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Where Have all the Flowers Gone? by Cindy Sheehan
Watching Obama salute a coffin at Dover Air Force Base with all the pomp and circumstance of US Military worship filled me with disgust and sorrow.
Disgust because the White House PR apparatus went into full swing to find a family that would allow their loved ones' coffin to be photographed in a scene that reminded me of George Bush's landing on the deck of the Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier on May 2, 2003 wearing a pilot's suit and a codpiece.
Why did Obama do this? To soften the blow, of sending more troops, for a gullible public that wants to believe someone like Obama could give a crap about the cannon fodder he condemns to pointless death?
Being the Commander in Chief of the United States Military has only meant one thing for the past sixty years or so: being the tool of the War Machine. And even though a tool has no say in whether it is used to build or destroy, did Obama have no shame when he went to salute the coffin of a young person that he (the buck stops here) killed? Does he not have the courage to sign the orders to start withdrawing our troops from these wars that were begun by the War Machine when his predecessor was in office, but roll bloodily on while he wears the imperial mantle of carnage?
Sorrow because my son came through Dover Air Force Base on his last trip home from military service.
Casey was in the Army for almost four years before his country murdered him in Iraq.
Before Casey was killed in an ambush in Sadr City, Baghdad on April 04, 2004 (Palm Sunday that year), his homecomings were always cause for great joy in the Sheehan household because we all missed him so much. I would prepare everything that he loved to eat; I wouldn't crab at him if he stayed up all night playing games on the computer; in short, I would spoil him as much as I could.
The Friday after he was killed, (Good Friday that year) one of our friends came over to tell us that Casey's coffin had just been removed from the belly of a C140 at Dover, he knew this because his son-in-law had just removed it. Then we got a call from our "Casualty Officer" who told us that Casey's shell would be flying home to San Francisco and we made arrangements with the funeral home to go pick it up the next day (Holy Saturday).
We drove to SFO, following the hearse, in a limo provided by the funeral home. Obviously, there was no joy or laughter in the limo on that trip to pick up our dead son/brother/nephew/friend.
After we arrived at the loading dock of United Airlines, we literally had to sit on a curb while we waited for Casey's body to be brought from the airplane. He was brought to the hearse in a cardboard box and offloaded onto a conveyor belt by a forklift. There was no color guard, there was no band playing, there was no saluting-idiot Commander in Chief---there were only his brokenhearted loved ones---in shock and in pain that has no measure or end.
Sorrow for the mothers and other loved ones of those killed. Have you ever had to pick out a gravesite for a child? It's disordered to bury a child, but demented to have one killed in another US Corporate war for profit.
Sorrow because of the devastation these wars are causing all over the world: from a loading dock in San Francisco to the target of a drone in Pakistan or the scene of another bombing in a crowded Iraqi marketplace.
When will we ever learn?
MYTH AMERICA II: 20 GREATEST MYTHS OF THE ROBBER CLASS AND THE CASE FOR REVOLUTION
MYTH AMERICA II
After touring for four months in about 40 cities with Myth America ONE, through my interactions with thousands of people, I realized that I had barely skimmed the surface of the Class War topic.
Now with job loss at record rates and USAians being evicted from their homes, or having their homes foreclosed on at a rate of one every 7 1/2 seconds; with the wars raging hotter and hotter, and with the establishment giving itself prizes for carnage, after a whole lot of work, Myth II is just about ready to be sent to your email box.
MYTH AMERICA I exposed and dispelled 10 MYTHS. MYTH II exposes and dispels 10 more to round out the subject. MYTH II is broken up into two parts: FOUNDATIONAL MYTHS and OPERATIONAL MYTHS and gives more solutions to the grassroots revolution of values that MYTH I proposed.
MYTH AMERICA II is priced at 17.00; 2.00 of which will go towards OMEID International that operates an orphanage in Afghanistan.
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EXCERPT FROM MYTH II:
from the MYTH that ONE PERSON CAN'T MAKE A DIFFERENCE
On August 3rd, 2005, I decided to go confront George Bush on his vacation in Crawford, TX…I decided to go and try and ask him a simple question: "What Noble Cause, did my son die for?"
I was there on August 6, with six other people, a few lawn chairs, one flashlight and a 5-gallon paint bucket to pee in…and an ice chest filled with water so we wouldn't dry up and blow away in the constant heat…(have I mentioned it was hot that summer?) Whoever came later, came later…there were no think tanks, advisers, or large support staff that planned, or carried out the initial action.
What if I had remained in my air-conditioned Vacaville home paralyzed with fear and anxiety over being just one person? Or, what if I had put my energy into the next election? First of all, my fear of anything ended the day the Robber Class killed my son in Iraq, and secondly, we have had two elections since then which elected more Democrats with ZERO positive change in any direction.
I never envisioned or even imagined that my single idea, made singly by one single person sitting by myself in my Vacaville living room would have such an impact. We never know when one single act or person will grow to large actions, sometimes we never do know because individuals remain paralyzed out of fear that they don't have any power, or out of fear of their own power.
The revolution that I am calling for is a non-violent revolution of "values." The same kind that Martin Luther King, Jr was calling for the year before he was assassinated.
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Symbolic Actions don't Solve Real Problems
My Speech at anti-war Rally in San Francisco
It's nice to see everybody here today as we are about to embark on another symbolic march to nowhere.
