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Sessions On Amnesty Vote: 'The Very Integrity Of The Congress Is Under Assault'
"It is an untenable position [to uphold the President's executive amnesty]—untenable constitutionally, untenable because it is contrary to the will of the Members of the House and Senate who oppose the President's action—Republicans and Democrats. Perhaps most importantly, it is untenable politically because the American people strongly reject it. So why would any Senator, Democrat or Republican, when the very integrity of the Congress is under assault by an overreaching executive branch, not want to assert congressional authority at this point?"
From 2007–2014, all net job gains have gone to labor brought in from abroad while the number of Americans with jobs declined. Since 2009, the President has issued 5.5 million work permits in excess of the regular flow established by law, according to data just unearthed in a FOIA request. The President's action would add another 5 million illegal workers to the job market to fill positions that could be filled instead by jobless Americans.
Sessions: Dems Need To Focus On Protecting Americans, Not Party Leaders
"Our Democratic colleagues, seven of whom have openly said they don't agree with the policy of the President with regard to executive amnesty and providing work permits and Social Security [benefits] to people unlawfully here, at least seven of them have explicitly said that. But they're now united apparently, we're told all of them are going to stand together to protect President Obama's immigration directives. You know, when they were running for office back during the campaign last fall, people were saying they didn't agree with it. Now when the issue hits the floor and we have an opportunity to do the normal and rational thing and not fund an unlawful policy, they're all sticking together, like the palace guard around the White House, to protect Obama's immigration directives."
Posted in Constitution, Financial, Illegal Immigration, Politics, Survival	| Tagged Amnesty, Barack Obama, Congress, Democrats, FOIA, Illegal Immigration, Jeff Sessions, Jobs, Republicans, Social Security, Tea Party	| 1 Comment
The Tea Party: Then and Now
By: Michael Johns
The largest and most impactful political movement, at least since the civil rights movement and perhaps in all of American history, originated in the minds and efforts of less than a dozen American citizens.
It was late February 2009, just weeks after the inauguration of Barack Obama, and there was every reason for conservatives to fear the worst: That we had elected a polarizing, far left and ultimately ineffectual president who would prove a threat to constitutional law, our economy and America's global standing in the world. Most concerning was that he would gradually or even quickly erode our nation's two centuries of respect for individual rights and liberties upon which America was founded, "fundamentally transforming" (as he promised) our nation in destructive ways.
On the morning of February 19, 2009, as was often the case, I had the financial media outlet CNBC playing on a distant television in my suburban Philadelphia home. This particular cold February morning, Rick Santelli, a Chicago-based CNBC reporter, was doing his usual stand-up reporting from the floor of the Chicago Board of Trade (COMEX). Santelli began reporting on Washington's federal subsidies of housing under Obama when mid way through his report his sense of outrage began to escalate passionately.
Santelli accused the Obama administration of "promoting bad behavior" in subsidizing mortgages then at default risk with a $75 billion housing program, known as the Homeowners Affordability and Stability Plan. He then turned and, while still live on CNBC, stated assertively to COMEX floor traders: "We're thinking of having a Chicago Tea Party!" Santelli's suggestion of a Tea Party response to the federal government's overreach was greeted with supportive applause and whistles of approval from COMEX traders. Santelli then said: "What we are doing in this country is making our founders roll over in their graves."
I found Santelli's Chicago comments accurate, inspirational and even bold for a mainstream reporter in a media world that really never challenged Obama on much of anything during or since the 2008 campaign. What I did not realize was that his remarks were viewed similarly by several other conservative-leaning Americans, who would go on to inspire a national political movement that would shake the nation.
Just a few days following Santelli's rant, 12 or so conservative activists, including me, were invited to participate in a strategic organizing Tea Party conference call moderated by Nashville-based, Stanford educated conservative Michael Patrick Leahy. It was Leahy who earlier launched the now famous #tcot (Top Conservatives on Twitter) hashtag, where it remains today one of Twitter's most commonly used hashtags and a key methodology for conservative communication.
Most on the call, unlike me, were new to political engagement. They had largely never worked in government, public policy or politics. Aside from Leahy and me, the others had never managed an organization either. They had largely never written or spoken on political or public policy themes, even though all of us would soon be called upon to articulate our Tea Party message nationally in the weeks to come. Most had never even worked on a political campaign. But the passion on that call was infectious. The 12 or so of us left it with a feeling that a potentially influential national political movement was emerging—and quickly.
Several follow-up calls were scheduled, and they led us to devise a now well-known plan for Tea Party protests across the nation on Tax Day, April 15, 2009. The aggressive six-week timeline, like much that the Tea Party movement has undertaken since its creation, was organized hastily, with a sense of urgency, and not without its errors. But April 15, 2009, is now a fairly notable day in American history in the sense that it was the physical manifestation of a national political movement, comprising tens of millions of Americans and quite possibly the largest in American history, that would go on to impact significantly the nation's political debate.
The day of April 15, 2009, was a busy one. For my part, in the afternoon, on Boston Square in downtown Boston, just blocks from the original Sam Adams-led Tea Party on December 16, 1773, I spoke to a large and passionate crowd furious with Obama and the country's direction. I then left Boston to speak that evening at one of the nation's largest tea parties of the day, held in lower Manhattan, not far from the memorialized 9/11 attack location. Three days later, on the grounds of Independence Hall in Philadelphia, I spoke for a third time in just three days to a very large and vibrant Tea Party rally organized by the Independence Hall Tea Party Association, of which I was then an officer.
The years 2009 and 2010 were full of flurry and a sense of urgency for the national Tea Party movement, an urgency that has continued to this day. In 2010, in Quincy, Illinois, where Lincoln held his sixth debate with U.S. Senator Stephen Douglas on October 13, 1858, I joined Leahy and the late media personality Andrew Breitbart in addressing a large Tea Party crowd on the precise location where Lincoln pointedly articulated his anti-slavery message: "We (the Republican Party) also oppose it as an evil so far as it seeks to spread itself," Lincoln said that day in Quincy.
By this time, the message of our movement was being refined and polished, comprised mostly of three universal themes that were and continue to be broadly popular with the American people: First, the federal government has grown too big and its taxes vastly too excessive. Second, the sovereignty of the United States—in controlling its borders, in developing its national security and foreign policies — must be defended at all costs. And third, that the U.S. Constitution was a document containing absolute truths to which government needed to adhere if it was to avoid lawlessness and chaos.
As I was in Boston and New York City, Leahy and others organized one of the day's largest and most successful events in Nashville, drawing thousands. In downtown Chicago, just a couple blocks from where the Santelli rant heard round the world took place, another Tea Party founder organized a large and hugely successful Tea Party rally. His name was Eric Odom.
Quickly, the passionate and activism of this small cadre spread to thousands, then tens of thousands, and ultimately to millions of Americans who identified themselves as being supportive of the Tea Party movement. On November 2, 2010, a highly motivated Tea Party movement rocked the nation, sending 65 new Republican House members to Washington and thus forcing then Speaker Nancy Pelosi to surrender her gavel to new Republican John Boehner. Four years later, on November 4, 2014, the Tea Party movement again proved a huge difference maker, further increasing Republican presence in the U.S. House and increasing its U.S. Senate seats by nine, including pulling out wins in hugely contentious races in many states, including Colorado, Georgia, Kansas, Louisiana, and South Dakota.
Meanwhile, in the U.S. House of Representatives, a Tea Party Caucus, chaired by former Congresswoman Michele Bachmann, had been developed with the movement's input to coordinate the Tea Party agenda in Congress. And the national strategy discussions continued. In Chicago, for instance, Odom and I spent three long days in detailed discussion on the movement's strategy, messaging and allocation of limited resources.
In the months and years since, along with other Tea Party founders from the February 2009 conference call, we continued tireless efforts of what by then had become a vast, influential, though sometimes chaotically organized movement of political consequence. All the Tea Party movement founders from Leahy's first conference call are impressive in their own ways, and have their own personal stories about what sparked their leadership in this now historical movement.
