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Peer-Reviewed Publications
The premature graduation of children from child restraints to vehicle seat belts. United States Government Printing Office: Traffic Tech; 2001.
Preliminary research developing a theory of cell phone distraction and social relationships." Accid Anal Prev. 2015;86:155-160."
Preliminary examination of a cartoon-based hostile attributional bias measure for urban African American boys." Am J Community Psychol. 2012;49(3-4):332-46."
Predictors and Patterns of Pediatric Head Injury in Motor Vehicle Crashes. Prague, Czech Republic; 2005.
Predicting child PTSD: the relationship between acute stress disorder and PTSD in injured children." J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2004;43(4):403-11."
Predictable, Preventable, and Deadly: Epidemic Carbon Monoxide Poisoning After Storms." Am J Public Health. 2018;108(10):1320-1321."
Precision prevention: time to move beyond universal interventions." Inj. Prev.. 2015."
Practice Patterns in Pharmacologic and Non-pharmacologic Therapies for Children with Mild Traumatic Brain Injury: A survey of 15 Canadian and United States Centers." J. Neurotrauma. 2019."
A practical approach for applying best practices in behavioural interventions to injury prevention." Inj. Prev.. 2010;16(2):107-12."
Posttraumatic Stress in School-age Children and Adolescents: Medical Providers' Role From Diagnosis to Optimal Management." Pediatric Health, Medicine and Therapeutics. 2015;2015:6(6):167-180."
Posttraumatic Stress in Children After Injury: The Role of Acute Pain and Opioid Medication Use." Pediatr Emerg Care. 2018."
Posttraumatic Stress Following Pediatric Injury: Update on Diagnosis, Risk Factors, and Intervention." JAMA Pediatr. 2013."
Posttraumatic Stress Following Acute Medical Trauma in Children: A Proposed Model of Bio-Psycho-Social Processes During the Peri-Trauma Period." Clin Child Fam Psychol Rev. 2014."
Posttraumatic stress disorder symptom structure in injured children: functional impairment and depression symptoms in a confirmatory factor analysis." J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2010;49(6):616-25, 625.e1-4."
Posttraumatic stress disorder and injury." Clinical Pediatric Emergency Medicine. 2003;4(2):148-155."
Point of Health Care Entry for Youth With Concussion Within a Large Pediatric Care Network." JAMA Pediatr. 2016:e160294."
Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial of a Novel Web-Based Intervention to Prevent Posttraumatic Stress in Children Following Medical Events." J Pediatr Psychol. 2016;41(1):138-48."
A pilot randomized controlled trial assessing secondary prevention of traumatic stress integrated into pediatric trauma care." J Trauma Stress. 2011;24(3):252-9."
Physical disability after injury-related inpatient rehabilitation in children." Pediatrics. 2013;131(1):e206-13."
Perspectives of hospital emergency department staff on trauma-informed care for injured children: An Australian and New Zealand analysis." J Paediatr Child Health. 2017;53(9):862-869."
Persistence of posttraumatic stress in violently injured youth seen in the emergency department." Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2002;156(8):836-40."
Performance of a Clinical Decision Support Tool to Identify PICU Patients at High Risk for Clinical Deterioration." Pediatr Crit Care Med. 2020;21(2):129-135."
Performance Evaluation of Various High Back Booster Seats Tested at 56 Kph using a 6-Year-Old Hybrid III Dummy. Washington, DC; 2005.
Perception of realism during mock resuscitations by pediatric housestaff: the impact of simulated physical features." Simul Healthc. 2010;5(1):16-20."


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Cops: Man abducted, forced to empty deposit box
FAIRFIELD -- Police are searching for two suspects accused of kidnapping a man at gunpoint in Bridgeport and forcing him to empty his safe deposit box at a Fairfield bank. Officers captured a third suspect outside the bank.
Authorities say the robbers abducted the man on East Main Street in Bridgeport on Monday and took him to a TD Bank branch in Fairfield on Black Rock Turnpike. Police responded to the bank at about 2 p.m. when someone reported there was a man with a gun in the safe deposit box area.
Two suspects got away in a light blue or teal Mercedes Benz CLS500.
No one was injured in the heist.
Police believe the suspects knew the victim and knew he had a safe deposit box.

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Bee Luscious Gel Liner Swatches
Marcasite is a gorgeous charcoal grey, Tanzanite- a deep plum- was featured in my Sugar Plum Eyes tutorial, and Oceanic is probably the brightest blue liner I've seen. I sometimes like using a thin line of that shade on my lower lashline for a nice pop of color- if you keep the line thin, it's surprisingly subtle! Once you apply these liners, either smudge them right away for a smoked out effect, or just let it sit for 30 seconds or so and the color will be unsmudgeable. I like that word LOL :) Seriously though, they don't budge once you apply them. You can definitely feel safe applying them to your lower lashline & you won't look like a raccoon 3 hours later!


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Royals Minor League report: July 14
Omaha Storm Chasers (44-53)
Round Rock 10, Omaha 3
LP: Justin Marks (4-9)
HR: None
Omaha settled for a 2-2 series split as the Express slammed six home runs off of five pitchers. Starter Chris Dwyer allowed three runs, four hits and two walks over four innings. He will represent the Storm Chasers at Wednesday's Triple-A All-Star Game in Reno. Chris Getz recorded three of the five Omaha hits, adding an RBI and a stolen base. The Storm Chasers are off until Thursday, when they visit Albuquerque (Dodgers).
NW Arkansas Naturals (11-12 2nd half, 36-57 overall)
Tulsa 6, NW Arkansas 5
LP: Brooks Pounders (4-5)
HR: Brian Fletcher (7), Matt Fields (23), Brett Eibner (12)
Northwest Arkansas hit three home runs before falling short in the opener at Tulsa. Brian Fletcher recorded two hits, including a solo homer in the first. Brett Eibner and Matt Fields went deep in the third, with Fields' two-run shot placing him first in the league at 23. Eibner has three home runs and five extra-base hits over the last two games. He's hitting .400 (16-for-40) over his last nine games. Brooks Pounders allowed five runs (four earned) on nine hits and a walk over 5 2/3 innings.
Wilmington Blue Rocks (14-9 2nd half, 47-46 overall)
Wilmington 6, Lynchburg 1 (Game One - Seven innings)
WP: Kyle Zimmer (4-8)
HR: None
Lynchburg 7, Wilmington 1 (Game Two - Seven Innings)
LP: Kellen Moen (1-3)
HR: None
The Blue Rocks split a pair of seven-inning games at home. Kyle Zimmer, first-round pick from 2012, was dominant in game one, striking out 10 while allowing a run on two hits and a walk over five innings. Zimmer has 23 strikeouts over his last two starts (11 IP). Cody Fassold followed with three strikeouts over two scoreless innings. Parker Morin and Dennis Raben each had two hits, an RBI and a run.
Lexington Legends (13-9 2nd half, 46-44 overall)
Lexington 5, Delmarva 4
WP: Daniel Stumpf (7-7)
SV: John Walter (2)
HR: None
Lexington scored four in the fifth and edged Delmarva. Mark Threlkeld and Michael Antonio recorded RBI doubles in the inning, with Bubba Starling adding an RBI single. Daniel Stumpf (6 IP, 4 H, 4 ER, 2 BB, 4 SO) allowed all four runs in the third. Clayton Schulz (2 IP) and John Walter (1 IP) held the Shorebirds scoreless in relief.
