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An Egyptian photographer may have captured his killer on film as he was shot dead during a protest that was attacked by government soldiers this week.
Ahmed Samir Assem, 26, was one of 51 people killed when soldiers began shooting into the pro-Muslim Brotherhood crowd gathered outside the Republican Guard building in Cairo on Monday.
Grainy footage reported to be taken from Assem's camera shows a soldier perched on a rooftop calmly aiming and firing into the crowd, ducking for cover between shots.
The soldier then aims towards the camera and fires. The footage goes black.
Friends and relatives of Assem, who worked for Egypt's Al-Horia Wa Al-Adala newspaper, told Britain's Telegraph that Assem captured his own death.
"At around 6am, a man came into the media centre with a camera covered in blood and told us that one of our colleagues had been injured," Ahmed Abu Zeid, culture editor at Al-Horia Wa Al-Adala, told the Telegraph.
"Around an hour later, I received news that Ahmed had been shot by a sniper in the forehead while filming or taking pictures on top of the buildings around the incident.
"Ahmed's camera was the only one which filmed the entire incident from the first moment."
The footage will be used as evidence of 'violations', the editor said.
The military has claimed the attack were in retaliation after a 'terrorist group' attempted to storm the building, according to the Daily Mail.
But Muslim Brotherhood members say the shootings were unprovoked.
Egyptian authorities escalated their crackdown Wednesday on the Muslim Brotherhood by ordering the arrest of its spiritual leader, while the group remained steadfast in its defiance of the new military-backed administration and refused offers to join an interim government.
Even as the new prime minister began reaching out to form a Cabinet and restore a measure of stability, the military-backed leadership has come under fierce criticism from those who supported its toppling of President Mohammed Morsi last week. Several groups in the loose coalition participating in the political process have sharply criticized the transitional plan, saying that sidelines them in the transition.
After a week of violence and mass demonstrations, Egyptians were hoping that the start of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan on Wednesday will significantly calm the turmoil in the streets. The sunrise-to-sunset fast cuts down on activity during the day, but the daily protests have been largely nocturnal affairs, and some observers expect the Islamist camp will likely use it to rally its base.
The prosecutor's arrest warrant issued Wednesday for the Brotherhood's supreme guide, Mohammed Badie, as well as nine other leading Islamists will almost certainly stoke anger among the group's supporters and fellow Islamists. The men are suspected of instigating the violence on Monday outside the Republican Guard building.
The killings further entrenched the battle lines between supporters and opponents of Morsi, and the ousted leader's Brotherhood backers called for an uprising, accusing troops of gunning down protesters. The military blamed armed Islamists for provoking its forces.
Still, the warrants highlight the military's zero-tolerance policy toward the Brotherhood and other Islamists, who continue to hold daily mass protests and sit-ins demanding reinstating Morsi and rejecting what they describe as a military coup. The military already has jailed five of Brotherhood leaders, including Badie's powerful deputy Khairat el-Shaiter, and shut down their media outlets. Morsi himself remains in custody in an undisclosed location.
In the face of Islamist opposition, the military-backed interim president, Adly Mansour, issued a fast-track timetable on Monday for the transition. His declaration set out a 7-month timetable for elections but also a truncated, temporary constitution laying out the division of powers in the meantime.
The accelerated process was meant, in part, to send reassurances to the U.S. and other Western allies that the country is on a path toward democratically-based leadership.
But it has faced opposition from the very groups that led the four days of mass protests that prompted the military to step in last Wednesday.
The top liberal political grouping, the National Salvation Front, expressed reservations over the plan late Tuesday, saying it was not consulted — "in violation of previous promises" — and that the declaration "lacks significant clauses while others need change or removal." It did not elaborate but said it had presented Mansour with changes it seeks.
The secular, revolutionary youth movement Tamarod that organized last week's protests, also criticized the plan, in part because it gives too much power to Mansour, including the power to issue laws. A post-Morsi plan put forward by Tamarod called for a largely ceremonial interim president with most power in the hands of the prime minister.
At the heart of liberals' objections is that they wanted to write a new constitution, not amend the one written under Morsi by an Islamist-dominated panel. That constitution contained several articles that drew fierce criticism from liberal quarters, and helped sparked street protests and violence in 2012. Other objections centered on superpowers of the interim president.
However, the only Islamist party that backed military's ouster of Morsi after millions took to the streets on June 30 demanding him to leave, has been vetoing rewriting the constitution.
Meanwhile, new Prime Minister Hazem el-Beblawi, who was appointed by the interim president on Tuesday, is holding consultations on a Cabinet that will face the difficult task of guiding the deeply divided country through what promises to be a rocky transition period. In what is seen as an attempt at reconciliation, el-Beblawi has said he will offer the Brotherhood, which helped propel Morsi to the presidency, posts in his transitional government.
A Brotherhood spokesman said the group will not take part in an interim Cabinet, and that talk of national reconciliation under the current circumstances is "irrelevant." He spoke on condition of anonymity because of concerns for his security.
The rejection laid bare the monumental task the interim leadership faces in trying stabilize the country and bridge the deep fissures splitting the country. The nascent government also will soon face demands that it tackle economic woes that mounted under Morsi, including fuel shortages, electricity cutoffs and inflation.
Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates provided a welcome boost for the new leadership on Tuesday. The two countries, both opponents of Morsi's Brotherhood, celebrated his ouster by showering the cash-strapped Egyptian government with promises of $8 billion in grants, loans and badly needed gas and oil.
In doing so, they are effectively stepping in for Morsi's Gulf patron, Qatar, a close ally of the Brotherhood that gave his government several billion in aid. During Morsi's year in office, he and his officials toured multiple countries seeking cash to prop up rapidly draining foreign currency reserves and plug mounting deficits — at times getting a cold shoulder.


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That's the role of the government
keeping track of what you spend now,
it's our land of freedom and democracy,
with the budget gone and spent,
seperation imminent and we're expected
happily to fall in line and so we fallow the leader
and what he does know why i'm doing it
just because i'm of thinking for myself.
Oh ya and I hope to God i don't stir the pot keep my brain from
original thought oh lemmings are cool
lemmings are fun not too distinct and
I wanna be one right now.
Front of her was a long white line should she go
or should she try to listen to her friends
when she wasn't sure no opinion of her own
soon enough you were alone
cause it's hard to find a friend when you're on a ledge
well i'll make my decision for myself
without listening to anyone else oh lemmings are fucked,
lemmings are dumb, and I wanna be one right now.


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Go to Taghazoute village, just north of Agadir, the spot breaks right out front of Panorama's restaurant.
DistanceTake a car
WalkInstant access (< 5min)
Easy to find?Easy to find
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Wave qualityRegional Classic
ExperienceAll surfers
FrequencySometimes break
BottomSandy with rock
Normal lengthNormal (50 to 150m)
Good day length
Good swell direction
Good wind direction
Swell sizeStarts working at Less than 1m / 3ft and holds up to 3m+ / 10ft+
Best tide positionLow and mid tide
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Week crowdFew surfers
Week-end crowdCrowded
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Park in the village, walk straight to the water, hash point is at the North end of the village, Panorama's is at the South. Usually best on a swell with a bit of North in it, tends to become super fast and unmakable if the swell is more Westerly.
Surfing Taghazoute there are plenty of spots along the coast and on the right days they can all work as well as/better than Anchor point. At Panorama's on the right day you can get long, easy rides with some good fast sections, then afterwards, pop into the restaurant for a Tajine Poulet to satisfy the hunger.
A good spot, very convenient to get to but not quite as consistent as its big brother Anchor point. Can be less crowded and provide some superb long rides.
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By Anonymous , 10-11-2011
nickel - je l'ai surfer ces dernières vacances à Agadir.
accès hyper simple par le bus 32
très bonne session dans du 1m50 .
point noir, la plage est très sale, mais les locaux sont très sympa.
By Gerrie Warner , 22-12-2007
Latest Info - I sold my NORD Fish to the shop right below La Spot restaurant. So if you need a good board you might want to check it out. Don't pay more than 300 euros for it though - the guy will start out at the double!!
