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Re: Dawn at Dover Harbour (R1 image)
In reply to Bill Borne • May 6, 2014
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Went out early yesterday morning to catch some dawn light down at Dover docks. Chose my trusty old R1 to take this shot, as I needed a bit more reach than the 19mm on the my NEX 6.
Still in awe of how much detail the R1 resolves, the Zeiss optics on this cam are a joy..
Nice! What I like most is the Wake from the boat showing how it curved on out. Great asset of motion. Um, sky color seems a little off?-- hide signature --
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Thanks Bill, yes I was quite pleased I caught the wake here. Just been looking at the image on my work monitor today and you are quite right about the sky colour, I think the white balance needs a tweak.
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I cannot be responsible for errors in journalism. Maybe somebody edited a recording, but here is what I saw and heard with my own eyes and ears.
About one year ago, when the president was pushing (shoving) his health-care reform, he said that there would be no rationing of health care. Now, he has appointed — a so-called recess appointment (without Senate approval) — Donald Berwick to lead/run/head/manage (whatever word you want to use) Medicare and Medicaid. On the July 8 "NBC Nightly News," Brian Williams said Berwick has spoken about the need to ration medical care to control costs.
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The BFU gave Slavia Sofia a 3-0 victory against The Boyars for last Saturday's match having already awarded Chernomorets Burgas a 3-0 win over Etar.
It said in a statement, that bottom club Etar will also lose their remaining two fixtures this season by the same score. The team are scheduled to play leaders Levski Sofia on Wednesday and Botev Plovdiv on Saturday.
The club, who won the title in 1991 and provided five players for the Bulgaria squad that reached the 1994 World Cup semi-finals in the U.S., were allowed to play in the Balkan country's amateur championship.
Last October, Etar hit the headlines when they sacked coach Tsanko Tsvetanov, who guided them to the top flight after 14 years in the lower divisions, for the third time this season.
The crowd favourite was reinstated twice due to protests from fans.
Frustrated Etar supporters turned their ire on Turkish owner Feyzi Ilhanli and the board, who moved the club to the southern town of Sliven saying the decision was down to the Veliko Tarnovo municipality's plan to repair the stadium.
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Villa started the campaign with a superb 3-1 victory at Arsenal last weekend but, within the space of eight demanding days, have followed that up with a 2-1 midweek defeat at Chelsea and Saturday evening's 1-0 home reverse to Liverpool.
Yet it is not all doom and gloom for a youthful Villa side, who having scrapped to preserve their top-flight status in manager Paul Lambert's first campaign at the helm, have already shown plenty of development and promise in those three matches.
And goalkeeper Guzan does not envisage another season in which the midlands club find themselves battling against the drop.
"I think the improvement is massive (from last year), it's evident to see the change not just on the pitch but the camaraderie and atmosphere that's at the training ground, in the dressing room," he said.
"And that's important because when you go through difficult times on the pitch you have to be willing to fight for each other, and you look around and our performances speak for themselves over the last week, especially against top teams.
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The United States international added: "It's never an easy season, this is in my opinion the best league in the world. So every game is always going to be a challenge."
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The Air Force Team participates in the opening ceremonies of the 2nd Annual Warrior Games on May 16, 2011. (USO photo by Samantha L. Quigley)
More than 300 men, women, and children lined the U.S. Olympic Training Center's Olympic Path on May 16, 2011 to honor 220 warrior athletes.
Representing the Army, Marines, Navy / Coast Guard, Air Force and Special Operations, each team proudly came down the path as the 4th Infantry Division's Military Band played and the crowd cheered.
Then the torch relay began, with representatives from each team passing the torch down the path. The journey began with starting with Army Private First Class Joshua Bullis, a triple amputee injured in Afghanistan who will be competing in the 10 meter air rifle and 10 meter air pistol event. He handed off to Marine Corporal Travis Greene. Greene, a double amputee, will be competing in sitting volleyball, wheelchair basketball and more. Carrying the torch for the Navy team was Petty Officer 1st Class Steve Lipscomb. Currently undergoing chemotherapy, Lipscomb is the first ever reserve component sailor to be assigned to the Blue Angels. Next was retired Coast Guard Petty Officer 3rd Class Mike Bell, who previously competed in the inaugural Warrior Games last year. For the Air Force it was Major Gwendolyn Sheppard, who was injured in combat in Iraq. Finally, Captain Ivan Castro took the torch for the Special Operations team. Active duty and visually impaired due to a mortar attack in Iraq, he's an avid runner and cyclist.
Last but certainly not least, the honorary torchbearer of the evening was Army Staff Sergeant Salvatore Giunta.
Giunta is the first living Medal of Honor recipient since the Vietnam War. Taking the final leg, he ran up several flights of stairs to light the Warrior Games cauldron.
"It's an honor to have you here at our facility," said Charlie Huebner, USOC Chief of Paralympics and Opening Ceremonies host. "The Paralympic movement started here, with injured service members returning from World War II, participating in sports as part of their physical activity in the rehabilitation and reconditioning of young men and women. So this, in a sense, home."
"Perseverance. It's defined as the continued effort to do or achieve something despite difficulties, failure or opposition. And as I stand her today and look at this crowd, I think 'Wow. This is what perseverance looks like to me,'" added Mark Goulart, principal at Deloitte, the Warrior Games title sponsor. "The fact that you are here at the Warrior Games proves that you have an extraordinary ability to see. Each of you looked into the future and saw yourself serving your country. And you saw that vision come true. Then, once injured, you looked in the future again and saw yourself recovering and competing in sport. And so here you are, seeing that vision come true."
The emotional and moving remarks continued as USO President Sloan Gibson took the stage.
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This paper discusses responses to current financial and economic crisis by regulators, supervisors and policy makers in the area of private pensions. These responses are examined in the light of international guidelines, best practices and recommendations to improve the design of private pensions.
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This paper provides a comparative analysis of defined contribution (DC) pension systems in Australia, Ireland, the United Kingdom and the United States.
