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Rewinding the tape: Cooper Kupp and others tell an oral history of the classic 2016 battle between Eastern Washington and Washington State
By Ryan Collingwood and Theo Lawson The Spokesman-Review
It was a game that produced 87 points, netted more than 1,100 yards of total offense and featured five wide receivers who'd go on to get shots to play professionally. (Three of those are still employed the NFL.) It was the birthplace of a legacy for one quarterback and the continuation of a legacy for the other.
It was an offensive slugfest like few others – well worth the price of admission, no matter what shade of red you were wearing that day.
As schools that have only met four times on the gridiron and once went an entire century without playing one another, Eastern Washington and Washington State are not rivals, per se. The Eagles care far more about regional Big Sky matchups with Idaho, Montana and Montana State, and the Cougars have their own business with the Pac-12 school on the opposite end of the Evergreen State.
But WSU versus EWU is a game of definite local interest and after the battle royale between these two in 2016 – a 45-42 win for the FCS program – locals are particularly interested in Eags-Cougs 5.0. As of Tuesday, only 1,000 reserved seats were available for Saturday's rematch between EWU and WSU, which is set to kick off at 5 p.m. at Martin Stadium and will air on Pac-12 Networks.
But first, with the help of a few prominent cast members, we rewind the tape and take a closer look at the unforgettable game in 2016, placing a magnifying glass on a few of its top storylines.
(Tyler Tjomsland / The Spokesman-Review)
The build-up
EWU had been a perennial FCS power for some time now and it was hard to imagine WSU overlooking the Eagles after opening the previous season with an embarrassing 24-17 loss to a Portland State. Still, it felt there was some sense of superiority from the Cougars – one of which claimed the week before the game, "I don't know Eastern Washington. I don't even know where (Cheney) is." Granted, Gabe Marks was just being honest and hardly intend to light a fire under the Eagles, but his statement nonetheless traveled 70 miles up US-195 and made it back to EWU's locker room in Cheney.
Gerard Wicks (WSU running back, 2013-17): "That was Gabe, though. Gabe had no filter or didn't really care. He just went out to play. He did care, but that was just his standpoint, his attitude. He was just that person, if you line up in front of me, I'm going to beat you. You can't guard me. He was very confident in himself. He went in thinking that game was going to be easy and it was the total opposite."
Aaron Neary (EWU offensive lineman, 2011-15): "Every time you go up against a team like that as Eastern Washington, your goal is to win. Your expectation is almost to win."
Nsimba Webster (current EWU wide receiver): "I remember Gabe (Marks) being a real talkative, sarcastic type of guy. He stated his mind. He was very blunt. It was very hyped between the two receivers, Coop and Gabe. I think Gabe felt like, 'Why are they comparing me to this guy from a lower division?' But I'm pretty sure that after the game, and seeing what Coop could do, he saw why."
Kupp vs. Marks
'Coop' was Cooper Kupp, the EWU wideout who'd eventually break Jerry Rice's FCS receiving yards record and become a four-time All-American while winning the Walter Peyton Award in 2015. By the end of the season, Marks would become the Pac-12's all-time receptions leader and while the standout pass-catchers may have never been on the field at the same time, Kupp vs. Marks became one of the game's main stories.
Cooper Kupp (EWU wide receiver, 2013-16): "(Gabe) is a really good ballplayer and I'm not really sure what he's up to right now. Watching him play football in college was incredible. He did some incredible things and I know people wanted to make that game kind of a battle between us, but I think it helped that I had some pretty great receivers around me, too."
Matt Chazanow (WSU play-by-play commentator): "Two premier wide receivers. Cooper Kupp being an in-state kid was part of that and a very celebrated FCS receiver. But one of the things Cooper Kupp always did – and you can look at the stats, they're incredible – if I'm not mistaken he had eight career touchdowns before the game against the Cougs against Pac-12 teams. He had these monster games against Pac-12 teams."
Aaron Best (current EWU coach): "I remember having a conversation with a couple (WSU) fans just before the game when the teams were warming up and they were pointing to Cooper Kupp. They asked, 'Who is this No. 10?' I told them to wait about 20 minutes and you'll find out."
Welcome to the stage, Gage
The game featured off-the-chart talent at the receiver position – even beyond Marks, who had a cup of coffee with the New York Jets, and Kupp, now a second-year starter for the Los Angeles Rams. The Eagles had Kendrick Bourne, a second-year player for the San Francisco 49ers along with Shaq Hill, who spent time with both Tampa Bay and Houston before starting his CFL career. WSU also had River Cracraft, currently a member of the Denver Broncos' practice squad. More than that, the Cougars were set at quarterback, with third-year starter Luke Falk. And EWU? That was still to be determined. A young buck named Gage Gubrud would be making his first career start.
Matt Chazanow: "That was kind of the real question, is: 'All right, they've got Kupp, they had talent to throw the ball to, but they lost Vernon Adams.' So everyone was like, 'Well so how good will they really be?' It's great they have pro wideouts, but what does it mean if they don't have a QB."
Larry Weir (EWU play-by-play commentator): "It was interesting because it was the first game for new (EWU) offensive coordinator Troy Taylor and we were going to see what he changed in the offensive scheme. Being the first game of the year, WSU had no film on this new offense and little film on Gage Gubrud."
Matt Chazanow: "Then Gubrud came out and was flying around, flying everywhere. He could run, he was accurate. You could tell right away, like, 'Oh, this is no joke.' That was the question, but yeah, he ran for 77 yards in the game. He was their leading rusher by far, he had 14 carries. It was like, 'God, this guy is so good.' "
Darrien Molton (current WSU cornerback): "Real confident player, real poised player. Could throw the ball, run the ball. He was a real good player."
Gerard Wicks: "He was young, so we expected that he was going to make some mistakes. He was going to be nervous, so we thought that factor was going to play on our side, but he went to the game real confident and just played football."
Nsimba Webster: "The thing I remember the most from that night is that a star was born: Gage Gubrud. Gage definitely made a statement of who he was and what he's bringing with that EWU offense. Just seeing him develop year after year, and from that game on, he kept clicking. It was a great game in Pullman, but I definitely felt like Gage made a name for himself that night."
Seven in a row
Following four empty possessions – two from each team – both offenses came to life. The Eagles scored with 6:29 left in the opening quarter, then the Cougars hit back with a touchdown. EWU and WSU would combine to score on seven consecutive possessions, making it 28-21 with less than 2 minutes to go in the half.
Matt Chazanow: "That rings a bell and it feels right for how the game flow was going. It was like tons of offense and tons of really good offense. Sometimes there's a lot of scoring because defenses are bad. This was like two really elite offenses, game one. You could tell with the Sun Bowl season before with Luke and Gabe and all the guys coming back, you knew the Cougs could score and you knew the Cougs could score at a Pac-12 level. They'd just beaten Miami in the last game they played. You could tell if a team looked as good as the Cougs, it was validated, it was all credible. It was like, 'Oh my gosh, if Eastern looks as good as the Cougs, Eastern's just really good.' "
Cooper Kupp: "That first touchdown, coach (Troy) Taylor made a great play call – a RPO (read-pass option). We got the coverage we wanted, was able to cross the linebacker's face and I was expecting a safety to drive a little bit, but the safety was playing a little soft and crossed the field, was able to break his tackle and run away down the sideline. I think just to come out the gate and be able to get the momentum started for the team and stuff, I think that's something I'll remember."
The Cougars took a 28-24 lead into the half but squandered a chance to make it 35-21 when Falk was intercepted by Mitch Fettig, giving EWU the ball back with 1:13 left. The Eagles kicked a field goal to cut it to three points at the halftime break.
Nzuzi Webster (current EWU cornerback): "That night I felt like our defense could play with anybody. When Mitch Fettig intercepted a pass in the second quarter … I felt like that was a turning point for us. I remember thinking, 'We're going to come down here and take this thing.' "
Cooper Kupp: "I remember, and I don't think this is atypical of Wazzu, but I remember at halftime the student section didn't all make it back. I don't think that's atypical of Wazzu there, I think that's kind of the norm."
It was another dazzling performance for Kupp against another Pac-12 team that had overlooked him on the recruiting trail. He finished with 12 catches for 206 receiving yards and three touchdowns, which brought his career total against the Pac-12 to 40 catches, 716 yards and 11 touchdowns. The Cougars, it should be noted, were shorthanded in the defensive secondary, playing without suspended safety Shalom Luani. His counterpart, Robert Taylor, was ejected in the third quarter for targeting. But Kupp was special nonetheless.
