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Last year, there appeared to be little hope that taxpayers would see repayment of even a portion of the millions of dollars Ka Hale A Ke Ola Homeless Resource Center owes Maui County for construction of the nonprofit's low-income housing projects.
In late June, the nonprofit's 200-unit Wailuku low-income rental project, Hale Makana O Waiale, was running a $20,000 monthly deficit, members of the Maui County Council's Housing, Human Services and Transportation Committee learned.
The nonprofit has been unable to make payments to the county for a loan issued in 1998 for $4,055,000 for development of Hale Makana. (A separate county loan of $4 million was granted in 2005 to Ka Hale A Ke Ola for its Lahaina housing facility.)
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The dilapidated sign for Hale Makana O Waiale reflects problems with maintenance and upkeep noted in a management report on the facility heard last week by the Maui County Council's Housing, Human Services and Transportation Committee. The report by Cirrus Asset Management Inc. contends that improved management could lead to positive cash flow at the 200-unit, low-income rental facility.
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But now, by "normalizing management practices . . . with industry standards" rental income at Hale Makana could increase by $127,000 per year, payroll expenses could decrease by $400,000 annually and other expenses could be reduced by $100,000 per year, according to a study by Cirrus Asset Management Inc. in Honolulu.
The county Department of Housing and Human Concerns paid $15,000 for the study of Hale Makana's management. The Cirrus report has 40 detailed recommendations, ranging from reorganizing staffing to outsourcing landscape maintenance, trash collection and pest control.
As members of the council's Housing, Human Services and Transportation Committee reviewed the report Thursday, Ka Hale A Ke Ola Chief Executive Officer Rebecca Woods disputed it.
"I don't believe it's really accurate," she told committee members. "The agency did not have a chance to respond to the report as most management companies do allow."
During testimony, she did not detail her objections to the report, and she did not respond to a request from The Maui News for further comment.
Daniel Gavin, Cirrus' vice president and principal broker, acknowledged during the committee meeting that property management is a "very difficult job." He said that the aim of his company's Jan. 23 report was to be a "problem-, solution-oriented document."
It contains 40 recommendations, if followed, then "it's a road map," Gavin said. "It's exactly what you need to do to turn it around and make it profitable."
Cirrus officials inspected the Hale Makana property, analyzed its management practices and compared the low-income rental housing project with comparable Maui housing developments.
Two of the comparable properties were low-income projects - one with 142 units and the other with 62 units. A third property, with 288 units, was a "conventional" property, according to the study.
The Cirrus study of financial documents found that Hale Makana's payroll costs are nearly three to four times higher than the comparable affordable properties and three times higher than the comparable conventional property.
Hale Makana's payroll costs are $3,891 per unit annually, while the comparable properties' payroll costs ranged from $1,035 to $1,622 per unit annually, according to the Cirrus report.
A property of Hale Makana's size and condition should have payroll costs of $1,650 per unit annually, the report says, adding that the project is "significantly over-staffed."
For example, the report says, Hale Makana has seven security employees with a total annual payroll cost of $232,000 per year. But, instead of handling security, the seven employees perform many of the functions of assistant managers do move-out inspections (about four per month), distribute notices to residents and handle keys.
"To be fair, security is intended to be the eyes and ears of the management," the report says. It also provided an anecdote to show from Cirrus' observation that security employees "do not perform that function very well."
According to the report's anecdote, two security people were sitting in an office on a Sunday, and while Cirrus inspected the property's common area for nearly two hours "we saw no security staff. When we finally worked our way to the office, the same two security persons were still in the office conversing."
The report went on to say that on a Cirrus property visit the next evening, "we observed a severe flood of water and property damage being caused by a burst irrigation line. A resident passing by informed us that she had reported it three days earlier. It appeared to be there for at least that long, the water having created a cavern under one of the lanais . . . We observed the two security people walk by the unmistakable 'lake' that had formed from this flood. They illuminated it with their flashlights and walked on by. An inspection of their handwritten log book the next day revealed that they did not report the leak to maintenance. None of the numerous irrigation problems was in the log book."
The Cirrus report says that Ka Hale A Ke Ola is "assuming considerable legal exposure by offering 'security' guards at all. Significant, potential liability arises because 'security' places a duty on ownership and management to ensure residents' safety and security. For this reason, professional property managers will be sure to specify that 'courtesy patrol' is offered and not hold out the property as a security property."
According to the Cirrus report, providing security at Hale Makana is not "readily achievable, or even desirable."
Cirrus' report recommends "outsourcing" the "courtesy patrol" to a reputable security guard company.
"They will provide professional, trained guards who will patrol on foot and by car, be on-call 24/7 and maintain a computerized log with daily reports to management," the report says.
The report also was critical of Hale Makana's maintenance, saying it was "very poor and must be completely reformed."
Units that are vacated are worked on but not cleaned until they are rented, "meaning that prospective residents are shown filthy vacant units," the report says.
The report says that "filthy units and poor workmanship is an acceptable practice" at Hale Makana, even by the maintenance supervisor, and that the prevailing attitude is "that's the best we can do."
Woods and Ka Hale A Ke Ola Maintenance Director Joseph Molina disputed this report finding during Thursday's committee meeting.
Molina said that when tenants move out, maintenance crews first do major repairs, then they wait until the unit is nearly ready to be rented out before doing a thorough cleaning.
"We do everything we have to do. We get it done the right way," he said.
Molina said that the Cirrus report was "not really true" about maintenance issues, the number of properties run (the nonprofit has two other properties, one in Wailuku and one in Lahaina) and the acreage handled by maintenance workers.
Woods also said that the units are cleaned after initial work is done to strip and wax floors and paint units. "They're not going to show a filthy unit, ever," she said.
Even though Hale Makana has nine full-time staff members for maintenance (Woods said that the maintenance staff is seven), the maintenance manager told Cirrus inspectors that another six workers were needed for a total of 15 for the 200-unit complex. But the Cirrus report said that appropriate staffing for a complex of Hale Makana's size would be two full-time maintenance staff and one porter.
"Given the deferred maintenance at the property, this can be increased by as many as two additional staff for a short time until deferred maintenance is caught up," the report says.
Woods said that the maintenance staff is spread throughout three housing project sites with 330 units and 33 acres.
"They work very, very hard, but they are spread out," she said. "They don't waste time lollygagging and not doing anything. They're always very busy."
Cirrus' 40-page report makes more than three dozen recommendations, and it provides photos of what appear to be indoor and outdoor apartment facilities in need of repair and maintenance as well as walls painted with graffiti.
Department of Housing and Human Concerns Director Jo-Ann Ridao told council members she would work with Cirrus and use its recommendations to make improvements at the low-cost housing facility and, hopefully, see some positive income that could be used to repay the county loan.
She said she favors outsourcing security for the facility, which would save money and not expose it to liability.
Last year, Hale Makana had about 800 residents and a waiting list of approximately 400 individuals and families. Residents pay about $770 per month in rent, the Cirrus report says.
Council Chairwoman Gladys Baisa said Hale Makana provides an important community service by providing affordable rental housing to low-income residents. It is "an integral, a very important part of our community, and we all want to keep it going," she said.
She asked that the county and facility management work on Cirrus' suggestions for improvements, hopefully being able realize a positive cash flow.
If the facility could get $300,000 a year, the loans could be paid off in 24 years, Baisa said.
The committee deferred action on the matter.
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BRATTLEBORO A Vermont woman has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for embezzling more than $80,000 from the Algiers Fire District.
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In March, the Bradford Tioga Head Start classrooms celebrated the 110th birthday of Dr. Seuss.
Some classes celebrated by having guests read their favorite Dr. Seuss book; others had a visit from the Cat in the Hat.
During the "Read Across America" activity in the Wyalusing Head Start class of Bradford Tioga Head Start, Dr. Seuss took center stage. Books such as "The Foot Book," "The Cat in the Hat," "There's a Wocket in my Pocket" and "Green Eggs and Ham" were read and a new fun activity occurred each day, such as crazy sock day, crazy hat day and wacky Wednesday. The week ended with the children all sampling green eggs and ham.
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Many schools across the area annually celebrate Dr. Seuss' birthday with programs that promote reading and rhyming for children.
Each Dr. Seuss book also teaches a lesson. Some books, like "Horton Hears a Who," teaches about protecting those that are smaller than themselves. "The Cat in the Hat" teaches children about right and wrong and "Green Eggs and Ham" teaches about acceptance.
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I'm from Philadelphia. I support a one state solution where everyone in what is now Israel has equal rights regardless of religion, ethnicity, or gender; and there is separation of church and state. I have a particular concern about the role of Christian Zionism in the Middle East crisis.
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- Sanders' unprecedented call for 'justice and peace' marks decline of lobby's power
tombishop April 17, 2016 at 4:07 pm with 1 replies
Another sign of growing awareness of the Palestinians situation.
