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May 2, 2019 | Celia Wexler
Why Most of Us Are Not Reading the Mueller Report
Attorney General William Barr testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee on May 1, 2019. Photo credit: © Douglas Christian/ZUMA Wire
When he testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee on May 1, Attorney General William Barr likely was comforted by one fact: it appears that most Americans have not read the actual Mueller report.
Barr's slow reveal of the report seems to have worked: His brief four-page letter to Congress on March 24 — which claimed that no "collusion" with Russia was found, and soft-pedaled what the report did find on obstruction of justice — dominated the headlines. It also caused joy among President Donald Trump and his supporters.
We now know that Barr's letter angered special counsel Robert Mueller, who wrote to Barr in late March. Mueller raised concerns that Barr's letter had confused the public, and urged him to release his team's own introductions and executive summaries to clarify things.
Barr refused Mueller's request. For the next few weeks, the conversation was about how much of the report would be redacted, and whether House Democrats would have to issue a subpoena for the full report.
Then, on April 18, Barr's "press conference" before releasing the redacted report continued to shape the news, shifting the attention from the report itself to media ire at Barr's blatant attempts to spin its findings.
By the time the actual 448-page document landed on the nation's digital doorstep, it had become old news, offering many print and broadcast outlets the opportunity to mark how many times their earlier reporting had been proven to be accurate, but not shedding much light on what Mueller actually said or failed to say.
Media accounts, particularly right after the report was released, focused on the most dramatic scenes, depicting an angry, emotional Trump hell-bent on quashing the investigation. It substantiated and enriched what had been reported, but it did not offer any surprises about the president's character.
As Washington Post book editor Carlos Lozada put it: "In a sense, the Mueller report reads like a dozen anonymous New York Times op-eds from that internal White House resistance, except they are far more detailed — and they're signed."
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In my DC circle, full of activists and journalists, there's been almost no discussion of the Mueller report. Nobody's citing from it, sending out tweets or otherwise expressing any views. Among my friends, I haven't found anyone who's actually read it.
Polling seems to validate my impressions.
While news reports about the Mueller report seem to have caused Trump's popularity to drop, public opinion about the report's findings on the role of Russia in the 2016 election and Trump's attempts to obstruct the investigation barely moved.
After the redacted report's release, 47 percent of registered voters agreed that Trump tried to obstruct justice, a jump of three points since February, while 41 percent thought Trump had colluded with Russia, an increase of only two percentage points over the same period.
If a flurry of panel discussions and webinars in DC is any indication, the only people who are reading the report as if it were a juicy mystery novel are lawyers, particularly those who have been prosecutors.
Behind the legal language and cautious conclusions, they see real evidence of criminal guilt, and real danger for democracy.
"If you read the report you will see that it does describe several incidents involving obstruction of justice," and finds that these incidents meet all the evidentiary requirements, said Barbara McQuade. McQuade, a University of Michigan law professor, is a former US Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan.
She spoke at a webinar sponsored by the American Constitution Society on April 29, so lawyerly it offered a continuing legal education credit to those attorneys who participated.
Mueller looked at a provision of the criminal code that "provides that whoever corruptly obstructs, influences or impedes any official proceeding, or attempts to do so, is guilty of a crime."
McQuade said that Mueller did as much as he could to explain Trump's culpability, without violating Department of Justice legal opinions that a sitting president cannot be indicted. Mueller judged that "it would be unfair even to accuse the president of a crime … because he is unable to defend himself in court."
Former US Attorney Barbara McQuade. Photo credit: DoJ / Wikimedia
Nevertheless, she said, Mueller found three incidents where all the elements for prosecution are satisfied: the president committed an "obstructive act," he intended to obstruct, and his action was related to "a legal proceeding."
Two episodes that met all the requirements for obstruction of justice were Trump's ordering White House counsel Don McGahn to fire Mueller, and then directing McGahn to tell reporters that Trump had not ordered the firing, and to "create a memo for the files" documenting that "[Trump] never directed the firing."
The third incident concerned Trump's effort to influence the entire tenor of the Russia investigation, McQuade said. Trump asked Corey Lewandowski, who no longer worked for the White House, to tell then–Attorney General Jeff Sessions to give a speech stating that he was directing Mueller to look into Russian interference in future elections and not the 2016 race.
Trump's orders were not obeyed, but many lawyers don't believe that necessarily exonerates the president. Neither does the fact that the Mueller team had not proven a conspiracy between the campaign and Russia.
Some experts also contend that there were grounds for accusing members of the campaign with campaign finance violations.
Robert Bauer, former White House counsel to President Barack Obama, and well-known in DC circles for his expertise on campaign finance law, found Mueller's handling of the June 9 Trump Tower meeting "surprising" and raising "a lot more questions than it answers."
Bauer faulted Mueller's team for not putting the Trump Tower meeting in the context of decades of congressional concerns about foreign influence in US elections. Congress has made three attempts to tighten the ban on "any form of foreign national financial support for American campaigns or American attempts to assist foreign nationals in spending money to influence" US elections, Bauer said.
That context, he said, "becomes an important part of the story" when the "entire campaign staff" met with "Kremlin emissaries" in June 2016.
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It is difficult to understand why the Mueller team would have wondered whether Paul Manafort knew that cooperating with a foreign national on a campaign violated federal law, Bauer said. Manafort, with "years of political experience," had "lived through very notorious cases where the foreign national ban was in the headlines." After the 1996 Clinton campaign, Bauer said, the Republicans investigated whether foreign nationals illegally contributed campaign funds. "And yet Mueller concludes that he doesn't actually have the evidence that … Manafort knew that engagement with the Russians" might be illegal.
An April 23 discussion of the report at the Brookings Institution was somewhat kinder to the special counsel. Chuck Rosenberg, a former US attorney for the Eastern District of New York, who worked for Mueller at the FBI, said the report was the "product of a remarkably talented and dedicated team of investigators and prosecutors."
Legal experts also found the dense document a "page-turner." They may have been comfortable reading it, because it's essentially what one former litigator called a prosecution memo, which details the evidence leading to a decision to charge or not to charge.
But the report's structure seems daunting to many members of the public.
One member of the Brookings audience said he was not a lawyer and had not read the report, had only read about it. "Some of it's very arcane language," he complained. "[W]hy couldn't he [Mueller] just say in plain English, I can't indict but some of this activity that we found is scandalous and a threat to democracy, and it's really now up to Congress to make a decision? Why do they have to beat around the bush?"
In part, it's because that's the way lawyers work, said Wittes. The "general propensity of federal prosecutors when you speak in public [is] to not go beyond the question of whether crimes are committed and to not editorialize in any way about the facts that you're reporting."
Wittes, editor-in-chief of Brookings's popular Lawfare blog, also said that Mueller was working under particularly restrictive conditions. Unlike Ken Starr, who was an independent counsel when he investigated then-President Bill Clinton, Mueller works for the Department of Justice. Congress let the independent counsel law expire because it seemed to give one prosecutor too much power. But, Wittes suggested, the special counsel regulations now in place may have other problems.
He said he'd really like to ask Mueller whether "fear of DOJ intervention … encumbered" him. "Was he able to do the investigation that he wanted to do? Was he afraid of this investigation being cut short, being managed?"
Special counsel Robert S. Mueller. Photo credit: FBI
Even so, Susan Hennessey, a former National Security Agency (NSA) attorney, found the report compelling. Volume 1 of the report, she said, particularly deserves more attention, because it "documents in excruciating detail … a criminal conspiracy on the side of the Russians to interfere in the US election." And, she charged, it depicts a "campaign who welcomes [that interference] … who delight in that assistance" and "who brazenly, serially lied to the American public" about what was happening.
"I would really encourage people, even those who aren't lawyers, to pick up and read the report. It's more readable than you might think."
Unfortunately, unlike a lot of beach reading, the report doesn't have an ending — happy or otherwise. House Democrats are wary of launching an impeachment proceeding without more public support. Nearly a third of Democrats are not yet endorsing impeachment, and more than half of independents oppose moving forward.
That situation is fluid, said Margaret Taylor, a former senior aide to Democrats on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. "As people on the Hill and the public actually start to read the report and see just how bad it is," she said, there may be less wariness about impeachment.
"Tthe weight of public opinion could change," she added, if Americans were to become educated about the report, perhaps through hearings on "what is really in this report."
While politicians fear the backlash against impeaching a president, an effort that will fail in the Republican-controlled Senate, Hennessey contended that not acting to impeach also has consequences. "Because if we stare down the barrel of this, if these facts are on the table and Congress shrugs and it's up to the American people maybe 18 months from now to figure this out, that's a really scary place," she said.
Her concern? What she terms "constitutional rot … when the branches stop performing their functions, when the President stops meaning his oath of office, when the Congress stops meaning the oaths that they swear to faithfully and well execute their duties."
When that "rot" sets in, she said, "it can be very, very difficult to recover."
Related front page panorama photo credit: Adapted by WhoWhatWhy from Tauno Tõhk / 陶诺 / Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0).


