Off the grid wikipedia
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Popularity
On 13 April 2006, USA Today reported that there were "some 180,000 families living off-grid, a figure that has jumped 33% a year for a decade," and cited Richard Perez, publisher of Home Power Magazine,[4] as the source.[5] Assuming the same rate of growth, there would be a quarter million off-grid households in the United States by late 2007. Because many third-world citizens have never had the chance to go on the grid, current estimates are that 1.7 billion people live off-grid worldwide.[6]
[edit] Environmental impact
The State of California is encouraging solar and wind power generation that is connected to the electrical grid to avoid the use of toxic lead acid batteries for night time storage [7]. Grid-tie systems are more expensive due to the extra hardware costs (such as a grid-tie inverter) especially when old car batteries that can no longer supply enough current to start a car are re-used [8]
Going off-grid can be done for altruistic reasons or to lower the environmental impact of living, as the typically limited amount of on-site renewable energy available is an incentive to reduce its use. But if energy usage is not reduced, going off grid actually has a larger environmental impact vs using the grid, due to the lower efficiencies of the components. It is often done to residential buildings only occasionally occupied, such as vacation cabins, to avoid high initial costs of traditional utility connections. Other persons choose to live in houses where the cost of outside utilities is prohibitive, or such a distance away as to be impractical. In his book "How to live off-grid" Nick Rosen lists seven reasons for going off-grid. The top two are saving money, and reducing the carbon footprint. Others include survivalism, preparing for the collapse of the oil economy and bringing life back to the countryside.
USA Today
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In May 2006, USA Today reported that the National Security Agency had been working with AT&T, Verizon, and BellSouth to compile “the largest database in the world,” according to the anonymous sources inside the agency that went public.[6] This allowed the paper to uncover a new facet of the agency and further upset the White House after the New York Times revealed the Bush administration authorized the NSA to wiretap international phone calls and e-mails traveling within the U.S.[7]
Anarchy
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Karl Hess (1923-1994) was an American writer and libertarian activist. He joined the Libertarian Party and was the editor of its newspaper from 1986 to 1990. This short text first appeared in the magazine “The Dandelion” in 1980. It stresses the position already highlighted by the historian and theoretician of the anarchist movement, Max Nettlau that anarchy means freedom and voluntary self-organization and no one in the anarchist movement is interested in prescribing which of the various “isms” (capitalism, communism, mutualism, Catholicism, etc.) any anarchist should follow. This message is very relevant now that the interest for anarchy is growing and that some people, who profess to be anarchists, are battling in order to promote very vigorously (and in some cases trying to impose) their own brand of anarchism, either anarcho-communism or anarcho-capitalism. To all of them the message from Karl Hess is: neither anarchist-communist nor anarchist-capitalist, because “there is no hyphen after the anarchist”
Linda Norgrove
Thursday, October 14, 2010
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Linda Norgrove By AP/Heidi Vogt and Robert Kennedy Monday, Oct. 11, 2010
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1) In Brussels, NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen emphasized that "whatever happened, I would like to stress that those who are responsible of course are the captors."
2) Norgrove, 36, from Scotland's Isle of Lewis, worked on a U.S.-funded aid project for Development Alternatives Inc., a Bethesda, Maryland-based organization. She was abducted in an ambush on Sept. 26 while driving toward Asadabad, the capital of Kunar province, according to Afghan officials. She was to oversee projects in the area.
Linda Norgrove US commando disciplinary
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Linda Norgrove managed to break free from her captors, but tragically was not seen by her rescuers, according to Guardian sources
Startling details of the daring rescue mission that ended in the death of the British aid worker Linda Norgrove can be revealed today, as a joint US-UK investigation into the incident gets under way.
The Guardian has learned that a US special forces soldier who is believed to have accidentally killed Norgrove is likely to face disciplinary action after failing to inform his commanding officers that he had used a grenade until long after the event.
Sources in Kabul and London have confirmed that during the assault on the kidnappers' hideaway the hostage broke away from her captors and lay in a foetal position to avoid harm.
The soldier from the elite Seal Team Six special forces unite failed to see Norgrove and tossed his fragmentation grenade in, which exploded next to her.
It has also emerged today that:
• US forces monitored the kidnappers using a network of informers and drones
US contractor deaths skyrocket in Afghanistan
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Recently released Department of Labor records show that at least 521 U.S. contractors have been killed in Afghanistan since the war began in October 2001. The majority, 332, have been killed in the last 12 months alone -- an increase of 175 percent over the previous year.
According to the DOL's website, this is not an official count of the number of contractor deaths. The statistics only reflect the number for which an insurance claim was filed.
Contributing to this alarming trend is the Taliban's recent increase in targeting State Department and U.S. Agency for International Development "implementing partners" -- another name for firms contracted by the U.S. government to implement development programs in Afghanistan.
Taliban attacks US aid office in Afghanistan
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The pre-dawn attack took place in the relatively peaceful Kunduz province.
Provincial governor Mohammad Omar said that Taliban gunmen and suicide bombers stormed the offices of Development Alternatives Inc. (DAI).
Development Alternatives Inc
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U.S.
Mandated Oversight Missing in Afghan Contracts
Sanada Sahoo
WASHINGTON, 15 Feb (IPS) - Lack of oversight of United States Agency for International Development (USAID) contractors in Afghanistan is not a new story.
But when all eight USAID contractors in Afghanistan who had been called in for a roundtable meeting with Sen. Claire McCaskill earlier this month said they do not have to file any documents with USAID for the multi-million-dollar projects they are working on, even the senator was surprised.
"I knew USAID wasn't excited about SPOT filing," she said at the Feb. 3 roundtable meeting of the Senate Subcommittee on Contracting Oversight. "But I didn't know they were this unexcited."
In 2008, USAID, the State and Defence Departments signed a memorandum of understanding agreeing that the Synchronised Predeployment and Operational Tracker, or SPOT, would be the system of record.
However, representatives of the organisations present at the roundtable meeting said their contracts with USAID did not include a clause on having to file SPOT documents.
As late as November last year, the Government Accountability Office found that USAID does not require SPOT documents from its contractors in Afghanistan and has no time frame for doing so.
The roundtable had invited Black & Veatch, Creative Associates International, Chemonics International, Inc., Deloitte & Touche (BearingPoint), Development Alternatives, Inc., International Relief and Development Inc., International Resources Group, and the Louis Berger Group.
Among those present, all except the Louis Berger Group report exclusively to USAID. Louis Berger also reports to a private contractor.
Development Alternatives Inc. sourcewatch
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Development Alternatives Inc.
From SourceWatch
Jump to: navigation, search
Development Alternatives, Inc. (DAI) is a development consulting company based in Bethesda, MD, USA.
DAI acted as a conduit for U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) (through the Office of Transition Initiatives) and National Endowment for Democracy (NED} funds to the Venezuelan opposition to president Hugo Chavez. Furthermore, it was instrumental along with NED affiliated organizations for financing black propaganda on Venezuelan private network TV during the general strike in 2002. Documents obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request show that DAI was required to keep certain personnel in Venezuela and had to consult with USAID about staff changes. Philip Agee, a former CIA officer, suggests that this is merely a cover for what passed for CIA operations in the past [Agee, op. cit. (transcript here)].
In 1990, Experience International Inc. was purchased by Development Alternatives, Inc. (DAI) and operated as that company's Agriculture and Agribusiness Division. [1]
EXCERPTs:
1) In Brussels, NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen emphasized that "whatever happened, I would like to stress that those who are responsible of course are the captors."
2) Norgrove, 36, from Scotland's Isle of Lewis, worked on a U.S.-funded aid project for Development Alternatives Inc., a Bethesda, Maryland-based organization. She was abducted in an ambush on Sept. 26 while driving toward Asadabad, the capital of Kunar province, according to Afghan officials. She was to oversee projects in the area.
Linda Norgrove US commando disciplinary
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Linda Norgrove managed to break free from her captors, but tragically was not seen by her rescuers, according to Guardian sources
Startling details of the daring rescue mission that ended in the death of the British aid worker Linda Norgrove can be revealed today, as a joint US-UK investigation into the incident gets under way.
The Guardian has learned that a US special forces soldier who is believed to have accidentally killed Norgrove is likely to face disciplinary action after failing to inform his commanding officers that he had used a grenade until long after the event.
Sources in Kabul and London have confirmed that during the assault on the kidnappers' hideaway the hostage broke away from her captors and lay in a foetal position to avoid harm.
The soldier from the elite Seal Team Six special forces unite failed to see Norgrove and tossed his fragmentation grenade in, which exploded next to her.
It has also emerged today that:
• US forces monitored the kidnappers using a network of informers and drones
US contractor deaths skyrocket in Afghanistan
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Recently released Department of Labor records show that at least 521 U.S. contractors have been killed in Afghanistan since the war began in October 2001. The majority, 332, have been killed in the last 12 months alone -- an increase of 175 percent over the previous year.
According to the DOL's website, this is not an official count of the number of contractor deaths. The statistics only reflect the number for which an insurance claim was filed.
Contributing to this alarming trend is the Taliban's recent increase in targeting State Department and U.S. Agency for International Development "implementing partners" -- another name for firms contracted by the U.S. government to implement development programs in Afghanistan.
Taliban attacks US aid office in Afghanistan
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The pre-dawn attack took place in the relatively peaceful Kunduz province.
Provincial governor Mohammad Omar said that Taliban gunmen and suicide bombers stormed the offices of Development Alternatives Inc. (DAI).
Development Alternatives Inc
EXCERPTs:
U.S.
Mandated Oversight Missing in Afghan Contracts
Sanada Sahoo
WASHINGTON, 15 Feb (IPS) - Lack of oversight of United States Agency for International Development (USAID) contractors in Afghanistan is not a new story.
But when all eight USAID contractors in Afghanistan who had been called in for a roundtable meeting with Sen. Claire McCaskill earlier this month said they do not have to file any documents with USAID for the multi-million-dollar projects they are working on, even the senator was surprised.
"I knew USAID wasn't excited about SPOT filing," she said at the Feb. 3 roundtable meeting of the Senate Subcommittee on Contracting Oversight. "But I didn't know they were this unexcited."
In 2008, USAID, the State and Defence Departments signed a memorandum of understanding agreeing that the Synchronised Predeployment and Operational Tracker, or SPOT, would be the system of record.
However, representatives of the organisations present at the roundtable meeting said their contracts with USAID did not include a clause on having to file SPOT documents.
As late as November last year, the Government Accountability Office found that USAID does not require SPOT documents from its contractors in Afghanistan and has no time frame for doing so.
The roundtable had invited Black & Veatch, Creative Associates International, Chemonics International, Inc., Deloitte & Touche (BearingPoint), Development Alternatives, Inc., International Relief and Development Inc., International Resources Group, and the Louis Berger Group.
Among those present, all except the Louis Berger Group report exclusively to USAID. Louis Berger also reports to a private contractor.
Development Alternatives Inc. sourcewatch
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Development Alternatives Inc.
From SourceWatch
Jump to: navigation, search
Development Alternatives, Inc. (DAI) is a development consulting company based in Bethesda, MD, USA.
DAI acted as a conduit for U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) (through the Office of Transition Initiatives) and National Endowment for Democracy (NED} funds to the Venezuelan opposition to president Hugo Chavez. Furthermore, it was instrumental along with NED affiliated organizations for financing black propaganda on Venezuelan private network TV during the general strike in 2002. Documents obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request show that DAI was required to keep certain personnel in Venezuela and had to consult with USAID about staff changes. Philip Agee, a former CIA officer, suggests that this is merely a cover for what passed for CIA operations in the past [Agee, op. cit. (transcript here)].
In 1990, Experience International Inc. was purchased by Development Alternatives, Inc. (DAI) and operated as that company's Agriculture and Agribusiness Division. [1]
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
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Why Child Abuse Investigations Don't Help Kids
Mon October 4, 2010, by Maia Szalavitz, - 40 comments
http://healthland.time.com/2010/10/04/study-why-child-abuse-investigations-dont-help-kids/
Child welfare agencies have a thankless task: investigate reports of child maltreatment and determine, first, whether they are true or false, then whether more damage will be done by a) leaving children in a potentially harmful environment, or b) ripping them away from the only parents they know and placing them in a new family that may or may not be better.
Now a new study published Monday suggests that child abuse investigations do not result in long-term improvement in family functioning or child behavior, and in fact are associated with increased depression among mothers. An editorial accompanying the new study proclaims: "Child Protective Services [CPS] Has Outlived Its Usefulness." (More on Time.com: Side Effect of the Recession: An Increase in Child Abuse)
The study and editorial were both published in the most recent edition of the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine. The research examined data on 595 at-risk children who were already involved in a study about the long-term causes and consequences of child maltreatment. It compared children whose families were investigated by CPS - about 28% of the sample - with those who were not.
The study did not investigate the effects of foster care placement: researchers looked only at cases where the child had the same maternal caregiver at age 4 and again at age 8, although those who spent some time in foster care were not excluded. Since about 80% of child maltreatment cases do not result in child removal, the results would probably apply to the majority of children in the CPS system.
According to lead study author Dr. Kristine Campbell, an assistant professor of pediatrics at the University of Utah: "Over a long-term view, between ages 4 and 8, there was no evidence within this sample that a CPS investigation changed certain modifiable risk factors such as education, poverty and social support [for these families.] There was no change in family [functioning or child behavior problems] where a CPS investigation occurred, and for maternal depression symptoms there was actually a worsening."
Campbell notes that the research couldn't determine whether being investigated for child abuse caused depression among mothers — but it would obviously not be surprising if it did.
"I don't think we should be surprised by [the findings] and I don't think that it's role of CPS to fix poverty. But we do spend lot of money on investigations. They're mandated by law. If we are going to go through this process as a society and say that it's important to do investigations, we should look at it as an opportunity to prevent future problems," Campbell says. But her research suggests that that opportunity is currently being missed. (More on Time.com: Cyberbullying? Homophobia? Tyler Clementi's Death Highlights Online Lawlessness)
That's why editorial author Dr. Abraham Bergman, professor of pediatrics at the University of Washington, proposes a radical solution. He suggests leaving investigations of physical abuse to police, turning prevention and treatment services over to public health nurses and leaving CPS with a narrower role as intermediaries when courts must be involved with child abuse.
He says that what CPS does now "is mostly investigation and not much support and it's an overwhelming task given to people who don't have much training and tremendous turnover." In the editorial, he cites a 2003 GAO investigation that found that only 28% of CPS workers even had undergraduate degrees in social work (15% had a bachelor's and 13% had a Master's) and that most workers had spent two years or less on the job.
Richard Wexler, executive director of the National Coalition for Child Protection Reform (NCCPR), thinks the research illustrates obvious problems with the system, but believes different solutions are needed.
"My first reaction to the study is simple," he says. "They had to do a study to figure this out? This study simply confirms what NCCPR has been saying for years: Child Protective Services won't be effective until it becomes Child *Poverty* Services."
He adds, "That doesn't mean you have to eliminate poverty to eliminate child maltreatment - though whoever does the first will come closer than anyone else to doing the second. You can make enormous strides simply by ameliorating the worst effects of poverty."
Wexler thinks that much of the problem with CPS has to do with the way families are approached when trouble arises. "It's almost always a cookie-cutter 'service plan' requiring lots and lots of 'counseling' and 'parent education' while the actual problems of poverty are ignored. So the 'services' only add more burdens to this family," he says.
For example, a single mother who cannot afford daycare might leave her child home lone - telling the mother that this is a wrong-headed choice won't help her if she needs to work and has no safe place to leave her child. As a result, it's not surprising that CPS investigations don't produce change.
"I don't think we know how to solve this problem," says Dr. Bruce Perry, senior fellow at the Child Trauma Academy (full disclosure: Dr. Perry and I have co-authored two books). "A lot of times the situation calls for the formation of a healing relationship and so the very act of going there in an investigatory mode impairs the ability to form a meaningful relationship in which parents can be open, ask for and get help."
Eighteen states are currently experimenting with an approach that offers services rather than investigations to families in which the risk of severe abuse or neglect is not high. Wexler suggests that this "differential" or "alternative" response might make a real difference. "If you go into a home where the allegation is a typical case of neglect, extending an open hand instead of a wagging finger, you are likely to get more cooperation from the family," he says.
With research suggesting that the bad economy is increasing child abuse - and with no sign that extra funds to help will be forthcoming - it's more important than ever to determine which approaches work and target scarce dollars accordingly.
(Note: The Federal Administration for Children and Families, which is in charge of the Obama Administration's child welfare policies, did not reply to a request for comment before the deadline for this article.)
Read more: http://healthland.time.com/2010/10/04/study-why-child-abuse-investigations-dont-help-kids/#ixzz125XZPRtg
Why Child Abuse Investigations Don't Help Kids
Mon October 4, 2010, by Maia Szalavitz, - 40 comments
http://healthland.time.com/2010/10/04/study-why-child-abuse-investigations-dont-help-kids/
Child welfare agencies have a thankless task: investigate reports of child maltreatment and determine, first, whether they are true or false, then whether more damage will be done by a) leaving children in a potentially harmful environment, or b) ripping them away from the only parents they know and placing them in a new family that may or may not be better.
Now a new study published Monday suggests that child abuse investigations do not result in long-term improvement in family functioning or child behavior, and in fact are associated with increased depression among mothers. An editorial accompanying the new study proclaims: "Child Protective Services [CPS] Has Outlived Its Usefulness." (More on Time.com: Side Effect of the Recession: An Increase in Child Abuse)
The study and editorial were both published in the most recent edition of the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine. The research examined data on 595 at-risk children who were already involved in a study about the long-term causes and consequences of child maltreatment. It compared children whose families were investigated by CPS - about 28% of the sample - with those who were not.
The study did not investigate the effects of foster care placement: researchers looked only at cases where the child had the same maternal caregiver at age 4 and again at age 8, although those who spent some time in foster care were not excluded. Since about 80% of child maltreatment cases do not result in child removal, the results would probably apply to the majority of children in the CPS system.
According to lead study author Dr. Kristine Campbell, an assistant professor of pediatrics at the University of Utah: "Over a long-term view, between ages 4 and 8, there was no evidence within this sample that a CPS investigation changed certain modifiable risk factors such as education, poverty and social support [for these families.] There was no change in family [functioning or child behavior problems] where a CPS investigation occurred, and for maternal depression symptoms there was actually a worsening."
Campbell notes that the research couldn't determine whether being investigated for child abuse caused depression among mothers — but it would obviously not be surprising if it did.
"I don't think we should be surprised by [the findings] and I don't think that it's role of CPS to fix poverty. But we do spend lot of money on investigations. They're mandated by law. If we are going to go through this process as a society and say that it's important to do investigations, we should look at it as an opportunity to prevent future problems," Campbell says. But her research suggests that that opportunity is currently being missed. (More on Time.com: Cyberbullying? Homophobia? Tyler Clementi's Death Highlights Online Lawlessness)
That's why editorial author Dr. Abraham Bergman, professor of pediatrics at the University of Washington, proposes a radical solution. He suggests leaving investigations of physical abuse to police, turning prevention and treatment services over to public health nurses and leaving CPS with a narrower role as intermediaries when courts must be involved with child abuse.
