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Canberra carnage: a hideous act of cruelty
PUBLISHED: 02 Mar 2012 00:37:25 | UPDATED: 02 Mar 2012 00:47:15PUBLISHED: 02 Mar 2012 PRINT EDITION: 02 Mar 2012Rowan Dean
Shocking images smuggled out of Australia of sadistic, cruel and inhumane practices have yet again sparked a furore in neighbouring Indonesia.
Filmed in secret by undercover journalists from the Empat Pojok current affairs program, the grainy footage reaffirms that in Australia, human beings are being humiliated, tortured and verbally abused before being savagely put down.
"We'd heard rumours of such barbarity, but we couldn't believe that this is how they treat their politicians in Australia," the program's producer said.
Airing tonight, the documentary features never-before-seen images taken on a mobile phone smuggled out of the notorious Labor Party boardroom known as "The Slaughterhouse".
"It was sickening," said the reporter, wiping away tears. "They dragged the poor beast in; I think his name was Kevin but I couldn't be sure, there was so much squealing and yelling going on."
Visibly shaken by her ordeal, the reporter looks horrified, recalling the grisly scenes. "The creature was clearly on his last legs, limping and bleeding, with big dark rings under his eyes. He looked like he'd just got off the red-eye from Washington.
"Apparently he'd been on his feet for hours, even days, staggering aimlessly through shopping malls and TV studios pathetically looking for some kind of support. It was heartbreaking."
Struggling to maintain her composure, the reporter went on to describe the final, brutal moments before the kill.
"He got up to make a speech, pleading for mercy, and reminding the baying mob – there were about a hundred of them – that he was the only one who could beat Tony Abbott. But they were in a frenzy. One woman was screeching 'let's move forward', then out came the knives and they all just started attacking him with these dreadful barbed comments."
Clips from the documentary, leaked onto YouTube, clearly show the Australian Treasurer, Wayne Swan, engaged in a vicious assault on his former school chum, in scenes of gratuitous violence that have horrified the Indonesian public.
"To put the boot in like that, over and over again; in most civilised countries they use a policy issue to bring down a leader humanely, but these savages go straight for the jugular," one viewer said.
Another viewer, dry retching in disgust said: "It was medieval. The whole gang laid into him. Not content with merely wounding him, they broke his spirit too, calling him all sorts of degrading names like 'psychopath' and 'prima donna'."
Indonesian animal activist (and animal) Abu Bakar Bashir said as he was whisked back to prison: "What distressed me the most was seeing that sweet, innocent Kate Ellis suddenly turn nasty, even after it was all over.
"She just got stuck right into his warm corpse on 7.30. So what if Kevin went to some pub and called Gillard an atheist, childless, ex-Marxist? It's not as if Australians live in some whacky, sharia-obsessed theocracy."
The video claims such practices are common throughout the Canberra meat belt. "First they stunned him back in 2010, without any warning. Then they just left him battered and bruised. The mistake was that nobody bothered to check whether he was really dead. I should have just slit his throat on the spot," said one of the faceless butchers, known only as "Bill".
With tears streaming down his cheeks, another participant in the savagery attempted to justify his actions. "I just want to kill Tories," said Albo Al-Banese. "But they keep saying 'No', so I have to slaughter my own people instead."
Soon after the killing, one of the perpetrators , Ar-Bh'ib, can be seen being persuaded to fall on his own machete. Visiting the abattoir yesterday, journalists were sickened to see the practices continuing unabated. "There was a fresh Bob Carrcass lying on the Senate floor, groaning and thoroughly humiliated. He never stood a chance."
Meanwhile, in unrelated news, an asylum seeker who arrived on Christmas Island by private jet has lashed out at Australian border police. "I am fleeing persecution in my own country – if I go back they will almost certainly string me up from the nearest lamp post simply because I went and butchered half my population," said Mr Al-Assad, speaking on condition of anonymity.
Rowan Dean is an Australian Financial Review columnist.
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6 teens arrested after 3-day crime spree
Six teens were arrested, accused of participating in a three-day crime spree throughout the city and county of Madera.
Six teens were arrested, accused of participating in a three-day crime spree throughout the city and county of Madera.
District 2 Supervisor David Rogers will host a Town Hall meeting on Feb. 21 from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.
