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Sierra Club Bulletin: News for Members
Making Democracy Work | New Directors | Member Memo | Volunteer Spotlight | Ecoregion Roundup
Making Democracy Work
Doorhangers, bird dogs, and truth squads.
by J. Robert Cox
Former Sierra Club President Sue Merrow liked to say that the Club "makes democracy work for the environment." It's an idea dating back to John Muir that has been cultivated by Club members for a century. Soon after I took office as the Club's 45th president in 1994, however, that guiding principle came under severe challenge. Given the November electoral coup by polluters' allies in Washington and many state legislatures, how could we hope to make democracy work for the environment?
I needn't have worried. Today, as I step aside after two years as president, the Club is fulfilling Muir's vision in new, innovative, and far-reaching ways. Beginning with our own internal democracy, we've put grassroots activism to work as never before. The results have been as dramatic as Yosemite's Half Dome-- and as subtle as the Everglades.
Begin with Congress. Flushed with their 1994 victory, anti-environmental chest-thumpers in the House and Senate boldly proclaimed their plans to tear down a quarter century of environmental protections. The Sierra Club led the opposition, aiming at first to blunt the damage that many viewed as inevitable. Two years later, the 104th Congress' War on the Environment is in strategic retreat.
It's a resounding triumph of people over polluters. In the week leading up to Earth Day, for example, thousands of volunteers--many of them recruited via the Environmental Rights Network, our information- rich web of e-mails, faxes, phone banks, an Internet home page, and the Club's activist newsletter, The Planet--delivered doorhangers to more than a million homes in cities throughout the United States. Attached were postcards exhorting elected officials to "Protect America's Environment: For Our Families, For Our Future," and alerting residents and politicians alike to specific regional threats. And while the scope of the mobilization was extraordinary, its character was in keeping with other Club efforts of the past 18 months, from our nationwide Environmental Bill of Rights campaign to our regionally targeted "truth squad" radio ads, to our bird-dogging of presidential candidates trying to dodge environmental issues as they stumped in New Hampshire.
We are making democracy work for the environment. Since the November elections, the more we focused on our grassroots activists, the less we focused on lobbying Washington. We talked to our neighbors, and they talked to one another. As word spread about the War on the Environment, the media at last took notice, adding pressure on Congress to respond. By the end of 1995, once-arrogant hard-liners were struggling to explain how their votes against clean air, safe water, wetlands, endangered species, forests, wilderness, and national parks qualified them as "green."
Beyond Congress and state legislatures, the Club's revitalized grassroots activism is having a deeper, less obvious effect. In an era when "citizenship" too often equals "consumption," and the public interest is eclipsed by special interests, we're seeing signs of a change. As Club members speak out in local forums about new threats to wilderness, or increased risks of cancer and birth defects from pollution, they're also raising a fundamental question in the minds of their neighbors: How can we wrest control over our lives from the powerful few who would overrun our public institutions and defy the people's will? We're recovering the civic spaces where we make democracy work, where our vision for the earth can be shared.
It's no accident that Muir, the Club's founder, urged us to "speak a word for wilderness." Democracy demands that citizens speak out, both with reason and with passion. The strengthening of our civic life is still our best strategy for protecting the wild places of our earth and the health of our communities.
New Directors, New Directive
Sierra Club members have re-elected to the Board of Directors two sitting members, added three new ones, and put the Club on record as advocating an end to all commercial logging on U.S. public lands.
In the 1996 balloting, J. Robert Cox--who is stepping down as president after two years--cruised to a second three-year term, while Roy Hengerson won a third consecutive term. They'll be joined on the 15- person board by Anne Ehrlich, associate director of Stanford University's Center for Conservation Biology, who, with her husband, Paul, has written extensively on environmental issues; Lois Snedden, an editorial consultant from Reno, Nevada; and forest activist Susan Holmes, environmental program director at Columbia University.
The ballot proposition on logging carried by a nearly 2-to-1 margin, winning 39,000 votes. The Club's new, more sweeping position, said Cox, commits the Sierra Club to support federal legislation that bans all commercial logging on public lands, when and if it is introduced. But the new posture will not change the Club's continued advocacy for new wilderness areas, national parks, ancient-forest preserves, and other incremental legislative approaches to protecting environmentally sensitive public forests.
Member Memo
Calling (and Calling) on the Sierra Club
Since the dark days of the 1994 elections, the Sierra Club has had remarkable success in getting the once- reluctant news media to cover the War on the Environment. But when people want the real lowdown on legislators' efforts on behalf of polluters, they don't tune in CNN. They ask the Club.
Specifically, they ask the Sierra Club Information Center, which has been as busy as a Gingrichite trying to paint himself green by next election day. How busy is that? In 1995, the Info Center fielded some 39,000 phone calls--an increase of nearly 50 percent over the previous year--or an average of one call every three minutes.
When staffers weren't on the phone, they were responding to e-mail inquiries--4,809 last year, more than twice the number in 1994--or sending out information packets to members, students, and the general public (more than 5,000 in the last three months of 1995).
The upward trend shows no signs of abating, but the Info Center takes pride in its ability to handle all comers. If you have a question about the Club, its policies and positions, membership, or the War on the Environment--or, for that matter, just about anything else related to the environment--contact the Center at (415) 977-5653 or via e-mail at email@example.com.
Volunteer Spotlight: Mrs. Robinson's Neighborhood
by Tracy Baxter
Florence Robinson's demeanor is calm and reserved. But her friends swear that the bespectacled, soft- spoken biology professor at Southern University is nothing short of a firebrand. "And when I get angry about exploitation, I guess I can be a little fiery," she says.
And inventive. Testifying at a 1995 hearing on Louisiana's "takings" legislation, Robinson heartily endorsed the anti-environmental measure. Twisting the economic arguments of its corporate backers, Robinson commented that the bill's subsidies for polluting industries would diminish her property values.
"Gentlemen," she promised, "just as soon as this bill becomes law, we citizens who live within four miles of any environmental hazard or nuisance are going to hire more New York lawyers than you can shake a stick at to receive just compensation from the state for our devalued property."
The sponsor of the soon-to-fail proposal, Representative Noble Ellington (D-Winnsboro) chuckled in spite of himself. "I don't know how much of this support I can take."
Robinson purchased her two-acre property in 1971. She saw Alsen, Louisiana, a small, rural community a few miles north of Baton Rouge established at the end of the Civil War by emancipated slaves, as an ideal setting in which to raise her son and to indulge a lifelong passion, the study of nature. She especially enjoyed exploring the bayou wilderness of Devil's Swamp, a short walk from her door. What she didn't realize was that she and her neighbors were unusually vulnerable to pollution.
Since the 1940s, cheap labor, cheap land, and lavish tax breaks have invited the befouling of Louisiana's environment. Consequently, the state consistently ends up near the bottom in national surveys of environmental quality. Many African-Americans have been especially hard hit because they didn't have the right to vote polluters out of their communities during the critical boom years. As petrochemical and other dirty industries crowded into what became known as "Cancer Alley," the 85-mile corridor stretching from Baton Rouge to New Orleans, they targeted places like Alsen, confident that the largely black, agrarian population would be unable to fight back.