He says that what CPS does now "is mostly investigation and not much support and it's an overwhelming task given to people who don't have much training and tremendous turnover." In the editorial, he cites a 2003 GAO investigation that found that only 28% of CPS workers even had undergraduate degrees in social work (15% had a bachelor's and 13% had a Master's) and that most workers had spent two years or less on the job.
Richard Wexler, executive director of the National Coalition for Child Protection Reform (NCCPR), thinks the research illustrates obvious problems with the system, but believes different solutions are needed.
"My first reaction to the study is simple," he says. "They had to do a study to figure this out? This study simply confirms what NCCPR has been saying for years: Child Protective Services won't be effective until it becomes Child *Poverty* Services."
He adds, "That doesn't mean you have to eliminate poverty to eliminate child maltreatment - though whoever does the first will come closer than anyone else to doing the second. You can make enormous strides simply by ameliorating the worst effects of poverty."
Wexler thinks that much of the problem with CPS has to do with the way families are approached when trouble arises. "It's almost always a cookie-cutter 'service plan' requiring lots and lots of 'counseling' and 'parent education' while the actual problems of poverty are ignored. So the 'services' only add more burdens to this family," he says.
For example, a single mother who cannot afford daycare might leave her child home lone - telling the mother that this is a wrong-headed choice won't help her if she needs to work and has no safe place to leave her child. As a result, it's not surprising that CPS investigations don't produce change.
"I don't think we know how to solve this problem," says Dr. Bruce Perry, senior fellow at the Child Trauma Academy (full disclosure: Dr. Perry and I have co-authored two books). "A lot of times the situation calls for the formation of a healing relationship and so the very act of going there in an investigatory mode impairs the ability to form a meaningful relationship in which parents can be open, ask for and get help."
Eighteen states are currently experimenting with an approach that offers services rather than investigations to families in which the risk of severe abuse or neglect is not high. Wexler suggests that this "differential" or "alternative" response might make a real difference. "If you go into a home where the allegation is a typical case of neglect, extending an open hand instead of a wagging finger, you are likely to get more cooperation from the family," he says.
With research suggesting that the bad economy is increasing child abuse - and with no sign that extra funds to help will be forthcoming - it's more important than ever to determine which approaches work and target scarce dollars accordingly.
(Note: The Federal Administration for Children and Families, which is in charge of the Obama Administration's child welfare policies, did not reply to a request for comment before the deadline for this article.)
Read more: http://healthland.time.com/2010/10/04/study-why-child-abuse-investigations-dont-help-kids/#ixzz125XZPRtg
911 Commissioner says missile hits the Pentagon youtube
Rumsfeld says Pentagon hit by missile
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"It is a truth that a terrorist can attack any time, any place, using any technique and it's physically impossible to defend at every time and every place against every conceivable technique. Here we're talking about plastic knives and using an American Airlines flight filled with our citizens, and the missile to damage this building and similar (inaudible) that damaged the World Trade Center. The only way to deal with this problem is by taking the battle to the terrorists, wherever they are, and dealing with them."
James Wallwork wikipedia
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He was re-elected in 1971, 19733 and 1977. His running mate was Assemblyman, later Governor, Thomas Kean.
Wallwork sought the Republican nomination for Governor of New Jersey in 1981, but finished fourth in the GOP primary with 16% of the vote. He lost to Kean, who won the general election. During the campaign, Wallwork was reported to be the subject of an attempted assassination at a Veterans Administration hospital by a gunman disguidsed as a surgeon.[3] The incident was deteremined by the FBI to be a hoax.[4] In an unrelated indictment, federal prosecutors stated that the hospital chief of security had staged the attempt.[5]
Kean appointed him to serve as a Commissioner of the Bistate Waterfront Commission.
In 1993, Wallwork again ran for Governor, finishing third in the GOP primary with 24%. The winner was Christine Todd Whitman.
He married the former Lark Lataner of Orange, New Jersey in 1965. They have one daughter, Lyric Wallwork Winik, a writer who works for Parade magazine.
Thomas Kean Wikipedia
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Kean is best known globally, however, for his 2002 appointment as Chairman of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, widely known as the 9/11 Commission
Christine Todd Whitman youtube
Christine Todd Whitman sourcewatch
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Cheney Energy Task Force
"Whitman owns interests in oil wells in Texas and Colorado valued at between $55,000 and $175,000," reported the San Jose Mercury News on February 28, 2001 ("Top officials face conflict of interest queries over oil connections"). "She has promised to divest of them to meet ethics guidelines." The particular companies Whitman held investments in were CEX Operating Co. of Dallas, Hunt Oil Co. of Houston, and St. Mary Operating Co. in Colorado. The conflicts were highlighted during meetings of Vice-President Cheney's Energy Task Force.
Hunt Oil Company sourcewatch
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The privately-held Hunt Oil Company—"one of the big money Texas donors behind the Bush family political empire"[1]—and the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) announced September 8, 2007, that "they've signed a production-sharing contract for petroleum exploration in northern Iraq, the first such deal since the Kurds passed their own oil and gas law in August.
"A Hunt subsidiary, Hunt Oil Co. of the Kurdistan Region, will begin geological survey and seismic work by the end of 2007 and hopes to drill an exploration well in 2008, the parties said in a news release. Terms of the deal were not disclosed."[2]
Jack Abramoff wikipedia
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Jack Abramoff was born in Atlantic City, New Jersey into a wealthy and prominent Jewish family.[13] His father, Franklin Abramoff, was president of the Franchises unit of Diners Club.[14]
JD Hayworth's funds from Abramoff
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Arizona's U.S. Rep. J.D. Hayworth, ranked as one of the top recipients of campaign contributions from interests enmeshed in a raging lobbying scandal, has no reason to return the money, his top aide says.
Moreover, the donors want Hayworth to keep the funds, chief of staff Joe Eule said.
With four other politicians returning more than $250,000 in recent days to Indian tribes and others connected with disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff, pressures have mounted for Hayworth and other recipients to follow suit. advertisement
Eule said that the Republican congressman has received campaign contributions totaling $150,000 from tribes affiliated at one time or another with the former lobbyist but that the donations had nothing to do with actions that have put Abramoff at the center of Senate and criminal investigations into possible influence-buying.
Click the url to see the list of doners below.
JD Hayworth and Jack Abramoff FIT Trust
Jack Abramoff wikipedia at pedia
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On an episode of Public Radio International's This American Life that aired in June 2006, journalist Jonathan Gold described Abramoff as a high school bully. "He was the sort of person who would walk across the street to be unpleasant to somebody," Gold says, going on to describe how Abramoff knocked him and his cello down a flight of stairs.[7] The episode was number 314, "It's Never Over".
College and law school years
As an undergraduate at Brandeis University, Abramoff served as Chairman of the Massachusetts Alliance of College Republicans, which organized student volunteers for Ronald Reagan's 1980 presidential campaign. He graduated in 1981 and earned his JD at the Georgetown University Law Center in 1986.
According to Nina J. Easton's book Gang of Five, Abramoff gained much of his credibility in the conservative movement through his father, Franklin Abramoff. As president of Diners Club, Abramoff's father worked closely with Alfred S. Bloomingdale, a personal friend of Ronald Reagan, and Abramoff would use the name in fundraising.
Abramoff's Bloomingdale connection
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Alfred S. Bloomingdale died of throat cancer in 1982 in Santa Monica, California, aged 66. Newspaper headlines soon screamed with stories of his affair with Vicki Morgan as a result of unsubstantiated details provided in her unsuccessful multi-million dollar palimony lawsuit, which she filed after Betsy Bloomingdale refused to pay for Morgan's silence, and cut off all funds from the Bloomingdale estate that had been going to Morgan.
Although the case against Bloomingdale's estate was quickly dismissed by the courts, the entire affair was soon back in the headlines when Morgan was murdered in a brutal attack by her roommate less than a year after Alfred S. Bloomingdale had been interred in the Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City, California.
Vicki Morgan - Bloomingdale and the White House scandal
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Less than 24 hours after Vicki was laid to rest last week—in a hurriedly arranged service paid for by a mystery benefactor—Robert Steinberg, a Los Angeles lawyer with no official connection to Vicki or her accused murderer, Marvin Pancoast, claimed to be in possession of videotapes that were potentially highly embarrassing to the Reagan White House. According to Steinberg, the tapes—which he later said were stolen from his office—showed Vicki and three other women having sex with Bloomingdale, a Congressman, two top-level presidential appointees and several cronies of Ronald Reagan. There were also reports of other incriminating videotapes and written documents picked up by the Los Angeles Police Department at the murder site, though the LAPD would neither confirm nor deny the existence of such "evidence." Palimony pioneer Marvin Mitchelson, who filed Morgan's 1982 suit against Bloomingdale, claimed he had learned that a White House adviser had confirmed the existence of the LAPD tapes, and that they reportedly compromised a Reagan Cabinet member.
This was not the first time the Reagan White House had been embarrassed by Vicki. The erstwhile model first gained notoriety last summer when she hit Bloomingdale, a member of Reagan's "Kitchen Cabinet," with a $5 million palimony suit, the bulk of which was thrown out of court by a judge who called the relationship "no more than that of a wealthy, older, married paramour and a young, well-paid mistress." Morgan's lurid allegations about Bloomingdale's sadomasochistic romps spattered her own reputation even as they provided grist for Beverly Hills gossipmongers: She testified to watching a "drooling" Bloomingdale flog naked women until they wept.
How many explosions on 9/11 BE sure to watch the video
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“What happened?” someone off-camera asks.
Firefighter #2 answers, “We was in an explosion.”
Rumsfeld says Pentagon hit by missile
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"It is a truth that a terrorist can attack any time, any place, using any technique and it's physically impossible to defend at every time and every place against every conceivable technique. Here we're talking about plastic knives and using an American Airlines flight filled with our citizens, and the missile to damage this building and similar (inaudible) that damaged the World Trade Center. The only way to deal with this problem is by taking the battle to the terrorists, wherever they are, and dealing with them."
James Wallwork wikipedia
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He was re-elected in 1971, 19733 and 1977. His running mate was Assemblyman, later Governor, Thomas Kean.
Wallwork sought the Republican nomination for Governor of New Jersey in 1981, but finished fourth in the GOP primary with 16% of the vote. He lost to Kean, who won the general election. During the campaign, Wallwork was reported to be the subject of an attempted assassination at a Veterans Administration hospital by a gunman disguidsed as a surgeon.[3] The incident was deteremined by the FBI to be a hoax.[4] In an unrelated indictment, federal prosecutors stated that the hospital chief of security had staged the attempt.[5]
Kean appointed him to serve as a Commissioner of the Bistate Waterfront Commission.
In 1993, Wallwork again ran for Governor, finishing third in the GOP primary with 24%. The winner was Christine Todd Whitman.
He married the former Lark Lataner of Orange, New Jersey in 1965. They have one daughter, Lyric Wallwork Winik, a writer who works for Parade magazine.
Thomas Kean Wikipedia
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Kean is best known globally, however, for his 2002 appointment as Chairman of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, widely known as the 9/11 Commission
Christine Todd Whitman youtube
Christine Todd Whitman sourcewatch
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Cheney Energy Task Force
"Whitman owns interests in oil wells in Texas and Colorado valued at between $55,000 and $175,000," reported the San Jose Mercury News on February 28, 2001 ("Top officials face conflict of interest queries over oil connections"). "She has promised to divest of them to meet ethics guidelines." The particular companies Whitman held investments in were CEX Operating Co. of Dallas, Hunt Oil Co. of Houston, and St. Mary Operating Co. in Colorado. The conflicts were highlighted during meetings of Vice-President Cheney's Energy Task Force.
Hunt Oil Company sourcewatch
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The privately-held Hunt Oil Company—"one of the big money Texas donors behind the Bush family political empire"[1]—and the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) announced September 8, 2007, that "they've signed a production-sharing contract for petroleum exploration in northern Iraq, the first such deal since the Kurds passed their own oil and gas law in August.
"A Hunt subsidiary, Hunt Oil Co. of the Kurdistan Region, will begin geological survey and seismic work by the end of 2007 and hopes to drill an exploration well in 2008, the parties said in a news release. Terms of the deal were not disclosed."[2]
Jack Abramoff wikipedia
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Jack Abramoff was born in Atlantic City, New Jersey into a wealthy and prominent Jewish family.[13] His father, Franklin Abramoff, was president of the Franchises unit of Diners Club.[14]
JD Hayworth's funds from Abramoff
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Arizona's U.S. Rep. J.D. Hayworth, ranked as one of the top recipients of campaign contributions from interests enmeshed in a raging lobbying scandal, has no reason to return the money, his top aide says.
Moreover, the donors want Hayworth to keep the funds, chief of staff Joe Eule said.
With four other politicians returning more than $250,000 in recent days to Indian tribes and others connected with disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff, pressures have mounted for Hayworth and other recipients to follow suit. advertisement
Eule said that the Republican congressman has received campaign contributions totaling $150,000 from tribes affiliated at one time or another with the former lobbyist but that the donations had nothing to do with actions that have put Abramoff at the center of Senate and criminal investigations into possible influence-buying.
Click the url to see the list of doners below.
JD Hayworth and Jack Abramoff FIT Trust
Jack Abramoff wikipedia at pedia
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On an episode of Public Radio International's This American Life that aired in June 2006, journalist Jonathan Gold described Abramoff as a high school bully. "He was the sort of person who would walk across the street to be unpleasant to somebody," Gold says, going on to describe how Abramoff knocked him and his cello down a flight of stairs.[7] The episode was number 314, "It's Never Over".
College and law school years
As an undergraduate at Brandeis University, Abramoff served as Chairman of the Massachusetts Alliance of College Republicans, which organized student volunteers for Ronald Reagan's 1980 presidential campaign. He graduated in 1981 and earned his JD at the Georgetown University Law Center in 1986.
According to Nina J. Easton's book Gang of Five, Abramoff gained much of his credibility in the conservative movement through his father, Franklin Abramoff. As president of Diners Club, Abramoff's father worked closely with Alfred S. Bloomingdale, a personal friend of Ronald Reagan, and Abramoff would use the name in fundraising.
Abramoff's Bloomingdale connection
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Alfred S. Bloomingdale died of throat cancer in 1982 in Santa Monica, California, aged 66. Newspaper headlines soon screamed with stories of his affair with Vicki Morgan as a result of unsubstantiated details provided in her unsuccessful multi-million dollar palimony lawsuit, which she filed after Betsy Bloomingdale refused to pay for Morgan's silence, and cut off all funds from the Bloomingdale estate that had been going to Morgan.
Although the case against Bloomingdale's estate was quickly dismissed by the courts, the entire affair was soon back in the headlines when Morgan was murdered in a brutal attack by her roommate less than a year after Alfred S. Bloomingdale had been interred in the Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City, California.
Vicki Morgan - Bloomingdale and the White House scandal
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Less than 24 hours after Vicki was laid to rest last week—in a hurriedly arranged service paid for by a mystery benefactor—Robert Steinberg, a Los Angeles lawyer with no official connection to Vicki or her accused murderer, Marvin Pancoast, claimed to be in possession of videotapes that were potentially highly embarrassing to the Reagan White House. According to Steinberg, the tapes—which he later said were stolen from his office—showed Vicki and three other women having sex with Bloomingdale, a Congressman, two top-level presidential appointees and several cronies of Ronald Reagan. There were also reports of other incriminating videotapes and written documents picked up by the Los Angeles Police Department at the murder site, though the LAPD would neither confirm nor deny the existence of such "evidence." Palimony pioneer Marvin Mitchelson, who filed Morgan's 1982 suit against Bloomingdale, claimed he had learned that a White House adviser had confirmed the existence of the LAPD tapes, and that they reportedly compromised a Reagan Cabinet member.
This was not the first time the Reagan White House had been embarrassed by Vicki. The erstwhile model first gained notoriety last summer when she hit Bloomingdale, a member of Reagan's "Kitchen Cabinet," with a $5 million palimony suit, the bulk of which was thrown out of court by a judge who called the relationship "no more than that of a wealthy, older, married paramour and a young, well-paid mistress." Morgan's lurid allegations about Bloomingdale's sadomasochistic romps spattered her own reputation even as they provided grist for Beverly Hills gossipmongers: She testified to watching a "drooling" Bloomingdale flog naked women until they wept.
How many explosions on 9/11 BE sure to watch the video
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“What happened?” someone off-camera asks.
Firefighter #2 answers, “We was in an explosion.”
Graphs for the Federal Reserve and who owns what APFN
Permindex
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Paravicini Bank and Permindex
In the same year that Zapata and Pennzoil were moving toward hostile takeovers, a new Swiss bank opened in Houston with J. Hugh Liedtke and George Bush's securities adviser, W.S. Farish III, among the directors. Called "Bank for Investment and Credit Berne" (BICB), its stock was owned by Capital National Bank and Paravicini Bank, but investors included Seagrams, Boeing, Minute Maid in Zurich, the London subsidiary of Brown and Root and the Schlesinger Organization of London and Johannesburg. These investors are more than interesting in light of the fact that Paravicini is a descendant of the Venetian Pallavicini family, whose attorney in Rome,
Carlo d'Amelio, was the general counsel to Centro Mondiale Commerciale (CMC),
the Italian arm of Permindex. CMC was incorporated in Berne Switzerland, and D' Amelio sat on the board of directors during the time that Seagrams' attorney, Louis Mortimer Bloomfield of Montreal, was chairman of Permindex.
When the role of CMC in the attempted assassination of President DeGaulle of France was discovered, it fled Europe and re-emerged in Johannesburg, South Africa. However, the parent company, Permindex, continued to be managed from Montreal by Bloomfield. Clay Shaw, the man prosecuted in New Orleans by Jim Garrison for his role in the Kennedy assassination, was also a board member of CMC, with which his International Trade Mart had connections.
Coverups Bronfman-Bush
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The Bush family ties to the Lairds and Lords of Scotland and England.
Lazard Brothers was controlled by officials in the British government. It was always the investment bank of David Rockefeller. And, besides Meyer and Walker, George Bush's other large investor in Bush-Overbey was British Assets Trust, Ltd., an investment company whose directors interlocked with the management of companies associated with Lord Kindersley, such as Hudson's Bay Company. The chairman of British Assets Trust in 1956 was J.G.S. Gammell in Edinburgh, Scotland, and in 1985 by J.C.R. Inglis, a partner in Shepherd & Wedderburn, WS, an Edinburgh law firm. Inglis was also a director of The Royal Bank of Scotland Group, Scottish Provident Institution for Mutual Life Assurance, Edinburgh American Assets Trust and Atlantic
Assets Trust, as well as chairman of European Assets, N.V., Gammell also had served as director of The Royal Bank of Scotland Group, as did such other notables as The Right Hon. Lord Balfour of Burleigh, The Right Hon. Lord Clydesmuir and The Right Hon. Lord Polwarth. Polwarth, incidentally, began serving as a director of the Halliburton Company, parent of Brown & Root, in 1974.
