text: Latest Analysis News Mike Flynn told one lie – the US government has told millions The Flynn scandal has exposed so many bigger scandals in US politics, but unfortunately, none of them are being discussed. Published 12 months ago on December 2, 2017 By Adam 4,170 Views Share Tweet At long last, the non-scandal of Russiagate has fully blossomed into an actual scandal. Israelgate is here and far from exposing that officials and family members of officials in the US government frequently and disproportionately lobby on behalf of the interests of a foreign power with illegal nuclear weapons, it merely confirms what is widely known, but frequently hushed up due to the money which drives the Israeli lobby to levels of power which are stratospheric compared with that of other foreign powers, including superpowers like Russia and China. The scandal of US politicians bending over backwards to do the bidding of a foreign power called Israel, in an age when few US politicians are considered responsive to the needs of their own voters, is the perennial dead horse of US politics among those with open eyes and the invisible elephant in the room to those who are wilfully blind. While I, like millions of others in the world, view the leaders of the Israeli regime as criminals due to their oppression of Palestine, illegal occupation of Syria, illegal bombings of Syria and frequent violations of Lebanese sovereignty, in the case of Mike Flynn, Israeli leaders simply did what anyone in their position would do. When Benjamin Netanyahu asked Donald Trump's son-in-law to send Mike Flynn to multiple foreign embassies with a begging cup, asking them to do Israel's bidding at the United Nations, Netanyahu was merely taking advantage of a good situation–he wanted value for money and he got it. So the country that influenced US policy through Michael Flynn is Israel, not Russia. But Flynn did try to influence Russia, not the other way around. Ha-ha. This is the smoking gun? What a farce. https://t.co/VLw3wOLCCG pic.twitter.com/cZ3JBUxd4s — Yasha Levine (@yashalevine) December 1, 2017 Imagine for example if another nation whose nuclear weapons cause some consternation such as North Korea was able to use a powerful US based lobby in order to get powerful US officials to run to embassies begging countries to vote against UN resolutions condemning North Korea? You can't imagine that, because it would not happen. The reason it would not happen is because the US is guilty of a selective enforcement of its own laws, selective ethics and selective morals. It has now been proved that members of the Trump administration colluded with Israel to try and influence not only US policy, but the policy of other countries, including Russia. Mr. Flynn found out the hard way, that Russian foreign policy isn't for sale as easily as US policy is. This is a massive scandal, except for the fact that no one cares. If on the contrary, Flynn was instructed to lobby world powers to vote against anti-Russian resolutions, the level of hell that would break loose, would be unprecedented in scale. This should not be surprising in a country that forces RT and Sputnik to register as "foreign agents" while Al Jazeera and the BBC, two state-owned foreign broadcasters are allowed to operate without question on US soil. The irony should also be lost on no one that while Donald Trump, the US President has consistently attacked CNN, MSNBC, Washington Post and New York Times media outlets, the only outlets the US government has actually gone after in a punitive fashion have been RT and Sputnik. This is the same United States, that calls Iran a threat to world peace when it has no nuclear weapons, while ignoring Israel's illegal nuclear weapons which, according to most estimates, outnumber those of North Korea. This is the same United States, where Bill Clinton is considered a kind of hero in spite of his obscene relationship with Miss. Lewinsky, but where the careers of celebrities can be ruined based on allegations of personal misconduct, even though these allegations have not been proved as factual in a court of law. So much for the legal presumption of innocence until proven guilty. The lack of consistency in the US is a scandal upon a scandal. In a country that preaches equality abroad, the US is a country where domestically, there is one rule for some and other rules for others. Mike Flynn now admits that he lied. It's high time for those in the US who told millions of deadly lies about Yugoslavia, Iraq, Libya, Syria and North Korea to come clean about their lies. It's time for those who call RT a foreign agent but say nothing about Al Jazeera and the BBC to admit to their double standards. It's time for the US to admit that blind servitude to Israel is now as American as baseball and apple pie, while even consulting countries that are not Israel, including countries which themselves have healthy but not fawning relations with Israel, such as Russia, is a crime. America has a consistency problem, an integrity problem and an honesty problem. All of these problems are easily cured if more people would admit what Mike Flynn has admitted. Liked it? Take a second to support The Duran on Patreon! 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Published 4 hours ago on November 21, 2018 By The Duran Authored by Vladislav Sotirovic via Oriental Review: If we have to use force, it is because we are America. We are the indispensable nation. (Madeleine K. Albright, February 1998)[1] Madam Secretary As a matter of very fact, regardless to the reality in global politics that the Cold War was over in 1989, Washington continued to drive toward the getting the status of a global hyperpower at any expense for the rest of the world. The Balkans undoubtedly became the first victim in Europe of the old but esthetically repacked American global imperialism. The US' administration is a key player during the last 25 years of the Balkan crisis caused by the bloody destruction of ex-Yugoslavia[2] in which Washington played a crucial role in three particular historical cases: Only due to the US' administration (more precisely due to the last US' ambassador to Yugoslavia, Warren Zimmermann), a Bosnian-Herzegovinian President Alija Izetbegović (the author of the 1970 Islamic Declaration) rejected already agreed Lisbon Agreement about peaceful resolution of the Bosnian crises which was signed by the official representatives of the Serbs, Croats and Bosniaks in February 1992. Alija Izetbegović was one of those three signatories. The agreement was reached under the auspices of the European Community (the EC, later the European Union) that was represented by the British diplomat Lord Carrington and the Portuguese ambassador José Cutileiro. However, under the US' protection, a Bosnian-Herzegovinian Bosniak-Croat Government declared independence on March 3rd, 1992 which local Serbs decisively opposed. Therefore, two warmongers, Warren Zimmermann and Alija Izetbegović pushed Bosnia-Herzegovina into the civil war which stopped only in November 21st, 1995 by signing the Dayton Accords in Ohio (Slobodan Milošević, Bill Clinton, Alija Izetbegović and Franjo Tuđman).[3] It was exactly the US' administration which crucially blessed the ethnic cleansing of the Serbs from the Republic of Serbian Krayina committed by Croatia's police and army forces (including and neo-Nazi Ustashi formations) on August 4−5th, 1995. For the realization of this criminal operation (under the secret code Storm/Oluja) Washington gave to Zagreb all logistic, political, diplomatic and military support. As a consequence, around 250,000 Croatia's Serbs left their homes in two days which were quickly occupied by the Croats.