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The real story behind the crisis in Qatar — and Saudi Arabia's involvement
Robert FiskUpdated June 11, 2017
DOHA: Customers at Al Meera market on Saturday. The writing in Arabic reads "Let's support national products".—AFP
THE Qatar crisis proves two things: the continued infantilisation of the Arab states, and the total collapse of the Sunni Muslim unity supposedly created by Donald Trump's preposterous attendance at the Saudi summit two weeks ago.
After promising to fight to the death against Shia Iranian "terror," Saudi Arabia and its closest chums have now ganged up on one of the wealthiest of their neighbours, Qatar, for being a fountainhead of "terror". Only Shakespeare's plays could come close to describing such treachery. Shakespeare's comedies, of course.
For, truly, there is something vastly fantastical about this charade. Qatar's citizens have certainly contributed to IS. But so have Saudi Arabia's citizens. No Qataris flew the 9/11 planes into New York and Washington. All but four of the 19 killers were Saudi. Bin Laden was not a Qatari. He was a Saudi.
But Bin Laden favoured Qatar's Al Jazeera channel with his personal broadcasts, and it was Al Jazeera who tried to give spurious morality to the Al Qaeda/Jabhat al-Nusrah desperadoes of Syria by allowing their leader hours of free airtime to explain what a moderate, peace-loving group they all were.
First, let's just get rid of the hysterically funny bits of this story. I see that Yemen is breaking air links with Qatar. Quite a shock for the poor Qatari emir, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani, since Yemen — under constant bombardment by his former Saudi and Emirati chums — doesn't have a single serviceable airliner left with which to create, let alone break, an air link.
The Maldives have also broken relations with Qatar. To be sure, this has nothing to do with the recent promise of a Saudi five-year loan facility of $300m to the Maldives, the proposal of a Saudi property company to invest $100m in a family resort in the Maldives and a promise by Saudi Islamic scholars to spend $100,000 on 10 "world class" mosques in the Maldives. And let us not mention the rather large number of IS and other Islamist cultists who arrived to fight for IS in Iraq and Syria from — well, the Maldives.
Now the Qatari Emir hasn't enough troops to defend his little country should the Saudis decide to request that he ask their army to enter Qatar to restore stability — as the Saudis persuaded the King of Bahrain to do back in 2011. But Sheikh Tamim no doubt hopes that the massive US military air base in Qatar will deter such Saudi generosity.
When I asked his father, Sheikh Hamad (later uncharitably deposed by Tamim) why he didn't kick the Americans out of Qatar, he replied: "Because if I did, my Arab brothers would invade me." Like father, like son, I suppose. God Bless America.
All this started — so we are supposed to believe — with an alleged hacking of the Qatar News Agency, which produced some uncomplimentary but distressingly truthful remarks by Qatar's emir about the need to maintain a relationship with Iran.
Qatar denied the veracity of the story. The Saudis decided it was true and broadcast the contents on their own normally staid (and immensely boring) state television network. The upstart emir, so went the message, had gone too far this time. The Saudis decided policy in the Gulf, not miniscule Qatar. Wasn't that what Trump's visit proved?
But the Saudis had other problems to worry about. Kuwait, far from cutting relations with Qatar, is now acting as a peacemaker between Qatar and the Saudis and Emiratis. The emirate of Dubai is quite close to Iran, has tens of thousands of Iranian expatriates, and is hardly following Abu Dhabi's example of anti-Qatari wrath.
Oman was even staging joint naval manoeuvres with Iran a couple of months ago. Pakistan long ago declined to send its army to help the Saudis in Yemen, because the Saudis asked for only Sunni and no Shia soldiers; the Pakistani army was understandably outraged to realise that Saudi Arabia was trying to sectarianise its military personnel. Pakistan's former army commander, General Raheel Sharif, is rumoured to be on the brink of resigning as head of the Saudi-sponsored Muslim alliance to fight "terror".
President-Field Marshal Abdel Fatah al-Sisi of Egypt has been roaring against Qatar for its support of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood — and Qatar does indeed support the now-banned group which Sisi falsely claims is part of IS — but significantly Egypt, though the recipient of Saudi millions, also does not intend to supply its own troops to bolster the Saudis in its catastrophic Yemen war. Besides, Sisi needs his Egyptian soldiers at home to fight off IS attacks and maintain, along with Israel, the siege of the Palestinian Gaza Strip.
But if we look a bit further down the road, it's not difficult to see what really worries the Saudis. Qatar also maintains quiet links with the Asad regime. It helped secure the release of Syrian Christian nuns in Jabhat al-Nusrah hands and has helped release Lebanese soldiers from IS hands in western Syria. When the nuns emerged from captivity, they thanked both Bashar al-Asad and Qatar.
And there are growing suspicions in the Gulf that Qatar has much larger ambitions: to fund the rebuilding of post-war Syria. Even if Asad remained as president, Syria's debt to Qatar would place the nation under Qatari economic control.
And this would give tiny Qatar two golden rewards. It would give it a land empire to match its Al Jazeera media empire. And it would extend its largesse to the Syrian territories, which many oil companies would like to use as a pipeline route from the Gulf to Europe via Turkey, or via tankers from the Syrian port of Lattakia.
For Europeans, such a route would reduce the chances of Russian oil blackmail, and make sea-going oil routes less vulnerable if vessels did not have to move through the Gulf of Hormuz.
So rich pickings for Qatar — or for Saudi Arabia, of course, if the assumptions about US power of the two emirs, Hamad and Tamim, prove worthless. A Saudi military force in Qatar would allow Riyadh to gobble up all the liquid gas in the emirate. But surely the peace-loving "anti-terror" Saudis — let's forget the head-chopping for a moment — would never contemplate such a fate for an Arab brother.
So let's hope that for the moment, the routes of Qatar Airways are the only parts of the Qatari body politics to get chopped off.
—By arrangement with The Independent
Published in Dawn, June 11th, 2017
Shakil
Robert Frisk, an outstanding Middle Eastern affairs English journalist, has well encapsulated the Middle Eastern oil and terror muddle in his own witty style. There are the kings and the emirs who control and enjoy the oil wealth, and there is the west who needs the oil and the routes through which it is transported, and there is the Middle where it all this happens. And also there are international competing forces and neighboring poor Muslim countries who think must have a piece of the pie. The west and the Middle East need to have a mechanism to ensure their common interests to remain protected. Terrorism was being blamed on them by the world as such a mechanism, but they have created a scape goat in the shape of Qatar to divert all the world's blame to one point that is Qatar, which everybody knows is a temporary ploy as entire Middle East is a monolithic entity and cannot remain divided for long.
Mustafa Ali Shah
Democracy desperately required in the Middle East. Kings will ruin the Arabs. Saudis are playing with fire.
A very comprehensive narrative of the murky designs in the gulf. Congratulate the author for making the reader go through the nuances of gulf politics. I would request another article, from the Saudi perspective as well. Thanks a lot.
Imtiaz Mahmood
@Mustafa Ali Shah House of Saud does not endorse democracy till oil fuels the free lunch.
Eddy Tari
Excellent article. Hope there is a similarly enlighting article in Urdu.
Fudayl Z. Ahmad
Jun 11, 2017 01:01pm
Excellent article, with a lot of information and humor. Robert Fisk you rock!
damn good!!
Excellent article......and very true as well.
Riaz Uddin
Division of Muslims in Shia and Sunni has resulted in ruining Iraq and Syria Saudi Arabia and Iran shuold pursue the policy of tolerance and prevent themselves to have an edge over the other in middle East. Pakistan should play its due role in diffusing tension and acrimony that had developed between Saudi Arabia and Iran in recent years. .
Tufail khan
Very informative article,the author deserve applaud.The Qatar crisis and its various dimensions have been explained.For countries like Pakistan to exercise a balance foreign policy this article is providing enough--
Robert Fisk has brilliantly unmasked the Saudi hypocrisy. After getting orders from Donald Trump Saudis has blocked the only land border with Qatar even denying eatables during the blessed month of Ramadan. What a shame!
Jawaid Kamal
Simply brilliant,like none other.
Qamar uddin
It's been a really long time since I've read something that's written really good with inside jokes. Hope you'll write more in the coming days. And I would be really greatfull if u write something about US military interventions around the globe.
Mohammad Ashraf
Excellent analysis
KenSAM59
Great article. Wish more countries could see it.
Paban KUMAR
Excellent analysis of the prevailing Middle East political conditions .
farida rahman
Very sad ---but true .
Ijaz
Brilliant incisive article. Saudis are the greatest threat to peace and stability in the region and the unity of Muslims.
Bency J Babu
Thanks Dawn for another great article.... This is what journalism is.. Appreciation from an Indian
Nice story
Right on the spot.
Saudis are playing with fire and Pakistan should stay away from this....
Not for a good future for the Middle East in the long run despite all the oil wealth, if this sort of politics persists. It is easy to forget Iraq too was relatively well off due to its oil economy, before it all collapsed. Quite depressing.
sri1
@Riaz Uddin "Pakistan should play its due role in diffusing tension and acrimony that had developed between Saudi Arabia and Iran in recent years" Yes, of course. 1. Once it puts its own house in order,if at all possible. 2. Tackles Extremism 3. Economy 3. Education 4. Semblance of real sovereignty
Munir Ahmad Kakar
Wonder as to how the Saudi Kings have succeeded in hoodwinking the whole world. Presidents, Prime Ministers, Amirs and CEOs are all out there to do their bidding. No family in recent history may have enjoyed such absolute power, such fabulous wealth, such ruthless suppression of human rights but such an outstanding standing internationally. It has terrorized the world and will continue to do so and innocents will continue to fell victim to it. It will keep on destabilizing Muslim countries but will go scot-free.
An excellent article and a very farsighted analysis of the "Brother".
Gyanendra Kumar Dvivedi
Super article. Thank you to help in understanding gulf politics without any bias
Super article Robert Fisk.


