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Letter Reflects Psychotic Break by Criminal Police Mob
By Gordon Duff, Senior Editor
Once upon a time, we used to hear stories about heroic police. Because of Oakland, a department that fired lethal high-velocity ordnance into a peaceful crowd, police are unlikely to ever be considered heroes again. Heroes are those people who stand up against police and for America.
Heroes are those who stand against those who serve "the reptile."
Reptiles? There can be no other explanation, insects are too social, even the black widow spider only kills its mate, it doesn't strive to devour a planet.
The Oakland Police, the ones I saw, belong in prison, not on the "paid for eating donuts" role, the form of "semi-welfare" that many civil employees join, police, city commissioners, many county veterans service officers and so many others who abuse authority or spend their lives hiding behind administrative rules and voice mail.
Injustice goes further than just Wall Street and Washington, it comes to every town and village in America. In American cities, mob rule has been the norm since the British kicked the Dutch out of New Amsterdam. Government is and always has been an expression of organized crime.
Investigating police and municipal officials takes of the efforts of thousands of Federal agents each year who are, often as not, told to keep their "hands off." Public graft is considered a franchise, a reward for helping rig elections.
The police I saw in Oakland were the rioters they complain about in their letter.
Defending America? Occupy Wall Street protesters were doing that. It was fairly peaceful in New York City this weekend.
My daughter was at OCW. She made it pretty clear what the primary problem is there, starving Americans.
OCW was feeding the homeless, not their own members, mind you, but the endless homeless that now are found across America. We are told 25% are veterans, we know the numbers are higher. Rudy Giuliani used to round them up and ship them out of town.
In Los Angeles, they report several thousand homeless. Our records show the Los Angeles region has a minimum of 6,000 homeless veterans alone.
With Veterans Today involved, along with the ACLU and major law firms, we have taken the Federal Government to court to force them to spend some of the billions of tax dollars earmarked to help homeless veterans instead of steal the money for themselves.
Stealing money meant for veterans is an American tradition, mentioned last week in Boardwalk Empire, the HBO hit television show.
While working on the story, Veterans Administration Police came to us complaining that their supervisors and top VA administrators had ordered them to make illegal arrests, forge documents, commit dozens of crimes.
This was reported to the FBI. Nothing was done so now we have taken them to court.
Then accountants for the VA came to us and said that the Veterans Administration officials had set up phony medical laboratories, empty offices, where real medical work was sent, but never done.
We believe this is going on across the country, the Department of Veterans Affairs being bilked out of tens or hundreds of millions or more by crooked employees protected by the veil of administration, almost as though they were Oakland Police.
A minor reminder. If you think you know history because you went to college, think again. A current scam, financed by the banksters and their army of paid liars who fill the internet, the newspapers, fill television with fiction as truth.
It's all part of the mental conditioning to maneuver free humans into generations of slaves, the idea that America was never meant to be a democracy. They say it is a "republic."
What they mean is that they have been paid to convince people that only rich people have rights, the rights to send to war but not fight, to tax and spend but never pay, the right to steal but never pay for their crimes.
Are they right? Of course, history has proven that justice is bought and sold like any other commodity and that universities exist to rubber stamp the lies that help the control the planet.
Send your kids of college and they come out robots, hoping to worm their way into "middle management".
If they are without conscience and sufficiently criminal, they may become hedge fund managers or start some insurance scam of their own, robbing the elderly or stealing people's homes.
The last generation of business school grads taught America to send jobs overseas, set up a "service economy" and flood the nation with illegal immigrants.
They were taught that deregulation was the key to everything and that imaginary capital, traded in wildly speculative systems without rules, was the path to a lifestyle of excess and power.
The generation before than only snorted cocaine off the abdomens (and elsewhere) of high priced call girls. They actually paid for the cocaine, brought into the US by the CIA, paid for the hookers. This was the last really great generation of honest Americans.
Banks are a good place to start, the real center of evil. Banks represent a worldwide crimewave that operates governments. Banks orchestrate wars, not just Afghanistan, but World War I and II, Vietnam, the Cold War, but they really started hundreds of years before that.
The history we teach, of battles and assassinations and alliances, isn't history at all, its deception.
Wars were always between banks over money and the "incidents" that started the wars, from Pearl Harbour to 9/11 were nothing but theatre.
Yes, people died. If money rules, and money does rule, then the lives of people are nothing. People are disposable, capital has all power, this is the nature of the disease.
Some in America have called it Federalism, some call it the New World Older. It is served by organizations with a hundred names, the highest levels of Freemasonry, the Catholic Church, Israel and Switzerland, (people do live there, but only as "cover").
There is a bizarre idea that the world needs to be sucked dry, everything of value, even the oxygen has to be taken away, the land defiled, the human population debased, the animals caged and tortured, all in service of strange theories more reptilian than human.
The great religions exist as a farcical backdrop, oblivious and silent while all this goes on.
The real entertainment, the real addiction, even more than the thousands of tons of narcotics the globalist cabal floods our societies with, pours into our schools, is cruelty itself.
The media exists to peddle fear and hate, ethnic, race, class. It is more than that, we are being systematically dehumanized to live in a "science fiction" world. Turn on the television. Vampires and zombies, all day.
When it's not that, its spies and conspiracies, flooding our fictional lives with the shadow of our real one, numbing us to the corruption and disease around us.
The treatment of Veterans is a microcosm for the reality of society, American society in particular. Veterans are humans sent off to kill other humans.
The purpose? Veterans eat food, use up weapons, all generating capital which accumulates in the hands of the 1%.
The wars themselves, the rational illusory, mythical, more honestly, are always lies.
Wars to protect democracies that never existed from political and social movements that saw things differently, that didn't worship money above people.
That is always the reason for war. Read Smedley Butler. If you haven't, do it. One page is enough.
War is a crime, whose purpose is to steal money, to help enslave people and America is, were one to push past the myth of history, past the movies of the holocaust, past the theories, past the fictions…America is invariably at war against injustice it has itself created or fighting to impose injustice on others.
When faced with evaluating the attacks on the ultra-corrupt Libyan regime, one that appeared to some to be standing against tyranny. But under close examination, it proved as so often the case, was nothing but window dressing for tyranny, some balked.
Some thought two wars were enough. Others automatically assumed that if America were fighting, it had to be wrong.
A madman was leveling cities with heavy artillery and many found themselves paralyzed with mistrust. That, in itself, is a symptom. This is what "preconditioning" is all about.
We are told 3,000 have died in Syria. We are also told we can't intervene, more like 30,000 may actually have died. Why? Well, Gaddafi in Libya was loaded with money which he shared with the banks. It bought him months.
Syria? Russia defends their air with sophisticated weapons and stops any UN vote to protect Russia's only port on the Mediterranean.
As for the Syrian people? They have been slaves for generations, slaves of the Ottomans, slaves of the French and now slaves of Assad. Syria is interesting, at least to VT.
We have the ability to "follow the cash" as we are an organization of burned out former NWO thugs.
Iran is an odd nation. I broadcast there daily, am read in their papers, I even defend them, quite often actually.
I know them to not be the threat, not be the people Americans are told. They and the people of Afghanistan and Iraq and Pakistan are among my friends. Our next generation may learn that, share that friendship, if we don't kill everyone first. I give the chances at 50/50.
Syria, an area where hypocrisy has taken so many turns that no side knows another anymore. Franklin Lamb was there a couple of days ago, we have been discussing it, as I have with many others. I am amazed.
Turkey wants to attack Syria over problems with war crimes and refugees, we are told. Iran and Hizbollah, both on American terror lists are helping Syria. Russia is flying in "technicians."
