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Floatin' Powa News Service: Trading Freedom for Free Dumb
Obama gives Jerusalem to the Palestinians
Like it is his to give. Jerusalem belongs to Hashem.
You will see.
This is the vast difference between virtue and expediency, between character and evil. Netenyahu will accept a two state solution based on the Andorra model. A Palestinian state that has sovereignity, but no armed forces. "It must be understood, we seek peace with the Palestinians and with the states of the Arab world while trying to reach as much understanding as possible with the United States and our friends abroad," the Israeli leader said at the start of the weekly Cabinet meeting. "My desire is to achieve a stable peace that rests on solid foundations of security for the state of Israel and its citizens."
Meaning, Israel has given all it will give. It won't be dictated to by Obama or anyone else. Suicide is NOT...an option...yet it is the very option Obama wants Israel to take.
Would the reader take that option for himself?
Andy Benjamin
"Netanyahu will accept a two state solution based on the Andorra model. A Palestinian state that has sovereignity, but no armed forces."
We the people of Oymeristan & Free Dumb have built the PALESTINIAN ARMY and use it to threaten Israel right now.
OIC trying to control the temple mount
The ACLJ (American Center For Law and Justice) has started a petition that you can sign on the Internet www.aclj.org/Petition/Default.aspx to show your support to keep the status quo. Honestly, there's just no good reason for the temple mount to change hands. The way it is now everyone who cares has access. Under anti semitic fundamentalist Islamic control I can assure you the same tolerance will not be granted.
Obama's Friends, Aides Help Shape Stance on Settlements
Yes we must be sure to have harsh words for Jews building houses but for Muslims blowing them up we must speak deferentially...
But his recent language about settlements is the starkest of any U.S. president in three decades, and tougher than most of his public rhetoric since emerging on the national scene.
The real Nakba: the expulsuion of Jews from Arab lands
Lebanon's PM hopeful Hariri seeks compromise
The pro-Western politician favored to become Lebanon's next prime minister is setting aside the explosive issue of disarming the Shiite militant group Hezbollah, saying Friday he hopes for unity with his political foes in the sharply divided country.
US envoy Mitchell arrives in Syria
I have held substantive discussions with President Assad on the range of serious issues in our bilateral relationship."We seek to build on this effort to establish a relationship based on mutual respect and mutual interest," he said.Mitchell is the most senior US diplomat to visit Syria since Barack Obama was elected as US president.
Palestinian negotiator accuses Israel of playing with Road Map
I gotta road map for him. Right here. Make a left at Perdition.
Hamas represses PFLP-led rally in Gaza
The police of the Islamic Resistance Movement, or Hamas, opened fire in the air and beat demonstrators who rallied in Gaza city on Saturday against Palestinian schism, wounding at least two people, witnesses and officials said.
Three demonstrators were also arrested, said Rabah Muhana, a leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) which group organized the rally in Gaza City.
Hezbollah and Hamas: The Sudanese Connection
Thrilling as it may be, perpetrating genocide on its own people does not by itself satisfy the ruling National Congress Party in Sudan. Stories have surfaced recently connecting Sudan with Hezbollah and Hamas. They give weight to numerous claims that the radical Islamist regime of Omar el Bashir in Khartoum is involved with terrorists around the world. Sudan's genocidal humanitarian disasters have long been the focus of the Sudan policy of both the United States government and American activists. Sudan's active role in global terrorism has not. But both deserve focus because both are methods by which Khartoum hopes to bring about an Arabized Shari'a state, an Islamized Africa, and eventually, a worldwide Islamic Caliphate.
New UN Authority Figures:
Libya, Sudan, Iran and Algeria Chosen for UN Leadership Roles
The hierarchy of power in Iran
The Mullahs run the show, and the President must obey.
Both Sides Claim Victory in Presidential Election in Iran
And once again it does not matter one whit which one of them is President.
Tension ahead after Ahmadinejad re-elected
Tension, even!
NY Festival Aims To Dispel Misconceptions About Islam
Da'Wa your free dumb infidel dhimmi ass!
She says it is a lucky coincidence that the opening of the festival came just a day after U.S. President Barack Obama's speech to the Muslim world in Cairo, and adds that culture and arts are some of the most effective ways to promote public diplomacy.
Turkey, Iraq Sign Military Agreement
Turkish Army To Probe Alleged Anti-government Plot
The Turkish army said Friday it had ordered a probe into a colonel's alleged plot to discredit the Islamist-rooted government and its supporters.
Gazprom linked to Pakistan pipeline by Iran
Russia said planning military overhaul
Yes we have been following the purges and assassinations....
Russia Faces Collapse Of 'Monotowns'
Won't you take me to Monotown?
Analysis on Russia's oil, mining sector
Gazprom and StatoilHydro to cooperate in Arctic
I can see your house from here.
Uranium One shares rise on Kazakh assurances
Chinese parliamentary delegation visits Kazakhstan
US government welcomes Kazakhstan's willingness to host nuclear fuel bank
For this story they want you to pay $10.
According to American ambassador to Kazakhstan , Richard Haugland, US government welcomes Kazakhstan 's willingness to host nuclear fuel bank. Haugland pointed out that Kazakh government was carrying negotiations with IAEA to present the ideas on creation of the bank of nuclear fuel and to discuss working conditions in this direction.
Four Islamic banks may open in Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan to export 5.5 mln tons of grains
Which VLAD controls.
You will go to him when you are cold and hungry.
Kazakhstan urges foreign investors to help economy
The Natural Resources of Kazakhstan
Turkmenistan Warms to US, Cools to Russia
The Mineral Industry of Turkmenistan
US ready to help Turkmens diversify gas exports
TURKMENISTAN: NATO SCIENTISTS FOCUS ON RADIOACTIVE DUMP
Turkmenistan, NATO discuss cooperation
U.S. Stamps Authority On NATO's Afghan Strategy
Turkmenistan Elected Vice-chairman Of UN General Assembly
SCO chairmanship to be passed over to Uzbekistan
Shanghai Cooperation Organization Council of leaders of states-members (Russia, Kazakhstan, China, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan) session will be held on June 15-16 in Yekaterinburg, in the course of which it is planned to summarize results of Organization activity in the period of Russian chairmanship in 2008-2009, as reported by Russian MFA representative Nesterenko on June 11.
Sino-Russian baby comes of age
The Obama administration's proposed budget for the State Department allocates aid of $41.5 million for Kyrgyzstan and $46.5 million for Tajikistan, whereas the corresponding figures for the current fiscal year are $24.4 million and $25.2 million, respectively. US military aid to the two countries will also similarly be increased under the new budget.
The justification given is that Central Asia's strategic importance has risen of late for US regional policies. According to budget justification documents released by the State Department in Washington on May 7: Central Asia remains alarmingly fragile: a lack of economic opportunity and weak democratic institutions foster conditions where corruption is endemic and Islamic extremism and drug trafficking can thrive. For this region, where good relations play an important role in supporting our [US] military and civilian efforts to stabilize Afghanistan, the [budget] request prioritizes assistance for the Kyrgyz Republic and Tajikistan
North Korea to Enrich Uranium
North Korea declares all-out push for nuclear weapons
Do you see the Chinese hand up Kim Jong's ass?
Philippines: 8 Tangos Down
Nigerian militants: we destroyed Chevron pipeline
Obama pledges aid for Zimbabwe
Goldman May Get $321 Million on Missed Trade Center Deadlines
Fillin' the Gold Man's Sacks with the ashes of tragedy...
Goldman Sachs Group Inc., the Wall Street firm that earned $2.3 billion last year, stands to get up to $321 million if the state and city fail to meet construction and security deadlines at the World Trade Center site.
Goldman Forecasts 10% Gain for 2010 Iron Ore Price
Is that right. Keep your eyes on the Stans... especially Kazakhstan
AK Steel Downgraded by Goldman Sachs
An American company.... who won't get a gig in the Stans.
Banks Repaying TARP Still Enjoy Vast Government Debt Aid
Nova Chemicals receives approvals for takeover
So, who knew about these committees ...and who knew people in Canada needed approval from from them to buy and sell - I knew in Europe this was true with the EU but I did not know it was happening here too. And why only China & the US?
Nova Chemicals Corp., Canada's largest plastics producer, said Friday it received more regulatory approvals for its takeover by Abu Dhabi investment firm International Petroleum Investment Co.The company said both the Chinese Ministry of Commerce and the United States Committee on Foreign Investment have cleared the transaction.
So WTF is the United States Committee on Foreign Investment, period?
CFIUS is an inter-agency committee authorized to review transactions that could result in control of a U.S. business by a foreign person ("covered transactions"), in order to determine the effect of such transactions on the national security of the United States. CFIUS operates pursuant to section 721 of the Defense Production Act of 1950, as amended by the Foreign Investment and National Security Act of 2007 (FINSA) (section 721) and as implemented by Executive Order 11858, as amended, and regulations at 31 C.F.R. Part 800.
