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Us Air Force-assignment To Aviano Air baseI joined the US Air Force in 1995 and was stationed at Aviano Air base, in Italy for six years as a Security Police(Military Police) officer. Loved the assignment as the base was right at the foot of the Dolomite Mountains which is a spur of mountains off of the Alps that cover...
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I traveled to Italy for work a couple of yearsago and was there for 3 weeks. It was an amazing time, challenging and very different to visit a foreign country for business rather than pleasure.... About 2 weeks in, we got a day off and on a whim, I got on a plane to visit Rome for the day by myself..... Got off the plane...
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it Seems So Beautiful In Pi...it seems so beautiful in pictures and things. my aunt has been there and i want to go!!
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It's a lovely country.The culture and language is quite interesting to me! Hopefully one day i may go there!
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I'm here on vacation.It's hot and sunny. Love it
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La Dolce Vita!AAaaaahhh, visited Italy a few years ago with my daughter, fell in love with a few of the cities there. I cant wait to return and live the sweet life once again!
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I spent the best year of my life in Italy.I was in a religious girls seminary there and had an amazing experience. It was a great program but that's another story. I was in Milan for the most part traveling on the metro seeing models randomly crashing fashion shows going to the duomo center where all the stores are...
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Manteca Unified School District first term trustees Ashley Drain, 26, and Alexander Bronson, 22, appeared in Superior Court Thursday afternoon before Judge Franklin Stephenson on charges of election fraud and perjury.
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The neoconservatives have repeatedly found themselves facing the discomforting reality that democratic change in the Middle East—which they have at times feverishly embraced—has led to governments that are opposed to Israel. Now, with the Egyptian street in upheaval, a stark divide has emerged in neocon discourse. The freedom crowd sees the uprising as vindication of Bush's "global democratic revolution"; the Islamophobes have begun their predictable fear mongering about the Muslim Brotherhood and the threat of global Islamism.
Jack Ross, last updated: February 01, 2011
Revolutions of world-historic potential, such as we are presently witnessing in Egypt, only happen once in a generation. There is enough awkwardness among the Washington establishment—bewildered at the sight of an uprising against a client state—that they are completely helpless to do much of anything in the face of the tumult on the Egyptian street. But no one is confronting a more awkward comeuppance, and responding to it more erratically, than the neoconservatives.
Champions of President George W. Bush's "freedom agenda," the neoconservatives have repeatedly found themselves facing the discomforting reality that democratic change in the Middle East has more often than not led to the emergence of governments that are opposed to the state of Israel. First there was Hamas. Then Hezbollah. Now, potentially, the Muslim Brotherhood.
And yet, instead of injecting a bit of realism into their logic, these events have forced neocons to feverishly grasp either of two contrary positions: The freedom crowd sees the uprising in Egypt as vindication of Bush's "global democratic revolution"; the Islamophobes have begun their predictable fear mongering about the Muslim Brotherhood and the rise of the global Caliphate.
The Freedom Crowd
On Commentary magazine's Contentions blog, Max Boot rhetorically asked in the title of a blog "Are we all neocons now?" The Council on Foreign Relations fellow, who has been generous in his views of President Barack Obama's approach to Afghanistan, criticized the administration's response to events in Egypt, arguing that Obama has continued the policy started in the second George W. Bush administration of abandoning the "freedom agenda" for a push towards an illusory Middle East peace.[1]
In a Washington Post symposium, the American Enterprise Institute's Danielle Pletka, chided Obama for being "on the wrong side of history" and insisted that "our support for secular dictators does more for Islamists than democracy promotion ever did."[2] The think tank more directly implicated in the Iraq War than any other apparently blames Obama for the empowerment of the Muslim Brotherhood and its Shiite analogs, conveniently ignoring decades of U.S. foreign policymaking.
Postblogger Jennifer Rubin took the lead in trumpeting a vintage Washington study group led by Robert Kagan that discussed how an orderly transition should take place toward free elections.[3] Evidently, the neocons are preparing their exit strategy if, as is likely, an unfriendly government emerges in Egypt—if only Obama had listened to our blue-ribbon panel!
