rear triangle) pivoting about a pivot located on the main triangle. In simple terms, a lower forward corner of the rear triangle is pivotally attached to the main frame, a lower rearward corner houses the rear wheel axle, and the third upward corner actuates a shock absorber interposed between the third upward corner and the main frame. The pivotal attachment between the rear triangle and the main frame is typically located above the bottom bracket shell. With the single-pivot design, the rear wheel absorbs bumps from irregular terrain by moving in a simple curve (i.e., a circular arc) about the pivot.
With single-pivot suspensions, pedaling forces tend to extend or compress the rear suspension, depending on whether the pivotal attachment between the rear triangle and the main frame is(SHADOWPROOF) On New Year’s Eve, the State Department released 3,000 new Hillary Clinton emails from her tenure as secretary of state. While much of the corporate media dove into investigating pointless gossip, Brad Hoff at the Levant Report decided to look for more clues into understanding the epic failure that was the 2011 war on Libya by the US and NATO.

What Hoff discovered in the emails was Secretary Clinton being briefed by a trusted advisor, Sidney Blumenthal, on events in Libya where Clinton’s public statements appear to contradict her private understanding. The issues range from the early presence of special forces and al Qaida-linked militants on the ground to the material motivations of France (gold, oil). And, of course, more evidence that Clinton knew the claims about Gaddafi


not just cases of mistaken identity, they were part of a racial grudge connected to perceived favoritism by the Gaddafi government.

As the BBC reported in 2011, the war for the rebels extended to black Libyan civilians and sub-Saharan contract workers. The town of Tawergha, whose residents were descendants of black slaves, was “cleansed” by the rebels. The 30,000 people who lived in Tawergha were forced to flee, many unable to outrun the rebels and subjected to beatings, rape, and those summary executions Blumenthal mentioned.

A 2011 report from Human Rights Watch accuses rebels of terrorizing the people of Tawergha. After setting their homes on fire, the rebels captured the black Libyans and subjected them to “torture and severe beatings, sometimes leading to death.”

The ethnic cleansing campaign by the rebelscontinued throughout 2011 and into 2012, when The Telegraph reported black migrant workers, along with black Libyans, were imprisoned, abused, and labeled foreign mercenaries.

In a video published by The Telegraph, a black African is ordered by a rebel to eat the former Libyan flag while in a cage.

The tragic irony of all this is that Hillary Clinton led the charge for a war in Libya based on a claim of a potential massacre in Benghazi. The massacre in Benghazi never occurred (and was likely overblown), but real ethnic cleansing and massacres did occur when the US and NATO empowered the Libyan rebels to overthrow Gaddafi and use their weapons beyond the war zone.

Today, Libya is a failed state infested with the Islamic State and other Islamic terrorist groups


Reaching a historic milestone, the Pittsburgh Riverhounds will spend the 2019 season by looking backward while going forward.

Riverhounds SC announced a new logo as well a plan to establish a Riverhounds “Hall of Fame” at a press conference on Friday morning. The Hounds plan to use the new 20th-anniversary logo interchangeably with their traditional one throughout the season.

With honor, we present our 20th anniversary logo. #UNLEASH pic.twitter.com/bQHfIT1kaw — Pittsburgh Riverhounds SC (@RiverhoundsSC) February 8, 2019

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Pittsburgh’s professional soccer club also announced the creation of a new hall of fame. The inaugural class into the hall will be voted on by club staff, former players, and local media. The first class will be announced before the beginning of the 2019 season on March 16,and will be inducted on Friday, July 12th. The Hall of fame induction weekend will include a ‘legends’ game, bringing together Hounds players from the team’s entire 20 year history.

In conjunction with our 20th anniversary season, we present the Riverhounds SC Hall of Fame. #UNLEASH pic.twitter.com/WAuvrbkwDc — Pittsburgh Riverhounds SC (@RiverhoundsSC) February 8, 2019

The club’s General Manager Kevin Johnson and Director of Operations John Rotz unveiled the new logo and HOF with great pride and a snappy new video. Head Coach Bob Lilley and Hounds Midfielders Kenardo Forbes and Kevin Kerr all joined the staff in praising this important milestone. Lilley praised the growth and success of the team, and attributed a tremendous amount of the recent success both to owner Tuffy Shallenberger’s investment in the club and


1989 she remarried Ayer; he died shortly afterwards. She died in 2003. She was survived by two children, a daughter by Al Wells and a son by A. J. Ayer.

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February 12, 2014

WARREN -- Fire officials said they plan to talk to two teens today who were inside an apartment on the city's west side when it caught fire Tuesday night to help ascertain what might have caused the blaze.

Warren Fire Chief Ken Nussle said the teens escaped without injury. However, their father and grandmother, who were also home at the time, suffered burns and smoke inhalation and remain at an Akron hospital. He said he is not sure of the extent of their injuries.

The two were taken by helicopter from Trumbull Memorial Hospital to the burn unit at Akron Children's Hospital. Three others were taken to TMH and St. Joseph Health Center.

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Back in 2012, FOX 2's Rob Wolchek started investigating a shady home home health care operation. What he stumbled on was a major medicare fraud ring and federal investigation.

Three years later, more than 50 have been convicted and a multi-million dollar crime ring is out of business.

These crooks found a whole bunch of ways to make money. They lined up patients for bogus home health care visits then billed the taxpayers.

They billed the government for prescription drugs then turned around and sold those drugs on the street.

They were all brought down, however, by U.S. Attorneys Terrance Haugabook and Wayne Pratt. Together, they just secured 52 convictions in a massive home health care fraud case that was robbing the U.S. government of tens of millions of dollars.

One name youmay remember is Sardar Ashrafkhan. Back in 2012, he was tied to Problem Solver investigation.

Rob Wolchek spent almost a year of watching a suspicious group of doctors and people who claimed they were doctors out of a Tory Clinic. As Rob watched, he never saw any patients head into the clinic.

Telemarketers would cold-call seniors and try to set up home doctor visits. Then, a "doctor" would call on the patient. However, no real examination would go on and the medicare information would be transferred.

Apparently this type of crime was rampant a few years ago. The U.S. Attorneys say along with the home visits, recruiters were rounding up seniors and having parties where medical info was exchanged with hired gun doctors.

In his story, he confronted the people at the


telemarketing business, a home visiting doctor, people at a pharmacy tied to the group and busted a man posing as a doctor.

That story won Rob Wolchek the Michigan Association of Broadcasters Award for Best Investigation in 2012. That's good, but the feds one-upped him. They used some of the people Rob met to secure convictions from the top of the operations down to the dealers selling the prescriptions.

CLICK HERE to watch Rob Wolchek's original investigation.

Sentencing for all those convicted is expected to wrap up in November of this year.Search

I have written before about Army spouse Teresa Maggart. I first met her last year for a story assignment. It had been a year since her husband Sgt. Brandon Maggart was killed in Iraq, and she had become a member of the local running group, wear blue: run to remember.

The Maggart family is originally from Missouri, but Teresa and her 5-year-old son Blake remained in Washington. Teresa and Blake flew home to their homestate in August for Blake’s birthday. Big Mizzou and Cardinals fans, Blake threw the first pitch out at a St. Louis game during their visit. His father was honored at the game.

Blake in the big leagues!

When I found out a couple months ago that former St. Louis manager Tony La Russa was visiting Joint Base


Lewis-McChord for a book signing I immediately contacted Teresa. La Russa’s book signing was on Oct. 3, and wow, what a class act. He was humbled by the number of service members waiting in line to meet him, pose for photos and ask for autographs. La Russa’s signing was only supposed to last two hours, but the three-time world series championship skipper stayed for 4 1/2 hours to make sure everyone in line got through.

I told the marketing people in charge of the signing about the Maggart family who was waiting in line and a little bit about their story. They told La Russa. When it was Blake’s turn La Russa picked him up and stood him on top of the signing table. He put two of hisis accelerated by the strong electric field caused by a large reverse bias, the electron, well-known as a hot electron, gains kinetic energy that is equal to, or greater than, the band gap energy of silicon. The hot electron collides with the lattice and breaks a covalent bond. The breaking of a covalent bond, which is equal to the elevation of an electron from the valence band to the conduction band, results in the generation of an electron-hole pair.
The two electrons, the original one and the one resulting from the collision, are in turn accelerated by the high electric field, gain kinetic energy greater than the gap energy, collide with the lattice, and generate two additional electron-hole pairs. These additional electrons will create more electrons in a chain


a first conductivity type and an epitaxial layer of a second conductivity type formed on the surface of the silicon substrate. The HVMOS transistor comprises a first well region of the second conductivity type formed within the epitaxial layer, a second well region of the second conductivity type formed within the first well region, a source region of the first conductivity type formed within the second well region of the epitaxial layer, a drain region of the first conductivity type formed in the epitaxial layer, a gate located between the source region and the drain region on the surface of the epitaxial layer, and a diffused region of the second conductivity type formed both in the epitaxial layer and in the silicon substrate. The diffused region of thesecond conductivity type is under the first well region and overlaps the first well region.
According to one aspect of this invention, the structure of the HVMOS transistor provides a stronger lateral electric field along the channel resulting from the second well region of the second conductivity type, which results in higher channel conductance and better current drifting capabilities. Moreover, to reduce parasitic transistor effects, the resistance of the substrate Rsub is minimized using the diffused region of the second conductivity type, which is under the first well region and overlaps with the first well region, ensuring that the inductive voltage Vb remains smaller than the snapback voltage.