Idaho Falls Chukars (10-14)
Idaho Falls 11, Missoula 2
WP: Tyler Mack (2-2)
HR: Dominique Taylor (2), Humberto Arteaga (1)
Idaho Falls moved to 2-0 at Missoula, winning a fourth straight win overall. Frank Schwindel put the Chukars on top with a two-run triple in the first. He scored on Dominique Taylor's home run. Schwindel posted three hits and five RBIs, finishing a home run shy of the cycle. Carlos Garcia was 4-for-5 with two runs scored, while first-round pick Hunter Dozier collected two hits, a walk and three runs. Luke Farrell tossed four scoreless innings, and Tyler Mack worked a picked up the win after a 1-2-3 fifth.
Burlington Royals (11-8)
Kingsport 6, Burlington 4
LP: Sam Lewis (1-2)
HR: Alex Newman (1), Sam Bates (3)
Kingsport's five-run fifth led to a loss for Burlington in a home game that was moved to Wake Forest Baseball Park in Winston-Salem. Alex Newman, KC's 10th-round pick last month, hit his first professional home run in the fourth inning. Sam Bates hit a two-run shot in the eighth. Sam Lewis allowed five runs (four earned) on four hits and three walks over 4 2/3 innings. A second game, scheduled to be played in Burlington, was postponed. A doubleheader is slated for today.
Surprise Royals (7-13)
The Surprise Royals were off on Sunday. They will be the home team tonight against the Rangers.


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Transmission Repair near Palmdale
Transmission Repair Palmdale
Since we've been in business for around a quarter of a century now, it should come as no surprise that Hi-Tech Auto is a business that's driven by old-fashioned values - the type that are hard to come by these days. In fact, we like to say that if quality and honesty count, you can count on us. You can relax knowing this isn't just a cheap slogan though - it's a reputation that we've been working tirelessly to develop for the last 25 years. And it's what automobile owners throughout Palmdale, Lancaster, and the surrounding communities have come to rely on when they choose us for their car repair and maintenance services.
One-Stop Shop for All of Your Automotive Service Needs
When we say we offer bumper to bumper services, we're not kidding! Unlike some auto shops that provide a single service like oil change garages, body shops, or transmission shops, for example, Hi-Tech Auto provides it all. When you select our complete auto services, you'll never have to try to find another auto maintenance or car repair service provider ever again. Instead, you can rely on us every time you need a routine check-up or repair job. We'll get to know you and your vehicle, so we'll know exactly what you need as soon as you drive up. This is how we provide the most personalized automotive service in the neighborhood as well as the industry's best customer service.
We're An Authorized NAPA Auto Care Center
When looking for a reliable car repair service, it's best to choose an automotive shop authorized by the National Automotive Parts Association (NAPA). This highly selective authorization agency ensures that your car is maintained and repaired by expert technicians equipped with the best equipment and parts in the industry. It also means your auto repair services are covered by NAPA's exceptional 7-year/77,000 mile warranty.
The Most Professional Auto Mechanics in the Area - Hands Down!
At Hi-Tech, we recognize that you do not want just anybody doing work on your automobile, even if it's simply an oil change or other fast maintenance service. That's why we put so much thought and consideration into the auto mechanics and technicians that we hire to join our reputable team. Each of our technicians is completely certified and accredited by the National Institute for Automotive Service Excellence (NIASE) to work on your car, truck, or SUV. Plus, extensive background checks and comprehensive drug screenings ensure the quality and honesty of our personnel.
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Along with quality and honesty, you will discover a lot more we offer our valued customers here at Hi-Tech Auto. In fact, if you ask one of our regular customers why they entrust us with their car repairs as well as maintenance, they'll likely give you a long list of reasons. While our reputation precedes us, we welcome you to find out for yourself why we continue to be one of the trusted auto service and repair shops here in Southern California.
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These are just examples of the high-quality vehicle maintenance and automotive repair services we provide to our valued customers:
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Customized Training on Multilateral Diplomacy and International Affairs Management
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Upon the request of UN Member States and/or in partnership with intergovernmental organizations, UNITAR designs and delivers tailor-made courses on themes related to multilateral diplomacy and international affairs. The duration, content and structure of the courses are defined in close consultation with the beneficiaries, governments and partner organizations in order to meet specific needs.
UNITAR's customized training activities on multilateral diplomacy and international affairs can be implemented face-to-face in Geneva or in the beneficiary's country, as well as online as e-Learning programmes. The course content can be designed and prepared according to partners' needs however the following information applies to all the training activities. If you need more information, please contact Mr. Rabih El-Haddad, firstname.lastname@example.com.
UNITAR's customized training activities in multilateral diplomacy and international affairs target:
- Junior to senior level diplomats, and other government officials or experts acting as representatives to their governments at the United Nations or at international conferences
- Government officers from specialized Ministries working on international issues (environment, security, trade etc.), university professors, academics, lawyers and staff of non-governmental organizations (NGOs)
To optimize training, groups for face-to-face activities are usually limited to 40 participants, groups for e-Learning courses to 60 participants.
Recent activities include:
- Peace and Security Retreat for Algerian Diplomats
- Communication Skills and Media Relations Training for Diplomats from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
- Workshop on Climate Change Diplomacy and Health for Asian Ministry officials
Resource Persons/Trainers
The trainers and resource persons selected by UNITAR are experts in the fields of international relations, diplomatic practice and international law, coming from both academic and policy circles, including practitioners from both within and outside the UN system.
Training Material
UNITAR usually provides a set of training material, prepared in close cooperation with the resource persons, consisting of copies of presentations, selected readings, instructions for the interactive exercises and discussion group assignments, relevant publications, etc.
The design and training methodologies of the training devotes particular attention to:
- Interactivity: The courses involve participants actively with discussions, feedback rounds and group exercises
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All training activities can be offered in English and/or French. Interpretation to other United Nations official languages (Arabic, Chinese, Russian and Spanish) can be provided at an additional cost.
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Political realignment sounds tempting but the arithmetic doesn't stack upby Peter Kellner / September 10, 2018 / Leave a comment
If late-night chatter in the bars of SW1 about realignment could be converted into votes, centrist politicians would be well on their way to governing Britain. Labour defections? A new party? Vince Cable's plans for a less tribal politics, with his successor possibly drawn from outside parliament? All are possible; but can any of them break through at Westminster?
Here is the good news for centrists. The democratic world has humbled big incumbent parties in recent years in ways that seldom happened in the half century after the Second World War. Until the new century, the broad pattern in most countries was for centre-right and centre-left parties to dominate the democratic landscape. Today, some have crashed, others shrunk and, in two cases been taken over by total outsiders. If party competition has become so much more fluid, then surely Britain's political centre, facing one party obsessed by Brexit and another lead by a self-proclaimed Marxist, should be on a roll?
Now for the bad news. Outsiders have broken through in three particular circumstances. None offer succour to Britain's centrists.
