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|Daily newspaper
|Grupo Folha
|Otavio Frias Filho
|19 February 1921
|Political alignment
|liberal; centre-right
|Alameda Barão de Limeira, 425
São Paulo, Brazil
|Official website
Folha de S. Paulo, also known as Folha de São Paulo, or simply Folha (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈfoʎɐ]), is a Brazilian daily newspaper founded in 1921 under the name Folha da Noite and published in São Paulo by Empresa Folha da Manhã.
The newspaper is the centerpiece for Grupo Folha, a conglomerate that also controls UOL (Universo Online), the leading Internet portal in Brazil; newspaper Agora São Paulo; polling institute Datafolha; publishing house Publifolha; book imprint Três Estrelas; printing company Plural; and, in a joint-venture with the Globo group, the business daily Valor, among other enterprises.
Throughout its history, Folha has always been a nimble publication, more responsive to social needs than its main competitors, all of which identified with the political and business ruling classes. It went through several phases and was targeted at different audiences – urban middle classes, rural landowners, the civil society -, but political independence has always been one of its editorial cornerstones.[1]
Ever since 1986, Folha has the biggest circulation among the largest Brazilian newspapers – according to data by IVC (Instituto Verificador de Circulação), in January 2010, circulation was 279,000 copies on weekdays and 329,000 on Sundays. In company with "Estado de São Paulo" and "O Globo", Folha is regarded as one of the most influential daily news vehicles in Brazil. Among daily newspapers, Folha has also the news Website with the largest number of visitors.[2]
Folha was founded on February 19, 1921, by a group of journalists led by Olival Costa and Pedro Cunha, under the name Folha da Noite. It was an evening newspaper, with a project that privileged shorter, clearer articles, focusing more on news than on opinion, and a positioning closer to the themes that affected the daily life of the paulistanos (São Paulo city dwellers), particularly the working classes. The paper was competing against O Estado de S. Paulo the leading newspaper in the city, which represented rural moneyed interests and took on a conservative, traditional and rigid posture; Folha was always more responsive to societal needs.[3]
Business flourished, and the controlling partners decided to buy a building to serve as headquarters, a printing press and then, in 1925, to create a second newspaper, Folha da Manhã. Also in 1925, Folha da Manhã premiered Juca Pato, a cartoon character drawn by Benedito Carneiro Bastos Barreto (1896-1947), better known as Belmonte. Juca Pato was supposed to represent the Average Joe, and served as a vehicle for ironic criticism of political and economic problems, always repeating the tagline "it could have been worse".
The two Folha newspapers criticized mainly the Republican parties that monopolized power back then; the newspapers campaigned for social improvement. The company was involved in founding the Democratic Party, an opposition group. However, in 1929, Olival Costa, by then sole proprietor of the Folhas, mended his fences with the São Paulo Republicans, and broke his links to opposition groups connected to Getúlio Vargas and his Aliança Liberal.
In October 1930, when Vargas led a victorious revolution, newspapers that opposed him were attacked by Aliança Liberal supporters.[4] Folha's premises were destroyed, and Costa sold the company to Octaviano Alves de Lima, a businessman whose main activity was coffee production and trade.
Alves de Lima's initial goal, when he took over the newspapers in 1931, was defending the "agricultural interests", meaning rural landowners.[5] But important events elsewhere became the focus for news organizations: the 1932 revolution, when São Paulo tried to recover the power lost to Vargas; the World War II (1939 to 1945), and the Estado Novo (the Vargas dictatorial period that extended from 1937 to 1945).
Alves de Lima had no news experience, and so he charged poet Guilherme de Almeida with directing the company, and chose Rubens do Amaral as newsroom head; Amaral led a newsroom staffed by journalists hostile to Vargas. Hermínio Saccheta, a Trotskyite who was briefly a political prisoner under Estado Novo, became an executive news editor as soon as he left jail.
The dictatorial administration put political pressure onto news organs, and in São Paulo it took as its main target the daily O Estado de S. Paulo, a major supporter for the 1932 revolution. The newspaper's director, Júlio de Mesquita Filho, was arrested three times and forced into exile, and "Estado" was under intervention by the authorities from 1940 to 1945. With its main rival muzzled, Folha da Manhã took a leading role in voicing opposition to Vargas' dictatorship.
This critical stance is one of reasons offered to explain a change in ownership during 1945. According to João Baptista Ramos, brother of João Nabantino Ramos – one of the company's new controlling partners, with Clóvis Queiroga and Alcides Ribeiro Meirelles -, buying the Folhas was a maneuver Getúlio Vargas engineered to get rid of the oppositionist viewpoint Rubens do Amaral, a sworn enemy of "getulismo", gave to the paper's news coverage.
Queiroga, on his part, represented Count Francisco Matarazzo Júnior, barred from owning press outlets in Brazil because he was born in Italy. Matarazzo financed the purchase of new, modern printing presses and saw the investment as a way to respond to the attacks he suffered from newspapers owned by his business rival Assis Chateaubriand.
One of the weapons he developed for this battle was reducing the sales price of the Folhas in order to suffocate the business of Diários Associados, Chateaubriand's company. However, the ploy backfired. Nabantino Ramos balanced those losses against the Count's initial financing and, some months later, declared that the company's debt to Matarazzo was fully paid and took over editorial control of the papers.[4]
Nabantino Ramos, who was an attorney, was very interested in modern managerial techniques, and during the 1940s and 1950s adopted several innovations: competitive examinations for new hires, journalism courses, performance bonuses, fact checking.[3] He wrote a newsroom manual and editorial policy guidelines.
In 1949, Ramos started a third newspaper, Folha da Tarde, and sponsored dozens of civic campaigns against corruption and organized crime, for the defense of water sources, infrastructure improvements, city works, and plenty more.[1]
However organized as an executive, Ramos lacked business acumen and was not flexible enough to negotiate credit lines and balance budgets. In the early 1960s, the company was suffering due to a rise in the prices of printing paper. The three newspapers were merged under a new title, Folha de São Paulo, in 1960, but initially the morning, afternoon and evening editions were kept. However, with a worsening financial situation, only the morning edition survived.
Things deteriorated further in 1961, after the news staff organized a strike that forced the company to pay higher wages and grant them additional benefits. That meant additional costs for the paper. On August 13, 1962, the company was sold to entrepreneurs Octavio Frias de Oliveira and Carlos Caldeira Filho.
Frias and Caldeira became, respectively, CEO and COO of the company, and started their tenure by seeking to balance the newspaper's financial position. Frias chose scientist José Reis, one of the leading lights in the Brazilian Association for the Advancement of Science (SBPC), as newsroom head, and also hired Cláudio Abramo, the journalist credited with the successful updating of rival "O Estado de S. Paulo". Abramo would take Reis' place and form a productive working partnership with Frias that extended for more than 20 years. In 1964, Folha de S. Paulo supported the coup that overthrew President João Goulart, and his replacement by a military junta; the military role would be only temporary—or so at least it was thought.
