>Voters know that money tends to corrupt, and infinite money corrupts infinitely.&amp;#160;</p> <p>Like what you&#8217;ve read? <a href="https://secure.actblue.com/contribute/page/itt-subscription-offer?refcode=WS_ITT_Article_Footer&amp;amp;noskip=true" type="external">Subscribe to In These Times magazine</a>, or <a href="https://secure.actblue.com/contribute/page/support-in-these-times?refcode=WS_ITT_Article_Footer&amp;amp;noskip=true" type="external">make a tax-deductible donation to fund this reporting</a>.</p> <p>Leo Gerard is the president of the United Steelworkers International union, part of the AFL-CIO. Gerard, the second Canadian to lead the union, started working at Inco's nickel smelter in Sudbury, Ontario at age 18. For more information about Gerard, visit <a href="http://www.usw.org/our_union/international_executive_board?id=0001" type="external">usw.org</a>.</p>
Senate Republicans Unanimously Oppose Ending One Percenters’ Control of Elections
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2014-09-24
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Senate Republicans Unanimously Oppose Ending One Percenters’ Control of Elections <p>The Supreme Court's right-wingers said it was fine for corporations to drown out the pleas of the non-rich. Last week, Senate Republicans agreed.</p> <p>Senate Republicans voted unanimously last week for elections that are competitions of cash, with candidates who amass the most money empowered to shout down opponents.</p> <p>The GOP rejected elections that are contests of ideas won by candidates offering the best concepts.</p> <p>Forty-two Republican Senators on Thursday opposed advancing a proposed constitutional amendment called Democracy for All. It would have ended the one percent&#8217;s control over elections and politicians. It would have reversed the democracy-destroying Citizens United and McCutcheon decisions by permitting Congress and state legislatures to once again limit campaign spending. Republicans said no because they favor the system that indentures politicians to wealthy benefactors.&amp;#160;</p> <p>As it stands now, corporations and billionaires may spend unbounded and unreported billions to buy elections. They&#8217;re likely to invest $2 billion in this fall&#8217;s contests. That&#8217;s thanks to the activist right-wing justices on the Supreme Court who upended a century of campaign finance law with rulings like Citizens United in 2010 and McCutcheon this year.</p> <p>The result is that everyone retains their free speech rights, but the wealthy and corporations, who can afford gigantic amplifiers, can now use their money to buy the loudest voice, one that overwhelms and silences those of tens of millions of working Americans. The right-wingers on the Supreme Court said it was fine for the wealthy and corporations to use their money to drown out the pleas of the non-rich. And Senate Republicans agreed last week.</p> <p>This has made the majority of Americans very, very cynical about politicians and elections. The typical voter knows his or her $5 or $25 or $100 contribution to a candidate can&#8217;t compete with the $10,000 or $100,000 or $1 million gifts from corporations and billionaires.</p> <p>Americans aren&#8217;t stupid. They knew what big bucks buy.</p> <p>They pay for access. The Senator will make time to see the CEO whose corporation donated $250,000. The Senator won&#8217;t do the same for the worker who gave $25.</p> <p>Big bucks also buy votes. Americans believe politicians&#8217; positions on issues are the ones that the biggest benefactors told them to take. In private meetings, of course. A poll by the Opinion Research Corporation in 2012&amp;#160; <a href="http://www.citizen.org/documents/The-Conservative-Case-for-Overturning-Citizens-United.pdf" type="external">found that 68 percent of voters</a>, including 71 percent of Republicans, think that a corporation that spends $100,000 to help elect a Congressman could successfully pressure him to change position on proposed legislation.</p> <p>While Republican politicians celebrate that outcome, most Americans do not. And that includes Republican voters. A poll in July by Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research found&amp;#160; <a href="http://campaignmoney.org/sites/default/files/July2014EveryVoicePoll.pdf" type="external">73 percent of voters in the 12 most competitive Senate battleground states want the Citizens United</a>&amp;#160;ruling reversed, including significant majorities of Republicans.</p> <p>In 2012, Montana voters passed a referendum by&amp;#160; <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/09/10/the-new-war-on-big-money-in-politics.html" type="external">74 percent</a>&amp;#160;telling the red state&#8217;s congressional delegation to support a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United. In purple Colorado, voters passed a similar referendum by&amp;#160; <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/09/10/the-new-war-on-big-money-in-politics.html" type="external">73.8 percent</a>.&amp;#160; <a href="http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/09/the-threat-to-american-democracy-110683.html#ixzz3CwndWPcX" type="external">Fourteen other states, the District of Columbia and 600 communities</a>&amp;#160;have called for reversal of Citizens United.</p> <p>Still, Senate Republicans, groomed by Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, ignored the sentiments of the majority of citizens and blocked the Democracy for All amendment. McConnell, who&amp;#160; <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/09/10/the-new-war-on-big-money-in-politics.html" type="external">once supported a similar constitutional amendment</a>, now praises unlimited, unregulated, undisclosed campaign contributions. He told a group of fat cat GOP donors in June that he just didn&#8217;t know where he&#8217;d be without them.</p> <p>Well, not in office, that&#8217;s for sure. He would be in far greener &#8211; as in greenbacks &#8211; pastures, cleaning up with former House GOP Majority Leader Eric Cantor, who lost his primary this year, then quickly resigned so he could grab&amp;#160; <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2014/09/02/eric-cantors-new-job-by-the-numbers/" type="external">$1.8 million as vice chairman at a Wall Street investment bank</a>. Wealthy donors and corporations reward their indentured servants even when they lose elections.</p> <p>Republicans didn&#8217;t always endorse this corruption. Conservative GOP Sen.&amp;#160; <a href="http://martinezgazette.com/archives/16408" type="external">Barry Goldwater, the party&#8217;s nominee for President in 1964, supported campaign finance reform in 1983, saying</a>: &#8220;Our nation is facing a crisis of liberty if we do not control campaign expenditures. We must prove that elective office is not for sale. We must convince the public that elected officials are what James Madison intended us to be, agents of the sovereign people, not the hired hands of rich givers.&#8221;</p> <p>Former Sen. Warren Rudman, a Republican from New Hampshire who campaigned for reform,&amp;#160; <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/04/AR2010020403624.html" type="external">wrote after the Citizens United ruling, which he called rash and immoderate:</a>&amp;#160;&#8220;Supreme Court opinion notwithstanding, corporations are not defined as people under the Constitution, and free speech can hardly be called free when only the rich are heard.&#8221;</p> <p>Another Republican Presidential nominee, John McCain, whose name graced the bipartisan McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform act of 2002, said after it was struck down by the Citizens United ruling: &#8220;What the Supreme Court did is a combination of arrogance, naivet&#233; and stupidity the likes of which I have never seen.&#8221;</p> <p>Still, McCain joined all of the other Republicans in the Senate Thursday to obstruct a constitutional amendment to fix that problem. &amp;#160;</p> <p>Sen. Tom Udall, the New Mexico Democrat who proposed the amendment, said he&#8217;ll continue to press for its passage. He must because that limitless campaign cash is ruining the American democracy.</p> <p>Voters know that money tends to corrupt, and infinite money corrupts infinitely.&amp;#160;</p> <p>Like what you&#8217;ve read? <a href="https://secure.actblue.com/contribute/page/itt-subscription-offer?refcode=WS_ITT_Article_Footer&amp;amp;noskip=true" type="external">Subscribe to In These Times magazine</a>, or <a href="https://secure.actblue.com/contribute/page/support-in-these-times?refcode=WS_ITT_Article_Footer&amp;amp;noskip=true" type="external">make a tax-deductible donation to fund this reporting</a>.</p> <p>Leo Gerard is the president of the United Steelworkers International union, part of the AFL-CIO. Gerard, the second Canadian to lead the union, started working at Inco's nickel smelter in Sudbury, Ontario at age 18. For more information about Gerard, visit <a href="http://www.usw.org/our_union/international_executive_board?id=0001" type="external">usw.org</a>.</p>
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<p>SUPER BOWL 19</p> <p>Jan. 20, 1985</p> <p>At Palo Alto, Calif._84,059</p> <p>Miami 10..6..0..0_16</p> <p>San Francisco .7.21.10..0_38</p> <p>Billed as a matchup of the NFL's top two quarterbacks, Joe Montana (and his defense) easily got the better of Dan Marino.</p> <p>Montana completed 24 of 35 passes and threw for a Super Bowl record 331 yards and three touchdowns. He also rushed five times for 59 yards and a touchdown. Running back Roger Craig caught two of Montana's touchdown passes and ran for another to set a Super Bowl record.</p> <p>The San Francisco defense sacked the record-setting Marino four times in the game and held the Dolphins to 25 yards rushing.</p> <p>Montana joined Green Bay's Bart Starr and Pittsburgh's Terry Bradshaw as the only two-time Super Bowl most valuable players. Montana was the MVP in the 1982 Super Bowl against Cincinnati.</p> <p>Marino would never make the Super Bowl again in his Hall of Fame career.</p> <p>___</p> <p>Online:</p> <p>AP NFL website: www.pro32.ap.org and http://twitter.com/AP_NFL</p> <p>SUPER BOWL 19</p> <p>Jan. 20, 1985</p> <p>At Palo Alto, Calif._84,059</p> <p>Miami 10..6..0..0_16</p> <p>San Francisco .7.21.10..0_38</p> <p>Billed as a matchup of the NFL's top two quarterbacks, Joe Montana (and his defense) easily got the better of Dan Marino.</p> <p>Montana completed 24 of 35 passes and threw for a Super Bowl record 331 yards and three touchdowns. He also rushed five times for 59 yards and a touchdown. Running back Roger Craig caught two of Montana's touchdown passes and ran for another to set a Super Bowl record.</p> <p>The San Francisco defense sacked the record-setting Marino four times in the game and held the Dolphins to 25 yards rushing.</p> <p>Montana joined Green Bay's Bart Starr and Pittsburgh's Terry Bradshaw as the only two-time Super Bowl most valuable players. Montana was the MVP in the 1982 Super Bowl against Cincinnati.</p> <p>Marino would never make the Super Bowl again in his Hall of Fame career.</p> <p>___</p> <p>Online:</p> <p>AP NFL website: www.pro32.ap.org and http://twitter.com/AP_NFL</p>
SB 19: Montana dominates in 49ers' 38-16 rout
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SB 19: Montana dominates in 49ers' 38-16 rout <p>SUPER BOWL 19</p> <p>Jan. 20, 1985</p> <p>At Palo Alto, Calif._84,059</p> <p>Miami 10..6..0..0_16</p> <p>San Francisco .7.21.10..0_38</p> <p>Billed as a matchup of the NFL's top two quarterbacks, Joe Montana (and his defense) easily got the better of Dan Marino.</p> <p>Montana completed 24 of 35 passes and threw for a Super Bowl record 331 yards and three touchdowns. He also rushed five times for 59 yards and a touchdown. Running back Roger Craig caught two of Montana's touchdown passes and ran for another to set a Super Bowl record.</p> <p>The San Francisco defense sacked the record-setting Marino four times in the game and held the Dolphins to 25 yards rushing.</p> <p>Montana joined Green Bay's Bart Starr and Pittsburgh's Terry Bradshaw as the only two-time Super Bowl most valuable players. Montana was the MVP in the 1982 Super Bowl against Cincinnati.</p> <p>Marino would never make the Super Bowl again in his Hall of Fame career.</p> <p>___</p> <p>Online:</p> <p>AP NFL website: www.pro32.ap.org and http://twitter.com/AP_NFL</p> <p>SUPER BOWL 19</p> <p>Jan. 20, 1985</p> <p>At Palo Alto, Calif._84,059</p> <p>Miami 10..6..0..0_16</p> <p>San Francisco .7.21.10..0_38</p> <p>Billed as a matchup of the NFL's top two quarterbacks, Joe Montana (and his defense) easily got the better of Dan Marino.</p> <p>Montana completed 24 of 35 passes and threw for a Super Bowl record 331 yards and three touchdowns. He also rushed five times for 59 yards and a touchdown. Running back Roger Craig caught two of Montana's touchdown passes and ran for another to set a Super Bowl record.</p> <p>The San Francisco defense sacked the record-setting Marino four times in the game and held the Dolphins to 25 yards rushing.</p> <p>Montana joined Green Bay's Bart Starr and Pittsburgh's Terry Bradshaw as the only two-time Super Bowl most valuable players. Montana was the MVP in the 1982 Super Bowl against Cincinnati.</p> <p>Marino would never make the Super Bowl again in his Hall of Fame career.</p> <p>___</p> <p>Online:</p> <p>AP NFL website: www.pro32.ap.org and http://twitter.com/AP_NFL</p>
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<p /> <p><a href="http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorations/07mexico/logs/june24/media/seawhip_600.html" type="external" />A sea whip found deep on the slope of the Gulf of Mexico. Credit: Aquapix and Expedition to the Deep Slope 2007.</p> <p>&amp;#160;</p> <p>The next chapter in our thinking about the oceans is analyzed in a new <a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0022588" type="external">paper in PLoS ONE</a>. The deep sea&#8212;largest of Earth&#8217;s ecosystems and its last great wilderness&#8212;has been spared much of what&#8217;s befallen the rest of the ocean in the last century, thanks to its remoteness. But not any more.</p> <p>Technology is rapidly undressing this veiled realm, allowing us to exploit its fisheries, hydrocarbons, and minerals at depths below 2,000 meters/6,562 feet. The authors write:&amp;#160;</p> <p>[T]he challenges facing the deep sea are large and accelerating, providing a new imperative for the science community, industry and national and international organizations to work together to develop successful exploitation management and conservation of the deep-sea ecosystem.</p> <p>The paper represents the combined thinking of 11 researchers from around the world&#8212;Spain, UK, Norway, New Zealand, Mexico, US, and France&#8212;including some of the biggest names in deep-sea research. Coauthor Lisa Levin, recently made the Director of the <a href="http://cmbc.ucsd.edu/" type="external">Center for Marine Biodiversity and Conservation</a> at the <a href="http://www.sio.ucsd.edu/" type="external">Scripps Institution of Oceanography</a>, was featured in my biodiversity article in MoJo, <a href="" type="internal">Gone</a>.</p> <p>Based on their own extensive experience, combined with published scientific papers, the authors provide a semi-quantitative analysis of the scale of of human activities past, present, and future.</p> <p><a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0022588" type="external" />Synergies among anthropogenic impacts on deep-sea habitats. The lines link impacts that, when found together, have a synergistic effect on habitats or faunal communities. Credit: Ramirez-Llodra E, et al. PLoS ONE. DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0022588</p> <p>They assessed 28 major anthropogenic impacts (above), grouped into 3 main categories&#8212;disposal, exploitation, and climate change. They then examined those effects on 12 deep-sea habitats (below). I&#8217;ve added links to explanations of the terms:</p> <p>Mid-ocean ridges, characterized by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benthic" type="external">benthic</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sessility_%28zoology%29" type="external">sessile</a> fauna and localised <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demersal" type="external">demersal</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pelagic" type="external">pelagic</a> communities.</p> <p>Sedimentary slope (excluding other specific communities found on slopes such as cold-water corals, seeps, oxygen minimum zones), characterized by demersal fauna as well as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epifaunal#Epifauna" type="external">epifaunal</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epifaunal#Infauna" type="external">infaunal</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benthos" type="external">benthos</a></p> <p>Canyons, with a high degree of habitat <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heterogeneity" type="external">heterogeneity</a> and diverse fauna varying with substratum: sessile benthos and demersal fauna characterize hard bottoms, while mobile epifauna, infauna and demersal fauna abound in association with soft sediments.</p> <p>Seamounts, characterized by sessile benthos and abundant localised pelagic communities.</p> <p>Cold-water coral habitats, including the frame building corals and associated species.</p> <p>Active hydrothermal vents, characterized by benthic fauna with a high degree of <a href="http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/endemic" type="external">endemicity</a>.</p> <p>Cold seeps, characterized by benthic fauna with a relatively high degree of endemicity</p> <p>Oxygen minimum zones abutting margins, characterized by specialized benthic fauna.</p> <p>Abyssal plains, characterized by mobile epifauna and infauna.</p> <p>Manganese-nodule provinces, specific habitat on abyssal plains, characterized by sessile and mobile epifauna and infauna.</p> <p>Trenches, characterized by demersal megafauna and infauna.</p> <p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bathypelagic" type="external">Bathypelagic</a> water column, characterized by mid-water species.</p> <p>&amp;#160;</p> <p><a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0022588" type="external" />Deepwater Horizon oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico, 2010. (Top) photo of the oil being discharged in the water column; (Bottom) a coral in the deep Gulf of Mexico, with attached ophiuroid, covered with oil. Credit: Lophelia II 2010, NOAA OER and BOEMRE.</p> <p>The authors conclude that a sea-change is underway:</p> <p>Based on the current knowledge available in the scientific community and expert estimates, we suggest that the overall anthropogenic impact in the deep sea is increasing, and has evolved from mainly disposal and dumping in the late 20th century, to exploitation in the early 21st century&#8230; During the remainder of the current century, we predict that the major impact in the deep sea will be climate change, affecting the oceans globally through direct effects on the habitat and fauna as well as through synergies with other human activities.</p> <p>&amp;#160;</p> <p><a href="http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorations/07mexico/logs/summary/media/slideshow/html_slideshow.html#" type="external" />Unexploded ordinance on the seafloor in the Gulf of Mexico. Credit: Expedition to the Deep Slope 2007, NOAA-OE.</p> <p>The deep-sea habitats most affected at present are:</p> <p>&amp;#160;</p> <p><a href="http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorations/07mexico/logs/summary/media/slideshow/html_slideshow.html#" type="external" />Macro image of tiny octocorals at 1,500meters/4,921 feet in the Gulf of Mexico depth. Credit: Courtesy of Aquapix and Expedition to the Deep Slope 2007, NOAA-OE.</p> <p>They paper provides a valuable summary of protected deep-sea habits worldwide. And it describes the biggest hurdle in the life-cycle of any protected ocean area&#8212;the ability of slow-funded science to keep up with the big money of industry and development. Add bureaucratic foot-dragging into the mix and the race to protect the real value of the deep becomes even more lopsided. &amp;#160;</p> <p>They authors close with a call to arms, suggesting that human encroachment into the deep sea creates a new conservation imperative&#8230; and that effective stewardship will require continued exploration, basic scientific research, monitoring, and conservation measures&#8212;all at the same time.</p> <p>Conservation in the deep sea offers challenges in the form of knowledge gaps, climate change uncertainties, shifting jurisdictions and significant enforcement difficulties. With time, technological advances can help address these challenges. It remains to be seen whether new approaches must be developed to conserve the biodiversity and ecosystem services we value in the deepest half of the planet.</p> <p>&amp;#160;</p> <p><a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Devourer.jpg" type="external" />Credit: wrobell at Wikimedia Commons.</p> <p>The paper:</p> <p />
The Fate of the Last Great Wilderness
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The Fate of the Last Great Wilderness <p /> <p><a href="http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorations/07mexico/logs/june24/media/seawhip_600.html" type="external" />A sea whip found deep on the slope of the Gulf of Mexico. Credit: Aquapix and Expedition to the Deep Slope 2007.</p> <p>&amp;#160;</p> <p>The next chapter in our thinking about the oceans is analyzed in a new <a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0022588" type="external">paper in PLoS ONE</a>. The deep sea&#8212;largest of Earth&#8217;s ecosystems and its last great wilderness&#8212;has been spared much of what&#8217;s befallen the rest of the ocean in the last century, thanks to its remoteness. But not any more.</p> <p>Technology is rapidly undressing this veiled realm, allowing us to exploit its fisheries, hydrocarbons, and minerals at depths below 2,000 meters/6,562 feet. The authors write:&amp;#160;</p> <p>[T]he challenges facing the deep sea are large and accelerating, providing a new imperative for the science community, industry and national and international organizations to work together to develop successful exploitation management and conservation of the deep-sea ecosystem.</p> <p>The paper represents the combined thinking of 11 researchers from around the world&#8212;Spain, UK, Norway, New Zealand, Mexico, US, and France&#8212;including some of the biggest names in deep-sea research. Coauthor Lisa Levin, recently made the Director of the <a href="http://cmbc.ucsd.edu/" type="external">Center for Marine Biodiversity and Conservation</a> at the <a href="http://www.sio.ucsd.edu/" type="external">Scripps Institution of Oceanography</a>, was featured in my biodiversity article in MoJo, <a href="" type="internal">Gone</a>.</p> <p>Based on their own extensive experience, combined with published scientific papers, the authors provide a semi-quantitative analysis of the scale of of human activities past, present, and future.</p> <p><a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0022588" type="external" />Synergies among anthropogenic impacts on deep-sea habitats. The lines link impacts that, when found together, have a synergistic effect on habitats or faunal communities. Credit: Ramirez-Llodra E, et al. PLoS ONE. DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0022588</p> <p>They assessed 28 major anthropogenic impacts (above), grouped into 3 main categories&#8212;disposal, exploitation, and climate change. They then examined those effects on 12 deep-sea habitats (below). I&#8217;ve added links to explanations of the terms:</p> <p>Mid-ocean ridges, characterized by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benthic" type="external">benthic</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sessility_%28zoology%29" type="external">sessile</a> fauna and localised <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demersal" type="external">demersal</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pelagic" type="external">pelagic</a> communities.</p> <p>Sedimentary slope (excluding other specific communities found on slopes such as cold-water corals, seeps, oxygen minimum zones), characterized by demersal fauna as well as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epifaunal#Epifauna" type="external">epifaunal</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epifaunal#Infauna" type="external">infaunal</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benthos" type="external">benthos</a></p> <p>Canyons, with a high degree of habitat <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heterogeneity" type="external">heterogeneity</a> and diverse fauna varying with substratum: sessile benthos and demersal fauna characterize hard bottoms, while mobile epifauna, infauna and demersal fauna abound in association with soft sediments.</p> <p>Seamounts, characterized by sessile benthos and abundant localised pelagic communities.</p> <p>Cold-water coral habitats, including the frame building corals and associated species.</p> <p>Active hydrothermal vents, characterized by benthic fauna with a high degree of <a href="http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/endemic" type="external">endemicity</a>.</p> <p>Cold seeps, characterized by benthic fauna with a relatively high degree of endemicity</p> <p>Oxygen minimum zones abutting margins, characterized by specialized benthic fauna.</p> <p>Abyssal plains, characterized by mobile epifauna and infauna.</p> <p>Manganese-nodule provinces, specific habitat on abyssal plains, characterized by sessile and mobile epifauna and infauna.</p> <p>Trenches, characterized by demersal megafauna and infauna.</p> <p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bathypelagic" type="external">Bathypelagic</a> water column, characterized by mid-water species.</p> <p>&amp;#160;</p> <p><a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0022588" type="external" />Deepwater Horizon oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico, 2010. (Top) photo of the oil being discharged in the water column; (Bottom) a coral in the deep Gulf of Mexico, with attached ophiuroid, covered with oil. Credit: Lophelia II 2010, NOAA OER and BOEMRE.</p> <p>The authors conclude that a sea-change is underway:</p> <p>Based on the current knowledge available in the scientific community and expert estimates, we suggest that the overall anthropogenic impact in the deep sea is increasing, and has evolved from mainly disposal and dumping in the late 20th century, to exploitation in the early 21st century&#8230; During the remainder of the current century, we predict that the major impact in the deep sea will be climate change, affecting the oceans globally through direct effects on the habitat and fauna as well as through synergies with other human activities.</p> <p>&amp;#160;</p> <p><a href="http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorations/07mexico/logs/summary/media/slideshow/html_slideshow.html#" type="external" />Unexploded ordinance on the seafloor in the Gulf of Mexico. Credit: Expedition to the Deep Slope 2007, NOAA-OE.</p> <p>The deep-sea habitats most affected at present are:</p> <p>&amp;#160;</p> <p><a href="http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorations/07mexico/logs/summary/media/slideshow/html_slideshow.html#" type="external" />Macro image of tiny octocorals at 1,500meters/4,921 feet in the Gulf of Mexico depth. Credit: Courtesy of Aquapix and Expedition to the Deep Slope 2007, NOAA-OE.</p> <p>They paper provides a valuable summary of protected deep-sea habits worldwide. And it describes the biggest hurdle in the life-cycle of any protected ocean area&#8212;the ability of slow-funded science to keep up with the big money of industry and development. Add bureaucratic foot-dragging into the mix and the race to protect the real value of the deep becomes even more lopsided. &amp;#160;</p> <p>They authors close with a call to arms, suggesting that human encroachment into the deep sea creates a new conservation imperative&#8230; and that effective stewardship will require continued exploration, basic scientific research, monitoring, and conservation measures&#8212;all at the same time.</p> <p>Conservation in the deep sea offers challenges in the form of knowledge gaps, climate change uncertainties, shifting jurisdictions and significant enforcement difficulties. With time, technological advances can help address these challenges. It remains to be seen whether new approaches must be developed to conserve the biodiversity and ecosystem services we value in the deepest half of the planet.</p> <p>&amp;#160;</p> <p><a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Devourer.jpg" type="external" />Credit: wrobell at Wikimedia Commons.</p> <p>The paper:</p> <p />
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<p>[This is a transcript of Rep. McKinney&#8217;s remarks on September 14 at the reception for the Congressional Black Caucus.]</p> <p>This is an important week for all of us, although it is a particularly important week for me. This week we had three very successful Braintrusts: Afro-Latinos and their rising tide of political empowerment all over Latin America; Hip Hop Power and the importance of Hip Hop as a communications medium in the absence of a real communications industry other than Radio One now, inside our community, owned by our community spreading the good news about our community;</p> <p>And finally, COINTELPRO II: The Murder of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. where we learned that there really are linkages between the murders of JFK, MLK, and RFK. And that the COINTELPRO process was &#8220;to neutralize&#8221; the black leader&#8211;in the words of the CIA&#8211;assassinate, and then replace that leader with someone whose skin color was black, but whose loyalty was to their plan and not us. Yesterday, Judge Joe Brown told us unequivocally that the so-called murder rifle was NOT the weapon that killed Dr. King.</p> <p>So, I think we did some very important work in these three braintrusts, connecting, communicating, and educating. And at least for the next two years, I will not be at the CBC Weekend as a Member of the House of Representatives. As everybody probably knows by now, I didn&#8217;t cross the finish line first this time. Despite the fact that I easily won the Democratic vote, 40,000 Republicans maliciously crossed over and overtook the Democratic Primary. And because AIPAC had telegraphed in newspaper articles that they were going to target both Earl Hilliard and me, the Democratic Party was paralyzed.</p> <p>Therefore, if Alabama represents the heart of the civil rights movement and Georgia represents its brain, the black body politic has sustained a mortal blow.</p> <p>What does this portend for the future of independent black leadership in this country, particularly given what we learned really happened during the COINTELPRO period, and what will happen soon now that the USA Patriot Act, Homeland Security, and the Funding for the War on Terrorism Act have significantly changed the legal landscape.</p> <p>The Operation TIPS program of John Ashcroft, by the way, is nothing new in the annals of the FBI, but executive authority always seemed to be there to override such ambitions. That&#8217;s not the case now. And so, I&#8217;m proud of the votes I cast against those bills and I&#8217;m proud of the legislation I&#8217;ve authored that really does seek to move our country forward.</p> <p>For instance, the legislation to override the President&#8217;s executive Order denying our troops their rightfully earned overtime pay. George Bush has asked our young men and women to make the ultimate sacrifice, but he doesn&#8217;t want to pay them for it.</p> <p>And the legislation I authored to stop the use of weapons with depleted uranium which seems to be causing health effects and abnormal births and even deaths among the troops of our allies and maybe even our own.</p> <p>I&#8217;m proud of the bill to stop the importation of coltan into the United States, the source of so much pain and suffering in eastern Congo because it&#8217;s a key ingredient in our computers, palm pilots, Sony Playstations, and Oneboxes that people are willing to kill to get their hands on it.</p> <p>I&#8217;m proud that we extended the benefits for our veterans who are suffering from Agent Orange because those benefits were about to expire and I authored the legislation that was passed into law to help them. But I&#8217;m most proud of my work to hold this Administration accountable to the American people.</p> <p>And after I&#8217;ve asked the tough questions, here&#8217;s what we now know:</p> <p>That President Bush was warned that terrorists were planning to hijack commercial aircraft and crash them into buildings in the US; That in the weeks prior to September 11, 24-hour fighter cover was placed over the President&#8217;s ranch in Crawford, Texas; That in the weeks prior to September 11, Attorney General Ashcroft stopped flying commercial aircraft and instead flew Government aircraft; That the US received numerous high level warnings from a wide range of foreign intelligence services warning of impending hijackings and terrorist attacks; That a number of FBI agents were pleading with their superiors to conduct intensive investigations into the suspicious activities of various men in US flight schools; That in the days prior to September 11, highly suspicious stock market activity in aviation and insurance stocks took place indicating that certain well-placed people had advance knowledge of the attacks.</p> <p>And now this week we learn that the FBI had an informant living with two of the actual 9-1-1 hijackers. All of this has become public knowledge since I asked the simple question: What did the Bush Administration know and when did it know it.</p> <p>Now against this backdrop of so many unanswered questions, President Bush wants us to pledge our blind support to him. First, for his war on terrorism and now for his war in Iraq. How can we, in good conscience, prepare to send our young men and women back to Iraq to fight yet another war, when we have tens of thousands of our service men and women poisoned and still suffering from the first war?</p> <p>And what of those veterans who are sleeping on our streets? Within five minutes of where we are today, you can walk there, and see them, and talk to them: Vietnam Veterans, Gulf War veterans, veterans of our wars. George Bush can count me out of his war-making plans.</p> <p>Throughout my career, we have proudly brought blacks and whites, Asians, and Latinos together. I&#8217;m proud that everywhere around me the human rainbow has been represented. And I know that as we continue to speak out on behalf of the poor and the marginalized in this country, my supporters across the spectrum, and across America will be right there with me.</p> <p>And that as we continue to speak out on behalf of those who are sick and tired of greed being more important than human needs, my supporters will be right there.</p> <p>And finally, as I ponder the future of America where voices of dissent are snuffed out by selfishness and intolerance, I&#8217;m reminded of the words of Bobby Kennedy, who we learned yesterday, was considering Martin Luther King, Jr. as his Vice Presidential running mate. Bobby Kennedy, truly a great man who selflessly lived and died for his country, shaped an entire generation with his thoughts, his words, and his deeds.</p> <p>And it was Bobby Kennedy who reminded us that: &#8220;The task of leadership, the first task of concerned people, is not to condemn or castigate, or deplore: it is to search out the reason for disillusionment and alienation, the rationale of protest and dissenta*&#8221;perhaps, indeed, to learn from it. And we may find, that we learn most of all from those political and social dissenters whose differences with us are most grave: for among the young, as among adults, the sharpest criticism often goes hand in hand with the deepest idealism and love of country.&#8221;</p> <p>&amp;#160;</p>
Goodbye to All That
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Goodbye to All That <p>[This is a transcript of Rep. McKinney&#8217;s remarks on September 14 at the reception for the Congressional Black Caucus.]</p> <p>This is an important week for all of us, although it is a particularly important week for me. This week we had three very successful Braintrusts: Afro-Latinos and their rising tide of political empowerment all over Latin America; Hip Hop Power and the importance of Hip Hop as a communications medium in the absence of a real communications industry other than Radio One now, inside our community, owned by our community spreading the good news about our community;</p> <p>And finally, COINTELPRO II: The Murder of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. where we learned that there really are linkages between the murders of JFK, MLK, and RFK. And that the COINTELPRO process was &#8220;to neutralize&#8221; the black leader&#8211;in the words of the CIA&#8211;assassinate, and then replace that leader with someone whose skin color was black, but whose loyalty was to their plan and not us. Yesterday, Judge Joe Brown told us unequivocally that the so-called murder rifle was NOT the weapon that killed Dr. King.</p> <p>So, I think we did some very important work in these three braintrusts, connecting, communicating, and educating. And at least for the next two years, I will not be at the CBC Weekend as a Member of the House of Representatives. As everybody probably knows by now, I didn&#8217;t cross the finish line first this time. Despite the fact that I easily won the Democratic vote, 40,000 Republicans maliciously crossed over and overtook the Democratic Primary. And because AIPAC had telegraphed in newspaper articles that they were going to target both Earl Hilliard and me, the Democratic Party was paralyzed.</p> <p>Therefore, if Alabama represents the heart of the civil rights movement and Georgia represents its brain, the black body politic has sustained a mortal blow.</p> <p>What does this portend for the future of independent black leadership in this country, particularly given what we learned really happened during the COINTELPRO period, and what will happen soon now that the USA Patriot Act, Homeland Security, and the Funding for the War on Terrorism Act have significantly changed the legal landscape.</p> <p>The Operation TIPS program of John Ashcroft, by the way, is nothing new in the annals of the FBI, but executive authority always seemed to be there to override such ambitions. That&#8217;s not the case now. And so, I&#8217;m proud of the votes I cast against those bills and I&#8217;m proud of the legislation I&#8217;ve authored that really does seek to move our country forward.</p> <p>For instance, the legislation to override the President&#8217;s executive Order denying our troops their rightfully earned overtime pay. George Bush has asked our young men and women to make the ultimate sacrifice, but he doesn&#8217;t want to pay them for it.</p> <p>And the legislation I authored to stop the use of weapons with depleted uranium which seems to be causing health effects and abnormal births and even deaths among the troops of our allies and maybe even our own.</p> <p>I&#8217;m proud of the bill to stop the importation of coltan into the United States, the source of so much pain and suffering in eastern Congo because it&#8217;s a key ingredient in our computers, palm pilots, Sony Playstations, and Oneboxes that people are willing to kill to get their hands on it.</p> <p>I&#8217;m proud that we extended the benefits for our veterans who are suffering from Agent Orange because those benefits were about to expire and I authored the legislation that was passed into law to help them. But I&#8217;m most proud of my work to hold this Administration accountable to the American people.</p> <p>And after I&#8217;ve asked the tough questions, here&#8217;s what we now know:</p> <p>That President Bush was warned that terrorists were planning to hijack commercial aircraft and crash them into buildings in the US; That in the weeks prior to September 11, 24-hour fighter cover was placed over the President&#8217;s ranch in Crawford, Texas; That in the weeks prior to September 11, Attorney General Ashcroft stopped flying commercial aircraft and instead flew Government aircraft; That the US received numerous high level warnings from a wide range of foreign intelligence services warning of impending hijackings and terrorist attacks; That a number of FBI agents were pleading with their superiors to conduct intensive investigations into the suspicious activities of various men in US flight schools; That in the days prior to September 11, highly suspicious stock market activity in aviation and insurance stocks took place indicating that certain well-placed people had advance knowledge of the attacks.</p> <p>And now this week we learn that the FBI had an informant living with two of the actual 9-1-1 hijackers. All of this has become public knowledge since I asked the simple question: What did the Bush Administration know and when did it know it.</p> <p>Now against this backdrop of so many unanswered questions, President Bush wants us to pledge our blind support to him. First, for his war on terrorism and now for his war in Iraq. How can we, in good conscience, prepare to send our young men and women back to Iraq to fight yet another war, when we have tens of thousands of our service men and women poisoned and still suffering from the first war?</p> <p>And what of those veterans who are sleeping on our streets? Within five minutes of where we are today, you can walk there, and see them, and talk to them: Vietnam Veterans, Gulf War veterans, veterans of our wars. George Bush can count me out of his war-making plans.</p> <p>Throughout my career, we have proudly brought blacks and whites, Asians, and Latinos together. I&#8217;m proud that everywhere around me the human rainbow has been represented. And I know that as we continue to speak out on behalf of the poor and the marginalized in this country, my supporters across the spectrum, and across America will be right there with me.</p> <p>And that as we continue to speak out on behalf of those who are sick and tired of greed being more important than human needs, my supporters will be right there.</p> <p>And finally, as I ponder the future of America where voices of dissent are snuffed out by selfishness and intolerance, I&#8217;m reminded of the words of Bobby Kennedy, who we learned yesterday, was considering Martin Luther King, Jr. as his Vice Presidential running mate. Bobby Kennedy, truly a great man who selflessly lived and died for his country, shaped an entire generation with his thoughts, his words, and his deeds.</p> <p>And it was Bobby Kennedy who reminded us that: &#8220;The task of leadership, the first task of concerned people, is not to condemn or castigate, or deplore: it is to search out the reason for disillusionment and alienation, the rationale of protest and dissenta*&#8221;perhaps, indeed, to learn from it. And we may find, that we learn most of all from those political and social dissenters whose differences with us are most grave: for among the young, as among adults, the sharpest criticism often goes hand in hand with the deepest idealism and love of country.&#8221;</p> <p>&amp;#160;</p>
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<p>This is the mess Christie's in now. Things he might have gotten away with before are now coming to light, and no one's in the mood to give him the benefit of the doubt. Personally, I think the real story might be whether the $38 million Sandy relief fund managed by First Lady Mary Pat Christie was really a political slush fund. I imagine the U.S. attorney's office <a href="http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2014/01/questions_raised_about_christies_use_of_sandy_funds_to_build_complex_in_town_where_mayor_endorsed_hi.html" type="external">is taking a close look:</a></p> <p>TRENTON - Gov. Chris Christie helped channel $6 million in federal Hurricane Sandy recovery dollars to a project conceived years before the storm struck, in an Essex County town that was not particularly hard hit, records show.</p> <p>The funding, pushed for personally by the Republican governor, was announced less than two weeks before the town's Democratic mayor formally endorsed him for reelection.</p> <p>The development is an $18 million senior center and housing complex in Belleville called Franklin Manor. One third of the cost - $6 million - is being paid for by a $1.8 billion pot of federally funded Community Development Block Grants to help the state recover from Sandy.</p> <p>Christie administration officials say the project will help those displaced from the storm from other towns, and was approved partly because it was already planned and would quickly fill that need. But statements from the governor and officials from Essex County and Belleville at the project's unveiling barely mentioned storm recovery, focusing almost exclusively on how the 137-unit housing project would help keep Belleville's seniors in town.</p> <p>Now - With the George Washington Bridge scandal raging and the mayor of Hoboken claiming top Christie administration officials blackmailed her by threatening to withhold Sandy funds - an affordable housing advocate and a prominent Democrat are questioning whether the Christie administration is fairly distributing federal Sandy aid.</p> <p>"We don't know the whole story of what happened here yet. But Governor Christie should not be ordering Sandy funds directed to pet projects," said Adam Gordon, a staff attorney for the Fair Share Housing Center.</p> <p>"What it points to is the need for further inquiry into how Sandy funds were part and parcel of the governor's campaign for reelection," said state Sen. Raymond Lesniak (D-Union). "And how they were misused for political purposes rather than going to those who really in need."</p> <p>The project, which had been in the works for years, was jump-started in the spring. In late April, Belleville Mayor Raymond Kimble had a breakfast meeting with Christie and Essex County Executive Joseph DiVincenzo at McLoone's Boathouse in West Orange. It was the same restaurant where the two men, along with many other Essex County Democrats, would endorse Christie on June 11.</p> <p>On May 1, when The Star-Ledger asked about the breakfast meeting, Kimble said he planned to endorse Christie and "I think the governor is going to help the town of Belleville with certain projects we need."</p>
Did Christie Trade $18M In Sandy Funds For Mayor's Endorsement?