In the years that followed, along with other national Tea Party leaders, Leahy, Odom and I crisscrossed the nation articulating the Tea Party message and helped to organize the movement politically in order to prevail in elections.
In Dallas, Leahy organized a national Tea Party leadership meeting that included many of the founders from the original February 2009 call participated. "Let's begin this meeting with a prayer to God for His guidance of this movement," I suggested privately to Leahy, who agreed. We began the meeting exactly that way. Later, also in Dallas, we organized a two-day training course for regional and other Tea Party leaders on political and public policy activism.
One of those leaders was Chicago-based Eric Odom. In fall 2010, from Las Vegas, we poured ourselves into the campaign of Nevada State Senator Sharron Angle in hopes of replacing the Obama administration's strongest U.S. Senate ally, Harry Reid. As the movement's prominence (and the associated strategic questions facing it) evolved, Odom and I spent several days in Chicago asking and discussing those questions and developing our best answers. And there was the day in Philadelphia where I invited Odom to join me in addressing an important pre-election Tea Party rally held on the iconic grounds of Independence Hall in front of the very building where 56 founders of our nation pledged with a "firm reliance of the protection of divine providence," their "lives, fortunes and sacred honor" to remove imperial British forces and rule and establish a self-governed nation rooted in liberty and the rule of law.
The Tea Party movement's efforts, as even its detractors would concede, have since proven hugely consequential, ensuring that Obama, at least since 2011, was not given full reign of the legislative and executive branches of government. A Tea Party-influenced Republican House and Senate, along with our extensive grassroots efforts, have held liberal Obama's agenda at bay, despite the Tea Party's ultimate inability to defeat Obamacare.
Since that first February 2009 conference call, the founding and ongoing development of the historic Tea Party movement is one of many intriguing personal stories, and a singular collective story. Along the way, we have done many things well (removing Pelosi and then Reid as Speaker and Majority Leader, respectively). We have strengthened the Republican Party as a party that stands more than before for conservative principles expressed (but too often ignored) in the GOP platform. We also quickly obliterated the 2008 progressive political culture that maintained that Obama was a man who singularly held the answers for the nation. Time has proven those ideas were not at all innovative and were actually just a rewording of those from the liberal playbook of more government and more taxes. In all these ways, since those February 2009 planning calls, the national Tea Party movement has exceeded the accomplishments of the effective and well-constructed 2008 Obama for America campaign that ultimately propelled Obama to the presidency.
All this history is important because it reaffirms the veracity of Margaret Mead's famous statement: "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." It's worth asking: If those first organizing calls had not been launched, would Republicans today control the U.S. Senate and House? If no, that means that Obama's entire far-left political agenda would have been rubber stamped by an equally liberal Congressional leadership. Has the Tea Party movement saved the nation? I believe it likely has.
Yet, to be truthful about the inner workings of the Tea Party movement, we have done many things well, but failed in others. In 2015, the Tea Party and patriot movement's top priority must be communicating and impacting public opinion and explaining why and how Tea Party principles can make America great again: creating jobs and economic prosperity, restoring rigid adherence to the U.S. Constitution, and restoring a strong America that can defeat serious national security threats.
With a reliance on divine providence again, let's roll back this utterly destructive, unconstitutional government and welcome in a century or more of strong liberty leadership. Next step: We must explain our Tea Party vision and solutions for America.
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By: Frank Salvato
As we approach the dreaded tax filing deadline of April 15th, many Americans are ill-prepared for the news they are going to receive from their tax preparers or tax preparation software. Between three and six million people are going to be affected by penalties, an "Individual Shared Responsibility Payment," associated with the Affordable Care Act. And most of those affected have no idea how much financial pain they are going to feel.
When the Obama Administration was selling Obamacare to the American people – you remember, "It's not a tax," "If you like your healthcare plan you can keep it," "We have to pass the bill to find out what's in it," etc. – they alluded to the existence of penalties for those Americans who did not purchase ACA compliant health insurance. The amount for the first year non-compliance penalty was routinely quoted as $95. For many the choice was clear: keep the non-compliant health insurance, pay the $95 penalty (read: non-compliance tax), and hope that a Republican-led Congress would affect relief for the taxpayer as soon as they took control in Washington, DC.
But that scenario doesn't impact this tax cycle. And while three to five million people have received subsidies through the Obamacare marketplaces to offset the cost of ACA compliant health insurance (still many more will qualify for exemptions), the penalty – or Individual Shared Responsibility Payment – for most of the three to six million Americans who opted to pay the fine and go without is going to be substantially more than they think.
Contrary to the commonly referred to fine of $95 for non-compliance, that amount is the least amount that can be imposed on an individual. The calculation used for the overwhelming majority of the non-compliant will be the higher of either one-percent of your household income above your filing threshold or a flat dollar amount up to $285 ($95 per adult, $47.50 per child). The important words to consider here are "household income."
In the scenario where one spouse is covered by employer-sponsored health insurance but the other spouse is not – where one spouse is non-compliant, the Individual Shared Responsibility Payment is still based on the total of the household income; the compliant spouse is still entered into the penalty equation through the use of the household income as a defining integer. The idea that the ACA compliant individual cannot be adversely affected at tax time is a fallacy.
For example, let's examine what the penalty (read: tax) would be on a Virginia household consisting of a man and a woman who, combined, made $150,000 for the year 2014. The woman is covered through her employer by ACA compliant health insurance, but the man is an independent contractor and chose to attain what used to be known as catastrophic health insurance, thus acquiescing to what he thought was going to be a $95 penalty. Using the Individual Shared Responsibility Payment calculator from HealthInsurance.org, the assessed penalty would be $1,297. A full $1202 more than the $95 for which they had planned. By contrast, a non-compliant single person making $75,000 in 2014 would have been assessed a $648.50 penalty. This means that the penalty for the "crime" of being from a household earning $150,000 with a single non-compliant spouse is $648.50; the penalty for being married to a non-compliant spouse is $648.50. The irony here is that the non-compliant spouse was still covered in the event of a medical emergency, even if he wasn't ACA "compliant."
The reasoning used by the Progressives and Democrats when arguing for the passage of the Affordable Care Act was that relief would be given to the healthcare system by virtue of the fact that everyone would be covered by health insurance; that everyone would be paying into the system. But having "passed the bill" so we can now "see what's in it," the reality of the matter is this. Obamacare was never about healthcare. It was never really even about everyone being covered by health insurance. And it wasn't ever about everyone paying into the system. It was about creating two new revenue streams: one for the health insurance companies who now have a captive client-base, and another for the spendthrift federal government through the extraction of what the US Supreme Court has now identified as a tax.
And a heck of a tax it is…especially for the non-compliant and their compliant spouses.
Frank Salvato is the Executive Director of BasicsProject.org a grassroots, non-partisan, research and education initiative focusing on Constitutional Literacy, and internal and external threats facing Western Civilization; a division of The Archangel Organization, LLC, His writing has been recognized by the US House International Relations Committee and the Japan Center for Conflict Prevention. His opinion and analysis have been published by The American Enterprise Institute, The Washington Times, The Jewish World Review, Accuracy in Media, Human Events, Townhall.com and are syndicated nationally. Mr. Salvato has appeared on The O'Reilly Factor on FOX News Channel, and is the author of six books examining Islamofascism and Progressivism, including "Understanding the Threat of Radical Islam". Mr. Salvato's personal writing can be found at FrankJSalvato.com.
Posted in Constitution, Financial, Politics, Survival, Taxation	| Tagged Health Insurance, IRS, Obamacare, Penalty, Taxes	|
The Other Cause of Terrorism
By: Alan Caruba
I never fail to be astonished by the amount of corruption there is in the world. It is a very human trait whether it was royalty asserting that they ruled by God's choice until their subjects rose up against them or modern day despots encountering the same fate.