The CFIUS process has been the subject of significant reforms over the past several years. These include numerous improvements in internal CFIUS procedures, enactment of FINSA in July 2007, amendment of Executive Order 11858 in January 2008, revision of the CFIUS regulations in November 2008, and publication of guidance on CFIUS's national security considerations in December 2008. Further information about each of these reforms is available via the links to the right.
Meantime that is a Canadian company in the piece.... Isn't it?
Not really...
U.S. Operating Center
1550 Coraopolis Heights Road
Moon Township, PA 15108 USA
And why must China approve this sale?
NOVA has offices in China but they also have offices in Europe. So how come the EU did not have to approve the sale as well? I have no idea. All I know is "Executive Order 1158" appears to basically gives the government the control over who can sell their business and to whom they can sell. This is how the EU works, and this is also biblically significant. All buying and selling will be centralized is the word in Revelation.
Circling back to Tiananmen Square in a failing western light:
Last week, the New York Times thundered: "Beijing may be able to repress the memory of Tiananmen, but the yearning for freedom remains." But, in fact, a number of influential commentators, who acknowledge the suppression of freedom, question this assumption. And it's not simply the fact that, according to the World Bank, Chinese economic growth and planning have seen the fastest reduction of people living in absolute poverty in recent economic history, accounting for over 75% of the developing world's total. James Kunge, who witnessed the events of 20 years ago, wrote in the Financial Times last week: "In a world of moral fluidity, Tiananmen is a gratifyingly fixed reference for our judgment of others... (but) I question the western assumption that the demonstrators were 'pro-democracy'. The reality was less coherent."
Perhaps in 20 years' time, on the 40th anniversary of Tiananmen and the 85th commemoration of D-Day, we will know just how ascendant the Chinese alternative to liberal democratic capitalism has become.
Bernanke lied, Bank of America didn't die
Summers Calls Obama Defender of Free Markets
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH!
Nationalization of the Insurance Industry
SHHHHH! Do not call anything what it really is!
Hartford Queues Up For Government Cheese
US Treasury revises amount of loan to Chrysler
The US Treasury Department said on Friday that a loan it is making to a reorganized Chrysler Group LLC totals $6.642 billion instead of $6.943 billion that it had estimated on May 27.
THE IRS: Teaching Muslims how to raise funds in America
Russky Business: the US Credit Line Gets Cut
SAY MY NAME!!
El-Erian Says Summit Shows `Rebalancing' as BRICS Buy IMF Bonds
Ah yes the ubiquitous "rebalancing"
Brazil and Russia joined China this week in saying they would shift some $70 billion of reserves into multicurrency bonds issued by the International Monetary Fund. While the moves aren't an effort to "topple the dollar," according to Mark Mobius , executive chairman of Templeton Asset Management Ltd., they increase the relevance of the four largest emerging economies, which account for only 6 percent of the MSCI AC World Index.
"The rebalancing of relative economic power is not only alive but gaining momentum," said Mohamed El-Erian , chief executive officer of Pacific Investment Management Co., adviser to the world's largest bond fund. "Average investors need to make sure that they are not hostage to an outdated conventional wisdom that underexposes them to this phenomenon."
BRICs Launch Assault on Dollar's Global Status
Rebalancing your American ass straight to the bottom of the heap.
China's economy could overtake US by 2027
It ain't gonna take that long.
The federal government is wrong about online gambling
They don't care if they are "wrong"... They have Seized what they wanted to Seize, and you will take it and like it!
Welcome to Oymeristan.
Where Free Dumb Rings.
National Guard: Gates weakening security
National Guard leaders from 48 of the 50 states sent a letter to the House and Senate Armed Services committees on Thursday warning that a budget decision made by Defense Secretary Robert Gates would weaken national security.
Controversial abortion-State Dept. bill OK'd
The House of Representatives easily approved legislation June 10 despite warnings it would empower the State Department to promote abortion and homosexuality in other countries.
The House voted 235-187 for the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, H.R. 2410, which permits funding for the State Department and other entities for the next two years.
Sotomayor Tells Senator She "Never Thought About" Rights of Unborn
"When I asked if an unborn child has any rights whatsoever, I was surprised that she said she had never thought about it," he said. "This is not just a question about abortion, but about respect due to human life at all stages -- and I hope this is cleared up in her hearings."
Drug your kids if you have not preemptively murdered them:
"Rather than focus on protecting children's safety, FDA officials are doing their utmost to legitimize irresponsible, off-label prescribing of exceedingly toxic antipsychotics for children--thereby ensuring that far greater numbers of children will be victimized and die," according to Sharav.
A recent report by the consulting firm Decision Resources found antipsychotics makers spent $993,000,000 in 2006, to promote these drugs to doctors and patients, she reports. In 2008, at more than $14 billion, antipsychotic revenues topped all other classes of drugs in the US, even cholesterol and diabetes medications.
Savient Up Premarket On FDA Comments Ahead Of Panel Meeting
CHA~CHING!
Human Genome Sciences shares jump on test results
World Health Organization Raises Pandemic Alert Level to Phase 6
GET SICK NOW!!!!! Or we will make you sick.
Despite pandemic, flu poses no imminent danger
Well they will Yokki this guy for sure.
Bacon bites back: a scientist's fascination with swine flu
"You will doubtless be happy to know that even if we sat back and did nothing, by month's end the U.S. would still only have registered about 2,000 cases of H1N1, about the same number of cases of Beaver Fever they expect to see."
US hospitals rationing nuclear imaging tests
A North American shortage of medical isotopes has forced many U.S. hospitals to begin rationing scores of diagnostic tests, and doctors said on Friday they see no quick solution.
Last month, Canadian health officials shut down a nuclear reactor in eastern Ontario that produces a third of the world's supply of medical isotopes, used in scans to check for an impending heart attack or see if cancer has spread.
Repairs of a leak of heavy water at the Chalk River reactor, first estimated to take a month, may now take three, and Canadian officials say they eventually may leave the isotope business altogether.
The Canadian plant is one of five aging reactors worldwide -- none located in the United States -- to produce molybdenum-99, the most commonly used medical isotope. The rapidly decaying substance has a shelf life of just 67 hours, making it impossible to stockpile.
"We are seeing a shortage," said Dr. Peter Conti
Newport lawyer faces ethics charges for 3rd time in 2009
Why do we care? Enter RAYTHEON ~
The newest ethics charges –– made public Friday –– stem from a complaint brought by Robert Addison, who hired Coaty in 2005 to represent him in connection with problems he was having with his employer, Raytheon, and a dispute he was having with MetLife Disability, which administered a plan provided by Raytheon.
Raytheon Pushes Math and Science
Right down your throats, see.
Ousted inspector general defends job
An inspector general fired by President Barack Obama said Friday he acted "with the highest integrity" in investigating AmeriCorps and other government-funded national service programs.
Which would explain the ousting.
Rev. Wright issues apology for remarks about Jews
Ahm sorry your Jew MFing ass HEARD me say it. Really I am.
DHS infrstructure unit hiring 621 more workers
Funding bill targets DHS data center problems
DHS officials have said the consolidation of component agencies' resources into two departmentwide data centers would improve efficiency, security and disaster recovery. However, members of the appropriations committee agreed to a budget measure that would delay those plans in light of a recent report from DHS' inspector general that identified a series of problems and vulnerabilities with the consolidation program.
PFAW Calls for DHS to Publish "Rightwing Extremism" Report
What they really need is a report of who meets thrice daily at Jew Hate Junction. But they don't want that, some of them may find themselves on it. DHS & everyone else it seems are invested heavily in maintaining the illusion of BRAND Left and BRAND Right at all costs. These delineations are figments of your imagination, there is no LEFT or RIGHT anymore, the terms are absolutely meaningless. But hey, Free Dumb for all. So, am I Left or Right? The left calls me right and the right calls me left.
In the wake of the murder of Dr. George Tiller in Kansas and Stephen T. Johns at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, People For the American Way President Michael B. Keegan called for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to finalize and publish its "Rightwing Extremism" report. The report was released by DHS earlier this year but retracted after its content became the subject of manufactured controversy from Religious Right groups.
'Act of cowardice' says museum shooter James von Brunn's son
Thousands Evacuate Near Erupting Colombian Volcano
Drilling might be culprit behind Texas earthquakes
I smell a fracking agenda brewing here...
At issue is a drilling practice called "fracking," in which water is injected into the ground at high pressure to fracture the layers of shale and release natural gas trapped in the rock.
Earthquake recording stations to be located in Missouri
6.3 hits Vanuatu
Behold, I send an Angel before you to keep you in the way and to bring you into the place which I have prepared.
"Beware of Him and obey His voice; do not provoke Him, for He will not pardon your transgressions; for My name is in Him.
"But if you indeed obey His voice and do all that I speak,I will be an enemy to your enemies and an adversary to your adversaries.....
"I will send My fear before you, I will cause confusion among all the people to whom you come, and will make all your enemies turn their backs to you."
And I will send hornets before you, which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite from before you. "I will not drive them out from before you in one year, lest the land become desolate and the beasts of the field become too numerous for you.
