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Has Trump Done Some Homework Since The Hewitt Interview?
October 2, 2015 By the Common Constitutionalist 2 Comments
Remember the radio interview Donald Trump did with Hugh Hewitt?
Hewitt asked: "I'm looking for the next commander-in-chief, to know who Hassan Nasrallah is, and Zawahiri, and al-Julani, and al-Baghdadi. Do you know the players without a scorecard, yet, Donald Trump?"
"No. You know, I'll tell you honestly, I think by the time we get to office, they'll all be changed. They'll be all gone," Trump said. I thought at the time – hey – at least he's honest. A slimy politician would have tried to bull crap his way through. It would not have worked on Hewitt.
So when, yesterday morning, I heard one of the Fox and Friends crew ask him what he would do about Russia, Syria and Assad, I didn't hear what I expected, which was, "I make deals – great deals, and I'll make a great deal with Putin – or something to that effect.
What he said was both intelligent and the truth, and void of his usual bombast. It appears maybe he did a little homework since the Hewitt interview.
The question was regarded Russia's bombing in Syria and that Putin was supposed to be bombing ISIS, but it appears they are bombing the rebels – Assad's enemies – the "moderates" the U.S. is supporting.
He said the U.S. has "no idea" when it comes to the identities of the various rebel groups in Syria. Trump said: "We don't know who these rebels are. He said one of the generals he spoke to admitted "they don't even know who they are we're fighting for." read more
Tagged Bashar Assad • Donald Trump • Fox and Friends • Russia bombs Syria • syrian rebels • Vladimir Putin
Posted in Current Events • History • International • Military • Political Stuff
Democrats: Hawks or Hypocrites?
The "Hawks" have aligned and are ready for war. All the administration heavy hitters have come out swinging. Throughout the halls of the White House and Congress there is a "Call to Action".
Isn't it great that progressives always want "action", although it must be the correct action, as defined by them and must be action by those approved to act, also defined by them.
Yet less than a decade ago the Bush administration was warning us of Syria's Assad. Strangely though, there was no "Call to Action". The exact opposite, in fact.
Many of the same "Hawks" of today were "doves" not too long ago.
In 2005 then Senator Barack Milhouse Obama grilled ambassador John Bolton regarding Syria. Bolton was trying to warn us of Syria's progress in developing WMD and that they would pose a threat to the Middle East region and beyond. read more
Tagged Bashar Assad • George W. Bush • Hillary Clinton • Joe Biden • John Kerry • Obama • Syria
Posted in Current Events • History • International • Military • Political Stuff • Terrorism
Obama: The Muslims Best Friend
September 4, 2013 By the Common Constitutionalist 1 Comment
Yesterday The Blaze reported:
"Al Jazeera's blog posted a story Monday featuring tweets from the Director of Research at the Brookings Center in Doha, Qatar, who reported that an Egyptian newspaper's front page story claimed President Barack Obama is a member of the international organization of the Muslim Brotherhood."
I for one believe it. Why? Because Hillary Clinton said so. "Viewership of Al Jazeera is going up in the United States because it's real news," Clinton said. "You may not agree with it, but you feel like you're getting real news around the clock…"
The report continued:
"And if that weren't enough, the newspaper also claims that President Obama's half-brother Malik is allegedly an Al Qaeda activist. It further alleges that the son of Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood leader Khairat al-Shater had threatened to expose a document revealing the secret membership."
Experts say that the Egyptian populace is just acting out their frustration at the impression that the Obama administration is pro-Muslim Brotherhood.
Frustration or not, in my opinion he is indeed pro-Brotherhood. That appears rather obvious. Whether he is a member or not is immaterial. I strongly support many conservative groups efforts but I am not a member of them all. What's the diff? (a little hipster lingo).
Is this the reason Obama is so fired up about attacking Syria and deposing Assad? As many have stated, myself included; Assad is a bad dude. So was Mubarak in Egypt and Gadhafi in Libya. But the region was at least relatively stable under these evil dictators. That was the evil we knew.
We now see a far worse and much more unpredictable evil.
Yet in the face of mounting evidence to the contrary, Obama, Pelosi, Kerry, McCain, Graham and a host of others insist we must attack Syria, for Assad clearly used chemical weapons, thus crossing the "red line".
Yet Syrian "rebels" (al-Qaeda) admitted to an AP reporter that they, not Assad were responsible for the most recent release of chemical weapons. They also admitted blaming it on Assad. Have you heard anyone in the administration echo these findings, or even say they will look into it? Of course not. It doesn't fit their template. They've boxed themselves into a corner with all their "tough talk". Rather than take a step back with the release of this information, it's full speed ahead. Playing right into the hands of the radical Islamic groups that seek to fill the void in Syria as they are attempting to do in so many other Middle Eastern countries.
There are increasing numbers of intelligence reports suggesting this. Among these is a claim by Saleh Muslim, head of an opposition party in Syria and no friend of Assad. He believes the chemical attacked was staged. It's aim was to frame Assad and provoke and international response.