By kahina-boardrider , 15-03-2005
long rides - At March 12th 2005 Panoramas was working 250meters and more...With west/nord-west swell.Perfect wave !
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To this situation, I found a simple answer for this weekend; it is called the "Pioneer Descendants Gathering," hosted by Dale & Betty Thomas. Simply put, this is one of the best kept secrets of the Ozarks. This couple has provided this venue, free of charge, for the past ten years on their farm on Bryant Creek. That's right; exhibitors and participants have been coming here the first weekend in October, at no charge, for the last 10 years because of Dale & Betty's love of what they treasure from our Ozark's past. This gatherings not thrown together haphazardly. All exhibits, demonstrations, and animals must be approved by the Dale & Betty; everything has a purpose in teaching & retaining past Ozark customs & traditions. This event is also promoted by many of the descendants of Tom Brown and John Burden.
On my trip from Arkansas, I drove down one of the many scenic highways in Ozark & Douglas Counties. One such highway is 95. This road snakes through a beautiful hardwood & pine forest, passing nearby old Rockbridge, Missouri. Then, I took Highway 14 and headed west after I made it to Gentryville. There is no way to arrive at the Pioneer Descendants Gathering there by accident; it must be found on purpose. In looking back at its' placement in the wilderness, I believe this is just one element in keeping the genuine uniqueness of this event.
Double Click on Pictures to Enlarge.
|Highway 95.
If one is traveling from Ava, Missouri, it is 18 miles East on Hwy. 14 to County Road 341, and then follow the signs. If traveling from Mountain Grove, Missouri, take Hwy. 95 South to Gentryville, Missouri, turn right on Hwy 14, drive West 4 miles to County Road 341, and follow the signs to the "Edge of the World."
At the beginning of County Road 34, there are 2 signs:"Pioneer Descendants Gathering" &"Yates Cemetery 3.7 Miles."
|County Road 341.
The Hill Before the Great Descent.
|"Check Brakes…End of the World."
Near the bottom of the hill is the Yates Cemetery before passing by Dale & Betty's House. After arriving at the bottom of the world and parking, everybody has a chance to contribute in helping Dale & Betty to continue this annual event. There is no pressure in compelling people to give. But after seeing & meeting people and connecting with our past, why wouldn't someone give to an endeavor like this?
I have been to town square celebrations and amusement parks that had portions of this venue, but there is no comparison to what can be experienced at this event. Additionally, these re-enactors have connections to the Ozarks which fall into the following categories: American Indian, Mountain Men, Territorial, Civil War, Ozark Pioneer, Spanish American War, and World War I. Before anyone asks why Spanish American War and World War I re-enactors are at the Pioneer Descendants Gathering, we had young men from the Ozarks who fought and died in these wars. I have a total of 3 great uncles & 4 great, great uncles, respectively, who lived through these wars and came back to the Ozarks. It is all these eras and events that make the tapestry of the Ozarks.
|Re-enactors and vendors camp overnight modeling their respective time era with their accoutrements in tow.
|Ozark Cooking.
A Partial View of One Side of the Camp.
As I walked into the encampment, I was greeted by Betty Thomas selling raffle tickets for a quilt. She was stationed at the entrance and greeted everybody with genuineness, care, and hospitality. After speaking with her, I came across a young girl with her goat in harness pulling a split oak rail.
|Girl & Goat in Tow.
Though I will only cover a few Ozark Craftsmen, it will only be a portion due to the concentration of these men & women in one place. So remember, there are many more at the gathering than space will allow me to mention.
|Old Engines & Tractors.
|Old Engine Used To Cut Ozark Red Cedar.
|Pumping Water.
|Pumping Water.
|Ozark Wagon Rides.
|Gathering Under the Pavilion to Hear Local Bands.
Wheel Wright & Wagon Maker
Dale Thomas is an Ozark craftsman is every sense of the word. Dale is an accomplished Wheel Wright and can build the complete wagon of our former Ozark pioneers. Dale also has two men that work with him as Apprentice Wheel Wrights, Ed Miller in his 3rd year and Charles Witter in his 2nd year.
The Wagon Maker
Bryant Creek Wagon Works
Rebuilt By
Dale Thomas
Rt. 5 Ava
Ozark Relic Comes to Life.
The work, time, and expertise that goes into producing each wheel is amazing. Each wheel takes about the total of 80 hours. The wood for each spoke must be cured for 4 years. It takes anywhere from 45 minutes to carve one spoke; there's 14 spokes to a wheel. If a spoke happens to have a knot or crack, it must be discarded, and a new one must be made to replace it. The steel rims are cut from ¼ inch steel, roll/crimped into shape, and ends are connected.
|Apprentice Wheel Wright, Ed Miller, shows the device use to bend 1/4 inch steel into a wheel rim.
|Wheel Wright Shop.
|The rim it is heated in a fire pit for at least 3 hours in order for it to expand.
|The Team of 3 Work Together.
|The rim is then pulled out of the coals and quickly brushed/cleaned off.
|The hot rim is place rapidly placed on the wooden wheel.
|Snapping the Rim into Place.
|Pitchers of cold water are poured over the rim, causing the hot steel to cool & contract around the wooden rim.
|Finished Product...1 Wheel = 80 Hours.
Soap & Shingles
Terry & Cathy Wyatt from Eminence, Missouri, were also a popular exhibitors & re-enactors. Cathy makes homemade lye soap, cooked in an old kettle. She warmly welcomes every passerby and walks through the process of making soap. She also sells her soap for a nominal fee, but the history lesson in 3 minutes is far more priceless.
|Cathy Cooking Lye Soap.
Terry splits red oak wood into familiar shingles that once was a mainstay & adorned the roofs of every log cabin in the Ozarks for years.
|Finished Product.
Ozark Rock Candy
This candy was use for diluting the harsh taste when hard cider or whiskey was use for "Medicinal Purposes." The candy was dropped into the glass, and sizzled in order for the sugar & flavoring to do its' magic. The term came to be known as "Rock & Whiskey."
My favorite flavor…cherry. A bag of homemade rock candy was only $1.00. I should've bought more. Most of it was gone by 1:00 pm.
My favorite flavor…cherry. A bag of homemade rock candy was only $1.00. I should've bought more. Most of it was gone by 1:00 pm.
|Bag of Rock Candy…$1.00.
Stilling Molasses
Tony& Linda Stillings, with their grandson Caleb, are a family that puts to practice of passing on their tradition of pressing & cooking molasses to the 4th generation. They usually plant from ½ to an acre of cane each season. Tony& Linda also have a gathering at their farm to make molasses on the 3rd Saturday every September.
|Molasses Exhibit.
|Cooking & Skimming the Molasses.
While there, their grandson, Caleb Stillings, was also demonstrating grinding corn for chicken feed, grits, and corn meal. While watching him, I was reminiscing about the time, as a child, grinding corn in the same manner. Granny Anderson would fill her apron and I to would fill my shirt with cracked corn; then we would call & feed the chickens.
Broom Making
The Andersland Family from Nottinghill, in Ozark County, Missouri, makes handcrafted brooms the old fashion way. Deb and her daughter, Emily, apprenticed at the Ozark Folk Center in Mountain View, Arkansas, and are accomplished in their art. Their website can be found at www.nottinghillcraftworks.
|Making Brooms.
Old Weapons / Spinning Cotton & Wool
Butch & Dawn Stone are a couple that shows their heart for Ozark Customs. Butch is a well-known Ozark trapper, bowyer, and hunter. He is known for making beautiful, handmade primitive bows and knapped arrows, flintlock, and percussion guns. He is a craftsman of turkey calls and primitive archery equipment.
Dawn has an excellent reputation for dying wool and is the shepherdess. Working with the wool includes: shearing, washing, carding or combing, spinning, knitting, felting or weaving. Depending upon the project, the wool is sometimes dyed, usually with natural or vegetal dyes. Being a botany major in college, Dawn prefers to collect and use plant materials from the local area. Osage orange wood shavings from Butch's bow making also yields an excellent dye.
Dawn Spinning Cotton. Cotton Plant in the Foreground.
