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Tonight's Arena Mexico show is headlined by Diamante Azul vs Tama Tonga (Azul wants to prove himself a star) and Polvora vs Mascara Dorada for Dorada's CMLL Welterweight Championship. Dorada is the easy favorite in his match, but Tonga vs Azul is more up in the air. Usually (but not always), the NJPW guys have lost in their big Arena Mexico singles matches, but Tonga has a big title match on Tuesday vs Azul & Atlantis for the tag team title mach. If CMLL's different weekly shows work in unity, Tonga should win tonight to build up Tuesday, but CMLL's weekly shows have operated without paying attention to each other in the past. The match itself is an interesting inversion of usual CMLL tecnico vs rudo ones – here, the high flyer is the rudo and the strong guy is the tecnico. Diamante Azul just went thru that match with Volador Jr., but I suspect there won't be as much Mije involvement tonight.
Electrico, who's been out of action since August after a bad leg injury, says he will not be able to return this year. The prognosis was a four month recovery, so he wouldn't have enough time and it seems like it's going slower than expected. The injury had a domino effect; he missed out of "being part of the 20 year celebration for the pequeno estrellas" (maybe being in an apuesta?), was supposed to challenge Demus for his title (which Astral won instead), had been offered a trip to Japan by Ultimo Dragon, can't participate in the bodybuilding contest, and lost an opportunity to teach engineering at a college. Electrico says he's not complain, and has learned to appreciate what he does have in life.
MedioTiempo mentions a promotion named WASP is planning to debut on 11/23 in Queretaro, promising ex-WWE, ex-ECW, US Indy and AAA wrestlers. It's 12 days out and they haven't announced any names. It's the same arena that's hosting the Rey Cometa headlined show the weekend after, and that show is a free show. This is probably not going to end well.
LuchaWorld has KrisZ's news update.
Rob has highlights from mid March 2000 AAA.
Lucha Libre in Japan
11/11 REINA X WORLD: Amapola defeated Mia Yim (taking falls 1/3) to keep the REINA International Championship. Match was said to be good. Crowd appeared to be minimal.
NJPW announced the teams for it's World Tag League, a 14 team heavyweight tag team tournament. CMLL will be represented by the team of Rush & Diamante Azul (as "CMLL ASESINOS"). They should enjoy teaming with each other, not sure how their opponents will feel. The other teams in the group are Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Satoshi Kojima (previous champs, though they may be going in different directions soon), Strong Man & Manabu Nakanishi (Nakanishi is recently returned from neck surgery, Strong Man is Strong Man), MVP & Shelton Benjamin (MVP was meant to be regular semi-important guy but has been sparingly used the last six months, and his contract runs out after the Tokyo Dome), Toru Yano & Takashi Iizuka (rudo b-team), Masato Tanaka & Yujiro Takahashi (also rudo b-team), Lance Archer & Davey Boy Smith Jr. (current tag champs.) It's not impossible to for Rush & Azul to do well, because there are a lot of average teams here, but history tells us lucha teams finish mid table. We can figure Rush is probably back in Japan for FantasticaMania and they'll need a few matches for that show, so stealing a win over the tag champs to set up a rematch might be possible.
The tournament runs from 11/20 to 12/02. Rush & Diamante Azul would probably be back in Mexico in time for the usual year end show, but probably not involved in any major match.
JUNIORS (SUN) 12/02/2012 Auditorio Miguel Barragan de San Luis Potosi [El Sol de San Luis]
1) Lady Dinamita & Rossy Moreno vs Esther Moreno & La Sádica
2) Lobito & Octagoncito (original) vs Mini Conde Bartock & Mini Maniaco
3) ? vs ?? [cage]
particpants (including number) to be announced
4) Decnnis, Extreme Tiger, Oriental vs Black Terry, Pirata Morgan, Scorpio Jr.
5) El Hijo Del Santo & Villano III vs Angel Blanco Jr. & El Hijo del Solitario
FWIW, this is a SLP Juniors promotion different from the Gallo Tapado Jr. one. It's essentially the dormant TxT guys plus whoever is in the cage match (to be announced this week, but I'd guess locals.)
The big news is Extreme Tiger showing up on a lineup here, which is about as much confirmation we're going to get. (AAA still has said nothing, probably will say nothing, social media is pointless if you can't say anything worthwhile on it.) In the long run, I don't think Tiger leaving hurts AAA much – historically, they've shown the ability to replace high flying guys who leave with newer unknown ones, and Tiger was in the group of guys who rarely had feuds but was often thrown into a random match on a big show. (The TripleMania team with Halloween was the best example of this.) I wouldn't be surprised if CMLL gave Tiger a shot, and he'll probably work Tijuana a lot. It seems unlikely he'll be better off outside of AAA then he was in it, and that seems like an indication of how frustrated he must've been to make this move.


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Knowing that, Western Energy Alliance launched a comprehensive public opinion research study to better understand what Americans voters think about our industry, the products we produce and how we produce them. Our objectives were rather straight forward as we hired a polling firm to survey 1,000 voters to find out what they know about energy development and regulations currently in place to protect their health and safety. With the accusations lobbed at our industry nearly every day, the positive support we found surprised even us.
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From the Chilean seaside town of La Serena, it's a journey of 80 kilometers to the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO), through the Elqui River Valley, past huddled clusters of houses and lush fields of papayas, watermelons, and grapes, gradually dissolving into a sere alpine scrubland of cacti, stunted trees, and sun-warmed dust.