These corporations operated with impunity, keeping communities in the dark about air, water, and soil contamination. But eventually they could not hide the respiratory ailments, immune system disorders, and birth defects that compelled Alsen's residents to file a 1981 lawsuit against one of the worst polluters, Rollins Environmental Services. After the suit was settled out of court, however, the activist base crumbled.
Robinson was instrumental in rebuilding that base when Rollins sought to expand in 1986. Incredibly, the company had operated its hazardous-waste facilities for 19 years on temporary permits, and had been cited for more than 100 state and federal violations without paying any penalties.
Rollins' environmental track record and the prospect of its operating two new incinerators and three new landfills horrified the community. Robinson and other Alsen residents prepared press releases outlining the state's history of discrimination in siting polluting operations. They held demonstrations, and sent busloads of protesters to the permit hearings.
"We had people all the way from great-grandmothers to young people testifying," Robinson says. "And we had wonderful environmental friends, like the Sierra Club, standing with us." It was enough agitation to produce what she terms "a little victory." "Rollins got the permanent status, but they didn't get to expand. They were also allowed to build a new incinerator, but the old had to shut down."
Robinson rose to other challenges, too. Her testimony before the Louisiana legislature helped put the brakes on Supplemental Fuels' plans to locate in predominantly African-American St. Gabriel, Louisiana. In a half-dozen appearances before Congress, she's championed disenfranchised people living near Superfund sites. And, working with Bill Redding of the Sierra Club's Midwest office, she helped shape the Club's Mississippi Ecoregion program.
At times, the enormity of living in what's been called "America's Third World" stuns her. Years of exposure to harmful chemicals have left her without a sense of smell and subject to chronic fatigue and anxiety. "One night I came home and just started shaking. I was surrounded by three empty homes where people had died. I thought, 'My God, what's going to happen to me?' " Yet she was busy last April 21 combating the industry cooptation of Earth Day in Baton Rouge Parish. Costumed as "Mutants for Toxics" at the celebration, Robinson and ten others distributed Toxic Release Inventory data on the event's corporate sponsors. As usual, she's on her way to another "little victory."
Ecoregion Roundup
In 65 chapters and hundreds of local groups spanning 21 ecoregions and two nations, Sierra Club members are hard at work protecting the environmentófor our families, for our future.
Great Lakes: Last call for sprawl Overturning the myth that environmental protection spells financial ruin for property owners, the Sierra Club's Midwest office helped prepare an eye-opening report that puts a price tag on haphazard growth. According to "$prawl Costs Us All," Wisconsin taxpayers can expect to pay up to $4.5 billion for new public services over the next 15 years while developers contribute only a pittance in impact fees. With the damning data in hand, green candidates in the Dane County, Wisconsin, elections convinced voters to elect a new pro-environment majority to the county council.
For our families Laurel Hopwood of the Northeast Ohio group is not one to leave children's health to chance. In numerous letters to the editor and testimony before the Cleveland Heights city council, she condemned the use of pesticides like 2,4-D, a component in Agent Orange, in killing dandelions and clover on public property. When challenged on the practicality of organic repellents, Hopwood informed skeptics of a success right under their noses: the groundskeeper at Cleveland Municipal Stadium had already quietly switched to nontoxic pest controls. Hopwood's yearlong effort resulted in a 1995 city ordinance banning synthetic pesticides on the grounds of schools, libraries, parks, and day care centers.
Atlantic Coast:A wetland win Combating the Maine Department of Transportation's plans to build a cargo port at Sears Island made the last 13 years busy ones for Maine Sierra Club activists. Though the 940-acre island in Penobscot Bay provided habitat for 70 percent of the state's wetland species as well as an important flyway for neotropical birds, the agency rejected an alternative site at industrialized Mack Point. The agency flouted environmental law by neglecting to prepare an environmental impact statement and then, when forced by a Sierra Club lawsuit, delivered an EIS that ignored 200 acres of freshwater wetlands on the island. Each time the agency submitted redesigns for the port, Sierra Club lawsuits showed them to be inadequate. Club activists rejoiced when the Army Corps of Engineers finally rejected the project this February.
Counterpunch to propaganda Whoever says that today's youth are slackers has obviously never spent any time with the Sierra Student Coalition of the South Carolina Chapter. When coalition members heard that Governor Jim Beasley, who recently reopened a radioactive-waste dump in Barnwell County, would present a prestigious regional environmental prize, they organized a counter-award ceremony. With posters protesting the governor's ploy to gain public support for the landfill by funding education projects with dump fees, the students named Beasley "Nuclear Father of the Year." The governor decided not to pick up his prize, but the local media picked up the story and ran with it.
Preserving watery wilds In 1972, the Clean Water Act directed states to set pollution limits to ensure that rivers, lakes, and streams were safe for swimming and fishing. Twelve years later, Georgia's Environmental Protection Division had managed to establish water quality standards for just two sections of one of the state's 340 polluted water bodies. Hopping mad, the Sierra Club and other environmental organizations sued the EPA to force the agency to order Georgia's immediate compliance with federal law. Noting that at its current pace it would take Georgia more than a century to clean up, a U.S. District Court judge in March 1996 gave the EPA 30 days to present a plan to enforce the clean-water mandate.
Great North American Prairie: Giving Newt the boot With less than two weeks' prior notice of Newt Gingrich's appearance at a $1,000-a-table fund-raiser for Oklahoma Republican Congressman J. C. Watts, the Sierra Club took a major role in orchestrating a "Sack J. C. and Boot Newt!" rally. Nearly 400 people from 30 groups representing the environment, indigenous peoples, and labor turned out in Norman, Oklahoma, for an afternoon of acoustic music, Native American drumming and prayers, and rousing speeches from environmental leaders, including one from the Sierra Clubóendorsed candidate for Watts' seat, Ed Crocker. At a press conference, Newt labeled the ralliers "misinformed" and "without a work ethic." All three Oklahoma City TV stations covered the event.
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A Summit County judge has upheld a jury's verdict, sentencing craigslist killer Richard Beasley to death.
Prosecutors present craigslist killings evidence in Richard Beasley trial
AKRON, Ohio - A man who says he was wounded by gunfire but escaped testified Tuesday as prosecutors began trying to show that robbery and identity theft were motives behind attacks two years ago that left three men in Ohio dead. All four were lured by phony Craigslist job offers.
Scott Davis stepped down from the witness stand and stood in front of alleged triggerman Richard Beasley to identify him as the attacker. Davis also said he remembered a tattoo on Beasley's arm.
Beasley, 53, has pleaded not guilty to multiple counts of aggravated murder, kidnapping and other charges. His trial began Monday in an Akron courtroom.
"He wanted a new identity and he got it," prosecutor Emily Pelphrey told jurors Monday in an opening statement as she outlined the evidence against Beasley, an ex-convict who slumped in his wheelchair without looking at Pelphrey. Beasley has back problems.
His attorney, James Burdon, said there isn't enough evidence to convict Beasley. He said the defense would try to show that the survivor attacked Beasley first, not the other way around.
In what appeared to be the first such mention in the case, Burdon also said the defense would try to show that Beasley had posted the Craigslist ads at the behest of a man with a violent criminal history. He didn't detail the circumstances.
