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Thursday, June 24, 2010
Kyrgyzstan: Picking up the pieces
Kyrgyzstan joined the rank of failed states this month: its central government lacks legitimacy and depends heavily on external aid, with the US base looming large, while the people are largely destitute, harassed by local thugs and drug barons, and looking to Moscow for a way out.
Clashes in the south are worse than earlier reported, responsible for more than 300 killed, mostly Uzbeks, and setting off a massive wave of refugees, with 100,000 people crammed in camps on Kyrgyzstan's border with Uzbekistan and tens of thousands more displaced. The clashes are almost certainly the result of a provocation organised by the clan of ousted president Kurmanbek Bakiyev.
The issues at stake are the referendum next Sunday to legitimise the interim government, and the drug trade, which Bakiyev's clan still controls and is loathe to give up. Heroin comes from Afghanistan via Tajikistan and is repackaged in Osh before being transported west to Uzbekistan and north to Kazakhstan and Russia, according to the UN. The killing two weeks ago of Aibek Mirsidikov, one of the drug kingpins in the area, threatened the Bakiyev clan's control. The rest is history.
Jalalabad province commandant and first Deputy Chairman of the Kyrgyz State National Security Service Kubatbek Baibolov charged that a group of Tajik citizens, hired by the Bakiyev clan, opened fire indiscriminately on both Kyrgyz and Uzbeks sparking the riots. Former Kyrgyz president Askar Akayev told RT.com that Bakiyev's brothers Ahmad and Janysh paid criminals and unemployed youths "in suitcases of cash to start bashing people up and set everything on fire." Bakiyev had cleaned out the banks and the Finance Ministry when he was ousted in April. Days before the current uprising unemployed youth were suddenly flush with cash, said Akayev.
The ex-president's son Maxim's indictment by Italian investigators is what sparked his father's overthrow in April. That the US was not the culprit this time (as opposed to the Tulip Revolution in 2005) is suggested by the fact that the new government continues to threaten to close down the US airbase -- this time, if Britain refuses to hand over Maxim, who was arrested Sunday at Farnborough airport when he arrived by private plane, fleeing an Interpol arrest warrant on charges of corruption and misusing state funds. He is of course seeking political asylum in Britain. "England never gives up people who arrive on its territory. But since England and the US fight terrorism, and the arrangement with the airbase is one of the elements of that fight, then they must give over Maxim Bakiyev," warned Azimbek Beknazarov, deputy leader of the interim government.
This is not just a tragedy for the normally peaceful Uzbeks and Kyrgyz, but also an alarming development for the entire ex-Soviet space. Russia is now faced with the worst post-Soviet political crisis in its "near abroad", where it insists -- rightly -- that it has special claims, having millions of Russians scattered throughout those countries, with intimate economic and cultural links from centuries of both imperial and state socialist development. But where there are claims, there are also responsibilities.
This is no better illustrated than the call by both sides, Uzbeks and Kyrgyz alike, for Russian peacekeeping troops to be deployed as disinterested mediators who understand the region and can communicate with locals, unlike NATO forces in Afghanistan. The spectre of Russians policing the streets of Osh raises none of the loathing and fear that US and NATO troops patrolling, say, Marja, prompts. The peoples of virtually all the ex-Soviet quasi-states (except the Baltics) would rejoin a Soviet-type union in a flash as opinion polls continue to confirm two decades after its ignominious "collapse". When Kyrgyzstan twitches, Russia feels it, and vice versa.
Trying to put Humpty-Dumpty together again is impossible at this point. Instead, the Russian strategy since Yeltsin has been to do everything possible to keep these quasi-states stable, whatever their political leanings. Even the Georgian bete noire Saakashvili was left in place during his war with Russia in 2008. But this hands-off approach has left a vacuum that the US has been filling, with its "democracy building", colour revolutions and bases, oblivious to the fact that the new states it helped give birth to in the first place are more like premmies -- fragile and needing careful nurturing, always in danger of dying.
Russia's approach amounts to propping up dictators no matter how ruthless or bloodthirsty, as long as they acknowledge Moscow's interests. The nicest of the lot, Kyrgyzstan's ex-president Askar Akayev, was overthrown in the US-inspired 2005 coup, which the US now surely regrets, leaving one tolerable one -- Nursultan Nazarbayev in Kazakhstan, with Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan frozen in a very nasty timewarp.
Can Russia act as "an agent of change, as a force for genuine modernisation, cautiously nudging the local authoritarian regimes to transform, democratise and broaden their socio-political base?" asks Igor Torbakov of the Finnish Institute of International Affairs. If Russia keeps referring to this crisis as merely an "internal conflict," it risks losing face, prestige and the right to claim the leading role in the post-Soviet Eurasia.
Recent weeks have witnessed several other signs of a Russian retreat in foreign policy. It failed to respond to the Brazil-Turkey proposal to defuse the Iranian crisis, voted for sanctions, and cancelled the S-300 missile deal with Iran, admitting to US pressure.
The Arabs have a saying about the rascal who kills the victim and then goes to his funeral. US involvement in Kyrgyz affairs exemplifies this well: destabilise the state and now, like former US ambassador to Russia James Collins and Carnegie Russia and Eurasia Programme deputy director Matthew Rojansky, call for NATO and the US to "immediately engage with regional partners to help restore security." There are no lines to read between here: NATO should expand even further eastward through its Partners for Peace. Collins/Rojansky magnanimously acknowledge that this is "a responsibility NATO must share with the CSTO and the OSCE". They blandly call for "the United States and Russia to put aside outdated stereotypes and focus on their fundamentally shared interests in Eurasian security".
Considering the disarray of the Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO), it is hard to fault the US for using this window of opportunity to move further into the region. This crisis has shown that the CSTO is not a serious regional organisation. The squabbling and suspicious "stan" dictators, Russia, and China have little in common other than their proximity. The CSTO's response, according to its General Secretary Nikolai Burdyuzha, is to send "specialists who know how to plan and organise an operation to prevent mass disorder, which would unmask its instigators and localise bandit groups who provoke the situation."
Is the OSCE an intermediate option, with its 56 member states, including both NATO and CSTO members? Hardly. Russia is the main actor here, with the other Central Asian states also having a pressing need to try to salvage a viable statelet from this tragedy. The NATO quagmire in Afghanistan needs no farcical replay. So the Collins/Rojansky call is really just a call for NATO expansion, pure and simple.
