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Knight Ridders Washington bureau has distinguished itself with cutting-edge reporting on everything from Saddams weapons of mass destruction to coal mine safety. Sadly, many of its best efforts have been ignored by the national newspapers and the networks. New owner McClatchy says it admires the work and wants it to continue in a merged bureau.
By Charles Layton Charles Layton (firstname.lastname@example.com) is a former editor and reporter at the Philadelphia Inquirer and a former AJR senior contributing writer.
Had Knight Ridder fallen into the wrong hands, its Washington bureau could have been especially at risk. Unlike the company's 32 newspapers, the bureau makes no profit whatsoever, and it is expensive to run. To a Wall Street-oriented owner, it might have seemed completely dispensable. Furthermore, not just any owner would be comfortable with its muckraking style.
In its 10th-floor offices at 12th and G streets, these were real concerns. "Heck, if we're bought by somebody who doesn't think they need a Washington bureau, well, people like me, we're kind of out of work," Mark Seibel, the bureau's managing editor for international news, told me one day in February, as the two of us sat in his office speculating on the possibilities.
Things seem to be turning out better than that. On March 13, McClatchy, a newspaper chain much respected by journalists as well as by Wall Street, announced it was buying Knight Ridder. That afternoon, some nine hours after the announcement, McClatchy officials were standing in the middle of the bureau's newsroom, addressing a gathered crowd, giving assurances. The staff and its mission would be protected, promised Howard Weaver, McClatchy's vice president for news. The company had no plans to lay off any staffers in the Washington bureau or to close any of the Knight Ridder foreign bureaus it oversees, although Clark Hoyt, the bureau's top editor, was to be replaced by David Westphal, who heads McClatchy's own, much smaller D.C. bureau. The Knight Ridder and McClatchy Washington operations would be merged, Weaver explained. It would all happen by July 1.
Hoyt, 63, who will become a consultant to McClatchy, was totally supportive. "I believe that McClatchy's values are exactly in line with what our values have been," he told me following the meeting, "and I believe they very much want to keep and build on the kind of journalism that's been coming out of this place."
So what kind of journalism is that? With a new management about to be whistled aboard, now seems a good time to consider the question. During Hoyt's tenure, which began in 1999, the bureau has flowered into a formidable journalistic force, emphasizing hard-nosed, fact-based watchdog reporting. Its staff includes 16 national reporters and nine editors not nearly enough to match the output of the Washington Post, the New York Times or the Los Angeles Times on a daily basis. (The New York Times' Washington bureau has 43 reporters.) And since none of Knight Ridder's newspapers serves the Washington or New York markets, the bureau's stories haven't been picked up nearly as often as they should be by TV, the news magazines and other outlets.
Still, Hoyt's people are out there every day competing against the big boys, and it is impressive how often they get good stories first, and get them right. Pound for pound, they might be the most seriously aggressive bunch of journalists in Washington.
Remember Michael D. Brown "Brownie" former head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency? He resigned in disgrace last September over the government's botched response to Hurricane Katrina.
Knight Ridder's Washington bureau came up with a unique and exclusive angle on the story. A team of its reporters discovered that the primary blame did not rest with Brown but rather with his boss, the secretary of Homeland Security, Michael Chertoff. One of those reporters, Alison Young, learned this by reading a 426-page document, the National Response Plan, created by Homeland Security as a framework for action in events such as Katrina.
"When I set about my reporting," Young says, "I often want to know, 'What are the rules of the game?' So that you can judge, did people follow the rules?"
The rules in this case made clear that Brown's power to act on his own in any such catastrophe was limited. Before the storm, Chertoff was supposed to have designated someone (either himself, Brown or someone else) to direct and coordinate the entire federal response. Because he failed to do so until 36 hours after the storm had hit, there was bureaucratic confusion and delay.
Two weeks after the hurricane, with Brown's ineptitude still the big news of the day, Young and her colleagues wrote a story pinning the blame squarely on Chertoff. They quoted from a memo that seemed to show Chertoff was confused about what he was supposed to do.
The Seattle Times ran the story under the headline: "Was FEMA's Brown the fall guy?" The headline in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette declared: "Memo: Homeland Security Chief Delayed Federal Response." Readers throughout the country in Kansas City, Miami, Newark, San Jose, Duluth, Wichita, Buffalo, Tulsa, Philadelphia read this important story, because their newspapers picked it up from the Knight Ridder wires. But since it didn't make the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal or the networks, Chertoff's role in the Katrina fiasco went largely unremarked in Washington for nearly five months.
Fast-forward to February of this year: The Government Accountability Office and a select House committee issued separate reports, both basically confirming Knight Ridder's findings. At that point, the big, prestigious news outlets did write stories and all of them treated the disclosure as something brand-new. The Post, for instance, said Chertoff had "largely escaped criticism after the storm."
"Maybe at their newspaper," Young said to me with a smile, "but not at Knight Ridder."
Reporters and editors at Knight Ridder's Washington bureau have grown used to having their scoops ignored. It's happened with a slew of their exclusive revelations most glaringly, those dealing with President Bush's claims that Saddam Hussein had close ties with Al Qaeda and was on the verge of developing nuclear weapons. Knight Ridder was many months ahead of the pack in casting doubt on those claims. Yet its stories failed to make a dent in the national debate preceding the war.
"I'd be lying if I didn't say it was frustrating," says Hoyt.
It's not that the bureau's audience isn't large. Knight Ridder's 32 daily papers claim a combined circulation of more than 3.4 million daily and more than 5 million on Sundays. They include such prominent mastheads as the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Miami Herald, the San Jose Mercury News and the Kansas City Star. The bureau's work also reaches more than 400 papers that subscribe to the Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service. And its stories appear on its own Web site, www.krwashington.com. But the truth is, something can be the talk of Kansas City or Miami and still not make it into the national conversation. And that, very often, is how it has gone with Knight Ridder's most important stories. To look at the quality and variety of those stories, especially in the last two to three years, is to appreciate just how poorly the American people are served by the insularity and tunnel vision of Washington's journalistic in-crowd.
"There is some really significant reporting out there that simply isn't punching through to the public consciousness because it is not on television," press critic Kristina Borjesson writes in "Feet to the Fire," her 2005 book about news reporting after 9/11. "Here again, I must mention Knight Ridder. I wonder what would have happened if Knight Ridder's prewar reporting had hit the national airwaves at the same time that it was hitting newsstands in cities and towns outside of Washington and New York City."
The editor who oversees the Washington bureau's day-to-day newsgathering is Bureau Chief John Walcott. Walcott, 56, is an old Washington hand, having worked there at various times for Newsweek, the Wall Street Journal and U.S. News & World Report. His beats have included intelligence, the military, national security and foreign affairs, and he goes way back with some of Washington's top newsmakers, such as Paul Wolfowitz, Condoleezza Rice and I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby Jr. "I have known many of the players in this administration for 25 years or so," Walcott says.
His experience came in handy last May when the Downing Street memo surfaced. The memo was a briefing paper prepared in the summer of 2002 for British Prime Minister Tony Blair. It said the Bush administration was preparing for war with Iraq and planned to use intelligence about Saddam Hussein's weapons programs and his ties with terrorists as justification. The "intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy," the memo quoted Britain's chief of intelligence as saying.
Three years later, when the Times of London revealed the contents of this secret memo, it caused a sensation in Great Britain but at first went unreported by U.S. media. "My recollection is, I got an e-mail from a reader, I think in Wilkes-Barre [Pennsylvania], who pointed out the British story," Walcott says. "And I went and read the British story."
As it happened, Walcott and one of his reporters, Warren P. Strobel, had written a story of their own back in February 2002 saying that Bush had made a fundamental decision to overthrow Saddam. They were, to my knowledge, the first journalists to come out and say this. Their story, little noticed at the time, was published five months before the Downing Street memo was written.
So Walcott and Strobel were not shocked by what the memo said. "The British story," says Walcott, "was consistent with our understanding..and there were immediately two questions. First, was the memo authentic? And second, even if it was authentic, was it an accurate account of what had transpired?"
"I was able to talk to the British Embassy and a couple of other people," says Strobel, whose beat is foreign affairs, "to verify the authenticity of the memo itself. And John was able to talk to some people in the U.S. government and verify that the substantive contents of the memo were a reasonably accurate transcription of what had transpired. We were able to do that in a couple of hours." Except for one or two fleeting references, their story was the first account of the memo to appear in the American media.
Tish Wells, the bureau's news researcher and Web editor, recalls that the Knight Ridder story didn't get much attention at first, "and we were sitting there going, 'Come on, guys, look at it!'" After a few days, the Post ran a story on the memo by Walter Pincus, buried inside the A section, and a smattering of other papers followed up in the coming weeks. (See "A Story at Last," Web Special, and Full Court Press, August/September 2005.) The TV networks stayed silent on the subject for another month or longer. In the interim, bloggers who had picked up the story from overseas Web sites started complaining about the lack of U.S. coverage. To many of them, the blackout confirmed their suspicions that the U.S. media were in cahoots with the Bush administration on the Iraq war.
