In 2001 the Cuban government acknowledged—after denying the fact for nearly 3 years—that the 5 men were intelligence agents. It said they were spying on Miami's Cuban exile community, not the US government. Cuba contends that the men were sent to South Florida in the wake of several terrorist bombings in Havana organized by anti-communist terrorist Luis Posada Carriles, a former Central Intelligence Agency operative.
The Five appealed their convictions, and concerns about the fairness of their trial have received international attention. A three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit in Atlanta overturned their convictions in 2005, citing the "prejudices" of Miami's anti-Castro Cubans, but the full court later reversed the five's bid for a new trial and reinstated the original convictions. In June 2009 the United States Supreme Court declined to review the case. In Cuba, the Five are viewed by the government as national heroes and portrayed as having sacrificed their liberty in the defense of their country.
René González was released on October 7, 2011 following the completion of 13 years of his sentence with a further three years of probation in the US. He was allowed to return to Cuba for his father's funeral on 22 April 2013, and a federal judge allowed him to stay there provided that he renounce his United States citizenship. Fernando González was released on February 27, 2014. The remaining members were released on December 17, 2014, in a prisoner swap with Cuba for an American intelligence officer (identified by a senior American as Rolando Sarraff Trujillo); the release also coincided with the release by Cuba of American contractor Alan Phillip Gross, although the governments characterized the release of Gross as being unrelated to the release of the Cuban Five members. The release was sanctioned by President Obama and was viewed by some observers as a first step in the easing of political relations between the United States and Cuba, known as the Cuban Thaw.
In 1960s and 1970s, there were claims of attacks against Cuba by U.S.-based counterrevolutionary exile groups such as Coordination of United Revolutionary Organizations (CORU), Alpha 66, and Omega 7. In a 2001 report by Cuba's Permanent Mission to the United Nations, the Cuban government cataloged 3,478 deaths as a result of "terrorism", "aggression", "acts of piracy and other actions". The events cited span the course of four decades and pertain to attacks such as the bombing of Cubana Flight 455 by men trained by the Central Intelligence Agency, the CIA-supported Bay of Pigs invasion, and the War Against the Bandits between the government and anti-communist rebels in the Escambray Mountains (see also Operation Mongoose). As a result, the Cuban government had long sought to combat these groups. Their efforts include the use of spies sent to operate in the U.S. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and other U.S. organizations had been monitoring the activities of Cuban spy suspects for more than 30 years.
All five were arrested in Miami, on September 12, 1998 and were indicted by the U.S. government on 25 different counts, including charges of false identification and conspiracy to commit espionage. Seven months later, an additional indictment was added for Gerardo Hernández - conspiracy to commit murder in connection with the shoot-down of the Brothers to the Rescue aircraft. The additional charge followed months of public and media debate in Miami, with Cuban exile groups pressing for the charge.
Hernández states they spent the first 17 months of their imprisonment in solitary confinement. The President of the Cuban National Assembly Ricardo Alarcón de Quesada stated that evidence that "belonged to the defendants themselves and included family photographs, personal correspondence and recipes" - was classified as "secret", preventing the defendants and their attorneys from seeing it.
The trial, beginning in November 2000, went on for seven months, although jury deliberations lasted a few hours. In June 2001, the group was convicted of all 26 counts in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida in Miami, including the charge of first-degree murder against Gerardo Hernández which the prosecution had applied to withdraw. The prosecution had tried to withdraw the case when it became clear that the judge's jury instructions would specify that the murder charge required that the deaths occurred within U.S. jurisdiction, which it had been unable to show. The prosecution also applied for an emergency writ, which was denied, that the instructions should exclude reference to jurisdiction.
In December 2001, the members of the group were sentenced to varying prison terms: two life terms for Hernández, to be served consecutively; life for Guerrero and Labañino; 19 years for Fernando González; and 15 years for René González. In addition, the prosecution sought the post-release deportation of the three Cuban-born members, and for the two U.S.-born members, a post-release sentence of "incapacitation", imposing specific restrictions on them after their release, which would be enforced by the FBI. The restrictions ban them from "associating with or visiting specific places where individuals or groups such as terrorists, members of organizations advocating violence, and organized crime figures are known to be or frequent."
In 2011, NPR reported some of the people associated with this group were imprisoned in a highly restrictive Communication Management Unit.
A billboard for the Cuban Five in Santa Clara. The number 5 with a star and a Cuban flag, shown in the picture, is used as a logo for the cause of the five.
After the arrests, motions by the defense for a change of venue, on the basis that Miami was a venue too associated with exile Cubans, were denied, despite the fact that the trial began just five months after the heated Elian Gonzalez affair. The jury did not include any Cuban-Americans but 16 of the 160 members of the jury pool "knew the victims of the shootdown or knew trial witnesses who had flown with them." According to Ricardo Alarcón, President of Cuba's National Assembly, a year later, an application to change venue for the same reason was granted by the same court in an employment case with a Cuban connection. As a result the Five applied for annulment of the trial and a change of venue for a retrial; the motion was denied. According to Alarcon, the Five's appeal to a higher court was inhibited by further month's solitary confinement in early 2003, and by denial of access to their attorneys. On August 9, 2005, a three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit in Atlanta unanimously overturned the convictions and sentences of the Cuban Five and ordered a new trial outside Miami, saying that the Cuban exile community and the trial publicity made the trial unfavorable and prejudicial to the defendants. This was the first time a Federal Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a trial court's finding with respect to venue. However, on October 31, 2005 the Atlanta court agreed to a U.S. government request to review the decision, and in August 2006 the ruling for a new trial was reversed by a 10-2 vote of the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeal sitting en banc. Charles R. Wilson wrote the opinion of the majority.
On October 13, 2009, Antonio Guerrero's sentence was reduced to 21 years and 10 months. On December 8, 2009, Ramón Labañino and Fernando González's sentence were reduced to 30 years and 17 years and 9 months, respectively.
In May 2012, it was reported that the U.S. had declined a "spy swap" proposed by the Cuban government, wherein the Cuban Five would be returned to Cuba in exchange for USAID contractor Alan Phillip Gross, imprisoned in Cuba for illegally providing equipment allowing Cuban Jews to have internet access.
The prisoner swap eventually took place in December 2014 as part of a broader agreement to thaw Cuba–United States relations. In addition to Gross, the swap included Rolando Sarraff Trujillo, a Cuban who had worked as an agent for American intelligence and had been in a Cuban prison for nearly 20 years.
Since their conviction, there has been an international campaign for the case to be appealed. In the United States, the campaign is most conspicuously represented by the National Committee to Free the Cuban Five which is represented in twenty U.S. cities and over thirty countries.
Amnesty International has criticized the U.S. treatment of the Cuban Five as "unnecessarily punitive and contrary both to standards for the humane treatment of prisoners and to states' obligation to protect family life", as the wives of René Gonzáles and Gerardo Hernández have not been allowed visas to visit their imprisoned husbands. Amnesty said in early 2006 that it was "following closely the status of the ongoing appeals of the five men of numerous issues challenging the fairness of the trial which have not yet been addressed by the appeal courts."
Consistent with the right of the United States to protect itself from covert spies, the U.S. government has not granted visas to the wives of two prisoners. Evidence presented at their husbands' trial revealed that one of these women was a member of the Wasp Network who was deported for engaging in activity related to espionage and is ineligible to return to the United States. The other was a candidate for training as a Directorate of Intelligence U.S.-based spy when U.S. authorities broke up the network.