Cooper Kupp: "I think as a senior that year, it was kind of like the culmination. I had decided to come back for my senior year, be a part of a group that was pretty special and to be able to get that first dub against a Pac-12 school that was 45 minutes away. It was pretty cool."
Gerard Wicks: "I don't see how he was under-recruited. He was a great player, he works hard, he goes up for the ball. He goes across the middle, he's not afraid to get hit. For them, he was their everything. I think he did both returns (kick and punt). He did everything for them and that day he was unstoppable. We just couldn't find the answer for him."
Hunter Dale (current WSU nickel): "He was a really good receiver and we had a lot of communication problems that game, too, so he was just getting open. He was hitting spots at the right time and a lot of that was us beating ourselves, too."
Matt Chazanow: "I think the thing about Kupp and the thing you see a lot of times when a guy's going to be a good pro is that not only do they have polished skill sets, but they're just big. Kupp is really, really big. He's a big kid and he's doing things against high-quality All-Pac-12 level defenders. He's not just doing this against anybody. The Cougs were really good that year."
Darrien Molton: "He had a great game against us. It's cool to say I guarded him, but he's doing his thing now in the NFL, so it's cool to see that."
Phenomenal as Kupp was on a 200-yard receiving night, one of his teammates wound up stealing some of the spotlight. You probably wouldn't have guessed who beforehand. Gubrud, then a sophomore, gashed a strong WSU defense through the air (34 for 40, 474 yards, five touchdowns, one interception) and on the ground (14 attempts 77 yards, one TD), punching in a 30-yard rushing touchdown with 1:40 left to make it a two-score game at 45-35.
Aaron Best: "Obviously, one the top performances ever in EWU history by a quarterback on that stage."
Eric Mele (current WSU running backs coach): "He was dealing, he was dealing in that game. He's a big old boy and he's got a good arm and he knows where to put the ball."
Gage Gubrud (current EWU quarterback): "The touchdown run at the end to seal it. That was a pretty cool moment in my lifetime."
Larry Weir: "A new star was born in Gubrud. EWU didn't get hurt with turnovers and penalties. In the end, if not for Gubrud's one bad throw that was intercepted in the end zone, EWU could have won by two scores."
Wristband malfunctions
Gubrud and Kupp were sensational together, but WSU's defense experienced some major complications that had nothing to do with EWU's quarterback or wide receiver.
Gerard Wicks: "One thing the fans don't know is our defense had on different wristbands, so we had half the team on defense with a different wristbands. Say if they would call 'Play 4,' one side of the defense would be running Cover 3 while the other side would be blitzing. It was something crazy and we were wondering how was Cooper Kupp getting so wide open. He's a great player, he's outstanding, but he was wide open. It came to halftime and we figured out half the defense had on white wristbands and the other had on black wristbands, so everybody wasn't on the same page. We blew the coverages a lot in the first half. Leach was, oh my God, mad is an understatement. He was hot."
'Nasty taste'
The Cougars lost the next week at Boise State before reeling off eight consecutive wins and earning their third bowl appearance under Mike Leach. The Eagles did something similar, dropping a six-point game to North Dakota State the following week before ripping off 11 straight wins and eventually losing to Youngstown State in the semifinals of the FCS playoffs. But for good or for bad, every player who partook in the season opener that year has vivid memories of it.
Cooper Kupp: "It was so much fun, especially just being so close with their school 45 minutes down the road. To be able to go out there and do what we did, it meant a lot to us. Anytime you get a win against a Pac-12 school. I know those guys are excited for that game. We played some good guys. Luke Falk's in the league now and some guys that are good ballplayers now. Excited for them to go out there and hopefully be able to get another 'W.' "
Gage Gubrud: "Just doing that with the my teammates and the guys we had on that team, and after the game and going into the locker room, and realizing what we just did and putting ourselves on the map like that was a very surreal feeling for me, because that my first college start. That feeling as a whole and being the locker room with all of my brothers and having fun."
Dylan Ledbetter: "It was surreal. I remember coming out of the tunnel and the stands were packed. It was hard for me catch my breath. It was kind of nerve-racking. But once it started, it was just football. It was a blast."
Well, for one side. You could have heard a pin drop in WSU's locker room afterward.
Gerard Wicks: "It was quiet, it was so quiet. Leach was hot. That week I wouldn't say we treated it different, but it wasn't an SC week or like a UW week. It wasn't like we were that fired up or that dialed in. It was Eastern Washington. Even before the game, I remember Gabe came in the locker room and said, 'Let's beat their (expletive) and let's get ready for the night.' We thought it was going to be a breeze and it turned out to be a dogfight and we ended up losing."
Darrien Molton: "I think they played hard, played harder than us. They came out from the gates playing real hard and fast and think they wanted it more than us in that game."
Hunter Dale: "Nasty taste, never like losing. Especially to an in-state school like that."
Time to do it all over again this Saturday.
Published: Sept. 14, 2018, 5 a.m.
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The Revelations of WikiLeaks: No. 6 — US Diplomatic Cables Spark 'Arab Spring,' Expose Spying at UN & Elsewhere
January 14, 2020 • 6 Comments
WikiLeaks' publication of "Cablegate" in late 2010 dwarfed previous releases in both size and impact and helped cause what one news outlet called a political meltdown for United States foreign policy.
Today we resume our series The Revelations of WikiLeaks with little more than a month before the extradition hearing for imprisoned WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange begins. This is the sixth in a series that is looking back on the major works of the publication that has altered the world since its founding in 2006. The series is an effort to counter mainstream media coverage, which is ignoring WikiLeaks' work, and is instead focusing on Julian Assange's personality. It is WikiLeaks' uncovering of governments' crimes and corruption that set the U.S. after Assange, ultimately leading to his arrest on April 11 last year and indictment under the U.S. Espionage Act.
'A Political Meltdown for US Foreign Policy'
By Elizabeth Vos
Special to Consortium News
Of all WikiLeaks' releases, probably the most globally significant have been the more than a quarter of a million U.S. State Department diplomatic cables leaked in 2010, the publication of which helped spark a revolt in Tunisia that spread into the so-called Arab Spring, revealed Saudi intentions towards Iran and exposed spying on the UN secretary general and other diplomats.
The releases were surrounded by a significant controversy (to be covered in a separate installment of this series) alleging that WikiLeaks purposely endangered U.S. informants by deliberately revealing their names. That allegation formed a major part of the U.S. indictment on May 23 of WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange under the Espionage Act, though revealing informants' names is not a crime, nor is there evidence that any of them were ever harmed.
WikiLeaks' publication of "Cablegate," beginning on Nov. 28, 2010, dwarfed previous WikiLeaks releases, in both size and impact. The publication amounted to 251,287 leaked American diplomatic cables that, at the time of publication, Der Spiegel described as"no less than a political meltdown for United States foreign policy."
Cablegate revealed a previously unknown history of diplomatic relations between the United States and the rest of the world, and in doing so, exposed U.S. views of both allies and adversaries. As a result of such revelations, Cablegate's release was widely condemned by the U.S. political class and especially by then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
The Twitter handle Cable Drum, called it,
"… The largest set of confidential documents ever to be released into the public domain. The documents will give people around the world an unprecedented insight into U.S. Government foreign activities. The cables, which date from 1966 up until the end of February 2010, contain confidential communications between 274 embassies in countries throughout the world and the State Department in Washington DC. 15,652 of the cables are classified Secret."
Among the historic documents that were grouped with Cablegate in WikiLeaks' Public Library of U.S. Diplomacy are 1.7 million that involve Henry Kissinger, national security adviser and secretary of state under President Richard Nixon; and 1.4 million related to the Jimmy Carter administration.
Der Spiegel reported that the majority were "composed by ambassadors, consuls or their staff. Most contain assessments of the political situation in the individual countries, interview protocols and background information about personnel decisions and events. In many cases, they also provide political and personal profiles of individual politicians and leaders."
