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Guests: Richard Wolffe, James Risen, Jonathan Turley, Margaret Carlson, Chris Kofinis
Warrantless wiretapping and the desperate midnight ride to John Ashcroft's hospital bed, to get the then-attorney general - still hazy after they cut out his gallbladder - to personally approved secret intelligence gathering on Americans even without court orders. The new report of the inspectors general from CIA, NSC, DNI, Pentagon, Justice:
President Bush ordered Alberto Gonzalez and Andy Card to go to Ashcroft's sick bed and get his signature no matter what.
KELLY O'DONNELL, NBC NEWS: Sir, did you send your then chief of staff and White House counsel to the bedside of John Ashcroft while he was ill to get him to approve that program and do you believe that kind of conduct from White House officials is appropriate?
GEORGE W. BUSH, FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Kelly, there's a lot of speculation about what happened and what didn't happen. I'm not going to talk about it. It's a very sensitive program.
OLBERMANN: The inspectors general not only nailed Bush in another lie, in another crime, but also in ordering other secret surveillance which has still not been made public. And that when his White House got its first post-9/11 threat assessment, it padded the language and inserted his own paragraph which it later then quoted as justification for the other secret surveillance.
And the Panetta admission: Whatever he found out about a secret CIA intel program he stopped, House Intelligence Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations chair, Jan Schakowsky, says investigations are mandatory because laws may have been broken.
Ensign pulverized. The senatorial scandal turns farcical.
DOUG HAMPTON, CINDY HAMPTON'S HUSBAND: Basically, at the same time he said, "I'm in love with your wife" - "You can't work for me any more."
OLBERMANN: How members of the Christian group the Family forced Senator John Ensign to write Cindy Hampton a letter cutting off his affair and took him to FedEx to send the letter to her overnight. And then how the senator sneaked away from them to call her and tell her to ignore the letter and then he showed up the next day to resume the affair.
There will be Puppet Theater on this. "Cindy, the mean men that made me write a nasty letter to you and I don't mean it. And you should disregard it and I'll always love you."
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Who is this?
OLBERMANN: All that and more - now on Countdown.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Did you send the 96,000 yet?
OLBERMANN: Good evening from New York.
As often seems to happen in the late afternoon of summer Fridays, two lingering mysteries of Bush administration misdeeds have been definitively solved - in our fifth story on THE Countdown - one: how intelligence was manipulated in the aftermath of the September 11th attacks, and, two, who it was who called John Ashcroft as attorney general as he was recovering in the intensive care unit of a Washington, D.C. hospital orchestrating the failed attempt to get him to reauthorize the government spy program?
This hint: If you answered Vice President Cheney, you did not aim high enough this time.
A new internal government report is revealing that President Bush himself tried to subvert the authority of his own attorney general, directly ordering the infamous expedition to the hospital bed of Mr. Ashcroft to strong-arm the ailing attorney general and the deputy that was then serving as the acting attorney general into renewing the surveillance program that would lapse in a matter of days - having waited until his attorney general had just come out of surgery to do this, having waited until his attorney general's wife had refused to put him on the phone when the president called.
Quoting from page 24 of the report today, "On March 10, 2004, President Bush instructed him - then-White House counsel Alberto Gonzalez - and chief of staff Andrew Card to go to the George Washington University Hospital to speak to Ashcroft. Card called the hospital and spoke with an agent in Ashcroft's security detail. Ashcroft's wife told the agent Ashcroft would not accept the call.
However at 6:45 p.m., Card and the president called the hospital and, according to the agent's notes, insisted on speaking with Ashcroft. Mrs. Ashcroft took the call and was informed that Gonzales and Card were coming to the hospital to see Ashcroft regarding a matter involving national security."
You will recall that two years ago, that former deputy attorney general, James Comey, finished the rest of the story in gripping Senate testimony, recounting that Ashcroft still shot down the president's entreaty in spite of being in a weak and drugged up state.
Two days later, President Bush was asked about his role in the bedside drama by our own Kelly O'Donnell.
O'DONNELL: Sir, did you send your then chief of staff and White House counsel to the bedside of John Ashcroft while he was ill to get him to approve that program? And do you believe that kind of conduct from White House officials is appropriate?
BUSH: Kelly, there's a lot of speculation about what happened and what didn't happen. I'm not going to talk about it. It's a very sensitive program.
I will tell you however that the program is necessary.
O'DONNELL: Was it on your order, sir?
BUSH: As I said, this program is a necessary program that was constantly reviewed and constantly briefed to the Congress. It's an important part of protecting the United States.
OLBERMANN: George Bush's officially confirmed deception was not just by omission but also commission. The report prepared at the request of Congress also revealing that in the days after the 9/11 attacks, the president authorized secret surveillance activities beyond controversial warrantless wiretapping, activities which have still not been made public. They were referred to in this report as the president's surveillance program.
Equally unsettling, the report also stating that an unnamed White House official inserted a paragraph into the first threat assessment prepared by the CIA after the 9/11 attacks, which was then used to justify the extraordinary intelligence matters.
Time now to turn to our own political analyst, Richard Wolffe.
Richard, thanks for your time. Good evening.
OLBERMANN: President Bush directly ordering, orchestrating the infamous expedition to the hospital bed of Attorney General Ashcroft, long suspected, long reported, now official. For what might be the first time the answer to that kind of mystery was confirmed to not be Vice President Cheney. How significant is the official nature of this investigation?
WOLFFE: Well, I've always thought it was convenient for people to lay all the blame at Dick Cheney's door. It was convenient for the Bush administration officials because they could paint President Bush as being a good cop to the bad cop of Dick Cheney. Convenient for Bush's critics as well because they had someone easy to caricature and portray as being unmitigatingly evil, and then you've got convenient for Dick Cheney because he can seem scarier than reality.
And in actual fact, what you have here is a real undermining not just of the Bush-Cheney dynamic but the self-image of President Bush, of someone who played by the rules and had a common sense of decency no matter what he was up to - and really this gets to the heart of that. It undermines that self-image because this wasn't just the sort of midnight rush because there was a deadline. This was a well hashed out debate where the chief law enforcement officers of this nation said the program was illegal. He was trying to do an end run around the law and there's no two ways about it. It was indecent and - as it happens - illegal.
OLBERMANN: At that news conference, two days after the former deputy attorney general, Mr. Comey, revealed the incident, the clip we heard there, the president played coy when asked about it. Is not a lie by omission still a lie?
WOLFFE: Well, I'm not sure that it is, actually. This is the typical kind of dodge that the president would have at the time and it was obvious what he was dodging.
Really, if you listen to that answer, the answer is - well, it was necessary. In fact, anything is necessary if I say so because these threats are so dangerous. So, really these legal debates and quibbles you're having are a bit like the Geneva Convention, some old fashioned, archaic, academic theory. And that is, itself, revealing insight into his mentality.
So, I think there's something worse than whether you're lying or being fully truthful or half truthful, and that's whether the president abides by the laws.
OLBERMANN: Yes, one other word in there that was left out, "quaint." "Quaint" fitted to that description of both the treaties and the idea of telling the truth to the American public.
This other thing in the report: the unnamed White House official who added a paragraph into the first threat assessment after the 9/11 attacks. Obviously, he's delivered this thing by the CIA, adds something in and then they take that addition, quote it as part of the CIA threat assessment, and use it to justify the extraordinary intelligence measures.
This looks like - is this the first time that that pattern was used, essentially creating the self-fulfilling prophesy and then quote it back to the people who are asking why are you doing this?
WOLFFE: Well, we don't know what the paragraph really says. But it is extraordinary that you have - what we assume is a political official - adding to the intelligence because, presumably, they think their analysis is better than what the intelligence officials say it is.
And, again, you've got to get back to the sort of psychology of that period. People were afraid, absolutely. It was a terrifying period and people were rightly scared of and shocked at what had happened in terms of the 9/11 attacks. But to then use that for political purposes, to then say we need to embellish what we think is a serious threat, I think, gets to the insecurity those officials had - because remember, it happened on their watch, and I think there was a sort of self-defensive rear-end covering that was going on.
OLBERMANN: Speaking of which, what does this president do about all of this now? Given the particulars that are out, what does Obama do about trying to maintain this program while trying to suppress the legal challenges against it?
WOLFFE: Well, this won't satisfy his die-hard supporters or at least the people who are the base of the Democratic Party. But he has already said that wiretapping was just fine as long as it's not warrantless, as long as there is minimal court supervision. He has clearly said in the campaign and in office that he wants the program to continue.
So, I don't think he cares who started it. He sees the value to it as long as there is this minimal supervision, and for civil liberties people, that really isn't enough.
OLBERMANN: MSNBC's Richard Wolffe - as always, great thanks. Have a great weekend, Richard.
WOLFFE: Thank you. And you, Keith.
OLBERMANN: For more on the significance of what we've learned in this, let's turn to "The New York Times" investigative reporter, James Risen, who in 2006 was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his series of reports exposing the existence of the Bush administration's secret domestic spying program.
Great thanks for your time, again, tonight, sir.
JAMES RISEN, NEW YORK TIMES: Thanks for having me.
OLBERMANN: All right. The president confirmed in an official report from these I.G.s as the creator in the Ashcroft hospital drama. It sounds like the headline here. Is it or is there something in here that was more illuminating to you?
RISEN: Well, it's really an interesting report because it has a lot of - it's chockfull of details about not only the hospital scene but about other aspects of the surveillance program.
And to me, the kind of the headline of the entire report is something a little different, and that is - buried deep in the report - it says that the interviews with intelligence community officials throughout the - by all of the inspectors general - they found that no one could point to any counterterrorism successes done - that could be caused by this program. That the program - no one could identify any major attacks or arrests that were caused specifically by this program, which contradicts what President Bush repeatedly said for the last three years of his presidency, that this was saving thousands of lives.
I think, to me, that is a fundamental issue that will change the nature of the debate about the NSA warrantless wiretapping program.
OLBERMANN: Change it in what sense? Is it - is it the suggestion here that Bush was back-filling to justify invasion of privacy, or is it - was it that they just got it all wrong? Change it in what way?
RISEN: I - what they are saying, what the I.G. is saying is that there is no solid conclusive proof that the NSA wireless - warrantless wiretapping program was responsible for any major counterterrorism successes. The entire justification by the Bush administration for averting the FISA laws and going with the warrantless wiretapping program was that they said it had been saving lives and thwarting attacks. That is a fundamental issue that has been at the heart of this debate ever since it became public.
OLBERMANN: It is because of your reporting that we know about the warrantless wiretapping program to begin with. The new report here revealing that the president also authorized secret surveillance activities beyond wiretapping and without details. The report simply cautioned the collection activities since 9/11 were unprecedented, and retention and use of the information should be carefully monitored.
It sounds scary. Is it, in fact, scary?
RISEN: Well, we have reported on what some of those programs are. What they have done very carefully here is they have talked about what the president confirmed. What the president confirmed was our initial stories about what is now known as the "Terrorist Surveillance Program." Subsequent to that, we reported on data mining operations and recently, Eric Lichtblau and I reported on how the fundamental debate at the hospital scene was about data mining involving e-mails of Americans.
They have never officially acknowledged that, but that is what these things were. They just don't want to say it because it still hasn't been officially confirmed by the White House.
OLBERMANN: One curious, I guess, side light to this. Mr. Ashcroft, Mr. Card among the big names who did not subject themselves to interviews for the reports, Cheney's aide David Addington also on the list, the former CIA director, Mr. Tenet, John Yoo who, of course, was the proprietor basically of the memo factor that justified interrogation.
Is it remarkable just how much these inspectors general were able to learn without any of these people?
RISEN: Yes. I mean, I found that very interesting that the former CIA director, Mr. Tenet, was able to just tell the I.G., "No, I'm not going to talk to you. I didn't know you could actually do that. But, if you worked, if you were at that level of the government."
I think - I think it is a fascinating document, although they don't come to any grand conclusions. They have a series of details that if you put together, it becomes a very interesting mosaic.
I thought the whole issue of how they developed threat assessments within the intelligence community to justify the legal reauthorization was interesting. That had never been known before, that they were actually having to get a threat assessment to prove that there was still a threat to the United States in order to get a legal justification - legal reauthorization. And then - and then they had to get the White House to insert language into that.
OLBERMANN: Yes, there's a lot of - a lot of backfill, almost every direction. It's extraordinary and who better to give us a perspective on it than James Risen of "The New York Times."
Again, great thanks for your time and your insight, sir.
RISEN: Thanks.
OLBERMANN: Then there are the legal implications of the all the nefariousness that originated far up the Bush chain of command, nothing this nefarious has originated officially this far up - domestically anyway. We now know who tried to browbeat the attorney general and when he tried to browbeat him. If anybody ever bothers to prosecute these malefactors, how that playing field just changed - as assessed, next, by Professor Jonathan Turley.
OLBERMANN: It was already one of the darkest chapters in the closest thing to medieval times in the American presidency. But tonight, we now know it was President Bush who personally ordered it in the bid to get a barely conscious John Ashcroft to authorize intel gathering that Ashcroft thought was illegal. How many laws did Mr. Bush break and what is there to be done about it now?
And the John Ensign saga. New features tonight include coerced letter writing to the missus or rather to the mistress. A virtual kidnapping to FedEx and the day after breaking it off, he was back with the mistress breaking it - never mind.
Plus, Puppet Theater. It's Friday. Glad (ph) it's Friday.
OLBERMANN: A scene as dark as anything out of the Nixon White House, President Bush calling the hospital room of his ailing, barely articulate attorney general, John Ashcroft, over the objections of Ashcroft's wife in order to pressure the attorney general to reauthorize what is now known as the president's surveillance program.
Our fourth story on THE Countdown: the legal implications with constitutional law expert Jonathan Turley joining us in a moment.
And we also know that after Mr. Ashcroft refused to reauthorize, the president and his then White House counsel Alberto Gonzales found a way around it, making it up as they went along.
From today's report, quoting, "On the morning of March 11, 2004, with the presidential authorization set to expire, President Bush signed a new authorization for the PSP. In a departure from the past practice of having the attorney general certify the authorization as to form and legality, the March 11 authorization was certified by White House counsel Gonzales."
Let's call in George Washington University law professor and constitutional expert, Jonathan Turley.
Jon, good evening.
JONATHAN TURLEY, GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: Hi, Keith.
OLBERMANN: All right. The president pressures his attorney general in his sick bed to certify, to reauthorize this PSP. And when the attorney general refuses, the president gets his White House counsel to do it instead.
So, walk us through the sort of more obvious legal minefield points here in the fall of this sequence.
TURLEY: Well, it's a grotesque metaphor, isn't it? As you have this scene of presidential sycophants trying to get a man who's post-surgery to sign away civil liberties of American citizens. If anything captures what happened in the Bush administration, it's that scene.
What it is important legally is that it shows to anybody in that administration that the legal basis for this program was never established, that they had to essentially change the authorization process to get the semblance of legality, so when people, like my neighbor, General Michael Hayden, and others, claimed they had clear and obvious legal authority for all of this, they knew that wasn't true. They knew that they had to go to extraordinary measures.
And, in fact, very high ranking, very conservative people in the Justice Department refused to sign onto this because it was blatantly unconstitutional.
OLBERMANN: Is there anything to be done about this legally now?
TURLEY: Well, there is. You see, the problem, Keith, is that the law has never been unclear. You know, the law is perfectly clear. There are so many crimes here that have been alleged and supported by facts in the last couple of years it's almost hard to step around them.
What is not clear is the intestinal fortitude of the Democratic Party to actually investigate. They like to disclose crimes because they have obvious political benefits. What they don't want to do is prosecute those crimes. And we now see why.
Because the irony is that, in the beltway, as criminal evidence mounts, they become less inclined to prosecute because they know that if they start an investigation, it will lead them directly to the desk of George Bush. And no Democrat wants to indict him. And they know that if they start an investigation, it'll be hard to avoid an indictment.
OLBERMANN: The other bombshell, this unnamed White House official who padded the underlying threat assessment after 9/11, the one prepared by the CIA and then quoted it back as an authorization for further intelligence gathering that skirted at best the law. Is there more in this than the mere manipulation of that one paragraph?
TURLEY: Well, it's a very serious thing. This is a very important document. And they're essentially cooking the books. In my view they falsified the intelligence by having a political appointee outside of the CIA allegedly change that report and then rely upon that very section of the report.
Now, that's a problem. The National Security Act of 1947, they have to fully inform Congress, even covert operations have to be disclosed to a small number of members. We now know that there were surveillance programs never disclosed. We've already seen the last couple years, false statements have been shown, were given to Congress, misleading statements. We know that evidence, for example, the torture program, was destroyed at the CIA, with the full knowledge that they were trying to do this to prevent the evidence from ever being used.
This is an incredible litany of crimes and we're beginning to look like the country that we despise, that have intelligence services that are above the law, that are untouchable. Well, the CIA now has the virtual criminal code checked off in terms of obstruction and in terms of torture and unlawful surveillance and false statements to Congress. And nobody is talking about prosecution.