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Olam Ghana recognized for manufacturing excellence
Wed, 3 Apr 2019 Source: asemapanews.com
Olam Ghana, a leading supply chain manager of agri-products and one of Ghana's biggest cocoa buying companies, has been recognised for its contribution to the country's manufacturing industry at the Gold Coast Excellence Awards last week.
The Awards are designed to honour over 40 companies and individuals across different industries, from agriculture to automobile, with outstanding professional or industrial achievements.
Out of five nominees from the FMCG industry, Olam Ghana received the Excellence in Food Manufacturing Award.
In the same week, Olam Ghana was recognised by the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) as the best customs taxpayer for 2018.
The award was presented at the GRA Awards Night held at Movenpick Hotel and was received by a delegation comprising Mr. Kenneth Antwi, National Head of HR, Mavis Amegah the Tax Officer, Pankaj Goyal, PCH, Rice and Raghav Mandhana, the Financial Controller at Olam.
A citation for the award read: "…You have consistently remained in the best customs taxpayer category over the past few years. In recognition of your significant quantum of payment, submission of correct declarations and no record of infractions, the Ghana Revenue Authority awards you, Olam Ghana Limited the Gold Category for the Customs Division for 2018".
These latest accolades add to the company's impressive awards bounty accumulated by the end of last year.
The company was adjudged 'Best Agribusiness Company' at the 17th Ghana Club 100 and 'Best Company Employer in Ghana' at the seventh Association of Ghana Industries (AGI) Industry and Quality Awards.
Olam Ghana is one of the country's leading millers, with processing facilities including a state-of-art wheat flour mill, tomato mix processing and canning factory, and a biscuit manufacturing plant. Together, these operations produce some of the country's most popular brands such as Perk, King Cracker, Royal Feast, Royal Aroma and Tasty Tom, and provide employment for over 1,500 Ghanaians.
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I am seeing a disturbing trend in political art coming from purportedly progressive artists. There are beautiful visual hagiographies of Obama and Hillary being churned out by some of the best illustrators working today.
Some of these works are even more obsequious than the legendary "Hope" image. I know these artists mean well and see themselves as champions of just and righteous leaders.
They are falling into propaganda. When we do so, we become complicit in the crimes of the establishment.
-- Cindy Sheehan, "Truth Trumps Proganada by Cindy Sheehan" (CINDY SHEEHAN'S SOAPBOX).
Posted by Third Estate Sunday Review at Monday, October 31, 2016 Links to this post
This product of the corrupt Chicago Democratic Party machine, whose first job was with Business International, a firm with CIA connections, was catapulted into the leadership of the Democratic Party and then into the White House to provide a "left" gloss to viciously anti-working class policies. On the basis of his anti-war posturing and his slogans of "hope" and "change," and exploiting the belief among voters that he would be sympathetic to their needs because of his ethnicity, Obama came to power in 2009 and immediately set about implementing a right-wing program, both foreign and domestic, in continuity with that of his predecessor.
A major share of political responsibility for his ability to do so rests with the Democratic Party's pseudo-left apologists such as the International Socialist Organization, which declared Obama a "progressive" and hailed his election as a "transformative event in US politics."
Obama continued the war in Iraq, escalated the war in Afghanistan and extended it into Pakistan, launched new and devastating wars in Libya and Syria, backed a bloodbath led by Saudi Arabia against Yemen, and ordered the drone killings of thousands of people in Central Asia, the Middle East and Africa.
-- Andre Damon, "ObamaCare: The Reality Hits Home" (WSWS).
So it's actually early, early Monday morning.
For us, that's early.
Let's thank all who participated this edition which includes Dallas and the following:
Cindy Sheehan gets another truest.
This is another truest for Andre Damon but it may be his first truest of 2016.
Editorial: Iraq
Hard to believe the death of a US service member means so little.
TV: Real estate
Ava and C.I. wrote this last Sunday.
Last Sunday?
There was no edition published last week.
The plan was to publish it. What happened?
We did this roundtable late Sunday. Monday, Tom Hayden had passed away. Some fretted about what was said, would it be disrespectful? I (Jim) could have cared less. But some wanted to wait. Typing this was a nightmare. By Wednesday morning, we'd all agreed to publish it. But Ty goes to publish and somehow we lose this and we lose Ava and C.I.'s piece. With the roundtable, we had the tape and could queue it back up.
I called Ava and C.I. to tell them about losing their TV piece. "Okay!" "But . . ." I start.
Only to be greeted with a hang up.
They remembered six things.
They each wrote what they remembered on pieces of paper and tried to reconstruct the now lost piece. The original piece was longer but what's published is better and sharper.
Hillary's mess of her own making (Ava and C.I.)
They wrote this for this edition. It was actually supposed to be a Clinton edition last week but some of us -- including me -- didn't think that would work.
Tweet of the Week
John Stauber gets it.
Pig Boy Bob Somerby (Ava and C.I.)
Those of us who didn't get it got it this week when Ava and C.I. wrote the piece on Hillary's mess and then dashed off two pig boy pieces.
Reality behind the photo
Short feature.
Pig Boy (Joe Conason)
Ava and C.I. In fact, I'll rework the headline so that's noted.
Neera Tanden: "Sometimes Bill and Hillary have the...
WikiLeak Tweets
It's time to free a generation from indentured ser...
Jill Stein Tweets.
-- Jim, Dona, Ty, Jess, Ava and C.I
Richard Lawson @rilaws 3h3 hours ago
I went back in time to 2003 and told 20-year-old me that we're voting for someone who voted for the Iraq war and he said "But are we skinny"
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Sadly, the film critic for VANITY FAIR appears to nail it.
In the United States today, we appear to care about everything but Iraq.
This month, the US Defense Dept. announced, "Chief Petty Officer Jason C. Finan, 34, of Anaheim, California, died Oct. 20 in northern Iraq, of wounds sustained in an improvised explosive device blast."
His being from California, it made our state media.
We read about and watched a candle light vigil, for example.
But outside of California?
We're in the middle of a presidential election and the death of yet another US service member in the never ending Iraq War didn't even rate pressuring the presidential candidates or demanding that they offer something more than bromides about the Iraq War.
When this site started, if you'd have told us this day would ever come, we wouldn't have believed you.
Were we to go back in time, we hope to hell our 2003 selves would have greater concerns than "Are we skinny?"
We would hope.
FOR LEASE: Faltering property in need of major renovations adjacent to vast wilderness at the far end of the broadcast spectrum?
Is that what attracted Dan Rather to his current post on AXS TV?
That's where the disgraced Dan has finally landed.
He does a faux newscast -- 10% Alaska Pollock, 90% b.s. -- for the channel and also does a weekly program entitled THE BIG INTERVIEW.
Is there anyone less qualified to conduct interviews than it's-all-about-me Dan Rather?
Watching him with Olivia Newton-John, this point was driven home.
The singer and actress has a well deserved reputation for being one of the kindest people around.
So it wasn't surprising that she repeatedly picked up the conversation line and also remembered the basic niceties such as telling Dan it was a pleasure to speak with him -- after Dan just sort of sat there unsure of how to end an interview.
Whether it's with the Wilson sisters of Heart, Sammy Hagar, Meat Loaf or assorted other guests, viewers are left to wonder not only what Dan's supposed to know about his subjects but also when Mark Cuban plans on hiring an interview coach to teach Dan Rather the basics.
We understand Barbara Walters has more time on her hands these days, perhaps she could help?
No one but Mark Cuban would hire Dan today.
If you're confused by that, you've clearly never seen Cuban's hair which is also an embarrassment.
Dan began his national career in embarrassment so it's no surprise that he'd end it that way as well.
When President John F. Kennedy was murdered in Dallas, Dan rode the tragedy to national well-known-dom. He did that by using a period of mourning to demonize other.
Dan, the alleged grown up, reported on national television that school children had cheered the news of JFK's assassination.
Reality, they didn't know anything about that, they had cheered the news that they were being sent home from school early.
But if Dan couldn't distort, what would he have left?
(Another day of tragedy and mourning, 9-11, found Dan again serving up tales that didn't actually happen -- not limited to but including a car bomb outside the State Department.)
He doesn't have much left today.
Which is no real surprise.
When he took part in a now infamous 60 MINUTES II segment on Bully Boy Bush's days not with the National Guard, the story got clobbered by some.
Dan could have spoken out but chose not to.
As a long time suck up, he knew he would be protected.
And let's be clear, Dan is a suck up.
He's not a liberal.
He's a suck up.
He may (or may not) vote Democratic.
But he's a suck up and that's what he spent the bulk of his time on air.
You could argue he was sucking up to John Kerry in 2004 when he narrated the 60 MINUTES II report.
When that became a controversy, he stayed silent.
In 2006, we noted:
Mary Mapes, a former producer who worked with Rather, is a name that's popped up as well this week. Some have taken to recommending her book. It's a really bad book. We feel for Mapes but her ignorance shines through in the book. Why did Mapes feel the need to write a personality book (as opposed to leaving out the bits on grandma and making a case as a reporter)? Because she's a product of broadcast journalism and has internalized all the principles at play.
She seems to think she's the first victim of a cowardly corporation. With no historical evidence at her finger tips, she writes a really bad book that tells you she's a nice person (we're told she is) and that she got screwed over (we'd agree with that). She offers nothing on what was done to April Oliver -- either because Oliver is "too hot" to mention or because she's unaware of what happened less than a decade before CBS fired Mapes. Too bad, because what was done to Oliver was done to Mapes and until Mapes can discuss the issues from that perspective, she's wasting everyone's time except for a few partisans.
We support Mapes reporting on the National Guard. The corporation stabbed her in the back. The "investigation" wasn't a journalistic inquiry. Take out "National Guard" and you've got the April Oliver story all over again. When Mapes is ready to connect the dots, she may have something to say. Until then, she's just twisting in the wind.
