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Biography of Marilyn Monroe
Marilyn Monroe (born Norma Jeane Mortenson, June 1, 1926 (birth time source: birth certificate, Bob Garner, Astrodatabank) August 5, 1962; baptized Norma Jeane Baker) was an American actress, singer, model and film producer. After spending much of her childhood in foster homes, Monroe began a career as a model, which led to a film contract in 1946. Her early roles were minor, but her performances in The Asphalt Jungle and All About Eve (both 1950) were well received, and as her career progressed she became known as a sex symbol. She was praised for her comedic ability in such films as Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, How to Marry a Millionaire and The Seven Year Itch, and became one of Hollywood's most popular performers. The typecasting of Monroe's "dumb blonde" persona limited her caree...
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Biography of Abbé Pierre
L'Abbé Pierre (born Henri Antoine Grouès; 5 August 191222 January 2007) was a French Catholic priest, member of the Resistance during the World War II, and deputy of the Popular Republican Movement (MRP). He founded in 1949 the Emmaus movement, which has the goal of helping poor and homeless people and refugees. Abbé means abbot in French, and is also used as a courtesy title given to Catholic priests. He was one of the most popular figures in France, but had his name removed from such polls after some time....
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Biography of Nicolas Sarkozy
Nicolas Sarkozy, born Nicolas Paul Stéphane Sarközy de Nagy-Bocsa; 28 January 1955) is the 23rd President of the French Republic and ex officio Co-Prince of Andorra. He has served since 16 May 2007 and is set to step down on 17 May 2012 to make way for François Hollande. Before his presidency, he was leader of the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP). Under Jacques Chirac's presidency he served as Minister of the Interior in Jean-Pierre Raffarin's (UMP) first two governments (from May 2002 to March 2004), then was appointed Minister of Finances in Raffarin's last government (March 2004 to May 2005) and again Minister of the Interior in Dominique de Villepin's government (20052007). Sarkozy was also president of the General council of the Hauts-de-Seine department from 2004 to 2007 and...
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Biography of Monica Bellucci
Monica Bellucci (Italian pronunciation: ) (born 30 September 1964 (birth time source: Bordoni, birth certificate)) is an Italian actress and fashion model. Early life Bellucci was born in Città di Castello, Umbria, Italy as the only child of Brunella Briganti and Pasquale Bellucci, and she grew up in San Giustino. Career Modeling Monica Bellucci began modeling at age 13 by posing for a local photo enthusiast. In 1988, Bellucci moved to one of Europe's fashion centers, Milan, where she signed with Elite Model Management. By 1989, she was becoming prominent as a fashion model in Paris and across the Atlantic, in New York City. She posed for Dolce & Gabbana and French Elle, among others. In that year, Bellucci made the transition to acting and began taking acting classes. The Fe...
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Biography of David Bowie
David Bowie (/ˈboʊ.i/; born David Robert Jones; 8 January 1947 (birth time source: Scholfield, Astrodatabank) 10 January 2016) was an English singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer, arranger, painter, and actor. Bowie was a figure in popular music for over four decades, and was known as an innovator, particularly for his work in the 1970s. His androgynous appearance was an iconic element of his image, particularly in the 1970s and 1980s. Bowie's first hit song, "Space Oddity", reached the top five of the UK Singles Chart after its release in July 1969. After a three-year period of experimentation, he re-emerged in 1972 during the glam rock era with the flamboyant, androgynous alter ego Ziggy Stardust, spearheaded by the hit single "Starman" and the album ...
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Biography of Steve Jobs
Steven Paul Jobs (February 24, 1955 (source: his birth certificate) October 5, 2011) was an American computer entrepreneur and inventor. He was co-founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of Apple Inc. Jobs also previously served as chief executive of Pixar Animation Studios; he became a member of the board of directors of The Walt Disney Company in 2006, following the acquisition of Pixar by Disney. He was credited in Toy Story (1995) as an executive producer. In the late 1970s, Jobs, with Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, Mike Markkula, and others, designed, developed, and marketed one of the first commercially successful lines of personal computers, the Apple II series. In the early 1980s, Jobs was among the first to see the commercial potential of Xerox PARC's mouse-driven gra...
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Biography of Megan Fox
Megan Denise Fox (born May 16, 1986 (birth time source: Frank Clifford, Astrodatabank, BC)) is an American actress and model, perhaps best known for her roles on the television series Hope & Faith and in the 2007 film Transformers. Another source: the Facebook page of astrologer Alyssa Sharpe. She was her personal astrologer.) Personal life Fox was born in Oak Ridge, Tennessee and has Irish, French and Native American ancestry. She grew up in a 'very poor' household and has one older sister. Fox began her training in drama and dance at the age of 5, then moved to Florida when she was 10 years old, continuing her training, and finishing school. She began acting and modeling at the age of thirteen upon winning several awards at the 1999 American Modeling and Talent Convention in Hilton H...
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Biography of Juliette Binoche
Juliette Binoche (born March 9, 1964) is a French Academy Award-winning actress. Juliette Binoche was born in Paris on March 9 1964 to a sculptor father and an actress mother.At age 4 her parents were divorced and Binoche was dispatched to a boarding school with her sister Marion. She began acting in amateur stage productions, and at 17 she directed and starred in a student production of the Eugene Ionesco play, Le Roi se meurt. The next year, she studied acting at the National Conservatory of Dramatic Arts of Paris. She found an agent through a friend, and joined a theatre troupe that toured France, Belgium and Switzerland under the pseudonym Juliette Adrienne. After graduation, she followed her mother's footsteps and became a stage actress, occasionally taking bit parts in French f...
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Biography of Amy Winehouse
Amy Jade Winehouse (14 September 1983 23 July 2011) was a British singer-songwriter known for her powerful contralto vocals and her eclectic mix of musical genres including R&B, soul and jazz. The source for her birth time is http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Mountain-Astrologer-magazine/112278112664 Winehouse's 2003 debut album, Frank, was critically successful in the UK and was nominated for the Mercury Prize. Her 2006 follow-up album, Back to Black, led to six Grammy Award nominations and five wins, tying the record for the most wins by a female artist in a single night, and made Winehouse the first British singer to win five Grammys, including three of the "Big Four": Best New Artist, Record of the Year and Song of the Year. On 14 February 2007, she won a BRIT Award for Best Br...
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Biography of Mariah Carey
Mariah Carey (born March 27, 1969 or 1970 (birth time source: Astrodatabank. According to People magazine she was actually born in 1969. In response to fan inquiries about the correct date, a spokesperson of the magazine issued a statement, "we have a copy of Ms. Carey's driver's license, which lists her birthday as March 27, 1969. Furthermore, we spoke with the administrators at the high school she attended who confirmed that Ms. Carey's birthday is March 27, 1969, as did her management when we made our initial interview.")) is an American singer, songwriter, and actress. Born and raised on Long Island, New York, Carey came to prominence after releasing her self-titled debut studio album Mariah Carey in 1990; it went multiplatinum and spawned four consecutive number one singles on the U.S...
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Biography of Prince William, Duke of Cambridge
Prince William, Duke of Cambridge KG FRS (William Arthur Philip Louis; born 21 June 1982) is the elder son of Charles, Prince of Wales, and Diana, Princess of Wales, and third eldest grandchild of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. He is second in the line of succession, behind his father, to the thrones of sixteen independent sovereign states known as the Commonwealth realms: the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Jamaica, Barbados, the Bahamas, Grenada, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Belize, Antigua and Barbuda, and Saint Kitts and Nevis. Consequently, he is also second in line, again behind his father, to the position of Supreme Governor of the Church of England. He was educated at four ...
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Biography of Jennifer Lawrence
Jennifer Shrader Lawrence (born August 15, 1990 (birth time source: Viktor E., Astrodatabank, birth certificate)) is an American actress. Her first major role was as a lead cast member on the TBS sitcom The Bill Engvall Show (200709). She subsequently appeared in the independent drama films The Burning Plain (2008) and Winter's Bone (2010), for which she received her first Academy Award for Best Actress nomination; at the time, she was the second youngest person to receive a nomination in the category. At age 22, Lawrence's performance as Tiffany Maxwell in the David O. Russell-directed romantic comedy Silver Linings Playbook (2012) earned her critical acclaim and several awards, including the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress (Musical or Comedy) and the Academy Award for Best Actres...