Eight international Nobel Prize winners have written and sent a document to the U.S. Attorney General calling for freedom for the Cuban Five, signed by Zhores Alferov (Nobel Prize for Physics, 2000), Desmond Tutu (Nobel Peace Prize, 1984), Nadine Gordimer (Nobel Prize in Literature, 1991), Rigoberta Menchú (Nobel Peace Prize, 1992), Adolfo Pérez Esquivel (Nobel Peace Prize, 1980), Wole Soyinka (Nobel Prize in Literature, 1986), José Saramago (Nobel Prize in Literature, 1996), Günter Grass (Nobel Prize in Literature, 1999).
René González was put on parole for three years starting 2011. He was allowed to return to Cuba for his father's funeral on April 22, 2013. Originally he was required to return to Florida to carry out his three years of probation, but on May 3 a federal judge ruled that he can stay in Cuba provided that he voluntarily renounces his United States citizenship.
In December 2014, the last three prisoners were released as part of a prisoner swap for an unnamed American intelligence agent held by Cuba. American Alan Phillip Gross was released by Cuba at the same time.
↑ 2.0 2.1 Saul Landau, CounterPunch, 17 April 2009, Infiltrating Alpha 66.
↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 4 June 2008, United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, D. C. Docket No. 98-00721-CR-JAL.
↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Havana Complains About Conditions for Cuban Spy in U.S. Jail by the International Herald Tribune, August 4, 2010.
↑ Pat Denny, Green Left Online, UNITED STATES: Cuban Five ruling a "travesty of justice", #680, 2006.
↑ 7.0 7.1 Reuters, 15 June 2009, Top court won't review case of five Cuban spies.
↑ The Washington Post, 3 June 2006, Cubans Jailed in US as Spies Are Hailed at Home as Heroes.
↑ Cuban Ministry of Foreign Relations (2001), (Spanish) Informe de Cuba al Comité Antiterrorismo del Consejo de Seguridad en virtud de la Resolución 1373(2001).
↑ 15.0 15.1 Reuters, 4 June 2008, U.S. court upholds conviction of Cuban spies.
↑ 16.0 16.1 16.2 The Miami Herald, September 2, 2001, "Couple accused of reporting to two Cuban spies".
↑ The Miami Herald, September 14, 2001, "Lawyer: Accused spy to plead guilty".
↑ CounterPunch, 10 July 2009, President Obama, It's Up to You to Rectify This Injustice - The Cuban Five: a Cold War Case in a Post-Cold War World.
↑ AFP, 3 May 2007, FBI probes Cuban's possible links to 1997 Havana bombing: report.
↑ 20.0 20.1 20.2 Ricardo Alarcón de Quesada, CounterPunch, 3 September 2009, Indictment À La Carte.
↑ Saul Landau, CounterPunch, 24 April 2009, An Interview with Gerardo Hernandez, Leader of the Cuban Five: Seventeen Months in "the Hole".
↑ 22.0 22.1 22.2 22.3 22.4 22.5 22.6 22.7 22.8 Ricardo Alarcón, Counterpunch, 27 August 2005, A Long March Towards Justice:The Cuban Five in Atlanta.
↑ Ricardo Alarcón de Quesada, CounterPunch, 4 September 2009, It Happened in Miami.
↑ Ricardo Alarcon, CounterPunch, 27 August 2009, In Their Own Words: Incapacitating the Cuban Five.
↑ DATA & GRAPHICS: Population Of The Communications Management Units, Margot Williams and Alyson Hurt, NPR, 3-3-11, retrieved 2011 03 04 from npr.org.
↑ Christian Science Monitor, 15 June 2009, Convicted 'Cuban Five' spies lose bid for new trial.
↑ 27.0 27.1 Reuters, 9 August 2005, U.S. court reverses Cubans' spying convictions.
↑ GreenLeftOnline, 24 August 2005, UNITED STATES: Cuban Five convictions reversed in landmark decision.
↑ Leonard Weinglass, Links, 23 September 2008, Chronicle of an injustice: Summary of the case of the Cuban Five.
↑ Havana Times, 31 January 2009, Cuban 5 Case at US Supreme Court.
↑ Scoop, 6 April 2009, US Embassy Refuses Letter From MPs. Crs. Unionists.
↑ Elena Kagan, Lanny A. Breuer, Joseph F. Palmer, U.S. Department of Justice, No. 08-987: Ruben Campa, et al., Petitioners, v United States of America, May 2009.
↑ Circles Robinson, US Says NO to Alan Gross-Cuban 5 Swap, Havana Times (May 11, 2012).
↑ Obama and Castro: Sparring Over Human Rights by Martha Burk, The Huffington Post, April 7, 2010.
↑ Colorado Springs Independent, 10 April 2003, Stinging Back.
↑ Fox News, 4 June 2008, Court rules on sentences of 'Cuban 5'.
↑ Susan Lee, CounterPunch, 26 January 2006, An Open Letter to the State Department: The U.S. is Violating the Rights of the Cuban Five.
↑ CNN, 30 January 2009, 'Cuban Five' file appeal with Supreme Court.
↑ Znet, 8 December 2007, Leonard Weinglass Interview.
↑ Cuban Ministry of Foreign Relations, 9 February 2006, Nobel prize winner and 110 British demand the Cuban Five's liberation.
↑ Associated Press, April 5, 2009, 'Cuban Five' Receive Brazilian Human Rights Medal.
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Economist: Ag boom-bust cycle typical
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Central Rockies showed modest gains from 2011-2013 farm boom.
Because its expansion was smaller than other states', Colorado's farm income decline also was less than elsewhere.
By Jeff Rice | ricej@journal-advocate.com | Sterling Journal-Advocate
PUBLISHED: April 5, 2017 at 9:37 p.m. | UPDATED: May 8, 2019 at 1:20 a.m.
Ag journalists have frequently written about the expansion and subsequent contraction of the U.S. farm income, and one of the most astute of these observers is David Widmar, an analyst who writes for Agricultural Economic Insights (www.ageconomists.com.) In a recent column, Widmar took a look at the latest ag boom-bust cycle.
What may be interesting to Journal-Advocate readers is that, while Colorado didn't enjoy much of a boom, neither has it suffered the kind of bust that has happened elsewhere.
This is not to minimize the damage done to family farms, especially in northeast Colorado. However, it may give hope to some to see that, while Colorado's farmers and ranchers have had a severely bumpy ride, their colleagues elsewhere in the country have been riding an economic roller coaster.
Widmar is quick to point out that state-wide trends are just that — state-wide.
"While most work has focused on sector-level trends across the U.S. farm economy, it is important to note these trends likely vary at the local, state, and regional levels," Widmar said. "Thinking about these variations, we previously looked at how changes in farmland values have varied across the country."
Conditions can vary dramatically within a state, and even within a few counties. Consider the 2016 corn crop in northeast Colorado, in which some areas enjoyed near-record yields while others suffered late-season hailstorms that wiped out any appreciable harvest. And it will be some time yet before the full effects of the March wildfire across Logan and Phillips counties will be seen.
Widmar points out the extreme variations that happened, both in the good times and in the bad times. Back during the boom, which built gradually from 2000 to 2004 and then really took off from 2011 to 2013, the biggest increases occurred in what is commonly known as "the heartland." According to AEI's figures, the largest increases in farm incomes occurred in the Northern Great Plains states of Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, and North Dakota, and in the Corn Belt of Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Minnesota and Michigan. Between the two time periods, farm incomes in Minnesota, Kansas, and Nebraska were up significantly. In the case of these states, farm incomes more than doubled over the time periods spanning 13 years. For example, net farm income in Nebraska went from an average of $2.5 billion to $6.3 billion.