OLBERMANN: And to even bring this up to date, this is - today's developments have kind of buried this continuing saga about the Panetta admission, which addresses that last point about the CIA misleading the sources, the organizations that are supposed to oversight. The program he stopped, the House Intel Subcommittee chair, Jan Schakowsky, says, you've got to investigate the clear probability of laws being broken here.
If the program, itself, is not revealed, would we at least - if there is an investigation - get a concrete assessment of the degree to which the CIA has lied to the House, to the Senate, to you, me, to your neighbor, Mr. Hayden, anybody else we can think of?
TURLEY: Well, we should, because what we really need, Keith, is for our leaders to finally give up the ghost, stop preventing a criminal investigation, and hand this over to prosecutors.
What the Congresswoman described is a crime, and she is correct. It is a mandatory subject for investigation. Lying, withholding information from Congress is a crime; and what they are withholding and concealing happens, also, to have been crimes.
OLBERMANN: Jonathan Turley of George Washington University - as always, our great thanks. Best wishes. Have a good weekend.
TURLEY: Thank you, Keith.
OLBERMANN: For years, I chronicled all the times an athlete pulled a groin and added his own, we hope. Finally, an illustration of why I said, "We hoped."
And if you were the half crazy governor of Texas, who would you put as head of the board of education? Somebody who believes public education is unconstitutional, naturally?
Worst Persons is ahead. You're watching Countdown on MSNBC.
OLBERMANN: Bests in a moment. And why they should always make you pay for the tattoo in advance.
First, it was 30 years ago this morning that I went on the air for the first time as a full-time professional broadcaster - sort of - doing a 9:45 a.m. sportscast for the 1,000 radio stations served by United Press International audio. Lord knows if any of them actually ran it. I remember something about saying the pitchers had been selected for the baseball all-star game. That's about it.
I was only supposed to be watching my boss do the shift and then about 8:30, he said, by the way, you're doing the 9:45. And everything after that was just a haze. Come to think of it, right now, everything is still just a haze.
Houston, hello! Where Mexico and Panama played an international soccer match yesterday for the Gold Cup. And thankfully, this Panamanian player was wearing his protective cup.
This is another hello. That is the foot of the Mexico head coach Javier Aguirre lunging after the Panamanian player's groin. I've heard of a groin pull, but this is ridiculous. Luckily, if there was any contact, it was just glancing, which did not make the Panamanian gentleman happier. He shoved the coach and was given a red card.
For his part, Coach Aguirre was thrown out and the match ended after a proper set of balls were kicked past the goalies. Mexico and Panama tied - what - one all.
To last night's "Late Show With David Letterman" and all of us who are bespectacled have been here. Between a Bruno top ten list and an interview with Harry Potter, Paul Shaffer smacked himself in the face. We have to slow it down. The director quickly cut off the shot. But you can see Paul giving himself the business as he wraps up the intro music.
Another hello. They didn't call him the world's most dangerous man for nothing. I've done that 11 times in my life.
We have largely avoided the John Ensign story on this newscast. We can ignore it no longer. After today's developments, this must be embarrassing to say, Mark Sanford, to say nothing of the puppets in John Ensign puppet theater. It, too, came from Wasilla, the revenge of Levi Johnston, as he now says there is more than meets the eye in Governor Palin's resignation.
These stories ahead, but first time for Countdown's top three best persons in the world. Dateline Paris, number three, best reminder that actual journalists are still necessary. "La Tribune," a French business newspaper launching an English language version website consisting of its French stories translated into English by computer. Today's computerized headlines, "the Chinese car in ambush"; "Assets of the Continental Right in Management of the Crisis"; "Ryan Air to make Travel of the Passengers Upright."
In consumer news, "Internet Explorer Mistrusts."
Dateline Wasilla, Best try, Governor Sarah Palin, sending out this thoughtful Tweet, which suggests her higher calling might be a career in the Bass Masters tournament. "So, AK kids, take time to take your parents fishing. You learn more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. Plato."
That's nice. That's not Plato. It's Richard Lindgard (ph), who wrote it in a gentleman's etiquette guide from 1670. By the way, he wasn't talking about fishing. He was talking about gambling.
And dateline Texas, number one, best tat, unidentified man who got his skin art, was handed the bill for 200 bucks, presented his credit card. It was denied, and he there upon ran out of the tattoo parlor. The motto on his tattoo? Only God can judge me. Well, maybe only God can judge you, but Visa, Visa can prosecute you.
OLBERMANN: Incredibly, the sparking by Governor Mark Sanford may be no match ultimately for the scandal of Senator John Ensign, which has tonight expanded to include a Christian group, a coerced letter, a kind of semi-senatorial kidnapping, and John Ensign puppet theater. Our third story in the Countdown, the end of the affair with Cindy Hampton and the firing of Doug Hampton proved to be just the beginning of the headache for Nevada's junior senator, to say nothing of ruining forever the familiar July phrase here, summer in the Hamptons.
Ensign's former best and co-chief of staff giving new details on the senator's extracurriculars with his wife in a televised interview with the "Las Vegas Sun." Doug Hampton says the senator's relentless pursuit of wife Cindy drove Ensign to fire both Hamptons.
But first, a quick recap. Senator Ensign has an affair with Cindy Hampton, who worked on one of Ensign's political campaigns or committees. Doug Hampton finds out about the affair. And then the senator fires them both.
Ensign admits to the affair in a news conference, resigns from his position in the Republican leadership. Meanwhile, Ensign's parents write the Hampton family checks totaling 96,000 dollars, citing a pattern of generosity between the Ensign family and the Hamptons.
Mrs. Hampton's generosity took a more non-monetary form.
Enter Ensign's god squad, a group of men Hampton asked to confront ensign. Ranking member Senator Tom Coburn, along with Tim Coe, David Coe, and Marty Sherman, the latter three with the Family, a secretive group associated with the C Street Christian Fellowship. Hampton says these men encouraged Ensign to pay for the Hamptons' home and for their move to Colorado.
Hampton also alleges that the four men urged the senator to write that letter to Cindy breaking things off, with two of his religious protectors then driving Ensign to Fed-Ex to get the letter into the mail immediately. After the letter was indeed sent, Ensign gave Cindy Hampton a call, says disregard this letter that's coming up about that stuff about using her for her own pleasure and his pleasure. And 24 hours later, Ensign is in Las Vegas with Cindy, in the Biblical sense.
To top it all off, when it was time to give Cindy the old heave ho from her day job with Ensign, the senator could not do it himself. Dough Hampton says the family asked Cindy to leave, though Ensign managed to lower the ax on Hampton himself.
DOUG HAMPTON, FMR. CHIEF OF STAFF TO SENATOR ENSIGN: He told me basically at the same time he said I'm in love with your wife, you can't work for me anymore.
Since we don't have any visual imagery of any of the aforementioned activity described by Mr. Hampton, we return to the innovative news style of journalism we pioneered here, Senator John Ensign, puppet theater.
OLBERMANN: You have to stop this affair, senator.
You need to pay for Cindy and her family to move away.
You owe them money.
If you had listened to me none of this would have ever happened.
Shut up, Coburn!
You need to write her a letter breaking it off.
I'll do it this afternoon.
You'll do it right now, young man.
In fact, we're going to drive you to Fed-Ex and we're going to watch to make sure you send it to her.
If you'd listened to me, none of this would have ever happened.
Does it absolutely, positively, have to be there tomorrow?
Overnight. Ten blocks from here and that'll be 227 dollars.
If you had listened to me, none of this would have ever happened.
Can we stop at a Dairy Queen or something?
Cindy, the mean men have made me write a nasty letter to you. And I don't mean it. And you should disregard it. And I'll always love you.
OLBERMANN: It's John. John Ensign. Senator John Ensign.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Oh, sure. Did you send the 96,000 yet?
OLBERMANN: Cindy.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: John.
OLBERMANN: So, you want to go hiking on the old Appalachian Trail?
OLBERMANN: Joining me now, political columnist for "Bloomberg News" and Washington editor of "The Week," Margaret Carlson. Good evening, Margaret.
MARGARET CARLSON, "BLOOMBERG NEWS": Good evening.
OLBERMANN: This stuff would embarrass - I'm not referring to the puppets. The whole story now would embarrass Mark Sanford. How on Earth does Senator Ensign not resign?
CARLSON: I think he does resign now. It looked like he had a pass thanks to a fellow Republican, Governor Sanford, but there are now too many aspects of this, too many things going on. The parents giving them the 96,000 dollars; first of all, it makes him look childish, like he's being looked after by his parents. They're going to have a tax problem, because you can't give away money as a gift when you're getting something in return, which is the silence. And the details of the family are just too much to survive.
OLBERMANN: The evolution of the story, too, I imagine is kind of fatal at this point. Has it not become as disturbing as the story itself? It started out with a little infidelity and apparently a quick admission and apology. And the next thing you know, we have failed interventions, and another senator involved, and a Catholic and Christian group, and the mistress and husband fired, and this sort of quasi-kidnapping, and the Fed-Exed letter, and then the going out on the date the next day anyway.
CARLSON: Hey, the Muppets, Sesame Street is going to want royalties from you for your puppet theater. It looked like it was going to get away with it because it was Las Vegas. He came back. The Republican caucus welcomed him. There was no talk of an ethics committee, no censure, no nothing. But when you have him being taken hostage, and I don't mean to insult real hostages here, but like at gun point, to Fed-Ex - you expect a tape with Ensign holding up the newspaper so you know what date it is, and he's sending it overnight, and he actually did it.
It's like a preposterous thing to have happen.
OLBERMANN: Yes.
CARLSON: By the way, there's a Republican governor right now. I think he's up in 2011. If Republicans act now to move Ensign out, they get a chance to have a Republican senator appointed, get a leg up on the next election. And I heard from Republicans late today that that's what they want to do, that now they're ready to move him out and have a chance at retaining that seat.
OLBERMANN: Could this one, though, have ramifications outside of the originator here, of our friend Senator Ensign, because of Senator Coburn's involvement in this? He's citing privilege. He said he spoke to Ensign in his role as physician and ordained deacon. Aren't there implications for this, too? Where does your role as, say, a U.S. senator fit into this equation when you have so many different hats?
CARLSON: Senator Coburn is also an obstetrician, in case anything happens. There are tax liabilities. There is Senator Coburn, who - you know, he and President Obama have a lot to say to each other. They actually get along. Senator Coburn is an interesting guy.
However, this is like too interesting. He cannot be this interesting. He's got a lot of explaining to do. You wonder, is this what they do for each other? Is this what, you know, collegiality has come to, where you're forcing your guy to write the letter? I mean, Ensign has been infantilized, if that's a word, by Coburn and the family and by his parents.
You can see him - like I remember the nuns making us write, I must sit down and be quiet a hundred times after school. And he's being forced to sit down there and write, in fairly good penmanship, I might add, in his own handwriting, this letter with these people looking over him and leaving nothing to chance.
OLBERMANN: Yes. And there is the nub of the gist here, that when the senator finds his way into the Senate, his colleagues applaud because he's made it there successfully on his own. That's the ultimate problem here. Margaret Carlson of "Bloomberg News" and "The Week Magazine," as always, many thanks.
CARLSON: Good night, Keith.
OLBERMANN: When Rachel joins you at the top of the hour, she will go inside C Street, Ensign's circle of religious associates with a reporter who infiltrated that group. Also, the reporter somebody who infiltrated the Sarah Palin group; Levi Johnston says the whole resignation story is cover. No, really?
Thank you, president of Afghanistan. Marital rape, less legal.
Marital forced starvation, more legal. Worst persons ahead on Countdown.
OLBERMANN: Last year, she was going to be vice president and he was going to be her son-in-law. Now neither is either and they are at each other's throats again. That's next, but first time for Countdown's number two story, tonight's worst persons in the world.
The bronze to the Microsoft chair Steve Ballmer. Speaking to the North Carolina Technology Association Conference in Charlotte, he said within ten years there will be computer devices that will be as flexible as a sheet of paper, and technology that will be able to figure out what you meant to do.
OK, Steve Ballmer isn't really the third worst person in the world. I love the idea of paper thin computers. But could you first just get the damn machine not to freeze or shut itself off every couple days, because it suddenly becomes afraid of a website or whatever the excuse is this time? Never mind a computer that figures out what I meant to do? How about one that just does what I asked it to do? Thank you.
The runners up, the Afghan parliament and President Hamid Karzai. They have authorized a review of a law passed in March that legalized marital rape. Now the law has been amended. Now it says a husband's response to the denial of sex by his wife should not be to be rape, but instead it should be starving his wife. This will now be legal in Afghanistan.
Our winner, Governor Rick Perry of Texas. He is reportedly contemplating appointing as the state board of education chair to replace the fundamentalist ousted by opponents a state representative named Cynthia Dunbar, who thinks fundamentalists are way too liberal. Ms. Dunbar wrote last year that then Senator Obama was plotting a terrorist attack on this country. She now claims President Obama is about to declare martial law. She believes public education is unconstitutional. She thinks public schools should be abolished. She insists government should be guided by a, quote, Biblical litmus tests. She got a law degree from Regent University, also known as Box Top U.
Her supporters call their opponents the pagan left. In other words, she is a walking billboard for why public schools are essential and why religion has no place in government and why we should never - or we should negotiate with Governor Perry. We should give him a hundred acres in a corner of Texas, and let him secede as he has threatened, provided he takes this Dunbar whack job with him. Governor Rick, let's make an opponent of public education chairperson of the board of education, Perry of Texas, today's worst person in the world.
Nice dye job.
OLBERMANN: Whether the engagement was real or just a stunt to spare her having to run for vice president as the mother of an unwed mother, Sarah Palin continues to discover what can happen when somebody you used as a prop starts to talk. Our number one story on the Countdown, Levi Johnston's version of his ex-future mother-in-law's resignation not lining up all that well with that of his ex-future mother-in-law.
When Governor Palin quit her job on the third of this month, she said it was because of frivolous ethics charges. She said it was all the public money she had to spend to fight those charges. She said it was because she and her family were media targets.
But Johnston, determined to extend his 15 minutes, looking to cash in on a tell-all book and a movie, told the Associated Press it was really all about the money. "I've heard of people offering books and stuff like that. And actually there is a reality show they wanted to do. But I think the big deal is the book. And that's millions of dollars right there. And she couldn't do that as governor."
There was this reaction from the Palin family spokeswoman, Meghan Stapleton, "it is interesting to learn Levi is working on a piece of fiction while honing his acting skills."
All coming as Palin unwilling to stay out of the media, attacked the media by quoting the media's elder statesman, Walter Cronkite, on Twitter. "Most newspapermen by definition have to be liberal. If they're not, by my definition, they can hardly be good newspapermen."
As Palin's political future seems to be fading, some Republicans facing re-election next year dubbing her the NIMBY campaigner. Virginia Congressman Frank Wolf, "I generally don't need people from outside my district to do a fund raiser."
Nebraska Republican Lee Terry, "there is others that I would have com in and campaign, and most of them would be my colleagues in the House."
Joining us from Washington, Democratic strategist Chris Kofinis.
Chris, good evening. Good to have you back.
CHRIS KOFINIS, DEMOCRATIC STRATEGIST: Good evening, Keith.
OLBERMANN: There is a reason cliches are cliches. Be nice to the people you meet on the way up because you're going to meet them again on the way down, a lesson learned by the governor courtesy of Levi Johnston the last few weeks?
KOFINIS: I think so. Sometimes you learn the lessons the hard way. What's amazing about this is when you step back, this has become probably one of the most ridiculous political soap operas at least of my life. It doesn't seem to ever want to end. There's another twist and permutation that kind of gives us a window into the strange lives of these people back in Alaska.
I mean, you know, it was funny to me to read that Levi was talking about how Governor Palin may do a reality show. I'm starting to think the real house wives of Wasilla is coming to Bravo any time soon. It has gotten pretty ridiculous. But again when you're talking about Sarah Palin, I guess ridiculous has to be redefined.
OLBERMANN: Bravo, of course, is one of our sister cable networks here at the NBC cable family. So all I can say is be careful what you say out loud on the air. You might be right. Maybe by Monday. Is this one of these rare stories though where there actually is too much focus on the why, that we're obscuring the simple reality this happened? I mean, if you throw out the true higher calling stuff - you know, she did not quit to become ambassador to China or HEW secretary. Does it really matter why she quit?
KOFINIS: Well, you know, usually it probably wouldn't. But I'll tell you why I think it does. Here is a candidate - and I know this is going to give shivers to some people out there - who I think is actually seriously contemplating a run for president in 2012. So the reasons and the excuses she gives as to why she decided to quit her job two and a half years in matter. The contradictions matter.
She doesn't seem able to tell the truth. All of those factors matter. It goes to what type of candidate she is. And again, it also I think kind of reflects on the Republican party. She has become kind of the captain of the Republican Titanic. And you wonder what other iceberg she's going to steer into.
It does matter. I think whether potential candidates are telling you the truth and telling the American people the truth matters.
OLBERMANN: Somebody wrote today online, paraphrasing, she has a base that will never leave her, but will never be big enough to elect her to anything. You heard these quotes from Republicans running next year. That they don't want her around, not in my back yard. But during the presidential campaign, she got bigger crowds on her own than McCain got on his own. What does it say that she's nearing classification as campaign poison?
KOFINIS: I think it really kind of tells you what kind of candidate she is. One that has a very passionate slice of the electorate, but one that if you're running for office - for example, if you're Bob McDonald in Virginia, or you're Chris Christy in New Jersey, I can bet you they're not going to have Sarah Palin come there, because she is effectively the Bubonic Plague.
She will destroy you in terms of alienating moderates, alienating independents. And that is the worst thing you can do when you have a very tough race, as both of those candidates do. But it is I think, again, indicative of how a lot of Republicans really see Sarah Palin. Yes, she may have a small slice that is passionate about her, but I think most Republicans, when you talk to them and they've said it publicly, they realize what a disaster she would be if she ran for president and forced the Republican party to acknowledge her as a credible candidate.
OLBERMANN: And yet there's just that large enough percentage that she can also sink anybody who might come up through the ranks and be a real candidate.
KOFINIS: That's right.
OLBERMANN: Amazing. Chris Kofinis, Democratic strategist. Always a pleasure to chat, sir. Thanks very much for your time.
KOFINIS: Thanks, Keith.
OLBERMANN: It's Friday. I said thanks you rather than thank you. That's Countdown for this the 2,262nd day since the previous president declared mission accomplished in Iraq. I'm Keith Olbermann, good night and good luck.