Will we ever learn? This whole mess sounds like a Serb/Bosnian redo. Remember the "ethnic cleansing" of the Bosnian Muslims and Croats in the '90's? The Serbs were apparently wiping out the poor Bosnian Muslims. There was international outrage, which convinced president Clinton and a host of other dupes to "save the Muslims" from certain annihilation by waging war against the Serbs. That was lie as is the Syria situation.
It was the exact opposite. It was the Muslims who were cleansing Bosnia of the non-Muslim Serbs. Alija Izetbegovic, a leader of the Bosnian Muslims, perpetrated this lie.
Like all radical Islamists, he preached the creed of "Islamic Order". He wrote: "…the Islamic Order, which is to say the union of religion and politics…has…consequences of a primordial practical importance, of which the first is the impossibility of confusing the Islamic Order with the non-Islamic systems. It is not in fact possible for there to be any peace or coexistence between 'the Islamic Religion' and non-Islamic social and political institutions… the Islamic movement may, or rather should, begin by seizing power as soon as it possesses a good measure of moral and numerical strength, allowing it not only to overthrow the non-Islamic power, but also to establish the new Islamic power."
Once again our leaders are being played for the fools they are, although I don't know if Obama is a fool, a Muslim or Muslim sympathizer or all of the above. I do think we're going to war…again.
Tagged Bashar Assad • Bosnia • chemical weapons • Obama • Serbs • Syria
Posted in Constitution • Current Events • Government • International • Military • Political Stuff • Terrorism • The Founders
The United States – Caliphate Enabler
August 28, 2013 By the Common Constitutionalist 2 Comments
"We have to do something!" regarding Syria. That's the clarion call of both the right and left. It's actually the call of the progressives for I hear few if any constitutional conservatives calling for action.
It's like saying we have to do something to put out a wildfire and then throwing gasoline on it. That's doing something, is it not?
Yet virtually every politician and pundit I see or hear insists we have to help. We can't just stand by and do nothing. Assad has clearly crossed the "red line" with chemical weapon attacks and must be dealt with.
However, I personally have seen or heard no evidence that Assad is the one ordering the chemical attacks. Everyone is just assuming it must be his regime. It most likely is but if the Al Qaeda "rebels" had them, they would surely use them and blame Assad knowing the West would fall right in line. It wouldn't surprise me a bit to find that Al Qaeda were the ones firing on the UN inspectors.
As an aside: I wonder where Assad got his WMDs? If you recall, during the run-up to the Iraq war, there were reports of Russian convoys leaving Iraq headed for Syria/Lebanon. Reports were that the trucks were loaded with WMDs and were eventually hidden in the Bakaa Valley, Lebanon that borders Syria. Could these be the weapons that Assad used? Just something to ponder.
Meanwhile, many in our government and the media are beating the drums of war – or at least a hefty American response, for progressives believe we are indeed the world's police force.
Just as they think we can continue to spend money we don't have domestically, they give no thought to involving us in every international conflict.
The American people aren't as keen to involve the U.S. as say John McCain or Lindsey Graham. According to a Reuters poll, 60% of Americans polled want nothing to do with the attack on Syria, or any involvement whatsoever. 9% were in favor. I'm no fan of Reuters but I tend to believe this.
One poll respondent, a former military officer said: "the United States has become too much of the world's policemen and we have become involved in too many places that should be a United Nations realm, not ours."
Monday afternoon Sean Hannity weighed in on the subject. He said it would be like sitting back and watching thugs mug an old lady. He asked, "Would you just do nothing?"
I gotta tell ya. Hannity has all but lost me. It's bad enough that he gives the likes of Karl Rove a platform on his show, but equating a mugging to this is a specious argument. One has nothing to do with the other.
When we get involved in these conflicts it inevitably ends up worse. Afghanistan, Iraq, Egypt, Libya and now Syria. They are all now or will be worse off than before we "did something".
Is this what Ben Franklin meant when he stated: "Wars are not paid for in wartime, the bill comes later." Or John Adams prescient statement of the arrogance of power: "Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak."
Will we ever learn through conflict after conflict to just butt out?
I feel for the innocents in all the Middle East. Their lives revolve around one tragedy after another. But we as a nation must adhere to the Constitution. That document is, as were the founders, very specific about matters of war.
George Washington adamantly stated: "The Constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress; therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure."
If something is to be done, let Congress deliberate and authorize it, not President Cruise Missile.
As evil a human being as Assad is, just like Egypt and Libya, if he falls things will be much worse.
After that – watch for Iraq and Lebanon – they're next.
Caliphate anyone?
Tagged Bashar Assad • Caliphate • chemical weapons • Progressives • Syria • WMD
Posted in Current Events • International • Political Stuff
August 26, 2012 By the Common Constitutionalist
According to Western intelligence officials, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei gave the order to the elite Quds Force unit following a recent emergency meeting of Iran's National Security Council in Tehran held to discuss a specially-commissioned report into the implications for Iran of the Assad regime's overthrow.