Ozark Delights
P. O. Box 154
Ava, MO 65608
(417) 683-2060
Some of My Souvenirs: Soap $1.00 & Beeswax Candles $1.25 Each.
In looking back over the day, I had not only learned about my family's customs & traditions, I experienced them once again. It drew my heart in admiration and respect for these who came and pioneered this rugged wilderness; they made it their home. They didn't endure it only for themselves, but for future generations. I believe this is one of the unique qualities of the people who live in these Ozark hills.
I ask you, Dear Reader. Do you know where you've come from. Do you know where home is at? Even of it seems you too are in a rugged wilderness, I believe we all have a longing for a sense for home. In meeting many of these people for the first time, there was a sense of belonging…a sense of an Ozark hospitality & home. If you too would like to experience this for yourself, I invite you to make your plans for next year, the 1st weekend in October, to the 11th Annual Pioneer Descendants Gathering. Together, we can make it a part of our ongoing Ozarks' History.
I ask you, Dear Reader. Do you know where you've come from. Do you know where home is at? Even of it seems you too are in a rugged wilderness, I believe we all have a longing for a sense for home. In meeting many of these people for the first time, there was a sense of belonging…a sense of an Ozark hospitality & home. If you too would like to experience this for yourself, I invite you to make your plans for next year, the 1st weekend in October, to the 11th Annual Pioneer Descendants Gathering. Together, we can make it a part of our ongoing Ozarks' History.
Thanks Dale & Betty Thomas.
The 2014 Gathering Info.
The 2014 Gathering Info.


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Preemptive Closing
Whatever you do Friday, do not: Take a hot bath to de-stress; get stuck in a glass elevator; decide to have a marathon baking session in your studio apartment for an upcoming 4th of July picnic.
Do not do these things, or anything else taxing, because it's forecast to reach 100 degrees Friday, according to the National Weather Service.
In fact the weather service is calling the sizzling heat an "extreme heatwave."
That would be silly, silly we say, just plain silly. Or just pointing out another lie.
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"The man who never looked into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them, inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with half-truths and errors." - Thomas Jefferson (American Founding Father & President)
"One tames a people as one tames lions; by masturbation." - The brothers Goncourt (19th c. French historians and art critics)
"Our job is to give people not what they want, but what we think they ought to have." - Richard Salant (former president of CBS News)
"We are grateful to the Washington Post, the New York Times, Time magazine, and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost forty years. ... It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for world government if we had been subject to the bright lights of publicity during these years ..." - CFR and Trilateral Commission honcho, David Rockefeller, speaking at a Bilderberg meeting in Germany, 5 June 1991
Media Whores & Quislings Update (1 - 2003)
Understanding the News
by Dennis Behreandt
In a free society, the news media performs a useful and essential function. As no individual can examine all events firsthand, the media plays the role of surrogate, transmitting the knowledge of those events to all citizens so they can make informed decisions. This is the function to which Jack Fuller, president of the Tribune Publishing Company, referred in responding to a survey on the media in 1997. "The central purpose of journalism," stated Fuller, "is to tell the truth so that people will have the information that they need to be sovereign."
When news organizations do not tell the truth, they can change perceptions, sometimes in dangerous ways. In his study of Nazi Germany, liberal historian William L. Shirer described the effect of the Nazi controlled press, not only on the thinking of the German people, but on his own thinking:
I myself was to experience how easily one is taken in by a lying and censored
press and radio in a totalitarian state. Though unlike most Germans I had
daily access to foreign newspapers, especially those of London, Paris, and
Zurich ... my job necessitated the spending of many hours a day in combing
the German press. ... It was surprising and sometimes consternating to find
that notwithstanding the opportunities I had to learn the facts and despite one's
inherent distrust of what one learned from Nazi sources, a steady diet over years
of falsifications and distortions made a certain impression on one's mind and
often misled it. ... Often in a German home or office or sometimes in a casual
conversation with a stranger ... I would meet with the most outlandish assertions
from seemingly intelligent persons. It was obvious that they were parroting some
piece of nonsense they had heard on the radio or read in the newspapers. Some-
times one was tempted to say as much, but on such occasions one was met with
such a state of incredulity, such a shock of silence, as if one had blasphemed the
Almighty, that one realizes how useless it was even to try to make contact with a
mind which had become warped and for whom the facts of life had become what
Hitler and Goebbels, with their cynical disregard for the truth, said they were.
The United States is not Nazi Germany. The press is not [yet] a department of the government. Yet the press is not what it once was. As authors Bill Kovach and Tom Rosenstiel write in their recent book, The Elements of Journalism, "The real meaning of the First Amendment -- that a free press is an independent institution -- is threatened for the first time in our history even without government meddling."
The CFR Imprint on the News
One if the most important journalists in the last century was Walter Lippmann. Born in 1899, Lippmann received the best education money, and America, could provide: private schools and then Harvard. By 1917, he had found his way into the Wilson administration. He had already been a member of the semi-secret American Round Table group which, according to the late Georgetown University historian Carroll Quigley, The Rhodes Trust had financed. In Quigley's words, the several Round Table groups, including the one in America, were "to seek to federate the English-speaking world along lines laid down by Cecil Rhodes (1853 - 1902) and William T. Stead (1849 - 1912)." With his impeccable socialist and internationalist credentials well established, Lippmann was appointed to lead the effort to draft Wilson's 14 Points and, according to Quigley, became official interpreter of those points to the British government. Lippmann later became a founding member of the Council on Foreign Relations [CFR]. ..
As early as 1922, in his book Public Opinion, Lippmann asserted that "News and the truth are not the same thing. ..." The point of the news, according to Lippmann, is to point out certain facts, or bring to the public attention some event. In this view, news reporting is highly selective. And, because the news media has been nearly completely shot through by those who, like Lippmann, favor a left-wing, internationalist policy, the news is often selected and reported so that those positions are supported and contrary positions undermined.
Lippmann himself pointed to such selective and contrived reporting as indispensable in swaying public opinion to support Allied war aims in both World Wars. In his 1955 book, The Public Philosophy, he wrote:
When the world wars came, the people of the liberal democracies could not be
aroused to the exertions and the sacrifices of the struggle until they had been
frightened by the opening disasters, had been incited to passionate hatred, and
had become intoxicated with unlimited hope. To overcome this inertia, the enemy
had to be portrayed as evil incarnate, as absolute and congenital wickedness. The
people wanted to be told that. ...[t]his crusade would make the whole world safe
for democracy.
As a result of this impassioned nonsense public opinion became so envenomed that
the people would not countenance a workable peace; they were against any public
man who showed "any tenderness for the Hun. ..."
Once inflamed, the people proved willing to support all manner of barbarity. The era of total war, with its indiscriminate bombing of civilians, was entirely acceptable.
To his credit, Lippmann was uneasy with this outcome. But the point was made. Once suitably prepared, cajoled, persuaded, and "educated" by the propagandistic press, the people could be made to agree to any internationalist idea. Indeed, at the end of WWII, the people were persuaded that only a world federated under the United Nations would be free from future war.
The news outlets still play their role in the ongoing attempt to create a new internationalist order, and do so in much the same way they always have. In this effort to slant the news, these outlets use a number of techniques. First, and most obviously, there is the outright lie. For instance, the constant mantra that the United States is a democracy is a lie, even though nearly everyone believes it. Of course, this lie serves the interests of left-wing internationalists by confusing Americans about the true nature of their government. (Democracy is majority rule. On the other hand, a republic is governed by the rule of law, affording everyone, including minorities, protection under the law.)
Errors of commission of this sort, though, are far less common than errors of omission. In other words, rather than giving a true accounting of significant events as they occur, news providers more commonly try to ignore stories that undermine their agenda, while exploiting stories that further their agenda. The "War on Terror" has provided innumerable examples. For instance, on 30 April 2002, during a speech in San Jose, California, President Bush warned the nations of the world, "you're either with us, or you're with the terrorists." Clearly three nations "with the terrorists" are those identified by President Bush as forming the "Axis of Evil." These include Iran, Iraq, and North Korea. Among those nations who have been "with us" in the war against terror are Russia and China. Interestingly, a recent CIA report to Congress on arms proliferation notes, according to Bill Gertz of the Washington Times, that "Russia and China have been supplying Tehran with nuclear-related equipment that will boost Iran's capability to build nuclear weapons." In addition, the CIA report notes that "firms in China have provided dual-use missile -related items, raw materials and-or assistance to several countries of proliferation concern -- such as Iran, North Korea, and Libya." Obviously, Russia and China are in bed with the terrorists.