On his World Affairs blog, Josh Muravchik made a nostalgic call for a Polish-style Solidarity movement that can lead to free elections, yet in almost the same breath made clear his implacable opposition to the Muslim Brotherhood.[4]
At the New Republic, Leon Wieseltier, no slouch when it comes to speaking bluntly about the Middle East, lashed out not only at Obama but at all of American liberalism for abandoning democracy and being apologists for Hosni Mubarak.[5] Exactly who these leading liberals are who have been at the ramparts defending the honor of Mubarak he does not say. The only conceivable example he might have in mind is the odd case, to put it charitably, of Chris Matthews.
The Islamophobes
Frank Gaffney, a leading proponent of the Islamo-fascism thesis, has used the website of his Center for Security Policy to attack Fox News for repeating the freedom crowd's line that Egypt is a vindication of the Bush agenda.[6] However, tone and premise of his argument are based on Gaffney's outlandish conspiracy theories about Islam, specifically of a global conspiracy to impose sharia law on western societies by subterfuge and infiltration. Gaffney's outrageous theories have included arguing that the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) has been infiltrated by Islamists, leading the group to declare Gaffney persona non grata (CPAC will nonetheless be screening not one—but two—anti-Islamist conspiracy films by the Clarion Fund at its upcoming annual gathering.)[7]
In the Weekly Standard, Thomas Joscelyn of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies repeated much of the standard litany about the global conspiracy represented by the Muslim Brotherhood. He insisted that the Muslim Brotherhood and al Qaeda differ only in means and not ends, echoing the radical right Cold War trope that communism and social democracy were divided only by means and not ends.[8]
At Pajamas Media, Ron Radosh raised the specter of the Iranian revolution. Harping on Richard Falk's lengthy essay published at the time of that revolution, Radosh never stopped to consider that the hostage crisis and thirty years of non-relations were not inevitable. With Joscelyn, Radosh also focused his fire on Bruce Reidel of the Brookings Institution's Saban Center for calling for calm consideration of Muslim Brotherhood.[9] This has been a particular schtick of Radosh for a while now—denouncing a nominally liberal member of the "Israel lobby" (the Saban Center)—for being in cahoots with the mortal enemies of the west.
In the Jerusalem Post, Caroline Glick hysterically denounced Mohamed ElBaradei, Egyptian opposition leader and former head of the UN nuclear watchdog the IAEA, as being an accomplice of both the Muslim Brotherhood and Iran. She then declared that the Camp David Accords are almost certainly dead as a result of the events in Egypt, and described the Egyptian military that has survived for three decades on American handouts as more than a match for the Israeli Defense Forces.[10]
Whither the Divide?
What accounts for this divide in neoconservative discourse? Nuances abound to be sure. For instance, while the case of Leon Wieseltier seems to be a horrified response to the fear that the Egyptian revolution bodes ill for Israel, a deeper pathology seems to be at work with the doctrinaire neoconservatives clustered around Commentary magazine. In a curious legacy of neoconservatism's roots in Trotskyism, the neocon core seems to be characterized by a pathological insistence upon its internationalism, which leads them to their insistence that they are in fact witnessing the birth of a global democratic revolution. This also, it should be noted, seems to supersede any petty scores to be settled in defense of the Bush administration. Dana Perino amply covered that ground on Fox News, even to the point of embracing the Muslim Brotherhood.
On the other hand, the Anti-Islamist Scare that has gained full steam since the election of Obama appears to be a completely distinct phenomenon from historic neoconservatism, notwithstanding how opportunistically it has been embraced by figures like Bill Kristol and the Liz Cheney-led Keep America Safe. It is a phenomenon straight from the pages of Richard Hofstadter's The Paranoid Style In American Politics. Whereas Hofstadter famously pointed to projection in the anti-Catholic Ku Klux Klan who "donned priestly vestments and constructed an elaborate hierarchy and ritual," the backlash against the so-called Ground Zero Mosque—with its frank talk of "sacred ground"—reflected the desire to construct an American holy of holies.
More generally, the anti-Islamist conspiracy theories that pervade much of mainstream U.S. discourse can be viewed as a projection of the militant world-redemptive creed of "Americanism" on to the Islamic faith. David Gelernter, an overzealous devotee of Norman Podhoretz, was the author of a book several years back that proclaimed "Americanism" as "the fourth great western religion"—the first three being Judaism, Catholicism, and Protestantism, pointedly excluding Islam.
