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Classic COMIC BOOK Comic & Cover of the Day: BATMAN and TEEN TITANS
Today's classic comic cover (alliteration is your friend) is a Jim Aparo cover from writer Bob Haney's crazy 1970s run on BRAVE AND THE BOLD. This is one of the best books DC was putting out back in the 70s, and even back then the stories were outrageous non sequiturs, diverging wildly from established DC tropes of storytelling and often character. I loved Bob Haney's stories, and being even of their time the stories were out of their time, and therefore remain oddly timeless.
This particular cover and comic of the day is BRAVE AND THE BOLD #149, from 1979, starring BATMAN in conflict with the TEEN TITANS, and titled 'LOOK HOMEWARD, RUNAWAY'. Both the absurd and highly entertaining writing of Bob Haney and fluid and graceful art of Jim Aparo are at full gallop in this fun story.
If interested grab a copy here!
Enjoy till next time!
WEDNESDAYS WORDS is a new weekly installment that ranks the most interesting, intriguing books of the week (old, new, reissues, digital, etc). Contributors represent a variety of genres and sources. Each book includes Title and publisher blurb.
This is a rare one item WEDNESDAYS WORDS and the latest I've ever put one together, but put it together I did. Enjoy!
Creepy Presents Bernie Wrightson [Hardcover]
Book Description
Publication Date: September 13, 2011 | Series: Creepy Presents
All of horror legend Bernie Wrightson's Creepy and Eerie short stories, color illustrations, and frontispieces are finally collected in one deluxe hardcover! These classic tales from the 1970s and early 1980s include collaborations with fellow superstars and Warren Publishing alumni Bruce Jones, Carmine Infantino, Howard Chaykin, and others, as well as several adaptations and original stories written and drawn by Wrightson during one of the most fruitful periods of his career! All stories and images in this collection are restored with care and reprinted in the same oversized format as Dark Horse's award-winning Creepy Archives and Eerie Archives series.
As far as one book recommendations go, you would be hard pressed to find a better one than CREEPY PRESENTS BERNIE WRIGHTSON! First the hardcover book, which I'm perusing, in between writing this post, smells great.
I know that sounds like an odd statement, especially to all you digital i-something babies, but for those of us raised and reared on paper and ink, there are few things as evocative as the new book smell.:)
Add to that the fact that DARK HORSE who published this book, publishes really high quality books, and you have something special as much for construct as content. Something that can not be effectively… digitized.
So despite being printed in China, DARK HORSE is very quality-conscious and demanding… and it shows in the finished product. It's a gorgeous art compilation book, containing the best art and stories from Wrightson's time at Warren Publishing!
And lastly it's Bernie Wrightson, one of the most celebrated sequential artists of the late 20th century; and here in the 21st, his work still remains… unrivaled.
While this book is no FRANKENSTEIN BY WRIGHTSON (Also Published by DARK HORSE, and copies getting scarcer and more expensive every day), it is vintage WRIGHTSON and as such most definitely should be an essential part of anyone's desert island survival bag!
And at the current ridiculously low price you would have to be an unhinged art-hater, not to own a copy.
So there! Go here for more and to get your copy if so moved to:
Creepy Presents Bernie Wrightson
Bernie Wrightsons Frankenstein
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BREAKING NEWS! Marc Olden Books back in Print!
Courtesy of Diane C who runs the Marc Olden website comes the pretty great news, for all of us fans of Marc Olden, as well as fans of just great books, that all of Marc Olden's long out of print Men's Adventure novels are back in print courtesy of Mysterious Press.
Comprised of his HARKER, NARC, and BLACK SAMURAI series of books, these are in many ways the holy grail of pulp 70s men's adventure thrillers and paved the way for such writers as James Patterson and Hugh Holton.
Now these long out of print books are finally available in affordable editions. I must admit to largely being a paper guy myself, but for those of you Ebook/Kindle converts than, this is the deal for you!
Here's the link to Mysterious Press also:
I have to say, I think the MYSTERIOUS PRESS E-book covers are a bit artless (particularly when compared to the beautiful paperback originals), but my cover critique aside, having the content available again is what counts.
So go support and tell them HT sent ya!🙂
Some memorable, one might even say memorial, movie quotes
Okay this gets a bit weirdy and ranty, so if you don't want weirdy and ranty, skip this post and come back tomorrow when I'll be discussing the finer arts of moose calling or some-such nonsense.🙂
Okay… you've been warned.
"God will never forgive us, if we break faith with our dead again"
— Irene Dunne in her favorite film role (I concur) 1944's THE WHITE CLIFFS OF DOVER, set in a world at war, fighting to end future wars. Hoping the sacrifice of young lives would end there.
Short Night of Glass Dolls DVD
"It's not Mira. Mira was a rebel. She refused sex and gold when everybody else here was lured with them, We use them as bait the whole world over. Sex and Gold. They are important because they suppress the will to resist."
–In Aldo Lado's surprisingly haunting and still relevant 1971 film… SHORT NIGHT OF THE GLASS DOLLS, written in a world beset with wars civil and colonial.
"The oldest person beats the drum, and the youngest go to battle. We will hold the reigns of power in the world as long as there are people willing to be killed, willing to shed their own blood. And nothing must ever be changed."
— SHORT NIGHT OF THE GLASS DOLLS [for my full review go here]
I like those quotes. Good quotes from good films.
With an election year upon us, I'm always mightily aware of politicians and posturing.
And I'm always distinctly aware, I've heard it before.
Every lie before they say it. A memorial of lies one might say.
How about we try this crazy thing, instead of just remembering the ones who have died, always a worthy goal, let's do our bit and reduce the number of people we send to join them this year, and next year, and the year after.
How's that for a worthy memorial to war? An end to all current and future war. An end to young people dying for the posturings of old people.
Be those young people American, or Iranian, or Somalian, or Haitian, or Guatemalan…let's consecrate ourselves to some new way, some better way, some civilized way… to live, that does not involve pitting our young people against each other in conflicts, real life Hunger Games, that they have not the slightest idea of why they are fighting.
So I'm putting on the ballot a new way to fight wars… the big mouths in this country who have a problem with big mouths in another country, the congressmen, the owners of papers, the columnists, the heads of corporations, the religious zealots, and the talk radio idiots, everyone who is quick to have others kill and torture for them… you go fight the war.
Let's try that.
All in favor, raise your hand.🙂 .
Let's let the 20 and 30 year olds stay home, eff their brains out, get back to some of that age of Aquarius loving (before the 80s came to get them on the 'me' kick), and let them run the country.