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The OECD has been developing a response to the crisis that is holistic, looking atfinancial market issues, and the wide variety of factors that led to damaging incentive structures, as well as the requirements for broader macro and fiscal policies. The crisis has led to a variety of emergency financial measures such as loans, guarantees, and nationalisations. For financial markets, the focus is on exit strategies that are consistent
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The principal purpose of this paper is to analyse the trade-off between the uncertainty in contributions on the one hand and benefits on the other that is embedded in different pension arrangements.
Fiona Stewart discusses the impact of the crisis on pensions funds and what needs to be done.
The IAIS-OECD issues paper on insurer corporate governance provides background on insurer corporate governance, describes practices and identifies possible regulatory and supervisory issues. Comments received were considered in the preparation of a final version of the issues paper.
What impact has the crisis had on pensions?
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The Italian manufacturer had originally planned to introduce a new engine for the first of two US races, but has now decided to instead phase in its upgrades over the coming races.
Ducati had trialled small chassis, electronic and engine developments in the recent test at Mugello, and will carry some of the changes into this weekend.
"At Laguna [Seca] we'll have some of the updates that we tried at the Mugello test, and those will be followed in the next races by subsequent evolutions," team boss Vittoriano Guareschi confirmed.
"We'll continue working with the settings that we've been perfecting for a few races according to our riders' respective needs, and we'll seal the fourth engines for both. Like the third one, already in use, it was made in a way that makes it possible to install new parts that are intended to improve rideability.
"The next two GPs in the United States are obviously very important for Nicky, and he would like to take advantage of the progress shown in recent weeks in order to do well for his fans. Vale came very close to making the podium at Mugello, but we must manage to give him the opportunity to be more effective in qualifying as well."
Rossi, whose Mugello testing programme was ended early by an ECU glitch, said he expected to be able to transfer some of the upgrades onto the bike this weekend. He admitted however that any changes would only be a 'small percentage' of the overall package Ducati is working on.
"Although my last test at Mugello was ended early, we were able to begin working with some details, and we'll probably be able to use some of them at Laguna," he said, "even if we're talking about a small percentage of the package that they're working on at Ducati.
"Last year we went okay at Laguna, so we'll see what happens this weekend."
Hayden, like Rossi a race-winner at Laguna Seca, urged Ducati to maintain its development rate.
"We've been getting a little closer to the front lately, but now is no time to rest. We have to keep working, because now the gains will be more difficult," he said.


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Lucas Matthysse: I Hope To Fight Marcos Maidana
By Jhonny Gonzalez
Junior welterweight Lucas Matthysse appeared on an Argentine radio station and discussed one of his career goals, to avenge an amateur loss to current WBA-interim champion Marcos Maidana. They fought in the amateurs as very young boxers, with Maidana winning a close decision. [The background to this fight can read by Clicking Here .]
"I would like to fight Marcos 'El Chino' Maidana. He is a champion and it would be good to fight for that title. The people of Argentina want to see that fight. Hopefully someday it will happen," Matthysse said.
Matthysse returns from a recent split decision loss to Devon Alexander. Many felt Matthysse did enough to win. He felt the judges robbed him in the fight with Alexander, and in his prior loss a few months back to Zab Judah. There are now talks for Matthysse to face Kendall Holt on the Bernard Hopkins-Chad Dawson card on October 15 in New Jersey.
"I think it was all prepared for Alexander. The judges knew that if we went to the cards, they had to give it to him. Many people in boxing congratulated me. But I am bitter about the scores that were given by the judges. It's pretty complicated for me to fight in the United States. I think the last two fights hurt me. If you don't score a knockout, then you don't stand a chance [to win]," Matthysse said.
"I have to talk to my manager, Mario Arano, who told me that I will fight in the near future in Argentina. [My next fight] might also be in the United States because the people of HBO congratulated me."
great fight!!!!Comment by waxfondler on 07-05-2011
didnt this fight already happen??? unpublicized "private fight" a few years ago... i read the article on it. the fight was in argentina... chino walked away with the win... and lucas cried. [url]http://boxingbb.com/showthread.php?tid=884[/url] im a fan of both, but i…Comment by Mitch5 on 07-04-2011
love the idea of this fight make it happenComment by LeG00N on 07-04-2011
........Make it happenComment by apunchnotseen on 07-04-2011
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Reference: 6256
Theme: Pirate
Name: Islander Catamaran
Year : 1994
Pieces : 56
Minifig : 2
Price : it was sold 12$
Links : Gallery, Brickset, Peeron
I received it in this box :
Well, it doesn't really looks like a box, that's the package I received, so here is the box ( found it on Peeron.com ) :
A plastic bag, an old sail and a manual, that's of course not the "official content".
Here is a close-up of the sail which have a really cool "islander painting" on it, in the black box, it's the back of it :
Here are the 2 "canoes" , with stickers on it, the stickers are quite old so they're a little "unglued" , but that's ok, it's an old set!
Here are the rest of the parts, except the minifigs and the crocodile, you can see that it contains some nice arches and 4 "horns" .
The front of the manual is of course the same as the box art, the back of it is just empty, which is quite rare now, they're always commercials for new sets:
At the end of it, there is no commercial for the pirate theme or for other lego sets like in new manuals too, there is just another picture of the set, of course there is no part list as well :
Here is a random page of it, as you see it's well explained :
It's easy and quick to build, but they did put a scheme with an upper view of the set :
Complete Model:
The minifigs are really cool , and the crocodile is nice, I love Lego crocodiles!
As you can see the back of the minifigs are unprinted, this seems to be the norm from my pre 1995 Lego memories
And here is the complete Set, the catamaran is really nice, the two parrots, which I supposed they're statues, are really a nice touch.
A view from the other side, you can see the rudder, that can't move to the left or to the right, but that's a minor point. You can also see that the crocodile can't reach the islanders when they're on the catamaran, he must wait that one of them does a mistake and fall on the water!
That's a really little set, but finally the model is quite "big" for the number of pieces, so the minifigs really have some space to move, and it features some cool accessories, I loved the Staff and the drum, they're simple but awesome:
Design: 9/10 __ It really looks like what it's supposed to be, a nice Islander Catamaran, plus the sails printing is really cool!