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Did Christie Trade $18M In Sandy Funds For Mayor's Endorsement? <p>This is the mess Christie's in now. Things he might have gotten away with before are now coming to light, and no one's in the mood to give him the benefit of the doubt. Personally, I think the real story might be whether the $38 million Sandy relief fund managed by First Lady Mary Pat Christie was really a political slush fund. I imagine the U.S. attorney's office <a href="http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2014/01/questions_raised_about_christies_use_of_sandy_funds_to_build_complex_in_town_where_mayor_endorsed_hi.html" type="external">is taking a close look:</a></p> <p>TRENTON - Gov. Chris Christie helped channel $6 million in federal Hurricane Sandy recovery dollars to a project conceived years before the storm struck, in an Essex County town that was not particularly hard hit, records show.</p> <p>The funding, pushed for personally by the Republican governor, was announced less than two weeks before the town's Democratic mayor formally endorsed him for reelection.</p> <p>The development is an $18 million senior center and housing complex in Belleville called Franklin Manor. One third of the cost - $6 million - is being paid for by a $1.8 billion pot of federally funded Community Development Block Grants to help the state recover from Sandy.</p> <p>Christie administration officials say the project will help those displaced from the storm from other towns, and was approved partly because it was already planned and would quickly fill that need. But statements from the governor and officials from Essex County and Belleville at the project's unveiling barely mentioned storm recovery, focusing almost exclusively on how the 137-unit housing project would help keep Belleville's seniors in town.</p> <p>Now - With the George Washington Bridge scandal raging and the mayor of Hoboken claiming top Christie administration officials blackmailed her by threatening to withhold Sandy funds - an affordable housing advocate and a prominent Democrat are questioning whether the Christie administration is fairly distributing federal Sandy aid.</p> <p>"We don't know the whole story of what happened here yet. But Governor Christie should not be ordering Sandy funds directed to pet projects," said Adam Gordon, a staff attorney for the Fair Share Housing Center.</p> <p>"What it points to is the need for further inquiry into how Sandy funds were part and parcel of the governor's campaign for reelection," said state Sen. Raymond Lesniak (D-Union). "And how they were misused for political purposes rather than going to those who really in need."</p> <p>The project, which had been in the works for years, was jump-started in the spring. In late April, Belleville Mayor Raymond Kimble had a breakfast meeting with Christie and Essex County Executive Joseph DiVincenzo at McLoone's Boathouse in West Orange. It was the same restaurant where the two men, along with many other Essex County Democrats, would endorse Christie on June 11.</p> <p>On May 1, when The Star-Ledger asked about the breakfast meeting, Kimble said he planned to endorse Christie and "I think the governor is going to help the town of Belleville with certain projects we need."</p>
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<p>Chicago</p> <p>Looking more like a seasoned Maurice Chevalier or elder statesman than Bathrobe Erectus, Playboy founder Hugh Hefner received a standing ovation at the Gene Siskel Film Center at the screening of Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel this weekend.</p> <p>The movie, directed by Brigitte Berman, is the latest to chronicle Chicago history at the Art Institute&#8217;s new film center. Earlier this year, Disturbing the Universe about Chicago 8 lawyer extraordinaire William Kunstler was shown and last year Radical Disciple: The Story of Father Pfleger was screened, attended by Chicago&#8217;s second most famous son, David Axelrod.</p> <p>Anyone who grew up before Reagan, in Chicago or both will delight at the forgotten cultural icons director Brigitte Berman revives: Dick Gregory, Lenny Bruce, Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Count Basie, Louis Armstrong, Sammy Davis Jr., William F. Buckley, Dick Cavett, David Steinberg and many more.</p> <p>TV clips from &#8220;hifi, party record and hootenanny&#8221; days on Playboy&#8217;s Penthouse and Playboy After Dark feature folk singers Pete Seeger and Joan Baez.</p> <p>Who knew Playboy sponsored one of the biggest jazz festivals in history? Who knew it sent the Playboy jet to retrieve Vietnam orphans who bunnies, out of costume, nurtured back to health? Who knew Playboy supported Children of the Night, a group that helps runaways evade prostitution or that Hef went to Northwestern?</p> <p>But halfway through the movie, a creep factor sets in. Maybe it is the parade of dead talking heads presented as if they were alive &#8212; Alex Haley, Robert Culp, Tony Curtis &#8212; or the fact that Hef wannabe Penthouse publisher Bob Guccione just died.</p> <p>Maybe it was the ubiquity of Kiss&#8217; Gene Simmons &#8212; so sexually and psychiatrically unbalanced that an NPR interview in which he tells interviewer Terry Gross to &#8220;open your legs&#8221; went viral &#8212; or the appearance of a leering James Caan who was linked to Hollywood prostitute broker Heidi Fleiss. (At the film&#8217;s end, Simmons who pontificates about male sexual parts being aroused by clothing while women&#8217;s are hidden away, removes the sunglasses he wears during the film in a gesture of grandiosity and symbolic exhibitionism. Ick.)</p> <p>But the straw dog enemies of lust director Berman sets up &#8212; Pat Boone, Jerry Falwell, Charles Keating &#8212; are not nearly as creepy as those who are agnostic on, or supporters of, Hef style lust.</p> <p>What is, for example, the Rev. Malcolm Boyd, author of Are Your Running With Me Jesus, doing at an establishment where half the sky, as Nicholas Kristof puts it, is deemed worthy of wearing animal tails? Where have Dick Cavett and David Steinberg been for the last 30 years to not notice that Oprah, Chelsea Handler and the women on the View have retired them? And what is up with Bill Maher&#8217;s appearance?</p> <p>In fact Hef&#8217;s pride in liberating African-American men to enjoy cottontail service at the segregated New Orleans Playboy Club and the movie&#8217;s discussion of his fight against &#8220;oppression&#8221; and &#8220;sexual McCarthyism&#8221; is so Denial it brings to mind a scene in Sacha Baron Cohen Bruno last year. Cohen invites the singer Paula Abdul, who has arrived for an interview, to use a Mexican gardener on his hands and knees as a chair &#8212; and she does!</p> <p>Everything is fine if you ignore the furniture.</p> <p>An admitted sex, Dex, Pepsi and work addict, Hefner has the self-centeredness, grandiosity and resentments sometimes called King Baby. He deserved seven girlfriends because he had been monogamous for eight years. The death of playmate Dorothy Stratten gave him his stroke &#8212; it was a &#8220;miracle&#8221; he got through &#8212; and the suicide of bunny Bobbie Arnstein was caused by drug officials and hurt the brand.</p> <p>While Hefner is admired as much for his business acumen as lifestyle, he fails to see that laddie magazines on the one hand and cable and cyber porn on the other retired his brand and still blames Former Attorney General under Ronald Reagan Edwin Meese for casting Playboy as obscene and its circulation nosedive. (Hef went hard core in 2001 over the objections of daughter Christie, CEO of Playboy Enterprises, who told the Daily Telegraph as a &#8220;feminist&#8221; she would not take the magazine hard core.)</p> <p>Of course the half the sky who became doctors, judges, senators, astronauts, scientists, secretaries of state and magazine publishers also helped retire the brand along and a backlash against commodification capitalism and mindless consumerism.</p> <p>In fact when asked flat out about Playboy treating women as sexual objects and animals, Hef at 84, stands by the brand and say it is because they are. And the Playboy brand stands as a White Boy&#8217;s Club that decided to left men from other races in.</p> <p>MARTHA ROSENBERG can be reached at: <a href="mailto:[email protected]" type="external">[email protected]</a></p> <p /> <p>&amp;#160;</p> <p /> <p />
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Bathrobe Erectus <p>Chicago</p> <p>Looking more like a seasoned Maurice Chevalier or elder statesman than Bathrobe Erectus, Playboy founder Hugh Hefner received a standing ovation at the Gene Siskel Film Center at the screening of Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel this weekend.</p> <p>The movie, directed by Brigitte Berman, is the latest to chronicle Chicago history at the Art Institute&#8217;s new film center. Earlier this year, Disturbing the Universe about Chicago 8 lawyer extraordinaire William Kunstler was shown and last year Radical Disciple: The Story of Father Pfleger was screened, attended by Chicago&#8217;s second most famous son, David Axelrod.</p> <p>Anyone who grew up before Reagan, in Chicago or both will delight at the forgotten cultural icons director Brigitte Berman revives: Dick Gregory, Lenny Bruce, Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Count Basie, Louis Armstrong, Sammy Davis Jr., William F. Buckley, Dick Cavett, David Steinberg and many more.</p> <p>TV clips from &#8220;hifi, party record and hootenanny&#8221; days on Playboy&#8217;s Penthouse and Playboy After Dark feature folk singers Pete Seeger and Joan Baez.</p> <p>Who knew Playboy sponsored one of the biggest jazz festivals in history? Who knew it sent the Playboy jet to retrieve Vietnam orphans who bunnies, out of costume, nurtured back to health? Who knew Playboy supported Children of the Night, a group that helps runaways evade prostitution or that Hef went to Northwestern?</p> <p>But halfway through the movie, a creep factor sets in. Maybe it is the parade of dead talking heads presented as if they were alive &#8212; Alex Haley, Robert Culp, Tony Curtis &#8212; or the fact that Hef wannabe Penthouse publisher Bob Guccione just died.</p> <p>Maybe it was the ubiquity of Kiss&#8217; Gene Simmons &#8212; so sexually and psychiatrically unbalanced that an NPR interview in which he tells interviewer Terry Gross to &#8220;open your legs&#8221; went viral &#8212; or the appearance of a leering James Caan who was linked to Hollywood prostitute broker Heidi Fleiss. (At the film&#8217;s end, Simmons who pontificates about male sexual parts being aroused by clothing while women&#8217;s are hidden away, removes the sunglasses he wears during the film in a gesture of grandiosity and symbolic exhibitionism. Ick.)</p> <p>But the straw dog enemies of lust director Berman sets up &#8212; Pat Boone, Jerry Falwell, Charles Keating &#8212; are not nearly as creepy as those who are agnostic on, or supporters of, Hef style lust.</p> <p>What is, for example, the Rev. Malcolm Boyd, author of Are Your Running With Me Jesus, doing at an establishment where half the sky, as Nicholas Kristof puts it, is deemed worthy of wearing animal tails? Where have Dick Cavett and David Steinberg been for the last 30 years to not notice that Oprah, Chelsea Handler and the women on the View have retired them? And what is up with Bill Maher&#8217;s appearance?</p> <p>In fact Hef&#8217;s pride in liberating African-American men to enjoy cottontail service at the segregated New Orleans Playboy Club and the movie&#8217;s discussion of his fight against &#8220;oppression&#8221; and &#8220;sexual McCarthyism&#8221; is so Denial it brings to mind a scene in Sacha Baron Cohen Bruno last year. Cohen invites the singer Paula Abdul, who has arrived for an interview, to use a Mexican gardener on his hands and knees as a chair &#8212; and she does!</p> <p>Everything is fine if you ignore the furniture.</p> <p>An admitted sex, Dex, Pepsi and work addict, Hefner has the self-centeredness, grandiosity and resentments sometimes called King Baby. He deserved seven girlfriends because he had been monogamous for eight years. The death of playmate Dorothy Stratten gave him his stroke &#8212; it was a &#8220;miracle&#8221; he got through &#8212; and the suicide of bunny Bobbie Arnstein was caused by drug officials and hurt the brand.</p> <p>While Hefner is admired as much for his business acumen as lifestyle, he fails to see that laddie magazines on the one hand and cable and cyber porn on the other retired his brand and still blames Former Attorney General under Ronald Reagan Edwin Meese for casting Playboy as obscene and its circulation nosedive. (Hef went hard core in 2001 over the objections of daughter Christie, CEO of Playboy Enterprises, who told the Daily Telegraph as a &#8220;feminist&#8221; she would not take the magazine hard core.)</p> <p>Of course the half the sky who became doctors, judges, senators, astronauts, scientists, secretaries of state and magazine publishers also helped retire the brand along and a backlash against commodification capitalism and mindless consumerism.</p> <p>In fact when asked flat out about Playboy treating women as sexual objects and animals, Hef at 84, stands by the brand and say it is because they are. And the Playboy brand stands as a White Boy&#8217;s Club that decided to left men from other races in.</p> <p>MARTHA ROSENBERG can be reached at: <a href="mailto:[email protected]" type="external">[email protected]</a></p> <p /> <p>&amp;#160;</p> <p /> <p />
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<p>.......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... ..........</p> <p>A steer-head scarf slide made in the 1930s or 1940s is of nutria rock and turquoise by Zuni artist Leekya Deyuse.</p> <p>ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. &#8212; From Roy Rogers to Bruce Springsteen, bolo ties embody the ruggedness of the West in a sleek canvas.</p> <p>Once considered the Rodney Dangerfield of jewelry, bolos emerged in the 1930s-40s as a challenge to traditional neckware. Their origin stories are hazy and rife with myth. But regardless of their heritage &#8211; be it cowboy or Indian, miner or merchant, Anglo or Latino &#8211; this small rebellion against the slow strangulation of the power tie is being embraced by all.</p> <p>The Albuquerque Museum will explore the history and design of this distinctly Southwestern art form with &#8220;Native American Bolo Ties: Vintage and Modern Artistry&#8221; via the Heard Museum in Phoenix from June 28 through Sept. 21.</p> <p>ADVERTISEMENT</p> <p>The exhibition corrals 370 bolos from the Heard&#8217;s permanent collection as well as a promised gift from Chicago collector Norman Sandfield. The works include an early steer-head scarf slide by Zuni Pueblo carving master Leekya Deyuse and a 1950s ram&#8217;s-head bolo by renowned Hopi silversmith Charles Loloma.</p> <p>Sandfield began his massive (1,350) bolo collection after a friend gave him a vintage silver and turquoise belt buckle for his birthday.</p> <p>A Navajo bolo tie of petrified wood and silver, made in the 1950s, is part of a show of bolos at the Albuquerque Museum.</p> <p>&#8220;I thought, &#8216;I might as well get a bolo to go with it,'&#8221; he said.</p> <p>Intrigued, he started to research the ornaments and fell down a rabbit hole of claims, counterclaims and misinformation.</p> <p>Bolos follow a plumb line tracing back to the scarf slide and Victorian-era slide necklaces. After that, their provenance becomes as twisted and tangled as the leather cords they dangle.</p> <p>Arizona silversmith Victor Cedarstaff claimed to have invented the bolo in the 1940s. A gust of wind blew off his hat while he was out riding. He retrieved the silver-trimmed hat band, tossing it around his neck. Inspired, he went home and fashioned his own version from leather, silver and turquoise. He patented the device in 1954.</p> <p>His claim rests in the nexus of conflicting facts. William H. Meeker filed a bolo patent application for the Hickock Manufacturing Company in 1953.</p> <p>Albuquerque Museum history curator Deborah Slaney disagrees with both claims.</p> <p>ADVERTISEMENT</p> <p>&#8220;In New Mexico, clear evidence pre-dates Cedarstaff,&#8221; she said.</p> <p>Albuquerque Covered Wagon Trading Post founder Manny Goodman verified their existence well before both Cedarstaff and Meeker, Slaney said. Zuni Pueblo trader C.G. Wallace sold scarf slides in the 1930s, she added. Albuquerque trader John Kennedy remembered selling them as far back as the 1920s, she said.</p> <p>An 1898 photograph of Chief Wolf Robe (Cheyenne) shows him wearing a scarf slide with a U.S. peace medal. Zuni master carver Deyuse created steer-head scarf slides in the 1930s; his wife Juanita made them from sheep vertebrae.</p> <p>It wasn&#8217;t long before Hollywood noticed.</p> <p>Hopalong Cassidy wore one of the most famous steer-head scarf slides in the TV series starring William Boyd. As Westerns flourished in popularity, manufacturers duplicated Rogers&#8217; scarf slides, selling them to children as premiums. Robert Taylor wore a scarf slide in &#8220;Billy the Kid&#8221; (1941). Film studios sold bolo ties featuring the names and/or images of Western cowboy stars as part of their marketing campaigns. The earliest bolo ties &#8211; made in the shape of an isosceles, trapezoid or keystone &#8211; were in common use by the 1940s.</p> <p>&#8220;It was a natural migration for Native American jewelers to move from the trapezoidal shapes of the &#8217;30s and &#8217;40s to the dynamic versions we see today,&#8221; Slaney said.</p> <p>Plains bridles had already transformed into conchas, she added.</p> <p>The western alternative to the necktie is the official neckwear for the states of New Mexico (1987), Arizona (1973) and Texas (2007).</p> <p>By the 1970s, Arizona Sen. Barry Goldwater was wearing bolos to the White House. The materials included silver, malachite and turquoise, while others sported gold and copper enhancements.</p> <p>The designs and techniques exploded with the contemporary Indian jewelry movement of the 1970s. As early as the 1950s, Loloma was designing bolos using his signature tufa-casting technique. Some reflected Hopi life and culture, including corn and the badger paw.</p> <p>&#8220;He was one of the first modern, contemporary silversmiths and his influences were worldwide. He traveled all over the world,&#8221; Slaney said.</p> <p>By the 1990s, Norbert Peshlakai (Navajo) was making a Picasso-styled bolo, its fractured face inlaid with coral.</p> <p>A Roy Rogers Authentic Western Styles comic book advertisement features tie slides and ties.</p> <p>Many Zuni artists reflect cultural iconography in their bolos. Carolyn Bobelu&#8217;s &#8220;Cosmic Journey&#8221; bolo of the 1990s is set with lapis lazuli, turquoise and coral inlay. By 2009, Navajo Julius Keyonnie turned a seed pot into a bolo in silver, gold and turquoise. Renowned glass artist Preston Singletary (Tlingit) made a &#8220;Spirit Mask&#8221; bolo in 2011.</p> <p>Today bolo ties are made around the world. In England, ceramicists have made them from Wedgewood Jasperware; Japanese artisans make them in wood mosaic. The Danes make them with silver.</p> <p>&#8220;They are in fashion all over the world,&#8221; Slaney said. &#8220;Japan ranks third in the popularity of the bolo tie. They&#8217;re also popular in Spain, Mexico and Scandinavia.&#8221;</p> <p>Designers like Rag &amp;amp; Bone, Acme and Bottega Veneta have draped them around models&#8217; necks. Actors such as &#8220;Glee&#8217;s&#8221; Chris Coffer wear them on TV; they&#8217;ve been spotted in countless Westerns. &#8220;Two and a Half Men&#8221; star Jon Cryer wore one in &#8220;Pretty in Pink.&#8221; San Diego Chargers quarterback Philip Rivers wears a bolo designed by a fan.</p> <p>Sandfield still scours &#8220;the eBay pueblo&#8221; as well as the Santa Fe Indian Market for interesting examples. But don&#8217;t ask him to name his favorite.</p> <p>&#8220;They&#8217;re all my children,&#8221; he said.</p> <p />
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Phoenix museum loans its bolo tie collection to ABQ <p>.......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... ..........</p> <p>A steer-head scarf slide made in the 1930s or 1940s is of nutria rock and turquoise by Zuni artist Leekya Deyuse.</p> <p>ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. &#8212; From Roy Rogers to Bruce Springsteen, bolo ties embody the ruggedness of the West in a sleek canvas.</p> <p>Once considered the Rodney Dangerfield of jewelry, bolos emerged in the 1930s-40s as a challenge to traditional neckware. Their origin stories are hazy and rife with myth. But regardless of their heritage &#8211; be it cowboy or Indian, miner or merchant, Anglo or Latino &#8211; this small rebellion against the slow strangulation of the power tie is being embraced by all.</p> <p>The Albuquerque Museum will explore the history and design of this distinctly Southwestern art form with &#8220;Native American Bolo Ties: Vintage and Modern Artistry&#8221; via the Heard Museum in Phoenix from June 28 through Sept. 21.</p> <p>ADVERTISEMENT</p> <p>The exhibition corrals 370 bolos from the Heard&#8217;s permanent collection as well as a promised gift from Chicago collector Norman Sandfield. The works include an early steer-head scarf slide by Zuni Pueblo carving master Leekya Deyuse and a 1950s ram&#8217;s-head bolo by renowned Hopi silversmith Charles Loloma.</p> <p>Sandfield began his massive (1,350) bolo collection after a friend gave him a vintage silver and turquoise belt buckle for his birthday.</p> <p>A Navajo bolo tie of petrified wood and silver, made in the 1950s, is part of a show of bolos at the Albuquerque Museum.</p> <p>&#8220;I thought, &#8216;I might as well get a bolo to go with it,'&#8221; he said.</p> <p>Intrigued, he started to research the ornaments and fell down a rabbit hole of claims, counterclaims and misinformation.</p> <p>Bolos follow a plumb line tracing back to the scarf slide and Victorian-era slide necklaces. After that, their provenance becomes as twisted and tangled as the leather cords they dangle.</p> <p>Arizona silversmith Victor Cedarstaff claimed to have invented the bolo in the 1940s. A gust of wind blew off his hat while he was out riding. He retrieved the silver-trimmed hat band, tossing it around his neck. Inspired, he went home and fashioned his own version from leather, silver and turquoise. He patented the device in 1954.</p> <p>His claim rests in the nexus of conflicting facts. William H. Meeker filed a bolo patent application for the Hickock Manufacturing Company in 1953.</p> <p>Albuquerque Museum history curator Deborah Slaney disagrees with both claims.</p> <p>ADVERTISEMENT</p> <p>&#8220;In New Mexico, clear evidence pre-dates Cedarstaff,&#8221; she said.</p> <p>Albuquerque Covered Wagon Trading Post founder Manny Goodman verified their existence well before both Cedarstaff and Meeker, Slaney said. Zuni Pueblo trader C.G. Wallace sold scarf slides in the 1930s, she added. Albuquerque trader John Kennedy remembered selling them as far back as the 1920s, she said.</p> <p>An 1898 photograph of Chief Wolf Robe (Cheyenne) shows him wearing a scarf slide with a U.S. peace medal. Zuni master carver Deyuse created steer-head scarf slides in the 1930s; his wife Juanita made them from sheep vertebrae.</p> <p>It wasn&#8217;t long before Hollywood noticed.</p> <p>Hopalong Cassidy wore one of the most famous steer-head scarf slides in the TV series starring William Boyd. As Westerns flourished in popularity, manufacturers duplicated Rogers&#8217; scarf slides, selling them to children as premiums. Robert Taylor wore a scarf slide in &#8220;Billy the Kid&#8221; (1941). Film studios sold bolo ties featuring the names and/or images of Western cowboy stars as part of their marketing campaigns. The earliest bolo ties &#8211; made in the shape of an isosceles, trapezoid or keystone &#8211; were in common use by the 1940s.</p> <p>&#8220;It was a natural migration for Native American jewelers to move from the trapezoidal shapes of the &#8217;30s and &#8217;40s to the dynamic versions we see today,&#8221; Slaney said.</p> <p>Plains bridles had already transformed into conchas, she added.</p> <p>The western alternative to the necktie is the official neckwear for the states of New Mexico (1987), Arizona (1973) and Texas (2007).</p> <p>By the 1970s, Arizona Sen. Barry Goldwater was wearing bolos to the White House. The materials included silver, malachite and turquoise, while others sported gold and copper enhancements.</p> <p>The designs and techniques exploded with the contemporary Indian jewelry movement of the 1970s. As early as the 1950s, Loloma was designing bolos using his signature tufa-casting technique. Some reflected Hopi life and culture, including corn and the badger paw.</p> <p>&#8220;He was one of the first modern, contemporary silversmiths and his influences were worldwide. He traveled all over the world,&#8221; Slaney said.</p> <p>By the 1990s, Norbert Peshlakai (Navajo) was making a Picasso-styled bolo, its fractured face inlaid with coral.</p> <p>A Roy Rogers Authentic Western Styles comic book advertisement features tie slides and ties.</p> <p>Many Zuni artists reflect cultural iconography in their bolos. Carolyn Bobelu&#8217;s &#8220;Cosmic Journey&#8221; bolo of the 1990s is set with lapis lazuli, turquoise and coral inlay. By 2009, Navajo Julius Keyonnie turned a seed pot into a bolo in silver, gold and turquoise. Renowned glass artist Preston Singletary (Tlingit) made a &#8220;Spirit Mask&#8221; bolo in 2011.</p> <p>Today bolo ties are made around the world. In England, ceramicists have made them from Wedgewood Jasperware; Japanese artisans make them in wood mosaic. The Danes make them with silver.</p> <p>&#8220;They are in fashion all over the world,&#8221; Slaney said. &#8220;Japan ranks third in the popularity of the bolo tie. They&#8217;re also popular in Spain, Mexico and Scandinavia.&#8221;</p> <p>Designers like Rag &amp;amp; Bone, Acme and Bottega Veneta have draped them around models&#8217; necks. Actors such as &#8220;Glee&#8217;s&#8221; Chris Coffer wear them on TV; they&#8217;ve been spotted in countless Westerns. &#8220;Two and a Half Men&#8221; star Jon Cryer wore one in &#8220;Pretty in Pink.&#8221; San Diego Chargers quarterback Philip Rivers wears a bolo designed by a fan.</p> <p>Sandfield still scours &#8220;the eBay pueblo&#8221; as well as the Santa Fe Indian Market for interesting examples. But don&#8217;t ask him to name his favorite.</p> <p>&#8220;They&#8217;re all my children,&#8221; he said.</p> <p />
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<p>Here in the &#8220;purple states&#8221; of the Rocky Mountain West, President George W. Bush&#8217;s job approval ratings have fallen lower than a rattlesnake&#8217;s belly. In five of our eight mountain states, Bush approval has sunk well below 50 percent with his standing in Nevada at an all-time low of 39 and Montana at a rock-bottom 42 percent. Even in the most crimson, conservative states in America&#8211;Utah, Wyoming, and Idaho&#8211;the President&#8217;s 2004 election night approval has now collapsed by an average of 10 percent with a dizzying loss of 14 percent in Vice President Cheney&#8217;s home state of Wyoming.</p> <p>It has become clear that the buyer&#8217;s remorse here in the Rockies is due to more than simple disagreement with Bush&#8217;s policies. Westerns have developed serious doubts about Bush&#8217;s judgment and character as well.</p> <p>A look at westerner&#8217;s disagreement with Bush policy shows this: most Americans, 70 percent, disagree with allowing the United Arab Emirates to operate six critical American ports; so do we westerners. Americans, by 52 percent in the latest polls, oppose presidential telephone wiretaps without a warrant. In the West the disapproval of such unauthorized snooping is even higher. We, along with other Americans&#8211;by a whopping 60 percent&#8211;disapprove of how Bush is handling the overall energy situation. We are overwhelmingly opposed to Bush&#8217;s relentless efforts to push roads into our last wild places and westerners are also fighting the President&#8217;s effort to sell those public lands.</p> <p>It is the President&#8217;s handling of Iraq, however, that is at the heart of the public&#8217;s disapproval. What is remarkable about the latest polls is that Bush is losing support, for the first time in five years, in his strongest base-Republican stalwarts, many of whom live here in the Rockies. More than a third of those who most likely voted for Bush in both 2000 and 2004 now disagree with the war in Iraq. Independents, who narrowly voted for Bush in 2004, disapprove of the way he has handled Iraq by a whopping 69 percent.</p> <p>However, the Bush collapse among folks out here may have less to do with policy disagreements and more with growing concerns about George W. personally. Time is always required for people to take the measure of their leaders. The last three two-term presidents are Reagan, Clinton and now George W. Bush. Although westerners often opposed many of Ronald Reagan&#8217;s policies they continued year after year to support him personally. With Bill Clinton, we recognized his competence and a majority often agreed with many of his policies, however, we had more than ample evidence that to protect himself, he would lie to us. Here in the West that personal flaw did him in.</p> <p>After watching Bush into his second term, westerners find much that concerns them. He seems halting, has to read every speech and even then bungles the words. Bush is demanding, preachy, stubborn, unable to admit even his most obvious mistakes. Even in supposedly unscripted public appearances&#8211;be they a teleconference with troops in Iraq or a healthcare meeting here in Montana&#8211;we are surprised to find out that Bush&#8217;s handlers had carefully pre-selected the crowd and then actually scripted the questions people were allowed to ask the President. Westerner&#8217;s prefer leaders who can stand on their own two feet and, when necessary, shoot from the hip&#8211;straight that is.</p> <p>For a time we westerners seemed impressed by the tilt of the Bush Stetson. Then we learned that his &#8220;ranch,&#8221; purchased just in time for his 2000 presidential campaign, doesn&#8217;t have a single horse or cow. Real cowboys have cows. What they don&#8217;t have are unscuffed, tailor-made boots with embossed insignias; they don&#8217;t swagger, aren&#8217;t bullies, and try not to start brawls they can&#8217;t win. And they never declare &#8220;mission accomplished&#8221; until the other guy hollers quits.</p> <p>Yep, Bush is in trouble here in the Rockies. He&#8217;s earned it.</p> <p>PAT WILLIAMS served nine terms as a U.S. Representative from Montana. After his retirement, he returned to Montana and is teaching at The University of Montana where he also serves as a Senior Fellow at the Center for the Rocky Mountain West.</p> <p>&amp;#160;</p> <p>&amp;#160;</p>
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Bush: the View from the Purple States <p>Here in the &#8220;purple states&#8221; of the Rocky Mountain West, President George W. Bush&#8217;s job approval ratings have fallen lower than a rattlesnake&#8217;s belly. In five of our eight mountain states, Bush approval has sunk well below 50 percent with his standing in Nevada at an all-time low of 39 and Montana at a rock-bottom 42 percent. Even in the most crimson, conservative states in America&#8211;Utah, Wyoming, and Idaho&#8211;the President&#8217;s 2004 election night approval has now collapsed by an average of 10 percent with a dizzying loss of 14 percent in Vice President Cheney&#8217;s home state of Wyoming.</p> <p>It has become clear that the buyer&#8217;s remorse here in the Rockies is due to more than simple disagreement with Bush&#8217;s policies. Westerns have developed serious doubts about Bush&#8217;s judgment and character as well.</p> <p>A look at westerner&#8217;s disagreement with Bush policy shows this: most Americans, 70 percent, disagree with allowing the United Arab Emirates to operate six critical American ports; so do we westerners. Americans, by 52 percent in the latest polls, oppose presidential telephone wiretaps without a warrant. In the West the disapproval of such unauthorized snooping is even higher. We, along with other Americans&#8211;by a whopping 60 percent&#8211;disapprove of how Bush is handling the overall energy situation. We are overwhelmingly opposed to Bush&#8217;s relentless efforts to push roads into our last wild places and westerners are also fighting the President&#8217;s effort to sell those public lands.</p> <p>It is the President&#8217;s handling of Iraq, however, that is at the heart of the public&#8217;s disapproval. What is remarkable about the latest polls is that Bush is losing support, for the first time in five years, in his strongest base-Republican stalwarts, many of whom live here in the Rockies. More than a third of those who most likely voted for Bush in both 2000 and 2004 now disagree with the war in Iraq. Independents, who narrowly voted for Bush in 2004, disapprove of the way he has handled Iraq by a whopping 69 percent.</p> <p>However, the Bush collapse among folks out here may have less to do with policy disagreements and more with growing concerns about George W. personally. Time is always required for people to take the measure of their leaders. The last three two-term presidents are Reagan, Clinton and now George W. Bush. Although westerners often opposed many of Ronald Reagan&#8217;s policies they continued year after year to support him personally. With Bill Clinton, we recognized his competence and a majority often agreed with many of his policies, however, we had more than ample evidence that to protect himself, he would lie to us. Here in the West that personal flaw did him in.</p> <p>After watching Bush into his second term, westerners find much that concerns them. He seems halting, has to read every speech and even then bungles the words. Bush is demanding, preachy, stubborn, unable to admit even his most obvious mistakes. Even in supposedly unscripted public appearances&#8211;be they a teleconference with troops in Iraq or a healthcare meeting here in Montana&#8211;we are surprised to find out that Bush&#8217;s handlers had carefully pre-selected the crowd and then actually scripted the questions people were allowed to ask the President. Westerner&#8217;s prefer leaders who can stand on their own two feet and, when necessary, shoot from the hip&#8211;straight that is.</p> <p>For a time we westerners seemed impressed by the tilt of the Bush Stetson. Then we learned that his &#8220;ranch,&#8221; purchased just in time for his 2000 presidential campaign, doesn&#8217;t have a single horse or cow. Real cowboys have cows. What they don&#8217;t have are unscuffed, tailor-made boots with embossed insignias; they don&#8217;t swagger, aren&#8217;t bullies, and try not to start brawls they can&#8217;t win. And they never declare &#8220;mission accomplished&#8221; until the other guy hollers quits.</p> <p>Yep, Bush is in trouble here in the Rockies. He&#8217;s earned it.</p> <p>PAT WILLIAMS served nine terms as a U.S. Representative from Montana. After his retirement, he returned to Montana and is teaching at The University of Montana where he also serves as a Senior Fellow at the Center for the Rocky Mountain West.</p> <p>&amp;#160;</p> <p>&amp;#160;</p>
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<p>CAIRO (AP) &#8212; A leading member of Egypt&#8217;s hard-line Islamist group Gamaa Islamiya, which waged an armed insurgency against the government in the 1990s, has died in prison, an official said Sunday.</p> <p>Interior Ministry official Maj. Gen. Hassan el-Sohagi said that Essam Derbala, 58, died of natural causes. A statement from Gamaa Islamiya&#8217;s political party accused Egyptian authorities of &#8220;assassination,&#8221; saying authorities intentionally deprived Derbala of medicine and subjected him to psychological torture.</p> <p>A prison official, speaking on condition of anonymity as he wasn&#8217;t authorized to speak to journalists, denied the group&#8217;s accusations.</p> <p>Derbala was arrested earlier this year and accused of inciting violence.</p> <p>Gamaa Islamiya later renounced violence and was a strong ally of ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi.</p> <p>Meanwhile in the restive northern Sinai Peninsula, a roadside bomb hit a police armored vehicle in the city of el-Arish, killing an officer and a conscript and wounding three, security officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity because they weren&#8217;t authorized to brief reporters.</p> <p>Also Sunday, a group calling itself &#8220;Revolutionary Punishment&#8221; claimed responsibility on Twitter for an attack Saturday on a police vehicle carrying prisoners between Cairo and the oasis province of Fayoum to the southwest that killed one officer and wounded three.</p> <p>The group is believed to mostly consist of Islamist youths seeking revenge for the ongoing crackdown on Morsi&#8217;s supporters.</p> <p>In the province of Suez just west of the Sinai, two militants opened fire on a joint police and army patrol, killing a police lieutenant colonel and wounding a soldier, military spokesman Brig. Gen. Mohammed Samir said.</p> <p>Members of the patrol returned fire, killing one of the two assailants, Samir said.</p> <p>___</p> <p>Associated Press writer Maamoun Youssef contributed to this report.</p> <p>CAIRO (AP) &#8212; A leading member of Egypt&#8217;s hard-line Islamist group Gamaa Islamiya, which waged an armed insurgency against the government in the 1990s, has died in prison, an official said Sunday.</p> <p>Interior Ministry official Maj. Gen. Hassan el-Sohagi said that Essam Derbala, 58, died of natural causes. A statement from Gamaa Islamiya&#8217;s political party accused Egyptian authorities of &#8220;assassination,&#8221; saying authorities intentionally deprived Derbala of medicine and subjected him to psychological torture.</p> <p>A prison official, speaking on condition of anonymity as he wasn&#8217;t authorized to speak to journalists, denied the group&#8217;s accusations.</p> <p>Derbala was arrested earlier this year and accused of inciting violence.</p> <p>Gamaa Islamiya later renounced violence and was a strong ally of ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi.</p> <p>Meanwhile in the restive northern Sinai Peninsula, a roadside bomb hit a police armored vehicle in the city of el-Arish, killing an officer and a conscript and wounding three, security officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity because they weren&#8217;t authorized to brief reporters.</p> <p>Also Sunday, a group calling itself &#8220;Revolutionary Punishment&#8221; claimed responsibility on Twitter for an attack Saturday on a police vehicle carrying prisoners between Cairo and the oasis province of Fayoum to the southwest that killed one officer and wounded three.</p> <p>The group is believed to mostly consist of Islamist youths seeking revenge for the ongoing crackdown on Morsi&#8217;s supporters.</p> <p>In the province of Suez just west of the Sinai, two militants opened fire on a joint police and army patrol, killing a police lieutenant colonel and wounding a soldier, military spokesman Brig. Gen. Mohammed Samir said.</p> <p>Members of the patrol returned fire, killing one of the two assailants, Samir said.</p> <p>___</p> <p>Associated Press writer Maamoun Youssef contributed to this report.</p>
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Prominent hard-line Islamist dies in Egyptian prison <p>CAIRO (AP) &#8212; A leading member of Egypt&#8217;s hard-line Islamist group Gamaa Islamiya, which waged an armed insurgency against the government in the 1990s, has died in prison, an official said Sunday.</p> <p>Interior Ministry official Maj. Gen. Hassan el-Sohagi said that Essam Derbala, 58, died of natural causes. A statement from Gamaa Islamiya&#8217;s political party accused Egyptian authorities of &#8220;assassination,&#8221; saying authorities intentionally deprived Derbala of medicine and subjected him to psychological torture.</p> <p>A prison official, speaking on condition of anonymity as he wasn&#8217;t authorized to speak to journalists, denied the group&#8217;s accusations.</p> <p>Derbala was arrested earlier this year and accused of inciting violence.</p> <p>Gamaa Islamiya later renounced violence and was a strong ally of ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi.</p> <p>Meanwhile in the restive northern Sinai Peninsula, a roadside bomb hit a police armored vehicle in the city of el-Arish, killing an officer and a conscript and wounding three, security officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity because they weren&#8217;t authorized to brief reporters.</p> <p>Also Sunday, a group calling itself &#8220;Revolutionary Punishment&#8221; claimed responsibility on Twitter for an attack Saturday on a police vehicle carrying prisoners between Cairo and the oasis province of Fayoum to the southwest that killed one officer and wounded three.</p> <p>The group is believed to mostly consist of Islamist youths seeking revenge for the ongoing crackdown on Morsi&#8217;s supporters.</p> <p>In the province of Suez just west of the Sinai, two militants opened fire on a joint police and army patrol, killing a police lieutenant colonel and wounding a soldier, military spokesman Brig. Gen. Mohammed Samir said.</p> <p>Members of the patrol returned fire, killing one of the two assailants, Samir said.</p> <p>___</p> <p>Associated Press writer Maamoun Youssef contributed to this report.</p> <p>CAIRO (AP) &#8212; A leading member of Egypt&#8217;s hard-line Islamist group Gamaa Islamiya, which waged an armed insurgency against the government in the 1990s, has died in prison, an official said Sunday.</p> <p>Interior Ministry official Maj. Gen. Hassan el-Sohagi said that Essam Derbala, 58, died of natural causes. A statement from Gamaa Islamiya&#8217;s political party accused Egyptian authorities of &#8220;assassination,&#8221; saying authorities intentionally deprived Derbala of medicine and subjected him to psychological torture.</p> <p>A prison official, speaking on condition of anonymity as he wasn&#8217;t authorized to speak to journalists, denied the group&#8217;s accusations.</p> <p>Derbala was arrested earlier this year and accused of inciting violence.</p> <p>Gamaa Islamiya later renounced violence and was a strong ally of ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi.</p> <p>Meanwhile in the restive northern Sinai Peninsula, a roadside bomb hit a police armored vehicle in the city of el-Arish, killing an officer and a conscript and wounding three, security officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity because they weren&#8217;t authorized to brief reporters.</p> <p>Also Sunday, a group calling itself &#8220;Revolutionary Punishment&#8221; claimed responsibility on Twitter for an attack Saturday on a police vehicle carrying prisoners between Cairo and the oasis province of Fayoum to the southwest that killed one officer and wounded three.</p> <p>The group is believed to mostly consist of Islamist youths seeking revenge for the ongoing crackdown on Morsi&#8217;s supporters.</p> <p>In the province of Suez just west of the Sinai, two militants opened fire on a joint police and army patrol, killing a police lieutenant colonel and wounding a soldier, military spokesman Brig. Gen. Mohammed Samir said.</p> <p>Members of the patrol returned fire, killing one of the two assailants, Samir said.</p> <p>___</p> <p>Associated Press writer Maamoun Youssef contributed to this report.</p>
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<p /> <p>Image source: GlaxoSmithKline.</p> <p>Continue Reading Below</p> <p>Whether you realize it or not, earnings season officially has the stock market by the horns. One industry that tends to lead the charge early in earnings season is Big Pharma. We've already been privy to <a href="http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2016/04/22/9-things-that-stand-out-in-johnson-johnsons-q1-rep.aspx?source=eptfxblnk0000004" type="external">solid results Opens a New Window.</a> from healthcare conglomerate Johnson &amp;amp; Johnson, and this week we'll get data from the likes of Pfizerand Merck. But last Wednesday all eyes were on U.K.-based drug giant GlaxoSmithKline .</p> <p>GSK's Q1, by the numbers GlaxoSmithKline reported its first-quarter earnings results before the U.S. stock market opened for trading on Wednesday, April 27, handily topping Wall Street's expectations. The headline numbers showed an 11% increase in revenue (when using British pounds sterling) to $9.1 billion, and core EPS of 19.8 pence, which works out to about $0.29 per share. This was a 14% improvement over the prior-year quarter. When excluding currency-related benefits, GSK's sales and revenue jumped by 8% at the core rate. Comparatively, GSK's sales topped the consensus estimates by about 4%, whereas core EPS came in a full $0.02 higher than expected.</p> <p>Headline numbers are great because they give you the short version of how well a company performed during a quarter. What they don't tell you are the fine details of how a company achieved its results, and whether or not they're sustainable. More importantly, in this instance the headline numbers don't speak to the most important aspect of GSK's Q1 report: namely that it delivered on every single one of the goals CEO Sir Andrew Witty laid out prior to the beginning of fiscal 2016.</p> <p>GSK hit every single one of its targets For starters, Witty proclaimed to optimists and skeptics alike that this would be the year GlaxoSmithKline gets back to growth -- and not just marginal growth, either. Witty had proclaimed GSK would see "double-digit EPS accretion" in 2016. Witty and GSK delivered. Core EPS rose by 14%, driven by growth in new pharmaceuticals products. Most important, we saw new product growth outpace the decline in inhaled COPD and asthma therapy Advair/Seretide, which should have a generic entrant coming to market in the coming years.</p> <p>1. Double-digit core EPS growth The superstars of GSK's pharmaceutical portfolio were its HIV therapies, Tivicay and Triumeq, as well as its next-generation, long-lasting respiratory products, developed in collaboration with Theravance, that are designed to replace Advair/Seretide.</p> <p>Advertisement</p> <p>Image source: GlaxoSmithKline.</p> <p>Sales of Tivicay jumped 60% to $273 million, while its newest HIV therapy Triumeq saw quarterly sales rise to $477 million, a 193% year-over-year increase. If you recall, both drugs are supplied by ViiV Healthcare, which is majority-owned by GSK, though Pfizer and Shionogi also have small stakes (and are thus benefiting).</p> <p>Although GSK's respiratory products didn't get out of the gate as quickly as expected, insurer coverage and physician awareness are improving. Breo Ellipta (known as Relvar in overseas markets) generated $161 million in Q1 sales, a 171% improvement from the prior-year quarter, while Anoro Ellipta, which began to see strong growth in new-to-brand prescriptions beginning in late 2015, delivered $48 million in sales, an increase of 175%.</p> <p>2. $4.4 billion in cost savingsOver the past couple of years GSK has undertaken a number of cost-saving initiatives, including restructuring its pharmaceutical segment and revamping its supply chain in an effort to improve efficiency and its operating margin. The most recent of those efforts involves cost synergies tied to its Novartis deal that closed last year.</p> <p>Image source: GlaxoSmithKline.</p> <p>GSK's and Novartis' asset swap was a three-pronged beast. Novartis acquired GSK's oncology operations and small-molecule pipeline for roughly $16 billion; GSK purchased Novartis' vaccine business (sans influenza) for around $7 billion; and the two combined forces in consumer healthcare products, forming a joint-venture. GSK's Q1 report showed constant currency growth of 23% in vaccines and 26% in consumer healthcare, but most importantly also highlighted almost $600 million in cost-savings from its asset swap with Novartis. GSK reaffirmed that it's on track to achieve 3 billion pounds, or $4.4 billion, in cumulative cost savings by 2017.</p> <p>3. Dividend continues as plannedAdditionally, Witty has been suggesting all along that GSK's dividend wasn't going anywhere, at least between 2015 and 2017.</p> <p>I'd previously run the math on this roughly 6% yield and been dubious of whether or not GSK had the resolve and reason to stick to it guns. After the Novartis deal added $9 billion to its coffers, and following a stabilization in respiratory in Q1, GSK's dividend payment is starting to look as if it could remain steady through 2017. GSK's press release suggests investors can expect a continued above-average dividend going forward.</p> <p>4. Innovation remains on trackLastly, we also heard from GSK that much of its experimental drug development pipeline, featuring around 40 new medicines and vaccines, remains on track.</p> <p>Late last year Nucala received approval in the EU and U.S. for severe eosinophilic asthma, and late-stage studies remain ongoing for COPD. Rheumatoid arthritis drug hopeful sirukumab is also moving along in a late-stage study. Of course, all eyes remain on Shingrix, GSK's shingles vaccine hopeful that looks to be on track for an eventual U.S. and EU approval by as early as 2017. Shingrix, if approved, would presumably have multi-billion dollar annual sales potential.</p> <p>Turning the cornerWith GSK delivering on all of its primary goals for 2016, it could be time to reconsider this global drug giant as an intriguing investment opportunity. It's worth keeping in mind that (In my best Yoda impression), "one quarter does not a trend make." However, it's tough to ignore GSK's performance considering that Witty laid out long-reaching goals well in advance of this report and hit on each and every one of those targets. I'll be curious to see what GSK can do throughout the remainder of the year, but for the time being consider my interest in this pharmaceutical giant once again piqued.</p> <p>The article <a href="http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2016/05/02/the-single-most-important-thing-about-glaxosmithkl.aspx" type="external">The Single Most Important Thing About GlaxoSmithKline's Q1 Report Opens a New Window.</a> originally appeared on Fool.com.</p> <p><a href="http://my.fool.com/profile/TMFUltraLong/info.aspx?source=eptfxblnk0000004" type="external">Sean Williams Opens a New Window.</a>has no material interest in any companies mentioned in this article. You can follow him on CAPS under the screen name <a href="http://caps.fool.com/player/tmfultralong.aspx?source=eptfxblnk0000004" type="external">TMFUltraLong Opens a New Window.</a>, track every pick he makes under the screen name <a href="http://caps.fool.com/player/trackultralong.aspx?source=eptfxblnk0000004" type="external">TrackUltraLong Opens a New Window.</a>, and check him out on Twitter, where he goes by the handle <a href="http://twitter.com/#%21/TMFUltraLong" type="external">@TMFUltraLong Opens a New Window.</a>.The Motley Fool owns shares of and recommends Johnson &amp;amp; Johnson. Try any of our Foolish newsletter services <a href="http://www.fool.com/shop/newsletters/index.aspx?source=eptfxblnk0000004" type="external">free for 30 days Opens a New Window.</a>. We Fools may not all hold the same opinions, but we all believe that <a href="http://wiki.fool.com/Motley?source=eptfxblnk0000004" type="external">considering a diverse range of insights Opens a New Window.</a> makes us better investors. The Motley Fool has a <a href="http://www.fool.com/Legal/fool-disclosure-policy.aspx?source=eptfxblnk0000004" type="external">disclosure policy Opens a New Window.</a>.</p> <p>Copyright 1995 - 2016 The Motley Fool, LLC. All rights reserved. The Motley Fool has a <a href="http://www.fool.com/help/index.htm?display=about02" type="external">disclosure policy Opens a New Window.</a>.</p>
The Single Most Important Thing About GlaxoSmithKline's Q1 Report
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The Single Most Important Thing About GlaxoSmithKline's Q1 Report <p /> <p>Image source: GlaxoSmithKline.</p> <p>Continue Reading Below</p> <p>Whether you realize it or not, earnings season officially has the stock market by the horns. One industry that tends to lead the charge early in earnings season is Big Pharma. We've already been privy to <a href="http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2016/04/22/9-things-that-stand-out-in-johnson-johnsons-q1-rep.aspx?source=eptfxblnk0000004" type="external">solid results Opens a New Window.</a> from healthcare conglomerate Johnson &amp;amp; Johnson, and this week we'll get data from the likes of Pfizerand Merck. But last Wednesday all eyes were on U.K.-based drug giant GlaxoSmithKline .</p> <p>GSK's Q1, by the numbers GlaxoSmithKline reported its first-quarter earnings results before the U.S. stock market opened for trading on Wednesday, April 27, handily topping Wall Street's expectations. The headline numbers showed an 11% increase in revenue (when using British pounds sterling) to $9.1 billion, and core EPS of 19.8 pence, which works out to about $0.29 per share. This was a 14% improvement over the prior-year quarter. When excluding currency-related benefits, GSK's sales and revenue jumped by 8% at the core rate. Comparatively, GSK's sales topped the consensus estimates by about 4%, whereas core EPS came in a full $0.02 higher than expected.</p> <p>Headline numbers are great because they give you the short version of how well a company performed during a quarter. What they don't tell you are the fine details of how a company achieved its results, and whether or not they're sustainable. More importantly, in this instance the headline numbers don't speak to the most important aspect of GSK's Q1 report: namely that it delivered on every single one of the goals CEO Sir Andrew Witty laid out prior to the beginning of fiscal 2016.</p> <p>GSK hit every single one of its targets For starters, Witty proclaimed to optimists and skeptics alike that this would be the year GlaxoSmithKline gets back to growth -- and not just marginal growth, either. Witty had proclaimed GSK would see "double-digit EPS accretion" in 2016. Witty and GSK delivered. Core EPS rose by 14%, driven by growth in new pharmaceuticals products. Most important, we saw new product growth outpace the decline in inhaled COPD and asthma therapy Advair/Seretide, which should have a generic entrant coming to market in the coming years.</p> <p>1. Double-digit core EPS growth The superstars of GSK's pharmaceutical portfolio were its HIV therapies, Tivicay and Triumeq, as well as its next-generation, long-lasting respiratory products, developed in collaboration with Theravance, that are designed to replace Advair/Seretide.</p> <p>Advertisement</p> <p>Image source: GlaxoSmithKline.</p> <p>Sales of Tivicay jumped 60% to $273 million, while its newest HIV therapy Triumeq saw quarterly sales rise to $477 million, a 193% year-over-year increase. If you recall, both drugs are supplied by ViiV Healthcare, which is majority-owned by GSK, though Pfizer and Shionogi also have small stakes (and are thus benefiting).</p> <p>Although GSK's respiratory products didn't get out of the gate as quickly as expected, insurer coverage and physician awareness are improving. Breo Ellipta (known as Relvar in overseas markets) generated $161 million in Q1 sales, a 171% improvement from the prior-year quarter, while Anoro Ellipta, which began to see strong growth in new-to-brand prescriptions beginning in late 2015, delivered $48 million in sales, an increase of 175%.</p> <p>2. $4.4 billion in cost savingsOver the past couple of years GSK has undertaken a number of cost-saving initiatives, including restructuring its pharmaceutical segment and revamping its supply chain in an effort to improve efficiency and its operating margin. The most recent of those efforts involves cost synergies tied to its Novartis deal that closed last year.</p> <p>Image source: GlaxoSmithKline.</p> <p>GSK's and Novartis' asset swap was a three-pronged beast. Novartis acquired GSK's oncology operations and small-molecule pipeline for roughly $16 billion; GSK purchased Novartis' vaccine business (sans influenza) for around $7 billion; and the two combined forces in consumer healthcare products, forming a joint-venture. GSK's Q1 report showed constant currency growth of 23% in vaccines and 26% in consumer healthcare, but most importantly also highlighted almost $600 million in cost-savings from its asset swap with Novartis. GSK reaffirmed that it's on track to achieve 3 billion pounds, or $4.4 billion, in cumulative cost savings by 2017.</p> <p>3. Dividend continues as plannedAdditionally, Witty has been suggesting all along that GSK's dividend wasn't going anywhere, at least between 2015 and 2017.</p> <p>I'd previously run the math on this roughly 6% yield and been dubious of whether or not GSK had the resolve and reason to stick to it guns. After the Novartis deal added $9 billion to its coffers, and following a stabilization in respiratory in Q1, GSK's dividend payment is starting to look as if it could remain steady through 2017. GSK's press release suggests investors can expect a continued above-average dividend going forward.</p> <p>4. Innovation remains on trackLastly, we also heard from GSK that much of its experimental drug development pipeline, featuring around 40 new medicines and vaccines, remains on track.</p> <p>Late last year Nucala received approval in the EU and U.S. for severe eosinophilic asthma, and late-stage studies remain ongoing for COPD. Rheumatoid arthritis drug hopeful sirukumab is also moving along in a late-stage study. Of course, all eyes remain on Shingrix, GSK's shingles vaccine hopeful that looks to be on track for an eventual U.S. and EU approval by as early as 2017. Shingrix, if approved, would presumably have multi-billion dollar annual sales potential.</p> <p>Turning the cornerWith GSK delivering on all of its primary goals for 2016, it could be time to reconsider this global drug giant as an intriguing investment opportunity. It's worth keeping in mind that (In my best Yoda impression), "one quarter does not a trend make." However, it's tough to ignore GSK's performance considering that Witty laid out long-reaching goals well in advance of this report and hit on each and every one of those targets. I'll be curious to see what GSK can do throughout the remainder of the year, but for the time being consider my interest in this pharmaceutical giant once again piqued.</p> <p>The article <a href="http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2016/05/02/the-single-most-important-thing-about-glaxosmithkl.aspx" type="external">The Single Most Important Thing About GlaxoSmithKline's Q1 Report Opens a New Window.</a> originally appeared on Fool.com.</p> <p><a href="http://my.fool.com/profile/TMFUltraLong/info.aspx?source=eptfxblnk0000004" type="external">Sean Williams Opens a New Window.</a>has no material interest in any companies mentioned in this article. 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<p>By Tim Radford, Climate News NetworkThis piece first appeared at <a href="http://www.climatenewsnetwork.net/2014/01/be-small-stay-cool-forget-the-climate/" type="external">Climate News Network</a>.</p> <p>LONDON - When it comes to climate change, small could be beautiful. Christy McCain of the University of Colorado Boulder looked at more than 1,000 scientific studies of mammalian behaviour and responses to climate change in North America and came to one big conclusion: bigger animals are more likely to experience stress than the smaller ones. A tiny shrew in the American forests was 27 times less likely to respond to climate change than a moose not far away.</p> <p>She settled on 140 scientific papers that contained population responses from 73 North American mammal species, and examined a number of observations that could be called a response. Was there some sort of local extinction? Did the creature's range contract, did it shift, did the species numbers increase? Did seasonal behaviour betray any change? Was there any variation in body size? Or in genetic diversity?</p> <p>She and her colleague Sarah King report in Global Change Biology that only about half of the mammals responded as expected to climate change; 7% did the opposite of what might be expected and the remaining 41% betrayed no response. Those characteristics that indicated a response to climate change were large body size and restricted times in the day when a mammal might be active.</p> <p /> <p>Tailored conservation</p> <p>Almost all the large mammals responded negatively to the gradual warming and seasonal shifts of recent decades. Mammals active only in the daylight, or only at night, were twice as likely to respond as mammals that had a more flexible approach to time-keeping.</p> <p>Mammals in the high latitudes, or at high elevation ranges - polar bears in the first case, American pikas and shadow chipmunks in the second - were also more likely to be in some way affected than those further south or further downhill. Small mammals however seemed to be able to exploit a wider range of micro-climates - shady patches, burrows and so on - to shelter from the effects of climate change.</p> <p>"Overall the study suggests our large charismatic fauna - animals like foxes, elk, reindeer and bighorn sheep - may be more at risk from climate change", said Dr McCain. "If we can determine which mammals are responding to climate change and the ones that are at risk of disappearing, then we can tailor conservation efforts toward those individual species."</p> <p />
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Be Small, Stay Cool, Forget the Climate <p>By Tim Radford, Climate News NetworkThis piece first appeared at <a href="http://www.climatenewsnetwork.net/2014/01/be-small-stay-cool-forget-the-climate/" type="external">Climate News Network</a>.</p> <p>LONDON - When it comes to climate change, small could be beautiful. Christy McCain of the University of Colorado Boulder looked at more than 1,000 scientific studies of mammalian behaviour and responses to climate change in North America and came to one big conclusion: bigger animals are more likely to experience stress than the smaller ones. A tiny shrew in the American forests was 27 times less likely to respond to climate change than a moose not far away.</p> <p>She settled on 140 scientific papers that contained population responses from 73 North American mammal species, and examined a number of observations that could be called a response. Was there some sort of local extinction? Did the creature's range contract, did it shift, did the species numbers increase? Did seasonal behaviour betray any change? Was there any variation in body size? Or in genetic diversity?</p> <p>She and her colleague Sarah King report in Global Change Biology that only about half of the mammals responded as expected to climate change; 7% did the opposite of what might be expected and the remaining 41% betrayed no response. Those characteristics that indicated a response to climate change were large body size and restricted times in the day when a mammal might be active.</p> <p /> <p>Tailored conservation</p> <p>Almost all the large mammals responded negatively to the gradual warming and seasonal shifts of recent decades. Mammals active only in the daylight, or only at night, were twice as likely to respond as mammals that had a more flexible approach to time-keeping.</p> <p>Mammals in the high latitudes, or at high elevation ranges - polar bears in the first case, American pikas and shadow chipmunks in the second - were also more likely to be in some way affected than those further south or further downhill. Small mammals however seemed to be able to exploit a wider range of micro-climates - shady patches, burrows and so on - to shelter from the effects of climate change.</p> <p>"Overall the study suggests our large charismatic fauna - animals like foxes, elk, reindeer and bighorn sheep - may be more at risk from climate change", said Dr McCain. "If we can determine which mammals are responding to climate change and the ones that are at risk of disappearing, then we can tailor conservation efforts toward those individual species."</p> <p />
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<p>Environmental activists are hopeful that a potential Hillary Clinton presidency could mean a continuation and even an expansion of President Obama's environmental policies.</p> <p>They have good reason: the Democratic National Committee's platform, considered a first look at what Clinton&#8217;s policies might be if elected, seems to take a page out of the Obama administration playbook on matters of climate change and conservation.</p> <p>Jason Kowalski, policy director at the environmental group 350.org, sees the platform as a step forward compared to what the Obama administration has accomplished and where the Clinton campaign started last year.</p> <p>&#8220;If you take a look at what Barack Obama has done and you take a look at where Hillary Clinton started at the beginning of the campaign, the Democratic Party platform is far more progressive on climate than Hillary&#8217;s platform initially and what Barack Obama has done while in office,&#8221; he told NBC News.</p> <p>Related: <a href="" type="internal">Picturesque Midway Islands Helps Obama Frame Conservation Push</a></p> <p>The platform calls for steps such as getting 50 percent of American energy from renewable energy sources within the next decade, &#8220;using every tool&#8221; to reduce emissions, an opposition to drilling in the Arctic and a promise that the same test used to reject the Keystone XL Pipeline will be used for other projects.</p> <p>However, wish-list items such as a ban on fracking and a carbon tax, did not end up in the platform &#8212; which former Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders and his surrogates, including Friends of the Earth President Erich Pica, fought for.</p> <p>&#8220;The platform made progress from a climate and energy perspective and from an environmental perspective [but] I still think it&#8217;s lacking,&#8221; Pica told NBC News.</p> <p>Meanwhile, the Republican National Committee platform focuses on farming and using the country&#8217;s current energy resources, and notes that, &#8220;The central fact of any sensible environmental policy is that, year by year, the environment is improving.&#8221;</p> <p>Related: <a href="" type="internal">Obama Announces U.S. Joining Landmark Climate Pact</a></p> <p>There is also nothing on Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump&#8217;s website about the environment.</p> <p>&#8220;The Trump campaign has not been clear other than its support for fossil fuels so I&#8217;m not really clear on what it intends to do on the climate side, it&#8217;s a bit of a mystery to me, I think the campaign has just not been clear on this particular question,&#8221; director of the Center for Energy and Environmental Policy at the University of Delaware John Byrne told NBC News.</p> <p>The DNC's platform implementation depends on what Congress looks like after the general elections &#8212; and how much executive power Clinton is willing to use if she wins.</p> <p>Pica thinks that Clinton will &#8220;pick up&#8221; where President Obama left off and use her executive power, although he points out that the Obama administration did not go as far on the environment as he would&#8217;ve wanted them to.</p> <p>And Byrne notes that what can&#8217;t be done on a national level can be picked up at the local level, like states have done with the implementation of President Obama administration&#8217;s Clean Power Plan.</p> <p>The Obama administration has had its ups and downs with environmental activists and many have felt frustrated over his support of Trans Pacific Partnership &#8212; a sweeping, multi-nation trade deal &#8212; and public lands drilling, and wish he would have done more.</p> <p>But the White House touts the president's legacy on the environment and many experts say he has gained much ground. The recent expansion of the Paphanaumokuakea Marine National Monument in Hawaii, which created the world&#8217;s largest marine reserve, is an example of his policy push on conservation.</p> <p>The president <a href="" type="internal">further cemented the climate change portion of his legacy just before the G-20 meeting</a> in Hangzhou, with ratification by the United States and China of the landmark Paris Climate Agreement.</p> <p>&#8220;President Obama will continue to make progress wherever possible in protecting our environment. Addressing the threat posed by climate change remains a top priority,&#8221; a White House official told NBC News.</p> <p>In either case, environmental proponents feel their cause will fare better under a Clinton presidency than if Trump is elected to the Oval Office.</p> <p>&#8220;Electing Donald Trump would be a blow to the climate that I&#8217;m not sure we could ever recover from, scientifically speaking,&#8221; Kowalski told NBC News.</p> <p>If Clinton is elected, who she names to key cabinet positions could be a strong indication of how progressive her policies on the environment might be.</p> <p>Pica says he wouldn&#8217;t be &#8220;enthused&#8221; to see Clinton name someone as an environmental advisor like Ken Salazar, who supported the Keystone XL Pipeline.</p> <p>&#8220;We&#8217;ll see what happens, how serious Secretary Clinton is about climate change and energy use based on her appointees and her advisors,&#8221; Pica told NBC News.</p>
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Climate Change Activists Hope for Clinton Presidency <p>Environmental activists are hopeful that a potential Hillary Clinton presidency could mean a continuation and even an expansion of President Obama's environmental policies.</p> <p>They have good reason: the Democratic National Committee's platform, considered a first look at what Clinton&#8217;s policies might be if elected, seems to take a page out of the Obama administration playbook on matters of climate change and conservation.</p> <p>Jason Kowalski, policy director at the environmental group 350.org, sees the platform as a step forward compared to what the Obama administration has accomplished and where the Clinton campaign started last year.</p> <p>&#8220;If you take a look at what Barack Obama has done and you take a look at where Hillary Clinton started at the beginning of the campaign, the Democratic Party platform is far more progressive on climate than Hillary&#8217;s platform initially and what Barack Obama has done while in office,&#8221; he told NBC News.</p> <p>Related: <a href="" type="internal">Picturesque Midway Islands Helps Obama Frame Conservation Push</a></p> <p>The platform calls for steps such as getting 50 percent of American energy from renewable energy sources within the next decade, &#8220;using every tool&#8221; to reduce emissions, an opposition to drilling in the Arctic and a promise that the same test used to reject the Keystone XL Pipeline will be used for other projects.</p> <p>However, wish-list items such as a ban on fracking and a carbon tax, did not end up in the platform &#8212; which former Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders and his surrogates, including Friends of the Earth President Erich Pica, fought for.</p> <p>&#8220;The platform made progress from a climate and energy perspective and from an environmental perspective [but] I still think it&#8217;s lacking,&#8221; Pica told NBC News.</p> <p>Meanwhile, the Republican National Committee platform focuses on farming and using the country&#8217;s current energy resources, and notes that, &#8220;The central fact of any sensible environmental policy is that, year by year, the environment is improving.&#8221;</p> <p>Related: <a href="" type="internal">Obama Announces U.S. Joining Landmark Climate Pact</a></p> <p>There is also nothing on Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump&#8217;s website about the environment.</p> <p>&#8220;The Trump campaign has not been clear other than its support for fossil fuels so I&#8217;m not really clear on what it intends to do on the climate side, it&#8217;s a bit of a mystery to me, I think the campaign has just not been clear on this particular question,&#8221; director of the Center for Energy and Environmental Policy at the University of Delaware John Byrne told NBC News.</p> <p>The DNC's platform implementation depends on what Congress looks like after the general elections &#8212; and how much executive power Clinton is willing to use if she wins.</p> <p>Pica thinks that Clinton will &#8220;pick up&#8221; where President Obama left off and use her executive power, although he points out that the Obama administration did not go as far on the environment as he would&#8217;ve wanted them to.</p> <p>And Byrne notes that what can&#8217;t be done on a national level can be picked up at the local level, like states have done with the implementation of President Obama administration&#8217;s Clean Power Plan.</p> <p>The Obama administration has had its ups and downs with environmental activists and many have felt frustrated over his support of Trans Pacific Partnership &#8212; a sweeping, multi-nation trade deal &#8212; and public lands drilling, and wish he would have done more.</p> <p>But the White House touts the president's legacy on the environment and many experts say he has gained much ground. The recent expansion of the Paphanaumokuakea Marine National Monument in Hawaii, which created the world&#8217;s largest marine reserve, is an example of his policy push on conservation.</p> <p>The president <a href="" type="internal">further cemented the climate change portion of his legacy just before the G-20 meeting</a> in Hangzhou, with ratification by the United States and China of the landmark Paris Climate Agreement.</p> <p>&#8220;President Obama will continue to make progress wherever possible in protecting our environment. Addressing the threat posed by climate change remains a top priority,&#8221; a White House official told NBC News.</p> <p>In either case, environmental proponents feel their cause will fare better under a Clinton presidency than if Trump is elected to the Oval Office.</p> <p>&#8220;Electing Donald Trump would be a blow to the climate that I&#8217;m not sure we could ever recover from, scientifically speaking,&#8221; Kowalski told NBC News.</p> <p>If Clinton is elected, who she names to key cabinet positions could be a strong indication of how progressive her policies on the environment might be.</p> <p>Pica says he wouldn&#8217;t be &#8220;enthused&#8221; to see Clinton name someone as an environmental advisor like Ken Salazar, who supported the Keystone XL Pipeline.</p> <p>&#8220;We&#8217;ll see what happens, how serious Secretary Clinton is about climate change and energy use based on her appointees and her advisors,&#8221; Pica told NBC News.</p>
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<p>Published time: 19 Jul, 2017 13:31Edited time: 19 Jul, 2017 14:07</p> <p>Police have closed off the Temple Mount to Jewish worshipers, after a group of Jewish visitors broke the rules of conduct. It follows days of clashes between Palestinians and Israeli police near the site, which is holy to both Jews and Muslims.</p> <p>Jerusalem District Police Commander Major-General Yoram Halevy ordered that the Temple Mount be closed to Jewish worshipers and visitors on Wednesday morning.</p> <p>The order came after a group of Jewish visitors breached the rules of conduct by bringing sacred books to the site and trying to pray there. After one of the individuals was warned, another took out a holy book and the group was removed by security forces, Haaretz <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/1.802141" type="external">reported</a>.&amp;#160;</p> <p>The Temple Mount, known as the &#7716;aram al-Sharif (Noble Sanctuary) to Muslims, has been the subject of violent clashes since Sunday, with Palestinians protesting Israel&#8217;s placement of metal detectors at entrances.</p> <p>The security measure was implemented after two Israeli border police officers were <a href="https://www.rt.com/news/396296-jerusalem-temple-mount-shooting/" type="external">killed</a> in an attack at the site on Friday.&amp;#160;</p> <p>A Palestinian government statement called the measure &#8220;null and void&#8221; and a &#8220;violation of the sanctity of the Al Aqsa Mosque.&#8221;</p> <p><a href="https://www.rt.com/news/396496-temple-mount-reopening-scuffles-israel/" type="external">READ MORE:&amp;#160;Scuffles erupt outside reopened Temple Mount as Palestinians decry new Israeli security measures</a></p> <p>A third night of clashes took place at a gate outside the Temple Mount on Tuesday night, with Israeli police stating that a group of Muslim worshipers &#8220;started throwing rocks and bottles&#8221; at officers who were stationed in the Old City, the Times of Israel <a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/clashes-again-break-out-in-old-city-as-temple-mount-tensions-heat-up/" type="external">reported</a>.&amp;#160;</p> <p>Officers&amp;#160;used rubber bullets and stun grenades to break up the clashes, the news outlet added, citing police.</p> <p>Ruptly footage appears to show people running away from the area.</p> <p>[embedded content]</p> <p>The Palestinian Red Crescent said that 34 people were injured, including 14 that needed hospitalization. One person suffered a serious chest injury, a spokesperson said.</p> <p>Two officers were lightly injured in the clashes, according to Israeli police.</p> <p>Palestinian demonstrators are expected to hold additional protests over the placement of metal detectors on Wednesday, in what the Fatah party, led by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, has dubbed a &#8220;Day of Rage.&#8221;</p> <p>The planned demonstrations prompted Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat to remind demonstrators that their anger should be directed elsewhere.</p> <p>&#8220;I suggest to the demonstrators to turn their rage at the terrorists who created the need for this [the placement of metal detectors], and not the police,&#8221; he wrote on Facebook.</p> <p>The Temple Mount is holy to Jews as the site of their ancient temple, and to Muslims as the site of where the Prophet Muhammad is believed to have risen.</p>
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Police close off Temple Mount to Jews over rules violation amid tensions with Palestinians <p>Published time: 19 Jul, 2017 13:31Edited time: 19 Jul, 2017 14:07</p> <p>Police have closed off the Temple Mount to Jewish worshipers, after a group of Jewish visitors broke the rules of conduct. It follows days of clashes between Palestinians and Israeli police near the site, which is holy to both Jews and Muslims.</p> <p>Jerusalem District Police Commander Major-General Yoram Halevy ordered that the Temple Mount be closed to Jewish worshipers and visitors on Wednesday morning.</p> <p>The order came after a group of Jewish visitors breached the rules of conduct by bringing sacred books to the site and trying to pray there. After one of the individuals was warned, another took out a holy book and the group was removed by security forces, Haaretz <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/1.802141" type="external">reported</a>.&amp;#160;</p> <p>The Temple Mount, known as the &#7716;aram al-Sharif (Noble Sanctuary) to Muslims, has been the subject of violent clashes since Sunday, with Palestinians protesting Israel&#8217;s placement of metal detectors at entrances.</p> <p>The security measure was implemented after two Israeli border police officers were <a href="https://www.rt.com/news/396296-jerusalem-temple-mount-shooting/" type="external">killed</a> in an attack at the site on Friday.&amp;#160;</p> <p>A Palestinian government statement called the measure &#8220;null and void&#8221; and a &#8220;violation of the sanctity of the Al Aqsa Mosque.&#8221;</p> <p><a href="https://www.rt.com/news/396496-temple-mount-reopening-scuffles-israel/" type="external">READ MORE:&amp;#160;Scuffles erupt outside reopened Temple Mount as Palestinians decry new Israeli security measures</a></p> <p>A third night of clashes took place at a gate outside the Temple Mount on Tuesday night, with Israeli police stating that a group of Muslim worshipers &#8220;started throwing rocks and bottles&#8221; at officers who were stationed in the Old City, the Times of Israel <a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/clashes-again-break-out-in-old-city-as-temple-mount-tensions-heat-up/" type="external">reported</a>.&amp;#160;</p> <p>Officers&amp;#160;used rubber bullets and stun grenades to break up the clashes, the news outlet added, citing police.</p> <p>Ruptly footage appears to show people running away from the area.</p> <p>[embedded content]</p> <p>The Palestinian Red Crescent said that 34 people were injured, including 14 that needed hospitalization. One person suffered a serious chest injury, a spokesperson said.</p> <p>Two officers were lightly injured in the clashes, according to Israeli police.</p> <p>Palestinian demonstrators are expected to hold additional protests over the placement of metal detectors on Wednesday, in what the Fatah party, led by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, has dubbed a &#8220;Day of Rage.&#8221;</p> <p>The planned demonstrations prompted Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat to remind demonstrators that their anger should be directed elsewhere.</p> <p>&#8220;I suggest to the demonstrators to turn their rage at the terrorists who created the need for this [the placement of metal detectors], and not the police,&#8221; he wrote on Facebook.</p> <p>The Temple Mount is holy to Jews as the site of their ancient temple, and to Muslims as the site of where the Prophet Muhammad is believed to have risen.</p>
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<p>.......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... ..........</p> <p /> <p>But the violinist Chee-Yun didn&#8217;t expect to have one in real life.</p> <p>In 1991, at the start of her career, the Korean-born violinist began looking around for a new instrument, found one that she loved and brought it to Dario D&#8217;Attili, a legendary violin appraiser for an evaluation.</p> <p>&#8220;In my career,&#8221; D&#8217;Attili said, according to Chee-Yun, &#8220;I have never seen an instrument looking this brand-new. It&#8217;s over 300 years old, definitely Ruggieri, probably one of his finest. No wear and tear; it&#8217;s incredible. This is a great investment for you.&#8221;</p> <p>ADVERTISEMENT</p> <p>Chee-Yun, now 46, didn&#8217;t care about the investment. She had fallen in love with the instrument&#8217;s sound. And thanks to a loan from a private patron, she was able to buy it.</p> <p>Not until years later did she hit on a possible explanation for the instrument&#8217;s unusually good condition. After a performance in Israel, an audience member asked her about her Ruggieri. &#8220;My father often wondered about your violin,&#8221; she says he told her. &#8220;The reason he was wondering is he had heard that it had been buried with one of its owners.&#8221;</p> <p>Suddenly, the instrument&#8217;s pristine condition was &#8211; possibly &#8211; explained. And Chee-Yun&#8217;s &#8220;buried violin&#8221; has become something of a calling card &#8211; sensationalized in some news accounts, which suggest that it remained hidden for most of its existence.</p> <p>She doesn&#8217;t, however, have any proof. And that&#8217;s the problem with stories about buried instruments. There are plenty of stories about people who loved their violins so much that they wanted to be buried with them &#8211; such as the composer Henri Vieuxtemps, whose Guarneri actually rode behind him in his funeral cort&#232;ge. (The violin is currently played by Anne Akiko Meyers and famed as the most expensive instrument in the world.) But it&#8217;s hard to pin down facts.</p> <p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t personally know of an instrument that&#8217;s actually been buried and brought back,&#8221; said Dalton Potter, an experienced instrument appraiser and restorer in Takoma Park, Maryland. However, &#8220;it is true that sometimes instruments go into vaults or secure places. We&#8217;ve had instruments (that) were in a sealed property container for 50 or 100 years, so generations would go by.&#8221;</p> <p>Actually burying a violin in a coffin in the ground poses significant risks. &#8220;I&#8217;m not an expert on coffins,&#8221; Potter says. &#8220;From what I&#8217;ve seen, many of them actually are airtight. Aside from the disgusting idea of there being a body rotting next to it &#8211; that would be bad.&#8221; But &#8220;burying in a wooden coffin in the ground &#8211; that would be a death sentence for an instrument.&#8221;</p> <p>There have been documented cases of buried violins returning to life &#8211; in the wake of World War II, when families fleeing the Nazis sometimes buried their valuables before they left, then returned to reclaim them. In &#8220;The Violin,&#8221; published in 2007 as part of a series of memoirs of Holocaust survivors put out by the Azrieli Foundation, Rachel Shtibel recounts the state of a Steiner violin buried in Poland and dug up in 1946, after only a couple of years in the earth. &#8220;The case and the bow were almost rotten,&#8221; she writes, &#8220;but the violin was damaged in only one tiny spot.&#8221; (She went on to play the violin for years.)</p> <p>Another such instrument found its way into the hands of Katrin Stamatis, who as a child inherited her grandfather&#8217;s 200-year-old violin, a Klingenthaler, after it was buried in the family garden in The Hague, then dug up and brought to the United States after the war. Interviewed by the New York Times in 1996, when she was a high school junior, Stamatis, now a professional violinist, said that her grandfather was so overjoyed to see the instrument again that he picked it up and played the American and Israeli national anthems on it &#8211; only to have it fall apart. &#8220;Once it was restored,&#8221; she said, &#8220;the value completely decreased because it has no value as an antique any more.&#8221;</p> <p>ADVERTISEMENT</p> <p>Stamatis played her way on it to a professional career. Now the principal second violinist with the Oklahoma City Philharmonic and a violinist with the Brightmusic Chamber Ensemble, she says the violin is still in her family.</p> <p>Neither of those buried instruments was a concert instrument &#8211; but Lara St. John&#8217;s Guadagnini indisputably is. &#8220;This one was definitely entombed,&#8221; the violinist says. In the 1920s, it belonged to a young violinist named Harry Ben Gronsky, who studied with Efrem Zimbalist and once played the Bruch concerto at the Hollywood Bowl. &#8220;He contracted TB and died,&#8221; she continued, &#8220;and the father was so heartbroken, he put his son into the family tomb with the Guadagnini and a couple of bows.&#8221;</p> <p>After St. John first put up a version of the story on her website, a descendant of the family got in touch to let her know that the violin had only been buried a few years. &#8220;Because of the Depression,&#8221; St. John says, &#8220;the family had to bring it out and sell it.&#8221;</p> <p>Chee-Yun doesn&#8217;t have any such proof &#8211; apart from D&#8217;Attilli&#8217;s enthusiastic appraisal and the fact that the person who sold the violin to her could not give her an exact history. One Smithsonian scholar opined that if it really was buried, &#8220;there should be major damage to the unprotected wood surfaces, and probably a kazillion worm holes.&#8221;</p> <p>&#8220;It sounds far-fetched,&#8221; Chee-Yun concedes. But she does observe that the Ruggieri &#8220;has evolved over the years. Often, I will go to the same orchestra I played with 10 years ago, and violinists will come up to me: What are you playing on now? It sounds like a different instrument.&#8221;</p> <p>You might say that, having awoken, the violin has grown. At the very least, it&#8217;s a good story.</p> <p>violin</p>
Her 300-year-old instrument was in perfect condition – had it been interred?