"Little by little I will drive them out from before you, until you have increased, and you inherit the land. ...
"YOU SHALL MAKE NO COVENANT WITH THEM NOR WITH THEIR GODS"
"They shall not dwell in your land, lest they make you sin against Me. For if you serve their gods, it will surely be a snare to you"
WFRL: Repentance ~
This is what the Sovereign LORD,
the Holy One of Israel, says:
"In repentance and rest is your salvation,
in quietness and trust is your strength,
but you would have none of it."
~ Isaiah 30:15
Should God reward you on your terms,
when you refuse to repent?
You must decide, not I;
tell me what you know.
~ Job 34:33
WFRL: Everything Happens to Me...
Floatin' Powa News Service: Wake Up Call For Oymeristan!
Binyamin Netanyahu may yield to two-state solution after pressure from Obama
NO, BiBi
NOOOOOooooooooOOOOOoooooo...
Binyamin Netanyahu is expected to endorse a "two-state solution" in a much-heralded speech this weekend, but he may stall on American demands to freeze Jewish settlements in the West Bank.
Feeling the squeeze between the US Administration, which wants a moratorium on settlement growth and a commitment to a Palestinian state, and his national-religious coalition, which favours neither, the Israeli Prime Minister appears likely to try to steer a middle course.
Netanyahu meets MKs ahead of Sunday's policy address
UN wants to fine Israel for Gaza damage
UNIFIL helping to arrest Israeli spies
UNIFIL peacekeepers in Lebanon, whose mandate includes ensuring that Hizbullah not be permitted to rearm or expand it's presence south of the Litani River following the Second Lebanon War, has been engaged in an altogether different mission - facilitating the arrest of those suspected of spying for Israel, Channel 10 reported on Thursday.
Israelis arrested in Lebanon freed
Jeez, Ain't That Nice?
I recently received my Jerusalem Online Updates on the computer and, sure enough, there's President Obama's Mid East envoy, George Mitchell, stating that the U.S. won't turn its back on Palestinians.
TIME MAGAZINE SEZ:
Why Obama Should Keep the Heat on Israel
All true colors will be revealed going forward.
The MSM is becoming more openly anti-Israel than ever.
Since then, public spats with Israel have been the third rail of U.S. foreign policy. If Obama loses his current showdown with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, they could well remain so for a generation. But luckily for Obama--and unluckily for the supporters of the political status quo in Washington and Jerusalem--he's not likely to lose.
Dig the language in this piece - the deference and respect given to "Mr. Meshaal".
Both Hamas and Hez'b'allah are going to be legitimized exactly as the PLO was, and very soon.
Mr Meshaal reflected on President Obama's recent speeches on the Middle East calling his tone "encouraging". He warned that "the main obstacle is what is happening in the West Bank".
Caliphellatin' Dimmah Carter Sez:
Mideast peace not possible without Hamas
His comments came shortly before he met with the militant group's Syrian-based leader, Khaled Mashaal. Carter met with Mashaal twice under the Bush administration, angering some in the U.S. government who said he was legitimizing a group the U.S. considers a terrorist organization.
Hariri opens door to Hezbollah involvement
BEIRUT, Lebanon, June 10 (UPI) -- The leader of the ruling March 14 coalition that secured the majority in the Sunday parliamentary elections in Lebanon opened the door to the opposition.
Leading Muslim cleric killed in suicide bomb attack in Lahore
Chinese Muslims trigger public backlash in Palau
The tiny Pacific nation of Palau's decision to allow 13 Chinese Muslims from the Guantanamo Bay prison camp to resettle there has sparked anger among islanders who fear for the safety of the tranquil tourist haven.
The U.S. government determined last year that the Chinese Muslims, or Uighurs, were not enemy combatants and should be released from the U.S. military prison in Cuba. China has objected to their resettlement, calling the men "terrorist suspects" and demanding they be sent home.
The U.S. has said it fears the men would be executed if they were returned to China.
Palau President Johnson Toribiong explained his decision to grant the Uighurs entry as traditional hospitality, but public opinion has appeared overwhelmingly negative. Some complained Friday that the government failed to consult the people.
"I totally disagree" with allowing the Uighurs onto Palau, Natalia Baulis, a 30-year-old mother of two, told The Associated Press by telephone. "It's good to be humanitarian and all, but still these people ... to me are scary," she said.
Al-Qaeda Asks Turkish Muslims for Funds
Ahmadinejad Cites Corruption Watchdog's Use Of 'Zionists'
Only three? We're slippin'.
President Mahmud Ahmadinejad criticized his rivals on June 10 for citing reports by Transparency International to indicate "the hike in corruption in Iran over the last four years." He said the group used four companies to assess the level of corruption in Iran, including three run by "Zionists."
Iran denies UN nuke agency camera request
North Korea, Iran joined on missile work
Nuclear war is Kim Jong-il's game plan
"Our military first policy calls for an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, retaliation for retaliation, ultra-hardline for hardline, war for war, total war for total war, nuclear war for nuclear war." - Kim Jong-il
North Korea to Match UN Resolution With New Nuclear Test
US fears third nuclear test in North Korea
AIG Said to Remove Logo From Employee Badges, Charge Cards
Time for a rebrand!
Americans' net worth shrinks $1.33 trillion in 1Q
Blackrock to Buy Barclays Global Investors for $13.5 Billion
Hartford to Sell $750 Million in Stock, Gets $3.4 Billion in TARP
Goldman Sachs warms to regulated utilities
In Lewis Grilling, Bernanke, Paulson Also Took Heat
World Bank Predicts Deeper Economic Contractions
Contractions you say?
Jesus answered: "Watch out that no one deceives you. For many will come in my name, claiming, 'I am the Messiah, and will deceive many. There will be wars and rumors of wars, but see to it that you are not alarmed. Such things must happen, but the end is still to come. Tribe will rise against Tribe, and Kingdom against Kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in various places. All these are the beginning of the contractions, the birth pains.
They want Gramsci's Messiah, not Hashem's.
American Air to 1600 Cut Jobs, Delta May Follow
tick.... tick....tick.....
I'm Seizer, Fly Meeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
BRICs Seek to Enter `Big Leagues' With IMF Debt Purchase
Russia Reignites The Reserve Currency Debate
No. 2 House Republican compares Obama to Putin
HA HA HA! Silly Republicrat.
Your idiot Obama is like Pip to my Ahab!
Russia snubs US call to consider hosting radar
Idiot Americans. My name is called Vlad!
Gazprom, StatoilHydro renew Arctic cooperation deal
Youth Activist's Apartment Searched By St. Petersburg Police
Putin Enters The Art World
Russia's former president-turned-renaissance-man told Glazunov that the "sword is a bit too short, it looks like a pocket knife," which in turn "looks like it is only good for slicing sausage."
What is my name, please?
SAY IT.... or I slice your sausage with my pocket knife!
Russia dismisses ambassador to Ukraine
TURKMENISTAN: US CORPORATIONS & GOVERNMENT ENCOURAGE ASHGABAT'S ENERGY DIVERSIFICATION
American companies and diplomats are lauding Turkmenistan's call for diversified energy exports and are trying muscling in on projects that Russian energy giant Gazprom had displayed an interest in.
"The United States shares an interest in the further development of Turkmenistan's energy sector and the diversification of export pipelines," said the US charge d'affaires to the Central Asian state, Richard Miles, as he opened a two-day conference on "Pipeline Integrity and Management" in Ashgabat on June 10.
"We believe that the successful realization of this strategy will strengthen Turkmenistan's independence and bring big profits to the state," he is quoted as saying by the Turkmen state news agency.
In a report distributed by the semi-official Turkmenistan.ru website, Meryl Burpoe, the deputy director of Russian and Eurasian affairs at the US Department of Energy, also sought to redirect Ashgabat's energy-export focus away from Moscow and toward both the European Union and South Asian states.
"US companies would cooperate with the Turkmen government to implement its strategy to diversify energy exports. The US Department of Energy, in turn, strongly supports the idea of diversifying the export of gas from Turkmenistan. I know that American companies are interested in participating in the implementation of pipeline projects from Turkmenistan to Europe, and Pakistan-India," she said.
US companies want to get involved in oil and gas industry of Turkmenistan
In addition to representatives of the U.S. Energy Department, the seminar was attended by leading specialists and experts from Pensen, Chevron, ExxonMobil, KBR and Universal Pegasus companies.
NATO consults Turkmenistan on radioactive waste
A NATO delegation arrived in Ashgabat to discuss safe transportation and keeping of radioactive waste
Obama Asks Kyrgyzstan To Expand Cooperation
U.S. President Barack Obama has written a letter to the Kyrgyz government, expressing his hope for further cooperation between the two nations, RFE/RL's Kyrgyz Service reports.
NATO ministers back shake-up in US Afghan command
The decision last month to dismiss U.S. Army General David McKiernan as the top commander in Afghanistan and, effectively, replace him with not one but two highly rated generals reflects a sense of urgency in the Obama administration about the war.