Syria is Iran's most important regional ally, and the survival of the Assad regime is regarded as vital to sustaining the Iranian-backed Hizbollah militia which controls southern Lebanon.
The report, which was personally commissioned by Khamenei, concluded that Iran's national interests were being threatened by a combination of the U.N. sanctions imposed over Iran's nuclear program and the West's continuing support for Syrian opposition groups attempting to overthrow the government.
Intelligence officials say the report concludes that Iran "cannot be passive" to the new threats posed to its national security, and warns that Western support for Syrian opposition groups was placing Iran's "resistance alliance" in jeopardy, and could seriously disrupt Iran's access to Hezbollah in Lebanon.
It advised that the Iranian regime should demonstrate to the West that there were "red lines" over what it would accept in Syria, and that a warning should be sent to "America, the Zionists, Britain, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and others that they cannot act with impunity in Syria and elsewhere in the region."
Khamenei responded by issuing a directive to Qassem Suleimani, the Quds Force commander, to intensify attacks against the West and its allies around the world.
The Quds Force has recently been implicated in a series of terror attacks against Western targets. Last year U.S. officials implicated the organization in a failed assassination attempt against the Saudi Arabian ambassador to Washington. It was also implicated in three bomb attacks against Israeli diplomats in February, planning to attack the Eurovision song contest in Azerbaijan while two Iranians were arrested in Kenya last month for possessing explosives.
Intelligence officials believe the recent spate of Iranian attacks has been carried out by the Quds Force's Unit 400, which runs special overseas operations.
"Unit 400 seems to have been involved in all the recent Iranian terrorist operations," said a senior Western intelligence official. "The Iranian regime now seems determined to retaliate for what they regard as the West's attempts to influence the outcome of the Syrian unrest."
Iran has been actively supporting the Assad regime's attempts to suppress the wave of anti-government protests that erupted in March last year. Iranian opposition groups claim teams of experienced Revolutionary Guard officers have been flying to Damascus on specially-chartered Iranian aircraft on a weekly basis to advise the Assad regime.
The extent of Iran's support for the Assad regime was exposed earlier this month when 48 Iranians were captured and taken hostage by Syrian opposition fighters. The Iranians, who are said to include senior Revolutionary Guard officers, claimed they were conducting "reconnaissance missions", and their capture by Syrian opposition fighters was deeply embarrassing for Tehran, which is demanding their immediate safe return to Iran. Syrian rebels have threatened to kill the hostages unless Iran ends its support for the Assad regime.
Attribution: UK Telegraph
Tagged ali khamenei • Ayatollah Ali Khamenei • Bashar Assad • Iran • libya • Middle East • Quds Force • Syria • terror attacks • terrorism
Posted in Current Events • Faith & Religion • Political Stuff
Assad will Not Step Down
April 2, 2012 By the Common Constitutionalist
BEIRUT – Lebanon's Hezbollah said on Friday that Arab and international efforts to end the conflict in Syria have moved away from demanding that Syrian President Bashar Assad steps down and now appear focused on achieving political dialogue.
Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, a key Assad ally, said that rebels who have fought a year-long campaign to oust Assad were incapable of toppling him and that the option of foreign military intervention in Syria was a "closed subject."
Hezbollah has relied on Syria as a main political backer and is also accused of using the country as a transit point for arms sent from its main bankroller, Iran.
The group has backed Assad's crackdown on a mostly Sunni-lead uprising, which both blame on foreign-backed militants.
"Some people talked about the political option," Nasrallah said, "but with conditions that equalled the fall of the regime, for example for President Assad to step down. I think the international and regional political climate today has passed this phase."
Arab states, split over how to deal with the crisis in Syria that threatens to inflame the region's sectarian faultlines, appear to have backed off their demand that Assad step aside.
The rebels also appear to have lost ground in the past month to Assad's forces, who have crushed several opposition strongholds through sustained shelling campaigns.
"The armed opposition is incapable of toppling the regime," Nasrallah said. "Therefore betting on military efforts to topple the regime is a losing gamble and the burden is too great: more bloodshed and loss of life and property, to no avail."
More than 9,000 people have been killed by Assad's forces, according to the United Nations, while Damascus says it has lost around 3,000 police and security forces.
Syria's uprising, which began as peaceful protests, has grown increasingly bloody in recent months as armed civilians and army defectors began to bring the fight to Assad's forces. But they are heavily outgunned by Assad's military machine.
Nasrallah said some Arab efforts, led by Saudi Arabia and Qatar, to demand Assad's ouster appear to have been dropped.
He pointed to the backing by an Arab summit on Thursday for a peace plan by UN-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan calling for a political solution to the crisis. Assad has said he accepts the plan but stipulates that the rebels must stop fighting.
Annan's spokesman stressed on Friday that Assad's forces should be the first to withdraw their troops and tanks, saying "the deadline is now", but fighting continued.
