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Does anyone have ideas? I love animals, but the cat is always in my gardens, and I find things I don't want to. I have talked to them about keeping the cat indoors, but it falls on deaf ears. There aren't ordinences where we live for cats roaming.
We have a dog, and when he's out, the cat stays away, but he isn't always out. Is there any inexpensive deterrents that I could use that also won't harm the plants? Thanks for any advice. |
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- Posted by davidandkasie Z8 MS (My Page) on Thu, Apr 17, 08 at 11:03
motion activated sprayers should work. when the cat gets close, it soaks the area. most leash laws say ALL domesticated animals, not jsut dogs. many people think tha tonly dogs should be controlled, but around here the dog catcher is called for just as many cats as dogs. last option is on eof those bb guns that shoots plastic bbs. they won't kill or permanently harm the cat, but they sting enough to run it off. |
Posted by Violet_Z6 6a (My Page) on Mon, Jul 18, 05 at 13:57 Cat Deterrents for your Garden: Keep in mind that each cat is different (like people), what works for one may not necessarily work for another. On the plus side, most cats will keep pesty squirrels, moles and other critters out of your garden. They're great for keeping out moles, rabbits, squirrels, and other critters which can do more damage in your garden than a cat ever will. Birds aren't stupid, they watch for cats and stay away. Sometimes natural law comes into play and the quicker animal wins, it's natural law. If the cats have owners, talk to them without being confrontational. The cat owner who allows his cat to damage other peoples' property is as guilty as the cat hater who kills the cat for trespassing. Remember, cats will be cats, and it is unfair of us to blame them for being what they are and how nature intended them to participate in this world. After-all, we praise them when they catch mice or rats or other creatures we deem to be 'pests'. * amonia soaked (corncobs, etc) NOT RECOMMENDED: + Pick the cat up and bring it to eye level with the plant to see and smell it up close. Usually, once a cat seen and sniffed at the plant, she usually doesn't bother with it later. + give them their own plants - i.e., pots of grass for her to chew on and a place in a large planted container on her balcony with some miscanthus grass in it (the cat likes to curl up in that for some reason) + if the cats are strictly indoors and attracted to your houseplants, grow catgrass for them. If someone forced you to remain inside one enclosed structure all your life, you might be attracted to the plants too. + Barley Grass As a gardener, grow your indoor cat some catgrass and catnip. They're healthy alternatives for your houseplants and they'll much prefer them. Change the litter to something they prefer. If you don't clean it out everyday, consider it. Cat's appreciate a clean, comfortable place to go just as much as humans do. This list compiled by Violet_Z6, email at email@example.com for comments and suggestions regarding this list. |
WOW! Thanks for the ideas. I don't mind that they get unwanted critters, but I do mind the birds, because I like to see them. I know the nature of cats, but it's a much longer story than I care to go into, the fact is they have been talked to by more than one, they don't care. There are no ordinences- I checked. They're trying to change it, but for now, that's the way it is. I wouldn't do anything to harm an animal, but I get tired of poop and body parts in my garden, so I'll have to try some of these methods. Thanks for your input. |
- Posted by palmettogal SE zone8 (My Page) on Thu, Apr 24, 08 at 16:11
I live in the country and also have a neighbor (and friend!) who allows cats to breed continuously and then does nothing about the kittens but let them grow up to breed as well. These are NOT pets. They are snarling, hissing hell cats that won't let anyone even close to them (and I DO like cats). About 2 weeks ago the last straw came in the form of being wakened late at night to something coming through my heat/air return vent. I don't know which of us was more frightened, me or the cat, but the fur was a flyin' and so was I!!! Enough was enough. We borrowed a cat trap that does not harm the cats and proceeded to catch and relocate one or two a day until they were gone. I'm sure that will offend some people and I'm sorry about that, but it seemed a more reasonable alternative than automatically being euthanized after 7 days at our county shelter. The real shame and blame lies squarely on the shoulder of those who don't take responsibility for their animals. |
- Posted by davidandkasie Z8 MS (My Page) on Thu, Apr 24, 08 at 17:57
only problem with relocating cats is they have an uncanny ability to find their way back home. when my sister moved out at 18 she took "her" cat with her. she moved abotu 9 miles away form my parent's house. every 3rd day the cat would show back up at the kitchen window at our house! she would come get it, and next time she let it out it headed straight home. after 3 months, she gave up and left with my parents. |
- Posted by palmettogal SE zone8 (My Page) on Fri, Apr 25, 08 at 9:05
Yep...one was back last night and the neighbor was putting food out this morning. My husband said he took them to different locations probably each about 5 or 6 miles away from our home. Oh well...if he stays out of the garden I won't complain. If he comes up through my heat/air return again in the middle of the night it will be GAME ON. |
This cat has attacked my son twice now, not the cats' fault. Their son has tormented this poor cat ever since they got it, it's mean. We've all said things to the parents and the child, but it falls on deaf ears. This cat has targeted my son now, my son is very gentle with animals, the first time was SO awful, he had to go to the hospital and get rabies shots- the cat had never been to a vet. He sunk his teeth into my sons' foot, and in a matter of an hour, it swelled from his foot to above his knee. It was very traumatic for all of us, our son is also Autistic, these people didn't care what happened to him, they were told to keep the cat indoors, and within days, the cat was back out. This last time, the cat attacked him on the back of his legs, I EXPLODED!!! My son has been terrified to go outside because of this animal, we are thinking about getting a lawyer, I'm tired of dealing with this. So far, the cat escaped once, but they retrieved him back inside, so I'm waiting for them to get lax again, if they do, it's all bets off, I am not going to have my son being afraid to play outdoors. It's like the cat knows my son is easy prey, he only goes after him, maybe it senses the fear he has. I don't know, but I will not continue to tolerate this from these people. |