OIC: Support to the Republic of Tajikistan
The secratary General of the OIC called on the members of the Islamic Ummah and on the IDB Group to provide their material and financial support to the Government of the Republic of Tajikistan to enable it to face the humanitarian consequences of the heavy rains which fell on this brotherly country.
Associates Of Fugitive Tajik Businessman Jailed
The Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan
One Pakistani newspaper claims that local Taliban forces include up to 4,000 foreign fighters, most of them members of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU) who hail from the former Soviet Union.
Unrest in Uzbekistan
Suspicions that Islamist extremists are regrouping in the valley
47 citizens of Uzbekistan deported from Russia
Not Islamists, poor people with children. Nice.
All illegally residing 47 citizens of Uzbekistan - 14 families with 20 children - were handed in the bus in an orderly manner by Department of Federal Migration Service and Engels Department of Internal Affairs officers, and were delivered to frontier checkpoint "Ozinki-railway" under police escort, from where foreigners departed from territory of Russia on the train to Republic of Kazakhstan for further following to Uzbekistan, as reported by "RIA Novosti" on June 10.
"They constructed temporary sheds from boards, ply wood, paperboard, and polyethylene found on trash dumps. They lived in extremely unsanitary conditions, cooked food on the fire. Men scraped by causal earnings, women with children engaged in beggary in Engels and Saratov, collecting and returning bottles and scrap metal found on trash dumps, and pilfering, as reported in the department.
UAE, Uzbekistan hold economic talks
l Hilal Islamic Bank to be opened in Kazakhstan
UAE, Kazakhstan sign multi-faceted agreement
Conoco (USA) Inks Final Deal for Exploration Block off Kazakhstan
In partnership with the UAE.
Nigeria: Militants Blow Up Chevron Flow Station
Venezuela bans sale of Coke Zero, citing unspecified health dangers
Getting your ass beat and thrown in gulag is the #1 unspecified heath danger in Venezuela today!
Thousands march over Peru clashes
Riot police in Peru have fired tear gas to keep protesters away from Congress as thousands marched following the worst political violence in years.
Italy arrests four suspected of G8 summit plot
Italian police have arrested four people charged with plotting an attack on July's heads of state summit of the G8 group of industrialised nations, police sources said on Thursday.
At least two of those arrested have links to the communist-inspired Red Brigades, who carried out attacks in Italy in the 1970s and 1980s, kidnapping several public figures and assassinating politicians, the sources said.
A fifth person was detained, but has yet to be formally charged, and 15 others were under investigation, the sources said. They did not give any more details.
Sweden's New Asylum Policy
A twelve year-old Iraqi boy, Ronsy, has been missing for the past 17 days. He ran away after his family received the final decision that they will be deported from Sweden. The only trace he had left behind was a letter written to their representative at the social services office in Spånga, Sweden, a suburb of Stockholm. On the evening of the 23rd May, he asked his mother for a thousand Swedish kronor. The money, he told her, was to go to a football team he played on. The next day he was gone. When his mother contacted the school the day of his disappearance, she was informed that he hadn't been there at all.
A priest who assists refugee families stated: "Ronsy is only twelve years old but thinks like a grown man. He has heard that Sweden physically deports Iraqis and he asked if it was true that they can't deport a family if the police cannot find one of the children. He was scared to death to return to Iraq both for the sake of himself and his family."
The New Wage Controls
Phone call for Oymerika, Romania calling!
Historic anti-smoking vote to give FDA new power
Al your nicotine are belong to us.
General RAYTHEON to be nominated as ambassador to Saudi Arabia
Smith retired from the U.S. Air Force in October 2002. He has been employed by Raytheon Co., most recently as business development executive for Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems.
Eye in the Sky: Raytheon's unmanned blimp at this year's Indy 500
At first glance, there was nothing special about the blimp floating high above the cars and crowd at this year's Indy 500 on Memorial Day weekend. Like most airships, it acted as an advertising vehicle; this time for the Fisher House, a charity focused on helping injured veterans and their families. But the real promo should have been for the blimp's creator, Raytheon, the security company best known for its weapons systems. Hidden inside the 55-foot-long white balloon was a powerful surveillance camera adapted from the technology Raytheon provides the U.S. military. Essentially an unmanned drone, the blimp transmitted detailed images to the race's security officers and to Indiana police. "The airship is great because it doesn't have that Big Brother feel, or create feelings of invasiveness," says Lee Silvestre, vice president of mission innovation in Raytheon's Integrated Defense division. "But it's still a really powerful security tool."
Obama Fires CNCS Watchdog
The Purge is on!
The inspector general (IG) of the Corporation for National and Community Service is being removed by President Barack Obama, a week after the IG questioned the eligibility of the largest and most expensive AmeriCorps program, and while the IG was contesting the "propriety" of a settlement made with a mayor for alleged misuse of AmeriCorps funds.
Investigation into former Ohio AG ends with fine
The long-running case against former Ohio Attorney General Marc Dann, accused of running his state office like "Animal House" and spending campaign money on goodies for himself and his family, ended Thursday with a fine and no criminal charges. Dann resigned a year ago after what began as a sexual harassment complaint against an aide evolved into a wide-ranging investigation into sexual misconduct, threats, vulgarity, misuse of campaign funds and state computers, and general unprofessionalism.
Ex-DHS CIO: Hackers Hit Us A Million Times A Day
World War III will be fought with computers, a former Homeland Security IT chief is warning. In fact, he said, preliminary salvos are already underway.
Militia report fallout lingers as legislators review agency
A special House committee formed to investigate the workings of a little-known state intelligence agency isn't supposed to delve into what brought about a controversial report about militia members.
But some committee members found that hard to accomplish without referencing the now infamous -- and retracted -- militia report.
"These strategic reports are very disturbing," Rep. Jim Guest, a King City Republican and vice chair of the panel, told two state Highway Patrol officials.
Rep. Bob Dixon, who is chairing the panel, made it clear at the beginning of Wednesday's hearing that committee members were to refrain from rehashing details of the Missouri Information Analysis Center's Feb. 9 modern militia report.
"I think that there's been sufficient examination of the content of the report," Dixon, R-Springfield, said.
Instead, Dixon said, House Speaker Ron Richard has charged the committee with "reviewing procedures for gathering, analyzing and distributing information to law enforcement agencies."
Rep. Jim Viebrock, R-Republic, said the state militia report's warnings that radical right-wing groups may become violent mirrored the message of a U.S. Department of Homeland Security released in April.
MIAC not producing "strategic" reports, but won't rule them out either
"I'm not going to sit here and say that there will never be another strategic report. I can tell you we're not working on one now," the superintendent told lawmakers in the first of a round of hearings on the now-controversial Missouri Information Analysis Center (MIAC).
Statements By HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano on WHO Decision To Declare Novel H1N1 Virus Outbreak a Pandemic
We are working with our scientists to test and prepare a possible vaccine. And we are working with governments around the world to share what we know and learn from what is happening in their countries
Ethics Review of Lobbying Case
The House ethics committee said it was reviewing accusations of misconduct by lawmakers and their staff members connected to the PMA Group, a defunct lobbying firm at the center of a federal investigation of campaign contributions. The firm is known for its close ties to Democrats on the defense appropriations subcommittee, principally its chairman, Representative John P. Murtha of Pennsylvania.
Lobbying boosted as health care debate heats up
The largest medical insurers and drug companies spent 41% more on lobbying this year as Congress began debate on an overhaul of health care, which may include a public insurance plan the industries oppose.
Obama Hovers From on High
Distorting history is not truth-telling but the telling of soft lies. Creating false equivalencies is not moral leadership but moral abdication. And hovering above it all, above country and history, is a sign not of transcendence but of a disturbing ambivalence toward one's own country.
Obama pardon's Wisconsin girl for missing school
OH GTFOH already with this bullshit!
Dr. Paul Williams:
"Them Jews Aren't Going to Let Him Talk to Me!"
Chastity Bono surgically changing gender
Thank GOD Sonny is dead and does not have to see this shit.
"Chaz, after many years of consideration, has made the courageous decision to honor his true identity," Bragman said.
UUUUUUUCHHHH!
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Only 16? GOD is indeed merciful.
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Taking a different view of recycling
Author Adam Minter highlights how looking at how other countries extend the useful life of products can serve as inspiration for a true circular economy in the U.S. and around the world.
Adam Redling | September 16, 2020
The third day of WasteExpo Together Online opened with a keynote discussion between author and Bloomberg Opinion columnist Adam Minter and Waste360 Content & Marketing Director Liz Bothwell, who served as the moderator.
Minter wrote the 2013 best-seller, Junkyard Planet: Travels in the Billion Dollar Trash Trade. He followed this up with his most recent book, Secondhand: Travels in the New Global Garage Sale in 2019.
Minter's presentation, Stuff: The Hidden Borderland of Waste and Recycling, highlights the journey materials take throughout the waste stream.
Minter tells the tale of how in the early 2000s when he was working as a reporter focused on the recycling industry, he got the idea to write a book pertaining to how everyday items become valuable through recycling. The first item that caught his attention when touring a scrap yard was Christmas lights. After working to investigate where this material comes from and who recycles it, Minter ended up in China at a place that specializes in deriving value from these materials.