Another possibility is for Turkey to step in. Kyrgyz and Kazakh are both Turkic peoples, whose languages are mutually intelligible. Kyrgyz territory was, in the khanate past, once one with that of the Kazakhs -- the entire region was known as Turkestan. During a visit to Kazakhstan this week, Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu and the Kazakh president supported Kyrgyz plans to proceed with the referendum next Sunday. Davutoglu said, "Immediately after the referendum, we plan together with Kazakhstan to prepare joint actions to show our assistance to Kyrgyzstan."
If all else fails, there is China, though its presence is problematic, given its suppression of the Uighurs across the border in Xinjiang. But Beijing's self-confidence and massive economy inevitably give it an outsize influence, especially if Russia and the West continue to flounder.
Eric Walberg writes for Al-Ahram Weekly http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/ You can reach him at http://ericwalberg.com/
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- Carlo said...
For Russia, it is much better to have the Central Asia as "sovereign" states, than as part of a bigger Russia. During Soviet times, there was a huge flow of resources from the most developed areas to Central Asia and the Caucasus, as the Soviet Union was directly responsible for their prosperity and security. But now, all Russia has to do is to pay the local elites, and watch as these countries continue gravitating around Moscow, which is much easier and cheaper.
But, like Eric correctly notes, "where there are claims, there are also responsibilities", and by refusing to act, Russia may lose influence in the region. Will they act like they did in South Ossetia? I hope so. For Russia, a peacekeeping operation in Kyrgyzstan would be much easier and less bloody than the 2008 campaign, as they wouldn't fight against a well-equipped regular army, and could easily legitimize their operation through the CSTO.
I miss Russia like it was between 2005-2008. Those were great times, when Putin made Robert Gates leave angrily the Munich peace conference over his harsh critics of US imperialism, when Russia didn't care about US/Israeli pressure and sold Tor-ME air defense systems to Iran, when Russia didn't fear NATO's cherished child in the Caucasus and responded militaryly against the Georgian attack on South Ossetia. But since 2009, Moscow seems to believe Obama's plegde to "reset relations", and has a much more fearful foreign policy, as if they were back in the nightmarish days of the 1990's. - 24 June, 2010 15:53
- VINEYARDSAKER: said...
@Carlo: I miss Russia like it was between 2005-2008
I very much agree here. I wonder what the hell happened. Following the 08.08.08 war my feeling what that Russia was finally "back". I am getting the feeling that this was too optimistic...
sic transit gloria mundi! - 24 June, 2010 16:04
Eric Walberg: "Recent weeks have witnessed several other signs of a Russian retreat in foreign policy. It failed to respond to the Brazil-Turkey proposal to defuse the Iranian crisis, voted for sanctions, and cancelled the S-300 missile deal with Iran, admitting to US pressure"
The Brazil-Turkey proposal came a bit too late - now it would leave Iran with enough material to make a nuclear weapon. Last year, 1200 kg were 2/3 of all Iran's nuclear material capacity, at present time it's less then a half do to Iran accelerating it's production. Russia is not interested in letting Iran or any other regional power obtaining nukes. So American pressure has nothing to do with that.
S300 deal has not been cancelled officially it's still on the table.
"If Russia keeps referring to this crisis as merely an "internal conflict," it risks losing face, prestige and the right to claim the leading role in the post-Soviet Eurasia."
I hope the Russians are not going to send troops to Kirgizia. The US, NATO, EU - the whole pack of jackals will cry bloody murder the very moment a first Russian soldier enters the country. And then there are the stan's leaders including Lukashenko Russia wouldn't want to get them scared too much with her role in overthrowing one of them in Kirgizia and then moving troops in.
And the Kirgiz people need to get a legitimate government for starters. Afghani government in question asked the USSR for military help once too.
Carlo: "But since 2009, Moscow seems to believe Obama's pledge to "reset relations", and has a much more fearful foreign policy, as if they were back in the nightmarish days of the 1990's.
Russia's isn't playing a tough guy just in spite. Russia has it's interests and sticks to them. The Russians were doing not too bad recently - the NATO expansion is frozen for a while, nobody is demanding to give back Abkhazia and SO anymore. Ukraine is back, so is Kirgizia, ABM in Poland has been cancelled at least for now. Reset with the West is announced t least officially. And what Russia had to give for that? Didn't sell S300 to Iran? But the contract was signed back in 2007 exactly when according to you Russia was at it's best playing the tough guy. And no delivery even then. So - not selling S300 has nothing to do with the softer Russia perhaps. Perhaps there are other reasons we don't know about. I see Russia getting what she wants and not even paying for the table. So the softer image is just what should be natural considering the reality. - 24 June, 2010 21:10
- kozeol said...
I believe that current Russian administration, namely the Putin-Medvedev clique is controlled by Western-sympathizers left from Yeltsin. The signs of anti-russian policy are all over. People who made millions suffer, directly responsible for catastrophes like with Sayano-Shushenskaya HydroElectricStation - Chubais, people who are involved in destruction of army and defense facilities - Serdyukov ... are not in jail!
Russia is loosing its grounds not because of economic causes but because of mis-management.
CIS countries mostly have populations loyal to Russia, the ratings of Putin-Medvedev are much higher in CIS countries than in Moscow.
In Kyrgyzstan, the ex-presidents Bakiev has left many of its followers plush with green $$$ USD sums ready to destabilize the country and diminish the efforts of the current Kyrgyz government.
First of all, the narco-traffic. Kyrgyzstan is a big transit station of afghan opiats on their way to Russia and EU - with the blessings of NATO/US. People controlling this business get rich fast and Bakiev's regime people who controlled them can not just leave it. There is a serious information from national security of Kyrgyzstan about affiliations of Bakiev family with Pakistan-Afghanistan narco-traffic dealer-families and that these people have hired mercenaries from wild mountain regions of Afghanistan-Tadjikistan to provoke ethnical violences in south regions of Kyrgyzstan.
Second comes the business interests in draining the natural resources of Kyrgyzstan. Gold mininig - controlled by Berezovsky - whose link with Bakiev family has is now officially surfaced after the attorney firm who helped get Berezovsky the asylum in London is helping to do the same for Maxim Bakiev the former Prince of Kyrgyzstan, the son of ex-president Bakiev. To this we can add silicon (quartz, exported to Israel), uranium and other valuable resources.
And the US is not happy with the revolution of 7th April 2010. US was so happy with Bakievs regime that they completely relied on ties with them and Tatiana Gfeller the US ambassador to Kyrgyzstan was I believe praised many times. But, US has put all the eggs in one basket - and we, the people of Kyrgyzstan, tossed the basket on 7th of April and now US is fucked.
US needs another Afghanistan-Pakistan-Iraq-Kurdistan controlled chaos region to build more military bases.