Build: 8/10 __ A simple build but well thought, I learnt that arches can nicely be put on a canoe
Parts: For a pirate fan : 9/10 For the others : 6/10 __ Apart from the arches, the others are not very useful for non-pirates fan, for Pirates fan, there is a lot of great parts!
Playability: 9/10 __ With all the accessories, the crocodile and a couple of islanders, you can make a lot of little stories, with only 56 pieces!
Minifigures: 9/10 __ 2 minifigs + a crocodile is quite nice for a small set.
Price: N/A __ Not sold any more, but it was not expensive if you consider the cool islander parts.
Overall: 8/10
This little old set is very nice for it size, the playability is awesome for a so little set, you have a crocodile, 2 canoes, an exclusive sail, 2 parrots and 2 minifigs with some accessories, like a spear, a staff and a drum ! For a set with less than 60 parts, that's very nice! Plus the design of the catamaran is really cool, it really fits the islander and it's their biggest boat! there was only one other islander boat released so this is the biggest boat from this line, ( this one) , so for a pirate fan, I think this set is a must have.
For an Afol who's not really into pirate, it's surely a not very interesting set, apart from building islanders moc, the parts are not very useful, the sail can't be used for another theme as well than the canoe(once the stickers put), but it's still cool, because it's the only Lego set that come with 2 canoes, and it haves some nice black parts ! so that's still cool!
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Kyoto tower from side of the Higashi-Hongan-Ji temple.
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When Mike Lee, Joe Manchin, Chris Murphy, and Tom Udall wrote the Administration calling for an end to the Syria Train and Equip Program last week, they addressed it to CIA Director John Brennan, along with Defense Secretary Ash Carter (its primary addressee, given the clear reference to details about DOD's T&E mission) and Secretary of State John Kerry.
It appears the Senators got the result they desired. As a number of outlets are reporting, Carter has decided to end DOD's T&E program, which has done little except arm al Qaeda affiliates in Syria. But it's not that we're going to end our involvement in Syria. The stories provide different descriptions of what we intend to continue doing. The NYT, which pretended not to know about the CIA covert program, described a shift of training to Turkey, while discussing armed Sunnis in eastern Syria.
A senior Defense Department official, who was not authorized to speak publicly and who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said that there would no longer be any more recruiting of so-called moderate Syrian rebels to go through training programs in Jordan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia or the United Arab Emirates. Instead, a much smaller training center would be set up in Turkey, where a small group of "enablers" — mostly leaders of opposition groups — would be taught operational maneuvers like how to call in airstrikes.
The official said the training was "to be suspended, with the option to restart if conditions dictate, opportunities arise." The official also said that support to Sunni Arab fighters in eastern Syria was an example of focusing on groups already fighting the Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL, "rather than using training to try to manufacture new brigades."
The LAT to its credit did acknowledge the parallel CIA program in a piece vaguely describing our "new" approach of working with a wide range of groups on the Turkish border.
Under the new approach, the administration will continue to work with a range of groups to capitalize on the successes that Kurdish, Arab and Turkmen groups have had over the last several months driving the Islamic State forces out of much of the Turkey-Syria border region.
The decision to end the Pentagon training program does not appear to immediately affect a separate program run by the CIA.
While Ash Carter's public remarks associated with this discussion make it clear Russia's actions in the same region remain a concern, the reporting I've seen thus far hasn't tied the decision to end the DOD program to the need to respond to Russia in any way.
Which raises the question: is this just an attempt to shift our existing T&E efforts entirely under a covert structure again? There are many reasons why you'd want to do that, not least because it would make it a lot easier to hide that not only aren't your "rebels" "moderate," but they're al Qaeda affiliates (as David Petraeus and others were floating we should do). Given Qatari and Saudi efforts to flood more weapons into Syria in response to Russia's involvement, you'd think the US would want to play along too.
But especially since Tom Udall is the guy who — a year ago — raised the crazy notion that Congress should know some details about the (at that point) two year long effort by CIA to support "moderate" forces …
Everybody's well aware there's been a covert operation, operating in the region to train forces, moderate forces, to go into Syria and to be out there, that we've been doing this the last two years. And probably the most true measure of the effectiveness of moderate forces would be, what has been the effectiveness over that last two years of this covert operation, of training 2,000 to 3,000 of these moderates? Are they a growing force? Have they gained ground? How effective are they? What can you tell us about this effort that's gone on, and has it been a part of the success that you see that you're presenting this new plan on?
… I wonder whether Congress has ever gotten fully briefed on that program — and whether they would going forward.
After all, none of the men who signed this letter would be privy to how a covert effort to train rebels was going under normal guidelines unless Udall or Murphy were getting details on the Appropriations Committee.
So while it may be — and I think it likely this is — just an effort to make it easier to partner with al Qaeda to defeat Bashar al-Assad and Putin (teaming with al Qaeda to fight Russia! just like old times!) — I also wonder whether this is an effort to avoid telling most of Congress just how problematic (even if effective from an anti-Assad perspective) both the DOD and CIA effort are.
Senate Foreign Relations Committee Hearing on potential airstrikes against Assad, September 3, 2013
SEN. CORKER: What I'm unaware of is why it is so slow in actually helping them with lethal support — why has that been so slow?
SEC. KERRY: I think — I think, Senator, we need to have that discussion tomorrow in classified session. We can talk about some components of that. Suffice it to say, I want to General Dempsey to speak to this, maybe Secretary Hagel. That is increasing significantly. It has increased in its competency. I think it's made leaps and bounds over the course of the last few months.
Secretary Hagel, do you — or General, do you want to —
SEN. HAGEL: I would only add that it was June of this year that the president made a decision to support lethal assistance to the opposition, as you all know. We have been very supportive with hundreds of millions of dollars of nonlethal assistance. The vetting process, as Secretary Kerry noted, has been significant. But — I'll ask General Dempsey if he wants to add anything — but we, Department of Defense, have not been directly involved in this. This is, as you know, a covert action, and as Secretary Kerry noted, probably to go into much more detail would require a closed or classified hearing.