Boycotting Occupation: Educators and Palestine | Rethinking Schools
- Trump 'has no business being president' because he would be 'neutral' to Israel -- Clinton tells AIPAC
This is what Hillary Clinton is defending and calling for an escalation of. ""Israel: The Broken Silence" | New York Review of Books link to nybooks.com
- 'New York Times' whitewashes poll showing Israeli support for expelling Palestinians
tombishop March 20, 2016 at 2:25 pm
An important article in the new New York Review of Books: "Israel: The Broken Silence" link to nybooks.com
- Rigged Netanyahu 'conversation' at Center for American Progress shows it's twilight of the Israel lobby
tombishop November 11, 2015 at 10:33 pm
I don't know if there is any hope for any evangelical Christians, but they, aligned with the settlers, are the core of the problem. Another big change happening is that the mainstream Jewish community is starting to recognize this. Look at this article in the Zioinist Forward. "Michele Bachmann Calls for Stepped-Up Push to Convert Jews"
link to forward.com
Go to Right Wing Watch and listen to the audio in this article to see how mentally ill these people are. "Bachmann: Convert As Many Jews As Possible Because Christ Is 'Coming Soon'
- 'Why I am a Zionist'
Randi Weingarten has a right to her religious beliefs, but when they become the basis of Zionist political positions that her membership in the American Federation of Teachers do not share there is a problem.
For a number of years she has been collaborating with the American Enterprise Institute which People for the American Way says "has been described as one of the country's main bastions of neoconservatism." Many of its members were involved in bringing us the invasion of Iraq and fighting the Iran nuclear deal.
America's public schools are under attack by corporate interests that want to privatize them. Here too the American Enterprise Institute has played a leading role and Randi Weingarten, the president of the largest teachers union in the U.S., has been collaborating with them.
See this article on the internet for details: Randi Weingarten: Sleight of Hand Artist – Part 2 | Defend Public Education!
- Department of Projectile Vomiting
tombishop September 23, 2015 at 9:15 am
A look at the the AEI website Scholars section (left panel) https://www.aei.org shows the rightwing neocon lineup of their supporters. The president of the the American Federation of Teachers, Randi Weingarten, has been collaborating with them. link to goo.gl
- 'I love Obama' 'You're infatuated' (The argument on the left)
tombishop August 5, 2015 at 11:59 pm
Stephen Shenfield said, "Yes, it is clear that Obama's Indonesian stepfather was extremely important in shaping his moral and intellectual character. He taught the boy to look after his own interests in a dog-eat-dog world and provided a counterweight to his mother's do-good liberalism. "
So you are saying learning to be indifferent to the slaughter of masses of people for their political beliefs was "shaping his moral and intellectual character"? This alone shows how Obama has caused many people to lose their moral compass. There is going to be hell to pay for this mentality!
You should also study Obama's family. His Indonesian stepfather was in the army and then with Exon immediately after the 1965 genocide of leftists in Indonesia. Obama spent his childhood from 1966 -1971 (age six to eleven) growing up in a country where one million people were killed by right-wing kill squads. His mother lived in Indonesia until 1990.
See the just released film "The Look of Silence" to learn about the 1965 genocide in Indonesia. link to youtube.com
- 'Israel First'-- for gay couple who hosted Ted Cruz
tombishop April 27, 2015 at 8:59 am
If Obama hasn't convinced people that identity politics is totally reactionary, this should put another nail in its coffin. The overriding division in the world is class. Whatever tribe people identify with ethnically, religiously, gender, sexual orientation; all fall away at moments in history when class interests come in conflict. At those times the overriding interest for most people is the interests of the class they are part of.
- Hurt by the Israel lobby, Obama kisses it goodbye
tombishop April 6, 2015 at 8:01 pm with 1 replies
Discussing 'Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel' | Truthdig
Max Blumenthal, Chris Hedges and Ronnie Barkan discuss the situation in Israel. Also important discussion of Christian Zionism.
tombishop April 6, 2015 at 6:53 pm
Are neoliberals joining with neocons to push for war on Iran?
Chuck Schumer bucks White House on Iran
link to politico.com
tombishop April 6, 2015 at 3:21 pm
Watch what this part of the Israel lobby does in the changed situation. Randi Weingarten has been using the dues of AFT members to support Israeli apartheid. She is a big supporter of Hillary Clinton.
Why is the American Federation of Teachers promoting Israeli apartheid?
link to electronicintifada.net
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- When occupation becomes apartheid
tombishop April 4, 2015 at 9:57 pm with 12 replies
So why is the leadership of the American Federation of Teachers supporting Israeli apartheid?
- How Obama won on Iran
tombishop April 3, 2015 at 2:21 pm with 1 replies
The response of Netanyahu, his supporters and Christian Zionists show they are increasingly even more detached from reality. For them, the only good result would be to jump into the abyss of war. They ignore the massive concessions Iran made because they want war.
It reminds me of a statement Karl Rove made at the beginning of the attack on Iraq: ""We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality—judiciously, as you will—we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors…and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do."
Well, more than ten years later look at the reality they created in the Middle East. These neocons are more dangerous than ever because their attempt to control events is losing.
Better a War than an Agreement
link to therealnews.com
- Netanyahu to stage hunger strike against world peace
tombishop April 2, 2015 at 10:40 pm
The symbiotic relationship that Netanyahu has with Christian Zionism may be in trouble. The relationship explains the lunacy in the Republican Party and Netanyahu's appearance before Congress. But the anti-Semitic core of Christian Zionism is being exposed in the changed political situation.
Courting, Jew-Converting, Demon-Exorcising American Allies
- Who can save Israel now?
tombishop March 18, 2015 at 3:00 pm
Another election result: The exposure of Christian Zionism's role enabling this apartheid state and in influencing U.S. foreign policy.
link to breakingisraelnews.com
Read the comments.
- Netanyahu won. Now what?
tombishop March 18, 2015 at 8:52 am
I believe Avigail is correct that this will take extremist forces in Israel to a new level. The same can be said for the neoconservatives in the U.S.
The Real Story Behind the Republicans' Iran Letter
Moyers & Company
- By busting up peace efforts, AIPAC may have burst its own bubble
tombishop March 12, 2015 at 8:58 am with 2 replies
AIPAC may be the source of this, but the enablers are Christian Zionists. AIPAC would not be able to do what they are doing without this significant base in the United States.
- Neocon meteor Sen. Cotton is funded by Abrams, Adelson and Kristol and loves war a little too much
tombishop March 12, 2015 at 10:13 am
They WANT war in the Middle East because their apocalyptic theology requires it. ISIS has the same theology, just a different set of characters.
tombishop March 12, 2015 at 9:19 am with 2 replies
AIPAC and neocons may be the source of this, but the enablers are Christian Zionists. AIPAC would not be able to do what they are doing without this significant base in the United States.
- Media are stunned by Congress's 'loyalty' to Netanyahu (but refuse to explain it)
tombishop March 4, 2015 at 11:51 pm
Netanyahu Invokes Biblical Armageddon in US Congress
Ali Abunimah, editor of Electronic Intifada, says Netanyahu is playing to the extreme Israeli right, Christian evangelical Zionists, and attempting to prepare conditions for war
- Pelosi blasts Netanyahu speech as 'insult to intelligence of U.S.', Amanpour calls it 'dark, Strangelovian'
tombishop March 3, 2015 at 5:13 pm
Many of the applauding Congress people are Christian Zionists or they fear their Christian Zionist constituents. For them any criticism of Israel is not allowed. Christian Zionism is at its core anti-Semitic treating the Jewish people as pawns in a hoped for apocalypse. They are more dangerous than ISIS because they have the largest military in history to carry out their sick fantasies.
- Coming to a campus near you: ADL recruits student politicians for Israel trips
tombishop September 2, 2014 at 10:12 pm
Sorry for the delay Annie. Here is a blog post about the Temple incident and its repercussions.
The TSJP Facebook page is at link to facebook.com
tombishop September 2, 2014 at 10:06 pm
Sorry for the delay Alison. Here is more details about the Temple incident and its repercussions.
link to hercampus.com
In Philadelphia the most recent example of the hypocracy of supporters of Zionism was a column in the Philadelphia Inquirer. "Rabbi Uram: The moral arrogance of prejudice" link to philly.com
It has been featured prominently on the Inquirer website for two days with the comment section closed. (The Inquirer usually has comments open for the most vile comments from racists and John Birchers.)
In his column, Rabbi Uram discusses prejudice in light of the racial prejudice rampant in our society as revealed by the killing of Michael Brown and the police and right-wing media response.
Rabbi Uram then uses this to go into an discussion of anti-Semitism using as his example an incident that happened at Temple last week. The media reported that a Jewish student was punched in the face and subjected to anti-Semitic slurs by an "activist associated with Students for Justice in Palestine." SJP activists have stated that the aggressor who slapped the Jewish student had no connection with their organization and just came by shortly before the incident.
Whatever the truth of the details of this incident, to use a newspaper column to expand this incident to something comparable to Ferguson is pretty pathetic. As to "the moral arrogance of prejudice", what about ignoring the oppression of Palestinians and the denial of their right to "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness"?
- Reprint of Yochanan Gordon's "When Genocide is Permissible" (Updated)
tombishop August 1, 2014 at 9:08 pm with 2 replies
Thanks Annie. I missed that. But I think it's good to have Henry Siegman as a counter post to Yochanan Gordon. Their two positions show what kind of world people are going to have to decide that they want to have.
tombishop August 1, 2014 at 4:38 pm with 5 replies
Democracy Now! had an excellent two-part compelling interview this week with Henry Siegman, a Jewish leader who has not lost his way in the moral swamp so many are in.
tombishop August 1, 2014 at 4:29 pm with 1 replies
America was founded on the genocide of the Native Americans and the enslavement of Africans. Anyone who has not faced that fact will readily accept it is OK to do it again.