Syria is a daily bloodbath, real people fighting for freedom for sure, but everyone else in the world interfering as well. That still, as with Libya, doesn't change things. The Assad government, though one of the few not enslaved to Washington and Tel Aviv, can no longer honestly rule.
We are told how much Israel, the tiny nation that controls America, hates Syria. Then our spies, and we have so many, begin to unravel something else.
Syria and Israel have secret "protocols" of cooperation.
Iran and Israel share the same, exposed by VT last week, plans to enrich each other with oil speculation through a ruse of war so dangerous it threatens the entire world.
Behind it all, as the armies that march the streets of the world figured out, are the Banks.
The names may be Jewish, the passports Israeli, the arch-criminals may be the Bush family or the Rothschilds, or the Swiss or French. They may be the arms manufacturers or big oil, the Freemasons or the Catholic Church.
The armies of thugs are clear as day, police departments, the CIA, the Pentagon and the police and security services, the armies of dozens of nations tasked with cruelty and corruption they will never understand, never fathom, only blindly serve for a crust of bread and a pat on the back by a reptilian overseer.
I leave you with the letter from the Oakland police, a document demonstrating the delusion of a few tasked with defending a people they are not a part of, of enforcing laws they themselves don't obey, of serving a country they betray with their very existence.
Do I damn everyone because there is nothing left of America but serving the oppressors, getting coffee for the bankster cheats, repossessing homes, selling defective products, delivering poisoned medicines?
Or how about their taking part in the fastest growing of them all, the machinery of slavery, the press, the internet, the media, the entertainment industry, those tasked with conditioning the slaves with crushing the spirit, with selling the dream, your chance of serving the reptile.
An Open Letter to the Citizens of Oakland from the Oakland Police Officers' Association
1 November 2011 – Oakland, Ca.
We represent the 645 police officers who work hard every day to protect the citizens of Oakland.
We, too, are the 99% fighting for better working conditions, fair treatment and the ability to provide a living for our children and families.
We are severely understaffed with many City beats remaining unprotected by police during the day and evening hours.
As your police officers, we are confused.
On Tuesday, October 25th, we were ordered by Mayor Quan to clear out the encampments at Frank Ogawa Plaza and to keep protesters out of the Plaza.
We performed the job that the Mayor's Administration asked us to do, being fully aware that past protests in Oakland have resulted in rioting, violence and destruction of property.
Then, on Wednesday, October 26th, the Mayor allowed protesters back in – to camp out at the very place they were evacuated from the day before.
To add to the confusion, the Administration issued a memo on Friday, October
28th to all City workers in support of the "Stop Work" strike scheduled for
Wednesday, giving all employees, except for police officers, permission to take
the day off.
That's hundreds of City workers encouraged to take off work to participate in
the protest against "the establishment."
But aren't the Mayor and her Administration part of the establishment they are paying City employees to protest? Is it the City's intention to have City employees on both sides of a skirmish line?
It is all very confusing to us.
Meanwhile, a message has been sent to all police officers: Everyone, including those who have the day off, must show up for work on Wednesday.
This is also being paid for by Oakland taxpayers. Last week's events alone cost Oakland taxpayers over $1 million.
The Mayor and her Administration are beefing up police presence for Wednesday's work strike they are encouraging and even "staffing," spending hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars for additional police presence –
At a time when the Mayor is also asking Oakland residents to vote on an $80 parcel tax to bail out the City's failing finances.
All of these mixed messages are confusing. We love Oakland and just want to do our jobs to protect Oakland residents.
We respectfully ask the citizens of Oakland to join us in demanding that our City officials, including Mayor Quan, make sound decisions and take responsibility for these decisions.
Oakland is struggling – we need real leaders NOW who will step up and lead – not send mixed messages. Thank you for listening.
Editor's Note: Dear Oakland Police Officers Association. Ah….Mixed messages??? This is one of the stupidest letters I have ever read in my life.
The only shot you had was to refuse orders to use violence on the protestors…you and the Sherif's deputies. I can assure you that our readers, many of them veterans are going to help you out as much as we can supporting criminal prosecutions for all those in the chain of command who were responsible. Jim W. Dean
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52 Responses to "OCW Primer: Oakland Police – Serving the Reptile"
The Oakland police seem to like picking on vets. I'd kind of like to see the vets pick on the Oakland police.
OccupyMarines believes that either ESU Officer Scott Bergstresser threw the grenade that injured Scott Olsen or he knows who did.
AMERICA has cancer….FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.
"There's class warfare, all right, Mr. (Warren) Buffett said, but it's my class, the rich class, that's making war, and we're winning."
"There has been class warfare going on," Buffett, 81, said in a Sept. 30 interview with Charlie Rose on PBS. It's just that my class is winning. And my class isn't just winning, I mean we're killing them."
Yah Past time the protesters screaming about911.
Occupy or Die…
Every soldier should read Smedley Butler, before he fights in foreign lands. In fact every citizen should read him period.
I guess u could expect police brutality anywhere on this planet where their are cops but its gotten really bad here in the states recently (or more likely its always been bad) and almost none of it gets reported.
Be weary of cities that dont require or have protocol to document every stop made by a suited officer of the law especially if u are black or mexican or look poor (most blacks and mexicans already aware of this). I have began to wonder if these municipalities that have laxed police reporting requirements have done so in effort to reduce crime statistics reports to make their cities seem safer than they really are… kinda like how the educational boards have made easier questions on standardized tests to make it seem yer children might have a braipoorthe perfect climate to for corrupt cops to beat u up (if u are poor or minority)…. no report necessary! Maybe its all by design stupid people with crazy cops.. the usa of the future or i guess we're pretty much their now
Anyhow u throw in budget cuts, lower wages for cops, higher crime, structural unemployment and a pinch of homeland security.. its pretty damn easy to see how a cop might become confused….
I appreciate the oakland PD's statement… it semed sincere and honest to me… thx for sharing it here..more police departments need to come out and say they are confused! Protect and serve the rich aint easy when so many people in the poorhouse!
"Syria is interesting, at least to VT. We have the ability to "follow the cash" as we are an organization of burned out former NWO thugs. "
That must be why I love this site.
Our Jeremiah. A voice of morality. Salut.
Gordon you speak from the heart
I'm not sure what the article is saying. I thought the letter was a good gesture, albeit too little too late. I actually posted the letter on my FB and the 'symbol' of the police association came up it was:
C (cubed) i (cubed) ???
What kind of symbol is that? Kinda, thought twice about the letter when I saw that.
Technically the Oakland police are not part of the 1% but they make big salaries due to their union power which really harms the city's budget. Their big salaries, benefits and pensions take a ton of money which could be used to help the citizens. Their powerful union, just like in many cities, especially medium and large cities, uses its political clout to gain big contracts. Politicians don't want to run for election without the approval of the powerful police, fire fighters or teachers unions in many cities across the nation.
Pricey police hold Oakland budget hostage
Written by Alan Lopez
Wednesday, 30 June 2010
Excerpts from the article:
As Oakland struggles with a $31 million budget deficit, much of the focus has been on the generous salaries and benefits provided to the city's police officers. The average annual cost of salary and benefits for one police officer is $190,589 compared to $177,888 for one firefighter, according to a letter written by Councilwoman Pat Kernighan. Starting police officers in Oakland earn about $70,000 a year, compared to those in New York City who make about $44,000 a year.
During good economic times, the Oakland Police Officers Association negotiated a contract in which police officers do not pay money into their pensions, unlike civilian employees and firefighters.