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Biography of Alain Delon
Alain Delon (born 8 November 1935) is a French-born actor, one of the best known outside his native country. Delons star rose quickly, and by the age of twenty-three he was garnering comparisons to French screen legends such as Gérard Philipe and Jean Marais, as well as American actor James Dean. He was even called the male Brigitte Bardot. Not wanting to fall back on his looks, Delon tried to take roles that presented him with more of a challenge. In particular he took parts playing a thief or gangster. One of the remarkable qualities about Delons performances is that despite the immorality of many of the characters he plays, he manages to make them charming, even likeable. Over the course of his career, Delon has worked with legendary directors, including Luchino Visconti, Jean-Luc God...
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Biography of Jimi Hendrix
James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix (born Johnny Allen Hendrix; November 27, 1942 September 18, 1970) was an American guitarist and singer-songwriter. He is widely considered to be the greatest electric guitarist in music history, and one of the most influential musicians of his era. After initial success in Europe with his group The Jimi Hendrix Experience, he achieved fame in the United States following his 1967 performance at the Monterey Pop Festival. Later, Hendrix headlined the iconic 1969 Woodstock Festival and the 1970 Isle of Wight Festival. He often favored raw overdriven amplifiers with high gain and treble and helped develop the previously undesirable technique of guitar amplifier feedback. Hendrix, as well as his friend Eric Clapton, popularized use of the wah-wah pedal in main...
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Biography of Jared Leto
Jared Joseph Leto (born December 26, 1971 (birth time source: Grazia Bordoni database ('entertainment' file): "From him in person to an astrologer I know.", Astrodatabank)) is an American actor and musician. He began his career as a model before studying art, and then later, film and video. Leto gained fame during his role as Jordan Catalano in My So-Called Life. He has appeared in films such as Fight Club; Girl, Interrupted; Panic Room; American Psycho; Alexander; Requiem for a Dream; Lord of War and Mr. Nobody. He is the lead vocalist, rhythm guitarist and main songwriter for the American rock band 30 Seconds to Mars and has directed music videos under the pseudonym Bartholomew Cubbins (a name borrowed from Dr. Seuss' The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins). Career Early life and famil...
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Biography of Zayn Malik
Zain Jawaad Malik, better known as Zayn Malik, (born on 12 January 1993, in St. Luke's Hospital (birth time source: http://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=332435833530184&id=129080637199039)) is an English singer and member of One Direction, from West Lane Baildon, Bradford, England, UK, he is a British Pakistani. Born to mother Tricia and father Yaser, he has three sisters Doniya, Waliyha and Safaa. He grew up in East Bowling, located south of the Bradford city centre. Malik was a pupil at Lower Fields Primary School in East Bowling and went to Tong High School, a state comprehensive school.. He stated that as a child "I was a bit of a handful when I was a kid because I was quite hyperactive. Even in the house my mum used to put me in my pram because I was so full-on." Malik did...
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Biography of James Dean
James Byron Dean (February 8, 1931 (source for his time of birth: Steven Przybylowski, Astrodatabank, birth certificate)) September 30, 1955) was an American film actor. Dean's mainstream status as a cultural icon is best embodied in the title of his most cited role in Rebel Without a Cause as a troubled high school rebel filled with teenage angst. The other two roles that defined his star power was awkard loner Cal Trask in East of Eden and the surly, racist farmer Jett in Giant, which proved him capable of playing different roles. His enduring fame and popularity rests on only three films, his entire starring output. He was the first person to receive a posthumous Academy Award nomination for Best Actor and remains the only person to have two such nominations posthumously. Like many ot...
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Biography of Joaquin Phoenix
Joaquín Rafael Phoenix (born October 28, 1974 birth time source: YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2wiDKrXOoI it is a rectified time, not his time of birth)), formerly credited as Leaf Phoenix, is a two-time Academy Award-nominated, Golden Globe and Grammy Award-winning Puerto Rican actor. He is from a family of performers, most notably his brother, the late actor River Phoenix. Phoenix often plays supporting roles as conflicted, insecure characters with a darker side. Phoenix's first acting jobs were guest appearances on two television shows with his brother River: Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1982) and Backwards: The Riddle of Dyslexia (1984). He made his big-screen debut in Space Camp (1986), playing the role of Max, and his first starring role was in Russkies (1987). He we...
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Biography of Catherine Deneuve
Catherine Deneuve (October 22, 1943, in Paris, France (birth time source: Astrodatabank, Bordoni, birth certificate)), is an Academy Award-nominated French actress. A model of French elegance, cultivated lust object for art house filmgoers everywhere, and one of the best-respected actresses in the French film industry, Catherine Deneuve made her reputation playing a series of beautiful ice maidens for directors such as Luis Buñuel and Roman Polanski. The daughter of French stage and film actor Maurice Dorléac and actress Renée Deneuve, Deneuve was born Catherine Fabienne Dorléac, in Paris on October 22, 1943. She made her screen debut at the age of 13, with a role in the 1956 film Les Collegiennes, and went on to make a string of films with directors such as Roger Vadim (with whom sh...
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Biography of Yannick Noah
Yannick Noah (born May 18, 1960, Sedan, Ardennes, France) is a former professional tennis player from France. He is best remembered for winning the men's singles title at the French Open in 1983, and as a highly-successful captain of France's Davis Cup and Fed Cup teams. Since his retirement from the game, Noah has remained in the public eye as a popular music performer and as the co-founder of a charity organization for underprivileged children with his mother. Noah is of Cameroonian and French descent. Noah turned professional in 1977, and won his first top-level singles title in 1978 in Manila. Noah became France's most prominent tennis hero in 1983, becoming the first Frenchman in 37 years to win the French Open. He dropped only one set during the two-week long tournament, and...
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Biography of Colin Farrell
Colin James Farrell (born May 31, 1976 (birth time source: Sy Scholfield, Astrodatabank, accuracy in question) is an Irish actor who has appeared in several high-profile Hollywood films including Daredevil, Miami Vice, Minority Report, Phone Booth and S.W.A.T.. Early life Farrell was born prematurely, weighing 1 pound 6 ounces, in Dublin to Rita and Eamon Farrell. His father was a footballer who played for Shamrock Rovers FC. Farrell has three siblings, two sisters, Claudine and Catherine, and a brother, Eamon Jr. Farrell was educated at St. Brigid's National School in Castleknock followed by Castleknock College and Gormanston College. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, he was a promising young football player for Dublin team, Castleknock Celtic, as a goalkeeper. Farrell attended Th...
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Biography of Sean Penn
Sean Justin Penn (born August 17, 1960 (birth time source: Astrodatabank, Aaron Fischer) is an American actor, screenwriter, film director, activist, and politician. He is known for his left-wing political and social activism, including humanitarian work. He is a two-time Academy Award winner for his roles in Mystic River (2003) and Milk (2008), as well as the recipient of a Golden Globe Award for the former and a Screen Actors Guild Award for the latter. Penn began his acting career in television with a brief appearance in a 1974 episode of Little House on the Prairie, directed by his father Leo Penn. Following his film debut in 1981's Taps and a diverse range of film roles in the 1980s, Penn emerged as a prominent leading actor with the 1995 drama film Dead Man Walking, for which he ear...
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Biography of Jessica Biel
Jessica Claire Biel (born March 3, 1982 (birth time source: Nick Dagan Best, Astrodatabank, birth certificate)) is an American actress and former fashion model, and probably best known for her role as Mary Camden in the long-running family-drama series 7th Heaven and her roles in Hollywood feature films, most notably Summer Catch (2001), the 2003 remake of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and The Illusionist (2006). Early life Jessica Biel was born in Ely, Minnesota to Jonathan Edward Biel and Kimberly Conroe. Biel, who has a younger brother, Justin, grew up in Boulder, Colorado, where her family had moved when she was very young. She initially trained to become a vocalist with the hope of performing in musical theater and appeared in several musicals at an early age including The Sound of ...
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Biography of Elizabeth II
Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary ; born 21 April 1926 (birth time source: Fagan quotes official announcement AA 3/l976 , Astrodatabank)) is Queen of sixteen sovereign states that were once part of the British Empire, and their overseas territories and dependencies. She holds each crown and title equally, however she is most directly involved with the United Kingdom, her oldest realm and the place of residence of the Royal Family. Apart from the United Kingdom, Elizabeth II is also Queen of Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Jamaica, Barbados, the Bahamas, Grenada, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Antigua and Barbuda, Belize, and Saint Kitts and Nevis, where she is represented by Governors-General. The 16 countries of which ...
