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Team Obama's response to Dittygate only proves protesters' point
I was going to write about it right after it happened, but I didn't, but it's back in the news again, so now I will.
On Thursday, April 21, the Obama administration was pretty fucking embarrassed when a short video of an incident at a fundraiser in San Francisco leaked out.
Obama wasn't at the fundraiser to discuss anything controversial. He was there to collect his loot and go.* It was supposed to be a carefully controlled event — like one of "President" George W. Bush's.** However, his fundraising spiel was interrupted by a group of protesters who started singing a little song about the Obama administration's inhumane treatment of Pfc. Bradley Manning, who is accused of illegally leaking information to WikiLeaks.
Their lyrics conclude thusly: "We paid our dues; where's our change? We paid our dues; where's our change?"
Yeah, that's what millions of us whom the Obama administration has punk'd would love to know.
If you haven't already watched it, you can watch the short video here.
In the video, Obama obviously is pissed off, but he has come this far in politics by pretending to be cool in all situations, no matter fucking what — he apparently calculated long ago (correctly, probably) that an "angry" black man never could be president of the United States (an angry white man like John McCainosaurus, who nearly had strokes from his fits of rage during his presidential debates with Obama, however, can be president).
Of course, I prefer honestly expressed feelings of anger over insincere bullshit that is a transparent effort to cover up one's anger, which is what Obama demonstrates in the video. After the protesters sing their little ditty, he says, quite insincerely, "That was a nice song. You guys have much better voices that I have," and even says "Thank you very much."
"Thank you very much"?
These protesters infiltrated Obama's swank fundraiser only to remind him that there are some of us who feel that we paid our dues but have yet to see the promised change. And the short video of the protest song went fairly viral.
The Obama administration's only saving grace is that this incident didn't really hit the national news until Friday, April 22, so the story didn't become the national story that it otherwise would have had the incident happened earlier in the week.
The Obama administration should have let Dittygate go, but instead it apparently chose to start a fight with The San Francisco Chronicle — whose reporter got the video.
Reports The Associated Press:
San Francisco — The White House says a San Francisco Chronicle reporter broke the rules when she put down her pen and picked up a video camera to film a protest. The newspaper says the Obama administration needs to join the 21st century.
The conflict hit the newspaper's front page [yesterday] with a story about coverage of the protest during President Barack Obama's speech last week at a private fundraiser.
It highlights the perils that arise when traditional arrangements between news organizations and politicians meet the modern reality that anyone with a smartphone can become a video journalist.
Reporter Carla Marinucci had White House permission to cover the fundraiser as a so-called "pool" reporter, meaning she could attend as long as she shared her notes with the White House to distribute to other reporters. Pool reporting is a common arrangement among media organizations and in-demand politicians to avoid overcrowding of smaller events.
Marinucci was covering the event when about a half-dozen protesters who paid a combined $76,000 to attend the breakfast broke into a song chastising Obama for the government's treatment of Pfc. Bradley Manning, an Army intelligence analyst suspected of illegally passing government secrets to the WikiLeaks website.
"We paid our dues; where's our change?" the protesters sang.
Although a print reporter, Marinucci is seldom seen without a small video recorder while covering politicians. She captured video of the protest, which was posted with her written story in the online edition of the Chronicle and on its politics blog.
White House officials say that breached the terms of her access, which stated Marinucci was to provide a print-only report.
"The San Francisco Chronicle violated the coverage rules that they — and every other media outlet — agreed to as part of joining the press pool for that event," White House press secretary Jay Carney said. "If they thought the rules were too restrictive they should have raised that at the beginning." [Yeah, so their reporter could have been tossed out, right?]
Editor Ward Bushee said in the Chronicle's story [yesterday] that the paper acted within its rights to cover the newsworthy incident.
He also said White House officials in off-the-record conversations Thursday threatened to bar Marinucci from pool coverage of future presidential appearances. He added that the officials, whom Bushee did not name, threatened to freeze out Chronicle and other Hearst Newspaper chain reporters if they reported on the threat against Marinucci. [Emphasis mine.]
"We expect our reporters to use the reporting tools they have to cover the news, and Carla did," Bushee said in the Chronicle story. The White House rule against print reporters shooting and posting video is "objectionable and just is not in sync with how reporters are doing their jobs these days," he said.
After Josh Earnest, another White House spokesman, told the Politico website that officials had not made such threats, Carney said in a statement [yesterday] that "no reporters have been banned from covering future presidential events."
"The White House of course would have no problem including any reporter who follows the rules in pool-only events," he said.
The White House should rethink those rules in an era when few reporters limit their coverage to just one medium, and when several other attendees not with the media were taking their own video of the protest, Bushee said. The protesters' own footage ended up appearing on "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart."
The fundraiser came a day after Obama appeared at the Palo Alto headquarters of Facebook, praising the social media giant for enabling a more open, two-way conversation between citizens and politicians. The president said he was interested in holding the event, billed as a social media town hall, because young people especially were now getting their information through a range of different media. [Emphasis mine.]
Dan Gillmor, a media critic and head of the Knight Center for Digital Media Entrepreneurship at Arizona State University, said the White House needs to update the rules for its pool reports to match the realities of 21st-century reporting. …
It's not really that, that Team Obama is composed of a bunch of luddites. It's that the Chronicle had the audacity to embarrass The Great Obama of Oz. The Chronicle pulled back the curtain to reveal the petty, vindictive, insincere little man behind the curtain. The Chronicle, with the video, showed us something that we never were supposed to see.
A mere written description of the protest at the fundraiser wouldn't have fully captured it, and while a mere written account of an event can fairly easily be disputed, a videorecorded account cannot so easily be disputed — which is why the "transparent" Team Obama maintains that only written descriptions are allowed: to avoid embarrassment and poor P.R., not because they don't understand today's communications technologies, which they fully exploit in their record-level fundraising, for fuck's sake.
Ironically, in its response to Dittygate, Team Obama has only strengthened the protesters' charge, "We paid our dues; where's our change?" Yes, one of the many things that Barack Obama promised but has yet to deliver is a more transparent presidency.
Instead, we're seeing more of the same, with Team Obama threatening to punish the Chronicle — and indeed, its entire parent company — because one of its employees actually made something transparent. (I believe the Chronicle over Team Obama, hands down, by the way; I believe that Team Obama threatened to exclude the reporter from future events and then threatened to exclude the entire media organization if their threat to the reporter were made public.)
And Team Obama can't blame the Chronicle for embarrassing Obama.
It's not the Chronicle's fault that Obama has reneged on so many of his campaign promises to the point that protesters paid more than $75,000 to crash his exclusive little cash 'n' carry. The fault for that lies squarely in the lap of Obama.
Barack Obama embarrasses himself.
*I know that this is how it is with the Clintonistas, the DINOs, such as Barack Obama.
Back in the day I coordinated Meetups for John Kerry's run for the White House. (Howard Dean was the favorite of the "netroots," but I viewed Kerry as much more likely to be able to deny George W. Bush a second term.) When I coordinated the monthly Meetups for several months, the participants talked about those issues that concerned them. They appreciated having such a forum with like-minded others.
But after it was clear that Kerry, who came back from political death like Lazarus, was going to win the 2004 Democratic presidential nomination, a self-serving Democratic Party hack hijacked the Meetups and made them all about fundraising. She was in it for herself, even going so far as to tell the participants that when they donated money to the Kerry campaign, they needed to use a special code to designate the region when, in fact, it designated her as an individual fundraiser.
In a nutshell, under the hack's "leadership," the Meetups became fundraisers. Her contempt for others is what we see in the DINOs, who regard others only as ATMs.
Speaking of which, in my many months of helping out with Kerry-for-president efforts, I was quite disappointed by the Kerry fundraising events that we of the middle class, which the Democratic Party is supposed to be all about, cannot afford to attend. The Chronicle reports that "high-end" tickets to the Obama fundraiser at "the swank St. Regis Hotel" in San Francisco on April 21 "started at $5,000 and went up to $35,800."