Under the current "3 percent at 50" pension formulas, a 30-year police veteran can retire with close to 90 percent of their last year's salary. Paying the police pensions costs the city $8 million to $9 million a year, said City Councilwoman Jean Quan.
"That's why we can't balance the budget unless we cut the police somehow," said Quan, a candidate for Oakland mayor in this November's election.
Brian: The article was written in June 2010. It's amazing how many powerful public employee unions have their contracts expire during an election year; this helps ensure they get their raises. The news media describe police, firefighters and teachers as heroes and fail to mention many of them, especially in medium and large cities, are members of greedy unions. Yes, it does depend on the union and the location. Yes, I realize in some portions of the country they are underpaid.
Teachers make big salaries in California and have amazing benefit and pensions due to their union clout with politicians. Government employee unions are a major financial problem for California cities and for the state of California.
Union hater. You work for The Koch brothers. You are trying to shift blame from billionaires onto working people. Screw you. Working people are NOT the problem. Billionaire bankers and their scum buddies in DC are the problem.
Do you realize many cities have significantly reduced the number of police and fire fighters and services to the elderly and others due to the outrageous salaries/benefits/pensions of these people who laugh all the way to the bank. People will die because of the cutbacks. I'm focusing on cities and states, do your homework. However, unions are not the only problem.
When I worked in the automated material handling systems industry as an analyst I was appalled at how much overall compensation these assembly line workers and others were paid. The cost goes into the price of the cars. Yes, the white collar workers are also greedy. Greed is everywhere not just bankers. When unions were at their peak they were either the third or fourth largest cause of inflation, depending on the economist. This hurts the little guy.
I do like the concept of unions but not the greed which hurts the average person.
UNION LOVER= ANTI FREE ENTERPRISE=COMMUNIST COLLECTIVIST MENTALITY. Everyone has the right to decide if they want to work for someone or not. We don't NEED unions. Anyone willing to work for substandard wages is a fool and sadly enough that is what real life is all about. Some people are fools. I'd say refuse to work for less than you are worth. Who needs a union to tell you that?
Reptilians… the species that shows no remorse or emotion. We all laughed at David Icke when he said that Reptilians were running the world, now Duff seems to be embracing that same belief…
When you go to the Zoo, you can observe all 3 forms of the human mind. After watching and observing for hours, you can look back at the humans at the zoo a see what part of the mind they are operating from.
As much as the world was 300 years ago, today it still remains the same. The same people that have owned everything, still own most everything today (Rothschild's Banking Cartel, Nobility and the Vatican). The only thing that has changed is the players & the game/illusion. Any future that is sold to us by them, their agents or representation will only be the next illusion/game. Humanity needs to make a decision soon, do we free ourselves from servitude and create a new world system of equality or do we except their hierarchy criminal police state.
Visiblity = Truth ——————– Secrecy = Falsehood
Reptilian=PSYCHOPATH. Isn't it easier just to say PSYCHOPATH. Psychopath's have no conscience. 6% of the population are psychopath. DO you know what that means for the rest of us? We either are going to have to take the incentive and do what it takes or else we will go down in history like the rest of humanity has for the past 8,000 years. Ruled by PSYCHOPATHS.
It is incumbent for Police Officers to uphold the rule of law, not break it. Using non-lethal weapons in a lethal way is against the rule of law. The police had no right of law to break-up a peaceful demonstration, so challenging the Mayor would have been the thing to do in a decent society. Civil disobedience in the face of being ordered to perform an illegal act is the cornerstone of a free society.
I have nothing but praise for the OWS Movement and it's courageous people. At least not everyone is going down without a fight.
I think the Oakland Police make a reasonable case that they, too, are being manipulated and used by the reptilians, zionists or whatever they are. That's how the zionists operate, by keeping everyone so confused that they do their (the zionists) bidding without even realizing it.
I'm not really defending the Oakland PD. But still, they are like soldiers FOLLOWING orders, not the ones giving them who are the REAL source of evil, as any soldier with half a brain knows.
They make personal choices to lob flash/bangs and fire cannisters ……
Plus can't they figure this sh*t out for themselves ….cummon………
"the REAL source of evil, as any soldier with half a brain knows"
Does this mean that cops have less than "half a brain"….
it takes alot to overcome the brainwashing, extensive in thier case, we have all endured. Just another piece of evidence that OWS is WAKING PEOPLE, including thier direct oppressors, UP
mercenaries. offer more money.
@ Jon Jon
"the REAL source of evil, as any soldier with half a brain knows"
Does this mean that cops have less than "half a brain"….
Yep! apparently common sense is the least common in North America.
How many Dunkin' Donuts does a Pinkerton Thug have to eat before they can freely (without criminal penalty) undermine citizens' constitutional rights, feloniously assault protestors operating under the First Amendment to the Constitution, engage in criminal conspiracy and commit attempted murder against troops who have returned home from serving our country?
Wow "confused" cops ……aren't they trained to figure sh*t out …….like investigate ….holy fork …..
???…. if you are having a "Peaceful Protest" why are cops called in with unpeaceful intent….?????
????…. "Peaceful Protest"!!!!!! NO police presents needed…????
Oakland is a tough city, which has more than its share of police brutality on any given day., and the police have a very difficult job do in that city, especially now. The Occupy Wall Street Movement is not honest and it's not been peaceful, which has given rise to conflict. These OWS folks are not peaceful "occupiers" sitting in city parks, they are mobs of angry people expressing their hatred and resentment by invading city business angrily shouting at innocent employees, as well as marching through and blocking public city streets angrily denouncing capitalism. The radical leftist and Otpor nature of OWS's philosophy and tactics are evident for all to see, and I agree with the police: "we need real leaders". What we don't need is more anger, more violence, and more polarization, which is OWS. We need love, peaceful protest, and unity, which was Dr King. OWS is not using the nonviolent philosophy and nonviolent tactics of Dr King, whom OWS falsely claims as their inspiration; OWS is using the philosophy of Marxism and the "nonviolent" tactics of Gene Sharp. King broke unjust segregation laws and had them eliminated. OWS is breaking just laws which will never be eliminated (e.g., living in public parks, disturbing the peace, inciting a riot, trespassing). This difference is all important: it's the difference between truth and lies, peace and violence, justice and injustice. OWS is on the wrong side of all these. Please see this article I wrote concerning OWS and Occupy Oakland if your interested in more of my thinking on this subject: http://ajmacdonaldjr.wordpress.com/2011/10/31/ows-occupy-oakland-lumpenproletariat-mobs-incited-to-revolt-against-the-capitalist-ruling-class/
AJ hows D.C working out for you ………..
" This difference is all important: it's the difference between truth and lies, peace and violence, justice and injustice."
Try cleaning your own back yard of what you call ("This Difference") first before you go after others actions ….
Hell D.C is the center of "lies violence and injustice"
matter fact AJ…. if D.C was anything but this outrage would not even be …..
A bit of trivia…a few years ago a movie called "Independence Day" was viewed where aliens attacked earth. When DC was blasted, the people in the theatre clapped. And that was a theatre in Arkansas, not Solmolia.
AJ MacMuffin,
Thinks are just coming apart now, not too much longer. How's the clan doing these days? Just wait until the info comes out, timing is important….
I'll have to take you fishing one of these times, we have special fishing group. I have been fishing with this group for many years, and all over the globe. The secret is using small bait, to catch the middle size fish, and then using them as bait to catch the big fish. Some of our guys prefer this method, although some like to chop the middle size fish in little pieces, and then throw the pieces in to attract the bigger fish. Strange thing, some guys don't like to fish, they just like gutting the big fish, while others like frying them.