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Her 300-year-old instrument was in perfect condition – had it been interred? <p>.......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... ..........</p> <p /> <p>But the violinist Chee-Yun didn&#8217;t expect to have one in real life.</p> <p>In 1991, at the start of her career, the Korean-born violinist began looking around for a new instrument, found one that she loved and brought it to Dario D&#8217;Attili, a legendary violin appraiser for an evaluation.</p> <p>&#8220;In my career,&#8221; D&#8217;Attili said, according to Chee-Yun, &#8220;I have never seen an instrument looking this brand-new. It&#8217;s over 300 years old, definitely Ruggieri, probably one of his finest. No wear and tear; it&#8217;s incredible. This is a great investment for you.&#8221;</p> <p>ADVERTISEMENT</p> <p>Chee-Yun, now 46, didn&#8217;t care about the investment. She had fallen in love with the instrument&#8217;s sound. And thanks to a loan from a private patron, she was able to buy it.</p> <p>Not until years later did she hit on a possible explanation for the instrument&#8217;s unusually good condition. After a performance in Israel, an audience member asked her about her Ruggieri. &#8220;My father often wondered about your violin,&#8221; she says he told her. &#8220;The reason he was wondering is he had heard that it had been buried with one of its owners.&#8221;</p> <p>Suddenly, the instrument&#8217;s pristine condition was &#8211; possibly &#8211; explained. And Chee-Yun&#8217;s &#8220;buried violin&#8221; has become something of a calling card &#8211; sensationalized in some news accounts, which suggest that it remained hidden for most of its existence.</p> <p>She doesn&#8217;t, however, have any proof. And that&#8217;s the problem with stories about buried instruments. There are plenty of stories about people who loved their violins so much that they wanted to be buried with them &#8211; such as the composer Henri Vieuxtemps, whose Guarneri actually rode behind him in his funeral cort&#232;ge. (The violin is currently played by Anne Akiko Meyers and famed as the most expensive instrument in the world.) But it&#8217;s hard to pin down facts.</p> <p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t personally know of an instrument that&#8217;s actually been buried and brought back,&#8221; said Dalton Potter, an experienced instrument appraiser and restorer in Takoma Park, Maryland. However, &#8220;it is true that sometimes instruments go into vaults or secure places. We&#8217;ve had instruments (that) were in a sealed property container for 50 or 100 years, so generations would go by.&#8221;</p> <p>Actually burying a violin in a coffin in the ground poses significant risks. &#8220;I&#8217;m not an expert on coffins,&#8221; Potter says. &#8220;From what I&#8217;ve seen, many of them actually are airtight. Aside from the disgusting idea of there being a body rotting next to it &#8211; that would be bad.&#8221; But &#8220;burying in a wooden coffin in the ground &#8211; that would be a death sentence for an instrument.&#8221;</p> <p>There have been documented cases of buried violins returning to life &#8211; in the wake of World War II, when families fleeing the Nazis sometimes buried their valuables before they left, then returned to reclaim them. In &#8220;The Violin,&#8221; published in 2007 as part of a series of memoirs of Holocaust survivors put out by the Azrieli Foundation, Rachel Shtibel recounts the state of a Steiner violin buried in Poland and dug up in 1946, after only a couple of years in the earth. &#8220;The case and the bow were almost rotten,&#8221; she writes, &#8220;but the violin was damaged in only one tiny spot.&#8221; (She went on to play the violin for years.)</p> <p>Another such instrument found its way into the hands of Katrin Stamatis, who as a child inherited her grandfather&#8217;s 200-year-old violin, a Klingenthaler, after it was buried in the family garden in The Hague, then dug up and brought to the United States after the war. Interviewed by the New York Times in 1996, when she was a high school junior, Stamatis, now a professional violinist, said that her grandfather was so overjoyed to see the instrument again that he picked it up and played the American and Israeli national anthems on it &#8211; only to have it fall apart. &#8220;Once it was restored,&#8221; she said, &#8220;the value completely decreased because it has no value as an antique any more.&#8221;</p> <p>ADVERTISEMENT</p> <p>Stamatis played her way on it to a professional career. Now the principal second violinist with the Oklahoma City Philharmonic and a violinist with the Brightmusic Chamber Ensemble, she says the violin is still in her family.</p> <p>Neither of those buried instruments was a concert instrument &#8211; but Lara St. John&#8217;s Guadagnini indisputably is. &#8220;This one was definitely entombed,&#8221; the violinist says. In the 1920s, it belonged to a young violinist named Harry Ben Gronsky, who studied with Efrem Zimbalist and once played the Bruch concerto at the Hollywood Bowl. &#8220;He contracted TB and died,&#8221; she continued, &#8220;and the father was so heartbroken, he put his son into the family tomb with the Guadagnini and a couple of bows.&#8221;</p> <p>After St. John first put up a version of the story on her website, a descendant of the family got in touch to let her know that the violin had only been buried a few years. &#8220;Because of the Depression,&#8221; St. John says, &#8220;the family had to bring it out and sell it.&#8221;</p> <p>Chee-Yun doesn&#8217;t have any such proof &#8211; apart from D&#8217;Attilli&#8217;s enthusiastic appraisal and the fact that the person who sold the violin to her could not give her an exact history. One Smithsonian scholar opined that if it really was buried, &#8220;there should be major damage to the unprotected wood surfaces, and probably a kazillion worm holes.&#8221;</p> <p>&#8220;It sounds far-fetched,&#8221; Chee-Yun concedes. But she does observe that the Ruggieri &#8220;has evolved over the years. Often, I will go to the same orchestra I played with 10 years ago, and violinists will come up to me: What are you playing on now? It sounds like a different instrument.&#8221;</p> <p>You might say that, having awoken, the violin has grown. At the very least, it&#8217;s a good story.</p> <p>violin</p>
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<p>Ancient Egyptians famously mummified the dead to preserve their loved ones in perpetuity &#8212; and now, scientists have mummified fresh tissue from a human corpse to gain insight into the technique.</p> <p>The team adhered to <a href="http://www.livescience.com/47335-oldest-egyptian-mummy-making.html" type="external">ancient Egyptian techniques</a> to mummify part of the human body, which had been donated to science. They placed the tissue in a salt solution, and measured the progress of preservation using state-of-the-art microscopy and imaging techniques.</p> <p>The findings, detailed Friday in <a href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ar.23134/full" type="external">The Anatomical Record</a>, provide new clues about the ancient Egyptian embalming process.</p> <p>"We wanted to have an evidence-based methodology" for understanding what the mummification process looked like, said Christina Papageorgopoulou, one of the researchers on the new study and a physical anthropologist at the Democritus University of Thrace in Greece. "The only way you can do this is by [doing] the experiment yourself." [ <a href="http://www.livescience.com/50961-modern-mummy-gallery.html" type="external">See Photos of the Mummifying Human Leg</a>]</p> <p>Most of what scientists know about <a href="http://www.livescience.com/28097-herodotus-mummy-evisceration-wrong.html" type="external">ancient Egyptian mummification</a> comes from the Greek historian Herodotus, who lived during the fifth century B.C. First, embalmers would remove the dead individual's organs &#8212; including <a href="http://www.livescience.com/25536-mummy-brain-removal-tool.html" type="external">the brain</a>, which would be extracted through the nose. They'd sterilize the chest and abdominal cavities, and then place the body in a salty fluid containing natron &#8212; a mixture of soda ash and sodium bicarbonate. The natron would drain the bodily fluids and prevent the body from rotting. Finally, they would swaddle the body in strips of linen and bury it in a tomb or grave.</p> <p>Some studies have attempted to use these techniques to mummify animals or human organs, and there have been one or two attempts to mummify a complete human body. But the process had never been studied using modern scientific techniques while the mummification was in progress.</p> <p>In this new study, Papageorgopoulou and her colleagues used the Egyptian salt-based preservation method to mummify the leg of a female human body that had been donated to the University of Zurich in Switzerland, where the experiment was conducted. "If we used the whole body, we would have had to cut it up and take out the intestines [and other organs]," Papageorgopoulou told Live Science.</p> <p>For comparison, they also attempted <a href="http://www.livescience.com/22319-climate-chinchorro-mummies.html" type="external">to mummify a limb "naturally,"</a> using dry heat, but that attempt failed and was stopped after a week.</p> <p>The researchers took samples of the tissue every two to three days, and examined it using a variety of methods: the naked eye, a microscope, DNA analysis, and X-ray imaging methods.</p> <p>For the most part, the <a href="http://www.livescience.com/44644-ancient-egyptian-mummy-has-no-heart.html" type="external">mummification</a> was successful, but it took nearly seven months (208 days), which is much longer than the two months the ancient Egyptian method took, according to Herodotus. Papageorgopoulou suspects that the cooler, damper conditions in the lab in Zurich, compared with the arid environment of ancient Egypt, may explain the discrepancy.</p> <p>This is a condensed version of a report from LiveScience. <a href="http://www.livescience.com/50960-scientists-mummify-human-leg.html" type="external">Read the full report.</a> Follow Tanya Lewis on <a href="https://twitter.com/tanyalewis314" type="external">Twitter</a>. Follow LiveScience on <a href="https://twitter.com/LiveScience" type="external">Twitter</a>, <a href="http://www.facebook.com/#!/livescience" type="external">Facebook</a> and <a href="https://plus.google.com/101164570444913213957/posts" type="external">Google+</a>.</p>
Modern Human Leg Gets the Ancient Egyptian Mummy Treatment
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Modern Human Leg Gets the Ancient Egyptian Mummy Treatment <p>Ancient Egyptians famously mummified the dead to preserve their loved ones in perpetuity &#8212; and now, scientists have mummified fresh tissue from a human corpse to gain insight into the technique.</p> <p>The team adhered to <a href="http://www.livescience.com/47335-oldest-egyptian-mummy-making.html" type="external">ancient Egyptian techniques</a> to mummify part of the human body, which had been donated to science. They placed the tissue in a salt solution, and measured the progress of preservation using state-of-the-art microscopy and imaging techniques.</p> <p>The findings, detailed Friday in <a href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ar.23134/full" type="external">The Anatomical Record</a>, provide new clues about the ancient Egyptian embalming process.</p> <p>"We wanted to have an evidence-based methodology" for understanding what the mummification process looked like, said Christina Papageorgopoulou, one of the researchers on the new study and a physical anthropologist at the Democritus University of Thrace in Greece. "The only way you can do this is by [doing] the experiment yourself." [ <a href="http://www.livescience.com/50961-modern-mummy-gallery.html" type="external">See Photos of the Mummifying Human Leg</a>]</p> <p>Most of what scientists know about <a href="http://www.livescience.com/28097-herodotus-mummy-evisceration-wrong.html" type="external">ancient Egyptian mummification</a> comes from the Greek historian Herodotus, who lived during the fifth century B.C. First, embalmers would remove the dead individual's organs &#8212; including <a href="http://www.livescience.com/25536-mummy-brain-removal-tool.html" type="external">the brain</a>, which would be extracted through the nose. They'd sterilize the chest and abdominal cavities, and then place the body in a salty fluid containing natron &#8212; a mixture of soda ash and sodium bicarbonate. The natron would drain the bodily fluids and prevent the body from rotting. Finally, they would swaddle the body in strips of linen and bury it in a tomb or grave.</p> <p>Some studies have attempted to use these techniques to mummify animals or human organs, and there have been one or two attempts to mummify a complete human body. But the process had never been studied using modern scientific techniques while the mummification was in progress.</p> <p>In this new study, Papageorgopoulou and her colleagues used the Egyptian salt-based preservation method to mummify the leg of a female human body that had been donated to the University of Zurich in Switzerland, where the experiment was conducted. "If we used the whole body, we would have had to cut it up and take out the intestines [and other organs]," Papageorgopoulou told Live Science.</p> <p>For comparison, they also attempted <a href="http://www.livescience.com/22319-climate-chinchorro-mummies.html" type="external">to mummify a limb "naturally,"</a> using dry heat, but that attempt failed and was stopped after a week.</p> <p>The researchers took samples of the tissue every two to three days, and examined it using a variety of methods: the naked eye, a microscope, DNA analysis, and X-ray imaging methods.</p> <p>For the most part, the <a href="http://www.livescience.com/44644-ancient-egyptian-mummy-has-no-heart.html" type="external">mummification</a> was successful, but it took nearly seven months (208 days), which is much longer than the two months the ancient Egyptian method took, according to Herodotus. Papageorgopoulou suspects that the cooler, damper conditions in the lab in Zurich, compared with the arid environment of ancient Egypt, may explain the discrepancy.</p> <p>This is a condensed version of a report from LiveScience. <a href="http://www.livescience.com/50960-scientists-mummify-human-leg.html" type="external">Read the full report.</a> Follow Tanya Lewis on <a href="https://twitter.com/tanyalewis314" type="external">Twitter</a>. Follow LiveScience on <a href="https://twitter.com/LiveScience" type="external">Twitter</a>, <a href="http://www.facebook.com/#!/livescience" type="external">Facebook</a> and <a href="https://plus.google.com/101164570444913213957/posts" type="external">Google+</a>.</p>
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<p>&amp;lt;img class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-20972" src="http://www.louderwithcrowder.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/GayAgendaHollywood-1024x535.jpg" alt="GayAgendaHollywood" width="1024" height="535" srcset="https://www.louderwithcrowder.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/GayAgendaHollywood-1024x535.jpg 1024w, https://www.louderwithcrowder.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/GayAgendaHollywood-300x157.jpg 300w, https://www.louderwithcrowder.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/GayAgendaHollywood-768x401.jpg 768w, https://www.louderwithcrowder.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/GayAgendaHollywood.jpg 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /&amp;gt;</p> <p>Dear leftists in Hollywood intent on pushing incessant gayness, even when unnecessary and irrelevant,</p> <p>Today it seems Hollywood&#8217;s primary mission, especially television, is to shove gayness into wherever it may fit. It&#8217;s getting tired. Namely because&amp;#160;it&#8217;s being pushed by a tiny&amp;#160;minority of militant gay activists in the gay community. I want to make this crystal clear. I&#8217;m not suggesting ALL gays are pushing for all gay characters in all TV shows or movies. I contend like with most issues in our political climate, the &#8220;Gay Agenda&#8221; in TV is being shoved by a fraction of a percent of the gay&amp;#160;population. Their <a href="" type="internal">members of the Gaystapo</a>. Small in numbers, shrill&amp;#160;in voice. As stated before, the Gaystapo, and now the Hollywood Gay Agenda Pushers&amp;#160;DO NOT represent millions of gay people who just want to live their lives in peace. Okay? Okay.</p> <p>The thing is, there seems to be a gay storyline in every modern TV show out there.&amp;#160;The one and only modern show I can think of without any uber-gay plot line? Breaking Bad. I&#8217;ve watched the show three times. Didn&#8217;t see any gayness. But every other show I&#8217;ve seen? Somehow it always manages to slip in.</p> <p>&amp;lt;img class="aligncenter wp-image-20302" src="http://www.louderwithcrowder.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/boom-walter.gif" alt="boom-walter" width="459" height="258" /&amp;gt;</p> <p>Am I saying gays should have no representation in television or movies? Of course not. But Hollywood knows it can shape pop culture and perceptions. Which is exactly what it is doing by portraying a disproportionate amount of&amp;#160;characters as LGBTQAIP (silent F). Contrary to what you push on TV <a href="https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/data-shows-homosexuals-hugely-overrepresented-on-the-big-screen-but-glaad-s" type="external">,</a> <a href="https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/data-shows-homosexuals-hugely-overrepresented-on-the-big-screen-but-glaad-s" type="external">homosexuals make up about&amp;#160;3.4 percent of the population, but make up 14 percent of films released in 2014</a>. Yet they still complain about being&amp;#160;under-represented. How the gayness is&amp;#160;depicted I&#8217;ll address later, but the result of vastly over-representing the gay population has led to the conclusion you aimed to draw. Most Americans believe the gay population is much greater than&amp;#160;3.4 percent. <a href="http://www.gallup.com/poll/183383/americans-greatly-overestimate-percent-gay-lesbian.aspx" type="external">Americans believe the gay population is 23 percent or more, as shown in recent Gallup polling</a>:</p> <p>&amp;lt;img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-20971" src="http://www.louderwithcrowder.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/gay-population-gallup.png" alt="gay-population-gallup" width="522" height="409" srcset="https://www.louderwithcrowder.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/gay-population-gallup.png 522w, https://www.louderwithcrowder.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/gay-population-gallup-300x235.png 300w" sizes="(max-width: 522px) 100vw, 522px" /&amp;gt;</p> <p>That&#8217;s quite a jump. Or maybe I should say to you, &#8220;Mission accomplished.&#8221;</p> <p>Here&#8217;s the deal, though, Hollywood. I like to be entertained. I enjoy movies. I love a good television show. In fact I recently discovered&amp;#160;Orphan Black. Guess what? Two gay main characters, a few minor gay characters who casually hook up with the main gay characters; one minor transgender character. Looking at the numbers above, that&#8217;s a huge over-represenation. So over the top that Liberace himself would deem it excessive.</p> <p>That&#8217;s one of my biggest beefs with this gayness. I&#8217;m not averse to inserting ideas into stories. I&#8217;m not opposed to having a gay character. But to continually push additional gayness with such overabundance gets distracting from the story. WE GET IT!</p> <p>&amp;lt;img class="aligncenter wp-image-16443" src="http://www.louderwithcrowder.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/ThatsAPenis.gif" alt="ThatsAPenis GIF" width="443" height="341" /&amp;gt;</p> <p>It&#8217;s getting worse: straight character appropriation. It&#8217;s happening. Yes, there&#8217;s now a movement in the left, which I&#8217;m sure will reach y&#8217;all in Hollywood, to make existing heterosexual characters into homosexual ones. <a href="" type="internal">A writer in Vanity Fair lamented that Captain America was not gay with Bucky</a>. Why? Because apparently men can no longer be just friends. You militant Hollywood Gay Agenda Pushers&amp;#160;seek to&amp;#160;turn healthy male friendships into closeted gayness. As if all people are secretly gay, they just need to meet the right person to be gay with. Then and only then, can they truly blossom into a gay butterfly, in all their gayness.</p> <p>It&#8217;s even been suggested that James Bond should be gay. <a href="" type="internal">James Bond</a>. Gay. Think about that for a second. <a href="" type="internal">James Bond is a serial womanizer</a>. He loves the ladies. The ladies love him. But we&#8217;re living in a culture where people&amp;#160;feel comfortable suggesting a character like James Bond should be gay without being laughed at.</p> <p>Now picture two men&#8230;</p> <p>But in trying to appropriate straight characters, what the social-engineering left&amp;#160;is attempting is to redefine what it means to be masculine and feminine. James Bond, a heterosexual hero of men, turned gay?&amp;#160;Captain Freaking America turned gay?</p> <p>That&#8217;s so&#8230; gay.</p> <p>Why make an existing straight character into a gay one? I see it as more than just a way to push gayness. It&#8217;s also seeking to destroy traditional masculinity. Men love women. Women love men.</p> <p>Have we reached a time in our culture where being straight is scandalous, where insisting we&#8217;re not sexually fluid will be seen as backwards hate speech?</p> <p>Maybe I&#8217;m paranoid, but it seems we&#8217;re getting close, especially in how gay characters are portrayed: healthy, loving, never abusive toward each other. <a href="" type="internal">Even though physical abuse in homosexual relationships is sky high</a>. Particularly among Lesbians. No, no, you Hollywood social engineers&amp;#160;are intent on portraying GAY as HEALTHY. <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/11/a-same-sex-domestic-violence-epidemic-is-silent/281131/" type="external">Which is doing a great disservice to the rampant domestic violence in the gay community</a>.</p> <p>So a favor, please. Can we go back to just being entertained? Can&#8217;t we cut it out with the man on man love, displayed graphically? I know even suggesting such a thing makes me a hateful homophobe, but wouldn&#8217;t it be lovely if you folks in the entertainment industry&amp;#160;could focus on&amp;#160;you know&#8230; entertaining us?</p> <p>Written by <a href="https://twitter.com/Courtneyscoffs" type="external">Courtney Kirchoff</a>, with gay joke help from <a href="https://twitter.com/scrowder" type="external">Steven Crowder</a></p> <p />
Dear Hollywood: Stop Gaying All the Things, Especially Straight Characters…
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2016-05-11
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Dear Hollywood: Stop Gaying All the Things, Especially Straight Characters… <p>&amp;lt;img class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-20972" src="http://www.louderwithcrowder.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/GayAgendaHollywood-1024x535.jpg" alt="GayAgendaHollywood" width="1024" height="535" srcset="https://www.louderwithcrowder.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/GayAgendaHollywood-1024x535.jpg 1024w, https://www.louderwithcrowder.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/GayAgendaHollywood-300x157.jpg 300w, https://www.louderwithcrowder.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/GayAgendaHollywood-768x401.jpg 768w, https://www.louderwithcrowder.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/GayAgendaHollywood.jpg 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /&amp;gt;</p> <p>Dear leftists in Hollywood intent on pushing incessant gayness, even when unnecessary and irrelevant,</p> <p>Today it seems Hollywood&#8217;s primary mission, especially television, is to shove gayness into wherever it may fit. It&#8217;s getting tired. Namely because&amp;#160;it&#8217;s being pushed by a tiny&amp;#160;minority of militant gay activists in the gay community. I want to make this crystal clear. I&#8217;m not suggesting ALL gays are pushing for all gay characters in all TV shows or movies. I contend like with most issues in our political climate, the &#8220;Gay Agenda&#8221; in TV is being shoved by a fraction of a percent of the gay&amp;#160;population. Their <a href="" type="internal">members of the Gaystapo</a>. Small in numbers, shrill&amp;#160;in voice. As stated before, the Gaystapo, and now the Hollywood Gay Agenda Pushers&amp;#160;DO NOT represent millions of gay people who just want to live their lives in peace. Okay? Okay.</p> <p>The thing is, there seems to be a gay storyline in every modern TV show out there.&amp;#160;The one and only modern show I can think of without any uber-gay plot line? Breaking Bad. I&#8217;ve watched the show three times. Didn&#8217;t see any gayness. But every other show I&#8217;ve seen? Somehow it always manages to slip in.</p> <p>&amp;lt;img class="aligncenter wp-image-20302" src="http://www.louderwithcrowder.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/boom-walter.gif" alt="boom-walter" width="459" height="258" /&amp;gt;</p> <p>Am I saying gays should have no representation in television or movies? Of course not. But Hollywood knows it can shape pop culture and perceptions. Which is exactly what it is doing by portraying a disproportionate amount of&amp;#160;characters as LGBTQAIP (silent F). Contrary to what you push on TV <a href="https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/data-shows-homosexuals-hugely-overrepresented-on-the-big-screen-but-glaad-s" type="external">,</a> <a href="https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/data-shows-homosexuals-hugely-overrepresented-on-the-big-screen-but-glaad-s" type="external">homosexuals make up about&amp;#160;3.4 percent of the population, but make up 14 percent of films released in 2014</a>. Yet they still complain about being&amp;#160;under-represented. How the gayness is&amp;#160;depicted I&#8217;ll address later, but the result of vastly over-representing the gay population has led to the conclusion you aimed to draw. Most Americans believe the gay population is much greater than&amp;#160;3.4 percent. <a href="http://www.gallup.com/poll/183383/americans-greatly-overestimate-percent-gay-lesbian.aspx" type="external">Americans believe the gay population is 23 percent or more, as shown in recent Gallup polling</a>:</p> <p>&amp;lt;img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-20971" src="http://www.louderwithcrowder.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/gay-population-gallup.png" alt="gay-population-gallup" width="522" height="409" srcset="https://www.louderwithcrowder.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/gay-population-gallup.png 522w, https://www.louderwithcrowder.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/gay-population-gallup-300x235.png 300w" sizes="(max-width: 522px) 100vw, 522px" /&amp;gt;</p> <p>That&#8217;s quite a jump. Or maybe I should say to you, &#8220;Mission accomplished.&#8221;</p> <p>Here&#8217;s the deal, though, Hollywood. I like to be entertained. I enjoy movies. I love a good television show. In fact I recently discovered&amp;#160;Orphan Black. Guess what? Two gay main characters, a few minor gay characters who casually hook up with the main gay characters; one minor transgender character. Looking at the numbers above, that&#8217;s a huge over-represenation. So over the top that Liberace himself would deem it excessive.</p> <p>That&#8217;s one of my biggest beefs with this gayness. I&#8217;m not averse to inserting ideas into stories. I&#8217;m not opposed to having a gay character. But to continually push additional gayness with such overabundance gets distracting from the story. WE GET IT!</p> <p>&amp;lt;img class="aligncenter wp-image-16443" src="http://www.louderwithcrowder.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/ThatsAPenis.gif" alt="ThatsAPenis GIF" width="443" height="341" /&amp;gt;</p> <p>It&#8217;s getting worse: straight character appropriation. It&#8217;s happening. Yes, there&#8217;s now a movement in the left, which I&#8217;m sure will reach y&#8217;all in Hollywood, to make existing heterosexual characters into homosexual ones. <a href="" type="internal">A writer in Vanity Fair lamented that Captain America was not gay with Bucky</a>. Why? Because apparently men can no longer be just friends. You militant Hollywood Gay Agenda Pushers&amp;#160;seek to&amp;#160;turn healthy male friendships into closeted gayness. As if all people are secretly gay, they just need to meet the right person to be gay with. Then and only then, can they truly blossom into a gay butterfly, in all their gayness.</p> <p>It&#8217;s even been suggested that James Bond should be gay. <a href="" type="internal">James Bond</a>. Gay. Think about that for a second. <a href="" type="internal">James Bond is a serial womanizer</a>. He loves the ladies. The ladies love him. But we&#8217;re living in a culture where people&amp;#160;feel comfortable suggesting a character like James Bond should be gay without being laughed at.</p> <p>Now picture two men&#8230;</p> <p>But in trying to appropriate straight characters, what the social-engineering left&amp;#160;is attempting is to redefine what it means to be masculine and feminine. James Bond, a heterosexual hero of men, turned gay?&amp;#160;Captain Freaking America turned gay?</p> <p>That&#8217;s so&#8230; gay.</p> <p>Why make an existing straight character into a gay one? I see it as more than just a way to push gayness. It&#8217;s also seeking to destroy traditional masculinity. Men love women. Women love men.</p> <p>Have we reached a time in our culture where being straight is scandalous, where insisting we&#8217;re not sexually fluid will be seen as backwards hate speech?</p> <p>Maybe I&#8217;m paranoid, but it seems we&#8217;re getting close, especially in how gay characters are portrayed: healthy, loving, never abusive toward each other. <a href="" type="internal">Even though physical abuse in homosexual relationships is sky high</a>. Particularly among Lesbians. No, no, you Hollywood social engineers&amp;#160;are intent on portraying GAY as HEALTHY. <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/11/a-same-sex-domestic-violence-epidemic-is-silent/281131/" type="external">Which is doing a great disservice to the rampant domestic violence in the gay community</a>.</p> <p>So a favor, please. Can we go back to just being entertained? Can&#8217;t we cut it out with the man on man love, displayed graphically? I know even suggesting such a thing makes me a hateful homophobe, but wouldn&#8217;t it be lovely if you folks in the entertainment industry&amp;#160;could focus on&amp;#160;you know&#8230; entertaining us?</p> <p>Written by <a href="https://twitter.com/Courtneyscoffs" type="external">Courtney Kirchoff</a>, with gay joke help from <a href="https://twitter.com/scrowder" type="external">Steven Crowder</a></p> <p />
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<p>After 18 games and more than four months, Manchester City&#8217;s record winning run in the Premier League is finally over.</p> <p>That was not the only bad news for Pep Guardiola on Sunday.</p> <p>During the 0-0 draw at Crystal Palace, the City manager saw Gabriel Jesus sustain a leg injury that could rule out the striker for up to two months and then star midfielder Kevin De Bruyne get carried off on a stretcher. It remains to be seen for how long the favorite for English soccer&#8217;s Player of the Year award is sidelined.</p> <p>But dropping points for the first time since August &#8212; and failing to score in a league game for the first time since January &#8212; might be the least of City&#8217;s worries.</p> <p>Guardiola can at least console himself that his team heads into 2018 with a 14-point lead with 17 games remaining. Finishing the season unbeaten, emulating Arsenal&#8217;s &#8220;Invincibles&#8221; of 2003-04, is also still a possibility.</p> <p>&#8220;Maybe Arsene (Wenger) is worried about that,&#8221; Guardiola said, &#8220;but I tell him many times that 2004 run is for him.&#8221;</p> <p>Thirteen years later, Wenger is still in the Premier League and, like Guardiola, still breaking records.</p> <p>The Frenchman took charge of his 811th match in the Premier League &#8212; a record in a division that was inaugurated in 1992 &#8212; when Arsenal visited West Brom in the final game of 2017, and saw his team concede in the 89th minute from a disputed penalty to draw 1-1.</p> <p>___</p> <p>CITY JUGGERNAUT STOPPED</p> <p>A 19th straight victory for City would have matched the record winning streak in Europe&#8217;s top five leagues, set by Guardiola&#8217;s Bayern Munich in the 2013-14 season.</p> <p>Yet the leaders turned in one of their sloppiest displays of the season &#8212; even De Bruyne&#8217;s imperious passing radar was off &#8212; and needed a penalty save from Ederson Moraes off Luka Milivojevic in injury time to preserve their undefeated start.</p> <p>That was part of a strange end to the match. Moments after the penalty &#8212; contentiously awarded after Wilfried Zaha fell easily under a challenge from Raheem Sterling &#8212; came a robust foul on De Bruyne by Jason Puncheon as City launched a counterattack. While both players received treatment, before being simultaneously carried off the field on stretchers, Guardiola took a seat next to Hodgson in Palace&#8217;s dug-out and the managers chatted.</p> <p>It was the first time City dropped points since a 1-1 draw at home to Everton on Aug. 21.</p> <p>___</p> <p>SANCHEZ&#8217;S MESSAGE</p> <p>Soon after City&#8217;s game, and hours before Arsenal kicked off, Guardiola said there would be &#8220;internal meetings&#8221; over whether the club would make a bid for Alexis Sanchez in light of the injury to Jesus. City failed in a late bid for Sanchez on the final day of the summer transfer window.</p> <p>His display at West Brom would have impressed Guardiola. The Chile forward looked Arsenal&#8217;s most likely route to a goal before he curled in a free kick that deflected off the leg of James McClean, who turned his back in the defensive wall, and ricocheted in after 83 minutes.</p> <p>Arsenal was on course to move within a point of fourth-place Liverpool, only for the controversially awarded penalty that left Wenger furious on the touchline. Rodriguez sidefooted his spot kick down the middle to earn West Brom a point.</p> <p>Wenger said the awarding of the penalty was &#8220;difficult to accept,&#8221; and complained about the standard of refereeing. He also criticized the scheduling of matches over Christmas that left Arsenal with games against Crystal Palace and West Brom in a span of less than 72 hours. West Brom had two more days&#8217; rest than Arsenal from its last game.</p> <p>___</p> <p>Steve Douglas is at <a href="http://www.twitter.com/sdouglas80" type="external">www.twitter.com/sdouglas80</a></p> <p>After 18 games and more than four months, Manchester City&#8217;s record winning run in the Premier League is finally over.</p> <p>That was not the only bad news for Pep Guardiola on Sunday.</p> <p>During the 0-0 draw at Crystal Palace, the City manager saw Gabriel Jesus sustain a leg injury that could rule out the striker for up to two months and then star midfielder Kevin De Bruyne get carried off on a stretcher. It remains to be seen for how long the favorite for English soccer&#8217;s Player of the Year award is sidelined.</p> <p>But dropping points for the first time since August &#8212; and failing to score in a league game for the first time since January &#8212; might be the least of City&#8217;s worries.</p> <p>Guardiola can at least console himself that his team heads into 2018 with a 14-point lead with 17 games remaining. Finishing the season unbeaten, emulating Arsenal&#8217;s &#8220;Invincibles&#8221; of 2003-04, is also still a possibility.</p> <p>&#8220;Maybe Arsene (Wenger) is worried about that,&#8221; Guardiola said, &#8220;but I tell him many times that 2004 run is for him.&#8221;</p> <p>Thirteen years later, Wenger is still in the Premier League and, like Guardiola, still breaking records.</p> <p>The Frenchman took charge of his 811th match in the Premier League &#8212; a record in a division that was inaugurated in 1992 &#8212; when Arsenal visited West Brom in the final game of 2017, and saw his team concede in the 89th minute from a disputed penalty to draw 1-1.</p> <p>___</p> <p>CITY JUGGERNAUT STOPPED</p> <p>A 19th straight victory for City would have matched the record winning streak in Europe&#8217;s top five leagues, set by Guardiola&#8217;s Bayern Munich in the 2013-14 season.</p> <p>Yet the leaders turned in one of their sloppiest displays of the season &#8212; even De Bruyne&#8217;s imperious passing radar was off &#8212; and needed a penalty save from Ederson Moraes off Luka Milivojevic in injury time to preserve their undefeated start.</p> <p>That was part of a strange end to the match. Moments after the penalty &#8212; contentiously awarded after Wilfried Zaha fell easily under a challenge from Raheem Sterling &#8212; came a robust foul on De Bruyne by Jason Puncheon as City launched a counterattack. While both players received treatment, before being simultaneously carried off the field on stretchers, Guardiola took a seat next to Hodgson in Palace&#8217;s dug-out and the managers chatted.</p> <p>It was the first time City dropped points since a 1-1 draw at home to Everton on Aug. 21.</p> <p>___</p> <p>SANCHEZ&#8217;S MESSAGE</p> <p>Soon after City&#8217;s game, and hours before Arsenal kicked off, Guardiola said there would be &#8220;internal meetings&#8221; over whether the club would make a bid for Alexis Sanchez in light of the injury to Jesus. City failed in a late bid for Sanchez on the final day of the summer transfer window.</p> <p>His display at West Brom would have impressed Guardiola. The Chile forward looked Arsenal&#8217;s most likely route to a goal before he curled in a free kick that deflected off the leg of James McClean, who turned his back in the defensive wall, and ricocheted in after 83 minutes.</p> <p>Arsenal was on course to move within a point of fourth-place Liverpool, only for the controversially awarded penalty that left Wenger furious on the touchline. Rodriguez sidefooted his spot kick down the middle to earn West Brom a point.</p> <p>Wenger said the awarding of the penalty was &#8220;difficult to accept,&#8221; and complained about the standard of refereeing. He also criticized the scheduling of matches over Christmas that left Arsenal with games against Crystal Palace and West Brom in a span of less than 72 hours. West Brom had two more days&#8217; rest than Arsenal from its last game.</p> <p>___</p> <p>Steve Douglas is at <a href="http://www.twitter.com/sdouglas80" type="external">www.twitter.com/sdouglas80</a></p>
Man City’s record winning run ends at 18 matches
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2017-12-31
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Man City’s record winning run ends at 18 matches <p>After 18 games and more than four months, Manchester City&#8217;s record winning run in the Premier League is finally over.</p> <p>That was not the only bad news for Pep Guardiola on Sunday.</p> <p>During the 0-0 draw at Crystal Palace, the City manager saw Gabriel Jesus sustain a leg injury that could rule out the striker for up to two months and then star midfielder Kevin De Bruyne get carried off on a stretcher. It remains to be seen for how long the favorite for English soccer&#8217;s Player of the Year award is sidelined.</p> <p>But dropping points for the first time since August &#8212; and failing to score in a league game for the first time since January &#8212; might be the least of City&#8217;s worries.</p> <p>Guardiola can at least console himself that his team heads into 2018 with a 14-point lead with 17 games remaining. Finishing the season unbeaten, emulating Arsenal&#8217;s &#8220;Invincibles&#8221; of 2003-04, is also still a possibility.</p> <p>&#8220;Maybe Arsene (Wenger) is worried about that,&#8221; Guardiola said, &#8220;but I tell him many times that 2004 run is for him.&#8221;</p> <p>Thirteen years later, Wenger is still in the Premier League and, like Guardiola, still breaking records.</p> <p>The Frenchman took charge of his 811th match in the Premier League &#8212; a record in a division that was inaugurated in 1992 &#8212; when Arsenal visited West Brom in the final game of 2017, and saw his team concede in the 89th minute from a disputed penalty to draw 1-1.</p> <p>___</p> <p>CITY JUGGERNAUT STOPPED</p> <p>A 19th straight victory for City would have matched the record winning streak in Europe&#8217;s top five leagues, set by Guardiola&#8217;s Bayern Munich in the 2013-14 season.</p> <p>Yet the leaders turned in one of their sloppiest displays of the season &#8212; even De Bruyne&#8217;s imperious passing radar was off &#8212; and needed a penalty save from Ederson Moraes off Luka Milivojevic in injury time to preserve their undefeated start.</p> <p>That was part of a strange end to the match. Moments after the penalty &#8212; contentiously awarded after Wilfried Zaha fell easily under a challenge from Raheem Sterling &#8212; came a robust foul on De Bruyne by Jason Puncheon as City launched a counterattack. While both players received treatment, before being simultaneously carried off the field on stretchers, Guardiola took a seat next to Hodgson in Palace&#8217;s dug-out and the managers chatted.</p> <p>It was the first time City dropped points since a 1-1 draw at home to Everton on Aug. 21.</p> <p>___</p> <p>SANCHEZ&#8217;S MESSAGE</p> <p>Soon after City&#8217;s game, and hours before Arsenal kicked off, Guardiola said there would be &#8220;internal meetings&#8221; over whether the club would make a bid for Alexis Sanchez in light of the injury to Jesus. City failed in a late bid for Sanchez on the final day of the summer transfer window.</p> <p>His display at West Brom would have impressed Guardiola. The Chile forward looked Arsenal&#8217;s most likely route to a goal before he curled in a free kick that deflected off the leg of James McClean, who turned his back in the defensive wall, and ricocheted in after 83 minutes.</p> <p>Arsenal was on course to move within a point of fourth-place Liverpool, only for the controversially awarded penalty that left Wenger furious on the touchline. Rodriguez sidefooted his spot kick down the middle to earn West Brom a point.</p> <p>Wenger said the awarding of the penalty was &#8220;difficult to accept,&#8221; and complained about the standard of refereeing. He also criticized the scheduling of matches over Christmas that left Arsenal with games against Crystal Palace and West Brom in a span of less than 72 hours. West Brom had two more days&#8217; rest than Arsenal from its last game.</p> <p>___</p> <p>Steve Douglas is at <a href="http://www.twitter.com/sdouglas80" type="external">www.twitter.com/sdouglas80</a></p> <p>After 18 games and more than four months, Manchester City&#8217;s record winning run in the Premier League is finally over.</p> <p>That was not the only bad news for Pep Guardiola on Sunday.</p> <p>During the 0-0 draw at Crystal Palace, the City manager saw Gabriel Jesus sustain a leg injury that could rule out the striker for up to two months and then star midfielder Kevin De Bruyne get carried off on a stretcher. It remains to be seen for how long the favorite for English soccer&#8217;s Player of the Year award is sidelined.</p> <p>But dropping points for the first time since August &#8212; and failing to score in a league game for the first time since January &#8212; might be the least of City&#8217;s worries.</p> <p>Guardiola can at least console himself that his team heads into 2018 with a 14-point lead with 17 games remaining. Finishing the season unbeaten, emulating Arsenal&#8217;s &#8220;Invincibles&#8221; of 2003-04, is also still a possibility.</p> <p>&#8220;Maybe Arsene (Wenger) is worried about that,&#8221; Guardiola said, &#8220;but I tell him many times that 2004 run is for him.&#8221;</p> <p>Thirteen years later, Wenger is still in the Premier League and, like Guardiola, still breaking records.</p> <p>The Frenchman took charge of his 811th match in the Premier League &#8212; a record in a division that was inaugurated in 1992 &#8212; when Arsenal visited West Brom in the final game of 2017, and saw his team concede in the 89th minute from a disputed penalty to draw 1-1.</p> <p>___</p> <p>CITY JUGGERNAUT STOPPED</p> <p>A 19th straight victory for City would have matched the record winning streak in Europe&#8217;s top five leagues, set by Guardiola&#8217;s Bayern Munich in the 2013-14 season.</p> <p>Yet the leaders turned in one of their sloppiest displays of the season &#8212; even De Bruyne&#8217;s imperious passing radar was off &#8212; and needed a penalty save from Ederson Moraes off Luka Milivojevic in injury time to preserve their undefeated start.</p> <p>That was part of a strange end to the match. Moments after the penalty &#8212; contentiously awarded after Wilfried Zaha fell easily under a challenge from Raheem Sterling &#8212; came a robust foul on De Bruyne by Jason Puncheon as City launched a counterattack. While both players received treatment, before being simultaneously carried off the field on stretchers, Guardiola took a seat next to Hodgson in Palace&#8217;s dug-out and the managers chatted.</p> <p>It was the first time City dropped points since a 1-1 draw at home to Everton on Aug. 21.</p> <p>___</p> <p>SANCHEZ&#8217;S MESSAGE</p> <p>Soon after City&#8217;s game, and hours before Arsenal kicked off, Guardiola said there would be &#8220;internal meetings&#8221; over whether the club would make a bid for Alexis Sanchez in light of the injury to Jesus. City failed in a late bid for Sanchez on the final day of the summer transfer window.</p> <p>His display at West Brom would have impressed Guardiola. The Chile forward looked Arsenal&#8217;s most likely route to a goal before he curled in a free kick that deflected off the leg of James McClean, who turned his back in the defensive wall, and ricocheted in after 83 minutes.</p> <p>Arsenal was on course to move within a point of fourth-place Liverpool, only for the controversially awarded penalty that left Wenger furious on the touchline. Rodriguez sidefooted his spot kick down the middle to earn West Brom a point.</p> <p>Wenger said the awarding of the penalty was &#8220;difficult to accept,&#8221; and complained about the standard of refereeing. He also criticized the scheduling of matches over Christmas that left Arsenal with games against Crystal Palace and West Brom in a span of less than 72 hours. West Brom had two more days&#8217; rest than Arsenal from its last game.</p> <p>___</p> <p>Steve Douglas is at <a href="http://www.twitter.com/sdouglas80" type="external">www.twitter.com/sdouglas80</a></p>
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<p /> <p /> <p>A recent political research report has revealed that majority of the voters in the country are not happy with the Democratic Party's constant actions against President Donald Trump. For them, it would be better for the entire country and for the party itself to cooperate with Trump.</p> <p /> <p>The study, which was carried out by Rasmussen Reports, was conducted earlier this week through a survey of 1,000 voters. It mainly focused on their views regarding the current political environment after Trump was elected president.</p> <p /> <p>Despite Trump's efforts to come up with policies for the development of the country, he has always been the target of protests and counter-actions carried out by liberals led by the Democratic Party.</p> <p /> <p>For most voters, though, these counter-productive efforts by the Democrats need to stop. As stated in the study, about 63 percent of the surveyed voters strongly believe that the country and the Democrats would be better off if the liberal political party would stop their anti-Trump efforts and just work with the president. On the other hand, less than 30 percent still believe that the Democratic Party should oppose everything that Trump does for the country.</p> <p /> <p>The polled individuals included registered Democratic voters. Among members of the party, majority or about 46 percent agree that it would be better for Democrats to work with the current administration. About 44 percent said that the party should still counter Trump's policies.</p> <p /> <p>The results from the study should be viewed as important indicators in molding today's political environment. Instead of fighting the president in any way possible, Democratic politicians and voters should strive to accept the fact that Trump's policies and goals as president are for the benefit of everyone. Hopefully, they will realize that Trump is actually an effective leader and that he's only looking out for what's best for the country.</p>
Majority of Voters Sick of Democrats? Anti-Trump Efforts
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2017-03-01
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Majority of Voters Sick of Democrats? Anti-Trump Efforts <p /> <p /> <p>A recent political research report has revealed that majority of the voters in the country are not happy with the Democratic Party's constant actions against President Donald Trump. For them, it would be better for the entire country and for the party itself to cooperate with Trump.</p> <p /> <p>The study, which was carried out by Rasmussen Reports, was conducted earlier this week through a survey of 1,000 voters. It mainly focused on their views regarding the current political environment after Trump was elected president.</p> <p /> <p>Despite Trump's efforts to come up with policies for the development of the country, he has always been the target of protests and counter-actions carried out by liberals led by the Democratic Party.</p> <p /> <p>For most voters, though, these counter-productive efforts by the Democrats need to stop. As stated in the study, about 63 percent of the surveyed voters strongly believe that the country and the Democrats would be better off if the liberal political party would stop their anti-Trump efforts and just work with the president. On the other hand, less than 30 percent still believe that the Democratic Party should oppose everything that Trump does for the country.</p> <p /> <p>The polled individuals included registered Democratic voters. Among members of the party, majority or about 46 percent agree that it would be better for Democrats to work with the current administration. About 44 percent said that the party should still counter Trump's policies.</p> <p /> <p>The results from the study should be viewed as important indicators in molding today's political environment. Instead of fighting the president in any way possible, Democratic politicians and voters should strive to accept the fact that Trump's policies and goals as president are for the benefit of everyone. Hopefully, they will realize that Trump is actually an effective leader and that he's only looking out for what's best for the country.</p>
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<p>.......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... ..........</p> <p>file</p> <p>SANTA FE &#8212; Gov. Susana Martinez is criticizing delays by some counties in submitting names of nominees to fill a vacant state Senate seat.</p> <p>Senator Phil Griego resigned Saturday amid criticism about his role in a real estate sale involving a state-owned building. His district included parts of six counties, and each county must nominate a possible replacement.</p> <p>Martinez called on the counties to submit their nominees to her by late Sunday, but Bernalillo and Santa Fe counties are among those which said their processes will run into later this week.</p> <p>The current legislative session will end next weekend, and Martinez called the situation an emergency. Martinez spokesman Enrique Knell called the delays a political decision by Democrats.</p> <p>Santa Fe County Commissioner Kathy Holian said it&#8217;s essential to get public input.</p> <p>ADVERTISEMENT</p>
Martinez criticizes delay by counties on Senate vacancy
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Martinez criticizes delay by counties on Senate vacancy <p>.......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... ..........</p> <p>file</p> <p>SANTA FE &#8212; Gov. Susana Martinez is criticizing delays by some counties in submitting names of nominees to fill a vacant state Senate seat.</p> <p>Senator Phil Griego resigned Saturday amid criticism about his role in a real estate sale involving a state-owned building. His district included parts of six counties, and each county must nominate a possible replacement.</p> <p>Martinez called on the counties to submit their nominees to her by late Sunday, but Bernalillo and Santa Fe counties are among those which said their processes will run into later this week.</p> <p>The current legislative session will end next weekend, and Martinez called the situation an emergency. Martinez spokesman Enrique Knell called the delays a political decision by Democrats.</p> <p>Santa Fe County Commissioner Kathy Holian said it&#8217;s essential to get public input.</p> <p>ADVERTISEMENT</p>
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<p>President Emmanuel Macron will visit French Caribbean islands hammered by Hurricane Irma where residents have criticized the government for not doing enough to prepare them for the storm's devastation.</p> <p>Macron's plane is bringing water, food and tons of medicines and emergency equipment. He will first visit Guadeloupe on Tuesday morning before heading to St. Martin to meet with residents, and then to St. Barts.</p> <p>Continue Reading Below</p> <p>The president is also being accompanied by doctors and experts who will be in charge of evaluating the damage. St. Martin was one of the hardest-hit islands where 10 people were killed.</p> <p>About 1,500 troops, police and emergency workers were on the ground to help islanders, and 500 others were expected to arrive in the coming days, according to French authorities.</p>
French president to visit Caribbean islands hit by Irma
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2017-09-12
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French president to visit Caribbean islands hit by Irma <p>President Emmanuel Macron will visit French Caribbean islands hammered by Hurricane Irma where residents have criticized the government for not doing enough to prepare them for the storm's devastation.</p> <p>Macron's plane is bringing water, food and tons of medicines and emergency equipment. He will first visit Guadeloupe on Tuesday morning before heading to St. Martin to meet with residents, and then to St. Barts.</p> <p>Continue Reading Below</p> <p>The president is also being accompanied by doctors and experts who will be in charge of evaluating the damage. St. Martin was one of the hardest-hit islands where 10 people were killed.</p> <p>About 1,500 troops, police and emergency workers were on the ground to help islanders, and 500 others were expected to arrive in the coming days, according to French authorities.</p>
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<p>President-elect Barack Obama has added his voice to the chorus of encouragement for a group of Chicago workers who are sitting-in at their former factory. Obama said the workers, who have protested their way into the national spotlight, were &#8220;absolutely right&#8221; and &#8220;what&#8217;s happening to them is reflective of what&#8217;s happening across this economy.&#8221;</p> <p>AP via Google:</p> <p>Obama told a news conference Sunday that Republic Windows and Doors should follow through on its commitments to the 200 workers, who say they won&#8217;t leave the plant until they are assured they&#8217;ll receive their severance and vacation pay.</p> <p>&#8220;The workers who are asking for the benefits and payments that they have earned, I think they&#8217;re absolutely right and understand that what&#8217;s happening to them is reflective of what&#8217;s happening across this economy,&#8221; Obama said.</p> <p /> <p><a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5ildwrFjwHYjvJPX2edZgBnNb8EEQD94UFKP80" type="external">Read more</a></p>
Obama Throws Support to Chicago Sit-In
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Obama Throws Support to Chicago Sit-In <p>President-elect Barack Obama has added his voice to the chorus of encouragement for a group of Chicago workers who are sitting-in at their former factory. Obama said the workers, who have protested their way into the national spotlight, were &#8220;absolutely right&#8221; and &#8220;what&#8217;s happening to them is reflective of what&#8217;s happening across this economy.&#8221;</p> <p>AP via Google:</p> <p>Obama told a news conference Sunday that Republic Windows and Doors should follow through on its commitments to the 200 workers, who say they won&#8217;t leave the plant until they are assured they&#8217;ll receive their severance and vacation pay.</p> <p>&#8220;The workers who are asking for the benefits and payments that they have earned, I think they&#8217;re absolutely right and understand that what&#8217;s happening to them is reflective of what&#8217;s happening across this economy,&#8221; Obama said.</p> <p /> <p><a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5ildwrFjwHYjvJPX2edZgBnNb8EEQD94UFKP80" type="external">Read more</a></p>
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<p /> <p>As you may have read, Michele Bachmann signed something that said that black families were better off during slavery. Then <a href="" type="internal">she backtracked</a>, but her spokeswoman made some <a href="http://tp://www.politico.com/news/stories/0711/58631.html#ixzz1RpD9GuxX" type="external">weird comments</a> regarding &#8220;economic&#8221;&amp;#160;slavery. And she&#8217;s called <a href="http://www.thebachmannrecord.com/thebachmannrecod.html" type="external">homosexuality enslavement</a> too. Ooookay, then! Here are the three types (so far!) of slavery according to Bachmann.</p> <p /> <p>Photo credits:&amp;#160;Flickr users <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/marisseay/4935966790/lightbox/" type="external">marisseay</a>, <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/cactusthesaint/2898099058/sizes/l/in/photostream/" type="external">thirstycactus</a>, <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/24443965@N08/2723654509/sizes/o/in/photostream/" type="external">OkinawaSoba</a>.</p> <p>&amp;#160;</p> <p />
The Michele Bachmann Guide to Slavery
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The Michele Bachmann Guide to Slavery <p /> <p>As you may have read, Michele Bachmann signed something that said that black families were better off during slavery. Then <a href="" type="internal">she backtracked</a>, but her spokeswoman made some <a href="http://tp://www.politico.com/news/stories/0711/58631.html#ixzz1RpD9GuxX" type="external">weird comments</a> regarding &#8220;economic&#8221;&amp;#160;slavery. And she&#8217;s called <a href="http://www.thebachmannrecord.com/thebachmannrecod.html" type="external">homosexuality enslavement</a> too. Ooookay, then! Here are the three types (so far!) of slavery according to Bachmann.</p> <p /> <p>Photo credits:&amp;#160;Flickr users <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/marisseay/4935966790/lightbox/" type="external">marisseay</a>, <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/cactusthesaint/2898099058/sizes/l/in/photostream/" type="external">thirstycactus</a>, <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/24443965@N08/2723654509/sizes/o/in/photostream/" type="external">OkinawaSoba</a>.</p> <p>&amp;#160;</p> <p />
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<p>.......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... ..........</p> <p>ALBANY, N.Y. &#8212; A 59-year-old woman who had tried for nearly four decades to become pregnant has given birth at a New York hospital after fertility treatments.</p> <p>Akosua Budu Amoako gave birth to a full-term 7-pound, 4-ounce boy on June 15 at Bellevue Woman&#8217;s Center in Niskayuna (nihs-kee-YOO&#8217;-nuh), near Albany.</p> <p>Budu says she and her husband had tried for years to get pregnant after they married 38 years ago, but eventually stopped trying.</p> <p>Then last year, after learning that a 60-year-old woman in the couple&#8217;s homeland of Ghana gave birth to triplets after fertility treatments, Budu underwent in vitro fertilization at an Albany-area clinic using her husband&#8217;s sperm and a donor egg.</p> <p>The baby was named after his father, Isaiah Somuah Anim.</p> <p>The baby is doing fine, as is his mother.</p> <p>ADVERTISEMENT</p>
59-year-old who tried for 4 decades to get pregnant has baby
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2017-07-17