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The two-time defending County/Metro Athletic Conference champion Madera wrestling team will host tomorrow's league tournament in Joe Flor
For the second straight year, the Madera boys soccer team had a chance to clinch the County/Metro Athletic Conference championship with a
The Madera South Stallion boys basketball team hung with the Edison-Fresno Tigers for a majority of the first quarter on Wednesday, but E
One hundred sixty two years have passed since the foothills were set aflame with the fires of vengeance by the murder of 3 men on the Fresno River,
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Hear Thom Yorke's Punishing Atoms for Peace Cut 'What the Eyeballs Did'
Radiohead singer takes a backseat to Flea on 'Default' B-side
In September, Thom Yorke debuted "Default," the first single from his Atoms for Peace project featuring Red Hot Chili Peppers' Flea and Radiohead's longtime producer Nigel Godrich. The track was released immediately to iTunes, and a 12" vinyl release with B-side "What the Eyeballs Did" was scheduled for November 19. That's 18 days from now, but XFM's Mary Anne Hobbs in London got her hands on the B-side and premiered the cut yesterday on Halloween.
While "Default" didn't stray that far from Yorke's solo work on The Eraser — even the single's artwork is similar that 2006 LP — "What the Eyeballs Did" sounds more like what we expected from the Atoms for Peace project: Flea's pulverizing bassline gives the song its backbone, there's a complex backbeat composed by AFP's drummer Joey Waronker and percussionist Mauro Refosco, and producer Nigel Godrich adds his trademark flourishes in the form of swirling synths and a spacey ambience. And then there are Yorke's vocals, in their most beguiling and incomprehensible form, holding it all together.
Atoms for Peace's full-length will arrive at some point in the first half of 2013. While album title and other details have not been announced, the album's track list has likely been revealed — albeit alphabetically — thanks to a listing of new Yorke-penned songs that popped up on his publisher's Warner Chappell site. "Default" and "What the Eyeballs Did" both show up, as does "Stuck Together Pieces," which was remixed and used for a single on Modeselektor's 50 Weapons imprint this past summer, and "Judge, Jury and Executioner," a song that featured prominently during Atoms for Peace's brief 2010 tour.


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Rod Fergusson departs after successfully shipping delayed game
Irrational Games shooter enjoys second biggest launch of the year
XCOM shooter planned for release in fiscal year 2014
He hopes to create experiences players didn't know they wanted
ESRB also lists Midnight Club 1-3 and Red Dead Revolver
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Sequel's chances may ride on Max Payne 3's performance
Sequel's chances may ride on Max Payne 3's performance
Bookmarklet lets you destroy the internet, one page at a time
Adds, "By the way, I'm gonna make the hell out of some games"
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Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. is slated to reduce its global workforce by about 10% under a restructuring plan aimed at slashing costs and optimizing its organization and processes.
Supplier News Breaks
JERUSALEM – Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. is slated to reduce its global workforce by about 10% under a restructuring plan aimed at slashing costs and optimizing its organization and processes.
Teva said Thursday that most of job cuts, which will total approximately 5,000 employees, will be completed by the end of 2014.
The Israel-based pharmaceutical company added that it will continue identify opportunities to pare assets "that no longer fit its core business or are not critical to its future."
Plans call for Teva to scale down oversized parts of the company while growing its generic drug business and core research-and-development programs, including high-value, complex generics, expanding its presence in emerging markets, and broadening its portfolio, particularly in its specialty medicines and over-the-counter businesses.
Teva's worldwide restructuring program, introduced in December 2012, includes efforts to divest noncore assets, increase organization effectiveness, improve manufacturing efficiency and reduce excess capacity.
"Teva is managing its operations to achieve high levels of effectiveness in the short term, while pursuing opportunities for the long term," stated Jeremy Levin, Teva's president and chief executive officer. "The accelerated cost-reduction program will strengthen our organization while improving our competitive position in the global marketplace. We understand that this may be a difficult time for our employees and are committed to act with fairness, integrity and respect, and provide support during this time."
Teva reported that it expects to realize about $2 billion in annual cost savings by the end of 2017, compared with the previous savings guidance of $1.5 billion to $2 billion. The company estimates that $1 billion, or 50% of the annual cost savings, will be realized by the end of 2014, and 70% by the end of 2015. Most of the savings are expected to come from a reduction in the cost of goods, Teva added.
The company expects to reinvest part of the initial savings in 2014 and 2015 in high-potential programs, including the development of its complex generics and specialty pharmaceutical pipeline, which has more than 30 late-stage programs.


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Storybook Island opened in 1959 after the Rapid City Rotary Club saw a need for establishing and operating a free children's park. Through donations from individuals and community businesses, Storybook Island was born and was an instant success. Residents and visitors of the Black Hills area continue to enjoy the family tradition that has been in existence for over 50 years at Storybook Island.