Tom Udall, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Hearing on ISIS, September 17, 2014
Everybody's well aware there's been a covert operation, operating in the region to train forces, moderate forces, to go into Syria and to be out there, that we've been doing this the last two years. And probably the most true measure of the effectiveness of moderate forces would be, what has been the effectiveness over that last two years of this covert operation, of training 2,000 to 3,000 of these moderates? Are they a growing force? Have they gained ground? How effective are they? What can you tell us about this effort that's gone on, and has it been a part of the success that you see that you're presenting this new plan on?
A number of us were discussing how odd it was that this big NYT article — describing President Obama blame those who championed arming Syrian rebels — made no mention of the covert CIA operation dating back to 2012 (and confirmed in a public hearing to have started by June 2013). How could a NYT writer pretend the CIA training effort didn't proceed the DOD one, especially given the fairly lengthy reporting done by other NYT reporters on it? Especially given the Peter Baker's refutation of Obama's position pertains to whether Obama should have armed rebels earlier, which of course he did.
In effect, Mr. Obama is arguing that he reluctantly went along with those who said it was the way to combat the Islamic State, but that he never wanted to do it and has now has been vindicated in his original judgment. The I-told-you-so argument, of course, assumes that the idea of training rebels itself was flawed and not that it was started too late and executed ineffectively, as critics maintain.
Which is why I was interested in the blame-setting.
Hillary comes in for a large part of the blame, almost certainly justifiably (though she's also likely a stand-in for those on Obama's own staff who espouse intervention with little consideration of consequences). David Petraeus — CIA Director when arms first started flowing to Syria, though not when that April 2013 finding was signed — gets remarkably little blame, especially given the prominence Petraeus Godfather Jack Keane got in the piece.
The finger, it says, should be pointed not at Mr. Obama but at those who pressed him to attempt training Syrian rebels in the first place — a group that, in addition to congressional Republicans, happened to include former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.
The idea of bolstering Syrian rebels was debated from the early days of the civil war, which started in 2011. Mrs. Clinton, along with David H. Petraeus, then the C.I.A. director, and Leon E. Panetta, then the defense secretary, supported arming opposition forces, but the president worried about deep entanglement in someone else's war after the bloody experience in Iraq.
Perhaps most remarkably, our allies — Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey — get no blame here, even in spite of the fact that they'd be funding more radical anti-Assad forces with our involvement or not (on that note, see this great tick tock of how we got here). Much of the reason our options remain so dismal in Syria is because our so-called allies are going to pursue their objectives whether or not we're playing along. Which leaves only the question of whether anything we could do would improve the outcome — not to mention whether our interest coincides with that of our allies.
So with all that in mind, let's reconsider David Petraeus crack plan to start allying with al Qaeda to fight (he says) ISIS. As I noted at the time, he engaged in a lot of making shite up, including not only "the Surge" (which he will spin until his dying day), but also what he was doing at CIA.
I'm most interested in this claim:
Petraeus was the CIA director in early 2011 when the Syrian civil war erupted. At the time, he along with then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta reportedly urged the Obama administration to work with moderate opposition forces. The U.S. didn't, and many of those groups have since steered toward jihadist groups like the Nusra Front, which are better equipped and have had more success on the battlefield.
While it is true that Obama did not systematically arm rebels in Syria in 2011, it is also a public fact that the CIA was watching (and at least once doing more than that) Qatar and Saudi Arabia move arms from Libya before Petraeus' departure in 2012, and Obama approved a covert finding to arm "moderate" rebels in April 2013, with CIA implementing that plan in June.
That's all public and confirmed.
So how is it that we once again are pretending that the CIA — the agency Petraeus led as it oversaw a disastrous intervention in Libya that contributed to radicalization both there and in Syria — didn't arm purported moderates who turned out not to be?
That is, Petraeus' plan to ally with al Qaeda accompanies a false narrative about whether we had supported rebels, including al Qaeda affiliates, from the start.
The plan from those who got CIA to support rebels in 2013 (and arm them even earlier) and who kept pushing to train rebels after that is — now that blame is being assigned for the second attempt to arm them — to join with al Qaeda. Which we effectively did years ago.
On top of everything else, its a nice way to inoculate against what has happened, which is and always was going to be about strengthening Islamic fighters.
Over the weekend, the NYT had a story reporting the "conspiracy theory" popular among Iraqis that the US is behind ISIS.
The United States has conducted an escalating campaign of deadly airstrikes against the extremists of the Islamic State for more than a month. But that appears to have done little to tamp down the conspiracy theories still circulating from the streets of Baghdad to the highest levels of Iraqi government that the C.I.A. is secretly behind the same extremists that it is now attacking.
"We know about who made Daesh," said Bahaa al-Araji, a deputy prime minister, using an Arabic shorthand for the Islamic State on Saturday at a demonstration called by the Shiite cleric Moktada al-Sadr to warn against the possible deployment of American ground troops. Mr. Sadr publicly blamed the C.I.A. for creating the Islamic State in a speech last week, and interviews suggested that most of the few thousand people at the demonstration, including dozens of members of Parliament, subscribed to the same theory.
The prevalence of the theory in the streets underscored the deep suspicions of the American military's return to Iraq more than a decade after its invasion, in 2003. The casual endorsement by a senior official, though, was also a pointed reminder that the new Iraqi government may be an awkward partner for the American-led campaign to drive out the extremists.
It suggests the theory arises from lingering suspicions tied to our occupation of Iraq.
But, given the publicly available facts, is the theory so crazy?
Let me clear: I am not saying the US currently backs ISIS, as the NYT's headline but not story suggests is the conspiracy theory. Nor am I saying the US willingly built a terrorist state that would go on to found a caliphate in Iraq.
But it is a fact that the US has had a covert op since at least June 2013 funding Syrian opposition groups, many of them foreign fighters, in an effort to overthrow Bashar al-Assad. Chuck Hagel confirmed as much in Senate testimony on September 3, 2013 (the NYT subsequently reported that President Obama signed the finding authorizing the op in April 2013, but did not implement it right away). We relied on our Saudi and Qatari partners as go-betweens in that op and therefore relied on them to vet the recipient groups.