- New York Times silences Israel's Palestinian citizens on Gaza war
tombishop July 28, 2014 at 12:18 pm
Not only the corporate media, but social media is being flooded with cynical postings from the IDF and its supporters. Ayman Mohyeldin and Max Blumenthal's twitter accounts are being flooded with especially cynical, racist tweets. All are designed to obscure and justify what Israel is doing in Gaza. I've taken to only reading tweets from the owners of the twitter account.
- U.S. casts lonely vote against establishing war crimes inquiry in Gaza
tombishop July 24, 2014 at 12:20 pm
The international community should convene an international conference, specifically excluding the U.S. and Israel, to address the genocide of the Palestinians. The U.S. has abdicated any role as a world leader and the rest of the world should go on without them.
- 'Israel is bitterly dividing American Jewish community' -- AP
tombishop June 9, 2014 at 2:07 pm with 1 replies
This isn't about Zionism, but I can't help but believe there is a connection. This is another divide that can be attributed to an authoritarian, theocratic world view. It is another sign of the crisis in the Jewish community which traditionally has been at the forefront of progressive causes including the rights of labor. link to articles.philly.com
- 'Washington Post' runs long article on Adelson's political activities without mentioning Israel
tombishop May 8, 2014 at 2:38 pm
Israel does get a mention in this Salon column about Adelson: "Sheldon Adelson's real scandal (Hint: It's not about Newt Gingrich) " link to salon.com
Be sure to read the Washington Post article "How U.S. billionaire Sheldon Adelson is buying up Israel's media" linkded in the Salon article. link to washingtonpost.com
- A British Jew warns US Jewish orgs to heed rapidly-shifting world opinion
tombishop March 30, 2014 at 9:11 pm
And this is how it played out in Philadelphia on Friday for Alan Dershowitz who got caught in the cross fire between right Zionists and left Zionists of J Street as reported by a pro-Zionist Philadelphia Daily News columnist.
Jews boo Dershowitz
link to philly.com
- 'What's being done to Palestinians is wrong,' evangelical Christian says on NPR religion show
In any other world this would be called blackmail.
- A new wave of conscientious objection in Israel reaches out to new constituencies
tombishop March 12, 2014 at 4:45 pm with 2 replies
I think the issue of the the role of the Orthodox in Israel is profound. This report from The Real News left me wondering if the Zionist experiment is falling apart.
In Historic Protest Israel's Orthodox Break with Settler Right
link to therealnews.com
- Anti-anti-semitism: How did a movement against bigotry lend itself to another form of bigotry?
tombishop March 4, 2014 at 12:40 pm with 2 replies
Related to this is a discussion with Michael Ratner, President Emeritus of the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) in New York and Chair of the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights in Berlin, on The Real News.
"From a Zionist Youth to Outspoken Critic of a Jewish State"
link to tinyurl.com
- Watch the Scarlett Johansson SodaSteam ad banned from the Super Bowl (not for the reasons you'd hope)
The market rules! Personally, I'm not going to watch the Super Bowl. It's just a circus to distract the masses from noticing what is happening to our democracy!
- 'Wolf of Wall St' reflects Jewish rise (though Scorsese leaves that out)
For anyone that doesn't understand what I am talking about, Milton
Friedman was the godfather of the free marketers wanting to end all government oversight of corporations and banks. A central tenant of his philosophy is that natural disasters and economic crisis should be exploited to privatize public services.
His economic theories are behind many of the destructive economic polices globally for the last forty years. See Naomi Klein's book "The Shock Doctrine" for details. link to naomiklein.org
and then there is Milton Friedman......link to en.wikipedia.org
- Should dual citizen of US/Israel be vice chair of our Federal Reserve Bank?
tombishop January 2, 2014 at 4:49 pm
It is not just his association with the Bank of Israel that should be a cause for concern, but Stanley Fischer's whole history link to en.wikipedia.org.
If you look at his career, you can see that in his association with the University of Chicago in the early '70's, he became very much a part of the Milton Friedman school of economics in each of his assignments, including positions with the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. This school of economics has been devastating the world economy with a shock therapy, free market, shrink government ideology since the coup in Chile in 1973.
In her 2007 book "The Shock Doctrine", Naomi Klein cites Stanley Fischer several times. After the fall of the Soviet Union, he and Larry Summers oversaw the rapid privatization of industry in the former Soviet Union. He advocated "moving as fast as possible on all fronts." The result was rapid expansion of wealth for a tiny group of oligarchs and devastation for the rest of Russian society. He oversaw the same shock therapy tactics in reorganizing economies in Asia in the late '90's. In Israel in the early 2000's, he was involved, along with then Finance Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in expanding Israel's growing tech industry to branch out and to develop security and surveillance technologies.
So it is not only to advance a Zionist agenda that Stanley Fischer in the Federal Reserve is a cause for concern, but his belief in the Milton Friedman philosophy of shock therapy through the privatization of all the things people depend on their government to do for the common good, and not just for profit.
- Storm-ravaged Gaza finally able to start power plant after donation from Qatar
tombishop December 16, 2013 at 9:06 pm
Gaza Suffers Through 7-Week Power Outage And Massive Floods (video)
link to huffingtonpost.com
- Swarthmore Hillel should invite Blumenthal and Abulhawa into the schoolhouse door
An article from the Philadelphia Inquirer about Swarthmore Hillel's position.
- Deconstructing Netanyahu's tribute to Mandela
tombishop December 10, 2013 at 8:14 pm
Israel is a colonial state. You have your metaphors mixed up. There could not be a Zionist Gandhi because Israel is part of Western political, economic, and cultural imperialism which Ghandi fought in India. The inhabitants that the Zionists drove out of Palestine are the oppressed people of the area like the Indians.
tombishop December 10, 2013 at 8:08 pm
All of the Palestinians true leaders are in Israeli jails. That's why they are put there. It shows Zionist apartheid is worse than South African apartheid.
- Fallows: A free society must reckon with Blumenthal's book, as it did with 'Grapes of Wrath' and 'Gentleman's Agreement'
Don't agree that the Democratic party "will be ruling party for possibly many generations." The Democratic party has sold out to neo-liberalism. They are as tied to Zionism and the 1% as the Republicans. It is inevitable that a new party will develop which has a program for the 99%.
- Preaching to the choir: reflections on Max Blumenthal's 'Goliath'
Didn't southern fear of the growing support for the Abolitionists play a major role in leading them to secede? This analogy can only go so far, because the interests of northern industrialists coming into conflict with the slavocracy may have been a bigger factor, but I do not think the historical role of a principled fight against injustice can be ignored as irrelevant. For one thing, it conflicts with basic tenants of Jewish history about the fight against injustice.
There is nothing wrong with "preaching to the choir". What Max Blumenthal has done is, in great detail and with historical perspective, bring together the reality of the situation for Palestinians in Israel. While his may be a minority perspective at the moment, the sheer detail of his work makes it impossible to ignore. Defenders of the Zionist enterprise, who cannot dispute the reality that Max has portrayed, must therefore resort to personal attacks, a sure sign that his work is not being "ignored".
That Max long ago dismissed the "preaching to the choir" argument for not writing the book is to his credit. It is actually an act of good faith that if people concerned with the fate of humanity are shown the facts on the ground (and the immersion of Max in Jewish and Palestinian culture, including interviews across all sides of the political spectrum, is the great power of the book), they will respond.
Concerns about the ever present danger of anti-Semitism are legitimate, but this danger will not be mitigated by the oppression of the Palestinians.
Did the Abolitionist's of mid-19th century America concern themselves with the sensitivities of liberal defenders of slavery who wanted its gradual abolition over decades? The Abolitionists took a principled and courageous opposition to slavery even though they were a minority. Such a principled stand has been shown historically to be the only way for humanity to go forward and not descend into barbarism.
Max Blumenthal's "Goliath" is the "Uncle Tom's Cabin" of today's Palestinians!
- Ambassador Mohammed Assaf comes to the UN
So the thousands of years of Jewish history have come down to this..the vilification, to the point of questioning their existence and history, of the indigenous population of the area where the Western powers wanted to plant an outpost for their colonial aspirations in the region. Thankfully there are an increasing number of Jews who are recognizing the oppression of the Palestinians as part of the historic fight against injustice that is part of the Jewish tradition.
- (Updated) Senator Chuck Schumer promises more Iran sanctions, vows to 'defeat' Arab world and Palestinians
When is Israel going to give up its almost 200 nuclear weapons? It's the only way to get a fair agreement.
- Right wing finds new way to dismiss Blumenthal: liken him to Dostoyevsky
tombishop November 9, 2013 at 6:01 pm
This is Max Blumenthal's first stop on his book tour for "Goliath". It was held at the University of Pennsylvania on October 18th.
Also, The Real News has a recent five part interview with Max about the book.
tombishop November 9, 2013 at 5:50 pm
Read the book! (You obviously haven't.) He doesn't say that, but he quotes people who do. It is a courageous, historic book.
- Echoing Netanyahu, Ted Cruz slams Kerry and calls on Iran to recognize Israel as 'Jewish state'
tombishop November 9, 2013 at 8:05 pm
Ted Cruz's father is an End Times Christian Right fundamentalist minister. If you don't understand that you won't understand Ted Cruz...and George W. Bush for that matter!
- Pat Boone sells tiny plots of Israeli land to Christian Zionists
tombishop November 1, 2013 at 9:52 pm
If you want to determine of Jewish Zionism predates Christian Zionism, it depends if you are speaking about religious Zionism or political Zionism. A return to Jerusalem has been part of the Jewish religion since the Babylonian captivity. Political Jewish Zionism on the other hand, is a late nineteenth, early 20th century development.
