at risk, so he resigned. He never showed up for his new post as a professor at Yale University.It was reported widely in the Alternative Media almost 3 weeks ago that Braverman was seeking asylum in Russia but he has since fallen off the map.This report from investmentwatchblog.com claims that Braverman is actually in Protective Custody with the FBI, in exchange for testimony against Clinton.Marc Turi, the Phoenix, AZ-based arms dealer also saw himself being set-up by the Clintons to take the fall and he went to FoxNews with the story but has since disappeared and is currently presumed dead.

According to reports from the Sunday Mirror, a USB device was found lying on the street in West London having sensitive data belonging to Heathrow security. An unnamed individualand miraculous events as portrayed in the Old and New Testaments. Downing holds a Ph.D. in the relation between religion and science from the University of Edinburgh of Scotland. He also has a bachelor’s degree in physics from New York’s Hartwick College as well as a degree from Princeton Theological Seminary. Dr. Downing has studied the Bible most of his life. . . Not unusual for a pastor, but what makes his evangelistic career unique is that he has also studied the UFO phenomena since the mid-1950s. The combination of both pursuits resulted in the 1968 publication of his controversial book, “The Bible and Flying Saucers,” which would lay important groundwork regarding the blending of the divine with the theory that earth has been visited by extraterrestrials in


revelations on a tragedy that has stirred conspiracy theories for decades, Judge John Tunheim told The Associated Press last month. Tunheim was chairman of the independent agency in the 1990s that made public many assassination records and decided how long others could remain secret.Sabato and other JFK scholars believe the trove of files may, however, provide insight into assassin Lee Harvey Oswald's trip to Mexico City weeks before the killing, during which he visited the Soviet and Cuban embassies. Oswald's stated reason for going was to get visas that would allow him to enter Cuba and the Soviet Union, according to the Warren Commission, the investigative body established by President Lyndon B. Johnson, but much about the trip remains unknown.Longtime Trump friend Roger Stone, who wrote a bookalleging that Johnson was the driving force behind Kennedy's assassination, had personally urged the president to make the files public, he told far-right conspiracy theorist and radio show host Alex Jones this past week."Yesterday, I had the opportunity to make the case directly to the president of the United States by phone as to why I believe it is essential that he release the balance of the currently redacted and classified JFK assassination documents," Stone said, adding that "a very good White House source," but not the president, had told him the Central Intelligence Agency, "specifically CIA director Mike Pompeo, has been lobbying the president furiously not to release these documents.""Why? Because I believe they show that Oswald was trained, nurtured and put in place by the Central


Intelligence Agency. It sheds very bad light on the deep state," he said.After the president announced his decision, Stone tweeted: "Yes ! victory !"The files that were withheld in full were those the Assassination Records Review Board deemed "not believed relevant," Tunheim said. Its members sought to ensure they weren't hiding any information directly related to Kennedy's assassination, but there may be nuggets of information in the files that they didn't realize were important two decades ago, he said."There could be some jewels in there because in our level of knowledge in the 1990s is maybe different from today," Tunheim said.The National Archives in July published online more than 440 never-before-seen assassination documents and thousands of others that had been released previously with redactions.Among those documents was aprimate fossils since the 1820s. The teeth, an upper right first molar and an upper left canine, are caramel-colored and are amazingly preserved. Evidence suggests that the teeth are about 9.7 million years old.While the characteristics of the molar line up with those of other fossil finds in the area, the canine evidently exhibits hominin characteristics, suggesting the possibility of its unidentified owner being a very distant ancestor of modern humans. Specifically, the tooth bears a resemblance to the teeth of extinct human relatives Australopithecus afarensis.Though the discovery is quite intriguing, researchers are very cautious about their interpretation of the findings. That said, it took researchers quite a while before having their findings published. Lead author of the paper published in ResearchGate on Friday, Oct. 19, states that


hearing loss from what US officials believe to be a "covert sonic device" that emits a mysterious high-pitched sound. Government officials now say at least 22 embassy workers and their spouses have been hit. Some have gone permanently deaf, or suffered concussions; others experienced dizziness, nausea, severe headaches, and tinnitus. While not every victim reported hearing the terrifying sound, a number of those who did said the recording that AP recently obtained was spot on. Chris Allen, an American tourist who visited Cuba in 2014, told the AP he came down with a weird set of symptoms years ago during a stay at Havana's Hotel Capri—the same place that housed US diplomats hit by the alleged attack. On two consecutive nights during the trip, he said all ofhis limbs went numb after he crawled into bed at his hotel. His symptoms reportedly persisted for half a year after he left Cuba, sending him to six different physicians who still can't figure out what happened to him.There's no indication any of the US diplomats experienced that kind of numbness, but—just like Allen—their symptoms indicated some sort of neurological problem. Allen says he didn't hear a bizarre, high-pitched sound, but as the AP points out, many of the affected embassy workers didn't either. Still, some doctors are skeptical the attack would have affected tourists."I am sure that between April 2014 and October 2017 there must have been a very large number of people who were in Cuba and who were affected by various symptoms," NYU neuroscience professor


Siberian forest. Meng Zhaoguo's odyssey began at the Red Flag logging camp in the Manchurian province of Heilongjiang, when he saw a metallic glint thrown off nearby Mount Phoenix. Thinking a helicopter had crashed, he set out to scavenge for scrap. The 36-year-old lumberjack stood gazing at the wreck from across a valley when "Foom! Something hit me square in the forehead and knocked me out." That collision four years ago, and what followed, has made Meng a celebrity even today among the growing number of Chinese gaga for little green men. In a country that bans "evil cults" and monitors faith in anything but the Communist Party, a belief in extraterrestrial life is one of the few fringe convictions that's been allowed to grow into an organizedThe hard-science bent means it's acceptable to publish research on close-encounter stories. It's not O.K., however, to wonder if such stories result from people searching for higher meaning in the hurly-burly of a changing China by turning to God, Buddha or even E.T. "Chinese may feel a spiritual impulse that leads some to believe they've been abducted by aliens," says Richard McNally, a psychologist at Harvard University who has researched Chinese alien-abduction claims. Few have enjoyed as remarkable a journey as Meng. Several nights after his wallop on the head, Meng says he found himself floating above his bed. As his wife and daughter slept below, a 3-m-tall, six-fingered alien with braided fur on her legs straddled his waist. After 40 minutes of levitational copulation she departed through


the wall, leaving Meng with a 5-cm mark on his thigh.A month later, he says, he was transported through the wall into a spaceship. Meng asked to see the woman with the braided fur. Impossible, they said. But they gave him hope. "In 60 years, on a distant planet," they said, "the son of a Chinese peasant will be born." Meng asked if he would ever see this child. He would. The aliens did not say where.Source: Time Asia Magazinehttp://www.time.com/time/asia/magazine/article/0,13673,501030929-488900,00.html

- WHERE THERE IS FOO THERE'S FIRE DEPARTMENT -

Veteran Talks of the "Foo Fighters"

Frederic Sargent was studying economics at Colby College in Maine when the draft for World War II beckoned. In 1942, the 22-year-old joined the 415th Night Fighter Squadron of the Army Air Forces and studied ata series of radio schools.

For 31/2 years, he was stationed throughout North Africa, Sicily, Corsica, Germany and England. As a corporal, he never flew, but his principal job was to take care of the lights on the landing strips for night fighters.

He peeled potatoes in the kitchen police and learned the mechanics of aircraft engines. In 1946, as the historian for the group, he wrote an unpublished account of his unit's interaction with foo fighters, titled "Foo Fighters and the 415th."

Sargent went on to teach economics at various U.S. universities before retiring to Sarasota with Shirley, his wife of 60 years. (Below are some of Sargent's writings and ruminations on the topic of foo fighters.)

'The British developed radar and night fighting, so when the U.S. went into World


War II, we had to learn everything from the British. My squadron was the first one to do that.

Our pilots and crew chiefs would go to England and Scotland to learn from the British. I was in the ground echelon, so I met up with them in North Africa.

Pilots in the 415th encountered and reported 'foo fighters' (or luminous, unidentified objects) during the night over the German-occupied Rhine River valley. The sightings were recorded between November 1944 and April 1945, when the 415th was operating from landing strips in Dijon and Ochey, France.

The sightings posed a baffling question to air war buffs, scientists, the media and the public. What were they? The pilots could find no explanation that fit all of the sightings. The Air Force was ina position to answer the question, as they had sequestered tons of German air war records. But their focus was on developing the next generation of fighters and bombers, not in information dissemination.

The proliferation of sightings, or imagined sightings, of UFOs and flying saucers by people everywhere complicated the search for an answer. When the Allies captured the area east of the Rhine River, the foo fighter sightings ceased.

A few investigative air science researchers studied records and archives in Italy, Germany and the United Kingdom. Recent investigators point out a possible line of progressive development of radar invisibility from the foo fighter to the stealth fighter and bomber.

Eventually, as the U.S. becomes militarily secure, the Air Force will probably declassify its records of German World War II research."

