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On Egypt's Morsi
Thirty countries have seen protests against US interests. So far, six Americans have died. The protests started in Egypt, spread to Libya, and then went global. The new president of Egypt, Mohamed Morsi, has said publicly that he wants to end the violence; I'm wondering if he didn't start it. There is plenty of evidence that he is no friend of America.
One of Morsi's first acts in office was to make a very public request that America release Omar Abdul Rahman from jail. The "Blind Cleric" is serving life in a federal pen for his role in the first bombing of the World Trade Center. Morsi's request for his release was either incredibly stupid or brilliant.
There is no way in hell that the US would ever release Rahman. Morsi knew the US answer; he also knew what the reaction would be in Egypt. What was his motive in asking for something that was guaranteed to be turned down? Trouble?
The Blind Cleric has been a terrorist all of his life. He was involved with another very bad guy, Ayman al Zawahiri (now running Al Qaeda) back in the 80s. They were in the Egyptian Islamic Jihad at the same time. Later they went to Afghanistan and hooked up with Bin Laden.
For Mursi to push for Abdul Rahman's release is evidence of his support for Al Qaeda; a decidedly hostile act against America.
I think that Morsi was trying to stir up rebellion in his country over the Egyptian cleric. Morsi is not stupid; he knew how his country would react to America's refusal. He has achieved his desired results.
Now consider the deadly events in Libya. Who was responsible for the well-orchestrated (and well-armed) attack on the US embassy staff? The Omar Abdul Rahman Brigade.
Why would supporters of the jailed Egyptian cleric be in Benghazi? The connection to Morsi and his request for the release of the blind murderer is not a coincidence. Morsi deliberately stoked anti-American emotions. He created an "excuse" for the attack in Libya.
Morsi took control of Egypt after a difficult election. He was faced with huge domestic problems. So what did he do? He went to Iran. Who did he meet with when he went to America's number one enemy? The Iranian military.
This is very unusual. In theory, the Egyptians hate the Iranians. This is Sunni versus Shia hatred that goes back a thousand years. The fact that Morsi chose to take the trip to Iran is more evidence that he is no friend of America. My question is, What did Morsi and the Iranian generals discuss?
They talked about what all generals always talk about; mutual enemies. The mutual enemy of Egypt and Iran is Israel. Has Morsi done anything else that is hostile to Israel?
There was an event that took place on August 4. A splinter group of Al Qaeda attacked a remote Egyptian military outpost on the Israeli/Egypt border in the Sinai. Sixteen Egyptian soldiers were killed in the attack. The story put out was that the Al Qaeda terrorists were trying to capture an Israeli military officer that was nearby. Huh?
Why would Al Qaeda attack Egyptians? Morsi is the Moslem Brotherhood. If anything, there is an alliance between these two groups. This begs the question, Was the attack in the Sinai a cover operation for something else?
The killing of the sixteen Egyptian soldiers was the excuse that Morsi needed to load up troops in the Sinai. This action is in violation of existing treaties (Camp David Accord). Note how fast this happened:
As of today, Egypt has a large military presence in the Sinai. This is exactly what Iran would like to see. Egypt and Iran are strange bedfellows. They are in bed together because of the old Middle East saying, The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
Obama has taken a diplomatic tact with Morsi. He refers to Egypt's leader as neither friend nor foe. That's just "nice talk". Morsi's a foe.
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Exactly what is Kasting's point here?
Is his point to sound the alarm that the Egypt's first elected president after the US supported brutal dictator Mubarak is not an ally with the US? And??? The US advocates democracy...that is exactly what we now have, the people of Egypt have spoken and they will allie themselves with whom they choose.
@ gwar5: Egypt was an ally, but we helped throw out our corrupt Mubarak ally and helped let Morsi ascend who is worse, and wants to see us all dead…
Mubarak was not an ally of the United States; he was a puppet, a highly paid manager to ward off Arab uneasiness over the State of Israel. Mubarak's people suffered under a near-totalitarian regime whose military was financed by American taxpayers. U.S. aid to Egypt was set on a partial par with aid to Israel primarily so that Israel could continue to receive subsidies, although Israel's massive total financial support was considerably more than publicly reported to the American people.
Along comes the growing Muslim desire around the Middle East to be independent of U.S. puppets that had been put in place to garner Arab oil and to support Israeli foreign policy.
The so-called Arab Spring was a revolution against the tyrant U.S.A.
The revolution took the form of revolt against the U.S. puppets. After the world watched the success in Tunisia, Egypt became a part of the revolt and many Egyptians, including sectarian youths, the Muslim Brotherhood and hundreds of highly placed military officers saw a chance for Egypt to escape from her U.S. handlers.
Without the participation of the Muslim Brotherhood, the CIA and the Mossad would have easily reinstated an Egyptian president as a simple successor to puppet Mubarak.
The Muslim Brotherhood favors the expansion of Islam but Israel and American Zionists have greatly mischaracterized its philosophy and operation. In Egypt today the Muslim Brotherhood is the primary force rebuilding an economic system to provide jobs and opportunity to millions of Egyptians denied these opportunities under U.S. puppet rule. And Morsi, with the backing of the Muslim Brotherhood, is working with a number of foreign powers such as Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Iran to eliminate the potential for a catastrophic war over Iran's nuclear programs.
Of course, the Muslim Brotherhood and Morsi are not interested in becoming a tool of Israel; in fact, they are powerful enemies of Israel. And this is the source of incredible neo-conservative propaganda against the Muslim Brotherhood and Morsi, even to the point of connecting its objectives with al-Qaeda.
In re-establishing Egypt's important role in Middle East politics, Morsi is postponing conflicts with Israel such as the cooperation he's lent on dealing with militant groups in the Sinai. At this moment it appears that Morsi's objective is to be the Middle East strong man for peace.
All of these occurrences are happening during an election year in America where many factions are trying to use the candidates for their own objectives; and Israel Prime Minister Netanyahu is a prime example. Netanyahu literally has gone mad on the world stage demanding that the U.S. either attack Iran with full force or immediately promise that it will do so if enrichment programs are not abandoned altogether.
He demands to see Obama immediately to discuss these issues; he hosts a fundraiser for Obama's opponent, Mitt Romney, in Israel hoping to put even more pressure on both candidates to serve Israel immediately. Netanyahu raves at the U.S. ambassador when he gets no response, he promises that he will attack with or without the United States knowing that this creates near world war.
One in depth analysis of what would be needed to stop Iranian nuclear programs would require much more military power than Israel possesses, particularly since Israel could do the initial strikes but would not be able to adequately defend its forces against the counterattack, thereby dragging the United States into what would likely be WWIII.
Would that this nation had an American Spring to rid itself of its puppet government.
A. The world's largest collection of 17th century Turkish armament is kept in this city.
Q. What is Istanbul?
I'm sorry, Mehmet. Krakow... what is Krakow.
There are Globalists and there are Nations to be used by the globalists against one another to further globalist agendas. Poor people believe in Nations and democracies because globalists tell them that is the way it is. Poor people join militaries, mostly out of desparation, and don't see themselves as paid mercinaries for the globalists but prefer to see themselves as patriots. In the Ray Dalio CFR video it was apparent that there is no concern for a Nation but only bankster policy that is implement through bribed politicians whether in the US or China. Unless laws are enforced upon the globalists the lawlessness no matter where in the world it is will lead to the destruction of the world.
The enemy of the world is the lawlessness of the elite. Most people know that even in Afganistan. That is why they are going straight for the elite bankster class no matter where they are. That is who is attacking everyone at this time.
Maybe they will figure it out but the Bernanke put sure seems like it was to fund the war this time rather than save the banks.
I've yet to hear the voice of "mainstream Islam" (our government is always going on about), utter a peep regarding the events of the last 10 days. That's because "moderate Islam" is a myth, a chimera. In my perfect scenario, all jew haters and communists would go to live with their Arab brethern. What a wonderful world it would be.
Why aren't Israeli terrorist acts reported in the US news media, such as the more than one hundred acts of terrorism in the United States from 1960 to 2001, most of them according to Christopher Bollyn "bombings of buildings and the people inside them"?
Well, according to FOX's Carl Cameron: "Investigators within the DEA, INS, and FBI have all told FOX News that to pursue or even suggest Israeli spying is considered career suicide."
As Bollyn says: "Jonathan Pollard is merely a poster boy to give the impression that the U.S. pursues Israeli spies."
As for terrorism, terror has been the modus operandi of such Israeli terrorists as the Irgun group led by Menachem Begin in the 1930s and 40s to David ben Gurion's Haganah terror group "in the Jewish struggle for the Land of Israel" that's obliterating the Land of Palestine.
Well said , +1 , however the 'jew haters' part is silly. Anyone who has at least SOME basic survival instinct left HAS to be an ENEMY of the Zion , because all NON-Zionist are their ENEMY , and their goal is to treat them like cattle (this being said by their spiritual leader.. so if someone doesn't like it , go discuss this with Rabbi Ovadya Yosef, not with me)
Morsi appears to be trying to assert authority for Egypt reoccupying its traditional role as the major Arab player in the Middle East. Morsi is attempting to solve the Middle East's problems without the interference of the Western powers and on a peaceful basis. And one of his first tasks is to stop America from going to war.
T he neo-cons' mislabeling of the modern Muslim Brotherhood as just another al-Qaeda terrorist group is also including Morsi now as little more than the king terrorist. Rush Limbaugh has even practically lamented the absence of the Mubarak administration. IOW, Israeli foreign policy is the only policy America requires in the Middle East and the object, of course, is more war - all the time - this time all the way across Syria, Iran and, as some have implied, even Pakistan.