Zapata Corporation and the CIA
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FBI and CIA memos
Memo from FBI Special Agent in Texas, regarding call by "GHW Bush of Zapata Off-Shore Drilling Company" received 75 minutes after JFK's murder
Memo from J. Edgar Hoover, referring to "Mr. George Bush of the CIA", briefed 24 hours after JFK's murderTwo Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) memoranda have been offered to show connections between the CIA and George H. W. Bush during his time at Zapata. The first memo names Zapata Off-Shore and was written by FBI Special Agent Graham Kitchel on 22 November 1963, regarding the John F. Kennedy assassination at 12:30 p.m. CST that day. It begins: "At 1:45 p.m. Mr. GEORGE H. W. BUSH, President of the Zapata Off-Shore Drilling Company, Houston, Texas, residence 5525 Briar, Houston, telephonically furnished the following information to writer. .. BUSH stated that he wanted to be kept confidential. .. was proceeding to Dallas, Texas, would remain in the Sheraton-Dallas Hotel."
A second FBI memorandum, written by J. Edgar Hoover, identifies "George Bush" with the CIA. It is dated 29 November 1963 and refers to a briefing given Bush on 23 November. The FBI Director describes a briefing about JFK's murder "orally furnished to Mr. George Bush of the Central Intelligence Agency. .. [by] this Bureau" on "December 20, 1963.
Permindex
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Paravicini Bank and Permindex
In the same year that Zapata and Pennzoil were moving toward hostile takeovers, a new Swiss bank opened in Houston with J. Hugh Liedtke and George Bush's securities adviser, W.S. Farish III, among the directors. Called "Bank for Investment and Credit Berne" (BICB), its stock was owned by Capital National Bank and Paravicini Bank, but investors included Seagrams, Boeing, Minute Maid in Zurich, the London subsidiary of Brown and Root and the Schlesinger Organization of London and Johannesburg. These investors are more than interesting in light of the fact that Paravicini is a descendant of the Venetian Pallavicini family, whose attorney in Rome,
Carlo d'Amelio, was the general counsel to Centro Mondiale Commerciale (CMC),
the Italian arm of Permindex. CMC was incorporated in Berne Switzerland, and D' Amelio sat on the board of directors during the time that Seagrams' attorney, Louis Mortimer Bloomfield of Montreal, was chairman of Permindex.
When the role of CMC in the attempted assassination of President DeGaulle of France was discovered, it fled Europe and re-emerged in Johannesburg, South Africa. However, the parent company, Permindex, continued to be managed from Montreal by Bloomfield. Clay Shaw, the man prosecuted in New Orleans by Jim Garrison for his role in the Kennedy assassination, was also a board member of CMC, with which his International Trade Mart had connections.
Coverups Bronfman-Bush
EXCERPT:
The Bush family ties to the Lairds and Lords of Scotland and England.
Lazard Brothers was controlled by officials in the British government. It was always the investment bank of David Rockefeller. And, besides Meyer and Walker, George Bush's other large investor in Bush-Overbey was British Assets Trust, Ltd., an investment company whose directors interlocked with the management of companies associated with Lord Kindersley, such as Hudson's Bay Company. The chairman of British Assets Trust in 1956 was J.G.S. Gammell in Edinburgh, Scotland, and in 1985 by J.C.R. Inglis, a partner in Shepherd & Wedderburn, WS, an Edinburgh law firm. Inglis was also a director of The Royal Bank of Scotland Group, Scottish Provident Institution for Mutual Life Assurance, Edinburgh American Assets Trust and Atlantic
Assets Trust, as well as chairman of European Assets, N.V., Gammell also had served as director of The Royal Bank of Scotland Group, as did such other notables as The Right Hon. Lord Balfour of Burleigh, The Right Hon. Lord Clydesmuir and The Right Hon. Lord Polwarth. Polwarth, incidentally, began serving as a director of the Halliburton Company, parent of Brown & Root, in 1974.
Zapata Corporation and the CIA
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FBI and CIA memos
Memo from FBI Special Agent in Texas, regarding call by "GHW Bush of Zapata Off-Shore Drilling Company" received 75 minutes after JFK's murder
Memo from J. Edgar Hoover, referring to "Mr. George Bush of the CIA", briefed 24 hours after JFK's murderTwo Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) memoranda have been offered to show connections between the CIA and George H. W. Bush during his time at Zapata. The first memo names Zapata Off-Shore and was written by FBI Special Agent Graham Kitchel on 22 November 1963, regarding the John F. Kennedy assassination at 12:30 p.m. CST that day. It begins: "At 1:45 p.m. Mr. GEORGE H. W. BUSH, President of the Zapata Off-Shore Drilling Company, Houston, Texas, residence 5525 Briar, Houston, telephonically furnished the following information to writer. .. BUSH stated that he wanted to be kept confidential. .. was proceeding to Dallas, Texas, would remain in the Sheraton-Dallas Hotel."
A second FBI memorandum, written by J. Edgar Hoover, identifies "George Bush" with the CIA. It is dated 29 November 1963 and refers to a briefing given Bush on 23 November. The FBI Director describes a briefing about JFK's murder "orally furnished to Mr. George Bush of the Central Intelligence Agency. .. [by] this Bureau" on "December 20, 1963.
NY Times article mentions my good friend Kent Knudson
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In a well-known incident from 2003, an Arizona man was arrested in the shooting a cow that had wandered onto his property east of Flagstaff. The recent death of the man, Kent Knudson, revived talk of his case.
Zapata Cattle Company
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Various divisions of the Zapata Corporation (a CIA asset, organized by George Bush), such as Zapata Petroleum, Zapata Off-Shore and Zapata Cattle company were heavily involved in drug trafficking. The oil rigs were used to carry out the drug operations. Drugs would be off-loaded from ships onto the drilling platforms and then taken into the nearby coastal areas in helicopters that were constantly carrying supplies and personnel. CIA cable analyst Michael Maholy confirmed that this practice existed, having learned about it from cable traffic and his own observations while on the rigs. (Rodney Stich - Drugging America, pg 41)
What people urgently need to know is that the drugs are being distributed by those fronting for the drug war, who are offering 'solutions' at the same time. Much of the 'anti-drug' network is deeply corrupt and used as a vehicle for distributing drugs without detection. George Bush has fronted more wars on drugs than any other American politician and yet he is one of North America's premier drug barons. (David Icke - The Biggest Secret, pg 286)
Open Range (more)
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On some parts of the nation, uncontrolled livestock grazing has degraded rangelands, accelerating erosion, facilitating mesquite invasions and replacing desirable plant communities with less palatable and less productive plants.
With cattle running in common, it is difficult to control grazing, provide rest periods and manage herd genetics. Thus, when the livestock are sold off the reservation, producers typically receive a price lower than the market price because of less desirable livestock genetics.
To improve range conditions, the nation was fenced into nine grazing districts during the 1930s, but local producers were not consulted. Traditional territories were split, causing economic hardship, provoking lasting resentment toward the government and creating animosity among some neighbors.
A SARE-funded project confronted the nation’s range management problems by addressing the unique social and environmental aspects of its rangeland management. Using a participatory
approach to planning and education, University of Arizona researchers facilitated dialog among tribal members and other range professionals to adapt range management principles developed in more productive grasslands to the environmental and cultural context of the Tohono O’odham Nation.
Cow Killer Kent Knudson takes own life/these guys are JERKS
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Knudson headed up the local branch of the knucklehead Troofers. He's better known locally for having killed a cow or two that wandered onto his property in Northern Arizona, although of course the Truthers try to make it sound like some brave defense of his family:
During the years that Kent spent caring for his beloved mother who was developing Alzheimer's disease, Kent fell into legal trouble as a result of attempting to safeguard his mother against an invading herd of cattle on their 40 acre ranch near Snowflake, AZ.
Kent Knudson
The New West collides with open-range laws
Sidebar article - From the March 01, 2004 issue of High Country News
by Ray Ring
Kent Knudson picked up a rifle and opened fire, defending his 40 acres in Arizona, and got handcuffed and hauled to jail.
John Ward, driving a truckload of hay in Oregon one night, rounded a curve and smashed into 1,300 pounds of bad news.
Brad Dorendorf, mayor of tiny Bovill, Idaho, tried to negotiate with an invading horde that chomped flowers and defecated everywhere in his town.
All three, and countless other people around the West, have been drawn into the struggle over another remnant of the Old West: open-range laws. Where open-range laws are in effect, ranchers don’t have to fence in their livestock. If the neighbors want to keep cows off their land, they have to fence the beasts out. The principle dates back to the 1800s, when cattle barons let their herds roam over public land and any private land that wasn’t fenced off.
Thirteen Western states still have some kind of open-range law, according to The Associated Press. Yet as the West fills in, more people moving into rural neighborhoods are bothered by livestock straying onto their property, and increased traffic means more accidents involving livestock that stray onto roads. Every year, about a thousand motorists hit livestock on roads in Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming and Utah, and several die, according to research by The Oregonian newspaper in 1997.
Yet ranchers can’t afford to pay 50 cents to $2 per linear foot to fence all the land their stock grazes, says Steve Pilcher, vice president of the Montana Stockgrowers Association. Much of the grazing land is federal, so either taxpayers would have to pay for fencing, or ranchers would have to abandon their federal leases, Pilcher says. "It could be devastating to local economies in ranching areas."
"It’s an absurd law in the context of modern American society," counters Jon Marvel, an Idaho environmentalist who tried, without success, to organize a national group to reform open-range laws in 1994. Open range can be undone by grassroots efforts. Typically, if enough residents in an area get fed up, they can petition their county governments to hold an election to decide whether their area should be "closed range," meaning, livestock must be fenced in. Such efforts have succeeded in many localities, but they have to overcome ranchers’ grip on local politics.
John Ward, himself a rancher, had been involved in just such a fight before he hit the cow last September, on state Highway 66 near Ashland, Ore. Ward had been trying to close the range along that highway, and to close another 23,000 acres around his purebred Hereford operation, which was threatened by invasions of another rancher’s cattle. Both those efforts were squashed by other ranchers who pressured county and state governments. Then, that night on the highway, "The cow just trotted down a hill onto the road, boom! — it really plastered my truck," Ward says. His insurance company paid $600 to reimburse the rancher who owned the cow, but only half the cost of a new truck, he adds.
Kent Knudson didn’t take the political route. Knudson, a freelance photographer, came home in January 2003 to find 20 cows trampling his yard near Snowflake, Ariz. He shot and killed one cow, and got charged with one felony count of "shooting livestock of another," which carries a maximum penalty of $150,000 fine and two-and-a-half years in prison, he says.
Knudson, who’s awaiting trial, reports he’s already spent $12,000 on lawyers. He’d lived around Snowflake for 40 years, he says, but now he’s moved to Phoenix partly because the rural culture turned against him. "The whole legal system up there is meant to do anything to help the ranchers."
Open-range laws are true "special-interest legislation," says one of Knudson’s lawyers, Foster Glass, who also represented another notorious shooter — Patrick Shipsey, a doctor and environmentalist who executed 11 cows that kept breaking through fences he’d installed around his 960 acres near John Day, Ore., in 1995 and 1996 (HCN, 11/25/96: Cows, ballot measure gunned down in Oregon).
Shipsey tried to challenge Oregon’s open-range laws, but was convicted of 11 felonies, and sentenced to 15 days in jail. He had to pay $12,199 in fines and restitution, and was required to do 880 hours community service. "His medical practice went to hell," and he also had to move, says Glass.
Many ranchers act responsibly, but one careless individual can give the industry a bad name, as happened last summer in Bovill, Idaho. One rancher’s cattle kept coming right into town, night after night, damaging residents’ yards and other property. The problem has ended now, but only because the rancher fell ill and his operation was taken over by a relative, says mayor Dorendorf: "Unfortunately, that’s what it took."
EXCERPT:
In a well-known incident from 2003, an Arizona man was arrested in the shooting a cow that had wandered onto his property east of Flagstaff. The recent death of the man, Kent Knudson, revived talk of his case.
Zapata Cattle Company
EXCERPT:
Various divisions of the Zapata Corporation (a CIA asset, organized by George Bush), such as Zapata Petroleum, Zapata Off-Shore and Zapata Cattle company were heavily involved in drug trafficking. The oil rigs were used to carry out the drug operations. Drugs would be off-loaded from ships onto the drilling platforms and then taken into the nearby coastal areas in helicopters that were constantly carrying supplies and personnel. CIA cable analyst Michael Maholy confirmed that this practice existed, having learned about it from cable traffic and his own observations while on the rigs. (Rodney Stich - Drugging America, pg 41)
What people urgently need to know is that the drugs are being distributed by those fronting for the drug war, who are offering 'solutions' at the same time. Much of the 'anti-drug' network is deeply corrupt and used as a vehicle for distributing drugs without detection. George Bush has fronted more wars on drugs than any other American politician and yet he is one of North America's premier drug barons. (David Icke - The Biggest Secret, pg 286)
Open Range (more)
EXCERPT:
On some parts of the nation, uncontrolled livestock grazing has degraded rangelands, accelerating erosion, facilitating mesquite invasions and replacing desirable plant communities with less palatable and less productive plants.
With cattle running in common, it is difficult to control grazing, provide rest periods and manage herd genetics. Thus, when the livestock are sold off the reservation, producers typically receive a price lower than the market price because of less desirable livestock genetics.
To improve range conditions, the nation was fenced into nine grazing districts during the 1930s, but local producers were not consulted. Traditional territories were split, causing economic hardship, provoking lasting resentment toward the government and creating animosity among some neighbors.
A SARE-funded project confronted the nation’s range management problems by addressing the unique social and environmental aspects of its rangeland management. Using a participatory
approach to planning and education, University of Arizona researchers facilitated dialog among tribal members and other range professionals to adapt range management principles developed in more productive grasslands to the environmental and cultural context of the Tohono O’odham Nation.
Cow Killer Kent Knudson takes own life/these guys are JERKS
EXCERPT:
Knudson headed up the local branch of the knucklehead Troofers. He's better known locally for having killed a cow or two that wandered onto his property in Northern Arizona, although of course the Truthers try to make it sound like some brave defense of his family:
During the years that Kent spent caring for his beloved mother who was developing Alzheimer's disease, Kent fell into legal trouble as a result of attempting to safeguard his mother against an invading herd of cattle on their 40 acre ranch near Snowflake, AZ.
Kent Knudson
The New West collides with open-range laws
Sidebar article - From the March 01, 2004 issue of High Country News
by Ray Ring
Kent Knudson picked up a rifle and opened fire, defending his 40 acres in Arizona, and got handcuffed and hauled to jail.
John Ward, driving a truckload of hay in Oregon one night, rounded a curve and smashed into 1,300 pounds of bad news.
Brad Dorendorf, mayor of tiny Bovill, Idaho, tried to negotiate with an invading horde that chomped flowers and defecated everywhere in his town.
All three, and countless other people around the West, have been drawn into the struggle over another remnant of the Old West: open-range laws. Where open-range laws are in effect, ranchers don’t have to fence in their livestock. If the neighbors want to keep cows off their land, they have to fence the beasts out. The principle dates back to the 1800s, when cattle barons let their herds roam over public land and any private land that wasn’t fenced off.
Thirteen Western states still have some kind of open-range law, according to The Associated Press. Yet as the West fills in, more people moving into rural neighborhoods are bothered by livestock straying onto their property, and increased traffic means more accidents involving livestock that stray onto roads. Every year, about a thousand motorists hit livestock on roads in Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming and Utah, and several die, according to research by The Oregonian newspaper in 1997.
Yet ranchers can’t afford to pay 50 cents to $2 per linear foot to fence all the land their stock grazes, says Steve Pilcher, vice president of the Montana Stockgrowers Association. Much of the grazing land is federal, so either taxpayers would have to pay for fencing, or ranchers would have to abandon their federal leases, Pilcher says. "It could be devastating to local economies in ranching areas."
"It’s an absurd law in the context of modern American society," counters Jon Marvel, an Idaho environmentalist who tried, without success, to organize a national group to reform open-range laws in 1994. Open range can be undone by grassroots efforts. Typically, if enough residents in an area get fed up, they can petition their county governments to hold an election to decide whether their area should be "closed range," meaning, livestock must be fenced in. Such efforts have succeeded in many localities, but they have to overcome ranchers’ grip on local politics.
John Ward, himself a rancher, had been involved in just such a fight before he hit the cow last September, on state Highway 66 near Ashland, Ore. Ward had been trying to close the range along that highway, and to close another 23,000 acres around his purebred Hereford operation, which was threatened by invasions of another rancher’s cattle. Both those efforts were squashed by other ranchers who pressured county and state governments. Then, that night on the highway, "The cow just trotted down a hill onto the road, boom! — it really plastered my truck," Ward says. His insurance company paid $600 to reimburse the rancher who owned the cow, but only half the cost of a new truck, he adds.
Kent Knudson didn’t take the political route. Knudson, a freelance photographer, came home in January 2003 to find 20 cows trampling his yard near Snowflake, Ariz. He shot and killed one cow, and got charged with one felony count of "shooting livestock of another," which carries a maximum penalty of $150,000 fine and two-and-a-half years in prison, he says.
Knudson, who’s awaiting trial, reports he’s already spent $12,000 on lawyers. He’d lived around Snowflake for 40 years, he says, but now he’s moved to Phoenix partly because the rural culture turned against him. "The whole legal system up there is meant to do anything to help the ranchers."
Open-range laws are true "special-interest legislation," says one of Knudson’s lawyers, Foster Glass, who also represented another notorious shooter — Patrick Shipsey, a doctor and environmentalist who executed 11 cows that kept breaking through fences he’d installed around his 960 acres near John Day, Ore., in 1995 and 1996 (HCN, 11/25/96: Cows, ballot measure gunned down in Oregon).
Shipsey tried to challenge Oregon’s open-range laws, but was convicted of 11 felonies, and sentenced to 15 days in jail. He had to pay $12,199 in fines and restitution, and was required to do 880 hours community service. "His medical practice went to hell," and he also had to move, says Glass.
Many ranchers act responsibly, but one careless individual can give the industry a bad name, as happened last summer in Bovill, Idaho. One rancher’s cattle kept coming right into town, night after night, damaging residents’ yards and other property. The problem has ended now, but only because the rancher fell ill and his operation was taken over by a relative, says mayor Dorendorf: "Unfortunately, that’s what it took."
Wednesday, October 6, 2010
See Kent's Picture and watch the video
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Monday, October 04, 2010
Professor Richard D. Wolff, fresh off a summer lecturing in Greece and France, gives his analysis on the massive European mobilizations and strikes. He also compares the US movement to the European one, finding the European workers to be much more advanced in their struggle.
Kent Knudson
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Kent Knudson, best known locally for shooting and killing someone else's cow on his property as well as his role in 9/11 Truth AZ, committed suicide on September 25.
"Kent had been suffering from depression over yet another traumatic legal difficulty and facing two felony charges, on top of his 'Cowcrap' conviction," writes friend Sham Rao.