That's terrible! You say there are no ordinances? That's sad that you have to hire a lawyer just so your son can be safe on your own property. I'd imagine that would cost a lot of money. Not to mention having to take him to the doctor for treatment. I'm sorry...I wouldn't tolerant such blatant disregard from this person. Even if it meant renting a trap and trapping the cat. I love cats and have had many over the years but there comes a time when you have to draw the line. Good luck. Have you spoken to the police? The cat is, afterall, dangerous and is at least a serious nuisance. Can you file a complaint? |
Yes, I have spoken to the police and did file a complaint. They have been cited through a "loophole", so we'll see if they abide and keep the cat indoors. They said that they're trying to get the law changed, but I can trap the cat if needed. My son has been scarred emotionally by this, and I'm just at the end of my rope. I like animals too, but I can't see living like this, so let's hope they keep him indoors. It's been very frustrating, they shouldn't have animals period, but what can you do? Thanks for letting me vent. |
the thing is cats dont like lemon. spray lemon oilish LOL around where you don't want them to be. and they wont cross that line. but the bad part is when it rains ya have to renew it. they kept coming on my porch til i did that, stinkers. literally. and i don't own any cats. like em but dont' own any. we have allergies to them. same with dogs. love them but have allergies to some. its in their hairs. not their dander like you'd think. i use a bb gun for the dog accross the street and he'll stay away for a while. but when his owner comes over then he thinks its ok to come over. then its back to the bb gun again. i think in your situation, i'd go to the attorney general cant he/she do something about that?? i mean you have extenuating circumstances, or do what they probably dont have the something or another to do. capture it let it loose in the woods. |
- Posted by dickiefickle 5 Dousman,Wi. (My Page) on Wed, Aug 5, 09 at 23:34
Stop to think is the cat there to catch rodents ? if its just poo get over it |
- Posted by joezy(firstname.lastname@example.com) onMon, Jan 10, 11 at 8:44
Why should you have to landscape your yard around a cat that isin't even yours, That is enabling the irresponsible cat owners not to take responsibility for there cats, it will draw more cats onto your property. It is legal to trap cats on your own property,after trapping it take the cat to the humane society.( your info is confidental) Cat deterents do not work, cats always find another way around them. We have to start holding cat owners accountable for thier cats,if the law won't do it we need to do it,therefore trapping will solve your issues with a unwanted-unsupervised cat on your property. As far as the rodents owls and hawks and skunks and raccoons and opposums are the rodents natural predator they will eat what they kill, the domesticated cat will not eat what it kills, the cat kills for sport. |
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I have a carport. There is a bed under it from before the awning was put up. This spot gets no direct sun and is blocked by the house on the West, North, and East. As you can imagine it is quite shady at the back. Is there anything I can grow up there in this region? The bed is a border bed so small shrubs and flowers or ground cover/ bedding plants are all okay options, large shrubs, etc., seem less appealing. |
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- Posted by DaisyLover z3/4NH (My Page) on Fri, Jun 10, 05 at 10:56
Okay, I take it the bed is at the very back of the carport. I'm trying to picture how the house blocks it on three sides, but anyways you say it gets no "direct sun". Is it pitch black at the bed or does it get some light? Light bounces around (off houses, concrete, the ground, etc). I know I am WAY out of your zone, but I did grow up in OK so I do know the climate (plus I love watching Paul James on HGTV). :) One thing I have picked up from him is that a lot of plants/shrubs that we consider hardy and sun-loving aren't even supposed to grow in your area but he grows them protected under the canopy of his trees. I just ran quickly through one nursery suppliers catalog and these are some of the shrubs that can take full shade: That is just a few of the shrubs for shade. Paul James has many of the dwarf evergreens that wouldn't normally survive your heat and he plants them under his trees. I believe he also has some varieties of Japanese Maple in the shade. Perennials: Annuals: I have already made this long enough so if you go to the link below to plantbynumber.com and you will see some great ideas for annuals for shade. These are in containers but many can be put in the bed. Also, you can always tuck a pot/trough/barrel in a flower bed...on the ground or raised up on a pedestal...or use a tall urn...or some hanging baskets above the bed. Anyways there are tons and tons of plants...but at least now you have a lot to look up and think about. Wayside Gardens has a lot of the plants listed and more. Their website is: |
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Whatever your political persuasion, there's no denying that President Obama is a powerful public speaker. And although you're not likely to be speaking as the leader of the free world any time soon, anyone can make use of some of the best techniques that Obama uses in his speeches. Check out our favorite tips for speaking like President Obama, and share your own in the comments.
Slow down
The most common mistake in public speaking is rushing through your material. Sure, you may be nervous, but it's worth the effort to slow down and really make it count. Barack Obama is not in a hurry, and it helps him to stand out. He never rushes when he's speaking, taking pauses and giving time to let things sink in before it's time to move on.
Make them laugh, then make your point
We see a lot of smiles and wit in President Obama's speaking, and it works for him. Even when you're listening to the President of the United States speak, it can be difficult to focus and give your uninterrupted attention. Obama takes advantage of spontaneous moments, like comments from the crowd, and uses lines that will get a laugh. But he doesn't linger on the comedy, moving on to make his point as soon as the laughter quiets down.
Tell a story
Barack Obama's speechwriter, Jon Favreau, has shared that storytelling is one of the most important parts of every Obama speech. Favreau makes sure that every speech tells a story from beginning to end. This takes Obama's speaking beyond the modern soundbite. Obama is talented at using stories to make a point, sharing the personal experiences of people he's met or learned about to really bring messages to life.
Share a message of hope
One of Obama's most powerful tools is hope, a message that things can and will get better. People love to hope, and you don't have to be the President of the United States to instill a feeling of hope in others. Discuss issues beyond the immediate, share the big picture, and remind your audience what they have to look forward to.
Share different moods
Obama is great at showing light and shade, offering different moods that help create contrast and keep listeners engaged. Show a full range of emotion, building joy, humor, and seriousness into your speech.