Hell, the group is so skilled, they only fish at night. Getting ready to plan another trip….soon.
You can join us if you like. Have to be very quite at night.
That's why I keep coming back…..thanks marine.
Are you trying to say that OWS needs to commit genocide, murder and rob American citizens and bribe congress in order to protest? And just to clarify, things never got ugly and violent durring the civil rights movement. Rojer, got it.
Actually AJ I'm not interested in reading more of your thinking so I'll pass on the link, thanks. People have every right to be angry and personally, I'm sick of being polite.
ok. i'm all over it. but, can't we have a legit cause? why not "do" wash, dc? why not "do" the pentagon? you have a problem with the oil companies? let's "protest" there! do everything "war" related! running sandwich shops, and starbucks out of business isn't "helpn g".
No. The fight is being taken to the big boys on Wall St. People are in DC too its just not getting as much coverage. There was a big campaign to Occupy DC and it was scheduled for early October 2011 but Wall St started in September and kind of pulled the momentum in that direction. That's ok DC gets huge funding from the bankers. Hit them and you get 2 birds with 1 stone.
"government is and always has been an expression of organized crime." on this occasion I'll take a moment to do what they do on European news, sit back and reflect without comment. FYI, I likes it.
by the way g …love the intro pic…….just a beaut …….
I put it this way…GOVERNMENT is the DISEASE masquerading as the cure.
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Roth Capital Cuts Avid Technology to Hold
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Roth Capital downgraded Avid Technology (AVID) to hold from buy, noting the company's quarterly results.
Avid Technology recently posted 6 cents vs. 37 cents second quarter earnings per share (EPS.)
Analyst Richard Ingrassia says 34 cents pro forma EPS is a penny ahead of the consensus and guidance. He says this ends a string of three consecutive misses, thanks to a flurry of new products and an unexpected tax credit. However, fiscal year 2006 revenue guided to the low end of the $940 million to $970 million range; pro forma EPS guidance fell to $1.97 from $2.28. He also says Pinnacle consumer sales remain a drag on revenue growth and EPS. He feels the sudden inflection is unlikely: Avid continues to battle downmarket pricing trends with more frequent upgrades and higher-volume software products. He cut his $50 stock price target to $41.

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Colo. parents warn others about infant botulism
DENVER - The parents of a 5-month-old Colorado baby recovering from botulism are warning others about the fairly rare and potentially fatal disease.
Keona Hinkel has been on a breathing machine at the Rocky Mountain Hospital for Children for two weeks but doctors said Wednesday that she's improving.
Botulism is caused by bacteria that grow inside a baby's gastrointestinal tract. They can come from spores in contaminated soil or honey or having infrequent bowel movements.
Doctors think indirect honey exposure or contaminated soil from a home under renovation may have caused Keona's botulism.
She wasn't fed honey but mother Kari Hinkel said that she cooked with honey. It's possible she touched her daughter with it or it got on her pacifier. The immune systems of babies under a year old can't fight spores in honey.


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Google is to start building "self driving" cars with no controls other than a start/stop button.
The technology giant is to create 100 test vehicles and described the project as "an important step toward improving road safety and transforming mobility for millions of people".
It is planned that the two seater electric "robo cars" will have no steering wheels or brake and accelerator pedals and the only intervention that "drivers" can make is to start or stop. Google said testing showed it was safer to remove conventional controls altogether rather than keep a manual override.
However, the early prototypes will have controls so test drivers can take over if there is a glitch and also to comply with Californian road laws.
The cars will have a maximum speed of just 25 mph and are designed as local "runarounds" rather than for long distance journeys. It has a screen showing the route and an array of laser and radar sensors and camera data so the car's computer can "see" its surroundings and react to changing circumstances such as a cyclist pulling out.
Other features include a soft foam like front end where the bumper would normally be and a flexible windscreen to reduce the risk of serious injuries to pedestrians in a collision.
Google co-founder Sergey Brin, revealing the plans in California earlier today, said the aim is for self-driving cars to be "significantly" safer than human-driven cars in a few years. He said that that the protoype cars had experienced no crashes during 700,000 miles of testing,
Chris Urmson, director of the company's self-driving project said: "We're really excited about this vehicle - it's something that will allow us to really push the capabilities of self driving technology, and understand the limitations,
Google says it expects its self-drive cars to be on the road "within a year" and ready for public use between 2017 and 2020.
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So-Called "God Particle" Found, Scientists Confirm
A newfound particle discovered at the world's largest atom smasher last year is indeed a Higgs boson, a subatomic particle that plays a role in giving other particles their mass, scientists reported Thursday at the annual Rencontres de Moriond conference in Italy.
Physicists announced on July 4, 2012, that, with more than 99 percent certainty, they had found a new elementary particle weighing about 126 times the mass of the proton that could be the long-sought Higgs boson. The Higgs is sometimes referred to as the "God particle," to the chagrin of many scientists, who prefer its official name.
But the two experiments, CMS and ATLAS, hadn't collected enough data to say the particle was, for sure, the Higgs boson, the last undiscovered piece of the puzzle predicted by the Standard Model, the reigning theory of particle physics.
Now, after collecting two and a half times more data inside the Large Hadron Collider -- where protons zip at near light-speed around the 17-mile-round (27-kilometer-round) underground ring beneath Switzerland and France -- physicists say the particle is "a Higgs boson." But they can't yet rule out the possibility that other Higgs bosons exist as well. [In Photos: Searching for the Higgs Boson]
"The preliminary results with the full 2012 data set are magnificent and to me it is clear that we are dealing with a Higgs boson, though we still have a long way to go to know what kind of Higgs boson it is," CMS spokesperson Joe Incandela said in a statement.
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... rucksacs from the roof before the bus drove off presumably to a waiting troop of blind chimps to undergo more running repairs. Chandigarh occupies the unique position of being the capital of both the Punjab and Haryana. It was conceived in the 1950s ...
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Shenzhen, Guangdong, China – January 27, 2012 – Wondershare Software Inc. announced recover software for the iPhone, a new software package that will greatly simplify the recovery process for the Apple iPhone.
There is now a solution for those who need to recover lost files from their iPhones. It very easy to accidentally lose or delete files on the iPhone and when it happened it very frustrating trying to recover those lost files. With a simple solution Wondershare is able to restore your files and get back important information that you might have thought were gone forever. Now you can get back your photos, videos, contacts, SMS, calendar, notes and call history when you accidentally delete them. This solution works with iPhone 5, iPhone 4S, iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS or older models. Wondershare Software makes this solution available for Mac or PC with a quick download you are able to connect your phone to the computer to start the recovery process. Working with iSync the recovery software identifies the backup file and makes it easy to restore to your phone. Wondershare Dr.Fone software is the key that bridges with iSync and your phone. If you take your phone to a repair shop it can be very expensive to restore your phone. The data recovery for iphone from Wondershare is now available for all consumers even those without computer skills can recover data from the iPhone.
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Company specializes in software to assist with the recovery of lost iPhone files. For more information, visit http://www.wondershare.com/disk-utility/iphone-data-recovery.html
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|Chf2...thanks for the clarification...Sometimes the sea gods smile on us all!!
Having kept my old Islander 28 in Barngat Bay for 10 years I can count the number of time I went in the inlet in the afternoon. Out in the AM is usually never a problem, but the afternoon with the SE onshore breeze and the tide heading out leads to 10-15 ft breakers across the inlet onto those jetties or the old submerged one.