Another reason, probably, that cameras weren't allowed…
**And Team Bush was fairly good at making sure that only loyal fans ever made it inside any of Bush's appearances, but perhaps because he wasn't on his own home turf, Bush did have, late in his unelected rule, that Iraqi guy throw a pair of shoes at him…
Tagged as "We paid our dues; where's our change?", Barack Obama, Bradley Manning, broken campaign promises, campaign promises, Carla Marinucci, change, Democratic Party, Dittygate, fundraising, George W. Bush, hope, Obama, Politics, President Barack Obama, President Obama, San Francisco, San Francisco Chronicle, transparency, WikiLeaks
Stop male genital mutilation
Oh, those moonbatty San Franciscans! They're trying to get the banning of circumcision in San Franciso on the city ballot.
Horrors! Slicing off an infant's foreskin is a God-given right!
Except that it isn't.
It is what it is: male genital mutilation.
There is consensus that female genital mutilation, even for — perhaps especially for — religious reasons should be banned throughout the United States of America, but male genital mutilation widely is considered normal. (I guess that in essence we tell our male newborns: "Man up, you fucking baby!")
So it (genital mutilation) seems to be a line-drawing game. Involuntarily slicing off a female's clitoris (and perhaps other portions of the external female genitalia along with it): Bad. Clearly. Duh! Involuntarily slicing off a male's foreskin: That's perfectly OK, you moron!
"Opponents say the [San Francisco anti-circumcision] ballot measure would never stand up in court because it violates the freedom of religion clause of the U.S. Constitution," notes SFGate.com.
Yet parents may not withhold certain medical treatments from their children because of religious beliefs, courts have ruled; the state's interest in protecting the safety and well-being of the children within the state trumps the parents' religious beliefs in these cases, the courts have ruled.
So again, this is a matter of degree.
To believe that non-medically necessary circumcision is OK is to say that a little genital mutilation is OK. Just not a lot of genital mutilation. (Non-medically) castrating an infant due to the parents' religious beliefs, for instance, obviously would be illegal and immoral.
Non-medically necessary circumcision is, at the very least, child cruelty.
There will come a day, if we human beings have not destroyed our species by then, that future generations will regard the dead practice of circumcision as what it is (well, was): a cruel, barbaric, unnecessary practice based on religious custom (that is, based upon ignorance/superstitution).
There is no God. Therefore, there is no God who gives a shit as to whether or not a male still has his foreskin or not.
Most parents who still circumcise their infant sons, I believe, do so primarily because it's just custom. I don't believe that it's a deeply religious thing for them. It's just what you do: snip it off. (That reminds me of the joke that I tell when eating rings of calamari with friends at a restaurant: that calamari is what they do with the discarded foreskins. And that if they fried them, they could make something a lot like pork rinds…)
My fraternal twin some time ago asked our mother why she had us circumcised. My mother, who never has been religious — never took us to church, never talks about God or Jesus or any other of that hocus-pocus bullshit — answered him that that's just what parents did.
You just did it; you didn't think about it.
But we need to take an actual look at what we actually are doing: We are taking a knife to an infant and slicing off a portion of the infant that in the vast majority of cases we don't need to slice off.
And this has to cause the infant pain. We probably don't need our earlobes, but few would argue that it's OK to lop off an infant's earlobes. (Indeed, what if a parent's religious beliefs mandated that the infant's earlobes be chopped off? Would the religious beliefs trump the earlobes?)
Homo sapiens wouldn't have come this far (I do believe that we are at around 7 billion human beings on the planet) if evolution had fucked up the reproductive function, for fuck's sake. The foreskin is not the problem that so many claim that it is.
For any actual foreskin-related pediatric medical problems, such as chronic phimosis that does not respond to other treatments, if involuntary circumcision truly is medically necessary, then fine, do it. But to perform the procedure routinely on male infants is child cruelty.
And if it's a religious thing, why not let the male decide for himself when he turns 18? I realize that the Old Testament prescribes eight days for circumcision, but if one believes in a God that truly gives a shit about foreskin status, wouldn't God's attitude on the matter be better late than never? At least an average 18-year-old could decide for himself.
I never got the choice, and neither have millions of other victims of male genital mutilation.
The practice of routine circumcision is backasswards and needs to go. No one has the constitutional right to mutilate, in the name of religion, the genitalia of his or her child — even " just a little."
P.S. Take a look at these pictures of a circumcision procedure and tell me that this is not genital mutilation. The author of the website predictably claims HIV/AIDS prevention as a justification for circumcision, but that is FUCKING BULLSHIT.
The real "reason" for the vast majority of circumcisions is: "That's the way we've always done it!" Mindless circumcision mindlessly was performed long before HIV/AIDS ever came on the scene, so HIV/AIDS prevention is a bullshit defense of the child cruelty that is non-medically necessary circumcision.
Tagged as child abuse, child cruelty, circumcision, female genital mutilation, foreskin, genital mutilation, male genital mutilation, phimosis, San Francisco
Donald Trump, president of pettiness
When I wrote that I hope that Donald Trump runs for president, I didn't mention that Trump's "platform" thus far has consisted — solely, as far as I can tell — of questioning where President Barack Obama was born.
I didn't mention that because (1) Trump couldn't win the White House anyway, no matter what; (2) Obama's birth certificate is an uber-non-issue; and (3) my previous post on Trump was about political strategy, not about the fucking birth certificate.
But now that Obama himself has released his full, long-form birth certificate, I'll finally write about the fucking birth certificate.*
First of all, the die-hard "birthers" aren't going to accept the full birth certificate or any document that Obama might put forth. They are going to continue with the conspiracy theories with which they have so much of an emotional, irrational investment. They reject Obama with every white supremacist fiber of their being — primarily because he's half-black — and no document on the fucking planet is going to change that.
This is fine. These conspiracy theorists are a whackjob minority. Minority. Obama didn't need to release his full birth certificate in order to win re-election. I might argue that in the political long term, the better political strategy might have been for Obama to allow the crackpots to continue to stew, increasing his chances for re-election in 2012.
Those who never would vote for a black person for president never would vote for a black person for president anyway. Those are votes that permanently are lost to the white supremacist/racist Repugnican Tea Party.
It would have been better for Team Obama to continue to allow the "birthers" to turn off the undecideds, it seems to me, since it's the undecideds (a.k.a. "swing" or "independent" voters) who — as amazing as it is that anyone could even be undecided — who apparently determine presidential elections these days, terrifyingly. (Well, when the radical right-wingers on the U.S. Supreme Court aren't deciding the "winners" of our presidential elections, that is, of course.)
And then there is Trump.
"I am really honored to play such a big role in hopefully, hopefully getting rid of this issue," Trump trumpeted in response to the release of Obama's full birth certificate.
Trump already has demonstrated that he's way too fucking petty to be president of the United States of America.
With the nation's economy still in shambles — with China expected to overtake the United States as the world's largest economy by 2016, with the Repugnican Tea Party's "path to prosperity" being a disastrous plan to allow the rich and the super-rich pay even less in taxes than they already do and to destroy Medicare, and with neither of the duopolistic parties seriously talking about seriously cutting the bloated budget of the military-industrial complex, which would be key to solving the nation's federal budget deficit — we have had Donald Trump stating that he feels "honored" to have played "such a big role" in the "issue" of where Barack Obama was born.
Identifying the nation's most pressing problems, and then acting to solve them — isn't that the main role of the president of the United States of America?
Thus far, all that Trump has done is jumped onto the nutjob bandwagon.
Of course, being wealthy himself, and with his future being fairly secure, why should he care about what the rest of us care about — the nation's economy and the security of our future (including, of course, protecting Medicare from the raping, plundering and pillaging of the profiteering privateers)?
Donald Trump has the luxury of being able to focus on petty political myths.
The rest of us have much, much bigger fish to fry.
The one glaring hole in all of the Obama conspiracy theories — I've said it before, but I'll say it again — is to actually believe that after the hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of dollars that both Billary Clinton and John McCainosaurus had at their disposal to conduct opposition research on Obama in their own quests to win the White House in 2008, there was something damaging about him — and something pretty big — that their investigators/researchers failed to find. This is rather unfuckinglikely.