[4] South Serbia's Autonomous Province of Kosovo-Metochia was firstly occupied in June 1999 by the NATO/KFOR' forces and later in February 2008 politically separated from its motherland when Albanian-dominated Kosovo's Parliament proclaimed the formal independence primarily as a direct consequence of the Serbophobic policy by the US's administration of President Bill Clinton and his warmongering hawk Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright. Today, Kosovo, except its northern part, is ethnically cleansed from the Serbs[5] and transformed into a mafia state with a silent blessing by Washington and the rest of the Western gangsters from the NATO and the EU who recognized its quasi-independence.[6] Here is very important to stress that, basically, during the Bill Clinton' administration, the US' foreign policy in regard to the Balkans (ex-Yugoslavia) was primarily designed and directed by Madeleine K. Albright who became a chief US' war criminal at the very end of the 20th century. Who was Mrs. Albright – the author of Madam Secretary: A Memoir, New York: Talk Miramax Books, 2003, 562 pages.[7] Madeleine K. Albright was born in Czechoslovakia in 1937. She was confirmed as the 64th US' Secretary of State from 1997 to 2001. Her career in the US' government included positions in the National Security Council and as US' ambassador to the United Nations. The highest-ranking warmonger female hawk in the history of the US' Government was telling an unforgetable whitewashed story of lies in her memoirs of the US' imperialism at the turn of the 21st century. She was the first woman in the US' history to be appointed to the post of Secretary of State (Minister of Foreign Affairs). For eight years during the first and second Bill Clinton's terms, she succeeded drastically to ruin America's image of a democratic and freedom fighting country mainly due to her direct and crucial involvement into the US-led NATO's aggression on the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (the FRY) in 1999 composed by Serbia and Montenegro that was the first aggression of this organization in its 50 years long history of the preparation for the invasion of Russia. The aggression lasted for 78 days from March 24th to June 10th, 1999 and was one of the most brutal and barbaric in the modern history of the world breaking all international laws, rules of war and, most important, the Charter and principles of the UNO. Madeleine K. Albright tried in her memoirs to whitewash her extremely important and even crucial participation in the post-Cold War US' policy of imperialism but primarily her focal role in the preparation and conduction of the US/NATO's unprecedented war on the FRY as being one of the most influential policy-makers in her adopted country. The Madam Secretary's memoirs are firstly the story of a woman of great warmongering character with a fascinating talent to lie and whitewash the truth. Her memoirs are surely a valuable contribution to the political history of aggressive diplomacy of the project of the US' global hegemony after the collapse of the USSR. But who was her mentor? Former U.S. secretary of state Madeleine Albright If we are speaking about the US' foreign policy, the fundamental question is what are the US policy's interests and its implications in both the Balkans and Europe. The US' involvement in the Balkans and Europe The achievement of a New World Order after 1990 is being tested for some time in Washington. We have to keep in mind that for some first 20 years after the end of the Cold War, the strongest military and economic power, the leaders of the NATO and the UNO, the initiators of the international peacekeeping missions and negotiations in the regions of "failed states" in which they provoked the crises and wars, especially at the Balkans, the champions against the international terrorism and crime that was a reaction to their dirty foreign policy of unmasked imperialism and global hegemony, were the USA.[8] Nevertheless, the US' interests in the Balkans cannot be understood apart from a larger picture of the American interests in Europe in general. There are many American scientists and politicians who argued that a leadership in Europe will either be American or it will not be, since France and Germany (the axis-powers of the EU) were not too strong to take over and Germany was still in the 1990s too preoccupied with the consequences of its reunification (i.e., the absorption of the DDR). However, the recent (on November 11th, 2018) French President Emmanuel Macron's initiative to create a joint European Army shows that probably the Europeans finally became enough matured to maintain security in their own home by themselves but not anymore under the umbrella of the US-led NATO. The question, in essence, is not if, but what kind of leadership the US has and will have in the case that the current post-Cold War's international relations are not going to be drastically changed? In this respect, the US need to be aware that the best leadership is the one shared with other partners, in this case with the EU/NATO, more specifically France, Germany, and Britain but, of course, Russia have to be seriously taken into the consideration too. With the involvement of Russia into a common European security system on the bases of equal reciprocity, friendship and partnership, the final aim will be to obtain a common vision and an efficient coordination in conflict management, as well as in political and economic cooperation. At such a way, the cases of violent destructions and civil wars, for example on the territory of ex-Yugoslavia, will be avoided for sure. U.S. Marines escorting Yugoslavian soldiers in Kosovo to be handed over to Yugoslavian authorities The US' political analysts are keen to suggest that the American presence in Europe should not be regarded as a competition, but rather as a part of the transatlantic partnership between the two continents, as well as a necessity demonstrated by the sad experience in the former Yugoslavia. According to official Washington, the NATO's intervention in both Bosnia-Herzegovina in 1995 and Kosovo in 1999 (in both cases against the Serbs) under the US' leadership was the only credible action along with many initiatives taken by the international community.[9] However, on the other side, military intervention is in many cases creating more political and security problems for a longer period of time. It is understandable that the US cannot assist apathetically to the collapse of countries vital to their own interest but such principle is valid to be applied for any great power too. Besides, regional instability only expands, engaging other areas and creating new confrontations. Thus, the economic support offered to some countries, and the military one offered to others shows that the US formally believe in the regional stability as an enforcer of the international stability but in reality only if such stability is put under the umbrella of Washington's interests and benefits. The case of Kosovo is, probably, the best example of such practice: by bringing a formal stability this province of Serbia is put at the same time under the full Western (primarily American) political control and economic exploitation.[10] In supporting the NATO's expansion, there is a hesitation in treating all aspirant countries in a non-discriminatory fashion. And that, because interests are more important than global security, can be the reason. The advocates of the "Pax Americana's" view of the global security would publically say that they are not propagating the US as the savior of the world, or the world's policeman, but they are just the most fervent supporters of the global peace and stability. However, in the practice they are working oppositely: as many as conflicts and insecurity issues in the world, there are more chances and practical opportunities for Washington to become the regional policeman and global savior of the order.