However, Widmar says, it's important to keep in mind that the ag economy boom wasn't felt evenly across the U.S. In the central Rocky Mountain states — Colorado, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, and Wyoming — the ag economy improvement was minimal, while the crescent of states around them — Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska and Kansas — experienced as much as 167 percent improvement.
And some regions, Widmar points out, missed the farm boom altogether.
"This was especially the case in the Southeast and Texas where net farm incomes across these two periods contracted," he said "In Texas, for example, net farm incomes contracted 34 percent. In fact, ten states had zero or negative farm income growth when comparing the two periods."
Widmar attributes the variations to the mix and types of agriculture within each state and local conditions. He points out that drought stuck a wide swath of cattle country, from Texas up into southeastern Colorado during the 2011-2013 period.
Just as the net farm income during the boom varied, Widmar points out, so has the contraction. Colorado, for instance, had modest gains and modest declines statewide, but some commodities — cattle, wheat and corn, most notably — suffered wild fluctuations. Next door in Kansas, however, where the boom was a whopping 167 percent, the subsequent decline was 64 percent statewide. While that's not as bad as the crashes in Illinois and North Dakota, it's still a bust, by anyone's standard.
Widmar said the variations in farm income over the past 17 years are similar to the cycles seen in the 1970s and 1980s. Other farm economists have noted, however, that low interest rates have helped the credit crunch and low, fairly stable fuel prices have helped hold the line on inputs.
The analyst isn't particularly rosy in his prognosis, either.
"Overall, we expect state-level conditions to be lower when the next round of data is available (later this summer)," Widmar said. "Additionally, areas of the country where net farm incomes fall the most are likely to face more pressure on farmland values and face tougher financial conditions."
Jeff Rice: 970-526-9283, ricej@journal-advocate.com
Jeff Rice | Staff Writer
Jeff Rice is a reporter for the Journal-Advocate. He rejoined the paper in July 2016.
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All games and activities are interactive and designed to bring friends and strangers together.
Honest Flirt – A board with questions couples and moresomes can ask each other and answer in a flirty manner.
Do Your Two Hearts Beat as One – A unique stethoscope lets two people listen to both their heartbeats. The challenge is to get them to beat in sync.
Come Together Roulette Wheel – Two electronic roulette wheels suggest activities couples can do together to increase their bonds and the attachments that will result.
Save the World Scavenger Hunt – Collect 12 jigsaw puzzle pieces and solve the mystery of how the Man can Save the World.
Love or Lust Tester – Two people touch foreheads or kiss and the device reads their potential for love or lust.
Honest Flirt Boot Camp – Instructors will teach you how to be an honest flirt.
End of the World Party – Scavenger Hunters bring to a party the jigsaw puzzle pieces they've found and see if they can form a complete picture and solve the question of how to save the world.
Gifts: We plan on gifting postcards, certificates, playing cards, pink stethoscopes, and other things related to our activities.
Flirtation is the art of being attractive or finding others attractive for pleasure rather than with serious intention. A Tease derives amusement by raising hopes and then dashes them whereas a Seducer uses flirtation as a means to an end.
Honest Flirts are forthright and playful and always make their agendas clear so nobody is surprised, offended, or disappointed.
We want to revive a more innocent version of flirtation where, for example, a grandmother could boost the confidence of a grandson by saying "if I were but your age i would fall for you" without calling out the PC police (or, worse yet, the real thing).
A game board has cards that are flipped up to reveal provocative questions. Players take turns flipping up cards to reveal a suggested activity that usually involves answering a question, imagining a scenario, or touching each other in a playful way.
A unique stethoscope allows two people to listen to both their heartbeats simultaneously (one person in one ear and the other person in the other ear). They are challenged to increase or decrease their heart rates until they beat in sync.
Pink stethoscopes will be given to couples who are successful at getting their hearts to beat as one.
When two people simultaneously press buttons on the Come Together Game Board lights begin flashing. They eventually one light settles on an activity (e.g. Hug, Massage Shoulders, Tickle Each Other) and another settles on a consequence (e.g. Find Intimacy, Experience Happiness, Fall in Love).
This game board will be turned on from sunrise to 10 PM and can be used without anyone in attendance. Meetups will be scheduled for 11 AM and 2 PM for players who want to specifically meet new partners.
The man has discovered how the world can be saved. Because he cannot talk, he has given us the secret in semaphore and has distributed the solution in twelve pieces of 3 characters each.
Players start with a postcard they pick up at the Couch Burner Camp at 8:00 and G.
The front of the post card lists all the semaphore signals and on the back is place to collect all the pieces of the message. You find these pieces at participating camps around the Playa.
I created this for the 2015 Burn and it will be returning this year. Two people touch the Love/Lust Tester and then each other and the device measures the level of connection they have and predicts the intensity of any love or lust they might experience.
Honest Flirt, Come Together, Save the World Scavenger Hunt, and Do Your Hearts Beat as One will be mounted on a wood frame that will also support a 14 by 16 foot shade structure behind it. The entire thing runs off of 12 v. dc, including lights. We will have a deep discharge battery recharged either by a solar panel or a battery charger off of the generator.
Love or Lust can be placed near the bar.


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Advice to SARS: Find new sources of revenue
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As the economy sheds jobs and business closures mount because of the Covid-19 pandemic, South Africa has its work cut out in attempting to expand the tax base. This would be difficult but not impossible to achieve, says Robyn Berger, Executive: Tax at leading African law firm, Bowmans.
Taxing the digital economy and the informal economy could potentially bring many new taxpayers into the net, although both routes could pose considerable challenges, Berger says.
Of the two, taxing the digital economy would likely face the biggest hurdles, particularly if SARS follows through on its proposal to unilaterally tax the gross revenues that digital companies make in South Africa.
'Currently, South Africa taxes limited aspects of the digital economy through the value added tax system. Although SARS has indicated it would prefer to align with the initiatives of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) on such matters, it is taking longer than anticipated for the OECD to develop a single set of rules for use globally,' Berger says.
There are also concerns that the current OECD approach would not benefit South Africa as a developing country.
'SARS has therefore suggested that a more immediate, unilateral approach may be appropriate, in line with many other countries across the globe that have elected to institute what seems akin to a withholding tax on gross revenue generated from the country. This approach is not without difficulty and may prove fruitless if bilateral tax agreements are not amended to allow South Africa to impose such taxes,' she says.
'The problem with a unilateral approach is that these measures are perceived as targeting mainly US corporations, leading to trade wars. South Africa cannot afford counter action from the US at this time. I think the imposition of VAT may be more acceptable because ultimately it is the consumers who would foot the bill.'
Berger argues that the untaxed, informal economy could also be a focus area for expanding the tax base.
'The biggest difficulty with this is that no one really knows the value of this economy and what level of tax revenue could be generated from it. Some estimate that it contributes billions to South Africa, making up 20% of jobs in the country,' she says.
'While the informal economy has undoubtedly been significantly impacted by Covid-19, it is likely to bounce back relatively quickly or find ingenious ways to trade through Covid-19. It may even grow, through the addition of individuals who have been retrenched electing to start their own businesses. Targeting this economy seems like an obvious way to expand the tax base.'
The burning question, however, is how South Africa could go about this in practice.