Ireland To Ban Sale Of Israeli Goods And Services

Ireland passed a landmark bill on Wednesday, banning the sale of all Israeli goods and services due to the inhumane treatment of the Palestinian people.

With 25 senators voting in favor and 20 against. the bill needs to go to the lower house of Ireland’s parliament before it is signed into law.

Mintpressnews.com reports: The bill’s recent passage by the Seanad as well as its backing by Irish parliament’s second-largest party, Fianna Fail, suggests that Ireland could soon be the first nation in the world to ban the importation of goods and services originating from illegal Jewish-only settlements in Palestine’s West Bank.

The fact that the bill was even brought to a vote suggests that the law is likely to withstand unprecedented pressureparticipant, and his participation is relentless. He has evolved into one of the most spirited accomplices in tribute gigs, variety evenings, and extracurricular combinations. His enthusiasm for the work of others is now so deep and wide that his calendar strains with far-flung one-offs and barely compensated commitments. A jolly “Penny Lane” for Barack Obama and Paul McCartney at the White House, last June; a sly turn, last month, as master of ceremonies, and a warm performance of “Brilliant Mistake,” in a limited-run T Bone Burnett revue featuring, among others, John Mellencamp, Ralph Stanley, Leon Russell, and Elton John; perhaps a pensive rearrangement of “(What’s So Funny ’Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding” when he performs in December at the Oslo Spektrum, in honor of the Nobel Peace Prize.


was the only one with any new material to speak of. He had flown in a group that has come to be called the Sugarcanes—six of Nashville’s finest acoustic players, with whom he’d released one album, in 2009, and just recorded another, out this month. He has been touring with them, off and on, for more than a year. For the Nashville guys, it was good work: they got to back an ace and play fresh, tasty material, for rock-and-roll pay. For Costello, it was a chance to perform his old songs with a crack ensemble in a traditional country-bluegrass context that had sometimes been the one in which they’d been conceived, if not originally executed. He also got to write new songs that suited the group well.

Injeans, a black hooded sweater, a coral-colored cashmere scarf, and what you might call a duck-hunting cap—pointed over his shoulders with his thumbs, and he and some of the guys hustled off to watch the Nevilles work their way through “Fever” and “Hey Pocky Way.”

As the Nevilles’ set went on, the Sugarcanes drifted back to the tent and changed into their party shirts. Mike Compton, the mandolin player, put a jacket on over his overalls. Jim Lauderdale, who plays guitar and sings harmonies, stood out in the field, in a cowboy shirt, doing Tai Chi. Pete Thomas, the drummer in Costello’s foundational but defunct band, the Attractions, as well as its successor, the Imposters, and now performing with the Sugarcanes for the first time, tapped on a table


with his drumsticks. After a while, Costello, too, disappeared into his stall to change. He emerged in a shiny silk midnight-blue suit, black patent-leather Chelsea boots, a blue shirt with white pin dots, a black-and-blue polka-dot tie, and a Stetson Gambler—one version of his performance costume of recent years, his unabashed yet half-ironic guise as the professional entertainer and itinerant rake. He was carrying a plastic bottle connected to what looked like a yellow gas mask. He pressed it to his mouth and inhaled deeply. “This is my ‘Blue Velvet’ device,” he said. The bottle contained a eucalyptus solution, to soothe his throat. He was fighting a cold that he feared he’d caught from his twin sons, who are about to turn four. The bug had prevented themreality, they just fleeced humanity, caused massive malinvestment, and prolonged the inevitable day of reckoning.

David Marsh, managing director of the Forum that produced the study, argued that the huge role of supposedly public institutions in the markets was all a surprising but perhaps unintended result of monetary authorities’ efforts to keep the economy afloat. “The buildup of central banking interest in equities is one of the unexpected consequences of the last few years' fall in interest rates, which has depressed the returns on central banks’ foreign exchange reserves and driven them to find alternative investment targets,” he wrote in a column at MarketWatch.

Other central banks with major investments in the stock market included the Swiss National Bank, which has nearly $500 billion under management and about $72 billion


the latest news was hardly a surprise to analysts tracking the shadowy activities of the central-banking establishment, it confirmed yet again that despite claims made by powerful anti-market zealots, the global economy can hardly be described as anything even resembling a free-market system. Georgetown University historian and Professor Carroll Quigley, who served as President Bill Clinton’s mentor, wrote about the schemes now coming to light in his 1966 book Tragedy And Hope: A History Of The World In Our Time.

“The powers of financial capitalism had a far-reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole,” wrote Prof. Quigley, a heavyweight academic who wasa privately owned bank that had the right to issue currency and buy the government’s debt. As its powers were expanded by Parliament over the years, its notes became legal tender. Creditors had to accept them in payment of debts.

It was only at the end of the 19th century that central banking became universal. It took until December 22 (House) and 23 (Senate), 1913, when most of Congress had gone home for the Christmas holidays, for the Federal Reserve System to be enacted into law. President Wilson signed the bill that same day. All the Democrats voted for it. The Democrats had traditionally opposed central banking. Republicans tended to oppose it, they who had always favored central banking.

William Jennings Bryan, who had been the Populist opponent of Eastern


bankers and banking, was President Wilson’s agent for getting the Federal Reserve Act passed. As Secretary of State, he lobbied Congressmen to vote for the bill. Years later, he said this had been his greatest mistake. Too late.

It is always too late.

All it took was a name change. It is called the Federal Reserve System. The work “bank” is nowhere to be seen. It has 12 regional banks, so as to confuse the rubes. The New York FED was for decades the main decision-maker, not the Board of Governors. The New York FED is the only permanent regional bank with membership on the Federal Open Market Committee, which decides to buy or sell debt.

My point is simple: all it took was a name change and the creation ofas a crackpot or a conspiracy theorist or both.

No other organization in the United States is equally immune from criticism in the Establishment media.

When you find any idea or organization that is immune from criticism from the major institutions, you are inside the temple. This was the title of William Greider’s book on the FED, Secrets of the Temple: How the Federal Reserve Runs the Country (1987), which was unwilling to call for its abolition.

In a 1988 review in The Washington Monthly, a liberal magazine, the author made the point: nobody cares any more.

Ironically, the Federal Reserve had its philosophical roots in the populist uprisings of the late 1800s, when farmers and small businessmen rose up against the power of the big banks. But the bankers managed to


frame the new institution in a way that gave them effective control. Reforms made in the 1930s diluted the power of the banks over the Fed but left intact an unusual, hybrid government institution with little direct accountability to the public. The president appointed Fed governors, but they held 14-year terms that assured their independence. The chairman held only a four-year term, but that term was set so that one president could saddle his successor with an uncongenial central banker. The unusual arrangement went unnoticed by most people. As Greider points out, the “money question” was the subject of great debate during most of the nineteenth century, when William Jennings Bryan stirred thousands with his famous “cross of gold” speech, calling for an abandonment of the gold standard.But in the twentieth century, the Fed succeeded in convincing the public that monetary policy was an arcane undertaking that need not concern the average American. Never mind that the Fed had the power to bankrupt thousands of small businesses, to erode a lifetime’s savings, or to throw millions of people out of their jobs.

Maybe the most accurate book title on the FED is this: The Federal Reserve: An Intentional Mystery. It was published over two decades ago by Praeger, an Establishment publisher.

The plan worked. No one cares.

FED-MADE DISASTERS

The basic disaster is this: ever since 1914, the dollar has lost 95% of its purchasing power, according to government statistics. (Inflation Calculator, Bureau of Labor Statistics).

The secondary disasters have been the recessions, above all, the great depression of the


Paul Gomez: The FBI is embedded around the world and in dangerous locations with the military. They are focused on confronting the terrorism fight, transnational organized crime—a number of national security threats to the United States.

Halpern: The FBI supports the military in a variety of ways, to include providing law enforcement training.

Gomez: They gain a significant benefit from the relationship because they can dip into our subject matter expertise and apply it to the problems that they are trying to resolve.

Halpern: The partnership is mutually beneficial; contingents of military members are embedded within the FBI. I’m Mollie Halpern of the Bureau with FBI, This Week.Just another WordPress.com site

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This week’s episode is “The City on the Edge of Forever” and it’s rightfully acclaimed as the best episode of The Original Series.

We open with the Enterprise being rocked by time distortions as they orbit around an unidentified planet. A distortion causes the center bridge console to spark and injure Sulu. McCoy, called to the bridge for aid, successfully injects Sulu with a hypospray of a few drops of cordrazine–which Kirk notes is “tricky stuff”–and he is revived. Just then, another distortion rocks the bridge, and McCoy falls on his hypo, injecting himself with a massive dose of cordrazine. This causes him to freak out and, in a burst of paranoia, escape from the bridge.

Security teams try tracking him down, but he


murdering someone to prevent him from snitching and going through the portal instead of McCoy–was deemed as unsuitable by Roddenberry and rewritten by D.C. Fontana, Ellison was characteristically miffed. In 2009, he even filed suit against Paramount claiming they owe him all sorts of residuals for the finished episode as well as all the merchandise–spin-off novels, etc.–that’s derived from it (the case is still pending at this time).

Regardless, the finished script is terrific, presenting an impossible dilemma and the agonizing choices that must be made. It also allows for terrific performances–Shatner and Nimoy are at the top of their game, DeForest Kelley is terrific as a paranoid, dangerous McCoy and Collins makes Keeler sympathetic and understandable.