He knew Mary Mapes, the producer, might get suspended or even fired but with his big contract and being a news anchor, he just knew they wouldn't touch him.
They let Mapes go.
And, surprise, they let him go as well.
He was forever a distant third in a three way race on the evening news.
Yes, he sucked up, but he also couldn't find an audience.
That should have been the end of it for Rather.
But here he is, back on TV (a channel no one watches, but still . . .).
And we're left scratching our heads as to how this deeply unqualified, 84-year-old is still on TV?
During the fracas at the 1976 BATTLE OF THE NETWORK STARS, when CBS captain Telly Savalas savaged NBC's Ben Murphy for violating the rules of the relay race, did ABC's Farrah Fawcett and Gabe Kaplan broker a peace accord which stipulated that, in exchange for NBC team captain Robert Conrad not pulling the entire NBC team from the competition, Dan Rather would not only replace Walter Cronkite as CBS news anchor but, from that day and forever more, Rather would be guaranteed a spot on television?
At the other end of the broadcast spectrum is Steve Goldbloom.
Pretty to look at, solid structure, he's everything that Dan Rather isn't in terms of curb appeal.
But what they have in common is a lack of interest in actual news.
Steve can argue that he anchors spots entitled EVERYTHING BUT THE NEWS but we would argue that they shouldn't be broadcast on THE NEWSHOUR.
These segments reveal PBS' deep desire to be COMEDY CENTRAL as they send Steve to frou-frou places -- like an adult sleep away camp -- where he makes funny.
We're confused as to why PBS bills Steve Goldbloom as a "cub reporter" when he's so clearly a bear but we're sure that there are better uses for the news budget that these segments or Steve's equally asinine BRIEF BUT SPECTACULAR.
If you disagree, ask yourself when was the last time PBS broke a news story?
As the entertainment sprawl continues, what's passed off as news has even less to do with the public good. We'd argue it's time for the people to exercise their own version of eminent domain and reclaim these airwaves.
Note: This roundtable was done 10/24/16. It was typed after and it's only going up now.
Jim: It's roundtable time. We'll talk about the election and other topics. Our e-mail address is thethirdestatesundayreview@yahoo.com. Participating in our roundtable are The Third Estate Sunday Review's Dona, Ty, Jess, and me, Jim; Rebecca of Sex and Politics and Screeds and Attitude; Betty of Thomas Friedman Is a Great Man; Kat of Kat's Korner (of The Common Ills); Cedric of Cedric's Big Mix; Mike of Mikey Likes It!; Elaine of Like Maria Said Paz); Ruth of Ruth's Report; Trina of Trina's Kitchen; Wally of The Daily Jot; Marcia of SICKOFITRDLZ; Stan of Oh Boy It Never Ends; Isaiah of The World Today Just Nuts and Ann of Ann's Mega Dub. Betty's kids did the illustration. You are reading a rush transcript.
Jim (Con't): The election is finally approaching. Can we trust the polls? Are the polls for real?
Mike: That's a good question, especially when you're seeing reporting -- like at ZERO HEDGE -- about the oversampling. I wish C.I. and Ava were involved with this because I have a law degree, but I'm not poli sci intelligent. I haven't studied research methodology, for example. But we were talking about ZERO HEDGE's work over the phone and it's not possible that those polling couldn't see what ZERO HEDGE is pointing out -- and couldn't see it prior to the polling taking place. In other words, this isn't an accident in the polling, it's a design flaw, one created intentionally.
Jim: Kat and Wally, you're on the road speaking with Ava and C.I. What are you two seeing?
Kat: I see support for Jill Stein and Gary Johnson.
Wally: More for Jill.
Kat: Yeah. Now whether that is because we're speaking right now to very political audiences and very young ones, I don't know.
Wally: Right. What we're seeing wouldn't have to hold across all demographics but I'd say first time voters are very interested in Jill Stein. I'd say they're also interested in Gary Johnson but more for Jill.
Trina: Jill's noted that first time voters aren't being included in polling. INVESTORS BUSINESS DAILY has a new poll out today:
With 16 days to go until November 8, Donald Trump leads Hillary Clinton by 2 percentage points — 43% to 41% — in a four-way race, according to the latest IBD/TIPP presidential tracking poll.
Libertarian Party candidate Gary Johnson saw his support held steady at 7%, while the Green Party's Jill Stein dipped to 3%.
Unrounded, Trump leads 42.6% to 40.8% — a 1.8-point edge — with Johnson at 7.2% and Stein at 3.3%.
Trump also holds a nearly one-point lead in a two-way matchup — 43.2% to 42.3%.
Jim: That is so different from the poll by ABC.
Kat: But how can we trust a poll by an ABC or NBC when they've attempted to hijack the election from the very beginning. They've refused to treat issues seriously, treated the e-mail scandal as an irritation when it's a serious issue.
Ann: They don't like Donald Trump. I'm a Green voting for Jill Stein. I've never seen the media behave like this. They are threatened by Donald Trump.
Ty: I would agree with that. He's not someone they can control the way they can Hillary. With Hillary, it's like there's an agreement, 'Please the elites and will let you be as corrupt and crooked as you want.' Donald Trump can't be controlled like that. He brings an independence with him that scares elites. He might burn their house down. That's why they're lining up behind Hillary.
Ruth: That is a very astute call. Donald Trump represent a populism they cannot control, that they do not like and that they do not respect. If they cannot control him with regards to war, what if, heaven forbid, he came into office and turned out to be a 'class traitor' and started working for class equality? Think of all the efforts the establishment made to tear down FDR's reforms -- just reforms, mind you -- and how it took decades for them to tear down so much. Think of how the last president who appeared concerned about poverty was LBJ and how the establishment has worked so hard at undoing his Great Society. In the sixties, those speaking of class inequality used to note the top 5% controlled the bulk of the money and now it is up to the top 1%.
Cedric: Those are some solid points. Now with Hillary Clinton? The ruling class knows she will be doing just what her husband did -- using racist dog whistles to scare up tensions and justify the continued disproportionate imprisonment rates. She is not about changing anything. A few crumbs will be tossed to some in the form of minor increases in disposable income. But the bulk of Americans will suffer.
Ann: And blame themselves, wonder what it is about them that doesn't allow them to be included in the Clinton 'boom' -- never realizing that the system is rigged against them and their so-called public servant isn't serving the public at all. Hillary is so hideous and I really have so little tolerance for the idiots backing her.
Isaiah: You mean White entitlement gurus like Tom Hayden and Jane Fonda? Yeah, they are a big fat joke. The world will be a lot better when both of those geriatric fake asses either get put in assisted living or die off. And am I the only one laughing at Katy Perry and Miley Cyrus and their dumb asses on campuses going "Vote for Hillary"?
Betty: I love the whole White power brigade for Hillary -- as a Black woman, I find it very telling how we keep seeing all these White power activists -- Tom Hayden, Katy Perry. Hell, Jane Fonda. She's so racist. Look at the films she produced and find the Black people? The biggest Black star she ever hired for a film? Willie Tyler -- and Lester! For a bit part in COMING HOME. Does it get more racist than that? COMING HOME, THE CHINA SYNDROME, ROLLOVER, 9 TO 5, ON GOLDEN POND -- this is a radical making films? Hell, it's not even a liberal.
Rebecca: Don't forget she gave a bit part to an African-American actress in 9 TO 5 -- the cleaning lady who's only line is: "Vera, there's another stiff in the john."
Marcia: I saw White power Hillary on TV this afternoon, she was at a church -- an African-American church. She sure likes to use us as props.
Kat: All I see on TV from her campaign is White people. Does she have any people of color?
Elaine: No, but her cult sure rushed to refer to Jill Stein as too White, didn't they?
Marcia: Yeah, despite the fact that her running mate is Ajamu Baraka -- the only person of color on any presidential ticket.
Elaine: White 'leaders' have been especially disappointing in the last years as they've failed to stand up for any issues that matter but instead act as megaphones for the administration. That's not challenging anything. That's not demonstrating bravery.
Betty: For me, it starts in 2008 when Grace Lee Boggs bought into and spread Barack Obama's false hope and change.
Cedric: Amen. On my old site on Blogdrive, every week I would highlight her or her writing and activist partner. I would highlight one of their weekly columns and I had such admiration for Grace Lee Boggs. But then she went on DEMOCRACY NOW and acted the fool.
Betty: And Lord knows that's the place to act it. Talk about disappointing.
Ruth: When Amy Goodman supported the Libyan War and slanted her coverage to lie about it, that was your first clue that our so-called leaders had come unhinged. Grace Lee Boggs was a disappointment but I cannot get over Ms. Goodman and how quickly she publicly sold out.
Rebecca: I thank God that Arhundati Roy basically washed her hands of the US and focused on something else. I would hate to think she could have gotten taken in but when I look at the list of the fools and the sell outs -- it's like who knows, you know? Seriously. She's an outspoken defender of Ed Snowden, the NSA whistle-blower, so I would think even if she'd focused on the US in, say, 2010, she would have been her true self but, honestly, I just don't know.
Isaiah: They were always puppets. Norman Solomon damn well knows better than to go on the radio praising Barack Obama, in 2008, without informing listeners that he's a delegate for Barack. The whoring really starts there, if you think about it.
Ann: And don't forget CJR. Martha had to shame them. You find out that a Bully Boy Bush official, while he was in Iraq, was sleeping with a reporter? Okay, maybe it's not big deal. But then you find out that she was showing him her coverage before she submitted it to her editor. It is a big deal. And the so-called ethicists of FAIR and CJR didn't want to touch it. It took Martha, community member Martha, pointing out the rank hypocrisy of CJR as they went overboard on some local story about some journalist sleeping with who she was covering, it took that to get CJR to cover the official sleeping with the reporter covering him.
Cedric: And just to add, the official was protected by the press not because he was Bully Boy Bush's boy in Iraq but because he was now Barack's. We're talking about Gina Chon and Brett McGurk and, excuse the hell out of me, but I'm damn tired of POLITICO and others giving credit for 'breaking' the story to websites that published it a day or two days after C.I. had already written about it -- check the June 5, 2012 snapshot. C.I. was the first to write about the e-mails.