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Demonizing Venezuela's Revolution
Venezuela's socialist experiment, which seeks to reduce the country's extreme income equality and alleviate widespread poverty, has upset U.S. policymakers who now have new hopes for regime change, as Dennis J Bernstein explains.
By Dennis J Bernstein
The U.S. government, backed by the U.S. mainstream media, has long desired to destroy Venezuela's experiment with socialism, now including President Trump's threats of war and one-sided reporting hostile to the country's recent elections.
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In August, Trump suggested military intervention, declaring: "This is our neighbor, we're all over the world and we have troops all over the world in places that are very, very far away. Venezuela is not very far away and the people are suffering and they're dying."
Meanwhile, the coverage of Venezuela in the U.S. corporate media marches in lockstep with the P.R. pronouncements of the U.S. State Department, ignoring any mitigating factors regarding Venezuela's economic troubles and dismissing the support that many Venezuelans still show for the revolution begun by the late President Hugo Chavez.
Law Professor Daniel Kovalik noted this U.S. media bias while serving as an in-country observer to the recent Venezuelan elections.
"The claims of fraud are groundless, and largely petty," asserts Kovalik. "I know this because I was one of nearly 70 election observers from all over the world in Venezuela for the October 15 elections, and our group reached very different conclusions about these elections than those being widely peddled… We witnessed numerous polling stations throughout Venezuela in which long lines of voters were able to cast their ballot freely, without coercion and in an atmosphere of calm."
Kovalik is the author most recently of The Plot to Scapegoat Russia: How the CIA and the Deep State Have Conspired to Vilify Putin. He is at work on a book about Venezuela and he teaches International Human Rights Law at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law.
Dennis Bernstein: You just got back from Venezuela. Why were you there?
Daniel Kovalik: I was invited as an election observer for the regional elections that took place on October 15.
Dennis Bernstein: Jimmy Carter has said that these elections in Venezuela were some of the fairest in the world.
Daniel Kovalik: Yes, he said they have the best election process in the world. I agree with him. They have an incredible uniform process throughout the country. As you know, the US does not. Every state chooses its own way to vote. In Venezuela, they have the same machines throughout the country. They are pretty much foolproof. You have to use a fingerprint to even activate the machine. You get a paper receipt, which you put into a box after you have cast an electronic vote. And if people are unhappy afterward, they can ask for an audit.
Dennis Bernstein: How does that compare to the situation in other countries?
Daniel Kovalik: I would say it is better than in the United States. We know from people like Greg Palast that something like a million people might have been wrongfully thrown off the voter rolls through a process called "cross check." You see gerrymandering, which even the courts have found to be racist. Venezuela is not affected by that sort of thing.
One thing the Bolivarian Revolution has done under Chavez was to create this very tight, open democratic process. The people are very proud of their system. It pains me to read the mainstream press, which is very critical of Venezuela.
The late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.
Dennis Bernstein: Trump has even talked about going to war against Venezuela. The US State Department has drawn up plans to attack the country. What do you think are the real reasons behind such talk?
Daniel Kovalik: This is old-fashioned gunboat diplomacy, which the United States has been using against many countries but particularly against Latin America. With the election of Hugo Chavez in 1999, Venezuela decided that it wanted to take a different path than other countries in the region. They wanted to have a socialist economy, they wanted to use their oil revenue for social services. Today 70% of their oil revenues are spent on social services. That is anathema to the United States. You cannot decide to take yourself out of the so-called free market system and not expect retaliation from the United States.
Let's remember that the US supported a coup in 2002 against Chavez. They are open about the fact that they want regime change. And they want it not because they care about the people there but because they want to have Venezuela open for business. They want more control over Venezuela's oilfields. Venezuela has the largest oil reserves on earth. This is not about democracy. The US couldn't care less about democracy. You see this in Honduras, where we supported the coup [in 2009]. You see this in Colombia, where we look away from countless human rights abuses.
Dennis Bernstein: You have compared and contrasted Venezuela and Puerto Rico. Could you talk about that?
Daniel Kovalik: Puerto Ricans are citizens of the United States and what have we done for them? Eighty percent of the country still does not have electricity. It is a very dangerous situation. Meanwhile you have Trump saying we can't be helping them forever! FEMA is still helping out in New York with the effects of Hurricane Sandy! This was like five years ago. FEMA people are still in New Orleans helping to clean up after Katrina. And now Trump is saying we may be done in Puerto Rico when we have barely even begun! And recall that, with the Jones Act, Puerto Rico cannot freely get assistance from other countries.
Dennis Bernstein: If I'm not mistaken, Venezuela stepped forward to offer assistance after Katrina hit and the victims were being ignored by the federal government.
Daniel Kovalik: And so did Cuba. Venezuela and Cuba do more for the world than any other countries. They have been the first responders to the cholera crisis in Haiti. With the help of Venezuela, Cuba has sent medical teams to 70 countries throughout the world. Even during their own difficult times they offer help to others.
Dennis Bernstein: Why would the United States be so fearful of the Bolivarian Revolution?
Daniel Kovalik: Noam Chomsky has said that Chavez helped liberate Latin America from foreign control for the first time in 500 years. That is the impact of the Bolivarian Revolution. For the first time, Latin America is throwing off the chains of empire that the United States and Spain before have had around that region.
[The United States] overthrew the democratic government in Guatemala in 1954 because United Fruit was afraid of land reform. We overthrew Allende in 1973 in Chile because ITT was worried about its business interests there. Time and again we overthrow democratic governments and install fascist dictatorships, and yet we are able to say with a straight face that we care about democracy? What we care about is making countries like Venezuela open for maximum exploitation by US companies and making their resources available to us at will. We have now just sanctioned Nicaragua because they are trying to build a canal through the country with the help of China. So none of this hand wringing is about concerns for democracy.
Dennis Bernstein: What are people in Venezuela saying about the struggle? There are significant shortages of important goods, medical goods.
Daniel Kovalik: People are honest and open about that. But they want to solve their own problems. One man approached me at a polling place and asked me to tell people back in the United States that this is what democracy looks like. He said, "Tell Donald Trump to leave us alone." A number of people expressed similar sentiments. These are voices you never hear in the mainstream press, you always hear the opposition.
Is there an opposition? Yes. Are there people who don't like the government? Yes. Yet [61] percent of the electorate voted on Sunday and Maduro's party won 18 out of 23 governorships. People ask, "How can that be, with all these challenges, with all these economic woes?" Well, it is not too surprising that people take umbrage when the United States threatens to invade their country.
Venezuelans are smart and they realize that the opposition forces are aligned with the US in this. They associate the opposition with foreign intervention. They associate them with a lot of the violence that has taken place in Venezuela. That is another thing that is not discussed: how the opposition has carried out brutal violence, particularly against people of color. If you go to a pro-Maduro rally, what you are struck by is that the people at that rally are poor and mostly black. This is the revolution in Venezuela. The well-to-do and the United States resent that, that these people are liberated for the first time in history.
You would think that progressive-minded people in the United States would be excited and want to support that process. Yet the propaganda is so thick in this country that people don't even realize which side is which. I can guarantee you, the US is not on the right side. They are now setting up a parallel government to the one in Caracas.
Dennis Bernstein: I remember when the United States under Reagan was trying to destabilize and get rid of the Sandinistas. When they couldn't get Costa Rica to go along, they essentially set up a shadow government in Costa Rica to try to overthrow the government there.
Daniel Kovalik: And we invaded Panama in 1989. It is still not known how many people died in the bombing. We claimed to be going after Noriega for drug running but the real reason was that Noriega had refused to let the country be used as a staging ground for the Contras. That was his sin, and his people paid dearly for that.
This is a history that people forget, but this history is relevant because we see it being played out right now with Venezuela. It is quite heartbreaking. A lot of the left in America has abandoned Venezuela. I was the only observer from either the US or Canada last Sunday. People have bought into the prevailing narrative on Venezuela. They are struggling, they are having problems, but every time things begin to look better, such as after the July constituent assembly election, that is when the US ups the sanctions. Because they don't want stability in Venezuela. They want enough chaos to unseat President Maduro.
I think that the fact that people came out to vote like they did on Sunday and that they voted largely for the Chavista Party shows to the United States that they are not backing down. That they will not be bullied. I think they should be applauded for that.
Dennis Bernstein: How should the United States be relating to the people of Venezuela?
Daniel Kovalik: We should normalize relations with them, we should exchange ambassadors, we should stop the sanctions. We should certainly stop threatening military force. We need to let them make their own mistakes, find their own solutions, and run their own lives. That is what democracy is.
Dennis Bernstein: Where do you see this going?
A painting of Simon Bolivar by José Gil de Castro ca. 1823.
Daniel Kovalik: Unless there are alternative voices speaking, it could be going in a very bad direction. Given the nature of the opposition and given how long the Bolivarian Revolution has been in power, if the right wing comes to power–and that could happen given the lack of resistance in this country to US foreign policy–you will see a bloodbath. You will see another Pinochet-type regime. You will see people being killed in the streets. Remember that when Pinochet came to power in Chile, killing about 3,000 people and torturing about 30,000 others, the Allende government had only been in power three years. The Bolivarian Revolution has been in power now for eighteen years. To undo that will take a lot of bloodshed. I have listened to NPR programs where commentators have been very clear that they would welcome such bloodshed!
Dennis Bernstein: Remind us, before we conclude, of who Simon Bolivar was.
Daniel Kovalik: He was the great liberator. He liberated the Andean region of South America from Spain. He had a dream of uniting Latin America into a single nation that could compete with countries like the United States. That was Chavez's dream too. When Chavez was elected in 1999, he took on the mantle of Bolivar. And again, according to Noam Chomsky, he succeeded in helping to liberate Latin America from US control. Unfortunately, we are seeing attempts to impose that control again.
Dennis J Bernstein is a host of "Flashpoints" on the Pacifica radio network and the author of Special Ed: Voices from a Hidden Classroom. You can access the audio archives at www.flashpoints.net.
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44 comments for "Demonizing Venezuela's Revolution"
deang
Glad he mentioned NPR's role in spreading anti-Venezuelan propaganda. Because of that, I've had even liberal friends tell me that that people in Venezuela are starving under a dictatorship and "we have to do something."
ssuarez_47@hotmail.com
No, you don't have to do anything, as each people should face the consequences of their actions, and pull themselves together in the times of greater need, in order to truly advance as a society.
According to an internal study by some of Venezuela's most prestigious universities and a couple Colombian ones, 75% of Venezuelans lost an average of 8 kilograms during 2016. I have seen perfectly dressed elderly people forced to rummage to the trash for food. I've read local news of little children dying of poisoning from eating a type of yucca unsuitable for human consumption, found in the trash, because their parents had been unable to provide a bite for them after three whole days. We even have a name for this "Maduro's diet". A term even name dropped in "jest" by our bus driver in Chief: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-venezuela-politics-idUSKBN16U1UL
Please get your head out of the gutter for a bit, and realize the one consuming propaganda and spouting uniformed opinions is actually you.
JJ Fritz
Living in Florida we have many, many Venezuelan asylum seekers. I imagine people commenting would call them "oligarchs," but most are your standard engineers, dentists, and teachers. Many were solidly middle-class types. They left everything to come to the USA and clean houses and drive Ubers. Their stories are not filtered through the corporate press. Their stories are real. All you have to do is listen.
I imagine that they must have left because the democracy in Venezuela is just so free that they couldn't take all that liberty. While Venezuela rails against american imperialism, they are are selling all their assets to Imperial Russia to stay barely afloat economically.
If Venezuela did not have OIL we would not be talking about the multiple attempts by US funded NGO's to invoke regime change. Overthrowing democratically elected leaders since 1953- a tradition
Wow… These armchair commies never cease to amaze me.
15 years ago, 4.3 Venezuelan Bolivares could buy you a dollar. Know what happened next? "21st century socialists" went full throttle. Today, 43,000.00 Bolivares can buy you a single Washington.
Chavez understood all too well what the biggest issue faced by Venezuela was at the turn of the century: a crippling inequality. He also understood how to completely take advantage of this; gaining the favor of the underprivileged, the majority of the population, in order to achieve whatever he wanted in a democracy. This is, rewrite the Constitution to his liking, allowing indefinite reelections, encroaching all power around himself even more by eroding any semblance of divisions of power. The executive branch, the electoral branch, and the supreme Court, all under his thumb.
In the past 20 years, Venezuela's GDP, on the back of all time high oil prices, dwarfed the entirety of 20th century earnings. A period with a $140 oil barrel, a historical opportunity to escape the claws of underdevelopment, to establish an industry, to become a regional, maybe a continental power, all squandered and stolen by Chavez and his cronies.
Many social programs, yes. Many houses, electric appliances and credits given away. Hell, a few years back, anyone who applied could receive a yearly quota of subsidized dollars in order to travel or study abroad. This is a classic example of "giving a man a fish without teaching him how to fish".
Not only did the value of honest work go to hell, but the basis of a successful country, the only way to truly advance, this is, a solid education, has been actively sabotaged by the government. The funding for public universities, many of which had been running flawlessly since the first half of the last century, began receiving ever dwindling state funding, while private universities were menaced and belittled in any way possible. This makes sense, since a stupid population is easier to control, and that's all the chavistas aspire. To control. To fill their pockets, while newborn children and mothers die in hospitals in grisly scenes, taken right out of the victorian era, in our current year. While elderly and middle aged decent people, who had steady jobs a decade prior, now have to rummage in the trash. While Venezuelans get slaughtered daily, suffer from the highest murder rate per capita in the world, worse than any modern war zone, and with a homicide impunity rate that nears 95%.
Millions of people found no other choice but to escape from our beloved motherland. Many of us with nothing but our clothes on our back and a couple hundred bucks in our pocket. All because of a militaristic thug, who attempted a coup and failed, got pardoned by the old guard in conciliatory act, and he paid back in kind by utterly destroying what could have been a paradise.
I simply wish you could one day see past your misguided ideology, your personal madness that sees something fail time and time again, and can't reach other conclusion than "That wasn't real socialism". I just wish you can one day take a good look in the mirror, and ask yourself: Am I on the wrong side of history?
Pete Martin
My wife is Colombian, we live in South Florida — lots of Venezuelan friends here and many still trapped in Caracas. I use the word trapped purposely! I can't think of one that likes the current government, in fact they all hate it. One of these friends was forced to give his company, one his family had owned for a 100 years, over to the government. He thought because it was relatively small, the socialist government would leave it alone. Wrong, they confiscated it and all it's assets and within a short period of time they ran it into the ground and all the employees were without jobs. This is the real promise of socialism!