Beasley, who was dressed in a dark suit, could face the death penalty if convicted.
In a 40-minute opening statement Monday, Pelphrey showed jurors photos of the victims and, without identifying the teen, a photo of Beasley hugging his co-defendant, Brogan Rafferty, 18.
Rafferty, who thought of Beasley as a mentor and friend, was convicted last year and was sentenced to life in prison without the chance of parole.
Rafferty, too young at the time of the crimes to be eligible for the death penalty, has agreed to testify against Beasley. It was unclear whether his testimony could lead to a sentence reduction.
At his sentencing, Rafferty said the crimes were horrible but he didn't see any chance to stop the killings. Rafferty said he feared Beasley would kill him and his family members if he tipped off police.
If Beasley is convicted of aggravated murder, the same jury would hear evidence on whether to recommend that the judge impose the death sentence. Any sentencing proceeding likely would begin April 8, the judge said.
Prosecutors say the victims, all down on their luck and with few family ties that might highlight their disappearance, were lured with phony offers of farmhand jobs in southeast Ohio through Craigslist ads. The slain men were Ralph Geiger, 56, of Akron; David Pauley, 51, of Norfolk, Va.; and Timothy Kern, 47, of Massillon.
The lone survivor, Davis, was shot in the arm and fled into the woods. Davis, of South Carolina, was looking to move closer to his family in the Canton area.
He fled into the woods in Noble County after hearing the click of a handgun, getting shot in the arm, and pushing the weapon aside.
When the prosecutor outlined how Kern was killed, his father, Jack Kern, sitting in the front row of the public gallery, wiped his eyes and shifted in his seat as he listened.
"He was shot in the back of the head," said Pelphrey, who showed a Nov. 13, 2011, parking lot surveillance photo of Kern, apparently the last time he was seen alive. He was shot later that morning, Pelphrey said.
Burdon signaled that the defense would challenge the prosecution's contention that Davis was attacked first by Beasley while walking at the farm and discussing a $300-a-week job. "We think the evidence will show the opposite," Burdon said.
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Voluptuous yet lean, feminine yet stripped to the essentials of its architecture, the Mama Vase is perfectly proportioned. London-based designer Ilse Crawford has long been a champion of the clean lines and understated elegance that is associated with Scandinavian design. The magic of Mama is in its duality. Though composed with meticulous constraint, it has a spirit of pure joy.
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5 Ingredient Vegan: Sweet Potato Falafel
IEG, May 29, 2014
I first started making sweet potato falafel years ago. I was absolutely delighted to discover that they can be made with just 5 ingredients, and still retain their texture, flavor, and versatility! Continue reading →
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Jay-Z and Beyonce Go Vegan!
lindsay, December 4, 2013
Jay-Z is embarking on a 22 day challenge to better health because psychologists say it takes 21 days to make or break a habit. "On the 22nd day," Jay-Z wrote, "you've found the way." Continue reading →
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Happy World Vegan Day!
lindsay, November 1, 2013
This year, 2013, has been unofficially declared "Year of the Vegan," but today, November 1, is offically World Vegan Day! It's also the first day of World Vegan Month, iEG's favorite time of the year. Continue reading →
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My Meatless Life: LA Vegan Food Scene
Ayinde, August 5, 2013
I have been in my new city for about 5 months now, but it only feels like two because I've been traveling so much. But when I get home, I don't always feel like cooking, and when it comes to dating, I may not want to cook for a woman on the first date– I mean after all I have to have something to build up to. So this is a list of places in LA I like. I don't use the other L word a lot, and when it comes to vegan food, I am a snob. However, here are the places I don't hate.
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My Meatless Life: Tempeh Stir-Fry… In Chicago!
Ayinde, June 10, 2013
My mother used to make stir-fry all the time. She would add non-traditional things like pineapple or smoked tofu for example. Though it was not authentic Chinese food, it worked for us. I created the following recipe during a brainstorming session for the creative team behind the Cocoa Butter video for my client, India Arie. I made it again here (I'm currently in Chicago) and I think it's ready for you! Continue reading →
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Daft Punk Makes the Future and History, Kanye Makes Em Say Eww… I Like It!
Ayinde, May 23, 2013
The second track on Random Access Memories by Daft Punk which is set to debut at #1 on billboard 200 Georgio talks about his origins and how he always wanted to play and compose music. He would go to the discos in Germany and sing at night sleeping in his car by day. Music was his ticket out of the small village he commuted from, he wanted to make a sound of the future using the synthesizer a click and a moog (one of my favorite sounds in all music) the funny and most interesting thing about that statement is that the futuristic sound that Daft punk is known for is nothing more than what he (a person) thought the future should sound like. Continue reading →
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Mason is 10. He looks out on Canary Wharf from his high-rise. He wants to take film-maker David Bond on a tour of his manor, where he takes his dog for a walk to the patch of green that is his meagre playground.
"People moan at us for playing ball games," he says as he heads past the forbidding signs and down the "curly wurly" stairs of his concrete jungle.
Crossrail has lowered a 550 tonne tunnelling machine into a 40m shaft in the Limmo peninsula near Canning Town in preparation for the next stage of construction.
A few weeks ago a thriving colony of swans was removed from Royal Victoria Docks.
Their presence was deemed as a threat to the aeroplanes landing at London City Airport and their absence was noted sadly by residents.
The swans were removed to another part of the country.
A battle has broken out over the controversial culling of monk parakeets on the Isle of Dogs.
Fourteen adult birds and a number of eggs were removed from Millwall Park last month, prompting Islanders to launch a campaign to stop the cull, claiming they are feathered friends not parrot pests.
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This weekend sees the welcome return to London of UK Aware. Friday and Saturday will see ethical and environmentally friendly suppliers and exhibitors displaying their wares to thousands of visitors at Olympia. Although we're not involved in organising the event we very much endorse the message that UK Aware aims to spread.


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Hear Lord Echo's Funky House-Soul Hybrid 'Molten Lava'
New Zealand's Leila Adu guests on 'Curiosities' single
Lord Echo is the alias of New Zealand multi-instrumentalist and producer Mike Fabs, a man whose ear for blending dub, soul, funk, and dance is finely honed indeed. He's gearing up to release a second album on November 12 (via Bastard Jazz) entitled Curiosities, a set that will feature a handful of guest vocalists, including Fat Freddy's Drop singer Toby Laing and fellow Kiwi Leila Adu. The latter appears below on "Molten Lava," and opens with a shout-out to DJs like Fabs himself: "When I walked into the bar and you were dropping my favorite song / Some esoteric stuff, made me look into your eyes." Her voice sounds beamed in from '60s Brazil, but the production soon ramps up and we find ourselves in the middle of a modern dance floor.


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The Follies and Illusions of Peter Beinart
Monday's New York Times ran an op-ed by none other than Peter Beinart, a man who is quickly becoming the poster boy for the anti-Israel movement. I have written about Beinart before. You can find my earlier columns here and here and finally here. So, in case you didn't guess, I am not what you would call a fan.
But nothing so far exemplifies his hubris and the simplicity of his understanding of the Israeli-Palestinian issue than Monday's article, excerpted from his forthcoming book, which obviously the New York Times hopes to make a super best-seller.