Sarah Chayes has authored "Thieves of State: Why Corruption Threatens Global Security" ($26.95, W.W. Norton) and it is quite timely when you consider that corruption ignited the "Arab Spring", first in Tunisia when a peddler grew so tired of the police asking for bribes that he set himself afire in protest. Its dictator's wife openly displayed the nation's stolen wealth for which they were driven from power. In Egypt there was a similar response when the public tired of the looting of the state treasury by Mubarak's son. Revolts from Libya to Syria have been generated by the same cause.
Corruption in the Middle East has a long history, but it is worldwide and, depending on the nation, is either tolerated as part of the way the culture does business or resisted by governments who understand that it undermines their legitimacy. Throw a dart at the map of the world and you are likely to hit a nation where corruption is influencing current events. As Chayes notes, "Time and again U.S. officials are blindsided by major developments in countries where they work. Too often they are insensible to the perspectives and aspirations of population."
A classic example is Afghanistan where both the Soviet Union and the U.S. ran into such ingrained corruption that it undermined their objectives, the former to turn it into a satellite and the latter to turn it into a modern, democratic government. Chayes cites Afghanistan as a classic example of why the Taliban emerged as a jihadist movement. Corruption in the form of bribes, kick-backs, cronyism, is so deeply engrained in Afghanistan that it generated a movement to replace it with sharia law by Islamists.
"If the very Afghan officials by whose sides they planned to combat extremists were generating those extremists themselves—by having men shake down travelers and taking a cut, or leaving bills unpaid, or by providing judiciously selected 'intelligence' to engineer a night-raid against a rival trafficking network—it was too big a paradox to take in. NATO officers," said Chayes, "did not want to know."
"The corruption networks" in Afghanistan, writes Chayes, "were just too vertically integrated: any move against any official, no matter how lowly, would reverberate all the way up the chain to Karzai."
In the 1960s and 1970s, Afghanistan had been a constitutional monarchy with a national assembly and local elders affording a check on executive power. "Citizens expected a decent education from their government, health care, even employment in state-owned industries." That changed when Hamid Karzai took over. At that point government became a criminal enterprise.
The 9/11 attack prompted the U.S. to invade to drive out al Qaeda, but it also led to its staying on to fight the perceived enemies of Afghanistan. They—otherwise known as the Taliban—were being generated in part by the desire to drive out the corrupt Karzai administration.
What we tend to forget about the "Arab Spring" was that "millions of Arabs chose a constructive way to force change. They chose political revolution—a peaceful, civic, inclusive, and responsible form of revolt—directed square at their own leaderships, not at Western countries, not even those seen as regime allies."
This is not to suggest that Islamism hasn't degraded from its opposition to widespread corruption into organizations seeking to take control over the nations where it has spread. It has and this is most evidence in the incredibly corrupt nation of Nigeria where since 2009 Boko Haram has developed terrorism to new heights of barbarity—if that is possible.
An oil-rich nation, the billions that it generates have gone missing thanks to the administration of Nigerian president, Goodluck Jonathan. The police in Nigeria are hated as much as Boko Haram and, as we have seen, have not demonstrated any ability to eliminate the terrorist organization.
Why would any police officer or member of the armed forces want to die for a corrupt, kleptocratic administration? This was true back in the days when the U.S. was fighting in Vietnam, true when the Iraqi armed forces fled from those of the Islamic State, and it explains why even the active participation of U.S. forces does not result in victory against the terrorist organizations.
Why then should we be surprised that many throughout the Middle East have turned to Islam to address the problems they encounter from the corruption of their governments? "Lured by militant advocates of a religious ordering of human affairs, they will seek to roll back four hundred years of political history."
In the West, we regard those regions of the world where corruption is rampant as backward. We can be forgiven for forgetting that our ancestors in England, the Netherlands, and parts of France laid the groundwork for modern democracy by their efforts to curb the corruption of the monarchies that enjoyed the good life at the expense of their subjects.
By the time the Founders came together to create the U.S. Constitution, they had been well-schooled and experienced in what it would require to keep corruption at bay with a government whose powers were limited and divided among executive, legislative, and judicial branches.
We are their beneficiaries, but that does not mean we have defeated corruption. The vast entitlement programs are just one example of the way millions are secured illegally by deception and disbursement. Other forms of corruption are addressed in the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act that forbids the use of bribery by corporations doing business in foreign nations.
The U.S. is not alone, however. Just as occurred in 2008, the too close relationship of the banking community and government led to financial crises in Ireland and Iceland. The public's rejection of corruption in Ukraine led to its current civil unrest.
The role of corruption in the nations experiencing Islamic terrorism cannot be underestimated. Its role in the conduct of the world's affairs is huge and a constant threat whose many forms must be understood, addressed, and eliminated to the greatest degree possible.
© Alan Caruba, 2015
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Benghazi Hearings Provide a Glimmer of Hope
By: Roger Aronoff
Last week, the Democrat Members of the Select Committee on Benghazi virtually declared war on the majority members, criticizing their pace, rules, and committee scope.
Representative Linda Sanchez (D-CA) claimed that the Select Committee was on a wild goose chase for a nonexistent "unicorn" and "nefarious conspiracy," and Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) falsely called the stand down order a "myth."
But in what may be a turning point for the Select Committee, Republican Chairman Trey Gowdy emphasized at the January 27th hearing that "we're gonna pick up the pace…. I have no interest in prolonging" the investigation into Benghazi.
"Letters haven't worked. Southern politeness hasn't worked. We're going to ratchet it up," he said at what members of the mainstream media, such as U.S. News and World Report, characterized as a "partisan grudge match."
The next day Chairman Gowdy issued a statement that defied Democrats outright, arguing he "will continue to move the investigation forward in a fair and impartial manner, but…will not allow the minority's political games and unreasonable demands to interfere with the investigation." Rep. Gowdy said he will continue operating under the scope originally set by the House of Representatives.
This, the media preferred to coin as political failure or "out of control" politics. "The House Select Committee on Benghazi, which began with dignity last year, spun out of control Tuesday as Democrats complained that Republicans were abusing their authority and Republicans threatened to spray the Obama administration with subpoenas," wrote Dana Milbank for The Washington Post. Milbank specializes in snarky columns criticizing and marginalizing conservatives, and even took aim at the Citizens' Commission on Benghazi for a conference held on Benghazi in 2013.
Regarding the hearing last week, the Associated Press in turn, remarked, "The partisan tone marked a sharp turnaround for a panel that had won praise for a bipartisan approach through its first two public hearings."
The subject of the first two slow-rolling hearings was the current state of embassy security, a topic suggested by the committee's Democratic members which had little to do with the administration's response to the attack—and which conveniently glosses over the security failures of 2012 to emphasize present solutions instead of accountability.
MSNBC focused largely on political angles instead of substance. For Alex Seitz-Wald, it was all about Hillary Clinton. "Gowdy and Republicans had been hoping to preserve and grow the credibility of their inquiry, which is part of the reason for their assiduous avoidance of taking pot shots at Clinton Tuesday," wrote Seitz-Wald. "But Democrats are seeking to undermine the credibility of the panel, in the hopes that it will be viewed as a partisan witch hunt if it ever demands testimony from Clinton."
New bombshell reporting by The Washington Times shows that Clinton was the strong voice pushing to intervene in Libya in 2011 in the first place, which set the stage for the attacks. Ultimately, however, President Obama was the "Decider-in-Chief" and bears at least equal culpability.
Chairman Gowdy told Megyn Kelly of Fox News last May that he plans to subpoena Mrs. Clinton, and repeated that in December. We now learn that the Select Committee has requested Clinton and other top State Department officials' emails, and that Rep. Gowdy is willing to bring Clinton before the Committee just 30 days after receiving "all the [State Department] documents," according to CNN.
Select Committee Members would also like to interview 22 persons with firsthand knowledge of Benghazi whom Congress has never spoken to before. The Associated Press reported on January 28, the day after the hearing, that State Department officials said they were ready to "commit" to interview dates for these persons.