1. A proportional, or semi-proportional, voting system. Nationalist parties from Sweden andGermany to Greece and Italy all established an initial bridgehead in the country's parliament with well under 20 per cent of the vote. In the UK, first-past-the-post punishes such parties, unless they have geographically concentrated support (such as the SNP). Ukip, the Greens and the Liberal Democrats have all found this to their cost. So, of course, did the short-lived Social Democratic Party in the 1980s. In economists' terms, first-past-the-post presents a very high barrier to entry. This is great for stability, but terrible for challenging useless incumbents.
2. A two-ballot presidential system where the big traditional parties have fallen out of favour. Emmanuel Macron was especially fortunate. Although he defeated Marine Le Pen massively in the run-off, by 66-34 per cent, he won only 24 per cent in the first round. True, he held a narrow lead; but the four leading candidates all won 20-24 per cent. Given the dynamics of a personality- rather than party-driven election system, and a two-ballot system in which many voters see their first-round vote as a chance to let off steam rather than choose a government, there is a fair chance that Macron would have fallen at the first hurdle in a…


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Consider our hopes and dreams officially crushed.
After Seth MacFarlane's mediocre turn as Oscars host on Sunday — and his subsequent refusal to do it again — many suggested Golden Globes co-hosts Tina Fey and Amy Poehler take on the gig next year.
2013 Oscars: Fashion hits and misses
Unfortunately, Fey isn't so keen on the idea. "No way," she told The Huffington Post. "I just feel like that gig is so hard. Especially for, like, a woman — the amount of months that would be spent trying on dresses alone."
Help us,
Obi-Wan Amy, you're our only hope!
Are you sad Fey doesn't want to host the Oscars? Who is the next best choice?


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Getting a sharp, polished shooter experience on iOS still remains something of a holy grail for both developers and device owners. There've been a few valiant efforts over the last year, with ShadowGun and Rage: Mutant Bash TV probably foremost amongst them. Now, you'll be able to add one more to your apps list today with the launch of Epoch.
Built by Uppercut Games, Epoch finds one de-activated robot soldier coming back to awareness in an era where humanity's apparently disappeared. The heroic automaton fights his way through warring factions of droids to learn the fate of the human he was assigned to protect. The gorgeous graphics tip you off that the game was built on Unreal and, if the controls match the visuals, Epoch might just be this year's shooter equivalent to Infinity Blade. It's out now on Apple's App Store.
Epoch [iTunes]
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Middlebury Panthers, Tigers earn wins at home
Panthers defeat Norwich on the diamond, Tigers beat Red Hawks in high school lacrosse
Dylan Kane threw seven innings of two-hit ball, leading Middlebury (7-11) to a 6-0 shutout win over Norwich (3-17) on Forbes Field. The junior faced just two batters over the minimum, striking out a pair as he moved to 1-1 on the season. The Panthers return to action on Friday and Saturday when they host Wesleyan in a three-game NESCAC West series.
Courtesy: Middlebury Athletics
Just down the road, the Middlebury Tigers defeated the CVU Red Hawks in high school lacrosse. Despite a quick start from the Red Hawks, the Tigers came back to earn the home win.
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Faber is spot on again while Roubini is getting further into the mainstream bull. The Fed is creating the distortions, period.
Marc Faber – "The Big Crisis is Ahead of Us."
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The semantic web has been above my radar for some time now. Still I find it hard to grasp the available standards. My focus has been primarily on XTM (XML Topic Maps). Sure, I've read the TAO and played around with online examples. I even presented the concepts of the semantic web to 20 non-tech colleagues.
But… crafting a nifty simple XTM document myself? Not yet. It's verbose. It's hard.
Tonight, I found an apprehensive introduction: The Topic Maps Handbook (pdf). Pages 12 to 15 will get you up to speed with your first XTM. I chose ATC definitions as a domain for my topic map (see below). It's a start.
Next step is visualization. I'm considering
XSLT => dot => PNG. More on that later, if I succeed.
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The software business is working itself into a situation where its economics are built on software patents. This will be catastrophic for investors unless such patents are constrained to be of high quality, limited scope and – especially – short duration. If this doesn't happen, licensing costs will dominate the business, and pure software companies will be at the mercy of patent trolls.
The drive to software patents is based on the argument that a knowledge-based industry needs a way to trade knowledge, and thus needs intellectual property. David Kaefer of Microsoft says it well: "Software is built on the shoulders of giants -- no one can build the whole thing. Patents are a property right that allows the innovation to be exchanged". [1]
This logic is built on the fallacy that the commodities to be traded behave just like the physical goods we're used to buying and selling. Our models of trade are based on exchanging goods and human services that are exhaustible and rivalrous, because they are essentially tangible. If you give me $20 for the service of cleaning your gutters, you no longer own the money; and I can only clean one client's gutters at a time. Innovations are knowledge goods. Your use of my idea doesn't limit another person's ability to use it, and that idea is infinitely duplicatable. George Bernard Shaw summed it up well:
If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you
and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea
and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.
One may object that the patent system has worked well for centuries; what's suddenly the problem? Patents have always been on innovations, and thus we have a system that works for non-rivalrous intangibles. What's changed is that software goods are not wrapped in matter, and it's matter which is at the root of the metaphor of trade and exchange on which our economy is based. Software is pure ideas, and can be exchanged without being wrapped in stuff. Further, there are far fewer limits on the number of ideas that can be added together than on the number of components that can be added together to make a physical product [2]. I would predict that the number of patents per product increases as the knowledge content of the product increases; there are many more patents entailed in a $100 copy of Windows than in a $100 food processor.
Software is cumulative, as the Y2K experience has shown. Most software products beyond their first release are not only built on relatively ancient algorithms, but in fact are accreted the ancient code that implements those algorithms. Advancing the product is a additive process; little is taken away once it is written. Contrast that with physical products: a new and improved kind of soap can be patented, but one doesn't have to license all the preceding patents in order to produce the new one. [3]
One of the assumptions implicit in the industry's world view, and explicit in David Keafer's contention, is that companies will cross-license with each other to obtain the knowledge inputs that they require without paying for it. This has clearly worked to date; in most industries the participants create license pools or build a web of cross-licenses that enable them all to operate. In the brave new world of knowledge goods, though, everybody is a software company. It will be impossible to draw boundaries around the industry players who'll need to cross-license with each other, since everybody will be producing software innovations, though most will not sell software. Companies that focus on selling software will be worse off than anyone else – they will have to cross-license with everybody else.
Much has been written about "patent trolls", those companies who live to invent, and who license their patents to productizers. There are fears that the trolls will extract fearsome tolls from those who want to build products. Their disproportionate power is a consequence of the disproportionate weight that has been given to the inventive step in innovation.
Many in the software industry argue that patents are necessary to guarantee investment in innovation. This only follows if patents incent the most critical step in the process. Let's unpack the term "innovation". It consists of the sequential steps of invention, synthesis, execution and distribution, that is, (1) coming up with an idea; (2) composing a number of ideas into a novel product concept; (3) building the product; and (4) putting the product successfully into the market. Patents reward Step 1; however, most of the value is generated further down the chain, in synthesis, execution and distribution. Some might describe patents as the keystone that hold together the arch of innovation. I think that exaggerates the importance of invention. Patents privilege a necessary but by no means sufficient step in the process of bringing new products to market.
