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Yesterday, January 6, 2007, Senators John McCain and Joe Lieberman, two-thirds of the trio of tyranny (along with Brother-in-Arms, George W. Bush), held a press conference at the conservative American Enterprise Institute. They were there to hawk the deployment of an increased sustainable (but unknown) number of American troops to Iraq. The war-hawk duo insisted their decision to go forth with an increase in troop strength resulted from their recent trip to Iraq, Afghanistan and Israel. The latter being a logical stop for Joe Lieberman, an avowed zionist.
Speaking at the press conference, Joe Lieberman drew interesting parallels between the social, political and religious crises of today and the rise of fascism in Europe in the 1930's and 1940's during the time of Adolf Hitler (who Lieberman never mentioned by name). According to Lieberman:
"There are people who have spoken of this moment in our history as if it were the '30s. And there's some parallels I fear there.... Some people say the war in Iraq is comparable to the Second World War in the late thirties and the failure to grasp the growing threat of fascism before it was almost too late. The painful irony in this moment in our history is that while in some senses it is comparable to the 1930's, it's also already 1942 because Pearl Harbor in this war has already happened on 9/11/01 and in the progeny of horrific terrorist attacks that have occurred throughout the world."
Lieberman's unspecified references to "There are people" and "Some people say" as the sources promoting the parallels between today's "Islamic extremists" and World War II Nazis, were sheer semantics. A purposeful contrivance to offset allegations that these are Joe Lieberman's views shaped by his zionist ideology.
By Sherwood Ross
If the U.S. or Israel attack Iranian nuclear power facilities "huge amounts of radioactive material will be lofted into the air to contaminate the people of Iran and surrounding countries," an eminent international authority on nuclear weapons warns.
"This fallout will induce cancers, leukemia, and genetic disease in these populations for years to come, both a medical catastrophe and a war crime of immense proportions," Dr. Helen Caldicott writes in her new book, "Nuclear Power Is Not The Answer," published by The New Press.
Taking Stock of the Intel Community Shake Up
By Larry C Johnson, www.Noquarter.typepad.com
There are big doings in the intel community that may signal the start of a new effort to cook the books to justify an attack on Iran. Let's start with John Negroponte's move to State Department. I am told by a knowledgeable friend that Negroponte was pressured by the White House to take the job at State. The exodus of key State Department personnel (e.g., Deputy Secretary Zoellick, Counselor Phil Zelikow, and Coordinator for Counter Terrorism Hank Crumpton) left Condi twisting in the wind. Negroponte gives Condi one of the most experienced foreign service officers in the State Department's history.
By Bob Roberts, Mirror
A WAR against Iran could be launched within the next two years, a senior adviser to George Bush warned last night.
CIA specialist on Iran Reuel Marc Gerecht said there had been a "tidal shift" of opinion towards military action, especially in Israel.
George W. Bush Is Going To Bomb Iran
George W. Bush Is Going To Bomb Iran by boloboffin | Dec 29 2006 - 10:33am
George W. Bush is going to bomb Iran. This is the purpose of the "surge". No amount of troops is going to fix Iraq; they couldn't if they tried. If Bush wanted to fix Iraq, he'd give them jobs. People who are employed in decent jobs can figure out how to live with their neighbors. More American troops in the Persian Gulf are not going to quell violence in Iraq any more than the ones already there are.
George W. Bush is going to bomb Iran. And there may be almost nothing we can do to stop it...
Why did Russia and China vote to sanction Iran?
Why did Russia and China vote to sanction Iran?
By Jorge Hirsch
In the aftermath of the Dec. 23 United Nations Security Council unanimous vote imposing sanctions or Iran for failing to suspend uranium enrichment (see text of resolution here), one has to wonder: why did Russia and China go along with it?
Iran's pursuit of uranium enrichment for civilian nuclear purposes is allowed by the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, and the IAEA has found no indication that Iran has diverted any nuclear material to military purposes. While Russia may prefer for its own reasons that Iran not enrich uranium, it fully recognizes that Iran's pursuit is legal under international law. Furthermore, as Western news media constantly emphasize, Russia and China have extensive commercial ties with Iran, hence it is not in their interest to antagonize Iran. Their support of UNSC1737 doesn't seem to make sense.
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The push to attack Iran has been on for so long that entire categories of arguments for it (such as that the Iranians are fueling the Iraqi resistance) have come and gone. At DontAttackIran.org we've been collecting the arguments for and against attacking Iran for years. We've campaigned against an attack, but never been able to claim a success, because decisions not to launch wars are never announced, because those pushing for wars never give up, and because those believing what their government tells them think the Pentagon never campaigns for wars but is forced into them defensively on short notice by attacks from evildoers.
While Iran has not attacked any other country in centuries, the United States has not done so well by Iran. Remember (or, like most U.S. citizens, learn for the first time): the United States overthrew Iran's democracy in 1953 and installed a dictator. Then the United States aided Iraq in the 1980s in attacking Iran, providing Iraq with some of the weapons (including chemical weapons) that were used on Iranians and that would be used in 2002-2003 (when they no longer existed) as an excuse for attacking Iraq. For the past decade, the United States has labeled Iran an evil nation, attacked and destroyed the other non-nuclear nation on the list of evil nations, designated part of Iran's military a terrorist organization, falsely accused Iran of crimes including the attacks of 9-11, murdered Iranian scientists, funded opposition groups in Iran (including some the U.S. also designates as terrorist), flown drones over Iran, openly and illegally threatened to attack Iran, and built up military forces all around Iran's borders, while imposing cruel sanctions on the country.
The roots of a Washington push for a new war on Iran can be found in the 1992 Defense Planning Guidance, the 1996 paper called A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm, the 2000 Rebuilding America's Defenses, and in a 2001 Pentagon memo described by Wesley Clark as listing these nations for attack: Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Lebanon, Syria, and Iran. In 2010, Tony Blair included Iran on a similar list of countries that he said Dick Cheney had aimed to overthrow. The line among the powerful in Washington in 2003 was that Iraq would be a cakewalk but that real men go to Tehran. The arguments in these old forgotten memos were not what the war makers tell the public, but much closer to what they tell each other. The concerns here are those of dominating regions rich in resources, intimidating others, and establishing bases from which to maintain control of puppet governments.
Of course the reason why "real men go to Tehran" is that Iran is not the impoverished disarmed nation that one might find in, say, Afghanistan or Iraq, or even the disarmed nation recently found in Libya. Iran is much bigger and much better armed. Whether the United States launches a major assault on Iran or Israel does, Iran will retaliate against U.S. troops and probably Israel and possibly the United States itself as well. And the United States will without any doube re-retaliate for that. Iran cannot be unaware that the U.S. government's pressure on the Israeli government not to attack Iran consists of reassuring the Israelis that the United States will attack when needed, and does not include even threatening to stop funding Israel's military or to stop vetoing measures of accountability for Israeli crimes at the United Nations. In other words, any U.S. pretense of having seriously wanted to prevent an attack is not credible. Of course, many in the U.S. government and military oppose attacking Iran, although key figures like Admiral William Fallon have been moved out of the way. Much of the Israeli military is opposed as well, not to mention the Israeli and U.S. people. But war is not clean or precise. If the people we allow to run our nations attack another, we are all put at risk.