Some


excerpts from the unit's log:

Nov. 27, 1944: Lt. Edward A. Schleuter returned from a mission and reported that he saw a red light flying through the air. It came in about 2,000 feet off starboard and then disappeared in a long red streak.

Dec. 15, 1944: A pilot's mission report stated: 'Saw a brilliant red light at 2,000 feet going east at 200 miles per hour in the vicinity of Erstein. Due to AI failure, could not pick up contact but followed it by sight until it went out. Could not get close enough to identify object before it went out."

KOTA BARU: Six years ago, Zainab Sulaiman and her family claimed to have suffered from “paranormal activity”, including mysterious fires at their home in Kampung Penambang Mas near PantaiCahaya Bulan.The phenomena lasted for several months, resulting in the former petty trader and her family suffering huge losses, including the destruction of their wooden house and other valuable properties.One mysterious fire suddenly consumed a face towel in a closet. Nearly 10 people who saw the incident, including a newspaper reporter and photographer, were awestruck by the weird incident before one of them quickly put out the fire.Zainab Sulaiman, 73, said that other strange things had been occurring in her house such as cash going missing and rice would be adulterated with “budu” and red colouring liquid.She said the fires became more serious and destroyed more than 200 items of clothing as well as two mattresses.Zainab, who had been living in the house for 32 years, said the


mysterious fires would appear on average five times a day.Zainab received help from paranormal experts who theorized that djinn's were the root of the problem. Renowned spiritualist Ong Q Leng said that he could sense an evil presence the moment he stepped into the house. "There are little djinns under the house," he said, "while the big ones are outside the house."“I was able to chase away the small djinns but there is a 50-50 chance that they will return to cause mischief again."Apparently Ong Q Leng's efforts were successful as the strange occurrences finally stopped.But the 80-year-old and her family are now suffering again, claiming that the paranormal activity began again in September.Zainab claimed unexplained fires again occurred, damaging her house and another belonging to her sister.“Theto her family.“Since last month, we have to rent a homestay in the village because we could not find a house to rent. Many villagers refused to allow us to rent their homes as they are afraid of the mysterious fires might destroy the houses,” said Zainab.However, recently a traditional healer claims he has captured two types of demons which have been bothering the family. Saad Jaafar, 44, said that he has caught the demons through procedures he carried out on the family."The first type of demon originated from the foundation of this house and it admitted to torching the house, as it liked to play with fire," Jaafar told reporters."The second type of demon was passed down for generations in the victim's family. It admitted to cutting


said she remained in contact with three aliens, one male and two females, since the extraterrestrial joyride when she was 7 years old, according to a resurfaced 2009 television interview.

“I went in,” Rodriguez Aguilera told America TeVe. “There were some round seats that were there, and some quartz rocks that controlled the ship – not like airplanes.”

Rodriguez Aguilera, a former councilwoman in Doral who announced her candidacy last August, said the aliens were reminiscent of the famous Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janiero. She also claimed that she learned several fun facts during her encounters with them, including that’s the world’s “energy center” is in Africa and that a popular limestone tourist attraction in Miami-Dade County called Coral Castle is actually an ancient Egyptian pyramid.

Rodriguez Aguilerathoughts … Miami politics are unusual. This one takes it to a new level.”

Men have fled an Indian village after people in the town feared a female ghost was attacking male residents.

It appears as though only women are now living in the tiny village of Kasiguda, in the Nirmal district of Telangana, after reports of the ghost.

Word of the reported ghost spread throughout the town after three people, including two brothers, were killed in the village within a three-month period.

People in the now-abandoned village claimed that a female ghost had strangled the men who were killed.

The village, inhabited by 60 families who make their livelihood from stone cutting and crushing, is nearly empty as a majority of its people have left for "safer places".

Most houses are locked and


no men dares to return. The small village that sits amidst lush greenery today looks like a ghost town. The few people who have remained go to sleep when the sun sets and do not leave their homes until sunrise the next morning.

A woman in the town told Tamil News that the reported ghost had not attacked any women.

No one plans to return to the village until the village is 'unpossessed' of the ghost, the Times of India reported.

The ghost scare is not new in the villages of Telangana, but this is the first time in many years people have vacated their homes. The issue became a big buzz on social media now.

Recently, people in several colonies of Warangal town also spent sleepless nights as the word oflaundromat (n.)

"automatic coin-operated public laundry," 1946, originally (1942) a proprietary name by Westinghouse for a type of automatic washing machine; from laundry + ending probably suggested by automat. Earlier words for public clothes-washing places in U.S. were washateria (1935), laundrette (1945). Launderette is from 1947. The Westinghouse machine was popular after World War II and was available with coin chutes and timers.


Reducing stress and burnout in junior doctors: the impact of debriefing sessions.
Internship and residency are difficult times with novice practitioners facing new challenges and stressors. Junior doctors may experience burnout, a syndrome that encompasses three dimensions: emotional exhaustion, depersonalisation and reduced personal accomplishment. While there is some existing literature on the prevalence of burnout in junior doctors, there are few studies on interventional strategies. This study aimed to examine the prevalence of burnout in a cohort of junior doctors and whether debriefing sessions reduced levels of burnout. A prospective randomised controlled study of a convenience sample of postgraduate year 1 doctors in a single hospital was undertaken during a rotation term in 2011. All participants completed a questionnaire using a validated tool, the Maslach Burnout Inventory, to determineTesting the Limits of Freedom of Speech: Ernst Zundel Speaks Out

Ernst Zundel in a courtroom in Mannheim, Germany on November 8, 2005 (Michael Probst/AP)

An exclusive interview with one of Europe's most well-known political prisoners

Ernst Zundel is a German author and historian who has spent seven years of his life behind bars as a result of expressing his controversial viewpoints and opinions. He is a revisionist who has denied the Holocaust as described by most historians. He has been one of the most prominent political prisoners in Europe and has been jailed in three countries on two continents.

After his arrest in the U.S. in 2003, he was deported to Canada, where he was kept in prison as “a threat to the national security” for two years. After deportation to


Germany in March 2005, he was convicted and sentenced in 2007 to five additional years of imprisonment on charges of holocaust denial. He was finally released on March 1, 2010.

This is the first interview Ernst Zundel has given since his release.

Firstly, I would like to extend my congratulations on your recent release. Were you ever mistreated or subject to any type of mental or physical punishment in breach of international conventions?

Ernst Zundel in a courtroom in Mannheim, Germany on November 8, 2005 (Michael Probst/AP)

My entire treatment these past seven years by those arresting me, trying and convicting me, and keeping me in prison has been in brutal breach of international conventions. I was arrested in broad daylight on American soil by officials of the U.S. government who actedan electrical outlet to sharpen my pencils. No ball point pens, only pencil stubs, cut in half with a saw. No spoons, forks, or knives were permitted; only a white plastic spoon with a fork called a “spork” that had to be returned every time at the end of the meal. With very few exceptions when furtive guards showed me some kindness away from the surveillance cameras, I was treated as though I was the worst of criminals. That’s Canada for you, where I have lived and worked without a criminal record for more than 40 years.

It was somewhat better, but not much, in the United States. In Germany, it was quite a bit better in terms of the basic necessities, but personal mail was routinely withheld –


with racial and ethnic pride,and say no the them with oine voice,can our beautiful planet be free of there repression.

Andrew Allen

Thank you for publishing the interview with Mr.
Zundel and calling attention to the repression of
Revisionist scholars in the West.
It is a shame that the United States participated in
the arrest and deportation of Mr. Zundel for his comments
posted on a US based Website. It makes the United
States’ condemnation censorship by the People’s Republic of China
seem hypocritical.

For Free Speech and Honest History.

Jack Martin

Foreign Policy Journal is to be commended for publishing this excellent article on the intolerable treatment of Ernst Zündel. It is regrettable, however, that the Journal added its own comment: “The views and beliefs of Ernst Zundel are his own, and not those of Foreign Policy Journal…”
The unavoidableZundel never attended a college or university. None of his writings has appeared under the imprint of a legitimate publisher. He did not even attend an academic high-school in Germany but trained vocationally as a printer and designer. With the exception of the first two years, he never held a job in Canada but was supportrd by individuals and groups endorsing his obsessive anti-Semitism. That he did not receive fair judicial treatment in Canada is also nonsense. Seven courts found him guilty of breaking Candian law by fomenting racial and ethnic hatred. Nevertheless, he persisted.

No country has entirely “free speech.” Even in the United States, you can’t say anything anywhere if it disturbs public order. You cannot threaten to injure or kill public officials; you cannot decide to


came to Canada because he wanted to avoid the German draft, so as not to be manipulated into a position to have to kill other human beings. He is a pacifist. Were he a coward, you would never have heard his name, would you?

He owned a successful graphic arts business in Montreal but never “had a job” at any time, not even for the [mere] two years you refer to. He had a totally convential-wisdom outlook in history, i.e. the profitable continuation of war-time propaganda (for which the British apologized to the Germans after WW1; re: Belgian babies and human-fat soap, etc., etc.)