At least as Steve Clemons tells it, in addition to the more "moderate" liver-eaters in the Free Syrian Army, the Qataris were (are?) funding Jabhat al-Nusra, whereas Saudi prince Bandar bin Sultan gets credit for empowering ISIS — which is one of the reasons King Abdullah took the Syria portfolio away from him.
McCain was praising Prince Bandar bin Sultan, then the head of Saudi Arabia's intelligence services and a former ambassador to the United States, for supporting forces fighting Bashar al-Assad's regime in Syria. McCain and Senator Lindsey Graham had previously met with Bandar to encourage the Saudis to arm Syrian rebel forces.
But shortly after McCain's Munich comments, Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah relieved Bandar of his Syrian covert-action portfolio, which was then transferred to Saudi Interior Minister Prince Mohammed bin Nayef. By mid-April, just two weeks after President Obama met with King Abdullah on March 28, Bandar had also been removed from his position as head of Saudi intelligence—according to official government statements, at "his own request." Sources close to the royal court told me that, in fact, the king fired Bandar over his handling of the kingdom's Syria policy and other simmering tensions, after initially refusing to accept Bandar's offers to resign.
ISIS, in fact, may have been a major part of Bandar's covert-ops strategy in Syria. The Saudi government, for its part, has denied allegations, including claims made by Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, that it has directly supported ISIS. But there are also signs that the kingdom recently shifted its assistance—whether direct or indirect—away from extremist factions in Syria and toward more moderate opposition groups.
The worry at the time, punctuated by a February meeting between U.S. National Security Adviser Susan Rice and the intelligence chiefs of Turkey, Qatar, Jordan, and others in the region, was that ISIS and al-Qaeda-affiliated Jabhat al-Nusra had emerged as the preeminent rebel forces in Syria. The governments who took part reportedly committed to cut off ISIS and Jabhat al-Nusra, and support the FSA instead. But while official support from Qatar and Saudi Arabia appears to have dried up, non-governmental military and financial support may still be flowing from these countries to Islamist groups.
Thus, to the extent that we worked with Bandar on a covert op to create an opposition force to overthrow Assad, we may well have had an indirect hand in its creation. That doesn't mean we wanted to create ISIS. It means we are led by the nose by the Saudis generally and were by Bandar specifically, in part because we are so reliant on them for our HUMINT in such matters. Particularly given Saudi support for Sunnis during our Iraq occupation, can you fault Iraqis for finding our tendency to get snookered by the Saudis suspect?
Moreover, our ongoing actions feed such suspicions. Consider the way the Administration is asking for Congressional sanction (at least in the form of funding) for an escalated engagement in the region, without first briefing Congress on the stupid things it has been doing covertly for the last 18 months?
Now that I've finally got around to reading the so-called transparency provisions in Patrick Leahy's USA Freedom Act, I understand that one purpose of the bill, from James Clapper's perspective, is to get Congress to ratify some kind of financial dragnet conducted under Section 215.
As I've laid out in detail before, there's absolutely no reason to believe USA Freedom Act does anything to affect non-communications collection programs.
That's because the definition of "specific selection term" permits (corporate) persons to be used as a selector, so long as they aren't communications companies. So Visa, Western Union, and Bank of America could all be used as the selector; Amazon could be for anything not cloud or communications-related. Even if the government obtained all the records from these companies — as reports say it does with Western Union, at least — that would not be considered "bulk" because the government defines "bulk" as collection without a selector. Here, the selector would be the company.
And as I just figured out yesterday, the bill requires absolutely no individualized reporting on traditional Section 215 orders that don't obtain communications. Here's what the bill requires DNI to report on traditional 215 collection.
(D) the total number of orders issued pursuant to applications made under section 501(b)(2)(B) and a good faith estimate of—
(i) the number of targets of such orders;
(ii) the number of individuals whose communications were collected pursuant to such orders; and
(iii) the number of individuals whose communications were collected pursuant to such orders who are reasonably believed to have been located in the United States at the time of collection;
(3) INDIVIDUAL WHOSE COMMUNICATIONS WERE COLLECTED.—The term 'individual whose communications were collected' means any individual—
(A) who was a party to an electronic communication or a wire communication the contents or noncontents of which was collected; or
(B)(i) who was a subscriber or customer of an electronic communication service or remote computing service; and
(ii) whose records, as described in subparagraph (A), (B), (D), (E), or (F) of section 2703(c)(2) of title 18, United States Code, were collected.
Thus, the 215 reporting only requires the DNI to provide individualized reporting on communications related orders. It requires no individualized reporting at all on actual tangible things (in the tangible things provision!). A dragnet order collecting every American's Visa bill would be reported as 1 order targeting the 4 or so terrorist groups specifically named in the primary order. It would not show that the order produced the records of 310 million Americans.
I'm guessing this is not a mistake, which is why I'm so certain there's a financial dragnet the government is trying to hide.
Under the bill, of course, Visa and Western Union could decide they wanted to issue a privacy report. But I'm guessing if it would show 310 million to 310,000,500 of its customers' privacy was being compromised, they would be unlikely to do that.
So the bill would permit the collection of all of Visa's records (assuming the government could or has convinced the FISC to rubber stamp that, of course), and it would hide the extent of that collection because DNI is not required to report individualized collection numbers.
But it's not just the language in the bill that amounts to ratification of such a dragnet.
As the government has argued over and over and over, every time Congress passes Section 215's "relevant to" language unchanged, it serves as a ratification of the FISA Court's crazy interpretation of it to mean "all." That argument was pretty dodgy for reauthorizations that happened before Edward Snowden came along (though its dodginess did not prevent Clare Eagan, Mary McLaughlin, and William Pauley from buying it). But it is not dodgy now: Senators need to know that after they pass this bill, the government will argue to courts that it ratifies the legal interpretations publicly known about the program.
While the bill changes a great deal of language in Section 215, it still includes the "relevant to" language that now means "all." So every Senator who votes for USAF will make it clear to judges that it is the intent of Congress for "relevant to" to mean "all."