But the press doesn't seem interested in holding the administration accountable for the fact that the State Department waited from the December 4 request until January 28 to issue such a guarantee.
The State Department representative, Joel Rubin, said at the January hearing that a part of the committee's relationship with the department is indicating priorities for requests—as if more resources could not be allocated to provide such information to the committee more swiftly.
Rubin, formerly of the Ploughshares Fund, also said at the hearing that he was a friend of Ambassador Chris Stevens, who died in 2012 at the U.S. Special Mission Compound in Benghazi. Rubin wrote the following for ThinkProgress that year:
"Instead of getting that support, their deaths are being used as a partisan attack on President Obama, part of a false narrative that the president failed them. What has failed them is our political system. Rather than supporting a serious, nonpartisan investigation into what took place and what went wrong, waiting to get all the facts out, conservatives are trying to affix blame for their deaths for political advantage. This is how some conservatives use terrorist attacks against America."
Now Rubin helps guard the gates for that same President who would like this simply dismissed as a phony scandal.
Although the media, along with the Democrats, may accuse Chairman Gowdy of partisan politics as he attempts to more aggressively investigate the Benghazi attacks and the resulting cover-up, I am cautiously optimistic about his new tone.
"The letter exchanges between Gowdy and Cummings [prior to the hearing], as well as Tuesday's hearings, should put to rest forever the fiction that this type of investigation can be conducted in some Nirvana-zone of bipartisan comity," Kenneth Timmerman astutely wrote for Front Page Magazine.
With this new focus on government stonewalling the Committee brought the possibility of embarrassing the administration to the fore, and the backlash was palpable.
Accuracy in Media and the Citizens' Commission on Benghazi have long been critical of the Mike Rogers' House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence report, which contains a number of factual errors and glosses over the intelligence failures leading up to the attacks. Apparently the Select Committee asked to examine the HPSCI's research in October—and had been asking the Central Intelligence Agency for these files ever since. These files were only produced by the agency after learning that a hearing on them was scheduled.
Similarly, the State Department has produced 40,000 pages related to Benghazi, but Rubin wouldn't answer as to whether the information provided to the Accountability Review Board was provided fully within those documents.
He also refused to say whether he thought the Select Committee was frivolous.
"If Gowdy is proceeding as a good prosecutor should, he is lining up all his ducks before he goes public with anything," CCB member, and former CIA officer, Clare Lopez told WorldNetDaily's Jerome Corsi last week as part of a series of articles about the CCB's own investigations. "I think it's premature to jump to a condemnation of the process or the committee leadership when the truth is that we don't know," she said.
"Delays by Gowdy are unnecessary at this time," CCB Member and Retired General Paul Valley told Corsi after the Times' bombshell dropped. "Gowdy can press forward now as he does have sufficient intelligence and documents to call all witnesses and issue subpoenas as necessary."
"Additional delays will only give the obstructionists in the Obama White House, the State Department and the Democrats in Congress time to thwart the efforts of the select committee," Vallely said.
While the administration continues to stonewall the Select Committee whenever possible, and Democrats continue to complain that the investigation isn't bipartisan enough, the CCB will continue to search for the truth in its own citizen-led investigation.
We have already dug up some disturbing facts in our 2014 interim report, such as:
the administration decision to dismiss the possibility of truce talks with Moammar Qaddafi;
helping arm al-Qaeda-linked rebels in Libya; and
the inadequate military response that night.
"I don't know if the decision came from the White House or from Hillary Clinton at the State Department," Retired Rear Admiral Chuck Kubic told Corsi about those failed truce talks. However, Admiral Kubic said, "…the advice for me from AFRICOM was to basically just leave everything alone, to simply stand down." Who, exactly, at the White House decided it was unnecessary to pursue truce talks with Qaddafi?
The CCB and Accuracy in Media are continuing the search for the truth with our own Freedom of Information Act initiative. Currently, the Department of Defense is withholding 12 pages of maps from us regarding the position of military forces during the attacks.
As we await our day in court, we will not stop digging for the truth through whatever means are available to us. I am encouraged by the possibility that the Select Committee might likewise now use all the powers at its disposal to force the administration to reveal what happened that night and in the aftermath, not only to its Congressional investigators, but to the public as well. America deserves answers, not more stonewalling.
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Our Weasel Of The Week Nominees! – 02/03/15
The Watcher's Council
It's time once again for the Watcher's Council's 'Weasel Of The Week' nominations, where we pick our choices to compete for the award of the famed Golden Weasel to a public figure who particularly deserves to be slimed and mocked for his or her dastardly deeds during the week. Every Tuesday morning, tune in for the Weasel of the Week nominations!
Here are this week's nominees…
CBS '60 Minutes' TV Personality, Wascally Wacist and Sleazeball Steve Kroft!!
The Noisy Room: My nominee this week is 60 Minute's Steve Kroft for not only being a cheating slime bucket, but for also being uber paranoid of right-wing zealots catching him and being dumb enough to actually get caught. Let's also not forget he's racist – he didn't want to be seen with Harvard educated Lisan Goines, because she was black and the differences between them would be too 'noticeable.' Good enough to dance with between the sheets, but not good enough for public appearances.
An absolute Obama suck up, Kroft bragged of being best buds with Obama and how Obama actually hates Eric Holder. Now that's journalism for ya!
Oh yeah, baby:
The Manhattan mistress of married '60 Minutes' newsman Steve Kroft sent him sexy lingerie photos during their affair, but he insisted she dress low-key 'like Laura Bush' with him in public to keep things hush-hush, according to newly revealed texts.
A source close to Kroft's lover told The Post that the TV hotshot was 'really paranoid about right-wing zealots finding out about
their affair' and using the tawdry details to try to destroy his career and CBS.
The sexts between Kroft and Lisan Goines (obtained exclusively by The Post)include a nude selfie of the lusty lawyer that she sent to her much-older lover. Other photos show her wearing a red thong and busting out of a black bra.
But "dress in Washington is Either professional or Laura Bush," Kroft messaged his illicit squeeze in advance of their September
2011 play date at the Park Hyatt on 24th and M streets in DC. "Don't dress like Beyonce," Kroft warned the Harvard-educated
beauty, according to the source.
In addition to fearing the zealots, Kroft, 69, was "beyond terrified" that his wife of 23 years, fellow journalist Jennet Conant, would find out about the affair, the source added.
Kroft needed absolutely no help in destroying himself. He excelled at it. You'd think a 69 year-old would know better. His wife is going to literally kill him and it serves the weasel right. Now, I have to go bleach my eyes and knock myself unconscious hoping I can forget this slug's sexcapades.
Hack Writer And Rebel Without A Clue Sheldon Richman!!
The Independent Sentinel: Reason writer Sheldon Richman has some stellar weasel qualities.
First he compared American hero Chris Kyle with the mad shooter of Sandy Hook, Adam Lanza, saying Kyle 'went to a place he had no right to be, heavily armed, and murdered people who never threatened him at home.' He added that the victims were 'defenseless like Lanza's victims'.
Not satisfied with this idiocy, he out-weasled even himself with several responses to tweets. He was asked in a tweet, 'So, to be clear. You are saying that if it came down to an Iraqi or #ChrisKyle, you would rather Kyle have been killed?'
He tweeted back, several times, "If that's the only choice, yes. He invaded, trespassed."
He followed up by tweeting he was 'no kind of capitalist'.
No surprises there!
Seattle Seahawks Coach Pete Carroll!
Bookworm Room: He presides over what may be the most boorish team in the league, he's probably a Truther, and he made the worst call in Super Bowl history. None of that will change the course of the world, but he sure is weaselly.
Obama Consigliere snd Puppet Master Valerie Jarrett!
Virginia Right!: Valerie Jarrett for being the driver of hate behind Obama's animosity towards Israel and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Western Journalism wrote:
The real questions are: Who is pushing this agenda? Who is pushing for Iran to go nuclear? And, who is so scared of Netanyahu briefing Congress and the American people on what Iran is up to?