With the events of this past week in Libya and 29 other Arab countries, to miraculously find the new president of Egypt as the trigger is to do the bidding of the pro-Israeli Zionists in America who want hundreds of U.S. airplanes, carrier groups, drones, rockets and rocks, if necessary, to be thrown on the sovereign state of Iran.
I could be wrong but it appears that this article joins in that endeavor.
If you have to ask... you don't know. Morsi is a Foe.
Egypt was an ally, but we helped throw out our corrupt Mubarak ally and helped let Morsi ascend who is worse, and wants to see us all dead... just like Jimmy Carter did in Iran 30 years ago.
The Muslim Brotherhood has been soley dedicated since 1928 to the goal of systematic Islamic world hegemony. Al-Qaeda is merely the wing of the MB mothership that did not want to wait any longer to bring violence against non-muslims and speed things along.
MB are Sunni Arab muslims pledged to recreating the old Ottoman Empire in MENA (a supranational "caliphate") which was only broken up after WWI. It had lasted almost 500 years prior to that, and in 1529 was laying siege upon the gates of Vienna. If not but for a miracle of history which caused them to withdraw, Europe would be speaking Arabic to this day.
Iranians are Shia Persians. Shiite muslims fight against Sunnis muslims like protestant and Catholics used to fight. Lookout if they finally become allies and unite against the West, which may be underway right now.
Eric Margolis, until recently a contributing editor to the Toronto Sun chain of newspapers writing mainly about the Middle East, South Asia and Islam, paints a picture quite different from yours and the MSM's of the Muslim Brotherhood ...
"Egypt did not stage its revolution so that Mubarakist autocracy and the fierce police state that kept it in power could return," says Margolis, "so that the circles of corrupt businessmen and cronies around Mubarak could resume their plundering of the economy. Or so that Egypt could remain under the thumb of the United States and, indirectly, Israel…"
Continues Margolis in Egypt Headed for an Explosion, written in June:
"Washington is deeply alarmed the Brotherhood may abrogate the hated, one-sided 1979 Camp David treaty with Israel. Most Egyptians rightly see the treaty as void because Israel violated one of its most important provisions: that Israel would withdraw from the West Bank and permit creation of a Palestinian state. But in a US election year in which pro-Israel forces dominate the Republican Party, Egypt's nationalists and Islamists are well advised caution.
"It's no coincidence young Egyptians dismiss the Brotherhood, 'your grandfather's party.' Its conservative members, many engineers and academics, have little experience in the dirty game of politics and often appears stuffy and slow."
Margolis warned before the election, if "the military win the next vote, Egyptians could turn dangerously radical as the revolution that began in Tahrir Square goes violent. "
margolis from 2003
Copyright: Eric S. Margolis, 2003
June 9, 2003
NEW YORK - When I lived in Jamaica many moons ago, there occurred a bizarre national panic known as the Three Wheeled Coffin.
According to a storm of rumors, a black, three-wheeled coffin, surmounted by three black doctor birds (crows), was moving along Jamaica's back roads. Villages emptied in terror at reports the coffin was nearing. The Three Wheeled Coffin was never found. The panic subsided.
North Americans and Brits have just experienced their own version of the Three Wheeled Coffin — a national panic attack called Iraq. It is now clear the Bush and Blair governments actively deceived their citizens over Iraq, concocted false information, and misled Congress and Parliament. Both governments now face a rising storm of criticism and demands for full-scale inquiries.
This column has been contacted by a number of retired intelligence officers, both individuals and groups, backing up assertions made here two weeks ago that a cabal of neo-conservatives in the Bush Administration had distorted or faked information that formed the basis of claims that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction (wmd's) that imminently threatened the US and all mankind.
According to MI6 (British intelligence) officers and British press reports, Tony Blair's government was fed this same tainted information and even sent orders to MI6 to make it `sexier.' Former British foreign secretary, Robin Cook, who resigned to protest the Bush-Blair war on Iraq, calls the intelligence reports used to justify the aggression `wrong' and `forged.'
President Bush cited a crudely forged document about uranium sales from Niger to Iraq in his State of the Union Address. Blair claimed Iraq could attack the west with wmd's `within 45 minutes.' Secretary Colin Powell's embarrassing UN Philippic against Iraq turned out to be hot air.
To date, no wmd's have been found in Iraq. France had the best human intelligence sources in pre-war Iraq. President Jacques Chirac warned Bush and Blair there were no such weapons, and rightly refused to join their illegal invasion of Iraq. Blair foolishly listened to Bush instead of Chirac.
According to intelligence sources outraged by the corruption and perversion of the national intelligence function for political reasons, the main source of lies and distortions about Iraq was Iraqi exiles, many in the pay of the US government. These anti-Saddam exiles, led by Ahmed Chalabi and his Iraq National Congress, and former Iraqi scientist Khider Hamza, fed the Pentagon and `NY Times' a stream of phony claims about Iraqi wmd's.
Chalabi and Hamza, who were scorned by CIA as frauds, are closely linked to American neo-conservatives Richard Perle, Paul Wolfowitz, and James Woolsey, and through the US neo-con network, to Israel's hawkish Likud Party.
When CIA couldn't find hard evidence of Iraqi wmd's Administration neo-cons needed to justify war, Defense Secretary Rumsfeld, a super hawk, created a new intelligence unit, the Office of Special Plans, putting his deputy, and fellow neo-con hawk, Paul Wolfowitz in charge. Intelligence community protests over this blatant politicization of national security were ignored.
Wolfowitz created two more intelligence teams to funnel disinformation from Iraqi exiles to the White House. They were led by Pentagon neo-con hawks Douglas Feith and Abraham Shulsky. The three teams reportedly fed distorted or exaggerated information to Bush and Blair. More spurious reports came to Powell from VP Dick Cheney's neo-con chief of staff, Lewis Libby. Neo-cons like William Kristol and William Safire provided pro-war media propaganda.
Many of the senior officials involved in this apparent fraud were members of the Project for the New American Century, a hawkish, far-right group close to Israel's Likud Party that called in 2000 (before 9/11) for the invasion of Iraq, Syria, Libya, and Iran, and worldwide American dominion. Given the lack of wmd's in Iraq, these red-faced neo-cons now claim the weapons were moved to Syria and/or Iran, or even Pakistan, their next war targets.
A few cans of poison or mustard gas and flasks of germs may yet be discovered in Iraq (or, more likely, planted). Even so, these are not weapons of mass destruction. Mustard and nerve gas are battlefield weapons. They are inefficient weapons, and, for long-ranged use, must be dispensed by special aircraft or missiles, none of which Iraq possessed in 2003. The US and Britain supplied Iraq with gas and germs in the 1980's for battlefield use against Iran. Napalm and fuel air explosives kill far more effectively. The only real wmd's are nuclear weapons. The UN long-ago confirmed Iraq had none.
The US House Intelligence Committee's senior democrat, Jane Harmon, calls Bush's claims about Iraq, `conceivably …the greatest intelligence hoax of all time.' One akin, perhaps, to Dr Goebbel's claim Poland was about to attack Germany in 1939.
The president of the United States and prime minister of Britain are accused of lying to their people to embark on a war whose real justification was, as war architect Wolfowitz recently noted, `for bureaucratic reasons' and `because Iraq was swimming on a sea of oil.'
Britons are in an uproar. Many Americans, by contrast, seem indifferent. Former President Bill Clinton was impeached by Republicans in Congress for lying about sex. President Bush misled the American people, deceived Congress, violated the UN Charter, blew billions of dollars and many lives, Americana and Iraqi, on a phony war, turned much of the world against the United States — and will likely be re-elected.
as a Pole, I must throw in my 5 cents: check out 1683 Battle of Vienna description , many historians think it was a turning point for the Ottoman Empire. Polish hussars kicked ass back then.
If only the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth could have beaten back the equally rapacious and insidious forces of Prussia and Russia 100 years later, instead of having become "The Plaything of Europe".
Every time I read about the Polish Partitions, it still boils my blood. Psia krew!
In its simplest form, we are over there for oil..
Also, the innundation of petro dollars by Benny and the jet propellers causes hikes in the cost of commodities, like food and gas.
The hike in food prices is directly proportional to hikes in geo-political unrest.
Occupy wall street was just a preamble.
you need to broaden your horizons. Your column's questions are not only weeks behind but seem to imply some gaps in geopolitical detail.
The AQ brigades are in Libya because that is who we armed too kill Qaddafi. They are now in Syria so please do not be surprised when they are found working their usual SOPs. Remember most of OBL's crew was Egyptian.
Morsi was not the only head of state that visited IRAN, there was a conference non aligned states of which Egypt was only one. See Pepe Escobars columns for in depth reporting on this, it was weeks ago.
Bruce - AQ worked for us in AFGAN, Kosovo, Libya and now Syria. (Of course, they could not have been working with us on 911)
You seem surprised at some very obvious outcomes.
50 cal. machine guns on John Deere tractors?
Lookout Israel...The 'Jewbusters' are coming your way.
Yes, you would expect at least a Case, or maybe an old Oliver with a road gear.
If you don't know the answer you are an idiot. Brotherhood !
nuff said.
Egypt is importing container loads of used USA farm and construction equipment. The buyers are purchasing from dealers and individuals. The "recession" in construction, and the farmers and cattlemen going out of business makes for some very good buys. The dark side to this is that much of this equipment could be used for military needs.
Just found this, a MFO press release, anybody hear in the MSM about a MFO camp being attacked? Why not?