What became Christian Zionism existed all through the 19th century as Millenarianism. See "The Roots of Fundamentalism: British and American Millenarianism 1800-1930"; Ernest R. Sandeen; The University of Chicago Press; 1970 from which the following notes are taken.
Here is just one example that shows Christian Zionism predates political Jewish Zionism:
An example is the evangelist Orno Gaebelin. During the 1890's he set up an evangelism ministry among the Jews of New York's East Side. He learned Yiddish and preached to large meetings of Jewish men on Saturday afternoons. He began publishing a Yiddish monthly newspaper and in 1894, established an English periodical, Our Hope, to publicize his work, to proclaim the immanent second advent of Christ, and to alert Gentiles to a "remarkable Zionist awakening among the Jewish population." Restoration of the Jews to Israel was always a key part of millenarianism, but the fervor increased after Theodor Herzl's first Zionist congress in Basel, Switzerland in 1897.
Early in the 20th century Gaebelin began holding Bible conferences all over the East coast and began spreading the premillenialist message in the South.
One of the most significant documents to come out of this movement was the Scofield Reference Bible. It took the Protestant Bible and combined an attractive format of typography, paragraphing, notes and cross references with the theology of Darbyite dispensationalism. All through the 20th century it was to have a powerful influence among millions who regularly read it unaware of the distinction between the ancient text and Scofield's Christian Zionist interpretation in its footnotes.
The inventor, C.I. Scofield (1843-1921) was raised in Tennessee and fought under Lee in the Civil War. He was a lawyer and Kansas legislator until his conversion to the premillenial cause in 1879. He became a minister in Dallas, Texas and Northfield, Massachusetts and laid the groundwork for Dallas Seminary where his teachings are still upheld.
Even though Protestant Liberalism, with its openness to higher criticism, dominated, the triumph of a dispensationalist, premillenial world view among conservative Protestants was to have far reaching implications for American culture."
- Israel announces Palestinian prisoner release and settlement expansion in the West Bank
tombishop October 28, 2013 at 9:40 pm
'IDF abusive nature systemic, occupation reality hurts Israel' - Combat veteran
Are IDF soldiers happy with their missions? Is the Israeli army 'the most moral' in the world? What are the tasks when there are no immediate wars or terror alerts? We talk to Avihai Stollar, IDF veteran combatant and member of 'Breaking the Silence' organization, which collects confessions from soldiers about what they had to engage in during their military service in the West Bank or Gaza.
- Putin's exceptionalism and our own
tombishop September 12, 2013 at 1:28 pm
A laughable view of how the promoters of "American exceptionalism" look to the rest of the world:
- Will there be fallout from the NSA sharing intel with Israel?
I basically agree, but we are all evolving at different rates and at least he is trying to find a human basis to his worldview even though he is still trying to hang on to the tribe. Searching for the truth can be a lonely journey.
tombishop September 12, 2013 at 3:42 pm
The more I learn about Edward Snowden, the more I admire him.
"Reporter Had To Decide If Snowden Leaks Were 'The Real Thing"
NPR's Fresh Air
Peter Beinart has an article in the new issue of The New York Review of Books: "The American Jewish Cocoon
I don't agree with all of his positions such as a two-state solution, but it does show another crack in the Zionist wall.
These findings about NSA collusion with Israel can only accelerate this trend.
- Grumpy Biden, Grumpy Cat weigh in on Syria speech
tombishop September 3, 2013 at 1:10 pm
The one who really rankles is John Kerry lectured about "there must be an accounting." John Kerry came back from Vietnam opposed to the war. He knows what the U.S. did with Agent Orange in Vietnam. I was in Vietnam last year and saw an exhibit of the horrible birth defects that the Vietnamese still suffer from Agent Orange. No reparations or apology has ever been made by the U.S. for this use of chemical weapons. I wonder how Kerry's statements about Syria played in Vietnam and Iraq which is suffering the affects of depleted uranium.
- The controversy over the Oscars joke that Jews run Hollywood
tombishop February 28, 2013 at 11:53 am
Ex-priest claims several Supreme Court Justices are members of the fascistic Opus Die on Democracy Now!:
link to democracynow.org
"Did you ask this question when the Court had protestants?"
Since I am non-religious, yes I did. I have concerns about a Justice who is appointed and believes in the theocratic views of fundamentalist Protestants. I have concerns when the Catholic bishops tell Catholic politicians, as they did a few years ago, they must follow church teachings when they make law. (Fortunately, most ignored this.) There is a long tradition of belief in separation of church in the American Jewish community due to centuries of persecution for their faith...I just hope many rediscover it for Israel/Palestine.
While we are at it, shouldn't we have an open discussion about six of the Justices on the Supreme Court being Catholic, and three are Jewish. None of them should be stereotyped, each are individuals with their own beliefs about their religion, but shouldn't this be openly discussed when considering what goes into Supreme Court decisions?
Can we depend on all of them to uphold the separation of church and state?
- Emad Burnat's Oscar speech: 'We are seeking freedom and peace -- for my son Gibreel and his generation'
tombishop February 25, 2013 at 7:21 pm
It must have been truly bizarre for the Burnat family to be in the unreal world of Hollywood given the reality they must face every day. I watched just until the Documentary category hoping to get a glimpse of the family, but didn't even get that. It is fitting for our time that Argo got the Best Picture award, a jingoist fantasy propaganda film claiming to be based on true events.
- Human rights orgs demand Palestinian hunger strikers, and all administrative detainees, be released without delay
tombishop February 20, 2013 at 11:55 am
Important report about Prisoner X on today's Democracy Now:
Prisoner X: As Secrecy Falls, Doubts Grow on Suicide Claims for Australian Israeli Linked to Mossad
- '5 Broken Cameras' director detained in LAX on way to Oscars (Updated)
tombishop February 20, 2013 at 2:43 pm
Interview with Emad Burnat and Guy Dividi on Huffington Post. The video is at the bottom of the Post:
- Israel's changing image
I've had some trouble understanding the significance of Israel's Prisoner X. This post on The Real News helped:
- Israel's image takes another hit with the 'Prisoner X' scandal
tombishop February 18, 2013 at 2:16 pm
And another hit:
Israeli soldier posts Instagram image of Palestinian child in crosshairs of rifle
- Abrams calls Hagel anti-Semitic for questioning legitimacy of the Israel lobby
tombishop February 16, 2013 at 2:33 pm
Even Bill Maher is beginning to see the light:
link to mobile.rawstory.com
- Hagel vote set for today as opposition flounders
tombishop February 11, 2013 at 10:45 pm
I've said it before and I'll say it again: Christian Zionism, which is the orchestrator of this confirmation circus, is just a modernized version of the anti-Semitism of the last 2000 years. It continues the objectification of the Jewish people which has been at the root of pogroms and Inquisitions over the centuries.
As long as Jewish Zionist leaders have a symbiotic relationship with Christian Zionists, each promoting their own agenda which benefits the other, the Christian Zionists will objectify the Jewish people
as "the chosen" if, through the state of Israel, they think it will fulfill the Christian Zionists End Times fantasies.
If, however, the Jewish people go off the reservation and move away from a theocracy to a democratic state which respects the separation of church and state, and where everyone has equal rights, the Christian Zionists will once again see this as a rejection of "the Saviour", which has been the ideological source of anti-Semitism over the centuries.
The anti-Semitic core of Christian Zionism is finally beginning to be exposed.
- Following weeks of controversy, Barghouti and Butler deliver sharp response to critics of BDS movement at Brooklyn College event
tombishop February 8, 2013 at 1:39 pm
There is an excellent article in a recent New York Review of Books about the British mandate period of Palestine from 1917 to 1948. It sheds important light on the issue of right to return and what happened before and after 1948 which destroyed any hope for peace in Palestine. Both the reviewer and the author of the book he is reviewing have memories of the period which are fascinating in light of the situation today.
Palestine: How Bad, & Good, Was British Rule?
link to nybooks.com
- 'Time' embarrasses Hagel's Senate questioners for Israel focus
Democracy Now devoted the first half of it's show to this today.
- 'NYT' praises 'Gatekeepers' as savior of Jewish democracy, overlooks '5 Broken Cameras'
For those who have it, "5 Broken Cameras" is available in Netflix streaming and DVD.
- Last Israeli attack destroyed every pane of glass in Gaza --Shlomi Eldar
tombishop January 27, 2013 at 7:31 pm
"5 Broken Cameras" is now available on Netflix in streaming and DVD. Do not miss it! I hope it gets the Academy Award.
- Video: CODEPINK activist interrupts Kerry confirmation hearing demanding end of US aid to Israel
Jon Stewart had a show Wednesday night which shows how disjointed our political discussion has become.
First he had a segment about the Israeli election which showed how the grip of the Israeli right on public opinion in Israel and the U.S. is declining.
link to thedailyshow.com
Stewart then engaged in his usual obsequious attitude to the military, making light of drone warfare, with his guest Missy Cummings, an MIT professor who advises the Pentagon on drone warfare.
link to thedailyshow.com
This statement by Ms. Cummings was followed by a joke: ""Drone warfare is actually a safer, more effective form of warfare. I think we are having less collateral damage and certainly we have less blue on blue kills, which is when we kill our own people."