Sure I'm not happy with U.S. interference in other countries internal affairs — this needs to stop! But don't be fooled into thinking that Venezuelan socialism works. It does not and the people are suffering horribly!!
Hi Pete… I don't know where they found this Daniel Kovalik guy, he is obviously a supporter / apologist of the regime. Which is not unusual but not representative. Right now I can still find Chileans who are Pinochet supporters and even some who have portraits of Pinochet up in their houses, but they are hardly the voices that speak for the country at large.
B Williams
Venezuela decided to trade oil futures in Yuan instead of Dollars and the next day the threat to invade them begun.
fuster
that crap about trading in Yuan causing threats to the regime is blatant nonsense
more ridiculous nonsense attempting to defend an indefensible and failed regime.
the utterly stupid economic and monetary policies of Chavez, his entrusting important offices to incompetent people chosen only for loyalty to his person rather than any expertise, and the outright stupidity of the dead Chavez's successor has destroyed the Chavez regime.
nobody had to do anything to it. it was too stupid to survive.
(and, btw, how is it that the poor Chavez, living only on a meager government salary, managed to leave behind obscenely wealthy children????)
Andrew Nichols
The blatant US subversion of Venezuela further highlights the grotesque hypocrisy of the outrage over the as yet undiscovered Russian interference in the POTUS election farce. A pity this isn't shouted from the rooftops by our media
/"Remember that when Pinochet came to power in Chile"/
Well, down here in Chile, things appear very different from the portrait Daniel Kovalik paints:
h**p://www.emol.com/noticias/Internacional/2016/07/04/810792/Macri-acusa-al-Gobierno-venezolano-de-violar-todos-los-derechos-humanos.html
h**p://www.emol.com/noticias/Nacional/2017/08/07/870006/Cadem-El-86-de-los-chilenos-considera-que-Venezuela-tiene-un-gobierno-dictatorial.html
Santiago is filled with illegal Venezuelan migrants that can be hired to do most anything for pennies on the dollar. They would find it hilarious / absurd / vexing / sad that Venezuela offered to send relief to Puerto Rico.
h**p://www.emol.com/noticias/Internacional/2017/06/03/861241/Marcha-contra-el-hambre-Oposicion-venezolana-protesta-por-la-escasez-de-alimentos.html
From a Chilean perspective, there appears to be more to Daniel Kovalik than he is letting on. You would be hard pressed to find a single person down here who would hope that Chile ever undergoes a Bolivarian style revolution.
The only thing that Kovalik said that makes sense is that the United States should stay out of it.
evelync
Yes, if only we STAYED OUT OF IT.
And let other countries make their own decisions.
I can't imagine how our leaders would handle having some other country show up and tell us what to do…..
Really? You liked the torture and executions and disappearances under the US-installed Pinochet more than the socialist "regime" of Allende? Is that what brought you to Chile?
The Pinochet Regime ended in 1990 with a National Plebiscite.
Daniel Kovalik: I would say it is better than in the United States.
And I would say that's the understatement of the year. Voting with the touch-screen no-verify machines is a joke, and a bad one too.
Once upon a time I'd have taken for granted that Venezuela had something wrong with it, but no longer. Though I know virtually nothing about that nation, I do know that neither the US government nor its sock-puppets like the NYT or WP have a speck of believability.
yeah, the drum beat to demonize whichever state fights back against being exploited by the banks, big oil, big-you-name-it, uses fear to get us to acquiesce to these vicious policies.
Right now Vladimir Putin is the devil.
I know nothing about Putin one way or the other (although Pussy Riot protested him and risked prison, which one band member endured – not an indication that he's a good guy by any means)
Nevertheless, I am sick and tired of hearing Putin this and Putin that as though Russia is a serious threat to this country.
That doesn't wash, especially since Andrew Bacevich points out in his Pardee School talk that Russia is not a top tier power, as is China, India, Europe and the U.S.
In any event, Russia has, apparently, 144 million people. It's not a monolithic country of Putin bots…..
"Fifty years ago, Arkhipov, a senior officer on the Soviet B-59 submarine, refused permission to launch its nuclear torpedo."
This Guardian article tells that story:
"Thank you Vasili Arkhipov, the man who stopped nuclear war"
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/oct/27/vasili-arkhipov-stopped-nuclear-war
Miranda Keefe
You do know that Pussy Riot wasn't convicted of protesting Putin but of committing vandalism in a church as part of that protest?
The whole Pussy Riot thing was the beginning of the CIA's mass mobilization of hatred towards Putin and Russia, using an issue dear to the center-left, LGBT rights. But don't forget they used the issue of women's rights to prepare for war in Afghanistan.
Then at the Winter Olympics the media was recruited to constantly condemn Russia for being anti-LGBT.
Hey, I'm LGBT and LGBT rights are important to me. But I have to recognize a CIA operation when that's what it is. (Not that Pussy Riot intended to be the tool of the CIA they ended up being.)
Good point. Nothing is what it seems to be on the surface.
No I didn't know that. Thanks!
If I remember the name correctly, it must be a certain homosexual American lawyer called Matthew Griffith who wrote an essay about the actual condition of LGBT folks in Russia and the situation as depicted in the western MSM. It might surprise you, but the various media pundits have been, let's say, frugal with the truth. It was certainly surprising for this individual. Even some Russians have been affected by the image of their country on this issue as it has been conjured by professional Russophobes in the media. That is not to say things are rosy, but certainly not the horror show people have been force fed.
Yes–it's gotten to the point where any pronouncements by the government or its media lackeys make me believe that the exact opposite is probably the truth. Orwell saw it coming a long time ago.
Jessica K
Thanks for attention to Venezuela, and I wonder how much support they have in Latin America overall? Trump obviously never meant a word he said about not wanting war. Every US president since Kennedy falls in line with the deep state. We must find a means to stop them. The documentation of who's driving this has been ongoing for decades, but "they" can't be dislodged without revolution or collapse.
Power corrupts. As Trump would say – what's the use of a huge army if you don't use it?
John Del Vecchio
Simon says: "What's Kovalik drinking?"
If you had any reasoning at all there, I'm sure that you would have presented it.
Alternative new sources need to start digging deeper and to put actual faces and names on the people driving US policy. If one agrees the entire point of alternative new sources is to get to get at the truth then it is reasonable to argue it pointless in describing US policy without understanding who exactly is driving it and why. This article is a good example. We already know the US government has a long history of interfering in the internal affairs of many countries. This article offers very little that we did not already know, expect and suspect.
In the few years I have been reading articles in alternative new sources, one common reaction I have is to ask who exactly is driving policy, turmoil and strife? If someone is killed by a shot from a rifle then I am more interested in knowing who pulled the trigger and why instead of what type of rifle and bullet were used. Using this analogy, US policy towards Venezuela is the rifle and bullet but we know nothing about who pulled the trigger. Why is that?
I couldn't agree more, Ian!
It was an eye opener for me to read the Truth Report about the coup in Honduras.
http://friendshipamericas.org/sites/default/files/report_cdv_honduras_english.pdf
Step by step one learns of the entanglements of various multinational companies and right wing families, whose interests come first.
This goes on here too of course.
Remember Cheney's meetings with the undisclosed list of large corporations.
Big Oil denies having a say in policy, however their business interests are surely a major part of policy decisions…..
and intertwined with Cold War Ideology and domestic propaganda and fear mongering.
When poet Ken Saro Wiwa was murdered in Nigeria, and people protested Shell Oil, Shell denied any wrongdoing.
They did pay millions to the poet's family according to this article:
http://www.dw.com/en/why-nigerian-activist-ken-saro-wiwa-was-executed/a-18837442http://www.dw.com/en/why-nigerian-activist-ken-saro-wiwa-was-executed/a-18837442
They may not leave fingerprints of their discussions with the regime that murdered the poet but it is obvious that his efforts to protect his people, the Ogonis and their land interfered with Shell's business plans……
These corporations don't leave fingerprints but apparently have closed door meetings with corrupt officials.
It's the way of the world.
She who has the gold, rules.
Bernie's push to get big money out of politics is one big piece of the solution…..
Wonderful reference on Honduras! Big thanX!
The number of coconspirators in the US who bring about our meddling interventions in places like Venezuela is nearly equal to the whole greedy ignorant population of petroleum drunkards and war fans that make up our great nation.
Yes, indeed,Mike!
Most of us are complicit in acquiescencing to these gross horrific acts of wrongdoing.
I'm not sure how that works side by side with our sense of triumphalism and self congratulations at being the best human beings around.
How can we be decent human beings and at the same time accept these cruel policies secretly knowing in our darkest buried self awareness how wrong they are.
I guess we lie to ourselves constantly.
At the same time I think our policy makers drop convenient talking points into the narrative that we use to make it all acceptable.
e.g. when we head off to bomb a country to smitherines so we can grab the oil we hide behind the talking point that Saddam Hussein is a monster….Yes he was probably a monster but millions of his people did not deserve to be killed, maimed, displaced, tortured, exposed to toxic depleted uranium and the rest….to add to their suffering.
I guess we're just dangerous idiots with more money than brains.
Sam F
One cannot expect any citizen to be able to trace individuals involved in these secret wars run by the CIA et al under direction of presidents, without direction of Congress or debate by the people. That situation is explored as far as possible by alternative news. Some of the secret agency operatives from earlier times are known. See for example Presidents' Secret Wars and many other sources. You will find many alternative news articles with details, but cannot expect the full picture even generations later.
When the United States starts critiquing other nation's democratic processes, as has been done to Venezuela, the world should respond by asking, 'and just look at who's criticizing other countries for their election fairness'. I mean how fair was George W Bush's 2000 election results where the U.S. Supreme Court decided for the voting U.S. population to who should sit in the Oval Office. And for reference of how screwed up our political parties are with their corrupted election primaries, look no further than to Hillary's 2016 DNC campaign, where political contributions are washed through Congressional districts to be recycled up into the Hillary Presidential Campaign bid, to fund Hillary onward and upwards toward defeat. Then to sit here in America, and criticize other nations, is a enough to make you want to jump up and scream it's give me a break time, if ever there was a reason to give it a rest.
Very appropriate and true comments Joe. It is always comforting to read your comments. You had lot more bite in this one. It is easy to understand why. And there is a lot of lot of force, a kind of push back in Vladimir Putin's response to a U.S. Journalist's question on Ukraine at Valdai Discussion Club meeting last week in Sochi. It is really interesting to watch this one. The link below:
https://thesaker.is/putins-answers-a-us-journalist-on-the-ukraine/
Thanks Dave that was a very informative video.
While reading the sub-titled video where Putin describes the Ukraine situation told from Russia's point of view, it is a video which would be great if more Americans were to see it. Only the way news is distributed in the U.S. the chance of such a video as you linked me to Dave, has a fat chance in Haiti if ever of it ever being aired. Just like Oliver Stone's Putin interviews, even if a fairly large cable network like ShowTime picks it up, the airing of Putin's would be limited at best for being it is on ShowTime and not on CBS, ABC, or NBC. Now wouldn't you imagine that in a right thinking country, who brags about it's international status that airing an interview of Russia's top dog leader would have a sizable market big enough to warrant a showing such as I mention here?
Okay Dave, take it easy. Joe
BobH
Thank you once again, Dennis Bernstein; this time for a long overdue and refreshing review of the situation in Venezuela. It has been hard to find anything positive in the press about the "Bolivarian revolution", even RT for a long time had disparaged the government's attempt to democratize the nation. Although I believe a lot was done in a heavy-handed manner from a doctrinaire socialist perspective, there can be little doubt that U.S. "intelligence" agents and subversive foreign policy wonks have done much to exasperate Venezuela's largely petroleum dependent economy.
I am soooooooo tired of us meddling in the democratic life of vulnerable countries leading to horrific violence in order to create exploitable "havens" for our largest corporations, banks, and the local right wing anti-human rights oligarchs.
Even our well respected (by the "liberal elite") President Barack Obama stood idly by in 2009 while our "best and brightest",
"defender of women" Secretary of State Hillary Clinton refused to call the right wing Honduran coup against democratically elected President Manuel Zelaya a MILITARY COUP (which would have stopped military aide to the country). Instead Clinton finessed the U.S. support for a right wing take over immediately followed the next day by horrific bloodshed especially targeting women, leading eventually to the murder of heroic indigenous woman activist Berta Caceras.
RE: Daniel Kovalik's comment:
ain't that the truth!!!!! – even the JFK School at Harvard University, with few exceptions, from what I can tell is totally propagandized by this nonsense.
These glorified, well fed (by our cultural patronage system) "experts" were intimidated by political hacks like Mike Pompeo and Mike Morrell into withdrawing the honorary fellowship to Chelsea Manning. While Lewandowski stayed on their list along with other hacks,
They cannot see that Ms Manning, a courageous person of conscience, exposed horrific wrongdoing done in our name.
Their heads are too far up their asses.
It's hopeless.
We will ignore 3 million Americans in Puerto Rico, and struggling people here at home in the name of "Democracy" which has, over 70 years been conveniently intertwined with Cold War ideology to shift our policies into waging regime change war while fattening Eisenhower's MIC – coddling the wealthy and powerful while making the world less safe, less likely to survive climate disruption.
As Randy Newman says in "A Few Words in Defense of Our Country" – "this empire is ending, like all the rest…….
link in next comment
http://www.goldmanprize.org/recipient/berta-caceres/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0EAwSpTcM4A Few Words in Defense of Our Country
I'd like to say
In defense of our country
Whose people aren't bad
Nor are they mean
Now, the leaders we have
While they're the worst that we've had
Are hardly the worst
This poor world has seen
Let's turn history's pages, shall we?
Take the Caesars, for example
Why, with the first few of them
They were sleeping with their sister, stashing little boys in swimming pools, and burning down the city
And one of 'em, one of 'em appointed his own horse to be Counsel of the Empire
That's like vice president or something
That's not a very good example right now, is it?
But here's one:
Spanish Inquisition
Put people in a terrible position
I don't even like to think about it
Well, sometimes I like to think about it
Just a few words
Whose time at the top
Could be coming to an end
Now, we don't want their love
And respect at this point's pretty much out of the question
But in times like these
We sure could use a friend
Men who need no introduction
King Leopold of Belgium, that's right
Everyone thinks he's so great
Well, he owned the Congo
He tore it up too
Took the diamonds
Took the silver
Took the gold
You know what he left 'em with?
You know, a president once said, "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself"
Now it seems like we're supposed to be afraid
It's patriotic, in fact
Color-coded
What we supposed to be afraid of?
Why, of being afraid
That's what terror means, doesn't it?
That's what it used to mean
You know, it pisses me off a little that this Supreme Court's gonna outlive me
Couple young Italian fellas and a brother on the Court now too
But I defy you, anywhere in the world, to find me two Italians as tight ass as the two Italians we got
And as for the brother
Well, Pluto's not a planet anymore either
The end of an empire
Is messy at best
And this empire's ending
Like all the rest
Like the Spanish Armada
Adrift on the sea
We're adrift in the land of the brave
And the home of the free
Songwriters: Randy Newman
A Few Words in Defense of Our Country lyrics © Downtown Music Publishing LLC
Gregory Woods
Try living there, Denny…
Living conditions In Venezuela would certainly be far worse under any system of foreign-owned oil companies with profits extracted, a plutocracy of local scoundrels, and a dictatorship of generals, which the US has always installed in Latin America.
We (rich oligarchs) hate socialism. Imagine sharing our wealth with the poor! What an evil idea!
John Pilger on MSM five years ago and it is still relevant for today.
http://johnpilger.com/videos/media-and-war-challenging-the-consensus
Great video, Stephen…Noam Chomsky sums it up well with terms like "intolerable truths' censored by the MSM and "normalizing the unthinkable" by spinning groupthink to the masses.