A whole mess of places and people have said this is the bestMd. health plan's enrollment, funding up

Enrollment in the Maryland Health Insurance Plan has more than doubled to nearly 15,000, shattering a mid-2008 goal the state-run program set for itself last year.

MHIP leaders say changes to the plan, an aggressive marketing initiative and a law passed in 2005 that directed some self-employed workers to MHIP has led to growth in enrollment from 6,246 in 2005 to more than 14,700 now. In April 2007, Richard Popper, MHIP's executive director, said the goal was to have 13,600 by mid-2008.

To keep pace with the enrollment hike, MHIP received an additional $26 million this year. The state's Health Services Cost Review Commission increased the program's funding in April from $81 million to $107 million.

"It became apparent that we would have to cap enrollment


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Deputy Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt announced that the Department will offer 77.3 million acres offshore Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida for oil and gas exploration and development. The region-wide lease sale, which is the largest in U.S. history, is scheduled for March 21, 2018, and will include all available unleased areas in federal waters of the Gulf of Mexico. In 2017, offshore leases helped the Department raise a billion dollars more in revenue for the year than was made off energy revenues in 2016.

Lease Sale 250, scheduled to be livestreamed from New Orleans, will be the second offshore sale under the National Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) Oil and Gas Leasing Program for 2017-2022.An Atlanta police officer is accused of killing a woman he met through an online hookup website and then set her body on fire.

Tahreem Zeus Rana appeared Friday in court on charges of murder, arson, kidnapping, and tampering with evidence in the slaying of 26-year-old Vernicia Woodard.

Investigators linked the 23-year-old Rana to the homicide through the victim’s phone records, and they found Woodard’s posting on the classified website Backpage.com, where they believe the officer and woman met.

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Police arrested Rana about 8:30 a.m. Thursday at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, where authorities believe he was headed to Monterrey, Mexico, and then possibly to India.

Investigators said Rana shot Woodard multiple times Friday after meeting the woman.

Woodard had recently moved to Georgia, where she had some family, from the New York City area.

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defendant invited the 23-year-old prosecutrix to an evening party at his apartment. The prosecutrix, a prior acquaintance of defendant, accepted the invitation. Unable to secure a sitter for her 13-month-old baby, she took the child along with her to the party. At about 11:30 p. m., the other guests departed, leaving the prosecutrix, her child, the defendant, and his roommate. The prosecutrix remained in the apartment through most of the night.
Defendant and the prosecutrix presented conflicting versions of what transpired between the time the other guests left the apartment and the prosecutrix's early morning departure. The prosecutrix testified that she decided to remain in defendant's apartment overnight after defendant promised that she and the child could sleep alone in defendant's bedroom while defendant and his roommate slept inthe living room. In violation of this prior understanding, defendant crawled into bed with the prosecutrix, choked her, and threatened to harm her child unless she performed sexual intercourse and other sexual acts. Fearing harm to herself and to her child, the prosecutrix submitted, performing repeated sexual acts, including fellatio, normal sexual intercourse, and anal intercourse. The prosecutrix also testified that defendant forced her to engage in fellatio and normal sexual intercourse with his roommate. When defendant finally fell asleep, the prosecutrix allegedly escaped from the apartment, clutching her child and covering herself with nothing but a baby blanket. She then sought refuge in the home of a cousin five blocks away and immediately called the police, who arrested Foley and his roommate.
Defendant claims that the prosecutrix offered


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Terry McDanielPresident Trump Donald John TrumpUS reimposes UN sanctions on Iran amid increasing tensions Jeff Flake: Republicans 'should hold the same position' on SCOTUS vacancy as 2016 Trump supporters chant 'Fill that seat' at North Carolina rally MORE tweeted about the hacked emails of then-Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta approximately 15 minutes after WikiLeaks requested his son Donald Trump Jr. to, The Atlantic reported Monday.

"Trump Jr. did not respond to this message. But just 15 minutes after it was sent...Donald Trump himself tweeted," according to the report.

The revelation came after The Wall Street Journal's Byron Tau pointed out that Trump tweeted shortly after WikiLeaks asked Donald Trump Jr. to have his father to tweet about their new podesta email release.

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President Donald Trump is rapidly filling a record number of empty seats on the federal courts. Many of his nominees have problematic records on voting rights. A Trump nominee from North Carolina, Thomas Farr, is one example. Farr has a decades-long record of defending voter suppression—from his time working on the racially charged 1990 campaign of Sen. Jesse Helms (R) to helping legislators draft and defend a 2013 voting law, one that a federal court said targeted African American voters “with almost surgical precision.” Other nominees include a former state legislator who pushed a discriminatory voter ID law and a White House lawyer who helped establish President Trump’s “Election Integrity Commission” that critics contend is aimed at suppressing the rights of voters.

Justice Neil Gorsuch, theothers have raised serious questions about Farr’s record. He was a lawyer for the 1990 campaign of North Carolina Sen. Jesse Helms, a lifelong opponent of civil rights who left the Democratic Party to join the GOP in the 1960s. Sen. Helms was known for political campaigns that appealed to racial prejudice and white supremacy. The Washington Post reported that Helms’ 1984 campaign literature “sounded a drumbeat of warnings about black voter- registration drives.” A decade later, Helms began to sing “Dixie,” the Civil War-era song popular with the Confederacy, when he found himself in an elevator with Sen. Carol Moseley Braun (D-IL), the nation’s first female black senator. Helms turned to fellow senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT) and said he would sing Dixie “until she cries.”

Farr defended the


from Alliance for Justice, a progressive judicial advocacy group, details Norris’ role in perpetuating racial segregation and underfunding in Memphis-area schools. Alliance for Justice referred to Norris’ record as “a virtual catalogue of biases and hostile acts aimed at numerous communities, including immigrants, LGBTQ persons, workers, women, people of color, and others who rely on the courts to uphold their rights.” Sen. Norris has co-sponsored bills to prohibit the removal of Confederate monuments, limit the right of women to have an abortion, and force state courts to defy the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2015 marriage equality ruling.

State judges with a record of siding with legislators over voters

Judge Allison Eid recently replaced Justice Gorsuch on the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which hears appeals from Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico,slip.”

The blue slip rule is a long-standing tradition that requires senators to sign off on nominees from their states. Recent Judiciary Committee chairs from both parties have honored the rule, which helps ensure bipartisanship in lifetime judicial appointments, but Senate Majority Leader McConnell has publicly called for ending it.

Alabama officials who followed in Jeff Sessions’ footsteps

President Trump has nominated Brett Talley, who works on judicial nominations at the Office of Legal Policy at the Department of Justice, to a district court in Alabama. Alliance for Justice said that the 36-year-old Talley “has less than three years of experience actually practicing law.” Talley has come under fire for his inflammatory statements about guns in the aftermath of mass shootings and his work on the Trump administration’s response to the


The Vatican called on Sunday on Attorney- General Yehuda Weinstein to indict Benzi Gopstein, the head of the Jewish extremist group Lehava, on suspicion of incitement to violence and terrorism.The letter, filed by the Vatican's representative in Israel, Custodia da Terra Santa, to Attorney-General Yehuda Weinstein, followed comments made by Gopstein last week in favor of burning down churches in Israel. Lehava is a radical anti-assimilation and anti-missionary organization which has stirred great controversy since its founding in 2009. During a panel debate on idol worship last Tuesday, Gopstein cited Maimonides’s ruling that Christianity is a form of idolatry that needs to be destroyed, in accordance with the commandment in Deuteronomy to destroy idol worship in the Land of Israel.Thus, in theory, Gopstein said he was in favorof burning churches in Israel.The Vatican’s letter stresses that urgent action must be taken against Gopstein “in the face of real danger to churches and Christian communities in Israel” as a result of his remarks.The move follows a complaint filed to the police on Friday by Father Pietro Felet, the secretary-general of the Assembly of Catholic Ordinaries in the Holy Land. The complaint was filed on behalf of some 20 patriarchs and bishops to express concern over growing security challenges to Christian communities and their holy sites in Israel and the West Bank.Father Felet mentioned in his complaint several attacks on Christian holy sites by radical groups, and hinted that in the vast majority of these incidents the perpetrators were not brought to justice.Gopstein took to Facebook to


lives in fear of Gimelstob. Kaplan says the attack was one of several altercations Gimelstob has been involved in in recent years, although the tennis star has denied that allegation.

Madison Kaplan, who witnessed the attack on her husband, told the court the trauma of seeing how her husband was beaten in front of her daughter led her to suffer a miscarriage.

“My doctors said everything had looked perfect with the pregnancy before the attack. The only reason they could see causing the miscarriage was the stress from the attack. Justin might not have gotten his wish in killing Randy, but he did kill a tiny innocent little baby girl.”

Gimelstob, 41, resigned last week from the powerful Assn. of Tennis Professionals board as the players’ representative.

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were used for eggplants production. The IR heating established a smooth temperature distribution at the canopy, while inside greenhouse the air was maintained at lower values than in the conventionally heated greenhouse. Eggplant fruit growth was similar in both greenhouses, while the production yield was significantly increased in the IR heating greenhouse.

Total phenolic content, antioxidant, and antiradical activity were measured showing a higher value distribution in eggplant fruits from the conventional compared to the IR heating greenhouse. This results in greater uniformity production in terms of phytochemical profile in the IR heating greenhouse, which could have a positive impact in commercial applications.