"Tololo" means "edge of the abyss" in the language of the Aymara tribe, indigenous to the region. The name presumably refers to the wide valley the peak overlooks from an altitude of more than 2 kilometers, but it could equally apply to the area's pristine night skies. Unspoiled by artificial light, the darkness overhead is a vast, enveloping void. On a moonless night, a careless glance upward can halt conversations mid-sentence as observers become lost in the radiant belt of the Milky Way, their shadows cast upon the ground by countless stars shining white, red, blue, and yellow.
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I'd come to meet Debra Fischer, a professor at San Francisco State University. As a co-discoverer of more than 150 planets, nearly half the known total outside our solar system, she is a prominent figure in astronomy. Her work on this lonely mountaintop could propel her past that, though, into realms of myth and legend. Fischer is using a modest, neglected telescope at CTIO to search for Earth-like planets in Alpha Centauri, the nearest star system to our own. If they exist, she should find them in three to five years.
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We spread out along the slope as we talked, scrambling between handholds and precariously balanced rubble. Fischer's foot dislodged a fist-sized breccia that fell clattering past me, and suddenly the ground beneath our feet shuddered to life, casting off growing cascades of rocks. A boulder as big as an oven tumbled with a low rumble of shifting stone down toward the distant valley floor until lost from view. We turned back.
As we retraced our steps up toward the observatory, I pressed Fischer on the feasibility of her scheme. She hesitated. "You know, this is a unique opportunity. I don't really take risks. I only do things when I think I've got a reasonable chance of success. It's like God is screaming at us to look at this system; Alpha Centauri is calling to us."
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The software company for my genealogy software (Reunion) produces a daily Q & A e-mail where one can pose a question and receive from other members an answer. Sometimes the answer must – and does – come from the company itself. All questions/answers are categorized and may be queried at any time in a database available to all.
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Post subject: Recipe File: Biscuits (Southern Buttermilk Biscuits)
I like my biscuits complex in flavor, fluffy in texture, and to separate into layers. That's what I set out to accomplish when I put together this recipe and I think I've done a pretty good job on each of those points.
The key to these biscuits is the use of lard. I use leaf lard rendered from the kidney fat of pasture raised Berkshire pigs. The lard is unhydrogenated and has no additives and features a clean, almost sweet, taste. Frying with this lard and making pastries with it adds a delicate, pleasant flavor that the supermarket lard (in my area the only brands available are Armour and Farmer John which are both partially hydrogenated and taste very "porky") just cannot match. If high quality lard isn't available in your area, I recommend substituting the lard in this recipe with butter. The biscuits will be a little chewier, but the butter flavor will be more pronounced (but will lack the subtle flavors that lard contributes). I'm not a fan of using vegetable shortening even though the texture will be better than using all-butter, because it contributes no flavor.
The ingredients are simple: 2 cups (280 g) all-purpose flour, 1 cup (235 mL) buttermilk, 2 ounces (55 g) leaf lard, 2 tablespoons (28 g) unsalted butter, 1/2 teaspoon (3 g) table salt, 4 teaspoons (18 g) baking powder, and 1/2 teaspoon (2.3 g) baking soda.
If you don't have any buttermilk, you can just substitute 1 cup (235 mL) milk for it. Or 1 tablespoon (15 mL) lemon juice with enough milk to make one cup (235 mL) which has been allowed to sit for ten minutes. 1/2 cup (120 mL) plain yogurt and 1/2 cup milk also works well as does 1/2 cup yogurt. When I don't have buttermilk, I just use milk but if any of these other ingredients are available, they're just as good (some prefer yogurt over buttermilk - but if I did that, I'd have to change the name of the recipe).
In a mixing bowl, mix the flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt together until well combined.
Add the butter and lard to the flour and cut it in until only pea-sized or smaller clumps are visible.
I accomplish this by tossing the flour around the fats until they are fully coated. Then I start to cut and press them using a spoon or knife. While cutting, I stir to keep the pieces coated with flour.
Here's what it looks like when the fats have been cut to the proper size.
Pour the milk into the flour mixture.
Stir with a spoon just until all the flour is wet and it starts to clump together.
Prepare a surface for rolling out the dough. I prefer a silicone baking mat that has been dusted with flour. This is also a good time to preheat the oven to 450°F (230°C).
Roll the dough from the mixing bowl onto the floured surface.
Dust your hands with flour and sprinkle flour on the exposed surface of the dough (which will be quite tacky at this point). Covering the hands with flour and dusting the dough will make it easier to work with. Don't be afraid to continue adding flour to the surface of the dough if it gets tacky to the touch.
Without overworking the dough, form/roll it into a ball. Roll it over and flour the bottom if it is tacky.
Use a rolling pin to roll out the dough into a large rectangular shape. Lightly dust the surface with flour.
Fold the dough in thirds over itself and lightly dust. (This is like folding a letter twice to fit into a letter sized envelope; some people refer to this as a business envelope fold.)
Fold the dough in thirds in the other direction (perpendicular to the direction of the previous folds).
Press and shape the dough into a rectangle about 1 inch (25 mm) think.
Using biscuit cutters, cut rounds out of the dough. Make sure each round has a circumference that is cut dough (that is, we want to make sure the cutter actually presses through the dough on all sides; an uncut edge won't rise as well as a cut edge, so we want to make sure the whole circlue is cut). Pressing straight down with the biscuit cutter helps make clean cuts which allow for even rising. If you twist/rotate the cutter while pressing down, that can cause the edge of the biscuit dough to "pinch" on itself which inhibits rising on the edges (and thus less overall rise). If you don't have biscuit cutters, cut the dough into squares with a sharp knife after trimming the edges off (the edges won't rise easily).
As you cut biscuits, place them directly on a baking sheet pan. Place them close together, either just touching or about to touch. If they touch, it will help them rise but you'll need to pull them apart after they've been baked.