And all you senators, all you justices, all you presidential candidates… you've had your time at bat, and you've made a perpetually regenerating and increasing mess of it…. so yeah you old, chairman of the board, want to be in charge f**ks, put on some fatigues, fill up that rucksack and you go fight the wars.
But no remote control drone bombing raids, no satellite directed death from above, no weather modification toys, no dropping mines in playgrounds (what kind of animal signs off on that? You do my friends. With every tax dollar you pay and flag you wave. You do, when you say 'yes sir' to terms like war power acts, and patriot acts, and laughable misnomers like homeland security… you do, we do. We did. Not anymore), not even any nuclear subs or good old grunts on the ground. No, we don't give you any of that to wage war with, none of your cowardly, expedient toys to turn countless people into your faceless collateral damage, instead just a cage match with you old, hateful, fat f**ks in a cage with other old, hateful, fat f**ks.
We'll give you some boxing gloves, maybe even a club or two, and you guys go at it. Work it out. Get along or kill each other, but either way, the world would be a lot better if you old manifest destiny, new world order, 'woodrow wilson' idolizing mfers would just die.
Because honestly, you effers have had your day, and all we have seen since the industrial revolution, is more of the same. The rich few get richer, and the rest of the people and the planet, gets raped and used up until we are clinging to a burnt out dying ball of rock.
What is the good of all your imagined power then you dumb f**ks?!!
The world can't afford doing the same insanity that got us here, to this point, and expecting a different result. In fact that's the definition of insanity, trying the same thing, and expecting a different result.
So give it to the young.
The world… give it to the young. They might eff up, they might not. They might find a different way, a better way. They'll at least fall down going forward, going toward something new, which is more than any of you old ingrained effers have done in the last century and a couple decades, of mounting genocide.
Hell, maybe young people, devoid of you old people riding them to ensure they make your comfortable, beloved mistakes, they'll even make a REAL democracy out of America, instead of a tyranny dressed as capitalism.
And as far as you old dudes and dudettes, you seekers or power and despoilers of wisdom, when you die, which is sad but more than likely a probability, that whole 'live by the sword, die by the sword' thing, we'll grill a hot-dog or hamburger to you on the next memorial day.
Really we will.
Happy memorial day.🙂
Price The White Cliffs Of Dover
Exclusionary TV: Whites Only Television? MADMEN, PAN-AM and REVENGE
Provocative title huh?
Well, it's not quite as provocative as it seems. The premise of this article isn't that shows such as MADMEN, PAN-AM, and REVENGE are in and of themselves bad or bigoted shows.
They may in and of themselves be good shows. But shows, dramas or scifi or action, that are predominantly White, when not off-set by any shows that are predominantly Black or colored, true to the definition of predominant… create an environment, a medium, that is about the ascendancy, importance, influence, authority of force of one group.
In such an environment it is impossible for me to buy into, relate, follow, view, or otherwise enjoy such shows. Now in an environment where a show such as PAN-AM is counter-pointed with a show on The forming of AIR JAMAICA or the Black Stuntmen's Union or the Black Coyboys' Union or any adventure or thrilling show with a predominant cast of color; then PAN-AM rather than being indicative of a color and ethnic bias in every show in tv, can be seen as one voice in a chorus, rather than the same voice, everywhere.
So that's the problem I have with shows such as MADMEN and REVENGE they paint everything with the same trite and pale brush (take the series REVENGE, based on a book by the son of one of the most famous Black men, and the cast is all white. Explain that to me? Along with that it always rings false that we have yet to see a THREE MUSKETEERS that represents the ethnicity of the author Alexandre Dumas, or the ethnicity of the inspiration for all Dumas' heroes, namely his father, France's most famous and most feared soldier, the elder Alexandre Dumas, (inexplicably called Thomas-Alexandre in recent writings), the Black giant, the warrior Moor, Napolean's most feared and brilliant General. The COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO is directly inspired by how his father was betrayed by Napolean, imprisoned, and killed. And rather than anyone ever tell that story, it becomes in REVENGE about a blond woman, mad about something. Forgive me if I have no interest in that retelling.)
So, What's the solution?
We'll get to it. First indulge me, with a brief trip to yesteryear.
In the late 50s, into the 60s and 70s television and cinema in the US, and indeed throughout the Western World, made great strides in becoming more representative of the class struggle going on throughout the world.
That's a fact, it just is. So let's begin there.
As countries from Congo to Cuba to Korea to the West Indies to Brazil all were dealing, at various stages, with the shattering of traditional Colonial ties. With populations of repressed people, embracing the concept, both with artistry and arms, of "not eating at another man's table" but creating their own table.
It was a staggering period not just of revolution, but potentially evolution… for the world and the west.
Rather than mass media that explored and showcased only the fantasies and the fears of the white and the male you began getting shows that took place in a world reflective of the movements changing the landscape of our cultures and our time. Civil disobedience, and sit-ins, and Black power, and Native American rights, transcendentalism and free love, sexual and religious experimentation, and of course war and the search for peace and self identification.
And all these growing pains, all of this stew of change, could be seen in the entertainment of the age.
DANGER MAN, MISSION IMPOSSIBLE, PROFESSIONALS, GOOD TIMES, SANFORD AND SON, the rise of Soul Cinema, and the rise of Hong Kong Cinema, and Neo-Realism in Italy, and the New Wave in France, and the didactic films out of Russia, and Brazil, and Cuba, and Senegal, all of this making its way to newly born film studies programs in the states that gave birth to a whole generation of entertainment makers excited and influenced and inspired by this time of change and challenge.
So suddenly you had Patrick McGoohan in the DANGER MAN TV show 50 years ago globe-trotting and going to different countries and different people, and exploring issues of colonialism, and civil war, and terrorism, and governmental oppression, and doing this with a changing ethnically diverse cast. Dealing with issues of Middle East tensions and modern slavery. And this kind of informed and humanistic film-making came from the creators down. And all the shows of that period, while not DANGER MAN ground breaking, to greater or lesser degrees were that informed and representative of a culturally diverse and changing world.
Move the clock forward 50 years, and suddenly you have no community owned or locally owned cinema, much less production companies. That's not an accident, that's a very pointed, and very considered monopolization and marginalization.
You have the end of virtually any locally or regionally owned newspaper, radio, or television station. So you get the end of people and community created movements, and art and music, and you get instead corporate construction of reality and 'art' in things like AMERICAN IDOL and its ilk.
You have cinema and television that is in retreat from ideas… like diversity and the rights of man, and instead seeks a return to the exclusionary, blinders on, cinema of the 50s. Not just in terms of content and cast in front of the camera, but talent and crew behind the camera.