Beinart's short essay reveals the heart of his argument, which is quickly endearing himself to the anti-Israeli American left in particular. Pretending to support a two-state solution, Beinart advances his thesis that Israel's pro-settler policy is the reason that Palestinians have turned against the Jewish state. Of course, if the current settlements were the cause of their hatred of Israel, he would have to explain why throughout the decades they have consistently turned down every offer made by Israel that would have led to two states, one Jewish and one Palestinian. And he would have to explain why, from day one of Israel's creation, the Arab states and the Palestinian residents, led by the Nazi ally Grand Mufti Haj Amin el-Husseini, pledged to oppose the Jewish state to the last drop of their blood. In their eyes, any amount of territory given to the Jews was a settlement that had to be destroyed.
To advance his agenda, Beinart now argues for a strategy of boycotts and disinvestment not in all of Israel, but just in products coming from Jewish settlers who live anywhere in the West Bank. Of course, such a boycott could never work, and no one but Beinart favors it. It would quickly become a boycott of anything made in Israel, since no one buying any Israeli products in fact knows where it is made in Israel and by whom. It also legitimizes the very idea of boycotting Israel, but this time to be carried out in the name of saving Israel from itself. This is, to use a Jewish term, a good example of chutzpah gone wild.
But because his piece was published in the Times and given its imprimatur, it has more importance than had he published it, for example, in the weekly Jewish liberal paper The Forward. That is why it immediately received an unprecedented response from Israel's ambassador to the United States, Michael Oren. Writing on his Facebook page, Oren posted the following statement:
Peter Beinart's call ("To Save Israel, Boycott the Settlements," New York Times, 3.19.12) places him well beyond the Israeli mainstream, the moderate left, and the vast majority of Israelis who care about peace. The call for boycotting all products made by Israeli communities outside of Jerusalem and beyond the 1949 Armistice Lines is supported only by a marginal and highly radical fringe. Beinart's position, moreover, absolves the Palestinians of any responsibility for the current situation, including their rejection of previous peace offers, their support for terror, and their refusal to negotiate with Israel for the past three years. By reducing the Palestinians to two-dimensional props in an Israeli drama, Beinart deprives them of agency and indeed undermines his own thesis. Without an active Palestinian commitment to a two-state solution–irrespective of boycotts–the peace Beinart seeks cannot be achieved.
Oren nails it, and is correct to point out that Beinart's position is not that of "liberal" Jews, but in fact, the position of a "radical fringe." And by putting all the blame on the lack of peace on Israel alone, as Beinart does, he reveals without seeming to realize it that in fact he is echoing the position of Palestinian opponents of Israel, not that of Israel's friends.
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1. herb
Peter beinart is doing it because it pays well. Just as Thomas friedmann did well by plagiarizing white supremacist lit in the NYT when he said the US Congress was bought and sold by the Israel lobby. They are just high priced call girls
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2. Murphy
Another radical leftist (Bienart and New York Times), who thinks he is smarter than everyone else. How these people think is hilarious. Anyone believing his drivel need to realize they are a hack like he is. What a waste of copy space!
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3. Ron Luther
The problem of the Settlements is it shows the attitude of the leadership of Israel today. They do not consider Palestinians human beings. They look upon
the Palestinians, those that even acknowledge there is such a thing as a Palestinian people; as did Founders of the USA looked upon African slaves; only part human.Cast Lead shows the hatred the Israeli Government has for all things not Israeli. They murdered innocents in another 'first strike'. Israel has long demonstrated they have the ability to strategically eliminate Hamas leadership;
it was just easier to 'kill them all'. They attacked and damaged the Baptist
Church in Gaza because Christians, Muslims, Atheists, Agnostics are all the same to the Government of Israel.Many Israeli citizens are also feed up with many Israeli leaders.
Personally, I lost faith in Israel as a friend and ally of the USA when they murdered 34 American Marines & Sailors, wounded another 173 on the USS Liberty.
Much more efficient than the murdered of the crew of the USS Cole. Of course, Israel shows their contempt for the USA with the Pollard and Lavon Affairs.Begging the USA to subsidize their lifestyle, IE, free health care for all Israeli citizens just shows they think they are 'entitled' to more than even their closest allies.
Just recently, Prime Minister Netanyahu insulted the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Dempsey, calling him an 'Agent of Iran"; even though
many Israeli leaders agree Netanayu is not telling the truth about the eminent danger of Iran's Nuclear Weapons program.A start would be for the Government of Israel to control their citizens from damagine Christian Churches and Mosques in Israel; but you see leadership's
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Ever get tired of that broken record??? Ever think for yourself???
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Fred Beloit
Ron Loother: "Just recently, Prime Minister Netanyahu insulted the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Dempsey, calling him an 'Agent of Iran"; even though
many Israeli leaders agree Netanayu is not telling the truth about the eminent danger of Iran's Nuclear Weapons program."That's very interesting. Could you give us a link to a video or reputable Media source on that one so we could see for ourselves? All I could find were reports that the Prime Minister said Dempsey was serving the interests of Iran because Dempsey was reported as saying he was against an attack on Iran's nuclear sites.
Now let's see. Are you saying Iran should be allowed to develop a nuclear weapon, Ron? If you are and someone important in our government or military said we should not try to prevent it with armed force if necessary, wouldn't that person be serving your interests?
In addition…get lost.
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Leaving aside Ron Luther's ridiculous drivel about Israel, I note that he repeats the moronic canard that the "Founders of the USA looked upon African slaves; [as] only part human."
What Luther is referencing here is the Constitutional provision which counts slaves (not "Africans" or even "blacks"; there was no racial reference whatsoever in this determination based upon economic status) as "3/5ths of a person" for the purposes of tabulating population when apportioning representatives. The ignoramus Left has been making a lot of noise about this provision lately. What they do not seem to realize—or, possibly, are laboring to obscure—is that this provision says nothing whatever about the "humanity" of anyone. It is a legal determination for the purpose of apportioning representation.
Had the slave states (mostly southern) been able to count slaves as full persons for the purpose of apportionment, the slave states would have had an overwhelming representational majority in the Congress. The 3/5ths rule was inserted into the Constitution as a compromise which recognized the greater population of slave states to a limited degree, but limited that recognition for the very purpose of making it possible to eventually settle the issue of slavery in the near rather than the far term. It was designed to ensure that the pro-slavery vote would not dominate the US government for the next hundred years.
In the event, of course, it still took a war to abolish slavery in the United States. But the 3/5ths rule, decried by Leftists and Democrats, was a good-faith effort by the Founders to lay the foundation for a peaceful settlement of the issue in the future. So far from being "racist" or "pro-slavery," it was the opposite of both.
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Very, very nicely put, Buzz. Superb analysis. Wasted, though, I am afraid, on the likes of Luther.
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Tony Castro
Buzzsawmonkey: Excellent reply I was thinking the exact same thing when I came on your post. Took the words out of my mind. God Bless.