[11] In their relationship with other NATO's countries, the USA regard the process of integration in the Euro-Atlantic space (i.e., the area of the US' control and administration) as a two-way street in which each partner needs to accomplish its tasks. An addition to those is, of course, the geostrategic position (Turkey instead of Greece, for instance, in the 1974 Cyprus crisis) and short, medium and long-term declarative promises like the economic gratification of security which can at the end to be turned to its opposite side. For instance, the US' offering military, political and financial assistance to the countries of East-Central and South-East Europe as a mean to build up their security shield against "aggressive" Russia can be easily transformed into their very insecurity reality coming from the US' imperialistic policy toward Russia as there were already the cases with Georgia in 2008 and Ukraine in 2014 as the "Pax Americana's" approach in international relations is as its countereffect just provoking the Russian (and Chinese) counteraction in enhancing its own nuclear and other military potentials as Vladimir Putin exactly stressed during his electoral campaigns. The US' geopolitical strategy by Zbig (Vietnam) war criminal Henry Kissinger (ex-US' Secretary of State), summarized the post-Cold War's international relations from the American geopolitical viewpoint: "Geopolitically, America is an island off the shores of the large landmass of Eurasia, whose resources and population far exceed those of the United States. The domination by a single power of either of Eurasia's two principal spheres – Europe or Asia – remains a good definition of strategic danger for America, Cold War or no Cold War. For such a grouping would have the capacity to outstrip America economically and, in the end, militarily".[12] It is not surprising that in the 1990s there were raised voices in Washington which required that the US has to find a way of dominating Eurasia at any reasonable cost. The US' neocon warmongering hawks, like Zbigniew Brzezinski, recognized that the area of the enlarged Middle East (with the Balkans, North Africa, and Central Asia) is from the strategical viewpoint, economically, ideologically and above all geopolitically at the center of the Eurasian issue. However, the US' neocon hawks' much wider global geopolitical aims which were coming closer to the aim to continue domination in the Middle East were launched during the Bill Clinton's presidency as a result of a wider shift in the American foreign policy's profile led by Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright ("Madam Secretary") and her extremely Russophobic mentor Zbigniew Brzezinski (known as Zbig). Warsaw-born Zbig (1928−2017) was a focal personality in the US' foreign policy's elite establishment since President Jimmy Carter's administration in which he was a National Security Advisor. During the Ronald Reagan's administration, Zbig was the main mediator between Washington and its clients in Afghanistan – the anti-Soviet Taliban forces and Osama bin-Laden with whom Zbig has several common photos (in 1979) on which he is training Osama to operate with just donated American guns to fight the Soviets. Further, Zbig has a great influence on the first Bill Clinton's administration and he was at the same time an early advocate of the NATO's eastward expansion (started in 1999). It is assumed that it was exactly Zbig who was instrumental in getting the US' President Bill Clinton to commit himself to this course of the American imperialism in 1994. Furthermore, Brzezinski's influence on the US' foreign policy became stronger during the second Clinton's administration through a Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright – his former pupil at Columbia University. It is worth to note that Albright was working under his supervision in Carter's administration. If we have to summarize Zbig's chief imperatives of the US' imperialistic global policy and geostrategy of the making America world's hegemon, they are going to be as follows: To prevent collusion and maintain security among the US' vassal states (the NATO/EU). To keep tributaries pliant and protected. To keep the barbarians (the Russians and their supporters) from coming together. To consolidate and perpetuate the prevailing geopolitical pluralism in Eurasia by manipulation in order to prevent the emergence of a hostile coalition that could finally attempt to challenge the US' supremacy in the world. Those that must be divided and eventually ruled are Germany, Russia, Japan, Iran, and China.[13] Former US national security advisor Zbigniew Former US national security advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski The American direct and infamous participation in the destruction of ex-Yugoslavia in 1991−1995 followed by the 1998−1999 Kosovo's War can be understood, therefore, as the steps in the realization of Zbig's geopolitical strategy of making America global hegemon. The US-led bombing of Serbia and Montenegro from March to June 1999 (78 days) was carried out by enlarged NATO and the UNO was only called at the end to sanctify the resulting colonial policy of Washington. The aggression on Serbia and Montenegro was formally justified by a reference to the TV-show plight of Kosovo's Albanians, developing at the same time the new doctrine of the "humanitarian imperialism". We have to keep in mind on this place that the Yugoslav wars in the 1990s were fought in a geographical area which is the crucial courtyard of the Eurasian continent that is as such opening a direct way to the ex-Soviet republics on the shores of the Caspian and the energy sources they control.[14] Nevertheless, Kosovo's War became for the US the genuine precursor of its later invasion of Iraq in 2003. "Madam Secretary" was a firm advocate of bombing Serbia and Serbs in Washington primarily due to the direct influence by notorious Russophobe Zbig who saw the Balkan Serbs as "little Russians" and the Balkan wars of the destruction of ex-Yugoslavia as a testing ground for the US' policy throughout the whole Caspian and Central Asian area. However, in addition, being an advocate for the US' oil companies wishing to establish their business on the territory of ex-Soviet Union in the Caucasus and Central Asia, Zbig regarded the American political and geostrategic supremacy in this region as a crucial aim of the US' foreign policy in the 1990s. In order to accomplish his aim, among other manipulations and instruments, Zbig championed the American support to the Islamic Pakistan, the Taliban Afghanistan (till 9/11) and the Islamic resurgence in Saudi Arabia and even Iran.[15] Multidimensional aspect of security It is true that globalization, stability, and security offer to the countries a greater capacity to cooperate and focus on the economic prosperity of its citizens but in practice, this particularly means much more important businesses and more money for the US' economy and citizens. Today, security has multidimensional aspects. If during the Cold War security only had a military-political component, today it has gained a new aspect – the economic one. The non-military aspects of security comprise everything from macroeconomic stability to environmental health. The proponents of the US' global hegemony will all the time argue that where there is a harmony (established by the US) and well-being the chances of conflicts to erupt are smaller and the gain is exclusively financial and economic (primarily for the US). There is, of course, a combination between interest per se and their consequences. To illustrate, the case of Macedonia could be interesting. Macedonia at the first glance benefits of the US' military presence on her territory since 1991 as it is a geostrategic spot in the Balkans of the highest importance. As a matter of fact, this military presence maintained Macedonia's economic level at a higher standard than some of the other countries in the area up to 2001, despite the fact that was still the poorest of the former Yugoslav six republics affected by two economic embargos by Greece in 1991−1993. Macedonia was illustrated till 2001, especially by the Western media, as being a success story in conflict prevention and peace maintenance primarily due to the presence of the US/NATO's military troops. However, in 2001 erupted