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I lost my wallet while at work yesterday. Lost. Gone.
I stormed around, backtracking my day over and over again. From the moment I left my house to the moment I had realized it was missing. Pacing around, swearing. I spent two hours looking for my wallet. Two hours stomping around pissed off. Two hours trying not to growl or cry.
Finally, after exhausting myself, I sat down. What would I say to someone else in my situation?
"There is nothing you can do about it. Let it go."
It took me two hours, TWO HOURS, to start laughing about it.
Maybe the groomer will eat it and I'll never see it again.
Maybe it's buried in the snow and I'll see it in the spring.
Maybe someone picked it up and it's on its way back to me.
It doesn't matter what happens to it or if I ever get it back. It's just a wallet. I can replace what was lost. It's just stuff.


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Objective : We investigated the anti-adipogenic effects of T. majus ethanol extract (TME) on 3T3-L1 cells.
Design : 3T3-L1 cells were differentiated in the presence of different concentrations of TME. Lipid accumulation levels were determined using Oil-Red O staining and a triglyceride content assay. Changes in the expression of proteins related to adipocyte differentiation in 3T3-L1 cells were determined by SDS-PAGE and western blotting.
Results : The highest inhibition of lipid accumulation was observed at a TME concentration of 300 µg/mL. Additionally, TME concentrations ranging from 20 µg/mL to 500 µg/mL led to a decrease in the expression of adipocyte differentiation regulators, peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor γ, CCAAT element binding protein α, and sterol regulatory element binding transcription factor 1. This decrease was shown to be concentration-dependent.
Discussion : Taken together, the results of this study demonstrate that TME inhibits lipid accumulation and reduces the expression PPARG, CEBPA, and SREBF1, which regulate adipocyte differentiation in 3T3-L1 cells.
Conclusions : TME may be a potential novel therapeutic agent for the prevention and treatment of obesity.