After the financial and business hardships were left behind, the new management started to concentrate on industrial modernization and in creating a distribution network that would facilitate the circulation leaps that would follow. The company bought new printing presses and equipment in the United States. In 1968, Folha became the first Latin-American newspaper to adopt the offset printing system. In 1971, it pioneered a new innovation: lead typesetting was replaced by cold composition. The newspaper's circulation was improving and its share in the advertising market was growing.[1]
Late in the 1960s, Frias even formed the nucleus of a national TV network, adding to TV Excelsior, which led in audience in São Paulo and he acquired in 1967, three other stations in Rio de Janeiro, Minas Gerais and Rio Grande do Sul. However, Caldeira didn't like the TV business and the partners sold their TV companies in 1969.
The early 1970s were a turbulent period for Folha. Accused by guerrilla groups of lending vehicles to the military regime repressive apparatus, Folha became a target for guerrilla action. Guerrilla groups intercepted and burned three of Folha's delivery vans, two in September and one in October 1971, and made death threats against the newspaper owner.
Octavio Frias de Oliveira responded with a first page editorial entitled "Banditry", and stated that he wouldn't accept the aggressions or threats. That was followed by an article on the news bulletin of ALN, a guerrilla group, in which Frias was classified as an enemy of the organization and Brazil. The bad blood between the newspaper and the left wing groups deepened and reached a climax with the editorial "Political Prisoners?", published in 1972,[6] in which the newspaper challenged the notion that there were people jailed for their political ideas in Brazil. The editorial was also a response to rival "O Estado", for its defense of a special jail regime for political prisoners. The editorial claimed: "It is well known that those criminals, whom the daily [Estado] wrongly qualifies as political prisoners, are just bank robbers, kidnappers, thieves, arsonists and murderers, acting sometimes with more exquisite perversity than those other, lowly common criminals, that the media outlet in question thinks deserving of all promiscuity".
The episode has also caused an internal crisis. One week later, the newspaper suspended its editorials. Later that same year, Cláudio Abramo lost his position as newsroom head, and Folha would only claim back a more avowedly political stance, instead of the uncritical "neutrality" adopted when editorials were suspended, late in 1973.[7]
More innovative than its competitor, Folha started to gain hold of the middle classes that were growing under the Brazilian "economic miracle", and became the newspaper of choice for young people and women. At the same time, it put effort into news areas that were not well covered in Brazil up to that time, like business news, sports, education and services. Folha supported the concept of a political opening and opened its pages to all opinion trends, and its news coverage adopted a more critical stance.[1]
Frias believed in an editorial policy nonpartisan and pluralistic, able to offer the widest range of views about any subject, and he found a skilled collaborator in Cláudio Abramo, the newspaper's editorial director from 1965 to 1973, followed by Ruy Lopes (1972–73) and Boris Casoy (1974-1976).
Abramo took over once again in 1976/77, but then a crisis caused by an attempted military coup against President Ernesto Geisel led Frias to bring back Casoy. Abramo reformulated the newspaper and led the first of many graphic reforms that would follow, in 1976; he hired columnists such as Janio de Freitas, Paulo Francis, Tarso de Castro, Glauber Rocha, Flavio Rangel, Alberto Dines, Mino Carta, Osvaldo Peralva, Luiz Alberto Bahia and Fernando Henrique Cardoso.[4] Folha became one of the main forums for public debate in Brazil. Contrary to some expectations, this editorial posture was preserved and developed by Casoy during his tenure (1977-1984). In 1983/1984, Folha was the main bastion for the Diretas Já movement, an attempt to change the voting system adopted for presidential selection, from a Congressional vote to direct popular voting.
In 1984, Otavio Frias Filho became the editorial director, systematizing and developing the newspaper's experiences during the political opening and Diretas Já. A series of documents circulated periodically, defining the newspaper's editorial project as part of the so-called Projeto Folha, implemented in the newsroom under the supervision of Carlos Eduardo Lins da Silva and Caio Túlio Costa. The guidelines for Projeto Folha require critical, nonpartisan and pluralistic news coverage. Those principles also guide the Newsroom Manual, first released in 1984 and updated several times later on. More than a style guide, it serves as a guide to the rules and commitments Folha works under. It was the first publication of its kind to be made available to the general public.
The guidelines stipulate that Folha's journalism should be descriptive and accurate, but that themes that cause controversy can admit to more than one viewpoint and require a pluralistic treatment. Folha also became known for its highly diverse selection of columnists. At the same time, checks and balances were instituted through internal controls: the Manual, the daily "Corrections" section adopted in 1991, a rule stating that objections to any article expressed by readers or for people mentioned in the news should be published, and, above all, the ombudsman position created in 1989; this position entails job security for its holder, whose aim is to criticize Folha and deal with complaints by readers and people mentioned in the news.
From the midpoint of the Brazilian military rule, Folha kept a critical stance towards several succeeding administrations (Ernesto Geisel, João Figueiredo, José Sarney, Fernando Collor, Itamar Franco). Otavio Frias Filho was sued, with three of Folha's reporters, by then President Fernando Collor.
Although Folha expressed support for Collor's liberalizing economic views, it was the first publication to appeal for his impeachment, which finally came in 1992. The newspaper's coverage about the administrations of Fernando Henrique Cardoso (PSDB) and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) led to accusations of anti-governmental bias in both cases, though the two Presidents belong to rival parties.
Beginning with the exposure of a massive fraud on the Norte-Sul railway (1985), and through the Mensalão scandal (2005), Folha kept revealing abuses and misrule.
In 1986, Folha became the newspaper with the largest circulation among big Brazilian dailies, and it still leads today. In 1995, one year after reaching the landmark of one million copies for its Sunday edition, the company put into operation its new printing center, seen as the most technologically advanced in Latin-America. The company's circulation and sales record was set in 1994, with the launch of the "Atlas Folha/The New York Times" (1,117,802 copies for the Sunday edition.)
Currently, Folha extended its range of communication activities, with newspapers, databanks, a polling institute, a newswire, a real-time news and entertainment service, a printing company for magazines and a delivery company.
In 1991, all shares of Empresa Folha da Manhã then belonging to Carlos Caldeira Filho were transferred to Octavio Frias de Oliveira, Folha's publisher until his death in 2007. Folha's executive editors since 1984 have been journalists Matinas Suzuki (1991-1997), Eleonora de Lucena (2001-2010) and Sérgio Dávila (from March 2010).
In 1967, Folha adopted full-color offset presses, becoming the first large-circulation publication to do so in Brazil. In 1971, the newspaper replaced lead typesetting with the first cold composition system in Brazil. In 1983, when its first computer terminals were installed, it became the first computerized newsroom in South America. In 1984, Folha launched its first newsroom manual; those books would in time become valuable reference works for students and journalists. The manual was updated in new editions launched in 1987, 1992 and 2001.
In 1989, Folha became the first Brazilian media vehicle to appoint an ombudsman, charged with receiving, evaluating and forwarding complaints by the readers, and to present critical comments both about Folha and other media vehicles. Nine journalists have occupied this position since then: Caio Túlio Costa, Mario Vitor Santos, Junia Nogueira de Sá, Marcelo Leite, Renata Lo Prete, Bernardo Ajzenberg, Marcelo Beraba, Mário Magalhães and Carlos Eduardo Lins da Silva. In February 2010, Suzana Singer was appointed to the position.