Scraps left over from the cuts can be pressed together and rerolled to make more biscuits, but these biscuits will be denser than the first group.
Continue to line you baking pan until you've used all the dough. With my large biscuit cutters and this recipe, I make eight biscuits.
Bake at 450°F (230°C) until risen and golden brown - about 15 minutes.
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Remove the biscuits from the baking pan and place on a wire rack to cool. This prevents the bottoms from getting soggy as they cool. (In a pan, moisture from the steam begins to condense. On wire rack, the moisture from the steam can freely escape from the bottom of the biscuit into the air.)
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Southern Buttermilk Biscuits
(makes approximately 8 large biscuits)
Preheat oven to 450°F (230°C)
2 cups (280 g) all-purpose flour
cut in until pea sized
dust with flour and roll into ball
roll into large rectangle, dust, and envelope fold
envelope fold other direction
press into 1-in thick block
cut and arrange on baking sheet pan
bake 450°F (230°C) 15 min.
cool on wire rack
4 tsp (18 g) baking powder
1/2 tsp (2.3 g) baking soda
1/2 tsp (3 g) table salt
2 Tbs (28 g) unsalted butter
2 oz (55 g) leaf lard
1 cup (235 mL) buttermilk
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Michael Chu
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Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2011 5:54 am
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Additional Recipe Notes
The recipe is called "Southern Buttermilk Biscuits" to differentiate them from the hard cookies also called biscuits or certain types of crackers of the same name.
I struggled with the volumetric measurement of flour for this recipe (as I do with all my baking recipes). The correct amount of flour to use is 280 g, but what volume do I provide for readers without a scale and rely on measuring cups? In my experience, a bag of flour that has been sitting in the pantry can range in density from 150 g per cup to 185 g per cup (it can be more if you lightly tap the flour bag against the counter over and over to compress the flour). Freshly sifted flour can weigh 125 g per cup or less (125 g is the official USDA mass for 1 cup of all-purpose flour). In theory, one should use the 125 g per cup measurement because that's the only non-variable when it comes to flour. If you sift the flour well (let's say three times), then scoop your dry measuring cup into the flour and level it, it will be very close to 125 g. However, it's not reasonable to assume that the home cook will freshly sift their flour every time a recipe calls for flour. What do people do? They grab their bag of flour, scoop the measuring cup in, and level it. More often than not, when I do that, it comes in at around 160 g per cup. So, on several recipes I use that measurement. Initially, when I wrote this recipe, I based it on the 160g per cup measurement (so I had 1-3/4 cup flour), but while researching baking recipes I keep finding authors using 5 oz per cup as the conversion: 140 g per cup of flour. I found that I could get 140 g in a cup if I first used the measuring spoon to loosen up the flour (scoop, drop, scoop, drop, stir) and then scoop, level, and measure. Sifting results in too little flour per cup, not doing anything results in too much flour per cup, but playing with the flour first seems just right. So, this recipe uses the 140 g per cup conversion factor.
If you're in the Austin area and looking for an excellent source for leaf lard made from local pastured pork, try
Dai Due
. Jesse Griffiths renders the pork fat from
Richardson Farms hogs
Sometimes calling local pastry shops or butchers can reveal sources to local leaf lard sellers or renderers.
I'm also moving the
old biscuits recipe
from the Recipe File to Test Recipes.
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Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2011 2:02 pm
Post subject: Substituting Butter for Lard
If we don't have lard and want to substitute butter, do you suggest using the same weight of butter as the lard?
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Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2011 10:10 pm
Post subject: Re: Substituting Butter for Lard
Anonymous wrote:
If we don't have lard and want to substitute butter, do you suggest using the same weight of butter as the lard?
Yes, just use 6 tablespoons (3 ounces) of butter instead of the lard and butter combination.
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Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2011 10:12 pm
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A friend from the San Francisco Bay Area wrote to me asking if I knew of a source for good lard in the Bay Area. Here's what I wrote in response:
Boccalone (Chris Cosentino's salumeria) in the Ferry Building stocks rendered pig fat regularly at $10 for one pound. I just called and it isn't pure leaf lard; the lard is rendered from the fat of all different parts of the hog, but it might be good enough. Just don't use the supermarket stuff - it's nasty tasting and probably contains trans fats.
They did tell me that Prather Ranch (the meat guys also in the Ferry Building) occasionally stocks pure leaf lard, but it's probably something you'll need to call ahead and ask about since it's only once in a while that they have it.
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Jim Cooley
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Posted: Thu Jan 13, 2011 1:58 am
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Seems to me I once got good lard from that butcher at the end of Church Street, end of the "J" line.
That was five or six years ago, so I don't know if he's still in business.
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Posted: Thu Jan 13, 2011 3:54 am
Post subject: Weight of 1 cup of flour
I always use 135g AP flour per cup as my starting point for converting recipes when I do not know the method used by the recipe writer to scoop the flour. In general I'd rather have a little less flour in a recipe than too much. Especially when a recipe calls for multiple cups of flour and your conversion factor has more impact.
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Posted: Thu Jan 13, 2011 6:40 am
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What is the diameter of the biscuit cutter? What are the approximate length and width of the first rolled layer?
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Michael Chu
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Posted: Thu Jan 13, 2011 8:52 am
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Howard wrote:
What is the diameter of the biscuit cutter? What are the approximate length and width of the first rolled layer?
My large biscuit cutter is 3-in (75 mm) in diameter. The first rolled layer (the thin one that I roll out completely before the two business envelope folds) is about 11-in x 16-in (280 mm x 405 mm).
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I guess the folding is what gives you the flaky look where they split as they rise?
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Posted: Tue Jan 18, 2011 7:02 am
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Anonymous wrote:
I guess the folding is what gives you the flaky look where they split as they rise?