Share the ideas of others
Not even the President knows everything. Obama often brings in relevant quotes and insights from others. Quotes are especially useful because they can bring in expert support to really drive your point home.
Use imagery
You could stand up with a PowerPoint slide and show a picture, but it's much more poetic and powerful to paint a picture with imagination. When Obama says, "Even as we stand here tonight, we know there are brave Americans waking up in the deserts of Iraq and the mountains of Afghanistan to risk their lives for us," it tugs at the heart strings as we imagine bleary-eyed soldiers uncomfortable and in harm's way. These are the elements that make listeners pay attention and care about what you're saying.
Make offerings, then move on to demands
As the President, Obama has to speak to people who may not agree with everything he says, but by making offerings early on, he's able to speak effectively and still keep their attention. Offering agreements or concessions can help bring a difficult audience over to your side.
Address your real audience
Who are you really talking to? During the 2012 presidential debates, Obama looked more at the camera, while Mitt Romney focused more on the President. Although the conversation was technically between Obama and Romney, the real audience was the American people, and Obama spoke more directly to them.
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Barack Obama isn't the only powerful speaker living in the White House these days. First Lady Michelle Obama frequently displays grace and poise in public speaking, offering a great example of how you can own the room. Even if you're feeling rattled, be cool, calm, and collected to present your best self and instill a sense of confidence in your audience. Take your time, look at the audience, and deliver your speech with power.


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A Constitution Review Commission was inaugurated by President Mills in January to conduct public consultations on the 1992 Constitution. It received over 60,000 submissions during the year.
In February, March and April, intra-communal violence in the Bunkpurugu/Yunyoo District of the Northern Region left at least five dead and over 300 houses burned down. Thousands of people fled their homes, some crossing into Togo. At least five people were killed and several houses burned down in May in renewed inter-communal violence in Bawku in the Upper East Region. The ongoing violence prevented local residents from carrying out normal farming and trading activities, resulting in food shortages and leaving approximately 2,000 families in need of food aid.
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Individuals were regularly detained in police custody for longer than allowed by law. Police cells were overcrowded and insanitary, and detainees often relied on family members for food and water.
Access to legal aid was inadequate and some prisoners spent over 10 years awaiting trial, although the proportion of remand prisoners began to fall. Prisons were overcrowded and under-resourced.
Top of pageSeventeen people were sentenced to death by hanging, all for murder. At the end of the year, 123 people were on death row, including three women. No executions were carried out.
Top of pageThousands of people were forcibly evicted from their homes. Evictions were carried out without adequate prior consultation, adequate notice and compensation or alternative accommodation. Thousands remained under threat of forced eviction.


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New Chief Named for UCSF Rheumatology Clinic
A conversation with Dr. Andrew Gross
Andrew Gross
On July 1, 2008, Dr. Andrew Gross took the reins as Director of the UCSF Rheumatology Clinic on the Paranssus Campus. In this position, he supervises 17 UCSF physicians, 6 UCSF rheumatology fellows and 9 volunteer physicians who, with him, care for patients who make approximately 6,000 visits annually. In addition, he oversees teaching rheumatology to UCSF medical students and residents.
Dr. Gross received his M.D. degree from Tufts University and completed his rheumatology fellowship at New England Medical Center. He came to UCSF in 2003 for a postdoctoral fellowship in microbiology and immunology, and joined the faculty of the Division of Rheumatology.
Q: How have the treatment of arthritis and rheumatological conditions changed in the past decade or so, and why? Dr. Gross: "They have changed a great deal and it's from the explosion in research on the immune system dating back the last 20 years that has allowed us to have a much better understanding of how the immune system works, and what goes wrong in patients with arthritis and related autoimmune diseases. "From that, we have a much, much better understanding of some of the key proteins and molecules involved in driving inflammation in the joints. And we're much better able to now target those proteins and molecules related to disease by developing effective treatments. This is particularly true in rheumatoid arthritis and ankylosing spondylitis."
Q: Looking forward, do you expect this trend in improved treatments to continue? Dr. Gross: "There seem to be at least a couple of new medications becoming available each year, so that's very exciting. In addition, through genetics research, we're gaining new insight into genes involved in arthritis. That hopefully will lead to the development of other new medications. So, over the next 10 years I see us becoming more and more effective at treating all forms of arthritis and autoimmune diseases."
Q. What's your goal in terms of patient care at the UCSF Rheumatology Clinic? Dr. Gross: "There are two aspects to that. One part of it is treating the disease using the full arsenal of medication to reduce inflammation and control symptoms. The second is to make a difference in people's lives by helping them to do what they want to do, whether it's to go hiking or to go back to work full time. An important part of that is working with people to create a treatment plan to address the residual impact of the disease. Often, it's not medications that result in people feeling better, but rather working with physical therapists, working with personal trainers, and re-engaging in physical activity."
Q: What changes, if any, do you want to bring about at the Rheumatology Clinic? Dr. Gross: "Let me start with what I don't want to change. I'm committed to sustaining the quality of care at UCSF Rheumatology at the outstanding level it has been for decades. "In terms of new directions, I'd like to create collaborations with physicians in the Departments of Orthopedics and Dermatology, with whom we share so many patients. I'm also excited about developing a deeper relationship with the Division of Pulmonary Medicine because many patients with autoimmune conditions develop interstitial lung disease."
Q. What do you find most satisfying about your job? Dr. Gross: "Two things. One is bringing clinicians and researchers together into collaborative efforts. People at UCSF are brilliantly smart, remarkably enthusiastic and energetic. I also, of course, find it very satisfying to make a difference for my patients in their lives."
"There seem to be at least a couple of new medications becoming available each year, so that's very exciting." --- Dr. Andrew Gross


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"Despite what this county's filthy white devils are saying, we know that this white dog Joppich was neither friendly or caring because not once in the entirety of his life did he make a public statement about the un-made-up-for racial atrocities his kind have committed and continue to commit (by way of their denial of reparations) against ours.