If hundreds or thousands of ideas have to be licensed in order to ship a new software release, pure software companies will find that their input costs balloon, especially if the licensors are in industries unrelated or hostile to them, and if inventors are able to charge prices out of proportion to the importance of inventions in the innovation process.
Still: to the extent that patents can be used to anchor innovation transactions, they are useful. However, they are scaffolding rather than a keystone. They can be removed once the structure is complete. Hence, short patent terms are essential. The term of a patent should bear some relation to the rate of change in an industry; the software industry advances rapidly. Short terms are particularly important in software, where the development of a product is cumulative. By all means allow innovators to protect the new icing which makes their cake special; but allow the lower layers to pass into the public domain so that others can also innovate in making icing.
[1] The arms race, Economist, Survey of patents and technology, 22 Oct 2005
[2] There are surely limits to size of a given piece of software, as innumerable software projects who've missed their deadlines have demonstrated; Microsoft's difficulties in shipping the Longhorn release of Windows is one in a long line of examples.
[3] For example, Lever 2000 bar soap is covered by patents 4,695,395 and 4,663,070.


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Fear of big finance led to 2008 meltdown and will scupper chances of a proper inquiry
It seems our primary concern must always be the welfare of the most privileged
A focus on Fianna Fáil will fail to acknowledge the complicity of Fine Gael and Labour in almost every single iota of the policy agenda that caused and drove the crisis. Photograph: Eric Luke
If in 10 years' time, 1,000 or more bankers, lawyers, accountants, liquidators and others implicated in the bank crisis are in jail and if the same deference to wealth, big business and financial power persists, then we will have learned nothing of consequence. All the hand-wringing will have been in vain.
Almost certainly the reason Brian Cowen and Brian Lenihan capitulated to pressure from the banking world on September 30th, 2008, was not because they were corrupt, nor because of any golden crony circle, but because they were in awe of the power of high finance and feared that if high finance were challenged it would be catastrophic for the nation.
Garret FitzGerald, Alan Dukes and John Bruton did the same back in 1985 when the then overpaid chiefs of AIB came to them demanding a bailout because of their incompetence in allowing an insurance company, ICI, get into massive trouble. They caved in. Within a few months, AIB recorded enormous profits and paid out a huge dividend to their shareholders, lest they, the shareholders, be in any way discomforted. As usual, the Irish people paid for this, that time via a bank levy.
Ordinary Irish citizens
It was that same deference that was at play again in September 2008 – a deference that reflexively deferred to bond holders and huge depositors who took risks, at the possible expense of ordinary Irish citizens (in reality, at enormous expense to generations of ordinary Irish citizens).
How was it, in any case, that we allowed a few financial institutions to attain such enormous power to the extent that we, the Irish people, already exploited by these banks, had to rush to their rescue when their recklessness put them in peril?
The deference is there on the tax haven business – we allow our jurisdiction to be used as a bolthole by multinational corporations to avoid paying tax anywhere and so deep is that deference that we deny that reality.
It is evident again in our deference to the pharmaceutical industry in allowing them to use prices fixed for Ireland as a base level to maintain exorbitant prices for generic drugs here and through the rest of Europe. Evident in stubborn resistance to any suggestion that people earning high incomes be taxed more, in the dismissal of a social model with much greater equality. Evident in the proposals that income tax be reduced for vastly overpaid executives and professionals, even at a time of financial stringency.
It is as though there were a law of nature whereby the wealthy elite must be mollycoddled, while the rest of society struggles. That our primary concern must be the contentedness of the privileged and wealthy, lest they cease to lend us the finance to fund our deficits, lest they cease to create wealth or delay doing so and lest the trickle-down of their wealth to the masses be shut off.
The language of Anglo executives, as revealed by the tapes, has shocked many because of the indifference to the public welfare that this represents. But isn't our culture founded on an indifference to the public welfare, except as an afterthought or incidental?
What else has informed the Coalition's action on their election promise to ensure "burden-sharing" on the bank debt? Once it was perceived that pursuit of that promise would alienate the masters of the EU universe, the promise was dishonoured. They promised to "protect the vulnerable" and did the opposite. Would it be surprising if a similar crudity of attitude and language, as exemplified by the Anglo executives in the tapes of their private conversations, were replicated in the private conversations of government ministers and senior public servants?
The proposed inquiry into the banking crisis will not address that culture, for there is no challenge to the pervasiveness of that culture, a culture that the market prevails. It is not Deutschland über alles, but markets über alles. So any inquiry will miss the main point.
A focus on Fianna Fáil will fail to acknowledge the complicity of Fine Gael and Labour in almost every single iota of the policy agenda that caused and drove the crisis.
The partisanship evident in the lead-up to an inquiry will compromise whatever credibility it might have had. The expectation that any such public inquiry will be inexpensive and swift is certain to prove illusory. There will be as many teams of expensive lawyers on hand and frequent excursions to the High Court and Supreme Court to challenge procedures.
Criminal trails
And crucially, the inevitability that any such public inquiry will be derailed again and again by the criminal trials that are due in the Circuit Criminal Courts over the coming years.
Seán Fitzpatrick alone faces two criminal trials and, almost certainly, a third; these extend well into 2014.
There is another option: a commission of inquiry, to be held in camera, out of the public gaze for now, but not derailed by the criminal trials or other diversions. This conducted by a judge, a banking expert and someone who would have knowledge of and interest in the culture thing – the mindset or common sense or hegemony that brought about the crisis and continues to corrupt our society.
But of course that will not happen.


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The basic approach is to use an MP3 player and a Greek New Testament to get Greek into your ears and eyes, repeating the text repeatedly, with increasing understanding, until you grasp the text in detail. As Daniel Streett, Randall Buth, and Louis Sorenson frequently point out, listening really helps you understand how the language works in a way that you just don't get without listening. It's called "Reading with Flow" because the goal is to keep the Greek text flowing, without stopping to analyze or think in English, and to make sure that most of your time is spent actually listening to Greek and reading Greek.
To use this approach, you need three things:
- A Greek New Testament, in an edition that does not have an English translation or other useful hints. I'm using the Patriarchal Text of 1904. Thanks to Randy Leedy for making these available.
- An MP3 player with a recording of the passage with the same Greek text as your Greek New Testament. I'm using the recordings made by of the Patriarchal Text found at http://www.bible.is/audiodownloader.Thanks to Nikolaos Adamou for pointing me to these.
- A copy of Zerwick & Grosvenor's Grammatical Analysis of the Greek New Testament.
- Pick a text that is reasonably close to your reading level, with ~30 verses. If you are a beginner, pick a shorter section, but do pick a length that feels like a bit of a stretch.
- Now listen to the text at least twice with the text in front of your eyes. You'll find you understand more each time. Feel free to hit the pause button to line up words with what you are hearing, but for no longer than you need to do that. Working through texts you don't yet understand this way is an important part of language learning.