It would have been better if we had hanged whole Bakiev family - than the ethnic violences would not happened and so many people could stay alive.
By now, military is cleaning out the south region. Situation is almost normal now, no more killings and refugees are already returning home. Ethnic uzbeks and kyrgyz nationals now fully understand that peace is above all.
This ethnic violence has fulfilled interests of Bakiev family, the US and of course Israel which is happy even for risen aliyah numbers from Kyrgyzstan and Central-Asia regions.
If Bakiev-US-Israel continue to destabilize Kyrgyzstan I will be writing from the battle field and trenches :) - 25 June, 2010 04:18
- Carlo said...
Kozeol, correct me if I'm wrong, but are you in Kyrgyzstan? If you are, could you give us more first-hand information?
Also, what do you think about the Lukashenko-Bakiyev links? Why is the Belorussian president supporting the ousted Kyrgyz leader? - 25 June, 2010 15:23
Carlo: "Why is the Belorussian president supporting the ousted Kyrgyz leader?"
Belorussia's economy depends on Russia even more then the Kirgiz one. Lukashenko couldn't help but notice how easily the whole repressive system which looked pretty strong fell apart just within a few days. And the spark that ignited the riot came from Russia - the rise of fuel export taxes for Kirgizia. Russian subsidies for Belorussia amount a few billion dollars a year through Russia's energy supply policy. Plus the Russian market is open for Belorussian goods. Lukashenko knows that Belorussian economy can simply collapse if Russia wants a new leader for her neighbour. By backing up Bakiev Lukashenko makes a statement for the Russians that he knows the game and is not gonna be intimidated too easily. And by the way, giving a safe heaven to a comrade he expects to get a friendly response from one of the little dictators in the stans in a case if he eventually will have been kicked out off his own country. - 25 June, 2010 18:52
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Carlo: it isn't the only reason.
You see, Boris Berezovsky, a long time US/Britain affiliate, and now a refuge with political asylum in London, is also a close friend of Lukashenko same as Bakievs' son, the Prince Maxim Bakiev.
Maxim Bakiev has close "business partners" - Valery Belokon (Latvia), Sergei Nadel (Israel), Evgeniy Gurevitch (US) who are all have close ties with Boris Berezovsky. They all are of jewish descendant and are much smaller caliber than the Berezovsky himself, consider them as a capo de regime of Berezovsky.
Berezovsky controlled his business interests in reaping Kyrgyzstan with the help of his capo de regimes:
1. Maxim Bakiev, as a Prince the son of President, had enormous power that he used to create a new state department Central Agency for Investments and Innovations (CAII) that took control of the budget of the Kyrgyzstan in order to rotate the money in various stock operations.
2. Gurevitch Evgeniy, created MGN Group (MGN Investment, MGN Capital etc... MGN-fuck-shit) and miraculuously obtained the rights to operate from the name the CAII and manage its funds.
3. Sergei Nadel had a bank AsiaUniversalBank (AUB) here in Kyrgyzstan, and with CAII had obtained the rights to process state banking operations such as salary transfers, budget transfers, payments and etc. Only the processing price is estimated to 20 mln COM (0.5 mln $ USD) a month.
4. US/NATO has an air-base, which needs enormous amounts of petrol. With the US side affiliate Maxim Bakiev managed obtain the supply tender, not without the help of Gurevitch-Berezovksy.
Ties of Berezovsky and Lukashenko are not a secret, they are often referred as long-time close friends.
And, yes, Lukashenko sees in Bakiev his possible future too. Think about it, both married unofficially second-third times, both have young pre-school children from these marriages... - 26 June, 2010 06:32
- kozeol said...
Carlo: and now, about the whole situation here in Kyrgyzstan.
Ferghana valley, to which Osh-Jalalabat south cities of Kyrgyzstan belong, were always a boiling hells kitchen of many nations intermixing. The president of Uzbekistan, Islam Karimov, manages to control a 23 mln nation with a hard fist, most of Ferghana valley is under Uzbekistan rule. After the massacre in Andijan, uzbek people sit with anuses so tight they cut the steel rods in a sec. South of Kyrgyzstan and Kyrgyzstan itself is a safe-heaven for any uzbek running away from oppression in Uzbekistan. Considering that, Kyrgyzstan is buffer zone for Uzbekistan to keep radical-and/or-liberal uzbeks away. In Kyrgyzstan nobody opresses anyone, except for the former governments who opressed the whole nation.
Anyone could speak anything, except for cursing the Bakiev-Akaev regimes. Ethnic uzbeks, after living in a free country like Kyrgyzstan started saying things like that they want autonomy from the rest of the republic, that they want uzbek language as a second official language and cut the south of Kyrgyzstan and declare autonomy!
Most of the people do not understand, why ethnic uzbeks want and need such an autonomy in the borders of Kyrgyzstan, why ethnic uzbeks do not want to cut the south and join Uzbekistan for that matter?! They want autonomy with uzbek language as second official BUT they do not want to join their HOMELAND - Uzbekistan.
Uzbeks do not form a large population in Kyrgyzstan, they just live in the cities and have accesses to schools and even universities teaching in Uzbek language.
They are afraid of Karimov and still they want to enjoy the freedom in Kyrgyzstan.
The local uzbek leader Kadyrjan Batyrov with a mob of 1-2 thousand people went and burnt the houses of Bakievs family in Jalalabat. Nobody liked this, since many wanted to make a schools or kindergartens from the houses of the Bakievs family, since they ran away their houses belong to people the robbed.
After burning the house Kadyrjan Batyrov gave a series of interviews on local TV telling about oppression and that they want to protect their rights on their language and that they want autonomy...
The second I heard this, I understood that this will turn ugly, a blood will spill and all of this because of some dumb fucks like Kadyrjan Batyrov.
Kyrgyzstan has more than 80 ethnics living peacefully in Kyrgyzstan - nobody tells about autonomy. We have large corean, uighur, dungan, turkish and other diasporas - still nobody is oppressed. If they want they build their schools, their cultural centers - nobody gives a damn what language they talk or which god they pray.
Its' only uzbeks who wanted this.
After sometime, Batyrov was forced to appear on TV to deny all his words he said before, since south began turbulences, it was a miracle ethnical violences did not start those days.
And after that, in June, happened what was going to be happened. Only that Kyrgyzstan has lost information war - so many NGOs were transmitting from the side of uzbeks showing only uzbek refugees showing only that uzbeks have suffered.