inter-ethnic conflict between the Slavic Macedonians and the local Albanians (supported by the Kosovo Liberation Army) what brought the question of the US/NATO's efficiency in the region. The NATO's eastward expansion is a particular story of Zbig's geostrategic designs against his eternal enemy – Russia. It is a fact that just before the NATO's aggression on Serbia and Montenegro in 1999, this military organization accepted as the member states three East-Central European countries: Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic (the next eastward enlargement was in 2004). Therefore, the southern flank of the NATO between Hungary and Greece became now interrupted only by the territory of ex-Yugoslavia. Subsequently, such situation gave NATO a considerable strategic interest in controlling the Balkans where the Serbs were the most numerous and geostrategically important nation. However, as a direct effect of the NATO's eastward enlargement, the Iron Curtain was moved further to the east and closer to Russia's borders with all spectrum of the expected and unexpected consequences of such anti-Russian Drang nach Osten. Now, the Iron Curtain, once dividing Germany, it came in 1999 to run down the eastern borders of Poland, the Czech Republic, and Hungary, ending on the state-borders of the ex-Yugoslav republics, now independent states. The crux of the matter is that a decade-long process of the NATO's eastward enlargement became at the beginning of 1999 blocked in the Balkans by the Serbs – the only ex-Yugoslav nation firmly opposing a NATO's membership. Subsequently, it was exactly Washington to assume the role of leading the NATO to the new anti-Russian front and borders. That was the crucial reason why the Serbs had to be bombed in 1999 and Kosovo occupied by the US-led NATO's troops in the form of the UNO KFOR. What regards this issue, both Zbig and "Madam Secretary" were clearly speaking through the mouth of the US' President Bill Clinton: the stability (the US' control) in the Balkans could only be established if the EU and the USA do for this region what it was done for Europe after the WWII and Central Europe after the Cold War – occupation and economic-financial exploitation within the formal framework of the NATO's and EU' (the USA) enlargement. Conclusion The brutal expansion of the NATO is very visible since 1999 and even expected if we are taking into consideration the final aims of the US' foreign policy in Eurasia framed by a notorious foreign policy gangster – Zbigniew Brzezinski. As a consequence, the EU is going to continue to be America's main colonial partner in the NATO's preparations for the war of aggression against Russia and most probably at the same time China. Subsequently, there will be a need for much work and a common will to overcome violence, injustice, and suffering in order to achieve a global security without the hegemonic dominance by any great power.[16] Endnotes: [1] Andrew J. Bacevich, American Empire: The Realities and Consequences of U.S. Diplomacy, Cambridge, Massachusetts−London, England: Harvard University Press, 2002, the page before 1. [2] On the Western approach about a modern Yugoslav history, see in Allcock B. John, Explaining Yugoslavia, London: Hurst & Co, 2000; David Gowland, Richard Dunphy, Charlotte Lythe, The European Mosaic: Contemporary Politics, Economics and Culture, Third Edition, Harlow, Essex, England: Pearson Education Limited, 2006, Section 5.3 Yugoslavia. [3] About the destruction of ex-Yugoslavia and particularly on the civil war in Bosnia-Herzegovina, see in Jelena Guskova, Istorija jugoslovenske krize 1990−2000, Beograd: Izdavački grafički atelje "M", 2003. [4] Вељко Ђурић Мишина (уредник), Република Српска Крајина. Десет година послије, Београд: "Добра воља", 2005, 48. [5] On this issue, see more in Zoran Anđelović, Miroslav Marković (eds.), Days of Terror (In the Presence of the International Forces), Belgrade: Center for Peace and Tolerance, 2000; Dragan Kojadinović (ed.), March Pogrom in Kosovo and Metohija (March 17−19, 2004) With a Survey of Destroyed and Endangered Christian Cultural Heritage, Belgrade: Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Serbia−Museum in Priština (displaced), 2004. [6] Pierre Pean, Sébastien Fontenelle, Kosovo une guerre "juste" pour créer un etat mafieux, Paris: Librairie Arthème Fayard, 2013. [7] This article is a constructive-critical contribution to the new, revised and updated edition of the memoirs of the "Madam Secretary". [8] About the post-Cold War's US' foreign policy, especially through the prism of the "Bush Doctrine", see in David P. Forsythe, Patrice C. McMahon, Andrew Wedeman (eds.), American Foreign Policy in a Globalized World, New York−London: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2006. [9] About a typical American approach on the case of Yugoslavia's destruction in the 1990s, see in Susan L. Woodward, Balkan Tragedy: Chaos and Dissolution after the Cold War, Washington, D.C.: The Brookings Institution, 1995. However, the focal lack of such books is the fact that a crucial US/EU/NATO' role in creating Balkan tragedy and Yugoslavia's chaos is omitted. [10] Hannes Hofbauer, Eksperiment Kosovo: Povratak kolonijalizma, Beograd: Albatros Plus, 2009. [11] There are well-known words by Theodor Roosevelt uttered in December 1899: "Of course, our whole national history has been one of expansion". [12] John Rees, Imperialism and Resistance, New York−London: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2006, 18. [13] Ibid., 19−20. [14] About the issue of a strategic environment from the Adriatic to the Caspian, see in Stefano Bianchini (ed.), From the Adriatic to the Caucasus: The Dynamics of (De)Stabilization, Ravenna: Longo Editore Ravenna, 2001. [15] Differently to all other American warmongers and imperialistic hawks, Zbig favors the alliance with the Shia Islamic Republic of Iran. [16] On global security, see in Peter Hough, Understanding Global Security, Third edition, New York−London: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2005. Liked it? Take a second to support The Duran on Patreon! Continue Reading Latest Trump hands over written responses to Mueller's Russia probe questions The written answers submitted by Trump Tuesday have the same legal implications as an oral testimony, meaning that if the statements are proven false, he might be accused of perjury. Published 4 hours ago on November 21, 2018 By The Duran Via RT… A lawyer for Donald Trump has confirmed that the US President has submitted answers to the questions penned by FBI Special Counsel Robert Mueller's team. The questions refer to the Trump campaign's alleged collusion with Moscow. "The president today answered written questions submitted by the special counsel's office," Trump's attorney Jay Sekulow said in a statement, as cited by AP. The issues Trump covered in his responses are "the Russia-related topics of the inquiry," Sekulow said. Trump's legal team has indicated that the president would not answer any additional questions aside from potential follow-ups. Likewise, Trump is not expected to answer any questions that refer to allegations of obstruction of justice, with his lawyers insisting that the constitution protects the sitting President from answering questions on policies he conducted while in office. Trump's personal lawyer Rudi Giuliani said Tuesday, that "much of what has been asked raised serious constitutional issues and was beyond the scope of a legitimate inquiry," without elaborating. Giuliani has not ruled out that Trump might answer further questions if forwarded by Mueller, but said that it is "unlikely we will answer any more questions." The contents of both the answers and the questions themselves will not be made public, Sekulow said. Speaking to reporters on Friday, Trump said he prepared the answers himself, and that it did not take him "very long." The written answers submitted by Trump Tuesday have the same legal implications as an oral testimony, meaning that if