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AUGUST DRAW – Winners of the Allensmore Church 100 club draw for August are: 1st Mrs Havard 31, 2nd Sarah Turpin 58, 3rd Derek Cooke 12 and 4th Gladys Bond 44.
NEW – Almeley Primary School Parent and Toddler Group. First session September 12, 9.30am- 11am, Friday mornings 9.30am- 11am in the school hall, up to five years old. Term time only.
Entry £1.50 per family (towards tea/coffee and snack for the children). Meet other parents and children chat and play. Call Rachel 01544 327343 or join our Facebook page.
Aymestrey and Leinthall Earls
CEILIDH – A summer ceilidh and supper will be held at Hall Farm Leinthall Earls on Saturday, from 7.30pm. Tickets are £15 (£5 for under 14s) and are available from Bronwyn Hutchings 01568 770536 or Meg Thorpe 01568 780384.
Proceeds will go to Aymestrey and Leinthall Earls Churches.
CHURCH – There will be no service at Aymestrey on Sunday.
TILL THE COWS COME HOME – On September 5, at 7.30pm, Aymestrey parish hall will welcome back for the third time the Mikron Theatre Company who provide very entertaining and clever productions with a versatile cast – an evening not to be missed.
This time they will be presenting Till T he Cows Come Home a further tale in the ongoing saga of the Thistledown allotment holders.
Mikron Theatre Company has been going for over 40 years travelling around the country in a narrow boat.
The company gets to Aymestrey by mooring their boat in Kidderminster or Worcester and travelling here by road. Tickets are £10 and on sale now.
QUIZ NIGHT – The first of the season of Aymestrey's popular quiz nights takes place on September 12. There is a charge of £5 for teams of up to four members.
Refreshments are available in the interval, but teams are welcome to bring their own if desired. There is a cash prize for the winning team and also a prize for the tail- end Charlies. The start time is 8pm prompt.
VILLAGE LOTTERY – Carmen Derry won £25 with number 14 on August 16.
NEIGHBOURHOOD PLAN OPEN DAY – Residents of the five parishes in the Bishopstone group will have the opportunity to see and comment on the results of the recent questionnaire at an open day on September 6. The full results for each parish will be on display together with an explanation of the background to the Neighbourhood Plan and details of the next steps to be taken. There will be a chance to make further comments about housing, employment, traffic and environmental issues based on the questionnaire results and to consider possible positions for new settlement boundaries within some parishes.
The open day will take place at the New Bridge Community Centre, Bridge Sollars on September 6, between 11am-7pm.
BODENHAM PARISH COUNCIL – The parish council will meet at the Siward James Centre at 7.30pm on Monday. The clerk can be contacted on 01568 797132.
BODENHAM FLOOD SUPPORT GROUP – The support group will be organising a working party starting at 6pm tomorrow. Anyone wanting to join in is invited to contact the secretary, Babs Mitcheson on 01568 797170.
BODENHAM GARDENING CLUB – On Tuesday, at 7.30pm, the gardening club will be holding a cheese and wine quiz evening.
Details to be confirmed.
CORRESPONDENT – Martin Field, The Old School House, Burley Gate, Hereford, HR1 3QR.
01432 820074. email@example.com.
Bredwardine and Brobury
SEPTEMBER DRAW – The Friends of St Andrew 100 club draw will take place next Thursday, September 4, at 8pm in the Red Lion Inn, which is serving a delicious curry buffet for anyone who wants to eat before the draw.
We look forward to seeing you at the event and good luck to all ticket holders.
Contact Jen Maddison on 01981 500048 for further information about the club.
COFFEE, CAKE AND MARKET – There will be a coffee morning in Bredwardine village hall on September 12, from 10am-12 noon.
This is a chance to meet up with old and new friends over coffee and cake.
Included in the market are a number of stalls selling fresh vegetables, home-baked cakes, jams and chutneys and we have regular visits from Noggins a local pork butcher.
Alongside this there are stalls selling arts and craft, music and films, knitwear and jewellery created by local artists. Bring along something to sell; it only costs £1 to rent a table for the market and everyone is welcome.
Contact Philip Bauer on 01981 500398 with requests or queries.
FOOD DONATION BASKET FOR HEREFORD COMMUNITY LARDER – The Community Larder is Hereford's Food Bank and provides bags of food to those in urgent need. Every week this organization gives emergency food parcels to families who find themselves in serious and sudden hardship. There will be a basket for donations of tinned and dried food at the coffee cake and market events in the coming months.
Please give generously. Contact Sarah Morgan on 01981 500155 for further details.
BOWJANGLES – Will perform On The Box in Breinton village hall on September 11, 7.30pm. The four energetic musicians will parody a variety of familiar programmes with exhilarating dance routines and rousing songs.
Tickets: adult £8, child £5, family £25. Enquiries 01432 350919. Book your ticket online at artsalive.co.uk.
Bridge Sollars
BONUS BALL – Adrian Connor won £25 with number 14 on August 16.
PARISH COUNCIL – The next meeting of Brilley Parish Council is on September 9 at 7.30pm in the village hall. The next meeting of the Steering Group for the Neighbourhood Development Plan is now on September 5 at 7.30pm in the village hall. This is a change of date from Monday.
HISTORY GROUP - The new season of lectures for Bromyard Art History Group start on September 16, at the Conquest Theatre.
Ten lecturers will give talks over a 17-week period. The topics range from wood – its use as a material in the creation of art, to trees.
Also on the programme will be a talk about David Garrick.
Other subjects include the Medici Queens of France, Arts and Crafts of India under the Raj, and Wenceslaus Hollar, the Czech Baroque artist.
This is an opportunity to discover new and original aspects of art that may be new to you.
Existing and potential new members are welcome to attend a coffee morning on September 9, from 10.30am-noon, or ring Chris Balch on 01886 812412 for additional information.
CAR BOOT/TABLE SALE AND CRAFTS - Cusop village hall, Saturday 2pm-4.30pm in aid of Arthritis Research UK.
This is no ordinary car boot – it's a family fun afternoon.
There will be a raffle, cakes, tombola, clothes, crafts, books, plants and much more.
Any donations would be gratefully appreciated.
Boots/stalls 1pm, public 2pm.
Contact Sue 01497 821562 £5 per boot/stall (booking advisable).
LOW IMPACT EXERCISE - Tuesday 6-7pm and zumba fitness Thursday 6-7pm back at Cedar Hall. Contact Mandy 01544 387958 or email@example.com.
DORSTONE HISTORY SOCIETY - A change to Wednesday's programme. The speaker expected from the Vivat Trust left without making anyone aware.
However, the excellent Tim Hoverd has been able to step in with a talk on medieval Herefordshire.
At Dorstone village hall – 7.30pm refreshments, 8pm talk. £3 non- members.
CROWN GREEN BOWLS - Pam Savage was crowned ladies champion after a full afternoon of excellent bowling at Dorstone Bowling Club on August 17, in the ladies' competition. Violet Smith (club captain) was a creditable runner up.
All club members are looking forward to playing a return friendly fixture with Burway CGBC – a Shropshire league team from Ludlow – to be played on September 14, starting at 2pm at Dorstone.
NEIGHBOURHOOD DEVELOPMENT PLAN - The steering group for the Eardisland Neighbourhood Development Plan will meet at 7.30pm on Thursday, September 4, in the bowling club. All welcome.
Hampton Bishop
DAFFODILS - Hampton Bishop villagers are planning to plant "A Host of Golden Daffodils" on September 21, that will bring some spring sunshine to the village for many years to come.
Helen Sudlow, who is leading this Community Gardening Scheme, said: "We are asking all villagers to take part and plant bulbs on the verges outside their houses as well as helping to plant daffodils in communal areas such as around the village hall, the church and the roads. So far we've raised over £700 to pay for the communal bulbs, including support from the Villagers Association and the Parish Council."
Suppliers have been consulted and a wild variety of daffodil known as the Lent Lilly has been identified as the bulb of choice.
Volunteers to plant up the communal areas are asked to report to Saffron House on Whitehall Road in Hampton Bishop from 9.30am on September 21. Please attend if you would like to donate money, bulbs or time, then please contact Helen Sudlow on 01432 870358.
WAR COMMEMORATION – A First World War commemoration weekend starts with a film night on Friday, September 12 at 7:30pm showing Private Peaceful by Michael Morpurgo – writer of War Horse.
This will be on the big screen followed by a ploughman's at Hampton Bishop Village Hall.
Bring your own drinks or there will be a bar.
Donations will go to Help for Heroes.
On Saturday, September 13 at 4.30pm there will be a Wartime sing-a-long, followed by a bring and share Peace Tea in the village hall – visitors are asked to bring something suitable for a cold buffet. Again, donations will be for Help for Heroes.
Over the weekend, there will be lots going on at St Andrew's Church too. There will be a First World War exhibition, recitals and an array of beautiful floral displays. The church will be open to visitors from10am-5pm and refreshments available.
On Sunday, September 14, the weekend will close with a Family Service at 6pm, reflecting on the war with readings, poems and hymns.
Visit the community website hamptonbishop.info for a timetable and further information.
ART CLUB EXHIBITION – The club's biennial exhibition runs from September 6 to 14 inclusive, from 10am - 5pm in Kilpeck village hall. Light refreshments will be provided and a raffle held in aid of the Samaritans. Come along and see the work of club members. Most of the work will be for sale and a percentage of the sales goes to help Kilpeck village hall.
The club's autumn session starts on September 15. Sessions run from 2pm - 4pm. Interested in joining the club? Contact wmhall@ virgin.net.