September 15, 2012
On the afternoon of 14 September a demonstration outside the MFO's North Camp in el Gorah, Egypt turned violent. Individuals throwing Molotov cocktails and explosive devices breached the camp's perimeter. The breach was quickly contained by the professional actions of MFO personnel, and those who entered the camp departed MFO premises with no known injury to any of the intruders. Eight MFO personnel sustained minor injuries in the incident and MFO property and vehicles at the scene were damaged and one vehicle was destroyed. The MFO has expressed appreciation to Egyptian authorities for the efforts of Egyptian security forces in helping to re-secure the camp's perimeter and to stabilize the security situation.
The MFO views these events with the gravest concern and is coordinating with Egyptian authorities through the Liaison Organization for International Organizations (LAWIO) regarding strengthened measures to secure MFO premises and personnel, and to ensure that the MFO mission may continue securely and effectively.
Where is / was the MFO? They were everywhere when I was in the Eastern Sinai back in the 1980's. Aren't they there BECAUSE Egypt does not have a military presence there? If the Egyptians are rolling in tanks and troops, shouldn't the MFO be brought home? I haven't heard one peep about them during this whole mess. Don't forget the Bedouin, when I was there the Egyptian government was trying to force them to take Egyptian passports, they prefer to be "Stateless" - they are nomads, after all. By the way, they [The Bedouin] have tons of ordance buried under the sand all over the Sinai that they picked up from the battlefields after the war between Egypt / Israel. They are quite capable of pulling off raids.
The Multinational Force & Observers (MFO) is an independent international organization, headquartered in Rome, with peacekeeping responsibilities in the Sinai. The origins of the MFO lie in Annex I to the 1979 Treaty of Peace between Egypt and Israel, in which the parties undertook to request the United Nations to provide a force and observers to supervise the implementation of the treaty. When it did not prove possible to obtain Security Council approval for the stationing of a UN peacekeeping force in the Sinai, the parties negotiated a Protocol in 1981 establishing the MFO "as an alternative" to the envisioned UN force.
The Protocol defines the MFO's mission, provides for the appointment of a Director General to be responsible for the direction of the MFO, and stipulates that the expenses of the MFO "which are not covered by other sources shall be borne equally by the Parties." The United States, which was instrumental in assisting the parties in setting up the MFO, has formally pledged to provide one-third of the annual operating expenses of the organization, subject to Congressional authorization and appropriations.
I'm very curious what orders Obama will get from his superiors in Tel Aviv
Apparently, from the comments here, Mossad is more powerful and pervasive than even the greatest Bond villain, perhaps even on par with the Illuminati.
Maybe it's just y'all are so convinced that little brown people are rock stupid and easily manipulated, it must be some diabolic plan by the standard bearers of the "judeochristian ethos".
Mossad is all powerful and can do anything. There are over one billion Mossad agents around the world.
Mossad faked the moon landing too.
Like Walmart, they're everywhere.
Ask Joyful about the kute and kuddly Kahzarian kriminal konspiritors.
Joyful knows it was Mossad that put Elian Gonsalves on that Cuban boat too.
Guess who's the father of Snooky's baby...
Yup, you guessed it.
I wonder what role the Mossad played in finding a Coptic Christian to produce and direct this "Innocence of Muslims," film and then wait for September 11 to have Mossad agents gin up the inevitable rage that would break out in a case like this just to destabilize the region and undermine the President of the United States in a crucial election during the debate over a war with iran?
Just wondering....... Couldn't be a consiracy, could it?
The one case Mossad was not involved. If they make a movie about the dirtbag Prophet it will be Oscar quality.
Egypt and Iran take out Iran and Syria and wait for israel to back their bags for NY.
New axis of evil.
So tired of our aid $ being eventually used against us
Then add china Russia pakistan and India and well just have a new world 'balance'
Bruce, I usually appreciate your well reasoned opinions but this time you are commenting on a subject, for which you have little to no experience nor knowledge and worst of all using US based main stream media, as source material... you know how bisaed and malinformed they are.
That was an option position. It ran off a week ago. I lost.
I wrote about in this piece:
My EUO is bright red. I blame George Bush.
I always enjoy reading your very well reasoned forex plays and I always tell myself that BK knows so much more than I. Then, I go against you and make a pot of money. I don't know why but it works every time.
Don't confuse luck with skill or you'll suffer the usual gambler's ruin.
"We're all fooled by randomness"
indeed. the muslim brotherhood are trying to topple syria now that they have taken libya and egypt. they are ideologically aligned withe saudi arabia not iran..
this whole thing is an operation to further bolster support for an iran war and turn obama and bitlery into the stooges they havealways been.
I agree 100
Its funny that these flag burning protests all occured at once right after the bernanke printing anniuncement. All msm covers are these preorchestrated small 'protests'
This is propoganda 101.
If morsi got to power...it was with u.s. Behind the scenese deal making. He agreed to help steer tge region into war with iran. He can continue to openly agitate against tge u.s. As long as he does nothing about it. If the extremists kill him to get egypt into a real. War cairo will be bombed lebanon style. This is what the real extremists want because its the only way they consolidate power in egypt.....just as they did in lebonon. They will play iran and the u.s. Off each other to get morsi out of power.
The average idiot thinks morsi is the extremist. Not in the least. He is a moderate with tepid backing by the u.s. Egypts main threat against israel is as a smuggling root for gaza. Openly attacking israel would result in immidiate catastrophe for cairo.
So... why the fuck should poor people in America care? Oil is going up either way. The biggest enemies are at home.
and from CNN's main US page this Sunday afternoon
The reality of evangelical Islamaphobia
The events of this past week could mark a turning point in the complicity of evangelicalism
Domestic terror: The threat from within
Experts say domestic terrorists pose significant threats to the homeland, and the U.S. needs to do more to safeguard itself from the threat within.
Yes, remember when those 19 Baptists flew those planes into the WTC and the Pentagon. Anytime you hear someone shout "Jesus loves you!" hit the deck!
When Nasser ran Egypt, he represented the sons of the Mamelukes; a militarist resurgence for national independece. He advocated pan-Arabism; just like Saladin; to create a national identity of Arab people. He failed, decapitated under the sword of Cold war politics; when Black September Arafat's expulsion from Jordan led to dissension in Arab world and the emergence of Jordan-Saud pro-american axis against the pan Arab aliance of Egypt-Syria-Irak. Thus a secular alliance that abhorred Islamic resurgence as expression of Arab obscurantism, of which Wahhabit Saud was prime promoter, was destroyed by the clever shuttle diplomacy of Dear Henry who consolidated the obscurantist alliance with oil rich Wahhabism.
The subsequent traumas in Iran and Afghanistan for western interests have further promoted the alliance of PAx Americana with fundamentalist Sunni Islam, enemies of Ayatollah Iran and USSR in Afghan war. In 1991, when the USA invaded Irak to chastise a renegade Saddam, using Saudi territory as military base in Operation Desert Storm, it alienated the fundamentalist Sunnis, its erstwhile allies of previous campaigns, now become dire enemies of its presence in Holy Mecca land. The divide has not stopped growing. Subsequent NWO US hegemony, support of Israel and repression of Palestinian Infatada since Sharon's incursion in Lebanon destroyed Sabra and Chatilla Palestinaian camps has focalised the confrontation with its arab population to Jerusalem and Gaza theater of operations. The TAliban turncoating under the same blowback impetus, of Al Qaeda concoction, has furthered that hatred since 9/11/2001 days. Rabid Islam both Sunni and Shiite declared USA their mortal enemy.
So the alliance between radical Islam and USA, seen as bulwark against COld War secular and socialist Arab regimes is now in tatters. And in the context of Arab spring fallout now morphing in front of our eyes into something more radical, the noose may be closing in on those Arab princes who are STILL friends to the USA; aka the Saud and EMirate kingdoms.
If the WHOLE of the secular front of Nasserite days now swings to rabid Islam, aka Egypt-Syria-Irak-Afghan-Pakistan, the USA will have achieved the exact opposite of what DEAR HEnry wanted. It will have succeeded to isolate Israel and Saud as the common enemies of the Arab/muslim people, renegades to Islam; which would temporarily include, oh irony of history, Shia Iran alongside Sunni arab lands! All united against the evil US empire! For this scenario to materialise the position of Turkey in this political divide is crucial; as is the position of the BRics, RUssia and China.
The Dharma wheel of ME will have come a full circle and USA could be isolated along with those uber-Oligarchical kingdoms who kneel to it and invest their money in its riches; the latter perceived as enemies of Arab people, not as servants of Islam.
Bruce Krasting's question will acquire new meaning then : who is the true Arab patriot and who is the traitor to the new dreams of the Caliphate?
If we are in clash of civilization, as predicted and encouraged by Samuel Huntington, then the two edged sword of this resurrected Medieval confrontation will cut in both directions.
Pax Americana better have guns and butter to fight this protracted fight if the Arab/Iran nation raises the flag of people's revolt on a regional basis.
The current revolt will not just be limited to the periphery but will overflow to the heartland of the OIL kingdom itself.
What PAx Americana has sowed it will then reap. And the masks will have to be ripped off on all faces when the chips are down. From their perspective the question may then NOT be who is a terrorist and who is a legalist. It may well be who is a patriot. Period.
Shades of VIetnam, where Ho chi Minh and Giap proved to the world they were patriots first and foremost and commies on secondary basis. The first won the military victory the second brought them economic regression in subsequent peace.
It could be a similar situation in Arab lands because the "curse" of Oil does not guaranty them economic revival even if the Islamists push out US presence from their lands as the Cong did in NAm. Islam is NOT the solution for these people, just as communisim is not for Vietnam.