the statements are proven false, he might be accused of perjury. Trump's cooperation with Mueller's office has been seen as a compromise. The president's attitude toward a potential face-to-face interview with the federal prosecutor has shifted over time. Back in January Trump said that he was "looking forward" to speaking under oath. He doubled down in May, saying that he "would love" to sit down for an interview with Mueller "if treated fairly." There have been reports, however, that the president's legal team has been staunchly opposed to a personal encounter between Trump and Mueller and eventually talked the president out of it. The personal interview might still happen if Mueller's office issues a subpoena for Trump to testify. However, it would first need to be signed off on by the Acting Attorney General, the probe's well-known critic Matthew Whitaker, and even then it could be thrown out by the Supreme Court. Liked it? Take a second to support The Duran on Patreon! Continue Reading Latest Russia Lures International Arms Buyers With Half-Priced, More Effective Missile System The Russian S-400 mobile long-range surface-to-air missile system costs around $500 million, vs. the $1 billion price tag for a US-made Raytheon Patriot Pac-2 battery. Published 5 hours ago on November 21, 2018 By Tyler Durden Via Zerohedge… Russia has been pitching a rival missile platform that costs half of those made by US companies, reports CNBC, which has resulted in several countries dealing with the Kremlin "despite the potential for blowback." Sefa Karacan | Anadolu Agency | Getty Images The Russian S-400 mobile long-range surface-to-air missile system costs around $500 million, vs. the $1 billion price tag for a US-made Raytheon Patriot Pac-2 battery, while a THAAD battery made by Lockheed Martin costs just about $3 billion, according to people with first-hand knowledge of a US intelligence assessment. Nearly 13 countries have expressed interest in buying Russia's S-400, a move that could trigger potential U.S. sanctions under the Countering America's Adversaries Through Sanctions Act, which President Donald Trump signed in August 2017. In September, the U.S. slapped sanctions on China for buying fighter jets and missiles from Russia. However, the U.S. could grant sanction waivers. –CNBC Turkey, meanwhile, may be hit with US sanctions over their decision to purchase the S-400 defense system, which the United States says poses a risk to its F-35 fifth generation stealth fighter platform. TOW S400 ARRIVED IN TURKEY AND QATATERR ;TRUMP SEE YOU TOMRROW 🐺😂😂😂😂😂🤫🤟😰✌🌏🦂🐾🦖🦅🌞📟🎚🎙🎙📞📡💻🔓🌐✔🧗♂🧢👠⛳🏌♂ pic.twitter.com/LSO1ydepDn — MOHMOUDELTAHER (@smile333w) August 18, 2018 Meanwhile, India called the United States' bluff over sanctions in late Ocotber, standing its ground in its decision to buy the S-400. One of the reasons Russian systems are generally considered less expensive than their American counterparts is because they don't include pricey ongoing maintenance. "When foreign militaries buy American, above and beyond the purchase, they are buying a partnership with the U.S. military," Andrew Hunter, director of the Defense-Industrial Initiatives Group at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, told CNBC. "And that plus the maintenance and technical assistance is a big part of the cost difference. The S-400 system made its debut in 2007, succeeding the S-200 and S-300 missile systems. According to CNBC, "the Russian-made S-400 is capable of engaging a wider array of targets, at longer ranges and against multiple threats simultaneously," vs. US-made systems. In terms of capability, one source noted that while there is no perfect weapon, the S-400 eclipses even THAAD, America's missile defense crown jewel. 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TSU Athletics Announces Young Alumni Season Ticket Package
On Monday, the Tennessee State University Athletics Department introduced the Young Alumni Season Ticket Package.
The package will allow recent TSU graduates the opportunity to purchase season tickets at a reduced rate. Big Blue Alumni who earned a degree from the Tennessee State University in or after May 2008 are eligible.
Alumni must be listed among the university's graduates at the time of purchase. The discounted price for season tickets is $50. Limit one package per person.
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Huhne told the Daily Telegraph: "It's relatively cheap to put wind turbines in that shallow area. It's beautifully windy so it does actually produce a lot of electricity – that is a really important natural resource for us."
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TORONTO — No one is happier to see the end of another Yankees road trip than pitcher Phil Hughes.
Rajai Davis matched a career high with five RBIs, Edwin Encarnacion hit a two-run homer and the Toronto Blue Jays beat Hughes and New York 10-7 Sunday, snapping a five-game losing streak.
Hughes matched a season worst by allowing seven earned runs in four innings, and dropped to 0-4 with a 6.75 ERA in his past four road starts.
"He made mistakes in the middle of the plate and they didn't miss them," manager Joe Girardi said.
In sharp contrast to his road struggles, Hughes has gone 4-0 in his past four starts at Yankee Stadium, and hasn't lost in the Bronx since June 20 against Atlanta.
Hughes, who gave up four runs in 4 1-3 innings of a 6-5 loss at Detroit last week, lost consecutive starts for the first time since dropping back-to-back outings April 25 at Texas and May 1 against Baltimore.
"It's been a battle this road trip," Hughes said. "I need to hopefully hit the reset when we get back home, kind of clear my mind and get back to doing the things that I was doing earlier, just try and forget about these two."
Hughes (11-10), said poor command of his fastball is to blame for his recent struggles.
"It's kind of just been all over the place and I haven't really been in control out there," he said.
Hughes surrendered nine hits, walked one and struck out four.
Davis made the defensive play of the game, scaling the left field wall in the seventh to snare a potential long ball off the bat of New York infielder Casey McGehee.
"He hurt us today, there's no doubt about it, offensively and defensively," Girardi said of Davis.
Blue Jays manager John Farrell called Davis' catch "outstanding," and even McGehee was impressed.
"When I saw him turn his back I thought he gave up on it," McGehee said. "Little did I know he was just timing it up.
"I guess I've got to hit it a few feet farther next time," McGehee added.
Rookie Moises Sierra had three hits and J.A. Happ pitched 5 2-3 innings for his first win since joining Toronto in a July 20 trade with Houston.
"He did a good job," McGehee said of Happ. "I've seen him quite a bit in the National League. He's got three quality pitches. When he's got all his pitches going, he's a handful."
Happ (1-1) allowed four runs and six hits, walked none and struck out four.
Casey Janssen finished in the ninth for his 15th save in 16 chances, helping the Blue Jays avoid a sweep. Toronto had lost 11 of 13 coming in.
"We've been in a tough stretch," Farrell said. "A win always lets people take a deep breath."
Robinson Cano hit a two-run shot and Derek Jeter had a solo homer among his three hits. Still, the Yankees lost for the first time in five games.
With outfielder Colby Rasmus and second baseman Kelly Johnson both nursing groin injuries and shortstop Yunel Escobar still sore after being hit on the elbow by a pitch Saturday, Encarnacion was the only player from Toronto's opening-day lineup to start the game. Johnson came on as a pinch hitter in the seventh.
Toronto was already without All-Star outfielder Jose Bautista (left wrist), catcher J.P. Arencibia (right hand), third baseman Brett Lawrie (ribcage strain) and first baseman Adam Lind (back).
Led by Davis and Encarnacion, Toronto's makeshift lineup amassed 14 hits and 10 runs, one more than the Blue Jays scored over their entire five-game skid.