Attribution: Jerusalem Post
Tagged Bashar Assad • beirut lebanon • Damascus • Hassan Nasrallah • Hezbollah • Kofi Annan • president bashar assad • Sunni-lead uprising • Syria • U.N. • War


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Eritrea's military service still "repressive" despite peace deal: HRW
9 August 2019, 8:31 AM | Reuters	| @SABCNewsOnline
Tags: Eritrea, HRW, Peace deal, Military service
Conscription drives thousands, including many unaccompanied children, to leave the country each year.
Eritrea is forcing thousands of students and teachers into indefinite national service, driving many into exile and frustrating hopes that a peace deal with Ethiopia might end conscription, Human Rights Watch said on Friday.
Teenage students are systematically subject to hard labour at an isolated military camp near the Sudanese border, with many also enduring physical abuse, the rights group said in a report.
"Eritrea's secondary schools are at the heart of its repressive system of control," Laetitia Bader, the report's author, said.
"Now that peace with Ethiopia is restored, reforms on human rights, starting with the rights and freedom of the country's youth, need to follow."
A government spokesman did not respond to two requests for comment from Reuters.
The Horn of Africa country has run a system of universal conscription for more than two decades, with the government justifying mandatory national service by invoking a "no peace, no war" stalemate with neighbouring Ethiopia after a border conflict from 1998 to 2000.
The two countries signed a peace deal in July 2018. But since then, despite expectations among new recruits that conscription would be significantly scaled back, Eritrea has "not made any meaningful changes to national service or to its system of repression," the HRW said.
Its population is around five million, and the United Nations estimated in late 2018 that a further 500,000 Eritreans were refugees.
The HRW report said students, some under 18, are sent to the Sawa military camp for their final year of secondary school.
Officers sexually abuse some female students, food is limited, and the year ends with four months of military training, it said.
Graduates are either posted permanently to the military or given vocational training and assigned civilian professions, including teaching, for their whole working lives life on low wages.
One Eritrean refugee said he had attended the military camp at 17 and was jailed after trying to leave the country and his assigned job.
"There is no escape … unless you flee," he told Reuters on condition of anonymity.
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Nothing is yours. Nothing is mine. We own nothing. You get onlywhat you deserve. And if you don't get what you believe you deserve, well, that's the way it was meant to be!
Last evening we were at a music concert. It was free seating for all classes in the audience. However, by paying an extra price you could reserve vantage seats in the hall. As we settled down into our seats that were available randomly, we noticed that the two seats immediately in front of us were labelled "Mr.Brij". There was a couple seated in them, who, we presumed, were "Mrs. and Mr.Brij". Soon the hall filled up. We were two minutes away from the start of the show, when two gentlemen walked up the aisle, to the seats labelled "Mr.Brij".
The man was startled. Obviously, you don't expect someone who is sitting in a seat you have reserved to be brazen about it. He politely requested the lady and her husband to get up. When they did not respond, the man went looking for one of the volunteers ushering in people. He came back with someone who seemed to be in a position of authority in the auditorium. The organizer-volunteer too appealed to the couple to get up and be seated elsewhere – among the free seats. But the couple were unrelenting.
As we watched this spectacle, dumbfounded as we were by the couple's obstinate behavior, announcements were heard asking the audience to be seated quickly to enable the concert to begin.
The announcer backstage had begun to introduce the artistes now. Mr.Brij and his friend looked at the couple disbelievingly. Helplessly. Then Mr.Brij leaned over and told them: "Enjoy the show with my compliments." There was no sarcasm. No anger. Just a plain, calm wish. He then urged his friend to walk with him. My eyes followed them as they found seats that were vacant at the far end of the auditorium. From where they were seated now, the stage would not be as well visible as it would have been, had they got the seats they had reserved. It was a significant compromise Mr.Brij had made. I am not sure he made that compromise because etiquette demanded that he did not hold up the show. From the way the couple who were squatting in his seats were behaving, had Mr.Brij been persistent and insistent, the organizers would have had to forcibly evict them. This would have surely held up the start of the concert. Or perhaps, Mr.Brij is an evolved and mature human being. Who prefers not to cling on to his position and who practices detachment.
Whoever he is, Mr.Brij made me think. Would you or I have let go what – especially what is morally, ethically, legitimately – is ours? Would we have been able to practice detachment in this, or any similar, situation?
The lesson that Mr.Brij's attitude teaches us is simple. Don't let your possessions__and positions__ruin your inner peace.
The more we cling on to material assets – a premium reserved seat is certainly one of them – and/or to opinions, the more we will have to battle the world to keep our possessions secure. The world is full of people who, like that unreasonable couple in the auditorium, will encroach into your Life or will drag you into petty squabbles. They will provoke you with their brazenness. Each time you respond to their silly designs or each time you fight them to correct them or demand your due, you will squander your inner peace. Being detached in such situations is an intelligent response. Because attachments always bring misery. Being detached is the one sure way to experience joy!