How many self-congratulatory miles do you think we've marched for peace in the last 45 years? Millions?
How many petitions do you think we've signed and delivered? Millions?
How many phone calls have we made to our elected representative? Billions?
How many War Party Politicians like Nancy Pelosi do we continually elect to office? Thousands?
Why do we consistently and constantly perform these symbolic actions, when millions of people are not symbolically dying?
When millions of people are not symbolically losing their homes, their jobs and being poisoned by the War Machine, why are only symbolic actions undertaken?
Trust me, our symbolic actions have absolutely zero affect on real problems.
Have our actions over the years diminished the War Machine by one iota? Hell no, as a matter of fact, The Empire counts on us to keep our actions symbolic, because our symbolic actions actually strengthen The Empire.
Because we march one day and write out a check to The Empire the next day in the form of paying our Federal Income Taxes.
Because we sign a petition one day then fill up our gas tanks at Chevron the next day.
Because we call our Congress Reps one day and support sponsors of the Media Industrial Complex the next.
Because we vote for War Party Politicians who promise to escalate war and then do nothing but whine when he actually keeps his promise to surge the violence.
If we really do what real change, then we are going to have to really do something real.
Why do we continue to constantly do the same thing and expect different results?
Until we do what Mario Savio encouraged us to do 45 years ago---throw our bodies upon the gears of the machine---NOTHING WILL CHANGE.
At the risk of sounding like a politician, I want to call you "My Dear Friends," because you are and there is nothing symbolic about that, this will be the last rally you will see me at here in San Francisco.
I am moving to DC to throw my body on the gears of the machine and I hope thousands will join me in this great sacrifice.
We actually have to Be and Create the change that our planet and humanity so desperately needs.
Next time I am here, we'll be dancing on the grave of the US Military Empire!
I promise you that because this time failure is not an option and I am not standing down until peace finally prevails.
CINDY IN NORTH CAROLINA: OCTOBER 23-26
Friday, Oct. 23 ASHEVILLE
7:00pm Program at First Congregational Church
20 Oak St. Asheville, sponsored by WNC Veterans for Peace
9:00pm Reception for guests
Saturday, Oct. 24 STATESVILLE
5:00pm program at the Statesville Civic Center,
300 S. Center St. Statesville, sponsored by We Are Change NC
Sunday, Oct. 25 CHARLOTTE
7:00pm program at Piedmont Unitarian-
Universalist Church, 9704 Mallard Creek Rd.
Sponsors: PUUC Peace Alliance, Charlotte Code Pink, VFP
Monday, Oct. 26 BOLIVIA
7:00pm program at the Odell Williamson Auditorium on the Brunswick Co. Comm. College campus
Sponsor: Brunswick Co. NAACP
Tuesday, Oct. 27 RALEIGH
7:00pm program at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Raleigh, 3313 Wade Avenue, Raleigh
Sponsors: Triangle Veterans for Peace, Triangle CodePink Women for Peace, NC Peace Action
9:00pm Reception for guests (time permitting before Cindy's departure from RDU airport.)
UPDATE ON PEACE OF THE ACTION
We are building a strong coalition of peace people and groups to help us clog up business in Washington, DC, so much so, that our demands of: Troops Home Now, no Drone Bombings; Close Permanent Bases and Torture Facilities; and No Mercenaries; reparations for the people of these war torn countries and to rebuild infrastructure, are met.
We are hoping we will have 5000 people sign up and ready to start Peace of the Action by the 7th awful anniversary of the US invasion and occupation of Iraq on March 19th, 2010.
A report on NPR today said that the Obama Military Regime is getting ready to send a substantial troop surge to Afghanistan and will announce it next week at or before the NATO meeting in Bratislava. Gordon Brown, PM of Great Britain said that his country will send 500 more to a force of 9000…hasn't Great Britain had its full of Afghanistan yet?
Recently, the puppet government of Iraq published a statistic, which said 87,000 innocent Iraqis have been killed since 2004 (which didn't count "shock and awe" and the rest of 2003). We all know that many more than 87,000 have died and millions more have been displaced.
The practices of torture, rendition and preventive, indefinite detention are still occurring while we here in America lose our jobs (real unemployment rate is approaching 22%) our homes (one foreclosure every 7.5 seconds) and our security. Had enough yet?
Our inaction is not an option anymore either!
I think it's time to ramp up the Peace Movement and move away from symbolic and limited actions to sustained civil resistance on a daily basis. Marching from Point A to Point B and having small CDs have not worked. Petitions have not worked. Lobbying Congress has not worked, but MOST OF ALL, elections have not worked. Time for We the Peaceful to get to work!
Peace of the Action is huge and we need a huge commitment from huge amounts of people.
To sign up, please email me at:
We are "ALL IN UNTIL WE WIN," but if you can only come form a day, week, month, or until we succeed, we need every one of you there in DC.
We need (among other things) organizers and coordinators, housing, camping equipment, legal aid, medical aid, video/computer equipment and videographers, WEBMASTER, and most of all:
MONEY…..
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UPDATE on IPDoP
International People's Declaration of Peace
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On October 5th, Cindy read the International Declaration of Peace in front of the White House during the protest against the continuing war in Afghanistan. Soon after, Cindy chained herself to the White House fence and was arrested along with 61 other people. Soon after that (a few days), Barack Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in direct contravention to "true peace." The Declaration is needed so badly!