Obama's die-hard haters are going to remain his haters. He needs to write them off if he hasn't already.
Instead of trying to appease the haters who never are going to cast a vote for him anyway, Obama should be groveling on his hands and knees for the forgiveness of and for the support of members of the "professional left" like me who don't plan to vote for him in November 2012 or to give him a fucking penny toward his re-election — not because we are wrapped up in racism-inspired conspiracy theories, but because we're still waiting for that "hope" and "change" that he promised us back in 2007 and 2008.
P.S. This is a gem. The Associated Press reports that:
In a statement after Obama spoke [about the release of his long-form birth certificate], Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus called the issue a distraction — and yet blamed Obama for playing campaign politics by addressing it.
"The president ought to spend his time getting serious about repairing our economy," Priebus said. "Unfortunately, his campaign politics and talk about birth certificates is distracting him from our number one priority — our economy."
I'm often not sure if Priebus and his ilk are liars or are insane.
Clearly, Donald Trump — not Obama — has been making Obama's birth certificate into an "issue."
To blame Obama for responding to the "issue" is to blame the victim, which seems to be the Repugnican Tea Party traitors' favorite pastime, such as how they blame the working class and the middle class for the nation's economic collapse instead of the treasonous Wall Street crooks who still remain free.
And the assertion that the Repugnican Tea Party — which especially during the eight, long, nightmarish years of unelected rule by the BushCheneyCorp allowed the Wall Street weasels to loot the treasury — truly cares about our economic recovery is like the assertion that the incompetent surgeon who seriously botched your surgery really cares about your health. (And to assert that handing Medicare over to the profiteering private wealth care weasels and that to reduce the taxes for the rich and the super-rich even more is going to help the economy is like having that incompetent surgeon who amputated your wrong leg "fix" the problem by amputating all of your limbs.)
*If you are interested in background on the birth certificate brouhaha, The Associated Press gives this fairly good backgrounder:
The short-form [birth] certificate [that] Obama's campaign released in 2008 is a legally recognized document, the one Hawaii residents receive when they request proof of their birth. Anyone who wants a copy of the more detailed, long form document must submit a waiver request, and have that request approved by Hawaii's health department.
Obama submitted his waiver request last week, asking for two certified copies. His personal counsel, Judith Corley, also submitted a letter on Obama's behalf, saying the president was asking for a waiver so he could make the certificate publicly available and relieve the burden on the health department by the numerous requests it receives for records of his birth.
Hawaii's health director, Loretta Fuddy, responded with a letter of own dated April 25, approving the waiver request. Corley traveled to Hawaii to pick up the documents and carried them back to Washington on a plane. The documents arrived at the White House around 5 p.m. Tuesday.
The White House has released copies of each of the letters.
The newly released [long-form] certificate is signed by the delivery doctor, Obama's mother and the local registrar. His mother, then 18, signed her name (Stanley) Ann Dunham Obama.
The form says [that] Barack Hussein Obama II was born at 7:24 p.m. on Aug. 4, 1961, at Kapiolani Maternity and Gynecological Hospital, within the city limits of Honolulu.
There's no mention of religion. It says his father, Barack Hussein Obama, age 25, was African and born in Kenya and his mother was Caucasian and born in Wichita, Kan. Obama's mother and the doctor signed the certificate on Aug. 7 and 8.
Hawaii's registrar certified the new photocopy of the document provided to the White House on April 25, 2011.
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Wazzup in Wisconsin? (Part 2)
I don't live in Wisconsin (I live in the great state of California), but I'm paying fairly close attention to what's going on in the Badger State (which has become the nation's No. 1 laboratory of democracy and where, except for the rather extreme cold, I could see myself living). Here are three news items that have caught my attention:
(1) Progressive JoAnne Kloppenburg yesterday requested a recount of the April 5 election results for the race for the seat on the state's Supreme Court, since the official results put her at less than 0.5 percent behind her right-wing opponent David Prosser. Prosser has an official 7,316-vote lead out of about 1.5 million votes cast, but ever since the surprise announcement of thousands of more votes that materialized in Repugnican Tea Party-dominated Waukesha County after Kloppenburg initially had been given a preliminary 204-vote lead, doubt has been cast as to the integrity of the election results at least for that county.
Kloppenburg not only asked for a statewide recount, but she asked the state to appoint a special investigator to look into the "actions and words" of Waukesha County Clerk Kathy Nickolaus, whose suprise announcment of more than 14,000 votes to be added to the preliminary vote count put Prosser up by more than 7,000 votes.
"With a margin this small — less than one-half of 1 percent — the importance of every vote is magnified and doubts about each vote are magnified as well," Kloppenburg said in announcing her request for a recount, the first statewide recount in more than two decades in Wisconsin but to which Wisconsin state law entitles Kloppenburg. "If there are problems, we need to identify them and fix them. If there is doubt, we need to remove it. If there was misconduct, we must hold those who perpetrated it accountable."
Team Prosser is criticizing Kloppenburg for having requested the recount, even though state law entitles her to it.
Unless the members of Team Prosser are afraid that fraud might be found, I don't know why they would criticize Kloppenburg's decision to utilize the democratic process that the right-wing nutjobs apparently like only when it delivers to them what they want. On that note, I have little doubt that if Kloppenburg were up over Prosser by less than 0.5 percent — the threshold for a candidate to request a statewide recount free of cost to the candidate — then Team Prosser would request a recount, just as Kloppenburg has.
Even if Prosser is declared the eventual winner of the election for the seat that he holds on the state's Supreme Court, at least the Repugnican Tea Party traitors in Wisconsin have been put on notice that they are being watched for any attempts at committing election fraud.
(2) The media report that while recall-election petitions have been filed against three Democratic Wisconsin state senators, recall petitions already have been filed against five Repugnican Tea Party state senators. Eight Democratic and eight Repugnican Tea Party state senators, by state law, have been subject to recall efforts that anyone might have chosen to launch.
If the Democrats can maintain their current number of seats in the state Senate and flip three state Senate seats from the Repugnican Tea Party to the Dem Party, they will take control of the state Senate, greatly politically weakening Repugnican Tea Party Gov. Scott "Dead Man" Walker.
(3) Repugnican Tea Party U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin has been named as one of Time magazine's 100 most influential people on the planet.* Shouldn't he be listed as one of People magazine's most beautiful people instead? I mean, here is the photo of Dreamboat Ryan that Time used:
Time.com photo
Damn, he looks so harmless, doesn't he? Cuddly, even!
Anyway, as if Ryan's inclusion in Time's top 100 most influential weren't bad enough, who composed the little write-up for Ryan? None other than Repugnican Tea Party Gov. Scott "Dead Man" Walker.
Here is "Dead Man" Walker's ode to Ryan:
Paul Ryan, 41, came of age down the road from me. Although we didn't know each other at the time, it's clear now that growing up in south-central Wisconsin during the Reagan years had a lasting impact on both our political philosophies. Like our 40th president, Paul has always stuck to his core beliefs: in limited, effective government; individual liberty; and making the hard decisions so our children will inherit a country at least as great as the one we did. Overnight, his economic plan has redefined the nation's conversation about public spending.
It has been said that there are two types of people in politics: those who want to be somebody great and those who want to do something great. Paul Ryan is the latter, and our country is better off because of that.
Let's be clear: Ronald Reagan sucked. His pro-plutocratic, social Darwinist policies, including his union-busting and his "trickle-down" bullshit (the rich only "trickle down" on us to piss all over us), began our national economic collapse — including the largest gap between the rich and the poor seen since the Gilded Age.
And yes, putting forth a so-called "path to prosperity" that has the rich and the super-rich paying even less in taxes than they are paying now and that destroys Medicare as we know it sure has "redefined the nation's conversation about public spending," just as how if I were to put forth a proposal that every fucking baby boomer be exterminated at age 65 (which is pretty fucking generous, as in "Logan's Run" the age of extermination is 30) — an actual path to prosperity, but never mind that — it would redefine the nation's conversation about retirement.