As part of his presentation, Minter showed video from a Chinese facility that has a dedicated system for Christmas light recycling. As part of this operation, workers load bundles of lights imported in from the U.S. into a shredder along with water to cool the system. The resulting mix of plastic, glass and copper is run through a water table where the copper is segregated from the rest of the lighter material and able to be harvested by shovel to recover its value. This copper is then sold back to Christmas light manufacturers. The plastic, Minter says, is also recovered and sent to a local slipper sole manufacturer who uses it in its operations. The wastewater from the shredders was able to be reused on-site.
Minter says this process exemplifies a real-life example of the circular economy at work. The problem, he notes, is that thanks to a confluence of factors in China that culminated in the National Sword import ban, the varied markets that use to be available for U.S. recyclables (even with specialty items like Christmas lights) have dried up.
His takeaway is that the way in which we manage waste needs to change.
"I think we've all learned over the last couple of years that recycling is important, essential to environmental stewardship and to our waste management regimes, but it is not in and of itself sufficient to take care of the issue of [our waste]," Minter says.
The solution, according to Minter, lies in the way we think about repurposing materials. Minter uses the example of Good Point Recycling, an electrics recycler in Middlebury, Vermont, that sends computers, monitors and other electronics to Ghana.
There, these recycled electronics are either fixed if needed or sold outright across the country.
"Just like folks everywhere, folks in Ghana want to get onto the information superhighway," Minter says. "[This is stuff] that has not been imported to be burned, it's been imported to be reused and because it can be used cheaper and because it has been massively pretested so it will last long. If it has been sitting in an American's living room for five years, it is probably a pretty good computer."
Minter also notes that there are businesses in Ghana where computers that are no longer functional are stored, and when someone comes in with a computer with a broken monitor, for example, these older computers can be parted out to fix the issue.
"Most of the computers on these shelves would be recyclables, or tossables, where they'd be tossed into people's garbage or into the landfill. And we know that still goes on, but in Ghana in particular, this is valuable inventory. It's a means of ensuring stuff lasts longer," he says.
He says that laptops that might be only used for a few years in the U.S. can have a 10- to 15-year shelf life in Ghana because of the value of their parts.
Minter also recounts how television repair pros in Ghana can take decades-old TVs and repair them to give them a second life. The key is having the parts to repair these systems, which can be difficult with older models.
Embracing the value of the parts in recycled electronics is something that Good Point Recycling's owner Robin Ingenthron has taken to heart. Minter says workers at Good Point have become adept at salvaging parts from discarded electronics. These parts are then sold on eBay for healthy profits.
"We don't just need to learn from the most advanced recycling systems," Minter says. "In many cases, what we really need to be doing is to be learning from and rethinking what's going on in emerging markets because, in many ways, they're ahead of us when it comes to what it means to have a circular economy."
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Don Brewer - An Interview with the drummer/vocalist of Grand Funk Railroad and The Silver Bullet Band. "It was amazing. It was a rock and roll moment... a rock and roll fantasy... wow! look at this thing."
Don Brewer is a drummer/vocalist and a founding member of the legendary American rock band Grand Funk Railroad. When he was a youngster in a small town right outside Flint Michigan, Don always wanted to play the drums. When he found out that the drum section in school was all girls, he got right down to business. His first band was called The Red Devils - and after a few member and name changes, it morphed into Terry Knight and the Pack. They put out a few records and had regional success. Don and guitarist Mark Farner decided to break from "the Pack" and brought in bassist Mel Schacher from Question Mark and the Mysterians - and Grand Funk Railroad was born. They went to the woodshed and worked out a high energy repertoire of material as a three piece powerhouse. Shortly thereafter, they got their first break. They were invited to perform at The Atlanta Pop Festival and received a standing ovation after their opening act set. Promoters took notice and started booking GFR all throughout the south which eventually lead to a record deal from Capitol Records. Their first three studio records, "On Time", "Grand Funk", and "Closer to Home" became gold and platinum. With the success of their smash hit, "Closer to Home/I'm Your Captain" - GFR began to perform at major stadiums and arenas throughout America and Europe. They sold out Shea Stadium faster than The Beatles. After a management shakeup, Don wrote a song that would soon become an American anthem, "We're an American Band" - and it proceeded to become the number one song in the country. Don and the boys had a few more hits in them such as "Locomotion" and "Walk Like a Man" - before they decided to go their separate ways. At this time, Don would hook up with an old Flint, Michigan buddy and do numerous tours with Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet band. After a couple of brief reunions with Mark Farner, Don and Mel welcomed Bruce Kulick, Max Carl, and Tim Cashion as Grand Funk Railroad members. This has been the lineup for over 17 years now. I recently spoke with Don about his amazing career.
R.V.B. - Hello Don... Rob von Bernewitz from Long Island New York. I understand that it's pretty hot down there in Florida.
D.B. - Haha... It's starting to get warm.
R.V.B. - Can you tell me about your animal rescue work?
D.B. - My wife and I have been involved in a place called "Safe Harbor" down here in Jupiter Florida, for quite a number of years. It dates back to when my wife was in radio. We currently have 2 cats that my wife rescued around 2 years ago. They were "preemie's" from a feral cat colony. They were very small... about the size of your thumb. She has raised them from that point on. We've been doing things like this for a number of years.
R.V.B. - I see that you also have a place in the mountains in North Carolina?
D.B. - Yes. We're going to be going there in the near future.
R.V.B. - Did you ever run into those guys on the cover of the "Survival" album up there in the mountains?
D.B. - Hahaha... No I haven't seen them up there.
R.V.B. - You've had a nice successful career so far. Was there any event that made you decide to become a drummer?
D.B. - I always wanted to get into the drums when I was a kid. I actually started out playing clarinet in the school band. I did some guitar stuff for a while. It was by happenstance really. I was in the junior high band and I had worked my way to the first chair. I hated it so much that I ended up being the last chair. The instructor was asking for male volunteers to play the bass drum. At that time, all that was in the drum section were girls. I thought "That's a no brainer"... hahaha. I decided I was going to become a drummer because there was nothing but girls in the drum section.
R.V.B. - I'm sure the girl factor helped things along.
D.B. - There was always that girl factor being in a band.
R.V.B. - After you started as a bass drummer, how long did it take you to get a kit?
D.B. - My dad was totally into it. He was a former drummer in swing bands back in the depression. He was a school teacher that played drums on the weekends for beer. When he found out I was playing drums, he immediately went out and got a kit for me. We used to sit in the basement and listen to records. He would show me what a guy was doing and how to play a kit.
R.V.B. - What was it like in Flint as a teenager?
D.B. - I grew up right outside Flint in a little town called Swartz Creek. It was pretty much a small industrial town back then... a General Motors union town. It had AC spark plugs and Fischer body. Everyone had some affiliation with the factory. Everybody's father worked in the factory. It's kind of sad what has happened to the town now. It fell on hard times when the factory's moved to Mexico.
R.V.B. - I gather you networked yourself around, like most young musicians do, and found other guys to play in bands together?
D.B. - I was always into Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, and other rock and rollers. I saw Elvis Presley on the Ed Sullivan show and I loved rock and roll. A guy I knew called Bob Caldwell had an older brother Stan Caldwell that would play at lunch time. They had a little rockabilly thing... it was kind of crossover country/rock stuff. It was just totally blowing me away that there were these guys in a band. It was like "Wow, listen to that!" I immediately wanted to start a band. I put together my first band when I was around 13 years old called "The Red Devils"... that became "The Jazz Masters". That in turn became "The Pack", and then "Terry Knight and the Pack"... which became "Grand Funk Railroad"... one thing led to another. It was a time period where there was the Vietnam war and other things going on. The music was changing from being pop stuff in the early 60's to the much heavier rock in the late 60's. I kind of followed that trend.
R.V.B. - Things happened quick once Grand Funk formed. Prior to that, where you getting your chops up on cover tunes and mixing originals in?
D.B. - Not a lot of originals. When we did the Terry Knight and the Pack thing we did some because Terry was a songwriter. It was still mostly covers. It was top 40 stuff... dance band stuff. We used to go out and play the sock hops and teen night spots. We were doing Rolling Stones, Beatles, Motown, and Wilson Picket.
R.V.B. - Once Grand Funk formed, how did you get invited to the Atlanta Pop Festival so quickly?