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Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2011 8:41 am
Post subject: Leaf lard
I have been buying rendered lard (leaf lard, the best) from Dietrichs Meats & Country Store,
. Last purchase was $41.50 including shipping for 10 lbs lard. It's wonderful and last (me at least) a long time.
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Posted: Sat Jan 22, 2011 2:38 am
Post subject: biscuits
As a "older southern lady" it interested me to read your recipe and how you went about it. There is an instrument for Cutting in.. called a pastry blender i believe. Probably as hard to locate as lard in some areas
Also if one does not have a pastry blender, holding 2 butter knives side by side will work better & faster than a spoon. and... I would cut in whatever shortening that I was using, a bit finer.
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Posted: Sat Jan 22, 2011 2:18 pm
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guest wrote:
As a "older southern lady" it interested me to read your recipe and how you went about it. There is an instrument for Cutting in.. called a pastry blender i believe. Probably as hard to locate as lard in some areas
Also if one does not have a pastry blender, holding 2 butter knives side by side will work better & faster than a spoon. and... I would cut in whatever shortening that I was using, a bit finer.
Is the pastry blender the tool that looks like a handle with four or five half circle wires or metal strips looping out of it? It might be mine, but I find that I'm faster with a spoon than my pastry cutter. I also find the two knives technique a bit awkward, but I also haven't had much practice with it.
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This isn't typically a 'post a recipe' type of blog, but I tonight I made some adaptations to something I found on Pinterest and it was delicious and a bunch of people wanted the recipe, so… voila! (and because I'm not typically a food blogger, I didn't think about taking a picture until way too late, so, sorry, maybe next time I make it?)
The recipe, for cauliflower and quinoa "mac and cheese," is an adaptation primarily of the cheesy quinoa mac and cheese from Around the Table, as well as the fauxtatoes (mashed cauliflower and quinoa) that we typically make as a mashed potato substitute. We tried the Around the Table quinoa mac a few weeks ago and didn't love it. The recipe itself was fine, good enough to make again even, but we were expecting something creamier from a recipe calling itself mac and cheese.
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- 1 tablespoon minced garlic
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- Preheat oven to 350 F.
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- Mix milk, yogurt, and eggs together in a small bowl, fold into quinoa/cauliflower mixture.
- Add about 3/4 of the cheese into cauliflower and quinoa mix, stir so that some of the cheese melts, then transfer the mix into the greased 9×13
- Top with Panko and the remaining cheese, bake long enough to brown the cheese and Panko (for me, 25 minutes, then another 10 at 400)
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Ortega's mistrust of the media has its roots in the first Sandinista government, which he led from 1979 to 1990. "Ortega is living a revolution déjà vu: Thirty years after the FSLN victory the enemy is still the same," wrote Eduardo Marenco in an April report for the Media Observatory at the Center for Media Investigations (CINCO), a nonprofit group that promotes media research, democracy, and investigative journalism.
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Prensa, a harsh critic of the dictator Anastasio Somoza. The 1978
assassination of the daily's editor, Pedro Joaquín Chamorro, inspired the widespread
public outrage that helped topple the Somoza regime and bring the Sandinistas to
The Ortega-led Sandinista government saw media—domestic and
international—as central to its political project. After the revolution, Pedro Joaquín's son Carlos
Fernando edited the Sandinista party newspaper Barricada. The Sandinista government revamped state-owned radio to emphasize a populist
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But relations soured with Nicaraguan news outlets that had turned
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anticommunist groups operating out of
In 1990, in an effort to end the stalemate created by more
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of victory when he agreed to the vote, Ortega was stunned when Pedro Joaquín
Chamorro's widow, Violeta, defeated him at the ballot box, a loss he blamed in part on the
news media. His disdain for the press seemed to grow during the 16 years he
spent planning a political comeback while
Ortega's feud with the press intensified when he was caught up in a personal scandal that nearly ended his political career. In 1998, Ortega's adopted stepdaughter, Zoilamérica Narváez, publicly accused him of molestation and sexual harassment that began when she was 13 and lasted for years. The scandal sparked a vicious debate that analysts say deepened Ortega's tendencies toward secrecy.
The scandal might have felled a lesser politician, but
Ortega was able to mobilize supporters by claiming he was the victim of a
political conspiracy. He deftly cut a deal with rival Arnoldo Alemán, the
notoriously corrupt leader of the center-right Liberal Constitutional Party
(PLC). The Ortega-Alemán deal, known in
Elections spark charges, conflict
But it was the November 2008 municipal elections, which were
tainted by widespread allegations of government fraud and manipulation, that
triggered a significant deterioration in press freedom conditions. Two
opposition parties were disqualified before the vote; independent observers, local
and foreign, were denied authorization to monitor the elections; and ballots
were dumped and destroyed. Massive protests erupted after the Supreme Electoral
Council, controlled by the Sandinistas, announced that the ruling FSLN party was
leading in 105 of 146 mayoral races nationwide, including the hotly contested vote
in the capital,
Ortega responded by lashing out at critics, particularly those in the media. "Some media have tried to plot against the election by promoting a campaign to instill fear," Ortega said at the time. As FSLN militants confronted angry demonstrators, they also turned on journalists covering the protests. On November 19, 2008, more than a dozen masked assailants armed with guns, sticks, and stones stormed the studios of the three main private radio stations in the city of Leon—Radio Darío, Radio Metro Estéreo, and Radio Caricias—and destroyed their equipment, the Nicaraguan Center for Human Rights said in its annual report.