The qualitative LC-MS phytochemical profile of eggplant fruits from both greenhouses revealed the existence of numerous bioactive compounds, some of which were only characteristic of the eggplanta turning point for him and the question of whether his family would accept his sexuality. Manning explained in the season premiere that he attended church every Sunday, through which he hoped to bond with his castmate and fellow churchgoer, Ashley Lindley. His storyline also depicted his social life, in particular his newfound freedom to date  and his concerns regarding family and religion.

Manning joined the cast with the intention of working as an environmentalist, but unexpectedly became an activist for LGBT rights as well, working for the Human Rights Campaign and the Energy Action Coalition. During the course of his work for the Human Rights Campaign, Manning met with Congressman Jared Polis of Colorado and Congressman James P. Moran of Virginia, and attended the October 10, 2009


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The small town of Darrelgest has usually been favored by fate. Being placed in the middle of a well traveled trade road. It has become a stopping place of many a traveler and merchant. Regular troops patrols often pass through here, keeping the general area safe.

The town’s appointed Speaker is Tomstel Becker, a retired city guard from the local capital. In a struck of luck he helped the right person and was appointed the person in charge of Darrelgest. Not that it requires a particular set of skills to keep the town safe and functioning.

The town is protected by a small wooden wall that does its job in protecting it. From time to time bandits orA Guide To Learning Japanese Kanji:

Traditional Approach versus Modern Approach

Kanji is a Japanese writing system derived from Chinese characters before hiragana and katakana were introduced in the Japanese language. There are more than 10,000 kanji and knowledge of 2,000 most frequently used kanji would enable 99% comprehension of written texts, which is the equivalent of kanji knowledge of a Japanese high school graduate. These commonly used kanji is known as Joyo kanji.

Like Chinese characters, kanji is composed of components, the smallest meaningful unit that a kanji can be broken into. One of these components is the radical or bushu in Japanese. Knowledge of bushu is important because it lends meaning to the kanji and helps when searching for a word in Japanese dictionary. Altogether there are 214 kanji


radicals which are divided into seven groups based on their position within a kanji. The top 10 most frequently used radicals are found in 34% of the 2000 basic kanji. The radical sanzui is used most frequently.

Kanji has two different types of reading: onyomi and kunyomi. Onyomi is based on Chinese pronunciation while kunyomi is based on Japanese pronunciation. Typically, each kanji has one onyomi and one kunyomi. Some kanji may only have onyomi and no kunyomi. Some may have two onyomi like the example below. The only way to know how to pronounce kanji in different contexts is by memorising them. Onyomi is found in compound words with other kanji whereas kunyomi is found in native Japanese words often paired with hiragana.

There are four types of kanjibased on their formation.

Pictograms are derived from pictures Simple ideograms are derived from abstract concepts Compound ideograms are derived from combination of kanji with chained abstract concepts Phonetic-ideographic characters are derived from combination of radical and kanji, in which the radical provides the meaning element and the kanji provides the sound element

Traditionally, learners of Japanese language learn kanji through learning the stroke order and writing the kanji repeatedly following the correct stroke order, the same system used by Japanese native speakers. Repeated writing is the most commonly used method to learn kanji and the use of flashcards is most preferred by beginner Japanese learners (Okita, 1995). Some academics believe that learning the stroke order is critical in deciphering the meaning of the kanji and its associated pronunciation.

Recent methodology


"State your business here! how do I know you're an angel and not some demon in disguise?"

Courage swung around to come face-to-face with a bow pointed in his face. Another Angel, by the looks of it. "Relax, sister. I'm an Angel." He spread his arms in a gesture of peace. "That is my human right there." He gestured to Amanda. "I have to keep special watch on her." He gave a bright smile and slowly moved the arrowhead from his face. "The name's Courage." Courage was positive she was an Angel. There was no other way she could have a bow like that in public. Taking a step back, he glanced over at Amanda, who was still with the boy. "That's Amanda." Without hesitation, he scowled a little.A still taken of police officers surrounding the building

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At least two people were shot dead at the University of California, Los Angeles on Wednesday, police and campus officials have confirmed.

The incident happened this morning at 10am at the


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A homicide and a suicide occurred," Los Angles Police Chief Charlie Beck told reporters near the scene.

"It appears to be entirely contained," he said.

An alert from the university warned students to stay indoors.

"Go to a secure location and deny entry (lockdown) now!" the university wrote in the message to students.

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"The campus remains on lockdown."

"Right now the police are at the scene and the campus is on lockdown," said an office manager in the university's media relations division.

The university has more than 43,000 enrolled students, according to its website.

Bioengineering student Bahjat Alirani said police were yelling at people to run from the scene.

"I was in Boelter Hall to take a final and I exit the staircase to see SWAT-looking police yelling at everyone to evacuate immediately," Alirani told Reuters. "I check my email and BruinAlert had immediately sent an email to all students notifying them of a shooter in the engineering building."

UCLA is in the Westwood section of Los Angeles and one of the more well-regarded schools in the University of California system, known for its successful sports


program.

Aerial video of the campus showed police and emergency responders surrounding the building.

Mehwish Khan, a 21-year-old psychobiology student, took cover in the library along with several other students.

"The whole campus just started running and I started running too," she said in a live broadcast.

"Everyone was very confused. We got in a building, and no one knew what was going on," she said.

As she spoke by phone, she started hearing helicopters hovering overhead.

"A lot of people thought it was a joke or a drill," she said.

Helicopter news footage showed students walking out in a line with their hands above their head, as armed police officers scoured the campus.

Many students posted to social media, many to let friends and family know they were safe.

Some described frantic evacuation scenes and aArsenal FC v Chelsea FC - Premier League

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When William J. Lemp Sr. had completed his massive new lagering house in 1882, he surely had other grand schemes in the back of his mind. The failures of his father, Adam Lemp, in Germany were a forgotten memory. In 1876, Pictorial St. Louis described William as “a thorough St. Louisan, keenly alive to the interests and prosperity of the city.” By 1883, the Lemp Brewery was the fourth largest in the country, and William was the president of the brewers’ association. It’s said that he rose between 6 and 7 every morning and inspected every part of the brewery. Already legendary, he won accolade after accolade. And surely he must have realized that the 150- and 250-barrel brew kettles he’d installed inhis rustic brewhouse in the waning years of the Civil War would not keep such flattery coming.

Courtesy of Stephen Walker 1885 Brewhouse, interior

Theodore Krausch, who had just completed the Lemps’ new lagering house a few years before, was no doubt ready with new inventions when William came calling to commission a new, state-of-the-art brewhouse. Having perused the complete run of the Western Brewer, I’m amazed at the sheer number of advertisements Krausch submitted for each issue, regaling readers with new inventions and upgrades to his revolutionary refrigeration systems. But as we saw last week, he was also an adept architect, providing his clients with elegant, cogent designs for brewery buildings to hold his new technology. The Western Brewer heralded the opening of Krausch-designed Lemp brew house with an


extensive article in 1885:

The well-known St. Louis brewery, Wm. J. Lemp, Esq., has just brought to completion one of the largest and best-appointed brew houses in United States, Mr. Theodore Krausch of North Evanston, Illinois, having been the general architect and engineer. This fine structure, which forms the keystone of the vast series of improvements Mr. Lemp has been making for several years, is a splendid specimen of brewery engineering in all of its details.

Note there is no mention of Jungenfeld & Co. It’s common wisdom around St. Louis that Krausch erected the new brewhouse around the old, and he certainly used largely the same footprint, as the lagering cellars underneath show no sign of being modified. However, up above ground, close examination of the interior of theExpand Courtesy of Stephen Walker Look for the new brewhouse, with multiple smokestacks, in the center of the image.

Nonetheless, the Western Brewer’s text is corroborated by the souvenir book’s image, and it provides us with a fascinating window into a long-gone epicenter of brewing in America. One of the brewers who inaugurated the new brewhouse was John Adam Kayan, who was born in 1863 in Neckarbischofsheim, Baden, Germany, and trained as a brewer there. Convinced that beer was nutritious, Kayan came to St. Louis at 24 to work at the Lemp Brewery. The building he was given to brew his nutritious beer was 72 by 106 feet, with two 300-barrel iron brew kettles, 16 by 16-foot square on the high-ceilinged first floor.

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malt house back then) for a cost of $15,000. There is no mention of an architect or building contractor, and I suspect that since the addition was relatively straightforward, master masons could have supervised the adding of three additional floors without need for a professional architect. Critically, the center kiln was removed to provide logistical space for the two flanking kilns that were extended the full six floors of the newly expanded building.

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The remnants of the kilns on the first floor survive, but a photograph taken of a beer delivery wagon on Broadway is the only known image of the two metal chimneys that were removed by International Shoe Company. Sadly, the dangers ofconstruction at the time are related in a New York Times article from September 30, 1887:

During construction of three new floors on malt kiln, hoist broke while lifting one-ton steel girder, which crashed down to the basement, a distance of 65 feet. Daniel Ohmels was killed, Charles Schnoch badly injured, John Kueberts had his ribs and leg fractured, and F. Newman, F. Brass, Charles Mosser, and Albert Schurz were badly injured. Brass and Newman are believed to be fatally hurt.

But such accidents did not stop the Lemp Brewery from continuing to expand, and new buildings continued to rise to fill the demand for beer in 1880s St. Louis—and nationwide.