Knudson was 60 years old.
CowCrap
n the right.—Pamela Rice]
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Discouraging words from cow pie land
Open letter from Kent Knudson
• December 8, 2005
... My case could and will change the Arizona laws (eventually)—I can guarantee that! I will make sure it happens, but it will happen quicker with a little support from organizations like yours. [Does he mean VivaVegie?] Help fill the courtroom with supporters. We can't afford to have the ranchers win another court case when all the facts are against them! All they have is their lies and biased law enforcement to support their abuses! Call me.
kent
cowcrap@cox.net
602-246-4299
(If you don't get into politics, it will get into you.—Ralph Nader)
Arizona Justice!
When mom and I returned home from three days in the hospital, we found our property overrun with a herd of over 30 wild cattle. When the rancher was informed that his cattle were trespassing on our fenced property and causing a serious threat, I was told that he could not remove them until the next day. Since my mom, who had Alzheimer's disease, often wandered outside, I knew that I must remove the cattle myself. While dealing with this threat, a cow was unintentionally [See Associated story below.] killed. I informed the rancher and he said he would come and talk with me about it, but instead, the next day officials from the Navajo County Sheriff and Arizona Department of Agriculture showed up and immediately arrested and handcuffed me (in front of my ailing mom) solely on the word of the rancher, without even looking for a dead cow or determining the cause.
I was jailed for a day and later charged with a felony and forced to spend thousands of dollars on legal fees for something that should not be a crime and certainly not a felony. So far, I have spent nearly $30,000 on lawyers. More than one of my lawyers has tried to settle this case and told me that the authorities would not settle but wanted to make an example of me! They have never even given me the opportunity to pay for the cow!
People have told me "if you were a Mormon, none of this would be happening to you". If justice is dispensed based on religious persuasion, then that is another of my rights that is being trampled.
Since this began, nearly 3 years ago, I have written about the injustices of western cattle ranching. If I am being prosecuted for my writings, then my freedom of speech is also being denied!
Our family has lived on 40 acres near Snowflake, Arizona for over 25 years. Some ranchers think their cattle have more rights to our private property than we do. So called open range laws are nothing more than special interest laws that place one group (ranchers) above another group (property owners) and are therefore unconstitutional!
Property rights, civil rights, religious freedom, and freedom of speech—all have been violated in my case! This case is still being prosecuted against me and I am told that I could go to prison for 2.5 years and be fined $150,000, while losing my voting rights! A trial date has finally been set for Dec. 21, 2005 in Holbrook, Arizona.
Is this justice or ranching out of control? Where is the common sense?
For additional information (and there is plenty), send me a message—thanks! Please forward this message widely.
Kent Knudson
602-246-4299
cowcrap@cox.net
(Cage cattle, NOT people!!)
Eric Williams
Feathered Bastard
Liar's poker: Eric Williams and the Chandler 9/11 conference
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Holocaust-denier Eric Williams at his conference booth on Sunday.
While the rest of the civilized world was at home Sunday watching Marty Scorsese finally win an Oscar, I was hanging out with the conspiranuts at the Chandler 9/11 conference, and though I have only limited time because I'm on deadline this morning, I felt I should make a very brief report here. I'll follow up later, after I'm off deadline, with a more detailed account.
Holocaust denier Eric Williams was present and he did have a booth where he was selling his T-shirts, DVDs, and books -- all but his infamous The Puzzle of Auschwitz. I spoke to him, and he informed me that he was planning to re-release his Shoah-shirking tome due to popular demand. He also told me he'd made a nice bit of scratch at the conference, and I believe him because one guy was writing him a check for some merch as I approached. He seemed quite proud of the fact that conference keynote speaker Meria Heller had quoted him so glowingly during her Friday address.
I later learned from some disgruntled symposium participants that Williams had been invited up onstage by NY activist Janette MacKinlay during a "9/11 Unity" panel talk earlier in the day, which according to the schedule also included Kevin "the Holocaust's a myth, bubee" Barrett, conference leader Kent "Cow Killer" Knudson, and Steven "this is the only way I can make a name for myself" Jones. Williams even addressed the crowd briefly. So much for statements by Knudson that Williams was "out," and assurances on 911Accountability.org that Williams had "stepped down from involvement in the 9/11 Accountability Conference." According to Sham Rao (sp?), who called himself, "Kent's right hand man," Williams was allowed to have his booth and participate because of the work he'd done before being ousted as the Conference Director and Web master. Uh, so much for "accountability."
Could UFOs have been behind 9/11? They tell me al-Qaeda is Martian for "kill Earthlings."
Several attendees told me that Williams had become a divisive issue for the conference, and that a number of conference-goers were pissed he'd been allowed to be there. Volunteer organizer Pete Creelman, who is himself Jewish, seemed especially embarrassed by Williams getting up on stage for the Unity thing.
"That wasn't good," he admitted. "I would agree. I don't think he should've been invited up on the platform in view of all that's happened."
To sum up for the moment, not everyone present was a complete fruitcake. There were some relatively sane folks there such as Philly attorney Phil Berg and others. And one attendee from Boston, Mark McKertich, actually bought me a couple of beers at the Crown Plaza San Marcos bar! But otherwise, it was nutbar city, as some of these videos that were on sale at one vendor booth reveal. I didn't make the conference Saturday, but I'll have more from my Sunday visit later today or this evening.
EXCERPT:
Monday, October 04, 2010
Professor Richard D. Wolff, fresh off a summer lecturing in Greece and France, gives his analysis on the massive European mobilizations and strikes. He also compares the US movement to the European one, finding the European workers to be much more advanced in their struggle.
Kent Knudson
EXCERPT:
Kent Knudson, best known locally for shooting and killing someone else's cow on his property as well as his role in 9/11 Truth AZ, committed suicide on September 25.
"Kent had been suffering from depression over yet another traumatic legal difficulty and facing two felony charges, on top of his 'Cowcrap' conviction," writes friend Sham Rao.
Knudson was 60 years old.
CowCrap
n the right.—Pamela Rice]
EXCERPT:
Discouraging words from cow pie land
Open letter from Kent Knudson
• December 8, 2005
... My case could and will change the Arizona laws (eventually)—I can guarantee that! I will make sure it happens, but it will happen quicker with a little support from organizations like yours. [Does he mean VivaVegie?] Help fill the courtroom with supporters. We can't afford to have the ranchers win another court case when all the facts are against them! All they have is their lies and biased law enforcement to support their abuses! Call me.
kent
cowcrap@cox.net
602-246-4299
(If you don't get into politics, it will get into you.—Ralph Nader)
Arizona Justice!
When mom and I returned home from three days in the hospital, we found our property overrun with a herd of over 30 wild cattle. When the rancher was informed that his cattle were trespassing on our fenced property and causing a serious threat, I was told that he could not remove them until the next day. Since my mom, who had Alzheimer's disease, often wandered outside, I knew that I must remove the cattle myself. While dealing with this threat, a cow was unintentionally [See Associated story below.] killed. I informed the rancher and he said he would come and talk with me about it, but instead, the next day officials from the Navajo County Sheriff and Arizona Department of Agriculture showed up and immediately arrested and handcuffed me (in front of my ailing mom) solely on the word of the rancher, without even looking for a dead cow or determining the cause.
I was jailed for a day and later charged with a felony and forced to spend thousands of dollars on legal fees for something that should not be a crime and certainly not a felony. So far, I have spent nearly $30,000 on lawyers. More than one of my lawyers has tried to settle this case and told me that the authorities would not settle but wanted to make an example of me! They have never even given me the opportunity to pay for the cow!
People have told me "if you were a Mormon, none of this would be happening to you". If justice is dispensed based on religious persuasion, then that is another of my rights that is being trampled.
Since this began, nearly 3 years ago, I have written about the injustices of western cattle ranching. If I am being prosecuted for my writings, then my freedom of speech is also being denied!
Our family has lived on 40 acres near Snowflake, Arizona for over 25 years. Some ranchers think their cattle have more rights to our private property than we do. So called open range laws are nothing more than special interest laws that place one group (ranchers) above another group (property owners) and are therefore unconstitutional!
Property rights, civil rights, religious freedom, and freedom of speech—all have been violated in my case! This case is still being prosecuted against me and I am told that I could go to prison for 2.5 years and be fined $150,000, while losing my voting rights! A trial date has finally been set for Dec. 21, 2005 in Holbrook, Arizona.
Is this justice or ranching out of control? Where is the common sense?
For additional information (and there is plenty), send me a message—thanks! Please forward this message widely.
Kent Knudson
602-246-4299
cowcrap@cox.net
(Cage cattle, NOT people!!)
Eric Williams
Feathered Bastard
Liar's poker: Eric Williams and the Chandler 9/11 conference
By Stephen Lemons, Mon., Feb. 26 2007 @ 10:16AM Comments (0)
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Holocaust-denier Eric Williams at his conference booth on Sunday.
While the rest of the civilized world was at home Sunday watching Marty Scorsese finally win an Oscar, I was hanging out with the conspiranuts at the Chandler 9/11 conference, and though I have only limited time because I'm on deadline this morning, I felt I should make a very brief report here. I'll follow up later, after I'm off deadline, with a more detailed account.
Holocaust denier Eric Williams was present and he did have a booth where he was selling his T-shirts, DVDs, and books -- all but his infamous The Puzzle of Auschwitz. I spoke to him, and he informed me that he was planning to re-release his Shoah-shirking tome due to popular demand. He also told me he'd made a nice bit of scratch at the conference, and I believe him because one guy was writing him a check for some merch as I approached. He seemed quite proud of the fact that conference keynote speaker Meria Heller had quoted him so glowingly during her Friday address.
I later learned from some disgruntled symposium participants that Williams had been invited up onstage by NY activist Janette MacKinlay during a "9/11 Unity" panel talk earlier in the day, which according to the schedule also included Kevin "the Holocaust's a myth, bubee" Barrett, conference leader Kent "Cow Killer" Knudson, and Steven "this is the only way I can make a name for myself" Jones. Williams even addressed the crowd briefly. So much for statements by Knudson that Williams was "out," and assurances on 911Accountability.org that Williams had "stepped down from involvement in the 9/11 Accountability Conference." According to Sham Rao (sp?), who called himself, "Kent's right hand man," Williams was allowed to have his booth and participate because of the work he'd done before being ousted as the Conference Director and Web master. Uh, so much for "accountability."
Could UFOs have been behind 9/11? They tell me al-Qaeda is Martian for "kill Earthlings."
Several attendees told me that Williams had become a divisive issue for the conference, and that a number of conference-goers were pissed he'd been allowed to be there. Volunteer organizer Pete Creelman, who is himself Jewish, seemed especially embarrassed by Williams getting up on stage for the Unity thing.
"That wasn't good," he admitted. "I would agree. I don't think he should've been invited up on the platform in view of all that's happened."
To sum up for the moment, not everyone present was a complete fruitcake. There were some relatively sane folks there such as Philly attorney Phil Berg and others. And one attendee from Boston, Mark McKertich, actually bought me a couple of beers at the Crown Plaza San Marcos bar! But otherwise, it was nutbar city, as some of these videos that were on sale at one vendor booth reveal. I didn't make the conference Saturday, but I'll have more from my Sunday visit later today or this evening.
Thursday, September 23, 2010
BP oil spill echoes in Dalian China pipeline explosion video inside
EXCERPT:
“Any criticism launched at the company would be considered an attack on the government, so the media is very quiet.”
The illuminati and the Galactic Federation
EXCERPT:
Galactic Federation aliens come here in three ways: by spaceships, as walk-ins or are actually born here and spend their incarnation here.
EXCERPT:
“Any criticism launched at the company would be considered an attack on the government, so the media is very quiet.”
The illuminati and the Galactic Federation
EXCERPT:
Galactic Federation aliens come here in three ways: by spaceships, as walk-ins or are actually born here and spend their incarnation here.
Monday, September 6, 2010
I see that Disney has a movie coming out 'Secretariet'.... hmmmmm, I wonder what Disney thinks of Horses and steroids? Let's not glamorize torture, BOYCOTT Secretariet the Disney movie
Even if Eight Belles wasn't on steroids if the horses she was running against were, was the pressure on? hmmmmm
If Michael Brown couldn't take care of horses, how the hell was he supposed to take care of the folks after Katrina??????? OMG!!!
Eight Belles put down on track youtube
Eight Belles wasn't on steroids
EXCERPT:
A necropsy of Eight Belles, who was euthanized after breaking down just beyond the finish, showed that she had no pre-existing injury or ailment and was free of steroids and other drugs.
Horses on steroids same as people on steroids
EXCERPT:
Critics argue that steroids can have the same harmful side effects in horses as they do in humans and that, as in baseball, they damage the integrity of the sport. Proponents laugh off the comparisons to people and contend that steroids have rejuventative benefits.
Brittle bones and steroids
EXCERPT:
Anyone who takes steroids is at increased risk of osteoporosis and more than 80% develop some form of the disease Steroids are common, effective medications for treating many diseases, They suppress the immune system and are therefore effective in controlling diseases in which the immune system is harmful to the body's own tissue, such as with asthma, arthritis, lupus erythematosus, and some forms of kidney disease. Steroids are also commonly used to help guard against rejection following organ transplantation. However, steroids also suppress bone formation and cause the kidneys to waste calcium by blocking its absorption from the gastrointestinal tract.
Unfortunately, many of the people who must take steroids to suppress the immune system already have other risk factors for osteoporosis. An older, post-menopausal woman with arthritis already is at risk for developing osteoporosis. Steroids, while helping control the arthritis, will have a negative effect on her bone density.
Michael Brown FEMA and horses
FEMA Dir. Mike Brown fired from prior job at Horse Assoc.
Fri Sep 02, 2005 at 12:46:22 AM PDT
"An unmitigated, total fucking disaster." That's not a quote from Mike Brown, but rather, a quote describing him. And most disturbingly, it's not even a reference to his dismal performance as director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). This blunt critique was emailed to me from a regular reader who was apparently attracted to HorsesAss.org by her passion for politics and her love of Arabian horses.
I think I've told you that I'm into Arab horses. Well, for 3 years Michael Brown was hired and then fired by our IAHA, the International Arabian Horse Assoc. He was an unmitigated, total fucking disaster. I was shocked as hell when captain clueless put him in charge of FEMA a couple of years ago.
Goldy at HorsesAss's diary :: ::
He or the WH lied on the WH presser announcing him to FEMA. IAHA was never connected to the Olympic Comm, only the half Arab registry then and the governing body to the state and local Arabian horse clubs. He ruined IAHA financially so badly that we had to change the name and combine it with the Purebred registry.
I am telling you this after watching the fucking shipwreck in the Gulf. His incompetence is KILLING people.
Yes, that's right... the man responsible for directing federal relief operations in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, sharpened his emergency management skills as the "Judges and Stewards Commissioner" for the International Arabian Horses Association... a position from which he was forced to resign in the face of mounting litigation and financial disarray.
And what of that misleading White House press release?
From 1991 to 2001, Brown was the Commissioner of the International Arabian Horse Association, an international subsidiary of the national governing organization of the U.S. Olympic Committee.
I can't even begin to fact check the dates or IAHA's alleged relationship to the US Olympic Committee, because of course, the IAHA doesn't exist anymore, so there's nothing to Google. But it begs the question... how the hell did his prior job experience prepare Brown to head FEMA?
Well, judging by his agency's performance over the past few days... it didn't.
Eight Belles put down
EXCERPT:
Hillary Clinton last week put her money on Eight Belles to win the race:
"I hope that everybody will go to the derby on Saturday and place just a little money on the filly for me," Sen. Clinton told supporters in Jeffersonville, Ind., ABC News reports. "I won't be able to be there this year - my daughter is going to be there and so she has strict instructions to bet on Eight Belles."
Horse racing and steroids
EXCERPT:
After Failed Drug Test, Suspicions of Foul Play
Published: June 21, 2008
Two of the most outspoken critics on the use of drugs in horse racing recently had a colt of their own fail a drug test, a result that they are saying was sabotage. Larry Jones, who trained the late filly Eight Belles, and Jim Squires, the breeder of the 2001 Kentucky Derby winner Monarchos, were notified Tuesday that Stones River had tested positive for illegal levels of clenbuterol, a bronchodilator that helps burn fat and promote muscle growth, after a race June 8 at Delaware Park.
Jones trains Stones River for Squires, who races under the name Two Bucks Stable. Stones River romped to a nine-and-a-quarter-length victory in a 1-mile 70-yard allowance race, paying $7.40 for a $2 bet to win.
Jones has long called for limits on the use of steroids and race-day medications in horses, and he endured severe criticism after Eight Belles was euthanized on the track after finishing second in the Kentucky Derby. In more than 25 years of training horses, Jones had never had a violation, including any for drugs, according to the Racing Commissioners International database.
Squires, a former member of the Kentucky Racing Commission, also has a clean record and has called for more vigorous, uniform regulation of therapeutic drugs like clenbuterol, as well as for steroids. Squires has written on the subject in several articles for The New York Times.
Squires said that the positive test came amid intense scrutiny of industry practices during the recently concluded Triple Crown season, beginning with the death of Eight Belles and continuing with the acknowledgment by Rick Dutrow, the trainer of Big Brown, who won the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness Stakes, that his colt had received the anabolic steroid Winstrol. These events helped spur a Congressional hearing Thursday, when members told industry leaders to clean up their sport or the federal government would.
“That a Two Bucks Stable horse in his care has become the first drug positive in his career in the highly charged atmosphere during the week of a congressional investigation focusing on drugs and safety in horse racing is highly suspicious,” Squires said in a written statement. “It reeks of a deliberate effort to impugn our credibility on the subject of drugs and damage the reputation of a highly successful trainer who has been unfairly and mistakenly blamed by a few critics outside the industry for the death of Eight Belles.”
Jones is the leading trainer at Delaware Park and is ranked No. 11 nationally with purse earnings of more than $3.1 million. Last year at Delaware Park, a small sponge was found in the nose of one of his horses in what the state police described as an attempt to fix a race. The horse, a 2-year-old filly, finished third as the 4-5 favorite.
Jones noticed mucus coming from the filly’s nose two days later. He sent her to the Rood and Riddle Equine Hospital in Lexington, Ky., and, after antibiotics failed to improve the condition, veterinarians operated and found the sponge with uniform holes stuffed in her nose. The case remains unsolved.
“I guess we’re not the most popular people in Delaware,” Jones said. “I have gotten so much hate mail after Eight Belles. I’ve been on the public record against drugs forever, as has Jim. It looks pretty obvious to me that we’ve been targeted.”
John Wayne, executive director of the Delaware Thoroughbred Racing Commission, declined to comment on what he said was a pending matter.
Brent Caldwell, a lawyer representing Jones and Squires, has asked for a copy of the all lab testing reports and investigative reports, and also that a “split sample” be taken from Stones River to an independent laboratory. Caldwell also asked for an investigation to determine who had access to Stones River on the backside in the days before the race. Squires offered the $25,200 Stones River won to supplement any investigation.