Nobody said that so large numbers of ethnic uzbeks CAN NOT appear so fast on the border of Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan - right after the beginning of ethnical violences. As if they did not have to travel through enemy territories. I believe ethnical uzbeks have prepared beforehand to this massacre, prepared weapons and organized and began evacuating their families long before the massacres. - 26 June, 2010 07:02
- kozeol said...
They say that local army stationed in the south have joined the mobs and started crushing the ethnic uzbeks. And rumors that kyrgyz men did not have weapons while uzbeks had both automatic and rifles, the kyrgyz soldiers seeing this gave them opened the weaponries and gave them to kyrgyz men and joined them since in the beginning it was a massacre from ethnic uzbeks! Only later uzbeks retreated to defence.
Right now, ~80% of the kyrgyz victims are women and children. I do not believe that kyrgyz men after seeing their beloved ones dead, mutilated, will forget this just now.
I am sure, not long time after, if ethnic uzbeks will not leave the Kyzgystan land and still have their dumb idea of autonomy while they have their homeland just outside the borders - they will be massacred. Massacred both in revenge and as a natural reaction of the body to an infection or virus. - 26 June, 2010 07:12


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quote:Does anybody think Chuck Hagel will be a good Secretary of Defense?
quote:I did, but his performance in confirmation hearings was horrible. Not sure he can get thru now.
quote:Well, of all the candidates for Secretary of Defense, he is one of the least evil.
quote:Ron Paul if Obama had nominated him?
quote:As hostile as the Republicans were to Hagel
quote:For what? Defense???
quote:The part where he is passed a note to correct himself and then the Representative says "Actually, we do have that in place" was absolutely pitiful
quote:And then Levin had to correct his correction. He bungled the shite out of that hearing
quote:Meh, I'm not buying that. The questions he flubbed were fair, predictable and pertinent. Hagel did such a poor job, it raises reasonable questions as to his competence, regardless of party.
quote:Political positions aside, there is absolutely nothing in Hagel's record demonstrating any management capability.
quote:His effectiveness as the Secretary of Defense has no relationship to his ability to perform in an inquisition.
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A Horne of plenty
By Jim Gates
Following last week's blog on the rare 6-for-6 cycle by Ian Kinsler of the Texas Rangers, I was asked if anyone had ever hit for the home-run cycle. The answer is yes, but not in the Major Leagues.
First, what is a home-run cycle? It is when one batter hits a solo, two-run and three-run homer in a game in addition to a grand slam. Hitting four home runs in one game is difficult enough, but the home-run cycle obviously requires the substantial cooperation of your teammates.
Although there are stories of home-run cycles being accomplished at the youth, high school and collegiate levels, only one batter is known to have achieved this feat as a professional ballplayer. On July 27, 1998, Tyrone Horne of the Double-A Arkansas Travelers in the Texas League stroked a two-run shot in the first inning, a grand slam in the second, a solo homer in the fifth and finished off the night with a three-run blast in the sixth inning. Not a bad night at all.
"I hadn't realized I'd homered for the cycle at first. I'd never even heard of homering for the cycle," Horne recalled almost a decade after the event.
Known for having some power, Horne hit 37 home runs for the Travelers in 1998 and posted a batting average of .312. He spent 13 years playing Minor League and independent league baseball before a ruptured disc in his neck forced him to retire from active play.
Although Horne never made it to The Show, he donated his bat from the home-run cycle to the National Baseball Hall of Fame, where it now resides along with other artifacts of baseball history.
This just proves that on any given night, almost any player can catch lighting in a bottle. He can perform a little magic and achieve something never before seen on the baseball diamond. You don't have to be a superstar to make the game special or to make it into the record books. Just ask Tyrone.
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Do you remember all those awful stories about women whose ovaries and a Fallopian tube were removed instead of appendix? It turns out that is part of Muslim jihad against white Europeans.
Lately my sister became a member of CCG in Tyneside. It occurred that there are a lot of similar cases when English women of childbearing age are deprived their reproductive performance because of surgeon's negligence. Some of those poor things were pregnant. All those surgeons are Muslims or Hindu. And after short examination those Hindu usually turn out to be Muslim either.
Our 'brilliant' NHS can't deprive license all Muslim MDs for that would be racial bias. The same story with official warnings of all white patients. The only thing we can is reposting this message over UK and European forums and blogs and appealing to all to avoid Muslim MDs for there is a big chance that they would cripple you or your relatives instead of treating. Please help us with it!
I heard that one of the first cases happened in Sweden. So those medical goons might be spread all over EU. They might seem well educated and extremely polite. But remember that under the false smile there is always furious hatred to all infidels drubbed into their heads by mullahs and Quran reading from an infant.


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Notice in the video where Dawkins says he is hostile to any view that opposes his. What an arrogant jackass.
Hmm just noticed this.
To be fair, the quote from the clip was:
"As a scientist, I am hostile towards a rival doctrine" and then it was cut off. It's obvious he said more after he was cut off, and was almost definitely not saying he was hostile to any views that oppose his.
At a guess, and it has to be a guess as he was cut off, he was going to say something to the tune of:
"As a scientist, I am hostile towards a rival doctrine that falsely claims to be science", seeing as the discussion was on intelligent design.
But who knows, we're both guessing, it's a little unfair to attack him based on the snippet probably taken right out of context. I am sure there are plenty of genuine Dawkins quotes to get annoyed by if you look!


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November 5, 2010
Suppose you're trying to decide which university to go to. You find out that last year the university you're interested in admitted 30% of male applicants but only 21.3% of female applicants. Looks like a clear case of gender bias, so you're tempted to go somewhere else. But then you look at the figures again, this time broken up by department, you see a bias in favour of women. What's going on? |
November 3, 2010
The MathsJam weekend is now only 10 days away — the weekend of November 13-14 in the Midlands! The MathsJam is an opportunity for like-minded self-confessed maths enthusiasts to get together and share stuff they like. Puzzles, games, problems, or just anything they think is cool or interesting. |
November 3, 2010
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You're unlikely to ever run into a black hole, but here's what it "looks" and "sounds" like when two black holes run into each other. The movie shows a simulation of the gravitational waves generated when two black holes collide and form a third, and the sound file shows what these waves would sound like if you cold hear them. |
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SCIENAR, a European project to stimulate and develop links between science and art, has just produced a new DVD exploring three emblematic scenarios where science and art intersect. Looking at three historical ages, antiquity, the renaissance and modern times, the DVD explores a range of topics, from ancient geometry to perspective in renaissance art, as well as relativity and chaos theory. |
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Benoît Mandelbrot, the father of fractal geometry, died last Thursday at the age of 85. Born in Poland in 1924, Mandelbrot had dual French and American citizenship and spent most of his working life in the US. He died of cancer in a hospice in Cambridge, Massachusetts. |
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As you probably know, China and Russia are doing everything to collapse dollar as world's reserve currency.