Wells says the bloggers "started to do an orchestrated campaign. We kept getting letters and e-mails: 'Why didn't the mainstream media do anything on this?' And we sat there and wrote very patiently back to each one of them: 'We did do this, and here is the link to it on our Web site.'"
The Downing Street memo story was one of a long string of Knight Ridder's pieces about the intelligence claims leading up to the war. More than 80 stories, with links, are listed on its Web site. The bureau's reporting on this subject attracted scant notice until early 2004, by which time the false claims about Saddam's weapons of mass destruction had become an issue. A number of reporters especially Judith Miller of the New York Times were criticized for blindly accepting the administration's false statements (see "Miller Brouhaha," August/September 2003).
One of Miller's critics, Michael Massing, seems to have been the first writer to acknowledge Knight Ridder's groundbreaking work. In a February 26, 2004, article in The New York Review of Books, Massing wrote that Knight Ridder had been "almost alone among national news organizations" in taking a hard look at the administration's justifications for war.
Massing cited, for example, a September 2002 story by Knight Ridder's national security reporter, Jonathan S. Landay, that said senior U.S. officials familiar with intelligence on Iraq had "detected no alarming increase" in the threat to America posed by Saddam. This was at a time when Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and others were claiming Iraq might soon be able to threaten the U.S. with nuclear weapons.
In October 2002, Landay and Strobel teamed up to write an even stronger story, also cited by Massing. It said there was a bitter feud within the government over the intelligence claims. Professional military and intelligence officers, it said, feared that administration hawks were "shaping intelligence analyses to support their case for invading Iraq." The story went on to say that much of the hawks' controversial data was being supplied by the Iraqi National Congress, an expatriate organization, and its leader, Ahmed Chalabi, who saw himself as a potential successor to Saddam. It also dealt with Iraq's alleged (but later discredited) ties to Al Qaeda.
This story ran three months before President Bush, in his State of the Union address, delivered an ultimatum to Iraq, and nearly five months before the U.S. launched its invasion. Judged by what we now know, and compared with what was running in the rest of the media, the story was a genuine tour de force.
Borjesson's book gives a fuller account of Knight Ridder's reporting on Iraq. "Knight Ridder took the lead before any other news outlet and continues to break new ground," she wrote. In 2004, the Washington Press Club Foundation honored Landay and Strobel for their coverage of the intelligence issues leading up to the war (see "Going It Alone" and Full Court Press, August/September 2004). And last year, Landay, Strobel and Walcott won a National Headliner Award for their coverage of how the Bush administration went to war in Iraq. Landay and Wells also received a Mongerson Prize Award of Distinction for a story chronicling how Chalabi and his group had deceived journalists. The reporters cited 108 separate stories in the U.S. media containing false information that could be traced back to the Chalabi group. (Chalabi was one of Judith Miller's main sources.)
Such recognition was good for the bureau's morale. And there were other signs that its reputation was spreading. One day as I was sitting in Walcott's office, talking with him about this very matter, an editor walked in and tossed a copy of Playboy onto Walcott's desk. The editor had marked a passage quoting Al Franken as saying Knight Ridder had out-reported the Times and the Post in the months leading up to the war.
Tish Wells says that seven years ago, when she first came to work for the bureau, she would call a government official and say, "I'm calling from the Knight Ridder Newspapers," and the official would say, "What?" And she would have to say, "Well, we own the Miami Herald and like that," and then they would understand. "But now," she says, "I can say I'm calling from the Knight Ridder Newspapers and people know who we are."
When I ask Walcott about the bureau's philosophy, he says, "It's an impulse, when you're told something, not simply to write it down and report it but to ask whether it's true. The whole truth. And that's an impulse that I think rightly covers everything everybody here does."
Hoyt describes it more simply as "just good old-fashioned reporting. And we're able to do this in some respect because this is a bureau that's written for outsiders," by which he means people outside of Washington and the country's power elite people reading local newspapers. "We're very mindful of who our audience is."
Reporter Seth Borenstein, who worked in the bureau for almost eight years (he left in March to join the Associated Press), says, "The other bureaus, it's almost like they trade their souls for access. 'Oh boy, if I can get on the plane with so-and-so, with this Cabinet official or that Cabinet official, and get the anonymous quote.'" He says Knight Ridder doesn't do that. It is "not seduced by the access."
Besides its Washington operations, the bureau also oversees 10 foreign bureaus, including a very productive one in Baghdad consisting of two reporters plus an Iraqi support staff of roughly a dozen people drivers, translators and the like. A few of the Iraqis also function as reporters.
One day in early February, as I was doing research for this article, the Associated Press, National Public Radio, ABC News and others began reporting that Sunni Arabs in Iraq were being abducted from their homes and murdered by men dressed in police uniforms. The story sounded familiar. Checking my notes and documents, I soon realized why. I'd already read all about it in the Knight Ridder archives. A story out of Baghdad almost exactly one year earlier had said Shiite assassins were systematically killing former Baathists "in a wave of violence that..threatens to escalate into civil war."
The story, by Hannah Allam, said Shiite politicians were looking the other way, and the U.S. military was preoccupied with more pressing concerns. The following June, reporters Tom Lasseter and Yasser Salihee, also with Knight Ridder's Baghdad bureau, advanced the story. They wrote that soon after the new Shiite-led government took office, the bodies of Sunni Muslim men began turning up at the capital's central morgue. Many had been blindfolded, their hands had been tied or handcuffed behind them, and they appeared to have been tortured. Many had died of a single bullet to the head.
From records and interviews with family members and Iraqi officials, Lasseter and Salihee found more than 30 examples of this type of killing in less than a week. Eyewitnesses said many of the dead had been abducted by large groups of men driving white Toyota Land Cruisers with police markings.
The abductors wore police uniforms and bulletproof vests, carried expensive 9-millimeter Glock pistols and used sophisticated radio equipment, witnesses said.
Iraqi officials denied any involvement, and U.S. officials said they thought the murders were the work of insurgents posing as police. If that were so, Lasseter and Salihee wrote, it raised troubling questions as to how insurgents were getting their hands on such expensive new police equipment especially the Toyotas, which the story said cost more than $55,000 apiece and were hard to come by in Iraq. An alternative theory was that the police, almost exclusively Shiites, had begun to take extralegal revenge on their Sunni rivals. Whichever was true, the director of Baghdad's central morgue told the reporters he was seeing 700 to 800 suspicious deaths a month.
"Everyone else came out with that story in November," says Steven Butler, the Knight Ridder bureau's foreign editor until the end of March. "And they were good stories, too, but in the shuffle I had to e-mail a couple of people, saying, 'You know, those guys are five months late on the story.'" The death squad story was one of a series of Knight Ridder revelations over the past year indicating that Iraq might be sliding into sectarian civil war.
One of the reporters on the death squad story, Salihee, was among several Iraqis who joined Knight Ridder's Baghdad bureau after the U.S. invasion. "He was a medical doctor who started working as a translator and then turned out to be quite a good reporter," says Mark Seibel. On June 24, a few days before the death squad story ran, Salihee was killed. He went out one day to buy gasoline, so he could take his wife and daughter swimming, and was shot. He was 30 years old.
Not all of Knight Ridder's stories have been consigned to oblivion. Many have had an immediate, positive impact. Following a January 2 coal mine explosion that caused the deaths of 12 miners in West Virginia, Borenstein teamed with two reporters from Knight Ridder's Lexington Herald-Leader in Kentucky to examine the federal government's mine safety enforcement record. The resulting story said the Bush administration had been much more lenient than its predecessor toward mining companies with serious safety violations. The number of fines over $10,000 had dropped by nearly 10 percent, the story said, and the dollar amounts of those penalties was 43 percent lower, adjusted for inflation. Also, the budget and staff for enforcement had been reduced.
Officials at the Mine Safety and Health Administration disputed those findings. "They posted on their Web site this big thing saying how we're wrong," Borenstein says. "Finally their data person sent us the spreadsheet that they used, and we used their spreadsheet and did the same analysis. We took their data, used their parameters, did the same calculations." They found exactly the same drop in fines 43 percent. As a further check, he says, Knight Ridder asked four different statistics experts to review their databases and analyses, "and all said Knight Ridder's analysis is correct."
The bureau wrote a story explaining all of that. Meanwhile, another mine accident, also in West Virginia, killed two more miners on January 22. At that point, prominent senators began to complain about MSHA's lax policies and inadequate fines, and on February 16 federal regulators announced plans to levy higher fines as a way to improve mine safety.
In March 2005, Knight Ridder reporters Chris Adams and Alison Young published a package of stories showing that tens of thousands of veterans returning from America's wars have had to fight their government to win the disability benefits to which they are entitled. In the past decade, several thousand veterans died before their cases were resolved, Adams and Young wrote. (Young has since left the bureau to join the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.) One man, a World War II vet wounded in Italy, was still fighting for his rightful benefits when he died in 2002. A judge acknowledged that it's likely the man would eventually have won his case had he lived.