Even if Eight Belles wasn't on steroids if the horses she was running against were, was the pressure on? hmmmmm
If Michael Brown couldn't take care of horses, how the hell was he supposed to take care of the folks after Katrina??????? OMG!!!
Eight Belles put down on track youtube
Eight Belles wasn't on steroids
EXCERPT:
A necropsy of Eight Belles, who was euthanized after breaking down just beyond the finish, showed that she had no pre-existing injury or ailment and was free of steroids and other drugs.
Horses on steroids same as people on steroids
EXCERPT:
Critics argue that steroids can have the same harmful side effects in horses as they do in humans and that, as in baseball, they damage the integrity of the sport. Proponents laugh off the comparisons to people and contend that steroids have rejuventative benefits.
Brittle bones and steroids
EXCERPT:
Anyone who takes steroids is at increased risk of osteoporosis and more than 80% develop some form of the disease Steroids are common, effective medications for treating many diseases, They suppress the immune system and are therefore effective in controlling diseases in which the immune system is harmful to the body's own tissue, such as with asthma, arthritis, lupus erythematosus, and some forms of kidney disease. Steroids are also commonly used to help guard against rejection following organ transplantation. However, steroids also suppress bone formation and cause the kidneys to waste calcium by blocking its absorption from the gastrointestinal tract.
Unfortunately, many of the people who must take steroids to suppress the immune system already have other risk factors for osteoporosis. An older, post-menopausal woman with arthritis already is at risk for developing osteoporosis. Steroids, while helping control the arthritis, will have a negative effect on her bone density.
Michael Brown FEMA and horses
FEMA Dir. Mike Brown fired from prior job at Horse Assoc.
Fri Sep 02, 2005 at 12:46:22 AM PDT
"An unmitigated, total fucking disaster." That's not a quote from Mike Brown, but rather, a quote describing him. And most disturbingly, it's not even a reference to his dismal performance as director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). This blunt critique was emailed to me from a regular reader who was apparently attracted to HorsesAss.org by her passion for politics and her love of Arabian horses.
I think I've told you that I'm into Arab horses. Well, for 3 years Michael Brown was hired and then fired by our IAHA, the International Arabian Horse Assoc. He was an unmitigated, total fucking disaster. I was shocked as hell when captain clueless put him in charge of FEMA a couple of years ago.
Goldy at HorsesAss's diary :: ::
He or the WH lied on the WH presser announcing him to FEMA. IAHA was never connected to the Olympic Comm, only the half Arab registry then and the governing body to the state and local Arabian horse clubs. He ruined IAHA financially so badly that we had to change the name and combine it with the Purebred registry.
I am telling you this after watching the fucking shipwreck in the Gulf. His incompetence is KILLING people.
Yes, that's right... the man responsible for directing federal relief operations in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, sharpened his emergency management skills as the "Judges and Stewards Commissioner" for the International Arabian Horses Association... a position from which he was forced to resign in the face of mounting litigation and financial disarray.
And what of that misleading White House press release?
From 1991 to 2001, Brown was the Commissioner of the International Arabian Horse Association, an international subsidiary of the national governing organization of the U.S. Olympic Committee.
I can't even begin to fact check the dates or IAHA's alleged relationship to the US Olympic Committee, because of course, the IAHA doesn't exist anymore, so there's nothing to Google. But it begs the question... how the hell did his prior job experience prepare Brown to head FEMA?
Well, judging by his agency's performance over the past few days... it didn't.
Eight Belles put down
EXCERPT:
Hillary Clinton last week put her money on Eight Belles to win the race:
"I hope that everybody will go to the derby on Saturday and place just a little money on the filly for me," Sen. Clinton told supporters in Jeffersonville, Ind., ABC News reports. "I won't be able to be there this year - my daughter is going to be there and so she has strict instructions to bet on Eight Belles."
Horse racing and steroids
EXCERPT:
After Failed Drug Test, Suspicions of Foul Play
Published: June 21, 2008
Two of the most outspoken critics on the use of drugs in horse racing recently had a colt of their own fail a drug test, a result that they are saying was sabotage. Larry Jones, who trained the late filly Eight Belles, and Jim Squires, the breeder of the 2001 Kentucky Derby winner Monarchos, were notified Tuesday that Stones River had tested positive for illegal levels of clenbuterol, a bronchodilator that helps burn fat and promote muscle growth, after a race June 8 at Delaware Park.
Jones trains Stones River for Squires, who races under the name Two Bucks Stable. Stones River romped to a nine-and-a-quarter-length victory in a 1-mile 70-yard allowance race, paying $7.40 for a $2 bet to win.
Jones has long called for limits on the use of steroids and race-day medications in horses, and he endured severe criticism after Eight Belles was euthanized on the track after finishing second in the Kentucky Derby. In more than 25 years of training horses, Jones had never had a violation, including any for drugs, according to the Racing Commissioners International database.
Squires, a former member of the Kentucky Racing Commission, also has a clean record and has called for more vigorous, uniform regulation of therapeutic drugs like clenbuterol, as well as for steroids. Squires has written on the subject in several articles for The New York Times.
Squires said that the positive test came amid intense scrutiny of industry practices during the recently concluded Triple Crown season, beginning with the death of Eight Belles and continuing with the acknowledgment by Rick Dutrow, the trainer of Big Brown, who won the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness Stakes, that his colt had received the anabolic steroid Winstrol. These events helped spur a Congressional hearing Thursday, when members told industry leaders to clean up their sport or the federal government would.
“That a Two Bucks Stable horse in his care has become the first drug positive in his career in the highly charged atmosphere during the week of a congressional investigation focusing on drugs and safety in horse racing is highly suspicious,” Squires said in a written statement. “It reeks of a deliberate effort to impugn our credibility on the subject of drugs and damage the reputation of a highly successful trainer who has been unfairly and mistakenly blamed by a few critics outside the industry for the death of Eight Belles.”
Jones is the leading trainer at Delaware Park and is ranked No. 11 nationally with purse earnings of more than $3.1 million. Last year at Delaware Park, a small sponge was found in the nose of one of his horses in what the state police described as an attempt to fix a race. The horse, a 2-year-old filly, finished third as the 4-5 favorite.
Jones noticed mucus coming from the filly’s nose two days later. He sent her to the Rood and Riddle Equine Hospital in Lexington, Ky., and, after antibiotics failed to improve the condition, veterinarians operated and found the sponge with uniform holes stuffed in her nose. The case remains unsolved.
“I guess we’re not the most popular people in Delaware,” Jones said. “I have gotten so much hate mail after Eight Belles. I’ve been on the public record against drugs forever, as has Jim. It looks pretty obvious to me that we’ve been targeted.”
John Wayne, executive director of the Delaware Thoroughbred Racing Commission, declined to comment on what he said was a pending matter.
Brent Caldwell, a lawyer representing Jones and Squires, has asked for a copy of the all lab testing reports and investigative reports, and also that a “split sample” be taken from Stones River to an independent laboratory. Caldwell also asked for an investigation to determine who had access to Stones River on the backside in the days before the race. Squires offered the $25,200 Stones River won to supplement any investigation.
Thursday, July 29, 2010
Brain Zaps & Antidepressants youtube
Funny Lunesta commercial youtube
Wellbutrin3 youtube
1st day effects of Cymbalta (treating panic attacks) youtube
AM I BIEN STUPID? (SIDE EFFECTS OF AMBIEN) youtube
Zoloft cartoon youtube
Dangerous Side Effects of Antidepressants youtube
Wellbutrin and hair loss
EXCERPT:
July 28th 2010
10:50 PM
I threw my budeprion SR 150mg in the trash this morning.
I started losing hair a couple of weeks into taking it (I've been on it since May 2010, a couple of months now.) After having a complete blood work up and hormone testing, my doctor and I just attributed the hair loss to three instances of being sick throwing up and tummy problems since April 2010 (I have four kids and they brought it home from pre-school and passed these 'tummy bugs' all around our family).
It's been about eight weeks since the last episode of being ill and this hair loss is nothing like I've experienced before. It's even worse than hair loss you experience after having a baby or surgery!
Effexor XR side effects
EXCERPT:
Common Effexor XR Side Effects
This antidepressant medicine may cause negative adverse reactions. It is important to consult with your doctor about possible negative reactions when taking this anti-depression drug as well as any circumstances when you should stop or discontinue your prescribed regimen. Follow your doctor's instructions on taking this venlafaxine antidepressant medication to minimize any adverse reactions.
Some of the common adverse reactions and symptoms while taking venlafaxine HCL include nausea, insomnia, weakness, dry mouth, dizziness, stomach pain, vomiting, constipation, drowsiness, appetite loss, diarrhea, sleepiness, heartburn, gas, burping, sweating, hot flashes, frequent urination, sexual side effects, ringing in the ears, sweating and nervousness. http://www.effexorxr.com/about-effexor/side-effects-withdrawal.aspx10
If any of these common negative symptoms persist or worsen, contact your doctor immediately.
Severe Effexor XR Side Effects
Taking venlafaxine can cause serious adverse reactions. If you experience any of the following symptoms seek immediate medical attention.
Severe adverse reactions include coma, hallucinations, seizures, coordination problems, hives, rash, difficulty breathing, difficulty swallowing, chest pain, itching, irregular heartbeat, fast or pounding heartbeat, unusual bleeding, unusual bruising, small purple spots on the skin, vision changes, fever, confusion and severe muscle stiffness. http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/druginfo/meds/a694020.html11 http://www.effexorxr.com/about-effexor/side-effects-withdrawal.aspx12 Patients with certain medical conditions should not take venlafaxine HCL. Talk to your doctor about your complete medical history before taking this depression medication. This is not a complete list of potential adverse reactions. If you notice any other effects that are not listed above contact your doctor or pharmacist.
Suicide
EXCERPT:
If you are feeling suicidal now, please stop long enough to read this. It will only take about five minutes. I do not want to talk you out of your bad feelings. I am not a therapist or other mental health professional - only someone who knows what it is like to be in pain.
I don't know who you are, or why you are reading this page. I only know that for the moment, you're reading it, and that is good. I can assume that you are here because you are troubled and considering ending your life. If it were possible, I would prefer to be there with you at this moment, to sit with you and talk, face to face and heart to heart. But since that is not possible, we will have to make do with this.
Funny Lunesta commercial youtube
Wellbutrin3 youtube
1st day effects of Cymbalta (treating panic attacks) youtube
AM I BIEN STUPID? (SIDE EFFECTS OF AMBIEN) youtube
Zoloft cartoon youtube
Dangerous Side Effects of Antidepressants youtube
Wellbutrin and hair loss
EXCERPT:
July 28th 2010
10:50 PM
I threw my budeprion SR 150mg in the trash this morning.
I started losing hair a couple of weeks into taking it (I've been on it since May 2010, a couple of months now.) After having a complete blood work up and hormone testing, my doctor and I just attributed the hair loss to three instances of being sick throwing up and tummy problems since April 2010 (I have four kids and they brought it home from pre-school and passed these 'tummy bugs' all around our family).
It's been about eight weeks since the last episode of being ill and this hair loss is nothing like I've experienced before. It's even worse than hair loss you experience after having a baby or surgery!
Effexor XR side effects
EXCERPT:
Common Effexor XR Side Effects
This antidepressant medicine may cause negative adverse reactions. It is important to consult with your doctor about possible negative reactions when taking this anti-depression drug as well as any circumstances when you should stop or discontinue your prescribed regimen. Follow your doctor's instructions on taking this venlafaxine antidepressant medication to minimize any adverse reactions.
Some of the common adverse reactions and symptoms while taking venlafaxine HCL include nausea, insomnia, weakness, dry mouth, dizziness, stomach pain, vomiting, constipation, drowsiness, appetite loss, diarrhea, sleepiness, heartburn, gas, burping, sweating, hot flashes, frequent urination, sexual side effects, ringing in the ears, sweating and nervousness. http://www.effexorxr.com/about-effexor/side-effects-withdrawal.aspx10
If any of these common negative symptoms persist or worsen, contact your doctor immediately.
Severe Effexor XR Side Effects
Taking venlafaxine can cause serious adverse reactions. If you experience any of the following symptoms seek immediate medical attention.
Severe adverse reactions include coma, hallucinations, seizures, coordination problems, hives, rash, difficulty breathing, difficulty swallowing, chest pain, itching, irregular heartbeat, fast or pounding heartbeat, unusual bleeding, unusual bruising, small purple spots on the skin, vision changes, fever, confusion and severe muscle stiffness. http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/druginfo/meds/a694020.html11 http://www.effexorxr.com/about-effexor/side-effects-withdrawal.aspx12 Patients with certain medical conditions should not take venlafaxine HCL. Talk to your doctor about your complete medical history before taking this depression medication. This is not a complete list of potential adverse reactions. If you notice any other effects that are not listed above contact your doctor or pharmacist.
Suicide
EXCERPT:
If you are feeling suicidal now, please stop long enough to read this. It will only take about five minutes. I do not want to talk you out of your bad feelings. I am not a therapist or other mental health professional - only someone who knows what it is like to be in pain.
I don't know who you are, or why you are reading this page. I only know that for the moment, you're reading it, and that is good. I can assume that you are here because you are troubled and considering ending your life. If it were possible, I would prefer to be there with you at this moment, to sit with you and talk, face to face and heart to heart. But since that is not possible, we will have to make do with this.
Sunday, June 27, 2010
Bill Clinton, Ron Burkle and the McDonald's scandal
EXCERPT:
Another business caught up ostensibly in the bigger scandal of which the game prizes are a tiny part, is Yucaipa Companies. Yucaipa owns 70 per cent of Golden State foods, one of McDonald's Hamburgers largest food suppliers. Yucaipa also is an investor in Simon Worldwide, Inc.
An interesting sidelight is how Rev. Jesse Jackson apparently pressured Yucaipa to reward Jesse's mistress, Karin Stanford, by paying her as a purported "consultant", ten thousand dollars per month. {See, Chicago Sun-Times, 1/26/2001.]
Some of the illicit dealings of Simon Marketing have come out in a suit where they and Coca-Cola are named defendants. The suit, pending in Chicago's federal courts also involved a fraud upon the court by Judge Blanche Manning hearing the case. The attorneys for Simon Marketing's liability carrier, referring to themselves as "attorneys for Simon Marketing", had originally stated in Court in the lawsuit, that they did not know of Cyrk. Later, the same lawyers, exposing their false prior statements, said they DID know of Cyrk.
Ohio supreme court declines to hear appeal of former GOP funraiser conviceted in coin-Beanie Babies scandal
EXCERPT:
Prosecutors said Noe used state money to pay off business loans and to fund a lavish lifestyle, including the renovation of his Florida Keys home. Noe was allotted $50 million to invest for the state injured worker insurance fund, which he put into such questionable items as rare coins, Beanie babies and other collectibles.
Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/economy/ohio-supreme-court-declines-to-hear-appeal-of-former-gop-fundraiser-convicted-in-coin-scandal-95976474.html#ixzz0s630eDiR
The Billary's connection to the Vatican
EXCERPT:
More importantly, Doug introduced him to Bill Clinton and his close personal friends, including supermarket magnate and billionaire Ron Burkle. In April 2005, Ron formed a joint venture with Raffaello, called Follieri/Yucaipa Investments, to develop unused Catholic properties
Ron Burkle breaks up with the Billarys
EXCERPT:
First of all, he was the good guy in the relationship.
"When Clinton left the Presidency he had to make money, and there were certain limits on how he could do it," says Burkle. "In that regard, having him work for Yucaipa was the right thing to do. In other ways, it was the dumbest thing I ever did."
Nice guys always finish last! Burkle knows that now.
And the idea that he might be the one who embarrassed Clinton? Well. That's pretty rich.
"If someone wanted to embarrass [Clinton], I got thrown in it, too," says Burkle. "I got all that for free."
By the way, in the end, it was his decision, not Clinton's, to end the relationship.
Why? Because he was bored. "Burkle says he and Clinton don't see much of each other anymore and explains the rupture this way: "Before, every trip with him seemed like a once in a lifetime opportunity. Now I have so many things to do."
More on Burkle-Clinton
EXCERPT:
Source Interlink was backed by billionaire Ron Burkle through The Yucaipa Companies, a Los Angeles-based private investment firm specializing in acquiring and operating companies in the retail, distribution, and logistics areas. A former grocery store bag boy, Burkle is a prominent Democratic party activist and fundraiser. He is a close friend of former President Bill Clinton, and investments in Yucaipa made by Clinton and his wife Senator Hillary Clinton have generated millions of dollars in income for them.
Ron Burkle and Bill Clinton's partnership ends
EXCERPT:
Bill Clinton Leaves Yucaipa Business Partnerships .ArticleComments (15)more in
Former President Bill Clinton has ended his high-profile business connection to his friend Ronald Burkle's Yucaipa Cos. by walking away from a final payment that was once estimated at up to $20 million.
Ron Burkle
EXCERPT:
[edit] Golden State Foods
Burkle sold his majority stake in supplier Golden State Foods to St. Louis-based Wetterau Associates for about $110 million. Golden State, one of McDonald's biggest suppliers, operates 11 distribution centers in the United States and abroad and two U.S. processing plants.[13]
[edit] Follieri and the Vati-Con scandal
On April 30, 2008, a Delaware judge dismissed Burkle's lawsuit against Raffaello Follieri, ex-boyfriend of actress Anne Hathaway, after he agreed to repay Burkle more than $1.3 million Burkle loaned him, a small amount of the money Burkle lost in the Vati-Con Scandal.[14]
Pittsburgh Penguins
He is part owner of the Pittsburgh Penguins[11] National Hockey League team, although his current share is unknown. He co-owns the franchise with Penguins legend Mario Lemieux. The Penguins won the Stanley Cup in 2009.
[edit] Wild Oats
Wild Oats Markets was an operator of natural foods stores and farmers' markets in North America. Burkle started buying Wild Oats stock in February 2005. By the time Whole Foods Market, a natural-foods grocer, agreed to pay $565 million for Wild Oats, Burkle was the largest shareholder of Wild Oats.[12]
Raphael De Niro Real Estate connecting the dots
EXCERPT:
But there's trouble brewing below Canal Street. "He has all of the good listings because of his last name!" fumes a competitor. "His father does mailings for him and gives lists of his friends' addresses. If your father is famous, you make it really quick in this business. "
Despite what his detractors say, Raphael, 32, told real estate magazine The Real Deal in 2006: "My name is a hot commodity. [But] I only use it when I can put my integrity behind it 110 percent."
Going above and beyond means assembling a client list that boasts Matt Damon, Naomi Campbell and model Carmen Kass. Recently, he's taken both Jessica Alba and Victoria's Secret mannequin Adriana Lima to check out massive apartments at the Fairchild building in Tribeca.
Following PDF is 16 pages....... (I've only put an excerpt)
Beanie Babies Fraud
EXCERPT:
PODGORPPREVISED.DOC 6/18/2001 1:04 PM
1031
ESSAYS
DO WE NEED A “BEANIE BABY”* FRAUD
STATUTE?