As, in reality, the mad military war machine of billionaires undoes the local determinism of countries like Haiti and Liberia and Libya, so too is our entertainment,no less the tool of billionaires, undoing the strides made toward multiculturalism. A return to "Whites only" television from MADMEN to PAN-AM to REVENGE.
And those shows while they hold no interest for me, would be fine if they were counterpointed by an equal number of US made shows with a majority of Black or Brown or Asian or a combination thereof, of actors in front the camera, and talent behind the camera.
And the talent is there, as screenwriters such as John Ridley discuss in numerous interviews. Even more talent than was available in the 60s and 70s is available now, the difference is, the cinemas are bought up, the advertising is cost prohibitive, and quite frankly the doors are closed.
In the 60s and 70s, Hollywood saw the need for an influx of diversity to save them from the rise of Independent Cinema (an outgrowth of viable and healthy local cinemas, local determinism), and there were a good number of people in the studios who were happy and excited for that diversity. They were part of the changing times, and part of changing it.
Today Independent Cinema has no way into the theaters, because the locally owned theater circuit, and indeed the community controlled mass-media circuit that served America, particularly Black America from the 20s to the 70s, has been bought out, legalized away, and generally dismantled.
For what was gained, more was lost in the compromise of integration.
The problem with the doctrine of separate and equal, was the fact that is was NEVER separate and equal, it was always separate and UNEQUAL. The Black Power movement and Black Panther movement was about making it SEPARATE AND EQUAL. Was to make the lie into the truth. And that is the reason we have integration today. Because the idea of separate and equal, scared the powers to be to their very soul.
They saw in the more moderate integration model of Martin Luther and his ilk, a compromise that could become a massive victory. They retreated from Separate and (Un)equal and embraced Integration of a sort, "you can now use our Bathrooms, you can now to an extent come into our house, but… you have to lose your house. You have to lose your radio stations, your movie theaters, your stores, your farms, your wallstreets, your sports teams, your attempt at self determination".
Of course it wasn't presented like that, but a few decades later that's absolutely what has happened. The thriving economic base of Black America that thrived even under the odiousness of Separate but unequal, wherein they could still provide for themselves and be self sufficient, has been completely gutted under the together but even more UNEQUAL system of integration. And that robbing of local determinism has extended to all America. Has shown itself to be the most significant volley in a class-war that has America trillions of dollars in debt, and slaved, to corporations gross and immoral.
And television and cinema is the clearest example of this wholesale pillaging of a peoples economic potential.
So that's what I see when I see shows like MADMAN or PANAM or REVENGE or SMALLVILLE (past season 4) I see prejudice and bigotry and class warfare… codified.
So you have a television and a cinema environment that has turned back the clock, and is again solely about showcasing the fantasies and the fears of the white and the rich, to the exclusion of all else.
It bores me to go backwards. To learn from the past is a great thing, to repeat the past is not. And we have a whole generation of studio execs and heads, who think they are doing something new by embracing the old, and all they are doing… is wasting time.
In a multi-cultural society, an increasingly multi-cultural society, these dreams of exclusion cannot stand, they will become unsatisfying, they always do. And in the end we will have to waste years just getting back to the same point of diversity as the 1970s. Getting back to the starting point from which we should be… evolving.
So let's cut out some of the time wasting. Contact these studios signing off on this exclusionary television, the creators and producers, twitter them, facebook em, call'em, even write em, let them know the show doesn't represent you, and to create a show that does. And let the advertisers know, say "this show boycotts me and mine. Since you are asking me to support your product, I want you to produce a show that supports me."
It's economics people. For all their crushing of competition, ultimately the decision makers and gate-keepers still need to create a product you want to buy. Let them know they are failing at that mandate.
Let them know you want to see more shows, that are both smart and diverse.
Day Break – The Complete Series- Do not buy the 2disk version, get the 4 disk version
55 Degrees North – Series One & Two – 5-DVD Box Set ( Fifty Five Degrees North ) ( 55 Degrees North – Entire Series 1 & 2 ) [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.2.4 Import – United Kingdom ]
Kidnapped – The Complete Series
Secret Agent AKA Danger Man: The Complete Collection (Slimline Packaging)
The Philanthropist: The Complete Series
I Am Cuba: The Ultimate Edition
Let them know you want to see more DAY BREAK with Taye Diggs and Moon Bloodgood, more 55 DEGREES NORTH with Don Gilet, more KINGS with Eamonn Walker more BLOOD AND BONE with Michael Jai White, more James Purefoy and Jesse L. Martin in THE PHILANTHROPIST (the spiritual descendant of McGoohan's DANGER MAN); more shows that look forward to solutions, rather than backward to evasions.
Challenge the creators, challenge the studios, challenge the advertisers, challenge the performers, and challenge yourself to go not marching backward, but to go forward… into the mystery. And ultimately we will as cities and a nation, have to eschew outside control, and embrace again local production of items and local determinism.
And it starts as simply as recognizing and calling out the prejudiced the exclusionary and the destructive when we see it.
Here endeth the lesson.
The Last Black Samurai: Remembering Marc Olden; an interview with Diane Crafford
22 Feb 2012 Wednesday
There's some news on the horizon regarding Mark Olden's seminal series BLACK SAMURAI, as well as other work. I don't have the thumbs up yet… to break the news, but in the interim I thought it was a great time to re-present this fun and informative interview, to tide you over.
Plus it has been updated with new pics, courtesy of Ms. Crafford. Please Enjoy!
And is it me, or does the new film THE RAVEN bear more than a passing resemblance to Marc Olden's POE MUST DIE? hmmmm.🙂 .
The fact that what you are about to read and hear is a YEAR in the preparation, goes to the absurd vagaries of mi vida loca, my crazy life.
But here finally, before the clock turns over on yet another year is my interview with Diane Crafford, on one of my favorite writers, the late, great and incomparable Marc Olden.
We'll start with the text portion of the interview, and following that the pretty free flowing audio interview. HUGE, HUGE thanks to Diane for her time, her good humor, her anecdotes, and her extreme patience.
Now without further delay….
1st to set the stage.
Who is Marc Olden?
Marc Olden is a writer I became aware of, oddly enough on an auction site. Being something of a bibliophile I'm always looking to pick up books, and no doubt I was looking for either Warren Murphy's DESTROYER books, or books by the late great Donald Goines.
And instead I came across this auction of a near complete series of BLACK SAMURAI books by Marc Olden. Being a Blackophile as well as a Bibliophile🙂 , the title alone, as well as the very impressive 70s art on the paperbacks were enough for me to decide to purchase the books.
