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Shiraz Rehman Hired by Chicago Cubs
November 17, 2011 by TMO · Leave a Comment
By Parvez Fatteh, Founder of http://sportingummah.com, email@example.com
Shiraz Rehman of Phoenix, Arizona was hired this week as the assistant to the general manager for Major League Baseball's Chicago Cubs. He left his position as director of baseball operations with the Arizona Diamondbacks to take the Cubs job. He had been in that position for three seasons, and spent six seasons overall with the Diamondbacks.
Rehman joined Arizona in December 2005 as a Baseball Operations Assistant and served for two years as the Manager, Baseball Operations after his promotion in January 2007. Rehman assisted General Manager Josh Byrnes and Assistant General Manager Peter Woodfork in all phases of managing the baseball operations department. He was hired there by former GM Josh Byrnes, who also served under Epstein in Boston.
In Arizona, Rehman's primary responsibilities were with the Major League team, assisting in the maintenance of the club's 40-man roster, providing financial and statistical analysis to support trade and player evaluation, and overseeing all transactions and Major League rules interpretation and compliance. He played a key role in the arbitration process, contract structuring and negotiations, and oversaw baseball analysis efforts for the team. Rehman also spearheaded the D-backs' development of Baseball Operations technology and video solutions, and coordinated the department's internship program. In addition, he managed much of the financial planning and budgeting processes for all of baseball operations.
In a news release, the Cubs described Rehman's job will be to "support the general manager on potential player acquisitions" and also "develop the club's evaluation database and coordinate the department's technological efforts." Rehman will crunch numbers as general manager Jed Hoyer prepares to sign free agents and make trades this offseason, which officially started Monday with the General Manager meetings in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Originally an intern under new Cubs president of baseball Theo Epstein in Boston in 2005, Rehman is a 1999 graduate of McGill University, where he earned a bachelor's degree in Finance and Accounting and was a starting infielder on the baseball team for four years, captaining the squad in his junior and senior seasons. He spent time as both a commodities trader and financial consultant for more than five years at Enron and Deloitte & Touche before obtaining his M.B.A from Columbia Business School in 2006.
Community News (V13-I16)
April 14, 2011 by TMO · Leave a Comment
Khawja Shamsuddin Receives Outstanding Volunteer Service Award
OLYMPIA, WA — Bellevue Police Volunteer Khawja "Shams" Shamsuddin received the Governor's 2011 Outstanding Volunteer Service Award at a reception on April 11. This award, in its seventh year, is presented by Governor Gregoire on behalf of the Washington Commission for National and Community Service to citizens who "effect real change in their communities through volunteer service."
The award is presented to coincide with the start of National Volunteer Week.
Shamsuddin has been a Bellevue Police volunteer for more than 12 years. To date he has served in excess of 2,600 hours, primarily at the Factoria substation. Throughout the years he has participated on several entry-level officer oral boards and is a member of Chief Linda Pillo's Diversity Focus Group, which helps the department understand and respond to the needs and concerns of the city's various ethnic communities.
When not volunteering at the police department, Shamsuddin is a mediator, interpreter, community relations advisor and fundraiser in the local Bangladeshi, Pakistani, Arab and Indian communities. He also is a sought-after speaker with the Islamic Speakers Bureau and an organizer for the Eastside Interfaith Group.
As Police Volunteer Coordinator Marjorie Trachtman wrote in his award nomination, "Being of service to others is as instinctive to Shams as breathing. (He) embodies the values this award seeks to recognize."
"We are so fortunate to have such dedicated citizens volunteering with our Department. Their efforts are part of the reason we're able to provide such a high level of service to the community," says Chief Linda Pillo.
Ahmed Zewail received top chemistry honor
Nobel laureate Ahmed Zewail has another top feather in his already dazzling cap. The Linus Pauling Professor of Chemistry & Professor of Physics at the California Institute of Technology and Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, was recently honored with the 2011 Priestley Medal for developing "ultrafast-motion" imaging.
The prestigious award was presented to Zewail by the American Chemical Society (ACS) in recognition of "his development of revolutionary methods for the study of ultrafast processes in chemistry, biology, and materials science."
Zewail's pioneering work in femtochemistry—the study of chemical processes on the femtosecond (10–15 second) timescale—established methodology for following the intricacies of chemical transformations as reactants evolve into products by way of fleeting reaction intermediates. His laser-driven "pump-probe" techniques, which were demonstrated initially on gas-phase reactions, captured "snapshots" of intermediates that existed for barely more than the femtosecond period of a molecular vibration.
It may also be noted here that Zewail's name was also mentioned as the possible president of Egypt as that is his country of birth. However, he had rejected such speculations saying that while he supports democracy he is not interested in that job.
Islamic Studies program to reopen at UCLA
LOS ANGELES,CA–The Islamic Studies graduate program at UCLA has reopened after being suspended in 2007. According to the Daily Bruin the suspension was due to the concerns of the Graduate Council over the lack of faculty commitment to students. Because the program utilizes professors from many departments, students often felt marginalized or ignored because they did not have full-time faculty to guide them, said program chair Khaled Abou El Fadl.
Islamic Studies has significantly changed its policies since its suspension. It is better organized and administered, and professors who want to be involved with the program now have to sign a contract that states they will give students appropriate attention, Abou El Fadl said.
Consequently, one of the most important admissions criteria is a good match between a student and an interested professor.
Colorado State University to Host Lecture on Impact of Muslim-Based Media April 20
Nabil Echchaibi
As unrest grows in the Middle East, what impacts are new Muslim-based media and social media having on revolutions in the region?
To address these and other topics, Colorado State University will host a lecture by Nabil Echchaibi, assistant professor of journalism and media studies at the University of Colorado-Boulder. The lecture, "Formations of the Muslim Modern: Media, Islam, and Alternative Modernity," will be held at 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 20, in CSU's Clark Building, Room A202.
The lecture will focus on the rise of new media in the Muslim world and the impact media has on Muslim culture and identity, especially among young people.
Echchaibi has a forthcoming book of the same title. In his research on this topic, he analyzed case studies of Muslim media in six cities around the world. He examined how satellite television and digital media have created a new platform for discussion of what it means to be a modern Muslim.
A native of Morocco, Echchaibi also serves as associate director of the Center for Media, Religion, and Culture at CU. He specializes in identity politics among young Muslims in the Arab world.
He also is currently directing a project funded by the Social Science Research Council, which will compile a cultural history of Muslims in the mountain west region of the United States. The project will produce a web resource and a documentary film.
Islam Siddiqui Appointed
April 1, 2010 by TMO · Leave a Comment
President Obama on Saturday announced the recess appointment of 15 political appointees whose nominations had been stalled by Republicans.
"The United States Senate has the responsibility to approve or disapprove of my nominees. But if, in the interest of scoring political points, Republicans in the Senate refuse to exercise that responsibility, I must act in the interest of the American people and exercise my authority to fill these positions on an interim basis," Obama said in a statement.
"Most of the men and women whose appointments I am announcing today were approved by Senate committees months ago, yet still await a vote of the Senate. At a time of economic emergency, two top appointees to the Department of Treasury have been held up for nearly six months. I simply cannot allow partisan politics to stand in the way of the basic functioning of government."
The 15 newly appointed nominees are:
* Jeffrey Goldstein: Nominee for Under Secretary for Domestic Finance, Department of the Treasury
* Michael F. Mundaca: Nominee for Assistant Secretary for Tax Policy, Department of the Treasury
* Eric L. Hirschhorn: Nominee for Under Secretary of Commerce for Export Administration and head of the Bureau of Industry and Security, Department of Commerce
* Michael Punke: Nominee for Deputy Trade Representative – Geneva, Office of the United States Trade Representative
* Francisco "Frank" J. Sánchez: Nominee for Under Secretary for International Trade, Department of Commerce
* Islam A. Siddiqui: Nominee for Chief Agricultural Negotiator, Office of the U.S. Trade Representative
* Alan D. Bersin: Nominee for Commissioner, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Department of Homeland Security
* Jill Long Thompson: Nominee for Member, Farm Credit Administration Board
* Rafael Borras: Nominee for Under Secretary for Management , Department of Homeland Security
* Craig Becker: Nominee for Board Member, National Labor Relations Board
* Mark Pearce: Nominee for Board Member, National Labor Relations Board
* Jacqueline A. Berrien: Nominee for Chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
* Chai R. Feldblum: Nominee for Commissioner, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
* Victoria A. Lipnic: Nominee for Commissioner, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
* P. David Lopez: Nominee for General Counsel, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
In a post to the White House blog that accompanied Obama's announcement, spokeswoman Jen Psaki wrote that the president "was no longer willing to let another month go by with key economic positions unfilled, especially at a time when our country is recovering from the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression."
