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Skip to comments.Little Green Footballs: About That DHS Report on Right-Wing Extremism (Major Barf Alert)
Posted on 04/15/2009 4:30:18 AM PDT by jmc813
Here we go again.
The latest cause for hyperventilation in the right-wing blogosphere is a report from the Department of Homeland Security on the need for vigilance against extreme right-wing groups like Posse Comitatus, militias, "Patriot" groups, and neo-Nazis like the Christian Identity weirdos. Some bloggers, prompted by World Net Daily, are reading this as an attempt to "smear half of the country or more as kooks for criticizing the government's handling of the economy."
That's ludicrous. First, this DHS assessment was begun more than a year ago, before Barack Obama was even nominated. It has absolutely nothing to do with "tea parties," and it was not done at the behest of the Obama administration.
Second, I'm seeing it brought up repeatedly that the report contains a reference to veterans, mentioning that some of these groups are seeking to recruit them. This is nothing more than a fact, and the report even says that only a tiny number of veterans would join such groups — but that their talents could bring a great deal of capability to the extremists. Has everyone simply forgotten that Timothy McVeigh was a veteran?
The DHS report is not intended to target anyone but the most extreme elements of the far right, and it's depressing to see so many bloggers jumping to totally unwarranted conclusions.
AJ Strata has a good take on this: The Threat Of Far Right Extremism - Updated!
UPDATE at 4/14/09 1:10:03 pm:
Here's a link to download the PDF file, from Wikileaks. Read it for yourself, instead of trusting the distorted claims being made.
I'm surprised Charles was able to break away from preaching the gospel of Darwin. This dude is losing readers daily.
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"This dude is losing readers daily."
This is factually correct.
Wish he'd do us a favor and just come out of the liberal closet again.
I want to know who wrote this report and I want them to defend and show the research that preceded it. If this had happened 4 years ago and it pointed out that Bill Ayers was a threat to the country the left would be demanding somebody's head!
Whatever happened to LGF? Did he end up in a reeducation camp?
Sheesh, I need to check myself more often.
Did the writer of this LFG piece actually READ the report before writing his diatribe?
If he did, then his reading comprehension skills are quite lacking.
Maybe I'm behind the game, but I only discovered this blog recently. The impression I get from this "Charles" dude is that he's just about the single biggest douche on the Internet.
Used to enjoy going to LGF, but it lost me when Charles started to go to war against Jihadwatch, another site I like.
Deleting LGF from my bookmarks. I rarely read it anymore, with all his, to use Charles Johnson's terminology, hyperventilating about evolution/creationism nonsense. He used to run a pretty good blog about the War on Terror and the Palestinians, but lately all I ever see is "all Creationists are CRAZY."
Yeah, LGF has been weird since about the election. I used to be a pretty much daily reader since about '04, now I pop in once a week only to be reminded of why I hardly visit anymore.
I keep hearing this. If so, then why does the very first paragraph of the 9 page report begin with the following:
The DHS/Office of Intelligence and Analysis (I&A) has no specific information that domestic rightwing* terrorists are currently planning acts of violence, but rightwing extremists may be gaining new recruits by playing on their fears about several emergent issues. The economic downturn and the election of the first African American president present unique drivers for rightwing radicalization and recruitment.
These "unique drivers for rightwing radicalization and recruitment" weren't even a factor a year ago.
Apparently Charles neglected to read the report.
Seriously- what's happened to him?
Here's something I learned from An Old Man:
Right-click the document and select proerties. You'll see the creation date (2007) and the "revised" date, which was just before it was "leaked" accidentally, just in time for Tea Parties.
Someone saw this report, put in 2009 references, and leaked it big time.
IMO neither the revision nor the "leak" were accidental, nor was the timing. I think it was intended to stir people up, and it did.
So the linked article says the report was "prepared over a year ago, before 0 was even nominated", yes, that's true, but it was edited and modified less than a week ago.
Great point.
It was DHS itself who put out that this report had been in the works for over a year, to defuse the controversy.
This means that LGF took DHS at its word WITHOUT reading the source document. If he had done so, if he had shown a modicum of skepticism and intellectual curiosity, he would have found the contradictions between the official line and the text itself.
I, too, used to read LGF. It's not the specific issues he has addressed that bother me; rather, and especially over the last couple of years, LGF has consistently shown that he doesn't actually research what he writes about before jumping into the mix head-first. THAT'S why I stopped reading that blog: if I want to read opinion pieces from people who are woefully ignorant of the topics on which they write, I'll pick the NYT.
AAABEST wrote:
First, this DHS assessment was begun more than a year ago, before Barack Obama was even nominated.
I keep hearing this. If so, then why does the very first paragraph of the 9 page report begin with the following:
The DHS/Office of Intelligence and Analysis (I&A) has no specific information that domestic rightwing* terrorists are currently planning acts of violence, but rightwing extremists may be gaining new recruits by playing on their fears about several emergent issues. The economic downturn and the election of the first African American president present unique drivers for rightwing radicalization and recruitment.
These "unique drivers for rightwing radicalization and recruitment" weren't even a factor a year ago.
..... How did that slip by the script editors ?????
The LGF post is intellectually dishonest and just continues Charles meme of pro-Obama posts.
1) If the report was written prior to Obama being elected why does it refer to events that occurred after Obama was elected?
2) The person responsible for the release of this report is Obama. If he did not agree with its findings, I am sure he would have sent it back for review or editing.
LGF is nothing more than a hotbed of rapid anti-Christians, anti-Palin, anti-Tea Party, anti-Glen Beck, Pro-Obama fans.
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It was finished after 20 Jan. 2009 and contained statements that the right wingers would likely use Preisdent Obama's race to recruit. Unless the accounts of the report that I've read are lying Obama was president before the report was finished and circulated to the Nation's LEO.
Project Megiddo was the Clintons' administration attempt to malign Christians vis-a-vis events leading up to Y2k. So what's new about the Obama pukes using the DHS report to put all opponents in the camp of Christian Identity and white supremacists? Nothing. Not a damn thing.
>>>> First, this DHS assessment was begun more than a year ago, before Barack Obama was even nominated. It has absolutely nothing to do with tea parties, <<<<<<
This is not an "assessment". It's a very unprofessional rewrite of Southern Poverty Law Center hysteria.