And it's not just that! In voting for USAF, Senators would be ratifying all the other legal interpretations about dragnets that have been publicly released since Snowden's leaks started.
That includes the horrible John Bates opinion from February 19, 2013 that authorized the government to use Section 215 to investigate Americans for their First Amendment protected activities so long as the larger investigation is targeted at people whose activities aren't protected under the First Amendment. So Senators would be making it clear to judges their intent is to allow the government to conduct investigations into Americans for their speech or politics or religion in some cases (which cases those are is not entirely clear).
That also includes the John Bates opinion from November 23, 2010 that concluded that, "the Right to Financial Privacy Act, … does not preclude the issuance of an order requiring the production of financial records to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) pursuant to the FISA business records provision." Given that Senators know (or should — and certainly have the ability to — know) about this before they support USAF, judges would be correct in concluding that it was the intent of Congress to permit the government to collect financial records under Section 215.
So Senators supporting this bill must realize that supporting the bill means they are supporting the following:
That is, Senators supporting this bill are not only supporting a possible financial dragnet, but they are helping the government hide the existence of it.
I can't tell you what the dragnet entails. Perhaps it's "only" the Western Union tracking reported by both the NYT and WSJ. Perhaps James Cole's two discussions of being able to collect credit card records under this provision means they are. Though when Leahy asked him if they could collect credit card records to track fertilizer purchases, Cole suggested they might not need everyone's credit cards to do that.
Leahy: But if our phone records are relevant, why wouldn't our credit card records? Wouldn't you like to know if somebody's buying, um, what is the fertilizer used in bombs?
Cole: I may not need to collect everybody's credit card records in order to do that.
If somebody's buying things that could be used to make bombs of course we would like to know that but we may not need to do it in this fashion.
We don't know what the financial dragnet is. But we know that it is permitted — and deliberately hidden — under this bill.
Below the rule I've put the names of the 18 Senators who have thus far co-sponsored this bill. If one happens to be your Senator, it might be a good time to urge them to reconsider that support.
Patrick Leahy (202) 224-4242
Mike Lee (202) 224-5444
Dick Durbin (202) 224-2152
Dean Heller (202) 224-6244
Al Franken (202) 224-5641
Ted Cruz (202) 224-5922
Richard Blumenthal (202) 224-2823
Tom Udall (202) 224-6621
Chris Coons (202) 224-5042
Martin Heinrich (202) 224-5521
Ed Markey (202) 224-2742
Mazie Hirono (202) 224-6361
Amy Klobuchar (202) 224-3244
Sheldon Whitehouse (202) 224-2921
Chuck Schumer (202) 224-6542
Bernie Sanders (202) 224-5141
Cory Booker (202) 224-3224
Bob Menendez (202) 224-4744
Sherrod Brown (202) 224-2315
The former NSA IG (and current affiliate of the Chertoff Group profiteers, though he didn't disclose that financial interest) Joel Brenner has taken to the pages of Lawfare to suggest anyone trying to force some truth out of top Intelligence Community officials is dishonorable.
On March 12 of this year, Senator Ron Wyden asked James Clapper, the director of national intelligence, whether the National Security Agency gathers "any type of data at all on millions or hundreds of millions of Americans."
"No, sir," replied the director, visibly annoyed. "Not wittingly."
Wyden is a member of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and had long known about the court-approved metadata program that has since become public knowledge. He knew Clapper's answer was incorrect. But Wyden, like Clapper, was also under an oath not to divulge the story. In posing this question, he knew Clapper would have to breach his oath of secrecy, lie, prevaricate, or decline to reply except in executive session—a tactic that would implicitly have divulged the secret. The committee chairman, Senator Diane Feinstein, may have known what Wyden had in mind. In opening the hearing she reminded senators it would be followed by a closed session and said, "I'll ask that members refrain from asking questions here that have classified answers." Not dissuaded, Wyden sandbagged he [sic] director.
This was a vicious tactic, regardless of what you think of the later Snowden disclosures. Wyden learned nothing, the public learned nothing, and an honest and unusually forthright public servant has had his credibility trashed.
Brenner of course doesn't mention that Clapper had had warning of this question, so should have provided a better non-answer. Later in his post, he understates how revealing telephone metadata can be (and of course doesn't mention it can also include location). He even misstates how often the phone metadata collection has been queried (it was queried on 300 selectors, not "accessed only 300 times").
But the really hackish part of his argument is in pretending this whole exchange started on March 12.
It didn't. It started over a year ago and continued through last week when Keith Alexander had to withdraw a "fact sheet" purporting to lay out the "Section 702 protections" Americans enjoy (see below for links to these exchanges).
The exchange didn't start out very well, with two Inspectors General working to ensure that Wyden and Mark Udall would not get their unclassified non-answer about how many Americans are surveilled under Section 702's back door until after the Intelligence Committee marked up the bill.
But perhaps the signature exchange was this October 10, 2012 Wyden letter (with 3 other Senators) to Keith Alexander and Alexander's November 5, 2012 response.
On July 27, 2012, Alexander put on a jeans-and-t-shirt costume and went to DefCon to suck up to hackers. After giving a schmaltzy speech including lines like, "we can protect the networks and have civil liberties and privacy," DefCon founder Jeff Moss asked Alexander about recent Bill Binney allegations that the NSA was collecting communications of all Americans. Wired reported the exchange here.
It was this exchange — Keith Alexander's choice to make unclassified statements to a bunch of hackers he was trying to suck up to — that underlies Wyden's question. And Wyden explicitly invoked Alexander's comments in his March 12 question to Clapper.
In Wyden's letter, he quoted this, from Alexander.
We may, incidentally, in targeting a bad guy hit on somebody from a good guy, because there's a discussion there. We have requirements from the FISA Court and the Attorney General to minimize that, which means nobody else can see it unless there's a crime that's been committed.
Wyden then noted,
We believe that this statement incorrectly characterized the minimization requirements that apply to the NSA's FISA Amendments Act collection, and portrays privacy protections for Americans' communications as being stronger than they actually are.