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59-year-old who tried for 4 decades to get pregnant has baby <p>.......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... ..........</p> <p>ALBANY, N.Y. &#8212; A 59-year-old woman who had tried for nearly four decades to become pregnant has given birth at a New York hospital after fertility treatments.</p> <p>Akosua Budu Amoako gave birth to a full-term 7-pound, 4-ounce boy on June 15 at Bellevue Woman&#8217;s Center in Niskayuna (nihs-kee-YOO&#8217;-nuh), near Albany.</p> <p>Budu says she and her husband had tried for years to get pregnant after they married 38 years ago, but eventually stopped trying.</p> <p>Then last year, after learning that a 60-year-old woman in the couple&#8217;s homeland of Ghana gave birth to triplets after fertility treatments, Budu underwent in vitro fertilization at an Albany-area clinic using her husband&#8217;s sperm and a donor egg.</p> <p>The baby was named after his father, Isaiah Somuah Anim.</p> <p>The baby is doing fine, as is his mother.</p> <p>ADVERTISEMENT</p>
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<p>In the fresh light of dawn one hundred&amp;#160;years ago today, German and Allied&amp;#160;soldiers were dug into their opposing trenches on the Western Front in Belgium and France when they defied their superiors to declare a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_truce" type="external">truce</a>.</p> <p>In dropping their weapons, they frightened the world&#8217;s war makers, providing&amp;#160;a glimpse of the power that people without rank and privilege have to determine their own destinies.</p> <p>It was only the fifth month of what was then known simply as the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I" type="external">Great War</a>. Both sides longed for home. The men felt death looming in the trenches where they watched their friends die. The soldiers wielded <a href="http://nationalinterest.org/feature/the-five-deadliest-weapons-world-war-i-11010" type="external">monstrous weapons</a>: flamethrowers, chlorine and mustard gas, machine guns that could shoot 500 rounds a minute. More than one million lay dead already.</p> <p>But on Christmas Eve in 1914, an incredible scene began to unfold. The <a href="http://www.abebooks.com/Silent-Night-Story-World-Christmas-Truce/13275150946/bd" type="external">faint sounds</a> of carols drifted from the muddy, half frozen and blood-splattered trenches British and German soldiers had been occupying that night. &#8220;All is calm, all is bright,&#8221; was sung in both English and German. The soldiers hugged the chopped-off tops of pine trees, which were ornamented with candles and paper lanterns. Paper lights festooned heavy artillery, ammo boxes, crates of food rations, and the wooden beams that kept the trench walls in place.</p> <p>&#8220;Merry Christmas&#8221; was yelled out in a German accent. &#8220;Frohe Weihnachten&#8221; followed in a Scottish accent. The opposing trenches were so close that the words could be heard easily. Lighted trees began to rise over the lip of the German furrows. British soldiers watched through their periscopes.</p> <p>Rumors of a Christmas truce had been circulating for weeks. Was this it? Or was it a trap? The soldiers squinted through their military hardware and pondered their next move. An equal mix of joy and suspicion filled the bunkers.</p> <p>These men were fighting in a war that <a href="http://socialistworker.org/2014/07/28/capitalisms-first-world-war" type="external">served none of them</a>. It was an imperialist war, a war among the world&#8217;s most powerful nations to re-divide the world, a war to ensure the collection of <a href="http://warisacrime.org/content/link-between-war-and-big-finance" type="external">bank debt</a>. They knew it was only a matter of time before they, too, would meet the same fate as the so many others who had already lost their lives.</p> <p>What was it all for? So the rich could stay rich? In their mind&#8217;s eye, the soldiers could see their significant others, their parents, their children, their brothers and sisters, tucked away in warm&amp;#160;homes,&amp;#160;next to their own Christmas trees. The enlisted ranks couldn&#8217;t fight in these conditions. So they didn&#8217;t.</p>
The Christmas Truce
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https://jacobinmag.com/2014/12/the-christmas-truce/
2018-10-03
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The Christmas Truce <p>In the fresh light of dawn one hundred&amp;#160;years ago today, German and Allied&amp;#160;soldiers were dug into their opposing trenches on the Western Front in Belgium and France when they defied their superiors to declare a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_truce" type="external">truce</a>.</p> <p>In dropping their weapons, they frightened the world&#8217;s war makers, providing&amp;#160;a glimpse of the power that people without rank and privilege have to determine their own destinies.</p> <p>It was only the fifth month of what was then known simply as the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I" type="external">Great War</a>. Both sides longed for home. The men felt death looming in the trenches where they watched their friends die. The soldiers wielded <a href="http://nationalinterest.org/feature/the-five-deadliest-weapons-world-war-i-11010" type="external">monstrous weapons</a>: flamethrowers, chlorine and mustard gas, machine guns that could shoot 500 rounds a minute. More than one million lay dead already.</p> <p>But on Christmas Eve in 1914, an incredible scene began to unfold. The <a href="http://www.abebooks.com/Silent-Night-Story-World-Christmas-Truce/13275150946/bd" type="external">faint sounds</a> of carols drifted from the muddy, half frozen and blood-splattered trenches British and German soldiers had been occupying that night. &#8220;All is calm, all is bright,&#8221; was sung in both English and German. The soldiers hugged the chopped-off tops of pine trees, which were ornamented with candles and paper lanterns. Paper lights festooned heavy artillery, ammo boxes, crates of food rations, and the wooden beams that kept the trench walls in place.</p> <p>&#8220;Merry Christmas&#8221; was yelled out in a German accent. &#8220;Frohe Weihnachten&#8221; followed in a Scottish accent. The opposing trenches were so close that the words could be heard easily. Lighted trees began to rise over the lip of the German furrows. British soldiers watched through their periscopes.</p> <p>Rumors of a Christmas truce had been circulating for weeks. Was this it? Or was it a trap? The soldiers squinted through their military hardware and pondered their next move. An equal mix of joy and suspicion filled the bunkers.</p> <p>These men were fighting in a war that <a href="http://socialistworker.org/2014/07/28/capitalisms-first-world-war" type="external">served none of them</a>. It was an imperialist war, a war among the world&#8217;s most powerful nations to re-divide the world, a war to ensure the collection of <a href="http://warisacrime.org/content/link-between-war-and-big-finance" type="external">bank debt</a>. They knew it was only a matter of time before they, too, would meet the same fate as the so many others who had already lost their lives.</p> <p>What was it all for? So the rich could stay rich? In their mind&#8217;s eye, the soldiers could see their significant others, their parents, their children, their brothers and sisters, tucked away in warm&amp;#160;homes,&amp;#160;next to their own Christmas trees. The enlisted ranks couldn&#8217;t fight in these conditions. So they didn&#8217;t.</p>
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<p>.......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... ..........</p> <p>ABUJA, Nigeria - Nigeria's military says troops freed 338 captives, mainly children and women, in raids on Boko Haram camps in northeast Nigeria.</p> <p>Nigeria's Defense Headquarters says 30 militants of the Islamic extremist group were killed in Tuesday's attacks on the fringes of the Sambisa Forest.</p> <p>A military statement on social media says troops separately ambushed and killed four suspects who were on a suicide bombing mission in northeastern Adamawa state.</p> <p>The military posted photographs of several guns and ammunition recovered, along with images of bodies of alleged insurgents.</p> <p>Nigerian troops have rescued hundreds of Boko Haram captives this year but none of the 219 girls kidnapped from a school in Chibok. Their mass abduction in April 2014 sparked international outrage against the militants.</p> <p>ADVERTISEMENT</p>
Nigerian military: Rescues 338 captives in Boko Haram raids
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Nigerian military: Rescues 338 captives in Boko Haram raids <p>.......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... ..........</p> <p>ABUJA, Nigeria - Nigeria's military says troops freed 338 captives, mainly children and women, in raids on Boko Haram camps in northeast Nigeria.</p> <p>Nigeria's Defense Headquarters says 30 militants of the Islamic extremist group were killed in Tuesday's attacks on the fringes of the Sambisa Forest.</p> <p>A military statement on social media says troops separately ambushed and killed four suspects who were on a suicide bombing mission in northeastern Adamawa state.</p> <p>The military posted photographs of several guns and ammunition recovered, along with images of bodies of alleged insurgents.</p> <p>Nigerian troops have rescued hundreds of Boko Haram captives this year but none of the 219 girls kidnapped from a school in Chibok. Their mass abduction in April 2014 sparked international outrage against the militants.</p> <p>ADVERTISEMENT</p>
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<p>Oct. 4 (UPI) &#8212; A U.S. federal judge dismissed Wednesday a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union and several other civil rights groups that argued President <a href="https://www.upi.com/topic/Donald_Trump/" type="external">Donald Trump</a>&#8216;s pardon of former Arizona sheriff <a href="https://www.upi.com/topic/Joe_Arpaio/" type="external">Joe Arpaio</a> was unconstitutional.</p> <p>U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton dismissed the case against the pardon with prejudice, meaning the plaintiffs cannot refile.</p> <p>Arpaio had been found guilty of criminal contempt in a court case involving his part in racial profiling of Latin immigrants in <a href="https://www.upi.com/topic/Maricopa_County/" type="external">Maricopa County</a>, Ariz. Trump issued a pardon for the 85-year-old ex-sheriff in August.</p> <p>In a 14-page ruling, Bolton said she found <a href="http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/arpaios-criminal-case-ends-no-decision-on-vacating-rulings-9749873" type="external">no legal grounds</a> to deny the presidential pardon.</p> <p>Bolton was the judge who originally found Arpaio guilty of criminal contempt for refusing to obey another judge&#8217;s orders to stop profiling undocumented migrants in Maricopa County.</p> <p>Arpaio did not attend the Wednesday hearing, but commented on the ruling to the <a href="http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/phoenix/2017/10/04/judge-considers-dismissing-joe-arpaio-contempt-case/731525001/" type="external">Arizona Republic</a>.</p> <p>&#8220;I&#8217;m happy the conviction was dismissed, especially since I am not guilty and I will be addressing that issue in the near future,&#8221; he said.</p> <p>After Trump&#8217;s pardon, the ACLU <a href="https://www.aclu.org/news/aclu-comment-trump-pardon-joe-arpaio-0" type="external">criticized the move</a>, calling it a &#8220;presidential endorsement of racism&#8221; before filing its lawsuit.</p> <p>&#8220;With his pardon of Arpaio, Trump has chosen lawlessness over justice, division over unity, hurt over healing,&#8221; said ACLU Deputy Legal Director Cecillia Wang. &#8220;Once again, the president has acted in support of illegal, failed immigration enforcement practices that target people of color and have been struck down by the courts.&#8221;</p> <p>House Democrats filed an <a href="http://www.politico.com/f/?id=0000015e-c473-d73c-a1fe-fc77f3d90000" type="external">amicus brief</a> last month urging Bolton to deny the pardon.</p> <p>&#8220;The pardon here is an intentional usurpation of the court&#8217;s authority by the president,&#8221; the letter stated. &#8220;President Trump does not pretend that his pardon of the defendant is based upon the considerations of grace that usually justify the exercise of the pardon power.&#8221;</p>
Federal judge dismisses challenge to Trump&apos;s pardon of ex-sheriff Arpaio
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2017-10-05
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Federal judge dismisses challenge to Trump&apos;s pardon of ex-sheriff Arpaio <p>Oct. 4 (UPI) &#8212; A U.S. federal judge dismissed Wednesday a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union and several other civil rights groups that argued President <a href="https://www.upi.com/topic/Donald_Trump/" type="external">Donald Trump</a>&#8216;s pardon of former Arizona sheriff <a href="https://www.upi.com/topic/Joe_Arpaio/" type="external">Joe Arpaio</a> was unconstitutional.</p> <p>U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton dismissed the case against the pardon with prejudice, meaning the plaintiffs cannot refile.</p> <p>Arpaio had been found guilty of criminal contempt in a court case involving his part in racial profiling of Latin immigrants in <a href="https://www.upi.com/topic/Maricopa_County/" type="external">Maricopa County</a>, Ariz. Trump issued a pardon for the 85-year-old ex-sheriff in August.</p> <p>In a 14-page ruling, Bolton said she found <a href="http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/arpaios-criminal-case-ends-no-decision-on-vacating-rulings-9749873" type="external">no legal grounds</a> to deny the presidential pardon.</p> <p>Bolton was the judge who originally found Arpaio guilty of criminal contempt for refusing to obey another judge&#8217;s orders to stop profiling undocumented migrants in Maricopa County.</p> <p>Arpaio did not attend the Wednesday hearing, but commented on the ruling to the <a href="http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/phoenix/2017/10/04/judge-considers-dismissing-joe-arpaio-contempt-case/731525001/" type="external">Arizona Republic</a>.</p> <p>&#8220;I&#8217;m happy the conviction was dismissed, especially since I am not guilty and I will be addressing that issue in the near future,&#8221; he said.</p> <p>After Trump&#8217;s pardon, the ACLU <a href="https://www.aclu.org/news/aclu-comment-trump-pardon-joe-arpaio-0" type="external">criticized the move</a>, calling it a &#8220;presidential endorsement of racism&#8221; before filing its lawsuit.</p> <p>&#8220;With his pardon of Arpaio, Trump has chosen lawlessness over justice, division over unity, hurt over healing,&#8221; said ACLU Deputy Legal Director Cecillia Wang. &#8220;Once again, the president has acted in support of illegal, failed immigration enforcement practices that target people of color and have been struck down by the courts.&#8221;</p> <p>House Democrats filed an <a href="http://www.politico.com/f/?id=0000015e-c473-d73c-a1fe-fc77f3d90000" type="external">amicus brief</a> last month urging Bolton to deny the pardon.</p> <p>&#8220;The pardon here is an intentional usurpation of the court&#8217;s authority by the president,&#8221; the letter stated. &#8220;President Trump does not pretend that his pardon of the defendant is based upon the considerations of grace that usually justify the exercise of the pardon power.&#8221;</p>
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<p>States that offer low operating costs and a pro-business climate are viewed more favorably by business owners. The Development Counsellors International recently released its Best and Worst States for Business as a part of its 2011 Winning Strategies Report. In order to determine which states were most favorably perceived by respondents, those taking the survey were asked to name three states that they view as having the best business climates in the U.S. The survey is conducted every three years, and this year 322 corporate executives ranked the states.</p> <p>Continue Reading Below</p>
Top 5 Best States for Business
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2016-12-09
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Top 5 Best States for Business <p>States that offer low operating costs and a pro-business climate are viewed more favorably by business owners. The Development Counsellors International recently released its Best and Worst States for Business as a part of its 2011 Winning Strategies Report. In order to determine which states were most favorably perceived by respondents, those taking the survey were asked to name three states that they view as having the best business climates in the U.S. The survey is conducted every three years, and this year 322 corporate executives ranked the states.</p> <p>Continue Reading Below</p>
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<p>Lighting has come a long way since Tom Edison lit his first incandescent bulb in the 1880s. LED bulbs are popping up everywhere, on planes, car headlights, in your phone. When you buy a new light bulb now, chances are it's going to be an LED.</p> <p>At the heart of every LED is not a little wire. If you open up an LED, there's a semiconductor in there, and engineers are exploring more&amp;#160;ways to use that semiconductor &#8212; everything from wireless data streaming to secure communication systems&amp;#160;and in-flight networking.&amp;#160;</p> <p>Engineer Harald Haas, co-founder of pureLiFi, explains how LEDs can be used to transmit information:</p> <p>&#8220;[LEDs] have the property that we can change the light that comes out of an LED very, very quickly. That change in the brightness is what we exploit in order to encode data extremely fast, so that the receiver will be a decoder, a photo detector, which will then see these changes in the light intensity in a way a human eye would not be able to detect. To a human eye, it would be simply constant light, but for a photo detector, it is a change in the intensity, and then we have algorithms that recover these changes in intensity and get back the data stream,&#8221; Haas says.&amp;#160;</p> <p>There are many advantages to using LEDs to transmit information. For one thing, LEDs can communicate much faster than WiFi. At 15 gigabits per second, LEDs are more than twice as fast as the fastest WiFi.&amp;#160;</p> <p>What&#8217;s more, the visible light spectrum is about ten thousand times larger than the radio spectrum. This would allow communication systems to not only use a huge amount of free spectrum, but use a spectrum that&#8217;s already been set up.&amp;#160;</p> <p>&#8220;We can use vast amount of free spectrum, which is unlicensed and basically installed everywhere. ... It's in cars, in our LED lights at home, in streetlights&amp;#160;and so on. It's ubiquitous, it's already there. We can use existing infrastructure in creating a very efficient sort of cellular communication,&#8221; Haas says.&amp;#160;</p> <p>LiFi would also be more secure than WiFi. Because light can&#8217;t go through walls, people would not be able to log on to LiFi networks in the same way that they&#8217;re able to log on to and eavesdrop in on ongoing WiFi communications.&amp;#160;</p> <p>Haas argues that LiFi would also be available in places where communication is typically difficult.&amp;#160;</p> <p>&#8220;We can use LiFi in areas where we traditionally can't use radio, such as on the water, or intrinsically unsafe environments like petrochemical plants or oil rigs, everywhere where an antenna could spark an explosion,&#8221; Haas says.&amp;#160;</p> <p>One interesting application could be to use car headlights to communicate with other drivers on the road.&amp;#160;</p> <p>&#8220;We can use these LEDs to transmit data from car to car, and use the back light to relay back the information. This is a way we can enhance safety on our roads, and even extend division. Normally you see the car in front of you, but if you were able to relay high-definition video from, say, three cars in front of you, you could see earlier what's happening on the street&amp;#160;and therefore enhance security. That's actually one of the many applications that we see with this sort of emerging technology,&#8221; Haas says.&amp;#160;</p> <p>Haas and his coworkers are already on to the third generation of advanced LED products in pilot projects everywhere from the security industry to communications and lighting. They foresee the LED light industry changing rapidly in the near future to include additional features. &amp;#160;</p> <p>&#8220;That is where LiFi plays a key role, because with LiFi we create a channel that could host thousands of applications. From home sensing of interior, you'd find out if people have fallen down, you could find out the way you would navigate indoors. So it's for indoor navigation, and many, many more applications would be possible with light,&#8221; Haas says. &amp;#160;</p> <p>As far as integrating laptops and other personal devices with LED technology, Haas says the process would be relatively straightforward.&amp;#160;</p> <p>&#8220;At the moment, it's a device that you stick into the USB port of your laptop. We are now on&amp;#160;a very, very radical path towards miniaturization. We will see, soon, dongles coming out, and then eventually, if everyone sees the big advantage of that technology, we are very confident that we will be integrated into smartphones,&#8221; Haas says.&amp;#160;</p> <p>This story first appeared as an&amp;#160; <a href="http://sciencefriday.com/segment/08/28/2015/leds-could-light-the-way-to-future-networking.html" type="external">interview</a>&amp;#160;on&amp;#160; <a href="http://sciencefriday.com/" type="external">Science Friday</a>&amp;#160;with Ira Flatow.</p>
LiFi? How your LED desk lamp could help you connect to the Internet.
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LiFi? How your LED desk lamp could help you connect to the Internet. <p>Lighting has come a long way since Tom Edison lit his first incandescent bulb in the 1880s. LED bulbs are popping up everywhere, on planes, car headlights, in your phone. When you buy a new light bulb now, chances are it's going to be an LED.</p> <p>At the heart of every LED is not a little wire. If you open up an LED, there's a semiconductor in there, and engineers are exploring more&amp;#160;ways to use that semiconductor &#8212; everything from wireless data streaming to secure communication systems&amp;#160;and in-flight networking.&amp;#160;</p> <p>Engineer Harald Haas, co-founder of pureLiFi, explains how LEDs can be used to transmit information:</p> <p>&#8220;[LEDs] have the property that we can change the light that comes out of an LED very, very quickly. That change in the brightness is what we exploit in order to encode data extremely fast, so that the receiver will be a decoder, a photo detector, which will then see these changes in the light intensity in a way a human eye would not be able to detect. To a human eye, it would be simply constant light, but for a photo detector, it is a change in the intensity, and then we have algorithms that recover these changes in intensity and get back the data stream,&#8221; Haas says.&amp;#160;</p> <p>There are many advantages to using LEDs to transmit information. For one thing, LEDs can communicate much faster than WiFi. At 15 gigabits per second, LEDs are more than twice as fast as the fastest WiFi.&amp;#160;</p> <p>What&#8217;s more, the visible light spectrum is about ten thousand times larger than the radio spectrum. This would allow communication systems to not only use a huge amount of free spectrum, but use a spectrum that&#8217;s already been set up.&amp;#160;</p> <p>&#8220;We can use vast amount of free spectrum, which is unlicensed and basically installed everywhere. ... It's in cars, in our LED lights at home, in streetlights&amp;#160;and so on. It's ubiquitous, it's already there. We can use existing infrastructure in creating a very efficient sort of cellular communication,&#8221; Haas says.&amp;#160;</p> <p>LiFi would also be more secure than WiFi. Because light can&#8217;t go through walls, people would not be able to log on to LiFi networks in the same way that they&#8217;re able to log on to and eavesdrop in on ongoing WiFi communications.&amp;#160;</p> <p>Haas argues that LiFi would also be available in places where communication is typically difficult.&amp;#160;</p> <p>&#8220;We can use LiFi in areas where we traditionally can't use radio, such as on the water, or intrinsically unsafe environments like petrochemical plants or oil rigs, everywhere where an antenna could spark an explosion,&#8221; Haas says.&amp;#160;</p> <p>One interesting application could be to use car headlights to communicate with other drivers on the road.&amp;#160;</p> <p>&#8220;We can use these LEDs to transmit data from car to car, and use the back light to relay back the information. This is a way we can enhance safety on our roads, and even extend division. Normally you see the car in front of you, but if you were able to relay high-definition video from, say, three cars in front of you, you could see earlier what's happening on the street&amp;#160;and therefore enhance security. That's actually one of the many applications that we see with this sort of emerging technology,&#8221; Haas says.&amp;#160;</p> <p>Haas and his coworkers are already on to the third generation of advanced LED products in pilot projects everywhere from the security industry to communications and lighting. They foresee the LED light industry changing rapidly in the near future to include additional features. &amp;#160;</p> <p>&#8220;That is where LiFi plays a key role, because with LiFi we create a channel that could host thousands of applications. From home sensing of interior, you'd find out if people have fallen down, you could find out the way you would navigate indoors. So it's for indoor navigation, and many, many more applications would be possible with light,&#8221; Haas says. &amp;#160;</p> <p>As far as integrating laptops and other personal devices with LED technology, Haas says the process would be relatively straightforward.&amp;#160;</p> <p>&#8220;At the moment, it's a device that you stick into the USB port of your laptop. We are now on&amp;#160;a very, very radical path towards miniaturization. We will see, soon, dongles coming out, and then eventually, if everyone sees the big advantage of that technology, we are very confident that we will be integrated into smartphones,&#8221; Haas says.&amp;#160;</p> <p>This story first appeared as an&amp;#160; <a href="http://sciencefriday.com/segment/08/28/2015/leds-could-light-the-way-to-future-networking.html" type="external">interview</a>&amp;#160;on&amp;#160; <a href="http://sciencefriday.com/" type="external">Science Friday</a>&amp;#160;with Ira Flatow.</p>
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<p>Former New York Gov. George Pataki credits his &#8220;conservative policies&#8221; for reducing the number of New Yorkers on welfare by 1&amp;#160;million. In fact, the sharp decline was part of a national trend thanks largely to a 1996 federal overhaul of the nation&#8217;s welfare system.</p> <p>Under Pataki, New York saw a 76 percent reduction in the average monthly number of welfare recipients &#8212; a little better than the national average of 71 percent. Pataki, who tried to enact major welfare changes in advance of the federal overhaul, would have been on safe ground if he simply boasted that he was an early proponent of overhauling welfare and that New York did better than most states in helping to get people off welfare.</p> <p>Pataki made his remarks in a <a href="http://www.c-span.org/video/?326136-1/former-governor-george-pataki-rny-presidential-campaign-announcement" type="external">May 28 speech in New Hampshire</a> announcing that he is running for president of the United States. He mocked Democrats for enabling the poor and boasted that he was responsible for moving the poor from &#8220;a welfare check to a paycheck.&#8221;</p> <p>Pataki, May 28: Seems like liberals have so much compassion for the poor that they keep creating more of them. When I took office we had every poverty program government could think of. And yet 1 in 11 of every single New Yorker state resident was on welfare. Not on Medicaid or disability. One in 11 of every man, woman and child in the state of New York from the tip of Long Island to the shores of Lake Erie were on welfare. The American dream did not seem real to them. But after 12 years of my conservative policies, we replaced dependency with opportunity, resignation with hope, mere existence with dreams, a welfare check with a paycheck. When I left office, over 1 million fewer people were on welfare than when I began. That&#8217;s what our policies can do.</p> <p>Actually, the policy chiefly responsible for the sharp decline in welfare recipients was a federal law signed by Democratic President Bill Clinton with prodding from Republicans and over the opposition of some Democrats. That bill was responsible for &#8220; <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/welfare/stories/wf082396.htm" type="external">ending welfare as we know it</a>,&#8221; as Clinton put it.</p> <p>Pataki did try to get out in front of the federal effort in 1995 and 1996 with sweeping welfare plans of his own that mirrored the federal legislation. But as we will detail later, he won what the New York Times described as &#8220; <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1995/06/05/nyregion/pataki-s-visions-for-medicaid-welfare-run-into-albany-s-hard-knocks-assembly.html" type="external">incremental change</a>&#8221; in 1995. His effort in 1996 <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1996/07/12/nyregion/102-days-tardy-albany-reaches-deal-on-budget.html" type="external">stalled in the state Legislature in July of that year</a> &#8212; one month before Congress acted.</p> <p>Pataki became governor on <a href="http://www.nga.org/cms/home/governors/past-governors-bios/page_new_york/col2-content/main-content-list/title_pataki_george.html" type="external">Jan. 1, 1995</a>. The welfare program at the time was called Aid to Families with Dependent Children, and the average monthly number of AFDC recipients in New York was 1.26 million for the calendar year 1994, <a href="http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/ofa/resource/caseload-data-afdc-1994-total" type="external">according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services</a>.</p> <p>On <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/welfare/stories/wf082396.htm" type="external">Aug. 22, 1996</a>, Clinton signed a sweeping piece of legislation known as <a href="http://aspe.hhs.gov/HSP/abbrev/prwora96.htm" type="external">the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996</a>. The law was controversial because for the first time it imposed time limits on cash assistance and required nearly all welfare recipients to work or engage in work-related activities in order to continue receiving welfare.</p> <p>The law also created the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program, which&amp;#160;replaced the AFDC program. &#8220;TANF was a historic reversal of the entitlement welfare represented by AFDC,&#8221; Ron Haskins of the Brookings Institution <a href="http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/research/files/testimony/2006/7/19welfare-haskins/20060719.pdf" type="external">testified at a congressional hearing on July 19, 2006</a>.</p> <p>In his testimony, Haskins &#8212; a former Republican House committee aide who was instrumental in the 1996 overhaul of the welfare program &#8212; noted that welfare caseloads declined &#8220;rapidly after the federal legislation was enacted in 1996,&#8221; and dropped nationally by about 60 percent between 1994 and 2005.</p> <p>We looked at New York&#8217;s caseloads during Pataki&#8217;s time in office and compared them&amp;#160;with the national average and other states, using data from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.</p> <p>Pataki served two terms, from Jan. 1, 1995, to Jan. 1, 2007. The average monthly number of welfare recipients in New York dropped from <a href="http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/ofa/resource/caseload-data-afdc-1994-total" type="external">1,264,063 in 1994</a>&amp;#160;to <a href="http://www.acf.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/ofa/2006_15months_tan.xls" type="external">297,574 in 2006</a>. As we noted earlier, that&#8217;s a drop of 76 percent &#8212; slightly better than the national average of 71 percent and ranking New York 16th among the 50 states in terms of the size of the percentage decline. Among some of its neighbors, New York saw a steeper decline than New Jersey (71 percent) and Pennsylvania (64 percent), but not Connecticut (78 percent). Wyoming was No. 1 with a 97 percent decline.</p> <p>When we asked the Pataki campaign for specific policies that the governor enacted that were responsible for the steep decline in the state&#8217;s welfare rolls, Pataki spokesman David Catalfamo referred us to the 1995 state budget. &#8220;Pataki passed welfare reform in 1995 as part of his first budget,&#8221; Catalfamo said. &#8220;It was ahead of the federal reform.&#8221;</p> <p>Pataki did seek significant changes to welfare in 1995, but he was forced to give up in the face of Democratic opposition. In the end, Pataki had to &#8220;settle for incremental change,&#8221; <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1995/06/05/nyregion/pataki-s-visions-for-medicaid-welfare-run-into-albany-s-hard-knocks-assembly.html" type="external">as the Times put it</a>.</p> <p>&#8220;The compromise welfare agreement, outlined by state officials, includes several anti-fraud measures, like electronic fingerprinting of all welfare applicants, as well as a handful of policy changes that range from the significant to the relatively inconsequential,&#8221; <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1995/06/05/nyregion/pataki-s-visions-for-medicaid-welfare-run-into-albany-s-hard-knocks-assembly.html" type="external">the Times wrote</a>.</p> <p>The most significant of the changes won by Pataki that year was a change to Home Relief, a welfare program for mostly single, childless adults. Under the change, 95 percent of able-bodied recipients in that program would be required to participate in workfare programs &#8212; up from 20 percent. But he was forced to give up his plan to place a 90-day limit on welfare benefits for those recipients.</p> <p>In December 1995, Pataki proposed a 1996 budget that included time limits and work requirements that &#8220;mirror measures that are being considered as part of the Federal welfare rules,&#8221; <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1995/12/11/nyregion/pataki-offers-plan-to-reshape-welfare.html" type="external">as the New York Times wrote</a>. His plan would have cut monthly welfare benefits by 27 percent, and imposed a 60-day limit for single, childless adults in the Home Relief program and a five-year lifetime limit for families receiving AFDC, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1996/07/15/nyregion/some-of-what-lawmakers-and-pataki-agreed-on.html" type="external">according to the Times</a>.</p> <p>But the budget passed in July 1996 without any of those changes. &#8220;The Democratic-controlled Assembly, the Governor&#8217;s main rival in Albany, responded with its own plan for time limits, but Mr. Pataki labeled it too weak and the two sides could not find a compromise, so the whole idea was dropped,&#8221; <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1996/07/12/nyregion/102-days-tardy-albany-reaches-deal-on-budget.html" type="external">the Times wrote</a>.</p> <p>The next month, however, Clinton signed the federal bill into law, and New York had no choice but to impose time limits and stricter work requirements or risk losing federal funding.</p> <p>&#8212; Eugene Kiely</p>
Pataki’s Welfare Whopper
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2015-05-29
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Pataki’s Welfare Whopper <p>Former New York Gov. George Pataki credits his &#8220;conservative policies&#8221; for reducing the number of New Yorkers on welfare by 1&amp;#160;million. In fact, the sharp decline was part of a national trend thanks largely to a 1996 federal overhaul of the nation&#8217;s welfare system.</p> <p>Under Pataki, New York saw a 76 percent reduction in the average monthly number of welfare recipients &#8212; a little better than the national average of 71 percent. Pataki, who tried to enact major welfare changes in advance of the federal overhaul, would have been on safe ground if he simply boasted that he was an early proponent of overhauling welfare and that New York did better than most states in helping to get people off welfare.</p> <p>Pataki made his remarks in a <a href="http://www.c-span.org/video/?326136-1/former-governor-george-pataki-rny-presidential-campaign-announcement" type="external">May 28 speech in New Hampshire</a> announcing that he is running for president of the United States. He mocked Democrats for enabling the poor and boasted that he was responsible for moving the poor from &#8220;a welfare check to a paycheck.&#8221;</p> <p>Pataki, May 28: Seems like liberals have so much compassion for the poor that they keep creating more of them. When I took office we had every poverty program government could think of. And yet 1 in 11 of every single New Yorker state resident was on welfare. Not on Medicaid or disability. One in 11 of every man, woman and child in the state of New York from the tip of Long Island to the shores of Lake Erie were on welfare. The American dream did not seem real to them. But after 12 years of my conservative policies, we replaced dependency with opportunity, resignation with hope, mere existence with dreams, a welfare check with a paycheck. When I left office, over 1 million fewer people were on welfare than when I began. That&#8217;s what our policies can do.</p> <p>Actually, the policy chiefly responsible for the sharp decline in welfare recipients was a federal law signed by Democratic President Bill Clinton with prodding from Republicans and over the opposition of some Democrats. That bill was responsible for &#8220; <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/welfare/stories/wf082396.htm" type="external">ending welfare as we know it</a>,&#8221; as Clinton put it.</p> <p>Pataki did try to get out in front of the federal effort in 1995 and 1996 with sweeping welfare plans of his own that mirrored the federal legislation. But as we will detail later, he won what the New York Times described as &#8220; <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1995/06/05/nyregion/pataki-s-visions-for-medicaid-welfare-run-into-albany-s-hard-knocks-assembly.html" type="external">incremental change</a>&#8221; in 1995. His effort in 1996 <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1996/07/12/nyregion/102-days-tardy-albany-reaches-deal-on-budget.html" type="external">stalled in the state Legislature in July of that year</a> &#8212; one month before Congress acted.</p> <p>Pataki became governor on <a href="http://www.nga.org/cms/home/governors/past-governors-bios/page_new_york/col2-content/main-content-list/title_pataki_george.html" type="external">Jan. 1, 1995</a>. The welfare program at the time was called Aid to Families with Dependent Children, and the average monthly number of AFDC recipients in New York was 1.26 million for the calendar year 1994, <a href="http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/ofa/resource/caseload-data-afdc-1994-total" type="external">according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services</a>.</p> <p>On <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/welfare/stories/wf082396.htm" type="external">Aug. 22, 1996</a>, Clinton signed a sweeping piece of legislation known as <a href="http://aspe.hhs.gov/HSP/abbrev/prwora96.htm" type="external">the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996</a>. The law was controversial because for the first time it imposed time limits on cash assistance and required nearly all welfare recipients to work or engage in work-related activities in order to continue receiving welfare.</p> <p>The law also created the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program, which&amp;#160;replaced the AFDC program. &#8220;TANF was a historic reversal of the entitlement welfare represented by AFDC,&#8221; Ron Haskins of the Brookings Institution <a href="http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/research/files/testimony/2006/7/19welfare-haskins/20060719.pdf" type="external">testified at a congressional hearing on July 19, 2006</a>.</p> <p>In his testimony, Haskins &#8212; a former Republican House committee aide who was instrumental in the 1996 overhaul of the welfare program &#8212; noted that welfare caseloads declined &#8220;rapidly after the federal legislation was enacted in 1996,&#8221; and dropped nationally by about 60 percent between 1994 and 2005.</p> <p>We looked at New York&#8217;s caseloads during Pataki&#8217;s time in office and compared them&amp;#160;with the national average and other states, using data from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.</p> <p>Pataki served two terms, from Jan. 1, 1995, to Jan. 1, 2007. The average monthly number of welfare recipients in New York dropped from <a href="http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/ofa/resource/caseload-data-afdc-1994-total" type="external">1,264,063 in 1994</a>&amp;#160;to <a href="http://www.acf.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/ofa/2006_15months_tan.xls" type="external">297,574 in 2006</a>. As we noted earlier, that&#8217;s a drop of 76 percent &#8212; slightly better than the national average of 71 percent and ranking New York 16th among the 50 states in terms of the size of the percentage decline. Among some of its neighbors, New York saw a steeper decline than New Jersey (71 percent) and Pennsylvania (64 percent), but not Connecticut (78 percent). Wyoming was No. 1 with a 97 percent decline.</p> <p>When we asked the Pataki campaign for specific policies that the governor enacted that were responsible for the steep decline in the state&#8217;s welfare rolls, Pataki spokesman David Catalfamo referred us to the 1995 state budget. &#8220;Pataki passed welfare reform in 1995 as part of his first budget,&#8221; Catalfamo said. &#8220;It was ahead of the federal reform.&#8221;</p> <p>Pataki did seek significant changes to welfare in 1995, but he was forced to give up in the face of Democratic opposition. In the end, Pataki had to &#8220;settle for incremental change,&#8221; <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1995/06/05/nyregion/pataki-s-visions-for-medicaid-welfare-run-into-albany-s-hard-knocks-assembly.html" type="external">as the Times put it</a>.</p> <p>&#8220;The compromise welfare agreement, outlined by state officials, includes several anti-fraud measures, like electronic fingerprinting of all welfare applicants, as well as a handful of policy changes that range from the significant to the relatively inconsequential,&#8221; <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1995/06/05/nyregion/pataki-s-visions-for-medicaid-welfare-run-into-albany-s-hard-knocks-assembly.html" type="external">the Times wrote</a>.</p> <p>The most significant of the changes won by Pataki that year was a change to Home Relief, a welfare program for mostly single, childless adults. Under the change, 95 percent of able-bodied recipients in that program would be required to participate in workfare programs &#8212; up from 20 percent. But he was forced to give up his plan to place a 90-day limit on welfare benefits for those recipients.</p> <p>In December 1995, Pataki proposed a 1996 budget that included time limits and work requirements that &#8220;mirror measures that are being considered as part of the Federal welfare rules,&#8221; <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1995/12/11/nyregion/pataki-offers-plan-to-reshape-welfare.html" type="external">as the New York Times wrote</a>. His plan would have cut monthly welfare benefits by 27 percent, and imposed a 60-day limit for single, childless adults in the Home Relief program and a five-year lifetime limit for families receiving AFDC, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1996/07/15/nyregion/some-of-what-lawmakers-and-pataki-agreed-on.html" type="external">according to the Times</a>.</p> <p>But the budget passed in July 1996 without any of those changes. &#8220;The Democratic-controlled Assembly, the Governor&#8217;s main rival in Albany, responded with its own plan for time limits, but Mr. Pataki labeled it too weak and the two sides could not find a compromise, so the whole idea was dropped,&#8221; <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1996/07/12/nyregion/102-days-tardy-albany-reaches-deal-on-budget.html" type="external">the Times wrote</a>.</p> <p>The next month, however, Clinton signed the federal bill into law, and New York had no choice but to impose time limits and stricter work requirements or risk losing federal funding.</p> <p>&#8212; Eugene Kiely</p>
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<p /> <p>Photo: Survival International.</p> <p>Nominating a &#8220;Racist of the Year&#8221; may seem like a strange thing to do. Nevertheless, Survival International has been doing this for several years for one key reason: To draw attention to the genocidal violence, slavery, and racism that tribal people around the world face on a more or less daily basis.</p> <p>The award is not intended as a comprehensive survey of racial discrimination around the world. There are of course, appalling instances of prejudice against non-tribal peoples, and we do not seek to demean those experiences and the terrible impact they can have on individuals and communities.</p> <p>We do however believe that discrimination against tribespeople is a singularly urgent and horrific crisis, because it goes beyond simply hating people for who they are. Racism in any form, whether based on pseudo-scientific theories, the desire to assert dominance, or simply knee-jerk hatred is a disgraceful thing. However, there is something particularly dangerous about a racism that says that entire peoples; their ways of life, their cultures, their traditions, and their desire to determine their own futures, are illegitimate and have to be wiped out.</p> <p>General Ian Khama, the President of Botswana, and his frequent outbursts against the Kalahari Bushmen are among the most horrifying instances of racism of recent times. His sentiments were extremely troubling.</p> <p><a href="" type="internal">Khama said</a> that the Bushmen live lives &#8220;of backwardness,&#8221; &#8220;a primitive life of deprivation&#8221; and &#8220;a primeval life of a bygone era.&#8221; In an <a href="" type="internal">interview in 2014</a>, he further stated that the Bushmen have an &#8220;extinct form of life, a very backward form of life&#8221; suggesting that they were innately inferior and that it was his government&#8217;s duty to &#8220;modernize&#8221; them, if necessary by force. In practice, this has meant opening up their land to diamond mines and luxury tourist lodges.</p> <p>Meanwhile, his government continues to ignore its own <a href="http://www.survivalinternational.org/news/2128" type="external">high court&#8217;s 2006 ruling</a> that the Bushmen have the right to live and hunt on their land in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve. They languish in government camps where HIV/AIDS and other diseases are rife. Families are separated under a brutal permit system that has been compared to South Africa&#8217;s apartheid era pass laws by veteran anti-apartheid campaigner Michael Dingake. The Bushmen are <a href="http://www.survivalinternational.org/news/11385" type="external">persecuted when they hunt to feed their families</a>, and even face shootings, arrest, beatings and torture for trying to feed themselves as they have for generations by hunting antelope with spears or bows and arrows.</p> <p>This is, in effect, the destruction of an entire people. Khama and his government haven&#8217;t herded the Bushmen into extermination camps or shot them en masse, but they have made it all but impossible for them to continue to live. The discovery of massive diamond deposits in the Kalahari in the &#8216;80s and &#8216;90s made the very existence of these &#8220;backwards&#8221; and &#8220;primitive&#8221; hunter gatherers an inconvenience. They had to be shunted aside for the sake of &#8220;progress.&#8221; Now the president of their country says they must move away from their so-called &#8220;primeval life of a bygone era,&#8221; or die.</p> <p>It is essential that this attitude is recognized as what it is: racism. There is a suggestion in Khama&#8217;s words that the Bushmen are innately inferior, lower down the evolutionary ladder than other people simply because their communal ways are different. At his most grandstanding, he and other Botswana politicians try and claim that they have moved the Bushmen to camps and banned them from hunting for their own good, that the loss of land and integration into industrialized society it is an inevitable process that &#8220;primitive&#8221; tribespeople must go through for their own survival.</p> <p>This ignores their autonomy, it rides rough-shod over their human rights, and completely robs them of their capacity to determine their own futures. It is tragic that a government so praised for aspects of its post-colonial history can demonstrate such a colonial attitude that echoes the policies of British, Dutch and German imperialists in southern Africa.</p> <p>Seretse Khama, General Khama&#8217;s father and Botswana&#8217;s first president, would be ashamed of his son&#8217;s attitude. He was praised by anti-racism campaigners, for his taboo-defying marriage to a white English woman, and for his enlightened attitude towards the first people of the Kalahari.</p> <p>It was his sincere belief that unlike other racist regimes in his region of Africa, notably those in South Africa, Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) and what is now Namibia, that people of different ethnicities could co-exist peacefully. As far as he was concerned, every group, whether urban and educated or tribal hunter gatherers, should have the right to self-determination within the new republic of Botswana.</p> <p>He said that: &#8220;Our guiding principle&#8230; is that every national group has a right to self-determination, that the essence of democracy is that minorities and ethnic groups should not be subjected to any form of discrimination.&#8221;</p> <p>The first President Khama has just been immortalized in a biopic praising his progressive racial attitudes. His son has just received Survival&#8217;s dreaded &#8220;Racist of the Year&#8221; gong, in an effort to highlight his government&#8217;s appalling betrayal of that guiding principle. At Survival, we hope that future governments of the country will return to respecting the Bushmen&#8217;s rights, regardless of what valuable resources might happen to be under their land. Tribal peoples are contemporary societies and deserve our respect.</p>
Racist of the year, Ian Khama: Not Botswana’s Finest
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Racist of the year, Ian Khama: Not Botswana’s Finest <p /> <p>Photo: Survival International.</p> <p>Nominating a &#8220;Racist of the Year&#8221; may seem like a strange thing to do. Nevertheless, Survival International has been doing this for several years for one key reason: To draw attention to the genocidal violence, slavery, and racism that tribal people around the world face on a more or less daily basis.</p> <p>The award is not intended as a comprehensive survey of racial discrimination around the world. There are of course, appalling instances of prejudice against non-tribal peoples, and we do not seek to demean those experiences and the terrible impact they can have on individuals and communities.</p> <p>We do however believe that discrimination against tribespeople is a singularly urgent and horrific crisis, because it goes beyond simply hating people for who they are. Racism in any form, whether based on pseudo-scientific theories, the desire to assert dominance, or simply knee-jerk hatred is a disgraceful thing. However, there is something particularly dangerous about a racism that says that entire peoples; their ways of life, their cultures, their traditions, and their desire to determine their own futures, are illegitimate and have to be wiped out.</p> <p>General Ian Khama, the President of Botswana, and his frequent outbursts against the Kalahari Bushmen are among the most horrifying instances of racism of recent times. His sentiments were extremely troubling.</p> <p><a href="" type="internal">Khama said</a> that the Bushmen live lives &#8220;of backwardness,&#8221; &#8220;a primitive life of deprivation&#8221; and &#8220;a primeval life of a bygone era.&#8221; In an <a href="" type="internal">interview in 2014</a>, he further stated that the Bushmen have an &#8220;extinct form of life, a very backward form of life&#8221; suggesting that they were innately inferior and that it was his government&#8217;s duty to &#8220;modernize&#8221; them, if necessary by force. In practice, this has meant opening up their land to diamond mines and luxury tourist lodges.</p> <p>Meanwhile, his government continues to ignore its own <a href="http://www.survivalinternational.org/news/2128" type="external">high court&#8217;s 2006 ruling</a> that the Bushmen have the right to live and hunt on their land in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve. They languish in government camps where HIV/AIDS and other diseases are rife. Families are separated under a brutal permit system that has been compared to South Africa&#8217;s apartheid era pass laws by veteran anti-apartheid campaigner Michael Dingake. The Bushmen are <a href="http://www.survivalinternational.org/news/11385" type="external">persecuted when they hunt to feed their families</a>, and even face shootings, arrest, beatings and torture for trying to feed themselves as they have for generations by hunting antelope with spears or bows and arrows.</p> <p>This is, in effect, the destruction of an entire people. Khama and his government haven&#8217;t herded the Bushmen into extermination camps or shot them en masse, but they have made it all but impossible for them to continue to live. The discovery of massive diamond deposits in the Kalahari in the &#8216;80s and &#8216;90s made the very existence of these &#8220;backwards&#8221; and &#8220;primitive&#8221; hunter gatherers an inconvenience. They had to be shunted aside for the sake of &#8220;progress.&#8221; Now the president of their country says they must move away from their so-called &#8220;primeval life of a bygone era,&#8221; or die.</p> <p>It is essential that this attitude is recognized as what it is: racism. There is a suggestion in Khama&#8217;s words that the Bushmen are innately inferior, lower down the evolutionary ladder than other people simply because their communal ways are different. At his most grandstanding, he and other Botswana politicians try and claim that they have moved the Bushmen to camps and banned them from hunting for their own good, that the loss of land and integration into industrialized society it is an inevitable process that &#8220;primitive&#8221; tribespeople must go through for their own survival.</p> <p>This ignores their autonomy, it rides rough-shod over their human rights, and completely robs them of their capacity to determine their own futures. It is tragic that a government so praised for aspects of its post-colonial history can demonstrate such a colonial attitude that echoes the policies of British, Dutch and German imperialists in southern Africa.</p> <p>Seretse Khama, General Khama&#8217;s father and Botswana&#8217;s first president, would be ashamed of his son&#8217;s attitude. He was praised by anti-racism campaigners, for his taboo-defying marriage to a white English woman, and for his enlightened attitude towards the first people of the Kalahari.</p> <p>It was his sincere belief that unlike other racist regimes in his region of Africa, notably those in South Africa, Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) and what is now Namibia, that people of different ethnicities could co-exist peacefully. As far as he was concerned, every group, whether urban and educated or tribal hunter gatherers, should have the right to self-determination within the new republic of Botswana.</p> <p>He said that: &#8220;Our guiding principle&#8230; is that every national group has a right to self-determination, that the essence of democracy is that minorities and ethnic groups should not be subjected to any form of discrimination.&#8221;</p> <p>The first President Khama has just been immortalized in a biopic praising his progressive racial attitudes. His son has just received Survival&#8217;s dreaded &#8220;Racist of the Year&#8221; gong, in an effort to highlight his government&#8217;s appalling betrayal of that guiding principle. At Survival, we hope that future governments of the country will return to respecting the Bushmen&#8217;s rights, regardless of what valuable resources might happen to be under their land. Tribal peoples are contemporary societies and deserve our respect.</p>
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<p>SAN ANTONIO (AP) &#8212; Colton Weisbrod scored 26 points, Nick Garth added a career-high tying 25 and Josh Nzeakor had a double-double on Wednesday night to help Lamar beat Incarnate Word 90-69 and snap a three-game skid.</p> <p>Nzeakor finished with 18 points and 12 rebounds, Weisbrod grabbed nine boards and Garth had five assists. Zjori Bosha had 11 points and three steals for Lamar (11-8, 3-3 Southland Conference).</p> <p>Nzeakor made a layup and then a jumper to make it 6-0 and Lamar never trailed. Garth hit a jumper to make it 47-34 going into the break and UIW (5-11, 0-6) trailed by double figures throughout the second half.</p> <p>Charles Brown III had 24 points and Keaton Hervey scored 20 for UIW, which has lost eight in a row.</p> <p>Lamar scored 18 points off 12 UIW turnovers and converted 14 offensive rebounds into 20 second-chance points.</p> <p>SAN ANTONIO (AP) &#8212; Colton Weisbrod scored 26 points, Nick Garth added a career-high tying 25 and Josh Nzeakor had a double-double on Wednesday night to help Lamar beat Incarnate Word 90-69 and snap a three-game skid.</p> <p>Nzeakor finished with 18 points and 12 rebounds, Weisbrod grabbed nine boards and Garth had five assists. Zjori Bosha had 11 points and three steals for Lamar (11-8, 3-3 Southland Conference).</p> <p>Nzeakor made a layup and then a jumper to make it 6-0 and Lamar never trailed. Garth hit a jumper to make it 47-34 going into the break and UIW (5-11, 0-6) trailed by double figures throughout the second half.</p> <p>Charles Brown III had 24 points and Keaton Hervey scored 20 for UIW, which has lost eight in a row.</p> <p>Lamar scored 18 points off 12 UIW turnovers and converted 14 offensive rebounds into 20 second-chance points.</p>
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Weisbrod, Nzeakor help Lamar beat Incarnate Word 90-69 <p>SAN ANTONIO (AP) &#8212; Colton Weisbrod scored 26 points, Nick Garth added a career-high tying 25 and Josh Nzeakor had a double-double on Wednesday night to help Lamar beat Incarnate Word 90-69 and snap a three-game skid.</p> <p>Nzeakor finished with 18 points and 12 rebounds, Weisbrod grabbed nine boards and Garth had five assists. Zjori Bosha had 11 points and three steals for Lamar (11-8, 3-3 Southland Conference).</p> <p>Nzeakor made a layup and then a jumper to make it 6-0 and Lamar never trailed. Garth hit a jumper to make it 47-34 going into the break and UIW (5-11, 0-6) trailed by double figures throughout the second half.</p> <p>Charles Brown III had 24 points and Keaton Hervey scored 20 for UIW, which has lost eight in a row.</p> <p>Lamar scored 18 points off 12 UIW turnovers and converted 14 offensive rebounds into 20 second-chance points.</p> <p>SAN ANTONIO (AP) &#8212; Colton Weisbrod scored 26 points, Nick Garth added a career-high tying 25 and Josh Nzeakor had a double-double on Wednesday night to help Lamar beat Incarnate Word 90-69 and snap a three-game skid.</p> <p>Nzeakor finished with 18 points and 12 rebounds, Weisbrod grabbed nine boards and Garth had five assists. Zjori Bosha had 11 points and three steals for Lamar (11-8, 3-3 Southland Conference).</p> <p>Nzeakor made a layup and then a jumper to make it 6-0 and Lamar never trailed. Garth hit a jumper to make it 47-34 going into the break and UIW (5-11, 0-6) trailed by double figures throughout the second half.</p> <p>Charles Brown III had 24 points and Keaton Hervey scored 20 for UIW, which has lost eight in a row.</p> <p>Lamar scored 18 points off 12 UIW turnovers and converted 14 offensive rebounds into 20 second-chance points.</p>