Upon arrival at the park, guests are instantly reminded of beloved storybook favorites. The park is filled with sets that portray characters from children's classic stories, famous fables, and favorite nursery rhymes. See Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs house, travel through Winnie the Pooh's 100-Acre Woods, and take pictures with the famous Dalmatian dogs.
The park features a train ride, a maze, various playgrounds, and swing sets.
Storybook Island also features a children's theatre. Although the park is free there is a small admittance fee for theatre performances. The tickets per person are $1.00. Performances include: Rapunzel, The Crocodile Prince, Rumplestiltskin, and The Greatest Superhero. Most of the shows are scheduled for every Tuesday through Saturday at 10 am, 11 am, and 12 pm. Visit Storybook Island's Children's Theatre website for more details regarding performance times for the summer.
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Ice Pigging: New Water, Sewer Pigging Method Offers Unique Benefits
The project was split into two runs. Work began just before Labor Day 2012. The first run of 9,500 feet was completed in about three hours. The second of 8,000 feet was completed in about 2½-hours two days later, the Friday before the long holiday weekend.
"Normally, a water main cleaning project wouldn't be scheduled prior to a Labor Day weekend due to the possibility of losing water service for an extended period of time," said Ervin. "However, the county believed the risks of a disruption were extremely low, and no disruptions to water service were experienced."
County personnel cut out samples of the PVC before and again after the clean process.
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Apple Wakes Up to a Downgrade
NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- In a "buy and trade" strategy you have a reason to go long a stock, such as a buy rating or projected strong price momentum.
In the case of the big-three tech-related names, each were rated buy according to ValuEngine when I profiled them for a Thanksgiving and Santa Claus Rally trading opportunity on Nov. 21 in Santa Claus Rally Eyed for Online Leaders Apple, Amazon and Google. These stocks have also been referenced for "buy and trade" strategies in earlier posts.
In a "buy and trade" discipline it's important to make investment strategy adjustments when the reasons for trading these, or any stock, changes. One of the two reasons for trading these three stocks on Nov. 21 was their buy ratings according to ValuEngine. Now that all three are rated hold the trade becomes based upon MOJO only.
If you decide to stay long these stocks based upon momentum at least consider cutting the exposures in half. You should still use value levels, risky levels and the key moving averages to adjust positions.
On Monday I wrote Amazon, Google Wake Up To Downgrades and thus the positions should have been adjusted. Amazon (AMZN - Get Report) ($243.62 vs. $233.78 on Nov. 21) could have been reduced on strength to the 50-day simple moving average at $243.15 on Monday as the stock opened well above my annual pivot at $236.23. My quarterly risky level remains at $263.71. The trade has been from the 200-day SMA at $219.57 on Nov. 15 to its 50-day at $243.15 for a gain of 10.7%. Google Inc (GOOG) ($661.15 vs. $669.97 on Nov. 21) did not provide a favorable exit level in Monday's trade. My weekly value level is $624.04 with my monthly risky level at $679.57 and quarterly risky level at $713.85. The trade has been from the 200-day SMA at $638.41 on Nov. 16 to Monday's open at $666.44 for a gain of 4.4%. Apple (AAPL - Get Report) ($589.53 vs $560.91 on Nov. 21) rallied 18 points on Monday and outran its projected 12-month gain of 5.07%. This morning the ValuEngine Forecast Model has reduced this projection to 4.75% and hence the downgrade to a hold rating from buy. As a result of Monday's rally Apple's 12-month forward price-to-earnings ratio from Wall Street analysts rose to 11.19 from 10.85. Two week's ago, on Nov. 14, the "buy and trade" strategy began from that week's pivot at $538.56. If the stock opens unchanged the gain since Nov. 14 is 9.5%. The price at which to reduce this position on strength is to the 200-day simple moving average at $598.38. The daily chart for Apple is positive with Monday's close above the 21-day simple moving average at $568.31. This week's value level is $508.60 with my semiannual value level at $481.73, the 200-day simple moving average at $598.38 and quarterly risky level at $674.21.Chart Courtesy of Thomson/Reuters Follow @Suttmeier This article is commentary by an independent contributor, separate from TheStreet's regular news coverage.
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Welcome to TribalProtectionOrder.org.
This website is intended to provide a clearinghouse of information and resources pertaining to tribal protection orders and tribal court enforcement.
*Tribal Law and Order Act (2009) Congressional Report
What is a protection order? Protection orders may be known by a variety of names to include injunctions, restraining orders, civil restraining order or victim protection order just to name a few. A protection order is a legal document that is available to victims of domestic violence in most jurisdictions. A protection order is a legal order issued by a court to protect a certain person from abuse.