For the West the question is more fundamental in the longer term, as beyond ME oil there is the existential conundrum : Do we fight for value systems of democracy and human rights or JUST for colonial oil?
This current administration like its predecessors seems to have chosen...the short term prevails like in current funny money printing.
Saladin wasn't an Arab.
Saladin was a Kurd, serving the dying Seljukid empire, itself full of nomads, who ran the Caliphate based in Baghdad which covered territories all bowing to Islam from Delhi to Andalusia. Saladin thus was part of this multiethnic empire and his first accomplishment with his uncle Shirku was to capture Shia Cairo from the Fatimids, then uniting it to Damascus, all the while paying nominal tribute to the Arab Abbasid Caliph in BAghdad, who had no real power.
He then defeated the Crusaders, and went down in history as the Unifier of Islam. His brother's progeny ruled as the Ayyubids the region for fifty years until the Mameluke slave kings of Kipchak (turkic-eurasian-ukranian) origin took over.
The so called arab caliphate was multiethnic. Islam was a religion that welcomed all ethnic groups, making no distinctions once they took the Shahada. The Seljuks were Turkic.
His symbolism to arab and muslim world survives the ages. Saddam belatedly tried to use the fact he was born in the same village as Saladin; Tikrit.
Obama, Romney, and the rest of the oligopoly, are the real enemy.
I have come to the conclusion that all moslims are just ignorant idiots..they are violent and crazy and are a menace to human society. I also beleive that the U.S. will go to war with the middle east in general and wipe them off the face of the earth..It is just a matter of time if they continue to behave the way they do...
Some muslims are ignorants, some are idiots, some violent and some crazy. Most of them are none of this list. On the other hand, most of the real enemy, the one who occupies this country and sits right in Washington DC, is ALL of this list.
thats exactly what gerard de ridefort thought; he lost his head.
that's exactly what guillaume de saunac thought; he lost his head.
That exactly what Saint Louis thought; he was taken prisoner along with his family. Paid a big ransom.
That's exactly what the Bushes thought and they got us Irak.
So there is improvement on that score.
Your try next.
I've been waiting for WW3 in the Mid East since the 60"s. If it happens I'll be surprised, laff and be glad I live in the woods away from all the psycho's out there in the flat lands.
You can't see a Mossad/CIA op to stir up some shit in the ME to get the $ flowing back to DOD spending, Bruce? The only thing is that the Isrealis are going to get more than they bargained for and the shit is getting out of hand fast with all of the Pro-US flunkies getting kicked out of places like Libya and Egypt.
Can someone please inform BK that Al-Qaeda is an ally of USA? /s
BTW, shit's getting real:
"Armada of British naval power massing in the Gulf as Israel prepares an Iran strike"
"IDF Ramps Up Work Along Border with Syria"
Tyler, seems like a good time for the regular update on US naval vessels deployment.
Ashraf Badr Al-Din, Deputy of the Plan and Budget Committee of the People's Assembly... affirmed that the US's moves for a $1 billion Egyptian debt relief deal is a promising sign and an attempt by Washington to make amends with the Egyptian people, after siding with Mubarak's repressive regime for so long.
"Writing off Egyptian debt was the basic requirement demanded by Freedom and Justice MPs in Parliament and in all their meetings with U.S. officials and delegations.
"The least the U.S. administration should be doing is to drop Egyptian debt – money with which it supported the corrupt oppressive former regime at the expense of the Egyptian people and their freedoms." http://www.ikhwanweb.com/article.php?id=30275
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TweetThat's to be expected — and in fact, is an entirely predictable, trite, and wannabe-transgressive cottage industry in the Humanities and the social sciences, where leftwing "intellectuals" build their own little surreal, misinformed, and grievance-filled echo chambers. But to hear … Continue reading
Tonight at 9 ET, FOX: Obama's OTHER "race" speech
TweetVia Drudge, thus spake Zerothustra: "We don't need to build more highways out in the suburbs. We should be investing in minority-owned businesses, in our neighborhoods'…" Also, "OBAMA DECLARES HOW POOR PEOPLE: 'Need help with basic skills, how to shop, … Continue reading
"Did the White House order a cover-up over the murder of Libya's US Ambassador?"
TweetOf course they did. And nobody who follows politics on either side is the least be surprised, so let's just forestall the ostentatious OUTRAGE that generally attaches to such stories. Instead, I'd like to reiterate a point I made here … Continue reading
Speaking of the anti-intellectual malpractice, malfeasance, and maladictions of "intellectuals"
Tweet— And yes, we were — try this on for size: David Thompson, expanding on a Theodore Dalrymple essay, ends his post this way: The eliminationist zeal of much leftist rhetoric has been noted here more than once. Some of … Continue reading
"BOMBSHELL: House Oversight says requests for increased security in Benghazi before 9/11 denied by Washington"
TweetHouse Oversight memo, via TRS: House Oversight and Government Reform Committee leaders today sent a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton asking why requests for more protection were denied to the U.S. mission in Libya by Washington officials prior … Continue reading
"Gov't Urges Parents to Use School Lunches As a Model for Family Dinner"
TweetNo, not the private prep-school lunches the Obama children get each day. Don't be silly. Those are for the future ruling class children. Rather, the government is urging parents to use the new M'chelle-directed and designed school lunches, produced for the … Continue reading
Whisper to a Scream
TweetThe sound of political scandal is absolutely deafening! If you happen to watch Univision, that is. Otherwise, not so much. After all, investigating and then reporting on the programs and policies of a black President and his black Attorney General … Continue reading
So your country commits a war crime that should cut you off from US taxpayer money? OBAMA WAIVER! [Darleen Click]
TweetOn the White House's own site MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF STATE SUBJECT: Determination with Respect to the Child Soldiers Prevention Act of 2008 Pursuant to section 404 of the Child Soldiers Prevention Act of 2008 (CSPA) (title IV, Public … Continue reading

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YarnCraft Episode 68 Transcript :: Summer Fun: Interviews from Maker Faire Travel Tips for Crafters
You're listening to YarnCraft. [music]
Zontee: Welcome to YarnCraft. It's episode 68 on June 8th, 2010. Thanks for joining us today. This is Zontee.
Liz: And I'm Liz. And we are the hosts of YarnCraft.
Zontee: Stop by YarnCraft.LionBrand.com for more information about the patterns and products that we talk about on today's episode. And while you're there, you can also leave your comments. Or give us a call and leave a voicemail at 774‑452‑YARN, that's 9276.
Liz: As usual, we're here at the Lion Brand Design Center in New York City. But today's episode will feature interviews from the San Francisco Bay Area from our trip to Maker Faire at the end of last month. We talked to our friends at CRAFT Magazine, artists focusing on plushies, spinners and fiber enthusiasts, and more.
Zontee: And on today's "Stash This: Ideas for Your Crafting Life" segment, we talk about making and packing a yarn crafting kit for you or your child as you head out on the road this summer for travels.
Liz: Stay tuned for interviews and insights, next on YarnCraft. [music]
Zontee: As usual, we're starting off our episode with a quick update of our projects and follow‑up comments from you guys from our last episode.
Liz: Our first comment was from Abby a.k.a. SpitfireSNC. She clarified how to pronounce that username since she went to St. Norbert College, and her nickname has been Spitfire. So she put them together. Thank you, Abby. And you may remember Abby's making a wash‑inspired sweater from the Firefly TV show for her dad for Father's Day. And I wanted to know if that was a special inside thing between her and her dad. She says, "Actually, no." Her dad doesn't really know about the whole Firefly angle, but that she and her mom watch it. And the Firefly aspect is just making it more interesting for her to knit. She's still in progress on the sweater even though it's 90 degrees out. So let's all send good thoughts to Abby for her to get that knitting done even through the heat wave. [laughs]
Zontee: Yeah, good job sticking with the project in the hot weather. I find that sometimes it can make me feel like I'm dragging. But sometimes you really do need to just power through and, if you've gone with a good mental place about it, I think you can.
Liz: Absolutely.
Zontee: We also got some comments about the socks that we talked about in the last episode. So Sharon said that another idea for socks, especially during the summer, is that she hates going through the airport security barefoot. And, actually, I hate that, too. And so, in the summer, I always have this problem because I wear sandals or something and then I have to go through barefoot. And I feel like I don't know who else has stepped on that ground. I'm just going to be honest, it's not so pleasant. Anyways.
Liz: I never really minded till now. But now I completely mind [laughter] and am very upset.
Zontee: Sorry, Liz. But she says that she used Sock‑Ease to make herself a pair of bright striped socks that she keeps in her carry‑on. So once she gets to the airport, she puts the socks on and walks through the checkpoint. And then she can go on her merry way. And I bet you they're really comfortable on the airplane as well so you can kick off your shoes.
Liz: Yep. And I think the bright stripes are really the key. Because I don't know if most of your carry‑on bags are like mine but, basically, it's a black hole with just so much stuff in it that, if they're not brightly colored socks, I'm not going to find them in time at the checkpoint. [laughs]
Zontee: It's true. My bags usually look like I've packed for the next 20 years or something.
Liz: Yes.
Zontee: I try not to but…
Liz: I think it's all the Lost watching. I'm definitely prepared to keep myself entertained for three years if I end up stranded on a beautiful tropical island.
Zontee: Mm, that's a good idea. And you can probably build yourself a radio or something to signal people.
Liz: Yes, absolutely.
Zontee: [laughs] And, finally, we got a comment from EL who just wanted to ask us about the crochet sweater blanket, which she didn't see on our episode show notes. But I have added that link. So you can find the crochet sweater blanket on there, and make one for a loved one in your life.