As Peter Beinart noted in a column at the height of the Manhattan mosque controversy, both the 1920s Klan and McCarthyism emerged as the United States came to realize the limits of its power abroad, resulting in increasing anxiety in American society and the search for internal enemies. The coming to power of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, even and perhaps especially if the Obama administration handles it responsibly, may well unleash a terrible anti-Muslim fury in the United States that will make a mockery of the pro-democracy optimism that many of the neocons—and indeed much of the Washington establishment—have embraced in their helplessness to shape the course of events in the region.
Jack Ross is a contributor to Right Web and writes for theAmerican Conservative.
[1] Max Boot, "Are We All Neocons Now?" Commentary, January 28, 2011, http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/boot/388438.
[2] Seven Heydemann, "How Should the U.S. Respond to the Protests in the Middle East?" Washington Post, January 30, 2011, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/28/AR2011012807209_3.html.
[3] Jennifer Rubin, "On Egypt, Obama offers 'too little, too late'," Washington Post, January 30, 2011 http://voices.washingtonpost.com/right-turn/2011/01/on_egypt_obama_offers_too_litt.html.
[4] Joshua Muravchik, "What Egypt Portends: Three Scenarios," World Affairs, January 28, 2011,http://www.worldaffairsjournal.org/new/blogs/muravchik/What_Egypt_Portends; Joshua Muravchik, "The Mirage of Moderate Islamism," World Affairs, December 30, 2010, http://www.worldaffairsjournal.org/new/blogs/muravchik/The_Mirage_of_Moderate_Islamism.
[5] Leon Wieeltier, "American Liberals and the Streets of Cairo," The New Republic, January 29, 2011, http://www.tnr.com/article/world/82435/egypt-riots-american-liberals-cairo.
[6] Frank Gaffney, "The Muslim Brotherhood is the Enemy," Andrew Breitbart Presents Big Peace, January 30, 2011, http://bigpeace.com/fgaffney/2011/01/30/the-muslim-brotherhood-is-the-enemy/.
[7] Eli Clifton, "CPAC's Islamophobia-Friendly Screening Schedule," Lobelog, January 28, 2011,http://www.lobelog.com/cpacs-islamophobia-friendly-film-screening-schedule/.
[8] Thomas Joscelyn, "The Muslim Brotherhood is No Friend," The Weekly Standard, January 28, 2011, http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/muslim-brotherhood-no-friend_537572.html?nopager=1.
[9] Ron Radosh, "The New American Fans of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt," PajamasMedia, January 30, 2011, http://pajamasmedia.com/ronradosh/2011/01/30/the-muslim-brotherhood-in-egypt/?singlepage=true.
[10] Caroline B. Glick, "Column One: The Pragmatic Fantasy," The Jerusalem Post, January 28, 2011, http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Article.aspx?id=205559.
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In a recent article, Atlantic columnist Leon Wieseltier, a proponent of U.S intervention abroad for purportedly liberal causes and a "pro-Israel" ideologue, lambasted the nuclear deal with Iran, saying it would "strengthen a contemptible regime." He added that the United States should resume its "hostility to the Iranian regime" and "arm the enemies of Iran in Syria Iraq." Responded one observer: "Does he know who Iran's enemies in Iraq are? Let me give some hints: they don't care much about the Freedom Agenda or the Iranian people—they like beheading Shiites."
Why is the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) so adamantly opposed to the Iran nuclear deal? Comments by former AIPAC employees suggest that the lobby is motivated as much by its own survival as it is the survival of Israel. A recent Nelson Report newsletter quoted a former AIPAC official who stated that "Iran has been an enormously lucrative fundraiser for AIPAC" and that "without this cause AIPAC and this Israeli government" may have to "focus on more critical issue [sic], like peace with the Palestinians."
Michael Oren served as Israeli ambassador to the United States from 2009 to 2013. A naturalized Israeli who was born in the United States, Oren has spurred widespread criticism for a recent book in which he lambasted President Obama's foreign policy and Jewish Americans' views of Israel. Among his claims are that "persistent fears of anti-Semitism" have spurred Jewish Americans "to distance themselves from Israel."