The first of two music concerts led by musician Bruce Ley was held on the beautiful sanctuary stage at Trinity United Church on October 20th. The 'group of seven' performed all together for the first time Friday night to a very lucky audience of Country music fans for the benefit of the church and community.
The second concert "Country Classics," sponsored by Primrose United Church, will be held at Grace Tipling Hall at 7 pm on Friday, November 24th. Tickets for this concert are $15 and are available from Holmes Music and Appliances, Caravaggio IDA, or members of Primrose United Church. As well, Trinity's Annual Roast Beef Dinner will be held November 3rd from 4:30 pm to 7pm at the church on Owen Sound Street – tickets are $17 each.
Friday night's Country Band included local musician and songwriter Gary Heaslip on vocals and bass; Kristin Scott on vocals and acoustic guitar; Ian Leith on fiddle; Scott Bruyea on drums; Fred Smith on electric and acoustic guitar; Ollie Strong on pedal steel guitar; and Bruce Ley on the piano.
In the last couple of years, Bruce has spent a lot of hours touring with Fred Smith, and says they have built a very comfortable relationship. "Fred is a very fine guitar player who has played with a ton of rock and roll and country artists – from Chuck Berry to Vince Gill," says Bruce.
Another incredibly talented musician from the area, Kristin Scott, led the vocals Friday night. "Kristen comes from the royal line of Country music in Canada," says Bruce. Her parents are Country singers Audie and Gordon Henry. "Kristin has her mother's gifted vocals, and you just can't beat that," says Rev. Bist. "I've heard about her family for decades," says Bruce. "Kristin is a real country singer. When she gets into a song, it kind of tears my heart out. It's hard to describe, but anyone who was in the audience on Friday, will know what I mean," he says.


