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We finally have some follow-up reporting to an earlier New York Times report about Jared Kushner discussing some sweet Russian oligarch money to finance the Princeling's troubled "Kushner Tower" during the transition back in December. Jared Kushner had a previously undisclosed meeting with the CEO of 'the bank that financed Vladimir Putin's grandest ambitions':
Kushner's meeting with Gorkov, the struggling bank's CEO, came as Kushner was trying to find investors for a Fifth Avenue office building in Manhattan that is set to be heavily financed by Anbang Insurance Group, a firm with ties to the Chinese government.
White House spokeswoman Hope Hicks told The Times on Monday that the "Kushner Tower" project wasn't discussed during his meeting with Gorkov, and a White House official said in a statement that Kushner took the meetings as part of his role as "the official primary point of contact with foreign governments and officials.
"White House spokeswoman Hope Hicks told The Times on Monday that the "The meeting did not appear to break any rules, and Hicks said it was "not much of a conversation" so didn't warrant a disclosure to the rest of the Trump transition team.
So said Hope Hicks, who is no better than "Baghdad Sean" Spicer with the truth.
The Washington Post now reports, Explanations for Kushner's meeting with head of Kremlin-linked bank don't match up:
The White House and a Russian state-owned bank have very different explanations for why the bank's chief executive and Jared Kushner held a secret meeting during the presidential transition in December.
The bank maintained this week that the session was held as part of a new business strategy and was conducted with Kushner in his role as the head of his family's real estate business.
The White House says the meeting was unrelated to business and was one of many diplomatic encounters the soon-to-be presidential adviser was holding ahead of Donald Trump's inauguration.
The contradiction is deepening confusion over Kushner's interactions with the Russians as the president's son-in-law emerges as a key figure in the FBI's investigation into potential coordination between Moscow and the Trump team.
The discrepancy has thrust Vnesheconombank, known for advancing the strategic interests of Russian President Vladimir Putin and for its role in a past U.S. espionage case, into the center of the controversy enveloping the White House. And it has highlighted the role played by the bank's 48-year-old chief executive, Sergey Gorkov, a graduate of the academy of the Federal Security Service, or FSB, the domestic intelligence arm of the former Soviet KGB, who was appointed by Putin to the post less than a year before his encounter with Kushner.
Either account of the meeting could bring complications for a White House undergoing intensifying scrutiny from a special counsel and multiple congressional committees.
A diplomatic meeting would have provided the bank, which has been under U.S. sanctions since 2014, a chance to press for rolling back the penalties even as the Obama administration was weighing additional retaliations against Moscow for Russia's interference in the U.S. election.
A business meeting between an international development bank and a real estate executive, coming as Kushner's company had been seeking financing for its troubled $1.8 billion purchase of an office building on Fifth Avenue in New York, could raise questions about whether Kushner's personal financial interests were colliding with his impending role as a public official.
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The Kushner-Gorkov meeting came after Kushner met with the Russian ambassador to the United States, Sergey Kislyak, in early December. At the meeting, Kushner suggested establishing a secure communications line between Trump officials and the Kremlin at a Russian diplomatic facility, according to U.S. officials who reviewed intelligence reports describing Kislyak's account.
The bank and the White House have declined to provide the exact date or location of the Kushner-Gorkov meeting, which was first reported in March by the New York Times (above).
Hope Hicks is sticking with her original story, which is contradicted by Vnesheconombank:
White House spokeswoman Hope Hicks and Kushner's attorney said Kushner intends to share with investigators the details of his meeting with Gorkov.
"Mr. Kushner was acting in his capacity as a transition official and had many similar discussions with foreign representatives after the election," Hicks told The Post in a statement this week. "For example, he also started conversations with leaders from Saudi Arabia that led to the President's recent successful international trip."
The bank this week told The Post that it stood by a statement it issued in March that, as part of its new investment strategy, it had held meetings with "leading world financial institutions in Europe, Asia and America, as well as with the head of Kushner Companies."
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Officially, VEB is Russia's state economic development bank, set up to make domestic and foreign investments that will boost the Russian economy.
Practically speaking, according to experts, the bank functions as an arm of the Kremlin, boosting Putin's political priorities.
VEB has also been used to promote the Kremlin's strategic aims abroad, experts say, financing projects across the Eastern bloc.
"Basically, VEB operates like Putin's slush fund," said Anders Aslund, a senior fellow at the Atlantic Center and a Russia expert who follows the bank's activities. "It carries out major Kremlin operations that Putin does not want to do through the state budget."
Before the United States imposed sanctions, VEB sought to extend its international reach to draw more investment to Russia.
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Gorkov was named to head VEB in February 2016, after eight years as a senior manager at Russia's largest state-owned bank, Sberbank. While Gorkov was a deputy head of Sberbank, it was one of the sponsors of the 2013 Miss Universe Pageant in Moscow produced by Trump, who owned the pageant.
Gorkov's personal relationship with Putin is unclear.
VEB has played a role in Russian espionage efforts in the past, serving as the cover for a Russian operative convicted last year of spying in New York.
VEB, along with other Russian state-owned institutions, has suffered financially since 2014, when the United States imposed economic sanctions following Russia's incursion into Crimea.
Gorkov's meeting with Kushner took place at a time of major changes within the bank.
On Dec. 21, VEB announced that its proposed 2021 development strategy — which Gorkov dubbed "VEB 2.0" — had been approved by its supervisory board, which is chaired by Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev.
As a result of the sanctions, U.S. companies are prohibited from lending the bank money or buying equity in the institution, an attempt to drain resources from the Russian economy.
The sanctions would not prohibit Kushner from conducting a business negotiation with VEB or even prevent the Russian bank from investing in a U.S. firm.
Experts on Russia's security services said that it would have been unlikely for Gorkov to meet with Kushner and not discuss sanctions.
In late December, Gorkov told Russian state television that he hoped "the situation with sanctions will change for the better."
"Of all the people he could be talking to in a transition period where you've got lots of balls in the air, that you end up talking to a Russian banker who is under sanction and who is related to Putin and has a KGB background," Rep. Jackie Speier (D-CA) told ABC News. Lawmakers ask whether looming debt left Jared Kushner vulnerable to Russian influence:
"I think the question has to be asked, was this about you trying to get financing for your troubled real estate that you have in New York City?"
The timing of Kushner's December meeting with executives from VneshEconomBank, or VEB, at the suggestion of the Russian ambassador, has also raised concerns from government watchdog groups across the political spectrum.
Peter Schweizer, president of the Government Accountability Institute, (which was founded by Trump adviser Stephen Bannon and funded in part by a Trump mega-donor, Rebekah Mercer), said the meeting "had conflict of interest written all over it."
"You worry about a quid pro quo, you worry about Kushner getting some financial arrangement from a Russian financial institution, and you worry about White House policy being shaped in a way that benefits either those banks or Russia at large," Schweizer told ABC News. "That's the concern."
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Real estate analysts told ABC News that Jared Kushner's first major acquisition, a Fifth Avenue office tower signifying his family's move from New Jersey into Manhattan real estate, is shouldering a $1.3 billion in loans coming due in two years, and it is not bringing in sufficient rental income. An attempt by Kushner to broker a deal with a Chinese company to refinance and redevelop the building fell through shortly after the election.
Thomas Fink, a senior vice president at the firm Trepp, which analyzes commercial real estate, said the Kushner firm appears to be in a sizeable financial hole.
"I don't think they have a billion plus in the bank to just write a check to pay off the mortgage," Fink said. "Potentially they could sell the building, but you know, what will someone pay for it– that remains to be seen."
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Kushner was already facing questions about a December meeting he held with the Russian ambassador to the U.S. when reports surfaced in March about a second contact. The White House confirmed that Kushner met in December with Sergei Gorkov of VEB Bank, but the substance of the previously undisclosed meeting remains something of a mystery.