However, detachment does not mean giving up your right or not standing up for justice. It only means that you should not let what has caused you to fight, and the fight itself, to ruin your peace of mind. Always evaluate each situation when you feel outraged by such devious behavior__like that of the couple in the auditorium__by asking yourself whether your clinging on to your position will affect your inner peace. If it will, and it surely will, simply let go. It's simply not worth it. If you, on the other hand, feel it won't and it will benefit all parties concerned, by all means fight for what is right and what is just!


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The world of sports is replete with hypotheticals, or "what ifs," and such an intriguing hypothetical arose last week when the undefeated 3-year-old colt Nadal suffered a lateral condylar fracture during a work at Santa Anita. While it is impossible to answer hypotheticals with surety, the owners of Nadal cannot help thinking about what might have been if:
(a) There had been no coronavirus pandemic that caused the Triple Crown races to be rescheduled and (b) the colt would have been stabled at a more horse-friendly racetrack than Santa Anita.
Had the Kentucky Derby been run on May 2 and the Preakness on May 16, as planned, Nadal on May 28 (the day of his career-ending injury), conceivably would have been prepping for an attempt to complete the Triple Crown on June 6. Further, on the morning of May 28, he might have been working at Belmont Park rather than on the perilous surface at Santa Anita that has produced so many racehorse injuries and fatalities. In this scenario, the injury to Nadal might not have occurred at all.
At the very least, had the Triple Crown races not been rescheduled owing to the pandemic, Nadal would have had a chance to run in the Kentucky Derby and likely the Preakness as well. The injury he suffered could have come under the stress of one of these races, but there is no way of knowing.
Although hypotheticals cannot be definitively answered, one aspect of the Nadal injury is certain based on plenty of conclusive data: that is, Nadal was being worked on a racetrack proven to be unsafe, as evidenced by a plethora of well-publicized injuries and fatalities that forced a temporary closure . How many incidents must there be at Santa Anita before owners and trainers recognize the track's dirt and grass surfaces are hazardous? Why was a Kentucky Derby favorite subjected to the Santa Anita risk?
The connections of Nadal had no control over a pandemic forcing the rescheduling of the Triple Crown races. But they had absolute control over where the colt trained.
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I stare out my tiny heavy paned window quietly as we climb to 35,000 feet. The cabin pressurizes with cool air blasting, and the low rumble of the engines keeps us pressing onward. Around me, a dull drone of passenger's words travel, like them and their luggage, all placed on this flight, were their various worlds intertwine with one another, until the plane lands and all of us aboard move onward with our individual stories as we live our lives.
It's fascinating to me when we connect with others through moments of happenstance, when our busy lives briefly connect and share within other's stories. Since arriving to the airport and plane, I met a few enchanting people. A lovely couple sat by me from Washington, as we waited for our plane at the gate. The wife shared about her love for painting birds after seeing a rendering of Ansel and Georgia I busily worked on as we spoke. Another woman, whom we sat next to in our aisle on the plane, excitedly shared with Dan about her granddaughter's swimming competition and how she traveled to Portland to watch her compete. She then shared about her life in Juneau, explaining what a great place it is to live. All of these conversations happened before we even passed snow-capped Mount Hood, rising through the clouds.
As I look out over the wind and into the clouds, I think of the times when I was a little girl, wondering if I built a pair of wings long enough, if I would one day be able to fly. I remember waking from dreams of me flying over my hometown, over the freeways, looking down at ant sized cars traveling in our Los Angeles suburb. I remember thinking, if I just had wings, I could fly right over the mountains to reach the ocean, than have to meander around them and through the canyons of Malibu. I remember my sixth birthday. I woke up thinking that this in fact, was my time to fly. I climbed up our brick and stucco Jacuzzi wall in our backyard and jumped as high as I possibly could, flapping my arms, so that my guardian angel would for certain lift me, and CRASH! I stumbled off the ledge, as I had jumped high, but not far enough out and came crashing down with bloody cuts, tear-welling eyes, and a battered bruise on my pride.
"Well, I'm really angry that we might be going to heaven sooner than I anticipated!" He managed to squeak out with his eyes scrunched shut.
"Daniel James! Open your eyes!" I don't know how I did it but I finally convinced him. And we sat in our harnesses silently in awe. It was so peaceful up there. I was so surprised how quiet the air was. W could hear muffled sounds from down below, but up in the air the atmosphere is silent. I had finally been given wings big enough to help me fly. For 7 glorious minutes.
I don't know how this fascination for flying began, or if it is even gone… Perhaps it has morphed into tangible ways I can " fly". Through writing, composing music, and creating artwork, my soul has grafted its own wings and allows me to boundlessly soar. With Blue Plume Studio art lessons, I love to daily watch wings attach to the souls of those whom I teach, and watch them soar through their artistic journey. Through my love of birds, I am able to share in the freedom of watching them take flight. Owning doves has brought me so much joy as there are so many metaphors their gentle spirits and wings encompass. I find inspiration in their flight, transferring symbolically in my own life and the lives of my students.