David Cooper's RBI single in the first gave Toronto its first lead of the series, and the Blue Jays piled on with a six-run fourth against Hughes.
Jeff Mathis doubled in a run, Davis hit a two-run double, Mike McCoy had an RBI single and Encarnacion drilled a homer off the center-field restaurant, his 30th.
McGehee put New York on the board with an RBI double in the fifth, but Toronto tacked on three more in the bottom half when Davis hit a bases-loaded double off former teammate Ryota Igarashi, recalled from Triple-A after CC Sabathia was placed on the disabled list.
Facing reliever Brad Lincoln, Jeter led off the sixth with his ninth homer, and Cano cut it to 10-4 with a two-out shot, his 25th.
New York cut it to 10-7, batting around in the seventh. Jayson Nix and Jeter hit back-to-back RBI doubles and Nick Swisher singled home a run, chasing Lincoln and bringing on Darren Oliver. Mark Teixeira doubled and Cano was hit by a pitch, loading the bases and bringing the go-ahead run to the plate in Andruw Jones, who grounded into a fielder's choice.
NOTES: Davis also had five RBIs against the Los Angeles Angels on July 10, 2010, while playing for Oakland. … Jeter came within a triple of the cycle. … Yankees OF Ichiro Suzuki was held out of the starting lineup for the second straight game but pinch hit for Nix in the ninth. … Girardi said INF Eric Chavez (back) has not been available since Friday, but should be ready to return Monday. … With Sabathia (elbow) on the 15-day DL, RHP David Phelps will start for the Yankees when they return home to open a four-game series with AL West-leading Texas on Monday night. RHP Ryan Dempster will start for the Rangers.


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Fatal Exception's Neil McAllister sees recent experiments enabling a resurgence for JavaScript on the server, one likely to dent Java's role in the data center. 'Today, projects such as CommonJS and Node.js are extending JavaScript even further, allowing it to take on Java's traditional role in the data center. In a fascinating role reversal, JavaScript is becoming the versatile, powerful, all-purpose language for the Web, while Java risks becoming a kind of modern-day Cobol," McAllister writes. And though such experiments have a ways to go, the benefits of JavaScript as a server-side language are clear and striking.
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We often talk about the mind and body as
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Ariel Massengale added 11 points for the second-seeded Lady Vols (26-7), followed by Meighan Simmons and Taber Spani with 10 points apiece for the squad.
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This is part two of Nino's yearly Spring Traininer Primer. For Part 1, you can click here.
This was finalized and ready to go. I figured I had avoided the eventual last minute minor league free agent or kind of surprise signing that the Indians usually make that impacts how the primer looks, what the projections say and what I think.
Then the Indians did it to me again and did it in a way I never thought possible. I'm not going to complain about them doing it though, but I am going to tell you right now that everything has changed with Michael Bourn on board. I've gone through and redone the second half of this, and about half of what you read yesterday, you might as well forget a lot of it.
With that in mind, here's the second, and revised Part 2 of the Spring Training Primer.
Five Burning Questions Headed into Spring Training
1. Where does Jason Giambi fit?
Before, Saturday this question was "Will the Indians add someone to the DH mix?" Before Monday, it was "How does Jason Giambi impact the DH battle?" Now, you see what it actually is because the signing of Michael Bourn really hurts Giambi's status. Thankfully I never answered the first question, because it would have been pointless, but I did answer the second. Giambi is coming off three seasons in Colorado where he played some first, did the DH thing when the team was in Interleague play, but mostly was a pinch hitter. Now he thought he'd be coming into a situation where he could compete for that opportunity, but now it seems like he may be competing for that familiar role he had in Colorado. The difference is that there is no pitcher spot to hit for and with Bourn in the mix, someone is going to be a taking up a lot of DH time and it probably won't be Giambi.
2. What's this outfield actually look like?
I just erased this question from what does "center and left look like" to what it is now. Because as Michael Bourn comes in, the outfield changes, first base changes, and the DH battle is probably over, as I kind of alluded to in the first question. I won't spoil the projection I have for later, but let's put it this way. I think Michael Bourn is probably the best guy for center and that's where he's going to end up. He's just better right now and I think since Brantley is the flexible one, having been able to play left, it makes a lot of sense to do it that way. Obviously, you can't play Swisher, Bourn, Brantley, and Stubbs in three spots, so someone has to go. Whether that's looking to trade Drew Stubbs or move Swisher to first is definitely a question that needs answered later on. It is nice to have that extra chip to trade if you need to. The Indians lineup is significantly better and much more of a threat with a speedster like Bourn at the top and I think in the end, the Indians figure something out that logically makes sense and maximizes their talent.
3. How much will Francona's lineup change this spring?
My guess is a lot. As I will get into with the projected batting order, there's a lot that could be done and I can see Francona using this spring to play with different combos, just to see how they look in play. I think the lineup could look completely different than what any one person would have in mind. My projected one could be completely wrong as it is largely based off what the Indians have been doing. But with a new guy in charge and a good chunk of new faces, it could look totally different than what we've come to expect.
4. Is this Dice-K thing for real?
It may be. It depends on what you believe and what you think. I think Matsuzaka has a lot to prove, but with a contract that he would get if he were to make the major leagues, I think the Indians are going to wait regardless. He's on a minor league deal, and unless he comes into the spring and lights it up, they're going to hold back on adding him to the roster. He'd make $1.5 million if he spends the entire year on the 25-man and in terms of the Indians, they're going to make sure that is a well earned $1.5 million. There's also the other side of the coin in that it is easier to give a guy like him the shot at the start of the season rather than later on, because you get to create roster spots and if that guy doesn't work out, you cut bait and go with a young guy. All things to consider.
5. Will the Indians worry about Carlos Santana playing in the WBC?
Should they? I think so. This is very much a guy they are trying to keep fresh and healthy and perhaps would be the main reason in not having a regular designated hitter. If he's off playing meaningful games in the middle of March and playing the entire game, that is a little worrisome. It isn't injuries. Those happen and you can't control it. It's the wear and tear that you have to be a little "hold your breath" on, especially with a catcher like Carlos. I think they are okay with their top two bullpen guys playing for Team USA (a little scary seeing as its two), and Cabrera with the Venezuelan team, but Santana should be the one guy they are going to be a little anxious about.