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Biography of Yasmine Bleeth
Yasmine Amanda Bleeth (born June 14, 1968 (birth time source: Paul Cerrito)) is an American actress. Her television roles include Caroline Holden in the long-running series Baywatch and Lee Anne Demerest on the soap opera One Life to Live. Early life and career Bleeth was born in New York City, the daughter of Carina, a model, and Philip Bleeth, a business proprietor. Her father is Jewish of Russian and German descent, her late mother Carina was of French and Algerian descent. Her earliest known acting role was in a Johnson & Johnson's No More Tears baby shampoo television commercial at age 10 months in 1969. At the age of six, she appeared on Candid Camera. Later that year she appeared in a Max Factor cosmetic advertising campaign with model Cristina Ferrare. Her work in this campai...
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Biography of Edith Piaf
Édith Piaf (December 19, 1915October 11, 1963) was one of France's most loved singers, who became a national icon. Her music reflected her tragic life, with her specialty being the poignant ballad performed in a heartbreaking voice. Among her most famous songs are "La vie en rose" (1946), "Hymne à l'amour" (1949), "Milord" (1959), "Non, je ne regrette rien" (1960). Early life Despite numerous published biographies, many facts and events of Édith's life are shrouded in mystery. She was born Édith Giovanna Gassion in Belleville, Paris, the high-immigration district later described by Daniel Pennac. Legend has it that she was born on the pavement of Rue de Belleville 72, but her birth certificate states she was born at Hôpital Tenon, the hospital for the 20th arrondissement of which Bell...
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Biography of Benedict Cumberbatch
Benedict Timothy Carlton Cumberbatch (born 19 July 1976 (birth time source "biography of Benedict Cumberbatch" by Nigel Goddall, "Benedict was born on Wednesday, July 19, 1976, in Hammersmith, West London, at 12:00pm, at Charlotte and Chelsea Hospital on Goldhawk Rd.") is an English film, television and theatre actor, voice artist and producer. His first West End theatre performance was as George Tesman in Sir Richard Eyre's revival of Hedda Gabler in 2005. Since then, he has had leading roles in Royal National Theatre productions After the Dance (2010) and Danny Boyle's Frankenstein (2011). His first main part on television was as the title character in Hawking in 2004. This was followed by notable television portrayals of Sherlock Holmes in the series Sherlock since 2010 and Christopher ...
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Biography of Alexander the Great
Alexander the Great (Greek: Μέγας Aλέξανδρος, Megas Alexandros; July 22, 356 BC (birth time source: Penfield, rectified time on http://www.esotericastrologer.org/EAauthorEssays/EAessaysMDR28.htm) June 10, 323 BC), also known as Alexander III, was an Ancient Greek king of Macedon (336323 BC). He was one of the most successful military commanders in history, and was undefeated in battle. By the time of his death, he had conquered most of the world known to the ancient Greeks. Following the unification of the multiple city-states of ancient Greece under the rule of his father, Philip II of Macedon (a labour Alexander had to repeat twice because the southern Greeks rebelled after Philip's death), Alexander conquered th...
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Biography of Pope Francis
Francis (Latin: Franciscus; born Jorge Mario Bergoglio; December 17, 1936 (birth time source: birth certificate)) is pope of the Catholic Church, elected on March 14, 2013, and taking the regnal name of Francis, after St. Francis of Assisi. He is the first Pope born in the Americas. Prior to his election, he served as an Argentine cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He has served as the Archbishop of Buenos Aires since 1998. He was elevated to the cardinalate in 2001. Early life Jorge Bergoglio was born in Buenos Aires, one of the five children of an Italian railway worker and his wife. After studying at the seminary in Villa Devoto, he entered the Society of Jesus on March 11, 1958. Bergoglio obtained a licentiate in philosophy from the Colegio Máximo San José in San Miguel,...
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Biography of Paul Walker
Paul William Walker IV (September 12, 1973 (birth time source: Viktor E. Astrodatabank, birth certificate)) November 30, 2013) was an American actor. He became famous in 1999 after his role in the hit film Varsity Blues, but later became best known for starring as Brian O'Conner in The Fast and the Furious film series. His other films include Eight Below, Into the Blue, She's All That, and Takers. He also appeared on the National Geographic Channel series Expedition Great White. Walker died as a passenger in a car crash on November 30, 2013, in Valencia, California. Early life Walker, the son of Cheryl (née Crabtree), a fashion model, and Paul William Walker III, a sewer contractor, was born in Glendale, California and raised in the San Fernando Valley area of Los Angeles County. H...
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Biography of Christy Turlington
Christy Nicole Turlington Burns (born Christy Nicole Turlington; January 2, 1969 (birth time source: Viktor E., Astrodatabank, BC)) is an American supermodel. She first represented Calvin Klein's Eternity campaign in 1989 and again in 2014 and also represents Maybelline. Turlington was named one of Glamour's Women of the Year in 2013, and was named as one of Time's 100 Most Influential People of 2014. Turlington gained fame in the late 80s and early 90s as a supermodel and was during the peak of her career as a top designer favourite. She, Naomi Campbell and Linda Evangelista are called the "Trinity" because of the power and fame that all three gained. In 2010, Turlington founded Every Mother Counts, a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to making pregnancy and childbirth safe f...
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Biography of Charlotte Casiraghi
Charlotte Marie Pomeline Casiraghi (born August 3, 1986, at the Princess Grace Clinic in Monte Carlo, Monaco) is the daughter of HSH Princess Caroline of Monaco (now styled HRH Princess of Hanover by marriage) and, Stefano Casiraghi, an Italian industrialist. She is named after her maternal great-grandmother, Princess Charlotte of Monaco. She is popular the with paparazzi and society reporters, who find her stylish good looks to be reminiscent of her mother and maternal grandmother, American Actress Grace Kelly. She has many relatives in the United States where her grandmother was from; when her mother, Princess Caroline, was younger, Charlotte would spend holidays at her grandparents home in Monte Carlo. Although she holds no title, she is fourth in line to the throne of Monaco....
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Biography of Tobey Maguire
Tobias Vincent "Tobey" Maguire (born June 27, 1975) is an American actor. He began his career in the 1980s, and has since become best known for his role as Peter Parker/Spider-Man in the Spider-Man films. Early life Maguire was born in Santa Monica, California, the son of Wendy (née Brown), a secretary turned screenwriter and producer, and Vincent Maguire, a construction worker and cook. His parents were 18 and 20 years old (and unmarried) at the time of his birth; the two married and subsequently divorced when Maguire was two. Maguire spent much of his childhood moving from town to town, living with each parent and other family members. During his childhood, Maguire entertained the idea of becoming a chef and to that end wanted to enroll in a home economics class as a sixth grader. ...
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Biography of Cher (entertainer)
Cheryl Sarkisian LaPiere (better known as Cher) (born on May 20, 1946 (birth time source: Contemporary American Horoscopes , Astrodatabank)), is an American actress, singer, songwriter, and entertainer. Among her many accomplishments in music, television, and film, she has won an Academy Award, a Grammy Award, an Emmy Award and three Golden Globe Awards. Cher first rose to prominence in 1965 as one half of the pop/rock duo Sonny & Cher. She also established herself as a solo recording artist, releasing 26 albums, numerous compilations and tallying 22 Billboard Top 40 entries over her career. These include twelve Top 10 singles and four number one singles. She became a successful television star in the 1970s, and a well-regarded film actress in the 1980s. In 1988, she won the Academy ...
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Biography of Aaliyah
Aaliyah Dana Haughton (January 16, 1979 (birth time source: Aaliyah by Tim Footman) August 25, 2001), known professionally as Aaliyah, was a Grammy Award winning American singer, dancer, model and actress. Introduced to audiences by R&B singer R. Kelly, Aaliyah became famous during the mid-1990s with several hit records from the songwriting/production team of Missy Elliott & Timbaland and their associate Steve "Static" Garrett. Aaliyah soon joined Timbaland's R&B and hip hop collective, the Superfriends Clique. Notable for recording several hit records, including several number one R&B hits, a number one pop hit, and nine top 10 singles on the Billboard Hot 100. She also modeled for Tommy Hilfiger and starred in two motion pictures before dying in a plane crash in the Bahamas. On A...
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Biography of Carmen Electra
Tara Leigh Patrick (born April 20, 1972), professionally known as Carmen Electra, is an American glamour model, television personality, singer and actress. After moving to California, she met singer Prince (a Minneapolis native), who persuaded her to change her name to Carmen Electra. Soon after, she signed a recording contract with Paisley Park Records, Prince's company, marking the start of a short-lived rap career, which included one album. In 1995, Electra started appearing in various television programs. Then, in May of 1996 she was featured in a nude pictorial in Playboy magazine, the first of several. This exposure led to higher profile television appearances, including Baywatch (cast member from 1997-1998) and MTV's Singled Out. She returned to Baywatch for the 2003 reunion m...