Article II, Section 2 of the U.S. Constitution gives the president the right to unilaterally fill any vacancy that would normally require Senate confirmation when the Senate is in recess.
Unlike appointments that are confirmed by the Senate, recess appointments only last until the end of the next session of Congress, which right now would mean until the end of 2011.
Obama had been widely expected to recess appoint Becker and Pearce to the labor relations board. As Jason Linkins wrote in the Huffington Post on Friday, GOP opposition to Obama's nominees had left the board with only two of its five members, which has led to a lot of one-to-one ties.
Some of the other appointments are to critical positions, such as the two Treasury candidates whose nominations had been stalled.
And some were being obstructed for particularly outrageous reasons. As Ryan Grim recently reported for the Huffington Post, the two trade nominees — Bunke and Siddiqui — were being blocked by Kentucky Republican Sen. Jim Bunning because he is opposed to a tobacco-related law passed by the Canadian Parliament.
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), was particularly eloquent on that matter on the Senate floor two weeks ago: "The Senator from Kentucky has said he doesn't have any objection to these nominees. He's only blocking the nominations as leverage against the President and [U.S. Trade Representative Ron] Kirk. That is pure obstructionism."
Obama nevertheless shied away from what would have been some more controversial recess appointments. He did not unilaterally install any of his blocked nominees to the Justice Department, including Dawn Johnsen, his nominee to run the Office of Legal Counsel, and Chris Schroeder, his nominee to be assistant attorney general for legal policy — both of whom are beloved by progressives but reviled by Republicans. He also chose not to recess appoint one of his senior Treasury nominees, Lael Brainard, nominated for undersecretary of international affairs, who has run into some tax issues.
That Obama would use his recess appointment powers isn't a surprise. According to the Congressional Research Service, President George W. Bush made 171 recess appointments; President Clinton made 139.
Until Saturday, Obama hadn't made any — despite Republican obstruction so intense that even Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid in early February essentially begged Obama to do an end run.
"Frankly, I think the President should recess all of them — all of them," Reid said of Obama's stalled nominees. "There are scores of them being held up for reasons that have nothing to do with anything dealing with these people or how they will function once in office."
There are still about 200 judicial and civilian nominees being held up, some of them for some pretty amazing reasons. And the Senate is in recess until April 12.
Hidden Costs of War–Stunning Statistics About the War Every American Should Know
December 27, 2009 by TMO · Leave a Comment
By Jeremy Scahill / Rebel Reports
A hearing in Sen. Claire McCaskill's Contract Oversight subcommittee on contracting in Afghanistan has highlighted some important statistics that provide a window into the extent to which the Obama administration has picked up the Bush-era war privatization baton and sprinted with it. Overall, contractors now comprise a whopping 69% of the Department of Defense's total workforce, "the highest ratio of contractors to military personnel in US history." That's not in one war zone—that's the Pentagon in its entirety.
In Afghanistan, the Obama administration blows the Bush administration out of the privatized water. According to a memo [PDF] released by McCaskill's staff, "From June 2009 to September 2009, there was a 40% increase in Defense Department contractors in Afghanistan. During the same period, the number of armed private security contractors working for the Defense Department in Afghanistan doubled, increasing from approximately 5,000 to more than 10,000."
At present, there are 104,000 Department of Defense contractors in Afghanistan. According to a report this week from the Congressional Research Service, as a result of the coming surge of 30,000 troops in Afghanistan, there may be up to 56,000 additional contractors deployed. But here is another group of contractors that often goes unmentioned: 3,600 State Department contractors and 14,000 USAID contractors. That means that the current total US force in Afghanistan is approximately 189,000 personnel (68,000 US troops and 121,000 contractors). And remember, that's right now. And that, according to McCaskill, is a conservative estimate. A year from now, we will likely see more than 220,000 US-funded personnel on the ground in Afghanistan.
The US has spent more than $23 billion on contracts in Afghanistan since 2002. By next year, the number of contractors will have doubled since 2008 when taxpayers funded over $8 billion in Afghanistan-related contracts.
Despite the massive number of contracts and contractors in Afghanistan, oversight is utterly lacking. "The increase in Afghanistan contracts has not seen a corresponding increase in contract management and oversight," according to McCaskill's briefing paper. "In May 2009, DCMA [Defense Contract Management Agency] Director Charlie Williams told the Commission on Wartime Contracting that as many as 362 positions for Contracting Officer's Representatives (CORs) in Afghanistan were currently vacant."
A former USAID official, Michael Walsh, the former director of USAID's Office of Acquisition and Assistance and Chief Acquisition Officer, told the Commission that many USAID staff are "administering huge awards with limited knowledge of or experience with the rules and regulations." According to one USAID official, the agency is "sending too much money, too fast with too few people looking over how it is spent." As a result, the agency does not "know … where the money is going."
The Obama administration is continuing the Bush-era policy of hiring contractors to oversee contractors. According to the McCaskill memo:
In Afghanistan, USAID is relying on contractors to provide oversight of its large reconstruction and development projects. According to information provided to the Subcommittee, International Relief and Development (IRD) was awarded a five-year contract in 2006 to oversee the $1.4 billion infrastructure contract awarded to a joint venture of the Louis Berger Group and Black and Veatch Special Projects. USAID has also awarded a contract Checci and Company to provide support for contracts in Afghanistan.
The private security industry and the US government have pointed to the Synchronized Predeployment and Operational Tracker(SPOT) as evidence of greater government oversight of contractor activities. But McCaskill's subcommittee found that system utterly lacking, stating: "The Subcommittee obtained current SPOT data showing that there are currently 1,123 State Department contractors and no USAID contractors working in Afghanistan." Remember, there are officially 14,000 USAID contractors and the official monitoring and tracking system found none of these people and less than half of the State Department contractors.
As for waste and abuse, the subcommittee says that the Defense Contract Audit Agency identified more than $950 million in questioned and unsupported costs submitted by Defense Department contracts for work in Afghanistan. That's 16% of the total contract dollars reviewed.
UCLA to Close Islamic Studies?
November 2, 2009 by TMO · 2 Comments
By Adil James, MMNS
Farmington–October 28–UCLA may not be known for having old and distinguished programs or even library collections, yet its Islamic studies department has one of the largest single collections among all American academic libraries, second only to Princeton's.
G.E. von Grunbaum, for whom UCLA's Near Eastern Studies program was named, was a noted orientalist scholar who founded UCLA's Islamic Studies program in 1957.
The Islamic Studies program at UCLA is one of several interdisciplinary subjects, including Jewish studies, Indian and Southeast Asian studies, Latin American studies, and Medieval studies.
UCLA currently offers MA and PhD programs in Islamic Studies. A related department is the von Grunbaum Center for Near Eastern Studies.
The program garners approximately three million dollars per year in government grants, yet has a budgeted expense of only about $130,000 per year for a minimal staff and to pay the department head, and to pay to bring visiting scholar/lecturers to UCLA to teach. Students benefit greatly from the government grants, as 15-20 students get full tuition plus living expenses. UCLA in fact takes back most of this money in the form of tuition payments.
The program is very competitive, with about 50 applications per year to begin graduate studies, and only about 8 students admitted per year.
UCLA's Islamic Studies program annually grants an award to a distinguished professor, and this award has been balanced between Western and Muslim scholars.
Three years ago UCLA made some effort to build their Islamic Studies program by attempting to recruit two new professors, however contract negotiations with the two targeted professors fell through, and the program failed to expand as planned.
Without the top scholars that UCLA had intended to get interest in the program appears to have flagged. Other departments this year refused to send representatives to head the Islamic Studies dept.
Apparently UCLA has planned a consolidation which would not touch the other departments, but which would consolidate the von Grunbaum Near Eastern studies center with other departments.
It seems unfortunate that a major university with a department that is distinguished as UCLA's would consider actually closing such a department, especially since the need for it is growing, and other major universities are moving in the opposite direction, toward expanding such programs to fill the recognized and growing need.
US Scientist Charged with Attempted Spying for Israel
October 22, 2009 by TMO · Leave a Comment
Alfred Nozette, third from left. |
WASHINGTON–The US authorities arrested Monday a leading American scientist who had worked for the Pentagon and NASA and charged him with attempted spying for Israel.
Stewart Nozette, 52, was apprehended after a sting operation involving an undercover FBI agent, the Department of Justice said, He is charged with "attempted espionage for knowingly and willfully attempting to communicate, deliver, and transmit classified information relating to the national defense of the United States to an individual that Nozette believed to be an Israeli intelligence officer."