For whatever reason, when photographs enter an archive, the convention for citing them tends to shift from the photographer him or herself to the institution in which the images are housed. At the bottom of the various historical photo posts you'll find on these pages, for instance, the credit will almost invariably read "photos from the Toronto Archives," rather than some breakdown of the various names of those who captured the images. Yes, this has to do with copyright, but it's also related to how vernacular photography has been framed in the public imagination. So, once in while I get the urge to shed some light on the photographers themselves.

Although a number of photographers are responsible for the well-stocked archive of TTC images in the City's holdings, bythe time the 1960s rolled around one in particular was doing most of the shooting for our transit commission: Eric Trussler. Born in Peterborough, Ontario in 1914, Trussler's first major photographic work was as a Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps clinical photographer in the second World War. Later, when he returned home, he would join Canada Pictures Ltd., where he did journalistic assignments, including coverage of the S.S. Noronic fire in 1949. But his chief assignment, one which would last through the formation of his own firm in 1957, was the documentation of the Toronto subway, starting with construction of the Yonge Line in the early 1950s.

The vast majority of Trussler's work is black and white, and, with a few exceptions, shows deft control of the tricky lighting


situations that one encounters in subways stations. Perhaps his most haunting photos are those that capture deserted stations just prior to their opening. There's an emptiness and precision to these images that's somehow quite compelling despite the banality of their subject matter.

Along with the construction of the subway and its stations, Trussler's fonds also feature a plentiful supply of photographs of TTC buses and streetcars, many of which show off the artfulness of what were ostensibly pragmatic photographs. An early 1960s image of a GM "Fishbowl" bus at Rosedale Station, taken from a low angle, makes the vehicle look positively regal despite its humble status. His shots of people using the subway also suggest that he understood the concept of the decisive moment (see lead image).

Trussler sold hisfirm in 1985 and eventually retired to Bracebridge, Ontario. All told, his fonds consist of 2400 negatives, most of which are devoted to the TTC in some manner or another. They offer the curious researcher a thoroughgoing and often beautiful look at the TTC rise as a modern transportation system.

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All photographs by Eric Trussler via the Toronto Archives. Trussler's fonds are number 1567, and are composed of three series: 1379, 577, and 648.


Tonight on the Colbert Report, Stephen Colbert interviewed Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. We were wondering how Colbert would handle a subject as serious as a video showing 12 people being killed. Well, he handled it pretty seriously.

Unlike Jon Stewart's often-substantial sit-downs, Colbert's interviews usually tend more towards the frivolous. But his chat with Wikileaks founder and editor Julian Assange actually revealed some new insight into the notoriously mercurial Australian and the organization he runs.

One constant criticism of Wikileaks' helicopter video has been that its heavy editorial slant clashed with the supposed objectivity of the material they presented. Colbert challenged Assange on this point: "You have edited this tape, and you have given it a title called 'collateral murder.' That's not leaking, that's a pure editorial." Assange responded thatWikileaks promises their sources that they will "try and get the maximum possible political impact for the material the give us." According to Assange's formulation, Wikileaks is essentially an advocacy group whose strength lies in its ability to secure incriminating documents.

Assange also elaborated on Wikileaks' earlier, tweeted claims that Robert Gates was "a liar" for suggesting the troops in the video were in a "combat situation." When Colbert brought up the combat argument, Assange replied: "we have classified records to show that all there was... was a report of small arms fire," Assange said. "28 minutes later, after circling around the suburbs of Baghdad, the helicopters identified these men and killed them."

Colbert's blow-hard character usually just inspires his (mostly-liberal) guests to fall back on tired talking points. But


that South Africa had run out of surplus water, with 98 percent of it already allocated. And because most rivers and dams were highly polluted, they had lost the ability to dilute effluents.

Poor Water Quality

Poor water quality was threatening economic growth, he added. The pollution ranges from acidic mine pollution from coal and gold mining, levels of eutrophication [characterised by an abundant accumulation of nutrients that support a dense growth of algae and other organisms, the decay of which depletes the shallow waters of oxygen in summer] “unprecedented globally” in rivers and dams, and radio-nuclide and heavy-metal contamination from a century of largely unregulated gold mining that had left residents of Soweto, Ekurhuleni and the West Rand living on “contaminated land”.

Turton said the government needed to accept thatThe Israeli military was facing widespread questions on Saturday over why its snipers killed a Palestinian journalist who was wearing body armour clearly marked with a “Press” sign.

Yaser Murtaja, 30, was shot in the side on Friday afternoon while covering protests along the Gaza border and later died from his injuries. At least five other Palestinian journalists were reportedly shot by Israeli troops during the protest.

Murtaja, a freelance cameraman who had worked for the BBC and the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, was filming in the Khan Younis area of southern Gaza and was about 300 metres from the Israeli border fence when he was shot, his colleagues said.

The Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) said it was investigating the shooting of Mr Murtaja and other Palestinian journalists.

“The IDF does not


Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch Has Retired From Foreign Service

Marie Yovanovitch, the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine until last spring when she was ousted following a disinformation campaign by the president's private lawyer, is retiring — not resigning.

MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST:

Some news tonight - NPR has learned that one of the key figures in the impeachment drama, Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch, is retiring from the foreign service. She was the ambassador to Ukraine until last spring, when she was ousted following a disinformation campaign by the president's private lawyer. Yovanovitch testified before Congress about the moment that she got a call from Washington telling her, come home.

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MARIE YOVANOVITCH: They were concerned about my security and I needed to come home right away.

KELLY: Yovanovitch remained on the State Department payroll,teaching at Georgetown University, but sources say she is now retired. NPR diplomatic correspondent Michele Kelemen and I have both been reporting out this story, and Michele is in the studio with us now.

Hey there.

MICHELE KELEMEN, BYLINE: Hi there.

KELLY: All right, so let's walk through the details we know. I have confirmed that she retired - so not resigned. But this is months before her current assignment was set to end.

KELEMEN: Well, she was at Georgetown, so this wasn't an ambassadorship that she had. And she has been telling colleagues that she would be retiring soon. She's been the ambassador - an ambassador three times, appointed by both Democratic and Republican presidents. She was a very powerful voice in that impeachment hearing, describing how her last post in


Ukraine ended.

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YOVANOVITCH: When I returned to the United States, Deputy Secretary of State Sullivan told me there had been a concerted campaign against me, that the president no longer wished me to serve as ambassador to Ukraine and that, in fact, the president had been pushing for my removal since the prior summer.

KELEMEN: And she felt that she was pushed out because of business interests of private individuals. It was a very powerful appearance, but perhaps not the way someone like that, a nonpartisan career diplomat, would have wanted to go out.

KELLY: To exit, yeah. Let me follow up on that timeline. Yovanovitch said she felt she had been under pressure since 2018, and we have been learning more lately about that pressure campaign.

KELEMEN: Yeah.Right. Lev Parnas - he's the indicted associate of Trump's private lawyer - has audio from a dinner in 2018. You can hear him telling President Trump that Yovanovitch was bad-mouthing him, saying he was going to be impeached, and Trump said he wanted her out.

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PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Get rid of her.

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TRUMP: OK? Get her out tomorrow. I don't care. Get her out tomorrow.

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TRUMP: Take her out, OK?

KELEMEN: Taker her out, he said. Parnas has apologized for spreading rumors about Yovanovitch. He also said that Trump tried to fire him - tried to fire her four or five times, which suggests that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo may have quietly been fending off this campaign against her.

KELLY: Her name is still very much in the


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Based on the epic "Phra Aphai Mani" written by Sunthon Phu, สุดสาคร –Thailand's first cell animation– tells the heroic adventure of Sudsakorn, the son of a minstrel prince and a beautiful mermaid. During his many encounters he fights animals, ghosts and demons, and tames sharks and a dragon-horse.

Special feature (from Battle for the Planet of the Apes blu-ray) discussing the writing of the story, its themes, characters, and mood. Also discussed is the film's budget and production values, director J. Lee Thompson's contributions to the film, producer Arthur P. Jacobs's influence on the Apes series, and the sense of hope the final film engendered in audiences.

Dot and her Dolphin friends are playing along the shore one day. Soon they come across a very sad Whale named Tonga, whohas washed up onto the beach. Tonga is in danger of being harmed by evil Whale-hunters and a cruel fish shop owner! Seeing that her new friend is in trouble, Dot just might have a few clever ideas to go about helping.

Elizabeth Bentley is a successful lawyer who suddenly has some "punkish" daydreams of being "Rambo" right around the time her clueless boyfriend Brad asks her to marry him. After a therapy session, she quits her job to the surprise of her family and Brad, and goes into the detective business, opening her own private-eye office. Unfortunately, the ghost of the private-eye who owned the office still lingers and Elizabeth's the only one who can see or hear him. At first, she becomes an unwilling partner in Nick


Peyton's unfinished investigation, but then she finds herself falling for the salty, but dead, guy.