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Teacher who paid for massage with fake notes loses appeal
Daniel Wong Mun Meng said he made the counterfeit notes in order to use them as a teaching tool.
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A secondary school teacher who used two counterfeit $100 notes he had made to pay for massage services began his three-year jail term yesterday after losing his appeal.
Daniel Wong Mun Meng, 44, failed to convince a High Court judge that the notes were intended as a teaching tool to "excite and engage" his students on the topic of currency exchange.
His contention that he wanted to use the notes as props for the school's Maths Day, because they depicted youth from uniformed groups and were in line with the event's SG50 theme, was rejected.
In dismissing Wong's appeal against conviction for counterfeiting the money and using the fake notes as genuine currency, Justice Aedit Abdullah said his reasons beggared belief.
In late July 2015, Wong made the two fake notes by photocopying a genuine one on his home printer.
On the night of Aug 3, 2015, he drove to Orchard Towers, where he offered to pay a Vietnamese woman $200 for "services". He paid Ms Nguyen Nhu Trang with the fake notes before driving her to Fragrance Hotel in Balestier Road. They spent about an hour there.
He testified in court that she gave him a full body massage and then had sex with him. But Ms Trang told the court that no sex was involved.
Teacher found guilty of making counterfeit money and using it to pay for massage services
Teacher sentenced to 3 years' jail for making and using counterfeit money
The case came to light after she tried to use one of the fake notes at a supermarket and was caught by a cashier.
Police officers arrested Wong at Bukit Batok Secondary School on Aug 20, 2015. He was suspended from teaching duties in December the same year.
Wong was found guilty after a 12-day trial and sentenced to three years' jail in November last year. He had been out on bail pending appeal.
Yesterday, his lawyer Melanie Ho argued that he should be cleared of the charges. She pointed to the scheme of work for Wong's class to establish that he did intend to deal with currency exchange as a topic.
But the judge questioned whether this really substantiated Wong's reason for producing the counterfeit notes or provided an excuse for him.
"Do teachers generally create counterfeit notes to fulfil the scheme of work?" he asked, adding that Monopoly money or other currency could have been used.
Ms Ho argued that three years was too harsh for Wong. She added that his infidelity has taken a toll on his marriage.
Deputy Public Prosecutor Kenneth Chin said Wong's defence was an afterthought, adding he failed to mention any intention to use the fake notes for class or for Maths Day when questioned by the police.
A version of this article appeared in the print edition of The Straits Times on June 26, 2018, with the headline 'Teacher who paid for massage with fake notes loses appeal'. Print Edition | Subscribe
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Though that's very useful to know where a docblock hasn't been defined, sometimes it's very annoying when searching for errors in parsing.
There's is some way to output phpdoc parsing without this kind of messages ?