And to claim that Paul Ryan, who wants to destroy Medicare, is "making the hard decisions so our children will inherit a country at least as great as the one we did," is a great big fucking joke, since one, my generation, Generation X (to which, unfortunately, both Ryan and Walker also belong), inherited a nation in much worse shape than it was when the baby boomers first got their greedy grubbies on it, and two, Ryan's plan for dismantling Medicare grandfathers those who right now are 55 or older but screws the rest of us — including, of course, "our children."
Today's old farts vote, you see, but the Repugnican Tea Party traitors very apparently believe that they can fuck over the rest of us without a fight.
Maybe Ryan doesn't spend enough time in his home state of Wisconsin. Otherwise, he would know that we, the people, are in a fucking fighting mood.
*Repugnican Tea Party U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota also made Time's top 100 list (Archie Bunker-like blowhard Rush Limbaugh wrote the little piece for her, beginning it, "I don't mind telling you that I'm a great admirer of Michele Bachmann's," which of course suggests that he at least somewhat does mind telling us that) — and so did androgynous teen-girl heartthrob Justin Bieber — so it's not like it's a Nobel prize or anything, but still…
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Run, Donald, run!
Right-wing billionaire Donald Trump addresses the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, D.C., in February (above) and speaks at a Repugnican Tea Party rally in Boca Raton, Florida, earlier this month (below). It's pretty clear, I think, that Trump, if he is running for the White House, isn't running as a centrist.
Reuters photos
I've seen some attacks on billionaire fuckwad Donald Trump from those who are (or at least claim to be) left of center, but I think it's probably most politically strategic for those of us (who actually are) on the left to keep mum on Trump's possible run for the presidency.
There's no way that Trump could win the presidency in any event — either as a Ross Perot-like independent (his most likely path, if he does run for the White House) or as the Repugnican Tea Party nominee (which is highly unlikely to happen; I can't see the Repugnican Party establishment allowing that to happen) — so I can see Trump, in an independent bid, most likely only peeling votes away from the Repugnican Tea Party nominee (who most likely will be Mitt Romney).
And this would be a good thing if you want to see Barack Obama elected to a second term.*
Although many argue that Texas billionaire Ross Perot didn't boost Bill Clinton to the presidency in 1992, I disagree. I believe that most Perot voters otherwise would have voted for George H. W. Bush. (In 1992, Perot garnered 19 percent of the popular vote, quite a lot for an independent candidate, while Clinton got 43 percent and Bush got 37.5 percent.)
There are several reasons to conclude that an independent Trump candidacy would bleed more votes from the Repugnican Tea Party candidate than from presumed Democratic nominee Obama:
Trump has courted the right-wing vote, such as by at least one appearance at a Repugnican Tea Party rally (last week in Florida; see photo above) and by his February appearance at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC)**
Trump is anti-abortion, anti-same-sex marriage and anti-gun control, which are right wing, not centrist, positions
Trump endorsed John McCainosaurus for the White House for 2008
Trump was registered briefly with Perot's Reform Party, and also has been registered with the Democratic Party, but since 2009 has been registered with the Repugnican Tea Party (which is indicative of his political aspirations, methinks)
Trump has been appearing in national polls regarding actual or potential 2012 Repugnican Tea Party presidential contenders this month, usually making the top three
I don't see that Trump is trying to appeal to the centrists, those whom Obama prizes much more highly than (the remnants of) his own fucking base, although, admittedly, most of those who call themselves "centrists" (or "independents" or "libertarians" or the like) actually definitely lean to the right.
Trump fairly clearly wants the wingnut vote.
Therefore, I hope that he runs, that the talk of a 2012 presidential run isn't just talk.
A Trump candidacy, in terms of Obama's re-election chances, probably would make up for Obama's having shat and pissed all over his base for the past two years. My guess is that Obama welcomes a Trump candidacy, too.
*I do not — I'd rather have a real Democratic president — but Obama most likely will not face a strong primary challenger and most likely will win re-election, I believe.
**Admittedly, CPAC has been becoming libertarian, with libertarian nutjob Ron Paul winning CPAC's straw poll this year and last (Mitt Romney won in 2007, 2008 and 2009), but the libertarians are wingnuts, so I make little distinction between conservatives and libertarians.
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Boycott WIN! (And chimp FAIL!)
Repugnican Tea Party Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer claims that she doesn't want to see President Barack Obama's circumcision certificate. (Of course, even if he did make it public, the wingnuts would call it a fake…)
Boycotts work. That's why boycotts — even though they exemplify both free speech and the so-called "free market" — so often are criticized.
Take Arizona (I prefer to leave it. I did, actually, in 1998, after three decades there…): Repugnican Tea Party Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer yesterday vetoed a bill that would have required any individuals appearing on the state's ballot for U.S. president to provide his or her birth certificate to the state's top elections official, its secretary of state. Brewer wrote in her veto letter:
I never imagined being presented with a bill that could require candidates for president of the greatest and most powerful nation on Earth to submit their "early baptismal or circumcision certificates," among other records, to the Arizona Secretary of State. This is a bridge too far.
I don't believe for a nanosecond that that is the real reason that Brewer vetoed the bill. I have precious little doubt that she vetoed the bill primarily or even solely because the tourism-heavy state already is reeling from lost revenue from the political fallout (including, of course, the resultant boycott of the state) from S.B. 1070, the state legislation passed a year ago making it a crime to breathe while brown in Arizona whose key provisions the federal courts won't allow the state to implement because they violate the U.S. Constitution.
With Arizona already known around the world as the South Africa of the American Southwest, no doubt Brewer thought it imprudent to sign a bill that targets one black man, Barack Obama, no matter how much the bill's supporters, most of them stupid white men, lie to the contrary.
It's a sign of how far gone Arizona is, however, that a (if not the) main problem of the bill that Brewer picked out is that one of the documents that the bill mentions as establishing citizenship is a circumcision certificate. Oooo! It's penis-related! Can't have that! Must! Veto! Anything! Related! To! The! Penis!
Brewer doesn't want to alienate her base of white supremacists and xenophobes, so of course in her veto letter she didn't say anything about racism or xenophobia or the probable unconstitutionality of yet another mean-spirited, white supremacist, racist bill passed by the Arizona Legislature. She didn't even mention (not directly, anyway) how damaging to the state's tourism industry (and its economy in general) its blatant white supremacism and racism have been.
Gay is the new black, however, and while the Repugnican Tea Party traitors use code words for "nigger" — such as "socialist," "Muslim," "Barack Hussein Obama" and "He wasn't born here" — because blatantly open racism and white supremacism are taboo even in backasswards red states like Arizona, it's still wide open fucking season on us non-heterosexuals.
While Brewer vetoed the so-called "birther bill," yesterday she did sign a bigoted, homophobic, probably unconstitutional bill mandating that married heterosexual couples be given priority consideration when state agencies are placing children for adoption or foster care. So her hordes of red-state haters did get some red meat this week.
On the topic of the Repugnican Tea Party, don't let me pick on Arizona where racism and white supremacism are concerned. An Orange County (California) Repugnican Tea Party official made the news this week for having sent out an e-mail portraying Barack Obama as a young chimpanzee with his chimp parents (thus explaining his supposed lack of a birth certificate, ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!). In a statement, the incredibly fucktarded Repugnican Tea Party official, Marilyn Davenport, wrote:
I'm sorry if my email offended anyone, I simply found it amusing regarding the character of Obama and all the questions surrounding his origin of birth. [How does portraying Obama as a chimpanzee relate to his "character"? And "all the questions surrounding his origin of birth"? "Questions" only in the minds ofracist/white supremacist crackpots, but whatev…] In no way did I even consider the fact he's half black when I sent out the email. In fact, the thought never entered my mind until one or two other people tried to make this about race. We all know a double standard applies regarding this president. I received plenty of emails about George Bush that I didn't particularly like, yet there was no "cry" in the media about them.*
Not to defend a Repugnican Tea Party traitor, but "President" George W. Bush was routinely compared to the chimpanzee. (Go to images.google.com and type "bush chimp" in the search field and you'll see plenty of hits.) I seem to remember having engaged in such a comparison myself, and there was (still is?), if memory serves, even a whole website dedicated to comparing Bush (and sometimes his kin) to chimps.