Rebecca: Well they're threatened by C.I. She won't play nice -- that's what the e-mails I get say -- from reporters. Why won't she play nice? Because she's opposed to the Iraq War and she's opposed to 'coverage' that lies. You do your job and she'll be thrilled, she'll praise you if you warrant it. But, no, she's not Bob Somerby, she's not going to lie for you because your her friend. She's not going to look the other way because you made nice.
Jim: Well, I mean, here she and Ava cover TV and they don't mince words, they say what needs to be said and, yes, sometimes it hurts people's feelings. And if they know the person, they call and they say, "Look, it's our opinion, it may be meaningless, don't lose sleep over it, but we can't lie when we're writing."
Dona: But don't insult Nick Lachey -- you could probably get away with it today. Back when he had his moment and they wrote "Nick and Jessica Reporting For Two Hours of Self Love," for example, e-mails from Nick fans were filled with death threats.
Ty: And the sell out that we're talking about, it's all documented in real time in their reporting. John Nichols wants Bully Boy Bush impeached! He writes a book calling for the impeachment! The book comes out and he's promoting it! Two or so weeks later, Nancy Pelosi says impeachment is off the table and John's no longer promoting the book or pursuing impeachment. I'm sorry, I thought John Nichols worked for THE NATION magazine -- didn't realize that meant being a toady to Nancy Pelosi.
Mike: The number of people who did not sell out in the last years is very limited. You can put John Stauber on the list as a truth teller who kept his ethics.
Trina: Agreed with that call.
[We're inserting a Margaret Kimberley Tweet that went up after this roundtable because it came in second for Tweet of the Week.]
Margaret Kimberley @freedomrideblog 19h19 hours ago
Dear everyone, There is a de facto no fly zone over Syria now. Russia declared it 2 weeks ago. Hillary is talking shit and will kill us all.
Trina (Con't): Glen Ford, Margaret Kimberley and Bruce Dixon have done a great job at BLACK AGENDA REPORT and telling the truth is not easy right now people have wanted their bedtime stories and not the truth.
Elaine: Jane Mayer -- press whore. Instead of doing her GITMO reporting or reporting on torture, she goes to what she probably considers the backwoods to mock religious people. She's just a whore. She dealt with serious issues when Bully Boy Bush was in office and she whores with crap when Barack's president.
Kat: Include the whole damn NEW YORKER in that. They won't even publish Seymour Hersh. That's how cowardly and craven they are.
Wally: Can you believe that s**t? Seriously, can you believe it? They won't publish Hersh's exposes. That's how disgusting they are. If it was about Bush, they would. But since it's about Barack, he has to publish in THE LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS.
Marcia: They just don't have any ethics. They just don't. That's why they publish a Jane Mayer and refuse to publish Sy Hersh. They're not reporting, they're not informing, they're just trying to protect their bubble.
Stan: It's really depressing and it kills any and all activism. You have to spend all your time explaining to people why they should be outraged or why we need to change something and by the time you convince them, you're too exhausted to move to the step of action. And we have to do that because these liars in the press will not do their job. I bet you anything, for example, we will find out that the IRS scandal was far worse than we knew, e-mails will turn up that were Lois Lerner's private account and the whole thing was even worse than we thought and I think it was pretty bad. Sorry, I'm an African-American, I'm not going to applaud the IRS targeting people for politics because, Lord knows, in the past, it would have been African-Americans being targeted.
Ruth: I agree with you on everything you just said and I cannot believe Ms. Lerner did not face consequences for her actions.
Rebecca: Who the hell did? That was loud, sorry, Ruth. But who the hell did? He was going to have a transparent government, the most open in the world, and what happened to that? He declared war on the press and war on whistle-blowers. And none of his people had to apologize for anything. He let that stupid [Eric] Shinseki stay on as Secretary of Veterans Affairs long after the man proved he was inept and not up to the job. There has been no accountability in Barack's administration -- not in the first term, not in the second.
Jim: Ruth, will let you reply.
Ruth: I'm laughing. I'm laughing because Rebecca really did get heated on that and it is something to be heated about. She is right, there has been no accountability. They have behaved in the worst possible ways. That includes that awful budget man and his sleeping around repeatedly even after he gets one woman pregnant. It was frat boy circus time.
Dona: And maybe that's why these sell outs think they can -- they think there will be no accountability.
Jess: But they're wrong. There already is accountability. Amy Goodman has lost so much prestige, for example. And there are so many others. People are sick of these sell outs. So we do have accountability.
Jim: There's a positive note. So we'll end on that. This has been a rush transcript.
Hillary Clinton, friend to women and girls, breaking the glass ceiling and all that other b.s., right?
We were reminded of how fake and fraudulent Hillary has become Sunday morning.
And how a President Hillary Clinton wouldn't mean a lot for women.
Friday, Hillary's e-mail scandal was back in the news.
Sunday, she dispatched her henchmen to take on the press and the FBI -- emphasis on "men" or -- better yet -- pig boys.
CBS FACE THE NATION spoke with two Hillary surrogates -- Joel Benenson and
Vice President Joe Biden, NBC's MEET THE PRESS spoke with two Hillary surrogates -- Robby Mook and her running mate Tim Kaine, ABC's THIS WEEK served up two Hillary surrogates -- US House Rep. Adam Schiff and Tim Kaine, FOX NEWS SUNDAY WITH CHRIS WALLACE featured Robby Mook, and CNN's STATE OF THE UNION featured John Podesta.
Where are the women?
Hillary didn't want another woman on the ticket, which is how (overpraised) Elizabeth Warren got rejected.
But why does she turn her campaigns over to men.
Remember Mark Penn last go round in 2008?
Why is it that this supposed feminist running feminist campaigns is always using male surrogates?
It does not bode well for what a Hillary Clinton administration would offer.
But it has helped us all reevaluate Hillary (and Bill).
"What difference, at this point, does it make!"
Remember that outburst.
It was a game changer for many.
From the January 24, 2013 snapshot:
Hillary's performance in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing yesterday should have resulted in her being condemned -- both for how she presented herself and for what she said. We called her out in yesterday's snapshot. In addition, Wally covered it in "Facts matter, Hillary (Wally)," Ava covered it in "20 are still at risk says Hillary in an aside (Ava)," Ruth covered it in "Like watching Richard Nixon come back to life" and Kat covered it in "Can she not answer even one damn question?" Kat admits that she was so surprised and disgusted by Hillary's performance that she didn't attend the afternoon hearing with us because she couldn't take seeing Hillary like that again. Ava points out that Hillary acted out in every negative stereotypical was possible. Ruth compares her to Nixon when it comes to answering questions. They went into the hearing expecting Hillary to sail through it in a professional and adult manner. I did have doubts and by the time Hillary was screaming and waving her hands -- above the shoulders -- like a lunatic, I'm sorry. I supported her in 2008. I don't see supporting a presidential run again.
I have never seen lunatic behavior like that in a hearing and I was present a few years back when a Ranking Member stormed out in the middle of a witness' remarks, loudly and intentionally slamming a door behind him. Everyone stopped -- the witness stopped testifying -- and we all appeared to wonder, "What the hell is wrong with Steve Buyer?" I disagreed with Buyer on many things (he was very right, however, on the burial grounds for military members who were buried in this country and overseas -- he was a champion on that issue and deserves praise for it) but I had never seen anything so rude.
It was the end of the road for a number of us.
We'd given her the benefit of the doubt in 2008 -- that her vote for the Iraq War was a mistake. After all, in that year's Democratic primary, she was running against the man who dropped his objection to the Iraq War once it started.
And there he was, actively lying about that and so much more.
But this "mistake"?
We waited and waited for Hillary to make amends for it.
Her voting for -- and support of -- the illegal war resulted in the deaths of millions.
It resulted in the destruction of women's rights in Iraq.
2009 found her serving as Secretary of State.
Many rightly focused on how she was even more of a crazed War Hawk after 2008.
She had a blood lust for Libya -- which resulted in destruction and death -- and a blood lust for Syria -- where Barack rejected her itchy trigger fingers.
But there's more to her disaster as Secretary of State.
As noted in the July 9, 2016 "Iraq snapshot," WikiLeaks e-mail releases included one where Hillary's longtime friend Melanne Verveer e-mailed Hillary on December 11, 2011:
We attempted to raise the issue of women's participation in the Iraq government, in their economy and more broadly when Biden was just in Baghdad. Jeff Feltman was trying to get it into the conversations there.
You will recall the comments of the Iraqi who participated in the NGO meeting with you in Doha about how the door has been closed to women in the government. We have had many discussions with impressive Iraqi women over the last couple years, and to a person they describe their fate as worse now than years ago. Yet without them it will be even harder for Iraq to move forward. To that end, we have been working with post on a action plan along the lines of the National Action Plan on women, peace and security, you will launch next week.
I hope you will find a way to raise the "women's issue" in your discussion tom'w.
So-called feminist Hillary responded, "I raised women's issue w Maliki and Zebari. Can't say either of them seemed interested. But, we'll keep trying -- as always!"
Keep trying?
Not in the National Action Plan on women that Hillary would "launch next week."
That was Hillary's December 19, 2011 speech entitled "Remarks on Women, Peace, and Security."
Check for Iraq in that speech.
You won't find it.
That approximately 4,500 word speech never notes the women of Iraq.
She can, and does, name check Ireland, Liberia, Egypt, Senegal, Darfur, Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Central African Republic, Afghanistan, Chile, Kosovo, Yemen and Nepal.
But she never mentions Iraq.
Her "mistake" destroyed the lives of Iraqi women.
But it wasn't enough of a "mistake" for her to feel the need, years later as Secretary of State, to do anything to improve the lives of Iraqi women.
As we've long noted, it's a funny kind of feminism Hillary and her supporters express -- where voting for a woman equals feminism.