We hit it on a perfect day and were prepared to go on to Atlantic city tilll 9 PM. I was prepared to go back out the inlet as i came in if it looked ominous...it was gentle as apussycat....go figure. Its reputation however is well deserved.
|Welcome Home, sounds like a great time, post some pictures. I'll have to check out your dingy/davit rig.
|Dave...great report and congrats on the trip. I've never been brave enough to try Barnegat! Glad you all had a good time.
NYC from Rock Creek and back
We are back from our trip to NYC.Trip to Cape May was uneventfull. Up the coast of NJ first to Atlantic City (my old stomping ground), Manesquan Inlet ( will never do again as there is absolutely no place to comfortably anchor) to seeing the majestic Statue of Liberty as we rounded the corned of Coney Island coming in from Sandy Hook at 9+ knots (15 knott wind + 2 knot current) Seeing the Lady come into view as the immigrints must have sans the Verrizanno Narrows Bridge was inspiring. Liberty Landing Marina was perfect just next to Ellis Island. At night there was a band with the lit Manhattan Skyline behind it.
We stayed an extra day as the winds were on the bow at 30 knots and took the $7 water taxi ride to the financial district in Manhattan and spent the day. You have to ask Donna how we looked lugging a watermelon through NYC for 5 hours in new luggage we bought on Canal Street. (We ate 4 whole watermelons on our trip)
Our trip back south we had a broad reach fromt he Statue to the Atlantic at 20 knotss then another one down the coast. HIt Manesquan at 11:30 AM after leaving NYC at 7 AM and kept going. Went in Barnegat (very calm for the trecherous inlet it is) and had an amazing anchorage behind the lighthouse with 15 other sailboats. Pictureesque. Short 25 miles to Atlantic City the next day. The day after 20 miles out in the Atlantic Ocean then screaming in at 8+ knotts to Cape May with many many dolfins crisscrossing in front and swimming with us.
Dinner at the Ebbit Room (Virginia Hotel) and the next night at 410 Bank St in Cape May fattened us up for un unforgettable 40 mph+ squall line in the middle of Delaware Bay with square waves of 6-8 ft blown up in 20 minutes. Under iron genny we could only manage 1 knott headway for almost 2 hours.
Made it through the canal and anchored at sunset in outer part the Bohemia River entrance on the south side in front of a beautiful farm and a picture perfect evening and ending night to our trip. 5 Hours to the Maryland Yacht Club on Tuesday. This was a great trip for Donna for her first ocean cruising experience and would recommend the itinerary for anyone with 10-12 days and even kids.
Chef...I have a geat system for rigging the dinghy so it never swings and never makes a noise. Come over and check it out at your leisure. Davits work great.
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Fairfield Police are investigating a sexual assault they believe to be connected to three other incidents that have occurred in the last month.
Around 8:25 p.m. on Sept. 3, a 17-year-old girl was sexually assaulted in Fairfield. She was jogging in the area of Westamerica Drive and Sandstone Way when a man approached her asking for directions. The man then sexually assaulted her. The teen fought back and was able to run from the area.
The description she gave of her attacker matches a description of a suspect Fairfield Police are looking for in connection to three incidents that happened last month. The suspect is said to have made inappropriate comments to a woman on Aug. 2, in the area of Northwood Drive and Lopes Road before the woman was able to get away from him. He has also allegedly committed two sexual batteries in the first week of August. In the early afternoon of Aug. 2, the suspect allegedly sexually assaulted a 16-year-old girl jogging on a trail in the area of Oakbrook Drive. Then in the evening of Aug. 3, the suspect allegedly sexually assaulted another woman jogging near Lopes Road at Summer Grove Drive.
Fairfield Police believe the three earlier incidents are related to the most recent attack and were committed by the same suspect. Police released a composite sketch of the suspect on Aug. 19. In the latest press release from police, the suspect was described as a white male in his late 20s, approximately 5-foot, 7-inches to 5-foot, 8-inches tall with a slim build. He was described as having blonde hair and some facial hair.
Fairfield Police continue to investigate all four incidents. Anyone with information regarding these crimes is urged to call the Fairfield Police Department Major Crimes Unit at (707) 428-7600, the 24-hour Tip Line at (707) 428-7345 or Crime Stoppers at (707) 644-7867. Callers can remain anonymous.


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Serbia, Kosovo reach agreement to normalize relations
posted at 12:17 pm on April 19, 2013 by Ed Morrissey
On any other day, this would be big news, if perhaps a bit obscure. The agreement promises to settle the last conflict of the post-Soviet collapse of Yugoslavia in the 1990s, which touched off a series of wars and ended up pulling NATO into diplomatic conflict with Russia. Serbia has apparently agreed to recognize Kosovo as an independent nation, a huge change, in part to gain membership in the EU:
The prime ministers of Serbia and Kosovoreached a tentative deal Friday to normalize relations between the Balkan neighbors and end years of acrimony.
EU negotiator Catherine Ashton said the deal culminated months of tense negotiations and showed determination of both Serbian Prime Minister Ivica Dacic and Kosovo Prime Minister Hashim Thaci.
"What we are seeing is a step away from the past and for both of them a step closer to Europe," Ashton, the EU's foreign policy chief, said.
Kosovo, which declared independence from Serbia in 2008, is considered by nationalists to be the cradle of Serbian medieval statehood and religion. It has been recognized by more than 90 countries including the U.S. and 22 of the EU's 27 members. But because of a blockade by Serbian allies Russia and China in the Security Council, Kosovo is not a U.N. member.
Serbia relinquished the control of most of Kosovo in 1999 when NATO chased its troops out of the region after a three-month bombing campaign. Ending the partition of Kosovo between the Albanian majority and the Serb-controlled north — about a fifth of the country — is a key condition of Serbia's further progress toward EU membership.
This could end the last of the potential flashpoints in Europe for war — after centuries of conflict, much of it originating in the Balkans. We'll see what Kosovo agreed to do with the ethnic Serbs in the north, but this is good news at least at first blush.


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Reece, Helen (2010) A complete ban on convicted sex offenders ever looking after children is unfair and unnecessary: it may also leave the government open to legal challenges. British Politics and Policy at LSE (14 Dec 2010) Blog Entry.
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When it comes to adopting, fostering, or working with children, all sex offenders tend to be tarred with the same brush. Clearly very careful screening of people working with or caring for children is important. But Helen Reece argues that blanket bans on sex offenders adopting or fostering children violate their human rights and may not necessarily work in the best interests of the child.
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Volleyball has strong showing in Rhodes meet
The volleyball team turned in a strong performance at the Rhodes Invitational on the way to a 13-19 season under new head coach Casey Dale.
Junior Sarah Sams was Transy's top defensive player.
The Pioneers hovered at the break-even point through much of the season and took a 10-13 record into the Rhodes meet in Memphis, hosted by Rhodes College. Transy shut out three opponents by 3-0—Rust College, Averett University, and Adrian College—while losing by the same score to Rhodes.
Transy came home from Memphis with a 13-14 mark, but lost three more Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference matches, to Bluffton University, Hanover College, and the College of Mount St. Joseph, and two to Asbury College and Maryville College to complete the season.
The Pioneers opened the season with a 3-0 win over Wooster College in the Ohio Wesleyan Invitational, hosted by Ohio Wesleyan College, and also beat the host school in fashioning a 2-2 record for the event.
Transy kicked off HCAC play with a 3-2 win over Franklin College. The Pioneers also defeated Manchester College on the way to a 2-6 conference record.
Junior middle blocker Jordan Geisen was named to the All-HCAC first team. She led the team in kills (312), hitting percentage (.263), blocks (88), and service aces (44). Junior libero Sarah Sams was Transy's top defensive player with a school record 563 digs, while sophomore setter Rebecca Luking led the Pioneers in assists with 1,021.