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Biography of River Phoenix
River Jude Phoenix (August 23, 1970 October 31, 1993) was an Academy Award-nominated American film actor. He was listed on John Willis' Screen World, Vol. 38 as one of twelve "promising new actors of 1986", and was hailed as highly talented by such critics as Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel. However, his career was cut short when he died of an overdose of heroin and cocaine on Halloween morning at age 23. He was the older brother of Joaquin Phoenix. His father, John Lee Bottom, came from a Catholic California family, while his mother, Arlyn Sharon Dunetz, was born in the Bronx to Margaret and Meyer Dunetz, Orthodox Jewish emigrants from Hungary and Russia. The two joined the Children of God religious group in the late 1960s and became missionaries, traveling throughout South America. Retu...
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Biography of Martine Aubry
Martine Aubry (née Delors, born 8 August 1950) is a French politician. She has been the First Secretary of the French Socialist Party since November 2008 and Mayor of Lille (Nord) since March 2001, and is considered a possible candidate for President of France in 2012. Aubry was born in Paris. Her father, Jacques Delors, was a former Minister of Finance under President François Mitterrand, and a former President of the European Commission. She joined the PS in 1974 and was appointed Minister of Labour by then-Prime Minister Édith Cresson, in 1991, but lost her position in 1993 after the RPR won the legislative elections. However, she became Minister of Social Affairs when Lionel Jospin was elected Prime Minister in 1997. She is mostly known for having pushed the controversial 35-h...
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Biography of Linda Goodman
Mary Alice Kemery popularly known as Linda Goodman (April 9, 1925 (birth time source: Astrodatabank, BC) October 21, 1995) was a New York Times bestselling American astrologer and poet. She is notable as the author of the first astrology book to make The New York Times Best Seller list. Early life and background Linda Goodman was born in Morgantown, West Virginia. Although Goodman never revealed her year of birth, swearing even her father to silence, it emerged posthumously that she was born in 1925. According to data collector Frank C. Clifford, Linda was born on April 9, 1925 in Morgantown, West Virginia at 6:05 a.m. Clifford cites Linda's birth certificate as his source. Her father's name was Robert Stratton Kemery. Her mother's maiden name was Mazie McBee. By her own account sh...
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Jane Fonda (born December 21, 1937) is a two-time Academy Award-winning American actress, writer, political activist, former fashion model, and fitness guru. Since the 1960s Fonda has appeared in several movies. She has won two Academy Awards and received several other awards and nominations. She initially announced her retirement from acting in 1991, and said for many years that she would never act again, but she returned to film in 2005 with Monster in Law, and later Georgia Rule released in 2007. She also produced and starred in several exercise videos released between 1982 and 1995. Fonda has served as an activist for many political causes, one of the most notable and controversial of which was her opposition to the Vietnam War. She has also protested the Iraq War and violence again...
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Benedict XVI (Latin: Benedictus XVI; born Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger; 16 April 1927) is pope emeritus of the Catholic Church. He served as the 265th pope from 2005 to 2013. In that role he was both the leader of the Catholic Church and Sovereign of the Vatican City State. Benedict was elected on 19 April 2005 in a papal conclave, celebrated his Papal Inauguration Mass on 24 April 2005, and took possession of his cathedral, the Archbasilica of St. John Lateran, on 7 May 2005. Ordained as a priest in 1951 in his native Bavaria, Ratzinger established himself as a highly regarded university theologian by the late 1950s and was appointed a full professor in 1958. After a long career as an academic, serving as a professor of theology at several German universitiesthe last being the University...
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Calvin Cordozar Broadus, Jr. (born October 20, 1972 (birth time source: Astrodatabank, birth certificate)), better known professionally as Snoop Dogg and previously Snoop Doggy Dogg, is an American rapper, record producer, and actor. Snoop is best known as an MC in the West Coast hip hop scene, and for being one of producer Dr. Dre's most notable protégés. His catch phrase is widely known as "fo' shizzle, ma nizzle", meaning, "for sure, my nigga". That style of slang was invented by Frankie Smith and The Gap Band in the early eighties, and popularized in part by fellow rapper E-40, much of which is simply derived by adding an "izz" or "-izzle" sound to the end of a word. He is also known for working with Tupac. His mother nicknamed him "Snoopy" as a child because of the way he dressed a...
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Colin Andrew Firth (born 10 September 1960) is an English film, television, and stage actor. The source for his time of birth is http://www.librarising.com/astrology/celebs/colinfirth.html. Firth gained wide public attention in the 1990s for his portrayal of Mr. Darcy in the 1995 television adaptation of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. He received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor for his role in A Single Man, a performance that won him a BAFTA Award. At the 83rd Academy Awards in 2011, Firth won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of King George VI in The King's Speech, a performance that also earned him the Golden Globe, BAFTA, and Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actor. Firth's other major film credits include The English Patient, Shakespeare in Love, ...
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Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer (May 21, 1960 November 28, 1994) was an American serial killer. He murdered at least 17 men and boys between 1978 and 1991 (with the majority of the murders occurring between 1989 and 1991). His murders were particularly gruesome, involving acts of forcible sodomy, necrophilia, dismemberment, and cannibalism....
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Jane Mallory Birkin OBE (born 14 December 1946) is an actress and singer. Birkin was born in London, England to David Birkin, a Royal Navy commander and World War II espionage hero, and Judy Campbell, an actress in Noel Coward musicals. Her great aunt was Freda Dudley Ward, a mistress of Edward VIII while he was Prince of Wales. Career Birkin emerged in the swinging '60s in London, starring as one of the models in the controversial film Blowup in 1967. In 1968, Birkin went to France to audition for the lead female role in Slogan. Though she did not speak French, she got the role. In 1969, she and Serge Gainsbourg released the song "Je t'aime... moi non plus" ("I love you... me neither"), written by Gainsbourg and featuring both of them singing, which caused a scandal for its s...
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Usher Raymond IV (born October 14, 1978), is an American R&B/pop singer and actor who rose to fame in the mid-late 1990s. To date, he has sold approximately over 35 million albums worldwide and has won five Grammy Awards. Usher is also a part owner of the Cleveland Cavaliers National Basketball Association franchise. Albums Usher (1994) My Way (1997) Live (1999) 8701 (2001) Confessions (2004) The Masterpiece (2007) Filmography Movies 1998: The Faculty 1999: She's All That 1999: Light It Up 2001: Texas Rangers 2005: In the Mix 2006: The Ballad of Walter Holmes 2007: Mama, I Want To Sing! Television 1996: The Parent Hood 1997-1999: Moesha 1998: The Bold and the Beautiful 2000: Geppetto 2001: 7th Heaven 2002: The Twilight Zone 2003: Soul F...
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Intel Starts Program for Atom Developers
Mobile applications, popularized by iPhone and Android, are getting some further encouragement from chipmaker Intel and its Atom platform.
An Intel Atom Developer Program announced at the current Intel Developer Forum focuses on the energy-saving Atom mobile processor. Targets for the applications are netbooks and the mobile internet devices (MID) introduced by Intel.
The challenge is directed to developers that have specialized in applicable systems and runtime environments such as Moblin, Windows, Java and Adobe Air. Intel will provide prospective participants a portal and will follow up with an SDK.
Apart from the usual help given to developers, the Atom Developer Program promises marketing opportunities. Completed applications can be sold at the Intel AppStore or distributed freely. End-users can load AppStore on the device and get recommendations for apps to buy and download. The program motto is "Learn. Develop. Sell." With these three phases, Intel invites developers into the free process.
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Nextcloud Announces Raspberry Pi-Powered Home Cloud Box
Innovative system adds a hard drive and Ubuntu Core to the RPi for an IoT hub.
Linus Torvalds Confirms the Date of the First Linux Release
Linux is two weeks younger than we thought!
End of OpenOffice?
The Apache Software Foundation considers retiring OpenOffice
Adobe Gives New Life to NPAPI Plugin for Linux
Adobe won't kill the plugin in 2017
LinuxCon North America Convenes in Toronto, Canada
Linux Foundation's big event celebrates the 25th anniversary of Linux
Linux Turns 25
Linux has evolved from "won't be a professional" project to one of the most professional software projects in the history of computers.