The press, however, has shied away from drawing this conclusion. In this case, they have chosen not to connect the dots. Why? Simply this: Connecting the dots would make it abundantly clear that Russia and China are not acting as allies would act. This would damage the internationalist cause which has long worked to include Russia and China in the developing global order.
Failing to connect all the dots that matter is just one method by which the media selectively reports only those things that support its leftist and internationalist agenda. Another technique often used is the ad hominem argument. This technique was used in 1999 in an Atlanta Journal-Constitution editorial about gun control. In the wake of shooting as Columbine and Atlanta, the Journal-Constitution opined: "Some will argue, even in the wake of this tragedy, that guns are not the problem, that instead they offer a means for protecting ourselves from the madmen. That argument is itself a form of criminal lunacy that can no longer be treated as credible." By calling the natural right to self-defense a form of "criminal lunacy," this editorial deceitfully dehumanizes those who favor gun rights. this, of course, also furthers the leftist, internationalist cause seeking to restrict the use of force to national and then internationalist governing bodies.
Yet another common technique of deception is the argument ad nauseam. William L. Shirer referred to it when he noted that the constant repetition of Nazi propaganda makes "a certain impression on one's mind." This technique is commonly employed, for instance, in the abortion debate when news headlines repeat the chant that abortion is a woman's right. Repeating such phraseology over and over does not alchemically transform the statement from falsehood to fact. It does, however, constantly keep the refrain in the minds of the citizens and is likely, over time, to make a "certain impression." The frame of reference will change. Rather than thinking of abortion in terms of murdering a child, people begin to think of it in more abstract terms such as "reproductive rights."
With the media cartel employing so many techniques of distortion and deception, just how is the average citizen to gather the basic knowledge needed to form sound opinions from which to make useful judgments? First, always keep in mind the essential nature of media bias, namely its advocacy of a leftist, internationalist world order. Awareness of this bent makes it much easier to read between the lines, be the subject the war on terrorism or gun control.
Second, consider the source. Does the source have a track record of obvious bias? Has the source made statements or predictions that have proven false? Does the report depend heavily on other, unnamed sources? if so, do not accept reports from this source at face value. Verify the report, if possible, with reports on the same subject from other independent sources.
Next, find a reliable source and keep it at hand for cross referencing. If news reports published elsewhere seem a little suspect, check the facts against reports on the same or similar topics in the source that has proven reliable. And, in many cases, it may make sense t check previous reporting to see how and why a story might have changed over time.
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The Sexualization of the Culture, The Sexualization of the Clergy
by E. Michael Jones, Ph.D.
"Then never think, my friend, that you are free while your belly rules you and the part below the belly, since you will then have masters who can furnish you with pleasures or deprive you of them." - Julian the Apostate
"At 4:30 p.m. on 30 March 2002, Israeli military forces took over Palestinian TV stations when they occupied Ramallah in the West Bank, immediately shutting them down. What followed was a little more unusual. Shortly after occupying the Al-Watan TV station, the Israeli forces began broadcasting pornography over its transmitter. Eventually, according to a report from The Advertiser, an Australian newspaper, the Israelis expanded their cultural offensive against the Palestinian people by broadcasting pornography over two other Palestinian stations, the Ammwaj and Al-Sharaq channels. ...
"[The Israelis] knew that a blind opponent is no opponent at all, and because they knew -- as the ancient Greeks knew -- that lust makes a man blind ... Israel's use of pornography in their battle against the Palestinians isn't so inexplicable." - E. Michel Jones (Editor, Culture Wars magazine)
In his book on Shakespeare, the Rev. Peter Milward, SJ claims that The Merchant of Venice is really an attack on Puritans and not Jews. There were no Jews in England in Shakespeare's time, but there were plenty of Puritans who gave their children not only Jewish names but shared an essentially Jewish Messianic view of politicals, spawning political movements of the sort which would triumph in England in the middle of the 17th century and in America for a long time after. Milward's claim leads us to a larger point: that there has been a close affinity between the revolutionary Protestant and the revolutionary Jew ever since Rabbi Menassah Ben Israel met with Cromwell in 1656 and persuaded that worthy to let the Jews back into England (1). What both groups share is a deep-seated hatred of the Catholic Church of the sort that got transmuted into Freemasonry. As Leo XIII's indictment makes clear, Freemasonry by the late 19th century had become associated with a particular kind of cultural warfare, one which was associated with the corruption of morals in general and the sexualization of culture in particular as a form of social control.
In America cultural warfare over obscenity began in earnest during the 1920s, when the motion picture began to have more and more impact on American cultural mores. The first to take up the cry against Hollywood were the Protestant nativists in general and cultural icons like Henry Ford in particular. Ford saw the issue in ethnic terms. Hollywood, he claimed in his book, The International Jew, "was a Jewish enterprise from the start." Ford went on to say that "the moral side of the movies' influence" had become "a world problem" because of the "Jewish manipulation of the public mind." Anyone "who has an active moral sense," according to Ford, was convinced that the motion picture industry "frankly brutalizes taste and morals and should not be permitted to be a law unto itself."
In addition to the obvious issue of increasing nudity and sexual innuendo on the screen during the precode 1920s, Hollywood subjected "Christian clergymen ... to all sorts of misrepresentation, from the comic to the criminal." The purpose of this misrepresentation, which Ford saw as "distinctly Jewish," was "to break down as far as possible all respectful or considerate thought about the clergy." Interestingly, especially in light of later developments, it was the Catholic clergy, who, according to Ford, "very soon made themselves felt in opposition to this abuse of their priestly dignity." As a result, Ford writes, "the Jew climbed down" and "you now never see a priest made light of on the screen. But the Protestant clergyman is still the elongated, sniveling, bilious hypocrite of anti-Christian caricatures."
Grassroots protest against Hollywood's sexualization of the culture increased throughout the 1920s to the point where numerous state legislatures were preparing to take legal action, establishing their own censorship boards. The Catholics in many ways prevented that from happening by establishing the national Legion of Decency and effectively bringing Hollywood to bay through the threat of economic boycott. Eventually, Joseph I. Breen was appointed the Catholic censor to Hollywood. Breen was no nativist. The fact that he held his job for 20 years and was given an award by the people he censored when he retired showed, as Mark Viera points out in his book on precode Hollywood, that he was no anti-Semite. But Breen saw the battle over the sexualization of American culture issue in essentially ethnic terms as well. "Ninety-five percent of these folks," he wrote describing the Hollywood moguls of the 1930s, "are Jews of an Eastern European lineage. They are, probably, the scum of the earth. ... These Jews seem to think of nothing but money making and sexual indulgence. The vilest kind of sin is a common indulgence hereabouts, and the men and the women who engage in this sort of business are the men and women who decide what the film fare of the nation is supposed to be" (Viera, Sin in Soft Focus, p.79).
Breen saw the sexualization issue in ethnic terms because that is how everyone else saw it too, including the Jews. Leo Pfeffer, lawyer for the American Jewish Committee and strategist for a number of key Supreme Court decisions, from Schempp v. Abington School Board to Lemon v. Kurtzman, decisions which effectively defined the cultural revolution of the '60s, noted the same ethnic divide over the sexualization of the culture in one of his memoirs. "After World War I," he wrote, "Irish-oriented American Catholicism began taking over leadership in anti-obscenity militancy. Catholic organizations such as the National Office for Decent Literature and the national Legion of Decency ... became the nations' most militant and effective defender of morals and censorship." As a result, America's Catholics came into cultural conflict with the Jews who promoted the sexualization of American culture. "American Jewry," according to Pfeffer, supported that sexualization "because many Jews, far more proportionately than the other faiths, are commercially and professionally involved in the cinema and publishing." As a result, Jews have "been overwhelmingly antipathetic to the crusade for morality and censorship in the arts and literature." Jay Gertzman in his book on the trade in obscenity during the same period makes the same point:
The ethnic flavor of prewar erotica distribution is still with us, although, except
for extreme right-wing hate groups, critics of sexual explicitness do not overtly
exploit the fact [that] many distributors of erotica are Jewish ...(Bootleggers and
Smuthounds, p.289). ...