Citizens for a Nuclear Free Iran (CNFI) is an offshoot of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee that was founded to "educate the public about the dangers" of the recent nuclear agreement reached between Iran and the P5+1 world powers. The group has launched a multimillion-dollar ad campaign against the Iran deal, primarily aimed at Democratic constituencies. One prominent nuclear expert has described CNFI's TV ads as "very misleading."
Fellows and staff from the neoconservative Foundation for Defense of Democracies—a staunchly militarist think tank—have assailed the nuclear deal reached between Iran and major world powers. "Mr. Obama seeks to accommodate and appease Iran's rulers," FDD President Clifford May has claimed, adding that "It would be an exaggeration to say that such policies always lead to major wars and holocausts."
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Many enthusiasts are turning to notebooks for their portability and high performance. As prices drop on high performance models like my Lenovo T61p, more power users will look for a base model that can be easily upgraded with aftermarket parts. One of the easiest and most noticeable performance modifications to a notebook is installing a high performance hard drive.
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Khaled Abdel-Latif Dumeisi, who has been in the United States for about 10 years, was described in an affidavit as an unregistered agent for the deposed Saddam Hussein government who reported on Iraqi exile leaders and provided press identification cards for Iraqi intelligence officers.
In one case, the affidavit alleged Dumeisi was trained by the Iraqi intelligence agency, known as the Mukhabbarat, to use a pen with a hidden camera and microphone, which he later used to record an interview with an unnamed member of the Iraqi opposition.
Dumeisi was charged with acting as a foreign agent, which carries a maximum 10-year prison term, and conspiracy, which carries a potential five-year term. He could also be fined $250,000 on each count if convicted.
"While Khaled Dumeisi is not alleged to be an actual intelligence officer and is not charged with espionage, the charges are nonetheless serious," Patrick Fitzgerald, the US Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, said in a statement.
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According to the criminal complaint, four FBI informants provided information about Dumeisi, who was also known as "Sirhan" and "Abu Walid." In addition, a dossier seized in April from an Iraqi intelligence service safe house in Baghdad reports on activities by an agent or asset code-named Sirhan.
Dumeisi was accused of interacting with at least four Iraqi intelligence officers, one of whom was expelled in June 2002 for spying on the US.
FBI agents searched Dumeisi's home in early May, discovering what it said was a rudimentary code system inside an old calendar. For instance, if he felt threatened by Iraqi opposition members, he would relay that his car was inoperable, the government affidavit said.
He also allegedly provided Iraqi intelligence officers with press cards, which they could use instead of their diplomatic identification to attend events. In 1991, Iraq's UN diplomats were restricted to travelling within New York City's five boroughs, and were routinely barred from attending certain events.
In Chicago, Dumeisi was president of Around-the-World News Inc., which he established in 1998 to print and distribute periodicals in Arabic and English, including Al-Mahjar, an Arabic language monthly, the government said.
Palestinian-born Dumeisi was a Jordanian citizen. He was a permanent resident alien in the US. Dumeisi applied for US citizenship in December 2001, but was turned down for failing to provide documents requested by immigration officials, according to the complaint.
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Sampling, Excitation, and Ionization Characteristics of a Planar Magnetron Glow-Discharge Device
Abstract:Measurements of mass loss during sputtering, atomic emission intensities, and ionization characteristics are described for a coaxial magnetron glow-discharge device. By the use of the magnetic field from a coaxial magnet pair placed behind the cathode, stable plasma operation is achieved for all pressures from 0.0004 Torr (0.05 Pa) to over 2.5 Torr (330 Pa). Mass loss measurement values from pellets of Al, Cu, brass, Zn, and Au located in the region of greatest sputtering show much larger values at pressures which are lower than those usually used with glow-discharge excitation and ionization sources. Emission line ratio measurements at the lower pressures indicate that populations of low-energy electronic states are greater than equilibrium values. This observation suggests that the plasma is dominated by ionization processes rather than by recombination processes. Emission line ratio and mass spectrometric measurements also indicate that ionization is increased at the lower pressures.
Keywords: Atomic emission spectrometry; Excitation; Glow discharges; Magnetron; Mass spectrometry; Sputtering
Document Type: Research Article
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1366/0003702924123593
Affiliations: 1: Department of Chemistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109 2: Chemistry Department, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, Michigan 48197
Publication date: December 1, 1992
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Parents forking out fees and donations to their child's school could be driving a million-dollar wedge between Waikato's richest and poorest schools, latest figures show.