As I watch the metal wing as it soars now 35,000 feet over snow capped and sun kissed mountain ranges pointing to the silhouette of the early evening moon, the wheels decent prepare for landing. I reflect on these young memories of trying so hard to physically fly on my own. Now that I am grown I realize I was flying all along, I just didn't realize that as humans, our feet may stay grounded, while our souls fashion themselves to fly.


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Okay, we know you want translation jobs, you know you want translation jobs, so let's skip the banal lead-in and go straight to the meat of the matter.
1. Your own website
Let's start with the obvious: If you are to build a strong personal brand, nothing beats having a website of your own. There are plenty of free or reasonably priced WordPress themes to give it a professional look and feel. Keep in mind that your website won't promote itself, so if that's the way you want to go, be ready to work on your online presence in social media networks and groups. Also, note that this approach works mostly for attracting direct clients — agencies don't really care how good you are at social media.
(Side note: When working with direct clients, you're likely to run into difficulties when receiving payments from across the globe. Read or scroll down to the very end of #15 below to find out what you can do to get paid easily.)
2. Traditional agencies
The next obvious way is to sign up with translation agencies, aka LSPs. The process is usually more or less the same: You send your CV, if the agency is interested they send you a test assignment, and, if they like it, add you to their pool of translators. You never really know if you're going to get an actual assignment — but the more respectable the companies you focus on, the higher your chances. You might want to check out this list of the world's top 100 LSPs.
Online agencies
These are online platforms that are basically agencies concealed behind a fancy UI. This helps them attract tech-savvier customers, who might not want to have to deal with too much human interaction when they need to translate something. Although the overall experience for you as a translator is similar to that with traditional agencies, it might be more automated. For example, you might do the tests and assignments right on the website instead of sending and receiving files manually.
Let's look at and compare the five most popular online agencies.
3. Gengo
Currently the most popular among all online agencies, Gengo has set the tone for the look and feel of such platforms. The agency provides educational resources for translators, detailed style guides for some languages, and a practical online platform where you do the translations. Some languages, most notably Japanese, have a steady flow of orders, so if you translate from or to these, you're unlikely to stay without work for long. On the downside, there are fewer orders for other languages, so there's always a "click race" to snatch them up as the first person to apply gets the job. The rates are pretty modest, especially at the "Standard" level.
Gengo.com
Site visits/month:
LinkedInfollowers:
~9,000
Helpful onboarding material
Many jobs for some languages
Few jobs and "click racing" for other languages
Very low rates for "Standard" translations, marginally acceptable for "Pro"
Timeline: Twice a month
Methods: PayPal only
Payout fee: 1.5%, but not less than $1.5 and not more than $20 per payout + PayPal's fees for withdrawal
Service fee*: 50–100%
4. OneHourTranslation.com
OHT is perhaps the oldest among the successful, and the most successful among the old online translation agencies. Unfortunately, its age shows: The agency's website has a distinctive "2000s" feel to it, and that likely drives the "hipper" customers away. On the upside, OHT works closely with its freelancers, introducing a gamified progression system, which makes growth within it fun regardless of the financial reward. Speaking of which, alas, the money is not great — although it gets somewhat better in the higher "tiers".
OneHourTranslation.com
Good support for translators
Progression system
Outdated look & feel
Rates, rates, rates…
Timeline: Net 30 after earning a minimum of $20; early payout options available
Methods: PayPal, wire, Payoneer mastercard
Payout fee: None for regular payouts; varies for early payouts + PayPal/Payoneer withdrawal fees where applicable
Service fee: 50–100%
5. Unbabel
If there's a polarizing translation service, Unbabel is it. Built entirely on a machine translation post-editing flow, it makes customers rejoice in how cheap it is and linguists shudder at the resulting quality. From a translator's point of view, working for Unbabel is an unusual experience, partly because the content is mostly simple and partly because it is the only popular service that pays by the hour, not by the word — which has its upsides and downsides. Rates vary from unbelievably low to pretty good, depending on the language pair and perhaps some other factors.
Unbabel.com
Simple content to translate
Edit on top of machine translation
Get paid by the hour
(not a mis-copypaste)
Timeline: On demand (after project approval)
Methods: PayPal, Payoneer (only in countries where PayPal is not available)
Payout fee: According to PayPal/Payoneer terms
6. TextMaster
Despite the boring name, TextMaster is perhaps the "littest" on the list. Its website features strong "millennial-friendly" features such as being people-centric and explaining complex things in simple words (my own guilty pleasure). Also, from a brief study of the web, it seems TextMaster freelancers really love working for it. The agency also claims to focus on the quality of translations, describing its selection process in detail and boasting that only 25% of freelance applicants get admitted. This might be good or bad, depending on where you are in your career and skills — especially if you couple that with the fact that jobs don't seem to come in abundance.
TextMaster.com
Presumably good rates
Clear messaging & guidelines
Rigorous selection process
Irregular job flow
Methods: PayPal, Payoneer
Service fee: 25–50%
Other online translation agencies worth mentioning are Lokalise.co, Speakt.com, Stepes.com, TranslatorsBase.com, and Zingword.com (which technically makes this a Top 20 article!).