A senior White House official said that the conversation was "general and inconsequential" and that Kushner took the meeting as part of his campaign role of interfacing with foreign dignitaries. The bank, however, described the discussion to ABC News as "negotiations" in which "the parties discussed the business practices applied by foreign development banks, as well as most promising business lines and sectors."
Gorkov brushed off an ABC News reporter Thursday at an economic forum in St. Petersburg, Russia, refusing to answer further questions about the meeting.
Rep. Adam Schiff, the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, told ABC News his panel intends to question Kushner about the meeting in detail.
"This bank is of particular concern, because of course it's the subject of sanctions, but also because Gorkov, the head of this bank, comes out of a school essentially for Russian spies," Schiff told ABC News on Thursday. "He's someone that allegedly is very close to Putin, and I don't think if this was made at the suggestion as alleged by Ambassador Kislyak, I don't think the choice of Gorkov or this bank was any kind of coincidence."
After last week's revelations that Kushner suggested setting up a "back channel" at the Russian embassy using Russian secure communications to keep his communications with the Kremlin from being intercepted by U.S. intelligence agencies, 52 House Democrats demand Jared Kushner's security clearance be revoked to 'protect national security':
An increasing number of House Democrats are Russian to strip Jared Kushner's clearance in the name of "national security."
Fifty-two representatives on Thursday — up from just a handful in April — demanded the Trump son-in-law's security clearance be revoked over reports he tried to establish a secret backchannel with the Kremlin and failed to disclose meetings with Russian officials.
The White House should "immediately" revoke Kushner's clearance pending the conclusion of the FBI's Russia probe that has reportedly zeroed in on Kushner, the lawmakers wrote in a letter to White House counsel Don McGahn.
"Jared Kushner's actions are incompetent if not criminal, and he cannot be trusted," said Rep. Don Beyer (D-Va.), who led Thursday's letter co-signed by Reps. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.), Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.), Barbara Lee (D-Calif.), Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) and others.
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), the ranking House Intelligence Committee member, had also called for renewed scrutiny of Kushner's clearance in a Sunday interview with ABC's "This Week."
Let's be clear: if this were anyone other than a Trump family member, his clearance would have been revoked immediately and he would have been escorted out of the White House to an interview with the FBI. Trump is protecting his son-in-law at risk to our national security.


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The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu, Translated by Ken Liu
|Book Name:
|The Three-Body Problem
|written by Cixin Liu and translated by Ken Liu
|Tor Books (US) Head of Zeus (UK) Chongqing Publishing House (China)
|Hardcover / Paperback / Audiobook / Ebook
|Science Fiction
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|November 11, 2014 (US) July 2, 2015 (UK) January 1, 2008 (China)
The Three-Body Problem is about aliens. It's also about Revolutionary China, Communism, and human nature. There's a fair bit of philosophy thrown in, some well-explained math, and a computer game that I really wish was real. It's a masterpiece of science fiction, and the English-speaking world is lucky to have this brilliant translation. Cixin Liu is one of China's most beloved sci-fi authors, but his work was only translated recently, revealing it to a huge new audience and blowing English-speaking sci-fi lovers away.
I don't know much about recent Chinese history, something that I hadn't even realized until I read this book. Although it doesn't require you to know the context behind much of what happens, and Ken Liu includes helpful footnotes for the ignorant (like me), it would be helpful to know the basics of China's Revolution. Things like "struggle sessions," where dissenting academics and other intellectuals are tortured and shamed publicly sound absurd…but they really happened. The first important turning point in the book comes only a few pages in, when a physicist dies, beaten to death by four fourteen-year-old girls during a struggle session. His daughter Ye Wenjie watches, and it changes the world forever.
The book follows a few different storylines. Ye Wenjie remains a central figure as we watch her grow up in the midst of the Revolution, trying to lay low among other youths sent to the country. She fails, but instead of going the way of her father, she gets recruited by the mysterious Red Coast program because of her knowledge of astrophysics. At the same time, over forty years later, we follow the story of Wang Miao, a researcher developing nanomaterial when out of the blue he gets a visit from the Army, begging him to attend a meeting at the Battle Command Center. He is baffled, because China is not at war.
Cixin Liu skillfully weaves together the story of Wang Miao as he discovers a computer game called "Three Body," and Ye Wenjie, forty years earlier, as she works at the Red Coast Base. Instead of continuing his comfortable work with nanomaterials, Wang Miao finds himself embroiled in a confusing morass of secret societies and a nagging mathematical problem. Is it even possible to solve the three body problem? What does the computer game he becomes addicted to have to do with anything? And why do scientists keep committing suicide?
It's a perfect blend of detective story, first contact, alien invasion, and disenchantment. It simultaneously exalts science and dismisses it entirely. The first half of the book goes deep into the psychologies of characters, particularly Ye Wenjie. Her personality was forged in China's Revolution and astrophysics, and the examination of her inner landscape is beautiful. Liu's descriptions are striking in their clarity. If Wenjie feels despair he tells you directly. Then he spends a few elegantly crafted sentences detailing how her despair affects her and her surroundings, perhaps jumps several years ahead to make a prediction of how it would affect the world in years to come…and then he goes on with the story. It's an effective technique for simultaneously letting the reader sink deep into a character's inner struggles while still making her seem untouchable, foreign, somehow other.
The second half deals a lot more directly with the aliens, though again, we see them from a distance. As with Ye Wenjie's internal landscape, the external world of the aliens appears secondhand, through the eyes of Wang Miao looking at an anthropomorphized projection of what they and their society might be like. It reinforces the feeling of otherness that winds through the entire book. It's a story told at the edge of science and fiction, about characters isolated from normal society by their brilliance and unusual ways of thinking.
As a Western reader accustomed to Western modes of storytelling, this style was effective. I entered my reading experience off balance because characters reacted in ways that I would never expect. I'm not familiar enough with Chinese history and culture to even make a guess at the worldview of a scientist who survived the Revolution. Every sentence was a surprise, every twist caught me off-guard. The deliberate exploration of emotional and physical distance in the text magnified this effect, and forced me to pay attention to what I was reading.
This was a good thing, because some of the ideas discussed took a lot of thought. The Three-Body Problem lands comfortably in the realm of "hard sci-fi," in that it deals with a lot of real and close-to-real science and mathematics. The three-body problem at the heart of the book is a real problem in orbital mechanics. Multiple mathematicians and scientists have proposed solutions over the years, many of which make an appearance in the book. I doubt any of those people thought through the implications of the three-body problem as applied to an alien civilization, however. For that we needed Cixin Liu.
I've rarely enjoyed a book about aliens as much as I loved this one. It took some brainpower to read, some serious creativity to write, and a willingness to accept that the reactions of a completely different society would be different from my own. I'm not talking about the aliens. A friend who read The Three-Body Problem told me that his favourite thing about it was how he had to constantly put his expectations aside. It's not a Western book, and it doesn't read like one. It is brilliant, innovative, fascinating, inventive, fun. It's a book to read with your eyes open.

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Here we are, reading to kick off summer and I still have a few books left on my winter reading list to get through. Embarrassing, I know. They're more serious books, so I think I'll put them aside for now. The summer reading list for moms is packed with lighthearted and fun reads – perfect for beach days and playground reading! Even though I have slacked a bit in posting my #15BooksIn2015 on Instagram, I'm still reading!
Summer Reading List for Moms
Nothing says summer like relaxing on the beach with a funny, mostly true memoir. If you love laughing and reading irreverent writing – Let's Pretend This Never Happened is a must read! Jenny Lawson – also know as The Bloggess – will have you crying in minutes! Be on the lookout for Jenny's second memoir, Furiously Happy this September.