This piece of reportorial enterprise was based on interviews with veterans and their families and on internal records of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. The reporters had to sue the agency in federal court to get many of the records. The project got front-page play in the Miami Herald, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, the Philadelphia Inquirer, the St. Paul Pioneer-Press, the Cincinnati Enquirer and other papers.
Days after the stories ran, members of Congress grilled the VA about the excessive delays. Nine days after that, the VA sent a memo to all 57 of its regional office directors, telling them to "read the articles, digest the underlying message and then take action."
Legislation was introduced requiring the VA to actively seek out those veterans who should be getting disability benefits but aren't. The bill has passed the Senate and is awaiting action in the House. As this article goes to press, the two reporters are about to receive the Scripps Howard Foundation's National Journalism Award for Washington Reporting.
When the bureau's consumer economics reporter, Tony Pugh, broke a story about the Medicare drug bill two years ago, the rest of the media jumped on it quickly. The drug bill had squeaked through Congress largely because the Bush administration had promised hesitant Republican lawmakers it would cost no more than $395 billion in the first 10 years. Pugh reported that the administration had misled those lawmakers. The government's chief Medicare actuary, he wrote, had been warned that he would be fired if he told lawmakers the true cost estimate, which was $551 billion.
It is clear that the bill would not have passed the House if that price estimate had been known. "I think that was a story of such obvious importance, and it was on a subject that a lot of people at the Times and elsewhere were paying attention to," Walcott says. "And what was stunning about it was the White House trying to conceal the numbers even from other Republicans. And I know that story did cause some consternation from other news organizations that didn't have it. And they were quite open in their praise of Tony in getting it. That was a story that was noticed immediately and widely."
Now, into this ambitious, high-powered reporting culture, steps McClatchy. While it has a reputation for quality journalism, it has never before run an operation like Knight Ridder's Washington bureau. McClatchy's own D.C. bureau, rather than competing with the major national news operations, has concentrated on stories of regional interest to its papers. Nor has McClatchy ever run a system of foreign bureaus like Knight Ridder's. It will have a lot to learn.
But it does have one huge organizational strength that Knight Ridder lacked: two classes of stock, which makes it less vulnerable to a hostile takeover by non-journalistic interests.
Hours after the sale was announced, two key McClatchy officials, Howard Weaver and David Westphal, showed up at 12th and G streets to introduce themselves. When the meeting was over, bureau staffers seemed optimistic. They told me they thought the McClatchy acquisition was the best possible outcome. They seemed convinced that McClatchy would support and encourage their kind of journalism.
Weaver and Westphal certainly tried to make that point. Both showed a familiarity with the bureau's work, singling out specific examples such as the stories on Iraq intelligence and mine safety. They also praised the bureau's foreign coverage, particularly from Iraq. They told the staff these were just the kind of things McClatchy wants them to keep on doing.
Westphal, who will become chief of the combined bureau, told me later he thought the presentation had gone well. "The underlying reality," he says, "is that McClatchy acquires the Washington operation with enormous admiration and respect for the work that has gone on here."
Hoyt says he thought their message "was met with great relief and happiness" by the staff. And speaking for himself, he says, "I'm very delighted by this."
Senior writer Charles Layton wrote about the drive to force Knight Ridder to put itself up for sale in AJR's February/March issue. He was a reporter and editor for Knight Ridder's Philadelphia Inquirer for 22 years, leaving the paper in 1996. Editorial assistant Jessica Meyers contributed research to this report.


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It being Wednesday, we will now have the singing of the national anthem led by the hon. member for Victoria.
[Members sang the national anthem]
House of Commons Hansard #184 of the 42nd Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament's site.) The word of the day was cannabis.
2 p.m.
The Speaker Liberal Geoff Regan
It being Wednesday, we will now have the singing of the national anthem led by the hon. member for Victoria.
[Members sang the national anthem]
TaxationStatements By Members
May 31st, 2017 / 2 p.m.
Gabriel Ste-Marie Bloc Joliette, QC
Mr. Speaker, this morning, the Journal de Montréal reported that the government signed a tax information exchange agreement with Cook Islands, a tax haven in the Pacific. We all want to prevent fraud, so exchanging information seems innocent enough, but this is a scam.
There is more to this information exchange agreement than meets the eye. It gives businesses carte blanche to use the Cook Islands so they do not have to pay taxes here. Basically, the "Crook" Islands is now the 24th member of a select group of tax havens with a free pass from the government.
The government goes on and on about how it is combatting tax fraud. How? By using agreements to legalize fraud? The government is stealthily giving fat cats a free pass with these tax treaties masquerading as information exchange agreements. Then the rest of us have to pay twice as much because the bankers made off with the cash.
Enough sneaking around. It is time this government was exposed as the handmaid of Bay Street multimillionaires.
Winnipeg PrideStatements By Members
2 p.m.
Robert-Falcon Ouellette Liberal Winnipeg Centre, MB
Mr. Speaker, I congratulate Ryan Richard and the other organizers for the very first Canadian two-spirit powwow, celebrated in Winnipeg last Friday. It is incredible to see how indigenous peoples are returning to traditions and teachings that demonstrate the strength of our heritage.
The organizers and the hundreds who participated showed honesty, humility, courage, respect, love, effort, and knowledge. I am a proud supporter of Winnipeg Pride.
I was asked by the women and families at the powwow to talk about the murder and missing indigenous women and girls inquiry and to mention that we must be inclusive of all peoples, including two-spirit people, for they are a part of us.
The two-spirit people were traditionally seen to be a connection between men and women and had a greater connection to the spirit world. They were and are a mirror into our souls.
Tapwe akwa khitwam hi hi
Tourism WeekStatements By Members
2:05 p.m.
Kerry Diotte Conservative Edmonton Griesbach, AB
Mr. Speaker, this week is Tourism Week. Canada's tourism industry is an important economic driver. It helps create jobs and grow the economy.
This week is a chance to celebrate Canada's natural beauty, events, and vibrant cultures. From coast to coast to coast, Canada has so much to showcase. Today, I would like to highlight Edmonton.
For one thing, Edmonton is truly a festival city. In fact, we have so many festivals, they are hard to keep track of, dozens of them. There is the Fringe Festival, the Folk Festival, the Street Performers Festival, the Heritage Festival, and let us not forget the granddaddy of Edmonton festivals, K-Days. It is centred in my north-side riding of Edmonton Griesbach.
I would like to invite everyone to Edmonton this summer for our festivals, our attractions, and our warm hospitality. Come for the fun, leave with great memories.
Italian Heritage MonthStatements By Members
2:05 p.m.
Angelo Iacono Liberal Alfred-Pellan, QC
Mr. Speaker, June 1 marks the beginning of Italian Heritage Month. On this special occasion, I want to recognize the Italian Canadian community in Alfred-Pellan and across the country.
Our parents came to this land with nothing but their strong will and rich values, and they managed to build a respectable place for the community. They understood that the power of a community was much greater than that of an individual.
It is our duty to preserve their efforts and come together to rejuvenate the associations they put in place, to look back at the path of hope and prosperity they traced, and to make it flourish with a spirit of togetherness, honour to the roots, and respect to this land of opportunities.
That is the duty we must live up to in order to preserve the extraordinary heritage of our roots.
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Nicole LeblancStatements By Members
2:05 p.m.
Guy Caron NDP Rimouski-Neigette—Témiscouata—Les Basques, QC
Mr. Speaker, a great dame of Quebec televison passed away last week. Rose-Anna Saint-Cyr is no more.
Actress Nicole Leblanc left an indelible mark on the history of Quebec television.
In the lead role in Le Temps d'une paix, which boasted ratings of over 3 million viewers, she played a strong woman who took control of her family's destiny at a time when women's roles were still generally passive or submissive.
In the theatre, in 1968, Nicole Leblanc had the distinct honour of acting in the original production of Michel Tremblay's Les Belles-soeurs, a revolutionary play that marked a turning point in Quebec modern theatre.
In the late 1990s she began working in Trois-Pistoles, first acting in Abla Farhoud's Maudite machine, and later becoming the director of the Caveau-Théâtre, the theatre founded by Victor-Lévy Beaulieu in 1992.
For the past several years, she had been living in Sainte-Françoise, having made her home in the Basques area during her well-deserved retirement.
I want to express my deepest condolences to her family and loved ones. The entire province of Quebec is grateful to her family for sharing this exceptional woman with us.
Tourism WeekStatements By Members
2:05 p.m.
Pam Goldsmith-Jones Liberal West Vancouver—Sunshine Coast—Sea to Sky Country, BC
Mr. Speaker, it is Tourism Week and Canada 150 is right around the corner. Supernatural British Columbia is the best place to start our celebrations.
Cypress Provincial Park in West Vancouver is home of the first downhill skiing in Vancouver and was host to the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games. Visit the historic Hollyburn Lodge and explore the trails that wind all over the slopes that hover above the city of Vancouver.