A Hamilton high school raised more than $2.5 million in extra money through activity fees, donations and fundraising in one year, and five others topped $1m.
But many schools in poorer neighbourhoods are failing to attract big dollars, restricting the education programmes and extra-curricular activities they can offer.
"The poorer the community, the harder it is for families to contribute to the school and to top up the school's funds," Post Primary Teachers' Association president Angela Roberts said.
"The winning schools win even more and the poorer schools lose."
She has called for an inquiry into how they are funded, adding that the ability of wealthy parents to pay school fees was widening the disparity.
She said the New Zealand Council for Educational Research found that a decile 10 school earned about $1000 per pupil more than a decile 1 school, when including locally-raised funds.
Community funding for Waikato secondary schools ranged from $71,766 to $2.5m in 2011.
Hamilton Boys' High School, which is decile 8 and has more than 2000 students, raised $2,532,659 of extra income in 2011 - more than the 10 lowest-earning secondary schools combined.
Of that total, $1.4m was voluntary fees and donations from parents, $535,751 came via fundraising and $511,795 was from trading sales, such as canteen food, stationery and school uniforms.
The extra money, provided by parents and the community, was almost equal to the school's operational grant provided by the Ministry of Education.
Headmaster Susan Hassall did not return phone calls yesterday.
Five other schools in the region - Cambridge High, Hamilton Girls' High, Hillcrest High, Taupo-nui-a-Tia College and Waikato Diocesan School for Girls - received more than $1m in extra funding.
The bulk of that money came from voluntary fees, with the exception of Waikato Diocesan School for Girls, where the highest amount came from donations.
Hillcrest High principal Kelvin Whiting said the school asked for a $200 donation per student per year, but only about 55 per cent of parents paid.
"The percentage of donations being paid is declining unfortunately and I think that's a sign of the difficult economic climate we are facing," he said.
"We invoice parents for sports fees or materials fees. You can put the school donation on the invoice but there's no guarantee it will come in. You're hoping the parents pay the donation but you can't put any pressure on them to pay it."
In comparison, Putaruru College raised $194,006 in 2011, one of the smallest totals in the region.
Principal Mike Ronke said the extra money was "absolutely vital to provide something beyond the basics for our kids".
He said the school fundraised via raffles and student work days and regularly applied for Lotteries grants to buy new equipment.
"The school functions quite happily day-to-day and we can provide the basics, but nowadays we need a bit more than the basics - laptops and all those things aren't cheap." Morrinsville College raked in an extra $715,000, with $63,000 of that coming from donations.
Principal John Inger said the school sent out four letters to parents each year, asking them to pay a donation.
"In a way we're begging, it seems to me.
"We would find it very hard to exist without that money."
He said students would "most certainly suffer" if the school did not raise extra income as government funding allowed the school to deliver only a "basic" curriculum.
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OPINION: When it comes to the Trans-Pacific Partnership, or TPP, only one man's word counts.
That was why Barack Obama's move to light a fire under the trade talks on the fringes of the East Asia Summit buoyed our Trade Minister Tim Groser and Prime Minister John Key.
President Obama geed up the negotiators by setting an informal deadline of October 2013 to seal the deal.
Since he is by far the biggest fish in what, without the United States, would look like a very small pond - TPP countries include New Zealand, Chile, Singapore, Brunei, Australia and Vietnam - his deadline will give the TPP some real impetus.
But that's about as far as the cork-popping should go. In the carefully calibrated language of international trade negotiations, October is what they call an ambitious deadline. The decade-old Doha trade round - not to be confused with that other diplomatic cocktail circuit perennial, the climate change round, the latest of which is also named for Doha - is now so close to dead some people want to scrap the whole thing and start again.
The TPP negotiators have managed to squeeze in 14 rounds of talks in various cities around the world so far but that still makes it just a toddler in international conference land.
Mr Key is already talking up the prospects of a "summit" next year to push the deal over the line. But what he can't push over the line is a potentially hostile US Congress.