Anyone who believes that should be sure to see the film "Dirty Wars: The World is a Battlefield" which will be going into wide release soon.
link to democracynow.org
- Israel and the nomination of Chuck Hagel
tombishop January 22, 2013 at 8:33 pm
This is the President that authorized the dropping of two nuclear bombs on hundreds of thousands of Japanese civilians in a sick political and military chess game. The militarism and jingoism we have lived with ever since was on full display at the Inauguration of Obama. If you want to see what our "freedom fighters" are really up to, look at this:
link to democracynow.org
- Netanyahu ordered eviction of Bab al-Shams
tombishop January 13, 2013 at 9:32 pm
Norm Chomsky on Al Jazeera English about Netanyahu's enablers and the condition of democracy in the world:
link to youtube.com
- Think Hagel represents meaningful change for US foreign policy? Think again.
tombishop January 11, 2013 at 5:51 pm
The Hagel brouhaha is bringing on a serious case of dé·jà vu for me. Many held their noses and voted for Obama because they couldn't imagine Romney as President. Since the election Obama has moved even more to the right, doing things that would have brought people into the streets under GW Bush.
Could the same thing be happening with the Hagel nomination? I certainly would like to see the ne0-cons, the religious zealots of every variety, and the Zionist amen corner be cut down to the size of their true support, but I can't help but wonder if this appointment may be fool's gold, someone in Defense who will use people's illusions about him to advance an agenda someone from the extreme right would have had trouble doing.
- '5 Broken Cameras' and 'The Gatekeepers' nominated for Best Documentary Oscar
tombishop January 11, 2013 at 12:48 am
For anyone too young to know about Vanessa Regrave's speech at the 1978 Oscars or those wanting to see it again, here it is:
tombishop January 11, 2013 at 12:34 am
'Five Broken Cameras' is available in DVD from Netflix.
- Hagel's purported rivals for Defense job, Flournoy and Carter, are neocon-friendly militarists
tombishop January 1, 2013 at 4:01 pm
Given how Obama "compromised" (really caved) on his adamant opposition to the continuation of the Bush tax cuts after the election, can we really have much hope he won't cave on this. He is not paying attention to those who elected him or what polls show. Who is he listening to?
- 'Jews Against Islamophobia' condemns latest round of Geller ads in NYC
tombishop December 17, 2012 at 12:07 pm
Another purveyor of Islamophobia is HBO's Homeland.
link to salon.com
Homeland is based on the Israeli television series Hatufim (English title : Prisoners of War).
- Citing growing division among Australian Jews over Israel, cartoonist refuses to apologize for likening Gaza to Nazis' victims
tombishop December 11, 2012 at 7:05 pm
I've said this before, but it bears repeating. I was in Cambodia a month ago where I saw the Khmer Rouge torture center and a killing field outside Phnom Penh. I was shaken as profoundly by the experience as I was after a visit to Yad Vashem in Jerusalem last November.
It was therefore with horror that I watched the actions of the IDF and listened to the attitudes of many Israelis during the latest attack on Gaza a few weeks ago. The language we hear directed at Palestinians is what happens before all genocides. It is meant to dehumanize and treat a people who stands in the way of an imperial aim as "the Other" who must be separated from the human family.
"Never again" must be the attitude towards all genocide. Anyone who would consider such a thing as a final solution to the Palestinian problem should look at how we remember societies which engage in such a crime against humanity.
- Exile and the prophetic: Israel's original sin
tombishop December 4, 2012 at 12:27 pm
Israel's special status which bought into the Zionist narrative is over. Bullying will not work anymore! More evidence:
UN calls on Israel to open nuclear facilities
United Nations (AP) — The U.N. General Assembly overwhelmingly approved a resolution Monday calling on Israel to quickly open its nuclear program for inspection and backing a high-level conference to ban nuclear weapons from the Middle East which was just canceled.
All the Arab nations and Iran had planned to attend the conference in mid-December in Helsinki, Finland, but the United States announced on Nov. 23 that it wouldn't take place, citing political turmoil in the region and Iran's defiant stance on nonproliferation. Iran and some Arab nations countered that the real reason for the cancellation was Israel's refusal to attend.
The resolution, approved by a vote of 174-6 with 6 abstentions, calls on Israel to join the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty "without further delay" and open its nuclear facilities to inspection by the International Atomic Energy Agency. Those voting "no" were Israel, the U.S., Canada, Marshall Islands, Micronesia and Palau.
Resolutions adopted by the 193-member General Assembly are not legally binding but they do reflect world opinion and carry moral and political weight.
- 'America and Israel are in it together,' Clinton declares-- and nary a word about settlements
For me, Hillary's speaking style says it all. She reads a script with no emotion or commitment. It is just a chore she must do and she apparently has no thoughts on what she is saying. She speaks like someone who's head was detached from her heart a long time ago.
- Journalist teaches students to join no party and sign no petitions for any cause -- oh except one
tombishop December 2, 2012 at 8:54 pm
Someone should show Richard Behar this column:
Noam Chomsky: Palestine 2012 – Gaza and the UN resolution
- Bill Maher says Islam and Christianity are 'warlike religions' but Israel 'kicked ass' in its 'little war'
Bill Maher has always had a blind spot for Zionism. How someone can claim to be anti-religious and support the theocratic, non-democratic (for Palestinians) state of Israel is a wonder to behold.
In the comment above, he shows total ignorance of the nakba and the theocratic justification used establishing Israel establishing as a Western base of operations in the Middle East.
In stating that Judaism is not warlike he also shows ignorance of the Tanakh (which is also the first five books of the Christian Old Testament) which today's Zionists use to justify their aggression against the Palestinians.
The Christian Zionists, which he rails against, played a crucial role in establishing Israel and keeping U.S. foreign policy tied to Israel ever since.
Bill Mahr's position, is at its core, racist.
- The AP's George Jahn serves up Israeli propaganda on Iran yet again
tombishop November 28, 2012 at 3:11 pm
Glenn Greenwald has a good column about this at The Guardian:
AP believes it found evidence of Iran's work on nuclear weapons
A primitive graph provided by 'a country critical of Iran's atomic program' indicts the news outlet more than Tehran
- Who is Goliath?
I recently returned from Cambodia where I saw the Khmer Rouge torture center and the killing field outside of Phnom Penh. Over 1.5 million people were killed in a genocide whose beginnings were the relentless bombing of the U.S. in Cambodia from 1971-1973. It lead to a terrorized population which was vulnerable to the reign of terror of the Khmer Rouge.
What struck me is the similarity of all genocides whether it be the Jewish Holocaust under the Nazis, or the genocides in Rwanda, Bosnia, and Armenia at the beginning of the 20th century, and others. In each case, ruling elites sought to eliminate an obstacle to their imperial designs by preparing their own population for the genocide against "the other" by portraying them as a threat which must be eliminated.
I therefore find the rhetoric being casually thrown about in Israel which questions the humanity of the Palestinians to be most troubling. If you study the history of ethnic cleansing and genocide, this is how it begins. This "truce" has done nothing to end this danger. If anything this latest attack by Israel seems to have led many Israelis to consider the unthinkable.
- 4 myths about the Israeli attack on Gaza
tombishop November 20, 2012 at 7:28 pm
Thank you for this chronology of how the war started. The earlier posting of Piers Morgan interviewing Shimon Peres cried out for this.
link to mondoweiss.net
As so often happens in the American media, Israeli spokesman are able to repeat lie after lie without being challenged.
- DC thinktanks offer program on Christian Zionism and Islamophobia
tombishop October 21, 2012 at 2:02 pm
Finally the role of Christian Zionism in the Middle East is being paid attention too!
- Adelson doubles down on TV's most famous Republican sex-advice rabbi
Here is another member of The Lobby showing her willful ignorance.
The remarkable, unfathomable ignorance of Debbie Wasserman Schultz
The Chair of the Democratic National Committee is completely unaware of one of the biggest stories of the Obama years
from Glenn Greenwald at the Guardian
Is she lying or is she really that ignorant!
- Adelson says Obama dislikes Israel and will 'act on his true feelings' in a second term
tombishop October 12, 2012 at 12:02 pm
From Talk to Action:
Sheldon Adelson Obliterates Democracy at Home and Abroad
"If you've been paying any attention to Election 2012, you have undoubtedly become familiar with Sheldon Adelson. The casino magnate and Republican Party benefactor - worth $20.5 billion according to Forbes magazine - is fully committed to defeating President Barack Obama, and to that end has pledged to spend as much as $100 million.
Beyond Adelson's anti-Obama advocacy lies two greater causes; un-wavering support for right wing Israeli politicians and organizations; and, urging the US government to take more muscular action against Iran."
- Geller's 'Savage' ad set to hit Washington DC Metro today
tombishop October 8, 2012 at 4:18 pm
Follow the Money: From Islamophobia to Israel Right or Wrong
The people bankrolling illegal Israeli expansionism in the occupied West Bank are the same people fomenting anti-Muslim sentiment in the U.S.
link to alternet.org
- Jerusalem municipality to start 'judaizing' street names in East Jerusalem
"Jerusalem municipality to start 'judaizing' street names in East Jerusalem"
And they will have American Christian fundamentalists to help them:
Thousands of Christians march in Jerusalem in support of Israel
Waving Israeli flags, evangelical Israel supporters from around the world fill streets of downtown Jerusalem.
from Haaretz
- See how Israeli colonies killed the two state solution
tombishop October 1, 2012 at 9:17 pm
So as not to be left behind, some Protestant evangelicals are throwing this into the boiling cauldron:
Christian TV networks prepare for live coverage of Jesus Christ's return
link to rawstory.com
- In front of global audience, Netanyahu draws his red line (on his ridiculous bomb cartoon)
tombishop September 29, 2012 at 11:07 am
That depends on your definition of a "superb" speech. Demagogs are notorious for making "superb" speeches. That's how they get into positions of power, by hoodwinking the gullible.