Cablegate rounded out WikiLeaks' output in 2010, which had seen the explosive publication of previous leaks also from Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning including "Collateral Murder," the "Afghan War Diaries" and "Iraq War Logs," the subject of earlier installments in this series. As in the case of the two prior releases, WikiLeaks published Cablegate in partnerships with establishment media outlets.
The "Cablegate" archive was later integrated with the WikiLeaks Public Library of U.S. Diplomacy, which contains over 10 million documents.
Global U.S. Empire Revealed
The impact of "Cablegate" is impossible to fully encapsulate, and should be the subject of historical study for decades to come. In September 2015 Verso published "The WikiLeaks Files: The World According to U.S. Empire," with a foreword by Assange. It is a compendium of chapters written by various regional experts and historians giving a broader and more in-depth geopolitical analysis of U.S. foreign policy as revealed by the cables.
"The internal communications of the US Department of State are the logistical by-product of its activities: their publication is the vivisection of a living empire, showing what substance flowed from which state organ and when. Only by approaching this corpus holistically – over and above the documentation of each individual abuse, each localized atrocity – does the true human cost of empire heave into view," Assange wrote in the foreword.
'WikiLeaks Revolt' in Tunisia
The release of "Cablegate" provided the spark that many argue heralded the Arab Spring, earning the late-November publication the moniker of the "WikiLeaks Winter."
Eventually, many would also credit WikiLeaks' publication of the diplomatic cables with initiating a chain-reaction that spread from the Middle East (specifically from Egypt) to the global Occupy Wall Street movement by late 2011.
The first of the Arab uprisings was Tunisia's 28-day so-called Jasmine Revolution, stretching from Dec. 17, 2010, to Jan. 14, 2011, described as the "first WikiLeaks revolution."
Cables published by WikiLeaksrevealed the extent of the Tunisian ruling family's corruption, and were widely accessible in Tunisia thanks to the advent of social media platforms like Twitter. Then-President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali had been in power for over two decades at the time of the cables' publication.
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One State Department cable, labeled Secret, said:
"President Ben Ali's extended family is often cited as the nexus of Tunisian corruption. Often referred to as a quasi-mafia, an oblique mention of 'the Family' is enough to indicate which family you mean. Seemingly half of the Tunisian business community can claim a Ben Ali connection through marriage, and many of these relations are reported to have made the most of their lineage."
A June 2008 cable said: "Whether it's cash, services, land, property, or yes, even your yacht, President [Zine el Abidine] Ben Ali's family is rumored to covet it and reportedly gets what it wants."
Symbolic middle finger gesture representing the Tunisian Revolution and its influences in the Arab world. From left to right, fingers are painted as flags of Libya, Egypt, Tunisia, Sudan and Algeria. (Khalid from Doha, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons)
The cables revealed that Ben Ali's extended family controlled nearly the entire Tunisian economy, from banking to media to property development, while 30 percent of Tunisians were unemployed. They showed that state-owned property was expropriated to be passed on to private ownership by family members.
"Lax oversight makes the banking sector an excellent target of opportunity, with multiple stories of 'First Family' schemes," one cable read. ""With real estate development booming and land prices on the rise, owning property or land in the right location can either be a windfall or a one-way ticket to expropriation," said another.
The revolt was facilitated once the U.S. abandoned Ali. Counterpunch reported that: "The U.S. campaign of unwavering public support for President Ali led to a widespread belief among the Tunisian people that it would be very difficult to dislodge the autocratic regime from power. This view was shattered when leaked cables exposed the U.S. government's private assessment: that the U.S. would not support the regime in the event of a popular uprising."
The internet and large social media platforms played a crucial role in the spread of public awareness of the cables and their content amongst the Tunisian public. "Thousands of home-made videos of police repression and popular resistance have been posted on the web. The Tunisian people have used Facebook, Twitter and other social networking sites to organize and direct the mobilizations against the regime," the World Socialist Website wrote.
Foreign Policy magazine reported:
"WikiLeaks acted as a catalyst: both a trigger and a tool for political outcry. Which is probably the best compliment one could give the whistle-blower site." The magazine added: "The people of Tunisia shouldn't have had to wait for Wikileaks to learn that the U.S. saw their country just as they did. It's time that the gulf between what American diplomats know and what they say got smaller."
The Guardian published an account in January 2011 by a young Tunisian, Sami Ben Hassine, who wrote: "The internet is blocked, and censored pages are referred to as pages "not found" – as if they had never existed. And then, WikiLeaks reveals what everyone was whispering. And then, a young man [Mohamed Bouazizi] immolates himself. And then, 20 Tunisians are killed in one day. And for the first time, we see the opportunity to rebel, to take revenge on the 'royal' family who has taken everything, to overturn the established order that has accompanied our youth."
Protester in Tunis, Jan. 14, 2011, holding sign. Translation from French: "Ben Ali out." (Skotch 79, CC0, Wikimedia Commons)
On the first day of Chelsea Manning's pretrial in December 2011, Daniel Ellsberg told Democracy Now:
"The combination of the WikiLeaksand Bradley Manning exposures in Tunis and the exemplification of that by Mohamed Bouazizi led to the protests, the nonviolent protests, that drove Ben Ali out of power, our ally there who we supported up 'til that moment, and in turn sparked the uprising in Egypt, in Tahrir Square occupation, which immediately stimulated the Occupy Wall Street and the other occupations in the Middle East and elsewhere. … I hope [Manning and Assange] will have the effect in liberating us from the lawlessness that we have seen and the corruption — the corruption — that we have seen in this country in the last 10 years and more, which has been no less than that of Tunis and Egypt."
Clinton Told US Diplomats to Spy at UN
The cables' revelation that the U.S. State Department under then-Secretary-of-State Clinton had demanded officials act as spies on officials at the United Nations — including the Secretary General — was particularly embarrassing for the United States.
El Pais summarized the bombshell: "The State Department sent officials of 38 embassies and diplomatic missions a detailed account of the personal and other information they must obtain about the United Nations, including its secretary general, and especially about officials and representatives linked to Sudan, Afghanistan, Somalia, Iran and North Korea.
El Pais continued: "Several dispatches, signed 'Clinton' and probably made by the office of Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, contain precise instructions about the myriad of inquiries to be developed in conflict zones, in the world of deserters and asylum seekers, in the engine room of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, or about the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Russia and China to know their plans regarding the nuclear threat in Tehran."
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton & UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon in 2012. (Foreign and Commonwealth Office/Flickr)
CNN described the information diplomats were ordered to gather: "In the July 2009 document, Clinton directs her envoys at the United Nations and embassies around the world to collect information ranging from basic biographical data on foreign diplomats to their frequent flyer and credit card numbers and even 'biometric information on ranking North Korean diplomats.' Typical biometric information can include fingerprints, signatures and iris recognition data."
Der Spiegel reported that Clinton justified the espionage orders by emphasizing that "a large share of the information that the US intelligence agencies works with comes from the reports put together by State Department staff around the world."
Der Spiegel added: "The US State Department also wanted to obtain information on the plans and intentions of UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and his secretariat relating to issues like Iran, according to the detailed wish list in the directive. The instructions were sent to 30 US embassies around the world, including the one in Berlin."
Philip J. Crowley as assistant secretary of state for public affairs in 2010. (State Department)
The State Department responded to the revelations, with then- State-Department-spokesman P.J. Crowley reportedly disputing that American diplomats had assumed a new role overseas.
"Our diplomats are just that, diplomats," he said. "They represent our country around the world and engage openly and transparently with representatives of foreign governments and civil society. Through this process, they collect information that shapes our policies and actions. This is what diplomats, from our country and other countries, have done for hundreds of years."