Another memoir that I'm looking forward to finishing is Glitter and Glue. It's Kelly Corrigan's story of how she grew into the woman she is today. It's about travel; relationships; and growing as a person. It's about who you look up to and why, and how that changes over time.
I first read The Help a few years ago and I can't wait to re-read it this summer. Some stories need to be told, and although this book is a work of fiction, it reads like a true story. It's someone's story. A must read for everyone and anyone.
Do you ever wonder what your dog is thinking? Well, we don't have a dog (we have a cat), but I often wonder what my friend's dogs are thinking! In the book, The Art of Racing in the Rain, we learn just that. Enzo (that's the dog) is a great narrator, for a dog. This is perfect, light summer reading!
Tell me, what's on your summer reading list?


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by Pastor Bill Randles
The recent shockwaves of public frustration, coming out of town hall meetings across the nation, have stunned both the media and elected representatives from both parties. It has become increasingly obvious that they don't know what's going on. The real problem is more than mere politics, and goes much deeper than the healthcare issue. The real problem is spiritual.
This is a conflict between the traditional American vision of personal responsibility, private property, productivity, individualism, and self-government, as opposed to the new vision -"change"- i.e.: collectivism, cradle to grave government "compassion", equality of outcomes, leadership by an elite anointed class, and yes the "S" word - (Socialism).
One could almost liken it to a clash of two revolutions, the American Revolution and its Judeo Christian ideals, and the failed promise of the Atheistic French Revolution, of "liberty, equality, and brotherhood".
The frustration and rage of the once "silent majority", (one eloquent protestor told Arlen Specter that he had "awakened a sleeping giant"), comes out of the realization by many that after more than forty years, due to the constant undermining of our institutions and the incremental implementation of Socialistic agenda, we are losing our merit based, productive, and responsibility oriented society. The vicious and disconnected reactions by our political and media elites, ranging from ignoring them outright, to impugning their motives and accusing them of being a phony grassroots movement - "astroturfers" - underscores the suspicion of many, that not only do they "not get it", but that they refuse to "get it " in any way.
The impasse is almost unbreachable, because this is the clash of two different worlds. How could the play by the rules, pay your own way, responsible and productive America, even begin to understand the world of the Alinsky community organizers, Acorn and other agitators, union bosses and pay to play politicians?
This problem cannot be reduced to simplistics such as Republicans versus Democrats. In fact the Republican Party itself is largely silent, and perhaps as many of those expressing outrage are Democrats as well as Republicans or Independents. The Republican Party sold its soul to the leftist consensus long ago, and most conservatives know this.
By saying it is a spiritual problem I am not saying that this is about Christians versus the lions. Of course not all who object to the collectivist coup of our nation are Christians. People of many faiths and even some of no faith are feeling the "sinking feeling" that we have been losing this country at an accelerating pace. But it is the Judeo Christian vision of our nation that is being usurped.
It is spiritual on the level that those who drink deeply of the original vision of the Founders, of a self-governing nation, based upon personal responsibility, merit, respect for private property, and individualism are partaking of a Christian vision of life. Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's. God is God, not government.
Those who have mainlined on the vision of the left, of an all-sufficient government, cradle to grave care, collectivism, larger than life, personality cult leadership, equality of all outcomes, etc., whatever faith they may profess, are imbibing an Atheistic vision of "the good". There is no God, but Government. How can there be any reconciliation between the two?
Ours is a torn nation, a house divided cannot stand. I conclude with this simple promise from the God of the Bible,
"If My people who are called by My name will humble themselves and bow down to Me, then will I hear from heaven and heal the land."(2 Chronicles 7:14)
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Interior Design Services in Hermanus
Hermanus has become a beautiful, vibrant destination for tourists from around the world. The town itself reflects a wonderful combination of village charm and modern aesthetics that delight everyone who visits. With so many people coming to Hermanus, it's important for those running guest houses, restaurants, shops and places of interest to ensure that they match up to or exceed expectations. This is where Hermanus interior design companies come into play.
The key to good interior design is to pick a starting point and extrapolate that into the rest of the building. A colour scheme or a theme is a great way to begin as these will inform all of your design choices. In a place like Hermanus, there is so much inspiration available everywhere you look.
The history of the town and the Overberg region can provide you with plenty of ideas for decorating and designing. Hermanus began life as a small fishing village where a simple way of life was enjoyed by all residents. Whether your style is quaint, classic or modern, this proud history can easily inform the designs and colours that you incorporate in your interior.
Nature is another key reason why people love to visit the Overberg region and Hermanus. The incredible mountains covered in fynbos can provide endless inspiration for design. Beautiful, earthy tones combined with stunning colours of the indigenous plants will make any home, restaurant or shop feel inviting. Your building will also blend nicely with the surroundings.
Another great source of inspiration can be the ocean itself. No one can forget that the town is internationally famous for offering the best land-based whale watching experience there is. The beaches are also stunning, world-class and great to visit at any time of year. Bringing in the beach as part of your interior design inspiration doesn't mean that you have to turn your building into a beach house, along with every other building in the town. There are ways to feel like you're next to the ocean without being too literal about it. However, acknowledging the beach in your design, especially if your property is open to tourists, will give it an extra special feel that visitors will love.
Whatever your design inspiration, there are experts operating in the Overberg region who can help you bring it to life. Check out the Hermanus interior design companies to help you get the look and feel that you want.


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This polish is bloody good. It's one of Barry M's Gelly Hi-Shine's in Grapefruit and I can't get enough of it. Isn't it just the perfect summer shade?! It is also long-wearing, chip resistant and glossy to boot! This really is true love folks! I've been reapplying it for about 2 weeks now and for a nail polish junkie like me, that is extremely rare!
I have applied a top coat in the photo above but last week I was being lazy and didn't bother and it still lasted about 3 days chip-free! Although to achieve that real mirror shine I would recommend the use of a top coat. My favourite at the moment is the Eye Candy Gel Effect top coat.
The polish will set you back a pleasantly low £3.99 and can be found here.
What's on your nails at the moment?
Thanks for reading!
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Wind Speed Measurement
Application: High Rise and Skyscraper Window Cleaning
Customer Challenge
High wind speeds are a major safety risk to high rise windows and building cleaners who are elevated to an average building height of 136m in London alone. Similarly, the machinery and equipment used to assist them in reaching these great heights are put under an enormous amount of strain increasing the need for maintenance.
Strict safety procedures and safety equipment are essential to reduce the risk of potentially fatal outcomes.
Hanwell Solution
Brand: Hanwell Pro
Description: Bespoke Wind speed monitoring and alarm kit
How does the system assist with this challenge?
A wind speed sensor with a 0-10 volt output is attached to a Hanwell Pro transmitter. When the wind speed exceeds a predetermined level a signal is sent to the receiver mounted in the workers platform alerting them that it is now unsafe to continue. The system is quick and easy to install and transmits to a locally used laptop for immediate access to cloud-based software.
At Hanwell Solutions we pride ourselves on our ability to accurately interpret our customers needs and produce a cost-effective solution that can not only eliminate or assist them now, but that can grow and change in the future.
Wind Speed Measurement Results
Working alongside a reputable company, we firstly took time to understand the requirements set out by our client and the specific problems they faced and designed and presented a wind speed measurement system that fitted their initial and strict brief.