And "Bibi's drawing of a bomb detailing Islamic Republic's uranium enrichment." Really? Studied art at all?
tombishop September 28, 2012 at 9:04 pm
Jon Stewart:
"Bibi, what's with Willie Coyote nuclear bomb? You're going to pretend that you don't know what a nuclear bomb looks like? You're Israel! Run downstairs and look in the basement!"
link to thedailyshow.com
- Atoning in Sheldon Adelson's Venetian
tombishop September 26, 2012 at 5:21 pm
Sheldon Adelson: Investigation Into His Casinos By Justice Department Is Top Reason For Backing Romney
from Huffington Post
- Islamophobia takes the A train....
Islamophobia and anti-Semitism are interconnected.
Jews Control Economy, Claims Washington Post Op-Ed Author Who Bashes Islam Too
from Talk to Action
link to talk2action.org
- Meet the donors who likely attended Romney's Florida fundraiser
Some more details about Marc Leder's biography:
76ers co-owner hosted event where Romney made remarks
- David Sheen: Alternate cover for Newsweek that will never see the light of day
Something else you won't see in the corporate media:
Pamela Geller's Blog Solicited Funds For anti-Muhammad Film
from Talk to Action
- Obama will go to NY to see Letterman-- but not Netanyahu
tombishop September 16, 2012 at 10:30 am
Further evidence that Zionism is losing the propaganda war.
Huffington Post lead article for a time headlined: "Bibi barks: "New Standard for Stupidity"
Comments overwhelmingly condemn Netanyahu.
- US scales back military exercise with Israel; Israeli official tells TIME, 'Basically what the Americans are saying is, 'We don't trust you''
tombishop August 31, 2012 at 10:28 pm
Interesting timing! This is announced the second the Republican Convention is over and right before the Democratic Convention begins. They're all playing a game of chicken to call each others bluff. Such a dangerous game though!
- CUFI: Keep Israel the focus of US elections
Daughter of Billionaire GOP Donor Sheldon Adelson Pushes Democracy Now! Staff, Seizes Camera at RNC
"When Democracy Now! senior producer Mike Burke attempted to interview billionaire casino magnate and Republican donor Sheldon Adelson inside the Republican National Convention, a woman identified as Adelson's daughter grabbed our video camera, tried to take it into a private suite and then threw the camera to the ground. While Adelson's daughter first accused Burke of hitting her, she later came out of the suite to apologize. The incident was caught on tape, shortly after Burke questioned another billionaire GOP donor, David Koch, as well as former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and former Republican National Committee chair Michael Steele. Burke files a report and joins us to describe what happened. "
- Israeli court rejects Corrie family lawsuit; calls Rachel Corrie's death 'regrettable accident'
From Glenn Greenwald at the Guardian:
How the US and Israeli justice systems whitewash state crimes
Courts are supposed to check the abuse of executive power, not cravenly serve it. But in the US and Israel, that is now the case
link to guardian.co.uk
- AIPAC's inaugural summit to court Christians
tombishop August 24, 2012 at 11:14 pm
piotr, Are you heavy into video games? This reads like you are playing one.
tombishop August 24, 2012 at 1:52 pm
There is an exhibit at Philadelphia's Franklin Institute which I found disturbing in a way some its creators probably did not intend.
link to fi.edu
The first thing that you are greeted with entering the exhibit is a quote from the Torah (and Bible) promising the land to Abraham. This is the theme throughout. While the historical artifacts are of interest and some of the historical narrative quite good, the overall message intended for an American Christian is that what happened in the area thousands of years ago is relevant to today. The exhibit has a disturbing tribalistic feel to it.
I experienced the skillful way that Zionism is presented to Americans by the Israeli government when I went on a tour of Israel, Jordan and Egypt with a secular organization last November. Our Israeli guide was very well versed in the fundamentalist Christian narrative and exploited it in a subtle way whenever possible, to get the American Christians in our group to identify with Zionism.
While we had a lecture from a Palestinian from the West Bank about the situation the Palestinians are in (our Israeli guide hovered very close and intrusively when I had a conversation with him after his lecture), the tour was otherwise very controlled with a Zionist narrative to prevent us from seeing the reality before us.
The metaphor for the whole experience for me was when we left Jerusalem and headed for northern Israel. The separation wall was obviously designed so tourists could be directed to places away from it because we never saw it. As we went through the West Bank our previously verbose guide turned off his mike and many in our group fell asleep!
piotr, You are making an assumptions about Biblical prophecy that are not based on scientific reality. The Book of Revelation was written by a Jewish sect (the followers of the rabbi Jesus did not yet refer to themselves as Christians at this time) under siege by the Roman Empire. Given the date of its writing and the coded references it refers to, most Biblical scholars believe the "Antichrist" referred to is the Emperor Nero. The hoped for end of the world that the Book hopes for is the end of the Roman Empire.
I suggest you read "Revelations: Visions, Prophecy, & Politics in the Book of Revelation" by Elaine Pagels.
- State Dept defines settler violence as terrorism
tombishop August 20, 2012 at 10:40 am
Israeli citizens grow concerned over price tag on war with Iran
Lia Tarachansky of The Real News reports that many Israelis are growing concerned over the potential costs of a war with Iran — not in terms of lives or national prestige, but as measured in their taxes and in the prices they pay for basic goods.
Food prices have already begun to spike, with a rise of 6.7% this week in the cost of bread and 20% in the cost of fresh vegetables. Stories in the Israeli press predict that a war would cause the prices of oil and electricity, which have already started rising, to surge dramatically.
Israelis have begun to engage in anti-war protests outside the home of Defense Minister Ehud Barak, but despite the protests, preparations for war appear to be well underway.
- Muni calls Geller's Savage ad 'repulsive', runs its own counter ad
tombishop August 20, 2012 at 10:20 am
And this was posted by Peter Beinart on the Daily Beast
How Will We Sleep Tonight?
by Emily Hauser
As a writer and activist, I'm forever asking people to consider the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from another perspective—whatever perspective they might happen to have.
And so today I ask: What would Israel, the Israeli people, and American Jews be doing if the following news reports concerned an Israeli family and three Israeli young men?
link to thedailybeast.com
- Democracy Now, interviews with Phyllis Bennis, Trita Parsi on Israel's threat to attack Iran
tombishop August 15, 2012 at 9:44 pm
The interview with journalist Gideon Levy, about the political and social situation in Israel at the moment, on this same Democracy Now! show should also be seen:
link to democracynow.org
- Paul Ryan describes Israel as issue of 'Homeland Security'
It really bugs me when people say they have an open mind on things like this. There is no historical record of Ryan's positions and votes on legislation? All you are saying is that when it comes to Ryan your mind is empty because you have not educated yourself about him. Philip has posted his positions on Israel. He has a record and it is very scary to think he could be giving advice to empty suit Romney!


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'Pimpernel' invites audiences to participate
Patrons are usually urged to keep quiet in libraries, but those who attend Theatre on the Move's performances of "The Retro-Fabulous, Red-Hot Scarlet Pimpernel" will have an excuse to let loose.
This adaptation of the play by Baroness Emmuska Orczy involves a mysterious figure who saves aristocrats from death by guillotine during the French Revolution, and it's quite the raucous romp.
Morgan Brace brings jovial flair to Sir Percival Blakeney, the English party animal whose home lies at the heart of the play's intrigues. Kristy Tucci gives the show's most compelling performance as his disenfranchised wife Marguerite, who now fears for her brother's life.
The other four actors play multiple roles, which leads to some degree of cheery pandemonium as they swap costumes and accents. Dorothy Kaliszewski's most visceral performance is reserved for the role of Bibot, a sadistic French sergeant eager to let as many heads roll as possible, while Heather Dalrymple's most memorable character is Marguerite's threatened brother Armand. Jesse Brace fills three roles with enthusiasm, and Wayne Gardner is comical as an elderly countess and alarming as Chauvelin, a vile villain with a particularly nasty laugh.
While the six actors fill a dozen roles, many more characters are involved, so anyone who attends should be prepared for the possibility of getting involved in the plot. Anyone who sits close can count on being recruited for such purposes as holding props, answering questions, dancing and perhaps even being rescued.
The high amount of improvisation makes the particulars unpredictable and gives visitors with a hidden dramatic flair an opportunity to show off. The downside is some scenes can be hard to follow, especially with the abundance of accents and the amount of story that must be condensed to one hour.
Audience members may want to seek the play or novel on the library shelves afterward to ensure comprehension.


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SEO as we know it is broken. In the old days (up to 2012) you could buy an exact-match domain, write a few articles and outrank the competition with just a handful of cheap backlinks. You could even automate the entire process.
But the world moves fast and it's getting harder and harder to manipulate the search engine results. Using old tricks to 'game' the system is like counting cards in Vegas. But Google (or Bing or Yahoo) is the eye in the sky. You might fly under the radar for a while but when you get caught, you'll be banned from every search engine in the land.