MICRO explores the small universe that is our body and mind. It consists of an 8ft x 12 ft x 8ft structure that has 200 translucent balls hanging from the top of the structure, each ball containing a speaker. When a ball is bumped into it generates a unique sound, and lights up with one of 5 different colors. As people play with the balls they are engulfed by a symphony of lights and sounds surrounding them on all sides.
The circuit board contains a microcontroller, an audio amplifier, a flash storage chip for the audio file, a tilt switch, and a voltage regulator, as well as various transistors, capacitors and resistors. A high power LED plugs into the circuit board and floats above the board. The speaker attaches to the bottom of the circuit via velcro.
For the microcontroller we went with a Trinket from Adafruit. It was cheap, and had the added feature that it could PWM an audio file. Adafruit has a wonderful tutorial about how to play audio with the Trinket here. In a nut shell, the trinket emits the audio as a square wave, then a low pass filter is used to smooth out the PWM into a listenable audio source.
We used clear light fixtures for the balls, in three diameters: 6″, 9″ and 12″. We dipped them in rubber dip multiple times to get the texture and translucency we were looking for. We laser cut the bottoms for the spheres out of acrylic, and did the same rubber dip treatment to them.
We used a truss structure to suspend the spheres. This was great because it was easy to assemble, relatively light, and very strong. To keep the truss from blowing away in the high winds that often happen at Burning Man, we guy wired the top edges down to the ground. We lined LED strips on the guy wires so unsuspecting people on bikes and in art cars would not have an unpleasant (and possibly quite dangerous) surprise finding a guy wire where they didn't expect one.