In December 2010, just after the cables' publication, Assange told Time: "She should resign if it can be shown that she was responsible for ordering U.S. diplomatic figures to engage in espionage in the United Nations, in violation of the international covenants to which the U.S. has signed up."
Saudis & Iran
A diplomatic cable dated April 20, 2008, made clear Saudi Arabia's pressure on the United States to take action against its enemy Iran, including not ruling out military action against Teheran:
"[Then Saudi ambassador to the US Abbdel] Al-Jubeir recalled the King's frequent exhortations to the US to attack Iran and so put an end to its nuclear weapons program. 'He told you to cut off the head of the snake,' he recalled to the Charge', adding that working with the US to roll back Iranian influence in Iraq is a strategic priority for the King and his government. 11. (S) The Foreign Minister, on the other hand, called instead for much more severe US and international sanctions on Iran, including a travel ban and further restrictions on bank lending. Prince Muqrin echoed these views, emphasizing that some sanctions could be implemented without UN approval. The Foreign Minister also stated that the use of military pressure against Iran should not be ruled out."
Dyncorp & the 'Dancing Boys' of Afghanistan
The cables indicate that Afghan authorities asked the United States government to quash U.S. reporting on a scandal stemming from the actions of Dyncorp employees in Afghanistan in 2009.
Employees of Dyncorp, a paramilitary group with an infamous track-record of alleged involvement in sex trafficking and other human rights abuses in multiple countries, were revealed by Cablegate to have been involved with illegal drug use and hiring the services of a "bacha bazi," or underage dancing boy.
A 2009 cable published by WikiLeaks described an event where Dyncorp had purchased the service of a "bacha bazi." The writer of the cable does not specify what happened during the event, describing it only as "purchasing a service from a child," and he tries to convince a journalist not to cover the story in order to not "risk lives."
Although Dyncorp was no stranger to controversy by the time of the cables' publication, the revelation of the mercenary force's continued involvement in bacha bazi provoked further questions as to why the company continued to receive tax-payer funded contracts from the United States.
Sexual abuse allegations were not the only issue haunting Dyncorp. The State Department admitted in 2017 that it "could not account for" more than $1 billion paid to the company, as reported by Foreign Policy.
The New York Times later reported that U.S. soldiers had been told to turn a blind eye to the abuse of minors by those in positions of power: "Soldiers and Marines have been increasingly troubled that instead of weeding out pedophiles, the American military was arming them in some cases and placing them as the commanders of villages — and doing little when they began abusing children."
Australia Lied About Troop Withdrawal
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd of Australia, left, with U.S. President Barack Obama, in the Oval Office, Nov. 30, 2009, to discuss a range of issues including Afghanistan and climate change. (White House/Pete Souza)
The Green Left related that the cables exposed Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's double talk about withdrawing troops. "Despite government spin about withdrawing all 'combat forces,' the cables said some of these forces could be deployed in combat roles. One cable said, "[d]espite the withdrawal of combat forces, Rudd agreed to allow Australian forces embedded or seconded to units of other countries including the U.S. to deploy to Iraq in combat and combat support roles with those units."
US Meddling in Latin America
Cables revealed that U.S. ambassadors to Ecuador had opposed the presidential candidacy of Raphael Correa despite their pretense of neutrality, as observed by The Green Left Weekly.
Additional cables revealed the Vatican attempted to increase its influence in Latin America with the aid of the U.S. Further cables illustrated the history of Pope Francis while he was a cardinal in Argentina, with the U.S. appearing to have a positive outlook on the future pontiff.
Illegal Dealings Between US & Sweden
WikiLeaksfounder Julian Assange wrote in his affidavit:
"Through the diplomatic cables I also learned of secret, informal arrangements between Sweden and the United States. The cables revealed that Swedish intelligence services have a pattern of lawless conduct where US interests are concerned. The US diplomatic cables revealed that the Swedish Justice Department had deliberately hidden particular intelligence information exchanges with the United States from the Parliament of Sweden because the exchanges were likely unlawful."
Military Reaction
On Nov. 30, 2010, the State Department declared it would remove the diplomatic cables from its secure network in order to prevent additional leaks. Antiwar.com added: "The cables had previously been accessible through SIPRNet, an ostensibly secure network which is accessible by millions of officials and soldiers. It is presumably through this network that the cables were obtained and leaked to WikiLeaks."
The Guardian described SIPRNet as a "worldwide US military internet system, kept separate from the ordinary civilian internet and run by the Defence Department in Washington."
Political Fury
On Nov. 29, 2010, then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said of the "Cablegate" release:
"This disclosure is not just an attack on America's foreign policy; it is an attack on the international community, the alliances and partnerships, the conventions and negotiations that safeguard global security and advance economic prosperity."
The next day, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee called for Chelsea Manning's execution, according to Politico.
Some political figures did express support for Assange, including U.K. Labor leader Jeremy Corbyn, who wrote via Twitter days after Cablegate was published: "USA and others don't like any scrutiny via wikileaks and they are leaning on everybody to pillory Assange. What happened to free speech?"
Other notable revelations from the diplomatic cables included multiple instances of U.S. meddling in Latin America, the demand by then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that diplomatic staff act as spies, the documentation of misconduct by U.S. paramilitary forces, the fallout of the 2008 financial crisis in Iceland, the deployment of U.S. nuclear weapons in Germany and other European countries, that the Vatican attempted to increase its influence in Latin America with the aid of the U.S. , that U.S. diplomats had essentially spied on German Chancellor Angele Merkel, and much more.
Der Spiegel reported on Hillary Clinton's demand that U.S. diplomats act as spies:
"As justification for the espionage orders, Clinton emphasized that a large share of the information that the U.S. intelligence agencies works with comes from the reports put together by State Department staff around the world. The information to be collected included personal credit card information, frequent flyer customer numbers, as well as e-mail and telephone accounts. In many cases the State Department also requested 'biometric information,' 'passwords' and 'personal encryption keys.' "
Der Spiegel added: "The U.S. State Department also wanted to obtain information on the plans and intentions of UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and his secretariat relating to issues like Iran, according to the detailed wish list in the directive. The instructions were sent to 30 U.S. embassies around the world, including the one in Berlin."
Elizabeth Vos is a freelance reporter and co-host of CN Live.
CORRECTION: CableDrum is an independent Twitter feed and is not associated with WikiLeaks as was incorrectly reported here.
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6 comments for "The Revelations of WikiLeaks: No. 6 — US Diplomatic Cables Spark 'Arab Spring,' Expose Spying at UN & Elsewhere"
robert e williamson jr
For the sake of everyone let this man out so he can tell all.
Free Julian, and let him live.
#freejulianassange #no_usa_extradition #freepress
The US has a lotta damn gall, nist?
Double and triple standards and more. Not that anyone should be so foolish as to think this will change American behavior.
jmg
A truly great series, thank you.
The Revelations of WikiLeaks — Consortium News Series
1. The Video that Put Assange in US Crosshairs — April 23, 2019
2. The Leak That 'Exposed the True Afghan War' — May 9, 2019
3. The Most Extensive Classified Leak in History — May 16, 2019
4. The Haunting Case of a Belgian Child Killer and How WikiLeaks Helped Crack It — July 11, 2019
5. Busting the Myth WikiLeaks Never Published Damaging Material on Russia — September 23, 2019
6. US Diplomatic Cables Spark 'Arab Spring,' Expose Spying at UN & Elsewhere — January 14, 2020
For an updated list with links to the articles, a Google search is:
"The Revelations of WikiLeaks" site:consortiumnews.com
Consortium News wrote:
> Today we resume our series The Revelations of WikiLeaks with little more than a month before the extradition hearing for imprisoned WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange begins.
Yes and, shockingly, Julian has been allowed only 2 hours with his lawyers in the last month, crucial to prepare the extradition hearings. See:
Summary from Assange hearing at Westminster Magistrates Court this morning — Tareq Haddad — Thread Reader — Jan 13th 2020
Eugenie Basile
Free Assange !
Badruddin Syed
Great effort in the field of journalism. keep it up!