Berger suggests a two-pronged approach. 'It would be necessary to appeal to the moral conscious of taxpayers to get them to comply and then, because these businesses are predominately cash based, there's a need to be able to police their compliance.'
This seems a relatively easy problem to solve, even if a technological solution is implemented gradually. 'The use of a payments system like M-Pesa, which has worked so successfully in Kenya, coupled with an application that monitors revenue and taxes it as it is generated, may be the solution.'
She also suggests instituting incentives to phase out cash over a period and to link the digital payment system to a SARS application that imposes and collects a minimum percentage-based tax on all revenue generated.
'This approach may result in increased tax revenue collections through simple reporting processes, spreading the tax burden across a wider spectrum with minimal audit activity required.'
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Home > News > Vice President Pence Says Administration Is Considering More Trade Aid
Vice President Pence Says Administration Is Considering More Trade Aid
Vice President Mike Pence said Thursday that the White House is considering providing additional assistance to farmers to compensate them for the income they have lost from the Trump administration's trade war with China.
Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue has repeatedly declared that the aid provided through USDA's temporary Market Facilitation Program would not be repeated.
But Pence, speaking in northwest Minnesota after a meeting with farm leaders, said additional assistance was, in fact, under consideration.
"If we have to go the tariffs route — if we have to expand tariffs to reset the balance in our relationship — you can be very confident that President Trump and I and our entire administration are going to look for ways to provide additional support to American farmers that would be impacted by the negotiations or uncertainty in our relationship with China. And those discussions have already taken place," Pence said.
Tariffs on $200 billion worth of Chinese goods were set to rise from 10 percent to 25 percent at midnight. U.S. and Chinese negotiators were starting a new round of negotiations Thursday afternoon.
USDA economists have estimated that farmers are receiving about $8.7 billion in MFP payments, split between 2019 and this year.
Pence provided no details about what was under consideration. But when pressed on the issue he repeated his assertion that additional aid was being contemplated.
"I think the President said earlier today that we're hoping — and hoping that they're coming to make a deal. … But make no mistake about it, we have already had preliminary discussions in the White House for additional support for farmers if this impasse with China continues."
The suggestion of another round of trade aid could increase the pressure on China to reach a deal since the administration would be shielding U.S. farmers to some extent from additional retaliatory tariffs.
Pence said he understood the impact the trade war was having on farmers.
"I want to assure all of you, particularly those of you in soybeans, who export to China and understand that we're working literally hour by hour to reach an agreement with China.
"The President and I remain hopeful that we'll be able to reach an agreement, but we're going to continue to stand firm. We're going to continue to stand firm for putting American jobs, American farmers, and American workers first to reset that trading relationship with China that is so out of balance in so many different ways."
During the visit to the farm near Glyndon, Pence talked individually with state farm leaders, their spouses and seven FFA officers, about 30 people in all, said Kevin Paap, the president of the Minnesota Farm Bureau. Pence also met privately with a smaller group, including Paap.
"We pushed pretty hard letting him know the emotional and financial strain out here," Paap said. "Guys are not in a good mood."
At a House Agriculture subcommittee hearing earlier Thursday, farmers told the committee that the trade war is pushing farm finances over the edge.
"Unless we get our markets back and prices rebound I feel many more farmers will be forced out of business," said Mike Peterson, a Northfield, Minn. farmer.
Bart Davis, a cotton and peanut producer from southwest Georgia, told the subcommittee that a combination of flat prices, trade uncertainty and natural disasters have created a "perfect storm" for farmers.
Source: AgriMarketing


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package org.jstache;

import java.io.File;
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import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.net.URL;
import java.nio.charset.Charset;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;
import org.jstache.internal.Element;
import org.jstache.internal.ProviderStack;
import org.jstache.provider.BeanProvider;
import org.jstache.provider.MapProvider;
import org.jstache.provider.Provider;

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A Template represents a parsed, logic-less template.

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The process of leaching metals from ore by using bacteria or fungi to convert the metals into a soluble form.
The extraction of metals from sulphide ore by biologic processes or wild-type bacteria.
Bioleaching technology has created great interest due to their higher efficiency, lower costs and small industrial requirements .
Her knowledge centres on using bioleaching technology for improved metal recovery and remediation of mine wastes.
Recently, bioleaching has been used for the pre-treatment of minerals, for example, for dissolving sulfides from pyrite or arsenopyrite, which contain gold and silver in their matrices [7, 8].
Parameters influencing the microbial oxidation activity in the industrial bioleaching heap at Escondida mine, Chile.
Key words: Heavy metals, bioremediation, metal-resistant fungi, ITS, bioleaching.
Bioleaching of metals from electronic scrap by moderately thermophilic acidophilic bacteria.
Surface properties of pyrite in the course of bioleaching by pure culture of Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans and a mixed culture of Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans and Acidithiobacillus thiooxidans.
A further 5% can be earned if REBgold's bioleaching technology can lead to a material improvement in the project economics.
Bioleaching of metals from ores is a practical example (Erhlich and Brierley, 1990).
Role and contribution of pure and mixed cultures of mesophiles in bioleaching of a pyritic chalcopyrite concentrate.
Beginings of rational bioleaching and highlights in the development of biohydrometallurgy: A brief history.
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This Woman Who Glued Herself to Her Girlfriend in a Couple's Therapy Accident Manages to Escape Arrest
Whether or not the accident was a stint to get out of serving time or an actual method of couple's therapy, there's no escaping the FML that is being stuck, literally, to your significant other for days on end. That's a jail of its own!
It happens from time to time that a relationship comes to a rough patch. Not everyone is willing to seek couple's therapy, but these two women from Centralia, Washington were. And the advice they received was…less than conventional.
Their couple's counselor (Note: not doctor) of whom the women only know enough to share that he attends the local Buddhist temple, gave them this brilliant advice: in order to determine whether they could go through life side by side, they should literally attach themselves to each other by the pinky, which he did by affixing both of their pinkies into either end of a copper pipe using an unknown epoxy.
See for yourselves:
Why he didn't start with something less risky, like a Chinese finger trap, no one can say.
Curiously enough, one of the women, 27-year-old Rachel A. Deckert, was due to show up in court the day after the pinky-pipe incident on a misdemeanor arrest warrant for driving under the influence. However, she managed to avoid arrest because she was still attached to her girlfriend.
In an interview with The Chronicle, one of Deckert's family member said:
"She just didn't want to go to jail. This is her fifth warrant on this case."
If that's true, well then by all means, the scheme worked, and though the judge has let her off for now, karma wasn't ready to let her off so easily.
It's been over a week and the women are still stuck together. All efforts by the women and their counselor have been fruitless, and according to doctors, separation will require surgery, if not amputation. I can't quite imagine an ending to this story more FML than that.
Moral or the story: if you drink and drive, you will have your pinky surgically removed.