Mirantis Joins Hands with SUSE To Offer RHEL Support; Red Hat Not Happy
Competitors get in the game with RHEL without Red Hat
Linux on Windows 10 Poses a Security Risk
Security researchers have already notified Microsoft; some fixes are available
Mirantis to Refactor OpenStack Fuel for Kubernetes
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Canonical Joins Document Foundation Advisory Board
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- American City Business Journals•5 months agoEatern Mountain Sports, Bob's Stores owner files for bankruptcy, looks to sale
Vestis Retail Group LLC, the parent company of Eastern Mountain Sports, Bob's Stores, and Sport Chalet, today announced that it has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, and that it has devised a "long-term success" plan that involves selling two of the three retail chains. As part of that filing, the Meriden, Connecticut-based company proposed the sale of EMS and Bob's to Philadelphia-based private equity firm Versa Capital Management LLC, whose affiliates already own Vestis,would acquire substantially all of the company's remaining assets. Separately, the company plans to wind down the Sport Chalet chain, which operates 47 stores in California, Arizona, mostly in the Los Angeles and Phoenix areas, plus two stores near Las Vegas.
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Taking the low road to war: Washington and the Corporate Media are in Full Propaganda Mode on Ukraine
By Dave Lindorff
The lies, propaganda and rank hypocrisy emanating from Washington, and echoed by the US corporate media regarding events in Ukraine are stunning and would be laughable, but for the fact that they appear to be aimed at conditioning the US public for increasing confrontation with Russia – confrontation which could easily tip over the edge into direct military conflict, with consequences that are too dreadful to contemplate.
End the Drug War: Happy Pot Legalization Day!
A Special Report today on the issue of ending Marijuana Prohibition and the massively destructive War on Drugs, by TCBH! collective journalist Linn Washington, Jr. and three students in his Temple University journalism class:
Marijuana: Facts and Falacies, by Linn Washington
'Heading towards a police state': Conversation with a Police Chief
By Dave Lindorff
The bigger threat is the National Security Agency: Despite Heart Bleed, the Internet's Alive and Well!
By Alfredo Lopez
Some are calling it a "worst nightmare". There have been dire predictions that it represents the end of the Internet or that there is, in fact, no real Internet security or that Free and Open Source Software is dangerous to use.
One thing is sure. The week-old saga of the Heart Bleed flaw (or bug) and its potential exploits has shown more light on the Internet and its security issues than anything else in recent memory.
Brazil's 1964 Coup: What 'Communist Conspiracy'?
By Michael Uhl
Surprise, surprise!: Government Exonerates FBI's Lax Investigation of Suspected Boston Bomber
By Dave Lindorff
Fury punches out early: Striking a Blow for Disarmament in Maine Shipyard
By Dave Lindorff
Let us pause to honor Charles Fury.
A program to take over human communications?: The Drones of Facebook (and the NSA)
By Alfredo Lopez
"Connectivity," Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a CNN interview last year, "is a human right."
A program to take over human communications?: The Drones of Facebook (and the NSA)
By Alfredo Lopez
"Connectivity," Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a CNN interview last year, "is a human right."
What are they hiding?: Some Serious Problems with the FBI's Killing of a Witness in Florida
By Dave Lindorff
In the voluminous report issued by Florida State's Attorney Jeff Ashton's Office on the killing in Orlando last May 22 of a witness/suspect under interrogation by the FBI -- an investigation that concluded that the shooting was "justified" -- there is not a single mention of the bruise and contusion on the left side of Todashev's head.
Florida State's Attorney takes a dive on FBI slaying probe Two Law Enforcement Officers, Two Stories of a Witness Killing: Who'
By Dave Lindorff
The Florida State's Attorney for the Orlando region, Jeffrey Ashton, today released his conclusion at the end of a 10-month investigation into the FBI slaying of Ibragim Todashev, a suspected witness in the Boston bombing case, saying that he will not be prosecuting the agent. Ashton ruled that the killing, in which the agent, at the end of a nearly 5-hour May 21 interrogation in Todashev's Orlando apartment, fired seven bullets into Todashev, killing him justifiably, after being attacked.
Did the FBI Snuff a Boston Marathon Bombing Witness? Dark Questions About a Deadly FBI Interrogation in Orlando
By Dave Lindorff
(This article was written as an exclusive for Counterpunch magazine, where the full story can be read, along with photos of the crime scene)
Making the whole US a war zone: Crime's Down, So Why is Police Aggression Increasing?
By Dave Lindorff
Gen. Jim Jones Didn't Disclose Industry Ties Before Testimony at Keystone XL Hearing
Cross-Posted from DeSmogBlog
The U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee held a hearing today (March 13) on the U.S. State Department's national interest determination for the northern half of the proposed TransCanada Keystone XL tar sands pipeline.
Gen. Jim Jones Didn't Disclose Industry Ties Before Testimony at Keystone XL Hearing
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The U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee held a hearing today (March 13) on the U.S. State Department's national interest determination for the northern half of the proposed TransCanada Keystone XL tar sands pipeline.
World Has No Idea How U.S. Decides on Wars
People from Yemen and Pakistan and elsewhere have told me, and have testified in the U.S. Congress, that they have a hard time convincing their neighbors that everyone in the United States doesn't hate them. There are buzzing killer robots flying over their houses night and day and every now and then blowing a bunch of people up with a missile with very little rhyme or reason that anyone nearby can decipher. They don't know where to go or not go, what to do or not do, to be safe or keep their children safe. Their children have instinctively taken to crouching and covering their heads just like U.S. children in the 1950s were taught to do as supposed protection from Soviet nuclear weapons.
The good news is that, of course, we don't all hate Yemenis or Pakistanis or Somalis or Afghans or Libyans or any of the other people who might suspect us of it. The bad news -- and the news that I'm afraid would be almost incomprehensible to many millions of people around the world -- is that most of us have only the vaguest idea where any of those countries are, some of us don't know that they ARE countries at all, and we pay far greater attention to our sports and our pets than to whom exactly our government is killing this Tuesday.
This obliviousness comes into sharpest relief perhaps when we elect the officials who are legally called on to decide on our wars. The extent to which Congress has handed war making over to presidents is also brought out by observing Congressional elections. It is not at all uncommon for U.S. Congressional candidates' platforms to entirely ignore all questions of war and peace, and to win support from either Democrats or Republicans despite this omission -- despite, in particular, taking no position on the area funded by 57% of the dollars they will vote on if elected, namely wars and war preparations.
Here in Virginia's Fifth Congressional District, a man named Lawrence Gaughan recently announced as a Democratic candidate for Congress. I'd never heard of him, so I took a look at the "Issues" section of his website. Not only WAS there such a section (some candidates campaign purely on their biography without taking positions on anything), but Gaughan's site had clear forthright statements on a number of important issues. He backed labor unions despite their virtual nonexistence in his district. He admitted the existence of climate change. He backed Eisenhower era tax rates (!!). And his statements made commitments: "I will not vote for any tax cuts for those making over 250,000 dollars a year." "I support the Dream Act." "I would vote for any legislation that would bring back jobs in construction, manufacturing and production." Either this guy had real principles or he was just too new for anyone to have explained to him how to make his promises vague enough not to commit himself to any specific actions.
All too typically, however, when I scrolled through the "Issues," I noticed a gap. I sent this note off to the candidate's staff:
"Your candidate has some of the best and clearest positions on domestic issues that I've seen, and dramatically superior to Congressman Hurt's, but judging by his website as it stands today he seems to have no position on foreign policy whatsoever, or even on that 57% of discretionary spending that, according to the National Priorities Project, goes to militarism. For people who support domestic social justice AND peace in the world in this district, we are put in a bind by our history. Congressman Perriello voted for every war dollar he could, and has made a career of pushing for new wars since leaving office. Congressman Hurt is a disaster on other issues but listened to us and took a stand against missile strikes on Syria. He even listened to us on lawless imprisonment and voted against a "Defense" Authorization Act on one occasion. Helpful as it is to know what Lawrence Gaughan thinks of 43% of the budget, some of us are really going to have to know what he thinks of the larger part. Would he cut military spending? Would he oppose new wars? Does he oppose drone strikes? Would he repeal the authorization to use military force of '01 and that of '03? Would he support economic conversion to peaceful industries on the model now set up in Connecticut? Would he advance a foreign policy of diplomacy, cooperation, actual aid, and nonviolent conflict resolution? Are there any foreign bases he would close? Does he think having U.S. troops in 175 nations is too many, too few, or just right? Does he support joining the ICC? Thanks for your time!"
A couple of days later, Gaughan called me on the phone. We talked for a while about foreign policies, wars, peace, militarism, the economic advantages of converting to peaceful industries, the danger of handing war powers over to presidents. He said he opposed wars. He said he wanted to take on the influence of the military industrial complex. He didn't seem particularly well informed, but he seemed to be coming from a fairly good place or to at least be willing to get there.