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Cordell Hull, ameriški politik, nobelovec, pravnik, * 2. oktober 1871, Olympus, Tennessee, † 23. julij, 1955, Bethesda, Maryland, ZDA.

Znan je kot dolgoletni član Roosveltove administracije odgovoren za zunanje zadeve. Zaradi specifično dolgega mandata predsednika Roosvelta je tudi sam imel najdaljši mandat. Prejel je tudi Nobelovo nagrado za mir leta 1945 je za svojo vlogo pri ustanovitvi Združenih Narodov. Roosvelt ga je označil za "očeta Združenih narodov".

Življenje in vlade

Hull je bil rojen v brunarici v kraju Olympus, Tennessee. Bil je sin Elizabeth (roj Riley) in Williama Pascala Hulla. Že zelo zgodaj se posveti politiki in postane lokalni predstavnik Demokratske stranke v starosti 19 let. Po študiju se vpiše v Cumberlandsko šolo prava.

Kot poslanec spodnjega doma ameriškega Kongresa ZDA je opravil 11 mandatov (1907-1921 in 1923-1931). Kot poslanec je znan kot avtor zveznega davka na dohodnino leta 1913 in 1916 in davku na dediščino iz leta 1916.  Po volilnem porazu v letu 1920 Hull napreduje v predsednika demokratske stranke. Leta 1930 je izvoljen v Senat ZDA, a odstopi s funkcije leta 1933, da bi postal minister za zunanje zadeve.

Leta 1933 Hull preide v izvršilno vejo oblasti in postane Državni sekretar administracije Franklina D. Roosevelta, to funkcijo je opravljal 11 let do upokojitve. Velja za pravnega in političnega arhitekta Organizacije združenih narodov in enega snovateljev osnutka Ustanovne listine Združenih narodov sredi leta 1943. Svoj mandat je prenehal v novembru 1944 iz zdravstvenih razlogov.

Nobelovo nagrado so obrazložili s sklicevanjem na Woodrowa Wilsona, ki je bil podobno nagrajen z osnovanjem Društva narodov. Hull je bil nominiran že večkrat v tridesetih letih zaradi prizadevanja pri ustvarjanju bratstva ZDA z državami Srednje in Južne Amerike in izpogajanja uspešnih trgovinskih sporazumov.

Zvezni senator in državni sekretar
Leta 1938 je Hull vpleten v dialog z Mehiškim zunanjim ministrom Eduardom Seno o nadomestilu, ki bi ga morali biti deležni Američani, ki so izgubili kmetije med agrarnimi reformami v poznih 1920. Hull je vztrajal pri tem, da mora biti nadomestilo "takojšnje, ustrezno in učinkovito". Četudi je mehiška ustava zagotavljala kompenzacijo za razlastitev ali nacionalizacijo, ni bilo še nič plačano. Medtem ko Seno priznal mehiško odgovornost, je odgovoril, da ne obstoji "pravilo, ki bi bilo splošno sprejeto v teoriji, niti se ne izvaja v praksi, ki zahteva obvezno takojšnje plačilo nadomestila..." Tako imenovana "Hullova formula", ki je bil kasneje sprejeta v številnih pogodbah, ki se nanašajo na mednarodne naložbe, je še vedno sporna, še posebej v latinskoameriških državah, ki so zgodovinsko navezani na Calvo doktrino, ki med drugim predlaga, da nadomestilo, ki ga določi država gostitelj, velja kot taka brez ugovorov. Če država poskrbi za enakost med tujci in državljani in ni iz strani države diskriminatornega vedenja, država ne more zahtevati poplačila po mednarodnem pravu. Napetost med Hullovo formulo in Calvo doktrino je še vedno pomembna na področju mednarodnih naložb.

Hull je bil odgovoren za mednarodne odnose tudi med napadom na Pearl Harbor. Pred napadom se je prizadeval kot član vlade za sporazum med Japonsko in ZDA v želji po odprtju kitajskih trgov za ameriško blago. Sporazum je zahteval umik japonskih vojaških sil s francoske Indokitajske in Kitajske. Mnogi Japonci so razumeli Hullov zapis, ki je bil osnutek sporazuma, za ultimat.

Afera St. Louis
Leta 1939 je Hull svetoval predsedniku Rooseveltu, da zavrne pristan nemške ladje SS St. Louis, prekooceanke, ki nosila preko 900 Judov, ki so iskali azil iz Nemčije. Ladjo so zavrnili tako v Kanadi in Kubi, tako da se je vrnila nazaj v Evropo. Veliko potnikov je bilo na koncu umorjenih.

Smrt
Leta 1945 je Cordell Hull prejel Nobelovo nagrado za mir za "sovzpostavitev Združenih Narodov". Umrl je po preživetih zapletih s srcem, imel je tudi več srčnih kapi, a je končno preminil leta 1955 v Washingtonu, D.C., in je pokopan v kapeli Svetega Jožefa iz Arimateje v Washingtonski Nacionalni katedrali, torej episkopalni cerkvi.