- Starting at the beginning of the text, listen and read until you hit something you don't understand, then look it up on Grosvenor and Zerwick. Keep going until you have worked through the text, listening throughout. Don't spend more time looking things up than you need to in order to understand the meaning of the text itself, but do take long enough that you aren't missing the details of the text. Keep the Greek moving through your eyes and ears.
- By now, you should understand most of the text. Listen to the text at least two more times, feel free to use Grosvenor and Zerwick again if you forgot something. Or read it out loud instead.
- If there are parts you still don't understand, take a look at several translations to see how they understood the text. I like Bible Gateway for this.
- If you found something really interesting or confusing, ask a question here on B-Greek.
This is my current advice to anyone who wants to stop analyzing as they read and think in Greek, if they do not have access to a teacher or a reading group. I'd love to hear ways to improve this advice, or experiences of anyone who tries it.


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Ford said Wednesday it expects lower pretax profit in 2014 and that its target for global automotive operating margin is at risk, due to economic conditions in Europe and South America, driving Ford shares down more than 4 percent.
Ford said it expects global pretax profit would be between $7 billion and $8 billion next year, down from an estimated $8.5 billion in 2013. Previously, Ford had said its 2013 profit would exceed $8 billion.
Ford said its mid-decade target for operating margins worldwide of between 8 percent and 9 percent was at risk.
This year's earnings will mainly come from North America, where the company expects a profit of $8.34 billion.
North America will be less profitable in 2014, with operating margins of between 8 percent and 9 percent, which is down from a previously expected 10 percent.
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Newseum in DC 1st to show FBI evidence from 9/11
WASHINGTON (AP) -- In the decade before 9/11, a period when terrorists bombed the World Trade Center for the first time in 1993 and then U.S. embassies in Africa, most Americans had never heard of Osama bin Laden.
Even when he declared war on the United States in a television interview, bin Laden remained a stealth-like figure and his importance largely unknown.
Many clues that were later uncovered about the 9/11 mastermind's activities, which have been stored in the FBI's evidence lockers, are now going on public view for the first time Friday at the Newseum in Washington. The journalism museum is expanding its current FBI exhibit with a new section, "War on Terror: The FBI's New Focus."
Among 60 new artifacts on view are engines and landing gear from passenger planes that crashed into the World Trade Center and hiking boots that would-be bomber Richard Reid rigged in December 2001 to explode aboard an airliner. Ten years after the attacks, the Newseum said it was time to examine the impact.
"They call it evidence, we call it artifacts," said Susan Bennett, a Newseum vice president who oversees exhibits. "Just as we have the Berlin Wall as a reminder of the Cold War and the collapse of communism, we think it's important to use these artifacts to tell the story of 9/11 and how it changed our lives."
The FBI loaned an extensive collection for the exhibit, which will be on display through the end of 2012. The Newseum will offer free admission on the weekend of Sept. 10-11 to mark the anniversary. Newseum exhibits director Cathy Trost said the objects would "connect people emotionally to the story."
It begins with the handcuffs used to restrain Ramzi Yousef, who was convicted in 1997 of the first World Trade Center bombing that killed six and injured more than 1,000, and details of how bin Laden was added to the FBI's 10 Most Wanted list in 1999.
Just two years later, when 19 hijackers boarded planes in Boston, Washington and Newark, the 9/11 attacks quickly became the largest investigation in FBI history. Within hours, agents found evidence tying the hijackers to al-Qaida through their passports, credit cards and cars left at airports. The FBI released their names two days later.
Jet engines found blocks away from the World Trade Center hang as a stark reminder of the planes used as weapons to kill nearly 3,000 people.
In New York, 2,753 people were killed as a result of the attacks at the World Trade Center, while 184 were killed at the Pentagon in northern Virginia and 40 were killed in the crash of United Airlines Flight 93 in Pennsylvania.
There are personal items on view, such as a wallet of Ruth McCourt of New London, Conn., who was taking her 4-year-old daughter Juliana to Disneyland on United Flight 175 before it crashed into the south tower of the World Trade Center, and cell phones found in the rubble that rung for days after the attacks as family members tried desperately to find their loved ones.
"You take that family and multiply it by 3,000 and you begin to understand and comprehend the enormous tragedy," Bennett said.
A rake and a shovel used by FBI investigators to comb through debris at the Pentagon crash site also is on view, while other items from the Pentagon and the Pennsylvania crash site will go on view Saturday at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History.
While the Newseum exhibit details how the FBI and others werriticized for failing to share intelligence before the attacks, the agency decided to make the items public for the first time to show how the FBI has changed to fight international terrorism, said Dan McCarron, an FBI liaison to museums.
"Before 9/11, you'd say, 'Well what's the FBI's job?' We'd say to investigate," he said. "After 9/11, we'd say our job is to prevent."
Some of the changes came quickly. By December 2001, Reid, the would-be shoe bomber who tried to ignite explosives in his hiking boots during a flight from Paris to Miami, was restrained by passengers and the crew when his intentions became clear.
On view are the hiking boots Reid packed with explosives, as well as the belts that passengers used to strap him into his seat and a syringe used by a doctor on the plane to sedate him.
"The Reid case, for instance, really shows how everyone even that soon was working together," said the FBI's McCarron. "Someone put a bomb in a shoe and not long after, airports were making us take off our shoes."
The exhibit also includes video interviews with FBI agents and former ABC News correspondent John Miller, the last Western reporter to interview bin Laden in 1998 just two months before two U.S. embassies were bombed in Africa, killing 224 people, including 12 Americans. In the video, Miller recalls having guns held to his face before the interview.
"You very quickly think, 'Am I going to die here ... to interview some guy no one has ever heard of?"' he said.
Navy seals killed bin Laden in his Pakistan compound four months ago.
The Newseum expects to host thousands of visitors during the weekend of the 10th anniversary of the attacks. It will have kiosks for visitors to share their remembrances and will show televised ceremonies planned in New York and Washington. It will also display comic strips planned by 93 cartoonists for Sept. 11 newspapers with 9/11 themes, as will museums in San Francisco, Pittsburgh and New York City.


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The Daily Tournaments:
- each Tournament will now last one hour rather than an hour and a half.
- there will now be 12 Daily Tournaments with one Tournament being played every two hours (e.g. 00.00 to 01.00, 02.00 to 03.00… 18.00 to 19.00, 20.00 to 21.00 etc&hellip.
- free credits will be awarded to those ranking among the top third of the table rather than the top half (in order to keep abuse to a minimum).
- the Tournament winner will receive an additional prize of 1000 Clintz.
The ELO Tournaments:
- an automatic system is going to be put in place to ban the previous week's winning ELO Clan (you will be able to constantly see who the top 3 Clans on the ELO ranking are). For example, if at the end of this week's ELO Tournament the winning Clan is the All Stars, they will be banned from next week's tournament, but the following week they will be back in the running and the Clan that took the lead in their absence will in turn be banned. We realize that this system is not yet perfect and we will be closely monitoring its impact on the ELO mode.
- the number of Collector cards to be won will increase from the 3 that are currently randomly distributed among the top 25 players to 10 among the top 100 players.
- the number of rare cards awarded to the remaining players, whose ELO value is higher than 1000 at the close of the Tournament, will be increased from 10 cards to 30 cards.