25 Man Roster Projections
Starting Lineup
C – Carlos Santana
1B – Nick Swisher
2B – Jason Kipnis
SS – Asdrubal Cabrera
3B – Lonnie Chisenhall
LF – Michael Brantley
CF – Michael Bourn
RF – Drew Stubbs
DH – Mark Reynolds
Just as a disclaimer, I am really horrible at this. I've never hit on most of the roster spots that are up for grabs. In fact, I probably have never really been able to get more than two right. Most years I'll hit one. So with that in mind, and with the change that has come into play with Bourn on the roster, I've got a defensive lineup that looks like that. It hurts the chances for a lot of people, because it takes a guaranteed spot away from someone else and it takes one of those extra bench spots away. I think though, Reynolds moving to DH and Swisher to first makes the most sense on the grand scale, but a numbers look says Stubbs sits against right handers. Still, he plays more than not.
C – Lou Marson
IF – Mike Aviles
C/IF/OF – Yan Gomes
Bench – Chris McGuiness
Marson and Aviles are in, which really leaves just two spots, not three, up for grabs. I really think that regardless of Bourn signing or not, Gomes had the edge on one of those spots, which means something else somewhere has to give. I think that if anything, Drew Stubbs is the guy who's going to play a lot of the fourth outfielder role, playing a lot of right when the left hander pitches, and being a guy off the bench. Which means Zeke Carrera and Tim Fedroff are probably not fighting four the fourth outfield spot, but rather, just a roster spot. That helps the likes of McDade/McGuiness/Giambi.
Starting Rotation
1. Justin Masterson
2. Ubaldo Jimenez
3. Brett Myers
4. Carlos Carrasco
5. Zach McAllister
Again, another matter of what I like or what I think should happen versus a matter of what will happen. It remains to be seen with what the Indians do with Carrasco and how much progress he's made. Does he open on the disabled list? Should they do that? Hold him back in Arizona to continue to build up his arm strength and send him on a proper rehab assignment to make sure he's ready to go, and also as a way to limit his innings in the beginning, rather than at the end? I think it is a high probability of that, but we need to first see how he comes into camp and what the Indians plans are for him. If that's the case, the Indians may go with the Kluber/McAllister duo and basically say, "Okay guys, here's your shot, you've got one month" before calling in Carrasco and Trevor Bauer. I think Bauer should just get it from the start, provided he does everything right in the Spring, but I think the Indians will hold off and go with McAllister, and at least it isn't a situation where he wouldn't deserve it. Both he and Kluber showed some good stuff at the end of last season and will definitely, at some point, get shots in 2013. The question is, when?
Closer – Chris Perez
8th Inning – Vinnie Pestano
Bullpen – Joe Smith
Bullpen – Matt Albers
Bullpen – Bryan Shaw
Bullpen – Rich Hill
Bullpen – Nick Hagadone
And then this is where it all goes to the point of, who really knows. In the past, the Indians have always given a bullpen spot to some vet that they bring in. There is a logical line of thinking in that. Early in the season, you may use your pen a lot. Why exhaust your young arms? It's very reasonable to do just that. Here's the thing that throws a little bit of a wrench into this whole ordeal. The Indians best left-hander is Nick Hagadone, and was until the Indians signed Rich Hill at the last minute. Not saying Hill is better, but it looked like Hagadone was a lock. They need some sort of reliable left-hander and for that, I think Hagadone gets a spot. However, I think the Indians also want to get that veteran waste arm onto the roster and also have a second left-hander, which ends up being Rich Hill. I've gone back and forth from a Hagadone-Allen win, to a Hill-Capps win, but have met in the middle with the two left-handers. If anything happens of course to anyone else, Capps or Allen are the first up, Capps more than likely than Allen for the "waste arm" theory. You'll see Allen at some point though, even Hagadone if he doesn't win a spot. Count on it.
Four-Deep Depth Chart
Catcher: Carlos Santana, Lou Marson, Yan Gomes, Omir Santos
Yan Gomes being in the fold is just so much better than the past few years. Luke Carlin is nice, but Gomes has hitting potential and his flexibility makes it easy to carry three catchers and also play Santana at DH more without having to worry about losing the DH if Marson were to get hurt and have to exit.
First Base: Mark Reynolds/Nick Swisher, Chris McGuiness, Mike McDade, Matt LaPorta
An interesting look right now. If McGuiness makes the club, he'll be first in line, if not it is McDade chilling in Triple-A (if he doesn't make the team of course). Since he does not have 40-man status, LaPorta is going to have to do a lot of AAAA smashing and hope for some injuries, but with Bourn moving Swisher to first, he's probably really on the outside looking in.
Second Base: Jason Kipnis, Mike Aviles, Cord Phelps, Nate Spears
Second is pretty solid with Aviles now backing up that position to. A lot of people focus on how it will help Cabrera, but I'd imagine it also helps Kipnis as Aviles is going to play more regularly than a normal backup, giving Kipnis a break too, something he needed down the stretch last year.
Third Base: Lonnie Chisenhall, Mike Aviles, Cord Phelps, Nate Spears
Chisenhall went from having to deal with a guy like Jack Hannahan to now just having a guy who's backing up everyone. The hope is though that Chisenhall can stay healthy, because you don't want to test the depth of this position.
Shortstop: Asdrubal Cabrera, Mike Aviles, Juan Diaz, Cord Phelps
There he is again! Mike Aviles. Perhaps the main reason that the Indians got Aviles and then signed him to an extension, not only is Aviles the guy who's going to spell Cabrera more often and get him some DH time, he's the guy who could even take over if Cabrera is dealt.
Left Field: Michael Brantley, Tim Fedroff, Ezequiel Carrera, Matt LaPorta
Michael Brantley will slide over where he's accustomed to, manning left field. This is very much the "flex spot" in that if something happens elsewhere, Brantley moves over and someone like Fedroff or Carrera get a shot. I think Carrera though is more suited for a reserve/center field spot, and if there needs to be a "full time left fielder" that Fedroff fills that spot much better.
Center Field: Michael Bourn, Michael Brantley, Drew Stubbs, Ezequiel Carrera
Again, Bourn is the man in center and if something where to happen there, Brantley is the guy that takes over.
Right Field: Nick Swisher, Drew Stubbs, Tim Fedroff, Ezequiel Carrera
I think they'll focus Stubbs in right against left-handed pitching, with Swisher getting those starts when he gets a day off, giving someone else a shot in the DH spot as Reynolds would slide into the first base spot. Mixing and matching. Most of the time, I think it is Swisher.
On-Call Pitchers
1. Trevor Bauer
2. Daisuke Matsuzaka
3. Corey Kluber
4. Scott Kazmir
5. T.J. House
Make no mistake about it, Trevor Bauer, if he doesn't make the squad, gets the first shot. The Indians will not wait to get him in there if he deserves it, and cannot wait if there is an opening.