Viri

Reference

Zunanje povezave

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 Cordell Hull: biografija na straneh ameriškega kongresa
 Cordell Hull Foundation for international education
 Cordell Hull - dela na Internet Archive

Nobelovi nagrajenci za mir
Državni sekretarji ZDA
Kongresniki ZDA iz Tennesseeja
Senatorji ZDA iz Tennesseeja

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Bulgaria's protests descend into bathos
March 18, 2013 March 18, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff
They are the force that brought down a government and precipitated early elections; the force that captivated the international media with apocalyptic (if apocryphal) accounts of daily bloody clashes on the streets; and yet, amid the petty melodramas of just another Sunday, Bulgaria's protesters appeared riven by factionalism, petty and divided.
Some want to found political movements to contest the ahead-of-term elections on May 12 and others do not; others to pursue radical alternatives and others not; most favour demands that would be as suicidal in implementation as the latest individual to self-immolate; and all, as ever, are captive to individual grudges, genuine grievances, and vulnerable to allegations that they serve interests other than the long-term interests of Bulgaria.
In contrast to the thousands mustered in previous weeks, the first turnout of protesters on the first weekend after the swearing-in of the Marin Raykov caretaker government, ahead of the ahead-of-term elections, was paltry.
As reported by local news agency Focus, the protesters who turned out on March 17 "split from the very beginning".
"Some of the people who were very active in the protests a month ago were now booed and unwanted," the local news agency said.
"The biggest discontent was caused by suspicions that political parties are trying to incorporate insiders among the protestors in order to take advantage of them. Significantly fewer people attended today's protests in comparison with previous ones. In some towns there were only dozens of people. In parallel to the street demonstrations, in many towns and cities citizens set up movements, with some of them saying they express the protestors' interests and will represent them in the upcoming early parliamentary elections on May 12."
In Bulgaria's capital city Sofia, the protest on March 17 was supposed to start in several venues, but as no one turned up, the protest outside the National Palace of Culture did not take place.
At the intersection at Eagle Bridge, about 50 people gathered, and in front of the building of the Ministry of Economy, Energy and Tourism, about 100.
The protest in Sofia split into two at the very beginning. Some of those who had gathered in front of the Ministry of Economy, Energy and Tourism, headed to the National Theatre. The reason for the split was that the protest was organised by two different movements.
The protestors voiced their discontent with the reaction of Parliament, the State Energy and Water Regulatory Commission, Municipality of Sofia and the President's Office. They also insisted on re-launching units 3 and 4 of Kozloduy nuclear power plant and nationalising the power distribution companies. They expressed their disagreement with the privatisation of the Bulgarian State Railways (BDZ) and VMZ Sopot. While passing by some of the co-ordinators of today's protests, some protestors chanted "traitors" and "mafia." The civil association Deliverance was condemned as traitors.
In the northern city of Rousse, Bulgarians protesting against monopolies said that they would set up a tent camp, just like some of the protestors in Sofia.
In the city of Varna and town of Shoumen, trains were blocked at the railway stations.
Dozens of people protested in the city of Varna. They blocked boulevards and there was tension with the police. They hung an effigy in front of a bank in the city. At the railway station in Varna, protesters blocked a train to Sofia from departing. Protesters also turned out in front of the office of the power distribution company.
In Bulgaria's second biggest city, Plovdiv, about 200 people joined the March 17 protest. The demonstrators started a protest procession, which was accompanied by three police patrols.
The local women's handball team was in the front line of the procession. The protesters held photos of Bulgarian politicians, on which there was an inscription saying "Let us clean up Bulgaria".
In the town of Veliko Turnovo, the theme of the protest was "Levski, get up and lead us" [referring to Bulgarian revolutionary Vasil Levski]. About 50 people arrived at the gathering point of the protest.
In the Southwest town of Blagoevgrad, the protest ended peacefully, but with the protesters splitting into two groups, with differing leaders and demands.
In the southern town of Sliven, the protestors gave the new government one week to fulfill their demands. The protests in the town will continue with new demands, such as a lower water price, said the protestors.
In the western town of Kyustendil, about 100 people gathered in the square to stage their latest protest against monopolies and the country's poor government.
Mayor Petar Paunov was again among the protestors. The chairwoman of the co-ordinating committee, Elena Mancheva, told the protestors that the protests should continue and that anyone who was dissatisfied should take to the streets and not stay at home.
(Archive photo of protests in Sofia on March 3 2013: Clive Leviev-Sawyer)
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W. Allan Jones established the Allan Jones Foundation in 2000 as part of his continuing effort as a good corporate citizen in his hometown of Cleveland, (Bradley County) Tennessee. The Foundation actively supports organizations that help improve the quality of life and general welfare in communities in which Jones' employees work and live.
For these reasons, the Allan Jones Foundation contributes to educational, health, cultural, social betterment, civic, historical, and environmental projects, as well as some other charitable organizations whose programs and objective promote quality of life.
The Who's Who of Cleveland came out recently to honor Allan and Janie Jones for their work and contributions to the Museum Center at 5ive Points and the community at large.
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Tree seedlings grafted from trees planted by the famous John Chapman (Johnny Appleseed) were purchased by the Allan Jones Foundation and a tree grove planted and donated to each city and county elementary, middle and high school in Cleveland (Bradley County, Tennessee.
A study curriculum was also donated for students to study the legendary man who planted apple trees in his trek across the US over 100 years ago.
Allan Jones, founder and chairman of Check into Cash, Inc., presented a challenge gift that will make possible construction of the University of Tennessee Intercollegiate Aquatic Center on its campus in Knoxville, Tennessee. Read about the dedication of the Allan Jones Intercollegiate Aquatic Center which took place in August, 2008 in the Articles section of this website.
Historic Craigmiles House (built in late 1800s) was purchased by Allan Jones Foundation and donated to the Cleveland Public Library (Cleveland, TN) to use as a library addition in memory of the late Judge Virgil F. Carmichael.
State of the art wrestling facility was built on the Cleveland High School campus in Cleveland, TN as a gift to the alma mater of Allan Jones and as a tribute to his father, the late W.A. (Bill) Jones, after whom the arena is named.
This plaque at the Tri-State Exhibition Center is in recognition of Allan Jones' contribution that allowed for construction of one of the three barns on the 92,000 acre facility which hosts several major horse shows and other community events each year.
This 92-acre facility located on the outskirts of Cleveland, TN, is the site of numerous horse shows, art exhibitions and community events each year. To keep the center as a viable venue for a wide variety of attractions, Allan Jones has donated $300,000 as part of a facility expansion program. The Center offers a 70,400 square-foot covered show arena with bleachers and a raised box seating area, plus 2 outside arenas, 3 schooling areas and 3 barns with a total of 208 stalls. An annual bluegrass festival, a national championship rodeo, community fairs and dog shows are just some of Tri-State's highlighted events.
The W.A. (Bill) Jones Memorial Scholarship was established at Cleveland State Community College in Cleveland, TN, by Allan Jones and his sister, Amy Jones Banks.
The endowed scholarship was established as a way to honor the memory of their father, the late Bill Jones. As a civic leader, Mr. Jones was very active in the community. He was the president of the Chamber of Commerce at the time that Cleveland State received its charter. The scholarship, established in 1986, provides assistance to Cleveland State students based on the criteria of need and academic record.
Even though Allan Jones graduated from Cleveland High School, he is equally generous when it comes to his old alma mater's chief rival, Bradley Central High School. Witness his more than $100,000 donation to Bradley's wrestling facility. The Wrestling Practice Room at Bradley High was donated by Jones in honor of his parents, W.A. (Bill) and Virginia Slaughter Jones, both graduates of the school. With Jones' help, Bradley is perhaps an even more formidable foe now than back in the day when he wrestled against them, as evidenced by their many championships.
A major supporter of amateur wrestling, both at the high school and college level, Jones is a recognized stalwart in the annals of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga's wrestling program. Whether it's for equipment, scholarships, or the wrestling building itself, Jones' $150,000 dollar donation has made a healthy impact on the UTC program.