In 1995, when the Folha Printing and Technology Center started operations in Tamboré (near São Paulo), this modern printing plant built at a cost of US$ 120 million allowed Folha to circulate with most of its pages in full color.
In the first half of 2012, Folha carried the following sections and supplements:
Daily sections/supplements
Weekly sections/supplements
Monthly magazine: Serafina (São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Brasília only)
In early 2012, Folha had correspondents, either full-time or research fellows, in the following cities:
1^ According to the ad itself, "I qembu le sizwe" means "selection" in the African language Zulu. The Brazilian team is widely known in Brazil simply as "Seleção" (Selection).


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Terence the lamb is new NT recruit (From Andover Advertiser)
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11:00am Tuesday 15th April 2014 in National News © Press Association 2014
Verity Sharpe, 13, with Terence the lamb at the National Trust's Arlington Court property in Devon. (Steven Haywood/National Trust/PA)
A wobbly lamb has become the latest member of staff at a National Trust property.
Terence was not expected to survive when he was born at Arlington Court near Barnstaple, Devon.
The Jacob sheep, who was one of twins, struggled to walk and was very small, so was taken away from his mother.
He is now being reared by Murray Sharpe, head ranger at Arlington Court, who bottle-feeds Terence every four hours.
Terence spends all his time with Mr Sharpe and travels in his Land Rover across the 2,700-acre estate.
He also attends meetings and helps Mr Sharpe greet visitors at the property, which is home to a historic herd of 65 Jacob sheep.
"Easter is always a really busy time at Arlington and this year is no exception, with record numbers of sheep in lamb," Mr Sharpe said.
"Fortunately Ter ence has really fitted into the team and seems quite happy to accompany me on the wide range of tasks I have each day. He certainly adds a certain sparkle to our team meetings, it must be said.
"Our visitors at this time of year are able to meet all our lambs and sheep in their natural environment and learn about the role they play here at Arlington."
Sheep have been farmed at Arlington Court for more than 100 years and are a traditional way of grazing the land.
This year, the property has welcomed 31 lambs from 17 ewes, most of which have been "doubles", with one "triple".
Arlington Court was home to the Chichester family for more than 6,000 years, until Rosalie Chichester left the estate to the National Trust in 1949.

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Born in London; Hugo began his professional career at Bristol in 2000 and the fullback has won 59 caps for Scotland. He joined Wasps with Club experience in England, Scotland and France under his belt having previously played at Bristol Worcester, Edinburgh and Stade Francais.
The product of Eastbourne College made his international debut for Scotland in 2004 against Samoa and played in every match from his debut until injury put an end to his 30 game run in the 2007 Six Nations.
Southwell is also a keen cricketer. He was coached at Eastbourne College by the former West Indian test cricketer John Shepherd. Having played three One Day matches for the Sussex Cricket Board as a batting all-rounder before deciding to concentrate on rugby.
Hugo became a very popular member of the side with fans and players alike and at the end of his first season (2011/12) he was awarded the Players Player of the Year after a fine and assured first year, captaining the side on many occasions.
After a successful first season with Wasps, Hugo was named Club Captain for the 2012/13 season. He made 28 appearances for the Club, surpassing 50 appearances for the Club overall and scored 3 tries.


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Ending Oxford United's slide is all that counts - Waddock (From Herald Series)
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Ending Oxford United's slide is all that counts - Waddock
9:20am Friday 25th April 2014 in United News By David Pritchard, Chief Sports Reporter covering Oxford United. Follow us on twitter: @oxfordmailoufc. Call me on 01865 425458
PRIDE, rather than permutations, is the priority for Gary Waddock tomorrow afternoon as Oxford United's head coach seeks to halt a rotten run.
It is only a week since they headed into the Easter games in control of their fate.
But 1-0 defeats to York City and Scunthorpe United see the U's with the near-impossible task of bridging a five-point gap to the play-offs with only two games remaining.
It leaves them needing favours from elsewhere, but whether they materialise or not, Waddock's focus is on United's clash with Accrington Stanley.
He said: "Our first port of call is to win a football match, that's what we need to do.
"I said to the players at half-time at Scunthorpe about pride and about being winners.
"That's what we need to get."
There has been little sign of a honeymoon period since Waddock took over last month.
United have lost five of their six games since, with the stylish 2-0 win at Plymouth Argyle the exception rather than the rule.
But the side's slump had started well before his arrival.
Since their long unbeaten run on the road ended with a 3-2 defeat at Newport County in February, just eight points have been collected from 13 games.
The sequence is so bad that if the Sky Bet League Two table was reset that night, the U's would now sit three points adrift at the bottom.
It looks set to cost them a place in the play-offs, but while Waddock can point to some unfortunate setbacks – notably a freakish own goal at Dagenham and a harsh penalty conceded against York – it will not be offered as an excuse.
He said: "I wasn't here in the early part of the season, but from the outside it was a very good start.
"Then we've had an horrendous run of results, if I'm honest.
"We've had some bad luck during that, but at the end of the season you end up where you should finish.
"They say during the course of the season it works itself out in terms of luck and things like that.
"So we'll finish where we deserve to finish."
Waddock was very clear after the defeat at Scunthorpe on Easter Monday that he would not tolerate average performances.
With a host of contract decisions to make next month, the game against Accrington tomorrow and Northampton next week will be significant. The U's boss insists there is still time for players to play themselves into – or out of – his plans for next season.
He said: "Some may think they have a deal, some may think they haven't, but it's up to them to push it over the line."
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10:59am Fri 25 Apr 14
Joe1 says...
11:22am Fri 25 Apr 14
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1:10pm Fri 25 Apr 14
howardl says...
Joe1 wrote:Like at Portsmouth and Torquay?
Amazing how when new Managers take over @ other clubs they can make a difference. Not with our Club, same old rubbish, can't score & unable to control the Midfield areas.
2:48pm Fri 25 Apr 14
dave from witney says...
howardl wrote:The Portsmouth manager has put together five straight wins hasn't he since he was appointed?
Joe1 wrote:Like at Portsmouth and Torquay?
Amazing how when new Managers take over @ other clubs they can make a difference. Not with our Club, same old rubbish, can't score & unable to control the Midfield areas.
6:17pm Fri 25 Apr 14
DuberryandBeanofan says...
Joe1 wrote:Maybe the wool was put over our eyes..our home form has been wretched all season long, if we had won more then we had won or drawn we would be in the top 7. I'm not blaming Waddock for the mess we are in or have been..these players are from Wilder's era..2 seasons now we have missed out on a play-off place. Keep Clarke & Mullins.
Amazing how when new Managers take over @ other clubs they can make a difference. Not with our Club, same old rubbish, can't score & unable to control the Midfield areas.
8:51pm Fri 25 Apr 14
Richard Wickson says...