These changes will come into effect from next Monday, December 03, 2007.
For the new ELO rules. What determines the winning ELO clan? Is it the most used clan or maybe something else? Do we still get credits for playing ELO and for the chance of winning a rare card it will now include all those who have pts higher than 1000 or still those in the top 150?
Memento Mori - Friday 30/11/2007, 17:25
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This is great! Loads of free credits and cards. Well done, people.
More prizes is good but the new change in ELO can hurt guys who does not have that many cards yet. This will be good for the business as people will tend to buy more credits to get more cards. But again the solution of banning one whole clan for a week does not completely solve the problem it can help change how the current meta is played but what if the situation would be like this: This week Rescue is banned. And people use All Stars. So next week All Stars is banned and people again used Rescue.
It will just be a cycle that if you can't used the best thing use the next best.
Congratulations to Mori for being a Mod you deserve it for your hard work in building the database
Yeah so in ELO if my rank is 1001 i'm elligible for a rare card?? that's good and all, but it takes a little challenge out of the tourny to win more to get a higher rank and EARN the right to win a rare card.
You all might want to rethink that...just saying.
Jashep is right.. I'm mean it makes no sence that the rare cards are distributed by everyone with 1000+ elo points..
You are triyng to prevent abuse making tournments' credits "be gaved" to only the third top but you let everyone with 1001 or plus get a rare card when there are a lot of people that fight 5 times and if have more than 1000 points doesn't fight more because they are only searching dor the 2 credits!


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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The governors of Pacific coastal U.S. states and a Canadian province on Monday vowed to collectively combat climate change by coordinating polices that place a price on greenhouse gas pollution and mandating the use of cleaner-burning fuels.
Governors of California, Oregon, Washington and the premier of British Columbia gathered in San Francisco to commit to working together to coordinate efforts with the hope of stimulating a clean-energy economy in a region with a combined gross domestic product of $2.8 trillion.
California and British Columbia already have placed a price on greenhouse gas emissions — through cap-and-trade and a carbon tax, respectively — and have also already adopted clean fuel standards.
Under terms of the agreement announced Monday, Oregon and Washington's governors are committing their states to move forward with similar policies, even though the legislatures of both states have denied previous attempts to adopt cap-and-trade.
"California isn't waiting for the rest of the world before it takes action on climate change," California Gov. Jerry Brown said in a statement. "Today, California, Oregon, Washington and British Columbia are all joining together to reduce greenhouse gases," Brown said.
The deal stems from the work of the Pacific Coast Collaborative, a group meant to organize climate change and clean energy policies in a region with 53 million people.
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee supports a statewide cap on carbon-fuel emissions, among several ideas to get the state closer to reaching goals set in 2008 to cut global warming pollution.
Still, getting bipartisan support for a cap-and-trade program in Washington state will be difficult. Former Gov. Chris Gregoire aggressively pushed for and failed to get lawmakers in 2009 to approve a market-based carbon trading system.
Inslee is currently leading a bipartisan legislative work group created this year to recommend strategies to tackle climate change. Two Republican lawmakers in that group have said they need to see what the economic impacts of those strategies would be.
Todd Myers, environmental director at the Washington Policy Center, said before the announcement Monday that he was frustrated that the regional agreement could undermine the work of that bipartisan process. "This seems to be a symbolic gesture that undermines that process," he said.
In Oregon, efforts to implement cap-and-trade have met a similar fate. Lawmakers there failed to pass such a measure in 2009.
Environmentalists in that state applauded Monday's announcement as good sense.
"It's very encouraging to see both the business community and our elected officials call for a common-sense, proactive approach to addressing climate change. The Pacific Coast Action Plan is an important step forward, and this event is proof that we can make meaningful progress that works for businesses, people, and the planet," Andrea Durbin, executive director at Oregon Environmental Council, said.
California's efforts have not come without their challenges. The low carbon fuel standard is a key piece of California's landmark global warming law, AB 32, and is meant to cut the state's dependence on petroleum by 20 percent and account for one-tenth of the state's goal to cut greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2020.
The state's first-in-the-nation low-carbon fuel standard was challenged in federal court, and briefly halted by a judge, after business groups argued it violated the commerce clause of the U.S. Constitution by imposing limits on interstate commerce.


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My mother-in-law was extreme couponing before there was a cable show about it (actually, before there was even cable). When I married my husband, I was determined to be the coupon ninja-in-training to her frugal sensei.
But two years into couponing and I was exhausted. I worked a full-time job and often spent my evenings doing freelance writing.
Couponing? Well that was becoming another 20-hour-per-week job.
I mean, sure. I got free stuff and saved money. But more often than not, saving money was cutting into the act of actually making money. And all those good deals? Well, they languished in our pantry because, really, what do you do with ten cans of butter beans?
So my husband and I decided to sit down and actually figure out … was all this couponing worth it?
The Math
In 2007, after two years of couponing, we sat down and did some calculating. Here's what we found:
- My total coupon savings for our family of two (this was pre-kids): Between $50-$70 a week
- Time it took me to hunt down the coupons: 8-12 hours a week
- Approximate hourly rate at my full-time job: $20
It wasn't adding up: Even when I had a great savings week and spent the fewest number of hours hunting coupons, my savings only came out to about $8.75 per hour. At the time, I worked a full-time job and freelanced, was an active runner, was taking graduate classes and volunteered at a local women's shelter. Consequently, coupon cutting was snipping into time I needed to actually make money. The only time I had left over to hunt down coupons was at random times during the work day or late at night. I was exhausted and broke. While writing doesn't exactly pay me a ton, turns out it did pay better than couponing.
So in 2007, I quit actively cutting coupons.
Then, this year, I reconsidered: We'd had our first daughter. As my husband and I started tightening our belts to make inroads on my college loans before we started saving for our (yet-to-be-conceived) second child, I again looked to couponing.
This time I wanted to be smart about it, though. While I no longer volunteer or take graduate classes, I'm currently working a part-time job and writing and taking care of Child No. 1 … I don't have time to burn.
The Experiment
To figure out the best way to get back on the coupon bandwagon, my husband and I decided to run a test. Here was the set-up:
- One week, I would buy all my groceries from Aldi, a discount store, where they keep costs low by charging you for bags (although you can bring your own), having a quarter deposit for the carts and selling only very basic items. (Think milk, eggs, pasta and meats. Want pesto? You're out of luck.) And although Aldi does have some specialty items, they are only in stock seasonally. Also, Aldi has no coupons, and everything is off brand, so manufacturer's coupons don't get you anywhere.
- The following week I would shop at Target using all the coupons I could find.
- Both weeks, I used the same menu-planning service to print out my grocery lists and meal plans.
With the recent attention on extreme couponing and the rise of blogs and websites dedicated to couponers, I had high hopes of being able to get back on the couponing bandwagon.
The Results
Here's what happened.