But be not deceived! For the only reason these morally reprobate whites think life-failure Joppich was good is because they embrace the same degenerate values he embraced. So we know that as Divine Racial Karma despised him, Divine Racial Karma despises them too."
Reportedly, Joppich was found unconscious about 8 p.m. Sunday on Tally-Ho Drive behind Krispy Kreme off Bragg Boulevard. He had a single gunshot wound to the chest and was pronounced dead at Cape Fear Valley Medical Center. Many Soldiers throughout the county say they are relieved the aging racial terrorist is dead and, because it is deemed as a threat to impressionable blacks, can no longer present himself in the racially terroristic illusionary role of a good white man.


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Gargantuan ;-)
Tiger Leaping Gorge was sooooo good!!!
Enjoyed every single step in it!
Tibet, here we come :-)
The Gorge
Trip Start
Apr 09, 2006
Trip End
Jun 09, 2007
Without question, Tiger Leaping Gorge is one of the most stunning natural sites I've seen on the planet. The Gorge itself is 16km long (as the crow flies) and measures 3900 meters from the waters below to the snowcapped mountaintops - yes, that's 3.9km of mountainside to enjoy (straight up) while hiking.
We stayed overnight in Quiaotou before taking off mid-morning for our first day in the Gorge. We decided to take the high path out to get the views (of course!) and to walk the low road back for a different perspective. Trekking distance is about 24km and we felt every km. Walking out included a two-day journey through some very steep country (my ass and calves are still a bit sore). Our efforts were rewarded with magnificent views of the river and gorge. We found some great guesthouses along the way and met good folks each night. Despite all the beer we were hiking MACHINES. At one point we took a 3-hour detour down to the water to see the Tiger Leaping Stone, from where the mythical tiger jumped the gorge that resulted in the name.
After two days on our feet we walked down to the (mostly) paved low road for the return 24km trip. I know this is a short entry, but take my word for it that this is a great place and will look back on this as a highlight of the whole trip. The photos don't do it justice - you just can't capture the scale or grandeur.


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Afghanistan: Ten Years of Aimless War
October 13, 2011 by TMO · Leave a Comment
By Eric Margolis
A boy rides a bike along a road in Kabul October 12, 2011. REUTERS/Mohammad Ismail |
Operation Enduring Freedom – the dreadfully misnamed ten-year US occupation of Afghanistan – has turned into Operation Enduring Misery.
The renowned military strategist, Maj. Gen. J.F.C Fuller, defined war's true objective as achieving desired political results, not killing enemies.
But this is just what the US has been doing in Afghanistan. After ten years of war costing at least $450 billion, 1,600 dead and 15,000 seriously wounded soldiers, the US has achieved none of its strategic or political goals.
Each US soldier in Afghanistan costs $1 million per annum. CIA employs 80,000 mercenaries there, cost unknown. The US spends a staggering $20.2 billion alone annually air conditioning troop quarters in Afghanistan and Iraq.
The most damning assessment comes from the US-installed Afghan leader, Hamid Karzai: America's war has been "ineffective, apart from causing civilian casualties."
Washington's goal was a favorable political settlement producing a pacified Afghan state run by a regime totally responsive to US political, economic and strategic interests; a native sepoy army led by white officers; and US bases that threaten Iran, watch China, and control the energy-rich Caspian Basin.
All the claims made about fighting "terrorism and al-Qaida," liberating Afghan women and bringing democracy are pro-war window dressing. CIA chief Leon Panetta admitted there were no more than 25-50 al-Qaida members in Afghanistan. Why are there 150,000 US and NATO troops there?
Washington's real objective was clearly defined in 2007 by US Assistant Secretary of State Richard Boucher: to "stabilize Afghanistan so it can become a conduit and hub between South and Central Asia – so energy can flow south."
The Turkmenistan-Afghan-Pakistan TAPI gas pipeline that the US has sought since 1998 is finally nearing completion. But whether it can operate in the face of sabotage remains to be seen.
Meanwhile, Washington has been unable to create a stable government in Kabul. The primary reason: ethnic politics. Over half the population is Pashtun (or Pathan), from whose ranks come Taliban. Tajik, Uzbek and Hazara minorities fiercely oppose the Pashtun. All three collaborated with the Soviet occupation from 1979-1989; today they collaborate with the US and NATO occupation.
Most of the Afghan army and police, on which the US spends $6 billion annually, are Tajiks and Uzbek, many members of the old Afghan Communist Party. To Pashtun, they are bitter enemies. In Afghanistan, the US has built its political house on ethnic quicksands.
Worse, US-run Afghanistan now produces 93% of the world's most dangerous narcotic, heroin. Under Taliban, drug production virtually ended, according to the UN. Today, the Afghan drug business is booming.
The US tries to blame Taliban; but the real culprits are high government officials in Kabul and US-backed warlords.
A senior UN drug official recently asserted that Afghan heroin killed 10,000 people in NATO countries last year. And this does not include Russia, a primary destination for Afghan heroin.
So the United States is now the proud owner of the world's leading narco-state and deeply involved with the Afghan Tajik drug mafia.
The US is bleeding billions in Afghanistan. Forty-four cents of every dollar spent by Washington is borrowed from China and Japan. While the US has wasted $1.283 trillion on the so-called "war on terror," China has been busy buying up resources and making new friends and markets.
The ghost of Osama bin Laden must be smiling.
The US can't afford this endless war against the fierce Pashtun people, renowned for making Afghanistan "the Graveyard of Empires." But the imperial establishment in Washington wants to hold on to strategic Afghanistan, particularly the ex-Soviet air bases at Bagram and Kandahar. The US is building its biggest embassy in the world in Kabul, an $800 million fortress with 1,000 personnel, protected by a small army of mercenary gunmen. So much for withdrawal plans.