Nozette, who was arrested in the Washington suburb of Chevy Chase, Maryland and taken into custody, could make his first court appearance Tuesday on the charge, which carries a maximum sentence of life in prison.
"The conduct alleged in this complaint is serious and should serve as a warning to anyone who would consider compromising our nation's secrets for profit," said David Kris, assistant attorney general for national security.
Nozette, 52, developed an experiment that fueled the discovery of water on the south pole of the moon, and previously held special security clearance at the Department of Energy on atomic materials.
In addition to stints with NASA and the Department of Energy, Nozette worked at the White House on the National Space Council under then-president George H.W. Bush in 1989 and 1990.
"From 1989 through 2006, Nozette held security clearances as high as top secret and had regular, frequent access to classified information and documents related to the US national defense," the Justice Department said.
In early September, Nozette received a phone call from a person "purporting to be an Israeli intelligence officer, but who was in fact an undercover employee of the FBI," the DOJ said.
"Nozette met with the UCE (undercover employee) that day and discussed his willingness to work for Israeli intelligence," informing the agent that "he had, in the past, held top security clearances and had access to US satellite information."
The scientist offered to "answer questions about this information in exchange for money."
Over the next several weeks, Nozette and the undercover agent exchanged envelopes of money for answers to lists of questions about US satellite technology.
"In addition, Nozette allegedly offered to reveal additional classified information that directly concerned nuclear weaponry, military spacecraft or satellites, and other major weapons systems," DOJ said.
FBI agents retrieved a manila envelope left by Nozette in a designated location this month that "contained information classified as both top secret and secret that concerned US satellites, early warning systems, means of defense or retaliation against large-scale attack, communications intelligence information, and major elements of defense strategy."
In 1987, the United States sentenced Navy analyst Jonathan Pollard to life in prison for providing Israel — from May 1984 to his arrest in November 1985 — thousands of confidential military documents on US spying, particularly in Arab nations.
Israel has appealed for his release repeatedly, and in vain. And Pollard supporters in Israel and the United States have done the same for the man who since has obtained Israeli citizenship.
Community News (V11-I39)
September 17, 2009 by TMO · Leave a Comment
World's tallest man honored for honesty and service
MIAMI, FL–Aurangzeb Khan, the world's tallest man alive, has been honored by the Miami-Dade County Services Department for his quality service as a cab driver. He was recently given the Chauffer of the Quarter Prize for his efforts to help his passenger. In one stance he even drove long distance to return a purse full of credit cards, cash, and medicines left behind by an Australian tourist.
`It is actions like this that restores faith in human nature, and as a regular traveler to America, it leaves me with a great feeling about traveling in your country,'' the Australian tourist wrote ina commendation which was later used by the county in its press release announcing the award.
The Pakistan born Khan is 8 feet tall and now stands taller than Shaquille O'Neal. He has been living in US since 1981 and now drives a cab after stints with circuses around the country.
But Khan is a towering figure not only in his physical height but also his honesty and kindness.
In 1992, he returned a bag with $10,000 a passenger forgot in the cab.
"Mr. Khan represents the kind of attitude that all chauffeurs should have when providing services to visitors and residents of this community,'' said Sonya Perez, of the Miami-Dade Consumer Service Department. "By doing a kind deed, Mr. Khan gave this tourist a positive experience as well as a positive view of our county.''
Hillary Clinton hosts Iftar at State Department
WASHINGTON D.C.–Secretary of State Hillary Clinton hosted an Iftar on Sept.15 at the State Department. She said that the White House is committed to improving relations with the Muslim world.
In her speech to the guests she said, "Now, this time of self-reflection and clarity reminds us that the principles that are the hallmark of Ramadan – charity, sacrifice, and compassion – are also values we cherish as Americans. They guide us towards good stewardship of our families, our communities, our country, and our world. It is, as one of my wonderful young aides who Farah has already referenced – Huma Abedin – summed up in the words of Abdul Ghaffar Khan, that we need to be inspired by our leaders to fight poverty, injustice and hate with, "the weapon of the Prophet—patience and righteousness." Well, that, to me, sums up much of what we celebrate tonight as we break fast.
Now, we recognize that the relationship between the United States and Muslim communities has at times suffered from misunderstanding and misperception. But we are committed to learning and listening; to creating bridges of understanding and respect; and building stronger bonds of cooperation. We believe that there is more that unites people of all faiths than divides us.
The Obama Administration will work to ensure that our communication, our partnerships, and our policies reflect that core belief. Because whatever God you pray to—or even whether you believe at all—we all need to work for the same goals: a world where our children can live together in peace and prosperity, and fulfill their own God-given potentials."
Sultana Ali promoted at Massey Communications
ORLANDO, FL–Massey Communications, Orlando, has promoted Sultana Ali to account executive, business development.
Ali is a former national board member of the United Nations Association-USA (UNA-USA) where she represented the Young Professionals for International Cooperation. Currently, she serves on the board of directors locally for the Central Florida Women's Resource Center, FHSMUN (Florida High Schools Model UN) and Harbor House of Central Florida, where she serves on its executive committee as Second Vice-President.
She has been honored with a Global Young Advocate Award from UNA-USA, the Central Florida Women's Resource Center Junior Summit Award, the Girl Scout Council of Central Florida's Young Woman of Distinction and was named one of Central Florida's "13 Shining Stars" by Central Florida News 13 and the American Red Cross. She also received the agency's Todd Persons Award. Recently, she was named as a Finalist for the eWomenNetwork Foundation's Emerging Leader of the Year Award.
A Walt Disney Scholar and Florida Academic Scholar, Sultana graduated from University of Central Florida with a Bachelor of Science degree in International Business Marketing and a minor in Political Science where she was recognized with the J.C. Aspley award and scholarship.
Muslim students at Lehigh U. fight hunger
BETHLEHEM, PA–Muslim students at Lehigh University have joined the national push against hunger by volunteering at the Trinity Beth Episcopal Church's soup kitchen.
The students are part of a national organization called Muslims Against Hunger, an organization that partners with soup kitchens and food pantries to provide volunteers and food, the student newspaper reported.
Taha Haque, contacted Zamir Hassan, the founder and head of Muslims Against Hunger, and expressed interest in bringing the organization to Lehigh. Haque said the chapter will be the first in Pennsylvania.
About 15 students helped serve a lunch of Hassan's special chicken, rice and green beans to the people gathered at Trinity Beth. Haque said the participating students were from all different campus groups, including ROTC, Hillel Society and Hindu students.
Sierra Foundation hosts Iftar
RENO, NV– The Sierra Foundation,a Reno based nonprofit intercultural and interfaith dialogue foundation, hosted three Iftar dinners in the past two weeks. The events were attended by a large number of non-Muslims.
Apart from the dinners the participants were treated to lectures on Islamic practices and a cultural presentation on the poetry of Rumi.
Many Guantanamo Cases Referred to US Prosecutors
August 6, 2009 by TMO · Leave a Comment
By Devlin Barrett
Washington – Dozens of Guantanamo Bay detainee cases have been referred to federal prosecutors for possible criminal trials in the nation's capital, Virginia and New York City, officials told The Associated Press on Monday as a second strategy for trying the detainees emerged within the Obama administration.
The Justice Department's strategy of holding trials in East Coast cities could be a sharp departure from a Pentagon plan to hold all Guantanamo-related civilian and military trials in the Midwest.
The politically volatile decisions about where and how to try Guantanamo Bay detainees ultimately will rest with President Barack Obama as he tries to meet his self-imposed January deadline for closing the island prison.
Obama administration officials, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss internal deliberations, said Attorney General Eric Holder met privately last week with the chief federal prosecutor in each of the East Coast areas to discuss the preparations for possible indictments and trials in those districts.
Justice Department spokesman Matthew Miller said the Guantanamo Bay detainee task force "has referred a significant number of cases for possible prosecution, and those cases have now been sent to U.S. Attorney offices who are reviewing them with prosecutors from the Office of Military Commissions." His statement didn't identify the districts involved.
White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said no final decisions have been made on where in the U.S. to transfer Guantanamo detainees.
One official said prosecutors and military lawyers are now reviewing the individual cases. The work is aimed at indicting individuals in civilian courts, but final decisions have not been made on the cases and some of the inmates whose cases were referred could still end up before military commissions instead.
Officials said the districts which have been referred Guantanamo cases are: Washington, D.C.; the Eastern District of Virginia, which has a courthouse in Alexandria, Va.; the Southern District of New York, which is based in lower Manhattan in New York City; and the Eastern District of New York, which is based in the New York borough of Brooklyn.