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<p>.......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... ..........</p> <p /> <p>That&#8217;s because thinking about things other than the task at hand can seriously up your anxiety level. Not to stress you out or anything, but that might make you age faster, get sick and die, according to &#8220;The Telomere Effect: A Revolutionary Approach to Living Younger, Healthier, Longer,&#8221; a book from molecular biologist Elizabeth Blackburn and health psychologist Elissa Epel.</p> <p>Blackburn (and two colleagues) won the Nobel Prize in 2009 for the discovery of telomerase, the enzyme that replenishes the bits of DNA on either end of your chromosomes. Those bits are called telomeres, and they&#8217;re often compared to the plastic caps on shoelaces.</p> <p>Let those caps wear down, and the laces fray and can&#8217;t do their job. It&#8217;s the same with telomeres: Stress makes them shorter. And if they get too short, your cells stop dividing, which leads to pain, heart disease and other health woes &#8211; all markers of what the authors dub the &#8220;diseasespan.&#8221; (The idea is that we have a healthspan and a diseasespan during our lives, and people with short telomeres move into their diseasespan earlier.)</p> <p>Pictures of shoelaces are scattered throughout the book. Spot one, and you&#8217;re supposed to &#8220;refocus your mind on the present, take a deep breath, and think of your telomeres being restored with the vitality of your breath.&#8221;</p> <p>It&#8217;s a strategy based on the book&#8217;s promising premise: Even if you&#8217;re a total stress case, it&#8217;s possible to reverse the negative effects by transforming how you respond to situations.</p> <p>ADVERTISEMENT</p> <p>The key, the authors explain, is to develop a &#8220;challenge&#8221; response. Basically, instead of crumbling under the pressure of responsibilities or events, you should have a &#8220;bring it on!&#8221; mentality. It also helps to banish negativity, practice self-compassion and not be an idiot about your health (i.e., get enough sleep and physical activity, cut out processed foods and smoking.)</p> <p>The bad news is that some people start off at a telomere disadvantage, Blackburn and Epel found. That includes a newborn whose parent has shortened telomeres, which get passed on, folks who live in unsafe or littered neighborhoods or one without nearby greenery. Another way to wind up with shorter telomeres, the authors write, is to be African American and experience discrimination.</p> <p>For everyone to have the telomeres they deserve, a lot needs to change in the world, the authors say in their concluding &#8220;Telomere Manifesto.&#8221; Among their action items: &#8220;Reduce inequality&#8221; and &#8220;clean up local and global toxins.&#8221;</p> <p>So it&#8217;s a bit more complicated than shoelaces.</p>
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If you want to live longer, take good care of your telomeres <p>.......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... ..........</p> <p /> <p>That&#8217;s because thinking about things other than the task at hand can seriously up your anxiety level. Not to stress you out or anything, but that might make you age faster, get sick and die, according to &#8220;The Telomere Effect: A Revolutionary Approach to Living Younger, Healthier, Longer,&#8221; a book from molecular biologist Elizabeth Blackburn and health psychologist Elissa Epel.</p> <p>Blackburn (and two colleagues) won the Nobel Prize in 2009 for the discovery of telomerase, the enzyme that replenishes the bits of DNA on either end of your chromosomes. Those bits are called telomeres, and they&#8217;re often compared to the plastic caps on shoelaces.</p> <p>Let those caps wear down, and the laces fray and can&#8217;t do their job. It&#8217;s the same with telomeres: Stress makes them shorter. And if they get too short, your cells stop dividing, which leads to pain, heart disease and other health woes &#8211; all markers of what the authors dub the &#8220;diseasespan.&#8221; (The idea is that we have a healthspan and a diseasespan during our lives, and people with short telomeres move into their diseasespan earlier.)</p> <p>Pictures of shoelaces are scattered throughout the book. Spot one, and you&#8217;re supposed to &#8220;refocus your mind on the present, take a deep breath, and think of your telomeres being restored with the vitality of your breath.&#8221;</p> <p>It&#8217;s a strategy based on the book&#8217;s promising premise: Even if you&#8217;re a total stress case, it&#8217;s possible to reverse the negative effects by transforming how you respond to situations.</p> <p>ADVERTISEMENT</p> <p>The key, the authors explain, is to develop a &#8220;challenge&#8221; response. Basically, instead of crumbling under the pressure of responsibilities or events, you should have a &#8220;bring it on!&#8221; mentality. It also helps to banish negativity, practice self-compassion and not be an idiot about your health (i.e., get enough sleep and physical activity, cut out processed foods and smoking.)</p> <p>The bad news is that some people start off at a telomere disadvantage, Blackburn and Epel found. That includes a newborn whose parent has shortened telomeres, which get passed on, folks who live in unsafe or littered neighborhoods or one without nearby greenery. Another way to wind up with shorter telomeres, the authors write, is to be African American and experience discrimination.</p> <p>For everyone to have the telomeres they deserve, a lot needs to change in the world, the authors say in their concluding &#8220;Telomere Manifesto.&#8221; Among their action items: &#8220;Reduce inequality&#8221; and &#8220;clean up local and global toxins.&#8221;</p> <p>So it&#8217;s a bit more complicated than shoelaces.</p>
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<p /> <p>Investing in restaurant stocks can be remarkably profitable, especially for investors who buy high-growth companies in the restaurant sector at opportunistic prices. For different reasons, Chipotle Mexican Grill (NYSE: CMG), Shake Shack (NYSE: SHAK), and Zoe's Kitchen (NYSE: ZOES) are all under considerable selling pressure lately, and the three companies are attractive candidates for investors hunting for bargains among the best restaurant stocks.</p> <p>Continue Reading Below</p> <p>Back in August 2015, Chipotle stock was trading as high as $750 per share. At the time of this writing, shares of the fast-casual burrito chain are trading near their 12-month low, in the neighborhood of $365 per unit. The food-safety scare that hit its restaurants last year is having a considerable impact on Chipotle's financial performance.</p> <p>Image source: The Motley Fool.</p> <p>Chipotle reported a 14.8% decline in revenue during the third quarter of 2016, to $1 billion. Comparable-store sales fell 20.1% year over year, while comparable traffic declined 13.4% from the third quarter of 2015. The company is still making money, but restaurant-level operating margin declined by more than half, from 28.3% to 14.1%. When looking at these numbers, it's easy to understand why investors in Chipotle are going through so much pain.</p> <p>Advertisement</p> <p>On the other hand, the following chart that the company provided in its earnings release shows that revenue trends are starting to stabilize. It's far too early to say that Chipotle is out of the woods yet, but the worst could already be over.</p> <p>Image source: Chipotle Mexican Grill.</p> <p>Other companies in the restaurant sector have fully recovered from similar setbacks related to food safety, and Chipotle is doing its part, undertaking a massive effort to regain customer trust. Among other initiatives, the company has completely revamped its food-safety program, while also betting on new menu items and aggressive promotions to bring customers back to the stores.</p> <p>Chipotle is planning to open 195 to 210 new restaurants in 2017, and management believes that comparable restaurant sales will increase in the high single digits versus 2016 levels next year. If the company can in fact deliver in accordance with guidance, jump-starting revenue growth could be a powerful return driver for Chipotle stock in the mid-term.</p> <p>Successful innovation isn't just about doing new and unexpected things. Shake Shack, for instance, has a classic and traditional menu based on hamburgers, hot dogs, and shakes, but it differentiates its offering from the competition by offering fresher and more natural ingredients. Shake Shackis particularly popular among millennials, a key demographic group in the industry.</p> <p>Shake Shack stock is down by 40% from its highs of the past year, which is mostly due to investors' disappointment with slowing same-store sales at the better-burger restaurant chain. The company registered a 4.5% increase in "same-Shack sales" last quarter, a material deceleration versus a 9.9% increase in the previous quarter.</p> <p>Image source: Shake Shack.</p> <p>However, investors may be missing the big picture if they put too much weight on comparable sales figures. Shake Shack only includes in same-Shack sales the stores that have been opene for more than two years. Since the company is expanding its store base at full speed, this approach can materially underestimate overall revenue growth.</p> <p>When looking at total sales, things are much more exciting, total revenue amounted to $66.5 million last quarter, growing by 37.2% over the same period in the prior year. In a sign of confidence, management also raised its revenue guidance for the full fiscal year 2016, from a range of $245 million to $249 million to a new range of $253 million to $256 million. The company generates extraordinary profitability: Restaurant-level operating margin was at a record high 30.8% last quarter.</p> <p>Zoe's Kitchen reported sales figures below Wall Street forecasts last quarter. Since the stock is priced for demanding growth expectations, the market was rather unforgiving in its reaction to the earnings report, and Zoe's Kitchen stock has fallen by a staggering 37% in the past year.</p> <p>It's never nice seeing financial performance coming in below the company's own guidance, but the numbers don't look too dismal when analyzed in a broader context. Total revenue at Zoe's Kitchen grew 21.7%, to $66.3 million last quarter, while comparable restaurant sales jumped 4% year over. According to data from Black Box Intelligence, comparable-store sales across the restaurant industry declined 1% in the third quarter of 2016, so Zoe's Kitchen is significantly outperforming most competitors.</p> <p>Image source: Zoe's Kitchen.</p> <p>Zoe's Kitchen specializes in fresh, preservative, and additive-free Mediterranean dishes. Many consumers are increasingly conscious about the health implications of nutrition, and Mediterranean food is generally considered much healthier than other food choices, so the company is well positioned in relation to industry trends.</p> <p>Zoe's Kitchen currently has 183 company-owned restaurants and three franchised locations, and management believes it has enough room for 1,600 stores in the U.S. over the long term. 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3 Beaten-Down Restaurant Stocks for Contrarian Investors
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3 Beaten-Down Restaurant Stocks for Contrarian Investors <p /> <p>Investing in restaurant stocks can be remarkably profitable, especially for investors who buy high-growth companies in the restaurant sector at opportunistic prices. For different reasons, Chipotle Mexican Grill (NYSE: CMG), Shake Shack (NYSE: SHAK), and Zoe's Kitchen (NYSE: ZOES) are all under considerable selling pressure lately, and the three companies are attractive candidates for investors hunting for bargains among the best restaurant stocks.</p> <p>Continue Reading Below</p> <p>Back in August 2015, Chipotle stock was trading as high as $750 per share. At the time of this writing, shares of the fast-casual burrito chain are trading near their 12-month low, in the neighborhood of $365 per unit. The food-safety scare that hit its restaurants last year is having a considerable impact on Chipotle's financial performance.</p> <p>Image source: The Motley Fool.</p> <p>Chipotle reported a 14.8% decline in revenue during the third quarter of 2016, to $1 billion. Comparable-store sales fell 20.1% year over year, while comparable traffic declined 13.4% from the third quarter of 2015. The company is still making money, but restaurant-level operating margin declined by more than half, from 28.3% to 14.1%. When looking at these numbers, it's easy to understand why investors in Chipotle are going through so much pain.</p> <p>Advertisement</p> <p>On the other hand, the following chart that the company provided in its earnings release shows that revenue trends are starting to stabilize. It's far too early to say that Chipotle is out of the woods yet, but the worst could already be over.</p> <p>Image source: Chipotle Mexican Grill.</p> <p>Other companies in the restaurant sector have fully recovered from similar setbacks related to food safety, and Chipotle is doing its part, undertaking a massive effort to regain customer trust. Among other initiatives, the company has completely revamped its food-safety program, while also betting on new menu items and aggressive promotions to bring customers back to the stores.</p> <p>Chipotle is planning to open 195 to 210 new restaurants in 2017, and management believes that comparable restaurant sales will increase in the high single digits versus 2016 levels next year. If the company can in fact deliver in accordance with guidance, jump-starting revenue growth could be a powerful return driver for Chipotle stock in the mid-term.</p> <p>Successful innovation isn't just about doing new and unexpected things. Shake Shack, for instance, has a classic and traditional menu based on hamburgers, hot dogs, and shakes, but it differentiates its offering from the competition by offering fresher and more natural ingredients. Shake Shackis particularly popular among millennials, a key demographic group in the industry.</p> <p>Shake Shack stock is down by 40% from its highs of the past year, which is mostly due to investors' disappointment with slowing same-store sales at the better-burger restaurant chain. The company registered a 4.5% increase in "same-Shack sales" last quarter, a material deceleration versus a 9.9% increase in the previous quarter.</p> <p>Image source: Shake Shack.</p> <p>However, investors may be missing the big picture if they put too much weight on comparable sales figures. Shake Shack only includes in same-Shack sales the stores that have been opene for more than two years. Since the company is expanding its store base at full speed, this approach can materially underestimate overall revenue growth.</p> <p>When looking at total sales, things are much more exciting, total revenue amounted to $66.5 million last quarter, growing by 37.2% over the same period in the prior year. In a sign of confidence, management also raised its revenue guidance for the full fiscal year 2016, from a range of $245 million to $249 million to a new range of $253 million to $256 million. The company generates extraordinary profitability: Restaurant-level operating margin was at a record high 30.8% last quarter.</p> <p>Zoe's Kitchen reported sales figures below Wall Street forecasts last quarter. Since the stock is priced for demanding growth expectations, the market was rather unforgiving in its reaction to the earnings report, and Zoe's Kitchen stock has fallen by a staggering 37% in the past year.</p> <p>It's never nice seeing financial performance coming in below the company's own guidance, but the numbers don't look too dismal when analyzed in a broader context. Total revenue at Zoe's Kitchen grew 21.7%, to $66.3 million last quarter, while comparable restaurant sales jumped 4% year over. According to data from Black Box Intelligence, comparable-store sales across the restaurant industry declined 1% in the third quarter of 2016, so Zoe's Kitchen is significantly outperforming most competitors.</p> <p>Image source: Zoe's Kitchen.</p> <p>Zoe's Kitchen specializes in fresh, preservative, and additive-free Mediterranean dishes. Many consumers are increasingly conscious about the health implications of nutrition, and Mediterranean food is generally considered much healthier than other food choices, so the company is well positioned in relation to industry trends.</p> <p>Zoe's Kitchen currently has 183 company-owned restaurants and three franchised locations, and management believes it has enough room for 1,600 stores in the U.S. over the long term. Even if it could take considerable time for Zoe's Kitchen to reach such scale, the company still has abundant room for expansion over the years ahead.</p> <p>A secret billion-dollar stock opportunity The world's biggest tech company forgot to show you something, but a few Wall Street analysts and the Fool didn't miss a beat: There's a small company that's powering their brand-new gadgets and the coming revolution in technology. And we think its stock price has nearly unlimited room to run for early in-the-know investors! 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<p>It is usually considered good form to avoid sharp criticism of someone who has just died. But Richard Holbrooke himself set a striking example of the breach of such etiquette. On learning of the death in prison of Slobodan Milosevic, Holbrooke did not hesitate to describe him as a &#8220;monster&#8221; comparable to Hitler and Stalin.</p> <p>This was rank ingratitude, considering that Holbrooke owed his greatest career success - the 1995 Dayton Accords that ended the civil war in Bosnia-Herzegovina - almost entirely to Milosevic. This was made quite clear in his memoir To End a War (Random House, 1998).</p> <p>But Holbrooke's greatest skill, made possible by media complicity, was to dress up reality in a costume favorable to himself.</p> <p>The Dayton Peace Accords were presented as a heroic victory for peace extracted by the brilliant Holbrooke from a reluctant Milosevic, who had to be &#8220;bombed to the negotiating table&#8221; by the United States. In reality, the U.S. government was fully aware that Milosevic was eager for peace in Bosnia to free Serbia from crippling economic sanctions. It was the Bosnian Muslim leader Alija Izetbegovic who wanted to keep the war going, with U.S. military help.</p> <p>In reality, the U.S. bombed the Serbs in order to get Izetbegovic to the negotiating table. And the agreement reached in the autumn of 1995 was not very different from the agreement reached in March 1992 by the three ethnic groups under European Community auspices, which could have prevented the entire civil war, if it had not been sabotaged by Izetbegovic, who withdrew his agreement with the encouragement of the then U.S. ambassador Warren Zimmermann. In short, far from being the great peacemaker in the Balkans, the United States first encouraged the Muslim side to fight for its goal of a centralized Bosnia, and then sponsored a weakened federated Bosnia - after nearly four years of bloodshed which left the populations bereft and embittered.</p> <p>The real purpose of all this, as Holbrooke made quite clear in To End a War, was to demonstrate that Europeans could not manage their own vital affairs and that the United States remained the &#8220;indispensable nation&#8221;. His book also made it clear that the Muslim leaders were irritatingly reluctant to end war short of total victory, and that only the readiness of Milosevic to make concessions saved the Dayton talks from failure &#8212; allowing Holbrooke to be proclaimed a hero.</p> <p>The functional role of the Holbrooke's diplomacy was to prove that diplomacy, as carried out by Europeans, was bound to fail. His victory was a defeat for diplomacy. The spectacle of bombing plus Dayton was designed to show that only the threat or application of U.S. military might could end conflicts.</p> <p>Milosevic had hoped that his concessions would lead to peace and reconciliation with the United States. As it happened, his only reward for handing Holbrooke the victory of his career was to have his country bombed by NATO in 1999 in order to wrest from Serbia the province of Kosovo and prepare Milosevic's own fall from office. Holbrooke played a prominent role in this scenario, suddently posing shoeless in a tent in the summer of 1998 for a photo op seated among armed Albanian secessionists which up to then had been characterized by the State Department as &#8220;terrorists&#8221;, and shortly thereafter announcing to Milosevic that Serbia would be bombed unless he withdrew security forces from the province, in effect giving it to the ex-terrorists transformed by the Holbrooke blessing into freedom fighters.</p> <p>In his long career from Vietnam to Afghanistan, Holbrooke was active on many fronts. In 1977, after Indonesia invaded East Timor and set about massacring the people of that former Portuguese colony, Holbrooke was dispatched by the United States supposedly to promote &#8220;human rights&#8221; but in reality to help arm the Suharto dictatorship against the East Timorese. Sometimes the government is armed against rebels, sometimes rebels are armed against the government, but despite appearances of contradiction, what is consistent throughout is the cynical exploitation and exacerbation of tragic local conflicts to extend U.S. imperial power throughout the world.</p> <p>Holbrooke and Milosevic were born in the same year, 1941. When Milosevic died in 2006, Holbrooke gave a long statement to the BBC without a single syllable of human kindness. &#8220;This man wrecked the Balkans,&#8221; said Holbrooke.</p> <p>&#8220;He was a war criminal who caused four wars, over 300,000 deaths, 2.5million homeless. Sometimes monsters make the biggest impacts on history &#8211; Hitler and Stalin &#8211; and such is the case with this gentleman.&#8221;</p> <p>Holbrooke presented himself as goodness dealing with evil for a worthy cause. When negotiating with Milosevic, &#8220;you&#8217;re conscious of the fact that you&#8217;re sitting across the table from a monster whose role in history will be terrible and who has caused so many deaths.&#8221;</p> <p>Who was the monster? Nobody, including at the Hague tribunal where he died for lack of medical treatment, has ever actually proved that Milosevic was responsible for the tragic deaths in the wars of Yugoslav disintegration. But Holbrooke was never put on trial for all the deaths in Vietnam, East Timor, Afghanistan, Iraq and, yes, former Yugoslavia, which resulted at least in part from the U.S. policies he carried out.</p> <p>From his self-proclaimed moral heights, Holbrooke judged the Serbian leader as an opportunist without political convictions, neither communist nor nationalist, but simply &#8220;an opportunist who sought power and wealth for himself.&#8221;</p> <p>In reality, there has never been any proof that Milosevic sought or obtained wealth for himself, whereas Holbrooke was, among many other things, a vice chairman of Credit Suisse First Boston, managing director of Lehman Brothers, vice chairman of the private equity firm Perseus LLC, and a member of the board of directors of AIG, the American International Group, at a time when, according to Wikipedia, &#8220;the firm engaged in wildly speculative credit default insurance schemes that may cost the taxpayer hundreds of billions to prevent AIG from bringing down the entire financial system.&#8221;</p> <p>Milosevic was on trial for years without ever being to present his defense before he died under troubling circumstances. Holbrooke found that outcome perfectly satisfying: &#8220;I knew as soon as he reached The Hague that he&#8217;d never see daylight again and I think that justice was served in a weird way because he died in his cell, and that was the right thing to do.&#8221;</p> <p>There are many other instances of lies and deceptions in Holbrooke's manipulation of Balkan woes, as well as his totally cynical exploitation of the tragedies of Vietnam, East Timor, Iraq and Afghanistan. But still, his importance should not be overstated. Moral monsters do not always make a great impact on history, when they are merely the vain instruments of a bureaucratic military machine running amok.</p> <p>DIANA JOHNSTONE is the author of <a href="" type="internal">Fools Crusade: Yugoslavia, NATO and Western Delusions.</a>She can be reached at &amp;#160; <a href="mailto:[email protected]" type="external">[email protected]</a></p> <p>&amp;#160;</p> <p>&amp;#160;</p> <p />
Holbrooke or Milosevic: Who is the Greater Murderer?
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Holbrooke or Milosevic: Who is the Greater Murderer? <p>It is usually considered good form to avoid sharp criticism of someone who has just died. But Richard Holbrooke himself set a striking example of the breach of such etiquette. On learning of the death in prison of Slobodan Milosevic, Holbrooke did not hesitate to describe him as a &#8220;monster&#8221; comparable to Hitler and Stalin.</p> <p>This was rank ingratitude, considering that Holbrooke owed his greatest career success - the 1995 Dayton Accords that ended the civil war in Bosnia-Herzegovina - almost entirely to Milosevic. This was made quite clear in his memoir To End a War (Random House, 1998).</p> <p>But Holbrooke's greatest skill, made possible by media complicity, was to dress up reality in a costume favorable to himself.</p> <p>The Dayton Peace Accords were presented as a heroic victory for peace extracted by the brilliant Holbrooke from a reluctant Milosevic, who had to be &#8220;bombed to the negotiating table&#8221; by the United States. In reality, the U.S. government was fully aware that Milosevic was eager for peace in Bosnia to free Serbia from crippling economic sanctions. It was the Bosnian Muslim leader Alija Izetbegovic who wanted to keep the war going, with U.S. military help.</p> <p>In reality, the U.S. bombed the Serbs in order to get Izetbegovic to the negotiating table. And the agreement reached in the autumn of 1995 was not very different from the agreement reached in March 1992 by the three ethnic groups under European Community auspices, which could have prevented the entire civil war, if it had not been sabotaged by Izetbegovic, who withdrew his agreement with the encouragement of the then U.S. ambassador Warren Zimmermann. In short, far from being the great peacemaker in the Balkans, the United States first encouraged the Muslim side to fight for its goal of a centralized Bosnia, and then sponsored a weakened federated Bosnia - after nearly four years of bloodshed which left the populations bereft and embittered.</p> <p>The real purpose of all this, as Holbrooke made quite clear in To End a War, was to demonstrate that Europeans could not manage their own vital affairs and that the United States remained the &#8220;indispensable nation&#8221;. His book also made it clear that the Muslim leaders were irritatingly reluctant to end war short of total victory, and that only the readiness of Milosevic to make concessions saved the Dayton talks from failure &#8212; allowing Holbrooke to be proclaimed a hero.</p> <p>The functional role of the Holbrooke's diplomacy was to prove that diplomacy, as carried out by Europeans, was bound to fail. His victory was a defeat for diplomacy. The spectacle of bombing plus Dayton was designed to show that only the threat or application of U.S. military might could end conflicts.</p> <p>Milosevic had hoped that his concessions would lead to peace and reconciliation with the United States. As it happened, his only reward for handing Holbrooke the victory of his career was to have his country bombed by NATO in 1999 in order to wrest from Serbia the province of Kosovo and prepare Milosevic's own fall from office. Holbrooke played a prominent role in this scenario, suddently posing shoeless in a tent in the summer of 1998 for a photo op seated among armed Albanian secessionists which up to then had been characterized by the State Department as &#8220;terrorists&#8221;, and shortly thereafter announcing to Milosevic that Serbia would be bombed unless he withdrew security forces from the province, in effect giving it to the ex-terrorists transformed by the Holbrooke blessing into freedom fighters.</p> <p>In his long career from Vietnam to Afghanistan, Holbrooke was active on many fronts. In 1977, after Indonesia invaded East Timor and set about massacring the people of that former Portuguese colony, Holbrooke was dispatched by the United States supposedly to promote &#8220;human rights&#8221; but in reality to help arm the Suharto dictatorship against the East Timorese. Sometimes the government is armed against rebels, sometimes rebels are armed against the government, but despite appearances of contradiction, what is consistent throughout is the cynical exploitation and exacerbation of tragic local conflicts to extend U.S. imperial power throughout the world.</p> <p>Holbrooke and Milosevic were born in the same year, 1941. When Milosevic died in 2006, Holbrooke gave a long statement to the BBC without a single syllable of human kindness. &#8220;This man wrecked the Balkans,&#8221; said Holbrooke.</p> <p>&#8220;He was a war criminal who caused four wars, over 300,000 deaths, 2.5million homeless. Sometimes monsters make the biggest impacts on history &#8211; Hitler and Stalin &#8211; and such is the case with this gentleman.&#8221;</p> <p>Holbrooke presented himself as goodness dealing with evil for a worthy cause. When negotiating with Milosevic, &#8220;you&#8217;re conscious of the fact that you&#8217;re sitting across the table from a monster whose role in history will be terrible and who has caused so many deaths.&#8221;</p> <p>Who was the monster? Nobody, including at the Hague tribunal where he died for lack of medical treatment, has ever actually proved that Milosevic was responsible for the tragic deaths in the wars of Yugoslav disintegration. But Holbrooke was never put on trial for all the deaths in Vietnam, East Timor, Afghanistan, Iraq and, yes, former Yugoslavia, which resulted at least in part from the U.S. policies he carried out.</p> <p>From his self-proclaimed moral heights, Holbrooke judged the Serbian leader as an opportunist without political convictions, neither communist nor nationalist, but simply &#8220;an opportunist who sought power and wealth for himself.&#8221;</p> <p>In reality, there has never been any proof that Milosevic sought or obtained wealth for himself, whereas Holbrooke was, among many other things, a vice chairman of Credit Suisse First Boston, managing director of Lehman Brothers, vice chairman of the private equity firm Perseus LLC, and a member of the board of directors of AIG, the American International Group, at a time when, according to Wikipedia, &#8220;the firm engaged in wildly speculative credit default insurance schemes that may cost the taxpayer hundreds of billions to prevent AIG from bringing down the entire financial system.&#8221;</p> <p>Milosevic was on trial for years without ever being to present his defense before he died under troubling circumstances. Holbrooke found that outcome perfectly satisfying: &#8220;I knew as soon as he reached The Hague that he&#8217;d never see daylight again and I think that justice was served in a weird way because he died in his cell, and that was the right thing to do.&#8221;</p> <p>There are many other instances of lies and deceptions in Holbrooke's manipulation of Balkan woes, as well as his totally cynical exploitation of the tragedies of Vietnam, East Timor, Iraq and Afghanistan. But still, his importance should not be overstated. Moral monsters do not always make a great impact on history, when they are merely the vain instruments of a bureaucratic military machine running amok.</p> <p>DIANA JOHNSTONE is the author of <a href="" type="internal">Fools Crusade: Yugoslavia, NATO and Western Delusions.</a>She can be reached at &amp;#160; <a href="mailto:[email protected]" type="external">[email protected]</a></p> <p>&amp;#160;</p> <p>&amp;#160;</p> <p />
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<p>.......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... ..........</p> <p /> <p>Watching 17-year-old Alex Holder put her chestnut mare through its exacting paces just two days before the big show, it&#8217;s hard to figure out how she can stay so relaxed.</p> <p>After all, she&#8217;s about to go head to head with the best young riders in the nation at the 18th annual Arabian and Half-Arabian Youth National Championship Horse Show, taking place Saturday through July 31 at Expo New Mexico.</p> <p>The La Grange, Ill., teenager is competing in her third nationals here after qualifying at the Arabian Horse Association&#8217;s Region XI Finals earlier this month in Springfield, Ill.</p> <p>ADVERTISEMENT</p> <p>&#8220;Last year I made it to the finals,&#8221; she said, adding that a slight error in riding her assigned pattern probably cost her the title in her chosen discipline, Country English Pleasure.</p> <p>&#8220;You&#8217;re judged on the rider&#8217;s position and how well you ride your horse while holding that position,&#8221; the well-spoken teen said as she prepared for a practice session Thursday inside Expo&#8217;s Dairy Barn arena. &#8220;They also give you a pattern to memorize and ride individually.&#8221;</p> <p>Nearly 1,000 Arabian, Half-Arabian and Anglo-Arabian horses and their young riders, ranging in age from 2 to 18, are competing in the show.</p> <p>The event, being held for the 10th time at the state fairgrounds, drew 3,028 entries and 993 horses from 41 states and one Canadian province last year, said Hilary Nixon. communications coordinator for the Colorado-based Arabian Horse Association.</p> <p>Besides traditional events, a perennial favorite in the world of Arabians is the mounted native costume competitions, in which rider and horse are decked out in the regalia of the breed&#8217;s originators, the Bedouin tribes of the Arabian deserts.</p> <p>Sandwiched between competitions are horsemanship clinics, judging clinics, a fashion show, exhibitor displays in the Lujan complex and a country music concert.</p> <p>The public can attend the events for free, but parking is $4 per vehicle. Competitions take place at 7:30 a.m., 1 p.m. and 7 p.m. daily, except for Saturday and July 28, when there are no evening events.</p> <p>Competitions take place at various venues throughout Expo, including arenas in the Horse Barn, Dairy Barn and Tingley Coliseum.</p> <p>ADVERTISEMENT</p> <p>Alex&#8217;s introduction to Arabians &#8212; easily recognizable by their distinctive head, arched neck and high-carried tail &#8212; was serendipitous. After a year out of the saddle, due in part to a jumping mishap that broke her hip at age 11, Alex started working with Chicago trainer Kelly Mathews, who specializes in Arabians and half-Arabians.</p> <p>Alex quickly fell in love with the breed.</p> <p>&#8220;They&#8217;re so fun. They all have their own little personalities,&#8221; she said. &#8220;Other breeds I&#8217;ve ridden are little more mellow. Some Arabians get a reputation for being kind of crazy, but Sunshine is super sweet. But when it&#8217;s time to show, she turns on and goes. Arabs are so versatile. It&#8217;s crazy how they can do so many disciplines so well.&#8221;</p> <p>Sunshine, officially known as Let the Son Shine, is Alex&#8217;s 12-year-old half-Arabian/half Saddlebred mare who, unofficially, absolutely loves Froot Loops cereal.</p> <p>&#8220;At a show in Scottsdale, Sunshine wouldn&#8217;t eat, so I sprinkled a box of Froot Loops into her grain and away she went,&#8221; Alex said.</p> <p>Alex will also ride the class astride a leased, full-Arabian mare named Mollie, who she first rode at her regional finals.</p> <p>Alex said there&#8217;s nothing quite like the nationals.</p> <p>&#8220;I&#8217;m a very competitive person, and I love the level of competition here at the finals,&#8221; she said. &#8220;It&#8217;s so intense. Everyone here loves what they&#8217;re doing, so it just makes it that much more fun. Everyone wants it (to win) so bad, it&#8217;s a real challenge.&#8221;</p> <p>&amp;#160;</p>
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Arabian and Half-Arabian Youth National Championship Horse Show Opens Saturday <p>.......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... ..........</p> <p /> <p>Watching 17-year-old Alex Holder put her chestnut mare through its exacting paces just two days before the big show, it&#8217;s hard to figure out how she can stay so relaxed.</p> <p>After all, she&#8217;s about to go head to head with the best young riders in the nation at the 18th annual Arabian and Half-Arabian Youth National Championship Horse Show, taking place Saturday through July 31 at Expo New Mexico.</p> <p>The La Grange, Ill., teenager is competing in her third nationals here after qualifying at the Arabian Horse Association&#8217;s Region XI Finals earlier this month in Springfield, Ill.</p> <p>ADVERTISEMENT</p> <p>&#8220;Last year I made it to the finals,&#8221; she said, adding that a slight error in riding her assigned pattern probably cost her the title in her chosen discipline, Country English Pleasure.</p> <p>&#8220;You&#8217;re judged on the rider&#8217;s position and how well you ride your horse while holding that position,&#8221; the well-spoken teen said as she prepared for a practice session Thursday inside Expo&#8217;s Dairy Barn arena. &#8220;They also give you a pattern to memorize and ride individually.&#8221;</p> <p>Nearly 1,000 Arabian, Half-Arabian and Anglo-Arabian horses and their young riders, ranging in age from 2 to 18, are competing in the show.</p> <p>The event, being held for the 10th time at the state fairgrounds, drew 3,028 entries and 993 horses from 41 states and one Canadian province last year, said Hilary Nixon. communications coordinator for the Colorado-based Arabian Horse Association.</p> <p>Besides traditional events, a perennial favorite in the world of Arabians is the mounted native costume competitions, in which rider and horse are decked out in the regalia of the breed&#8217;s originators, the Bedouin tribes of the Arabian deserts.</p> <p>Sandwiched between competitions are horsemanship clinics, judging clinics, a fashion show, exhibitor displays in the Lujan complex and a country music concert.</p> <p>The public can attend the events for free, but parking is $4 per vehicle. Competitions take place at 7:30 a.m., 1 p.m. and 7 p.m. daily, except for Saturday and July 28, when there are no evening events.</p> <p>Competitions take place at various venues throughout Expo, including arenas in the Horse Barn, Dairy Barn and Tingley Coliseum.</p> <p>ADVERTISEMENT</p> <p>Alex&#8217;s introduction to Arabians &#8212; easily recognizable by their distinctive head, arched neck and high-carried tail &#8212; was serendipitous. After a year out of the saddle, due in part to a jumping mishap that broke her hip at age 11, Alex started working with Chicago trainer Kelly Mathews, who specializes in Arabians and half-Arabians.</p> <p>Alex quickly fell in love with the breed.</p> <p>&#8220;They&#8217;re so fun. They all have their own little personalities,&#8221; she said. &#8220;Other breeds I&#8217;ve ridden are little more mellow. Some Arabians get a reputation for being kind of crazy, but Sunshine is super sweet. But when it&#8217;s time to show, she turns on and goes. Arabs are so versatile. It&#8217;s crazy how they can do so many disciplines so well.&#8221;</p> <p>Sunshine, officially known as Let the Son Shine, is Alex&#8217;s 12-year-old half-Arabian/half Saddlebred mare who, unofficially, absolutely loves Froot Loops cereal.</p> <p>&#8220;At a show in Scottsdale, Sunshine wouldn&#8217;t eat, so I sprinkled a box of Froot Loops into her grain and away she went,&#8221; Alex said.</p> <p>Alex will also ride the class astride a leased, full-Arabian mare named Mollie, who she first rode at her regional finals.</p> <p>Alex said there&#8217;s nothing quite like the nationals.</p> <p>&#8220;I&#8217;m a very competitive person, and I love the level of competition here at the finals,&#8221; she said. &#8220;It&#8217;s so intense. Everyone here loves what they&#8217;re doing, so it just makes it that much more fun. Everyone wants it (to win) so bad, it&#8217;s a real challenge.&#8221;</p> <p>&amp;#160;</p>
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<p>.......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... ..........</p> <p /> <p>&#8220;When it was first performed, it was such a novelty &#8230; such a new thing for the audience. The harmonies, the orchestration and the melodies are so fantastic,&#8221; Anzolfini said in a phone interview from his home in Argentina.</p> <p>The full seven-movement piece debuted in 1868 in Zurich.</p> <p>ADVERTISEMENT</p> <p>He will guest-conduct the New Mexico Philharmonic, an 80-voice choir and two soloists in the work, which in German is titled &#8220;Ein deutsches Requiem.&#8221;</p> <p>It will be performed in paired concerts on Saturday, Nov. 10, at Popejoy Hall and on Nov. 11 at the National Hispanic Cultural Center.</p> <p>Anzolini said Brahms took the text of his work from different sections of the Scriptures.</p> <p>&#8220;Brahms drew inspiration from the Bible, but it&#8217;s not really a religious piece. &#8230; He looked at the Bible from a very humanistic perspective,&#8221; said Maxine Th&#233;venot, who is the chorusmaster for the performances.</p> <p>&#8220;I think it&#8217;s one of the more challenging choral settings of a requiem, and the text doesn&#8217;t draw from the typical Requiem Mass text. &#8230; The range for the human voice is like no other piece ever written, so it&#8217;s strenuous and challenging from that perspective.&#8221;</p> <p>The 80 voices are comprised of the choir of the Cathedral Church of St. John, augmented by invited members of the community, including the University of New Mexico&#8217;s Las Cantantes ensemble, Th&#233;venot said.</p> <p>She said Brahms&#8217; sheet music publisher wanted the composer to write the work in Latin, but he refused to translate and publish it in Latin. Brahms insisted on writing it in German, though he agreed that it could be sung in English, Th&#233;venot said.</p> <p>ADVERTISEMENT</p> <p>The choir and the soloists in the two philharmonic concerts next weekend will sing it in German. The soloists are soprano Sharla Nafziger and baritone Edmund Connolly.</p> <p>The baritone part, Connolly said, is more integrated in the sense that he appears in two of the work&#8217;s seven movements.</p> <p>&#8220;During these two movements he has long solo sections that alternate with sections involving the choir,&#8221; he said. &#8220;So the baritone has a declamatory role &#8230; the soprano&#8217;s is more contemplative.&#8221;</p> <p>Anzolini said in response to the Brahms being such a monumental piece for orchestra and chorus, he wanted to use the other half of the program so &#8220;the orchestra itself shines.&#8221;</p> <p>The other two works chosen for the concerts are Edward Elgar&#8217;s &#8220;Enigma Variations&#8221; and the overture to Giuseppe Verdi&#8217;s opera &#8220;La forza del destino.&#8221; The Elgar and the Verdi will be performed in the first half of the concert.</p> <p>ADVERTISEMENT</p> <p>Anzolini said the Elgar work and the Verdi overture contain melodies that the American public knows.</p> <p>&#8220;So it&#8217;s a question of how can you bring new life to this piece,&#8221; he said.</p> <p>&#8220;It&#8217;s about the experience of being at the concert, of (hearing) something that the audience will remember when they leave the concert. That&#8217;s the main thing for me.&#8221;</p> <p>No doubt, Anzolini speculated, each of the three pieces on the program should have significance for anyone interested in classical music.</p> <p>&#8220;They are pieces you know, you&#8217;ve heard and you enjoy,&#8221; he said.</p>
Brahms’ ‘Requiem’ poses challenge for vocalists
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Brahms’ ‘Requiem’ poses challenge for vocalists <p>.......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... ..........</p> <p /> <p>&#8220;When it was first performed, it was such a novelty &#8230; such a new thing for the audience. The harmonies, the orchestration and the melodies are so fantastic,&#8221; Anzolfini said in a phone interview from his home in Argentina.</p> <p>The full seven-movement piece debuted in 1868 in Zurich.</p> <p>ADVERTISEMENT</p> <p>He will guest-conduct the New Mexico Philharmonic, an 80-voice choir and two soloists in the work, which in German is titled &#8220;Ein deutsches Requiem.&#8221;</p> <p>It will be performed in paired concerts on Saturday, Nov. 10, at Popejoy Hall and on Nov. 11 at the National Hispanic Cultural Center.</p> <p>Anzolini said Brahms took the text of his work from different sections of the Scriptures.</p> <p>&#8220;Brahms drew inspiration from the Bible, but it&#8217;s not really a religious piece. &#8230; He looked at the Bible from a very humanistic perspective,&#8221; said Maxine Th&#233;venot, who is the chorusmaster for the performances.</p> <p>&#8220;I think it&#8217;s one of the more challenging choral settings of a requiem, and the text doesn&#8217;t draw from the typical Requiem Mass text. &#8230; The range for the human voice is like no other piece ever written, so it&#8217;s strenuous and challenging from that perspective.&#8221;</p> <p>The 80 voices are comprised of the choir of the Cathedral Church of St. John, augmented by invited members of the community, including the University of New Mexico&#8217;s Las Cantantes ensemble, Th&#233;venot said.</p> <p>She said Brahms&#8217; sheet music publisher wanted the composer to write the work in Latin, but he refused to translate and publish it in Latin. Brahms insisted on writing it in German, though he agreed that it could be sung in English, Th&#233;venot said.</p> <p>ADVERTISEMENT</p> <p>The choir and the soloists in the two philharmonic concerts next weekend will sing it in German. The soloists are soprano Sharla Nafziger and baritone Edmund Connolly.</p> <p>The baritone part, Connolly said, is more integrated in the sense that he appears in two of the work&#8217;s seven movements.</p> <p>&#8220;During these two movements he has long solo sections that alternate with sections involving the choir,&#8221; he said. &#8220;So the baritone has a declamatory role &#8230; the soprano&#8217;s is more contemplative.&#8221;</p> <p>Anzolini said in response to the Brahms being such a monumental piece for orchestra and chorus, he wanted to use the other half of the program so &#8220;the orchestra itself shines.&#8221;</p> <p>The other two works chosen for the concerts are Edward Elgar&#8217;s &#8220;Enigma Variations&#8221; and the overture to Giuseppe Verdi&#8217;s opera &#8220;La forza del destino.&#8221; The Elgar and the Verdi will be performed in the first half of the concert.</p> <p>ADVERTISEMENT</p> <p>Anzolini said the Elgar work and the Verdi overture contain melodies that the American public knows.</p> <p>&#8220;So it&#8217;s a question of how can you bring new life to this piece,&#8221; he said.</p> <p>&#8220;It&#8217;s about the experience of being at the concert, of (hearing) something that the audience will remember when they leave the concert. That&#8217;s the main thing for me.&#8221;</p> <p>No doubt, Anzolini speculated, each of the three pieces on the program should have significance for anyone interested in classical music.</p> <p>&#8220;They are pieces you know, you&#8217;ve heard and you enjoy,&#8221; he said.</p>
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<p>President Trump, in a statement at the White House, said the gunman who shot a Republican congressional leader at a baseball field in Alexandria, Va., has died.</p> <p>Trump's full statement:</p> <p>As you all know, shortly after 7 a.m. this morning, a gunman opened fire on members of Congress and their staffs as they were practicing for tomorrow's annual charity baseball game. Authorities are continuing to investigate the crime and the assailant has now died from his injuries.</p> <p>The FBI is leading the investigation and will continue to provide updates as new information becomes available. Congressman Steve Scalise, a member of House leadership, was shot and badly wounded and is now is stable condition at the hospital, along with two very courageous Capitol Hill police officers. At least two others were also wounded. Many lives would have been lost if not for the heroic actions of the two Capitol police officers who took down the gunman despite sustaining gunshot wounds during a very, very brutal assault.</p> <p>Melania and I are grateful for their heroism and praying for the swift recovery of all victims. Congressman Scalise is a friend, and a very good friend. He's a patriot and he's a fighter. He will recover from this assault, and Steve, I want you to know, you have the prayers not only of the entire city behind you, but of an entire nation, and frankly, the entire world. America is praying for you and America is praying for all the victims of this terrible shooting.</p> <p>I spoke with Steve's wife Jennifer and I pledged to her our full and absolute support -- anything she needs, we're with her and the entire Scalise family. I've also spoken with Chief Matthew Verderosa -- he's doing a fantastic job -- of the Capitol police to express our sympathies for his wounded officers and to express my admiration for their courage. Our brave Capitol police perform a challenging job with incredible skill and their sacrifice makes democracy possible.</p> <p>We also commend the brave first responders from Alexandria police, fire and rescue, who rushed to the scene. Everyone on that field is a public servant: Our courageous police, our congressional aides -- who work so tirelessly behind the scenes with enormous devotion -- and our dedicated members of Congress who represent our people.</p> <p>We may have our differences, but we do well in times like these to remember that everyone who serves in our nation's capital is here, above all, they love our country. We can all agree that we are blessed to be Americans, that our children deserve to grow up in a nation of safety and peace, and that we are strongest when we are unified and when we work together for the common good.</p> <p>Please take a moment today to cherish those you love and always remember those who serve and keep us safe.</p> <p>God bless them all, God bless you, and God bless America.</p> <p>Thank you.</p>
Trump Says Gunman Who Shot Congressman Has Died
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Trump Says Gunman Who Shot Congressman Has Died <p>President Trump, in a statement at the White House, said the gunman who shot a Republican congressional leader at a baseball field in Alexandria, Va., has died.</p> <p>Trump's full statement:</p> <p>As you all know, shortly after 7 a.m. this morning, a gunman opened fire on members of Congress and their staffs as they were practicing for tomorrow's annual charity baseball game. Authorities are continuing to investigate the crime and the assailant has now died from his injuries.</p> <p>The FBI is leading the investigation and will continue to provide updates as new information becomes available. Congressman Steve Scalise, a member of House leadership, was shot and badly wounded and is now is stable condition at the hospital, along with two very courageous Capitol Hill police officers. At least two others were also wounded. Many lives would have been lost if not for the heroic actions of the two Capitol police officers who took down the gunman despite sustaining gunshot wounds during a very, very brutal assault.</p> <p>Melania and I are grateful for their heroism and praying for the swift recovery of all victims. Congressman Scalise is a friend, and a very good friend. He's a patriot and he's a fighter. He will recover from this assault, and Steve, I want you to know, you have the prayers not only of the entire city behind you, but of an entire nation, and frankly, the entire world. America is praying for you and America is praying for all the victims of this terrible shooting.</p> <p>I spoke with Steve's wife Jennifer and I pledged to her our full and absolute support -- anything she needs, we're with her and the entire Scalise family. I've also spoken with Chief Matthew Verderosa -- he's doing a fantastic job -- of the Capitol police to express our sympathies for his wounded officers and to express my admiration for their courage. Our brave Capitol police perform a challenging job with incredible skill and their sacrifice makes democracy possible.</p> <p>We also commend the brave first responders from Alexandria police, fire and rescue, who rushed to the scene. Everyone on that field is a public servant: Our courageous police, our congressional aides -- who work so tirelessly behind the scenes with enormous devotion -- and our dedicated members of Congress who represent our people.</p> <p>We may have our differences, but we do well in times like these to remember that everyone who serves in our nation's capital is here, above all, they love our country. We can all agree that we are blessed to be Americans, that our children deserve to grow up in a nation of safety and peace, and that we are strongest when we are unified and when we work together for the common good.</p> <p>Please take a moment today to cherish those you love and always remember those who serve and keep us safe.</p> <p>God bless them all, God bless you, and God bless America.</p> <p>Thank you.</p>
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<p>Is this what we have come to? Why are cops taking pictures of suspects and posting them online? Isn&#8217;t there some policy against that? In the end of the video below, you hear Zimmerman say, &#8220;You really should work on your people skills.&#8221; I&#8217;m sure anyone will agree with him after watching the video.</p> <p>The deputy said he pulled him over for a lane change that left him following too close to the vehicle in front, but gave him a ticket for window tint.</p> <p>What is interesting about the video is that the deputy uses his personal iPhone camera to take pictures of the vehicle, the plate, the driver, and god knows what else.</p> <p>With a little research, Zimmerman was able to find out that the deputy has been photographing people he tickets and posting the photographs online as a virtual &#8220;dart board&#8221; for his personal friends &#8211; most of which are probably cops to make fun of.</p> <p><a href="" type="internal" /> <a href="" type="internal" /> <a href="" type="internal" /></p> <p>&amp;#160;&#8221;1 in 16 people in Oregon have concealed handgun licenses. From the video, you can clearly see that I am acting in a surrendering demeanor presenting absolutely zero threat to the officer; the mere presence of a weapon does NOT indicate a threat. Mr. Nashif handled the situation very unprofessionally and very rudely, using physical force to make me comply when I was willing to comply without the force being used. After I got illegally searched against my will, I then got agitated. After Mr. Nashif showed me verbal disrespect by cutting me off in conversation multiple times and laughing at me during our interaction, I got even more upset. And when I got home and searched out his Facebook page and saw that he has a regular tendency to treat all citizens he interacts with as lower beings, then I was truly upset because he obviously does this all the time and it is his regular behavior towards the public.&#8221;</p> <p>Chris Ponte&amp;#160;with&amp;#160; <a href="http://www.facebook.com/oregoncopblockers" type="external">Oregon Cop Block</a>&amp;#160;shared this post via <a href="http://www.copblock.org/48170/clackamas-county-bully-deputy-takes-pics-of-suspect-so-his-facebook-for-his-friends-to-make-fun-off/" type="external">CopBlock.org</a>&#8217;s&amp;#160; <a href="http://copblock.org/submit" type="external">submit page</a>.</p> <p><a href="http://www.facebook.com/oregoncopblockers" type="external">http://www.facebook.com/oregoncopblockers</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/oregoncoplock" type="external">http://www.youtube.com/oregoncoplock</a> [email protected] Chris Ponte</p> <p>Contributed by <a href="http://www.copblock.org/48170/clackamas-county-bully-deputy-takes-pics-of-suspect-so-his-facebook-for-his-friends-to-make-fun-off/" type="external">CopBlock.org</a></p> <p /> <p />
Clackamas County Bully Cop Takes Pics of Suspects and Posts Them on Facebook
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Clackamas County Bully Cop Takes Pics of Suspects and Posts Them on Facebook <p>Is this what we have come to? Why are cops taking pictures of suspects and posting them online? Isn&#8217;t there some policy against that? In the end of the video below, you hear Zimmerman say, &#8220;You really should work on your people skills.&#8221; I&#8217;m sure anyone will agree with him after watching the video.</p> <p>The deputy said he pulled him over for a lane change that left him following too close to the vehicle in front, but gave him a ticket for window tint.</p> <p>What is interesting about the video is that the deputy uses his personal iPhone camera to take pictures of the vehicle, the plate, the driver, and god knows what else.</p> <p>With a little research, Zimmerman was able to find out that the deputy has been photographing people he tickets and posting the photographs online as a virtual &#8220;dart board&#8221; for his personal friends &#8211; most of which are probably cops to make fun of.</p> <p><a href="" type="internal" /> <a href="" type="internal" /> <a href="" type="internal" /></p> <p>&amp;#160;&#8221;1 in 16 people in Oregon have concealed handgun licenses. From the video, you can clearly see that I am acting in a surrendering demeanor presenting absolutely zero threat to the officer; the mere presence of a weapon does NOT indicate a threat. Mr. Nashif handled the situation very unprofessionally and very rudely, using physical force to make me comply when I was willing to comply without the force being used. After I got illegally searched against my will, I then got agitated. After Mr. Nashif showed me verbal disrespect by cutting me off in conversation multiple times and laughing at me during our interaction, I got even more upset. And when I got home and searched out his Facebook page and saw that he has a regular tendency to treat all citizens he interacts with as lower beings, then I was truly upset because he obviously does this all the time and it is his regular behavior towards the public.&#8221;</p> <p>Chris Ponte&amp;#160;with&amp;#160; <a href="http://www.facebook.com/oregoncopblockers" type="external">Oregon Cop Block</a>&amp;#160;shared this post via <a href="http://www.copblock.org/48170/clackamas-county-bully-deputy-takes-pics-of-suspect-so-his-facebook-for-his-friends-to-make-fun-off/" type="external">CopBlock.org</a>&#8217;s&amp;#160; <a href="http://copblock.org/submit" type="external">submit page</a>.</p> <p><a href="http://www.facebook.com/oregoncopblockers" type="external">http://www.facebook.com/oregoncopblockers</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/oregoncoplock" type="external">http://www.youtube.com/oregoncoplock</a> [email protected] Chris Ponte</p> <p>Contributed by <a href="http://www.copblock.org/48170/clackamas-county-bully-deputy-takes-pics-of-suspect-so-his-facebook-for-his-friends-to-make-fun-off/" type="external">CopBlock.org</a></p> <p /> <p />
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<p>PARIS (AP) - French President Emmanuel Macron has paid respects to the 17 people killed when Islamic extremists attacked satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo and a kosher supermarket three years ago, in the first of several attacks to rock France.</p> <p>Along with Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo, Charlie Hebdo's chief editor and cartoonist Laurent Sourisseau and others, Macron laid wreaths and observed moments of silence on Sunday outside the former premises of the weekly newspaper and the Hyper Cacher supermarket in Paris.</p> <p>On Jan. 7, 2015, brothers Cherif and Said Kouachi killed 11 people at Charlie Hebdo's office and a policeman in a nearby street. The following days, their associate Amedy Coulibaly killed a policewoman outside Paris and four people during a hostage-taking at the supermarket. The three attackers were killed in shootouts with police.</p> <p>PARIS (AP) - French President Emmanuel Macron has paid respects to the 17 people killed when Islamic extremists attacked satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo and a kosher supermarket three years ago, in the first of several attacks to rock France.</p> <p>Along with Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo, Charlie Hebdo's chief editor and cartoonist Laurent Sourisseau and others, Macron laid wreaths and observed moments of silence on Sunday outside the former premises of the weekly newspaper and the Hyper Cacher supermarket in Paris.</p> <p>On Jan. 7, 2015, brothers Cherif and Said Kouachi killed 11 people at Charlie Hebdo's office and a policeman in a nearby street. The following days, their associate Amedy Coulibaly killed a policewoman outside Paris and four people during a hostage-taking at the supermarket. The three attackers were killed in shootouts with police.</p>
Macron leads tribute 3 years after Charlie Hebdo attacks