It contains no citations of any kind whatsoever, even to raw quotes from Southern Poverty Law Center materials.
If it took one year to prepare this "report" then someone had it very back on the back burner. Or perhaps it was rejected back in the Bush Admin, then slightly buffed-up and released now in a more favorable bureaucratic DHS environment.
I don't really care about the particulars of what is said in this document (which I've read), because it clearly is a rehash of the junk that SPLC has been saying forever (in order to fill it coffers).
What is disturbing is that someone at DHS authorized the release of this sophomoric crapola under the belief that the time was ripe to do so.
Charles Johnson would pats himself on the back for the CBS/Rathergate document aggregation. But, sadly can't figure out to read simply meta data on the pdf which shows the report was revised in 2009 and post-election sections were added. Thereby destroying his attempt to attack conservatives and Republican's who are worried by such attempts to categorize them as 'extremist's. In addition, Charles also smears US military veterans. I would like him to point out the extremists groups of military veterans referenced in the report. Where are they?
Guess we will hear the Media explain that one away.
Good catch DBROW.
These people are talking out of fear. They have no concept of what is going on in the real world, what is happening on main street America. Posse Comitatus is my neighbor. In fact, this whole region is settled by the Comitatus family. How could that blogger not realize this?
The DHS "report" is short, shallow, and highly speculative, being based not on field intelligence but on historical example and supposed Internet chatter. The report was likely generated to cater to the phobias of new administration. DHS has disgraced itself and the outrage on the Right is justified.
The problem LGF guy is that the media, and the DHS, is letting the definition of the terms be mixed.
Any conservative worth their salt would know that this report hold's true to a certain extent. It is also concerning that they do not report of left wing extremists who wish to overthrow this country, and have far more vocally made it known through action of protest and through the blogosphere.
As I indicated yesterday stormfront and other hate groups would love a overthrow, this is nothing new, and anarcho-capitalists have always dreamed of a day when the federal government is cast aside for a leaner less intrusive if not nearly non-existant fedrocracy. This report is nothing new except for it's intent through political and media means to cast a dark light on well meaning citizens to have their beliefs lumped in with others as they take to the streets today.
Maybe you should point that out to the writer of this article.
Umm but a good report talks about potential outcomes as well as current realities. DHS would know that the economy would turn south and there was a high chance for a black president.
This is what Charles of LGF thinks about you:
1) "It's a fact that neo-Nazi groups ARE trying to infiltrate the "tea parties," by the way."
2) "I read those posts at Huffpo, and they did not say anything like that. They called for "citizen journalists" to take videos and photos and file reports from tea parties. They did not say anything like "act like the typical loony conservative."
Glenn Beck is trying to set up an excuse in advance, because he knows there are going to be a lot of extremists at these events, and he's partly responsible for encouraging them."
3) "This is absolutely not an attempt to paint all veterans with a broad brush. It very specifically states "a small percentage" might join such groups, and the point it makes is completely valid."
4) "Am I seeing "black helicopters" by expressing my concern over this report?
Pretty much, yes."
5) "I think Michelle Malkin has a better synopsis of this than the explanation given here at LGF. It doesn't sound like this report has been in the works for a year.
The report has absolutely been in the works for more than a year, and if anyone tells you otherwise they are either misinformed or lying."
He's counting on his readers' laziness. Mr. Johnson has read the report, and aims to downplay the intentions that spawned it.
Yes, they probably started with a document that no longer bears any resemblance to the one are looking at today.
Clever trick.
It is full of generalities with no sources, an extremely flawed document that in no way can be called a study or research.
Its as if 3 lefties got together and invented their own little universe.
Ok 5 very little lefties.
Since when has truth become sarcasm?
It should not be surprising that this report has come out prior to Tea Party Day. That a report of this nature, issued from an administration in office less than a 100 days, indicates a political rather than a reasoned analysis.
This is not an assessment. Its a very unprofessional rewrite of Southern Poverty Law Center hysteria
Thank you. This makes sense. The "assessment" reads as if written by a 12-year old - very unsophisticated for an official document and no references, as you pointed out. Interesting connection to SPLC.
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Charles is uncomfortable with a lot of conservatives.
Who cares what this loser says?
As you and others have pointed out, while the research for the report may have been started a year ago, the decisions on how to write up that research and what spin to put on it were entirely made by the Obama administration.
Until 911 I had rarely flown an American flag outside my house.
Since 912 the flag has been there (lit at night)...always.
When I saw the reference to the Gadsden flag in this stuff (I'm a potential terrorist?) , and to support the Tea Party protests, I went out and bought a rattlesnake flag, which is now proudly flying outside my house (I also did not know that the first recorded evidence of that symbol relates to the US Marines, one of whom is my daughter. That makes me even more inclined to fly that flag!).
I actually enjoy watching him sink like a stone. He does nothing but rip on Christians, Fox News and Robert Spencer.
Oh, and if he sees this thread he will whine incessantly about the mean things being said about him (his thin skin is bordering on legendary) His blog sucks, and his traffic just proves it. I say good riddance.
"This inflammatory Department of Homeland Security report calls mainstream conservatives right-wing extremists, militia members, and tars and feathers returning veterans while warning everybody to be on the lookout for these people on the eve of these tea parties." - Rush Limbaugh April 14, 2009
More here: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2229085/posts
Oh, Im sure DHS will be issuing its report on self-proclaimed bank terrorists like Bruce Marks of NACA and criminal rackeeters harassing private citizens in their homes to exploit the economic downturn any day now. ~ Michelle Malkin
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http://michellemalkin.com/2009/04/14/confirme-the-obama-dhs-hit-job-on-conservatives-is-real/ By Michelle Malkin April 14, 2009 12:01 AM
Yesterday, Roger Hedgecock and the Liberty Papers posted an unclassified DHS Office of Intelligence and Analysis report titled:
Rightwing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment.
The report (PDF file here) was one of the most embarrassingly shoddy pieces of propaganda Id ever read out of DHS. I couldnt believe it was real.
I spent the day chasing down DHS spokespeople, who have been tied up preparing for a very important homeland security event later today: The First Lady is coming to visit their Washington office. Priorities, you know.
Well, the press office got back to me and verified that the document is indeed for real.