Liz: So now a quick update on what Zontee and I have on our hooks and needles. Why don't you go first, Zontee?
Zontee: Sure. I just finished that South Bay Shawlette that I did in the Sunbeam color. I'm really happy to have it off my hook. And you can see photos of it on my Ravelry page. So I'm pretty happy with that. It's very exciting.
Liz: Have you worn it yet in our 90 plus degree weather? [laughs]
Zontee: Sadly, no. Because I can't figure out how I can get away with it without being burning hot. [laughs]
Liz: Yeah, right.
Zontee: Since it's a small shawl, I thought I could wear it more like a scarf or something. But then I just thought to myself, "I'm going to be really warm." Because even though it's a super fine yarn, Silk Mohair is a very warm blend.
Liz: Absolutely.
Zontee: It was warm even when I was working on it. So I'm just thinking to myself that I may not get so much use out of it until I go on vacation somewhere cool or something.
Liz: Oh, that sounds fun though. [laughs] It's already hot enough here that I'm like, "Oh! Vacation somewhere cool!"
Zontee: [laughs]
Liz: Let's go north. [laughs] Head north.
Zontee: Yeah. And so now that I've finished that project, I've decided to work on a new crochet project which is going to be a little cropped cardi. And you're going to have to wait to find out more details about it because I'm going to be writing about it for the Lion Brand Notebook, our official blog. So I don't want to give away too much here. But let's just say that I'm taking a concept that we've talked about here on the show, about resizing, and taking a pattern that I like and then making a cardigan that's all my own.
Liz: Very cool! I can't wait to hear more about this. This is new information even to me.
Zontee: So what about you, Liz? What have you been working on?
Liz: Well, after taking the excellent Cat Bordhi sock workshop at the Studio, I've been just playing around with different sock ideas and doing lots of little bizarre blobby swatches. But now, after hearing Sharon's comment about the security checkpoint socks, I am really going to need to get going on those, like as soon as we stop recording.
Zontee: [laughs] It's going to be OK, Liz. You've lived this long, right?
Liz: Somehow, somehow. Just through luck.
Zontee: [laughs] [music]
Liz: At the end of May, Zontee and I and other members of the Lion Brand team were lucky enough to head out to San Mateo for the fifth annual Bay Area Maker Faire.
Zontee: It was the fourth time that Lion Brand has been a sponsor of the show. And we were really happy to be there, to be in the booth, and teach people knitting, crochet, as well as kid's crafts.
Liz: Every year, the show itself gets bigger and bigger, and I think our booth gets more and more crowded. It's really exciting to see how many people want to learn about yarn crafting.
Zontee: Definitely. Because, while the show is called the Maker Faire and it is about showing off the things you and other people who are makers have created, it's also about passing on that knowledge and showing people how to make things.
Liz: That's something that's been really exciting for me to see in the four years I've attended the show is how much the emphasis has shifted from the show part of show and tell to the tell part. People are really teaching people what they know about all sorts of different subject areas from robotics all the way down to spinning yarn. And just the opportunities for people to interact are always increasing.
Zontee: Oh definitely. And of course, if you're interested and excited about the things that we've talked about just now, the website is MakerFaire.com, and that's F-A-I-R-E-dot-com. And they have a show coming up in the Detroit area, and then there will be one in the fall in New York. And we're going to be excited to go to the New York one since it's in our hometown. So if you're lucky enough to be able to make that one, please come out and stop by the booth and say hello.
Liz: While we were there, we were able to interview a lot of very passionate people demonstrating and teaching in a lot of different fiber‑related areas. Sometimes we actually had to wait in line behind the people who they were teaching just to grab them for a moment for a quick interview. But we think they were fascinating, and we hope you enjoy listening to the interviews. [music]
Zontee: Liz and I are here at Maker Faire with our good friend, Natalie Zee Drieu, editor at CRAFT Magazine. Hi, Natalie.
Natalie Zee Drieu: Hi, ladies.
Zontee: So tell us about this year's event. This is your fifth year?
Natalie: Yes, it's the fifth year.
Zontee: And how has the attendance been and what have been some of the highlights that you've seen? And tell us a little but about the CRAFT booth and what you guys have been doing there?
Natalie: I feel like it just has gotten crazier every year. And so there are so many cool activities and new crafters to meet. I love seeing the passion people have when they come over and show me things they've made, sewn, or even just stuff they made just sitting and needle felting at the CRAFT booth. This year we have lots of stuff going on. In addition to our hourly workshops, we have Xyron working with one of our editors, Brooklyn, on just doing a bunch of crafts with them, kids and people coming over who want to make cool things.
Zontee: That's fantastic.
Liz: I heard a rumor that Cookie A was doing a sock workshop. Is that true? [laughs] Was that true?
Natalie: Cookie A, actually I wanted her to do a sock workshop, but she came actually to do topological knitting.
Zontee: Oh!
Natalie: And showed people how to work on this Klein Bottle Hat. And we were talking over emails and she really wanted to sort of showcase the mathematics that goes behind knitting. It was fascinating. I wish I really could pay attention more. I had to work and talk to you at the booth, but it was…. She's amazing.
Liz: I think that's the really great thing about the Maker Faire. Is that it's not just people doing text stuff and people doing craft stuff and totally separate. It all relates together, it all connects.
Zontee: Definitely. Obviously this Maker Faire is wrapping up today, but you have two more events coming up this year. Can you tell us a little bit about those?
Natalie: Yeah, we are really excited to take Maker Faire on the road. We have Maker Faire Detroit happening this summer July 31 to August 1st at the Henry Ford Museum, then also in the fall, September 25 to 26 in New York.
Zontee: That's great that's going to be in our hometown, we can't wait.
Liz: We're so excited.
Natalie: Definitely. We can't wait to see you guys at the Maker Faire New York. I hope that you guys have a great rest of the day here.
Zontee: You too, thank you. [music]
Liz: Zontee and I are here with Christina Ward all the way from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She's part of the Etsy Plush Team, and she's going to tell us what that is and what they have been doing here at the Maker Faire.
Christina Ward: The Plush Team is actually a guild of makers who make stuff creatures of all kinds. From realistic to not realistic, we are all over the world. We've got about sixty members: Australia…every continent is covered. We're thrilled to come together; we work as a support group…for sharing ideas, designs, and issues. Really to help educate people that plush is a variable and real art form as well as something that is just fun. Fun, you're never too old to carry something soft and squishy around.
Liz: That's great. What have you been–I see that you a demo area here–what have you been helping people do?
Christina: We got a series of classes going on. Cover both the sewing and amigurumi, which is the yarn-based plush and right now we're doing some ice cream cones. We're teaching people how to crochet ice cream cones and throughout the day we're doing a recycled sweater…how to turn an old sweater into a creature. We're doing fake fur and how to do more designs with arms and legs and articulation. We're doing a design…how to make a bag, essentially. A stuffed bag and we're going to free for all. We're doing some nature inspired stuff, taking your cues and designs from nature and making stuffed leaves.
Liz: Excellent, is there a centralized website on Etsy or elsewhere that people can find more about the Plush Team.
Christina: Actually you can go to www.plushteam.com, and you can learn more about us, and it links to individual challenges; we do specific challenges to help us grow artistically and technically. You can see some o those results of those challenges on there, as well as individual links to some of the members shops.
Liz: Awesome, thanks so much.
Christina: Thank you…We have a book out too.
Liz: Cool, what's the book?
Christina: Get Stuffed.
Liz: Excellent, Thanks so much. [music]
Liz: Zontee and I are here with Renee. Whose with the Museum of Craft and Folk Art, they have a booth in Maker Faire's Bizarre Bazaar area and they have been teaching all sorts of stuff.
Renee: We have been. Today and yesterday, we were teaching basic knitting. We have a stitch n' bitch area and we're also teaching people how to make pocket buddies. Which are little hand sewn plushies filled with beans. You can carry them around; they're comforting, or else you can give them to your cats. My cats have several and we're also teaching people how to make duct tape wallets. And recycled paper strip woven wallets. We're recycling and we're crafting and we have all the buzz words.
Liz: Now Maker Faire is just one part of the craft education and events that the Museum of Crafts and Folk Art does, why don't you tell us about some of the other events you guys have going on.
Renee: We have a monthly workshop with Etsy, that's called Craft Bar. It is designed to teach people the joys of making things with their hands. We don't just want people to come to the Museum of Craft and Folk Art and look at things. We want them to take something away, have a skill and also just to have fun. So we do these workshops, they're the first Thursday of every month. It's five dollars. You get admission to the gallery. You also get delicious refreshments, it's a good time to meet people and drink a lot of beer. It's very inspiring, drunken crafting. Every month we have different guest crafter, we actually had Katy Kristin Bowen last month. She taught everyone how to make plushies out of old sweaters and this month we are doing a special craft with giant robots. So we'll be doing robot plushies. Hipster robots plushies with mustaches and scary antennae. We'll also be doing our knitting circle, as always, which is super fun. Last time we had about 300 people and maybe 150 of them were knitting and crocheting.
Liz: Wow, what a great crowd.
Renee: Yeah. It is a good crowd. We have a very small museum, so to have that many people in that space is incredible. You can just feel the crafty energy.
Liz: That's so great. Where can people go online to find out more about the Museum of Crafts and Folk Art?
Renee: You can visit us online at www.mocfa.org.
Liz: So, if you're in the San Francisco Bay area please be sure to check out the museum. It sounds like such an inspiring space. Thank you so much.