ELLEN S. PODGOR**
INTRODUCTION
This is not an Essay calling for the protection of “Peanuts,” the
royal blue elephant.1 Nor is this Essay concerned with the confusion
surrounding “Iggy,” the Iguana or “Rainbow,” the Chameleon.2 This
Essay does not even reflect on the ramifications of Ty, Inc.’s decision
to retire Beanie Babies on December 31, 1999,3 followed by its later
decision to continue production.4 Rather, the focus of this Essay is on
whether Congress needs to pass a specific statute to criminalize
Beanie Baby fraud.
* “Beanie Babies” are produced by Ty, Inc.
** Professor of Law, Georgia State University College of Law. Visiting Scholar, Yale
Law School, Fall 1998. B.S., 1973, Syracuse University; J.D., 1976, Indiana University
School of Law at Indianapolis; M.B.A., 1987, University of Chicago; LL.M., 1989, Temple
University School of Law. The author thanks Professor Neil Kinkopf for his research
suggestions and Professor Peter Henning for his comments on a draft of this Essay.
1. Ty, Inc., produced two different “Peanut” Beanie Babies. One is a light blue
elephant that was retired on May 1, 1998, and the other is a royal blue elephant that
was retired on October 2, 1995.
2. “Iggy” and “Rainbow’s” tags were inadvertently reversed in January, 1998. See
LES & SUE FOX, THE BEANIE BABY HANDBOOK 66 (1998).
3. See Paula Lyon & Natalie Evans, Ty to Retire Beanie Babies at Year End, CRAIN’S
CHI. BUS., Sept. 6, 1999, at 106 (reporting that Ty, Inc., announced the retirement of
all Beanie Babies as of Dec. 31, 1999); see also Claudia H. Deutsch, Ty Puts Beanie
Babies’ Fate Into the Hands of Consumers, N.Y. TIMES, Dec. 25, 1999, at B11 (discussing
Ty, Inc.’s announcement to “let the public vote on whether it should keep producing
new Beanie Babies in the new millennium”).
4. See Renee Strovsky, Beanie Babies Show Up Again, ST. LOUIS DISPATCH, May 1,
2000, at D1 (discussing Ty’s decision to continue producing Beanie Babies following
an online vote of the public supporting continued production of Beanie Babies).
PODGORPPREVISED.DOC 6/18/2001 1:04 PM
1032 AMERICAN UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW [Vol. 49:1031
In the past, I have argued in favor of specific fraud statutes.5 The
widespread use of generic fraud statutes, such as mail fraud6 and
conspiracy to defraud,7 have allowed prosecutorial discretion to
exceed what historically would have been considered part of the
executive function.8 Prosecutors have attempted to legislate against
new forms of criminality by prosecuting illegal activity under generic
fraud statutes.9 I considered the passage of the computer fraud
statute,10 the health care fraud statute,11 and the bank fraud statute12
to be legislative advancements because these statutes offered specific
legislative definitions of what would constitute criminal conduct.13
But in calling for specific statutes, it is equally important to realize
that enacting a multitude of specific statutes to address every new
instance of fraud is absurd. Although the constant enactment of new
federal statutes may foster political careers by demonstrating a tough
stand on crime,14 adding new volumes to the criminal code for
political purposes serves little benefit in the development of criminal
law.15 The excessive number of federal statutes is well documented
and is detrimental to the development of an efficient legal process.16
Discerning the appropriate line in legislative drafting between the
5. See Ellen S. Podgor, Criminal Fraud, 48 AM. U. L. REV. 729, 735 (1999)
(advocating that “specific fraud statutes . . . offer tighter restraints which conform
more closely with the initial legislative purpose of the statute.”).
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
EXCERPT:
Another business caught up ostensibly in the bigger scandal of which the game prizes are a tiny part, is Yucaipa Companies. Yucaipa owns 70 per cent of Golden State foods, one of McDonald's Hamburgers largest food suppliers. Yucaipa also is an investor in Simon Worldwide, Inc.
An interesting sidelight is how Rev. Jesse Jackson apparently pressured Yucaipa to reward Jesse's mistress, Karin Stanford, by paying her as a purported "consultant", ten thousand dollars per month. {See, Chicago Sun-Times, 1/26/2001.]
Some of the illicit dealings of Simon Marketing have come out in a suit where they and Coca-Cola are named defendants. The suit, pending in Chicago's federal courts also involved a fraud upon the court by Judge Blanche Manning hearing the case. The attorneys for Simon Marketing's liability carrier, referring to themselves as "attorneys for Simon Marketing", had originally stated in Court in the lawsuit, that they did not know of Cyrk. Later, the same lawyers, exposing their false prior statements, said they DID know of Cyrk.
Ohio supreme court declines to hear appeal of former GOP funraiser conviceted in coin-Beanie Babies scandal
EXCERPT:
Prosecutors said Noe used state money to pay off business loans and to fund a lavish lifestyle, including the renovation of his Florida Keys home. Noe was allotted $50 million to invest for the state injured worker insurance fund, which he put into such questionable items as rare coins, Beanie babies and other collectibles.
Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/economy/ohio-supreme-court-declines-to-hear-appeal-of-former-gop-fundraiser-convicted-in-coin-scandal-95976474.html#ixzz0s630eDiR
The Billary's connection to the Vatican
EXCERPT:
More importantly, Doug introduced him to Bill Clinton and his close personal friends, including supermarket magnate and billionaire Ron Burkle. In April 2005, Ron formed a joint venture with Raffaello, called Follieri/Yucaipa Investments, to develop unused Catholic properties
Ron Burkle breaks up with the Billarys
EXCERPT:
First of all, he was the good guy in the relationship.
"When Clinton left the Presidency he had to make money, and there were certain limits on how he could do it," says Burkle. "In that regard, having him work for Yucaipa was the right thing to do. In other ways, it was the dumbest thing I ever did."
Nice guys always finish last! Burkle knows that now.
And the idea that he might be the one who embarrassed Clinton? Well. That's pretty rich.
"If someone wanted to embarrass [Clinton], I got thrown in it, too," says Burkle. "I got all that for free."
By the way, in the end, it was his decision, not Clinton's, to end the relationship.
Why? Because he was bored. "Burkle says he and Clinton don't see much of each other anymore and explains the rupture this way: "Before, every trip with him seemed like a once in a lifetime opportunity. Now I have so many things to do."
More on Burkle-Clinton
EXCERPT:
Source Interlink was backed by billionaire Ron Burkle through The Yucaipa Companies, a Los Angeles-based private investment firm specializing in acquiring and operating companies in the retail, distribution, and logistics areas. A former grocery store bag boy, Burkle is a prominent Democratic party activist and fundraiser. He is a close friend of former President Bill Clinton, and investments in Yucaipa made by Clinton and his wife Senator Hillary Clinton have generated millions of dollars in income for them.
Ron Burkle and Bill Clinton's partnership ends
EXCERPT:
Bill Clinton Leaves Yucaipa Business Partnerships .ArticleComments (15)more in
Former President Bill Clinton has ended his high-profile business connection to his friend Ronald Burkle's Yucaipa Cos. by walking away from a final payment that was once estimated at up to $20 million.
Ron Burkle
EXCERPT:
[edit] Golden State Foods
Burkle sold his majority stake in supplier Golden State Foods to St. Louis-based Wetterau Associates for about $110 million. Golden State, one of McDonald's biggest suppliers, operates 11 distribution centers in the United States and abroad and two U.S. processing plants.[13]
[edit] Follieri and the Vati-Con scandal
On April 30, 2008, a Delaware judge dismissed Burkle's lawsuit against Raffaello Follieri, ex-boyfriend of actress Anne Hathaway, after he agreed to repay Burkle more than $1.3 million Burkle loaned him, a small amount of the money Burkle lost in the Vati-Con Scandal.[14]
Pittsburgh Penguins
He is part owner of the Pittsburgh Penguins[11] National Hockey League team, although his current share is unknown. He co-owns the franchise with Penguins legend Mario Lemieux. The Penguins won the Stanley Cup in 2009.
[edit] Wild Oats
Wild Oats Markets was an operator of natural foods stores and farmers' markets in North America. Burkle started buying Wild Oats stock in February 2005. By the time Whole Foods Market, a natural-foods grocer, agreed to pay $565 million for Wild Oats, Burkle was the largest shareholder of Wild Oats.[12]
Raphael De Niro Real Estate connecting the dots
EXCERPT:
But there's trouble brewing below Canal Street. "He has all of the good listings because of his last name!" fumes a competitor. "His father does mailings for him and gives lists of his friends' addresses. If your father is famous, you make it really quick in this business. "
Despite what his detractors say, Raphael, 32, told real estate magazine The Real Deal in 2006: "My name is a hot commodity. [But] I only use it when I can put my integrity behind it 110 percent."
Going above and beyond means assembling a client list that boasts Matt Damon, Naomi Campbell and model Carmen Kass. Recently, he's taken both Jessica Alba and Victoria's Secret mannequin Adriana Lima to check out massive apartments at the Fairchild building in Tribeca.
Following PDF is 16 pages....... (I've only put an excerpt)
Beanie Babies Fraud
EXCERPT:
PODGORPPREVISED.DOC 6/18/2001 1:04 PM
1031
ESSAYS
DO WE NEED A “BEANIE BABY”* FRAUD
STATUTE?
ELLEN S. PODGOR**
INTRODUCTION
This is not an Essay calling for the protection of “Peanuts,” the
royal blue elephant.1 Nor is this Essay concerned with the confusion
surrounding “Iggy,” the Iguana or “Rainbow,” the Chameleon.2 This
Essay does not even reflect on the ramifications of Ty, Inc.’s decision
to retire Beanie Babies on December 31, 1999,3 followed by its later
decision to continue production.4 Rather, the focus of this Essay is on
whether Congress needs to pass a specific statute to criminalize
Beanie Baby fraud.
* “Beanie Babies” are produced by Ty, Inc.
** Professor of Law, Georgia State University College of Law. Visiting Scholar, Yale
Law School, Fall 1998. B.S., 1973, Syracuse University; J.D., 1976, Indiana University
School of Law at Indianapolis; M.B.A., 1987, University of Chicago; LL.M., 1989, Temple
University School of Law. The author thanks Professor Neil Kinkopf for his research
suggestions and Professor Peter Henning for his comments on a draft of this Essay.
1. Ty, Inc., produced two different “Peanut” Beanie Babies. One is a light blue
elephant that was retired on May 1, 1998, and the other is a royal blue elephant that
was retired on October 2, 1995.
2. “Iggy” and “Rainbow’s” tags were inadvertently reversed in January, 1998. See
LES & SUE FOX, THE BEANIE BABY HANDBOOK 66 (1998).
3. See Paula Lyon & Natalie Evans, Ty to Retire Beanie Babies at Year End, CRAIN’S
CHI. BUS., Sept. 6, 1999, at 106 (reporting that Ty, Inc., announced the retirement of
all Beanie Babies as of Dec. 31, 1999); see also Claudia H. Deutsch, Ty Puts Beanie
Babies’ Fate Into the Hands of Consumers, N.Y. TIMES, Dec. 25, 1999, at B11 (discussing
Ty, Inc.’s announcement to “let the public vote on whether it should keep producing
new Beanie Babies in the new millennium”).
4. See Renee Strovsky, Beanie Babies Show Up Again, ST. LOUIS DISPATCH, May 1,
2000, at D1 (discussing Ty’s decision to continue producing Beanie Babies following
an online vote of the public supporting continued production of Beanie Babies).
PODGORPPREVISED.DOC 6/18/2001 1:04 PM
1032 AMERICAN UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW [Vol. 49:1031
In the past, I have argued in favor of specific fraud statutes.5 The
widespread use of generic fraud statutes, such as mail fraud6 and
conspiracy to defraud,7 have allowed prosecutorial discretion to
exceed what historically would have been considered part of the
executive function.8 Prosecutors have attempted to legislate against
new forms of criminality by prosecuting illegal activity under generic
fraud statutes.9 I considered the passage of the computer fraud
statute,10 the health care fraud statute,11 and the bank fraud statute12
to be legislative advancements because these statutes offered specific
legislative definitions of what would constitute criminal conduct.13
But in calling for specific statutes, it is equally important to realize
that enacting a multitude of specific statutes to address every new
instance of fraud is absurd. Although the constant enactment of new
federal statutes may foster political careers by demonstrating a tough
stand on crime,14 adding new volumes to the criminal code for
political purposes serves little benefit in the development of criminal
law.15 The excessive number of federal statutes is well documented
and is detrimental to the development of an efficient legal process.16
Discerning the appropriate line in legislative drafting between the
5. See Ellen S. Podgor, Criminal Fraud, 48 AM. U. L. REV. 729, 735 (1999)
(advocating that “specific fraud statutes . . . offer tighter restraints which conform
more closely with the initial legislative purpose of the statute.”).
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
To Bill Clinton from ME: "You're off your game Mr. President if you think 'WE' aren't watching." You being at the world cup during our Gulf Oil spill reminds me of BP's Tony Hayward. Enough of you playing both ends against the middle.
Katie Couric's Notebook: World Cup Fever
EXCERPT:
British soccer manager Bill Shankly once said that his sport isn't a matter of life or death. It's more important.
Bill tips a beer at World Cup
EXCERPT:
Bill Clinton is having a great time at the World Cup. The former president has extended his stay in South Africa so he can see the U.S. play Ghana at the soccer tournament. Clinton even says that he lost his voice after screaming during the Americans' epic win on Wednesday. How did he celebrate the stunning victory? By drinking with the team.
The former commander-in-chief clasped a Budweiser with shirtless American back Carlos Bocanegra. The picture originally appeared on Bocanegra's Facebook page. Scroll down for the photo.
John McCain and his Budweiser connection
EXCERPT:
Mafia Ties It's well known that John McCain is rich, because of his marriage to Cindy Hensley McCain, who inherited the biggest Budweiser distributorship in Arizona, which earns $300 million a year, from her father Jim.
What's less well known is the source of that money. Jim Hensley and his brother Eugene worked for Kemper Marley, Sr., who had cornered the Arizona liquor market after Prohibition was lifted, and assigned the Budweiser distributorship to Jim Hensley. Phoenix police named (but never charged) Marley as the man who ordered the infamous assassination of Phoenix reporter Don Bolles in 1976. The man convicted of the murder -- John Adamson -- testified that Marley ordered the hit after a Bolles story forced him to resign from the state racing commission. Bolles was investigating mob ties in Arizona -- and had written about Marley's political and business dealings -- until 6 sticks of dynamite exploded under his car, killing him. Marley sued a coalition of reporters -- formed in response to Bolles' assassination -- for libel after they reported his ties to the mob and to Bolle's murder. The jury ruled that Marley was NOT libeled.
Hensley (Cindy McCain's father) and his brother were convicted in 1948 for falsifying records to conceal illegal sales of thousands of cases of liquor at Marley's firm. Five years later, Jim Hensley was tried for falsifying tax records at Marley's firm, but -- defended by William Rehnquist, who was later Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court -- he was acquitted.
World Cup Sponsors
Clinton donors against Israel
EXCERPT:
Thursday, March 2, 2006 12:10 p.m. EST
Dubai's 'Boycott Israel' Sheik Funded Bill Clinton
Former President Bill Clinton has accepted at least $1.6 million from the United Arab Emirates, including $300,000 from a Dubai sheik who adamantly backs the country's controversial boycott of Israel.
On Jan. 17, 2002, Mr. Clinton was paid $300,000 to address the Science, Technology and Arts Royal Summit in Dubai at the invitation of Crown Prince and U.A.E. Defense Minister Sheik Mohammad bin Rashid Al Maktoum.
Less than three months later, Sheik Mohammad urged the United Nations to approve the use of force against Israel to halt what he called the Jewish state's "butchery" of Palestinians, according to London's Financial Times.
Mick Jagger with Bill Clinton at World Cup
EXCERPT:
An amazing picture of a guy in a red jacket
The USA's 2-1 loss to Ghana in the Word Cup on Saturday may have been a soul-crushing heartbreaker that made the flag weep stars, but at least some people were having fun! Former President Bill Clinton and wizened god of rock Mick Jagger were at the match, A-listing in an all-time celebrity box of competing generational icons. Also present: Katie Couric's legs, and Terry McAuliffe 's weirdly submissive hair. Herewith, a tour of the debauchery.
Seventeen Little Children - Karl Lang (Waco) youtube
Bill Clinton agrees with Bush about the New World Order youtube
Is Clinton for or against Israel?
EXCERPT:
He significantly deepened US involvement in Israel, which led to an increase in Israel’s dependence on America. He bolstered the status of the CIA – in addition to all of its previous activities including providing PLO members with weapons training. And finally, he made promises to Netanyahu and Barak which he ultimately failed to keep.
Food and depopulation international takeover by the UN
EXCERPT:
Cassandra Anderson
Prison Planet.com
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
Part 3 of 4
Most people think that the United Nations is a noble enterprise and they don’t understand the history and malignant character of the UN.
Christina Aguilera, Drew Barrymore and Sean Penn are probably unaware, even though they are UN Ambassadors to the World Food Program (WFP), that the intent of the UN is to implement one world government (see videos below). The UN WFP, which spreads GMOs in poor countries, is just one tool used for advancing the goals of Agenda 21, the overarching blueprint for depopulation and total control.
Katie Couric's Notebook: World Cup Fever
EXCERPT:
British soccer manager Bill Shankly once said that his sport isn't a matter of life or death. It's more important.
Bill tips a beer at World Cup
EXCERPT:
Bill Clinton is having a great time at the World Cup. The former president has extended his stay in South Africa so he can see the U.S. play Ghana at the soccer tournament. Clinton even says that he lost his voice after screaming during the Americans' epic win on Wednesday. How did he celebrate the stunning victory? By drinking with the team.
The former commander-in-chief clasped a Budweiser with shirtless American back Carlos Bocanegra. The picture originally appeared on Bocanegra's Facebook page. Scroll down for the photo.
John McCain and his Budweiser connection
EXCERPT:
Mafia Ties It's well known that John McCain is rich, because of his marriage to Cindy Hensley McCain, who inherited the biggest Budweiser distributorship in Arizona, which earns $300 million a year, from her father Jim.
What's less well known is the source of that money. Jim Hensley and his brother Eugene worked for Kemper Marley, Sr., who had cornered the Arizona liquor market after Prohibition was lifted, and assigned the Budweiser distributorship to Jim Hensley. Phoenix police named (but never charged) Marley as the man who ordered the infamous assassination of Phoenix reporter Don Bolles in 1976. The man convicted of the murder -- John Adamson -- testified that Marley ordered the hit after a Bolles story forced him to resign from the state racing commission. Bolles was investigating mob ties in Arizona -- and had written about Marley's political and business dealings -- until 6 sticks of dynamite exploded under his car, killing him. Marley sued a coalition of reporters -- formed in response to Bolles' assassination -- for libel after they reported his ties to the mob and to Bolle's murder. The jury ruled that Marley was NOT libeled.
Hensley (Cindy McCain's father) and his brother were convicted in 1948 for falsifying records to conceal illegal sales of thousands of cases of liquor at Marley's firm. Five years later, Jim Hensley was tried for falsifying tax records at Marley's firm, but -- defended by William Rehnquist, who was later Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court -- he was acquitted.