The stumbling, confused US war in Afghanistan has now lasted longer than the two world wars. The former US commander in Afghanistan, Gen. Stanley McCrystal, just said Washington's view of that nation is "frighteningly simplistic." That's an understatement.
Facing the possibility of stalemate or even defeat in Afghanistan, Washington is trying to push India deeper into the conflict. This desperate ploy, and nurturing ethnic conflict, will ensure another decade of misery for Afghanistan.
Columnist and author Eric Margolis is a veteran of many conflicts in the Middle East, Margolis recently was featured in a special appearance on Britain's Sky News TV as "the man who got it right" in his predictions about the dangerous risks and entanglements the US would face in Iraq. His latest book is American Raj: Liberation orDomination?: Resolving the Conflict Between the West and the Muslim World
He is an award-winning, internationally syndicated columnist. His articles appear in the New York Times, the International Herald Tribune, the Los Angeles Times, Times of London, the Gulf Times, the Khaleej Times and other news sites in Asia.
"US Is Destroying Pakistan"
September 22, 2011 by TMO · Leave a Comment
Imran Khan: 'America is destroying Pakistan. We're using our army to kill our own people with their money'
The Pakistani cricketing legend and politician talks about his country's damaging relationship with the US, how aid and corruption are further ruining it — and how he is sure he will be its next president
By Stuart Jeffries
File: Imran Khan |
When Barack Obama announced in May that American commandos had killed Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad, Imran Khan was furious. "The whole of Pakistan felt this way. Wherever I went I felt this humiliation and anger in people. It was humiliating because an American president announces it, not our president. And because it was the American military, not our military, which this country has given great sacrifices to nurture, that killed him."
Khan stirs his cappuccino angrily. "Most humiliating of all was that the CIA chief Panetta says that the Pakistan government was either incompetent or complicit. Complicit!" But surely Leon Panetta had a point, didn't he? The world's most wanted man was living a mile from Pakistan's military academy, not in some obscure cave. "They're talking about a country in which 35,000 people have died during a war that had nothing to do with us. Ours is perhaps the only country in history that keeps getting bombed, through drone attacks, by our ally."
Khan's rage is directed not chiefly at Obama's administration but at successive Pakistani governments for entrapping his homeland in a dismal cycle of immiseration and mass deaths for the past eight years by supporting the war on terror in return for billions of dollars of financial aid. The manner of Bin Laden's killing and the national shame of its aftermath typify for Khan how Pakistan has never properly learned to stand on its own two feet. He calls it an era of neocolonialism in which Pakistan's people seem destined to suffer as much as, if not more than, they did during British colonial rule.
"According to the government economic survey in Pakistan, $70bn has been lost to the economy because of this war. Total aid has been barely $20bn. Aid has gone to the ruling elite, while the people have lost $70bn. We have lost 35,000 lives and as many maimed — and then to be said to be complicit. The shame of it!"
Arguably Khan is benefiting from that anger. The legendary cricketer turned politician hopes — even expects — to become Pakistan's next prime minister. "Every poll has shown the gap widening between us and other parties." He is modest about his impact on the polls: "It's not what I have done, it's that they have got discredited. These are the best of times and the worst of times. The best of it is that people are hungry for a change."
I sip the tea that his ex-wife, Jemima Khan née Goldsmith, has just handed me. We're sitting on huge sofas in the vast living room-cum-kitchen of her opulent west London home. He's here to see his two sons, Sulaiman Isa, 14, and Kasim 12, who live with their mother, when they return from school. Later this evening he will fly home to Islamabad.
Jemima retreats upstairs so that her ex and I can analyse what went wrong with his country — and the couple's marriage. Understandably, Khan would rather talk about the former.
He recalls his greatest cricketing achievement as Pakistani team captain, winning the 1992 World Cup. Perhaps the 2012 Pakistani election will eclipse that triumph. "I played five World Cups and it was only in the last World Cup before we won [in 1992] that I said:
'Put money on us.' Now I'm saying my party will win. I'm throwing everyone a challenge that nothing can stop this party. Nothing."
Perhaps. But Pakistani politics, to hear Khan talk, isn't cricket. "To have a senior post in the government, you have to have a criminal record." I laugh. Surely not? He names ministers who have. This was one consequence of ex-president Pervez Musharraf's 2007 National Conciliation Ordinance that gave amnesties to many politicians (including former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto, who returned to Pakistan as a result and was shortly afterwards assassinated). "He did the greatest disservice to us by that ordinance. And guess what — it was brokered by the Bush administration.
"My country can barely stoop any lower. All you need to do with a senior politician today is look at his assets before he came into politics and look at them after and you know why they're there. My party is made up of people who don't need politics. You need people who don't need politics to make money." But surely that implies government by gentry, by people who are independently wealthy? "Or people who are not necessarily wealthy but who are in a profession and are doing quite well out of it outside politics. Career politicians have destroyed our country."
I take a sidelong glance at Imran Khan. He's a young, fit-looking 58, dressed in western playboy uniform (jeans, sports jacket, big-collared open-neck shirt), but with an imposingly stern face that he may have inherited from the Pashtun ancestors on his mother's side of the family. He claims to be shy and introverted, but to me he conveys the enviably easy assuredness typical of English public schoolboys. Indeed, Khan is steeped in that ethos: he was educated at Aitchison College in Lahore, a so-called English-medium school, before being sent to England to study at the Royal Grammar School, Worcester, and then read philosophy, politics and economics at Oxford. Ironically, one of his party's policies is that elite schools such as Aitchison should be abolished for being inegalitarian.
If this cricketing legend did become Pakistan's prime minister, it would involve a remarkable turn around in fortunes. In his early test-cricketing days, he was called Imran Khan't — and that nickname applied too to his political career. Ever since he established his political party Tehreek-e-Insaf (Movement for Justice) in 1996, Khan has fared abysmally. Even the Guardian's Declan Walsh described him in 2005 as making a "miserable politician. Khan's ideas and affiliations since entering politics in 1996 have swerved and skidded like a rickshaw in a rain shower."