With that, let's go on to the next kind of marketplaces—
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Oldies (but goodies?)
If by now you're tired of looking at fancy websites, rejoice: We now explore some "old-style" marketplaces (with one exception). There's not much automation, if any, and some look like they come straight out of the pre-dot-com-bubble era — but it may be just what you need. Note that if the websites in the previous section were mostly targeted at direct clients, this is a domain where agencies reign — so decide whether you want to work with them based on your preferences.
7. ProZ
Some would consider it a blasphemy that the almighty ProZ only takes the eighth spot here, and in some ways it is. If there is one place that could be considered a "home for all translators and translation agencies," ProZ is it. The website has no automation — basically, translators just post their profiles, customers post their jobs, and somehow the two get connected. There are also added features on ProZ such as forums and contests that help translators build their presence among both colleagues and clients: "Star" translators — or, rather, translators with star profiles — can enjoy a steady inflow of orders. Others will see some, too — if for the sheer volume of traffic the website enjoys, — but be ready to decline (or accept) a lot of job offers for peanuts before you receive something worth considering.
ProZ.com
~4,000,000 (four effing million!)
Huge community
Many jobs posted
Helps build a profile in the industry
A lot of orders are just trash
Not a hint of automation
8. TranslatorsCafe
The Pepsi of the translation industry, TranslatorCafe is mostly all the same things as ProZ, but at a smaller scale. Downside: Smaller community, fewer jobs: Upside: More of a "family feeling" and fewer trashy jobs. The absence of a LinkedIn page (no, this is not it) speaks volumes about the level of automation and future-savviness, too.
TranslatorsCafe.com
~2,000,000
Family-like community
Many jobs (but fewer than on ProZ)
Fewer trashy jobs than on ProZ
Stuck in the 2000s
9. TranslationDirectory
If you thought TranslatorsCafe's website was outdated, you have to check this one out. Amazingly, the website manages to garner 130,000 visits per month, so if you set up a profile, there is a chance someone will contact you for something. The website doesn't work the other way around — i.e. you cannot look for jobs, — which might be a blessing in disguise.
TranslationDirectory.com
People come here, somehow
It doesn't hurt to sign up
Hm… Everything else?
10. TheOpenMic
A breath of fresh air in the "old-school" department, TheOpenMic is actually a relatively new endeavor by translation celebrity (if that's a thing) and enthusiast Dmitry Kornyukhov. The website started as a talking spot — think Facebook for translators — but has since tried to re-focus on bringing actual customers to the platform. Time will show if that bears any fruit, but you'll likely enjoy the community part of it anyway.
TheOpenMic.co
Family feeling
Lets you build a strong profile among peers
You're not likely to get any jobs here, honestly — at least not directly
Okay, we're almost 75% through. Before we get to the headliner, let's take a look at some—
General-purpose marketplaces
Believe it or not, translation is not the only "freelanceable" job out there, so there are quite a few SaaS platforms aimed at everyone from designers and programmers to plumbers, wedding singers, and, well, translators. A word of warning is that since they don't work exclusively with translators, they might not get how the translation industry works. Nor might their customers. So, if you decide to go for any of those options — why not, after all? — be ready to explain a lot to your customers, who will in many cases be individuals, not companies, with every consequence that follows.
11. Upwork
The ultimate veteran of all things freelancing, Upwork traces its roots back to 1998! Today it's the default go-to for anyone starting to freelance in any profession, although Fiverr — see below — has made its life much harder. Given the website's popularity and the number of translators already on the website, unsuccessful bidding for projects is the norm and might discourage even the most enthusiastic freelancer.
Upwork.com
~27,000,000
Long track record
Time-tested processes
Variety of jobs available
Supply much higher than demand
Hard to win a bid without waging price wars
Customers largely unaware of translation trade specifics
Methods: Direct to local bank
Payout fee: $0 for ACH, $0.99 for other methods
Service fee: 5–20%
Initially a place where anyone can get anything for just five dollars, Fiverr quickly turned into an all-purpose marketplace for all price ranges and a paragon of the "gigonomy". Most customers are individuals, who, unfortunately, have an even larger tendency to underestimate the effort it takes to translate than businesses. If you go for it, be ready to undercharge. On the upside, you don't need to bid for projects here — it works the other way around. So if you do manage to bag a few projects at low rates, your profile will likely climb up the search results, opening up opportunities for more lucrative orders.
Rigorous procedure to protect both sides
No need to bid for projects
Lets you build a profile relatively quickly
Overfocused on competing on price
Supply higher than demand
Customers unaware of translation trade specifics
Timeline: On demand (after gig approval)
Methods: PayPal, wire, U.S. direct deposit, Payoneer mastercard
Payout fee: $1–$3 or more depending on the method
Service fee: 5%
13. Freelancer.com
Another behemoth of all-purpose freelancing, Freelancer.com undertook a strategy of acquiring smaller marketplaces. This, and a top but bland brand name, correlates well with the overall soulless feeling of the platform. Also, there doesn't seem to be many translation jobs, with just 70 posted in 24 hours at the time of writing. On top of that, most jobs have 20+ bids, so be ready to master the good old trade of price wars if you decide to try your luck here.