In a weak economy, Mr Obama is facing domestic headwinds against trade liberalisation. A large group of US senators and members of the House of Representatives have already written to US Trade Representative Ron Kirk opposing any moves to open US dairy markets to New Zealand. We know from bitter experience the strength of the US lobby against increased agricultural access.
Anti-TPP activists, including the likes of academic Jane Kelsey, are galvanised by the October deadline. They're banking on the likelihood the New Zealand Government will face similarly strong domestic headwinds given the potential timing of an agreement heading into an election campaign.
Their PR offensive against the deal so far has been highly effective, helped along by the secrecy surrounding the talks, which not only breeds suspicion, it makes it difficult for the Government to challenge any claims.
But the anti-TPP lobby has also been helped along by a growing list of credible voices here and internationally who are equally alarmed by the secrecy, and question the reach of a concluded TPP.
This week, Dr Kelsey and the Green Party assembled a group of international anti-TPP activists for a series of media seminars ahead of the arrival of up to 500 TPP officials who are due to launch the 15th round of talks on Monday.
Their concerns cover the breadth of issues thought to be on the table in the TPP - commerce, intellectual property, state-owned enterprises and dispute settlement, to name a few - which, as they point out, make it clear it's not just any old free-trade agreement.
As an example of just how far it could reach into daily life, our librarians have joined groups questioning the deal, because of concerns changes to copyright law will push up the cost of books.
There is widespread concern, meanwhile, both in the business and web communities, about intellectual property clauses.
Governments tinker in that area at their peril. Think back to widespread protests against section 92 copyright law changes that would have seen users have their internet connections cut for taking free downloads of music and movies. The Government was eventually forced to rewrite the law.
Opponents say the TPP could reach even further into our daily lives by forcing up the price of drugs, and giving overseas corporations a greater ability to challenge or participate in the law-making process, potentially frustrating a government's ability to pass laws providing health or environmental protections.
The Greens argue foreign investors will have even greater rights than domestic investors and a company like Shanghai Pengxin, which is behind the contentious Crafar farms purchase, would be able to sue if the Government impinged on their operations by moving to regulate or legislate to clean up water pollution.
That's their spin.
The Government spin, backed by Labour, is that such a clause is nothing new and is, in fact, included in the China Free Trade Agreement. It is also, as Trade Minister Tim Groser reminds opponents, protection for New Zealand companies overseas from having the plug arbitrarily pulled out from under them. But you have to sift carefully through the pro-TPP spin as well.
The Government insists, for instance, that it will play hardball on any proposal to scrap Pharmac, a bulk purchasing agency which has proven its ability to drive a hard bargain and make some tough decisions on which drugs to subsidise.
It has been in the sights of the US drug companies and US Government for years and is a target in the TPP.
Mr Key and Mr Groser have both been talking tough and say Pharmac won't be sacrificed for a deal. But no-one is suggesting the US will demand anything as crude as scrapping Pharmac. It will instead seek the ability for either the drug companies or consumer groups to challenge and appeal its decisions.
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Mr Key reiterated this week that New Zealand would rather walk away than accept a weakened TPP on agriculture. But if that's our bottom line then it means we will have to give way on something else; for a small country with not much negotiating clout we haven't got the luxury of going into the talks with a fistful of bottom lines.
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The province is investigating the killing of 12 elk about a week ago near Swan River -- the dead animals were lined up and photographed for posts on Facebook and YouTube -- to see if the hunters shot the animals on private land without permission.
Manitoba Conservation and Water Stewardship officials are also concerned the elk may have been baited with shared feed put out to lure them to the kill -- which raises the risk of diseases like chronic wasting disease or bovine tuberculosis being passed to healthy animals.
Baiting elk in Manitoba's chronic wasting disease and tuberculosis protection zones is prohibited for all hunters.
The shooting of the dozen elk in one day also touched off a debate with racial overtones on social media about First Nations and Métis subsistence hunting rights and the need for the Manitoba government to bring in tougher hunting restrictions for elk, which are under pressure from harvesters with the continuing ban on moose hunting in some parts of the province.
"Since old Bullwinkle walked across the Bering land bridge thousands of years ago, he hasn't changed at all," said Vince Crichton, Manitoba Conservation's now-retired manager of game, fur and problem wildlife. Crichton is now a private consultant.