This is almost precisely the exchange that occurred last week, when Wyden and Udall had to correct Alexander's public lies about Section 702 protections again. 8 months later and Alexander is reverting to the same lies about protections for US Persons.
In the letter, Wyden quoted from Alexander again,
You also stated, in response to the same question, that "…the story that we have millions or hundreds of millions of dossiers on people is absolutely false. We are not entirely clear what the term "dossier" means in this context, so we would appreciate it if you would clarify this remark.
And asked,
Are you certain that the number of American communications collected is not "millions or hundreds of millions"? If so, then clearly you must have some ability to estimate the scale of this number, at least some range in which you believe it falls. If this is the case, how large could this number possibly be? How small could it possibly be?
Does the NSA collect any type of data at all on "millions or hundreds of millions of Americans"?
This last question was precisely the question Wyden asked Clapper 5 months later on March 12 (Alexander's response in November didn't even acknowledge this question — he just blew it off entirely).
As Wyden emphasized, Alexander is the one who chose to make misleading assertions in unclassified form, opening up the door for demands for an unclassified response.
Since you made your remarks in an unclassified forum, we would appreciate an unclassified response to these questions, so that your remarks can be properly understood by Congress and the public, and not interpreted in a misleading way.
In other words, Brenner presents the context of Wyden's question to Clapper completely wrong. He pretends this exchange was about one cleared person setting up another cleared person to answer a question. But Brenner ignores (Wyden's clear invocation of it notwithstanding) that this exchange started when a cleared person, General Alexander, chose to lie to the public.
And now that we've seen the minimization standards, we know just how egregious a lie Alexander told to the hackers at DefCon. It's bad enough that Alexander didn't admit that anything that might possibly have a foreign intelligence purpose could be kept and, potentially, disseminated, a fact that would affect all Americans' communications.
But Alexander was talking to high level hackers, probably the group of civilians who encrypt their online communications more than any other.
And Alexander knows that the NSA keeps encrypted communications indefinitely, and with his say-so, can keep them even if they're known to be entirely domestic communications.
In other words, in speaking to the group of American civilians whose communications probably get the least protections from NSA (aside from the encryption they themselves give it), Alexander suggested their communications would only be captured if they were talking to bad guys. But the NSA defines "those who encrypt their communications" as bad guys by default.
He was trying to suck up to the hackers, even as he lied about the degree to which NSA defines most of them as bad guys.
Brenner gets all upset about his colleagues being "forced" to lie in public. But that's not what's going on here: James Clapper and, especially, Keith Alexander are choosing to lie to the public.
And if it is vicious for an intelligence overseer to call IC officials on willful lies to the public, then we've got a very basic problem with democracy. Continue reading
Adding the letter that Barbara Lee, as well as a list of all Members of Congress who have, at one time or another, requested the targeted killing memos.
February 2011: Ron Wyden asks the Director of National Intelligence for the legal analysis behind the targeted killing program; the letter references "similar requests to other officials." (1)
April 2011: Ron Wyden calls Eric Holder to ask for legal analysis on targeted killing. (2)
May 2011: DOJ responds to Wyden's request, yet doesn't answer key questions.
May 18-20, 2011: DOJ (including Office of Legislative Affairs) discusses "draft legal analysis regarding the application of domestic and international law to the use of lethal force in a foreign country against U.S. citizens" (this may be the DOJ response to Ron Wyden).
October 5, 2011: Chuck Grassley sends Eric Holder a letter requesting the OLC memo by October 27, 2011. (3)
November 8, 2011: Pat Leahy complains about past Administration refusal to share targeted killing OLC memo. Administration drafts white paper, but does not share with Congress yet. (4)
February 8, 2012: Ron Wyden follows up on his earlier requests for information on the targeted killing memo with Eric Holder. (5)
March 7, 2012: Tom Graves (R-GA) asks Robert Mueller whether Eric Holder's criteria for the targeted killing of Americans applies in the US; Mueller replies he'd have to ask DOJ. Per his office today, DOJ has not yet provided Graves with an answer. (6)
March 8, 2012: Pat Leahy renews his request for the OLC memo at DOJ appropriations hearing.(7)
June 7, 2012: After Jerry Nadler requests the memo, Eric Holder commits to providing the House Judiciary a briefing–but not the OLC memo–within a month. (8)
June 12, 2012: Pat Leahy renews his request for the OLC memo at DOJ oversight hearing. (9)
June 22, 2012: DOJ provides Intelligence and Judiciary Committees with white paper dated November 8, 2011.
June 27, 2012: In Questions for the Record following a June 7 hearing, Jerry Nadler notes that DOJ has sought dismissal of court challenges to targeted killing by claiming "the appropriate check on executive branch conduct here is the Congress and that information is being shared with Congress to make that check a meaningful one," but "we have yet to get any response" to "several requests" for the OLC memo authorizing targeted killing. He also renews his request for the briefing Holder had promised. (10)
July 19, 2012: Both Pat Leahy and Chuck Grassley complain about past unanswered requests for OLC memo. (Grassley prepared an amendment as well, but withdrew it in favor of Cornyn's.) Leahy (but not Grassley) votes to table John Cornyn amendment to require Administration to release the memo.
July 24, 2012: SSCI passes Intelligence Authorization that requires DOJ to make all post-9/11 OLC memos available to the Senate Intelligence Committee, albeit with two big loopholes.
December 4, 2012: Jerry Nadler, John Conyers, and Bobby Scott ask for finalized white paper, all opinions on broader drone program (or at least a briefing), including signature strikes, an update on the drone rule book, and public release of the white paper.
December 19, 2012: Ted Poe and Tredy Gowdy send Eric Holder a letter asking specific questions about targeted killing (not limited to the killing of an American), including "Where is the legal authority for the President (or US intelligence agencies acting under his direction) to target and kill a US citizen abroad?"