Each district has experience prosecuting high-profile terrorism cases, and each courthouse has high-security facilities for holding particularly dangerous inmates.
Yet the plan to hold terror trials in those cities may run afoul of a separate initiative being considered to build a courtroom-within-a-prison complex in the U.S. heartland.
Several senior U.S. officials said the administration is eyeing a soon-to-be-shuttered state maximum security prison in Michigan and the military penitentiary at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., as possible locations for a heavily guarded site to hold the suspected 229 al-Qaida, Taliban, and foreign fighters now jailed at Guantanamo.
The president has said some detainees will be tried in civilian courts, some in military commissions, and some will be held without trial because they are simply too dangerous but the evidence against them cannot be aired in any courtroom.
The proposed Midwest facility would operate as a hybrid prison system jointly operated by the Justice Department, the military and the Department of Homeland Security.
Both the Justice and Pentagon plans face legal and logistical problems.
If a significant number of civilian trials were to be held in the Midwest, the government might have to send in prosecutors and judges experienced in terrorism cases, and lawyers for the detainees could object to the jury pool.
Such a plan would also require an expensive upgrade of the facilities in Kansas or Michigan, and it's unclear if there is enough time for such work under the president's deadline.
But trying them on the East Coast could generate more of the kind of public opposition that led Congress earlier this year to yank funding for bringing such detainees to U.S. soil until the administration produces an acceptable plan for shuttering the Guantanamo facility.
The Obama administration has already transferred one detainee to U.S. courts – Ahmed Ghailani was sent to New York in June to face charges he helped blow up U.S. embassies in Africa in 1998.
Associated Press Writer Lara Jakes contributed to this report.
US Envoy Writes of Israeli Threats
April 9, 2009 by TMO · Leave a Comment
Courtesy Barbara Crossette
In the wake of the accusation by Chas Freeman that his nomination to lead the National Intelligence Council was derailed by an "Israeli lobby," a forthcoming memoir by another distinguished ambassador adds stunning new charges to the debate. The ambassador, John Gunther Dean, writes that over the years he not only came under pressure from pro-Israeli groups and officials in Washington but also was the target of an Israeli-inspired assassination attempt in 1980 in Lebanon, where he had opened links to the Palestine Liberation Organization.
Dean's suspicions that Israeli agents may have also been involved in the mysterious plane crash in 1988 that killed Pakistan's president, General Mohammed Zia ul Haq, led finally to a decision in Washington to declare him mentally unfit, which forced his resignation from the foreign service after a thirty-year career. After he left public service, he was rehabilitated by the State Department, given a distinguished service medal and eventually encouraged to write his memoirs. Now 82, Dean sees the subsequent positive attention he has received as proof that the insanity charge (he calls it Stalinist) was phony, a supposition later confirmed by a former head of the department's medical service.
Dean, whose memoir is titled Danger Zones: A Diplomat's Fight for America's Interests, was American ambassador in Lebanon in August 1980 when a three-car convoy carrying him and his family was attacked near Beirut.
"I was the target of an assassination attempt by terrorists using automatic rifles and antitank weapons that had been made in the United States and shipped to Israel," he wrote. "Weapons financed and given by the United States to Israel were used in an attempt to kill an American diplomat!" After the event, conspiracy theories abounded in the Middle East about who could have planned the attack, and why. Lebanon was a dangerously factionalized country.
The State Department investigated, Dean said, but he was never told what the conclusion was. He wrote that he "worked the telephone for three weeks" and met only official silence in Washington. By then Dean had learned from weapons experts in the United States and Lebanon that the guns and ammunition used in the attack had been given by Israelis to a Christian militia allied with them.
"I know as surely as I know anything that Mossad, the Israeli intelligence agency, was somehow involved in the attack," Dean wrote, describing how he had been under sharp criticism from Israeli politicians and media for his contacts with Palestinians. "Undoubtedly using a proxy, our ally Israel had tried to kill me."
Dean's memoir, to be published in May for the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training Memoir Series by New Academia Publishing under its Vellum imprint, has been read and approved for publication by the State Department with only very minor changes, none affecting Dean's major points. Its underlying theme is that American diplomacy should be pursued in American interests, not those of another country, however friendly. A Jew whose family fled the Holocaust, Dean resented what he saw as an assumption, including by some in Congress, that he would promote Israel's interests in his ambassadorial work.
Dean, a fluent French speaker who began his long diplomatic career opening American missions in newly independent West African nations in the early 1960s, served later in Vietnam (where he described himself as a "loyal dissenter") and was ambassador in Cambodia (where he carried out the American flag as the Khmer Rouge advanced), Denmark, Lebanon, Thailand (where Chas Freeman was his deputy) and India. He takes credit for averting bloodshed in Laos in the 1970s by negotiating a coalition government shared by communist and noncommunist parties.
He was sometimes a disputatious diplomat not afraid to contradict superiors, and he often took–and still holds–contrarian views. He always believed, for example, that the United States should have attempted to negotiate with the Khmer Rouge rather than let the country be overrun by their brutal horror.
As ambassador in India in the 1980s he supported then-Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi's policy of seeking some kind of neutral coalition in Afghanistan that would keep the American- and Pakistani-armed mujahedeen from establishing a fundamentalist Islamic state. For several years after the Soviet withdrawal, India continued to back Najibullah, a thuggish communist security chief whom the retreating Soviet troops left behind. After the mujahedeen moved toward Kabul, Najibullah refused a United Nations offer of safe passage to India. He was slaughtered and left hanging on a lamppost.
It was in the midst of this Soviet endgame in Afghanistan that Dean fell afoul of the State Department for the last time. After the death of General Zia in August 1988, in a plane crash that also killed the American ambassador in Pakistan, Arnold Raphel, Dean was told in New Delhi by high-ranking officials that Mossad was a possible instigator of the accident, in which the plane's pilot and co-pilot were apparently disabled or otherwise lost control. There was also some suspicion that elements of India's Research and Analysis Wing, its equivalent of the CIA, may have played a part. India and Israel were alarmed by Pakistan's work on a nuclear weapon–the "Islamic bomb."
Dean was so concerned about these reports, and the attempt by the State Department to block a full FBI investigation of the crash in Pakistan, that he decided to return to Washington for direct consultations. Instead of the meetings he was promised, he was told his service in India was over. He was sent into virtual house arrest in Switzerland at a home belonging to the family of his French wife, Martine Duphenieux. Six weeks later, he was allowed to return to New Delhi to pack his belongings and return to Washington, where he resigned.
Suddenly his health record was cleared and his security clearance restored. He was presented with the Distinguished Service Award and received a warm letter of praise from Secretary of State George Shultz. "Years later," he wrote in his memoir, "I learned who had ordered the bogus diagnosis of mental incapacity against me. It was the same man who had so effusively praised me once I was gone–George Shultz."
Asked in a telephone conversation last week from his home in Paris why Shultz had done this to him, Dean would say only, "He was forced to."
Barbara Crossette, United Nations correspondent for The Nation, is a former New York Times correspondent and bureau chief in Asia and at the UN.
She is the author of So Close to Heaven: The Vanishing Buddhist Kingdoms of the Himalayas, published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1995 and in paperback by Random House/Vintage Destinations in 1996, and a collection of travel essays about colonial resort towns that are still attracting visitors more than a century after their creation, The Great Hill Stations of Asia, published by Westview Press in 1998 and in paperback by Basic Books in 1999. In 2000, she wrote a survey of India and Indian-American relations, India: Old Civilization in a New World, for the Foreign Policy Association in New York. She is also the author of India Facing the 21st Century, published by Indiana University Press in 1993.
Open Letter Re: Humanitarian Crisis, Kashmir
August 14, 2008 by TMO · Leave a Comment
Justice Navanethem Pillay, High Commissioner
Dr. Kyung-wha Kang, Deputy High Commissioner
Ms. Gay McDougall, Independent Expert on minority issues
Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights; United Nations; Palais des Nations; CH-1211 Geneva 10; Switzerland
Subject: Humanitarian Crisis in Jammu and Kashmir
August 12, 2008
Dear Justice Pillay, Dr. Kang, Ms. McDougall:
We write to bring to your attention the profound humanitarian crisis continuing in the Kashmir Valley due to the ongoing blockade of the Srinagar-Jammu highway by religious nationalist groups from India.
This has resulted in severe shortages in the Kashmir Valley of food and other vital provisions. We are reliably informed that petrol and essential medical rations, including blood, are in critically short supply, as well as newsprint, and that communication services and infrastructure are severely disrupted.