He proposed allowing military veterans to never pay any taxes. That's not exactly the sort of resistance to militarism that President Kennedy had in mind when he wrote that wars would continue until the conscientious objector has the honor and prestige of the soldier. Gaughan offered no tax cuts for conscientious objectors. Still, he said he'd get some good statements on foreign policy added to his website right away. He also said he'd be willing to debate the other candidates, including the incumbent, on foreign relations, should peace groups create such a forum and invite him.
Lo and behold, the next day, this appeared on Gaughan's website:
"We have strayed from our constitution when it comes to the defense of our nation and declaration of war. I was opposed to the war in Iraq for many reasons. The enormous price paid by our brave men and women as well as the huge financial debt that we incurred was not necessary. Republicans in Congress continue to defer those costs on our military personnel and our veterans through the sequester and other austerity measures.
"Not withstanding the government shutdown, the Republican budget proposals that my opponent, Robert Hurt, has voted for over the past three years, have forced the Pentagon into reductions that have taken a tremendous toll on enlisted personnel right here in our district. These political policies are also causing reductions to TriCare, active duty health benefits, and to retired military pensions. As the greatest nation on earth, it is unacceptable that we have homeless veterans or military families who struggle to pay the bills.
"We owe so much to the men and women who serve. Instead of laying off soldiers and cutting funding for the VA, we could begin by eliminating the ongoing fraud by military contractors. Fraud committed by dozens of irresponsible military industry corporations have cost taxpayers more than $1.1 trillion. Eliminating this fraud would offset most of the estimated $1.2 trillion in policy savings required over the next decade in order to realize the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities estimated $1.4 trillion in deficit reduction without 'gutting our military'. Furthermore, as a component of tax reform, there should be a tax exemption status for veterans written into the tax code."
His topic, all too typically -- people around the world should understand -- is not how to relate to the 95% of humanity that is not in the United States, but how to treat "The Military."
His first sentence echoes our discussion of the past three-quarters century of undeclared wars, but doesn't spell it out. Will he oppose wars that lack a Congressional declaration or not?
He picks one past war to oppose without stating his position on future wars. He describes the costs of a war that killed some million Iraqis and destroyed a nation as all being paid by the U.S. and its soldiers.
He blames the sequester agreement on only one of the two parties that agreed to it, and buys into the myth that it has resulted in cuts to the military. (True, Democrats in the Senate recently put up a token effort to fund veterans' needs and were blocked by Republicans.) Gaughan claims that we owe "so much" to members of the military who "serve." What exactly do we owe them? Can he name something that we owe them? He doesn't want soldiers to be "laid off," as if employing them is a make-work jobs program.
In my view we owe veterans housing, healthcare, education, a clean environment, and a healthy society because they are human beings -- and we owe it equally to every other human being. But we shouldn't pretend that the military's so-called "service" isn't making us hated around the world. We shouldn't try to produce more veterans as if there were something noble about murdering people.
Gaughan almost closes on an up note. He acknowledges fraud by military contractors. He even calls them "military," rather than using the misleading term "defense." But then he makes clear that he doesn't want to cut the military. He wants to create efficiency to avoid cuts while saving money.
Would he repeal authorizations to use military force? Who knows. Would he back future wars? Who can tell? Does he believe U.S. troops should be in 175 nations? Perhaps. But if they were in 182 would he then think 182 was the right number? Does he favor allowing presidents to murder people with missiles from drones or by any other means? Does he think antagonizing Russia and China and Iran should remain the focus of U.S. foreign policy? Does he want the occupation of Afghanistan ended? Who knows.
He brought up a Department of Peace on our phone call, but it didn't make the website yet. One can hope that Gaughan's website is a work in progress. There's certainly a chance he'll become a far better candidate and Congress member than this district has had in a long time.
But this, dear world, is more or less how the world's largest-ever killing machine operates. It turns its eyes away from the machine's work and, if pushed, debates the care of the machine itself -- maintaining more or less complete obliviousness to the horrors the machine produces in those far away places where you live and die.
Ego trumps principle: Sen. Feinstein Finally Goes after the CIA, but not for Lying to and Spying on Us
By Dave Lindorff
Of all the people to come to the rescue of the Constitution, who would have thought it would be Sen. Diane Feinstein (D-CA).
Feinstein, after all, as head of the Senate Intelligence Committee since 2009, has yet to see an NSA violation of the Constitution, an invasive spying program or a creative "re-interpretation" of the law that she hasn't applauded as being lawful and "needed" to "keep people safe."
If they drop these charges, why not all of them?: Crowd-Sourcing, Crowd Support and Barrett Brown's Partial Victory
By Alfredo Lopez
Federal prosecutors last week dropped several of the most significant charges facing Internet activist and journalist Barrett Brown -- charges that could have drawn a jail sentence of 105 years.
The New Crimean War: Balls, Brains and History
By John Grant
Making political sense out of the events in Ukraine and Crimea has become great sport. Does it mean a new Cold War? Is Vladimir Putin a better, more "potent" man than Barack Obama? Who has bigger balls?
An Honest Article About Military Spending and Corruption Gets Printed by Associated Press
Chris Rickert: Bipartisanship sets sail aboard the USS Defense Spending
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Forget about national tragedies, Olympic success or sitting down over a couple of beers.
Nothing brings people together like military spending.
What else could get the thumbs-up from a tea party debt hawk, a cheerleader for "new politics," one of the most liberal Democrats in the Senate, and a massive, left-leaning educational bureaucracy?
Last month, three Wisconsin members of Congress criticized plans from Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel to curtail production of the Navy's littoral combat ship, which is made in Alabama and Wisconsin's own Marinette Marine.
Then last week, UW-Madison backed a bill in the state Legislature that would end a ban on federally funded classified research - including military research - in the UW System and make UW-Madison one of only three Big Ten universities to allow it.
When not proposing $1.4 trillion in federal spending cuts and producing episodes in his "victims of government" series, Sen. Ron Johnson seeks to explain his support for the LCS program as a matter of military readiness, not love of the government contract.
"Sen. Johnson supports the building of the ships and the LCS program," spokeswoman Melinda Schnell said, "but he by no means feels it is within his role as a U.S. senator to tell the Navy how many of these ships it needs."
U.S. Rep. Reid Ribble, whose district includes Marinette, takes a similar tack. His chief of staff said the ship is needed, wanted and comparatively cheap.
Ribble, incidentally, is part of a bipartisan effort called No Labels, which touts itself as "dedicated to a new politics of problem solving." I guess "new politics" still includes the military-industrial complex.
Speaking of which, in a Feb. 4 statement, Sen. Tammy Baldwin - "a long-time supporter of the LCS program in Wisconsin" -says the LCS program has a "ripple effect across the state, boosting our Made in Wisconsin economy." No word on whether her support will cause waves among her many peacenik supporters.
In Madison - where college students once rioted against recruiters from napalm-making Dow Chemical - a spokeswoman for today's student government said the organization is not taking a position on the possible return of classified national security research some 40 years after opposition to the Vietnam War led the UW System to ban it.
The university and the lobbying arm of its Faculty Senate are behind the effort, though, which I suppose is no surprise given the university's soft spot for secrecy.
Under the original version of the classified research bill, the university lobbied for a provision that would have exempted a broader swath of research from the state's open records law. That idea was ultimately dropped.
For, well, obvious reasons, peace-minded, military-wary liberals should support curbs to the LCS program and oppose academic research on waging war.
You'd think conservatives would support calls to reduce spending. And secret military research is a little too reminiscent of black helicopters and jackbooted government thugs not to give libertarian-minded conservatives pause.
But principles stand little chance when federal largesse is on the line.
Pentagon Calls Climate Change Impacts "Threat Multipliers," Could Enable Terrorism
Cross-Posted from DeSmogBlog
The U.S. Department of Defense released the 2014 version of its Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR) yesterday, declaring the threat of climate change impacts a very serious national security vulnerability that, among other things, could enable further terrorist activity.
Released every four years, the QDR is a broad outline of U.S. military strategy discussing how to maintain global U.S. military hegemony. Like the 2010 document, the 64-page 2014 QDR again highlights the threats posed to national security by ever-worsening global climate disruption.
Not funny, but it's still hard not to laugh: How Can the US Accuse Russia of Violating International Law?
By Dave Lindorff
If you want to make moral or legal pronouncements, or to condemn bad behavior, you have to be a moral, law-abiding person yourself. It is laughable when we see someone like Rush Limbaugh criticizing drug addicts or a corrupt politician like former Sen. John Ensign (R-NV) voting for more prisons, more cops, and tougher rules against appeals of sentences.