LOW IMPACT EXERCISE – 9.45- 10.45am and zumba fitness 6-7pm, both back at Luctonians R C, Monday.
Contact Mandy 01544 387958 or email@example.com.
Little Birch
DOG SHOW – The annual show is arranged for September 14 in the field next to Castle Nibole.
As usual there will be a total of 18 classes for pedigree and novelty dogs. Vicky Watts will be the judge following Kennel Club rules. Registration will start at 1pm and judging from 2pm.
Call Robyn on 01981 540264 for more details.
PANTOMIME – Following their very successful summer variety show, the drama group will present a pantomime version of Peter Pan early in 2015. The first meeting for script reading and auditions will be at Little Birch village hall on September 27 starting at 6.30pm for young people and 7.30pm for adults. Young people will be especially welcome.
For more information call Jane on 07541 347931.
ANNUAL OPEN HORTICULTURAL SHOW – The highlight of the year for Kings Thorn and Little Birch Gardening Club will be their annual open show on September 6, at Little Birch village hall.
After the judging the hall opens to the public at 2pm. As this is a community event entry is free.
There are certain to be excellent displays of home grown vegetables, fruit and flowers.
There is also floral art and a domestic section, showing cakes and jams, with 1st, 2nd and 3rd prize proudly displayed in each of the categories.
Judges will also have the task of awarding Best in Show.
Come along for the afternoon and enjoy tea or coffee with a choice of home baked cakes.
After the prize giving much of the wonderful produce will be available to buy.
The day before, on September 5, a children's workshop will be held in the hall starting at 4.30pm.
Children will be encouraged to show their creativity by making vegetable animals and monsters as well as a garden on a plate for the children's section in the show.
Enquiries about exhibiting, call the show secretary on 01981 540080.
LLANWARNE PLOUGHING SOCIETY – The ladies committee of the Llanwarne ploughing society are meeting on Tuesday, 7.30pm at the Harewood End Inn to finalize arrangements for the horticulture, floral and domestic competitions at this years ploughing match on September 13.
Details are available from Isobelle Bevan 01981 580367 or email firstname.lastname@example.com.
HISTORICAL SOCIETY – The Longtown Historical Society's new season starts on Monday at 7.30pm, in the Longtown village hall.
The first speaker this year is retired army officer, Peter Rostron, whose subject will be Remembering the First World Wa r.
It will be interesting to hear a professional's view on how the war was conducted.
Membership costs £10 for the season, payable at the door, and guests are very welcome, at £3 per meeting.
In October, archaeologist Dr Keith Ray will be discussing the recent finds on Dorstone Hill.
AUTUMN SHOW – The Monkland autumn show is on September 6, in the village hall. All entries to be staged between 9.30 and 11am when judging will take place. The show opens to the public for viewing at 2.30pm. Cups will be presented at approx 3.15pm.
The Hereford Times supplement of 100 years Herefordshire at War and the historian who researched the war memorials throughout the county did a magnificent job, unfortunately the men of Monkland were omitted as Monkland does not have a First World War memorial. We hope that this will be rectified during the coming year. It has been suggested that the parish council and Monkland PCC work together in erecting a memorial to these young men, possibly in church, who paid the ultimate sacrifice 100 year ago. The names of these young men were: Percy Cave, Harry Bottom, George Davies, Gordon Cave, John Padfield, Charles Sanders, Walter Harris, T L V Moody, Jack Bird, Ernest Jones and Walter Holland. If any relative has any information on any of these young men please contact Malcolm Weatherhead, Janet Butler or Wendy Jancey.
COFFEE MORNING – The Macmillan Coffee Morning is looming. It will be held in Monkland village hall on September 26, 10am- noon.
£1.00 entry which includes coffee/ tea and biscuits. A fabulous home made cake, preserves and pickle stall, books, plants, knitting, bric- a-brac, draw and more.
PRIZE BINGO – Will restart on September 12, in the village hall, doors open at 7pm, eyes down at 8pm. No children under six please.
FETE – Much Cowarne church fete Saturday, from 2pm. Fun dog show, barbecue, teas, bouncy castle, fun for all the family.
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MUCH COWARNE AUTUMN FETE – The Much Cowarne autumn fete will be held at Tan House Farm from 2pm, Saturday.
There will be all the usual stalls and refreshments. Cris Hooper 01531 640516 is making the regular annual appeal for items to be donated to the craft stall. They can either be sold with all proceeds going to St Mary's Church at Much Cowarne, or the donors can return a percentage. Items can be dropped off at the stall on the day, or Cris can arrange for collection.
CORRESPONDENT – Martin Field, The Old School House, Burley Gate, HR1 3QR. 01432 820074.
CHARITY SHOP – Pembridge Church will be renting the Oaks Charity Shop in Leominster from September 17-24 to raise funds for the general upkeep of the church.
We would welcome donations of clothing in good condition, jewellery, bric-a-brac, paperback books, CDs, DVDs and household items.
We cannot take electrical goods this year. Please leave anything that you can donate in the kitchen area of the church or call Jill Smith on 01544 388441 to arrange collection.
ZUMBA FITNESS – Back at memorial hall, Wednesday 7-8pm.
Contact Mandy 01544 387958 or email@example.com.
HOG ROAST – Wellington Bowls Club will be holding a hog roast on September 6 at 1pm. Tickets, at £10 per adult or £5 for under 12s, are available from Wellington Delights shop or from David Wood on 01432 830118, or Scriv Evans 01432 277210. Proceeds are for club funds and St Michael's Hospice.
WI – Will hold a meeting on Tuesday at 7.30pm in the village community room. Our speaker is Richard Jordan who will talk on the theme Growing Up In London during Second World War. He describes the presentation as an historical and emotive account of his early years in bomb battered London. The talk is preceded by Institute business, and followed by refreshments.
BURGERS AND BANGERS BASH - Winforton PCC and Winforton Community Association are jointly hosting a barbecue with live music from Verne, and traditional family fun on September 7, commencing at 12.30pm.
Tickets are available from Sarah Cooke on 01544 327654.
Adults £5, children £3, under fours free.
Come along and join the fun while raising money for outside lighting around the community hall/church.
SCHOOL CHOIR - Hereford Cathedral School Senior Chamber Choir will be performing at Winforton community hall on September 26, at 7pm.
Tickets from Graham Kemp ton 01544 327092.
NCT BIG FAMILY PICNIC - The Hereford and District branch of the NCT (National Childbirth Trust, the UK's largest charity for parents) is holding a big family picnic at Withington village hall on Saturday from 11am until 2pm.
Bring your own picnic and join in for a family day of fun whatever the weather, as there will be both indoor and outdoor areas for the event, with various children's entertainment activities such as face painting, storytelling, cake decorating, summer games, crafts and more.
For more information search Hereford and District NCT on Facebook or send an email to firstname.lastname@example.com The Hereford NCT branch is really welcoming and run by local parents for local parents and parents to be.
Support, information, advice and friendship are on offer, along with a selection of antenatal classes throughout the year to help with the preparation for birth and those early days, and follow this up with post-natal support groups to help you get the most out of having a new baby. Event address: Withington village hall, Coppice Close, Withington, Hereford HR1 3PP.
FARMERS MARKET - Will take place in the village hall on Saturday from 10am- 12.30pm. Many of the usual local providers will be present selling high quality locally sourced produce.
Refreshments are always available.
Heaven In A Pancake – a regular at the market since it began – offers savoury pancakes with assorted fillings, depending on availability and quality of ingredients, often using fresh locally grown produce.
Salmon and asparagus, chicken and chorizo, ham, leek cheese and walnuts, spinach, mushroom and parmesan are examples, amongst others. A meal in themselves, they freeze perfectly – celestial fast food indeed. Contact 01432 860941 or bumpkinsinoz @gmail.com.
Sue Jenkins of Tyseren is the artist who regularly attends the market. She sells a wide range of greetings cards and prints featuring her unique illustrations of flowers, chickens and cockerels taken from her original watercolour paintings inspired by her surroundings.
She also sells vintage style mugs and calenders featuring her colourful poultry.
Contact Sue 07805 597063.
AFTERNOON TEA - In the garden of Whitfield House, by kind permission of Mr and Mrs E Clive, on Saturday, 2.30-5pm.
There will be cake and tombola stalls, a raffle and treasure hunt.
At 3pm the Helen Vereker Singers Choir will be performing songs to sing along to, so come along and join the fun.
GROUP COMMUNION - At Wormbridge Church on Sunday at 10am.
ENIGMA MACHINE - An illustrated lecture on the enigma machine, including a hands on demonstration of a real Enigma machine. Next Thursday, September 4, at 7.30pm in Yarpole parish hall. Tickets £7.50.
Fundraising for local charity and Air Ambulance. Contact Pete Lloyd 01568 780328.
Almeley WI
THE group have had several excellent meetings recently, a fascinating talk and demonstration on silver jewellery, a very interesting talk and demonstration on Lino printing by Rebecca Davies and a visit to the Violette Szabo museum at Wormelow. The next meeting is a talk on forensic analysis by Heather Carrington on September 18, at 7.30pm.
Members will also be hosting a Macmillan coffee morning on September 20, from 10.30am-noon, at The Bells pub. Organisers hope as many people as possible will come along and support this. The group is always looking for new members and you will be made welcome, meeting on the third Thursday of the month in the village hall at 7.30pm.