Khan may have been a brilliant cricketer who for 21 years until retirement in 1992 made Pakistan a leading force in the international game. He may have once been renowned as a soigné habitué of toff nightclubs such as Annabel's and Tramp in the 1980s, and as the playboy who romanced debutantes Susannah Constantine, Lady Liza Campbell and the artist Emma Sergeant. But is he really the man to lead Pakistan from what he calls "the the edge of collapse"?
He, at least, thinks so. "The old parties are all petrified of me now.
They all want to make alliances with me and I say: 'No, I'm going to fight all of you together because you're all the same.'"
Excellent. But how does he propose to effect what he calls a soft revolution in Pakistan? "Oh hawk," he replies unexpectedly, "death is better than that livelihood that stops you ascending." He is quoting a verse from his favourite poet and philosopher, Allama Muhammad Iqbal, who died in 1938 and so missed both Pakistan's birth, its rule by dicators and corrupt dynasties, and its current ignominy.
How do Iqbal's words apply to modern Pakistan? "I take them to mean anything that comes with strings attached damages your self-esteem and self-respect — you'd better die than take it," says Khan. "A country that relies on aid? Death is better than that. It stops you from achieving your potential, just as colonialism did. Aid is humiliating.
Every country I know that has had IMF or World Bank programmes has only impoverished the poor and enriched the rich." And American aid, he argues, has had a calamitous effect on his homeland.
What Khan is planning politically echoes what he did in cricket.
"Colonialism deprives you of your self-esteem and to get it back you have to fight to redress the balance," he says. "I know for myself and my contemporaries Viv Richards [the great West Indies batsman] and Sunil Gavaskar [the no-less-great Indian batsman] beating the English at cricket was a means of doing that. We wanted to assert our equality on the cricket field against our colonial masters."
Isn't cutting foreign aid a perilous policy for a bankrupt economy?
"But it doesn't matter," retorts Khan. "We will cut down expenditure, tax the rich and fight corruption. The reason we're bankrupt is because of corruption. Asif Ali Zardari [Pakistan's current president] puts his cronies on top and they literally siphon off money."
He argues that if Pakistan's two greatest problems, corruption and tax evasion, can be solved, then the country will become solvent. "We have the lowest tax-GDP ratio in the world: 9%. If we get it to 18%, which is India, we're solvent." Not only does Khan believe he can tax the rich but also that exploiting Pakistan's huge mineral reserves will help the country escape its current mess. "A country that has no power is sitting on the biggest coal reserves in the world!"
Tehreek-e-Insaaf's other key policy is withdrawing from the war on terror. Why? "The war on terror is the most insane and immoral war of all time. The Americans are doing what they did in Vietnam, bombing villages. But how can a civilised nation do this? How can you can eliminate suspects, their wives, their children, their families, their neighbours? How can you justify this?
"When I came here at 18 I learned about western rule of law and human rights, innocent until proven guilty. The Americans are violating all of this."
Khan wrote an open letter to Obama arguing that the war was unwinnable.
"I said you do not have to own Bush's war — you can't win it anyway.
It's creating radicals. The more you kill, the more you create extremism."
Why can't the war be won? "The Soviets killed more than a million people in Afghanistan. They were fighting more at the end than the beginning. So clearly a population of 15 million could take a million dead and still keep fighting. They [the Americans] are going to have to kill a lot of people to make any impact and they also have in Zardari an impotent puppet as Pakistani president who has not delivered anything to the Americans.
"The Americans also don't realise that this whole Arab spring was against puppets or dictators. People want democracy. So this whole idea of planting your own man there, a dictator — neocolonialism is what it's called — is not going to work any more.
"The aid to our puppet government from the US is destroying our country. We're basically using our army to kill our own people with American money. We have to separate from the US."
Khan knows what it is to be attacked from both sides. "I've been called Taliban Khan for supporting the tribal Pashtuns and I've been called part of a Jewish conspiracy to take over Pakistan. I am of course neither."
The latter allegation came when Khan married Jemima Goldsmith in 1995.
In a chapter on his marriage in his excellent new book Pakistan: A Personal History, he recalls that, when he left for England aged 18, his mother's last words were: "Don't bring back an English wife." But after his mother's death, Khan did that, even though the British press wailed that Jemima would not be allowed to drive in Pakistan and that she would have to be veiled from head to toe; even though the Pakistani media portrayed the marriage as a Zionist plot to take over Pakistan.
No matter, as Khan writes, that his wife wasn't actually Jewish (her paternal grandfather was Jewish), but had been baptised and confirmed as a Protestant. No matter that she converted to Islam and set about learning Urdu on her arrival in Pakistan.
The smears got worse a year after their marriage when Khan launched his political career. "Cross-cultural marriage is difficult, especially when one person has to live in another country. But I thought there was a very good chance of it working because people grow together if they have a common passion. But from the moment my opponents attacked her in the first election in terms of a Zionist conspiracy we had to then take her away from politics. That meant we were doing different things. We couldn't share our passions."
Jemima returned to England, ostensibly for a year to do a masters in modern trends in Islam, taking her sons with her. She never returned, the couple divorced in 2004 and she is now associate editor of the Independent and editor-at-large for Vanity Fair. They remain on friendly terms. "It was very painful that it didn't work out but that bitterness and anger that comes when a marriage breaks down through infidelity was not there. We were completely faithful to each other."
There was no way he could have moved to London? "London is like a second home, but never could I imagine living away from Pakistan." It must be tough with his sons living half a world away most of the year.
"Very tough. Nothing gave me more happiness than fatherhood. And here's someone who had great highs in his life. The biggest void in my life is not being close to my children all the time, but mercifully, thanks to my relationship with Jemima, I see them a great deal."