The IPDoP has been translated into 15 other languages besides English and we are waiting for more. Here are the languages we have: Arabic, Farsi, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. The languages we need are: Bengali, Dutch, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Thai, Vietnamese and any other language besides these major ones.
Our website is still "Under Construction," but you can read the full Declaration here. We are working on an online petition.
An archival quality copy is also in the works, so Cindy can take it around the world to have prominent grassroots peace people sign the Declaration for recorded history.
We are very proud of this Declaration that was written with the help of people from all over the world and we firmly believe that true peace will only come through WE THE PEOPLE.
Watch this YouTube of Cindy reading the Declaration in front of the US Capitol Building.
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Capitalism: An Apathy Story by Cindy Sheehan
Capitalism: An Apathy Story
This Thursday, in a move that would make Baron von Louis Rothschild blush with shame (or burst with pride), Goldman Sachs will announce that it is more than doubling its bonus pool: from 11 billion in 2007 to 23 billion in 2008.
I always thought the concept of the "Welfare Queen" was eliminated during the Clinton Regime (where his SecTreas was a former chair of G S) however, Goldman Sachs has received billions of dollars in taxpayer welfare and supposedly paid that back, except for the 13 billion that was funneled through AIG to Goldman through loan guarantees.
Well, wouldn't it be hunky dory if every loan we consumers took out from these banksters came with a guarantee that if we failed, our government would pay our loans off?
To diffuse any citizenry guillotine brigades, the Chairman of G S says that one billion dollars of that money will be given to charity, without specifying which charity it will be going to, probably Billionaire Overseas Villa Fund, or something like that. Well, empty rhetoric or the shiny keys of Madison Avenue hocus-pocus glitz are not fooling me any more. However, I don't think much PR spin will be needed around this newest bonus outrage. There may be some international hell to pay, though, since 19 of the other G20 countries were rightly concerned about the image that out of control bonuses lends the already tarnished state of Robber Class deviltry, I am concerned that the threatening dumping of the dollar will begin to commence in earnest after this round.
Most Americans don't even give a poop, which is incredible to me since almost 1 out of 4 of us who want work can't find any and every 7 ½ seconds someone in this country will lose their homes in the continuing carnage of the bursting of the Federal Reserve-Goldman Sachs-AIG housing bubble.
Congress will make some squeaks in Goldman Sachs' direction and The Laureate will say something like: "This is not acceptable," then he will go forward in total acceptance and obsequiousness to his masters that put him in power.
What will the American Public do?
I am afraid that Goldman Sachs doesn't even have to make the empty gesture of one billion dollars in charity because no guillotine brigades will march down Wall Street.
When Goldman Sachs wins the Nobel Prize in Economics next year, we will become mildly annoyed and then yawn in the best American tradition and go on allowing the Robber Class to steal us blind, hoping that there is another juicy divorce or celebrity death that can distract us from reality.
The Robber Class doesn't frustrate me nearly as much as the Robbed Class. Robbers will be Robbers only as long as we in the Robbed Class let them.
Travels of a Dedicated Peace Monger by Cindy Sheehan
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Travels of a Dedicated Peace Monger
I am up late in Sweden after spending 5 days here speaking at seminars and doing interviews.
I am heading back to the U.S. tomorrow and after a stop in Albuquerque, I will head back to my home in California on Monday.
I have been gone from the beautiful, yet broke, state of my birth for over 3 weeks now. This trip hasn't been the longest one, or even most grueling one, but it has been eventful!
I left Sacramento Airport on Friday, September 18th early in the morning to fly to Dallas. There I once again, for the umpteenth time, protested George Bush at his Dallas home, with dozens of others, spoke at my radio station's (Rational Radio) progressive forum (with Thom Hartmann and David Swanson), and snuck into an event at Texas Stadium where George Bush was speaking to young, impressionable students and barely missed confronting him, but got my pic taken with war-supporter Roger Staubach. Yep, that's a pic of Roger and Me! I think he looks a little stunned, myself!
After Dallas, I headed to the G20 protest, where I was hit by an LRAD (LONG RANGE ACOUSTIC DEVICE), teargassed, and chased around Pittsburgh by US Stormtroopers there to protect the globalists meeting at the Convention Center from We the Peaceful. Pittsburgh showed me the actual and potential brutality of the Police State.
I was getting ready to go to Nevada to protest at the air force base from where many drone bombing missions are controlled, when I came down with some kind of yucky flu and had to go to the ER in Pittsburgh because I was having trouble breathing...yes, I have no health insurance...and I was trapped in a hotel room for 3 days before I felt strong enough to head down and over to our nation's capital to participate in an anti-economic sanctions conference. In my opinion, sanctions are a WMD, and our Secretary of State has been threatening "crippling" ones against Iran. Sort of like the sanctions against Iraq that kiled over one million children and were "worth it" to Madam Madeline Allbright.
St. Louis for a book event (Myth America), then back to the capital for an anti-war rally, where I joined hundreds of others and read the International People's Declaration of Peace in front of the White House. Oh by the way, I also got arrested (pictured above) after I chained myself to the fence with activist Janine Boneparth from the Bay Area. So, hundreds of us protested the future Nobel Peace Laureate and that makes me wonder what that makes us? Anti-peace?