While anti-press violence has been episodic, other forms of harassment have been systematic. Since taking office in January 2007, Ortega has followed his predecessors' practice of manipulating the distribution of government advertising, imposing de facto advertising embargoes on critical media while rewarding the official press. Confidencial reported that the government spent 80 percent of its US$3.5 million advertising in 2007-08 for spots on Channel 4, which is run by Ortega's sons (and, according to some reports, owned by the presidential family).
The government uses the official media apparatus—Channel 4,
the radio station Nueva Radio Ya, and the news Web site El 19—to conduct character attacks against critics. These efforts
are supported by e-mail news services—called Nicaragua Triunfa and
But Ortega has taken heaviest aim at Carlos Fernando Chamorro, the one-time Sandinista editor turned multifaceted journalist and government critic. Chamorro runs the magazine Confidencial, serves as president of CINCO, and hosts the television news programs "Esta Semana" (This Week) and "Esta Noche" (This Night). It was on "Esta Semana" that Chamorro exposed a multimillion-dollar extortion scheme involving the Sandinista Party and influence peddling in the judiciary. After the 2007 story aired, Channel 4 and Nueva Radio Ya broadcast unfounded spots linking Chamorro to international drug trafficking (among other things).
Official media staffers tend to see those in private media
as political adversaries. Dennis Schwartz, general manager of Nueva Radio Ya,
said the Chamorro family had imposed a "media dictatorship" in
The government stepped up its attack on Chamorro in
September 2008, when it began an investigation into more than a dozen nonprofit
organizations accused of illegally funneling money from foreign governments to
other civil society groups. Chamorro's media research group CINCO was among those
targeted. In October, police raided CINCO's
Firing up the loyalists
The legal harassment against Chamorro follows a pattern
pursued against other well-known Nicaraguans who were once leading Sandinista
members. Notable among them were priest and poet Ernesto Cardenal, 83,
convicted in August on a trumped-up defamation charge, and the women's rights
activist and journalist Sofía
Ortega's crackdown on the media and other critics was intended to weaken civil institutions in time for the November 2008 municipal elections, several sources told CPJ. Indeed, the attacks served to fire up Sandinista loyalists who took to the streets to defend the government against electoral fraud allegations.
In his analysis of the government's communication strategy, the Media Observatory's Marenco wrote that Ortega "still perceives the media as a war
instrument." Ortega himself used similar language in a March interview with Al-Jazeera
English, the only interview he's done since taking office. Ortega told David Frost
Ortega has made himself an isolated and secretive figure: He has never given an official press conference, his political agenda is virtually unknown, his government officials are inaccessible, and his health is apparently a state secret. Published reports frequently note the widespread public speculation, thus far unconfirmed, that Ortega suffers from lupus, a chronic autoimmune disease. The government's communication strategy is strictly controlled by Rosario Murillo; no official in the executive branch will talk to the media without her authorization. Two officials who challenged Murillo's hermetic policy by providing information to La Prensa were immediately fired, said the paper's director, Jaime Chamorro Cardenal, brother of Pedro Joaquín.
"We decide what we want to say, and when we want to say it," the government's top human rights official, Omar Cabezas Lacayo, told CPJ. "As human rights ombudsman, I have no respect at all for the private media's ethic, which is clearly supported by the CIA." Rafael Solís, vice president of the Supreme Court and an Ortega confidant, said that the government centralizes communication to avoid disagreement. "Murillo," he said, "wants the government to have a single voice. It is just a matter of style."
International donors have a different perspective. They see
the deterioration of civil institutions—combined with evidence of systematic
fraud in municipal elections—as indications that the government is not
committed to democracy. They worry that Ortega may seek to retain power by
amending the Constitution to allow an additional term in office. As a result, the
But the modulating force of the news media has been rendered
moot by Ortega, a minority-supported president whose political power is
dependent on mobilizing his Sandinista base, not on speaking to the center. Ortega's
autocratic tendencies are more likely to be realized in a climate of secrecy
and isolation, making the press freedom battle a harbinger of a broader
struggle for democracy in
Carlos Lauría is CPJ's
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2 pieces whole boneless chicken breast,cut into 2 pieces each side
2 tsp seasalt
2 tsp ground pepper
2 tsp garlic powder
3 large eggs
1/2 cup milk
1/2 cup all purpose flour
1/4 cup rice flour
1 tsp salt
2 cups panko (Japanese plain bread crumb)do not use Italian or flavored bread crumb
1 cup canola oil
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1:Cut and slice boneless chicken into 2 pieces for each side of breast..Use meat mallet or meat tenderizer to tenderize the meat first before season with salt,ground pepper and garlic powder for 30 minutes or longer.
2:Prepare 2 flat trays or plates: One for flour mixture and another one for panko.Beat eggs with milk in a medium bowl.
3:Use aluminum skillet or fryer.Heat oil at 350 F or medium heat.Coat chicken with flour mixture ,then dip into milk mixture before coat with panko.(remember to coat the flour and panko thoroughly)
4:Slowly place chicken cutlet into the hot fryer.Fry chicken to 5-8 minutes or until lightly crisp golden brown.Remove chicken cutlet from fryer into prepare plate lined with paper towel to absorb excess oil.(Do not overlap or overcrowd the chicken when frying in the fryer or skillet)
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Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Our Canine Heroes and Islamic Dogophobia
After Osama bin Laden's execution, an imam of the Al-Aqsa mosque castigated the "Western dogs" who had done it. And as it turned out a dog actually did accompany the SEAL team that took down Osama. Unlike the billions spent on trying to win over Pakistanis and Afghans, who went on aiding terrorists anyway-- the dogs remained true and loyal friends.
On September 11th, among the first responders were our four footed friends who risked their lives clambering around the smoking rubble in search of survivors. Muslims believe that an angel cannot enter a home when a dog is inside. But after the Muslims had killed thousands of Americans, it was the dogs who acted as the angels finding the bodies where they could and helping give the families of the dead something to bury.