The answer is Valerie Jarrett, Obama's Rasputin. This is where the anger from the White House is coming from.
Most people know she was born in Iran. This in itself does not disqualify her from advising the president, but it does open her agenda to scrutiny. There have been reports that she has been secretly negotiating with Iran on the nuclear issue, but the White House has vehemently denied it.
I, for one, don't trust a thing this administration says.
Now, the Jerusalem Post is reporting that the Obama administration has already given Iran eighty percent of what it has demanded in the negotiations. The "deal" to be reached will leave Iran within months of going nuclear if they decide to move forward. All of the centrifuges will remain under their control.
Well, there it is. What a despicable group of Weasels… ANY OF THEM COULD WIN! Check back Thursday to see which Weasel walks off with the statuette of shame!
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President Dmitry Medvedev and his French host President Nicolas Sarkozy stressed their consistency on such burning issues as Iran's nuclear program, European security reforms and global warming.
Medvedev and Sarkozy addressed the media after their bilateral meeting in Paris Monday and summarized the results of the talks.
The overall conclusion voiced by Medvedev was that Russia and France "no longer have ideological disagreements" and "an ideological border".
"Whatever we do, it is aimed at a single purpose – to create a modern peaceful world, where human rights would be respected and legislation observed," the Russian president said.
One area of discussion that really required a mutual approach involves Iran and its highly controversial nuclear program. Last month, Tehran announced that it had started to produce higher grade enriched uranium, which caused a new wave of international criticism and fears that the Islamic Republic might be moving closer to creating nuclear weapon.
The situation with Iran is degrading and Russia, in cooperation with its partners, is ready to consider sanctions against Tehran, Medvedev said at the media conference. The Russian president, however, made a point to stress that he would like to see the issue resolved diplomatically.
"We are being optimistic and haven't stopped hoping we will manage to succeed [in negotiations]. Nevertheless if we cannot, Russia is ready, together with other partners, to consider sanctions," Medvedev said. "They should not be aimed against civilians, and they should mark a last resort, beyond which dialogue is no longer possible."
Sarkozy was rather laconic over the issue, saying that Russia and France "have very close positions" in what relates to sanctions. "And that is very important," he added.
Meanwhile, Russia and France have begun "exclusive" talks toward the possible sale of four French warships to Moscow, President Sarkozy said, linking the issue to "mutual trust" between the two sides.
"The Mistral is a helicopter carrier that we will create for Russia without military equipment," the French president said.
The French state-of-art amphibious assault ship is capable of carrying 16 helicopters, up to 900 troops, and 40 tanks or 70 vessels. Sarkozy said two of the vessels under discussion could be built in Russia.
The plan, however, has already sparked concern among some NATO allies and Georgia. Sarkozy stressed, however, that it is time to "turn the page on the Cold War era". He said that the West cannot ask Moscow for cooperation on such crucial issues as Iran and fighting global crisis while at the same time showing lack of trust by refusing to sell it military equipment.
The deal over the Mistral-class warship would mark the first arms sale by a NATO country to Russia.
He then expressed his hope that negotiations over the Mistral purchase "would be a success".
Earlier, Nikolay Makarov, chief of the Russian Army General Staff, explained that Russia wants to buy French technology for building Mistral-type vessels because "we have no ships of that class."
"Our large landing ships are about three to four times smaller than the Mistral," he said, as quoted by Itar-Tass agency.
One of the questions journalists asked the presidents during the media conference referred to Middle East peace process and whether any progress had been achieved between the leaders in that respect.
"Over the last two months I have had a series of meetings with partners on this issue," Medvedev said. "I met with [Palestinian leader] Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Just recently I met with Lebanese President [Michel] Suleiman. I will meet shortly with the King of Jordan to discuss this issue. We are in the epicenter of discussions."
Russia, together with the UN, the US and the EU, is party to the Middle East Quartet of intermediaries for peace efforts. It has been taking active part in trying to bring conflicting parts to a peaceful solution. For example, Moscow has been pushing for an international conference on Middle East to be held in the Russian capital.
Medvedev repeated the invitation that such a meeting "should take place in Moscow," while adding that other initiatives could be considered as well.
The main problem, according to Medvedev, is that "the parties do not hear each other well" and "their hearing has got worse".
Medvedev said that it is necessary "to act" since the situation is degrading.
"We are in full cooperation with the President of France there, and we regularly discuss this issue. I hope that we will be able to get the situation in the Middle East off the ground soon," Medvedev said.
Meanwhile, a ministerial meeting of the Quartet of international mediators for Israeli-Palestinian peace talks will be held in Moscow on March 19, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said earlier.
From peace talks to nuke cuts, the topic of the ongoing Washington-Moscow talks on new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) also received its due share of attention at the media conference. The previous START agreement, signed by the US and the Soviet Union, expired on December 5 last year; Russian and American negotiators are now trying to draft a new document that is acceptable to both sides.
The negotiations have been proceeding for months and now, according to President Medvedev, the sides have "moved to the final stage of the talks and are working out the nuances on the text".
He noted that the issue is quite complicated and, "compared to how such talks progressed in the times of competition between the US and the USSR, we are moving pretty fast".
"I hope that the talks will be completed shortly," he added.
Medvedev also reminded that a summit on non-proliferation will be held in the US in April, which will "offer its might" to the nuclear arms reduction process.
France, for its part, is ready to join Russia and America in nuclear disarmament, Sarkozy said. Paris, however, which is ahead of the nuclear reduction curve, will wait till the two parties get to the same level of nuclear capabilities as France: that is "about several hundred warheads," Sarkozy said.
Medvedev welcomed the intention, saying that it was encouraging.
"Global zero is a beautiful idea", the Russian president said, referring to a world free of nuclear weapons. However, "it can only be achieved through consolidated work of all nuclear states and our confidence that no strangers are left in the 'nuclear club', those who have got there without a ticket. We cannot leave this issue unattended."
President Medvedev also repeated his plan for a new security procedures in Europe, saying it is of crucial importance.
The Russian president recalled the events of August 2008, when Georgian troops attacked South Ossetia. He said at a time the situation was solved without "global procedures" or NATO involvement, "but with the help of the EU potential and personal involvement of the President of France who showed courage and will".
At that time, Sarkozy – who was chairing the EU – took active part in settling the conflict.
That example, according to Medvedev, shows that "we should learn to solve European issues ourselves". However, given the present "unilateral" nature of global relations, such an idea is not possible within the current framework of existing procedures.
"The Helsinki Act [of the Conference on] Security and Cooperation in Europe that was signed in 1975 is of course a very important foundation of our cooperation, but that's not enough," Medvedev said.
"Europe has changed, and there are different players in Europe. We need to create a new framework for discussing security issues because Europe has changed after the Helsinki Act, and it is necessary to create a new framework for the security system," he said.
The Russian leader has been calling for a new European security treaty since June 2008 when he first voiced the idea at a conference in Evian, France. In autumn last year a draft treaty was sent leaders of foreign states and international organizations. However, European capitals have responded with lukewarm enthusiasm for the idea.
The two sides have also discussed a non-visa regime between Russia and France. President Sarkozy pledged "France will persuade their colleagues at the European Union" of the importance of this move.
In conclusion, the two leaders have already managed to hammer out a rather historical meeting, admitting as they did that the "ideological border" that once disrupted relations between Russia and France has been torn down. Now, both countries can see the challenges ahead of them much more clearly, and work side-by-side to solve them.
A number of significant deals were signed between the two countries Monday. Russia's gas giant Gazprom signed a deal with French GDF Suez to join the Nord Stream gas project. Also, France's Alstom company purchased 25% of the shares in Russia's Transmashholding, the largest holding on the railway machine-building market, and signed an agreement with Russia's railways on technological and production cooperation.