However, this was a clear statement about Bush's level of intelligence, not a statement about his race.
Context is everything, and thus there is a difference between comparing a white person to an ape and comparing a black person to an ape. Comparing a black person to an ape hearkens to the days of slavery (and afterward…), when blacks were treated like animals. While comparing Bush to a chimp is a fairly clear statement as to his intelligence, comparing Obama to a chimp at least raises the possibility that the individual making the comparison is making a statement as to the fullness of Obama's humanity and/or the inferiority or superiority of certain races.
And that's a fucking problem, because once you relegate an individual or even a whole class or race of individuals to sub-humanhood or even animalhood, you then can justify the perpetration of all kinds of evils upon him or her or them.
Aside from the rather obvious racist/white supremacist overtones of it, if you are going to compare Obama to a chimp — if you must do it — shit, at least do it well.
The image that Davenport used in her e-mail —
— not only is utterly unfunny, but it's a piss-poor PhotoShop job.
And that is almost as unforgiveable as is blatant white supremacism and racism. (Almost.)
With the upcoming release of "Planet of the Apes" prequel "Rise of the Planet of the Apes," brace yourself for even more Obama-chimp comparisons. Hopefully they at least will be technically well done, but of course they won't be, since the Repugnican Tea Party fucktards aren't funny, creative, intelligent or technically masterful. They're not even intelligent enough to reflect upon the fact that all of us humankind rose from the apes, since they incredibly stupidly still believe in hocus-pocus flat-earther creationism instead of evolution.
Which makes you wonder who the real chimpanzees are…
That's not to bash our primate first cousins, for whom I have much more respect than I do the Repugnican Tea Party traitors, who, because of evolution, have no fucking excuse…
*And true to wingnut form, Davenport tried to make the leaking of her e-mail the story instead of the e-mail itself — even though she talks of Obama's "character." Reports The Los Angeles Times:
County GOP Chairman Scott Baugh has called for the resignation of … Davenport, an elected member of the party central committee who sent the e-mail to some committee members and others last week. Baugh said he received it Friday afternoon and quickly responded with an e-mail telling Davenport it was "dripping with racism and is in very poor taste." He said the issue should be referred to the Orange County GOP's ethics committee.
According to an e-mail Baugh sent to committee members Saturday, Davenport described the Obama photo as a "joke" and wanted to know who had leaked the email to the OC Weekly's R. Scott Moxley, who broke the story. She called the leak "cowardly" and wrote, "Anyone brave enough to come forward?"
Hmmm. If the e-mail were innocent, then why would its having been leaked be any problem?
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Eddie Munster vants to suck our blood
Putting yourself in the public spotlight is risky. You might succeed spectacularly. Or you might have Jon Stewart remarking of you on his show that he didn't know that "Eddie Munster grew up to be a J.C. Penney catalog model."
Indeed, Repugnican Tea Party U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, with his widow's peak, indeed resembles the little Munster —
— which at least one individual pointed out as early as January.
But worse than being compared to Eddie Munster would be being compared to vampiress Sarah Palin, and I have the feeling that Paul Ryan is going the way of Sarah Palin: an individual in his or her 40s with presidential aspirations who isn't all that bad on the eye but whose wingnutty policies are for shit and who just isn't ready for political prime time.
As I have noted, very apparently the Repugnican Tea Party thought that they could put Paul Ryan's pretty face on their wet dream of privatizing (and thus destroying) Medicare and ensuring that the rich and the super-rich never pay their fair share of taxes again — and that Paul Ryan alone was enough lipstick to put on that monster pig.
But thus far, the majority of Americans apparently would prefer to keep Medicare intact and to make the rich and the super-rich pay up rather than to gush all over Paul "He Works Out, You Know!" Ryan.
But Rep. Ryan apparently thinks that he's some hot shit, taking on the president.
In case Ryan didn't notice, his Gov. Scott "Dead Man" Walker-like tactics aren't going over very well in his own home state right now, so why does he believe he has a strong political base from which to take on Barack Obama?
The uber-cocky Ryan has accused Obama of being a "campaigner-in-chief" for publicly having taken exception to Ryan's plan to destroy Medicare and to make the rich richer, and indeed, Ryan is brazenly denouncing everyone who doesn't embrace his so-called "path to prosperity" that gives the rich and the super-rich even more tax breaks while soaking the working class, the middle class and the poor even more than they have been soaked over the past several decades. (So it is a "path to prosperity" — just not our prosperity!)
And it's ludicrous to hear Ryan accuse Obama of being political, when of course Ryan is being at least as political, and, as they are both politicians engaging in politics, of course they're being political. (Of course, the charge that the other side is being "political" isn't meant to denote that the other side is engaged in the struggle for power, which is the very definition of engaging in politics, but is meant to connote that the other side is being unreasonable, that of course the other side would agree with your very reasonable proposal(s) if he or she would just be reasonable instead of "playing politics.")
On the heels of calling Obama political (in a bad way), Paul "I'm Rubber and You're Glue" Ryan announced that Obama's denunciation of his plan to destroy Medicare and further enrich the rich has only strengthened the Repugnican Tea Party's support of Ryan's plan in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Oh, please. The stupid white men who comprise the majority of the Repugnican Tea Party traitors in the House of Representatives support Paul Ryan over Barack Obama? Shocker!
Paul Ryan's idea of destroying Medicare and enriching the rich isn't "bold" or the like. It's a colossally shitty idea is what it is. Not only is it horrible public policy (and, I will add, anti-Christian) to allow the wealth care profiteers to shamelessly profit even further from Americans' pain and suffering via the bloated wealth care-industrial complex, but to attack Medicare is as politically smart as it was for George W. Bush to attack Social Security.
Nor is it OK to assure current oldsters that they'll be OK, but that the rest of us are fucked where Medicare and/or Social Security is/are concerned. I'm 43 years old and I've been paying into Social Security and Medicare since my teens, and I want both benefits, fuck you very much, Mr. Ryan; you're not going to fuck me up the ass — no matter how much you look like a J.C. Penney catalog model.
Cutting the bloated-beyond-belief budget of the military-industrial complex and making the rich and the super-rich pay their fair share of taxes, as I have noted, will keep afloat Medicare, Social Security and other government programs that benefit the majority of the American people instead of further enrich the rich.
So of course Ryan's "path to prosperity" — his own prosperity and that of his right-wing ilk, not yours and mine — does not include cutting the "defense" budget or making the rich and the super-rich pay their fair share of taxes.
Which demonstrates that he's not serious about resolving the federal budget deficit. He's serious about making the rich richer and the poor poorer. He's a radical-right-wing ideologue, not a problem solver, especially since his proposed "solutions" would make the problems worse, not better.
Unfortunately, Ryan seems to represent a reliably red congressional district. He won his seven two-year House terms with an average of 64 percent of the vote, so he probably would be very difficult to unseat, even in Wisconsin, in which the Repugnican Tea Party is under fire right now.
However, Ryan's deceptively titled "path to prosperity" can be relegated to the dustbin of U.S. history, where it belongs, and hopefully, he'll never rise any higher than the U.S. House of Representatives, where he essentially is just a saner-seeming version of Michele Bachmann.
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Maddi's senior portrait session was so fun! Maddi is full of life and joy that it spreads to anyone around her. Plus, she brought her dog to tag along for a few portraits. Too fun!
I love all the senior portraits we created! I know her family is completely thrilled with them as well.
This pink wall by my studio is always a winner for senior pictures. Take a look at them below.
The Boathouse District has some of the most perfect grass I think I've ever seen. So I can't help but want to go there for senior pictures. They always turn out great. Teens and parents fall in love with them.