Bishopswood WI
IT WAS another warm evening for the August meeting of Bishopswood WI. We started as usual with Jerusalem, followed by a short business meeting when the upcoming centenary of the Women's Institute was discussed along with the various plans to celebrate throughout the county.
Birthdays for August were announced, and reminders for several local events, and then our president, Mrs Ann Jones welcomed 39 members from our twinned institute at Bishops Cleeve. All our members had brought a plate of food, so a lovely buffet was set out and we then proceeded to enjoy a very convivial meal as we renewed old acquaintances and made some new friends.
We were then entertained by Penny Platts who was our speaker for the evening, accompanied by her husband. The subject was The History of Cider. She opened with a poem entitled The Preservation of Man, which is a very amusing poem about man's relationship with cider. We had no idea that cider making and the use of apples generally to produce alcohol was such an ancient art.
Homer's Odyssey talks about orchards in 600BC, and there are carvings in Egypt with people depicted standing on small barrels. In the 5th century it is well documented that cider and perry were commonplace.
She spoke in depth about cider making in Herefordshire specifically, and of course there are many well-known producers both large and small. The talk was preceded with a tasting of three different ciders and perries. One was called The Headless Man, and it was remarked upon that if we weren't careful about how much we imbibed there might be several legless women. A lovely friendly evening, the history was fascinating. Everyone thoroughly enjoyed themselves. The competition was judged, this was a recipe containing cider. 1st was Ann Jones, 2nd Julie Eglinton, 3rd Su Jackson.
All the recipes sounded delicious.
The vote of thanks was then given by Julie Eglinton. The next meeting is on September 12 at 6.30pm when the speaker will be Carole Dowding with a talk entitled Christian Dior - a brief history of perfume. All visitors welcome.
The meeting closed at 9.40pm.
Eardisley Table Tennis Club
EARDISLEY Table Tennis Club will be starting their winter session on Tuesday in the village hall. The club is in its ninth year and is open to juniors and seniors – the juniors (eight years and over) play from 6pm-7pm, the seniors play from 7pm-10pm. If you would like to come along give Joe James a call on 01544 327636 or email email@example.com.
Tupsley Townswomen's Guild
THE guild has had a successful 2014, so far with lots of interesting talks, with topics ranging from Russia on Burns Night (Christine Peterson), Journeying Along the Volga (Penny Platts) to Life in an East African School (Steve Chandler) and a hilarious look at life behind the scenes at the BBC (Glyn Johnson) to a gentle session on Hanging Baskets of Flowers (David Griffith).
There was also a talk on The Life and Times of an 11+ Failure by Jen Green – what would she have done if she had passed?
On a more serious note, we were told of The Little Princess Trust, which supplies wigs for children who have lost their hair. The talk was given by Wendy Torplee- Morris who originally started the trust. This led to Irene Lloyd, with the help of some members, to run a coffee morning which succeeded in raising a substantial sum for the cause. It was Irene, together with secretary Susan Layton, who gave a very interesting insight into the setting up of the Tupsley Cross in Church Road and the histories of several men who were in the Great War and whose names are on the memorial.
We also had the latest details of the proposed White House Community Centre given by Rev Mark Inglis. This has been held up by the lack of funds, but hopefully this will change before too long.
Keith Pratley, who has recently taken over the running of the magazine Tupsley Voice, spoke of his service to the community and the presentation of his MBE at Buckingham Palace.
We have had two enjoyable lunches in June and our secretary invited us to her home for our annual strawberry evening.
The annual amble was along the banks of the Wye with much needed refreshments at the Bunch of Carrots afterwards.
However, we do other things apart from these festivities. At the end of July, Doreen Foster, with her willing helpers, held a very successful tea party in aid of St Michael's Hospice. Eight of our members attended the AGM at Cardiff in June and the Guild also ran a stall at Hampton Park Church open day.
Our autumn session starts on September 2, when we have the Very Rev Michael Tavinor, Dean of Hereford, who will speak on his life and times.
Meetings are held at Hampton Park Church on the first and third Tuesdays on each month at 7.30pm. New members welcome.


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Spinal cord therapy breakthrough? Four men paralyzed for years are now able to move their legs [Video]
A study published on Tuesday revealed that four men who were previously paralyzed for years, are now able to raise their legs.
Thanks to the help of a breakthrough therapy involving epidural electrical stimulation of the spinal cord, growing research is providing hope for those who suffer from paralysis, Healthline News reports.
The study, published in a journal called Brain, was conducted by researchers at University of Louisville, UCLA and the Pavlov Institute of Physiology. It involved implanting an epidural stimulator in four men who were unable to move the lower half off their body.
According to the Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation, about one in 50 people live with paralysis, which is about six million people. 1,275,000 are paralyzed because of spinal cord injury. This number is nearly 33% higher than previous estimates revealed.
It's not the first time electrical stimulation has made paralyzed patients move, CNN reports, but neuroscientist Susan Harkema explained that it is the first time electrical stimulation directly to the spinal cord has brought on voluntary activity. Experts believe this new technique is another step toward helping paralyzed people walk again.
Co-founder of The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis, Dr. Barth Green also believes this is a breakthrough. While he was not involved in this specific research case, he believes the study has introduced the world to promising developments. "It shows you can have a living spinal cord under the layer of their injury."
CNN warns that although the news is hopeful, patients shouldn't expect that the stimulator will help them walk anytime soon. The stimulator is only able to make one leg work at a time. Studies show that patients have to turn the stimulator off, then back on again to make the other leg work or to make another set of muscles such as their torsos work.
Dustin Shillcox, the fourth patient to try the device, told CNN that although he can't walk, the stimulator has had other benefits. Shillcox now has an improved bowel and bladder function, and improved sexual function.
"That's a difficult thing to go through life not having," he said. "It just changed my entire life. It's extraordinary and amazing."
Tests also showed that patients who were affected by years of paralysis and now benefitted from the stimulator, had improved repiratory and heart functions.
"If you can change health and wellness and life expectancy, to me that's a home run," Dr. Green told CNN. "Remember, [actor] Christopher Reeve died from complications of immobility,"
Harkema, who was present at the time of the breakthrough, believes this has been a great discovery. "I think what's incredibly exciting is we've opened up a realm of possibilities of what we can do now with people who are paralyzed, and we've just scratched the surface," she said.

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USHER on JUSTIN BIEBER: I HATE some of the things I hear!
Usher on Justin Bieber's recent troubles: 'It's unfortunate. I hate some of the things I hear' http://t.co/VdcRSk4OkQ
— Daily Mail Celebrity (@DailyMailCeleb) June 6, 2014
USHER on the BIEB: "I HATE SOME OF THE THINGS I HEAR..."
The man who found Justin Bieber on YOUTUBE and who single-handedly kickstarted the career of the Canadian pop prince - opened up about some of the things happening in the world of Biebs lately...
What Usher had to say about the fallen pop prince can't be to pleasant to hear... especially when you're not used to hearing people criticize you...
Maybe this time it will sink in.


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Liang Daoming
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Liang Daoming (Chinese: 梁道明; pinyin: Liáng Dàomíng; Cantonese Yale: Lèuhng Douh-mìng) was an abscondee of the Chinese Ming Dynasty who became king of Palembang in Srivijaya.[1] He hailed from Guangdong province and was of Cantonese descent. According to the Ming records, he had thousands of followers and a sizable military contingent in Palembang. Liang Daoming's rule over Palembang was acknowledged by the Ming emperor and protected by Zheng He's armada (1403-1424).[2]
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- ^ 14th century Zheng He and the Huaqiao Policy 郑和的国家观与"华侨政策" (in Chinese)
- ^ Leo Suryadinata, International Zheng He Society, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies - 2005 - History - 168 pages
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Jeff Abbott's publisher sent an advance copy of his new book, "Downfall," for review. It was my first encounter with Abbott's hero, Sam Capra.
Capra was driven out of the CIA, his career in shambles. He owns a string of bars across the world, while raising his son, Daniel, from his home base in New Orleans.
When a young woman bursts into The Select, Capra's San Fransisco establishment, and says, "Help me," his world unravels and the body count goes through the roof.
The young woman's mother has disappeared and the only clue she has is connected to Capra's bar.
As we learn, the mother is a hired gun for a very, very bad man named Belias (an ancient name for the devil), who controls the fortunes of some of the world's most powerful people.
Grand Central Publishing may be eyeing the vacancy left by the recent death of Vince Flynn. Abbott is certainly violent enough to fill the gap. I really didn't know there were that many ways to obliterate another human. After the first dozen or so, the effect wore off.
Not sure I'll follow the Capra series. I never connected with the character and a shrugy was all I could muster when he survived to fight another day.
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Taylor Swift Talks Love Life in 'Cosmopolitan': 'I Need That Unexplainable Spark'
In the December issue of Cosmopolitan, the 22-year-old country superstar dishes on what she needs in a relationship — and what really irks her about boys.
"I can't deal with someone wanting to take a relationship backward or needing space or cheating on you," she said.
"It's a conscious thing: it's a common-sense thing…I just don't ever want to end up in a relationship that isn't fair ever again."
Swift, who reportedly just split from boyfriend Conor Kennedy after dating for almost four months, is basking in the success of her latest album, Red. In its first week alone, the album sold 1.2 million copies in the United States, making it the most successful first week release in a decade.
"I need that unexplainable spark," she told Cosmopolitan.
"I just need to see someone and feel 'Oh, no, uh-oh.' It's only happened a few times in my life, but I feel like if I was gonna be with someone forever, it would be because I saw them and I thought, 'Oh, no.'"