Most at risk, of course, are the people of Iran, people as peaceful as any other, or perhaps more so. As in any country, no matter what its government, the people of Iran are fundamentally good, decent, peaceful, just, and fundamentally like you and me. I've met people from Iran. You may have met people from Iran. They look like this. They're not a different species. They're not evil. A "surgical strike" against a "facility" in their country would cause a great many of them to die very painful and horrible deaths. Even if you imagine that Iran would not retaliate for such attacks, this is what the attacks would in themselves consist of: mass murder. And what would that accomplish? It would unite the people of Iran and much of the world against the United States. It would justify in the eyes of much of the world an underground Iranian program to develop nuclear weapons, a program that probably does not exist at present, except to the extent that legal nuclear energy programs move a country closer to weapons development. The environmental damage would be tremendous, the precedent set incredibly dangerous, all talk of cutting the U.S. military budget would be buried in a wave of war frenzy, civil liberties and representative government would be flushed down the Potomac, a nuclear arms race would spread to additional countries, and any momentary sadistic glee would be outweighed by accelerating home foreclosures, mounting student debt, and accumulating layers of cultural stupidity.
Strategically, legally, and morally weapons possession is not grounds for war, and neither is pursuit of weapons possession. And neither, I might add, with Iraq in mind, is theoretically possible pursuit of weapons never acted upon. Israel has nuclear weapons. The United States has more nuclear weapons than any other country. There can be no justification for attacking the United States, Israel, or any other country. The pretense that Iran has or will soon have nuclear weapons is, in any case, just a pretense, one that has been revived, debunked, and revived again like a zombie for years and years. But that's not the really absurd part of this false claim for something that amounts to no justification for war whatsoever. The really absurd part is that it was the United States in 1976 that pushed nuclear energy on Iran. In 2000 the CIA gave the Iranian government (slightly flawed) plans to build a nuclear bomb. In 2003, Iran proposed negotiations with the United States with everything on the table, including its nuclear technology, and the United States refused. Shortly thereafter, the United States started angling for a war. Meanwhile, U.S.-led sanctions prevent Iran from developing wind energy, while the Koch brothers are allowed to trade with Iran without penalty.
Another area of ongoing lie debunking, one that almost exactly parallels the buildup to the 2003 attack on Iraq, is the relentless false claim, including by candidates for U.S. President, that Iran has not allowed inspectors into its country or given them access to its sites. Iran has, in fact, voluntarily accepted stricter standards than the IAEA requires. And of course a separate line of propaganda, albeit a contradictory one, holds that the IAEA has discovered a nuclear weapons program in Iran. Under the nuclear non-proliferation treaty (NPT), Iran was not required to declare all of its installations, and early last decade it chose not to, as the United States violated that same treaty by blocking Germany, China, and others from providing nuclear energy equipment to Iran. While Iran remains in compliance with the NPT, India and Pakistan and Israel have not signed it and North Korea has withdrawn from it, while the United States and other nuclear powers continuously violate it by failing to reduce arms, by providing arms to other countries such as India, and by developing new nuclear weapons.
This is what the empire of U.S. military bases looks like to Iran. Try to imagine if you lived there, what you would think of this.
Who is threatening whom?
Here are the sizes of national militaries:
Who is the greater danger to whom? The point is not that Iran should be free to attack the United States or anyone else because its military is smaller. The point is that doing so would be national suicide. It would also be something Iran has not done for centuries. But it would be typical U.S. behavior.
Are you ready for an even more absurd twist? This is on the same scale as Bush's comment about not really giving much thought to Osama bin Laden. Are you ready? The proponents of attacking Iran themselves admit that if Iran had nukes it would not use them. This is from the American Enterprise Institute:
"The biggest problem for the United States is not Iran getting a nuclear weapon and testing it, it's Iran getting a nuclear weapon and not using it. Because the second that they have one and they don't do anything bad, all of the naysayers are going to come back and say, 'See, we told you Iran is a responsible power. We told you Iran wasn't getting nuclear weapons in order to use them immediately.' ... And they will eventually define Iran with nuclear weapons as not a problem."
Is that clear? Iran using a nuclear weapon would be bad: environmental damage, loss of human life, hideous pain and suffering, yada, yada, yada. But what would be really bad would be Iran acquiring a nuclear weapon and doing what every other nation with them has done since Nagasaki: nothing. That would be really bad because it would damage an argument for war and make war more difficult, thus allowing Iran to run its country as it, rather than the United States, sees fit. Of course it might run it very badly (although we're hardly establishing a model for the world over here either), but it would run it without U.S. approval, and that would be worse than nuclear destruction.
Inspections were allowed in Iraq and they worked. They found no weapons and there were no weapons. Inspections are being allowed in Iran and they are working. However, the IAEA has come under the corrupting influence of the U.S. government. And yet, the bluster from war proponents about recent IAEA claims is not backed up by any actual claims from the IAEA. And what little material the IAEA has provided for the cause of war has been widely rejected when not being laughed at.
Another year, another lie. No longer do we hear that North Korea is helping Iran build nukes. Lies about Iranian backing of Iraqi resisters have faded. (Didn't the United States back French resistance to Germans at one point?) The latest concoction is the "Iran did 911" lie. Revenge, like the rest of these attempted grounds for war, is actually not a legal or moral justification for war. But this latest fiction has already been put to rest by the indespensable Gareth Porter, among others. Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia, which did play a role in 911 as well as in the Iraqi resistance, is being sold record quantities of that good old leading U.S. export of which we're all so proud: weapons of mass destruction.
Oh, I almost forgot another lie that hasn't quite entirely faded yet. Iran did not try to blow up a Saudi ambassador in Washington, D.C., an action which President Obama would consider perfectly praiseworthy if the roles were reversed, but a lie that even Fox News had a hard time stomaching. And that's saying something.
And then there's that old standby: Ahmadinejad said "Israel should be wiped off the map." While this does not, perhaps, rise to the level of John McCain singing about bombing Iran or Bush and Obama swearing that all options including nuclear attack are on the table (I'm really starting to despise that table, by the way). Yet, it sounds extremely disturbing: "wiped off the map"! However, the translation is a bad one. A more accurate translation was "the regime occupying Jerusalem must vanish from the page of time". The government of Israel, not the nation of Israel. Not even the government of Israel, but the current regime. Hell, Americans say that about their own regimes all the time, alternating every four to eight years depending on political party (some of us even say it all the time, without immunity for either party). Iran has made clear it would approve of a two-state solution if Palestinians approved of it. If we launched missile strikes every time somebody said something stupid, even if accurately translated, how safe would it be to live near Newt Gingrich's or Joe Biden's house?
The real danger may not actually be the lies. The Iraq experience has built up quite a mental resistance to these sorts of lies in many U.S. residents. The real danger may be the slow start of a war that gains momentum on its own without any formal announcement of its initiation. Israel and the United States have not just been talking tough or crazy. They've been murdering Iranians. And they seem to have no shame about it. The day after a Republican presidential primary debate at which candidates declared their desire to kill Iranians, the CIA apparently made certain the news was public that it was in fact already murdering Iranians, not to mention blowing up buildings. Some would say and have said that the war has already begun. Those who cannot see this because they do not want to see it will also miss the deadly humor in the United States asking Iran to return our brave drone to us.
Perhaps what's needed to snap war supporters out of their stupor is a bit of slapstick. Try this on for size. From Seymour Hersh describing a meeting held in Vice President Cheney's office:
"There was a dozen ideas proffered about how to trigger a war. The one that interested me the most was why don't we build — we in our shipyard — build four or five boats that look like Iranian PT boats. Put Navy seals on them with a lot of arms. And next time one of our boats goes to the Straits of Hormuz, start a shoot-up. Might cost some lives. And it was rejected because you can't have Americans killing Americans. That's the kind of — that's the level of stuff we're talking about. Provocation. But that was rejected."