"But look at what we have today in terms of cars, trucks and snow machines. We all have better access. They are now more vulnerable than they've ever been in the past. We can't continue to harvest the way we have and expect the resource to be there for future generations."
Crichton and others said the province, with the help of First Nations and Métis people, has to set new rules on when and where male and female elk and moose can be hunted, and then limit how many can be harvested each year. The Selinger government extended hunting rights to Métis last fall.
"We have to get on the same page," Crichton said. "Elk are going to be in the same position of moose in the not-too-distant future."
A provincial spokesman said Wednesday licensed elk hunting is only permitted in Manitoba through a draw, which provides 1,700 tags each year. First Nations hunters are not generally subject to seasons or bag limits, but are subject to special restrictions such as moose-hunting bans in the Duck and Porcupine Mountain areas imposed in July 2011.
Officials are also trying to determine how many hunters were involved in the elk kill and how many families were to get meat.
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The Facebook page showing the dead animals has been deleted, but the cellphone video is still posted.
Riley Flett, who took the videos and photos, said he took down his Facebook page when the comments became too inflammatory. Someone else recorded the video, posted it on YouTube and it is out of his control.
Rick Wowchuk and David Minish of conservation group Moose for Tomorrow said the province has to do more to protect elk numbers, such as banning the hunting of pregnant cows, due to the increased pressure on the species.
"With us having hunting seasons that are targeting the reproductive sector it's not saying too much about sustainable management," Wowchuk said. There are an estimated 1,200 to 1,400 head of elk in the Duck Mountain area.
Minish said there were only 10 tags drawn for 20 hunters in the Porcupine Mountains before Christmas.
"But in one afternoon a dozen animals were taken elsewhere," Minish said. "What it amounts to is when the province goes to set up its management plan, it become increasingly obvious that they cannot manage wildlife.
"This isn't about one colour against the other -- this about a situation that makes a resource unmanageable and no one wants to grapple with it."
Minish added Moose for Tomorrow is to meet with Conservation Minister Gord Mackintosh on the issue in Swan River later this month.
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Posted by:JOHN FEFCHAK
January 4, 2013 at 12:13 PM
Long ago, in the past. First Nations people used very different hunting tools and methods for hunting. No high powered rifles, no skidoos or ATV's, or motors for your canoes. Now FN use all the modern equipment. It's a two tier hunting system to-day, and that is the BIG problem. If they want to hunt using the modern tools, then FN people should be subject to and abide by the same rules and regulations as everyone else, and purchase a licence to do this.
If they want to use the inherent rights (which many mention) then do so. But hunting in that manner must be accomplished in the way of their forefathers, and ancestors of past generations.
This is the only way that there will continue to be sufficient animals for everybody to hunt and the animals will multiply as the creator intended. I share the wise words of Chief Seattle.
"The earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the earth.
All things are connected like the blood that unites us all.
Man did not weave the web of life, he is but a strand in it.
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|6 x
|From £11.87/€16.50/AU$22.76/$17.71/17.04Fr per night
|Grass motorhome pitch - optional electric
|6 x
|From £12.95/€18/AU$24.83/$19.32/18.59Fr per night
|Sahari two-bedroom safari tent
|4 x
|From £22.51/€31.29/AU$43.16/$33.59/32.32Fr per night
|Shepherd's hut
|4 x
|From £23.53/€32.71/AU$45.11/$35.11/33.79Fr per night
|Cottage two-bedroom holiday home
|6 x
|From £24.25/€33.71/AU$46.49/$36.18/34.82Fr per night
|Loisir two-bedroom holiday home
|4 x
|From £25.08/€34.86/AU$48.08/$37.42/36.01Fr per night
|Evasion two-bedroom holiday home
|6 x
|From £26.52/€36.86/AU$50.84/$39.57/38.07Fr per night
|Prestige two-bedroom holiday home
|6 x
|From £33.19/€46.14/AU$63.64/$49.53/47.66Fr per night
|Evasion three-bedroom holiday home
|6 x
|From £35.04/€48.71/AU$67.18/$52.29/50.31Fr per night
|Prestige three-bedroom holiday home
|6 x
|From £41.32/€57.43/AU$79.21/$61.65/59.32Fr per night
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