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Macron leads tribute 3 years after Charlie Hebdo attacks <p>PARIS (AP) - French President Emmanuel Macron has paid respects to the 17 people killed when Islamic extremists attacked satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo and a kosher supermarket three years ago, in the first of several attacks to rock France.</p> <p>Along with Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo, Charlie Hebdo's chief editor and cartoonist Laurent Sourisseau and others, Macron laid wreaths and observed moments of silence on Sunday outside the former premises of the weekly newspaper and the Hyper Cacher supermarket in Paris.</p> <p>On Jan. 7, 2015, brothers Cherif and Said Kouachi killed 11 people at Charlie Hebdo's office and a policeman in a nearby street. The following days, their associate Amedy Coulibaly killed a policewoman outside Paris and four people during a hostage-taking at the supermarket. The three attackers were killed in shootouts with police.</p> <p>PARIS (AP) - French President Emmanuel Macron has paid respects to the 17 people killed when Islamic extremists attacked satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo and a kosher supermarket three years ago, in the first of several attacks to rock France.</p> <p>Along with Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo, Charlie Hebdo's chief editor and cartoonist Laurent Sourisseau and others, Macron laid wreaths and observed moments of silence on Sunday outside the former premises of the weekly newspaper and the Hyper Cacher supermarket in Paris.</p> <p>On Jan. 7, 2015, brothers Cherif and Said Kouachi killed 11 people at Charlie Hebdo's office and a policeman in a nearby street. The following days, their associate Amedy Coulibaly killed a policewoman outside Paris and four people during a hostage-taking at the supermarket. The three attackers were killed in shootouts with police.</p>
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<p>Sept. 11 (UPI) &#8212; Researchers have found that the East Coast of the United States will be threatened by even more frequent flooding in the future.</p> <p>The timing of the study&#8217;s release comes as the Gulf Coast of Texas and both coasts of Florida experience severe flooding from Hurricanes Harvey and Irma.</p> <p>The study by researchers from the Universities of Bonn, South Florida and <a href="https://www.upi.com/topic/Rhode_Island/" type="external">Rhode Island</a>, showed the states of Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina are the most vulnerable with their coastal regions being eroded by water by up to 3 millimeters per year.</p> <p>Researchers found flooding occurs not just from hurricanes but also can occur on relatively calm days or during normal rain fall causing damage to houses and roads.</p> <p>&#8220;There are primarily two reasons for this phenomenon,&#8221; Makan A. Karegar from the University of South Florida, currently a guest researcher at the Institute of Geodesy and Geoinformation at the University of Bonn, <a href="https://www.uni-bonn.de/news/209-2017" type="external">said in a press release</a>.</p> <p>&#8220;During the last ice age around 20,000 years ago, large parts of Canada were covered by an ice sheet. This tremendous mass pressed down on the continent.&#8221; Some areas of the earth&#8217;s mantle were thus pressed sideways under the ice, causing the coastal regions that were free of ice to be raised. &#8220;When the ice sheet then melted, this process was reversed,&#8221; explains Karegar. &#8220;The East Coast has thus been sinking back down for the last few thousand years.&#8221;</p> <p>The phenomenon known as nuisance flooding will occur more frequently after researchers evaluated data from the East Coast of the United States including GPS and satellite data showing large parts of the coast are slowly and steadily sinking into the Atlantic Ocean.</p> <p>Researchers found that the area between 32 and 38 degrees latitude has been sinking more rapidly than in the previous millennia, by more than 3 millimeters a year in some cases believed to be cause from the significant use of groundwater in the region.</p> <p>&#8220;When groundwater is removed, the land mass can be compressed more greatly,&#8221; Karegar said. &#8220;It practically collapses into itself and thus sinks even more.&#8221;</p> <p>Research finds cities on the East Coast of the United States that were founded near the end of the 16th century are at least 45 centimeters lower today than back then due to glacier effects. More sinking has occurred in recent years from the removal of groundwater and also rising sea levels due to global warming are all believed to contribute to the increase in flooding.</p> <p>&#8220;Even if the removal of groundwater is reduced, the number of floods will thus continue to increase,&#8221; Karegar said. &#8220;The sums of money that need to be spent to rectify the damage associated with this will also increase significantly. One should, therefore, assume that the USA has a vested interest in combating climate change with all its resources.&#8221;</p>
Study finds U.S. threatened by more frequent flooding
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Study finds U.S. threatened by more frequent flooding <p>Sept. 11 (UPI) &#8212; Researchers have found that the East Coast of the United States will be threatened by even more frequent flooding in the future.</p> <p>The timing of the study&#8217;s release comes as the Gulf Coast of Texas and both coasts of Florida experience severe flooding from Hurricanes Harvey and Irma.</p> <p>The study by researchers from the Universities of Bonn, South Florida and <a href="https://www.upi.com/topic/Rhode_Island/" type="external">Rhode Island</a>, showed the states of Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina are the most vulnerable with their coastal regions being eroded by water by up to 3 millimeters per year.</p> <p>Researchers found flooding occurs not just from hurricanes but also can occur on relatively calm days or during normal rain fall causing damage to houses and roads.</p> <p>&#8220;There are primarily two reasons for this phenomenon,&#8221; Makan A. Karegar from the University of South Florida, currently a guest researcher at the Institute of Geodesy and Geoinformation at the University of Bonn, <a href="https://www.uni-bonn.de/news/209-2017" type="external">said in a press release</a>.</p> <p>&#8220;During the last ice age around 20,000 years ago, large parts of Canada were covered by an ice sheet. This tremendous mass pressed down on the continent.&#8221; Some areas of the earth&#8217;s mantle were thus pressed sideways under the ice, causing the coastal regions that were free of ice to be raised. &#8220;When the ice sheet then melted, this process was reversed,&#8221; explains Karegar. &#8220;The East Coast has thus been sinking back down for the last few thousand years.&#8221;</p> <p>The phenomenon known as nuisance flooding will occur more frequently after researchers evaluated data from the East Coast of the United States including GPS and satellite data showing large parts of the coast are slowly and steadily sinking into the Atlantic Ocean.</p> <p>Researchers found that the area between 32 and 38 degrees latitude has been sinking more rapidly than in the previous millennia, by more than 3 millimeters a year in some cases believed to be cause from the significant use of groundwater in the region.</p> <p>&#8220;When groundwater is removed, the land mass can be compressed more greatly,&#8221; Karegar said. &#8220;It practically collapses into itself and thus sinks even more.&#8221;</p> <p>Research finds cities on the East Coast of the United States that were founded near the end of the 16th century are at least 45 centimeters lower today than back then due to glacier effects. More sinking has occurred in recent years from the removal of groundwater and also rising sea levels due to global warming are all believed to contribute to the increase in flooding.</p> <p>&#8220;Even if the removal of groundwater is reduced, the number of floods will thus continue to increase,&#8221; Karegar said. &#8220;The sums of money that need to be spent to rectify the damage associated with this will also increase significantly. One should, therefore, assume that the USA has a vested interest in combating climate change with all its resources.&#8221;</p>
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<p>Hillary Clinton is coming under fire during Black History month for not having the record of supporting blacks that she claims to have on the campaign trail. In the video above posted by YouTuber Jeanette Johnson-Jing titled "Hillary Clinton in Black History," the Democratic candidate is taken to task for her many perceived sins against people of color.</p> <p>The <a href="https://twitter.com/jeanettejing" type="external">Twitter description</a> for the video's author reads: "Empire without corrupts within. Scientist. Feminist. Kitesurfer. Sandernista. #Bernie2016 #BlackLivesMatter Register to VOTE."</p> <p>Hillary's list of sin's according to the clip above include: being a Goldwater supporter in her youth; supporting Confederate Flag displays while in Arkansas; being on the board of Walmart while they used child labor; pushing for more prisons; calling young black gang members " <a href="" type="internal">super-predators</a>"; and being racist against Barack Obama in her previous campaign.</p> <p>The same YouTube channel also posted the clip below showing Hillary admitting to making a mistake in voting for the Iraq war while flashing pictures of black women in the military killed during the conflict. The description reads:</p> <p>"I've said it was a mistake, plain and simple." African Americans make a disproportionate sacrifice when the nation goes to war.</p> <p>The video's author, who goes by Jeanette Sandernista, on Twitter, tweeted out what she sees as more Hillary racism...</p> <p>"This is from Mahatma Gandhi. He ran a gas station down in St Louis for a couple of years" - <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Hillary2016?src=hash" type="external">#Hillary2016</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/racism?src=hash" type="external">#racism</a> <a href="https://t.co/LyF0UQfzR8" type="external">pic.twitter.com/LyF0UQfzR8</a></p> <p>Exit thought by Keith Olberman from back in 2008 when Hillary referenced Robert Kennedy's assassination during her run against Barack Obama as an example of anything can happen...</p> <p>#LeftistsEatingThemselves</p>
Leftist Video Skewers Hillary For Anti-Black Past
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2016-02-26
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Leftist Video Skewers Hillary For Anti-Black Past <p>Hillary Clinton is coming under fire during Black History month for not having the record of supporting blacks that she claims to have on the campaign trail. In the video above posted by YouTuber Jeanette Johnson-Jing titled "Hillary Clinton in Black History," the Democratic candidate is taken to task for her many perceived sins against people of color.</p> <p>The <a href="https://twitter.com/jeanettejing" type="external">Twitter description</a> for the video's author reads: "Empire without corrupts within. Scientist. Feminist. Kitesurfer. Sandernista. #Bernie2016 #BlackLivesMatter Register to VOTE."</p> <p>Hillary's list of sin's according to the clip above include: being a Goldwater supporter in her youth; supporting Confederate Flag displays while in Arkansas; being on the board of Walmart while they used child labor; pushing for more prisons; calling young black gang members " <a href="" type="internal">super-predators</a>"; and being racist against Barack Obama in her previous campaign.</p> <p>The same YouTube channel also posted the clip below showing Hillary admitting to making a mistake in voting for the Iraq war while flashing pictures of black women in the military killed during the conflict. The description reads:</p> <p>"I've said it was a mistake, plain and simple." African Americans make a disproportionate sacrifice when the nation goes to war.</p> <p>The video's author, who goes by Jeanette Sandernista, on Twitter, tweeted out what she sees as more Hillary racism...</p> <p>"This is from Mahatma Gandhi. He ran a gas station down in St Louis for a couple of years" - <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Hillary2016?src=hash" type="external">#Hillary2016</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/racism?src=hash" type="external">#racism</a> <a href="https://t.co/LyF0UQfzR8" type="external">pic.twitter.com/LyF0UQfzR8</a></p> <p>Exit thought by Keith Olberman from back in 2008 when Hillary referenced Robert Kennedy's assassination during her run against Barack Obama as an example of anything can happen...</p> <p>#LeftistsEatingThemselves</p>
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<p>Millennials had their Obama Moment.</p> <p>It enveloped Chicago like a hug on Nov. 4, 2008, when Barack Obama was elected president of the United States.</p> <p>People of all ages and colors streamed into Grant Park for Obama&#8217;s election-night victory speech, appearing as if they were dancing on a cloud. Folks cheered until their voices were raw. Eyes teared up. It was a historic day and night remembered vividly, especially by African-Americans.</p> <p>But it wasn&#8217;t the first time a political movement took root and blossomed for black Chicagoans.</p> <p>Mayoral candidate Jesus &#8220;Chuy&#8221; Garcia&#8217;s references to the multiracial coalition that paved the way for the election of Harold Washington in 1983 triggers equally vibrant memories for those of us old enough to remember our shared Harold Washington Moment.</p> <p>During his campaign for Chicago mayor, many African-Americans and other supporters could not stop talking about the U.S. congressman and former state legislator who was waging a political battle many black Chicagoans thought could never be won: to become the city&#8217;s first African-American mayor.</p> <p>It wasn&#8217;t just the possibility of Chicago having a black mayor that energized his supporters. Washington represented a new era for African-Americans, a symbol of progress, a reformer whose governance would incorporate a civil rights agenda. And black people were eager for a change.</p> <p>I recall people in the neighborhoods &#8212; including complete strangers &#8212; debating nonstop the chances that the anti-political machine Democrat could win. The conversation spilled into barber shops, beauty salons and churches. It percolated on CTA buses and at &#8220;el&#8221; stops. Black folks, many of whom had never stumped for a politician before, poured into Washington campaign offices to volunteer. The air was electric.</p> <p>Blue and white Harold Washington for Mayor campaign buttons were ubiquitous in black neighborhoods across the city. True believers reasoned with those convinced that a black man could never be elected Chicago mayor.</p> <p>The conversations I witnessed were polite, respectful, friendly &#8212; there was a spirit of camaraderie. In the end, most black voters were willing to vote for their first preference, regardless of whether they thought he could actually win. And their preference was for Washington.</p> <p>That time has special meaning for me. I had been studying American politics as a graduate student at the University of Chicago and was launching a journalism career. The pages of the textbooks I studied came to life as I witnessed a transformative campaign unfold in an American city with a rich political history.</p> <p>I remember Washington&#8217;s famous smile. I remember him saying: &#8220;You want Harold? Well here&#8217;s Harold!&#8221; I remember feeling like a party was going on. Washington was the life of that party. As a souvenir, I kept a Washington campaign button.</p> <p>Like that night in Grant Park when Obama won, election night was magical. In black neighborhoods, people were jubilant. TVs were tuned to Washington&#8217;s triumphant victory speech. African-Americans had flexed their political muscle and it felt good. Those votes had made a difference. No politician who expected to become mayor could ever again take the black vote for granted. African-Americans basked in the afterglow.</p> <p>But of course, it wasn&#8217;t going to be that perfect, not even in nostalgia. Racism reared its ugly head throughout the campaign, followed by the racially divisive &#8220;Council Wars.&#8221; The acrimony eased by the time Washington won his second term, but he died suddenly of a heart attack eight months later.</p> <p>Still, the energy that led to Harold Washington&#8217;s big win lives on in the memory of those who were there.&amp;#160; It&#8217;s also why Washington&#8217;s prot&#233;g&#233; Garcia is eager to re-create that energy in his mayoral run today.</p> <p>Living through the Washington win was an absolute blast for my generation. Here&#8217;s to sharing more memorable moments in the future&amp;#160;&#8212; whatever they may be.</p> <p>If you lived through the first victorious Washington mayoral campaign and would like to tell us about those days, please share your memories in the comment section below or email me at <a href="" type="internal">[email protected]</a> with &#8220;Harold Washington victory&#8221; in the subject line. We may publish some reader submissions in a future post.</p>
When Chicago elected its first black mayor
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When Chicago elected its first black mayor <p>Millennials had their Obama Moment.</p> <p>It enveloped Chicago like a hug on Nov. 4, 2008, when Barack Obama was elected president of the United States.</p> <p>People of all ages and colors streamed into Grant Park for Obama&#8217;s election-night victory speech, appearing as if they were dancing on a cloud. Folks cheered until their voices were raw. Eyes teared up. It was a historic day and night remembered vividly, especially by African-Americans.</p> <p>But it wasn&#8217;t the first time a political movement took root and blossomed for black Chicagoans.</p> <p>Mayoral candidate Jesus &#8220;Chuy&#8221; Garcia&#8217;s references to the multiracial coalition that paved the way for the election of Harold Washington in 1983 triggers equally vibrant memories for those of us old enough to remember our shared Harold Washington Moment.</p> <p>During his campaign for Chicago mayor, many African-Americans and other supporters could not stop talking about the U.S. congressman and former state legislator who was waging a political battle many black Chicagoans thought could never be won: to become the city&#8217;s first African-American mayor.</p> <p>It wasn&#8217;t just the possibility of Chicago having a black mayor that energized his supporters. Washington represented a new era for African-Americans, a symbol of progress, a reformer whose governance would incorporate a civil rights agenda. And black people were eager for a change.</p> <p>I recall people in the neighborhoods &#8212; including complete strangers &#8212; debating nonstop the chances that the anti-political machine Democrat could win. The conversation spilled into barber shops, beauty salons and churches. It percolated on CTA buses and at &#8220;el&#8221; stops. Black folks, many of whom had never stumped for a politician before, poured into Washington campaign offices to volunteer. The air was electric.</p> <p>Blue and white Harold Washington for Mayor campaign buttons were ubiquitous in black neighborhoods across the city. True believers reasoned with those convinced that a black man could never be elected Chicago mayor.</p> <p>The conversations I witnessed were polite, respectful, friendly &#8212; there was a spirit of camaraderie. In the end, most black voters were willing to vote for their first preference, regardless of whether they thought he could actually win. And their preference was for Washington.</p> <p>That time has special meaning for me. I had been studying American politics as a graduate student at the University of Chicago and was launching a journalism career. The pages of the textbooks I studied came to life as I witnessed a transformative campaign unfold in an American city with a rich political history.</p> <p>I remember Washington&#8217;s famous smile. I remember him saying: &#8220;You want Harold? Well here&#8217;s Harold!&#8221; I remember feeling like a party was going on. Washington was the life of that party. As a souvenir, I kept a Washington campaign button.</p> <p>Like that night in Grant Park when Obama won, election night was magical. In black neighborhoods, people were jubilant. TVs were tuned to Washington&#8217;s triumphant victory speech. African-Americans had flexed their political muscle and it felt good. Those votes had made a difference. No politician who expected to become mayor could ever again take the black vote for granted. African-Americans basked in the afterglow.</p> <p>But of course, it wasn&#8217;t going to be that perfect, not even in nostalgia. Racism reared its ugly head throughout the campaign, followed by the racially divisive &#8220;Council Wars.&#8221; The acrimony eased by the time Washington won his second term, but he died suddenly of a heart attack eight months later.</p> <p>Still, the energy that led to Harold Washington&#8217;s big win lives on in the memory of those who were there.&amp;#160; It&#8217;s also why Washington&#8217;s prot&#233;g&#233; Garcia is eager to re-create that energy in his mayoral run today.</p> <p>Living through the Washington win was an absolute blast for my generation. Here&#8217;s to sharing more memorable moments in the future&amp;#160;&#8212; whatever they may be.</p> <p>If you lived through the first victorious Washington mayoral campaign and would like to tell us about those days, please share your memories in the comment section below or email me at <a href="" type="internal">[email protected]</a> with &#8220;Harold Washington victory&#8221; in the subject line. We may publish some reader submissions in a future post.</p>
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<p>The music played during our Iraq special co-production between The World and The Takeaway include the following songs:</p> <p>SONG: BaghdadARTIST: Kazem el SaherVIDEO: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdIkG4c_2WY" type="external">YouTube</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Mumtastic-Tareq-Abboushi-Shusmo/dp/B005CV7SFW/ref=sr_1_sc_2?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;qid=1403210154&amp;amp;sr=8-2-spell&amp;amp;keywords=Mumutastic" type="external" />&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160; SONG: Longa Nakreez&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160; ARTIST: Tareq Abboushi &amp;amp; Shusmo&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160; CD TITLE: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Mumtastic-Tareq-Abboushi-Shusmo/dp/B005CV7SFW/ref=sr_1_sc_2?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;qid=1403210154&amp;amp;sr=8-2-spell&amp;amp;keywords=Mumutastic" type="external">Mumtastic</a>&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160; CD LABEL: Shusmo</p> <p>&amp;#160;</p> <p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Road-Damascus-Syriana/dp/B0091J9W5K/ref=sr_1_1_bnp_1_mus?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;qid=1403210029&amp;amp;sr=8-1&amp;amp;keywords=Syriana+Road+to+Damascus" type="external" />&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160; SONG: The Templeh of File&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160; ARTIST: Syriana&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160; CD TITLE: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Road-Damascus-Syriana/dp/B0091J9W5K/ref=sr_1_1_bnp_1_mus?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;qid=1403210029&amp;amp;sr=8-1&amp;amp;keywords=Syriana+Road+to+Damascus" type="external">Road to Damascus</a>&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160; CD LABEL: Real World</p> <p>&amp;#160;</p> <p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Silent-Kayhan-Kalhor-Brooklyn-Rider/dp/B00ASDEK0K/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;qid=1403209207&amp;amp;sr=8-2&amp;amp;keywords=Brooklyn+Rider+Kayhan+Kalhor+Silent+City" type="external" />&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160; SONG: Silent City&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160; ARTIST: Brooklyn Rider and Kayhan Kalhor&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160; CD TITLE: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Silent-Kayhan-Kalhor-Brooklyn-Rider/dp/B00ASDEK0K/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;qid=1403209207&amp;amp;sr=8-2&amp;amp;keywords=Brooklyn+Rider+Kayhan+Kalhor+Silent+City" type="external">Silent City</a>&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160; CD LABEL: World Village&amp;#160;</p> <p>&amp;#160;</p> <p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Arabadub-Spy-Cairo/dp/B007U75T2A/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;qid=1403209918&amp;amp;sr=8-2&amp;amp;keywords=Spy+from+Cairo" type="external" />&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160; SONG: Haboob&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160; ARTIST: The Spy from Cairo&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160; CD TITLE: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Arabadub-Spy-Cairo/dp/B007U75T2A/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;qid=1403209918&amp;amp;sr=8-2&amp;amp;keywords=Spy+from+Cairo" type="external">Arabadub</a>&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160; CD LABEL: Wonderwheel Recordings</p> <p>&amp;#160;</p> <p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Baghdad-Blues-Silver-Horace-Audio/dp/B00GMVYIHW/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;qid=1403209286&amp;amp;sr=8-2&amp;amp;keywords=Horace+Silver+Baghdad+Blues" type="external" />&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160; SONG: Baghdad Blues&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160; ARTIST: Horace Silver&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160; CD TITLE: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Baghdad-Blues-Silver-Horace-Audio/dp/B00GMVYIHW/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;qid=1403209286&amp;amp;sr=8-2&amp;amp;keywords=Horace+Silver+Baghdad+Blues" type="external">Baghdad Blues</a>&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160; CD LABEL: Giants of Jazz</p>
Music heard on the air for June 19, 2014
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2014-06-19
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Music heard on the air for June 19, 2014 <p>The music played during our Iraq special co-production between The World and The Takeaway include the following songs:</p> <p>SONG: BaghdadARTIST: Kazem el SaherVIDEO: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdIkG4c_2WY" type="external">YouTube</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Mumtastic-Tareq-Abboushi-Shusmo/dp/B005CV7SFW/ref=sr_1_sc_2?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;qid=1403210154&amp;amp;sr=8-2-spell&amp;amp;keywords=Mumutastic" type="external" />&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160; SONG: Longa Nakreez&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160; ARTIST: Tareq Abboushi &amp;amp; Shusmo&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160; CD TITLE: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Mumtastic-Tareq-Abboushi-Shusmo/dp/B005CV7SFW/ref=sr_1_sc_2?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;qid=1403210154&amp;amp;sr=8-2-spell&amp;amp;keywords=Mumutastic" type="external">Mumtastic</a>&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160; CD LABEL: Shusmo</p> <p>&amp;#160;</p> <p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Road-Damascus-Syriana/dp/B0091J9W5K/ref=sr_1_1_bnp_1_mus?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;qid=1403210029&amp;amp;sr=8-1&amp;amp;keywords=Syriana+Road+to+Damascus" type="external" />&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160; SONG: The Templeh of File&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160; ARTIST: Syriana&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160; CD TITLE: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Road-Damascus-Syriana/dp/B0091J9W5K/ref=sr_1_1_bnp_1_mus?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;qid=1403210029&amp;amp;sr=8-1&amp;amp;keywords=Syriana+Road+to+Damascus" type="external">Road to Damascus</a>&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160; CD LABEL: Real World</p> <p>&amp;#160;</p> <p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Silent-Kayhan-Kalhor-Brooklyn-Rider/dp/B00ASDEK0K/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;qid=1403209207&amp;amp;sr=8-2&amp;amp;keywords=Brooklyn+Rider+Kayhan+Kalhor+Silent+City" type="external" />&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160; SONG: Silent City&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160; ARTIST: Brooklyn Rider and Kayhan Kalhor&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160; CD TITLE: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Silent-Kayhan-Kalhor-Brooklyn-Rider/dp/B00ASDEK0K/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;qid=1403209207&amp;amp;sr=8-2&amp;amp;keywords=Brooklyn+Rider+Kayhan+Kalhor+Silent+City" type="external">Silent City</a>&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160; CD LABEL: World Village&amp;#160;</p> <p>&amp;#160;</p> <p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Arabadub-Spy-Cairo/dp/B007U75T2A/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;qid=1403209918&amp;amp;sr=8-2&amp;amp;keywords=Spy+from+Cairo" type="external" />&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160; SONG: Haboob&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160; ARTIST: The Spy from Cairo&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160; CD TITLE: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Arabadub-Spy-Cairo/dp/B007U75T2A/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;qid=1403209918&amp;amp;sr=8-2&amp;amp;keywords=Spy+from+Cairo" type="external">Arabadub</a>&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160; CD LABEL: Wonderwheel Recordings</p> <p>&amp;#160;</p> <p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Baghdad-Blues-Silver-Horace-Audio/dp/B00GMVYIHW/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;qid=1403209286&amp;amp;sr=8-2&amp;amp;keywords=Horace+Silver+Baghdad+Blues" type="external" />&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160; SONG: Baghdad Blues&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160; ARTIST: Horace Silver&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160; CD TITLE: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Baghdad-Blues-Silver-Horace-Audio/dp/B00GMVYIHW/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;qid=1403209286&amp;amp;sr=8-2&amp;amp;keywords=Horace+Silver+Baghdad+Blues" type="external">Baghdad Blues</a>&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160; CD LABEL: Giants of Jazz</p>
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<p>Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) (Washington Blade file photo by Michael Key)</p> <p>In many ways, being mayor of the District of Columbia has never been more difficult. Under Muriel Bowser, our finances are in good order, city services are being provided, our schools are improving and in general crime is down. Yet she is facing an emboldened Congress believing the time is right to take off the gloves and fight the District in every area. The threats to limit Home Rule appear more real than ever before and suggest there will be a review of every measure the D.C. Council passes that in any way could offend Tea Party constituents.</p> <p>Congress has long used the District as a petri dish. In 2004, liberal Sen. Diane Feinstein (D-Calif.) joined then-Sen. Joe Lieberman (D-Ct.) on school vouchers. They would have been laughed out of office if they tried to foist vouchers on their constituents back home but thought nothing of helping to foist them on the citizens of the District of Columbia simply because they could.</p> <p>The outrageousness of members of Congress who think the nearly 700,000 people of the District should be treated like children and not given the opportunity to govern themselves is now becoming more commonplace with the alternative reality we are facing with Donald Trump and Steve Bannon in the White House.</p> <p>While Trump is creating chaos with our allies including Mexico and Australia, saber rattling toward Iran and making nice with Russia and Vladimir Putin, Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) has determined those issues are too difficult to deal with so is instead interfering with how D.C. will spend its own tax dollars.</p> <p>Recently the Washington Post reported, &#8220;House Republicans with oversight over the nation&#8217;s capital are investigating D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser&#8217;s plan to use local tax dollars to defend illegal immigrants from deportation. The mayor received a letter from Reps. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah), chairman of the House Oversight Committee, and Mark Meadows (R-N.C.), head of the subcommittee for District affairs, warning that her plan appears to violate federal law.&#8221;</p> <p>The plan they referred to was the mayor&#8217;s commitment to &#8220;join leaders from Chicago, Los Angeles and New York in announcing that their cities would set up legal defense funds to represent illegal immigrants targeted for deportation under the policies of President Trump.&#8221; Bowser said, &#8220;the $500,000 fund would be used to teach the city&#8217;s estimated 25,000 illegal immigrants their rights and to hire lawyers to represent city residents in deportation proceedings and help them apply for asylum.&#8221;</p> <p>A recent Washington Post op-ed co-authored by Chaffetz and former Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.), right-wing president of the Heritage Foundation, claimed, &#8220;D.C. is disregarding the sanctity of life.&#8221; They railed against the <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/dc-council-approves-bill-to-let-terminally-ill-patients-kill-themselves/2016/11/01/1a1278fa-9fab-11e6-8d63-3e0a660f1f04_story.html?utm_term=.93d493167c95" type="external">Death With Dignity Act</a> recently passed by the D.C. Council and signed by the mayor. They reminded us about our servitude writing, &#8220;The awesome responsibility of acting as the state for the citizens of the District lies not in the hands of a local government, but with Congress.&#8221; They went on to site &#8220;Article 1, Section 8, Clause 17 of the Constitution vests Congress with exclusive legislative jurisdiction.&#8221; Then adding &#8220;The D.C. Council last year made a serious error when it passed the Death With Dignity Act, legalizing physician-assisted suicide in the District. Now it is Congress&#8217;s duty and constitutional obligation to ensure the act does not stand.&#8221; Once again making it clear these pompous asses really believe their view and the views of other members of Congress not elected by the people of the District, count for more than those of nearly 700,000 District residents.</p> <p>These two clowns and Chaffetz&#8217;s colleagues in the Congress know they can&#8217;t do anything about this in their states because the Supreme Court in two cases <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assisted_suicide_in_the_United_States" type="external">ruled</a> states have the power to regulate, allow or prohibit assisted suicide. In those cases, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_v._Glucksberg" type="external">Washington v. Glucksberg</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacco_v._Quill" type="external">Vacco v. Quill</a>, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously that there is no constitutional right to assisted suicide, and that states therefore have the right to prohibit it. Advocates of assisted suicide saw this as opening the door for debate on the issue at the state level. Then <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gonzales_v._Oregon" type="external">Gonzales v. Oregon</a> was brought to the U.S. Supreme Court in 2006. The court ruled that the United States Attorney General could not enforce the federal Controlled Substances Act against physicians who prescribed drugs, in compliance with Oregon state law, for the assisted suicide of the terminally ill.</p> <p>Considering the chaos with the Trump administration and now Congress, Mayor Bowser deserves kudos for her efforts at navigating these difficult waters.</p> <p /> <p>Peter Rosenstein is a longtime LGBT rights and Democratic Party activist. He writes regularly for the Blade.</p> <p><a href="" type="internal">Chicago</a> <a href="" type="internal">Controlled Substances Act</a> <a href="" type="internal">D.C.</a> <a href="" type="internal">D.C. Council</a> <a href="" type="internal">D.C. Death with Dignity Act</a> <a href="" type="internal">Diane Feinstein</a> <a href="" type="internal">District of Columbia</a> <a href="" type="internal">Donald Trump</a> <a href="" type="internal">Gonzales v. Oregon</a> <a href="" type="internal">home rule</a> <a href="" type="internal">Jason Chaffetz</a> <a href="" type="internal">Jim DeMint</a> <a href="" type="internal">Joe Lieberman</a> <a href="" type="internal">Los Angeles</a> <a href="" type="internal">Mark Meadows</a> <a href="" type="internal">Muriel Bowser</a> <a href="" type="internal">New York</a> <a href="" type="internal">Oregon</a> <a href="" type="internal">Steve Bannon</a> <a href="" type="internal">Tea Party</a> <a href="" type="internal">U.S. Supreme Court</a> <a href="" type="internal">United States Congress</a> <a href="" type="internal">Vacco v. Quill</a> <a href="" type="internal">Washington Post</a> <a href="" type="internal">Washington v. Glucksberg</a></p>
Tea Party clowns want to meddle in D.C. affairs
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Tea Party clowns want to meddle in D.C. affairs <p>Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) (Washington Blade file photo by Michael Key)</p> <p>In many ways, being mayor of the District of Columbia has never been more difficult. Under Muriel Bowser, our finances are in good order, city services are being provided, our schools are improving and in general crime is down. Yet she is facing an emboldened Congress believing the time is right to take off the gloves and fight the District in every area. The threats to limit Home Rule appear more real than ever before and suggest there will be a review of every measure the D.C. Council passes that in any way could offend Tea Party constituents.</p> <p>Congress has long used the District as a petri dish. In 2004, liberal Sen. Diane Feinstein (D-Calif.) joined then-Sen. Joe Lieberman (D-Ct.) on school vouchers. They would have been laughed out of office if they tried to foist vouchers on their constituents back home but thought nothing of helping to foist them on the citizens of the District of Columbia simply because they could.</p> <p>The outrageousness of members of Congress who think the nearly 700,000 people of the District should be treated like children and not given the opportunity to govern themselves is now becoming more commonplace with the alternative reality we are facing with Donald Trump and Steve Bannon in the White House.</p> <p>While Trump is creating chaos with our allies including Mexico and Australia, saber rattling toward Iran and making nice with Russia and Vladimir Putin, Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) has determined those issues are too difficult to deal with so is instead interfering with how D.C. will spend its own tax dollars.</p> <p>Recently the Washington Post reported, &#8220;House Republicans with oversight over the nation&#8217;s capital are investigating D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser&#8217;s plan to use local tax dollars to defend illegal immigrants from deportation. The mayor received a letter from Reps. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah), chairman of the House Oversight Committee, and Mark Meadows (R-N.C.), head of the subcommittee for District affairs, warning that her plan appears to violate federal law.&#8221;</p> <p>The plan they referred to was the mayor&#8217;s commitment to &#8220;join leaders from Chicago, Los Angeles and New York in announcing that their cities would set up legal defense funds to represent illegal immigrants targeted for deportation under the policies of President Trump.&#8221; Bowser said, &#8220;the $500,000 fund would be used to teach the city&#8217;s estimated 25,000 illegal immigrants their rights and to hire lawyers to represent city residents in deportation proceedings and help them apply for asylum.&#8221;</p> <p>A recent Washington Post op-ed co-authored by Chaffetz and former Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.), right-wing president of the Heritage Foundation, claimed, &#8220;D.C. is disregarding the sanctity of life.&#8221; They railed against the <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/dc-council-approves-bill-to-let-terminally-ill-patients-kill-themselves/2016/11/01/1a1278fa-9fab-11e6-8d63-3e0a660f1f04_story.html?utm_term=.93d493167c95" type="external">Death With Dignity Act</a> recently passed by the D.C. Council and signed by the mayor. They reminded us about our servitude writing, &#8220;The awesome responsibility of acting as the state for the citizens of the District lies not in the hands of a local government, but with Congress.&#8221; They went on to site &#8220;Article 1, Section 8, Clause 17 of the Constitution vests Congress with exclusive legislative jurisdiction.&#8221; Then adding &#8220;The D.C. Council last year made a serious error when it passed the Death With Dignity Act, legalizing physician-assisted suicide in the District. Now it is Congress&#8217;s duty and constitutional obligation to ensure the act does not stand.&#8221; Once again making it clear these pompous asses really believe their view and the views of other members of Congress not elected by the people of the District, count for more than those of nearly 700,000 District residents.</p> <p>These two clowns and Chaffetz&#8217;s colleagues in the Congress know they can&#8217;t do anything about this in their states because the Supreme Court in two cases <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assisted_suicide_in_the_United_States" type="external">ruled</a> states have the power to regulate, allow or prohibit assisted suicide. In those cases, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_v._Glucksberg" type="external">Washington v. Glucksberg</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacco_v._Quill" type="external">Vacco v. Quill</a>, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously that there is no constitutional right to assisted suicide, and that states therefore have the right to prohibit it. Advocates of assisted suicide saw this as opening the door for debate on the issue at the state level. Then <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gonzales_v._Oregon" type="external">Gonzales v. Oregon</a> was brought to the U.S. Supreme Court in 2006. The court ruled that the United States Attorney General could not enforce the federal Controlled Substances Act against physicians who prescribed drugs, in compliance with Oregon state law, for the assisted suicide of the terminally ill.</p> <p>Considering the chaos with the Trump administration and now Congress, Mayor Bowser deserves kudos for her efforts at navigating these difficult waters.</p> <p /> <p>Peter Rosenstein is a longtime LGBT rights and Democratic Party activist. He writes regularly for the Blade.</p> <p><a href="" type="internal">Chicago</a> <a href="" type="internal">Controlled Substances Act</a> <a href="" type="internal">D.C.</a> <a href="" type="internal">D.C. Council</a> <a href="" type="internal">D.C. Death with Dignity Act</a> <a href="" type="internal">Diane Feinstein</a> <a href="" type="internal">District of Columbia</a> <a href="" type="internal">Donald Trump</a> <a href="" type="internal">Gonzales v. Oregon</a> <a href="" type="internal">home rule</a> <a href="" type="internal">Jason Chaffetz</a> <a href="" type="internal">Jim DeMint</a> <a href="" type="internal">Joe Lieberman</a> <a href="" type="internal">Los Angeles</a> <a href="" type="internal">Mark Meadows</a> <a href="" type="internal">Muriel Bowser</a> <a href="" type="internal">New York</a> <a href="" type="internal">Oregon</a> <a href="" type="internal">Steve Bannon</a> <a href="" type="internal">Tea Party</a> <a href="" type="internal">U.S. Supreme Court</a> <a href="" type="internal">United States Congress</a> <a href="" type="internal">Vacco v. Quill</a> <a href="" type="internal">Washington Post</a> <a href="" type="internal">Washington v. Glucksberg</a></p>
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<p>US consumer borrowing soared by $21.36 billion in March to $2.54 trillion, marking the seventh straight monthly gain and the biggest increase for a single month in more than a decade, <a href="http://www.marketwatch.com/story/consumer-credit-surges-again-in-march-2012-05-07?link=MW_latest_news" type="external">MarketWatch reported today</a>, citing figures from the Federal Reserve.</p> <p><a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-05-07/consumer-credit-in-u-s-rose-in-march-by-most-in-over-10-years.html" type="external">Bloomberg said</a>the larger-than-expected increase was driven by non-revolving debt, which includes student loans and auto financing.</p> <p>It was the biggest jump in consumer borrowing since November 2001 and it was more than twice analysts' expectations for an $8.5 billion increase, <a href="http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2012/05/07/student-loans-credit-cards-push-up-consumer-debt/" type="external">according to the Wall Street Journal.</a></p> <p>Non-revolving loans surged $16.2 billion in March while a gauge of mostly credit card debt rose $5.2 billion after retreating in January and February, <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-05-07/consumer-credit-in-u-s-rose-in-march-by-most-in-over-10-years.html" type="external">Bloomberg said.</a></p> <p>The Fed's data doesn't cover debt secured by real estate.</p> <p>The increase in consumer borrowing signals growing confidence in the US economic outlook and analysts said they expected the trend to continue in the coming months, though some expressed concern that the increase in educational loans reflected a weak job market.</p> <p>"We expect that student loan growth will continue to push the level of consumer credit higher and we look for (credit card debt) to expand as banks become more willing to lend," Cooper Howes, an economist at Barclays Capital, <a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5i4dYRUpgILI-onxs9gYzaowd3i0g?docId=60ee15e122804accbabff138e7e713d7" type="external">was quoted by the Associated Press as saying.</a></p> <p>More from GlobalPost:&amp;#160; <a href="http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/business-tech/120416/us-consumer-spending-sharply-march" type="external">US consumer spending up sharply in March</a></p> <p>&amp;#160;</p>
US consumer borrowing soars $21.36BN in March on demand for student, auto loans
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https://pri.org/stories/2012-05-07/us-consumer-borrowing-soars-2136bn-march-demand-student-auto-loans
2012-05-07
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US consumer borrowing soars $21.36BN in March on demand for student, auto loans <p>US consumer borrowing soared by $21.36 billion in March to $2.54 trillion, marking the seventh straight monthly gain and the biggest increase for a single month in more than a decade, <a href="http://www.marketwatch.com/story/consumer-credit-surges-again-in-march-2012-05-07?link=MW_latest_news" type="external">MarketWatch reported today</a>, citing figures from the Federal Reserve.</p> <p><a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-05-07/consumer-credit-in-u-s-rose-in-march-by-most-in-over-10-years.html" type="external">Bloomberg said</a>the larger-than-expected increase was driven by non-revolving debt, which includes student loans and auto financing.</p> <p>It was the biggest jump in consumer borrowing since November 2001 and it was more than twice analysts' expectations for an $8.5 billion increase, <a href="http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2012/05/07/student-loans-credit-cards-push-up-consumer-debt/" type="external">according to the Wall Street Journal.</a></p> <p>Non-revolving loans surged $16.2 billion in March while a gauge of mostly credit card debt rose $5.2 billion after retreating in January and February, <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-05-07/consumer-credit-in-u-s-rose-in-march-by-most-in-over-10-years.html" type="external">Bloomberg said.</a></p> <p>The Fed's data doesn't cover debt secured by real estate.</p> <p>The increase in consumer borrowing signals growing confidence in the US economic outlook and analysts said they expected the trend to continue in the coming months, though some expressed concern that the increase in educational loans reflected a weak job market.</p> <p>"We expect that student loan growth will continue to push the level of consumer credit higher and we look for (credit card debt) to expand as banks become more willing to lend," Cooper Howes, an economist at Barclays Capital, <a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5i4dYRUpgILI-onxs9gYzaowd3i0g?docId=60ee15e122804accbabff138e7e713d7" type="external">was quoted by the Associated Press as saying.</a></p> <p>More from GlobalPost:&amp;#160; <a href="http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/business-tech/120416/us-consumer-spending-sharply-march" type="external">US consumer spending up sharply in March</a></p> <p>&amp;#160;</p>
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<p>.......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... ..........</p> <p /> <p>Because that&#8217;s the end result of voting against a turnaround program for five of the district&#8217;s struggling schools.</p> <p>Peercy said he voted against adopting a pilot of the University of Virginia program because he dislikes targeted funding that goes to data-driven programs rather than into the great, unaccountable funding formula pot. New member Peterson because she doesn&#8217;t like school grades being used to select participating schools.</p> <p>And Garcia because he&#8217;d prefer a home-grown program rather than one from another state. Quezada joined the trio in their quest for more reading and math illiteracy, while new member Muller-Aragon was denied more time to consider the proposal and so voted against it.</p> <p>ADVERTISEMENT</p> <p>Board president Analee Maestas cast the lone true vote in favor, and vice president Don Duran (who spoke against it) voted for it after he saw it was destined to fail, 5-2.</p> <p>And so the students and teachers at schools like Acoma (in the Northeast Heights), Los Padillas (in the Southwest quadrant) and Whittier (in the Southeast Heights) will continue to go it alone.</p> <p>Apparently the depressing consistency of Acoma getting a &#8220;D&#8221; two years running, and Los Padillas and Whittier getting &#8220;F&#8217;s&#8221; in 2013 and 2014, isn&#8217;t enough to prompt the board members to get those educators and their kids some help from a nationally recognized program.</p> <p>At Acoma, the &#8220;D&#8221; school grade is in great part because fewer than half the students can read or do math at grade level. At Los Padillas the &#8220;F&#8221; is in part because fewer than one out of four students can read and do math at grade level. And at Whittier the &#8220;F&#8221; is in part because barely one-fourth of students can read at grade level and fewer than one out of five can do math at grade level.</p> <p>And those scores come from the Standards Based Assessment tests nobody ditched class to protest.</p> <p>Interim APS Superintendent Brad Winter and Chief Academic Officer Shelly Green were strong proponents of the UVA program. Winter pointed out that the below-the-line money Peercy eschews is going to be spent somewhere, and he&#8217;d like it to be spent on improving the academic futures of our kids in our district. Peterson could have urged the administration to use proficiency rates rather than school grades as a determining factor in selecting schools for the program. And Garcia is putting students on hold while the University of New Mexico works to emulate UVA&#8217;s program.</p> <p>It is insulting to the dedicated teachers and administrators at APS&#8217; 32 &#8220;D&#8221; elementaries and 12 &#8220;F&#8221; elementaries to insinuate they haven&#8217;t tried to help their students. It&#8217;s even worse to say the kids are, in effect, a lost cause and pawns in a political play.</p> <p>To dismiss out of hand a turnaround program that is already being used in Aztec, Hobbs and Las Cruces public schools because you have a political agenda or believe New Mexico, by golly, needs to come up with a home-grown solution doesn&#8217;t have the No. 1 constituency at heart: students.</p> <p>Parents, teachers and voters should remember that.</p> <p>This editorial first appeared in the Albuquerque Journal. It was written by members of the editorial board and is unsigned as it represents the opinion of the newspaper rather than the writers.</p> <p />
Editorial: APS board members vote for more sub-par results
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Editorial: APS board members vote for more sub-par results <p>.......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... ..........</p> <p /> <p>Because that&#8217;s the end result of voting against a turnaround program for five of the district&#8217;s struggling schools.</p> <p>Peercy said he voted against adopting a pilot of the University of Virginia program because he dislikes targeted funding that goes to data-driven programs rather than into the great, unaccountable funding formula pot. New member Peterson because she doesn&#8217;t like school grades being used to select participating schools.</p> <p>And Garcia because he&#8217;d prefer a home-grown program rather than one from another state. Quezada joined the trio in their quest for more reading and math illiteracy, while new member Muller-Aragon was denied more time to consider the proposal and so voted against it.</p> <p>ADVERTISEMENT</p> <p>Board president Analee Maestas cast the lone true vote in favor, and vice president Don Duran (who spoke against it) voted for it after he saw it was destined to fail, 5-2.</p> <p>And so the students and teachers at schools like Acoma (in the Northeast Heights), Los Padillas (in the Southwest quadrant) and Whittier (in the Southeast Heights) will continue to go it alone.</p> <p>Apparently the depressing consistency of Acoma getting a &#8220;D&#8221; two years running, and Los Padillas and Whittier getting &#8220;F&#8217;s&#8221; in 2013 and 2014, isn&#8217;t enough to prompt the board members to get those educators and their kids some help from a nationally recognized program.</p> <p>At Acoma, the &#8220;D&#8221; school grade is in great part because fewer than half the students can read or do math at grade level. At Los Padillas the &#8220;F&#8221; is in part because fewer than one out of four students can read and do math at grade level. And at Whittier the &#8220;F&#8221; is in part because barely one-fourth of students can read at grade level and fewer than one out of five can do math at grade level.</p> <p>And those scores come from the Standards Based Assessment tests nobody ditched class to protest.</p> <p>Interim APS Superintendent Brad Winter and Chief Academic Officer Shelly Green were strong proponents of the UVA program. Winter pointed out that the below-the-line money Peercy eschews is going to be spent somewhere, and he&#8217;d like it to be spent on improving the academic futures of our kids in our district. Peterson could have urged the administration to use proficiency rates rather than school grades as a determining factor in selecting schools for the program. And Garcia is putting students on hold while the University of New Mexico works to emulate UVA&#8217;s program.</p> <p>It is insulting to the dedicated teachers and administrators at APS&#8217; 32 &#8220;D&#8221; elementaries and 12 &#8220;F&#8221; elementaries to insinuate they haven&#8217;t tried to help their students. It&#8217;s even worse to say the kids are, in effect, a lost cause and pawns in a political play.</p> <p>To dismiss out of hand a turnaround program that is already being used in Aztec, Hobbs and Las Cruces public schools because you have a political agenda or believe New Mexico, by golly, needs to come up with a home-grown solution doesn&#8217;t have the No. 1 constituency at heart: students.</p> <p>Parents, teachers and voters should remember that.</p> <p>This editorial first appeared in the Albuquerque Journal. It was written by members of the editorial board and is unsigned as it represents the opinion of the newspaper rather than the writers.</p> <p />
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<p>Workers at Maruti Suzuki India's Manesar plant are going ahead with their plans to form an independent union, despite the ouster of its original leadership by the company.</p> <p><a href="http://www.telegraphindia.com/1111108/jsp/business/story_14721100.jsp" type="external">According to the Calcutta Telegraph</a>, workers&amp;#160;have applied for registration of the union with the Haryana labor department. They will&amp;#160;retain the earlier proposed name of Maruti Suzuki Employees? Union (MSEU) but have chosen new leaders.</p> <p>Former MSEU president Sonu Gujjar and general secretary Shiv Kumar along with 28 other suspended workers, including all the former office-bearers of the MSEU, had left the firm after taking a severance package of around $32,000 apiece, the paper said. &amp;#160;However, the Economic Times reported earlier that some Maruti workers accused Gujjar and Kumar of receiving much larger payoffs -- amounting to $200,000 apiece -- to sell out their former comrades.</p> <p>"Sonu Gujjar, Shiv Kumar and other people have betrayed us. We do not know why they have done this, but we will move ahead. We have again applied for registration of our union with the labour department in Chandigarh last Friday," a worker at the Manesar plant said on condition of anonymity, according to Tuesday's Telegraph.</p> <p>In July, MSEU's application was rejected by the Haryana labour department on technical grounds. According to workers, this time they would be very careful and were taking note of all the regulations. They have already informed the company in writing about their fresh application.</p> <p>The worker further said the union would be an internal and independent body. The management was opposed to the formation of an externally affiliated union at the plant. A Maruti Suzuki India spokesperson said, "Yes, the company has received it in writing from the workers."</p> <p>&amp;#160;</p> <p>The paper quoted Kumar as saying that the union leaders had taken severance packages from Maruti, but that this money was not a payoff or kickback for ending their agitation. &amp;#160;"We have not accepted any wrong money. This is our due amount that includes our savings such as the remaining days of work, DA and provident fund,? the Telegraph quoted Kumar as saying.</p> <p>This year, Maruti suffered three consecutive strikes at its Manesar plant, which mainly produces the Swift. The labor action resulted in a production loss of about 83,000 units, and contributed to a 60 percent drop in profits for the company during the second quarter.</p> <p><a href="http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/asia-pacific/india/111106/union-strikes-india-economy-labor-maruti-suzuki" type="external">As detailed in GlobalPost</a>, the strike raised fears of a new era of trade union activism, just as India's manufacturing sector is beginning to take off.</p>
India's Maruti workers to form union despite ouster of leaders
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https://pri.org/stories/2011-11-08/indias-maruti-workers-form-union-despite-ouster-leaders
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India's Maruti workers to form union despite ouster of leaders <p>Workers at Maruti Suzuki India's Manesar plant are going ahead with their plans to form an independent union, despite the ouster of its original leadership by the company.</p> <p><a href="http://www.telegraphindia.com/1111108/jsp/business/story_14721100.jsp" type="external">According to the Calcutta Telegraph</a>, workers&amp;#160;have applied for registration of the union with the Haryana labor department. They will&amp;#160;retain the earlier proposed name of Maruti Suzuki Employees? Union (MSEU) but have chosen new leaders.</p> <p>Former MSEU president Sonu Gujjar and general secretary Shiv Kumar along with 28 other suspended workers, including all the former office-bearers of the MSEU, had left the firm after taking a severance package of around $32,000 apiece, the paper said. &amp;#160;However, the Economic Times reported earlier that some Maruti workers accused Gujjar and Kumar of receiving much larger payoffs -- amounting to $200,000 apiece -- to sell out their former comrades.</p> <p>"Sonu Gujjar, Shiv Kumar and other people have betrayed us. We do not know why they have done this, but we will move ahead. We have again applied for registration of our union with the labour department in Chandigarh last Friday," a worker at the Manesar plant said on condition of anonymity, according to Tuesday's Telegraph.</p> <p>In July, MSEU's application was rejected by the Haryana labour department on technical grounds. According to workers, this time they would be very careful and were taking note of all the regulations. They have already informed the company in writing about their fresh application.</p> <p>The worker further said the union would be an internal and independent body. The management was opposed to the formation of an externally affiliated union at the plant. A Maruti Suzuki India spokesperson said, "Yes, the company has received it in writing from the workers."</p> <p>&amp;#160;</p> <p>The paper quoted Kumar as saying that the union leaders had taken severance packages from Maruti, but that this money was not a payoff or kickback for ending their agitation. &amp;#160;"We have not accepted any wrong money. This is our due amount that includes our savings such as the remaining days of work, DA and provident fund,? the Telegraph quoted Kumar as saying.</p> <p>This year, Maruti suffered three consecutive strikes at its Manesar plant, which mainly produces the Swift. The labor action resulted in a production loss of about 83,000 units, and contributed to a 60 percent drop in profits for the company during the second quarter.</p> <p><a href="http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/asia-pacific/india/111106/union-strikes-india-economy-labor-maruti-suzuki" type="external">As detailed in GlobalPost</a>, the strike raised fears of a new era of trade union activism, just as India's manufacturing sector is beginning to take off.</p>