The urban line of bikes from Opus will help you haul cargo, fly up hills, and arrive at work on time.
Opus has invested a lot into the urban cycling market knowing that the social benefits of getting people out of cars and onto bikes is not only better for the environment but the community as well. With their wide range of city bikes they can cater to the growing market and meet the needs of different types of riders so anyone can find a bike that suits their riding style.
Opus' city and electric lineup take urban performance to a whole new level. Whether you're running errands, commuting to work, going for a family ride, or a relaxing an evening cruise, Opus provides practical and affordable bikes that stand up to the daily grind of city living. Below are 5 bikes from Opus that will meet the needs of any city cyclists or you can explore their entire line of city bikes here.
Electric bikes can help people overcome some of the challenges that prevent them from using a bike in their daily life. Whether the barrier(s) they face is hilly terrain, not wanting to arrive at work sweaty, or a long commute, among many others, an e-bike can make getting around the city by bicycle accessible and fun for all.
Showcasing the Shimano STEPS system, the sporty Opus WKND does triple duty on commutes, workouts and fun rides. The light, hydroformed alloy frame has the stiffness to react instantly to pedal input. Result — an uncannily responsive ride. The STEPS system's downtube battery, concealed cables and aero wheels also make the WKND look as fast as it feels. Saddle up and never wait for the weekend again!
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The upright positioning and the flat handlebar makes it a perfect bike for commuting to work or just riding for fun and fitness. Add the 20-speed Shimano drivetrain, and that commute doesn't seem so long, that last hill doesn't seem so steep, and taking the longer route home seems a little more appealing. Plus, a quality stem, seatpost, and handlebar from Opus round out the build and you'll knock off the miles in comfort on the Opus saddle.
The perfect city bike should provide hassle-free riding no matter the season, weather, or time of day. While you can get around the city on any bike in working order, there are a few features that will make your commute, your errands, and your general enjoyment of your bicycle as easy as possible.
The Orpheo LRT is the perfect Lightweight Rapid Transport for your daily commute. Full fenders offer superior protection, while powerful hydraulic disc brakes stop you safely in all weather. Opus added flat-resistant tires to make sure you arrive on time, a rust-resistant chain for year-round service, and a rear rack with built-in storage for your U-lock. Meanwhile, the LRT's stealth looks keep your new ride under the urban radar.
Since marrying classic bike styling and modern materials in their Classico line, they've stepped up their game and shed some pounds off of the all-new Lightweight Women edition to make your ride even more pleasant. With its extra-light alloy materials, low step-through geometry and fresh look, this bike delivers as your most charming city companion.
If you have to pick up your bike to go up a few stairs or load it onto a bike rack on the bus on a regular basis the weight of this bike is a huge benefit. You'll fall in love with how much quicker you can get up that hill. They weight also helps you to ride farther because it takes less energy. In fact the lighter and faster bike will make you want to ride further.
The 7-speed drivetrain on this urban steel bike provides versatility and range. Still faithful to the tradition of French touring bikes, the Moly 7D's 650b wheels and upright position yield unparalleled comfort and control. The perfectly proportioned wheels and easy step-through height, combined with spring saddle and custom grips, make the Moly 7D an instant classic.
Equipped with fenders, full chainguard and rack mounts this bike ticks many of the boxes on our City Bicycle Checklist. Just add a rack and this bike is perfect for holding your groceries, work materials, and whatever else you haul around the city on a regular basis.
Family biking is not only a healthy, affordable, and sustainable, but an amazing opportunity for your kids to get to know their environment, and spend quality time with you. We've outlined tips, best practices, and gear ideas for biking with children – from babies through to school age.
This is good to know! Thanks for sharing this.
OK, where's the city bike for less-flexible seniors?