It is time to crown a new king of the kingdom of Bogg, and King Mildew's son, Milo, seems like the best creature for the job. However, Vandred, the king's brother, has other plans, and intends to put his son, Vandal, on the thrown. He challenges Milo, who must prove his worthiness by retrieving the Crown of Bogg and returning it to the kingdom. The crown has been banned from the kingdom for years because it is cursed, but Mildew and Milo are willing to face the risks of the quest in order to keep Vandred and Vandal from assuming control of the kingdom

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The Black Madonna is a painting of the Madonna
and Christ Child which legend states was painted by St. Luke the Evangelist.
St. Luke is believed to have used a table top from a table built by the
carpenter Jesus. It was while Luke was painting Mary that she told him about
the events in the life of Jesus that he eventually used in his gospel.
This same legend states that that when St. Helen went to Jerusalem to search
for the true cross in 326 AD, she happened upon this portrait of Our Lady. She
gave it to her son, Constantine, who had a shrine built to house it. In a
critical battle with the Saracens, the portrait was displayed from the walls of
Constantinople and the Saracens were subsequently routed. The portrait was
credited


with saving the city. The painting was eventually owned by Charlemagne
who subsequently presented the painting to Prince Leo of Ruthenia (northwest
Hungary).It remained at the royal palace in Ruthenia until an invasion occurred
in the eleventh century. The king prayed to Our Lady to aid his small army and
as a result of this prayer a darkness overcame the enemy troops who, in their
confusion, began attacking one another. Ruthenia was saved as a result of this
intervention by Our Lady. In the fourteenth century, it was transferred to the
Mount of Light (Jasna Gora) in Poland in response to a request made in a dream
of Prince Ladislaus of Opola.
The legendary history becomes better documented with the painting's ownership
by Prince Ladislaus. In 1382 invading Tartars attacked the Prince's fortress at
Belz. In this attack oneof the Tartar arrows hit the painting and lodged in
the throat of the Madonna. The Prince, fearing that he and the famous painting
might fall to the Tartars, fled in the night finally stopping in the town of
Czestochowa, where the painting was installed in a small church. The Prince
subsequently had a Pauline monastery and church built to ensure the painting's
safety. In 1430, the Hussites overran the monastery and attempted to take the
portrait. One of the looters twice struck the painting with his sword but
before he could strike another blow he fell to the floor writhing in agony and
died. Both the sword cuts and the arrow wound are still visible in the
painting.
Later, in 1655, Poland was almost entirely overrun by the forces of Sweden's
King Charles X. Only the area around


At 75 years of age, he still could shovel half a ton of coal by hand. His face bore the scars of countless fights with police and strike breakers. In his day, social media did not exist, firing into striking miners happened frequently. He would laugh as he described how he walked over 5000 miles in one year from coal mine to coal mine, the police were watching all bus terminals and train stations. He knew if they took him into custody, he wouldn’t survive the questioning. He laughed that the police and mine owners never counted on how strong his legs were. If you asked this man, was he a leftist, he proudly would say yes. Even at 75, he wasn’t afraid to defend his point ofCountry music is supposed about suffering and how to deal with it. Modern Country music no longer reflects this. In what other areas have things changed?

Rewriting of history

The first battlefield is to rewrite history.

Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval.

Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.

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George MacDonald Fraser is famous for his now politically incorrect Harry Flashman series. The series started as a joke, Fraser claimed to have found the diaries of Harry Flashman who was a highly decorated hero. The diaries revealed that Flashman was a coward, womanizer, opportunist, and bully. He then claimed to have based the novels on this series. To his amusement,


many people were asking him to show the actual diaries, which of course didn’t exist.

Limousine liberals attack his books for stating facts like white guys traded liquor to American Indians (Native Americans) for furs. Since American Indians couldn’t handle liquor, they behaved like savages. He also points out, before his Scottish ancestors joined the United Kingdom, they spent half their time getting drunk on whiskey, running around naked and killing each other. The Limousine Liberal is inherently racist since he judges different ethnic groups with different criteria.

Before becoming an author, George MacDonald Fraser, served during During WW2 as a private in the infantry during Burma campaign. Most books about war are written by Generals, Officers or politicians. Few books are written from the perspective of the infantryman, theground pounder or grunt. To prevent this history from being lost he wrote Quartered Safe Out Here: A Harrowing Tale of World War II which describes his experience during one of the longest campaigns during WW2. For political reasons, both Indians and British have chosen to forget that 25% of the soldiers which fought for the British Empire where nonWhite and members of colonies. If the British Empire was that awful, why would Indians and other nonWhite members of the empire be willing to die for it?

The was unquestionable racism within the British Empire but the Empire respected culture. This is evident in how the Empire set up its military. Members of different cultures belonged to different regiments. With Indian troops, they divided into mainly Hindu, Sikh, Muslim


and Gurka regiments. Fraser talks about how when British troops were deployed next to Indians troops they would visit the Indian troops and they treated each other with respect. The Gurkhas have traditionally been the elite of Indian troops, they have been loyal to Britain for over 200 years and continue to serve Britain to this day. What about the argument that the Indian troops were coerced or forced to fight for the British?

By WW2, many Indian regiments had Indian officers but there were a few Indian regiments that had British officers. During the Burma campaign platoon or company sized Indian units were deployed on independent actions. They could at any time have disappeared into the jungle or defected to the Japanese. Fraser was tasked to deliver anew antitank weapon to one of these remote Indian platoons which had a British officer. When he arrived, he saw the platoon was in good order but couldn’t find the British officer. He then asked the Indian soldiers what happened to their officer. The officer due to isolation and having no one to speak English with had a mental breakdown. The Indian NCOs were now running the platoon, and looking after their British officer. The Indian soldiers could have easily killed the British officer then defected to the Japanese for a handsome reward.

If the British Empire was as bad as Limousine Liberals claim it was, would Indians be willing to fight and die for it?

Equality means being given a fighting chance

Later Fraser was sent to officer school. The


school included many Indians and Gurkhas. One of the Gurkas kept on getting bullied by a racist Brit student. Traditionally in the British military, the officers and NCOs, would let the members of units sort out problems themselves. The racist Brit kept on dropping racist comments, the Gurka got angry but held it in. The Brit made the mistake of dropping a racist comment in the barracks when the where no officers or NCOs around. The Gurka without warning rushed the Brit, wrestled him to the ground, pulled his Kukri, the traditional Gurka curved knife, and tried to cut off the Brit’s head. The rest of the Officer school students stepped in and separated the two, after that the racist comments about the Gurka stopped, he had provenhe was equal.

After WW2, George MacDonald Fraser served as an officer in a Scottish Regiment. The The Complete McAuslan Series is a humorous account of his adventures. Traditionally soldiers who served in Scottish Regiments were of Scots origins, they wear kilts and the regimental band where bagpipes play a key role. The modern Progressive British government, of course, wants to destroy this, they are disbanding these regiments. Despite most of the members of the Scotish regiments coming from uneducated backgrounds, one thing that shone through is the traditional Scottish/British sense of fair play and equal opportunity.

What to do if a black man joins a Scottish Regiment? To make matters worse, he wants to play the bagpipes in the regimental band. This was 1950s Britain, political correctness did not


to the competition. To everyone’s surprise, the black man was the best piper. It later turned out, by some accident he was raised by a Scottish family and learned how to play the pipes. He then was allowed to join the band and the British concept of equal opportunity and fair play was upheld.

I earlier stated that George MacDonald Fraser considered himself to be a Liberal in the traditional sense. How does the Limousine Liberal or Progressive differ from the Traditional Liberal? How did Mr. MacDonald define liberal?

The original definition of Liberal

Twenty years ago, I was talking to an elderly lady. Due to a heart ailment, she never got married, since she would die early. After she finished high school she worked as a teller in the bankuntil she retired. Despite being alone, she always had a positive outlook on life, she always joked that since she expected to die any day, every day was a surprise. I asked her how she liked her job at the bank. She replied it was a great job until the 1980s then things started to change. I asked, why?. Her answer surprised me, she said, that is when the WW2 veterans started to retire, even when they where in management they where never scared to question the bank. It was then that things started to go downhill.

As George MacDonald Fraser puts it, the WW2 veteran voted for Liberal which in those days meant labor.

With the exception of Parker, who I suspect voted Tory if he voted at all


(free lances are a conservative lot), and one or two of the rustics, who may have voted Liberal, they were Labour to a man, but not necessarily socialists as the term is understood now. Their socialism was of a simple kind: they had known the ’thirties, and they didn’t want it again: the dole queue, the street corner, the true poverty of that time. They wanted jobs, and security, and a better future for their children than they had had – and they got that, and were thankful for it. It was what they had fought for, over and beyond the pressing need of ensuring that Britain did not become a Nazi slave state.

Still, the Britain they see in their old age is hardly “the land fit forheroes” that they envisaged – if that land existed in their imaginations, it was probably a place where the pre-war values co-existed with decent wages and housing. It was a reasonable, perfectly possible dream, and for a time it existed, more or less. And then it changed, in the name of progress and improvement and enlightenment, which meant the destruction of much that they had fought for and held dear, and the betrayal of familiar things that they had loved. Some of them, to superficial minds, will seem terribly trivial, even ludicrously so – things like county names, and shillings and pence, and the King James Version, and yards and feet and inches – yet they matter to a nation.

They did not fight for a Britain which would


In the case of black, the black slavery issue was repeatedly used.

It has been both purposeful and effective on the part of the ideology of Liberalism to inject within the Black community a sense of victimization and then to disconnect it from its proud past through revisionism. This strategy has had a tremendously negative impact on race relations as White Americans are tasked to take on the responsibility for the actions of other White strangers, who died hundreds of years ago. In the meanwhile, this high bar of accountability is imposed on them by a class of Black Americans who refuse to take responsibility for their own actions within the last 24 hours. Because of the decades-long embrace of this ideology, many Black Americans are no longer ablebeen avoided if the transman had a real phalloplasty” and the hashtag “#realdicksmatter.” Salgado — who appeared on an episode of TLC’s I Am Jazz, providing a gender reassignment surgery consultation to series star Jazz Jennings — also used racist and ableist language in his captions, tagging a penile enhancement pic “#asiancock” and calling a trans patient in need of a phalloplasty implant an “implant cripple.”