He was scoffed at by senior Francophone politicians, who derided his opinion
and shoved alternate literature under his nose, which he was rationally unable to dismiss. Hemere three weeks after Operation Barbarossa commenced. Atrocities by all belligerants aside, if we had not spilled our own blood there Stalin would have taken Germany, and with and through it, the remainder of Europe, as expounded to the cadets at his military academies; including GB without so much as a hickup.

Had he succeeded and murdered in all of Soviet Europe, in an approximate proportion to his murder of his own people (and Katyn), quite without the bad Germans, he could have built a causeway to England with the NKVD corpses and walked to the cliffs of Dover. Western volunteers in the German services realized that and preferred their collaberation with the Reich, as did just under a million Soviets, of all constituent nationalities.

Your most despicable account, unworthy


of this or any other regulated site, is your totally mendacious narrative of Ernst’s court journeys in Canada. He was charged, mostly privately, by you know whom, five times. He had fair treatment, in spite of deliberately inimical procedural irregularities, in that he was acquitted four times and convicted once, which judgment was overturend on appeal. Equals zero times.

It was not a court that declared Ernst a security risk, but the Minister of Immigration, on the recommendation of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (Certificate), our own Shin Bet, under a concoction that probably emanated from the Creative Department of Walt Disney. It was however, the Supreme Court of Canada, (not susceptible to lobbying – yet) which to its credit, curtailed the emerging police state momentarily by declaring theHot Topics:

City, county clear on firework restrictions

By Terry Meyers

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If you plan on celebrating a traditional Fourth of July in Deming and Luna County, it will come with a few restrictions. Firework sales are legal in the city, but only for certain types of fireworks. Signed proclamations by the City of Deming and Luna County will see to it that the restrictions are enforced by local police and sheriff's deputies.

The county proclamation states: Luna County Administration would like to remind the public of the extreme danger of wild land fire that exists in Luna County. The Board of County Commissioners recently approved a proclamation declaring extreme or severe drought conditions within the unincorporated portions of the county and restricting the


firework display which starts at sundown on Thursday, July 4, in the Industrial Park off Raymond Reed Blvd.," Davalos said. "It is much safer and cheaper."

OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — The death of actor Leonard Nimoy last week has inspired people to post photos on social media of marked-up five-dollar Canadian banknotes that show former prime minister Wilfrid Laurier transformed to resemble Spock, Nimoy's famous "Star Trek" character. Full StoryFormula One is to introduce a penalty points system from next season similar to that applied to road users in the United Kingdom.

The move has been rubber-stamped following the latest meeting of the World Motor Sport Council, which convened at Goodwood House.

A statement from the FIA confirmed: "A penalty point system for drivers will be introduced. If a driver accumulates more than 12 points he will be banned from the next race. Points will stay on a driver's licence for 12 months.

"The amount of points a driver may be given for infringements will vary from one to three depending upon the severity of the offence."

Further amendments to the sporting regulations for 2014 see a return of in-season testing, which was banned from 2009 as a way of saving


setting, students learn about the history of racial identity formation in Oregon. Next, the class moves to the Cinema Studies Lab in Knight Library for hands-on training in the use of audio-video technology and editing software, as well as learning the art of documentary storytelling.”

Keep Your Eyes on Guatemala tells the story of Guatemala’s National Police Historical Archive intertwined with narratives of past human rights abuses and the dramatic effects they had on specific individuals and the nation as a whole. In addition, it highlights present-day efforts to preserve collective memories and bring justice and reconciliation to the country. TRT 54 min.

Co-sponsored by Latin American Studies, International Studies, Political Science, Sociology, History, Global Justice Program, College of Arts and Sciences, and the Crossings Institute.

In the midst of thisLallemand host aquaculture symposium in Bangkok

Lallemand gathered world leading aquaculture experts and industry players in Bangkok for its first South East Asia Aquaculture symposium: “Intestinal health in Aquaculture, a sustainable way toward performance”.

“In the current challenging context of Aquaculture, intestinal health has a critical role to play to optimise the performance of our Aquaculture systems”

Lallemand Animal Nutrition was pleased to host its main Aquaculture technical event for the first time in South East Asia. This highly technical event dedicated to fish and shrimp intestinal health gathered more than 200 participants from South East Asia, central Asia and Middle East over a 2-day conference.

A total of 13 eminent speakers and experts from all over the world gave more than 15 scientific and technical presentations in the areas of microbiology,


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An independent expert on mortality rates has suggested that ministers have suppressed details of NHS failings to avoid losing votes.

Prof Sir Brian Jarman said a "basic problem" was the government both provided and monitored health services.

He says 14 NHS trusts under investigation for high death rates trusts totalled 13,000 more deaths than the national average in 2005-10.

Former Health Secretary Andy Burnham said he tried to flush out problems.

Mr Burnham, now shadow health secretary, was in charge of the NHS between June 2009 and May 2010 and said he left warnings in place at five of the 14 trusts and took particular action at Basildon and Tameside.

A report, which was commissioned by the


government in the aftermath of the Stafford Hospital scandal, is expected to set out on Tuesday how the 14 trusts should improve their care.

It was written by the medical director for the NHS in England, Professor Sir Bruce Keogh, with contributions from Sir Brian.

BBC health correspondent Jane Dreaper said the high death rates at Stafford Hospital were explained away at the time, rather than used as an alarm signal which should have triggered further investigation,

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Sir Brian told the BBC: "One of the basic problems is that the government is responsible for provision of the health service but also for the monitoring of it.

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NorthApple CEO Tim Cook today delivered the 2018 commencement address at his alma mater Duke University in Durham, North Carolina.

Cook challenged students to "think different" rather than accept the status quo, and to leave the world better than they found it, by following in the footsteps of leaders like Steve Jobs, Robert F. Kennedy, and Martin Luther King Jr.

He also reflected on Apple's commitment to the environment, privacy, immigration, and gun control, supporting the Me Too movement against sexual harassment and students involved in the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting.

The pace at which progress is possible has accelerated dramatically. Aided by technology, every individual has the tools, potential, and reach to build a better world. That makes this the best time in history to be alive. Whatever you


More than 700 rail industry jobs have been saved after British company Amey swept in to buy up a wave of contracts previously owned by the collapsed outsourcer Carillion.

Amey Rail will now take on the contracts for work on projects in the East Midlands, London and the North West, safeguarding more than two thirds of the roughly 1,000 Carillion workers on Network Rail projects and potentially hundreds more involved in the supply chain.

Network Rail said Amey had bought a “significant number” of Carillion’s contracts, including work on some of its most complex projects such as the North West electrification programme and work related to Crossrail at Old Oak Common, but did not disclose financial details of the transactions.

Matthew Steele, commercial director at Network Rail, said the move ensuredBy Norm Dixon

August 28, 2002 -- On August 18, 2002, the New York Times carried a front-page story headlined, “Officers say U.S. aided Iraq despite the use of gas”. Quoting anonymous US “senior military officers”, the NYT “revealed” that in the 1980s, the administration of US President Ronald Reagan covertly provided “critical battle planning assistance at a time when American intelligence knew that Iraqi commanders would employ chemical weapons in waging the decisive battles of the Iran-Iraq war”. The story made a brief splash in the international media, then died.

While the August 18 NYT article added new details about the extent of US military collaboration with Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein during Iraq's 1980-88 war with Iran, it omitted the most outrageous aspect of the scandal: not only did


Washington turn a blind-eye to the Hussein regime's repeated use of chemical weapons against Iranian soldiers and Iraq's Kurdish minority, but the US helped Iraq develop its chemical, biological and nuclear weapons programs.

Nor did the NYT dwell on the extreme cynicism and hypocrisy of the current US administration's citing of those same terrible atrocities — which were disregarded at the time by Washington — and those same weapons programs — which no longer exist, having been dismantled and destroyed in the decade following the 1991 Gulf War — to justify a massive new war against the people of Iraq.

A reader of the NYT article (or the tens of thousands of other articles written after the latest war drive against Iraq began in earnest soon after September 11) wouldhave looked in vain for the fact that many of the US politicians and ruling class pundits demanding war against Hussein today — in particular, the most bellicose of the Bush administration's “hawks”, defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld — were up to their ears in Washington's efforts to cultivate, promote and excuse Hussein in the past.

The NYT article read as though Washington's casual disregard about the use of chemical weapons by Hussein's dictatorship throughout the 1980s had never been reported before. However, it was not the first time that “Iraqgate” — as the scandal of US military and political support for Hussein in the ‘80s has been dubbed — has raised its embarrassing head in the corporate media, only to be quickly buried again.

One of the more comprehensive and


that overthrew the cravenly pro-US Shah of Iran. The Iranian revolution threatened US imperialism's domination of the strategic oil-rich region. Other than Israel, Iran had long been Washington's key ally in the Middle East.

Washington immediately began to “cast about for ways to undermine or overthrow the Iranian revolution, or make up for the loss of the Shah. Hussein's regime put up its hand. On September 22, 1980, Iraq launched an invasion of Iran. Throughout the bloody eight-year-long war — which cost at least 1 million lives — Washington backed Iraq.