[Gertzman's] father and uncle were arrested for selling obscene materials from their store on Market Street in Philadelphia during the 50s.
The thirty-year battle over the sexualization of the culture ended in 1965 when the Legion of Decency ran up the white flag and Hollywood broke the code. Once the Catholics lost their nerve in the war over the sexualization of culture, once they backed away from holding Hollywood to the basic rudiments of sexual decency, it was inevitable that the instruments of culture they failed to control would get used against them in all out cultural warfare. The Sexualization of the Catholic clergy dates from this period, as the Los Angeles Times survey [conducted between June and October of 2002] makes clear.
There are no truces in cultural warfare. The law of cultural life is either occupy your cultural territory or have it occupied by alien forces (2).
"The truth of the matter was that I did not like the Catholic Church," Pfeffer admitted in his memoirs. The truth of the matter goes beyond that as well. Leo Pfeffer was not just talking about personal animus; he was talking about an animus which was shared by his employer, the American Jewish Committee, as well as by Hollywood's motion picture and television industries. The latter group was described by Stephen Steinlight [former Director for National Affairs of the American Jewish Committee] recently as "the Jewish industry, par excellence." Even toward the end of his life, after proclaiming the triumph of secular humanism over the Catholic Church in 1976, Pfeffer was concerned about Catholic activism on the abortion issue because "the partial success which it has so far achieved may encourage further Catholic intervention in the political arena and bring back the days when the Roman Catholic Church was a powerful force in the American political system."
The sexualization of the priesthood followed inexorably from the sexualization of American culture, which happened when the Catholics tired of holding the Jews in Hollywood to minimal standards of sexual decency. Once the culture got sexualized, scandals in the priesthood might have happened anyway just because of the general loosening of sexual morals, even if Catholic religious hadn't been targeted specifically. But the fact of the matter is that Catholic religious were targeted specifically by the same group of [previously mentioned] Judeo-Puritan revolutionaries. ...
The simple fact of the matter is that the use of sexual deviance as a form of psychological warfare had been part of the intellectual lingua franca since the early '30s when Wilhelm Reich published his book Die Massenpsychologie des Fascismus. That book was translated into English in the late '40s, and by 1970, when Reich appeared on the cover of the New York Times magazine, it was recognized as the bible of the sexual revolutionary, sexual revolution being a term coined by Reich himself. ... Reich's strategy was to combine sexual deviance with "a mass phenomena" of the sort that could be promoted to unheard of levels of subversion with the technological breakthroughs which allowed the development of motion pictures, television and recorded music. ... The target Reich mentions in The Mass Psychology of Fascism is the Catholic seminarian. By involving him in sexual deviance, Reich brings about what he could not bring about by debating the existence of God or the tenth thesis of the fourth international, namely, the fact that the idea of God simply evaporates from the mind of the seminarian involved in deviant sexual activity.
By 1970 Reich had become a Jewish role model. Like Nina Hartley, Richard Pacheco is a porn star who sees a connection between pornography and being Jewish. When he showed up at an audition for an X-rated film he did so quite consciously as a cultural revolutionary, "with my hair down to my ass, a copy of Wilhelm Reich's Sexual Revolution under my arm and yelling about work, love and sex, which were Reich's three principles." Wilhelm Reich was, of course, a secular Jew just like Hartley and Pacheco; he, more than anyone else, made explicit in his writing how sex could be used as a weapon, probably the most effective weapon, in revolutionary struggle. The fact that Pacheco needed Reich under his arm to justify his participation in pornography shows how influential Reich had become in revolutionary circles, but it also showed that Reich had become as well a role model for the secular Jew who saw himself as a cultural revolutionary. Reich's thought on how to corrupt Catholic seminarians had become part of the lingua franca of cultural bolshevism (3).
Paul Likoudis [in his book Amchurch Comes Out: The U.S. Bishops, Pedophile Scandals, and the Homosexual Agenda, 2002] paints a convincing picture of the ravages which sexual deviance have wrought within the Catholic Church. But the simple fact of the matter remains: deviance is only newsworthy if Catholics are involved. The incidence of sexual deviance [is] no different in other denominations. The deviance among Catholic clergy makes the news because the pedophile priest scandal is part of the almost century-long battle over the sexualization of American Culture. If that deviance were simply an intra-Catholic phenomenon, in other words, if it were not part of that struggle, it would merit about the same amount of column inches that deviance among rabbis and ministers now merits. It would merit about the same amount of press that the now forgotten Michael Jackson pedophile scandal merited. Did the Boston Globe call for the resignation of Sony because of what Michael Jackson did? Did it call for sweeping changes in the music industry? Are we to believe that the Catholic clergy is more sexually degenerate than the music industry?
The current crisis over deviance within the Church cannot be understood if it is viewed as an intra-Catholic struggle; it can only be understood in the light of the battle over the sexualization of culture which preceded it. That battle against the Church has been waged by two groups of revolutionaries -- the [WASP] puritans and the [Zionist] Bolsheviks -- whose only common denominator, aside from their predilection for revolution and subversion through the manipulation of passion, is hatred of the Catholic Church. The pedophile priest scandal currently making the news is just another chapter in that book. The Catholic Quislings and useful idiots who have caused so much damage could never have achieved what they have achieved without the help of the people who have staged the sexualization of our culture from the beginning.


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There's something strange about seeing Sylvester Stallone get deep and thoughtful.
It's like sitting through one of those plays where prisoners perform Shakespeare -- it's just unexpected.
Likewise, the side of Sly on show in his new art exhibit at The State Russian Museum in St. Petersburg, is far from the pages of People.
Dealing with themes like triumph, failure and chaos, Stallone reveals himself as a man who's more than just a gruff, muscled hero out to beat the odds, but someone who's emotional and even intellectual.
Stallone is just starting to unleash his paintings on the world. His first exhibition was in Switzerland in 2011. Apparently, Stallone's been painting for nearly 50 years -- even before he started acting.
The exhibition -- which includes three dozen paintings -- describes painting as his first love. But, an introduction reads, "due to financial problems, he had to become an actor." Because that's the first thing you do if you're poor: act.
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Stallone's work is influenced by abstract expressionism.
It's as if emotion is thrown onto the canvasses in red (Stallone's favorite color, according to the museum), black and yellow.
Each painting lives in its own world, like "Never Ever Land," 2010, where Stallone paints the downfall of Michael Jackson, who's life is collapsing around him as he's dressed in his iconic 1990s military jacket, with strands of black hair draped over his face.
Beyond the recurrent self-portraits of himself as his legendary "Rocky" character bleeding in a boxing ring, there are also more whimsical paintings, including one in which Stallone scrawled phrases like "Time, Billy Bob," "The Arts Endure You" and "Whores."
When it comes to modern art, Stallone is no Andy Warhol -- though the exhibit does feature photos Warhol took of his friend Stallone.
Many of the visitors crowding into the museum's narrow halls say they never knew Stallone painted. They come because they're fans of his movies, like 20-year-old Daniel Schneider, visiting from Moscow.
"He's very popular. So many people have seen his films in
But that's about as far as Stallone's talent goes, he says. "It's not good. But there are some interesting elements."
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Others have a more imaginative view of Stallone the painter.
"I think it's a new system for Sylvester Stallone to explain his creativity," says Italian tourist Maiolino Alessandro.
Russian communists don't like his art though. They unsuccessfully protested the opening of the exhibition because of Stallone's role in "Rambo," in which he goes on a communist-killing crusade.
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Even if you don't enjoy Stallone's work, on- or off-screen, it may be worth the visit if only to see the Italian Stallion in a different light.