Renee: Thank you. [music]
Zontee: We're here at the Spindles and Flyers spinning group booth, here at Maker Faire, and we're here with Amy, who is one of the volunteers. Hi Amy, can you tell us a little bit about the organization?
Amy: Hi. Well, first of all, they got us all labeled incorrectly. We're actually a guild, which is a noble tradition from the medieval times. We're a group of men and women. We meet once a month. We are basically a spinning guild that is what everyone has in common. Many member of the group…knit, crochet, but we are a spinning guild. We do lots, and lots, of these kinds of demonstrations and teaching events to try to get new spinners into our world. We go to farmers markets, we go to botanical gardens. We were at the Dia Museum, a couple of weeks ago doing a Friday night demonstration. It was very cool.
We have meeting once a months, ten months out of the year. We have programs, we have demonstration, we have just general camaraderie and show and tell for inspiration.
Zontee: That's wonderful. Tell us about your booth and your spinning lessons. I see that you have drop spindles made with dowels and and CDs.
Amy: Right. It's any inexpensive way to get spinners spinning: a couple of CDs with a grommet, a dowel stuck through it with a little couplet at the top. Our guild members bring in whatever they're not going to spin. Big piles of stuff, and we have a carding party once or twice a year. Where we put together little balls of fluff, so that people can by pick up a spindle, pick up a ball of fluff. We teach them how to spin and then they can either walk away with it for five bucks. Or they can just leave it and walk on and we keep teaching. We probably get 10 new members in our spinning guild each year from our demonstrations like this.
Zontee: Wow, that's incredible.
Liz: Have you noticed that a lot of people are already weavers, knitters, crocheters who come and get attracted to spin or are there a lot of people were they never really thought about fabrics at all. And they just see the shiny fiber and the shiny spindles and get hooked?
Amy: I think there are the people who see the shiny fiber and go, "Oooh", and they're not really usually the ones who would stay. The place where we are getting huge numbers in our…the 20s and 30s-ish people who have learned to knit in the last five years or so, and there are thousands of them out there–it's just a huge renaissance in knitting–and what's happening is they have now knit every kind of yarn. That is in their local shop, all of their friends have knit exactly the same yarn in their local shop. Their eyes get very big when you say; you can spin yarn that is exactly what you want. In terms of fiber, in terms of color, in terms of thickness, and in terms of sparkle that you add to it–whatever you want to do–and all of a sudden it's a whole new dimension to their knitting. We get a little of that from weavers, but weavers are people who have already really immersed in the fiber world. Knitters to a great extent, in their 20s and 30s, it's the first time that they've ever knitting because they didn't learn it at home from their mom.
Zontee: Great, it there a place online were people who maybe be in the Bay Area can learn more about your group?
Amy: We have our own website called spindlesandflyers.org. You can also, if you're in the Bay area, but not in the San Francisco area. You can Google "spinning guilds" and there's at least five in the Bay Area. That are not specifically… There's Serendipity in the San Jose area, there's Spindles and Flyers in the San Francisco Bay Area. There are there guilds that are more of a weaving orientation, but they also have spinners in them. There are guilds everywhere and they are big web presence.
Zontee: Great, well, thank you so much for talking out to us. [music]
Zontee: We're here at the TNNA booth at Maker Faire, with Frederica, who is one of the volunteers who taught yesterday. We just wanted to know what it's been like introducing people to the world of needle arts?
Frederica: It's a lot of fun. I did this last year too, and it's just great seeing the excitement in people's eyes. When they finally get the stitch or whatever…It's great.
Liz: Have you had a good mix of people, ages, boys and girls, men and women?
Frederica: From five years old up to probably seventy‑five.
Zontee: Wow.
Frederica: Mostly kids and women, but a fair amount of men yesterday, so it's been nice.
Zontee: That's great. Do you feel like it's fun to come up to these kinds of events where people are really interested in learning new skills and sharing that with them?
Frederica: Yes, I do. I'm a wholesaler, so I don't really get to interact with consumers very much. I don't teach on a regular basis, and so it's really fun for me.
Zontee: Great. Well, thanks so much for talking to us today.
Frederica: Thank you. [music]
Liz: We're here in the craft area of CRAFT Magazine with Brooklynne, one of their editors. Hi, Brooklynne.
Brooklynne: Hi, guys.
Liz: So, tell us what you guys have been doing over here.
Brooklynne: We have a lot of different things in one square area in the dead center of the hall. We have a quadrant with a stage, where we're running demos every half an hour with a million different kinds of projects from soft circuits, to knitting, to screen printing, to learning how to drop spin–spin with a drop spindle made from a recycled CD. Then around the corner we've got all of our craft projects laid out on a table where you can actually touch the things that you've been seeing on our website and pick up patterns. Then around the next corner we have a fiber free for all called the needle felting playground. We're letting people just create anything they want and learn to experience the alchemy of needle felting.
Then right next door to that, we've got one of our sponsor areas and there's Xyron. Xyron has set up their sticker making machines, and people are turning everything from computer chips, to recycled cereal boxes, to fancy lace into stickers.
Zontee: Wow, that's incredible.
Brooklynne: Yeah, it's a lot.
Zontee: So, you just came off of a demo, and was it of your new book, Feltique?
Brooklyn: I did a giveaway for Feltique, but I actually was demoing how to make stationery. My current obsession right now is gluing lace to things ‑ to everything ‑ to my clothes and to my stationery. So, I did some gift boxes to pretty them up for cheap.
Zontee: That's very fun. That's such a great idea. How are the crowds this year compared to past Maker Faires?
Brooklynne: There are a lot more people here than past years, but I think that as we grow we learn ways of keeping everyone creative and inspired without getting mobbed. It's just like everyone's so patient and so kind, and everyone wants to do the projects. People are really gracious about taking turns. Despite the fact that I think we've got even more people than last year, it's just a really good scene.
Zontee: That's great. Well, one of the things that's always fun about the craft area is that you have this lounge set up with your own furniture. Can you tell us a little bit about that?
Brooklynne: Yeah. I have an eight‑foot green velvet couch with buttons all set into it and a matching arm chair and a footstool. I bring them every year to the Maker Faire, because it is a major scene. There's so much going on and you have to be on. I need a spot to relax. So, I can work on my own sofa, and there's an Asian rug out, and it sets up this space where people can really feel comfortable. This is where we craft at home anyway. Everyone is on their sofa, so my sofa is a traveling couch.
Liz: Will you bring it all the way out to New York for the September Maker Faire?
Brooklynne: I think it's going to Detroit and New York.
Liz & Zontee: Wow.
Brooklynne: I know, I know. My parents bought it 25 years ago, and she's going to go out to pasture as part of the MAKE props this year. So, it will be in the shipping container, and everywhere that Maker Faire is, the couch will be there.
Zontee: That's fantastic. Well, we can't wait for those two events.
Brooklynne: I am so excited about being in Lion Brand hometown in New York.
Liz: Can't wait to see you there. Is there anywhere online where people could find out more about you and your Feltique book?
Brooklyn: Yeah, my book has a website, which is www.feltique.com and I am writing every week: I do a new project on Craftzine.com.
Zontee: That's great. So, thank you again so much for talking to us today.
Brooklyn: Oh, you're welcome. I'm glad to see you again. [music]
Liz: Summer time is upon us here in the New York City area in full 90 degree force, and that means summer vacations. So, on today's "Stash This" we are going to talk about some tips for traveling with your yarn crafting. This is something that we've talked about before, but we're going to reiterate the basics, and then give you some souped up suggestions so you can be a super traveling yarn-crafter.
Zontee: Definitely.
Liz: An idea I really like is to try and make yourself a complete kit for every project or type of project you want to take with you. That's really going to vary depending on how long your trip is, how you're traveling, and what you think you might want to work on while you're there.
Zontee: I agree, and I like the idea of any individual project having its own case, or carrying bag, or project bag, because I think that what that allows you to do is feel less like you have to search for things and everything is all in one place. So, what I would suggest is that you have your yarn in there, your needles or hooks that go with that pattern, and the pattern itself–preferably laminated.
Liz: Or in a plastic protector sheet.
Zontee: Yeah, exactly. Put it in some kind of protective sheet so that it stays clean. Here's a bonus tip for you, which is to have a second copy of that pattern if you are the kind of person who misplaces things, and keep it in a separate location so that in case you lose the first one, you've got the backup one, so you can keep going.
Liz: I do this all the time, because I have left a pattern book–not just a pattern–the entire book in the backseat pocket of the airplane seat, you know the pocket wear in the seat in front of you–yeah. That's was on the way to the trip, not on the way home. It was very sad.
Zontee: That is really sad.
Liz: So, ever since then, I've never taken a book with me. I always make a photocopy…you're allowed to make a photocopy for your own personal use, just for you. So, I make one to keep with the project and a second copy to keep in a separate piece of luggage.
Zontee: Yeah, and it's interesting, because that has always been a tip of identification. They always say that you should have an extra copy of your ID photocopied and put somewhere in a bag. I've done that for years, but I never really thought about the pattern thing until really recently, but it really makes sense because stuff does get lost.
Liz: Bonus, bonus tip, take a photocopy of the back of any credit cards that you're bringing with you on your trip, because if you lose them, you need to call that customer service number to have them canceled. If you don't have a card, you don't have that number.
Zontee: That's clever. That's a good idea.
Liz: I learned that tip from David, our CEO's wife, Barbara. She is a savvy traveler.
Zontee: Yeah, she is a great traveler.