Today, China have a agreements with more than 35 countries that includes direct trade without dollar with Germany, Russia, Japan, Australia, N. & S. Korea, Turkey, Brazil, South Africa, India, Iran, and so on; all countries from BRICS block are doing trade without dollar with each other and for the first time and most important of all - Russia is selling oil in their own currency - ruble and chinese reninmbi and all former Soviet Union block are doing trade in ruble.
I'm from Serbia, so you probably don't know what's happening outside of US, but in Europe in general, everyone is trying not to use dollar anymore in their trades. From few days ago, even Serbia and Russia have started doing trade without dollar as reserve currency.
Therefore, I would like to know your opinion about future of the dollar and his geopolitical influence? Will US be able to succeed to save their currency in present form, precisely, will be able to regain its former glory or the dollar will continue to fall down?
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Senior Preparator, Bob Walsh was asked to give a talk on his specialty, exhibit lighting design, by the National Institute of Design in Ahmedabad, India.
March Break is coming and we're ready for you with lots of hands-on fun! Come to the ROM this March Break and give your kids a passport to a whole new world!
This instalment of my behind-the-scenes tour of what shapes a museum display began as an example of how museum collections are formed, but it may develop into a detective story as you'll see…..
The ROM may be the most romantic place in the city this Valentine's Day. We scan the collection for signs of Cupid… and find they are everywhere.
Ever wondered what goes in to the display you see in a museum gallery? I'm exploring some behind-the-scenes issues that shape what you see.
Over 80 students performed cultural dance and song in celebration of Black History Month.
Join us for a FREE symposium highlighting fascinating discoveries by Museum curators and experts!
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On Saturday February 14, 2015, EiABC celebrated the Graduation of around 80 Students of the Bachelor Program Architecture on the Institutes Campus.
It was the fourth commencement ceremony held on EiABC Campus.
Master of Ceremony Bisrat Kifle, introduced the speaker and led through the program.
After a welcome speech by Managing Director Dr. Beatrice Delpouve, EiABC Scientific Director Joachim Dieter addressed the graduates, before Guest of Honour Dr. Bekele Abebe, Head University Registrar of the Addis Ababa University, congratulated the graduating class.
After handing over the degrees through the former Director of Undergraduate Programs Darik Zebenigus, Associate Registrar Meseret Seifu and the Institutes Scientific Director Joachim Dieter, Guest of Honor Dr. Bekele Abebe had the pleasure to hand over Certificates of Distinction.
Ato Wendwosen Demrew, President of the Association of Ethiopian Architects, congratulated the graduating class with a commencement speech.
February 6th 2015 saw the signing of an agreement between the Addis Ababa Bureau of Labour and Social Affairs (BoLSA) and the Ethiopian Institute of Architecture, Building Construction and City Development (EiABC) towards the provision of Architectural Design consultancy services of two institutes, the first being The Institute for Rehabilitation and Medication of Physically Challenged People and the second being The Institute for Elders Retirement. The consultancy budget under agreement is an estimated ETB 3 million and is expected to run for six months.
International week was held in EiABC from January 12th to 17th 2015.
The week included panel discussions and fun activities such as global village and amazing race.The aim of the event was to show case the importance of international exposure to the EiABC community.
Managing Director Dr.Ing Béatrice Delpouve, Scientific Director Joachim Dieter and AIESEC members and interns were present at these events.
Official Opening with the Ethiopian students and the participants of the international symposium "integrated infrastructure" at EiABC Campus on Tuesday the 16th Dec.
On Friday, 12 December 2014, an international team of students and tutors in Addis Ababa finish the experimental building construction »MACU" (Mobile Automated Contemporary Unit) assembled in less than 24 hours.
MACU is the third and last prototype in a three-year collaboration between the EiABC at AAU, University of Juba (Sudan) and the Bauhaus University Weimar in the project "Concept-Test-Realization" in period 2012-2015. All three prototypes are based on a specific background seeking for local materials, affordable construction technologies and cost efficient procedures. The last proposal MACU is taking a step into the future of the way of production and used technology.
MACU is completely made out of CNC milled plywood which is made in Ethiopia out of Eucalyptus. The whole structure comes out of a fully parameterized digital model which is transferred directly to the automated production of the individual parts by milling 1.200 x 2400 x 18 mm plywood sheets in individual and identified elements here in Addis. A team of researcher together with a shared course in Weimar and Addis developed the design and fabrication model with algorithmic programming tools.
"The potential of this technology is the flexibility, quality, simplicity and robustness. Once the parts are manufactured completely controlled by computer then they just need to be assembled. We allowed only a rubber hammer on the site for joining the elements. All connections are adopted from furniture making and readymade engineering systems using principles link brackets, clamps and eccentric flaps which can be disassembled and rebuild." explained Prof. Dirk Donath, member of the Bauhaus' institute for experimental architecture (ifex)) at the Bauhaus-University Weimar. It is the provocation to the international building market looking to production systems from other engineering fields like the car manufactures.
The aim of the project is to develop innovative and resource-saving technologies and construction production methods. In 2012 SECU was built on the EiABC' campus in Addis Ababa made out on boards out of compressed. In 2013 a building (SICU) out of prefabricated composite elements was realized in the settlements of Addis Ababa in around ten days. This prototype won the 3rd prize of the "Holcim Awards 2014 Africa Middle East" a few weeks ago.
The EiABC and the Bauhaus University in Germany are entering into a new phase of their academic partnership structured around the research and implementation of sustainable construction techniques that tangibly improve both urban planning and design. From December 15 to 17, key actors involved in the building structure and infrastructure areas (academic and business professionals, city and state officials as well as members of the civil society) gathered for the first edition of the "International Symposium on Climate Adapted Urban Infrastructure". A topic of paramount importance in a context of extreme fast urbanization and sharp rise of precarious settlements. The EiABC and the Bauhaus University intend to play a crucial role: by transferring knowledge and skill to the Ethiopian construction industry, and by developing and promoting cost efficient housing construction technology. And first and foremost it needs the consideration of space of and time: how will the housing unit fit in the overall cityscape, and how will it last over time. One direction was discussed: a holistic planning approach that gives priority to urban infrastructure strategies (sanitation, waste, roads) but at the same time integrating participatory design methods and urban planning together with the industry. First steps were discussed with the Flintstone Plc.