So I won the auction got the books, and was… from book one, blown away. This was not the hokey Jim Kelly movie, this was the undiluted source material, and it was pure and gritty, and brilliantly written. I've a huge fan of the Warren Murphy DESTROYER books, as well as the James Bonds and the MacK Bolans, but BLACK SAMURAI takes it to another level. BLACK SAMURAI is the BEST of that flooded market that was Men's Action Adventure Books of the 70s. And the fact that it was so relatively short lived, also makes it a far more accessible body of work, and to my mind, far more prized.
And passion leading to passion, I just became obsessed with collecting all the work, primarily the 70s work, of this somehow inexplicably under the radar writer. Two of the holy grails being the Edgar Nominated POE MUST DIE, and the even more obscure BOOK OF SHADOWS (which I have to thank Diane for really making me aware of).
And reading his books led me to wanting to share with the world more of this, I felt and feel, brilliant, important, and overlooked writer.
So I reached out to the person who was keeping the late Mr. Olden's web presence alive, the gracious Diane Crafford, and she was both kind and crazy enough to consent to the following free flowing and I believe informative and engaging interview/conversation.
The early part of our interview… the audio does not capture Diane's, bubbly, fun, immersive personality, so I'm going to transcribe that from notes, and memory as best I can (I have a tendency toward the romantic, so anything that sounds like bs I take the blame for) bullet points mainly, and then we'll kick into the audio.
HT: Hi Diane, thanks in advance for your time. We're here to discuss Marc Olden one of my, and I assume your, favorite writers. Now most of this I got from your site as well as my research: He's done over 40 books. His first work of fiction NARC a series of nine novels. He also produced the eight book BLACK SAMURAI series, made into a bad movie with Jim Kelly. And POE MUST DIE a stunning immersive novel drenched in period detail.
DC: You do your homework.
HT: I try. Now I'm detecting a bit of an accent, and your name Crafford, Londoner?
DC: Welsh, actually.
HT: Ahh, missed it by that much. Now tell me a little about Marc Olden behind the books
DC: Well he was born in Baltimore and was a press agent before he gave it up to become a writer. And once he chose that road, he embraced it completely. He had a strong work ethic, he wrote every day. His Black Samurai series was written at the same time he wrote the Narc series. It was while writing Narc he got to know guys in Law Enforcement. With advanced degree black belts in Japanese Karate and Aikido, he coached and mentored many members of the NYPD in Aikido.
HT: So his writing was an extension of the man.
DC: Yes. Like every good writer he wrote what he knew, of his passions. And after the NARC, BLACK SAMURAI books, he went into stand-alone novels such as INFORMANT. It did well but was not a best seller.
HT: Going back to BLACK SAMURAI series for a second, what did he think of the film?
DC: He had no input into the film. And resigned himself to it being something distinct from his work.
HT: Well let's backup a bit, and tell us bit about you and how you met Marc.
DC: -I met him here at New York. He was a press agent for a restaurant, and I was working in film. We hit it off immediately. He had a way of carrying himself. –Later I was in London working for a film Producer, Sidney Dujer. The film was THE TWELVE CHAIRS starring Frank Lagella.
It's amazing the little decisions that make all the difference. Marc went from Press Agent to writer, writing magazine articles. And then was approached to write a book on Angela Davis. And at that time I was looking for work, and became his transcriptionist. He had a head full of stories, he loved to tell them. And at the center of them was his belief in Justice.
HT: Now how did one of his earliest books, and what I consider not just one of his best books, but one of THE best books, POE MUST DIE come about? It seems a very ecletic work and ahead of its time work, mixing historical fiction and figures, mystery, horror, action, and adventure.
DC: He loved Edgar Allen Poe and he loved Charles Dickens. And POE MUST DIE at its heart is his love letter to those influences, but done as only he could do it. Dicken's Christmas Carol, all about redemption, at the heart of this elaborately researched and gothic murder mystery,
HT: I can definitely see that. The book is so full of period detail, and authenticity, it puts you there in that place and in that time, of a wilder and younger England and America. What were some of his other inspirations?
DC: He thought Raymond Chandler was the best American writer. He was inspired by Eastern Philosophy through his mother and father (his father was George Olden, an art director). This filtered down to the type of man he was. Very calm, very contained, very brave and strong. I once asked him, "What is it that makes you so together?" and he said, "Good looks and the power of prayer."And while he said it with a smile, that was sincere, it was how he lived his life. In balance.
"It was a different breed of man who sat in the cherrywood chair, his legs crossed under a cashmere robe, a thin volume on his lap. His graying hair, immaculately groomed, seemed to highlight a strong-lined, somber face… An aura of greatness and elegance seemed to permeate his being, as if his presence lent dignity to the book-lined walls. He seemed like what men should be, but never were."
….THE DESTROYER: CREATED, THE DESTROYER by Warren Murphy.
HT: You can see that balance in his work. It's very measured and… sincere. Which is an odd thing to say about fiction, but he wrote fiction with Authenticity.
DC: Yes. All his work was an extension of his interests. Take BOOK OF SHADOWS, he got the idea for that on one of our annual trips to England. He loved history and was a real Anglophile. He became intrigued by the canals that snaked through England, and that was the impetus for BOOK OF SHADOWS about vacationing American's who stumble across things best left undisturbed.
Okay that brings our text portion to an end. Onto the audio. You're going to hear a lot of paper shuffling, that's me jotting down notes, and flipping back and forth in my book, to consult my notes. I don't think it distracts too much, Diane does a great job. So please enjoy! And bottom line, if you haven't read anything by Marc Olden, go to Diane's site and get acquainted. I would also suggest purchasing through her site.
Diane's great site on Marc Olden
For more on Marc Olden, and particularly BLACK SAMURAI also see the following sites:
Great overview of the 8 Book BLACK SAMURAI series
More great Marc Olden/Black Samurai coverage
The below audio is a little over 33 minutes,, and the audio has been noise reduced to minimize the sound (my frantic note taking) as much as possible. Not great audio, but definitely listenable, and DEFINITELY informative.
Okay! You can listen to it HERE!
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Skip to comments.Darrell Issa, Department of Justice feud heats up
Posted on 06/14/2011 8:07:41 PM PDT by delacoert
The Obama administration and Rep. Darrell Issa seem to be headed for their biggest showdown yet as the House oversight committee chief prepares for a Wednesday hearing into an undercover, federal gunrunning investigation that lost track of weapons later found at the scene of a Border Patrol agents murder in Arizona.
Issa, a California Republican, contends the administration has stonewalled his requests for records about a deeply flawed investigation, known as Operation Fast and Furious, that may have allowed hundreds of weapons from U.S. gun dealers to flow across the border to Mexican drug gangs. Issa also says congressional Democrats are obstructing his inquiry into what he calls reckless and inappropriate decisions by top Justice Department officials.