The situation in Jammu, where the Muslim minority is facing violence on a scale that can be described as ethnic cleansing, is alarming. The Government of India and the military and paramilitary forces have shown themselves unable and/or unwilling to take any effective action, either to end the blockade or to stop the violence against Muslims in Jammu. Meanwhile, military and paramilitary forces have opened fire on counter-demonstrators in Kashmir, using live20bullets and mortar. A communiqué from the Kashmir Valley states that:
"The situation here on ground is that essential commodities have started getting dried up, diesel is already out of stock and petrol at its verge of end. The people here are very much concerned as if the same continues for next few days there will be nothing left to eat with the people of Kashmir. And on the other side the Army is supporting the mobs who have allegedly beaten up the drivers stranded on the national highway. The drivers who were beaten up reported that they asked Army to help them but all went in despair and the Army people in return handed them over to the mobs. The target is only the Kashmiri Muslims and some sources from Jammu say that it is the outsiders who have come to Jammu and are doing such attacks on the Muslims and it is quite evident that the Hindu fundamentalist groups viz. BJP, RSS VHP, etc., are all sponsoring the planned attacks onto the Kashmiris like it was done in Gujarat. Here in Kashmir we feel the history seems to be being repeated by the Hindu fundamentalists who had earlier in 1947 killed about 250,000 Muslims in Jammu."
On August 11, 2008, approximately 100,000 Kashmiris, including fruit growers and others gravely affected by the blockade, marched toward the Line of Control toward Pakistan markets in protest. They were met with gunfire and tear gas from the military and paramilitary forces, and Sheik Abdul Aziz, an All Parties Hurriyat Conference leader, was shot dead, inten sifying the situation. Police reports stated that three others were killed and over 200 injured, enervating health systems already low on supplies. Other sources we contacted stated that as many as 18 others may have been killed in Kashmir on August 11. By early evening of August 12, as we write you, reports stated that as many as twelve persons were killed in Kashmir on that day as armed forces fired on demonstrators. Other reports stated that civil society groups, students, and labor unions participating in non-violent civil disobedience and peaceful protests are being targeted by the forces, as curfew conditions prevail.
The Srinagar-Jammu highway is the only land route linking the Kashmir Valley to India and the sole conduit for essential supplies as well as for exporting horticultural goods, which are among the Valley's chief products. News updates on the state of the blockade and situation can be found from leading Kashmiri newspapers, which are online at www.greaterkashmir.com; www.kashmirtimes.com; www.risingkashmir.com; www.etalaat.com/english/.
About 95-97 percent of the population of the Valley is Muslim, while Muslims are a minority in India. This has made Kashmir the target of increasingly aggressive campaigns by Hindu nationalist groups since 1947, despite guarantees of autonomy written into the Indian Constitution. The Government of India has failed to take measures to prevent these campaigns, consisting of marches and demonstrations, and culminating in the current blockade. Since 1989 there has been an armed pro-independence struggle in Kashmir, together with other and non-violent movements for self-determination. Indian counterinsurgency operations have resulted in grave abuses of human rights with social, economic, psychological, political, and environmental consequences, which meet the definition under international law of crimes against humanity. To a population suffering the effects of nineteen years of armed conflict, the economic crisis caused by the blockade comes as the last straw.
We urge that you respond expeditiously to this situation in accordance with the mandate to uphold human rights as enshrined in the charter of the United Nations.
1. The Government of India should immediately end the economic blockade and ensure that goods and services, including emergency medical and food supplies, can move in both directions along the Srinagar-Jammu border.
2. The Government of India should open the Srinagar-Muzaffarabad road, a promise repeatedly reiterated by successive governments of India and Pakistan, though never implemented. This would ensure that the current crisis situation is not repeated as well as mark a concrete step forward in addressing injustices and the peace process.
3. Take immediate action to stop the violence against the Muslim minority in Jammu and bring those responsible to justice.
4. Put an end to ongoing human rights abuses by Indian forces and pro-India militias as repeatedly promised by the Indian Prime Minister and expected of democratic governments.
5. Take steps for a long-term resolution of the conflict by beginning talks with all sections of the Kashmiri leadership and civil society.
6. Take steps to hold the Indian state accountable under the provisions established by the Constitution of Jammu and Kashmir, Constitution of India, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and International Laws and Conventions.
We, the undersigned, are academics, social activists, writers, filmmakers, artists, lawyers, and concerned citizens. Our work and conscience connects us to Kashmir and its people. We hold no political affiliations. Please do not hesitate to contact us if we may be of further use.
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Dr. Shubh Mathur, Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of History, Richard Stockton College of New Jersey
Dr. Paola Bacchetta, Associate Professor, Department of Gender and Women's Studies, and Director, Beatrice Bain Research Group, University of California, Berkeley
Dr. Srimati Basu, Associate Professor, Department of Gender and Women's Studies (and Anthropology), University of Kentucky
Medea Benjamin, Cofounder, Global Exchange, San Francisco, and CODEPINK
Dr. Purnima Bose, Associate Professor, Department of English, Indiana University
Dr. Jeff Brody, Professor, College of Communications, California State University Fullerton
Adem Carroll, Chair, Muslim Consultative Network, New York Disaster Interfaith Services
Dr. Lubna Nazir Chaudhry, Assistant Professor, School of Education and Human Development, State University of New York, Binghamton
Huma Dar, Doctoral student, Department of South and South East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Dr. Geraldine Forbes, Distinguished Teaching Professor, Department of History, State University of New York Oswego
Dr. Sidney L. Greenblatt, President, Central New York Fulbright Association
Dr. Sondra Hale, Professor, Department of Anthropology and Women's Studies, University of California, Los Angeles
Dr. Lamia Karim, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Oregon-Eugene
Professor Ali Kazimi, Department of Film, Faculty of Fine Arts, York University
Dr. Omar Khalidi, Aga Khan Program, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Rafique A. Khan, Community Development Planner, CRA, City of Los Angeles
Tasneem F. Khan, Kashmir Relief, Los Angeles
Dr. Amitava Kumar, Writer and Professor, Department of English, Vas sar College
Rabbi Michael Lerner, Chair, The Network of Spiritual Progressives, Berkeley
Barbara Lubin, Executive Director, Middle East Children's Alliance, Berkeley
Dr. Sunaina Maira, Associate Professor, Department of Asian American Studies, University of California, Davis
Dr. Lise McKean, Senior Research Specialist, Learning Sciences Research Institute, University of Illinois at Chicago
Dr. Abdul R. JanMohamed, Professor, Department of English, University California, Berkeley
Dr. Swapna Mukhopadhyay, Associate Professor, Graduate School of Education, Portland State University
Dr. Richa Nagar, Professor, Department of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies, University of Minnesota
Dr. Vijaya Nagarajan, Associate Professor, Department of Theology and Religious Studies, University of San Francisco
Annie Paradise, Doctoral student, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco
Dr. David Naguib Pellow, Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Minnesota
Faisal Qadri, Human Rights Law Network
Dr. Mridu Rai, Associate Professor, Department of History and Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies, Yale University
Dr. Cabeiri Robinson, Assistant Professor, International Studies & South Asian Studies, Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington, Seattle
Dr. Sabina Sawhney, Associate Professor, Department of English, Hofstra University
Dr. Simona Sawhney, Associate Professor, Department of Asian Languages and Literatures, University of Minnesota
Dr. Kalpana Rahit a Seshadri, Associate Professor, Department of English, Boston College
Professor Richard Shapiro, Chair, Department of Social and Cultural
Anthropology, California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco
Murtaza Shibli, Editor, Kashmir Affairs, London
Dr. Magid Shihade, Visiting Scholar, Middle East/South Asia Studies, University of California, Davis
Snehal Shingavi, Doctoral student, Department of English, University of California, Berkeley
Dr. Ajay Skaria, Associate Professor, Department of History and Institute of Global Studies, University of Minnesota
Dr. Nancy Snow, Associate Professor, S. I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, Syracuse University
Dr. Rachel Sturman, Assistant Professor, Department of History & Asian Studies, Bowdoin College
Dr. Fouzieyha Towghi, Visiting Professor, Department of Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Sandeep Vaidya, India Solidarity Group (Ireland)
Saiba Varma, Doctoral student, Department of Anthropology, Cornell University
Feroz Ahmed Wani, Social activist
David Wolfe, Human security and conflict resolution specialist
Pei Wu, Doctoral student, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco
Ms. Helene Flautre, Member, European Parliament Chair of the European Parliament's Sub-committee on Human Rights
Mr. Geoffrey Harris Head of Human Rights Unit, European Parliament
Ambassador Richard A. Boucher, Assistant Secretary Timothy Fitzgibbons, India Desk Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs United States Department of State
Mr. David J. Kramer Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor United States Department of State
Ms. Felice D. Gaer, Chair, United States Commission on International Religious Freedom.