By Nina / Friday 25 August 2017 18:19 /
FMLNews
Temporarily Embarrassed Millionaires
Capitalism kills
The ole answer/forward conundrum
Today, I had dinner with my family at a fancy restaurant. They kept commenting about how cold it was and asked the waitress to turn off the air conditioning. When I got home, I realized the embroidered daisies on my undershirt made it look like I have giant protruding nipples. FML
By Katsuria - 25/7/2020 14:01
Unreasonable
Today, my mother disowned me because I wouldn't fill out her visa application for France so that she can see her boyfriend. The reason why I refused was because my husband and I are on our honeymoon, and would like to spend some time together. I guess that makes me a "useless" daughter. FML
By chinatownhobo - Australia - Canberra
Today, while at a hospital, a prayer group circled me and started praying that God and the good doctors and nurses would heal me from the disease that disfigured my face. I was there to visit my sick grandmother. FML
By horno - United States - San Francisco
Today, I asked my dad why the Wi-fi was down. He just replied, "Why? Horno can't get no more porno?" No, "Horno" has an assignment. WTF? FML
By gabby - United States
Today, I dolled myself up and hit the campus gym, hoping to leave with a cute boy's number. I left in a stretcher. FML
By DeepFriedLettuce - United States - Vashon
Today, I had to explain to my seventeen year-old daughter that deep frying food doesn't "melt the calories." FML
By katwingz - United States - Fairfield
Today, after being together for only 2 weeks, my boyfriend got me a year's gym membership for my birthday in a card that said, "So u can b hott! Luv u!" FML
Today, I went to a haunted hayride with my crush and friends. I got scared and screamed so he put his arm around me and hugged me. I took this as a good sign and leaned in. Turns out his friend was handing him something and he wasn't putting his arm around me. FML
By Anonymous - 4/1/2021 07:58
Today, my boyfriend broke up with me because I checked his phone. The reason I did so was to get his mum's number so I could arrange to send her his Xmas present in a parcel, as a surprise as I wouldn't be with him. He found out when he asked me how I managed it, and I told him honestly. FML
By Anonymous - United States - Vancouver
Today, my manager asked me for the password to my Internet so she could Skype family since she can't pay her bill. This is the same woman who just a week ago tried to evict me because my rent was an hour late. Trying to be the bigger person, I gave her the password. She changed my password. FML
By tstaeger - United States
Today, I tried drinking "Smart Water" for the first time. I couldn't figure out how to open the bottle. FML
Today, I don't know what's worse, the fact that my hair sheds so much, or the fact that I find most of it in my butt crack. FML
By errints234234 - United States
Today, I was reading a magazine while straightening my hair. I got really into this one article until suddenly a huge clump of hair fell on it. I looked up and realized I had burned through the layer of hair I was straightening, leaving me with one layer at ear length and the rest at bra length. FML
By RedheadA - United States
Today, my husband and I woke up to see my drunk mother passed out on our couch. She was just wearing socks. FML
By rubgy_lover - Canada - Surrey
Today, at work, I politely asked a patron to be quieter; I was hit in the face. I work in a library. FML
By 30000 - United States - San Francisco
Today, I was brushing my teeth. When it came time for me to spit, I absentmindedly opened the bathroom drawer and spat in there instead of in the sink. FML
By aspiemeanswell - Germany - Rudolstadt
Today, my boyfriend gushed for several minutes about how amazing it is that I suddenly look hot when he takes his glasses off. FML
By Crog - United Kingdom
Today, I accidentally kicked a child down a set of steps. I work in a kids play area. FML
By derve - United States
Today, as my girlfriend and I were finishing up a romantic dinner, she gazed into my eyes for a moment and said, "You know, sometimes you look like a character from Sesame Street." FML
By Ginger - Canada
Today, my boyfriend told me I should finish school early and get a job so we can get married, because then he'll have enough money to buy the truck he's had his eyes on for our whole relationship. FML
By ThatOneGuy
Today I went on a date with my long time crush only to find out that we are distant cousins. FML
By xorenae - United States - San Francisco
Today, I had an interview for an office job. As a requirement, I had to show up dressed for the job. My friend has worked there for years and told me it was casual dress. I wore jeans and a blouse. Everyone else had on business suits. Obviously my friend doesn't know what casual means. FML
Today, I was playing my bass clarinet around the house. I asked my dad if he would be at my concert on December 16th. His response was, "No, I'm working that day." My dad is a plumber, and gets called to work completely at random; he has no schedule. FML
By Anonymous - Australia - Melbourne
Today, my ex-boyfriend of over 4 years decided to turn up outside my house at 1am, drunk off his ass, to confess his love for me. When I told him I'd moved on and am happily engaged, he cried on the grass for an hour, then tried to steal my cat. FML
Today, as I was at Starbucks writing a paper, a man came and sat next to me. He started staring at me, then I noticed his hands were down his pants. It was noticeable that he was masturbating, so I went to tell a worker. They just said, "He's a regular" and didn't do anything about it. FML
A like is a like, dude
Today, the girl I have a huge crush on only likes my Instagram posts if it's a post about food. FML
By FidoForever
Today, my wife and I had to rush our dog to the vet for a $700 emergency surgery. The x-ray showed that he had eaten a vibrating cock ring. I've never bought or owned one, so now I've got to deal with the vet bill and lawyer fees for my soon-to-be ex-wife. FML
By Anonymous - United States - Bradenton
Today, I was sitting in a bar telling some young dude to accept responsibility for his life choices. I'm over 50 and was spending my last five dollars on beer. FML
Today, I moved into my new house. The previous occupants failed to tell me that they'd recently kicked out their crazy crackhead son, who seems to think they've paid me to pretend that they've moved out and that I'm the new owner. He wants back in. FML
By daughterinlaw - United States - La Plata
Today, my mother-in-law, who apparently made a copy of our house key without permission, walked in on my husband and me doing the deed. She went crazy, yelling at me for "defiling" her son. Last week, she yelled at me for not having given her grand-children yet. FML
By Mark - Malta - Naxxar
Today, I was feeling terrible so I called in sick to work. My boss refused to believe me and told me he'd fire me if I didn't come in. I dragged myself to work, only to spend most of the day glued to the toilet. Now he says I won't be paid for the day because I barely did any work. FML
By bastawhiz - United States
Today, a professor approached me in the hall to ask if, since I'm a math major, I could tutor one of her communications majors in a required Calculus course. Apparently the volunteer tutor the school provides "is a complete dumbass." I'm the school's volunteer tutor. FML
By difference between birds and mammals. - Australia
Today, my boyfriend and I were watching TV and there were penguins laying eggs. He said, "Penguins are mammals, they don't lay eggs." I replied, "Penguins are birds." We fought about it for ages until he realised that I was right, and has since stopped talking to me. FML
Today, I woke up to find The Sims 2 running on pause on my laptop. I unpaused to find my character and my boyfriend's were no longer together. Slightly confused, I went on to find the note my boyfriend left. It said, "I hope you can take a hint." I got dumped through a computer game. FML
Today, I got my very first paycheck of $129 for over 40 hours of work. I got paid roughly $3.00 an hour. Alaska minimum is $9.50 per hour, and my HR office is refusing to answer my calls. FML
By madeyoulaugh - United States
Today, I was watching my 7 year old daughter and her friend jump on our trampoline. I was really impressed by all the flips they were doing, and I told her "Hey! I can't even do that." To that her friend replied " Of course you can't. You're fat!" FML
Today, I was seeing my boyfriend for the first time in 3 weeks. I was so excited to see him that I gave him a big hug. He must have been excited to see me too, because he hugged me so tight that he squeezed a fart out of me. FML
By beetregeneration - United States - Stockton
Today, I was walking to a bathroom on campus before class when my professor walked in behind me. There were two urinals in the bathroom, we walked right up next to each other and unzipped our pants in unison. It became so awkward for me, I actually said out loud, "Nope, too awkward" and left. FML
By Mystery LeRale - United States
Today, I spent four hours practicing funny voices. I have literally nothing better to do all day. FML
Today, I went on a blind date that my best friend had set up for me. When I arrived, I introduced myself and we sat at the table. After we ordered our food, he asked the waiter for some crayons and a kid's menu, and colored for the half hour before our food came. He didn't talk to me at all. FML
By jbuckets_404 | 38
#7533955 - Saturday 26 August 2017 0:54
Um, a hacksaw blade perhaps?