John Mayer? Jake Gyllenhaal? Taylor Lautner?) she might be referring to, the singer is already looking forward to grown up life.
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The Final Act of Submission
Posted on Apr 13, 2007
By Scott Ritter
In the months leading up to President Bush's ill-fated invasion of Iraq, I traveled around the world speaking to various international groups, including many parliamentary assemblies. I spoke about democracy and the need of any nation or group of nations espousing democracy as a standard to embrace the ideals and values of justice and due process in accordance with the rule of law. I spoke of international law, especially as it was manifested in the charter of the United Nations (a document signed and adopted by all of the countries I visited).
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Such permissive submission was deplorable, and invariably led to a comment from me about the status of genuine sovereignty in the face of American imperial power. If a nation was incapable of defending its sovereign values and interests, then it should simply acknowledge its status as a colony of the United States, pull down its disgraced national flag and raise the Stars and Stripes.
Now the tables have turned. Americans, through the will of the people as expressed in the November 2006 election, voiced their dissatisfaction with the conduct of the American war in Iraq, and empowered a new Democratic-controlled Congress to reassert itself as a separate but equal branch of government—especially when it came to matters pertaining to war and the threat of war.
This new Democratic leadership has failed egregiously. Not only has the speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, been unable to orchestrate any meaningful legislation to bring the war in Iraq to an end, but in mid-March she carelessly greased the tracks for a whole new conflict. By excising language from a defense appropriations bill which would have required President Bush to seek the approval of Congress prior to initiating any military attack on Iran, Pelosi terminated any hope of slowing down the Bush administration's mad rush to war.
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I consider myself to be a friend of Israel, a status which has been demonstrated repeatedly through words and deeds from January-February 1991, when I was involved in the effort to stop Iraq Scud missiles from striking Israel during the 1991 Gulf War, to the period between October 1994 and June 1998 when I served as the lead liaison between the United Nations weapons inspectors and Israeli intelligence, working to find a final accounting of Iraq's proscribed weapons of mass destruction. I know only too well the precarious reality of Israel's security situation, and am sympathetic to its need to proactively deal with threats before they manifest themselves in a manner which threatens Israel's ability to survive as a nation-state.
However, as an American who served on active duty in time of war as an officer of Marines, I also remember the oath I took to "uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States of America against all enemies, foreign and domestic." As such, I am troubled by the recent actions of Speaker Pelosi and other members of Congress who have not only abrogated their collective responsibility to uphold and defend the Constitution but have taken actions which, under normal circumstances and involving any other nation, would border on treasonous. Our collective duty as Americans must center on defending the very document, the Constitution, which defines who we are and what we are as a people and a nation. To have our elected representatives flagrantly push aside their constitutional responsibilities in the name of the security interests of another nation is unthinkable. And yet it has just happened, apparently without consequence.
Sadly, the new Democratic Congress has cemented its status as yet another iteration of a system which long ago sold its soul to special interests. Democrats can cackle about Republican scandals, including the Jack Abramoff affair, which brought down Rep. Tom DeLay among others. But history will show that the Pelosi-led sellout to Israeli special interests endangered the viability and security of America as a sovereign state governed by the rule of law more than Jack Abramoff ever could.
In this time of constitutional crisis, the American people need to wake up and demand that the basic tenets of the Constitution be adhered to. Congress is solely empowered by the Constitution to declare war. Demanding that the president of the United States adhere to this prerequisite is a logical and patriotic stance. Allowing any non-American interest, even one possessing such highly charged political and emotional sensitivities as Israel, to dictate otherwise represents nothing more than a capitulation of sovereignty. We the people need to rally around this defense of sovereignty. We must demand not only that Congress reassert its constitutional responsibilities and authority by demanding the president obey the letter of the law when it comes to war, whether against Iran or any other nation, but also to place in check the anti-American activities of one of the most powerful lobbies in Washington, D.C., the American-Israeli Public Affairs Committee.
For decades AIPAC has operated in the shadows of American foreign policy decision-making, exerting its influence on elected officials away from the public scrutiny of the very constituents who elected those officials to begin with. It is impossible to hold someone accountable for actions that are kept secret, and as such AIPAC's ability to secretly influence American foreign and national security policies represents a flagrant insult and threat to the very essence of American democracy. I am not advocating the dissolution of AIPAC. However, I am demanding that AIPAC be treated as any other representative of a foreign nation is treated. It should have to register as an agent of a foreign power so that the totality of its interactions with American officials can become a part of the public record. We require this of all other nations, including our good friends the British.
To state that AIPAC, and by extension Israel, is above the law in this regard is to acknowledge the reality that American national sovereignty no longer matters when it comes to the state of Israel. So be it. But then we are, collectively, no better than those nations I mocked prior to the invasion of Iraq in 2003 as "colonies" of the United States. So if we are to continue to permit AIPAC to operate as an undeclared agent of a foreign nation, and to influence American foreign and national security policymaking at the expense of our Constitution, then we should acknowledge our true status as nothing more than a colony of Israel, pull down the Stars and Stripes and raise the Star of David over our nation's capitol. While representing the final act of submission, it would also be the first truly honest act that occurred in Washington, D.C., in many years.
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By Peter RV, January 24, 2008 at 4:50 pm Link to this comment
Could this be the same Mikhail, the Jewish oligarch crook who robbed blind the Russians untill he got caught and ended up in a slammer?
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By Mikhail Khodorkovsky, July 6, 2007 at 7:54 pm Link to this comment
You took the oath to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States of America against all enemies, foreign and domestic.
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By Beau Alford, April 18, 2007 at 10:05 am Link to this comment
I would like to have some of what this guy is smoking. I have worked with Arabs and Jews, as in instructor. Don't pass gas in the wind, dude.
By Dan Noel, April 17, 2007 at 11:21 am Link to this comment
What is most ironic in the Israeli lobby's influence is that it represents much less the Israeli people than the Israeli government. The Knesset is awash with raging debates over Israeli policies, with harsh criticisms being thrown at the government and its agencies. But in Washington, just about all politicians toe the line of the Israeli prime minister, whatever that may be. Washington's thinking pattern switches from Likud's to Labor's so effortlessly…
By Hugh E. Scott, April 16, 2007 at 8:08 pm Link to this comment
I had the good fortune of hearing Scott Ritter speak last February in my local community—Oak Park, CA.
Hes a staunch defender of Israel but not the rightwing Likud Party. However, what stuck most in my mind after Scotts speech was his debunking of Iran as a potential nuclear threat.
Scott described Irans uranium enrichment program as a fiasco, caused by mass distribution problems during centrifuge spin-up, resulting in exploding aluminum tubes.
According to a recent article in the Los Angeles Times, to produce weapons-grade uranium for one atomic bomb, 50,000 centrifuges would have to spin at max speed for an entire year without failure. Iran cant even get half of its 3,000 centrifuges to work properly, much less 50,000.
At the same time, Iran announced it would build two light-water reactors with help from Russia. Not, in my opinion, for obtaining plutonium for atomic bombs like the North Koreans did. I suspect Iran wants to whipsaw Western countries economically by selling its oil to friendlier governments such as China while subsisting totally on reactor-produced electricity. Saudi Arabia is threatening the same energy conversion.
Atomic bombs aside, imagine a nuclear-powered Middle East that dispenses petroleum at its leisure to the highest bidder, which might not be the United States. What will Bush neocons do then? Start a regional war with help from Israel? Seems possible to me.
By Concrete man, April 16, 2007 at 3:41 pm Link to this comment
From the point of view of global imperial interests, the war in Iraq was certainly not on the behest of the oil companies. I have looked at all the documents, Ive done interviews with oil companies, Ive looked at their publications for the five years in the run-up to the war and there is absolutely no evidence. On the contrary, if you pursue research on the various members of the Zionist power configuration in the United States, which I think is a conceptually more correct way of talking about this, rather than the Lobby, you will find that people of dubious loyalties, like Paul Wolfowitz, Douglas Feith, Richard Perle and Elliott Abrams the felon, that had an agenda of furthering Israels interests. - James Petras, author of The Power of Israel in the United States (2006)
By vincent405, April 16, 2007 at 10:33 am Link to this comment
Ritter is right on target. Read Jimmy Carter's book where he spells out in detail what Israel is really doing. The land for peace and two nation solution makes a lot of sense….BUT Israel will not accept peace.
By Danny Quintana, April 16, 2007 at 1:31 am Link to this comment
The Iraq war is the symptom. The larger picture is the extraordinary influence of the defense industry and the energy companies. Israel obviously benefits from any foreign conflict as they will receive more aid given their powerful allies in Washington and on Wall Street. But this benefit to Israel from excessive defense spending is not the main story. What is needed is to look at the larger picture and a new direction for the American economy. If we slowly re-direct defense spending toward space and ocean exploration and at the same time convert our economy from oil to nuclear and natural gas, Israel and the entire Middle East will not take up so much time on the evening news. Middle East oil is only important because it is the current fuel for the world's economic engines. Middle East conflicts occur in part because of the undue influence on policy of the military-industrial-labor unions-universities-congressional complex, (the defense spending coalition). By giving the aerospace contractors exploration of the inner solar system and the navy contractors exploration and preservation of the wild life in the oceans, we will slowly demilitarize the economy and above all give hope the nation's greatest asset, our children. Israel is not the "cause" of the Iraq war or our energy dependence on Middle East oil. These are policy choices made by Congress and their corporate allies. Both political parties are beholden to the interests of the defense spending coalition and the energy lobby. Certainly Israel has a very strong presence in Washington. But their ability to influence policy would not be nearly so strong if America was not dependent on oil and defense spending. Of the 435 congressional districts, every one has either a military installation or a defense contractor. Until we give the defense contractors new missions, we will continue to have war as part of the necessary economic planning to prop up consumer spending and this false economy. If Israel did not exist, if September 11th had not happened we would have had to create a reason to increase defense spending. If not Iraq then why not Nigeria or Venezuela? Given the ability of mass media to provide propaganda to support these massive defense budgets in the name of "national security", if the Middle East did not exist, we would have to find a Noriega or some other two bit dictator to punish with our aircraft carrier battle groups and rapid deployment forces.