They were very defensive preemptively so in asserting that it was not a politicized document and that DHS had done reports on leftwing extremism in the past. I have covered DHS for many years and am quite familiar with past assessments they and the FBI have done on animal rights terrorists and environmental terrorists. But those past reports have always been very specific in identifying the exact groups, causes, and targets of domestic terrorism, i.e., the ALF, ELF, and Stop Huntingdon wackos who have engaged in physical harassment, arson, vandalism, and worse against pharmaceutical companies, farms, labs, and university researchers.
By contrast, the piece of crap report issued on April 7 is a sweeping indictment of conservatives. And the intent is clear.
As the two spokespeople I talked with on the phone today made clear: They both pinpointed the recent economic downturn and the general state of the economy for stoking rightwing extremism. One of the spokespeople said he was told that the report has been in the works for a year. My b.s. detector went off the chart, and yours will, too, if you read through the entire report which asserts with no evidence that an unquantified resurgence in rightwing extremist recruitment and radicalizations activity is due to home foreclosures, job losses, and the historical presidential election.
In Obama land, there are no coincidences. It is no coincidence that this report echoes Tea Party-bashing left-wing blogs (check this one out comparing the Tea Party movement to the Weather Underground!) and demonizes the very Americans who will be protesting in the thousands on Wednesday for the nationwide Tax Day Tea Party.
From the report, p.2:
Rightwing extremism in the United States can be broadly divided into those groups, movements, and adherents that are primarily hate-oriented (based on hatred of particular religious, racial or ethnic groups), and those that are mainly antigovernment, rejecting federal authority in favor of state or local authority, or rejecting government authority entirely. It may include groups and individuals that are dedicated to a single issue, such as opposition to abortion or immigration.
From the report. p. 3:
(U//LES) Rightwing extremists are harnessing this historical election as a recruitment tool. Many rightwing extremists are antagonistic toward the new presidential administration and its perceived stance on a range of issues, including immigration and citizenship, the expansion of social programs to minorities, and restrictions on firearms ownership and use. Rightwing extremists are increasingly galvanized by these concerns and leverage them as drivers for recruitment. From the 2008 election timeframe to the present, rightwing extremists have capitalized on related racial and political prejudices in expanded propaganda campaigns, thereby reaching out to a wider audience of potential sympathizers.
(U) Exploiting Economic Downturn
(U//FOUO) Rightwing extremist chatter on the Internet continues to focus on the economy, the perceived loss of U.S. jobs in the manufacturing and construction sectors, and home foreclosures. Anti-Semitic extremists attribute these losses to a deliberate conspiracy conducted by a cabal of Jewish financial elites. These accusatory tactics are employed to draw new recruits into rightwing extremist groups and further radicalize those already subscribing to extremist beliefs. DHS/I&A assesses this trend is likely to accelerate if the economy is perceived to worsen.
From the report, p. 5:
(U//FOUO) Over the past five years, various rightwing extremists, including militias and white supremacists, have adopted the immigration issue as a call to action, rallying point, and recruiting tool. Debates over appropriate immigration levels and enforcement policy generally fall within the realm of protected political speech under the First Amendment, but in some cases, anti-immigration or strident pro-enforcement fervor has been directed against specific groups and has the potential to turn violent.
And echoing the anti-military bigotry last seen in that disgusting Penn State University training video, theres this on p. 7:
(U) Disgruntled Military Veterans
(U//FOUO) DHS/I&A assesses that rightwing extremists will attempt to recruit and radicalize returning veterans in order to exploit their skills and knowledge derived from military training and combat. These skills and knowledge have the potential to boost the capabilities of extremistsincluding lone wolves or small terrorist cellsto carry out violence. The willingness of a small percentage of military personnel to join extremist groups during the 1990s because they were disgruntled, disillusioned, or suffering from the psychological effects of war is being replicated today.
Theres no hackneyed left-wing stereotype of conservatives left behind in this DHS intelligence and analysis assessment. I asked both DHS spokespeople to tell me who, specifically, the report was accusing of rightwing extremist chatter and which antigovernment groups are being monitored as extremists. They say theyll get back to me.
In the meantime, be aware of this from the report, p. 8:
(U//FOUO) DHS/I&A will be working with its state and local partners over the next several months to ascertain with greater regional specificity the rise in rightwing extremist activity in the United States, with a particular emphasis on the political, economic, and social factors that drive rightwing extremist radicalization.
Better make a few last-minute signs for the Tea Party. Obamas DHS is watching:
Honk if youre a radicalized rightwing extremist!
Guilty of rightwing extremist chatter
Anti-government, pro-freedom: Sue me
Previous: Missouri retracts report linking militias, 3rd party candidates.
Yeah, I used to read his site alot but he lost me with his brilliant political analysis of the election. McCain lost because of the Creationists according to LGF. There were a few other things on his site I thought were ridiculous so I just stopped going there. Whatever, the internet is a big place & he's just a small part of it. He seems to have let his "success" go to his head.
Thanks jmc813. I probably got bumped with a dozen threads on the DHS report yesterday! Here's a few I pinged:
So, what the heck happened to LGF? Used to be a great blog.
I removed LGF from my recommended reading list a couple months ago. I am ashamed I still check on it via bookmark. I think I'll take the plunge and remove it now.
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Isn't Zaraki' s zanpaktou like Ichigo' s? I thought it was always in it's shikai form.
Isn't Zaraki' s zanpaktou like Ichigo' s? I thought it was always in it's shikai form.
thats true his zampacto is always in realeased form
smooth operater right i dont know how but his sword is in released form yoriichi said this
yamato is 1.. but i think kenpachi is 2.. capitan without bankai.. common man.. took out Tousen's bankai like he was having fun... im guessing for winter he will at least know his swords name...
Aizen is uber but he had a HUGE advantage over everyone.. he had them under his zanpkto spell so he could trick them like it was nothing... the fox and hitsugaya got owned cause of it
cuz if he dont know it's name, it cant go shikai
and Aizen is only using Shikai and he's already uber, what about his Bankai?