One way of looking at his failed marriage, then, is that it could not survive the bearpit of Pakistani politics. How could he continue in that grim game given the high cost it extorted from you? "Ever since my mother died in great pain from cancer, I have had a social conscience that can only express itself in getting involved in politics. As long as I played cricket there was hardly any social conscience. It came because of my mother and how she was treated." It also came after a spiritual awakening and renewed Islamic faith, in which Iqbal's writings played an important role.
"The No1 thing that struck me about your country when I came here was your welfare state, which I'm sad to say they are dismantling — a big mistake. I thought: 'What a civilised society.' When my mother was treated here we were paying for her and there was a national health patient next to her — equal treatment. We didn't have that in Pakistan."
After his mother's death he founded the Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Centre in Lahore in her name. "My hospital is the only one in Pakistan where doctors are not allowed to know which patients are paying and which are free. Equal treatment for rich and poor is essential."
But the hospital was only possible because of donations that he raised from the streets of Pakistan's cities. "We needed $4m for the hospital and we had run out of steam so someone suggested we just go out into the streets. I ended up covering 29 cities in six weeks and I just went into the street with a big collecting sack. Only in Pakistan would this happen."
But that Pakistani generosity, he realises, articulates an important principle of Islam, of doing good deeds to get to heaven. In the book he writes that he asked why poor people would give such high proportions of their income to a cancer hospital not even in their own town. "It was always the same reply, 'I am not doing you a favour. I am doing it to invest in my Hereafter.'"
That geneoristy proved a catalyst for Khan's political career, he writes: "I started thinking that these people were capable of great sacrifice. Could these people not be mobilised to fight to save our ever-deteriorating country?" He may have a sentimental vision of poor Pakistanis but Khan has no doubt: they will revolutionise Pakistan, led by him.
Just before I leave him to his children, he tells me that the nadir for Pakistan came last year when Angelina Jolie visited Pakistan's flood-hit area. "It's so shameful. The prime minister gave her a reception in his palace and she commented on its opulence. The prime minister gets his family in a private jet to see her, the family give her expensive presents and yet there are people dying in these flood-affected areas. They were living like Mughal emperors in splendour and our people were dying. It took a Hollywood star to point this out. Our politics can never be so shameful again." That remains to be seen.
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Former Intel Chief: Call Off The Drone War (And Maybe the Whole War on Terror)
August 4, 2011 by TMO · Leave a Comment
By Noah Shachtman
ASPEN, Colorado Ground the U.S. drone war in Pakistan. Rethink the idea of spending billions of dollars to pursue al-Qaida. Forget chasing terrorists in Yemen and Somalia, unless the local governments are willing to join in the hunt.
Those arent the words of some human rights activist, or some far-left Congressman. Theyre from retired admiral and former Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair the man who was, until recently, nominally in charge of the entire American effort to find, track, and take out terrorists. Now, hes calling for that campaign to be reconsidered, and possibly even junked.
Starting with the drone attacks. Yes, they take out some mid-level terrorists, Blair said. But theyre not strategically effective. If the drones stopped flying tomorrow, Blair told the audience at the Aspen Security Forum, its not going to lower the threat to the U.S. Al-Qaida and its allies have proven it can sustain its level of resistance to an air-only campaign, he said.
The statements wont exactly win Blair new friends in the Obama administration, which forced him out of the top intelligence job about a year after he was nominated. Not only has Obama drastically escalated the drone war thereve been 50 strikes in the first seven months of this year, almost as many as in all of 2009. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta called the remotely-piloted attacks the only game in town in terms of confronting or trying to disrupt the al-Qaida leadership.
Plus, American relations with the Pakistani government are at their lowest point in years. And every time Washington tries to tip off Islamabad to a raid, it seems, the targets of the raid seem to conveniently skip town. No wonder the U.S. kept the mother of all unilateral strikes the mission to kill Osama bin Laden a secret from their erstwhile allies in Pakistan.
But Blair believes the cooperation not only with Pakistan, but also with the government in Yemen and with whatever authorities can be found in Somalia is the only way to bring some measure of peace to the worlds ungoverned spaces. We have to change in those three countries, he told the Forum (Full disclosure: Im a moderator on one of the panels here.)
The reconsideration of our relationship with these countries is only the start of the overhaul Blair has in mind, however. He noted that the U.S. intelligence and homeland security communities are spending about $80 billion a year, outside of Afghanistan and Pakistan. Yet al-Qaida and its affiliates only have about 4,000 members worldwide. Thats $20 million per terrorist per year, Blair pointed out.
You think woah, $20 million. Is that proportionate? he asked. So I think we need to relook at the strategy to get the money in the right places.
Blair mentioned that 17 Americans have been killed on U.S. soil by terrorists since 9/11 14 of them in the Ft. Hood massacre. Meanwhile, auto accidents, murders and rapes combine have killed an estimated 1.5 million people in the past decade. What is it that justifies this amount of money on this narrow problem? he asked.
Blair purposely let his own question go unanswered.
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CIA claims of cancelled campaign are hogwash
By Eric Margolis
CIA director Leon Panetta just told Congress he cancelled a secret operation to assassinate al-Qaida leaders. The CIA campaign, authorized in 2001, had not yet become operational, claimed Panetta.
I respect Panetta, but his claim is humbug. The U.S. has been trying to kill al-Qaida personnel (real and imagined) since the Clinton administration. These efforts continue under President Barack Obama. Claims by Congress it was never informed are hogwash.
The CIA and Pentagon have been in the assassination business since the early 1950s, using American hit teams or third parties. For example, a CIA-organized attempt to assassinate Lebanon's leading Shia cleric, Muhammad Fadlallah, using a truck bomb, failed, but killed 83 civilians and wounded 240.
In 1975, I was approached to join the Church Committee of the U.S. Congress investigating CIA's attempts to assassinate Fidel Castro, Congo's Patrice Lumumba, Vietnam's Ngo Dinh Diem, and Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser.