January 14, 2013: Wyden writes John Brennan letter in anticipation of his confirmation hearing, renewing his request for targeted killing memos. (11)
January 25, 2013: Rand Paul asks John Brennan if he'll release past and future OLC memos on targeting Americans. (12)
February 4, 2013: 11 Senators ask for any and all memos authorizing the killing of American citizens, hinting at filibuster of national security nominees. (13)
February 6, 2013: John McCain asks Brennan a number of questions about targeted killing, including whether he would make sure the memos are provided to Congress. (14)
February 7, 2013: Pat Leahy and Chuck Grassley ask that SJC be able to get the memos that SSCI had just gotten. (15)
February 7, 2013: In John Brennan's confirmation hearing, Dianne Feinstein and Ron Wyden reveal there are still outstanding memos pertaining to killing Americans, and renew their demand for those memos. (16)
February 8, 2013: Poe and Gowdy follow up on their December 19 letter, adding several questions, particularly regarding what "informed, high level" officials make determinations on targeted killing criteria.
February 8, 2013: Bob Goodlatte, Trent Franks, and James Sensenbrenner join their Democratic colleagues to renew the December 4, 2012 request. (17)
February 12, 2013: Rand Paul sends second letter asking not just about white paper standards, but also about how National Security Act, Posse Commitatus, and Insurrection Acts would limit targeting Americans within the US.
February 13, 2013: In statement on targeted killings oversight, DiFi describes writing 3 previous letters to the Administration asking for targeted killing memos. (18, 19, 20)
February 20, 2013: Paul sends third letter, repeating his question about whether the President can have American killed inside the US.
February 27, 2013: At hearing on targeted killing of Americans, HJC Chair Bob Goodlatte — and several other members of the Committee — renews request for OLC memos. (21)
March 11, 2013: Barbara Lee and 7 other progressives ask Obama to release "in an unclassified form, the full legal basis of executive branch claims" about targeted killing, as well as the "architecture" of the drone program generally. (22)
All Members of Congress who have asked about Targeted Killing Memos and/or policies
Eleven Senators just sent President Obama a letter asking nicely, for at least the 12th time, the targeted killing memo. They remind him of his promise of transparency and oversight.
In your speech at the National Archives in May 2009, you stated that "Whenever we cannot release certain information to the public for valid national security reasons, I will insist that there is oversight of my actions — by Congress or by the courts." We applaud this principled commitment to the Constitutional system of checks and balances, and hope that you will help us obtain the documents that we need to conduct the oversight that you have called for. The executive branch's cooperation on this matter will help avoid an unnecessary confrontation that could affect the Senate's consideration of nominees for national security positions.
And asks — yet again — for "any and all memos."
Specifically, we ask that you direct the Justice Department to provide Congress, specifically the Judiciary and Intelligence Committees, with any and all legal opinions that lay out the executive branch's official understanding of the President's authority to deliberately kill American citizens.
But perhaps the most important part of this letter is that it refers not just to John Brennan's nomination, but to "senior national security positions."
As the Senate considers a number of nominees for senior national security positions, we ask that you ensure that Congress is provided with the secret legal opinions outlining your authority to authorize the killing of Americans in the course of counterterrorism operations.
There are just 11 Senators on this list:
And just three of these — Wyden, Mark Udall, and Collins — are on the Intelligence Committee. That's not enough to block Brennan's confirmation.
But it may be enough to block Hagel's confirmation, given all the other Republicans who are opposing him.
One of the key moments of yesterday's Environment and Public Works hearing on the BP Disaster came when Tom Udall tried to pin the CEOs down on whether, as reported by WSJ, at BP's direction, Halliburton swapped out the drilling mud for seawater prematurely–something we've looked at as well.
BP, the well owner, blames the failure of a big set of valves on the sea floor, known as the blowout preventer, to halt the blowout once it started.
A different account comes from Halliburton, a contractor in the drilling. This account is corroborated to some extent by Transocean, as well as by two workers on the drilling rig, The Wall Street Journal has determined.
This account describes a failure to place a cement plug within the well. The plug is designed to prevent gas from escaping up the pipe to the surface.
Before such a plug is placed, the job of keeping underground gas from coming up the pipe is done by heavy drilling fluid inside the well, commonly known as "mud."
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It is not clear why such a decision would have been made. Rig owner Transocean says that BP, as owner of the well that was just being completed, made key decisions on how to proceed. BP declined to comment on this account of the drilling procedures.
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I was at both the Saturday and Sunday Games at Wrigley. On Saturday I drank way to much, so I don't really have much to add. BUT I was then not in the mood to drink for Sundays game and paid better attention. Here are my questions from the weekend:
1. Saturday Game - Was the game thread flipping out when they IBB Ward to get to Soriano? I can only imagine.
2. Sundays Game - from my seats it looked like the Ump had a pretty pitcher generous strike zone, was that the case? I haven't seen that many looking Ks in a long time.
3. Both games the wind was blowing in pretty good, on Saturday only Dunn would've been able to take one for a ride. I would say that there were a handful of pop ups that would've gone out if the wind was blowing out, or not blowing in so hard.
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According to sources close to the situation, WBC lightweight champion Antonio DeMarco (27-2-1, 20KOs) will no longer face Daniel Estrada on July 21st. The fight was scheduled to take place in Rosarito, Mexico and was going to be televised by Televisa.
With an HBO bout versus John Molina Jr. (23-1, 19KOs) set for September 8th, DeMarco's team decided to bypass the Estrada fight. The fight will open up HBO's super middleweight showdown between Andre Ward and Chad Dawson, which takes place at the Oracle in Oakland, California.
[QUOTE=liraj;12274845]After Molina win's the belt i'm sure there will be a rematch with Lundy. I think Molina K.O.'s "hank the tank" LOL, quicker this time.[/QUOTE] Maybe so, but he lost every round in the first fight, and only caught him…Comment by Ringlife on 06-24-2012
Demarco better not pull out of this fight . I am going to go to oakland to watch Ward beat Dawson and Molina beat Demarco so don't pullout because it's a pretty good card so far.Comment by EdWins on 06-24-2012
This is the type of low marquee fight to get excited about. DeMarco takes it imoComment by nycsmooth on 06-24-2012
xellent bout w/Molina's power being better & DeM gets hit far 2 much 2 survive...wish it wasn't in CA as that means late start...Comment by trainhard_187 on 06-24-2012
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