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What they had to say about the 2016 Malloy Conference in Kansas City
"I enjoyed my appearance at the Malloy Conference . . . You guys do a great job putting on a super event that keeps the history of the Negro Leagues alive. We as former players appreciate your efforts and hard work to assure that the younger generation understands the contributions to baseball made by Black superstars and early pioneers. We are truly grateful," wrote three-star MLB all-star George Altman.
"Congratulations on another wonderful Malloy Conference. What a great opportunity to continue our legacy restoration for John Donaldson." Pete Gorton of the Donaldson Network.
Dr. Karl Lindholm wrote on his Facebook page:"Back from the 19th annual SABR Jerry Malloy Negro Leagues Conference, this year in Kansas City, still basking in the glow - just about my favorite weekend of the year, stimulated by kindred spirits and warm hearts. The program this year was very strong, and as always beautifully organized, taking full advantage of Kansas City's rich black baseball heritage."
"Conversations with Dad: the 2013 Jerry Malloy Negro League Conference"
by Belinda Manning.
From the "mouths of babes" read former Newark Eagle pitcher star Max Manning's daughter's captivating account of her experiences at the conference in Newark, New Jersey.
Belinda starts with, "Ah, the Jerry Malloy Baseball Conference... Let me work on establishing some wonderfully joyful channels in my brain, rather than focusing on the insanity that seems to want to pervade! . . . . It was truly a phenomenal conference. I enjoyed every minute of it."
She continues . . . "I have a great deal of respect and admiration for the men and woman who continue to work tirelessly to shine light into the dark places where we have buried much of this countries history."
Read Belinda's complete Blog with lots of wonderful photographic images.
Read the mission statement from our Newark Conference.
"My Experience at the [2012] Jerry Malloy Negro League Conference" by R.J. Page
I must admit, I had no idea what to expect from my first SABR (Society of American Baseball Research) affiliated conference. On my way to the conference I was faced with the usual questions a high school freshman ponders before their first day of school: would I fit in, will I have anyone to talk to, do I know enough to be in a room with some of baseball's premier researchers and writers? It did not take long before I could answer each of my questions with a resounding YES! There were no strangers at the Jerry Malloy Negro League Conference and everyone there had one common goal: To share what they knew about Black Baseball. What follows is a running diary of my experience at the Conference.
Read the full context of R.J.'s running diary HERE . . .
What Attendees had to Say about the Malloy Conference in Birmingham, AL
"A marvelous opportunity to learn, to share, and to meet like-minded enthusiasts from all over the country," boasted Dick "Big Mo" Mahoney from Columbus (MS) and a big fan of Monte Irvin.
"The Rickwood Field tour was the highlight of the weekend," claimed Wes Singletary from Tallahassee (FL).
"Rickwood Rocks!" shouted Dick Raymo from Wilmington (VT).
"Historic, legendary Rickwood Field was off-the-charts in terms of a ballpark and a living museum. You could feel the presence of the great ones in that magnificent venue," added Tom Tuttle from Minnetonka (MN).
Raymo also shared, "I stayed through Sunday and attended the 16th Street Baptist Church service, and then spent the entire afternoon at the Civil Rights Institute and then took in the park where Bull Connor did his dishonor to our nation and the city of Birmingham. It was a day that I am most grateful to have experienced."
Tom Tuttle added that "The quality of the presentations made during the event was exceptional. The scholarship was impressive, as was the clear passion for the subject matter exhibited by the presenters."
"This year's meeting was better than ever, but what put it far over the top were the visits to Rickwood Field and the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute," said Roy Langhans from Cockeysville (MD). "Wow, what a great experience!"
"I enjoyed the conference immensely. It was very well organized with a nice friendly spirit." Karl Lindholm from Middlebury (VT)
"It's hard to imagine a group any friendlier or more welcoming than the folks at the Jerry Malloy Negro League Conference. And surely no area of baseball research has more to say about our cultural history." Proclaimed Gary Mitchem from Jefferson (NC).
What they had to said about the Motown Malloy Conference - 2014
"The very best in the nine Malloys I have attended. Of particular note were the exceptional talks by George Skornickel, Karl Lindholm, Missy Booker and Don Spivey. George's data and comparisons on Vic Harris can only make one wonder why Vic Harris is not in our National Baseball Hall of Fame. The quality over the years continues to improve, less reading of script and more interaction and visuals with the audience. Great job! The SABR National would benefit from any of these talks."
"The scholarship of several presentations was exceptional, especially Brunson, Spivey, Lindholm, Gillette, Peterson and Booker."
"The music (Beth Griffin & the All-Stars) prior to dinner was great."
"Mrs. Turkey and family were a prized treasure." "I appreciate how involved that the Stearnes family was with the entire conference. Truly remarkable, loving people. We were very fortunate."
"I really enjoyed the authors panel. It was a diverse group of authors with different types of interests."
A 2013 New Jersey Malloy Conference praise:
"In the three days since the conference concluded, I've reveled in remembrances of my Jerry Malloy weekend experience. I've never been to anything like it, where people with a true, sincere love for a subject come together and share a deep dedication to keeping an important part of American history vibrant and relevant. It was fun to be around interesting men and women during an informative, tastefully planned event. By the way, I really enjoyed the lead-in trailer to the awards ceremony; and the kids on Friday afternoon left me nearly speechless." - Mr. Al Hunter, Jr., co-author of "Thou Shalt Not Steal: The Baseball Life and Times of a Rifle-Armed Negro League Catcher," with Bill "Ready" Cash.