Liz: I think the first step when you're getting ready for your trip is to take a minute and think about what projects you're going to work on in the different phases of your trip. Generally, most of the travel I do is for work, so my projects break out into one small but interesting project for the plane. Usually something sock related. One larger project for the hotel room, maybe a sweater or shawl in progress. Then one really, really, really simple project that I can do when I'm exhausted and requires no thought whatsoever. That's usually like a scarf.
Zontee: Yeah, I think that makes sense. I think that in some phases of your trip you'll want a challenge and some you won't. I like to have a really mindless project for when I travel for business. I'm often going to the consumer shows all over the country and meeting you lovely people. When I'm there, I like to knit or crochet in the booth, but it can't be something really complex, because I also need to talk to people, show people things, point stuff out to other people. So, I try to bring along something with a really simple stitch pattern that's repetitive that I can whiz through without staring too hard.
Liz: Think about what you'll be doing on your vacation. If you're going to be traveling in the car and you'll be the front‑seat passenger, you may want to consider taking a crochet project, because there are sometimes concerns with needles and air bags. If you're going to be on a plane, you'll definitely want to take a crochet project or something on short needles or circular needles so you're not elbowing your seat mates. You also want to check the airline regulations about needles if you're doing any sort of international travel.
Zontee: That's right. Within the U.S., if you look at TSA regulations, you'll see that knitting needles are perfectly acceptable, but because each country's regulations are different depending on where you're traveling to, you'll want to double check their regulations. I know that people have experienced some difficulties traveling to European countries like Italy, France, and England.
Liz: And Germany.
Zontee: Oh, and Germany.
Liz: The Germans have lots of my needles.
Zontee: Oh, well that's a shame.
Liz: Yes.
Zontee: Tell them to send them back to you.
Liz: Yes.
Zontee: I have heard a good tip that if you are worried about your needles getting confiscated, to have your project on waste yarn first, and have the needles separate. If they do say that you can't bring them onto the airplane because you're traveling internationally, to have a self‑addressed, stamped envelope with you. So that you can just pop your needles into that envelope and post it right from the airport. That way they go back to your house and you don't have to feel like they just confiscated your favorite needles.
Liz: Another tip is–definitely have your padded, self‑addressed and stamped envelope–but I've heard that if you have needles and you can kind of put them in a pen pouch with all your other pens and pencils, all your other things that are long and thin and maybe have a little metal in them, they tend not to raise the same flags they do if they're sticking out in all directions in a bag. Something worth checking out.
Zontee: [laughter] That's a good tip.
Liz: And related to this, I always make sure that for whatever when I'm bringing in my carry-on, I have a backup pair of that size and type of needle in my checked luggage. So if they do get confiscated, once I get to my destination I can still pick the project back up.
Zontee: That's also a good tip.
Liz: And I think that is all a good reason to maybe consider bringing a crochet project as your carry along. I don't think I've ever heard of a crochet hook being confiscated.
Zontee: I've not had problems either way. Of course try to pick a project that it's not so bulky that you have to shove it in to your bag uncomfortably, or that it takes so much room in your checked luggage that you can't bring home souvenirs. Try to pick things, maybe on finer yearn or something that folds up nice and neat.
Liz: Yes. And that's the classic projects: hats, socks, wrist warmers, cowls, small things. And then think about where you're going to end up. If you're going to the beach, you may not want to bring a sweater. But it's a great time to work on some washcloths, market bags, produce a lot of things that can go into your gift box for later in the year.
Zontee: That's a good idea.
Liz: But if you're going to that rustic Canadian cabin on a brisk lake that I think we're all envisioning right now, what a great time to work on beautiful sweater.
Zontee: So earlier we talked about having your yarn, your hooks and needles and your patterns in its own project bag for each project. The other essential tools that I think you'll really want to have with you in case you finish your project or you need to do any repairs or anything like that are a darning needle, or tapestry needle, however you want to call it, scissors or a yarn cutter…some people prefer the yarn cutters because they can wear them as a pendant on the airplane and then they won't be confiscated.
Liz: I've heard that sometimes they still can be confiscated, though, they're definitely not airline safe. So don't count on that for sure.
Zontee: A measuring tape is always a good thing to have with you, because lots of patterns tell you "knit or crochet until you have this many inches." If you don't have a tape you won't know you have gotten to that many inches will you? And for knitters, I would suggest bringing a crochet hook for any dropped stitches or any repairs that you need to do. I think that that's really important.
Liz: I think it's also helpful to read ahead in your pattern, and double‑check that at no point do you need to use a different size hook or needle, for an edging or for a ribbing. Check and see if you're going to need a certain type of stitch marker or a quantity of waste yarn or a cable needle. Any of those little extras that make crafting so much more convenient.
Zontee: I definitely always carry stitch markers in my central tools because I find that, for instance, with a crochet project I use one of the ones that opens to hold my place. So that I can take the crochet hook out, so that it's not just dangling off of my project. I don't have to worry about my stitches unraveling.
Liz: So I recommend putting everything that relates to a certain project into its own bag, and that includes if you know you're going to need a cable needle or a certain type of stitch marker, such as for a crochet project versus a more general open‑ring stitch marker. But all those really general things, like scissors and tape measure and a needle hook gauge, those sorts of general things, I recommend having in one individual pouch. Because there's no need to bring duplicates.
Zontee: Yes, exactly. Those could go in a pencil pouch lot or whatever.
Liz: And I like to get a little creative with what I consider my essentials. In addition to the basic stitch markers, tape measure, crochet hook, I also like to throw in Band‑Aids, in case I get any small cuts, paper cuts, on my fingers, I don't want that to stop my crafting.
Zontee: Good tip.
Liz: Hand lotion, pen and pencil, to make notes on my pattern, little Post‑it notes, again, notes on the pattern, or mark a place on the pattern and lip balm. Because I have learned that I get really distracted from my crafting if I have chapped lips and I don't know why but it works for me. I need the Chapstick.
Zontee: It's good to know what you need to male your crafting comfortable.
Liz: Exactly.
Zontee: And I'll tell you that I learned the hard way that if you don't read ahead, you're not necessarily going to have all the tools with you and then you're going to feel frustrated. Because one time I had to use a plastic spoon as my cable needle. And you know, just use the handle part of it to hold my stitches? It actually worked out OK. But it was really odd because people would walk by and be like, "Why is there a spoon in your scarf?"
Liz: Oh, a Nintendo DS stylus makes an excellent replacement for a cable needle on finer gauge yarns if that need should happen. Not that I have had to steal a grown man's, not a child's, a grown man's DS stylus to find this out. [laughter] Another fun tip is that I find that vacations and travel is a great time to teach people knitting and crochet. You're crafting in public more often than in your daily life and you're around other people who have the leisure time to say "Oh hey, that looks like fun. I'd really like to try that."
But you've made these organized project kits for yourself hat are all very tailored to things you'd like to make. Maybe you don't want to totally break one of those up to get out some yarn and needles to teach someone. Why not bring along an extra ball or two of yarn from your stash and an inexpensive pair of needles or hooks so if someone does express interest, you can teach them to get them started and let them keep the yarn and the hook to keep practicing?
Zontee: That's a great idea. Finally, now that we've talked about how you can make your yarn crafting experience neater and more efficient for travel, let's talk a little bit about how you can do the same thing for your children. I think that having an all‑in‑one craft project for your child to make on vacation, can be a good distraction on the airplane when they're feeling bored. Or if they're not sleepy and you are and you'd like them to do something else. Or honestly even if you're just going to the family cabin or beach house and you want them to have something else to do other than be outside. For those occasional rainy days, it's good to have a craft project prepared.
And like I said, my tip of that is with kids it's best to have an all‑in‑one project where again, all of your tools are packed, or for smaller kids, you've pre‑cut everything and all you really need to save is the glue or the components or very few things to bring with you.
Liz: Absolutely, and this again is where reading through the pattern thoroughly is going to save you frustration down the road. And look for small, travel‑friendly things, look short, baby scissors, maybe a glue stick rather than loose bottled glue.
Zontee: That's a really good tip. I also think that if you're doing yarn projects where you're using multiple colors, instead of bringing the entire ball, reel some off onto its own bobbin so that you've got just small balls. Or you can use anything else to put it on and make your own little balls and pack those instead of bringing entire large, 100 gram balls of yarn with you. That's just not necessary.
Liz: Exactly. And it is fun for kids to have lots of colors to choose from. And so they'll appreciate that you've made that effort for them I am sure.
Zontee: Definitely. And if you're packing for multiple kids, the other thing I think is good is to actually make the packaging itself fun. Turn it into a project where they recycle a coffee can and decorate the outside and then the inside is all of their craft tools and all of their craft essentials, so that when they bring it with them, it's Billy's craft kit and he feels good about it because it's his special thing.
Liz: As long as you have the basics, yarn, safety scissors, glue, you can use items that you find at your location to craft on. When we were at the Maker Faire we were using paper plates, paper cups, Styrofoam balls and kids were making unbelievably creative craft projects with them. So really you only need the very basic requirements to have a whole lot of fun.
Zontee: Absolutely.
Liz: And one last thing I would suggest is maybe some hand‑wipes in the craft kit for the gluing.
Zontee: Finally, if you are taking a really last‑minute trip and you still want to have craft project with your kid but you're not able to have the time to assemble all of these different components yourself definitely check out our Amigurumi kits. They're called the Amigurumi Friends. They are all‑in‑one stitch-and-stuff kits that make small stuffed animals, stuffed animal shaped purses for your kids, or even pillows that the can take to bed with them. And they're really cute and they're in fun colors and they're available in select craft stores and chains around the country as well as on our website. Again they're called Amigurumi Friends.