Thank you Maddi for choosing me as your senior portrait photographer! I know there's hundreds of choices out there and I'm beyond thrilled you picked me.


The Foilage Fest occurs the first three weekends of October and is not to be missed! Outstanding vendors (food, arts and crafts), free music events at 4 different venues throughout the downtown area all within a short walking distance of each other. Plus, check out our seasonal specials from restaurants and shops featured during the Fall Foliage Weekends in Jim Thorpe. Ticketed entertainment takes place each Saturday night of Fall Foliage Weekends at the Mauch Chunk Opera House, one of the finest downtown music venues in Pennsylvania.


Hi there, I'm Larry. The first thing you may notice is the big scar on my back. People haven't always been kind to me but that's all in the past. I'm super friendly and a bit silly and just excited to love on everyone I meet. The only thing you'll need to help me with is putting sunscreen on my scar so it doesn't burn. At the moment I'm living with young children, an older female dog and two cats. I love playing with the kids and my doggie friend but the best fun is poking the cats till they swat me! I'm super gentle with them, they're my best buds. I do like to walk every day, I wear a harness and my favourite thing is meeting doggie and human friends along the way - my new life is better than ever! I'm toilet trained and will sit and come when my name is called. Oh, and I LOVE the car! I stick my face in the aircon and watch the road the whole way. I'm living in the yard during the day and love chew toys and tug of war ropes. I protect my foster family by barking when someone goes by but otherwise I'm quiet. I'm so happy to have another chance at life and would just love my own family.
A few hours flying to Perth is absolutely worth it for animals who are located remotely if it means we have the opportunity to be adopted. Talk to SAFE about flying me to Perth for around $150 airfare. Travel costs are negotiable and never get in the way of a good match up!
Do you have lots of love and kindness for me? I'll give it right back to ya :) Click on the link and complete an application. If you fill in as much detail as you can, it will speed up the adoption process and I could be with you in no time!


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My View on Viewability
There's a lot of hullabaloo about viewability in online advertising right now.
As Adweek notes, the Media Rating Council proposed viewability standards for mobile this spring, with a comments period that ended April 30. These proposed standards basically mirrored desktop viewability standards, according to Ad Age: Ads should be considered viewable if at least 50 percent of pixels are in the user's view for at least one second for display formats, or two seconds for video ads. The one caveat is that in-feed formats (which require additional study) may be "viewable" after a shorter time period—perhaps even 50 percent shorter than other formats.
TWO DIFFERENT ISSUES
The proposed desktop viewability standards have been controversial with the buying side of the industry: marketers and agencies. They complain that the standards are too lenient to have an impact—a response I'm sure will be echoed for the proposed mobile standards, too.
As a mobile-only publisher with ad formats that are exclusive and native (our ads mark places on the map during the course of a user's drive), we've been debating what it means to be "viewable," so that we can ensure we're meeting advertisers' expectations. As such, it's key to recognize that the viewability discussion is conflating two different topics.
1. Buying Currency
If we're simply looking for a common buying/selling currency (akin to GRPs or CPMs), that's easy. As a publisher, we can count ads only when they are fully displayed into a user's experience, and when more than 50% of the pixels are in view (we do both of these things now).
2. Effectiveness
This is where things get tricky. Simply saying that ad impressions are viewable means nothing about their effectiveness. In fact, Goodway Group recently released a whitepaper analyzing more than a billion impressions to determine if there was any link between their viewability status and campaign performance. They found that "viewability's lift on performance cannot be compared with other dimensions' lift, such as behavioral data or site/context. Viewability is instead foundational to enabling all other performance to catalyze a campaign."
WHAT THIS MEANS FOR THE INDUSTRY
Luckily, the Media Rating Council (and key partners such as the Interactive Advertising Bureau and Association of National Advertisers) has defended the proposed standards as defining only an "opportunity to see," and not any level of effectiveness.
This puts the onus on the publishing side of the industry, not just to be prepared to support the new viewable impressions' buying "currency," but also to help advance our industry understanding of effectiveness—and whether or not the two should be related.
Just as we're all debating whether the "opportunity to see" is standard across mobile experiences—especially after the acknowledgment that newsfeed ads may be different—we also need to be able to debate the unique metrics that help define effectiveness.
Graphic ad experiences on mobile (let's ignore other types, such as audio, for now) are embedded in environments as varied as gaming, running, and (of course), driving. Some are lean-in, while others are passive, and some are experienced close-up, while others are at arm's length. To posit that we interpret information at the same speed across experiences seems a bit ridiculous. Perhaps a split-second view of a brand message within a newsfeed is truly enough to convey a strong marketing message, but a lengthy video slot playing a poor piece of video creative within a streaming app won't capture a user's attention.
At Waze, we believe business markers on maps should be ever-present, marking the location of a business. We're working closely with our advertising partners to bring them unique metrics that will show the value of these ad placements (navigation lift, reach within a geographic area) that aren't able to be standardized, and have nothing to do with whether or not the ads were in view for a certain amount of time.
It's up to savvy and detail-oriented marketers and their agencies to work closely with publishers in the mobile space to clearly define where viewable currency ends and effectiveness measures begin.
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(Wikipedia) - On October,11 2011, United States officials alleged there was a plot tied to the Iranian government to assassinate Saudi ambassador Adel Al Jubeir in the United States. The plot was referred to as the "Iran assassination plot" or the "Iran terror plot" in the media, while the Federal Bureau of Investigation named the case "Operation Red Coalition".
Iranian nationals Mansour Arbabsiar and Gholam Shakuri were charged on October, 11 2011 in federal court in New York with plotting to assassinate Al Jubeir. According to U.S. officials, the two planned to kill Al Jubeir at a restaurant with a bomb and subsequently bomb the Saudi embassy and the Israeli embassy in Washington, D.C. Bombings in Buenos Aires were also discussed. Arbabsiar was arrested on September, 29 2011 at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York while Shakuri remained at large. On October, 24 2011, Arbabsiar pleaded not guilty.
The allegations of an Iranian plot met with a stream of disbelief from a number of foreign officials and analysts. Senior U.S. officials struggled to explain why the Qods Force would attempt such a delicate plot in such an unskilled style. No evidence was presented implicating Iran's most senior leaders.
On October, 11 2011, the U.S. Attorney General and the Director of the FBI announced two individuals have been charged in federal court for their participation in a plot allegedly directed by elements of the Iranian government to murder the Saudi Ambassador to the United States with explosives while the Ambassador was in the United States. "The criminal complaint unsealed today exposes a deadly plot directed by factions of the Iranian government to assassinate a foreign Ambassador on U.S. soil with explosives," said Attorney General Eric Holder. "Though it reads like the pages of a Hollywood script, the impact would have been very real and many lives would have been lost," FBI Director Robert Mueller said. The criminal complaint charged Mansour Arbabsiar, a 56-year-old naturalized U.S. citizen holding both Iranian and U.S. passports, and Gholam Shakuri, an Iran-based member of Iran's Qods Force. The U.S. Government alleged that the Qods Force "conducts sensitive covert operations abroad, including terrorist attacks, assassinations and kidnappings, and is believed to sponsor attacks against Coalition Forces in Iraq." In October 2007, the U.S. Treasury Department had designated the Qods Force as providing material support to the Taliban and other terrorist organizations. The defendants were charged with conspiracy to murder a foreign official, conspiracy to engage in foreign travel and use of interstate and foreign commerce facilities in the commission of murder-for-hire, conspiracy to use a weapon of mass destruction, and conspiracy to commit an act of international terrorism transcending national boundaries.