That's not feminism.
It's not even activism.
Friday, Hillary Clinton yet again demonstrated that she wasn't up for the job.
That's when the FBI reopened the criminal investigation into her e-mails and private server.
Her surrogates like Podesta rushed to insist that the investigation wasn't reopened.
Remember earlier this year, when her surrogates (and she) continued to insist that it was "a review" and not "a criminal investigation"?
It was a criminal investigation.
But her whores love to lie and the press loves to help them -- that would be the press that has been in the tank for her from day one.
We were reminded of that Saturday when we caught ALJAZEERA's INSIDE STORY which devoted the show to the reopening of the criminal investigation of Hillary Clinton.
They had three guests.
Lucky for Hillary, all three supported her.
Scott Lucas was positively giddy -- clearly as surprised as we were that someone as visually unappealing as he was had made it onto television.
Worse was Lincoln Mitchell who bragged -- on this show devoted to the latest scandal -- that he'd ignored it to watch the World Series and all he really knew was what other Hillary voters told him about the scandal as they watched the baseball games.
No wonder the idiot Mitchell presented as fact that Hillary did a great job as Secretary of State.
He offered no proof of this claim but hacks rarely do.
State Department employee and professor Clyde Wilcox rounded out the unholy trinity of Clintonistas.
And we wondered how does a program ended up with three guests discussing a breaking story -- and all three were Hillary supporters?
We wondered that for about five seconds.
Then we remembered that Dana Goldstein (AMERICAN PROSPECT) noted in 2009:
An email just went out to the press corps announcing that, as promised, Bill Clinton has released his foundation's donor list ahead of his wife's confirmation hearing for her appointment as secretary of state. But no sooner had I clicked over to the foundation's website and read that the governments of Saudi Arabia, Oman, and Qatar had donated multiple millions of dollars each to Clinton's charitable works, than the site crashed.
And we remembered how, this month, POLITIFACT had noted:
The New York Times article, published Oct. 15, details an email to Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta, obtained by Wikileaks. (The Clinton camp has yet to confirm or deny the leak's authenticity.)
Amitabh Desai, the Clinton Foundation's foreign policy director, emailed three Clinton Foundation employees and Doug Band, Bill Clinton's personal aide on April 16, 2012, about his meetings with ambassadors from Qatar and a few other foreign countries. Hillary Clinton served as secretary of state from 2009 to 2013.
"Qatar — Would like to see WJC (William Jefferson Clinton) for 'five minutes' in NYC, to present $1 million check that Qatar promises from WJC's birthday in 2011," Desai wrote. "Qatar would welcome our suggestions for investments in Haiti — particularly on education and health. They have allocated most of their $20 million but are happy to consider projects we suggest. I'm collecting input from CF Haiti team."
The Qatari government has given cumulatively between $1 million to $5 million to the Clinton Foundation from 2002 to 2016. The country is controversial for its treatment of women and the LGBT community, and has been accused of being a sponsor of terrorism.
And, most importantly, ALJAZEERA is owned by the House of Thani (ruling family of Qatar).
Hillary Clinton -- supported by so many.
Not the voters, you understand.
If the voters supported her, then she'd have put Donald Trump away months ago.
Bernie Sanders could have -- poll after poll made that point earlier this year.
The same polls noted how it would be more of a struggle for Hillary to do the same.
And today?
The latest WASHINGTON POST - ABC NEWS poll finds that a third of likely voters say that the FBI reopening makes them less likely to vote for Hillary (margin of error +/- 3).
The spin from camp Hillary includes that this is interference in an election and completely unprecedented.
Because when we pull up "Lawrence Welsh" on WIKIPEDIA, we find:
On the eve of the 1992 presidential election, on October 30, Mr. Walsh obtained a grand jury re-indictment of Weinberger on one count of false statements. One phrase in that superseding indictment referred to President George H.W. Bush. Some believe that Bush had been closing the gap with Bill Clinton, and that this event stopped his momentum.[3][4][5] Clinton administration attorney Lanny Davis called the decision to indict a week before the election rather than after the election "bizarre."[3] Judge Thomas Hogan dismissed the October indictment two months later for being outside the statute of limitations.[5] Weinberger's subsequent pardon by President George Bush in December 1992 preempted any trial. Walsh steadfastly denied that the investigation was politically motivated, while Bush and others criticized it as "the criminalization of policy differences."[1]
And, let's be clear.
Hillary didn't object to Walsh.
Even the laughable Lanny Davis didn't object in real time.
He'd only object in a 2007 book.
Hillary completely created her own problems.
She refused to be above board with the voters.
She retained Cheryl Mills as her attorney during FBI questioning -- even though Mills signed an agreement giving herself immunity and was herself questioned by the FBI.
She allowed e-mails to be deleted after they were subpoenaed.
This is on her.
As her groupie and advisor Neera Tanden asked in an e-mail to Podesta, "Do we actually know who told Hillary she could use a private email? And has that person been drawn and quartered?"
Or what about the DNC e-mails? Remember what Tanden e-mailed Podesta after that:
> > I know this email thing isn't on the level. I'm fully aware of that. But
> her inability to just do a national interview and communicate genuine
> feelings of remorse and regret is now, I fear, becoming a character problem
> (more so than honesty).
> think it's the truth. I see no downside in her actually just saying, look,
> I'm sorry. I think it will take so much air out of this.
> > She always sees herself bending to "their" will when she hands over
> information, etc. But the way she has to bend here is in the remorse. Not
> the "if I had to do it all over again, I wouldn't do it." A real feeling
> of - this decision I made created a mess and I'm sorry I did that.
> > No one thinks she doesn't have the judgment to be president - she's not
> reaffirming a negative characteristic in saying sorry. She needs to do
> that - I see no way of moving on until October otherwise.
> > Anyway, that's my advice.
Let's emphasize "her inability to just do a national interview and communicate genuine feelings of remorse and regret is now, I fear, becoming a character problem (more so than honesty)."
In 2008, Hillary ran a strong campaign.
In 2016, she has come off as entitled.
As if America owes her something.
She's run a lousy campaign and her problems are of her own making.
Illustrations: cartoon is Isaiah's "Hillary and the FBI" while screen snap is from Hillary's campaign website.
John Stauber @JohnStauber 13h13 hours ago
How #Hillary & @billclinton family got filthy rich whoring, pimping & #influencepeddling via @ClintonFdn.
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Bob Somerby, the internet's Queen Mother, likes to tell the world that Kathleen Willey is a liar.
Bob's a sexist -- on Saturday, he decided the best way to trash cable TV chatter was by referring to "Cable Barbie" -- and he always has been one.
Kathleen Willey accused then-President Bill Clinton of groping her in the Oval Office.
Bob Somerby's made it his mission to attack women.
Here he is in 2003:
Indeed, Independent Counsel Robert Ray would eventually give up on Willey. In his formal report on the Clinton investigations, Ray said that Willey had lied to the FBI; he even suggested that he had considered prosecuting her for her conduct. But when these embarrassing facts became known, your "press corps" did the thing it does best. It kept the evidence from public view, conducting its latest scam on the public. Few recent events do a better job of showing the depth of this press corps' dysfunction. The Willey affair shows how reflexively dishonest your contemporary "press" really is.
Robert Ray didn't give up on Willey's claims regarding Bill Clinton.
Robert Ray found that Willey had lied in statements about a boyfriend.
That has nothing to do with her claim about Bill Clinton harassing her.
So she lied.
So did Bill Clinton.
He lied to the American people and he lied in a deposition.
But Bill's never held accountable for those lies, is he?
Not by the pig boys like Bob Somerby whose made it a cottage industry to trash women.
It's funny though, he has gone after Keith Olbermann for trashing women -- but never Bill Maher. What's the difference?
Oh, that's right, Bob used to go cock-knocking with pig boy Bill.
We're not saying Kathleen Willey told the truth, we're not saying she didn't.
We're saying it's her word against Bill Clinton's word.
It's cute the way the pig boys have attacked women and gotten away with it.
Only after forty minutes of conversing with Richard Klein, and only after Valerie Jarrett entered the Oval Office and whispered in Barack Obama's ear, "Sir, he's an actor," did the president realize he wasn't actually speaking to Abe Lincoln.
Pig Boy Joe Conason (Ava and C.I.)
If, during the last hour she spent with Clinton, Lewinsky had alerted him to the obvious danger posed by Tripp, everything might have turned out differently. But she couldn't bring herself to do that. It would have meant admitting that she had betrayed their secret and thereby jeopardized him. -- Joe Conason
Joe Conason's a Pig Boy.
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Monica Lewinsky @MonicaLewinsky Oct 29
with @mrsmoneypennyft on the way rosebay!
That's Monica Lewinsky today.
When she was 22 years old, she began a sexual affair with then-President Bill Clinton that lasted from 1995 to 1997.
It was the affair Bill Clinton denied.
It was the affair Hillary Clinton infamously denied in her TODAY interview with Matt Lauer. It was a lie, Hillary insisted, all part of a vast right wing conspiracy.
Only it wasn't.
Monica told the truth.
Joe Conason is not an author, he's a fluffer on the porn set that is Bill and Hillary's life -- like a good fluffer, he takes the penis in his mouth to keep it hard.
And that's why he writes 'objective' tomes like THE HUNTING OF THE PRESIDENT.
Bill is always the victim, no one else.
Notice that in the quote that kicked off the article?
Monica could have saved Clinton if she "had alerted him" so he could have NOT lied.
Monica was the one who "betrayed their secret" -- she betrayed.
Strange, we never heard of Monica standing before God and a congregation, vowing to forever keep silent about the affair she and Bill Clinton had.
We have, however, heard of Bill Clinton taking a vow to Hillary Clinton.
But Monica "betrayed"?
Monica told a woman she thought was her friend that she was having an affair with the sitting president.
That's not shocking.
Nor is it a betrayal.
Unless you're a pig boy who feels that Bill Clinton's allowed to do whatever he wants and that women who won't be silent are witches who need to be burned at the stake.