Week One:
The first week I printed out my grocery list and headed off to Aldi. I spent $95.96 there on a week's worth of groceries for our family of three. Granted, I didn't stick entirely to the list. If I had, I would have spent less. Non-list items that I bought included bananas (my daughter's favorite), yogurt, lunch meat, bread and a box of periogies, because I'm Polish and I love me a periogie. Non-list items added up to $15.75. Then, I had to run over to a grocery store for the three other items that Aldi didn't have: cilantro, pesto and basil. There, I spent $7.20, and I stuck to the list.
Total Spent: $103.16 for a week's worth of food
Week Two:
The next week I printed my menu and began hunting. I scoured the local paper and the Sunday paper (which cost me $2 because I don't subscribe). Then I hit the internet. Printing coupons is one of the most frustrating exercises in futility since high school dodge ball. It took me 45 minutes to get the coupon printer synced, and coupons I found via social media sites, like Facebook, didn't print at all or required me spamming my friends by sharing the offer. (No, thank you.) Side note: Extreme couponers advise shopping for the deal rather than a meal plan. But with a small kitchen and no extra storage for ten cans of butter beans, shopping for the deal isn't an option for me.
I finally stopped swearing when I found Target's section of coupons and scored 17 that were for exactly what I needed. In addition to those 17, I found three coupons through the paper.
When I was done, I had spent 9.5 hours searching. (It's worth noting that this might not be common for others. Coupon searching while watching a 13-month-old who wants "Up!" all the time is, I believe, how serial killers are made.)
At Target we found everything we needed, and we also purchased our standard off-the-list items like yogurt, lunch meat (I had a coupon!), bananas and bread. I also bought a six-pack of Coke Zero because it costs as much as that box of pierogies and mama needed (Nay, deserved!) some coke. In the end, I was only able to use 15 of my 20 coupons (some didn't ring up, and for others buying off-brand was cheaper than brand-name with a coupon). My mega deal was getting $6 off a bag of Starbucks coffee.
Total Spent: $123.95 for a week's worth of food. I also have a Target card, so I swiped that for an additional savings of $6.20, bringing my total to $116.80.
The Winner
Altogether, the final totals came to:
Aldi and HyVee=$103.16
Target with 15 coupons=$116.80
It's close, but if you add in the nine hours of coupon cutting at my freelance rate of about $20 an hour (yes, it did cut into my work. When you're freelance, every minute matters!), that's an additional $180 added onto the Target shopping. And even if I only cut coupons during my off work hours, when I'm with my daughter, that means that we can't do things like go to story time, or the park or play in the backyard. And that time? It's priceless.
What about the evenings? Forget it. The few hours I have are spent with my husband (don't forget about him), or catching up on work. So all those nine hours cut directly into work time.
My verdict: Extreme couponing isn't for me. I would much rather take that time and put it into writing another article, or landing another client.
But, I'm not giving up on coupons altogether. I am definitely searching Target's coupon hub before every trip. This last trip I needed some cleaning solution, Ziplocs, trash bags and shampoo. Using Target's coupons, I saved $20 all told.
So I guess I'd say—in moderation it's fine. But extreme couponing? It's definitely not my schtick.
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Recently, the Bloomberg had a funny report about the new sanctions that Obama have imposed on Iranians: The Mullah Regime Profiting From Sanctions, U.S. Treasury Says . It's really beyond hypocrisy. The Bloomberg's reported that the stupid monkey Obama and his stupid administration know that the Mullah regime and the Sepah (Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps [IRGC]) profit from the US sanctions 'on the back of the average Iranian' as the nations currency plunges under pressure from US sanctions. The Bloomberg reported: "U.S. Treasury Undersecretary David Cohen said the gap between the two rates has provided an arbitrage opportunity exploited by officials and businesses affiliated with the IRGC, the military arm thats under sanctions for suspected nuclear weapons work. They are among regime elements able to obtain foreign currency at the favorable official exchange rate and sell it for a profit in exchange bureaus at the market rate, he told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in written testimony. 'Ordinary Iranians are urgently seeking out foreign currency such as dollars or euros for safety, yet they are having trouble accessing hard currency, and when they can, they have to pay the unofficial market rate,' said Cohen. 'At the same time, senior government officials and preferred businesses, including IRGC-owned and controlled operations, are able to access foreign exchange at the official rate, essentially engaging in profitable arbitrage on the back of the average Iranian,' according to Cohen. The market value of the Rial has been dropping for months. The official rial-to-dollar rate was 11,030 on Dec. 21, while the market rate at currency bureaus soared to 15,300 the same day [now, it's about 20,000]. The 39 percent gap last week was the widest in about 20 years and it underscores that Iranians dont trust finance officials to stabilize the economy. Clearly sanctions are hurting the economy, but are the sanctions putting pressure on the key institutions they are intended to pressure, or could it be making the government more powerful relative to the population than it was before? … In every single profitable industry in Iran, you see the IRGC. They are becoming more and more corrupt every day. The wrong people are benefiting, while ordinary Iranians suffer inflation … Anyone with preferential access to cheaper dollars 'will try to make profit out of this,' Scott Lucas, an Iran specialist at the University of Birmingham in England, said in an interview". It's clearly show that the American and British officials are not ignorant. They know the truth. They are hypocrite bastards. David Cohen is a hypocrite motherf-u-c-k-er monkey. Do you know what his words mean? You can ask yourself : "when the American monkeys know that they just torture the ordinary Iranians, not the Mullahs, why they impose sanctions on the ordinary Iranians who are anti-Mullahs and
anti-Islamists?" It's a very important question. And its answer is exactly like the answer of the following question: "Why the stupid monkey Obama and other American monkeys refused to help Iranians and their anti-Mullah movement in 2009 and 2011, and instead aided the Mullahs in killing and suppressing Iranians?"
What the US Treasury Undersecretary David Cohen says only proves that the American monkeys want to torture the ordinary Iranians, not the Mullahs. In fact, they want to make their Mullah friends happy (by aiding them in profiting more). It can also help the stupid monkey Obama to be elected again. These bastards thought that their dirty game is a win-win game for both the savage Mullahs and the Western monkeys. In fact, the hypocrite western bastards exactly know what they do: "They help their Mullah friends, and torture the ordinary Iranians, and finally win some big concessions, and then both the savage Mullahs and the western monkeys are happy". You can ask yourself: "Who profit from the sanctions and who suffer from the sanctions? And what's the aim of the sanctions?" The answer of this question show you how the hypocrite west help their Mullah friends. And the Bloomberg's report give you the answer. In fact, the answer is very clear. In the recent days, many Iranians asked: "Why the Mullahs tried to show that the US sanctions are working? Why they sent green signal for Obama and his team that the sanctions are working and the Iran economy has serious problems, while they should say the exact opposite?" It's a serious question, and that's why Keyhan, the Mullah Pravda, could not remain silent. They said: "Does Mr shit (Ahmadinejad) work for USA? (Is Mr. shit a CIA agent?" As funny Iranians say: "digeh gandesh badjoori daroomadeh". Now, many Iranians think more about what happened in 2009. As we said before, in 2009 the American Baboons and CIA agents supported the Mullahs and Mr. shit . You can ask yourself : "Why CIA agents should support Mr. shit?" In fact, what Keyhan wrote in the last week, was the result of questions that many people asked themselves: "Why the Mullahs are happy about the new sanctions? Why they try to create more economic anarchy? Why they try to say that the economic situation is so horrible? Why they try to help Obama?" Some funny Iranians say: "In the near future, Keyhan and the Mullah media would report: 'Ahmadijenad is a CIA agent, and Khamenei is a MI6 agent ! And the 2009 coup was a American-British-backed coup against the people. And the Basiji thugs who killed and raped the people were British agents!'" It seems like joke, but you should think about it. As we said before, the American Baboons and the ex-CIA agents supported Mr. shit in 2009. And as we said before, the IMF really loves Mr shit and praises him a lot (check Archive). It's really important. You can ask: "Why the US officials, specially the stupid Monkey (Obama), the IMF, and the CIA agents love Mr. shit?" The answer of this question is the answer of the following question: "Why the US and the West refused to help Iranians and their anti-Mullah movement in 2009-2011, and instead supported Mr. shit and the Mullahs, and aided them in killing Iranians?"