Statutes usually require a certain relationship between the petitioner and defendant that will vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. Protection orders can be either civil or criminal and protection order remedies may vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction depending upon the law of the issuing jurisdiction.
There are generally two types of protection orders available to victims of abuse. Ex parte orders are available in most jurisdictions in emergency situations. Ex parte orders are issued without a full hearing if the victim can demonstrate immediate danger. Permanent protection orders can be issued after the Defendant has been provided with notice and an opportunity to be heard.
The language in the protection order is very important. Assuming the protection order meets certain requirements set out in the Violence Against Women Act 2013 (VAWA 2013), specific language present in the protection order may mandate whether other jurisdictions are required by federal law (VAWA 2013) to give full faith and credit to the protection order. Further, the language regarding any violation of the protection order may be the basis for a criminal prosecution of Indians and/or non-Indians (VAWA 2013). Additionally, the language in the protection order may trigger the federal firearms statutory prohibition against possessing ammunition or firearms during the period of a valid Protection Order.
UPDATE: Violence Against Women Act 2013 Reauthorization, Congress has clarified that tribal courts have full jurisdiction over all parties in protection order cases if the protection order was issued within the authority of the Indian tribe.
Tribal Court Authority
18 U.S.C. 2265(e) (updated 2013) For purposes of this section, a court of an Indian tribe shall have full civil jurisdiction to issue and enforce protection orders involving any person, including the authority to enforce any orders through civil contempt proceedings, to exclude violators from Indian land, and to use other appropriate mechanisms, in matters arising anywhere in the Indian country of the Indian tribe (as defined in section 1151) or otherwise within the authority of the Indian tribe.
In addition to clarifying tribal civil jurisdiction to issue protection orders in cases involving non-members, VAWA 2013 also recognizes tribal inherent criminal jurisdiction over non-Indians who commit certain acts of domestic violence and protection order violations for those tribes meeting the requirements of VAWA 2013. See Federal Laws on this site for more information.
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This website is a project of the Tribal Law and Policy Institute. Other web resources developed by TLPI include: National Child Welfare Resource Center for Tribes | Tribal Court Clearinghouse | National Indian Nations Conference | Tribal Healing to Wellness Courts | Walking on Common Ground
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quote:Going to Finns Sunday. Everyone who can go should.
quote:(and get my arse to Finn's on the reg)
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quote:And according to lfc.com Sturridge is fit for the weekend. Game on.
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………….where's Osama ?!?!?
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By ROBERT BURNS
More American troops were killed in combat in Iraq over the past four months  at least 334 through Jan. 31  than in any comparable stretch since the war began, according to an Associated Press analysis of casualty records.
Not since the bloody battle for Fallujah in 2004 has the death toll spiked so high.
The reason is that U.S. soldiers and Marines are fighting more battles in the streets of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, and other cities. And while hostile forces are using a variety of weaponry, the top killer is the roadside bomb.
In some respects it is the urban warfare that U.S. commanders thought they had managed to largely avoid after U.S. troops entered Baghdad in early April 2003 and quickly toppled the Saddam Hussein regime.
And with President Bush now sending thousands more U.S. troops to Baghdad and western Anbar province, despite opposition in Congress and the American public's increasing war weariness, the prospect looms of even higher casualties.
The shadowy insurgency has managed to counter or compensate for every new U.S. military technique for defeating roadside bombs, which over time have proliferated and grown increasingly powerful. The U.S. has spent billions trying to counter that threat, and the Bush administration in its budget 2008 request to Congress this week asked for another $6.4 billion to find more effective defenses against it.
The Pentagon's terse death announcements only begin to tell the story:
• Sgt. Corey J. Aultz, 31, of Port Orchard, Wash., and Sgt. Milton A. Gist, 27, of St. Louis, died Jan. 30 in Ramadi, the capital of Anbar province, of wounds from an improvised bomb that detonated near their vehicle.
• Three days earlier, three soldiers  one just 19 years old  were killed by a roadside bomb in Taji, just north of Baghdad. And a week before that, four soldiers, from towns in the four corners of this country  Florida, New Hampshire, Oregon and California  were killed by a roadside bomb not far from Fallujah.
The increasingly urban nature of the war is reflected in the fact that a higher percentage of U.S. deaths have been in Baghdad lately. Over the course of the war, at least 1,142 U.S. troops have died in Anbar province, the heart of the Sunni Arab insurgency, through Feb. 6, according to an AP count. That compares with 713 in Baghdad. But since Dec. 28, 2006, there were more in Baghdad than in Anbar  33 to 31.
The surge in combat deaths comes as the Pentagon begins adding 21,500 troops in Iraq as part of Bush's new strategy for stabilizing the country. Most are going to Baghdad, but some are being sent Anbar.