Justice Department officials say handing over sensitive documents to Congress could imperil pending prosecutions, including the case involving the murder of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry and the prosecution of 20 people as a result of the gunrunning probe.
Administration aides fear the dispute could escalate to produce a rare House vote to cite Justice officials for contempt. That, in turn, would likely trigger a court battle testing Congresss rights to delve into ongoing criminal investigations.
Administration officials also charge that Issa and Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) released highly confidential information about the identity of a former target of the probe and his dealings with an informant working with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
Issa insisted that the fault for any mistakes lies with the Justice Department because it has moved slowly and handed over few records since he served the agency with a subpoena on March 31.
If the administration started cooperating then, the errors that may occur would not occur, Issa told POLITICO in an interview Monday. As long as they dont cooperate, any errors we make are on them, not on us.
We do not have a dialogue theyve asked for permission to redact what we have, but in fact they wont give us that same information. If they would deliver all the information full and complete with the suggested redactions, we could probably agree to virtually all or all of the redactions, Issa said. The Justice Department handed over hundreds of documents Monday evening, but a Republican committee aide said the panel wants more.
Democrats, led by Elijah Cummings of Maryland, the top Democrat on the committee, dont object to investigating the controversial ATF operation in fact, many say they support the congressional probe. But Cummings, a lawyer from Baltimore, says he wants to proceed with hearings after the federal government completes its prosecutions.
It is extremely important to me that we maintain the integrity of this committee, Cummings said in an interview. And part of that is trying to consistently do everything in our power to avoid doing anything prejudicial to particularly a criminal trial. We can have the committee achieve what it needs to achieve, but at the same time, not prejudice these cases.
Issa insisted his investigation has no overlap with the crimes the federal government is investigating and prosecuting. He called Cummings issues without any foundation or basis, adding that Cummings has been part of the deliberative obstruction by the administration.
Is it timely? Yes. Issa said of the hearing and investigation. Americans are at the risk of dying from those weapons today. And the prosecution of 20 people who bought these has nothing to do with this investigation.
When asked if the timing could be altered, Issa deadpanned, Iran-Contra couldve been done at a later date. Watergate couldve been done at a later date.
The dispute is expected to heat up Wednesday as the Justice Departments top liaison to Congress, Assistant Attorney General Ron Weich, testifies to the oversight panel.
According to sources familiar with his testimony, Weich a former top aide to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) plans to claim that Issas subpoena of a witness expected to testify at the trial prompted a defendant in the case to back out of a meeting to discuss a potential plea bargain. The defendants lawyer cited fears that any disclosures at the meeting with prosecutors might become public as a result of the congressional probe, the sources said.
Administration officials say theyve given Issa hundreds of pages of documents, are allowing staff to look at more sensitive records at the Justice Department, and are searching through what may be a million pages of documents responsive to the Houses requests. However, Justice Department officials also say theyre withholding some sensitive details about the investigation.
Issa also subpoenaed documents from the administration that the committee already has received from whistleblowers an attempt to test the cooperation of the administration and integrity of what the committee has obtained, committee insiders say.
Democrats are furious about how Issa has handled the investigation.
I have very serious concerns about the manner in which the committee is proceeding, Cummings wrote in a letter Monday. No Member of this Committee wants to risk compromising criminal prosecutions involving alleged murderers and gun traffickers for international drug cartels.
Justice Department officials have conceded privately that something went wrong with the gun tracking in Operation Fast and Furious. The agencys inspector general is examining the episode at the request of Attorney General Eric Holder.
The probe will look at the guidelines, internal controls and investigative outcomes in gun trafficking cases, said Jay Lerner, a spokesman for the internal watchdog.
The Justice Department says that for several decades, under Republican and Democratic administrations, it has argued that Congress should take a back seat when a criminal probe is underway.
Exercises of that oversight authority must also account for and in some cases yield to the legitimate confidentiality interests of the Department and the criminal justice system, the department said in a statement Monday.
Ben Campbell, a former federal prosecutor on the Enron Task Force, agreed that the governments concern reflects longstanding policy. Particularly when people are trafficking in firearms they can be very sophisticated and it can lead to very violent repercussions for people they perceive to be cooperating with prosecutors, he said.
At the moment, the administrations ire is directed at Issa, who holds subpoena power. However, at least two of the disclosures Justice Department officials have complained about came weeks earlier from Grassley.
The Justice Department has been clear in its limited dealings with Senator Grassleys staff that no actual harm was done by any released documents, Grassley spokeswoman Beth Levine said in a statement. The truth of the matter is that in some cases Senator Grassley and his staff know more about the facts than the Justice Department seems to know.
In an interview last week with conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt, Issa said hed be willing to risk some impact on prosecutions in order to expose reckless investigative tactics by the ATF.
I dont want anyone to walk because of our investigation, but if some meth addict doesnt get a strong sentence for buying guys, thats probably not the worst damage if this kind of program continues and we believe it continues today, Issa said.
Legal experts called before the committee on Monday said there was no legal basis for the Justice Department not to comply with a subpoena, though some said the committee should try to address prosecutors concerns.
As it stands now, they owe you the documents, said Charles Tiefer, who served as legal counsel to the House for more than a decade. Its their job to make a record that would justify keeping anything back. So far, they havent. The Department should just try harder to earn the committees trust.
Tiefer noted that prosecutors havent been deferential when seizing materials from Congress. He said Congress shouldnt shy away from asserting its prerogatives. There has to be a fight, he said. This is not a lovemaking process.
I take issue with the use of the term "lost track of." There never was any intent to track those weapons. The only intent was to recover them at crime scenes for the PR effect in support the administration's agenda for greater gun control.
Stick to your guns, Issa, stick to your guns.
Congressman Issa is exactly right and he used much too kind words expressing that regarding Cummings.
I hope DOJ keeps stalling. The media's like sharks, they can't help it when blood is in the water. Issa needs to push this into a full scale internecine war and let the media splash it everywhere.
That Congress does not have enforcement power severely limits their options.
Now, if they could get more whistle blowers to come forward and publicly testify along with testimony and documents they already have...they may be able to generate enough political momentum for impeachment...provided the crimes are there.
And, it APPEARS the crimes are there.
"Darrell Issa, Department of Justice feud heats up."
Note Politico's headline composition and story thrust.
The picture painted:nutty Republican feuding with noble government entity,The Justice Department.
If this were during the Bush administration it would read:
"Lawmakers demand records from stonewalling Bush Administration".
Thanks, Pravdico.
Another issue..of many..that leads to questions concerning the ongoing utility of the Feds to the States they purportedly serve.
I sure hope he sticks with it.
I have this feeling that this case is going to become a very beautiful thing.