As a 1990 report prepared for the Pentagon by the Strategic Studies Institute of the US War College admitted: “Throughout the [Iran-Iraq] war the United States practised a fairly benign policy toward Iraq… [Washington and Baghdad] wanted to restorethe status quo ante … that prevailed before [the 1979 Iranian revolution] began threatening the regional balance of power. Khomeini's revolutionary appeal was anathema to both Baghdad and Washington; hence they wanted to get rid of him. United by a common interest … the [US] began to actively assist Iraq.”

At first, as Iraqi forces seemed headed for victory over Iran, official US policy was neutrality in the conflict. Not only was Hussein doing Washington's dirty work in the war with Iran, but the US rulers believed that Iraq could be lured away from its close economic and military relationship with the Soviet Union — just as Egypt's President Anwar Sadat had done in the 1970s.

In March 1981, US Secretary of State Alexander Haig excitedly told the Senate foreign


relations committee that Iraq was concerned by “the behaviour of Soviet imperialism in the Middle Eastern region”. The Soviet government had refused to deliver arms to Iraq as long as Baghdad continued its military offensive against Iran. Moscow was also unhappy with the Hussein's vicious repression of the Iraqi Communist Party.

Washington's support (innocuously referred to as a “tilt” at the time) for Iraq became more open after Iran succeeded in driving Iraqi forces from its territory in May 1982; in June, Iran went on the offensive against Iraq. The US scrambled to stem Iraq's military setbacks. Washington and its conservative Arab allies suddenly feared Iran might even defeat Iraq, or at least cause the collapse of Hussein's regime.

Using its allies in the Middle East, Washington funnelled huge suppliesof arms to Iraq. Classified State Department cables uncovered by Frantz and Waas described covert transfers of howitzers, helicopters, bombs and other weapons to Baghdad in 1982-83 from Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Kuwait.

Howard Teicher, who monitored Middle East policy at the US National Security Council during the Reagan administration, told the February 23, 1992, LA Times: “There was a conscious effort to encourage third countries to ship US arms or acquiesce in shipments after the fact. It was a policy of nods and winks.”

According to Mark Phythian's 1997 book Arming Iraq: How the US and Britain Secretly Built Saddam's War Machine (Northeastern University Press), in 1983 Reagan asked Italy's Prime Minister Guilo Andreotti to channel arms to Iraq.

The January 1, 1984 Washington Post reported that the US


had “informed friendly Persian Gulf nations that the defeat of Iraq in the three-year-old war with Iran would be ‘contrary to US interests' and has made several moves to prevent that result”.

Central to these “moves” was the cementing of a military and political alliance with Saddam Hussein's repressive regime, so as to build up Iraq as a military counterweight to Iran. In 1982, the Reagan administration removed Iraq from the State Department's list of countries that allegedly supported terrorism. On December 19-20, 1983, Reagan dispatched his Middle East envoy — none other than Donald Rumsfeld — to Baghdad with a hand-written offer of a resumption of diplomatic relations, which had been severed during the 1967 Arab-Israel war. On March 24, 1984, Rumsfeld was again in Baghdad.

On that samewar with Iran and has almost finished extensive sites for mass producing the lethal chemical warfare agent”.

However, consistent with the pattern throughout the Iran-Iraq war and after, the use of these internationally outlawed weapons was not considered important enough by Rumsfeld and his political superiors to halt Washington's blossoming love affair with Hussein.

The March 29, 1984, NYT, reporting on the aftermath of Rumsfeld's talks in Baghdad, stated that US officials had pronounced “themselves satisfied with relations between Iraq and the US and suggest that normal diplomatic ties have been restored in all but name”. In November 1984, the US and Iraq officially restored diplomatic relations.

According to Washington Post journalist Bob Woodward, in a December 15, 1986 article, the CIA began to secretly supply Iraq with intelligence in 1984


that was used to “calibrate” mustard gas attacks on Iranian troops. Beginning in early 1985, the CIA provided Iraq with “data from sensitive US satellite reconnaissance photography … to assist Iraqi bombing raids”.

Iraqi chemical attacks on Iranian troops — and US assistance to Iraq — continued throughout the Iran-Iraq war. In a parallel program, the US defence department also provided intelligence and battle-planning assistance to Iraq.

The August 17, 2002 NYT reported that, according to “senior military officers with direct knowledge of the program”, even though “senior officials of the Reagan administration publicly condemned Iraq's employment of mustard gas, sarin, VX and other poisonous agents … President Reagan, vice president George Bush [senior] and senior national security aides never withdrew their support for the highly classified program in whichmore than 60 officers of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) were secretly providing detailed information on Iranian deployments, tactical planning for battles, plans for air strikes and bomb-damage assessments for Iraq.”

Retired DIA officer Rick Francona told the NYT that Iraq's chemical weapons were used in the war's final battle in early 1988, in which Iraqi forces retook the Fao Peninsula from the Iranian army.

Another retired DIA officer, Walter Lang, told the NYT that “the use of gas on the battlefield by the Iraqis was not a matter of deep strategic concern”. What concerned the DIA, CIA and the Reagan administration was that Iran not break through the Fao Peninsula and spread the Islamic revolution to Kuwait and Saudi Arabia.

Iraq's 1982 removal from Washington's official list of states that


companies were licenced by the commerce department to export a “witch's brew” of biological and chemical materials, including bacillus anthracis (which causes anthrax) and clostridium botulinum (the source of botulism). The American Type Culture Collection made 70 shipments of the anthrax bug and other pathogenic agents.

The report also noted that US exports to Iraq included the precursors to chemical warfare agents, plans for chemical and biological warfare facilities and chemical warhead filling equipment. US firms supplied advanced and specialised computers, lasers, testing and analysing equipment. Among the better-known companies were Hewlett Packard, Unisys, Data General and Honeywell.

Billions of dollars worth of raw materials, machinery and equipment, missile technology and other “dual-use” items were also supplied by West German, French, Italian, British, Swiss and Austrian corporations, with the approvalof their governments (German firms even sold Iraq entire factories capable of mass-producing poison gas). Much of this was purchased with funds freed by the US CCC credits.

The destination of much of this equipment was Saad 16, near Mosul in northern Iraq. Western intelligence agencies had long known that the sprawling complex was Iraq's main ballistic missile development centre.

Blum reported that Washington was fully aware of the likely use of this material. In 1992, a US Senate committee learned that the commerce department had deleted references to military end-use from information it sent to Congress about 68 export licences, worth more than $1 billion.

In 1986, the US defence department's deputy undersecretary for trade security, Stephen Bryen, had objected to the export of an advanced computer, similar to those


used in the US missile program, to Saad 16 because “of the high likelihood of military end use”. The state and commerce departments approved the sale without conditions.

In his book, The Death Lobby: How the West Armed Iraq, Kenneth Timmerman points out that several US agencies were supposed to review US exports that may be detrimental to US “national security”. However, the commerce department often did not submit exports to Hussein's Iraq for review or approved them despite objections from other government departments.

On March 16, 1988, Iraqi forces launched a poison gas attack on the Iraqi Kurdish village of Halabja, killing 5000 people. While that attack is today being touted by senior US officials as one of the main reasons why Hussein must now be “taken out”, atthe time Washington's response to the atrocity was much more relaxed.

Just four months later, Washington stood by as the US giant Bechtel corporation won the contract to build a huge petrochemical plant that would give the Hussein regime the capacity to generate chemical weapons.

On September 8, 1988, the US Senate passed the Prevention of Genocide Act, which would have imposed sanctions on the Hussein regime. Immediately, the Reagan administration announced its opposition to the bill, calling it “premature”. The White House used its influence to stall the bill in the House of Representatives. When Congress did eventually pass the bill, the White House did not implement it.

Washington's political, military and economic sweetheart deals with the Iraqi dictator came under even more stress when, in August 1989, FBI agents


was not only at the centre of the Iraqi procurement network but was also funded by BNL Atlanta... It would be later alleged by bank executives that the Italian government, long a close US ally as well as BNL's ultimate owner, had knowledge of BNL's loan diversions.”

Yet, even the public outrage generated by the Halabja massacre and the widening BNL scandal did not cool Washington's ardour towards Hussein's Iraq.

On October 2, 1989, US President George Bush senior signed the top-secret National Security Decision 26, which declared: “Normal relations between the US and Iraq would serve our long-term interests and promote stability in both the Gulf and the Middle East. The US should propose economic and political incentives for Iraq to moderate its behaviour and increase our influence withIraq... We should pursue, and seek to facilitate, opportunities for US firms to participate in the reconstruction of the Iraqi economy.”

As public and congressional pressure mounted on the US Agriculture Department to end Iraq's access to CCC loan guarantees, Secretary of State James Baker — armed with NSD 26 — personally insisted that agriculture secretary Clayton Yeutter drop his opposition to their continuation.