Head north for half an hour on the famous Sea to Sky Highway to Squamish, the outdoor recreation capital of the world, and the Stawamus Chief, the second-largest granite monolith in the world. The rock climbing is second to none. This place of great spiritual significance for the Squamish Nation is truly humbling.
Howe Sound lies at the foot of these mountains, a spectacular marine environment for sports, tourism, and abundant and resurgent biodiversity.
These wild spaces are for us to respect, protect, and share. Please experience Canada's west coast wilderness.
Lyme DiseaseStatements By Members
2:05 p.m.
Len Webber Conservative Calgary Confederation, AB
Mr. Speaker, we have waited for over a year for the federal government's framework on Lyme disease. Thousands of sick Canadians are awaiting the necessary funding for testing and treatment, waiting for the medical system to be able to diagnose and treat their illness, wondering if they are passing Lyme disease on to their partners, millions wondering if they can safely give and receive blood in Canada.
The framework and its many lines of platitudes provide no clear targets for measurable success. There are no new ideas, no deadlines for achieving anything. The $4 million in funding is wholly inadequate to make any real difference, given the size of this problem. It fails to even mention major concerns, like human-to-human transmission and blood supply risks.
In short, the government has wasted a full year and spent untold sums of money to produce a report that is embarrassingly scant, unfocused, and, frankly, disappointing.
Canadians expect much better.
Italian National DayStatements By Members
2:10 p.m.
Deb Schulte Liberal King—Vaughan, ON
Mr. Speaker, I rise today to commemorate Italian National Day, Festa della Repubblica.
After the Second World War and the fall of fascism, on June 2, 1946, Italians held a referendum to determine their desired form of government, either a republic or a monarchy.
The Italian people voted for a republic and ever since Italians around the world have celebrated Republic Day.
This year Italian Canadians have another reason to celebrate.
I am proud to say that my motion, Motion No. 64, declaring June as national Italian Heritage Month, recently passed unanimously in the House. This motion acknowledges the government's recognition of the contributions that Italian Canadians have made to our society.
Please join with me on June 2 in wishing all those of Italian descent Buona Festa della Repubblica.
Tourism WeekStatements By Members
2:10 p.m.
Marc Serré Liberal Nickel Belt, ON
Mr. Speaker, tourism is critical for job creation and is an important economic driver for Canada. To recognize Tourism Week, I want to invite all Canadians to come to Greater Sudbury/Nickel Belt to experience all the wonders.
Northern Ontario's best attraction is the great outdoors. I am proud to say it has been recognized by the United Nations for its massive re-greening efforts, following decades of natural resource activity.
Since 1978, over 18 million trees have been planted throughout the region, restoring the land to its original beauty.
As the head of tourism marketing for the beautiful riding of Nickel Belt, and not Nickelback, I invite Canadians to join me in celebrating Tourism Week. We can enjoy great fishing and hunting and, together, we can explore the trails, camping, and camp fires in the beautiful region that I call home.
ALS Awareness MonthStatements By Members
2:10 p.m.
David Tilson Conservative Dufferin—Caledon, ON
Mr. Speaker, each year Canadians recognize June as ALS Awareness Month. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis is a rapidly progressive fatal motor neuron disease that leaves those affected in a state of progressive paralysis, but with full possession of their mental faculties.
In 2005, my father succumbed to ALS after a four-year fight, so it has affected me personally. Of course all members witnessed the courage of our late colleague Mauril Bélanger during his battle with this terrible disease.
Each year at this time, friends, family, and supporters dedicate their time and energy to raise awareness for treatment and a cure. In dozens of communities across the country, WALK for ALS is taking place to help raise funds for critical research and support.
I encourage every member to wear a cornflower to demonstrate our support in the fight against ALS so, together, we can support victims and families, and promote research to find a cure.
Miramichi Folksong FestivalStatements By Members
2:10 p.m.
Pat Finnigan Liberal Miramichi—Grand Lake, NB
Mr. Speaker, this summer marks the 60th anniversary of the Miramichi Folksong Festival, the longest-running festival in Canada. This event features authentic, traditional, and contemporary music for the whole family to enjoy.
This legendary festival was founded by Dr. Louise Manny to give folk singers and storytellers an opportunity to share their stories about everyday life.
This year that tradition will be honoured by performers who will share their talents at the festival. From Natalie MacMaster, Donnell Leahy, and family to the Miramichi Fiddlers, there is truly something for everyone.
I want to congratulate festival director Susan Butler and all of those involved who work tirelessly to ensure the ongoing success of this important festival. I wish to invite all members to the beautiful riding of Miramichi—Grand Lake this August for the 60th Miramichi Folksong Festival. It is sure to be a highlight of Canada's 150th birthday.
World No Tobacco DayStatements By Members
2:15 p.m.
Michael McLeod Liberal Northwest Territories, NT
Mr. Speaker, today the World Health Organization marks World No Tobacco Day.
In Canada, tobacco is the leading cause of preventable death and disease, killing over 37,000 Canadians every year. Although the average smoking rate in Canada is 13%, our communities in the north experience rates of over 50%, and in some it is as high as 73%. This health inequity places an enormous burden on families, communities, and the economy.
With the renewal of Canada's federal tobacco control strategy, we must seize the opportunity to strengthen it to have a greater impact in preventing and reducing tobacco use. We need proven measures that will discourage our youth from starting to smoke, such as plain packaging regulations, a nationwide ban on menthol cigarettes, and support for northern communities in the development and implementation of tobacco control projects.
In recognition of World No Tobacco Day, I say, butt out, everyone.
Play Commemorating ConfederationStatements By Members
2:15 p.m.
Jacques Gourde Conservative Lévis—Lotbinière, QC
Mr. Speaker, I am very pleased today to pay tribute to Josée Nappert and to invite everyone in Lévis—Lotbinière to go and see her play Comme dans le temps.
Josée Nappert is the director of and driving force behind the Dans le temps theatre troupe, and has worked very hard to put on this wonderful play, which, I hope, will continue to find success beyond the celebrations of the 150th anniversary of Confederation.
Ms. Nappert accepted the challenge I gave her and I am truly grateful.
The musical comedy Comme dans le temps is a historical piece about a small town in the region, in 1867. The play depicts the life of two typical families in those days, one French and one Irish, and their relationships with neighbours and the village priest, whom I look forward to portraying in period costume. This summer, you will not want to miss this play.
ALS Awareness MonthStatements By Members
2:15 p.m.
Judy Sgro Liberal Humber River—Black Creek, ON
Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize June as ALS Awareness Month, as my previous colleague has mentioned.
Over 3,000 Canadians are currently living with ALS, and until recently, this included my dear friend and our colleague Mauril Bélanger. Many members in this chamber remember how he bravely struggled against this brutal and unforgivable disease that ultimately took his life too quickly.
In honour of Mauril, and the thousands of Canadian who fought or are still fighting this faceless demon, I introduced my own private member's motion that increases our commitment to a comprehensive strategy for ALS research funding and awareness. I thank the members in this chamber for their support. We have and we must continue making ALS a treatable and non-terminal disease.
Agnes MacPhail AwardStatements By Members
2:15 p.m.
Irene Mathyssen NDP London—Fanshawe, ON
Mr. Speaker, today I am recognizing Gina Barber, the 2017 recipient of the Agnes Macphail Award.
Since 1972, Gina has led the charge to advance the fight for social and economic justice in London. She has always been dedicated to improving the working conditions for women in education through her involvement in her union and women's advocacy groups and has worked on every municipal, federal, and provincial campaign since 1979, usually as campaign manager and sometimes as a candidate.
She is a devoted advocate for a country in which no one is left behind. Gina continues to be active in London politics, acting as a mentor for young women and an advocate for seniors, and she conducts a choir that has produced such festive political hits as Donald the Trump Man, to the tune of Frosty the Snowman.
Gina Barber is a dedicated citizen and a true New Democrat. It is my honour to recognize her tireless work and her devotion to her community.
RamadanStatements By Members
2:15 p.m.
Deepak Obhrai Conservative Calgary Forest Lawn, AB
Mr. Speaker, this is the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. From now until June 24, most of the world's 1.6 billion Muslims will be observing Ramadan and will fast every day from dawn until sunset.
For people of the Islamic faith, Ramadan is a time of deep spiritual awakening, prayer, increased charity, and generosity. The Canadian Muslim community represents the tremendous diversity that exists within Islam, incorporating Sunni, Shia, Ismaili, Ahmadi, and many others drawn from every corner of the globe. Canadian Muslims are making valuable contributions to every aspect of our society. Canada is a more vibrant, prosperous, and energetic country thanks to the contributions of Muslim Canadians.
On this 6th day of the Muslim holy month, on behalf of all my Conservative colleagues, I say to our Muslim friends, Ramadan Mubarak.
Attack in KabulStatements By Members
2:20 p.m.
Mark Holland Liberal Ajax, ON
Mr. Speaker, I am sure I join all members of this House in extending my thoughts and prayers to those impacted by the cowardly attack near the diplomatic quarter in Kabul last night. This heinous act, which claimed the lives of at least 80 people and injured hundreds of others, ripped our hearts. Our thoughts today are with the front-line workers and families of the victims. That this attack occurred during the holy month of Ramadan, a time of reflection, empathy, and compassion, shows the true depravity of this craven action. Targeting civilians and foreign service workers, people who today and every day show the utmost resolve and courage in their work, demonstrates a vile and most contemptible evil.