The same thing goes for nations.
Budget Realignment Reflects Pentagon's Vision of Covert and Endless War
Criticizing repression of protest abroad, practicing it at home: What if Americans Demanded the Ouster of This Government?
By Dave Lindorff
Ukraine's new rulers, in one of their first acts, have disbanded that country's riot police.
From Space4Peace:
Secretary of War Chuck Hagel yesterday announced the Obama administration's Pentagon budget proposal for the coming year. Despite mandates for cuts in military spending after agreements with Congress under sequestration, Hagel actually calls for an increase of more than $115 billion for war making.
The Hagel budget basically calls for cuts in Army ground forces and cutbacks in military pay, housing and commissary facilities on bases. Life for the enlisted will become more difficult. The Pentagon is also calling for the closing of a few National Guard posts in some states.
Hagel calls for 'sustaining' the Pentagon's nuclear triad - air, ground, and sea delivery systems of nuclear weapons. Also called for is an increase in drones and robotic forces as well as significant expansion in cyber warfare capabilities.
Wall Street immediately reacted by joyfully giving Lockheed-Martin all-time high stock gains. The writing on the wall is clear - cuts in troop levels and increase in high-tech space directed war-making capability.
We will see an expansion of US "hidden" wars in the near future and the Obama budget reflects this reality. While Hagel wants to pare back the size of the active-duty military by 13% and the reserves by 5% in coming years he would boost the size of Special Operations forces by about 6%. The plan is to add more than 3,000 personnel to the kinds of special ops forces teams that reportedly killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan.
These same clandestine forces now operate in more than 75 countries around the world. In his film "Dirty Wars" investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill reports on the largely unaccountable Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) that is now doing targeted assassinations, destabilization, and training of right-wing and terrorist forces used by the US in places like Ukraine, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Libya, Yemen, Somalia, Syria, Venezuela and beyond. The corporate oligarchy is moving rapidly to consolidate their total control of the people around the world and the US is playing its role of "security export" rather well.
Mainstream media reports of the Hagel announcement also tag two key places on the planet that will receive special emphasis from this new budget. Those are the African continent and the Asia-Pacific. This is where the long-range military operations planning and funding are heading.
Our organizing (no matter whether it is local, regional, national or international) needs to take into account this very fundamental direction the Obama supported military complex is tacking toward.
Secretary Hagel's Cuts Don't Translate into Less Spending
On Monday, Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel gave a speech at the Pentagon that announced cutbacks in a number of military programs:
- Reductions in military personnel in the active-duty Army, Army National Guard, Army Reserve, and Marine Corps
- A pay freeze for flag officers and generals
- A reduction in benefits for active-duty personnel and their families
- Elimination of some weapons systems, including the Air Force A-10 Attack Jet and U-2 spy plane fleet, and reduction in the number of Navy littoral combat ships
However, despite all of these changes, the new Pentagon budget does not project a commensurate decline in spending.
The president is expected to propose an additional $26 billion for the Pentagon in 2015, on top of the spending limits agreed to in the Bipartisan Budget Agreement. In addition, the Pentagon receives many tens of billions in additional funding to operate wars overseas, officially known as "Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO)," and that money isn't subject to caps.
"Five-year spending projections at the Pentagon show that it plans to exceed the spending caps of sequestration by $115 billion over the next five years," said Jo Comerford, NPP Executive Director. "We must hold Secretary Hagel to his promise to make tough choices in Pentagon spending, including examining the OCO 'slush fund.' As a nation, we must redefine what we mean by security and listen to the people's priorities for how to spend our tax dollars."
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If you're a small-town police chief, or perhaps the chief of a university security department, the US Department of Defense has got a deal for you!
Thanks to the ending of the Iraq War, and the winding down of the war in Afghanistan, the Pentagon has 11,000 heavily armored vehicles that it has no use for. Called MRAPs—Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected—they are designed to protect against AK-47s, rocket-propelled grenades and IEDs. And as pitchman Paul Richards used to say of the '69 Pontiac Firebird, "They're practically giving them away!"
Correction, they are giving them away.
All a local police department has to do to get itself an 18-ton MRAP—which originally cost taxpayers between $400,000-$700,000 complete with gun turret and bullet-proof windows—is send a few cops to pick it up and pay for the gas.
There are a few downsides: the things get only five miles to the gallon, can't go over most bridges (or under them), and have a nasty habit of tipping over on rough terrain.
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Amazing. You 'tolerance' types certainly are intolerant. You scream, shout, and pout at every sign of criticism.
Looking through the comments, I discovered that JWF has a blog. Tsk, tsk. Seems that any sign of criticism, however minor, is interpreted by you and your followers as a 'right wing Christian plot'. Get real. This comic simply isn't that important. You're not oppressed, any of you, you just want to be.
Well, I'm through with this strip now. JWF, I would have posted this on your blog, but, given your response to criticism, you now strike me as the type to scream 'harrassment', so I'll put it here.
You, in my opinion, are listening to the wrong people. You like your pom-pom girls here, but they aren't the ones who are paying or would be paying for your strip. If you want to make your strip successful, why don't you follow the money? Note, again, I pay for my subscription to GoComics, but most, if not all, of your cheerleaders do not. Think about it.
I never thought that a cartoonist or anyone else could please all the people all the time. The point I have been making - and the one that JWF has made - is that he isn't pleasing enough people to make the strip pay and there has to be a reason for that. You see, indulging himself isn't going to pay the bills: that's the reality of life, including life for cartoonists.
As for dealing with it - your way of saying, go away if you don't like it - I am. I will be dropping the strip. I just wanted to be polite and see if JWF had anything else to say in light of my response to his response.
Before I dropped it, I wanted to let JWF know why I was dropping it. If I just do it without saying, which I know would have made you more comfortable, then he would never be able to learn anything.
Feedback, you might have heard, is about more than just pom-pom girls cheering from the sidelines.
I note, though, by the way, that the majority of the pom-pom girls don't have 'Genius' by their names. If you are all so fired up about this strip, why not pay to subscribe to this site like I do?
Hello, JWF,
Thank you for taking the time to read my post and respond to it.
Yes, I pay for my GoComics subscription, a year in advance, and so does my husband (we each have a subscription). That's what the 'Genius' by my name signifies. So, if GoComics puts money your way, then you have been getting a bit of ours.
As for newspapers, I can't read your strip in them, or any other strip, for that matter as I don't live in the US (or Canada).
At one time, I had been considering asking whether there was to be a collection, but as it is, if it included the recent stuff, wouldn't buy it. The early stuff, yes, but not that.
As for gay characters, I can't say I really like what I see as the advocacy part of the strip. I don't like strips that try to preach to me or try to present role models to me. I find it boring and tedious. I have the feeling that I am being pushed to like Boyd because he is gay, to show that I am 'right on' or something and I don't like that at all.
I can't say that I am surprised that American newspaper readers aren't that thrilled with the strip, as they are a pretty conservative lot. That's their right, of course, and should be respected.
The problem is that I suspect that these readers do not feel respected by anyone. Every time they turn around, they are having some politically-correct statement shoved down their throats. Mustn't say this because it might offend that group. Must profess to liking that because it makes some other group feel better. Must feel guilty about this, that, and the other.
They may view the comics page as their last refuge, and then comes along a controversial strip with gay characters… And not just any gay characters at that, but ones that have adopted a little girl. How would you feel in their place? Don't they have a right to a point of view? Or is that just reserved for 'minority' groups these days?
You may think I am over-reacting, but, until recently, I lived in Britain. People have been arrested in Britain for making mild jokes that simply make a bit of fun about gay lifestyles - unless they are gay themselves, of course, and then they have carte blanche. How fair is that?
People's lives have been ruined by political correctness. One wrong step, the wrong person overhears something you say, or misinterprets something you have done, and you can be banged up in a cold police cell in the middle of winter, with no blankets, no food, inadequate water, and bright lights on all the time. They will then interrogate you for several hours. They might charge you, they might not. They will certainly try to get you to accept a caution (a type of conviction). But whatever happens, your name will go on a list and you will likely lose your job and probably your home. If you have children, they may be taken away from you.
My point is that political correctness isn't just some abstract thing that is harmless. Its followers have destroyed and killed people. Putting gay characters in a strip, especially ones that adopt a child, cannot be seen as anything but political correctness, even if that is not how you mean it to be seen.
Again, thank you for responding to my comments. I'm sorry that the story will continue because then that means I will drop the strip. At least you now know why and that may help.