By jfsiv | 17
the way it's on there, doing 69 would be almost impossible.
jbuckets_404 | 38
First thru the pipe elbow and then alongside each finger on opposite sides.
RockPrincess26 | 16
Well, then why don't you try it? Then you can let them and all of us know how well it worked.
By richleys | 21
Who needs pinkies anyway?
By Burle | 17
Can't change shirts, the hoodie the one on the right is wearing must be week old by now
By tonyfan00 | 38
I assume everyone going to the bathroom is a bit of a problem...
By Taurus_ChicKa | 36
#7534213 - Saturday 26 August 2017 17:15
Wow... okay, first of all, get them disconnected (use a hacksaw to cut the pipe in half) and then punish her ass because she's still required to go to court. And this is her fifth warrant on this case? Yeah, time to teach her a lesson.
By bigdaddyeric | 30
#7534434 - Sunday 27 August 2017 10:16
They deserve it
By Khalid Adi | 2
#7536321 - Friday 1 September 2017 12:36
I know this person IRL. She did it because she didn't want to serve time. They arent a real couple, both girls are straight. Funny thing is that it was never stuck. They could take off the whole time. She's now in jail serving 90 days tho ???
Today, I tried pouring water on myself like in Coyote Ugly to the song "Pour Some Sugar On Me." I ended up waterboarding myself and I didn't stop until...


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What are the hurdles facing a blockchain enabled future?
Last week Coin Center director of research Peter Van Valkenburgh stopped by the Software Engineering Daily podcast to discuss the unique capabilities of open blockchain networks like Bitcoin and Ethereum, where this technology is today, and what needs to happen for a blockchain powered IoT future to take hold. In particular, he describes the regulatory hurdles that could hamper the robust development of the technology, what a regulatory scheme that actually encourages it might look like, and what Coin Center is doing to help get us there.
By the way, you can learn more about the part open blockchains will play in the Internet of Things with this plain-language explainer.


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Q: Laravel application .env file parameters to app.yaml for GCloud App Engine and path to root I have a Laravel (7.x) application which I have been developing locally and it has the environment variables in the .env file. I want to deploy it to GCloud app engine and I have an app.yaml file ready for it. However, some of the parameters from the .env file are not there in the app.yaml file. Do I need to copy these into it or does the .env file also get uploaded and the App Engine instance uses that as well? If that is the case does one supersede another?
Also one of my parameters has the path to the credentials json file for GCS located in the root folder, what would be the path on App Engine instance for that same file in the root folder?

A: As you mentioned, the .env file should be skipped, since is only for local development. Instead you can use the tag: env_variables:
env_variables:
  # Put production environment variables here.
  APP_LOG: errorlog
  APP_KEY: YOUR_APP_KEY

Replace YOUR_APP_KEY in the app.yaml file with an application key you generated.

If you're on Linux or macOS, the following command will automatically update your app.yaml:

sed -i '' "s#YOUR_APP_KEY#$(php artisan key:generate --show --no-ansi)#" app.yaml
Here you can find a Community Tutorial: Run Laravel on App Engine flexible environment, and Run Laravel on Google App Engine standard environment.

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The Fort Hood Massacre: Something Here Stinks To High Heaven!
We have just witnessed the reports coming out of Fort Hood, Texas, where now 13 people have died in a shooting that many are labelling as a "Mad Muslim" attacking fellow US Soldiers!
Something about this entire scenario does not make any sense.... Here is a US Army base with many ARMED men, and yet this ONE man was able to fire off multiple shots, killing 13, and wounding 30+ others. The first clue to myself that something is definitely wrong has been the over-emphasis on this "shooter" being a MUSLIM! The US Zionist controlled media has spewed so much BS out constantly, that the moment they have gone overboard in all of their "news" with the emphasis on a MUSLIM shooter, I began to have my doubts, and began to say that something stinks to high heaven here....
Here is a prime example of the latest rhetoric coming out of the US. The following article is from the Associated Press, and it has more holes in it than a block of Swiss Cheese! Look closely at the comment by a reader that follows:
(AP) FORT HOOD, Texas - The base commander at Fort Hood says soldiers who witnessed a shooting rampage that left 13 people dead reported that the gunman shouted "Allahu Akbar!" before opening fire at the Texas post.
Lt. Gen. Robert Cone told NBC's "Today" show on Friday that suspected shooter, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, made the comment, which is Arabic for "God is great!" before the rampage Thursday that also left 30 people wounded.
Military officials say they are still piecing together what may have pushed Hasan, an Army psychiatrist trained to help soldiers in distress, to turn on his comrades.
Cone says Hasan was not known to be a threat or risk.
Hasan was shot four times during the rampage. Cone says he is hospitalized in stable condition and that military officials will interrogate him as soon as possible.
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below.
FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) _ Military officials were starting Friday to piece together what may have pushed an Army psychiatrist trained to help soldiers in distress to turn on his comrades in a shooting rampage that killed 13 people and wounded 30 in Texas.
The suspected shooter, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, was on a ventilator and unconscious in a hospital after being shot four times during the shootings at the Army's sprawling Fort Hood, post officials said. In the early chaos after the shootings, authorities believed they had killed him, only to discover later that he had survived.
In Washington, a senior U.S. official said authorities at Fort Hood initially thought one of the victims who had been shot and killed was the shooter. The mistake resulted in a delay of several hours in identifying Hasan as the alleged assailant.
Authorities have not ruled out that Hasan was acting on behalf of some unidentified radical group, the official said. He would not say whether any evidence had come to light to support that theory.
The official spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss matters that were under investigation.
Officials are not ruling out the possibility that some of the casualties may have been victims of "friendly fire," that in the mayhem and confusion at the shooting scene some of the responding military officials may have shot some of the victims.
The gunfire broke out around 1:30 p.m. at the Soldier Readiness Center, where soldiers who are about to be deployed or who are returning undergo medical screening. Nearby, some soldiers were readying to head into a graduation ceremony for troops and families who had recently earned degrees.
Pastor Greg Schannep had just parked his car along the side of the theater and was about to head into the ceremony when a man in uniform approached him.
"Sir, they are opening fire over there!" the man told him. At first, he thought it was a training exercise _ then heard three volleys and saw people running. As the man who warned him about the shots ran away, he could see the man's back was bloodied from a wound.
Schannep said police and medical and other emergency personnel were on the scene in an instant, telling people to get inside the theater. The post went into lockdown while a search began for a suspect and emergency workers began trying to treat the wounded. Some soldiers rushed to treat their injured colleagues by ripping their uniforms into makeshift bandages to treat their wounds.
Fort Hood Lt. Gen. Bob Cone praised the soldiers for their quick reaction.
"God bless these soldiers," Cone said. "As horrible as this was it could have been worse."
Video from the scene showed police patrolling the area with handguns and rifles, ducking behind buildings for cover. Sirens could be heard wailing while a woman's voice on a public-address system urged people to take cover. Schools on the base went into lockdown, and family members trying to find out what was happening inside found cell phone lines jammed or busy.
"I was confused and just shocked," said Spc. Jerry Richard, 27, who works at the center but was not on duty during the shooting. "Overseas you are ready for it. But here you can't even defend yourself."