Now, Dick Cheney is not your typical American. Nobody in the U.S. government is your typical American. Your typical American is struggling, disapproves of the U.S. government, wishes billionaires were taxed, favors green energy and education and jobs over military boondoggles, thinks corporations should be barred from buying elections, and would not be inclined to apologize for getting shot in the face by the Vice President. Back in the 1930s, the Ludlow Amendment nearly made it a Constitutional requirement that the public vote in a referendum before the United States could go to war. President Franklin Roosevelt blocked that proposal. Yet the Constitution already required and still requires that Congress declare war before a war is fought. That has not been done in over 70 years, while wars have raged on almost incessantly. In the past decade and right up through President Obama's signing of the outrageous National Defense Authorization Act on New Years Eve 2011-2012, the power to make war has been handed over to presidents. Here is one more reason to oppose a presidential war on Iran: once you allow presidents to make wars, you will never stop them. Another reason, in so far as anybody any longer gives a damn, is that war is a crime. Iran and the United States are parties to the Kellogg-Briand Pact, which bans war. One of those two nations is not complying.
But we won't have a referendum. The U.S. House of Misrepresentatives won't step in. Only through widespread public pressure and nonviolent action will we intervene in this slow-motion catastrophe. Already the United States and the United Kingdom are preparing for war with Iran. This war, if it happens, will be fought by an institution called the United States Department of Defense, but it will endanger rather than defending us. As the war progresses, we will be told that the Iranian people want to be bombed for their own good, for freedom, for democracy. But nobody wants to be bombed for that. Iran does not want U.S.-style democracy. Even the United States does not want U.S.-style democracy. We will be told that those noble goals are guiding the actions of our brave troops and our brave drones on the battlefield. Yet there will be no battlefield. There will be no front lines. There will be no trenches. There will simply be cities and towns where people live, and where people die. There will be no victory. There will be no progress accomplished through a "surge." On January 5, 2012, Secretary of "Defense" Leon Panetta was asked at a press conference about the failures in Iraq and Afghanistan, and he replied simply that those were successes. That is the kind of success that could be expected in Iran were Iran a destitute and disarmed state.
Now we begin to understand the importance of all the media suppression, blackouts, and lies about the damage done to Iraq and Afghanistan. Now we understand why Obama and Panetta have embraced the lies that launched the War on Iraq. The same lies must now be revived, as for every war ever fought, for a War on Iran. Here's a video explaining how this will work, even with some new twists and lots of variations. The U.S. corporate media is part of the war machine.
Planning war and funding war creates its own momentum. Sanctions become, as with Iraq, a stepping stone to war. Cutting off diplomacy leaves few options open. Electoral pissing contests take us all where most of us did not want to be.
These are the bombs most likely to launch this ugly and quite possibly terminal chapter of human history. This animation shows clearly what they would do. For an even better presentation, pair that with this audio of a misinformed caller trying hopelessly to persuade George Galloway that we should attack Iran.
On January 2, 2012, the New York Times reported concern that cuts to the U.S. military budget raised doubts as to whether the United States would "be prepared for a grinding, lengthy ground war in Asia." At a Pentagon press conference on January 5, 2012, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff reassured the press corpse (sic) that major ground wars were very much an option and that wars of one sort or another were a certainty. President Obama's statement of military policy released at that press conference listed the missions of the U.S. military. First was fighting terrorism, next detering "aggression," then "projecting power despite anti-access/area denial challenges," then the good old WMDs, then conquering space and cyberspace, then nuclear weapons, and finally — after all that — there was mention of defending the Homeland Formerly Known As The United States.
We're in bad straights.
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The cases of Iraq and Iran are not identical in every detail, of course. But in both cases we are dealing with concerted efforts to get us into wars, wars based, as all wars are based, on lies.
One thing you can do is to ask U.S. and Israeli air, missile, and drone crews to refuse to attack Iran at DontAttackIran.org.
David Swanson is the author of "When the World Outlawed War," "War Is A Lie" and "Daybreak: Undoing the Imperial Presidency and Forming a More Perfect Union." He blogs at http://davidswanson.org and http://warisacrime.org and works for the online activist organization http://rootsaction.org
UN Imposes First Sanctions on Iran's Nuclear Program
By Bill Varner, Bloomberg
The United Nations Security Council voted 15 to 0 to impose sanctions on Iran for its nuclear program for the first time, including a ban on acquisition of materials and technology that might be used to build an atomic bomb.
The measure demands that Iran halt uranium enrichment and heavy-water projects that the U.S. and its European allies have said may lead to the development of nuclear weapons. It freezes the financial assets of 12 named individuals and 11 groups such as the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran.
Crime of the Century: Are Bush & Cheney Planning Early Attack on Iran?
By Dave Lindorff, http://www.thiscantbehappening.net
Back on October 9, I wrote in The Nation that it looked like the Bush-Cheney gang, worried about the November election, was gearing up for an unprovoked attack on Iran's nuclear facilities, with a carrier strike group led by the USS Eisenhower being ordered to depart a month early from Norfolk, VA to join the already-on-station USS Enterprise. That article was based on reports from angry sailors based on the Eisenhower who had leaked word of their mission.
Iran condemns U.N. resolution as illegal
Iran condemns U.N. resolution as illegal
TEHRAN, Dec. 23 (UPI) -- Iran Saturday condemned the U.N. Security Council for imposing sanctions on its nuclear program, calling them illegal and beyond the council's jurisdiction.
The unanimous 15-0 vote "will discredit the decisions of the Security Council, whose power is deteriorating," Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammad Ali Hosseini told state-run television.
U.S. Hails U.N. Resolution Against Iran
U.S. Hails U.N. Resolution Against Iran
Dec 23, 1:59 PM (ET)
By JENNIFER LOVEN
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Bush administration said Saturday it hopes the U.N. resolution penalizing Iran for its nuclear enrichment program will clear the way for tougher measures against Tehran by individual countries, particularly Russia.
"We don't think this resolution is enough in itself," Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns said. "We want the international community to take further action. We're certainly not going to put all our eggs in the U.N. basket."...
Security Council Approves Iran Sanctions
Security Council Approves Iran Sanctions
(AP) - The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously Saturday to impose economic sanctions on Iran for refusing to end a uranium enrichment program that the United States says is aimed at building nuclear weapons. Iran immediately rejected the resolution.
The result of two months of negotiation, the resolution orders all countries to stop supplying Iran with materials and technology that could contribute to its nuclear and missile programs. It also would freeze Iranian assets of key companies and individuals related to those programs...
What We Wanted to Tell You About Iran
By Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann
Target Iran: Former UN Weapons Inspector Scott Ritter and Investigative Journalist Seymour Hersh on White House Plans for Iran
By DEMOCRACY NOW!
The Pentagon has announced plans to move additional warships and strike
aircraft into the Persian Gulf region to be within striking range of Iran.