March 20, 2012 - 10:24 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
Ron Luther:
There is greater recognition for the humanity of the Arabs in the midst of the Israelis than there is among their Arab brethren in other nations. How many other nations in the middle east extend the right to vote to 'palestinians'? Does Jordan extend them the right to vote? Was it the Israelis or the Jordanian Hashemites who nearly effected a complete ethnic cleansing of 'palestinians' in their midst during Black September?
What respect for their humanity is received from their Saudi brothers, sisters and co-religionists when 'palestinian' migrant workers go to work in the Saudi kingdom? How about none?
A good maxim to keep in mind when you participate in any exchange is to think before you write.March 20, 2012 - 10:45 am Link to this Comment | Reply-
You should cite Lebanon's treatment of Palestinians in their midst.
At least the Jordanians permit Palestinians to own property and have professions.
Now take the Pa and its treatment of "refugees" in the Balata "camp" in Nablus and how it discriminates against them, their own brothers who supposedly belong in Israel.March 20, 2012 - 1:58 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
Robert Haymond
There is much (unacknowledged) information in your post, Ron. For starters, see Rachel Hirshfield's article of 11 March 2012 in which she quotes Israeli Ambassador to the USA, Michael Ordman, who refers to the 1000% increase in the Christian communities of Israel since 1948 including Catholics, Russian and Greek Orthodox, Armenians and Protestants. This is against the backdrop of 200,000 Coptic Christians who fled their homes in Egypt as a result of beatings and massacres. This is also (in comparison to your condemnation of Israel)the seventy churches burned down in Iraq and 1,000 Christians killed (Bagdad alone) since 2003 causing 500,000 Christians to flee. Since the Hamas takeover in Gaza in 2005, one-half the Christian community has fled whle Hamas has exhorted Muslims to slaughter Christians (broadcast 2010). No public display of crucifixes are allowed. Your anti-Israeli posting does display a virtual ignorance of the situation as many other Readers have pointed out.
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Robert Haymond
I meant "disinformation" as opposed to "unacknowledged) information". Apologies to the Readers.
March 20, 2012 - 1:43 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
When I see a church in Mecca and a temple I'll take you seriously. And you are right, the Palestinians are animals, they behave like beasts.
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John J
Palestinians kill anyone they don't like for any reason or no reason at all.
I know of no beast who does that. Not one.
Please take care disparaging our animal friends.March 21, 2012 - 2:31 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
4. StevenOracle
A thoughtful article by Mr. Radosh that effectively demolishes Mr. Beinart and his book The Crisis of Zionism. We observe that Beinart's book feeds the Jewish conspiracy fantasies of the screw-loose flying-saucer crowd on the left. But even a tedious tome of trash like The Crisis of Zionism needs to be called out for what it is. We are living in a time of real existential threats. Distractions are dangerous.
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5. Skydive
I hope he does it because that street-rag pays him to do it. The publication stopped being a "paper of record" a long time ago. But if he does it because he thinks so – My GOD, what an idiot.
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6. Bright Knight
nothing new…
Leftists/Socialist usually are Antisemites and Islam-Friends.
Both ideologies (Islamism and Socialism) are insane and have uneducated and/or indoctrinated followers without any freedom and with only very few rights.
These ideologies use each other as useful idiots on their way to reaching their respective goal (worldwide caliphate/worldwide Socialism). In the same way Hitler (as a national SOCIALIST) had a close relationship to the Mufti of Jerusalem, the today's Socialists cooperate with the Islam-leader.March 20, 2012 - 9:34 am Link to this Comment | Reply -
7. noway
I hope he does it because that street-rag pays him to do it. The publication stopped being a "paper of record" a long time ago. But if he does it because he thinks so – My GOD, what an idiot.
what skydive said!
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8. David Gerstman
Beinart gives the game away when he tweeted:
If, as Amb Oren thinks, Zionist BDS is "highly radical fringe" position, why do Israel's most famous writers back it.
Does he really not realize how fringy Israel's literary community is?
Furthermore does he even realize how offensive this is?
For their part, American Jewish organizations might argue that it is unfair to punish Israeli settlements when there are worse human rights offenses in the world and when Palestinians still commit gruesome terrorist acts. But settlements need not constitute the world's worst human rights abuse in order to be worth boycotting. After all, numerous American cities and organizations boycotted Arizona after it passed a draconian immigration law in 2010.
Israel last completed a major withdrawal in 2005, from Gaza. Now empowered by the lack of the IDF on the ground, Hamas, PIJ, PRC have been able to threaten hundreds of thousands of residents of southern Israel and Beinart says 1) Israel must withdraw from further territory and 2) there's no criticizing Palestinian terror.
Beinart would be somewhat more convincing if he were as concerned for Israel's body as he claims to be (but isn't) for Israel's soul.
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9. LilaLee
You nailed it Ron! When I read Beinart's op-ed in the NYTs this Sunday, I had steam coming out of my ears. What ignorance of history. Simply amazing for someone who claims to be a friend of Israel. As they say, with a friend like this who needs enemies?
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10. Jeremiah Duboff
While you're at it, deny every economic import to Gaza/WB – no UN, no Egypt, no Jordan, no *Israel*.
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11. Selwyn Mills
Only desputable by liars
As Dolly's song goes, "glad to see you back where you belong"
Your articles are always so incisively polemical, that leaves little to knit-pic even by psudeo conseratives.March 20, 2012 - 11:01 am Link to this Comment | Reply -
12. Libertyship46
To this day, I don't know why Israel has to give anything back to anybody. Israel is the only country that I know of in history that keeps getting attacked and is forced to fight wars, then after it wins those wars is expected to give back land to the people who attacked it. Doesn't sound quite right, does it. If I were Israel, I would just keep whatever land the country had won throughout the years. Then I would say to the Palestinians, "Well, if you don't like it, you can either stay here or go back to your real homeland, which is Jordan." The whole idea of a "two-state solution" was dreamt up by the United Nations after World War II and nobody has really ever believed in it, let alone has tried to achieve it. The Israelis say they are negotiating, but do they really want to give the Palestinians anything that would endanger Israel's fragile borders? And the Palestinians say they want the same two-state solution, yet have fought it at ever step of the way. And if you listen to Hamas, let alone Hezbollah in Lebanon, the only good Jew is a dead one. So I'm not sure either side has much interest in seeing peace between the two people. Ever.
Much is always said of Hamas' refusal of acknowledging Israel's right to exist. This is and always has been absurd. A country has a right to exist as long as it can militarily defend its borders. So long as it can do that, it exists. The Palestinians need to understand that. They need to not only deal with it, they need to accept it. And as long as Israel can defend its borders, nobody can take their right to exist away from them (unless there is a nuclear strike, but that's another subject). So if the Palestinians have not been willing to make a deal after all these years, especially when Bill Clinton handed the best peace deal possible to them on a plate, then they really don't want a deal. They want to win, and so long as Israel is militarily able to prevent the arabs from winning, then the Palestinians are out of luck. And if the Palestinians can't accept that, then Israel should just reinforce its borders and sit tight. Israel's land is Israel's land, and they've fought enough wars to be able to finally say that.
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What is problematic is making it part of Israel without giving the Palestinians same rights that Israeli Arabs have including the right to vote.
March 20, 2012 - 12:58 pm Link to this Comment | Reply-
Oh dear!