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Company That Refused To Join Cartel Still Deserved £130,000 Fine
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2nd April 2019 by Healys
Cartels are a blight on fair commerce and anyone even peripherally involved in one can expect to be hit hard in the pocket. In a case on point, a company that refused to participate in an anti-competitive conspiracy was nevertheless fined £130,000 for exchanging pricing information in breach of the Competition Act 1998.
The cartel involved the four principal players in the provision of certain equipment. Following an investigation by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), the four were found guilty of bid-rigging, price-fixing and market-sharing over a prolonged period. Three of them received fines totalling more than £2.6 million, but no penalty as regards the main cartel was imposed on the fourth after it alerted the CMA to its existence.
The company which the four had attempted to recruit to the cartel was a new entrant into the relevant market. Despite being put under significant pressure, the company's managing director made clear at a hotel meeting – which was covertly recorded by the CMA – that it wanted no part of the cartel.
The CMA accepted that the company had no involvement in the main cartel, but imposed the fine on the basis that words spoken by the managing director at the meeting amounted to participation in the exchange of sensitive pricing information. The company's challenge to that decision was subsequently rejected by the Competition Appeal Tribunal.
In dismissing the company's appeal against the latter decision, the Court of Appeal noted that it evidently felt indignant about its treatment. However, the CMA's decisions were neither inconsistent nor had it adopted an impermissibly strict approach. Although one of the cartel members had escaped punishment and the others had received no separate penalty in respect of exchanging information, the fine imposed on the company was not inconsistent with the equal treatment principle.
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Q: Vertical align floats on decimal dot Is there a simple way to align on the decimal dot a column of floats? In other words, I would like an output like the one of (vertical bars '|' are there only for clarity purpose)
(format t "~{|~16,5f|~%~}" '(798573.467 434.543543 2.435 34443.5))

which is
|    798573.44000|
|       434.54355|
|         2.43500|
|     34443.50000|

but with trailing spaces instead of zeros, as follows:
|    798573.44   |
|       434.54355|
|         2.435  |
|     34443.5    |

A: I do not think that this can easily be done with format's inbuilt control characters, but you could pass your own function to it:
(defun my-f (stream arg colon at &rest args)
  (declare (ignore colon at))
  (destructuring-bind (width digits &optional (pad #\Space)) args
    (let* ((string (format nil "~v,vf" width digits arg))
           (non-zero (position #\0 string :test #'char/= :from-end t))
           (dot (position #\. string :test #'char= :from-end t))
           (zeroes (- (length string) non-zero (if (= non-zero dot) 2 1)))
           (string (nsubstitute pad #\0 string :from-end t :count zeroes)))
      (write-string string stream))))

You can use it like this:
CL-USER> (format t "~{|~16,5/my-f/|~%~}" '(798573.467 434.543543 2.435 34443.5 10))
|    798573.44   |
|       434.54355|
|         2.435  |
|     34443.5    |
|        10.0    |
NIL

The padding character defaults to #\Space, and may be given as a third argument like this: "~16,5,' /my-f/".
An alternative implementation using loop:
(defun my-f (stream arg colon at &rest args)
  (declare (ignore colon at))
  (loop with string = (format nil "~v,vf" (car args) (cadr args) arg)
        and seen-non-zero = nil
        for i from (1- (length string)) downto 0
        as char = (char string i)
        if (char/= char #\0) do (setq seen-non-zero t)
        collect (if (and (not seen-non-zero)
                         (char= char #\0)
                         (not (char= #\. (char string (1- i)))))
                    (or (caddr args) #\Space)
                    char) into chars
        finally (write-string (nreverse (coerce chars 'string)) stream)))

(Disclaimer: Maybe I overlooked something easier in the documentation of format.)