Anyway, here I am in Sweden, late Saturday night missing my grandson and my children and my dog and my cat and my own bed and looking forward to the birth of my granddaughter at the end of this month (an event that I will be present for).
Thank you for your love and support. My supporters help me get through the tough times and rejoice with me in the victories and the good times.
Now, we are planning the most ambitious and bold peace action ever in Washington DC beginning as soon as we have 5000 people sign up:
Peace of the Action!
With a Nobel Peace Laureate as our President, I think it's time to strike while the iron is smoking hot!
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"Visions" by Cindy Sheehan
Today, a President of the largest violently military empire in the world, won the Nobel Peace Prize while his nation is mired in wars in three countries where his actions have oftentimes made things worse.
Let's also make this clear that the Nobel prizes are supposed to be awarded for work done the previous year (2008), so that means Obama was awarded the prize for campaigning for the presidency of the USA, where his "vision" (platform) was consistently pro-more war. The nominations are also due by February 1st. Ten days after the inauguration and about a week after a drone in Pakistan killed over 3 dozen innocent people.
He was awarded the prize for his "vision" for a "nuclear free world."
Let's examine this. Probably at least a few billion people on this planet have that same "vision" and I know thousands have been working on this "vision" for decades, beginning right around the time, the USA dropped two of the WMD on Japan.
I also have this "vision," but my vision extends to include "conventional" WMD like bunker buster bombs, drone bombers, and white phosphorous: WMD that are being used in the Middle East right now.
I have the "vision" of a nuclear free world, but there are many of us savvy people who know that the USA has been waging a nuclear war in the Middle East for a couple of decades now at least with the low grade WMD of depleted uranium. The USA used DU in Kosovo and the Balkans, also.
We billions of us have the "vision" but only one person in this world has his finger on the triggers of almost 10,000 active nuclear weapons, and that is Barack Obama. You know, the one who was just awarded the Nobel Peace Prize and the one who has threatened Iran with military nuclear power if the leaders of that country even dare to get one atomic bomb.
Obama has the power, but his "vision" has not reduced the world's nuclear arsenal by one bomb. However, his "vision" has so far been responsible for killing 300 US service member and thousands of the unfortunate inhabitants of the countries we are occupying and destroying.
Former Premier of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev and former President, Jimmy Carter were awarded the tainted Prize after Gorbachev bombed the Holy Crap out of Afghanistan and Carter's regime's covert support of the freedom fighters in Afghanistan gave rise to: Taliban, al Qaeda, War Lords and the Northern Alliance. So the Nobel Peace Prize Committee is sending the message to Afghanistan, that if anyone is responsible for killing mass amounts of them, then he will be awarded a Prize.
It's true, Obama did not begin the wars, but he is sending more troops to all theaters. That doesn't sound too peaceful to me. Torture, indefinite detention, "crippling sanctions," threats towards Venezuela and Iran; silent support of a military coup that overthrew a democratically elected President in Honduras and so on, ad nauseum, are all the "accomplishments" of this Nobel Laureate.
I was tear-gassed and chased down by US stormtroopers in Pittsburgh for wanting to express my opinion when the leaders of the G20 were assembled a couple of weeks ago. I saw those same imperial stormtroopers shoot children with rubber bullets or bean-bags filled with steel b.bs in the Empire's new game of, not protest suppression, but protester attack. Are these the actions of a country that is "led" by a Nobel Laureate?
It also comes to me that I chained myself to the White House fence last Monday and was arrested, along with 61 others, protesting the Laureate's war polices, as he met with his "War Council." Five hundred more of us were there. We were and still all are adamantly opposed to the war policies of The Laureate.
What does that make us candidates for?
The Bizzarro World Peace Prize?
The only "vision" that has come true today, is George Orwell's 1984: War is Peace; Ignorance is Strength and Freedom is Slavery.
We can't allow the fact that Obama has been awarded a prize that oftentimes goes to mass murderers anyway, be the final nail in the coffin of the US anti-war movement.
As far as I am concerned, this Prize that was a slap in the face to true peace workers around the world, changes nothing.
Peace of the Action will still go down in DC this spring unless The Laureate signs orders to bring our troops home from the Middle East.
Peace of the Action by Cindy Sheehan
"You gotta make me do it."
I had just walked back into my hotel room yesterday after chaining myself to the White House fence and being arrested, when I saw White House press secretary, Robert Gibbs, say that removing troops from Afghanistan was "not an option."
Hundreds of us were out in front of the White House as this nation is heading into the 9th year of what is the longest overt military misadventure, next to Vietnam.
Sixty-one other people were arrested with me. Organizations calling for the end to torture and for single-payer Medicare for all were in attendance, along with Vet groups and other pro-peace organizations and leaders.
When I saw such a quick response to our protest, I was angry, of course, but I was also excited. First of all, when Obama said that we had to "make him do it," I knew Obama was just blowing smoke out of his hind end, like he blows cigarette smoke out of his mouth. Secondly, I know we are being heard and I have complete realistic hope that this is the time for US in the USA to make a difference.
The anti-war, peace movement must step our efforts up and take it to the next level of severe militant resistance.