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On the significance of death rituals according to the Bhagavad Gita (Arjuna's doubt and Krishna's reply)
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by Seva Lamberdar on Tue Aug 21, 2018 11:08 am
Arjuna (in the Gita -- Ch. 1: V. 40-44): There will not be proper religious rituals for the departed (dead) ancestors, and it will result in the suffering (hell) for that family (living members and the dead / departed).
Krishna (in the Gita -- Ch. 2: V. 2-3, 11-13, 17, 22, 27; Ch. 16: V. 19-22): Arjuna's concerns and objections to doing his duty (fighting the battle for righteousness) are baseless. For example, there is no death of the soul (in a battle or elsewhere) and it only changes the body at the time of death according to the previous karma (actions). Moreover, there are no benefits or losses to it later, even from the religious rituals afterwards by others. Eternal soul's condition (good or bad) after death and the attainment of everlasting peace and salvation are essentially dependent on a person's attitude and conduct (good or bad) while living (the Gita: Ch. 2 – V. 71-72).
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A Estrada (kastilisch La Estrada) ist eine galicische Stadt in der Provinz Pontevedra im Nordwesten Spaniens mit 20.891 Einwohnern (Stand 2016).

Die Stadt liegt in einem dichtbevölkerten gebirgigen Gebiet etwa 24 Kilometer südöstlich von Santiago de Compostela. Wichtigste Industriezweige sind die Holzwirtschaft und die Verarbeitung von Milchprodukten.

Zu den Sehenswürdigkeiten zählen eine romanische Kirche in Moreira sowie das Gutshaus und die Gärten von Oca (Pazo de Oca) aus dem 16./17. Jahrhundert. Etwas nördlich der Stadt an der Ulla befindet sich die bei Wanderern beliebte Schlucht San Xóan de Cova.

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Ever wonder why many beers in the bock style have the likeness of a goat on their label? No, it's not because bock is a stronger beer that will kick you in the seat of your pants if you're not careful with it.
The myth of bock beer is that it was brewed once a year in the early spring to "clean out" the barrels, and its dark color came from all the collected "stuff" at the bottom. Indeed a myth! The truth is it was historically connected with religious holidays like Christmas, Easter, and Lent. And it was traditionally consumed by Bavarian monks as a source of nutrition during times of fasting.
There are a number of styles of bock beer, but one thing they all have in common is a concentration of sugars and an alcohol level of 6.5-13% ABV. There are even Eisbocks with ABV in the mid to upper teens, and a world record brew with 57% ABV!
Pour the beer into the heat-safe glass.
Grasp the rod with a hot pad or heavy-duty glove.
Light the torch and heat the rod to glowing red hot. We've been using the Bernzomatic Campfire Torch.
Insert into the beer and hold it there until all bubbling and fizzing stops.
Remove rod and set aside.
This can be a fun activity at the campfire where everyone can try "poking" their own brew!
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Berkeley High School's Jeffrey Zeigler won the Hanahan Invitational Tournament's home run derby on Sunday afternoon, hitting 37 home runs in four regular 2-minute rounds and two one-minute playoff rounds. Zeigler knocked off Jonathan Barham of Hanahan in the final. It was Zeigler's second clutch performance in less than a week. On April 8, he threw a one-hitter and struck out seven in Berkeley's region-clinching victory, 4-0, over Cane Bay in Moncks Corner.


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Éditions Galilée és una editorial francesa amb seu a París i creada el 1971 per Michel Delorme. Està especialitzada en filosofia, literatura francesa, arts i humanitats. És coneguda per haver publicat textos vinculats amb el concepte de desconstrucció, teoritzat per Jacques Derrida, i sobre filosofia postmoderna d'autors com Jean Baudrillard i Jean-François Lyotard.

Entre les autories presents en el seu catàleg destaquen: Michel Bosquet, Sarah Kofman, Jean-Luc Nancy, Georges Perec, Jacques Dupin, Paul Virilio, Jean Oury, Félix Guattari, Bernard Stiegler, Ignacio Ramonet, Hélène Cixous, Michel Deguy, Michel Onfray, Pascal Quignard, Marc Augé, Yves Bonnefoy i Jacques Rancière. Així com també artistes del prestigi de Valerio Adami, Pierre Alechinsky, Karel Appel, Guillaume Corneille, Erró, Simon Hantaï i Antoni Tàpies.

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Walerij Pawłowicz Czkałow (ros. Валерий Павлович Чкалов, ur. , zm. 15 grudnia 1938) – radziecki lotnik rekordowy i doświadczalny, jeden z najsłynniejszych lotników radzieckich, kombrig Armii Czerwonej.

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Urodził się 2 lutego 1904 we wsi Wasiljowo (ob. Czkałowsk) w guberni niżnonowogrodzkiej w Imperium Rosyjskim, Rosjanin. Pracował jako robotnik i palacz kotłowy. Od 1919 służył ochotniczo w Armii Czerwonej, jako ślusarz-mechanik w jednostce lotniczej. W 1922 ukończył teoretyczną szkołę lotniczą, a w 1923 wojskową szkołę pilotażu. W 1924 ukończył moskiewską szkołę wyższego pilotażu i wyższą szkołę walki powietrznej, po czym służył w radzieckim lotnictwie wojskowym.

W latach 1930–1933 był pilotem doświadczalnym Instytutu Naukowo-Badawczego radzieckich sił powietrznych. Od 1933 przeszedł do rezerwy i został pilotem doświadczalnym w fabryce nr 39 i biurze konstrukcyjnym Polikarpowa. Oblatywał m.in. myśliwce I-15 i I-16, będące podstawą radzieckiego lotnictwa końca lat 30 XX w. Prowadził łącznie badania ponad 70 samolotów. Aktywnie zajmował się akrobacją lotniczą, opracowując nowe figury wyższego pilotażu.