Canada, with our international partners, will never cease in our efforts to prevent violent extremism, bring perpetrators of such violence to justice, and support peace in Afghanistan. Our hearts go out to those impacted by this tragedy, and to them we extend our unyielding resolve.
InfrastructureOral Questions
2:20 p.m.
Regina—Qu'Appelle Saskatchewan
Andrew Scheer ConservativeLeader of the Opposition
Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister will not fight for pipelines that create good jobs for Canadians, but he sees nothing wrong with imposing a $35-billion infrastructure bank on Parliament to line the pockets of his Liberal pals.
Why is the Prime Minister so focused on helping his pals instead of working for all Canadians? When will he finally get his priorities straight?
InfrastructureOral Questions
2:20 p.m.
Edmonton Mill Woods Alberta
Amarjeet Sohi LiberalMinister of Infrastructure and Communities
Mr. Speaker, yesterday I met with two ministers from Premier Brad Wall's government willing to partner with us under the infrastructure bank to build the transmission infrastructure their province requires. They understand that by mobilizing private capital through the infrastructure bank, they can free up their own resources to build more affordable housing, to build more transit systems, to provide clean water for their communities, and to build more recreational and cultural infrastructure their communities need. That is exactly what we want to do.
InfrastructureOral Questions
2:20 p.m.
Regina—Qu'Appelle Saskatchewan
Andrew Scheer ConservativeLeader of the Opposition
Mr. Speaker, either the Prime Minister does not understand how his own bank works, or he is afraid to come clean with Canadian taxpayers. The Liberals' own documents show that the bank works on the assumption that taxpayers will cover losses for private investors.
I want to ask the Prime Minister a very simple question. If the builder or the investor cannot pay that loan back, as often happens, who gets stuck with the bill?
InfrastructureOral Questions
2:20 p.m.
Edmonton Mill Woods Alberta
Amarjeet Sohi LiberalMinister of Infrastructure and Communities
Mr. Speaker, I want to assure the hon. member and this House that the bank would only undertake projects that were in the public interest and would not invest in risky projects. Rigorous due diligence will be done by the bank, by the investors, by the municipalities, by the provinces, and by the federal government. Experts who will run this bank will make sure that taxpayer dollars are always protected and that the public interest is at the forefront of decision-making.
InfrastructureOral Questions
2:20 p.m.
Regina—Qu'Appelle Saskatchewan
Andrew Scheer ConservativeLeader of the Opposition
Mr. Speaker, if they are only going to pick projects that will never lose money, then why will those private investors not back them themselves?
The Liberal logic is actually quite simple. Liberals will hand-pick projects, and they will hand-pick the investors. They admit that the bank is all about de-risking projects for private investors. That means that investors get all the profit, and taxpayers get all the risk. Can the Prime Minister explain to hard-working Canadians why he is asking them to co-sign loans for the richest 1%?
InfrastructureOral Questions
2:20 p.m.
Edmonton Mill Woods Alberta
Amarjeet Sohi LiberalMinister of Infrastructure and Communities
Mr. Speaker, the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, OMERS, teachers, Caisse de dépôt, and the Alberta Investment Management Corporation all invest in foreign infrastructure, in international infrastructure. What is wrong if the same organizations work with our government to build the infrastructure our Canadian communities need? For a decade, the previous government underfunded infrastructure for our municipalities. Now we are catching up. We are making historic investments. We want to mobilize private capital to build more—
InfrastructureOral Questions
2:25 p.m.
The Speaker Liberal Geoff Regan
The hon. Leader of the Opposition.


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Hi everyone,
I ordered a two-tier bento box online a couple of days ago (it hasn't arrived yet), and I'd like to know if it's possible to use just one tier, and leave the other one at home?
This is the box: http://www.bentoshop.de/Bento-Boxen-fuer-Erwachsene/Bento-Box-Blossom::1...
Thank you!
- Katie
With that particular box if you use the bottom layer + lid it will not be anywhere near sealed - the bottom of the top layer is the lid for the bottom part that sort of seals it, although not waterproof-ly. If you use the top layer it will be sealed but not pretty, because the pretty lid will be very loose if you put it on, so you won't. Some other boxes are better for using only a single layer, like http://www.bentoshop.de/Bento-Boxen-fuer-Erwachsene/Bento-Box-Urara-oval... (you can use just the top layer, although you'd need a tighter band) or http://www.bentoshop.de/Bento-Boxen-fuer-Erwachsene/Bento-Box-Hanamonyou... (I think you could use either layer, although also with a tighter belt).
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Thank you, Bronwyn (love your name, by the way)! Then I guess I won't use that box for breakfast, but it's fine; I found a Tupperware one in our pantry that's just the right size. Concerning the other ones: I thought about getting the first one you'd linked, but it can't be put in the microwave or dishwasher, so I decided not to get that one. The other is a little too expensive for me. But thanks for linking those!
Oh, and you can actually use just one layer (or have one tier nest inside of the other one after finishing your lunch) with the other two boxes and the same belt, you just have to wrap it around differently (turned by 90 degrees... if you know what I mean).
I have that first cheap one, and I put it in the dishwasher all the time. Only at the top though, where the water has cooled down a bit by the time it reaches it. I'd think they'd be OK in most dishwashers so long as you used the eco cycle, which doesn't get as hot as the normal one.
Thanks for liking my name - apparently I was named after someone in "How Green is my Valley", a movie that came out not long before I was born (but also a book). I always disliked my name, because no one can spell it and when I was small a lot of kids couldn't pronounce it either. I've come to dislike it less as I've got older though.
K I bought a 2 tier nesting bento and I'm not sure how to fill it cuz it has locks that go underneath the biggest of the tier and they are not adjustable it came without instructions help?
K I bought a 2 tier nesting bento and I'm not sure how to fill it cuz it has locks that go underneath the biggest of the tier and they are not adjustable it came without instructions help?
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July 5, 2000
Wilmer Atha
Oak Hilll – Wilmer Atha, 89, of Oak Hill died July 3, 2000, in a Beckley hospital after a long illness.
He was a member of UMW and the Faith Assembly, Glen Fork.
Surviving: sons, Wilmer Dean Atha of Flat Top, Roy Atha of Rocky Gap, Va., Michael Atha of Fayette County, Bobby Ray Atha of Beckley; sisters, Maude Stover of Quinwood, Martha [surname not printed] of Fayette County; five grandchildren.
Service will be 1 p.m. Thursday at Blue Ridge Funeral Home, Propsperity, with Pastor Sammy Francis officiating.
Burial will be in Blue Ridge Memorial Gardens. Friends may call from 6 to 9 p.m. today at the funeral home.
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"Epigrammatiske digte XIV (Af få et velment råd jeg fik)" [Danish title] is number 1782 in the Hans Christian Andersen Center's register of Andersen's literary works, i.e. no. 282 in the category poems (the range 1501 - 2900). BFN 214.
"Epigrammatiske digte XIV (Af få et velment råd jeg fik)" [Danish title] was first published 26 January 1833, cf. the bibliographic description (in Danish) in : Digterens danske Værker 1822-1875, number in bibliography: 214:
2. (Fra Faa et velmeent Raad jeg fik).
The work was published as a part of Smaae-Digte [Danish title]. (Number 2908. BFN 213. Category/genre: Separate publication).
Show this work in its context: all new Andersen publications from 1833.
The work was published later (20 August 1833) as a part of Samlede Digte [Danish title]. (Number 1305. BFN 224. Category/genre: Collection of poems).
In modern Danish on p. 329 in Johan de Mylius (editor): H.C. Andersen. Samlede digte ('Collected poems', Copenhagen, 2000).


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Safe Food and Water
June 21, 2007
Why should I be careful about food and water?
Food and water can carry germs that cause illness. Germs in food or water may cause serious infections in people with HIV. You can protect yourself from many infections by preparing food and drinks properly.
What illnesses caused by germs in food and water do people with HIV commonly get?
Germs in food and water that can make someone with HIV ill include Salmonella, Campylobacter, Listeria and Cryptosporidium. They can cause diarrhea, upset stomach, vomiting, stomach cramps, fever, headache, muscle pain, bloodstream infection, meningitis, or encephalitis.
Do only people with HIV get these illnesses?
No, they can occur in anyone. However, these illnesses are much more common in people with HIV.
Are these illnesses the same in people with HIV as in other people?
No. The diarrhea and nausea are often much worse and more difficult to treat in people with HIV. These illnesses are also more likely to cause serious problems in people with HIV, such as bloodstream infections and meningitis. People with HIV also have a harder time recovering fully from these illnesses.
If I have HIV, can I eat meat, poultry, and fish?
Yes. Meat, poultry (such as chicken or turkey), and fish can make you sick only if they are raw, undercooked, or spoiled.