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1) Aizen
4)Shunsui (if he doesn't slack off)
7)Soifong (2 hit kill seems pretty good if she can hit them twice in the same spot)
9) Histugaya (Doesn't seem like he can hold his bankai for very long)
10)Ukitake (his sickness really gets in the way)
12) Unohana (haven't seen any real fighting from her)
I find this thread very hard to comment on...We haven't see over half of the Captain's strengths (re: BanKai or Shikai for that matter), so it is PURE speculation. Additionally, I would think that different Captains would do better/worse based on their matchups. For example, Kurotsuchi vs. Soi Fong would be a bad one for a slow moving bankai; whereas, a speed based bankai (Ichigo or Byakuya) would kick her ass. I realize that isn't the best example but it gets my point across. The only one I would say that belongs at the top is Old Man Yama-ji. I think he could own Aizen w/o the power of the glob thing...even with his hypnosis (after all, Ashes to Ashes Dust to Dust Shikai would just lay waste to the whole area). With the globe and presumably Vizard-type powers, Aizen would definitely give him a run for the money.
I agree with you Franky, we've seen so little that speculation is all we can do. However I'd place Kyouraku and Ukitake quite high on the list based on that they've been captains for a freaking 2000 years or so, and they've survived those 2000 years (which none other but Yama-jii has done) and Ukitake has done so despite being seriously ill.
I really wanna see Soi Fon's bankai, given that on shikai she seems to be about as fast as Yoruichi, thus at least double as fast as Byakuya (when Yoruichi can carry one person and still outrun him) and possibly faster than Ichigo.


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That's great that you take care of yourself as you do! I agree age is really a mindset. The horseback riding lessons sound like fun. Haven't done that since our adopted daughter was young. Maybe that would be a good thing here, too, but would have to look real hard to find something like that!
You're still a nice chicken, spring or not. I'm 55 so I'm not a spring chicken, either.
Sounds like plenty of open spaces and the nights sound real cool!
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In Denim Therapy loves we'll unveil which products we're coveting each week—or already own three pairs of.
Right now we're all about this American Apparel Duffle Denim Bag for a trip to the beach or a weekend trip.
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Just because the warm weather has officially left us doesn't mean you have to dress as dreary as it is outside. This outfit shows you a great way to incorporate bright colors into your winter wardrobe–think your favorite summer outfit but with some additions. By throwing on some sheer tights and a knit beanie, you've got the layers you need to stay comfortable, but still looking good. We love how this fashion blogger from Scotland keeps the rest of her outfit simple with her beige clutch and black ankle booties so her royal blue top is not overpowered, but allowed to really stand out. See our picks for how to get the look below.
1. Mini For Many Colourblock Blouse With Pocket ($99.99) — get it at ASOS.
2. Superdry Pom Pom Beanie ($15.62) — get it at BANK Fashion.
3. MiH Jeans Miami Rigid-Denim Cut-Off Shorts ($108.50) — get it at Net-A-Porter.
4. American Apparel Large Leather Carry-All Pouch ($68) — get it at American Apparel.
5. Free People Sheer Tights ($18) — get it at Free People.
6. J.Crew Emmett Ankle Booties ($238) — get it at J.Crew.
Be inspired…
Images via Cats and Rocking Chairs.
—Elyssa Linden
Tags: American Apparel, black ankle booties, cut-off denim shorts, fashion blogger, free people, J. Crew, MiH Jeans, Mini For Many, Net-A-Porter, Scotland, sheer tights, Superdry
Want to check out American Apparel jeans? Starting on Cyber Monday, American Apparel will be offering 20% off sitewide, so here's your chance to dip your toe into American Apparel's denim, or go head-to-toe denim. You'll not only find jeans and jeans jackets, but denim shirts in various shades (from a light wash indigo to even a gray "Lieutenant" wash), denim sneakers, denim backpacks, totebags and even a denim scarf!
Sale ends Wednesday, November 30. Go to American Apparel online for more details.
—Kathy Ng Hassan
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Welcome to your morning dose of denim news, links, sales, and everything else we couldn't help but share. Check out what's happening (and totally not happening) in the world of denim now. Got a tip you think we should include, a sale you want to share, or a style you just saw and can't live without? Email us!
1. You may recall that we're fixated on fur x denim this fall-–so Terry Richardson's campaign shoot for Japanese brand Moussy has us head over heels.
2. American Apparel is now making jeans for men, but they're being likened to Mom Jeans. We'll wait and see how long it takes to see them all over Bedford ave.
3. "Warp and Weft: A Snapshot of Raw Denim In The United States" is a raw denim documentary that's in production and in need of funding. You can help out at their kickstarter page. This documentary is aiming to educate consumers about raw denim, suitable for everyone from beginners to experts.
4. The Denim Guy found the cutest pair of denim sneakers ever—lace-up velcro kicks with a saturated blue denim fabrication. They're under $100 and available at Revolve.
5. Not Your Daughter's Jeans is releasing limited edition jeans for Breast Cancer Awareness month. The "Marilyn Make a Difference Jean" is a straight-leg classic fit that flatters all figures. They retail at $120 and will be available at Nordstrom and Not Your Daughter's Jeans.
—Michelle Christina Larsen
Tags: American Apparel, denim sneakers, Japanese denim, limited edition jeans, men's jeans, mom jeans, Moussy, Not Your Daughter's Jeans, raw denim documentary, terry richardson, warp and weft
No need to be cheesy and dress head-t0-toe in red, white, and blue (with star-shaped sunglasses… though those are sort of cute) this weekend to show your American-spirit for 4th of July. We've pulled together five outfits that get the job done while still keeping it chic. From super-casual to poolside-luxe, you can be sure to turn heads as you're flipping burgers in any of these sunny denim-adorned ensembles.