"We are happy with the level of knowledge and thought that went into our specific problem and now have a system and process in place that we plan to roll out across a few similar applications which we hope to expand to include wind direction in the near future." – Pete
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The purpose of this section of the webpage is manifold: to help Bear Boats find owners who can sustain them in the manner to which they are deserving; to help current owners obtain a sense of the marketplace, to help prospective owners locate and connect with a deserving boat, and to help current owners who need to end their relationship with their boat. This webpage and this section of the webpage is NOT a professional/commercial brokerage. Boats listed herein are submitted by sellers and accumulated from a variety of boat publications, other periodicals, and word of mouth. In order to establish and sustain marketplace knowledge we will not remove a boat once we learn that it has been sold. Rather, we will mark it "sold". At some future date, after our data and experience with this section has increased it is quite probable that we will develop a more comprehensive means of listing, recording, and retaining the data about such transactions. For now (as of 09/09/99) we will just list them, where we found them, and note it when we learn it sold. We cannot/will not be liable for mistakes, errors etc.
Godiva is looking for a new owner ASAP because it has a lien on it and the current owner cannot keep it. Owner is very interested in it going to someone who will enjoy and love it as much as he did. Currently sits in slip 7 on O dock but is due to be auctioned in Dec or Jan.
Please contact current owner Mynor Ohlinger at 510 528 2114 or his daughter Zora at 510 292 7253
Brandy is in a shaded area next to the shop on a steel cradle, which could be used in moving
on a flatbed. It has been discussed how to move Brandy with Jerry and been agreed it is feasable to jack up with
2 ea 4 x 10 beams and 4 ea 2-5 ton jacks and back a heavy duty trailer under it, lower and then reverse process at your work location.
Jerry would allow the steel cradle to be sold with the Bear, which would make the process feasible.
The yard also has some talented folks also who could help get the boat back in shape working with a new owner on site.
Hull is very fair, with what appears to be a few split frames in the rear area planking appears to be SiBronze fastened. yard has attempted to keep it covered and salted/pickled.
Need cockpit and cabin rebuild as well as transom. Has been in the yard for 5+ years
Mast is broken and rudder and tiller missing from when it was salvaged.
The current owner Jerry can be reached here:
Jerry Ritchie
Santa Cruz, CA
831- 588-5027
Classic wooden Bear Class Sloop, number #68. The second to last of the class built, finished in 1975. Class champion in 2011.
Kept in Berkeley on O-dock right next to Berkeley Yacht Club, slip is transferable. There are 3 other Bears on the dock right next door.
There is an active group of Bear owners that races in CBRA, MMBA, and invitationals.
The hull is built of white oak frames with douglas fir planking.Some great images of Kodiak can be found here:
2012 WBRA race finish for season championship 1
2012 WBRA race finish for season championship 2
2012 WBRA race finish for season championship 3
Classic wooden Bear Class Sloop, number #14. Built in 1940, she is one of the original Nunes Bears built in Sausalito.
#14 is a unique with an inboard diesel engine, great for day or after work sailing.
There is an active group of Bear owners that races a few times a year. She is ready to sail, bright work is well maintained and all vintage bronze hardware.
The hull is built of white oak frames with douglas fir planking.
She is due for a haul out and paint.
Major refit in 2002 with new keel bolts, fastenings, sistering of frames.
She has a 3/4 cover that keeps the bright work nice.
Sails in good/fair condition. jib, main and 2 spinnakers.
Whisker pole.
Inboard 1gm10 Yanmar diesel engine, runs well, new impeller.
Newly rewired 12v electrical system with charger.
Handheld VHF radio.
Interior seat cushions.
Registration up to date and insured.
Photos are 2 years old.
Last photo was after a haul out with fresh paint.
Price negotiable for the right buyer.
1948 BEAR, 23 feet;
Sails: Main, jib, spinnaker, two sets (one racing set);
Motor: 2016 Yamaha, 6 hp; Construction: wood built in Sausalito by Nunes Brothers;
Condition: good, needs to be painted soon, 4 years since last, needs some TLC varnish work, but very sailable, needs motor bracket but motor is new;
Reason for selling: too many toys; Owner Note: this sailboat was built for the SF Bay and handles the bay/wind like a charm, boat set up for racing, boat has many first place trophies.
(Note: motor not for sale separately)


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War & regime change drums beating for Iran: Part II (brief, w/ dark blue ink, smile)
Part I is here, 'As the drumbeats for war on Iran grow more thunderous, 'education is key', some history of Iran by way of a Twitter storify by Nyusha (an orphan of the revolution). It's longish, and as I'd resized Tweets for the Café, for c99ers, I'd reckoned you could simply click in to read at your leisure without reading the much larger Tweets there, and having to go scrollingsrollingscrolling down. She's dug up fantastic archival photos, artwork, and a lot of history that was quite new to me.
The most recent drumming comes from Secretary of Bombast Mike Pompeo: 'US vows 'strongest sanctions in history' on Iran, will 'crush' terror proxies; 'This is just the beginning': Laying out strategy after exiting nuke deal, Pompeo says Iran must come clean about nuclear program, stop threatening Israel, leave Syria, halt terror', timesofisrael.com, May 21
"Sanctions are going back in full effect, and new ones are coming," he warned further. "The Iranian regime should know this is just the beginning."
While certain restrictions on Iran's nuclear program expire under the deal, including its ability to enrich uranium, the prohibition on Iran's building a nuclear weapon is permanent. Former Obama officials who negotiated the pact object to the assertion that the JCPOA enables Tehran to go fully nuclear once those portions of the agreement sunset.
Trump's newly installed top diplomat also hinted at the possibility of military action should Iranian leaders reconstitute their nuclear program. [the Times' perception, fwiw, and likely, given the level of the Head Diplomat's uber-bellicosity…a lot]
"If they restart their nuclear program, they will have big problems, bigger problems than they've ever had before," he said. Pompeo also threatened to "crush" Iran's terrorist proxies around the world."
Pompeo declared these to be the conditions under which his boss's administration would make a firm deal with Iran too be ratified by Congress, instead of rewriting a new JCPOA:
'We will ensure freedom of navigation on the waters in the region, we will work to prevent and counteract any Iranian malign cyber activity, track down Iranian operatives and their Hezbollah proxies operating around the world and crush them, never allowing Iran cart blanche to dominate the Middle East.
Iran will come clean about all of its past nuclear work, completely stop its uranium enrichment, provide the International Atomic Energy Agency unqualified access to all sites throughout the country, halt its ballistic missile development and testing, close its heavy water reactor (already completed in 2016), end its support for Middle East terrorist groups and respect the sovereignty of the Iraqi government; remove all its troops from Syria, and end its threatening behavior against its neighbors including [pot, kettle leaps to mind]…Israel, as "Our steadfast ally Israel has asserted its sovereign right of self-defense in the Golan Heights, a stance the US will continue to unequivocally support."
Now the regime-change/putsch drumming is this: if Iran agrees to 'the let's-make-a-deal', all sanctions will be lifted, we'd help modernize their economic system into the international system, (petro-dollars only? Let us 'invest' in your oil below market value?), which would produce better outcomes for the Iranian people, who have suffered under the oppression of Iran's tyrannical, theocratic leaders.
"Pompeo also spoke directly to the citizens of Iran, distinguishing them from the regime: "Today, we ask the Iranian people: Is this what you want your country to be known for? For being a co-conspirator with Hezbollah, Hamas, the Taliban, and Al Qaeda?" he asked. "The United States believes you deserve better."
Subtext: USAID and the NED CIA front-groups will be even busier fomenting protests for the government to be brought down. Oh, yeah, and the treasury department will kick the asses of any European companies who do bidness with the evil theocracy.
According to RT, some reactions to Pompeo the Pugilist's rant:
"Crucially, there's little doubt that the Trump administration understands Iran would outright reject most, if not all, of the listed demands, which brings the purpose of the entire list into question.