The wounded were dispersed among hospitals in central Texas, Cone said. Their identities and the identities of the dead were not immediately released.
The bodies of the victims would be taken to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware for autopsies and forensic tests, said a U.S. official who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss matters that were under investigation.
There will also be a ceremony at the air base to honor the dead.
Jamie and Scotty Casteel stood outside the emergency room at the hospital in Temple waiting for news of their son-in-law Matthew Cooke, who was among the injured.
"He's been shot in the abdomen and that's all we know," Jamie Casteel told The Associated Press. She said Cook, from New York state, had been home from Iraq for about a year.
Amber Bahr, 19, was shot in the stomach but was in stable condition, said her mother, Lisa Pfund of Random Lake, Wis.
"We know nothing, just that she was shot in the belly," Pfund said. She couldn't provide more details and only spoke with emergency personnel.
Ashley Saucedo told WOOD-TV in Michigan that her husband was shot in the arm, but she couldn't discuss specifics. Saucedo said she and the couple's two children weren't permitted to leave their home at Fort Hood during the shootings.
The motive for the shooting wasn't clear, but Hasan was apparently set to deploy soon, and had expressed some anger about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, said generals at Fort Hood told her that Hasan was about to deploy overseas. Retired Col. Terry Lee, who said he had worked with Hasan, told Fox News he was being sent to Afghanistan.
Lee said Hasan had hoped Obama would pull troops out of Afghanistan and Iraq and got into frequent arguments with others in the military who supported the wars.
For six years before reporting for duty at Fort Hood, in July, the 39-year-old Army major worked at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center pursuing a career in psychiatry, as an intern, a resident and, last year, a fellow in disaster and preventive psychiatry. He received his medical degree from the military's Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Md., in 2001.
But his record wasn't sterling. At Walter Reed, he received a poor performance evaluation, according to an official who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the case publicly. And while he was an intern, Hasan had some "difficulties" that required counseling and extra supervision, said Dr. Thomas Grieger, who was the training director at the time.
At least six months ago, Hasan came to the attention of law enforcement officials because of Internet postings about suicide bombings and other threats, including posts that equated suicide bombers to soldiers who throw themselves on a grenade to save the lives of their comrades.
Investigators had not determined for certain whether Hasan was the author of the posting, and a formal investigation had not been opened before the shooting, said law enforcement officials who spoke on condition of anonymity because they are not authorized to discuss the case.
The FBI, local police and other agencies searched Hasan's apartment Thursday night after evacuating the complex in Killeen, said city spokeswoman Hilary Shine. She referred questions about what was found to the FBI. The FBI in Dallas referred questions to a spokesman who was not immediately available early Friday morning.
Associated Press Writers Lara Jakes in Washington and Matt Curry in Dallas contributed to this report.
(Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
NTS NOTE: NOW for some possible truth. Here is one comment on this article that I was able to dig up under: http://www.kob.com/article/stories/s1235603.shtml#disqus_thread , in the comments, that possibly gives a REAL explanation to all of this shooting:
Mouser 3 hours ago 4 people liked this.
"In Washington, a senior U.S. official said authorities at Fort Hood initially thought one of the victims who had been shot and killed was the shooter. The mistake resulted in a delay of several hours in identifying Hasan as the alleged assailant."
The truth is probably something VERY different. For example:
'Two US privates John Smith and John Henry had been seeing a military psychiatrist major Hasan at Fort hood for a few weeks. Both privates said they were completely against the war of oppression in the middle east and would refuse to report for active duty if ordered to do so.
So the army put them both in therapy with Dr. Hasan. After more than five weeks of therapy both Christian privates were called to go to Afghanistan. Both privates warned they would not go and they would defend themselves with force if the army tried to force them to fight in a war they believed was morally wrong.
Yesterday fellow soldiers tried to surprize the two consciencious objectors but the privates were prepared and killed 12 soldiers who tried to force their way into the privates' barracks at Fort Hood.
During the mele their psychiatrist major Hasan, tried to talk the two privates into surrendering but he was shot twice.
Finally both privates were overcome and killed. Their psychiatrist major Hasan is in hospital recovering.'
Officials of the military have spun the story to make it seem the privates' doctor (who has a muslim sounding name) was the perpetraitor so that the public does not understand just how much resistance there is to the middle east war in the military rank and file.
The whole official Fort Hood cover story is 98% a lie - just like 9/11. Do you trust the main stream media for the truth in a story like this? Heck, for any story?
I do not.
Support the troops. End the war in the middle east and bring the troops home.
NTS Notes: I am beginning to fully believe the comment by this "Mouser" rather than the continued spinning coming out of the BS media. Their BS "Allah is Great" supposed scream by the Psychiatrist was what convinced me that there is a cover up, and the media is trying to create another "hate Muslims" situation to generate anger in Americans!
Don't be fooled by the media outlets... As I have said, the comment by Mouser appears to have more truth than what the MSM can spin! Wait and see.. There will be more truth coming out about this sorry episode, and we do need the truth!
More to come, definitely!
Posted by Northerntruthseeker at 8:16 AM
I wouldn't be so quick to jump to conclusions. All this speculation would be more likely if Hasan were now dead. The fact that he is alive and may end up in a trial some day with a chance to defend himself (or confess, allocute) tends to discredit some conspiratorial speculations.
Sometimes people really do "go postal."
Also, people don't generally walk around army bases carrying weapons, unless they're training, or transporting weapons, or something like that. So it's not unbelievable that one shooter could shoot so many people in such a short time.
The other thing is a motive for a scam. If this is supposed to weaken resistance to militarism -- it seems to me the effect will be the opposite. Isn't this incident increasing disillusionment with militarism, making people question the wisdom of it, and making many people feel sympathy for "the poor Muslim who was driven over the edge"?
Anyway, I don't get this idea that The Regime is intent on defaming Muslims. In fact I believe the goal is to increase US-Muslim interactions, promote the Masonic invention of "moderate Islam", increase Muslim immigration to America and Europe, increase pressure to "secularize" America, increase US-Muslim interaction and military alliances (now the US is "obliged" to sustain and protect its "allies" there forever), and so on. This would all be in accord with the Judeo-Masonic goal of destroying borders and "levelling" all religions (except Judaism of course).
U.S. Under-Secretary of Defense Douglas J. Feith, October 08, 2002:
"There are countries that have large Muslim populations that function perfectly moderately and aspire to the same kinds of basic values and principles that we aspire to, that want prosperity and political stability and respect for the rights of their people. You know, at the top of the list is a country like Turkey. There are countries throughout the Muslim world that share, I think, important principles with us."
U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz
November 5, 2002:
"In the 1990's, five different times the U.S. military went to the aid of Muslim people. ... Kuwait ... Kurdish population in northern Iraq ... Then to the aid of the Bosnians in former Yugoslavia, who were Muslim. Then to the aid of the Kosovo Albanians in Serbia, who are overwhelmingly Muslim, I think entirely Muslim. And also to the aid of the starving people of Somalia, who are all Muslim. ... It's the terrorists who are the real enemy of Islam..."
"it's a hijacking of Islam. It's a distortion of Islam"
"what makes Indonesia so important is not just its size, but that it represents a Muslim tradition that epitomizes tolerance ... I have a lot of confidence in mainstream Islam and Indonesia."