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February 11, 2019 March 8, 2019 CASE Concordia Announcement, News, Uncategorized
Last week, the CBC reported that this past September a Concordia Creative Writing professor had been "exonerated" of complaints of sexual violence and harassment. The complainants received no information about the change of status. We condemn the mishandling of this case. From what we and our community members have learned about the official complaint process at Concordia, this end result is all too common.
There are, however, still two "unnamed" part-time teachers in the Creative Writing Department that are on leave and being investigated through a similar procedure. A few days prior to the CBC's report, the Concordia University Part-time Faculty Association (CUPFA) hosted a panel conversation on Sexual Misconduct, Consent, and the University Climate. CUPFA is the union representing these two suspended professors.
Alongside activists like Julie Lalonde, CUPFA invited Julius Grey to speak on the panel. He is the human rights lawyer currently representing McGill Professor Ahmed Fekry Ibrahim, who is attempting to sue a student and another professor for voicing their concerns that Ibrahim had behaved inappropriately towards students. Grey's presence derailed what could have been a productive conversation at the panel into a debate questioning whether the #metoo movement "had gone too far" and if Statistics Canada is lying about their data on false rape accusations. This panel could have been relevant to our community concerns by having more in-depth conversations about student-professor power dynamics and the accompanying inherent risks.
C.A.S.E. chooses to connect these two events because we recognize that our institution's current system for representing survivors of sexual violence and preventing the abuse of students is broken. The institution's lengthy system for filing complaints lacks transparency and advocacy for complainants. This contradicts claims that Concordia believes survivors and undermines trust in campus programs like the Sexual Assault Resource Centre. Resolving these kinds of policy issues in universities like Concordia, while still protecting labor rights, was the kind of conversation that should have been presented at last week's CUPFA panel. Instead, it wasted the opportunity to discuss issues that are crucial to student safety and well-being, as well as demonstrated the imbalanced priorities of an organization meant to protect precariously employed people.
We are deeply concerned at the direction CUPFA chose to take the panel and believe that they are invested in protecting the reputation of faculty over the safety of students. We are disappointed. The events of the past year have already fractured the relationship between students and faculty in the English and Creative Writing Department. Concordia continues to assist in alienating and endangering students when their complaint process lacks transparency and student representation.
The Concordia Association for Students in English is troubled by the fact that the responsibility of calling out inappropriate behaviour and abuse within our classrooms and campus community continually falls on the shoulders of individual students. We cannot continue to bear this weight. We're tired of witnessing its effects on our members. We will be working over the next few months to provide support for our students.
We are calling to action the other members of our community, like CUPFA, Concordia University, and individual faculty and staff members of these institutions. Students need to see real action that demonstrates support for believing survivors and building networks that prevent the abuse of power dynamics.
We invite students, community organizations, staff, faculty and alumnus to sign on in support of this letter to acknowledge that:
The complaint system at Concordia, and the legislation that supports its silence, is broken.
Policies at Concordia around complaints lack support or transparency for students and complainants, which is in direct opposition to the ideals of SARC.
Concordia must be changed to incorporate assistance for complainants in writing their formal grievances and provide the same kind of legal representation that accused professors and staff receive during an investigation.
CUPFA needs to clarify their relationship with Julius Grey and whether he has represented members of their association, in the past or present.
CUPFA must apologize for misrepresenting the intent of its Sexual Misconduct panel and for silencing voices of its audience by not allowing a question period afterwards.
Concordia needs to publicly apologize to past and present English and Creative Writing students that have been put at risk for, and experienced, sexual harassment and abuse at the hands of professors over the years.
CUPFA and Concordia, as institutions as well as its individuals, are responsible for changing the toxic community by implementing bystander intervention policies. They must promote responsibility between faculty to hold one other accountable to community standards and communicating those standards to their students.
Professors must commit to explicitly setting standards of behaviour for themselves and students in their classrooms.
Concordia staff and faculty should be directly asking for bystander intervention expectations and training that relates to their department, to prepare them to intervene.
Concordia needs to provide an explanation for the delay in the English and Creative Writing Climate Review, as well as set a specific deadline for its public release of recommendations.
Concordia, CUPFA, and the English Department must regularly update students and the public about its actions towards implementing these necessary changes.
Follow this link to sign on and agree to the contents of our statement, including the demands. The demands and the signatures will be sent to CUPFA, Concordia University's President, and the English Department.
We encourage our students to contact case.president@asfa.ca to discuss any changes they would like to see on this list of demands as well as types of support they would like to see.
Concordia Association for Students in English
January 21, 2019 January 21, 2019 CASE Concordia Announcement, Events, News
CASE & QWF Panel with Tara Johns, Rahul Varma, and Sean Michaels
Doors Open: 6 pm
Panel Discussion: 630 – 730 pm
Refreshments: 730 – 9 pm
MB-9AB, (John Molson School of Business, 9th Floor)
Concordia University, 1450 rue Guy
What does a professional writing career look like in the 21st century? How we do explore and sustain and juggle different roles? What's out there?
CASE Concordia and the Quebec Writers' Federation have teamed up to bring together three Quebec-based writers with very different career profiles: screenwriter and filmmaker Tara Johns (The Year Dolly Parton Was My Mom), Giller-Prize-winning novelist, blogger, and interactive digital fiction writer Sean Michaels (Us Conductors), and playwright and artistic director ofTeesri Duniya theatre company Rahul Varma (Truth and Treason, Bhopal, State of Denial). We'll talk about switching up professions and disciplines, as well as writing in the digital age. Come query them on how they did – and are doing – it!
This event is free and open to Concordia students, as well as QWF Student Members. Concordia students, reserve tickets with your student ID number at case.president@asfa.ca. QWF student members, email rachel@qwf.org to reserve a place.
November 10, 2018 November 10, 2018 CASE Concordia News, Uncategorized
Join the L.U.C.C. Vetting Committee!
After last year's seventh successful Literature Undergraduate Colloquium at Concordia (L.U.C.C.), we would like to invite students to apply to our vetting team for our eighth edition!
The vetting process will begin in February 2019 but applications must be submitted to case.academic@asfa.ca by Friday, November 16th at 11:59 pm. When applying, please include a brief cover letter detailing who you are, your qualifications, and why you're interested in being part of our team. Students are encouraged to include their academic and extracurricular history that might relate to their qualifications for this position. Depending on the number of applications, you may be asked to review a short sample paper to show your familiarity with academic essays.
Continue reading "Join the L.U.C.C. Vetting Committee!" →
March 5, 2018 CASE Concordia News
As a follow up to the Legal Workshop we organized on February 15th, @RadLawMcGill has shared with us the notes relevant to defamation law in Quebec. If you have additional questions, please let us know and we will gladly relay them to RadLaw. Please note that this document is not intended to provide legal advice, but rather to dispense legal information.
September 10, 2014 CASE Concordia Events, News
Writers Read at Concordia presents Deirdre Madden!
Award-Winning Irish Novelist Gives Public Reading at Concordia
WHEN: Friday, October 10, 2014 at 7PM
WHERE: Concordia University (Room H-767, Hall Building, 1455 de Maisonneuve West, 7th floor)
In our first major event of the 2014/2015 season, Writers Read at Concordia is proud to welcome award-winning Irish novelist Deirdre Madden for a public reading on Friday, October 10, 2014 at 7PM at Concordia University (Room H-767, Hall Building, 1455 de Maisonneuve West, 7th floor). Writers Read has hosted authors including Lydia Davis, Roddy Doyle and Mary Gaitskill. Our 2014/2015 season includes a special celebration of Quebec Women's Writing featuring Nicole Brossard, Gail Scott, Lisa Robertson and Rachel Levitsky, as well as readings by Gary Geddes, Lynn Coady, Brenda Hillman and Robert Hass as well as a few surprise guests for day time events.