"Secretary Pompeo's speech has not demonstrated how walking away from the JCPOA has made or will make the region safer from the threat of nuclear proliferation, or how it puts us in a better position to influence Iran's conduct in areas outside the scope of JCPOA. There is no alternative to the JCPOA," EU foreign policy chief, Federica Mogherini, said Monday commenting on Pompeo's list. Others said the US list was outright destined to fail – on purpose."
"I think ultimatum is the right word… When you deliver an ultimatum, its purpose is to have it rejected," former US diplomat Jim Jatras told RT. "There are people in the Trump administration, who want the regime change in Iran – it's that simple, and they [want] Iran to reject their terms."
Jatras believes it's too early to tell at this stage if US threats against Iran are merely "noise" and pressure tactics like the one used against North Korea, but he says even that pressure could backfire and serve as a positive effect for Tehran by "forcing the Europeans to pull even farther away from the US than they have." The worst case scenario, he says, is Washington proceeding with a unilateral military action aimed at regime change.
"As you can imagine, Iran will not agree to any of Washington's demands," Hamed Mousavi, professor of political science at the University of Tehran, told RT. "It is Iran that should be asking the US why it has not fulfilled its side of the agreement when Iran has fully complied with its obligations under the nuclear deal. Why should Iran negotiate with an administration that is not abiding by an international agreement that is the result of years of intense diplomacy?"
Not to mention the fact that Syria had invited Iran to help Syria fight IS, and not even Putin can demand that Iran vacate Syria, as according to the Kremlin's read-out he'd announced, as per the Times of Israel coverage. Also worth noting is that the IAEA has repeatedly stated that Iran is in full compliance with the JCPOA, begging the question: who else would be in charge of deciding if Iran were complying with US demands? Do you detect the scent of possible Iranian dissident cousins of Curveball testilying?
Now Gareth Porter is still asking 'Was There Ever an Iranian Nuclear Weapons Program? A review of the evidence points to Israeli and MEK disinformation, not an open-and-shut case, informationclearinghouse, May 15, 2018
"As I detail in my investigative history of the Iran nuclear issue the Obama administration itself fell for a false narrative about a secret Iranian nuclear weapons program allegedly in operation from 2001 to 2003. After Netanyahu's April 30 show, former secretary of state John Kerry tweeted: "Every detail PM Netanyahu presented yesterday was every reason the world came together to apply years of sanctions and negotiate the Iran nuclear agreement—because the threat was real and had to be stopped."
"In mid-2004, the CIA acquired a massive set of documents that were said to have come from a secret Iranian nuclear weapons research program. Bush administration officials leaked a sensational story to selected news outlets about the intelligence find, describing to the New York Times what that newspaper described as Iranian drawings "trying to develop a compact warhead to fit atop its Shahab missile." The same story of Iran mating a nuclear weapon to its longer-range ballistic missile was given to the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal.
But both the real provenance of the apparently incriminating documents and specific details about the documents themselves indicate that they are fraudulent. A major clue about the papers' true origins was made public in November 2004, when Karsten Voigt, the coordinator for German-North American cooperation in the German Foreign Office, was quoted by the Wall Street Journal warning that the documents had been provided by "an Iranian dissident group," and that the United States and Europe "shouldn't let their Iran policy be influenced by single-source headlines."
Yeah, that sounds only too familiar, doesn't it?
Porter was finally able to interview Karsten Voight in 2013, three years after he'd retired from the foreign office. What Voight said is a lollapalooza of the epic perfidy, disinformation, neglected warnings of such to Colin Powell, George Tenet and others, including this:
"But it wasn't just the provenance of the MEK documents that was suspect. Their authenticity was never clearly established by the CIA, which could not rule out the possibility of falsification, according to the Washington Post. Mohamed ElBaradei, then director-general of the IAEA, was put under heavy political pressure by a U.S.-led coalition to publish a report endorsing those documents as evidence against Iran. But Elbaradei responded to the pressure by declaring in an October 2009 interview, "The IAEA is not making any judgment at all whether Iran even had weaponization studies before because there is a major question of authenticity of the documents."
It's seriously worth bookmarking, then reading as one can find the time. Post-Albaradei, the choice of the more…pliable, shall we say…(Gareth Porter 2012 at the link) Yukia Amano to head the IAEA was brilliant.
There are more Parts to come as there's a lot more to learn and assess, but I'm trying to keep it simple.
Morning update: 'Rouhani on Pompeo: We do not accept that a spy chief decides for others', alarabiya.net, May 22
""Who are you to decide for Iran and the world?" Rouhani said in a statement carried by multiple Iranian news agencies. "The world today does not accept that the United States decides for the world. Countries have their independence," he added."
(cross-posted from Café Babylon)
"They want Iran to reject the terms".
One of the top neocon think tanks, the Brookings Institute, issued a paper called "Which Path to Persia?: Options for a New American Strategy Toward Iran"
"...any military operation against Iran will likely be very unpopular around the world and require the proper international context—both to ensure the logistical support the operation would require and to minimize the blowback from it.
The paper then lays out how the US could appear to the world as a peacemaker and depict Iran's betrayal of a "very good deal" as the pretext for an otherwise reluctant US military response (emphasis added):
The best way to minimize international opprobrium and maximize support (however, grudging or covert) is to strike only when there is a widespread conviction that the Iranians were given but then rejected a superb offer—one so good that only a regime determined to acquire nuclear weapons and acquire them for the wrong reasons would turn it down. Under those circumstances, the United States (or Israel) could portray its operations as taken in sorrow, not anger, and at least some in the international community would conclude that the Iranians "brought it on themselves" by refusing a very good deal."
That's obviously what this is all about. It's certainly not about nukes or a "bad deal" as Gareth Porter and others have explained.
Whether or not Iran has tried to build nukes,
which they've evidently not come close, should be irrelevant considering who we're talking about here as the two primary instigators, the U.S., with over 5000 nukes and the only country to use them and threaten continually to use them, and Israel, which has anywhere from 200-500 and refuses to acknowledge it or sign the NPT. Neither country has any legal or moral right to make these demands of Iran. Anyone who believes otherwise is fully propagandized. I'm not really sure why Iran agreed to the deal in the first place although different factions disagreed on that. I mean, I know why they did it, but they had to have known it would come to this now.
So that alone shows the Iran "deal" was never about nukes, it was always just a step in the regime change game.
And we should remind that Iran has always been on the table, remember Wes Clark's information about the seven countries in five years, with "finishing up with Iran".
Ya, and evidently the E.U, Germany, France, etc., are going to fold on opposing Trump on this. Who would have guessed.
I would have guessed - but
It's not over until the fat lady sings.
Ya, and evidently the E.U, Germany, France, etc., are going to fold on opposing Trump on this. Who would have guessed.
Meanwhile I need some not so fat ladies from the underground singing to keep my sanity.
Love is all we have to give.
Dunno about the folding of Europe,
which would be in nobody's interest, apart from the short-term for America's MIC and psychopathic PTB.
This sort of thing makes it obvious that the world must stand strong against the PTB.
All emphasis mine:
'Powerful and ready': Trump touts military strength after cancelling Kim summit
Published time: 24 May, 2018 16:00
Edited time: 24 May, 2018 16:32
After cancelling a long-awaited summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, President Donald Trump reverted to his earlier rhetoric, saying that the US military is "more ready than...ever before," Kim does something 'foolish.'
Delivering remarks on the cancellation Thursday, Trump chose to spend much of his time touting his military strength.
"Our military, which is by far the most powerful anywhere in the world," he said, "is ready if necessary," should Kim react badly to the cancellation. Trump also announced that South Korea and Japan were onboard and ready to shoulder some of the cost of military operations, should the need arise.
Trump called the latest development "setback," yet he expressed hope for the positive outcome. In his usual manner, he said that that the summit still may happen.