Oxokuba wrote:Cynical but oh so accurate.
A thrilling 0-0 draw against a resilient Accy will be celebrated by the players as a valiant effort to making sure the play offs were out of reach for another season..... cynical me
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Could the Penguins be looking to reunite with their former defenseman? Reportedly, he'll be with the team, via trade or free agency, once the lockout ends.
Raw Charge continues it's conversation with Vancouver Canucks blog Nucks Misconduct, focusing on goaltending and the unsettled future of Roberto Luongo and COry Schneider.
Speculation from the Blues beat writer took on a life of its own Tuesday and other news and notes from around the NHL.
Oh, [the Panthers are] not about to deal away any of their prized prospects for a goalie who has become a punching bag in Vancouver. The abuse via social media has turned pretty nasty, remarkably so considering Luongo carried the Canucks to a Game 7 in the Stanley Cup Finals just over 12 months ago. Nor is there any hurry for the Panthers to work a deal with the Canucks, to whom Mike Keenan shipped Luongo in a fit of ego six years ago.The South Florida Sun-Sentinel's Mike Berardino; that "fit of ego" part is golden on so many levels.
There is one thing that is abundantly clear as the dust settled on the first day of the 2012 "free agency frenzy" -- there are a number of Dallas Stars fans that are incredibly frustrated at the...
[This article was written before the Aaron Rome contract was announced.] The Dallas Stars, like most teams around the NHL, were much quieter and reserved on the first day of free agency when many...
We sit just under 24 hours from the start of the 2012 NHL Free Agency period and Dallas Stars fans still have no idea of what to expect from General Manager Joe Nieuwendyk and owner Tom Gaglardi....
The Dallas Stars are just two days away from a very important time for the organization, as the rebuilding* plan under new owner Tom Gaglardi continues when NHL Free Agency kicks off at 11 a.m....
Know this from the Panthers: They've decided [over the] weekend they're going to see this Luongo thing through. They're going to focus on it seriously. Know this, Part 2: Canucks GM Mike Gillis also will see this through. He's not giving Luongo away. If the proper deal isn't there this summer, he's prepared to have Luongo come to camp and wait until a team gets serious into the season before the trade deadline. The question is, would Luongo be OK with that?ESPN's Pierre LeBrun - as connected a guy as there is in pro hockey circles - following the 2012 NHL Entry Draft. UPDATE: TFP is reporting Canucks want Nick Bjugstad (link below). UPDATE #2: Discussion has been relocated here.
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One person is dead and two more are injured following an overnight fire at 28 Glen St.
The call came in just before 4:30 a.m. Saturday morning.
Lt. Thomas Paquin of the Holyoke Fire Department told CBS 3 that fire was showing in every window of the house when they first arrived.
While officials have yet to release her identity, CBS 3 media partner Mass Live and The Republican reported that 15-year-old Halee Hilton was the person who died in the fire.
Hilton, who was taken to the medical examiner's office, was found on the second floor of the house.
Crews had to rescue a woman from the roof of the porch and she was taken to Baystate Medical Center.
The extent of her injuries are not known at this time.
Lt. Thomas Paquin said the cause of the fire is accidental and that it began in the area of the family's wood-burning stove.
One firefighter suffered a knee injury while fighting the blaze.
He was treated and released.
The homeowner's pet dog was resuscitated on scene and brought to the Thomas J. O'Conner Animal Center.
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Anyone For Real Gold and Silver Circulating Coins?
By Richard Schwary, California Numismatic Investments
A return to the gold standard and circulating legal tender coins made from real gold and silver has been talked about since we stopped making gold coins for circulation in 1933 and silver coins for circulation in 1964.
Behind this talk was the notion that since we stopped making real money (specie) there was no precious metal backing to these coins or currency and so their value in purchasing power plummeted and created economic problems.
This violation of the legislative statue, so the story goes, which defines money in terms of real gold and silver is the reason all nations face problems today. Now this all sounds good on paper but do the facts bear out this economic theory?
In actuality the "old time" backing of American currency with gold was an illusion as there was never enough gold in Fort Knox, Kentucky to cover the paper money printed in the United States so the system was fractional at best. And if you look carefully at our nation's real gold and silver coins there were serious problems from the very beginning with intrinsic weight which eventually brought havoc to proper distribution.
Weights had to be adjusted on a regular basis leading to the often quoted Gresham's law (after Sir Tomas Gresham an English financier) which states in various forms that bad money will drive good money out of circulation.
A recent example of this can be seen in the early 1960's when silver coins were actually made out of silver. At that time the price of silver began to rise and the cash value of the coin in your pocket was worth more than its legal tender or face value and so it was hoarded or melted instead of doing what it was suppose to do and entering the channels of commerce. And so over time the clad coinage we now use everyday took the place of real silver coins and the debasement was complete.
Today all American money is backed by the full faith and credit of the United States and has been since the Federal government first organized and took over the printing of money itself.
The first paper money as we understand it today made its appearance in 1861 and was called a Demand Note. The backs of these notes were printed using green ink as a counterfeit measure and so for ever more the term "Greenback" came into common usage.
Even though the US has never defaulted on any of this currency the old days and ways of doing things seem to have a regular bought with Lazarus. And the idea of going back to the old days is a bad joke as this "real gold and silver" money movement would create havoc not only within the US but though out the international community as well, as the US dollar is still the world's leading currency.
The consequences of moving backward at this point will pose tremendous danger to everyone's standard of living, which is why Steve Roach's article in Coin World (Jan 24, 2010)" Georgia legislator introduces bill seeking role for gold, silver coins" is so amazing, because this "real money idea" is getting some traction:
"A Georgia state legislator recently introduced a new bill in the Georgia General Assembly that would require the people of Georgia to pay their taxes and other obligations to the state in gold and silver coins. In November, Rep. Bobby Franklin's "Constitutional Tender Act" was among the first bills introduced in the 2011 session of the Georgia Legislation."
Now before you laugh take a look at the web site Steve Roach has also provided which keeps track of similar bills in 10 different states: www.constitutionaltender.com . The longer I'm in this business the more amazing and complicated it becomes.
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The constitutional tender act would allow states to stipulate that taxes must be paid using gold and silver. This would make it necessary for citizens to have accounts denominated in gold or silver. Having these accounts would give people an alternative to US Dollars, which enjoys a monopoly as legal tender. In the inevitable case of the destruction of the dollar due to either the US defaulting on its sovereign debt or hyperinflation, the hard money currency would be a god-send. You don't have to mint such coins in dollar denominations. Doing so would defeat the purpose altogether as in the example you gave. Throughout history, one ounce of silver has held a remarkably stable value: a nice meal for two at a modest restaurant, a pair of shoes, you get the picture… subject of course to real fluctuations in the marketplace due to supply and demand.
In the 1870′s we had gold and silver coins circulate at different rates alongside the Greenback. If a gold or silver currency were to be successful it would still have to be convertible to paper, like prior to 1879. So why not just allow today's merchants to accept silver and gold US Eagles at melt value for transactions? Seems like the same thing they are trying to legislate.