To avoid illness:
Can I eat eggs if I have HIV?
Can I eat raw fruits and vegetables?
Yes. Raw fruits and vegetables are safe to eat if you wash them carefully first. Wash, then peel fruit that you will eat raw. Eating raw alfalfa sprouts and tomatoes can cause illness, but washing them well can reduce your risk of illness.
How can I make my water safe?
Don't drink water straight from lakes, rivers, streams, or springs.
Because you cannot be sure if your tap water is safe, you may wish to avoid tap water, including water or ice from a refrigerator ice-maker, which is made with tap water. Always check with the local health department and water utility to see if they have issued any special notices for people with HIV about tap water.
You may also wish to boil or filter your water, or to drink bottled water. Processed carbonated (bubbly) drinks in cans or bottles should be safe, but drinks made at a fountain might not be because they are made with tap water. If you choose to boil or filter your water or to drink only bottled water, do this all the time, not just at home.
Boiling is the best way to kill germs in your water. Heat your water at a rolling boil for 1 minute. After the boiled water cools, put it in a clean bottle or pitcher with a lid and store it in the refrigerator. Use the water for drinking, cooking, or making ice. Water bottles and ice trays should be cleaned with soap and water before use. Don't touch the inside of them after cleaning. If you can, clean your water bottles and ice trays yourself.
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Read food labels carefully. Be sure that all dairy products that you purchase have been pasteurized. Do not buy any food that contains raw or undercooked meat or eggs if it is meant to be eaten raw. Be sure that the "sell by" date has not passed.
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After shopping, put all cold and frozen foods into your refrigerator or freezer as soon as you can. Do not leave food sitting in the car. Keeping cold or frozen food out of refrigeration for even a couple of hours can give germs a chance to grow.
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text: RussiaFeed News Politics Washington's economic threats to Russia and China will backfire BIGLY An economic lesson for China and Russia from Paul Craig Roberts. Published 1 year ago on September 14, 2017 By Paul Craig Roberts 0 Views Share Tweet (paulcraigroberts.com) – Is there anyone in Trump's government who is not an imbecile? After years of endless military threats against Russia—remember CIA deputy director Mike Morell saying on TV (Charlie Rose show) that the US should start killing Russians to give them a message, and Army Chief of Staff Mark Milley threatening "We'll beat you harder than you have ever been beaten before"—now the US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin threatens China. If China doesn't abide by Washington's new sanctions on North Korea, Mnuchin said the US "will put additional sanctions on them [China] and prevent them from accessing the US and international dollar system." https://www.rt.com/usa/403118-usa-china-sanctions-north-korea/ Here is the broke US government $20 trillion in public debt, having to print money with which to buy its own bonds, threatening the second largest economy in the world, an economy on purchasing power parity terms that is larger than the US economy. Take a moment to think about Mnuchin's threat to China. How many US firms are located in China? It is not only Apple and Nike. Would sanctions on China mean that the US firms could not sell their Chinese made products in the US or anywhere outside China? Do you think the global US corporations would stand for this? What if China responded by nationalizing all US factories and all Western owned banks in China and Hong Kong? Mnuchin is like the imbecile Nikki Haley. He doesn't know who he is threatening. Consider Mnuchin's threat to exclude China from the international dollar system. Nothing could do more harm to the US and more good to China. A huge amount of economic transactions would simply exit the dollar system, reducing its scope and importance. Most importantly, it would finally dawn on the Chinese and Russian governments that being a part of the dollar system is a massive liability with no benefits. Russia and China should years ago have created their own system. Being part of Washington's system simply lets Washington make threats and impose sanctions. The reason Russia and China are blind to this is that they foolishly sent students to the US to study economics. These students returned completely brainwashed with neoliberal economics, "junk economics" in Michael Hudson's term. This American economics makes Russian and Chinese economists de facto American stooges. They support policies that serve Washington instead of their own countries. If China and Russia want to be sovereign countries, they must pray that the imbecile Mnuchin does cut them off from the dollar system that exploits them. Then Russia and China will have to put in place their own system and learn real economics instead of propaganda posing as economics that serves Washington's interest. Liked it? Take a second to support The Duran on Patreon! 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Published 4 days ago on February 14, 2019 By Finian Cunningham Authored by Finian Cunningham via The Strategic Culture Foundation: It was billed politely as a Franco-German "compromise" when the EU balked at adopting a Gas Directive which would have undermined the Nord Stream 2 project with Russia. Nevertheless, diplomatic rhetoric aside, Berlin's blocking last week of a bid by French President Emmanuel Macron to impose tougher regulations on the Nord Stream 2 gas project was without doubt a firm rebuff to Paris. Macron wanted to give the EU administration in Brussels greater control over the new pipeline running from Russia to Germany. But in the end the so-called "compromise" was a rejection of Macron's proposal, reaffirming Germany in the lead role of implementing the Nord Stream 2 route, along with Russia. The $11-billion, 1,200 kilometer pipeline is due to become operational at the end of this year. Stretching from Russian mainland under the Baltic Sea, it will double the natural gas supply from Russia to Germany. The Berlin government and German industry view the project as a vital boost to the country's ever-robust economy. Gas supplies will also be distributed from Germany to other European states. Consumers stand to gain from lower prices for heating homes and businesses. Thus Macron's belated bizarre meddling was rebuffed by Berlin. A rebuff was given too to the stepped-up pressure from Washington for the Nord Stream 2 project to be cancelled. Last week, US ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell and two other American envoys wrote an op-ed for Deutsche Welle in which they accused Russia of trying to use "energy blackmail" over Europe's geopolitics. Why France's Macron, at the last minute, attempted to undermine the project by placing stiffer regulations is a curious question. Those extra regulations if they had been imposed would have potentially made the Russian gas supply more expensive. As it turns out, the project will now go-ahead without onerous restrictions. In short, Macron and the spoiling tactics of Washington, along with EU states hostile to Russia, Poland and the Baltic countries, have been put in their place by Germany and its assertion of national interests of securing economical and abundant gas supply from Russia. Other EU member states that backed Berlin over Nord Stream 2 were Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Greece and the Netherlands. Washington's claims that Nord Stream 2 would give Russia leverage of Europe's security have been echoed by Poland and the Baltic states. Poland, and non-EU Ukraine, stand to lose out billions of dollars-worth of transit fees. Such a move, however, is the prerogative of Germany and Russia to find a more economical mode of supply. Besides, what right has Ukraine to make demands on a bilateral matter that is none of its business? Kiev's previous bad faith over not paying gas bills to Russia disbars it from reasonable opinion. Another factor is the inherent Russophobia of Polish and Baltic politicians who view everything concerning Russia through a prism of paranoia. For the Americans, it is obviously a blatant case of seeking to sell their own much more expensive natural gas to Europe's giant energy market – in place of Russia's product. Based on objective market figures, Russia is the most competitive supplier to Europe. The Americans are therefore trying to snatch a strategic business through foul means of propaganda and political pressure. Ironically, the US German ambassador Richard Grenell and the other American envoys wrote in their recent oped: "Europe must retain control of its energy security." Last month, Grenell threatened German and European firms involved in the construction of Nord Stream 2 that they could face punitive American sanctions in the future. Evidently, it is the US side that is using "blackmail" to coerce others into submission, not Russia. Back to Macron. What was he up to in his belated spoiling tactics over Nord Stream 2 and in particular the attempted problems being leveled for Germany if the extra regulations had been imposed? It seems implausible that Macron was suddenly finding a concern for Poland and the Baltic states in their paranoia over alleged Russian invasion. Was Macron trying to garner favors from the Trump administration? His initial obsequious rapport with Trump has since faded from the early days of Macron's presidency in 2017. By doing Washington's bidding to undermine the Nord Stream 2 project was Macron trying to ingratiate himself again? The contradictions regarding Macron are replete. He is supposed to be a champion of "ecological causes". A major factor in Germany's desire for the Nord Stream 2 project is that the increased gas supply will reduce the European powerhouse's dependence on dirty fuels of coal, oil and nuclear power. By throwing up regulatory barriers, Macron is making it harder for Germany and Europe to move to cleaner sources of energy that the Russian natural gas represents. Also, if Macron had succeeded in imposing tougher regulations on the Nord Stream 2 project it would have inevitably increased the costs to consumers for gas bills. This is at a time when his government is being assailed by nationwide Yellow Vest protests over soaring living costs, in particular fuel-price hikes. A possible factor in Macron's sabotage bid in Germany's Nord Stream 2 plans was his chagrin over Berlin's rejection of his much-vaunted reform agenda for the Eurozone bloc within the EU. Despite Macron's very public amity with Chancellor Angela Merkel, Berlin has continually knocked back the French leader's ambitions for reform. It's hard to discern what are the real objectives of Macron's reforms. But they seem to constitute a "banker's charter". Many eminent German economists have lambasted his plans, which they say will give more taxpayer-funded bailouts to insolvent banks. They say Macron is trying to move the EU further away from the social-market economy than the bloc already has moved. What Macron, an ex-Rothschild banker, appears to be striving for is a replication of his pro-rich, anti-worker policies that he is imposing on France, and for these policies to be extended across the Eurozone. Berlin is not buying it, realizing such policies