"If and when Kim Jong Un chooses to engage in constructive dialog, I am waiting," said Trump. Failing that, he warned Kim against "foolish and reckless" acts.
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Weird, when I went to copy the notification URL of the below article, it immediately changed to that of one I'd looked at previously; thought that I must have somehow accidentally clicked wrong, as I'd clicked just to get the option to copy highlight, but 'undo' kept going back to other previous URLs I'd visited, rather than to the original URL and nothing shows when I try to look it up, so, unless my mouse has suddenly become squeaky, I'm guessing that since the live-stream finished, this one has been deleted and that a new page may soon become available when searched under this title?
Putin & Macron speak to press as French leader comes to Russia for 'demanding dialogue' (WATCH LIVE)
Published time: 24 May, 2018 18:21
The presidents of Russia and France are holding a joint media conference in St. Petersburg, where Emmanuel Macron arrived on Thursday. Vladimir Putin visited Paris last year.
France and Russia currently find themselves on the same side over US withdrawal from a multilateral agreement with Iran, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JPOA), which both Moscow and Paris want to preserve. But there are also many points of conflict between the two and Macron didn't pull punches in the public during Putin's visit to France.
Macron's visit coincides with Russia's largest business forum, the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF), which is held annually in the northern city that used to be the country's capital.
(Mouse worked fine on copying the URL here...)
France signs contracts with Russia to invest 1bn euro
Published time: 24 May, 2018 18:36
Then there's this:
France recognizes Russia's new role in international relations, including in Middle East - Macron
Published time: 24 May, 2018 18:21
Edited time: 24 May, 2018 19:39
France recognizes Russia's new role in international relations, including in the Middle East, said President Emmanuel Macron at a joint media conference with Russia's Vladimir Putin in St. Petersburg.
Macron's visit coincides with Russia's largest business forum, the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF), which is held annually in the northern city that used to be the country's capital.
France and Russia currently find themselves on the same side over US withdrawal from a multilateral agreement with Iran, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JPOA), which both Moscow and Paris want to preserve. But there are also many points of conflict between the two and Macron didn't pull punches in the public during Putin's visit to France.
This reads like an Onion piece and I hope that the ...?froisappinstalled=1... at the end of the URL refers to the notifications system...
Fragile: Pentagon report raises alarm that US industry can't support war for much longer
Published time: 23 May, 2018 20:51
Edited time: 24 May, 2018 08:20
Between globalization and nearly 20 years of constant warfare, the industrial part of the US military-industrial complex is not looking so good, putting future wars at risk, according to a new Pentagon report.
The Annual Industrial Capabilities report, published by the Pentagon's Office of Manufacturing and Industrial Base Policy, warns that reliance on foreign-sourced materials combined with "twenty years of intermittent conflict," have put a strain on US manufacturers of weapons, parts and ammunition.
"While US national defense demands for materials are seldom unmet, there exist risks to their supply now and risks are anticipated in the foreseeable future," the report says, describing the two broad trends as the scarcity of materials used in new technologies and the US' growing reliance on foreign supply sources.
Both US economic security and national defense are at risk due to "high US import reliance on foreign countries who may become adversaries and cut off peacetime supply during future conflicts," the report says.
One example is Dechlorane, a flame retardant used in insulation on all US missile systems. The sole source of the material is the Belgian company Occidental Chemical. Worse yet, the precursor to make Dechlorane used to come from China, but is no longer available, "so there is now no source for Dechlorane in the world."
US fighter jets rely on Sidewinder and AMRAAM air-to-air missiles to dominate the skies, but what happens when they run out? The sole source of dimeryl diisocyanate, a key ingredient in the missiles' propellant, has informed the Pentagon that it will be leaving the business soon, leaving the US with "no qualified source," according to the report.
One of the biggest problems noted by the Pentagon is the lack of diversity in the industrial base. About 97 percent of the DoD funds for missile and munitions procurement goes to just two companies, Raytheon and Lockheed Martin. Almost all second- and third-tier suppliers of munitions components, 98 percent in both instances, are sole sources.
Of particular concern to the report's authors were thermal batteries, solid rocket motors (SRM), fuzes and small turbine engines, which all rely on just one or two manufacturers.
President Donald Trump has raised the Pentagon's funding in order to rebuild the "depleted" military and launched a crusade to revive US manufacturing, but that may not be enough.
"We may be too far down the path to resurrect an authentic munitions industrial base," Mackenzie Eaglen of the American Enterprise Institute told Defense News, commenting on the report. "So then the question becomes: Now what?"
With the US capability to produce vital parts and materials for weapons systems and ammunition dwindling, Washington is facing the risk that "a conflict with China could rely on Chinese-made parts," Defense News noted.
Munitions aren't the only problem either. Maintenance has been hit just as hard by the years of "overuse and underfunding" of industrial infrastructure, according to the report. US naval shipyards, for example, have not been able to meet the maintenance needs, resulting in compounding problems.
The neglect has been so severe that "in fiscal years 2000 through 2016, inadequate facilities and equipment led to maintenance delays that contributed in part to more than 1,300 lost operational days… for aircraft carriers and 12,500 lost operational days for submarines."
A January report by the Pentagon's director of operations and testing noted that half of the F-35 stealth fighter fleet is not mission capable due to supply and maintenance problems. Lockheed Martin's futuristic fighter has a lifetime cost estimated at over $1 trillion.
Has the US PTB's global take-over machine finally bombed itself into a corner? One can only hope, although this is likely merely an excuse to suck out the very last drop of life-blood from the American people to feed the monster.
Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.
A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.
not replying to your comment is not meant to be
impolite. I have difficulties to concentrate to read all the links and leave this up to another time when I feel better. Thanks for all your efforts to bring light into the whole affair. It seems to be quite a pile of work to do.
Love is all we have to give.
Today I ask the American People...
Is this what you want your country to be known for? For being a co-conspirator with Israel, Mossad, the CIA, and Saudi Arabia? Cascadia believes you deserve better.
I can play that game too.
And It sounds better when I do it. It helps if you just want freedom, not a profit.
I do not pretend I know what I do not know.
Carthago delenda est
Great essay, including the most essential facts,
which are too-often unmentioned, especially as regarding some of the thoroughly disproven lies propagated against Iran.
The Likud are so obviously reality-deficient it's amazing that anybody outside of The equally-obviously reality-deficient US Psychopaths That Be, et al, ever takes them seriously.
Here's the world's most ludicrous headline:
Syria fired over 100 missiles at our war planes, Israeli Air Force chief claims
Published time: 22 May, 2018 10:08
Edited time: 22 May, 2018 14:23
Syrian air defense forces fired more than 100 missiles at Israeli planes attacking targets in Syria during the intense confrontation two weeks ago, an Israeli Air Force commander told colleagues from other nations.
Major-General Amikam Norkin briefed fellow military officials from more than 20 nations during a three-day conference held in the city of Herzliya to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the arm of the Israeli military he commands. He detailed the Israeli point of view on the hostilities, which happened on the night of May 9 and involved the forces of Israel, Syria and Iran.
The general said 32 missiles were fired from the Syrian territory at Israeli positions in the occupied Golan Heights. Previous reports by the Israel Defense Force (IDF) stated the number as 20. Four of the missiles were shot down by Israel before they could reach the Golan Heights, he added, confirming earlier reports.
The Israeli planes involved in the operation were attacked by more than 100 surface-to-air missiles during the confrontation, Norkin reported. He reiterated that Israel has ramped up attacks on Syrian territory in response to the alleged build-up of Iranian forces there.
The surge in hostilities two weeks ago began, according to Israel, after Iran launched the attack on the Golan Heights. The IDF responded by sending 28 fighter jets to seek out targets in Syria for about two hours with some 60 air-to-surface missiles.