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Q: How can i hook up WMD editor on my django forms? How can i hook-up WMD editor on to my django forms?

A: From the readme.txt in the current WMD download:

To install the editor, include wmd.js
  right before your closing
  tag:

Example:
<!DOCTYPE html>

    <title>My Page</title>

    <textarea></textarea>

By default, WMD will turn the first
  textarea on your page into an editor.
  You can modify this behavior with the
  wmd-ignore class, described below.
  (It's also possible to disable
  autostart and instantiate the editor
  through JavaScript, as shown in
  apiExample.html.  But be warned that
  the current API will change a lot in
  the upcoming open-source release; it
  was never actually meant for public
  consumption.)

So, add the necessary code to the template you're using to render the form, and make sure that the textarea you want to use WMD on is the first on the page, and you'll be good to go.

A: I just finished doing this.  There are a couple more subtleties to be aware of that aren't covered in the other answers (so far).

*

*First, in order for Django to properly retrieve the value of WMD editor when the form is submitted, it needs to have Django's value for id="" set on it.  Normally this would look something like 'id_'

*But #1 creates a problem:  WMD Editor is hard-coded to look for id="wmd-input" to know what text area it makes use of.

*Therefore, what we need is a way to pass the value of the id attribute to WMD.  I've done this myself by having the Django template render a global javascript variable, that when executed client side will be used by WMD to properly locate the textarea tag.

*If we're re-doing the WMD id tag, then we'll also need to make sure the CSS still works

*Lastly, in order for the value to be pre-populated by Django, we need to make sure that value is being rendered in the textarea tag
So here's some code for you.
widgets.py
from django import forms
from django.contrib.admin import widgets as admin_widgets
from django.template import loader, Context
from django.utils.html import conditional_escape
from django.utils.encoding import force_unicode

class WMDEditor(forms.Textarea):
    def render(self, name, value, attrs=None):
        # Prepare values
        if not value:
            value = ''
        attrs = self.build_attrs(attrs, name=name)

        # Render widget to HTML
        t = loader.get_template('wmd/widget.html')
        c = Context({
            'attributes' : self._render_attrs(attrs),
            'value' : conditional_escape(force_unicode(value)),
            'id' : attrs['id'],
        })

        return t.render(c)

wmd/widget.html
(name this whatever you need for your app)

    <textarea class="wmd-panel wmd-input" {{ attributes|safe }}>{{ value }}</textarea>

    Preview

NOTE:  You might need to adjust the MEDIA_URL depending on how you're handling that (custom template tag, middleware, whatever).  If you're new to Django and don't understand what I just said, just hardcode the value in for now to get it working and learn what that all means later.
Lastly, you'll need to make 1 minor edit to the WMD source (note that I'm using the StackOverflow fork, so this might be slightly different for other versions)
wmd.js
// This is around line 69
// Change this -> this.input = doc.getElementById("wmd-input");
// Into this:
this.input = doc.getElementById(WMD_TEXTAREA_ID);

If you're using the wmd.css and haven't written your own already, you'll also need to make a slight update to that.  Because that element is no longer #wmd-input, we'll need to update it to make sure it uses the wmd-input class:
wmd.css
.wmd-input,   /* <-- Add this here, around line 33 */
#wmd-input
{
    height: 250px;
    width: 100%;
    background-color: #FFFFFF;
    border: 1px solid #4d86c1;
}

Whew!  That was a bunch.  Hope that helps everyone.

A: Here is complete Django widget class:
class WMDEditor(forms.Textarea):

    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        attrs = kwargs.setdefault('attrs', {})
        if 'cols' not in attrs:
            attrs['cols'] = 58
        if 'rows' not in attrs:
            attrs['rows'] = 8
        super(WMDEditor, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)

    def render(self, name, value, attrs=None):
        rendered = super(WMDEditor, self).render(name, value, attrs)
        return rendered + mark_safe(u'''
            ''' % settings.MEDIA_URL)

Use it in your form definition like text = forms.CharField(widget=WMDEditor).

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Verlauf
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Q: How Direcshow Filters exchange Media samples? anybody know how directshow filters exchange media samples?
we know source filter grab sample (from MIC or Live) and pass it to next filter in graph.
clearly i want to know how filters pass samples to another filter?
is there a known pattern for this?
if i decide to implement audio processing filters without any third party component ,
is it possible to implement media sample exchange using muti producer/consumer Queue?
say source filter F1 is media captur filter and filter F2 is DSP filter.
F1 write to Multi Producer/Consumer queue and F2 consume captured samples enqueued by F1 if any sample available.(I think about Multi Producer/Consumer queue because in some cases one filter can have more than one output and more that one input and each filter has it's own thread).
is there any better way?

*EDIT : our solution must looks like Publisher Subscriber pattern , but i think this not suitable for media processing.

thank u so much

A: MSDN provides a pretty detailed description here in Overview of Data Flow in DirectShow. You want the whole article, and this is the excerpt about specifically exchange of data between filters:

[...] Whenever a filter needs to fill a buffer with data, it requests a sample from the allocator by calling IMemAllocator::GetBuffer. If the allocator has any samples that are not currently in use by another filter, the GetBuffer method returns immediately with a pointer to the sample. If all of the allocator's samples are in use, the method blocks until a sample becomes available. When the method does return a sample, the filter puts data into the buffer, sets the appropriate flags on the sample (typically including a time stamp), and delivers the sample downstream. [...]


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Flat is not the opposite of skeuomorphic
I don't remember exactly where I first encountered it. But at some point in the past three years, I, along with a large contingent of user interface designers, fans, and industry followers, learned a new word: Skeuomorphic. A skeuomorph in the UI world, so the popular definition goes (even if the rigorous scientific definition of the word makes "skeuomorphic design" an oxymoron) is a GUI or elements of a GUI that borrow from a physical analog of their functionality. It seemed like a useful concept in defining the execution of user interfaces, with an added benefit of sounding exotic in conversation – but I think we may have outgrown it.
Everyone loves a feud
Somewhere along the way, this newly-popularized concept gained that one thing critical to capturing our collective imagination: a foil. Where skeuomorphism was tied to the familiar, the tactile, the rich, the warm, this dark horse was divorced of the familiar, lived in platonic ideals, was simple, cold, mathematic. Despite drawing most of its theory from the 20th Century's signature design movement, Modernism, it was nonetheless given its own, rather less impressive (and more prescriptive) name, "flat design."
As the story goes, each of these poles had its champion, with Apple raising the varnished-oak banner of its increasingly unified mobile and desktop design language, and Microsoft carrying the solid, rectilinear flag of what was briefly but indelibly called its Metro design language. A war was brewing in the UI design world between flat and skeu: Apple's rumored "move to flat" would stir more design-office conversation than a betrayal in Game of Thrones.
Not so flat
There is a problem with this narrative. Much of the interaction that users have with iOS devices is with UI elements having no physical analogs apart from the most basic, localized physical metaphor, the button – most of these are even just black Helvetica on a white background. And for all of Microsoft's eschewing of texture, shading, and object references, one cannot escape that its many boxes and encircled icons ultimately draw affordance from our associations with a physical object, the humble pushbutton.
So if much of iOS is "flat," and Windows Phone is loaded with a thousand tiny skeuomorphs, what are we left with? An important realization: "Flat design" is not nearly as flat as it looks. Skeuomorphism is a critical part of interaction design, and is everywhere.
How, then, do we verbalize the many clear differences between the examples of iOS and Windows Phone? The answer is to build a more nuanced framework than "flat" versus "skeuomorphism."
Building a more useful vocabulary
Instead of imagining a fun-to-follow, yet ultimately empty battle between the forces of skeuomorphism and flat design, a more productive pursuit would be to construct a vocabulary around the toolset these concepts offer. Here are a few tools I see:
Functional object reference ("skeuomorphism")
Propellerhead Reason, Apple Calendar, Microsoft Windows Phone 8 dialer
This is the sort of visual metaphor that ties an object from the physical world to a virtual tool. Ideally it is for purposes of building affordance from familiarity (turning pages in iBooks), but it can easily be misused (non-functional pages in iOS Address Book). Regardless of how realistically it's rendered, a physical object can be useful as a reference so long as it is recognizable by the user and responds in the same way.
Material/texture reference
Apple Game Center, Quantum WordPress theme from Themesorter, artist's rendition of 1990s CD-ROM menu
The difference between this (which you may call skeuomorphism as well; I won't stop you) and the previous example is that the metaphor is implicit, if present at all. Ideally, there is some implied metaphor: Apple's Game Center may not actually play backgammon, but its material references to a vintage board game case can put the user's mind in a conceptual space for gaming. Often, this tool is simply used for decoration, but tasteful decoration can still aid user experience.
Depth cues
Apple Notification Center settings, Apple Maps, GitHub for Mac
Whereas the previous two tools always use concrete references, depth cues may or may not have such a clear analog. Their primary purpose is to imply what can be done if the user interacts with the controls they adorn, not referencing real objects themselves, but rather mechanical aspects of them.
Shape / color cues
Calvetica settings, Android lock screen, Solve for iOS
Contrasts in shape and color are often used in conjunction with depth cues to further increase contrast and create visual hierarchy. The trend of "flat design" is to use them with minimal application of the other aforementioned tools, which can be successful so long as the application of shape and color contrasts are sufficient to create an affordance of user action.
My current one-liner for when the subject comes up is "'flat design' is approximately as useful a term for user interfaces as 'red design' or 'round design.'" Far from being a shot at the popular aesthetic of relying heavily on it, though, it's meant to provoke thought: Flatness and depth are tools, just like color and shape, affordances and analogs.
Don't just practice flat design or skeuomorphic design. Use the tools that are right for the interface that's right for your users.