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Grief Turns To Anger After Brazil Club Fire; Band In Custody
Relatives of the 231 people who died in a Brazilian nightclub fire demanded answers on Monday as to how it could have killed so many people, while police questioned the club's owner and members of the band whose pyrotechnics show allegedly caused the tragedy.
Several coffins, many draped with flags of the victims' favorite soccer teams, lined a gymnasium that has become a makeshift morgue since the fire in the early hours on Sunday, one of the world's deadliest such incidents in a decade.
The death toll was revised down overnight from 233 to 231, as officials said some names had been counted twice.
Eighty-two people remained hospitalized in and around the southern city of Santa Maria. At least 30 of them were in serious condition.
As shell-shocked residents attended a marathon of funerals starting in the pre-dawn hours on Monday, the focus began to shift to what will likely be a barrage of police investigations, lawsuits and recriminations aimed at politicians and others.
"We can't trust in the ability of city hall, or the police, or anybody who permits a party with more a thousand people under these conditions," said Erica Weber, who was accompanying her daughter to a funeral for one of her classmates.
Most of the dead were suffocated by toxic fumes that rapidly filled the Kiss nightclub after the band set off a pyrotechnics display at about 2:30 a.m, witnesses said.
State prosecutor Valeska Agostini told Reuters one of the club's owners and members of the band had been taken into police custody to answer questions although no arrests or criminal charges are likely until after the investigation is completed.
The band's guitarist, Rodrigo Lemos Martins, 32, said he doubted the band was responsible for the blaze. "There were lots of wires (in the ceiling), maybe it was a short circuit," Folha de S.Paulo newspaper quoted him as saying.
The band's accordion player, Danilo Jaques, 30, was among those killed but the other five members survived.
It seems certain others will share the blame for Brazil's second-deadliest fire ever. The use of a flare inside the club was a clear breach of security regulations, fire officials said, and witnesses said bouncers initially tried to prevent people from fleeing from the one functioning exit because they believed they were trying to skip out on their bar tabs.
Clubs and restaurants in Brazil are generally subject to a web of overlapping safety regulations, but enforcement is uneven and owners sometimes pay bribes to continue operating.
The investigation of the Kiss fire could drag on for years. After a similar fire at an Argentine nightclub in 2004 killed 194 people, more than six years passed before a court found members of a band criminally responsible for starting the blaze and causing the deaths.
That tragedy also provoked a massive backlash against politicians and led to the removal of the mayor of Buenos Aires.
Valdeci Oliveira, a legislator in Brazil's Rio Grande do Sul state where the weekend tragedy took place, said on his Twitter feed that he and his colleagues would seek to ban pyrotechnics displays in closed spaces such as nightclubs.
"It won't bring anybody back but we're going to introduce the bill," Oliveira said.


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The choreographed dancing and singing of their 70 guests did catch mall shoppers off guard. Guests, who had rehearsed that morning, started dancing in unison and singing "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" as perplexed shoppers walked by. Kleiman played the keyboard before walking down a make-shift aisle. His bride walked down the aisle carrying a simple white bouquet. Kleiman said they weaved his musical past as a pianist, and her past as a dancer into the ceremony.
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The economy continues its slow and steady recovery. Job growth was solid but not spectacular again last month, which has some political implications as well.
The last remaining political land mine embedded in Barack Obama's path to reelection has failed to detonate.
With time fast running out, the Bureau of Labor Statistics this morning released the last monthly jobs report we'll see in this election. The news was unexpectedly decent: 171,000 nonfarm jobs added in October, and unemployment essentially unchanged at 7.9 percent.
What's more, the August numbers were revised upwards from 142,000 to 192,000, and the September numbers were boosted from 114,000 to 148,000. This suggests the possibility that something was stirring in the economy that we hadn't picked up, and could help explain why Obama's small but seemingly durable edge in the electoral college has persisted.
These are solid numbers for President Obama's campaign in a super close election as the unemployment rate stayed below 8%. The Mitt Romney campaign will point it that the rate ticked up a tenth of a point.
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NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — Seven more banks failed Friday, pushing the 2009 total to 106 and marking the first year since 1992 that at least 100 have gone under
Experts suggest we could be no more than 10% of the way through this cycle of bank collapses, which is sure to be the worst run of closures since the Great Depression.
Like all the great merchants of the bubble economy, Bear and Lehman were leveraged to the hilt and vulnerable to collapse. Many of the methods that outsiders used to knock them over were mostly legal: Credit markers were pulled, rumors were spread through the media, and legitimate short-sellers pressured the stock price down. But when Bear and Lehman made their final leap off the cliff of history, both undeniably got a push — especially in the form of a flat-out counterfeiting scheme called naked short-selling.
The new president for whom we all had such high hopes went and hired Michael Froman, a Citigroup executive who accepted a $2.2 million bonus after he joined the White House, to serve on his economic transition team — at the same time the government was giving Citigroup a massive bailout. Then, after promising to curb the influence of lobbyists, Obama hired a former Goldman Sachs lobbyist, Mark Patterson, as chief of staff at the Treasury. He hired another Goldmanite, Gary Gensler, to police the commodities markets. He handed control of the Treasury and Federal Reserve over to Geithner and Bernanke, a pair of stooges who spent their whole careers being bellhops for New York bankers. And on the first anniversary of the collapse of Lehman Brothers, when he finally came to Wall Street to promote "serious financial reform," his plan proved to be so completely absent of balls that the share prices of the major banks soared at the news.
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Over the coming months, as many as 1.5 million jobless Americans will exhaust their unemployment insurance benefits, ending what for some has been a last bulwark against foreclosures and destitution.
Because of emergency extensions already enacted by Congress, laid-off workers in nearly half the states can collect benefits for up to 79 weeks, the longest period since the unemployment insurance program was created in the 1930s. But unemployment in this recession has proved to be especially tenacious, and a wave of job-seekers is using up even this prolonged aid.
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LONDON: The United States and the United Kingdom stand on the brink of the largest debt crisis in history.
While both governments experiment with quantitative easing, bad banks to absorb non-performing loans, and state guarantees to restart bank lending, the only real way out is some combination of widespread corporate default, debt write-downs and inflation to reduce the burden of debt to more manageable levels. Everything else is window-dressing.
The proximate trigger of the debt crisis was the deterioration in lending standards and rise in default rates on subprime mortgage loans. But the widening divergence revealed in the charts suggests a crisis had become inevitable sooner or later. If not subprime lending, there would have been some other trigger.
The charts strongly suggest the necessary condition for resolving the debt crisis is a reduction in the outstanding volume of debt, an increase in nominal GDP, or some combination of the two, to reduce the debt-to-GDP ratio to a more sustainable level.
From this perspective, it is clear many of the existing policies being pursued in the United States and the United Kingdom will not resolve the crisis because they do not lower the debt ratio.
In particular, having governments buy distressed assets from the banks, or provide loan guarantees, is not an effective solution. It does not reduce the volume of debt, or force recognition of losses. It merely re-denominates private sector obligations to be met by households and firms as public ones to be met by the taxpayer.
The solution must be some combination of policies to reduce the level of debt or raise nominal GDP. The simplest way to reduce debt is through bankruptcy, in which some or all of debts are deemed unrecoverable and are simply extinguished, ceasing to exist.
Bankruptcy would ensure the cost of resolving the debt crisis falls where it belongs. Investor portfolios and pension funds would take a severe but one-time hit. Healthy businesses would survive, minus the encumbrance of debt.
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A majority of single Americans would suffer a financial hardship if they were forced to stop working for six weeks or more, The Hartford announced on Monday.
The report, The Hartford Benefits For Tomorrow Study, found 87% of single workers would have to make lifestyle changes to cover their expenses if they had to stop working for three to six months. Just 44% of single workers have disability insurance.
More than a third of single workers said they would live off their savings if they couldn't work for six weeks or more, 23% said they would withdraw from their 401(k).
Mike Fish, vice president of voluntary benefits for The Hartford, noted those plans could put single workers' retirement at risk.
"Because they are likely to dip into their retirement accounts, the singles without paycheck protection are not only putting their current financial situation at risk but their golden years as well," Fish said in a statement.