We air an in-depth discussion between two of the leading critical voices on
the Bush administration¹s policy in Iran: former UN weapons inspector Scott
Ritter, author of "Target Iran: The Truth About the White House's Plans for
U.S. Buildup Against Iran
The New York Times is reporting on its front page today: "The United
States and Britain will begin moving additional warships and strike
aircraft into the Persian Gulf region in a display of military resolve
toward Iran that will come as the United Nations continues to debate
possible sanctions against the country, Pentagon and military officials
said Wednesday." Another Times front-page piece is headlined "Iran
US Considers Naval Build-up as Warning to Iran
· Administration concern at nuclear programme
· Security situation in Iraq 'tragic' as attacks grow
By Suzanne Goldenberg, Guardian / UK
The Bush administration is weighing options for a naval build-up in the Gulf as a show of force and a warning to Iran on its nuclear programme and its support for Shia militias in Iraq, it emerged yesterday.
Under the proposed build-up, first reported by CBS television, the Pentagon would send an aircraft carrier to join one already in the region. The proposed deployment was described as a message to Tehran not to take provocative steps, and was not preparation for an attack.
A Very Dangerous New Year
By Robert Parry, www.consortiumnews.com
The first two or three months of 2007 represent a dangerous opening for an escalation of war in the Middle East, as George W. Bush will be tempted to "double-down" his gamble in Iraq by joining with Israel's Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and outgoing British Prime Minister Tony Blair to strike at Syria and Iran, intelligence sources say.
President Bush's goal would be to transcend the bloody quagmire bogging down U.S. forces in Iraq by achieving "regime change" in Syria and by destroying nuclear facilities in Iran, two blows intended to weaken Islamic militants in Iraq, Lebanon and the Palestinian territories.
Holy Warriors Set Sights on Iran
By Bill Berkowitz, Inter Press Service
Over the past 20 years, the U.S. Christian right has evolved into one of the most powerful grassroots organising forces within the Republican Party, and a host of Christian Zionists have taken a well-earned seat at the foreign policy table.
At the same time, their support for Israel is not only growing -- it is also becoming an influential political factor.
Stalin Would Be Proud
EXCLUSIVE: White House Forbids Publication Of Op-Ed On Iran By Former Bush Official
Middle East analyst Flynt Leverett, who served under President Bush on the National Security Council and is now a fellow at the New America Foundation, revealed today that the White House has been blocking the publication of an op-ed he wrote for the New York Times. The column is critical of the administration's refusal to engage Iran.
The Coming Crisis with Iran
A conversation About Political, Diplomatic, and Mlitary Options
Thomas Pickering, U.S. Representative to the United Nations, 1989-1992; Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, 1997-2001
Featured Panelists:
Flynt Leverett, Senior Fellow, New America Foundation
Sam Gardiner, Colonel, United States Air Force (retired)
Barry R. Posen, Director, Security Studies Program, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Iran sets conditions for talks with U.S. on Iraq
By Mohammed Abbas, Reuters
MANAMA (Reuters) - Iran will only hold direct talks with the United
States on Iraq if Washington announces plans to pull its troops out,
Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said on Saturday.
Mottaki was responding to this week's U.S. Iraq Study Group report,
which recommended Washington should directly engage with Iran and
Syria to try to stabilize Iraq.
Gee Whiz, Iran Training Militia, Who Knew?
By Larry C Johnson
Well, the New York Times just got sucked in again to help the Bush Administration make the case for starting a war with Iran and Syria. Sorry, but how obtuse can some folks be? I refer to the so-called news reported by Michael Gordon and Dexter Filkins in today's New York Times. The essence of their breathless report is that Iran, via Hezbollah, is training the Shia militia in Iraq. Well, NO SHIT SHERLOCK! Consider this quote from today's article:
Video: Ellsberg on Possibility of Attack on Iran
Ellsberg is optimistic that Gates less likely than Rumsfeld to attack Iran, and that Democratic Congress will investigate bogus claims used to justify an attack on Iran: VIDEO.
Gates & the Iran Arms Sales
By Robert Parry, http://www.consortiumnews.com
In November 1987, as the Reagan administration was still scrambling to contain the Iran-Contra scandal, then-deputy CIA director Robert M. Gates denied that the spy agency had soft-pedaled intelligence about Iran's support for terrorism to clear the way for secret U.S. arms shipments to the Islamic regime.
"Only one or two analysts believed Iranian support for terrorism was waning," Gates wrote in articles that appeared in the Washington Post and Foreign Affairs magazine. "And no CIA publication asserted these things."
US Could Bomb Iran Nuclear Sites in 2007: Analysts
By the Agence France Presse
President George W. Bush could choose military action over diplomacy and bomb Iran's nuclear facilities next year, political analysts in Washington agree.
"I think he is going to do it," John Pike, director of Globalsecurity.org, a military issues think tank, told AFP.
"They are going to bomb WMD facilities next summer," he added, referring to nuclear facilities Iran says are for peaceful uses and Washington insists are really intended to make nuclear bombs, or weapons of mass destruction (WMD).
Stovepiping Intelligence
By Center for American Progress Action Fund
"Make no mistake, President Bush will need to bomb Iran's nuclear facilities before leaving office," writes Joshua Muravchik, a neoconservative scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. "The global thunder against Bush when he pulls the trigger will be deafening, and it will have many echoes at home." So neoconservatives, Muravchik argued, "need to pave the way intellectually now and be prepared to defend the action when it comes." In that vein, Bill Kristol, editor of the Weekly Standard, said last August, "We could be in a military confrontation with Iran much sooner than people expect." In a startling new article in the New Yorker, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh writes that, despite the recent bluster over Iran's attempts to build a nuclear bomb, a highly classified draft assessment by the CIA found "no conclusive evidence, as yet, of a secret Iranian nuclear-weapons program." According to Hersh, the White House has reacted with hostility to the CIA's report and, as it did with Iraq, is bypassing the agency by collecting and compiling its own intelligence for a possible military strike. On CNN yesterday, Hersh said there is an "internecine fight" going on between the CIA and the White House over the intelligence process, "the same fight, by the way, that we had before Iraq."
Hersh: CIA Analysis Finds Iran Not Developing Nuclear Weapons
By Agence France-Presse
Washington - A classifed draft CIA assessment has found no firm evidence of a secret drive by Iran to develop nuclear weapons, as alleged by the White House, a top US investigative reporter has said.
Seymour Hersh, writing in an article for the November 27 issue of the magazine The New Yorker released in advance, reported on whether the administration of Republican President George W. Bush was more, or less, inclined to attack Iran after Democrats won control of Congress last week.
Is a damaged Administration less likely to attack Iran, or more?
By SEYMOUR M. HERSH, www.newyorker.com
A month before the November elections, Vice-President Dick Cheney was sitting in on a national-security discussion at the Executive Office Building. The talk took a political turn: what if the Democrats won both the Senate and the House? How would that affect policy toward Iran, which is believed to be on the verge of becoming a nuclear power? At that point, according to someone familiar with the discussion, Cheney began reminiscing about his job as a lineman, in the early nineteen-sixties, for a power company in Wyoming. Copper wire was expensive, and the linemen were instructed to return all unused pieces three feet or longer. No one wanted to deal with the paperwork that resulted, Cheney said, so he and his colleagues found a solution: putting "shorteners" on the wire—that is, cutting it into short pieces and tossing the leftovers at the end of the workday. If the Democrats won on November 7th, the Vice-President said, that victory would not stop the Administration from pursuing a military option with Iran. The White House would put "shorteners" on any legislative restrictions, Cheney said, and thus stop Congress from getting in its way.


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Pros / This system has a strong feature set and dynamic customer support.
Cons / PowerHome lacks compatibility with KNX, Z-Wave and ZigBee protocols.