Unless – it is all just a ploy for votes. Ya, think?
If you are not familiar with Fisher's equation of exchange, you can look it up here:
Replacing paper money by gold and gold backed money would cause an unprecedented fall in money quantity (M in Fisher's equation), because there is by far not enough gold to cover the outstanding monetary mass. As the monetary velocity (V) is stable, the consequence would be that either prices (P) or growth (T) would have to come thundering down. The result would therefore be a few decades of stagnation and deflation, worse than what Japan has been going through for the last 20 years. Unemployment would go to at least 20% but would probably go higher and may reach 50%. Loss of production capacity would be staggering, poverty and misery more widespread than during the crisis of the 1930′s. Before you argue that lower prices are good, remember the stagnation and unemployment it causes and that economists do not know how to control deflation, while they do know how to control inflation.
In other words, those who advocate gold or gold backed money are either ignorant of the consequences or cynical vote pursuers at any cost.
One more thought. Gold has virtually no productive value. Its end use is limited to luxury goods (jewelry) and computer switches (tiny quantities). In a really bad crisis, you may therefore see its value drop to nil, while your income, food and housing prices determine your survival. Gold is therefore an inflation hedge only as long as other speculators are willing to, and have the means to buy it. In other words, gold is just as fiduciary as the paper it would replace.
One point that is missed entirely in this article: the fact that Article I, Section 10 of the U.S. Constitution REQUIRES States to use ONLY gold and silver coins as payment for debts owed by and to the State. This bill simply brings the States back into compliance with the Constitution.
Regarding the points made about Gresham's Law: the definition is not simply, "bad money will drive good money out of circulation." It's properly defined as, "Where legal tender laws exist, bad money drives out good money." A reverse of this would be, "In the absence of legal tender laws, when people are given the free choice between accepting good money or accepting bad money, bad money becomes less popular than good money, and is driven out of the marketplace." And that's exactly what we would get should the Constitutional Tender Act be passed: it would introduce currency competition with Federal Reserve Notes, by outlawing their use in transactions with the State. Ordinary citizens of the State, being required to pay their State taxes in gold and silver coins, would find it necessary to open bank accounts in those denominations. Businesses operating within the State, being required to pay their State sales taxes and license fees in gold and silver coins, would need to do the same; and in order to acquire such coins, they would begin to offer their goods and services in "dual currency" denominations, where customers could choose to pay in Federal Reserve Notes (which would still be necessary to pay Federal fees and taxes) or gold and silver coins (including checks and debit cards based on bank accounts denominated in such coins). Customers, having found the need to open such accounts in order to deal with the State, would be able to engage in commerce using those accounts.
Over time, as residents of the State use both Federal Reserve Notes and silver and gold coins, the fact that the coins hold their value more than Federal Reserve Notes do will lead to this "reverse Gresham's Law" effect, where good money (gold and silver coins) will drive out bad money (Federal Reserve Notes). As this happens, a cascade of events can begin to occur, including the flow of real wealth toward the State's treasury, an influx of banking business from outside of the State (as citizens residing in other States carry out their desire to bank with sound money), and an eventual outcry against the use of Federal Reserve Notes for any transactions. At that point, the Federal Reserve system will have become unwanted and irrelevant, and can be easily abolished by the people's elected Representatives in Washington, D.C.
And I don't even know where to begin with "Figleaf's" assertions, except to recommend reading some good books on Austrian economics, and get that Keynesian silliness out of your head.
Of course, all of us want a return to species. With enough hard currency in circulation. The treasury could once again issue gold and silver certificates for ease of transactions. Minting an $2000 one ounce Gold coin; along with a $100 one ounce Silver coin. Gives security and value to the American people. Since the FED is essentially a cooperative of private bankers. I say just let them sink or swim on their own. They made their own beds, the American people have no obligation to them.
"Even though the US has never defaulted on any of this currency "
Try to exchange a silver certificate for silver. You won't get the silver, so they have defaulted.
"tremendous danger to everyone's standard of living"
We are deflating a credit bubble. The credit bubble allowed us to pull forward consumption so we could live beyond our means in McMansions. The only temporary solution for propping up unsustainable credit based living standard is to push more credit into the markets to overwhelm the deflating credit bubbles. The credit is rushing into commodities making food and energy more expensive.
This is about fractional reserve lending and unsustainable credit bubbles.
"Most importantly, this bill would protect the people of Georgia from the continued depreciation of the dollar and probable eventual hyperinflation!" (From the literature pushing the Constitutional Tender Act)
If anyone on here actually believes that a gold backed dollar will prevent hyperinflation and deficit spending…..PLEASE REREAD YOU AMERICAN HISTORY LESSONS for your junior year in High School…….1861 to 1865
The Confederate Dollar was a gold back currency…the gold was deficit spent overseas with the attending inflation domestically.


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He's decided to fight the final order of the Commissioner of Financial regulation, which states he owes the state and his victims over $800,000 in penalties and restitution. His lawyer filed the appeal called a "petition for judicial review" just before Christmas.
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9:10am Tuesday 8th January 2013 in News By Siobhan Ryan, Health Reporter
A union is calling on hospital bosses to intervene in a row over wages for low-paid staff.
Members of the GMB staged a demonstration outside the Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton after members were left without proper pay for the fourth week running.
Sodexo took over the contract for providing cleaning, catering and portering services at Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust at the beginning of December.
However, workers say they have either not been paid for their full hours or only received basic pay, leaving many struggling to cope.
GMB solicitors were also at the hospital yesterday to speak to members and seek their authority to lodge employment tribunal claims on their behalf.
GMB regional organiser Gary Palmer said: "This situation cannot be allowed to continue.
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In a letter to hospital trust chief executive Chris Adcock, the GMB called on him to intervene and take control of the matter to ensure Sodexo resolve the situation.
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When Smith County Sheriff Larry Smith took office earlier this year, he promised big changes that would improve the efficiency of the department.
He said his focus would be improving both department communication and patrol organization in the county.
Six months in, Sheriff Smith said he has hit the ground running, making strides for improved safety in Smith County.
"A lot of people wish I would slow down," Smith said. "But slowing down is not in my vocabulary."
One of his pledges included moving law enforcement from 10 hour shifts to 12 hour shifts, which he said would allow for more proactive work and keep deputies on the streets. The change has already been made, without increasing the departments budget.
"It's taking them out of menial tasks that they had and putting them where the rubber meets the road," Smith said.
He attributes improved response times to those same changes.
"Many times, we had four officers on duty for 960 square miles at a time," Smith said. "So that had to change."
Prior to Smith taking office, the office only kept records of when deputies were dispatched and when they arrived. Smith has changed that to now include when the initial distress call is received as well. He said that move allows for more accurate figures to base improvement on.
Current data shows the average response time from dispatch to deputies arriving on the scene is approximately 10.56 minutes. The Sheriff's office said new software will soon allow them to provide data that will include the initial call to the 911 center in the response time figures.
"For citizens, response times are everything," Smith said. "What I would like to see is an average response time in an unincorporated part of Smith County between 15 and 20 minutes. Many times we get there before then. But, they want them there right then and the response time really should start when they call the 911 center."