It aims at laying the foundations for the integration of all infrastructural aspects into the planning process of urban quarters, and also for the development of flexible and adaptable supply and building systems.
The Symposium was funded by the EiABC, the German Embassy Addis Ababa - Green Climate Funds, the GiZ Addis Ababa, the Bauhaus University Weimar, the Flintstone Plc. and the Goethe-Institute in Addis Ababa.
Ten students from Weimar - mixed from six different European countries - for ten days explored the cultural, social and architectural traditions and dynamics of the fast growing Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa.
The excursion was an integral part of the Design studio "Adaptable Structures in Emerging Cities", in which the students will be challenged with the pressuring lack of sufficient housing and develop new planning and construction techniques in one of the fastest growing cities. The students will approach this task by using advanced Planning methods in combination with current technologies in digital Fabrication, reaching from CNC Machines to Rapid Prototyping.
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The student council of EiABC in support with the External and International office organized the first student's assembly in EiABC history.
In this assembly different student clubs were represented, such as AIESEC in EiABC , CUP and many others. This event also included the launch of two new clubs (Rotaract and Student Ethiopia.)
The External and International office also has been represented by its department members to show case the different mobility facilities it provides.
Managing Director Béatrice Delpouve , Scientific Director Joachim Dieter and Head of External and International office Agus Prianto were present in this event.
Picture: Dr. Ephrem Gebremariam presenting the new Addis Ababa City Map at EiABC
For a very dynamic city like Addis it is important to have frequent updates apply map-making procedures with international standards, which can be used efficiently by tourists and international community. A city map is a thematic map <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thematic_map> prepared with large scale to enable the best possible orientation <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orientation_(mental)> in urban spaces. The map is designed to include the upcoming Light Rail Train Station names and location, which makes it very informative for people who seek the information prior hand. The map is prepared with the joint effort of Prof Bernd Meissner of Beuth University of Applies Sciences in Berlin and Dr. Ephrem Gebremariam of EiABC, Addis Ababa University.
As part of the 60th Anniversary of EiABC, the former Building College released this City map of Addis Ababa and made it available for users at the Addis Ababa University Book Centre located at AAU Main Campus in Sidist Kilo. EiABC made the map available for all staff members, all chair holder and unit leaders.
The mentioned staff is requested take 2 copies of the map, one folded and one wall map, from the office of he Scientific Director. Please contact the director's secretary Meskerem Tesfaye to get your copy.
On Thursday October 09, 2014, the first ever PhD candidate of EiABC will defend his dissertation in the PhD Program Environmental Planning, which is running since 2010.
Aramde Fetene Mengistu will defend the study of Landuse/Land Cover Change and its Impacts on the Habitat Structure of Nech Sar National Park, Ethiopia: Implication for Management Strategy for the first time since the start of the PHD program.
Dr. Kumelachew Yeshitela, (EiABC), Chair of Ecosystem Planning and Management, Addis Ababa University and Professor Dr. Ruediger Prasse, Leibniz University of Hannover, Institute of Environmental Planning, Hannover, Germany will be the supervisors for this defence.
The external and internal examiners are going to be Dr. Fritz Haubold, TU Dresden, Department of Physical Geography, Germany, and Professor Dr. Zerihun Woldu, Addis Ababa University, Plant Biology and Biodiversity Management Program Unit.
The defence will be held at Swedish pavilion, anyone interested is invited to join this first ever defence in EiABC.


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Digital Learning Day: Resource Roundup
Resources by Topic
Integrating Technology into Schools
- Video: An Introduction to Technology Integration
Integrating technology with classroom practice can be a great way to strengthen engagement by linking students to a global audience, turning them into creators of digital media, and helping them practice collaboration skills that will prepare them for the future. For a look inside the classrooms of educators who use technology tools in their lessons every day, also check out our "Tech2Learn Video Series: Success Stories of Technology Integration in the Classroom."
- Research Review: How to Successfully Use Technology in the Classroom (2013)
Edutopia's tech integration review explores some of the vast body of research out there and helps you navigate useful results. In this series of five articles, learn about three key elements of successful technology integration, discover some of the possible learning outcomes, get our recommendations on specific practices and programs by academic subject and promising tools for additional topics, find tips for avoiding pitfalls when adopting new technologies, and dig into a comprehensive annotated bibliography with links to all the studies and reports cited in these pages.
- Social Media in Education: Resource Roundup (2013)
This collection of blogs, articles, and videos aims to help teachers deploy social media tools in the classroom to engage students in 21st-century learning. For a window into Mimi Ito's research in this area, view our video "Big Thinkers: Mimi Ito on Learning in Social Media Spaces."
- Mobile Learning: Resource Roundup (2013)
Edutopia's resource roundup includes links to blogs, articles and other resources related to mobile technologies--from smartphones and tablets, to MP3 players and e-readers. VideoAmy's playlist on this topic, "Five-Minute Film Festival: Mobile Learning," provides additional insights into the challenges and the promise of using mobile devices for instructional purposes.
- Technology in Schools: Defining the Terms, by Matt Levinson (2013)
Principal and blogger Levinson suggests that, if we're going to talk about technology in schools, we should begin by coming to a general agreement about what technology is.
- Doing More with Less (and Other Practical Educational Technology Tidbits), by Adam Bellow (2011)
Bellow, Outstanding Young Educator at ISTE, shares his thoughts on simple ways of integrating technology.
For more ideas, check out our lineup of blogs that focus on technology integration.
Online Learning and Blended Classrooms
- Modifying the Flipped Classroom: The "In-Class" Version, by Jennifer Gonzalez (2014)
Guest blogger Gonzalez proposes a blended-learning model that incorporates the video lecture element as one of several stations that students visit during their class period.
- 5 Tips for Flipping Your PBL Classroom, by Andrew Miller (2014)
Edutopia blogger Miller considers how the project-based learning and flipped classroom models can successfully intersect, offering five tips for engaging students in the project while moving aspects of it outside the classroom walls.
- The Flipped Mobile Classroom: Learning "Upside Down", by Beth Holland (2013)
Holland of EdTechTeacher considers the mechanics and benefits of flipping both an English and a science class, and suggests a variation on the flipped model for younger or less connected students. For more on the challenges and benefits of flipped classrooms, check out this video playlist from VideoAmy: "Five-Minute Film Festival: Flipped Classrooms."
- Blended Learning Series, by Lisa Michelle Dabbs, Andrew Miller, and Heather Wolpert-Gawron (2012)
This three-part blog series covers tips and strategies for incorporating blended learning -- a combination of both online and face-to-face education -- in the classroom.