By Esteban, April 15, 2007 at 6:11 pm Link to this comment
Christians, what Mr. Ritter and many commentators have written may have raised your ire but I want to encourage you to please consider the error of looking for solutions in politics. Your leader/president/prime minister is Jesus Christ and He's the one who said that His kingdom is not of this world. Why do you keep participating in and supporting this madness of killing other members of His creation? Have you forgotten that our battle is not with people but with the evil spiritual forces that influence them?
So what are we to do with Israelis, Iraqis, Iranians, et al? If you intend to be obedient to Christ's teachings and not idle, easily-manipulated bystanders, you will sincerely love them and pray for them. There is no gray area in this regard.
By richard mann, April 15, 2007 at 4:19 pm Link to this comment
Funny that all roads about Zionism, PNAC, 911, Iraq, Iran all lead back to AIPAC.
America has been bought, sold and delivered. Nancy Pelosi is attempting a rare hat trick. Forget about the gender thing, she is trying to satisfy the base of Democrats with the vote that put her in power in November 06. Yet she had long before been bought by AIPAC, so she is good with stripping timetables and placing impeachment off the table. You can see the physical conflict in Pelosi's eyes as she attempts to dance to two masters at the same time. It's not working very well for her.
In truth, Israel loves George Bush and Dick Cheney, because they both seem willing to represent the nexus of Zionism and US Christian zealotry. That is the true power behind the neocons, this improbable wedding of two fascist religious ideologies, and their shared hatred of a brown and impoverished enemy.
And so, Nancy Pelosi dances for two masters, the populist one that ostensibly brought her to power,which we liike to think of as corrective democracy, and the quiet one that paid the tab to get her into higher office. Pelosi is in the pocket of AIPAC. You didn't really think it had something to do with democracy, did you?
By richard mann, April 15, 2007 at 4:14 pm Link to this comment
Funny that all roads about Zionism, PNAC, 911, Iraq, Iran all lead back to AIPAC.
America has been bought, sold and delivered. Nancy Pelosi is attempting a rare hat trick. Forget about the gender thing, she is trying to satisfy the base of Democrats with the vote that put her in power in November 06. Yet she had lonjg before been bought by AIPAC, so she is good with stipping timetables and placing impeachment off the table. You can see the physical conflict in Pelosi's eyes as she attempts to dance to two masters at the same time. It's not working very well for her.
In truth, Israel loves George Bush and Dick Cheney, because they both seem willing to represent the nexus of Zionism and US Christian zealotry. That is the true power behind the neocons, this improbable wedding of two fascist religious ideologies, and their shared brown and impoverished enemy.
And so, Nancy Pelosi dances to two masters. The one populist one that ostensibly brought her to power,which we liike to think of as corrective democracy, and the quiet one that paid the bills to get her into higher office. Pelosi is in the pocket of AIPAC. You didn't really think it had something to do with democracy, did you?
By avatar singh, April 15, 2007 at 3:33 pm Link to this comment
jewish lobbu=y is effective only as long as it coincides with the efforts of british lobby.
very true -in fact so called jewsih lobby" power is a propaganda done by the english race to hide thier nefarious iterference in the american ploicy to uinflunce american domestic and foreing policy for the benefit of england.
how england has used jews for the benfit of english race only and for deliberatily creating disruption in Europe.
England had threatened israel in 1948 during israeli war of indepdence that england would use atom bomb agaisnt israel unless israel stop ddrowning royal air foarce palnes and pilots who were helping Jordan against israel.
By Bobby, April 15, 2007 at 2:22 pm Link to this comment
As always Scott Ritter is correct.
By louis morelli, April 15, 2007 at 2:10 pm Link to this comment
Not all Jews are to be blamed for the debacle over there. Some are just as innocent as I am and I am neither for or against Israel. I am however not a fan of Zionists. They like the Mafia (I am Italian of Italian decent) are the problem, we cannot be blamed for the lousy condition precvailing with the likes of those people and who is to blame-well they have called me "grease ball" "Dago" and on and on. So let us brand all people, black, green and orange at foult. No, to strong against any one group is not fair. But zionist's are no good. For me that is the way it is.
By Arun, April 15, 2007 at 1:38 pm Link to this comment
Counterskeptic (#64098)is right, 5th message down from here. Our senators act as how our society is and the people are. Every American is responsible for what is happening in the world due to US. It is citizen's responsibility to change things, if needed even the political system.
By Michael McCarthy, April 15, 2007 at 1:38 pm Link to this comment
Mr Ritter whines on about the power of AIPAC but it only serves as a distraction from the bigger issue of jews and their crafty control of government, education, media and big money, here and elsewhere. AIPAC is big but it gets bigger and Mr Ritter is afraid to speak on the real problem that is destroying this country and europe. Some Marine. Try http://www.antiwar.com http://www.jewwatch.com http://www.ihr.org http://www.judicial-inc.biz worth spending a week on these sites.
By Terry, April 15, 2007 at 12:09 pm Link to this comment
Yes. Thank you, Scott. Well said.
By lani, April 15, 2007 at 11:30 am Link to this comment
Scott Ritter,
By johndonald, April 15, 2007 at 10:30 am Link to this comment
A close read of the rise and fall of the Third Reich teaches that for 10 years prior to the Second World War a small minority of Jewish people in Germany had gained control of the media, the banking industry, much of the commercial business and, yes, some political power with elected persons. When this distortion was realized by the masses, they elected a radical "people-person" that resulted in a tragic war and the much described "hollowcost". When such a small minority of persons in any society gain such disproportionate economic and political power it is not hard to see how the average voter can be led astray. Well here we are again in the 21st century when American Jews control most of the US media, many of the economic "engines of business", much of the banking business and, yes, have elected several persons whose goal is to distort the objectives of Israel for their advantage. (Lieberman is the best example, but the unelected Perle, Feith, etc. have played a big roll). When the average American wakes up and realizes that such a small minority have hijacked their "Christian Country" they could also elect someone who promises to restore power (economic and political) to the people-base. And if that newly elected person proposes some severe methods of control, another tragic event could take place. Can American avoid another holocaust?
By Rabbit, April 15, 2007 at 9:23 am Link to this comment
I think the main point here is that politicians are being pre-screened by corporate and foreign interests. What voters want rarely comes into the equation.
By Morin P, April 15, 2007 at 8:52 am Link to this comment
I appreciated a lot the article of Mr Ritter and it is good to hear from sensible Americans once in a while. Yet if the security of Israel is of concern, what about the security of the Palestinian people? What about their rights which have been negated for the last half century for the sake of a created thief nation which is Isreal and that with the total support of the US.
By Kol Klink, April 15, 2007 at 8:42 am Link to this comment
To Mr. Hoffman:
By Matt, April 15, 2007 at 8:32 am Link to this comment
Mark Hoffman writes:
"Here we are again…. we have seen this all before. Things go sour - can it be us? Can it be who we elected? ... No that cant be it, its got to be the Jews because we all know they run everything."
(1) Israel is not "the Jews". This is how Israel gets what it wants. It insists that it is "the Jews". Then, by definition, anyone who speaks against Israel is anti-Semitic.
(2) We as a body politic must face and deal with what is true. Whether that truth makes you uncomfortable is irrelevant.
By Animadverto, April 15, 2007 at 7:39 am Link to this comment
Divide and Conquer
This has nothing to do with Jews, Christians and Muslims. It is more closely associated with Secret Societies draped in religious conviction to the public masses. Is President Bush truly a Born Again Christian Lets get real! Religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender and virtually all other societal divisions are used to subdue the masses by separating them into categories and groups, then to pit each against the other(s). There are extremists in every camp; unfortunately, it is the extremists in such divisions that are the most active in the geopolitical arena that insight the conflicts and arouse the emotions of the ignorant masses. This has been going on since the beginning of time. Today is no different, with the exception that, no longer does mankind use swords and arrows, but nukes and biologicals. This is by design the desire of the New World Order and they are of every ethnicity, religion and interest(s) that involve the desire for power, control, i.e., subversion the masses. AIPAC is dangerous to the United States, but then so is every other special interest effecting our political process. It is amazing how easily people will play into this and not see it for what it is.
By Concrete man, April 15, 2007 at 5:18 am Link to this comment
No Roxanne, European imperialism which led to American imperalism is not all the fault of Jewish peoples. In fact, Fredrick Tobin who is one of the top Holocaust revisionist scholars says, "don't blame the Jews, blame the gentiles".
By Ralph McGaughey, April 15, 2007 at 3:27 am Link to this comment
This is not the worst. America has ceded jurisdiction over itself to Israel. Nearly ten years ago an American who never had been outside America killed an American in Maryland. The killer was Solomon Sheinbein. The victim was Tello. The murderer fled to Israel which claimed jurisdiction because the criminal was a jew. Israel held a trial and gave him a softball sentence. The US government has acceded to this outrage. Both the Clinton and the Bush administrations have done nothe=ing. A Republican and a Democratic Congress have done nothing. A government that allows its jurisdiction over its citizens and territory to be usurped is a colonial possession. The total slavishness of the Washington establishment is a stain upon the Constitution which is defiled by these bootlickers.