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At the Potawatomi Zoo, there's something for all ages. Kids say they love the animals and adults say they love having a place to take the family.
That's the service Potawatomi Zoological Society Director, Marcy Dean says she wants to continue. She says the best way to do that is by changing to a public-private partnership model. "The city of South Bend would still own the land, the building and the animals here at Potawatomi Zoo. And the day-to-day operations of the zoo would be under one organization that would be the Potawatomi Zoological Society, as a non-profit."
Currently the Potawatomi Zoo operates under the city of South Bend-through the Parks and Recreation department, but Dean says the switch would save the city and zoo money. Which would benefit YOU, the visitor. "Visitors would see more efficiencies throughout the zoo, better food and gift opportunities. They would see more new exhibits, more new attractions and improvements to the existing exhibits here "
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A MAN fell almost 30 feet into a river after losing his balance while sitting on a wall.
Ambulances, air ambulances and the fire service were all called to rescue the man, who miraculously survived the fall.
The incident happened in Bridge Street, Blackburn, where the road bends to the right and runs over the River Blakewater.
The man, thought to be in his twenties, was thought to have suffered just minor injuries but was taken to hospital to check for any internal injuries.
A spokeswoman from the North West Ambulance Service said the air ambulance, a land crew and two hazard area response teams had been called to the area behind Blackburn Youth Zone shortly before 2pm.
She said: "He had fallen about 29ft backwards off a wall.
"Where he landed was in a difficult to access area. He was taken by land ambulance to hospital." Watch manager Chris Fogarty, from Blackburn fire station, said when his crew arrived the paramedics were already on the scene.
He said: "He seemed fine but you can never know what's going on inside in these circumstances until he is looked at in hospital. We just assisted the paramedics to get him out of the river. As it was not time critical because his injuries were not severe, we waited for the aerial ladder platform to arrive from Accrington so we could bring him out horizontally."
Shear Brow councillor Suleman Khonat said: "People need to realise what they are doing and need to be careful when they are sitting near water.
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ConcernedOssy wrote:Where does it mention a canal?
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Steven Seagull wrote:AAh! But it was also either a river or canal but evidently the person who clarified this also re-measured it !! Oviously the article has been re-written in order to maintain LTs reputation for accuracy !! LOL
It was 29 foot yesterday.
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When the chips are down, professional poker players face their greatest obstacle – themselves.
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At 21, Newhouse, a Chapel Hill native and sometime student at Appalachian State, played in the prestigious Borgata Poker Open in Atlantic City. Stunning the experts, he won the event's $1.5million first-place prize and immediately was branded as the next big thing in poker.
Newhouse, who started playing poker with friends from his part-time job at Staples, was now at the top of the heap. But he was young and inexperienced in the ways of a poker pro's lifestyle. He loaned money to fellow players, a common practice. Many of them never paid him back. He eventually learned the fundamental rule of poker: When you're running bad, the cards don't care.
"I made every mistake I could make," said Newhouse from Los Angeles, where he is a frequent cash-game player at the Commerce Casino. "I lost my mind, and that lasted for a couple of years. Having a lot of money at 21, you're clueless and you don't know what you're doing. It takes being down and out to know who your real friends are."
All that changed in July at the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas. Newhouse, now 28, survived the grueling seven days of play in the No Limit Hold 'Em Main Event at the Rio Resort and Casino. A starting field of 6,352 was whittled to the final table – nine players who will return for a shot at the $8.3 million first-place money in November.
Newhouse, a graduate of East Chapel Hill High, will begin the event in eighth place and is already guaranteed $733,224.
"Your goal is to just get through each day," Newhouse said of the weeklong Main Event. "Before I even realized it, it was Day Seven and there were just 14 players left. On the last day a lot of players are tired. You have to be able to identify that and take advantage of it.
"That (final) day was insane. I started with a short stack of chips and got up to being the chip leader with 22 million. In the next level I lost every hand with a bad run of cards. If the dinner break didn't happen when it did, something bad would have happened."
Getting away from the tables for 90 minutes was exactly what Newhouse needed. He visited with some friends and re-thought his strategy.
"It's hard to keep a level head, and the break happened at the perfect time," he said. "I went out and played super solid and treated it as a new tournament. My goal was to make the November Nine."
When the cards settled, Newhouse achieved his goal. He will enter the final table with 7.35 million chips, well behind leader J.C. Tran's 38 million but certainly not out of contention.
"Anything can happen in a tournament," he said. "All it takes are a couple of big hands."
The new breed
Newhouse is a member of the online generation of poker players. Spurred on by his brother Dan, he began to read poker books and play at sites such as Party Poker. He eventually built up a healthy bankroll of $500,000. That was followed by the big win in Atlantic City and an introduction to the wild emotional and financial swings that are par for the course for a poker pro.
"In order to succeed in this business you have to make mistakes and learn from them," he said. "There are lessons you learn in the poker lifestyle that you can't learn anywhere else."
Margaret Newhouse hopes to travel from her home in Chapel Hill to Las Vegas, meeting up with son Dan and daughter Beverly when the final table begins in November.
"I knew Mark had to follow his passion," she said. "I always had the feeling he would get back to where he was before, he just had to go through a process. It (Main Event) will be nerve-wracking, but I think it's awesome."
Also in the audience for the final table will be friends of Newhouse who invested in him before the tournament, helping to defray the $10,000 entry fee (he will keep roughly half of whatever he wins).
The final countdown
Newhouse knows his opponents at the final table will be a formidable challenge. The fact he has a short stack of chips will bring even more pressure under the lights of the ESPN cameras.
"I'm known as a loose, aggressive player, but I've lost some of the animal instincts I had," he said. "I'm going to start out playing solid, and if I double up, I'll have an average stack. I'm going to go in there and try to play solid poker and not get out of line.
"A good game is a well-balanced game. You've got to be able to change gears. There's luck involved, but in the long run the good player is going to win the money."
The World Series of Poker is quite different from the cash games Newhouse plays on a regular basis in L.A. and Vegas.
"There's a lot of dead money in the Main Event," he said. "You're playing against softer competition and not many of them are good poker players. In the cash games, I've been playing against the same guys for years."
He had a limited schedule at this year's World Series of Poker, preferring to stay in L.A. while many of the game's big names were in Vegas.
"It's one of the best times of the year to be in the Commerce Casino," he said. "I ended up playing against a lot of recreational players."
Mark Newhouse is back where he belongs. What the cards haven't taught him, the years have.


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RALEIGH — Freedom is a sub-theme in the House transportation budget released Tuesday, with proposals for toll-free ferry service and the return of First in Freedom license plates.
All tolls would be eliminated on the three ferry routes where passengers now pay for every trip, and the state Board of Transportation would be stripped of its authority to collect ferry tolls. The House would set aside $6.2 million to help pay for new ferry boats as the old ones wear out.