Dan Gable is a legend in the wrestling world. As an Olympic competitor in the Munich Games of 1972, he brought home the Gold Medal. And as a college coach, he was a two-time NCAA champion and brought Iowa 15 NCAA titles and 21 Big Ten team titles, not to mention "Coach of the Year" three times. To honor this legend and help continue the fine work that he does, Allan Jones was proud to make a sizeable donation to the Dan Gable International Wrestling Institute and Museum in Waterloo, Iowa.
Located on a five-acre site along state highway 73 in Townsend, Tennessee, the Great Smoky Mountain Heritage Center was created to preserve, protect and promote the unique history and rich culture of the residents and Native Americans of the mountain communities in East Tennessee. After visiting the center on a day trip, Jones was especially taken with the unique amphitheater there. Set amidst the beauty of the Smoky Mountains, the facility seats 500 and features a 24 x 12 foot stage. Jones' donation will ensure that the amphitheater continues to bring enjoyment to everyone who visits.
In honor of his continuing contributions to schools in his area, Allan Jones has been named Contributor of the Year for Athletic Districts 1, 2, and 3 in the state of Tennessee. The award is given to individuals displaying the high ideals of integrity and ethics, and for the examples of citizenship and sportsmanship shown. This is the first year that TSSAA has honored contributors as part of the A.F. Bridges Awards program.
Greenway Park at Willow and Keith Sts.
Cleveland's Greenway is a project that the entire community can be proud of. The Greenway is a system of paved interconnected pathways that allow walkers, hikers, bikers, and joggers to traverse the city of Cleveland from one end to the other. Running alongside well-traveled roads, the Greenway is a safe thoroughfare for all who want to exercise or just get out and stretch their legs. The Greenway has proven so popular that donations from a variety of sources have extended its reach, and Allan Jones was pleased to be a co-donor to create the shady park near the Southern end of the trail. The park features picnic tables alongside a stream, just right for a place to rest or to linger longer.
It's no secret around Cleveland and Southeast Tennessee that Allan Jones is a "tree freak." He has donated literally hundreds of trees to improve the livability of our community, as well as enhance the beauty of many public spaces and buildings. Indeed, Jones was responsible for getting Cleveland designated as an official "Tree City USA." Among the major plantings that Jones paid for are the trees lining the long driveway entrance to Bradley Central High School, the trees along picturesque Ocoee St., all the trees in the downtown area and around the Bradley County Courthouse and on historic Centenary Ave. (both areas planted in honor of his father, Bill Jones), trees at Cleveland High School dedicated to the Class of 1992 from the Class of 1972, and at both Arnold and Mayfield Elementary schools. Most of the trees planted by Jones are Japanese Zelkova. They provide good shade; easy fall cleanup; are tolerant of heat, drought, wind, and urban conditions; and considered a good replacement for American elm; plus they're easy to transplant and a good street tree.
As the centerpiece of historic downtown Cleveland, the Museum Center at Five Points is a focal point for the community and offers a variety of cultural and educational programs for both children and adults. The intent of the museum is to preserve and interpret the history and culture of the Ocoee District by highlighting the adventures of its people. As a major contributor to the Museum, Allan Jones and family donated a conference room named in their honor. In addition, his donation allowed for the landscaping around the museum building.
Another way in which Allan Jones shows his support of the area's amateur athletics programs is to fund live television coverage of two important community sports events. The Tennesee High School State Championship Finals in wrestling are televised each year with funding provided by Jones. In addition, he pays to have the annual Cleveland/Bradley High football contest, not only televised, but also shown on the giant outdoor Jonesatron screen at the Village Green Town Center.
This Indianapolis, IN, high school—the largest township school in the U.S.—attracted Allan Jones' attention with its outstanding wrestling program. With its powerhouse coaching staff and rich school history, Jones' donation will help keep the young wrestlers and their determined coaches on the path to success.
Captivated by the beauty of the Grand Tetons and Jackson Hole, WY, Allan Jones—like so many before him—quickly realized the importance of preserving this great resource for future generations. The Campaign for Our Valley, started in 1999, is a $25.5 million, three-year private fundraising effort made by the Jackson Hole Land Trust in order to purchase conservation easements for unprotected ranch land in Jackson Hole. To show his support of this conservation effort, Jones has donated $100,000 to the campaign.The non-profit Jackson Hole Land Trust has worked diligently with land owners since 1980 to preserve wildlife habitats and undeveloped land in the Jackson Hole area.
As a $100,000 annual donor to the community's United Way campaign, Allan Jones has distinguished himself as a member of the select deToqueville Society, an elite group of donors whose giving far surpasses the norm. This well-known charity provides an umbrella of community support through its numerous agencies that include everything from the Boy Scouts to the Red Cross.
Through his donation to Rulon Gardner of the Sunkist Wrestling Club, Allan Jones enabled Gardner's parents to travel to the Olympics to watch their son compete. And compete he did: Gardner won the Gold Medal in wrestling at the 2000 games held in Sydney, Australia. This Wyoming farm boy had traveled half-way around the world and defeated the greatest Olympic wrestler ever. His victory, called "the Miracle on the Mat," was witnessed in person by his proud parents, thanks to the generosity of Allan Jones. Gardner's championship match went down in the record books as one of the greatest upsets in Olympic history.
Each year, Allan Jones gives generously to this worthy fund that provides money for needy children to Christmas shop. Area school teachers provide names of underprivileged children they deem worthy of participating in the program. Then, on a special Sunday, volunteers take the children shopping in small groups. Each child is given $100 to spend on gifts for themselves and their loved ones. This fund makes a big difference in the lives of those who otherwise would have no Christmas memories.
In the spring of each year, on the eve of the Kentucky Derby, a lavish party is held in Louisville to benefit the American Diabetes Association. Tricia Barnstable Brown, the gala's hostess, started holding the event after her husband died from diabetes in 2003. Since that time, the evening has grown into a black-tie scene populated by celebrities and a veritable who's who from all over America. Allan Jones' $10,000 donation helps make this a most successful fundraiser.
To jump-start the Career and Technical Education Department at Cleveland High School, Allan Jones donated $5,000 to the Project "Lead the Way" program, a pre-engineering course introduced three years ago. One of the advanced classes successfully built a solar bicycle for a competition with other high schools and colleges nationwide. The Cleveland High team finished first in their division, and third overall. The class continued its work on the construction of another challenging project, a solar car.
Allan Jones' interest in and support of amateur wrestling has continued long beyond his own years as a competitor on the mat. Jones realizes the necessity of good coaches and how much they need to be nurtured. Accordingly, Jones has provided generous donations to this national high school and collegiate coaching body in the form of monies for a vital leadership course and for a weight training program.
Wheaton College in Wheaton, IL, is home to the new J. Dennis Hastert Center for Economics, Government, and Public Policy. Allan Jones' donation to this new center will help it realize its goals of advancing the study of market economics and representative democracies. The center honors Hastert and his career in public life, notably as Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. Hastert is a 1964 alumnus of Wheaton. The center will be housed in the newly renovated Memorial Student Center on the Wheaton campus.
The Spartans of Manchester College in North Manchester, IN, are fortunate to have captured the interest of wrestling enthusiast Allan Jones. He rewarded the college's wrestling program with a donation that will help them continue to build on an already fine tradition of success, which included eight straight Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference championships, plus titles in 2002-04 and again in 2007.
Not only do the area high schools benefit from Allan Jones' generosity, but Cleveland Middle School was also fortunate to receive donations. Both the CMS football and baseball teams were recipients of Jones' kindness, with the baseball team receiving a new ball field. And to nurture the next generation of fine wrestlers, Jones also provided some $12,000 to the Cleveland Middle School's wrestling program.
Once again, Allan Jones put away his favoritism and provided generous funding to a wrestling program at another area high school that was not his alma mater. Jones has donated a considerable amount to the Mustangs wrestling program in an effort to keep it competitive with other schools in the area.