Verdict / PowerHome gives you a great way to build a smart home without the need to buy an expensive device controller.
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PowerHome has a wide set of features and a unique interface. The system is a little weaker when it comes to compatibility, but the customer support behind the product is very effective. Despite a few minor flaws, the PowerHome smart house system is one of the top performers in our review. Overall, the experience this product provides is very pleasant.
Every feature that we looked for in high-quality home automation systems was present in the setup furnished by PowerHome. Their system is accessible remotely via the internet. The software also supports voice recognition functions. It offers programmable macros with several preset triggers. The ability to activate a script at random is also present, allowing you to keep your home secure when you're away.
The basic triggers are ready for use in any macro you can dream of. The system uses sunset/sunrise triggers, interval timers and random interval triggers without much of a problem. You can create macros that are more complex with PowerHome's intelligent home system as well. The user forums are full of interested and experienced hobbyists that can help you delve deeper into the functionality of this system.
Several popular media management applications are supported by this home automation system, including Windows Media Center and iTunes. With these integrated compatibilities, you will be able to control everything necessary for a completely automated home theater system. The wide set of features that this smart house software provides is quite impressive.
The PowerHome smart home system is not quite as compatible with common home automation protocol as higher rated products in our review. You will not be able to use this software to operate devices using KNX, Z-Wave or ZigBee protocols nor can you control HVAC systems or thermostats. PowerHome supports devices using the X10, UPB and Insteon protocols.
PowerHome does not use a hardware controller with its software. That functionality comes from a computer with a Windows operating system. The system is not compatible with Mac OS X or smartphone operating systems, although you can find third party smartphone PowerHome apps for Android and iOS. PowerHome's interface can be cluttered at times, but finding the desired function is never difficult. Its compatibility with major applications makes it very easy to get up and running, and the remote access function makes maintaining and controlling your home very easy.
PowerHome's home automation systems are well supported, even though the manufacturer is relatively small. The company provides an email address for direct inquiries, and a live chat option is available if you need a quick reply. The FAQs section covers basic and generic inquiries, but members of the PowerHome community on the forum can answer specific questions. You do not need a professional installer when you set up PowerHome.
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utf8::all - turn on Unicode - all of it
version 0.022
use utf8::all; # Turn on UTF-8, all of it. open my $in, '<', 'contains-utf8'; # UTF-8 already turned on here print length 'føø bār'; # 7 UTF-8 characters my $utf8_arg = shift @ARGV; # @ARGV is UTF-8 too (only for main)
use utf8 pragma tells the Perl parser to allow UTF-8 in the program text in the current lexical scope. This also means that you can now use literal Unicode characters as part of strings, variable names, and regular expressions.
utf8::all goes further:
charnames are imported so
\N{...} sequences can be used to compile Unicode characters based on names.
v5.11.0 or higher, the
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use feature unicode_eval are enabled on Perl
5.16.0 and higher.
binmode $filehandle.
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utf8::all is used from the main package). This is similar to the behaviour of the
-CA perl command-line switch (see perlrun).
readpipe (including the
qx// and backtick operators), and
glob (including the
<> operator) now all work with and return Unicode characters instead of (UTF-8) octets.
The pragma is lexically-scoped, so you can do the following if you had some reason to:
{ use utf8::all; open my $out, '>', 'outfile'; my $utf8_str = 'føø bār'; print length $utf8_str, "\n"; # 7 print $out $utf8_str; # out as utf8 } open my $in, '<', 'outfile'; # in as raw my $text = do { local $/; <$in>}; print length $text, "\n"; # 10, not 7!
Instead of lexical scoping, you can also use
no utf8::all to turn off the effects.
Note that the effect on
@ARGV and the
STDOUT, and
STDERR file handles is always global!
utf8::all will handle invalid code points (i.e., utf-8 that does not map to a valid unicode "character"), as a fatal error.
readdir, and
readlink, one can change this behaviour by setting the attribute "$utf8::all::UTF8_CHECK".
By default
utf8::all marks decoding errors as fatal (default value for this setting is
Encode::FB_CROAK). If you want, you can change this by setting
$utf8::all::UTF8_CHECK. The value
Encode::FB_WARN reports the encoding errors as warnings, and
Encode::FB_DEFAULT will completely ignore them. Please see Encode for details. Note:
Encode::LEAVE_SRC is always enforced.
Important: Only controls the handling of decoding errors in
readdir, and
If you use autodie, which is a great idea, you need to use at least version 2.12, released on June 26, 2012. Otherwise, autodie obliterates the IO layers set by the open pragma. See RT #54777 and GH #7.
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readlink and
readdir functions and
glob operators will therefore not be replaced on these systems.
This software is copyright (c) 2009 by Michael Schwern <firstname.lastname@example.com>; he originated it.
This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.


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Oh you couldn't be more wrong, but what else to expect from you..
I just said SC is not the only program in a major metro area, and it's false to state they are.
Do you have any idea how big of a town Austin is?
Man some of you guys are really blinded by hate for USC. This guy Scott Schenter, the supplier or illegal benefits, is Washington Huskies fan. There are emails from him saying he hopes USC gets in trouble for this:
but it should be taken into account.
USC wore red socks and red, yellow and silver football shoes for the first time in school history.
quote:frick USC
USC Trojans...under NCAA Investigation for McKnight....again.
Please keep comparing pedophiles to a school where it's former AD turned a blind eye to its athletes getting preyed on by people outside the university trying to make a buck.
Here's an interesting article with an NCAA "expert", whatever that means.
...and they're the big time program with the big time athletes in Los Angeles - which ain't like no place else...and it certainly isn't Baton Rouge or Norman cow pasture Okie. Nobody else has it like USC when it comes to potential trouble.
Lot of people would say considering USC's special circumstances they should have been monitoring closer than any team in the country.
My prediction is along the lines of the NCAA saying, 'You've done a lot of good things since this happened, and you've already kind of answered for this type of thing, even if it wasn't with these two athletes. So let's continue to see if this is going to work in Los Angeles. USC needs to start getting credit for the fact that their degree of difficulty is probably harder than anybody else's.
they have been since 2010
C needs to start getting credit for the fact that their degree of difficulty is probably harder than anybody else's.
s.' And reconciling that with 'Yeah, but you still have this violation you have to answer for.
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All of LIFT-UP of Routt County's Steamboat operations soon will be under one roof.
On Thursday, the nonprofit organization breaks ground on a new building that will house its food bank, thrift store, offices and donation center.
The building will be called the Lufkin LIFT-UP Center, named after Don Lufkin, the agency's largest individual donor. David Freseman, LIFT-UP's executive director, said the name honors Lufkin for his substantial contributions to the agency and for his help with initiating the project.
Because the new building and the property it will sit on are paid for, Freseman said he hopes to divert some of the money LIFT-UP would have spent on rent to increase client services.
In 2005, LIFT-UP had 3,239 client visits. The organization provides emergency assistance, including food, clothing, lodging, fuel, transportation, prescription medications, rent, mentoring programs and referrals, to low-income residents.
To handle the increasing number of clients it serves, LIFT-UP's new building will be twice as large as the space it now uses.
Freseman said the building, at 2125 Curve Court, is crucial to the growth of the agency for several reasons.
"The cost of rent and the fact that the thrift store and food bank would sooner or later not be available to us," Freseman said. "We needed to consolidate everything in one place."
Having three Steamboat locations has been difficult, labor intensive and confusing to the community, he added.