When Muslims plot terrorist attacks, it is the bomb sniffing dogs who serve as the front line of defense against them. Military dogs walk the front lines searching out Taliban explosives and have become primary targets of enemy snipers. At airports, we would do much better to fire the TSA's gropers and luggage thieves, and dump the naked scanners, and replace them with dogs. The enemy may fool our politicians, our clergy and our law enforcement-- but they will never fool a dog.
Back in Israel, my parents found a puppy that had fallen into the hands of Muslim youths who tortured and abused it. That puppy grew into a wise and intelligent animal that went into a rage at the sight of one of its tormentors. No matter how they dressed or how well they spoke, people could be fooled, but she could never be fooled.
On a bus passengers would sometimes take issue with the fury that poured out of her when scenting a member of a creed whose holy books say, "Allah's Apostle ordered that the dogs should be killed". When the rash of bus bombings began, carried out by terrorists who occasionally disguised themselves as Israelis, that canine scrutiny and anger would have been invaluable.
How can a dog tell the difference between a Muslim and a non-Muslim even when there are no racial or ethnic differences? There may be no physical differences, but there are moral ones. It may be the casual cruelty that Islam inculcates in its followers that is as visible in the body language and attitude to a sensitive animal-- as a gun is to an airport metal detector.
In Iran, visitors tell of dogs who could distinguish between Zoroastrians and Muslims; "In Sharifabad the dogs distinguished clearly between Moslem and Zoroastrian, and were prepared to go…full of hope, into a crowded Zoroastrian assembly, or to fall asleep trustfully in a Zoroastrian lane, but would flee as before Satan from a group of Moslem boys."
In the Islamic Republic of Iran, the dog is still a particular object of Muslim hatred. In Tehran an Islamic judge sentenced a 70 year old man to four months in jail and thirty lashes for walking his dog. And the parliament is once again tackling a law to outlaw dogs for posing a "cultural problem".
This particular "cultural problem" has been exported with Islamic immigration as cabbies deny rides to the blind because their seeing eye dogs will keep angels out of their cabs. Blind passengers have been thrown off public buses by Muslim bus drivers and disabled people in all walks of life have faced harassment due to Islamic 'Dogophobia' which translates easily into bigotry against disabled people.
The "cultural problem" doesn't begin or end with dogs. One Hadith states; "When one of you prays without a sutrah, a dog, an ass, a pig, a Jew, a Magian, and a woman cut off his prayer." Along with Dogophobia, the teachings of Islam also cultivate Anti-Semitism and Sexism. All far more serious problems than the constant defensive refrain of Islamophobia taken up by Muslim groups and their media panderers.
It is not the dogs alone who are treated this way in Afghanistan or the rest of the Muslim world. Casual mutilation and killing are suffered by women who have acid thrown in their faces, whose noses are cut off and whose murders often go unpunished. The same could be said of Jews, until the majority of the Jewish populations of the Muslim world fled to Israel, America and Europe-- only to be followed there by the same warped culture of cruelty which says that Allah listens to the prayers of murderers and rapists-- but not of dog owners.
In Afghanistan, Muslim Dogophobia can actually be an advantage for the people who befriend dogs instead of trying to mutilate them because a seventh century pedophile claimed they were unclean.
"Dogs can be used to pacify an unruly group of people — particularly in the Middle East," says one New York Times article, while avoiding specifying who that unruly group of people may be, and why they need pacifying.
An Air Force dog trainer is quoted as saying; "There is a cultural aversion to dogs in some of these countries, where few of them are used as pets. Dogs can be very intimidating in that situation." As can women, and people whom Muslims have an irrational hatred toward. The Times was outraged that Guantanamo Bay female interrogators had impinged on the "religious sensitivities" of Taliban and Al-Qaeda terrorists who routinely murdered and tortured women. Had someone thought to bring in female Jewish dog owners, waterboarding wouldn't have even been needed.
In the UK, Muslims have gotten themselves exempted from contact with bomb sniffing dogs on religious grounds-- if they can only find a reason why metal detectors are also against their religion, then the sky is theirs. But in Israel, the Zionist war criminals have begun deploying security pigs who have a nose for truffles and terrorists. While they may lack the same level of discrimination as dogs, a Gaza Ghazi who sees a furious wild boar racing toward him will think his worst nightmares have come true. If there was only some way to work in chess, kite flying and Rushdie novels into that scenario-- his doom would be complete.
In Afghanistan, dogs know to escape their "cultural problem" by taking refuge with Western soldiers. In Kandahar, former home of Osama bin Laden, one dog was beaten by a crowd, stabbed in the chest, had his ears cut off and thrown under a car-- until he was rescued by British and Aussie soldiers.
The article states that many of the locals "despise dogs only marginally less than they do coalition soldiers", but that dog's "refusal to submit became legendary" around the base. There is something to be learned from a creature who refuses to submit to the violence of a creed that calls for his death. A Muslim is literally one who submits and a Dhimmi is one who submits to a Muslim. We who do not bow to Allah or to Muslims can learn from the resilience of a simple animal in the face of evil.
In early 1956, a Nepalese traveler in New Delhi lost his dog whom he had innocently named Mohammed. "Lost, from the Hindustan Hotel, one fox breed dog, brown color, long hair, answers to name Muhammad." Local Muslims greeted the ad with the usual level of tolerance and restraint they are well known for. Thousands of them gathered in the streets, the newspaper apologized for the ad and the owner was arrested for insulting Mohammed, not the dog, but the man.