Israel has been using the presence of Iranian or Iran-affiliated troops in Syria – such as the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah – as a justification to conduct airstrikes on Syrian territory, claiming its actions are in self-defense. The militias have been instrumental in stabilizing the government of Syria and turning the tide against the Sunni Islamist insurgency.
Iran and Syria accuse the Israelis of violating international law by its continued involvement in Syria and say it simply uses any pretext it can concoct to hurt Syria.
Russia is keeping its distance from the brewing Iran-Israel proxy war in Syria, but has warned on many occasions that Israeli interference may set back the security situation there, plunging the country back into chaos. Russia stated goal has been to defeat the jihadists in Syria, deploying its air force and commando troops to help Damascus.
All of these psychopaths need to be committed to - rather than running - the asylum.
Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.
A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.
Ya, I mentioned that also,
in my essay, about the Heritage Foundation calling for more imperialism spending. It's what Trump ran on, he repeatedly called for significant increases in defense spending while campaigning, the neocon think tanks have also been calling for more, more. To do what they want to do, I can see why.
As for that 21 trillion. I haven't read the study but just offhand, the defense budget for the last 30 years hasn't equaled 21 trillion. Maybe they're going back that far, I don't know.
Laundering outside money through there?
For personal goals?
Perhaps much of that 21 trillion was actually drug/Foundation money, perhaps to fund terrorists/private armies, perhaps for those giant underground malls (which may not be fictional after all, dunno,) where some of TPTB apparently plan to hide from any/all of the disasters they create?
Virtually everybody among the super-wealthy, including various politicians, seemingly has these Foundations, many of which may be for personal benefit - but the Clinton Foundation has raised billions, yet did almost almost nothing charitable other than purchasing some cut-rate, watered-down AIDs drugs to help kill poor, sick people more rapidly, fund some expensive money-makers for a few of Those Who Matter in a disaster area, while taking credit, in at least one instance, for somebody else's effort at (I think it was) a school building? and a bunch of donor dinners.
And there were, of course, a number of other existing Clinton Foundations taking over for the Clinton Foundation that was shuttered, so whatever's going on could continue.
Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.
A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.
Perhaps, but I don't think it would be
It's like someone wants the focus on accounting instead of the criminality of military imperialism.
or maybe I'm just being paranoid.
And maybe you're just right?
Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.
A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.
Here's something from last December,
interesting because this news seems to be making the rounds now. From Forbes. Something about unsubstantiated accounting adjustments, based on an OIG report. So I doubt the OIG would get too deep into criminality, but I haven't read this. Sounds like the adjustments in the books don't nearly match the actual budget, or something like that.
Here's the crux of it, fyi
"An appendix to the July 2016 report shows $2 trillion in changes to the Army General Fund balance sheet due to unsupported adjustments. On the asset side, there is $794 billion increase in the Army's Fund Balance with the U.S. Treasury. There is also an increase of $929 billion in the Army's Accounts Payable. This information raises additional major questions. First, what is the source of the additional $794 billion in the Army's Fund Balance? This adjustment represents more than six times appropriated spending. Second, do these transfers represent a flow of funds to the Army beyond those authorized by Congress? Third, were these funds authorized and if so when and by whom? Fourth, what is the source of these funds? Finally, the $929 billion in Accounts Payable appears to represent an amount owed for items or services purchased on credit. What entities have received or will receive payment?
The July 2016 report is not the only such report of unsubstantiated adjustments. Mark Skidmore and Catherine Austin Fitts, former Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, conducted a search of government websites and found similar reports dating back to 1998. While the documents are incomplete, original government sources indicate $21 trillion in unsupported adjustments have been reported for the Department of Defense and the Department of Housing and Urban Development for the years 1998-2015."
So, I wonder what happens to the money from all of that CIA drug-running, and what it's used for? Doesn't it seem also to you likely that, as one possibility, this could have been funneled through to pay for such things as off-the-books terrorist funding around the world?
Going back to the start of Gladios, actually - how was that funded in so many NATO and other countries since WW2, while keeping it secret from elected government?
And does it really seem unlikely that the various Foundations of various PTB could be funneling money though military channels not potentially even just for the global terrorism programs but to have perhaps personal things done in utter secrecy, such as special luxury bunkers for The Right People - those behind the insane policies of the US? To keep that Shadow Government (or whatever it was that they called the secret back-up 'government' which was to take over in emergency) safe, even if all of their countrymen perished?
If those rumoured giant mall-bunkers are real (no idea, but they don't sound unlikely, either, considering the warmongering billionaires, industries and politicians,) they'd certainly cost a bomb!
Just speculation on my part, of course, but the above seems to me to be something that would explain the bizarre numbers, not to mention how such expensive horrors were paid for without anything officially showing up on the books.
On the other hand, I do sometimes talk though my (metaphorical) hat...
Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.
A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.
Heh. You know what they say about Trump supporters,
Much the same with Sanders, particularly regarding imperialism and Zionist apartheid.
Tried following your link, got:
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The requested page "/content/:%20%E2%80%98Trump%20Adopts...
Going to look it up under the title you so fortunately included.
Edited to remove the bulk of coding gibberish quoted, as it extended not only off the page but, it seems, off the screen... and re-edited for the classic letter-typo which forms my trademark.
Editing to say that I don't seem to be able to look it up, get mostly unrelated results up top with a few Looney Tunes references. I still seem to be on Duck Duck Go... hope the article and all references weren't removed from the interwebz?
And C-99 instantly timed out? Trying again, this edit should, at least go on without duping, if it did somehow get there without letting me through...
Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.
A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.
Thanks for the interesting links!
I should have specified, however, that I was unable to access the link beside:
phil butler today:
'Trump Adopts "Looney Tunes" Foreign Policy from Think Tanks'
and was unable to search for that title and get anything even remotely related to anything in the title apart from a few Looney Tunes references scattered amid a ton of unrelated stuff. Sounded interesting, though.
Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.
A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.
Wow, that is an incredible article!
And - despite the subject - made me laugh out loud at one point, mainly because it's so impossibly, ridiculously true:
... Since we cannot ascertain where this Mount Everest of 100 dollar bills went to, let's take a brief look at what the Trump administration has budgeted that is on the books. A story this morning about the pride of the US Navy, the 12.9 billion USS Gerald R. Ford headed back to port for fixing propulsion systems failures is a good start. Okay, all my shipmates in the Navy will explain that the Ford is only in trials, but Trump's planned behemoth 355 ship navy may just sink the US Forget the fact America's only conceivable enemies can blast aircraft carriers out of the water with the push of a button. Trump wants a 12 carrier navy also comprised of 66 SSN nuclear attack subs. It's as if Trump and his backers are planning for war with alien space invaders armed with Japanese battleships or old Soviet Akula class subs. Madness, American loading up for decades more useless wars against ghost enemies. What does all this useless expenditure say about our diplomacy? I think this is a good question for Americans to ask. ...
Followed one link to here:
Special Report: The Pentagon's doctored ledgers conceal epic waste
Scot J. Paltrow
LETTERKENNY ARMY DEPOT, Chambersburg, Pennsylvania (Reuters) - Linda Woodford spent the last 15 years of her career inserting phony numbers in the U.S. Department of Defense's accounts. ...
And man, does that ever sound like a planned muddle in which all kinds of shenanigans could sink without a tell-tale bubble...
No central planning or co-ordination between the departments is some excuse, but mere incompetence can't explain the way this has continued, in a time when computers are now capable of much more than (edit: they were in) 2005 - and where incompatible systems were arranged for in each of 4 different departments and this never corrected? And so very many contracts will never be audited?
I'm betting on a planned muddle for exploitation, myself...
Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.
A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.