Liz: We hope you guys are all excited about all the potential that summer crafting entails, and we'd love to hear all about your yarn crafting adventures. Please give us a call or leave us a comment on our blog. [music]
Zontee: We want to thank all of you for joining us today, and we want to thank those who spoke with us at Maker Faire. Please be sure to visit the blog for our episode guide and links to the various websites. And of course we want to thank those who have shared tips, questions, and comments on our blog by emailing us, or on our Ravelry group.
Liz: Join us again in two weeks when we share ideas and tips about starting your own yarn crafting group in your area, or just promoting the one that you belong to so that you can get more members. Just like we asked in last episode, we want to know, do you belong to a yarn crafting group of some sort? Tell us about your experiences, what you've learned, made together, and even why you enjoy yarn crafting with others. Leave a comment on our website, YarnCraft.LionBrand.com on Ravelry, or by voicemail it 774‑ 452‑YARN, that's 774‑452‑9276.
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Sooners' return to glory derailed by gut-wrenching game in Oregon
EUGENE, Ore. — They will talk forever in these hills about this game, this instant classic, this controversial, hard-to-believe, wild-west-show of a ballgame won by Oregon 34-33 in a score that doesn't do the drama justice. Maybe they will say this was the birth of some mysterious, unexplainable force. Maybe they even will christen it Duck Magic. Hundreds of thousands of Oregonians, even those who walked out of Autzen Stadium with five minutes to go, will say they saw it and stormed the field and danced with glee hard by the Willamette River. Left to be written is how the Sooners will look on Oregon 2006. An Oklahoma football program staggered over the last 20 months was poised to return to elite status. Poised to announce its return to national-contender status. Poised to roar again. Then the Sooners collapsed. Collapsed in a way never before seen in crimson. Collapsed so dramatically, you wonder if it might just hasten the Sooner tailspin. Said OU linebacker Zach Latimer, "Hurts really bad." Said tight end Joe Jon Finley, "Hurts more than anything in the world." Even Bob Stoops, who generally goes light on the descriptive, called the verdict, "frustrating, maddening, whatever you want to say." Here's why it was maddening. Since January 2005, the Sooners suffered an embarrassing blowout at the hands of USC, a mediocre season in '05 and the Rhett Bomar summer scandal. Yet late on this pristine Oregon afternoon, Oklahoma looked primed to rejoin the big boys. The Sooners, who seemed in danger of being routed when Oregon took a 10-0 lead and ignited its thunderous crowd, instead seemed ready to roll itself. Adrian Peterson ran possessed and receivers made circus catches and OU scored 33 points in a 44-minute span. A gaping OU defense finally found itself, giving up just 10 points over a 51-minute span. Frankly, considering all factors, including the environment that was everything it was cracked up to be, this was going to be one of the three or four most impressive victories of the Stoops era. Let's see. Florida State. Maybe Kansas State 2000. The Texas mercy killings. Then disaster struck. Defense let down. Replay calls went against the Sooners. Oregon blocked Garrett Hartley's last-play field-goal try. Can the Sooners recover? They say yes, but what else can they say? The 1981 Sooners, ranked No. 2 nationally, suffered an anguishing defeat at Southern Cal and tailspun into a three-season slump. This is the kind of game that leaves doubts. Like, why is this defense so bad? The Sooners keep changing personnel, but they keep getting beat deep. Can't blame this one on D.J. Wolfe. Like, will the replay officials ever give the Sooners a break? This was no Lubbock train robbery, but two reviews that in the final 66 seconds could have gone either way went to the Ducks. Like, can the Sooners punch it in enough, after three field goals came following first-and-goals from the Oregon 2-, 3- and 7-yard lines? This was a game in Sooner control and it became a Sooner defeat. So what has been happening since that January night in Miami — festering doubt, waning swagger — only worsens. That's Stoops' mission. Remove the doubt, return the swagger. Don't let Duck Magic ruin this Sooner season. Easier said than done. Stoops admitted this loss hurts about as bad as any he's had, but he also repeatedly praised his troops. Truth is, OU did play well. Did show promise. Did look capable of licking every foe left on the schedule. "There's a lot of it that's good," Stoops said. "This is a heck of an environment to compete in."
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Gone in 26 secondsOU's lead is 33-20 and superfan Toby Keith is in full celebration mode with less than two minutes left. Here's how that lead disappeared in 26 seconds, with the aid of some blown assignments and two huge instant-replay calls.
Blown assignmentsFirst, Dennis Dixon steps up in the pocket and converts a third-and-14, finding Jaison Williams all alone at the OU 16. Then Dixon scrambles untouched into the end zone. The PAT kick pulls the Ducks within 33-27 with 1:12 left.
Blown call?Did Oregon recover the ensuing onside kick? A TV replay shows OU's Allen Patrick falling on it and walking away from the pile after it squirts through the hands of Oregon's Patrick Chung and the legs of OU's Juaquin Iglesias. That aspect was not reviewed.
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Hero MotoCorps labour troubles have spread to multiple fronts, with both Gurgaon and Haridwar plants now embroiled in disputes. While protests by workers in Haridwar over the suspension of 16 of their colleagues continued into the 11th day on Monday, the Gurgaon union too has threatened a strike over the suspension of nine of its office bearers over the weekend, if the company does not take them back.
Discussions between the management, workers and district labour department officials at Haridwar are now scheduled for Tuesday morning. Meanwhile, a meeting with the deputy labour commissioner Gurgaon on Monday did not result in any compromise.
While multiple sources close to the development told FE that daily production at the Hero MotoCorp Haridwar plant continues to be lower than capacity by about 50-60%, company officials claimed that output at the plant was normal.
The Haridwar plant is Hero MotoCorp's largest, which at full capacity, makes about 9,000 units a day of popular bike models like the Splendor and Passion. Production at the Gurgaon plant, which makes about 6,000 units a day, was uninterrupted on Monday.
The company is unwilling to discuss reinstatement of these 16 workers. But we are hoping for a resolution when the management meets local labour authorities on Tuesday. At present, most workers are protesting and are yet to resume work; so, the company is making about 1,500 bikes a day with the few workers who are in inside, a protesting worker at the Haridwar facility said.
A Hero MotoCorp union member added: Nine of us have been suspended because we protested after the company did not increase our wages by 20% in the first year as promised under the wage agreement signed in April. We will go on strike if the matter is not resolved soon, but are hoping for a conciliation.
Responding to emailed queries, a Hero MotoCorp spokesperson said: At the time of entering into an agreement for wage enhancement, union representatives at our Gurgaon plant had promised to ensure that all workmen put in honest work. However, some workmen have continuously refused to fulfill their side of the commitment. A conciliation meeting was held last week. However, some misguided elements in the union body took law into their hands and assaulted supervisors in the shop floor of our Gurgaon plant in full view of everyone on Friday. In view of this gross act of indiscipline inside the plant, the management remains determined to deal with the incident swiftly, fairly and firmly. Accordingly, involved workmen will be dealt with within the norms of the certified standing order.
The continuing Hero MotoCorp labour problems are unfortunate for the company given the festive season has begun; any loss of production will constrain it from building up inventory. Between April-July this year, Heros volumes are down 3% at 20 lakh units. In fact, the current spate of labour problems come just four months after the company settled a dispute with its Gurgaon plant union over a new wage deal.
Hero MotoCorp shares at the BSE were down 0.66% at Rs 1,290.25 on Friday.


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I have a 7 week old son and has a really bad runny nose and little cough what can i do to help him?
he is 7 weeks will be two months wednesday has a runny nose coughs a little bit and u can here it n his chest what can i do to help him i hate seeing him like this i feel helpless... I tried calling him ped. but the told me to call back tomorrow to see if there was a sick day appointment... Please can yall give me advise.. Ps. he does not have a fever
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I had the same problem. I use a humidifer at night one that puts warm moisture in the air. In the morning when she wakes up I use the baby saline, and I am able to suck out alot of the snot. Hope this helps!posted 02/27/2010 by BrigitReneeFrancis
exactly what everyone else said but you can give you lo some infant tylonoel. it will help relieve some of the aches and pains that come with being sick. it really helped my lo when he came down with a cold at 2 weeks old.posted 02/27/2010 by mama lex23
Last week my little one who was 6 wks at the time had the same symptoms, I took her to her DR. The DR advised me that at that age medication is not recommended however because she had mucus that was affecting her breathing I was prescribed Albuterol. The DR also suggested that I seat in the bathroom with a hot shower running and use a bulb to take out the mucus from her nose. The DR also recommended " little noses saline". Best bet take your little one in.posted 02/25/2010 by diaz_baby
they aren't going to give him anything and tell you to let it run it's cycle, make sure everything he touches gets cleaned daliy so he doesn't keep catching the virus, they no longer make cold medicine for infants, you can use saline and a bulb to clear his nose, but that about it just time, lots of rest and fluids, good luckposted 02/24/2010 by a BabyCenter Member
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New Caledonia Official Acquitted Of Corruption Charges
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (Radio New Zealand International, Dec. 4, 2012) – The appeal court in New Caledonia has acquitted a former president, Philippe Gomes, who in May was given a corruption-related suspended five-month prison sentence.
Mr. Gomes, who is now a member of the French National Assembly, was also fined US$22,000 for the way he arranged a US$1.3 million contract for his own company seven years ago when he was the president of the southern province.
His lawyer says the ruling has confirmed that the charges were baseless.
When he was convicted he vowed to challenge the ruling as a matter of honor and questioned how his conviction had come about.
He said for six years, two investigative judges questioned dozens of people linked to the business deal and concluded that there was no evidence of a crime.
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