Deirdre Madden studied at Trinity College in Dublin and the University of East Anglia. She has published eight novels, including The Birds of The Innocent Wood, One by One in the Darkness, Authenticity and Molly Fox's Birthday. Her awards include the Hennessy Award, the Somerset Maugham Prize, the Rooney Prize and the Kerry Book of the Year Award. She has been shortlisted twice for the Orange Prize. Her most recent novel, Time Present and Time Past was published in 2013. She teaches Creative Writing at Trinity College Dublin.
August 27, 2014 CASE Concordia News, Publishing Opportunities
Call for Writers!
CALL FOR WRITERS:
Romeo Gongora is looking for English-language poets, writers, and story-tellers to share their work in the context of this inter-disciplinary exhibition, Just Watch Me, an exhibition that examines the geopolitical spaces of Quebec's identities.
This would take the form of a performative/participative reading. Some key words for themes: identity, collectivity, society.
The project, inspired by artistic collectives emerging from the Quiet Revolution in Quebec, aims to convert the gallery space into a place for social exchange, and will feature a variety of events such as workshops, conferences, screenings, and poetry readings.
The series will take place every Friday, between 16h30-17h30 (September 12th, 19th, 26th and October 3rd, 10th) at the Ellen and Bina Leonard Gallery.
Writers should send a sample of their work and a brief bio to info@romeogongora.com for more information.
This reading series is organized by La Tournure, an independant publishing collective. For more information on the group, please consult their website athttp://latournure.org/
ABOUT THE ARTIST:
Romeo Gongora is a Canadian-Guatemalan artist whose practice centers
on the social. He works in an interdisciplinary form, combining
performance, cinema, installation and text, where exchange with
stakeholders (artists, historians, sociologists, etc.) are essential
to the creative process.
ABOUT THE EXHIBITION:
Just Watch Me is an exhibition that examines the geopolitical spaces
of Quebec's identities. Focusing on dialogue and collective creation,
the work makes a critical analysis of the relationship between
culture, economy, the state, and artistic collectives that marked the
province's Quiet Revolution (1965-1972): Mousse Pacthèque, Nouvel-Age,
Fusion des Arts, etc. The project aims to convert the gallery space
into a place for social exchange, and will feature a variety of
events such as workshops, conferences, screenings, and poetry
readings.
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Milstein Hall receives top award from the American Institute of Architects
Milstein Hall received one of the highest recognitions in the architecture profession when the American Institute of Architects announced on January 14 that the 47,000-square-foot building with its unique cantilever design had been selected as a recipient of its prestigious honor award.
The addition to the College of Architecture, Art, and Planning, designed by OMA, was among 11 buildings in the United States and Canada that received 2013 Institute Honor Awards for Architecture. The recipients included The Barnes Foundation, the new museum for the legendary Barnes Collection in Philadelphia, and The New York Public Library, which recently underwent a $50 million exterior restoration.
The AIA, the Washington, DC-based professional organization, selected a total of 28 recipients for its 2013 awards in three categories — architecture, interior architecture, and regional and urban design — from among 700 submissions. The recipients were chosen through an extensive process that entailed a jury review and site visits.
In its comments, the jury said that Milstein Hall, with its floor-to-ceiling glass facades, has made the AAP "far more visually accessible" on the Cornell campus. "A powerful parti with emphasis on transparency places the entire design school on display to the campus in largely successful ways," the jury said.
The connection Milstein has created between Sibley and Rand halls, along with the relocation of the design library, "have enhanced communication between student cohorts within the college," the jury added. It also praised "the exposed systems and relaxed ambiance" of the studio space in the building's cantilevered section, noting that they "tolerate and celebrate the creative clutter created by the students."
Kent Kleinman, the Gale and Ira Drukier Dean of AAP, was pleased that the AIA had recognized Milstein Hall's innovative design. "We're delighted that Milstein Hall has received this high honor," he says. "It is gratifying to all who worked so hard on this project to have the effort validated by this national jury."
In addition to the 2013 AIA Honors Award, Milstein Hall was selected as the 2011 ArchDaily Educational Building of the Year and received a 2012 Excellence in Structural Engineering Award.
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"It seems like it's the accepted way of calling somebody the n-word nowadays," Seattle Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman said of "thug" at a press conference Wednesday afternoon. "Thug" was used on television, mostly to describe him, 625 times in the 24 hours after his infamous trash-talking of Michael Crabtree following Sunday's victory over the San Francisco 49ers. "Crabtree," Sherman said Sunday. "Don't you open your mouth about the best. Or I'm going to shut it for you real quick!" As if that wasn't enough, Sherman and Crabtree were mic'd up during the game.
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Trump retreats from threat to attack Iranian cultural sites
President Trump at the White House on Tuesday.
(Alex Brandon / Associated Press)
By DARLENE SUPERVILLE
President Trump on Tuesday backed away from his threats to target Iranian cultural sites if Iran were to retaliate against the U.S. for killing one of its top generals.
Targeting cultural sites is a war crime.
After first tweeting the threat and later reiterating it to reporters as he flew back to Washington over the weekend, Trump retreated Tuesday, saying, "I like to obey the law."
But he still sounded offended by the idea that such sites would be off-limits during armed conflict.
"Think of it," Trump said during an Oval Office appearance. "They kill our people. They blow up our people. And then we have to be very gentle with their cultural institutions?"
Trump added: "But I'm OK with it. It's OK with me." He then issued yet another stern warning to Iran to stand down, saying, "If Iran does anything they shouldn't be doing, they are going to be suffering the consequences, and very strongly."
Latest hostage in escalating U.S.-Iran tensions: Cultural monuments
Trump's threats to attack Iran's cultural sites cause scholars to recoil, bringing to mind memories of war crimes and attacks since ancient times.
On Monday, Defense Secretary Mark Esper distanced the Pentagon from Trump's threats to bomb Iranian cultural sites despite international prohibitions on such activity.
Esper said the U.S. would "follow the laws of armed conflict." Asked if that ruled out targeting cultural sites, Esper pointedly added, "That's the laws of armed conflict."
It all began over the weekend when Trump tweeted Saturday that if Iran attacked any American assets to avenge the killing of Iranian Gen. Qassem Suleimani, the U.S. had 52 targets across the Islamic Republic that "WILL BE HIT VERY FAST AND VERY HARD."
He added that some are "important to Iran & Iranian culture."
Anger spread quickly across Iran, and Trump repeated the threat to reporters traveling with him as he flew back to Washington on Sunday after spending two weeks at his Florida resort.
Tensions between the U.S. and Iran escalated sharply after Trump ordered a drone strike in Iraq that killed Suleimani, head of Iran's powerful Quds Force. The U.S. said Suleimani was killed because he was making plans to attack American diplomats and service members in the Middle East.
Targeting cultural sites is a war crime under the 1954 Hague Convention for their protection. Separately, in 2017, the U.N. Security Council unanimously passed a resolution condemning the destruction of heritage sites. Attacks by the Islamic State group and other armed factions in Syria and Iraq prompted that vote.
UNESCO, the United Nations' cultural agency, has called on governments to remember that cultural sites are not targets.
Trump's tweet also caused concern in Washington. One U.S. national security official said the threat against Iranian cultural sites had caught many in his administration off-guard and prompted calls for others in his government, including Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo, to clarify the matter. The official, who was not authorized to speak publicly to the issue, called such a clarification necessary to affirm that the U.S. military would not intentionally commit war crimes.
When asked about the president's tweet, Pompeo said Sunday the U.S. would "behave" within the law. Questioned about the matter again Tuesday, Pompeo said every action taken by the U.S. would be "consistent with the international rule of law," though he did not specifically rule out Iranian cultural sites.
He then blamed Iran for damaging its culture.
Iran is home to two dozen UNESCO World Heritage Sites, including Persepolis, with its ancient ruins that date to 518 B.C.; the 17th century grand mosque of Isfahan, located in a teeming bazaar; and the Golestan Palace in the heart of Tehran, where the last shah to rule Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, was crowned in 1967.