Yet is it Mohammed who should be insulted for being associated with a dog, or the dog who should be insulted for being associated with a mass murderer, rapist and pedophile?
A dog is loyal, Mohammed betrayed those who trusted him to keep his word. A dog learns the rules and follows them, Mohammed invented his laws and violated them whenever he saw something he wanted-- such as his son's wife. But most of all a dog loves honestly and truly. Islam teaches its followers the violent cruelty of the animal, but suppresses the natural affection, the sense of joy that living things are meant to have.
"There are no jokes in Islam. There is no humor in Islam. There is no fun in Islam," Khomeini said. Additionally there is no mercy, no tolerance, no trust, no faith, no honor, no decency and nothing but deceit and death. There is no room in it for the simple virtues of a dog or the higher virtues of a man.
From the dogs who walk the front lines in Afghanistan to the rescue dogs who took the lead at Ground Zero, to the animals who are tortured and murdered every day in the Muslim world-- we can learn courage, loyalty and friendship. While the media insists on telling us how much we can learn from Islam-- there is more of goodness, decency and honor to be learned from a dog, than there is from the entire Koran.
33 comments:
- Anonymous said...
Thanks. This article is a tour-de-force. There is something seriously wrong with people who don't love dogs and mistreat them.
- 13/9/11
- Daniel Greenfield said...
They despise loyalty and honest friendliness as contemptible qualities.
- 13/9/11
- Chana @ Lemon Lime Moon said...
Dogs are angels with fur.
You can I always tell good people from bad by seeing how they treat animals and also by seeing what animals sense about them.
Dogs and cats can sense evil people and bad situations.
- 13/9/11
- Anonymous said...
I take them at their word; they hate life.
- 14/9/11
- Anonymous said...
You are so right about dogs instead of mechanical scanning at airports. In addition, a German shepherd or Doberman on every plane would go a long way in making air travel safer. Love you work!
- 14/9/11
- dee said...
Sorry to disagree, Anonymous, but having a dog on every commercial flight would generate the rationale for Muslims to blow them up.
And useless idiots as in the likes of the NYT, would be first to mitigate this natural resistance to imperialist arrogance.
- 14/9/11
- mindRider said...
Regrettably the SS once used their German shepherds to cruelly attack Jews and an entire generation of Jews afterwards did not look to kindly upon dogs. In Israel such has been fully compensated for by the prolific ownership in the cities of especially at night time very very noisily barking ill behaving canines. Only in Switzerland the dogs are as exceptionally well behaved as their owners, when one walks in the mountainous nature and there are dog-owners with their pets, someone-else's dog not only never comes on to a passerby aggressively but even if two dogs pass each other they do not even sniff at one an other!
- 14/9/11
- Bosch Fawstin said...
Fitting that they're the enemy of man's best friend. And I won't even mention their pigotry....
- 14/9/11
- Kufar Dawg said...
Alternatively, it is said Muhammad,
cut off the sleeve of his own robe to avoid disturbing a sleeping cat.
So while Hitler was nice to his dogs, Muhammad was nice to cats...
- 14/9/11
- Anonymous said...
Somewhat ironically, the belgian malinois dog used by the Navy Seals in the bin Laden raid was named 'Cairo'...
- 14/9/11
- Edward Cline said...
Unfortunately, we have not "released the dogs of war" on Islam, to paraphrase Shakespeare. If we had, Islam would be rushing to the nearest exist. What we have instead is a "Hound of the Baskervilles" pro-Islamic policy whose Avatars can be bought off with a treat so they won't sound the alarm with a wall-shaking bark. Sorry, Daniel, but I couldn't resist the literary analogies.
- 14/9/11
- Edward Cline said...
Unfortunately, we have not "released the dogs of war" on Islam, to paraphrase Shakespeare. If we had, Islam would be rushing to the nearest exits. What we have instead is a "Hound of the Baskervilles" pro-Islamic policy whose Avatars can be bought off with a treat so they won't sound the alarm with a wall-shaking bark. Sorry, Daniel, but I couldn't resist the literary analogies.
- 14/9/11
- Anonymous said...
Mary Boyce picked up on the pitiable situation of dogs in Muslim countries a long while back. Dogs could actually sense that they were in the presence of Muslims, and behave accordingly- mostly in a cringing manner.
More recently, in Iraq, it was the same situation. Stray dogs went over to allied troops simply to get what dogs want - a re-assuring hand from who they consider as their friends and masters. A dog's DNA is hard wired to be friendly to humans - he cannot behave in any other way. So it must be hell for a dog to be in a Muslim country.
- 14/9/11
- Marcel said...
It's amazing how everything about Islam is soaked in blood and death.
How they can't even get along among themselves and yet the decadent West always gives them a pass.
We are in self destruct mode because we dumped God's light of truth and darkness has filled the void.
Old Job had it right thousands of years ago.
'With Him are strength and prudence.
The deceived and the deceiver are His.
He leads counselors away plundered, And makes fools of the judges.
He loosens the bonds of kings, And binds their waist with a belt.
He leads princes away plundered,And overthrows the mighty.
He deprives the trusted ones of speech,And takes away the discernment of the elders.
He pours contempt on princes,And disarms the mighty.
He uncovers deep things out of darkness,And brings the shadow of death to light.
He makes nations great, and destroys them;He enlarges nations, and guides them.
He takes away the understanding of the chiefs of the people of the earth,
And makes them wander in a pathless wilderness.
They grope in the dark without light,And He makes them stagger like a drunken man.'
Job 12
- 14/9/11
- BayouCoyote said...
After reading "Wages of terror", I told a friend that it was you best piece ever but now I have to go back and explain myself to him with this piece.
Thank G_d he's a dog lover!
All the best,
- 14/9/11
- Linda Rivera said...