1. Rebel Yell Unruly Boyfriend Tank in Neon Yellow ($68) – buy it at Shop The Trend.
2. J Brand blue cut-off rigid denim shorts ($165) – buy it at Net-A-Porter.
3. Chanel Vintage Golden '95 Fretwork CC Pendant Necklace ($1,610) – buy it at Stylebop.
4. Irregular Choice "Chica Chola" flag shoes ($199.95) – buy it at Solestruck.
1. Juicy Couture Fruit Salad Zip-up Tote in Lemon ($68) – buy it at Endless.
2. Sperry Women's Santa Rosa Sandals ($90) – buy it at Sperry Top-Sider.
3. Manieri Stars and Stripes Patchwork Leather Belt ($168) – buy it at Forzieri.
4. Polo Jeans denim button-up shirt dress (approx $147.00) – buy it at House of Fraser.
1. Chaser Coke Muscle T-Shirt ($58) – buy it at American Rag.
2. Diesel Women's Exposure Fashion Sneaker ($94.95) – buy it at Endless.
3. UNIF American flag cut-off shorts ($88) – buy it at Nasty Gal.
4. Juicy Couture Leather Charm Cuff ($68) – buy it at Nordstrom.
1. French Connection Denim Phillipa Dress ($39.99 on sale) – buy it at French Connection.
2. Juicy Couture Stripe Floppy Paper Straw Hat ($78) – buy it at Nordstrom.
3. Topshop red twist bandeau bikini top ($28) – buy it at Topshop.
4. Mystique White Beads Thong Sandals ($171.38) – buy it at Pret-A-Beaute.
1. Kitschen Sink Stars and Stripes Passion pendant (approx $32) – buy it at Hannah Zakari.
2. Quiksilver Sirocco cut-off shorts ($70) – buy it at Far Fetch.
3. American Apparel Baby rib crop top 3-pack ($50 on sale) – buy it at American Apparel.
4. Saskia Diez wood bead bracelet ($65) – buy it at La Garconne.
—Michelle Christina Larsen
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American Apparel, despite rumors of a massive downfall and sexual harassment lawsuits up the wazoo, have still maintained a cult following and the undisputed status of "cool kid in school" since they started selling overpriced knit roller shorts to college kids. We're not gonna lie, we love the basic color options for styling, and while some of their novelty items will split at the seams after one raucous night of partying, it's fun to browse and fun to wear. We popped by their Soho shop on Broadway recently to snap some photos of their window display. We're loving the chambray tops and denim duffle bag, preceded by rows of summer nail polish colors. If one thing's for certain, they know how to set the mood for city kids to shop.
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Going away for a weekend? Travel in "Denimized" style with American Apparel's large denim duffle bag. The latest edition to AA's accessory collection, features a large weekender constructed with double shoulder straps for a durability and cognac leather accents that we oh so love. The light baby color, cleverly labeled, "martini blue" already has us in the mood for a cocktail and beach getaway.
Images via American Apparel.
— Ashlee Mellowes
Tags: American Apparel, denim accessories, denim bag, Spring/Summer 2011
The time has come! American Apparel has officially launched a denim line. Comprised of four high-waisted styles that promise to "suck you in and smooth you out" (and you're not alone if you felt a little dirty while reading that, considering recent legal troubles the company's CEO is having with ex-employees suing him for sexual harassment), the moderately priced set include two different washes and a world of vintage pin-up possibilities. We've got your first look at the full lookbook below.
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—Michelle Christina Larsen
Tags: American Apparel, dark wash, denim line, denim shorts, dov charney, high-waisted, light wash
Natalie Off Duty had a recent stint in Barcelona, lighting up the streets with her charming style and quirky approach to off-duty dressing. Her newest blog post features her in an American Apparel denim work shirt and leather pants by Zara, flanked by some friends with cute outfit ideas of their own. We love this fun handling of candy-pink denim and a light gray blazer. Visit Natalie Off Duty for more fun fashion styling & globe trotting adventures!
Want to score a pair of SOLD Design Lab jeans for free? Check out this contest Natalie is hosting on facebook!
—Michelle Christina Larsen
Tags: American Apparel, denim blogger, Denim Work Shirt, model, natalie off duty, pink denim, pink jeans
Because every girl needs a bit of pink and red in her closet (and because Valentines Day is fast approaching), we've rounded up some denim in hues from flirty candy-pink to fire-hot red, all in the spirit of making sure you look your most stellar on cupid day. Whether you're hanging out with the girls and a pitcher of sangria or having a date with the guy you met at the American Apparel clearance sale, we've got you covered for colored denim chic.
1. American Apparel Stretch Bull Denim High-Waist Slim Skirt ($54) – buy it at American Apparel.
2. Rock and Republic Skinny Leg "Plain Wrap" in Pink ($148) – buy it at Rock and Republic.
3. REPLAY Spring-Summer Stretch Skinny Jeans in candy pink ($130) – buy it at YOOX.
4. Victoria's Secret Animal Print Denim Skirt ($58) – buy it at Victoria's Secret.
6. DIESEL NEVY J Bootcut Colored Wash Jeans (on sale for $43) – buy it at DIESEL.
7. American Apparel Stretch Bull Denim High-Waist Cuff Short ($46) buy it at American Apparel.
8. Wildfox Jeans Jean Jeggings in Red ($182) – buy it at Boutique To You.
9. Diane von Furstenberg Jailie high-rise paint-effect skinny jeans (on sale for $130) – buy it at The Outnet.
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—Jackie Racer & Michelle Christina Larsen
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(SAINT LOUIS, Mo.) The Show-Me Bowl is slated for Nov. 23-24 at the Edward Jones Dome in St. Louis, where the Missouri State High School Football Championships will be decided.
The 8-Man title game will begin the action Friday at 9:30 a.m. with a showdown between North Andrew (11-0) and Stanberry (11-1).
The Cardinals have yet to lose a game under first-year head coach Jonathan Schoonover. Aside from a 26-22 win over Southwest Livingston, the team hasn't had a margin of victory under 34 points.
It will be the seventh appearance in the title game for North Andrew, with a chance to win their fourth championship.
Stanberry, meanwhile, earned their first berth in school history.
Dan Collins, in his 19th year as head coach, has led the Bulldogs to four district titles. The team's only loss came to 2011 state champion Worth County back in Week 8.
Stanberry will be the second opponent from the 275 Conference for North Andrew this season.
The Cardinals faced South Holt during districts.
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WELLINGTON- John Kit "Skip" Critchlow, age 63, passed away Tuesday, March 26, 2013. He was born Dec. 17, 1949 in Price, Utah to Jay and Lois Brown Critchlow.
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Attorney General Eric Holder said Tuesday that the successful prosecution of al-Qaeda propagandist Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, the son-in-law of Osama bin Laden, "vindicated'' the government's disputed contention that terror suspects could be safely tried in civilian courts, and he vowed to bring additional cases.