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HomeNewsSen Akpan's 42-years imprisonment: the case had started before Udom became Governor- Group exonerates Akwa Ibom Governor
Sen Akpan's 42-years imprisonment: the case had started before Udom became Governor- Group exonerates Akwa Ibom Governor
A socio-political group operating under the aegis of Liberated People for Transparency and Good Governance has tackled the Akwa ubok Abasi campaign organization, a group working for Senator Bassey Akpan's 2023 governorship in Akwa ibom state describing the latest position on their principal incarceration as misguided and unpatriotic.
The group in a press conference addressed today in uyo Akwa ibom state through its President Comrade Enefiok Umoh and Secretary Edet Afia keke made it clear that the law of the land is supreme and no man no matter his position in the society is bigger than the law.
It could be recalled that moments after the federal high court in uyo has slammed a 42 year jail sentence on Senator Bassey Albert Akpan, the Akwa Ubok Abasi Campaign Organisation in a
statement signed by the Chairman, Campaign Council, Sir Emem Akpabio, specifically said: "On Thursday, December 1st, 2022, Akwa Ibom State citizens nay all Nigerians witnessed judicial absurdity in its rarest form. They saw how justice was turned on its head, just to please the powers that be in the State
However, the group told journalist the successful prosecution of the Senator by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has taken a new dimension fueling so much controversies, accusations and counter-accusations in some quarters, and needed to be holistically addressed.
According to the group," Those loyal to the embattled senator who has been in the case since 2014 are pointing accusing fingers at the state Governor Udom Emmanuel, giving it a political coloration and branding it a politically sponsored travail using interpersonal deceptive theory to whip sentiment and mislead members of the public, the truth of the matter should be restated".
"The theory so adopted by OBA'S men involves the use of intentional deception which requires greater cognitive exertion than truthful communication, especially when the sender of the message attempts falsification (lying), concealment (omitting material facts) or equivocation (skirting issues by changing the subject or responding indirectly).
Putting the records straight, according the group, "there is need for one to have an understanding of the genesis of the case.
"In May 10, 2010, Obong Bassey Albert Akpan (then the Akwa Ibom state Commissioner for Finance) was alleged to have received from Jide Omokore, a business man (who was later picked by the EFCC for questioning,) a BMW X5 (Bulletproof) worth N50 million; in December 2012 another Infinity QX 56(bulletproof) worth N45 million was also received from the same source, and 4 other luxury vehicles worth millions of naira each.
"It is also interesting to note that OBA has directly admitted that he received all the said vehicles, though for campaign purposes, a position that the EFCC vehemently opposed to, as they claimed that those vehicles were luxury vehicles, and were proceeds of corruption, which contravenes section 15(12)(d) of the Money Laundering (Prohibition) Act of 2011, as (amended) and punishable by section 15(3) of the same Act.
"Quite interesting is the fact that it was Barr. Leo Ekpenyong, a strong supporter of Bassey Albert (who equally dragged Godswill Akpabio to the EFCC, though he later dropped Akpabio's case but held on to OBA's case) that petitioned Bassey Albert to the EFCC since 2014 when Governor Udom Emmanuel was not yet a governor. OBA was arrested; the bullet proof vehicles were recovered and statements of accounts he paid the said monies to were traced, tendered and admitted in court as evidence. He was later granted bail because he pleaded not guilty and continued to battle with the case since then till yesterday when the case was decided.
"Remember, the case was not between Governor Udom Emmanuel or the State or an agency of the state, but was between the EFCC, an agency of the Federal Republic of Nigeria vs Bassey Albert.
Then, how come OBA'S loyalists are crying that Gov. Udom Emmanuel influenced the case to destabilize OBA's gubernatorial ambition.
"Gov. Emmanuel has consistently stated that he does not even know the facts of the case and is not directly or indirectly involved since it was the federal government agency that dragged OBA to court and not the state.
The group maintained that the case between OBA and the EFCC, the later has proven beyond any reasonable doubts the need for OBA's prosecution, based on the evidences so brought before the court.
In their words, "The EFCC has been able to prove that OBA during the period of purchase and collection of the vehicles, was the state commissioner for finance, and the chairman of the Inter-ministerial and Direct Labour Coordinating Committee.
"While on the saddle of this committee, he(OBA) paid money into Omokore's company's account (and evidence of the payment was tendered to the court by the EFCC), and subsequently took delivery of the vehicles which he admitted to. These are clear evidences which he has not denied.
They further highlighted, "What is the role of Gov. Udom Emmanuel in his travail? The constitution of the federal republic of Nigeria does not give a state governor power to discontinue such case, except the Attorney General of Nigeria who reserves the right to do so. If Gov. Emmanuel had such power, he would have helped him out, especially when political interest did not take OBA to YPP.
Also speaking, Special Assistance Media to Governor Udom Emmanuel Revd Richard Peters said "A cursory look into the character of Governor Udom Emmanuel clearly shows that he doesn't play politics of bitterness and hatred.
"The Governor is a man that believes in the rule of law and respects democratic principles. It amounts to gross ignorance and strange to attempt to perceive the governor as a vindictive clown, an attempt that has already failed a reality test.
He opined that Governor Udom Emmanuel will continue to play politics with human face and good conscience, and no amount of deceit peddled around can change this glaring fact.
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DAVENPORT — Longtime Quad Cities Alcove of Commerce affiliate Steven Landauer said he is actuality denied admission to the organization's banking abstracts afterwards its $974,000 accident in 2014.
The Davenport CPA said he requested banking statements from the alcove afterwards reviewing the "990" federal tax anatomy nonprofit entities use to book with the Internal Revenue Service.
The chamber's best contempo 990 anatomy — for July 1, 2013, to June 30, 2014 — shows it absent added than $974,000. The chamber's latest 990 anatomy is not accessible yet.
Mr. Landauer additionally has additionally filed a complaint with the IRS, advertence the alcove is adapted to accommodate that information.
Chamber CEO Tara Barney said the alignment makes advice accessible "according to the rules of our organization.
"Our attorneys are alive with his (Mr. Landauer's) to accomplish abiding that he gets what is appropriately available," she said Friday.
Mr. Landauer disagrees, adage federal law requires the alcove to accede with his request. He said he accustomed the runaround from the alcove in a alternation of emails this month.
On Jan. 2, Mr. Landauer emailed Alcove Arch Operating Administrator Betsy Brandsgard requesting the audited banking statements for the Quad Cities Alcove of Commerce.
On Jan. 6, Ms. Brandsgard asked Mr. Landauer what advice "exactly" he was seeking. She named the chamber's abundant committees — including a abstracted ysis board — and said they are "populated by smart, ethical, financially adeptness business and association leaders.
On Jan. 6, Ms. Barney responded to Ms. Brandsgard email, writing, "Well put. If he (Mr. Landauer) has questions, I will be absorbed in alive what they ability be. We've been asked by the papers, the cities and others for our financials.
"We don't allotment them," her email states.
According to borough banking reports, the alcove in 2015 accustomed $384,000 from bristles cities: $174,904 from Moline, $140,000 from Davenport, $30,100 from Rock Island, $24,000 from East Moline and $15,000 from Bettendorf.
Money is accustomed for a aggregate of reasons, from dues, to Quad Cities First, to Moline's Main Street program, which is overseen by the chamber.
The Iowa Principles and Practices for Charitable Nonprofit Excellence — developed by the Iowa Governor's Nonprofit Task Force in 2004 and revised in 2011 — states "the ysis or banking account (of a nonprofit organization) should be accessible to all funders, government regulators and the public." The certificate appears on the Iowa Secretary of State's website.
On Jan. 13, Davenport CPA Nick Nauman a alcove arch banking administrator Vicky Diamond that a member's appeal to audit banking abstracts charge be in autograph and submitted beneath oath.
Mr. Landauer said he aloof wants to see area the money is activity and why the alcove shows it was $974,000 in the red for its latest 990 filing.
"For the activity of me, I don't apperceive what's activity on," Mr. Landauer said.