In November 1989, Bush senior approved $1 billion in loan guarantees for Iraq in 1990. In April 1990, more revelations about the BNL scandal had again pushed the department of agriculture to the verge of halting Iraq's CCC loan guarantees. On May 18, national security adviser Scowcroft personally intervened to ensure the delivery of the first $500 million tranche of the CCC subsidy for 1990.

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Is President Erdogan's media face-off jeopardising rule of law in Turkey? Plus, the challenges of reporting on the EU.

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OnThe Listening Postthis week: Is President Erdogan's showdown with the media jeopardising the rule of law in the country? Plus, from Brussels, the challenges of reporting on the European Union.

Turkey: The media crackdown and the legal breakdown

The government in Ankara isn't mincing its words about the media. Journalists and news outlets within Turkey are fighting losing battles in the courts and outside the country and media personalities in Germany are facing lawsuits directly from President Erdogan's office.

Talking us through the story are: Andrew Finkel, journalist; Alper Kaliber, associate professor of international relations at Istanbul Kemerburgaz University; Kadri Gursel, reporter at Cumhuriyet; and Halime Kokce, reporter at the Starnewspaper.

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Six people, including three journalists, have been sentenced to death in Egypt for allegedly leaking state secrets to Qatar.

A searchable database of some of the Panama Papers, which were leaked last month, went live on the International Consortium of Investigative Journalism's website.

Facebook is battling criticism after a report suggested that the site's "trending" topics section is actively curated to suppress conservative news.

Beyond borders: Reporting the EU

When it comes to reporting the European Union, the mainstream media rarely hits home with audiences. But there's a new kid in town. POLITICO - the Washington, DC-based political news site - has landed in Brussels and is trying to shake things up.

Talking us through the story are: Matthew Kaminski, editor at Politico Europe; Frédéric Simon, editor at Euractiv and Brussels


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Although the docket sheet maintained in this case by the Clerk of the Court notes that Ahern filed her complaint on January 18, 2000, a review of the complaint shows that it was stamped by the Clerk of the Court as filed on January 14, 2000. On January 14, 2000, the plaintiff also filed a motion to proceed in forma pauperis. On January 27, 2000, the motion to proceed in forma pauperis was endorsed by United States District Judge Thomas C. Platt. On February 3, 2000, the Pro Se Office sent a letter to the plaintiff instructing her to submit the defendants' addresses in order for the United States Marshal to serve the summons and complaint on the defendants. On December 6, 2000, more than ten months later,brought terror to Ukrainian soil not only by supplying weapons, ammunition, and financial support to the rebels, but also through direct military engagement between the Russian armed forces and those of Ukraine. The International Criminal Court has confirmed the existence of an international armed conflict in Eastern Ukraine dating from July 14, 2014 at the latest. Moreover, the evidence presented at the MH17 trial clearly shows that the Russian security services are also closely involved in the armed conflict in Ukraine and, in particular, the downing of flight MH17.

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results of the numerous investigations currently underway. Despite being the instigator of a hybrid war against Ukraine and party to the conflict in eastern Ukraine, Moscow is trying to reinvent itself as an observer, or even more hypocritically, as a mediator of what it insists is an “internal conflict” in Ukraine. This change in status could lead to the lifting of sanctions, impunity for all losses caused by the war in eastern Ukraine and, most dangerous of all, the aggravation of the security situation in Ukraine.

Even these days, when the whole world is united in fighting the coronavirus outbreak, Russian-led forces in eastern Ukraine continue shelling both the Ukrainian armed forces and residential areas, while blocking access to OSCE monitors and humanitarian organizations. At the same time, RussianForeign Minister Lavrov is cynical enough to urge the West to lift sanctions against Russia because of the pandemic.

For the Putin regime, survival is the overriding priority. It uses all possible instruments in pursuit of this goal, from “managed” democracy in Russia, to exploitation of the Soviet role in WWII, to hastily drafted amendments to the Russian Constitution, to “controlled” destabilization in Ukraine as well as other countries and entire regions. This makes the strategy of appeasing the Kremlin extremely dangerous. It could lead to the virus of Russian hybrid aggression spreading into the social and political fabric of other European countries.

Ever since the end of the Cold War, the international community has worked to establish important markers in the fight against impunity. International justice should be unavoidable,


fat in the liver, and increase in serum cholesterol of both types of mice fed HFD. Feeding of HFD increased DNA damage in the pancreas, spleen and bone marrow of both types of mice, compared with those fed STD. In the wild-type mice fed HFD, 24 h-fasting increased DNA damage in the liver and spleen, while restraint increased the damage in the liver, pancreas, spleen and bone marrow. DNA damage in the cells of organs was markedly increased in the MT-null mice. Specifically, damage in the liver, pancreas, spleen and bone marrow was greatly increased with the intensity of stress increased, and the damage was much greater in the restraint mice than in the fasting mice. MT plays a tissue-dependent preventive role against DNA damage in various murineSnake River Spill — Transport Review

On March 24, 2008, the ISAB received an assignment from Dr. Usha Varanasi, NOAA’s Science and Research Director, to provide a scientific review of seasonal transportation benefit. Dr Varanasi requested that the ISAB address several questions (presented in the report) related to the "relative survival benefit of alternative Lower Snake River spill and transport operations." The ISAB was subsequently provided with additional questions and analyses for consideration by Ed Bowles, ODFW Fish Division Administrator and by CRITFC in an April 22, 2008 memo entitled "CRITFC Questions to the ISAB: Review of Lower Snake River Spill and Transport Operations." The questions posed by CRITFC and ODFW, also presented in the report, reiterated the need to address some NOAA questions but also expanded the potential


Simpsonwave is a video remix series whose success lies in its ability to connect between its source material on a deep level. The Simpsons has its origins in a deep social critique and a groundbreaking willingness to touch on emotionally realistic situations. This ties in well with the music of vaporwave, which is an uncompromisingly subversive and cathartic form of social criticism.

This is the latest episode of Living The Dream the podcast from The Word From Struggle Street a collaborative anti-capitalist blog from Brisbane. We chat about a recent Melbourne counter-rally to a Trump celebration rally, antifascism, the altright , and a viable form of anticapitalist practice.

"Energy Supply Chains: Working Class Solidarity & Stopping the Dakota Access Pipeline" presentation at 3rd Annual Howard Zinn Book Fair on SundayDecember 4th, 2016 11:00 a.m. – 12 noon at San Francisco City College Mission Campus. Attendees will be taken through a "thought experiment" that imagines solidarity spreading throughout the entire energy supply chain in solidarity with the protests to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline.

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a longtime fan and once professional athlete. We interviewed him about his experiences playing for a living, radical history, and controversies today.

The fifth installment in Recomposition's 'Politics on the Field' series comes to us from Chicago where Kingsley Clarke discusses his love of track and field, a view into youth coaching of the sport, and the class and racial dynamics that exist today.

On 21 October, over 1.3 million workers took part in a general strike called by a number of base trade unions (USB, S.I. Cobas, Unicobas, Adl Cobas, Cub Lazio) and joined by many organisations and local groups throughout Italy.

On December 4th 2016 the Italian people will be called upon to vote in a referendum on the constitutional reform put forward by Matteo Renzi’s conservative and pro-austeritygovernment. The topic is dominating Italian political life, because of the major impact the reform would have on the political and institutional life of the Italian Republic if approved, and because of the political turmoil that would follow if rejected.

A former member of the anti-parliamentary, councilist KAPD describes his experiences of the German Revolution, his time spent in Moscow amongst the Bolsheviks and the difficulties faced in a...

Thatcher may have defeated the 'enemy within' of organized labour but in doing so she had left a legacy of mass unemployment, family breakdown and growing levels of crime. Communitarian social theory was adopted by Labour as the theoretical framework to address this 'problem of the working class'.

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Careers Australia, one of the biggest vocational education providers, has gone into voluntary administration with 1000 staff stood down and classes cancelled for 15,000 students.

David McEvoy and Martin Ford of PPB Advisory, appointed administrators, are doing an emergency assessment of the business, which runs 14 campuses across Australia.

"We do not currently have sufficient funds available to meet payroll and other costs which would allow us to continue trading the group on a business as usual basis," the administrators say in a letter to staff.Police arrest one of two masked suspects in Walmart robberies in San Leandro, Fremont

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SAN LEANDRO -- Police have arrested one of two masked gunmen who brazenly robbed a Walmart during daytime hours last month and are searching for the second suspect they say is also responsible for another armed robbery at a Fremont Walmart.

Dominque Martin, 21, of Fremont, was arrested in connection with a Dec. 3 armed heist at the Walmart in the 1900 block of Davis Street in San Leandro, Lt. Randy Brandt said.

Officers were dispatched at 2:53 p.m. to the business, just east of Doolittle Drive after multiple reports of a robbery in progress at the business, Brandt said. Witnesses told officers that two


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Kejriwal, Bhushan question new CBI director's selection

New Delhi: Activists Arvind Kejriwal and Prashant Bhushan on Friday questioned the "secretive manner" in which the government chose Ranjit Sinha as the new CBI director and claimed he was a "tainted person". They said the selection of Sinha only shows that "government even today in all circumstances wants to use the CBI for its political benefits".