Who do you think elected Hamas and the PA if not Palestinians?
March 20, 2012 - 5:46 pm Link to this Comment | Reply-
Are you stupid or is English not your native language?
I meant that if you make West Bank a part of Israel you have to give them the vote in the Knesset, you can't just treat them like a colony like Puerto Rico and not give them the vote. If you do that, then the analogy with Apartheid south africa really would be valid. In case you don't know, Israeli Arabs have the right to elect members of the Knesset. If you say "the West Bank is part of Israel," you would have to treat the Palestinians the same way.
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13. Howard Gottlieb
It is remarkable to me that so many speak against the only real friend the USA has in the Middle East. Do you really think the Palestinians are our friends? Really???
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14. Paul A'Barge
Look, as long as we're talking about borders and rolling back borders and settlements and all, let's just cut to the chase and roll the borders of Israel back to where they were in biblical times, say under Solomon?
You see? Judea. Samaria. All of it goes back to Israel.
Let the Palestinians go live with Pharaoh.
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Napoleon Beinart … aka 'Little Peter Beinart' (emphasis on little! As in "small" appendage). Pontificating out of ignorance does not bode well for a future in so-called "journalism"; don't let the door hit you in the brain on your way out …
ignorant moron!!!
That about sums up Beinfart perfectly … the legend in his own rear-end!! Ha! Ha!! C'mon people!!! Press the "like" button for goodness sake!!! This is a non-story …. and worthy of all men to be ridiculed!!! Heh! Heh!!
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16. Phantomorphan
The sad thing I see among my Jewish friends is that they cherish leftism above all else. Not all of them, of course; but overwhelmingly, leftism is the religion of Jews who don't believe in God. And the New York Times is the daily bible of the secular Jew. So it doesn't suprise me at all that Beinart would move to sacrifice Israel — yes, even Israel — on the altar of leftism. Is he doing it "consciously" or only "subconsciously"? Who cares? He's responsible either way. Where does this kind of self-hatred come from? The basic leftist idea is that anyone who has anything must have stolen it from those who don't. Therefore "the rich" are intrinsically evil, and the "99%" are justified in taking what they have by any means necessary. But that's the exact narrative of the Palestinians; ultimately, they see themselves as the "dispossessed" victimized by the "rich" Jews. It's no surprise at all that Beinart and other Jews would buy into this narrative, since it underlies their true religion: leftism.
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17. LilaLee
You are right. The Jewish left has transferred their belief that everything wrong in the world is Amerika's fault, to everything is Israel's fault. If only these countries would mend their evil ways, the world would be healed. Only in the case of tiny Israel, they are playing around with the lives of 7 million people-most of them Jews.
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18. MarcH
I normally enjoy engaging with ideas with which I may disagree, but Bienart is such a "pisher" I can't bring myself to do it.
He reminds me of the well-off, "Uriah Heep" kid in class, always eager to point the finger and turn in other kids for talking to teacher in hopes of getting a gold star.
Funny that Bienart disses Bibi (and by extension Labor Party Defense Minister and retired LTG Barak, the most decorated soldier in Israeli history). Does Bienart imagine that in the course of his pampered prep-school, Ivy, Upper West Side life, he has accumulated achievements equal to a single month in the life of either of those two men?
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19. Fail Burton
It's true, Jewish settlements in the 1920s and '30s turned the Palestinian Arabs against the idea of a Jewish state or Jewish anything for that matter and it's never changed. Everything's cool for Muslim's as long as they are in charge but if someone else thinks the same way and wants a Jewish state then it's apartheid, colonialism and the whole nine yards.
In other words Muslims attack the entirety of their own polities in the Middle East and don't know it while philosophically putting their stamp of approval on Zionism. No surprise from a medieval culture with a thin spread of technology spread over it like delicious jam over stale bread and where a door knob is a Rubik's Cube of endless delight – before video games I think people in Egypt used to ferret out the secrets of how to use a door knob properly or spin tops or whatever.
Beinart's an idiot. Welcome to the wonderful world and concept of immigration, then and now. The Palestinian Arabs, now resting their house of canards on the U.N., had the chance to use the U.N. in 1947 and they rolled the dice for war. This is a perfect example of why one shouldn't do so; sometimes you can lose everything.
This is not a game where one can have one's poker chips back. The Arabs had a chance to make a state from 1948-1967 and once again opted to hold out for everything and once again got nothing.
The Palestinian Arabs are still holding out for everything and still have nothing. There is no cure for stupidity. Screw Hamas, crazy Muslims that hate even the birds and the bees and men like Beinart, who think this whole thing blew up last week.
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20. Patriot493
Op-eds do not necessarily reflect a paper's position (the Times has also run op-eds by Oren).
Being anti-settlements does not necessarily make one anti-Israel.
Being anti-Likud is not the same as being anti-Israel.March 20, 2012 - 7:21 pm Link to this Comment | Reply -
21. Selwyn Mills
phantomorphan nailed it…Leftism is the religion of the radical jew…after some of the comments Patriot493 three lines reads like a weak attempt to engage phantomorphan in rebuttal.
"Op-eds do not necessarily reflect a paper's position (the Times has also run op-eds by Oren)." Is he kidding. the Times is hopelessly in bed with Obama dreams. Who's land are the settlements being built on. Is he opposed to building the Empire State building on Native Indian land? Why doesn't Patriot 493 to Israel and run against the Likud?March 20, 2012 - 9:22 pm Link to this Comment | Reply-
"…Leftism is the religion of the radical jew…."
Well then, in November you're going to find out that the overwhelming majority of American Jews are radical.
March 21, 2012 - 9:24 am Link to this Comment | Reply
There is something missing from Peter Beinart's Op-Ed. He doesn't refer to Israel's dismantling of the settlements in Gaza and its unilateral withdrawal from the territory. Israel's concession led to a radical increase in anti-Israel hatred all over the world. In fact, whenever Israel makes a sacrifice for the sake of peace, hatred zooms up. It happened when Israel withdrew from southern Lebanon in 2000—a phenomenon that nobody noticed. Similarly, the Camp David Summit of July 2000, when Israel offered major concessions, was followed by the Second Intifada.
Why are there settlements? They were a response to the Three No's of Khartoum, issued by the Arab nations after a meeting in Khartoum, Sudan, in 1967: No peace with Israel. No recognition of Israel. No negotiations with Israel. Has Peter Beinart ever heard of the Three No's?
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23. spindok
Try and convince a major institutional investor to sell off all shares in: Apple, Microsoft, Motorola, Cisco, Intel, Northrop Grumman, GE, Boeing, Raytheon, Caterpillar, Teva Pharmeceuticals, AOL Time Warner, Home Depot, Disney, Coca-Cola, Nokia, McDonalds, Danone, The Limited, and Johnson & Johnson. All companies with major ties to Israel.
The cultural boycott is also a total fail. This year Israel will host concerts by Madonna, Lady GaGa, Bruce Springstein, The Scorpions, Guns n Roses, and the Red Hot Chili Peppers. I think they can do without Elvis Costello. Wouldn't it be a gas if Lady GaGa performed in Ramallah or Madonna in Gaza?