"It is important to have one central, permanent location where everyone knows where to go," Freseman said.
LIFT-UP's Hayden and South Routt locations will remain in place.
The total budget for the building project is $1,311,216. A local fund drive raised $665,733. A $285,000 Community Devel--opment Block Grant from the Department of Local Affairs was used to purchase the land. Grants from the Gates Family Foundation, The Daniel Foun--dation, Adolph Coors Foun--dation and The Boettcher Foun--dation contributed $380,000.
The building is expected to be built within six to seven months.
The public is invited to Thursday's groundbreaking, during which there will be a brief ceremony.


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Don't be cross. This isn't about the football. This definitely isn't a prime example of some media know-nothing weighing in at a time of national pain with pointless and comfortless opinions, like an atheist popping up in the middle of the first world war to wonder whether or not heaven exists. I am merely using Wayne Rooney as a starting point - a kick-off (sorry ...) to a wider question about maturity, which is definitely not as important as football and also has nothing to do with sporting prowess of any kind.
This is a tantrumy type of man. Even before the recent sorrows, we knew that. Wherever footage of him exists and he's not actually playing football, he is harrumphing or sulking or throwing things, or merely taking off his shoes in a sulky way (to be able to invest an activity as neutral as de-shoeing with such speechful rage, I think it's safe to assume you've had some practice). And everybody says, "He's only 19", and you think, "Fair enough, that is pretty young", but before you know it, and as surely as you're about to turn 33, against all your better judgment, time has marched on and he's 20, and you think, "Hang on a second, would I have thrown my shoes at 20? Did I have any emotional continence? Did I have a poker face? I can't bloody remember."
It doesn't have to be Wayne. Choose a family member of criminal immaturity (I bet you have one; no more than a decade younger, not so much younger that he/she is actually a foreign country). The years pass; their maturity increases, or it doesn't. I guess it depends on stuff like, "Do they get sent on an outward adventure course?" "Does their telly ever break, for a prolonged period?" "Do they have a transformative experience with chronic pain?" You can never tell whether that's normal for the age they are, since there is no objective scale of such things and, moreover, you still can't remember.
Not only does this never get any easier, it gets substantially harder, since the older you get, the less you can remember, until eventually you will deny in the face of all evidence ever having been in your 20s. Other, younger people will arrive in your life, at a point of adulthood at which their maturity can be judged. It is a delight to meet them; they are so full of vim, plus they don't know anything, so you can quite literally make up news and history and invent celebrities. But is that normal? Is it normal not to know who Sue Lawley is? Hasn't everybody heard of the Bay of Pigs, even if they couldn't find it on a map? If they don't know, does that mean they might do a Wayne? One wrong look from you, and they might start pushing you very roughly?
Here's the benefit of my wisdom: write it down. Whatever your age, go away now and make a rough assessment of how mature you are, based loosely on the categories: probability of temper tantrum; ability to hold alcohol; forbearance and forgiveness; ability to tell whether clothes will suit you before you've bought them. Update it yearly. You will thank me for this, when you're older.


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2014-15 Men's Basketball Schedule
ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- The University of Michigan men's basketball team announced today (Wednesday, Aug. 6) the Wolverines will host the Ann Arbor Regional of the 2014 Legends Classic at Crisler Center before heading to Brooklyn, N.Y., for the championship round at the Barclays Center.
Michigan will host Bucknell on Monday, Nov. 17, and Detroit on Thursday, Nov. 20, as part of the Ann Arbor Regional. Times and television designations will be released at a later date. From there, the Wolverines will head to Brooklyn, N.Y., and the Barclays Center for the championship round. The trip to New York will mark the third straight year the Wolverines have competed at the Barclays Center.
U-M opens with a semifinal game on Monday, Nov. 24, against Oregon at 9 p.m. on ESPN3 followed by either the third-place or championship game on Tuesday, Nov. 25, against Villanova or VCU. The third-place game is scheduled for a 7:30 p.m. start on ESPNU, with the championship game to follow at 10 p.m. on ESPN2.
The Wolverines played in the 2010 Legends Classic hosting Bowling Green (W, 69-50; Nov. 18) and Gardner-Webb (W, 80-58; Nov. 21) in an Ann Arbor Regional before moving on to Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, N.J. U-M lost to Syracuse (L, 53-50, Nov. 26) and UTEP (L, 65-56; Nov. 27) in the championship round.
Overall, Michigan is 2-0 all-time at the Barclays Center after playing neutral site games against West Virginia (W, 81-66; Dec. 15, 2012) and Stanford (W, 68-65; Dec. 21, 2013).
With the release of the Legend Classic opponents, U-M's 12-game non-conference schedule is complete. The Big Ten schedule has yet to be announced as all dates, times and television designations are being finalized with the conference office.
Season-ticket renewals start at the beginning of August with a renewal deadline of Aug. 20. For additional information on 2014-15 men's basketball tickets, please be sure to sign up for Michigan Insider.
2014 Legends Classic | Bracket
Ann Arbor Regional
Crisler Center | Ann Arbor, Mich.
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Nov. 20 vs. Detroit
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Barclays Center | Brooklyn, N.Y.
Semifinal, Nov. 24
VCU vs. Villanova, 7 p.m. (ESPN2)
Michigan vs. Oregon, 9 p.m. (ESPN3)
Third-Place Game, Nov. 25
Loser VCU/Villanova vs. Loser Michigan/Oregon, 7:30 p.m. (ESPNU)
Championship, Nov. 25
Winner VCU/Villanova vs. Winner Michigan/Oregon, 10 p.m. (ESPN2)
Michigan Releases 2014 Non-Conference Schedule (July 15, 2014)
U-M to Host Syracuse for 2014 ACC/Big Ten Challenge (May 1, 2014)
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Retailers are pulling out all the stops to differentiate themselves in today's hyper-promotional, super-competitive shopping atmosphere. But which do you prefer when it comes to department store shopping? Do you like the game of collecting and using store coupons and store cash on specific sale days to lower that full ticket price, or would you rather just go without all the hassle and know you were getting the best regular price a store offers?
Well, beginning Feb. 1, JCPenney will be leaving the coupon-crazed likes of Kohl's and Macy's and joining ranks with Wal-Mart and Costco in an effort to offer consumers pricing without the craziness. No more coupons for $10 off a $10 purchase and no more door buster one-day deals.
"But do you really believe that's the best price you can get?" asks James Dion, president of DionCo, a Chicago-based retail consulting firm. "Everyday low prices works for Wal-Mart because they are in the business of consumables –- items you need regularly -– which is the reason you go there often. But we are now conditioned to go to Kohl's, JCPenney and Macy's only on specific one-day sale days with our pockets stuffed with coupons and we don't buy anything without earning or redeeming store cash," he says.
The only benefit to regular low pricing is that you will actually know how much your purchase will be without whipping out your cellphone to calculate the different sales with the coupons and your store cash on multiple items.
So, are you the type of shopper who likes to start with the high-ticket price and watch your coupons, promotions and store cash lower that price? Or, would you rather just walk into a store and know you were getting a great deal from the lower regular price on the ticket?


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By Mischaele Bearce
• East Lynne Fire Department had a water rescue for the week. Last week, we had the Board meeting with Jackie Groblebe, Terry and Anthony Faulkenberry, Roy Sparks, Max Schmoll, Connie Kudron, Mischaele and John Bearce, and Mike Davis present. There have been 58 responded calls for the year. General maintenance was done, switching out the old engine to the new engine.