will further erode the social fabric. This could be the main reason why Macron tried to use the Nord Stream 2 project as leverage over Berlin. In the end, Macron and Washington – albeit working for different objectives – were defeated in their attempts to sabotage the emerging energy trade between Germany, Europe and Russia. Nord Stream 2, as with Russia's Turk Stream to the south of Europe, seems inevitable by sheer force of natural partnership. On this note, the Hungarian government's comments this week were apt. Budapest accused some European leaders and the US of "huge hypocrisy" in decrying association with Russia over energy trade. Macron has previously attended an economics forum in St Petersburg, and yet lately has sought to "blackmail" and disrupt Germany over its trade plans with Russia. As for the Americans, their arrant hypocrisy is beyond words. As well as trying to dictate to Europe about "market principles" and "energy security", it was reported this week that Washington is similarly demanding Iraq to end its import of natural gas from neighboring Iran. Iraq is crippled by electricity and power shortages because of the criminal war that the US waged on that country from 2003-2011 which destroyed much of the country's infrastructure. Iraq critically needs Iranian gas supplies to keep the lights and fans running. Yet, here we have the US now dictating to Iraq to end its lifeline import of Iranian fuel in order to comply with the Trump administration's sanctions against Tehran. Iraq is furious at the latest bullying interference by Washington in its sovereign affairs. The hypocrisy of Washington and elitist politicians like Emmanuel Macron has become too much to stomach. Maybe Germany and others are finally realizing who the charlatans are. Liked it? Take a second to support The Duran on Patreon! Continue Reading Latest Russia Readies Own Web To Survive Global Internet Shutdown Russia is simultaneously building a mass censorship system similar to that seen in China. Published 4 days ago on February 14, 2019 By Tyler Durden Via Zerohedge… Russian authorities and major telecom operators are preparing to disconnect the country from the world wide web as part of an exercise to prepare for future cyber attacks, Russian news agency RosBiznesKonsalting (RBK) reported last week. The purpose of the exercise is to develop a threat analysis and provide feedback to a proposed law introduced in the Russian Parliament last December. The draft law, called the Digital Economy National Program, requires Russian internet service providers (ISP) to guarantee the independence of the Russian Internet (Runet) in the event of a foreign attack to sever the country's internet from the world wide web. Telecom operators (MegaFon, VimpelCom (Beeline brand), MTS, Rostelecom and others) will have to introduce the "technical means" to re-route all Russian internet traffic to exchange points approved by the Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Media (Roskomnadzor), Russia's federal executive body responsible for censorship in media and telecommunications. Roskomnazor will observe all internet traffic and make sure data between Russian users stays within the country's borders, and is not re-routed abroad. The exercise is expected to occur before April 1, as Russian authorities have not given exact dates. The measures described in the law include Russia constructing its internet system, known as Domain Name System (DNS), so it can operate independently from the rest of the world. Across the world, 12 companies oversee the root servers for DNS and none are located in Russia. However, there are copies of Russia's core internet address book inside the country suggesting its internet could keep operating if the US cut it off. Ultimately, the Russian government will require all domestic traffic to pass through government-controlled routing points. These hubs will filter traffic so that data sent between Russians internet users work seamlessly, but any data to foreign computers would be rejected. Besides protecting its internet, Russia is simultaneously building a mass censorship system similar to that seen in China. "What Russia wants to do is to bring those router points that handle data entering or exiting the country within its borders and under its control- so that it can then pull up the drawbridge, as it were, to external traffic if it's under threat – or if it decides to censor what outside information people can access. China's firewall is probably the world's best known censorship tool and it has become a sophisticated operation. It also polices its router points, using filters and blocks on keywords and certain websites and redirecting web traffic so that computers cannot connect to sites the state does not wish Chinese citizens to see," said BBC. The Russian government started preparations for creating its internet several years ago. Russian officials expect 95% of all internet traffic locally by next year. As for Russia unplugging its internet from the rest of the world for an upcoming training exercise, well, this could potentially anger Washington because it is one less sanction that can keep Moscow contained. Liked it? Take a second to support The Duran on Patreon! Continue Reading Latest Canada's Role in Britain's Arctic Great Game Challenged by Russia and China A series of reports published across the Canadian press on February 10th have signaled that Canada must respond to Russia's aggressive posture post haste. Published 5 days ago on February 13, 2019 By Matthew Ehret Since Russia's Arctic economic and military activities have grown exponentially over the past few years, western press, especially in Canada which has long shared disputed Arctic Territory with Russia, have periodically sounded warning alarms to provoke fear that the Great bear is awakening with ambitions that threaten Canada and the Free world (which are often spun as synonymous concepts). While Russia is promoted as the "aggressor" wishing to undermine security in the Arctic, NATO and Europe, a close inspection of the NATO-led encirclement of Russia proves the opposite to be the case. A series of reports published across the Canadian press on February 10th have signalled that Canada must respond to Russia's aggressive posture post haste. Military think tanks have sprung up in this echo chamber in a unified call for a new Arctic strategy to counteract this "dangerous force". Many who look upon the global strategic situation may be quick to dismiss Canada's importance in the ongoing Great Game being played by the Trans National Deep State which seeks to prevent all cooperation between Donald Trump's America and the Eurasian Alliance led by Russia and China. Canada's military is negligible some say, and it is merely a "middle power". What damage could Canada possibly do? It is to the person asking this question that this report was written. The British Great Game Past and Present The first factor which such a person must recognize is the nature of the British Empire as an efficient power structure dominating the world even today. The recognition for this structure embedded through the institutions of western governments has arisen since Donald Trump's 2016 election and has been given the term "Deep State". Under this imperial system, Canada is the second largest territory in the world with one of the lowest population densities. The British Empire has kept a tight grip on Canada over the years due to its strategic location positioned as it is between two great nations (Russia and America) who have been inclined to unite their interests in opposition to the British Empire on several focal points in history. Find that hard to believe? Well consider that it was the 1776 League of Armed Neutrality organized by the Russia of Catherine the Great which tipped the balance in favor of the Americans during the revolution against Great Britain, and it was Czar Alexander II's deployment of the Russian Navy to American coasts in 1863 which saved Lincoln's union from disintegration at the hands of British-steered operations of the southern confederacy. Churchill was furious that Stalin's partnership with Franklin Roosevelt favored a US-Russian alliance for post-war reconstruction. Russia and America together were instrumental in putting down the Wall Street-London funded Frankenstein monster during World War II and it was Stalin who bemoaned FDR's death by saying "the great dream is dead" as Truman ushered in the new Anglo-American Special Relationship. The Post-WWII Order and the Rhodes Trust Origins of NATO In the Post-WWII order, this important tendency for US-Russian partnership was directly targeted by forces loyal to the British Empire's grand strategy for global Anglo-Saxon Dominance exemplified by Sir Winston Churchill's unveiling of the Cold War during his March 5, 1946 "Iron Curtain" speech in Fulton Missouri and the follow-up creation of NATO in 1949 as a military bloc which would operate independently of the UN Security Council. An under-appreciated role in the formation of NATO and international dis-order more generally during these Cold War years is the British Deep State of Canada and due to the neglect of this fact, a few words should be said about this problem here and now. While official narratives have tried to spin NATO's origins as the effect of an agreement amongst all western powers, the fact is that British intelligence operations are the true source, with British-trained Rhodes Scholar Escott Reid laying out the thesis for a supranational military body outside of the influence of the UN Security Council as early as August 1947. It was another two years before the design would materialize as an anti-Soviet military coalition based on the binding agreement that if one member enters a conflict, then all members must so enter. At a Round Table-directed Conference on August 13, 1947, Reid, an ardent globalist and co-founder of the Canadian branch of the London Fabian Society "recommended that the countries of the North Atlantic band together, under the leadership of the United States, to form 'a new regional security organization' to deter Soviet expansion." He went on to state "In such an organization each member state could accept a binding obligation to pool the whole of its economic and military resources with those of the other members if any power should be found to have committed aggression against any one of the members." The name of the British Imperial game has always been "balance of power". Manipulate society as a single closed system by monopolizing resources, and then manage the diminishing rates of return by creating conflict between potential allies. This process can be seen clearly today behind the conflicts manipulated in the South China Sea between China and Philippines, the Diaoyu-Senkaku Islands between China and Japan, wars for oil in the Middle East and the new tension being created in the Arctic. The opposing, typically "American System of Political Economy" has always disobeyed this game of "balancing a fixed system" by introducing creative change. The American System has traditionally located its point of emphasis primarily upon creating new resources, through inventions and discoveries, rather than simply looting, consuming, and distributing what already exists. This system formulated by Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, John Quincy Adams, Abraham Lincoln and Franklin Roosevelt proved that more energy could always be produced than was consumed IF discoveries and inventions were cultivated in