Not only is this country borrowing or printing billions of dollars each month for the military; almost one out of four of us do not have a job, or are grossly underemployed; millions of us have or will lose our homes due to foreclosure or eviction; and 1/6 of us don't have health insurance.
The police state is getting out of control and if we don't intensely exercise our rights immediately, we will lose them.
To that end, we are organizing the most ambitious anti-war, peace event ever. We are planning what we are calling, Peace of the Action which will be the largest, most aggressive and sustained action ever done in DC.
We are calling for 5000 people to commit to come to this Nation's Capitol to participate in daily civil resistance to stop "business as usual," because "business as usual" in this town is so corrupt and disordered.
We are not calling for this commitment for a day, a week, or a month. We are not even interested in making symbolic gestures. We are calling for this commitment until our demands of: All troops and para-military mercenaries, are ordered out of Iraq and Afghanistan, the drone bombings in the tribal regions of Af-Pak are discontinued and we get about the business of healing, reconciliation and REPARATIONS.
I am going to move to DC to help coordinate these actions and I will be 100% committed with you to be: "all in it to win it." This time true change will happen, it must.
We must sacrifice a few of our creature comforts to rein in the Empire we live in before it's too late. We will not start Peace of the Action until we have 5000 people who are willing to join us.
This plan is ambitious, audacious and bold. However, I truly think we have a chance to be successful. We are looking for many coordinators, helpers and hell raisers and are hoping to house, (or tent) and feed everyone until Peace happens. This will take massive infrastructure and financial support.
Hopefully we can begin Peace of the Action by the 7th anniversary of the invasion of Iraq on March 19th.
Please email with any questions, or if you are ready to make a commitment to change the future for the better.
Cindy: CindysSoapbox@gmail.com
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FBI complaint says Mona Shores schools victim of Ponzi scheme
Mona Shores Public Schools is the victim of a Ponzi scheme in which a Southfield investment adviser used a portion of nearly $3.5 million in school improvement bond funds to pay off other investors and for his own use, according to a federal criminal complaint.
Dante DeMiro, founder and owner of MuniVest Financial Group, appeared in U.S. District Court Thursday in response to a criminal complaint filed by the FBI Wednesday.
That complaint indicates that DeMiro agreed to purchase — but actually never did — certificates of deposit for Mona Shores as well as Lapeer County and Comstock Township. He sent falsified documents to make the public institutions believe he actually made the purchases with money he instead used to pay off other investors, a jewelry store and for his own use, according to the complaint.
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DeMiro allegedly used some of the Mona Shores' $3.5 million in bond proceeds intended for school improvements to pay Lapeer County and Comstock Township for "matured" CD's he actually never purchased. It isn't clear whether he used all or only some of the district's money.
DeMiro had used payments from Lapeer County and Comstock Township as well as an Iowa credit union to pay principal and interest on an investment made by Boiler Makers Local 169, a trade union in Allen Park.
"Since at least March 2009, DeMiro has operated a Ponzi scheme operation where he obtained millions of dollars in bank wire transfers from these and other clients, purportedly for investment in various certificates of deposit," FBI Special Agent Daniel J. Troccoli wrote in the criminal complaint.
Timeline of Ponzi scheme involving Mona Shores schools as outlined in FBI criminal complaint:
Lapeer County transfers $750,000 to Dante DeMiro's MuniVest Financial Group for the purchase of CDs from three banks.
MuniVest check for $600,000 sent to Universal Jewelry & Watch Repair in Birmingham. FBI later determines MuniVest account couldn't cover the check until the Lapeer County funds had been deposited.
Comstock Township transfers $1.75 million to MuniVest for the purchase of CDs from seven banks.
United Service Credit Union in Des Moines, Iowa, transfers $396,000 to MuniVest for the purchase of CDs from four banks.
Lapeer County transfers another $250,000 to MuniVest for purchase of one CD.
DeMiro sends $1.16 million check to Boiler Makers Local 169 in Allen Park with "refunding principal and interest" in the memo line. FBI alleges the account the check was drawn from had only $187,000 prior to the transfers from Comstock Township, Lapeer County and United Service Credit Union.
Mona Shores transfers $3.48 million to MuniVest for the purchase of CDs.
DeMiro tells Comstock Township that one of its CDs had matured and sends it $255,122 as principal and interest. FBI alleges the money came from funds transferred by Mona Shores.
DeMiro sends $250,000 to Comstock Township for a second CD he says has matured. DeMiro also sends $260,323 to Lapeer County for a CD he says has matured. FBI alleges those payments came from Mona Shores' funds.
FBI informs Mona Shores officials of its investigation of DeMiro.
FBI files criminal complaint against DeMiro in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan alleging he violated federal bank fraud statute and federal wire fraud statute.
DeMiro appears in U.S. District Court on FBI criminal complaint and is released on $10,000 bond.
"Rather than purchase the CDs with his clients' money as directed, evidence indicates that DeMiro instead used the intended investment funds to make payments to other investors in the same scheme and a local jewelry store.
"DeMiro routinely faxed or e-mailed his clients computer 'screen shots' or investment summary reports that purported to detail the clients' investments in CDs at various banks."
Mona Shores officials released a statement Thursday indicating they were "devastated" by the FBI investigation. The district had agreed to invest $3.7 million in CDs through DeMiro, with whom the district had worked for more than a decade, according to the FBI.