In addition to living off savings and dipping into retirement accounts, 8% of single workers said they would depend on credit cards or loans to get by. Five percent would turn to their friends and family for a loan, and 4% would move in with a family member.
"When you consider that singles make up about half of the U.S. population, that means a significant number of Americans are risking financial hardship by going without paycheck protection," Fish said. "Disability insurance obtained through the workplace costs on average about a dollar a day. That means for about the cost of a cup of coffee a day, workers can protect their finances and their independence from the impacts of a health issue."
Over half of Americans have short-term disability insurance, according to the survey, up from 49% last year. However, 45% of respondents overestimated the cost of short-term disability insurance. Another 45% couldn't even offer a guess as to the cost. The number of workers with long-term disability insurance remained steady at 44%.
The Hartford commissioned BuzzBack to conduct the survey in March 2012. The survey was conducted online among 1,000 full-time workers between 18 and 64.


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A collection of scholarly works about individual liberty and free markets. A project of Liberty Fund, Inc.
1887 - 1966
Historical Period:
The 20th Century and Beyond
Chodorov was an advocate of the free market, individualism, and peace. He began as a supporter of Henry George and edited the Georgeist paper The Freeman before founding his own journal which became the influential Human Events. He later founded another version of The Freeman for the Foundation for Economic Education and lectured at the Freedom School in Colorado.


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A solicitor has been jailed for ten years for running an immigration sham marriage scam estimated to be worth £20 million.
Tevfick Souleiman was told he had let down his profession and destroyed the trust placed in lawyers.
Judge John Bevan said members of Souleiman GA solicitors had run a "conveyor belt" of brides being flown in from eastern European countries.
They would marry men they had never met from non-EU countries and be flown out the next day after being paid by the north London firm.
Souleiman, 39, from Hatfield, Hertfordshire, was found guilty last week of conspiracy to breach immigration law and receiving the proceeds of crime.
Immigration advisers Cenk Guclu, 41, of Enfield, and Furrah Kosimov, 29, from Wembley, both north London - who disappeared while on bail - were jailed for nine years for their parts in the scam. Another of the firm's immigration advisers, Zafer Altinbas, 38, of Islington, north London, pleaded guilty and was jailed for six years and nine months.
Judge Bevan it would be hard to find a similar scam on the same scale and sophistication. The men had taken advantage of the pressure the UK Border Agency was under and the complexity of EU law to create frauds "that would be obvious to a child".
Sham marriages were created "on an industrial scale", and Judge Bevan added: "A heavy responsibility for upholding the law rests with the lawyers. If the public cannot trust them, who can they trust. You have destroyed that trust by driving a coach and horses through these rules."
An estimated 1,800 men, including members of the Albanian mafia, were able to live in Britain by taking part in sham marriages over eight years. Men would pay up to £14,000 to Souleiman GA Solicitors for a marriage package. This would include fake tenancy agreements, employer's references and forged documents. Only £2m of unexplained income had been found in bank accounts. The rest is thought to have been smuggled out of the country.
The racket was uncovered after British police cracked an Albanian drugs and money laundering gang in London. The brothers at the head had undergone marriages arranged by the firm.


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Guild honors Kathryn Bigelow as best director for 'The Hurt Locker'
The Directors Guild of America on Saturday night named Kathryn Bigelow best director of 2009 for " The Hurt Locker."
Not only is it the first guild win for the 58-year-old filmmaker, it is the first time a woman has won the award.
"This is the most incredible moment of my life," Bigelow said.
"This is amazing. I'm so deeply stunned, honored and awed."
Bigelow already has received the majority of critics' awards this year for her work on the harrowing Iraq war drama, including those from the Los Angeles Film Critics, New York Film Critics Circle and the National Society of Film Critics.
In addition, she is nominated for the best director award by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts.
"The Hurt Locker" also received a BAFTA nomination for best picture, and won the Producers Guild of America's Darryl F. Zanuck producer of the year award last week.
The DGA Awards have become one of the most dependable forecasters for the Academy Awards -- the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the DGA have disagreed just six times in the last 61 years.
The Oscar nominations are scheduled to be announced Tuesday; the awards will be handed out March 7 at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood.
The 62nd annual DGA ceremony was held at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza, with Carl Reiner making his 22nd appearance as master of ceremonies. Norman Jewison also was honored with the guild's lifetime achievement award.
Other winners Saturday night:
* TV drama series: Lesli Linka Glatter for "Mad Men" ( AMC)
* TV movie: Ross Katz for "Taking Chance" ( HBO)
* TV comedy series: Jason Winer for "Modern Family" (ABC)
* Musical variety: Don Mischer for "We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial" (HBO)
* Daytime serials: Christopher Goutman for "As the World Turns" ( CBS)
* Reality TV: Craig Borders for "Build It Bigger" (Discovery Science)
* Documentary: Louie Psihoyos for "The Cove"
* Children's programming: Allison Liddi-Brown for "Princess Protection Program" (Disney Channel)
* Commercials: Tom Kuntz


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Heads-Up Ice Rink Design - Sewer = $$$$$To operate a Skating Arena involves daily patience and hard work. It is difficult when the Ice Rink Design does not follow that philosophy and leaves you short. With the cost of operation being forefront in a manager's mind it is awkward when you realize some daily expenses could have been avoided. Paying unnecessary sewer charges is one of them. Most municipalities or Utilities charge sewer based upon the amount of water you use. This is why most landscape sprinkler systems are on a separate meter for service, as NONE of that water goes into the sewer. Real #IceRink Design
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The Milberger Architectural Group began its journey in 1958 with Joe Milberger coming to Huntsville. Joe, like so many, was stationed at Redstone and begin his Architectural Career. Joe started his own firm in 1962 and grew his practice hiring and training local Architects and Engineers. The firm designed over 250 school projects and by welcomed clients like the Huntsville and Jackson County School Board, Intergraph, SCI and the City of Huntsville.
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September 13, 2012
By Kenneth Miller
LAWT Columnist
Last week while just chill'n, I got a phone call from one of my basketball friends who told me that UCLA prize recruit Shabazz Muhammad had already begun formulating plans to play overseas.
The source indicated that Muhammad will be declared ineligible by the NCAA and will not be allowed to play for the Bruins or any other college program.
While rumors regarding Muhammad, a 6'6 man-child, have been circulating for several months, recently the NCAA indicated that it was investigating the status of Muhammad, Kyle Anderson a 6'8 point guard out of New Jersey and post player Tony Parker.
All three recruits were responsible for lifting the Bruins to the top recruiting class in the nation and thrusting them to the top of many college basketball preseason polls.
UCLA Athletic Director Dan Guerrero acknowledged the NCAA investigation of the student/athletes, but cited privacy laws that prevented him from discussing the matter.
Both Anderson and Parker were allowed to participate during a recent exhibition tour to China with UCLA, but if the allegations are true that could have been their first and last experience with the UCLA program.
The consequences of losing Muhammad or perhaps all three of the recruits would be a devastating blow to the UCLA basketball program and its head coach Ben Howland.
Although, Howland has led the Bruins to three consecutive Final Four berths during his tenure, they did not win a single title. Some would say the championships were too hard to achieve because of Florida's back-to back title run, but didn't North Carolina State upset Georgetown?
Rapid defections either to the NBA or via transfer, have not helped Howland's case because most players who left early for the NBA still don't openly endorse the head coach.
A scathing Sports Illustrated article last season painting a program in peril was brushed aside by AD Guerrero and the coaching staff, but this current crisis regarding Muhammad and his fellow recruits could cripple the program.
My sources tell me they would not be surprised if Muhammad is not cleared to play by the NCAA.
I was also informed that Muhammad was seen in Orange County driving a 2012 Range Rover while purchasing roughly $5,000 worth of computer equipment. Expensive lunches in Hollywood have also been reported.
Another source added that it was two prominent coaches who recruited both Muhammad and Anderson that turned UCLA in to the NCAA compliance office.
Because of the ongoing NCAA investigation neither the NCAA nor UCLA could comment on these latest allegations.