- Salman Khan on Liberating the Classroom for Creativity
The founder of Khan Academy, a free educational video library that features over two thousand titles and an interactive dashboard for formative assessment, discusses how his videos can help create a "flipped classroom" that allows blended learning -- online lectures can happen at home and project-based learning can happen during school.
Teaching with New Media Tools
- Five-Minute Film Festival: Teaching Kids to Code, by Amy Erin Borovoy (2014)
For teachers interested in incorporating coding and computer programming into the curriculum, VideoAmy has collected a variety of inspiring videos and helpful resources in this Five-Minute Film Festival.
- Chrome Smashing: Creating the Inconceivable, by Beth Holland (2014)
Edutopia blogger Holland talks about stretching the Chromebooks platform and breaking out of the box to help students unleash their creativity with a different approach to the tools they were already using.
- Feeding Our Students' Reading Interests with RSS, by Troy Hicks (2014)
Guest blogger Hicks, an associate English professor with a technology focus, presents RSS as an essential tool for bringing students reading material that interests them, and how to use it for leveraging critical reading practice.
- Creating a "Least Restrictive Environment" with Mobile Devices, by Beth Holland (2013)
Holland looks at how mobile devices can help create a 'least restrictive environment' not only for students with disabilities, but for everyone else as well. For more information about selecting and assessing assistive technology and accessible instructional materials, see Edutopia's "Assistive Technology: Resource Roundup."
- Challenging the Model of 1:1 with BYOD, by Amanda Paquette (2012)
Tech specialist Paquette describes how her school district is blending the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) and 1:1 classroom technology models to meet students' needs.
- Top Ten Tips for Teaching with New Media Guide (2011)
Our downloadable PDF classroom guide is full of succinct and practical ways to prepare our students for 21st-century success. This guide will help you deliver the relevant and meaningful education all students deserve. Also, visit our Technology Tools Community Discussions for additional information about technology tools, resources, and recommendations.
Digital Games in the Classroom
- Gamification in Education, by Vicki Davis (2014)
Edutopia blogger Vicki Davis and her high school students are exploring what makes games effective for classroom use. As of this blog, they've come up with six essential elements, but their task is far from complete.
- Made With Play: Game-Based Learning Resources (2013)
Edutopia's Made With Play series takes a look at game-like learning principles in action and commercial games in real classrooms -- and offers tips and tools for bringing them into your own practice.
- Game-Based Learning: Resource Roundup (Updated 2013)
Check out our collection of articles, videos, and resources on using video games, simulations, and gaming concepts in the classroom.
- Five-Minute Film Festival: Game-Based Learning, by Amy Erin Borovoy
The social Web is buzzing about the possibilities and potential downsides of video games in education. VideoAmy has put together a playlist of videos about games for learning.
- A Neurologist Makes the Case for the Video Game Model as a Learning Tool, by Judy Willis (2011)
Blogger Judy Willis MD was a neurologist before she became a teacher; she shares some insights about how the brain responds to video games.
- Games for Learning Community Discussion
Visit Edutopia's community discussion to collaborate with colleagues around ideas for implementing digital games in the classroom.
For more ideas, check out our lineup of blogs that focus on game-based learning.
Working with Digital Learners
- Technology and Teaching: Finding a Balance, by Andrew Marcinek (2014)
Edutopia blogger Marcinek provides a thoughtful course correction for teachers facing full-on technology integration, offering three suggestions for focusing on media and balancing it with what students should be learning.
- Building Technology Fluency: Preparing Students to be Digital Learners, by Beth Holland (2013)
Holland reminds us that we're preparing students for a future that has yet to be invented as she defines technology fluency and offers three strategies for building it into curriculum.
- Big Thinkers: Henry Jenkins on Participatory Culture and Media Education
University of Southern California media scholar Henry Jenkins describes how educators might fuel civic engagement by tapping the skills their students build in interest-driven online communities.
- Digital Citizenship: Resource Roundup (Updated 2013)
Check out Edutopia's collection of articles, videos, and resources on cyberbullying, netiquette, and internet safety. For a playlist of videos on the importance of online safety, manners, privacy, and responsibility, also be sure to watch VideoAmy's Five-Minute Film Festival: Digital Citizenship.
- The Digital Divide: Resource Roundup (Updated 2013)
The "digital divide" is still a critical issue in education. This updated resource roundup includes resources and organizations to help educators understand the changing landscape and find information about supporting all learners to develop digital and media literacy.
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Karen Cator, the United States Department of Education's (ED) director of technology, had addressed the move beyond the digital textbooks: "I think the trend is towards--I wouldn't call them e-books, I'd call them 'digital learning environments."
As Dan Meyer pointed out in this post: On iBooks 2 And iBooks Author: "No new technology is so novel we can't subject it to the question, "How does it change the relationship between student and teacher, student and discipline, one student to another?"
Textbooks or not, what we need is technology/ constructivist shift in classsrooms.
...I would say that this archive of tools for innovators and "re-thinkers" would be enough in and of itself. Thank you so much for archiving the day's resources. From the trenches in Tennessee, I can echo that the main tasks before us include 1) changing established and incredibly entrenched preconceptions of how education looks, 2) establishing new and firmly-fixed-in-best-practices ways to go about education, and 3) working out just how these new ways function effectively within vast, powerful, and authoritative systems not designed to allow them (much less to enable them) to function optimally. Funding, policy, and law are our dragons and only by keeping the essential issue in focus--the well-being and nurturance of our children as they grow through childhood into adulthood--will we succeed in taming those dragons. This was a wonderful event, and it helps me to feel the tide turning toward the good.
Thanks for this wonderful compilation of DLD resources. I think these resources tough upon all the latest trends and their necessities, benefits and pitfalls. I'd like to commend, here, the role of OERs like CK12 FlexBook and Khan Academy, for the great work they are doing especially for STEM subjects, I think these resources with their interactive, engaging yet rigorous content have shown the way for other to follow. And the OER revolution is the next big thing in education, providing new opportunities of learning to whoever wants them.
Today is Digital Learning Day! To mark the occasion, let me take you through a quick walkthrough of the halls of Wamogo Regional Middle/High School and give you a snapshot on how digital learning looks in the English classrooms grades 7-12.


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Accelerated Technology's Nucleus RTOS Selected for Trilogy Broadcast's VoIP-Based Communication System
MOBILE, Ala. - Dec. 1, 2004 - Accelerated Technology{reg}, a Mentor Graphics division (Nasdaq: MENT), today announced that its Nucleus{reg} real-time operating system (RTOS) has been used by Trilogy Broadcast Ltd. to develop the Mercury system, an Internet Protocol (IP) voice-based communication device.