Salgado’s secret Instagram account was discovered by an unnamed source and posted to a phalloplasty support group on Facebook on Feb. 17, The Trans Advocate reports. Before long, a number of emails and a 500-signature strong petition had been sent to Salgado, his bosses, and WPATH (the World Professional Association for Transgender Health) calling for accountability. The University of Miami Health System responded


of phosphates, which consists of a phosphorous atom bonded to four oxygen atoms. Phosphates can exist as the negatively charged phosphate ion, which is how they occur in minerals, or as organophosphates in which there are organic molecules attached to one, two, or three of the oxygen atoms. Phosphates can be found in ponds, lakes, and rivers.
Phosphorus moves within the environment mainly through soil, water, and living organisms. Plants absorb and incorporate phosphates from soil. The plants are consumed by herbivores, which are in turn consumed by carnivores. When the carnivores die, their decay returns phosphates to the soil and the process repeats. The movement of phosphorus through the environment is called the phosphorus cycle.
The constant addition of phosphates to the environment by humans conducting agricultural activities causesThe city of Canton and the Pro Football Hall of Fame are eyeing 2020 for a shot at hosting the NFL Draft.

The second phase of the renovation of Tom Benson Hall of Fame Stadium is on track to be finished by this summer. Ground was broken earlier this year on the Hall of Fame Village project, a $600 million complex adjacent to the stadium and Hall of Fame that’s considered the key to hosting big events such as the draft.

Two people with knowledge of the process told The Athletic that construction deadlines and other plans have been set with the idea that the Hall of Fame Village could host at least part of the draft in 2020. Hall of Fame officials submitted a formal bid in 2015 to


host in either 2019 or 2020, and Hall of Fame president David Baker told reporters then that he couldn’t guarantee that Canton would host.

“But we are going to fight for it,” Baker said.

Canton and the Hall of Fame have eyed 2019 as a potential date to host a round of NFL owners’ meetings, and that could serve as a way to show off the new facilities and gain momentum for a bid to host the draft. Per the Canton Repository, the Hall of Fame Village will eventually include a hotel, entertainment venue, up to 20,000 square feet of meeting space, retail space and a Center for Excellence that could cover as much as 134,000 square feet.

The NFL plans to continue to move the draft around, and Canton hasplenty of company in wanting to host the draft. Sports Business Journal reported recently that 23 cities plan to bid on the chance to host the 2018 draft, and that the NFL is examining the possibility of turning the draft into a multi-city event.

That Canton could be a co-host with other cities and also could share some draft hosting duties with Cleveland are among the ideas that ultimately could be pursued. According to the Associated Press, more than 100,000 attended draft-related activities last weekend in Philadelphia.

New York hosted the draft for 51 years before Chicago hosted in 2015, then again in 2016, before Philadelphia hosted this year. Among the cities showing interest in future drafts have been Green Bay, Indianapolis, Jacksonville and Frisco, Texas, home of Cowboys’ owner


the union had been ignoring West Campus). Recently “Peter” had started interacting with the Frengle-linked accounts, and held what seemed like a coordinated back-and-forth discussion about how Local 328’s dues are regressive and harmful to lower-wage workers. Peter Pumpkin Eater chose for his avatar a picture of iconic socialist union leader Eugene Debs, who ran for president in 1918 from a prison cell for opposing World War I.

The irony of all this was none of the trolling was well done. None of it was effective. None of it reached many people.” —Jesse Miller

When an Oregon AFSCME staff person called Forbes to tell him about the trolling, Forbes was surprisingly silent. He didn’t ask which member of the bargaining team they had fingered as the culprit. And while theGet breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.

A laboratory in the Chinese city of Wuhan has broken its silence to deny accusations that the novel coronavirus originated there.

Yuan Zhiming, vice director of the Wuhan Institute of Virology, told Chinese state broadcaster CGTN, that this was a "conspiracy theory" designed to "confuse" people. He also denied the virus was manmade.

It is the first time anyone from the institute has spoken publicly.

"As people who carry out viral study, we clearly know what kind of research is going on in the institute and how the institute manages viruses and samples. As we said early on, there is no way this virus came from us," said Yuan, a microbiology and biotechnology expert who trained


and worked in France, Denmark, and the U.S. for several years.

"We have a strict regulatory regime and code of conduct of research, so we are confident," he added.

Yuan said he understood why some people might link the outbreak with the $44-million laboratory, founded in 2014, because it was based in Wuhan. But that it was wrong to deliberately mislead people, he added.

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More than 156,000 people have died globally from coronavirus, according to a John Hopkins University tally on Saturday.

The origin of the virus has been a politically sensitive issue for China, with Trump and his officials angering the country by referring to it as the "China or Wuhanvirus."

Trump told reporters on Friday that "a lot of strange things are happening" regarding the origins of COVID-19 and that U.S. investigations were ongoing.

His comments came days after he announced that he would stop U.S. funding to the World Health Organization pending a review of its response to the initial coronavirus outbreak. He accused the WHO of "severely mismanaging and covering up" the coronavirus crisis, specifically the initial outbreak in China.

The American intelligence community is also examining whether the coronavirus accidentally emerged from the Wuhan research lab while it studied diseases in bats, current and former U.S. intelligence officials told NBC News this week.

Spy agencies have ruled out that the coronavirus was man-made, the officials said. But they added that scientists at the Wuhan lab were known to


A group representing about 190 land owners affected by the planned North-South electricity interconnector has secured leave from the High Court to challenge An Bord Pleanála’s permission for the project.

The detailed grounds of challenge include claims of failure by the board to properly address the potential impact of Brexit on the project and to consider environmental issues and the rights of affected landowners.

The case is against the Bord Pleanála, the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, and the State, with EirGrid plc as a notice party. EirGrid has described the planned interconnector as a critical piece of national infrastructure.

The judicial review is brought by the North East Pylon Pressure Campaign Ltd, with an address at Navan, Co Meath, and Maura Sheehy, a farmer, of Teltown Road, Donaghpatrick,was adjourned on Monday for two weeks.

All three cases concern the decision taken by An Bord Pleanála on December 19th, 2016, following a 12 day oral hearing, to grant EirGrid permission, subject to various conditions, to construct almost 300 pylons in Meath, Cavan and Monaghan.

Separate applications concerning the parts of the development located in Northern Ireland have yet to be decided; an oral hearing concerning those is due to resume in Armagh city on Wednesday.

Seeking leave on Monday for judicial review on behalf of the NEPPC and Ms Sheehy, Conleth Bradley SC said the case raised issues of administrative, constitutional and EU law.

Brexit impact

The board failed in its approval decision to properly address the impact on the rights of the affected landowners of erecting 300 pylons, including on


all items of the Japanese tool were relevant, and therefore no items were removed and no new items were developed. However, the panel members agreed that some items needed to be rephrased and reworded to be faithful to the original text as well as to incorporate more natural phrasing in Japanese. For example, two similar terms were used for 'ability' in the Japanese translation, so for consistency we ensured that only one single term was used throughout. Also, the panel decided that the term 'self-improvement' was more suitable than the term 'learning' in the context of the Japan Pediatric Association training handbook, which encourages paediatricians to actively improve and develop their professional skills throughout their working life. Panellists generated footnotes for five items of the tool to helpand validity of the instrument in different specialties and in a large sample is warranted in order to assess Japanese physicians in general. Peer assessment for hospital-based physicians has not been conducted systematically in Japan, although some hospitals, especially university-based hospitals, have advanced systems for assessing physicians' competencies to improve educational and professional development. Others are faced with an 'organisational culture' in which doctors feel uncomfortable assessing each other. Even consultants feel inadequate in assessing younger doctors. This unfamiliarity or resistance to peer assessment is another challenge to conducting the survey and may be a cultural difference as compared with those European and North American countries where MSF tools are being widely used. It is important for trainers, administrators and researchers to first make clear the purpose of


Russia 'concern' over Israel air strikes

RUSSIA has asked the west not to politicise the reported use of chemical weapons in Syria and says they are concerned at Israel's air strikes.

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RUSSIA has voiced concern at Israeli air strikes against Syrian targets, saying that they threatened to escalate tensions in neighbouring countries.

"We are looking into and analysing all the circumstances surrounding the especially concerning reports of the May 3 and May 5 Israeli air strikes," the foreign ministry said in a statement on Monday.

"A further escalation of the armed conflict severely raises the risk of creating centres of tension in Lebanon as well as in Syria, and also destabilising the still relatively stable situation in the region of the Israeli-Lebanese border," the statement said.

Israel is yet to officiallyconfirm that it has struck Syrian targets, including surface-to-air missiles that one source said were believed to have been delivered by Russia, a long-standing ally of the Syrian government.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said that Israel reserves the right to preserve its security at all times.

The Russian foreign ministry also urged the West not to politicise the reported use of chemical weapons in Syria, which officials suggest has now been carried out by both sides.

"We insistently urge to stop politicising this extremely serious question and whipping up an anti-Syrian atmosphere," the ministry statement said.

It added that Moscow shared UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's "deep concern" with how events were unfolding in the war-torn nations.