With the buildup, U.S. forces will be operating more aggressively in Baghdad as they try to tamp down sectarian bloodshed, a tactical shift that senior military officials say raises the prospect of even higher U.S. casualties.
"There's clearly going to be an increased risk in this area," Adm. William Fallon, Bush's choice to be the next commander of U.S. forces in the Middle East, told his Senate confirmation hearing last week.
Risk is already extraordinarily high from known threats, including roadside bombs.
The frustrating fact about the hunt for a solution to the roadside bomb is that the Americans have improved their ability to find and disarm them before they detonate, and they have outfitted troops in better body armor. But the insurgents still manage to adjust: new tactics in planting the bombs, new, more powerful explosives, different means of detonating them and, amazingly, a seemingly endless supply of materials.
Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Friday that 70 percent of U.S. casualties are caused by such bombs. He said that lately Iran, allegedly in league with renegade Shiite groups in southern Iraq, has had a hand in supplying a more lethal version so powerful it can destroy a U.S. Abrams battle tank, which is shielded with heavy armor.
On Jan. 22, Army National Guard Spc. Brandon L. Stout, 23, of Grand Rapids, Mich., was killed by one of those more powerful bombs, known as an explosively formed projectile, that went off near his vehicle in Baghdad. A week earlier, four soldiers were killed by a roadside bomb in the northern city of Mosul.
It is not possible to fully track the trend in bomb-caused deaths by month. The U.S. military considers such information secret because it is considered potentially useful to the insurgents and their backers. Also, the Marines do not announce the specific cause of any of their combat deaths, whereas the Army does.
Hostile forces also have had more success lately shooting down U.S. helicopters, Gen. Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, acknowledged Tuesday. He said four U.S. helicopters in recent weeks have been shot down by small arms fire, including a Black Hawk in which all 12 National Guard soldiers aboard were killed.
What's more, there have been troubling new twists to some other attacks, including the sneak attack in Karbala that killed five U.S. soldiers; four of them were abducted and executed by unknown gunmen. U.S. officials say they are studying the possibility that Iranian agents either planned or executed that Jan. 20 attack.
A leading war critic, Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., said he was aware that U.S. casualties were rising, particularly in Anbar province.
"It doesn't surprise me at all because they are targeting American troops," he said.
Less than a year ago, U.S. commanders were anticipating a different scenario, starting a U.S. withdrawal and a more central role for Iraqi troops in battling the insurgents in major cities. Instead, U.S. troops had to step in more directly as the Iraqis came up short, particularly in Baghdad.
Now, under a new approach announced by Bush on Jan. 10, U.S. troops will be paired up with Iraqi brigades in each of nine districts across Baghdad, rather than operating mainly from large U.S. bases.
"Our troops are going to be inserted into the most difficult areas imaginable  right into neighborhoods, right in the face of the Iraqis," Sen. Carl Levin (news, bio, voting record), the Michigan Democrat who is chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said. "How are we going to avoid the inherent risks that are created?"
The recent rise in U.S. combat deaths has developed with relatively little notice in Congress, which has focused on the broader issue of whether to begin withdrawing forces and, now, whether to opposed Bush's troop buildup.
The American public clearly has soured on the war. In an AP-Ipsos poll taken Jan. 8-10 , 62 percent said they thought, looking back, that it had been a mistake to go to war, while 35 percent said invading was the right decision.
Gates, while not ruling out a rise in casualties during the buildup, told reporters Jan. 26 that he sees a possibility that some insurgents and renegade militias will back off temporarily "in the hope that they can wait us out and filter back once we're gone."
That could mean a decline in the U.S. casualty rate, at least temporarily. And if Bush's plan  which couples a troop buildup with stronger economic development efforts and a renewed push to get the Iraqis to reconcile their political differences  works as intended, then a drop-off in deaths might be longlasting.
The 334 U.S. troops killed in action in Iraq over the past four months does not include 36 who died of non-hostile causes like vehicle accidents. The previous highest total for those killed in action during any four-month period was 308 between September and December 2004, which included the November battle to retake the city of Fallujah.
The recent increase is not linked to variations in U.S. troop levels. That number shifted from about 137,000 troops at the end of January 2006 to a range of 130,000-150,000 during summer and fall before ending the year at 128,000. It has risen now to about 138,000, with the buildup in Baghdad just getting started.
Since the start of the war in Iraq, nearly 3,100 U.S. troops have died, of which nearly 2,500 were killed in action.
In the first half of 2006 there was a downward trend.