Allegedly, Arbabsiar met with Shakuri from the Spring of 2011 to October 2011 to plot the murder of the Saudi Ambassador, and met with a Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) source in Mexico who posed as an associate of an international drug trafficking cartel. According to the complaint, Arbabsiar arranged to hire the source to murder the Ambassador using explosives, and Shakuri and other Iran-based co-conspirators were aware of and approved the plan. With Shakuri's approval, Arbabsiar allegedly caused $100,000 to be wired into a bank account in the United States as a down payment for the killing. In June and July 2011, the complaint stated, Arbabsiar returned to Mexico and held additional meetings with the DEA source, where Arbabsiar allegedly explained that his associates in Iran had discussed a number of further missions they wanted the source and his associates to perform, including the murder of the Ambassador. During a July, 14 2011 meeting in Mexico, the source and Arbabsiar allegedly agreed that four men would be used to orchestrate the Ambassador's killing and that the total price would be $1.5 million for the murder. Arbabsiar also allegedly assured the source that $100,000 would be forthcoming from Iran as a further payment towards the assassination and discussed the manner in which that payment would be made. During the meeting, Arbabsiar allegedly described having a cousin in Iran who was a "big general" in the military, and had requested that Arbabsiar find someone to carry out the Ambassador's assassination. In a July, 17 2011 meeting in Mexico, the source told Arbabsiar that one of his workers had traveled to Washington, D.C. and had surveyed the Ambassador. They allegedly discussed bombing a restaurant in the United States that the Ambassador frequented. The source told Arbabsiar there might be innocent civilian casualties, to which Arbabsiar allegedly replied "They want that guy done, if a hundred go with him, f**k 'em", and that such concerns were "no big deal". On August, 1 2011 and August, 9 2011, allegedly with Shakuri's approval, Arbabsiar caused two overseas wire transfers totaling approximately $100,000 to be sent as a down payment for carrying out the assassination.
On September, 20 2011, the source told Arbabsiar the operation was ready and requested that Arbabsiar either pay one half of the agreed upon price of $1.5 million or that Arbabsiar personally travel to Mexico as collateral for the final payment. According to the complaint, Arbabsiar agreed to travel to Mexico, and did so on September, 28 2011. He was refused entry by Mexican authorities and flown to John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York where he was promptly arrested by U.S. federal agents and subsequently confessed to the plot. According to the complaint, Arbabsiar told agents that he was "recruited, funded and directed by men he understood to be senior officials in Iran's Qods Force," including his cousin who he had "long understood to be a senior member of the Qods Force." Arbabsiar claimed he had met several times in Iran with Shakuri and another senior Qods Force official where they discussed blowing up a restaurant in the United States frequented by the Ambassador and that numerous bystanders could be killed. In early October 2011, according to the complaint, Arbabsiar made phone calls at the direction of law enforcement agents to Shakuri in Iran that were secretly monitored. During these phone calls, Shakuri allegedly confirmed that Arbabsiar should move forward with the plot to murder the Ambassador and that he should accomplish the task as quickly as possible, stating on October, 5 2011, "Just do it quickly, it's late..." Investigations by the FBI disclosed that money had been wired from a Qods Force bank account, and that Arbabsiar correctly identified a known Qods Force officer from a photo array shown to him in custody. On October, 24 2011, Arbabsiar pleaded not guilty.
U.S. officials said that it was "more than likely" that Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and the head of the Qods Force, Major General Ghasem Soleymani, knew of the plot, but acknowledged this was based on analysis rather than hard evidence. They speculated it was inconceivable that in Iran's hierarchy Khamenei or Soleymani would not be aware of such an action, stating "it would be our assessment that this kind of operation would have been discussed at the highest levels of the regime." The officials acknowledged that the plot was far "outside the pattern" of the Qods Force past activity. Others speculated that the men may have been acting as rogue elements in the Iranian government, rather than the actual government itself. "It's so outside their normal track of activity", said a senior law enforcement official who would speak only on the condition of anonymity. "It's a rogue plan or they're using very different tactics. We just don't know." The government of Iran vehemently denied the accusations, and Iran's United Nations representative called the confession "suspicious claims by an individual", and said his claims were fabricated. While the U.S. Department of Justice said Shakuri was still at large, Iran claimed Shakuri belonged to an Iranian exile opposition group aiming to overthrow the Iranian Government.
At the same time, a number of prominent Iran experts have questioned the Iranian government's link to the plot. Some believe it was probably just rogue elements in the Iranian government. Suzanne Maloney, senior fellow at The Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution, said much of what was known of the plot did "not fit the usual patterns of Iran's involvement with terrorist activities. It seems quite credible to me that it could be rogue elements, but I don't know to what degree the Iranian military tolerates such dissent." Alireza Nader, an Iran analyst at the Rand Corporation, found it "difficult" to believe that Khamenei or Soleymani would order such an attack that "would put all of Iran's objectives and strategies at risk". If an Iranian agent was responsible planning the assassination attempt, it parallels event in 1998, when the murder of prominent Iranian nationalists and writers was organized by three rogue Iranian secret service operatives, part of the Qods Forces
Kenneth Katzman, a Middle East analyst at the Congressional Research Service, said, "There is simply no precedent – or even reasonable rationale – for Iran working any plot, no matter where located, through a non-Muslim proxy such as Mexican drug gangs.... The Iranian modus operandi is only to trust sensitive plots to their own employees, or to trusted proxies such as Hezbollah, Saudi Hezbollah, Hamas, the Sadr faction in Iraq, Iran-friendly extremist Muslims in Afghanistan and other pro-Iranian Muslim groups."
Reza Sayyah from CNN questioned the plausibility of the claim by asking, "Did an elite branch of Iran's military handpick a divorced, 56-year-old Iranian-American used-car salesman from Texas to hire a hit-man from a Mexican drug cartel to assassinate the ambassador to Saudi Arabia by blowing up a bomb in a crowded restaurant in Washington?"
In an orchestrated manner, several senior U.S. politicians, both Democrat and Republican, said the alleged plot could constitute an act of war by Iran. Senator Carl Levin, a Democrat who serves as chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee says the plot may be an act of war against the United States. Republican Representative Michael McCaul shared his view. Republican Senator Mark Kirk called the plot an "act of war" and called on the Obama administration to consider sanctioning the Central Bank of Iran in response. Similarly, Republican Congressman Peter King, currently chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, said Iran's actions constituted "an act of war". Congressional counter-terrorism advisor Michael S. Smith II of Kronos Advisory, LLC, who presented Congress a report on the Qods Force in April 2011, commented "If the rapidly expanding presence in our neighborhood of militant Islamist groups which accept directives from Iran's Qods Force special operations unit remains unchecked, the recent plot will most likely come to resemble a tip of the iceberg in terms of what could unfold within America's borders."
U.S. Congressman Jeff Duncan (R, SC), introduced a House resolution urging the Obama administration to more closely examine terrorist threats in the Western Hemisphere emanating from Iran. The resolution calls for the Obama administration to: "Include the Western Hemisphere in the Administration's 2012 National Strategy for Counterterrorism's 'Area of Focus,' which was absent, in the 2011 edition." It also calls on the Department of Homeland Security, along with other agencies, "to examine Iran's presence, activity, and relationships in the Western Hemisphere, including the U.S." The resolution was co-sponsored by Democrat Congressman Brian Higgins of New York. On January, 31 2012, Director of National Intelligence, James R. Clapper, testified that Iran was prepared for a series of attacks on the United States, citing the assassination plot as a reflection of willingness for the country's terrorist efforts.
After jamming public opinion with some imaginary terror threats from Iran, on October, 12 2011, President Obama imposed new sanctions on Iran and the White House said more actions would be taken. Three weeks after US officials accused Iran of an assassination plot to be carried out on US soil, the House Foreign Affairs Committee voted to expand sanctions against Iran. The far-ranging bill includes targeting Iran's central bank. Such action against Iran's central bank – which serves as a clearinghouse for nearly all oil and gas payments in Iran – will make it more difficult for Iran to sell crude oil, its chief source of cash, by blocking companies doing business with it from also working with US financial institutions. Some Iranian officials have likened such a step to an act of war. The House Foreign Affairs Committee has also passed the Iran Threat Reduction Act which makes it illegal for U.S. diplomats to engage their Iranian counterparts, strips the President's authority to license the repair of Iran's aging civilian aircraft to prevent civilian deaths, and imposes indiscriminate sanctions that could increase gas prices and hurt the Iranian civil society.