DeMiro indicates on the MuniVest Web site that he had worked for another bond company before founding his own firm in 2002. Articles of organization for MuniVest Finacial Group were filed with the state in 2005.
In 2005, DeMiro reportedly donated $250 to the political campaign of U.S. Congressman Thaddeus McCotter, who is chairman of the Republican House Policy Committee and a member of the House Financial Services Committee.
McCotter is listed as a "friend" on DeMiro's Facebook page.
After appearing in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan Thursday, DeMiro was released on $10,000 bond, and is scheduled for a preliminary examination Oct. 7. At that exam hearing, the U.S. Attorney's office will present its evidence and a judge will determine whether there is enough probable cause to send the case to trial. If there is probable cause, a detention hearing will be held to determine if DeMiro should be held in jail until trial.
In his complaint against DeMiro, Troccoli indicated he was not presenting all the details of his investigation, but just enough to prove probable cause.
In 2009, voters in the Mona Shores district approved a $12.5 million bond project to pay for various improvements. The district sold bonds to pay for the improvements and intended to purchase certificates of deposit in numerous banks so that they would be insured by the FDIC prior to completion of the bond projects, according to the district's press release.
The FDIC, or Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., has a standard deposit insurance amount of up to $250,000 per depositor, per bank.
The district used bond money to pay for $1 million in improvements to the high school stadium and four high school classrooms last year, as well as the purchase of 400 computers. Four school buses also have been purchased.
A new orchestra room and improvements to the cafeteria at the middle school and a $4 million high school gymnasium are either recently completed or on the verge of completion.
According to the criminal complaint, the school district, based on its "long-standing relationship with DeMiro," decided to invest $3.7 million in bond proceeds in CDs arranged by DeMiro. In August 2009, the district wired $3.48 million from its bank to the bank of DeMiro's company, MuniVest, according to the complaint.
DeMiro then sent documents to district administrators to make them believe he had purchased the CDs when in fact he hadn't, according to the complaint.
"The documents included e-mail communications, year-end statements, and other periodic financial statements that showed the specifics of the alleged investments," the complaint states.
Bank records show the $3.48 million was used to "make payments to other clients and for his own expenses," the complaint states.
Out of Mona Shores funds, DeMiro paid Comstock Township more than $505,000 and Lapeer County more than $260,000, according to the complaint.
DeMiro depended on a $750,000 check from Lapeer County to cover a $600,000 check he wrote to a jewelry and watch repair store in Birmingham, the complaint says.
E-mail Lynn Moore at
lmoore@muskegonchronicle.com

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Double Pump Hoop Fest Top Performers – Sophomores
By Anthony Ray April 27, 2012 Updated: April 27, 2012 No Comments7 Mins Read
2014 star prospects, 6-foot-8 senior Zylan Cheatham and 6-foot-3 senior point guard Casey Benson (Univ. of Oregon commit) both were among the top 5 overall prospects this summer from the state of Arizona.
2014 prospects Zylan Cheatham and Casey Benson both added PAC-12 division-I offers after last weekend's big-time performance.
Last weekend many of Arizona's top prospects in the 2012, 2013 and 2014 classes traveled to the state of California to take part in the 2012 Double Pump Best Buy Challenge Hoop Fest. The event took place at four different locations with the headquarters of the event being hosted by Cal-State University Dominguez Hills in Carson, CA.
I was in attendance for Saturday and Sunday's action at this weekend's event and caught much of the action, including the final day's championship games.
Here are the top individual sophomore performers from the state of Arizona from last weekend's event.
2012 Double Pump Best Buy Challenge Hoop Fest Top Sophomore Performers
Casey Benson 6-2 SOPH PG Corona Del Sol HS
- Benson was the Tournament's Most Valuable Player from the 16U Division, as he led his Arizona Magic Pump N Run-2014 squad to the championship of this year's event. Benson was terrific in this year's event, as he flat out came of age - leading his team to several big wins in the event, including a nice 14-point win over the top-rated Oakland Soldiers. Benson has come into his own a great deal over the past year, and he grew up right before our eyes in this year's event. Benson made every big shot down the stretch, but also also provided unique leadership and veteran handle of the basketball in the event - making his teammates better and providing a refuse-to-lose attitude in the event. Has become one of the state's elite-level talents and will see his share of college recruitment at the highest level. Earned another scholarship offer for himself from the University of Colorado after the event, and already has offers from Arizona State and Boise State.
Zylan Cheatham 6-7 SOPH SF South Mountain HS
I have regarded Cheatham as a future big-time prospect, but in this year's event he put it all together much quicker than expected showcasing his superb athleticism, defensive ability and willingness to make sacrifices for his team to win. Cheatham is a high-energy, ultra-talented prospect with amazing upside as a player, and terrific work ethic. He will only continue to improve as a player a great deal over time, but his value as a lengthy wing prospect is a nice attribute that will have college coaches beating down his door over time. Very few wing prospects can control the game defensively as Cheatham can, and as he continues to improve as a player offensively, watch out. Another elite-high major division-I prospect in an already absolutely loaded 2014 class for Arizona. Earned an offer from Arizona State after this year's event, and serious interest from Cal, Boise State, Utah State and UC-Santa Barbara.