As we said before, Liam Fox, the UK defense secretary met with the Mullah Mafia some days before the 2009 coup . Do you know what it means? As we said before, Wikileaks revealed that a high rank Mullah and a high rank member of Sepah (IRGC), who live in London !, asked the British and American officials to refused to help the Iranians and their movement in 2009 . Do you know what it means? As we said before, the Western companies sold the suppression tools and the surveillance tools to the Mullahs in 2009 and 2010, when the Mullahs were killing the Iranians in the streets (check Archive). Do you know what it means? I think even the stupidest people know what it means. But if you are a typical ignorant westerner, you should check our archive before any judgment and asking any stupid question about what you read here. You should know that the mass media brainwash you, and you can't see the truth. In Iran, when even Keyhan asks: "Does Mr. shit work for the US?", it clearly shows that even the stupidest Iranians know the truth. It's funny to know that some hours after Keyhan's article, Mr. shit that had refused to sign a new interest rate bill, finally signed it. It was very important. Since 2006, Mr shit insisted on decreasing the interest rate. He fucked the Iran's economy. The widespread corruption, and the largest embezzlements in Iran's history is the result of what he did. Mr. shit and his friends embezzled more than $48 billion only form the banks, while the ordinary people couldn't save their money in the banks, because of Mr shit's economic miracles. Mr. shit had decreased the interest rate from 18% to %6, while he had increased the inflation rate from 15% to 50%. It really was the greatest economic miracle in Iran's history. It created the largest embezzlements in Iran's history, and the greatest corruptions in Iran's history. But he still refused to sign a new interest rate bill. And that's why some funny Iranians say: "In the near future, Keyhan would report: Ahmadijenad is a CIA agent, and Khamenei is a MI6 agent !" As we said before, the main plan of the stupid monkey Obama is clear. The stupid monkey Obama, who is friend of the Mullahs and enemy of Iranians, want to be elected again, and the Mullahs try to aid their dear friend in the 2012 election . But can they succeed? It's not clear. Their current dirty game, is a very risky game. Both sides know it. Public opinion and what they do is very important. They can change everything. They can force the western monkeys to change their plans. In fact, as funny Iranians say: "Yeho didi varagh bargasht" (it's a game of chance; you can lose it, while you think you are winning). The Mullahs can be the victim of the current dirty game. The Mullahs are eager to give big concessions. They are not as stupid as Gaddafi. They are old friends of the hypocrite west. The Iran-Contra scandal in 1980s was like "the Apparent Paradox" in 2009 and 2011 (check Archive), but the Mullahs know that this time many people are aware of the truth, and this risky dirty game can become their last dirty game with the hypocrite west. They know that the hypocrite west sells its friends very easily. In fact, the hypocrite west doesn't have any permanent friend or enemy.
The hypocrite west knows that their dirty game and their dirty tricks are so risky. The western media reported: "By imposing new economic sanctions that aim to punish ordinary Iranians Washington and its European allies have embraced a risky strategy that could backfire on their efforts to stop Tehran's suspected nuclear weapons program. But some officials acknowledge doubts about whether indiscriminate sanctions will turn the country against the mullahs [!!!], or only serve to stir anger against the West. There is a risk that acute suffering of Iran's people could split the Western coalition that supports sanctions" We have already written about the stupid bastards who talk nonsense and say: "sanctions will turn the country against the mullahs [!!!]" These motherf-u-c-k-er bastards are those who refused to help Iranians and their anti-Mullah movement in 2009 and 2011. When the Iranians were in the streets and were killed by the Mullahs, these stupid bastards not only refused to help Iranians, but they aided the Mullahs in killing the Iranians. These hypocrite monkeys are more shameless than the Mullahs. They impose more sanctions on Iranians, instead of apologizing them for betraying them in 2009-2011. The hypocrite western monkeys are really so stupid and if public opinion in all around the world can be a little wiser, these stupid monkeys will go to hell for ever. The media reported: "The first victims will be the poor and helpless. Then the middle class. And all of them can become anti-West and anti-US, while they are anti-Mullah and anti-Islamist now. But Colin Kahl, who until last month was a senior Pentagon official for the Middle East, said he saw 'some evidence' in anecdotal comments of Iranians [Iranian exapts] that sanctions will increase public pressure on authorities". Colin Kahl is a stupid bastard like David Cohen. They listen to the voice of Iranian exapts who are stooge of the west or the Mullahs. The Iranian exapts are enemy of Iranians inside Iran. Many truly believe that the Rajavists and the Monarchists (Pahlavists) are stooge of the Mullahs. These stupid bastards try to disgrace the Iranian oppositions. They want to disappoint the people. Even 100 people in Iran don't care about these stupid bastards and their call for any protest, but the hypocrite west support these bastards and their media, like Balatarin.com, financially. If these bastards want to return to Iran, Iranians inside Iran only will entertain them with Guillotine. Iranians inside Iran deeply hate the Iranian exapts who are really dead zombie. They are worthless pieces of shit that still live in 1970s and 1980s, but Iranians inside Iran have progressed more than 300 years in the past 33 years. The media reported: "David Cohen said: 'We have no interest in harming ordinary Iranians. But the responsibility for that lays clearly with the Iranian government" David Cohen is a hypocrite stupid monkey, who think others are as stupid as himself. We have already written about What Iranians expect from the West . They should read it carefully, and should apologize to Iranians for betraying them in 2009-2011. Apologize to Iranians, right now, before it's too late. You can't make love with the savage Mullahs and betray Iranians and their anti-Mullah movement in 2009-2011, and then talk about sanctions. You can't allow the Mullahs, the Mullah embezzlers, the Mullah TV, and Mullah Mafia to live in Canada, the US, and the UK, and then talk about sanctions. In the recent days, the media reported: "More than 5000 of the high rank Mullahs have a child or a close relative inside the UK, specially in London". As we said before, the close relative and family of Khamenei, Rafsanjani, Larijani, Yazdi, Mesbah, and many other high rank Mullahs and the Mullah embezzlers live in Canada, the US, and specially in the UK. In these days, the Iranians inside Iran are learning more about the true colors of the hypocrite west. Unfortunately, 2012 can become another 1953, and the hypocrite west and the stupid western monkeys are the first and last responsible for this matter. The good guys in the west should know these matters and should do something, before it's too late.