In agriculture the movement only hurts Palestinian farmers who often export under Israeli brands. That is a worthy area where greater cooperation with Israeli agricultural and water management technology would result in increased yields and profit. But these folks are not interested in helping the Palestinian economy.
Even the hateful Norman Finkelstien has denounced the BDS movement as a cult. It keeps the useless idiots busy helping nobody. If they wanted to help Palestinians they would encourage the Palestinian economy which certainly needs investment. How about putting money into a Palestinian software startup or in better energy and agricultural water systems? Nobody could object to that.
They do not want to help Palestinians. They feel better if they do not wear Victorias Secret underwear (The Limited) or drink Yarden or Barkan wine. The wine, by the way, is getting very good and competes well with many other brands in my local grocery.
There are many more people who want to support Israel than there are BDS idiots. It is not a sacrifice to buy Israeli products or invest in Israeli or Israel related companies.
(posted on another thread by mistake)
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24. Denver Bob
Israel will not be safe or really viable until Judea and Samaria are integrated into Israel. The locals? You buy them out, just as Roger Williams did in RI.
After WWII, ethnics who had caused trouble, Germans, were run out of Czecho, Poland and other places. The local Muslims, and Muslims in Europe were completely on board with the NAZIs. To the victors go the spoils.
Also note, that no matter what noise Islam makes, the general feeling about Palestinians is that there are useful pawns, who lost, and are not welcome elsewhere. There is no risk in offending them as they have done their absolute worst, which has come to naught.
As to Europe, well they certainly hate Jews and make the noises, but are very glad to have Israel around because it takes heat off them, at little or no cost.
March 21, 2012 - 12:37 pm Link to this Comment | Reply-
"The locals? You buy them out…."
Ain't gonna happen. If Israel maintains control of the West Bank (Judea and Samaria notwithstanding, the Bible is not a real estate deed), Israel will continue to lord it over millions of Palestinians. The much maligned Jimmy Carter predicted that such a situation would lead to Apartheid on the West Bank (he specifically excluded Israel within the Green Line), and, short of a peace settlement, he'll be absolutely right, How could it be otherwise?
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So this blog is going to be short and sweet. What the HELL were they thinking having NO local multiplayer in Tony Hawk Pro Skater HD? I get it, it's 2012, Xbox live and online gaming in general are huge. But WHY are all these game companies forgetting that friends like to hang out TOGETHER? I don't want to be hanging with my friend and then say "OK so go to your house so we can play tony hawk online!" I was JUST with him.. why does he need to go home so we can play a game of HORSE in THPSHD?
This game is useless to me now. Not only did this discourage me and make me not want to play it ever, but now my friend isn't getting the game on Xbox live for the same reason.. NO LOCAL MULTIPLAYER. A game series that has been 2 players since its incarnation, gets remade in HD (and the levels do look great...well Hangar does since I played it once and despised the fact that it's not 2 players and can't bare to look at it anymore), and then we get this garbage.
The blood and character models still look like crap too! They basically redid all the maps graphically and that's it.. That's really all they did. I wish I looked at reviews but I honestly though "How can Activision mess it up... it's a remake of the first 2 THPS games, the best ones" But they found a way. I completely miss when games had online multiplayer AND offline multiplayer. I mean is it because "no one wants to play split screen"?
You know who says that? People with 20 inch televisions. My 40 inch TV begs to differ. Since I was a child I couldn't wait until TV's got bigger (even then I knew they would), so I could play 4 player split screen with my friends more easily. And here we are, 2012, and all game companies want is for me and my friends to all buy their game, and play online in our own homes. Greedy pieces of trash.
So screw you Activision. Enjoy my $15 because it's the last of my money that you will ever see.
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Name of the Post: JUNIOR ASSISTANT
Two panels— one main panel against clear vacancies and one supplementary panel against subsequent vacancies will be prepared in order of merit on the result of the Recruitment Examination. The panels will remain valid for one year only from the date of its publication. Only main panel will be prepared for recruitment under Municipal Service Commission.
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Main Panel: Total — 100 Nos. (UR-52, UR (PH)-03, SC-22, ST-06, OBC(A)-06, OBC(B)-07) for Kolkata Municipal Corporation.
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Five Stars! Awesome well stocked bayhouse perfect for our family. We brought the boat, parked it in the boat lift at the house, went out on the bay, came back, relaxed on the patio and kids swam right off the boat house dock. Didn't have to worry about being nagged constantly to go to the beach by the kids and worry about undercurrents, waves, etc. Got our dose of the beach by a golf cart ride (rented from Rick's who delivered to the house) to the private Sea Isle parking lot. Checked that box, rode back to bayhouse, showered off on floor shower and got back to real relaxing and a boat ride before a crab boil we did that night with some ice cold margaritas while the kids fished off of the dock. Well stocked, relaxing, family friendly. Recommend highly and will definitely be back!
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British Army Major Just Telling It Like It Is: "Women Not Fit Enough To Fight On The Front Line'
Cue up the feminazis! Another sleazy, old, misogynistic dude in the Army saying that women can't handle the rigors of front-line warfare…wait…this is a high ranking woman official saying that her own sex can't hang with the boys? Well no shit. And it's not discriminatory at all, men are simply physically better than woman when it comes to handling stuff like this. If that wasn't the case then why aren't there any chicks playing professional sports with men? Simple. Because women aren't as physically gifted. Women are technically allowed to play in the NFL, NBA, NHL and MLB if they could, but outside of the occasional female kicker in college and that one piece of ass who started at goalie in a pre-season game, nobody has come close. Don't blame men, blame evolution. Sly tits Judith knows it, why doesn't the American military? Right now the only women that are good enough to go to the front is Mr. Britney Griner from Baylor and any woman featured on American Gladiators. Works nicely for them as the horse testosterone they've taken over the years have made their newly formed balls bullet-proof.
PS – Not to be insensitive at all and am NOT making a joke out about it, but holy hell if some of these countries got ahold of a woman POW who was in combat I can't even imagine how much torture and anguish they would go through. Might as well give them a one-way ticket to Gang Rape City.


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Wednesday, May 21, 2014
A "rogue" turkey has been attacking walkers at a National Trust woodland, in north Norfolk.
The fearsome fowl first appeared on Monday on the Felbrigg Hall estate, near Cromer, according to property manager Ray Sandham.
"We had various reports that a rogue turkey was out there and had gone on the offensive," said Mr Sandham.
"As people walked past it was being quite threatening which was taking them by surprise - they didn't expect to come across a turkey stag and one person actually thought it was a peacock."
Walker David King used his jacket to ward off the bird which started following and attacking him as he headed back to the car park on Monday afternoon.
"Basically it went after me. It was pecking away at my jacket and tried to peck my leg.
"When it looked as if it wanted me for lunch I decided to retreat to my car," said art historian Mr King, 69, of Burnt Hills, Cromer, who thought that the bird was actually an escaped capercaillie, an endangered large woodland grouse native to north-east Scotland.
A National Trust ranger managed to catch the belligerent bird this morning and it is now in the care of the Wing and a Prayer Wild Bird and Owl Haven at Stratton Strawless.
Haven manager Richard Gallop said he would probably be given a permanent home there. Mr Gallop added: "He's been OK so far. He's eaten a few sunflower hearts and we're working on making friends."