Thats different from the Senate approach, which would continue the tolls collected on two ferries from the mainland to Ocracoke Island, and the ferry from Southport to Fort Fisher. A 2013 law also encourages local elected officials in ferry-dependent coastal counties to endorse tolls on the four remaining toll-free ferry routes, to raise funds for replacement ferry vessels.
Rep. John Torbett, a Gaston County Republican, said coastal residents pay for ferry service with the same fuel and highway use taxes that pay for roads and bridges. Eliminating tolls would spur coastal tourism and economic development, he said.
You could actually see a spike in sales tax revenues simply by not having that toll and increasing ridership, Torbett told the House Transportation Appropriations Subcommittee, of which is co-chairman.
And the House would give North Carolina drivers a new choice for their license plates: Either stick with the First in Flight motif that has been the state standard for 32 years, or opt for a First in Freedom plate.
First in Freedom was the slogan embossed on our license plates from 1975 to 1979. It referred to the states proud history in the American Revolution, but it generated controversy among North Carolinians who disavowed the message.
No southern state was first in freedom for blacks, said James Flowers of Hillsborough, a Navy veteran who put tape over the message on his license plate in March 1975. I just dont like that slogan, and I dont want it on my license plate.
Flowers was arrested in Durham on a misdemeanor charge of altering a license plate. The case was dropped after state Attorney General Rufus Edmisten issued an opinion that such charges were unconstitutional.
Edmistens opinion did not stop Smithfield police from arresting Walter Williams III of Raleigh for the same offense in May 1975, and did not stop the judge from finding him guilty a few weeks later. Williams told reporters that the arresting officer told me if I didnt like the slogan, I ought to move. He was arrested again on the same charge a few weeks later.
The U.S. Supreme Court eventually echoed Edmisten in a 1977 ruling that vindicated a New Hampshire man who served 15 days in jail for putting tape on his license plates Live Free or Die slogan. State Transportation Secretary Tom Bradshaw announced in 1978 that the First in Freedom slogan had outlived its usefulness here.
But House budget writers believe it is useful again.
Car owners would be able to choose license plates with the freedom slogan and an image, to be selected by the Division of Motor Vehicles, that is representative of the Mecklenburg Declaration of 1775.
North Carolinas state flag and seal cite May 20, 1775, as the date of a Declaration of Independence drafted in Mecklenburg County. The document was later destroyed in a fire.
In the 1970s, historians and journalists cited different historical events as possible references for the original First in Freedom plate. Some pointed to the Halifax Resolves, which authorized North Carolina delegates to the Continental Congress to vote for independence from Britain, on a date that also appears on the state flag and seal: April 12, 1776.
Rep. Phil Shepard, an Onslow County Republican, said Tuesday the First in Freedom plates were proposed by Mecklenburg County residents. The subcommittee approved the provision without debate.
In transportation, the House also differs with the Senate by:
Ignoring a Senate proposal to increase the cap on the highway use tax collected by NCDOT on sales of commercial vehicles and recreational vehicles.
Ignoring a Senate proposal to halt the recurring state financial support for driver education classes in local schools. The Senate would have the legislature reconsider this funding, now $26 million, every year.
Setting up a House oversight committee to review DOTs progress on implementing the Strategic Transportation Investments law, a responsibility already given to the joint House-Senate Transportation Oversight Committee.
Retaining funding for NCDOTs Economic Development Program, which the Senate would eliminate.
Shifting $3.5 million in gasoline pump inspection fees to a state environmental program that helps property owners with cleanup costs related to leaking underground storage tanks. The Senate budget would pay these costs from the general fund.


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A Rockford family found shot to death inside their burning home in 2011 is remembered at a community wide Easter egg hunt. The family of Natasha Cleary and her two young boys say they hope the event helps bring their loved one's killers to justice.
Cleary's cousins helped to organize the Easter party. The event began as a private family gathering last year to remember those lost, and has expanded this time around to include the whole community.
"and then I just kind of thought that maybe we could do it as a group thing so everybody could be involved and let the world know that we have not forgotten about the three of those guys," says Cojuana Barbary, Cleary's cousin.
Cleary and her sons, two year old Katarion Friar, and 12 year old Marquon Owens, were found murdered inside their Canterbury Lane home in 2011. Police believe the killer then set the building on fire to cover up the murders. No arrests have been made yet.
"I miss them dearly, I'm sure there are several other people who miss them as well," says Barbary.
Out of love, Natasha's family hosts the public Easter egg hunt at Rockford's Levings Lake Park. The party is made complete with music, food, and activities for the kids.
Her family's only wish is that Cleary and her children could be there to see it for themselves. "She would be happy, she would be happy. And I'm sure if the kids were here they would have a very good time,"says Barbary.
Several area motorcycle groups also showed their support for the family through their presence.
In total, nearly 200 community members came out to the egg hunt. Tracy Crowley, Another of Cleary's cousins, says the high turnout means a lot to her. "It just lets the community know that they are not forgotten even though we have not found the perpetrators of her crime, or their crime," says Crowley.
Next month marks the two year anniversary of Cleary and her two sons' deaths.
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President Santa J. Ono announced at the UC Board of Trustees meeting on April 23 his recommendation that in-state tuition for the 2013-14 fiscal year be frozen at this year's levels and that University House be sold with the proceeds to be directed to an endowment fund for student scholarships.
President Ono has also informed the board that he will not accept a salary increase or bonus payment for the next two years. His current salary stands at $525,000 per year. The recommended tuition freeze is scheduled to be voted on by the board at its June meeting and would apply to the Undergraduate Instructional, General, Campus Life and the Information Technology and Instructional Equipment Fee. "Now is the time for UC to send a clear and compelling message to the broader community that our university is firmly committed to keeping costs down for our students," President Ono informed the board. "This commitment must start with me as president." The University of Cincinnati first moved its presidential residence into University House at Edgecliff Point in December 2004 during the tenure of President Nancy L. Zimpher, when Buck (UC Law, 72) and Patti Niehoff donated its use to UC for a period of 10 years. The condo had been owned by Patti's mother, Harriette (Happy) Williams Downey, until her death in 2004. In 2008, the Niehoffs set aside the 10-year time limit and donated the condominium outright as a gift to the university. The Niehoffs fully support President Ono's proposal to sell the residence, valued at $2.7 million, to establish a fund to be named the Presidential Niehoff Scholarship Fund.
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More than 86,000 say they'd risk arrest over oil pipeline
On Mon/3, nine environmental activists were arrested in San Francisco for marching through the financial district and entering One Spear Tower, the building that houses local offices of the State Department, to express opposition to the proposed Keystone XL pipeline.
A day earlier, a mass protest against the oil pipeline was staged outside the White House in Washington, D.C. Roughly 200 protesters were arrested after using plastic zip ties to lock themselves to the White House fence.
Meanwhile, thousands more have made a vow – at least in the sense of clicking to add their name to a petition – to engage in peaceful civil disobedience if President Barack Obama grants ultimate approval for the oil infrastructure project, which would transport 830,000 barrels of crude oil from Canada to the Gulf Coast.
Nonprofit Credo Action has created an online petition urging people to get ready to respond with peaceful civil disobedience if the pipeline wins final approval.
The Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement on the project was released by the State Department on Jan. 31, setting in motion a process that will likely conclude in early May, when Secretary of State John Kerry is to submit a formal recommendation to Obama regarding whether the pipeline is aligned with our "national interest."
If Kerry recommends approval, Credo and a host of participating organizations including the San Francisco-based Rainforest Action Network and 350.org will ask everyone who has signed the petition to make good on their "pledge of resistance."
At last check, 86,442 had signed the pledge. (It's unknown how many checked the box stating "I am not comfortable with the risk of being arrested, but would volunteer to support those able to do so.")
Here's the statement "signed" by the critical mass of digital activists:
"I pledge, if necessary, to join others in my community, and engage in acts of dignified, peaceful civil disobedience that could result in my arrest in order to send the message to President Obama and his administration that they must reject the Keystone XL pipeline."
Going there is far from easy, Repeat felons can do hard time without a blink but the average effete SF liberal would be crying for his mom within 30 minutes of arriving at central booking. And they say the first night is the worst - fresh meat, and all.
Anyhoo, we need this pipeline to get off dependency on the crazy arabs. Just build the damn thing already.
"More than 86,000 say they'd risk arrest over oil pipeline"
LOL. Let's approve the pipeline, and let's see how many of the 86,000 are actually willing to get arrested.
OK, having been arrested a dozen times in political protests, I now realize there are better things to do with my time. I did 90 days in jail.
I choose instead to petition, door to door, for a solar feed in tariff ( FiT ) to require PG&E to pay home owners $0.49 kwh for feeding solar onto the grid.
For my way of thinking, this is the best way to stop the KXL crack pipeline, stop fracking and build a solar economy.
Germany & much of Europe has shut down fracking by going Solar this way. By 2022, Germany will shut down all nukes, just by going 100% solar.
In fact, this May 2014, Germany will achieve the world green title,
by generating 50% of its total energy from wind, solar & hydro.
News you will not read in the US.
Solar is inevitable.
Your journey is in vain.
as is the whole American government. They go around the world lecturing other governments on human rights, but in reality they only like democracy if the people vote for a government they agree with.
In Ukraine you had bona-fide, open neo-Nazis burning buildings and murdering police, but they were the "good guys" while the government was violating their human rights! Violent overthrow of the elected government is Kerry's idea of democracy.
In Venezuela, "peaceful protesters" are burning buses, clinics and food stores, shooting and decapitating innocent passers-by (oh yes, decapitating http://venezuelanalysis.com/news/10391). Nothing is too extreme to provoke destabilization -destabilization of a government that has just won two elections in the course of a year -elections which the Carter Center has called the best in the world. But Obama and Kerry are calling on the "regime" to respect the human rights of "peaceful protesters."
Well then, if that's the case, let me borrow the phraseology and call upon the American regime to respect the human rights of its citizens in the wake of the mass arrests of (truly) peaceful protesters in Washington. Perhaps we need to convene a meeting of the Security Council and decide what sanctions to place upon members of the American regime. No options should be off the table, including freezing assets that key members of the regime hold abroad.
Wherever in the world there are fascists, Greg will be licking their boots!
Here is what Wikipedia says about Svoboda, one of the 3 main parties now comprising the coup government in Ukraine:
" It is positioned on the right of the Ukrainian political spectrum,[12][2][13][14][15] and has also been described as far-right,[16][4][17][18] fascistic or anti-semitic.[19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26]"
Note the copious footnotes, which you can check. When you call a party fascistic or anti-Semitic, you need to back it up well.
This is the party credited with doing the heavy lifting in overthrowing the democratically elected government in Ukraine. They're not the only ones, but they're the meanest, the strongest, most heavily armed, and proved to be the ones most willing to kill to get their way. They were rewarded for their role with 5 positions in the cabinet of the self-appointed "government," including the vice presidency and Ministry of Defense. They've been put in control of the military and the police in the coup government.
Who is licking the boots of fascists, me or you?
opportunistic that it gives me neck-ache trying to keep up with you.
Do you ever stop talking and ask what most americans want? Or are you more interested in telling people what you think they should want?
or you for that matter. I'm against far-right fascists wherever they are. The regime in Washington only pretends to oppose fascism. Neo-Nazi extremists are bad except when they support US corporate interests.
Well I guess that's a form of consistency in its own way....
Because the elected officials in DC are not to your taste, you whine about them all the time. But we elected them, not you.
You can't give any facts to rebut what Greg wrote so all you can post is one lame-ass, pathetic post. Give up trying to argue Guest when you have no idea wtf you're talking about. Greg hit with you with actual facts, facts from a credible source. And this is what you come back with??? The dictionary should have a pic of you under the word, "pathetic."
But only in the Ukraine, of course.
in America, if mobs were burning government buildings (with people inside them) throughout the country, while setting up barricades paralyzing the capital, occupying government buildings (not just peacefully camping outside like Occupy), calling for a revolution by any means necessary?
And when the government tries to disperse the protesters, instead of peacefully filing into the paddy wagons like HUNDREDS of people did during Occupy and in DC the other day, they instead violently attack the police with clubs, Molotov cocktails, and live ammunition, killing 13 of America's precious heroes in blue in the process.
I'll tell you what would happen. The streets would run red with blood in the Land of the Free.
As long as they have pizza, beer and reality TV, they are content.
But it is touching to see you expressing sympathy for police, even if it is a world away.
Hell hath no fury like a middle class American scorned.
own comfort and ease. Maybe if we were invaded, they would stir. And they got pretty antsy about 9/11.
But the rest? Nah.
I am regular reader, how are you everybody? This article posted at this
web site is really fastidious.
Imagine the hilarity that would ensue from Washington were Russia to invest billions in destabilizing the electorally illegitimate government of Mexico, made so by the CIA with intent to remove the elected president and split the country north/south, and then to assert political control over Cuba to kick the US out of Guantanamo!
It is only bad when others do it, when the President of the United states does it, it is by definition legal.
Doesn't the Monroe declaration still apply?
In a second petition, the same 86,000 people signed up to provide Greg with the bukkake experience of a lifetime.
But hey, Greg did say that he is a "sex-positive feminist" so now is his chance to really know how that feels.
anally reamed, but he'd do it in support of the sistah's. Taking one for the other team, as it were.
830,000 barrels (BPD ???) of crude oil from Canada to the Gulf Coast
please note that glaring omission.
If venture capitalists were allowed to do what they do best,developing green alternative energy,without being regulated and demonized on every level, we would not nead a pipeline. We would easily lead the world in green energy.
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Coyne came to Cincinnati as a well hyped QB from Hamilton Badin but he never really panned out at that position. Eddie Gran and his staff moved Coyne to a fullback/H-Back position, but the generally excellent play of Jared Golden didn't leave much room for Coyne to find a role.
With the rash of QB injuries this year Coyne had been taking practice snaps at the position of late. I would assume that part of the appeal in transferring is to find an opportunity to play quarterback. Join me in wishing Pat the best of luck in finding a school.
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