Did U.S., Israel Provocateur S. Ossetia Conflict?
August 14, 2008 by TMO · Leave a Comment
Does the Sun Come Up in the Morning?
Courtesy Kurt Nimmo, Infowars
August 9, 2008–Dead civilians in South Ossetia. But you will not hear much about it on CNN or Faux News. Because they are too busy reporting ad nauseam about the extramarital shenanigans of CFR darling John Edwards.
In order to find out what's really going on in Georgia, you have to read the international press on the internet. Bush, McCain, and Obama may cast blame on Russia, but reading the international press you get a different perspective.
Soldiers from the Ukraine, the United States, Georgia and Azerbaijan partake in "Peace Shield 2005" on the Crimean peninsula in southern Ukraine.
Russia accuses U.S. of orchestrating conflict
"Russian officials believe that it was the USA that orchestrated the current conflict. The chairman of the State Duma Committee for Security, Vladimir Vasilyev, believes that the current conflict is South Ossetia is very reminiscent to the wars in Iraq and Kosovo," reports Pravda, the Russian newspaper.
Recall the CIA admitting it "helped to train the Kosovo Liberation Army before Nato's bombing of Yugoslavia," according to The Sunday Times. The KLA is a perfect outfit for the CIA. "Known for its extensive links to Albanian and European crime syndicates, the KLA was supported from the outset in the mid-1990s by the CIA and Germany's intelligence agency, the Bundes Nachrichten Dienst (BND). In the course of the 1999 war, the KLA was supported directly by NATO," writes Michel Chossudovsky. "The KLA had extensive links to Al Qaeda, which was also involved in military training. Mujahideen mercenaries from a number of countries integrated the ranks of the KLA, which was involved in terrorist activities as well as political assassinations." Of course, "links to Al Qaeda" translate into links to the CIA.
"The things that were happening in Kosovo, the things that were happening in Iraq – we are now following the same path. The further the situation unfolds, the more the world will understand that Georgia would never be able to do all this without America. South Ossetian defense officials used to make statements about imminent aggression from Georgia, but the latter denied everything, whereas the US Department of State released no comments on the matter. In essence, they have prepared the force, which destroys everything in South Ossetia, attacks civilians and hospitals. They are responsible for this. The world community will learn about it," Vasilyev told Pravda.
Indeed, the world will learn about it, but not by way of America's corporate media, more interested in the entirely meaningless baby-making of Clay Aiken and Jaymes Foster. Bread and circuses shall suffice in America.
U.S. loads up Georgia with weapons to fight "al-Qaeda"
The Federation of American Scientists website reveals that Georgia is the most recent recipient of U.S. weapons and aid, receiving 10 UH-1H Huey helicopters (four for spare parts only) and $64 million in military aid and training to fight Arab soldiers with alleged ties to Al Qaeda that have been participating in the Chechen war and are now taking refuge in the Pankisi Gorge region in northern Georgia. Like many of the recent aid recipients, claims that Georgia has become an al Qaeda sanctuary are dubious at best.
"The rapid increase in US strategic influence in the Caucasus has alarmed Russian policy planners. Moscow is keen to take steps to shore up its eroding position in the region. However, Russian officials have limited options with which to counter US moves while at the same time maintaining cordial relations with Washington," Eurasia.net reported on April 8, 2002. "The most prominent US moves in the Caucasus are the decision to dispatch military advisers to Georgia and a March 29 State Department announcement on the lifting of an arms embargo imposed on Armenia and Azerbaijan. Both actions have the potential to tilt the military establishments of all three Caucasus nations away from Russia and towards NATO."
Imagine Canada decided to enter a military and diplomatic alliance with Russia and Canada began arming itself to the teeth with Russian weapons and training with Russian military advisers. Can you guess what the reaction of Bush and the neocons would be?
It doesn't take much imagination.
Rose revolution
The Rose Revolution was not a simple uprising but was aided by the CIA and Ambassador Richard Miles
CIA engineered Georgia's Rose Revolution
Of course, this al-Qaeda presence is not so dubious when one considers the well documented fact the supposed Islamic terror group is a CIA contrivance. As well, this absurd concern for al-Qaeda's presence under Georgian beds helped make possible Georgia's so-called Rose Revolution. "The Rose Revolution was not a simple uprising but was aided by the CIA and Ambassador Richard Miles (think Serbia). From early 2002 onwards the CIA had been operating in Georgia, supposedly to combat Al Qaeda," explains researcher James Schneider.
It appears the CIA has worked behind the scenes for quite a while in Georgia. Back in 1993, for instance, CIA agent Fred Woodruff was assassinated by unknown assailants outside of Tbilisi. "Spokesmen for the State Department and the C.I.A. declined to confirm that Mr. Woodruff was working for the intelligence agency. But high-ranking Administration officials said he was, adding that he was not spying on Georgian officials but was training Mr. [Eduard] Shevardnadze's security forces," the New York Times reported at the time. So tight was the CIA with the former president of Georgia, they engineered the "bloodless" Rose Revolution and pitched him out on his ear.
In the wake of Georgia's much vaunted — by the U.S. corporate media — "revolution," the installed government of autocrat Mikheil Saakashvilli wasted little time imposing "democracy" neocon-style, resulting in violent suppression of opposition political rallies. "Georgia was rocked by opposition rallies for six days last November as protesters occupied central Tbilisi demanding Saakashvili's resignation over allegations of corruption and increasing authoritarianism," reported RIA Novosti. "The Georgian leader responded by sending in riot police to crack down on protesters on November 7. Over 500 people were injured according to Human Rights Watch as police used rubber bullets, tear gas and water cannons to break up the demonstrations." In addition, Saakashvilli's goons used "non-lethal" weapons of the sort developed by the Pentagon (see video).
U.S. military holds "exercises" in Georgia immediately prior to conflict
Last month, Aljazeera reported that "a total of around 1,650 soldiers form the US, Georgia and several other East European countries, have begun exercises on the formerly Russian-controlled Vaziani base, the Georgian defense ministry said."
NowPublic reported on July 17:
US officials insist the long-planned wargames have nothing to do with the recent dispute between Russia and Georgia over the breakaway Georgian regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia. But they give Washington a chance to support pro-west Tbilisi at a critical time.
If you believe this, I have a bridge for sale.
In fact, these "long-planned wargames" were so important the State Department packed up and shipped off Condi Rice to Georgia. Her arrival was nicely timed to coincide with "a deadly firefight between Georgian troops and separatists in a Russian-backed breakaway region…. Ahead of Rice's arrival, a senior State Department official who did not want to be identified told reporters that unchecked conflict in the region could lead to catastrophe. The official also said Moscow should realize its Soviet empire is gone."
Catastrophe, indeed, although Russia's response to Georgia's invasion of South Ossetia demonstrated Russia's resolve to reclaim its supposedly evaporated empire.
Israel gets in on the act
Let's not forget America's junior partner in chaos and mass murder, Israel. "In addition to the spy drones, Israel has also been supplying Georgia with infantry weapons and electronics for artillery systems, and has helped upgrade Soviet-designed Su-25 ground attack jets assembled in Georgia, according to Koba Liklikadze, an independent military expert based in Tbilisi. Former Israeli generals also serve as advisers to the Georgian military," reports the International Herald Tribune.
No wonder the horrific photos emerging from South Ossetia have that Lebanon invasion look about them. Israel has over fifty years of experience in invading small countries and has consistently specialized in murdering and tormenting civilians.
Blind eyes all around
As Lavrov explains it, the "Georgian administration has found the use to its arms, which they have been purchasing during the recent several years… We have repeatedly warned that the international community should not turn a blind eye on massive purchases of offensive arms, in which the Georgian administration has been involved during the recent two years."
Unfortunately, the international community will likely "turn a blind eye" to the U.S. and Israel arming, training, and obviously orchestrating the current conflict, same as they by and large turned a blind eye to Israel's criminal invasion of Lebanon back in 2005 and the U.S. invasion and ongoing occupation of Iraq. In regard to the latter, the "international community" — indeed, the whole of the American people — are so disorganized and demoralized they cannot address the simple fact the neocons lied a nation into war. Nixon was bounced for far less.
It looks like Russia will be obliged to deal with Georgia's treachery on its own. Regrettably, Russia's response will entail even more murder of innocents and wholesale destruction, as this is how government historically deals with threats – real, imagined, or provocateured.