D.B. - It was really a favor to an agent we had. Jeep Holland was an agent down in Ann Arbor Michigan. We had just re-formed from being Terry Night and the Pack. The band had gone defunct. Mark Farner and I had enlisted Mel Schacher from Question Mark and the Mysterian's and we put together this band called "Grand Funk Railroad". It was taken after the railroad in Michigan "Grand Trunk & Western Railroad". We put this band together and nobody had a clue who we were. We re-worked all of the music we were doing of Terry Knight and the Pack. We did it in more of a Cream/Hendrix trio style format. We were looking for work... we couldn't get work. Nobody knew who we were. Jeep Holland got a call from a friend of his who was working the 1st Atlanta Pop Festival. "Jeep" was telling him about the new band that he had and he said "If you can get them down here... we won't pay them anything and we're not going to give you any expense money... just get them down here and we'll put em' on". Hahaha... that's what it was. We borrowed a van and rented a trailer and off to Atlanta we went. That was a groundbreaking event for Grand Funk Railroad. The opening day we walked on stage as the opening act with 30,000 people out in front of the stage. Nobody had a clue who we were but by the end of the show we received a standing ovation. They asked us back for the next day and that's where we really became somebody... was at the Atlanta Pop Festival.
R.V.B. - That must have been a great experience for a young band that was just getting started.
D.B. - It was amazing. It was a rock and roll moment... a rock and roll fantasy... wow! look at this thing. It snowballed after that. He kept getting more offers for festivals. We did the Texas International festival. We got a lot of offers through the south. Much of the word of mouth took place in the south. "You have to see this band Grand Fund Railroad, who tore it up at the Atlanta Pop Festival". We started playing in Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas... it just kind of moved through the south. That's really what got us going.
R.V.B. - Did you stick around to see the other acts at the Atlanta Pop festival?
D.B. - Yeah. We stuck around and saw Johnny Winter play and that was smoking... Pacific Gas & Electric and Janis Joplin. Led Zeppelin came on a little later but I didn't stick around to see them.
R.V.B. - Did you get a recording contract right away?
D.B. - It took us a few months. We started playing the "hippie" ballroom places through the south and that peaked Capitol's interest to give us a contract after that.
R.V.B. - When you got back home, did you start writing material?
D.B. - We had a lot of material already. We had a lot of stuff that we re-worked from earlier days. We were doing some covers, but yes - we did go into the rehearsal hall and get it ready to go into record. At that time, you didn't spend a lot of time in the recording studio. It was a couple of days doing tracks... a day doing overdubs... and you were out of there. You really had to have your stuff together. If there were mistakes on it or it wasn't perfect, it didn't matter. Getting it on tape was the most important thing.
R.V.B. - One of your earlier albums happens to be one of my favorite albums - the "red" album. Were those songs some of the stuff that you had already or were you creating new stuff by that time? Where was that recorded?
D.B. - The first 6 or 7 albums were recorded in Cleveland, at Cleveland Recording. "Inside Looking Out" was on that and we had been doing that live since the inception of Grand Funk Railroad. We didn't put it on the first record so we put it on the second record. Most of the songs on the first two records "On Time" and "Grand Funk", had been created prior to making the albums. Mark was a prolific songwriter. He was always coming up with ideas... we were always jamming at rehearsals. We would jam on things for days and we put pieces together... come up with a bridge... come up with the chorus... until it made sense. We were constantly working on material. That's how all of that stuff was made.
R.V.B. - Obviously your live performances and studio work produced serious momentum. You played in England to hundreds and thousands of people and the famous Shea Stadium show sold out so quickly. Talk about being on top of the world!
D.B. - This was after the first three albums... "On Time", "Grand Funk", and "Closer to Home". By that time, we had taken off all over the world. We were playing arenas and outdoor places. Shea Stadium was a fantasy come true. Around the same time, we played a baseball stadium in Tokyo in the middle of a typhoon. That was an incredible show. Going to Japan was like going to a different planet. It was truly a rock and roll experience and it was overwhelming. We just kind of resigned ourselves to let Terry Knight handle everything... let the attorneys handle everything. They were supposed to be putting everything away for us. We were 19/20 years old at the time. We didn't know what we were doing with money - or anything else. We were just drawing salaries and supposedly everything was being taken care of for us. We were living the rock and roll dream.
R.V.B. - Apparently it wasn't. You guys didn't worry about the length of a song because "Closer to Home/I'm Your Captain" was a pretty long song. It wasn't really radio length and it kind of broke the barrier.
D.B. - At that time you had FM underground radio ruling the airwaves. They weren't concerned with commercial stuff. They would play anything they wanted. It didn't matter if it was 10 minutes long or 3 minutes long. They actually didn't like the 3 minute long commercial stuff... they were kind of against it. You were really free to create whatever you wanted to. If you did release it as a single for AM radio at that time, they would do an edit and get it down to close to under 4 minutes as you could. You didn't concern yourself with writing hit material. You did what you wanted to and the more off the wall - at that time - the better.
R.V.B. - A band with success has to re-invent itself.
D.B. - That's where we found ourselves in 1972. FM radio was starting to change. It became the new AM radio. They discovered there was a lot of money to be made. Consultants and record companies discovered radio was where it's at. They wanted everything to be under 4 minutes long. They wanted it to be commercial so that they could sell advertising and make money. After 1972 it was more difficult to have an underground FM hit... it wasn't going to happen. It wasn't going to get the airplay. You had to change... you had to go with the times and that's what we did.
R.V.B. - You brought on a keyboard player. Do you think that it altered your sound considerably?
D.B. - It majorly altered our sound but we were looking for a change. We had gone through leaving Terry Knight. We had gone through leaving the attorney's. We were broke and looking at the demise of underground FM radio. We were trying to be current and relevant. We had to make a change. We actually approached Peter Frampton before we got Craig Frost in the band. We asked Peter if he would join the band because we had a relationship with him when he was in Humble Pie. We had done a tour with Humble Pie in Europe. Peter had just started his solo career. He declined. He said "I really appreciate the offer but I'm doing this other thing." That would have been a terrific band. We turned from there and we wanted to make a change. We weren't going to be the 3 piece band that we were before. We got to get a little more commercial so we got an old friend of ours... Craig Frost... who had been in one of the versions of "The Pack". We asked Craig if he would join the band. It changed... we were out to make a change. We did not want to be the same band that we were before, that was under the heavy influence of Terry Knight. We wanted to be a different band.
R.V.B. - One of your best songs ever with Grand Funk - which was an number one single - was "We're an American Band". That's a classic rock and roll song about rock and roll life. Was it pretty easy to write the lyrics to that?
D.B. - Actually yeah. I just took little snippets of what was going on out on the road with "up all night" - with Freddy King playing poker... "four young Chiquita's in Omaha", and "sweet, sweet Connie in Little Rock"... I took all of these things and put them together. I really didn't come up with a tag for the song until I had already written the song. I came up with the 3 or 4 chords that I knew on the guitar (haha) and put them all in the song. I came up with the verses... the bridge... the chorus, but it didn't have the final chorus tag line. I knew what I wanted to sing "Da da da da da da da" but I didn't have the words. It just dawned on me one day, that that's what we are... that's what we do, and boy did it sing well. I putzed it around with my little Martin acoustic guitar in my apartment in Norwood... in Flint Michigan... broke... and looking to find a way into hit FM radio, and that's what came out.
R.V.B. - It's very clever. You continued to write commercially popular songs and you guys had a hit with an old 60's dance song "Locomotion". Were you surprised at the success of that song?
D.B. - It was a Carole King song and it was originally done by Little Eva. She was Carole Kings maid. I don't know if a lot of people know that. She gave it to her maid and said "Here, you sing this song". That's what became the hit. It was really by happenstance that we came on that song. We were looking for a follow up hit single after "We're an American Band" and "Walk Like a Man"... along with the huge success of the album "We're an American Band". We we're doing a new album with Todd Rundgren called "Shining On". We pretty much had the album done but we felt we needed one more song that was a big follow up cover. By happenstance, Mark walked into the studio singing that song - "Everybody's doin' a brand new dance now". We just jumped all over it... Grand Funk Railroad doing the Locomotion. It's so off the wall... it's so silly... that it just might work. Todd put his seal on it by turning it into kind of a Beach Boys "Barbara Ann" party in the studio sound. We did this song and it's a version that everybody knows.
R.V.B. - It's a great version and it did very well for you guys. You did some more work with Todd also. How was it working with Frank Zappa?
D.B. - Loved working with Frank Zappa. We had done a couple of records in between Todd and Frank... using a guy named Jimmy Ienner. He had done Three Dog Night and a lot of pop kind of stuff - and we found ourselves being way too poppy. We were trying to make the transition from rock radio to disco, which had just come in. We got lost in that whole thing. We figured, we can't do disco but we can do a little more R&B. We leaned heavily on the R&B with the influence of Jimmy Ienner. It was ok, and we got a great hit out of it... "Some Kind of Wonderful"... which is another cover from the Soul Brothers Six. That has stood the test of time as well. A lot of the other material just wasn't Grand Funkie' enough. When we parted ways with Jimmy Ienner, we were again looking for another avenue - another approach to what was going on in radio. Craig Frost - the keyboard player - and I had gone to see a Frank Zappa movie "200 Motels". We were sitting there watching the movie and all of a sudden Frank Zappa is talking about Grand Funk Railroad. We were going "Listen to this, Frank Zappa is talking about us. Let's call Frank and see if he wants to produce our next record". So we did, and he said yes... much to our amazement. We flew him out to Michigan and we did what I thought was a great album - "Good Singin' Good Playin'". It was a terrific attempt to keep the band going but it just didn't work. I loved working with Frank. I thought he was just an amazing talent. He had a great family. We loved meeting his family and hanging out with him out in LA. It was a terrific time period.