Go Issa Go....go all the way!
Well said sir!!
Incredibly, the (BATFE) are STILL engaging in this conspiracy against the second amendment freedoms of the American people.
It's WAY past time to put an end to the "F" in the BATFE.
Issa needs to unleash Hell on the DOJ. Its time for hardball. Holder needs to go down and go to jail.
This will be on cspan-3 from 10-12 EST. If you can't watch and have an iPhone cspan has a free app so you can listen. I'll definitely be listening!
Cummings is covering up murders. Typical of the sort of creep voters in Baltimore send to Congress.
Yup. That's a hit in the 10 ring.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
Salient observation.
Agreed. He's a real piece of work and will do anything in support of those against our country. Even in Baltimore it's hard to imagine he keeps being elected.
That's what I think too. How were they going to track them? Did each gun have a tracking device?
What bugs me about this whole thing is the lack of information getting out there to the people.
I just asked a couple of the guys here at work if they knew about it.
Not a clue.
Frig the governments concerns, they should have thought of this before they started running weapons to insurgents across an international border into a friendly country.
The international border violation throws this right into the State Department's lap, subpoena Hillary to testify under oath.
This goes all the way to the top, as in CEO Obama. Bet he is already looking for a few Ollie Norths to take the bullet and get thrown under the bus.
They need to bring back the HUAC.
Yes, that is the inescapable explanation of the mission objective in retrospect. It's going to come out, and it's damned ugly. The administration is feeding the MSM the dezinformatsiya, i.e., seventy percent of guns used in Mexican crimes "traced back" to the United States. It won't take long for the tense connection between the facts uncovered in the House Oversight Committee investigation versus the propaganda machine of the OBAMA/MSM politburo to unfold in public.
They knew where the weapons were at any given moment. They worked with the gun shops of Mexican cartel's choice and installed GPS tracking devices into the butt stocks.
One agent has already admitted on CBS they watched on laptop computers in real time as the weapons crossed the border into Mexico.
"The ATF allowed and encouraged five Arizona gun store owners to sell some 1,800 weapons to buyers known to them as gun smugglers.
- It installed cameras inside the gun stores to record purchases made by those smugglers.
- It hid GPS trackers inside gun stocks and watched the weapons go south on computer screens."
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/06/09/justice-officials-in-panic-mode-as-new-testimony-is-expected-to-reveal-depth/#ixzz1PKOosrP9
Was also a thread here on FR:
I believe the correct term is act of aggression/war.
I believe the correct term is act of aggression/war.
Just so long as Issa keeps in mind that the media, being liberal, do not like him and will attempt to attack him rather than the actual source of the corruption; so long as he plays his cards right, doesn't get spooked, and doesn't fall for the canard that the media are "objective journalists" just trying to "get at the truth" he will eventually prevail in any feeding frenzy.
He's traveled back to daddy's birthplace, to the tiny Kenyan village of Alego,
where his stepmother lives in the "ancestral home."
"When I become president, I'll turn superpower America into a Third World
backwater----as payback. I'll make sure Americans live in hovels like this."
What are you going to do about it?
Ohaha probably has a few million stashed there....
Bank of Third World Backwater ;-)
They do, through the Federal judiciary via appointment of Special Prosecutors appointed by a Federal Judge after a finding of comtempt of Congress charges.
Pout. It's the Republican way.
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I have had my roof inspected 3 times with 3 roofers involved each time. My roofing company assures me my roof is totaled from the recent hail storm and there is no reason US Lloyd's should be denying these claims. My roof is a 2-layer roof which cannot be patched up in bad spots. It has to be replaced. Yet US Lloyd's denied it saying the damages are minimal and are less than my deductible. Roofers say that is bogus and I need to fight. I have water damage in several spots in my house from the damage. That is not minimal damage.
They also, although I quoted them the date of the storm, intentionally changed the date on the claim.
I am going to try and get the adjuster's report and any pictures taken because I plan to fight this if I have to get legal representation, so be it. They have proven to me and it looks like many others agree, that they are a fraudulent company that is purely for profit and not providing the services they're promising.
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The best offense is a good defense.
That's one of those time-worn expressions that gets bandied about from time to time in the world of sports. It's a shoe that doesn't fit every team, but it certainly is applicable to this season's Marquette Golden Eagles.
Marquette (14-4 overall, 3-2 Big East) had its hands full with the Pittsburgh Panthers (11-7, 0-5) on Saturday afternoon at the Bradley Center. But it tightened the screws defensively with some full-court pressure that helped put 13 straight points on the board and propel the Golden Eagles to a 62-57 victory.
"Our defense always powers our offense," said sophomore Jamil Wilson, who along with freshman Todd Mayo played a key role off the bench for Marquette. "Being as fast as we are and athletic and versatile as we are, to get out in transition and run and jump, that's kind of what we do.
"That's the way we do everything in practice so to pick the tempo up kind of brought us back to what we do (in the practice gym)."
Coach Buzz Williams said the team was utilizing its assets in playing that way.
"(The press) caused some issues in the first half and then in the second half it was even better," he said. "When we were playing small, we are small in size but we're long in athleticism and speed. We have to utilize that to our advantage. I thought our full-court pressure did cause them some problems."
Pittsburgh, which took advantage of a ragged, turnover-prone start by Marquette and led by five at halftime, still held a 41-36 lead with 12 minutes 28 seconds left in the game. But then the Golden Eagles began to make life miserable for the Panthers.
In the next 4½ minutes, Pittsburgh missed five straight shots and coughed the ball up four times, and the Golden Eagles were laying it in on the other end during a 13-0 run.
Marquette's Darius Johnson-Odom came up with a steal and a layup. After two free throws by Jae Crowder, Pittsburgh turned it over again and Mayo dropped in a fast-break layup. A steal by Junior Cadougan led to a three-point play by Mayo.
Cadougan, who played despite illness, scored on a fast-break layup and Wilson added two free throws, and Marquette suddenly held a 49-41 lead with 7:52 remaining.
Before that run, Cadougan, who had six of his nine assists in the second half, had gone to the locker room with a team attendant following him with a garbage barrel, but he returned a short time later. Cadougan had vomited in a huddle.
"I said, 'Junior, we need you to play. You can throw up after the game,' " said Williams "Down the stretch he was big-time."
Johnson-Odom led Marquette with 18 points and Crowder added 15. Mayo played 24 minutes, finishing with nine points and seven rebounds, and drew Williams' praise for some defensive work he did on Pittsburgh guard Aston Gibbs, who torched the Golden Eagles at times and finished with 29 points. Wilson had seven points and four rebounds in 25 active minutes.
Pittsburgh committed 10 of its 17 turnovers in the second half.