There's simply no way of knowing the magnitude
until and unless the shell-game is halted by the abandonment of the Global Dominance thing and an effort to pare the military to an all-round manageable level, one suitable for a country which had no fear of invasion/attack until now, when forcing the saner portions of the world to unite in self-defense.
Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.
A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.


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MARCH 13TH, 1947 FLIGHT 209 COURSE INDICATOR X " THE GYROSYN COMPASS re-set by means of the setting knob in the centre of the dial. In the illustration the heading is shown to be 335 deg and the aircraft on course. Now let us suppose it is desired to change course to 270 deg. The pilot pushes in the central setting knob and turns it anti-clockwise until the course in- dicator and grid lines are opposite 270 deg. He then turns his aircraft to port and, as he turns, the compass card, grid lines and course indicator will simultaneously rotate clock- wise. When the course indicator (at 270 deg) is once more lined-up with the heading indicator, the aircraft will be on the required course. There are no turning errors, the indications are dead-beat, and the instruments can be used for turning tion in precisely the same way he conventional directional gyro; in fact, the latter is made redundant IJV installation of the Gyrosyn. The dead-study indications and the shape of the matching references for course and heading make it not diffi- cult for a pilot to hold his aircraft to a mean tolerance of one degree to the selected course. At the lower right of the face is a lock-and-set control, and in the upper right corner a window for a slaving indicator. Slaving indication is provided in the form of a cross and a dot which alternately appear and vanish at the window. The "flag" carrying these indication marks is actuated in conjunction with the solenoid on the gimbal ring, cross or dot appearing accordingly as the gyro is precessed one way or the other. Thus, so long as the cross and dot flick on and off at the window, the pilot will know that the gyro is being monitored by the flux-valve and thus all is well. Additionally, it allows the pilot to line-up the gyro when starting a flight: he merely turns the knob in the appropriate direction as shown by the cross or dot at the window, and when the blank space between them appears the gyro is accurately lined-up with the magnetic heading.^ Tiie master indicator is for the navigator, and the instru- ment dial is of 4 Jin diameter, calibrated in one-degree divisions. The interior area of the dial (that is, inside the divided circle) is recessed, so that the indicating needle is flush with the peri- pheral surface. In this way the readings indicated are " edge- to-edge '' and parallax is consequently eliminated; so clean COURSE SETTER MOVING CARD The pilot's indicator is of the moving-card type, in conformity with British practice, so that orientation to North is apparent in the natural sense. are the divisions and so precise the indication of the nrcdlfc that readings to a half degree are easily possible. A window for "cross and dot" slaving indication is pro- vided in the centre of the upper part of the dial and, below this, an arcuate window in the dial displays a graduated circle by means of which the amount of local magnetic variation can be set. This is done by a knob at the lower riglit corner which moves, through a gear train, the interior graduated circle and also a sleeve housing the stator of selsyn A. Supposing that the amount of local variation is 10 deg. W; this is set on the scale and thus displaces the stator of A. At once the correct- ing action is set in motion through the system, and when all the selsyn rotors and stators are aligned once more, the indica- tions given on the master and pilot's indicators will be cor- rected for variation. By virtue of is, and since deviation is compen- sated out by the adjustment incor- porated with the flux-valve, the head- ings given on the indicators will be True courses. This in itself is no mean advance in navigational practice. In the Gyrosyn Mk IV B, which we have appraised, a step-by-step trans- mitter is driven oil the gear train in the master indicator in order to pro- vide directional reference for such auxiliary equipment as D.I7, loops, A.P.l.s, H2S and other radar devices. In addition, an electromagnetic pick- off system is also incorporated in the gear train transmission so that direc- tional reference may be signalled to an automatic pilot. Simplified Version For use in smaller aircraft a simpli- fied Gyrosyn is available, cutting out the master indicator. The signals from the flux-valve are fed direct to the selsyn mounted on the gyro/ indicator-card shaft. Effectively, it is selsyn A which takes the place of selsyn B, Ahe latter being purely a date transmitter which, in this case, is superfluous. This simplified version is designated the Mk G IV F. In both types of Gyrosyn Compass the power supply to the system is 400 cycles, 3-phase A.C., at 115 volts, and the consumption is 90 watts. Unit weights are as follows: flux- valve and compensator, a| lb; gyro unit, 6J lb; master indi- cator, 7J lb; amplifier unit, 8£ 1 b; junction box, 2 lb. If an allowance of 10 lb is made for cabling, a typical installed weight of 354 lb would be given for the Mk G IV B. Since the G IV F, however, comprises only the flux-valve and compen- sator, the gyro unit, and the amplifier, a representative installed weight for this installation would approximate to i61b. LOCK &. SET CONTROL DEATH OF PAULINE GOWER WITH the death of Mrs. Fahie, better known as Pauline,Gower, within a few months of the tragic loss of !f friend and one-time partner, Dorothy Spicer has lost a fine champion, and one with long practical experience of flying. She learned to fly in 1930, and the following ^^ar obtained her " B " licence. With Tjfjrothy Spicer she operated her own air taxi company, Air Trips, Ltd., and they had their ground engineers' licences, too, and did their own overhauls and repairs. 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text: I realize this is my first post but that's okay. Dark Souls is worth it. It also helps explain my avatar. (Mask of the Father. Wooo) Anyway, are there any other masochists out there getting their faces kicked in by this game? I recently started playing it again and now know why I was feeling so empty - I wasn't getting my face owned anymore. Share you Dark Souls experiences here! Or Demon Souls, Dark Souls twisted but maniacal brother.


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IntroductionThe United States Congress designated the Buckhorn Wilderness (map) in 1984 and it now has a total of 44,270 acres. All of this wilderness is located in Washington and is managed by the Forest Service. The Buckhorn Wilderness is bordered by the Daniel J. Evans Wilderness to the west and The Brothers Wilderness to the south.
DescriptionLocated in the northeast corner of Olympic National Forest, just to the north of The Brothers Wilderness, Buckhorn Wilderness stands divided into northern and southern portions by the Dungeness River and a parallel road. The smaller northern portion, drained by the Gray Wolf River and its tributaries, descends from higher mountainous terrain to lowlands heavily forested in fir, hemlock, and cedar with an understory of moss, ferns, and berry bushes. South of the river and south of the trails, the terrain soars skyward to a ragged ridge with difficult access and few human visitors. Drained by the Dungeness and Quilcene Rivers down glacier-carved valleys and fed by deep canyon tributaries, the larger southern portion is even more rugged than the northern. A dense and stately forest covers the lower elevations, while the higher country often opens into large alpine meadows rich with summer grasses and bright wildflowers. Access is provided by 60 miles of trails.
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- Michael D. Higgins is elected Ireland's new president
- He is to be Ireland's ninth head of state
- President Mary McAleese has been head of state 14 years
- She completed two seven-year terms
Michael D. Higgins, a 70-year-old poet and politician, was elected Ireland's new president on Saturday.
Considered an elder statesman, the Irish Labour Party candidate-turned-president elect is a former government minister.
He is to be Ireland's ninth head of state and is scheduled to be inaugurated on November 11, one day after President Mary McAleese leaves office.
McAleese has been head of state 14 years, completing two seven-year terms.
The other six candidates -- including former Irish Republican Army commander Martin McGuinness -- have all conceded defeat.
McGuinness's campaign had been dogged by questions about his past ties to the IRA, an armed group that fought against British authorities in Northern Ireland but has since renounced violence.
He had been consistently third in opinion polls, while businessman and reality TV star Sean Gallagher had been vying alongside Higgins for the top spot.
Critics blamed Gallagher's performance in the country's final televised debate for his collapse in the polls.
McGuinness is expected to return to his role as Northern Ireland's deputy first minister.
The long counting process started Friday with Higgins confirmed as the winner late Saturday.