World Cup Sponsors
Clinton donors against Israel
EXCERPT:
Thursday, March 2, 2006 12:10 p.m. EST
Dubai's 'Boycott Israel' Sheik Funded Bill Clinton
Former President Bill Clinton has accepted at least $1.6 million from the United Arab Emirates, including $300,000 from a Dubai sheik who adamantly backs the country's controversial boycott of Israel.
On Jan. 17, 2002, Mr. Clinton was paid $300,000 to address the Science, Technology and Arts Royal Summit in Dubai at the invitation of Crown Prince and U.A.E. Defense Minister Sheik Mohammad bin Rashid Al Maktoum.
Less than three months later, Sheik Mohammad urged the United Nations to approve the use of force against Israel to halt what he called the Jewish state's "butchery" of Palestinians, according to London's Financial Times.
Mick Jagger with Bill Clinton at World Cup
EXCERPT:
An amazing picture of a guy in a red jacket
The USA's 2-1 loss to Ghana in the Word Cup on Saturday may have been a soul-crushing heartbreaker that made the flag weep stars, but at least some people were having fun! Former President Bill Clinton and wizened god of rock Mick Jagger were at the match, A-listing in an all-time celebrity box of competing generational icons. Also present: Katie Couric's legs, and Terry McAuliffe 's weirdly submissive hair. Herewith, a tour of the debauchery.
Seventeen Little Children - Karl Lang (Waco) youtube
Bill Clinton agrees with Bush about the New World Order youtube
Is Clinton for or against Israel?
EXCERPT:
He significantly deepened US involvement in Israel, which led to an increase in Israel’s dependence on America. He bolstered the status of the CIA – in addition to all of its previous activities including providing PLO members with weapons training. And finally, he made promises to Netanyahu and Barak which he ultimately failed to keep.
Food and depopulation international takeover by the UN
EXCERPT:
Cassandra Anderson
Prison Planet.com
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
Part 3 of 4
Most people think that the United Nations is a noble enterprise and they don’t understand the history and malignant character of the UN.
Christina Aguilera, Drew Barrymore and Sean Penn are probably unaware, even though they are UN Ambassadors to the World Food Program (WFP), that the intent of the UN is to implement one world government (see videos below). The UN WFP, which spreads GMOs in poor countries, is just one tool used for advancing the goals of Agenda 21, the overarching blueprint for depopulation and total control.
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
The US has discovered nearly 1$ trillion in untapped minerals in Afghanistan youtube
Afghanistan
Published: June 13, 2010
EXCERPT:
WASHINGTON — The United States has discovered nearly $1 trillion in untapped mineral deposits in Afghanistan, far beyond any previously known reserves and enough to fundamentally alter the Afghan economy and perhaps the Afghan war itself, according to senior American government officials.
Queen Beatrix and Afghanistan
Politics | 22.02.2010
New elections loom as Queen Beatrix meets Dutch political leaders
Großansicht des Bildes mit der Bildunterschrift: Balkenende, right, wouldn't say anything after he'd met Queen BeatrixQueen Beatrix of the Netherlands has met with leading politicians to decide whether to accept the government's weekend resignation. The monarch has the power to call early elections or appoint an interim government.
The queen met Monday with outgoing Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende, who heads the Christian Democratic Party, and the leaders of the Labor Party and the smaller Christian Union, as well as the presidents of the two chambers of parliament.
Queen Beatrix's decision about whether to accept Balkenende's resignation and appoint an interim government is expected within the next few days.
The government collapsed on Saturday after 16 hours of tough negotiations when the Labor Party refused to back fellow coalition members in supporting the extension of the Dutch military presence in Afghanistan.
A defeat for both parties
“We've experienced this failure both individually and collectively as a defeat. This doesn't change anything about the facts or the conclusions we have reached,” Balkenende said.
The outgoing prime minister said he expected the Netherlands to withdraw its 2,000 soldiers from Afghanistan in August as scheduled, but he also voiced concern about the impact of the withdrawal on his country's international standing.
"The moment the Netherlands says as sole and first country we will no longer have activities at the end of 2010, it will raise questions in other countries and this really pains me," he said.
NATO urges Dutch to reconsider
In an initial reaction to the collapse of the ruling coalition, NATO on Saturday renewed its call for Dutch troops to remain in Afghanistan for an additional 12 months in a reduced capacity.
Earlier this month, NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen issued a formal request for the Netherlands to assume a new training role and postpone withdrawing its troops. This new military mission would focus on the provincial reconstruction team in Uruzgan, with greater emphasis on training.
The Netherlands' military mission in Afghanistan began in August 2006, and has already been extended by two years. Twenty-one Dutch soldiers have lost their lives in Afghanistan.
svs/db/dpa/AFP
Editor: Michael Lawton
Afghanistan
Published: June 13, 2010
EXCERPT:
WASHINGTON — The United States has discovered nearly $1 trillion in untapped mineral deposits in Afghanistan, far beyond any previously known reserves and enough to fundamentally alter the Afghan economy and perhaps the Afghan war itself, according to senior American government officials.
Queen Beatrix and Afghanistan
Politics | 22.02.2010
New elections loom as Queen Beatrix meets Dutch political leaders
Großansicht des Bildes mit der Bildunterschrift: Balkenende, right, wouldn't say anything after he'd met Queen BeatrixQueen Beatrix of the Netherlands has met with leading politicians to decide whether to accept the government's weekend resignation. The monarch has the power to call early elections or appoint an interim government.
The queen met Monday with outgoing Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende, who heads the Christian Democratic Party, and the leaders of the Labor Party and the smaller Christian Union, as well as the presidents of the two chambers of parliament.
Queen Beatrix's decision about whether to accept Balkenende's resignation and appoint an interim government is expected within the next few days.
The government collapsed on Saturday after 16 hours of tough negotiations when the Labor Party refused to back fellow coalition members in supporting the extension of the Dutch military presence in Afghanistan.
A defeat for both parties
“We've experienced this failure both individually and collectively as a defeat. This doesn't change anything about the facts or the conclusions we have reached,” Balkenende said.
The outgoing prime minister said he expected the Netherlands to withdraw its 2,000 soldiers from Afghanistan in August as scheduled, but he also voiced concern about the impact of the withdrawal on his country's international standing.
"The moment the Netherlands says as sole and first country we will no longer have activities at the end of 2010, it will raise questions in other countries and this really pains me," he said.
NATO urges Dutch to reconsider
In an initial reaction to the collapse of the ruling coalition, NATO on Saturday renewed its call for Dutch troops to remain in Afghanistan for an additional 12 months in a reduced capacity.
Earlier this month, NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen issued a formal request for the Netherlands to assume a new training role and postpone withdrawing its troops. This new military mission would focus on the provincial reconstruction team in Uruzgan, with greater emphasis on training.
The Netherlands' military mission in Afghanistan began in August 2006, and has already been extended by two years. Twenty-one Dutch soldiers have lost their lives in Afghanistan.
svs/db/dpa/AFP
Editor: Michael Lawton
Sunday, June 13, 2010
Japan and WWII Video
PEARL HARBOR
MOTHER OF ALL CONSPIRACIES
BBC Documentary: Sacrifice at Pearl Harbor
Male white ego and Japan
Militarism and WW2 (1912 - 1945)
During the era of the weak emperor Taisho (1912-26), the political power shifted from the oligarchic clique (genro) to the parliament and the democratic parties.
In the First World War, Japan joined the Allied powers, but played only a minor role in fighting German colonial forces in East Asia. At the following Paris Peace Conference of 1919, Japan's proposal of amending a "racial equality clause" to the covenant of the League of Nations was rejected by the United States, Britain and Australia. Arrogance and racial discrimination towards the Japanese had plagued Japanese-Western relations since the forced opening of the country in the 1800s, and were again a major factor for the deterioration of relations in the decades preceeding World War 2. In 1924, for example, the US Congress passed the Exclusion Act that prohibited further immigration from Japan.
After WW1, Japan's economical situation worsened. The Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923 and the world wide depression of 1929 intensified the crisis.
During the 1930s, the military established almost complete control over the government. Many political enemies were assassinated, and communists persecuted. Indoctrination and censorship in education and media were further intensified. Navy and army officers soon occupied most of the important offices, including the one of the prime minister.
Already earlier, Japan followed the example of Western nations and forced China into unequal economical and political treaties. Furthermore, Japan's influence over Manchuria had been steadily growing since the end of the Russo-Japanese war of 1904-05. When the Chinese Nationalists began to seriously challenge Japan's position in Manchuria in 1931, the Kwantung Army (Japanese armed forces in Manchuria) occupied Manchuria. In the following year, "Manchukuo" was declared an independent state, controlled by the Kwantung Army through a puppet government. In the same year, the Japanese air force bombarded Shanghai in order to protect Japanese residents from anti Japanese movements.
In 1933, Japan withdrew from the League of Nations since she was heavily criticized for her actions in China.
In July 1937, the second Sino-Japanese War broke out. A small incident was soon made into a full scale war by the Kwantung army which acted rather independently from a more moderate government. The Japanese forces succeeded in occupying almost the whole coast of China and committed severe war atrocities on the Chinese population, especially during the fall of the capital Nanking. However, the Chinese government never surrendered completely, and the war continued on a lower scale until 1945.
In 1940, Japan occupied French Indochina (Vietnam) upon agreement with the French Vichy government, and joined the Axis powers Germany and Italy. These actions intensified Japan's conflict with the United States and Great Britain which reacted with an oil boycott. The resulting oil shortage and failures to solve the conflict diplomatically made Japan decide to capture the oil rich Dutch East Indies (Indonesia) and to start a war with the US and Great Britain.
In December 1941, Japan attacked the Allied powers at Pearl Harbour and several other points throughout the Pacific. Japan was able to expand her control over a large territory that expanded to the border of India in the West and New Guinea in the South within the following six months.
The turning point in the Pacific War was the battle of Midway in June 1942. From then on, the Allied forces slowly won back the territories occupied by Japan. In 1944, intensive air raids started over Japan. In spring 1945, US forces invaded Okinawa in one of the war's bloodiest battles.
On July 27, 1945, the Allied powers requested Japan in the Potsdam Declaration to surrender unconditionally, or destruction would continue. However, the military did not consider surrendering under such terms, partially even after US military forces dropped two atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, and the Soviet Union entered the war against Japan on August 8.
On August 14, however, Emperor Showa finally decided to surrender unconditionally.
PEARL HARBOR
MOTHER OF ALL CONSPIRACIES
BBC Documentary: Sacrifice at Pearl Harbor
Male white ego and Japan
Militarism and WW2 (1912 - 1945)
During the era of the weak emperor Taisho (1912-26), the political power shifted from the oligarchic clique (genro) to the parliament and the democratic parties.
In the First World War, Japan joined the Allied powers, but played only a minor role in fighting German colonial forces in East Asia. At the following Paris Peace Conference of 1919, Japan's proposal of amending a "racial equality clause" to the covenant of the League of Nations was rejected by the United States, Britain and Australia. Arrogance and racial discrimination towards the Japanese had plagued Japanese-Western relations since the forced opening of the country in the 1800s, and were again a major factor for the deterioration of relations in the decades preceeding World War 2. In 1924, for example, the US Congress passed the Exclusion Act that prohibited further immigration from Japan.
After WW1, Japan's economical situation worsened. The Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923 and the world wide depression of 1929 intensified the crisis.
During the 1930s, the military established almost complete control over the government. Many political enemies were assassinated, and communists persecuted. Indoctrination and censorship in education and media were further intensified. Navy and army officers soon occupied most of the important offices, including the one of the prime minister.
Already earlier, Japan followed the example of Western nations and forced China into unequal economical and political treaties. Furthermore, Japan's influence over Manchuria had been steadily growing since the end of the Russo-Japanese war of 1904-05. When the Chinese Nationalists began to seriously challenge Japan's position in Manchuria in 1931, the Kwantung Army (Japanese armed forces in Manchuria) occupied Manchuria. In the following year, "Manchukuo" was declared an independent state, controlled by the Kwantung Army through a puppet government. In the same year, the Japanese air force bombarded Shanghai in order to protect Japanese residents from anti Japanese movements.
In 1933, Japan withdrew from the League of Nations since she was heavily criticized for her actions in China.
In July 1937, the second Sino-Japanese War broke out. A small incident was soon made into a full scale war by the Kwantung army which acted rather independently from a more moderate government. The Japanese forces succeeded in occupying almost the whole coast of China and committed severe war atrocities on the Chinese population, especially during the fall of the capital Nanking. However, the Chinese government never surrendered completely, and the war continued on a lower scale until 1945.
In 1940, Japan occupied French Indochina (Vietnam) upon agreement with the French Vichy government, and joined the Axis powers Germany and Italy. These actions intensified Japan's conflict with the United States and Great Britain which reacted with an oil boycott. The resulting oil shortage and failures to solve the conflict diplomatically made Japan decide to capture the oil rich Dutch East Indies (Indonesia) and to start a war with the US and Great Britain.
In December 1941, Japan attacked the Allied powers at Pearl Harbour and several other points throughout the Pacific. Japan was able to expand her control over a large territory that expanded to the border of India in the West and New Guinea in the South within the following six months.
The turning point in the Pacific War was the battle of Midway in June 1942. From then on, the Allied forces slowly won back the territories occupied by Japan. In 1944, intensive air raids started over Japan. In spring 1945, US forces invaded Okinawa in one of the war's bloodiest battles.
On July 27, 1945, the Allied powers requested Japan in the Potsdam Declaration to surrender unconditionally, or destruction would continue. However, the military did not consider surrendering under such terms, partially even after US military forces dropped two atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, and the Soviet Union entered the war against Japan on August 8.
On August 14, however, Emperor Showa finally decided to surrender unconditionally.
Male white ego and Japan
Militarism and WW2 (1912 - 1945)
During the era of the weak emperor Taisho (1912-26), the political power shifted from the oligarchic clique (genro) to the parliament and the democratic parties.
In the First World War, Japan joined the Allied powers, but played only a minor role in fighting German colonial forces in East Asia. At the following Paris Peace Conference of 1919, Japan's proposal of amending a "racial equality clause" to the covenant of the League of Nations was rejected by the United States, Britain and Australia. Arrogance and racial discrimination towards the Japanese had plagued Japanese-Western relations since the forced opening of the country in the 1800s, and were again a major factor for the deterioration of relations in the decades preceeding World War 2. In 1924, for example, the US Congress passed the Exclusion Act that prohibited further immigration from Japan.
After WW1, Japan's economical situation worsened. The Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923 and the world wide depression of 1929 intensified the crisis.
During the 1930s, the military established almost complete control over the government. Many political enemies were assassinated, and communists persecuted. Indoctrination and censorship in education and media were further intensified. Navy and army officers soon occupied most of the important offices, including the one of the prime minister.
Already earlier, Japan followed the example of Western nations and forced China into unequal economical and political treaties. Furthermore, Japan's influence over Manchuria had been steadily growing since the end of the Russo-Japanese war of 1904-05. When the Chinese Nationalists began to seriously challenge Japan's position in Manchuria in 1931, the Kwantung Army (Japanese armed forces in Manchuria) occupied Manchuria. In the following year, "Manchukuo" was declared an independent state, controlled by the Kwantung Army through a puppet government. In the same year, the Japanese air force bombarded Shanghai in order to protect Japanese residents from anti Japanese movements.
In 1933, Japan withdrew from the League of Nations since she was heavily criticized for her actions in China.
In July 1937, the second Sino-Japanese War broke out. A small incident was soon made into a full scale war by the Kwantung army which acted rather independently from a more moderate government. The Japanese forces succeeded in occupying almost the whole coast of China and committed severe war atrocities on the Chinese population, especially during the fall of the capital Nanking. However, the Chinese government never surrendered completely, and the war continued on a lower scale until 1945.
In 1940, Japan occupied French Indochina (Vietnam) upon agreement with the French Vichy government, and joined the Axis powers Germany and Italy. These actions intensified Japan's conflict with the United States and Great Britain which reacted with an oil boycott. The resulting oil shortage and failures to solve the conflict diplomatically made Japan decide to capture the oil rich Dutch East Indies (Indonesia) and to start a war with the US and Great Britain.
In December 1941, Japan attacked the Allied powers at Pearl Harbour and several other points throughout the Pacific. Japan was able to expand her control over a large territory that expanded to the border of India in the West and New Guinea in the South within the following six months.
The turning point in the Pacific War was the battle of Midway in June 1942. From then on, the Allied forces slowly won back the territories occupied by Japan. In 1944, intensive air raids started over Japan. In spring 1945, US forces invaded Okinawa in one of the war's bloodiest battles.
On July 27, 1945, the Allied powers requested Japan in the Potsdam Declaration to surrender unconditionally, or destruction would continue. However, the military did not consider surrendering under such terms, partially even after US military forces dropped two atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, and the Soviet Union entered the war against Japan on August 8.
On August 14, however, Emperor Showa finally decided to surrender unconditionally.
Militarism and WW2 (1912 - 1945)
During the era of the weak emperor Taisho (1912-26), the political power shifted from the oligarchic clique (genro) to the parliament and the democratic parties.
In the First World War, Japan joined the Allied powers, but played only a minor role in fighting German colonial forces in East Asia. At the following Paris Peace Conference of 1919, Japan's proposal of amending a "racial equality clause" to the covenant of the League of Nations was rejected by the United States, Britain and Australia. Arrogance and racial discrimination towards the Japanese had plagued Japanese-Western relations since the forced opening of the country in the 1800s, and were again a major factor for the deterioration of relations in the decades preceeding World War 2. In 1924, for example, the US Congress passed the Exclusion Act that prohibited further immigration from Japan.
After WW1, Japan's economical situation worsened. The Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923 and the world wide depression of 1929 intensified the crisis.
During the 1930s, the military established almost complete control over the government. Many political enemies were assassinated, and communists persecuted. Indoctrination and censorship in education and media were further intensified. Navy and army officers soon occupied most of the important offices, including the one of the prime minister.
Already earlier, Japan followed the example of Western nations and forced China into unequal economical and political treaties. Furthermore, Japan's influence over Manchuria had been steadily growing since the end of the Russo-Japanese war of 1904-05. When the Chinese Nationalists began to seriously challenge Japan's position in Manchuria in 1931, the Kwantung Army (Japanese armed forces in Manchuria) occupied Manchuria. In the following year, "Manchukuo" was declared an independent state, controlled by the Kwantung Army through a puppet government. In the same year, the Japanese air force bombarded Shanghai in order to protect Japanese residents from anti Japanese movements.
In 1933, Japan withdrew from the League of Nations since she was heavily criticized for her actions in China.
In July 1937, the second Sino-Japanese War broke out. A small incident was soon made into a full scale war by the Kwantung army which acted rather independently from a more moderate government. The Japanese forces succeeded in occupying almost the whole coast of China and committed severe war atrocities on the Chinese population, especially during the fall of the capital Nanking. However, the Chinese government never surrendered completely, and the war continued on a lower scale until 1945.