"There was a stretch there where we made the wrong pass and dribbled into the trap and put the ball over our head," said Pittsburgh coach Jamie Dixon. "It's something we worked on and talked about but we kept making the same mistake.
"We pretty much used all our timeouts during that (13-0) stretch. We just didn't do a good enough job. Our defense was pretty good in the half-court, both man and zone, and if they don't get those transition baskets off those steals, we're in pretty good position.
"Their aggressiveness definitely picked up in the second half."
Pittsburgh made a final charge after a pair of threes by Johnson-Odom gave Marquette a 60-51 lead with 1:56 remaining. Pittsburgh then scored six straight, but Davante Gardner grabbed the rebound off a miss by Crowder, was fouled and sank two free throws with 18 seconds left.
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RCW 120 is an H II emission nebula in the southern Milky Way and located some 4,300 light-years from Earth. [1][2] Also known as Sh 2-3 and Gum 58, it is situated at Galactic coordinates 348.25°, 0.49°.
Veta S. Avedisova states that RCW 120 is ionised by the O8 V star CD -38 11636 and the B2 V star VDBH 84B, and places the nebula in the star formation region SFR 348.26+0.47 along with 3 masers and the radio HII region CH87 347.386+0.266.
The Herschel infra-red telescope's image shows an embryonic star not yet sparked by fusion which is likely to become one of the brightest stars in our Galaxy at some time within the next few hundred thousand years. It is already about ten times more massive than the Sun and is set to grow much larger by accreting surrounding gas and dust. Current theories of star formation cannot explain star masses greater than about 10 times that of the Sun, even though stars having a mass of 120 Suns are known. [3]
The RCW Catalogue, first published in 1960, is named after Alexander William Rodgers, Colin T. Campbell and John Bolton Whiteoak, who led by Bart Bok, catalogued southern nebulae while working at the Mount Stromlo Observatory in Australia.


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Photo/Quotes: Kessler, Bouadla Final Press Conference
Team Bouadla is convinced that the 14-month layoff has made WBC Super Middleweight World Champion Emeritus Mikkel Kessler rusty. On Saturday night, the Viking Warrior (43-2, 32 KOs) returns to the ring for the first time since his epic points victory over then-WBC Champion Carl Froch, taking on WBO #5 Mehdi Bouadla (22-3, 10 KOs). "In life, it´s all about timing, and now is the time to beat Kessler," Boudla´s promoter Bernard Roos said at today´s final press conference at PARKEN Stadium. "Kessler is a great champion and in six months he would beat everybody, including Ward and Froch, but now after his long break Mehdi "The Bull" Bouadla will rise to the occasion and defeat him."
Bouadla was quick to agree. "I respect Mikkel but I am here to win. I think the long break has made him rusty. This is my ticket to the big fights. There will be a lot of disappointed Danish fans on Saturday night."
Kessler was unimpressed by Team Boudla´s statements. "I have trained hard and I am in excellent shape," he stated. "It´s great to be back. I am full of power and I am ready to take care of business on Saturday night. It will be exciting to fight in front of my home fans at PARKEN. I will put on a great show. It is still my ambition to prove myself as the best super-middleweight out there and Bouadla will not get into my way."
Added coach Jimmy Montoya: "Bouadla is a tough guy. We respect him a lot. But Mikkel has trained very, very hard. He did well against Froch but he can still get better. We have a long road ahead of us and we will start with a victory on Saturday night."
Said promoter Kalle Sauerland: "We are thrilled that Mikkel is finally back in the ring. To have the Danish national hero fight in the biggest football stadium in his home city of Copenhagen will be very exciting. Bouadla is a strong and determined guy, he is not the WBO #5 for nothing, but there is no way he can keep up with the power of the Viking Warrior. The international interest in this fight is huge, SHOWTIME will broadcast the clash in the US and Sky Sports will show it in England. Sports fans all around the globe will be watching as the Viking Warrior returns in style."
Cant wait for Kesslers return!!...Has anybody got a link for the fight as Austar isint showing this in Australia!!!...is there a place you can pay and watch on the net maybe???...please help guys!! WAR KESSLER!!!Comment by BesWorldChamp on 06-01-2011
It's funny to see Mikkel hold up his recognized belt (albeit it just 1/4 of the pie) and Bouadla lay his regional title against his knee lol.Comment by UglyPug on 06-01-2011
lol can't get over how much bouadla looks like my legal colleague SUHKPAHL! war kessler; lets take bute's title, shall we?Comment by BattlingNelson on 06-01-2011
Bouadla followed by Stieglitz (WBO) followed by Bute (IBF) followed by s6 winner (WBA/WBC) and then Kessler has completed his dream of becoming undisputed and he will then have the ATG resumé at SMW. [CENTER][SIZE="5"][B][COLOR="Red"]WAR VIKING WARRIOR!![/COLOR][/B][/SIZE][/CENTER]Comment by any craic lad? on 06-01-2011
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Mark Selby was pushing for the winning line in the Betfred World Championship final as Ding Junhui remained three frames off the pace.
Mark Selby was pushing for the winning line in the Betfred World Championship final as Ding Junhui remained three frames off the pace.
Mark Selby is World Snooker Champion for the second time after an 18-14 win over Ding Junhui in tonight's final at the Crucible in Sheffield.
Dung Junhui produced a scintillating fight back at the Crucible as Mark Selby's early 6-0 advantage was reduced to a 7-5 lead at the evening interval.
Ding Junhui reached his first Betfred World Championship final in record-setting style but insisted there would be no celebrations until he gets his hands on the trophy.
Mark Selby came through a 17-15 winner against Hong Kong's Marco Fu to set up a date with Ding Junhui in the Betfred World Snooker Championship final.
Ding Junhui fired four centuries to take a commanding 6-2 lead over Alan McManus in the first session of their World Championship semi-final.
Ding Junhui produced a ruthless display at the Crucible to send Mark Williams packing from the World Championship and earn an unscheduled day off before his semi-final.
Judd Trump crashed out of the World Snooker Championship in the second round in Sheffield on Monday after failing to claw back an overnight deficit against Ding Junhui in a scrappy affair, while Mark Allen also paid for a slow start as he was eliminated by Kyren Wilson.
Mark Allen joined Ronnie O'Sullivan and Joe Perry in the semi-finals of the Welsh Open after Ding Junhui went where the Rocket refused to go when he hit a 147 break in defeat to Neil Roberston.
Judd Trump finished off his quarter-final against Ding Junhui with the minimum of fuss this morning, taking the one frame needed to complete a 13-4 victory at his first attempt.
Ronnie O'Sullivan found himself at the centre of another controversy at the Betfred World Championship when he put chalk down on the table during the first session of his quarter-final.