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<p>LOS ANGELES (AP) &#8212; Diego Rossi drew the attention of scouts worldwide last year while playing a prominent role in Penarol's championship season in his native Uruguay.</p> <p>So why would a touted teenage striker choose to continue his rising career at Los Angeles Football Club, which has never played a game and hasn't even revealed its jersey?</p> <p>"To write the history," Rossi said Monday after the first training session in franchise history.</p> <p>Nearly 39 months after a deep-pocketed ownership group secured Major League Soccer's 23rd franchise, LAFC finally took the field on a sunny January morning at UCLA for its inaugural workout under coach Bob Bradley.</p> <p>The club doesn't yet have a fully stocked roster or a finished stadium, although both of those projects will be completed shortly. Building a true team will take a bit longer, but Bradley is confident he has a group that can make an immediate impact in the growing North American league.</p> <p>"I've seen a lot of first days, but I thought overall, there were some good signs," said Bradley, the former boss of Swansea City and the U.S. national team. "Of course, I see all the things that still need work, so there was a little bit of yelling and screaming and demonstrating, but that's all part of the work every day."</p> <p>Bradley is the only coach in MLS history to win a title with an expansion club, leading the Chicago Fire to a championship in 1998. He hasn't coached in his domestic league since leaving Chivas USA in 2006, but LAFC seems to have the ingredients <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/mls/2017/07/28/top-of-the-world-bob-bradley-sees-huge-potential-in-lafc/104093404/" type="external">to build another compelling team immediately</a> .</p> <p>LAFC might not have jerseys yet, but Rossi's shorts featured a No. 9, underlining his expected role as the striker. The No. 10 shorts were worn by Carlos Vela, the versatile Mexican playmaker who left La Liga's Real Sociedad to become LAFC's first designated player.</p> <p>Rossi and Vela could be a compelling tandem, but they're only part of a roster already studded with international talent including Belgian defender Laurent Ciman, Egyptian midfielder Omar Gaber, Costa Rican forward Marco Urena, Ghanaian forward Latif Blessing and Americans Benny Feilhaber and Walker Zimmerman.</p> <p>"The (other) players' names come pretty easy to me," said Feilhaber, a UCLA product who had mixed emotions about leaving Sporting Kansas City after five seasons. "We're still getting to know each other, but it's fun to get out on the field with players that are as talented as this. We're just getting our feet wet, but it's going to be exciting."</p> <p>Gaber played for Bradley on the Egyptian national team, and he was excited when LAFC acquired him from FC Basel in Switzerland's top league.</p> <p>"Once they started to speak with me, I felt they are so professional," Gaber said. "I felt for sure I had to come. Yes, maybe it's a risk to be with a new club, but we have very good players, coaches and staff. The people are so professional. We have big ambitions, and we want success. I am sure we will achieve good things together."</p> <p>LAFC isn't done building, either.</p> <p>Rossi filled the club's second DP spot, but a third remains open. The club hasn't decided whether to fill it now or after the World Cup, but there's little doubt LAFC has the financial might to contend for top MLS-level talent.</p> <p>The club's resources also will be on display in late April when Banc of California Stadium opens in downtown Los Angeles. Located next-door to the historic Coliseum, LAFC's privately funded, soccer-specific home is <a href="" type="internal">expected to be a festive gathering place</a> for LA's burgeoning downtown population of relocated professionals and locals alike.</p> <p>After a handful of preseason friendlies, LAFC will open its first season with six road games, starting in Seattle on March 4 and including its first date with the LA Galaxy on March 31.</p> <p>"I'm excited about the potential of this club," Vela said. "I think it's going to be incredible."</p> <p>LOS ANGELES (AP) &#8212; Diego Rossi drew the attention of scouts worldwide last year while playing a prominent role in Penarol's championship season in his native Uruguay.</p> <p>So why would a touted teenage striker choose to continue his rising career at Los Angeles Football Club, which has never played a game and hasn't even revealed its jersey?</p> <p>"To write the history," Rossi said Monday after the first training session in franchise history.</p> <p>Nearly 39 months after a deep-pocketed ownership group secured Major League Soccer's 23rd franchise, LAFC finally took the field on a sunny January morning at UCLA for its inaugural workout under coach Bob Bradley.</p> <p>The club doesn't yet have a fully stocked roster or a finished stadium, although both of those projects will be completed shortly. Building a true team will take a bit longer, but Bradley is confident he has a group that can make an immediate impact in the growing North American league.</p> <p>"I've seen a lot of first days, but I thought overall, there were some good signs," said Bradley, the former boss of Swansea City and the U.S. national team. "Of course, I see all the things that still need work, so there was a little bit of yelling and screaming and demonstrating, but that's all part of the work every day."</p> <p>Bradley is the only coach in MLS history to win a title with an expansion club, leading the Chicago Fire to a championship in 1998. He hasn't coached in his domestic league since leaving Chivas USA in 2006, but LAFC seems to have the ingredients <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/mls/2017/07/28/top-of-the-world-bob-bradley-sees-huge-potential-in-lafc/104093404/" type="external">to build another compelling team immediately</a> .</p> <p>LAFC might not have jerseys yet, but Rossi's shorts featured a No. 9, underlining his expected role as the striker. The No. 10 shorts were worn by Carlos Vela, the versatile Mexican playmaker who left La Liga's Real Sociedad to become LAFC's first designated player.</p> <p>Rossi and Vela could be a compelling tandem, but they're only part of a roster already studded with international talent including Belgian defender Laurent Ciman, Egyptian midfielder Omar Gaber, Costa Rican forward Marco Urena, Ghanaian forward Latif Blessing and Americans Benny Feilhaber and Walker Zimmerman.</p> <p>"The (other) players' names come pretty easy to me," said Feilhaber, a UCLA product who had mixed emotions about leaving Sporting Kansas City after five seasons. "We're still getting to know each other, but it's fun to get out on the field with players that are as talented as this. We're just getting our feet wet, but it's going to be exciting."</p> <p>Gaber played for Bradley on the Egyptian national team, and he was excited when LAFC acquired him from FC Basel in Switzerland's top league.</p> <p>"Once they started to speak with me, I felt they are so professional," Gaber said. "I felt for sure I had to come. Yes, maybe it's a risk to be with a new club, but we have very good players, coaches and staff. The people are so professional. We have big ambitions, and we want success. I am sure we will achieve good things together."</p> <p>LAFC isn't done building, either.</p> <p>Rossi filled the club's second DP spot, but a third remains open. The club hasn't decided whether to fill it now or after the World Cup, but there's little doubt LAFC has the financial might to contend for top MLS-level talent.</p> <p>The club's resources also will be on display in late April when Banc of California Stadium opens in downtown Los Angeles. Located next-door to the historic Coliseum, LAFC's privately funded, soccer-specific home is <a href="" type="internal">expected to be a festive gathering place</a> for LA's burgeoning downtown population of relocated professionals and locals alike.</p> <p>After a handful of preseason friendlies, LAFC will open its first season with six road games, starting in Seattle on March 4 and including its first date with the LA Galaxy on March 31.</p> <p>"I'm excited about the potential of this club," Vela said. "I think it's going to be incredible."</p>
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Building a team: LAFC kicks off with its first practice <p>LOS ANGELES (AP) &#8212; Diego Rossi drew the attention of scouts worldwide last year while playing a prominent role in Penarol's championship season in his native Uruguay.</p> <p>So why would a touted teenage striker choose to continue his rising career at Los Angeles Football Club, which has never played a game and hasn't even revealed its jersey?</p> <p>"To write the history," Rossi said Monday after the first training session in franchise history.</p> <p>Nearly 39 months after a deep-pocketed ownership group secured Major League Soccer's 23rd franchise, LAFC finally took the field on a sunny January morning at UCLA for its inaugural workout under coach Bob Bradley.</p> <p>The club doesn't yet have a fully stocked roster or a finished stadium, although both of those projects will be completed shortly. Building a true team will take a bit longer, but Bradley is confident he has a group that can make an immediate impact in the growing North American league.</p> <p>"I've seen a lot of first days, but I thought overall, there were some good signs," said Bradley, the former boss of Swansea City and the U.S. national team. "Of course, I see all the things that still need work, so there was a little bit of yelling and screaming and demonstrating, but that's all part of the work every day."</p> <p>Bradley is the only coach in MLS history to win a title with an expansion club, leading the Chicago Fire to a championship in 1998. He hasn't coached in his domestic league since leaving Chivas USA in 2006, but LAFC seems to have the ingredients <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/mls/2017/07/28/top-of-the-world-bob-bradley-sees-huge-potential-in-lafc/104093404/" type="external">to build another compelling team immediately</a> .</p> <p>LAFC might not have jerseys yet, but Rossi's shorts featured a No. 9, underlining his expected role as the striker. The No. 10 shorts were worn by Carlos Vela, the versatile Mexican playmaker who left La Liga's Real Sociedad to become LAFC's first designated player.</p> <p>Rossi and Vela could be a compelling tandem, but they're only part of a roster already studded with international talent including Belgian defender Laurent Ciman, Egyptian midfielder Omar Gaber, Costa Rican forward Marco Urena, Ghanaian forward Latif Blessing and Americans Benny Feilhaber and Walker Zimmerman.</p> <p>"The (other) players' names come pretty easy to me," said Feilhaber, a UCLA product who had mixed emotions about leaving Sporting Kansas City after five seasons. "We're still getting to know each other, but it's fun to get out on the field with players that are as talented as this. We're just getting our feet wet, but it's going to be exciting."</p> <p>Gaber played for Bradley on the Egyptian national team, and he was excited when LAFC acquired him from FC Basel in Switzerland's top league.</p> <p>"Once they started to speak with me, I felt they are so professional," Gaber said. "I felt for sure I had to come. Yes, maybe it's a risk to be with a new club, but we have very good players, coaches and staff. The people are so professional. We have big ambitions, and we want success. I am sure we will achieve good things together."</p> <p>LAFC isn't done building, either.</p> <p>Rossi filled the club's second DP spot, but a third remains open. The club hasn't decided whether to fill it now or after the World Cup, but there's little doubt LAFC has the financial might to contend for top MLS-level talent.</p> <p>The club's resources also will be on display in late April when Banc of California Stadium opens in downtown Los Angeles. Located next-door to the historic Coliseum, LAFC's privately funded, soccer-specific home is <a href="" type="internal">expected to be a festive gathering place</a> for LA's burgeoning downtown population of relocated professionals and locals alike.</p> <p>After a handful of preseason friendlies, LAFC will open its first season with six road games, starting in Seattle on March 4 and including its first date with the LA Galaxy on March 31.</p> <p>"I'm excited about the potential of this club," Vela said. "I think it's going to be incredible."</p> <p>LOS ANGELES (AP) &#8212; Diego Rossi drew the attention of scouts worldwide last year while playing a prominent role in Penarol's championship season in his native Uruguay.</p> <p>So why would a touted teenage striker choose to continue his rising career at Los Angeles Football Club, which has never played a game and hasn't even revealed its jersey?</p> <p>"To write the history," Rossi said Monday after the first training session in franchise history.</p> <p>Nearly 39 months after a deep-pocketed ownership group secured Major League Soccer's 23rd franchise, LAFC finally took the field on a sunny January morning at UCLA for its inaugural workout under coach Bob Bradley.</p> <p>The club doesn't yet have a fully stocked roster or a finished stadium, although both of those projects will be completed shortly. Building a true team will take a bit longer, but Bradley is confident he has a group that can make an immediate impact in the growing North American league.</p> <p>"I've seen a lot of first days, but I thought overall, there were some good signs," said Bradley, the former boss of Swansea City and the U.S. national team. "Of course, I see all the things that still need work, so there was a little bit of yelling and screaming and demonstrating, but that's all part of the work every day."</p> <p>Bradley is the only coach in MLS history to win a title with an expansion club, leading the Chicago Fire to a championship in 1998. He hasn't coached in his domestic league since leaving Chivas USA in 2006, but LAFC seems to have the ingredients <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/mls/2017/07/28/top-of-the-world-bob-bradley-sees-huge-potential-in-lafc/104093404/" type="external">to build another compelling team immediately</a> .</p> <p>LAFC might not have jerseys yet, but Rossi's shorts featured a No. 9, underlining his expected role as the striker. The No. 10 shorts were worn by Carlos Vela, the versatile Mexican playmaker who left La Liga's Real Sociedad to become LAFC's first designated player.</p> <p>Rossi and Vela could be a compelling tandem, but they're only part of a roster already studded with international talent including Belgian defender Laurent Ciman, Egyptian midfielder Omar Gaber, Costa Rican forward Marco Urena, Ghanaian forward Latif Blessing and Americans Benny Feilhaber and Walker Zimmerman.</p> <p>"The (other) players' names come pretty easy to me," said Feilhaber, a UCLA product who had mixed emotions about leaving Sporting Kansas City after five seasons. "We're still getting to know each other, but it's fun to get out on the field with players that are as talented as this. We're just getting our feet wet, but it's going to be exciting."</p> <p>Gaber played for Bradley on the Egyptian national team, and he was excited when LAFC acquired him from FC Basel in Switzerland's top league.</p> <p>"Once they started to speak with me, I felt they are so professional," Gaber said. "I felt for sure I had to come. Yes, maybe it's a risk to be with a new club, but we have very good players, coaches and staff. The people are so professional. We have big ambitions, and we want success. I am sure we will achieve good things together."</p> <p>LAFC isn't done building, either.</p> <p>Rossi filled the club's second DP spot, but a third remains open. The club hasn't decided whether to fill it now or after the World Cup, but there's little doubt LAFC has the financial might to contend for top MLS-level talent.</p> <p>The club's resources also will be on display in late April when Banc of California Stadium opens in downtown Los Angeles. Located next-door to the historic Coliseum, LAFC's privately funded, soccer-specific home is <a href="" type="internal">expected to be a festive gathering place</a> for LA's burgeoning downtown population of relocated professionals and locals alike.</p> <p>After a handful of preseason friendlies, LAFC will open its first season with six road games, starting in Seattle on March 4 and including its first date with the LA Galaxy on March 31.</p> <p>"I'm excited about the potential of this club," Vela said. "I think it's going to be incredible."</p>
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<p>Journal Article - Survival</p> <p /> <p>The Flawed Case for Missile Defence</p> <p>Steven E. Miller Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government</p> <p>The Bush administration assumed office deeply committed to the deployment of missile defence and eager to modify substantially or even to abandon the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty to achieve that objective. The president and his team, naturally, are eager to persuade sceptics at home and abroad of the merits of their approach to missile defence or, at least, to minimise the diplomatic costs of and the domestic political opposition to their preferred course of action. However, it seems more likely that other powers, whether friends and allies or potential adversaries, will bow to the inevitable rather than being genuinely persuaded by the case for missile defence. The case the Bush administration has put before the world is not compelling. Even those who share the administration's concern about the future missile threat could conclude that it is premature to race ahead with immature missile-defence technologies in order to offset speculative missile threats. Even those who share the administration's willingness to consider seriously the eventual utility of missile defences could conclude that it is not desirable to press urgently forward now.</p> <p />
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The Flawed Case for Missile Defense <p>Journal Article - Survival</p> <p /> <p>The Flawed Case for Missile Defence</p> <p>Steven E. Miller Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government</p> <p>The Bush administration assumed office deeply committed to the deployment of missile defence and eager to modify substantially or even to abandon the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty to achieve that objective. The president and his team, naturally, are eager to persuade sceptics at home and abroad of the merits of their approach to missile defence or, at least, to minimise the diplomatic costs of and the domestic political opposition to their preferred course of action. However, it seems more likely that other powers, whether friends and allies or potential adversaries, will bow to the inevitable rather than being genuinely persuaded by the case for missile defence. The case the Bush administration has put before the world is not compelling. Even those who share the administration's concern about the future missile threat could conclude that it is premature to race ahead with immature missile-defence technologies in order to offset speculative missile threats. Even those who share the administration's willingness to consider seriously the eventual utility of missile defences could conclude that it is not desirable to press urgently forward now.</p> <p />
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<p /> <p>After living in campus dorms for two years, upperclassmen may be looking to get away from the crowd of freshmen and explore the possibility of moving off campus.</p> <p>Continue Reading Below</p> <p>While off-campus living is an exciting prospect, students and their parents could face serious financial consequences if they aren&#8217;t fully prepared.</p> <p>&#8220;If you move out before you're ready to take on additional financial responsibilities, you can scar your rental record with an eviction or late pays for years,&#8221; says Reyna Gobel, author of <a href="http://graduationdebt.org/" type="external">Graduation Debt Opens a New Window.</a>. &#8220;If you're unsure if it's the right time to say goodbye to dorm life, wait a semester or two while you gather necessary budgeting information and pad your savings account&#8221;</p> <p>Make sure you are moving off campus for the right reasons; while dorm dwelling tends not to be glamorous, it does offer some perks. Most schools charge housing costs at the beginning of a semester, there are no separate utility bills and transportation costs are minimal to none.</p> <p>Students and parents should determine if moving makes financial sense by conducting a cost comparison to see what the price difference is between living on and off campus.</p> <p>&#8220;In some cases on campus is actually more expensive when you factor in the costs of university housing and a university meal plan, which is usually necessary or included in the rent when living on campus,&#8221; says Mark Sawyier, president and founder of <a href="http://www.movingoffcampus.com/" type="external">MovingOffCampus Opens a New Window.</a>.</p> <p>Advertisement</p> <p>If you are ready to fly the on-campus coop, there are a number of things to think about. Here&#8217;s what some off-campus housing and college experts suggest to do to determine if moving off campus makes sense.</p> <p>Create a Budget</p> <p>Mapping out a budget is essential to moving off campus to avoid realizing mid semester that you can&#8217;t afford to finish out the year in your new place.</p> <p>&#8220;Creating a budget is never easy, but spending some time thinking about it before starting to look for an apartment will not only save you headache down the road, but also make your apartment search a whole lot easier,&#8221; says Sawyier.</p> <p>According to Gobel, your budget should include all of your prospective expenses: food, electricity, water, cable, Internet, rent, transportation and apartment deposits. You may also need to factor the costs of furniture and home decor, books and school supplies and renter&#8217;s insurance.</p> <p>Make sure to take into account the location of an off-campus residence and any extra costs from gas.</p> <p>&#8220;Research [your budget needs] heavily by touring apartments and asking for details about average utility costs and rental specials,&#8221; says Gobel. &#8220;Talk to other students who live off campus about their expenses.&#8221;</p> <p>Determine What&#8217;s Important</p> <p>Once you have an idea of what is in your price range, start thinking about other decision factors and what&#8217;s important to your living standards, says Sawyier.</p> <p>The number of roommates a place allows, security concerns and distance/transportation to campus are all important to think about. You should also consider what amenities are offered, including washer/dryer, garbage disposal, dishwasher and the landlord&#8217;s pet policy.</p> <p>Some college towns may have older homes and apartments for rent that may require a more repair-savvy individual, or at least an attentive landlord, to ensure that safety isn&#8217;t compromised.</p> <p>&#8220;There are things that a young man or woman is going to need to be educated on,&#8221; says Dan Ryan, director of off-campus student services at the University of Buffalo. &#8220;If they&#8217;ve never reset a tripped circuit breaker, it&#8217;s going to be difficult for them to figure out how to get this appliance working again.&#8221;</p> <p>Look Before You Commit</p> <p>Before you commit to an apartment or housing lease, the experts recommend taking a good look at the property in question.</p> <p>Ryan says that unless you happen to be an electrical engineering major, most students can&#8217;t identify potential red flags in terms of structural defects or fire hazards.</p> <p>&#8220;Not only is it a good idea for the person who is going to sign a lease to walk through, but if possible, they ought to be walking through the premises with a licensed building inspector, someone who knows what they&#8217;re looking for,&#8221; he says.</p> <p>Making a note and reporting existing damage from previous renters (chipping paint, nail holes in walls) before moving in can also save you from having to pay out of your own deposit.</p> <p>Understand Your Lease</p> <p>Before signing a lease, Sawyier recommends that you go over the lease and know what responsibilities the landlord assumes, the terms and length of the lease and what kind of penalties are determined (like not leaving the apartment or house in a &#8220;clean condition&#8221;).</p> <p>&#8220;Before signing any legal document, it&#8217;s always important to review and understand what exactly you are agreeing to,&#8221; he says.</p> <p>Some schools offer educational programs to educate inexperienced renters understand a lease; it might be worth looking into to see if your university provides workshops or legal services.</p> <p>Depending on an individual&#8217;s circumstances, a parental co-signer may be required. Ryan says it is equally important that the parent understands what the consequences are if there are violations to the lease agreements.</p> <p>&#8220;If a parent is co-signing a lease, they absolutely should be just as careful about what they&#8217;re signing as their son or daughter would be,&#8221; he says.</p> <p>Parents should also be aware that they may need to foot the bill if unexpected circumstances arise. Parents should talk to their student beforehand about their role in this responsibility to prevent issues in the long run.</p> <p>&#8220;Go over budgets and make sure enough savings is in place to cover a month or two of expenses if a roommate situation doesn&#8217;t work out, or your son&#8217;s or daughter&#8217;s part-time employment falls through,&#8221; says Gobel. &#8220;Providing financial education is as much or more important than giving cash.&#8221;</p>
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Are You Ready to Move Off Campus? <p /> <p>After living in campus dorms for two years, upperclassmen may be looking to get away from the crowd of freshmen and explore the possibility of moving off campus.</p> <p>Continue Reading Below</p> <p>While off-campus living is an exciting prospect, students and their parents could face serious financial consequences if they aren&#8217;t fully prepared.</p> <p>&#8220;If you move out before you're ready to take on additional financial responsibilities, you can scar your rental record with an eviction or late pays for years,&#8221; says Reyna Gobel, author of <a href="http://graduationdebt.org/" type="external">Graduation Debt Opens a New Window.</a>. &#8220;If you're unsure if it's the right time to say goodbye to dorm life, wait a semester or two while you gather necessary budgeting information and pad your savings account&#8221;</p> <p>Make sure you are moving off campus for the right reasons; while dorm dwelling tends not to be glamorous, it does offer some perks. Most schools charge housing costs at the beginning of a semester, there are no separate utility bills and transportation costs are minimal to none.</p> <p>Students and parents should determine if moving makes financial sense by conducting a cost comparison to see what the price difference is between living on and off campus.</p> <p>&#8220;In some cases on campus is actually more expensive when you factor in the costs of university housing and a university meal plan, which is usually necessary or included in the rent when living on campus,&#8221; says Mark Sawyier, president and founder of <a href="http://www.movingoffcampus.com/" type="external">MovingOffCampus Opens a New Window.</a>.</p> <p>Advertisement</p> <p>If you are ready to fly the on-campus coop, there are a number of things to think about. Here&#8217;s what some off-campus housing and college experts suggest to do to determine if moving off campus makes sense.</p> <p>Create a Budget</p> <p>Mapping out a budget is essential to moving off campus to avoid realizing mid semester that you can&#8217;t afford to finish out the year in your new place.</p> <p>&#8220;Creating a budget is never easy, but spending some time thinking about it before starting to look for an apartment will not only save you headache down the road, but also make your apartment search a whole lot easier,&#8221; says Sawyier.</p> <p>According to Gobel, your budget should include all of your prospective expenses: food, electricity, water, cable, Internet, rent, transportation and apartment deposits. You may also need to factor the costs of furniture and home decor, books and school supplies and renter&#8217;s insurance.</p> <p>Make sure to take into account the location of an off-campus residence and any extra costs from gas.</p> <p>&#8220;Research [your budget needs] heavily by touring apartments and asking for details about average utility costs and rental specials,&#8221; says Gobel. &#8220;Talk to other students who live off campus about their expenses.&#8221;</p> <p>Determine What&#8217;s Important</p> <p>Once you have an idea of what is in your price range, start thinking about other decision factors and what&#8217;s important to your living standards, says Sawyier.</p> <p>The number of roommates a place allows, security concerns and distance/transportation to campus are all important to think about. You should also consider what amenities are offered, including washer/dryer, garbage disposal, dishwasher and the landlord&#8217;s pet policy.</p> <p>Some college towns may have older homes and apartments for rent that may require a more repair-savvy individual, or at least an attentive landlord, to ensure that safety isn&#8217;t compromised.</p> <p>&#8220;There are things that a young man or woman is going to need to be educated on,&#8221; says Dan Ryan, director of off-campus student services at the University of Buffalo. &#8220;If they&#8217;ve never reset a tripped circuit breaker, it&#8217;s going to be difficult for them to figure out how to get this appliance working again.&#8221;</p> <p>Look Before You Commit</p> <p>Before you commit to an apartment or housing lease, the experts recommend taking a good look at the property in question.</p> <p>Ryan says that unless you happen to be an electrical engineering major, most students can&#8217;t identify potential red flags in terms of structural defects or fire hazards.</p> <p>&#8220;Not only is it a good idea for the person who is going to sign a lease to walk through, but if possible, they ought to be walking through the premises with a licensed building inspector, someone who knows what they&#8217;re looking for,&#8221; he says.</p> <p>Making a note and reporting existing damage from previous renters (chipping paint, nail holes in walls) before moving in can also save you from having to pay out of your own deposit.</p> <p>Understand Your Lease</p> <p>Before signing a lease, Sawyier recommends that you go over the lease and know what responsibilities the landlord assumes, the terms and length of the lease and what kind of penalties are determined (like not leaving the apartment or house in a &#8220;clean condition&#8221;).</p> <p>&#8220;Before signing any legal document, it&#8217;s always important to review and understand what exactly you are agreeing to,&#8221; he says.</p> <p>Some schools offer educational programs to educate inexperienced renters understand a lease; it might be worth looking into to see if your university provides workshops or legal services.</p> <p>Depending on an individual&#8217;s circumstances, a parental co-signer may be required. Ryan says it is equally important that the parent understands what the consequences are if there are violations to the lease agreements.</p> <p>&#8220;If a parent is co-signing a lease, they absolutely should be just as careful about what they&#8217;re signing as their son or daughter would be,&#8221; he says.</p> <p>Parents should also be aware that they may need to foot the bill if unexpected circumstances arise. Parents should talk to their student beforehand about their role in this responsibility to prevent issues in the long run.</p> <p>&#8220;Go over budgets and make sure enough savings is in place to cover a month or two of expenses if a roommate situation doesn&#8217;t work out, or your son&#8217;s or daughter&#8217;s part-time employment falls through,&#8221; says Gobel. &#8220;Providing financial education is as much or more important than giving cash.&#8221;</p>
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<p>.......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... ..........</p> <p>FORRESTON, Texas &#8212; About 40,000 pounds of avocados spilled across a major interstate in Central Texas when the big rig hauling them crashed and caught fire.</p> <p>WFAA-TV reports that the spill in Forreston, Texas, Thursday snarled traffic and diverted drivers, closing Interstate 35E for three hours. The 18-wheeler went up in flames.</p> <p>The Texas Department of Public Safety has not released the cause of the incident or the condition of the driver.</p> <p>ADVERTISEMENT</p>
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<p>TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) - Pima County sheriff's officials say two men are in custody following the carjacking of a woman's vehicle with her 9-month-old child in the car.</p> <p>They say deputies found the infant unharmed inside the vehicle Wednesday.</p> <p>Sheriff's officials say 25-year-old Fabian Garcia and 22-year-old Antonio Morales Jr. both face nine counts of aggravated assault and one count each of kidnapping, aggravated robbery, armed robbery and vehicle theft.</p> <p>Garcia also is accused of unlawful flight from a law enforcement officer.</p> <p>Authorities say handguns were used to carjack the woman's vehicle on a street near a Pima Community College campus in Tucson.</p> <p>The men later fled from the vehicle and were arrested by deputies.</p> <p>___</p> <p>This story has been corrected to reflect that the carjacking occurred on a street, not on the college campus.</p> <p>TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) - Pima County sheriff's officials say two men are in custody following the carjacking of a woman's vehicle with her 9-month-old child in the car.</p> <p>They say deputies found the infant unharmed inside the vehicle Wednesday.</p> <p>Sheriff's officials say 25-year-old Fabian Garcia and 22-year-old Antonio Morales Jr. both face nine counts of aggravated assault and one count each of kidnapping, aggravated robbery, armed robbery and vehicle theft.</p> <p>Garcia also is accused of unlawful flight from a law enforcement officer.</p> <p>Authorities say handguns were used to carjack the woman's vehicle on a street near a Pima Community College campus in Tucson.</p> <p>The men later fled from the vehicle and were arrested by deputies.</p> <p>___</p> <p>This story has been corrected to reflect that the carjacking occurred on a street, not on the college campus.</p>
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2 accused of carjacking vehicle in Tucson with infant inside <p>TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) - Pima County sheriff's officials say two men are in custody following the carjacking of a woman's vehicle with her 9-month-old child in the car.</p> <p>They say deputies found the infant unharmed inside the vehicle Wednesday.</p> <p>Sheriff's officials say 25-year-old Fabian Garcia and 22-year-old Antonio Morales Jr. both face nine counts of aggravated assault and one count each of kidnapping, aggravated robbery, armed robbery and vehicle theft.</p> <p>Garcia also is accused of unlawful flight from a law enforcement officer.</p> <p>Authorities say handguns were used to carjack the woman's vehicle on a street near a Pima Community College campus in Tucson.</p> <p>The men later fled from the vehicle and were arrested by deputies.</p> <p>___</p> <p>This story has been corrected to reflect that the carjacking occurred on a street, not on the college campus.</p> <p>TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) - Pima County sheriff's officials say two men are in custody following the carjacking of a woman's vehicle with her 9-month-old child in the car.</p> <p>They say deputies found the infant unharmed inside the vehicle Wednesday.</p> <p>Sheriff's officials say 25-year-old Fabian Garcia and 22-year-old Antonio Morales Jr. both face nine counts of aggravated assault and one count each of kidnapping, aggravated robbery, armed robbery and vehicle theft.</p> <p>Garcia also is accused of unlawful flight from a law enforcement officer.</p> <p>Authorities say handguns were used to carjack the woman's vehicle on a street near a Pima Community College campus in Tucson.</p> <p>The men later fled from the vehicle and were arrested by deputies.</p> <p>___</p> <p>This story has been corrected to reflect that the carjacking occurred on a street, not on the college campus.</p>
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<p>.......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... ..........</p> <p>WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. &#8212; The Navajo Nation has created a committee to look into buying Colorado ranchland that&#8217;s home to cattle, bison and two mountains the tribe considers sacred.</p> <p>The price tag for the property &#8212; roughly 26 square miles (67 square kilometers) on the Wolf Springs and Boyer ranches in south-central Colorado &#8212; is $23 million.</p> <p>The two sacred mountains are Big Mountain Sheep/Obsidian Mountain, or Mount Hesperus, and Sisnaajini, commonly known as White Shell Mountain or Blanca Peak.</p> <p>Navajo Nation President Russell believes the purchase would make the tribe&#8217;s citizens whole, The Gallup Independent reported ( <a href="http://bit.ly/2o70OE6)." type="external">http://bit.ly/2o70OE6).</a></p> <p>Wolf Springs Ranch is described as one of Colorado&#8217;s largest ranches, and it&#8217;s nestled under the high peaks of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains.</p> <p>The ranch has 200 head of cattle and more than 300 head of bison that the tribe could use to expand its beef business and produce bison meat, which sells for about double the price of beef, Begaye said.</p> <p>ADVERTISEMENT</p>
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Navajo Nation eyes possible purchases of Colorado ranchland <p>.......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... ..........</p> <p>WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. &#8212; The Navajo Nation has created a committee to look into buying Colorado ranchland that&#8217;s home to cattle, bison and two mountains the tribe considers sacred.</p> <p>The price tag for the property &#8212; roughly 26 square miles (67 square kilometers) on the Wolf Springs and Boyer ranches in south-central Colorado &#8212; is $23 million.</p> <p>The two sacred mountains are Big Mountain Sheep/Obsidian Mountain, or Mount Hesperus, and Sisnaajini, commonly known as White Shell Mountain or Blanca Peak.</p> <p>Navajo Nation President Russell believes the purchase would make the tribe&#8217;s citizens whole, The Gallup Independent reported ( <a href="http://bit.ly/2o70OE6)." type="external">http://bit.ly/2o70OE6).</a></p> <p>Wolf Springs Ranch is described as one of Colorado&#8217;s largest ranches, and it&#8217;s nestled under the high peaks of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains.</p> <p>The ranch has 200 head of cattle and more than 300 head of bison that the tribe could use to expand its beef business and produce bison meat, which sells for about double the price of beef, Begaye said.</p> <p>ADVERTISEMENT</p>
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<p>The tiff over maritime boundaries in the Shatt-al-Arab between Iran and Great Britain seems to be over, with the British sailors and Marines released and returned to the U.K. I continue to suspect a deal was made regarding the five Iranian Revolutionary Guard officers held by the U.S. in Iraq. If they go home in a few weeks or months, it will be a quid pro quo, regardless of how much Washington and London deny it.</p> <p>For Britain, and especially for the Royal Navy and Royal Marines, the incident ended in utter disgrace. The initial surrender of the British boarding party to what appears to have been a much larger Iranian force is the only defensible British action in the whole sorry business. Even in Horatio Hornblower&#8217;s Royal Navy, a British frigate captain was not disgraced if he struck to a French or Spanish ship of the line. Force majeure remains a valid excuse.</p> <p>But everything else that was said or done would have given Hornblower or Jack Aubrey an apoplexy. The failure of HMS Cornwall to foresee such an event and be in a position to protect her people; the cowardice &#8212; there is no other word for it &#8212; of the boarding party (including two officers) once captured; their kissing the Iranian&#8217;s backsides in return for their release; and perhaps most un-British, their selling their disgraceful stories to the British press for money on their return &#8212; all this departs from Royal Navy traditions in ways that would have appalled the tars who fought at Trafalgar.</p> <p>Yet that is not the worst of it. The worst of it is the reaction of the Navy&#8217;s higher-ups. According to a story in the April 7 Washington Times, the Royal Navy&#8217;s top commander, Admiral Jonathon Band, leapt to the boarding party&#8217;s defense with virtually Jerry Springeresque words:</p> <p>He told the British Broadcasting Corp. he believed the crew behaved with &#8220;considerable dignity and a lot of courage&#8221; during their 13 days in Iranian captivity.</p> <p>He also said the so-called confessions made by some of them and their broadcast on Iranian state television appear to have been made under &#8220;a certain amount of psychological pressure.&#8221;</p> <p>&#8220;I would not agree at all that it was not our finest hour. I think our people have reacted extremely well in some very difficult circumstances,&#8221; he said.</p> <p>Had the captives been 10-year old girls from Miss Marples&#8217; Finishing School, Admiral Band&#8217;s words might make some sense. But these were supposed to be fighting men from the Royal Navy and Royal Marines! Yes, I meant men. What Politically Correct imbecile detailed a woman to a boarding party?</p> <p>To understand just how bad the whole business is, one must first know a bit about Hornblower&#8217;s navy. In the latter half of the 18th century, the Royal Navy developed and institutionalized what we now call maneuver warfare or Third Generation war. By the Napoleonic Wars, it was all there &#8212; the outward focus, where results counted for more than following orders or the Fighting Instructions; de-centralization (Nelson was a master of mission-type orders); prizing initiative above obedience; and dependence on self-discipline (at least at the level of ship commanders and admirals) . It is often personified as the &#8220;Nelson Touch,&#8221; but it typified a whole generation of officers, not just Nelson. In the 19th century, the Royal Navy lost it all and went rigid again, for reasons described in a wonderful book, Andrew Gordon&#8217;s <a href="" type="internal">The Rules of the Game</a>. But Hornblower&#8217;s and Aubrey&#8217;s navy was as fast-acting, fluid and flexible at sea as was the Kaiserheer on land.</p> <p>I told Andrew Gordon that I would someday love to write the intellectual history of that first maritime incarnation of maneuver warfare; he replied that the source material to do that may not exist, since Royal Navy officers of that time were not writing things down. He may be right, but I think one incident holds the key to much of it: the execution by firing squad, on his own poop deck, of Admiral John Byng.</p> <p>In 1756, at the beginning of the Seven Year&#8217;s War, the French took the island of Minorca in the Mediterranean from the British. Admiral Byng was sent out from London to relieve the island&#8217;s garrison, then under siege. He arrived, fought a mismanaged battle with the attending French squadron, then retired to Gibraltar. Deprived of naval support, the garrison surrendered. Byng was court-martialed for his failure, found guilty, and shot.</p> <p>The reason Byng&#8217;s execution played a central role in the development of maneuver warfare in the Royal Navy is the main charge laid against him. The capital charge was &#8220;not doing his utmost&#8221; in the presence of the enemy. In other words, Byng was executed not for what he did, but for what he did not do. Nothing could have done more to spur initiative in the navy. As Voltaire famously wrote, &#8220;Sometimes the British shoot an admiral to encourage the others.&#8221; Encourage the others to take initiative and get the result the situation demands is exactly what it did. Without Byng, I doubt there would have been a Nelson.</p> <p>Byng&#8217;s execution points directly to what went wrong in the Royal Navy in the Shatt. It is not so much what people did as what they did not do. Neither the fleet commander nor the commander of HMS Cornwall prepared for such a situation. When it happened, Cornwall did not react. The captured sailors and Marines did not think about anything except their own skins. The Royal Navy, as represented by Admiral Band, seems decided to do nothing about its disgrace except pretend it did not happen.</p> <p>It is perhaps appropriate that the Royal Navy&#8217;s senior officer in the boarding party was a Lieutenant Felix Carman. The whole business represents Hornblower&#8217;s and Aubrey&#8217;s worst nightmare: the Brits have become the Dons.</p> <p>WILLIAM S. LIND, expressing his own personal opinion, is Director for the Center for Cultural Conservatism for the Free Congress Foundation.</p> <p>&amp;#160;</p> <p>&amp;#160;</p>
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Horatio Hornblower’s Worst Nightmare <p>The tiff over maritime boundaries in the Shatt-al-Arab between Iran and Great Britain seems to be over, with the British sailors and Marines released and returned to the U.K. I continue to suspect a deal was made regarding the five Iranian Revolutionary Guard officers held by the U.S. in Iraq. If they go home in a few weeks or months, it will be a quid pro quo, regardless of how much Washington and London deny it.</p> <p>For Britain, and especially for the Royal Navy and Royal Marines, the incident ended in utter disgrace. The initial surrender of the British boarding party to what appears to have been a much larger Iranian force is the only defensible British action in the whole sorry business. Even in Horatio Hornblower&#8217;s Royal Navy, a British frigate captain was not disgraced if he struck to a French or Spanish ship of the line. Force majeure remains a valid excuse.</p> <p>But everything else that was said or done would have given Hornblower or Jack Aubrey an apoplexy. The failure of HMS Cornwall to foresee such an event and be in a position to protect her people; the cowardice &#8212; there is no other word for it &#8212; of the boarding party (including two officers) once captured; their kissing the Iranian&#8217;s backsides in return for their release; and perhaps most un-British, their selling their disgraceful stories to the British press for money on their return &#8212; all this departs from Royal Navy traditions in ways that would have appalled the tars who fought at Trafalgar.</p> <p>Yet that is not the worst of it. The worst of it is the reaction of the Navy&#8217;s higher-ups. According to a story in the April 7 Washington Times, the Royal Navy&#8217;s top commander, Admiral Jonathon Band, leapt to the boarding party&#8217;s defense with virtually Jerry Springeresque words:</p> <p>He told the British Broadcasting Corp. he believed the crew behaved with &#8220;considerable dignity and a lot of courage&#8221; during their 13 days in Iranian captivity.</p> <p>He also said the so-called confessions made by some of them and their broadcast on Iranian state television appear to have been made under &#8220;a certain amount of psychological pressure.&#8221;</p> <p>&#8220;I would not agree at all that it was not our finest hour. I think our people have reacted extremely well in some very difficult circumstances,&#8221; he said.</p> <p>Had the captives been 10-year old girls from Miss Marples&#8217; Finishing School, Admiral Band&#8217;s words might make some sense. But these were supposed to be fighting men from the Royal Navy and Royal Marines! Yes, I meant men. What Politically Correct imbecile detailed a woman to a boarding party?</p> <p>To understand just how bad the whole business is, one must first know a bit about Hornblower&#8217;s navy. In the latter half of the 18th century, the Royal Navy developed and institutionalized what we now call maneuver warfare or Third Generation war. By the Napoleonic Wars, it was all there &#8212; the outward focus, where results counted for more than following orders or the Fighting Instructions; de-centralization (Nelson was a master of mission-type orders); prizing initiative above obedience; and dependence on self-discipline (at least at the level of ship commanders and admirals) . It is often personified as the &#8220;Nelson Touch,&#8221; but it typified a whole generation of officers, not just Nelson. In the 19th century, the Royal Navy lost it all and went rigid again, for reasons described in a wonderful book, Andrew Gordon&#8217;s <a href="" type="internal">The Rules of the Game</a>. But Hornblower&#8217;s and Aubrey&#8217;s navy was as fast-acting, fluid and flexible at sea as was the Kaiserheer on land.</p> <p>I told Andrew Gordon that I would someday love to write the intellectual history of that first maritime incarnation of maneuver warfare; he replied that the source material to do that may not exist, since Royal Navy officers of that time were not writing things down. He may be right, but I think one incident holds the key to much of it: the execution by firing squad, on his own poop deck, of Admiral John Byng.</p> <p>In 1756, at the beginning of the Seven Year&#8217;s War, the French took the island of Minorca in the Mediterranean from the British. Admiral Byng was sent out from London to relieve the island&#8217;s garrison, then under siege. He arrived, fought a mismanaged battle with the attending French squadron, then retired to Gibraltar. Deprived of naval support, the garrison surrendered. Byng was court-martialed for his failure, found guilty, and shot.</p> <p>The reason Byng&#8217;s execution played a central role in the development of maneuver warfare in the Royal Navy is the main charge laid against him. The capital charge was &#8220;not doing his utmost&#8221; in the presence of the enemy. In other words, Byng was executed not for what he did, but for what he did not do. Nothing could have done more to spur initiative in the navy. As Voltaire famously wrote, &#8220;Sometimes the British shoot an admiral to encourage the others.&#8221; Encourage the others to take initiative and get the result the situation demands is exactly what it did. Without Byng, I doubt there would have been a Nelson.</p> <p>Byng&#8217;s execution points directly to what went wrong in the Royal Navy in the Shatt. It is not so much what people did as what they did not do. Neither the fleet commander nor the commander of HMS Cornwall prepared for such a situation. When it happened, Cornwall did not react. The captured sailors and Marines did not think about anything except their own skins. The Royal Navy, as represented by Admiral Band, seems decided to do nothing about its disgrace except pretend it did not happen.</p> <p>It is perhaps appropriate that the Royal Navy&#8217;s senior officer in the boarding party was a Lieutenant Felix Carman. The whole business represents Hornblower&#8217;s and Aubrey&#8217;s worst nightmare: the Brits have become the Dons.</p> <p>WILLIAM S. LIND, expressing his own personal opinion, is Director for the Center for Cultural Conservatism for the Free Congress Foundation.</p> <p>&amp;#160;</p> <p>&amp;#160;</p>
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<p>A look at Nasdaq 10 most-active stocks at 1 p.m.:</p> <p>Apple Inc. rose 1.2 percent to $95.12 with 32,254,400 shares traded.</p> <p>Continue Reading Below</p> <p>BlackBerry Ltd. rose 5.1 percent to $11.16 with 23,160,000 shares traded.</p> <p>Cisco Systems Inc. fell .2 percent to $25.15 with 10,427,000 shares traded.</p> <p>Facebook Inc. fell 1.2 percent to $65.51 with 17,443,700 shares traded.</p> <p>GT Advanced Technologies Inc. fell 13.5 percent to $16.91 with 19,802,700 shares traded.</p> <p>Intel Corp. fell .4 percent to $31.01 with 10,827,200 shares traded.</p> <p>Advertisement</p> <p>Micron Technology Inc. fell 2.1 percent to $33.04 with 13,920,000 shares traded.</p> <p>Microsoft Corp. rose .7 percent to $42.09 with 11,538,500 shares traded.</p> <p>NewLead Holdings Ltd. fell 6.2 percent to $.14 with 50,396,100 shares traded.</p> <p>Sirius XM Radio Inc. fell 1.2 percent to $3.42 with 24,527,700 shares traded.</p>
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Nasdaq's 10 most active stocks at 1 p.m. <p>A look at Nasdaq 10 most-active stocks at 1 p.m.:</p> <p>Apple Inc. rose 1.2 percent to $95.12 with 32,254,400 shares traded.</p> <p>Continue Reading Below</p> <p>BlackBerry Ltd. rose 5.1 percent to $11.16 with 23,160,000 shares traded.</p> <p>Cisco Systems Inc. fell .2 percent to $25.15 with 10,427,000 shares traded.</p> <p>Facebook Inc. fell 1.2 percent to $65.51 with 17,443,700 shares traded.</p> <p>GT Advanced Technologies Inc. fell 13.5 percent to $16.91 with 19,802,700 shares traded.</p> <p>Intel Corp. fell .4 percent to $31.01 with 10,827,200 shares traded.</p> <p>Advertisement</p> <p>Micron Technology Inc. fell 2.1 percent to $33.04 with 13,920,000 shares traded.</p> <p>Microsoft Corp. rose .7 percent to $42.09 with 11,538,500 shares traded.</p> <p>NewLead Holdings Ltd. fell 6.2 percent to $.14 with 50,396,100 shares traded.</p> <p>Sirius XM Radio Inc. fell 1.2 percent to $3.42 with 24,527,700 shares traded.</p>
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<p>.......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... ..........</p> <p>SANTA FE, N.M. - Santa Fe police say a knife-carrying man who tried to rob Party City this morning has been nabbed.</p> <p>Tony Lovato, 26, was caught nearby after fleeing on foot, SFPD spokeswoman Lt. Andrea Dobyns said in a news release.</p> <p>The incident happened just before 9 a.m.</p> <p>"Lovato had an 8-inch knife that he used during the robbery to threaten the cashier," Dobyns said, adding that no one was injured.</p> <p>Police said charges against Lovato include assault with intent to commit a felony, aggravated assault, tampering with evidence, resisting/obstructing/evading, concealing identity and failure to comply with probation.</p> <p>ADVERTISEMENT</p>
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Santa Fe police: Man caught after trying to rob Party City <p>.......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... ..........</p> <p>SANTA FE, N.M. - Santa Fe police say a knife-carrying man who tried to rob Party City this morning has been nabbed.</p> <p>Tony Lovato, 26, was caught nearby after fleeing on foot, SFPD spokeswoman Lt. Andrea Dobyns said in a news release.</p> <p>The incident happened just before 9 a.m.</p> <p>"Lovato had an 8-inch knife that he used during the robbery to threaten the cashier," Dobyns said, adding that no one was injured.</p> <p>Police said charges against Lovato include assault with intent to commit a felony, aggravated assault, tampering with evidence, resisting/obstructing/evading, concealing identity and failure to comply with probation.</p> <p>ADVERTISEMENT</p>