Czkałow był ulubieńcem Józefa Stalina, który poznał go 2 maja 1935 r. w czasie prezentacji najnowszego sprzętu lotniczego. Po widowiskowym locie Czkałowa pełnym wymyślnych akrobacji Stalin zapragnął poznać tego wyjątkowego pilota. Spodobał się mu, co zaowocowało nie tylko pierwszym Orderem Lenina, ale także objęciem ochroną przed bezpieką całego zespołu Polikarpowa. Ze wspomnień syna W. Czkałowa, Igora, wynika, że Stalin często rozmawiał telefonicznie z Walerijem i wiele razy zapraszał go na Kreml moskiewski.

W dniach 20–22 lipca 1936 dokonał przelotu bez lądowania na samolocie ANT-25 z drugim pilotem Gieorgijem Bajdukowem i nawigatorem A. Bielakowem z Moskwy nad Oceanem Lodowatym i Pietropawłowskiem Kamczackim na wyspę Udd (później nazwaną Czkałow), o długości 9374 km, w ciągu 56 godzin 20 min. Za ten wyczyn został uhonorowany 24 lipca 1936 tytułem Bohatera Związku Radzieckiego.

W dniach 18–20 czerwca 1937, z tą samą załogą na ANT-25 dokonał pierwszego przelotu nad Biegunem Północnym, z Moskwy do Vancouver koło Portlandu w USA, długości 8504 km. Po tych przelotach, Czkałow stał się jednym z najbardziej znanych lotników w ZSRR. Był ulubieńcem towarzysza I.W.Stalina, który liczył się z jego zdaniem w sprawach lotnictwa. Według niektórych źródeł, Stalin miał proponować W.Czkałowowi objęcie funkcji naczelnika NKWD, czego ten odmówił.

Zginął 15 grudnia 1938 w Moskwie, podczas katastrofy przy oblatywaniu prototypowego myśliwca Polikarpowa I-180. Na żądanie władz, samolot ten był skierowany do oblotu przed całkowitym dopracowaniem, aby zmieścić się w planie, czemu sprzeciwiał się sam Polikarpow. Katastrofa spowodowana była usterką silnika, połączoną z niewykończeniem konstrukcji. Podczas próby lądowania z wyłączonym silnikiem, Czkałow został wyrzucony z kabiny i zmarł po 2 godzinach w szpitalu (okoliczności jego śmierci spowodowały powstanie teorii spiskowych, iż wypadek był spowodowany celowo przez władze, jednakże nie ma na to potwierdzenia; niemniej jednak odtąd biuro konstrukcyjne Polikarpowa popadło w niełaskę). Urna z jego prochami została pochowana na Cmentarzu przy Murze Kremlowskim w Moskwie.

Walerij Czkałow miał troje dzieci: Igora, Olgę i Waleriję. Był odznaczony m.in. Orderem Lenina (dwukrotnie) i Orderem Czerwonego Sztandaru. Od 1936 był członkiem partii komunistycznej WKP(b). W 1937 został deputowanym do Rady Najwyższej ZSRR. W 1938 uzyskał stopień wojskowy kombriga. Po śmierci, nazwiskiem Czkałowa nazwano wieś jego urodzenia (od 1955 miasto Czkałowsk), miasto Czkałowsk w Tadżykistanie, miasto Orenburg (w latach 1938–1957 – Czkałow), osiedle Czkałowsk w Kaliningradzie, jak też wiele instytucji i organizacji.

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 tytuł Bohatera Związku Radzieckiego – 24 lipca 1936 (Złotą Gwiazdę otrzymali dopiero jego potomkowie w 2004 gdyż została ona ustanowiona do tego tytułu w 1939 po śmierci Czkałowa)
 dwukrotnie Order Lenina – 5 maja 1935 i 24 lipca 1936
 Order Czerwonego Sztandaru – lipiec 1937
 Medal jubileuszowy "XX lat Robotniczo-Chłopskiej Armii Czerwonej" – luty 1938

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Piloci doświadczalni
Radzieccy piloci
Rosyjscy Bohaterowie Związku Radzieckiego
Deputowani do Rady Najwyższej ZSRR
Ludzie upamiętnieni nazwami miejscowości
Odznaczeni Orderem Lenina
Ofiary badań w locie
Pochowani na Cmentarzu przy Murze Kremlowskim
Urodzeni w 1904
Zmarli w 1938