Judd Trump is on course for his third Betfred World Championship semi-final appearance after dominating the best part of the morning session of his match against third seed Ding Junhui.
Four-time world champion John Higgins lost 13-9 to Ding Junhui at the Crucible in Sheffield, and then nominated his second-round conqueror as a "big, big danger" to all at this year's World Championship tournament.
Gary Wilson will face Mark Selby in his first appearance in a ranking final after he beat defending champion Ding Junhui in the China Open semi-finals on Saturday.
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A new petition urging B.C. politicians to limit offshore investment and exploitation of tax loopholes in Vancouver real estate is getting a cool reception from Victoria as provincial coffers overflow with property transfer tax revenues in a red-hot housing market.
The new petition urges politicians to intervene to make housing affordable for "the next generation" and claims "foreign ownership" in Lower Mainland real estate "is destroying our cities" and "the hopes and dreams of countless families."
It is the latest of several online petitions circulated in B.C. as home prices continue to skyrocket in the Vancouver area. Metro Vancouver home sales set an all-time record in 2015, the region's real estate board said Tuesday, with the benchmark price for detached properties surging 24.3 per cent year-over-year in December to $1.248 million.
While the real estate industry and B.C. government have claimed the impact of offshore investment on B.C. home prices is minimal, many residents and analysts believe the driving force in price gains has been a flood of money connected to Mainland China.
Jurisdictions with real estate investment markets similar to Vancouver's, such as some Australia cities and Hong Kong, track and attempt to limit foreign ownership of homes. But Canada does not even collect data on offshore buying.
Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson on Tuesday acknowledged — apparently for the first time — concerns about foreign investment, citing "stark and alarming" proof that Lower Mainland housing is "divorced from local incomes."
Reacting to stunning rises in B.C. Assessment figures this week, Robertson issued a statement reiterating his government's call for a speculation and luxury home tax to cool Vancouver's market.
He cited "runaway price growth" across Metro Vancouver and a $2.5-million average price for detached homes in Vancouver.
While Robertson had previously slammed a recent study showing the increasing dominance of Mainland China-linked buyers in Vancouver, on Tuesday he stated: "We also need far better tracking of data on international investment and absentee ownership from both the federal and provincial governments."
The new B.C. petition says foreign investors are increasingly using Vancouver homes to store wealth "in lieu of banks," and "many of these offshore investors are taking advantage of loopholes to reduce or eliminate taxes paid on the sale of these houses, thereby denying the Canadian taxpayers any benefit from their purchase."
The petition asks for legislators to immediately collect data on foreign ownership of homes and catalogue how many of these homes are vacant, and to "limit purchases of homes by non-Canadian residents for income tax purposes."
B.C.'s government has generally voiced disapproval of action to limit foreign ownership, but as public pressure increased last year B.C. Finance Minister Mike de Jong said Victoria is considering tweaking the property tax code to help new home buyers get into the market.
Spokesman Jamie Edwardson said de Jong was not available for an interview Tuesday. Speaking to petitioner demands, Edwardson said the province is still looking at ways to help first-time home buyers, but "any measure considered would need to have the desired effect without undermining the equity that British Columbians have built up in their homes, and without discouraging foreign investment in B.C.'s economy."
Several months ago, de Jong had seemed to acknowledge an unfair playing field in B.C.'s housing market, reportedly telling the Globe and Mail that he planned to close a property transfer tax loophole that allows some wealthy foreign investors to dodge taxes.
Studies at that time had suggested that buyers believed to be transferring or borrowing against funds from Mainland China increasingly dominate Vancouver's single-family home market and that significant portions of these buyers could be avoiding provincial and federal taxes by the ways that they represent their occupations and ownership.
"Canadians, the vast majority of whom pay the taxes they owe, want to know that everyone is doing the same," de Jong was quoted telling reporters in Victoria at the time.
On Tuesday, however, Edwardson distanced de Jong from those comments and suggested the minister had not promised specifically to act on the property transfer tax "loophole" issue.
Pundits have noted that B.C.'s budget surplus this year was largely supported by a massive increase in Victoria's property transfer tax take, which is projected to be $1.1 billion for the fiscal year — an amount fuelled by Metro Vancouver's housing market.
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During the Riverside County Family court hearing, January 1999, my ex-husband ADMITTED to the court that the molestation DID indeed occur in his mother's home. Of course CPS was called into my home again regarding allegations that the children were out of control and I am grossly negligent. Under counseling, my daughter disclosed other separate incidents of sexual abuse in my ex-husband's home which was reported to the police. A RIVIT exam ensued, conducted by CPS and the Riverside County District Attorney's office. The child was told she was lying and "was molested some time in the past". According to CPS, the Riverside County District Attorney's office, and the Family Court, I "put my daughter up to it". My ex-husband's admission in court was not taken into consideration. What's so interesting, the victim of the crime...my daughter was reporting these incidents third parties who then report to CPS. I'm finding out after the fact, yet I'm the one who is "lying". The court, completely ignoring it's own testimony then proceed through 1999-2000 to give the four children, including the victim back into the incestuous family, WITH testimony from the father that these incidents did actually occur. In 2000, I got my daughter back, CPS was called. The worker told me that he saw nothing wrong about my life style or parenting skills. All allegations was dismissed.
Long term affects, the eldest son has two sons in CPS custody and is loosing his parental rights. I am trying to get the custody of the two boys. CPS came out to approve my home and ask me about all the past allegations. The allegation in 2000 was confirmed, the CPS worker who was handling the case lied to me and lied in the reports. This defamation of my character my cost my grandchildren being adopted out into another family. The "system" knows no justice, and is blind to the truth, it's own history and the law that are supposed to be governing citizens.
These years destroyed my family, not only in the short term but long term as well. The entire Riverside County Family court, Juvenile court, CPS has a long history, beginning in 1999 ruling in favor of drug addicts and sexual predators. Caring parents who obey the court, protect the children are the ones who are the losers in this corrupt, insane system. Are we, the victims, so scared of the corrupt judges, CPS workers, juvenile court appointed attorneys that we cannot put together a class action lawsuit against Riverside County? How can we sit silently by and allow more and more families to be destroyed?
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EyeEm Mobile GmbH, which operates a Berlin-based, free photo-sharing app, said Thursday that Mr. Spiering, 36 years old, is joining the company to head its product development and business expansion in the U.S.
German-born Mr. Spiering joined Yahoo-owned Flickr in 2010 and became head of product the next year. At EyeEm, he will oversee development and design of new products and the launch of a U.S. branch, planned for this summer, the company said.
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Information Sharing and Environmental Policies
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