Dale was named one of the nation's top coaches under the age of 30 by the American Volleyball Coaches Association. He was one of only two NCAA Division III coaches on the list, which also includes coaches from NCAA Division I and II, NAIA, and high school programs.


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Each week leading up to the draft, the Foxboro Blog crew will spend a week breaking down a position on the Patriots' roster. We'll start with a quick overview and then move onto a discussion involving potential draftees at that spot as well as free-agents that the Patriots may pursue. Up this week is the Linebacking Corps…
2010 Recap: The Patriots entered the 2010 off-season with a need for a pass-rushing outside linebacker. The Adalius Thomas experiment had come to a contentious end the year before and the Pats anemic pass rush had severely hurt them in '09. As the analysts and prognosticators made their predictions, they assumed Bill Belichick would make a big move to address this gaping hole in the defense either via the draft or free-agency. They were wrong. The only free-agent that seemed to by seriously courted by the team, ex-Bill Aaron Schobel ended up passing on the Patriots in favor of sitting out the season. The team did spend a 2nd round pick on Jermaine Cunningham who would play OLB, but he was in the process of converting from the DE position in college and was pegged for a "transition" year in 2010. Things got even more dicey in training camp when veteran Derrick Burgess held out to contemplate retirement, only to re-join the team and subsequently get cut. That left the bulk of the outside linebacking duty to Rob Ninkovich and the 2009 team sack-leader Tully Banta-Cain.
While Ninkovich exceeded most people's expectations, Banta-Cain had a severe drop-off from his previous season. Jermaine Cunningham showed flashes of brilliance, but injuries slowed him down at the end of the year. Overall, it was a pretty dismal season on the outside and the Patriots' lack of a pass rush was perhaps the top reason why the team seemed to fail to get stops time and time again on third down.
On the inside, things were much, much brigther. It always helps when you have a Pro Bowl-caliber tackling maching like Jerod Mayo. Rookie Brandon Spikes was excellent at stopping the run and will likely develop into a special player if he responds well to coaching. Gary Guyton continued his solid play as well and even found himself on the highlight reel a few times by reeling in some opportune interceptions.
Returning Players: Tully Banta-Cain, Jermaine Cunningham, Dane Fletcher, Gary Guyton, Jerod Mayo, Eric Moore, Marques Murrell, Rob Ninkovich, Brandon Spikes
Patriots Free-Agents: Tracy White
2011 Outlook: The Patriots are well-stocked at inside linebacker. Other than an injury, the only thing that could potentially derail this high-point of the defense would be if Brandon Spikes has a second violation of the league's substance abuse policy. Supposedly unauthorized stimulants used to treat his ADHD lead to the rookie missing the last four games of the regular season. If he slips up again, Spikes would be due for an eight-game suspension. Brandon has been rock-solid on the field, but has had some questionable activies pop up when he's off of it. If he can move past those indiscretions, a Mayo/Spikes inside combo may very well be the best in the league.
The outside linebacker position is a complete question mark as we head into 2011. Hopefully, Jermaine Cunningham will be poised to make the big leap a lot of players experience as they begin their second season in the league. Rob Ninkovich continuing his 2010 form would also be a nice boost as well. Unfortunately, as Tully Banta-Cain proved this year, you can't always translate success from one season to the next. Banta-Cain really stumbled in 2010 and there is some uncertainty as to whether the Patriots feel he's worth the contract they'd be paying him in '11. It would not be surprising if TBC found himself cut over the off-season.
No matter what happens with those three players, the Patriots absolutely need to be aggressive in obtaining a quality OLB in both free-agency and the draft. It's almost certain that they'll spend one of their first three picks on a big-time pass rushing threat. However, in all fairness, that big time player may end up being a DE as opposed to an OLB. Top free-agent prospects like the Steelers' LaMarr Woodley or the Chiefs' Tamba Hali are prime candidates to recieve the franchise tag and may be out of the Patriots reach. If either of those two hit the open market, the Pats would be wise to jump all over them. If they are unavailable, there still remains a serviceable group of free-agent OLB and I expect the Patriots to make a strong attempt to sign one.
The outside linebacker position and pass-rush in general may have been the team's biggest weak spot in 2010. If they can patch things up heading into this next season, it bodes well for their title hopes.


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Late last week MasterCard, an American multinational financial services corporation, and MFoundry, the leading provider of mobile banking and payment solutions in the U.S., announced their colaboration that would take mobile banking to a whole new level by combining MasterCard's Tap & Go PayPass technology with mFoundry's mobile financial services platform. The goal is to make mobile contactless payments accessible to more consumers. Mobile PayPass, which uses Near Field Communication (NFC) technology, enables people to make fast, convenient, and secure payments by simply tapping their NFC phone on any PayPass-enabled terminal at a merchant check-out.
"This collaboration with mFoundry is going to allow more banks, credit unions and mobile phone operators around the world to offer their customers the convenience and security of Mobile PayPass," said Ed McLaughlin, chief emerging payments officer, MasterCard. "By using the power of a smartphone, consumers can simply tap and pay for goods and services."
"By working with MasterCard, mFoundry will be able to evolve and expand its financial services platforms to reach more consumers through new and existing clients," said Drew Sievers, CEO and Co-Founder of mFoundry. "MasterCard shares our philosophy on how to enable its clients with mobile payments and we are thrilled to be working hand-in-hand with them to bring their PayPass solution to our clients."
And today, MFoundry announced an $18 million funding in a round led by MasterCard Incorporated with the participation of industry capitals industry leaders Intel Capital, FIS, and Motorola Mobility. Intel and MasterCard are new MFoundry investors.
The capital will be used to fund the development of new payments-related mobile products and services targeted at financial institutions and mobile network operators. mFoundry will also use the proceeds to support the expansion of their existing and profitable mobile banking business.
"The opportunity in mobile financial services is enormous" noted Sievers. "While our existing mobile banking business is scaling rapidly, there are many other related opportunities that we believe can add significant incremental value to our company. I'm grateful to have such a deep and supportive group of strategic investors behind us."
Motorola Mobility, an early investor of mFoundry, is a company that is in the process of being acquired by Google. Now Google has been showing interest in mobile payments, pushing for innovation to improve on their own Google Wallet service. If the acquisition moves forward, Google will also get their hands on this investment, which could be beneficial for the company.
Unfortunately, with Google's track record of hacking services and products, there's really no telling what may happen once the acquisition has been finalized. Speaking of which, Google Wallet is not available on the new Samsung Galaxy Nexus on Verizon because they will be utilizing Isis, the mobile payment Verizon is developing with AT&T and T-Mobile. It's a major loss for Google, but the company has a long line of alternatives to further its mobile payments initiative.
As for other mobile payment news, Hello Wallet provider of technology-based personalized financial guidance to employees of Fortune 1000 companies and other large institutions, recently released their iPhone app, which is among the first to provide location-based spending guidance. The app provides information of your available spending balance, your spending history for a month or even a year for a specific establishment.
"People make the majority of their financial transactions on the go. With HelloWallet for iPhone, you'll be able to get personalized financial guidance wherever you are," said HelloWallet Founder & CEO Matt Fellowes. "We're excited to tap into someone's location via the mobile phone to make our advice & recommendations that much more relevant."
BlackBerry maker Research in Motion and Telefonica, a Spanish mobile phone operator, announced their mobile wallet service and by next year, Visa will also be releasing their take on the mobile payment scheme.