From February, when the bombing of a key Shiite mosque in Samarra, north of Baghdad, triggered a surge in sectarian killings, through May, 194 U.S. troops were killed in action, according to Pentagon figures. That was down from 247 in the previous four months. Shortly afterward, Iraqi civilian deaths surged.
From June through September, the total for U.S. troops killed in action was 214, down from 231 in the same period in 2005.
The upward trend began in August, the same month that U.S. and Iraqi forces launched the second phase of a Baghdad security crackdown, dubbed Operation Together Forward, that ultimately failed. From a total of 38 killed in July, the number rose to 58 in August, 61 in September and 99 in October, according to an Associated Press count.
It slipped to 59 in November but jumped to 96 in December and totaled 80 in January.
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………….where's Osama ?!?!?
If there is ever another "legitimate" terrorist attack, that is, other than a false flag attack, in the U.S., then the perpetrators will have simply walked or driven into this country from Mexico. We know it. Bush knows it. Everyone knows it. For 1% of what we've spent in blood and money in Iraq we could have secured this country from attack by closing the southern border. All else is nothing but zionist neoconservative "creative destruction". Everyone knows this. All other discussion is obfuscation. We know it. Bush knows it. Everyone knows it.
John – "Most of the current generation"
That's a pretty wide brush to use.
If what you mean is young people, what I find in teenagers & people in their 20's I know, is they DO know things are pretty screwed up; after all, look at the divorce rate in their families? They know this whole thing is a charade, the Feds on down. However, what I see in them is political LETHARGY and they are cynical. They just don't get out and VOTE en-masse. In their defense, they just don't emphasize political knowledge and participation in the schools anymore, like they used to. Now they want to teach everyone how to just be consumers and be good little sheep.
Now if you want to get more specific yet, the generation I see that just doesn't get it is the post-WWII baby-boomers. I am related to some of them, and am myself on the tail end. You want to talk about heads buried in the sand? Despite their 60's-70's upbringing, during Vietnam, and all the political upheaval of the times, I see more ignorance from them than younger people. They have truly bought into the "consumption economy concept".
Now I know there's exceptions, not everyone in the boomers are like that. But I feel I'm right about it as a collective whole. THEY are the voting power in this country.
I have seen much progress in the "Greatest Generation" who are now seniors, but there's more room to grow. Most of them, I think, now realize they were duped about Bu$h and what the "conservative" and "liberal" movements are. Now THEY are getting cranky…
Henry Kissinger, quietly and unobtrusively behind the scenes advising the Bush administration in foreign policy matters, once said "The soldier is just a dumb, stupid animal to be used by the politician." So I don't understand the big deal. So a few more dumb, stupid animals die along the way to Israel's conquest of the Middle East. There is so much more to gain, it must be worth it. Hegemony. Oil. World domination. Its a win, win, win situation.
Isn't it?
JimZ: "Now if you want to get more specific yet, the generation I see that just doesn't get it is the post-WWII baby-boomers. I am related to some of them, and am myself on the tail end. You want to talk about heads buried in the sand? Despite their 60's-70's upbringing, during Vietnam, and all the political upheaval of the times, I see more ignorance from them than younger people. They have truly bought into the "consumption economy conceptâ€Â.
Now I know there's exceptions…"
So sad but so true. I was born in 1949 so I'm smack in the middle of the baby boom generation. There is so much apathy among my peers it is unbelievable. They just do NOT want to hear about it. Total denial. And like you said, not all of them, but yes, most. I have a few friends that are concerned and aware but most of the people we know just want to wish it would all just go away. When massive inflation hits and destroys us all they will be totally blindsided. When all of a sudden their property taxes go from $2000 a year to $100,000 because of the massive inflation being engineered in order to pay the national debt off with cheap dollars they will be dumbfounded. And when the banks own everyone's property and we are all out in the streets they will wonder how the hell THAT just happened.
Now pass me the sports page if you're done with it. I'd like to read up on the coming NASCAR season before I go out to put another coat of wax on the car for the little wife. She's at her Oprah book club chatting about Paris and Brittney.
Thank you Kent and Jazz. You too are an example of what I speak. All mouth and no action, what have you proposed except that the American people, for whatever reason, refuse to act. The government has nothing to fear from this type of inactivity so why should they change? The last election is a god example, we voted for change and not a damn thing has changed but the names. Excuses will get you nothing but a seat on the bus or train to a camp, action may get your freedom back.
Now wait, Congress is "trying" to get us out of there! (yea, right)
The U.S. Congress & Senate play the fiddle while more U.S. troops and thousands of civilians die.