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Vitamin D: One Size Doesn't Fit AllThis study suggests current optimal or "normal" vitamin D levels may not be applicable to African Americans
Getting adequate vitamin D from a combination of sun exposure and diet plays a role in keeping bones and muscles strong, lessening risk of heart disease and diabetes, and warding off cancer, allergies, and asthma. Many people get their vitamin D blood levels tested, and take supplements if levels are low, though health experts are now questioning whether everyone with "low" vitamin D levels truly is deficient.
Dialing in on "D"eficiencyTo better understand normal and deficient vitamin D levels, researchers studied the relationship between a hormone (parathyroid) and vitamin D in African American and white 50-to-79-year-old adults. Parathyroid hormone is produced in the body to help regulate calcium balance, and as vitamin D levels go up, parathyroid hormone levels go down. The bottom of the normal vitamin D range is considered the level above which parathyroid hormone levels cannot be lowered any further. Current guidelines set this number at 30 ng per ml, meaning a person would not be considered low in vitamin D until his or her blood level dropped below 30 ng per ml. The study suggests the "normal" vitamin D level may be different for African Americans and whites.
In other words, adequate vitamin D blood levels may begin around 20 ng per ml for African Americans, and around 30 ng per ml for whites. What's normal for you?This study suggests current optimal or "normal" vitamin D levels in whites may not be applicable to African Americans, or black people from any location. This is important: for African Americans, one study even suggests harm with higher vitamin D levels. Among 340 African Americans with type 2 diabetes, those with the highest D levels were more likely to have plaque build up in their arteries, a risk factor for heart attack and stroke. That study's author, Dr. Barry Freedman pointed out, "We need to determine whether we should be targeting the same vitamin D level in blacks as whites, and better understand the cardiovascular effects of supplementing vitamin D in African-Americans." In the meantimeHere are some tips to guide your vitamin "D"ecisions:
(Osteoporos Int 2012; 23:2283-91; J Clin Endocrinol Metab 2010; 95:76-83) Suzanne Dixon, MPH, MS, RD, an author, speaker, and internationally recognized expert in chronic disease prevention, epidemiology, and nutrition, has taught medical, nursing, public health, and alternative medicine coursework. She has delivered over 150 invited lectures to health professionals and consumers and is the creator of a nutrition website acclaimed by the New York Times and Time magazine. Suzanne received her training in epidemiology and nutrition at the University of Michigan, School of Public Health at Ann Arbor. Copyright 2015 Aisle7. All rights reserved. Aisle7.com |

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The TabScales are all 5th Gen weaves made to counter the "flatness rigidity" of Banded TabMail and Flat TabMail Reinforced. It allows for a lot more bendability although it's much weaker. I use this mostly for joints since my arms and legs need more inward bend than outward. This uses 16 ga 1/4 AR 4.2 Bright Aluminum Rings I purchase mine from TheRingLord, but as long as they are 1/4 and 14-18 ga any ring should work fine. I chose Bright Aluminum to match properly with the aluminum can tabs.
- Difficulty: 2/5 – The only real difficulty is mixing up this and TabScale especially if you do them soon after another. You can often do a whole row and end up with something closer to TabScale Inverse.
- Flexibility: 4/5 – It bends inward, but not outward
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1. Lay the tabs out with the first row on top of the second placing them halfway between each tab.
2. You then put a tab through the top of the 1st tab and the middle of 2nd tab.
3. Then continue out for whatever width you want.
4. Simply keep up the same process for height.
5. I lengthened this because working with narrow weaves of this is difficult. Typically I start wide and make a pyramid shape going in each row and leaving the edges for after. (Again this is for speed and feel while building)
6. Then it's simply going up as you wish, connecting 2 swatches is easy enough as long as the 2 sides are alternating at the edges.
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Mike Tyson has sued SFX Financial Advisory Management Enterprises, saying that one of its advisors embezzled more than $300,000 from him and cost him millions of dollars in potential future earnings. The lawsuit claims that although SFX has returned some of the money, it is still well short of returning what it embezzled. Tyson is seeking more than $5 million in damages, claiming breach of fiduciary duty, negligent hiring, unjust enrichment and other charges. "Defendants did not secure, protect, safeguard and appropriately apply the Tysons' finances for their intended purposes," the former boxer's lawsuit states, "but instead misappropriated said funds for the benefit and enrichment of SFX/Live Nation." SFX Financial Advisory Management Enterprises is owned by Live Nation. Live Nation Entertainment Inc. told the Associated Press that it had not yet been served with the lawsuit and thus could not comment on it. [LA Times]
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Live Nation Entertainment, Like Many Before It, Unclear What Mike Tyson Is Talking About
By Bess LevinFinancial Services Employee's Pharmaceutical Heists Involved Fallen-From-Grace Celebrity Masks
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The 44-year-old ex-heavyweight champion is in bed by 8 and often up as early as 2 in the morning, at which point he takes a solitary walk around the gated compound in the Las Vegas suburb where he lives while listening to R&B on his iPod. Tyson then occupies himself with reading (he's an avid student of history, philosophy and psychology), watching karate movies or taking care of his homing pigeons, who live in a coop in the garage…As part of his cleaning-up campaign, he has been adhering to a strict vegan diet for nearly two years, explaining that he doesn't want anything in him "that's going to enrage me — no processed food, no meat." He says that he can no longer abide the smell of meat even on someone's breath…If Tyson misses his high-rolling days, he isn't letting on: "If you make a lot of money, you end up being around people you don't want to be around," he says. "Guys on allowance. It takes years to gather the audacity to get rid of them." [NYT]
Maybe This Story About An Investment Banker Biting A Subordinate's Ear Off "Mike Tyson-Style" Isn't As Bad As It Sounds?
By Bess LevinMaybe it was intended to be a playful nibble that went awry? Read more »
Retired CBOT Traders Wax Nostalgic For Days When Biting A Colleague's Nose Off Wasn't Considered Taking It Too Far
By Bess Levin
"The biting of the nose and the fights, sure, when you're throwing around that kind of money, people tend to lose it sometimes," said Doug Pringle, 42, who traded corn, soybeans, 10- year Treasury notes and 30-year bonds for 17 years. "I miss the excitement."
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Title: Human Trafficking Prevention through Faculty Professional Development
Dean: Rick Davis, PA-C, EdD (HPD-ALL)
Faculty and Students: Brianna Kent, PhD, RN (HPD-ALL) Rose M. Colon, PhD (HPD-ALL) Sandrine Gaillard-Kenny, EdD (HPD-ALL)
Slavery is capitalism at its worst. Estimates vary on the number of people currently trafficked nationally from 14,500 to 2.5 million. The Department of Justice and the Florida Coalition Against Human Trafficking indicate Florida is a major hub for trafficking and specifically mention children sexual trafficking. Ample evidence exists in the literature that awareness and intervention training is sorely needed for health care providers. Furthermore, there is a need to include training in health care professions curricula. Preliminary data obtained from a mixed-methods need assessment of community partners involved in the prevention of human trafficking (HT) indicated that health care providers need knowledge and skills in identifying victims of HT. A second mixed-methods assessment was conducted to determine the NSU College of Allied Health and Nursing faculty need for Human Trafficking Curriculum. Findings indicate that training was needed for faculty, students, and health care providers in general. The purpose of this study is to create a professional development program focused on HT knowledge and skills that influence faculty willingness to adopt HT curriculum. Five professional development modules will be designed in partnership with the Broward Human Trafficking Coalition, guided by the principles of the Transtheoretical Model of Change (TTM) and Adult Learning Theory. The proposed feasibility study will utilize a mixed-methods evaluative approach, focusing on formative and summative outcomes. Cross sectional surveys will be collected after each module. Qualitative data will also be collected through open ended survey items and a focus group. Human trafficking is a complex problem with overwhelming importance. There is a need to identify ways that health care professionals may play a role in the elimination of "modern day slavery". By influencing faculty to adopt HT curriculum, the knowledge and skills to identify victims can be taught to their students, the future health care providers.


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adidas Unveils 2014 NBA All-Star Game Uniforms
adidas is gearing up for the 2014 NBA All-Star Game on February 16 in New Orleans.
Inspired by the culture of New Orleans, this year's uniforms flaunt the vibrant colors of Mardi Gras with metallic accents to take these short-sleeved jerseys to the next level. Complete with an All-Star logo tributing "East" or "West" using the official symbol of the Louisiana in the shape of the fleur-de-lis.