Kejriwal and Bhushan alleged that Sinha's moral integrity had been questioned and that he was reprimanded by the Patna High Court for favouring the then Chief Minister Lalu Prasad. "The government wants to appoint a tainted person whom it can subsequently arm-twist for its own benefits," Kejriwal alleged.

They said that the government even today in all circumstances wants to use the CBI for its political benefits.

Bhushanclaimed the government "secretly" and "out of its own will" appointed the new CBI chief, whose "moral integrity had been questioned" earlier. A controversy erupted over Sinha's appointment with BJP demanding that the Prime Minister keep it on hold, citing a recommendation by a Rajya Sabha panel on Lokpal that the selection be made by a collegium.

The government, however, said the selection of the 1974-batch IPS officer has been done in a "fair manner" following the "due process" and that the Prime Minister has got the authority to decide on one name, hours after BJP voiced its "strong disappointment" and "disapproval".


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In the middle of the Portland Expo, between rows of cots and tables, several young children dance and sing while others kick a ball.

But for Oscar Kitakya, a 31-year-old Portland resident and volunteer, there is no time for games. “I’ve been too busy,” he says, laughing.

Kitakya has been busy. Over the last two weeks, he has volunteered his time at the Expo, where more than 200 asylum seekers from the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Angola have been sheltered after arriving in Portland from the southern U.S. border. For more than six hours a day – and even more on the weekends – Kitakya interprets Lingala, which is a Bantu language, and French and assists with other tasks such as transporting people and food.

Kitakya is one ofnearly 1,200 community members who filled out applications in the first week to assist the city after an influx of asylum seekers arrived in Portland from the two African nations. The online application was posted by United Way of Greater Portland after the city asked the agency to screen community volunteers.

The city could not say how many volunteers have assisted so far at the Expo, but has at least four or five general volunteers at all times. General volunteers play with the children, clean and perform other duties as they arise. During meals, there are 12 additional volunteers who serve food.

Volunteers who speak French, Portuguese or Lingala are a crucial bridge between the asylum seekers and city employees, lawyers and doctors. The city’s top priority is finding people


who speak Portuguese and Lingala, according to Bridget Rauscher of the city’s Public Health Division for the city. As of last week, 365 volunteers noted they speak at least one of the three languages. French and Lingala are commonly spoken languages in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Portuguese is spoken in Angola.

Kitakya is among the volunteers from within Portland’s immigrant community. As someone who has been seeking asylum for the last two years, he has connected with new arrivals who have similar experiences. Kitakya fled the Democratic Republic of the Congo for India 10 years ago after political conflict broke out, and has been in the United States for the last two. He understands some of the trauma the families have endured.

“I lost my friends whointerpreter of French and Portuguese, said she arrived the morning after the families’ first night at the Expo – and first in Maine – and found a lot of people remarking in their native languages about how cold it was during the night. Staff hadn’t been aware and, thinking the Expo was too hot, turned on cooling systems, she said.

BACKGROUND CHECKS

All volunteers are being screened before they get to help inside the Expo. Those who have not been screened have been turned away.

The state of Maine has given United Way permission to complete background checks using State Bureau of Identification, which includes a criminal history review. After completing a check, United Way sends approved applications to the city. So far, United Way has processed 285 applications and would


not say whether any have been rejected. From there, the city assigns volunteers’ roles based on specific skill sets they have marked on their application.

As of last Tuesday, United Way was not accepting new applications in order to process the current applications.

Some volunteer interpreters are certified interpreters, while others are not certified, but indicated on the volunteer application that they are fluent or proficient in the language. Jessica Grondin, director of communications for the city of Portland, said interpreters are being processed through United Way, which also is contacting established agencies that employ interpreters.

The Congolese Community Association of Maine has played a large role in interpreting and providing other assistance. Members of the group have volunteered by taking shifts at the Expo and cooking traditional African food.

Papy Bongibo,the association’s president, said it is connected to more than 2,000 Congolese residents in Maine. He said that the community support has been tremendous and that many of the newly arrived families reported having been “treated like humans” by volunteers and staff.

Many Maine organizations have members and employees who are volunteering on their own time.

Nicole Lewis, 53, president of the Maine Peace Corps Association – a group for returned Peace Corps members residing in Maine – volunteered at the Expo three times this past week. She has been serving food and is able to communicate with people in French.

While in the Peace Corps, Lewis served in Senegal from 1990 to 1993. She and her husband, who served in Swaziland – now called Eswatini – said their time in


last two weeks, Abedi has become a jack-of-all trades. As a French and Lingala speaker, he has been able to communicate with families. When he is not talking to families, he is buying or picking up food.

Another Mainer, Sarah Carnahan, 36, a Vienna resident and a counselor at the University of Maine at Farmington, volunteered at the Expo for a day last week.

Throughout the morning, she served food, cleaned and played with the children. Carnahan is a part of Maine’s Behavioral Health Disaster Response team – a team of volunteers that assist individuals in coping with the immediate psychological aftermath of a disaster. The response team is not involved at the Expo, but her training and experience has meant she is able to self-direct herself to tasks whereassistance is needed, she said.

Carnahan is one of many volunteers who do not speak French, Portuguese or Lingala, but have found other ways to connect – especially with the children.

“I am an English-only speaker. So being able to play (with the kids) and having some of them doing my hair is a way to really connect without that language barrier,” Carnahan said.

OTHER WAYS TO HELP

Ginger Roberts-Scott – director of the Maine Women, Infant and Children nutrition program – is among those bringing a different skill set to the Expo.

She heard about a request to lead activities at the Expo during a morning meeting at work. As a registered yoga teacher, she believed yoga would benefit the children.

And since the city has paid staff members at the Expo around


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his next rally, Johnson urged him "to go in there and 'kick a--.'"Trump then allegedly grasped her hand and praised her efforts."As defendant Trump spoke, he tightened his grip on Ms. Johnson's hand and leaned towards her. He moved close enough that she could feel his breath on her skin," the lawsuit states. "Ms. Johnson suddenly realized that defendant Trump was trying to kiss her on the mouth and attempted to avoid this by turning her head to the right. Defendant Trump kissed her anyway, and the kiss landed on the corner of her mouth."The lawsuit alleges that several witnesses saw incident, including then-Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi, then-State Director Karen Giorno, and regional directors Earl "Tony" Ledbetter, Mitch Tyner and Nick Corvino.The lawsuit alleges that Bondi smiledwhen the incident occurred and Giorno "grabbed Ms. Johnson's elbow and gave it an approving tug."After the alleged incident, on her way to the campaign's state headquarters in Sarasota, Florida, the suit claims "Johnson called her partner, and then her parents, to tell them about what had happened, crying as she recalled the incident."The lawsuit says Giorno had arrived in Sarasota earlier "and was already sharing the details with other Campaign staff."The lawsuit's existence was first reported by The Washington Post.Bondi and Giorno did not respond to CNN's request for comment, but both told the Post that they did not recall the incident in the RV and denied reacting in the manner Johnson described.Johnson, whose background was in event planning and human resources, voted for Democrats in previous


election cycles. "However, she was intrigued by the possibility of working on the campaign of a relatively unknown political outsider like Defendant Trump," the lawsuit states.But prior to being hired, Johnson says she first met Trump in November 2015 at a Birmingham, Alabama, rally. At that first encounter, Johnson alleges he engaged in inappropriate behavior.When Johnson walked up introduced herself to Trump, he allegedly, "looked her up and down and said, 'Oh, beautiful, beautiful, fantastic.'"Johnson was hired in January 2016, but after the "Access Hollywood" tape was publicized in October 2016, Johnson sought legal counsel for guidance over the RV incident. About a week after the tape's release, Johnson quit the campaign. The lawyer ultimately decide not to take the case, according to the lawsuit.At her former lawyer'sarrangement, Johnson saw a therapist."She continued to feel considerable emotional distress because of the forced kiss, and had nightmares about it," the lawsuit claims.The lawsuit also claims Johnson did not receive fair compensation, claiming that she was "vastly underpaid" when compared to her former male colleagues."Ms. Johnson was also underpaid compared to similarly qualified and less qualified male staffers," the lawsuit states. "She did not know this fact until very recently. Ms. Johnson's experience is not isolated— indeed, the Campaign engaged in systemic gender discrimination in pay against its female employees."CNN has reached out to the White House for comment. Kayleigh McEnany, national press secretary for the Trump campaign, said in a statement to CNN: "The Trump campaign has never discriminated based on race, ethnicity, gender, or any


other basis. Any allegation suggesting otherwise is off base and unfounded."Hassan Zavareei, Johnson's Washington-based attorney, told CNN that Johnson is coming out publicly with her allegation of sexual misconduct against President Trump because she "decided that she couldn't be silent anymore.""She tried to hire a lawyer immediately after the 'Access Hollywood' tape came out ... After the lawyer decided it was basically too big a case for them and they weren't going to take it on, she decided to try to move on with her life," Zavareei said.But after Trump's election, Zavareei said Johnson has been overcome with a "sense of guilt and responsibility" for any role she may have played in helping Trump win the election.Johnson has been particularly upset about the Trump administration's policies affecting migrantto hold him accountable for an actual act of sexual assault."Zavareei added that with the launch of this lawsuit, Johnson is resigned to the fact that she is likely to be criticized from all sides."She knows as an African-American woman who worked on the campaign and now coming out against Trump, she's probably going to take it from both sides but she's ready to stand up and take responsibility for what she did," he said.Johnson is now focused on doing "what she can to hold him accountable for his sexist and racist conduct."According to the Post, three months after hiring Zavareei last year, Johnson "moved to seal a years-old court case in which two family members sought a temporary restraining order against her," and was enjoined in the


request to seal the records by the family members.On some of the reporting in the Post about her relatives in Georgia, Zavareei said it was a "silly sideshow" and that "everybody's on good terms" now."It's a private family matter," Zavareei said, adding that is "totally irrelevant" to Johnson's case.