By aeskylos, April 15, 2007 at 12:18 am Link to this comment
Scott lays it bare
By Concrete man, April 14, 2007 at 8:12 pm Link to this comment
Not only is Scott Ritter right on the money with his analysis, but so is James Petras in his authoritative study of USrael: The Power of Israel in the United States; as well as Jeffrey Blankfort's article, War for Israel; as well as Stephen Sniegoski's work on Israel, and how the war was not for oil but for Israel; as well as Mearsheimer and Walt; and Jimmy Carter; and have you read Israel Shamir's amazing books? Oh, and another must read, Grant Smith's Deadly Dogma, a study of the Zionist Neocons that goes back into Wolfowitz's days of extending the Cold War for Israel's benefit… enjoy
By Stephan, April 14, 2007 at 6:59 pm Link to this comment
Obviously, the US has been in a retarded state of mind for some time now. It's not scarry anymore, now it's just funny.
By Davy de Verteuil, April 14, 2007 at 6:32 pm Link to this comment
Davy de Verteuil of Trinidad & Tobago W I.
By Hakkaka, April 14, 2007 at 3:41 pm Link to this comment
Not only is congress and the administration completely in the Zionist corner "all the time" making no difference -in relation to israel and the middle east- which party wins the elections, but also the media in almost most of it forms. The newspapaers have been gatekepers, allowing only news sympathetic to israel or Zioism in general( witness its deplorable reaction to president's Carter valiant attempt to expose the truth on Israel's subversions of peace attempts and apartheid policies as one only recent example). Most commentators and news reporters on major media ( TV, cable, NPR) on the Middle East are either Jews/Zionists or profoundly pro-Israelis. Guests on these programs are also the same. Radio talk-show-hosts - disproportionally are Zionists ( and neocons) or very pro-zionists. University departments ( at the major universities) dealing with Middle East, Journalism, political departments are also packed with Zionists. Professors with non-zionist sympathies are either scared away (ganged up on) , or never considered for hiring. The examples are numerous. Yes, the more Americans realize that the Israelization of America is bad for the US both domestically and in foreign affairs,the better. ( This is the biggest fear the pro-zionists have and vehemently combat at all costs: the truth Only then the tide will be reversed. The issue has finally been exposed and has started to become a legitimate story. It is up to us -all of us- to make the difference.
By guntotin ganglion, April 14, 2007 at 2:56 pm Link to this comment
I wonder how many people know that Israel perpetrated an act of war against the United States on June 8, 1967? One day before the Israeli's attacked Syria, during the Six Day War, Israel without warning attacked the U.S.S. Liberty, in international waters off the coast of Gaza, and killed 37 crewmen and wounded 173 out of a crew of 297. The attack was sustained far longer than it would have taken to positively identify the Liberty as a US intelligence gathering ship. It is not credible that Israel didn't know. One curious fact that underlines the incredible nature of the denials is that no less than 8 reconnaissance flights by Israeli aircraft preceded the attack. Clearly, they knew what and whom, they were attacking. And they would have known that this was an act of war.
The only question that remains to this day is, why did they do it? It would appear that the Liberty was in position to gather some intel, perhaps regarding the upcoming attack on Syria, that the Israeli's didn't want exposed to the US intelligence community. It can be assumed that it was something of such sensitivity that number one, they were willing to destroy a US intelligence ship and kill everyone on-board, which they clearly tried to do, to keep that secret, or if they failed in the attempt to destroy the ship and crew, be exposed for having perpetrated an act of war on the US. Clearly the 2nd possibility was what happened, and then Israel went into ass-covering mode, and called in all their markers with the US to whitewash the incident. Whatever the reason, it has been covered up to this very day.
To elaborate briefly on the intensity of the attack, crewmen afterward were given the task of counting all the holes in the ship that were larger than a man's fist, and they counted 861 such holes. As to .50 caliber holes, those were assessed to be in the thousands. When crewman attempted to abandon ship, Israeli torpedo boats fired on them, forcing them back onto the ship, which was on fire. When firefighting crews tried to fight the fires, the torpedo boats fired upon them, forcing them below decks, to escape the murderous assault. The torpedo boats during the attack were reported to have approached to within 50 feet of the ship, so the claims that they didn't know it was a US ship are lies.
At about the same time as the torpedo boat attacks stopped, as a result of an open transmission from the US Sixth Fleet for it's fighters to engage and destroy the attackers, Israeli attack helicopters arrived over the ship. Survivors reported that the helicopters were packed with men in combat battle dress. Clearly, they were on station to finish the job, kill everyone on-board and sink the ship. The ship was defenseless, the crew unable to put up any defense whatsoever, and Israeli combat troops were moving to board them…do the math. The only thing that stopped them was that the US Sixth Fleet sent rules of engagement in the clear, and they knew they would be destroyed…and thus the attacks finally stopped, and the Israeli's started with their campaign to cover their crimes.
For further details on this cowardly, vicious attack on a US ship in international waters see http://www.ussliberty.org/report/report.htm
The simple fact is, they committed an act of war against the United States, and got away with it. They murdered 37 US sailors. They've never been made to explain why they attacked, other than the spurious claims that it was mistaken identity. That is simply not credible. This is just one more facet of the madness that is the insidious and incestuous nature of the relationship between the US and Israel.
The surviving members of the crew are continuing to try to get the Congress to investigate this heinous act of war that cost so many lives, but so far, the Congress is showing no interest. Could AIPAC be the reason? Seems likely.
By Verne Arnold, April 14, 2007 at 2:42 pm Link to this comment
Alas, once again Scott is right on.
The question is…what are we going to do about it?
By Matt, April 14, 2007 at 12:52 pm Link to this comment
AIPAC is in the business of subversion. Its sole purpose is to make the US obeisant to Israel and Zionist intention. As the spear point for Jewish supremacist ambition in Washington, we are all too familiar that AIPAC accomplishes this through a combination of espionage, and an artful use of its financial capabilities to compromise members of congress to do its will. AIPAC's singular access to press and media channels assure that its corruption of its "leaders" and American principals never see the light of day. Everyone of any importance in Washington knows that their careers hang on appeasing Israel, AIPAC and Jewish Lobby. This a simple and very ugly truth. Yet Ritter, who boast first rate intelligence credentials, sees no fundamental threat in AIPAC's activity.
Who's he kidding?
Israel represents a fundamental threat to US interest. It is high time we recognize its danger to our continued existence and to world peace.
By Phillip Crist, April 14, 2007 at 12:07 pm Link to this comment
Truth to Power again Scott. Or if one can't get much power, then Truth to Diggs. Addendum: Apparently there is someting about truth that people with power don't dig!
By Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, April 14, 2007 at 11:53 am Link to this comment
So, the USA was a pure, moral, law abiding republic before the evil Israelis took over? Tell that to the Indians, the Mexicans, enslaved and afterwards segregated blacks, tell it to the Nicaraguans, the Haitians, the Cubans, Filipinos, Puerto Ricans, all of whom were apparently constitutionally raped, killed, regime changed, exploited, land stolen, indeed the whole continent, before Zionism was even an idea, much less embodied in a tin horn state.
By Lee, April 14, 2007 at 11:52 am Link to this comment
#63822 by blueyes
Thanks for reminding us all about the BS kiddy porn charge used to discredit Scott Ritter. Perverting the law and the legal system to bolster the agenda of the evildoer neocons goes well beyond depravity. No wonder they keep feeding us such crap, we keep buying it over and over again.
The War Party gets ugly:
One massive lie most people still seem to swallow is the notion that the Jews are somehow a separate and distinct race of people. To believe The Jewish People have somehow managed to maintain genetic purity throughout the millennia requires the suspension of science and reason and the embracing of utter superstition. Judaism is a religion. There is no such thing as a genetic Jew on the planet. But what the hell-look at all the people who believe in stuff like the Immaculate Conception. The 21st century and the bulk of human thinking is still stuck in the dark ages. Dog help us.
By Jeremy, April 14, 2007 at 11:18 am Link to this comment
Ritter claims he is a "friend of Israel" while in the same breath accusing the Israelis of subverting the US government and controlling its foreign policy. But since Ritter obviously doesn't have the guts, I am going to clarify his message for you. The US government, and by extension, the world, is secretly run by a cabal of Jews who control all government decisions and all the wolrd's money.
Sound familiar? Let's be honest with ourselves, people. I know the Jews are history's favorite scapegoat, but blaming them for the mess that our government created in Iraq?
I consider myself a patriotic American. I believe in free speech, and for me, that includes hate speech, however masked it may be, and that is what can be found in the comments below. To compare the situation in Israel and the West Bak and Gaza to what the Germans did to European Jewry during WWII is not only naive and deluded, it is merely thinly veiled hate speech. These days, Israel bashing, and more recently AIPAC bashing, has become the socially accepted way to publish anti-semetic views.
To all those commenting who agree with Ritter's publication, I would encourage you to do your homework on the subject.
By Dave Libori, April 14, 2007 at 10:54 am Link to this comment
While Scott correctly identifies AIPAC as the leading influencer of our political class, they are just the organizational manifestation. Even more influental are the various media sources that control and shape public opinion. No politician will dare to go against these powers, unless he is willing to commit political and economic suicide.