"The system is both tried and tested,'' Holder said in New York where Abu Ghaith last week was the most senior member of the terrorist organization to be tried and convicted in the U.S. "Its strength is founded on more than two centuries of rigorous precedent and deep experience. Abu Ghaith was not the first individual to be convicted in a federal court for his role in terrorist activities, and he will not be the last.''
The attorney general, who three years ago was forced to abandon a politically contentious plan to prosecute 9/11 planner Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four alleged accomplices in a New York federal court in favor of military commissions, said that it was "eminently fitting that this defendant (Abu Ghaith), who publicly gloated about the attacks on the World Trade Center, stood trial near where those buildings once stood.
"This verdict has proven beyond any doubt that proceedings such as these can safely occur in the city I am proud to call home, as in other locations across our nation.''
The Obama administration faced immediate and strong opposition from some members of Congress — both Democratic and Republican — New York City officials and 9/11 victims' families after announcing the original plan to prosecute Mohammed and the other suspects in a New York federal courtroom, just a few blocks from Ground Zero.
Some of the lawmakers, including New York Democratic Sen. Charles Shumer and Republican Pete King, raised daunting questions about the prospect of securing such a major trial and the possibility that terrorists could seek to disrupt the proceedings with new attacks on the city.
The opposition ultimately forced the administration's legal capitulation, sending Mohammed and the other suspects to Guantanamo Bay, where they are awaiting trial scheduled for September.
Abu Gaith's prosecution faced similar but lesser opposition, though a representative of a 9/11 survivors group said the organization would not endorse Holder's call for additional civilian court prosecutions.
"It's kind of like Holder is putting this in our face,'' said Tim Sumner, co-founder of 9/11 Families for a Safe and Strong America. "It's appalling to think that we would give somebody like (Khalid Sheikh Mohammed) a stage six blocks from where he committed mass murder."
"There has never been a question that federal courts could be used,'' said Sumner, whose brother-in-law was killed in the World Trade Center attack. "It's whether the federal courts are an appropriate venue. We believe military commissions are the appropriate place for war criminals.''
Since the 2001 attacks, Holder said, federal prosecutors have won convictions against 165 suspects in terror-related cases and vowed to "continue to rely'' on the federal courts.
"While our military courts remain an appropriate venue in certain circumstances, decisions on how best to seek convictions against terrorism defendants must always be based on prosecutorial considerations, never political ones.''


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Are Successful Women Entrepreneurs Different from Men?
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University of Virginia; University of Colorado at Boulder - National Center for Women & Information Technology
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Center for Entrepreneurship and Research Commercialization, Pratt School of Engineering; Stanford University - Arthur & Toni Rembe Rock Center for Corporate Governance
Lesa Mitchell
Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
May 11, 2010
Women are one particularly understudied group of entrepreneurs. We know very little about female entrepreneurs, and our ignorance of this important demographic is a serious blind spot in any effort to increase the total number of entrepreneurs participating in our economy. What little we do know suggests that women are not nearly as active in the entrepreneurial space as they could be.
This study attempts to address part of this knowledge gap. This based on data were collected in 2008-2009 from 549 respondents from randomly selected high-tech companies who were invited to participate. It compares the backgrounds, and experiences and motivations of men and women entrepreneurs.
Our findings show that successful women and men entrepreneurs are similar in almost every respect. They had equivalent levels of education (slightly less than half earned graduate degrees), early interest in starting their own business (about half had at least some interest), a strong desire to build wealth or capitalize on a business idea, access to funding, and they largely agreed on the top issues and challenges facing any entrepreneur.
The data also identify some small but potentially informative gender differences among successful entrepreneurs. For instance, motivations for starting a business differed slightly between men and women. The latter were more likely to cite a business partner's encouragement as a key incentive to take the plunge. Women also were more likely than men to get early funding from their business partners.
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Long Island-NYC Offshore Wind Project Advances With Approval For Federal Lease Application
Connie M. Cullen
June 30, 2010
BUFFALO—New York Power Authority (NYPA) President and Chief Executive Officer Richard M. Kessel today announced that the NYPA Trustees have authorized the application for a lease from the Federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOE), formerly known as the Minerals Management Service, for lands beneath the Atlantic Ocean for development of the Long Island-New York City Offshore Wind Project.
The Long Island–New York City Offshore Wind Collaborative (LI-NYC Wind Collaborative), which consists of NYPA, Consolidated Edison Company of New York, Inc. (Con Edison), the Long Island Power Authority (LIPA), the City of New York and other New York City and New York State governmental entities, is evaluating the development of between 350 megawatts (MW) up to total of 700 MW of offshore wind by 2016. The application for a lease is a necessary measure to pursue the feasibility of the offshore wind project.
"By taking this step, New York moves closer to the clean energy economy which combines the benefits of emission-free generation for a better environment with the economic development opportunities of the jobs and industries that will aim to make New York a leader in the growth of offshore wind," said Kessel, president and chief executive officer.
"To achieve our PlaNYC goals of improving air quality, increasing the reliability of our energy network, and reducing greenhouse gas emissions 30 percent by the year 2030, we must develop renewable sources of electricity," said Michael Bloomberg, mayor, City of New York.
"Beginning the process of leasing the land beneath the ocean will get us closer to developing power from Long Island-New York City offshore wind farm, which when built, will reduce our dependence on fossil fuels and promote economic development."
"An offshore wind project will provide a clean and viable energy alternative for our region. This collaborative effort involves many social and economic challenges and, if they are successfully addressed, will provide benefits for our residents and businesses," said Kevin Burke, chairman and chief executive officer, Con Edison.
"The action by the NYPA Board of Trustees is the next big milestone in exploring the feasibility of developing an offshore wind farm and positioning New York as leaders in the renewable energy world," said Kevin S. Law, president and chief executive officer, LIPA. Our project has the potential to diversify our energy portfolio, strengthen the economy with the creation of new quality jobs, and help to meet the State's '45 by 15' clean energy initiative."
The wind project site includes an area of approximately 64,500 acres of underwater land and is approximately13 to 15 miles offshore of Long Island in the Atlantic Ocean's Outer Continental Shelf (OCS), an area under the jurisdiction of BOE—a federal bureau within the United States Department of Interior. BOE is responsible for granting leases for environmentally responsible renewable energy including the sites for offshore wind facilities on the OCS. Offshore property within the first three miles of the coast falls within New York State jurisdiction and United States jurisdiction extends from three miles to 200 miles offshore.