A former Trump campaign staffer is suing President Donald Trump and his campaign, alleging that the then-Republican presidential candidate kissed her without her consent during the 2016 race. She's also suing over equal pay claiming she was paid less for her work based on race and gender.

Alva Johnson, the former Trump campaign staffer, who lives in Alabama, alleges in the lawsuit filed Monday that Trump grabbed her hand and forcibly kissed her without her consent inside an RV in Floridain August 2016.

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While Trump was meeting with volunteers and signing autographs inside the RV, "Ms. Johnson noticed that Defendant Trump was watching her and appeared to be trying to make eye contact with her," the lawsuit alleges.

After Trump was alerted by Secret Service that he was due for his next rally, Johnson urged him "to go in there and 'kick a--.'"

Trump then allegedly grasped her hand and praised her efforts.

"As defendant Trump spoke, he tightened his grip on Ms. Johnson's hand and leaned towards her. He moved close enough that she could feel his breath on her skin," the lawsuit states. "Ms. Johnson suddenly realized that defendant Trump was trying to kiss her on the mouth and attempted to avoid this by turning her head to the right.


Defendant Trump kissed her anyway, and the kiss landed on the corner of her mouth."

The lawsuit alleges that Bondi smiled when the incident occurred and Giorno "grabbed Ms. Johnson's elbow and gave it an approving tug."

After the alleged incident, on her way to the campaign's state headquarters in Sarasota, Florida, the suit claims "Johnson called her partner, and then her parents, to tell them about what had happened, crying as she recalled the incident."

The lawsuit says Giorno had arrived in Sarasota earlier "and was already sharing the details with other Campaign staff."

Bondi and Giorno did not respond to CNN's request for comment, but both told the Post that they did not recall the incident in the RV and denied reacting in the manner Johnson described.

Johnson, whose background wasin event planning and human resources, voted for Democrats in previous election cycles. "However, she was intrigued by the possibility of working on the campaign of a relatively unknown political outsider like Defendant Trump," the lawsuit states.

But prior to being hired, Johnson says she first met Trump in November 2015 at a Birmingham, Alabama, rally. At that first encounter, Johnson alleges he engaged in inappropriate behavior.

When Johnson walked up introduced herself to Trump, he allegedly, "looked her up and down and said, 'Oh, beautiful, beautiful, fantastic.'"

Johnson was hired in January 2016, but after the "Access Hollywood" tape was publicized in October 2016, Johnson sought legal counsel for guidance over the RV incident. About a week after the tape's release, Johnson quit the campaign. The lawyer ultimately decide not


to take the case, according to the lawsuit.

At her former lawyer's arrangement, Johnson saw a therapist.

"She continued to feel considerable emotional distress because of the forced kiss, and had nightmares about it," the lawsuit claims.

The lawsuit also claims Johnson did not receive fair compensation, claiming that she was "vastly underpaid" when compared to her former male colleagues.

"Ms. Johnson was also underpaid compared to similarly qualified and less qualified male staffers," the lawsuit states. "She did not know this fact until very recently. Ms. Johnson's experience is not isolated— indeed, the Campaign engaged in systemic gender discrimination in pay against its female employees."

CNN has reached out to the White House for comment. Kayleigh McEnany, national press secretary for the Trump campaign, said in a statement to CNN: "The Trumpaccountable for an actual act of sexual assault."

Zavareei added that with the launch of this lawsuit, Johnson is resigned to the fact that she is likely to be criticized from all sides.

"She knows as an African-American woman who worked on the campaign and now coming out against Trump, she's probably going to take it from both sides but she's ready to stand up and take responsibility for what she did," he said.

Johnson is now focused on doing "what she can to hold him accountable for his sexist and racist conduct."

According to the Post, three months after hiring Zavareei last year, Johnson "moved to seal a years-old court case in which two family members sought a temporary restraining order against her," and was enjoined in the request to seal


MUNICH, Germany -- Manchester United are stepping up their attempts to sign Jerome Boateng from Bayern Munich, sources have told ESPN FC.

Jose Mourinho is desperate to sign a centre-back before Thursday's transfer deadline and with potential deals for Harry Maguire and Toby Alderweireld not coming off, United have turned their attention to the Germany international.

Mourinho warned on Sunday he faces a "difficult" season if executive vice-chairman Ed Woodward cannot add to the squad before the first game of the season against Leicester on Friday.

He wants a central defender and a right winger but is willing to accept just one new arrival.

Sources have told ESPN FC that Boateng, who played 45 minutes against United on Sunday, wants to leave Bayern this summer after seven years at the Allianz Arena.

Theand did not travel to Munich with the rest of the squad on Sunday.

Anthony Martial's future is also uncertain after he also failed to make the trip to Germany.

He returned to training on Friday after leaving the tour of the United States and missing a week while he attended the birth of his son in Paris.

Sources have told ESPN FC that instead of facing Bayern he was asked to undertake a double training session at Carrington.

Marcus Rashford, who was not part of the squad on the U.S. tour, also returned to training on Friday but was deemed fit enough to start the 1-0 defeat to Bayern.

Sources have told ESPN FC that Mourinho will allow Martial to leave but Woodward is more reluctant to part company with a player


His failure to receive tenure caused controversy, as it was widely believed to be due to his activism and Socialist leanings.[2][3] It is alleged that he was a Stalinist sympathizer. He was blacklisted by the HUAC in the 1950s.

In the late 1930s he (along with D.N. Pritt, Upton Sinclair, Bertolt Brecht, Lion Feuchtwanger and others) defended the Moscow Trials from critics. He claimed that, as a former Chairman of the Legislative Commission on Jails in the State of Connecticut, he had seen hundreds of criminals bluntly confess based on overwhelming evidence against them, and compared this with the reactions of the Moscow Trials defendants. He did, however, note that "there is a lot of false testimony in a trial of this kind."[4]

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Heinrich Klose (1879-1968) studied medicine in Göttingen and Strasbourg. He was trained as a surgeon in Frankfurt am Main by Ludwig Rehn and developed a special interest in thyroid and thymus surgery. In 1924, he became the first professor of surgery at the city hospital in Gdansk. In 1929, in northeastern Germany, he presided over the 38th Conference of the Association of Northwest German Surgeons. As medical director, he organized the expansion of the State Academy for Practical Medicine (1935) and the Medical Academy of Gdansk (1940). From 1945 to 1960 he was a medical director and politician in East Berlin.2013 when a train carrying crude oil derailed in the Quebec town of Lac-Mégantic. Dozens of homes and businesses were destroyed.

The process to replace the clip worldwide with an outtake from a TV series will take several weeks, the company said.

In January, Quebec's culture minister wrote to the CEO of Netflix urging the company to have the clips removed.

On Twitter on Thursday she wrote that the streaming service's change of heart "demonstrates that by staying united and working together, anything is possible".

Bird Box was not the only Netflix production containing images of the deadly runaway train disaster.

Similar footage was found to have been used in the Canadian-American science-fiction drama Travelers.

In the show's third season, images of Lac-Mégantic's blazing downtown core could be briefly seen illustrating fictional news coverage


had a hand-crank two-way radio and they had the guns, all loaded. The idea had been to keep watch in two-hour shifts, using the gaps intentionally left in each wall, but once they were cozily ensconced high up off the ground—well, it seemed a little silly. Stretched out on the floor, they arranged their mosquito nets and talked and prayed and eventually turned off the lantern. Think of what the stars must have been like, that far back in the forest. No, the moon was full those nights—but think of how big and how bright, pouring silver light onto the palm fronds and the white sand. Think of the noises all around, the howler monkeys, the puma. Think of their husbands, together and alone, lying on their backsalcohol just once in her life, on a clandestine night out with her friend Carol in college. Gin and tonics, that's what they drank. Sometimes lemonade alone would bring it back, the delicate piney fumes, the blurry joy of that evening. She set her glass carefully on the floor.

"Some nights we hear jaguar," Marilou said dreamily.

"You're kidding. We never hear jaguar at Shandia. What do they sound like?"