The NCAA is carefully combing through all of the information it has received and therefore a ruling could come as early as November.
Regardless of the outcome, don't expect for local prep standouts to be running anytime soon to Westwood, especially when UCLA went out of region to hire Kory McCray AAU coach for its staff.
McCray, whose father founded he powerful AAU Atlanta Celtics, is qualified to be an NCAA assistant, but was primarily lured to UCLA by Howland to tap into the region from which he came. Parker is from Georgia.
Qualified local coaches have been passed over by UCLA for years.
This article is not written to accuse Howland or UCLA of anything. That responsibility rests in the hands of the NCAA.
It is a search for the truth. Sources are not always reliable, but these sources have no bias against Howland or UCLA. They were providing information on a high profile recruit at UCLA.
Only time will tell if they are accurate, and if they are, it spells trouble for the UCLA men's basketball program.


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Oh, I also want to say, that this morning my husband woke me up with a little card he had made by hand.
The wording was personal and sweet. So I won't tell you what it said.
So I'd like to share the news in the manner in which I would have shared it if I were 15 and telling the geeks riding in the back of the Speech Team bus listening to "Be My Girl Sally" for the 45th time that day.
I'm GOING TO SEE THE POLICE!! BITCHES!!!


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OTTAWA — Senator Larry Campbell, while acting within ethics guidelines, has put himself in a clear "appearance" of being in a conflict of interest by accepting a post as adviser to a Vancouver company breaking into the medical marijuana business, say ethics experts.
The former Vancouver mayor was named Tuesday to an "advisory board" for Vodis Innovative Pharmaceuticals Inc., along with ex-Conservative MP John Reynolds, once one of Prime Minister Stephen Harper's most high-profile allies.
Vodis, which is seeking Health Canada approval to market medical marijuana, said both were brought on due to their business expertise and not because of any real or perceived political influence.
"It's just because of (their) credibility," said Vodis chief financial officer Brian Gusko.
But three frequent commentators on government ethics said the appointment of Campbell, who like all senators earns a base salary of $138,700, could make Canadians wonder if he has divided loyalties.
The fact that the company hand-picked one of B.C.'s best-known and most influential Conservatives, as well as Liberal appointee in Campbell, suggests the company is trying to cover its bases in case there's a change of government in 2015, they said.
"This would appear to be the purchasing of access," said Richard Leblanc, associate professor of law, governance and ethics at York University in Toronto. "It's an enormous conflict of interest."
Spokesmen for two ethics watchdog groups, Democracy Watch and Integrity B.C., said Campbell is acting within Senate rules, which they have criticized as too loose.
They said an argument can be made that it's ethical for senators and ordinary MPs to maintain an interest in family companies after their election or appointment, as long as they recuse themselves from votes that affect the interest of those investments.
But the Vodis appointment stands out because it is a new company that will require federal government approvals to proceed.
"It's different when you are going to become part of a new venture where very clearly you are being appointed to that board not only for your potential expertise but also because of your position and the influence you might have."
As well, if the Liberals take power in 2015 the company could be in a position to expand if marijuana is legalized and Vodis decides to tap that new market, they noted.
In an interview, Campbell said he's been working for several months on contract to help Vodis get established, and said his main objective is to get the company a listing on the TSX.
He said his remuneration as a member of the advisory committee will be in the form of stock options to buy up to 250,000 Vodis shares at 40 cents apiece — roughly the current price on the Canadian Securities Exchange, which services primarily junior and emerging public firms.
Campbell said he will not approach Health Canada to lobby for the company, and he dismissed any suggestion that he has influence with Justin Trudeau's Liberals.
"The Liberal party has nothing to do with me. They don't talk to me, I don't talk to them," he said, pointing to Trudeau's decision earlier this year to boot senators out of the Liberal caucus.
He dismissed the notion that he's in a conflict.
"If they think that, it's perfectly their right to believe that. That's fine. But I don't have to agree," he said. "If anyone has followed me over the years, they would certainly know how ridiculous that is. I've been advocating this position (to end marijuana prohibition) for well over 20 years. It's common knowledge. And it's common knowledge how I would vote."
But he said if he's still with Vodis when and if legislation is introduced to decriminalize or legalize pot, he'd consider recusing himself.
The National Post earlier this year singled out Campbell and several other senators in an analysis of Canada's 91 senators and their outside business interests.
It said they were among more than a third of senators who were holding positions on either public or private boards of directors. Among those cited as being particularly active were a dozen senators who pocketed at least $8.25 million over a decade from public companies with which they served as directors.
They included Campbell, fellow Liberal appointees Pana Merchant of Saskatchewan and James Cowan of Nova Scotia, and Conservative appointees Larry Smith of Montreal and the suspended Pamela Wallin of Saskatchewan.
Campbell told The Sun Wednesday that he averages about $125,000 a year in remuneration relating to his role as board member of the Great Canadian Gaming Corp., and another $36,000 annually through his private investigative firm, Mortis Consulting Ltd.
He is also listed as on the board of directors of Asantae, which markets nutritional products, and Ecoasis, a land development firm. Campbell said he has not been involved with Asantae for close to a year and there has been no meeting of Ecoasis panel. Both positions, he said, were advisory with no remuneration of any kind.
Campbell appears to be the most active of the five B.C. senators in terms of private sector involvement.
Liberal Senator Mobina Jaffer lists herself as a partner of the Vancouver law firm Dohm Jaffer & Jeraj, while Conservative Nancy Greene Raine lists her business interests at the Sun Peaks ski resort that she and her husband held before her appointment.
Conservatives Yonah Martin and Richard Neufeld didn't list any income-producing outside business interests. Neufeld does cite ownership of an undisclosed number of shares worth at least $10,000, in B.B.C.P. Conductor Inc., which does energy research.
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Concept phone designs sometimes materialise into real products, so although Nokia's latest line-up of maybes seem unlikely, we can keep our fingers crossed eh?
Last month we saw a few concept designs for Windows Phone 7 mobiles. In response, Nokia has put out five of its favourite mobile designs that will probably remain conceptual, but look pretty awesome nevertheless.
The highlights are the "Scentsory concept" - a folding phone with an LED touchpad, two screens and stereo speakers. It also detects scents and temperature, which it sends across to the receiver in true sci-fi fashion. If only.
Then there's the "Kinectic concept" which transforms digital information into energy through the electromagnet in its base. When a call is received, the weight is shifted, allowing the phone to rise up magically off the table. To reject the call, simply push it back down. Sweet.
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By DAVID GREEN
Bids are scheduled for approval next week for maintenance projects at Morenci's high school and elementary school buildings.
All the projects are expected to begin this summer, said superintendent of schools Kyle Griffith, with the exception of flooring replacement in certain elementary school classrooms. That work will have to wait until the next school year ends due to a lack of time.
Griffith initially thought that some projects would be underway by now, but the process has taken more time than expected and he's not about to rush into the process.
"We are fortunate that the bond passed and we will proceed carefully with the use of these funds," he said. "We would rather have a few delays along the way in order to make suer everyone is on the same page."
After voters approved the bond, several behind-the-scenes efforts got underway.
"There are a lot of steps to be taken before a project of this nature can begin," Griffith said.
The school board first sought authorization to issue bonds for $1.4 million and then put the bonds out for sale. When that was accomplished, bids were let for the various projects at the 50-year-old elementary school and the 40-year-old high school.
Work at the elementary school includes upgrading the waterline, replacing corroded exterior doors and plumbing fixtures, repairing the roof, replacing windows in the gymnasium and repairing the parking lot.
After the gymnasium floor is replaced this summer, classroom materials will be stored in the gym the following summer when work gets underway in those locations.
At the high school, exterior doors and shower fixtures will be replaced, bleachers will be repaired and the alternative education/wrestling facility will be completed—a building approved by voters in the middle school construction bond.
Several technology upgrades are also included in the project, along with the replacement of the running track.
Rather than seek new tax money for the maintenance projects, board of education members asked voters to keep the existing millage rate from the middle school project in place for five years.
The millage rate was scheduled to begin shrinking in the next year due to refinancing of the bond in 2003.