Connor MacDougall 6-9 SOPH PF/C Desert Vista HS
MacDougall had his coming-out-party, as did many of Arizona's top 2014 prospects, in last weekend's event. Considered a developing low-post prospect, MacDougall looked like that of a finished product in last weekend's event. A very good athlete for his size, MacDougall finished very strong around the basket and above the rim consistently against stiff competition. Outplayed each of the post prospects he was matched up against inside in the paint. He has developed his low post footwork and jump hook a great deal over the past year - now a threat to score each time he gets the basketball around the basket area. Runs the floor very well and has good hands. A good shotblocker. Still growing a great deal and should develop into a high-major division-I prospect over the next year. Receiving serious interest from Utah State and UC-Santa Barbara.
Tate De Laveaga 6-2 SOPH PG/SG Horizon HS
- De Laveaga is as tough as they come as a player his size and age. Does not back down from any match-up, De Laveaga's 18 first-half points were huge in his team's victory over the Oakland Soldiers in the event. A tenacious penetrator, Tate drives the basketball hard to the basket and is an excellent finisher for his size. Also a very good shooter with range on his shot. Has a nice mid-range game, which sets up his drives to the basket and scoring opportunities for his teammates. An aggressive defender that forces turnovers. A solid passer, but trys to make the big play sometimes when not needed. More focus on making players around him better will allow for him to continue to develop as a point guard. A very good ball handler that can get to anywhere he wants on the floor. Receiving serious mid-major division-I interest already since the event from Colgate, UC-Santa Barbara and Utah State.
Sam Jones 6-7 SOPH SG/SF Gilbert Christian HS
- Jones is among the best pure shooters of the basketball in the state - regardless of class. His size and length make him much more attractive than most shooters, since he is able to get his shot off easily over smaller defenders and moves very well with or without the basketball in his hands. Knocked down big shots in last weekend's event and proved that he has ice-water in his veigns, as he is a clutch shooter. Handles the basketball very well for his size and is a fundamentally sound prospect that has a very good feel for the game. As he continues to get stronger physically he will really see his game progress off the dribble, but he is a good finisher now that finishes well over bigger defenders. Active rebounder. Good team defender that needs to continue to focus more defensively to reach his full potential. Hearing from such division-I schools as Cal and St. Mary's.
Roberto Reyes 6-4 SOPH SG Gilbert Christian HS
- Reyes had himself a very good event, as he did everything to help his team win in the event. Whatever as needed of him, he provided it to make his team successful. A very good athlete, Reyes rebounded hard and showed excellent toughness as a player - playing much bigger than his size suggests. Finished strong at and around the basket. Has a very good mid-range game. Although he is not a big-time shooter, he shot a high percentage and made the shots he needed to last weekend to help his team win. A very good slasher and open court player. Excellent defender. A good ball handler and passer. A lesser known prospect that will continue to raise eyebrows with his play and become a solid mid-major division-I prospect.
Jordan Howard 5-10 SOPH PG Perry HS
- Howard proved his worth in this year's event as a strong, pure-point guard prospect that sees the floor very well and has an exceptional handle of the baskletball. Has a willingness to get others involved in the game and enjoys making players around him better, which he is able to do through looking for the open man on the floor at all times. When needed, Howard can score with the best of them as well - possessing a very good jump shot with range and a nice ability to score off the dribble. Made some big shots down the stretch last week, in helping his team win the tournament championship. An excellent defender with very good lateral quickness, forces turnovers and has quick hands. A nice point guard prospect with a great attitude and very good work ethic on and off the floor.


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Improve performance under pressure by squeezing a ball or clenching the non-dominant hand before competition to activate specific motor regions of the brain, according to Jürgen Beckmann and his research team, who studied experienced soccer players, tae kwon do experts and badminton players.
The Journal of Experimental Psychology: General reported that right-handed athletes who squeezed a ball in their left hand before competing were less like to "choke under pressure" than right-handed players who squeeze a ball in their right hand.
Other applications include business situations like presentations or negotiations, or helping elderly people improve balance by clenching a ball before walking or climbing stairs.
Iris Hung the National University of Singapore found additional applications: Avoiding the temptation of sugary snacks in a cafeteria, enduring physical pain, and disturbing information.
Hendrie Weisinger, whose best-seller Nobody's Perfect was the first of 8 books, integrates this finding with other research-based recommendations to manage performance pressure with "Nerves of Steel." His new book is scheduled for release by Random House in 2013.
His other books, including Emotional Intelligence at Work and Anger at Work, along with video excerpts are available on his website.
-*How do you maintain performance when experiencing pressure?
This entry was posted in Behavior Change, Career Development, Neuroscience and tagged Behavior Change, Career Development, Hendrie Weisinger, Iris Hung, Jürgen Beckmann, motor performance, Neuropsychology on November 6, 2012 by kathrynwelds.
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HomeWorld AffairsUnicorns Are Real
September 2, 2022 TFD World Affairs 0
by Batiushka for the Saker blog
Unicorns Are Real or It Must Be True, the Western Media Told Me So
An autumn chill is descending on every European country, though in each country in different ways.
Gas-dependent Germany and Italy are desperate for Russian gas. It is not just homes, but whole factories which face imminent closure in energy-intensive industries. The result of that will be mass unemployment. By 'mass', I mean 20% and more.