By Peter RV, April 14, 2007 at 10:49 am Link to this comment
Right on the money Scott. If we continue this way we might as well disolve our useless Congress and replace it by AIPAC, which is ,anyhow ,making decisions in our foreign policy. What a garbage of Nation are we when we have no say in what we are doing to the rest of the World?
By Hal, April 14, 2007 at 10:35 am Link to this comment
Norman Finkelstein is up for tenure at DePaul University, not Purdue.
By Friedrich Paul Berg, April 14, 2007 at 9:44 am Link to this comment
I congratulate Scott Ritter for his courage and good judgement for opposing the Iraq war and for exposing the scoundrels.
I want to add my thought which is that justice, international law, and morality matter mean absolutely nothing if you are on the other side—but, have the votes. That is the problem that "democracies" will always have. Pro-Israel extremists, which includes far more than AIPAC, understand that perfectly. The ultimate power rests not with the wisest people who understand the issues in great depth—but with those who successfully persuade a majority of people with only a superficial grasp of the issues. The holocaust is consistently used to totally skew all discussions of the abuse of Palestinians.
Friedrich Paul Berg
By Benjamin, April 14, 2007 at 8:46 am Link to this comment
What bothered me most is that it was so little reported in the mainstream press, or even on the 'liberal' blogs. Truly, Israel is a sacred cow, which isn't good for them or for us. People have naive ideas about the intrinsic goodness of Democracy, but the simple fact is that it can be choked to death by corruption.
By R. Ferguson, April 14, 2007 at 8:34 am Link to this comment
Scott Ritter is correct,but as some have said the problem is much more complex than putting AIPAC out of business. Lets forget the us against them mentality. It is all about MONEY. The Crime Bosses are jockeying for the big prizes. The Dollar,control of oil, MIC, Federal Govt., and any other big monopolies. They are all partners in Crime,now so blatantly open thieves,a person can be shock and awe. Is this the big picture???
By bill goldman, April 14, 2007 at 7:29 am Link to this comment
Scott Ritter was the first clear voice on the lies about WMDs in Iraq. After four years the American public now believes what he said.
By Crinson Ghost, April 14, 2007 at 7:23 am Link to this comment
Thank you Scott Ritter for that excellent expose of AIPAC's enormous power and sinister role in trying to touch off a US-Iran war!
Is this sentiment shared widely within the ranks of the US military as I suspect?
AIPAC and the israel lobby are not immune from the old saw that IF YOU GIVE THEM ENOUGH ROPE THEY WILL HANG THEMSELVES.
By Jaded Prole, April 14, 2007 at 5:12 am Link to this comment
I agree with Mr. Ritter that AIPAC should register as te agent of a foreign government (Joe Leiberman too for that matter), but I do not think the tail is wagging the dog. Israel is our colony and couldnt exist for long without our financial underwriting and support. They do much of our dirtywork and take much blame as our scapegoat but much of what they do is done at the behest of our national security state. They do get some leeway (along with a wink and a nod from Washington) to expand settlements and massacre Palestinians but most of the big decisions including the recent aggression against Lebanon are made by our own government. It is ultimately we as a nation who oppress Palestinians. It is ultimately we who hold the puppet strings on our Zionist marrionette. Thats why along with our support of the Ibn Saud mafia we were attacked on September 11.
By Nick Brajkovich, April 14, 2007 at 3:17 am Link to this comment
You are a very brave man Mr Ritter and I congratulate you on setting out in your article what many, many people around the world believe but are too afraid to say.
The everlooming threat, like the sword of Damacles, of being labelled an anti-semite hangs over everybodys heads and therefore silences any serious debate regarding the parasitic influence of AIPAC on the US hence the world.
I acknowledge your bravery and would that more people in positions such as yours show similare fortitude, the world would be a better place.
Nick B
By Appreciative, April 14, 2007 at 12:56 am Link to this comment
This is a very courageous and patriot article indeed. Amazing that in other lands people risk their lives to overthrow occupation yet many of us fear to speak out for the liberation of America against AIPAC domination.
The tide is turning however. Everyone should pass on this article to everyone we know and writeour representatives in Congress to stand up to the AIPAC lobby.
By Robert, April 14, 2007 at 12:50 am Link to this comment
Scott Ritter "Dares To Speak Out" and tells the TRUTH about AIPAC and its intimidation tactics on elected U.S. Representatives.
AIPAC & its money has the majority of our US Senators & Congressmen/Congresswomen in a strangle hold. "No One Dares To Speak Out" or criticize Israel & its Apartheid policies.
Anyone read former US Congressman, Paul Findley's book 'They Dare To Speak Out'? He was targeted by AIPAC & lost his re-election bid in Illinois. He was in the US Congress for 22 years.
Check out Pro-Israel PAC Contributions to 2006 Congressional Candidates.
Check out and see AIPAC's many controlling methods of our representatives & elected officials. The list goes by state, representative name, district, party, 2005-2006 contributions, career totals…etc…
Here is the link:
By lou morelli, April 14, 2007 at 12:35 am Link to this comment
Ritter is on the money. This is the USI and what is better than to have American Soldiers killed rather than Iarale soldiers. God save the civilian jews and Arabs.
By sk, April 13, 2007 at 11:50 pm Link to this comment
I absolutely support Scott Ritter's views. American politicans are obedient dogs of Israeli interests and have been wasting American lives, blood and resources for the benefit of Israel. We should start a petition Online that not only AIPAC should register as a foreign agent but it should be banned form operating in the US and in the US political system, financially or otherwise. In addition, any American who brags and supports Israel should be packed with AIPAC and permanently sent to Israel. All U.S. nationals who served in the Israel military should be locked in Guantanamo.
By JenSonee, April 13, 2007 at 10:44 pm Link to this comment
aipac and the group of cubans in florida that control the usOa's policy towards cuba, same type of human, nazis. funny jews becoming nazis. but then sharon belonged to a jewish group in germany that tried to join the nazis party, as a front for the nazis party. doesn't matter what country those people are allways there.
By Pat Kofahl, April 13, 2007 at 8:59 pm Link to this comment
Scott Ritter is one of the few American patriots willing stand up and point to the elephant int the room: our foreign policy is being manipulated by Israel. Small wonder we are hated throughout the Middle East, and lots of other places in the world! As citizens, we have a duty and responsibility to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States. We have abrogated our responsibility and allowed special interests (both foreign and domestic) to hijack our country and head us in a direction that will ultimate turn our Constitution into "nothing but a God damned piece of paper". If you value the freedom that patriots like Scott Ritter have fought and died for from Yorktown to Fallujah, its time to stand up and act.
By David, April 13, 2007 at 8:27 pm Link to this comment
When the US attacks Iran it will be an American decision and the responsibility for it can not be placed in the hands of another.
This president has made it his messianic mission to follow the path of Napolean so let him. No Imperator has ever listened to the common people. Not Ceaser, not Augustus, not Xerxes. Why should our emperor listen to us, God made him president. This means that Bush has the divine right to do as he wishes and that a simple man like me has no power or influence to dictate anything else.
We common men and women are powerless to influence these events and that things are now beyond the control of the American people. Our Congress has taken on the role of the Senate during Rome's imperial period. When it just rubber stamped whatever the emperor wanted. If you don't beleive me look at the Iraq funding bill. Bush will get his money. And these scandels are "distractions" Bush's power is still pretty much intact.
And many will state that Bush's approval ratings are low, and my response is that since when did an emperor care for approval ratings.
By Kol Klink, April 13, 2007 at 7:48 pm Link to this comment
To Stone 777 : Bushco's ill fated invasion of Iraq is the biggest strategic blunder in US history, according to ret. gen Odom, Zbig, Madeline Albright, ad infinum.
By Hugh E. Scott, April 13, 2007 at 7:35 pm Link to this comment
To Stone 777.
You have my vote for the Master of Contradiction award.
First you commented about Iraq, History will judge Bushs actions as correct and noble, which almost made me toss my cookies.
Later you wrote, I, like many Americans, am ready to vote for a third party.
Thats like saying Jesus is Lord but I dont want to be a Christian.
By DaShamu, April 13, 2007 at 5:53 pm Link to this comment
If the military solution is continuing to worsen the situation in Iraq, maybe it is time to reinforce a humanitarian aid to bring peace to the world.
By yehuda cohn, April 13, 2007 at 4:18 pm Link to this comment
Another stellar column. Thank you Mr. Ritter. Keep up your good work. God knows we need it more than ever.
By writeon, April 13, 2007 at 2:03 pm Link to this comment
It's tempting, but I personally don't think it's correct to blame the Jews or Israel for American foreign policy disasters. The american ruling-class is perfectly "capable" of screwing-up without Israel's help. Though I can see that it might act as a comfort to blame the Jews for the trainwreck that's occured. But I believe it's a fundamental mistake and an attempt to shift responsibility and wipe the shit off on the Jews, to put it bluntly.
One could argue that "Israel" has been as much of an american project as a Jewish project for over half a century. There are those that argue persuasively that Israel "controls" US foreign policy. The tail is wagging the dog theory. I don't buy it. Perhaps the dog likes having such an effective tail for swatting flies, and is pleased that people are always looking at the tail and not the dog?
American foreign policy is American foreign policy and fundamentally it's the responsibility of the Americans, not Israel. If the US really wanted to change its foreign policy, it could and it would. It's a shame that some in the US are casting around for an excuse for the disaster that is Iraq and have chosen Israel as the fall guy. This is natural, but, not necessarily accurate. Whilst Israel has a lot of influence, probably too much influence, it really is, at a basic level an American show.