We keep getting told by the Bu$hevics that "al-Queda" is responsible for much of the insurgency, yet all we hear from the NIE and other intelligence sources they are less than 10%. We are told by the Bu$hevics Iran is responsible for much of the insurgency, yet we find out that there is scant evidence that much, if any, weapons & personnel are crossing the Iran/Iraq border, and again, the NIE and other intelligence sources tell us this is the case. Now they're trying everything to bait Iran to attack us (or fake one) just to start ANOTHER WAR!
For every civilian that gets killed, at least one more "insurgent" or "terrorist" is created.
How is this a "War On Terror"?
Sounds like we are the terror.
And the neocons just keep raking in the money.
By the way, Paul Bremer, what happened to all those pallets of cash printed & sent to Iraq back when you were in charge?
JIM Z and ALL !!
CONGRESS "fiddles" in endless "threats, threats of filibusters and the never ending whining tone of joe liberman singing "Why can't we all just get along"
As Jim says, the neocons just keep "raking it in"l Every helicopter thaty goes down, every bullet that is used up. Someone in a NO BID-Contract assigned by this administration makes money.
We are told constantly, we CANNOT we WILL NOT forget the troops. HELL, they have forgotten all about the troops EONS ago. The only people thinking, really thinking about the TROOPS are the 72% of the American people that had said ENOUGH !!
Bush however doesn't listen, because he will NOT BE ALLOWED to listen by the NEOCONS to stop this war until the deal is made to let the likes of KBR, Halliburton and whomever else control everything in Iraq they want to.
Certainly, BLAME Bush because as President he IS untimately responsible….but if your looking for the real culprits here…START with Cheney and go on down the list.
The war is about OIL MONEY and POWER. It is not about DEMOCRACY, FREEDOM or SHARING…Never has been.
HOW's that for FAIR & BALANCED …PERIOD
The people actually calling the shots are the people who visit Dick Cheney in his office or "secret location". No wonder why he wants all visitation records classified. Cheney is simply the enforcer and Karl is the "idea" guy.
Can you imagine any of these people having warm blood? They are vampires.
I feel bad for those who perish, but why are they taking part in that "war". If you are ignorant enough to sign up and go there, then good riddance. Ohh, watch out for those scary terrorists. What is that line that makes me laugh every time I hear it? oh yeah: "We're fighting them over there so they don't come here." Well, "they" could already be here thanks to DHS' lack of border security. Besides, every red-blooded White American male should be able to defend himself, as long as he has a pair (like me and my buddy Hal Turner of the HalTurnerShow)
Hi Jim Z.
No Vampires is a good term all cold blooded, money hungry,unbelieveable bold, delete, delete.
And Cheney I will bet so far has been successful in making sure "the visitors" are not known. You see in the day's of my time as a reporter we used to recognize a story when there was one. We had to have at least two iron clad and in some cases three sources.
Today's reporters don't, can't or won't and the likes of FOX for example is charged with keeping the waters stirred and cloudy with fluff and other nonsense so that the real story stays third or fourth generation or more
We follow up the made up support the troops story with Britany's Baby and they call it NEWS. What a crock !!
You know what's tragically sad and funny at the same time? Remember when early on after Bagdad was taken by American forces and there was a small mountain of cash uncovered in one of Saadam's palaces. Well one GI apparently helped himself to about 100,000 so the story goes, and the military, Bremmer, Franks and the entire heirarchy KNEW about it faster than a speeding bullet. The GI was prosecuted to the full extent the law allowed so I am told.
Now in testimoney before Congress, BREMER, our Medal of Freedom winner none the less, is saying that the 8.8 BILLION that he can't account for when HE was running the show…that weighed mind you 363,000 TONS, was because "we were in the middle of a war and normal modern banking facilites and practices were impractacle.
What BS and it looks like the CONGREES is going to let that one slide as well.
Has any of them heard of simply SIGNING for whatever amount and simply keeping the paper in a lock box in the GREEN ZONE.
NOPE…Guess not. What BS.
Wars are never as popular with the people who have to suffer and die for them, as they are with the profiteers and suppliers who get rich on them. Considering the estimated $300 Million that Cheney and Halliburton have made it's pretty obvious why the war started in the first place.
But isn't it odd that while American troops battle for control of oil production in the Middle East, the American public is turning increasingly to bio-diesel, theanol, and other alternative fuels?
I am reminded of Martin Sheen's line in "Apocalypse Now" when he looks at the soldiers around him. "They weren't looking for anything but a way home. Trouble was, I'd been back there; and I knew that it just didn't exist anymore." By the time U.S. troops come home, they will find a radically different country than the one they left.
Interesting that we never hear anything anymore about the first "viceroy" of Iraq, Gen. Jake Garner?