Though not everyone has adapted to the mobile payment method, there's already a variety or services to choose from, making it hard for consumers to determine the best method to use. But rest assured, by 2012 you can bet that even more mobile payment services will be available, making such a decision even more difficult. Personal finance in general is getting more personalized, so we're likely to see more integration across credit cards, mobile technology and banking apps to centralize much of your monetary activity.


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Exterior of the Town Hall, incorporating the Princes Theatre, Clacton-on-Sea, 1988
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- DescriptionColour photograph showing the façade and roof of the Town Hall, incorporating the Princes Theatre behind the façade, in Clacton-on-Sea. Taken from across the road, the façade dominates the photograph with a hipped roof visible above and to the right. It is a brick structure with stone dressings, with a central entrance block in the classical style consisting of three tall arched doorways framed between four fluted columns. The columns are topped by a large pediment with the inscription CLACTON TOWN HALL in between. Either side of the entrance are two-storey blocks in five bays each, with sash windows at both levels, the upper storey being an attic level set into a tiled roof. Corner towers bookend the building, the nearest of which is largely out of shot to the right. The tower visible to the left has a sash window below an arched window, all set into stone decoration below hipped roof.
- Depicted theatrePrinces (Clacton-on-Sea)
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Eastern Air Lines Group filed an application with the U.S. Department of Transportation for a Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity.
Eastern Air Lines Group was formed to re-launch Eastern Air Lines as a passenger airline using the A320 from its main base of operations at Miami International Airport. Eastern Air Lines Group is not affiliated with the former Eastern Air Lines, which operated from 1928 to 1991 as one of the largest U.S. domestic carriers.
Eastern plans on commencing its Part 121 certification with the Federal Aviation Administration shortly and has retained legal counsel and consultants for this purpose.
"We are honored to have the opportunity to launch an airline bearing the iconic Eastern Air Lines name," Eastern's President and CEO Edward Wegel said. "We have recruited a world-class board of directors and a highly-experienced management team to guide and lead this effort."
A spokesperson tells Air Cargo World that cargo is not a focus for Eastern. 1848 Capital funded the development, and the company has a "diverse group of high net worth investors."


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We arrived at the station and were quick to do a thorough inspection of our bags, everything was fine so we sat at a street vendors cafe and waited for our train. It was only 10pm and our train didn't arrive til 11:25, it ended up the train was delayed an extra half hour, making our journey far more cooler as we were now catching the 'midnight train'
The sun hit the right angle to wake me up about 7am the next morning, the train still powering onwards toward the city. Our bunks were packed up, transformed back into chairs, our linen was whisked away by the attendant, and we went for a wander down to the diner carriage. Breakfast eaten, bags sorted, deodorant sprayed, we stepped off the train at Bangkok main train station about 11am. A taxi followed shortly after and we found ourselves wandering down Th Khao San looking for a place to stay. Khao san road is an iconic part of Bangkok, being the center of Bangkok's backpacker area for years, coming to Bangkok without staying there for a bit just wouldn't be right, just ask Jimmy Barnes. It's jam packed with hotels, bars, clubs, novelty shops and food stalls.
We walked the length of the street but were quickly distracted by our stomachs. To our utter excitement we had walked right into a Burger King restaurant, we hadn't seen a fast food chain since Kuala Lumpur
We got sick of walking around looking so checked into a place called Sawasdee House just for the sake of getting our backpacks off. Feeling decidedly lighter we continued our hunt and found a nice place by the river with rooms that had private bathrooms, all for 290 Baht a night(10AUD). That was a bit better than the 500 Baht we had just forked out for the room with shared bathroom. We moved hotel the next morning, our new accommodation was great, the New Merry V. If you've seen the movie 'the beach', it was the hotel straight out of the start of that, complete with dodgy electricity and mosquito net covered windows connecting the rooms.
We've done a fair bit of sightseeing while we've been here, our first explorations were a walk down to one of Bangkok most famous sights, the grand palace, and Wat Phra Kaew( the temple of the emerald Buddha). It was a hot day so we were wearing singlets and shorts, temple rules require sleeved shirts, long pants, and for Danni an ankle length skirt
After a few temples you start to get a little jaded, so our focus shifted to the stranger things. The morning after a solid night of drinking on Khao San we decided to check out Bangkok's forensic museum. What looked like a 20 minute walk on the map ended up being a couple of hours trudging alongside roaring highways in the morning sun. The museum was inside a hospital complex that stretched over a massive area, it took ages for us to find but we ended up going down random alleyways and finding it on the second floor of some building.
Already feeling seedy and now a little dizzy after sweating out the previous nights alcohol, we took our stomachs to a whole new level. The museum was like the website 'rotten.com' in the flesh, a macabre collection of evidence for different murder cases, predominantly preserved body parts with attached stories explaining the reason it ended up there
For one day we got to see what it was like to be a package tourist, once again Danielle wanted to see the animals so we booked a day trip to the Tiger temple. a temple a couple of hours out of town where monks look after tigers that have been orphaned. For some reason they don't attack so people can get close and pat them. As part of the day, we were taken to a bunch of other sites also, including traditional Thai floating markets and the bridge over the river Kwai, a world war II memorial.
At each sight there were more foreigners than Thais, we were shoulder to shoulder with hundreds of camera toting tour groups, the roads were lined with coaches and minivans. We were herded like cattle from one place to the next by crews of little tour guides. Despite that fact we still had a fun day. The floating markets were exactly what they sound like, thais on boats selling sunglasses and spring rolls to foreigners, so not really that fun. But the bridge over the river Kwai was good to see, its part of whats known as the death railway, of which 2815 Aussie POW's died building.
Bangkok isn't the skyscraping megalopolis we were imagining, it's more of a sprawling city, spreading outward instead of upward, much like Melbourne compared to Sydney. We arrived with expectations of pure chaos. After reading guidebooks and hearing travelers tales we had braced ourselves for a hard time, and were pleasantly surprised to find things a little easier than we were expecting. Our experiences in Jakarta had toughened us up a little, with Bangkok very similar to Jakarta with it's chaotic traffic, drivers following no rules, also in regard to it's touts and annoying people trying to sell you stuff or rip you off. There is a degree of order her though which makes the place tolerable, it has good infrastructure like Kuala Lumpur, highways dominate the city, the answer to congestion being simply to build a highway over the top of everything. Some areas have 3 or 4 highways crisscrossing over the top of each other, it looks like a giant slot car set, twisting and turning over the urban sprawl.
The train and ferry systems are also efficient which is great to have, relying on a taxi or tuk tuk driver around Khao san is impossible. They all hassle you to go to a shop or strip bar, scam you out of your money by not turning on their meters or doing laps of the city to clock up dollars, it's quite annoying. Thankfully most things are reachable by ferry or train
As a touch of randomness we were in one of the major shopping plazas in town cos Danni had to go to the toilet(shopping centers have the cleanest toilets). I was sitting in the middle of this plaza waiting for Danni to finish her business when who should walk past but the bass guitarist out of Greenday. If I wasn't minding the bags I would have gone chasing after him for an autograph, it turned out that Greenday was playing a concert that night in Bangkok, There were still tickets available and we could have gone and seen them play. The scabby bastards were charging 2500 baht a ticket though, the same as what it would cost in Australia, that's three days worth of our money so we had to miss out.