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World Bank to Help Zambia Develop Socially Desirable and Economically Viable Irrigation Schemes
WASHINGTON, April 7, 2011 – The World Bank Board of Directors today approved a US$115 million credit for the Irrigation Development and Support Project (IDSP) to enable Zambia to overhaul its irrigation subsector. Zambia's Sixth National Development Plan's goal for the agriculture sector is to "increase and diversify agriculture production and productivity so as to raise the share of its contribution to the GDP by 2015".
This project will therefore bring together smallholders and agribusiness investors in shared irrigation schemes with complementary roads and power, contracted management of the irrigation, and professional guidance to the smallholders in order to increase yield per hectare and value of diverse products marketed by both small and large holders benefitting from this IDSP investment.
Although agriculture and agro-processing sectors contribute about 40 percent of the GDP and roughly 12 percent of national export earnings, it has contributed less than proportionately to aggregate growth. The latent potential inherent in the abundant land and water has clearly not yet been tapped. Primary agriculture employs about 67 percent of the labor force, and produces only about 20 percent of GDP. Agriculture remains small scale and labor intensive, and most producers work two hectares or fewer.
"The relatively slow growth of agriculture over the past decade explains why rapid national aggregate growth has brought little reduction of poverty. Yet agriculture is Zambia's lowest hanging fruit that has the biggest potential to lift many people out of poverty," said Kapil Kapoor, Zambia's World Bank Country Manager, "In addition to helping to improve poverty levels of the rural populace through all year agricultural production and better access to markets, the Irrigation Development Support Project will bring the rural economy into mainstream economy thereby helping to reduce the poverty gap between the urban and the rural population."
The project, which will be developed in proposed selected sites, is expected to be implemented over seven years, with a completion date of June 15, 2018 and a closing date of December 15, 2018. It has four components:
Irrigated Agricultural Support Services: will provide knowledge and skills, and strengthen capacity of beneficiaries to prepare and operate medium-to-large size smallholder irrigation schemes on a sustainable commercial basis through the use of partnership agreements between the Government, communities and the private sector.
Public Infrastructure: will provide bulk water supply and associated infrastructure required to establish medium-to-large size smallholder irrigation schemes under agreed partnership agreements. The infrastructure will be fully financed by IDA credit and owned by the Government.
Private and Cooperative Investment: will facilitate private and cooperative investment in productive equipment and assets in and around irrigation schemes. It will also stimulate the establishment of small-scale enterprises.
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1. Delhi launches doorstep delivery of govt. services
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After months of planning, the Delhi government on Monday launched its ambitious project to deliver public services at the doorstep of residents.
From driving licences to marriage certificates, Delhiites can now apply for 40 government documents to be delivered at their homes for a fee of ₹50 per service.
The applicant would have to call 1076 and fix an appointment with a mobile sahayak, who will go to their home and help with filling forms, payment of fees and collection of documents.
The mobile sahayak would then submit the documents at the government office concerned, which would post the certificate or licence once issued.
2. Tejas clears maiden mid-air refuelling trial
The first ever mid-air refuelling of the indigenously developed Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) Tejas was successfully carried out Monday, placing India in an elite group of countries which have developed the air-to-air refuelling system for military aircraft.
With this first trial, the aircraft gets much closer to the important battle-ready tag, called the FOC or the final operational clearance.
Production partner Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd. and LCA's designer and developer Aeronautical Development Agency (ADA) gave the thumbs-up as an Air Force transport plane IL-78 refuelled the light fighter as it flew at a height of 20,000 feet over Gwalior, an HAL statement said.
"The Light Combat Aircraft 'Tejas' (LSP8) has successfully completed the 'wet' or actual engagement today[Monday] by transferring 1,900 kg of fuel from an IAF IL-78's mid-air refuelling tanker. All internal tanks and drop tanks were refuelled. The aircraft was [flying at a speed of] 270 knots. On September 4 and 6, a dry docking of the aerial refuelling probe with mother tanker was done," the release said. (LSP stands for limited series production.)
The flight was piloted by Wing Commander Siddharth Singh of the National Flight Test Centre, Bengaluru, with designers from HAL and ADA closely monitoring the system parameters from the ground station.
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The Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act (POCSO Act) 2012 was formulated in order to effectively address sexual abuse and sexual exploitation of children. … The Act defines a child as any person below eighteen years of age.
4. Third party audit of food businesses
To strengthen the food safety surveillance system, the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has envisaged audits of food business operators by third party private auditing agencies recognised by the regulator. For the same, the FSSAI has notified the Food Safety and Standards (Food Safety Auditing) Regulation, 2018.
The FSSAI has provisionally recognised 22 audit agencies in accordance with the draft Food Safety and Standard (Food Safety Auditing) Regulation, 2017. These include national and international food safety audit agencies like DNV, Bureau Veritas, Intertek and MS Certification, among others. The third party agencies will be working in close coordination with the government food safety department.
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5. Novak Djokovic asserts greatness at the U.S. Open, Naomi Osaka shows she's here to stay
There was a time when Pete Sampras's tally of 14 Grand Slam singles titles — the last of which came at the U.S. Open in 2002 — seemed like the acme of sporting achievement in men's tennis. Little did anybody expect that in the next 16 years, across 64 Majors, not one or two but three players would stand shoulder to shoulder with the American great. On Sunday, Novak Djokovic became that third man, defeating Argentine Juan Martin del Potro, for his third U.S. Open title at Flushing Meadows. The 31-year-old Serb has never been considered a once-in-a-generation talent, as have Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal, the ones above him in the trophy count.
There has been a first-time winner in four of the past six Grand Slam tournaments, and 20-year-old Naomi Osaka added to the eclectic mix by becoming the first Japanese to win a Major. In Serena Williams, the winner of 23 singles Slams, the most by any player in the Open Era, Osaka faced the ultimate challenge. It was also an inter-generational battle like none other. The 16-year age gap between Williams and Osaka was the second biggest in the Open Era for a women's final, next only to Monica Seles (17) vs. Martina Navratilova (34) at the 1991 U.S. Open.
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6. Bullwhip effect
This refers to a phenomenon wherein small changes in consumer demand for a product at the retail stage can cause exponentially larger changes in the demand experienced by other members of the supply chain. This happens due to errors in forecasting demand across the supply chain of a product. The increase in consumer demand for a product can cause retailers to order more of it from wholesale sellers, who in turn might order even more from manufacturers, and so on. The idea was first proposed by American computer scientist Jay Wright Forrester in his 1961 book Industrial Dynamics.
7. Army plans to turn lean, save big
The force restructuring that the Army is aiming to undertake, thereby reducing its strength by 1.5 lakh men, is expected to save ₹5,000 crore to ₹7,000 crore a year in revenue expenditure, defence sources say.
The progress of four independent studies under way will be reviewed by the Chief of the Army Staff, General Bipin Rawat, at a conference with the seven Army commanders on Tuesday.
"The idea is to place the studies for a threadbare discussion at the Army Commanders' Conference next month and finalise the modalities and roll out the plan by November-December," a defence source said.
The studies being carried out by separate groups with seven or eight officers each are tasked with looking into restructuring of the Army headquarters. The restructuring includes cutting down the strength, cadre review of officers and review of terms and conditions of junior commissioned officers and other ranks.
The 1.3-million strong Army is facing an increasing burden of revenue expenditure and pensions, leaving very little funds for modernisation.
8. 'Ban those filing false poll affidavits'
The Supreme Court on Monday asked the Centre to respond to a plea to make filing of false declaration or statement before the Election Commission and poll authorities a corrupt practice, leading to disqualification from contesting elections. A Bench led by Justice A.K. Sikri issued notice to the government on a petition filed by Supreme Court advocate Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay contending that there were "growing instances of filing of false affidavits and it has an appalling effect on free and fair elections."
9. A free-for-all at Chicago Hindu meet
The three-day World Hindu Congress (WHC) organised by Sangh Parivar affiliates concluded on Sunday with calls for Hindu unity and resurgence.
10. India, Bangladesh jointly inaugurate three projects
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina inaugurated three projects through video conference on Monday. The projects are 500 MW additional power supply from India to Bangladesh, Akhaura-Agartala rail link, and rehabilitation of Kulaura Shahbazpur section of Bangladesh railways.
11. First BIMSTEC military exercise begins in Pune
The first military exercise of the multilateral grouping BIMSTEC (Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation) began in Pune on Monday. Nepal and Thailand have sent observers while other countries are full participants. Set up in 1997, it includes India, Bangladesh, Bhutan Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Thailand.
12. U.S. to close Palestine mission in Washington
The United States has decided to close the Palestinian mission in Washington in the latest move against them by President Donald Trump, a Palestinian official said on Monday, denouncing it as a "dangerous escalation".
The closure comes as Mr. Trump seeks to force the Palestinian leadership, which has cut off contact with the White House, to negotiate as his team pursues a plan for peace — what he calls the "ultimate deal".
The U.S. has also been angered by a Palestinian bid to have Israel investigated for war crimes at the International Criminal Court (ICC). Palestinian officials say the reason given for the closure was their campaign at the ICC.
Under long-standing U.S. law, permission for the PLO to maintain its mission in Washington must be renewed every six months.
13. 'May's Brexit plan opposed by around 80 MPs'
British Prime Minister Theresa May's Conservative Party faces a "catastrophic split" if she persists with her proposals on Brexit, which 80 or more of her lawmakers are prepared to vote against, a former junior Minister said. Such public criticism, a day after former Foreign Minister Boris Johnson cast her Brexit plans as "a suicide vest" wrapped around the British Constitution, indicates how hard it could be for Ms. May to get any Brexit deal approved.
If 80 of Ms. May's 315 lawmakers voted against a Brexit deal based on her proposals, the fate of the government and the exit process would depend on the Opposition Labour Party because she would not command the 320 votes needed to dominate Parliament.
Divisions over Britain's relationship with the EU contributed to the fall of all three previous Conservative Premiers — David Cameron, John Major and Margaret Thatcher.[Indian Current Affairs- The Hindu]
14. Google wants more time to meet data storage norms
Technology giant Google has sought two more months from the Indian government to comply with RBI guidelines mandating storing of data by digital payment services providers locally.
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI), in April this year, had directed payment system operators to store all data, including full end-to-end transaction details and information collected, within India. The service providers were given six months till October 15 to comply.
15. SpiceJet introduces air cargo service
SpiceJet introduced air cargo services on Monday when it also inducted its first freighter aircraft. The services will be offered under the brand name SpiceXpress, which will be set up as a separate business unit under SpiceJet Limited. The cargo flight services would commence from September 18. The airline plans to add four more freighter aircraft during the current fiscal.
16. Cook signs off with a memorable century
England cricketer Alastair Cook announced his retirement from Test Cricket.
17. Celebrity chef Bourdain wins posthumous Emmys
U.S. celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain, who committed suicide in June at age 61, posthumously earned a pair of Emmy Awards on Sunday for his work on the popular CNN food-and-travel show he hosted, Parts Unknown.
Bourdain was awarded one of the Emmys, the U.S. television industry's highest honour, for outstanding writing of a nonfiction programme for an episode of the series set in southern Italy that aired last November during its 10th season.
He also shared a second Emmy prize for best informational series or special in his role as host and executive producer of Parts Unknown.
Three more Emmys went to various other people for their behind-the-camera work on the series — in the categories for best picture editing, sound editing and best short-form nonfiction or reality series.
Bourdain previously won Emmys four years in a row, from 2013 through 2016, as producer and host of Parts Unknown in the category of outstanding informational series or special.
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