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Christmas might come early for this turkey!
Monday, May 26, 2014
Obviously Vic is one of the believe everything the animal rights activists infiltrated in a seemingly harmless local organisation peddle to the EDP and You Tube types. Not defending the Matthews organisation, but certainly not trusting some of their detractors. We used to find an empty galvanised feed pail handy against turkey stags and c*ckerels when I was a kid . Either held between us and the bird to stop pecking or wing beats-or given a good swing in their direction as a last resort. Must be some pretty weedy types out for walks these days.
Tuesday, May 20, 2014
Seek help John.
Tuesday, May 20, 2014
I recognise this one.it escaped from nearby Oulton when the junk food manufacturer removed 60+ trees to modify bat behaviour in an attempt to get a planning application for a Greeniot subsidy wind turbine!! Still, good luck to himher unlikely to be a turkey twizzler now!!
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Hi all:I'm on day 22 of my 30 day juice fast, I go out running every second day (15 minutes) weight train and kickbox at home. I'll be 48 this MayI've lost weight on my fast which isn't my primary interest. I expect to build up again after this fast is done. I've always been very slim so it's not for the weight loss, although I stopped smoking 17 years ago, eat mostly organic and train regular, I have had many nights sitting drinking beer. I'm kind of all or nothing, do something too much or not at all. Anyway , what I'm actually wanting to state now that I've outlined myself, is eating after the fast, I've read articles stating you should spend around 6 days consuming little more than what you were during the fast? Not me, first day I'll have organic yogurt and soup, much as I feel like, then I'll liquefy my fruit with soy milk and start having a slice of bread with my soup for first 2 days. After that I'll introduce rice with one of my home made veggie curries and expect to be eating as I please by day 4, as i eat very healthy anyway. Won't be rushing out to McDonalds or anything:)I've had no real problem doing this fast but am wondering if I'm really benefiting from it. I fasted for six days recently but felt I derived no good from it.I expect the weeks after the fast should indicate any positive effect. I actually have 3 stomach ulcers and I've hear they can be cured through fasting so that would be a worthwhile outcome itself, but it's not something I'll be aware of for quite some time.Fasting is widely accepted as a positive and beneficial thing to do so whoever is out there doing it, hang in there!
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Derry keen for Warnock to stay on
Reports claim that Warnock will be named as the Rs' new manager after his current club's FA Cup fifth-round replay against Aston Villa on Wednesday night. Warnock refused to comment on the reports following his team's 1-0 defeat by Coventry at the weekend and Derry confirmed the players remain unsure of their manager's intentions. Derry told Sky Sports: "He has not given us any impression of whether he is staying or going, so while he's here we fully respect the manager. "He respects us as players, he's the manager of the club and until we are told otherwise. We will have to cross that bridge when we come to it, but we hope he stays. "He's the man for us, but only the administrators and Neil know what's going on."
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One half of the Pet Shop Boys speaks out against celebrities speaking out on issues that they have no special expertise in, specifically Bono.
Says Tennant:
"I've always been against the idea of rock stars lecturing people as if they know something the rest of us don't – it looks arrogant.
"It's not as if they have a private source of information. To state the obvious as if you are the only person that knows it is intellectually weak."
Now, don't get me wrong, people have the right to speak about whatever they want to and I certainly wouldn't try to restrict someone's soapbox just because I disagree w/ him or her.
Still, it chaps my hide to hear rock stars, actors and the like go on and on about how they know the solution to this or that problem, if only the rest of us would just follow along.
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For the sake of simplicity, we usually teach genetics using examples with only two possible alleles (A and a). But a single gene can actually have many possible alleles (A, a, A1, A2, A', etc.). For example, hair color in mice is determined by a single gene with a series of alleles, each resulting in different coloration. There are alleles for black, brown, agouti, gray, albino, and others. The twist here is that the same allele can be dominant or recessive depending on context. Allelic series are often written as agouti > black > albino. This means that agouti is dominant to black, and black is dominant to albino. (And agouti is necessarily also dominant to albino.) If the black allele is in the presence of an agouti allele, the mouse will be agouti because black is recessive to agouti. If that same black allele is paired with an albino allele, the mouse will be black since black is dominant to albino.
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@TreeMan - I don't know what the exact penalties are, and I'm sure a lot of it depends, of course, on exactly what you did and how many times. I know the NBA referee mentioned earlier had to spend a year or so in prison.
What I would be curious to see is the amount of point shaving that happens in college sports as compared to professional sports. I know it is hard to find evidence of it a lot of times, but I would be willing to guess if there was a way to find it, that it would be much more common in college sports. You hear a lot of stories about players receiving certain benefits and whatnot. I'm sure it would be easy for a persuasive gambler to convince some players to fix a game.
Besides the players being younger and, for the most part, having less common sense, they also don't get paid in college. I can see a lot of players looking at getting paid for fixing games as a way to make up for the fact that they aren't getting paid by the school. Does anyone else have a different opinion?


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For the first time in my life i slept in until noon! I didn't get home until 3 AM! Yesterday-I went to union station around 1 or 2ish to switch my train ticket which was originally was for today but i wanted to go home early. I tried to get the 4 25 train but it was sold out so i got the other one which was 715. Which meant iwas gunna have to hang out and amuse my self for 4/5 hours which wasn't going to be tooo bad... Cuz i knew at 6 I could go to the gate and wait and what not.
But when i went up and checked the board a lil before 6 my train was delayed till 750. But i sat in line because it was starting to grow. Then around 730 me and abunch of people i met from a youth ministries group who were right in front of me in line checked the board. It said 830. Then later at like 8 is said 835. Around that time some Via rail people came around to the other line that had been waiting for there train since 530ish and told them it would be coming soon. And they told us our would be there by 910. 910 rolled around and thee other train hadn't even left. at 930 they loaded the other train and it left. Then around 940 ours came and we left. I got in at like 240ish and got home around 3.
Union station has soo much food and stuff. I couldn't decide what to have. They had cinnabon, McDonalds, Mr. Sub. Laura Secord (mmm ice cream), DQ, Second Cup, Country Style (or something like that), Harveys and a bunch of other places. When i first got there i had chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream at Laura Secords it was yummy. Then a couple hours later i had a small sub at Mr. Sub.
I know Cinnabon isn't good for you or anything but i was sitting in front of it for hours on end and never ended up getting some and now that's all i want.. I'm SOOOO mad!
"They had cinnabon, McDonalds, Mr. Sub. Laura Secord (mmm ice cream), DQ, Second Cup, Country Style (or something like that), Harveys and a bunch of other places."
I thought you said there was a lot of food?! Sounds like a lot of processed nonsense, no? :-)
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Yes it's all processed junk food that is no good but when your hungry and its your only option or your hungry they are yummy.
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Ha, I went to Florida when I was 5 and most clearly I remember cinnabon and sitting in the airport with a book of cut out Sindy clothes (you know the paper clothes you're meant to use to clothe a cardboard doll thing), with all the intensity of Proust's madeleines.
American fast food astounded me. So did American TV, since we only had five channels at home.
Well technically it was in canada where i was.... but same thing! Lol
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