The house always wins, right?
Thing is, smart entrepreneurs are using the new rules of website promotion to create truly valuable websites that will continue to dominate the online landscape for the next 5 years. Maybe 10.
And it isn't even difficult …
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The Power of Pink is the theme of this year's Annual Benefit Luncheon & Fashion Show (courtesy of Richards of Greenwich) to be held on Thursday, October 25th at the Hyatt Regency, Old Greenwich.
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My Big Fat Greek Wedding
It used to be we'd only get the "ethnic wedding" picture every couple of years or so, but it's apparently such a successful (and inexpensive) formula that we're now graced with a couple every summer. The latest, "My Big Fat Greek Wedding," is based on a one-woman play by Nia Vardalos, who plays the role of the betrothed Toula.
A one-woman play is essentially a two-hour monologue, "mono" being a handy prefix in this case given that each character has exactly one dimension and thus each actor has exactly one job to do. Toula is the frumpess bride, who, once she cleans up and learns to wash her hair, gets engaged to Ian (John Corbett) and spends the rest of the film with a nervous, expectant look on her face to see what her wacky Greek family will do next. Patriarch Gus's (Michael Constantine) role is to be the gruff-but-lovable father while mother Maria (Lainie Kazan) is the understanding matriarch orchestrating the swarms of screeching Greek cousins who cover everything. The role of Ian's parents is to sit uncomfortably and make that "I smell dog crap" face whenever one of their future Greek in-laws splatters tzatziki on their golf sweaters. One disturbing detail is that his Ian's mom looks so much like Steve Buscemi in drag that I'm likely to have recurring nightmares about it.
Ian, meanwhile, can't even claim to have a single dimension. He is apparently so bereft of an identity that he gamely goes along with the demands of his new Greek in-laws, no matter how absurd they may seem. He gets baptized as a Greek orthodox, agrees to have a Greek wedding, fires his best man because he's not Greek, and barely acknowledges his own parents in the process. Though Ian fails to provide enough resistance to lend it friction, this is the central conflict in the film -- Ian's in-laws hate him because he's not Greek, so he turns Greek to appease them.
Don't get me wrong -- his in-laws may be racist, but it's a warm, affectionate kind of racism. They're racist because they love too much. For going along, Ian's portrayed as the hero, as opposed to a sap and a coward. Sure, his parents and friends are WASPy and stiff and thus have no feelings, but you can't wonder if we're already sowing the seeds for when Ian wakes up one night, decides to take his life back and files for a Big Fat Greek Divorce.
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Stevia the good for you low calorie sweetener
From Mother Earth News:
Imagine an herb that's much sweeter than sugar, but almost calorie-free. Imagine that it does not cause the after-eating spike in blood sugar that aggravates diabetes. Imagine that it's actually good for you, reducing blood sugar and blood pressure, and boosting immune function. Imagine that it's safer than other artificial sweeteners, and that you can easily grow it yourself. Too good to be true? Hardly. The herb is stevia (Stevia rebaudiana), and after a long, strange trip through U.S. regulatory limbo, it is now becoming widely available, both on it's own and in foods such as SweetLeaf Sweetener and the SoBe Lifewater beverage from PepsiCo.
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'Product rage' is causing stress in households around the UK, according to new research from Xerox.
The YouGov survey* sampled over 2000 UK adults with one in ten admitting that inadequate guidelines led to arguments in their household and more than 1 in 20 survey participants confessed to breaking their device after being irritated by the product's instructions.
And more than a third (37 per cent) of consumers said confusing product instructions made them angry.
The term describes the frustration people feel when they aren't able to understand instruction manuals, leading to household arguments and potential product breakage.
"We have all been guilty of being exasperated when we don't entirely understand something. However, it is the companies' responsibility to ensure their customers have a range of tools to completely understand their new product" said Julie Hesselgrove, Group President, Xerox Communication and Marketing Services (CMS).
"Having confusing instructions is like having a TV with a broken remote – yes you can still use the product, but it's harder work, less enjoyable, you can't use all the functionality, but you still paid full price."
Comparing the sexes, women have higher expectations and less tolerance for confusing instructions than men. In fact 40 per cent of women got angry with perplexing product instructions, compared to 34 per cent of men.
Women were also twice as likely to admit to arguments with people they live with as a result. Conversely, a quarter of men would try to assemble or use items without referring to the instructions, compared to just a fifth of women.
In addition, one-third of consumers revealed they are less likely to buy products from a company if they know they have unclear instruction manuals. Consumers over 55 years of age are especially discriminating, with 46 per cent factoring the quality of product instructions into their purchase decision.
Despite this, 21 per cent still find instructions difficult to understand with the same percentage believing that they are not detailed enough.
This lack of adequate detail has led to a lack of understanding of the functionality of many common technology devices. 21 per cent replied that they didn't fully understand how to use their mobile phones and 25 per cent don't have a complete grasp of their personal computers.


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Get wet? You bet! That's the whole point of the famous swamp walks in the Fakahatchee Strand Preserve State Park. The Friends of Fakahatchee have spaces available in their two remaining January Swamp Walks on Saturday, January 12 and Saturday, January 19. The walks through knee to waist high waters of the park are led by naturalists who are experts in the flora and fauna of the 80,000 acre state park. Fakahatchee Strand is called the "Amazon of North America" and is home to the famous ghost orchid and many other rare plants and animals. The walks begin promptly at ... Read More »
Daily Archives: January 9, 2013
Marco Island Yacht Club 11th Anniversary Commodore's Ball and Change of Watch Announced
A yacht club tradition formally transferring responsibility, authority and accountability of yacht club leadership The Marco Island Yacht Club today announced its 11th Annual Commodore's Ball and Change of Watch will take place at the waterfront Club's Harbor Dining Room the evening of Saturday, January 19, 2013. According to MIYC Membership Director Lisa Luft, yacht clubs use Change of Watch, a time-honored naval tradition, to formally transfer responsibility, authority and accountability from one individual to another and from one year to the next. The formal evening's gala festivities begin with a cocktail hour at 6 pm followed by a ... Read More »
"Music for the Soul" Concert Series at Marco Presbyterian Church
The first of Marco Presbyterian Church's "Music for the Soul" Concert Series will be 6 p.m., Jan. 20 and will feature Marv Hollenbeck at the piano playing a potpourri of gospel, sacred and patriotic selections. The concert will be followed by a reception in the courtyard. Other concerts in the series are: Feb.17, contemporary Christian singer, songwriter and recording artist Nathan Clark George. His combination of melodic finger-style guitar, original compositions and time-honored hymns appeal to all ages. March 10 the organ and piano duo of Babs Hillenbrand and Marv Hollenbeck will play favorite hymn arrangements on the church's grand instruments, ... Read More »
Marni Rhyne and her companion were the HOTBALL winners at Sunday's Bingo at the Jewish Congregation of Marco Island. Bingo is being played every Monday. Doors open at 5:30 PM. The Public is welcome! Read More »
Fiddler's Creek: The Luxury
The luxury, master-planned community of Fiddler's Creek has enhanced its Realtor participation program by utilizing a patented technology by Agent Shield, to better connect with real estate agents in promoting Fiddler's Creek. Paid for by Fiddler's Creek, Agent Shield is a free service to all real estate agents and brokers. With this service, agents receive their own personalized version of fiddlerscreek.com to use as a marketing tool. This personalized website features the agent's name and contact information. All customer leads that fill out on the contact form are then sent directly to the referring agent. With the free web tools, email tools and ... Read More »
First National Bank of the Gulf Coast, a full-service community bank serving the local banking needs of individuals and business owners, has named Ronald Orr as Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Risk Officer. Mr. Orr will be based out of the bank's headquarters in Naples, FL. Mr. Orr stated, "I am excited to be able to transition the broad experience I gained over the many years as a national bank examiner into the practical application of building a super community bank with CEO Gary Tice and President Garrett Richter." Mr. Orr, a graduate of University of Northern Iowa, has ... Read More »
Postal Prices to Change January 27
Beginning on January 27, the cost of a one-ounce, First-Class postage stamp will increase by one penny, to 46 cents. The new 46 cent Forever stamps will allow customers to mail letters to any location in the United States. Forever stamps are always good for mailing a one-ounce letter anytime in the future regardless of price changes. Procrastinators who haven't sent their annual holiday greetings will want to stock up on Forever stamps at the 45 cent rate prior to the rate change. The Postal Service will also introduce a First-Class Mail Global Forever Stamp. The new stamp will allow customers ... Read More »
Road Work
I-75: Recreational access area (east of Firewater Canal) on Alligator Alley:Construction project — Crews are building a recreational access facility that includes a boat ramp and parking lot with fencing and lighting. Work involves widening and resurfacing the facility's roadway, making drainage improvements, and adding intelligent transportation system components and a high-tension cable barrier system on I-75 in this area. Crews will have daily lane closures from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. on northbound I-75 in the vicinity of mile marker 52, weather permitting. Work includes widening as well as milling and resurfacing the mainline. This will affect the northbound lanes ... Read More »
Collier County Elections Office Accepting Scholarship Applications
$1,200 offered by the Florida State Association of Supervisors of Elections Jennifer J. Edwards, Collier County Supervisor of Elections is currently accepting applications for the 2013 Florida State Association of Supervisors of Elections (FSASE) "Jimmy Whitehouse" Scholarship. The scholarship offers $1,200 to eligible Florida residents enrolled or accepted as full-time students in a senior college or university in Florida. To be eligible, applicants must be Political Science, Public or Business Administration, or Journalism/Mass Communication majors who have finished two years of junior college or undergraduate work. Students should also demonstrate a financial need. The scholarship application and guidelines are available ... Read More »
Dr. James Orr Elected Vice Chair of the Florida Board of Medicine
21st Century Oncology – the nation's premier cancer treatment network and largest radiation therapy provider – is pleased to announce that Board Certified Gynecologic Oncologist James Orr, M.D., FACOG, FACS has been chosen to serve as Vice Chair of the Florida Board of Medicine. "It is a great honor to be appointed Vice Chair to the Florida Board of Medicine, notably because the selection is a reflection of the impressions of my peer members on the board," says Dr. Orr. "The position allows me the opportunity to continue the important work of improving the efficiency, effectiveness and fairness of the ... Read More »
Civil Air Patrol to ring bell, open trading at New York Stock Exchange
A delegation from Civil Air Patrol will ring the opening bell Friday at the New York Stock Exchange. Led by CAP National Commander Maj. Gen. Chuck Carr, a group of about 20 CAP representatives, including cadets, will be on the stock exchange podium at 9:30 a.m. EST to officially start trading. The opening bell ceremony provides a platform to generate international exposure for CAP, which provides emergency services – like search and rescue for downed planes and missing people and disaster relief to communities throughout the United States, as well as Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. In addition, ... Read More »
FLW College Fishing is headed to Lake Okeechobee Jan. 12 for the first of four stops in the Southeastern Conference. Fifty college teams will be competing for a top award of $2,000 and a berth in the Southeastern Conference Invitational tournament. "This is going to be a very fun tournament," said Evinrude pro Scott Martin of Clewiston, Fla., the 2011 Forrest Wood Cup Champion who has five top-10 finishes on his home waters of Lake Okeechobee. "Water levels on Okeechobee are a lot higher this year, and the college anglers are going to be able to fish wherever they want to. There is ... Read More »
MIPO wishes good health, happiness and prosperity to ALL on Marco Island.