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Exp South Africa clinches eight Virgin Active Sport Industry Awards nominations
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Current Virgin Active Sport Industry Awards Sports Agency of the Year (2011), Exp South Africa received eight nominations for the 2012 edition of the prestigious sports industry awards, after the shortlist was announced by the organizers.
Of the eight nominations, seven are for client campaigns across various categories, while Exp received an eighth nomination is in the "Sports Agency of the Year" category, for the second consecutive year.
The Exp campaigns which received nominations are:
Best Sponsorship of a Sport Team or Individual
MTN - MTN Lions
Best Use of PR in a Sport Campaign
MTN - MTN8 Wafa Wafa
NBA - NBA Basketball Without Borders Africa
SASOL - SASOL Banyana Banyana
Best Sponsorship of a Sport Event or Competition
Absa - Absa Cape Epic
Absa - Absa Premiership
MTN - MTN8 Wafa Wafa
Sport Agency of the Year
Exp South Africa
Exp South Africa Chief Executive Officer Sandile Ndzekeli expressed his delight with the nominations received for the second instalment of the awards.
"Firstly, the nominations are an impressive achievement for Exp, particularly because we recognise that we were shortlisted amongst other distinguished agencies and companies. Secondly, they are indicative of the high quality of innovative work we continuously strive to produce for our clients," said Exp South Africa CEO Sandile Ndzekeli.
"Thanks to the Virgin Active Sport Industry Awards, which has become a not-to-be-missed sporting industry calendar event of the year, it provides sports marketers such as ourselves with the unique opportunity to showcase our work and creative thought," said Ndzekeli.
He concluded by applauding the people behind the campaigns: "Well done to the Exp Account Teams who work tirelessly to ensure that we deliver outstanding campaigns that deliver both a marketing and business return on investment for our clients."
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A new report today is suggesting that Apple is losing business on iAds because of its refusal to share customer data. According to a new report from Advertising Age citing media buyers, Apple is 'slow, cocky and downright stingy' because it isn't willing 'to cough up enough of the consumer data that attracts advertisers to them in the first place'. Essentially, Apple is refusing to use the extensive and private customer data that it holds for targeted ads from advertisers.
Surely this is a good thing? Apple allows users to control their own iAd preferences so that advertising is on their terms, without their private information given up by Apple to third party firms. Media buyers are obviously critical because iAds aren't working as well for them. That said, they are surely working better for the user.


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- trocophore. Diatoms also lack highly important lipids for later growth from trocophore to larva, giving lower yields of oyster "seed".
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- Notes on the spawning, egg cleavage and early development of the
- Trocophore larvae developed at 4°C within 2—3 days. The velum began to form in 5-day-old larvae.
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- Variability in the trophic role of coral reef fish larvae in the oceanic
- Polychaete trocophore. –. –.
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- Trochophore - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- A trochophore (pronounced /ˈtrɒkɵfɔər/; also spelled trocophore) is a type of free-swimming planktonic marine larva with several bands of cilia.
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- Trocophore definition of Trocophore in the Free Online Encyclopedia.
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- Invertebrate Zoology | Spineless and Kickin' Ass!
- Larval development usually proceeds via a free swimming trocophore larval stage. The Polychaetes are almost exclusively marine.
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- trochophore: Definition from Answers.com
- A trochophore (pronounced /ˈtrɒkɵfɔər/; also spelled trocophore) is a type of free-swimming planktonic marine larva with several bands of cilia.
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- As mollusks develop from a fertilized egg to an adult, most pass through a larval stage called the trocophore. The trocophore is a ciliated, free-swimming stage.
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President Obama signed a new bill into law on Thursday that's supposed to cut down on wasteful government spending.
The savings will come from double checking payments to make sure they're not written to the wrong person, for the wrong amount, or for the wrong reason.
"This isn't about lines on a spreadsheet and numbers on a budget," Obama said at the White House signing ceremony. "When government doesn't work as it should, it has a real effect on people's lives."
The president hailed the new law as an example of bipartisan consensus, noting that both the House and the Senate passed the measure unanimously.
"If a family was double billed for their car payment or paid for groceries they never received, they'd figure out what went wrong and get their money back. Washington should hold itself to the same standard of fiscal responsibility," said U.S. Rep. Patrick Murphy, a Pennsylvania Democrat and key sponsor in the House.
The U.S. Office of Management and Budget has estimated that improper federal payments, including those to jailed or dead individuals or contractors barred from doing business with the government, cost the U.S. $98 billion in 2009. The majority of improper payments came from Medicare and Medicaid programs, according to the agency.
This year, the president's federal budget deficit will exceed $1 trillion for the third straight year.
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Most of the games I have played are 3 players and we never have more than 4. I would guess that I have played 7 - 10 times and have played the Dark Pharoh and Dunwich Horror expansions. (I am currently playing Kingsport right now for the first time).
I feel that I am doing something wrong. We only increase the terror level when the outskirts fills up and when the occasional card tells us to.
I would think that the terror level should be in the 6 - 9 range every game which would add to the growing suspense.
Anyone have any ideas for a good system to increase the terror level, in a linear way? Their was a mention on boardgamegeeks about just starting at 6 and closing all stores if it hits 9 or something but that doesn't 'grow the terror'.
Perhaps something like everytime a gate opens roll a die and on a 5 or 6 increase the terror level by one.


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Capcom has sent over a new Lost Planet 3 gameplay trailer and batch of screens.
Set for an early 2013 release on Xbox 360, PS3 and PC, the open-world game is a prequel that promises to reveal new truths about the foreboding planet and the colonial history of E.D.N. III.
The third instalment will drop Lost Planet 2's Monster Hunter-esque focus on co-op and a grind-heavy experience in favour of a story-driven narrative.
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12 Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing earnest in prayer; | 12 Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer. |
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Expect delays Tuesday afternoon on I-95 near 202 If you're driving in the vicinity of I-95 near 202 Tuesday, there's something you should know about. DelDOT is doing some rock blasting in the area between 1 and 3 p.m. Drivers can expect five to ten minute delays around the blasting locations. There will be message boards up on the road to let drivers know what's happening. |
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In the marathon that has become the work of recovery following Superstorm Sandy, Church World Service's unique place is in helping communities to help their own through fostering long-term recovery groups.
For people struggling to recover following Sandy, their local long-term recovery group offers hope and help. "It's a place where, if you can't afford to rebuild, you have an opportunity to get a case manager assigned to you to help you work through the process of accessing resources in and for your community," says Community FoodBank of New Jersey's Cathy McCann.
CWS helps communities to start long-term recovery groups that identify survivors most in need of assistance, and helps them pull together public and private resources to get back into safe housing. CWS helps these groups learn to coordinate fundraising, volunteer deployment and management of in-kind donations such as construction materials. And they extend emotional and spiritual care to people putting their lives back together after great loss.
"Thanks to CWS, we now have 14 long-term recovery groups in New Jersey. That's phenomenal for us," says McCann, who also chairs New Jersey's Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster.
New Jersey had not yet fully recovered from 2011's Tropical Storm Irene "when Sandy came along and hit a lot of our coastal areas of New Jersey that had never been hit before," McCann recounted. "We had a few long-term recovery groups, but mostly inland."
In a series of intensive workshops in New Jersey and New York in January and March, CWS trained more than 900 long-term recovery group members. New groups formed in New Jersey's Sandy-battered Ocean and Monmouth counties, and existing groups refreshed their knowledge, McCann said.
Now all the groups are at work - and holding regular conference calls with each other to share best practices and resources – for example, deploying volunteer construction crews where most needed.
"It brings a sense of peace to disaster survivors that they are not alone out there," McCann said. They take comfort in knowing "everybody, including faith-based and other local nonprofits, are pulling together, pooling their resources to try to do the best we can for them to be sure they have a safe home to go back to, even if it's not exactly what they had before.
"And then there are all kinds of emotional and spiritual care to help people through this difficult time. It's slow, it is a process. We explain the process to them and help them where we can."
Affected homeowners may receive assistance from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the Small Business Administration and state and local government agencies, as well as insurance payments. But these funds seldom cover the entire cost of major repairs, rebuilding, transitional housing and other losses.
Especially hard hit are many at-risk populations, including the under- and uninsured, people with disabilities, the elderly, immigrant populations, people of color and others. In New Jersey and New York alone, unmet needs are very roughly estimated by state and federal authorities at more than $2 billion.
"I'm feeling a lot better about where we are now than I was a couple months ago," McCann said. "I visited Atlantic City yesterday and they have just had their first unmet needs table. They have offices set up and five case managers working with them. We're making some progress – slow progress, but we are making progress."


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