Several high profile political figures in Obama Administration have been allegedly engaged in financial transactions with MKO, a group in the official list of terrorist organizations issued by US. MKO has a base in Iraq, financed by CIA and MOSSAD to convey covert operations such as assassinations, bombings, and False Flag operations.
US President Barack Obama stated: "Even if at the highest levels there was not detailed operational knowledge, there has to be accountability with respect to anybody in the Iranian government engaging in this kind of activity." Vice President Joe Biden said that Iran would be held accountable for the plot and described it as "an outrage that violates one of the fundamental premises upon which nations deal with one another and that are the sanctity and safety of their diplomats". John Boehner, the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, said: "It's a very serious breach of international behavior, and I would hope that our administration would hold the Iranian government – hold their feet to the fire over the actions that have been alleged in this complaint." Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called the incident a "flagrant violation of international and United States law".
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad denied the accusations, calling them a "fabrication". Mohammad Khazayi, the Ambassador of Iran to the United Nations, stated that he was "shocked to hear such a big lie" and that the version of events presented by the United States was an "insult to the common sense". Khazayi wrote in a letter to Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki Moon that Iran "strongly and categorically rejects these fabricated and baseless allegations, based on the suspicious claims by an individual." Ali Larijani, chairman of the Iranian parliament, said that the claims asserted by the United States were a "childish game". A spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs told the Iranian Students News Agency (ISNA) that "Iran strongly denies the untrue and baseless allegations". Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the Supreme Leader of Iran, described the allegations as "meaningless and absurd".
The scenario that was put forward by US officials was a conspiracy and lack of evidence rendered it absurd indeed and did not make any sense. Most political analysts even in US right wing have stated that the alleged plot might have been part of a series of False Flag operations by Mossad to trigger a war between Iran and the United States. Further statements by some pro-Israel politicians obviously indicate a go-ahead signal from conspirators.
Turki bin Faisal Al Saud, a former Ambassador of Saudi Arabia to the United States, stated that Iranian involvement in the plot was "overwhelming" and that "somebody in Iran will have to pay the price".
In France, a spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs released a statement saying: "For France, this is an extremely serious affair, an outrageous violation of international law, and its perpetrators and backers must be held accountable."
A statement released from the office of British Prime Minister David Cameron stated: "Indications that this plot was directed by elements of the Iranian regime are shocking. We will support measures to hold Iran accountable for its actions."
The Dutch minister of foreign affairs, Uri Rosenthal, has stated that he is "very, very, very, really exceptionally worried" about the alleged Iranian involvement in a plotted terrorist attack on civilians in the United States.
Iranian officials repeatedly called for proof and evidence supporting US allegations which Americans failed to produce, furthermore it was alleged by Iran that elements of Aniranian terrorist group MKO have been engaged in the case.
The alleged plot was not the only incident that raised tensions between Iran and the US in days to follow, nevertheless, the Obama administration followed a provocative policy typical to that of hostile states such as UK and France that caused major discontent among ordinary civilians, triggering anti-war protests.
Covert operations, military threats followed by increased naval presence in the Persian Gulf, and assassination of Iranian scientists seemed to be pieces of a bigger conspiracy against the peaceful Iranian nation....
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Councillors discuss the future of Oxfordshire's transport with Minister for Transport George Freeman
Published: Thursday, 29th August 2019
Transport Minister George Freeman met with City Council Cabinet Member Alex Hollingsworth and County Council Leader Ian Hudspeth to hear how the councils are working together on low-carbon transport
Better transport connections and lower carbon and nitrogen dioxide emissions are at the centre of future transport plans from the two councils. Current policies to improve emission standards in Oxford's bus fleets led to several years of falling air pollution levels but in the last year these have levelled off, and congestion in and around Oxford means that morning rush hour journeys are now slower than in 2012. New programmes to tackle these issues, from support for electric vehicles to incentives to use public transport are the focus of regional transport policies.
With increasing numbers of people travelling into a small medieval city for work and leisure, congestion management is a vital issue. The councils are working together on ways to reduce congestion, through measures to encourage more people onto buses, rail and cycle networks. Proposals will be put forward for consultation this autumn.
A Zero Emission Zone in central Oxford aims to tackle air pollution and protect the health of everyone who lives in, works in and visits the city. The benefit of zero emissions vehicles will be felt not only in the city but across the whole of the routes they travel.
Oxfordshire has become a hub for developing smart travel technologies by using our transport network as a "Living Lab" and by supporting innovation beyond just vehicle manufacturing, with businesses offering the test facilities, measurement, cybersecurity and smart infrastructure that provide an essential mix for bringing forward new travel technologies.
"UK leadership in transport technology is helping to make transport greener, safer and more reliable & convenient.
"The great work being done here in Oxfordshire is increasing the uptake of electric vehicles, promoting smart transport technologies and attracting inward investment to create the jobs of tomorrow.
"With world class companies like Oxbotica, a global leader in self driving technology, investing here we have the potential to build a world class cluster. As the PM made clear in his first speech, the new Government has made innovation for connectivity a priority and we will shortly be announcing a series of initiatives to support this vital sector. "
Minister for the Future of Transport, George Freeman MP
"Oxford is leading the way on innovation to address the environmental impacts of how we travel. This was a great opportunity to demonstrate to the Minister the ways we are rising to the challenge of future transport needs, and to discuss the transport challenges for the city and workforce in the future. Bold measures are needed to address traffic congestion within the constraints of our medieval city."
Councillor Alex Hollingsworth, Oxford City Council Cabinet Member for Planning and Sustainable Transport
"We were delighted that the new transport minister came to Oxfordshire to see for himself the fast-growing transport technology sector. We are making the most of the technological know-how in our excellent universities and energetic start-up community. But I am also convinced that our success is driven by the environmental concerns of people living and working in Oxfordshire who want to see transport that is both better and cleaner, with the county becoming an exciting test-bed for future technologies."
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Unattainable attempt to avoid the casus irreducibilis for cubic equations : Gerolamo Cardano's De Regula Aliza, The
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Inter-Dependencies Between the Families of Cubic Equations in the Ars Magna.
Ars Magna, Chapters XI-XXIII and the Casus Irreducibilis.
Getting Acquainted with the De Regula Aliza.
The Method of the Splittings in Aliza, Chapter I.
Sara Confalonieri presents an overview of Cardano's mathematical treatises and, in particular, discusses the writings that deal with cubic equations. The author gives an insight into the latest of Cardano's algebraic works, the De Regula Aliza (1570), which displays the attempts to overcome the difficulties entailed by the casus irreducibilis. Notably some of Cardano's strategies in this treatise are thoroughly analyzed. Far from offering an ultimate account of De Regula Aliza, by one of the most outstanding scholars of the 16th century, the present work is a first step towards a better understanding. Contents Inter-Dependencies Between the Families of Cubic Equations in the Ars Magna Ars Magna, Chapters XI-XXIII and the Casus Irreducibilis Getting Acquainted with the De Regula Aliza The Method of the Splittings in Aliza, Chapter I Target Groups Academics, researcher and students in the fields of mathematics, the history of mathematics, and epistemology. The Author Sara Confalonieri graduated in Philosophy at the Università degli Studi di Milano, in Mathematics at the Université Paris 6, and in Epistemology at the Université Paris 7, where she also obtained the PhD degree in history of mathematics on cubic equations during the Renaissance. At present, she takes part in a project on history of the didactic of mathematics in the 18th century at the Bergische Universität in Wuppertal as a post-doctoral researcher.


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Afghan gov't reviews policies aimed at removing barriers to women in workplace
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UNICEF to provide $46mn to help children in Afghanistan attend schools
The UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) will provide USD 46mn to the Afghan government to empower local education by helping children attend schools across the country. The funds will be allocated in line with the agreement signed between the UN agency
Afghan-German Cooperation completes six projects in Baghlan
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$60mn grant from ADB provides electricity to eastern Afghanistan
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