Reservoir systems, such as petroleum reservoirs, typically contain fluids such as water and a mixture of hydrocarbons such as oil and gas. To remove (“produce”) the hydrocarbons from the reservoir, different mechanisms can be utilized such as primary, secondary or tertiary recovery processes.
In a primary recovery process, hydrocarbons are displaced from a reservoir through the high natural differential pressure between the reservoir and the bottomhole pressure within a wellbore. The reservoir's energy and natural forces drive the hydrocarbons contained in the reservoir into the production well and up to the surface. Artificial lift systems, such as sucker rod pumps, electrical submersible pumps or gas-lift systems, are often implemented in the primary production stage to reduce the bottomhole pressure within the well. Such systems increase the differential pressure betweenJ.J. Watt Named 2017 Walter Payton NFL Man of the Year After Hurricane Harvey Relief Efforts

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J.J. Watt was named the Walter Payton NFL Man of the Year for his incredible fundraising efforts in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey.

The Houston Texans player, 25, accepted the prestigious award on Saturday, February 3. “This award is about the inherent good that lies within humanity. It’s about the city of Houston and its ability to overcome adversity at a time when it all seemed lost. It is about the hundreds of thousands of people from all over the country and all over the world who donated to a city they may have never been to, to people that they may never meet,” he said at the NFL honors event. “But they donated


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An indictment was filed Friday morning against two east Jerusalem residents accused of assisting the enemy in a time of war, contacting a foreign agent and purchasing materials for explosives.The Jerusalem District Attorney filed the indictment against alleged Hamas recruits Hazem Sandouqa, 22, and Fahdi Abu Qaian, 19, to the Jerusalem District Court.The two young men had plotted to carry out an attack on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, however they did not set a specific time for the strike, the indictment said.Among accusations, the indictment stated that Sandouqa had wanted to place an explosive device under a stage during a speech by the premier at the Jerusalem Payis Arena sports facility.According to the indictment, Sandouqa had also purchased, on multiple occasions,several kilograms of various chemical substances for the purpose of making explosives and explosive devices. According to allegations, he transported the materials to Hamas operatives running a laboratory in an apartment in the Arab neighborhood of Abu Dis, bordering Jerusalem.Furthermore, Abu Qaian, who was said to be in alignment with the Islamic State group, was accused of conspiring with Hamas to transport weapons between Israel and the West Bank and vise versa, "to carry out murderous attacks against Israeli citizens."The indictment further stated that Hamas had in recent months recruited Sandouqa and Abu Qaian from the Abu Dis campus of Al-Quds University. The two were pursued by the terrorist group due to their lack of criminal records and because security services were not monitoring them."They were aiding Ahmed


Gamal Moussa Azzam, a Hamas operative, to carry out actions aimed at advancing the cause of Hamas organizations and organized various terrorist attacks using explosive devices," the indictment charged.The two were part of Hamas operations in Abu Dis, as revealed two weeks ago by the Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency)."Ahmed Azzam was in constant contact with handlers in the Gaza Strip and trained to be an explosives expert who would develop suicide belts and explosive devices," the Shin Bet said. "In accordance with instructions given to Azzam, he recruited several other operatives who were studying at Abu Dis University, for the purpose of purchasing material for the manufacture of explosives, renting apartments, and serving as suicide bombers in Israel."The prosecution called for the arrest of the defendants untiladministrative staff. The aims of the Douglas employees include improvements to salary conditions, a guaranteed annual cost-of-living adjustment for all employees and a robust job evaluation process.

The Douglas RC workers make up the second group of hospital research centre employees to unionize in Montreal. In 2013, a majority of employees of the Centre hospitalier universitaire Sainte-Justine research centre decided to join PSAC-Quebec.

PSAC-Quebec has successfully negotiated considerable improvements to the salaries and other working conditions of the professional and support staff it represents in the research sector.


Friday, January 30, 2009

Hey, this is cute. Some US fifth grader read a Washington Times article on the Bolivian constitutional referendum and wrote a solid C+ paper for his social studies class on "Globalism vs. Ethnonationalism" which then somehow got posted on the wingnut VDARE.com website.

Oh wait, looks like this fifth grader is named "Patrick Buchanan". Change that teacher's mark to an F.

“According to the Chancellery, more than two hundred years of the civil rights struggles have passed in the United States, giving place to a new leader: Barack Hussein Obama, as the new president of the nation, and with him, he revives the fire of equality, liberty and justice of Martin Luther King.

“I feel that the new president of the United States has a grand opportunity toa positive new stage in relations between the United States and Bolivia.”

The Chance to Recast US-Bolivian RelationsAndean Information Network

In September 2008, Bolivian President Evo Morales expelled the U.S. ambassador, Philip Goldberg, stating that he had violated national sovereignty by interfering in Bolivian political affairs. The Bush administration denied any improper conduct and immediately expelled the Bolivian ambassador, Gustavo Guzman. Evidently as a reprisal for Ambassador Goldberg’s expulsion, the administration then declared (without basis) (1) that Morales’ government had “failed demonstrably” to honor its international drug control obligations and suspended Bolivia from eligibility for benefits under the Andean Trade Promotion and Drug Eradication Act (ATPDEA). Accusing members of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) of engaging in espionage and political interference, President Morales then expelled the DEA from Bolivia.

The


US Should Support Land Reform in BoliviaAndean Information Network

The Bolivian government has repeatedly promised the indigenous rural poor adequate access to land since 1953. Hope that this promise would be fulfilled swept Evo Morales to electoral victory in 2005, and his administration has moved forward with a serious agrarian reform agenda that other governments have lacked. While the reform process has encountered resistance from large landholders, the Morales administration has shown a willingness to make compromises on relevant constitutional issues and follow established legal processes. It is urgent that the United States support the land reform underway in Bolivia by asking large landholders to engage in legal processes, rather than violent opposition. The U.S. should provide aid to the Bolivian government for economic development in indigenous and smallmachines to unsuspecting farmers. But how could an army of tractors be used to advance their nefarious plot to destroy America? Oh shit...

DECEPTICONS!

It's perfect. From hidden locations across the western hemisphere these war machines are just waiting to strike at the Homeland and free their demon lord Megatron from Hoover Dam! Kiss your freedoms goodbye because we're finished.

Tuesday, January 27, 2009

We didn't think you guys were capable. After reading Otto's post on the Facebook group organized towards the assassination of Evo Morales, AP alerted Facebook who shut down the page and then wrote this story on it.

As AP notes, the group's organizer Hony Pierola is a huge asshole. Pierola: "in my honest opinion as a human I think it's not his [Evo Morales'] fault he's such an imbecile...


I hope he doesn't do stupid things and that Bolivia doesn't turn into a communist state," Since Pierola is a resident of Fairfax, VA is the Secret Service the proper authority to alert about his threats towards a Head of State?

Monday, January 26, 2009

USAID Bolivia accepted the "Golden Page" award for the "2008 Organization of the Year" from El Diario, La Paz's most conservative daily paper. USAID won "based on USAID’s commitment to helping the Andean nation." Acting director Peter Natiello: "'We at USAID deeply appreciate the award and commit ourselves to working even harder' in 2009 to help the Bolivian people"

It takes truly "patriotic" journalists to honor a foreign organization two years in a row which committed itself to overthrowing the nation's democratic constitutional government. But wea landslide.

Bolivia's corporate media is calling it at 57%, but their estimates are already moving up (currently claiming 60%). These numbers are playing like a repeat of the Recall Referendum in which Evo won 67% in the final count. Yes is sure to win 60+%. Put your bets down now on the final count. This all calls for a song:

Wondering how the vote is coming along? Well in the country's first voting station to close "Yes" won 100% of the eight votes cast, with one absentee. In case you were also wondering the referendum is being monitored by respected international observers. According to the OAS things are moving along with "regularity".

But this is not enough for Branko Marinkovic who claims indigenous rural voters are being intimidated into voting


for a constitution which expands their rights, along with massive voter fraud, and "Venezuelan military functionaries". It only fits then that Marinkovic's own brown shirt unionistas intimidated "Yes" supporters in Santa Cruz earlier today.

At a press conference yesterday Evo dressed down a CNN correspondent for the network's duplicitous coverage of Morales' presidency, specifically Bolivian-Iranian relations, to which the correspondent claimed ignorance of CNN's reporting. Maybe Evo is overreacting, I mean CNN basically only called him a nacrotrafficking Jihadi terrorist.

Saturday, January 24, 2009

That's right, it's the big day when Bolivians will go to polls and handily approve their new constitution after decades of demands, marches, organizing, and years overcoming the death throws of fascist attempts to subvert democracy. But not everyone is so happy with the Bolivian people gettingSpanish colonial rule than Marx"

CNN writes utter trash and peddles lies while introducing us to a new hack Peter Hakim from the Inter-American Dialogue Institute, claiming Evo is one "who use democracy to concentrate power." Except the new constitution decentralizes power to local authorities more than any previous Bolivian constitution.

The Financial Times also cites a Inter-American Dialogue hack, Michael Shifter who thinks the constitution will only bring more instability. Go ahead and trust that assessment from an article which unashamedly quotes fascist scum Branko Marinkovic in calling the new constitution "racist".

The Christian Science Monitor's resident idiot Sara Miller Llana managed to paste together an article with random nutters in Santa Cruz, the joke Human Rights Foundation, and some Bolivian academic hack Carlos Toranzo who claims the new constitution