Not that we haven't wasted any money here, the Thais have it worked out on Khao San, they get you drunk then sell you junk, genius. The street is full of clubs, pubs, and little vendors selling beers, you sit in the street on little stools drinking whatever beverages are available, chatting to whoever you might be sitting near. The surrounding roads and alleys are full of guys selling all sorts of novelties, fake I.D.'s, over sized lighters, ninja stars and samurai swords, all sorts of cool pointless stuff. I fell victim to the trap one night and woke up the next morning with a 'clockwork orange' t shirt that was also a fashionable bright orange and a hand held laser pointer with different disco settings.
We decided back in Koh Phangan to live classy for a bit in Bangkok, so for our last 3 nights we moved to the other side of town. We're now staying in Citadines on Sukhumvit 11, where we have all the trimmings including the rooftop pool, buffet brekky, and hot water
After drinks at vertigo we threw away our dignity and went for a wander a few blocks away to the alleys patpong I and II, one of Bangkok's red light districts known for its displays of feminine absurdity. No trip to Thailand would be complete without seeing a ping pong show and this was the place to go to see one.It took a few laps around the block to work up the courage but we eventually went in and checked a few places out, as we were heading back to the train station we found a place called 'the kangaroo bar', of all the bars and clubs in the area the one place with Australian connotations just so happened to be a brothel. It didn't take long for us to realize the mistake and we made for the door in a hurry.
Being in the expat part of town brings the sex trade with it. We may be in the ritzy part of town but there's heaps of hookers walking the streets, you see lots of old blokes walking around with young Thai girls that they've rented out for the week. The whole scene leaves a bit of a bad taste in the mouth but I guess it's just another part of what is the overall Bangkok experience. Where else in the world can you see a pop star in the mall, an embalmed serial killer, and a girl shooting things from her nether regions, all in the same week.
Were on the road again tonight, getting the bus north into Laos. Were happy to be out of here, not the biggest fan of the place...
Over and out from Bangkok, Thailand.


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Devin T. Stewart
Executive Editor, Policy Innovations; Senior Fellow, Carnegie Council
Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs
Devin T. Stewart is senior program director and senior fellow at Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs. He first joined Carnegie Council as program director in 2006. He also is a Next Generation Fellow, a Truman Security Fellow, and an adjunct assistant professor in international affairs at Columbia University and New York University.
From 2010 to 2012, Devin was senior director of Corporate, Policy, and Lecture Programs (Global Programs) at Japan Society in New York and a Carnegie Council Senior Fellow. From 2006 to 2010, he was director of the Global Policy Innovations program at Carnegie Council. In this capacity, he directed the Workshops for Ethics in Business and Carnegie New Leaders programs, edited Policy Innovations, and led research projects and delegations on trade, energy, media, and U.S.-East Asia relations. He is the founding editor of Policy Innovations and Carnegie Ethics Online. Previously, he was assistant director of studies and Japan studies fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, D.C. and affiliated with CSIS until 2010.
From 2000 to 2003, Devin was a researcher at the Japanese government think tank Research Institute of Economy, Trade, and Industry (RIETI) and in 2004 a staff writer for the Daily Yomiuri in Tokyo. He also chaired the Korea-Japan Study Group in Tokyo and in Washington. He was a researcher at the Japan External Trade Organization New York and has served on the staffs of the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations and U.S. Senator Barbara Mikulski. In 1994, he interned at the Washington Office of U.S. Senator Joseph Biden, Jr.
Devin's writings have appeared in more than ten languages in numerous publications, including the American Interest, Newsweek, Foreign Policy, SAIS Review, Ethics & International Affairs, the Wall Street Journal, the International Herald Tribune, Current History, the Asahi Shimbun, and the National Interest. Devin has peer reviewed academic articles for The China Quarterly and Ethics & International Affairs. He has been featured in or interviewed by USA Today, Dow Jones, AFP, Reuters, Press TV, Xinhua, Jiji Press, BBC, Bloggingheads.tv, Al Jazeera, The Diplomat, and CCTV. Blogs he has contributed to include the Huffington Post and TPM Cafe.
He is a contributing author to several monographs and books, including International Relations: Perspectives, Controversies, and Readings (Cengage, 2013), Reimagining Japan: The Quest for a Future that Works (Simon & Schuster, 2011), Tsunami: Japan's Post-Fukushima Future (Foreign Policy, 2011), and Energy Security Challenges for the 21st Century: A Reference Handbook (Praeger Security International, 2009).
He holds an M.A. from the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins University in Washington, D.C., and Bologna, Italy. He received a B.A., cum laude, from the University of Delaware where he won a scholarship to study Arab immigration in France. He is a recipient of the Nakasone Scholarship for the Aspen Institute's Socrates Society meeting.
Focus: Democracy, Energy, Globalization, Governance, Security, Trade, Sustainability, China, Japan, United States, Americas, Asia
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"Slowing Japan's Galapagos Syndrome," the Huffington Post, April 29, 2010.
"Toyota and the End of Japan," Newsweek (cover story), March 5, 2010.
"Think Again: Japan's Revolutionary Election," Foreign Policy, Oct. 2009, with Paul Scalise.
"Hu's on First?" The National Interest, Nov./Dec. 2007, with Joshua Kurlantzick.
"Asiaplex Toolbox: Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreements," The American Interest, Autumn 2006, with Sherman Katz.
"U.S.-Japan Comprehensive Partnership Agreement: Cementing a Geostrategic Economic Relationship," SAIS Review, Summer/Fall 2003, coauthored with Robert Fauver.
"A U.S.-Japan Economic Partnership: Beyond Economics, Geopolitical Insurance," In The National Interest, November 2002, coauthored with Robert Fauver.
"Healthy Competition From China Is Good For Japan," International Herald Tribune, August 30, 2001.
"Japan's Spontaneous Support for War," Asia Times, February 14, 2003.
"Japan's Place in the Coalition Against Terrorism," Asia Times, November 3, 2001.
"The Threat to Japan's Economy is Japan, Not China," PacNet Newsletter, CSIS, August 24, 2001.
"Shock Therapy for Japan's Depression," The Asian Wall Street Journal, May 28, 2002, coauthored with Robert Fauver.
"Japan Needs Foreigners to Find Its Bad Debts," The Asahi Shimbun, January 4, 2002, coauthored with Jonathan Kushner.
"On Your Mark, Get Set, Liberalize," The Daily Yomiuri, January 1, 2004.
"Northeast Asia: Korea at Center of Major Shift," Asia Pacific Century: A New Era, Dec. 2006, coauthor of edited volume.
"Yuan Devaluation Debate Shows Link Between Economics, Politics," Asia Pacific Century: A New Era, Dec. 2006, coauthor.
"China's New-Rich and Global Responsibility," The Globalist, Sept. 29, 2006, with Joshua Eisenman.
"China, My China," The National Interest, Spring 2006, with Sherman Katz.
"U.S. Formula for China," Asia Times Online, Nov. 9, 2005, with Larry Wortzel.
"China's Transition Merits Caution," Japan Inc., December 2002, coauthored with Duncan Wrigley.
"China-Japan Oil Rivalry Spills Over Into Africa," International Herald Tribune, Dec. 9, 2005, with Joshua Eisenman.
"J Curve: A New Way to Understand Why Nations Rise and Fall," Ethics & International Affairs, 2006 Vol. 20 No. 4.
"Bolstering American Influence in Asia," The Asian Wall Street Journal, March 3, 2003, coauthored with James Farrer.
Specialization:Japan-China economic and political relations; U.S. foreign policy toward Asia; technology and civil society; ethics in trade and energy policy.
Chairman, Korea-Japan Study Group, Washington D.C. and Tokyo Chapters
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Lately, while going through my team's FB Pages at the Female BIZ Builders Savvy Community, I've noticed quite a few have not connected their Facebook profile to their business Page yet.
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