In 1940, Japan occupied French Indochina (Vietnam) upon agreement with the French Vichy government, and joined the Axis powers Germany and Italy. These actions intensified Japan's conflict with the United States and Great Britain which reacted with an oil boycott. The resulting oil shortage and failures to solve the conflict diplomatically made Japan decide to capture the oil rich Dutch East Indies (Indonesia) and to start a war with the US and Great Britain.
In December 1941, Japan attacked the Allied powers at Pearl Harbour and several other points throughout the Pacific. Japan was able to expand her control over a large territory that expanded to the border of India in the West and New Guinea in the South within the following six months.
The turning point in the Pacific War was the battle of Midway in June 1942. From then on, the Allied forces slowly won back the territories occupied by Japan. In 1944, intensive air raids started over Japan. In spring 1945, US forces invaded Okinawa in one of the war's bloodiest battles.
On July 27, 1945, the Allied powers requested Japan in the Potsdam Declaration to surrender unconditionally, or destruction would continue. However, the military did not consider surrendering under such terms, partially even after US military forces dropped two atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, and the Soviet Union entered the war against Japan on August 8.
On August 14, however, Emperor Showa finally decided to surrender unconditionally.
Bill Clinton to blame for BP leak? Video
Dick Morris argues regulations under former president forced oil companies to drill far offshore, deep underwater
Dick Morris Reno threatened Clinton w/Waco Revelation. Video
Dick Morris turns on the Billarys with a vengence
EXCERPT:
Congress should kill Clinton's pension and expense allowance after he leaves office, since the Senate is unlikely to convict him. Oh, and a $4.5 million fine might also be nice.
A "White House secret police" is trying to "dig up dirt," "viciously smear" and "annihilate those who get in the president's way," all with "a wink from the first couple."
Several House investigators are "physically afraid of retaliation" by the administration, with one telling him: "Don't you know the list of the 25 people who have died in mysterious circumstances in connection with this investigation?"
Dick Morris
EXCERPT:
More recently, Morris has emerged as a harsh critic of the Clintons and has written several books that criticize them, including Rewriting History, a rebuttal to Senator Hillary Clinton's Living History. Morris said that he would leave the United States if Hillary Clinton were elected president in 2008.
Is there something going on between US and Britain and what has it to do w/the Billarys?
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Britain was denied a speaking slot at a Haiti donors’ conference in New York yesterday after it failed to come up with any new aid money for the earthquake-ravaged nation.
The British Government was upstaged by its international partners as the United States and other European nations pledged billions of dollars towards Haiti’s $5.3 billion (£3.5 billion) reconstruction plan.
About 138 nations attended the conference at the UN headquarters, with the aim of helping the shattered Caribbean country to “build back better” after the 7.0-magnitude quake on January 12 that killed at least 220,000 people and left 1.3 million homeless.
The conference was chaired by René Préval, the Haitian President, alongside Hillary Clinton, the US Secretary of State, and her husband, Bill, the former US President, now the UN special envoy for Haiti.
Is Dick Morris's life in jeopardy?
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Dick Morris continues to allude to Bill Clinton’s guilt in staging the fed’s Branch Davidian attack that killed over 70 people, including more than 20 children at Waco, Texas. Morris goes even further putting blame on Clinton for the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City.
Dick Morris’ life may be in jeopardy. He has cocked a weapon that may rewrite history forever, and we have heard the rumors about the people who have coincidentally died while going against the Clinton grain. If you remember right, there were many people who came forward from the Little Rock area who told of strange happenings once they got to close to the Clintons, including just living next door to a Clinton mistress in a Little Rock Apartment building. You have to wonder if Janet Reno or Dick Morris now in jeopardy.
The Clinton body count lists the following people connected to Bill Clinton who have mysteriously died before their time.
James McDougal - Clinton's convicted Whitewater partner died of an apparent heart attack, while in solitary confinement. He was a key witness in Ken Starr's investigation. Was James McDougal Murdered In A Federal Prison To Silence Him?
Ron Brown - Secretary of Commerce and former DNC Chairman. Reported to have died by impact in a plane crash. A pathologist close to the investigation reported that there was a hole in the top of Brown's
Dick Morris argues regulations under former president forced oil companies to drill far offshore, deep underwater
Dick Morris Reno threatened Clinton w/Waco Revelation. Video
Dick Morris turns on the Billarys with a vengence
EXCERPT:
Congress should kill Clinton's pension and expense allowance after he leaves office, since the Senate is unlikely to convict him. Oh, and a $4.5 million fine might also be nice.
A "White House secret police" is trying to "dig up dirt," "viciously smear" and "annihilate those who get in the president's way," all with "a wink from the first couple."
Several House investigators are "physically afraid of retaliation" by the administration, with one telling him: "Don't you know the list of the 25 people who have died in mysterious circumstances in connection with this investigation?"
Dick Morris
EXCERPT:
More recently, Morris has emerged as a harsh critic of the Clintons and has written several books that criticize them, including Rewriting History, a rebuttal to Senator Hillary Clinton's Living History. Morris said that he would leave the United States if Hillary Clinton were elected president in 2008.
Is there something going on between US and Britain and what has it to do w/the Billarys?
EXCERPT:
Britain was denied a speaking slot at a Haiti donors’ conference in New York yesterday after it failed to come up with any new aid money for the earthquake-ravaged nation.
The British Government was upstaged by its international partners as the United States and other European nations pledged billions of dollars towards Haiti’s $5.3 billion (£3.5 billion) reconstruction plan.
About 138 nations attended the conference at the UN headquarters, with the aim of helping the shattered Caribbean country to “build back better” after the 7.0-magnitude quake on January 12 that killed at least 220,000 people and left 1.3 million homeless.
The conference was chaired by René Préval, the Haitian President, alongside Hillary Clinton, the US Secretary of State, and her husband, Bill, the former US President, now the UN special envoy for Haiti.
Is Dick Morris's life in jeopardy?
EXCERPT:
Dick Morris continues to allude to Bill Clinton’s guilt in staging the fed’s Branch Davidian attack that killed over 70 people, including more than 20 children at Waco, Texas. Morris goes even further putting blame on Clinton for the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City.
Dick Morris’ life may be in jeopardy. He has cocked a weapon that may rewrite history forever, and we have heard the rumors about the people who have coincidentally died while going against the Clinton grain. If you remember right, there were many people who came forward from the Little Rock area who told of strange happenings once they got to close to the Clintons, including just living next door to a Clinton mistress in a Little Rock Apartment building. You have to wonder if Janet Reno or Dick Morris now in jeopardy.
The Clinton body count lists the following people connected to Bill Clinton who have mysteriously died before their time.
James McDougal - Clinton's convicted Whitewater partner died of an apparent heart attack, while in solitary confinement. He was a key witness in Ken Starr's investigation. Was James McDougal Murdered In A Federal Prison To Silence Him?
Ron Brown - Secretary of Commerce and former DNC Chairman. Reported to have died by impact in a plane crash. A pathologist close to the investigation reported that there was a hole in the top of Brown's
Was US defending China when they went to war with Japan
EXCERPT:
The war was the result of a decades-long Japanese imperialist policy aiming to dominate China politically and militarily, and to secure its vast raw material reserves and other economic resources, particularly food and labor.
Teaching and Learning China v Japan
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The Chinese had no time to prepare. The Japanese attacked on July 7, 1937, falsifying an attack at the Marco Polo Bridge. Japanese troops and warships poured into China, attempting to occupy the five Western provinces and create another state like Manchukuo. They occupied Peking and Shanghai. In December 1937 they took Nanjing, the Kuomintang capital. Crowded with refugees, the Nationalists abandoned Nanjing to its fate at the hands of the Japanese. Over a period of six weeks, hundreds of thousands of Chinese were killed, women were raped, and the city sacked in what became known as the “Rape of Nanjing.”
Chiang and his followers relocated to Chunking. By 1939, as war started in Europe, China had been fighting a forgotten war for eight years. There were more than 2,000,000 Chinese casualties, widespread disease and famine. The Japanese declared China conquered, but the reality was that neither side could gain an upper hand. Chiang distrusted the Communists, and sent his army against them as often as he attacked the Japanese.
Paper Cranes
EXCERPT:
American war planning at the start of the war favored China as the major area of operations to establish bases that could bomb Japan. Early on, it became clear that due to the political differences and the widespread corruption, China would be a secondary theatre of operations to the island hopping campaigns of the central and south pacific.
On August 8, 1945, the Soviet Union attacked, occupying most of Manchuria by the armistice on August 14th. The Soviets regained the rights they had lost during the first Russo-Japanese War of 1904-05. The Soviets occupied Manchuria until 1949, when the Communists took control of the country.
Anyone may place paper cranes before the Children's Peace Monument in Peace Memorial Park. If you can't go to the park yourself you can send cranes to the following address:
Peace Promotion Division
The City of Hiroshima
1-5 Nakajima-cho Naka-ku
Hiroshima 730-0811 JAPAN
You are asked to include your name, the name of your organization (if you are participating as a school or any other group), your address (or the address of the organization), your E-mail address, the number of cranes, and any message you wish to submit. This way your information can be submitted to the Paper Crane database and your desire for peace will be recorded.
History of Amphetamines
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Amphetamines
History Of Amphetamines
First synthesized in 1887 Germany, amphetamine was for a long time, a drug in search of a disease. Nothing much was done with the drug, from its discovery (synthesis) until the late 1920's, when it was investigated as a cure or treatment against a variety of illnesses and maladies.
Crystal Methamphetamine, more potent and easier to make than amphetamine, was first synthesized in Japan, in 1919. The crystalline powder was soluble in water, making it a perfect candidate for injection. It is still legally produced in the U.S., and sold under the trade name Desoxyn.
During World War II, amphetamines were widely used to keep the fighting men going. During the Viet Nam war, American soldiers used more amphetamines than the rest of the world did during WWII.
JFKerry's family and opium trading
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The Forbes family of China and Boston, of which US Senator John Forbes Kerry and John Murray Forbes are members, amassed a huge fortune in the China trade, initially trading North American furs and manufactured goods for tea and other goods from China.
Forbes also made a considerable fortune smuggling opium during the Opium Wars. The British wanted to keep a monopoly on supplying the Chinese with opium grown in India. However, during the Opium Wars the British ships were prevented from delivering their cargoes of opium and American ship owners such as Forbes, who could sail the final miles, made great amounts of money delivering the cargoes for the British. Forbes family members later engaged in other merchant banking and railroad investment projects around the world.
John Forbes Kerry family history
Francis Blackwell Forbes (New York, August 11, 1839 - Boston, Massachusetts, May 2, 1908) was a China merchant, opium trader and botanist, son of Rev. John Murray Forbes, Rector of St. Luke's, New York (New York, May 5, 1807 – Elizabeth, New Jersey, October 11, 1885) and wife (m. December 26, 1838) Anne Howell (– July 21, 1849).
He and other members of the Forbes family were active in the Opium trade and the Old China Trade during the Opium Wars, amassing a large fortune. Due to his family's deep involvement with the opium trade and opium, Forbes developed a lifelong interest in the poppy and other plants, and in Chinese botany in general.
He married in New York City, New York on May 8, 1867 Isabel Clark, born in New York, c. 1846, daughter of William Mather Clark, a banker (Litchfield, Connecticut, May 26, 1805 – Berkley House, 5th Avenue, New York City, New York, November 21, 1878) and wife Isabella Staples (New York, c. 1805 – living 1870). She died of coronary thrombosis, with underlying arteriosclerosis in Boston, Massachusetts, on September 1, 1931 with the age estimated of 89 years and 2 months. They were the parents of William Hathaway Forbes and James Grant Forbes.
He was the grandson of James Grant Forbes I and cousin of John Murray Forbes. He is a maternal great-grandfather of 2004 US Presidential candidate John Kerry.
Dems tap John Kerry's Watergate burglar brother
http://sweetness-light.com/archive/dems-tap-kerrys-watergate-burglar-brother
John Kerry's Jewish roots
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He married Rosemary Forbes, the beneficiary of the Forbes family trusts. The Forbes family amassed a huge fortune in China trade.
Richard and Rosemary had four children: Margery (1941), John (1943), Diana (1947) and Cameron (1950). John, a Massachusetts Senator, is the 2004 Democratic Nominee for President. Cameron, who married a Jewish woman and converted to Judaism in 1983, is a prominent Boston lawyer.
John Forbes Kerry
In 1997 Secretary of State Madeleine Albright learned three of her four grandparents were Jewish. Then Wesley Clark announced that his father was Jewish. And now a researcher has discovered that John Kerry is really John Kohn.
So what if John Kerry has Jewish roots? If the discovery had been made in Europe in the 1940’s, Kerry would have been sent to a Nazi concentration camp. If the discovery had been made in America in the 1950’s, Kerry’s political career would have been negatively affected. Today, however, the discovery of Kerry’s Jewish roots seems inconsequential and unlikely to affect the 2004 presidential race.
The story of Kerry’s Jewish past is of interest because it reflects the story of many European Jews who shed their Jewish heritage en route to America at the turn of the century. The story makes one wonder how many Americans today have Jewish roots of which they are unaware.
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The war was the result of a decades-long Japanese imperialist policy aiming to dominate China politically and militarily, and to secure its vast raw material reserves and other economic resources, particularly food and labor.
Teaching and Learning China v Japan
EXCERPT:
The Chinese had no time to prepare. The Japanese attacked on July 7, 1937, falsifying an attack at the Marco Polo Bridge. Japanese troops and warships poured into China, attempting to occupy the five Western provinces and create another state like Manchukuo. They occupied Peking and Shanghai. In December 1937 they took Nanjing, the Kuomintang capital. Crowded with refugees, the Nationalists abandoned Nanjing to its fate at the hands of the Japanese. Over a period of six weeks, hundreds of thousands of Chinese were killed, women were raped, and the city sacked in what became known as the “Rape of Nanjing.”
Chiang and his followers relocated to Chunking. By 1939, as war started in Europe, China had been fighting a forgotten war for eight years. There were more than 2,000,000 Chinese casualties, widespread disease and famine. The Japanese declared China conquered, but the reality was that neither side could gain an upper hand. Chiang distrusted the Communists, and sent his army against them as often as he attacked the Japanese.
Paper Cranes
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American war planning at the start of the war favored China as the major area of operations to establish bases that could bomb Japan. Early on, it became clear that due to the political differences and the widespread corruption, China would be a secondary theatre of operations to the island hopping campaigns of the central and south pacific.
On August 8, 1945, the Soviet Union attacked, occupying most of Manchuria by the armistice on August 14th. The Soviets regained the rights they had lost during the first Russo-Japanese War of 1904-05. The Soviets occupied Manchuria until 1949, when the Communists took control of the country.
Anyone may place paper cranes before the Children's Peace Monument in Peace Memorial Park. If you can't go to the park yourself you can send cranes to the following address:
Peace Promotion Division
The City of Hiroshima
1-5 Nakajima-cho Naka-ku
Hiroshima 730-0811 JAPAN
You are asked to include your name, the name of your organization (if you are participating as a school or any other group), your address (or the address of the organization), your E-mail address, the number of cranes, and any message you wish to submit. This way your information can be submitted to the Paper Crane database and your desire for peace will be recorded.
History of Amphetamines
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Amphetamines
History Of Amphetamines
First synthesized in 1887 Germany, amphetamine was for a long time, a drug in search of a disease. Nothing much was done with the drug, from its discovery (synthesis) until the late 1920's, when it was investigated as a cure or treatment against a variety of illnesses and maladies.
Crystal Methamphetamine, more potent and easier to make than amphetamine, was first synthesized in Japan, in 1919. The crystalline powder was soluble in water, making it a perfect candidate for injection. It is still legally produced in the U.S., and sold under the trade name Desoxyn.
During World War II, amphetamines were widely used to keep the fighting men going. During the Viet Nam war, American soldiers used more amphetamines than the rest of the world did during WWII.
JFKerry's family and opium trading
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The Forbes family of China and Boston, of which US Senator John Forbes Kerry and John Murray Forbes are members, amassed a huge fortune in the China trade, initially trading North American furs and manufactured goods for tea and other goods from China.
Forbes also made a considerable fortune smuggling opium during the Opium Wars. The British wanted to keep a monopoly on supplying the Chinese with opium grown in India. However, during the Opium Wars the British ships were prevented from delivering their cargoes of opium and American ship owners such as Forbes, who could sail the final miles, made great amounts of money delivering the cargoes for the British. Forbes family members later engaged in other merchant banking and railroad investment projects around the world.
John Forbes Kerry family history
Francis Blackwell Forbes (New York, August 11, 1839 - Boston, Massachusetts, May 2, 1908) was a China merchant, opium trader and botanist, son of Rev. John Murray Forbes, Rector of St. Luke's, New York (New York, May 5, 1807 – Elizabeth, New Jersey, October 11, 1885) and wife (m. December 26, 1838) Anne Howell (– July 21, 1849).
He and other members of the Forbes family were active in the Opium trade and the Old China Trade during the Opium Wars, amassing a large fortune. Due to his family's deep involvement with the opium trade and opium, Forbes developed a lifelong interest in the poppy and other plants, and in Chinese botany in general.
He married in New York City, New York on May 8, 1867 Isabel Clark, born in New York, c. 1846, daughter of William Mather Clark, a banker (Litchfield, Connecticut, May 26, 1805 – Berkley House, 5th Avenue, New York City, New York, November 21, 1878) and wife Isabella Staples (New York, c. 1805 – living 1870). She died of coronary thrombosis, with underlying arteriosclerosis in Boston, Massachusetts, on September 1, 1931 with the age estimated of 89 years and 2 months. They were the parents of William Hathaway Forbes and James Grant Forbes.
He was the grandson of James Grant Forbes I and cousin of John Murray Forbes. He is a maternal great-grandfather of 2004 US Presidential candidate John Kerry.
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John Kerry's Jewish roots
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He married Rosemary Forbes, the beneficiary of the Forbes family trusts. The Forbes family amassed a huge fortune in China trade.
Richard and Rosemary had four children: Margery (1941), John (1943), Diana (1947) and Cameron (1950). John, a Massachusetts Senator, is the 2004 Democratic Nominee for President. Cameron, who married a Jewish woman and converted to Judaism in 1983, is a prominent Boston lawyer.
John Forbes Kerry
In 1997 Secretary of State Madeleine Albright learned three of her four grandparents were Jewish. Then Wesley Clark announced that his father was Jewish. And now a researcher has discovered that John Kerry is really John Kohn.
So what if John Kerry has Jewish roots? If the discovery had been made in Europe in the 1940’s, Kerry would have been sent to a Nazi concentration camp. If the discovery had been made in America in the 1950’s, Kerry’s political career would have been negatively affected. Today, however, the discovery of Kerry’s Jewish roots seems inconsequential and unlikely to affect the 2004 presidential race.
The story of Kerry’s Jewish past is of interest because it reflects the story of many European Jews who shed their Jewish heritage en route to America at the turn of the century. The story makes one wonder how many Americans today have Jewish roots of which they are unaware.
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