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Parole directe est une émission de télévision politique française diffusée sur TF1 en direct et présentée par Laurence Ferrari ou Claire Chazal (le week-end) du  au

Elle est créée à l'approche de l'élection présidentielle française de 2012.

Diffusion

Intégrée au journal de 20 heures de TF1 de Laurence Ferrari, l'émission était de  à  (sauf pendant l'été) diffusée une fois par mois le jeudi à  et était tournée sur un plateau différent de celui du journal.

À partir de , l'interview a lieu sur le même plateau que le JT et l'émission est diffusée plus fréquemment différents jour de la semaine, y compris parfois le week-end et donc présentée le cas échéant par Claire Chazal.

En , l'émission reçoit les candidats du premier tour de l' élection présidentielle pendant une série de dix émissions..

Les 24 avril et , François Hollande et Nicolas Sarkozy, qualifiés pour le second tour de la présidentielle, sont respectivement invités du journal de 20 heures de TF1 mais pas dans le cadre de l'émission Parole Directe. La dernière émission a donc été diffusée le  et ce n'est que le  que TF1 relance une émission politique à part entière, Vie politique présentée par Gilles Bouleau.

Principe

L'objectif de cette émission est de décliner les principaux thèmes de la campagne présidentielle (pouvoir d'achat, chômage, retraites, éducation, sécurité, santé...) en présence d'un invité politique interviewé.

Les internautes sont sollicités le lundi précédant l'émission à poser des questions à l'invité du jeudi sur le site officiel de l'émission.

Émissions et invité(e)s

Notes et références

Émission de télévision d'information en France
Émission de télévision politique
Émission diffusée sur TF1
Émission de télévision produite en France
Émission de télévision créée en 2011
Émission de télévision disparue en 2012


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Minneapolis-based UnitedHealthcare is deepening its focus on digital health, touting its solutions as a game changer that can simplify access to healthcare, reduce costs, and improve efficiencies.
Steve Nelson, UnitedHealthcare's chief executive officer, told Business Insider that the health system was "confusing, it's difficult to navigate, and it's too expensive," adding that it was "no secret that the healthcare system needs some work."
These pain points ultimately call for the digital transformation of healthcare.
To that end, the company has released a number of new innovations that it thinks will simplify the healthcare system such as digital onboarding, where clients can select an appropriate health plan based on their personal health and financial preferences.
UnitedHealthcare, the largest health insurer in the U.S., also introduced Apple Pay for its clients with Optum Bank health savings accounts (HSA), allowing for a secure and private way to pay for medical services.
The company now also provides video explanation of benefits, or personalized claims videos providing a step-by-step breakdown of how each claim was processed and how much is owed.
Among some of the new innovations, UnitedHealthcare has unveiled recently are UnitedHealthcare Motion, the UnitedHealthcare Healthy Pregnancy mobile app, virtual visits, and health and well-being solution, Rally.
"UnitedHealthcare also announced a collaboration with DexCom, Inc., to launch an individualized glucose management program driven by wearable technology to help people with Type 2 diabetes manage their condition in real-time," the company said.
UnitedHealthcare also has another digital platform called PreCheck MyScript, a digital program and mobile app for doctors to write and renew prescriptions faster.
It is estimated that digital health solutions could save the U.S. healthcare system up to $230 billion over five years, with the global connected digital health market estimated to be worth $155.5bn in 2017.
Simply put, the time is now for the reinvention of healthcare.
Although UnitedHealthcare is partnering with major digital health solutions providers, innovative healthcare startups are not to be overlooked. Digital innovation has forever changed our lives especially when it comes to empowering patients to seek out value-based care.
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Sok Sabay Laos is currently building a second girls' dormitory in Phongsaly Province, May district. This second project, made possible thanks to the support of the Jabil Golf Foundation of Singapore, is scheduled to end in June 2018. This dormitory serves only girls from the Akha ethnic community, who can safely attend school and live in a healthy and peaceful space.
In addition of Luang Prabang, we are currently building a new girls dormitory in Phongsaly. Regarding the current situation on place, we wanted to build a second dormitory in Laos.
Phongsaly province is the northernmost province in Laos. It borders Yunnan (China) and the province of Điện Biên (Vietnam), which makes construction more complex. Crossed along its entire length by the Nam Ou, a tributary of the Mekong, it is the main trade route between Laos and China.
Very mountainous region, going up to 1800 meters of altitude, it nevertheless suffered much from deforestation. In addition, the climate is difficult and delays the construction of the girls' dormitory.
The goal of this project is above all to protect these girls when they go to school, so that they have a safe place to work serenely, with running water and electricity. It's a dormitory that offers to 65 Akhas girls everything they need. We have equipped them with double beds as well as mosquito nets and blankets so that they have all the necessary comfort.
Indeed, the dormitory was built on the school campus, avoiding any travel for girls and allowing them to concentrate on their studies. This solution also responds to the transport solution, because without its dormitories, girls have to take a dangerous, painful and long journey. They live in the dormitory from Monday to Friday, during school periods and return at weekends to visit their families.
Without this dormitory, communities build huts from recovered and weak materials. During monsoons or the winter period, children are unfortunately not protected by these huts, which fly away and are easily destroyed, leaving children at risk.
The Akhas are an ethnic group from China's Yunnan province now found in Burma, Thailand and Laos. There are many branches of this people including the Akha Pixor, the Akha Pala and the Akha Ya-er. We can easily distinguish the different types of Akha by the ornaments that women wear.
The Akhas are an ethnic group that Sok Sabay is helping through two projects: scholarships and the construction of this second dormitory, which will serve only the Akha community.
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Butlin's Bognor Regis has hosted a Big Bang Science and Tech Fair, featuring an exciting range of activities for students.
Bio-plastics, a pop-up mixing desk and 3D animation were just three of the activities at the Big Bang @ Butlin's event, held last Thursday.
Local companies, educational institutions and schools attended this vibrant STEM celebration organised by STEM Sussex, the STEM outreach department based at the University of Brighton.
The aim of Big Bang @ Butlin's was to inspire and inform those in attendance about all the possible STEM courses and careers available in the local area.
Chichester University gave students the opportunity to have a starring role in their own superhero movie, while The Body Shop explored packaging construction, highlighted bio-plastics and explored the chemical composition of shower gels.
Willmott Dixon gave students a virtual reality tour of their offices, The National Physics laboratory highlight the properties of liquid nitrogen and enthralled students with weight illusions and Southern Water talked students through the water journey, cracked codes and solved puzzles.
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This high-energy interactive demonstration included an ultrasound scan and modeled how 3D printing is now supporting replacement joint surgery.
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Medical Education in Malaysia
February 22nd, 2013.
Malaysia Education & Training Health & Pharmaceutical Doctors Malaysia Economic Transformation Programme (ETP) Medical Education Universities
As Malaysia pushes forward with plans to establish itself as an international hub for higher education, medical education is one of the most promising areas for growth. Student enrollment has surpassed the government's targets and the outlook for continued growth is positive.
Higher Education in Malaysia
Higher education is a key component of Malaysia's Vision 2020, which aims to see Malaysia achieve developed nation status by the year 2020. Education has been identified as one of Malaysia's 12 NKEAs under the country's Economic Transformation Programme. Malaysia's Ministry of Higher Education has initiated plans to transform the higher education system, with the aim to establish Malaysia as an international hub for higher education. The government has followed through on these plans with steadily increasing budgetary allotments.
We can see that the budget for higher education has been increasing every year. The Government understands the importance of higher education and the government has accepted the fact that higher education is one of the critical success factors in transforming the country.
Mohamed Khaled bin Nordin, Minister of Higher Education, Malaysia
Major developments have taken place in Malaysia's tertiary education sector. Both the public and private sectors have contributed to building a solid foundation for Malaysia to continue to progress towards its education goals. Currently, about 46% of students pursuing tertiary education in Malaysia are enrolled in private higher education institutions. Future growth in the sector will come almost entirely from the private sector.
One thing that has contributed towards the proliferation is our policy of not expanding any more public higher education institutions.
Medical education is one of the more promising areas for growth as Malaysia and the surrounding region face a human capital shortage in the healthcare sector. Currently, there is a shortage of 1.2 million healthcare professionals in South East Asia, and this under-supply is projected to increase to 1.8 million by 2020. In Malaysia, there was an under-supply of 86,000 healthcare practitioners in 2010, with projections showing the shortfall rising to 95,000 by 2020. The shortage is most profound in rural areas.
In the urban areas, we have enough doctors. The ratio in Kuala Lumpur might be 1 doctor for every 400 of our population, but in some of the rural, more distant places, it might even be 1 doctor for 3,000 of population. This is something that the government is trying to bridge and we are trying to achieve, by the year 2020, a ratio of 1 doctor for every 600 population across the country. We are getting closer to that.
Dato' Dr. Jacob Thomas, President, The Association of Private Hospitals of Malaysia (APHM)
Looking at the current numbers of medical schools in the country and the number of Malaysian students studying medicine abroad, I believe in the next five years we will have a doctor/person ratio similar to other developed countries.
We will have about one doctor for every 500-600 population, which is a good ratio. The other issue here in Malaysia is the number of specialists is still not enough. In order to have more specialists you must have more doctors.
Dato' Dr. Zainuddin Md Wazir, President & CEO, Allianze University College of Medical Sciences (AUCMS)
Education NKEA
The government has prioritized the development of medical education as part of the Education NKEA. The education NKEA consists of 14 Entry Point Projects, or EPPs. Education EPP 8, building a health sciences education discipline cluster, is the second most significant of the Education EPPs in terms of expected contribution to GNI by 2020. EPP 8 is expected to contribute nearly 2.9 billion ringgit to Malaysia's GNI and create almost 12,000 jobs by 2020. Anchor institutions from the education sector and the allied health industry will collaborate to address the shortage of all levels of healthcare professionals in Malaysia, and throughout South East Asia.
The private sector plays a very big role in producing doctors for Malaysia. Previously, only the government universities were producing doctors, but now, with a large number of private universities and colleges offering medical degrees, I think we will be able to meet the demand for the number of doctors in the country.
Elajsolan Mohan, President, National Association of Private Educational Institutions (NAPEI)
The results achieved to date in key performance indicators are promising. In 2011, the total number of medical and allied health students enrolled in Malaysian institutions was 108,000, 171% above the original EPP 8 target for 2011. International students are a significant proportion of that figure and will be the main driver for growth in the years to come.
The foreign students who are coming in have confidence in the quality of education in the country. There are more than 100,000 foreign students studying at our universities and colleges, but our target is about 200,000 students by 2020. The Malaysian government is very supportive of this. Universities have been given funding to promote education globally. Malaysia is the eleventh ranked country in the world for global education in terms of attracting international students. It is quite good for Malaysia.
I think the Ministry of Higher Education of Malaysia has done a lot to promote Malaysia as a higher education hub. We've actually done a lot of activities abroad to promote this, not only medical education, its more broad that that and medical education is only part of it.
What we are doing now, what the Ministry of Higher Education is doing now, is on the right track. What the Malaysian government is doing now is on the right track in promoting this. As medical education institutions, we will go along with the rest of the programs available in Malaysian universities currently.