The Mercury system offers a totally fresh approach to intercom solutions based on Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) technology, which allows all elements of the system to interconnect over a standard Ethernet. Mercury provides bi-directional audio communication in an IP environment. It offers near instant connection across LAN and WAN configurations with "one touch" operation of hardware or virtual panels. A unique feature of Mercury is its ability to provide true multi-member conferences (party lines) between members of a Mercury enterprise.
Developers at Trilogy chose the Nucleus RTOS because of its robust and reliable features combined with a royalty-free licensing model. The complex features of VoIP technology required the Nucleus RTOS to be highly optimized and fully scalable. Trilogy developers also based their RTOS selection on the proven reputation of Accelerated Technology and the top-notch technical support.
"We received excellent technical support from Accelerated Technology. I base that comment on the prompt and accurate response from technical support over the past three to four years of development with Nucleus products," said Phil Luke, development manager at Trilogy Broadcast. "That support, combined with the source code, royalty-free licensing model and the rich features of the Nucleus RTOS, has made our Mercury system a success in the broadcast media industry."
"Accelerated Technology is dedicated to helping software developers like Trilogy build their products quickly and easily from conception to deployment. The Mercury system is a great example of how robust software and a responsive technical support team can help make technology successful in the wireless networking market," said Robert Day, director of marketing, Embedded Systems Division, Mentor Graphics.
Availability and Pricing
The Nucleus embedded software is licensed with source code and without royalty fees. Available now, licenses for the Nucleus RTOS start at U.S. $12,495. For more information, please contact Accelerated Technology at 800-468-6853.
About Mentor Graphics
Mentor Graphics Corporation (Nasdaq: MENT) is a world leader in electronic hardware and software design solutions, providing products, consulting services and award-winning support for the world's most successful electronics and semiconductor companies. Established in 1981, the company reported revenues over the last 12 months of about $675 million and employs approximately 3,800 people worldwide. Corporate headquarters are located at 8005 S.W. Boeckman Road, Wilsonville, Oregon 97070-7777; Silicon Valley headquarters are located at 1001 Ridder Park Drive, San Jose, California 95131-2314. World Wide Web site: http://www.mentor.com/.
Accelerated Technology, a Mentor Graphics division, is located in Mobile, Alabama with sales offices and distributors worldwide. By providing embedded systems developers with a focus on service, well-documented source code and industry-leading non-royalty-based Real-Time Operating Systems (RTOS) software including modeling software, prototyping tools, kernels, middleware and development tools. AT's suite of products shorten time-to-market and provide a complete solution for engineers. For more information, please email us at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Mentor Graphics, Accelerated Technology and Nucleus are registered trademarks of Mentor Graphics Corporation. All other company or product names are the registered trademarks or trademarks of their respective owners.
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The budget for national security of the United States has been estimated at $1.2 Trillion dollars for 2012.
Directly the intelligence agencies through the National Intelligence Program (NIP), is said to be $765.3 billion.
This figure does not include $818.4 billion, spent on "disability pensions and education programs." Also $59 billion is for "veterans' hospital and medical care", and the "soaring medical-care needs of veterans of the Iraq and Afghan wars"
A further $947.7 billion, is spent on "foreign affairs budget", $965.7 billion on US military retirees and former civilian Department of Defense employees.
"When the federal government lacks sufficient funds to pay all of its obligations, it borrows. Each year, it must pay the interest on this debt which, for FY 2012, is projected at $474.1 billion. The National Priorities Project calculates that 39% of that, or $185 billion, comes from borrowing related to past Pentagon spending."
In total the figure comes to $1,219.2 billion. (That's more than $1.2 trillion.).
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/201 ... 1-trillion
The Black Budget
This is estimated to be $54,6 billion dollars for the year 2011. These are for "classified intelligence operations in 2011."
"Congress appropriated $53.1 billion in 2010 to secret intelligence operations. That was a steep increase from 2009, when the intelligence community got $49.8 billion."
So how much of this budget is spent on domestic intelligence activities or R&D, this is something we can only speculate about.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/2 ... 63660.html
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/02 ... ck-budget/


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quote:These are real stats. People are becoming more dependant on government. And that is what our President wants.
quote:As soon as they see all of this positive economic data it's like kryptonite
quote:You live in a dream world, but it is not your fault. The liberal media skews facts all the time. These are real stats.
quote:The one thing I do believe is the unemployment figures are garbage. If discouraged workers were included you'd have a much clearer picture as to the state of the economy (as it relates to average workers). I think it would paint a pretty bad picture.
quote:What about the long term unemployed?
quote:The supposed housing recovery? Home sales were back down in December
quote: as they are most decembers? housing doesn't need to get too out-of-control again anyway, i'm with TM83 on that
quote:Do you know what is driving earnings? Reduced labor, less workers doing more work. Eventually you need to grow the top line to keep growth. Right now many big companies are crunching the middle. And all the piles of cash on hand? Do you know why? They dont want to invest right now. Do you know why? You need to read deeper in to that situation.
quote:December compared to past december.
quote:Do you just read headlines? Or just the liberal point of view?
quote:And one of the factors for long term unemployed is that some are better off not working because they only take a small pay cut.
quote:That is not made up stuff. I invest heavily and get tons of data on earnings and various industries. The retail industry continues to lay off to reduce labor costs. Therefore you have less people doing more. You read headlines and dont go deeper than that. And most news media is liberal so you buy it. Very gullible.
quote:Are we finally out of the recession?
quote:The month it just took my wife to find a $10/hour job to cover bills until i get out of school in march, i'd say no
quote:I'm not sure why people desire to have a fake inflated housing market again
quote:But keep in mind that one of the left's talking points in 2012 was "recovery" in the housing market
quote:Fuel has gone up?


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I feel a short flashback coming in. Maybe something similar to when Demo recounted Mimi's visit.
Sigment Kurosai wrote: understand now why they weren't showing her face... Something's up with her, though. This isn't just anger. It's almost like a meltdown. I wonder... Is that how it happens?
YesterdaysLingo wrote:So, what little bit of Sam that's left in her is.... Resisting her augmentations?
Why? Is her actions thus far been against her will? Is there a little bit of good in her?
Tenshi Nova wrote:Maybe seeing Buttercup in a weakened state will spark a memory.
Tenshi Nova wrote:Maybe seeing Buttercup in a weakened state will spark a memory.
Blood Lord wrote:Fuck yeah, looking like Blordy was right. Grim is there to save a Puff.
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