In France there is popular rejection of President Macron who has told his people that they (i.e. not him) must suffer so that the Ukraine can 'win'. September is the first month of the annual strike-season in France. French people do not like being cold. Expect some headlines.
In Latvia the Russian minority are fearful for their future, but so is everyone else. Heating will not be an option this winter. With a pension of just over 100 euros a month, many pensioners are simply going to die of the cold.
From Slovakia we have received the following:
'Thanks for your email. Just to give you some idea of the current manufacturing costs here in Slovakia and to be brutally honest throughout the upside down world, We paid last year 85,000 euros for electricity, this year it's going to be around 500,000 euros. As of 1 Jan2023 it's going to be 1.2 million euros at best.
So that's just the electricity, never mind the gas, the increase in raw materials, salaries and all other manufacturing costs, This is a hard way of saying it's impossible to reduce and every customer of ours has to accept it or not. Surprisingly we have never ever been as busy! You cutting margins down low is of course difficult, but at least you have margins. We simply do not have anything to reduce'.
In Moldova the crisis is profound. As in Latvia and Lithuania up to half the population have fled their countries after they were pillaged by the EU (even though officially Moldova does not even belong to the EU!). Previously medicine came from the Ukraine. Now that is unobtainable, they have to use medicine from Germany. Only that costs ten times more. Quite simply, if you are very ill and you don't have the money, this year you will die.
In Romania, which has lost a quarter of its population to emigration after the great EU pillage, and where a salary of 600 euros per month is considered very good, food prices are the same as in Western Europe, where average salaries are four to five times more, and diesel costs even more than elsewhere.
In Ireland restaurants are closing because they cannot afford their energy bills, which have increased by 1,000% (yes, one thousand per cent).
In London, the capital of the Brutish (sic) Empire, the Gauleiter Johnson finally admitted that, 'British households will have to endure soaring energy bills as part of efforts to defeat Vladimir Putin….economic sanctions imposed on Russia have contributed to soaring global gas prices which have driven up household bills'. Analysts expect the UK's energy price cap per household to rise from an already extremely high £1,971 today to £3,554 a year this October and to a completely unaffordable £6,089 in April 2023. A bill boycott is gathering momentum. Expect rioting and the looting of supermarkets by the hungry.
Did British people choose to endure this? No. Did British people plead to suffer so that they can defeat Putin in a local quarrel about a country most of them had never heard of until last February? No. Did British people refuse to pay for the abundant and cheap Russian oil and gas in roubles? No. Were they consulted about choosing the new Prime Minister? No. So much for 'the mother of parliaments'….
In the oligarch-controlled UK there are now calls for Thatcher's privatised utility companies, with their huge profits, generous payouts of dividends to shareholders, hopeless infrastructure, lack of investment and absence of government regulation, to be renationalised. Some have even commented that perhaps 'the free market' really meant the law of the jungle and that 'privatisation simply meant Thatcher selling off public assets to her capitalist cronies and supporters'. Well, forty years late, but some people have finally got the message.
Enough. That is not what I wanted to tell you about.
In the last week of August I left France and went to Wiesbaden. There I visited the magnificent Russian church, built in the century before last. Going round the cemetery with the graves of old aristocrats with their masonic symbols on their headstones (now you know why the Russian Revolution took place), I saw the relatively new grave that I had been looking for.
This was the grave of a lovely old couple, whom I had long known. I won't reveal their names, just to say that their story would make a film, only so romantic that you would not believe it. However, if you are past the age of forty, you should have realised by now that real life is far, far stranger and far, far more incredible than any fiction. All I will say is that he was born in Saint Petersburg in 1916, was taken by his fleeing parents to Finland after the rest of the family had been shot, that in 1943 he had become a monk and a priest in Nazi Germany, and that in late 1946 the family had fled ruined Berlin for Peronist Argentina as Russian Orthodox refugees. And there, in 1948, he met a desperately poor Argentinian street girl who had been born in Italy. It was love at first sight. I don't think I have ever met such a devoted and exemplary couple or ever will. They died in great old age within hours of each other.
After I had gone down from the high wooded churchlands into the town of Wiesbaden, I saw a middle-aged woman wearing a T-shirt which said: 'Unicorns are Real'. The words were not in German, but in English (even though, no doubt the T-shirt was Made in China). I began to wonder.
Was it just infantilism? The sort of escapism that funded the UFO industry, or Star Wars, or Harry Potter? The irresponsible and immature who are running away from reality?
And I thought to myself that I could not imagine any middle-aged Russian, Chinese, Indian, Iranian, African, Cuban, Colombian or Brazilian woman wearing such a T-shirt (unless of course they were so futile that they had married oligarchs). And then there came to me the words written by the British author G.K. Chesterton in his short story of 1925, The Oracle of the Dog: 'The first effect of not believing…is that you lose your common sense'.
In other words, to wear such a T-shirt simply shows a lack of faith – in anything. And I thought how significant it was that the words had been written in English, the language of the Hegemon. And I thought, yes, this really is the end of the Western world. Because if you want to advertise your belief that unicorns are real, you have quite simply lost your mind and that from now on you will believe anything the Western world tells you. After all, it is only one step from 'Unicorns are Real' to:
'The great and noble Zelensky is winning the war in the Ukraine because our Western cause is just'.
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