I hope that the cartoonist drops the Drew storyline. Frankly, I have been frustrated with this strip as of late. I started reading it because the characters were shallow, catty, and fun.
It has of late been in danger of turning into a soap opera strip, though, and not a very good one at that. All I ask from a strip is a bit of entertainment, not preachiness, not role models, and certainly not the sort of drama you can find in women's magazines. If that is what this strip turns into, though…well, I'll drop it.
Oh, I know. Some of you will say, 'the cartoonist can do as he likes.' Yes, he can. And so can I. Or are you advocating forcing people to read strips?
Or, perhaps some of you will say, 'go draw your own strip if you don't like it.' Why? Why do I have to be a cartoonist to have a preference about which comic strips I read if I don't like them?
Or perhaps I might be told 'get with the 21st century'. Right, so if I don't like something, then I'm old-fashioned. If I don't like something, maybe I'm not politically correct. Maybe I'm a big, bad reactionary who doesn't deserve to read this strip. Attitudes like that will really bring in the readers, I think not.
Or, maybe some of you will say, 'we like it, so go away.' Fine. But the cartoonist has said he wants more people to read his strip. He has said that he needs the money. As I understand it, as a paying customer of GoComics, a little of the money they receive from subscribers of each comic goes to the cartoonist, so if I no longer subscribe to this comic, that's less money for the cartoonist.
The Meaning of Lila has 20400 subscribers, which is less than the number of subscribers to the zombie strips, Dick Tracy (22522 subscribers) and Cathy (27598 subscribers). Now the number of subscribers for this strip is not going to grow if they become alienated. If it simply becomes a preachy strip to show off how 'with it' the cartoonist thinks he is.
In the end, as with all art, it is the paying customers who determine what they do and do not find acceptable. It is those who pay who command the piper. If the cartoonist wants more readers, and, more to the point, more readers' money, then he should cater to their tastes. Anything else is just self-indulgence and arrogance.
It's probably been said before but that definitely look like Warbuck's silhouette. He's tricky and all that is Warbucks but would he be involved with something like this?
I don't applaud this 'effort' at all. I see it as just one in a long string of promises, and we know how good Pandolph is at keeping his promises, don't we?
I, too, do not like Greene with Envy. The world does not need another strip about people living in the suburbs. The strip, at the very least, requires a drawing style that handles facial expressions better. Oh, and, better jokes. GWE is just lame. That's why I stopped reading it.
At any rate, I expect we are coming to the end of Barkeater Lake, Toby and GWE. I don't read the Elderberries because I don't find it funny. So that is the end of any support I had for Pandolph.
Maybe someday, when no-one buys his books and no-one reads any of whatever comics he gets around to doing, Pandolph will realise just how badly he treated his former fans. But I doubt it. He will probably just play the victim and blame everyone but himself.
It's really annoying that this strip has not been updated for several days now. As usual.
Yes, I know, there's this, that, and the other that keeps the cartoonist from working on it. I really wish, though, that he would either reliably produce this strip and Toby or just end them. This halfway house is no good for anyone.
I don't like violence like this against men. She had no right to slap him. I'll bet that no-one would have published it if he had slapped her.
I know I won't be popular for saying this, but I prefer Toby and Barkeater Lake. There really isn't a need for another slice of suburban life strip and I don't find this one compelling at all. I will keep an eye on it in case it gets better, but…
Even if Gil did overuse Marty, even if his advice to go professional instead of going to university was poor, Marty is an adult. Marty should get over it and stop trying to blame others for his problems. He, after all, didn't protest. He, after all, signed the contract. His problem is not what did or did not happen in the past but his own lack of responsibility.


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They are all among the 10 most fascinating people of 2011, according to veteran US journalist Barbara Walters.
Middleton, 28, younger sister of Prince William's new wife Kate, was named on Wednesday along with British reality TV guru Simon Cowell, singer Katy Perry and businessman Donald Trump as making the list in Walter's annual ABC TV special.
Walters will announce the number one most fascinating person of 2011 when the 90-minute show Barbara Walters Presents the 10 Most Fascinating People of 2011 airs on December 14.
Other celebrities making up the top 10 most prominent names in entertainment, sport and pop culture include baseball star Derek Jeter, and Modern Family actors Eric Stonestreet and Jesse Tyler Ferguson who play a gay couple on the Emmy-winning TV comedy.
Middleton found unexpected fame during the British royal wedding in April when she wore a figure-hugging white dress as maid of honour to her sister Kate. She has been a constant fixture in US and British celebrity media ever since.
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2003 Nissan Maxima Sedan SE 4dr Sedan (3.5L 6cyl 6M)
I love this car.I bought it used in 2006 with 77k on it.I drove it for 5 years and just sold it with 160k on it.The car is fast, gets good gas mileage, looks good, and is super reliable. Over the course of 5 years I replaced 2 sensors in the car and that was it. I liked the car so much that I went out and bought another one. The new one is a 2003 as well with only 60k on it. I can't wait to drive this car another 100k.
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Purchased this car used with about 8k miles on it. New, it stickered for about $31K, but I picked it up for about $21K, a real bargain. This is a fun car. I've only had 3 problems with the car: At around 25k miles the Speed Sensitive Volume became erratic. Nissan changed out the Bose unit, it was fine for a few months and then the problem came back. They replaced the unit again and suggested if it happened again they would probably replace the amp. Both times were under warranty; no charge. No problems since. I now have about 68k miles, and a few months ago the front psgr window motor was replaced due to some sticking. That's it. This car is reliable.
Bose stereo, automatic climate control, heated seats, leather still looks almost new. Still no squeaks or rattles. Very well built, solid car. Car has great power, but replace the tires when due or the torque will spin them at every launch. Or try starting in second gear.
6th gear could be taller for better highway mileage, but at 70mph I get 29mpg. Saw 30.7mpg once. City mileage is deplorable. Stop-go gets about 17mpg. The computer consistently reads about 3.5mpg better than actual. Never use the OEM Bridgestones - dangerous in the rain. Use Mich Pilot Sport A/S.
I've owned my Maxima since 2004 and it has been a great car. The car is loaded and also has a 6 speed, which is fun to drive and is fast for a family sedan. There is a lot of room in the car and trunk for my family. The car has had minimal repair work (tires, brakes, exhaust system). I've got 89k miles and the car still looks great and runs well. I've noticed a slight drop in the acceleration but that is to be expected with time. I would highly recommend this car to anyone looking.
6 speed manual, roomy, large trunk, Bose sound system, quality.
Mileage, premium gas, tires are expensive.
I'd recommend this car as shown by the ratings. A few minor things to pick on. I'm 6'1", and this car is too small for me. My head is buried in the roof (moonroof actually) unless the seat is really reclined. Bose radio, heated seats and window safety switch all broke. Leaky window seals. Handles poorly in the rain and snow, but can be compensated for by an appropriate tire. Still, a very good car.
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Hopefully all new maximas are sold with traction control.
We purchased this car used, knowing that it was an ex-rental previously. If ever there was an invitation for disaster, this would be it. And yet
this was a 2003 Nissan Maxima SE, allegedly a Japanese BMW, available for pennies on the dollar compared to new. As the old saying goes; even a blind squirrel finds an acorn now and then. And boy did we ever! Im 64 tall and still fit comfortably. Acceleration is impressive, as is fuel economy (even while using regular), the handling brings out the teen in me (I'm mid 50's now), and yet it is still a functional and dependable sedan and business mode of transportation with which to entertain clients in.
The drive train - no second thoughts here! Great power curve, minimal torque steer, quiet, and vibration free. Plus fuel economy exceeding estimates. Im mid 50s now, but the suspension and overall handling bring back the young man in me on winding curves of the California Coast highway.
It's tough to improve in this package. However, if I had to be critical, I'd find fault with the rear end treatment. The tail light assemblies just don't work for me. Now, if Nissan could drop the 2003 power train into the '09 body and interior... I'd be working a deal on a new one as we speak!
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The gargantuan CVS drugstore chain has ordered its nearly 200,000 employees to disclose personal health information - weight, height, body fat, blood pressure, cholesterol, blood sugar - or they will have a $600 penalty added to their annual health-insurance bill.
CVS public-relations director Michael DeAngelis sees it differently, telling me that employees who take the survey will pay $600 less for health coverage.
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So ridiculous I sell calls right at the bottom and then it surges up a dollar in 2 seconds how does that happen?
I don't know. All I know is that I'm trying to buy to close the put I sold yesterday. Sold it for .55, buying back for .05 (I hope.)
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