To hate innocent humanity, dogs and other animals is to HATE the G-D who so LOVINGLY created them.
Only G-D knows the immense number of human lives saved by dogs. This is in addition to the affection, companionship and unconditional, undying love dogs have for their owners.
Thank you, G-D, for your precious gift of dogs!
- 14/9/11
- Kristin Solo said...
The despicable attitude & actions towards man's best friend, perpetrated by hate filled Muslims should invoke Animal Welfare Organisations to BAN Muslims from touching any dog and introduce legislation to prevent those evil animal abusers from coming within 20 yards of these wonderfully intelligent, loving & loyal creatures!
How amazing that dogs demonstrate the capacity to differentiate between Muslim dog haters & other persons!
Not only do they have superior scent & hearing skills , dogs certainly have remarkable instinct and a sharp sensitivity to discern character too!
I have noted when out walking that some of my German Shepherd Dogs have displayed a defensive stance on the approach of certain individuals, are indifferent to some and friendly towards others!
I would trust my GSD's reaction every time!
Love me, Love my dogs!
- 14/9/11
- Anonymous said...
There are several stories/videos of straight dogs in Iraq and Afghanistan who are friendly towards the americans and even follow their patrols. The same dogs were hostile towards natives.
- 14/9/11
- Black Dog Lover said...
Thanks for this story. My sentiments exactly. Nice to see it here. It should be blasted on the nightly news, The NY Times, LA times and in all the large newspapers. I wouldn't trust a muslim for anything. You never know what they are thinking and what they are being taught in their mosques. Even the so called good ones almost never speak up against their murdering brethern. I have 2 beloved dogs and wouldn't trade them for a muslim life, ever.
And why hasn't the ground at the ground zero mosque been sprayed and saturated with pig fat making it unusable for these A-holes???
- 14/9/11
- Anonymous said...
Lotta years ago my son came home with a new "friend" Our Brittany was a loving ans affectionate dog. She took one look at this young man, her hackles went up and she made a noise in her throat we had never heard before. Couple months later the guy got arrested for car theft. He died on the street at 37. The dog knew.
- 14/9/11
- Linda Cohn said...
Wow, Sultan! You hit the ball out of the park with this article. One more time. Thanks for speaking the truth among all the crap the politicans and media feed us.
- 14/9/11
- John said...
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- 15/9/11
- John said...
That's very interesting about dogs, and especially about that particular dog that could detect all Muslims.
I've always felt dogs can sense people's character. We know in nature that various animals can sense things humans can't as well. I've personally experienced throughout my life dog owners express surprise that their dogs accept me because they don't usually accept strangers.
This particular dog rejecting all Muslims kind of puts the concept of moderate Muslims in a bad light. We all want to believe that they exist, but the culture is so monolithic that regardless of their theological sophistication, they seem to cheer infidel defeats and setbacks and cheer jihadist successes.
I know know there are some Tawfik Hamids out there, and some who have lived among Muslims say that some 20 to 30 percent will stick themselves out to defend a kafir, but it makes you wonder.
- 15/9/11
- Anonymous said...
Even without the mass murders, female genital mutilation, filthy personal hygeine (mandated by Mo himself, of course) and general medieval attitudes towards just about everything, I could never have any respect or belief in a religion that hates that most noble animal the dog.
Dogs smell better than most muzzies, too.
- 15/9/11
- Andres Espejo | Educar a un perro said...
Had no idea that dogs had that bad fame in Afghanistan, as the author say, calling someone "dog" starts a fight, what a cultural shock.
I LOVE my puppy and I cannot imagen how someone could hurt, no to mention kill, one of them.
Really interesting article showing us the cultural diference between us.
- 15/9/11
- Joan said...
The last line of the article sums it up it all up beautifully. Dogs, being part of God's creation, reflect something of the goodness of God, but Islam is something created from the pits of hell, and the Koran reflects that reality.
- 19/9/11
- Anonymous said...
-- spanky
- 22/9/11
- No Bueno said...
In the Islamic Republic of Iran, the dog is still a particular object of Muslim hatred. In Tehran an Islamic judge sentenced a 70 year old man to four months in jail and thirty lashes for walking his dog. And the parliament is once again tackling a law to outlaw dogs for posing a "cultural problem".
Dogs are not a cultural problem, rather it's Muslims who are the "cultural problem!" I say treat Muslims the same way they treat dogs.
I have two dogs and I know they are better than any Muslim...hands down!
- 10/10/11
- Joseph P. Martino said...
When I was a visiting professor in Turkey, one of the things I noted was the absence of dogs on campus. Back home in the US, our campuses always have "neighborhood" dogs that the students feed. True, there were lots of cats on the campus, but the lack of dogs was noticeable.
- 2/11/13
- Drow Ranger said...
this makes me wonder why Satan hates dogs so much...
- 8/11/13
- Unknown said...
What a wonderful article, and comments!
Our dogs are dear to us. We love them, and are attached to them, and I can't imagine not having them around. A religion that despises such a wonderful and marvelous creature as a loyal, loving, and protective dog, yet honors a lying, thieving, pedophile, is truly depraved and comes straight from hell.
- 9/3/16
- Unknown said...
great insight!
- 11/3/16
- Anonymous said...
brilliant article! I grew p in Israel, near Beer-sheva and witnessed how the Muslims bedouins torture and mistreat dogs. Me and my friends rescued many but I shudder as I remember the abuse. Later on I moved to Haifa, a city where many Christian Arabs reside. I noticed a completely different approach to animals, as many of them are dog owners. Islam definitely plays a major part in this unimaginable cruelty to God's lovely, loving and useful four-legged creation.
- 13/7/16


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