By Kol Klink, April 13, 2007 at 1:21 pm Link to this comment
A big thanks to Scott Ritter for posting anything regarding AIPAC, much less posting anything critical.
By Quy Tran, April 13, 2007 at 1:13 pm Link to this comment
We did have Vietnamization war in 1970s. Now under Bush/Cheney we have Israelization the United States!
By Genrikh Yagoda, April 13, 2007 at 12:58 pm Link to this comment
Israel was created by USi by bribing war torn nations after WWII. A foothold in the middle-east. It has worked for the past 60 years but Israel existance is now few years numbered.
By PatrickHenry, April 13, 2007 at 12:11 pm Link to this comment
Mr. Ritter we salute you.
It is important to bring the relationship AIPAC has with our elected policy making officials to the public stage. Their (AIPAC) best interests are not necessarily Americas best interests and often run contrary to our interest.
I have and will continue to advocate term limits, campaign finance and certifiable voting reform.
We need to cycle our politions (and their pet lobbies) in and out of office so no state or lobby has seniority or influence in any given committee for very long and more current views of society are expressed.
By blueyes, April 13, 2007 at 11:43 am Link to this comment
I wish Scott Ritter would run for President. I remember right before the US invaded Iraq, Ritter was railing against the administration's claims of Iraq's posession of WMD's. Then, suddenly, it was reported that he had been busted for having kiddie porn on his computer. Valerie Plame anyone?
By Tom Doff, April 13, 2007 at 10:09 am Link to this comment
How rewarding and refreshing to read something so forthrightly honest and true. Congratulations to Truthdig and Scott Ritter for publishing this article. It should be required reading for every neocon-zionist defender (and denier).
I was banned (under various pixelnyms) from several prominent blogs for offering similar truths, and virulently attacked as an anti-semite. I have friends who are jews, but refuse to associate with those who are rabidly (or even mildly) zionist.
Those who are prejudiced for something can be much more harmful and despicable than those who are prejudiced against something. For one thing, they discriminate against a much bigger universe (everyone who isn't them). For another (in the case of the zionists), they are often insanely, unreasonably driven to accept no truths other than their truth, which is often based on some fable or figment which is irrational, such as their 'god' being the 'true' 'god', who is personally directing their actions/desires.
This also applies to our home-grown whackos, the Falwell/Robertson/Dobson cults, and, unfortunately, our very own appointed 'president', G.W. (hisownself).
A few brave souls have tried to reveal and fight the AIPAC/Zionist hold on our nation in the past, and been shot down/bought off/pressured to shut up. But it must be done. Where is the brave speaker-of-this-truth we need, on the national stage?
By rabblerowzer, April 13, 2007 at 10:03 am Link to this comment
Do we still have a even a semblance of Democracy in America?
What will Democrats do if Republicans ignore their hearings and subpoenas and simply refuse to appear or testify under oath?
The Bush administration has shown no qualms about violating the laws or Constitution in the past, so how can we expect this criminal cabal to respect them now?
Whos going to challenge our dictator and his fascist followers in congress to try to enforce the laws?
It comes down to this, tyrants always have the advantage because they are bound by no laws of man or God.
Do the Democrats have the courage to risk a Constitutional crisis and possibly a civil war to prevent Bush declaring himself Dictator for life?
By Bill Blackolive, April 13, 2007 at 9:44 am Link to this comment
Scott, what is going to turn the madness is public focus on the impossible official physics of the sinking of the 3 9/ll buildings (besides much else, but it will start with the easy). Everything will be changed, dramatically. Maybe you will not be the one to talk out loud. But this will happen.
By Matt, April 13, 2007 at 9:31 am Link to this comment
This is why the issue of pro-Israel fanaticism and Israeli influence on our foreign policy is so crucial: of all the interests drawing us into war with Iran, the only one that controls BOTH parties, as well as the mainstream media (both "liberal" and "conservative"), is Israel.
Even much of the "antiwar" movement is dominated by "liberals" and "leftists" who habitually look the other way when it comes to the Israel lobby's pivotal role in pushing the US into wars for Israel's benefit.
In America, both left and right agree that even to consider seriously the possibility that Israel is a bad influence on our government is to fall into anti-Semitism, instantly becoming a political and social pariah.
Without this factor, the very idea of going to war against Iran could easily be dismissed as the insanity that it is.
By jack burly, April 13, 2007 at 8:25 am Link to this comment
My Senator, unfortunately, is Mitch McConnell. For years as part of the appropriations committee, Mitch has voted to send Israel approximately 10% of their total annual budget. It must just be coincidence that Mitch has reaped hundreds of thousands of dollars in contributions from Israeli pacs. Seems to me it's pretty much like voting himself campaign contributions.
Hasn't the US vetoed over 40 UN Security Council resolutions that went against Israel?
By Jim Yell, April 13, 2007 at 8:18 am Link to this comment
George Bush continues to play fast and loose with laws and accepted practices, when dealing with the other branches of the government. Thanks to Ronald Reagan, Bush, Sr. and this current boob the Supreme Court is fairly packed with political chicanery by a political party that is an enemy of democracy and the legal limits defined by the Bill of Rights.
The Congress, both parties are too bought by the mega rich and corporations that have bought their attention and participation in the destruction of American Labor and the interests of America the nation. It was a bone-headed thing that Pelosi did by taking impeachment off the table before she even had a chance to investigate the crimes of this administration. She talks of cooperation, while George Bush has just once more ignored the wishes of America and by deceit appointed a "Swift Boat" liar to a diplomatic post. He continues to do hurtful things and Pelosi thinks she can deal with him by pretending he values her opinion or anyone elses.
Impeach and convict Bush/Cheney. Free this country from the effects of an active Republican plot to destroy democracy at home. Prosecute these people starting with Rumsfield. Bring action against them to restore some of the stolen money that Republican mismanagement has taken from the nations treasury. If not than the country is crippled to recover from Bush/Cheney criminality.
By PatrickHenry, April 13, 2007 at 8:10 am Link to this comment
We need a McCarthy style effort to clean the dual national AIPAC loving S.O.B.'s out of this government. Daily I see the current administration defy the will of the American people mostly at the behest of a foreign government but also the military industrialists who are recording record profits while the remainder of American industry is exported (except banking).
This country cries out for term limits of elected officals, campaign finance reform by allowing only public money and public media and laws governing limits of salaries and payouts to CEO's of public held companies.
It would be a start.
By Kellina, April 13, 2007 at 8:06 am Link to this comment
Thank you Truthdig for posting Ritter's article. Thank you Ritter for writing it.
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The Guardian and the Washington Post have been awarded the highest accolade in US journalism, winning the Pulitzer prize for public service for their groundbreaking articles on the National Security Agency's surveillance activities based on the leaks of Edward Snowden.
The award, announced in New York on Monday, comes 10 months after the Guardian published the first report based on the leaks from Snowden, revealing the agency's bulk collection of US citizens' phone records.
Guardian and Washington Post win Pulitzer prize for NSA revelations
The Guardian and the Washington Post have been awarded the highest accolade in US journalism, winning the Pulitzer prize for public service for their groundbreaking articles on the National Security Agency's surveillance activities based on the leaks of Edward Snowden.
White House news group honors black reporter it once barred
Harry S. McAlpin made history in February 1944 when he became the first black reporter to cover a presidential news conference at the White House.
Time magazine and The New York Times noted the milestone. And Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who'd opened the White House doors after entreaties from African-American publishers, greeted the reporter as he made his way over to the president's desk, telling him, "Glad to see you, McAlpin."
Ever Wonder Why Your Local TV News Stations Run the Same Damn Stories?
Everybody knows that most local TV newscasts kind of suck. On television, if it bleeds it leads, and if it's cheesy and trite it wins the night. Local news is a reliable source for late-night comedians—and The Simpsons has been lampooning it forever.
Yet despite all of the genre's shortcomings, local TV news still manages to reach 9 in 10 American adults, 46 percent of whom watch it "often." It may come as a surprise to you internet junkies, but broadcast television still serves as Americans' main source of news and information. Which is why it matters that hundreds of local TV news stations have been swept up in a massive new wave of media consolidation: It means that you, the viewer, are being fed an even more repetitive diet of dreck.
Opponents of Pentagon-Budget Cuts Just Played the Entire Media
On Monday, large swaths of the news media reported on the Obama Administration's proposed military budget using the same misleading frame. As the New York Times stated in its headline, "Pentagon Plans to Shrink Army to Pre-World War II Level."
Fox News chose the same emphasis. "The Army had already been preparing to shrink to 490,000 active-duty members from a wartime peak of 570,000," it stated, noting it will now be between 440,000 and 450,000. "That would make it the smallest since just before the U.S. entered World War II." Reuters' headline: "Budget cuts to slash U.S. Army to smallest since before World War Two."
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The golden age of unions is long gone — and for the radio shows that focus on labor and workers rights, every day is a struggle just to stay on the airwaves.
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- Peel the onions, top and tail them. Cut them in half, then cut each half into very thin slices or just chop them.
- Put the oil and the onions into a pot, and cook the onions over a low heat until they are transparent.
- When the onions are transparent and tender, add the wine, still over low heat. Add some salt to bring out the flavor, and a little pepper.
- Add the sugar, stirring to blend it.
- Cook this down until the wine is totally cooked away, always over low heat. The consistency should be like a jam, because you will spread this on toasts for the foie gras, and you don't want it to be drippy.
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