Add to America's hit list Saddam Hussein, Afghanistan's Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, Indonesia's Sukarno, Chile's Marxist leaders and, very likely, Yasser Arafat.
Libya's Moammar Khadaffy led me by the hand through the ruins of his private quarters, showing me where a 2,000-pound U.S. bomb hit his bedroom, killing his infant daughter. Most Pakistanis believe, rightly or wrongly, the U.S. played a role in the assassination of President Zia ul-Haq.
To quote Josef Stalin's favourite saying, "No man. No problem."
Assassination was outlawed in the U.S. in 1976, but that did not stop attempts by its last three administrations to emulate Israel's Mossad in the "targeted killing" of enemies. The George W. Bush administration, and now the Obama White House, sidestepped American law by saying the U.S. was at war, and thus legally killing "enemy combatants." But Congress never declared war.
Washington is buzzing about a secret death squad run by Dick Cheney when he was vice-president and his protege, the new U.S. commander in Afghanistan, Gen. Stanley McChrystal. This gung-ho general led the Pentagon's super secret Special Operations Command, which has become a major rival to the CIA in the business of "wet affairs" (as the KGB used to call assassinations) and covert raids.
Democrats are all over Cheney on the death squad issue, as are some Republicans — in order to shield Bush. But the orders likely came from Bush, who bears ultimate responsibility.
Americans are now being deluged by sordid scandals from the Bush years about torture, kidnapping, brutal secret prisons, brainwashing, mass surveillance of American's phones, e-mail, and banking.
In 2001, as this column previously reported, U.S. Special Forces oversaw the murder at Dasht-e-Leili, Afghanistan, of thousands of captured Taliban fighters by Uzbek forces of the Communist warlord, Rashid Dostum.
CIA was paying Dostum, a notorious war criminal from the 1980s, millions to fight Taliban. Dostum is poised to become vice-president of the U.S.-installed government of President Hamid Karzai. Bush hushed up this major war crime.
America is hardly alone in trying to rub out enemies or those who thwart its designs. Britain's MI-6 and France's SDECE were notorious for sending out assassins. The late chief of SDECE told me how he had been ordered by then-president Francois Mitterrand to kill Libya's Khadaffy. Israel's hit teams are feared around the globe.
History shows that state-directed murder is more often than not counterproductive and inevitably runs out of control, disgracing nations and organizations that practise it.
But U.S. assassins are still at work. In Afghanistan and Pakistan, U.S. drones are killing tribesmen almost daily. Over 90% are civilians. Americans have a curious notion that killing people from the air is not murder or even a crime, but somehow clean.
U.S. Predator attacks are illegal and violate U.S. and international law. Pakistan's government, against which no war has been declared, is not even asked permission or warned of the attacks.
Dropping 2,000-pound bombs on apartment buildings in Gaza or Predator raids on Pakistan's tribal territory are as much murder as exploding car bombs or suicide bombers.


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Verizon Center is a 20,000-seat multi-purpose sports and entertainment venue, owned and operated by Monumental Sports & Entertainment, in the Penn Quarter neighborhood of Chinatown in downtown Washington, D.C.
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Boasting an average of 220 events per year, Verizon Center is the heart of a $8.1 billion redevelopment that began 17 years ago when the arena was envisioned and built by late owner Abe Pollin and his wife, Irene Pollin, after previously building the Capital Centre arena in Landover, Md. Since the Pollin's realized their vision on Dec. 2, 1997, with the opening of the privately financed new arena in downtown Washington, 41.9 million people have attended more than 3,495 events.
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In terms of history, only two events have taken place each of the past 17 years at Verizon Center, as well as each of the past 40+ years dating back to the old Capital Centre arena making them the longest tenured events between both buildings: the Harlem Globetrotters (1973) and the Washington International Horse Show (1975).
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Oct 14th 2010 8:06AM its changed my life. in fact, if id have known about wow. id have never enlisted. this is the truth.
i had nothing better to do. if only i had klnown.....
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Sep 28th 2010 3:29AM i will not be spending another cent on this crap every since i bought $100 bucks worth of boosters just to see they had ninja removed the ude points.
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Sep 15th 2010 8:28AM hmmm... im not quite sure why an 8 year old is playin warcraft. t for teen!
i bet your the same kind of parent that will let there child into an R rated flick by themselves while i have to listen to the little f@cker talk and giggle and do other little f@cker things.
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Krzysiek Pawlik kirjoitti: > Jörg Schaible wrote: >> Please note, that Sun is still supporting JDK 1.3 for *paying* >> customers. It >> will take years till Sun is completely dropping 1.4: >> >> http://www.sun.com/software/javaseforbusiness/support.jsp > > Yes, but the free Java world goes forward, plethora of projects use > generics - > and they require >= 1.5 (or any other feature of JDK 1.5). > >> Therefore I still have even 1.3 ebuilds on my local tree. And I had to >> download and use the official ant binaries to run it with 1.3. >> Dropping 1.4 >> means also that it is no longer possible to run Maven with its minimum >> JDK >> requirement. > > Yes, but VM which is running maven is not the same as VM for which the > code is > generated (note -source and -target options of javac). > >> In Gentoo all is about choice, but this seem not to apply for Java >> development. For me it gets unusable. > > You're missing the point: the official tree (gentoo-x86) will require > >=1.5, > *but*: if you install JDK 1.4 (or any other version) you can still use > it for > your own software (including maven, ant and so on). > > Also like I said - more and more things require 1.5, which means that > all things > depending on them also need to be >= 1.5. For example: new hessian > requires >= > 1.5, which means that mx4j needs also to be switched to 1.5, which means > we have > to switch anything depending on mx4j, and so on. > I don't think we will be removing 1.4 JDKs from the main tree before Sun EOLs them. Even after that I think we will be keeping them around in the Java overlay. The point here is that we will end our support for using 1.4 as the system VM and build VM when Sun EOLs it. Regards, Petteri
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