To start 2013 on a positive note, MIPO would like to take this opportunity to clear up any misconception about its mission and charter. Simply stated, our endeavor is to be ADVOCATES for ALL owners; condo, single family home and business alike. Come join us on January 17, 10 AM, at Mackle Park to hear how MIPO plans to accomplish this on your behalf. Kindly RSVP to email@example.com as seating is limited to 200 and a large turn out is expected. Please help us help YOU by completing our first annual MIPO Survey available on www.marcoislandpropertyowners.com. It is an opportunity to have YOUR opinion heard. We take our lead from ... Read More »
— Target Dates of January 10-17 — Resource management staff at Rookery Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve have released plans for their firstprescribed burns in 2013. Weather permitting, prescribed fires will commence around 9:00 am Thursday, January 10 through January 16 along Shell Island Road and the Tower Road/Barefoot Williams area. For a map of the precise locations please clickhere. Residents of adjacent areas will see and possibly smell smoke from the fire, and fire activities may temporarily inconvenience motorists along Shell Island Road. Fire personnel will contact visitors in the area to ensure their safety while traveling near activity areas and will carefully monitor the fire throughout the day until ... Read More »
Explore Our Island History!
Join us for a really unique "Olde Florida" treat. The Friends of Fakahatchee are hosting Coastal Cruises through the mysterious mangroves of the Ten Thousands Island. On the way, you will probably see dolphins cavorting with the tour boat. When you arrive at Fakahatchee Island, a naturalist will point out unusual plants on the path up the ancient shell mound to the old cemetery. On the return journey, the boat passes by a famous rookery where the birds will be settling down for the evening. We might think of "Fakahatchee" as a swamp with Ghost Orchids and Florida Panthers but to ... Read More »
What do homemade soup and handmade ceramic bowls have in common? They're being featured at the Saturday, January 26 Empty Bowls event being held at Cambier Park, Naples. The Naples community is gearing up to participate in the sixth annual event, which will take place between 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. The event is an annual fund raiser for the Harry Chapin Food Bank. For a $10 donation, those attending can select a handmade ceramic bowl and sample from at least 38 tasty soups. Not only would the selected bowl be a wonderful, useful item in the home, but the ... Read More »
Raising Funds for Scrub-Jay Habitat Restoration
The Florida scrub-jay becomes more threatened each day as encroaching destroys its habitat. To create more awareness, AuthenticFlorida.com, has joined forces with Oscar Scherer State Park and Clyde Butcher, Jack Perkins and Jeff Klinkenberg to present "Authentic Florida Meets Real Florida."This special event is January 18, 2013, 10-11:30 a.m., at the Girl Scout Event Conference Center, 4740 Cattlemen Road in Sarasota. Emmy Award-winner and author Jack Perkins will serve as master of ceremonies. Special guest speakers include the renown local photographer, Clyde Butcher, widely considered the "Ansel Adams" of Florida, and journalist and author Jeff Klinkenberg. Sponsored by AuthenticFlorida.com, tickets are $30 per person. ... Read More »
Clyde Butcher Celebrates 20 Year Anniversary of his Big Cypress Gallery
"Twenty years! It seems like yesterday that we began the joyous hard work creating the dream of Big Cypress Gallery in a setting surrounded by the peace of over a million acres of wilderness. The public has been a big part of that dream, and we invite everyone to join with us as we celebrate the twentieth anniversary of our Big Cypress Gallery" Clyde will be in the gallery all three days to greet guests and autograph books from 10am-5pm. This rare opportunity to meet the photographer will also feature family friendly activites throughout the weekend including speakers throughout the day: Rangers from ... Read More »
Sponsorship available for 6th Annual Wet Paint Live!
Beautiful Marco Island serves as the setting for this February 6, 2013 event with up to twenty local artists capturing the essence of our island community while painting from any of several picturesque island (or nearby) locations with spectacular views of Marco Island. After completing their original paintings during the day, artists will bring their pieces to the Marco Island Historical Museum – Rose History Auditorium for display beginning at 5:30 pm, with the exciting live auction starting promptly at 7:00 pm hosted by Chris Lombardo. As a business sponsor, your $50 sponsorship will include: Your company's name on all ... Read More »
Collier County Advisory Committee openings
The Collier County Board of County Commissioners is seeking applications for positions on several advisory committees. The Affordable Housing Advisory Committee currently has three vacancies representing the following: Employers in Local Jurisdiction (Term expires on October 1, 2014); Labor Actively Engaged in Home Building (Term expires October 1, 2015); and Alternate Member. One of the above must be a resident of Immokalee. This is an 11-member committee created by Ordinance No.91?65, as amended, to monitor the implementation of the Affordable Housing Task Force's recommendations, and the goals, objectives, and policies of the Housing Elements of the County's Growth Management Plan and the ... Read More »


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Cheez-its and other life necessiites
By John Maynard & John Kessler • Dec 16, 2010
Who knew there was even a Cheez-it category, but that's where the Record Bin Roulette wheel landed this week. John Maynard and John Kessler explore the depths of obscure vinyl at their fingertips and dig up the songs that were popular when icons of modern life came to be.
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Find out what was spinning when the Hula Hoop was all the rage, liposuction, and the TV remote control. That's only the beginning.
Record Bin Roulette has surprising twists and turns as Maynard and Kessler explore the funny way #1 songs and the advent of life's necessities (like Cheez-its) came to be.


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The Saint Louis business directory for 1853-4 /
St. Louis Spoke Manufactory!
JacobWoodburn, ,
On Main street, between Biddle and Ashley,
Proprietor of Blachard's Patent.
Spokes, of White Oak and Hickory, of all sizes and patterns, turned and furnished,
and a large supply constantly kept on hand, at the following rates. viz:
Spokes, all under 2 1-2 inches. from $4 to $5 per hundred; " for four horse wagons " $5 to $5 50 "
Also, Hubs, Felloes, Bows, Shafts, Swingle Trees, Spring Bars, Handles
for Sledge Hammers, Hatchets, Axes and Pick Axes.
☞ All articles made of the very best timber, and will seasoned.
N. B.—The highest price paid for Oak and Hickory Spokes. None
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The CX-5 was the first model to employ Mazda's SKYACTIV technologies which include new engines, transmissions, body and chassis. The ultra efficient SKYACTIV-D clean diesel engine has pulling power comparable to a 4.0-liter V8 gasoline engine (420 Nm of maximum torque) as well as the best fuel consumption in its class (4.6 l/100 km ) and C02 emissions of just 119 g/km. From a design point of view it is also the first Mazda to make full use of the `Soul of Motion` design theme or KODO as the manufacturer calls it. Since the model was launched in February, Mazda has received over 128,000 orders globally.
Executive Officer Kiyoshi Fujiwara commented, "We are thrilled to have the CX-5 receive such a coveted award and appreciate the warm support and encouragement of our fans. Spurred on by this honor, we will continue to dedicate ourselves to the task of crafting cars that only Mazda can, in order to continue winning the support of our fans and customers into the future."
The `Car of the Year Japan` award is open to all passenger vehicles with an expected annual sales volume of over 500 units, announced or launched in Japan between November 1, 2011 and October 31, 2012. The CX-5 is the fourth Mazda to have won this award since its inception and the company is very proud since the last time they picked up this accolade was in 2005 with the iconic MX-5.