"They groan. They sound like an old man groaning."

"It may not be jaguar you're hearing," Nate said. "The Auca are expert at imitating animal sounds. That's what Daniel Boone says."

"Daniel Boone?"

"Carlos Sevilla. You know, the Spanish guy with the hacienda near Shandia."

Silence on the veranda. And then, from somewhere close, a long, graceful fluting.

"What was that?"

"Haven't a clue."

Ed got up to


willing to sit at their folding table for the equivalent of twenty-five cents a day and watch while they made marks on paper. He was their sole convert to date, unless you counted the chief, Tariri, the one who gave Rachel the feather crown, and by then she didn't.

She climbed up to the house, the porters trailing after her, and there sat José María with his head hanging down. Wearing his shoes (which, as they were strictly ornamental, signalled this as an occasion) and clutching a fistful of dirty bills. Loretta with her fiercest face and Doris all droopy and dispirited. "It's a year since his mother died. He tried to buy a Mass, but the priest said he didn't have enough money. So he came to us.shot of rum, offered her a rosary to hold, and I was in position (with my knee on her chest and my knuckles in her mouth, as it were) when a large white figure galloped across the yard and pounced shrieking upon me. It was an American missionary lady staying at the hacienda. She protested that she planned to take Dayuma to her own dentist in Quito. Sadly, indenture at Hacienda Ila does not provide for discretionary jaunts to the capital, and at Don Carlos's insistence, I went ahead with the extractions, started Dayuma on penicillin, and sent her sobbing back to her quarters._

_This woman, by name of Rachel Saint, is very fond of Dayuma and did not soon forgive me, but the chance to talk English is


Workers assemble sneakers at the New Balance Athletic Shoe factory in Lawrence, Mass., in 2011. The House voted this month to require the Pentagon to give American-made athletic shoes to recruits, after more than three years of lobbying by New Balance. (Scott Eisen/Bloomberg)

At boot camp, U.S. Army recruits receive four sets of camouflage fatigues, 100 percent American- made. For women, the clothing package from Uncle Sam is missing one layer: undies. Neither gender gets sneakers.

A 1941 law directs the Pentagon to choose made-in-the- U.S.A. products when buying clothing for soldiers. Still, recruits receive cash allowances to buy items such as sneakers and women’s underwear, even if they come from China.

New Balance Athletic Shoe Inc., the last major manufacturer to produce athletic footwear in the United States, may gainLast updated on .From the section Plymouth

Moses Makasi helped West Ham win the U21 Premier League Cup in 2016

Plymouth Argyle have signed midfielder Moses Makasi on loan from West Ham United for the rest of the season.

The 22-year-old is yet to make a first-team appearance for the Premier League side but has been an unused substitute on five occasions this campaign.

Makasi came through the Hammers' academy in 2014 and has played in all the club's EFL Trophy ties.

His arrival comes after the Pilgrims were were forced to pull out of a bid to sign Everton's Conor Grant on loan.

Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.


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With the benching of mertz in early June, North have been on the lookout for a new fifth player, the Copenhagen based team even trying out an international roster at DreamHack Open Valencia, where they fielded Oscar "mixwell" Cañellas.

In spite of winning the Spanish event, North will seemingly opt to continue with an entirely Danish roster for now, with captain Mathias "MSL" Lauridsen commenting after DH Valencia that communicating in English was a tough challenge, and Valdemar "valde" Bjørn Vangså tweeting that playing with people who speak the same language is a 'top priority'.

In North, niko will get a chance to showcase his abilities at


the Major

The move would leave North without a dedicated AWPer. Seeing as there are no obvious choices among snipers in the Danish scene, the alleged acquisition of niko could mean that MSL's troops could implement a style similar to the one used by Liquid, with the captain himself and Philip "aizy" Aistrup picking up the AWP intermittently.

According to vpesports.com, Heroic would receive AWP talent mertz from North in exchange for the 20-year old rifler. While certainly a promising, gifted sniper, mertz seems to lack tactical prowess, as MSL hinted at in an interview with HLTV.org during DreamHack Open Valencia.

At this point, it is unclear whether the trade deal is permanent or the players will be loaned out.

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Buffalo Bills Offensive Line's Outlook in 2011: It All Starts in the Trenches

As legendary coach Marv Levy used to say, "Winning is simple, but not easy."

It is not revolutionary to believe that football games are won and lost in the trenches. However, collecting and developing talent to fit one's blocking scheme is easier said than done.

Unfortunately for the Bills, they haven't been too fortunate in this department in recent history.

One Bills Drive has attempted to address the need through both free agency and the NFL draft, with both producing mediocre returns.

Since 2002, the team has used three early selections (two firsts and a second) on an offensive lineman. I probably don't have to remind Bills fans that the first of those aforementioned picks was colossal bust Mike Williamsthe 49ers signed him to a lucrative deal to the tune of seven years, $36 million that the Bills chose not to match in restricted free agency. Even though he was one of the Bills better lineman, he proved to be injury prone and never justified that contract.

The team signed over-sized Arkansas tight end Jason Peters as an undrafted free agent in 2004. After developing him for a few seasons, he became a Pro Bowl left tackle. Demanding to be compensated accordingly, he held out until the team decided to trade him to the Eagles instead. While he is an overrated player, he is still an above-average left tackle that the Bills are yet to replace.

When Buddy Nix came aboard, he decided not to extend an RFA tender


to tackle Jonathan Scott, who I thought showed flashes in 2009 as a potential starter at right tackle. He ended up signing with his former line coach's new team in Pittsburgh last season and was their starting left tackle for much of the year. He struggled at times and would be much better off at right, but that's still some talent let out the door.

Some speculate the next to follow this trend will be Demetrius Bell, who has battled injuries and consistency the past two seasons. Nevertheless, an above-average year will put him on the radar for some teams to overpay for him.

The March Madness period of professional football has also proven to have mixed results for the Bills.

In 2007, LG Derrick Dockery (seven years, $49 million) andRT Langston Walker (five years, $25 million) were inked to substantial contracts. Both underwhelmed in Buffalo and were released before finishing out their respective contracts.

C Geoff Hangartner was signed to a four-year, $10 million pact in 2009. Some like to say he's been the lone constant for the line, starting 28 out of 32 games for the team since arriving. I'd like to say he's been consistently terrible over that span.

So where are the Bills for the 2011 season?

LT Demetrius Bell

Bell started all 16 games last season while still recovering from the knee injury that robbed him of eight games in 2009. While he has the size and athleticism of his father Karl "the Mailman" Malone, he hasn't delivered on a consistent basis (sorry for the weak mailman


Eight millionth journey expected on Night Tube anniversary Published duration 18 August 2017 Related Topics London tube strikes

media caption The service runs on weekends on five different lines

About 300,000 journeys are being made every weekend on London's Night Tube service, analysis reveals.

The service, which runs on Friday and Saturday nights, launched on 19 August last year with two lines running. It has run on five lines since December.

The eight millionth journey on the Night Tube is expected to take place this weekend as the service marks its one-year anniversary.

The mayor's office says 3,600 jobs are supported by the Night Tube.

Sadiq Khan said it had been a "huge success" which had "significantly" boosted the night time economy.

The most popular stations are Leicester Square, Oxford Circus, Brixton, Liverpool Street andStratford.

image copyright Reuters image caption The Central and Victoria lines were the first to run overnight

BBC London has analysed data from Transport for London (TfL) on how many people entered and exited each Tube station every half an hour between 19 August and 18 February.

It shows that:

Fairlop is the least used station, as it is used by fewer than five people 70% of the time

The most popular night was 17 December, with 226,641 movements - entries and exits

The least popular night was 30 December, with 84,837 entries and exits across all stations

Up until 18 February, there was an average 72,390 entrances a night and 80,860 exits

The most entries and exits happened between 00:30 and 01:00 while the fewest occurred between 05:30 and 06:00

The service cost £20.5m to run


in the financial year of 2016-17.

It was first proposed in November 2013 by former mayor Boris Johnson and was due to begin in September 2015.

But it faced a difficult start as a series of strikes over pay delayed trains by nearly a year.

image copyright Getty Images image caption The service runs on Fridays and Saturdays between 00:30 and 05:30

Dates when the Night Tube opened on different lines:

Central and Victoria lines: 19 August

Jubilee: 7 October

Northern: 18 November

Piccadilly: 16 December

Overground: To start this December

Mr Khan said: "No one could have predicted just how successful the Night Tube would be."

Val Shawcross, deputy mayor for transport, said City Hall were now looking "at how we can move ahead" including expanding to other lines.

The service is due to run on part of thein 1983, 70%. Correspondingly, a higher proportion of the samples stated they were regular treatment attenders (52% in 1973 and 67% in 1985), while the proportion of "irregulars" dropped. Although the regularity of the visits probably was somewhat overreported, the favorable trend was substantiated by the information on services received: extractions, denture services and fillings diminished, while preventive and "other" services gained importance. Possible explanations and implications for dental practice and education are discussed.