R.V.B. - He wound up playing on a track on your "Flint" record.
D.B. - Yes he did. I flew out to LA and took our tapes out there. He was gracious enough to put his guitar on a cut for us. At the same time, I played on one of his. I played bongos on "Lemme Take You To The Beach".
R.V.B. - That's great. That was a good to be associated with an American icon composer.
R.V.B. - So things take it's turn with a lot of bands. You have issues and you move on. How did you enjoy your years in the Silver Bullet Band?
D.B. - I've had a long lasting relationship with those guys. Grand Funk met its demise in 1976. We tried a brief reunion in the early 1980's and it just didn't work. I got a call from the Seger camp, asking me "Would I be interested in coming up and playing with the Silver Bullet Band?". I started working with those guys in 1982. I did a couple of tours in the 80's. I didn't do the tour that they did in the 90's because I had reunited with Grand Funk in 1996. Bob decided to go back out in 2006 and I've been touring with those guys ever since. Craig Frost has been with them for a long time. I've known Bob from our days in "The Pack" back in Mount Holly... playing all the teen dance places around Michigan. I've known those guys about as long as I've been on Grand Funk. It's a Michigan connection thing.
R.V.B. - Did you sing with them as well as play the drums?
D.B. - Backup. Bob had me do some cameo's lead stuff on some of the cover song he had been doing. Mostly backup stuff.
R.V.B. - Grand Funk reunited with the original lineup in the mid 90's... that's when I saw you guys. The concert that I went to was a seating venue and from the minute the first note was played, there was no sitting to be had.
R.V.B. - You guys generated sheer excitement and it was magical. You guys had a very successful reunion.
D.B. - It was short lived. We did 96 and 97 and it kind of fell apart in 98. It was pretty good. It was certainly great on the east coast because of our Shea Stadium success. When we went out in the rest of the country it was hit or miss. There were good markets and not so good markets. It lasted for about 2 1/2 years.
R.V.B. - I guess the culmination was the Bosnia benefits that you did. That was a very good thing to do and it was very successful.
D.B. - It was very successful. We did three concerts... one in New York, one in Detroit, and one in Los Angeles... with an orchestra. Paul Schaefer conducted the orchestra in Detroit and New York. Someone else did it out in LA. It was a terrific experience.
R.V.B. You guys have had the current lineup for quite a while now.
R.V.B. - That is a long time. That's longer than the original lineup.
R.V.B. - Where did you meet the 2 new gentleman?
D.B. - I met Bruce (Kulick) when I was working with Bob Seger. It must have been around 86. He was playing with Michael Bolton who was the opening act on the the tour. I was very impressed with his playing. Not only could he play the rock stuff but he could play the R&B stuff. He's just a terrific guitar player. My wife Sunny, has known him from back in the Michael Bolton days as well. When we were looking to put this new band together in 2000, Bruce was the first guy to come to my mind. At the time he was in between things so he came out to Michigan and we started working.
R.V.B. - He's a Long Island guy. Now what about Max (Carl)?
D.B. - I was working at the time with Peavey drums. The guy that actually created that drum kit "Steven Volpp", introduced me to Max. I checked out Max's past work. He's worked with 38 Special as well as Jack Mack and the Heartattack. He had this new stuff that he was doing with Big Dance, which was a total R&B Band. I realized that Max was probably one of the last blue eyed soul singers on the planet. He would be perfect for Grand Funk. He gets the rock R&B thing. So I called him up and perused him. We flew him out to Michigan and it was just kind of a magical thing. He knew exactly to do the material. He didn't need any coaching or anything.
R.V.B. - I understand you played on a few cruises?
D.B. - Well we did. We did our first rock legends cruise. We did 3 nights with Peter Frampton, Gregg Allman, America, and many other groups. It was just a huge success. I imagine we're due for another cruise next year.
R.V.B. - How are you enjoying Florida life? I went to the Stadium over by you to see a ballgame once.
D.B. - Roger Dean. Spring training is a big deal down here. I love it here. I've been here for 35 years. I've been her longer than I was in Michigan. I don't miss the summers... that's why my wife and I have a place in North Carolina. We go up there for the summer.
R.V.B. - What are you most proud of about your career?
D.B. - My daughter and my grandkids (Hahaha) She's an amazing girl. They're my pride and joy.
R.V.B. - It's great to enjoy your family. Thank you for taking this time with me. Good luck in the future and I hope you come back to New York this year.
D.B. - I know we'll be close. We'll be in Atlantic City. Thanks for your interest.


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Our professional team of highly qualified instructors does everything to make sure that every show is an enjoyable experience. The team here at MT Ed strive to give our students the highest quality, educational, and most fun experience possible. MT Ed staff is background checked and cleared for education in NYS, and carry varying levels of First Aid, CPR, AED, and MAT training to ensure a safe environment for your children.
Tina Crandall
Founder and Artistic Director
Tina Crandall has BA in Theatre and Dance and a Masters in K-8 education. Her passion is making theatre education accessible to all children. She has directed and choreographed for many area theatres and schools, including the sold out runs of American Idiot, 21 Chump Street, Carrie, the Musical, and Heathers: School Edition at the Rochester Fringe Festival. Other recent credits include the area premiers of The Lightning Thief, Descendants, Puffs, Rainbow Fish, Elf, Matilda, TRW's Alice in Wonderland, and A Christmas Story. She also works as a freelance scenic designer. Tina is an adjudicator for RBTL's Stars of Tomorrow, a program dedicated to supporting the process of growth and learning and acknowledging excellence in area high school theatre. Tina is also an instructor with RocDramaKids, a program that focuses on creativity, self-confidence and public speaking skills through dramatic play. In her free time she occasionally appears on stage, most recently in productions of Something Rotten, bare: a pop opera, Pippin, Disaster and Big Fish.
Amanda Hartmann
Amanda is currently enrolled at SUNY Brockport, where she is in her Senior year as an English Major. She started choregraphing for musicals and plays in her Junior year of High School, when she choreographed her school's production of Cinderella. From there she went on to choreograph her Senior production of Peter Pan, and has been working on musicals and plays ever since! She has trained in various styles of dance beginning at the age of 7, including: Ballet, Tap, Jazz, Musical Theatre, Contemporary, Modern, Lyrical, and Hip Hop. Amanda has created and taught choreography for over 25 shows, and some of her favorites that she has worked on at MT Ed include, Frozen Jr, Moana Jr, The Lightning Thief, Shrek, Descendants, Lion King Jr and Something Rotten. Amanda takes pride in her students' growth in theatre and dance, and she loves watching their skills translate into their everyday life as they become well rounded performers and individuals. When she is not at production rehearsals, Amanda teaches dance classes at MT Ed, and is the Co-Director and Choreographer of MT Ed's newly formed Parade Corps. She has also discovered a hidden talent for cutting music, which she utilizes for all her dance classes and choreography. Amanda also works at Hilton High School as their Choreographer, and has worked on recent productions such as The Little Mermaid, Legally Blonde Jr, Mamma Mia, Peter Pan and Cinderella. In addition to choreography, Amanda has also directed and co-directed productions including Mary Poppins Jr, Billy Shakespeare's Traveling Freak Show and Enchanted Bookshop Christmas Edition.
Heather Lonardo
Heather has a B.M. in Music Education and is currently enrolled in a Masters program at Nazareth College for Music Therapy. Previous credits include Elf, Jr., Alice in Wonderland, Jr., Heathers High School Edition, Singing in the Rain, Jr., Into the Woods, Jr., and the recent sold out run of Carrie, the Musical with RAPA, Godspell, Jr. at Seton Catholic School, and Legally Blonde, Jr. with Webster Summer Theatre. Heather loves helping in all aspects of theater, but especially enjoys helping the kids find their voice and their own talent.
Andy Kittleson
Andy is originally from Ontario, NY and graduated from the Wayne Central School District. He then obtained his dual bachelors degrees in music from Lebanon Valley College in Annville, PA. He completed his M.M. Conducting degree at Binghamton University and currently teaches at the Wayne Central School District in Ontario, NY as the 7th and 8th grade band director at Wayne Middle School. He recently received the New York State School Music Association (NYSSMA) Early Career Achievement Educator Award. In addition to wind band conducting, Andy greatly enjoys being involved in musical theater and has helped put on more than 35 productions. Andy is also active as a NYSSMA brass adjudicator, serves as the treasurer for the Wayne County Music Educators Association, and is the conductor of the Kodak Concert Band.