Hm… Domain name? No, it sucks too…
Everything (but do challenge me)
Timeline: On demand (+15 days for the first payout)
Methods: local wire (in ~30 countries), global wire, PayPal, Skrill, debit card
Payout fee: $25 for global wire, none for rest + PayPal/Skrill withdrawal fees
Service fee: 10%
14. Smartcat
Some might say I left Smartcat until last because I work here,̶ ̶̶a̶n̶d̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶y̶ ̶w̶o̶u̶l̶d̶n̶'̶t̶ ̶b̶e̶ ̶t̶o̶t̶a̶l̶l̶y̶ ̶w̶r̶o̶n̶g̶. But the real reason is that it is so many things that it can't be classified under any other title. It is not an agency, although it is the main business tool for thousands of agencies. It is not an all-purpose platform, and it is definitely not a computerized craigslist.
Of the many things that Smartcat provides, the two that matter most for translators are the (free!) CAT tool and the freelancer marketplace. The logic of the platform is that you use the CAT tool to work on your own daily jobs — wherever you got them from — and the more you do, the higher you rank on the Marketplace. (There are other factors determining your position, which are beyond the scope of this article.)
Once a customer — whether a direct client or an agency — has a job and needs linguists, they send out requests to profiles of their choice. Then, depending on the settings they chose, either the first translator to respond gets the job, or they collect several applications and decide whom they give it to. Sometimes they will also split the job between several translators — all of which happens in the same web interface, without having to send any files.
Although bid wars are not totally out of the question here, they are less common: The customers here know how the industry works and how costly a cheap translation can be. So no need to bring down your rates just for the sake of it!
Coming back to question asked in #1, Smartcat also allows you to invoice customers anywhere in the world. The customer will technically pay Smartcat, but you will be able to withdraw the amount from your balance as usual.
Smartcat.ai
Easy-to-use UI
Jobs from industry-savvy customers
Quick & manageable bidding process
Customers don't have to pay upfront, so can disappear. Smartcat does guarantee ultimate compensation, but the investigation takes up to three months
Timeline: On demand + up to 5 days to process on Smartcat side (usually 1–2 days)
Methods:global & local wire, local e-wallets, credit/debit cards, PayPal, Payoneer
Payout fee:0–4% depending on the payout method
Service fee:10%
Phew! That was a long read, but hopefully it did make things clearer for you and will help you make a choice. As with anything, sometimes it makes sense to pick several marketplaces, but you may also prefer to double down in one — it's up to you ?
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Hydrogen is very flammable. It's why we use helium in our blimps. Because using hydrogen is just too dangerous. As the Hindenburg disaster has shown us.
So hydrogen is a pretty dangerous thing to be messing with. Unlike gasoline. Which is pretty safe and stable in the liquid form. You could even put out a cigarette in a puddle of gasoline. It's dangerous doing so. And you shouldn't try it. But the most dangerous thing about gasoline is its vapor. Ignite that and there will be an explosion. Which is what happens inside our internal combustion engines. Where our cars first aerosolizes the gasoline, mixes it with air, compresses it and then ignites it. Of course that explosion is deep within our engines. Where it can't harm us. Still, it isn't advised to smoke while refueling. Because there are gas vapors typically where there is gas. And you don't want you car exploding like the Hindenburg.
Fuel cells use hydrogen to make electric power. All you have to do is stop at your hydrogen fueling station and fill up your hydrogen tanks. Just don't smoke while doing this. Because hydrogen in its natural state is an explosive gas. This danger aside the hydrogen fuel cell is about to give the all-electric car a run for its money. And last's night meal may be providing the hydrogen (see POO-power comes to California: Orange County residents to trial SUVs fuelled by human waste by Mark Prigg posted 2/25/2014 on the Daily Mail).
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However, some is filtered and piped into a unique, stationary 'tri-generation' fuel-cell device, designed by the Irvine team, that produces electricity, heat and hydrogen.
The hydrogen gas is then piped several hundred feet to the public pump where fuel-cell autos are refueled daily.
Almost half of the source gas is carbon dioxide. And carbon dioxide has carbon in it. This is the same gas they want to shut down coal-fired power plants for producing. Oh, and methane? That's a greenhouse gas. This is the gas coming out of the butts of cows and pigs that some are saying are warming the planet. And when you burn methane guess what you get? Water and carbon dioxide. More manmade carbon emissions. That's a lot of global warming they're creating in the effort to prevent global warming.
This is one thing fuel cells share with all-electric cars. They may be emission free. But the chemistry to make them emission-free isn't. We're still putting carbon into the atmosphere. We're just doing it in different places. And if we are wouldn't it be cheaper and easier just to keep using gasoline?
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