Most of us think of Facebook as a place to organise our social lives and connect with far-away friends. But more and more canny businesses are opting to use social networks to promote their businesses. Facebook alone has over 1.59 Billion users monthly, and at the end of December 2015, more than 50 million of them were businesses. It has more daily traffic than Google, and is where more and more of us – and that means potential customers too – are spending our time.
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UNC Basketball vs. UNCW: How To Watch, Cord-Cutting Options and Tip-Off Time
Posted by Dakota Moyer | Nov 8, 2019 | Basketball | 0
UNC basketball takes on UNC-Wilmington tonight in the Tar Heels' first road game of the season.
The Tar Heels start the season 1-0 after a 34-point performance from Cole Anthony spurred them to an opening-night win over Notre Dame. The freshman was sensational, ditching his rec specs midway through the game and scoring the most points for any ACC freshman in his debut.
Tonight's game is also a reunion between Roy Williams and UNCW head coach C. B. McGrath, who played for Williams at Kansas and coached in Chapel Hill from 2003 to 2017.
Tip-Off Time
Tip-off is scheduled for 7:00 p.m. from the Trask Coliseum in Wilmington.
97.9 The Hill is broadcasting every North Carolina basketball game this season.
Our coverage of UNC vs. UNCW begins at 5:30 p.m. with the Countdown to Tip-Off show.
Following the game, 97.9 The Hill will carry a post-game wrap-up show.
You can find our broadcast of the game on 97.9 FM and 1360 AM or streaming online on Chapelboro.com.
The game will be broadcast on the FloHoops.com.
Joining FloHoops.com starts at $12.50/month but plans can be canceled anytime. The game can be viewed on any web browser and FloHoops' app is available on Android, Apple iOS, Apple TV, Roku, and FireTV.
If you want to watch UNC basketball tonight, it appears ponying up for FloHoops.com is your only option.
What if I don't have cable?
A live stream will not be available ESPN's digital platforms through the ACC Network, but plenty of other UNC basketball games this season will be available for online streaming.
Additionally, several cord-cutting options carry the new ACC Network.
YouTube TV prices at $50/month and carries all of ESPN's channels (ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU, etc.) as well as the ACC Network. YouTube TV does not offer NFL Network or NFL Red Zone for pro sports fans.
Playstation Vue prices out similarly at $50/month and carries ESPN and the ACC Network. Vue also carries NFL Network and NFL Red Zone. A key note here: you don't need to own a Playstation 4 to use Playstation Vue.
Hulu TV goes for $45/month and includes all ESPN channels, but does not carry MLB Network, NBA TV, NFL Network or NFL Red Zone.
Sling TV is the cheapest at $25/month, but includes the fewest channels. Make sure to avoid Sling Blue, as that package does not carry ESPN.
The best way to watch UNC basketball games
Here's the best way to watch North Carolina basketball games (if you're not in attendance):
Turn on the game with your preferred cable provider
Mute your television
Tune in to 97.9 The Hill on your radio OR streaming online at Chapelboro.com
Sync up the feeds to hear Jones Angell and company announce the games
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Darrin T. Grondel, EdD, MPA
Vice President of Traffic Safety and Government Relations, Foundation for Advancing Alcohol Responsibility
Dr. Grondel currently serves as the Vice President of Traffic Safety and Government Relations for the Foundation for Advancing Alcohol Responsibility. In this role he leads national efforts to prevent underage drinking and manages various programs to eliminate drunk and drugged driving through federal and state legislation, financial assistance, programming, and technical assistance. A major initiative currently underway is the creation of a national coalition of subject matter experts to address multi-substance impaired driving to improve the DUI system to include training, roadside stops, toxicology, adjudication, sentencing, probation, and treatment.
Dr. Grondel serves as a member of the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) Highway Safety Committee, the IACP Drug Evaluation and Classification Technical Advisory Panel, the National Sheriffs Associations Traffic Safety Committee, the Transportation Research Board Behavioral Traffics Safety Cooperative Research Program, and the National Safety Council's Workplace Impairment Committee. Dr. Grondel is a featured presenter with the National Marijuana Institute Speakers Bureau addressing the impacts of impaired driving and the legalization of Marijuana.
Dr. Grondel previously served as the Director of the Washington Traffic Safety Commission and as a Captain for the Washington State Patrol. He was responsible for initiating and implementing proven traffic safety strategies by partnering with Federal, State, Tribal, and local government agencies, and private/public partners to make Washington's roadways the safest in the nation.
He began his career as a trooper with the Washington State Patrol in 1992, and over his 25-year career he promoted through the ranks to Captain with varying job assignments and progressive management responsibilities from field operations, criminal investigations, internal affairs, and the commercial vehicle division.
In 2009, Dr. Grondel was nominated to the Governor's Distinguished Managers Association, and in 2012 he was appointed by Washington Governor Christine Gregoire as Director of the Washington Traffic Safety Commission. (He was later reappointed to the same position in 2013 by Governor Jay Inslee. Grondel served in this capacity for over eight years and the last five of his career with the WSP).
Dr. Grondel holds an Educational Doctorate in Organizational Leadership from Brandman University, a Master's in Public Administration from The Evergreen State College, and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from Brigham Young University. He is also a graduate of Northwestern University's School of Police Staff and Command.


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Woods determined to build on strong start
weststigers.com.au
Mon 6 Mar 2017, 06:30 PM
Wests Tigers captain Aaron Woods says his team are determined to ensure that Friday's strong start to season 2017 is not just a one-off performance this year.
Not sure 2014 have Wests Tigers lost in the opening two rounds of the year, but Woods said he was wary of reading too much into the opening games — especially if those results aren't followed by consistent performances from his side.
"We started off pretty well last year, getting those first two games," he said.
"But then we lost six in a row.
"That's something we really want to focus on — making sure we get that consistency going.
"We're up against a really tough Penrith side this week. They got a bit of a touch up from the Dragons last week and I'm sure they're going to be pretty fired up come Sunday."
See what Aaron had to say in full about Sunday's game against the Panthers above!
Be there for our first home game of 2017 when we take on the Penrith Panthers!