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<p /> <p>Image Source: Getty Images.</p> <p>Continue Reading Below</p> <p>The 2017 tax season, during which you'll file your 2016 tax return, is right around the corner. There are a few important dates you should know, such as the deadlines for submitting or modifying your tax return, as well as some dates that let you know when to expect your tax documents, refunds, and more. Here's when seven of the most important tax dates fall for 2017.</p> <p>In most years, the regular tax deadline is April 15. However, in 2017, April 15 falls on a Saturday, and the following Monday is an official Washington, D.C. holiday known as Emancipation Day. So the deadline to submit your 2016 tax return, or file an extension, is Tuesday, April 18, 2017.</p> <p>If you are submitting your return online, it must be completed and submitted to the IRS (but not yet accepted) by this date. If you are mailing a paper tax return, it must be postmarked by this date.</p> <p>Advertisement</p> <p>Anyone can file for an automatic six-month extension with a simple <a href="https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f4868.pdf" type="external">form Opens a New Window.</a>, which must be submitted to the IRS before the regular tax deadline. Doing so will give you an extra six months to prepare and submit your tax return. For the 2016 tax year, the extended tax deadline falls on Oct. 17, 2017.</p> <p>It's important to note that an <a href="http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2016/02/29/need-an-irs-tax-extension-in-2016-heres-what-you-n.aspx?&amp;amp;utm_campaign=article&amp;amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;amp;utm_source=foxbusiness" type="external">extension Opens a New Window.</a> gives you more time to submit your return -- not more time to pay any balance you owe. If you owe the IRS money, it still must be paid by the regular tax deadline, or else interest and penalties may be assessed. When submitting your extension, you should also send the IRS the estimated amount you'll owe.</p> <p>Technically the deadline for an amended return isn't in 2017, but it's still important to know. If you need to make a change to your tax return after you've submitted it -- maybe you received a tax document late or just found some new documentation that could increase your refund -- you'll need to submit an amended tax return.</p> <p>The deadline to submit an amended tax return is three years after you submitted the original return, so most people will have until April 18, 2020 to get theirs in.</p> <p>If you are entitled to a refund, the IRS is happy to keep your money for as long as you'll let them. So the onus is on you to to claim your refund.</p> <p>In order to claim a refund, you must meet the amended tax return deadline, whether you're amending an existing return or filing for the first time. You have until three years after the regular tax deadline to claim your refund, or else it becomes a "donation" to the IRS. For the 2016 tax year, this means you have until April 15, 2020 to claim any money owed to you.</p> <p>Note: If you don't owe the IRS any money -- for example, if you have no income to report -- then in practice, the deadlines above don't apply to you.</p> <p>Most of your important tax documents are required to be mailed by Jan. 31, 2017. This includes Forms W-2 and 1099, as well as documents involving bank interest and retirement account distributions. One exception is Form 1099-B, which comes from your financial institution to document sales of stocks, bonds, or mutual funds through a brokerage account, as well as Form 1099-S for real estate transaction and some Form 1099-MISCs. These don't have to be mailed until Feb. 15, 2017.</p> <p>Technically speaking, you can file your tax return as soon as you're ready to do so in January. If you receive all your necessary documentation during the first few days of January (unlikely), you can go ahead and submit your return. Just be aware that the IRS doesn't begin processing returns until mid to late January.</p> <p>This isn't a specific date, as it depends on when you file your return and certain deductions or credits you may or may not have claimed, but it's nice to know when you can expect your tax refund to be issued. The short answer is that the IRS processes refunds once a week, and most tax refunds are received within 21 days of when the return is submitted.</p> <p>For the 2016 tax year, households that file early and claim either the earned income tax credit (EITC) or the additional child tax credit won't get their refunds until after Feb. 15, a delay that will only affect this group of taxpayers.</p> <p>You can check the status of your refund after the IRS accepts your tax return by using the " <a href="https://www.irs.gov/refunds" type="external">Where's My Refund? Opens a New Window.</a>" tool on the IRS' website. Once your refund is approved, you'll be able to see the exact date you should expect to receive your refund.</p> <p>The $15,834 Social Security bonus most retirees completely overlook If you're like most Americans, you're a few years (or more) behind on your retirement savings. But a handful of little-known "Social Security secrets" could help ensure a boost in your retirement income. For example: one easy trick could pay you as much as $15,834 more... each year! Once you learn how to maximize your Social Security benefits, we think you could retire confidently with the peace of mind we're all after. <a href="http://www.fool.com/mms/mark/ecap-foolcom-social-security?source=irreditxt0000002&amp;amp;ftm_cam=ryr-ss-intro-report&amp;amp;ftm_pit=3186&amp;amp;ftm_veh=article_pitch&amp;amp;utm_campaign=article&amp;amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;amp;utm_source=foxbusiness" type="external">Simply click here to discover how to learn more about these strategies Opens a New Window.</a>.</p> <p>Try any of our Foolish newsletter services <a href="http://www.fool.com/shop/newsletters/index.aspx?source=isiedilnk018048&amp;amp;utm_campaign=article&amp;amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;amp;utm_source=foxbusiness" type="external">free for 30 days Opens a New Window.</a>. 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7 Important Tax Dates in 2017 <p /> <p>Image Source: Getty Images.</p> <p>Continue Reading Below</p> <p>The 2017 tax season, during which you'll file your 2016 tax return, is right around the corner. There are a few important dates you should know, such as the deadlines for submitting or modifying your tax return, as well as some dates that let you know when to expect your tax documents, refunds, and more. Here's when seven of the most important tax dates fall for 2017.</p> <p>In most years, the regular tax deadline is April 15. However, in 2017, April 15 falls on a Saturday, and the following Monday is an official Washington, D.C. holiday known as Emancipation Day. So the deadline to submit your 2016 tax return, or file an extension, is Tuesday, April 18, 2017.</p> <p>If you are submitting your return online, it must be completed and submitted to the IRS (but not yet accepted) by this date. If you are mailing a paper tax return, it must be postmarked by this date.</p> <p>Advertisement</p> <p>Anyone can file for an automatic six-month extension with a simple <a href="https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f4868.pdf" type="external">form Opens a New Window.</a>, which must be submitted to the IRS before the regular tax deadline. Doing so will give you an extra six months to prepare and submit your tax return. For the 2016 tax year, the extended tax deadline falls on Oct. 17, 2017.</p> <p>It's important to note that an <a href="http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2016/02/29/need-an-irs-tax-extension-in-2016-heres-what-you-n.aspx?&amp;amp;utm_campaign=article&amp;amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;amp;utm_source=foxbusiness" type="external">extension Opens a New Window.</a> gives you more time to submit your return -- not more time to pay any balance you owe. If you owe the IRS money, it still must be paid by the regular tax deadline, or else interest and penalties may be assessed. When submitting your extension, you should also send the IRS the estimated amount you'll owe.</p> <p>Technically the deadline for an amended return isn't in 2017, but it's still important to know. If you need to make a change to your tax return after you've submitted it -- maybe you received a tax document late or just found some new documentation that could increase your refund -- you'll need to submit an amended tax return.</p> <p>The deadline to submit an amended tax return is three years after you submitted the original return, so most people will have until April 18, 2020 to get theirs in.</p> <p>If you are entitled to a refund, the IRS is happy to keep your money for as long as you'll let them. So the onus is on you to to claim your refund.</p> <p>In order to claim a refund, you must meet the amended tax return deadline, whether you're amending an existing return or filing for the first time. You have until three years after the regular tax deadline to claim your refund, or else it becomes a "donation" to the IRS. For the 2016 tax year, this means you have until April 15, 2020 to claim any money owed to you.</p> <p>Note: If you don't owe the IRS any money -- for example, if you have no income to report -- then in practice, the deadlines above don't apply to you.</p> <p>Most of your important tax documents are required to be mailed by Jan. 31, 2017. This includes Forms W-2 and 1099, as well as documents involving bank interest and retirement account distributions. One exception is Form 1099-B, which comes from your financial institution to document sales of stocks, bonds, or mutual funds through a brokerage account, as well as Form 1099-S for real estate transaction and some Form 1099-MISCs. These don't have to be mailed until Feb. 15, 2017.</p> <p>Technically speaking, you can file your tax return as soon as you're ready to do so in January. If you receive all your necessary documentation during the first few days of January (unlikely), you can go ahead and submit your return. Just be aware that the IRS doesn't begin processing returns until mid to late January.</p> <p>This isn't a specific date, as it depends on when you file your return and certain deductions or credits you may or may not have claimed, but it's nice to know when you can expect your tax refund to be issued. The short answer is that the IRS processes refunds once a week, and most tax refunds are received within 21 days of when the return is submitted.</p> <p>For the 2016 tax year, households that file early and claim either the earned income tax credit (EITC) or the additional child tax credit won't get their refunds until after Feb. 15, a delay that will only affect this group of taxpayers.</p> <p>You can check the status of your refund after the IRS accepts your tax return by using the " <a href="https://www.irs.gov/refunds" type="external">Where's My Refund? Opens a New Window.</a>" tool on the IRS' website. Once your refund is approved, you'll be able to see the exact date you should expect to receive your refund.</p> <p>The $15,834 Social Security bonus most retirees completely overlook If you're like most Americans, you're a few years (or more) behind on your retirement savings. But a handful of little-known "Social Security secrets" could help ensure a boost in your retirement income. For example: one easy trick could pay you as much as $15,834 more... each year! Once you learn how to maximize your Social Security benefits, we think you could retire confidently with the peace of mind we're all after. <a href="http://www.fool.com/mms/mark/ecap-foolcom-social-security?source=irreditxt0000002&amp;amp;ftm_cam=ryr-ss-intro-report&amp;amp;ftm_pit=3186&amp;amp;ftm_veh=article_pitch&amp;amp;utm_campaign=article&amp;amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;amp;utm_source=foxbusiness" type="external">Simply click here to discover how to learn more about these strategies Opens a New Window.</a>.</p> <p>Try any of our Foolish newsletter services <a href="http://www.fool.com/shop/newsletters/index.aspx?source=isiedilnk018048&amp;amp;utm_campaign=article&amp;amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;amp;utm_source=foxbusiness" type="external">free for 30 days Opens a New Window.</a>. 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<p>NEW DELHI, India &#8212; A few years ago, when my Midwestern parents visited me in India, my mother provided a running commentary as we navigated our way through a long traffic jam on the famous Grand Trunk Road, which runs through Delhi on its way to Peshawar from Bangladesh.</p> <p>&#8220;Water buffalo,&#8221; she'd point out. &#8220;Another water buffalo ... another water buffalo.&#8221;</p> <p>Uh. Yep. Are we there yet?</p> <p>Turns out Mom was right. India &#8212; the world's largest producer of milk &#8212; is home to 70 percent of the world's buffalo. But until recently, the market for milk powder and ghee (clarified butter) was so huge that nobody ever thought of using the country's millions of liters of buffalo milk to make mozzarella di bufala, the glorious cheese for which some would say it was intended.</p> <p>Now, though, as more Indians learn about Western cuisines and farmers explore the export market as a way to boost their incomes, your insalata caprese may soon come from the land of yoga.</p> <p>&#8220;The total buffalo population in Italy is 300,000 buffaloes,&#8221; said Manmohan Malik, managing director of Himachal Pradesh-based food processing company Himalaya International Ltd. India has 39 million.</p> <p>Three years ago, Malik sensed an opportunity for Indian producers. After discovering from the National Dairy Research Institute that India's buffalo are the same variety as those that Italy has made famous for mozzarella di bufala, Malik pumped $2.5 million into a cheese-making project that he soon learned would require a nearly complete transformation of the processes used by local dairy farmers.</p> <p>&#8220;We put up a big project, but we hit roadblocks in terms of the quality of milk available, and a lack of infrastructure,&#8221; Malik said.</p> <p>The company had to invest in chilling systems, collection centers and training for its dairy farmer associates to ensure it got unadulterated, hygienic buffalo milk with the 4 percent-plus protein required to make top quality mozzarella.</p> <p>&#8220;We are crossing the major hurdles in developing the proper milk system,&#8221; said Malik. &#8220;We realized that is the reason that more companies haven't ventured into this area &#8212; because the milk quality in India needs a big improvement.&#8221;</p> <p>Nevertheless, today, with the help of Italian cheese expert Raffaele Cioffi, Himalaya International produces about $1.5 million worth of buffalo mozzarella annually, or about 5 tons a week. Most of that quantity is exported to the U.S. as frozen curd, then stretched at a Pennsylvania-based plant operated by Malik's joint venture partner. Shipping frozen curd from India is much cheaper than flying fresh mozzarella from Italy, and once the curds are thawed and stretched the resulting cheese is almost identical in quality. So India's export product can compete against not only America's domestic producers, but against the best Italy has to offer, Malik says. Top chefs (and Italians) may disagree with that claim, of course. But Himalaya's mozzarella has found a ready market.</p> <p>&#8220;It is a specialty cheese used as fresh mozzarella in caprese and other salads, and by special, high-end pizzerias on the East Coast [of the U.S.],&#8221; said Malik. &#8220;A lot of Italian restaurants use it.&#8221;</p> <p>Since Malik started making mozzarella, India has attracted several other cheesemakers, such as 27-year-old Italian Giuseppe Mozzillo, who runs Haryana-based Exito Gourmet. Mozzillo is still using cow's milk for his cheeses, but he is keen to switch to buffalo as soon as he can develop his supply chain, since buffalo mozzarella sells for about twice as much as cow milk cheese. Flanders Dairy, which operates a farm on the outskirts of Delhi not far from Mozzillo's, also produces bonconcini and Italian mozzarella. Even the Gujarat-based cooperative dairy giant Amul &#8212; a milk monolith that generates more than $1 billion in annual revenue &#8212; has dipped a toe into the water, making a bargain-basement mozzarella it markets as &#8220;pizza cheese.&#8221;</p> <p>Their interest isn't hard to explain. Although there are big challenges to be overcome, the potential for Indian mozzarella is enormous. India produces about 100 million tons of milk a year, of which about 55 percent comes from the country's 40 million buffalo, according to the Animal Production and Health Commission for Asia and the Pacific.</p> <p>Along with the export market, there's also a fast-growing domestic market for mozzarella and other cheeses. Over the past year or two, domestic cheesemakers like Flanders and Poshtick Foods &#8212; which operates a chain of Passion Cheese outlets &#8212; have found that their niche is expanding with the proliferation of local food boutiques and foreign specialty shops like Le Marche (a subsidiary of French retail group Geant Hypermarket) as well as the mushrooming of high-end hotels and restaurants.</p> <p>Meanwhile, the general shortage of buffalo milk has compelled so many of the world's mozzarella makers to use sheep's or cow's milk that the Italian region most famous for its production sought and earned &#8220; <a href="http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/european-union/091104/eu-food-regulations" type="external">Protection Designation of Origin</a>&#8221; status &#8212; making Campania the Champagne of mozzarella &#8212; under European Union rules in 1993. India has already begun to put pressure on the EU to remove non-tariff barriers to its agricultural products in exchange for access to its own enormous, fast-growing market. But there soon may be an even more compelling reason for the world to sample India's buffalo mozzarella.</p> <p>&#8220;If you go around the south of Italy, you'll see very few buffaloes,&#8221; said Sunil Bhu, who runs Flanders Dairy. &#8220;But buffalo mozzarella seems to be sold from Italy all over the world. It's a big question mark.&#8221;</p> <p>&amp;#160;</p>
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How can 39 million buffalo be wrong? <p>NEW DELHI, India &#8212; A few years ago, when my Midwestern parents visited me in India, my mother provided a running commentary as we navigated our way through a long traffic jam on the famous Grand Trunk Road, which runs through Delhi on its way to Peshawar from Bangladesh.</p> <p>&#8220;Water buffalo,&#8221; she'd point out. &#8220;Another water buffalo ... another water buffalo.&#8221;</p> <p>Uh. Yep. Are we there yet?</p> <p>Turns out Mom was right. India &#8212; the world's largest producer of milk &#8212; is home to 70 percent of the world's buffalo. But until recently, the market for milk powder and ghee (clarified butter) was so huge that nobody ever thought of using the country's millions of liters of buffalo milk to make mozzarella di bufala, the glorious cheese for which some would say it was intended.</p> <p>Now, though, as more Indians learn about Western cuisines and farmers explore the export market as a way to boost their incomes, your insalata caprese may soon come from the land of yoga.</p> <p>&#8220;The total buffalo population in Italy is 300,000 buffaloes,&#8221; said Manmohan Malik, managing director of Himachal Pradesh-based food processing company Himalaya International Ltd. India has 39 million.</p> <p>Three years ago, Malik sensed an opportunity for Indian producers. After discovering from the National Dairy Research Institute that India's buffalo are the same variety as those that Italy has made famous for mozzarella di bufala, Malik pumped $2.5 million into a cheese-making project that he soon learned would require a nearly complete transformation of the processes used by local dairy farmers.</p> <p>&#8220;We put up a big project, but we hit roadblocks in terms of the quality of milk available, and a lack of infrastructure,&#8221; Malik said.</p> <p>The company had to invest in chilling systems, collection centers and training for its dairy farmer associates to ensure it got unadulterated, hygienic buffalo milk with the 4 percent-plus protein required to make top quality mozzarella.</p> <p>&#8220;We are crossing the major hurdles in developing the proper milk system,&#8221; said Malik. &#8220;We realized that is the reason that more companies haven't ventured into this area &#8212; because the milk quality in India needs a big improvement.&#8221;</p> <p>Nevertheless, today, with the help of Italian cheese expert Raffaele Cioffi, Himalaya International produces about $1.5 million worth of buffalo mozzarella annually, or about 5 tons a week. Most of that quantity is exported to the U.S. as frozen curd, then stretched at a Pennsylvania-based plant operated by Malik's joint venture partner. Shipping frozen curd from India is much cheaper than flying fresh mozzarella from Italy, and once the curds are thawed and stretched the resulting cheese is almost identical in quality. So India's export product can compete against not only America's domestic producers, but against the best Italy has to offer, Malik says. Top chefs (and Italians) may disagree with that claim, of course. But Himalaya's mozzarella has found a ready market.</p> <p>&#8220;It is a specialty cheese used as fresh mozzarella in caprese and other salads, and by special, high-end pizzerias on the East Coast [of the U.S.],&#8221; said Malik. &#8220;A lot of Italian restaurants use it.&#8221;</p> <p>Since Malik started making mozzarella, India has attracted several other cheesemakers, such as 27-year-old Italian Giuseppe Mozzillo, who runs Haryana-based Exito Gourmet. Mozzillo is still using cow's milk for his cheeses, but he is keen to switch to buffalo as soon as he can develop his supply chain, since buffalo mozzarella sells for about twice as much as cow milk cheese. Flanders Dairy, which operates a farm on the outskirts of Delhi not far from Mozzillo's, also produces bonconcini and Italian mozzarella. Even the Gujarat-based cooperative dairy giant Amul &#8212; a milk monolith that generates more than $1 billion in annual revenue &#8212; has dipped a toe into the water, making a bargain-basement mozzarella it markets as &#8220;pizza cheese.&#8221;</p> <p>Their interest isn't hard to explain. Although there are big challenges to be overcome, the potential for Indian mozzarella is enormous. India produces about 100 million tons of milk a year, of which about 55 percent comes from the country's 40 million buffalo, according to the Animal Production and Health Commission for Asia and the Pacific.</p> <p>Along with the export market, there's also a fast-growing domestic market for mozzarella and other cheeses. Over the past year or two, domestic cheesemakers like Flanders and Poshtick Foods &#8212; which operates a chain of Passion Cheese outlets &#8212; have found that their niche is expanding with the proliferation of local food boutiques and foreign specialty shops like Le Marche (a subsidiary of French retail group Geant Hypermarket) as well as the mushrooming of high-end hotels and restaurants.</p> <p>Meanwhile, the general shortage of buffalo milk has compelled so many of the world's mozzarella makers to use sheep's or cow's milk that the Italian region most famous for its production sought and earned &#8220; <a href="http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/european-union/091104/eu-food-regulations" type="external">Protection Designation of Origin</a>&#8221; status &#8212; making Campania the Champagne of mozzarella &#8212; under European Union rules in 1993. India has already begun to put pressure on the EU to remove non-tariff barriers to its agricultural products in exchange for access to its own enormous, fast-growing market. But there soon may be an even more compelling reason for the world to sample India's buffalo mozzarella.</p> <p>&#8220;If you go around the south of Italy, you'll see very few buffaloes,&#8221; said Sunil Bhu, who runs Flanders Dairy. &#8220;But buffalo mozzarella seems to be sold from Italy all over the world. It's a big question mark.&#8221;</p> <p>&amp;#160;</p>
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<p>.......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... ..........</p> <p /> <p>While the state has increased the number of conditions (17 including PTSD and chronic pain, with three more proposed) and thus the number of patients who qualify for treatment with medical marijuana (10,289 as of Oct. 31), it has not increased the number of licensed providers (23, down from 25) or plants they can cultivate (still 150).</p> <p>According to a new Department of Health survey of pot producers and patients, suppliers are turning away thousands of patients and rationing their buds, and patients are being forced to buy their pot on the street.</p> <p>And that&#8217;s where &#8220;the quality is usually better, and it&#8217;s cheaper. That&#8217;s not right,&#8221; one survey respondent said.</p> <p>He or she is absolutely right.</p> <p>Medical cannabis program coordinator Andrea Sundberg says of the survey that DOH is &#8220;taking it seriously. &#8230; We&#8217;re analyzing it to determine what the next best steps are going to be.&#8221;</p> <p>ADVERTISEMENT</p> <p>New Mexico does not need to go down the high-on-life roads of California and Colorado, with magic brownie shops on every corner catering to folks with ennui. But the fact that the majority of the prescriptions written here are for difficult-to-pinpoint diagnoses such as PTSD and chronic pain should raise more than eyebrows.</p> <p>So should DOH&#8217;s continued secrecy around providers, which encourages the gouging one respondent cited, &#8220;an ounce of regular cannabis on streets goes for $60 &#8230; medical costs $265 an ounce. Which would you buy?&#8221;</p> <p>For the state&#8217;s 5-year-old program to truly serve lawmakers&#8217; intention &#8211; relieving the nausea and pain suffered by New Mexicans with specific chronic and terminal illnesses &#8211; it is vital the Health Department do its analysis and any actions in the sunlight.</p> <p>This editorial first appeared in the Albuquerque Journal. It was written by members of the editorial board and is unsigned as it represents the opinion of the newspaper rather than the writers.</p> <p />
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Editorial: Medical pot program can’t flourish in dark <p>.......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... ..........</p> <p /> <p>While the state has increased the number of conditions (17 including PTSD and chronic pain, with three more proposed) and thus the number of patients who qualify for treatment with medical marijuana (10,289 as of Oct. 31), it has not increased the number of licensed providers (23, down from 25) or plants they can cultivate (still 150).</p> <p>According to a new Department of Health survey of pot producers and patients, suppliers are turning away thousands of patients and rationing their buds, and patients are being forced to buy their pot on the street.</p> <p>And that&#8217;s where &#8220;the quality is usually better, and it&#8217;s cheaper. That&#8217;s not right,&#8221; one survey respondent said.</p> <p>He or she is absolutely right.</p> <p>Medical cannabis program coordinator Andrea Sundberg says of the survey that DOH is &#8220;taking it seriously. &#8230; We&#8217;re analyzing it to determine what the next best steps are going to be.&#8221;</p> <p>ADVERTISEMENT</p> <p>New Mexico does not need to go down the high-on-life roads of California and Colorado, with magic brownie shops on every corner catering to folks with ennui. But the fact that the majority of the prescriptions written here are for difficult-to-pinpoint diagnoses such as PTSD and chronic pain should raise more than eyebrows.</p> <p>So should DOH&#8217;s continued secrecy around providers, which encourages the gouging one respondent cited, &#8220;an ounce of regular cannabis on streets goes for $60 &#8230; medical costs $265 an ounce. Which would you buy?&#8221;</p> <p>For the state&#8217;s 5-year-old program to truly serve lawmakers&#8217; intention &#8211; relieving the nausea and pain suffered by New Mexicans with specific chronic and terminal illnesses &#8211; it is vital the Health Department do its analysis and any actions in the sunlight.</p> <p>This editorial first appeared in the Albuquerque Journal. It was written by members of the editorial board and is unsigned as it represents the opinion of the newspaper rather than the writers.</p> <p />
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<p>President Donald Trump and his top national security aides have yet to reach a decision on a new approach to the nearly 16-year war and occupation in Afghanistan after meeting for hours at Camp David.</p> <p>Trump returned to his private golf course in Bedminster, New Jersey, on Friday after spending the day at the presidential retreat in Maryland, where White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said he was &#8220;briefed extensively by his national security team on a new strategy to protect America&#8217;s interests in South Asia.&#8221;</p> <p>&#8220;The president is studying and considering his options and will make an announcement to the American people, to our allies and partners, and to the world at the appropriate time,&#8221; the White House said, according to <a href="http://www.military.com/daily-news/2017/08/18/still-no-decision-afghanistan-despite-trumps-strategy-session.html" type="external">Military.com</a>.</p> <p>Trump tweeted that he had a &#8220;GREAT meeting on National Security, the Border and the Military&#8221; on Friday.</p> <p>No announcement was made on whether more troops would be committed to the region.</p> <p>The president was joined by Vice President Mike Pence, Chief of Staff John Kelly, National Security Adviser HR McMaster, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Secretary of Defense James Mattis, among others.</p> <p>On Thursday, Mattis <a href="https://www.state.gov/secretary/remarks/2017/08/273513.htm" type="external">told</a> reporters at the State Department that the Trump administration &#8220;will move this toward a decision&#8221; on Afghanistan during the retreat at Camp David.</p> <p>&#8220;We are coming very close to a decision, and I anticipate it in the very near future,&#8221; Mattis said.</p> <p>Read more</p> <p><a href="https://www.rt.com/usa/392511-afghanistan-us-troops-increase-mattis-trump/" type="external" /></p> <p>In June, Mattis confirmed that Trump granted him the authority to set troop levels in Afghanistan. However, without the president signing off on a full strategy, the defense secretary has not made any changes to troop levels.</p> <p>Mattis has reportedly been considering a plan from General John Nicholson, commander of U.S Forces-Afghanistan, who said the US needs an additional 3,000-5,000 troops to be successful in the region.</p> <p>According to the <a href="https://fas.org/sgp/crs/natsec/R44116.pdf" type="external">Congressional Research Service</a>, there were 9,800 troops in Afghanistan at the end of 2016.</p> <p>Nicholson was not among the president&#8217;s national security aides at Camp David Friday.</p> <p>When asked Monday if Trump has confidence in Nicholson, Mattis told the press to &#8220;Ask the president.&#8221;</p> <p>&#8220;I will tell you right now, he is our commander in the field, he has the confidence of NATO, he has the confidence of Afghanistan, he has the confidence of the United States,&#8221; Mattis said, according to the <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/mattis-says-decision-near-on-new-afghan-policy/2017/08/17/df945538-8378-11e7-9e7a-20fa8d7a0db6_story.html" type="external">Washington Post</a>.</p> <p>The White House has also considered a plan from Erik Prince, founder of the private security firm formerly called Blackwater, who proposed outsourcing the job of training and assisting Afghan forces to private contractors.</p> <p>Prince&#8217;s plan was presented to Mattis by Trump&#8217;s former chief strategist Steve Bannon.</p> <p>Lawmakers have been growing increasingly frustrated with the Trump administration over the lack of direction in Afghanistan. Last week, Senator John McCain (R-Arizona), chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, unveiled his own &#8220;strategy for success,&#8221; which he plans to bring to a vote when the Senate returns in September.</p> <p>&#8220;Nearly seven months into President Trump&#8217;s administration, we&#8217;ve had no strategy at all as conditions on the ground have steadily worsened,&#8221; McCain said in a <a href="https://www.mccain.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?ID=C3ECF1F6-6E14-4110-807A-CD2D5E9BE1D2" type="external">statement</a>. &#8220;We are losing in Afghanistan and time is of the essence if we intend to turn the tide.&#8221;</p>
Trump reviews military options for Afghanistan at Camp David, makes no decision
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https://newsline.com/trump-reviews-military-options-for-afghanistan-at-camp-david-makes-no-decision/
2017-08-19
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Trump reviews military options for Afghanistan at Camp David, makes no decision <p>President Donald Trump and his top national security aides have yet to reach a decision on a new approach to the nearly 16-year war and occupation in Afghanistan after meeting for hours at Camp David.</p> <p>Trump returned to his private golf course in Bedminster, New Jersey, on Friday after spending the day at the presidential retreat in Maryland, where White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said he was &#8220;briefed extensively by his national security team on a new strategy to protect America&#8217;s interests in South Asia.&#8221;</p> <p>&#8220;The president is studying and considering his options and will make an announcement to the American people, to our allies and partners, and to the world at the appropriate time,&#8221; the White House said, according to <a href="http://www.military.com/daily-news/2017/08/18/still-no-decision-afghanistan-despite-trumps-strategy-session.html" type="external">Military.com</a>.</p> <p>Trump tweeted that he had a &#8220;GREAT meeting on National Security, the Border and the Military&#8221; on Friday.</p> <p>No announcement was made on whether more troops would be committed to the region.</p> <p>The president was joined by Vice President Mike Pence, Chief of Staff John Kelly, National Security Adviser HR McMaster, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Secretary of Defense James Mattis, among others.</p> <p>On Thursday, Mattis <a href="https://www.state.gov/secretary/remarks/2017/08/273513.htm" type="external">told</a> reporters at the State Department that the Trump administration &#8220;will move this toward a decision&#8221; on Afghanistan during the retreat at Camp David.</p> <p>&#8220;We are coming very close to a decision, and I anticipate it in the very near future,&#8221; Mattis said.</p> <p>Read more</p> <p><a href="https://www.rt.com/usa/392511-afghanistan-us-troops-increase-mattis-trump/" type="external" /></p> <p>In June, Mattis confirmed that Trump granted him the authority to set troop levels in Afghanistan. However, without the president signing off on a full strategy, the defense secretary has not made any changes to troop levels.</p> <p>Mattis has reportedly been considering a plan from General John Nicholson, commander of U.S Forces-Afghanistan, who said the US needs an additional 3,000-5,000 troops to be successful in the region.</p> <p>According to the <a href="https://fas.org/sgp/crs/natsec/R44116.pdf" type="external">Congressional Research Service</a>, there were 9,800 troops in Afghanistan at the end of 2016.</p> <p>Nicholson was not among the president&#8217;s national security aides at Camp David Friday.</p> <p>When asked Monday if Trump has confidence in Nicholson, Mattis told the press to &#8220;Ask the president.&#8221;</p> <p>&#8220;I will tell you right now, he is our commander in the field, he has the confidence of NATO, he has the confidence of Afghanistan, he has the confidence of the United States,&#8221; Mattis said, according to the <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/mattis-says-decision-near-on-new-afghan-policy/2017/08/17/df945538-8378-11e7-9e7a-20fa8d7a0db6_story.html" type="external">Washington Post</a>.</p> <p>The White House has also considered a plan from Erik Prince, founder of the private security firm formerly called Blackwater, who proposed outsourcing the job of training and assisting Afghan forces to private contractors.</p> <p>Prince&#8217;s plan was presented to Mattis by Trump&#8217;s former chief strategist Steve Bannon.</p> <p>Lawmakers have been growing increasingly frustrated with the Trump administration over the lack of direction in Afghanistan. Last week, Senator John McCain (R-Arizona), chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, unveiled his own &#8220;strategy for success,&#8221; which he plans to bring to a vote when the Senate returns in September.</p> <p>&#8220;Nearly seven months into President Trump&#8217;s administration, we&#8217;ve had no strategy at all as conditions on the ground have steadily worsened,&#8221; McCain said in a <a href="https://www.mccain.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?ID=C3ECF1F6-6E14-4110-807A-CD2D5E9BE1D2" type="external">statement</a>. &#8220;We are losing in Afghanistan and time is of the essence if we intend to turn the tide.&#8221;</p>
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<p>In the past few years the word hypocrisy has been used increasingly in political discussions. The author of a column last year in the New Yorker wondered, for example, whether some good might come of America's recognition that the Vietnam war is a catastrophe: "Such an admission and recognition," he said, "has helped create a generation that will never entirely lose its disgust for hypocrisy or abandon its search for a sweeter life." Such vague moralizing has become increasingly common in American journalism, perhaps because many journalists cannot resist the temptation of becoming more "significant" writers by giving us their reflections on American life. The issues they touch on are serious, but often their response to them is tainted with cant, a word Samuel Johnson defined as "a whining pretension to goodness, in formal and affected terms." The moralizing style is a rhetoric meant for those who are too bored or apocalyptic to deal with particular issues, a rhetoric that makes a high-minded appeal to our worst self-righteous tendencies. And the easiest way to moralize is to accuse someone of hypocrisy, a charge that shifts the discussion from particular issues to unverifiable motives.</p> <p />
Is Hypocrisy What's Wrong?
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https://dissentmagazine.org/article/is-hypocrisy-whats-wrong
2018-10-06
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Is Hypocrisy What's Wrong? <p>In the past few years the word hypocrisy has been used increasingly in political discussions. The author of a column last year in the New Yorker wondered, for example, whether some good might come of America's recognition that the Vietnam war is a catastrophe: "Such an admission and recognition," he said, "has helped create a generation that will never entirely lose its disgust for hypocrisy or abandon its search for a sweeter life." Such vague moralizing has become increasingly common in American journalism, perhaps because many journalists cannot resist the temptation of becoming more "significant" writers by giving us their reflections on American life. The issues they touch on are serious, but often their response to them is tainted with cant, a word Samuel Johnson defined as "a whining pretension to goodness, in formal and affected terms." The moralizing style is a rhetoric meant for those who are too bored or apocalyptic to deal with particular issues, a rhetoric that makes a high-minded appeal to our worst self-righteous tendencies. And the easiest way to moralize is to accuse someone of hypocrisy, a charge that shifts the discussion from particular issues to unverifiable motives.</p> <p />
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<p>The Bush name and legacy may have negative impact o n Jeb&#8217;s favorability rating.</p> <p>&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;</p> <p>The favorability rating of Jeb Bush, a once top-tier candidate for the Republican presidential nominee, has now sunk below water: According to the January 8, 2016 Gallop Poll, Bush&#8217;s net favorability rating among Republican voters has dropped from 27 percent in July, 2015, to a current negative 1 percent.&amp;#160; This means that an increasing number of Republican voters have a negative opinion of Bush as opposed to those who have a positive opinion of him&#8212;his net favorability rating has sunk 28 points in six months.</p> <p>Many claim that this decline in Bush&#8217;s favorability standing is due to his close allegiance to the Republican Party establishment, and that he has failed to connect with the energy that is motivating the base of the Party.&amp;#160; &amp;#160;Bush is certainly out of step with the large majority of the Republican voters, while persons like Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, Ben Carson and Marco Rubio are in step with them and continue to have strong favorability ratings.&amp;#160; Ted Cruz is out front of the pack with a 45 net percent favorability rating; Ben Carson is second with 40 percent; third is Marco Rubio with 35 percent.</p> <p>At the beginning of this political season, the Bush name and legacy were popularly believed to be sufficient to pole-vault Jeb Bush to victory in the Republican race.&amp;#160; This has proven to be a patently false assumption.&amp;#160; Maybe this is due to the current political environment, or to Jeb&#8217;s persona, or a combination of factors.&amp;#160; And maybe Barbara Bush, the former President George W. Bush&#8217;s wife, was on target when she said that the Republicans have concluded that they don&#8217;t need another Bush in the White House.&amp;#160; Be as that may, the fact is that Jeb is now below the surface of the water and sinking fast; odds are that his candidacy has dropped to a depth that is beyond salvation.</p>
Jeb Bush’s Favorability Rating Sinks Like a Rock in Water
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http://politicalblindspot.com/jeb-bushs-favorability-rating-sinks-like-a-rock-in-water/
2016-01-12
4left
Jeb Bush’s Favorability Rating Sinks Like a Rock in Water <p>The Bush name and legacy may have negative impact o n Jeb&#8217;s favorability rating.</p> <p>&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;</p> <p>The favorability rating of Jeb Bush, a once top-tier candidate for the Republican presidential nominee, has now sunk below water: According to the January 8, 2016 Gallop Poll, Bush&#8217;s net favorability rating among Republican voters has dropped from 27 percent in July, 2015, to a current negative 1 percent.&amp;#160; This means that an increasing number of Republican voters have a negative opinion of Bush as opposed to those who have a positive opinion of him&#8212;his net favorability rating has sunk 28 points in six months.</p> <p>Many claim that this decline in Bush&#8217;s favorability standing is due to his close allegiance to the Republican Party establishment, and that he has failed to connect with the energy that is motivating the base of the Party.&amp;#160; &amp;#160;Bush is certainly out of step with the large majority of the Republican voters, while persons like Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, Ben Carson and Marco Rubio are in step with them and continue to have strong favorability ratings.&amp;#160; Ted Cruz is out front of the pack with a 45 net percent favorability rating; Ben Carson is second with 40 percent; third is Marco Rubio with 35 percent.</p> <p>At the beginning of this political season, the Bush name and legacy were popularly believed to be sufficient to pole-vault Jeb Bush to victory in the Republican race.&amp;#160; This has proven to be a patently false assumption.&amp;#160; Maybe this is due to the current political environment, or to Jeb&#8217;s persona, or a combination of factors.&amp;#160; And maybe Barbara Bush, the former President George W. Bush&#8217;s wife, was on target when she said that the Republicans have concluded that they don&#8217;t need another Bush in the White House.&amp;#160; Be as that may, the fact is that Jeb is now below the surface of the water and sinking fast; odds are that his candidacy has dropped to a depth that is beyond salvation.</p>
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<p>.......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... ..........</p> <p /> <p /> <p>MEXICO CITY &#8212; Rescue workers carefully picked through the rubble of collapsed buildings Thursday, refusing to give up dwindling hope in their search for survivors from a deadly earthquake that hit central Mexico this week, killing hundreds.</p> <p>They were aided by thousands of volunteers who sprung to action after the magnitude 7.1 earthquake Tuesday, including several New Mexicans.</p> <p>ADVERTISEMENT</p> <p>&#8220;Everywhere you look, you see people dropping everything to help,&#8221; said New Mexico native David Alire Garcia, a journalist working here in Mexico City. He was on the 19th floor of his news agency, Reuters, in the city&#8217;s Polanco neighborhood when the earthquake struck.</p> <p>Thousands of volunteers organized into bucket brigades to help dig through the rubble, hand out medicine, food and water to first responders and people displaced by the earthquake that violently shook Mexico&#8217;s capital city and surrounding states and killed at least 270 people. The death toll is expected to continue rising in the days to come.</p> <p>Among those offering help at donation centers were psychologists, people willing to look after lost pets, and others who arrived with homemade food.</p> <p>&#8220;I made 100 ham and cheese sandwiches on baguettes,&#8221; said Margo Galvan, trade representative with the New Mexico Trade and Education Center.</p> <p>Galvan said the office is in an area where several buildings crumbled and remains closed for now. No clients or students from New Mexico were in the city at the time of the earthquake, she said.</p> <p>Officially, more than 40 buildings collapsed. Hundreds more are damaged &#8212; some so badly they are likely to be condemned and for now are cordoned off with red crime scene tape.</p> <p>Search and rescue teams from other countries, including the United States, Chile, Honduras, El Salvador and Israel, are in Mexico helping as time for finding survivors runs out.</p> <p>More than 60 members of Los Angeles County Fire Department&#8217;s Urban Search and Rescue team are in Mexico. Japan sent a team with search and rescue dogs.</p> <p>ADVERTISEMENT</p> <p>Firefighters from other parts of Mexico are also aiding in rescue efforts.</p> <p>&#8220;We need dogs, humans, first responders, because we refuse to give up hope we&#8217;ll find more survivors,&#8221; said Marco Antonio Perez, a soldier at the scene of a toppled building in the Roma neighborhood, one of the hardest-hit areas in the city. As many as 25 people may be buried in that one building, Perez said.</p> <p>At times, the show of solidarity was overwhelming for the professional rescue workers who arrived to help.</p> <p>&#8220;The problem is there are too many people, volunteers on the scene, and the specialists cannot get through,&#8221; said Jonathan Limon, a firefighter from Tijuana who specializes in collapsed buildings.</p> <p>Throngs of volunteers gathered at the Enrique Rebsamen elementary school, where media reports initially said a little girl remained trapped, raising the hopes of a nation desperate for a miracle. Rescue workers had already pulled 11 children from the rubble alive.</p> <p>But by Thursday afternoon, a military official said all the children had been accounted for and were home, hospitalized or died. Crews recovered 25 bodies, including those of 11 children.</p> <p>Rescue efforts continued throughout the city, even during a heavy downpour.</p> <p>Tuesday&#8217;s earthquake, which hit the surrounding states of Morelos, Puebla and Mexico, came on the anniversary of a 1985 quake that killed at least 9,500 people and just 12 days after another temblor left more than 100 people dead near the Pacific coast in southern Mexico.</p> <p>&#8220;We will get back on our feet,&#8221; said Adriana Lopez Rodriguez, 19, one of the thousands of volunteers at the Parque Mexico in the hard-hit La Condesa neighborhood. &#8220;Piece by piece.&#8221;</p>
Thousands help in earthquake rescue
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https://abqjournal.com/1067235/time-running-out-as-crews-search-for-mexican-quake-survivors.html
2017-09-21
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Thousands help in earthquake rescue <p>.......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... ..........</p> <p /> <p /> <p>MEXICO CITY &#8212; Rescue workers carefully picked through the rubble of collapsed buildings Thursday, refusing to give up dwindling hope in their search for survivors from a deadly earthquake that hit central Mexico this week, killing hundreds.</p> <p>They were aided by thousands of volunteers who sprung to action after the magnitude 7.1 earthquake Tuesday, including several New Mexicans.</p> <p>ADVERTISEMENT</p> <p>&#8220;Everywhere you look, you see people dropping everything to help,&#8221; said New Mexico native David Alire Garcia, a journalist working here in Mexico City. He was on the 19th floor of his news agency, Reuters, in the city&#8217;s Polanco neighborhood when the earthquake struck.</p> <p>Thousands of volunteers organized into bucket brigades to help dig through the rubble, hand out medicine, food and water to first responders and people displaced by the earthquake that violently shook Mexico&#8217;s capital city and surrounding states and killed at least 270 people. The death toll is expected to continue rising in the days to come.</p> <p>Among those offering help at donation centers were psychologists, people willing to look after lost pets, and others who arrived with homemade food.</p> <p>&#8220;I made 100 ham and cheese sandwiches on baguettes,&#8221; said Margo Galvan, trade representative with the New Mexico Trade and Education Center.</p> <p>Galvan said the office is in an area where several buildings crumbled and remains closed for now. No clients or students from New Mexico were in the city at the time of the earthquake, she said.</p> <p>Officially, more than 40 buildings collapsed. Hundreds more are damaged &#8212; some so badly they are likely to be condemned and for now are cordoned off with red crime scene tape.</p> <p>Search and rescue teams from other countries, including the United States, Chile, Honduras, El Salvador and Israel, are in Mexico helping as time for finding survivors runs out.</p> <p>More than 60 members of Los Angeles County Fire Department&#8217;s Urban Search and Rescue team are in Mexico. Japan sent a team with search and rescue dogs.</p> <p>ADVERTISEMENT</p> <p>Firefighters from other parts of Mexico are also aiding in rescue efforts.</p> <p>&#8220;We need dogs, humans, first responders, because we refuse to give up hope we&#8217;ll find more survivors,&#8221; said Marco Antonio Perez, a soldier at the scene of a toppled building in the Roma neighborhood, one of the hardest-hit areas in the city. As many as 25 people may be buried in that one building, Perez said.</p> <p>At times, the show of solidarity was overwhelming for the professional rescue workers who arrived to help.</p> <p>&#8220;The problem is there are too many people, volunteers on the scene, and the specialists cannot get through,&#8221; said Jonathan Limon, a firefighter from Tijuana who specializes in collapsed buildings.</p> <p>Throngs of volunteers gathered at the Enrique Rebsamen elementary school, where media reports initially said a little girl remained trapped, raising the hopes of a nation desperate for a miracle. Rescue workers had already pulled 11 children from the rubble alive.</p> <p>But by Thursday afternoon, a military official said all the children had been accounted for and were home, hospitalized or died. Crews recovered 25 bodies, including those of 11 children.</p> <p>Rescue efforts continued throughout the city, even during a heavy downpour.</p> <p>Tuesday&#8217;s earthquake, which hit the surrounding states of Morelos, Puebla and Mexico, came on the anniversary of a 1985 quake that killed at least 9,500 people and just 12 days after another temblor left more than 100 people dead near the Pacific coast in southern Mexico.</p> <p>&#8220;We will get back on our feet,&#8221; said Adriana Lopez Rodriguez, 19, one of the thousands of volunteers at the Parque Mexico in the hard-hit La Condesa neighborhood. &#8220;Piece by piece.&#8221;</p>
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<p>What is wrong with Nancy Pelosi?</p> <p>The House Minority Leader had a bizarre reaction as a reporter was asking her about North Korean aggression: She giggled.</p> <p /> <p>Pelosi was fielding questions from reporters during her weekly press conference, and as she finished an answer about arts funding, one said, "Speaking of the arts," as Pelosi giggled.</p> <p>"Kim Jung In," he continued,&amp;#160;"has been celebrating their ICBM launch with some cultural" events, the reporter said as Pelosi laughed strangely.</p> <p>Pelosi regained her composure as the reporter went on, before she&amp;#160;sighed loudly into the microphone.</p> <p>As the reporter finished asking his question about whether Pelosi thinks the administration will be able to protect the West Coast from an attack, she justified her bonafides by saying she's "one of the few members of Congress to have visited Pyongyang."</p>
Nancy Pelosi bizarrely giggles through question about NKorea aggression
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http://theamericanmirror.com/video-nancy-pelosi-giggles-question-nkorea-aggression/
2017-07-13
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Nancy Pelosi bizarrely giggles through question about NKorea aggression <p>What is wrong with Nancy Pelosi?</p> <p>The House Minority Leader had a bizarre reaction as a reporter was asking her about North Korean aggression: She giggled.</p> <p /> <p>Pelosi was fielding questions from reporters during her weekly press conference, and as she finished an answer about arts funding, one said, "Speaking of the arts," as Pelosi giggled.</p> <p>"Kim Jung In," he continued,&amp;#160;"has been celebrating their ICBM launch with some cultural" events, the reporter said as Pelosi laughed strangely.</p> <p>Pelosi regained her composure as the reporter went on, before she&amp;#160;sighed loudly into the microphone.</p> <p>As the reporter finished asking his question about whether Pelosi thinks the administration will be able to protect the West Coast from an attack, she justified her bonafides by saying she's "one of the few members of Congress to have visited Pyongyang."</p>
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<p>Illinois GOP Rep. Adam Kinzinger said Friday that he doesn&#8217;t really have an issue with President Donald Trump&#8217;s tough rhetoric against North Korea, but he does think the president needs to be very serious to outweigh the issue.</p> <p>He also told MSNBC&#8217;s &#8220; <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/morning-joe/watch/congressman-a-war-vet-says-human-cost-would-be-massive-1022486595521" type="external">Morning Joe</a>&#8220; program, though, that he would not&amp;#160;use the president&#8217;s &#8220;fire and fury&#8221; language.</p> <p>&#8220;I was in an event yesterday, [where] I was talking to a couple that cancelled their trip to Hawaii because they are afraid they will get nuked by North Korea,&#8221; Kinzinger told show host Joe Scarborough. &#8220;I would say &#8216;look, you don&#8217;t have to lose sleep at night because we can defend ourselves against this.'&#8221;</p> <p>However, he later told Fox News&#8217; &#8220; <a href="http://video.foxnews.com/v/5538631094001/?playlist_id=903354961001#sp=show-clips" type="external">America&#8217;s Newsroom</a>,&#8221; if the worst happens and If North Korea launches attacks on Guam it will not be because of Trump&#8217;s rhetoric, he continued.</p> <p>&#8220;The North Korean regime&#8217;s behavior has been going on long before President Trump was even talking about running for president,&#8221; said Kinzinger.</p> <p>He also told Fox News that he believes there is a &#8220;freakout&#8221; over Trump&#8217;s tough talk because people aren&#8217;t used to hearing it.</p> <p>&#8220;Tough talk needs to accompany a credible talk,&#8221; Kinzinger said, &#8220;to hopefully compel the North Koreans to see that any provocative action will lead to the destruction not just of the regime, but Kim Jong Un will lose his life. That is a thing he treasures most.&#8221;</p> <p>Meanwhile, Kinzinger told Scarborough that Trump should be sticking to one message and uniting the American people, and not waging attacks against Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell over the Senate&#8217;s failure to pass Obamacare repeal legislation.</p> <p>Kinzinger said the United States needs to prepare in three ways to meet the North Korean threat, including stepping up pressure on China, boosting the U.S. military&#8217;s missile defense system, making sure there is a &#8220;credible military option.&#8221;</p> <p>A military option, though, would lead to a &#8220;lot of bloodshed,&#8221; Kinzinger, an Air Force veteran of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan said, but he does think preparation on the three points he mentioned bould make war less likely.</p> <p>&#8220;We have to remember that it is the doomsday scenario we can&#8217;t allow to happen,&#8221; Kinzinger said, as the human cost of a war with North Korea would be &#8220;massive.&#8221;</p> <p>&#8220;War is something we always have to avoid, compared to what people think going in,&#8221; said Kinzinger. &#8220;What&#8217;s more horrific is North Korea with a nuclear weapon. It is where you could have the North Koreans selling it to other enemies, so the attack in the United States doesn&#8217;t come to the West Coast.&#8221;</p> <p>The United States also must&amp;#160;focus on showing China it is serious, and a war would be against its interest.</p> <p>Kinzinger said he does think the United States should &#8220;be very afraid&#8221; and to look at North Korean leader Kim Jong Un&#8217;s actions as &#8220;highly rational.&#8221;</p> <p>&#8220;He has managed to keep his power,&#8221; said Kinzinger. &#8220;He doesn&#8217;t want to have that stripped away.&#8221;</p> <p>On Fox News, Kinzinger said he does believe years of failed diplomacy have led to the current tensions with North Korea.</p> <p>&#8220;In order to have an effect with diplomacy you have to have a credible military option backing it up,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It&#8217;s the diplomatic instrument of power&#8230;diplomatic talk over the last couple of decades has led to a nuclear North Korea. That&#8217;s the big issue.&#8221;</p> <p>Related stories:</p>
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Kinzinger: Trump's Tough Talk Won't Spur North Korean Attack <p>Illinois GOP Rep. Adam Kinzinger said Friday that he doesn&#8217;t really have an issue with President Donald Trump&#8217;s tough rhetoric against North Korea, but he does think the president needs to be very serious to outweigh the issue.</p> <p>He also told MSNBC&#8217;s &#8220; <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/morning-joe/watch/congressman-a-war-vet-says-human-cost-would-be-massive-1022486595521" type="external">Morning Joe</a>&#8220; program, though, that he would not&amp;#160;use the president&#8217;s &#8220;fire and fury&#8221; language.</p> <p>&#8220;I was in an event yesterday, [where] I was talking to a couple that cancelled their trip to Hawaii because they are afraid they will get nuked by North Korea,&#8221; Kinzinger told show host Joe Scarborough. &#8220;I would say &#8216;look, you don&#8217;t have to lose sleep at night because we can defend ourselves against this.'&#8221;</p> <p>However, he later told Fox News&#8217; &#8220; <a href="http://video.foxnews.com/v/5538631094001/?playlist_id=903354961001#sp=show-clips" type="external">America&#8217;s Newsroom</a>,&#8221; if the worst happens and If North Korea launches attacks on Guam it will not be because of Trump&#8217;s rhetoric, he continued.</p> <p>&#8220;The North Korean regime&#8217;s behavior has been going on long before President Trump was even talking about running for president,&#8221; said Kinzinger.</p> <p>He also told Fox News that he believes there is a &#8220;freakout&#8221; over Trump&#8217;s tough talk because people aren&#8217;t used to hearing it.</p> <p>&#8220;Tough talk needs to accompany a credible talk,&#8221; Kinzinger said, &#8220;to hopefully compel the North Koreans to see that any provocative action will lead to the destruction not just of the regime, but Kim Jong Un will lose his life. That is a thing he treasures most.&#8221;</p> <p>Meanwhile, Kinzinger told Scarborough that Trump should be sticking to one message and uniting the American people, and not waging attacks against Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell over the Senate&#8217;s failure to pass Obamacare repeal legislation.</p> <p>Kinzinger said the United States needs to prepare in three ways to meet the North Korean threat, including stepping up pressure on China, boosting the U.S. military&#8217;s missile defense system, making sure there is a &#8220;credible military option.&#8221;</p> <p>A military option, though, would lead to a &#8220;lot of bloodshed,&#8221; Kinzinger, an Air Force veteran of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan said, but he does think preparation on the three points he mentioned bould make war less likely.</p> <p>&#8220;We have to remember that it is the doomsday scenario we can&#8217;t allow to happen,&#8221; Kinzinger said, as the human cost of a war with North Korea would be &#8220;massive.&#8221;</p> <p>&#8220;War is something we always have to avoid, compared to what people think going in,&#8221; said Kinzinger. &#8220;What&#8217;s more horrific is North Korea with a nuclear weapon. It is where you could have the North Koreans selling it to other enemies, so the attack in the United States doesn&#8217;t come to the West Coast.&#8221;</p> <p>The United States also must&amp;#160;focus on showing China it is serious, and a war would be against its interest.</p> <p>Kinzinger said he does think the United States should &#8220;be very afraid&#8221; and to look at North Korean leader Kim Jong Un&#8217;s actions as &#8220;highly rational.&#8221;</p> <p>&#8220;He has managed to keep his power,&#8221; said Kinzinger. &#8220;He doesn&#8217;t want to have that stripped away.&#8221;</p> <p>On Fox News, Kinzinger said he does believe years of failed diplomacy have led to the current tensions with North Korea.</p> <p>&#8220;In order to have an effect with diplomacy you have to have a credible military option backing it up,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It&#8217;s the diplomatic instrument of power&#8230;diplomatic talk over the last couple of decades has led to a nuclear North Korea. That&#8217;s the big issue.&#8221;</p> <p>Related stories:</p>
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<p /> <p>Ford Motor Co executive chairman Bill Ford Jr. said on Wednesday he has met with Donald Trump to talk about the Republican presidential candidate's extensive criticism of the automaker's investments in Mexico.</p> <p>Continue Reading Below</p> <p>Ford told the Economic Club of Washington that he thought Trump's criticism of the No. 2 automaker's foreign investments were "infuriating and "frustrating" because of its extensive investments and employment in the United States. Trump has threatened if elected to impose hefty tariffs on Ford imports from Mexico.</p> <p>Last year, Ford said that chief executive Mark Fields had written to Trump to explain its investments in Mexico.</p> <p>Ford announced last month that all of the company's small-car production would be leaving U.S. plants and heading to lower-cost Mexico, drawing another rebuke from the White House hopeful.</p> <p>Ford has repeatedly said no U.S. jobs will be lost because of the move. Trump called Ford's decision "horrible." He has criticized Ford's Mexican investments for more than a year and vowed to pressure the automaker to reverse course if elected.</p> <p>"We shouldn't allow it to happen," Trump said.</p> <p>Advertisement</p> <p>Many major automakers have announced big expansions in Mexico, where labor rates are much lower than what U.S. workers make.</p> <p>(Reporting by David Shepardson; Editing by Alistair Bell)</p>
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Ford chairman met with Trump over Mexico comments <p /> <p>Ford Motor Co executive chairman Bill Ford Jr. said on Wednesday he has met with Donald Trump to talk about the Republican presidential candidate's extensive criticism of the automaker's investments in Mexico.</p> <p>Continue Reading Below</p> <p>Ford told the Economic Club of Washington that he thought Trump's criticism of the No. 2 automaker's foreign investments were "infuriating and "frustrating" because of its extensive investments and employment in the United States. Trump has threatened if elected to impose hefty tariffs on Ford imports from Mexico.</p> <p>Last year, Ford said that chief executive Mark Fields had written to Trump to explain its investments in Mexico.</p> <p>Ford announced last month that all of the company's small-car production would be leaving U.S. plants and heading to lower-cost Mexico, drawing another rebuke from the White House hopeful.</p> <p>Ford has repeatedly said no U.S. jobs will be lost because of the move. Trump called Ford's decision "horrible." He has criticized Ford's Mexican investments for more than a year and vowed to pressure the automaker to reverse course if elected.</p> <p>"We shouldn't allow it to happen," Trump said.</p> <p>Advertisement</p> <p>Many major automakers have announced big expansions in Mexico, where labor rates are much lower than what U.S. workers make.</p> <p>(Reporting by David Shepardson; Editing by Alistair Bell)</p>
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