The proposed lease would run for 25 years. An application fee of $16,000, based on a price of $0.25 per acre, is required upon submission of the lease application. Annual rent during project development and construction will be negotiated with BOE and is expected to be approximately $3 per acre resulting in an approximate annual rent of $200,000. Once a project is operational, BOE will receive a portion of the revenue generated from energy sales as the payment for the lease.
BOE requires the lease be held in the name of one entity. NYPA, LIPA and Con Ed have determined that NYPA, as a governmental entity, may be best suited to apply. LIPA is restricted from holding a lease in federal waters by state legislation governing its operations.
The concept for the offshore wind project supports the New York State Master Energy Plan including Governor David A. Paterson's "45 by 15" program, which establishes the goal for the State to meet 45 percent of its electricity needs through improved energy efficiency and renewable sources by the year 2015. The offshore wind project is also aligned with City of New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's PlaNYC goal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in New York City 30 percent by 2030.
The LI-NYC Wind Collaborative is also undertaking technical and environmental studies to determine the feasibility of developing the project. If the project moves forward, NYPA intends to assign its lease rights to the project developer, selected through a competitive process. At that time, the project developer will take over all financial obligations associated with the lease for the duration of its term.
About NYPA:
■ The New York Power Authority uses no tax money or state credit. It finances its operations through the sale of bonds and revenues earned in large part through sales of electricity. ■ NYPA is a leader in promoting energy efficiency, new energy technologies and electric transportation initiatives. ■ It is the nation's largest state public power organization, with 17 generating facilities in various parts of New York State and more than 1,400 circuit-miles of transmission lines. ■ More than 80 percent of the electricity it produces is clean renewable hydropower. Its lower-cost power production and electricity purchases support hundreds of thousands of jobs throughout the state. ■For more information, www.nypa.gov.


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How to Backup Your Web-Based Email Account Using Thunderbird
If the Gmail scare earlier this week has you thinking about backing up your Gmail or other web-based email account, we're here to help. Read on to learn how to backup your web-based email using open source email application Thunderbird.
In case you missed it, earlier this week Gmail suffered an unusual series of glitches that led to 0.02% of Gmail users finding their inboxes totally empty. The good news is that the glitch was fixed and no actual data was lost (they restored the missing email from tape backups that were unaffected by the issue). While that's wonderful nobody lost any important emails it's also very unsettling. Not every "Oops, we lost your data!" scenario ends so well. Today we're going to walk you through backing up your email using the free and robust open-source application Thunderbird.
What You'll Need
You won't need much for this tutorial, just a few minutes to set it up and the following:
- A copy of Thunderbird for your OS (available for Windows/Mac/Linux)
- Login information for your web-based email provider.
For this tutorial we'll be using Thunderbird for Windows and Gmail. The steps we'll be guiding you through, however, will work for Thunderbird on any OS and for any web-based email provider which allow you to access your email through a third-party client—in fact, Thunderbird does an excellent job detecting the necessary information just from your email address.
Enabling Remote Access and Email Server Information
Depending on the web-based email you're using you may need to enable access before proceeding. In the case of Gmail, our test service for this tutorials, you'll need to navigate to Options –> Mail Settings –> Forwarding and POP/IMAP and then toggle the following settings 1. Enable POP for all mail and 2. When messages are accessed with POP keep Gmail's copy in the Inbox.
Installing and Configuring Thunderbird
Installing Thunderbird is straight forward but there are a few things you may want to consider based on your needs and desire for additional backups. If you're a Windows user you may consider opting to install Thunderbird portable so that you can have a totally self-contained installation suitable for transferring/backing up to a USB drive. Also, depending on which backup service you use and how much space you have, you might consider installing Thunderbird to your Dropbox (or similar service) directory so that your local backup will also be stored remotely.
If you're satisfied with a local backup (or your backup service nabs your entire drive at one time) go ahead and proceed with the installation without any modifications.
After running Thunderbird for the first time, navigate to Tools –> Account Settings and then click on Account Actions (located in the lower left corner).
Fill in your username and password then click continue. For a significant number of web-mail providers Thunderbird will auto-populate the server information (courtesy of the Mozilla ISP Database) as seen in the screenshot below. We're going to switch from the default of IMAP to POP. If you were planning on using Thunderbird as your daily email client, IMAP would be a vastly superior choice (IMAP allows you to work with email like a remote access file share instead of downloading it to your local machine). For our archiving purpose, however, POP is a superior choice as it will easily and with no fuss download all the old email messages (not just the new ones). If you find yourself wanting to use Thunderbird as a full time client, you can easily switch back to IMAP once you have an archive of your old emails.
Click Create Account and you're in business. Thunderbird will authenticate your account against the server and warn you if the authentication fails. Baring that, you'll find yourself back at the Account Settings screen.
While we're still in the Account Settings screen we need to check a few very important settings before leaving. Click on Server Settings under your account login name on the left hand side of the window. We need to make a few adjustments here. Change the Check for new messages every 10 minutes setting to 1 minute. For the initial download we need the frequency of checks really high. Also make sure Leave messages on server is checked and uncheck For at most… and Until I delete them.
Before we leave the configuration stage, click on the Junk Settings at the top of the left hand column and uncheck Enable adaptive junk mail controls…, the Thunderbird spam filtering is great when you're using it as a primary client but we don't want it to do anything but a straight download of our messages. Under Disk Space make sure Don't delete any messages is checked (it should be, by default). This operation is totally backup-oriented. We don't want Thunderbird getting any wise ideas and deleting anything.
When you're done click OK in the corner and return to the main Thunderbird dashboard. If Thunderbird isn't already downloading email, click Get Mail in the corner to start the process.
At this point everything is on autopilot. Thunderbird will continue to check your email every minute and download new messages bit by bit. Here is one of the quirks of POP downloading, each batch will be roughly 400-600 messages in size. You'll never see a massive download of all your email at one time. Be prepared, if you have a big account, to leave it running for awhile. In the case of our test account it took 37 batches to download all 17,000+ emails dating back almost a decade.
When the downloading is done you'll have an up-to-date backup of your Gmail (or other web-based email) account. All you need to do in the future is run Thunderbird to grab the newest emails and update your archive.