1. Cody Allen
2. Scott Barnes
3. Matt Capps
4. CC Lee
Cody Allen will finish the year in the bullpen, just not sure he starts there. It's more of a numbers game than it is him and I wouldn't want to overwork him early on in the season when you may need a lot of arms. You also can figure that he'd be one of the last guys in, so he'd be pitching a lot in that "we need innings" situation, something you don't want to do to a young guy. Same for Barnes. CC Lee is in the same position he was last year and only because he underwent elbow surgery. Hopefully he gets back to a good position and can make it to the majors this year.
Projected Lineups
CF – Michael Bourn, L
LF – Michael Brantley, L
SS – Asdrubal Cabrera, S
C – Carlos Santana, S
RF – Nick Swisher, S
2B – Jason Kipnis, L
1B – Mark Reynolds, R
3B – Lonnie Chisenhall, L
DH – Yan Gomes, L
I might as well throw darts. I have no clue what this lineup is going to look like. I don't know Terry Francona as well as Manny Acta, and the new faces dramatically impacts how this lineup could look like. Francona even said he had been playing around in the offseason and could go in several different directions. Now with Bourn in the mix, who really knows what it looks like. I do think he's the leadoff guy, which means several people shift down and Jason Kipnis is probably the guy who moves the most. If anything, it will take pressure off him and enable him to hit lower in the lineup and be protected by some more heavy hitters. The guy who loses the most? Maybe Drew Stubbs, who will probably not play whole heck of a lot against right handers.
1B – Nick Swisher, S
DH – Mark Reynolds, R
RF – Drew Stubbs, R
It stays the same, where as without Bourn it might have been a little bit more flexible to play matchups with the open DH spot.
Quick Hits
• Trade Candidates: Chris Perez, Brett Myers, Justin Masterson, Asdrubal Cabrera. Yeah yeah, I hate this little bullet, but I have to put it there. If things go south, there's definitely some names that the Indians can move.
• Official Report Day: February 13th is when everyone is supposed to report by. By the 15th, workouts commence with everyone.
• First Spring Training Game: February 22nd, Against the Reds (Home Game). The Indians also play the next day and on March 17th at Goodyear as the visiting team.
• With the sale of SportstimeOhio, there is still some unknown as to what's going on with the broadcasting, but it appears they're in line to do things this year. Right now they have announced six games that they're broadcasting: 3/17 - Reds, 3/18 - Brewers, 3/21 - Diamondbacks, 3/22 - Diamondbacks, 3/24 - Cubs, 3/26 - Athletics.
• A lot of games will be on the radio though, so I suggest investing in the MLB AtBat app to get the audio for most games (even if it isn't Hammy.). It's a great investment.
• Cleveland has split quad games on the 24th as they travel to Milwaukee and play at home against Cincinnati, on March 6th with the Dodgers, the 8th with the Royals, and the 16th with the Giants.
• Cleveland's last game in Goodyear is on March 30th and will be against the Reds with the Indians as the home team. There is no telling if the Indians will play an exhibition game with the MLB schedule going back to starting earlier in the week, it doesn't look like it.
• World Baseball Classic: The reason things are so early this year? The World Baseball Classic is up! That means a bunch of players are leaving Major League and Minor League camps. The Indians will have several participants. Pool play starts at the beginning of March and lasts til the 10th. The tournament's second round lasts through the 16th with the Championship series from the 17th through the 19th. So some players could be out as many as two weeks, some may only be gone for a little bit.
• Yan Gomes was on the Brazil team and was a big reason for them qualifying. He was not on the preliminary roster for their WBC team however. Gomes declined to be on the team and while he could still play, he said he'd like to focus on winning a roster spot with the Tribe.
• Vinnie Pestano and Chris Perez will be in Team USA's bullpen, a real minor inconvenience for the Indians as they are bullpen arms and would likely get the same work in as they would in camp. More importantly, Carlos Santana and Asdrubal Cabrera will be playing for the Dominican Republic and Venezuela respectively. Both are going to be integral parts of their squad.
• Mike Aviles will be on Puerto Rico's squad and be joined by camp invitee and minor leaguer Gio Soto.
• Don't forget: T.J. McFarland and Hector Rondon are with other teams. Rondon is with the Cubs as their Rule V pick and McFarland is with the Orioles. If both don't make the 25-man roster, they can be offered back to the club. McFarland could play into the rotation depth and Rondon could play into the bullpen if he proves he is really healthy, which he has been doing in the Winter Leagues. Rondon stands a good chance to make that Cubs roster though.
Final Outlook
Phewwwwww! If you aren't ready after that, I don't know if you'll ever be. If you had to read it in parts, or if you skimmed stuff, that's cool. But I do it every year and every base is covered. Take in mind that this is not a season preview but rather a spring preview. These are very much the story lines that will be in play and the things that may come into play at some point.
Again, before the Bourn signing, I said something to the effect that I hope the Indians don't add anyone to make parts of this obsolete. Luckily, they did it before this part went up and I'm glad the Indians didn't do what I hoped for. Go Tribe!
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Hi All,
I failed to see a dedicated thread for this particular and peculiar topic.
It _IS_ a cross-spectrum thread, but this is a cross-spectrum device, and category, so I hope the mods allow it, and fail to hit the big red delete me button.
I have a Galaxy S Smartphone en route to me, thanks to T-Mobile, in the model guise of the T-Mobile Vibrant.
I'm RATHER Excited about the thinger.
As I've done some digging around at Wolfson Micro's site, it will contain the WM8994 Audio Hub (aka DAC solution) which has quite a few things going right for it... I posted the info on my blog Any Manner Of Things which can be accessed here: http://amot.wordpress.com/2010/07/07...994-audio-hub/ for clarity' sake, and those features I will re-iterate in this passage.
1) ReTune Mobile 5-band, 6-channel parametric EQ which lends to us the idea that these devices (Galaxy S, Galaxy Touch, Wave) will all have 5-band parametric Equalizers.
2) Hi-Fi 24-bit 4-channel DAC and 2-channel ADC which appears to lend the observation that it will do 24-bit audio.
3) 100dB SNR during stereo DAC playback (Class A weighted). which lends the impression that the signal to noise ration will be 100 dB, during stereo DAC playback, and that it will be Class 'A' weighted, the best type for high-fidelity Audio. YAY!
So I am keenly and eagerly awaiting the end of my 7 (business) day shipping window and will be thrilled with the moment I get to toss some HQ (CBR320 MP3 and nice bitrate FLAC Files) onto this spanky new Samsung Vibrant device!!!
My other hopes are that Seido Innocell makes a Large Capacity battery pack for the device so I can MURDER the Battery all I wanna without running to the wall jack like a vegetarian that finally ate some tainted taco bell after five years of sticking to thier vegan diet. and with an TMI VIOLATION such as that, I bid you all adieu... for it is LATE, and I am just totally thru with creative writing at this point in time... LULZ
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