• Happy birthday to Shane Boring, Julie Butler, Savana Hayward, Benny Uselton, Aiden Bowles, Joan Loescher, Kimber Vassar, Sandra Moore, Lisa Mitchell, Marie Darnell, Jocob Youmans and David Harrelson.
• Happy anniversary to Nic and Sara Carr, Shelly and Paul Kreimeyer, David and Tina Long, Jess and Michele Smalley.
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By Gail Lyon
• The Womens Retreat at the West Line Christian Church was June 14. There were a total of 59 ladies from 16 different churches. The theme was Gods Faithfulness. Some of the ladies left for awhile to attend the funeral of Josephine Mathews. Jo was so much a part of the Womens Retreat before her health failed several years ago. When her granddaughter was reading things that people remembered about Josephine, she mentioned that it was fitting for the retreat to be Saturday. Della Bailey organized the dinner for the Mathews family at the West Line Community building. Naomi Cook also contacted people from church for donations of food and other things needed for the dinner. Once again the community comes together like they always do. Thank you Della and Naomi.
• I attended my great-granddaughter Lillyn Millers 5th birthday party. It was at Lords Park in Harrisonville. Her grandma, Carla Lyon, made her cake. It was a yellow brick road that led to the Emerald City. Lilly was dressed up like Dorothy.
• I hope every father had a wonderful day.
• Brandi Barrett fixed dinner for her dad, Ray Barrett, and her brother, Joshua Barrett. The menu was pork ribs, green beans, twice baked potatoes, and cherry and blueberry cheesecake. Everyone enjoyed a very good dinner
• Happy Birthday: Rob Irvin 17th, Jessie Humbird 18th, Tim Lyon, Abby Lyon 21st.
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I eat gut shot deer, It just has a little extra smell to it. Just add a little more garlic
I eat gut shot deer, It just has a little extra smell to it. Just add a little more garlic
The older I get the better I was.
I dont think you will have a problem as long as it hasnt sat too long and you get it rinsed out quickly...
The butcher spoke, he will know best. I hunt with two butchers and the third (who taught me) does not hunt any longer. We have never thought twice about eating them. We try to get as little on the meat and wash them at times, but don't like to if we don't have to. We do let them air out after cutting a few hours on the deck if it is cool and in the shade or put them in the refrige if it is hot out. Just what we do.
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We used to take ours to grizzlys custom cutting in wny he processes all kinds of game. That said unless you take a bunch at once to most places your not getting your own back.
We cut grind mix all of ours. Only thing we don't do is make hot dogs and we are in the process of that as well. It takes about 50 lbs of chunk meat to guarantee you get your own back at most places.
Big time money saver to learn his to process your own. Start up costs suck but at 60 plus a deer it makes it up quick
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Same here. Never had a deer leave my sight from field to table. I gut shot a doe with a 10ga, she turned as I shot. 2oz slug went in her front right shoulder and exited her rear left quarter (through the bone). Field dressing was a nightmare, but got her home rinsed out with city water (never in a creek for me) and butchered the next day. Only lost some meat from entry and exit holes, anything that was contaminated. Actually just came across a pic of the old girl.You probably dont even get your own deer back. You think they crank up those saws to cut each deer?
I process mine from the time it drops till we eat it. No one... not one single person has ever complained about gamey tasting venison. In fact, my inlaws said that the venison I give them tastes completely different from everyone else who shares with them.Did you loose power to your freezer at some point?Funny you asked this question. I was wondering the same thing. I gut shot my buck this year. Had to let him go over night. It did get down in to the 40's overnight and I found him the next morning, still warm. I took him to the butcher and he said he cleaned out any meat that he would not eat. We took a roast out the other day and mixed up the stuff we usually do with a roast. When I got home from work, I could smell the roast and it smelled not very good. We ate it and realized, it did not taste very good either. We opened up some burger and cooked it too. Same smell as we were cooking it. We are unsure of what to do exactly. Any suggestions????
Clean it up as quick as you can and it should be fine. I butcher my own and if I come across any meat that I question do to smell it gets thrown in the freezer for trap bait.
I've nicked the guts on a few deer over the years that fortunately all died quickly and I agree with everyone here that you just wash it out and move on. These deer were all recovered within a few hours and cooled down fast; the meat was perfectly normal.
However 2 seasons ago I had a different experience. Shot a decent buck with my bow but he moved as I released and my arrow entered the paunch on one side and penetrated deeply into the hind quarter on the other side. Spooked him during initial tracking so I backed out until morning. Nightime temps were in the 30s.
Took up the chase at dawn but wasn't making much progress until our faithful Norwegian Elkhound Ursa focused my attention on a single spec of blood. Long story short, that led to discovery of the dead buck a couple hundred yards away along a nearby lakeshore around 1pm. Temp was around 50 degrees.
I tagged and gutted the buck and soon had it hanging and skinned. Pulled out the tenderloins and brought them into the kitchen for the wife to clean up, wrap and freeze while I continued cutting meat.
A little while later she came out with the tenderloins and reported "This stinks". She has a more sensitive nose than I do and upon closer inspection she was right. I kept cutting hoping it was just the tenderloins but all the meat on that deer stunk like sewer even the quarters not penetrated by my arrow.
My layperson's theory is that intestinal bacteria got into the bloodstream while the buck was still alive and was pumped into all of its tissues causing a systemic sepsis i.e. blood poisoning.
Never wasted a buck like that before and was sick about it...
So I recommend you trust your nose (or the sensitive nose of a loved one) and act accordingly. If you've ever had food poisoning you'll err on the side of caution believe me...
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I shot a doe through the intestines in 2000. Easy shot and I made a horrible hit on the deer by rushing my shot. Snuck out and left her overnite and found her next morning about 100 yards from where I shot her. She was laying on an island in a stream. Heavy frost so it got plenty cold at night. She was one of the best deer I've eaten.
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Here is a perspective from a guy who has been hunting all his life and is running his family's meat packing business which is in its 96th year.I know that if you gut shoot a deer and you have contamination of the local meat with the gastric contents you chop that off and throw it away. Lets say that you have had to let a deer lay over night, letting the infection take its toll and then recover your deer. As the infection spreads, it enters the blood so theoretically you have a completely contaminated deer. Does this affect the allocation of the deer meat, ie since it was gut shot only making ground meat that is going to be well cooked? I know I like my steaks both deer and beef around the rare-med rare so I would have a hard time eating steaks from a deer like that. Is this faulty thinking?
I've been skinning deer for over 40 years and i've seen just about everything and heard about everything when it comes to people not finding deer overnight.
You have to realize that when you let a deer in the woods overnight that is not gutted,the bacteria starts to grow,then the gas starts to build up in the deer,that's if it isn't gut shot.Even if the steam comes out of the inside of the deer the next day,you still have a certain amount of spoilage.What you don't know is when did this deer die ? How long has it been dead laying there with the nasty bacteria growing in it ? Ever heard of BOTULISM or E-COLI ?? In my experience when I discover that the deer had the guts in it overnight,I ask the customer,"Would you buy something from a meat market that smelled like this ?" OR "Is it really worth getting your family sick over ?" What is it that people just don't get about this I've had a deer brought in and showed the customer the green in the inside and he asks" Can you eat that ?" REALLY and then they stand there and argue that they can't smell anything ,and it's green and smells like deer guts. !!!