The Democrats seem to like to bring up Paul Bremer's failings as the "viceroy", but Garner just doesn't seem to exist anymore.
Anyone got any recent information on that guy and what he's doing? (speaking out, etc.?)
I seem to recall that Jake was more interested in rebuilding Iraq and turning it over to Iraqis then setting up for a permanent U.S. occupation with bases, with Iraq a "banana republic", a subsidiary of U.S. Corporations (fascism).
Garner got dumped and along came Bremer, a former employee of Kissinger & Associates (yep, THAT Henry Kissinger), one of the looters of war. Note that Bremer got an undergraduate degree from Yale. Anyone smell "Skulls & Bones" here?
Bush hasn't accepted the hard fact that a military solution is not feasible. Only negotiations have a chance of ending the present conflict. Short of this, it is more of the same: troops in, body bags out.
Most of the current generation is totally unaware of what is really going on. Of the remainder, many of whom write daily in areas such as this and have some intellect that shows promise but they so greatly fear loosing anything that they have yet to realize that just such inactivity will result in their loosing everything. Seems that even these mental morons should be able to see that even though the current Congress was put in by means of an overwhelming anti-Bush and anti-war majority that there is really no difference in these two parties and in fact the America some of us were born in is DEAD. If this governmental activity does not come to a halt immediately we will loose the few remaining freedoms we have, our property, our belongings and our lives as we are herded off to the camps. We still have the Second Ammendment and it was meant for times such as these. We who realize this would rather not use it, are definitely not running around with a death wish but if our elected officials will not do what the people want we have no need for them and they should be replaced as stated in the documents which declared our independance. Sorry to say this but you prim and proper candy asses and all your rehetoric has thusfar resulted in nothing but more of the same as those who make the laws do not have time for you or any of us. Thomas Jefferson once said that if your government no longer listens it is time for a new government. Ours is far too corrupt to cure and far too afraid of our standing up to remain should we do so. Those elected maggots in Washington act as if we are not here, I think it is time that we consider taking back our country.


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Victorian Roses Ornament
By: Elizabeth Vernier for AMACO
This unique glass ornament from AMACO made with polymer clay and ribbon will add an extra sparkle to your Christmas tree.
- Glass Ornament
- FIMO® Soft Polymer Clay — (2) Metallic Red, (1) Metallic Green
- Liquid FIMO® Decorating Gel
- AMACO® Design Push Molds — Roses
- AMACO® Pasta Machine
- AMACO® Needle Tool
- Ultra Fine Prism Glitter
- Ribbons and Cord (as desired)
- Small Disposable Cups
- Cornstarch Baby Powder
- Plain Paper (for work surface)
- Ruler
- Sharp Knife
- Paint Brushes
- Scissors
- Make five large roses and five medium roses as follows. Condition small amount of Metallic Red FIMO® Soft. Roll five small pea-sized balls and five slightly larger sized balls. Dust rose mold cavities with light layer of baby powder. This works best with a small paint brush. Press clay balls into molds. If necessary, use needle tool to remove clay from mold. Bake roses immediately in preheated oven at 265°F (129°C) for 15 minutes.
- Condition small amount of Metallic Green FIMO® Soft. Roll into 20 pea-sized balls. Flatten balls and pinch into basic leaf shape. Dust leaf cavity with baby powder. Press clay into mold. Use needle tool to remove if necessary. Press two unbaked leaves behind each baked rose. Set aside. If leaves do not stick to roses, use a small amount of Liquid FIMO® Decorating Gel to attach.
- Condition Metallic Red FIMO® Soft (between two and four ounces). Measure diameter of ornament. Roll Metallic Red FIMO® Soft through pasta machine on thickest setting. Create a strip at least two-inches wide and several inches longer than the diameter measurement. Use ruler to mark strip two-inches wide as long as glass ornament in diameter. Cut strip with sharp knife. Press strip around center of glass ball. Join edges and smooth seam with fingertips. Clay edges should touch but not overlap. Gently pinch excess clay at top and bottom into small folds and trim off with scissors. Cut clay circle to fit bottom uncovered area of ornament. Smooth in place and blend seams with fingertips. If air bubbles form, slice open with sharp knife, then seal with fingertips. Cut circle to fit top. Cut slit for ornament hanger. Smooth in place and blend seams.
- Use Liquid FIMO® Decorating Gel to attach roses. Carefully brush prism glitter on to red surface. Place ornament on plain paper on cookie sheet or hang ornament from skewer placed across deep oven-proof pan.
- Bake ornament at 265°F (129°C) for 30 minutes.
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