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Author: Steve Peer
Welcome to San Diego Studio!
Sony Interactive Entertainment Worldwide Studios' (SIE WWS) southernmost outpost is San Diego Studio in San Diego, CA, home to the creators of the Top Selling " MLB® THE SHOW™" franchise, the longest-running officially licensed Major League Baseball game series for the PlayStation® platforms, ModNation™ Racers, Sports Champions (a PlayStation®Move Motion Controller Launch Title), and available exclusively for the PlayStation®Network - "PAIN®" and "High Velocity Bowling®".
Games developed at SD Studio have all been acclaimed for their sense of realism and graphic representation which stands as a testament to the Studio's dedication for pushing the boundaries of graphics technology. SD Studio's aims are to nurture passionate teams with a desire to make innovative titles showcasing the power of the PlayStation® platforms.
SD Studio shares its campus with SIE's Motion Capture facility, the second largest of its kind in North America and utilized globally for SCE WWS games and also the movie industry.
SIE WWS in North America also has some of the best audio facilities in the industry. SD Studio is the home of a 7.1 mix room and two large live rooms with 20 THX-certified edit rooms. The SD team provide music, sound design, post production and dialogue content for many major WWS titles.
San Diego Studio is located in one of America's favorite cities. Whether it's surfing, craft beers, beautiful weather, or even Fish Tacos, San Diego is home to many of the best experiences.
Diversity Week Celebration
While we continue to recognize the myriad of races, ethnicities, genders, abilities, beliefs, and cultures that make up the SIE San Diego Studio family year-round, we always look forward to that time of year when those amazing differences that make us stronger as a team are placed into the spotlight for celebration…Diversity Week! The PlayStation African-America Network (PAAN), Circulo, LGBTQ, VETS, and Women in Tech (WITS) just to name of few of our amazing campus Employee Resource Groups are given an opportunity to truly shine and bring our collective talents to the table as Diversity Week culminates in our Diversity Week Celebration party! It's a great opportunity for all of us to get together to recognize that it's the things that make us different that make us who we are and, most importantly, allows us to bring different experiences to the table for all of us to share with one another and learn from.
The Big Move!
After nearly 17 years, more than a score of developed, published or produced games across 5 different consoles SIE San Diego Studio has finally made the move from our original location to our new digs! Located in Sorrento Valley, the tech-heart of San Diego, our new studio space was designed with the specific needs of our studio and its inhabitants in mind.
From the open floorplan designed to allow for ease of interaction between teams, to the custom artwork and sculptures intended to represent the lifestyle associated with SIE San Diego Studio this new space is intended to make sure the creative juices are constantly flowing.
Numerous perks like complimentary beverages and snacks including a FreeStyle Soda Machine, on-tap cold brew coffee and kombucha, and a vast array of health conscious, and a few not so health conscious, snacks help to ensure that there always something available whenever a quick pick-me-up is necessary.
With all of this at our disposal how can we not continue to bring amazing, engaging and exciting gaming experiences to the table?
In our continued commitment to the promotion of diversity and inclusion within the SIE San Diego Studio culture we are proud to recognize our Employee Resource Groups (ERG) as being on the forefront of these efforts. The PlayStation African-American Network (PAAN), Circulo, LGBTQ, and Women in Tech (WITS) make up our current roster of active ERG's. These ERG's have been instrumental in bringing new and valued perspectives to the studio. Along with the on-campus events celebrating the myriad of cultures represented through our team members, the ERG's have also made great strides in helping to bring SIE San Diego Studio into the lives of our local communities with a focus on giving back to the city of San Diego which has given all of us so much. As we work towards integrating the experiences and viewpoints of all of our team members into the fabric of our corporate culture these ERG's, along with others to come, will continue to be our best resource in these efforts.
God of War Artist's Panel
Huge thank you to our sister studio, SIE Santa Monica Studio, for lending us a few members of their All-Star Art team to discuss their experiences in the making of the 2018 Game Awards' Game of the Year, God of War! Bruno Velazquez (Animation Director), Raf Grassetti (Art Director), Glauco Longhi (Lead Character Artist), Luis Sanchez (Lead Level Designer) made the trek down to SIE San Diego Studio discuss their time working on God of War, the highs and lows of the development process, what they've learned from their experiences, and to discuss the future of our favorite demi-god and his "boy" with our very own Mia G. Watkins (Community Outreach Specialist). Afterwards, attendees had a chance to chat with the team one-on-one to pick their brains and ask questions about the process that resulted in one of the greatest games to ever make its way to the PlayStation family. We're looking forward to seeing what these amazingly, talented creators bring to the table in the highly anticipated sequel to God of War!
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Here's an example. When a defensive position, pressure, control, and space must be managed. This creates a difficult environment for the person defending. So what's the best option when your opponent is using their weight and pressure to control your body? The obvious answer is to follow what the instructor taught; breathe, create space, escape. The first of those steps is the most difficult to teach.
Sure anyone can breathe, but when someone is holding you down and your coach yells, "Breathe", what he means is "Detach yourself." He can see you struggling, frustrated, and overwhelmed. Once you take a deep breath you can look at the situation from a bird's eye view. What you will see outside of yourself is that you're OK. Your awareness changes and you realize you CAN breathe, which clears out the mental confusion and fog. It's only then that you are able to prioritize options, after which a plan to escape formulates and becomes clear.
This is a small instance in a much larger and more complex problem-solving vacuum that is created by the necessity to survive and overcome. Through the platform practiced, we see that only growth comes from resistance. Luckily the art of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu provides a safe and practical training format where resistance can be 100% between partners. Jiu jitsu is the only martial art that can be practiced like this safely. This "resistance" is the fact that another human is trying to control your body, isolate your limbs, and force you to tap out. "Tapping out", is necessary for developing a growth mindset because it forces humility upon everyone. Humility forces personal reflection and evolution towards a more efficient and calculated human, on and off the mats.
Several skills develop over time that help enhance the character of an individual. Self-confidence is often an attribute desired, and it develops from self-practice, which comes from self-discipline. Discipline is necessary in any successful venture, and from self-discipline we see skill in the art develop.
Trial and error carve the path of least resistance. While learning jiu jitsu, the students experience a series of hurdles, many mirror their own personal culpabilities. When faced with problems in jiu jitsu class, the students have to make a choice, either they can acknowledge the problem and make the necessary adjustments ratify it, or they allow someone else to dictate the path and the only option is resistance to stop the other practitioners plan.
4 reasons why you need Self Defense, from a Brazilian Jiu Jitsu black belt.