When a deer lays overnight the meat will look pale(not dark red like it should) and the fat if any on the deer will look pink or reddish colored(it should be white).Those are tell tale signs of the guts in a deer overnight,not to mention the gut smell.All the cooling and aging in the world will not get rid of the stink or bacteria left from guts in a deer too long.Even if it is in the teens for temp. overnight, the deer hair is such a good insulator that the heat can't get out of the carcass.The bigger the animal,the bigger chance of spoilage.When a deer spoils, it usually is in the hams,shoulders and on big deer,the neck.These places are where the meat is the thickest and it is the last place the heat gets out.
Ask your buddies you make sausage with if they want your deer meat that layed with the guts in it,, mixed with the rest of their good meat and see what they say !!
Yes,,sometimes the meat might be ok after it has layed with the guts in it,but I've seen too much and smelled too much rotten deer meat in my life to tell someone to go ahead and eat an overnight non gutted deer.
The bottom line is ,I won't let anyone eat anything I wouldn't eat myself and that seems to have been working for our plant for 96+ years.


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Xebec on Gunsnet is who made mine... I don't know if he goes by any other names on other boards though..
Is any one selling a tool or jig to use with a 12 ton press to remove the AK rear trunion pins, install and remove the barrel relatively safely? Someone mentioned somewhere that XEBEC sold such a tool? if not him anyone else? Thanks
Xebec on Gunsnet is who made mine... I don't know if he goes by any other names on other boards though..
If you have a press and a vise all you need is a pulley puller from autozone #25190. The press is all you need to put the barrel back in. When you say pins on the rear trunion, you mean rivits? Drill throught he center of them and punch them out.
Xebec (John) is a member here also.
You can PM or email him through this forum.
His barrel press kit is awesome, It also includes the tools to press out the barrel pin.
Thanks guys, you have been a big help.
I've got the Xebec press kit and can't imagine building without it!
That said, mbadboyz i've never seen a barrel pressed in like that before but it looks pretty straightforward. I may give that a try, as much as I like my press kit, using it to push the barrel back in is a pain "for me".


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Five Lady Vikings finished in double-figures scoring. Sophomore forward Latrice Cowart (Severn, MD/Meade High School) led the way with 17 points, 15 rebounds and six assists. Freshman forward Megan Baldwin (Glenmont/Bethlehem High School) had 16 points and 13 boards. Freshman guard Jocelyn Moy (Greenwich/Greenwich High School) added 15 points and nine assists while freshman guard Kate Collins (Troy/Tamarac High School) and sophomore guard Lindsay Frament (Troy/Catholic Central High School) contributed 12 and 10 points, respectively.
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I really do NOT use them, but some, like Weather, Sports, News, etc. I like as they put change on the Start Screen. However, over time, while they still change on the Start Screen, they fail to connect when opened. All I get it is the rotating Dot's.
This happened first on my wife's machine within 2 weeks of installing W8. Since it was a fairly new load and not much was done on it in terms of customization, a Windows Refresh fixed that, and she's not had a problem since.
On my machine I just noticed this a day or so ago. It could have been going on for a long time though.
Usual fix appears to be a change to default setting in UAC, which I had altered. Reset it to default. Didn't help. Video driver is also implicated.
I have an ATI Radeon and a W8 driver was released last week which I installed. OK, rolled that back, didn't fix it. Was on the MS Windows WDDM. Now since I went back to the ATI driver ROLLBACK doesn't show? W8 bug I guess? I'll probably UNINSTALL the ATI and let MS find its own driver, sigh...
OK, no real problem, I don't really use them, and the Live Tile part still works.
So I decide to UNINSTALL the troublesome one.
Idea, why not install them again? Ahh, some work, some, like Weather still do not? Odd?
I don't want to do the REFRESH, seems like a 'pain', all personalization set to default. Only keeps MS Store apps... says on the desktop will be a list of removed apps... but after 2 1/2 months of use I expect it to be a major pain putting that stuff back. Don't feel like 'playing' with my images to see when this happened either.
Anyone with a fool-proof answer, I'm all ears. BTW, MS used to have a FIXIT app, but none for W8 that I can find?
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Derek, ditto what Ross said.
Ross, spring last year was excellent. The vetch flow was great. That being said, you are about 15 miles West of me in the blackland, I am between Terrell and Canton in sandy soil. Have a friend that farms over 1000 acres near you (about 2 miles). Lots of wheat and corn. All his corn seed is treated with somekind of Neonicotinoid. However, that area is great for wildflowers and vetch leftover from when they used it as a Nitrogen fixer in the soil. Been thinking about putting a few hives in the Brushy creek bottoms. It is full of Mesquite and Honey Locust. This is only about 4 miles from the John Deere house.


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All of New York City's Democratic mayoral candidates and a handful of congressmen have asked a public college in Brooklyn to withdraw its political science department's co-sponsorship of a panel discussion on the movement to boycott, divest from and sanction Israel.
In a January 31 letter, the congress members and mayoral candidates decried the department's co-sponsorship of the February 7 event and urged its withdrawal "rather than send the message to [Brooklyn College] students and to the world that the divisive perspective offered by the organizing groups is Brooklyn College's official view. "
Corey Robin, a prominent Brooklyn College political science professor, pronounced himself "shocked" at what he and other critics of the politicians' letter see as a case of political interference in the academy.
Noting that the letter writers were pressing the president of Brooklyn College and the chairman of the political science department to withdraw the department's co-sponsorship, Robin said, "It doesn't really get much more concerning than that."
Brooklyn College has so far stood by its professors. "We as an institution are not going to tell members of our faculty what they can and cannot choose to support," Jeremy Thompson, Brooklyn College spokesman, told Channel 7, New York's local ABC affiliate.
A spokesman for Rep. Jerry Nadler, the Upper West Side Jewish politician who initiated the letter, said that it wasn't an attempt to limit speech, but rather an objection to the political science department's co-sponsorship of the event.
"Any professor who would want to speak on an issue, we'd never limit that. Any student who wanted to, we wouldn't limit that," said Ilan Kayatsky, a Nadler spokesman. "The appearance was that they have given the college's imprimatur to this event…on a very controversial, sensitive issue to many."
In their letter, Nadler and his co-signers argued that by cosponsoring an event on the hot button issue featuring only speakers who support the BDS movement, "the Political Science Department has actually stifled free speech by preventing honest, open debate."
This isn't the first time that New York City officials have attempted to involve themselves in the workings of the City University of New York, the publicly funded institution of which Brooklyn College is a part
In 1991, Governor Mario Cuomo asked CUNY to discipline Leonard Jeffries, a tenured CUNY professor who had made inflammatory remarks about Jews. And in 2011, former New York City mayor Ed Koch called on CUNY trustee Jeffrey Wiesenfeld to resign after Wiesenfeld attempted to block the university's John Jay College of Criminal Justice from awarding an honorary degree to playwright Tony Kushner. Wiesenfeld objected to Kushner's criticism of Israel in some of his work.
"He's obsessed. He's obsessed with the state of Israel," Koch said of Wiesenfeld in an interview with the Forward at the time.
Nineteen New York City politicians signed the January 31 letter, including mayoral candidates Christine Quinn, John Liu, Bill de Blasio, and Bill Thompson. Public Advocate candidates Tish James and Dan Squadron also signed, as did U.S. Representatives Hakeem Jeffries, Nydia Velazquez, and Yvette Clarke.
The press release from Nadler's office announcing the letter called the signatories "progressive Brooklyn and citywide elected officials."
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