a creatively developing society, shaped by concrete national intentions and bold visionary goals to increase the powers of production of society. The American System is thus in conformity with the universal principle of anti-entropy, while the British System is based on the fraudulent notion of universal entropy. Since the British system implies that the world resources are limited, then the stronger will necessarily have to loot the weaker. Throughout the Cold War, Canada's role as a "middle power" was defined most succinctly by Fabian Society asset Pierre Elliot Trudeau, who, when asked what his foreign policy was, explained simply: "to create counterweights". That is, when the "geopolitical center of gravity" moves towards "capitalist America", then Canada must move towards befriending "socialist" Russia and its allies. When the center of gravity moves towards a Russian edge within the Great Game, then do the opposite. Although the Cold War "officially" ended in 1989, the imperial Great Game never did, and Canada's role as a British chess piece continues unabated to the present. The future battleground which Canada is being prepared to set up is to be found in the Arctic. The Strategy of the Arctic in History The struggle for Arctic dominance is currently being defined by the rules of British geopolitics. The above map features the layout of the arctic with dotted lines defining areas still not under the control of any particular nation. Today, the northern Arctic is among the last unexplored and undeveloped frontiers on the earth. With an area over 14 million square kilometers, this area is rich in a variety of mineral and gas deposits containing approximately 90 billion barrels of oil and 1670 trillion cubic feet of natural gas. This abundance is complicated by the fact that its borders are highly undefined, overlapping eight major nations with Canada and Russia as the dominant claimants. In recent history, American System methods were attempted in the opening up of the Arctic for mutual development and cooperation beginning with the sale of Alaska to America in 1867 by the "American system Czar" Alexander II to the allies of Abraham Lincoln. These same forces orchestrated the construction of the Trans-Siberian railway and heavily promoted the Bering Strait Rail tunnel connecting the two great continents which arose by the turn of the century [3]. Early designs for the Russian-American rail connection were published in 1893 by Governor William Gilpin of Colorado which gained renewed support by the soon-to-be-deposed Czar Nicholas II in 1905. Russia again revived this project in 2011. Throughout the 20th Century, Russia has developed a far greater aptitude at creating corridors of permanent habitation in the Arctic relative to their North American counterparts. Due to the Cold War dynamic of tension initiated by the British Empire after Franklin Roosevelt's death in April 1945, much that could have been accomplished, had resources not been so badly drained by Cold War militarization, was not. The beacon of light during this Cold Dark process was to be found in Canada's 13th Prime Minister John Diefenbaker, whose Northern Vision, unveiled in 1958, hinged upon his $78 million allocation for funds to construct a permanent domed nuclear powered city in Frobisher Bay (now named Iqaluit, the capital of Nunavut), as a test case for a greater nation building program in the Arctic. When Diefenbaker was run out of office in 1963 through a British-steered operation, his vision was scrapped, and a new Arctic doctrine was artificially imposed upon Canada. This new imperial Arctic doctrine was modeled around the two (anti-nation building) measures of "conservation" of fixed ecosystems and indigenous cultures on the one side, and rapacious mineral exploitation for the increasingly deregulated "global markets" on the other. Canadian examples of this operation can be seen in the Munk School of Global Affairs, the World Wildlife Fund of Canada (whose 2nd president was the CEO of Royal Dutch Shell), and their powerful affiliate, the Walter and Duncan Gordon Foundation, presided over by Pierre Trudeau's former Principal Secretary Thomas Axworthy. Barack Gold Founder and CEO Peter Munk was one of hundreds of oil barons who acted as founding members of the 1001 Club which was created by Prince Bernhardt of the Netherlands and Prince Philip of England in order to fund the WWF in its early years. Other Canadian Deep State founding members of the 1001 Club included WWF Vice Presidents Maurice Strong and Louis Mortimer Bloomfield. Axworthy is a major player in the Canada 2020 machine associated with the current Liberal Party of Justin Trudeau. The overlap of major banking institutions like the Royal Bank of Canada and Scotiabank with the mineral cartels, holding companies and environmental organizations in this structure produces a very real picture that the left and the right are merely two sides of the same imperial beast. The role of the above interests in creating the Arctic Council in 1996 (and the later Circumpolar Business Forum) was designed to trap nations into an intellectual cage of resource exploitation under free market doctrines of zero national planning on the one side, with eco-systems management and zero national planning on the other. Now that the post-1971 world financial order is on the verge of collapse, these technocrats believe that a new replacement system will allow for national planning, but only on condition that it be directed by Malthusian technocrats and aimed at the goal of lowering the population potential of the planet [5]. This agenda has come to be known as the "Green New Deal". To re-emphasize: When observed from a top down perspective, both the "left" eco-green movement and the "right" monetarist institutions are one single thing. It is only by foolishly looking at this process from the "bottom up" that apparent differences are perceived. This is just an illusion for the credulous victims of an imperial education system who have been taught to believe their sense perceptions more than their powers of reason. The reality is that this is nothing more than British Malthusian geopolitics. Breaking Out of the Great Game The fact is that while the Atlantic economies have currently submitted to the City of London- Wall Street and Troika demands for policies of depopulation, austerity through bail-outs and now bail-ins, Russia and China are committed to true development. Both countries are intent on creating a unified block of win-win cooperation based upon the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), Eurasian Economic Union and BRICS and that intention is based on anti-Malthusian scientific and technological progress. The Belt and Road Initiative which now involves over 66 countries exemplifies this spirit. The financial system of the trans-Atlantic is collapsing and Putin knows it. Other Eurasian leaders know this. These leaders know that this is why a military bombardment of Syria had to be stopped and this is why Putin risked so much to expose the fraudulent claims that Syria had used chemical weapons and, along with China, vetoed the war hawks in the U.N. Security Council. The current Eurasian economic block led by Russia and China expresses a unique commitment to scientific and technological progress, and if western societies should wish to have any claim to being morally fit to survive, then this is an optimistic power that we must re-awaken in ourselves fast. For it is only by acting on principles of scientific discovery and progress that a proper perspective can be discovered to overcome the current obstacles to our survival. That is, the discovery of what the future can and must become IF a creative change is introduced into the system. The only pathway to avoiding the collapse of the financial system and a thermonuclear war with Russia and China is to be found in imposing Natural Law vigorously upon the claimed "debts" which Wall Street, and the City of London wishes to have bailed out. The expression of this Natural Law takes the form of the restoration of Glass-Steagall laws across the trans-Atlantic economies, eliminating the $700 trillion debt bomb before it explodes and returning to the principles of national banking for all countries. Under such a reform and by joining in common interest with other nations in the Eurasian zone, a commitment to progress and security can be realized, and such poisonous cocktails as the TPP, CETA and NAFTA can be dumped forever. Escaping the British two-sided trap of monetarism and ecologism means increasing the energy-flux density of society by going to fusion energy, space exploration, and mining the moon for Helium-3 as China is already preparing to do. The applications of a forward-looking space age society using fusion power, involves not only rendering imperial wars for oil and water obsolete (as energy and water will be made both incommensurably cheap and abundant relative to the fossil fuel based system now defining society's limits), but gives mankind the tools to green deserts, build great projects, create a system of Asteroid Defense and construct the long-overdue Bering Strait Tunnel, a key link in the World Land Bridge. These are the sorts of long term projects which not only remind us of our common self interests, but as JFK described the space program in 1962, create goals which "will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills". This is the future that we can still unleash at this most opportune time of world crisis. BIO: Matthew J.L. Ehret is a journalist, lecturer and founder of the Canadian Patriot Review. His works have been published in Executive Intelligence Review, Global Research, Global Times, The Duran, Nexus Magazine, Los Angeles Review of Books, Veterans Today and Sott.net. Matthew has also published the book "The Time has Come for Canada to Join the New Silk Road" and three volumes of the Untold History of Canada (available on untoldhistory.canadianpatriot.org). He can be reached at [email protected] Liked it? Take a second to support The Duran on Patreon! Continue Reading JOIN OUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL Your donations make all the difference. Together we can expose fake news lies and deliver truth. Amount to donate in USD$: 5 100 Validating payment information... Waiting for PayPal...Validating payment information...Waiting for PayPal... 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Hot 'Splash!' Contestant's Leopard-Print Speedo Bulge Steals The Show
In our second story about men distracting others in their Speedos on this fine Hump Day, Splash! contestant Dan Osborne fills his leopard-print trunks out so nicely that they prove a bit distracting for the reality competition show's host and Tom Daley. Who can blame them?
As a bonus, the ever-intrepid Boy Culture points us to this extra credit picture of Osborne distracting the entire Internet in his underwear:
Happy Humpday!
so much sexy men in underwear these days even the Saudi Arab singer Tomy Omran
showed himself in a very hot sexy underwear with his huge package
but i adore who trust his beauty
Oh my word. Where did he come from and why is there so much sexiness coming from one man!?
Tom was very obviously looking at that first time and he almost couldn't look away. It was as tho there was a tracker beam on his bulge. Then he was forcing himself not to. If you look at his eyes (and covering his bulge as well) he would almost look down but would stop. Too funny


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