July 17, 2002:
"I guess the two countries of Muslim majority that I know best are Turkey and Indonesia. I was the U.S. Ambassador to Indonesia for three years, which has the largest Muslim population in the world. I believe — I've read Bernard Lewis — the only two countries of Muslim majority where Islam is not the state religion. So I had the pleasure of experience in very tolerant Muslim majority societies. And that's, I believe, the real future for Muslims."
All I see is a constant drive to inextricably intertwine America with Islam, and promote this "de-radicalized" pseodo-Islam -- an Islam that is just quaint habits and not taken seriously -- just like Christianity has been similarly Masonized.
Anyway, I'm waiting to hear more details about this Fort Hood case.
In support of previous comment, consider this coverage from The Guardian:
"The US military is dealing with a rising number of stress-related homicides and suicides among soldiers who are serving in Iraq and Afghanistan, or have returned from duty in those conflicts. Many troops are on their third or fourth tour of combat.
"Some studies suggest that about 15% of soldiers returning from Iraq suffer from emotional problems.
"Last year there were 128 confirmed suicides by serving US army personnel, and 41 by serving marines – the highest number since records began in 1980.
"Another 15 army deaths were still under investigation when the figures were released in February.
"The confirmed rate of army suicides was 20.2 per 100,000 last year. In 2002, the army suicide rate was just 9.8 per 100,000. The last time it exceeded the civilian rate was at the height of the Vietnam war.
"Hasan did not fit the classic pattern of a stressed soldier. But someone listening day after day to troops describing the tension and carnage in Iraq and Afghanistan could end up as damaged as those facing combat at first hand."
This is how things work. Obama will visit a mosque and "do some outreach", the Army will set up more sensitivity courses for soldiers and do more to decrease "Islamophobia". More Muslims will be featured in military recruiting campaigns. Etc Etc Etc
Moss said...
This was bound to happen sooner or later and comes as no surprise to anyone with any knowledge of Islam. Expect even worse to come, including spectacular acts of sabotage against military/industrial targets. See links under
DAR AL-HARB - THE WEST AS THE DOMAIN OF WAR
HARBI - TARGETS OF WAR
INFILTRATION, SUBVERSION AND SEDITION
SUDDEN JIHAD SYNDROME
TERRORISM - MOHAMMED VICTORIOUS WITH TERROR
UMMAH - THE MUSLIM 'TRIBE' - EVERY MUSLIM'S PRIMARY LOYALTY
at The Religion of Peace™ Subject Index
Moss: That is ludicrous! That was NOT a Muslim Attack on America by a long shot.
The Zionist controlled media wants to whip the American people into another anti-Muslim frenzy, and this Fort Hood attack is suspicious of that!
New evidence is coming out now that there were actually 3 shooters involved (?). Therefore now we have definite deviation from the "official AP" report!
kerdasi amaq said...
Could it be that they don't want to prosecute the actual shooters? That they're framing the doctor to take the easy way out and make some easy propagada. Army doctors are hardly trained to shoot.
http://www.worldreports.org/news/244_fort_hood_recovery_of_the_chinese_currency_boxes
The story(about Fort Hood and George Bush) on this site is close to unbelievable
http://www.worldreports.org/
This link will bring you to the website.
Lone Wolf said...
Very interesting. First I've heard of this. Nice work Northern.
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Most valuable retail brands in the United Kingdom (UK) 2013
Published by Statista Research Department, Feb 20, 2018
This statistic shows the leading 15 most valuable retail brands in the United Kingdom as of 2013. Tesco was considered the most valuable with a value of over 10 billion U.S. dollars, followed by Marks and Spencers valued at 6.5 billion. The figures reflect brand performance on the retail market in 2012, using a methodology based on financial performance, competitive strength and the role of the brand in purchasing decisions.
Brand value of the most valuable retail brands in the United Kingdom (UK) as of 2013 (in million U.S. dollars)
Value in million U.S. dollars
Tesco 10,810
Marks and Spencers 6,550
Boots 3,295
Asda 1,674
Next 1,370
Sainsbury's 1,062
Argos 805
Morrisons 451
Waitrose 429
asos 416
B&Q 405
John Lewis 314
Debenhams 303
The Body Shop 299
Primark 171
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2012 to 2013**
Based on financial and brand performance*
* The methodology states, that Interbrand use three main components to determine the value of a brand: the financial performance of the retailer, the role of the brand in purchasing decisions and the competitive strength of the brand.
The critera for inclusion also depends on the amount of publically available data, the retailer's economic profit and whether they fit Interbrand's definition of a retailer (that is, at least 50 percent of revenues from sales are through the retailers own branded stores and websites. The list is also limited to traditional stores and e-commerce sites that sell goods, excluding restaurants, auto dealerships, service providers and gas stations).
**Date conducted and published not stated.
Leading department store retailers in the UK 2012-2017, by market share
Marks & Spencer revenue worldwide 2010-2019
Number of Marks & Spencer stores 2010-2019, by region
Marks & Spencer share of clothing market in the United Kingdom (UK) 2015, by segment
Statistics on "Marks & Spencer"
Marks & Spencer revenue 2010-2019, by region
Marks & Spencer group revenue 2019, by segment
Sales growth of Marks & Spencer worldwide 2012-2019
Profit before tax of Marks & Spencer worldwide 2014-2019
Marks & Spencer: food & clothing/home sales distribution in the UK 2013-2019
Marks & Spencer online sales (M&S.com) 2011-2017
Marks & Spencer average weekly footfall in the United Kingdom (UK) 2009-2019
Number of employees of Marks & Spencer worldwide 2014-2019
Gender distribution of employees at Marks & Spencer worldwide 2019
Marks & Spencer: operating costs by type in the UK 2019
Marks & Spencer: clothing & home sales in the United Kingdom (UK) 2009-2019
Leading 10 retailers' share of the apparel market in the UK 2008-2018
Leading M&S cosmetic products in Great Britain 2013-2018, by number of users
Marks & Spencer food sales in the United Kingdom (UK) 2009-2019
Leading grocery retailers ranked by market share in the United Kingdom (UK) 2011-2015
Revenue of FMCG retailers United Kingdom (UK) 2016
The supermarkets used most by consumers in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2017
Marks & Spencer's brand perception in the United Kingdom (UK) 2012-2017
Marks & Spencer fashion brand perception in the UK 2012-2018
Marks & Spencer: customer evaluation of performance in the United Kingdom (UK) 2015
Leading brands ranked by BrandIndex in the United Kingdom (UK) 2019
Ranking of supermarket in-store experience United Kingdom (UK) 2017
Leading 10 Canadian retail brands in 2012, by brand value
Leading Dutch retail brands based on brand value 2019
Most valuable global brands in 2010
Brand value of the most valuable European retail brands 2014
Most valuable Asia-Pacific retail brands 2014
Mean gender pay gap of selected retailers in the UK 2017
Median gender pay gap of selected retailers in the UK 2017
Number of leading convenience stores in Hong Kong 2018
Number of leading supermarket chain stores in Hong Kong 2018
Retailers with most improved store design in the United Kingdom (UK) 2014
Number of employees of leading retail companies in Turkey 2016
Global brand value of Costco from 2016 to 2019
Global brand value of Sam's Club from 2016 to 2019
Mean gender bonus pay gap of selected retailers in the UK 2017
Brand value of the most valuable South East Asian brands 2013
Canada's frequently used large retailers for online shopping 2018
Median gender bonus pay gap of selected retailers in the UK 2017
Retail Industry in China E-commerce worldwide U.S. Furniture Retail E-Commerce in China Food Retail Industry
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