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'Alaskan Bush People' Uses Town's Mayor To Fight Criticism
Shawn Lealos
One joke that many people have about reality television shows is that they are more fictional than some real shows. When it comes to shows like Real Housewives and The Kardashians, it is hard to differentiate between what is real and what the cast members have planned out ahead of time. The most recent reality show that has faced this criticism is Alaskan Bush People. However, The Bitbag has reported that the cast of Alaskan Bush People have a supporter in the town's mayor.
Kenneth Skaflestad is the Mayor of Hoonah, and he showed up on a recent episode of Alaskan Bush People. His appearance was one of the things that some people wondered was fake, but the fact is that he is the real mayor and there are rumors that he was stopping by to make sure that the Brown family was registered to vote. Adding the mayor to an episode of Alaskan Bush People was a way to possibly add some realism back to a show that had taking a beating lately.
The problem with the show really started when Radar Online came out with a number of claims that really threw Alaskan Bush People into a mode of disrepute. One claim that the website published accused the show's Brown family of never staying in Hoonah very long in the summer and vacationing a lot, which really throws their stories of living only in the wild into a turmoil.
There were even photographs that were seen that showed Rain wearing an Apple Watch, something that seems a little out of place considering how Alaskan Bush People paints the family. According to Radar Online, locals in the area say that the family leaves the bush whenever cameras aren't rolling for more comfortable accommodations.
'Alaskan Bush People' Returns, Brown Family Opens Up About Criminal Case https://t.co/4lAnYwYCLu
— Ronnie J Schoenhut (@RonnieSchoenhut) June 25, 2016
Whether this is true of not, the allegations made against Alaskan Bush People has really started to hurt the show's ratings. The show fell from a 0.7 to a 0.6 last week, ratings that make it look like fans are less interested in a show where the reality stars are not who they claim to be. Remember what happened when the cast members of Duck Dynasty ran into some media problems. That show was never the same.
The problem is that shows about eccentric people, such as those who live in the woods or wilderness, need to remain odd because that is what sells these show to fans. When the cast members become too ordinary or prove to be a little less pure, the fans answer by changing the channels.
'Alaskan Bush People' Star Ami Brown's Brother Claims She's An Abuse Victim — Should We Be Concerned? https://t.co/Gi8ZIcw0fB
— Steff (@CT_Homesteader) June 23, 2016
That makes the upcoming storyline where Ami Brown sets out to see her mother for the first time in three decades such an important moment. For a show that is fighting to remain "real," this is a moment that needs to sell itself as real life, and not just another seemingly scripted televised moment. Radar Online reports that Ami's mother, sister, and cousin will fly to Alaska from Texas to meet again. The meeting will take place on Alaskan Bush People.
The biggest problem is that Alaskan Bush People will have to win over audiences who look at the scenes with Ami and her mother and wonder if it is real or just another written spectacle to win over fans. If, as Star Pulse reports, the Browns live in a nice Hotel when Alaskan Bush People isn't filming, and they do not live in the wild, why should anyone believe that Ami and her mother have been estranged for over 30 years?
Alaskan Bush People airs on the Discovery channel on Friday nights at 9 p.m. ET.
[Image via Discovery Channel]
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import com.siyeh.ipp.IPPTestCase;

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  public void testBareCollectionLoop() { doTest(); }
  public void testGenericTypes() { doTest(); }
  public void testBoundedTypes() { doTest(); }
  public void testPrecedence() { doTest(); }
  public void testWildcards() { doTest(); }

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    return IntentionPowerPackBundle.message("replace.for.each.loop.with.iterator.for.loop.intention.name");
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By Edenmary Black. This ebook is available in the following downloadable formats: pdf (for reading on PC or MAC), epub (iPad, Nook, and most ebook readers), mobi (Amazon Kindle).
As Ilea steps farther into her role as the law of the Demesne, anxious speculation about Sebastien and his next move flourishes. Tensions build, as passion sizzles at long-awaited Matings and Kya's romantic dream comes true when Meniari asks her to attend one with him. It's a fresh beginning for a warrior with a past and a female hiding a gentle heart behind a tough persona.
Meanwhile, the Father of the Demesnes is having a grand time in Paris, but intelligence soon arrives from the spy he left behind. Infuriated by what he learns, he embarks on a rage-driven plan to force a brutal wedge between the Sanctum and the Saint Rushton Demesne forever, one that will jeopardize Iridea and her unborn child.
A vampiress on the run from the Parisian Demesne risks everything to find Micah Odera in Scotland, shattering his newfound peace with a strange tale of barbaric punishment, an act of treason that saved her life, a nefarious scheme and Circe's dangerous fascination with Sebastien. Seeking the protection of the Sanctum, she reveals all she knows to Miriel and Andrieu, forcing the haven into a partnership with the Saint Rushton Demesne.
A desperately precarious plan takes shape, as Xavier struggles with Ilea's demand that he keep a terrible secret for her. If he breaks his vow, the betrayal may cost him her love. If he keeps his word, she may die. Ultimately, Ilea and Iridea will have a single chance to do what only they can -- bring Sebastien to meet fate.
Sanctum Retribution: Shadow Havens Book 3 contains descriptive material and scenes of explicit sexual encounters between consenting male and female adult characters. It is intended for adult readers only. Approximately 113,000 words.


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Jamaican John Campbell called up for Test duty
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Jamaican left-handed opening batsman John Campbell.
Jamaican left-handed opening batsman John Campbell is set to make his debut for the West Indies senior team later this month when the Caribbean side hosts England in the much-anticipated Widen Trophy Series.
The 26-year-old Campbell is the only Jamaican named in the 13-man squad for the first Test, which is scheduled to start on January 23 at Kensington Oval in Barbados.
He is also one of two uncapped players named in the squad. Shamarh Brooks, the 30-year-old right-handed middle-order batsman, is the other uncapped player named to the squad.
There are recalls for fast bowler Alzarri Joseph and left-hander Darren Bravo. Fast bowler Jamaican Oshane Thomas has been named as cover for Joseph, who is making a comeback from injury.
Bravo has been recalled to the West Indies squad for the first time since 2016.
Bravo has not played Test cricket since 2016, after a post on his Twitter account called Cricket West Indies president Dave Cameron a "big idiot" in a dispute over a contract.
The 29-year-old returned to the ODI side in December and will make his 50th Test appearance in the opening clash.
Chairman of Selectors, Courtney Browne said "after a difficult Test Series in Bangladesh late last year the opportunity presents itself for our team to pick itself up. Although a tough series against England is anticipated, home turf has always been a place where our team has made strides.
"With the return of Darren Bravo, who will add value to a batting department, we expect to see marked improvement. Young, exciting, fast bowler Alzarri Joseph, who was sidelined by injury, returns to the squad and Shamarh Brooks has been elevated for his solid first-class performances over the last three years. John Campbell the incumbent 'A' team opener, who has played first class cricket for a number of years will open the batting after a good first-class season in 2018.
"The panel takes this opportunity to wish captain Jason Holder and his team all the best in the upcoming series."
Cricket West Indies CEO Johnny Grave said, "the Wisden Trophy has got incredible history and the West Indies have got a proud record to defend.
"England have only won one Test Series on West Indies soil in 50 years. We hope that our fans will once again become the team's twelfth man and rally to create the noise and colour that gives the squad the support they deserve and register a win in what will be a great battle."
FULL SQUAD
Jason Holder (Captain), Kraigg Brathwaite, Darren Bravo, Shamarh Brooks, John Campbell, Roston Chase, Shane Dowrich, Shannon Gabriel, Shimron Hetmyer, Shai Hope, Alzarri Joseph, Kemar Roach, Jomel Warrican
1st Test: Kensington Oval – Jan 23-27
2nd Test: Sir Vivian Richards Cricket Ground – Jan 31 to Feb 4
3rd Test: Daren Sammy Cricket Ground – Feb 9-13
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