Holly Lowden
Tiny Talents Instructor/Choreographer
Holly is a graduate of Niagara University, with a BFA in theatre performance, concentrating in dance. She is a full time arts instructor at Expressive Beginnings Childcare. Holly directs, choreographs, stage manages, fight choreographs, and more for many local area organizations. You may have seen her work at Spotlight Theatre Arts, A Magical Journey Through Stages, OFC/RAPA, Asbury First UMC, Williamson Middle and High Schools, Caulkins Road Middle School, and Pittsfield Summer Enrichment Institute, to name a few. Favorite performing roles include Natalie (All Shook Up), Kate Monster/Lucy (Avenue Q), Babe (Pajama Game), Florika (The Hunchback of Notre Dame), Martha (Spring Awakening), and Diana (I Love You Because). Her favorite thing about theatre is the gift of sharing her passion with children, and finding each student's unique and amazing creativity.
Katie Garver
Katie studied Theater at SUNY Brockport, and Graduated with a BA in Interdisciplinary Arts for Children. She joined MTEd's cast of A Christmas Carol in 2019, and has Stage Managed shows with the youth & teens since. When not working with MT Ed, Katie works as Assistant Stage Manager at JCC Center Stage throughout their seasons, and performs with Rochester's Gilbert & Sullivan group, Off Monroe Players (OMP).
Emily Beseau
Vocal Director
Emily Beseau is a graduate of Ithaca College with a B.M. in vocal performance. She has studied ballet, jazz, and tap since she was 4 years old at N.Y.A.D. Emily enjoys performing in shows throughout the Rochester area. Favorite roles include Alice in Addams Family (Lyric Theatre), Mrs. Sowerberry in Oliver (RAPA), and Doris in Damn Yankees (RAPA). She has enjoyed choreographing RAPA's summer stock shows for 2 consecutive years, as well as teaching lessons and theatre classes. She had the joy of choreographing NAC's production of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory in the winter of 2018.
Jillian Oddo
Director/Vocal Director/Stage Manager
Jillian graduated from SUNY Brockport in The Fall of 2021 with a Bachelor Degree in Theatre. She has years of experience working with teens and young children; helping them explore and have fun in the world of Theatre. Jillian enjoys and is experienced in multiple disciplines of theatre such as Directing, Stage Managing, Vocal Directing and Acting. She has been a part of several productions at MT Ed including, Disney's Mary Poppins Jr., Disney's Lion King Jr., Night at the Wax Museum, Disney's The Little Mermaid Jr., The Addams Family Musical, and others. Outside of MT Ed, Jillian participates in community productions. In the last two years she has performed in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night with guest Geva Theatre Director Sharifa Elkady, a number of one act productions, as well as Stage Managed Crimes of the Heart, Our Country's Good, and Directed several theatre pieces. She is ecstatic to have the opportunity to teach, and create at MT Ed alongside a talented team and passionate, hardworking students.
David Curry
David Curry, past credits include Legally Blonde, Matilda and A Christmas Story with MT Ed, Rent:School Edition with Studio Z, Carrie: High School Edition and 13! The Musical with RAPA.
Jeff Clair
Jeff Clair is a Rochester resident, and has been active in professional and community theater for over 30 years. Jeff has recently been seen with MT Ed in A Christmas Carol (Ebenezer Scrooge) and has also recently performed in JCC Centerstage's productions of Oklahoma! (Cord Elam), The Bridges of Madison County (Charlie), and Titanic: The Musical (Shipbuilder Thomas Andrews). Favorite past roles include Jesus in Godspell, Marvin in Falsettos, Balladeer/Lee Harvey Oswald in Assassins, Adam in Children of Eden, Cinderella's Prince in Into the Woods and Mother's Younger Brother in Ragtime. Directing credits include A Christmas Carol and A Holiday Story 4 The Season (Masque Community Theatre, Tampa), The Wiz (Everyone's Theatre Company, Rochester). Music Directing credits include Once Upon A Mattress (Masque Community Theatre, Tampa) and Forbidden Broadway (YOHP, Penfield). By day, Jeff is a project manager with a software solutions company that serves the Health and Human Services industry.
Justin Gommel
Justin is a recent high school graduate looking to attend college in the fall for lighting design. He has designed lights for several shows including Heathers, Carrie, Hedwig and the Angry Inch and most recently Schoolhouse Rock, Jr. at Dake MS. He is a member of the Local 25 Riggers and Electricians Union.
Angie Toscano
Angie joins the MT Ed team with many years of entertainment management under her belt. She is the Vice President of Special Events for Nik Entertainment. Angie also help out by lending her artisitic skills making props for our productions.
Jennifer Cummings
Jennifer Cummings has been shooting weddings, family photos, horse shows, senior photos and theatre productions for many years. Her brilliant work can be found on her site, jennifercummingsphotgraphy.com.
Sam Nelson
Director/Dramaturg/Stage Manager
Sam originally joined MT Ed in December of 2020 as a Dramaturg for the theatre's original production of Gay Ol' Christmas. Since then he was assistant director and stage manager for season productions before directing MT Ed's 2021 community production of Our Town. After that Sam has worked on many additional projects including Something Rotten (Assistant Director), Improv Hour (And A Half) Classes (Co- Instructor), and 13, The Musical (Stage Manager). Sam is also a local actor in Rochester, performing in shows at Neighborhood Acting Company and Monroe Community College. His most recent stage credits include Flower City Interactive Roc Garden (Al Sigl), When He Comes Home (Cameron), Something Rotten (Nostradamus), and Spring Awakening (Hanschen Rilow). He is thrilled to be part of such an astonishing team!
Deborah Hartmann
Deborah Hartmann has dual bachelor's degrees in Zoology and Studio Art. She studied Costuming and Stagecraft at the college theatre level, but her interest in building improbable things truly began in childhood, when she terrorized her family cat with kinetic creations made from broken toy trains, hairdryers, and clocks. As she grew older she dabbled in sculpture, ceramics, and puppet making, and then returned to college to earn a second degree in Zoology, which emphasized her strong interests in animals. Creative but easily bored, she went on to train in as many fields as she could, earning certificates in such disciplines as Floral Design, Dog Grooming, and Electronics Welding, and taught herself other skills such as Fossil Preparation, Graphic Design, and Special Effects Makeup for temporary jobs. In recent years she has built specialty props and set pieces for multiple venues, which have included a traveling comic-con attraction, as well as high school and community theatre productions. You may have seen her work recently at MT Ed in Moana (Tamatoa and Te Ka), Shrek (Dragon Puppet), Something Rotten (Dancing Eggs and Omelets) and The Lightning Thief (Fury Wings, Lightning Bolt, and many other props).
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INTERVIEW: Yates spots 'green shoots of recovery' in Moors camp
Shaun Reynolds 30th Nov, 2017
FOOTBALL: MOORS boss Mark Yates spoke of the 'green shoots of recovery' after his team shared the spoils with Gateshead on Saturday.
Though he was left frustrated by a controversial penalty decision which gifted Gateshead the lead in a game which ended 1-1.
"We didn't think it was a penalty, it was really soft," said Yates.
"After getting a penalty given against you like that, which we felt was very harsh, the lads responded in the right way.
"I'm delighted with the effort the players showed. We lacked a little bit of belief and creativity in that final third.
"We changed it slightly in the second half and did ever so well, but we lacked that killer pass, instinct, and decision-making in the final third.
"The confidence is not sky high – when you're confident things just happen naturally for you, but at the moment we're not there."
Yates, who took over as Moors boss earlier this month, was quick to praise the commitment of his side though.
He said: "The goal was decent, a good bit of play.
"We had a game plan second half, we needed to press them and dominate the ball and to an extent we did that.
"We just need that final ball, that final delivery, we've just got to keep working at it."
Yates was upbeat about the future with a big home match against fellow strugglers Leyton Orient looming large on Saturday.
"There's green shoots for us to see and positives for us to build on," he said.
"We've given ourselves a little base to build on but we cannot keep saying that otherwise we will be in a position where we can't get ourselves out of it.
"Every game we play is a six pointer and it's the next game that's the most important game this season so far.
"Leyton Orient is a massive club but they are on a bad run.
"We have put in three good performances recently but our game on Saturday needs to be tip top.
"We will have had a week on the training ground to really drum some confidence, ideas and positivity into the players."
Moors will welcome Sean St Ledger back into the side for Saturday's crunch game.
Elsewhere Moors will face Tranmere Rovers in the opening round of the FA Trophy.
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Amazinz wrote: I know but getting anyone to talk about the Giants over there is like pulling teeth.
Maybe you should start one.
Really the traffic over there has dropped off big time this off season...there's probably more football talk going on in this thread than the whole football side.
You are a funny man h0rt.
97 million bones for Eli... That is a crap load of Jr. Bacon Cheeseburgers.
Really looking forward to the rematch... Here's hoping for 2 for 2!
I really wanted nothing to do with the Giants. We had a shot at revenge earlier in the year and the game played out almost identically. I'm going to enjoy a Super Bowl win no matter what, it's not like if we beat the 49ers I wouldn't be as happy as if it was over the Giants. And revenge is nice and all but it doesn't bring back a perfect record. Color me scared.
Is there any way that both teams could lose?
Tavish wrote: Is there any way that both teams could lose?
No. ESPN would not allow it.
As a Chicagoan going to school with a bunch of Wisconsinites, I don't care who wins anymore.