Have a pressing question about your email or other technological issues? Hit us up for an answer at email@example.com and we'll do our best to help.
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When I set up Thunderbird to do this about a year ago, I also set it up as an automated task in iWindows to launch at 5AM Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday, and quit (well, force-crash) at 6AM, because if I'd had to remember to launch it every so often, I'd eventually forget.
Very wonderful article. But can I get all the sent mail also ???
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Not sure if your articles has caused anissue at Gmail. I was getting 437 emails per batch overnight it has dropped to 2 messages.
Not sure if the Gmail servers are overloaded or they have a throttle on. But at 2 messagers a minute it will take 4 years to backup.:)
Lets hope it clears.
This is kind of pointless. Gmail's servers are well backed up…and any outage will likely only last a couple of hours.
Well, you didn't specify how to backup mails in YahooMail or Hotmail with Thunderbird. Please specify how?
Definitely not pointless. I have been without GMail for four days! I am now researching other options for my email as I cannot accept being denied access for that length of time. Also, there was no contact from GMail, despite me sending a number of emails to them.
It was very worrying, because initially the warning simply said that the account was not accessible but would be available soon. The next day I tried to login and it said my account had been disabled because of "perceived violations of Google T&C's"!!! Three days later, without any contact, my account is now available again, but does not appear to be working correctly yet.
Free or not, this kind of problem has left me worried and I will be moving away from GMail. While the account was inaccessible, I could not get to any of my old emails and had no idea if I would ever be able to get them back. Not acceptable, sorry!
Since you suggest using POP/IMAP which works fine with Gmail… the regular Yahoo! Mail account does not provide POP or IMAP remote management, it's web-based only… or have I missed something?? As far as I'm concerned, one has to sign up for Yahoo Pro for any forwarding or other features.
Too many windmills…
Microsoft Outlook also does the same job
@quizote… you are correct. One would have to purchase a Yahoo Plus email account (approx. $20/year) to be able to use this method of backing up email. Of course, you get the added bonus of no advertising.
Instead of purchasing a yahoo mail plus account, it may be good to go for "Microsoft Exchange Online" email account (if one is willing to spend) it costs around £20 a month and gives 5 mailboxes with superb access speeds and support.
thanx, works great with gmail, no more monitoring browser tabs to monitor my multipliable gmail accounts, i can do all that with thunderbird
If you archive stuff in Gmail this will not touch that, nor will it touch what you have sent, which can be just as valuable.
My solution was to configure Thunderbird with IMAP and set the All Mail folder to do a full offline sync. This will take a while. When it is done, create a local folder and copy (COPY, not cut) the All Mail into the local folder and name it after that day's date. Then after that setting up another account in POP mode will maintain a constant trickle of new stuff, though not stuff that has been sent by you so keep that in mind.
but if i always have mails stored in separate folders in my Gmail account, how to get them backed up?
Everything lives in All Mail, so it may not be sorted but it's backed up. If you let Windows Vista's or Windows 7's or OS X's indexing index your Thunderbird folders, you can use that to search rapidly for something. Thunderbird has a search too. Also if you install Google Desktop for Linux I think it can index email too (check its settings).
If you don't mind the redundancy, you could also set those labels in Gmail to sync via IMAP (that's a checkbox in the Labels setting page in Gmail), then when you launch Thunderbird it will show those labels as folders. Right click on those folders and set them for offline use and they will download everything not just the subject headers (again, be patient, that might take a long time if you have a lot of stuff).
Can I specific to download (back up) only a specific folder, not All Mail?


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Self-Defense Targetings of Non-State Actors and Permissibility of U.S. Use of Drones in Pakistan
Jordan J. Paust
University of Houston Law Center
December 8, 2009
Journal of Transnational Law & Policy, Vol. 19, No. 2, p. 237, 2010
U of Houston Law Center No. 2009-A-36
This article addresses the permissibility of use of force in self-defense in response to non-state actor armed attacks and the permissibility of U.S. use of drones in Pakistan for such purposes. Contrary to some writers, when directed merely against the non-state actors, responsive force is not engaged in against the foreign state as such or as an attack "on" or "against" its territory. Responsive measures of self-defense in a foreign state would not necessarily create a state of war between the responding state and the foreign state or between the responding state and the non-state actors, and whether or not an armed conflict exits to which the laws of war apply would be tested under normal criteria with respect to the existence of an international or non-international armed conflict. It is understandable, therefore, that a self-defense paradigm can be different than a war paradigm and both are different than a mere law enforcement paradigm. Permissibility of use of drones in Pakistan also depends on inquiry into many features of context and appropriate application of principles of reasonable necessity and proportionality.
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Statement to the General Assembly by H.E. Ambassador Karel van Oosterom Permanent Representative of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to the United Nations on Report of the Peacebuilding Commission. New York, 26 March 2014
Thank you, mr. President.
I align myself with the statement of the European Union.
First of all, allow me to express my appreciation for the efforts of Ambassador Vladimir Drobnjak as Chair of the Peacebuilding Commission. Allow me also to wish his successor Ambassador Antonio Patriota every success in his new role as chair of the PBC.
The Netherlands has been a strong supporter of the Peacebuilding Commission and the Peacebuilding Fund from their conception, and we continue to believe in the vital importance of their work. We therefore welcome these thorough reports under discussion today.
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During the Conference of Syrian women, convened by UN Women and the Netherlands, Frans Timmermans, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands sent this message to the participants congratulating their efforts and courage "I am pleased to hear that Syrian women are letting the world know that the future of Syria should not exclusively be decided by those who carry the arms. Women have a crucial role in implementing a future peace agreement. That is why their voice matters."
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- At the moment, PBF reports focus mainly on project results. The Netherlands believes that the full impact of the UN in a given country should be visibly, consistent with the 'Delivery as One' approach. This could be done by increased focus on strategic impact and achievements in stabilization and peacebuilding, making the reports more relevant.
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The couple will be married on May 16. Family and friends are welcome to honor the newlyweds during a reception that evening from 5-7 p.m. at the Castle Dale LDS Church, 165 West 800 North, Castle Dale.
Ashley is a graduate of Emery High School. She received her associates degree from College of Eastern Utah in 2007 and graduated May 1 from the CEU nursing program as an LPN.
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